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. 35. No. 8, August, 1964 This Issue lERAL sr Aviation Developments 5 slution in Pacific Churches 61, 116

[Rican Samoa

Day Drift Voyage 7 le Across Pago Bay 113 mpt on Governor's Life Alleged 115 )K ISLANDS srt Henry 11, 53 lifications for Elections 25 Islands of Tuanaki, Victoria .... 77 tonga Typhoid Outbreak 116 ■Rat Campaign 117

Fer Island

frip Seems Nearer 29 Air-India Service 5 Representative in Australia 7 iber System Working Well 10 •Diving Popular 32 apples for New Zealand 32 ’ Chief Justice 55 pendence for Methodist Church . 65 Bunkering System at Levuka .... 95 fy-at-Sea Inquiry 101 na Leaf Disease 113 e Figures 121 koula Mine Strike 122 rd Sugar Crop Expected 123 nal Currency Favoured 123

Ich Polynesia

ne in Tourism; Aviation Moves . 5 Day Drift Voyage 7 Spear Throw 25 :h Prime Minister's Visit 113

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Air Service Shatters Isolation 6 Christmas Island Base Closed 113

Kermadec Islands

Ornithological Expedition 23

Lord Howe Island

New Flying Boat 6 Bigger Tourist Boat Fleet 97 Cargo Handling Plan 101 NAURU Talks on Future 11 Honour for Jacob Aroi 59

New Caledonia

Seating Plan for 1966 Games . 57 SPC Tuberculosis Conference 115 Drought Cuts Nickel Production 121

New Hebrides

Spectacular Ship Fire 5 Reward for Discoverer of "Boussole" 7 Powerful Earthquake 23 Should Men be Called Boys? 27 Education on March 68 Record Swordfish Caught 95 Cattle Export Plan 113 New Vila Hotel Opened 115 First Advisory Council Election 117 Aviation Statistics 117 NIUE Library Plan 113 Do-It-Yourself Post Office 115

Norfolk Island

New Administrator Appointed 8 Council Election Results 9

Papua-New Guinea

More TAA, Ansett-ANA Services ... 6 New Interest in Misima Mine 8 New Hanover Cargo Cult 9 World Bank, Education Reports .... 11 Where Is Territory Heading? 13 Rabaul Police Strike 17 Naturalisation of Euronesians 27 US Airman Keeps His Promise 29 Justice for Coconut Casanova 79 "Stone Age Island" (New Book) 89 Formosan Trochus Poachers 95 Wharf Schemes at Daru, Lae 101 Assembly Budget Session 115 Army Developments 115,116 Workers' Rations 115 New Court Buildings 116 Big Cave Found 116 Port Moresby Water Rates Up 117 New Company Law 122 New Moresby Industries 122

Solomon Islands

Aerial Search for Minerals 43 Honiara Deep Water Berth 99 Govt; Printing Office Destroyed 113 New Cathedral at Gizo 118 Tour by High Commissioner 119 Logging Projects 122 TONGA More Air Services Likely 5 Hotel for Nukualofa 21 New Paper Criticised 21 Women's Conference in Nukualofa . 23 Eventful Days at Niuafo'ou 81 Giant Eel Drama 101

Western Samoa

School Fees Revoked 11 UN Expert's Bombshell on Education 45 Elvins Report Criticised 47 Changing Face of Apia 49 Heavy Rain in Apia 51 Banana Research Programme 51 American Drift Voyager 113 DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editor, 23; Tropicalities, 27; Territory Talk-Talk, 17; Magazine Section, 77; New Books, 87; Shipping, 95; In A Nutshell, 113; ’eople, 118; Commerce, 121; Deaths of Islands People, 127; Travel Talk, 129; Shipping and Airways Information, 132.

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Major Developments In

South Pacific Aviation

Aviation in the South Pacific reached an important milestone in July when Fiji Airways inaugurated a fortnightly service between Fiji and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.

IRE new service means that all major island groups in the South cific are now linked by air for the »t time.

The inauguration of the GEIC vice (full story next page) was one several significant developments in uth Pacific aviation in the last few eks. Others included; • The establishment of a weekly flight service between Nadi, Fiji, i Sydney by Air-India, which ans that South Pacific travellers i now go from Nadi to London a Madras and Bombay) without mging planes. (See story p. 129.) • A request by French Polynesia’s rritorial Assembly (parliament) to French Government asking that AL be allowed to re-establish its ckland-Papeete service because of sharp decline in revenue from irism in the French territory, • A visit to Tahiti by two top ntas officials, Messrs. C. O. Turner 1 A. A. Barlow, to look things ;r for the inauguration of a new ntas service to London via Tahiti, xico, the Bahamas and Bermuda, ich it is hoped to begin in Novem- . (Mr. Turner is the chief executive and general manager of Qantas, and Mr. Barlow is manager of the airline’s eastern division.) The decision by French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly to ask the French Government to allow TEAL to re-establish its Auckland-Papeete service was made after the local Director of Tourism, Mr. Gilloteau, had given the Assembly some disquieting statistics.

Mr. Gilloteau said that from the end of last year (when TEAL’s traffic rights in Tahiti were terminated) to May this year, the number of tourists visiting Tahiti had dropped by 15.76 per cent, compared with the same period last year.

Except for January, which showed an increase of 18 per cent, over 1963, every month had registered a decline—February, 7 per cent.; March, 36 per cent.; April, 19.36 per cent.; and May, 29.30 per cent.

Mr. Gilloteau said: “Although it seemed that one could expect more encouraging results in 1964 because of new air links with the United States, an unforseen factor confounded these predictions—the suppression of the weekly services of the New Zealand company (TEAL) after it had served Tahiti for a number of years.”

Councillor Drollet then moved that approaches be made to the French Government and the territory’s representatives in the French Parliament so that TEAL’s service could be reestablished.

After this motion was carried unanimously, Mr. Gilloteau said that Governor Aime Grimald had sent a “strong note” to the French Government some time ago urging that a new arrangement be made with TEAL in the interests of Tahiti.

It was a few days after this debate that Messrs, Turner and Barlow were in Tahiti in conjunction with the new Qantas service to London.

While there, they no doubt sounded out the possibility of the French Government restoring the full traffic rights to Qantas in Tahiti that were

Hotel May Bring More

Planes To Tonga

The start of work recently on Tonga's long-heralded hotel at Nukualofa (see story p. 21) will probably mean additional air services to Nukualofa when it is completed. The scheduled date of completion is the end of 1965.

It is understood that Tonga will bend most of its efforts to attract tourists towards America, which will probably mean a frequent Pan American air service from Pago Pago.

At present, Tonga's only air link is with Nausori, Fiji, by Fiji Airways Heron.

Spectacular Ship Fire The 257-ton New Hebrides trader “Sorana del Mar” was burnt to the waterline and became a total loss on July 14 after a cargo of 700 drums of petroleum caught fire about 12 miles off Espiritu Santo. The crew escaped in the ship’s boat. The burntout remains of ship, which belonged to Mr. Athol Rusden, of Vila, drifted ashore on Tutuba Island. —Tin Tin Photo. 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

withdrawn, along with TEAL’s, at the end of last year.

If these rights were restored, Qantas’ proposed service—with the “plums” of Mexico, the Bahamas and Bermuda—would be one of the most attractive in the world.

However, at the moment it seems unlikely that the French Government will restore these rights—unless the Australian Government is prepared to offer the French airline, UTA, an equally attractive slice of the Australian passenger cake. So when the new Qantas service begins, Tahiti will merely be a refuelling stop.

UTA’s view is that it can manage comfortably with its present Pacific arrangements without giving concessions to Qantas.

The opening of the new international jet airport at Auckland (Mangere) next year will step up the pace in South Pacific air services, with international airlines competing with each other across the Tasman and beyond.

Air-India, UTA, Pan American, BOAC, Qantas and TEAL will all eventually be fighting for air space through New Zealand. Various negotiations in and around the Pacific in the last 12 months have all been directed at gaining traffic rights in the South Seas as soon as Mangere is opened.

Two other developments in Pacific aviation in July were announcements that: • The two Australian airlines, Ansett-ANA and TAA, will increase their services to Papua-New Guinea in November because of growing traffic on this route. • Airlines of New South Wales will put a recently-acquired flyingboat into service on its Sydney-Lord Howe Island service in September.

Choice For Passengers Both Ansett-ANA and TAA will each increase their services from Sydney to Port Moresby and Lae to seven a week, and the fortnightly “Friendship” service from Northern Queensland to Papua will become a weekly service. TTiis means that P- NG passengers may choose to fly on daily Ansett or TAA aircraft instead of having to take the service offering.

The two airlines at present share the traffic by running on alternate days.

Airlines of New South Wales is converting a Sunderland flying-boat to Sandringham standards to go into service on the Sydney-Lord Howe route.

When the aircraft, as yet unnamed, goes into service, the flying-boat, Beachcomber, will be withdrawn for a complete overhaul.

Fiji Airways Shatters The Isolation Of The GEIC From Judy Tudor If the isolation of some of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony atolls still remains absolute, that of Funafuti and Tarawa was shattered on July 20-21 with the arrival of the first scheduled flight, operated by Fiji Airways.

FROM now on FA Heron planes will run on a fortnightly schedule from Nausori and Nadi, Fiji, to Tarawa, via Funafuti, Ellice Is., taking two days on the northbound flight (overnight at Funafuti); and returning over the same route in one day of 11 hours flying.

The whole distance, Suva-Tarawa, 1,400 nautical miles and the Funafuti- Tarawa hop of 600 nautical miles, is about the limit of a Heron’s range.

The plane carries 10 passengers and a crew of three—two pilots and an engineer who doubles as handerouter of lunch boxes and maker of countless cups of instant coffee.

Arrival of the first scheduled flight provided red-letter days for the people of Funafuti and (24 hours later) of Tarawa. Special, handsome stamps on first day covers commemorated the event.

FA did a smart piece of work in both places by giving sight-seeing courtesy flights to local elders and other leaders, in the afternoon of both days and as a result even those who were a bit doubtful about the whole business are now sold on air transportation.

The only trick to this seems to be that there’s a possibility in Funafuti, at least, that it might be locally considered that free junkets are part of regular airline procedure and not just first-day generosity! i A New Viewpoint Speeches at the welcome to crew and passengers hinted that now the elders had tried it out, flown, and found it good, the villagers would be more than happy if FA extended the good work on subsequent trips and treated everyone to a free flight.

For virtually all of them this had been their first time up and therefore their first chance to see their atoll, bird’s-eye fashion, in its entirety. Previously their view had been only from sea level—and from the sea an atoll can look substantial and even important. From the air it snaps back into perspective—a tiny sliver of land in the vastness of the ocean.

If only for the purpose of measi ing the insignificance of Pacific Islan against the size of the Pacific Oce the Suva-Tarawa exercise is w worth the effort.

The strip at Funafuti was originai built by the American during the w and the debris of the war time e still dominates this atoll. The ar taken by the strip originally cc tained the atoll’s main vegetable p and it was replanted after the war.

It has now been cleared for t second time, thus robbing the ms islet of the atoll of a goodly slice the land. It could be, however, tl air traffic through Funafuti will me than compensate for loss of tl coconut-bearing land.

The airstrip at Tarawa is < Bonriki, on the extreme south-e< coiner of the triangular atoll—t wartime strip at Betio, on the extrer south-west corner, having be planted over with coconuts.

Hotels Built The GEIC Government has bu two small hotels at Funafuti a: Tarawa, Both are of the same pi and located beside the respective at< lagoons. They accommodate people, and although there is nothi elaborate about them they are coi fortable and pleasant.

Hotel Vaiaku-langi, on Funafu is run by Falani Pasefika, BE] formerly of the Government and ci rently a member of the GEi Advisory Council.

Hotel Boin-te-Riburibu, near Bil nibeu, Tarawa, is run by Nga O’Brien, CPM. formerly of t Colony Police. He is assisted by o of his pretty daughters.

Civil Defence For P-Ng

Plans were announced in P( Moresby in July for a civil defen organisation for Papua-New Guim The announcement follows pressu from the P-NG branch of the Rl (exservicemen’s association). Ma purpose of the organisation is to dc with civil emergencies. (See also 116.) 6 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Fiji Sends First Representative To Australia Prom a Suva Correspondent When the CSR Company’s ship, MV “Rona”, left Fiji for Sydney on July 25 she carried more than molasses. She also carried Fiji’s Development Commissioner, Colonel Basil Rogers, who has just been appointed to the new post of Fiji Government Representative in Australia.

HHE post of Development Commis- L sioner has now lapsed as a parate one in the Colony, and dedopment work passes into the hands : Ratu K. K. T. Mara, who is "ember for Natural Resources under ji’s new political establishment. He is no commercial background.

Not a lot of people are happy >out the Colonel’s transfer or the M arrangements for his old job.

There is still need for a full-time ;velopment man in Fiji, for Colonel ogers, and Mr. E. R. Bevington here him, hardly had time to get the sk going.

If some Government officials run je to form the mists of disillusionprif may also fall on Ratu Mara th this part of his job.

Exactly what is Colonel Rogers gog to do when he reaches the end of s slow sugar boat to Australia? The ji Government statements haven’t ade it at all clear, but his main ark will be connected with trade tween the two countries.

A brewery man before the war, he 11 know it’s no use trying to sell er to Australia to help balance the trade statistics, which are very mucn in Australia’s favour (see p. 121).

And sugar is out of the question.

Fiji bananas are also a sore point in Australia, but the Colonel has his eye on one import which Fiji would welcome from Australia—tourists.

His luggage contains a vast amount of tourist literature.

His luggage also includes a valuable personal collection of objets d’art and glassware, but so far there is a roof neither for the objets nor for the Fiji Government representative in Australia, and both will have to shelter for the time being with the Australian Trade Commissioner for the Pacific Islands, at 52 William Street, Sydney.

It’s been officially stated that the Colonel won’t have any diplomatic functions, which are still handled by the UK High Commissioner in Canberra. But trade is certainly a matter for diplomacy these days.

The Colonel is something of a hustler—if civil servants don’t get in his way—and he will probably get down to business as soon as he arrives.

Colonel Rogers, who is 50, rose to the rank of colonel in World War II when only 29. After the war he was in private enterprise till 1950 when he joined the Colonial Service.

He spent 12 years in African colonies, and held a key trade post for the Federation of Nyasaland and Rhodesia from 1959 to 1961. In that time he introduced a number of new industries to the Federation and was responsible for increasing exports to several neighbouring territories.

Reward For Diver The French Government has decided to pay a reward of 160,000 New Hebrides francs (about £,4800) to Vila skindiver Reece Discombe for his discovery of the wreck of La Perouse’s flagship “Boussole” and for his work in recovering relics of La Perouse’s other ship “Astrolabe” at Vanikoro over the last few years.

The reward is being paid on the recommendation of the French Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, Mr. Maurice Delauney, and the chief of the French Navy’s historical section, Commandant de Brassard.

Mr. Discombe, a New Zealander, found the wreck of the “Boussole” during a private visit to Vanikoro in June, 1962.

Tahitian Tells

OF 155 DAYS

In Open Boat

From Ed. Johnson in Pago Pago Villagers at Fitiuta on the northern side of the island of Tau in the Manu’a Group of American Samoa were surprised to discover a weatherbeaten boat and a man lying prone on their beach about midday on July 6.

THE man, about 30, seemed completely exhausted and was blackened by much exposure to the sun.

He said his name was Temanihi Tepa, and that he was a Tahitian from Maupiti, near Bora Bora, about 1,000 miles eastward.

As he could speak only Tahitian, plus a few English words, it was not easy to get his story from him, but when it was finally pieced together it added up to another epic tale of man against the sea.

Tepa said that on February 2 (155 days earlier), he and another man, Natua Faioho, about 40, set out in a 22 ft skiff with an outboard motor, to go from Maupiti to Bora Bora.

After a while, the motor gave out and they were unable to repair it Colonel Rogers.

Mrs. Louise Senter, formerly of Papeete, with Temanihi Tepa in Pago Pago. Mrs.

Senter helped to obtain some of the details of Tepa's epic voyage. 1,000-MILE DRIFT TO SAMOA

with their only tools, a screwdriver and a pair of scissors.

As the boat had no oars or sails, the men drifted westwards.

After several days, they sighted a yacht but could not attract the attention of anyone on board.

Land Sighted Later, they sighted an island (possibly Motu-One), but having no means of propelling the boat they could not reach it.

Meanwhile, they lived on a load of watermelons, vz (tropical apples), bread, watermelon seeds for planting, and water in two large containers.

The water supply was replenished whenever it rained, and after the food was exhausted, the two men lived on fish and sharks which they caught with spears made from strips of wood torn from their boat and the blades of their scissors.

During a storm, the outboard motor was thrown overboard to make the boat lighter.

Tepa said that his companion gradually grew weaker and lost hope, and that towards the end of June he died in the night. He was buried at sea at dusk next day.

Tepa claimed that he, himself, lost about 60 lb during the voyage—his original weight being about 230 lb (about 16i stone).

After being looked after at Manu’a, Tepa was sent to Pago Pago where, at the end of July, he was awaiting repatriation to Tahiti.

In Pago Pago, some people doubted that he could have survived for so long in an open boat. But a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, Tesese, of Satala, who took care of him, wrote to a clergyman in Tahiti and confirmed that Tepa had, indeed, left Maupiti for Bora Bora in February with Natua Faioho.

More Support For Misima Gold INTEREST in Pacific Island Mines Ltd. shares and options quickened on the Sydney Stock Exchange late in July when directors announced that a group from Edmonton, Canada, (unnamed, but ’’not one of the bigname concerns”) was negotiating to take a 60 per cent, interest in the company’s mine on Misima Island, Papua.

The negotiations coincided with an inspection of the Misima property by representatives of the Canadian company, who were due back in Sydney about August 7.

The chairman of Pacific Island Mines, Mr. G. W. Noe, told shareholders at the annual meeting in Sydney on July 29 that an agreement should be signed with the Canadian company a few days after its representatives returned from Misima.

Shareholders would have to ratify this for it to be effective.

He added that the full cost of exploration and development below the Unuma lode at Misima was estimated at £567,000. About £500,000 ($1 million Canadian) would be provided by the Canadian partner.

New Administrator Of Norfolk Is.

Appointed The appointment was a nounced on July 2, of M Roger Nott as Administrator Norfolk Island. Mr. Nott, present Administrator of t Northern Territory, will succe Major-General R. H. Wore worth, who will complete 1 term on Norfolk on August It Announcing Mr. Nott’s appoi ment, the Minister for Tei tories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, said tl Mr. Nott felt “he had made significant contribution to Northe Territory development and, bei aware of the pending retirement General Wordsworth, had asked tl he be considered for the appointmt at Norfolk Island.”

Mr. Nott, who is 56, has be Administrator of the Northern Tei tory for just over three years.

He was previously Minister 1 Agriculture in the New South Wal (Labour) Government.

Mr. Nott was born at Gulgoi NSW, in 1907. After leaving sch( at the age of 15, he worked on ] father’s wheat and sheep farm! property at Dunedoo, where grandfather introduced wheat-growi in 1856.

As a youth he worked as a sheai for several years until he became wheat share farmer and fina acquired his own property at Dui doo.

Mr. Nott was elected to the NS Legislative Assembly for the Liv pool Plains seat in 1941. In 1954, was elected to the State Cabinet Assistant to the Premier.

During 1956 and 1957, he was M ister for Mines and Lands, and November, 1957, he became Minisi for Agriculture.

Mr. Nott was married in 1936 Miss Mary Rope. They have thi sons.

New Council Norfolk island’s Counc decided unanimously on July to take no action at present on t installation of an automatic telepho exchange on the island; and it al turned down two plans to provi the island with better shippii facilities.

One plan envisaged the extensh WHARF DAMAGED: The Burns Philp ship "Bulolo" (pictured) left a Vshaped hole in Rabaul's wharf on July 6 while attempting to berth.

Her master. Captain Brett Hilder, said later: "Why she would not swing round enough is a mystery.

There was a strong tide then running that the harbour master and I had never experienced. Earlier, the 'Malaita' had trouble leaving the wharf for the same reason." (See also p. 99.) 8 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

the pier at Kingston over the at an estimated cost of 0,000; the other was for the conuction of a harbour east of the ;r at a cost of about £130,000.

With two dissentients, the council cided that neither scheme was )rth the amount of money in- Ived.

The council meeting was the first be held since the elections on ly 1 under the new Council (finance.

Fourteen candidates contested the uncil’s eight seats. Six of those :cted were members of the previous imcil—Messrs. A. S. Bathie, M.

Christian, C. L. Evans, F. J. :edham, S. E. Nobbs and R. ;slake. The other successful canlates were Mr. G. Quintal, who Id office in a previous council, d Mr. R, C. Nobbs, the island’s 'ricultural Officer.

Mr. W. N. S. Newbald, a retiring uncillor who sought re-election, was e of the six defeated. The others re Messrs. W. McCoy (a former uncillor), H. Buffet, A. Edward d T. Lloyd, and Mrs. L. C. Donkin.

Mr. Barnes, who succeeded Mr. ul Hasluck several months ago as istralia’s Minister for Territories, id his first official visit to Norfolk rly in July.

He announced that his policy was accept, as far as possible, the rice of the Council in matters ich did not conflict with the tional policy of Australia.

St. Crispin's Day At Taskul The Police Move In On The New Hanover Cargo Cult From Keith Adam, Who Was There St. Crispin’s Day is in October, but ours was fought at the end of June. St. Crispin’s Day, you may remember, was when King Henry V’s men got among the French at Agincourt and showed them what was what.

ON our St. Crispin’s Day, which in its own small way was just as memorable, we didn’t set out from Dover, but from Kavieng, New Ireland, in a wheezy Administration workboat that took four hours to reach New Hanover, only 20 miles away, “We” were three Administration officers —the patrol officer from Taskul, the patrol post on New Hanover, and two reinforcements in the form of Assistant District Officers —and myself, who went along for the ride.

This St. Crispin’s day was deemed necessary because the people of New Hanover had got themselves involved in a cargo cult, had refused to pay their taxes, had threatened patrols and had generally “destroyed law and order”, in the words of P-NG’s Director of Native Affairs, Mr. I.

K. McCarthy.

The Johnson Cult The cult started earlier this year when many of the locals refused to cast their ballots at the House of Assembly elections because they weren’t allowed to vote for “President Johnson bilong America”, who didn’t happen to be among the six local candidates. But it was Lyndon Johnson or nothing.

The House of Assembly in early June (PIM, July, p. 12) gave the Administration a mandate to move in on the cultists and restore law and order, and now here we were, the eyes and ears of P-NG upon us.

The workboat wheezed in and out among the little islands on the way to Taskul while we huddled on the deck in whatever shade we could find . . . the cabin was jammed with supplies for the 40 police who were already at Taskul waiting for the battle to commence.

Finally the old tub arrived, but too late for any expeditions to set out that day. The Administration men spent the afternoon discussing strategy and poring over departmental regulations and ordinances, arguing out the correct legal procedures to use against any recalcitrant citizens they might meet.

As the police inspector who joined us pointed out: Those people in Moresby would throw out the case if there were any irregularities in the charges.

They had decided to start on the Tsoi Islands, a little group 30 minutes away from Taskul, where the villagers had already refused to pay their Local Government Tax, and had even thrown out a couple of patrols which had tried to make a collection.

Battle To Be Joined Things brightened up a bit in the late afternoon, when the inspector started off down the hill to the police encampment to give his men the stirring news that the battle would be joined, come tomorrow.

The clear notes of the bugle were echoing around the hills as I followed him through the police lines. All the police were gathered around cooking fires, or else in the small smoky mess hut which someone had built.

Here was the moment for some Henry y stuff, I thought—some good resounding lines in iambic pentameter. But it didn’t turn out like that. The inspector merely said: “It’s on at seven o’clock in the morning. Tin hats, rifles and bayonets. All right?”

There was a chorus of “Yessirs”, and off we went to test the shooting irons.

“Very toey, these fellows,” the inspector told me with a glow of pride in his voice, “especially the young blokes. But we’ve got some good old fellows here with 25 years orfolk Island's Administrator-Designate, Mr. Roger Nott. 9 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

St. Crispin'S Day At Taskul

service and more; they’ll steady them up if they start to get excited.”

He pointed to a couple of grizzled old police who’d grown grey in the service.

“With a couple of those old blokes, I’d go anywhere!”

They certainly looked formidable, and I felt a shiver of sympathy for the Tsoi Islanders. I hoped they would go quietly when they were arrested.

By this time the sun was setting, and we walked through the dusk to the armoury, threading our way through the little groups of grinning policemen. The inspector fired off the weapons he would take the next morning.

He even had an ancient and asthmatic Owen sub-machine gun, which I personally wouldn’t have trusted in a battle with a mouse.

Still that was what they had given him, along with a few riot guns and a couple of boxes of tear gas bombs.

After that we went back up the hill to the patrol officer’s house to dinner, a rather nervy game of Five Hundred, and bed.

The Fatal Day I would like to report that I was awake at dawn on the fatal day; but the fact is that everyone was nearly ready to leave by the time I crawled out of bed.

The Administration men had pistols strapped round their waists, and the police inspector was in full regalia as if he were taking a Governor-General’s guard of honour.

Everyone was businesslike but silent as we threaded our way down the hill to the wharf, where the 40 police in their tin hats were squeezed onto the workboat.

The Administration men climbed on to the cabin roof, and sat in four collapsible chairs set up for them, and the workboat chugged off into the pearly morning, leaving your reporter alone on the wharf.

The Administration had decided it might be expensive to compensate my relatives if I got in the way of an irate Tsoi Islander while the party was engaged in the struggle! I was to follow the course of events in the Government trawler which would arrive in a couple of hours. The trawler finally came, but we just sat by the radio and waited through the forenoon and into the early afternoon.

Then, at last, came the dramatic message: Stand by to take off 20 prisoners from the Tsoi Islands!

We tore off, and hove-to half a mile off shore, anxiously watching the little islands through binoculars, trying to make some sense of all the movement among the coconut palms.

At last, one of the ADO’s appeared, accompanied by a lone cop and two dejected-looking New Guineans in dirty sweat shirts and lap-laps. Surely this couldn’t be the fruits of the day’s action?

It was.

“Nothing much happened really,” said the ADO.

“When they saw us arrive, a lot of them moved down to a village a few hundred yards off; we cornered them there and told them to get out their tax money.

“The first 20 we called up refused to pay, so we charged them. But when they saw we were serious they all pulled out their money. They had had it in their lap-laps all the time, and they were just seeing how far they could push us.

“Don’t ask me why these two didn’t pay up,” added the ADO, indicating the two hard-core desperadoes with him. “Anyway, once everyone handed over their money, we dropped the charges against them.

By rights we should have gone on with it, but they’ve given in, and that’s the main thing.”

And so, in the gathering dark, we headed back to Kavieng, our two criminals sleeping soundly on the crew’s mess table at the stern.

At Kavieng, the District Officer was waiting at the wharf with a radio message from Taskul saying that one of the prisoners had turned out to be exempt from tax anyway, but had been too half-witted to mention it at the time. The relatives of the other had stumped up the money, so he was to be returned to New Hanover by the next morning’s boat.

The net result, then, was no prisoners at all. In fact, it turned out to be a positive gain for one of them, the tax-exempted man. When it was discovered he was suffering from a hernia they whipped him up to the Kavieng hospital and gave him a free operation. Now that he’s fit again, they might even get £2/10/- tax from him next year.

I believe they still like Lyndon B and Ladybird over on New Hanover (in fact, elsewhere on New Hanover they have since gaoled a few of the lads for not paying their taxes), but officially the cult is now “dormant”.

Fiji's New Member System Is 'Working Well' From R. W. Robson in Suva The Member-Minister syste , introduced in Fiji as a first st 6 towards self-government in th rapidly-growing Crown Colony hi been functioning since July I — an< apparently, functioning well.

NATURALLY, the new admin strative system has been und( close and critical observation I “The Beach”—as the rank-and-file i non-official commoners are calk here—but so far comments have n< been at all unfavourable.

The six non-official members ( Legislative Council who have no accepted a degree of administrate responsibility—J. N. Falvey, A. I Patel and Ratu K. K. T. Mara j Members (Ministers-in-training j some call them) and Ratu Penai Ganilau, R. G. Kermode and Madhavan, as members of Execute Council (or “The Cabinet”, as son say) have entered upon their in portant new duties seriously and wil apparent purposefulness.

The Members have wasted no tin in poring through the files and gettir to know the staffs of the Governmei departments in their sphere and tfc institutions for which those depar ments are responsible.

Member Patel has blazed the tra in on-the-spot activities, for he bu not only visited the head offices c two of the principal departments i his “portfolio” Education an Medical but he has also inspecte many schools and hospitals in Suv and in the North-West. His recor “stint” was a tour of seven majc schools in Suva in one day.

Although Ratu Mara, as Membe for Natural Resources, and M Falvey as Member for Communic< tions and Works, have not had s many outside activities, they ha\ had many meetings and conference with staffs of departments with whic they are associated.

Conviction Quashed

The Western Samoa Court c Appeal in July quashed a convictio against Harry Jay Moors, Harbou Master at Apia, who was sentence last October to three months’ iir prisonment for forgery. (PIM, Nov p. 119.) 10 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Busy Canberra Week On Vital P-NG And Nauruan Questions Prom a Canberra Correspondent The last week in July will probably urn out to be a momentous week or Australian Pacific territories, yet II the activity has been centred in Canberra.

HHIS is the week in which Depart- I. ment of Territories officials have een rushed off their feet in their fforts to get into order the vital Vbrld Bank Report and Education 'ommission Report on P-NG and to onvince the Nauruans that they an’t have sovereignty over Curtis sland, off Queensland.

The capital has been filled with :>p officials—from Washington, from 'ort Moresby and Nauru—all conerring.

Head Chief Hammer Deßoburt is jading a Nauruan delegation to Canerra, which is asking for higher phoshate royalties and for sovereignty ver Curtis Island if the Nauruans love there. They may get the oyalties but they certainly won’t get overeignty. An announcement is due i a few days.

The World Bank Report, which /ill stress that more must be done > improve the economy of the Terriory and less emphasis placed on ocial development, is causing real roblems, which is why P-NG’s top rass, including both Assistant Adminrtrators, are closely involved in the alks. It should be weeks yet before be report is released.

Decisions on the bank survey may ffect the implementation of the Eduation Commission’s report.

The main points of the commission’s report are: • A fully autonomous university should be established at Port Moresby near the war-time Ward’s Strip; • An institute of higher technical education be associated with the university; • A preliminary year at the university be devoted to linguistic and mathematic training, logic and cultural subjects; • Admission qualifications be (Continued on page 141) W. Samoa’s Govt.

Backs Down The political set-up in Western Samoa, whereby the vote is restricted to less than 15 per cent, of adults, may not look very democratic, but when the people really get worked up over an issue, the politicians sit up and take notice.

Early in July, public opinion triumphed when, despite anguished protests from Prime Minister Mataafa and his Cabinet, the Assembly revoked the controversial school fees legislation which was introduced less than a year previously.

The fees levied on children attending all Government schools, were expected to yield an additional £30,000 annual revenue to help to pay for education.

Fees ranged from 10/- to £l5 a term.

Those against payment said that education should not be the privilege of those who could pay for it, but was the birthright of every child.

Mr. Henry Puts Cook Is. Chiefs In Their "Proper Place”

Mr. Albert Henry, the Cook Islander who has recently been making a loud splash in the Cook Islands political pool, kept up his winning ways in July.

HE was elected president of the Cook Islands Party at Rarotonga on July 6, after he had pointed out to a crowd of 1,000 party supporters that the “proper place” for the Ariki (the land-owning high chiefs of the Cooks) was with their people, controlling district and village affairs, and not actively engaged in politics, Ariki members of the party, he said, should be elevated to the position of patrons.

Mr. Henry’s point of view got major backing and resulted in the party presidency becoming vacant.

The presidency, as it happened, had been held by Makea Vakatini Ariki, who had been elected following the resignation of the party’s first president, Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, in June.

The Cook Islands Party, which is the first political party in the Cook Islands, was founded by Mr. Henry at a public meeting in Rarotonga on June 15.

That meeting had proposed and seconded Mr. Henry as the first president, but at the last minute Makea Nui Ariki, who is a member of the Legislative Assembly, queried the party’s capabilities (although not its good faith).

This resulted in Mr. Henry offering to stand down to allow Makea Nui to be nominated and elected (PIM, July, p. 9). Mr. Henry was made vice-president. Makea Nui resigned soon afterwards.

Executive Committee The July 6 meeting, described as the party’s first official meeting, also confirmed Mr. Henry’s selection of members of the central executive committee. All were elected unopposed.

They are: Dr. Manea Tamarua, vice-president; Mana Strickland, secretary-treasurer; Sadaraka Sadaraka, MA, assistant secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Maria Henderson, Mrs. Raitia Tepuretu and Mrs. Marguerite Storey, committee members. © See also letter p. 25 and story p. 53. teacher at the toman Catholic Mision school on Nauru explains a geographicai point about he island, which has population of 2,500 and an area of nine quare miles. Photo: Jews and Information Dept. 11 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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It’s Time We Knew Where New Guinea Is Going • Some Pertinent Comments On The New Guinea Scene By STUART INDER The time is near, if it hasn’t already arrived, when Australia has to make an announcement about the political future of Papua-New Guinea.

IWO million people, including - 28,000 whites, aren’t very much nger going to be content with a t of airy fairy generalisations about adependence” and “educating the sople to a point where they can de- Je for themselves.”

There are 57 varieties of independce.

And who, anyway, decides when e point is reached for them to dele for themselves?

It is too early to formulate details, it not for a general outline to be etched out so that thinking on the icstion can be tested. A recent uple of weeks in Papua-New Guinea s left me in no doubt of that.

For some years now there have en statements by the more thinkg P-NG residents about the need lay down a political pattern. But w everybody appears to feel the ed for something more specific.

“The Territory is stretched tight e a piece of elastic,” said a leading clesiastic. “We can’t stretch any rther, but where are we headed?”

Colonel J. K. Murray, P-NG Adinistrator under the pre-Menzies abour) Government and one of the P’s invited to attend the opening the new House of Assembly, mdered out loud to me whether ybody officially had yet faced the uation of two million New jineans being allowed entry to Ausdia—or the situation created by o million New Guineans not being owed entry to Australia.

Former Patrol Officer Barry Holloly, now a member of the House Assembly, got to his feet on the estion of New Guinea’s future a uple of times during the session. lan Downs was another who jched on it—pushing the barrow r Federalism. He has since pubhed an excellent editorial in the ghlands Bulletin arguing that if JW Guinea is to succeed in selfvernment the people need the asrance of continued association with Australia to guarantee their security and human rights.

The wish of New Guineans to retain this Australian protection, he says, is now “overwhelmingly clear”.

And it is clear that most New Guineans see their future as being closely connected with Australia. So what are we waiting for?

Are we waiting for organised agitation from outside directed at telling the New Guineans they don’t want what they want at all?

Shades of West New Guinea and Malaysia!

Barry Holloway’s solution is for the Government to set up a commission to look into the problems and round-up some ideas. He stressed it was important to get the right man to head the commission.

