PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly OCTOBER, 1959 Vol. XXX. No. 3 Wished 1930 :? erec at the G.P.0., Sydney, ansmission by post as a newspaper “I MADE IT MY- SELF!” And come to think of it—it’s not a bad hat either.

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Photo: Miss M.

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Photo. Fred Dunn. 5 CIF IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Dr. H. C. Brookfield, lectiu; social geography at Ausbj National University, Canbern turned to Sydney in Sepq after a five weeks’ visit to M lands New Guinea. He invest possibilities for ANU reseaif NNG, collected material in Lakes and Baliem Highland comparison with the ChimbiK P-NG, where he previously « out native studies, and gas; material for a book he intendb ing about NNG. That book : be a well-sought after additi Pacific literature —there an. books available, in English, thxi with this large developing territory.

Mr. Spencer Weaver, of Hod] was in Tahiti in early Octoci finalise arrangements for bef a big hotel on a shore site n between Papeete and the ner port. Preparatory work ha;£ proceeding on the site in i weeks and it appears reaa£ In Sydney at the Polynesian Associate Eddie Whinnen, just back from Raiii; Tahiti, with another traveller from Tae H. J. Gare. They are with Mrs. Esttz Maow. —Te[?] Former Fiji residents also at a Polynes elation meeting in Sydney—David from Ba, who now lives in Sydney; Da[?] of Raki Raki, now of Rabaul, P-NG, [?] Kirkham, formerly of Suva and now [?] -TeT 6 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Governors at the swank Sun Valley resort, Idaho (USA).

At the formal banquet ending the meeting, he was lavish in praise of the hospitality he and his Hawaiian wife, Nora, mother of 11 children, had received. Governor Coleman told his fellow governors that if he and his wife have another child, they would want to name it “Sun Valley Smylie”.

Governor Robert E. Smylie, of Idaho, host of the meeting, was on his feet in a minute. He told Governor Coleman that the theme song of the plush resort was “It Happened In Sun Valley”. The assembled governors roared in delight.

Mr. lan McDonald, Chairman of the Papua-New Guinea Copra Marketing Board, left Port MOTesby in September for an official visit to the United Kingdom in connection with the disposal of , iex 1 t Q Territory copra. For the last two vears the Unilever Combine has made’ firm contracts for over 20,000 tons of P-NG copra per annum, at a price based on Philippines (or World) price and with copra scarce and nrices booming, Mr. McDonald could Sot have picked a better time for Ws current visit. He will return by the United States and Japan and will be back in Port Moresby by end of October.

Dean Knowles A. Ryerson, senior US Commissioner on the bourn Pacific Commission, who presided Mr. Noel Tracey and Miss Pat Starr, at the Posts and Telegraph Ball recently held in Port Moresby.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 7 me ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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Distributed by Robert Reid and Co. Ltd., Brisbane. at the meeting of the SPC, t C commenced at Noumea on O 12, is going to take the lorn home. He will visit SPC rhini beetle research centres in : gascar and Kenya, where I feller Foundation funds ares used by the SPC studies. Pn c items on the SPC agendas! consideration of the annual I and appointment of a new Exx Officer for Health. Dean RH of the University of Cals College of Agriculture, is recovered after his recent sa hospital for surgery.

Mr. R. A. Hewlett, well-knn Fiji as an organising secretes: public relations man, is now s ber of the advertising staff 1 Australian Women’s Weekly ney, and he has been tourim Zealand on its behalf. The « tion of that journal, incidb is now over 700,000 —the lam Australasia.

Last year, Mr. Howletttd appointed head of the Tourr; partment in Singapore; bvc year, when a Government treme nationalists took ovev old-established British coloo was among the several high! pean officials who were un-cene ously dumped, although H been doing an excellent joi Hewlett then returned to A/ and —literally within houu grabbed by Consolidated Pit Women’s Weekly. * * * Mr. Ray Parer, famous and old New Guinea identity, a boat in Sydney Harbouiu months ago, and has made hirj there. He also bought an i somewhere; and —according ?

"I guess I'II never make that mistak said Steiner Ask, a crew member of t[?] shall" in Lae in September, where h name in the newspaper after accidenta ing himself in the buttocks while dem a cowboy trick with a pistol. The b removed in Lae Hospital.

Photo: Pat I 8 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Lillian Millar, an old New n, left Sydney for Fiji at d of September, to become it manager of the new iotel in Suva, one of the rn Hotels chain.

Millar went to New Guinea fter Australia took over the te in the early ’Twenties, narried Mr. Bennett, an istration official. He later id, some time afterwards, on orobe goldfield, she married □by Millar. Mr. and Mrs. did not return to New Guinea World War II; and he died Iney, after a long illness, in i her memories of the New [?]hed in Sydney recently, three young [?]he Islands—Panapa Alefaio, from the [?]ands; Neori Racule, of Tailevu, Fiji, [?]oseph Kamali, from Wallis Island. —Tele-Photo. 9 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Always keep a bottle in the home THE FAMILY REMEDY Guinea of 30 years ago, Mrs. L gave the American novelist, , B. Michener, a lot of valuabld colourful material and, in aof ledgement. She figured promiir in the dedication of his Pacifioi Return To Paradise. * * * Mr. Gerald Hensley, of tl: Department of External Affaiit been appointed a member 3 staff of the West Samoa s Commissioner, to assist in thri stitutional developments oo Territory.

M. Jean-Marc Deleffert, as French-Polynesian who cas Australia from New Caledonn months ago, sang two Pol:L folk songs in his Cafe Conth TV appearance on Channel Sydney, on September 24. whose first appearance on TV/ wore an Islands costume flower in his hair, and acconn himself on a guitar. * * * Mr. J. R. Foldi, New District Commissioner, anoi Foldi, were in September sje part of their leave in Sydnot headquarters at Neutral Bas Foldi has one of the “too; districts in Papua and New \ —the unpredictable Tolas!

Gazelle Peninsula, are amoi more or less loyal subjects. .< * * * Elder M. K. Maynard, Mormon Mission, formeie Hawaii, visited Samoa in .

September to oversee wov mission buildings in handb He later went on to NZ w.\r will be stationed at Hamilli the next three years. The ML Mapusaga High School in A;/ Samoa will be ready for opee< early 1960-, and good progc being made on the Pesega je at Apia. * * * =i Mr. James Lee, managing ? of Henderson Trippe Shipps of Hongkong, whose firm hrl At the Polynesian Association in Sydnen Chin Fou, a member of a well-know[?] family of Papeete; with Kitty Nobbs [?] Island. —T[?] 10 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONV

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i number of veteran Ausmd NZ coasters—some for t_in recent years, was in ;arch of scrap metal cargoes October. ♦ * * hn Morris, Superintendent e in the BSIP, after many the Colonial Service, has red and will settle in the hngdom with his wife and * * * M. Noble, formerly clerk Executive Council of West md Administrative Officer Secretariat, has left Samoa of ill health. Among the was one by the Returned ten’s Association, of which been secretary. * * * -ly in the Secretariat, BSIP, Mr. M. M. Townsend i appointed District Com- : Auki, Malaita Island, tober 1. Prior to going to nons, Mr. Townsend was in Hebrides and Gilbert and lands. an absence of many years, ; De Berg Thomas has reto the Solomons as plantanager for R. C. Symes Pty. . De Berg Thomas has previeen in the Protectorate as on manager for Levers in isell Islands. * * ♦ lewly appointed BSIP Assistimmissioner of Works, Mr.

Vood, with wife and children, Tived in the Protectorate ►ar-Es-Salaam, East Africa. rs. A. A. Bowman, of Port Moresby, elebrated their 25th wedding annie is the manager at the Hotel Papua.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 11 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Dr. Alec Sinclair, a Msls psychiatrist, who made a su’jj the mental health of New inatives in 1957, on behalf : Commonwealth Government, there again soon for another Dr. Sinclair’s 1957 report wryreceived by most long-timer Guinea residents, who cora< that it was pretty well “on thl but a September announcerm Minister for Territories Paul I that the Government would pq appoint other psychologists t among the natives in thd future, caused some raised ey{‘ * * * Mr. A. J. Applebaum, of Sw< Sydney office, paid his first d visit to Fiji late in Septem make contact with tourist J there. * * * Mr. I. E. Butler, Lands Oft( the Gilbert and Ellice Islands s travelled to Suva in HMS 0 September then continued tt tralia, South Africa, and thes Kingdom on leave.

West Samoa’s first Prime M Fiame Mataafa, who has juu elected (see p. 23), was born x educated at the Marist H School near Apia and later ' at the London Missionary y logical College at Malua. H prominent LMS churchman also taken a keen and acttc terest in football, cricket andb He was elected to the Lege Assembly in 1957 and has.

Minister of Agriculture. He v of the Western Samoa delegs? meet the Queen in New Zeas; 1953 and last year, with Highly Tamasese and Malietoa a’js before the Trusteeship Court New York to explain some ‘ of Samoa customs.

Mr. Arne Hogsted, managing direct Hotel Les Tropiques, Papeete's leadib visited Suva on business late in travelling by TEAL flying-boat.

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erts Confounded Copra es Grstzy Again i international influences en at work on the world arket in the past month to i the copra experts (“PIM” ), and to produce a y price boom. he indications were there, tuple of months ago, that, • a year, the boom was out. Copra price dropped , £2O, due mostly to the anient that the United States unload its strategic stock oconut oil. inloading hasn’t happened ad this is the first factor in en up-sweep in copra prices, i early October took Philips26s on the London market of $36 in the month, econd factor in the boom economic crisis in Indonesia miber, which makes future ts of copra from that just a little less certain than ve been for several years 9 ipproach of the northern a reaction from the slow of July and August also, no ave had their effect on the Stratospheric Levels" ut oil followed copra into tospheric levels. Reuter ad- October 6 was £Stg.l47 per Ceylon, cif, UK; with Straits 136/10/-. The Ceylon price, it and not a misprint, must all-time record. Ceylon ;oes about £Stg.2 better than hing is certain whether the ► £Stg.l37 or £Stg.l47, not msiness will likely be done ; rates. , interests in Sydney at end first week in October were g hands over the “craziness” market and the difficulty of sane business. The next should tell whether the boom a flash-flood, or whether •ices are likely to become a Meantime, all experts have to go quietly and make no ;ies unless with the aid of a witch-doctor or a grade-A ball.

Suva’s Hibiscus Festival Is Now Major Event Suva’s fourth annual Hibiscus Festival, bigger and better year by year, and this year blessed with mainly dry weather, now ranks with Papeete’s Bastille celebrations as a major carnival event in the Islands.

SUVA, with an annual average rainfall of about 127 inches— -20 inches of it fell in the first 17 days of Festival month this year —is less than an ideal location for this kind of event, as most of the fun is out of doors when its success hinges on good weather.

This year the weather held fine right up to the last afternoon, and even then it lasted until after the main spectacle of the week —the great parade of decorated floats through the city to Albert Park.

But the Marching Girls, who came later, received a drenching.

By evening the weather was again fine for the crowning of the Queen of the Festival—Miss Robin Ann Riemenschneider on the upper balcony of the Grand Pacific Hotel, with thousands watching.

The Festival is not intended or expected to show a financial profit to the organising committee, but charities were expected to benefit substantially from their side-shows, food stalls, and games of chance.

Cruise Ship's Visit Attendance at some of the indoor events, and the monster barbecue at Nukulau Island, was limited by the high admittance charge.

Victualling fees alone for such events were generally in the vicinity of 15/-, which meant that they were mainly restricted to tourists and the upper income bracket.

For the first time a cruise ship, the 10,952 ton Manoora from Sydney, was induced to pay a can Miss Hibiscus, 1959.

Photo: Stinsons.

GET IT! Among the main spectacles of Suva's hibiscus festival were the rugby battles between Fiji and a visiting Tongan team, here seen going their hardest (Tongans in the white shorts).

In the Test on September 26 the Tongans defeated the Fijians, and claimed the mythical title of "Rugby Champions of the South Pacific". Photo: Stinsons. 17 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

for part of the week. (Some of the passengers were injured in a storm on the way back).

Every taste was catered for in the Festival.

Some of the highlights were Tonga-Fiji Rugby, Old Time music hall, yachting regatta, fine arts exhibition, and Indian Night and a Fijian Night at Albert Park, a classical recital by Igor Ozim (violinist) and Use von Alpenheim (pianist), an agricultural display, a rock-and-roll contest, a night of feast and fun on Nukulau Island, and other items, sporting and general, capped by the wonderfully colourful parade of floats with the city packed with sightseers as it has perhaps never been packed before.

Some considered that the numbers in Suva on the final afternoon were greater than for the Royal Visit.

Suva Born Miss Riemenschneider, elected Hibiscus Queen, is an attractive Suva-born stenographer in the Union Steam Ship Company’s Suva office. She was sponsored by the Garrick Hotel. Her prize is a travel outfit and a trip to Brisbane by the French Airline TAI.

Many of Suva’s firms donated substantial sums towards the cost of the Festival —but were probably able to recoup much of it in added business due to the event. Much of the Festival was filmed by overseas organisations and should receive wide publicity in potential tourist areas.

The Festival meant a lot of work to many people and particularly to Mr. Reg Spowart, the organiser, who can feel justly satisfied with the results.

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Turn to these inside pages for more highlights of the month’s news: Reflections on Fiji’s Election Results—ll 7: Samoa Radio Listeners Cheat —117; What It Costs For a Letter —119; Air Migrants Cause Population Fall—121; Fiji Now Makes Its Own Paint; Fiji Official Support of Birth Control —123.

They Can Hear the Voices of the Coastwatchers —125; Fiji Copra Could Be Better—l 26; Flans for Kavieng School—l 27; Agriculture Compared—l 29; Tongan Inquiry- -131; Fiji’s Dispute Over Boxer— -133.

Tonga’s New Shipping Makes Money—l 33; P-NG Flying Saucer Man in Town —135; Minister Soustelle on New Caledonia Tour—l 36; Formal History at Bau; Mr.

Chipper Says What He Thinks — 139; “Muniara” Tragedy Recommendations: Sea Collisions All Over the Place—l 43; Suggested Inquiry on New Guinea —144.

America Reads The Stor Of The Coastwatchers • Eric Feldt’s best-selUng “The Coast Watchers”, long out of ) in Australia where it was published in 1946, has been published i United States in a paper-jacket edition. According to our t Francisco correspondent, it is now available in this form in every \ stall in the United States ; it will no doubt appear eventually ii ti cheap form in the S-W Pacific.

ON a quick run through the US paper-back edition which we received in early October, there are only two items in the two editions that are exactly similar — the author’s acknowledgement in the front, and his story of Ken Hay, who when he decided to come down off Gold Ridge in Guadalcanal, sent a note to the US commander that he was “knocked up”. He meant it in the Australian sense—that he was too weary to go on. The officer took it in the American sense— that Ken was pregnant, and couldn’t wait to go see for hims.lf if he were.

Rewritten The entire paper-back, US edition has been re-written (repeat, rewritten, not just cut down), by Feldt and in the course of it, it has been reduced to about onethird of the original. However (again on the quick-look method), it is still Feldt’s story, not reslanted to appeal especisi Americans or to give them tM share of the story. It is sa story of the men of the SWV islands and others recruited J who did the behind-the-liii that, according to the late x “Bull” Halsey “saved Guao. and Guadalcanal saved thei Pacific”.

Most ex-Coastwatchersa residents of the South Pacififi prefer the original version i detail, and especially for cellent index (missing fr(n paper-back); but for a stress condensed, and telescoped ’

US edition seems to be a goe: stitute. The paper-back editti a foreword by General MacArthur, and is publish Ballantine Books, New York„2 for 50 cents in the US. (See also “They Can Hear the the Coastwatchers”, page REVOLUTIONARY LOOKING: This Italian plane, imported by Papuan Air Tranoport Ltd Moresby, for use on services in Papua, caused a lot of interest in the Eastern State tralia where it gave demonstration flights in September before going into service. It [?] Piaggio, and is the first Italian plane ever sold in Australia for airline use. The un[?] about it is its pusher-type propellers mounted at the rear of the upswept wings, whi[?] the appearance of a jet. It will carry 10 passengers and can cruise at 200 miles per[?] 18 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONV

Mr. Hasluck Leads In His Mar With P-NG "Locusts" ige Background To Month's Events

A Survey By R. W. Robson

jstralian Territories Minister Hasluck is still riding high retty. sjG the past month (midtember to mid-October) he vived some sharp attacks in itralian Parliament; • connsly ignored the New Guinea bellion; • been praised and ;d by Prime Minister Menzies both parties in Parliament; 'hursday, October 1, cocked d snook at his ill-wishers in md New Guinea, overwhelming majority of n-official classes in New have demonstrated their iism. Probably most of the people are equally hostile— y, for obvious reasons, hide ielings. . , those facts have weighed with the ruling class in bureaucrats are controlled ally) by the Government; overnment by Parliament; Lent, by the people; and— the theory of it all—the are instructed and guided free Press”. illy, people and Parliakn o w practically nothing the real position in P-NG. s because of the complete of whatever public rethe New Guinea taxpayers ble to organise, squently, in the final show- Mr. Hasluck carried Parliavith him. ie Newspaper Blackout uly and August, while the ebellion flared, practically no —and no explanatory words lose critical events in New , appeared in the Australian ipers. significance of the High decision that the Full Bench hear the Taxpayers’ chal- -0 the Papua and New Guinea as not explained. The event )t even mentioned. it the end of August, Sydney ig Herald began to publish selected letters and an article about the P-NG position; but sally everything published was 1 in favour of Hasluck. public was left to believe that “the New Guinea trouble” was merely the traders’ and planters’ opposition to paying income tax, and that it would die down if ignored.

Never, in a very long newspaper life, have I seen the newspapers so consistently and deliberately dishonest in their presentation of a matter involving public interest and the administration of justice.

It was expected that the High Court hearing—virtually promised for August 17-18 —would at least be reported fully by the newspapers in August, and thus give the public some idea of the real issues involved.

That application still is on the High Court list—but Heaven knows when it will be heard. (See panel).

Some day, I hope to have the opportunity of commenting upon the circumstances surrounding this High Court matter.

The Legco 'Boycott 7 The candidates nominated by the Taxpayers’ Associations, and pledged to resign, overwhelmingly defeated the more-or-less pro-Administration candidates, on September 12; and when the Legislative Council met on September 29, and Messrs. v T Sanders , . New Guinea Mainland j L Chipper . . . New Guinea Islands g Barker Papua were formally sworn in, the three gentlemen named resigned. (Mr.

B ar ker a day or two later than the others, because he had been visiting Canberra when Legco opened).

Each explained that this course was being followed to demonstrate to the Australian Government, Parliament and people the Territories’ lack of confidence in the M>mster personally, , T a “^.‘ r l h r e n , mentality (Legislative Council) which the Australian Government has provided to give Terntonans IGH COURT CHALLENGE Sydney legal circles in early October were hopeful that New Guinea’s challenge to the constitutional structure of that Territory would come before the High Court in Sydney in November.

If the matter is not heard at the November sitting it is unlikely that the High Court will hear it before early next year.

The matter in October was in the hands of the Commonwealth and the next move was up to the Government. The Commonwealth Attorney-General, Sir Garfield Barwick, will lead in the case when it comes before the Court. Sir Garfield, it is known, has had his time taken up in the last few months with other important legal and political matters.

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THE US Lead by a police motor cycle escort, the Fiji Military Forces band marched through San Francisco to Union Square each day on a different route during its September visit to the US. But awed by the traffic and the haste the Fijians were reluctant to wander anywhere on their own after their daily noon-time appearances for fear they would get lost. Story on page 45.

Photo: Ralph Craib. 19 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— OCTOBER.

some voice in administration.

Those three elected men, acting on behalf of the Territorians, wanted it known that they thus were fully supporting the other three elected representatives (Messrs. E. A.

James, Dudley Jones and lan Downs), who resigned in July from the Council, for the same reasons.

But the incident was sneered at by the Minister, and dismissed in a few words by the Australian newspapers, and not one attempted to explain its purpose and background.

But when Prime Minister Menzies, in early September, and Minister Hasluck himself, defended and explained the Hasluck policies and administration, the newspapers reported their anti-Territorian statements very fully.

Mr. Hasluck and the locusts' In the Commonwealth Parliament on September 30, in a long speech explaining his acts, answering his critics and defending his policy, Mr.

Hasluck said ( SM Herald report) : The Territory should be administered for those white and coloured people who would stay there and build a just and enduring social order, not for the less useful minority of Europeans who had flown in for the sake of the pickings .

No Government could afford to allow the Territory to be treated like a private estate —it was a public trust .

There was misunderstanding and illfeeling over the recent change in the method of raising taxes in the Territory, and unfortunately very great misrepresentation of the Department’s point of view.

The private enterprise of every native villager was just as sacred to liberalism as the private enterprise of any European who had established a business there.

These statements by the Minister were completely in line with his famous dictum of January, 1958: “And I say quite bluntly that many of the people who come to me in the guise of solid pioneers and frontiersmen of private enterprise in Papua and New Guinea are merely the locusts, in the sense that they are gathering what they have not sown.”

Therefore, up to this time (early October) it has been a complete victory for the Minister.

All his published statements in the period August-September have indicated— (Continued page 149) Mr. Hasluck A P Understudy Of Mr. R. G. Menzies In his competence, intellectual arrogance, his resentment of criticism, and his contempt for the opinion of “the mob”, Paul Hasluck, Australian Minister for Territories, Papua-New Guinea’s most unpopular man, much resembles Robert Menzies, his Prime Minister.

Some people insist that Hasluck models himself upon Menzies. There is no man in the Inner Cabinet closer to the PM. Menzies has supported Hasluck fully in this recent trouble and, inferentially, he has treated the New Guinea “rebels” with the same contempt.

Hasluck’s dismissal of the P-NG trading classes as “locusts”, feeding upon the riches made available in P- NG by Australia’s rich gifts to the Territory, is completely in character.

His writings, over many years, show suspicion—if not dislike —of private enterprise, and his contempt for profittaking, in all its forms. He is an academic Socialist—always has been.

Political Labour treats him with respect.

Hasluck is the ablest man who ever has held the portfolio of Territories.

Spender, also, was an able man, But Spender was a complete careerist. Hasluck, on the contrary, is a dedicated man—he is convinced that, if left alone, he is the chosen one who can lead the New Guineans from primitive savagery to young nationhood.

Socialism—of which Communism is the logical development—leads inevitably to dictatorship.

Hasluck is exactly of the stuff of which dictators are made. It is seen in the impatience and intolerance with which he treats questioners and critics of his regime, in his inability to compromise—and especially in the proven fact that no man with ability and ideas of his own can work effectively with him in Territories administration and development. It must be Hasluck, or nothing.

Consider D. M. Cleland. a man of outstanding ability, shown in other fields. Under Hasluck, he has been little more than a rubber stamp.

Consider also the case of lan Downs, the brilliant young District Commissioner who, in the Eastern Highlands, began to give shape to what experienced Territorians believe to be the only policy to bring quick, effective and permanent change to the New Guinea primitives—namely, the settlement among them of trustworthy, hand-picked European planters, to help native communities, by example, to a better standard of living.

Hasluck. in 1955, fell like a thunderbolt on Downs and finally drove him out. Bureaucrats, directed and controlled in every move by Canberra, would train the natives, he said, and direct them to another way of life.

It was the inevitable clash between Individualism and Socialism; and Socialism won.

That is the kind of man who now has made himself the supreme boss of Papua and New Guinea.

With one gesture, last July, he could have won the goodwill and co-operation of all responsible Territorians. He remained aloof and contemptuous . . .

Territorians know all this, instinctively. Instinctively, they know they are right in their challenge to the dictator. But they have had a singular lack of success in giving effective expression to it. —R.W.R.

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ational Airport at iti Takes Shape Special Correspondent mg last, after years of on and delay, the Tahiti ional Airport is taking ti the edge of the Bay of , right alongside the town. of the fine new air-strip dy has been built; and the ilete air-strip, 3,400 metres d 150 metres wide (one equal to 39.3 inches), suitjets, will be ready by early sent, under the direction of rt French engineers and ,ns, some 250 workmen, 'ahitians, are well advanced [instruction of the air-strip metres long and 45 metres ich will take Electras next p end of the planned strip, ms northeast to southwest, a few hundred yards from jiques Hotel, at the south- [ of Papeete town, irport buildings are closer southern end of the airar the well known flyinge at Faaa, and some two im the centre of Papeete. for Tahiti, a most imporl welcome development, population is increasing and there has been no nding economic developtake care of it. Tahiti is tie world over as a place of esort; and, when the really planes begin to come in >t and west, it is anticipated ! tourist industry will grow luch, and solve Tahiti’s c problems.

Tahiti's Handicap se Tahiti is away out by a wide ocean, Tahiti was getting a regular airplane The New Zealand Co., has been providing a biseaplane service since ut Tahiti’s planners have Continued on page 147) Turbo-Prop Electras Next Year End of Pacific Flying Boat Era Is Near The last, long-distance Solent flying-boat services will cease in the Pacific in July, 1960, when Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. will begin operating the Coral Route from Auckland to Tahiti, via Islands, with turbo-prop Electras.

ACCORDING to Papeete advice, the airport there is expected to be ready for use next May. The present Coral Route ports of call are Laucala Bay, Suva; Satapuala, Western Samoa; Aitutaki, Cook Islands, and Papeete. It is understood that the land airstrip at Aitutaki will be capable of taking Electras, but that Faleolo (Western Samoa’s land airport) will not. Nor would the Cook Islands other airport, Nikao, near Rarotonga.

There are plans for the extension of both these strips, to bring them to Electra standard, but no major work is in hand at either. Unless something is done very smartly, it is obvious that Western Samoa is going to lose its traditional air link with Fiji and New Zealand by the middle of next year. The Western Samoan Government has not been willing to spend money in airport construction, and while the flying boats operated no effort has been made to keep Faleolo up to more than DC3 standard (though Pan American Airways made an emergency landing there a few years ago with a Boeing Stratocruiser).

It is expected that TEAL will change over from its present DC6 aircraft to Electras for its trans- Tasman operations early next year, Although it seemed, back in July, that Polynesian Airlines, the new Western Samoan airline company, had stolen a march on its opposite number in American Samoa (Continued on page 145) A TEAL Solent. iram of the construction work on the new Papeete described in the accompanying story. In 1961 e will be completed to international airport dimento take the big jets, and will then become an imtant link in the round-the-world service of TAI. 21 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

No Strike This Season Fiji's Sugar Interests Meet After Argument There may be some hard words, but there will be no strike action or major demands on the Colonial Sugar Refining Company by the Fiji Sugar Industry Employees’ Association for the remainder of this Fiji sugar season.

That much Mr. B. D. Lakshman, the general president of the association, told a PIM representative a few days before a meeting between the two parties at the end of September.

It was then uncertain whether the meeting would take place at all as there had been some sharp exchanges of correspondence in regard to the agenda, but in the end the representatives of the employer and this particular branch of the workers, commenced on September 28 a series of meetings which were to continue into October.

The employers were insisting that they would discuss only those items covered in paragraphs 105 to 110 of the recent Report of the Sugar Board Inquiry.

Want Award These concerned the establishment of a Master Agreementequivalent to the published award of unions in more advanced countries—wherein all the terms and conditions of employment must be set out in careful language to avoid dispute.

The CSR also wanted an assurance that there would be a housecleaning within the association, as recommended by the Board of Inquiry, prior to any discussion at all.

The association, on the other hand, wanted also to discuss wages and other matters. It maintained— correctly—that the Board never had the power to fix wages. It had power of recommendation only, and while the CSR had voluntarily and unilaterally accepted the wage recommendations, this did not mean, said Mr. Lakshman, that the subject was to be considered closed.

There might be some justification for that view if the Board had been a legal wage-fixing body.

Mr. Lakshman said that it was his view that the employer had announced acceptance of the wage recommendations without reference to the association with the intention of short-circuiting further discussion. As a matter of principle, the association could not accept that approach—even if at the moment it accepted the recommended rise.

Correspondence on these points had been exchanged from August 1 up to September 23, with no clear sign of agreement on the agenda, but on the latter date the association informed the employers that its representatives would be at the suggested meeting place on September 28 and that on the two days immediately prior to that date it would hold a meeting to discuss its own domestic affairs.

"Will Rewrite"

When the meeting opened on September 28, with Mr. Lakshman heading the full executive of the association, and Mr. L. M. Sherwood (in his new post of industrial manager) and his assistant, Mr. Lear, representing the CSR, Mr. Lakshman announced that his Board had decided to completely rewrite its constitution according to the recommendations made in the Report.

That said, discussions then proceeded on the Master Agreement.

Papua-New Guinea and Netherlands New Guinea opened a direct radio telegraph link on October 1.

The service is between Hollandia and Port Moresby and telegrams can be sent Mondays to Fridays.

The P-Ng Budge

Australia's Gift to P-NG Now Is £78 Millions, Plu[?] • According to Australia’s . \ presented in Canberra in and the Territory’s Budget sented in Port Moresby mo tember 29 by Treasurer H. .' the following has been the O ment expenditure in Papm ( New Guinea since World IT up to June 30, 1959: Provided by Australia —a free gift .. .. £78,5,i Provided from P-NG’s own revenue .. .. 35,2,> Total 113,7.

WITHIN the same period,,! various headings (sui subsidies of shipping and as vices, maintenance of lighth various special grants) Avi has contributed many more irn not included above.

To those totals Australia pq add, in 1959-60, £l3 millions being the grant for “Admiix tion expenses” in budget.

Budget examination shows' in addition to the £l3 nm Australia in this financial t giving Papua and New Guinn following amounts: New Guinea civilian war pensions, education benefits, medical treatment Subsidy to shipping service Australian School of Pacific Administration For former P-NG superannuation funds Maintaining lighthouse services • Interest on pre-war loans Loans to ex-servicemen for agricultural enterprises For new lighthouse and equipment * Out of £25 million earmarked b for the purpose. £250,000 budgeteoo 1958-59, but only £62,000 used.

There is a total there o;o £700,000 —and there Is, in acfo expenditure for P-NG autMJ under Army training, public a staffs, maintenance of airfieldb ities, care of wartime cermr and many other things, not ; separately in the Australian tf £l9 m. in P-NG This Ye\ In his budget speech onn tember 29, Treasurer Reeves that he spent £17,077,000 in 111 of which 28i per cent, wes’ salaries, 21.69 per cent, on < (Continued on page 29) Mr. B. D. Lakshman, Fiji union leader and newly elected member of the Fiji Legislative Council. 22 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

He's West Samoa's First Prime Minister he election of High Chief Mataafa as Western Samoa's first ; Minister places the leadership of the Territory, as it approaches overnment, with Samoan’s three High Chiefs. High Chiefs toa and Tamasese (the FautuaJ will become joint Heads-of-State complete self-government begins to function at the end of 1961. dection of the Hon. Fiame ;aafa Faumuina Mulinu’u II Prime Minister has been y welcomed in the Territory, e first Prime Minister would imoan was a foregone conthe Hon. E. F. Paul, who rried a heavy burden as of Government Business for t year or so, was the only in member who was ted. He came last in the and Mataafa won the final from his Samoan rival, elei Mauri, by 32 votes to 0 pleasing as the result was thod by which some of the 1 members tried to obtain it. of them challenged the : the five European members for a Prime Minister and 5d them to leave so that the might be made “according oan custom”.

T. C. F. Nelson, speaking in i, appealed against this, and e majority of members to his way of thinking. The incident is regarded gravely by some —as an indication of what self-government in Samoa might mean.

High Chief Mataafa has a pleasant personality; ideas and a mind of his own; an understanding of Samoan and European attitudes —and was the popular choice.

Self-Government For

American Samoa

Objectives of the people of Western and American Samoa were the same, but “our idea of self government does not mean independence”, said American Samoa Governor Peter Coleman m San Francisco in September.

Governor Coleman was on his way to Washington to talk with Federal officials about "the next step m political development” for the ut> Territory.

Mr. Coleman sale! Federal Secretary of the Interior. ' Mr. Fred Seaton, might visit American Samoa shortly.

W. Samoa's March To Nationhood New Citizens Get Ten Months' Grace What was regarded as one of the most important bills ever passed by the Western Samoan Legislative Assembly and one that put some of the European residents of the Territory in a dilemma was approved by the Chamber after only a short debate at the September session.

IT was the new Citizenship of Western Samoa Bill which defines Western Samoa nationality—or citizenship—by birth, or descent or by naturalisation.

The bill also provides for deprivation of citizenship under certain circumstances, and prescribes the oath of allegiance to be taken, this oath including the renunciation of any other citizenship previously held. , It is stressed that the bill establishing a Western Samoan nationality, has nothing to do with “Domestic status”, or the present electoral regulations which provide for Samoan matais and persons of European status to be electors.

Nonetheless, in future, all electors must take the oath of allegiance to Western Samoa and be Samoan Certain classes of persons, particularly those who possess, at present, the citizenship of a foreign country, are given ten months from the date of the coming into force of the Ordinance (that is, until July 8 1960) to decide whether or not to’ apply for Western Samoan citizenship. wio-h The Council of State (the High Commissioner and the Hons.

Tamasese and Malietoa) have made arrangements to make the provisions and the effect of the citizenship law, widely known to the The new citizenship law brings many European residents up against Zte a problem —whether to give up their present nationality and become Samoan citizens, or to co tinue their present citizenship.

It will be obviously impossible to retain a dual-citizenship, as Samoan (Continued on page 144) oa's first Prime Minister, the Hon. Fiame Mataafa (left) with four others who are in- Hie Territory's destiny—Hon. Tupua Tamasese, CBE; Mr. J. Mathison, NZ Minister of ritories; Mr. G. R. Powles, NZ High Commissioner in Western Samoa; and Hon. Malietoa Tanumafili, CBE. 23 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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COMMENTATY 1- Will Lakshman Do ji's Legco?

I classes in Fiji learned, with nay, that the troublesome B. D. Lakshman had been in September, to the Leg- Council, ain fact, this could turn out l very good thing.

Colony is ripe for a little -economic brutality. Lakshthe man to supply it. iman’s chief need, in the as been a forum. Lacking it, d to Lautoka, with inflamsugar-workers his only ;e, he has been inclined to is top. , the more responsible secf the Fiji community someave regarded BDL as a very dus man. The Colonial Co., harassed in season and his incursions into sugar y management, has tended two horns and a tail, whenis portly person appeared, ith reason!

Mr. Lakshman is no fool. i contrary, he is one of the ducated and shrewdest Inin Fiji. And, whether right ng (and he has been wrong, ten) he has been Fiji’s most snt and most courageous for what he believed to be terests of the Colony’s unvileged workers, nust have gained the conand goodwill of many reile Indians, outside the mills’ ranks, to have so decisively the well-tried and comper. Madhaven.

Lakshman has his forum [is will be no meek and unve voice. We, who know him , can spare a little sympathy 3 Hansard reporters. Official members, visualising future 1 debates, put their heads in lands and moan slightly, there is no need yet essimism. Lakshman must that, from his new place in Duncil, he can do more for ople he represents than ever ild do before provided he with the Council, as a responelected member, and not t it. That Council soon will vider powers.

Lakshman, the head of the workers’ union, he could see )nly one eye; and all other could see in him only the advocate. the Hon. B. D. Lakshman, he is under an obligation to vo eyes to see the affairs of the whole Colony, in correct relationship with the people and the district he represents. Other classes now will look to him as a Legislative Councillor, and not only as a workers’ organiser and director.

As a responsible Indian leader, with forceful views and a lot of energy, he can do a great deal for the Colony of Fiji. The time has come when the Fiji Government should have a little more awareness of the needs of the Indian industrial workers. Lakshman, MLC, can do something towards keeping the Government on its toes, in this respect.

