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il. 35. No. 9, September, 1964 In This Issue MERAL I Near for BP Passenger Ships 11 M" to Publish Cumulative Index 20 >ra Market Promising 72 ns Philp Profits Up 123

Dk Islands

v Constitution 20 ious Brigantine Wrecked 63 v Trading Ship 99 :tion Qualifications 113 cala Bay Base to Close 11 ipment Troubles for Fiji Airways 13 r t. Representative in Australia 27 ra Industry Prospects .... 35 n Suva to Sydney after Four Years 61 F Cattle Shortage 67 >hing Rugby Defeats 68 ual Suva Pet Show 69 t. Officers Criticised 97 jka Customs Post 99 ioo Record 103 ■ Fijian Ministers Ordained 117 ;o Meeting 119 iliser Discovery 124 sea Holiday Travel Plan 131 sh-Fijian Hotel Venture 133

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ti Newspapers Thrive 17 h of Tony Bambridge 36 ch Prime Minister's Visit 57 i to Aid Tuamotu Fishermen 99 i\ Taaone Reopened 119 >i Business in New Premises 124

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leysider Goes Atoll-Hopping .... 47 lomic Plan 51

Lord Howe Island

Veteran Islander Has Seen Many Changes 71 First Visit by Airman 87 NAURU Australian Proposals Rejected 9

New Caledonia

Big Grant for 1966 Games 15 Octopuses for the Table 83 Census of Vietnamese 119 Expansion Programme for Nickel Industry 123

New Hebrides

Local Air Services Upset 14 Vila—Then and Now 85 Advisory Council Meeting 129 NIUE Tests for Radioactivity 59

Norfolk Island

Victims of Arrow Attack 81 First Visit by Airman 87

Papua-New Guinea

UN Discussion on Territory 9 New Handbook Published 19 Assembly Budget Session 21 Education 23,119 Trobriand Islands Before the War 77 Tenders for Madang Wharf 101 World War II Shipping Casualties 101 ANGAU Association 113 Japanese Wreck at Lae 116 Broadcasting Developments 119 Highlands Geodetic Survey 119 Rhinoceros Beetle Predator 119 Border Fence Planned 119 DEPARTMENTS: Territories Talk-Talk, 41; Magazine Section, 77; New Books, 87; From the Islands Press, 95; Shipping, 97; Cruising Yachts, 105; Letters to the Editors, 113; People, 117; In a Nutshell, 119; Commerce, 123; Deaths of Islands People, 130; Travel Talk, 131; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 134.

RSL Move on NG Servicemen Likely 119 Quest for Haus Tambaran 121 Govt. Interest in Tourism 121 Lower Bulolo Gold Profit 125 Misima Mine Development 125 Normanby Is. Timber Exports 125 Concern Over Coffee Exports 126

Pitcairn Island

Bid to Sell More Curios 19 Election Time 83

Solomon Islands

Nickel May Become Important 12 New Air Service Rumoured 18 Megapode Airways 113 Fish Market for Honiara 119 Cattle Improvement Plan 124 Kauri Co. Quits Vanikoro 125 Revenue Buoyant 125

South Pacific Commission

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UN Committee To Discuss New Guinea Soon The Trusteeship Territory of New ruined is to come up for discussion oon by the United Nations Committee of 24 (committee on olonialism). The committee raised he ire of Fijians last year when it ailed for independence for that 'ritish Colony and generally showed eal ignorance about conditions in iji.

CWO members of the committee were among a UN party which isited New Guinea in August to ather facts for the debate on the fusteeship Territory. They were Dr. lohied-din Nabavi, of Iran, and Mr. . Natwar Singh, of India.

At Nadi, Fiji, en route to New uinea, Dr. Nabavi said the comlittee knew it could not apply one )lution to all territories and ffonies, and it was a fact that some ammittee members did not have a *asp of realities.

The committee believed that the K had done much to prepare Fiji ir independence but it thought, too, at it was not moving as fast as should.

Turning Point Dr. Nabavi, on arrival in Port oresby, said Papua-New Guinea as now regarded as one of the most iportant territories as far as the n’ited Nations was concerned.

UN members regarded the recent actions as the turning point in the ministration of the Territory.

He said that lack of development uld not be used by administering ithorities as a reason for not grantg independence.

There had been some criticism of .istralia in the Trusteeship Council er the elections because 10 seats in 2 House of Assembly were reserved r Government-nominated members, d a further 10 were special ;ctorates where Europeans only :re allowed to stand, although they :re elected by all voters.

Mr. Singh said that political velopment of colonial territories is the main concern of the Comttee on Colonialism. Colonial ople should not be denied their ;ht to choose their own future.

Nauruans Say Australian Citizenship And Curtis Island Are Out The three-man Nauruan delegation led by Head Chief Hammer Deßoburt on July 20 rejected Australian Government proposals that the Nauruans should be resettled on Curtis Island, off the Queensland coast.

THE NAURUANS, declared the delegation, now want to stay on Nauru after the phosphate is worked out; they want a Legislative Council leading to self-government by 1967; they want to take over the phosphate workings themselves and have the royalty raised to 14/8 per ton.

After the Commonwealth Government had failed to agree on these points the current talks, which had been going on for about a month, broke down. Two members of the delegation returned to Nauru but Hammer De Roburt remained in Australia.

No one believed that the breakdown was the end of the affair and within 24 hours of it the Minister for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, had announced that he and the Head Chief would meet again in Canberra in late August. In any event, as the Minister has already indicated (see p. 10), the Nauruans have plenty of time left to change their minds before the phosphate cuts out. About 30 years—give or take one or two.

Various plans to re-settle the Nauruans have been going on since mid-1961, when the three administering authorities of Nauru (UK, NZ and Australia), each offered to take the islanders into their respective countries and give them full citizenship. For reasons of climate and long association it was considered that Australia would be most appropriate and after shoppingaround, Curtis Island, off the Queensland coast, seemed to offer the best possibilities.

Under this proposal, the Nauruans were to be given the freehold of the 180 sq. mile island (area of Nauru: sq. miles); housing; electricity; water and sewerage services; and commercial enterprises such as agriculture and fishing which were to Mr. C. E. Barnes, Australia's Minister for Territories, inspects Nauruan police after arriving at Nauru by RAAF aircraft on August 3. Behind him is Mr. F. W. Me- Conaghy, who is Acting Administrator while Mr. R. S. Leydin is on leave in Australia. — Photo: Irene Sexton. 9 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

be established for them. The total cost to Australia, NZ and UK was estimated to be about £lO million.

On Curtis the Nauruans would have extensive powers of local government.

In the Canberra discussions, the Nauruan delegation said that these proposals were unacceptable. They wished to be settled on Curtis as a separate and independent nation; they did not wish to become Australian citizens, or be subject to Australian laws on taxation, immigration, Customs, etc. They did not want to be absorbed into the Australian community or lose their identity—which they felt would happen if the Australian plan were adopted. They believed that if Australia had control over defence and quarantine on Curtis Island, Australia’s interests would be safeguarded.

As Curtis Island is virtually part of Queensland mainland—so close, in fact, that it could be joined by a causeway or bridge—this is a point to which neither the Commonwealth nor Queensland are ever likely to agree. This being so, the Nauruan delegation asked that negotiations to acquire Curtis be discontinued and stated that they were now of the opinion that the Nauruan people should stay on Nauru and not resettle at all.

Increased Royalties Having failed to agree on a future home, the delegation then failed to reach any agreement satisfactory to them on the payments they should get for their phosphate. This was considered as a separate question to that of resettlement.

Under the current agreement made in 1960 (and due for revision in July 1964), the Nauruans’ phosphate income is as follows: (a) A lump sum of £l2O per acre to landowners for use of phosphatebearing land above the 80 ft contour; £6O per acre for land below that level; (b) A royalty of 1/9 per ton of phosphate mined—l/1 of this going direct to the landowner and the other 8d invested for him for 15 years; (c) The sum of lOd per ton of phosphate mined to be paid to the Nauruan Royalty Trust Fund—out of which the Housing Fund and the Nauruan Local Govt. Council is financed; (d) Royalty of 1/- per ton to the Nauruan Community Long-Term Investment Fund.

In addition to the above, the British Phosphate Commission pays the difference between Administration revenue (from Customs duties, postage stamps, etc.), and the actual cost of administration—in 1962 the amount the BPC paid on this score was £494,780.

Before the Nauruan delegation could make its demands, the Commonwealth Government offered to raise the payments into the Long- Term Investment Fund from 1/- to 3/-, which would result in a fund of £2O million by the year 1990 and from which Nauruans would get at least £1 million per annum income; and the royalty rates paid to Nauruan landowners and the Local Government Council from 2/8 to 4/-. [Australia subsequently decided to raise the Long-Term Investment royalty to 3/- per ton, inspite of the breakdown in talks.] The Nauruan delegation proposed that the royalties be increased to 14/8 —basing the figure on what they believed were the payments made by the BPC in respect of phosphate mined on Ocean Island.

The Australian Government said that there was no basis for comparison between Ocean Island and Nauru. Ocean Is. produced about 300,000 tons of phosphate per annum while Nauru exports would shortly be boosted to 2.5 million tons p.a.

Moreover, the BPC paid a straightout 25/8 per ton on phosphate exported from Ocean. Of this only 2/8 per ton went to the landowners and the other 23/- per ton went into Gilbert and Ellice Is. Colony consolidated revenue and was used for the benefit of the 50,000 people in the Colony. [The Banabans of Ocean Is. to whom the 2/8 per ton is paid in royalties, have been resettled on Rabi Is., Fiji, which was purchased for them after the war. They enjoy all the rights of normal freehold landowners on Rabi, and have their own local government, but otherwise are subject to all the laws of Fiji.] The Nauruan delegation then proposed that ownership of the phosphate industry on Nauru be transferred to the Nauruan people because it was their only natural resource. The Australian representatives disagreed and pointed out the present and future benefits accruing to the Nauruan people from a vigorous and efficient phosphate industry.

They explained that the legal basis for the BPC operations stemmed from the purchase of phosphate rights from the commercial undertaking which had owned them prior to World War I.

Nauruan Dream-World The Nauruan leaders’ dreams of pie-in-the-sky may be tempered by time, and for Nauru there is still a good slice of time left. Nonetheless, the whole Nauru issue indicates just how difficult it is today for any administering Government to win on any count.

In the last few years Australia has Minister Sees Nauru For Himself The Australian Minister for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, paid his first visit to Nauru early in August. He arrived from Brisbane in an RAAF aircraft, an infrequent sight at Nauru as the island has no regular air services.

Mr. Barnes spent two days inspecting Administration establishments and the phosphate workings. With him were Mr.

G. Warwick Smith, Secretary of the Territories Department, and Messrs. C. E. Reseigh, C. A.

Mcßae . R. W. Clarke and W. T.

Doig. Mr. Clarke is acting Nauruan Welfare Officer in Melbourne and Mr. Doig is with the Department of External Affairs.

Speaking in Port Moresby on August 5 on the way home, Mr.

Barnes said that no effort would be made by the Australian Government to rush a decision by the Nauruans on their future home. They would be given every facility and help.

Although this statement was made before the meeting in Canberra ended in deadlock, it can be taken as an indication that the Australian Government is not concerned at the present attitude of the Nauruan leaders and feels that, given time, a solution can be worked out.

Shortly before Mr. Barnes’ flying visit, Mr. George Gray, MP for Capricornia, Queensland, visited Nauru by ship to give the Nauruans details about Curtis Island. The island is in Mr. Gray’s electorate. His visit was an informal one. 10 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

;aned over backwards to cater for tie whims of 2,700 Nauruans who ut for an accident of timing in 914 would have been annexed to apan and could already have been fft to their fate.

The Australian offer to give the lauruans Australian citizenship and d invite them to live in Australia ; the first big breach of the soalled White Australia Policy for diich Australia is eternally being riticised. But having offered to reak down the old immigration wall lustralia is now criticised on the rounds of trying to rob Nauruans f their national identity.