He named no names but he had in mind that of Professor J. W.

Davidson, Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Jim Davidson is one of those too rare birds, the practical academic. He proved himself with the West Samoan Constitution and has recently taken a leading part in giving the Cook Islands a practical plan for selfgovernment.

Mr. Barnes, meet Professor Davidson! ☆ ☆ ☆ ALTHOUGH Australian Pressmen have not been able to gain entry to Indonesian-controlled West New Guinea (their visa applications are not refused, they simply fail to get granted) Indonesia has now sent one of her Pressmen to Papua-New Guinea. I gather he had no trouble about his permit, so I hope our generosity will have its own reward.

“Mo” Chudori, of Antara, the Indonesian news agency, turned out to be a friendly fellow after his initial suspicions had subsided. At the outset he was inclined to see an upset in his hotel booking as an international plot to embarrass him.

And there was no doubt that on occasions, particularly in the bars, he found himself in the centre of a barrage of anti-Indonesian sentiment, with most speakers intent on blaming “Mo” for the personal policies of Soekarno. In the circumstances ”Mo” acquitted himself with greater aplomb than his attackers, although at one town the Administration thought it provident to keep an eye on him in case some local, in drink, took a poke.

One morning, at Mt. Hagen, 1 came across him surrounded by a group of local New Guinean councillors, who were giving him a thorough ear-bashing on the good points of Australia (“friend true”), and making it quite clear that if the Indonesians thought they had any interest in Papua-New Guinea then they had another think coming. “Mo” told me the same thing had happened to him in the Sepik, When I learned that the Hagen councillors had sought “Mo” out for the lecture my suspicious mind thought it saw the mysterious hand of the Administration in the background, but District Commissioner Tom Ellis was righteously indignant at my suspicions.

“They worked that out for themselves,” said Tom. “And it doesn’t surprise me. The Indonesian question is a big subject among the Highlanders.”

I found that to be true. The New Guineans are surprisingly aware of what went on in West New Guinea, Indonesian news agency man M. Chudori, at Mt. Hagen during his recent Papua- New Guinea tour. 13 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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I feel strongly that the Dutch juans weer sold down the river, f the Indonesians find their way the Highlands they will probably eaten. ☆ ☆ it ■IE Australia New Guinea Corporation is very active in the ritory, as it seeks out interests ing to share in the organisation. : planter who was approached I me that the corporation did not essarily want control of New nea investments —just a stake in n. here is no doubt that a new ction of capital, especially from ariety of sources, is going to help d up the Territory’s economy, and general publicity and interest in tralia can do nothing but good. ,t the same time I suspect the loration is finding some passive, lot active, resistance among the blished big firms. A lot of this ue to the burst of publicity the aoration got, which resulted in ly Australians believing that the blished firms had done nothing the Territory and that outside rests were left to do the “right g”. This not unnaturally has some New Guinea noses out of L was myself surprised to learn, e making some inquiries about new £250,000 luxury hotel to be ed in Lae shortly by Steamships ling Company, that Steamships in 18 months to last December, had sted £853,000 in additional assets ie Territory. his is by way of both new tal from shareholders and ghed-back profits, and the figure jfter their takeover of Colyer son (NG) Ltd., and of course n’t include the hotel, his effort hasn’t got a word of ial adoration or acclamation. it it it HEN I had a long chat with Police Commissioner Chris moyle, in Moresby, in June he no plans for an early retirement, is, after all, only 56 (he will be lext July), and November 4 will k 40 years in police service (32 hem in Papua-New Guinea, ut not long after I returned to ley it was announced that the imissioner will be retiring on Sepber 30. he Administrator, Sir Donald and, denied at his weekly Press ? erence that the Commissioner’s ement had anything to do with the police strike, which had occurred in the intervening period.

Didn’t it?

I want to hear more before I’m convinced.

Chris Normoyle has done a firstrate job in the 10 years he has held the top police post in a difficult country. The position has become more difficult in the last year or two, since the pressure has been on to share out to police and law departments many of the functions of law enforcement and of the judiciary which had been undertaken for years by native affairs officers as a matter of routine.

It is not a fair go that Chris Normoyle should be allowed to leave New Guinea under any kind of cloud, as if he had been dismissed. It would be too reminiscent of the occasion in 1954 when Normoyle’s predecessor, Colonel Grimshaw, “went south”—having been demoted to the job of native labour inspector (which, not surprisingly, he didn’t bother to take up).

My guess is that Normoyle finally got tired of being the bunny—of wanting changes and having them knocked back—and told them what they could do 'with the job.

There is reported already to be speculation on a successor. Surely it should be Superintendent Paddy Larkin? i? it it THERE are so many explanations about the origins of the various cargo cults. A thoughtful man from Bougainville was telling me it seemed to him that outbreaks there followed periods of social and economic neglect by the Administration. When the local New Guineans could see development going on then the cults were quiet.

Lately in the Kieta area there has been a cult outbreak with the sexual overtones of the Buka Welfare Society cult to the north. This has followed removal from the Kieta area of heavy roadmaking equipment and transport Where did it go? It was sent north to Buka to keep those cultists quiet!

The member who told the Assembly that you had to have a virile cult in your area before you got any proper attention from Port Moresby was apparently telling nothing but the truth.

The preponderance of vocal Assembly members from areas across the border should finally make the Administration realise that bitterness against Port Moresby spending policies is not just a matter of geographical jealousies.

Port Moresby does take too much for itself, and it will reap its harvest of ill-will unless it treads very carefully from now on. Put bluntly, Port Moresby’s wasteful growth is a menace to the New Guinea unity that the Administration is so anxiom to have. it it it IN one of the Highlands banks the tellers were muttering over the local villagers who had decided to withdraw the entire village bank account—a substantial sum—in 27pieces. There hadn’t been enough silver on hand so it had been specially brought from the coast.

The locals lugged their heavyweight loot back to the village, but next morning were on the doorstep again, with the cash.

“We counted it,” they said. “It’s all there. Now you can put it back!” ☆ ☆ ☆ BURIED in Lord De L’lsle’s address to the new House of Assembly was the news that Australia had the prospect of holding the sixth South Pacific Conference in P-NG next year. Nothing previously had been announced about this.

The South Pacific Conferences are Red Letter events as Pacific meetings go. Men and women from all Pacific territories get together for these talks, which are held every three years by the South Pacific Commission.

Rabaul was the locale in 1959, and Police Commissioner Normoyle. 15 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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But France’s nuclear bomb plans in that area, with accommodation at a premium because of defence personnel, seem to have put paid to that idea.

Lae looks like being the site. The delegates would take over the technical school, which is being expanded. ☆ ☆ ☆ WHEN Moresby people talk of the “Top Pub” they mean the Hotel Papua. The title was never intended to identify the Papua’s position in the ranks of the Pub Peerage, despite what visitors think, but to distinguish it from the Hotel Moresby down the hill, which is the “Bottom Pub”.

Nevertheless, rightly or wrongly, the Top Pub has the reputation of being the top pub, and as a result it has had among its clientele in recent years numbers of New Guineans brought to Port Moresby to attend the Legislative Council as members or observers, or to take part in VIP outings.

They have been billeted in the Top Pub not necessarily because they wanted to go there but because the Administration was anxious to stress (to whom?) the lesson of equality.

Now there is a New Guinean majority in the House, and everybody has £5/5/- a day and is expected to make his own arrangements, it will be interesting to see who stay at the Top Pub by choice.

Some who were booked in there at the inaugural session didn’t last the distance, for it didn’t take them long to work out that with a tariff between £4/10/- to £5 a day (not including your laundry) there is no change from £5/5/- at the Top Pub.

Zure Zurecnuoc, an able man from Finchhafen who is now Undersecretary for the Treasury, was one who booked out. He moved in with friends among the Administration drivers, and what he saw there caused him to become vocal in the House.

The drivers did not have a kitchen and were living “like pigs and dogs”, he said. If it was all right for them to drive “very important people” in big shiny cars then it was all right for them to be given decent living conditions.

If Zurecnuoc’s exposure achieves anything for the Administration drivers I hope they appreciate that it’s partly because the Top Pub and equality are not necessarily synonomous terms! ☆ ☆ ☆ TN PlM’s pages we have noted before that while Japan couldn’t by force during the Pacific War achieve her dream of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, she has managed to do pretty well for herself in recent years through peaceful trade penetration.

This was underlined in Moresby during the ceremonial opening of New Guinea’s new Parliament. When the Governor-General, in plumed hat, arrived, his limousine was preceded by two outriders from the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary —both on Japanese motor bikes. ☆ ☆ ☆ TO end on the note I began with, if the Territory of Papua and New Guinea is to have an identity then the place has to have a name, and so have the people in it. Territorians themselves have been arguing names for years without result, and a recent outbreak of weird suggestions hasn’t taken the problem any further.

Officially of course it is the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, and it will have to stay that way until officially it becomes something else. But we on PIM, who weep at “indigenes” and shudder at the current tonguetwisting usage of “Papuans and New Guineans”, have finally settled for plain New Guineans—whichever side of that non-existent border they live.

Except when they live in trees, when they’re natives—with apologies to nobody. We’ve started from this issue.

And if you want our suggestion for a name for the combined Territory, here it is—New Guinea. After all, who else has it?

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JOHNNO” JOHNSTONE was member of the pre-war gc mining syndicate known as the Sil Six. It was a good name—l Johnstone was never a man to U He was born in England and w to the Solomons about 1922, al serving in World War I as an origi Anzac.

He was one of a party that visi Malaita to restore order af murders of Europeans in 1925, a became interested in various busin enterprises.

He ran a butchery at Tulagi ; many years before prospecting : gold on Guadalcanal with the Sil< Six.

With the outbreak of war he help evacuate Chinese and goods fn Tulagi and later escaped to the N Hebrides. He became a major the BSIP Labour Corps. In 19 he represented the BSIP at t Coronation of Queen Elizabeth.

The Silent Six after the war 1 came the Balasuna Syndicate, owr of interesting lodes on Gold Rid] Guadalcanal, and Mr. Johnsto spent a lot of time trying to inten overseas companies. Frequently made journeys into the area.

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The newspapers of the day variously described the incident as ‘riot”, “racial demonstration” and ‘rebellion”.

Any suggestion of rioting is unrue, and can be dismissed without ;omment. However, the suggestions ►f racial demonstrations and rebellion ire at least worthy of some conideration.

The Papua-New Guinea police orce is constituted in the military tyle and carries the label “Royal” in ront of its name.

Under these circumstances the igorous and vociferous refusal of the anks to carry out the orders of heir officers is, indeed, a type of ebellion in the technical sense. In he wider and more general sense of tie term, however, the Rabaul isturbance was not a rebellion.

From the racial point of view the olice strength at Rabaul consists of n all-native rank and file and an 11-European officer component, herefore when the ranks kicked ver the traces and shouted at their fficers, a situation existed in fact here black men were shouting at hite men and refusing to do what le white men wanted them to do.

Some Home Truths In the process it cannot be denied lat a few home truths slipped out, ut to consider the process as a race emonstration is stretching the issue.

Taken by and large, the fairest ascription of the Rabaul police inident would be to call it an industrial emonstration which got out of hand nd which did produce some racial deling as a side issue.

The initial issue was one of dissent among the ranks concerning leir employment and conditions.

They claimed that their quarters were like pigsties, that their meat rations were not fit to eat, that their pay was not high enough, and that their uniforms were not as good as those worn by the officers.

The police at no time lodged any formal submission of their grievances, and this told heavily against them in subsequent events. Several of the officers must have been aware for some time however that all was not happy among the ranks.

Under these circumstances it seems a pity that some ex gratia attempt was not made by the officers to formalise the grievances before trouble occurred.

One policeman claimed later that the final straw was an unkindly cut from an officer of “All the money to run this country comes from Australia, so you will d well take what you get and like it”.

The trouble came when police for a 4 p.m. to midnight shift refused to work and became abusive when ordered to do so.

After a shouting match in which they gave vent to their grievances the men dispersed into the streets and subsequently spent the night in their barracks refusing to work. Some men from the following shift also went on strike and there were attempts to intimidate men who were prepared to work.

No Rioting, No Damage Groups of civilian natives, aware that the police had internal problems, began yah-hooing in the streets. Two groups tried to stop cars driven by European women, but it seems likely that only two of the striking police were involved in any of the street incidents.

There was no rioting and no damage to property, althought it is problematical what would have happened to the women drivers if their 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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By midday on the following day ie police were back on duty, (though the situation continued to ause concern for several days.

The Papua-New Guinea Police lommissioner, Mr. C. Normoyle, ew to Rabaul. Four days later he ddressed a full-scale parade of more lan 170 men in which he delivered formal reprimand to the police ivolved in the incident.

He announced later that no further unishment was considered necessary, s a spokesman for the men had pologised.

The people of Rabaul felt more oncern over Mr. Normoyle’s attitude lan they had over the actual inidents. There was a general feeling lat greater firmness —even sacking ie ringleaders—would have been the nly way to avoid a repetition of rouble.

No one denied the rights of the olice to express industrial grievances indeed there was considerable suport for the grievances) but few eople could stomach the manner in ffiich the police claims had come o light.

Claims To Be Met The Australian Administration in *apua-New Guinea has already coneded that the police meat rations /ere sub-standard, and has rectified he situation. The delivery of new iniforms for the ranks has been promised by October. Steps are now icing taken for other industrial claims o be formally submitted and conidered.

Meanwhile there is a barely-conealed feeling among police officers nd some administrative officers that he growing Press and radio structure >f Papua-New Guinea contributed owards the troubles. (This is distinct rom any comment on the reporting >f the troubles themselves inside or »utside the Territory).

Half-truths of industrial matters [leaned by the constables from news eports were thrown at the officers luring the height of the verbal disurbance. It is true that one news- >aper had published an incorrect :omparison of wage scales, but most )f the half-truths originated in the ninds of the native police who had lot absorbed the news properly.

Nonetheless the situation pinpoints the growing responsibility vhich must be accepted by the nternal Press and radio of P-NG.

The most scrupulous circumspecion in news presentation is required.

Phis does not mean moral or expedient censorship, but it does mean accuracy, balance, objectiveness and above all a freedom from ambiguity.

Far too many New Guineans are at that unhappy stage where something “must be true because we read it in the papers and heard it on the air”.

Conversely, officialdom must learn that Press media as such cannot be blamed for social and industrial problems. Distortion can be avoided only if there is frankness on all sides.

Probably the biggest lesson to be learnt from the Rabaul police incident is the need for Australians to adapt themselves to the changing structure of the New Guinea community.

The New Guinean is prepared to accept an argument of why a certain set of circumstances must exist, but the time has gone when he will accept without question any set of circumstances which is thrust upon him.

NEW UNIFORM: Constable Baurima Kawawa, of Debon village In P-NG's Northern District, models the new uniform to be issued to the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary. The uniform consists of pale blue open-neck shirt, dark blue shorts, dark blue beret, woollen stockings, puttees, black leather belt and black boots. All metal accessories are chromed. 19 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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Tonga intends to challenge iji’s tourist industry in a small ay with the erection of a [Odern, two-storey hotel on the ukualofa waterfront, close to ellow Pier, and within walking stance of the town and existing harf.

'HE hotel, designed by Derrick and Derrick, of Suva, is estima- -1 to cost about £170,000, and will ve most of the amenities the tourist today seeks.

The ground floor will have a dinl room, lounge and bar, and a mber of shops. There will be 55 Jrooms on the first floor. Later, night club may be incorporated the basement. In the grounds H be a swimming pool and tennis Lirt.

In May, after the final drawings re approved, the Government thorised the Tonga Construction . to go ahead. Early in July, ; foundations were marked out, 3 were being excavated, ft now appears certain that after irs of indecision Tonga will have irst-class hotel. The last proposal build a hotel, financed by joint ngan-American interests, fell ough late 1962.

Fhe new hotel is expected to inase the number of visitors to nga to see the many attractions Kingdom has to offer.

ONGA’S new newspaper, the weekly English-language Chron- ’ and Tongan-language Kalonikali, I only been in existence for two ies when it came under criticism Parliament, not for anything it ated, but because it had been nded. !. Tu’akoi, debating the Tonga iditions Committee and Printing partment Estimates, questioned the fulness of the newspaper. He felt t any money spent on the Chronshould have been diverted to the iga Traditions Committee, which i carrying out a valuable investigai into the Kingdom’s history and i'itions. le said the newspaper was only likely to stimulate controversy, and it was doubtful if it would earn enough revenue to cover the provision allowed in the Estimates.

The Deputy Premier, Prince Tu’ipelehake, answered the criticism with details of likely receipts from sales.

Another member, S. Fakalata, was so impressed by the revenue-earning potential of the newspaper that he suggested the price should be reduced from 3d to Id.

Since the first edition was published on June 19, the circulation has settled down to about 800 copies of the English edition, and 5,000 of the Tongan.

Chronicle is planned and issued from the Premier’s Department with Mr. Michael Challons, Secretary to the Government, and Mr. Jack Riechelmann, Assistant Secretary to the Government, as joint editors, At present, both the English and Tongan editions of the paper are only 21 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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One of the most powerful earthakes to strike the earthquake-prone >w Hebrides for years shook the uth-eastern part of Santo Island d the nearby islands of AAalekula d Aoba at 3.40 a.m. on July 10.

In Santo township, where the imors lasted for nearly four nutes, some people left their uses, fearing that the roofs would llapse. Bottles were broken, ound cracks developed, walls of ildings were cracked and a stone ill was knocked down, thus giving rating of strength 5i on the ircalli scale.

Similar effects were reported at >rsup (north-east AAalekula) and at nap and Port Sandwich (south-east ilekula).

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Sir,—To mark the 25th anniversary of its existence, the Ornithological Society of New Zealand is sending a sizeable party to the Kermadec Islands during the coming summer to study the fauna and flora of the group.

The expedition is to be wholly sponsored by the Society, although through the kind offices of the NZ Minister of Defence, Mr. Dean Eyre, it is to receive a considerable measure of naval co-operation.

The survey ship, HMS Lachlan, is to transport the twelve members of the expedition and their equipment to Raoul Island on November 19, and return them to New Zealand on January 27, 1965.

The primary object of the expedition is to study the birds of the Kermadecs, so that the party will include up to nine of the Dominion’s wellknown professional and field ornithologists; but other branches of natural science will be covered by the inclusion of a professional botanist, and an entomologist. A medical officer will complete the party.

It is very many years since any reports on the bird life of these islands were made, and even then they were not exhaustive, and related mainly to Raoul and the Meier Islands nearby.

So far as is known, only brief landings have been made by ornithologists on outlying islands such as Macauley and Curtis, and none has ever spent a night ashore on them.

The group is famous in the bird world for the number and variety of its nesting petrels, and as these come ashore at or after dark to their nesting burrows, complete study of the birds is only possible at night.

Some PIM readers will be well aware of the scarcity, or complete absence, of anchorages in the Kermadecs, and this fact will prevent the expedition from having a stand-by craft suitable for inter-island work, and will restrict them to Raoul and the Meier Islands, which can be covered by dinghy and outboard.

It is the earnest hope of the expedition that someone may be cruising in those waters while the expedition is in the group, and may be able to 23 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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, —ln an article written by a tonga correspondent in the July of PIM about the new political which has been formed in the Islands, it is stated that . . . “an ance ruling that candidates (for egislative Assembly) are eligible if they have lived in the Cook is for three years will have to aended”. ur correspondent is relating this e fact that should Mr. Albert / decide to contest the Legis- Asssembly elections scheduled jxt year, local legislation setting he residential qualifications for lates will require amendment. • the purpose of the record, I 1 like to advise that there is no 'ocal ordinance in existence. ; qualifications for electors and lates are contained in the Cook s Legislative Assembly Regula- -1958 which are a New Zealand nent, and which provide for ntial qualifications of three is and one year respectively, regulations are still in force in ook Islands. ir correspondent has no doubt ied the issue with the debate took place in the Legislative ibly last year when the Conm Report prepared by Profesdkman and Davidson and Mr.

Wright was under discussion, authors had recommended that □alifications for both electors :andidates should remain unl, but the members of the bly thought otherwise, and ;d that the residential period be extended to 12 months in ise of electors and to three for candidates, amendment was conveyed as a mendation to the New Zealand ament from the elected relatives of the Cook Islands , and as such it has been inin legislation which is to be ired later this year. »re the legislation can be brought into force it must be debated, and finally passed, both in the New Zealand House of Representatives and in the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands.

I feel that this matter is of sufficient importance to require immediate clarification.—Yours, etc.

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Sir, —Your article in the July issue on the Tahitian legend of the great spear-thrower Pai-tua-tini was very interesting. However, I believe there must be some kind of a misunderstanding over the statement that “he hurled the spear across from Tahitiiti”. According to the late Sir Peter Buck in his Vikings of the Sunrise.

Tahiti-iti and Moorea are two names for the same island, Tahiti-iti being the legendary name in the Tahitian myth of the creation of the islands. —Yours, etc.

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Tropicalities bout 40 men and women in Rabaul have already taken advantage a relaxation in Australia’s immigration policies which has emitted Australian citizenship for certain people of part-native traction living in Papua-New Guinea. kTHER applications are still under * consideration, and there is every lication that Australia has taken step (not before time) which has en met with appreciative approval.

The main requirement to obtain jstralian citizenship for a mixedce person is proof of some Euroan ancestry at the parent or grandrent level.

This is not always easy in a land iere records have been disrupted ■ war, where births were sometimes egitimate and unregistered, and iere children have grown up under e guidance of a mission with little lowledge of their parentage.

The pioneer in the struggle for astralian citizenship among these ople is Harry Spanner, a likeable d energetic plantation manager who irks for the Roman Catholic ission near Rabaul.

Spanner, whose father was Australian and mother a Manus Islander, worked for 15 years to achieve his ambition. He hammered Ministers of State, talked to public bodies, led deputations and kept the fire of intesest burning among his own people.

When Australia repeatedly refused his personal request for citizenship he applied for British naturalisation, but again met with refusal.

Said Spanner: “We are only a handful of people. It wouldn’t hurt to naturalise us. We don’t want to migrate to Australia because New Guinea is our home. We want the benefits of Australian citizenship mainly for the sake of our children.

Our loyalty is beyond reproach.”

By early last year, Spanner had almost every public body behind his campaign, and ultimately the Australian authorities took notice.

It was ironic that Harry Spanner himself was left behind in the rush when the bars to naturalisation began to fall.

Documentary Proof Unable to provide documentary proof of his part-Australian parentage, he was still fighting a personal battle while other mixed-race people were taking advantage of the opportunity for Australian citizenship.

He eventually made a three-week pilgrimage to Manus Island, 300 miles from his home at Rabaul, and roamed the villages and back-blocks in search of assistance.

He found a group of old people who remembered his mother and his father. Their memories, set down in a statutory declaration, provided the information which permitted his naturalisation this year.

The mixed race people who are taking advantage of the policy relaxation are mainly of Melanesian, German and Australian extraction, although a few are part-Chinese.

They have adopted for themselves the racial name of “Euronesians” and have even made an attempt to register the name legally.

Boys Will Be Boys, But What About Men?

IS it right that grown men, fathers of families, respected elders in their villages should be called “boys”?

This question—the sort of question that most Europeans in the Islands seldom bothered their heads about until recently—is posed in an article by the Rev. H. F. Peak in a booklet on the New Hebrides recently published by the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions.

Mr. Peak, a Presbyterian missionary in the New Hebrides, says it often happens in those islands that a white teenager will call a man, old enough to be his father, “boy”.

He goes on: “Even men and women who have the welfare of the people at heart do it. One lands at a beach and someone calls out, ‘Leave your bags; the boys will bring them up.’ Presently, two or three fullgrown men, often grey-headed, will follow you up with the heavy boxes and cases.”

Mr. Peak asks: Does it matter?

And immediately answers his own question by saying that if the name matters little, the attitude matters immensely because “if we always regard them in that way, we shall never know them for the men they really are”.

And he adds: “Surely world history of recent years should teach us that ne of the first Euronesians to be naturaled in Rabaul was Administration clerk, eorge Kassi, seen here holding his certificate.

Harry Spanner. 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1964

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Vfr. Peak says he is continually pressed by the natural culture and dent wisdom of the so-called >ys” of the New Hebrides, and he )tes a couple of cases from his n experience to support this statent.

Dne of these cases concerns the age of Mele where, until the eleci of a new chief recently, it was custom to hold huge wedding sts, which involved the slaughter many pigs and frequently landed young couples and their parents )0 in debt. ks a result, marriage was just too tly for some young men and men. But the new chief changed this by proclaiming that “a small • of tea” would have to suffice mark the occasion.

Such a decision was far-sighted I courageous,” Mr. Peak says, aw many Australian fathers dare their daughters: ‘Twenty-five inds has to cover the cost of your iding. You need every penny for r house!’?”

That Easter Island Airstrip May Get Built After All After years of talk, it seems that the Chilean Government really is going to build an international airstrip on Easter Island, its lonely outpost with the mysterious stone statues in the far eastern Pacific.

According to “Man in the Pacific”, a publication of the Pacific Scientific Information Center, of Honolulu, a medical expedition from America’s Mc- Gill University is to collect information on Easter Island early next year “before the Chilean Government builds a proposed airstrip, thereby permanently changing the isolated state of the island”.

The expedition is being supported by the World Health Organisation and will comprise about 20 medical research workers from universities in Canada and the United States.

The expedition aims to survey Easter Island’s entire population of about 1,200. The information will be analysed to throw light on the physical characteristics of such isolated people, and it is hoped that later studies will be able to trace changes resulting from increased communications.

Two anthropologists will accompany the expedition. One of them, Richard F. Salisbury, of McGill Universtity will make an economic survey of the population before the use of money becomes widespread.

Easter Island’s population of about 1,200 has grown from only 111 in 1877. [?]ed Hargesheimer [?]eeps His Promise EVER before, even in wartime, had the little village of Evase the coast of New Britain seen h a performance.

Tie trees trembled and the flyingfoxes flew from the branches with an angry flapping of their leathery wings.

Startled parrots shrieked from the same trees and a few not-too-confident natives ran for shelter.

The cause of it all was a thundering twin-jet bomber from the United States Navy which dived on Evase waggling its wings and laying a pencil of black smoke and white vapor.

Down below the man who started it all was trying to make a speech, but he had to give up when the jet drowned his voice.

“That darned thing is taking over the ceremony” he muttered with a rich American accent.

The occasion was the official opening of the Airmen’s Memorial School in the Australian Trust Territory of New Britain. Twenty-one years earlier the native people of the area had saved the life of Major Fred Hargesheimer, an American flier whose reconnaisance aircraft was shot down during the Pacific War.

At the risk of having their heads cut off by the Japanese the village people cared for Hargesheimer for five months until an Australian patrol arranged his escape in an American submarine.

Fred Hargesheimer never forgot what the people did for him, and he sponsored a fund which raised more than $17,000. The money was used to build a school which went into operation at Evase early this year.

By aeroplane and ship a big crowd of visitors came to Evasee for the official opening of the school on July 29 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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11. There was Hargesheimer himself (the RAAF flew his there) and Air- Commodore W. Townsend, RAAF, whose life had also been saved by the natives of New Britain during the war.

The Papua-New Guinea Director of Native Affairs, Mr. J. K. McCarthy, whose splendid war record in New Britain is well known, was another visitor. Also at the opening was Mr. Matt Foley, of Rabaul, who as a signals corporal had been in the party which found Hargesheimer, and whom the native people still remembered as “Master Wireless”.

America was officially represented by the Air Attache to the U.S.

Embassy in Australia, Colonel H.

Ottaway.

Arangements had been made for a U.S. Navy Sky Warrior bomber to make a couple of passes over the school before the ceremony began.

The aircraft arrived on time from Guam, via Townsville, but the crew got carried away by the occasion.

Time and time again the jet roared over the crowd, sometimes little more than 100 feet above the ground.

Speeches were drowned and the school children (140 of them) broke ranks to get a better look.

Ambitious Dream But Fred Hargesheimer did not mind. For him it was the end of a long and ambitious dream to return with something tangible for the people who had saved his life.

Here on PIM we have known Fred Hargesheimer for years as a smiling, friendly and modest fellow, who has achieved his purpose despite odds that would have been overwhelming to lesser men. His particular strength is his sound common sense.

Fred has always been aware for instance that the creation of his school needed careful handling if it was to avoid becoming the rallying point for a new cargo cult. He wanted no cry of “The Yanks Are Back!” and steadfastly stood against native suggestions that the school should be staffed by American teachers, or have other American bias.

It was sufficient for Fred to have collected the money for the school in America (a few dollars here, a decent-sized donation there) and to have seen it built in an area where it would do the most good. (For idealistic reasons it would have been nice to have put the school in the actual village which succoured him, but he insisted that it be placed in an area of larger population, 30 miles away.) Not even Fred is able to say just what status the school has. It was built by American money, is being operated by the Methodist Mission (which has put three New Guinea teachers in it) but the teacher-incharge, Jim Bye, is provided by the P-NG Education Department.

Fred got the idea of building the school after he made a return visit to New Britain in 1960. It took him three years to collect the money back home in the States, and then last year he returned again with his son to get the school built, because somewhere along the line things had got bogged down. Fred arranged for the timber and for the builder and stayed around for six weeks helping to organise the local labour.

Fred glosses over this part of his interest in the school, but there are a number of people in the Islands who are still annoyed that Fred Hargesheimer had to make a special trip from the US merely to get the whole project off the ground. A little more activity should have been displayed at the New Britain end, they feel.

Said a former wartime Coastwatcher in the New Britain area: “We learned about Fred’s building problems too late. There are a dozen of us up that way who would have got off our bottoms and got the job done for Fred. He’d done enough without having to carry the bricks too!”

But since Fred’s interest in the school hasn’t waned there is still plenty of time for local people to get off their bottoms and give the scheme an added push. Fred has now gone home, but he has plans to provide the school with private boarding facilities, and a medical aid post for the locals.

Handshake Reaches A cross 20 Years At the dedication of the Airmen’s Memorial School, Evase, in July, Air Commodore W. E.

Townsend, RAAF, and Mr. Fred Hargesheimer, now with Remington Rand, Minnesota, shake hands across the years. The last time they met in the New Britain jungle was in 1943 (right) when Townsend was a Wing Commander and Hargesheimer a Major with the US Air Corps, and both had been shot down. They have kept in touch and are firm friends. Hargesheimer, with Townsends support, has repaid his debt to the New Guineans who, he says, saved his life. 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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One such is from the South Australian Underwater Explorers Club, who chartered the auxiliary ketch Maroro in July for an extensive tour of waters along the coast of the main island of Viti Levu, guided by one of the colony s most knowledgemariners, Captain Stan Brown.

The group comprised 16 members, and their itinerary included exploration of the wreck of a fourmasted barque which took the reef with all sails set at Viwa, in the north-west of the group, in 1889.

The barque, the Altmore, was on a Pacific voyage from England.

Details of her stranding were obscure until recently when a casual mention was made in the Dogwatch, journal of the Shiplovers’ Society of Australia.

This prompted a 90-year-old survivor of the wreck to write with further information.

The South Australian explorers returned from their trip with two brass porthole rims from the Altmore, and several other relics they hadn’t bargained for—two aeroplane wing lights and four machine-gun nose cones.

The lights and nose cones are believed to have belonged to a World War II single-seater Cobra fighter which crashed into the sea.

In August another underwater team, this one from an Aucklanc Club, is chartering the Maroro for £ similar tour.

Pineapples In The Sky For NZ XTEW ZEALAND is short of pine- „ , apples—Prime Minister Keith Holyoake himself says he hasn’t seer them in local shops for a long time— and Fiji has them for export. But it’s not quite as simple as that, as a Fiji pineapple-growing company is finding out.

The company, Fiji Golden Queen Pineapples, which has its headquarters at Nadi, has already sent a shipment of fresh pineapples to Auckland by air, receiving a most satisfactory cash return for its enterprise. At present it has 10 acres under cultivation and expects 80,000 of the fruit to be available for export early in 1965. It has its eyes on the NZ market.

Managed by Mr. E. Ewins and his son Gerald, the company is now endeavouring to obtain a substantial import quota from the NZ Government. Although the balance of trade between the two countries is very much in the Dominion’s favour, the company is a little pessimistic as to the outcome of its application because of licence restrictions.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Mr.

Keith Holyoake, was tackled about the prospects when he put down at Nadi Airport in July, en route to the London Prime Ministers’ conference.

In a diplomatic interview with a Fiji Times representative, Mr.

Holyoake commented that an occasional small shipment of pineapples came in from Hawaii and also some from the Cook Islands, but there was not much fresh pineapple in New Zealand shops.

He added that he had not seen them in stock for a long time and he often popped into fruiterers on his way to work in the mornings to chat about business.

The Cook Islands, Mr. Holyoake added, were seriously considering the production of them on a large scale but he thought it would be many years before New Zealand could expect any fresh pineapples from that source, as shipping services were so erratic. The industry there would be more likely to tin the fruit.

He was not able to shed any light on the import problems from Fiji.

The Nadi based company meanwhile is concentrating on air-freighting supplies to the pineappleless Kiwis, for it is here that it has an advantage over other sources. It is hoping that it will last, but it can’t count on it. 32 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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There is only one way to spell the lame, so far as I am aware, and that » Keravat, although at one time I idieve it was Kerawat; but never /ith two. “e’s”.

The changeover from “w” to “v” i native names generally throughout Jew Guinea occurred about 1911 /hen the German Government irought in a rule that all “w’s” in ative names should appear as “v”.

'he change naturally took time to nplement, and in many cases where he letter was the first one in a name, 10 change was made.

Why this thusness I do not know; t could have had something to do /ith interfering with the indices in he records.

Since World War II and the greater üblicity of native names in the *ress, incorrect spelling of proper ames has been most apparent and, nfortunately, no attempt seems to ave been made to standardise the pelling from an official angle.

This move from the NCDA, thereore, comes as a welcome augury of n awakening consciousness as to the Correctness of Things. May it beome general throughout the Terriary. And, what is more, may it have le support of the Administration.

L College Choir On Tour

The Jones Missionary College Choir rom near Rabaul is to make a tour f Australia in December. It is a eventh-day Adventist set-up and will ravel from Cairns to Melbourne.

The delightful choral reproductions f the Tolai people have long relained in my memory. They have a atural harmony in their singing which is a joy to hear. I always remember an occasion in the ’3o’s when the Administration staged a concertcum-native art exhibition in Rabaul when Tami, from Matupi Island, brought along a choir of his training and they rendered the Hallelujah Chorus.

With only a gramophone record as a guide, Tami had succeeded in training his choir to near-perfection.

If the SDA choir is up to that standard (and I expect it must be), then there is little doubt but that its tour in Australia will be successful —unless it is hampered too much by IN BLACK AND WHITE: Of all the pictures we've seen of the recent tour of New Guinea by Australia's Governor-General, Lord De L'lsle, this is the one that most appealed to us. It was taken on the wharf at Rabaul by a Department of Information photographer. The names of the children were not vouchsafed to us. 37

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EFAMATION A report in a Sydney morning iper quotes the Vatican newspaper, sservatore Romano, in denouncing e topless swimsuit for women, “as return to the ‘bestial nudity of the vage.’ ”

This is somewhat surprising, comg from the foremost RC newspaper, hich is usually well-informed as to orld customs and cultures. 1 hope at the director of the Vatican iper, Ramondo Mazini, gets his ikies caned by some of his betterformed co-religionists who come to personal contact with the avages” to whom he refers.