He has the ability. But, to be a successful MLC, he will need patience, tolerance, and a wider sense of responsibility.

It is over to you BDL.

Colombo Plan Makes Enemies, Not Friends THE man whom this journal always has regarded as the soundest commentator on South East Asia-South Pacific affairs, Melbourne Herald’s Osmar White, has just spent nine months on a job for the Australian Government —six months examining Colombo Plan projects, and three months studying the Plan’s policy and history.

His report to the Government, we hope, will alter tin slnri ml, in some degree, the purpose of the Plan.

There are no less than 6,000 Asian students now at school in Australia, and over 800 of them hold Colombo Plan scholarships In some preliminary comment, Osmar White says that this set-up is wrong. Unless we are prepared to allow these Asians to settle permanently in Australia —which they naturally wish to do, rather than return to a much more restricted life in their own countries—we tend to gain their ill-will, rather than their love and respect. Says White: “We might be better advised to spend effort and money helping Asians establish their own schools, universities and training colleges than to handicap our own education system by overloading it with youngsters who will receive from it a type of social (as distinct from technical) training which they find extremely difficult to apply to their own background.”

How right he is!

And what he says about Asian students could be applied, effectively, to th e practice of sending scores of New Guinea native students to Australia each year. * * * NG Education —Late and Mistimed —But Welcome P-NG Territory Treasurer Reeve, on September 29, submitted a budget without frills. It is proposed to spend some £lB million this year—of which Australia contributes no less than £l3 million.

The remarkable figures are reviewed on another page. (Over) NEW GUINEA NEWS ITEM: ”Re v. Father William Booth Gill has reported gaving sighted flying objects on several occasions aroud the Goodenough Bay area. One of the obiects hovered for a while at 450 feet, and had four figeres in it who "aved. He said other observers had seen the ibjects." 25 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1958

The most interesting, significant and praiseworthy part of the budget contains these words: “For this year, the emphasis is clearly on the development of primary education, particularly through the Missions, and on the extension of community education for the indigenous people. . . .

“The Department of Education provision reflects the most striking of all departmental increases.

Recently, publicity has been given to the adoption of the Universal Primary Education Plan submitted by my colleague, the Director of Education, and it is for the initiation and implementation of that Plan that additional provision is included in the Department.”

Fighting off his critics in Canberra during the month, Minister Hasluck, directly and by inference, argued that the welfare and future of the natives of New Guinea are in his view of immensely more importance than those of the Europeans domiciled there.

It was interesting to notice that he glowed under the approving quack-quacking of his own party and Socialist Opposition who mostly know as much about New Guinea conditions as they know about the binomial theory. They cheered when Mr. Hasluck said that if there were to be more elected European members in the Legislative Council there, there must be more native members.

What none of them realise is that these native New Guineans still are—except for a handful—uninstructed, primitive savages. Of the three natives now in the Council, two cannot speak English. It would be difficult to find three more natives as qualified as these three are to sit in the Legco.

All Mr. Hasluck’s references to native self-governing ability under present conditions are arrant poppycock, shaped and coloured for UNO observers and sociological cranks.

Of course, the indigenes must be trained and qualified for eventual self-government; but that still is far distant—9s per cent, of them still are not even faintly literate.

It is not a task for Mr. Hasluck and his Canberra cohorts. It can be accomplished only by personnel selected and trained in New Guinea, and by the co-operation of the nonofficial European residents, whom this ineffable Minister has consistently insulted and antagonised, almost beyond hope of reconciliation.

It is, however, a little comforting to find that native education at last takes first place in the budget.

As has been pointed out in this journal over three decades, nothing worth while can be accomplished in New Guinea without native education. Mr Hasluck is doing now what should have been attempted 30 or 40 years ago, and which Hasluck 1 iimself could and should have ten years ago.

The editars' Maillag The 'Forsayth' Name in New Guinea The old photograph of the Rabaul area store, labelled “E. E. Forsayth and Co.”, published in July and August PIM, has brought several letters, with further information.

There is one from Mr. W. M. von Ploennies, a resident of Brisbane, whose parents were well known residents of the Southwest Pacific Islands in the pre-wars period—his father was an Imperial German Consul, and his wife’s father was Resident Magistrate A. E. Oelrichs, of Papua, a long time ago. He points out that, although the name “Forsayth” appears on the store, “Queen Emma” actually was Mrs.

Kolbe, in the latter part of her life.

That is quite true. The “Queen” was originally Emma E. Coe. She married,, first, young Forsayth, long before she went to New Guinea. In the nineties, she married Paul Kolbe, a German officer. But, before that, she had founded E. E.

Forsayth & Co.; and, although she sold the business about 1910 to others, it was carried on under the Forsayth name for some little time after that.

How von Hagen Met His Death Two more readers have added to our knowledge of Count von Hagen, whose defaced monument at Bogadjim, near Madang, New Guinea, was the subject of an item in this column in August.

Mr. H. H. Jackman, of the District Office, Rabaul, NG, gives some interesting details of how von Hagen met his death in August, 1897, and incidentally, some sidelights on German exploration of that period.

The events that led up to von Hagen’s death began in 1895, when against advice given by von Hagen (who was then Director- General of the Neu Guinea Kompagnie) and others, a German explorer, Ehlers, accompanied by a police officer, Piering, left the coast near Morobe on August 11, 1895, with some Buka and New Ireland carriers, in an attempt to reach the Lakekamu River, and raft down to the Papuan coast.

“After untold hardships,” writes Mr. Jackman, “Ehlers and Piering, with some of the carriers—the others having deserted en route — reached the Lakekamu headwaters on September 30. Both Europeans were by that time in physical distress. Piering having injured himself in a fall, and both being short of food.

“Two Buka men, Hangs?

Opia, shot Ehlers, Piering am of the carriers on October : then they and the surviving m rafted down the Lakekarm reached Motumotu on the 256 The Resident Magistrate as Island, hearing of the arrival, visited Motumotva arranged for the men to be rn ated to New Guinea.

“Ranga and Opia weree arrested and charged wit ; crime and were awaiting tn Bogadjim when they overpoc their guards and took to thee “Von Hagen, Dr. Hahl (tl: judge) and several Euroo accompanied by native polices looking for them. The fugitive hold of firearms and, when co:c near the village of Gorib, no from the Gogol River, Ranga : shot von Hagen on August 1# A reward having been set on : and Opia’s heads, local n caught the two men and decan them. Von Hagen was burr Bogadjim on August 15, 1897 J He Had a Grave And a Monument We have assumed that tin Hagen monument at Bogadjirii also the count’s grave. Mr. J.. now of Rabaul, puts us right o score. The monument waif that; von Hagen was buried £ distance away in the Stephr cemetery, in a grave that hss popular late Victorian “fcf column” headstone erected ow Mr. West says that Bogadjim where he was initiated intxt mysteries of planting, in 1921, and he spent some times before he moved on to take Dogumur. He was a camera ; at the time, and photographed; the monument (erected by< Count’s family) and the gras the mat-mat. Unfortunately M lost sight of both pictures—fo: time being, anyway.

At the time von Hagen was 8 dered, the Neu Guinea Kompj had its headquarters at Stee sort usually referred to n»r Bogadjim. On the seafront was the huge Stephansort and club, etc. Some distance land was the Bogadjim plantr bungalow. Between the two, tt the right as you faced the sea; the cemetery where von Hageis buried.

On the landward side of Ba jim bungalow, facing the mainn that ran through the planttj was the von Hagen memorial,! the bronze eagle (now at Mtt; gen, Western Highlands). * 26 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

est saw the memorial first on one side of the base, a relief of the Count’s head, liim Plantation (with which a Plantation was grouped) t up for tender in 1926 by -Pro Board. The old catassued at the time (it’s a colpiece now) devoted two ;o pictures of the property, ‘scribed it in great detail, were over 700 hectares, to 38,000 coconuts and a number of rubber trees, i those days, the plantation 'oducing over 250 tons of Der annum. j it is worked by Mr. Roy T o r. of Madang; earlier, Mr. well known Territorian (now I to be living in Queensland), family lived there for a long ; is no rubber worked at m these days—virtually all production in P-NG is now ie Papuan side —but the Ger- ,n their day in NG, grew :us and para rubber. ) the Greig Went ? was a quick response from F. D. Palmer, to the item ;ific Report (PIM, August, L4l) inquiring the whereof one of the daughters of •eig familv of Fanning and igton Islands. Mr. Palmer is Iv holidaving in Brisbane Fannin? Island, where he ?s the big plantation owned nin? Island Plantations Ltd., is Philn subsidiary, ays: “It has been my duty sasure to sponsor and advis° eiff familv of Fanning Island 1936 —nearly quarter of a j. Your Fiii resident who iquiring miffht like to know ivo of the Greier o-iHs have inning in the past I was Jane (Tini in ;ese, pronounced Ginny). who November, 1958, on a GElCred trip to Penrhyn Island, rn Cooks. The other was Greig (An* in Gilbertese, meed Annie). who laft Fanin Tulagi in September, 1958. ,rawa. The girls are believed ) be residing in these nlaces. too, are deserving of sincere thy by reason of the fact that father left a considerable a in worldly goods to distant r es and his daughters destie father was Hugh Greig— ist of the Greigs referred to M on a couple of occasions. He it Fanning Island on August )56. Between that date and ad of last year, Fanning I Plantations and I did all ve could to assist his destitute r HOME BASE By Sydneysider Sydney is the huh of the South Pacific, and its news is your news. Here are some of the things that made September headlines.

NSW Auditor-General Campbell’s criticism of the Rural Bank’s loan of over £4 million to Metropolitan Portland Cement Ltd. over the last half-dozen years (“little prospect of the bank avoiding a heavy loss”) has been “bitterly resented” by the President of the Bank, Mr.

C. R. McKerihan; the subject of radio and TV interviews and newspaper leaders; and now has degenerated into the usual political plaything.

Mr. McK, who claims that everything is for the best in the best of all banking worlds, nevertheless came home hot-foot in a matter of jet hours from midway through a world tour when Mr. Campbell said his piece.

What old John Cit would like to know is how the cement company induced the Bank to throw so much good money after bad in recent years when every petty fogging regulation is put in the way of the would-be home owner who wants to borrow a few modest hundreds from the same institution. * * * THE ETHICS OF IT; “Grisly”, “macabre” and “not very nice” said pure-minded Sydneysiders when a local undertaker complained to the BMA in September that two doctors while still maintaining their practices, had also gone into the undertaking business. What the non-medical undertaker was complaining about was the unfair advantage the doctors had over him in being literally in at the death of prospective customers. * * * METER-MARTYRS: The justover-the-Bridge suburb of North Sydney has fallen victim to the galloping desire of local government bodies to rake in more from parking meters. In spite of protests, North Sydney Council decided at an October meeting to instal meters in residential streets. This brought such a howl of rage from interested parties, in the public gallery that the Mayor threatened to have terjectors thrown out. forgetting perhaps that if sufficient irate ratepayers gang up on him tney could return the compliment at the next Council elections. Meantime, residents who are in the habit of parking their cars in the street (and private garages are the exception to the rule in the older, built-up suburban areas) they are faced with feedin g the iniquitous meters a steady diet of 1/- pieces. * * * WEATHER-WISE: The weather bureau was blamed for Sydney’s wettest, bleakest Labour (or Six Hours’) Day week-end in years.

Promised fine conditions after Saturday showers, Jupiter Pluvius thereafter set out to show that Aunty’s pet corn is just as reliable a weather indicator as a ton of fancy modern gadgets and a squad of high-priced weather scientists.

Nonetheless, sufficient motorists crowded onto the highways to cause 11 road deaths; and one fellow who stayed quietly at home was killed when a TV aerial blew away in the gale and brought down high-tension wires on top of him. * * *

Business Extends: - The

NSW lotteries, the most lucrative State enterprise, has opened another office to make lotteryticket buying easier. The new office is in Market Street, and a queue of 500 was waiting for it to open on the first day when over 15,000 tickets were sold. It was, said Mr. C. T. Tallentire, Director of State Lotteries, a “very heartening start”. Depends how you look at these things, of course. * * * OLD SOLDIER FADES AWAY; Lieutenant-General Sir Leslie Morshead, veteran of two World Wars and Australian hero of Tobruk, died in Sydney, aged 70, on September 26. * * * PREFERENCE TO UNION- ISTS: The Australian Musicians’

Union demand that the 110 members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra should pay local union dues while on the current tour was declared “unprincipled by the director of the orchestra it couldn’t happen anywhere else in the world. . , Countered the Union’s secretary: The Union wouldn’t stop the orchestra from performing, but he would have talks with them after which he was confldent that the Czechs would pay. (He did but they didn t— which maybe shows that Socialism and Communism arent the same thing after all). 27 MFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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'here in this journal, we rea statement by Minister wherein he repudiates— surances amounting to smugplan attributed to him which he was supposed to > in P-NG a newspaper for nental purposes, ppeared that his Territory ; advocated the plan, but he it down. It was not Govt policy (he said) to interfere eedom of the Press, even to ent of competing with it.

Extension Services Branch is f the same thing. Minister c has planned a large, new ation and printing office, i which films, posters, leaf- Doklets, gramophone records s, radio services, and every i means of encouraging literacy and thought, will be ivailable to the native corn- 's. ! of these facilities already rhese and a lot of new things be brought together into iv Administration section, the on Services Branch.

Moresby officials —logically —wanted to include a newsservice within this planned lation. The Minister turned n. usurer Coy About Costs ie plan is to be linked with lore necessary thing—namely, dended effort to increase 7 among the Territory’s 11 . people—it is worthy of supy all classes.

Treasurer Reeve was coy on estimates of its cost. The cost is likely to be heavy. A special building, to house the new Branch, is to be built at Port Moresby—one guess is that it will cost £40,000 —without printing-presses !

The Treasurer similarly was coy about the cost of the new Taxation Branch, now functioning actively, and with the ruthless efficiency of its true parent, the Australian Taxation Commission.

Effects of The New Tax He made a guess at what the Territory may gain in direct taxation, and what it will lose by abandoning export and import taxes. All figures, as yet, are vague and unimpressive.

The most noticeable result, up to date, are the confusion and embarrassment of the small traders who now are being taxed, and the bitter resentment of the 3,500 public servants, who are losing a slice of their monthly income, without any compensatory benefit whatever.

The Budget naturally came under non-official fire, but was adopted, practically in toto.

Some of the non-official critics were earnest and well-informed; but they were beating empty air. It is now generally recognised that Canberra ignores all the more important recommendations of the Council.

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By Tolala Australians pride themselves in giving the other bloke ir go”. But this apparently does not extend to Australian papers whose judgment is influenced only by the sensationof any news item. the dust-up occurred near ai, in the Southern High- Js, between police and local silling two natives, there id-lines in the Sydney Press jrtain type of Aussie reader •sting for the blood of the Die officer. e beginning of September DO, B. K. Leen, who was under Sec. 33 of the PS ce, was absolved and fully ,ed after a full inquiry into lent but, as far as the Sydss was concerned, he was [er a cloud. coneration should have re- ;he same publicity as the Dns levelled against him. de ourselves on being a or giving a “fair go”. Does gleet in maintaining our Dn indicate a lag in official ts by the PRO. Or what?

Fwycross month I mentioned that Twycross, head “Sparks” of k in Rabaul pre-war, was at e in West Australia. Quite iwn to me, Jimmy had on to his well-earned rest le. It was only the other •eceived a clipping from a rspaper containing the news ed June 24. And so another pected and loved Old-Timer e from us. g the Thirties—Rabaul’s time —Jimmy was O/C AWA and did a fine job; publicand energetic he was a e with all sections of the lity. After leaving TNG he pointed to the Inspectoral nd during the War was of radio communications e Department of Civil i in Perth.

Birds idise reference to the BOP trade New Guinea (Editors’ Mailpt., p. 29) is interesting. The >n talk” mentioned about ions being financed by those as only too true.

Most of the small holdings along the NG coast from Madang, northwards to Eitape (as it was spelt in those days), were kept going by BOP shooting, even as around New Britain and New Ireland the pioneer planters kept their accounts with the Big Firms sweetened by trade copra.

BOP snooting was declared illegal only when the Aussies came into the colony’s picture. Even during the Military Occupation in 1916, the export duty on “portions or feathers of one bird” was £1 each; Crown Pigeons (Gaura) were 5/-, cassowary or emu feathers had an export rate of 12/6 per lb; and Heron feathers £25 a lb.

I don’t think any prohibition would have been placed on NG birds’ feathers had some of the members of the AN & MEF ( Aussie Occupation troops in German NG) been a trifle more circumspect in their gifts of plumes to their girlfriends in Aussie.

It was somewhat incongruous in the years 1915-16 to see rather crummy-looking dames from the lower social brackets of Sydney sporting these rare plumes in their headgear at race meetings and such gatherings, much to the chagrin of the social lights from Potts Point, who were featherless.

Consequently the RSPCA (or some such allied organisation) got cracking and the rumour went round that the feathers were “plucked” from the female birds during their nesting period. This, of course, was all hooey, as the feathers and/or skins were taken mainly from the male birds. But Mrs. PP won out and the embargo went on.

I think there could easily be an open season for BOP shooting and no particular diminution of the birds would occur. But no politician (so far) has ever been game to make the suggestion.

As late as the Twenties Crown or Gaura Pigeons were allowed to be shot, providing they were required for urgent food supplies and Sot for export. And who would not want to have a meal off this meaty, tasty bird? I have never tested anything better in the bird-line.

Bonus For The Vernacular A small par., tucked away on page 55 of the September PIM, has made me very happy. It deals with granting a bonus to officers of the Cook Islands Administration “who learn to speak the local native dialect of Maori”, The bonus is £5O per annum.

Not so long ago I suggested a similar bonus being granted to P-NG field officers and some alterations being effected in order that an officer returns to his original district after the 21 months’ leave and thus gain a thorough knowledge of a particular district and its dialect. The time will come (and not so far distant either) when the knowledge of a native language will be a MUST.

I was glad to notice that Chief Justice Mann, in his report on the Navunaram incident, made special mention of this need for government officials to have such a knowledge if they want to have a thorough understanding of the native attitude.

The worthy Chief Justice gave the Rev. Wesley Lutton (chairman of the Methodist Mission) a pat on the back for his assistance in interpreting the evidence at the Inquiry. Said the Commissioner: “Two Tolai natives. . . . who have both received a considerable education in English, acted as interpreters, but from time to time they had to ask Mr. Lutton for assistance as to the meanings of words and grammatical usages in both languages and on every occasion Mr. Lutton was able to give them the guidance sought to their entire satisfaction.

Without his help it would have been extremely difficult to gain much real impression of what was going on in the minds of the natives.”

The Chief Justice then suggested that without “in any way commenting on the long-range policies of the Administration,” he thought it would enormously strengthen the bond of confidence. ... if officers of sound judgment and experience could become really expert in some of the major native languages.

Just how much attention will be paid in Canberra by the selfsufficient Bureaucrats to such a suggestion remains to be seen. But the need must be obvious if such a recommendation comes from a Chief Justice who has been in the Terri tory for only a comparative short time.

Dr. Hahl, the old German Governor of the Colony, is still held m high esteem by the Tolais. His popularity—to a great extent—stems fmm the fact that he had a thorough knowledge of the Blanche Bay dialect, and encouraged this knowledge amongst his own officials. 33 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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Port Moresby appeared the »f a fear-stricken woman d her identity under the ’ “Joan Smith” because “She ;o back. . . She must not go ’marked woman.” She deher terrifying experiences its when her husband Is id “two black fists knock on •o at midnight outside my i and the native’s soft and t whisper, ‘Let me In, Sinaet me in!’ ” lies there paralysed with ripping her .25 automatic, the “boy wire” at the will hold. She says that he arrived in Moresby five go “boy wire” had scarcely ;ard of. (That is certainly i! To my knowledge, boyiors and windows have been itory towns for just about 3.) outpourings from a nervel female to a sensational- Press is decided dis-service Territory from whichever ou look at it. Natives will intending residents will beipprehensive—especially the -and its ventilation, in this , can have no beneficial )ther pictorial NG sensation a youngster smoking cig- “No cork-tips or filters for He likes to draw directly tobacco,” says a sub-title, here follows the amazing inon that Gerald has been * since he was 18 months old, sed to this habit by the local I] natives. j is a life-size picture of s face, dragging away at a nd, judging by this illustraseems a pity that this who “has been smoking for er of his life —and now he’s :en a day;” does not spend of his time cleaning his lails. childish precociousness and A indulgence are enough to ,nyone hesitate about setting a country that creates such g individual attributes.

That Welfare Office ~ i, . . .

My old friend Bill from up Rabaul-way (who, for certain obvious reasons, must remain anonymous), is a bit critical in his remarks concerning the article which appeared beneath the pen of our worthy Publisher who, as Bill puts it, “must have been led up the garden path to some extent by enthusiastic officials, who were probably suffering from a guilty conscience.”

Says Bill: “RWR saw the joint (Welfare Officer’s headquarters) a good few months after Ted Taylor had departed. The DC actually allotted him a part office, furnished with a table and a chair. The most elaborate furnishing was the ‘Welfare Officer’ sign outside, which was not particularly well appreciated by Ted, who said most of his time would be spent in the villages and his office work done at home.

A home, by-the-way which he obtained privately from a friend who was going on leave and to whom Ted paid rent.”

Bill describes Mr. Taylor’s visits to Tolai villages, which were made mostly in utility trucks hired from Chinese, and with no official trappings such as Departmental of fflC „lTivt CC Se anying Wm OT 3 “ ne “The only typing,” said Bill, “was done by a friend of Ted’s typing out a draft of his report, and for this reason his activities created an atmosphere of ‘hush-hush’. Te< was a self-contained unit. The ‘two modern desks and secretarial assistance,’ mentioned by RWR, had nothing to do with Ted’s job and were probably put there after he left.”

And as for the ultimate result, Bill was a bit pessimistic. “Ted did an excellent job of getting inside the native mind and got to know just what made it tick and the reasons why they would not play ball with the Administration. What his report contained I would not know—Ted is too circumspect for that—but from yarns with him I gathered he thought there should be closer contact between the field officers and the villages, and not so much activity of the “Petrol Officers” (coves who cruise about in cars) and a greater use of the vernacular between field officers and the people to replace the pidgin.

“Well, time will tell”, concluded Bill, “but I don’t suppose they’ll do a bloody thing about it”.

Yes. Time will tell, and let’s hope "they” will do something about it before there are other “incidents”—or worse.

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Pacific’s Aerial Crossroads Have Taken On Their New Look The end is in sight for the first major stage of reconstrucof the Nadi Airport, which will equip it for the jet age. stage, costing £2,500,000, is ly to be completed by the of this year. contracts will be called for vork costing an additional 10—which should take until complete. This second stage lude erection of new operad administration buildings, major contract, which was last year, has involved the ng of the main north-south , which is partly concrete irtly bitumen finish, and ng it by nearly three- -3 of a mile to make it about ies long. [Operation length 0 feet, actual paving length ig the safety factor is eet, and there is also a 200 r er run at the south end. ormed width is 700 feet]. . of the new construction er the sticky red clay of slds with concrete 14 inches laced over a compacted fillch varies in depth from four jet. lis runway alone there are s of concrete in a top course ies thick.

No Disruption was put down without dis- ; normal flying schedule and ady for use by jet airliners 11 months of a start being 3n the site.

In addition, to serve the main runway lights, 35 miles of cable have been laid underground in three circuits —so that only one light in three should fail if something goes wrong.

Another six and a half miles of cabling is in progress for the 7,100 foot east-west secondary runway, which is part of the initial contract to be finished this year.

Work is now being pushed ahead on this, together with the building of the paved terminal and apron areas—all of this alsp is to be carried out without disruption to flying.

Work on the secondary runway involves placing a six inch layer of concrete over about 4,200 feet of the existing runway and surfacing the total length in bituminous concrete.

Other work to be completed by the end of the year includes things like rain drainage culverts (about three miles of them), a modern sewerage treatment plant and eight miles of main sewers, and six miles of metal fencing all around the airport. 52 Acres of Concrete Eventually, when the terminal area, parking aprons and taxi ways are all completed, there will be 52 acres of pavement concrete; and more than 250 miles of joints will have been cleaned and filled with a special compound that resists jet fuel and heat.

A modern passenger terminal building, not part of the main contract, has been erected by the Fiji Government as the main work has gone on.

Nadi airport which is about 1,300 air miles from Auckland, is of major importance to Australia and New Zealand —it is crossroads for the fast swelling volume of air traffic to the South Pacific.

The decision to enlarge it was taken by the South Pacific Air Transport Council, which passed the job on to the New Zealand Ministry of Works.

Wide Area After the Ministry had' carried out detail designs the first stage contract of £2,500,000 was let to the British firm of Taylor Woodrow (Overseas) Ltd., in association with Messrs. D. B. Waite, of Auckland.

Regular site inspections of the contract work are carried out by the chief engineer of the NZ Ministry of Works, Mr. H. L. Hume, and the aerodrome engineer, Mr. (Over) They've Declared Nadi "Neutral' The big oil companies, normally users of every gimmick in the book to publicise their own brand of fuel, have declared Nadi Airport neutral territory.

NADI is being equipped with a completely new refuelling system, designed to deliver up to 1,000 gallons a minute, with six delivery points, but the new organisation will be jointly owned by the major oil companies.

There will be no brand names for refined products just „ Ration turbine fuel” and “Avgas , of 115 and 100 octane.

Neutral colours are being used for painting the new depot, as well as for all equipment used by the oil companies on the airport.

The big jets that now use Nadi are thirsty, demanding their own kerosene type fuel m loads of 10,000 to 12,000 gallons at a time-more than two-and-a-half times the amount usually needed by piston-engined aircraft.

This is how the reconstruction work on Nadi Airport looked from the air in September The main north-south runway cuts across the picture.

Photo: Rob Wright, Fiji PRO. 37 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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P-Ng Union “Not So Good”

i “The administrative linking of our own Territory of Papua with the Trusteeship Territory of New Guinea seemed to be a good idea; but I fear it is working out in unpredictable fashion,” said Mr. R.

C. Wheeler, in the Commonwealth Parliament.

“Governing New Guinea under a Trusteeship is like trying to rear a strange and difficult child under the personal supervision of 80 interfering mothers-in-law.”

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ishing Customs in Tonga BC Will [?]ke Record .e interest of Queen Salote ing a study made of people ihabit her island kingdom, their vanishing customs, has i in an invitation to two travelled men, David Atteni and Geoff Mulligan, to tome weeks there, to make a of the group for BBC teleleft London early in Sepnber with their film cameras the invitation of the Tongan ties and were in Fiji in midber. They planned to go on aalofa by the October Tofua.

Tonga they will travel on y the peoples of some of the sian groups, and they expect rn to England shortly before las. the South Seas there are /ho still live simply and close ire,” Attenborough said heaving London. “In another rs there may not be anyho has had a first-hand exe of their way of life, and ill be our chance to get a of it.”

Wide Experience i Attenborough is already known for his books and the films he has brought back past few years of wild life some live specimens—from Leone, British Guiana, Indo- New Guinea, Paraguay and ountries. this time the main purpose journey is to study people. same time he is hardly to miss an opportunity of any interesting animals he me across.

Taman Geoff Mulligan is less lown, although he was one :eam that worked on a recent V programme on the Kariba i Rhodesia. ips while in Tonga they will ne to film the local method ching shark from canoes, i coconut rattle and a noose led through a block of wood, r the same system is used -and has been used for es, according to the early an navigators—at the Tanga i Islands and along the of northern New Ireland, a native of one of the 5 on the Bulominski Road n Namatanai and Kavieng y put on a demonstration for photograph.—LP.

Spray Teams At Work In New Guinea Malarial Control May Mean A "Population By Lew Priday Dogs barked as our truck turned into the village compound. Smartly the Malaria Control unit got down with their portable sprayers from the USA and strode to the first of many houses-on-stilts.

THE scene was a village on the road, today kept in excellent condition, which joins two former German administrative centres, Namatanai and Kavieng, still known as the Bulominski Road after the administrator who had it built long ago. The story goes that if the road was not to his liking, he had his carriage carried by the natives across the bad bits —and the horses as well.

A meri, babe in arms, got up with a smile from the threshold and joined her two other children, who at the sight of so many strangers ran howling to the beach.

Yet another New Ireland village, Manuwai, was to be sprayed m the fight to stamp out the Territory s greatest scourge.

So important has the campaign to give Papua-New Guinea a healthier record become, that tne Administrator, Brig. D. M. Cleland, declared only the other day that control could cause a virtual population “explosion”.

Europeans look forward to this “explosion” with a mixture of approval and dread, yet malaria control is a step that must be taken now if the good name of Australia is to survive.

Big Job Ahead In the New Guinea Islands, spraying started in February, in New Hanover: it was extended to Tabar, Lihir, Anir and Tanga off the New Ireland coast; and when I left there recently they were completing the first six months spray on that 2UU mile long island itself.

Spraying of the Bougainville district will start on the same scale in October; in the New Britain district in January next; then the turn of the Manus district will come.

Before the unit arrives m an area, a notice is sent round in pidgin, with simple pictures, show- Mr. F. H. Warner, a P-NG malaria control officer, with a native assistant in the background, works at Munawal village, 30 miles out of Kavieng. The spraying equipment is American.

Photo: L. Friday. 41 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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I you can see dieldrin crystals ng on the walls of every New hut you enter. This means or every fly or mosquito that on them for six months, it may take a few hours for o come. rings are painted on all ;s that have been sprayed, ;er each periodic spraying is :ed, a spoke is added, until ial design will look like a Goes On Three Years dng will be done every six for three years, after which ime a further three-year of surveillance, during which ckets of malaria still found : will be eliminated, few Ireland, where I accomthe unit, the complete team ; of two Europeans, four id Papuans, and 14 foremen rs who are local natives. villages volunteer sprayers oiled. times the unit has to split ► two parties, to cover roadretches on foot, and where 3 no track at all, as between and Lemusmus, which are rs apart on the north-west hey hired a big sailing canoe attled through very rough r indeed. took nine hours to get up r er to an inland village beheir canoe had a mast, and ad to clear branches out of ty to make progress at all. nad a better trip to Djaul on the hospital ship Mercy.

“Most Efficient" the Chinese-owned ship o, whose master, David t (his brother Xavier is of Capricornia ), I visited Lihir Island, 30 miles off the eland coast. There we found ilaria unit had walked cornround the island, a matter miles, spraying the dwellings ; 3,600 inhabitants and not g one.

“The most efficient team the administration has ever sent us,”

Mr, Jim Sciortmo, the well known Lihir planter at Londolovit Plantation, said to me over a glass of beer. “It was unusual to see the Europeans in charge really working alongside their native assistants.

“This war on malaria,” he went on, “is the biggest thing that ever happened in the Territory. Already on Lihir there is an advance in domestic cleanliness and physical health. Mark my word, the gain in stature and vitality and the release of physical energy will transform native life. Those who now criticise natives as supine and lazy will find them more ready to work and co-operate in their own development ”

But it is still difficult to persuade the natives that one mosquito differs from another; and food taboos mental attitudes and traditional prejudices that have contributed to population decline ars difficult to overcome.

There is no use minimising the size of the task New Guinea has undertaken to better the lot of the native inhabitants, whose life anticipation at present is no more than 37 years. 43 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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luring Fijians Do A First Class Publicity Job The U.S. Now They Say “It’s Our Fiji Band”

From RALPH CRAIB SAN FRANCISCO, September 27.

Fiji has been put on the mental maps of millions of ericans this last week. The Crown Colony has had the sort tourist-attacting publicity that European nations spend ions of dollars annually to get.

JONS of Americans have en on television, or heard on dio, the band of the Fiji y Forces, which left today me after stealing the show l Francisco’s second annual Festival.

Fijians were an instant and ular hit, overshadowed in st few days of their visit r Soviet Premier Khrushchev, a,s also in town, bandsmen are going to have ;o tell when they get home, October 16. ig their adventures, for inwas a trip to Disneyland, at about the same time s rem i e r Khrushchev was ining that this was for- »n him. “I thought that dreaming,” Lance Corporal roka Savenaga, 30, said. “I ;ard of Disneyland only as a for people of wealth to go.” y thought the world had come ;nd,” said Norman McDonald, ficer with the Fijians at Guadalcanal and Bougainville, who has been travelling with them as a Pan American Airways representative. Some of the Disneyland attractions are designed to frighten, with monsters, ghosts and apparitions, and the bandsmen reacted violently.

Nation Wide Network The 26 members of the band arrived here aboard the Himalaya, after a stop which included recitals and a television appearance in Honolulu, and a march through the streets in Vancouver, BC. The bandmaster, Warrant Officer Kiniviliame Cava, flew from British Columbia to Hollywood to make advance preparations for a television performance on a nation-wide American network show.

Immediately on arrival here, the Fijians flew to Hollywood, rehearsed for two nights until 2 a.m., then appeared as guests of singer Dinah Shore. Their trip to Disneyland followed.

As Khrushchev rode by train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, the bandsmen made a parallel trip by bus, arriving about the same time as Mr. K. Then their arduous week began, with up to four daily appearances. They brought a tanoa and yaqona, and San Francisco Mayor George Christopher went through a kava ceremony with them; they marched every day in downtown San Francisco, performed every night but one at a Pacific Festival Trade and Travel Show.

They played at an American football game, in a shopping centre, at the Press Club, for a meeting of travel agents, at a grand ball, m a University and at a formal military retreat ceremony.

There were only two nights free.

In one, they introduced the tuiboto, their conga-like dance, to San Francisco’s North Beach nightclub ai One of the evenings on the town began with dinner at the Kuo Wah Restaurant in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Manager Andy Young invited the bandsmen to be his guests, then, he said, got out a globe to find out where Fiji is. Bandsmen sang for their supper, entertaining Young with Isa Lei, Bu Ko Suva, Bau my Landa Sere.

As guests of Enrico Banducci, a well-known San Francisco night club owner, the bandsmen trooped to hungry i (they don’t use capitals there) to watch singers and other entertainers. Later, they attended an after-the-theatre party at Enrico’s Coffee House, a place where £5 evaporates in a hurry; they were, however, guests.

The party was for English actress Viveca Lindfors and American stage and movie star Burgess Meredith, who happily joined another tuiboto line.

“There have been many exciting things,” Private Timoci Boto, 20, baby of the band, said.

“We have liked the way the people of San Francisco have treated us,”

Private Maicavu Filimoni, 26, said.

“They have shown great kindness.

People have come to us many, many times to tell us they like us.”

Worked Hard The bandsmen have worked hard.

But as they leave —with a first place trophy for their appearance m the parade which climaxed the Pacific Festival some San Franciscans were regretting an American discourtesy of almost a century a-so* King Cakobau offered Fiji to the United States while the American States were busy with a civil war.

His letter went unanswered.

The Fiii Band was being introduced as “our Fiji Band” before its appearance here concluded. A lot of Imlricans now wish Cakobau’s letter had been answered!

If The Cap Fits . . . zt Merkelijn, director of t education extension in xrlands New Guinea, flew San Francisco for confers with officials to determine TNG should participate in year’s Pacific Festival e. He brought a native l-dress from the Baliem ey, the Shangri-La Valley Vorld War 11, as a gift for or George Christopher. It a cus-cus fur affair, ornated by white cockatoo hers and lorikeet plumage. »spapermen photographed it i re the formal presentation, the photo appeared in the Francisco “News-Call letin” with this caption: 1 Fiji Bandsman’s Hat”.

Drum-major Epeli Raiyawa was a conspicuous figure during the American tour of the Fiji Military Forces band. He is a veteran of 14 years service with the FMF.