Between the wars the Nauruans 'ere held up as the richest and most Drtunate of Pacific Islanders in that icy had an asset which was being 'orked profitably for them, without 'Orry to themselves.

Since the war the idea has grown p in some quarters that they have een exploited for the benefit of mstralasian farmers and systematiclly robbed of their birthright by ime ogres called the British hosphate Commissioners; and that le phosphate on Nauru should ave been left alone until the Jauruans, in the fullness of time, ot around to doing something about themselves.

In their present suggestion that icy take over the phosphate workig themselves, the Nauruans have een well tutored by many experts, rom Russian and Indian delegates i the United Nations to Australian Yade Union leaders.

Adverse publicity about Nauru and its phosphate is partly the fault of the British Phosphate Commissioners themselves who run their non-profitmaking organisation, as representatives of the UK, NZ and Australian governments, from an ivory-tower in Melbourne. There, hidden away, like three unwise monkeys who profess not to see, hear or talk about what goes on, they shun any sort of publicity like the plague.

As a result, frustrated reporters who cannot get near them do less than justice to the BPC and stories in newspapers, radio and TV are frequently angled against them. The Commissioners might have made it easier for everyone concerned if they had appointed a good public relations officer 10 years ago.

Everyone recognises that the Nauruans, the BPC and the administering Governments have a problem over the future of the islanders and no one blames the Nauruans for trying to get as much out of the situation as they can.

But it is largely due to public ignorance of the background or what has, in fact, already been done for the people, that the Nauru delegation was able to break off talks in a pet on August 20 and decide that if they cannot have everything they want they won’t play at all, but will stay put on their own island to spite everyone.

In this context it might be interesting to know just how many Nauruans, other than the leaders, really want to stay isolated 2,000 miles from anywhere once the phosphate is worked out; and how many, if approached individually, would jump at the chance to resettle in Australia.

Rnzaf Base To Close

The RNZAF flying-boat base at Laucala Bay, near Suva, will close in 1966 when Lockheed P-3 Orions replace the Sunderlands. The New Zealand Defence Minister, Mr. Dean Eyre, announced this on August 24.

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After having provided a passenger service between Australia and the Islands for more than 80 years, Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. has adopted a policy of disposing of its passenger ships and concentrating on cargo services.

THE company’s chairman, Mr. James Burns, said this at the company’s annual meeting in Sydney on August 20.

He also said that the ageing Malaita and Bulolo, both of which are well known in New Guinea, would be sold.

The Malaita looks as though it will be the first to disappear as a replacement is under construction.

Reviewing the company’s shipping activities, Mr. Burns said: “A few years ago, we were the only shipping company running regular services to all main ports in PNG.

“But, unfortunately, that day has now passed and there are many overseas vessels calling in at island ports, especially New Guinea, to and from their voyages to the East.

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“In fact, at the main New Guinea ports like Port Moresby, Rabaul and Lae, there is a regular congestion of ships, and very limited accommodation so that at times there are long delays before our vessels can get alongside to complete discharge.

“Considering the Australian rates of wages, with overtime and double overtime for working on Saturdays and Sundays, it becomes very expensive, especially as notwithstanding this high overtime, crews of our ships have to be given additional holidays when they arrive at their main port for every Saturday and Sunday they have spent at sea.”

A BP spokesman told PIM the day after the annual meeting that it could be another four or five years before the Malaita and Bulolo were disposed of.

Both had recently undergone their Lloyd’s survey, which was good for four years.

“Of course if someone comes along and offers us half a million for the Bulolo and quarter of a million for the. Malaita I think we would sell,” he added.

Girls of the Nauruan Social Centre put on a concert for Australia's Minister for Territories, Mr. Barnes, when he visited Nauru in August.

Photo: Irene Sexton. 11

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From R. W. Robson, in Noumea There were scores of them, leaflets and pamphlets and booklets. They were packed with technical information for the guidance of residents of the Pacific Islands, especially the indigenous peoples. covered a couple of broad shelves. They told how to combat rhinoceros beetles; build a big or a little boat; form a co-operative society; use coconut fronds or pandanus leaves effectively in plaiting bags; produce better pigs; spell and re-fertilise gardens; deal with ulcers, or tuberculosis or malaria; establish classes for simple reading and writing—subjects without number.

Much impressed, I turned to Secretary-General W. D. Forsyth, who was showing us around the big establishment of the South Pacific Commision at Anse Vata, Noumea: “You and I saw this thing established 15 years ago, when you were the foundation organiser, and I was a not very friendly critic,”

I said. “I remember how you divided the operations into three sections— Health, Social Development and Economic Development. If the production of literature counts, your Sections have certainly been busy, over all those years.”

Diplomatic Posts Since his first term as Secretary- General, Mr. Forsyth has been away in Australian diplomatic posts across the world, including about five years as Australian Minister at the United Nations in New York. It was interesting to talk to him again, about these things, after all that time.

The six original nations in the South Pacific Commission (Britain, France, United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands) according to my calculations, have subscribed about £3 million to the work of the South Pacific Commission. Have the territories received £3 million worth of practical help?

Mr. Forsyth was emphatic. Where, prior to 1949, each territory’s development was haphazard—subject often to the whim of an individual Administrator, and mostly guided by an individual head of a department, who knew little and cared less about what his opposite number was doing in a neighbouring territory—it is now more or less co-ordinated.

Administrators now are increasingly guided by the research and recommendations of the central body. They realise that the larger proportion of their administrative and developmental problems are common to all the territories, and they are helped by the reports of the SPC experts, who visit all territories, and study the experiences of local officials.

Lost In Pigeon-Holes I reminded the Secretary-General of early PIM criticism—of how the reports of the sectional directors went up to the SPC, and how the latter’s recommendations went forward to the responsible Ministers of the six nations concerned, and how they often were lost in the Ministerial pigeon-holes, instead of going on, with instructions, to the various territories’ Administrators.

There had been much waste of effort, time and money.

I learned from Mr. Forsyth that that now is largely a thing of the past. The supporting nations, through their representatives on the SPC, are consulted, as a matter of course, on matters affecting policy and finance; but nowadays the SPC experts, wherever practicable, deal directly with the individual territories, through the departmental heads concerned. They are greatly helped by the various UN experts, who now come to the Islands in increasing numbers.

I turned back to that mighty arra of “literature”. There was abundar evidence that the accumulated know ledge and experience of 15 years ar getting to the right places an achieving the general purpose c raising the standards of life in th territories, and helping in th establishment of order and culture.

Mr. Forsyth reminded me o another SPC achievement. Ever three years, there is a South Pacifi Conference. Delegates mainly fror the indigenous races of each territor meet in some handy place—ead of the chief territories has had it turn as host—and discuss their com mon interests and problems. Abov all, through this instrumentality, the have learned to know each other, a Pacific Islanders.

Everyone agrees that these con ferences have had a remarkabl effect in extending the vision o Islands’ leaders who, before Work War 11, scarcely knew that othe groups of Islanders existed. An these conferences encouraging thi Islanders to think in terms of nation hood?

I noticed that there still are s b flagpoles along the front of the SPC building to carry the flags of the con tributing nations while the Commis sion is in session. The sixth used tc fly the Netherlands flag while tha country had West New Guinea, bu

Nickel May Become

Valuable Industry

Hopes are growing in the Solomons tha a valuable nickel industry may be de veloped soon on Isabel by the Southerr Mining and Development Company. Thi< company appears to be an offshoot of the world-wide corporation known as INCA and which is represented in the Solomon: by the well-known Mr. Paddy Laine, now a resident of Noumea.

The company has been prospecting in the BSIP for four years. It found substantial nickel ore on Choiseul. But it was not rich enough, so it moved over to Isabel, and a party of three or four Europeans and 40 natives is at work there now.

Although, in local parlance, "they hold their cards very close to their chests" it is generally believed that they now have something good on Isabel.

"Why should they have spent all that money in four years' prospecting if they don't expect something good?" ask the Honiara observers.

RWR.

Mr. Forsyth. 12 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

seems that in October it will fly e flag of Western Samoa.

This could be very interesting, le SPC’s six original sponsors sre there because each of the six itions was responsible for the wernment of certain Pacific T'erories. Now Western Samoa, one the various Pacific Territories rmerly under European governent has come to nationhood, and is a flag of its own.

Since the SPC was established 15 ars ago, something never then visaged is taking shape rapidly— mely, in the South Pacific, as all er the world, the subject peoples e being thrust into independent tionhood.

Is it the intention that each Terory, as it achieves nationhood, will n the European sponsor nations the SPC? If that is so, are they consult together only in relation health, social development and anomic development? How are ly going to keep political develop- ;nt off the agenda paper?

I put this up, speculatively, to Mr. •rsyth.

The face of the Secretary-General ;istered horror. “That’s not in the arter,” he said. “We have plenty occupy us without that."

“But,” I persisted, “the successful velopment of health, economic and :ial services, especially education, II lead inevitably to self-gover- ;nt. Why shouldn’t you run out pamphlet or two on the responilities of self-government? Give ;m a bit of political science.”

Mr. Forsyth closed the discussion th a snap. He looked over the aftops to where the Tricolour was ttering firmly in the trade wind.

“Leave it to the gentlemen in the aital cities,” he said. “We’ve got ;nty here to keep us busy.”

See also stories pages 15, 17 and 19.

Fiji's Fast-Growing Airline Has Equipment Troubles With its new service to Tarawa, GEIC, established since late July, Fiji Airways now not only cut back and forth across the International Date Line but fly across the equator into the Northern Hemisphere.

THE new service, added to existing inter-territory services (Fiji- Tonga, Fiji-Western Samoa, Fiji- Honiara, BSIP, via Vila and Santo, New Hebrides), plus the increasing frequency of domestic Fiji services, gives FA some claim to being the fastest growing airline in the Southern Hemisphere.

The trouble is that its equipment doesn’t always keep pace with the increasing number of tasks it is called on to perform, and this is felt acutely at present, at the height of Fiji’s winter tourist season and with another international air operator— Air-India—coming in to Nadi.

FA has made the British Heron the work-horse of its fleet and now operates five of them. These are insufficient to cope with potential, particularly when it is frequently necessary to send two Herons, working in tandem, to cope with international travellers between Nausori (Suva) and Nadi.

Several new Herons are on order and should be in service within a few months. In the meantime, the search for a suitable replacement aircraft for the Heron—already going on for some years—has been stepped up.

The Heron is a four-engined plane with a passenger capacity, on inter-territory flights, of about 11 passengers.

Probably what is needed is something with a passenger capacity half as large again; but to get the correct aircraft, with the same safety factor as the Heron, capable of putting down on some of the “bush” strips the airline is forced to use, is a complicated problem in airline logistics. There are few commercial aircraft available with all the required characteristics.

Nauru Next On a jet-age basis the Heron is slow; it is also unpressurised and fairly cramped for passengers. But whether it is really less comfortable to travel in than with 110 other people, crammed into the economyclass section of a big jet, is debatable.

The airline is 13 years old this September. It was formed in 1951 by the late Harold Catty as a private company; its first plane was a twinengined de Havilland Rapide and its first route Lautoka-Nadi-Nausori, the fare for which was then £4 from Lautoka and £3/12/6 from Nadi.

All of its overseas routes were acquired after Qantas bought the air- Mobile Post Office Fiji’s Posts and Telegraphs Department has recently been experimenting with a mobile post office and savings bank for people in outlying areas around Lautoka who cannot easily get to a post box or visit a bank. If the experiment is successful, the service may be introduced elsewhere in the Colony.

Seen here with the mobile post office-bank are (from left) Messrs. R. Atkinson and J. N. Falvey, Secretary and Member, respectively, for Works and Communications; W. G. J. Cruickshank, Postmaster- General; and Deo Datt Singh, a senior post office official.

Photo: Stan Whippy. 13 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

line in 1958. Qantas shares ownership with BOAC and New Zealand’s TEAL on behalf of their respective governments.