They, at least know only too well at there is nothing “bestial” in the idity displayed by the savages of ew Guinea, at any rate; neither is ere any sex motive.

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Despite the rumours that emanate< from the Sogeri political kindergartei that Standing Orders were to be de gobbledegooked, nothing apparentl; was done about it.

Perhaps I am a bit dumb, but still fail to see why Standing Orders which were brushed aside to intro duce bills for the Government’s con venience and, apparently, passec through all stages at the one sitting should not have been suspended tc give Handabe, the member for Tari an opportunity to air his view; through his interpreter.

And why Motuan as one of tht “official languages”? Why not Tolai' I’ll lay a few odds that more people speak Tolai than Motuan, anc it would surprise me if there is one member in the House speaking Motuan who is unable to understand and speak either English or pidgin,

Uniform Packaging

Many features of the opening of P-NG’s first House of Assembly have been highlighted in the Press, local and in Australia, but there was one aspect, especially, which intrigued me and created a line of thought.

This was: The paternal Government adopting a uniform packaging policy for members and putting them into the uncomfortable confines of Western Handabe, lari's "silent" Assembly member 40 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Undoubtedly there would be a 'etiological reaction found in this far-seeing anthropologists in that ny of the people, accustomed to iring g-strings or lava-lavas, would ct better to Western guidance and iught if attired in Western raiment, 1 shorn of much of their natural nity. 3ne can easily realise the distract- ; discomfort experienced by the re primitive members, accustomed unrestricted raiment, when addressthe House in their newly-donned b, every effort being made by them concentrate their mental faculties their speech and then at the same e to be suffering physically from -pinching shoes, chaffing underre or a too-tight shirt collar.

Government action, implementing h conformity, makes one wonder ether there is not some truth in a nphlet, recently published by the vancement League Inc., of South stralia, and written by T. G. H. ehlow, of the University of Adeie, who was born at Hermanns- ■g, Northern Territory, and was some years a patrol officer and puty Director of Native Affairs in Northern Territory. \ review of the pamphlet, “Assim- :ion Problems: The Aboriginal ;wpoint” in The Bulletin of May says: ‘Strehlow comes out strongly against assimiliation in his pamphlet, and surely he is right. An assimiliation policy is the logical result of that supreme arrogance which leads us Europeans to think that not only is our way of life the best, but that civilisation is synonymous with Northern European standards. The issue is important for it seems that the average white Australian will not accept the aborigine until he is a white black man. Or maybe not until he is physically white?

“But make him a white man so that his own customs and pas: are completely obliterated, and we. the white Australians, will be so much the poorer. It is not just handicrafts and material objects that enrich Australian culture but the languages and different customs and values.”

That could apply equally to our thoughts and actions in P-NG. To us, no way of living is right except our way; there is only one standard of intelligence and that is our standard. How wrong can we be in our xenophobic thinking? [?]MAN HONOURED: When Mr. A. J. [?]tag, of Lae, was honoured by the [?]sen with the MBE recently, he was wered with congratulations from his [?]ny friends. For many years he has [?]n one of Lae's hardest working com- [?]nity leaders. He has lived more than years in Papua-New Guinea and at time was mining at Edie Creek. PIM [?]k the photo the day his honour was announced. 41 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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'HE survey is expected to start in April or May next year, and it 11 continue for three and a half ars.

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C. Grover, said in a radio talk June 30 that the aerial survey s “of the greatest possible moment” * the “grant-aided” Solomons bease it would help to achieve inside years what would ordinarily take years or more.

“More than that,” he went on, “it ikes feasible some discoveries that »uld be impossible by any other own means.”

Mr. Grover said the techniques to used could neutralise concealment vegetation, deep soil cover and amps, and it would even be possible detect some types of mineral :urrences covered by up to 400 ft hard, barren, sedimentary rock.

UN Grant The total cost of the project is imated at about $1,450,000, of lich the United Nations Special nd will contribute about $BBO,OOO. e BSIP will contribute the services, uipment and facilities of its Geo- »ical Survey Department, plus a all proportion of the costs of the perts employed under the project.

In his radio talk, Mr. Grover said: “If we find, say, 100 geophysical omalies, then we know that we n direct our ground parties straight them without wasting time beat- ; about the bush.”

Ninety-odd anomalies out of 100 ght be due to structures containing neralisation that was not economic, said.

But several anomalies would be e to mineral occurrences, which >uld receive concentrated attention the ground by the geological sury, by the end of which work it auld be possible to recommend ints for drilling.

Mr. Grover said there would be ficulties in the aerial survey, be- □se fixed wing aircraft had never carried out such work in such rough country.

“We do not know exactly what will be possible as we are still in the planning stage,” he said, “and much will depend on the decisions reached by the specialist geophysicists and the aerial survey companies, after the local difficulties have been studied and appreciated.”

However, in the end it would be the ground follow-up team, cutting its way through virgin jungle, which would provide the answer as to whether an anomaly was worth further detailed attention.

For three years his department had been educating and training Solomon Islander staff to the necessary standards, so that the follow-up field survey work, grid layout, magnetometer, electromagnetic, geological and geochemical surveys could be done expeditiously.

The work of the last decade had show beyond doubt that the BSIP had mineralisation, and that an aerial geophysical survey was required. 43 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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Much Ado About UN Expert's Bombshell On Education From R. F. Rankin, in Apia Unesco adviser Dr. Chester Williams, a guitar playing lumorist in his spare time, didn’t have many NZ teachers aughing when he left Apia on completing his term at the end >f June.

E dropped a bombshell on educational and administrative circles n he said in a newspaper interf that for two years he had been :king his head against a brick ir. Williams, an American iously assigned to Somaliland, appointed by UN to assist in ving up an education policy and dopment plan for Western Samoa, to draw up a curriculum ningful to the needs of the itry. But, he claimed, he was trated at every turn by the lack op level co-operation in the NZ- Education Department. [e said that the New Zealand roach to education in Samoa was ked by insularity, blindness to real needs of the country, lack ?rofessional leadership and superm, and was barren of educational osophy. Furthermore, New land did not fancy relinquishing trol of the system.

Mew Zealand is paying out for nation and it seems New Zealand ;cts to exercise control over it,” ;aid.

Real Needs ignored >r. Williams claimed that in splanting a New Zealand system education tied to the School tificate Examination, educationists e ignoring the real needs of the ntry.

The matai who pass Standard ir are the really important pie,” he said. “Not the few who ; School Certificate.

We have to get away from the osophy of education for the elite :ducation for the masses.

What the country really needs is lange in ideas; an infusion of an cational philosophy that can see broad needs of the country and School Certificate.” )r. Williams said the present standard of the Teachers’ Training College, which had a New Zealand principal and a number of NZ staff, was “abominable”, and that the curriculum was unrelated to the real needs of education.

In the limits of the country’s resources, education had gone as far as it could, and the great need now was to upgrade the quality of instruction.

“No new schools should be opened until the quality of education is improved,” he said, adding that the extent of education could not be increased without increased taxation; more revenue resulting from economic development; or increased aid.

“New Zealand aid will have to be increased and provided for far longer than is apparently expected if educa- Dr. Williams. 45 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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“They are often mere vegetables.

“Until this enormous waste of iman potential is utilised—until the eative ability of the people is pression, education is sterile.

In Apia, reaction was immediate, lucation and administrative officials jre shocked, and local UN head, arry Spence, bent over backwards dissociate himself and his office am Dr. Williams’ statement.

Prime Minister Mataafa repudiated r. Williams’ criticism in a radio eech.

Others criticised Dr. Williams in e Press for being unconstructive, r not making his comments until was about to leave Samoa, and forth.

But amid the cries of outraged nocence, there were many who pported Dr. Williams.

“When you think about it, he is ad right,” said one New Zealand acher with long service in Samoa. kN July 1, Coca-Cola produced by " the American Samoan-owned Dttling Corporation of Samoa came i sale in Apia for the first time the Vaisigano store of American imoan businessman Pila Patu. The ink is produced at Tafuna under anaging director Dick Carpenter.

With free “cokes”, sun visors, mcils and rulers, Apia children wish at new drinks were introduced rery day.

WHAT with Dr. Williams blasting the education system and Public Service Commissioner Vaiao Ala’ilima shooting down the Elvins Report ( PIM, March, p. 49), the air was hot with charge and counter charge in Apia during the last week of June.

The main faults in the Elvins Report according to the PSC and many local public servants, who were on the same side for a change, were that it gave insufficient emphasis to the Samoanisation of the public service.

“I appreciate many of the technical suggestions made by Mr. Elvins as to departmental organisation,” said Public Service Commissioner Alailima, “but I doubt whether he was sufficiently acquainted with Samoans and their struggle for independence to suggest radical changes in conflict with the Constitution, and the policy to Samoanise the public service as soon as possible.”

He said the Public Service Commission did not agree with Mr. Elvins on a number of points: • The Commission did not share Mr. Elvins’ view that it would be impracticable to train Samoans for Prime Minister Mataata. 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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He said: “The Prime Minister and ight Cabinet Ministers are performig important executive duties though nly one or two have had a scondary education. If they were isqualified because of lack of formal ducation we would not today have n independent country”. • The Commission strongly dispproved of Mr. Bivins’ proposal to lace the Public Service Commission nder the Secretary to the Governlent (an overseas officer) on the round that it violated the Conitution and made the professional ork of the Commission even more isceptible to political influence. • The Commission believed Mr.

Ivins’ salary scales would considerbly increase the disparity between le salaries of local and overseas fficers and it doubted whether this ould encourage harmony, condence, efficiency or economy in the Liblic service. • The Commission did not believe )und recommendations could be rawn up based on personal interews with a few selected individuals > conducted by Mr. Elvins and ;commended calling in a recognised lanagement consultant firm to do the ib. i LTHOUGH Samoa seems deter- * termined to hold staunchly to its idependence and not join the Comlonwealth, Samoan politicians have pparently decided that the annual *ee trip for one of their number to le Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference is too good a chance to irn down.

In mid-June, Tuaopepe Tame was hosen to represent Samoa at this ear’s conference to be held at Kingston, Jamaica, in November. He dged out Lesa Anisi in a final ballot y 23 votes to 21. Other members ominated and eliminated by ballot 'ere Tuala Paulo, Toleafoa Talitimu, lalotutoatasi K., and Polataivao osi.

Representatives of previous years iclude G. F. D. Betham, Amoa 'ausilia, P. Plowman and Magale ite. Samoa’s parliamentary set-up nd procedure is modelled closely on British lines. jl/HAT with a recently formed and ' * flourishing film society; a welljpported if irregular public lecture rogramme; the Church College of Western Samoa’s annual operetta; le highly successful presentation in ipia by Pago students of the King nd I; a talent-filled repertory Dciety; and painting displays in the Library, the arts and cultures in Apia seem in no danger of being neglected.

The high standard of local talent was once more illustrated by players of the Apia Repertory Society in their production of the two-act play, The Reluctant Debutante at the end of June.

The cast of Rosaleen Smyth, Meredyth Tunick, Michael Watt, Peter Creevey, Jennifer Neal, Louise Thieme, Laurie Harding, and Liselotte Thieme gave a remarkably good performance under the direction of Max Stevenson, The Samoa College auditorium was packed for both nights of the performance and audience response was very enthusiastic.

THE face of Apia is starting to change so rapidly and there are so many strangers in town that old residents may soon be wondering just where they are!

The £70,000 Ellicot cutter suction dredge with its 16 in. discharge had its first trial run at the end of June.

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As the dredge was having its trials, :abinet approved in principle a public orks town planning scheme incororating the new land.

The scheme provides for a conoiled tidal canal sweeping right irough the back of Apia, a swimling pool and sports area on the relaimed town front, and of all things, new airport only about two miles om the centre of town.

Using the dredge, a dream from rerman times will be fulfilled. The vamp and wide, shallow Vaiusu Bay ist to the west of Apia are to be to make an ideal airport nd probably a large central sports rea on which the South Pacific rames will one day be held.

With harbour dredging expected to e completed within 18 months, it is lanned to start reclaiming the Vaiusu ay area in 1966.

If the growing friction between re Lands and Survey Office and the üblic Works Department over who responsible for town planning can e settled soon, Apia promises to be re garden city of the Pacific within nother four or five years.

PICNICKERS and sportsmen had every right to complain about re weather in Apia in June. The iinfall for the month has been exuded only three times in the last 0 years.

Meteorologist Vern Andrew reorted that rainfall for June this year )talled 10.26 inches, almost double le average of 5.21 inches.

Higher figures were recorded in 950 with 11.37 inches; 1947 with 1.88 and 1945 with the all-time high f 13.44 inches.

Rainfall for the first six months of the year totalled 70.12 inches, not much above the average for the period, which is 65.06 inches.

FOLLOWING an investigation into Western Samoa’s banana industry, which, according to new Minister of Agriculture Laufili Time is in a “serious condition”, the local Department of Agriculture has announced a number of staffing changes. Emphasis has been laid on increased extension work and a banana research programme.

A new position of Agricultural Officer—Research has been filled by former scholarship and Lincoln College student Tavita Leupolu. He will be in overall charge of departmental research and Nafanua Station and will immediately implement a comprehensive banana research programme.

Seventeen extension officers have been posted to districts to explain to growers the new policy aimed at increased production and to survey plantations to arrive at the fixed quota system soon to be introduced.

Laufili Time, Minister of Agriculture. 51 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST, 1964

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Albert Henry

A CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE 20 YEARS From a Rarotonga Correspondent Ever since he erupted into public prominence in 1945 as secretary of the Auckland branch of the Cook Islands Progressive Association, Albert Henry, founder of the first Cook Islands political party ( PIM, July, p. 9) has been a figure of controversy.

HIS enemies regard him as a rebel and an agitator; his followers as a champion fighting for their rights.

Some people see him as the Cook Islands’ first Prime Minister under self-government next year—provided legislation on residential qualifications, to be considered later this year by the New Zealand House of Representatives and Cook Islands Assembly, enables him to stand.

Mr. Henry is a clever, well-read man, a fine orator, and a person with a deep, genuine interest in the welfare of his people. He fails to understand how the rumour got around that he is anti-European as he lived for almost 20 years in New Zealand where his four children grew up, and all his children are married to Europeans.

However, he undoubtdely distrusts many Europeans resident in the Cook Islands, and with good reason by his own lights, as he has been opposed to many European interests and the dictatorial powers of NZ Resident Commissioners all his life.

Former Schoolteacher Mr. Henry, who is a well-preserved 58, is the son of an Aitutaki chief and is a former schoolteacher.

He is one of those Cook Islanders who came under the spell of a kind of cargo cult that came to Aitutaki with an American Air Force unit in 1942.

Some of the men of this unit were openly critical of the New Zealand Administration’s alleged indifference to the welfare of the Aitutakians; and as the unit employed the local people at unprecedently high wages and gave them services and amenities they had not previously had, many Aitutakians became dissatisfied with the NZ Administration.

This led, in 1943, to the formation of the Cook Islands Progressive Association in Aitutaki, followed by a CIPA in Rarotonga in 1944.

CIPA leaders believed that they and their compatriots were being exploited by firms in the Islands trade, and they decided to do something about it.

Their main object was to establish a co-operative with its own trading stores and its own ship so that cash crops might be exported independently.

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As part of this plan, Albert Henry was sent to New Zealand in October, 1945, to establish headquarters of the CIPA in Auckland.

Henry worked in closely with the militant Auckland Trades Council which urged that trade union methods be used to obtain higher wages and political reform for his countrymen.

Within a few months, the CIPA had a major victory—the wages of Rarotonga watersiders were nearly doubled after they refused to work until their demands for better pay were met.

The New Zealand (Labour) Government then tried to get the troublesome CIPA to break away from the Auckland Trades Council, and when it failed, it sponsored another group called the Cook Islands Industrial Union of Workers to represent the Maoris of Rarotonga.

Henry and his followers claimed that this was an attempt to cripple the CIPA and tried to stop members Albert Henry. 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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Finally, in early 1948, the NZ Resident Commissioner in Rarotonga had to ask Wellington for a contingent of European police to control the situation after Henry (who had returned briefly to Rarotonga) and other CIPA members picketed the wharf to prevent CIIUW members from working certain ships. In a showdown, the CIPA lost ground and from then on it declined as an industrial influence.

Co-operative Society However, in 1949, CIPA members formed the Cook Island Producers Co-operative Society whose aim was to do all the things normally done by the trading firms. A total of £2,500 was raised by the sale of shares to Cook Islanders, and with this money in hand, Henry obtained an interestfree loan of £ll,OOO from the New Zealand Government to obtain a ship for inter-island trade.

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After this setback, Albert Henry worked in NZ in various jobs, including secretary of a Labour Party branch. Meanwhile, he attended university lectures on economics and philosophy.

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Within 24 hours of his homecomig ( PIM, May, p. 18), representaves of the CIPA, CIIUW and IPCS agreed to merge into a new ssociation.

I Polynesian Agencies Another organisation that Mr. [enry has established is a wholesale rganisation registered in Auckland, nown as Polynesian Agencies (Cook ;lands) Limited.

This organisation has acquired usiness premises in Tutakimoa, a istrict of Rarotonga occupied mainly y landless Outer Islanders on very )w incomes. These islanders have sen invited to join the organisation y buying shares worth 4/- each, to maximum of £2O worth.

The shares permit the shareholders ) buy basic foodstuffs imported by le company, such as rice, sugar and orn beef, at landed cost plus 5 per mt.

Quite often several shareholders ub together to buy a sack of sugar r a case of meat.

At the last count, there were 458 lareholders and Mr. Henry proposed ) limit the number to 500.

His supporters say he is also lively engaged in finding New ealand markets for Cook Islands reduce, such as taro, native chestuts and tomatoes, and indications re that there is a ready market mong the 3,000 Cook Islanders, Tongans and Niueans living in the Auckland area.

Mr. Henry says his original intention was to see his company successfully launched, hand over control to a board of directors to be elected by the shareholders, and return to New Zealand.

Insight Into Maori Mind But he has become increasingly interested in local politics and now intends to settle in Rarotonga and stand for election to the Cook Islands parliament as soon as he can.

He has given several talks (in Maori and English) at public meetings in Rarotonga since his return, in which he has outlined the economic history of the Cooks, pointed out what he says are the blunders of the past, and tried to show how such mistakes can be avoided in future.

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Japanese Occupation The Japanese occupied Nauru and took over the schools, installing their own Japanese teachers. The Japanese language was taught instead of English.

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“Sometimes people would come to me and say, ‘I want my teeth extracted’, but when I got my forceps out they would then say, ‘I am quite well now, there is no more pain’,” explained Aroi. “The next time they came I assured them I would be quick and there would be no pain.

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Quiet Revolution In South Pacific Churches From Correspondents in Suva and Lae.

Side-by-side with the swift political changes throughout the South Seas in the last year or two has been a political revolution of a different kind-a revolution within the Pacific cnurcnes.

THE churches are drawing together.

They have already come so far along the road of unity that it is only a matter of time now before they will be able to speak and act with one voice through a South Seas division of the World Council of Churches.

Missionaries everywhere see the present developments as exciting, and agree that there never has been a time in South Seas history when the outlook in the churches looked brighter.

The first link in the chain of the recent developments was forged in Western Samoa in 1961 when representatives of Protestant churches got around the table to discuss first steps in church unity.

They decided that something in the nature of a South Pacific church :ouncil was needed if the churches were to pool their knowledge of local problems for the common good, and be able to exert pressures where they were needed.

College Being Established All realised that influence was expecially needed in the South Seas, where the churches carried such a big -esponsibility in matters of education and health. Unlike the situation in more developed countries, most Pacific territories simply cannot run their education systems without the churches and missions.

The Samoan meeting also agreed that the Pacific churches badly needed a central theological college, for only a central college supported by all could be strong and prosperous enough to provide advanced training for church leaders—churches which themselves were emerging to independence.

The meeting established committees to carry on the plans for both a council of South Seas churches and a central college, the college to be based in Suva.

Hands to the Wheel In the last three years there have been many hands to the wheel, and there has been no Pacific territory where work has not been going on towards reaching the twin objectives.

There have been many important meetings and visits between church leaders, and a number of vital conferences to allow views to be exchanged.

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Setareki Tuilovoni, president of the Methodist Church in Fiji, laid the groundwork for what will be the first real assembly of the Pacific churches.

This will be in 1966.

Lae has been provisionally chosen as the site for it, although this won’t be decided firmly for several months yet.

Also at the Lae meeting, were Pastor Vavae Toma, secretary of the committee and Pacific secretary of the World Council of Churches; Mrs.

Fetaui Mata’afa, Western Samoa, wife of the Samoan Prime Minister, of the Congregational Church; the Rev. Graham Horwell, New Hebrides, Presbyterian Church; Pasteur M.

Pont, New Caledonia, French-speaking churches; Mr. Stahl Mileng, New Guinea, Lutheran Church; Archdeacon H. V. C. Reynolds, representing the Melanesian Mission in the Solomons; Dr. Harry Haines, of the Department of Inter-Church Aid, World Council of Churches, Geneva; and the Rev. Paul Freyberg, New Guinea, Lutheran Missions.

It was hoped that the 1966 assembly will represent 1,650,000 Christians who are members of 21 churches, from New Guinea in the west to Tahiti in the east, and from the American Trust Territories in the north to Tonga in the south. Also attending will be observers from Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa and the World Council of Churches.

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□ding Dr. Visser ’t Hooft, general cretary of the World Council of [lurches, Geneva; Bishop Lesslie ewbegin, assistant secretary of the brld Council of Churches and neral secretary of the Dept, of brld Mission and Evangelism; Dr. adeleine Barot, secretary of the apartment of Co-operation of Men d Women in the World Council Churches; and Dr. D. T. Niles, Methodist minister from Ceylon.

Exchange of Information The plan is for all the churches to change as much information as ssible before 1966 so that the asnbly will meet fully equipped to ►cuss the problems ahead and the -operation needed. Already there s begun an intensive exchange of iresentatives between churches in areas.

Talks so far have indicated that ; churches will find common ground lecially in helping to solve the of youth, the family, image, education, native customs, Danisation, and evangelistic work, lich is still needed in many areas, rticularly in New Guinea.

Conferences from time to time tween now and 1966 will help rminate ideas for the assembly. In igust, for instance, there is a big ;eting in Western Samoa on youth dership training, with young men ending from a large number of cific territories.

Catholics, Too Die first big Assembly in 1966 y not be an all-Protestant meeting, the churches are hopeful that the man Catholic Church will take t. ‘lt would be a very good thing if y came along,” said the Bishop of w Guinea, Bishop Hand, recently.

Meanwhile other hard work has ;n going on towards establishing central theological college in /a, and it looks very much as if it 1 be opened in January, 1966.

Organising secretary of this side of work has been the Rev. L. D. llerton, until recently chairman of Fiji-Indian District of the ;thodist Church in Fiji, n June, Mr. Fullerton handed over duties to a Methodist colleague, Rev. C. H. Germon, and he is v in the United States on a scholarp which will keep him away for ne time. [Tie college has an executive corntee, comprising the Bishop in lynesia, the Rt. Rev. J. C. Vockler [airman), and the Revs. S. A. ilovoni and Germon, with the ver to co-opt. fhe Pacific churches, which have been kept informed of progress, have approved a budget of £F65,000 for building the college. £40,000 of this came from a grant of the World Council of Churches, and £25,000 from Pacific churches.

The churches will find the money to operate the college, and it is hoped that support will come from churches outside the Pacific.

A college council will probably hold its first meeting in September, and will arrange construction of the college, appoinment of the staff and matters concerning the curriculum.

A principal and bursar will probably be appointed early in 1965.

The council will comprise two representatives each from Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist and Anglican communions, plus a representative of the World Council of Churches and the student body. It y vill have a lar 8 e measure of academic independence, Representation . churches represented so far in “c co ’’ e B e are: Congregational: Western and American Samoa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Cook Islands, Niue.

Presbyterian Reformed; New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Tahiti 63 c I F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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Methodist: Fiji, Tonga, Wester and American Samoa.

Anglican: Diocese of New Guine; Mr. Fullerton said before h departure for the US that it wj anticipated that other Pacific church* would participate. The organise] hoped that the Anglican Dioceses c Melanesia and Polynesia would mali formal decisions about this at the next Synods.

As a college site, the organisir committee has applied to the Fi Government for 15 acres of land ; Veiuto, right on the point of Su\ Peninsula. Already this area is small centre of education, for it opposite the Suva Grammar Scho< which, in turn, adjoins the Cathol Corpus Christi Teachers’ Trainir College, and several other Cathol; schools.

The site is also close to th RNZAF base camp at Laucala Ba; and it has been suggested that th camp, when the RNZAF final] leaves, may become a site for unive; sity development.

Many Courses Mr. Fullerton said that once th foundation of sound theologia training had been laid for the colleg it was planned to offer help to th Pacific churches through associate courses such as the training of mil sionaries, an institute of Christia education, a lay training centre, an courses in the French language, etc.

The purpose of the college was t take a small body of select student who already had had theologicj training.

“There will be a high ratio of sta; to students—four full-time teachin staff and a bursar,” he said.

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“We want the college to give th churches well trained leaders fron among the indigenous peoples. The; will be men who have receive* training for a period of rapid socia change.”

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UNTIL now the church here has been part of the Methodist Conference of NSW, and the new arrangement is another important step in the moves of the Pacific churches everywhere towards South Seas unity.

The occasion was an especially important one for Fiji because about 95 per cent, of Fijians are Methodists, and between 20,000 and 30,000 of them almost took the roof off the city in celebrating the great day. For months the Fijian and Indian sections of the church had been making their preparations.

Casting a benevolent and fatherly eye over the whole proceedings— services, exhibitions, food and bazaar stalls, athletics, canoe races, and even fire walking—was the leading Methodist in the South Pacific area, the Rev. Dr. W. F. Hambly, President-General of the Methodist Church in Australasia.

Important Visitors There were other important visitors, Methodist ministers from every State in Australia, most of them former missionaries in Fiji or some other Pacific territory, and many of the High Chiefs of Fiji.

Outside of the church services, one of which began at 5.15 a.m., all the celebrations were centred on Albert Park, which was packed from early morning till the solemn epilogue at night with thousands of all races and not all of them Methodists.

All the main tribal divisions of Fijian society took the weight of the celebrations on their shoulders, each tribe being responsible for a day’s programme.

To the tourist and others knowing nothing about Fijian society and customs the programme was a little puzzling with its Kubuna Day, its Burebasaga Day and its Tovata Day, but the rest was crystal clear. There were Fijian singing with its sonorous cadences and its faultless rhythm, Fijian laughter and the colourful spear dances, singing dances and the rest.

Ratu George Cakobau, the Vunivalu and great-grandson of King Cakobau, whose conversion brought a flood of new adherents to the Methodist cause and firmly established Christianity in this Colony, referred to the juxtaposition of Church and State.

It was perhaps mere coincidence, he said, that they were celebrating the independence of their Church only a few days after the start of the new Member system, or “Cabinet” system, in Fiji politics.

The Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, who formally opened the celebrations, was a little more concrete about the twin events.

“It could not fail to have been noticed that, a week after the introduction of the Membership system of government in this Colony, the Methodist Church has taken the final step to self-government,” said Sir Derek.

“Church and State are separate; Religion is one thing; Government is another. There is no Established Church in this country, and it is unlikely that there ever will be, but this realisation of autonomy in the Church which represents no less than a third of the people of Fiji is, by any standards, a significant fact.”

It was plain, therefore, that the Governor was thinking of another kind of self-government, and, bearing in mind the great assistance in cash and kind that Fiji gets from the Mother Country, maybe there was also some significance in another remark of Sir Derek’s, “God helps those who help themselves,” he said. “You Methodists have never been afraid of following that doctrine. It is one which all of us in Fiji might follow, too.”

How the two major races work together in an autonomous church may give some kind of clue to the future, although there is one important difference. In Fiji’s population Indians outnumber Fijians, but in the Methodist Church of Fiji, Fijians outnumber Indians by 80 to 1. 65 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST, 1964

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Every aspect of the 1964 Falcon-Mobil Performance Test was wrapped around realism. Sydney to Adelaide . . . mainly on the coast road, was the route selected. That’s a realistic miles-per-gallon test any way you care to look at it! Spice it with heavy traffic on the Hume Highway from Sydney to Goulburn . . . then cross Clyde Mountain from Braidwood to Bateman's Bay . . . and take the Princes Highway down the coast and “around the corner” into Gippsland. Let Melbourne’s heavy traffic influence m.p.g. . . . then tackle The Great Ocean Road through Lome to Apollo Bay and on through the Otway Ranges to Portland, Mt. Gambier and The Coorong to Adelaide In that 1380 miles you have all the ingredients for a thorough Performance Test, especially when cars have to maintain “near top speed limits” to complete each day’s leg within the prescribed time limit.

That’s the way it was with the 1964 Falcon-Mobil Performance Test conducted by the Ford Motor Company and Mobil Oil Australia.

But in setting June as the month for the test, the aim was to show the performance of the Falcons in winter conditions. Every aspect of winter motoring was encountered in achieving these miles-per-gallon figures . . . mud and slush, long sections under reconstruction, heavy driving rain and detour sections in the Otway Ranges, coupled with the fact that the Test was conducted under Mobil Economy Run conditions and under an Organising Permit issued by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport. The outstanding results achieved by the Falcons prove the quality of the cars and the peak power and miles-per-gallon economy achieved with Doubled-Additive Mobil Special and Mobiloil Special.

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Cific Islands Monthly Aug

Education On The

March In The

New Hebrides

A New Zealand firm of archi* tects has been engaged by the British Administration in the New Hebrides to design a Government secondary school in Vila near the site of Kawenu Teacher Training College.

THE firm is Warren and Mahoney, °f Christchurch, winner of a New Zealand medal for architectural design.

The British Educational Advisory Committee, headed by the Senior Educational Officer, Mr. Albert Fowler, and representatives of the five Protestant missions which run English-speaking schools in the New Hebrides, proposed some two years ago that the Administration should build a secondary school as part of a plan to raise the standard of education in the Group.

Now, the Advisory Committee is seeking the appointment of British Education Officers in each of the four administrative districts of the New Hebrides, together with more New Hebridean Assistant Education Officers.

A meeting of the committee, at which these matters were discussed, was held in Vila from May 11 to 16.

A few days later, a new joint Government and Presbyterian school was opened at Emau, a small island off the northern coast of Efate. The school was built by the Presbyterian Church with the help of Government funds.

The Condominium Government is to provide a subsidy of £38,000 for education in the Group for the year 1964-65. This is equivalent to £3 for each child at present at school.

These pictures, taken by Fiji PRO photographer Rob Wright, illustrate facets of education in the New Hebrides. Top is Kawenu College, just outside Vila, where promising students are trained as teachers. The middle picture shows the sole Euro pean pupil at a French school at Isangel, Tanna. {She is the daughter of a French worker employed by the Administration.) Below is the Isangel school. 68 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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People Lived There Last Century—Now They've Disappeared An Account Of The Lost Islands Of Tuanaki And Victoria By W. H. Percival Of Rarotonga Had the Cook Islands become British some years earlier than they did, they might have included the lost islands of Victoria and Tuanaki. is still marked on some maps, but not on modern charts ;ed by local shipping.

William Marsters, who died in >46, aged 84, and who was the ruling ;ad of the Marsters clan at ilmerston Island, claimed to have sited Victoria Island. This was hen he was a young sailor in his unties —so his visit to Victoria ust have taken place in the early ISO’s.

Marsters used to say that he was le of the crew of a ship that took Jew named Levy and a gang of itive labourers from Suva to Vicria Island. They were employed by firm to plant Victoria in coconuts that future copra crops could be )tained.

Marsters described the island as iving a barrier reef enclosing a irrow lagoon, similar to some ands in the Lower Cook group.

It was not an atoll, but an island volcanic origin, fairly well-wooded th a type of puka tree and possessg a natural boat passage.

Marsters’ ship left Levy and his men with three or four months’ food, but the firm went bankrupt and no boats called at Victoria for 18 months.

By that time the stranded men had eaten everything edible on the island, including the coconuts they had been sent to plant, and they were rescued on the point of starvation.

Some time after that Victoria Island disappeared, probably as a result of volcanic action.

No Sign in 1921 In early 1921, the well-known Islands skipper Captain “Andy”

Thomson sailed over the spot where the island had been marked on early charts. There was no sign of the island and a search over a wide area failed to reveal it.

The trading schooner Tagua, in which he sailed, was equipped with radio and an accurate chronometer, and Captain Thomson obtained his position exactly. He later reported the non-existence of Victoria to American marine authorities.

The other “lost” island that would have come within the boundaries of the Cook Group was called Tuanaki.

It was said to be some 200 miles south or south-west of Rarotonga and to consist of three low, thicklyinhabited islands within a reef.

Two native seamen claimed to havq seen Tuanaki from whaling vessels, and one of them said that he spoke to the people, who resembled Mangaians in dress and customs. This was in the 1840’s.

The natives of Tuanaki told him they had heard of the overthrow of idolatry on Rarotonga and Mangaia, and were eagerly awaiting a visit from the missionaries.

In 1844, the Rev. George Platt, in command of a small missionary schooner, searched for Tuanaki without success. During the same year, the son of the missionary-explorer John Williams did the same, also without success.

Before starting his search, the younger Williams called at Aitutaki, where he interviewed a man named Soma, who claimed to have gone [?]ictoria Island, one of the [?]st islands of the Cook roup, was a reality to at ast one person of recent mes—William Marsters 11, fie-time "patriarch" of Palerston Island, who died in [?]46 at the age of 84. [?]arsters, the bearded figure [?]st to the right of the hut, [?]aimed that he visited Vic- [?]ria Island in his twenties. [?]is seen in the photograph [?]ith other members of his [?]mily. The photo was taken in the 1930'5. 77 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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ore at Tuanaki. Soma’s story was jrpreted and written down on the t. ►oma said: “Two years have passed :e I saw that island. We went her by way of Rurutu Island, and m we found it, our captain rched for the entrance and then r ered a boat into which we tended. There were six of us, the tain making seven.

"House Full Of Men"

When we got ashore we found no on the beach, so the captain 1 to me ‘Go inland and search for people. If you find them, return !.* The captain gave me a sword.

When I reached some way inland w a house which was full of men. vas the house of the chief. The f asked me, ‘Whence do you e, from Araura?’ (This is the native name for Aitutaki, still wn today, but seldom used). [ replied, ‘Yes.’ ‘Come inside the house,’ the chief 5o I went inside. There were 2 but men there, no women, as have a separate house. After d sat down the chief asked again: you come from Araura?’ ~o that I replied, ‘I come from jra.’ ‘Where is the captain of your v told him he was with the boat, is afraid lest you should kill him.’

We do not kill men. We only v to dance and sing. We v nothing of war.’ then returned to the captain asked, ‘How is it?’

They are all there in a house.’

Why do they stay there?’

I do not know.’