Photo: Rob Wright, Fiji PRO. 45 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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The high cost of electricity is fast displacing the merits various beers as the most popular topic of conversation in lua-New Guinea these days. j the fussiest NG drinker nits that any beer is better in none at all, but thousands ritory householders are not i that kerosene, or plain, oldied candle power, wouldn’t be than electricity at the present : that product in the Terrir normal power bill is about £l3 a month, compared—as requently remind themselves about £l2 or £l3 for three s in Sydney and most other lian capitals. e was a special upsurge of m recently following an an- ;ment that the electricity aking in the Port Moresby ast year made a profit of Local citizens demanded a ion in their electricity bills, lis was refused. Electricity n other towns applauded the .—not because they don’t ben cheaper electricity, but bethey don’t believe one area get it cheaper than another. understand the P-NG elecproblem, one has to know ie Territory uses diesel power at Port Moresby, Goroka, and Aiyura. These centres lydro-electric schemes. How- Bulolo is a “company town” 3 hydro scheme is private and lot affect the Administration It also serves Wau. Aiyura is i small agricultural station.

Moresby and Goroka hydro es made a profit last year, and the Rabaul electricity under - , which uses diesel. 3 is the full profit and loss it for 1957-58.

As the table indicates, the Territory made a £39,000 profit last year only because of the profitable operations in the Port Moresby area, which has the advantage of the only really big hydro scheme in the Territory—with 3,000 kilowatts.

The official attitude supports the views of residents outside of Port Moresby—that is, if one area, because of its good luck, can produce cheap power then this reduction should be used to subsidise others not in such a happy position.

Officials have also pointed out—to help placate the Port Moresby users no doubt, because it certainly doesn’t placate anybody else—tha: in any case Port Moresby and Goroka do get lower power charges to some extent. Users in those areas get a proportion of their power units at 3d, compared with 45d in the other towns.

The Administration says it doesn’t plan to reduce the charges in the cheaper areas any further until the charges in the outer areas have been brought down to the Port Moresby level. Then it will give a further Territory wide reduction.

However, it seemed to be having second thoughts about this in September, after a Port Moresby deputation asked that electricity charges be reduced by* a third.

Hydro The Answer What it all comes down to, of course, is that if hydro power in Port Moresby can subsidise the diesel losses in other areas, when are the other areas going to get hydro power so that everybody everywhere can have cheaper power bl p S -NG officialdom quite often gets kicks in the pants for things it hasn’t done, but it has been active in this question.

A team of investigators employed by the Commonwealth Department of Works has been looking into this fascinating question for some years The men have been plodding about the range and mountain passes, testing the flow of likely rivers and streams from one end of the ierr torv to the other.

They have taken an interest in established hydro schemes as well as investigating new possibilities. 47 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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The men have found thasi Goroka scheme, at 200 kilowatif practically reached its limn might be able to develop 300 that wouldn’t be enough for expansion. This means Gorotal eventually need another scherrn . A nd the Rouna scheme, whi in fact the profitable Port Mil undertaking, will eventually its problems, too. There is ee water to provide for the futunj a dam will have to be built i it can be properly exploited.

At present a pond has ; almost completed to provide c power but this is only a temni measure.

Another difficulty in the S scheme, is that a cliff could po< fall on the water race (whiclo happened in Goroka a cour. times). This could be prevents burying the race but it is consie too expensive to do this a\e moment.

Rabaul Area To supply Rabaul the inn gators have had a look atr Batonga River, in the Bai, area. It could work. Bothri Warangoi and Kavavas Rivee that area would not be suitaW the Batonga were chosen the i would have to be transmitted miles.

For Wewak the Brandi Rives been looked at, but it is doui if this river will do. The Gum I at Madang, would have em water to supply Madang with h but there would be no room fco pansion.

At Manus, the Lorengau wouu quite suitable as a hydro scM-.

There is such a small populatM the area, however, that it isa likely one will be built for time.

Probably the major work o;c vestigation has gone on the Mil district. Schemes have been loi at there in the hope that one w be found that would supply ■ Madang and possibly Goroka £ towns on the way to Goroka, s one king hit.

The possibilities for such a m scheme look pretty bright althrl it has taken a lot of to get this far.

The Oomsis and Gabensis RS= were looked at and abandoned) cause although they were econora there was not enough water to s Lae’s future requirements.

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Busu itself was a possibility also was abandoned because high cost. A diversion would een necessary to provide the water needed. nes that would have in- Lake Wanum and the Timne tlso abandoned because of nail capacity. most popular scheme, and s that might pay off, is one ig the big Ramu River and i River, somewhere about the n of the Ramu and Markham ; on the valley floor below e is enough water in the River alone for large in- -1 development, and a power somewhere around the end Markham Valley could proower for Madang, Lae and ghlands, making use of both imu and Wanton Rivers, e would have to be a power i run the 100 miles from the ) Lae and about the same ;e to Madang. line to Lae could follow the road easily enough, and probably cost about £3,000 a mile.

The line to Madang would be more expensive, because there is no fjprpss road there access roaa mere. r Serve Goroka, Too Power sent up the ranges towards Goroka from a power station at the head of the Markham would have the advantage of opening Highlands areas on the way.

The possibilities of such a combined scheme have been advocated by one or two private persons in New Guinea for some years , The supporters of hydro-electricitv are aware that thg inltial cost Q - f any hydro scheme is expensive. Bu: they point out that once the cost can be raised the scheme soon pays for itself.

The Port Moresby scheme cost about £600,000, but with a profit o £82,000 a year this will be worked out soon. [?]e Musa Instead Of the Purari?

He P-NG is seeking cheap ) schemes for the towns, authorities are going I with the examination of 2’s big Purari River, which Commonwealth Governhopes will provide power ih to process bauxite (to be i near Cape York, on the alian mainland), s was first looked at a few ago, when an initial estifor a power station on the ■i to process the material ibout two hundred million is. inwhile, there are some exin New Guinea who think Papua’s Musa River, in the lern District, not far from would be even more suitthan the Purari for the te people. It has the same itage in that it is also in alian Territory and is not to be upset by anything might happen in the Trust tory. would be possible, say the is, to produce three million atts of power from the And there would be )y ports. 49 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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Letter to the Editor

Mitive "Idols"

RE JUST [?]AL AIDS H. A. Lindsay, who collaboraith Norman B. Tindale, to “Rangatira”, (reviewed in in August), says that he is ointed in us over a caption illustration in the same issue. 77). We called the carved i figure, part of a collection ted to Chicago Natural / Museum by Captain and 4. W. F. Fuller, a “carved of an early Tongan Goddess”, ns that we shouldn’t, think, however, that Mr. y is a hit hard on us. “PlM’s” had nothing whatever to Dout who worshipped what, he caption referring to a i image of an early Tongan s” was supplied with the :l photograph from the 0 Natural History Museum, TM’s” San Francisco corrent, Ralph Craib. But what ndsay has to say about idols 1 of interest: expects mistakes of this kind periodicals which put isationalism before facts, but l a magazine which speaks voice of authority on Pacific The misconception that all representations of the human are “heathen idols” has been sible for a tragic destruction eplacable ethnological speciinyone with even a nodding ntance with anthropology it is the civilised peoples fashion statues and paint ed portraits of those whom worship or revere. The Greeks commissioned their leading )rs to fashion representations gods and goddesses of their ion—but those marble and i statues were not worshipped, ir purpose was to have in a ‘ a tangible representation of ig who was believed to have over human lives and ies. Today, some Christian still find this an advantage— "atholifcs do not worship a of the Madonna with the , Christ in her arms. It 7 aids the mind of the ippsr to form a mental e. cvould be just as absurd to that a statue of that great nitarian, St. Vincent de Paul, Ing in the grounds of an nage, is there to be lipped! But it does remind s, of any denomination, that he devoted his life to the service of others.

Burnt Up Priceless Carvings In the case of the Polynesians, however, they made no such representations of lo the Parentless, or goddesses 1 ° £ lBSSer g ° dS and 8 Unfortunately, early-day missionaries did not realise this and they made converts to Christianity burn all wooden carvings of figures, So thousands of canoe figureheads, door posts and other works of art went into bonfires.

As a result, the only examples of Polynesian statuary from many Pacific islands which have survived are those which some missionaries sent home, labelled “idols”, to aid in raising funds for their work!

The notable exception occurred in New Zealand. That enigmatical figure, the Rev. Samuel Marsden, exhibited a most un-Christian lack of charity when he sat on the bench as a magistrate. Then he would order a flogging of 50 lashes for an offence which would bring a small fine today. But when he set out to convert the Maori people to dS S a great and nmitutn^rnrvfnH? 8 decorated the Maori villages as thef K'wth craftsmen had § snenf skflfuMabour Thanks to Marsdan* there was no senseless of Poknesian ar? S New ™ynesian art. in New Zealand.

This point is still important, for only a few years ago one misguided missionary in New Guinea had to be told very plainly that he must order natives to burn their dancing masks, under the entirely incorrect belief that they were worshipped. Museums could also more to correct this old fallacy.

Every case displaying carved figures should carry a large and prominent label stating that none of the images were ever worshipped. 51 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— OCTOBER,

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The Future of Fiji Forestry [?]n Unhappy R ecord, But There's Still Promise From a Staff Writer in Suva.

Despite the fact that the Fiji timber industry has an unipy record of commercial failures, with the Agricultural Industrial Loans Board “in the red” as backers, forestry •ears to hold promise as at least one valuable alternative ustry of the future for this Colony. riCULARLY important is the ict that certain exotic acalypts and a Caribbean sem to thrive on Fiji’s burnt- “talasiga” lands, of which are many thousands of acres. ;e lands, the result of indisate burning-off over many have often been described as is”. future could lie in exotic than native timbers, if the nental work so far carried ■ the Department of Forestry ue. i result of these experiments, commenced since the war, je of perhaps greatest promise large Mahogany, a native of i Honduras, first introduced i in 1911.

Good Possibilities > is a fast grower of attractive ranee and excellent timber y. It seems to thrive under b all but the driest conditions i Colony, and is to date free diseases and pest problems, logany is not the only posy, however, Pinus elliotti, known as slash pine in the Southern States of the USA, where it is native, is now thriving in the higher levels of Fiji—notably in the vicinity of Nadarivatu—and Pinus caribaea, another Honduras timber, gives great promise as a commercial timber for the lower levels and the talasiga lands.

While the fast-growing Albizzia varieties, introduced into various Pacific territories in recent years, also thrive, especially on soap-stone lands, they are very subject to wind damage and, following experimental work, are now considered to be unsuitable for commercial development in this hurricane-zone territory, except in the most sheltered areas. . .

Another highly promising candidate is New Guinea’s Eucalypt deglupta, which is thriving in some small experimental plantations.

The principal problem with this —as with native timber varieties, such as dakua and kauvula—is the difficulty of obtaining seed.

Mahogany growing at ucuo-i- -suva forestry station a few miles from Suva at an altitude of about Big Trees Small leaf or Spanish Mahogany is also growing there bu L while timber is generally considered of higher quality it does not give such promise** as the large ieaf variety, as its rate of growth is much slower.

The first two large-leaf trees, established at the Nasinu Arboretum, rfear Nausori, in 1911 are now over 100 ft in height and 12 ft 2 in ana 14 ft 1 in. in girth respectively.

About 1 000 acres of this timber has been established and it is clear it ran stand up to hurricane conditions "remarkatafy well, where Alhizzia suffers heavily. Some [?] are some of Fiji's timbers, photographed by staff correspondent Jim Shortall. At left, are Albizzia falcata, which are not favoured be- -of their susceptibility to wind damage. Behind them are the research and training buildings at Colo-i-suva. At right, is a stand of most oromising exotic commercial timber, the large-leaf Mahogany. This stand is on the main road near Colo-i-suva; the trees are nine -old and six inches in diameter. Picture below shows a man standing at the base of Eucalypt deglupta, four years old and 45 feet introduced experimentally from New Guinea. To the rear of the tall dead Albizzia falcata which died through hurricane damage (right), are six-year-old Mahogany, 35 feet high. 500 feet has reached 6 inches in diameter in ten years and it is expected to reach 18 inches in 40 to 45 years. 53 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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NZ Interest representative of Fletchers a survey of suitable plantarreas, and developments in this tion are awaited with considerinterest. ne of the problems associated with the milling of native timbers in natural stands, which have been the downfall of milling companies in Fiji, would not apply in properly established large man-made plantations.

The Fiji Government is interested in forestry as a soil conservation and rehabilitation measure as much as from the viewpoint of this being a possible future valuable industry, supplying not only the needs of the Colony but as an overseas currency saver and earner.

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Staging Point Only the ornithologists can say, but a close examination of the sandpipers and godwits and mutton birds and other varieties which summer in the Southern Hemisphere might prove worth while from a scientific point of view.

Malden is used by plovers migrating to Tahiti, the Cooks and New Zealand from Alaska. The records also show that small numbers of pin-tail ducks used to come to that atoll for a few weeks each November-December, from the United States. Some of these moved on south to Penrhyn atoll.

Small rookeries of several varieties of terns, gannets, frigate birds and tropic birds bred there and some of these, too, though not migratory, would range to nearby populated atolls —Fanning, the Northern Cooks, and the Marquesas, perhaps.

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Mariner's Cave Visited By Rob Wright Except for a very vague knowledge of the existence of Mariner’s Cave in Vavau Harbour, I confess to having been in complete ignorance of the somewhat exciting manner in which one gained entrance to it.

I HAD previously visited nearby Swallows Cave by rowing into it in a small boat, and when Que Weston, the British Consul in Tonga, broached the subject while we were en route to the island, I assumed that Mariner’s would be something like the latter cave, with the exception that one would have to swim to it instead of visiting it in a boat. Que was all for trying it out, but I reserved my decision until we were on the spot.

I believe the island is named Hunga—a small one with fairly steep sides of volcanic rock. It was similar to many in this beautiful harbour.

As the launch approached I looked over into the clear water—seemingly fathomless—but there was no indication of the entrance until we got closer. Then deep-down a dark blue chasm appeared which seemed to melt into the side of the island.

Rope First The three Tongan boys who were to act as guides were soon into the water, followed by Que Weston.

The guides had taken with them a length of rope, one end J* was to be taken inside the cave and the other end held outside. By following the rope underwater, it would be possible to negotiate the entrance and the subterranean channel until arrival in the cave. licture is of vavau s Swallows Cave, which can be entered only from the sea, an d is well- [?] to visitors. Below, the Governor of Fiji, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, with Lady Maddocks , a Tongan diver about to descend into the far less frequented Mariner's cave. pictures by Rob Wright.

The underwater cave of William Mariner, first reported to the world by that former ship's boy in his book of Tongan experiences published in 1817, has only rarely been visited by Europeans, despite its fame. The cave, which is entered through an underwater passage, is in Vavau harbour, Tonga, away from the regular tourist haunts.

The inside of the cave has never been ’photographed out a report from Tonga in September said that two BBC-TV men, David Attenborough and Geoff Mulligan, hope to take some cine film during an underwater dive soon. Recently, Rob Wright, Fiji’s well-known official photographer, entered the cave with the British Consul in Tonga, Mr. Q. Weston, and at “PlM’s” request, Rob Wright sent the following report of the experience. He did not, on this trip, carry his underwater camera, but he hopes eventually to get some underwater still photographs of the cave .

The BBC men are not equipped with an underwater outfit for still photography. 61 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1959

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CUP 1 HQ BASE g\n THE VJ\ TH No 4 CUP .V WITH the *UK I 64 Sf V 4 k Available;— Hotels, Clubs & Stores itched as one of the Tongans eared under the surface and reappeared after a lapse of 1 minutes. That seemed easy i. Que meanwhile was prefer his dive. I lingered long i to take a photograph and swam over to the spot. Que, fides, and the rope had dis- *ed. I floated around on the e looking down into the water what confronted me. 3 beneath appeared to be a left in the rocky side of the which gradually widened to th of perhaps ten feet at a of six feet below the surface, w of rock obscured the enfrom view. obvious thing was to dive than this overhang and then i out and swim horizontally the interior of the cave was d. i I did, swimming into the and coming to the surface when one of the Tongans d me on the back, re appeared to be a slight outcurrent. I estimated the ce as a possible 12 or 15 feet, i thinking it over afterwards mowing that I can swim at i clip underwater, perhaps it lore like 20 feet. One doesn’t in situations like this. Moreny main concern was to get tie cave as soon as possible as , getting darker and darker.

Eerie Light de, I found a cavern perhaps more feet in height and maybe t across. Que and the Tongans treading water close by. first and lasting impression he light. This was an eerie ire blue and came only from ibterranean entrance. My im- ,te thought was how wonderful vimmers would look on colour They appeared to be on a y stage with blue-green footshining up into their faces, i second thing which struck me he haze or fog which comy blanked out the cave every linutes and then cleared again iy after. The haze was accomd by a considerable amount of ire on the ear-drums.

It wasn’t a pleasant sensation and I certainly would not have cared to stay in there for an indefinite period.

The sides of the cave appeared to be fairly steep, but at the back, the rock sloped downwards at a gentle angle and it was possible to gain a foothold here and stand for awhile, although there were spasmodic surges of current which kept sweeping me to one side, and which led me to believe that there may have been additional fissures or clefts leading off from this cave, deeper into the island.

I was not prepared to follow this up, however.

Swimming out of the cave presented no problems, although from literature I have subsequently read, this appears to have caused difficulty with other divers.

Que Weston surfaced too early and scratched his shoulder.

I was not aware of any current except that mentioned previously.

But perhaps we had ideal weather conditions. I could imagine it being very different with a heavy swell beating against the island. Nevertheless I would like to try it again sometime —equipped with a mask, swim-fins, camera—and a tape measure.

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1 Mariner’s Cave with great ; although, in comparison he following extract from Thomson’s book, Savage it as too modest and rei: Thomson's Version ... remamder of our visit was d sight-seemg. I was anxious the Hunga cave, twiceby Mariner a,nd Byron. In westerly swell had prevented m diving into it, but this man had promised to proides from the best divers on ,nd, and to put no obstacles vay if the weather made the ire possible. But to my dismerit a westeriy swell again and the guides backed h s tion by refusing to risk their Mi 18 - , ~ , ... ... d to admit to myself that d have been a poor end to • to be sent home in bandages, iefymg the advice of the especially as I had been by Mr. H. J. Marshall, RN, as a midshipman on HMS 2 when Captain Aylen exhe cave in 1852, that the feat ficult even in calm weather, ain Sir J, Everard Home bedous to have the cave exin order to test William :’s story, selected Mr. J. F. R. then a Master’s Assistant, Post-Captain retired, as bebest diver on the ship. He ken to the indicated posif the cave’s mouth and sd with a lead line and two guides. e was no sea on, but the a long one—one fathom ,nd five fathoms along the passage before it is possible to rise into the cave. Aylen was, I believe, the first white man to enter the cave since Mariner and, being somewhat of a draughtsman, he made a sketch of the interior, which was afterwards turned into a picture by an artist in Sydney. ‘The return dive was not so successful. The great difficulty in diving OU £ these submarine caves is that, your face being downwards, y OU are d ece i vec i by the reflected light into coming up too soon, captain Aylen scratched his back so severe iy with the stalactites that t hc wounds did not heal for two mo nths.’ So said Thomson, “Compare your estimate that the i en gth of the passage is 12 feet it £ Thomson’s estimate that it is 30 feet As one who nearly suc . cum bed during the dive, I agree with Thomson.”

From Thomson’s book, The Scene changes, I have found a further reference to the cave: Colourful Legend “We visited also the Hunga submarine cave, famed both by Mariner and Byron, in the harbour channel. During the disturbances of a hundred years ago a young chief heard that the village of the girl he loved was doomed tc massacre.

“He had discovered this cave during a fish excursion, and he determined to carry off his bride and hide her until they could set sail for Fiji. He led the way in the dive; she followed him, and for three weeks she stayed there on a narrow sloping ledge while he dived out for food for them both. In the end, his friends brought a canoe, in which they set sail for Fiji. A heavy surf was rolling at the time of our visit.

“There was a dive for 20 yards to swim, and the last European who had attempted it —a captain in the Navy—had been wounded so badly by stalactites that he had to be invalided out of the service. Finau was strongly against my going, and it appeared that the guides themselves did not care to attempt the dive.

"Interminable"

“I had already made such a dive in Yasawa-i-lau, in Western Fiji.

There the opening was only a few yards under water into a limpid pool. A native led the way, warning me to follow the soles of his feet, which are pink like those of a European.

“I felt the want of eyes on the back of my head to know when I had dived far enough to come up.

It seemed interminable, but I suppose it was not more than four or five yards. When I saw his feet treading water I came up in a sort of vaulted chamber in which there was) a flat rock.

“The light was sapphire blue because every ray had to penetrate through water. It was a place in which one might easily have concealed a person for weeks together if food were carried in at intervals.

Alas, during my journey outwards a signet ring which I valued slipped from my finger into the mud, and the rest of the afternoon was spent by my boat’s crew diving for it, Without SUCCeSS.” (Over) Mr. Rob Wright, author of this article, is well known in the South Pacific as official photographer of Fiji's extensive Public Relations Office.

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Noumea • R - Laubreaux Norfolk Island • • • A - E - A }* r J ,n Apia E. A. Coxon & Co. d asked the British Con- Tonga, Quentin Weston, s impressions after swiminto Mariner’s Cave with Wright, and received this fling letter: only difference of opinion flween Rob Wright and myf] is over the difficulty of ing into the cave. Rob, who s to spend almost as much i and under the water as he ut of it, found the exercise while I, who swim but nally, found it formidable, the average man, my opinion probably prevail over Rob’s, ovice wants an indication of le is up against if he makes ;tempt. Rob [thought] that igth of the underwater swim Dout 10 ft. I consider 30 ft more accurate, and my view ported by Basil Thomson in 3k. am guided by a rope which ieen placed there by some is who accompanied us. I recommend that any person niliar with underwater swimand especially swimming st rocks and caverns, to make tempt only with the aid of "You Swim Into Dark" n you swim in, you are swiminto the dark and, so it •s at the time, into the un- . It is therefore a comfort, j rate it was to me, to have e to hold on to with one and to half swim and half neself in. followed after me without pe, arriving about two minutes He shot up from the water le cave like a cork and someout of breath. le, the cave is circular and , domed roof. It was quite I should say not more than •ds in diameter and about 25 h. se are rather confused recoils and may be inaccurate but give an impression of the size and appearance. The was dim, green and eerie, beimited to the light reflected outside through the passage.

An interesting feature was that, when the water level in the cave was raised a few feet by the incoming surge from outside, the atmosphere was clear, but when the water level fell with the outgoing surge, a vacuum was created, and the atmosphere became misty and one had a feeling of tension in the ears.

This process was continuous at intervals of a few seconds, and indicated the cave had no outlets above water level. The air inside, though somewhat musty, was sufficiently fresh to make breathing comfortable.

No Signs of Life There were no signs of anything having lived in the cave and neither were there any marks left by human beings recording their visits. The fiancee of the Tongan chief who traditionally discovered the cave must have had an uncomfortable time, because there is only one small uneven, limestone shelf to sit on.

To my mind, swimming out of the cave is easier than going in because of the guide of the reflected light outside, but, as Thomson says, there is in consequence a temptation to surface too soon.

I don’t imagine that many people have entered the cave, especially visitors from overseas. Its situation is remote and the attempt can only be made if conditions are suitable.

The tide has to be low, the sea reasonably calm, and the wind from the right quarter. I don t know how many Europeans have the cave since 1900, but I imagine the number to be very small.

Mr. Q. Weston, British Consul in Tonga. 67 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, Get Into The Cave flie Novice llioiild Use A Rope" ntinued From Previous Page

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Fiji Dried Bananas Might Make A Comeback The dried banana industry may be revived in Fiji soon.

B. Proweller who was principal in the last commercial ed banana venture in Fiji it had a short life in 1947 satisfied that the problems that existed then can now be ercome if the finance is forthcoming and if the Fiji growers ; prepared to take a share in what could be a valuable altertive industry. l mistake last time, according :. Proweller, was in basing the try on Viti Levu where it eted with the unprocessed la export trade. To be successhe industry must have ample ies of bananas at all times — just in the intervals between lents of fresh fruit overseas. . Proweller’s project calls for pital of £lOO,OOO, of which he :ts to find 51 per cent., partly is own account, and partly in Jnited States. The remaining ;r cent, of the capital he hopes be forthcoming from investby villages in the producing i, through the Fijian Develop- ; Fund, which has available a of £40,000 for investment this and the remainder by a loan the Agricultural and Inrial Loans Board.

'. Proweller left for the United 5s on August 24 following talks with Fiji Government officials, during which he received their blessing, and the assurance ox a loan of £20,000 from the Loans Board subject to the other finance being found. , -- In the United States Mr.

Proweller also plans to look ovei the latest type of drying machinery.

Under the plan now envisaged, drying plants would be set up at Koro, Levuka, Savusavu, and probably Kadavu— though there are certain problems of banana supply at the latter island.

One of the weaknesses of earlier dried banana projects, which were aimed at the NZ market, was insufficient publicity at the marketing end. Housewives unfamiliar with the product, simply <l ld ” ot how to make use of it. This aspect will be taken care of t hls o tu JJ£ although there is already a big (Continued on page 71) A Slant On How To Sell Them Bananas The Way They like Them With the banana supply position the way it is in the Islands at present, any discussion on sales promotion may be thought of as purely academic.

Everyone in New Zealand—the Islands’ only present banana market—is fully aware that for the foreseeable future they’re going to have to take what they’re given; and even the wholesale importing organisation has admitted of late that this is often a conspicuously poor sort of banana. But even allowing that, there’s no harm in telling the South Pacific growers what the North Pacific growers in Hawaii have to do to sell their bananas.

Maybe the Honolulu housewives are plain spoiled, but it seems that unless the bananas there are attractive in appearance they won’t buy them—and even if they are attractive, unblemished fruit, as they must be even to rate consideration they still have to compete with a lot of other tropical fruit. So sales promotion on the part of the growers and retailers is necessary for the industry.

What Do They Want?

On behalf of the industry, the Hawaii College of Agriculture—a part of the University of Hawaii— recently carried out a “preference survey” to see what the public wanted in the matter of bananas.

The three varieties commonly grown in Hawaii, known locally as Bluefield, Chinese, and Apple, were presented In a variety of ways from ten leading Honolulu supermarkets over a period of one month. For the first two weeks the fruit was simply offered in convenient-sized bunches, according to the norma! method of retailing in Honolulu.

Such “bunches”— they were not just single-row “hands”, but bunches of nine fruit —were not packaged m any way. From these the normal sales were gauged.

For the second two weeks of the test period other packaged bananas wire also offered alongside the plain bunches. The Packaging took qpveral forms. There were two, four, and six-fruit “bunchlets” simply encircled *by an attractive halfinch-wide printed paper band.

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The dried banana industry started after the war in Western Samoa and in the Cook Islands, failed because the method of processing permitted infection by a small weevil. This problem would not arise under the proposed drying method to be employed in Fiji.

The product produced in the Cook Islands on a small scale for many years past has always been in the form of a dozen or so dried fruit wrapped in banana leaf and tied firmly at each end in a sort of large bon-bon. The Fiji product will be properly packed in sealed cellophane wrappers.

A well produced dried banana is soft, flexible, and darkish brown in colour and about the dimensions of a stick of trade tobacco. The Fiji fruit will be dried whole. The fruit have to be completely ripe.

The product is described as delicious, eaten raw like figs or dates, used in cakes, or with corn flakes and milk as a breakfast food.

Mr. Proweller first went to Fiji from Switzerland, in 1937 and became a British subject in 1945. He holds residential status in Fiji but also spends a good deal of his time in New Zealand. i there were similiar bunchperforated plastic bags of > size and with the mouths and with some printed ■y on the bags, ly there were six-banana 'ayer tray-type packages, enwith the attractive printed band and completely enin a sealed plastic wrapper. the goods thus set out the hers settled down to see tappened.

Want to Feel Them on became evident that the ters not only like an at- ; presentation, but they also be able to feel and examine it. Despite the fact that the nclosed in plastic was refrom display the moment appeared too rips, the public sd always to hold such fruit , of the packaged fruit, over cent, sold was that simply 2d by the paper band. There definite “thumbs down” on closed trays, only about 14 it. of these being sold, while cent, of the total were in bags. ic fruit with encircling paper or without such band, most selected the banded bunchsked why, they usually said hey felt that the banded s had been specially selected. ;tual price difference was of ;ount, amounting only to a 0 of a cent in production he banded bunches, it was that there was a definite pre- ; for the six-fruit size. Most said that they considered suitable family size, igh the completely unpackbunches continued to sell hout the second two weeks of >t, there was a definite leantvards the banded bunchlets. basis of weight of fruit sold, • cent, was completely un- ;ed and 35 per cent, banded or ;ed, over the full month.

The Results final results of the test were lows: 1. Most consumers in 1 buy bananas on impulse. 2. rd of the consumers cannot y banana varieties. 3. Taste most important factor in the of variety amongst those ire able to identify varieties, s six-fruit bunchlet is the size desired. 5. Most customers half ripe fruit to green or ripe fruit. 6. Anything that ;ts that the fruit have been lly selected —a band or peran attractive bag—will prosales. 7. A totally enclosed ge is not wanted and is also the cause of rapid ripening in the store and consequent wastage of fruit. 71 Dried Bananas (Continued from page 69) me ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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THE first single-engined westbound flight was in fact made only this year, when a ferry pilot brought an aircraft from America to Sydney for delivery.

In a way “Smithy’s” flight was accidental. He planned to enter the great England-Australia air race— won by Captain C. W. A. Scott— but for technical reasons the controllers would not pass his American aircraft for that event—so Smithy decided that he would show them anyway that his machine was equal to the task, by flying the Pacific instead and establishing a record of his own. He had, of course, made the west bound flight in another aircraft, Southern Cross, six years earlier. 1934 was the year of the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Morro Castle fire, the Piccard balloon ascent into the stratosphere—and Fiji’s diamond jubilee as a British colony.

Fence Removed The flight actually commenced from Sydney on October 19, but the departure from Brisbane was delayed until 4 a.m. on October 21.

East of New Caledonia, as the plane winged its way through rain and thick cloud, preparations were being made at Albert Park, Suva. Part of the fence at the seaward end of the park was removed, as were telephone and electric power lines.

Floodlights were rigged on Victoria Parade facing inland, and a number of cars were lined up at the other end of the park facing seaward to be used as sources of illumination should the arrival take place after dark. Captain Fenton, a World War I aviator, was in charge of these preparations. , Fortunately, the lights were not necessary. Just after 6 p.m. Lady Southern Cross was sighted coming in from seaward. Passing close to the town side of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Smithy made two circuits before setting the aircraft down to a perfect landing. Captain reported that he had obtained on y a brief sight of the sun late in the afternoon, and that the navigat had been mainly “by guess and by God”. What ever it was, it was good.

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OTNOTE : Sir Gordon was not ible at his Sydney office in >er when PIM phoned to rehim of the anniversary. He n America on one of his many ess visits. \ Look What's Happened To Air Traffic Since erseas air traffic to and from increased substantially during rear ended March 31 last, e latest Trade Report, rey published, shows that 29,228 mgers in transit —arriving and rting by the same aircraft — registered. This was an inle of 4,367 on the previous year, tionally, 15,555 passengers id and did not depart by the ; aircraft, and 16,342 persons the Colony by air in addition loss classed as in transit. These increases of 1,711 and 1,775 re- :ively. le freight set down in Fiji from seas amounted to 1,129,504 lbs — .0,896 lbs. The freight uplifted led 604,446 lbs—down 27,602 presumably because of the lit squeeze” on imports, le number of aircraft arriving departing was 1,873 —up 110 on 1957-58 year.

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Mr. lan R. Anderson, accountant to the GEIC Wholesale Society, said in Suva in September that the insurance underwriters paid out jettisoned 61 " and* the IhlppeT we?e In the ordinary course they might have received £Stg.9o per ton ci f and been paid on the basis of de livered weights at destination As there is invariably shrinkage the landed weights are always substantilov^H than the lo J<Jed weights, An<^ rsor * sald that between the time of loading and jettisoning cargo the free-market price was Thl “ill wind” proverb applied. 75 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER.

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The Parkinson Saga Recalled

nument To New Guinea's First Planter Is Broken , Neglected

By R. W. Robson

I am not happy about the last resting-place of New inea’s most distinguished pioneer-planter.

The location is ideal; but the treatment is shocking. Could the New Britain Historical Society do something about it?

IS in Rabaul at the end of me, three days after a big ass-fire swept the coastal between Kokopo and Malapau of a vast choking mass of and scrub. This (I told myis my opportunity to locate examine the old Karadui inson) mat-mat. don Thomas and friends, some ago, after a great search, for me the old family gries of Gunantambu (“Queen” i Forsayth) and Karadui (her Phoebe Parkinson). I had red historical riches from the r; but I had never seen the ison cemetery. >r an hour’s search over those ;ned hills, covered with ashes leaked in sweat, I found the [aradui mat-mat. is on a high, narrow ridge, ng eastward over the sea, into mrise. It is shaded by great, foliaged trees, probably gd there by Parkinson, himself inguished botanist. It is only ards from the Rabaul-Kokopc Little Remains gr 50 years, there is little rejig there except a heap of 5. What was once an elaborate ment to Parkinson lies on the id, in four pieces; and on one the words, “R. H. R. Parkinson, 1844—24.7.1909” are deeply end. (See photograph.) kinson children have been d there; but Parkinson’s bewife, the former Phoebe Coe, of “Queen Emma”, lies buried g she died, aged about 80, in a be New Ireland village, during rap occupation. jiding there, looking around it the coconut plantations he lished there 75 years ago, I rebered bits and pieces of the ry of this very notable man. rkinson’s father was an Englishand on the staff of one of the is of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. When principality or dukedom was rbed by the new Germany, inson took German nationality; his son, R.H.R., was born a nan, and highly educated.

I first came on Parkinson’s name when searching through the files of The Samoa Times. That weekly paper was published before Germany annexed Samoa, and it died 80 years ago. In 1876 it carried an advertisement in which one R. H. R.

Parkinson begged the people of Savaii to help him obtain a specimen of a very rare bird which had been seen occasionally in that volcanic island.

Parkinson in Samoa Parkinson had been taken to Samoa by the German “Long Handle” firm, as an agricultural adviser. There, he married Phoebe Coe while she still was a teen-ager; and eight or ten children came from their long, happy union.

After a series of stirring events — both political and romantic—Emma Forsayth (nee Emma Coe) departed fiom Samoa with saloon-keeper Thomas Farrell, and settled in the extremely raw land of New Britain.

Many of her brothers and sisters (half and full) joined her there, later; and, in the early ’Eighties, about the time she got rid of Farrell, Emma brought Richard and Phoebe Parkinson over to the new country. With the Parkinsons came their own two or three children, and Emma’s only son, the well-known Jonas Myndersse Coe Forsayth.

It was Parkinson, about 1883, who planted up the great Ralum Plantation. in the Gazelle Peninsula, for Mrs. Forsayth—and (I am not sure of this without research) I think that was the very first coconut plantation established in what is now the Trust Territory of New Guinea.

Germany annexed the Territory in 1884; but by then Ralum was partly planted; and about then Mrs, Emma Forsayth moved from Mioko over to her famous Gunantambu bungalow, near the Ralum wharf, at Kokopo; while the Parkinsons settled in at Karadui, a short distance further north.

These Ralum plantations now are known by other names. The Carpenter plantation, Malapau, is part of them.

For 20 years, Parkinson was an outstanding figure in that community. He was a scientist, and a completely practical planter and settler.

Both he and Emma Forsayth had a passion for introducing plants from other tropical countries; and even today expert botanists will find, in that Kokopo area, various kinds of trees and shrubs that are completely exotic.