One reason why FA’s fleet seems to lag behind the number of potential paying customers is no doubt this divided ownership. It’s hard to force a unanimous decision from three bosses, especially when they are as far apart as Sydney, Auckland and London; and when the people who have to make the decisions have never been wait-listed for Tonga, or had to book three months in advance for Honiara.

Air traffic always tends to increase; already it looks as though a fortnightly service will soon be inadequate for Tarawa. This will be specially so if the airline takes the next logical step and extends 400 miles from Tarawa to Nauru.

This is being seriously discussed and when it happens, FA will then take four days over this service instead of the present three, the extra day being spent in the return flight, Tarawa-Nauru-Tarawa.

Nauru already has a serviceable airstrip that is used only about once every four years when a UN visiting mission is flown in, or when there is a ministerial visit. There is no plan to bring the other phosphate island.

Ocean, into the service as Ocean has no airstrip and it would be difficult to build one.

When Nauru is brought into the orbit, 11 seats on a Heron, once every two weeks, are going to be completely inadequate for the number of people who will wish to use the service.

Local Boom Local air transport in Fiji is in for a boom, too. The new strip on Ovalau should be in use by October.

This is situated on the south-west point of the island and will service Levuka which is now the centre for a new fishing industry.

A Drover or a Piper Caribbean will be used on this strip initially and the strip will later be improved and included in a schedule to Taveuni and Vanua Leyu. Ihe Ovalau strip is only 15 minutes flying-time from Nausori.

The Government also plans new strips for Kadavu, the big island 50 miles south of Suva; and at Lakeba and Vanuabalavu, in Lau.

On Viti Levu, the private strip at Korolevu, used now by the Piper Caribbean under charter, is being improved. This strip was extensively damaged in the big floods of last March and while renovation work is in progress it is being enlarged so that it will take a Drover. The aim is to introduce scheduled services that will cover Nadi-Korolevu-Suva- Ovalau. The present charter service is a convenience, but it can be expensive.

When the late Harold Gatty started his air service on September 1, 1951, there were a lot of prejudiced Kai Vitis who could see no sense in paying £3/12/6 to fly from Nausori to Nadi, in an hour, when they could have their backbones fractured and their teeth rattled out in seven hours on the abominable coastal road to the same destination.

Since then Fiji has become airminded. Like most other respected local institutions, Fiji Airways comes in for its share of criticism. But whatever the airline’s few minor sins of omission and commission, its pioneering aviation efforts have turned the Colony into what the romantic travel writers have always insisted Fiji is—the Hub of the South Pacific.

Chapter Of Accidents Upsets New Hebrides Air Services From R. W. Robson, in Vila The New Hebrides were with out a single plane for inter-islaiK services in mid-August followin accidents to planes of both Ne\ Hebrides Airways and Hebridah and the absence of an plane in Fiji.

THIS resulted in a temporary ha to the minor war that has bee going on between British and Frenc interests for some time over the coi trol of internal air transport in th Condominium.

New Hebrides Airways is basical] British, with Mr. Bob Paul, of Tann; an Australian, as chairman, and M Paul Burton, the chief pilot, one ( the main shareholders.

Hebridair is a French compan; registered two years ago and directe mainly by Mr, Martinet, boss ( Transpac, the New Caledonian con pany which runs New Caledonia’s h ternal services.

New Hebrides Airways has bee operating a successful service fc several years with one Drover ai craft. Pilot Brian (“Blackjack Walker delivered a second Drover i late July, whereupon the first Drov< was sent to Fiji for overhaul.

Wing Smashed On August 7, Pilot Walker took h Drover to Aniwa. As he put dow there, he mistook a strip which tl natives were clearing for the airstr proper which is nearby, hit a stum and smashed a wing. In mid-Augu the plane was still there, and NH was without an aircraft.

Hebridair only got going last Fel ruary with a German two-engii Dornier aircraft, which soon afte wards broke a tail plane when usii the rough strip at Aneityum.

It had been back in service on a short time when, on August 12, was asked to go to Erromanga to pi( up a Mr, William, a Frenchrm engaged on a forestry project, wl was gravely ill with peritonitis.

As Pilot Deloom was taxi-ing tl Dornier along the primitive airstri he, too, hit a hidden stump, and p his plane out of action.

The authorities in Vila the hurriedly sent the Condominium sh Tongan Nurses Graduate Queen Salote, of Tonga, presented nursing badges to 14 junior staff nurses of Vaiola Hospital, Nukualofa, on August 3, in the assembly hall at Queen Salote College.

The Queen is seen here presenting the cup for the best nurse of the year to Staff Nurse Losa Meleke Fonua.

Matron Miles is in the background.

Photo: Tulua Bros. 14 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

ocinante to bring the sick man to ila. Halfway there, it broke down, r. William died on Erromanga that eekend.

New Hebrides Airways and ebridair have been discussing, for any months, some form of agreeent —if not a merger—under which ey might divide up the available ter-island traffic; but, despite official essure, they have got nowhere.

The British insist that they have so r more at stake than the French — ey own the Tanna airstrip, which a good one —and they have native areholders in Tanna, Tongoa, etc., id a good operational record.

The French claim that, through ■anspac, in Noumea, they have gger and better resources, even ough they are not allowed to use e privately-owned British air-strips.

Local gossip has it that relations tween the two companies are ■ained, and that the French and itish Resident Commissioners are ncerned about it. But the Comissioners, of course, will not discuss

Big French Grant

FOR 1966 GAMES The French Government will nake available about £250,000 o help to stage the 1966 South >acific Games in Noumea, New Caledonia.

UfESSRS. Roger Kaddour, president ▼1 of the Territorial Committee f Sports in Noumea, and Arnold )aly, a leading Noumea lawyer, have nnounced this in Noumea after visitig Paris to talk about the Games ) Mr. Louis Jacquinot, the French erritories Minister.

Messrs. Kaddour and Daly said mt the French Government would Iso supply valuable aid in other ays. An expert in sports organisaon, a Mr. Bertrand, would be sent > Noumea to help. Mr. Bertrand rganised the 1959 Mediterranean tames at Beirut, and the French erritory Games at Abidjan (1962) id Dakar (1963).

Trainers and advisers on athletics, >xing, swimming, cycling and basketill will arrive in Noumea on De- :mber 15 and will stay until Feblary 28.

Lae To Be Site Of Next Year's South Pacific Conference Urbanisation, land tenure and new industries, all problems in one or other of the Pacific Islands, will be the chief topics for discussion at the Sixth South Pacific Conference. rwas officially announced in August that the conference will be held in Lae, New Guinea, and would open on July 6 next year.

Lae is a town of about 3,000 nonindigenous people and is the gateway to the Highlands of New Guinea, to which it is now linked by road.

Fifteen territories are entitled to send representatives to the conference.

They are; American Samoa, BSIP, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, Guam, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Niue, Papua-New Guinea, Tokelaus, United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and Wallis and Futuna Islands.

The Kingdom of Tonga is also entitled to be represented.

Observers The present member Governments of the SPC—Australia, France, New Zealand, UK and the US—usually send observers. Western Samoa, a likely new member government, will, presumably, do this too.

The South Pacific Commission has been especially active lately with a number of things, including the initial preparations for the 1965 conference, an urban local government technical meeting at Port Moresby, and the wind-up of the first home economics course, which was held at Suva.

For October, there is a meeting of the SPC at Noumea when, among other things, Western Samoa is expected to be admitted as a member, contributing about 2J per cent, of the SPC Budget.

The SPC technical meeting at Port Moresby on urban local government was held from July 27 to August 8.

The meeting recognised the need for urban local government, of which there is very little in the South Pacific, and decided to seek the help of the SPC.

It recommended that the SPC should, if asked, help territories with advice and consultants and whatever means available, and prior investigation before local government was established.

The meeting agreed that in all territories the central government should be responsible for the thorough training of appropriate central and all local staffs in the administration of local government.

The conference proceedings were followed with interest by territories which have centres of local government or territories which may soon be able to delegate some central government functions to local government.

Appropriate adaptations of the ideas expressed could, provided financial bugbears can be overcome, prove of benefit to several island groups.

The venue for the Sixth South Pacific Conference next year will be the Lae Technical School. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMFER. 1964

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ES NOUVELLES, which is the oldest daily, was joined about months ago in the daily field by Journal de Tahiti which is owned Bambridge interests and reflects nbridge politics which, for Tahiti, pretty progressive. soon, however, there will be a new skly in which Mr. Alfred T. Poroi, der of a rival political party, has lominant interest. This weekly. La peche, will, we understand, have a tion in English to cater for glish-speaking tourists.

Mso in the present weekly field are Tahiti, from the same stable as Journal; Echo de Polynesie; La •sse; and Le Canard Tahitienne. addition there is a glossy quarterly led Tahiti Magazine published by owners of Les Nouvelles. rhe only political party without a uthpiece seems to be the RDPT— ;, then, the RDPT doesn’t exist ier any more although the mems in the Territorial Assembly who re elected under its banner in the t elections, in 1962, still number to the UT’s eight (UT being the mbridge party); and the UTD’s ; (UTD is led by Alfred T. Poroi who is Senator for French Polynesia in Paris).

The RDPT, which was nationalistic and at the height of its power during the time of the now-exiled Pouvanaa a Oopa, was dissolved towards the end of 1963 under some old French law which provides for this if it is considered that a party’s continued existence isn’t in the best public interest.

The 14 members in the Assembly are now reported to be looking for a new name for themselves.

Baptism For A Marine Creature WHEN Comatule, the first-fruits of the SPC-UN-New Caledonian joint effort to teach islanders to build boats, was launched at He Nou, New Caledonia, on August 5, it was as wet out of the water as in it. The christening was carried out sur la pluie, according to the local newspaper, and it was right.

In spite of the rain the ceremony was performed in distinguished company: The commander of the French Naval Forces, the Secretary-General of the Government, the Secretary- General of the South Pacific Commission and a dozen other important officials made the wet trip from Noumea to the island in a former Sydney water-bus, Patonga.

The course has been under way for 18 months and is a companion piece to one undertaken in the Solomons about three years ago.

The course at He Nou catered for about 30 young men—all but two of them from French Pacific territories.

The two strangers were all the way from Iran, and were there as the United Nations’ contribution to the party.

In Iran they are particularly interested in small boats suitable for fishing sturgeon in the Caspian Sea, because from sturgeon roe comes that premier ingredient of any high-class hors d’oeuvre—caviare.

The Government of New Caledonia provided quarters for the trainees and workshops, etc., at a technical training institution it maintains on He Nou. Mostly, the trainees are fitters, metal tradesmen, etc., who are absorbed readily by the Nickel Company, The United Nations supplies the director for the boatbuilding course— an Italian naval architect, Mr. Gaston Legnaioli, who will remain until the course finishes about the middle of next year.

Comatule (which we are told is the New Caledonian name for a “marine creature with plume-like arms”), has already been sold to a Nut So Funny Noumea’s municipal council las renounced a project of reslacing old coconut palms in the ;own’s Coconut Square with young ones. In a programme 3ver the past six months, 73 young palms were planted— and all were pulled up and :arted off by vandals. The police were unable to stop the thefts, and the council has now lost patience and will no longer replace stolen palms.

Some of the 30 young men who built "Comatule" which is seen in the background. 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Samoan Cattlemen Make An Impact rpHE recently formed but active -*■ Western Samoan Cattlemen’s Association has hit on a novel way of raising breeding standards among the livestock of members.

They have been given, cheaply, some pure-bred Hereford bulls by Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation and are running a regular monthly raffle for one of these breeding bulls. They sell 200 tickets at 5/- each.

If the bull is won by someone other than a cattleman, the association buys it back for £3O to raffle again.

In this way the association is raising funds; and members are given a chance of getting a first class bull for only 5/-.

The winner of the first raffle was Te’o Peneia, of Ale'ipata, a Samoan cattleman who also farms cocoa, bananas, taro, coconuts and pigs; operates two stores and a bus; a: is on the board of the associatic A major driving force behind t association has been University California graduate, Frank Moors, Department of Agriculture livesto officer.