'he captain then went inland with taking with him some scissors, and headdresses, and then ed the house and presented the les to the chief. The captain I the chief his name, le replied, ‘Maeva-rua. Tuikura y name, from Rarotonga.

Six Days Ashore he captain and I slept there that , whilst the boat returned to the taking some food—fowls, pigs, and bananas. We were six days r e there. he people are exactly like us. * water is scooped up in a bowl, the leaf of the giant taro. Their zt is that of Mangaia, and they the tiputa (poncho-like garment : of tapa) and use the same kind ms as at Mangaia.” s Mangaia lies 110 miles southfrom Rarotonga and Tuanaki (Over) Bush. Justice For A Coconut Casanova The first shots fired by Australian troops in World War I echoed through the quiet coconut groves around Kokopo, some 20 miles from Rabaul.

MILITARY administration, of what was then German New Guinea, was to last for seven years. The men of the Australian invading force—known ever afterwards as the “Coconut Lancers”— were allotted the various duties previously carried out by the official and unofficial residents of the Territory.

When civil administration was resumed in 1921, all the Government departments of the New Guinea Administration were staffed by ex-servicemen, including many of the original “Coconut Lancers”.

The Crown Law Department at Rabaul was directed by qualified legal men, but the Courts of Petty Sessions, scattered throughout the various far-flung districts, were in charge of officers of the Department of Native Affairs, many of whom had no previous legal training. Consequently, justice was rough, but honest.

It was difficult to bring law and order to a people divided into hundreds of tribal groups and speaking as many different languages—in an area where head-hunting was a ceremony, and murder, rape and arson were a way of life.

The language of the courts was pidgin English, and evidence was taken through interpreters.

Where the qualified legal man would be bogged down by the rules governing the profession, the amateurs were unhampered by such impedimenta, and they were able to build a bridge between the A Tale Of The Time Before By J. M. Bourke normal Australian sense of “fair go”, and the law of the jungle.

Their decisions were seldom, if ever, questioned, and in the circumstances, it is doubtful if anyone could have balanced the scales more evenly.

Here is an example of the way they dispensed justice:— A certain native preacher, a well-known philanderer, had been concentrating his amorous attentions so insistently on the young girls in the villages of his district that eventually a displaced suitor threatened to beat him up.

The Coconut Casanova decided that attack was the best method of defence, so he approached the European missionary and complained of the unwelcome attentions of a certain young lady.

The missionary decided that the dusky Delilah should be arraigned before the highest legal authority in the district, and when the case was heard, he conducted the case for the plaintiff.

When he explained to the District Officer that his native preacher was being lured from the path of virtue by the defending hussy, he said: “Ah! Major, only last week, my boy was lured into the bush by this hussy, and he fell. And Major, only but yesterday he was lured into the jungle by this hussy, and he fell again.”

The court was hushed; there was no reply in defence. The defendant, with downcast eyes, trembled in hei flimsy grass skirt before the bar of Justice.

Then the District Officer turned a glassy eye on the plaintiff and said: “Six bloody moons—six bloody moons hard labour before he falls and breaks his neck.” 79 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHIY AUGUST, 1964

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Having heard Soma’s story, Rev. John Williams, Junior, sai off in search of Tuanaki.

On board his ship was a nal convert to Christianity called Man who was to stay at Tuanaki and to convert its people. But they ne reached the island—if, in fact, it s existed.

During the voyage, a violent stc was encountered. Heavy winds i seas snapped a boom and one of masts; Maretu became seriously and the attempt to find Tuanaki 1 to be abandoned.

No one is known to have visi Tuanaki after Soma and his capt spent six days there in 1842, sc cannot be stated for certain wl the island slid beneath the wa> leaving no trace of its existence.

However, among the scanty reco of the period is one that mentii an island that disappeared within modern boundaries of the Cc Group.

A judge, J. A. Wilson, is repor to have said: “A trading vessel fr Auckland was used at one time the forties to visit an island, the ex position of which was kept seci But on a subsequent visit it had ( appeared.”

Position Unknown The Rev. W. W. Gill, a pion missionary in the Cook Islands, s in his Gems From The Coral Islan published in London in 1856, tl Tuanaki was known by tradition all the islands of the Cook Groi But it had not then been discovei by Europeans, and the missionai could not obtain its exact position Rarotongan tradition says i Rarotongans of the pre-Christian < used to visit Tuanaki in their s going canoes, and that the voyi used to take two days and one' nig There seems to be no doubt the fore that Tuanaki did once exist, 1 there is possibly less certainty ab( Victoria Island.

Yet Victoria’s position was ported by somebody with suffice authority for cartographers to inclu it in their maps—such as the 19 edition of Phillips’ Handy Volui Atlas of the World.

Perhaps some PIM reader m know who discovered it, or, at le? how it came to get on the maps. 80

Lost Islands

(Continued from previous page) AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Murder Case And Flu Outbreak Bring Eventful Days To Quiet Niuafo'ou From Dorothy Lavin, in Nukualofa Life on Niuafo’ou, the northernmost island in the Tonga Group, has been very much out of the ordinary lately. Back in March, history was made when a European judge presided for the first time over the island’s court and heard the first murder case since 1897; and in June, the RNZAF at Laucala Bay had to make a mercy trip to the island with medical supplies because of an influenza epidemic.

NIUAFO’OU — better known as Tin Can Island because swimmers used to tow its mail in tin cans to and from ships anchored off-shore— is the home of about 600 Tongans, who five a simple life in the extreme.

There are no formed roads, and transport is by horseback or by horse and cart. The only mechanised vehicle, a tractor, is mainly used— with a trailer hitched behind-to cart :opra from the villages.

Copra is the island’s main export.

But bananas and citrus fruits grow in abundance in the rich, volcanic soil, plus most of the other food the Deople need Chickens and pigs are plentiful, tnd fish are there for the catching.

Most fishing is done from the *ocks because the rough weather dong the island’s unprotected coastine makes it impossible to use out- ‘igger canoes more often than not.

From the breadfruit trees, the Tongans cut the uprights for their lomes, and instead of nails they use he traditional method of binding Th f C f l°°l s are Sl i deS ° f the houses nade from woven leaves.

Crime on Niuafo’ou is so rare hat police are not needed, and a asking magistrate only occasionally lispenses justice.

The judge who had the distinction of presiding for the first time over Niuafo’ou’s court is Mr. H. S.

Roberts, Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Tonga, when he arrived at the island, he found the same difficulty in landing as many would-be visitors before him.

Ac tU , , c a „ As J^' e ,, , s , no t wharf d P as * en « e . rs t? m ,he a ' . ThlS “I b ? a l try nifik^HnL a< tn en n tUr h if S l f 6 °? 8boa ! *° , a sbel f of *!, ock a " d bas ° f um P f . ro "> * e longboat to the shelf at just the “T, sw . ell ’ be „ IS , cle for at ,east a thorough wettln « ! nDT • l Damp, But Triumphant After considering all this, the Judge decided to risk a run through the surf in an outrigger canoe, and this was able to beach on the black sand after an exciting race over the reef and through the surf.

Slightly damp, but triumphant, the Judge stepped ashore from the outrigger and was met by a welcoming committee, who offered him the use of the tractor and trailer for the four-mile journey to Angaha, the “capital”, 400 ft above sea level.

However, the Judge decided to go by horseback rather than by unsprung trailer; and after the welcoming ceremony was over, he set off gingerly, accompanied by an interpreter.

Before long he and his horse had come to terms, and Mr. Roberts was really enjoying the journey.

Vegetation crowded close to the track on both sides in a riot of green and bright tropical colours .

Several stops were made along the winding track for refreshments— sweet oranges swollen with juice straight from the trees, and coconut milk—before Angaha was reached.

At Angaha, Mr. Roberts found the Deputy Governor waiting to welcome him and a specially erected bungalow was ready for his use.

The bungalow consisted of a roomy bedroom, complete with double bed, separated from the rest of the house by huge tapa cloths, which had also been made specially for the occasion.

Tongan mats were on the floor; gay hibiscus flowers were everywhere; and there was a kerosene refrigerator stocked with cool drinks.

Fanned By Girls After a meal, during which girls brought bowl after bowl of island delicacies and fanned him while he ate, the Judge proceeded to robe himself for the big occasion while native drums beat out a solemn rhythm. Then the Registrar of the Court presented himself and announced that all was ready.

The Courtroom had also been It was an RNZAF Sunderland such as this which made a mercy flight to Niuafo'ou in June.

This picture, taken more than 30 years ago, shows swimmers towing out cans of mail to a ship at Niuafo'ou —and explains how Niuafo'ou acquired the name Tin Can Island. 81 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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ecially built for the occasion. It id a flat roof and open sides, and e uprights were decorated with ilm leaves and hibiscus blooms.

The dock and witness stand were ade from rough wood and were vered with coconut leaves, but the dge’s bench consisted of table and air impressive rarities on iuafo’ou.

As the Judge approached the court, e Registrar announced loudly: ’ okanga fakamaau lahi a ene afio!” ler Majesty, His Honour the Judge.) The crush of natives stood up, d in the utter silence that followed, s Judge walked to his bench, bowed the court and declared it open.

The natives sat down again on eir mats, looking at the Judge in scinated awe, for never before d they seen Justice in all its regalia gown, wig and all.

The accused was a man of 25 to was charged with murdering a !low-islander of 24.

He had elected trial without jury.

Because interpreters were needed, 2 taking of evidence was slow, but as the ease unfolded if seemed obvious th^the premeditated, but was rather one of sudden anger.

As witnesses were sworn and gave . eir evidence, there was complete silence in the body of the court.

The Tongans sat rigidly listening to expression-missing noth- , Eventually, the prosecuting and defence counsels made their closing speeches, and Mr. Roberts reserved hls Judgment. x T T his , as given - on his return to Nukualofa, on April 28—the accused bemg found guilty and sentenced to I,fe * m P ns o n ment.

All Niuafo’ou was still talking TY about this celebrated case when outbreak oMnfluenza a aftermath of nnonmlia 0163 enM aftermath of ii v Li in u m d • A xr r , , , . , Niuafoou has no hospital or medical staff, apart from a dresser with no drugs and little knowledge, the situation was serious.

After the Premier’s Department in Nukualofa was advised of the position arrangements were quickly made to combat the epidemic.

An RNZAF Sunderland took off from Laucala Bay, Fiji, with desperately needed drugs, and contacted the Telegraphs and Telephones Department at Nukualofa for an estimated position for the actual drop—the pilot having been asked to drop the drugs as close as possible to the chiefs house.

Mr. Trevor Simmons, manager of the T. & T. Department, made a careful calculation of the “target” area, taking it to three decimal places, and the drop was made right on the chiefs front door step!

The Assistant Chief Medical Officer at Nukualofa, Dr. Alo, also left for Niuafo’ou by the Government vessel Hifofua to render medical assistance.

He later went on to Niuatoputapu Island, 110 miles distant.

At Niuatoputapu, 638 people were down with influenza, but they were fortunate in having hospital facilities.

Altogether, 895 cases in a total population of about 1,400 in the two islands, were treated.

There were a few cases of pneumonia, but no loss of life, thanks to the prompt assistance the sick people received.

His Danish Heart Is In Tahiti From Bjorn Westergaard in Copenhagen.

HAVING lost your heart to one of the lovely islands in the South Pacific nothing can stop you from wanting to go there again and again.

One person like that is 71-yearold Johannes Hansen (pictured), a retired Danish farm worker, who lives in Denmark on only a shilling a day, so that he can visit Tahiti as often as he can.

In the last five years, Mr. Hansen has visited Tahiti four times, and. in all, he has been there about 10 times.

He has to be careful with his expenses because his only regular income is a pension equal to £2O sterling a month.

Of this sum Mr. Hansen saves up £lB/10/0 a month for a thirdclass ticket to Tahiti.

To give himself a little pocketmoney for the long trip, he does gardening for people in his home town of Odense, and sells fruit and vegetables from his backyard.

Mr. Hansen says that when he was in Tahiti last winter, he met a priest in a barber shop, who gave him permission to stay in an old school-house and paid him for doing his gardening.

“I will take him some Danish flower-seeds next time 1 go to Tahiti,” Mr. Hansen says.

Mr. Hansen has never been a rich man, but he has managed to see much of the world.

He was in the United States in World War I, and has also lived in Cuba, Honduras, Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil.

“Travelling keeps me healthy and happy and I will go on visiting Tahiti every winter as long as possible,” he says. 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964 (Continued from p. 81)

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yesterday Things were going so badly for the Japanese in the Pacific War by mid-1944 that General To jo was removed as Chief of the Japanese General Staff on July 18. This was one of the main news items in the issue of PIM for August, 1944.

Other items were : ON August 1, US forces landed unopposed in the Cape Sausapor area at the extreme western tip of Dutch New Guinea, thus cutting off the last Japanese forces in New Guinea from Japan. However there were still numerous Japanese forces in New Guinea at places such as Rabaul, Kavieng and Aitape, but they were being steadily mopped up. ♦ * * The most ambitious agricultural fair ever held in Papeete, Tahiti, was ruined by rain in July. A group of buildings in the old Tahitian style was erected on the racecourse, but prolonged rains turned the course into a “quaking morass”. * * % The retirement was announced in Suva of the Chief Justice of Fiji, Sir Owen Corrie. * * * An epizootic tick was playing havoc with cattle in New Caledonia—creating a serious situation, as the cattle industry, after mining, was New Caledonia’s largest. The territory had previously been free of the tick.

Experts attributed its presence to the waiving of quarantine restrictions during the dark days of the Pacific war. * * * After a Japanese garrison on one of the Nissan Islands (200 miles east of Rabaul) was wiped out, a New Zealand soldier discovered three keys and a silver medal attached to an enemy wireless set. The medal, shaped like a Maltese cross, was inscribed, “Five Miles Ordinary Championship, C. R. Wilson, 1892. New Zealand Cycling Alliance”. Inquiries revealed that the medal was owned by Mr. G. L. Wilson, of Nambour, Queensland, formerly manager of Asalingi Plantation, 35 miles from Rabaul. * * * In an outspoken article on New Guinea, PIM said: “The continuance of military government in Papua, 18 months after the last Jap has been thrown out of the Territory, is one of the remarkable political developments in the Pacific War.

“The Australian Government, being little better than an uncoordinated gang of bumble-footed blunderers, allows bureaucracy to do what it likes with the Terrilories; and, as the Australian public is completely indifferent to what happens there, there is no check on anyone. So the Australian Army, through a branch called ANGAU (Australian and New Guinea Administrative Unit) is running the Territories in its own way, irrespective of cost, and without any regard for the interests of the thousands of civilians who were compulsorily removed from both Territories when the Japs invaded.” * * * The deaths were announced of a number of old Islands residents, They included: Captain Lloyd Pursehouse, a former New Guinea patrol officer, who was killed in action after the Australian 9th Division landed in Lae; Mr. Emil Noller, a businessman in Papua from 1906 to his evacuation in 1942; Mrs. C. E. Hill, widow of a pioneer planter at Emae Island, New Hebrides; Mrs. Jane Beddoes, a well-known Fjii resident for more than 50 years; the Rev.

Frere T. Lane, of the New Guinea Anglican Mission, who died in Brisbane; and Mr. Arthur Jewell, a well-known Papua resident, who died in Sydney at the age of 65. * * * Damien Parer, of the irrepressible Parer family of New Guinea, was winning the admirad°n °f American troops for his daring in filming the fighting on Guam for Paramount News, Melbourne Herald war correspondent, Denis Warner, said in a dispatch from Guam: “The Marines think of him as a sort of legendary figure the bullets cannot touch. Four of their own corps’ cameramen have been killed in the fighting here, but none took the same risks as Parer to get what he calls ‘the best action pictures I have taken this war.’ ”

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Tells His Story

New Guinea Territorians who were shattered by the report of the UN Trusteeship Council’s Visiting Mission, led by Sir Hugh Foot, in 1962, will find some answers to previous mysteries in Sir Hugh’s own story, recently published. He has called it, with singular appropriateness, A Start in Freedom.

IT seemed to Territorians in 1962, that Sir Hugh was advocating independence for Papua-New Guinea from Australia immediately, and this revolutionary thinking (revolutionary, at least, at that time), was even more of a shock because Sir Hugh and his team had seemed such pleasant fellows.

To New Guinea in 1964, 1962 is ancient history. Although the reaction against the report was strong at the time, the Australian Government has gone a long way towards putting the recommendations it made into effect, and everyone concerned has adjusted accordingly.

Nonetheless, the name of Foot, in the Territory, still produces the dim echo of a bogey-man rattling its bones like some unfortunate skeleton in a cupboard.

Although Sir Hugh had been a distinguised Colonial Governor and UK representative at the United Nations, except as a name, he was unknown to Territorians.

As a former British Governor, it was expected that he would have sympathy for the status quo; there was no way of knowing that he was an advocate of the belief that political independence and rule by the majority are ends in themselves. Here lay the initial shock of 1962.

Remarkable Family Foot comes from a remarkable Cornish family—remarkable in its own right and remarkable for a family of a Colonial Governor who reached such prominence.

At no point did the Foots impinge on the Establishment. Hugh had a strict Methodist and radical upbringing, went to a Quaker School before Cambridge and, with his four brothers and two sisters, was devoted to his parents and much influenced by them, even in his adult years.

In the British parliamentary elections of 1945, no less than four members of the family stood—Foot Snr., brothers John, Dingle and Michael—the latter perhaps better known as a leader writer on the Evening Standard than as a Labour MP.

Hugh Foot joined the Colonial Service in 1929 and his first posting was in Palestine. For the first 15 years of his service—which covered the vital war years—his service continued to be amongst Arabs in Jordan, Jerusalem and North Africa.

He became devoted to the people, and in one passage in his book he describes how he and several Arab Legion officers, thrown together during the war in Amman, became Arab enthusiasts.

“We didn’t drink or smoke,” he records, “we carried a string of Arab beads which we would run through our fingers as we talked in the evening. I gave more and more time to my Arabic . . .”

But in spite of his devotion to all things Arab, the Colonial Office had its way and he was transferred to Nigeria as Colonial Secretary in 1944 and thus began his climb to the top.

He was there as a guest in 1960 when Nigeria became independent, but in 1951 he had become Governor of Jamaica and remained there as such until Jamaica’s independence in 1957.

UN Adviser From Jamaica, Foot went to Cyprus and remained Governor through the years of disorder and was there to conduct the obsequies at independence in late 1960.

As the international humourists were now to point out, there were few former British colonies left for Foot to liberate and the United Nations was a logical step for his particular talents.

In 1961, he became the principal NZ Publishers Open Office In Sydney New Zealand publishers, A. H. & A. W. Reed Pty. Ltd., came to join the growing number of Australian publishers in June by opening a Sydney office at 143-5 York Street.

The company has a list of over 500 books—almost all of them about New Zealand, with some excursions into New Zealand’s Islands neighbours.

The company publishes all varieties of books — fiction, travel, biography, science, etc.—and as such has been of very great assistance to budding New Zealand writers. The company also produces text-books and more recently has ventured into the education field in the Islands.

To mark its Sydney debut, the company gave a buffet dinner at which the menu was entirely New Zealand—or almost. Due to a shipping strike, the Bluff oysters that were to have been item No. 2, became a casualty and Sydney rock-oysters had to be substituted.

Sir Hugh Foot. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST 1964

adviser to the UK Mission to UN on problems affecting the emergent and newly-emerged countries.

He became a passionate defender of the British role in undeveloped countries in the past and even more vocal on the number of former colonies which had achieved independence under the British since the end of World War 11.

He believed that the policy of fighting back against the anticolonialists in the UN plus the willingness of the British to get out of their colonies were winning friends in Africa and Asia, and it was precisely on this point that he split with the British Government and resigned in 1962 over British policies in Southern Rhodesia.

He belived that if the UK Government did not fall in with the resolution of the General Assembly, made that year, and call a consitutional conference in Southern Rhodesia, the good that had been done by getting out of other colonies would be undone and that, in African eyes, Britain would be looked upon as the the supporter of Tshombe, Welensky, Salazar and Verwoerd.

Something of this same reasoning had already manifested itself in the Foot report on New Guinea in 1962, allthough few saw the significance of it at the time, and he amplifies this in this present book.

He says: “The danger is that Australia, as perhaps the last colonial power, will become the butt of intense anti-colonial feeling. Such a development would ... do damage to Australia’s position and influence in the Pacific and elsewhere.

“No great effort of imagination is required to foresee more immediately menacing dangers as long as Australia can be represented as a foreign power in New Guinea.

“Free elections and fully democratic representative government are necessary in New Guinea not only for local administration but for international defence.”

This is an interesting book, even without its international politics— especially in its early chapters covering the life of a young man in his first Colonial appoinment. And, as a self-revelation of the character of one man, it is quite extraordinary.

Perhaps one of its most remarkable characteristics is that while the authoi goes to considerable lengths to shov his complete devotion to the indige nous people he serves, he make; virtually no effort to show any ap predation of the very real problem: faced by European colonists who whichever end of the problem yoi view if from, are accidents of history Minorities, his philosophy seem: to be, are expendable and the onfi service they can render further is tc expire without a whimper.

No Regrets Foot hails the independence o; each of the old Colonies he ha: “liberated” with unqualified pleasun and almost religious fervour—rathei like a fundamentalist Christian whc welcomes death as a preliminary tc life in a better world. He appears tc have none of the conventional regret: and fears of other men who have found themselves in similar circum stances.

This feeling for the rightness of hi: cause is the dominant theme of the book and the belief, as Foot puts it that one of the great movements o] this age is the creation of new nations is one that is held not only by the mature man of 56 but by the younj man of 21, on his first appointment.

At the end, the reader is likely tc emerge with either of two views abou 1 the writer: That he is a supreme realist in international affairs anc knows the impossibility of swimming against the present tide; or that he i: a single-minded prophet of what he believes is a great cause.

Perilous Path But whether one or the other realist or crusader, it is interesing tc note how perilous is the way of £ prophet. In 1962, Sir Hugh lumpec Tshombe in with the other targets oj nationalistic African hate; yet, ir mid-1964, on the day the UN qur the Congo, Tshombe returned froir European exile and now seems likely to become Prime Minister.

Again, on the night Sir Hugh lefi Cyprus in 1960, he said this in £ broadcast: “What of the future? I) is for you to answer that question A few dismal commentators say thal the people of Cyprus will destroy each other—that you will tear yourselves to bits—Greek against Turk Left against Right. There are a few who say that the island will go dowr in a sea of blood and hate. It could be—but I don’t believe it. People who have been to the brink of hell don’t want to go over the edge.”

J.T. fA START IN FREEDOM. Hodder & Stoughton. 44/6.) For Thriller Addicts It is interesting to note that, these days, films are not only made out of books but that books are made out of films.

Or TV series.

Francis durbridge is supposed to be the most famous serial writer in the world and his serials have been televised, filmed and published in 30 different countries. His Tim Fraser Again is based on his TV series of the same name.

For those who have watched it on TV, the book provides a refresher course. For those who don’t watch TV, the book stands up on its own account as a wellwritten thriller, the action zigzagging between England and Amsterdam and the tension being sustained to the last page.

Murder, diamond-smuggling and mysterious business with bulbcatalogues and a metronome are part of the ingredients. (TIM FRAZER AGAIN. Hodder & Stoughton. 18/9.) * * « Osmington Mills is the pseudonym of a working journalist —female—whose extra curricula activities includes whodunnit writing. Traitor Betrayed is a complicated piece in which Scotland Yard, Military Intelligence, the Foreign Office and defecting physicists all play a part, The characterisation is well done although the author has a way of polishing off her victims that is brutal in its economy. (traitor betrayed. Geoffrey Bles- i 7/ “ - Ali . u _ ™d lth ?, ugh ,J he P enl{ ! m F ran cis Clifford s The Hunting Ground a^ e n 9 me r° u s, the effect is less shattering because the action takes f , ace , °? Caribbean Island of Santa Marta.

There is a sort of take-it-forgranted attitude to the fact that when Brennan, a professional photographer, finds himself sole eye-witness to a plane crash, he should become involved in all sorts of international skulduggery.

The story is witten with zest and Ugh Br f nan ’s assorted ag ? ni^, ai "f t I ; ea enoug !jL . they a Pr ™ lB Wo V* d ma^e a B°°d suspense film. JT. (the hunting ground. Hodder & Stoughton. 20/-.) 88 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Fiction Department

[?]ies, M15 And Red Badmen; Drama [?]n The High Seas \part from the fact that The en, by Josephine Bell, and e Thunder and Flame , by zander Fullerton, are novels, re is no point of resemblance our only two items in this nth’s fiction department. •SEPHINE BELL usually writes either detective stories or straight els. In The Alien she seems to s combined the two techniques produced a story that requires ;reat deal of delving into the dies of the principal characters a lot of thriller gimmicks. x-Polish military attaches, spies, oair mother’s helps, baddies from nd the Iron Curtain and MIS, all s a part to play. here is also a moral theme—the tion of the English to aliens Tally and to the ex-Polish attache •articular.

HE ALIEN; Geoffrey Bles. 18/9.) s is befitting of an ex-RN officer, zander Fullerton writes about the His first best selling novel, ace, was based on his own service übmarines in the Mediterranean the Far East during World War ar The Thunder and the Flame, as gone back back over 370 years the days of Drake, Howard, lisher and Grenville and their oved piracy against the Spaniards he High Seas. i the last day of August, 1591, the Azores, Sir Richard Gren- , in the 500-ton Revenge which been Drake’s flagship against the tada in 1588, fought alone against Spanish ships for 15 hours, tie result was inevitable and iville gave his life for his icity, but he took 3,000 Spaniards him and 16 of their galleons, battle is still regarded as one of spies of English fighting men and nd it Fullerton bases his novel, iducing some fictitious characters the authentic historical incident arry the story. 3E THUNDER AND THE FLAME, er & Stoughton. 24/3.) Atmosphere And Objectivity In NG Literary Travelogue The latest book on New Guinea—and it seems now there is always going to be a latest book on New Guinea—is a sound piece of work in low key, like the man who wrote it. It has neither the adventure nor the sweep of history of some recent books on the Territory.

Australian film producer Maslyn Williams has made a literary travelogue of his seven years of film-making in P-NG (during which he made about 30 films), and the book’s title, Stone Age Island, sets its tone.

Mr. Williams has obviously seen too much of the outback of the Territory to believe that any headlong rush there towards independence is going to be in anybody’s best interests.

At the same time, he is aware that the political future of the country could be decided by pressures over which there is no intelligent control, so his book does not crusade for one approach or another.

He is content to report mildly on the things he has seen and the things he has heard.

He quotes planter Bobby Gibbes: “I think, maybe, that someone down in Canberra had best start thinking about making our New Guinea folk into dinkum Australians, before they decide they’d rather be something else”.

And an unnamed resident: “It is neither the Highlander nor the coastal sophisticates whom we whites need to worry about, or even the disgruntled and confused Buka of the Solomons or the arrogant Mekeos of Papua.

“It will be governments, including our own, following paths of political ambition or expediency, who will decide our future without reference to ourselves or to the people of New Guinea, or any kind of morality or justice, unless we ourselves do somethink soon.

“Faith in the future is a fine thing, but history is what happens. Look what they did in West New Guinea.

Even semi-literate villagers in this country were shocked and dismayed when 700,000 people of their race were given away in a political poker "Wave Something!" 89 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1964

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And Mr. Williams quotes himself, icn discussing the refusal of some lais to give up land so the Rabaul strip can be improved; “Compared with the great issues it divide the world today it is a rial matter. Elsewhere it might be olved by physical or financial sssures. But Australia hesitates to : these pressures. First of all :ause she believes that New Guinea )ple should willingly contribute /ards their own advancement, and ondly because any suggestion of :rcion will bring well-instructed tch dogs baying at the bar of the I ‘lt is across this rickety bridge compromise that Australia is ing to lead a straggling cavalcade mutually antagonistic and heteroictic human beings into the 20th fury, out of an isolated and orphous past, into a gregarious 1 unified future. It seems an imsible task.” dr. Williams’ passing report on three New Guineas—the coast, hinterland and the highlands— strates very well just what kind of :ture it all is. lis favourite New Guineans are Highlanders, “ who look you in eye and smile without doubt or e or shyness. They have self- )ect and are prepared to meet you -way and to do things for themes, not needing or wanting charity being forced by poverty to subience or deceit”.

Hope in Highlands he Highlands are the real hope 'lew Guinea’s future, Mr. Williams ears to believe. There in the up- -Is, with almost half the native ulation of the Territory, they are ifferent people from the coastal uans, who were delivered from Drical obscurity by missionaries, different from the people of the h coast, “who had Prince Otto Bismarck and the merchants of aburg for godparents”, he future of the Territory and i of Australia might well depend, eels, on just how sensibly the remship between Australians and Highlanders is developed, here are, of course, different rates 3rogress in the Highlands. The igi people are bright and breezy, pig feasts and sex play the most exciting delights in life; the Southern Highlanders still prefer a good intertribal battle for their entertainment.

Among many ancedotes and stories of this area is Mr. Williams’ on-the-spot report of how the first wheeled transport came to Tari.

It was a Land-Rover whose chassis, too big to be flown in, had to be manhandled 60 miles over the mountains from Laiagam.

More than 2,000 Laiagam natives started it on its way by cutting a laddered track up the sheer sides of their valley to the escarpment above, passing the chassis and the tray hand over hand above their heads, then ADO Bill Crellin in Tari (now of Samarai) and his carriers “walked 11 desolate days in one of the earth’s most lonely places, through valleys unknown to the outside world, carrying an automobile’’. They crossed into Papua at 10,000 ft and waded two great rivers.

When the Land-Rover was being put together 10 miles of road were built by the locals, who considered that Crellin was mad for wanting a track so wide.

Maiden Run The first vehicle in Tari had its maiden run on the airstrip before a large and curious crowd, who turned and ran without shame as soon as the “house” began to move off with a roar. Women snatched up their babies and hid behind the station buildings.

When the excitement died down, Crellin, Williams and two policemen set off to try out the new road.

“As we left the airstrip and turned on to the road leading to the T'agari bridge,” Williams reports, “a great shout went up from all the men who were watching, for now they could see the reason and the meaning of the road, and they ran after us, hooting with excitement”.

As the truck stopped briefly to load some shovels, the crowd stood wideeyed, “enlightenment and understanding flooding even more fully into their minds as they nudged each other and pointed out the thing carried a man’s load for him, and as much as many men could carry”.

But as Mr. Williams points out, progress in many other ways is swift in New Guinea and there is no uniformity of development. Some of the statistics in Stone Age Island are out-of-date already.

But such is New Guinea today that no book can keep up with the statistics. It is atmosphere and objectivity that counts, and Stone Age Island supplies both.—Sl. (STONE AGE ISLAND. Collins, London. 45/-.) 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

Best of The Paperbacks Fact: THE SPLENDOUR OF GREECE, by Robert Payne, is more than a book about the ancient monuments of this ancient land, it is a travel book as well, relating the new to the old. The author obviously loves and knows his subject; his book has been called a “synthesis of history, archaeology, topography, myth, legend and literature”. (Pan; 7/6.)

A Surgeon In Rome, By

George Sava, is based on the experiences of the author when he was Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Rome. (Pan; 5/6.) STYLE, by F. L. Lucas. If good writing style can be learnt, this writer is regarded as best qualified to teach it. Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge where he is a Fellow of King’s College, Lucas writes with humour as well as in his own style.

The way men write, it is shown, can be even more important than what they write. The suicide of the Light Brigade at the Crimea is said to be the result of a misinterpretation of a battle order; Sir Roger Casement, so-called World War I traitor, is said to have been hanged by the misplacing of a comma. (Pan; 7/6.) PROFILES OF THE FUTURE, by Arthur C. Clarke, a sort of latterday Jules Verne, who sees the day when man will conquer time, overcome gravity and communicate across space. (Pan; 5/6.)

Exploring The Occult, By

Douglas Hunt, is what the title suggests: An excursion into hauntings, black magic, hypnosis and other shenanigins. (Pan; 5/6.) Religion: CONFESS YOUR SINS, by John R. W. Stott. This is one of a series by evangelical churchmen published under the auspices of the Evangelical Fellowship of Anglican Communion. (Hodder; 5/3.) JUNGLE PILOT, by Russell T.

Hitt, who tells the story of Nate Saint, an American who was one of five missionaries murdered in Ecuador in 1956. The author incorporates much of Saint’s own writing in the narrative. (Hodder; 7/6.) Thrillers and Crime: THE BUSY BODY, by Elizabeth Ferrars. The heroine of this story married in haste and the excitement she got was not what was expected.

Fast moving, good writing and even, at times, funny. (Fontana; 4/-.)

Gently Where The Roads

GO, by Alan Hunter, whose hero is Superintendent Gently. (Pan; 4/-.)

Bony And The White

SAVAGE, by Arthur Upfield, is one of the last exploits of Detective- Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, being produced only a couple of years before his creator’s death. This adventure takes place in south-west Western Australia. (Pan; 5/6.)

Murder On The Orient

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and the PALE HORSE, all by Agatha Christie in 1934, 1952, 1958 and 1961, respectively. (Fontana; 6/- each.) CHARADE, by Peter Stone, is the story of a film of the same name, that is international in flavour, and amusing as well as mysterious. (Fontana; 6/-.) Fiction: THE SYSTEM, by John Burke, is adapted from the screenplay—a story of “cynical sex and flaring violence”. (Pan; 4/6.) SCARAMOUCHE and LOVE AT ARMS, by Rafael Sabatini, who is enjoying a posthumous revival for his historical novels. These two cover the notorious Borgias and the French Revolution, respectively. (Pan; 7/6 and 5/6.)

The Violent Season, By

Robert Goulet, has a French- Canadian background and a Zola tang to it. When the lumberjacks return to their village after a season in the forests, it’s not to their wives but to the girls of the local brothel, which has been set up under guise of a rosary-bead factory. (P 7/6.) MR. STANDFAST, by Jc Buchan, in which Richard Ham the hero of The Thirty-Nine St continues his adventures. (P 7/6.) THE GLASS BARRIER, by : Packer, is a slightly more sophisti ted and contemporary story of Soi Africa than the same writer’s Val of the Vines. (Pan; 7/6.) PASTORAL, by Nevil Shute, one of this author’s less metaphysi jobs and one of his best on the R. at war. (Pan; 5/6.) THE LONG SHIPS, a saga of Vikings, by Frans G. Bengtsson, 1 been made into a film spectacul It has been described as the st< that has everything—sex, fighti: travel and history. (Fontana; 8/- NAMBA, by Stuart Cloete, is departure from his usual books ab( South African pioneering. The setti is modern Africa and the proble are also contemporary. (Fontai 6/-.)

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THE MONTH Anyone who has ever taken an sort of interest in the great debate of last century on the theories c evolution is bound to have heard c Alfred Russel Wallace.

But it's not so likely that he or sh will ever have read a line c Wallace's works because these hav not been reprinted with anything lik the frequency of those of fellov evolutionist Charles Darwin, fc example.

Now, however, Wallace's moi famous book, "The Malay Arch pelago", has been republished fc the first time since 1922 by Dove Publications Inc., of New York, i $2 a copy in a strong paperbac edition.