Planter and Famous Writer Parkinson made a close study of the New Britain and New Ireland peoples, and of the area’s flora and fauna; and his careful observations are embodied in his famous book, Thirty Years in the South Seas, one of the classics of South Pacific litcrfliturc Various letters of his preserved in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, show that Parkinson was a master of perfect English; but his book was In the old Parkinson family cemetery, New Britain. Richard Parkinson's monument now lies on the ground, in four pieces. 77 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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Meanwhile, another interesting experiment has been carried out by the Territories Department of Agriculture.

As is well known, the Department has a large experimental cattle station in the Baiyer River Valley, north-west of Mt. Hagen, in the Central New Guinea Highlands. In July, ten cattle were slaughtered there, in the early morning, and the carcases were immediately dressed and carried by air directly from the Baiyer River across the mountains to Port Moresby, where they were placed in the market before noon, as freshly killed beef.

It was a difficult job for the Department officials but it did prove that an airlift of fresh meat from the Highlands to the main centres is possible and practicable without refrigeration facilities.

The Baiyer River meat was sold in Port Moresby at 3 - per lb, and it was calculated that the cost of air transportation was 7td per lb.

To combat soil erosion, which is a serious problem in Fiji, farmers planting sugarcane, maize, and other crops on hilly land will in future be required by law to plant the rows at right angles to the slope to slow the run-off of rainwater and reduce the loss of top soil.

Some cultivated areas of Fiji have already suffered considerable damage through carelessness or ignorance on the part of the farmers. 79 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Tropicalities 10 Bob an Hour iany ordinances and bills were nsidered by the West Samoa ■gislative Assembly in its Sepr sitting that it was found ary to extend the sitting time ally from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.) it in the afternoons as well. )ia correspondent who reported dded that “the remuneration embers has been increased pondingly from £l/10/- a day /10/- a day—with 10/- per overtime when sitting in the ig”. We like that overtime All we hope is that nobody ■s to tell Australian politicians it.

"Tiger Lil" Got Her Name 5. LILLIAN MlLLAR—former fell known resident of New xuinea—told us this story of she collected her famous quet of “Tiger Lil”. was a tall, slim blonde, only its old, when she went first w Guinea in 1923. One day, she was assisting the mans of the Kokopo Hotel, one of srritory’s lively parties was in !ss; and an early arrivalfas afterwards well known as ;e and as a Romeo, and who g since dead —was in highly ; mood. ‘made a pass” at some of the —who did not take him seri- -and then his eye fell upon shapely Lillian. He made nt for her, prepared to clutch, an, busy with a telephone, ed the oncoming peril warily; is she felt the festive gentlearm come around her, she ner free hand to give him an cut which stopped him in his grabbed his chin and yelled - ' r: “Why, you damned little forgave the gentleman, who fards became a friend, and he fe her. But, from that day 'ds, the Territorians called her r Lil”. ved Just on Champagne" iT was the two column headig for a story published in a risbane daily newspaper last h. And here is the rest of it; — A woman told the Supreme Court today her husband’s life in New Guinea was just one champagne party after another.

Mr. Justice Stable; Champagne or beer?

The woman: Champagne and beer. That’s the way they live up there. It’s quite different from here.

Everyone lives on credit for months at a time.

Mr. Justice Stable: The income tax now might stop the champagne parties and turn them into beer parties.

The woman, Mrs. Estelle Elizabeth Sherman, of Alma Street, Rockhampton, was granted judgment nisi for divorce from Bernard George Sherman, clerk, of single men’s quarters, Department of Works, Rabaul, New Guinea, on the ground of his desertion about September 16, 1955.

The action was not defended.

Mr. Justice Stable ordered that Sherman pay his wife’s costs.

Real Life Master Bens and Bukas BOWER’S comic strip, Master Ben and Buka, raises many grins in these—and I dare say other—isolated parts. Few Islands residents with a raw village native for kitchen helper, have escaped any of the situations in which Master Ben frequently finds himself.

One of my own recent experiences, that could have come right out of the Bower strip, was a case in point: We had a new lad in the kitchen and the first time he set the table for lunch everything was served in the tin in which it was packed—jam-tin, butter-tin, meattin—the lot. I tried to explain to him that this wasn’t done. (Over) Grisly Incident of the Early Days THESE old photographs—kindly loaned us by the New Britain Historical Society—depict a rather horrible incident of “the German time” in New Guinea, which ended in 1914. . . , , It is believed that the native seen blindfolded and chained to a post in the upper picture had committed a murder- very common in those days—and had been caught by the police. The officer, and the native police, are looking on while preparations are made for the execution.

In the lower picture, the slowmoving camera of those days has caught the scene at the moment the execution squad hired, and the wretched prisoner collapsed.

From 187 5, when Europeans first settled in, until about 1900, this (the eastern) end of New Britain was the most dangerous in the Pacific Islands, and there were many incidents such as this before the primitive natives learned that murder was not permitted by the whites. 81 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

Next time, I told him, “put everything into glass dishes.”

Later that day I went to the refrigerator and there found ample proof that my own particular Buka was trying to carry out instructions to the letter. The frig, was full of tins—each sitting gaily in its own glass dish or on a glass saucer, It was my omission to tell the boy to capsize the contents from the tin into the dish that had caused the trouble.—HFO, Rossel Is A Memorable Trek in ' °, 16 ° New Guinea, 1942 Even now, almost 18 years after , T 7. the outbreak of thw Pacific War, _ ar JE! rJf 6 Yi 1 etafi nfS parties of Australians escaped from Mri^ a ?n°iQd9 rUn by masses of Japs early in 1942.

Old-timer Harold Hindwood, who retired from air transport management at Lae to his coffee estate near Kainantu, not long ago, supplies the latest chapter, When the Japs arrived, Mr, Hindwood was one of several Australians who suddenly were isolated in the Sepik area. All boats and planes were gone, the enemy was getting close—so eight of them, with 80 Sepik carriers, decided to cross the mountainous centre of New Guinea, to the South Coast of Papua. They were Harold Hindw o o d, Jack Thurston, Theo Mason, James Maliski, Ron Pickwell, Keith Atkinson, Len Odgers and Eric Pederson —and they made it.

They went up the Fly River to the May River by launch from Angoram; then struck across the mountains to Telefomin; got onto the top of the Fly and made their way slowly down the river to navigable water; and then, in two weeks, they constructed sufficient canoes to float them all safely down to Daru. From there, an American Small Ships detachment carried them to Port Moresby.

That is the bare outline of one of the toughest and most adventurous treks of the war.

CROSSQUIZ (Solution on page 99) ACROSS 1. —Of what country is Baghdad the capital? 3. —What was the surname of the author of "The Compleat Angler"? 7. —Who composed the music for "Ruddigore"? 8. —What system of weights is used for gold, silver and precious stones? 9. —What is the term for the fluid rock ejected from a volcano in eruption? 10. —Which American president proclaimed the emancipation of the negroes? 12. —What is the largest lake in the British Isles? 14. —The name of which district in ancient Greece is now used to denote an idealised country of primitive things? 16. —"Not by alone doth man live"? 18. —What dance would you expect to see performed in Honolulu? 21. —Which English poet wrote "Songs of Innocence"? 22. —Which pleasure resort of the ancient Romans was buried in an eruption of Vesuvius? 24. —Which contemporary composer wrote the opera "Peter Grimes"? 25. —What is the French word for "thank you"?

DOWN 1. —A deficiency of what hormone causes diabetes? 2. —What term is applied to gold that is deposited by water? 3. —Who was Viceroy of India from 1943-1947? 4. What Russian city was previously called St. Petersburg and Petrograd? 5. —What practitioner vyould try to heal by manipulation of the spinal and other joints? 6.—Where is the Tycho crater situated? 11.—Which Ita'ian violinist of the 19th Century is now almost legendary for his technical feats? 13. —Who composed the music for “Naughty Marietta"? 15.—What term used to be applied to an Englishman who returned home after acquiring wealth in India? 17. —Like what kind of leaf is a person sometimes wont to shake? 19. —By what name were the three Wise Men from the East known? 20. —What title is given to the officer who leads the devotions in Mohammedan mosques? 23. —Where would you find a tympanc membrane?

Do You Remember “Pacific Islands Monthly” ww filled with war news in Oo 1939—f0r the fight with Gen s was only a month old. Pacifies ping was taking precautions a<r German raiders and the Jai\ were under even greater sus'Z than they had been in recent' Here are some more extracts from issue of 20 years ago: A report from Batavia (now Dja said that a Press photographer haj3 imprisoned on a charge of attemptc sell photographs of Australian o works at Port Moresby to the Jae Consul General. ❖ * * The shipping timetables, for long ; of “PlM’s” services, ceased to bee lished as a security measure. * * * After a month of uncertainty abooi copra market, London prices at last? to rise, and on October 6 were £:' a ton CIP London for hot air e which was £2/18/- a ton more thsr price the day war broke out. estimated that the new price wouldb an increase to copra producers throio the South Pacific of about £400,000 —“which just makes all the different; tween penury and reasonable conn said “PIM”. Prices of other product began to climb. * * * Said a Suva correspondent: “Soo the more careful businessman in FI complaining rather bitterly because < high cost of the Government blcnJ offices in Suva—namely £190,000 oddb may have good cause for grumbling : least they can claim that in theiii the Government of Fiji erected a brd which is a credit to the Colony and £ will probably repay them many timet in the increased value of all propen Suva”. They would certainly agrees that now. * * * The Jehovah’s Witnesses were g some publicity in parts of the Paco, years ago, just as they are today. . were active in Papua and Fiji. II they kicked up a rumpus in the over a ban on the importation ofh literature. The court action, againn Comptroller of Customs, was disni; and as a result members of the seo; tested in a cable to King George T public pamphlets, the Witnesses ae the Government of being influenced 1 Roman Catholic church in its attitvl the sect. A whole series of leaflet tacked the Church, the police ana Government.

A report from Rabaul with a fffi: ring about it told of the formatiomi New Guinea Association, a representing various groups and resa in the Territory with the purpose ofic ing more effectively with public a At the inaugural meeting it “wai£ phasised that, apart from the LegiL Council—which is dominated by the i nominated members —the people o£c Guinea have no voice whatever inn Government. It is felt that, as ther tralian Government does not permtn important move in New Guinea ww its permission, the New Guinea ress should demand a representative i:i Commonwealth Parliament”. 82 OCTOBER. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

At 86, The Old Trader Tramps His Plantation A Brett Hilder Profile Arthur Freeman, one-time resident of Fiji, was born at :ading, England, in 1873. He arrived with his parents in istralia by the barque Peterborough in 1880, and his father came accountant for the Thomas Mort Estate at Bodalla, JW.

HUR worked as a stockman i the estate for six years after i left school and then he left yest Australia to join the irdie gold-rush in 1894. He eight years on the goldfields.

L 906, he went to Fiji, where of his brothers, Dick, Bert ed were working for the CSR my. Arthur went into partnervith A. W. Witherow in the a exporting business. They became about the biggest i in the trade, shipping 10,000 es to Australia by each sr, which was three times a i at that time. aur Freeman used to draw £450 from the bank each week ravel by launch up the Rewa , buying bananas for 1/- or bunch. These were collected me 60-ft punts, which carried bunches, and by 17 smaller which carried 300 bunches from farther up the river. The punt boys were paid £1 for a trip of four or five days, plus a penny a bunch commission. As the bananas sold in Australia for 5/- to 9/- a bunch, there was a good profit in it for the traders.

End of the Trade In 1910, Arthur married Frederica Carter, in Fiji, and their two daughters, Marie and Jane, were born in Suva. About 1915 the ships were taken off the run, and as this meant the end of the banana trade, the family moved back to Australia, taking up land near Murwillumbah, NSW, Arthur planted 90 acres of bananas on some fertile soil 10 miles west of Currumbin, and worked it with kanaka labour left there from the blackbirding days.

The kanaka children and grandchildren are still working the property for “Boss” Freeman, who called his plantation “Viria”, in fond memory of Fiji days.

Within visiting distance of “Viria” are other Kai Viti’s, Chris Wager and his wife, who live at Tugun, and who have been mentioned recently in PIM. Mrs. Freeman died many years ago, and Arthur married again, but his second wife has also died, without leaving any children. 86th Birthday The above sketch was made aboard MV Malaita, on the occasion of Arthur’s 80th birthday, when he was making a final cruise around the Islands. His 86th birthday was celebrated this year on July 29, and his many friends will be glad to hear that, although his eyesight has been failing, the old war-horse is still able to tramp around the plantation. Arthur Freeman is a fine man and regarded with affectionate respect by all who have known him. I wonder if he can still remember that first Queensland banana he sampled as a boy, way back in 1880? — BRETT MILDER.

Bp Skippers Over

60 YEARS

By Supercargo

The interest shown in the group photographs of former Burns Philp shipmasters, published in the PIM of April and June, encourages me to supply a more extended history of the men who captained the BP ships half a century ago, and helped carry Australian trade and the Australian flag into so many Islands ports.

PROBABLY, I am the only man alive today who knew all the captains shown in that photograph, except Donaldson and Weatherall—but Captain Maclnnes may have been shipmates with many of them.

I start when James Burns introduced his own steamers to the Western Pacific, in 1895-6.

I personally knew everyone of these men: "Hurricane Jack" Williams Captain John Williams (“Hurri cane Jack”) was in January, 1896, appointed master of the ss Titus , an iron steamer built on the Clyde in 1869 and which, for the previous 10 years, had been running between Melbourne and Sydney. BP bought her and sent her on her first trip to British New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides.

Captain Williams commanded most of the early Burns Philp steamers, right up to the time of his death. In the beginning of 1907 he was sent to England to bring out the new steamer Makambo. He opened the Singapore trade for BP with the Moresby in 1902, and his last ship was the Mataram.

Incidentally, I believe the Mataram was the first steamer to be fitted with wireless in Australia —the job was done by Rev. Father Shaw of the Sacred Heart Mission, in February, 1911.

In 1893, before he joined BP, Captain Williams lost the schooner Borough Bell on the Ballona Shoals.

He had with him, that trip, his eldest son, John Williams who, from 1916 until the Japanese came into World War 11, was manager of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (for which Burns Philp were the Australasian ag john Williams' youngest son ER.

Williams, is one of the best known racehorse-owners in Sydney. E. R. (Continued on page 95) 83 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1950

There Might Have Been Fiji Japanese • Probably few people in Fiji today know that there was once an experiment by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company to introduce Japanese labour into the big Fiji sugar industry. It failed because of disease.

From J. P. Shortall, in Suva The experiment was recalled in Suva in September by Mr.

J. C. Potts, Principal Manager in Fiji for the CSR, when giving an address to the Fiji Society on the history of the sugar industry in the Colony.

MR. POTTS said, “On April 25, 1894, there arrived 305 Japanese engaged on better terms than Indian migrants.

“Distribution was 50 Rewa, 50 Ba, and the balance to Labasa. Although housed and fed to the Japanese Government requirements, they experienced much sickness and mortality, deaths in Fiji totalling 87, mainly from true beriberi.

“The remainder were repatriated, a further 38 dying on the return voyage. Beriberi caused enormous mortality in the Japanese Navy until conquered by changes in diet.

Many Japanese settled in Hawaii, and this no doubt prompted the experiment.”

Worked in Hawaii Had the experiment Mr. Potts spoke of been a success, as it may have been had it been delayed a few years, when the cause of beri beri was better known, the history of Fiji might well have developed along different lines.

If the history of Hawaii, and the history of those few Japanese who were resident in Fiji in pre-World War II days is any guide, there would certainly have been a blending of the races and an avoidance of some of Fiji’s present problems.

There may be those who firmly oppose such blending—but none can deny that Hawaii, with a comparable land mass and population has developed into a prosperous and peaceful community.

In his contribution to Fiji’s history (the address will eventually be printed by the Society) Mr.

Potts also traced the stories of 34 separate enterprises involved in the sugar industry in the Colony since Dr. Isaac Mills Brower, a former United States Naval surgeon, and Mr. Robert Sherston Swanston, originally of India, established the first mill at Wakaya Island, in 1862.

David Whippy, of Wakaya, was the next in the field in that same year. He was followed by W. H. O.

Brewer and P. Joske, in 1872, at Suva, their mill being close to the site of Morris Hedstrom & (■ pany’s present store.

In the following year Brewem Joske established another miij Suva near Whan Construction 0 pany’s present establishment, came J. C. Smith & Co., at H qaqa, Ovalau Island, in 1874,, a second mill at Tole on the I River, in 1876.

These enterprises preceded i CSR, which was next to enteir field at Nausori, in 1881.

Referring to the CSR Nausorr which will be finally closed o at the end of the present s season, Mr. Potts said that uj the end of last season this had crushed 7,627,017 tons of since its opening on July 17, : He also noted that this mill vided the first public electric lit ing system to appear in Fiji.

A Fairy Tale Mutiny The story of the mutiny in the Bounty has now bees turned into a fairy tale in pictures and verse, for the edifies tion of small children.

THE tale is at present being published as an exciting serial in an English comic paper called Playhour.

The real hero of the tale, however, is neither Captain Bligh nor Fletcher Christian, but a white guinea-pig called Gulliver—a muchtravelled guinea-pig who has starred in many other heroic adventures.

In the Bounty, he is against the mutiny and is therefore forced to accompany Bligh in the open boat.

The tale is told in verses designed to amuse children. Here are two samples; So eighteen souls are set adrift And each is heavy-hearted.

The ocean breakers plunge and lift.

As from the ship they’re parted.

Her decks are crammed with mutineai Who bid farewell with boos and jt The 18 sailors in the boat— Although their hearts are failing— • To try and keep themselves afloat, Are bravely busy bailing.

They’re wretched, hungry, cold and w And still the storm continues yet . .

The coloured drawings wM’ illustrate the first verse quoted . soundly based on history—see Role Dodd’s famous painting of Captc Bligh being cast off from Bounty.- R. A. LANGDON.

From Dodd's famous painting of Bligh and his men being cast off from the "Bounty"

Tongan waters. 84 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

How The Bible Reached Samoa

The Happy Timing Of John Williams

By R. W. Robson

It was not very late in the night of August 29, 1830. But lights were out on the tiny missionary schooner Messenger Peace (hand-built by Rev. John Williams in Rarotonga); d the two LMS pioneers, Williams and Barff, were asleep. ; little ship rocked gently on le quiet waters of the lagoon, pposite Sapapalia village, in •n Savaii, Samoa. ! missionaries were tired after strenuous days ashore at the luarters of Malietoa Vaiinupo, about to become paramount if Samoa. There had been long with Malietoa and his brother lelangi; and eight Tongan and Islands “teachers”, with their had been established in s ashore—the very first people ;roduce Christianity in Samoa, i two pioneers had earned their repose on the little Messenger.

Samoans called it “the prayhip”) idenly there arose a clamour was neither godly nor holy, hn! John! Help me, John! I >eset by devils!” It was the voice of the Rev. Josiah Barff. its came on. There was an outcry among the Polynesian crewmen.

Williams hurried from his tiny cabin with a candle.

Then shrieks turned to laughter.

Big-chested John Williams literally roared. Next day, he told it all in his diary.

How And Why He Was Beset There were vampire bats in that end of Savaii. The missionaries, intrigued, captured a half-dozen for study, and hung them by their hind claws to a cord in the main cabin.

When lights were out, and all quiet, the bats proceeded to explore.

One fell into a barrel of treacle, and crawled out, unable to fly.

The other bats liked the sweet taste of him. They fell upon him en masse, and unitedly licked him.

The entreacled bat, very resentful, tried to escape; and a mass of bats, fighting and licking, tumbled into Barff’s cabin, and into the beet of the quietly-sleeping missionary.

Nothing in Barff’s experience had prepared him for this.

The bats were all over him. One, making queer noises, and sticky, became entangled with his beard. He seized it, and it bitjhirn, painfully. He could see nothing—it was pitch dark.

The South Seas were then uncharted and unknown. A man never knew what he would meet up with next, in those strange lands.

Unquestionably, this was an incursion of small devils.

The Rev. Barff lifted his voice and howled for aid.

Lights came and showed the entreacled bat now in a corner, fighting furiously, but still being licked.

Barff and his bed were covered with trc^clG The Rev. Williams, a very human lovable man, laughed until the tears ran down his face. * * * As I stood on a bluff above Sapapalia, and tried to visualise the spot where Messenger of Peace had anchored, almost exactly 128 years before, I remembered the incident as told by Rev. J. J. Ellis and Williams.

Williams's Arrival: Perfect Timing Not far away, in the village square, I could see the huge monument which bears testimony to the LMS achievement m bringing Christianity so early to this lovely ar wimams° had been Angularly lucky, and his timing was perfect A particularly vicious specimen of Rev. John Williams.

The monument, above, is erected in the village square of Sapapalia village, eastern Savaii, Samoa, and marks the spot where Williams landed in 1830. It was erected in 1930. At left, is a stone erected 50 yards away in memory of the Hon.

Malietoa Vaiinupo "who received the gospel of Jesus Christ brought by John Williams to Samoa on 30 August, 1830". 85 ;iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

Polynesian humanity, one Tamafainga, had been king over part of Samoa. He was supposed to have spiritual as well as temporal power, and be in league with the devil.

In 1830, attended by a small closen band of folk of similar inclinations, he paid one of his customary visits to Upolu. There were the usual thefts, rape and murders.

The people of central Upolu, thoroughly sick of it all, suddenly fell upon and exterminated the royal party.

This was a great relief to the masses: but the high chiefs felt that the divine rights of kings had been challenged.

Malietoa Vaiinupo assembled an army and fleet, and crossed to Upolu.

As Williams’s Messenger of Peace sailed in to eastern Savaii, masses of smoke were rolling across Upolu, from the villages which Malietoa was systematically destroying, in the name of kingship. He was punishing the regicides: and in the process he became the new king.

Aboard Messenger was a Samoan chief named Fauea, related to noble families in Samoa. Williams had found him in Tonga, where he had accepted Christianity. He persuaded Fauea to go along, and commend Williams’s mission to the Samoans.

Why Conversion Was Easy Messenger anchored off Sapapalia.

Samoans came off hesitantly, in a canoe. Fauea talked to them.

Suddenly, Fauea began to yell, and danced excitedly upon the deck.

“The devil is dead” he yelled.

“Our work is done! The devil is dead!” That was his reaction to the news of Tamafainga’s assassination.

Then Tamalelangi went out to the ship, and talked to Fauea. Thereupon he sent a messenger to his brother Malietoa, urging him to return immediately.

Tamelangi meantime sent boatloads of coconuts, pigs and bananas aboard, and invited the Polynesian teachers to go ashore and live in the village guest-house—which they did.

Williams and Barff scratched their beards thoughtfully. In their tough experience, they never had had it as easy as this. What was the catch?

Williams subsequently learned that a prominent chief, dying from wounds received in one of Tamafainga’s outrages, had made a dramatic prophecy. He condemned the gods which Tamafainga had upheld: and he said that a great white chief would come from over the sea, and give them a new religion.

The death of Tamafainga, and the arrival of Williams came soon afterwards.

Next day, “the old Malietoa” (as he has been known ever since—he was strong and wise, and the last unchallenged king of all Samoa) arrived at Sapapalia; and within two days he had accepted Williams and his new religion.

These new types of men, and their habiliment, were a source of excitement to the Samoans.

They were especially interested in the clothing of Williams. The amiable missionary allowed them to examine his breeches.

Then one of them pulled off Williams’s shoes, and there was a gasp of surprise, and much exclamation.

No Toes Fauea laughed. “They say that the great white chief has no toes,” he interpreted.

Williams bent and proceeded to remove his stock. “The great white chief has clothes upon his fel he explained. But they never • over ths wonder of it.

Williams had many success® but never anything as quick complete as Samoa.

He went up and down the Soi Seas for nine years after that, eventually he established his h.r in Samoa, not far from what is j Apia. His son, John Williams, his grandson, S. F. Williams, w traders and British Consuls k Samoa, between 1850 and 18800 S. F. Williams was the Brii Consul who teamed up with American Consul and the Brii' warship captain, Stevens, to s and deport Colonel A. B. SM berger, in 1876, in one of the m dramatic incidents in South Pau history. It cost him his job.

Savages—And Savages John Williams was murdered— probably eaten—by the natives: Erromanga (New Hebrides) on vember 20, 1839, as were so mn other missionaries of that perioc More often than not, thqy w killed because they were white m by natives who had suffered gres under European cruelty and gn Erromanga is a good example o:c Erromanga had a huge supply i sandalwood and, in the early i of last century, sandalwood was valuable in Asia as gold. So Eu; peans went there and took m they wanted—in trees, food ; women. Naturally, the indigenu fierce and uncouth savages at time—objected. They were s down.

British Consul Pritchard, writ! from Tahiti in 1840, describes I several Europeans united in an pedition to Erromanga to get sanoi wood. They went in armed, dn off the natives, built a fort, : cut sandalwood. The natives kii some of them, but the settlerrn was eventually destroyed by dises Europeans went ashore on a PI Hebrides island, which could hr. (Continued on page 99) Master Ben . . . . . . and Bu[?] 86 Success Was Complete (Continued from previous page) OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHK

While There’s Golf There’s Hope, (Says a Golfer) BY A. D. BLUE New Guinea is a country of paradox and surprise, says Mr. A. D. ie, chief engineer of the MS “Chengtu”, who contributes the followr views on that big Territory. It was an unpleasant shock for him find, he says, that the natives are playing such an insignificant rt in their country’s affairs . . . even allowing for their extreme zkwardness they are not being used to their full. This state of ngs, he says, is a sad reflection on the Administration. However, could be worse, says Mr. Blue, who spent 18 years in Nigeria, ere is one aspect of life in New Guinea which is surprisingly good, d that is the state of golf . . .

There are people in the world who would relate a country’s ace in the world to the consumption of electricity per head population. By this standard New Guinea would come pretty w down the list. I prefer to judge by the state of a country’s )lf courses and the standard of their golf, and by this yardick, New Guinea ranks surprisingly high.

TER having played golf in nost parts of Nigeria it was a Peasant surprise to find New ea courses so well laid out and tained. nsidering all the difficulties sed by tropical conditions and in, New Guinea’s courses are a ; credit to all concerned. They greatly superior to any in ria, or in British West Africa whole, where sand greens are srsal. en the Ikoyi course at Lagos, ably the oldest and most popuin West Africa, has putting ices of sand treated with oil. r these it was an especial >ure to putt on the well-kept 3 greens of New Guinea, far I have only played on the tal courses of Papua and New lea Lae, Madang, Port *sby, and Rabaul —and only v the Highlands courses by say. I am, however, looking ard to experiencing Highland at Goroka and Wau in the re with keen anticipation, re of Nigeria’s most sporting ses is at Buea, a little over > feet up the Cameroons ntain. Here the superb views, :ing over miles of banana and Dalm plantations to the Bay of ra, and the invigorating atmos- •e, are memories which will reti with me for a long time. *om all accounts golf in the fiands of New Guinea must be r similar to golf on the leroons Mountain.

"Grossly Neglected" yen in golf, however, I found r Guinea’s manpower grossly lected. One of the pleasures flaying golf in tropical countries is that in most of them caddies are available for a modest shilling or two per round, whereas in Britain or Australia only the very wealthy can afford them.

Only at Port Moresby did I find the employment of caddies usual, although I noticed that at Lae some of the players used their houseboys as caddies. Surely, local youths could be found for this pleasant chore, and since golf is played mainly at week-ends and in the evenings, it would not interfere with their schooling.

This, to my mind is the greatest example of the non-utilisation of native skills in New Guinea. I can think of no association between the native peoples and the Europeans likely to be more beneficial to both than that between golfer and caddie. Some of the greatest men in the world started life as caddies —James Braid, J. H. Taylor, and Andrew Kircaldy, to mention just a few.

This lack of caddies is one aspect of the game in which New Guinea lags behind Fiji—in fact, it is the only aspect. Whereas I was pleasantly surprised at the standard of golf and golf-courses in New Guinea, where I understand the game is a postwar creation, it was just the opposite in Fiji.

In Suva especially, I expected to find a really good course of 18 holes. I found instead a nine hole course, which although well maintained, was not un to the standard of either Lae, Madang, or Rabaul.

Lautoka—the only other course in Fiji on which I have played— has certainly a fine layout, being (Continued on page 99) The Natives Have Seen the Light A great eagerness to play golf has been reported by the Goroka District Officer, Mr. lan Holmes, among the natives of New Guinea’s Central Highlands.

They have made some excellent putting greens for themselves, and they now bet heavily upon their putting prowess instead of upon cards.

“The golf craze among the natives has been only a mixed blessing for European golfers hereabouts,” said Mr. Holmes.

“The natives are keen to caddy for the golfers—but golf balls and putters have a habit of disappearing.

“Whereas the boys once were keen to sell golf balls which they had found, to Europeans, at a low rate, now they keep the balls for themselves and for their own games.”— Reuter.

The modern club house of the Lae golf club. 87 CIFIC ISLANDS MONT” 1 v OCTOBER, 1958

The Month'S New Reading

With Judy Tudor

If new novelist Russell Foreman of Fiji had been deliberately provoked by the current crop of novels based on sex and fun beneath Pacific coconuts, he couldn’t have produced anything more devoid of Hollywood glamour, and more redolent of Black Melanesia, than Long Pig.

NOT since Nordhoff and Hall wrote Pitcairn’s Island have we had such stark realism in a book about the Pacific. Nordhoff and Hall, of course, had historical fact on which to base their story. Foreman, on the other hand, is making only a guess at what could have happened to the wrecked crew of the American ship Argo —and this is where some of the more squeamish of Australian reviewers, more used by now to mere frolicsome antics amongst the South Sea palms, feel that he laid on the blood-bath with a ten-ton steam shovel!

For the purposes of fiction, perhaps he could have spared more of his characters from so many horrible deaths. Nonetheless, there is plenty of historical basis in Melanesia for the type of tragedy Foreman makes happen in Long Pig —the wreck of the Saint Paul and subsequent happenings on Rossel Island, in Papua, recalled recently in the PIM, was just one of them.

Russell Foreman is an Australian, but has lived for the last six or seven years in Fiji, where he is probably better known as an artist than as a writer.

First Novel This is his first novel and as such is an extraordinary achievement.

There is nothing of the apprentice about his technique; Foreman builds his story with the sure hand of a master craftsman, and against a background of detailed research. As a result, the story appears credible even to those who are naturally Mr. Foreman’s most candid critics — the people who live in the South Pacific.

By rights, this is a book that should have been reviewed by one of those Fiji Chiefs who, groomed by a cunning Colonial Office, now rank high in the Government hierarchy of Fiji, and so by training and a knowledge of Fiji tradition can be said to have a foot in both camps.

It would be interesting to have the opinion of some one of these men on the Fiji of 1800 as described by Foreman. Fiji, unlike the islands of South West Pacific that make up the rest of Melanesia, emerged from its Stone Age and most of its savagery before anthropology really came into its own.

Anthropologists in the past 30 years have ranged enthusiastically all over Papua-New Guinea, until there is scarcely an aspect of Territory native life that has not been tabulated, itemised and churned out ad nauseam in anthropological treatises.

For the matter of that, the casual visitor today has still not got to go far inland from the coastal towns to see Stone Age flourishing in New Guinea surroundings.

Fiji, on the other hand, has been left almost entirely alone by anthropologists in the field, and, as a result, the casual observer today does not see much further beyond the modern Fijian than the cultivated, polished Chief; the goodnatured happy-go-lucky Rugby footballer; or the enthusik Methodist, lustily singing hymrii the choir each sabbath.

Foreman’s Fijians then, off 1800 period, appear to one knows both Fiji and P-NG, a g deal more like New Guinea nas than Lauans—and, in this, author is probably historic correct although Lauans were are) by far the least Melanesia, the Fijians because of their tid tional connection with Polyne; Tonga.

Somewhere around 1800, , American ship Argo was wree on what are now known as e Argo Reefs—s lightly east!

Lakeba, in Central Lau, and m of Oneata.

Historical Fact The fate of the men who 1 on her is unrecorded and accouL for in Fijian story only in vaguest fashion. But they aree lieved to have been the first vw men to have stayed for any leie of time in the Lau, and as ; were regarded with awe by Fijians; they are believed, too have been the first to discs sandalwood, a South Pacific o modity that accounted for nr misery and tragedy in the century.

So much for historical fact. UJ these wisps, Foreman builds novel.

When his Argo struck, 13 of : survivors, including one suites from dysentery, got away in ship’s launch and made their to Loa, a small crag of an . off the eastern tip of Oneata, it was here that the sailors irr their first acquaintance with Fijians from the bigger island!

Arrogant The Oneata natives who am in a canoe party were at first : dined to be arrogant and danjx ous, but this was all changed s denly when Captain Berry tooc long shot with his musket shattered a sea bird. Such pm from a harmless-looking bent ss could only be magic; such men T commanded it could only be gg The attitude of the Fijians cham completely. They took the n back to Oneata, made them v come, provided them with food!

The crew settled in to deck launch, and erect masts for an j tempt to sail to Port Jackson — peace settled on Oneata But not for long. With familiar came a lessening of awe; with whr man fallibility, no longer fear; wV the Fijians proved that one wh man was mortal, all the others their god-like character. And at tf point, real trouble commenced.

The seeds of destruction I already been sown, however, LI before the Argo wreck; they w? transplanted in the virulent tf Thoughts On The New Order The nearest doctor that we know Is fifty miles away, We haven’t any roads at all ( There’s jungle in the way!) We haven’t any bridges yet (The rivers are too wide ).

We haven’t any school, of course, To train the growing child.

We haven’t any water mains Or pavements (to have cracks ) We haven’t footpaths, but we’ve got A scheme for Income Tax!

In case of fire, the Fire Brigade Is in Rabaul or Lae, But by the time they get to us The fire has had its way.

We haven’t any buses yet, We don’t go in for trains, We haven’t signs for Ladies, Gents, Or shelters from the rain.

But still we keep an eye upon This very lonely spot And keep it filled and occupied — Just think if it were not!

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ADDRESS I I gntery carried ashore with one nember. Within days, dozens ives in the village were lying my on their sleeping mats. y t they were being buried in graves; or when they become live”, or not capable of caring emselves, strangled or buried particular incident —ttye intion of an alien disease to a susceptible primitive comj which has been repeated and again in the Pacific — the author to produce some starkest facts of uncivilised Wholesale abortions, the deof live wives with dead ids so that the latter might ompanied on the lonely road halla. i this, coupled with the anal details of cannibalism that earlier in the story, and later wen greater effect, that will ,te more delicate readers, conid to a South Seas of hula nd Hawaiian guitars, truth, of course, is that early Islands adventure was corned as much of the Foreman f Dark Melanesia-ism, as of dalliance beneath the Polypalms. man ends his novel on a y promissory note: The Mate seaman plus the native girl, a, with whom the former has in love, escape from Oneata tig sailing canoe, running behe Trades until they come at Bua Bay on south-west Levu. The narrative ends without conclusion, leaving ?ld clear for a sequel to this lanned beginning.

American edition of Long Pig published some months ago as done exceedingly well. The can edition is a “longer i” than the one available to British Commonwealth audibut longer in which way we ; know. foreman had been aiming at American best-seller market, likes its sex in as much lurid as Foreman gave to the ig up and roasting of one of hite victims of Oneata cansm, he could have elaborated more on the love story be- Slater, the mate, and the ful, light-skinned Seyawa. lough there was ample scope something more robust, the tory (in the British edition, at , is in very subdued counterto the rest of the composition, s treatment, while true enough il life, is not usually what the lean best-seller market des!

NG PIG. Published by Wm. Heine- Australian price, 20/-.) Monarchy at 2id Per Head IF you are looking for a True Confession along the lines of I-was-the-Queen’s-Sixth-Footman; or crave the fanciful behindthe-Royal-scenes of Sunday-newspaper journalism, you won’t find what you are loking for in How the Queen Reigns, by Dorothy Laird.