He recently promoted, with oth cattlemen and departmental officia a successful field day for cattlemi at Avele Agricultural College.

He is now working on plans f a s .^ ow an d rodeo next ye which, with growing department! public and cattlemen’s suppoi promises to be a popular additic to the calendar of annual entertai ments in Western Samoa.

Is Mr. Ansett Looking This Way?

T HE success of Fiji Airways in pr. viding, with their Nadi-Vil Honiara service, a handy exit froi Melanesia for travellers who hitherl had to use either the Australia-Ne Guinea or Vila-Noumea service appears to have attracted some notio The service, with Heron aircraf was at first fortnightly, and is no’ twice weekly, leaving Honiara f c Fiji on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

But it is still difficult to get a se£ —the accommodation being almo; filled with public service personne presumably because the service is sut sidised by the British Government concerned.

A persistent rumour in Honiaraalthough it is without official backin —is that the tireless, questing eye o Australia’s airways chief, Mr, Re Ansett, has been studying the situa tion here.

It is said that Mr. Ansett envisage a Brisbane-Honiara-Lae-Philippines Far East service, and that he may usi in this some of his present aircraf which may be displaced from Aus tralian services by new purchases.

Honiara’s airport appears capabh of enlargement to take bigger aircraf than those now used.

It could be that Mr. Ansett also i; interested in the tourist potential o] the Solomon Islands. Guadalcanal like New Guinea, definitely has £ tourist potential—limited in the pasl by lack of transport and of first-class hotels.

These things, of course, can be remedied. Mr. Dalrymple-Hay is reported to have plans for the early addition of a block of modern bedrooms to his big, rambling Mendana Hotel, which lies attractively under the casuarina trees alongside the Point Cruz waters. 18 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

he Big Push In outh Seas Curios HTCAIRN Island is a mere dot in the Pacific with less than 100 idents, most of whom, as we all ow, are descendants of the Bounty itineers.

Their economy is based mainly on : sale of souvenirs to passengers ships which heave to off the island - a few hours.

Naturally there is no fortune in s sort of trade, but what it has :ted the islanders has helped them live a fairly comfortable existence, d it is vital that the trade be kept if the Pitcairn islanders are to ve a future on their island.

The population of the island has ;n declining slowly, and fewer ps have been calling at the island.

So in an effort to boost their ?nomy the South Pacific Comssion has published for the South cific Office, Suva (which keeps an ; on both Pitcairn and Tongan airs) 50,000 leaflets which jstrate Pitcairn souvenirs The Pitcairn Islanders will receive ,000 of the leaflets, which they 11 distribute to ships when they go t in the long boats to sell their uvenirs.

Their hope is that the leaflets will go overseas and that through them they will build up a mail-order business.

The remaining 25,000 will go to Mr. Reid Cowell, of the South Pacific Office, for distribution, also in the hope that the mail-order business will be built up. The leaflets say: "We shall be pleased to fill any orders and to answer inquiries.

“We shall send your souvenirs through the post carefully packed, and stamped of course with Pitcairn’s own stamps which, themselves, are highly prized by collectors throughout the world.”

And there are guarantees of promptly attending to orders, quality, and money back if the buyer is not satisfied.

Some of the items available are Bible cases, Panama hats (as “light as a feather”), barrows specially manufactured to counter the island’s rough terrain, walking sticks made from the wood of a coconut tree, models of flying fish which are often seen off the island’s rocky coast, beautifully carved vases and birds, and plates and vases from the ripe shell of the coconut.

Meanwhile the South Pacific Commission’s Sydney office in late August was putting the finishing touches to a 96 page booklet illustrating the handicrafts available for sale throughout all territories of the South Pacific, and aimed at building up business in South Seas artifacts generally. Many of the illustrations are in colour, and details of prices and availability are given.

This booklet is the sequel to the 12-month survey by Mr. Angus Mcßean, SPC Social Development Assistant, now school-teaching in the New Hebrides. It will be one of the most valuable, and certainly the most interesting, of all the SPC reports. Some copies will be available for sale, but most will be distributed to likely buying agencies.

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THE Fourth Edition of The Handbook of Papua-New Guinea was published at the end of August. It is 100 pages larger and a good deal more handsome than the Third Edition, published in 1961, and production called for the usual amount of toil and sweat from Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd’s, editorial staff; and for patience and good nature on the part of senior Administration officers in the Territory who supplied factual and statistical material.

The 4th Edition, which normally was due in 1963, was held over until this year in order that the political changes that have recently taken place could be fully documented. All material has been fully revised and opportunity has been taken, at the same time, to completely rearrange the book in more attractive form, using photographs and many new maps. The new lay-out and improved index and contents sections make finding information easier.

All the usual sections are again covered geography, history, people, trade, commerce, industry, transportation and communications, finance and taxation, tourism, method of government, etc. and a special feature has been made of the classified business directories for the large towns and lists of non-native residents.

The lists of residents involve something like 14,000 names, based on the electoral rolls. This, we think, is the most ambitious attempt yet to list non-native residents of P-NG between the covers of one book.

A Maprik haus tambaran, in full colour, appears on the cover of the Handbook which sells at 18/6 Aust. plus postage—that is, 3/6 more than the 1961 edition. For a book of 416 pages we still think that’s pretty cheap.

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score of home economics students from a dozen Pacific territories who recently attended an SPC course at Samabula, Fiji, have now returned home to instruct others in diet and nutrition, cooking, health, clothing and home management. The two students in the foreground here are making a desk from liquor boxes under the eye of Mrs. Elizabeth Eden, a home economics officer of the SPC.

Photo: Stan Whippy. 19 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Before Paruament

Two bills, designed to give the Cook Islands internal selfgovernment next year, were introduced simultaneously in the New Zealand Parliament and the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly on August 11.

THE principal bill, the Cook Islands Constitution Bill, sets out the proposed constitution for the Cook Islands in 71 articles.

The NZ Government will not attempt to have this bill passed this session as it wants to give everyone who wishes the chance to criticise its provisions.

Such evidence will be heard by a 12-member parliamentary select committee, headed by the Minister of Island Territories, Mr. J. R. Hanan.

The committee is expected to begin its hearings about the middle of September when the final views of the Cook Islands Assembly on the proposed constitution should be known.

The NZ Government will then seek to have the bill passed, possibly with amendments, before the end of this year.

But the bill will not be brought into effect until after elections in the Cook Islands next April.

Provisions The Constitution Bill provides for full self-government, but allows for continued association with New Zealand and provides for a common citizenship—that of New Zealand. It also provides that: • The Assembly v/ill have 22 members, elected by universal sufrage, whose debates, discussions, bills and Acts must be in both Maori and English. Voters in elections must be 18 or over. • The Assembly may not repeal or amend the constitution without the support of two-thirds of its members at the second and third reading stages, and a lapse of 90 days between those stages. • The Cabinet will consist of a Premier and four other Ministers. • The Premier must command the confidence of a majority in the Assembly and his Cabinet members must be appointed on his advice. • New Zealand will appoint a High Commissioner on the recommendation of the Minister of Island Territories after consultation with the Cook Islands Premier. • There will be an Executive Council consisting of the High Commissioner and the Cabinet. • The High Commissioner or the Premier may summon the council to consider any Cabinet decision. If the council confirms the decision, and the High Commissioner concurs, it will take effect as a Cabinet decision. If he does not concur, it must be referred back to the Cabinet for reconsideration. • The High Commissioner’s power of veto over legislation is limited and can be exercised only on the advice of the Premier. He can refer to the Executive Council amendments which he himself proposes, but he cannot refuse his assent to legislation if the council decides so. • There will be a High Court, with appeals to the New Zealand Supreme Court, and a land court, with appeals to a special land appelate court. The High Commissioner will make judicial appointments—on the advice of the Premier in certain cases and a three-man judicial service commission in others.

The most controversial provisic in the bill is one requiring a Candida for election to the Assembly to lr for three years in the Cook Islam before nominating.

This provision, if retained, will pr vent Albert Henry, the Aitutaki-boi political leader and founder of tl Cook Islands Party, from standing f( election next year. {PIM, Aug., p, 1 and p. 53).

Mr. Henry, who has spent most c the past 20 years in New Zealam returned to Rarotonga last Marcl where he immediately gained a larg following among almost all sectior of the population.

When he went back to New Ze£ land on a short business trip in lat July, he told the Press (which gav him plenty of space) that he was cor fident that his party would win majority of seats in next year’ election.

He added that a petition had be© started in Rarotonga (total popula tion: 9,000) seeking a three-mont] residential qualification for electio] candidates. This petition had 2,001 signatures when he left.

After the Constitution Bill was in troduced in the NZ Parliament, Mr Henry said the Government was giv ing Cook Islanders “every oppor tunity” to voice their opinions on i through the parliamentary select com mittee.

Cumulative Index

TO "PIM" TO BE PUBLISHED The management of the "Pacific Islands Monthly" has engaged a professional librarian to compile a cumulative index to PIM to be published for sale. The index will begin with the first issue of August, 1930, and will cover the first 15 years of publication.

A second cumulative index covering the period from August, 1945, to July, 1959, will be compiled and published if there is sufficient public support for the first one.

People in Australian academic circles have already expressed keen interest in the indexing project. Mr.

H. E. Maude, of the School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, told PIM recently: "Everyone I have spoken to regards the index as a most welcome project which will turn PIM into easily the most important source for contemporary Pacific history (and not only contemporary). Clearly, PIM is going to be microfilmed soon and sets bought for all standard libraries everywhere; and the indexes will then be invaluable."

Copies of PIM for the period 1930- 1949 have long been out of print.

But the publishers still have limited stocks—only one or two copies in some cases—of the issues from January, 1950, to date.

Copies for the period, 1950-1959, are 4/- Australian or 80 US cents each; those for 1960-1963 are 3/- Australian or 60 US cents each. Surface mail postage is included.

PIM has also recently been asked to try to find a buyer for a complete, unbound file of the magazine from Vol. 1, No. 1 to date. This file, which is available from a deceased Islands estate, is believed to be the first complete set ever to come on the market, and it is probably one of only a dozen or so complete sets in existence.

Offers for the set, which is in first-class condition, should be made to: Mr. Robert Langdon, Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Box 3408, GPO, Sydney, NSW. 20 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Many Matters For New Guinea Budget Session From an AAP-Reuter Correspondent in Port Moresby The second session of the P- NG new House of Assembly, due to begin in Port Moresby on September 1, is the first Budget session for the new House, and is expected to last up to three weeks.

THE long session has been forecast because of the intention of the 54 elected members to speak on the Budget.

At the inaugural session in June, Highland members expressed displeasure at the amount of money being spent in the main centres.

They claimed that the Highlands were being “starved” of money, and demanded greater allocations for their areas for roads, bridges), airstrips, schools and hospitals.

A House committee, since the sittings ended, has been examining the feasibility of a road from the Highlands to Madang. The report is expected to be highly controversial.

The Administration is also expected to introduce several new bills.

One, recently hinted at by the Adninistrator, Sir Donald Cleland, deals with reclassification of the police force.

Members of the force recently staged a strike at Rabaul, and unrest has also been reported from Port Moresby and Goroka.

Politicians' Pay Native or European members are sxpected to raise, at some stage this session, the question of Parliamentary ialaries. At present elected members eceive £950 a year, plus expenses.

Some European members claim hat that is not enough to compensate them for time spent in House jusiness.

Other Europeans, however, are resisting the move because they feel hat the economy at present will not stand an increase in Parliamentary salaries.

To help the mtant House on srocedural matters, the Principal Parliamentary Officer of the House Df Representatives, Canberra, Mr.

D. M. Blake, will “sit in” on the Budget session.

Smaller Commonwealth Grant .

The announcement in Canberra in August that the Commonwealth grant to P-NG for 1964-5 would be £2B million, an increase of £2,751,000 over the previous years grant, brought fears m Port Moresby that this years Territory budget would be a tough one, with increases m taxes.