This book, which was first pul lished in 1869, is a record of eigl years of travel in what Wallace calle "the land of the orang-utan and th bird of paradise"—i.e., the area b< tween Malay and Sumatra in th west and the "bird's head" regio of West New Guinea in the east.

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts More Formosan Trochus Poachers Arrested The crew of a Formosan fishing boat was arrested at gunpoint in July for trochus-poaching in the Fead Islands, about 170 miles north-east of Rabaul. This was the second time in less than two months that a Formosan fishing boat’s crew was arrested for trochus-poaching in the Pacific. rHE first instance occurred at Aneityum, the southernmost island i the New Hebrides, on May 27.

PIM. July, p. 103).

In the second case, the arrests 'ere made by Captain Bill Hallam, retired ship’s master, who is lanager of a coconut plantation in le Fead Islands. He arrested 10 len on July 12.

After receiving a radio report from -aptain Hallam, the P-NG Admiistration sent an official party •om Sohano in the Government boat Hvani to investigate. The party comrised the District Commissioner for ougainville, Mr. P. Mollison, a lagistrate and a contingent of native olice.

The Nivani escorted the Formosan oat to Rabaul where, on July 17, le captain was fined £5 for being an legal immigrant.

Captain Hallam, in radio-telephone calls to associates at Rabaul, said that the Fead Island natives had complained to him on July 11 that Formosan seamen were raiding the islands for shell fish and coconuts. He sighted their junk the next day and followed it in a powered canoe.

The Formosans would not let him near them so he went back to his house for a gun. He found them still brazenly shell-fishing on the reef so he told them to go ashore.

“They wouldn’t move so 1 sent a shot over their heads and they understood quickly enough,” Captain Hallam said. “I have arrested them and their ship, which I have every right to do under marine law”.

Captain Hallam added that he made the Formosans sail their boat to an anchorage near his house, where he kept watch on them. There had been no violence nor attempts to escape.

Earlier this year, Captain Hallam unsuccessfully chased a mysterious sampan whose crew was reported to have made two unauthorised landings in the Fead Group. (PIM, April, p. 105).

Captain Hallam and a few white missionaries are the only people apart from native subsistence farmers who live on the Fead Islands.

Commenting on the poacher nuisance, a P-NG Administration spokesman said in July that there was little the Administration could do about the fishermen as they were “operating on a shoestring’.

Footnote : A Japanese fishing ship, Hoyogo Maru, landed a swimming party of 14 men at Funafuti in the GEIC on June 7, but village policemen ordered them back on board.

The Japs obeyed.

New Bunkering System

AT LEVUKA The Shell Oil Co. has installed a £65,000 bunkering system at Levuka to cater mainly for the Japanese fishing fleet which will be based near there.

The supply lines and the main tanks have been finished, but work is still to be done on the office block and loading docks. With the new installation. Levuka has become the second bunkering port in Fiji.

When the Japanese-owned fishing fleet reaches maximum strength of 105 catchers, plus a mother ship or two, Levuka, the former Fiji capital, In The News This Month mette -cadia ;aluma tria I jau-Kai iron Jedburgh ulolo yrond I itty Sark jfiant orothie irope ji Maru oyogo Maru me Maersk nni adavulevu aru athleen ikemba turabada II >ch Katrine >rrie acuata Makogai Mariposa Matua Monterey Neophyte Nivani Paisano President Tyler Rona Rotoiti Royalist Sayadra St. Christopher Tahiti Maru Talama Te Matangi Tiare Taporo Tropic Seas Tuaikaepau Ululani Valrosa Waiana Waimihi Yik Cheong NEW HEBRIDES WHOPPER: This swordfish, caught off the island of Tongoa recently by Captain Guenet, of the Condominium ship "Rocinante", is believed to be the largest ever caught in New Hebrides waters. It measured 3 metres, 60 cms., or about 11 ft. 7 in.

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Towards the end of June, Levuka welcomed its first oil tanker, the Jane Maersk, which, coming with 4,000 tons of diesel fuel for the Shell Co’s new installation, was the first tanker and the largest ship to tie up at the wharf.

Under charter to Shell, the Jane Maersk is 555 ft long and has a capacity of 20,000 tons. She was brought alongside without difficulty by the pilot, Captain P. H. Gosschalk.

Until she arrived, the largest ship to tie up at the wharf was the President Tyler, a 10,500-ton troop ship, which spent a week at Levuka during World War 11.

Whalechaser Refitted

For New Role

The Byrond I, an old whalechaser, das been refitted at Ballina, NSW, for a new job as a hydrographic survey ship on the Australian and New Tuinea coasts. She has also been *iven a new name, Ataluma.

The cost of refitting the ship was about £75,000. Most of her machinery das been duplicated so that mainenance work can be carried out without the need to interrupt surveys.

The crew will be changed every »ix months. The Ataluma will operate at sea for long periods during which ihe will be provisioned and refuelled vithout sighting land.

Increasing Lord Howe

Tourist Boat Fleet

A cause of complaint by visitors to Lord Howe Island may be removed luring the coming summer by the addition of five boats to carry tourists an excursions.

Last season only one boat, licensed o carry 14 passengers, was available :or tourist excursions outside en- :losed waters; and there was also a glass-bottomed boat available for :oral viewing licensed to carry 15 aassengers.

The biggest of the new boats is aeing built at Lord Howe by Mr. Alan »Villiams, proprietor of the Somerset 3resthouse. Most of the material has ■>een imported from Australia.

She will have a length of 45 ft, a 3eam of 14 ft and a 5 ft draught, and will be equipped with two-way •adio and echo-sounding gear.

Although the primary purpose of he boat is for the pleasure of tourists, he commercial possibilities have not 3een overlooked. Mr. Williams has ffans for a freezing plant, and may mgage in commercial fishing.

Mr. Neil Woolnough returned to Lord Howe in April with plans, timber and a shipwright to build a sailing catamaran, and a glass-bottomed boat. One hull of the catamaran is finished and the second is well on the way. Both boats should be in operation by October.

Mr. Clive Wilson is having a 33 ft passenger craft built at Sydney, designed specially for Lord Howe conditions. Her beam will be 12 ft and the loaded draft will be 2 ft.

Subject to a stability test, she will be licensed to carry 24 persons on outside excursions. She will be powered by a 97 hp Parsons diesel engine, and will have two-way radio.

The boat will be freighted to Lord Howe Island.

The fifth vessel is expected to be a 40 ft twin screw passenger and fishing boat for Mr. Carl Dignam.

Mr. Dignam is not yet certain of building arrangements, but hopes that the craft will be ready late in 1964 or early in 1965.

Australia-Islands Freight

Rates Increased

On August 1, shipping companies regularly engaged in the Australia- Fiji service, increased freight rates to and from Australia by 15/- a ton.

The increase comprises 7/6 to cover the recent Australian basic wage rise and 7/6 to cover “normal increased trading costs”.

The shipping companies concerned said that the “normal increased trading costs” included the higher stevedoring costs in Fiji through recent substantial wage increases for dock workers.

The companies also announced that the Lautoka differential freight rate had been eliminated and the new rate would be 182/6 a ton from Sydney to both Suva and Lautoka, and 207/6 a ton from Melbourne to Fiji.

The companies which maintain regular services between Australia and Fiji are the CSR Co. Ltd. (Rona), Matson Lines {Mariposa and Monterey), Pacific Shipowners {Lakemba) , and USS Co. Ltd. ( Waiana ). 97

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More Jap Ships For

Pacific Trade

The Daiwa Line of Japan has bought two new ships to trade between Fiji and Japan. They are the Fiji Maru (9,830 tons) and Tahiti Maru (9,053 tons).

The Fiji Maru was scheduled to leave Japan about July 4, and arrive in Fiji, via Guam, Apia and Pago Pago about July 26. On the return voyage she is expected to call at Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo and Honiara.

The Fiji Maru has accommodation for nine passengers and cruises at about 15 knots.

The Tahiti Maru, which cruises at about 14.5 knots, can accommodate six passengers.

The ships have been added to the line’s existing Pacific fleet because of increased trade.

Work Begins On Deep

Water Berth At Honiara

Hornibrook Constructions Ltd. engineers and other staff assembled at Honiara late in July to start work on the deep water berth at Point Cruz, Under the contract, the work has to be finished by Christmas Eve, 1965.

Lau Outrigger Canoes

Create Interest In Suva

To show that they are still supreme in the building and handling of outrigger canoes, 24 Lauans from Kabara in Fiji’s Southern Lau Group set sail in five canoes ranging from 18 ft to 30 ft on June 28, and arrived at Suva on July 7.

They struck bad weather for most of the 200-mile voyage and lost one canoe—the smallest—when it was swamped by rough seas.

Fortunately, the auxiliary ketch Makogai was escorting the fleet and was at hand to pick up the crew of two, Filipe Temo and Jone Mate.

The canoes visited Suva for the Methodist Conference independence celebrations. They took part in two races in Suva Harbour and attracted large crowds to the waterfront.

The canoes are small compared with the giant drua (twin hulls) which were built by the Lauans’ ancestors in the early days.

These carried more than 100 people and took them on long voyages. One type of drua had a dais on the deck for the chief.

The dura had holds where food and other goods were stored.

Chinese Junk On

Australian Coast

Mr, Dudley Shuter, a retired grazier who now lives at Redland Bay,, near Brisbane, recently sailed the Lorrie, an 80 ft junk, from Hong Kong to Brisbane. He intends to use his acquisition as a demonstration model and sell craft like if for use in Australian waters.

The Lorrie had quite an eventful journey. She narrowly missed a typhoon off the Philippines, then she struck a floating log, and finally ran on to a reef north of Cooktown. She was winched off the reef without damage.

Finally, at Cairns, the Immigration Department refused to allow the five Chinese crew ashore, even though Mr. Shuter had adopted one of them.

In addition to the crew, the Lorrie carried two American missionaries.

She was joined by a shipwrecked yachtsman when she put into Thursday Island for repairs and water.

Although fitted with sails, the Lorries twin engines were used for her voyage.

Mr. Shuter said on arrival at Brisbane that a fleet of junks could become a useful addition for the meat trade with Asia. Each junk could carry 60 to 70 head of cattle.

"Bulolo" Ploughs Into

Rabaul Wharf

The Burns Philp ship Bulolo (6500 tons), carrying 200 passengers, hit a steel and concrete wharf at Rabaul while berthing on July 6, and ploughed 6 ft into it. She tore out electric cables and fractured concrete castings up to 200 ft away.

Five sections of one strake in the bow were sprung, and the hull was torn in two places. But no one was hurt.

The Bulolo was under the command of Captain Brett Hilder, of Sydney.

It was reported that the Bulolo was making a wide sweep under her own power to come alongside the

Old Clipper Is Still Doing A Job

Rather battered after its wartime experiences, but still doing the job as breakwater for the Burns Philp jetty behind the company's store at Kokopo, New Britain, is the hulk of the old England-Australia clipper "Loch Katrine".

In the pre-war picture above, the vessel is seen as she was soon after she had been towed from Rabaul to form the breakwater. She had previously been the coal hulk for BP ships at Rabaul.

The figure in white with arms akimbo is Jim McEwan, then BP manager at Kokopo. Behind him in khaki shorts, is Wally Tait, the firm's well-known stevedore.

The "Loch Katrine" was a steel ship of 1,200 tons, built in 1870. She was in the England-Australia trade until 1910, when she was dismasted off Cape Howe and towed to Sydney, and then turned into a coal hulk.

The writer recalls the old ship coming to Melbourne to load wool In the early part of the century. She was carrying some apprentices who were being trained in sail.

In those days the ship was smart and well-kept, and officers and crew were proud of her gleaming paint, white decks, good accommodation, and fine spread of canvas at sea.—FRED ARCHER. 99

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This vessel had been designed at the yard to serve the purpose of a relatively powerful, yet highly manoeuvreable tug to handle ships during berthing, drydocking and harbour towages. She is 96 ft. 6 in. in length overall, 25 ft, in breadth and 12 ft. moulded depth: her mean draft is 9 ft. 3 in. The tug, of all welded construction (except for rivetted main frame connections), has been specially designed to have a bollard pull of 18 tons. The free running speed is 11 knots. Ample stability in all conditions was considered of primary importance and a G.M. in excess of 2 ft. in the worst condition has been achieved.

Main propelling machinery is a Crossley HGP6/60 turbo-charged marine oil engine, developing 1,150 B.H.P. continuously under tropical conditions running at 600 r.p.m. The engine is coupled by means of a flexible coupling to a Hindmarch/MWD oil operated reverse-reduction gearbox, type M2WR size SA, incorporating a reduction ratio to give a propeller speed of 200 r.p.m. en 9* ne has been arranged for bridge control by means of Chadburns system of mechanically operated remote engine control system combined with mechanical telegraph, all complete with suitable linkages between bridge, engine and gearbox and having disconnecting clutch so that orders can be signalled from bridge to engineroom telegraph as a straight forward non-reply telegraph system.

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wharf. She got too close, however, and rammed the wharf head on, causing a cloud of concrete dust and sparks from tearing steel.

Despite the mishap, the Bulolo left Rabaul on schedule on July 7. She had a small steel-plate patch over some small holes in her bow.

Engineers worked throughout July 6 to make temporary repairs to her bow. Full repairs will be made when the Bulolo returns to Sydney.

Lord Howe Island Cargo

Handling Plan

The New South Wales Government has made a grant of £15,000 for waterfront improvements at Lord Howe Island.

Two construction engineers visited the island in June and said they hoped that work would start late in July.

One project is to provide cargo handling facilities at Ned’s Beach on the eastern side of the waterfront; a second is to improve the jetty landing area on the western side.

In the past it has been necessary for men to wade into the water, and carry cargo out of surf boats when unloading at Ned’s Beach.

The plan for this beach involves building a slipway and cradle and then a travelling hoist to carry the boats out of the water for unloading on land.

Need To Replace "Matua"

Within Five Years

The USS Co. Ltd. will have to consider replacing the 4,250-ton Matua within the next five years, the company’s chairman and managing director, Mr. F. K. Macfarlane, said recently. He said the ship was reaching the end of her economic life.

The Matua, which was launched in 1936, recently underwent a survey at Auckland. The survey was more extensive than anticipated, and she was unable to resume her schedule on June 23, as planned (PIM. July, p. 103).

The Matua operates a passenger and cargo service between New Zealand ports (Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton) and Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa and Apia.

New Role For Famous Cook

Islands Trading Schooner

The former Cook Islands trading schooner Tiare Taporo (173 tons) was scheduled to leave Auckland about the middle of July for New Guinea to trade between that territory and neighbouring islands.

The schooner, which is 50 years old, has made several “last” departures from Auckland and Rarotonga, but has always returned like Dame Nellie Melba.

However, her owner, Mr. W. B.

Christophers, says her departure from Auckland this time will definitely be her last.

Fiji'S Safety At Sea

Inquiry Ends

Fiji’s Safety at Sea Commission, which followed the Kadavulevu disaster in March, ended its public hearings on July 8.

The Kadavulevu capsized on March 29, while on a voyage from Nairai in the Lomaiviti Group to Suva. She was grossly overloaded, carrying more than 90 persons, whereas she was licensed to carry only 29, including a crew of seven. The death toll was either 89 or 90, and only three people survived.

The Safety at Sea Commission, comprising Mr. Justice Knox-Mawer as chairman, Mr. C. D. Aidney, a Suva businessman, and Captain S. B.

Brown, started public hearings after preliminary and formal inquiries into the Kadavulevu disaster (PIM, July, p. 97). At 24 public sittings they heard 42 witnesses.

The witnesses included the Comptroller of Customs, Mr. E. J.

Daru'S New Wharf

Right out at the end of this embankment is a much needed new wharf for Daru, in the Western District of Papua.

It is due to be completed this month.

The wharf cost £80,000 and will take ships up to 250 ft. A slipway will be built nearby, taking ships to 600 tons.

The embankment gives protection for smallcraft. Photo: P.NG Information.

A Coily Customer : a Tongan fisherman had a narrow escape from this nine foot eel recently after he shot a spear at it while fishing in the lagoon, but missed. The eel coiled itself round the man's body, and as its grip became tighter, the fisherman, in desperation, grabbed the eel's head and bit it many times. Eventually, the eel relaxed its grip and was dragged to a nearby canoe and killed. Photo: Hettig. 101

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Mall Ship Pulled

IFF REEF Toma Shipping’s 40 ft workboat, 'alama, was pulled off the reef ear New Massawa Plantation, New Britain, on the night of July 7. She ras not damaged. The Talama ran ground before dawn on July 7 after n overnight voyage from Rabaul to deliver cargo to New Massawa about 50 miles away on the north coast of New Britain. Another Toma Shipping craft, the St. Christopher, pulled the Talama off.

Freighter Abandoned In

CORAL SEA The crew of the freighter Dorothie (1,058 tons) abandoned ship in Jomard Passage, off the eastern end of New Guinea, early on July 12, after the ship struck a reef the previous night and started to sink. The crew, five New Zealanders and 10 Chinese, were unharmed.

One of the New Zealanders is Mr.

J. P. (Jim) Shortall, a former PIM staff writer, who was serving as radio officer. Jim is widely known in the South Pacific.

The Dorothie was on a delivery voyage from Auckland via Sydney to a new owner at Hong Kong.

Jomard Passage is about 370 miles south-east of Port Moresby, and is on the route through the Coral Sea between Australia and Asia.

A British freighter, the Baron Jedburgh, which was about two and half miles away when the Dorothie was abandoned, rescued the 15 men from the stricken ship.

The master of the Dorothie, Captain L. Boulton, said later in Rabaul, that the Dorothie was a total loss. She had broken her back on the reef, and would probably sink if she was pulled off.

“This was my first mishap in more than 30 years as a ship’s captain, and this was my last voyage,” he said.

Captain Boulton, who was born in Sydney, has lived in New Zealand for the past 30 years and is best known as former master of the Maui Pomare, on the NZ-Cooks run.

The Dorothie, formerly called Karu, was a trader on the New Zealand coast for about 30 years.

Her regular run was between Auckland, Timaru and Dunedin, with occasional calls at Wellington.

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Mussau Island Wharf

Earth tremors, late in June and early in July, damaged a wharf at Mussau Island, 250 miles northwest of Rabaul. The Seventh-day Adventist Mission reported that a new wharf, of concrete, sank one foot.

Tragedy On Formosan

Fishing Boat

A member of the crew of the Yik Cheong, a Formosan fishing boat, was killed when two ammonia cylinders, strapped to the ship’s deckhouse, exploded while the ship was in New Guinea waters on June 30.

The captain, Hui Ching Yit, was critically injured, and early in July was still between life and death in the Nonga Base Hospital, Rabaul.

Hui survived three days in the Yik Cheong, receiving only the most primitive treatment from the crew.

On arrival at Rabaul he was taken to the Nonga Hospital. Doctors in emergency operations amputated one arm and one leg. Hui also suffered severe burns.

Two Government ships, the Mangaia and the Laurabada 11, escorted the 70 ft Yik Cheong into Rabaul.

Savusavu Welcomes "Arcadia"

The first-ever visit of a cruise liner to Savusavu, unspoiled port on Fiji’s second largest island of Vanua Levu, was so successful last year, that the P and O-Orient Line was all for a second visit this year.

The Savusavuans saw their second P and O-Orient ship, the Arcadia, on July 9. She brought 1,200 freespending Australians to this little known part of Fiji, and Savusavu gave them a royal welcome.

There were Fijian ceremonies and feasts, swimming, reef exploration, and a genuine Fijian fish drive in Wharf To Be Extended Lae hopes to become the main commercial centre for New Guinea when work on extending its wharf is completed in about 18 months. The work was in its initial stages when this photograph was taken in late June.

The extension will take the wharf another 100 ft. to the right of the picture and enable two ships to unload at once. Such is the demand for berths that on occasions four or five overseas ships are standing off awaiting their turn. Another cargo shed is planned.

Jim Shortall. 103

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Suva has never seen a more welllaved crowd of sailors than those entertained on July 9. Nearly 200 re at Suva for 24 hours when the w Zealand frigate HMNZS Rotoiti t in at the end of a cruise in Fiji 1 Rotuman waters.

Fhe Rotoiti had been to Suva only : ew weeks before with the cruiser, 4NZS Royalist, and on that oc- ;ion the sailors “took the city irt”. 3afe and hotel owners, private zens, and The Fiji Times comined about it, and this brought a vent apology from the Royalist’s nmander. [t was said at the time that the ps’ companies had not had shore ve for 30 days and were letting off am. 3n the second occasion either all steam had been let off at other •ts in Fiji, or the men were told, ffiave, or else”.

Cruising Yachts • V ALROSA, magnificent 35metre yacht, sailed from Papeete on July 2 with all sails set after spending two months in Tahiti. The yacht is skippered by Marc Darnois, whom Le Journal de Tahiti has described as “one of the last adventurers of the sea, in the noble sense of the word”.

Valrosa is heading for Hong Kong and will call at the two Samoas, Fiji, Wallis Island, New Caledonia, Timor and Bangkok. She will return to Tahiti in about a year’s time.

Valrosa was built in a British shipyard in 1903. She has a crew of seven, and is carrying seven passengers Christian Jonville, Carlos Paez Villaro, Biki Marque, Hugh O’Brien, Bob Putigny and Jean Jacques. Rosita, a dog, is the ship’s mascot. • WAIMIHI, 30 ft steel yacht, arrived at Apia on June 10, from Suva, with a youthful crew of three two New Zealanders and an American. The skipper is Philip Wells, 19, of Whitianga, NZ. The others are Paul Goodwin, 19, of Panmure, NZ, and Frank Engli, 22, of New York.

The young men caused a stir in mid-June when they did not report their whereabouts. A search was about to start for them when word reached Fiji that they were at Apia.

Their original plan on leaving Fiji for Vancouver was to stop off for a day or two at one of the Lau islands, and then sail for Pago Pago and Honolulu.

In Suva they said they would inform the proprietress of a Suva guest house of their arrival in Pago Pago, which was to be the first port of call.

They were due at Pago Pago on June 10, and when nothing was heard from them, the guest house proprietress, Miss Cynthia Sutherland, advised the search and rescue organisation. A telegram to Pago Pago revealed that they were not there.

The search-rescue authorities were considering making a search for the Waimihi when word was received at the Nadi search-rescue centre that the yacht and her crew were at Apia. • JINNI, an American yacht skippered by Captain Reems Mitchell, arrived in Apia on July 8 from Hawaii via the Tokelaus. Captain Mitchell, a former marine, was in Apia during the war.

Jinni is on a pleasure cruise. A day or two after her arrival in Apia, Captain Mitchell had not decided how long he would stay in Western Samoa and where he would go next. • KATHLEEN, 32 ft yacht, skippered by Bryan Galpin and Roy Andrews, two young New Zealanders, left Nukualofa for Suva on July 4.

Next stop will be New Caledonia; and after that, home to Whangarei. • NEOPHYTE, 45 ft ketch, owned and skippered by Lee Quinn, an American with a penchant for all- 105 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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About 40 girls applied to Quinn to in Neophyte's crew during the tch’s stay in Auckland.

He engaged two Australian girls io were working as waitresses at a ew Zealand resort hotel. They are it Seedsman, 21, law clerk, of Kew, elbourne, and Glenda Siede, 20, of ingley, Melbourne, who worked in e same office.

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Quinn said in Auckland he would it be returning to New Zealand, so e girls he engaged there would have pay for their return trip. The girls Duld also have to pay for food while i board the Neophyte. • PAISANO . 61 ft ketch, from inceton. New Jersey, and skippered r John Hazelhurst, was in Apia in id-June. • TE MATANGI, 35 ft Block land ketch, with her builder-owner, ck Ferguson and his wife Daisy rived in Brisbane from Auckland, a Lord Howe Island, in May. They an to spend the winter in Brisbane id then sail south to Sydney.

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He signed on at Noumea after having taken part in the Auckland-Noumea race as a member of the crew of the Cutty Sark. At Lord Howe, the yacht picked up two female “hitch-hikers’

The women and the crew of five all left the Ululani at Brisbane, In Brisbane, Mr. Moore planned to He's Sailing Solo Round The World A small sloop skippered by a 50-year-old Englishman, Bill Procter, arrived in Tahiti on June 27 in the course of a solo voyage round the world.

Bill Procter’s voyage began in Portsmouth and has so far taken in ports in the Canary Islands, Antilles, Panama, the Galapagos, Marquesas and Tuamotus. The longest stretch was between the Galapagos and the Marquesas—3o days.

From Tahiti, Bill will go on to other islands in the Society Group, then Samoa, Tonga and Australia. 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST, 1964

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Early in July, Jim Pike was planning to remain in the Cooks until the services of his yacht were no longer required, and then go on to Tahiti. Annette has a capacity of 15 tons. • AUAU-KAI, 37 ft yacht, skippered and owned by Roger and Elizabeth Bath, of Long Beach, California, expects to leave Nukualofa at the end of August for Fiji. The yacht has been in Tonga for several months, having left New Zealand on April 7.

The Baths’ two young sons, Roy and Philip, are sailing in the yacht.

They have become expert seaman and take their turn at the wheel.

Mr. Bath is a professional photographer covering the whaling season in Tonga for the National Geographic Magazine in conjunction with Sydney author Olaf Ruhen, who is also planning a book on the subject.

Olaf and his wife Madeleine have been in Tonga since June 20. During their first three weeks, they stayed in a spacious Tongan fale, specially built by Captain Tefita Fifita.

Captain Fifita was skipper of the ill-fated yacht Tuaikaepau which was wrecked on Minerva Reef in 1962, and Olaf is the author of a book called Minerva Reef, which describes the wreck and its dramatic aftermath.

After three weeks in Nukualofa, the Ruhens, the Baths and Captain Fifita were to move to Ha’apai for the whaling season.

The whale boats will be manned by survivors from the Tuaikaepau under Captain Fifita, who has his own special method of harpooning whales. He brings the whale boat close enough to the whale to hand spear it, instead of throwing the harpoon.

The rope attached to the harpoon is hand held all the time, and just enough is allowed to run out to k a taut line.

Tonga is one of the few ph in the world where the hand-harpo ing of whales is still practised.

The whales are caught purely their meat, each whale being to\ to the beach and cut up for sale. • DEFIANT, a 57 ft A Q keeler, left Auckland on June with two veteran members in crew—owner-skipper Roy Lidg£ 70, and Frank Peal, 81, a Boer \ veteran. Mr. Lidgard is well kno in Fiji shipping circles. A few ye ago, he bought the old Burns PI (SS) Co. Ltd. auxiliary ket Macuata, and sailed her from Si to Auckland.

Messrs. Lidgard and Peal visi Fiji last year in the Fairmile Sayaa which operates cruises from Au land.

Other members of Defiant’s cr are brothers Len and Bob Sklen; and Lester Aitken, who are all their 50’s, and David Rose, 21. M Lidgard and Mrs. Len Sklenars w< to fly to Fiji to join the Defiant.

Mr. Lidgard is president of t Great Astrolabe Lagoon regat which will be held in Kadavu wh he arrives. Part of the regatta is climbing contest up and down a ft coconut tree.

The current target for the regal is to beat the climbing record of ! seconds set by Ratu Timoci Mataitii • EUROPE, 75 ft yacht, skipper by Rene Corpel, was at Apia the middle of June. The skipper w admitted to Apia Hospital for medic treatment soon after arrival, but w later discharged.

The Europe, carrying a crew < five, is on a world cruise, which h; so far lasted two years. Fiji is tl next group on the yacht’s itinerary "Auau-Kai", 37 ft.

American yacht, with Roger and Elizabeth Bath and their two teenage sons, has been back in Tongan waters recently after a spell in New Zealand. The Baths are on a world tour.

Photo: G. J. Clear. 108

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In A Nutshell ACK leaf streak disease, which ?osed a threat to Fiji’s <£200,000 ar banana export trade to New md, has completely infected the lina Valley, one of the major Liction areas. It has been identiat Naosi and on the Wainibuka r as far as Nayavu. The Wainiis another big production area, te Fiji Government brought in rts from the United Kingdom in Tort to eradicate the disease. The rts are investigating chemical 01, but the methods known at nt are uneconomic for small ers, who are the main banana ucers.

The RNZAF Signals Station at ala Bay, Fiji, picked up a signal 'uly 19 from the 70-year-old •ican raftman William Willis say- All’s well”. llis left Apia, Western Samoa, me 30 on his raft Age Unlimited implete his drift voyage across 3 acific from Peru to Australia i he began last year. He left under cover of darkness followiimours that an American yacht intended to follow him to film -ogress. This would have ruined alue of Willis’ own film, llis expected to reach Sydney out 12 weeks.

The Government Printing Office oniara, with all its machines, ment and records, has been de- ;d by fire. The Government j photograph library, two type- 's and some tables were among jw things salvaged.

A mile-long cable was susd across Pago Pago Bay in from the top of Mount Alava rise behind Government House, le end of the month it was ex- -1 to be carrying cargo to comthe TV installation on Mount . Later, the cable will provide transportation for sightseers.

Britain’s nuclear testing base at tmas Island has been “moth- -1” as a result of the current test treaty. The Royal Air Force at the base was due to leave e end of June, and the GEIG Government was planning to repatriate the Gilbertese labour force. • The French Prime Minister, Mr. Georges Pompidou, arrived in Noumea on July 25 en route to Tahiti and the atomic testing centre at Mururoa Atoll. • The possibility of exporting live cattle from the New Hebrides to the Solomons is being investigated by the BSIP Director of Agriculture, Mr.

F. M, Spencer, and Mr. D. L. Andersen, cattle manager of Lever’s Pacific Plantations. The two men visited the New Hebrides in late June for discussions with Mr. de Boissoudy, head of the Condominium Agricultural Department, and with plantation and cattle owners in Vila and Santo. • The Niue Public Library, which has 111 members of whom 44 are Niueans, is trying to stimulate reading in the villages by sending boxes of books to outlying villages so that villagers who don’t come into Alofi very often can borrow them. If the plan succeeds, a travelling library making a regular circuit of the island may be introduced.

SOMETHING IN COMMON: July 11 was the day and Rabaul was the place of the weddings of both of these couples—Mr. and Mrs. Donald Waldon (top) and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Fong (below). Mrs.

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Photo: Chin H. Meen. 113 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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SECRETARY: J. P. Neilly, A.A.S.A. • The South Pacific Commission d the World Health Organisation ve combined to conduct a refresher urse on tuberculosis at Commission adquarters in Noumea from July to August 11. Medical Officers atiding come from French Polynesia, estern Samoa, New Hebrides, mga, Papua-New Guinea, Niue, the nited States Trust Territory of the icific Islands, the Gilbert and Ellice ands Colony, Fiji and New Caleinia. • The Speaker of P-NG’s House Assembly, Mr. H. L. R. Niall, has inounced that the next meeting of e House will open at Port Moresby i Tuesday, September 1. This will : the first Budget session for the sw House of Assembly and the cond meeting since it was officially jened in June. • Vila’s new hotel, Hotel Vate, as officially opened on July 11. The 3tel, which is air-conditioned, has 14 ;drooms and four studios with their wn bathrooms and toilets, and four ;lf-contained apartments. The hotel owned by the Societe d’lnvestisselent aux Nouvelles Hebrides, the tiief shareholder in which is Mr. aymond Lavoix. • Troops of the Australian Army’s rst pentropic division started an inmsive mobility and jungle conditionig exercise in Papua-New Gunea on uly 20. A total of 320 officers and len were flown to Port Moresby in one of the largest Army airlifts to the Territory since the Pacific War.

They established a base camp for the exercise in Port Moresby. • Two former Suva children and their grandmother died in a gas tragedy in Sydney on June 27. They were lona, 8, and Cynthia, 6, daughters of Dr .and Mrs. Felix Emberson, and Mrs. Emberson’s mother, Mrs. Ida Elizabeth Russell, 58. Dr. Emberson was with the Fiji Medical Department until about a year ago. • An American, William C.

Brown, Jr., was charged in the High Court of American Samoa on July 7 with having threatened the life of Governor H. Rex Lee. Brown had been discharged from the construction branch of the Public Works Department on June 19 because his services were unsatisfactory. His case will be heard by the High Court on August 18. • Twist tobacco will not be a compulsory part of an indigenous workers’ ration in P-NG soon because of a recent amendment to the Native Employment Ordinance. Employees will have the right to choose tobacco or cash in ration issues for themselves and their wives.

Niue Gets A Do-It-Yourself Post Office Until a few weeks ago, Niue’s Post Office staff used to fill in he necessary form whenever myone wanted to send a telegram, money order, etc.

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MILLERS LIMITED, Suva & Lautoka, Fiji G.P.O. Box 296, Suva. Cables: "Lumba", Suva. • As part of a build-up of the Pacific Islands Regiment, the Australian Government plans to extend accommodation and facilities at exisiting Army installations in P-NG.

Tenders have been called for the work. • The P-NG RSL has threatened to take civil defence into their own hands unless the Administration acts immediately to take some action to safeguard the Territory. This was decided at a recent meeting of the Territory RSL executive.

The decision followed a statement by the president, Mr. R. Bunting, that the country was in danger of being bombed, “not in the next 12 months, but now”.

The Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland, said at Port Moresby he was willing to meet the RSL executive any time to discuss the matter. • At the 16th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, held at Avundatari village on Malo Island, New Hebrides, in June, the Rev. Pastor Jonathan Wynbong was appointed Moderator. The Rev. H.

F. Peak, of Vila, said later that the Assembly was noteworthy for the increasing part New Hebrideans were taking in the control of their church, and the point was made that the Mission Council would soon cease exist and the New Hebridean pash would take on more responsibility. • Tenders have been called f Supreme Court buildings, worth total of £432,000, at Rabaul and P( Moresby. The Rabaul building w cost £152,000. That at Port Merest estimated to cost £280,000, w replace a building partly damage by fire in 1957. • More than half a million peop in P-NG are now protected fro malaria, according to P-NG’s t( malaria eradication specialist, Dr. Jj J. Saave. The people live in the Mill Bay, New Guinea Highlands, Sepi and Eastern and Western Highlam Districts. The protection is provide by an intensive house-spraying ar distribution of materials. • Cave explorers in New Guinea Eastern Highlands recently discovere what is probably the biggest ca\ found in the territory. The cave, net Kundiawa, is 250 ft. long, 150 f wide and about 70 ft. high. A part of 18 penetrated into a cave area fc about a mile before discovering th huge cavern. • Mr. Mohammed Ramzan, secre tary of the Fiji Public Works an Allied Workers Union, has been ir vited by the International Labour Or ganisation to attend a course a Geneva. The course will last for si weeks. It is intended for trad unionists who have regular contac with the ILO.

Typhoid Outbreak On Rarotonga All people leaving Rarotonga, Cook Islands, by air or sea in recent weeks have been receiving anti-typhoid injections because of a small outbreak of the disease on the island.

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However, since April there have been about 50 suspect cases, 20 of which proved positive. Two people died in April.

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Four councillors —two British and no French —were chosen by memers of the New Hebrides Chamber f Commerce, Agriculture and Inustry; and four New Hebrideans — ne for each administrative district -were chosen by the local councils i those districts.