But if, on the other hand, you want a first-class reference book on the British monarchy, as it is represented in the person and life work of Her Majesty Elizabeth 11, you will go a long way before you get anything better than this excellently produced and detailed book.

Dorothy Laird, as she explains in the beginning, is a journalist and not an historian, but when she was asked to write an article about Buckingham Palace she found herself up against the lack of one single volume in which the seeker after knowledge could find all details of the Sovereign’s work and duty.

Eventually, she got around to thinking she would write such a book herself. This is the very good result.

Miss Laird did not get any of the material for this book via the back stairs. She spent three years in research, in interviewing members of the Queen’s household and members of Government departments.

As a result she is able to draw a complete and authoritative picture of the Queen’s life from day to day, and show clearly Her Majesty’s place in the British Commonwealth.

The Queen in relation to the UK Parliament is discussed; so is her relation to the established church. She is the Nation’s Chief hostess; the fount of honour and chivalry; the head of the Commonwealth; the symbol of that Commonwealth to Foreign Powers.

She works a great deal harder at her task, longer, and more conscientiously than any wage-plug.

She wears magnificent jewels and fabulous gown s—and prefers a simple family life. She is the United Kingdom’s most precious asset—and the cost is 2«d per annum per UK person.

Miss Laird has managed to produce an excellent reference book, and a story that is quite worth reading for itself. There is a detailed index, and over 50 illustrations in the book’s 370 pages. (HOW THE QUEEN REIGNS. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. Australian price, 37/3.) Combining Business With Business FOR a guy who does all his writing between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m., novelist Norman Collins does pretty well. In the rest of his time, he runs the United Kingdom’s independent television company, a full family and social life and even has parliamentary ambitions.

Bond Street Story, written on this extraordinary work schedule, is almost as good as London Belongs To Me, which appeared over a dozen years ago and nudged the 200,000 sales mark. Almost as good. But not quite.

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ond Street department store inary) is the vehicle he emto intwine the stories of ilourful cross-section of Lonamanity; Privett, the floor walker, who got the figure for tails and as though he had bought with the idea of sharing them someone else; Mr. Eric tell, the managing director socially ambitious wife and ;ptic ulcer cause him equal or Sir Harry, the 80-year-old nan, whose ideas spread more ion than a tear-gas attack, there was I-reen, the reluctpprentice salesgirl; and i, the much-married model, mung Mr. Rammell, whose was really in interior decorat- >e are some of the characters walk through the opulent doors of the Bond Street ium; or have their domestic love affairs and assorted 3s; grow their roses, sail their yachts, have exotic Indonesidance before the Old English lo\ Society in the drawing .—all the way from Sloane j to Highgate. task of weaving it all into xovel of normal length is ious but Collins, as he showed usly in London Belongs To s master of this particular que and the whole thing together as smoothly as a dish ipped cream. what is described as a d-to-m eas u r e Tory, Mr. 3 writes penetratingly, with thy and with realism of the orders in English society, it is all done, if not with ’s, then from pure imagina- He is not, we have been asthe type to go slumming r to absorb atmosphere, any than for the purposes of two • novels he felt it necessary to Malaya on a tramp steamer, a small South American town, these novels were written in m, although possibly, in those not on the 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. ins was born in 1907 and d his working life on the News dele; eight years in a publishlouse followed before he was to the BBC. During the war, ,s Director General of that inion’s Overseas Service. Telei naturally followed —but he i stormily with the BBC in (when he disagreed over nal policy), to become the ig figure in the fight for Indent Television, s was quite a war but he won d he is now Deputy Chairman .ssociated Television Limited, ompany that revolutioned the ng habits of a nation. Telei, as the monopoly of the BBC, ilmost moribund by 1955; since the independent company went into operation at the end of that year, a new look has come over the whole UK TV industry. Even the BBC has been forced to pull up its sox.

As well as these full-time commitments, Collins is actively interested in enterprises connected with the stage, films and music. In this crowded schedule, the writing of books —that have provided him with a lot of butter for his bread —are done when most people are in bed, but though they are the product of the butt end of the day, the customer can be certain that it doesn’t show in his finished work. (BOND STREET STORY. Published by Wm. Collins. Australian price, 20/-. i For the Younger Brigade THE two children’s books received in the last month are both about ships—one for the under sevens; the other for those of more mature years.

THE CAROL MORAN, written and illustrated by Peter Burchard, is outstanding for its illustrations, even amongst the beautifully produced picture books being got out for youngsters these days. Carol Moran is a New York tug-boat, and the story is about Chip, who goes on board with his grandfather (who is her captain), to spend the day.

During the course of that day they move the giant Queen Mary out from her berth —and that is about the end of the story. The book, however, is one that will delight any small boy—or girl, for that matter. (Published by Brockhampton Press.

Australian price. 13/3.) HECTOR, THE STOWAWAY DOG, which has appeared in shorter form in Reader’s Digest, is written by Kenneth Dodson, who usually writes for grown-ups ( Away All Boats, Strangers to the Shore, etc.).

Hector was a fox terrier, also a sea dog, belonging to the second mate of a Dutch freighter. Unfortunately, on one occasion, while his ship was at Vancouver, he allowed it to get away without him. This is the story of Hector’s search for his master and how he stowed away on the one ship that would get hirn to Yokohama in time to rejoin him.

Some adults, as well as children, will like this tale of a dog’s luck— °r( PißdlishedT by Angus and Robertson.

Ltd. Australian price, 15/-.) What's New in Paper Backs THE following Pan and Fontana paper-backed editions became available during the month (ours from Wm. Collins (Overseas) Ltd.) : OFF WITH HIS HEAD: A quite recent Ngaio Marsh—model of 1957—that is up to her usual high standard, both as a mystery and as a piece of fictional writing. Ngaio usually introduces a band of eccentrics, possibly for greater contrast to her polished sleuth, Roderick Alleyn, and this time it is a bunch of zany folklore addicts. (Fontana).

THE ANGEL OF TERROR: Wherever Edgar Wallace’s shade may be at the moment, no doubt it is interested in the fact that the Wallace heirs are still collecting royalties on thrillers he wrote back in 1922. A good whodunnit, according to the publishers, is never too old. And probably, in the case of Wallace, the father of the modern mystery, they are right. This one is about a girl who married a convicted murderer for his money and then found herself marked down as the next target. (Great Pan).

SHADOW OF THE MOON, by M. M.

Kaye, is a story of old India, its white rulers and their gay ladies immediately before and after the Indian Mutiny (1957- 59). Dancing, dining, wining, loving—that made up the social whirl until the terror of barbaric India was unleashed upon them. (Pan Giant).

THE NIGHTMARE: C. S. Forester, author of the famous Hornblower series of novels turns to something different— the horrors of the Nazi regime. This clutch of grim stories is based on fact— but are not actual happenings. (Great Pan).

THE BARBAROUS COAST, by John Ross Macdonald—a tough, Lew Archer thriller of the real American school. Unputdownable (so the critics say). (Great Pan).

UPSTAIRS AND DOWNSTAIRS, a funny story by Ronald Scott Thorn—a firstperson account of the author and his wife as newly-weds and the stream of domestics and mothers’ helps that stood between them and bliss. As the household domestic is a dying institution in UK and a dead one in Australasia, the story may have some historical value as well. (Great Pan).

MISTER JELLY ROLL, the life story of Jelly Roll Morton, the New Orleans Creole who is credited with inventing jazz. A lot of people wish he hadn’t, but Alan Lomax s story of the small-time crook who was also the greatest jazz pianist and composer of his time is worth reading as an academic study of this angle on the American way of life. (Pan Giant).

FIDDLEFOOT. a Luke Short Western about an ex-horse thief who was prepared to shoot his way into going straight. (Great Pan).

THE TRIBE THAT LOST ITS HEAD, Nicholas Monsarrat’s excellent novel of an imaginary native territory in Africaunder British rule but on the way to self-government. A compelling piece of fictional writing that will strike a Particularly sympathetic chord with anyone who has had anything at all to do with native administration. (Pan Major).

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Murdered by Japs ptain Isaac Handley was 2nd of the Ysabel in the Marshall d run in 1910. When that ship was lost in the Marshalls he was given command of the beautiful 215-ton schooner Louise J. Kenny, in the Gilbert inter-island service. He careened her in Tarawa lagoon; but she opened up her seams and remained there. He subsequently was given command of the barquentine Volador, which BP chartered for two voyages to the Gilberts.

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Write or Phone: FL 4141 (9 lines), after hours, FL4149. Telegrams: “KanlmblahaU”, Sydney. a Company, and sent on her rip to New Britain, New Ireand German New Guinea, tain D. J. Williams (Taffy) nd mate of the Muniara in and subsequently served as • of the Malaita and Makambo. tain Cyril Williams (the first i the group picture, next to in Wetherall) was Ist mate of indini under Captain Voy and iubsequently Master of the a and other vessels. He is ive. any Men of Many Parts ;ain Webster was mate of the a, in the Marshalls, and ards Master of the Munidra he Moresby in the Sydneyt and Marshall trunk service, iristmas Eve, 1914, he read In iglish paper of the death of •other, killed in France. He liately resigned from BPs, got md of the Berlin (a German r which had been seized) took ) London, enlisted, and was in France in 1915 or 1916. :ain Hillman, who came from USN, was mate under Legge ,e Ysabel in the Thursday -New Guinea run. He was one e many masters who cornid the Tambo and other ;. He took the Morinda on her rip in 1913 and remained in r some years. iain Norman Smith was 3rd of the Mindini in 1914, and 'terwards commander of most : ships in the New Hebrides Dlomon services. Later, he was tner in Hay & Smith, well l marine surveyors in the He was killed by falling down itch of a vessel, tain Rothery was mate of the da when she took the first rcements to Rabaul in 1915. is master of several BP ships lad the Montoro for a long tain Charles W. Todd took he Titus in April, 1898, and . in all the services of the any. His last ship, I think, be Guthrie, on the Singapore n 1907. He lost the Mambare ato in 1902. tain Fred Gambrill, 2nd mate e Muniara about 1908, was i command of the Matunga, i 1912 he was made master of uthrie, shortly before she was ;o G. S. Yuill. He went over ills with the Guthrie. He subitly commanded the Changte fter the war was awarded OBE. low lives in retirement in use. itain J. Maclnnes joined the ira as 2nd mate in the Gilbert ice service. He subsequently man d e d the Mindoro, the sa, the Moresby and the nga. He now resides in Bris- Captain Griffith Ivor Griffiths served as mate in the Muniara, Induna and Matunga. Later, he commanded some of them. He was for many years a Sydney pilot, and died in 1958.

Lovable Man Captain S. G. Green, a very lovable man, was Marine Superintendent. In April, 1889, he was superintendent of the E & A, and asked to go back to sea for further service. He took the Guthrie, then a new ship. Some years later he was again Marine Superintendent, and transferred to Burns Philp.

Captain Donaldson arrived in Sydney in 1913 as Master of the Morinda, from Scotland. He commanded the Matunga when she was captured by the Germans in 1915.

He commanded the Marella for many years.

Captain Wetherall’s first command with the Co. was the Tambo in 1904. He subsequently commanded several of the Co.’s steamers —three on their maiden voyages—the Makambo, Matunga and Marsina.

Captain Alex Robinson assumed command of Titus in the Gilberts in 1905. He also commanded the Tambo and Malaita. He was a “windjammer” master and the Co. made great use of him in (I think) 1917, when Mr. Mitchell went to America to buy some large schooners for their copra trade.

Captain A. Auland, who was in command of Malaita in 1906, subsequently had his own stevedoring company in Sydney.

Captain John Legge was Master of Ysabel when she was lost at Namu, in the Marshalls. He was afterwards Master of the Fatshan running from Hongkong up the West River for some 600 miles. He retired to Vaucluse, and about 1950 went back to Northern Ireland.

Captain Sam Mortimer came to the Co. from the Canadian Pacific Line, and joined the Tambo as mate with Voy. He became Master of Guthrie, then Mataram.

Captain “Micky” Wilson, when Captain John Williams was sent to London in 1907 to bring out the Makambo, was given command of Airlie. He in 1912 became Master of the Montoro on her first trip (1912). He became a Torres Strait F. J. Bolydon, RNR, took command of the Tambo, 1902, on her first voyage under the BP flag. He originally joined the fleet as 3rd officer of the Moresby. He was very well known in New Guinea, Solomons and New Hebrides. After retiring, he ran a nautical school in 1903, took over the Ovatau when bought for the Solomons run. He was mate of the Ysabel, in the Marshalls when she was lost at Namu in June, 190 |- Captain A. E. Dabelle came into 97 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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!o. as Master of Guthrie when -as purchased from the E & A He only made two or three es before joining Torres Strait service. )tain Robert Ross Cable was s old Scottish sailor who had commanding schooners running e Solomons, Gilberts, etc., for ars before coming to the Co. lad been employed by the d Heart Mission as master of Maris Stella, Pacific Islands any and On Chong. He was the Co. for many years. >tain Fred J. Dillamore corned the Ysabel on that memorvoyage when she broke her aft shortly after leaving ;own. He sailed her to Red- Bay, Papua, where Enr Snowdon put in a new tailand the vessel continued her :e. )tain Charles Bibbing was ir of Titus when she took inery for the Pacific Cable I to Norfolk Is. in 1902. His command was the Mataram. most desirable building sites. Not only do golfers demand—and usually obtain lush meadows, gently rolling hills, and attractively tree-lined fairways, but also long distance views of sea, river, or mountain range.

New Guinea’s golf course architects have made the most of their opportunities in this respect, and all the courses are in pleasant surroundings. Even at Port Moresby —where local terrain and conditions are against them—something creditable has been achieved.

Unimpressed by Threesomes The prevalence of threesomes, which seemed especially rapid in Lae and Madang, was one aspect of golf in New Guinea which did not impress me favourably.

The only possible recommendation for this form of play is to enable as many players as possible to enjoy the game. I think this objective could be attained by using alternative tees during the peak periods.

Perhaps my tastes are oldfashioned, but to my mind a threesome is not nearly so enjoyable as either a singles or a foursome, and from the point of view of enabling as many people as possible to enjoy the game what can beat the oldfashioned foursome?

It is in no carping spirit that I describe the club house facilities of the New Guinea courses as being on the Spartan side.

They are, however, little if any inferior to the two Fiji courses on which I have played—Suva and Lautoka; and considering that New Guinea’s courses are all of postwar creation the people are to be congratulated on what has been achieved in a few years.

New Guinea’s golfers have very wisely concentrated their resources on the courses themselves, leaving club house facilities to be improved as funds permit. In the present healthy state of the game this time is not far away.

There are, however, two little amenities lacking in most of New Guinea’s golf club houses, which could be provided at very little cost.

These are a copy of the Golfers’

Year Book, and one or two sets of dice. In my opinion these are a “must” for a club house.

Without the former, how can arguments on the history of the game and on the exploits of past and present-day giants be settled without recourse to bloodshed?

Let me recommend to all golf club committees in New Guinea that they subscribe to this invaluable publication, and also that they ensure that particulars of their own courses are included in the next edition. In this connection I would also suggest that much more adequate mention of golf and golf facilities in books such as the Papua and New Guinea Handbook and the Pacific Islands Year Book is necessary.

Given these additional amenities there is no doubt that golf has a bright future in Papua and New Guinea, although it may be premature to prophesy early participation in either the Canada Cup or the Eisenhower Trophy.

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As reported in late news in September PIM, the British omon Islands Government smallships fleet was further deted on the night of September 9, when Margery was sunk m extraordinary collision with another BS1P vessel, Kovala. \GERY left Honiara for Auki, [alaita, shortly before mid- Lght on the fateful night, for fht to nine hour trip; Kovala Aiki, sailing in the reverse on, about the same time. ,gh the chances were about to one against that they literally meet in the middle, it trying to, that is what they ;ntly did, somewhere off Gela orida Island) at 3 a.m., on was a clear moonlight night, irovidentially calm seas. meeting was disastrous for ry, which is believed to have within about 15 minutes. ila, originally the High Corntier’s touring vessel, was not ;ed; 47 people were aboard argery at the time, including Europeans. The vessel also 1 a full cargo of cement and or the Public Works Departbuilding programme at Auki. rgo was salvaged.

All passengers were safely transferred to the Kovala but not before some excitement when one of the two dingies on the Margery started to sink, due to the bung not being firm.

At the time of the collision, local smallships Vululu and the Baruku saw the ships together, but assumed that they had only stopped for a “talk”.

Some misunderstanding seems to have existed when the Kovala, after leaving the area to proceed to Honiara, was ordered by the Marine authorities in Honiara to return to the locality of the collision and continue the search for the Margery, accompanied by the SDA vessel Vinaritokae and a Government launch sent from Tulagi.

This raised some doubt as to when the Margery did sink but it appears that it was lost within minutes. .

The loss of the Margery .which was attached to Malaita district, will severely interrupt the expansion programme now being carried out at Auki in relation to the new road being built and additional workshops under construction.

Following so soon after the loss of the Betua and the Melanesian disaster, last year, the BSIP Government could ill afford to lose this vessel.

With the return of the Coral Queen to Honiara from Brisbane after major repairs, the BSIP ship- Dine position has been slightly relieved but the string of mishaps which have occurred in the past vear have raised the question of whether it would be better for all Government ships to operate during daylight hours as far as is practicab Considering the number of people aboard the Margery, and the lack of life-saving equipment carried, the fact that the sea was calm possibly averted another disaster. • ONE OF THOSE SHIPS: Kovala, involved in C < 9 l )^ S } o P _ d f" scribed above, is that skeleton in the cupboard” vessel with the unbaLaunched in January, 1949 at Sydney, faults in design prevented The News This Month darn te Donald e lueen Ida rian Trader i aana'ia Raoi •y sn ta del Mar isian Niuani Nareau Nunniong Phoenix Ra Marama Ruena Rouna Falls Reposado Shearwater Shell 40 Sea Chanty Teiko Tavenni Tiare Taporo Tahiti Tofua Van Waerwyck Venae Vulula Vinaritokae Wallach Zarya PACIFIC SHIPPING MEN: Captain R. D.

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Box 2622, G.P.0., Sydney. FF4224. Cables: "Thornmotor", Sydney. ctually reaching her BSIP iment owners for five years he launching. money laid out on the Fiji iment vessel Ra Marama, is pale into insignificance when red with the funds poured lis 70-ft wooden craft. Since entering service Kovala, until eems to have behaved herirly well. loniara marine inquiry will 3ss affix the blame in the iber incident which resulted rgery going down in a re- -13 fathoms.

BSIP Government recently tsed a sister ship to Margery reen —from the GEIC Govnt. Built about 1945 and ring 60 ft by 16 ft, these M- ;raft are about 60 tons gross, is nett, and have a hold ty of 960 cu. ft. They are :d with best NZ kauri.

OTHING BUT THE BEST: VLaana’ia is the name of the Dil barge built in Auckland d-September for the Tonga ament. ce Tungi, Tonga’s Premier, i Suva in September that the was a little joke on his part, Tongans will understand.

English it might be translated lean “superior oil”—usually d to a certain fine grade of it oil used for annointing the barge will not be towing that of oil —but the builders inthat they wanted a name for aft, though unpowered lighters arges usually are only given a er or some identifying letters, is name seemed as fitting as There has been a good deal of speculation as to whether the Tonga Government tug Hifofua, with her 500 bhp motor, is going to be equal to the task of towing this barge satisfactorily on ocean voyages, when fully laden. Hifofua was due in Auckland on October 11 to take delivery, so this question may soon be answered. • JAPS AND TONGANS AGREE: Just as in the case of the two vessels built in Holland for Tonga, a strict tapu against women boarding during construction, or prior to the official Tongan ceremony of commissioning a ship, will also apply to the tuna longliner Teiko, now building at Ujiyamada, Japan.

“I think this is a nice custom,”

Prince Tungi said in Suva recently, “and the Japanese builders understand and respect it and will strictly enforce it.”

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Rowe early in November for survey.

Captain Rowe will then hand over the command to Captain Vic Ward, who has been on furlough. • ZARYA IS COMING; The 580ton, 111-ft Russian non-magnetic schooner Zarya, expected in Pacific waters last year, seems to be heading this way now. According to an Trader", a small ship mentioned st "PIM" as having been built by Vhite and Co. for a Papuan native This photo was taken in Port Moresby, teen reported that she since has had a name change. 103 IFir ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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Radio, the three-masted, ooner sailed from Odessa Black Sea late in July on cement of an extensive ruise. Ports of call are not xcept for Wellington, NZ. built in Finland in 1952, iil area of 7,850 square ft, 5 topsails. She has a jibth four headsails. The 300el auxiliary motor, made if gunmetal and other non- ; metals, is used only when y necessary. ear the schooner —believed sizeable non-magnetic sur- ;l in the world today—made etic survey cruise in the and Indian Oceans, calling ern Australia. She is fitted ntinuously recording fluxgnetometers, which register izontal and vertical comof the earth’s magnetic 1 also the total field, tic declination is continucorded in conjunction with compass which establishes th. In addition, there is a us recording of ocean by a deep-range echo jnetic survey of the Pacific le and Zarya’s work should >e to mariners. During the . aerial magnetic survey of Id, including parts of the was made by American and n organisations.

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Captain Arthur Lucas, of 14-ton, lamb-liner Delfino, Suva in September that on ith-bound run from San after delivering the first ' Australian lambs, his ship a trail of 350 tons of sheep manure across the eastern Pacific toward Hawaii. Worth $5 a 100-lb sackful in United States, it had to be dumped due to quarantine regulations there —b eca u s e the lambs had been fed on Australian fodder and there was a danger of introduction of plant or animal disease.

To capitalise on this by-product of the trade, Captain Lucas said that in future the fodder may be purchased in San Diego. It will then be permissible to land the manure.

After considerably extending the blower and suction fan systems to improve ventilation in the lower and hotter decks, and changing a few crew members in her “home” port, Delfino cleared Suva on September 5 for drydocking in Brisbane and then to take aboard her second load of lambs at Sydney. Strict quarantine will again apply when the ship calls at Suva, northbound. • GARLIC IS OFF: A consignment of over 360 crates of Egyptian garlic and a few crates of onions, which had been lying in a Suva wharf shed for a month, while the importers’ lawyers and the Department of Agriculture argued the regulations, was shipped out for Singapore, where it had come from, by Van Waerwyck early September.

The produce was barred due to foot-and-mouth disease danger from Egypt. It was to be dumped at sea by the Department, but some ambiguity in the regulations saved it from this fate and permitted the importers to re-export it. • ANOTHER BOTTLE: A memory of that, handsome Chilean naval four-masted training schooner Esmeralda, which called at Papeete and Apia about five years ago came with a bottle found on the windward side of Gau Island in the Fiji Group 50 miles east of Suva early in September.

The bottle, which contained a drift-message form, prepared in Spanish and English by the Chilean Navy, was a demonstration of how not to launch such a message.

The form had been enclosed in a small plastic bag, but if this had ever been sealed it had burst with the heat of the sun. The cork had not been sealed and had partly rotted away to allow water to enter.

The writing on the form was in almost illegible pencil, and part of it had been destroyed.

About all that could be made out with reasonable certainty was the name of the launching ship— Esmeralda and the. launching longitude—l3o degrees west. The date was illegible and the latitude appeared to be either 4 degrees or 40 degrees, but whether north or south was not readable.

There was no knowing how long the bottle had lain on the beach [?]el Mar", ex-"Kokoda", just before she left Port Moresby to take up her new duties for Captain "Milo" Savoie. See page 114, this issue.

A recent Port Moresby portrait of the light-house tender, "wallach" whose life story was outlined in June and August "PIM's". "Wallach" is the only P-NG tender, adn usually operates out of Samarai, as that is considered about the most cetral of all Territory ports for a job that takes in the whole of P-NG 105 HO ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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It may have been launched leralda’s cruise to Tahiti, or e other time. It is believed he 3,040-ton Spanish-built ;r has made a more recent from Valparaiso to Japan >rth America. But the form ;en returned by the Suva r Master to the address inand some further informaiy eventually be forthcoming. ) GROSS ON THIS LADY: j are a good many un- ■ed ships in the Pacific trade but rarely is one vhich does not possess some f documentation giving a for the gross tonnage. The Government vessel Nareau, in Suva for survey, is one vooden hull, built by Ballina t & Engineering Co. in 1950, ved to be a standard naval ype, similar to the former ead Sugar Co. vessel Ruena, traded in the Solomons until sed by the Australian Govit, converted into the medical craft Indaustral, and given Indian Government for serthe Andaman Islands several go.

Nareau’s superstructure is different to that of the •d GPV. Her nett tonnage is s 79, and Captain W. Farrell, is been her master for most time since she was launched 10 rejoined her at Suva in her after overseas leave, ,es her displacement tonnage and her gross at perhaps 180. vessel came south from i under command of the Superintendent, Captain G. s, with Mr. Willie Poznanski e, and Mr. Titivalu as Chief er. au, which carries a crew of told, is powered by a pair i bhp Crossleys. Work at ; Boatyard, in Suva, included lation of the port engine bed had been giving trouble.

THE TON- -3: Talks on an international ave lately been proceeding in empt to reach agreement on idard method of defining a tonnage and to end the preonfusion of methods. e port or canal authorities, 3sent, levy charges on one 1 and some on another and andardisation would certainly important repercussions on ‘sign of foreign-going ships, the uninitiated, here are of the better known methods cribing ships: iweight tonnage—the number g tons of cargo that a vessel irry to bring her down to her placement tonnage—the tonnage of water, at 35 cu. ft to the long ton, displaced by a vessel when fully loaded.

Gross tonnage—the total enclosed space in a ship in cubic feet, divided by 100.

Net tonnage—the gross tonnage less the cubic capacity of the nonearning spaces (engine-room, bunkers, accommodation for crew, etc.) figured at the rate of 100 cu. ft to the ton.

Burden tonnage (now rarely used) —the volume of the cargo spaces in cu. ft divided by 100 and multiplied by 5/3.

Deadweight tonnage—at present almost invariably applied to tankers only, when describing ships—and displacement tonnage, often applied to passenger liners by their owners and agents who like to use large figures—are the two most useful descriptions. But it is well to remember that a super-tanker with a very big figure after its name may not be any largpr than a passenger liner with a much smaller figure. • AGAIN IN SERVICE: The 304ton wooden twin-screw vessel Kulu, sold by BP (NG) Ltd.. Rabaul, to G & M Shipping Service of that port last January, made her first local voyage under the new owner- 107 IFfC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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BAUL ROUND-UP: Back ce from this port is the 52- Venus, out of action for 15 is following grounding at -with a substantial bill still ttled by the unofficial native itive which owns her there.

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OUBLE IN QUITTING; Dnth we reported that the g Shell-40 was quitting the When this appears she may risbane, but she was having in quitting in September. , fortnight’s wait for fair , the 61-ton motor tug Suva at 2 p.m. on September □ days later she radioed her for assistance and BP’s dei their 515-ton, Suva-based latanui, under Captain L. W. n, an experienced towage mi cleared Suva at 4 p.m. iday afternoon, September up with the tug at midind had her back in port i.m. on the Tuesday. The blocked fuel lines, tug had been laid up for nonths and harbour trials en satisfactory, but in the as which were running outedim e n t was apparently up in the tanks and caused t blockages. Following a it, Shell-40 was to again Brisbane via Noumea late ber to begin her new life coal barges on the Brisbane Captain Henry Simpson, of ras in command.

ILL TIDYING UP: Though scrap metal organisations iccessively taken their turn war wrecks which litter ns beaches, there are still recks on offer. y, the BSIP Government has Dnsidering how it can have wrecks below the high-water removed from Western and Solomons beaches, likely customer for the p is a Japanese salvage firm is currently operating round nville, and which has inits intention of surveying jtructions later this year.

LYING A LOOK: A prospecistralian buyer was in Suva -September looking over the uva-built wooden ketch ■a, 128 tons, which has been p and for sale for a long ist.

I in Suva’s Bay of Islands, •year-old Whippy-built vessel en well cared for by a fullaretaker staff since her layup. The Australian was said to be interested in the ketch as a fishing vessel or mother-ship for fishing operations, presumably in Australian waters. She would require some alterations if the sale eventuated. • HARD BARGAINING; There was some hard bargaining in Auckland in September as the result of a dispute between the USS Co., owners of the 5,299-ton Islands vpcqpi Tnfvn and the NZ Seamen’s TTnfnn 1 ’ fc>eamen s It centred round a bosun and a seamen which the Chief Officer did not wish to re-engage when the ship signed on a new crew following her annual survey.

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The reply came back: “No, tell him I use this’*—and Fishing Master Sakai was unsmilingly tapping his head.

Leaving Kesannuma on April 25, Sakai had ordered the navigating master to head for New Zealand waters. The catch there—delivered in successive voyages to the mother ship stationed near Fiji—had been good, he said. During September a large part of the two tuna fleets was operating in those southern waters, and the mother ships had MEN FOR A TOUGH JOB. —Perhaps only the fittest survive, but there was nothing with the physique of the crew of "Asahi Maru No. 7", a typical tuna longliner, which [?] Suva for rudder repairs at the end of June. The vessel had left Japan on April 25, it for the rudder trouble, would not have touched land again until she arrived back [?]ki in November. Inset left is Fishing Master Fusao Sakai, and right Captain Toshiro Radio operator Fujio Morita, front with camera, was the only man who could speak much English. [?]ard bound from the Trans-Pacific Race, "Anitra-5" of Sydney called briefly at suva [?]ust, lying alongside the Sydney yacht "New Silver Gull". From left: Magnus Halvorsen, Gowland, Trygve Halvorsen, and Des Ashton of New Guinea, who went on by air from Fiji. 111 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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gradually south to about 30 i latitude. use Asahi Maru No. 7 had tected to touch a foreign port ly port—during her planned lonths’ cruise, the vessel had ;arance papers. This is itly standard practice with vessels. The ship’s Register, ly required to be surrendered authorities on arrival in a port, was mounted in a ight frame on the deck-head chart room. A letter in from the mother ship fishnager clarified the situation, tuna cargo had been disi into the mother ship two rior to arrival at Suva, but ssel had many cartons of bait-fish aboard—a variety ish about a foot long, known ry (cololabis saina) —the g of which is an industry of round Japan. 3HING, NOT TEACHING: i Pago correspondent reports e masters of the two Korean based there with the Japuna fleet are more willing to imoans along to teach them la longlining game than are janese masters, possible that there is more space in the Korean ships, vas certainly no visible means ommodating extras in the Maru No. 7 mentioned above. crewmen spend their brief ,rs in a fo’c’s’le Al ft high double deck of bunks. The ( Master and Captain each bunk with a sliding door as in the chart-room. The radio •r, in with his equipment, 2d to be best off of the lot, tiny cabin. One cruise under conditions, disregarding the worked, could be enough for lamoan trainees. lOUBLE DOWN BELOW: i Hugh Williams’ 135-ton obiri broke her intermediate laft late in August while bound for Manihiki from Rarotonga, but was able to reach the northern atoll at reduced speed and carry out temporary repairs, before discharging and returning to Rarotonga minus passengers, under reduced speed.

Meanwhile another Cook Islands vessel, Taveuni —almost a sistership to Macuata mentioned elsewhere—has been in Papeete for several months past undergoing a major refit. It is believed that a new engine is being installed to replace the existing Crossley model, for which spares are now hard to get.

Captain Andy Thomson, that veteran of the Cook Islands trade, was to take command in September of the old schooner Tiare Taporo. which was returning to the Cl from French Polynesia, where Charlotte Donald has taken her place in the A. B. Donald/Etablissements Donald Tahiti services. Captain Thomson has been living ashore on his Rarotonga property for several years past—except for occasional trips to Tahiti. ottr qtjtpo artt ■R’TT'MT'N’TN'Ti''• Two con temporary maritime journals h ave recently raised the question the use of the definite article preceding a ship’s name, and as the comment could apply to this column, it may be timely to explain why the definite article is rejected here, It is true that some 0 f the best respected maritime writers have in the past used the definite article, but it will probably not be denied that for a very long time a ship has been considered as feminine in the English language—whether the name happens to be a feminine one or not - Perhaps, originally, all British The 34-ft. Port Moresby sloop "Sagitta" (left) was recently completed there after three years of spare time work by a local resident—but unfortunately our PM ocean-yachtsman, S. E.

Bradfield, did not say who the new yacht owner was.

The 96-ft. motor yacht "Reposado" (right) up on the slips at Pago Pago in September.

Owner-skipper Brian Neil, who has his family and a considerable crew on board, exchanged her for his former motor-sailer "Manawanui" some months ago. "Reposado" is now for sale if the right customer comes along. —Pan American Prints.

Crew of the Canadian yacht "Sea Chanty", Photographed in Pago in September. From left to right: Roy Kempel (owner-skipper), Lyle Monk and AI Cherrington. They are making a leisurely way towards towards Sydney. See also picture Page 115. -Pan American Prints. 113 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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SOUP ship names were feminine. OC count alone we consider it inor to refer to a ship as, for extx “the Alice”. The ship is r Alice —not “the Alice”. It mx reasonable to say “the ship „ but it is certainly not necesa( except in the case of, say, “thri London of London” in a j<t that normally does not e italics or inverted commas foio names, where some confusion i occur.

However, PIM feels—and most shipping men agree— tif it more acceptable not to U!i definite article immediately pq; ing the ship’s name; a lady isu —not “it”, or “the”. • ANOTHER MARIA DEL , Burns Philp (NG) Ltd.’s KS. which was purchased recentr Captain E. Savoie, left f Moresby under her new nair August and is now at her ne —trading around the New He' and to Wallis Island. Captain! re-christened her after one earlier ships (sold to Australiii terests some years ago) an Kokoda becomes the second del Mar.

In Port Moresby before she she had a complete overhir complete paint job and a isation of master’s and other as modation.

This 224 gross tons wooden i was built by Norman Wright,,J bane, in 1946, and since hasj in service for BP’s in P-NG w She is a twin-screw motor equipped with two sets of R's Ruwolt diesels.

News of Cruising Ya« • BABOON: We have had a letter from L. John Prisch, owner-of this Acapulco schooner, mm briefly in August PIM. He says thri left Acapulco on April 27 and Taiohae Bay, Nukahiva (Marques May 29. After a look in at Tail they reached Tahiti on June 16 ann he wrote on September 17, they t anchor at Tautira Bay. On board cruise, apart from himself, were hi Frances, First Mate and cook; Bill I of Long Beach. California, as na’t George Zimmerman of Laguna Beaus Charles Ehlert, of Illinois.

Skipper John gives some interest!, tails about this venerable schooner the unromantic name: She is ( overall, staysail rigged with a squas on the fore. She is a re-rigged Neo “40” designed by Burgess and M 1888. She has been a fully commin pleasure craft ever since then as had a remarkable racing and < career on both coasts of America, her second cruise to the Pacific—ttto Honolulu in 1935-36 under the cm; of Robert French, a Los Angeles a s Prisch believes that if she is i oldest yacht in commission, she isi close to it. Her present cruise was a plished without auxiliary power kind and was successful in every BABOON will be left in the hann paid crew which will sail her backd States while Mr. and Mrs. Prisch o on to Europe with their four child] more orthodox means. They will bri 114 OCTOBER, 1059 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTF

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Cables & Telegraphic Address; SUPERB, Sydney ca for some time—but they hope back to the Pacific for more ocean before too long. )ENIX and the Reynolds’ were in > again late August in Honolulu further court case was proceeding lel to the entry of this yacht into shall Is. nuclear-test closed zone, nolds was found guilty of an mder American law as applied to nationals in a Honolulu court, ht an appeal against the sentence Francisco court and won it. The Energy Commission appealed that ruling and the case was reick to Honolulu. ;ynolds’ feelings on this subject, 7 in relation to freedom of the loubtedly have wide support, but lovernment contends that in these icn it is considered essential that ests be carried out for national -and until such time as some inal control and inspection system ished—it is not too much to ask nationals submit to the restricrnovement involved. Dr. Reynolds ver, also basing his defence on it the tests are polluting the seas abited non-American territories, ter evidence was ruled as inadby Judge John R. Ross who heard it case. The result of this case known at time of going to press.