The £3 million Commonwealth increase for this year compares with £5 million for the previous year and could herald the end of the really hig grant increases for the Territory, Internal Territory expenditure this y ear j s eX p ec t e d to increase by about £5 ,280,000, which means a big gap to be met from local reV enue.

The Fe deral Treasurer, Mr. Holt, sa i d Australia intended to “maintain rapid progress” in Papua-New Guinea. 21 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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The P-Ng Education Report

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Reviewed by a Special Correspondent The report of the Commission on Higher Education jn Papua and New Guinea has at last been published by the Department of Territories, in a handsome offset quarto. It is a most comprehensive document of 335 pages, which discusses everything from the age of entry into primary school, through the use and abuse of Pidgin and Shakespeare's English and the place of religion, to the possibility of raiding UNESCO for funds. The main points were published in PIM, August (p. ID- )F the nine chapters, two are devoted to the general and the ducational backgrounds, one to “A 'review of Proposals”, and one to h e 172 recommendations. Two hapters deal with technical and proessional education and three with the reposed university.

The main proposal on the technical ide is for the establishment of an nstitute of Higher Technical Education, initially with an emphasis n general civil engineering to diploma ivel.

Other types of higher vocational raining—administrative, agricultural, jgal, medical—are dealt with in deul.

No standard pattern is advocated for them: the present Administrative College should in time become an institute of the university, which should also take over the existing Papua Medical College; there should be a Law School; the Agricultural College at Vudal (and any future such colleges) should be affiliated with the university rather than inside it. ™ . The Government has given its bless- /Ti^ e J. nstlt ute of Higher Technic.al Education but not as yet to the university, despite a statement by the former Minister for Territories, Mr.

Hasluck, so long ago as 1962, that an institution of university type would be started in the Territory by 1966. (Over) Sir George Currie, chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in Papua- New Guinea, whose report was released in August, hands copies of it to the Minister for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes (centre). At right are the other members of the three-man Commission, Dr. John Gunther, Assistant Administrator of Papua- New Guinea, and Professor O. H. K. Spate, Professor of Geography at the Australian National University, Sir George Currie is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand. 23 ’ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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C.P.O. Box 5971. Telephone 16-573 ‘he Commission discusses the poslity of giving New Guineans their iary education in Australia, but a variety of reasons holds that should in general be done in the ritory itself. strongly favours an autonomous 'ersity rather than a college aticd to one or more Australian 'ersities, mong its reasons are the need for integrated educational system ed to New Guinea conditions er than to methods and syllabuses sed to suit Australian students.

Commission also believes that, igh staff recruitment will not in case be easy, the brighter and e adventurous pioneering types are needed will not be attracted hey are to work to rules and lods devised in some superior intion thousands of miles away and , totally different social environt. t the same time, the Commission 5 pains to emphasise its recognition a laudable desire to maintain dards led some witnesses to favour ollege subordinate to an Ausan university, and it proposes to t this genuine need by associating ralian academics with the governand examining bodies of the New lea university.

The Site n the politically vexed question he site, the Commission—after thy discussion—opts for Port esby as against Goroka, the other )r contender. Vulcanology, if ing else, rules out Rabaul, and is a dark horse. oroka would obviously be a most ictive setting for a university, but things considered—and not only extra cost of installing and runa big complex at Goroka—it is that in the Commission’s view advantages of Port Moresby, not as the seat of government, but a sense the most “cosmopolitan” re of affairs, the window on the ide world, outweighed the arguts for Goroka. To be effective, University should be in the ket place, not in an ivory tower i Shangri-La. le Commission suggests that in, 20 years from now there will a real need for a second unity, and by that time Goroka Id most likely be the logical site it. oblems of organisation and ice of a necessarily residential uniity are dealt with in considerdetail. In view of the urgent ssity for greatly strengthening secondary education, and hence teacher training, the Commission recommends that the first degree granted by the university should be the Bachelor of Education.

Initial teaching faculties of Education and of Arts are proposed, with Science following as soon as may be.

At an early stage, Deans should be appointed to plan future faculties of Agriculture, Law, and Medicine.

In the Commission’s view—and it took a good deal of evidence from African experts—there is no time for delay in establishing the university; or rather there are very serious risks in delay.

Numbers would be small to begin with, but this would be an advantage in the initial “running-in”, and it is important to be ready for the really substantial numbers of secondary school leavers to be expected by the early 1970’5. (Over) Plan For University To Be Shelved?

The release of the Currie report on education brought a mixed Press reception in Australia, but most leading newspapers noted that the reaction of the Minister for Territories, Mr. Barnes, on the university provisions of the report was only lukewarm, although he actively supported the establishment of technical institutions.

On the subject of a university, Mr. Barnes said: “The Commission’s recommendations for the early establishment of a fully autonomous university in the Territory are far-reaching and naturally must be considered in the context of Territory development as a whole. As soon as the Government is in a position to state a firm intention on the proposals for the university, including the timing of its establishment, further announcements will be made”

Most editorial writers hoped that Mr. Barnes’ apparently cool reception to the university scheme did not mean that he intended to shelve this section of the report, but in Canberra it was generally felt that he might decide to do so and to concentrate resources on economic development, especially as the forthcoming World Bank report would recommend this.

The report itself is an extremely lucid, well-prepared document, full of useful and interesting information on the Territory '. It was the result of 12 months’ work by the three Commissioners, which took some of them as far afield as Fiji and New Zealand to gather information. 25 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Bank of New Zealand, Sydney; Bank of New South Wales, Sydney fhere is also a very strong political ument for an early start, t can hardly be denied that a use of Assembly with an elected igenous majority is a political deapment which outstrips economic I educational advance. It is theree vital to train New Guineans for complex tasks of running the mtry.

Moreover, should there be much ay, sectional interests —New inea versus Papua, Highlands sus the coast, Chimbu versus Tolai, h versus town, tribe versus tribe night v/ell find political expression >ng enough to make the university >olitical football. )n the other hand, if a university -e started in time to develop its n solidarity and its own tradition, could itself become an invaluable fying and stabilising factor.

Outside Aid fhe cost? It will run into millions, course, and —although the Com- >sion recommends seeking outside , and makes some specific pro- ;als in this matter—most of it will ne from the Australian taxpayer.

But the Commission estimates that capital costs of installing the Inute of Higher Technical Educai and the university, spread over years, would amount to half a :ket of cigarettes per Australian ■ year. This was before Mr. Holt’s 3get, so knock off half a cigarette ■ person per annum.

But there are, of course, many icr demands on the cigarette packet.

I the same, the Commission riously believes it would be cheaper in risking a Congo.

Fiji Man Settles

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By a Staff Writer Fiji’s first Government representae in Australia, Colonel Basil 'gers, halfway through August had nost completed his initial task of ting up what will probably become own as the Fiji Office in Sydney. addition he had also to find accommodation for himself and ; wife, accommodation which may entually become the permanent jidence of the Fiji representative in istralia.

Colonel Rogers sought something itable for later expansion at a asonable rental.

He thinks he has achieved this with offices in the MLC Building, Martin Place, Sydney. He has secured the entire seventh floor of the building, which is in the commercial heart of Sydney.

The Fiji office will not have a telephone listing until the publication of the next Sydney directory, probably in May, 1965. In the meantime Hewlett, Keeling and Associates, which have a listing under the heading, “Fiji Visitors Bureau”, will re-direct appropriate calls to the Fiji office. On tourist matters Mr.

Bob Howett and Colonel Rogers will work closely together.

Colonel Rogers has several tentative ideas for Fiji trade with Australia and in the next few weeks will set about putting them into action. He regards the tourist trade as important, and plans to place Fiji as a place for a holiday before the Australian public as often as possible, A quietly spoken individual with a bright sense of humour, Colonel Rogers should have little difficulty in proving a worthy first “ambassador” from Fiji, which has strong trading ties, always with an adverse balance, with Australia.

Colonel and Mrs. Rogers have taken a short lease of a flat at Darling Point, a fashionable inner Sydney suburb, on the shores of the harbour. 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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The Month In Western Samoa

Lesson In Moors Case On Criticism Of Government From R. F. Rankin, in Apia Cabinet action aimed at dismissing the Harbour Master, Captain Harry Moors, two days after the Court of Appeal upheld his appeal against his conviction for forgery, has convinced many Samoans that it doesn’t pay to criticise the Government.

IT appears that because of his outspoken criticism of the Government on a number of issues, Cabinet is now carrying out a personal vendetta against him.

As a live wire president of the Public Service Association, Captain Moors led a strong attack in the local press last year against the Government over alleged discrimination in the Public Service.

He maintained that the Government too often deferred to overseas rather than local opinion in the higher echelons of officialdom.

He has constantly opposed the siting of the new deep water wharf now being built at Apia, and claimed publicly that the Government had paid twice as much as necessary for the dredge being used on the job.

Then last year Captain Moors fell foul of the Treasury. In 1962, he ordered an airconditioner for his office.

Subterfuge When the account was presented for payment he had no vote out of which to pay for it, so he resorted to a subterfuge not uncommon among departmental heads.

He requisitioned for some chain to the same value, certified he had received it when in fact he had not, and the Treasury payment for the chain was used to pay for the air conditioner.

The day after his appeal was successful Captain Moors was back on the job. Two days later Cabinet directed the Public Service Commissioner, Vaiao Alailima, to dismiss Captain Moors in accordance with a new policy.

But in the hands of the PSC, who is fed up with political interference in his job, the scheme backfired and Cabinet was made a laughing stock.

The new policy forbade the continued employment in the Public Service of any employee who “contrary to his duty deliberately deceived a Government department”.

Captain Moors had not been convicted of deceiving a Government department, the Public Service Commissioned told Cabinet, and therefore he could not be dismissed.

However, in accordance with HEADED FOR LONDON: Prominent West Samoan businessman and [?]ormer politician Eugene Paul (top) was among the leading Islands [?]esidents who flew to London in August as guests of Air-India on [?]he airline's inaugural weekly 707 [?]ervice between Nadi and New [?]ork, via Bombay and London. Mr. [?]aul said in Sydney, where the Photograph was taken, that Western amoa was now beginning to settle lown well into independence.

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Many of these men had served eir sentences years ago, and some Id very senior positions. Two were lated to the Prime Minister him- If.

A week later: • Captain Moors was still in his b; • Eleven public servants were eking legal advice; • The Public Service Association id called a meeting asking for an [planation of this “victimisation”; • Cabinet was looking for a way -it; • The public was having a good u gh; , . • General opinion was that in iture, politicians might think twice jfore victimising a critic or bringing alitical influence to bear on the üblic Service.

HWO weeks after the Court of L Appeal had found it had no irisdiction to deal with an appeal om Dr. Tapu Leota against his :ntence of four weeks’ imprisonment >r contempt of court, the Head of tate, Malietoa Tanumafili 11, suc- ;ssfully brought the court into irther contempt by commuting the iol sentence to a fine of £5.

Dr. Tapu failed to appear when died as witness in a manslaughter ise.

He said that under heavy pressure E work he had forgotten the sumions. The summons stated that if he died to appear he was liable to up ) six months’ gaol or a £5O fine.

HHE effects of the South Pacific L Games are still being felt in in- -eased interest in sport in Samoa, stablished sports are flourishing.

Both Rugby and tennis this year ave had more participants than ever sfore, with Rugby extending on an rganised basis out to the villages for le first time on any scale, and a :cord 14 teams entered in the interub tennis championships.

The Western Samoa Amateur ports Federation is trying to get lore sports properly organised and iccess met their efforts in July to dablish a table tennis association. i DISTURBING picture of the a. economic needs of Western amoa over the next 20 years has een presented by UN economist .ndrew Gerakas.

In a synopsis of statistics largely rawn up by statistician Mrs. B. A. ►ahlborg, he highlights what die terms the “revolutionary impact on the social and economic needs of the nation” of a two-and-a-half fold population increase to over 300,000 people by 1986.