The successful European candidates 'ere Messrs. G. Seagoe and K. Sol- 'ay (British) and Messrs. R. Guichard id L Leca (French). The New ebrideans elected are: Michael Ala Northern District), John Kalsakau Central No. 1), Joseph d'Uripiv Central No. 2) and Jean Marie Leyhe outhern).

In the past, all members of the S-member Advisory Council were Dminated by the British and French ssident Commissioners. > Statistics on aircraft movements the past five years, published in Bulletin d'lnjormation of the nch Residency in the New >rides in July, illustrate dramaticthe increasing importance of ition in the New Hebrides.

Tie figures show that 2,794 flights e made in 1963, compared with r l in 1962, 1,902 in 1961, 1,250 960 and 888 in 1959. r ila’s Bauerfield easily headed the in 1963 with 1,440 aircraft movers. Next came Santo with 492 Dwed by Lenakel, Tanna, with lovements for other airfields in 3 were: White Sands, Tanna, 162; 54; Aneityum, 64; ana, 36; Aniwa, 24; Tongoa, 26; brym, 8; Pentecost, 26. i 1959, only four airfields were use in the Condominium—Vila’s erfield and those at Santo, Pente- , and Norsup, Malekula. > An energetic anti-rat campaign ;ed on Rarotonga since August, 3, had yielded 85,388 dead rats ibout the middle of June. > Water charges were increased in t Moresby on July 1 because, the asurer, Mr. A. P. J. Newman, said, existing charges were uneconomic. new rates were designed to >ver the actual cost of production. 117 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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The plane, a Cessna 180, nam “Andrew Stewart” gives recognitr to this missionary who worked in t New Hebrides and New Guinea the turn of the century.

The plane, provided by Adventi: in Australia, New Zealand and t US, carries the licence number V SDA. • Bishop E. J. Crawford, OP, the Western Solomons, blessed t new brick cathedral of St. Peter Gizo, BSIP, on June 18, in the pi sence of a large crowd, includr many Roman Catholics from oi stations in the area. • The Chief Justice of Papua-Nc Guinea, Sir Alan Mann, left Pc Moresby on July 13 for medical trei ment in Brisbane. Sir Alan became at Tari on July 10 while on circuit. • The newly appointed Vic Apostolic of the Cook Islands, Me Rev. Henry de Cocq, received tl episcopal consecration from tl auxiliary Roman Catholic Bishop Auckland, the Most Rev. R.

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R. Mylius, Lecturer in Public Health at the same college. • Dr. Le Clercq, of the World Health Organisation, arrived in Vila recently to take up the post of technical adviser for the Condominium campaign against TB, due to begin in August. Dr. Le Clercq expects to be in the New Hebrides for two years. • The Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, the Rt. Rev. David Hand, and three other people escaped injury when a single-engine Cessna in which they were travelling crashed on the Goroka airstrip on July 15. • Sir Robert Foster, the new High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and Lady Foster, began their first tour of the BSIP on July 6 in the RCS Coral Queen. Their first stopping places were Kira Kira, Auki, Malu’u and Wagina. They returned to Honiara on July 16.

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When he returned home he took with him Australian flags and pictures of the Queen. The people were short of them, and they were very fond of the Queen and of the Australian Government, he said. • Mr. V. O. Bennett, an Englishman, has been appointed Adult Education Officer in the P-NG Education Department. He is the first AEO appointed to the department. He will be responsible for developing an adult education programme for natives, with emphasis on teaching English.

SEA TRAVELLERS; Passengers in the Matson liner "Monterey" when she left Sydney for San Francisco in July included these two Islands couples. At top are Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Michel who were on their way to Noumea for a six-week holiday after having spent months in Sydney. Mr.

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Pacific Commerce and Produce Fiji's Trade Figures Don't Balance Again—But...

From a Suva Correspondent When, each year about this time, Fiji releases its trade statistics, not the least interesting set of figures to be given prominence in the public mind is that showing trade balances between Fiji and some other countries.

FOR years, the figures have shown that Australia has sold more to Fiji but Britain has bought more, since the greater part of Fiji comnerce is, in fact, in the hands of Ausralia, this imbalance has been regarded by many people, in some jeculiar way, as something rather beow the belt.

The insinuation has been that Ausralia ought to be ashamed of itself or not balancing its trade.

The latest figures—those for 1963 —are now out, and the pattern is the ame, or even more so.

Australia last year lead the field >y exporting goods worth £F5,775,000 o Fiji, an increase of more than :900,000 on the previous year; vhich gave her 28.6 per cent, of 7 iji’s import trade.

Britain sold the British Colony goods worth £F4,733,000, which was virtually the same as the previous year, but the UK took the largest share of Fiji’s exports—worth more than £F9,298,000.

But there has been one important addition to the latest statistics. Fiji has officially pointed out that, when releasing them, criticism of trade imbalances is not always intelligent, as circumstances vary.

Official Comment Reported the Commerce and Industries Officer, Mr. R. W. Parkinson: “There is often a good deal of comment on this bilateral aspect of trade and suggestions made that some countries should buy more from us because we buy from them.

“These considerations are common enough in world trade—though whether the outcome of bilateral agreements is desirable may be debated—but with our small range of exportable commodities it is virtually impossible to attempt to strike a balance with individual countries.

“For instance, there is little we could export to India or Indonesia, but it suits our importers to buy petroleum and textile products from these sources.

“Clearly any attempt to balance out country by country would need rigid controls and would very strictly limit our importers’ ability to find the best source of supply and our exporters’ opportunity to sell where they could get the best returns.

“It is unlikely that such action would be in the best interests of Fiji.”

The fact is, of course, that Australia is a tropical country and produces the goods that tropical Fiji wants to export. Britain doesn’t.

Australia produces her own sugar, and Britain bought from Fiji sugar worth £8,259,274, which accounted for virtually all but £1 million of her purchases from the Colony.

Australia has her own supplies of coconut products, which is why Japan took all Fiji’s copra last year and the UK took the greatest part of the coconut oil.

But Australia bought all Fiji’s gold, worth more than £1,557,000.

Fiji in 1963 had favourable trading balances with: United Kingdom, £4,565,000; Canada, £3,147,000; United States, £1,899,000; Western Samoa, £457,000; West Germany, £373,000; the Netherlands, £283,000.

There were adverse balances with: Australia, £3,837,000; Japan, £1,473,000; India, £1,125,000; Indonesia, £1,042,000; New Zealand, £840,000; Hong Kong, £740,000; Singapore, £537,000.

Overall, Fiji had a favourable trade balance in 1963—the first for six years.

Total trade running at more than £42 million, £9 million higher than in 1962, left a net balance of £1,865,000.

Mr. Parkinson, a cautious man, said that the long term effect of such sudden and sweeping changes in the state of the economy would be of vital interest, but it was probably safe to say that the overall state of the economy had never been stronger than it was at the end of 1963.

The favourable position was due almost entirely to the sugar industry in which there was a far greater output than ever before, at prices close to those which ruled during the Suez crisis of 1956.

Drought Cuts New Caledonia’s Nickel Production New Caledonia’s nickel industry is facing a crisis because a drought has reduced the level of water in Yate dam. This, in turn, has reduced production of hydro-electirc power to work the smelters.

The power output has fallen at a time when the nickel smelters should be working at full capacity because of extra orders received for nickel.

Auxiliary diesel generators are in use, but unless there is heavy rain for the remainder of the year, the power output will be so small that ferro-nickel production could drop by as much as 70 per cent by February.

NEW MANAGER: Recently arrived in Rabaul to take over the ANZ Bank is Alan Waters who replaces Keith MacNish who is returning to Queensland after three years in Rabaul.

Strike Settled At Fiji's Vatukoulo BOTH sides in a dispute which arose at Fiji’s Emperor Gold mine at Vatukoula made an amicable settlement in July.

The dispute arose through the management of the Emperor Gold Mining Company Ltd. refusing a request of the Fijian Mineworkers’

Union to dismiss a senior underground foreman for allegedly using abusive language to union members.

The refusal prompted the union to strike in June. A deadlock was reached and work was resumed only after the Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, set up a commission of inquiry into the dispute.

Evidence was heard in public, but no report of the findings of the Commissioner, Senior Magistrate A. J.

Jeddere-Fisher, has been published (and it is not now expected to be).

Copies of the report are understood to have been sent to the parties and after a visit to the mines by the Labour Commissioner, Mr.

J. Amputch, in July a joint statement was released in which it was revealed that the union executive committee had made proposals for the settlement of the dispute, and that the company had accepted them. The foreman was to apologise.

About 1,500 men are enrolled in the union. The industry in Fiji supports about 5,000 to 6,000 on the field.

The dispute came at a time when a revised working agreement between the union and the company is under negotiation.

During the inquiry Mr. A. Watson, the company’s general manager, told the Commissioner that the industry could not afford any loss of production or increase in costs.

Mr. Watson produced a cable from the company’s chief general manager, Mr. N. E. Nilsen, which asked him to bring to the notice of the Fiji Government and the union officials the company’s great concern at strike action, because of the company’s limited financial resources.

The cable added that the company’s delicate economic position, with a fixed price for gold, prohibited acceptance of either an interruption of revenue or of increased expenditure.

The cable did not seem to augur well for shareholders’ dividend prospects (no dividend on ordinary shares has been paid since 1956) nor a union demand for revised wage scales.

New Company Law In Papua-New Guinea THE new Papua-New Guinea Companies Ordinance came into force on July 1. Public companies are now required to lodge with the Registrar of Companies much more detailed returns, annual balance sheets, etc., than previously.

The P-NG Secretary for Law, Mr.

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BSIP Logging Projects THE Allardyce Lumber Cos. Ltd. hopes to start logging this month in the Allardyce Harbour area at Santa Ysabel, BSIP. A second company, the Kalena Timber Cos. expects to start operations in the Viru Harbour-Kalena Bay area, by the end of the year.

The BSIP Government and local landowners in the Allardyce Harbour area have entered into an agreement under which the landowners will receive £4,000 as a down payment for 75,000 acres of timber land. The landowners will receive annual ments each year timber extractior takes place.

The Colonial Timber Corporation of which the Allardyce Lumber Cos.

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The Government and the Kalena Timber Cos. are working under a similar arrangement in the Viru Harbour-Kalena Bay area, where 68,000 acres will be worked. The terms include the payment of 10 per cent of timber royalties to former landowners in each year in which timber working takes place.

In the initial stages the exports New Industries In Port Moresby A moulding factory producing timber mouldings, dowel rods and broom handles, and a sheet metal factory turning out continuous guttering, downpipe and water tanks, are two light industries recently established in Port Moresby by Steamships Trading Company Ltd.

The moulding factory is already exporting large quantities of dowel rods and broom handles to Sydney and soon will be exporting mouldings. The factory, equipped with the latest machinery, has only one European supervisor. It cost Steamships £50,000 to establish.

The sheet metal factory is using new German machinery to produce the continuous guttering. Photos show New Guinean workers producing rods and others finishing off water tanks. 122 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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CABLES & TELEGRAMS: “WHITLOYD”, SYDNEY. 82 Pitt Street, Sydney. 181 Church Str<*t, Parramatta. 26-6111 635-6078 11 be mainly the Calophyllum ecies. , Mr. G. E. C. Meats, a director of i company, expects that 100,000 per feet of logs and 20,000 super »t of sawn lumber should be proced a day when the company is in 11 operation. iji Expects Record ugar Crop IHE Fiji sugar crop for 1964 is expected to be a record 320,000 is, the chairman of the Colonial gar Refining Cos. Ltd., Mr. J. W. inlop, told the annual meeting of ; company at Sydney in July.

Mr. Dunlop did not say what the Dp would be worth, but it should between £15,000,000 and 6,000,000.

The 1964 return should be about ,000,000 more than that of 1963, len it was £14,375,000, but the :reased output for 1964 (21,000 ns above that of 1963) is likely to ing less per ton.

The 1963 average was just below 3, f.0.b., while for 1964, based on rly July world prices, and the aranteed return of £Stg.46/0/10 r 126,000 tons under the British Dmmonwealth Sugar Agreement, the erage will be a little better than ■7.

Mr. Dunlop told shareholders that ops had not been much affected ' severe flooding in March this year.

After mentioning previous expan- Dn, including an increase in the capacity of the mills to crush 320,000 tons of raw sugar this year, Mr.

Dunlop said there would be further expansion in the next two years, when extra cane would come from existing growers, growers re-entering the industry and new growers.

The acreage under cane was expected to increase materially, and there would be large capital expenditure to raise the capacities of transport, milling and sugar storage in the next two years.

Mr. Dunlop said that Fiji (and Australia) had shown themselves, by performance, to be reliable suppliers to the US. If there was to be a change in quotas the CSR Cos. hoped that the reliable performances would be favourably recognised for both Fiji and Australia.

Profit Tops £7m.

CSR’s consolidated net profit for the year ended March 31, was £7,395,839, an increase of £2,889,022, or 64.1 per cent, over the previous year.

The final dividend was 1/6 a share, making a total distribution of 2/6 (12i per cent.) for the year.

The board hopes to maintain dividends at the rate of 12 J per cent.

Avatiu General

TRADERS Mr. D. C. Brown of Rarotonga has irons in many fires in the Cook Islands but his interests don't extend to the Avatiu General Traders, islands merchants, of Rarotonga.

We indicated that they did, in listing businesses in the Cook Islands section of the 9th edition of the "Pacific Islands Year Book" and Mr.

H. S. Pemberton, managing-director of Avatiu General Traders, is understandably wrath. We apologise.

The entry was made in good faith and came, we thought, from an unimpeachable source. Someone got their wires crossed and Mr. Pemberton would like it to be known that Mr. Brown has never, at any time, had any connection with AGV, which neither owns ships nor exports copra (like Mr, Brown), but carries on business as importers and general island merchants.

Trading Notes PLACER DEVELOPMENT PROFIT: The estimated net profit of Placer Development Ltd. for the year ended April 30 was $4,578,763, or $1.75 a share, compared with a net profit of $2,728,925 or $1.05 a share in the previous year.

For the three months to April 30 the estimated net profit was $1,226,512.

POPCORN EXPERIMENTS: An experimental crop of popcorn at the Lalokl Plant Introduction Station, near Port Moresby, has proved successful, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Plant Introduction Officer, Mr. G. Keleny.

DECIMALS FAVOURED: Fiji’s Decimal Currency Committee has concluded that Fiji would benefit from switching to decimal currency, but it has not reached a final conclusion on the value of the monetary unit or the date on which decimal currency should be introduced, according to an official statement on July 6. However, the committee believes it would not be practicable to decimalise before January 1, 1967.

HIGHER PROFITS FROM COFFEE; Kinjibi Holdings Ltd., coffee producer, made a net profit of £10,568 for the year ended December 31, 1963, while the profit of its subsidiary, Norlkori Coffee Ltd. was £939. The chairman of both companies, Mr. M. W. Flack, said in his annual report that the Kinjibi profit represented an Increase of 269 per cent, on the 1962 result. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, A; BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia Fiji, basis £lOO FIJI: Buying, £Alll/2> Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £1 London: B, £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. NZ-Fi basis £lOO NZ: B, £lll/11/9- £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. Ar tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa- T. B. £AI23/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Same London, basis £lOO London: B. £99/7/ S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO N B £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Flji bai £lOO Samoa: B. £ 111; S. £llO.

NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth Bai quotes exchange rate Australia-Norfo Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

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Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 247 Pac. franc to £ Stg., 96.5 Pac. francs to US $ Noumea 18 Pac. francs to 1 Frenc] franc (conversion rate: 1 Pac fram equals 0.055 French franc), Parls-London Selling 13.7 U francs to £Stg. 124 AUGUST, 19 6 4 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Produce Prices Unless otherwise stated, quotations are Australian currency. Aust. £ equals iroximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W. aoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons WPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; 5U52.26.) COPRA APUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production delivered to Copra Marketing Board, trolled by six members, including three aters’ representatives: and the Board sets distribution and sales, and makes ments to the producers. Production s mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) tralia for local consumption, (c) shing-mlll in Rabaul, and (d) Japan rplus as available). Prices generally y with ruling rate in Philippines, with aiiums for hot-air dried. -NG Board’s Tentative Purchase :es for copra delivered main ports are: -Air Dried. £6l/10/- per ton; FMS, D/-/- per ton; Smoke-Dried, 9/-/- per ton.

IJI: —No Government control—proers sell where they wish. Bulk of ra goes to crushing-mills in Suva. r 13 prices were: HAD £F6O/15/-, £FSB/5/-. r ESTERN SAMOA;—Official Copra rd takes all production, sells same makes payments to producers. It > mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, the open market. Local price re- ;ly was £56/12/6 Samoan, first le.

ONGA: Sales are under Government :rol. Part of production goes to ape, under arrangement with Unilever :rolled by Philippines prices, and part to open market.

DLOMON IS.: All production marketed iugh official BSI Copra Board, at es based on Philippines rate. Output ; to Unilever, UK; to Australian hers; and the balance on to the open ket. Local price in July was: grade, £6O/-/-; 2nd grade, £5B/10/-; grade, £56/-/- per ton, f.0.b., BSIP s (Honiara, Yandlna and Glzo).

ILBERT AND ELLICE; —Production keted in Europe through official Copra rd, at prices based on Philippines s less freight, etc. The Copra Board lidises the price at: First Grade '4/2 per ton. Second Grade £2/2/1 ton.

EW HEBRIDES;—Price on June 24 approximately £A4I/-/- (8,200 Pac. ics), French price at that time was francs per metric ton, c.i.f., seilles.

OOK IS.:—Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., Auckland, who operate the only NZ •a crushing mill. Price paid is average don price for previous three months, handling charges. Prices for third rter, July-Sept., 1964, is £NZS9/14/8 grade, £NZSB/9/8 standard grade— i f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

OCOA: —lslands prices are usually :d on the rates for Ghana cocoa. . shipment is £Stg.2os/-/- per ton, ~ Sydney. -N.G.: Sydney buyers on July 21 re- ;ed: Quote No. 1: In store, Rabaul, )rt quality £175 per ton, or on rf Sydney, according to quality: )0; quote No. 2; Best quality, on rf Syd., £205, in store, N.G. ports, 50 (for UK, Continent and USA iments). r . SAMOA:—Nominal prices quoted in ney, July 10, were: Grade 1 :g.175; grade 2, £Stg.l6o, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE: P.-N.G.; July 21, good quality A grade, per lb, 4/- to 4/2; B grade 3/9 to 4/-; C grade, 2/9 to 3/6, c.i.f., Sydney.

Overseas c.i.f. coffee prices were reported on July 14 as Kenya AA £ Stg.4lo (good quality), £Stg.39o (f.a.q.); A Stg.4os (g.q.), £Stg.3Bs (f.a.q.); B £ 5tg.395 (g.q.), £Stg.37s (f.a.q.); C £ Stg.37o (f.a.q.). Uganda Robusta (standard) £ Stg.2B4. Tanganyika AA £ 5tg.375, A £Stg.37o, B £ 5tg.365.

PEANUTS. P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported July 21—f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 1/5 lb.; Virginia bunch 1/7 lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on July 20 was; No. 1 RSS, Spot, 66 Va Straits cents per lb (23.05 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported June 24: White and yellow label processed, standard packs, 32/-, green label 31/3, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices until May 1, 1965—P.-N.G.; Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, £59/10/- per ton, f.o.w.

Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, £65/15/- f.o.w. Other Pac. Islands: Dry, white or brown, etc., £6B/-/- (any quantity), f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

T*EARL SHELL.—Quotations for Australian M.O.P. Shell on July 21 by Sydney Independent shell agents were: Sound £B5O, D £625, E £350, EE £235 (in store Sydney). Cook Islands; Penrhyn £NZ42S (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

TROCHUS. —Sydney buyers on July 17 indicated the following quotations to Islands producers: No. 1. Papua nominally £B5-£9O per ton, f.0.b., Papuan ports; N.G.— £B5-£9O, c.i.f., Sydney; 8.5.1.—£85-£9O, f.0.b., Honiara. No. 2. —Papua—£llo per ton; N.G., 8.5.1. — £9O per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyers quoted on July 17: No. 1: £3OO per ton, f.0.b., Rabaul; £2BO on wharf, Sydney. No. 2: £3OO (best quality), on wharf, Sydney; or £305 f.0.b., Islands ports.

CROCODILE SKINS.—On July 17 Sydney buyers quoted for 12 In, and over, first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G.— 26/- per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) 17/1 per in. 8.5.1. 26/- (small scale) del. Sydney.

PAPUAN GUM: £B2/15/- f.o.b. Islands port, £95 del. Sydney or Melbourne.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote P 2- (4 in. to 7 in.) to F3/- (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for well processed commercial varieties.

ICEP Pty. Ltd., Sydney, are interested in offers of well prepared edible varieties.

SHARK FINS: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, offer F4/6 per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality. ICEP Pty. Ltd., Sydney, quote 6/6 to 8/6 lb., ex-store Sydney, according to quality.

London and US Quotations COPRA: LONDON, July 17, Philippines, in bulk, $207 US (equal to £Stg.92/15/1) per long ton c. 1.1., UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan, FMS, NQ, UK/Nth. European ports.

NEW YORK: July 17, Philippines, $187.50 US per short ton, c.1.f., Pacific Coast ports. CEYLON: 955 Rupees per ton, c.i.f.

Coconut Oil: LONDON. July 17, Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £Stg.llo/10/- per ton, c.i.f., UK/North European ports. Straits, 3Vfe%, NQ c.i.f.

Rubber: LONDON, July 20, C.i.f., RSS No. 1 Spot, 19 5 /ad Stg. lb, August nominal, c.i.f., 20 7 /sd Stg. lb, Oct. prompt c.i.f. 20-l/16d Stg. lb. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.2 US Dollars or 10 Vs Rupees.) 125 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. Jean Francois Toby former Governor of French icsia, Mr. Jean Francois Toby, in his home village of Saint •-Quilbignon, Brittany, early in He was 64. . Toby, who was living in retirewas Governor of French icsia from September, 1954, to iry, 1958. During this term Foby visited 109 islands of the tory in an effort to encourage imic and social progress. It was y due to his initiative that the :h Government decided to build ternational airport in Tahiti.

Mrs. V. E. Dawborn s. Veronica Elaine (Vee) )orn, died suddenly at her home inberra on June 20, aged 31. ; was the wife of Lieutenantnander Royston M. Dawborn, , who was based at Lombrum , Manus, from June, 1957, to 1960, as Base Intelligence m. eir elder child, Elissa, 5, was in the naval hospital at t>rum Point. They had one other , Melanie, 3.

Wiliame M. Wainiqolo iliame Makasiale Wainiqolo, a ;d Roko Tui (provincial gover- Lau, died at the CWM Hospital, , on June 22. He was 65. 1940, after working for comial firms, Wiliame became Buli rict head) Lomaloma. He held :rnment posts for several years •e he became Roko Tui Lomain 1949. iree years later he returned to lative Lau in a similar capacity, was Roko Tui Lau till he went re-retirement leave in 1960. ; was a member of the Native 1 Trust Board at the time of his i. illiame is survived by his widow, ; Tupou, and five children.

Mr. T. Nevitt r. Thomas Nevitt, a retired P-NG ;er, miner, businessman and MLC, at Brisbane on July 3 at the age 6. is funeral was attended by many ■known members of P-NG’s precommunity. r. Nevitt, who was born at nanton, Queensland, went to la in 1910 to start rubber planting ianosia. In the next few years he iged in rubber planting at Sogeri, ng at Misima and sisal hemp ting at Tavai.

He was manager of rubber plantations at Kanosia from 1917 to 1923, visiting agent for KW Estates Ltd. from 1923 to 1926, and manager of the British New Guinea Development Co. Ltd. from 1926 till he retired and left the Territory in 1951.

Mr. Nevitt was a member of the Production Control Board, ANGAU, from 1943 to 1946, a member of the War Damage Commission, Papua, from 1946 to 1949 and a member of the Papua Legislative Council from 1938 to 1946.

In 1941 he married Vi Ashton, a member of the well-known Ashton family of the Territory. His widow survives him.

Mr. W. P. F. Wight Mr. William Payne Fredrick Wight, a former Tonga planter, died at the Auckland Public Hospital in June at the age of 72.

He had a coconut plantation in Tonga from 1920 to 1960, when he retired to live in New Zealand.

Mr. Wight is survived by seven children, William (Tonga), Mrs.

Kathleen Tuki (Malaya), Mrs.

Colleen Cowley (Tonga), Harry (Hawaii), Mrs. Mary Higby (United States), Charles (Auckland) and Fredrick (Auckland).

Mrs. Amelia Barber Mrs. Amelia Barber, a pioneer settler in the Rewa Valley, Fiji, died at Whangarei, North Auckland, NZ, on June 14 at the age of 86. Her husband, Mr. John Barber, died about six years ago.

She spent about 50 years in Fiji, most of it in different parts of the Rewa Valley.

Mr. Fred Waqa A tragic car accident on Nauru on June 6 caused the untimely death of Fred Waqa, at the age of 27.

Mr. Waqa was an assistant teacher at the Combined Primary School, where he was generally regarded as the leading Nauruan teacher.

He followed a successful Administration scholarship course at Wolaroi College, Orange, NSW, by becoming the first Nauruan to gain an Australian trained teacher’s certificate.

He was president of the Nauruan Teachers’ Federation as well as president of the Parents and Citizens Association of the Combined Primary School.

He is survived by a widow and four children.

Mr. A. W. Small News reached PIM in June of the death in Auckland on December 30 last year of Mr. A. W. Small, who served with the Fiji District Administration Department for 39 years from July, 1910.

Mr. Small died at St. Andrews Presbyterian Hospital at Glendowie, Auckland, after having been a patient for more than a year. He left a widow Dorothy, a son Tony, and a daughter Phyllis. A younger son David was drowned in Tonga.

Mrs. Ada Wilson Mrs. Ada Wilson, a pioneer of the tourist industry of Lord Howe Island, died on June 26. She was 80.

Born in Sydney, Mrs. Wilson went to Lord Howe Island in 1898 where she married Mr. G. C. Wilson in 1908.

Her husband and their eldest son.

Jack, disappeared in 1936 when sailing a boat for the tourist trade from Sydney to Lord Howe.

She and her husband started the Ocean View guest house in 1913, which is now being run by her eldest surviving son, Allen.

There are five other direct survivors —four daughters and one son.

Captain N. MacDonald One of the fast-dwindling body of sea captains who got their masters tickets in the days of sail, Captain Norman MacDonald, doyen of Fijis private pilots, died in the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, on July 19 at the age of 74.

Born at Waipu, North Auckland, Mac, as he was popularly known, was one of the best known skippers in the South Pacific and had a host of stories about adventure at sea in two world wars.

Holder of his master’s ticket at 26 when he was skipper of a sailing ship, he fell in love with Fiji 40 years ago during his visits to the Colony as first officer of the famous Niagara. , , .

In the late twenties, Mac left the sea and became manager of a pineapple venture at Waidau on Ovalau.

But the venture foundered, and in 1932 he went back to sea as a pilot.

His services were always in great demand and he was probably the only man to be harbourmaster at Fiji’s three main ports, Suva, Levuka and Lautoka. .

His services were particularly valued at Lautoka during the war.

Mac’s funeral at Suva, the day after he died, was one of the largest for some time. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1964

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India, a land of great variety enically and climatically, offers le visitor the opportunity to see mturies-old art and architecture de by side with modern science id technology.

Added to this is great variety in ie dress and customs of the country’s 50 million people.

Hindustani is the national language, at English is spoken and underood by many of the people. Almost /eryone the tourist is likely to come i contact with has, at least, a nattering of English.

Major Seasons India has three major seasons— inter, summer and the monsoon ainy season). The winter months 'Jovember-M arch) are pleasant iroughout the land, with bright inny days. In the northern plains ie minimum temperature at times rops steeply and there is snowfall i the hills.

ABROAD In the south, Maharashtra and the Deccan, and in Eastern India, December and January are pleasantly cool, and never really cold.

The summer (April-June) is hot in most parts of the country, and it is during that season that hill resorts such as Darjeeling, Shillong, Simla, Mussoorie, Kulu and Kashmir Valleys, etc., provide cool retreats.

The south-west moonsoon season usually starts about the middle of June on the west coast, and it reaches other areas later. With the exception of the south-eastern areas, India receives most of its rainfall between June and September.

The south-eastern areas receive most of their rainfall from the northeast monsoon between November and June.

Clothing In the north, where the evening and night temperatures drop steeply in winter, woollen clothing is necessary from the middle of November to the middle of February.

Winter in other parts of the country is mild, and tropical clothing is sufficient. For those visiting the hill resorts during this time, heavy woollens are essential.

During the summer months, only light tropical and cotton clothing is comfortable. But for the hill resorts, light woollens are best. Evening dress is optional.

Hotels The standard of hotels, and with it the rate for accommodation, vary throughout the country. In New Delhi, for example, there are hotels equal to the best in the world, while in Bombay the standard is only fair.

Calcutta is not a good city for hotels.

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But even though some of the bigger centres might not have a generally high standard of public accommodation, there are, as a rule, two or three places which can offer comfortable, if old-fashioned, accommodation. The older hotels are rarely air-conditioned, but most of the new ones are. Rates are about <£2/10/- a day upwards.

Food Sampling India gives travellers an excellent opportunity to sample tasty, exotic foods. India is the home of curry, but they have not kept it to themselves, except that curry served outside India rarely compares favourably with the home product. (Fiji

Service To London

Soon Via Moscow

Air-lndia will start a passenger service between Delhi and London, via Moscow, in October. It will be the shortest and fastest service between Delhi and London, according to Mr.

B. R. Patel, vice-chairman and general manager of Air-lndia.

As there is a time differential of 51 hours between India and Britain, the flight leaving Delhi at 10 a.m. will arrive at London at 4 p.m. the same day.

An agreement between Air-lndia and Aeroflot (the Russian airline) allows Air-lndia to operate two services a week on the Bombay-Delhi- London route, with traffic rights to Moscow. 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

Se on a Winner! (Make the highlight of your Holidays this year a Melbourne Cup Cruise on M.S. 7/ Kuala Lumpur 77 departing Sydney at noon on October 31; in Melbourne 9 a.m., November 2, to 6 p.m., November 7; back in Sydney, 3 p.m., November 9.

The excitement of Cup Day and the Spring Meeting at Flemington is combined with a relaxing sea voyage, making an altogether luxurious holiday.

All cabins are air-conditioned, most having their own private bathrooms.

Fares include accommodation and all meals, and range from £65-£l 00 for a two berth cabin, and £7O-£l 10 for a single cabin.

★ For All Your Travel Requirements Consult The ★

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197 CLARENCE STREET, SYDNEY.

OR Our Territory Agents: Rabaul Trading Co. ltd., Lae-Madang-Rabaul is an exception for Fiji-Indians claim they can make a much better curry than Mother India citizens, even though they call them Madras, Bombay, Bengal, etc., curries).

The visitor may find the curry which the Indians themselves eat is a little too hot or spicy. Indian restaurants, aware of this, cater for their visitors’ needs by offering a much milder version.

Most hotels and restaurants also offer Western-style meals. Each of the bigger centres has its own specialty.

Delhi offers roast chicken, butter made from buffalo milk; Calcutta offers excellent local sea fish, cheeses, and a limited variety of fruit in season (mangoes, papaws, limes); Bombay has the famous Bombay duck, which is a kind of dried fish, along with a variety of sea foods; and in Madras and Bangalore there are such regional dishes as pancakes with potato filling, rice cakes, and crisp spicy wafers of rice or flour.

India has a multitude of liquor laws, which vary from State to State.

Some States are completely dry, while others have partial prohibition.

In the dry States, tourists may find it tough going. Hotels have “liquor rooms” where the drinking must be done.

Maharashtra, Gujerat and Madras are completely dry, and in Bihar, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, there is no prohibition.

On production of a tourist introduction card, visitors can get liquor permits in Bombay from the India Tourist Office, the security inspector at the airport, the excise inspector at Mole Station, in many of the large hotels; and in Madras from the India Tourist Office.

In some places, such as Delhi, drinking in public is prohibited, but overseas visitors can buy liquor from authorised v/ine dealers, or order it in their hotel rooms. In almost all big cities, such as Calcutta and Delhi, certain days of the week are observed as “dry days”, when the sale of liquor is prohibited.

Customs formalities in India are not as streamlined as in Fiji—wher they are streamlined indeed. Visitor to India may sometimes wonde whether the battle to get past the re* tape at the airport is worth it—bu it is.

Return first-class air fare Nad to Bombay is £A6SO/13/-; econom; class is £A467/4/-. In some months there is an excursion fare fo economy class travel of about £A3I2 Excursion Fare From Fiji, the excursion fare i< available in January, March, July September and November, and froir Bombay on the return journey ir February, April, June, August

Hotel Alterations

Cathay Hotels (Fiji) Ltd. are carrying out extensions at both the Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva, and the Cathay Hotel, Lautoka. The Grand tapa room (dining room) is being extended, two new function rooms are being added, and work has started on a new swimming pool. Extensive repainting and renovations have been carried out at the Cathay Hotel. 130 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC T ° L A N D S MONTHLY

Travellers' Guide To India

(Continued from previous page)

Not As A Stranger

When you come to The Town «W • ■ W . JWV* VVIMV ...W ~ ' > i House in Sydney, you come not as a stranger, but as a welcome guest.

We’re not one of the “giant” hotels. So we can get to knew our guests, to learn what they | like and dislike, and thus pamper them a little.

Incidentally, our delightful restaurant is licensed and there are refrigerated cocktail units with plenty of ice and glasses in every room.

If you want to know more about The Town House, just write for our brochure and rate card.

Elizabeth Bav Road, Sydney Managing Director, General Manager, : (Me Harry Sebel irry Sebel Henry Rose Cables: 'Welcomeguest, , Sydney" am’ ~- - , „ TH4O 52 October and November. The ex* ursion ticket is valid for a year, but Lopovers are not allowed between Jadi and Bombay.

There is a special Sita World ravel 13-day tour of India, costing bout £A237, including internal air ares, hotel accommodation, sighteeing, guide fees, etc. It does not inlude fare to and from India, Deails are: Wednesday —Arrive Bombay by tir-India and stay overnight at Taj dahal Hotel.

Thursday —Morning sightseeing to •lephanta Caves; afternoon tour of he city and Hanging Gardens..

Friday —Bombay to Udaipur by ir, and go to Lake Palace Hotel; ifternoon tour to the Palace of the daharana.

Saturday —Udaipur to Jaipur (the ’ink City), and stay at Rambagh *alace Hotel; afternoon excursion to \.mber, including an elephant ride.

Sunday —Morning sightseeing tour n Jaipur, and then by air to Delhi; ;tay at Ashoka Hotel.

Monday—Morning sightseeing tour of Old and New Delhi; afternoon free.

Tuesday —Free. All meals and accommodation at the Ashoka Hotel.

Wednesday —Delhi to Agra, city of the Taj Mahal, by air; afternoon visit to the Taj Mahal; stay overnight at Clark’s Shiraz hotel.

Thursday —By air to Benares, the holy city on the banks of the River Ganges; afternoon city tour; stay at Clark’s Hotel.

Friday —Early morning visit to the Burning Ghats, including a boat ride on River Ganges; afternoon flight to Calcutta, biggest city in India; stay at Grand Hotel.