HTTI of Honolulu with Lorin ,nd New Zealand crewman Peter board, arrived at Rarotonga from late August. Smith and TAHITI •emaining there indefinitely, as a igineer at the local motor garage accepted. lEARWATER of Brisbane with Nettleton and Teilen, moved off ira September 9, bound Nukualofa, Raoul Island, thence northern NZ d home.

INIONG, the big motor cruiser rei August as at Port Moresby, was slip in Rabaul a little later for painting. Our Rabaul corresgives the owner’s name as Kard. rt Moresby reported it as Ezzard. the owner will clarify. [MERE of Sette, France, last reorthbound from Tarawa, called at Guam, and arrived Yokohama In September, Tarawa residents word from Jean and Suzanne then at Singapore, that the yacht ioon be headed back for the A most unorthodox cruise—both and season. [?]anty", en route for Sydney. See picture page 113. 115 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Pacific Report The month’s round-up of news and pictures of people and ;nts, from PIM correspondents in the South Pacific. ctions on Fiji's ion Results ’s electors were a tired lot n g the September elections results were published in in September), and fewer of bothered to cast a vote than >6. Unlike Papua-New Guinea nts, they haven’t got an Ausa Minister to scold them for political apathy; and Fiji is mt also in the fact that their cial Legco members have a I unofficial power that their ;orian counterparts do not. n features of the Fiji elections 'he decline in numbers of ered voters in four of the six rates as compared with the >us election, despite the ini' in population of the Colony, lie failure of about 25 per of persons eligible, to register ters.

'he fact that five of the six elected are members of the profession—two of them, Mr.

Gibson and Mr. Vijay Singh, members of the same legal ership. lie election by a substantial •ity of Mr. B. D. Lakshman, had just been publicly slated le Sugar Industry Board, as a representative for the North- ;rn Division came as a surto a good many. He is the outsider in the legal combine. i figures of registered voters .them European: 833 (1,105 at ius election); Eastern Euro- -509 (615); North-Western 643 (612) ; Southern n: 4,233 (4,916): Eastern n: 1903 (2,213); North-Western n: 7,933 (6,669). i failure of eligible Europeans gister is explained, in part, by act that many are government nts from overseas on shorttours of duty who have no in- ; in Fiji’s politics. ;htly or wrongly, a percentage igible persons felt that with a lative Council with an un- Jd official majority, the repre- .tives of the people had no power of veto and therefore little real power.

There is a good deal of evidence to show that the elected members do, in fact, have a considerable influence on legislation though they have no power of veto.

Legislation is rarely passed in Fiji where it is strongly opposed by most of the elected members.

Nevertheless, the contrary viewpoint undoubtedly influenced some people in failing to register or vote, although most failures to register can be attributed to apathy.

The final voting figures were: SOUTHERN EUROPEAN : Falvey 462, Tetzner 162 (registered voters 655).

SOUTHERN INDIAN : Deoki 1,877, K. B. Singh 950, C. M. Gopalan 221, Pathik 89, Ramrakha 82 (registered voters 3,295).

EASTERN EUROPEAN: Gibson, 240, Martin 170 (registered voters 437).

EASTERN INDIAN: V. R. Singh 864, J. Kanji 494, M. I. Khan 360 (registered voters 1,751).

NW EUROPEAN: Kermode 292, White 197, Chalmers 26 (registered NW INDIAN: B D. Lakshman 2,637, Madhaven 2,158, Prasad 2075 (registered voters 6,958).

The names of nominated members were announced on September 17.

They are: Mr. C. W. Cayzer, general manager of the gold mines at Vatukoula, and Mr. J. A. Moore, representing the Europeans; and Mr. Sathi Narain and Dr. Sahu Khan, representing the Indians. (Nominated members of the last Council were Messrs. S. G. C.

Cowled, W. G. Johnson, A. I. N, Deoki and Dr. Sahu Khan).

The Fijian members, elected by secret ballot by the Great Council of Chiefs and approved by the Governor, are: Ist member, Ratu Edward Cakobau; 2nd member, Samoan Listeners Also Cheat 'Samoa Bulletin” reports that only 600 of the estimated 2,500 radio listeners in Western Samoa had paid their licence fees to the end of August—they were due on April 1.

There was a suggestion that some radio inspection activity might have the effect that it had in Suva, where there was a similar high percentage of evasions.

In Fiji, it is now impossible to purchase a radio receiver from a licensed dealer without first obtaining a listener’s licence.

Papua-New Guinea listeners don’t need licences.

This was the scene on the Avarua whart, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, recently when school children awaited the arrival of the New Zealand Governor-General, Lord Cobham, on an official visit. IN the background is HMNZS "Royalist", on which Lord Cobham travelled. photo: Gordon Russell. 117 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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If Costs To ; That Letter i the sharp rise announced in sts of Australian postage and than telephone calls, a good business concerns are sharply mining their expenditure in s kinds of office activity. Some sting results have been ed.

Adelaide firm has calculated >st of preparing and sending le business letter, cost is based on the assumplat the executive who dictated tter receives £2O for a 40-hour and that the typist gets £lO sek. Actually, in each case, the je cost is probably higher, this basis it is calculated that me of the executive on one -dictating it and then revising gning it—is eight minutes, and equals 16 pence, i time taken by the stenoer was 15 minutes —and that 5 pence. was calculated that all the “overhead” in connection with two operations—supervision, ince, rent, light, depreciation, and so on—amounted to 10 vas reckoned that the cost of ;ationery was lid, and carbons ribbons about one-fifth of a 7- ;h postage at the new Ausn rate of 5d per letter, we get al cost of preparing, producing 119 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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BANKERS: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY. livering the letter a fraction 48 pence. 3 inflationary spiral continues ig upwards, it seems possible h e expensive stenographic of carrying on communicaill be discarded. Already, in ties, correspondence is carried DUgh a voice recorded on a y-prepared bit of plastic— is sent directly to the other and played back to him. If leans could be found of preand filing such records for ce purposes, such a system be introduced at a cost conly less than 4/- per conation. igrants Cause ation Fall nett gain in population in an Samoa from natural inof births over deaths has rebeen about 800, but mlgra- ) Hawaii and the United is now resulting in a slight decline in population ration from the territory has tially increased since Transi Airlines commenced its service. About 1,262 people air in the past year, and the preceding year. Des were at the rate of about 0 persons per flight recently nting to 300 persons in July- Pan American Airways also ncing fortnightly flights to in October, and with the class at $248 to San Francis cheaper than by sea— parture rate will probably further substantial increase. ow Makes /vn Paint lint manufacturing company, by New Zealand interests, for business in temporary es in Matua Street, Walu >uva, early in September, ciated with Superior Paints and Specialty Finishes (NZ) Ltd. of Auckland, the new company, Fiji Paints Ltd., has been preparing for business in Fiji for some time.

Special formulae have been developed for tropical use and the paint has been under test by exposure to the sun on test panels in Suva for months past. Following these successful tests, the company is now in production.

The administrative director of the new company is Mr. D. Hourigan, and Mr. R. M. Calder is technical director. Both are New Zealand ex-servicemen, and Mr. Calder served in Fiji in the artillery during the war.

The company will only employ a small local staff at first but plans to move into permanent premises at Walu Bay later. Most of the mixing process will be by machines operating around the clock.

Norfolk Is.' NZ Ambassador One Sunday in August, a big congregation at St. Barnabas Chapel, Norfolk Is., and many more residents in their homes, listened to a church service broadcast from the Anglican Cathedral in Wellington, NZ.

Some months ago, the Dean of that Cathedral visited Norfolk Island on a health trip and was so enamoured with its way of life and hospitality that he said he was going to be an ambassador. (Oven o visitors from Fiji were at a recent if the Polynesian Association in Sydney.

Mr. Everett Riley and Mr. T. Singh Ranjit.

Photo:Tele-Photo. 121 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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irns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd- Also to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.A. collected words and music of I of the traditional local , induced his church choir to them, and on this broadcast blk Island service, as a thrill for Islanders, and lably the congregation in gton and listeners in other )f NZ, appreciated the service, iesia Moves Chinese Retailers n effort to replace the Chinese storekeeper with Indonesian nepers, the Indonesian Govnt in September introduced of laws designed to drive alien retailers out of business. number of Chinese in >sia is variously estimated at \l million to three million. )ly the latter figure is more correct. ever, it is estimated that 500 Chinese leave Indonesia month, to return to life in . As against that, the Chinese rate in Indonesia is very high ; estimated that the increase per cent, per annum, n many Pacific countries, the >e village store is an estabinstitution in Indonesia. It the villagers most of their i needs; buys from them their s rice and other products; and nearly aways is there a small equipped with chairs, where Hagers gather for a chat and lolly-water.

Indonesian Government’s lan probably will put 25,000 of these small Chinese traders out of business. It could be part of a general plan to force the Chinese out of Indonesia.

Because it is based on the assumption that there will be Indonesian villagers to take the Chinese places, it will not succeed.

Soekarno planned that Indonesians should take the place of the Dutch merchants, traders and planters when they were driven out. But it was Chinese, not Indonesians, who replaced the Dutch traders. There are few Indonesian villagers capable of running a village store.

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The average wage is thus now $3O a week or $1,440 a year.

The average rate of pay in other fields is about $750 to $BOO a year.

However, not all cannery employees are on full-time work. The numbers employed vary with the fishing.

Fiji Official Support Of Birth Control There are indications that arguments in favour of birth control have been accepted by the Indian community of Fiji. (Over) [?]a-New Guinea division of the Country Women's Association now has a new hostel at Here it is, just after being officially opened by Mrs. D. M. Cleland, wife of the P-NG Administrator. Photo: W. D. Hutton. 123 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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social and economic comms created by the rapid i of the Indian community ecognised by the Indian ; themselves, and the system pulation control —which inilly is now the policy of the iment of India itself —has jiven much attention.

Director of Medical Services i (Dr. P. W. Dill-Russell) recently that birth control had been opened officially in the Fiji towns of Suva, Lautoka and Labasa and that already hundreds of people were taking advantage of them.

Members of Fiji’s Legislative Council have urged that wider publicity be given to the fact that the services of such clinics are available.

Now They Can Hear The Voices of The Coastwatchers The voices of some of New Guinea’s most famous Coastwatchers, giving some of their own stories and viewpoints, have been recorded for posterity. And what is more, some of the recordings are to be sold to the public.

The recording follows the official dedication of the Coastwatchers Memorial Light at Madang, New Guinea, on August 15, when most of the more famous Coastwatchers, including their leader, Commander Eric Feldt, were present (see PIM, August, September).

The recording happened this way; Among the invited guests at the ceremony was the war-time Director of Australian Naval Intelligence, Commander R. B. M.

Long. Knowing that the ceremonies would be unique and claiming the principal participants as friends, Commander Long took with him a tape recorder in the hope of obtaining a record which he could play to Coastwatchers who could not be present.

He obtained the full dedication ceremony, and an additional two hours of impromptu interviews by the majority of the Coachwatchers.

These men all wanted copies of the tape. To meet this demand, what started out as a minor venture by Commander Long culminated in the production of three doublesided microgroove discs, each side running for an average of 22 minutes. , ..

One of the discs gives the full record of the dedication ceremony, the other two discs carry the impromptu talks by Coastwatchers and other officials. The discs of the Coastwatchers’ voices are, of course, unique, and probably will remain so for it’s hardly likely that the wartime men, who did such remarkable work behind the lines in the Pacific, reporting enemy movements at great personal risk, will ever be together again in such a group.

Commander Long, who is these days the head of a Sydney firm of consulting engineers, has a limited number of the discs which he says he is willing to sell to recover some of the editing and processing costs. We can imagine that they will not be left with him very long.

He should be contacted direct at his address, R. B. M. Long, Esq., c/o R. B. M. Long Pty. Ltd., Consulting Engineers, 86 William Street.

Sydney, Australia. The cost of the dedication ceremony is £A2/10 -. plus mailing charges, and the Coastwatchers’ talks (two discs) £AS, plus mailing charges.

Tongan Whale-Steaks Are On The Table Officers of the Tongan ship Aoniu reported in Suva at the beginning of September that the season’s e Credit Goes to iss McLachlan young Territorian (female) “PIM” recently to say a kings about native women’s in Papua-New Guinea, z did not originate on tke Guinea side of the border, \r article, page 117, August, have inferred. They were, zt, started at least six years by Miss B. A. McLachlan, r-in-charge of female ition, P-NG Department ducation, Port Moresby, it year the business of lising and running the was taken from Education rtment control and at- \d to Native Affairs —but in infancy the idea was very i Miss McLachlan’s. lile not detracting from good work being done on Other Side by Miss Lois and others, our young dorian says that Miss ichlan has laboured long hard on club and other \cts for Territory natives “has never got half the t that is due to her.” ss McLachlan may stand up take a bow.

Islands Weddings

Among recent marriages in Papua-New Gumea were, left, Mr. and Mrs. William Coburn (she was Miss Helen Gill) shown he re wlth Re v.

Father J. Dwyer after a service in the Catholic Church in Rabaul; top right Mr. and Mrs. E.

Niehinen (nee Pat Saunders) at Taurama Chapiel, Port Moresby; and, right, Mr and Mrs. F.

Smyth (nee Miss J. Hannan) at the Catholic Church, Port Moresby.

Photos: C. H. Meen and Papuan Prints. 125 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Fiji Copra Could Be Better The Fiji Department of Ag]£ ture’s report for 1958, just publil indicates that the Fijian prodb are losing a good deal of rrn through insufficient care in copra production.

The report says that betwee per cent, and 60 per cent, oft copra is produced on private pl;I tions and the remainder by H villagers. Of the plantation o 60 per cent, is good quality (H and FM 1) and the remaindee ferior (FM 2 and below). Equiw P-NG Lost Him A 'brilliant young medical rm Dr. B. C. Ashley, son of Captt* and Mrs. C. Ashley, of F\ Moresby, will in October addn\ the Royal College of Physician at Canberra, on the results z his research into certain aspec of kidney disease. This is honour rarely accorded so yom a man.

He was educated at F{ Moresby and at King's Schts Sydney, and graduated in When he was a third-y\& medical student, he applied and was refused a New Guin Territory medical cadet scholV ship because he had failed ir\ minor examination in pharm cology. New Guinea’s loss vt Australian medicine’s gain. 126 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT]

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Natives Now ng Coconuts w is officially estimated that D per cent, to 25 per cent, of 1,000 tons of copra produced ;ar in the Territory of Papua iw Guinea is made and sold natives. r Administration officers’ ,s, the natives are making oconut plantations. It is ed that in the last five years U million palms have been . by village producers, r official estimates indicate ie amount to be received in lendar year by both Euroind native producers from sold through the Marketing will be the largest in the of the Territory. for a Kavieng mediate School 5, which will take six years iplete, have been approved ie Utu Intermediate and cal School, four miles from g, New Guinea, school is situated on one of >st beautiful spots on the New I east coast road, with fring- I, good fishing, and a ground itball, cricket and baseball, ik-sak buildings it at present 48 general and 19 technical ts. The latter are learning s trades under Mr. Victor i, a former instructor at ma Training School, Rabaul. principal for the last five has been Mr. Cecil Ashley, as recently packing up ready to leave with his wife and daughter for Sydney. Mr. Ashley’s place at Utu is being taken by Mr. Tom Maddocks, from the Milne Bay school.

The intention is to bring the school up to 240 boarders from the New Ireland area, and to house them in modern buildings. The technical students are doing the building work as part of their training, and are making pretty good progress, although none of them had ever done any brickwork before. Two new classrooms, a European dwelling, storeroom, workshop and two ablution blocks will probably be ready by Christmas; and the administrative office and block will be ready in two years.

The plan allows for the brightest trainees on the technical side being sent on to the Malaguna Technical School at Rabaul, to swell the supply of apprentices available to the New Guinea Islands. There is a growing demand for qualified apprentices by private enterprise, in addition to those who can be absorbed by the administration.

But some Europeans in Rabaul feel that much of the present training of native students with up-todate machinery is wasted, because only primitive tools are available to them when they go back to village life Meanwhile, Mr. George Harrington, principal of the Malaguna school, has spoken of an interesting experiment that will start next year.

This is a special boat building workshop where selected students will learn to build craft from dinghies for small ships and government trawlers to 40-ft cutters.

They will learn under two European instructors and one Papuan.

Another move is forecast in the announcement that the Administration of Papua-New Guinea is to purchase a training ship for naval [?]ell-known Fiji resident Monty Griffen, [?]hed in Sydney with Edward Whippy of Fiji. —Tele-Photo. 127 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Hawaiian jlture Compared md the Hawaiian Islands are ' comparable in land-mass Lmate, though Fiji has less land mainly due to its being up into many more islands, t is interesting to compare riculture of these two terriit statistics show that Fiji total land mass of about 9 acres of which about 830,000 ; actually usable for purposes than forestry at present. has a land mass of about 0 acres, of which about 0 acres is usable for other irestry. r: In 1958, Hawaii had 222,000 is compared with 168,000 in ipples ; Hawaii had 74,800 Fiji had 230 acres. tables, excluding Dalo (taro): , 3,740 acres; Fiji, 25,000 nas: Hawaii, 1,000 acres; 000 acres. e: Hawaii, 6,800 acres; Fiji, is. idamia nuts: Hawaii, 3,100 Fiji, nil. a: Hawaii, nil; Fiji, 165,000 )f palms under harvest.

Hawaii, 90 acres; Fiji, 31,200 (taro) : Hawaii, 590 acres; 1,500 acres. a: Hawaii, nil; Fiji, 1,500 Dlanted (5 acres in bearing). ts: Hawaii, 66 acres; Fiji, 150 value of Hawaiian agricultural e last year was $276,000,000 $22,000,000 on the previous igar strike caused a drop of ,000 in the value of raw exported—its value was 0,000. However, this loss was offset by increased earnings pineapples, diversified crops, ck, and livestock products, though hog and poultry farms continued to go out of business.

Canned pineapple declined but fresh pineapple exports increased to a level of 14i million pounds weight Hawaii’s exports included some interesting items unknown to Fiji.

Some 63 million pounds of prepared coconut chips (like potato chips), 35 million pounds of edible coconuts, seven million pounds of shredded frozen coconut flesh, five million pounds of coconut “syrup”, and a million pounds of frozen coconut milk were included in this category.

There were also substantial shipments of pawpaw (papaya) in puree, balls, chunks, slices, nectar base, etc. —canned or frozen. Guava jams and jellies, and nectar, as well as similar products from other fruit, were also included.

One of the rarer items was poi— the fermented breadfruit paste eaten in various parts of Polynesiashipped fresh, bottled, and canned to the United States. Honey and beeswax were also represented.

Many of Hawaii’s small industries, including agricultural industries, are a direct result of the huge tourist industry which makes the production of exotic foodstuffs and floral items, for example, worth while.

Position Vacant on Penrhyn Island The Cook Islands Administration was advertising for a Resident Agent for Penrhyn atoll late in August.

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Ik Is. Has Some Shipping Weather September weather pre- Burns Philp’s Tulagi comber unloading at Norfolk After lighterage workers )iled for almost a week in ous conditions, the Master i that he could not delay any longer and sailed for Vila, New Hebrides.

At that stage, fresh water supplies on Tulagi were calculated to last only five more days—which didn’t leave much to spare for getting to Vila. (Water is generally taken on at Havannah Harbour, adjacent to Port Vila).

As a result of the weather, 30 tons of NI cargo and one car were still on Tulagi when she left. A shortage of sugar and flour immediately developed in local stores and these commodities were being rationed.

Not much relief can be expected till Tulagi calls again. Damadora del Mar, the 750 gross tons freighter owned by Captain E. Savoie’s company, arrived at Norfolk Is. on September 24 after being delayed by the same bad weather, but she carried 900 drums of petrol and only 15 tons of general cargo.

Some Aid for Fiji Export Industries Where the cost of imported materials involved is not less than half the cost of the finished product, no Port and Customs Service tax will in future be levied on goods manufactured in Fiji and exported.

The Government says it hopes this measure will further encourage the establishment of local export industries in the Colony. The Government gave an undertaking that this amendment would be made at its budget session last December, and the amendment became law on August 7.

The exemption has also been extended to Fiji-brewed beer, and it will also apply to copra imported from other territories for milling.

There is also an exemption on the many empty oil drums which are constantly imported and re-exported to neighbouring Island territories after being re-filled at the Fiji bulk oil terminals.

Other similar containers, such as sacks, are included in the exemption. sitors to the Polynesian Association in Sydney were Monsieur R. Klima, of Papeete [?]h his family, Madame Klima, daughter Manuela and son Rudolph. With them, on the [?]rs. John Canning, who was Lorna Brotherson, also of Papeete. The Klima family is now holidaying in France.

Photo: Tele-Photo.

"PIM" readers sa„ Mr. and Mrs. Keith Spooner (left) in the September issue, but Mrs. Spooner, formely Pamela Gilmer, was then in bnrial array, cutting her wedding cake with her husband.

But that photograph was taken after their marriage at a civil ceremony in Noumea, New Caledonia, performed by the Australian Consul ' Mr . Ro dney Hodgson. Here is what the civil marriage ceremony looked like—Mr. Hodgson on the right. The photograph was sent along by Noumea correspondent Fred Dunn because he says, it is worth recording. It was the first marriage ever performed by an Australian Consul in Noumea.

Photo: Fred Dunn. 131 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— OCTOBER, 1959

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is v. Authority— d by Round fight over Fijian boxer e Varasikete —with Authority ; one corner and Varasikete’s ter, Mr. Jerry Adams, in the corner —has now entered its lonth, and some commentators i say Mr. Adams has a few lead. trouble started in April when kete flattened Tonga heavy- ;Kitione Lave in one round at ijian’s home town of Nadi, months later, Lave had his je by flattening Varasikete i the first round at Nadi, but las nothing to do with the . See also Sports Review (p. r Varasikete had accomi that first famous king hit e more experienced Lave, the ’s friends devised a fitting ation. This took the form of Dening bowl or two of the onal yaqona (the Fijian name ,va) which is not intoxicating, ; was followed by a bout of Ir inking. > mixture is not particularly ng, but when later, the action itensified by adding, unknown rasikete, weighty quantities of X) his ale, the boxer reacted coming very drunk indeed, this condition he was later ng a course to his village and dthin the confines of it when ce officer, passing in his car, id him and told him to get s he did; but when apparently wned on him that he was arrest he got out and made The officer, not unnaturally, pursued and overtook him. In the ensuing attempt at his apprehension, Varasikete aimed a straight right at his adversary, but, his timing and footwork at this stage being not quite up to his Lave fight standard, it was not effective.

The officer retired, and, procuring reinforcements, re-arrested the boxer in the village.

When Varasikete appeared in court, to the original charge of being “drunk and disorderly” were now added the formidable ones of “escaping from lawful custody” and ‘assaulting a police officer”

The magistrate, after a stern warning, considered that in view of the extenuating circumstances the offences would be dealt with by a substantial fine. The latter was amassed from friends, the boxing hero became a free man, and the incident might have been considered closed.

But the Varasikete knockout feat had been big news in the boxing world and one result was an offer to fight the New Zealand heavyweight champion in Wellington.

This offer was accepted.

What happened then is a matter for argument. According to Jerry Adams, although Fiji certainly granted Varasikete a passport, the police cabled his record to the New Zealand Immigration authorities in these words (says Adams) : MOSESE VARASIKETE CON- VICTED DRUNK AND DIS-

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Not surprisingly, says Adams, the reply from New Zealand was that the entry permit was not approved.

Adams in the last few months has been publicly accusing the Fiji police of having failed to point out the extenuating circumstances of the conviction, as a kind of police revenge on the boxer for his rough stuff. But he can’t get anybody to admit it. “Authority” has told him that the decision to admit the boxer or not had been one for the New Zealand authorities. But Adams has not been satisfied with that answer, “Justice”, Adams says publicly, “is being spitefully denied Varasikete”.

He has given up writing further Tonga’s New Shipping Is Making Money With malice towards none, hut with perhaps a glance towards those who were quick to say that the Tonga Government was making a blunder in investing in its own ships, Prince Tungi said in Suva, in September, that despite dire predictions, the new Dutch-built Copra Board vessel “Aoniu ” had shown an operating profit of £lO,OOO in her first year of operations. But the ship was already showing signs of becoming inadequate for the volume of trade.

Prince Tungi said that there had been considerable revenue derived from the inter-island and Tonga-Fiji passenger trade which had expanded beyond all expectations. The reason for its expansion evidently was that people who were formerly reluctant to commit themselves to a slow passage in an uncomfortable and cramped vessel, were now journeying forth to visit friends and satisfy their love of travel in a modern vessel in comfort and safety. . . n Apart from the passenger revenue Tonga was * substantial saving in freight on trans-shipment cargoes from Fiji by HaVi Prin£ Tmgfwas en route to Tahiti, and business trin to Honakona and Singapore Plater in the year. He might also pay another visit to Japan in connection with the fishing vessel being built there and due to be launched in mid-November and completed in DeC TriZe Tungi travelled to Papeete b« ana TEAL returned to Samoa by the "Thorsisle", met by Htfofua for the last stage of the journey back to Nukualofa. are the girls of St. Trinians —more or less—with school master Ray Gruber, at an RSL Fancy Dress Ball in Port Moresby. They were a winning group. 133 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Flying Saucer n Town can priest, Rev. Father i Booth (“Bill”) Gill, of received a lot of publicity in ber as a result of flying reports. ething very unusual is haparound the Goodenough Bay he said in Brisbane, on his Melbourne, where he will p teaching in an Anglican After more than eight years Guinea he has finished his ary work there, t from the Press, Father Gill 30 met in Brisbane by two rs of the Queensland Flying Research Bureau, the Brisbane Courier-Mail interview on September 18: sr Gill, 31, made world news he reported from Boianai L n Mission, Papua, that a of 12 people, including himad seen three flying objects le mission station just after on June 27. ight pages of closely typed p, which included sketches.

Gill described how one of ing objects, larger than the carried four figures which and exchanged signals with servers on the ground, report gave details of times, of witnesses, and descrip- )f flying objects seen around eodenough Bay area, on the east coast of New Guinea, on 11, 26, 27 and 28 this year, sed in sports clothes and smokpipe, Father Gill was quite nt that what he had seen hther a normal aircraft nor a hovered for a while at 450 he said. “When it left, it d the 30 miles across the bay f a second, before disappeare four figures in the craft were mded by light, which did not touch their outlines. This may have been because they were wearing some kind of suit.”

Father Gill said that since June 27, when the figures in the “saucer” waved to men on the mission, there had been “three or four reports a week” of people sighting strange flying objects, or mysterious lights, mainly in the Goodenough Bay area.

“Patrol Officer Bob Smith, of Cape Vogel, north-east of the bay, reported that he saw a disc of light coming towards him one night,” said Father Gill.

“It got bigger and bigger, and finally seemed to disintegrate.

“On August 25, the night before Visiting Guam and the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands recently was Dr. Richard Seddon, executive officer for Social Development with the South Pacific Commission (left). With him here is Dr. Robert E. Gibson, the Trust Territory's Director of Education, and Mrs.

Gibson. Dr. Gibson will be among prominent visitors to an education seminar in Port Moresby in November. He will deliver the Camilla Wedgwood Memorial Lecture.

Photo: P. C. Sanchez. 135 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Trail of Medals Follows M. Soustelle Most political hatchets were temporarily buried during the whirl-wind, medal-scattering visit to New Caledonia in late September of M. Jacques Soustelle, Assistant Minister to French Premier Debre.

Primary cause of M. Soustelle’s visit was the opening of New Caledfc £AIO million Yate Dam.

It must have been a very t M. Soustelle who climbed into Lancaster of the French Fie©' Arm at Noumea on the afteie of September 26 to be flow/ Papeete, Tahiti.

M. Soustelle had spent crowded days in New Caledonia its environs. He had been ke: a very tight schedule complicate the fact that the plane of the • lar TAX service bringing himr 12 hours late.

M. Soustelle arrived at Tom aerodrome early Sunday moic September 20, and was immediately to the Ma£ aerodrome near Noumea. Follol an official reception the Mill boarded the helicopter of the M Co. and he was wafted to thee Coast centre of Poindimie, 350 C metres from Noumea.

After an official reception r distribution of medals the Mill returned to Noumea by the copter arriving late in the eve Following official receptions hes again took to helicopter on Moo travelling to Yate where he offifl opened the Yate hydro-elel scheme. In a speech he pointer the importance of Yate in Caledonia’s economy. The outn the scheme will enable the smir at Noumea to double the outpq nickel and also permit the smtr to compete on the world mo without any subsidy from i Metropolitan government.

In the following days a Soustelle, travelling by air, viv the three Loyalty islands, I Lifou and Ouvea. He also vh the New Hebrides where he lists to deputations of French plae discourse on their miseries.

M. Soustelle was reported as a M. Soustelle (right) being presented w album of photographs of the new Yat after the inauguration.

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Minister was received with sm wherever he went. New ians forgot their political ;es and received him as the representative of De Gaulle han as the leader of the party (UNR) which is the lemy of the party in power JC Assembly.

Medal Scattering astelle left a trail of medals, fact that the French are >t decorated people in the There are medals for every of activity in public life, fisit was marked by great pomp. Flocks of gendarmes 1 and followed him almost ere. His speeches contained important—just the usual ties—but more than once he d his visit as “fact finding tact making”. loumea Leftist sheets called ourist trip” and took the • to task for wasting the ;axpayers’ money. The sheets led to mind the days when a Leftist sympathiser—even e” Leftist.

M. Soustelle appeared betie Assembly Territoriale, it M. Ohlen pointed out the ’s grievances, due mainly to usal of France to define the powers of the local lent and the French by—a source of endless > and bitterness between the Assembly and the Governor of New Caledonia. The Minister gave no concrete answer, but passed off the questions.

He was approached by a deputation of Viet Namese on the question of their repatriation. They were referred to his “technical officer”, this latter gentleman discussing the question for over an hour with the deputation.

Though nothing has been released officially it is rumoured that the negotiations on this subject between France and Hanoi have progressed, the North Viet government having accepted “en principle”, that they will receive the Viets from New Caledonia.

M. Soustelle will take back to France a picture of a warm hearted people who have a deep affection for the Motherland Tahiti's Warm Welcome To M. Soustelle A lengthy description (with photographs) of Tahiti’s warm welcome to M. Soustelle arrived from our special correspondent as this issue went to press. The material will be published in November.

The French Minister was lavishly entertained in the districts of Tahiti and in nearby islands. many men decorated by M. Soustelle. [?]r. Jacques Barrau, New Caledonian [?]ive Director of Economic Development [?], and (right) New Caledonia Customs Boisson, well known by sea travellers for his courtesy.

Photo: Fred Dunn. 137 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959

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Formal History i Island of Bau was a rustling of the pages iry on the tiny island of ji, in September, when for ; time since 1853 a Vuniyalu ■mally installed. The title, nakes the holder the chief the Fijian chiefs, was been Ratu George Cakobau, reat grandson of the King i, who ceded Fiji to Queen had been no formal inn of the Vunivalu since akobau had been installed 1853. s purely a Fijian ceremony obody not in Fijian dress come, and the scene on the land, headquarters of some worst cannibal excesses in days, was one of reverence, ices hushed. g the hour-long ceremony vas presentation of tabua, and gifts—some from the touring rugby team, for and Fiji have long been ;ed.

George Cakobau had in fact univalu since the death in his father, and some people little puzzled by the decision ve the ceremony of instalit this stage. nented the Fiji Times, in a iy phrased editorial: “The for the decision to hold the ny have not been made but it is abundantly clear lere is no question whatever the right of the Vunivalu re the ceremony if he should re. the same time, it is not an intrusion into matters which are exclusive interests of the Fijian people in general and of Bau in particular, to comment that among some sections of the people there has been a certain amount of controversy over the need for such a ceremony.

“Apart from the argument that the ceremony is in effect merely a visible confirmation of a hereditary honour which the Paramount Chief has held for years and which could not be challenged in any circumstances, there has been a good deal of discussion in some Fijian quarters about the economic factors involved.

“Nothing of the sort could conceivably have happened in 1853, and that there have been such discussions is an indication of the extent to which the economic squeeze is affecting the lives and outlook of many of the indigenous people.”

Mr. Chipper Tells Them What He Thinks Mr. John Chipper, timber miller and business-man of many parts, was elected to P-NG Legislative Council in September on the votes of those who decided that there was no better way of censuring the Australian Government’s handling of New Guinea affairs. For Mr.

Chipper was pledged to resign if elected As with his two fellow elected members, also pledged to resign, Mr Chipper’s maiden speech in the Legco, in late September was also his last, but Mr. Chipper apparently decided he had best get everything off his chest while he had the privilege to do it. It all came as something of a shock to other Legco, members, and to not a few people ° U Among the points Mr. Chipper made in his first and last speech U0 * e, rhat instead of the Minister referring to private citizens; custs” the boot was on the other foot, and that the Minister and It Was Too Late For Lloyd's Lloyd’s of London can be excused for turning thumbs-down on an application by the Fiji Hibiscus Festival Committee for insurance coverage against rainfall between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. on the evening of September 29 during a monster barbecue at Nukulau Island.

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As it turned out, the committee saved itself the premium as the weather was perfect.

Even so the attendance fell well short of the 300 for which plans had been made, and the event was not expected to meet costs.

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The committee did obtain insurance cover of £ 20,000 against public liability , fire, flood, and explosion for seven days at a premium of £36 from another insurance company. [?]ers of taro, turtle, roast and live pigs and cooked foods of the ceremony of installation of the Vunivalu. At right, nivalu and Tui Kaba himself, Ratu George Cakobau, QBE.

Photos: Rob Wright, Fiji PRO. 139 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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Chipper has suggested Adition servants are criminally their duty”, he said. “I r ,e Mr. Chipper to prove Is is so I know it is not, it were the Administration would do its utmost to stamp it out. ‘T thought it a pity that members newly sworn should resign so soon. From the standard of the speeches today I am not sure it is not the best thing they could do.”

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Board also recommended t least one coastal radio in the Territory should n a continuous 24 hour m shipping frequencies. from being understaffed, rd found that the vessel was hy in all respects for the d voyage when it left u for Port Moresby.

Sea Collisions All Over the Place Within a month of the BSIP Government vessel Kovala sinking another Government vessel, Margery (see shipping section, this issue), there was news from Suva of a similar ill-met-by-moonlight occurrence there.

The small, 30-year-old, wooden vessel Gaunavou, owned by Mr.

Arthur Evans, of Suva, and commanded by Captain Luke, was sunk several miles off the Suva main passage at about midnight on September 27-28, when she came into collision with the Public Works Department’s new steel Hongkongbuilt, maid-of-all-work, Degei II outward bound for Kadavu.

Gaunavou was bound inward from Lomaiviti with copra and other produce. She sank almost immediately following the collision but fortunately all aboard were picked up by Degei 11, which was commanded by Captain R. McCaig.

This was the third accident in recent years where vessels navigating the Suva main leading lights have come into collision. Adi Maca sank following a collision with Tui P-NG exhibit at Melbourne's Royal Show. 143 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

So nice to go home with . . . m 6-192 . . a bottle of ,v^ GIN citizens have to take the o allegiance and renounce former citizenship.

Europeans on Way Ouu There are at present abou. people of European status n in Western Samoa, most off have inherited the nationals: citizenship of their Euro fathers, though quite a numbtc no particular nationality aneb travelling abroad, do so as protected persons”.