Mr. Gerakas claims that to maintain the present level of employment, during the next 20 years, over £40,000,000 investment will be needed to create more than 50,000 jobs in industry and agriculture.

Based on current trends, between 1961 and 1986 about 26,000 males will have to be absorbed in village agriculture, and 17,000 employed in other industries. Another 10,000 jobs must be created for females.

In compiling his figures, Mr.

Gerakas reckoned on a low investment of £1,500 needed to create one job in industry. He said that this is about five times less than it takes on the average in the United States to create a job in manufacturing, Dealing with the three main exports of copra, cocoa and bananas he said that the vagaries of weather, pests, diseases and, in the case of copra and cocoa, world market fluctuation of prices, are largely beyond the control of the producers or the Government.

“These factors result in the obvious conclusion that Western Samoa’s 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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He said that his initial report sought d pose problems and ask questions ather than provide solutions. Specific ecommendations are to be made later bis year in his “Economic Developicnt Programme for Western Samoa”.

Although his summary of problems 5 nothing new to Samoans, his pecific figures of £40,000,000 investlent have surprised many by their lagnitude. After hearing talk of conomic development plans for the ast 10 years the public is waiting npatiently for the plan for action romised later this year.

When, three years ago, political opeful William Betham campaigned n a platform seeking £10,000,000 3r development, political incumbents :offed at his ideas. It now seems he fas a prophet before his time! f TSTENERS to local radio station Li 2AP pricked up their ears one lorning in July when an advertisenent came over for a dance at a few miles out of Apia.

The floor show, said the advertiselent, “featured a faafafjne group in fancy dance!” —in plain English, a ance put on by male homosexuals aking the female role.

Commented “Samoana” —“In the ands of the right agency this sort of bing could be built up into a tourist ttraction of the gayest sort!” 4 N ML A here says that with all the Swedish and Danish technical dvisers in Public Works, Health and Statistics “there are more squareheads o the square mile in Samoa than in ny other country outside Scandiiavia”.

This distant but growing connection /as cemented further in July when , bicycle was handed over to Dr. ‘elenato Sofia of Falelalili District Jospital.

The bicycle was bought by WHO *ublic Health expert, Dr. S. Haraldon, from money given by the Rotary 2\ub of Mariestad, Sweden, of vhich Dr. Haraldson himself is a nember.

JUDICIAL history was made in Western Samoa on July 20 when three New Zealand Supreme Court judges sat on the first Court of Appeal since independence in January, 1962.

Before independence, appeals were heard by one judge but in accordance with the Constitution, three judges are now required and were supplied by New Zealand. They were Mr.

Justice Hutchison, Mr. Justice Mc- Gregor and Mr. Justice Gresson.

Heat precluded the wearing of wigs and gowns, but the court was crowded throughout the week-long sitting on three cases.

MOST of the outside world is now as close to Western Samoans as their telephone. New Zealand, Fiji and Australia have had radio telephone connections for some months and, on July 20, a commercial circuit was opened to Hawaii and the United States.

The first conversation was between Prime Minister Mataafa and Deputy Governor Richardson of Hawaii. 33

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B X 2871. Cables: "IVAN", Sydney. 04 0 Future For Fiji's Copra Looks Rosy -Minus The Beetle From a Suva Correspondent Lord Silsoe’s target of doubling Fiji’s copra production within 10 years looks like being realised in half the time—provided the rhinoceros beetle doesn’t mess up everything.

LORD SILSOE is the man who held a one-man commission of inquiry into Fiji’s copra industry early last year.

Since then, a new scheme of subsidies and spring-cleaning has been introduced, and production has increased by several thousand tons — 5,000 tons for the period from August, 1963, to June, 1964, compared with the previous year.

Two lessons have already emerged from the new scheme: An industry cannot run efficiently until it is properly organised, and cleanliness makes for better production.

Britain, which is financing several schemes for development in Fiji, has so far provided £383,000 for the copra industry this year. Of this, £46,000 has been handed out, mainly to copra planters, in subsidies.

To get a subsidy, a planter has to thin out his palms and clear dense undergrowth.

More Nuts This has resulted in some planters seeing the ground inside their plantations for the first time, and the obvious is staring them in the eye— a clean plantation means more nuts.

Huge quantities of nuts, which would have been lost in the dense scrub, have been found; and it is also becoming clear that a plantation cleared of weeds will produce healthier trees bearing bigger crops.

Furthermore, as good grass will be given a chance to grow and this will support a cattle herd, the copra planter can also become a beef producer and help cut down Fiji’s meat imports.

In cash, the increased copra production represents between £250,000 and £300,000, which isn’t a bad return for an initial outlay of £46,000 although, of course, subsidies are not the only reason for the increase.

Yet while everything promises so well, many copra planters and others are concerned that the deadly rhinoceros beetle may spoil everything Some weeks ago, the beetle was found on Vomo and Kadavulailai Islands, both insignificant copra producers, but on the way to the Yasawas where the copra palm is the Fijian’s mainstay, Then, on the evening of July 9, some Fijians sitting round a bowl of kava on the large island of Waya saw a rhinoceros beetle crash into their benzine lamp, which meant that at least one of the pests was, at last, on one of the main islands of the Yasawas.

Meanwhile, with 20,000 or 30,000 Fijians in Suva from all over the Colony for the Methodist Church independence celebrations. Mr. C. A.

Stokes, Supervisor and Executive Officer of the Coconut Pests and Diseases Board, was predicting ominously; Five months from now the rhinoceros beetle will have rea ched some more beetle-free w .

Mr. Stokes said that as the Suva area was heavily infested with the beetle, many of the Fijians m town for the celebrations would unknowingly take back grubs and beetles to their villages in their packs, mats and baskets. 35 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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BAMBRIDGE (affectionately A known throughout Tahiti simply as Tony) was a staunch French patriot, who made a name for himself as a politician, businessman and philanthropist. News of his death was a signal for almost universal mourning in Tahiti.

French Polynesia’s Governor, Mr.

Aime Grimald, said in a tombside speech that Tony was “one of the great figures of this France of the Pacific”. And he certainly was, for twice in his career he played an important part in keeping French Polynesia French.

The first was in 1940, when he helped to rally the Tahitians to the Free French flag of General de Gaulle after the island had had a brief flirtation with a pro-Vichy Governor.

Eighteen years later, he organised public opinion in favour of remaining in the French Union in the face of strong independence movement headed by the now exiled Leftist leader Pouvanaa a Oopa. (This was at the time when General de Gaulle held referendums in all French colonies to see whether they wished to stay in or leave the French Union.) In French Army Tony, who was born in Tahiti in 1895, was head of the island’s numerous Bambridge family. He was a descendant of an English carpenter who settled in Tahiti in the early 19th century. His full name was Antony Pierre Tetuanui Pootahi Bambridge.

After a brief schooling, he worked for a while as a hairdresser and then became an apprentice cooper. He enlisted in the French Army in World War I, was wounded at Chemin des Dames, and returned to Papeete with a Croix de Guerre. In Papeete he established a shop called “Au Chemin des Dames”, and later became lessee of the Cinema Modeme, the first of the many picture theatres he was to control.

After getting in and out of debt, Tony collaborated in the production of several films, including White Shadows, Tabu and the first version of Mutiny on the Bounty.

In between times, he established plantations and developed an import business which became one of the most important in Papeete. In 1944, he extended his commercial empire by buying the assets of the old-established firm of S. R. Maxwell & Co.

In 1948, he bought the Bambou Cinema and organised a film circuit in the districts of Tahiti and neighbouring islands.

Helped The Lepers From 1930 onwards, when he began free film shows for Tahiti’s leper colony at Orofara, Tony was one of Orofara’s best friends and benefactors. He was also responsible for numerous acts of kindness and generosity towards many other people in Tahiti.

In politics, Tony played an important part behind the scenes, and for a number of years after the war, he served as a member of the local Privy Council.

Tony was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1949 and an Officer of that order 10 years later.

Tony married Emilie Haereraaroa in 1920 and they had three children, Mathilda, Anthony and Rudy, all of whom survive. 36 SEPTEMBER, 1964-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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At one time we had a day-to-day port on the condition of the quads rn to Greta, a native woman of aiye, somewhere around the Oro ly area. And then we had the Pioneering plug for President hnson from a New Hanover :tion.

I am now awaiting word of a paratist Group, dedicated to nator Goldwater (“Water belong Id money”) in some remote area lere Goldwater publicists have sited.

Dwards Education

Much of the recent publicity has en devoted to emphasise the outmding need for western education r these near-primitive people.

There was one agitator for tertiary ucation for New Guineans in a tier to the Press, writing: “In so r as these leaders must be unirsity-trained, the delegation [to the jrrie Commission] emphasised the :ed to establish a college for tertiary ucation within the Territory withit delay”.

Is a university degree such an iportant qualification for becoming member of the House of Assembly?

One correspondent mentioned that great number of candidates for ection signed their papers with a oss.

So what? Do they know less of e requirements of their constituents :cause they cannot pen a calligraphic mbol?

Is it not time that the tenants in ir Ivory Towers of Learning should >me down to earth and place their et firmly on the ground; and, at e same time, put a stop to this ea that the New Guinean is an norant, uneducated person?

I would like these critics to have :companied me some years ago as wandered along bush-land paths in Buka in the company of 10-year-old Rarin who attached himself to me probably because we were both tseezen (initiates) together at the Ndook secret society’s ceremony when I was named Mala and he Rarin.

Anyway, I profited by this attachment for it was through him and his extensive knowledge of bushcraft that I came to appreciate what a mass of information dwelt in the mind of this small lad and, furthermore, was able to impart it to me in a mixture of Buka and pidgin-English.

We walked many miles on his native island, while he told me the names of flowers, shrubs and creepers and any particular use to which they could be put.

That one was good for stomachaches; this was a rare dye plant; that was used by the women to bring on their menses; that other bush was used for stupefying fish. And so it went on.

He gave me the name of everything I asked him and told me its uses (if any). He showed me the vines and bushes from which various butterfly pupae were suspended and which he later collected for me, saving me chasing wildly about with a butterfly-net.

Out on the reef it was the same: telling me the names of shells and fish; the best time to catch them and those that were good and those that were bad for eating.

The result of my study of Rarin’s mentality astounded me to such an extent that on my next trip south to the Land of Civilisation I made somewhat similar excursions into the bush accompanied by a lad about the same age and acknowledged as being a ‘“bright lad”.

He may have been in some ways, but he knew practically nothing of his own land.

The names of shrubs and flowers? . . . “Aw! That’s botany. I don’t bother with that”, said he. He could tell me about the history of Europe and America and he prided himself on his maths. By now with the aid of slide rules, computers and such 41

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As a realist I would say there is solution required, for there is no )blem: Each to his own. But the jerts are not happy to leave it at it. Progress, to their way of nking, must consist of ‘“backward” )ple being educated up to western ndards of living, according to stern ideas and cultures.

Phis is all a part of the “self ermination” policy in which they : being educated. (Never forgetting it the first three letters of OGRESS are of paramount imporice in the commercialised western rid of today).

And what is the target for this icy? In order that the New incans may have a higher standard living; build better houses with terial from overseas; drive motor s of their own; wear western thes—from overseas; form trade ons; organise strikes, political ties and racial riots and that will nplete the picture of western ilisation as it is today. \t that point we can step down, ike hands with ourselves and rmur; “They are now ready for ependence and self determination, r task is done”. -low are the New Guineans to pay all these fol-de-las? Expert agritural economists will have the wer: The increase of their primary •ducts: cacao, coffee and copra. . Overproduced? . . . Well, yes, financial experts will fix that—we >e. It’s as simple as that.

\ Lower Levels

Concern as to the adequate speed native progress towards this muchmted independence has been ariably confined to executive levels Port Moresby. lut now the New Britain District visory Council has expressed conjrable interest in the subject after Director of Education for the Mission in New Britain, Cr. Rev.