Saturday —M o r n i n g sightseeing tour of city; afternoon free.

Sunday —By air to Madras and stay at Connemara Hotel; afternoon city tour, including the marine drive.

Monday —Leave India by Air-India.

THE PACIFIC

Lae'S Transair Lodge

Is One To Remember

FOR simple, friendly yet efficient accommodation for the air traveller, the TAA-owned Transair Lodge is the place to stay in Lae.

New Guinea. Lae is the terminal point for the TAA and Ansett-ANA trunk services between Australia and P-NG, and the centre for internal air operations. It will get bigger and busier.

Lae has the Hotel Cecil, at present being operated by a receiver after the owning company struck trouble, and the Transair Lodge. Steamships Trading Co. will start in the next nine months a £250,000 hotel at Lae. but it will be two years before it is in operation.

Meanwhile the Transair, with 52 beds, is available to all air travellers, and bookings can be made through mainland agencies.

But it is important to book in advance, as sometimes special tours take all the accommodation, and travellers should see to it that their travel agent makes a firm booking.

Transair started life not long after the war as a staff and travellers’ lodge for Qantas, which then had the trunkline monopoly between Australia and the Territory. It at that time filled a valuable gap in the Lae accommodation scene.

Accommodation is bungalow style, with a central dining room and lounge, and covered walks connecting with the bungalows.

Each bungalow has a common bathroom and toilet and writing room, but there are wash basins in the rooms and efficient central fans, although no airconditioning.

Services include a night porter, shoe-cleaning, same-day laundry, free morning and afternoon tea, transport to and from the airport and of course special calls to meet aircraft.

Transair is not licensed, but the TAA Social Club, which is part of the central service block, is. Genuine air travellers have no difficulty in being signed in to the club as guests, and drinking conditions are pleasant.

The Lodge is five minutes walk to the main Lae shopping centre.

Rates are £A4.0.0. single, £7.0.0 double, including meals. If asked to share, which sometimes can happen when the Lodge is heavily booked, single is £3.10.0.

ARI GIRLS: Bill Raikuna, effervescent presentative of the Fiji Visitors' Bureau Nadi International Airport, did not take [?]ng to make friends with the charming [?]iri-clad hostesses from the Air-lndia Being when the plane reached Nadi on its proving flight from Sydney.

Photo: Rob Wright. 131 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST, 1964

IBERIA ARCADIA ORSOVA ARCADIA SYDNEY depart Aug. 24 Sept. 14 Nov. 16 Jan. 2 AUCKLAND arr/dep thence Sept. 17 Nov. 19 Jan. 5 SUVA arr/dep Manilat Sept. 20* Nov. 22 Jan. 8 HONOLULU arr/dep Sept. 16 Sept. 26 Nov, 27 Jan. 13 VANCOUVER arr/dep Sept. 22 Oct. 1-2 Dec. 2-3 Jan. 18-19

San Francisco

arr/dep Sept. 24-25 Oct. 4-5 Dec. 5-7 Jan. 21-22

Los Angeles

arr/dep Sept. 26 Oct. 6 Dec. 8 Jan. 23 HONOLULU arr/dep Oct. 1 thence via Dec. 13 Jan. 28 SUVA arr/dep ft West Indies Dec. 20 Feb. 4 AUCKLAND arr/dep to UK Dec. 23 Feb. 7 SYDNEY arrive Oct. 28 Dec. 28 Peb. 10 • Thence to Pago Pago. arr.

Sept. 21. t Hong Kong and Japan. tt Thence Japan, Hong Kong and Manila.

Details from P. and O.-Orient Lines of Aust.

Pty., Ltd., 55 Hunter St., Sydney (2-0317) MARIPOSA MONTEREY MARIPOSA MONTEREY

San Francisco

depart July 12 Aug. 6 Aug. 30 Sept. 20

Los Angeles

arr/dep July 13 Aug. 7 Aug. 31 Sept. 21 BORA BORA arr/dep July 21 Aug. 15 Sept. 8 Sept. 29 PAPEETE arr/dep July 22-24 Aug. 16-18 Sept. 9-11 Sept. 30-Oct.

RAROTONGA arr/dep July 25 Aug. 19 Sept. 12 Oct. 3 AUCKLAND arr/dep July 30-31 Aug. 24-25 Sept. 17-18 Oct. 8-9 SYDNEY arr/dep Aug. 3-6 Aug. 28-31 Sept. 21-24 Oct. 12-15 NOUMEA arr/dep Aug. 9 Sept. 3 Sept. 27 Oct. 18 SUVA arr/dep Aug. 11 Sept. 5 Sept. 29 Oct. 20 NTUAFOOU arr/dep Aug. 12 Sept, 6 Sept. 30 Oct. 21 PAGO PAGO arr/dep Aug. 12 Sept. 6 Sept. 30 Oct. 21 HONOLULU arr/dep Aug. 17-18 Sept. 11-12 Oct. 3-6 Oct. 26-27

San Francisco

arrive Aug. 23 Sept. 17 Oct. 11 Nov. 1 Details from Matson Lines, 50 Young St.. Sydney. (BU4272) Shipping and Airways Information

Shipping Timetavles

Sydney-NZ-Fiji-Tahiti Panama-UK Southern Cross and Northern Star each make four round-the-world voyages per year, two west-bound, then two eastbound, calling at Fiji and Tahiti every , ** orth f rn Star; From Southampton (UK) via South Africa at Sydney Sept 9-H. Wellington Sept. 14-1 6 ; Auckland Sept. 18, Tahiti Sept. 23-24. thence via Panama to Southampton, arr. Oct. 21. /rr^?, utll . ern C ross: From Southampton (UK) via South Africa at Sydney Oct. 14- 16, Wellington Oct. 19-21, Auckland Oct 23. Fiji Oct. 26, Tahiti Oct. 30-31, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr. Nov. 25.

Details from Shaw Savlll Line, 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (BW 1828).

Sydney-Norfolk is.

New Caledonia Colorado del Mar and Milos del Mar (owned by Societe Maritime Caledonienne, Noumea) carrying cargo only, make a regular three weekly voyage from Sydney or Melbourne to Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., New Caledonia (Noumea).

All sailings are approximate and may ▼ary by as much as two weeks.

Sydney-Fiji MV Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney approximately every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka with cargo and passengers Next Sydney sailings: Aug. 6, 30 (approx.).

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd.. 9 Bent St., Sydney (B 0151).

Sydney-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Union Steam Ship Co. maintains monthly services from Melbourne and Sydney (periodically from Adelaide) to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Next sailing: Waiana Sept. 28 (approx.).

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydney (B 0528); or other branches and agents Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners Ltd., of Suva normally operate a service three times yearly with the Lakemba along the above route.

Next sailings from Sydney; Aug. 6, late December (approx.).

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty.. Ltd.. 19 Bridge St.

Sydney (8U4147).

Sydney-New Caledonia- New Hebrides-Fr. Polynesia Vessels of Messageries Marltlmes Line, from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete (with occasional calls at Talohoe Marquesas Group), Vila, Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Next Inwards voyages, ex-Marseilles: Oceanien: Talohae Aug. 14, Papeete Aug. 16-19, Vila Aug. 26-27, Noumea Aug. 28- arr. Sydney Sept. 3.

Tahltlen: Papeete Sept. 19-22, Vila Sept. 29- Noumea Oct. 1-4, arr. Sydney Oct 7.

Next outwards voyages, ex-Sydney; Caledonien: Dep. Sydney Aug. 1 Noumea Aug. 4-7, New Hebrides Aug.’ 8-16. Noumea Aug. 17. Papeete Aug. 23-27, Taiohae Aug. 30.

Oceanien; Dep. Sydney Sept. 6, Noumea Sept. 9-12, New Hebrides Sept. 13-21, Noumea Sept. 22, Papeete Sept. 28-Oct. 2.

Polynesie maintains monthly passenger sailings between Sydney. Noumea, Vila, Pt. Sandwich (occasionally), and Santo Next Sydney sailings: Aug. 28, Sept, is!

Details from Messageries Marltlmes. 36 Grosvenor St., Sydney (8U2654).

Next sailings: Colorado del Mar fn Sydney Aug. 8, 29 (approx.).

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Lt 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-8311), Sydney-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides-BSI-Bougainville MV Tulagi leaves Sydney about eve six weeks for Norfolk Is., Vila, Sanl Honiara and BSI ports, Bougainville pon Next Sydney sailing; Aug. 21.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Lt< 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Sydney-Papoa-New Guinea Malekula sails from Sydney f( Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Lae, Madan Alexishafen, Wewak, Rabaul, Pt. Moresb Sydney, Sailed July 31, going into doc for six to eight weeks on her return.

Malalta sails from Sydney for Brl: bane, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Lombrui Lorengau, Madang, Lae. Samara Brisbane, Sydney. Next Sydney sailinj Aug. 14 (approx.).

Bulolo sails about every six week!

Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samara Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Samaral, P Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA USA-Eastern Pacific-NZ-Sydney-Central Pacific-Hawaii PIM's shipping and airways schedules are up to the minute. They are revised each month just before publication from information supplied by the shipping and airways companies. 132 AUGUST, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Daiwa Line

Direct Service

Japan South Pacific

M.V. "TAHITI MARU" Voy. No. 1 (D/W 9,053 Tons) Dep. YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, August 11.

GUAM August 17.

APIA August 29-30.

PAGO PAGO August 31. ‘NUKUALOFA Sept. 2.

SUVA Sept. 4-5.

LABASA Sept. 6-7.

LAUTOKA Sept. 8-9.

NOUMEA Sept. 12.

VILA Sept. 14.

SANTO Sept. 15.

HONIARA Sept. 18. * Subject to inducement.

Heavy lift and passenger accommodation available.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

The Daiwa Navigation Co., Ltd.

Osaka: "Dailine" Tokyo; "Funedailine"

AGENTS: GUAM: Atkins and Kroll (Guam) Ltd.

APIA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAGO PAGO: B. F. Kneubuhi.

NUKUALOFA: Tonga Shipping Agency.

SUVA: Banno Oceania Ltd.

LAUTOKA: Banno Oceania Ltd.

NOUMEA: Agence Maritime Pentecost.

SANTO: South Pacific Fishing Co. (N.H.) Pty. Ltd.

VILA: Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.

HONIARA: British Solomons Trading Corp. ■esby, Brisbane. Sydney. Next Sydney Ing: Sept. 11 (approx.). [ontoro sails from Melbourne for ney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samaral, iaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: t. 11 (approx.). raeside sails about every six weeks: ney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, lang, Lae. Next Sydney sailing: Sept, (approx.). etalls from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., (ridge Street, Sydney (80547). oochow and Shansi leave Sydney about :y four weeks for Brisbane, Pt. •esby, Samarai, Sydney, ext Sydney sailings: Shansi Aug. 3; chow Aug. 17. stalls from New Guinea Australia Line 'ire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 8 ing Street, Sydney (BU 4701). letholm: Leaves Sydney approximately ry five weeks for Brisbane, Pt. •esby, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Sydney. ;t Sydney sailing: Aug. 25 (approx.), letta: Leaves Sydney approximately ry five weeks for Brisbane, Rabaul, wak, Madang, Lae, Sydney. Next ney sailing: Aug. 26 (approx.). (etalls from Karlander NG Line (P.

Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 13 Bridge set, Sydney (BU8311). mstasia Line’s vessel Makati runs been Australian ports (turn round at bourne) and Papua-New Guinea. lakati: Dep. Melbourne Aug. 24, Sydney it. 1. Brisbane Sept. 4, Pt. Moresby t, 8, Lae Sept. 12, Madang Sept. 13. yaul Sept. 16. (etails from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty., .. 17-19 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 1271).

Sydney - P-NG ■ Far East mstralia-West Pacific Line’s Motorsels maintain services between Auslia and Hong Kong via Islands ports, louthbound vessels call at; NG, BSI arterly), New Hebrides (irregularly).

I Australian ports. Northbound vessels m Sydney call regularly at NG ports, amos; From Hong Kong and Manila, . Rabaul Aug. 7-8, Madang Aug. 9-10, Aug. 11-12, Brisbane Aug. 16-18, [ney Aug. 20-24, thence Adelaide and [bourne.

'enos: From Adelaide and Melbourne, . Sydney Aug. 28, arr. Brisbane Aug. 31, Rabaul Sept. 4-6, Lae Sept. 7-8, dang Sept. 9-10, thence Hong Kong I Manila.

Details from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Agency, Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

Jhlna Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels sing and Anshun call at Rabaul, on ir way north from Sydney to Hong ng. Next vessel: inking: Dep. Sydney Aug. 24, for Brlsle Aug. 26-28, Rabaul Sept. 1-2, thence Manila and Hong Kong, details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., snts, 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU 4701).

Dominion Navigation Co. Ltd. (UK) sels maintain monthly service between Iney and Japan (via Manila, Hong ng and Keelung), return via Guam 1 Rabaul. rrancis Drake; Dep. Sydney Aug. 10, •. Brisbane Aug. 14-15, Manila Aug. 26- Hong Kong Aug. 29-Sept, 1, Japan 133 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

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Regular services connect

New Zealand, Pacific Islands, New Guinea

JAPAN, SINGAPORE, MALAYA, INDONESIA, HONG KONG, MANILA, Apply to Managing Agents— SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD.

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Sept. 7-14, Guam Sept. 18-19, Rabaul Sept. 23-24, arr. Sydney Sept. 30.

George Anson: Dep. Sydney Sept. 12 arr. Brisbane Sept. 14-15, Manila Sept! 26-27, Hong Kong Sept. 29-Oct. 1. Japan Oct. 7-15, Guam Oct. 19-20, Rabaul Oct 24-25, Sydney Oct. 31.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd.. 115 York Street, Sydney. Tel. (2-0253).

Europe-Tahiti-New Caledonia BSI-P-NG-West NG A regular service from the Continent and UK, via Panama, to Tahiti, New Caledonia, BSI, P-NG and West NG is operated jointly by Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

Wonosobo (RL): From Continent and London, arr. Papeete Aug. 17, Noumea Aug. 26, Tarawa Sept. 2, Honiara Sept. 5, Pt. Moresby Sept. 8, Rabaul Sept. 11, Lae Sept. 13. Madang Sept. 15. Alexishafen Sept. 16, Wewak Sept. 17, Sukarnopura Sept. 18, Biak, Manokwari, Sorong.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Europe-Tahiti-New Hebrides- New Caledonia-Australia Messageries Maritimes cargo vessels run monthly between Prance and Noumea via East Africa and Australia. From Sydney, vessels go to Brisbane and Noumea; return to Prance via Australian coastal ports.

Next sailings from Sydney: Velay Aug. 14 (Noumea Aug. 20); Ventoux Aug, 24 (Noumea Aug. 30).

Other MM vessels run between France and Sydney, via Panama Canal and Pacific ports.

Next vessel: Euphrate (Papeete Aug U, Vila Aug. 23, Santo Aug. 25, Noumea Aug. 27, Australia Sept. 4).

Details from Messagerles Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor St.. Sydney (BU 2645).

Far East-Fiji-NZ-Sydney Royal Interocean Lines operate a service from Singapore to FIJI, NZ, and Australia, with three vessels (Van Cloon, Van Noort and Roggeveen) calling periodically at Suva and/or Lautoka.

Roggeveen calls at Lautoka Aug. 17 Suva Aug. 20; Van Cloon at Lautoka Oct' 9 Suva Oct. 12; Van Noort at Lautoka Nov. 1, Suva Nov. 3.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Far East-P-NG-BSI-New Hebrides-Fiji-New Caledonia China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels maintain monthly service from Japan southwards through P-NG, BSI New Hebrides, Fiji and N. Caledonia, usually return to Japan direct.

Herbjorn: From Japan and Hong Kong due Wewak Aug. 23, Madang Aug. 25.

Lae Aug. 29, Rabaul Sept. 2, Pt. Moresby Sept. 10, Suva/Lautoka Sept. 15, Noumea Sept. 22, retiring from this service when she reaches Japan, Oct. 19.

Chungking; From Japan and Hong i due Kavieng Sept. 10, Rabaul Sept.

Madang Sept. 18, Lae Sept. 22 Moresby Sept. 29, Santo Oct. 3, Vila 6, Suva/Lautoka Oct. 9, Noumea Oct. thence to Japan, arr, Nov. 4.

Details from China Navigation Co.. (Swire and Yuill Pty.. Ltd., agents Spring St.. Sydney (BU4701).

Japan-Samoa-Tonga-Fiji- N. Cal.-N. Heb.-BSI The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd. rur regular service from Japan, calling Guam, Sukarnopura (opt.), Apia, I Pago, Nukualofa (opt.), Suva, Levi Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo, Honi thence returning to Japan.

Current voyage: Tahiti Maru dep. Ja Aug. 10.

New Zealand-Cook Is.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) ms approximately monthly voyages f; Auckland (NZ) to Rarotonga (C Islands), with calls at Niue and s< other Cook Islands when cargo warra Details from NZ Department of Isli Territories, Wellington (Tel. 45-117) any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, LI NZ-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Tofua maintains a service from Au land to Suva, Nukualofa. Vavau, N 1 Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return Auckland. Next Auckland sailings- S« 1, 29.

Matua maintains a service fr Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualc

UNION STEAM SHIP CO. OF N.Z.

LIMITED Serving the Pacific since 1875.

Regular Sailings by Modern Vessels From Melbourne and Sydney (periodically Adelaide) to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Also from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago and Apia.

Ship your cargo by a Union Company Vessel.

BRANCHES AT ALL MAIN AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND AND ISLAND PORTS.

Suva, and return to Auckland.

Auckland sailings; Aug. 18, Sept. 15. tails from Union Steam Ship Co.

Z, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auck- ’ (Tel.: 49-430).

Z-New Caledonia - P-NG- Far East isader Shipping Co.’s cargo vessels.

Ing between NZ and the Par East, at New Caledonia and Papua, and, in instances, Guam. Next voyages: rt Montreal: Dep. Auckland Aug. 21, Guam Aug. 30, thence to Japan, usader; Dep. Auckland Aug. 28, for nea Aug. 31, Pt. Moresby Sept. 4, ;e Singapore, Pt. Swettenham, Manila Hong Kong. tails from Shaw, Savill Line, agents.

Queen St., Auckland. (Tel.; 30-310).

New Zealand-Tahiti w Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels, ating between NZ and UK, via ima, make a call every two months ’ahlti, northbound and southbound. >xt northbound voyage; Rangitoto, Wellington Aug. 22, due Papeete 28. xt southbound voyage: Rangitane London, due Papeete Sept. 1. •tails from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., omhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ.

Tonga-Fiji-Samoa mga Shipping Agency operates a o and passenger service between ualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, igton, Rotuma) with MV Aonlu. Calls also made as required at Apia (W. oa) and Pago Pago (Am. Samoa), i-round in Suva is usually two days, the Agents there are W. R. Carpenter 1) Ltd.

UK-Panama-Samoa-Fiji be Fiji Direct Service is maintained Conference vessels, sailing at regular ithly intervals out of London, via ama, for Apia, Suva and Lautoka, aell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as Load- Brokers in London. ext sailings; ex-London; Aug. 13, t. 10.

UK-Papua-NG-BSI ank Line operates a direct service from ope to P-NG and BSI. vessels going to Australia for cargo-loading and irning to UK via Suez. Next vessels; inebank: From Continent and London, Pt. Moresby Aug. 21, Samaral Aug. 24, Aug. 25. Madang Aug. 28. Wewak ;. 30, Rabaul Sept. 1, Honiara Sept. 5. loverbank: From Continent and don, arr. Pt. Moresby Sept. 28, larai Sept. 30, Lae Oct. 2, Madang . 6, Wewak Oct. 8, Kavieng Oct. 11, >aul Oct. 12, Honiara Oct. 14. )etalls from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty. ~ 269 George St., Sydney (BU 2041).

USA-Tahiti-Am. Samoa-Fiji- Australia latson-Oceanlc Line operates a flve- ;ks passenger-cargo service from Los ?eles with the Sonoma, Sierra and • PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

Ventura. Terminal ports, in Australia, vary with cargoes offering. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago Pago, Suva. Sydney.

Brisbane, etc.

Next trans-Paciflc sailings; From Brisbane, Ventura Aug. 10 (approx.); Sonoma Sept. 17 (approx.); Sierra Oct. 11 (approx.).

Details from Matson Lines, 82 Elizabeth St., Sydney (BU 4272).

USA-Tahiti-Australia American Pioneer Line ships on US Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney service make periodical calls at Tahiti on southbound voyage. Next Papeete calls; Pioneer Isle Sept. 15; Pioneer Glen Nov. 11.

Details from Wllh. Wilhelmsen Agency. 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

USA-Tahiti-Samoa-Fiji- New Caledonia Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorsisle and Thor I maintain approxmately six weeks service from West Coast Nth. American ports to Pacific Islands.

Thorsisle; Dep. San Francisco Aug. 7, Los Angeles Aug. 11, arr. Papeete Aug. 22-24, Pago Pago Aug. 28-30, Apia Aug. 31-Sept. 1, Suva Sept. 4-5, Lautoka Sept. 6-7, Noumea Sept. 9-10, Apia (open), Pago Pago Sept. 14-15, due Los Angeles Sept. 29, San Francisco Oct. 1.

Thor I: Dep. San Francisco Sept. 16, Los Angeles Sept. 19, arr. Papeete Sept. 29-Oct. 1, Pago Pago Oct. 5-8, Apia Oct. 9-10, Suva Oct. 13-14, Noumea Oct. 16-18, Pago Pago Oct. 30-31, due Los Angeles Nov. 13, San Francisco Nov. 15.

Details from General Steamship Corporation Ltd., 1 Bush St., San Francisco, USA and Islands Agents.

Airways Timetables

Trans-Pacific Services

Sydney-Brisbane-Honolulu- Nth. America By Qantas Empire Airways, with Boeing 707 V-Jets NORTHBOUND Weekly from Sydney, dep. 5 p.m. every Sat., arr. Brisbane 6.15 p.m., dep.

Brisbane 7 p.m., arr. Honolulu 7.30 a.m. Sat. Dep. 9 a.m., arr. San Francisco 4.40 p.m, SOUTHBOUND Weekly from San Francisco, dep. 8 p.m. every Sat., arr. Honolulu 9.50 p.m., dep. 11.59 p.m. Sat. Arr. Brisbane 5 a.m. Mon., dep. Brisbane 5.45 a.m., arr. Sydney 7.05 a.m.

Sydney-Fiji-Hawaii-USA

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 V-Jets) NORTHBOUND Tues., Thurs. and Sun.; Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.40 a.m., dep. 1.25 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco.

Mon., Wed. and Sat.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.40 a.m., dep. 1.25 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York.

Pri.; Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.40 a.m., dep. 1.25 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco (extends to Vancouver alternate weeks; from Sydney (Aug. 14, 28, Sept. 11, 25, Oct. 9, 23, etc.).

SOUTHBOUND Mon., Wed. and Frl.; New York, San Francisco. Honolulu. Nadi (arr. 3.25 a.m., Wed., Frl., Sun., dep. 4.15 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 6.30 a.m.) Tues., Thurs. and Sun. San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 3.25 a.m., Thurs., Sat., Tues., dep. 4.15 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 6.30 a.m.).

Sat.; San Francisco (service begins from 135 \CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

Vancouver alternate Sats. (Aug. 15 29, Sept. 12, 26, Oct. 10. 25. etc.)' Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 6.55 p.m., Sun. dep. 7.45 p.m.), Sydney (arr. 10 p.m.)! (International Dateline is crossed between Nadi and Honolulu.)

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(Bristol Britannia and DCS Jet) ~ northbound Alt s a t (Aug 8, 22, Sept. 5. 19, Oct. 3. 17, 3!, etc.): Dep. Sydney 11 a.m. by Britannia for Auckland (arr. 4so p.m.).

Weekly from Auckland, dep. 5.35 p.m. rtI ery inoE’ for Nadi (arr - 9 - 40 P-m-. de p . 10.35 p.m.), Honolulu (arr. Sat. 10 a.m., dep. Sun. 10 a.m. by DCB) Vmcquvm, Amsterdam (arr. Mon. 2.25 SOUTHBOUND Weekly from Amsterdam, dep. 2 o m every Sat. by DCS for Vancouver Honolulu (arr. Sun. 10.35 p.m., dep i. l-55 p,m - by Britannia), Nadi l ar ti Tl i eS- 7,20 a m -. dep. 8.05 am ) *n. A l^ k and (arr - 1215 P-m.).

A fc fi T an S ‘ l A V g> i l, 25 ’ Se Pt- 8, 22, Oct. 6, 20, etc.): Dep. Auckland 1.05 pm for Sydney (arr. Tues. 3.35 p.m ) Nam-HOTolu°S“‘ Datel ‘” e Cr ° SSCd between Sydney-Fiji (or Am. Samoa) Hawaii-USA

Bt Pan American Airways

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers) NORTHBOUND Sat M J h ? rS - : , Dep ‘ Sydney 7 P-m. for Nadi (arr. 12.45 a.m., dep. 1.30 a.m.) Honolulu and Los Angeles, arr. Sat Thurs., 7.10 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Sydney 7 p.m. fof Pago Pago (arr. 2.55 a.m., dep. 3.40 a.m ).

Honolulu and Los Angeles (arr. 710 p.m. Mon.).

SOUTHBOUND Tues.. Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 9.45 p.m for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.15 am Thurs., Sat., dep. 6.15 a.m.), and Sydney (arr. Thurs., Sat. 8.35 a.m.).

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 9.45 p.m. for Honolulu, Pago Pago (arr. 5.10 a.m., dep. 5.55 a.m.), and Sydney (arr. 8.55 a.m. Mon.). kt !* n *® rnati ° na l Dateline crossed between Nadl-Honolulu, and Sydney-Pago Pago.)

Australia-New Zealand

Auckland-Brisbane QANTAS-TEAL with Electra Mk. ll’s Sat.; Dep. Auckland 11 a.m., arr. Brisbane 1.20 p.m.

Sun,: Dep. Brisbane 1 p.m., arr. Auckland 6.55 p.m.

Auckland-Melbourne QANTAS-TEAL with Electra Mk. Il’s Wed., Fri.: Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m arr. Melbourne 11.30 a.m.

Thurs., Sat.; Dep. Melbourne 12.30 pm arr. Auckland 7 p.m.

Christch urc h-Melbourne QANTAS-TEAL. with Electra Mk. Il’s Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 9 a.m., arr Melbourne 11.40 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Christchurch 7 p.m., arr Melbourne 9.40 p.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m arr. Christchurch 6.40 p.m.

Sydney-Auckland QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. IPs.

Dai |i : n? ep ‘ Auckland 9 a.m., arr. Sydney 11.05 a.m.

Da « y i* Dep ‘ Sydney 1 P-m., arr - Auckland b. 45 p.m SUn r'?^ n ‘’ Wed ” Thurs - : D ep. Auckland 1.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 3.35 p.m, Tu ® s ” Wed '’ Fri ” Sat ” DepP Sydney arr - Auckland 6.15 a.m.

TSun., Wed.: Dep. Sydney 4.30 p.m., arr Auckland 10.15 p.m. * Does not operate on Aug. 4 7 n 12, 15, 19, 22, 26, 29. ’ ’ t Does not operate on Aug. 2,5, 9.

BOAC, with Comet IV’s.

Tue i ’ J Sat " Dep - Auckland 8.30 a.m., arr Sydney 10 a.m.

Mon.. Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 9.45 a.m arr. Auckland 2.45 p.m. ’

Sydney-Christchurch QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. Il’s Tue f-' , Thurs - F rL, Sat.: Dep. Sydney * 2 - 15 p --, arr - Christchurch 6 p.m.

Tue ®i! . d - Thurs., Fri., Sun.: Dep.

Christchurch 7.30 p.m., arr. Sydney p.m.

Sydney-Wellington QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. Il’s Dai . ly: ... D ® p - Sydney 9.30 a.m., arr.

Wellington 3.25 p.m.

Da ily: Dep. Wellington 4.30 p.m., arr Sydney 6.50 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 a.m., arr. Wellington 6.25 a.m. (commences Aug. 15).

S Wellington 8 a.m., arr. Sydney 10.20 a.m. (commences Aug. 15).

Wellington-Brlsbane TEAL, with Electra Mk. II Sui L : . P ep - Wellington 9.15 a.m., arr.

Brisbane 12.05 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Brisbane 2.15 p.m., arr Wellington 8.35 p.m.

Wellington-Melbourne TEAL, with Electra Mk. II Sat ; : , ,P ep - Wellington 8.45 a.m., arr Melbourne 11.45 a.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m., arr Wellington 7 p.m.

Australia-Pacific Islands

Sydney-Fiji Air-India with Boeing 707 Tues.: Dep. Sydney 1.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 7.05 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Nadi 8.40 a.m., arr. Sydney 9.45 a.m.

Sydney-lord Howe Is.

Airlines of N.S.W. (Sandringham Flyingboats).

Return flight from Rose Bay base every Tues. and Sat. Departure time from Sydney is dependent on time of high tide at Lord Howe Is.

Sydney-New Caledonia QANTAS—UTA with Electra Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 10.10 a.m. for Noumea (arr. 2.40 p.m.), dep, 4.10 p.m. for Sydney, arr. 7 p.m.

Sydney-Norfolk Is.

QANTAS, with Skymaster DC4 Aircr Fri.: Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. NI ..™ gh ‘ ex ‘ ends NI-Auckland (See Inter-Territory Services”) Sun.: Dep. NI 2.45 p.m., Sydney arr i p.m.

Sydney-Papua-New Guine.

Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett-/ g y dne y to Lae and ret with DCGB’s. TAA runs the sen Wednesdays, Fridays i Saturdays: Ansett-ANA Sundays Tv days, Thursdays and Fridays.

NORTHBOUND TAA: Mon., Wed., Sat. dep. Sydney £ P.m. arr. Brisbane 11,50 p.m. E Brisbane 12.40 a.m. next day. arr.

Moresby 6.10 a.m., dep. Ft. More 7 a.m., arr. Lae 8 a.m.

Fri.: Dep. Sydney 9.30 p.m., £ Brisbane 1135 p.m., dep. Brlsbi 12.25 p.m. Sat., arr. Pt. Moresby a.m., dep. Pt. Moresby 6.45 a.m s Lae 7.45 a.m.

Ansett-ANA: Sun., Tues., Thurs. I dep. Sydney 9.45 p.m., arr. Brisba 11.45 p.m., dep. Brisbane 12.40 a. next day, arr. Pt. Moresby 6.10 a.i dep. Pt. Moresby 7 a.m,, an* I 8 a.m.

SOUTHBOUND Ansett-ANA: Dep. Lae Wed., Fri., Sa Sun., 9.15 a.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 10. a.m., dep. Pt. Moresby 11 a.m., a: Brisbane 4.10 p.m., dep. Brisbane 4 p.m., arr. Sydney 6.55 p.m.

TAA: Tues., Thurs., Sun. dep Lae 9 a.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 10.15 a.m., de Pt. Moresby 11 a.m,, arr. Brlsbai 4.15 p.m., dep. Brisbane 4.50 p n arr. Sydney 6.55 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 9.30 a.m., arr F Moresby 10.30 a.m., dep. Pt. Moresl 11.15 a.m., arr. Brisbane 4.30 p.n dep. Brisbane 5.05 p.m., arr. Sydm 7.10 p.m.

Qld.-Papua-New Guinea TAA, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Ji Alt. Mon.: Dep. Townsville 1.50 p.m Cairns, arr. 2.45 p.m., dep. 3.50 p.m arr. Pt. Moresby 6.10 p.m. (Aug ii 31, Sept. 14, 28, Oct. 12, 26, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Lae 12.30 p.m., Pi Moresby arr. 1.30 p.m., dep. 2.15 p.m Cairns arr. 4.35 p.m., dep. 5.35 p m arr. Townsville 6.30 p.m. (Aug. 19 Sept. 2, 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, etc.).

Cairns-Pt. Moresbt-Cairns

Ansett, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Je Alt. Sat.: Dep. Cairns 3.35 p.m.. arr. Pt Moresby 5.55 p.m. (Aug. 8, 22, Sept 5, 19, Oct. 3, 17, 31, etc.).

Alt. Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 9.05 a.m. arr. Cairns 11.25 a.m. (Aug. 9, 23 Sept. 6, 20, Oct. 4, 18, etc.).

Inter-Territory Services

Fiji-Am. Samoa PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sun.: Dep. Nadi 12 noon, cross International Dateline, arr. Pago Pago 4 05 p.m. Sat.

Tues.: Dep. Pago Pago 4 p.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi 6 10 p.m. Wed.

Fiji Direct Service

Via Panama

Regular Sailings every four weeks London to Suva & Lautoka Through Bills of Lading to

Labasa • Levuka - Apia - Pago Pago

Nukualofa - Vavau - Niue

For further particulars apply to

Bethell, Gwyn & Co. Ltd. Burns Philp

Beaufort House, Gravel Lane, (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

London. E.l. Suva Fiji-Am. Samoa-NZ TEAL, with Electra Mk. 11. .: Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 12.15 a.m. Mon. Dep. Nadi 2 a.m., :ross International Dateline, arr. Pago Pago Sun. 5.45 a.m. .: Dep. Pago Pago 10 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. 11.40 a.m. Dep. Nadi 12.30 p.m., arr.

Auckland 4.20 p.m. : iji-Gilbert & Ellice Islands i Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Mon. (Aug. 17, 31, Sept. 14, 28, Oct. 12 26, etc.); Dep. Suva 7.45 a.m., arr.

Nadi 8.25 a.m., dep. 9.10 a.m., Funafuti arr. 1.05 p.m. Next day (alt.

Tues.) dep. Funafuti 7 a.m., Tarawa arr. 11.40 a.m. .

Wed. (Aug. 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, etc.): Dep. Tarawa 7 a.m., Funafuti arr. 11.40 a.m., dep. 12-40 p.m., Nadi arr. 4.35 p.m., dep. 5.20 p.m., Suva arr. 6.05 p.m Fiji-New Hebrides-BSI ji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft n., Thurs.: Dep. Suva 9 a.m., Nadi arr. 9.40 a.m.. dep. 10.25 a.m., Vila arr. 1 p.m. Next day (Tues. or Fri.) dep. Vila 8 a.m., Santo arr. 9.15 a.m., dep. 9.45 a.m., Honiara arr. 1.40 p.m. d. Sat.: Dep. Honiara 6.45 a.m., Santo, arr. 10.40 a.m., dep. 11.10 a.m., Vila, arr. 12.25 p.m., dep. 1.10 p.m., Nadi, arr. 5.45 p.m., dep. 6.30 p.m., Suva, arr. 7.15“ p.m; ' • Fiji-New Zealand PAA, with DC7C Aircraft ;., Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 6.45 a.m. for Auckland, arr. 11.30 a.m. ; Thurs.; Dep. Auckland 6.30 p.m. for Nadi, arr. 11.10 p.m, TEAL, with Electra Mk. ITs. ily: Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., arr.

Nadi 12.15 a.m. es., Thurs., Sat.; Dep. Nadi 5.45 a.m., arr. Auckland 9.35 a.m. id., Fri.: Dep. Nadi 8.45 a.m., arr.