Samoans living in New S for more than five years, are e New Zealand nationals and pq ably will remain so.

There is some objection ajs many Europeans, including i born Europeans with Samoam to give up their American, I German, etc., nationality.

Probably the greatest disas; age in not adopting Samoan <• ship is the loss of the right or to stand for office in thee lative Assembly.

But many consider that d pean representation in thri Legislative Assembly, will be < Kauvaro during the war yeas more recently Chum and Adi I had an inconclusive contest surviving.

Degei II appeared to have s only superficial damage to her board bow in the latest encc There will be a Marine 800 quiry and, if found necess? formal marine inquiry.

Suggested Inqu[?] On New Guine After months of silence oio New Guinea Tax crisis, , Sydney Morning Herald, I October 2, pleaded that a * structive effort to get the I peans in New Guinea on si?, surely worth making”.

Then SMH advocated I long overdue official inquiry' conditions in the Territori-i “That Mr. Hasluck is an able, ( and extremely hard-working MV no one could reasonably deny.

“He has, however, given some e the unhappy impression of dictatorial.

“In the circumstances, there j haps something to be said fol Labour Party’s suggestion that I liamentary committee of equal nvr of Government and Opposition be set up to investigate the t and administration of New Guini 144 Samoa's Marck (Continued from page 23)(J OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON'

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Meantime, Pan American Airways new service between Honolulu and Tafuna makes travel between the Samoas and Hawaii cheap and easy —with tourist rates as low as £5tg.55.5 This new service could open the way to increased tourist activity for both Western and American Samoa. in the latter, however, tourism is bottlenecked by lack of sufficient hotel accommodation; and in Western Samoa, which is a far larger and more interesting country than its neighbour, no one at present is really interested enough in organised tourism to make the necessary effort to exploit it.

Transocean's Troubles iransoceans I roubles The new Pan American service to American Samoa has not made Transocean very happy, since it ive, anyhow, as the number opean representatives may iced to only one or two, in nee with the number of in electors who are Samoan al hundred Europeans com- New Zealand seconded and employees of cornfirms, who are not perresidents of the Territory, t, of course, renounce their citizenship. •s anyone know the wheres of “Whitegrass Robbie”? laitland, who was an ADO w Guinea until 1929, when mt adventuring in Central ica, wants to know.

Robertson was a former s h Public School boy, and Iterweight champion; and as chasing gold in New ia in the ‘Twenties. They : him “Whitegrass Robbie” he was mining on the t—probably to distinguish from the famous “Sepik i o” , Maitland lives now in ment at “Wiwiak”, Eastern Wahroonga, Sydney. , he claims, is the correct ng of Wewak). He breeds pion cattledogs and writes . A book of his about men ivents in Honduras will be ihed soon; and some of his e aristocrats may be seen he Solomons and New za. /way, where is “Whitegrass ie”? 145 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959 Solents Finish (Continued from page 21) tegrass Robbie 9 here Are You?

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Skilled Staff and Heavy Plant The job was given to the web known French Company, Societe Francais des Dragages, which built the international airport at Hongkong, the new harbour at Bluff (New Zealand), and the great nev dam at Yate, New Caledonia.

The Societe has brought in not only a fine corps of skilled and experienced technicians, but also a large quantity of very heavy machinery bulldozers, stonecrushers, power-generators, motorshovels and draglines, and scores of large trucks.

The speed, size and thoroughness ;d the route. And in adfransocean has been in the in America because of il difficulties. Money has y been due to employees and iort rent. theless, a Transocean spokes- Id a PIM correspondent in ancisco in September that ipany did not plan to reduce ice to Samoa. ocean is now seeking new in a series of complicated It has sold its huge submaintenance and overhaul ies at Oakland Airport, San 10. e brighter side, a spokesman Ve have every hope of being a permit to operate Boeing from California to the Far fith another leg running iawaii to American Samoa iney”. people in Samoa would that the Transocean —Pan ,n services be spaced to one flight each week in- : at present, when the Pan n plane arrives at Tafuna ifter the Transocean flight.

Jet Airport Progressing is proceeding on the new iort at Tafuna, following 1 by Congress for a grant ,000 for the first stage of k, which is expected to total 10. ob should be completed in d will be partly financed by nds. The contract has been Belt, Lemmon & Co., of u, who will employ mainly hour. About 100 men are rking on the first stage and rk force will be doubled ar. ob is under the control of ner Wilson, former Public Director at Pago Pago, and Harada, of Honolulu, is g four months on the job alting engineer this year, ugust, a court case which sted six weeks and had I 300 pages of typed evidence d an end, with a reserved . It concerned payment for be taken over for the new p. government offered $lOO per r non-arable land and $450 ble land. Opposition came from the owners of nonand who sought higher payi Arthur A. Morrow heard e which was the longest in tory of the Territory. 147 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1959 r ahiti Airport Continued from page 21)

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; belief that the Tax Reas the reaction of private j (the “locusts”, in his the imposition of income (He has flatly refused to e fact that this was a re- ;ainst his method of intro- ; insistence that his lofty regarding native welfare ig misrepresented by the ms. belief that greater Legco ation to Europeans must ipanied by a similar cono natives (irrespective of that it is practically imo find, under present con- ,ny educated natives comsit on Council), for a handful of “backthe whole Parliament [ Mr. Hasluck.

Parliament and P-NG axpayers’ Association canilamed for the failure of lie relations —shown in the ice of the public, the ignorthe Parliament, and the refusal of the newspapers lem any help, he newspapers ganged up the Territorians, and in the dictator against whom e rebelling, I do not know lave my own ideas.

Bwspaper offices today are icademic Socialists of the type; and few newspaper Dday show any concern for outside power and profits, the working journalists’ linking has been created by war developments in newemership. Maybe, the Aus- »ublic deserves the kind of ir service and Parliarepresentation it now is is a tragedy that the Terrivith a case which in all rectifies their Tax Rebellion, e ground between the upper ier millstones of “slanted” m and an ignorant Parliaasluck, for the present, is ier—away out in front. e High Court Position y be a very different story be Taxpayers’ application, ing the Papua and New Act , gets before the Full f the High Court, imething could happen bee case reaches the High than once in the last few arfield Barwick, an eminent tional lawyer, has expressed doubt about the validity of the P and NG Act, under which the Legislative Council was created and given its powers.

Lately. Sir Garfield Barwick has become the Commonwealth Attorney-General; .and the Act is under challenge in the High Court.

What is to prevent the Commonwealth Parliament, under the direction of this skilled constitutional lawyer, and before the High Court hearing, passing some sort of amending legislation, to give substance and validity to both the Papua and New Guinea Act and the acts of its subsidiary, the Legislative Council?

But could such an amendment be made retrospective, to cover all the Acts of the Legislative Council since it began to function I wouldn’t know.

But I, for one, hope that the p-NG Territorians will keep their chins up and their powder dry.

Like Britain in two world struggles, they may lose every battle, but yet win the war, and live to dance on the neck of a defeated dictator, d Mr*'-. iMexr rnase Or r-iN\j S \kl I aXQTIOn War it is anticipated that the three vacancies now existing in the Legislative Council of Papua and 149 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1959 NG Review »ntinued from page 20)

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New Guinea will be filled I Administrator or the Minis! nomination.

There is authority for taki:: course now, in the Papua Guinea Act, under whioi Legislative Council was consr The Council’s three electees bers—Messrs. E. A. James, , F. Jones and lan Downs—nin a body last July, as a j against the way in which j taxation was introduced) against the policy of the 1 in ignoring the Legislative T in relation to taxation, amr matters.

The Administration ther ranged by-elections, to ft vacancies, on September 12S of the three electorates n candidates pledged to resign l as they were sworn in, in o demonstrate to the Ministh people’s support of the ] taken up by Messrs. Jamesand Downs.

On September 22 and 2Zi being sworn in, the thre' Councillors—Messrs. V. T. £ (Papua), J. L. Chipper i Guinea Islands) and Sydney v (New Guinea Mainland)—ft resigned.

The three announced thri Taxpayers’ Associations, h; j thus demonstrated the people satisfaction with Minister Administration, would not boycott any steps taken 1 latter to fill the vacancies.

P-NG Puts Letter-Writi[?] In Luxury Bracket Papua-New Guinea, on Dee 1, will fall into line with whsi tralia did on October l wIT postal rates, telephone : parcels, money order comnn and registration will go up.c This was announced by n of Post and Telegraphs Mr./ Carter, at the Legislative ♦ meeting at the late Sepg budget session.

Bulk postage rates—over there was such an outcry in tralia —also go up in line wir Australian rates, without theo tory getting the stay of ex'X that occurred in Australia. (♦) ally intended to be introdmu October 1, Australian increse bulk postage rates have beeitc poned to March.) From December 1, Terrih will pay 5d for local letter pj even if it’s just from Port M to the suburb of Boroko. Itf: to us that it would be a sight cheaper to send a carrying a “pass” in an ol»I< stick.

In Fiji, local postage is 2idb has Fiji got that P-NG haa A lot of things—and no Cas! control is one of them. 150 OCTOBER, 1959- — PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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IMBER 26 will go down as lay of mourning in Fiji’s 3y and boxing history, lat black day they twice had their colours to Tonga in sporting events. Tonga i Fiji’s best on the rugby id Kitione Lave proved conng 1 y that he is Mosese jte’s master in the boxing i now, with every justificam claim the mythical title of rugby champions of the South Pacific, just as New Zealand claims to be unofficial rugby champions of the world. (The “shaky islands” forwards would know they had been in a game of football if they met the Tongans).

They said they came to learn — they must have had their tongues in their proverbial cheeks —for they stayed to conquer.

Lave proved that Mosese’s oneround knock-out at Nadi in April must have been a fluke when he put the Fijian to sleep in three rounds on September 26.

Early last month he had evened the score when he ko’d Mosese in one round, so now he leads 2-1 and is looking forward for fresh fields to conquer, Pat Takes It On The Chin GENIAL Pat Raddock, somewhat rotund, and 5 ft 3 in. tall, must be about the busiest sports administrator in the South Apart from his normal duties as a Government Labcpur < officer at Suva he found time m the last two or three weeks of September to select Suva Fijian, Southern District Fijian, Fijian test and Suva European rugby teams to play the Tongans.

In addition to all that he had his own club side, Spitfires, to coach, and a Suva hockey team to select and coach, September 26-27 was his week-end of woe for the touring Tongans beat Fiji, and Spitfires lost the last game of the season, the game on which the title depended. To cap it all, his hockey team lost next day.

But Pat, good sportsman that he is, took it on the chin with a smile, and was among the first to congratulate the winners.

Apart from all those activities, Pat somehow found time to organise the sports programme for the Hibiscus Festival, which ran from September 26 to October 3.

Now he’s hoping for a few quiet games of cricket.

There's Another Game (They Say) Papua-new guinea’s insistence that Rugby League is “the greatest game on earth” is apparently beginning to get beneath the skin of the Victorians, where Australian Rules reigns supreme.

Commented a Melbourne newspaper columnist about the big Rugby League match between Papua and New Guinea, held in Port Moresby recently: “Our Australian Rules folk are missing the bus in New Guinea. Things are so serious the Australian Rugby League Board of Control flew up Queensland referee Jack Casey just for the big match. I don’t see any of our umpires going up for Australian Rules matches. We shouldn’t overlook that part of the country. I’m sure Collingwood could find some wonderful ruck material around Port Moresby”.

P-NG Police Superintendent, Ronald Clammer, in Brisbane in September, exchanged a few training tips with British Empire welter champion Georges Barnes. It was like old times, said Clammer, who last sparred with Barnes’ father in England 37 years ago. famous Pineapple Cup was won this year by Bruce Donnelly, of the Tailevu Bowling Cup was first presented, by the Pacific Biscuit Company, Suva, in 1928, and represents [?]s Bowling Championships of the South Seas. The event is open to bowling clubs in [?] and Samoa. Here at this year's presentation in Suva are from left. Arch Gardner, of the Suva Bowling Club, Bruce Donnelly, Malcolm Brodie, manager of Pacific Biscuit Company, and Joe Shephard, of the Suva Bowling Club, who was runner-up.

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Pat Paddock and his wife Sophia. Story at left. 151 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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Captain A. C. Bird

A distinguished old-timer, Captain A. C. Bird, died at Munda.

BSIP, on September 5, from blackwater fever. “Charlie”, as he was affectionately known, had been in the Protectorate for over 40 years, mostly as master of small ships.

During the war, he served with the American Small Ships’ Fleet: then, in peace time, when the BSI Trade Scheme was formed, he was appointed master of MV Biliki.

After many years in this capacity, he settled ashore and became chief storeman in the Government service.

In later years, with his eye-sight failing, he started a chicken farming venture near Honiara. Then he was in charge of Mr. O. J. Symes’ scrap metal interests in the Western Solomons.

Only a month before his death, Captain Bird was appointed Government air-p ort supervisor at Munda airstrip, New Georgia Island.

Chief Molio’O Pouli Setu

A well known and respected Samoan, Chief Molio’o Pouli Setu, died on September 8 at the age of 70.

A former member of the Legislative Assembly and the Fono of Faipule, and at one time a Samoan District Judge, he represented Western Samoa at the first South Pacific Conference in 1950. A widow and six children, one of whom is the wife of the Hon. Malietoa, MLC, survive him.

MR. P. R. BEST The death occurred suddenly in Sydney on September 25 of Mr.

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He was born in Tasmania and joined Burns Philp in 1926; he left them in 1928 and had a shore job for 10 years, when he rejoined the company serving thereafter on all of the ships in the company’s fleet.

He is survived by his wife and two married daughters.

MR. A. W. ESSON One of New Guinea’s well-known pioneers, Mr. Archibald Wallace Esson—usually known as Jock —died in Concord Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, on September 16 after a short illness. He had been flown down from Rabaul a few days previously.

Mr. Esson was chief inspector for Coconut Products Ltd. at the time of his death and had been in the Territory for over 30 years—he had gone there originally to work for his brother-in-law, Mr. Vic Pennefather.

He served with the Gordon Highlanders in World War I, migrated to Australia after it, and went on to the Territory. He served in ANGAU during the Second World War.

Mr. Esson was twice married. He is survived by his second wife; a daughter, Mary, who is nursing in Canada, and a young son who is at school in Sydney.

He was born in Scotland and was 66 at the time of his death.

MR. R. E. P. (LARRY) DWYER One of Papua-New Guinea’s outstanding and most highly esteemed officials passed away on October 3. when Mr. R. E. P. Dwyer, Director of Agriculture, died in a Sydney hospital, after an operation.

He was a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and concerned at some point or other with half the Territory’s administrative activities. He was an approachable, courteous official and a very kindly man—everyone was a friend of “Larry” Dwyer. He will be missed.

He had suffered for some time from a troublesome leg, the result, he thought, of an old injury.

Finally, he went into hospital in Port Moresby for attention. The doctors did not like what they saw, and operated, and found malignancy. After eight weeks, Mr.

Dwyer was sent to Sydney, in care of his wife, for specialist treatment.

He died a week after another—and very difficult—operation.

“Larry” Dwyer was the son of a grazing family in the Orange district of NSW, and was educated at Hawkesbury College and Sydney University. In the middle ’Thirties, he joined the Department of Agriculture in Rabaul, under ♦ Murray, as economic botaniss he was married in Rabaul I that time.

He was an enthusiastic so< and, encouraged by George W. he carried out some very vs T research work in New Gix plantations. All that valuable was lost in the Jap invasion Larry himself narrowly ee with his life.

Mr. Dwyer stayed with Administration group (all of 1 were killed) until the Japs* actually into Rabaul, and tH and a couple of others escape* the New Britain jungles. The;e precariously on native foods;';; three months of great haii they got away south on thi vessel to pick up refugee Talasea.

The Australian Governmenj The late Mr. R. E. P. Dwyer. 152 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Robert Melrose

i long illness, Mr. Robert a former high official of aa and New Guinea Adion, died in hospital in n September 18. He retired service in 1951, and had resident of Sydney for ears. He was 68.

Melrose went first to New with the Australian ex- ,ry force, and by 1916 he lay£d so much aptitude for rative work that he rethere when civil governis introduced in 1921. He le important posts in the d Territory between the the Japanese invaded in 1942, Mr. Melrose was a cial—Director of District and Native Affairs. Fortunhim, he was over on the i, assisting in the proposed of the capital from -ridden Rabaul to Lae. ; bombers came over Lae lys later. elrose showed resource and ; in leading a small party y civilians from Salamaua, mall boats, along the coast, northeast coast of Papua, they somehow travelled to Port Moresby, elrose undertook many tasks the war; and, at its conhe carried out many arduies connected with the reiment of civil administration, new basis, and he then be- Dvernment Secretary in Port '. He filled that post, with on, until his retirement in he Minister for Territories isluck), on learning of the f Mr. Melrose, paid a special to the services he had 3 to the Territory in 35 years . Mr. Melrose is survived by ; and one son.

Mr. W. E. Hardaker

The death occured in Brisbane, in early August, of Mr. Walter Edwin Hardaker, one of the New Guinea Ex-Pro Board’s early pioneers.

He was badly wounded in World War I, but took over Modilon Plantation, Madang, from the Board.

However, ill-health eventually forced him to give up and he returned to Queensland.

He had been in poor health for some years. He was in his late 60’s when he died. He is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter.

Mr. Norman Saggers

Mr. Norman Saggers, who was appointed Director of Broadcasting in Western Samoa in 1956, following several years service there, died at Napier, NZ, recently.

Mr. Hung Lee-Lo

One of Western Samoa’s oldest Chinese residents, Mr. Hung Lee- Lo, who came from Singapore in 1904 and pioneered the early development of Lafi and Togo plantations, died at Vailima village on August 26. He left his Samoan wife and eight children.

Mr. J. Twycross

The death of ex-Territorian, Mr, J. Twycross, is covered by Tolala, in Talk-Talk, this issue. 153 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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By air or ship to Greece for a stay of five days and on by air or ship to Istanbul, Turkey.

Visit Gallipoli Anzac Day, 1960 By air or ship from Istanbul to Naples, to start a 30-day tour of the Continent, visiting Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany (including a visit to the Oberammergau Passion Play), Luxembourg, Belgium and France.

Five days in London with sightseeing Three weeks free time for independent activities whilst in England Return to Australia via the Suez at any time, or via the U.S.A. and Canada, departing Southampton June 23, ex "Queen Mary".

Twenty-three day coach tour of the U.S.A. and Canada Return to Australia via Honolulu, Japan, Hong Kong and Manila, in the "Arcadia", arriving back at Sydney, August 25. ☆ ☆ Yr COST OF TOURS: From approximately £9BO (Australian) to approximately £I,4H (Australian), depending on class of accommodation and return routings selected.

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For f.ull particulars -apply FIJ | _ An, branch or agenc, of Burns Philp (South Sea Co Ltd Cable Address: Burphil. TAHITI - Eloblissemenls Donald Tahiti.

Papeete. Cable Address: Donald, Papeete.

Ping Time-Tables

ngs are approximate and may by as much as two weeks. iey-Papua-N. Guinea ntoro sails from Melbourne for Srisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai, Kavieng. Madang. Lae, Port Next Sydney sailings Nov. J 7, pprox. i. ilekula sails from Sydney for Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, lexishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney, icy sailings Oct. 21, Dec. 2. laita sails from Sydney for Brisrt Moresby. Samarai, Rabaul, Lorengau, Maaang. Lae, Samarai, Sydney. Next Sydney sailings an. 15. 1010, modern liner, sails about weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port Samarai. Lae. Madang, Lombaul. Next Sydney sailings Nov. from Burns. Philp and Co., Ltd..

Street. Sydney. choi: Leaves Sydney for Brisort Moresby, Samarai. Next liling Oct. 21. achow: Leaves Sydney for Brist Moresby. Samarai. Rabaul, Lae. Ft. Moresby. Last Sydney )ct 7. Next Sydney sailing; Nov. insi: Leaves Sydney for Brisbane, iresby Samarai, Lae, Madang, Rabaul. Next Sydney sailing: ikiang: Leaves Sydney for Brist. Moresby, Honiara (BSIPi, Kavieng, Tarawa (G&E), Rabaul, it Sydney sailing; Oct. 16. Next ailing; Dec. 9. from New Guinea Australia Line ,nd Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 t., Sydney. ney-Netherlands N.G. weeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silinibigo and Sinabang carrying pasand cargo from East Australian Hollandia, Biak and Sorong, NNG 11 at Manokwari alternate trips), orneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence , direct. Last Sydney sailing; ct. 17. Next Sydney sailings: Sigli Sinabang Dec. 1, Silindoeng Dec. 0 Jan. 23. 1 from Royal Interocean Lines. 255 St.. Sydney, ast-Sth. West. & Central Pacific ihina Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels ng. Chefoo and Chekiang comin July a monthly service from 0 Hongkong and thence southwards Papua-New Guinea ports. BSI, sbrides, New Caledonia and Fiji, 1 extension to Tonga if cargo is e; return to Japan direct. ting; From Japan via Hongkong Kavieng Oct. 16, Rabaul Oct. dang Oct. 21. Lae Oct. 25, Port 7 Oct. 31, Honiara Nov. 3. Santo , Noumea Nov. 9. Suva/Lautoka , Nukualofa Nov. 26, thence return direct arriving Dec. 10.

Chefoo; Dep. Japan Oct. 21, thence Hongkong, Kavieng Nov. 5. Rabaul Nov. 6, Madang Nov. 10, Lae Nov. 13, Samarai Nov. 17, Port Moresby Nov. 22, Honiara Nov. 25, Santo Nov. 28. Noumea Dec. 2, Suva/ Lautoka Dec. 6, Nukualofa Dec. 19, thence Japan direct arriving Jan. 2, Chekiang: Dep. Japan Nov. 21, thence Hongkong, Rabaul Dec. 8, Madang Dec. 11, Lae Dec. 14, Port Moresby Dec. 20, Honiara Dec. 23, Santo Dec. 26, Noumea Dec. 29, Suva/Lautoka Jan. 3, Nukualofa Jan. 16, thence Japan direct, arriving Feb. 1.

Details from China Navigation Co., Ltd (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Aros, Citos, Delos and Milos maintain regular services between Australian ports and Japan. Northbound vessels call at Manila, Hongkong and Japan; southbound vessels call at any or all of the following; Hongkong. Manila, Sandakan, Madang. Lae, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne and Adelaide, with quarterly calls at Gizo (opt.). Honiara and Vanikoro, in BSIP; and at Santo and Vila, New Hebrides.

Milos: Dep. Japan Oct. 13, thence Hongkong, Manila, North Borneo. Wewak Oct. 31, Madang Nov. 1, Rabaul Nov. 3, Honiara Nov. 6, Lae Nov. 11, Brisbane Nov. 17, Sydney Nov. 20.

Delos: Dep. Sydney Oct. 28, for Japan direct, arriving Nov. 12.

Arcs: Dep. Sydney Nov. 11 for Japan via Manila and Hongkong, arriving Dec. 3.

Citos: Dep. Sydney Nov. 23 for Japan via Manila and Hongkong, arriving Dec. 15.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 30 Pitt St.. Sydney, or Islands agents (R. Tebb, Lae; Town Transport, Rabaul; A. Strachan, Madang; BSIP Trading Corp.. Honiara: D. J. Gubbay and Co., Santo: Wm. Breckwoldt and Co., Vila). 155 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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THE A.W.P.L. FLEET comprising the modern Motor Vessels "Arcs", "Citos", "Deloic and "Milos" offers the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Australia to Mo Japanese Ports and Shanghai via Manila and Hong Kong. Southbound vessels call at an or all, of the following ports Hong Kong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane, Sy( ney, Melbourne and Adelaide, with six-weekly calls at Madang, Honiara, Vanikoic Santo and Vila.

MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 30-32 Pitt St., Sydney. Phone BU 6:0 Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. Phone: MA 3031.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs. Bright & Co.

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang (New Guinea)—Allan Strachan. Lae (New Guinea)—R. W. Tebb. Rabaul (New Britain)—To!

Transport Limited. Honiara (Solomon Islands) —British Solomon Islands Trading Corporation. Espiritu Santo (New Hebrkbl —D. J. Gubbay and Co. (New Hebrides) Pty. Ltd. Vila (New Hebrides)—Wm. Breckwoldt & Co.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan.

“M.V. MILOS”

Further particulars may be obtained from: 156 OCTOBER. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

ORCADES ARCADIA ORONSAY IBERIA depart Oct. 27 Dec. 11 Dec. 30 Feb. 6 fD arr/dep — Dec. 14 Jan. 2 Feb. 9 arr/dep .

Dec. 17 Jan. 5 Feb. 12 ,u arr/dep Nov. 19 Dec. 22 Jan. 10 Feb. 17 ER arr/dep Nov. 24-25 Dec. 27-28 thence Feb. 23 NCISCO arr/dep Nov. 27-28 Dec. 30-31 Los Angeles Feb. 26 ELES arr/dep Nov. 29 Jan. 1 and Vancouver Feb. 27 ,U arr/dep Dec. 4 Jan. 6 arrive Sydney Mar. 3 arr/dep Dec. 11 Jan. 13 Mar. 3* thence return D arr/dep Dec. 14 Jan. 16 UK. direct. arrive Dec. 17 Jan. 19 Vancouver Jan. 18, thence Acapulco, Hilo, Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco, aver, Honolulu, Suva, Auckland, arrive I Sydney March 3.

Pacific Isiams Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "THORSISLE" and "THORSHALL"

Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI - NEW CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides - New Guinea

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

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

PAPEETE —Etablissements Donald Tahiti.

SUVA —Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

PORT VlLA—Comptoirs F r a n c a i s des Nouvelles Hebrides.

APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

LAE—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

SYDNEY—Birt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd. <c

London-Suva

Sfi£. ,\N vi* < c PANAMA For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD., 138 LEADENHALL ST., LONDON, E.C.3.

Burns Philp (South Sea)

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Suva, Fiji

Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA Sailings of Orient and P. & O. Line Passenger Ships 1959-60 dand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa fua maintains a service from to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, o Pago, Apia, Suva and return id. Next sailings from Auckland: 5 j~) pp 29 Ltua maintains a service from to Lautoka. Suva. Apia, Nukuttleton, Wellington, and return id. Next sailings from Auckland: Jov. 20, Dec. 17. from all offices of Union Steam of NZ. icy-New Hebrides-BSI- Bougainville, Etc. agi, 10 passengers, makes a round folk Is., Vila. Santo, Honiara ports, Bougainville ports, leaving oout once every six weeks. Next tilings Oct. 26, Dec. 14. from Burns, Philp and Co., 7 ;reet, Sydney.

Iney-New Caledoniaew Hebrides-Tahiti of Messageries Marltimes Line, rom Marseilles, via West Indies ima, call about every six weeks te. Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea ley, and return by same route, nt on this run are the motorahitien and Caledonien and a vessel, Melanesien. Next Sydney Tahitien Nov. 10, Melanesian Caledonien Feb. 17. jlynesie (Messageries Maritimes) s about monthly passenger sallween Sydney and Noumea and Hebrides (Vila and Santo). Next ailings: Nov. 6. 27, Dec. 18. from Sydney agents; Messageries s, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydney. ey-S. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney Savill’s one-class all-passenger uthern Cross makes four roundel voyages per year, two westthen two east-bound, calling at id Papeete every trip. On her voyage, she left Sydney Oct. 18 bound for Southampton, via Wellington (Oct. 21-23), Suva (Oct. 27), Papeete tOct. 31-Nov. 1) and Panama. Next voyage; Dep. Southampton Dec. 8. via Panama Canal to Papeete (Jan. 1-2), Suva (Jan. 7), Wellington (Jan. 11-13), Sydney (Jan. 16-18). returning thence via Capetown and Las Palmas to Southampton (arr.

Feb. 22).

N. Zealand-Cook is.

The passenger vessel Maui Pomare maintains a regular service between Auckland and the Cook Islands.

Details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories, Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

N. America-Tahiti-Central Pacific-NG Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorslsle and Thorshall maintain a regular service from Pacific Coast North American 157 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

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Jet-prop Britannias span the Pacific with the fastest through service between the Far East and Honolulu, San Francisco and through New York on to Europe.

The Comet 4 De Luxe “Monarch” service, together with jet-prop Britannias provides the finest choice of daily services between the U.S. A. or Canada and Europe.

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BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION WITH QANTAS, TEAL, S.A.A. AND C.A.A.

A3O/AU ports, with sailings over 35-40 dayu ports depend on cargoes offering.

Thorshall: Dep. San Francisco t ( Los Angeles Oct. 23-24, Papeete N Pago Pago Nov. 10-11, Apia Novo Suva Nov. 17-18. Lautoka Novvi Noumea Nov. 22-24, Lae Nov. 28-3 - Lautoka Dec. 6-13. Pago Pago Des< Los Angeles Jan. 1-4, San Franciio 5.

Thorsisle: Dep. Seattle Nov. M Westminster Nov. 27-30. San H Dec. 4-8, Los Angeles Dec. 9-11, , Dec. 22-23, Pago Pago Dec. 27-i- Dec. 30-31, Nukualofa Jan. 3. Sue 4-5, Noumea Jan. 7-9, Vila Jan. 14 Lautoka Jan. 12-19, Pago Pago Jas Los Angeles Feb. 6-8, San Francitc 9.

Details from General Steamshir poration Ltd., 432 California S Francisco, USA, and Islands Agentr US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-I Australia Matson-Oceanic Line of San H operates a regular five-weeks pas, cargo service from Los Angeles v Ventura, Alameda, Sierra and Southern terminal ports vary withd offering. Vessels call at Papeete Pago and Suva, depending on Next Sydney sailings: Ventura ( approx.), Sierra Dec. 20.

American Pioneer Line has eiglj (Pioneer Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef, Co’o Tide, Gulf) on Australia - Panas, Atlantic Coast service with cs Papeete on southbound voyage, approx, every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouves Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suwi sidiary of W. R. Carpenter anj operate a service three times year* the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel II along the above route. Accomnn is entirely First Class, two-berth r with calls at Suva, Lautoka and HE Last sailing from Sydney: Oct. I Sydney sailing: Feb. 12 (approx.). .

Details from American Tradiii Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bribi Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZj-North America Cargo vessels Waihemo and WJ and others, operated by the s Steam Ship Company of NZ. Ltd.'.f tain a monthly service across the a from Sydney to Vancouver and US.S via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa ana as cargoes offer. Occasional calls a:s at Panning Island. They have passenger accommodation. Next sailing: Waiana early Nov., Waitom Dec.

The Waitemata, from NZ ports.a 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver (vhi tonga and Papeete).

North America-Tahiti-M Sydney-Fiji-Samoa-Hawv Matson Line’s Mariposa and MI make round passenger trips fromn North Coast American ports tt Zealand and Australia, via Pacific o ports. 158 OCTOBFP 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

• Dep. San Francisco Nov. 8. s Nov. 9, Papeete Nov. 17-19, lov. 25-26, Sydney Nov. 29-Dec. d Dec. 5. Suva Dec. 8, Pago 9, Honolulu Dec. 14-15, San Dec. 20. : Dep. San Francisco Nov. 30, s Dec. 1, Papeete Dec. 9-11.

Dec. 17-18, Sydney Dec. 21-24, lec. 27, Suva Dec. 30, Pago Pago jnolulu Jan. 5-6, San Francisco from Matson Lines, Berger Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Iney-Tahiti-Europe an Sitmar Line (Panama flag) notor-vessels Fairsea and Castel lly air-conditioned) sail from Europe, via Auckland, Papeete ta at irregular intervals providjrately priced sea connection in and direction only with Tahiti.

Iney sailing: Fairsea Dec. 24. from Navcot Aust. Pty., Ltd., *t St., Sydney. d Kingdom-Australia- Port Moresby eral Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., ded its regular quarterly UKservice to Port Moresby, els sail from Liverpool via Suez , Brisbane, Townsville. Cairns, sby.

Due Port Moresby Oct. 25 Due Port Moresby Jan. 30 agents: Blrt and Co. Pty., Ltd., 3t. Port Moresby agents: Burns y Guinea), Ltd. i-Fiji Shipping Service iga Shipping Agency, as agents ’onga Copra Board, operates a nonthly cargo and passenger tween Nukualofa and Suva with , 500 tons gross. Turn-round in sually two days, and the Agents W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji).

[?]Ays Time-Tables

Is-Pacific Services

Australia (or NZ)-Fijilawaii-N. America and Tourist Class available all Services)

Pan-American Airways

iper 7 Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) ep. Sydney (4.50 p.m.), Nadi, ulu, Seattle, with connections at ulu for San Francisco or Los es.

Dep. Seattle for Sydney, via md (same route).

DC4 is used on a connecting between Auckland and Nadi (see ). t With additional services from Sydney for Honolulu on Oct. 27, Nov. 3; and from Honolulu for Sydney on Oct. 24, 31.

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 Jets) NORTHWARDS Wed. and Sat.; Sydney (4 p.m.), Nadi (Fiji), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, London.

Fri.; Sydney (4 p.m.). Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco extending to Vancouver.

Tues.: Sydney (4.p.m.). Nadi, Honolulu.

San Francisco.

SOUTHWARDS Mon. and Fri.; London, New York. San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney.

Tues.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney.

Sat.: Vancouver, 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 Wednesdays with Qantas northbound flights, and on Thursdays with southbound flights (see table 17).

TEAL Super DC6 aircraft from Auckland, NZ, connect with the Qantas northbound flights at Nadi on Tuesday and Saturday, and on Sunday and Wednesday at Nadi for the southbound flights.

Qantas Fri. service ex-Sydney connects with BOAC London service at San Francisco (dep. Sat.).

BOAC service ex-London Mon. connects at San Francisco Tues. with southbound Qantas service.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Thurs.: Sydney (dep. 1 p.m.), Auckland, Nadi, Honolulu, Vancouver (then on to Amsterdam).

Every Sat.: Dep. Amsterdam at 11 p.m. for Vancouver (dep 1.30 p.m. Sun.), Honolulu, Nadi, Auckland and Sydney. (Note; Crosses International Dateline en route.)

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea By Qantas Empire Airways (Super-Constellations) NORTHBOUND First Class Tues. & Sat. Arr 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Wed. & Sun. Arf Brisbane. 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby,^ a.m Pt. Moresby-, 7 a.m. Eac, 8.20 a.m.

First & Tourist Class Mon and Fri.t Arr Sydney, 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 1145 p.m Tues - Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby. 6 a.m Arr.

Pt. Moresby-, 7 a.m. Eae, 8.20 a.m t New service commencing Novem er First & Tourist Class Thurs.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.15 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 11.15 pm. Townsville, 2.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 3.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6a m Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae. 8.20 a.m Wed.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 4.15 p.m.

Dep.

Pt. Moresby, 5.15 p.m. (for Manila, Hongkong and Tokyo).

SOUTHBOUND First & Tourist Fri.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*, 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 am. 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.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*. 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby. 11.30 a.m. Brisbane. 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.45 p.m. Sydney, 7.45 p.m- First and Tourist Class Tues. and Sat.t Dep Arr.

Lae*, 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep Arr.

Pt Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane. 4.45 p.m.

Den. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.45 pm. Sydney, t New service commencing November 7.

Thurs Arr.

From Tokyo, Hong- Pt. Moresby, 8.45 a.m. kong and Manila Den Arr ' pt. Moresby. 10.15 a.m. Sydney, 5 p.m. • Between Lae and Port Moresby passengers are carried in DC4 aircraft. pt moresby-cairns-townsville-

Pt. Moresby

Douglas DC4. Dep. Por <; Moresby Sun. 12 15 n m arr. Cairns 3.05 p.m., dep.

Calrns P 3 50 p.m., arr. Townsville 8 p.m..

Mon. 9.15 a m arr Cairns 10.25 a.m., dep. Cairns 11.15 a.m., arr.