S. O’Hanlon, had strongly icised native indolence, laid the priest: “New Guineans ieve they will one day get a adise State wherein everybody s no work and get everything requires for nothing”.

Vt present, he said, he had heard ative plantation owner does about hours’ work on his plantation h week, but it takes him about hours to do it.

"he upshot of the priestncillor’s pronouncements was a t'ion being carried for the formai of local Economic Development mmittees in all backward areas of island.

Another councillor, S t a n i s Boramilat, said that during the electioneering for the House of Assembly he had visited the Pomio area (in the vicinity of Jacquinot Bay) and there the people told him they did not want to become planters and small businessmen. Rather than this they would go back into the hills.

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It was at Mioko and Port Hunter where many of the survivors of the Marquis du Rays expedition spent their last hours and were subsequently buried. The cemetery on Mioko is worthy of national preservation. Much of New Guinea’s early history lies there.

One of the first government buildings in the colony was erected on Kerawara Island when it first arrived in 1884, later to be transferred to Finschhaven, thence to Stephansort, then Frederichswilhelmshaven (Madang), to Herbertschoehe (Kokopo) and finally to Simpsonhaven (Rabaul).

In more modern times, of course, we know it shifted to Lae in 1941 and then after the war, it disappeared into the limbo when the Trust Territory was merged with Papua, the Australian Territory.

More Modern Times: In 1911, when I knew the Duke of Yorks well, it had lost much of its prestige.

Hernsheim & Co. still retained Makada as a plantation, with Franz Stehr as manager, although he was planting up his own property on Manuan, opposite Makada on the Duke of Yorks mainland, Franz Stehr, with his Irish-American wife, had come up from Samoa, where they used to run a pub in Apia. They brought their four children, Albert, Franz, Louise and Juanita. They were shipwrecked as they were coming into Simpsonhaven at the foot of the South Daughter.

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Along The Watery Route To Tarawa Although I’ve now spent over half my life connected in some way with Pacific Islands, I had never, until late July, set foot on what is supposed (erroneously), to be most typical of the Pacific scene—a coral atoll.

ALL my islands have been high, wide, upthrust, volcanic; some have been almost continental in size.

A few atolls I had glimpsed, coming back from Tahiti, from an altitude of 25,000 to 35,000 feet, when they look to be no more than discolourations on the vast expanse of Pacific ocean.

But in July I walked, slept, ate, for three days, on two of them— Funafuti, in the Ellice Islands, and Tarawa, in the Gilberts—by courtesy of the long-awaited inaugural flight of Fiji Airways from Suva and Nadi to the G & E Islands Colony.

The route, Suva-Tarawa, is 1,400 nautical miles (a nautical mile is 320 ft longer than the ordinary variety), and the return, fortnightly service takes three days—with a free afternoon and a night at Funafuti, first day out; an afternoon and a night at Tarawa, on the day following; and return all the way to Suva on the third.

The inaugural flight was no Press junket. I was sole representative of the profession; no champagne flowed — just endless cups of instant-coffee produced by engineer Ken Christoffersen; and by the time the plane had shaken the last of Fiji’s Yasawas off beneath its tail and headed north into limitless and empty blue sea and sky, all 11 passengers were feeling like part of the crew.

This was real flying again, like New Guinea in the old days before air-hostesses; and to me, anyway, (Continued on p. 49) Cjoes 'WJalLaLout and sdtoli- There are conflicting expressions on the faces of these Funafuti youngsters (left) as the Elders take off on a Fiji Airways courtesy flight in July. Although they are practically indestructible on the sea, the Colony people are not yet altogether sold on aeroplanes. At right are some of the inaugural flight passengers with Falani Pasefika, who runs the hotel at Funafuti.

From the left, Miss M. Llewelyn, who is teaching at the Elaine Bernacchi School for Girls at Bikenibeu; Mrs. Adams and Mr.

M. W. Adams, Senior Auditor, Tarawa; Pasefika; and one of the two Summers children who made the flight. Miss Llewelyn holds the first air ticket London- Tarawa. The Summers children were the first to be able to join their parents on Tarawa under the expatriate officers' scheme that allows children at school in the UK to go home once a year. Previously, by ship, it had taken too long.

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I 111 Cood HousekeeP^ concentrated quality pays off in each capful of cleansing nitely to be preferred to the moonisule, anonymity of a jam-packed Nothing much can happen in Heron aircraft the airline uses hout everyone being aware of it. fhe aerial sextant dangles from the f of the cabin and is in such istant use by Captain M. Morrissey I second pilot, Neil Ganley, you ;in to have a new appreciation the business of pin-pointing a few are miles of atoll in about 12 lion square miles of salt water, everyone waits for, and mentally :s off, the few radio directional cons on the way; the pilots do ir course-plotting and navigation the front seat of the plane and r one is allowed to go and look; I there is time and scope for a e between “flight deck” and senger compartment. About 45 mtes from Tarawa, the captain led the plane up in a gentle bump I yelled through the open cockpit »r: That was the equator.”

Was it, by God!” said one of the ing customers. “Next time go ler it.”

MISHAP )n the ground, pilots’ sleep and ; hours become a matter of public cern and so do the other incidents travel. When we broke an aerial ilator on our first take-off from awa on the return flight ( PIM, just, p, 6) and landed again with yards of aerial wire flailing all over the place, everyone got out to inspect.

There was a perfectly good duplicate aerial on the other side of the fuselage, no doubt capable of homing us on all the beacons on the way back. It seemed to me that the quickest way out of the trouble was to cut off the broken wire and be on our merry way, and I said so.

Pilot Ganley, a very serious young man, looked horrified and said at once “That would immediately cut the chances by half!”

Still looking severe he took himself off to a small grass-hut they have beside the Bonriki strip and began to figure how many “hours” were left in himself and Capt.

Morrissey. If the aerial couldn’t lie fixed inside two hours (which, in the event, it was) they were going to ground themselves, and us, until the next day.

Somewhere, recently, I’ve read an article in an American magazine that said that New Zealanders, by temperament, made the best commercial airline pilots. After travelling for three days with these two I’m inclined to believe it myself.

Atolls are unimpressive from the air, even from the 8,000 or 9,000 ft at which FA’s Herons normally cruise on this route. Although there are nine atolls in the Ellice Group (with a land area of only 11 square miles), and 16 in the Gilberts (land area 114 sq. miles), only a few of them are actually seen as more than The tiny islet of Betio, Tarawa atoll, was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles [?]ought by the US Marines in the Pacific War. They lost 1,000 dead and 2,500 Wounded, in November, 1943, before they routed the Japanese from an area little larger than an Australian market-garden. This grim souvenir of the fighting [?]s to be made into a permanent monument. It was the only gun the Japanese were able to turn around when the Marines attacked from the other side of the slet. Some Americans believed the gun was captured by the Japanese from the British at Singapore, but this isn't true. This gun is an ancient piece, made early his century and sold to Japan by Britain at the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. 49 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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From the time the last of Fiji’s Yasawas passes from view, until landfall is made on Funafuti four hours later, not so much as a speck of land is sighted. And for the first three hours out of Funafuti heading towards Tarawa on the following morning there is nothing but more sea and more sky until Tabiteuea, about mid-way along the Gilbertese chain, swims tentatively into view.

Those who imagine that this route will be a procession of picturesque green islands passing in procession will be disappointed and will get better value for money on the Rabaul (NG)-Honiara (BSIP) route which is one of the flight bonanzas of the world. But at the beginning of their air age these atolls of the GEIC have a naturalness that most of the other Pacific Islands have long since lost.

However, neither the main islets of Funafuti or Tarawa can probably be called typical, Funafuti not yet having outlived its American period; and Tarawa being the centre of administration for the whole GEIC.

Healthy People

Six hundred people live on Funafuti, all except about 10 on the main islet which also accommodates the airstrip, hospital, hotel, Ellice Islands administrative headquarters and a branch of the main trading organisation, the Wholesale Society.

Copra, the only commercial enterprise, is cut from the other 29 islets that make up the atoll, but the 5,200 ft airstrip robs the main islet of a big chunk of its growing land.

None of the atolls in the Gilberts or Ellice has anything approaching arable land. All are composed of dead coral, elevated a few feet above sea level, each with a thin sprinkling of decayed vegetable matter in which little but coconuts and pandanus have much chance of survival.

On atolls with good rainfall, taro, breadfruit and bananas are sometimes precariously grown in compost pits but generally the native diet is fish and coconuts. The people, however, look fit and healthy and, according to the AMP in charge of the Funafuti hospital, food deficiency diseases are rare to the point of non-existence.

The airstrip runs almost the whole length of the main islet and looks like an old road, or the bottom of a creek bed from above and doesn’t improve very much on closer acquaintance.

The Americans occupied Funafuti during the war and build the first airstrip on the same site. After the war and resumption of normal isolation, the local people replanted it with coconuts and now have cut them down for the second time.

Most of the reconstruction work on the strip has been done by hand, men, women and children pitching in to dig out the coconut roots and fill in the hollows left behind.

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Mr. Sandys added that as there were inevitable limits to the economic potential of small, scattered islands, the voluntary resettlement of as many of the people as could be absorbed elsewhere, where opportunities were better, was being “actively pursued". 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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G.P.O. Box 296, Suva. ght one of the Elders, explaining is and the delays that had held up impletion of the strip and the hotel, it the blame on the Government Tarawa.

“They” had sent only a “female >zer” (which we gathered was a rail instrument with a blade only few feet wide), to help on the ■ip; and two hammers and a saw build the hotel. If this was the se, the islanders indeed performed iracles.

The village houses are built almost rtirely of old timber and iron Ft over from the American occupam that ended nearly 20 years ago id for this reason Funafuti has a ffish and poverty-stricken air that probably doesn’t entirely merit.

The feast that was prepared for e three crew members and 11 issengers that night was extensive lough to have occupied the entire ark force for a week and sufficient feed the hundred or so people who ere in the meeting-house with us id the several hundred more who t outside peering in.

Great palm-platters of native od, flanked by two drinking nuts >iece were placed before us, by a oup of girls in stiff palm-rib skirts at struck out like millet-brooms rtx cotton dresses.

The guests, confronted by such a ass of food, merely nibbled round e edges and pushed things about, pparently no more was expected ;cause as soon as we began to flag this task the platters were hisked speedily away and restributed amongst our hosts.

Chorus Line

At 8.30 the chorus line formed, e girls and youths in two straight les one behind the other, and the mcing began. Funafuti girls are lort and plump and their bristling do nothing for the [houette.

They wear crowns of flowers, a Tahitienne, but their dances consist r a little foot shuffling and a great ;al of hand movement, like the unoan siva and not like the erotic ahiti tamure.

The dances, and the chants that ) with them, tell stories of voyages id historical events rooted so far ick in the mythical past as to be ; incomprehensible to the perirmers as to us.

The rhythm is supplied by a solid luad of non-dancers who sit around i upturned box with a mat on top; n this they beat out the time, icouraged by a cheer-leader who hips them into a crescending frenzy F pounding to round off each item.

Seemingly at random but no doubt in traditional pattern, Elders bobbed up in the intervals between dances and addressed us at length, bringing nearer the moment that Captain Morrissey has been dreading all day —his speech in thanks for the lavish hospitality. He doesn’t mind flying planes, to almost non-existent spots of land, over miles of open ocean, but public speaking is another matter.

Only towards the end of the entertainment was there any indication that a night out in Funafuti can consist of more than a whole lot of boxthumping, oratory and graceful handmovements.

One middle-aged man and three middle-aged women suddenly took the floor and with some tantalising body work and some cunning foot movements went some way towards proving what the anthropologists have always told us—that the Ellice Islanders are Polynesians after all.

All visitors were then invited to take the mat floor with local partners in the Funafuti version of the Twist.

This diversion not only took the captain’s mind off his speech for a moment but clearly was the item that the outside audience had been waiting for. If our antics and 53 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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There are nine large and half a dozen small islets on the triangular atoll but the islets most in use, and the only ones the short term visitor is likely to see, are strung from west to east, along the base of the triangle.