Auckland 12.35 p.m. m,: Dep. Nadi 12.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 4.20 p.m. 1 Tues., Wed., flights ex-Auckland and •Nadi are operated by Qantas under irter to TEAL.

Fiji-Tonga iji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft t., alt. Thurs. (Aug. 20, Sept. 3, 17, Oct. 1, 15, 29, etc.); Dep. Suva 7 a.m., arr. Nukualofa 11.15 a.m. Dep. Nukualofa 12 noon, arr. Suva 2.15 p.m.

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria cade, Suva.

Fiji-Western Samoa 'iji Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aireraft t. Thurs. (Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 10, 24, Oct. 8, 22, etc.); Dep. Suva 7.45 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Apia 1.25 p.m., Wed. (Aug. 12, 26, Sept. 9, 23, Oct. 7, 21, etc.), t. Thurs. (Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 10, 24, Oct. 8, 22, etc.): Dep. Apia 10 a.m., cross International Dateline, arr. Suva 1.40 p.m., Fri. (Aug. 14, 28, Sept. 11, 25, Oct. 9, 23, etc.).

New Caledonia-Fiji-Tahiti- Fiji-New Caledonia UTA-Air France with DCS Jet Wed : Dep. Noumea 8.50 a.m. for Nadi, arr. 11.35 a.m., dep. 2 a.m. Thurs. for Papeete (cross International Dateline) arr. 8.05 a.m. Wed.

Sun.; Dep. Papeete 6.30 a.m. for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Mon. 9.15 a.m.

Dep. Mon. 10.15 a.m., arr. Noumea 11.20 a.m.

New Caledonia-New Hebrides UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Tues., Sat.: Dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Vila (arr. 9.55 a.m., dep. 10.30 a.m.), Santo (arr. 11.45 a.m., dep. 1.15 p.m.), Vila (arr. 2.30 p.m., dep. 3.05 p.m.).

Noumea (arr. 5 p.m.).

New Caledonia-NZ TEAL, with Comet 4 Jet Fri.: Dep. Noumea 1 p.m. for Auckland, arr. 4.25 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Auckland 10 a.m. for Noumea, arr. 12 p.m.

New Caledonia-Wallis Island UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Monthly service (second Wednesday) Wed. (Aug. 12, Sept. 9, Oct. 14, etc.): Dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Wallis Is., arr. 3.30 p.m.

Fri (Aug. 14, Sept. 11, Oct. 16, etc.): Dep. Wallis Is. 8 a.m. for Noumea, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Norfolk Is.-New Zealand TEAL, by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) Fri.; Dep. NI 4 p.m., Auckland, arr. 7.45 p.m.

Sat., Aug. 8, 22; Dep. NI 2.15 p.m., arr.

Auckland 6 p.m. Dep. Auckland 10 a.m., arr. NI 1 p.m.

P-NG-Solomons TAA. with Fokker Prop-Jet and DCS.

Alt. Mon.: Dep. Lae (DCS) 6 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandlna, Honiara, arr. 4.20 p.m. (Aug. 10, 24, Sept. 7, 21, Oct. 5, 19, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Honiara (DCS) 7.30 a.m. for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 3.45 p.m. (Aug. 12, 26, Sept. 9, 23, Oct. 7, 28, etc.).

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 8 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Honiara, arr. 4.20 p.m. (Aug. 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 6.45 a.m. for Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae arr. 12 noon (Aug. 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30.

Oct. 14, 28, etc.).

P NG - West NG TAA, with DCS Aircraft Alt. Tues. (Aug. 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, Oct. 13 27, etc.): Dep. Lae 10 a.m., for Madang, Wewak, Sukarnopura, arr. 2.35 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (Aug. 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, etc.): Dep. Sukarnopura 11.35 а. for Wewak, Madang. Lae, arr. 5.05 p.m.

Biak (West No-Lae

Garuda Indonesian Airways (DCS).

Alt. Tues. (Aug. 11, 25, Sept. 8, 22, Oct. б, 20, etc.): Dep. Biak 6.15 p.m., Sukarnopura, arr. 8.25 a.m., dep. 9.25 a.m., arr. Lae 1.30 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (Aug. 12. 26, Sept. 9, 23, Oct. 7, 21, etc.): Dep. Lae 9.15 a.m., Sukarnopura, arr. 12.15 p.m., dep. 1 p.m., arr. Biak 3.10 p.m.

Tahiti-(Hawaii)-USA UTA, with DCS Jet Aircraft Wed.: Dep. Papeete 6 p.m. for Honolulu, arr 11.35 p.m. Dep. Honolulu 12.20 a.m. Thurs. for Los Angeles, arr. 8.35 a.m. Dep. Los Angeles 12.30 p.m.

Thurs., arr, Papeete 6 p.m.

Fri ; Dep. Papeete 8.30 a.m. for Los Angeles, arr. 7.25 p.m. Dep.

Angeles 1 a.m. Sat., arr. Papeete 6.30 a.m. 137 NTHLY— AUGUST, 1964

Acific Islands Mo

Linking the PACIFIC ISLANDS with f 7 ,ND,ES # new Zealand]

Australia And South Africa

One Class (Tourist) liners, Southern Cross (20,000 Tons) and Northern Star (24,000 Tons) air-conditioned with the latest in amenities.

For full particulars apply: — Fiji—Any branch or agency of Burn* Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.) Cable Address: Burphil.

Tahiti Messageries Maritimes Papeete.

Cable Address; Messagerie Papeete Around the world east or west bound via Panama and South Africa calling Fiji, Tahiti, Balboa Curacao, Trinidad, U.K., Las Palmas, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand. Occasional calls, Miami (Pt Everglades) Bermuda, Lisbon e

Shaw Savill Line

Tahifi-USA Pan American Airways, with Intercontinental Jet Clippers M °?ni„ D i P - Los Angeles 9 a -m„ dep. Hono- Th.-IV P-“-. arr - Papeete 6.25 p.m. nm ete 825 am - dep - Honopm. 3 ' 30 P ” arr> Los Angeles 11.25 Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 10 p.m. den & tTlln 11 - 59 P Sun : Dep. Papeete 8.45 p.m., arr Los a s m 45 ■ arr San "SiciSS W. Samoa-Am. Samoa Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Aircraft Sam e oT-fl n igS eS tim? ; Amerlcan De p Paieolo (W. Samoa): Sun. 5 a.m Sat 3 a 30 ’p.m 3 ° TueS - Thurs -' DeP « -»n ag ° Pago (American Samoa); Sun 6.30 a.m., 9 a.m.; Mon. 9 a.m., Tues’ 3.15 p.m.; Thurs.. Sat. 4.45 p.m.

W. Samoa-Cook Islands Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS ? B e^ ween Western Samoa and Cook Islands (Altutakl and Rarotonga).

Aitut a a b? lo 9 8 am u each Frida y- arr - Altutakl 2 p.m., dep. 2.30 p.m., arr Rarotonga 3.35 p.m.

DeP^* R f r ° tonga 8 am - every Sat., arr Altutakl 9.05 a m., dep. Altutakl 9.40 a.m., arr. Faleolo 2.10 p.m w. Samoa-Fiji Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS ec l. (Aug. 19, sept. 2. 16, 30. etc.)toy' 2 04 pm, lo a - m - arr - Nadl Alt. Frl. (Aug. 7, 21, Sept. 4, 18 etc I • Pjf- Nadi 2 - 45 a - m -> arr. Faleolo alt! 8.25 a.m AUg ’ 6 ’ 2 °’ Sept 5# 19 ’ etCl) mternationai dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nadi. wee n TprS.lSo S i : .Polynesian Booking office Api? r e P tr ®, Ruildings - -Beach St..

Apia r. e. Pritchard, Pago Paeo- Airport. Empire Airways Ltd., nidi

Internal Services

Fiji Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights dally: Den HP va TM 7 n a m ” arr - Nadl 8 -15 a m P ; d ® p - ? adi J? am > arr - Suy a 9-50 a.m.: and dep. Suva 3 p.m., arr. Nadi 3.45 dep ; , Nadi 410 p.m., arr. Suva 5 p.m.—all Heron flights.

Suva-Nadi: Dep. Suva Mon., Wed., Frl and alt. Thurs. 4 p.m., arr. Nadi etc°) Pm ’ JUly 9 * 23, Aug ‘ 6 ’ 20 > Natfl-Suva: Dep. Nadi Tues.. Thurs., Sat. and alt. Frl. 6.15 a.m., arr. Suva 7.05 p.m. (Aug. 7, 21, Sept. 4, 18, etc.).

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 11 am Wed Thurs., Frl., Sat. and Sun.

Suva-Labasa-Savusavu Labasa-Suva• 11 a.m. Tues.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva Deo 11 Mon.

SUV Wed ra SaVUSaVU ' SUVa: Dep - 120 Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savuss Suva; Dep. 11 a.m. Thurs., Sat. S Suva-Ura-Suva: Dep. 7.20 a.m., Siln.

Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva Dei a.m. Mon. * Suva-Matel-Labasa-Matei-Suva • Den a.m. Frl.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. li a . m . ( Details from FIJI Airways, Ltd., Vic Arcade, Suva.

French Polynesia RAI, with DC4 Aircraft Services to the Leeward Group ( Sous le Vent). Society Islands.

Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Papee a.m. Raiatea, arr. 8.55 a.m., dep. a.m., Bora Bora, arr. 9.35 a.m.

Tu -: Dep - Papeete 7 a.m., Huahlne, 7.50 a.m., dep. 8.10 a.m., Raiatea, 8.30 a.m., dep. 8.50 a.m., Bora I arr. 9.10 a.m.

Frl.: Dep. Papeete 7 a.m., Raiatea, 8 a.m., dep. 8.20 a.m., Bora Bora, 8.40 a.m.

Mon., Wed., Sat.: Dep. Bora Bora 4 t Raiatea, arr. 4.20 p.m., dep. 4 40 c Papeete, arr. 5.30 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Bora Bora 9.30 a.m., Tlkel arr. 11.20 a.m., dep. 3.15 p.m., Pape arr. 4.30 p.m. 138 AUGUST, 1 9 6 4 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

PlM's airways schedules are arranged alphabetically from point of departure under five main headings: Transpacific Services, Australia-New Zealand, Australia-Pacific Islands, Inter- Territory Services and Internal Services.

Dep. Bora Bora 9 a.m., Tikehau, rr. 10.50 a.m., dep. 2.10 p.m., Ranglja, arr. 2.35 p.m., dep. 3.5 p.m., apeete, arr. 4.30 p.m. s.; Dep. Bora Bora 5 p.m., Papeete, rr. 6.10 p.m. tails from RAI, Qual Blr Hakelm. ete, or any UTA office.

New Caledonia NSPAC, with Heron and/or Dragon and/or Aztec nea-Mare: Tues. dep. Noumea 2.30 .m. for Mare, Noumea, arr. 4.30 p.m. ri. dep. Noumea 2.30 p.m. for Mare, oumea, arr. 4.30 p.m. nea-Lifou; Tues., Wed., Fri. dep. foumea 8 a.m. for Llfou, Noumea, rr. 10 a.m. Mon. dep. Noumea 8.15 .m. for Llfou, Noumea, arr. 10.15 a.m. nea-Isle of Pines; Mon., Wed., Fri., lat. dep. Noumea 10.45 a.m. for Isle f Pines, Noumea, arr. 12 noon, lun. dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Isle of ’ines, Noumea, arr. 5 p.m. tnea-Ouvea; Tues. dep. Noumea 10.45 i.m„ Noumea, arr. 2 p.m. Sat. dep. loumea 8 a.m., Noumea, arr. 10 a.m. tnea-Houailou-Poindimie: Tues., Wed., i’ri., dep. Noumea 9 a.m. for Houailou md’ Poindimie, Noumea, arr. 10.50 a.m. sat. dep. Noumea 1.30 p.m. for louailou and Poindimie, Noumea, arr. 1.20 p.m. Sun. dep. Noumea 3 p.m. or Houailou and Poindimie, Noumea, irr. 4.50 p.m, mea-Kone-Koumac: Mon. dep. Noumea r. 45 a.m. for Kone and Koumac, Noumea, arr. 10.15 a.m. Fri. dep.

Noumea for Kone and Koumac, Noumea, arr. 4.30 p.m. Wed. dep.

Noumea 2 p.m. for Kone only, Noumea, irr. 340 p.m New Hebrides New Hebrides Airways, with Drover. a., Fri.: Dep. Vila 8.30 a.m. for Tanna, arr. 9.15 a.m., dep. 3.30 p.m., arr. Vila 4.45 p.m. (UsuaUy a flight is made from Tanna to either Aneltyum, Futuna, Aniwa or Erromanga before the scheduled departure for Vila). »s.; Dep. Vila 8.30 a.m. for Tongoa, arr. 9.05 a.m., dep. 10 a.m., Vila, arr. 10.35 a.m. (with extension to Pentecost and Santo on demand). details from New Hebrides Airways, a.

Papua-New Guinea Operated by TAA T. MORESBY-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) ;. Tues.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 6.40 a.m., arr. Lae 7.40 a.m. (Aug. 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, etc.).

LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) Tues. Dep. Lae 9 a.m.. Rabaul arr 10.55 a.m. (Aug. 18, Sept. 1, 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Rabaul 10.10 a.m., Lae arr. 12 noon (Aug. 19, Sept. 2, 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, etc.).

Port Moresby-Darc (Dcs)

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8.45 a.m. for Daru, returning same day via Balimo, arr. 2.25 p.m. (Aug. 7, 21, Sept. 4, 18, Oct. 2, 16, 30, etc.).

PT. MORESBY-WEST. PAPUA (Catalina) Wed • Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, Paibuna. Kerema, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 3.25 p.m.

Alt Thurs.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Daru, Lake Murray, Daru, arr. 3 p.m. (Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 10, 24, etc.).

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Daru 9 a.m. for Pt.

Moresby, arr. 11.15 a.m. (Aug. 14, 28, Sept. 11, 25, etc.).

PT. MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Catalina) Alt. Mon.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai, Esa-Ala, Samaral, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Aug. 10, 24, Sept. 7, 21, Oct. 5. 19, etc.).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m for Samarai, Deboyne, Samaral, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Aug. 24. Sept. 21, etc.).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.rm for Samarai. Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Aug. 31, etc.).

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service (Dcs)

Mon., Fri.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Madang. Wewak. Manus. Kavleng, Rabaul. arr. 4.05 p.m.

Mon.; Dep. Rabaul 7.30 a.m. for Kavleng.

Manus, Wewak, arr. 12.50 p.m.

Sat.; Dep. Lae 9 a.m., for Madang.

Wewak. arr. 11.55 a.m.

Sun., Tues.: Dep. Wewak 6 a.m. for Madang. Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Wed.: Dep. Kavieng 6.30 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 7.35 a.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 12.45 p.m. for Kavleng. arr. 1.50 p.m.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Wed.; Dep. Madang 9.40 a.m. for Wabag, Wapenamunda, Balyer R., Hagen. Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 9 a.m. for Goroka, Minj. Banz. Hagen. Balyer R.. Wapenamunda. Wabag, Madang. arr. 3.20 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Mt. Hagen 7.20 a.m. for Banz (opt.), Lae. arr. 9 a.m.

Sun.; Dep. Lae 9 a.m. for Goroka, Minj. Banz. Mt. Hagen, arr. 12.05 p.m.

Pt. Moresby-Popondetta-Lae (Dcs)

Sat ; Dep. Pt. Moresby 11.30 a.m. for Kokoda (opt.), Popondetta, Garaina.

Lae, arr. 2.05 p.m.

Sat.; Dep. Lae 7.40 a.m. for Garaina.

Popondetta, Kokoda (opt.), Pt.

Moresby, arr. 10.15 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo-Lae (Dcs)

Thurs., Sun.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 10.45 a.m for Wau, Bulolo. Lae, arr. 1.20 p.m Thurs., Sun.; Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Bulolo Wau. Pt. Moresby, arr. 10 a.m.

Madang-Goroka-Lae (Dcs)

Tries ; Dep. Lae 9 a.m. for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Madang, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Madang 11.30 a.m. for Hagen.

Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m

Pt. Moresby-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Sun., Tues., Thurs.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, arr. 10.50 a.m.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.; Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m for Goroka, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.20 a.m.

Lae-Ra6Aul-Lae (Dcs)

Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Lae 9.30 a.m.. arr. Rabaul 12.05 p.m.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 6 a.m., arr. Lae 8.35 a.m.

Thurs.: Dep Lae 10 a.m. for Finschhafen.

Kandrian, Talasea, Hoskins, Jacqulnoi Bay. Rabaul. arr 3.10 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m. for Jacqulnot Bay Hoskins, Talasea, Kandrian, Cape Gloucester (on request), Finschhafen, Lae, arr. 2.10 p.m.

LAE-FINSCHHAFEN-LAE (Cessna) Tues.: Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Plnschhafen, Lae, arr. 8.15 a.m.

Rabaul-Bcin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Wed., Frl.; Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m. for Buka, Wakunal, Aropa, Buln, Kleta, Wakunai, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 3.40 p.m.

Rabaul-Talasea-Rabaul

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 12.30 p.m. for Hoskins.

Talasea, Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Operated by Ansett-MAL (with DOS’s) Mon.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang. Rabaul, arr. 11.35 a.m.

Dep. Goroka 7.45 a.m. for Kalnantu, Lae. Wau, Pt. Moresby. Wau. Lae, Goroka, Mt. Hagen, arr. 5 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 3 p.m.

Wed • Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang. Wewak, Momote. Kavleng.

Rabaul, arr. 4 p.m.

Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, arr. 12.15 p.m.

Dep Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul, arr 12 noon.

Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Goroka, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Dep. Mt. Hagen 6.30 a.m. for Banz, Goroka. Wau. Pt. Moresby. Wau. Lae.

Goroka, Madang. arr. 3.45 p.m.

Dep. (Plagglo) Wewak 6.15 a.m. for Goroka, Wewak, Vanlmo, Wewak, arr. 2.45 p.m. „ Dep Madang 8 a.m. for Mt. Hagen, Banz. Minj. Madang. arr. 11.45 a.m Dep. (Plagglo) Goroka 8.15 a.m. for Mt. Hagen, arr. 8.50 a.m.

Dep. (Plagglo) Mt. Hagen 6.30 a.m. for Banz. Goroka, arr. 7.30 a.m.

Dep. (Plagglo) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Luml, Nuku. Wewak, arr. 11.05 a.m.

Dep. (Plagglo) Wewak 1 p.m. for Maprlk, Yangoru, Wewak. arr. 2.45 P Dep. (Plagglo) Mt. Hagen 9.30 a.m. for Mendl, Erave, lallbu, Kagua, Mt.

Hagen, arr. 12 noon.

Thurs ■ Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m. for Goroka. Wau, Pt. Moresby. Wau.

Goroka arr. 2.30 p.m.

Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavleng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 4.40 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna or Plagglo) Mt. Hagen 1.30 p.m. for Banz, MlnJ, Goroka, arr. 2.50 pm.

Dep. (Plagglo) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Telefomln, Wewak. arr. 11.40 a.m.

Dep. (Cessna) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Altape, Sissano, Vanlmo, Dagua, Wewak, arr. 12.15 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna or Plagglo) Wewak 3 p.m. for Angoram, Wewak, arr. 4 p.m.

Frl.: Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka Madang. arr. 10.35 a.m.

Dep. (Plagglo) Lae 9.05 a.m. for Kalnantu. Goroka. MlnJ. Banz. Mt Hagen, Wabag, Mt. Hagen, arr. 1.10 p.m.

Dep. Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul. arr 12 noon. J Dep. Wewak 6.15 a.m for Madang Lae. arr. 8.50 a.m.

Dep. (Plagglo) Goroka 7.30 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m. 139 CIPIG ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964

(Approx. First Class)

From Sydney

(Aust. currency) TO- Single Retun £ s. d. £ s.

Moresby .... 48 14 o 92 5 Lae Rabaul . . ’

Noumea ....

Honiara Norfolk Is. . 60 4 0 70 9 0 56 18 0 92 4 0 27 10 0 115 5 135 15 108 3 179 5 52 5 Lord Howe Nadi Suva .... 16 9 0 85 9 0 91 5 0 32 18 162 8 175 0 Auckland . . 54 10 0 103 11 Christchurch . 54 10 0 103 11 Wellington . . . 54 10 0 103 11 Pago Pago . . 121 4 0 278 4 Honolulu .... 282 12 0 536 19 San Francisco . 350 9 0 665 18 Vancouver . . . 350 9 0 665 18 ( Papeete .... 181 5 0 344 8 ( FROM AUCKLAND (NZ currencv) TO Nadi . . .

Norfolk Is. . . . 43 0 0 20 15 0 81 4 ( 39 9 ( Papeete .... 114 10 0 217 11 ( Noumea .... 45 10 0 86 19 ( FROM SUVA (Fiji currencv ) TO— Nadi Nukualofa . . 5 16 0 18 10 0 12 12 C 45 3 C Apia 25 0 0 47 10 0 Honiara .... 67 10 0 128 5 0 Vila 30 13 0 58 5 0 Santo 39 14 0 75 9 0 FROM NADI (Fiji currency) TO— Pago Pago . . . 31 15 0 60 7 0 Noumea .... 35 11 0 67 11 0 Papeete .... 87 5 0 165 16 0 F'ares quoted are First Class.

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PORT VILA-Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides. 8.2?a.n? abaUl 545 am ’ f ° r Lae ’ arr - De p . Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka Ge P- Goroka 7.45 a.m. for Wau Pt Moresby. Wau, Lae. Goroka, ar? 240 Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Mt Haeen Banz, Mmj, Goroka, Minj, Banz B mi’

Hagen, Madang. arr. 3.30 pm Ge P- ( J! la relo) Mt. Hagen 9.30 a m for Mendi, Kagua, Erave, lalibu Mt Hagen, arr. 12 noon ’ Mt.

Sal ;V P ep ' Lae 855 a.m. for Goroka Madang, arr. 10.35 a.m * ’

I2 D noon Lae 920 am ' ,or Rabau1 ’

La?. eP ar, M B l 5 an | m 7 am ' ,or G ° r °^ 8.25 C am ßabaUl 545 am - "> r La *. arr.

Operated by Papuan Airlines Transport Pty. Ltd (“Patair”) Mon.; Dep. (D C3) Pt. Moresby 730 am arr, K ° k ° da ' Pt ' tor DC Rorn P n, aSgl i” pfc “"“by 8 30 a.m.

Tanlni wv.if Aroa ’ Kalrutu . Berelna, i’ Woltape. Taplnl, Berelna Pt Mn U r’ .P 0a fopt ' ) > Rorona (opt.)’

Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.30 p m Dep. (Plagglo) Pt. Moresby 8 20 am (opt ) ’ Pt. Moresby: _ maVat° WoUap'eK mIP - la,er lf Tue f S ’; ~ e P; j DC3 > Pt. Moresby 8.30 a m a?r ° a d m Popondetta - p t- Moresby! for°nar.!°?i. Pt - Mores by 7.30 a.m. arr. ?5 0 p .m ’ D&rU ’ Pt ‘ Moresb^ (PiaB S io) Pt. Moresby 11 a m for Cape Rodney. Pa ill (Jpt.) pj‘ Moresby, arr. 12.50 p.m. (20' m fn later If call made at Paill) a m eP f«, £ la F l 0) Pt ‘ Moresby 8.30 ar?' 10.30 °.m. Pe ' TaP ‘ nl ’ Pt M ° r ' sb^ • PlM's airways schedules are arranged alphabetically from point of departure under five main headings: Transpacific Services, Australia-New Zealand, Australia-Pacific Islands, Inter- Territory Services and Internal Services, fn^ eP D (Piaggi °) Pt - Moresby 1.45 p.m *°f. R °rona (opt.). Aroa (opt™ n m ?£ eln ?’ Pt - Mor esby, arr 3.35 p.m. (35 min. later if call made at Rorona and Aroa).

Wed: Dep. ,DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.30 am arr. K ° k ° da> Pt M °resby. . ? ep - [ Pt. Moresby 8.30 a m a P m ’ W ° ltape > Pt - Moresby, aS.' f^ (Piagglo) Pt Moresby 1.45 p.m for Rorona. Aroa, Kairuku, Pt Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m. fn ;P ep - ( . DC3) „ Pt - Moresby 11.15 a.m. for Berema, Pt. Moresby, arr. 2 p.m ThU J S J i Piaggi ? ) Dep - p t- Moresby 8.30 air! 10 0 .30 W a O m aPe ’ TaPlnl ’ Pfc Moresb ?’ . Dep - (Plaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.m. -or Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), f a * ru n k “; ?, e J ein f’ Pt - Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m. (35 min. later If call made at Rorona and Aroa).

AU. Thurs. (Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 10, 24 Oct. 8, 22, etc.): Dep. (DCS) Pt.

Moresby 7 a.m. for Popondetta, Embl Wanigel a v iviga ni, Losuia, Popondetta Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.45 p.m.

I r»l^> Ug ‘ « 0, Sept - 3 > etc.): Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7 a.m. for Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr 9am Fri: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.30 am for Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 9.30 a.m.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 10.30 a.m for Gurney, Pt. Moresby, arr. 2 p.m' Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 11 a.m' for Cape Rodney, Paill, Pt. Moresby arr. 1.10 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. 4« r „,?' apin i’ Woit ape, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.30 a.m. fn^ >eP ‘r. (Plaggio) Pt- Mor esby 1.45 Corona, Area, Kairuku, Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m. (DC3) Pt - Moresby 2,30 for Berema, Pt. Moresby, arr. 4 35 Sat : Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.30 Sr P l°o P ?n detta ’ Kokoda « p t- More arr. 10.10 a.m. fn?wnil Piagg m ) Pt ' Moresby 8.30 i J-Woitape, Tapini. Pt. Moresby, Solomon Islands Megapode Airways with a Dove

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Tues.: Dep Honiara 8 a.m. and 4 p arr. Auki (Malaita) 8.25 a.m. and - P.m., arr. Honiara 9 a.m. and 5 i Tnes., Thurs. (in Fokker week) • r Honiara 9.30 a.m., arr. Yandlna (E sell Is.) 9.55 a.m., dep. Yandina l( a.m., arr. Honiara 10.40 a.m.

Fri (in Fokker week): Dep. Honiara a.m. arr. Munda (New Georgia) < a.m., dep. Munda 9.25 a.m., arr Ba koma (Vella Lavella) 9.45 a.m. c Barakoma 10 a.m., arr. Munda 1C a.m dep. Munda 10.30 a.m j Honiara 11.45 a.m.

Fj \rl m -J DC '*i- Week:): Dep> Honiara 8 a. arr. Yandina 8.25 a.m., dep. 8.40 a arr. Munda 9.25 a.m., dep. 945 a' arr. Barakoma 10.15 a.m., dep in a.m., arr. Munda 11.05 a.m., dep n arr - Yandina 12.10 p.m., d 2 -30 p.m., arr. Honiara 1 p.m (Note: Fokker week and DC3 week re to TAA services from Papua-N ?l in p a ‘ SBe time table under Int.

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Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at the Feminist Club Rooms, 7th Floor. 77 King St., Sydney, on the last Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m.

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Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydnry. *d on four years’ secondary school- » Existing and future teachers’ ieges be integrated as colleges of university in a school of educa- » A faculty of medicine and tistry should include the existing dical College from 1966.

'he commission estimated that iblishment of the university and itute and operating costs of both aid reach £15,700,000 by 1970. fhe first stage of the higher techal institute should be occupied by i 6, and seven university buildings duding a school of education, ;nce faculty, arts faculty, anthroogy and territory museum, and a r school should be finished by '2. fhe commission also recommended t an interim council and a prinal should be appointed in 1964-65 the proposed technical training titution. \n engineering course should start 1967.

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Fhe Government was considering ; recommendations so that it could rt construction as early as possible. : said the university provisions iuld be investigated.

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American Yacht Cuts

RECORD BY 24 HOURS The beautiful American yacht "Ticonderoga", skippered and owned by Robert F. Johnson, easily took line honours in the trans-Pacific yacht race from Los Angeles to Tahiti in July. "Ticonderoga" completed the course on July 6 in the remarkable time of 17 days, five hours, 57 mins. 55 sec., cutting more than 24 hours off the existing record.

"Novia del Mar", the biggest yacht in the race, was the second to arrive—some 24 hours after "Ticonderoga".

The winner of the race on corrected times was the 15-metre yacht "Rascal", skippered by Melle Wilson. 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1964 I EDUCATION^ (Continued from page 11)

W? have been providing efficient I 1 WE specialise in the requirements of the Pacific Islands.

The experience of 70 years blended with the vigour of youth offers YOU a world-wide buying and selling network which cannot be excelled. w. S. TAIT & CO.

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INC ce 1890 Index to Advertisers Adams Industries 16, 19 23 29. 37, 45, 46, 97, 105,' 108,' 113 Air-lndia International . . 20 Angel & Weatherley . 19 Ansett-A.N.A. .. . "AX ANZ Bank Ltd ' ,7 Amott, Wm. Pty. Ltd. ’ 84 Aywun Poultry Farm .. .. 37 Ballina Slipway & Eng. Co. 96 ? n h f J/ Gwyn & Co - Ltd - 137 Bramair International Pty.

Ltd 129 Braybon Bros. Pty. Ltd. 4 Breckwoldt & Co. Wm. .! ] 8 British Solomons Trading Co. Ltd Brown, David, Tractors Pty. _ Ltd 144 Brunton & Co 4 n r’ P * ♦ V *a 4o, 115' cov - HI Bryant & May Pty. Ltd. .. 48 Cadbury-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd. 64 Cambridge Credit Corporation Ltd 124 Carlton & United Breweries Ltd Carnation Company . 74 Carpenter, W. R., & Co. Ltd. r 73, 76, cov. iv Carreras (Overseas) Ltd. . . 93 Classified Advertisement 141 Commonwealth Bank of Aust. 14 Crammond Radio Co 50 Crusatier Shipping Co.' ! 134 C.S.R. Co. Ltd., The ... 70 Cystex 53 Daiwa Shipping Line . . .. 133 Donald, A. B. ( Ltd 40 Drambuie Liqueur Co. Ltd 41 Dunhte Electrical Co. Ltd. .. 38 Electro Motion (Export) Ltd. 41 Everyday Products Pty. Ltd. 37 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty.

Ltd OQ Filmo Depot Ltd. ’ 19 Fisher & Co. ... 60 Flick, W. A. & Co. Pty.' Ltd. 18 Frigate Rum Gaston Johnston Corp. 50 General Motors-Holden's Pty’.

Ltd 104 General Tyre International . 110 Gi bey, W. & A., Ltd. .. 2 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 60 Gillespie, R., Pty. Ltd. .. 43 Glaxo Labs (NZ) Ltd. 21 Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. (Aust.) Ltd. . . 24 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 42 Hains, Peter, & Co. .. 125 Halvorsen & Kessler Pty.

Ltd 97 Handi-Works Co. 27 Harris, Keith, & Co. Ltd. 42 Hellaby, R. & W., Ltd. .. 57 Hongkong & Whampoa Pock Co. Ltd 100 Hyster Aust. Pty. Ltd. .. 75 Industrial Enteprises Ltd. . . 22 International Harvester.

Co. 26 58 International Majora Paints' Pt Y- Ltd 106,119 Kennedy, Capt. W. L. .105 Kerr Bors. Pty. Ltd 47 King George Whisky .. .. 44 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. ” 102 Kraft Foods Ltd. . . . 73 Lane's Pty. Ltd 30 Lawrence, Alfred, & Co. P/L 86 Love, J. R., & Co. Pty. Ltd. 109 Massey Ferguson (Aust.) Ltd. 90 Matson Line ... 190 Mendaco .. ” « Millers Ltd. . .! ” ; * iTx Mobil Oil Aust. Ltd. .. ” 67 Morris Hedstrom Ltd. 12 49 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. .59 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. .. 55 Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd’. 130 Nestle Co. (Aust.), The m r a t . ■ 33, 35, 111 N.G. Aust, Line ... 72 Nicholsons Pty. Ltd. .. " RO Nixoderm ’ 53 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd, 118 Pacific Islands Society .. 141 Pacific Islands Transport Line 140 Ph,l, P s 119,126 Qantas 34 Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. !! 46 Rothmans of Pall Mall (Aust.) Ltd 36 Sanitarium Health Food Co ] Shaw Savill & Albion Co.' Ltd iop c he lL Co ‘ Aust., The .’. 52 oouth Pacific Brewery 91 Stapleton, J. T„ Pty. Ltd. 29 Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd 69 Steelcrete Pty. Ltd.

Sthn. Pac. Ins. Co. .' St pty rtS Ltd & U ° ydS (D ' S^')

Sullivan Ltd.'" .. ' “ T.A.A Taikoo Dockyard .

Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L T a E th A a L' S ‘ E " & C °- ? ' / ' 1 Tongala Milk''Product's' PtV.

Ltd Tooth & Co. Ltd.

Town House, The .

Turners Supply Co, Ltd.

Twiss & Brownings & Hallowes (Export) Ltd. ..

Tyneside Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd United Insurance Co. Ltd. !

Ventura Trading Co. P/L .. 1 Vieta Mowers Vi-Stim . .. . ’ * * ‘ * Walpamur Co. (NG) Ltd., The Warner, Geo. C., Laboratories Pty. Ltd Waters, Edwd., & Sons Weymark Pty. Ltd. 3<? ' 46 ' 1 Wild (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. ’’ li Wills, W. D. & H. 0. (Aust.) Ltd 1 Whites Aviation .. " r White, A. B. S., & Co. i; White Rose Flour Milling Co.

Ltd Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/L a Yardley of London (Aust.) Pty. Ltd Yorkshire Insurance Co." Ltd. 11 142

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DISTRIBUTORSHIPS INCLUDE Beresford Pumps British Paints Buckingham & Carnatic Textiles Canon Cameras "Cecoco" Machinery Conditional re Air Curtain Doors Evans Deakin Electrical Generators International Majora Paints ''John" Valves Joseph Lucas Electrical & C.A.V.

Equipment Land Rovers & Rover Cars Massey-Ferguson Tractors and Equipment Mikimoto Pearls National Radios & Appliances Noritake Chinaware Pioneer Chain Saws Rover Power Mowers Sunbeam Appliances Tempair Air Conditioners Vauxhall Cars & Bedford Trucks

Exporters Of

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associated COMPANIES: NEW GUINEA: New Guinea Co. ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng.

Coconut Products Ltd., Rabaul.

PAPUA: Island Products ltd., Port Moresby.

FIJI: w. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

Suva Motors Ltd., Suva.

Island industries Ltd., Suva.

General Merchants

\6B cv ars of Development and Service in the “acific Islands O fhole'iafers’ srs--for of a I n d i s e from World Markets.

Buyers of Island Produce: Copra, Cocoa and Coffeebeans, etc.

Agents for Australiar European and America Manufacturers includin Electrolux, Chrysler, Fore McCallum's Whisky, Viet Mowers, Enfield Engines

Buying Enquiries

LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

SYDNEY; Morris Hedstrom (Australia) Pty. Ltd., 27 O'Connell St., Sydney. w. R.

Established 1914 CARPENTER & CO. LTD. 27 O'Connell St., Sydney, Australia Cable Address: "CAMOHE"

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.O. Box 168, Sydney ACII' I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST 1964