Port Moresby 2.05 p.m. 3. P NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas LAE-HOLLANDIA (Neth. New Guinea) (DCS) A „, Wad '(Oct.2B.NOV. lI^DCC. (Oct. 29. NOV. 12. 26. Dec. 10,e c), dep. 3.50 p.m.

Port Moresbt-K.Kor.-Ba.Mord

Balmuru Kerema. Yule Is. (Oct. 20.

Nov. 3, 17, Dec. 1). 159 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

PORT MORESBY-KIKORI (DH Otter) Via Yule Is., Balmuru: Alt. Tues. returning same day (Oct. 27, Nov. 10, 24, Dec. 8, etc.).

Via Kerema, Baimuru. Kikori. Baimuru: Alt Thurs. (Oct 22. Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 3, etc.), ret. via Baimuru, Kokori, Kerema the following day (Oct. 23, Nov. 6, 20, Dec. 4. etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Via Baimuru: Alt. Thurs. returning same day via Balimo (Oct. 22. Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 3, etc.).

Via Kerema, Baimuru: Alt. Wed. (Oct. 28.

Nov. 11, 25, Dec. 9, etc.), returning alt.

Fri. (Oct. 30, Nov. 13. 27. Dec. 11 etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter) Port Moresby, Abau, Samarai each Mon., departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day Alt. Wed.; Port Moresby, Samarai, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (Oct. 21. Nov. 4, 18, Dec 2 etc.).

Alt. Sat.: Port Moresby, Samarai, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (Oct. 17. 31. Nov. 14, 28, etc.).

Alt. Sac.: Port Moresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning same day (Oct. 24, Nov. 7, 21.

Dec. 5. etc.).

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak. Manus, Kavieng Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Kavieng.

Manus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

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

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

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Fri.: Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Balyer River, calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R„ Kainantu.

Arrival back at Lae dependent on stops made.

Lower Highlands

(DH Otter) Fri.: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, calling at any of Nadzab, Qusap, Aiyura, Rintebe, Kainantu, Goroka, Arena. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau

(DH Otter) Mon.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m., arr. Wau 8.10 a.m.

Mon.: Dep. Wau 8.25 a.m., via Bulolo, arr.

Lae 9.25 a.m.

Wed.. Sat.: Dep. Lae 8.30 a.m., arr. Wau 9.10 a.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Wau 9.25 a.m., via Bulolo, arr. Lae 10.25 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo (Dcs)

Wed., Sun.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.20 a.m., arr. Bulolo 8.30 a.m.

Wed.. Sun.: Dep. Bulolo 8.50 a.m., arr.

Wau 9.05 a.m., dep. Wau 9.35 a.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 10.40 a.m.

Madang-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Mon.. Thurs.: 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 8.05 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-Madang

(DCS) Tues. 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., Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Finschhafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Tues., Fri.: Dep.. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finschhafen 11.30 a.m.. Rabaul arr. 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. (Oct. 29, Nov. 12. 26, Dec. 10, etc.).

Rabaul-Hoskins-Rabaul (Dcs)

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 10 a.m., via Jacquinot Bay. arr. Hoskins 11.05 a.m.. dep. Hoskins 11.30 a.m.. arr. Rabaul 12.35 p.m. (Oct. 22. Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 3, etc.).

Services By Mandated Airlines

(Scheduled flights with DCS Aircraft) Mon.: Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka.

Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7 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 Goroka, Madang. Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul. Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae Thurs.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Fri.; Dep. Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng.

Rabaul—remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for Kavieng. Momote, Wewak. Madang.

Goroka, Lae.

LAE-HOLLANDIA (By NNG Airlines) De Kroonduif NV (Netherlands New Guinea Airlines) maintains a fortnightly service between Hollandia. Biak and Lae with Dakota DC3 aircraft. The airline is a private company operated with the assistance of the Dutch Government. 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 calls at Biak (NNG) and Manila (Philippines).

DCS aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, Lae (see above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah. Manokwarl, Noemfoer 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 DCS Aircraft Every Monday depart Lae 6 a.m.; Rabaul.

Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSD, arriving 5 p.m.

Every Tuesday depart Honiara 7 a.m.: Yandina. Munda. Buka, Rabaul. Lae, arriving 3.45 p.m. 6. Paris-Saigon-Brisb Noumea-NZ-Fiji-Papes By Transports Aeriens Intercom* DC6B aircraft depart Paris every y Athens, Cairo, Karachi, Saigon, ,i Darwin, Brisbane.

Nadi, Bora Bora. Transfer 1 boat for flight to Papeete. on return flight (calling at i every Sat. 7. Sydney-lord Howe By Ansett Flying Boat Services i with Sandringham Flying-bd Return flight usually each Tues Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk By Qantas, with SkymastoJ Alt. Fri. (Oct. 23, Nov. 6. J Dep. Sydney midnight, arr. . a.m. Sat.; dep. NI 5.30 p.m. i for Sydney, arr. 9.30 p.m. iH tends Nl-Auckland-NI. See below). 9. Sydney-Noume© By Qantas, with Skymaste: Dep. Sydney alt. Wed. 11.45 Noumea 7 a.m. Thurs. Dep..< 8.30 a.m, same day arr. Sydner Service operates from Sydneyy 28, Nov. 11, 25, etc., depart)!

NC the following day in eachri 10. New Caledonia-M Hebrides TAI with DCS Aircraft i Mon. and Fri.; Dep. Tontouta I at 7 a.m.. arr. Vila 9.15 a..i Vila 9.45 a.m . arr. Santo dep. 12.30 p.m., arr. Vila l.r dep. 2.15 p.m., arr. Tontouta * 11. New Caledonia-H Wallis Is.

TAI with DCS Aircraft Dep. Noumea 6 a.m. second Tuu month (Nov. 10. Dec. 8, etd Wallis Is. (via Nadi, Fiji) at 3C dep. Wallis 7 a.m. followiraj (Nov. 16, Dec. 14. etc.), arr. . (via Nadi) 2.45 p.m. same day..\ 12. Norfolk Is.-Aucklii TEAL, by Qantas (Charter!

Alt. Sat. (Oct. 24, Nov. 7, 21, Dec..; Return flight Norfolk (dep.

Auckland (arr. 11.45 a.m., db p.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4.15 p.m.r Table 8 above). 13. Auckland-Sydnes Tasman Empire Airways, will' DC6 aircraft Daily except Sat.: Dep. Auckland 9.6 arr. Sydney 1.15 p.m.

Tues. Thurs., Fri., Sun.: Dep. S;S p.m., arr. Auckland 9.55 p.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10 a.K.

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Christchurch-Sydney an Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft p Christchurch 5 p.m., arr. 8.35 p.m.

Christchurch 7.45 p.m., arr. 11.20 p.m. ir.: Dep. Sydney 8 a.m.. arr. lurch 3.05 p.m. iristchurch-Melbourne an Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft ep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr. ne 9.35 p.m.

Melbourne 10.15 a.m., arr. lurch 5.50 p.m.

Auckland-Melbourne ian Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft i. Auckland 8 a.m., arr. Mel- -1 p.m. p. Melbourne 2.30 p.m., arr. id 10.15 p.m.

YlelbourneAuckland- Nadi (Fiji) sman Empire Airways, with »er Constellation aircraft chartered from Qantas . Melbourne 7 a.m., arr. Auckp.m.. dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m., di 9.30 p.m. Return, same route, ig day. his service connects with Qantas 7 jet service from Sydney to New Zealand-Fiji mpire Airways, with Super DC6 nd Qantas Super Constellations d.. Sat.: Dep. Auckland 4 p.m., idi 9 p.m. i.; Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m., arr. id 3.30 p.m. ep. Nadi 10.30 a.m., arr. Auck- -45 p.m. ay flights ex - Auckland, and flights ex-Nadi are operated by der charter to TEAL. merican Airways, with DC4. i. Auckland 5,45 p.m., arr. Nadi Dep. Nadi, 5.10 a.m., arr. Auck- !. 55 p.m. idditional services from Auckland on Oct. 27, Nov. 3; and from Auckland on Oct. 26, Nov. 2. 19. Fiji-W. Samoa nan Empire Airways, with Solent Flying-boats alt. Thurs., 9 a.m., crosses Date- ,rr. Satapuala (Western Samoa) .55 p.m. ipuala Mon. at 8 a.m., crosses ic, arr. Suva Tues. 10.55 a.m. /a Oct. 29, Nov. 12, 26, Dec. 10, lep. Apia: Nov. 2. 16, 30, Dec. i.) . American Samoa- Hawaii* i American Airways, with 8377 aircraft Dep. Tafuna (Am. Samoa) 9.30 irr Honolulu 10.20 p.m. 161 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY—OCTOBER,

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Tafuna (Am. Samoa) 7 40 a.m. (Thurs.). * Note: Northbound service commenced Oct. 2; southbound service Sept. 30. 21. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva 9 a.m. alt. Thurs.. crosses International Dateline, arr. Satapuala (W.

Samoa; 1.55 p.m. Wed.; dep. Satapuala 2 a.m. Thurs.. arr. Aitutaki (Cook Is.) 7.30 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 9.30 a.m. arr.

Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m. Services dep.

Suva Oct. 29, Nov. 12, 26, Dec. 10, etc.

Dep Papeete 7.30 am. alt. 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 Nov. 1, 15 29 Dec. 13, etc. 22. Fiji Internal Airways Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights dailymorning and afternoon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva; One flight daily.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Matei, Taveuni) ■ One flight—Mon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Savusavu): One flight—Mon., Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Suva-Ura (Taveuni)-Suva (via Savusavu) - One flight—Wed.

Suva-Ura-Suva: One flight—Thurs. Sun Suva-Matei-Suva: One flight—Sat Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: One flight— Tues.

Suva - Matei - Labasa - Matei - Savusavu - Suva: One flight—Fri. 23. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Transports Aeriens (TRANSPAC), with Heron and Rapide aircraft.

Noumea-Mare: Tues. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., arr 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.

Kounle, noon).

Noumea-Koumac: Mon.. Sat. (dep. Noumea 1 p.m., dep. Koumac 4 p.m.); Wed. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., dep. Koumac 5 p.m.). Note: On this flight a call will be made at Plaine des Gaiacs if required. 24. French Polynesia Inter- Island Service Reseau Aerien Interinsulaire with flying-boats Thrice weekly service to the Leeward Group.

Wed.: Papeete (dep. 7.30 a.m.), Huahine, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Raiatea, Papeete (arr. 4 p.m.).

Sat.; Papeete (dep. 7 a.m ), Raiatea, Bora Bora (arr. 8.45 p.m.), Papeete (arr 11.30 a.m.), Papeete (dep. 3.30 p.m.), Bora Bora (arr. 4.45 pm.).

Fri.: Bora Bora (dep. 7.30 a.m.), Raiatea, Papeete (arr. 9.30 a.m ).

Booking agents in Tahiti: Messageries Maritimes, Quai Bir Hakeim. Papeete. 25. Hawaii-American Samoa Trans Ocean Airways Every second Wednesday, a Boeing Stratocruiser operated by Trans Ocean Airways, of Honolulu, Hawaii, makes a return flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago (American Samoa). 26. Samoan Inter-Island Service Samoan Airlines Limited, with DCS Viewmaster Return flights twice daily, except Thurs.. from Tafuna (American Samoa) to Faleolo (Western Samoa).

Dep. Tafuna 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m.; arr.

Faleolo 10.15 a.m., 3.15 p.m.

Dep Faleolo 10.45 a.m., 3.45 p.m.; arr.

Tafuna 11.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m.

Fare £S4/4/- single, £S7 return. Agent at Apia; Peter Plowman. 27. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airways Using Grumman Albatross twin-motored amphibious flying-boats, TOA operates a service throughout the Trust Territory of Micronesia on behalf of the US Government. Details from Trans Ocean Airways Agana, Guam.

A volcano on pipe-shaped Normamby Island, Eastern Papua, erupted on September 19, belching harms and smoke for a week.

Exchange BANK and BANK OF NZ. Aust)?

Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £i: Selling, £AII3. Fiji-London, bass London: B. £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. . basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; s. £ SAMOA—Through BANK OF M tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO C FlJl.—Through BANK OF NS ?

B. £ A123/12/6; S. £124/10/9.

London, basis £lOO London: B.

S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £ B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-F* £lOO Samoa; B. £111; S. £llO.

NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth d quotes exchange rate Australia * Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth

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Abridged Prospectus

Pacific Island Mines Limited

(Incorporated in the Territory of Papua) AUTHORISED CAPITAL: £500,000 Issued Capital: 866 Ordinary Shares of £5 each, £4,330.

Now offered for Public Subscription: 5,000 Ordinary Shares of £5 each, £25,000.

Minimum Amount on which Directors may proceed to allotment, £15,000.

Held in Reserve; 94,134 Shares of £5 each, £470,670.

ISSUE. Pacific Island Mines Limited has been formed to prospect, explore develop c Ploit the mineral resources of the South West Pacific Area, including Australia. study of a number of prospects, the Company has decided to launch its operations by. known to exist on the Island of Misima, situated in the Territory of some 650 miles North East of Cairns, Queensland Pnrifu? ll hTT suc cessfully carried on at Misima up to the commencement of hostilitier Pacific during World War II and gold to the order of £3,000,000 was produced.

Company is convinced that the Misima deposits have a large potential and that there are distin pects of founding a profitable mining industry on the Island. aC oo C Islands Mines Limited is in possession of an Exclusive Prospecting Licence over an area of mately 22 square miles, covering the principal mineralised regions on the Island. Included in the area £ by the licence are approximately 101 acres held under Gold Mining Lease Applications. r-. submitted to the Department of Lands, Surveys and Mines, Territory of Pap Guinea, all technical data then in its hands and suggested that Misima Island warranted a geological and geo survey by the Bureau of Mineral Resources, a division of the Commonwealth Department of National I merit. • Tvf oll ?i^ ing this suggestion, the Bureau of Mineral Resources commenced a geological survey of Misimn in May this year. The survey will include areas in which this Company is interested and will be comp:: approximately six months. The object of the survey is to establish the regional geological setting of tJ and so provide a reliable basis for subsequent exploration. Reports on this survey will be made avails mediately upon completion to this Company and v will be of the utmost value to its field programme Application has been made to the Department of Lands, Surveys and Mines at Port Moresby, to cs; a detailed programme of diamond and churn drilling on behalf of this Company. , S°ld lodes at Misima Island are the largest and most extensive yet discovered in Papua-New v and if the outcome of the exploratory work programmed is successful, and full scale mining operatioc undertaken in due course, the field could assume an importance ranking with the most profitable undea in Australia and its Territories. advance in the efficiency of earth moving equipment in recent years is fully rec* It is known that large areas are available for mechanised open cut mining. It is intended during the exp} work to determine the actual sites for this type of mining. Mechanised methods were never employed vious operators on the Island.

DIRECTORS: GEORGE WILLARD NOE, B.Sc.C.E. {University of Montana, U.S.A.), Civil Engineer, Chairman, Herbert Avenue, Newport, NORMAN ARTHUR KINGSBURY WALLIS, Timber and Forestry Executive, “Trees”, Plateau Road, Avalon, N-S.W.

ERNEST ROY HUDSON, 8.A.. LL.B., Company Director, 16 O’Connell Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

RUPERT VICTOR BRIERLEY. F.A.S.A.. Management Consultant, 18 Corona Avenue, Roseville, N.S.W.

KEITH HAMILTON WATERHOUSE. Company Director, “Rawdoncroft”, 28 Collins Road, St. lyes, N.S.W.

BROKERS TO THE ISSUE: Messrs Leslie D, Philips and Kitchen, 13-15 O’Connell Street, Sydney. (Underwriters of the Subscription of 3,000 shares.) BANKERS: The Bank of New South Wales, King and George Streets, Sydney.

For Prospectus And Application Forms (Free

and post free) call or write to PACIFIC ISLAND MINES LIMITED, 117 Pitt Street, Sydney.

The Secretary, Pacific Island Mines Limited, 117 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Please forward me, without cost or obligation, copy of your Prospectus.

NAME ADDRESS STATE The requirements of the Companies Acts relating to Pro have not been fully complied with in this Abridged Prospeo applications will proceed only upon one of the forms of aif annexed to a printed copy of the full Prospectus which October 19, 1959. A copy of the full prospectus has been registration with the Registrar-General of the State of Net Wales. The Registrar-General takes no responsibility as to o tents.

Copies of the full Prospectus to which forms of applicto attached may be obtained from the Registered Office of the 0 117 Pitt Street, Sydney, the Underwriters, Messrs. Leslie DI and Kitchen, 13-15 O’Connell Street, Sydney, or the Registers in Port Moresby C/o Messrs-. E. A. James and Co., Cuthbertsoo Port Moresby. 164 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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FIJI Branch: McGowan Building, Thomson Street, Suva.

C. H. Cornish, Manager. cific Commerce and Produce 'earch For i's Gold: oated about three years of effort, it appears that th Waterhouse (one of terhouse family which n identified with New n past years) has floated ; company for the dent of what are believed irge gold deposits (reef) sima Island, Eastern EN 1888 (when gold was jvered there) and 1942 m the Jap invasion forced n), three active companies [i n g Freddie Cuthbert’s lonanza) and innumerable , took about £3 millions of of the heavily forested, lous, 100-s quare-m i 1 e s ; interests tried to return 3 war; but the available sre not high-grade, the g system had collapsed, and icreased costs prevented a search for the re-discovery de. for Mr. H. Gladstone, still there, the field has been >d since 1951.

G. Palmer, a competent mgineer, after lengthy inms in 1956 and 1958, said •e are three very promising ring areas on the island, >f investigation. >ert view is that, under deit, this could become one lost extensive goldfields in i and the South Seas, ue of 5,000 ordinary shares of £5 each by Pacific Islands Mines Ltd. has been underwritten by Leslie D. Phillips and Kitchen, Sydney sharebrokers; and the money will be used for investigation and preliminary development.

The Australian Government’s Bureau of Mineral Resources has been conducting a geological survey on Misima since May, 1959; and Pacific Islands Mines will carry on from there.

If the preliminary operations show that the mass of ore is rich enough for profitable operation, the Co. will go back to the public for funds for large-scale development and mining.

The directors are George Willard Noe, an American civil engineer: N. A. K. Wallis, a timber and forestry expert; R. V. Brierley, a management consultant, and E. R.

Hudson and Keith Waterhouse, company directors.

The Co. has the goodwill and cooperation of the Administration, which is anxious to re-establish bigscale gold-mining in Papua.

Bigger Profit For The W. R. Carpenter Group Nowadays, the numerous interests of the W. R. Carpenter companies lead into W.

R. Carpenter Holdings Ltd., registered in Canberra and regarded as a first-class investment stock.

This company, representing the whole group of Australian and Islands companies, showed a profit of £738,586 in the year ended June 30 last. As this represents an increase of over £200,000 over the 1958 profit (£517,907), it may be assumed that the group is doing very well The dividend goes up from IDA to 12/ 2 per cent.

That profit was shown after providing no less than £459,666 for taxation.

The Carpenter activities cover a very wide range—trading, planting, shipping, air transport, copra crushing, brewing, insurance —in fact, there are few industrial fields which the big organisation does not touch at, some point or other.

Enterprise Production The mine manager of Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development, NL, reported at end of September that the batteries of the company’s mine in the Wau-Bulolo area had crushed 90 tons of In Suva in September were Mr. N. M. Chokshi, left, general manager of the Bank of Boroda Ltd., Bombay, and Mr. B. L.

Paranjape, head of the Bank's foreign department, here seen with Fiji's Colonial Secretary.

Mr. p. D. MacDonald (second from left) and Mr. G. K. Han (right) well-known Suva businessman. 165 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

Sydney Sales Pricer

Sept. 8 Burns Phllp .... 99/9 Burns Phllp (SS) . . 63/6 C.S.R £67/10/-* Dylup Plantations 26/- Hackshalls 57/- Kauri Timber .... 21/- Kerema Rubber . , . 7/6 Koitakl 22/- Lolorua 11/6 Mariboi 8/- Norfolk Is, Whaling 4/8 Queensland Insurance 78/6 Rubberlands .... 6/3 Sthn. Pac. Insurance 19/- Steamships Trading . 73/- W. R. Carpenter Hold. 24/- Timor Oil 6/2

Oil And Mining Sharh

FIJI July 9. *58 Sept. 8 Emperor . b5/» s7/9 Loloma . . — b41/9

Papua-New Guinea

Bulolo . . . b35/s40/- N.G.G. Ltd. bl/9Va s2/3 Oil Search b2/6 S6/6 Ent. of N.O. b7d n.q.

Papuan Apln bed b3/5 do. opt. . bSVad bl/6 Placer Dev. b86/6 blOO/- § Sandy Creek b4d n.q. ore for a recovery of 50 oz of retorted gold. Five working days had been lost when a battery had to be repaired.

During the month, work on drives from Nos. 1, la and 2 levels continued. Retimbering to 35 ft. in No. 2 level was accomplished, reef in this latter section showing good values.

NG Twist Tobacco To Earn 10 Per Cent.

Pacific Tobacco and Development, Ltd., of Madang, New Guinea, is making an issue of 131,096 ordinary 5/- shares to the public. If they are all taken up, issued capital of the company will be £50,000.

The issue will be underwritten by Lionel A. McFadyen and Co. of the Sydney Stock Exchange. According to the prospectus, an annual 10 per cent, dividend is expected from now on, in spite of the fact that since the company began operations in 1956 trading losses amounting to over £15,000 have been sustained.

The company makes black twist “trade” tobacco and some of ready-rubbed type for the native trade. Like all new industries, it had its teething troubles.

Production did not begin until mid-1957 and for the first 12 months the factory at Madang was equipped with only two twisting machines, natives had to be trained to work them and there was continuing experimentation to obtain the right mixture for the made-up twist.

Proceeds of the present issue of shares will be used to lift production to 70 tons of twist tobacco per annum.

About 190 tons of trade tobacco are imported into Papua-New Guinea in a year —which means that if local production were boosted to 70 tons per annum that would represent a fair share of the business.

In the past, several attempts have been made to manufacture trade tobacco in the Territory but all failed because they were unable to produce a tobacco that appealed to the palate of native customers who are as fussy about their twist as Australians are about their beer.

The Madang factory product, however, seems to have overcome most of the prejudice. Its difficulties have been through insufficient capital.

Most of the tobacco used is imported from America but part of the original plan of the company was to eventually grow at least a portion of the leaf locally.

Koitaki Pays Even Bigger Dividend Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, Ltd., profit for the year ending June 30, 1959, was at £28,986, £B,OOO more than in the previous year. Dividend has been raised from 22 V 2 per cent, in 1957-58 to 35 per cent, which will require all but £2,600 of the year’s net profit.

Koitaki’s profit for the year under review is tax free. If the company makes the same profit next year, something like £5,600 will be swallowed up in company taxation; Territory shareholders will also be taxed on their dividends.

Burns Philp Bonus Shares This Month The Burns Philp one-for-five bonus issue of 1,000,000 20/- shares, announced some months ago in chairman James Burns’s report to the annual general meeting, will be made to shareholders on October 31.

This will bring BP issued capital to £6,000,000 —with about £9,000,000 of reserves also working in the business.

Shareholders of the company will meet in an extraordinary general meeting on October 22 to authorise the doubling of the nominal capital to £lO million; and to approve the issue of the bonus shares.

Economic Outlook ONE recent trend of Australian retail business has been the desertion of inner city areas for suburban shopping centres. According to the prognostications of some sections of this trade, the city in a few years will become a veritable desert and a great many department stores are grasping time by the forelock and establishing bigger and better edifices in outer areas.

The city toiler has, so far, not noticed this blight on the inner area; it is just as difficult as ever to get a bun and a dish of tea at lunch time; or to get service in a store. And there seems to be far too many women in Australian cities who have nothing better to do than “go into town”. Still, if retail business says that it is being strangled, it no doubt knows what it is talking about. The trend away from the city is due to the sprawl of Australian cities in post-war years; the new attractiveness of suburban shopping centres; the discomfort and high cost of public transport: and the impossibility of getting parking space in the city, in spite of the installation of parking-meters in every conceivable place. The inner city traffic problem in Sydney is not likely to be helped by the latest brain-storm of Mayor Jensen who says that people who bring cars into the city should pay a road toll.

In Australia the thinking of all government and semi-government thinking is conditioned by the belief that all motorists are plutocrats and that they use their cars for the sole purpose of creating a nuisance. Tolls on the road won’t help reduce congestion or help inner city business men, although, like meters, they would boost revenue. Some big department stores are already tackling their oo ing problems. Sydney’s and Sons, Ltd. (which recently its down-town cousin, Hordern BiS announced that it plans to proviv ing for customers in its Brickhi store.

Meantime, though city retail tt its troubles, business generally quin tinues to go on booming. Indejs ordinary shares reached an all-tiof 298.61 on October 8.

Islands Prod

(Unless otherwise stated, qnotat In Australian currency. Aust. i approximately 16/- Stg., NZ.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Soli WPHC areas; 168 Pac. Frs.; SUS » COPRA The British Ministry of Foodb Contract, which governed Copn in Papua and New Guinea, Fiji, , Samoa. Solomon Islands, and GIIIJ Ellice Colony (and. to some ex Tonga and Cook Islands) explredJ cember 31, 1957; since when eao tory has made its own arrangenn collection and marketing of copu

Papua - New Guinea;—Aii Pn

is delivered to Copra Marketing; controlled by six members, includii planters’ representatives: and thi directs distribution and sales, am payments to the producers. Pr.' goes mainly to (a) Unilever (unr tract covering 1959), (b) Austrgr local consumption) and (c) cruste in Rabaul, Prices generally arraaccordance with ruling rate in PM market, with premiums for hot-as From July 1, 1959. P-NGC Board announced “Tentative Prioi copra delivered main ports: Hot-A* £A72/10/- per ton; FMS, £A7I Smoke-Dried, £A7O per ton.

FIJI;—No Government control—pq sell where they wish. Bulk of cojc Mr. Bruce Roach, sales manager for the Vacuum Oil Company, Pacific Islands branch, who has been appointed district manager for New Caledonia. He succeeds Mr. John Malloy, now Pacific Islands branch manager. Mr. Roach is well known in the Pacific where he has supervised field work for Vacuum in P-NG, New Caledonia and Fiji. 166 OCTOBER, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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• Armstrong Siddeley Diesel Engines

• Ajax Liquid Alarm Relays

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for all plantation, farm, trade requirements and Distributors merchandise. Qh u and ot her produce Highest Prices obtained for Cocoa, Coffee, Shell handled on consignment f w ,„ over 55 Write direct to ° Ur experience in the Islands.

CABLES* VENTUR*| S Y D N E Y ig-mlll In Suva, whose price Suva, is announced each week. prices were: HAD, £F77/7/6, B; FM2. £F74/15/-.

ER N SAMOA:—Official Copra eives all production, and sells makes payments to producers, (portion goes to Unilever, at [ FM grade rates, plus pre- , to £S3 per ton for hot- Prices announced in March, •air dried, £867/13/8 per ton; No. 1. £S6S/3/8; sun-dned 51/13/8.

Sales are under Government irt of production goes to Europe, ■angement with Unilever con- Phlllpplnes prices, and part n market. )NS:—All production marketed (fflclal Copra Board, at prices Philippines market. Price de- October; Ist grade. £A80; 2nd i. 78; 3rd grade, £A74, per ton, p ports.

T AND ELLlCE:—Production In Europe through official Copra t prices based on Philippines s “stabilisation fund” charges, )A —Producers receive 6 cents lb. or £ A6O/5/- approx, per long iodic bonus, if average proceeds -vt. buying price and expenses. [EBRIDES: —Price rose in Sepid was approximately £A62/10/elivered Vila/Santo on September tober 2. price was 123,000 Metrop. r metric ton, c.i.f. Marseilles.

IS /NIUE/TOKELAU: Subject to sions of the copra contract beie Cook Islands-Niue-Tokelaus and Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, ate the only New Zealand copra mill, the price for the second 359 has been fixed at £NZBS/8/9 ; Grade, and £NZB4/3/9 for Grade, per ton, in sacks, f.o.b. i/Niue/Apia. w price represents the average price for the first half of 1959. is method of price fixing, these s do not receive the benefit of antial price rise until six months ich explains the substantial rise incture. The previous prices were /6 and £NZ69/0/6 respectively, the contract, if the average FM Philippines copra, as fixed twice ,y the Spot Price Fixing Comf the London Copra Association per cent, either way, the Seller event of an increase, and the the event of a decrease, has the ask for a new contract figure.

Other Produce

t: —islands prices are based on the Ghana cocoa which, on Oct. 7, tg. 256/5/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

IMOA;—Nominal price quoted in >n Oct. 7, £ 5265 f.0.b., Apia, grade 5, grade 2. k: Oct. 8, £ A3lO ex-wharf, EE:—P.-N.G. October 7. good A grade, per lb, 4/4 to 4/6; B 4/2 to 4/4; C grade, 4/- to 4/3, r dney. rly Oct., price quoted for Tanga- K grade was £Stg.4oo; B grade, 5; Undergradings, £Stg.26s, all i and c.i.f.. Sydney. Uganda Ro- -5 offering at approx. £Stg.lB7/10/rdney.

UTS: P.-N.G., Oct. 8, kernels: Spanish, 1/7 lb; Virginia Bunch, Cingaroy Peanuts Board recently I price of kernels by 2d per lb.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which Oct. 6 had dropped to: No. 1 RSS. spot, 99 5 8 Straits cents per lb - (34.75 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported Oct. 7: Tahiti beans, new season, white and yellow label, processed, standard packs, 90/-, green label, 88/-, c.i.f., Sydney. (Australian):-Price from May 1. 1959 _ P .. N . G . : Dry broW n and dressed. n 2 ib bags. 5 tons and over, £6l/10/per ton fQW . 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 er ton f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

Fiji.—:Locally-growi a rice ha;s beien re taUing in Suva at lid Fijian per lb, with Saigon imported rice at lOd Fijian per lb. Suva people regard the imported rice as inferior to the Fiji product. pearl SHELL.—Quotations in Oct. by independent M.O.P shell agents were; Sound £ABOO, D £A6OO, E £A275. EE £A2OO (in store Sydney). (Prices were firm on above rates I. Penrhyn £ stg.4oo (nominal), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Manihiki lagoon will remain closed this year. Unless the reported plan to transf e r Manihiki divers to Suwarrow atoll to dive for black-lip M.O.P. eventuates, only limited quantities of pearl shell will be on offer from the Cook Is. this year.

TROCHUS.—Price fell recently and there i S little demand. Nominal price c.i.f.

Sydney Oct. 6 £A265. In Fiji early Oct.. trochus was being bought at 1/9 Fijian per lb (equal to £FI96 per ton. in store.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.-Because of a dem and from Japan price has risen to £A375 per ton and is firm. P-N-G. and B .g.i. shell is in short supply. One Sydney agent, 1.C.E.P., 299 Kent St., says he could place a quantity of second and third grade.

London and US Quotations Copra: London, Oct. 6, Philippines, in bulk. $265 per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European port. Straits/Borneo, FMS, delivered weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European port, £ Stg.94. New York, Oct. 6. Philippines, $240, c.i.f., Pacific coast port. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.25 US Dollars.) Coconut Oil: London, Oct. 6, Ceylon, in bulk, £Stg.l47 per ton, c.i.f., UK/North European port. Straits crude, £Stg.l36/10c.i.f.

Rubber: London, c.i.f., Oct. 6, RSS No. 1 32%d Stg. per lb; Oct.-Nov.. 28%d Stfi..: Scot ioro, 29 J / 4 d Stg.

Pearling Fleet

Reaches Quota

The Taiyo Fisheries Company’s motherof-pearl shell fisheries fleet, which commenced operations in the Arafura Sea in mid-June—it left Japan on May 26—was expected to reach its 1959 quota of 375 tons of shell by late September or early October.

The fleet, owned by Japan’s largest ocean fishing organisation, this year consisted of a mother ship and 11 diving vessels. The quota is negotiated between Australia and Japan each season pending settlement of a long-term dispute whereby Australia claims the right to control pearl fisheries on her continental shelf but beyond her territorial waters In 1958 the actual take of shell by the Taiyo fleet was 274 tons. 167 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER,

,4 n/aM CadhM^ \ K Ml L • . . because there Is a glass and a half of pure, fresh, full-cream milk in every half pound of Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate MD2S/2FC/9 Index to Advertt A.E.I 134 Akta-Vite .... 56 Angliss, W. & Go. 138 A.N.Z. Bank ... 55 Aust. Canvas . . 218 Arnott, Wm. ... 72 Aspro 90 A. 62 Ballina Slipway . 104 BALM Paints . . 78 Bank of NSW . . 126 Berec Lto* 80 Bethel I, Gwyn . 157 Blaxland-Rae . . 107 Blits Trading Co. . 36 B. 158 Book, The, Centre 91 Boroko Hotel . .148 Bradford Mills . . 94 Braybon Bros. 3, 52 Bristol Myers . 150 British Aluminium 34 British Paints . . 16 British United Dairies . . . .124 Brunton & Co. . 127 Bunting, A. H. . 78 Bush. W. J. . . .90 B. 39, 89, 98, 153 Cadbury .... 168 Carlton Breweries 44, Carpenter Ltd. cov. 4, 54, 112, 128 Certina Kurth . . 58 Colgate 38 Colonial Meat . . 92 Colyer Watson . . 42 C'wealth Bank . . 48 Crammond Co. . . 50 C. Co. . . . 162 Cystex 73 Defender Co. . . 163 Detroit Finance Corp. Ltd. . . 149 Dingley Dell Turkey Farm .... 135 Donald Ltd. . .136 Douglass, W. Co. 79 Dunlop Rubber . . 52 Econo Steel ... 14 Eveready .... 12 Filmo Depot ... 97 Franke & Heidecke 70 Frigate Rum . . 107 Garrett, D". & M. 165 Gardner E'ng. . . 108 Gillespie Bros. . . 70 Gilbey, W. & A. . 144 Gillespie, R. . 1, 118 Glaxo Lab. ... 71 Gokal, D. & Co. . 123 Gordon's Gin . . 129 G.P.H. (Suva) . . 156 Grant's Whisky . 119 Grove Ltd. . 56, 106 Halvorsen, B. . . 106 Hardman & Hall . 64 Hari, G. B. . . . 40 Hastings Diesels 110, 132 Hellaby Ltd. ... 59 Hemingway Robertson Institute . 60 Holbrooks ... 141 1.C.1 120 International Harvester ... 2 Johnson, Gus & Sons P/L . . . 35 Kanimbla Hall . . 97 Kanning Constructions Ltd. . . 147 Kerr Bros 135 Kiwi Polish . . 145 Kopsen & O Lissone Lindbi Lyte Ladders!

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Macßobertsdib Pty. Ltd. 1 Mendaco . « Millers Ltd..l M. H. Ltd. : Mungo Scotftt Nathan & V Nestles . . , N. Aust. I Nile Product*: Nixocitim . 2 N. & R. .

Ogden Indus?' Pacific Islam Mines . j Paike Davis _ Parker Pen v Philips . .

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P. I. Societyy Piccaninny Ml Pring Dean 8 Qantas . . \ Qld. Insuranm Ransomes, Si & Jeffries c Reid, R. & CD Rohu, Si I . , Scientific Seni Co Scott & Bovw A/sia. Ltd.fc Seward Ltd.

Shaw Savill .

Sheaffer Pen r Sisalcraft .

St. Mary's Soc Stapleton, J.. 1 S. P. Brewene Steamships In 1 Stewarts Llo’c Sthn. Pac. In:r Sullivan Ltd. .

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Weymark P/LJ Whites Aviatioi Wills Ltd. .

Wilhelmsen, MMN Woods, W. E.'.i Wright & Co.c Wrigley's . , Wunderlich .

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