The commercial and administrative life of Tarawa goes on on these islets—from Bonriki in the east to Betio in the west, and the fact that half a dozen islands are involved makes both commerce and administration so much more involved.

The Causeways

In 1963, however, two causeways were completed that now make it possible to drive about 20 miles from the airstrip at Bonriki all the way to the tip of Bairiki, where the central administration has its HQ.

Previously, communication between the islets was by water or only at low tide when it was possible to walk, ride a bike or wade. Tarawa residents, pre-1963, lived like mariners with tide tables handy, so that they might know when they could visit the next islet. Now som of them have bought cars to replac the once universal bicycle.

But no causeway will ever lin Bairiki and Betio, the most wester! islet where the port installations, th Wholesale Society, the club, th district headquarters of the Gilber (as opposed to the central goven ment of the whole Colony), an police headquarters are located.

Betio is three miles away aero; the lagoon and communication is b launch which runs on a fixed tim< table.

Transport Problems

A cocktail party held at the hot( at Bikenibeu, which is three mile from the airport at Bonriki, is sti something of a transport problem fo folks from Betio; and it’s still quit an effort for people from, say, th education establishments at Bikenibe to make use of the club, which i on Betio.

The land area, Betio to Bonriki is only a few square miles, ye longitudinally the various establish ments have strung themselves ou over a city-sized 20.

In contrast to the second-han< timber of Funafuti housing, Tarawi has evolved a cement-block, thatched roof house for its civil servants tha is practical, cool and pleasant Electricity, refrigeration, freeze] goods have removed most of the physical disadvantages that caused

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• R. W. Robson, who visited the oup just before the Pacific War, call them the “Lousy Islands”.

Jfe is still not the lush tropical adise of the romanticists but in world of shrinking administrative lortunities it has many compensans. Now, only the fundamental, k-bottom problems remain. fhe new fortnightly air service has ttered the Colony’s isolation, but iing a booming tourist industry for ich the atolls are not particularly ted, it can do nothing of itself solve the poverty of natural reirces. \dd to this a rapidly expanding mlation, lack of political ambition the part of the Gilbertese and jctance to assume leadership and i get some idea of the unique ninistrative problem the GEIC sents in the 1960’s era of Instant tionhood. f some genius could devise a ans of sawing these poor atolls from their reefs and floating them >OO miles nearer the Solomons, h which they are partners in the stern Pacific High Commission, it ?ht solve the riddle of the future.

Mready the authorities are doing next best thing—planned migrai to the relatively underpopulated IP. This may, of course, be y a short-term measure—dependon just how long the Melanesians the Solomons are willing to hold m the door to the Polynesians i Micronesians of the Ellice and bert Groups. one in the Colony professes know any ready-made panacea GEIC problems. They’re playing by ear—and the new air service in well as an accompaniment. [?]E HOUSING SCENE: Although it is built [?]h the prevailing war-time timber and [?]rugated iron, the house in the top [?]ture, in the main village on Funafuti, quite a neat piece of work; most of others look as though they have been [?]mped there by a hurricane. Centre: [?] LMS Church on Funafuti is a huge [?]cture, mostly of timber, but like the t of the village it's seen better days. [?]re is a plan afoot to build a new one. tom: A typical Government house at [?]awa where modern cement blocks have [?]en combined with traditional thatch to [?]duce something very suitable for the [?]rironment. Inside they are spacious, [?]l and attractive. This one belongs to G. Pitkeathly, Chief Education Officer, [?] sits practically on the beach on the side of Bikenibeu. One can think of [?]rse fates than having to live and work here. 55 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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TAHITIANS

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Bomb Tests

From a Papeete Correspondent The French Prime Minister, Mr. Georges Pompidou, and the president of French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly, Mr.

Jacques Tauraa, politely disagreed on France’s Pacific atom tests when Mr.

Pompidou visited Tahiti at the end of July.

U|R. POMPIDOU visited French ▼A Polynesia to examine problems reated by France’s decision to carry ut nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll i 1966.

Mr. Tauraa said in the Assembly lat there was a certain amount of pposition among the people of rench Polynesia to the tests.

The installation of the testing sntre would cause complications in le social life of the people.

Local people were reacting univourably to new houses being built ar staff connected with the tests, reparations for the tests would bring ;mporary prosperity.

“But what will become of the ibour when construction of the test te is finished?” Mr. Tauraa asked.

He said he considered that those ho opposed the tests were right. He id not want his remarks to be taken s anti-French, for he wanted Tahiti > always remain an integral part of ranee.

Lesson of Past Mr. Pompidou, in reply, said it 'as France’s duty to equip the nation Tth the most modern weapons. She ad learned in the past what it cost ) be unprepared.

If major war broke out France 'anted to avoid the possibility of beig destroyed, and she could only do iat by having her own atomic 'eapons. Those who did not have uclear arms would disappear in a 'ar, or they would have to submit to n enemy, and France would not abmit.

Mr. Pompidou said that some :ientists had already arrived in 'ahiti, and others were on the way. t would be one of their duties to determine the results of atomic tests, and to see what effect they would have on the flora and fauna of the territory.

They would pay great attention to the possible effect on fish in the lagoons and seas surrounding the lagoons.

The authorities were convinced there would be no inconvenience; if inconvenience was likely there would be no tests.

Mr. Pompidou denied that the tests would create temporary prosperity.

The current “boom” was attracting capital to the territory, but it was up to the local authorities to make the best possible future use of that capital.

The presence of scientists over a number of years would ensure a steady circulation of money. Their presence also should encourage young Polynesians to aspire to responsible scientific posts.

Mr. Pompidou also referred briefly to Tahiti’s “Chinese problem”. France had no project of massive integration of the Chinese in Tahiti. But any Chinese who sought French citizenship would have his case sympathetically considered by the Governor at Papeete.

Mr, Pompidou paid a visit to Mururoa when the new airstrip was just finished. He inspected camp installations and the nuclear test sites.

During a brief stop-over in Noumea en route to Tahiti, Mr. Pompidou said France would provide television for New Caledonia, and that a more powerful broadcasting station would be built in Noumea.

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They are, according to a recent diocese publication in Suva: Ability to mix with people, mix concrete, wade rivers, write articles, love one’s neighbour, deliver babies, sit crosslegged, conduct meetings, drain swamps, digest questionable dishes, patch tyres, patch human weaknesses, suffer fools gladly and burn midnight oil.

And there are certain classes who should not apply, or who should think twice before sending their names in. They are: Persons allergic to ants, babies, beggars, chop suey, cockroaches, curried crabs, duplicators, guitars, humidity, indifference, itches, jungles, mildew, minority groups, mud, open boats, poverty, sweat, twisting, and unmarried mothers.

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VIUE, of course, is well known now for its high radio activity. >r. Futch’s visit was a follow up to me made by Dr. Stone and Dr.

Vheeler from the University of 'exas last year.

Dr. Futch said that the studies icing made of material from Niue sland were a part of a long term ivestigation into genetic effects inluced in living organisms through xposure to atomic radiation.

“Niue is of special significance for : is a place where living material can ie collected from an area of high aturally occurring radiation,” he said.

He concentrated on an uninlabitated but cultivated spot in the entral part of the island. Previous neasurements of radio activity by Sir Ernest Marsden and others at various pots around the island had indicated hat, although that particular spot /as high in radio activity, the levels ear inhabited areas were not ignificantly above normal levels.

Tests On Flies During his stay Dr. Futch colected flies of the genus Drosophila rom that area of high radio activity.

He reared the larvae produced by he flies to examine their chromoomes for any physical damage which night have been produced in the •arents by exposure to radiation.

Other material used were white >lood cells from persons who may lave had contact with the area or vith food plants cultivated in it.

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Bananas at 3id each, papaws at 3/9 —returning to Sydney to live can be quite disconcerting at first. The prices!

AND one is immediately struck by the busy-ness of everyone. On leave you feel apart from the general earnestness and free to enjoy a holiday, but being back for good is different.

Everything seems a rush. Even on the children’s polio injection slips issued by the local councils (an excellent service) one is warned that the doctor leaves at 11 a.m.

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The paradox is that in this much bigger city, life is much more parochial. People, particularly women, are more “international” in their outlook in the Pacific—at least in Fiji where we lived.

Perhaps because of all those overseas “leaves”, perhaps because of the pot pourri of races. Yet Australia has a medley of peoples now.

Searching for somewhere to live is the proverbial “eye-opener”. Without batting an eyelid, an otherwise pleasant housewife told me that she wanted £1,500 to vacate a tenanted house.

She had lived there (on a—by today’s standard —nominal rental) long enough to rear six children, had done nothing towards upkeep of the house and now, having about worn it out, she wanted money so that her family could move to something grander.

Protected as she is by the NSW Landlord and Tenant Act, her demand for £1,500 makes it hard for the owner to give any sort of price for that property.

Real estate agents are a fascinating race. Business seems to be booming for them everywhere in Sydney, yet in Suva they hardly exist.

Sydney’s ever-temperamental bus drivers still regale their passengers with their views on transient humanity. One woman didn’t signal the bus soon enough: “Too b—y lazy to raise her hand”, commented the driver to the bus in general.

Another inquired about a stopping place: “Too b—y lazy to walk a few yards. They’re all too b—y lazy”, the driver muttered while the rest of us string-bag “sloths” sat mute, not daring to disagree.

TV is not the time-consumer I feared. Some sessions, particularly on music and art, are excellent, but others, including the news, are disappointing.

Small incidents, such as a minor fire in a suburban home, are magnified into matters of great moment before hundreds of thousands of TV viewers.

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Famous Brigantine

'Yankee' Wrecked

At Rarotonga

From W. H. Percival, in Rarotonga Rarotonga’s rugged coral reef, which has claimed at least 14 ships since 1833, wrecked another vessel during the early hours of Friday, July 24. This was the beautiful brigantine, Yankee, famous in the Bahamas, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and many other parts of the world.

YANKEE arrived at Rarotonga on July 16 in the course of a world cruise. On arrival 18 people were on board, including Captain Derek Lumbers and eight crew members.

The 96 ft. steel-hulled brig was anchored off the reef at Avarua, Government and business centre of :he Cook Islands located on Raro- ;onga’s northern coast.

Her two anchors were down and bolding well, but her two powerful diesels were out of action due to unserviceable generators and flat batteries.

Efforts had been made to repair the generators and charge the batteries, but these efforts came too late to save the famous sailing ship.

The day before the shipwreck the seas were moderate but in the early hours of Friday morning they became rough and Yankee began to pitch and strain at her anchor cables.

Captain Lumbers worked on the generators on board until 2 a.m., unworried by the building seas because the two anchors were holding well, but about 4 a.m., Yankee began to drift towards the reef. It seems that the flukes of one of the anchors had snapped off, and the other anchor started to drag. As the vessel was swept towards the reef the mate, Paul Cook, bellowed the command —“All hands on deck”.

Cook Goes For Help At about 5 a.m., the Yankee's rudder was scraping the reef.

The ship’s two boats had floated astern and were lost when their painters broke.

Captain Lumbers ordered the passengers to wear their life jackets and to stay in the saloon. He instructed ship’s cook, Jay dee Jones, to paddle ashore in a rubber dinghy and to try to obtain new batteries and all possible assistance.

Rough seas were cascading over the reef and Jones’ task was not easy, but he reached shore across the narrow lagoon and hurried to a telephone.

He asked the Union Steam Ship Company for help from the company’s tugs, but the tugs were high and dry ashore in their shed, and between them and the harbour lay a

“ Yankee” On The Reef

These pictures show the scene on the reef at Avarua, Rarotonga, at first light on July 24. During the night the "Yankee" had dragged her anchors and drifted close to the reef, stern-to. Shortly before these pictures were taken by Robert B.

Johnson, of Rarotonga, she had broached side-on and the waves began to pound her against the reef. In the top picture passengers can be seen being helped ashore by local people, who flocked to the scene to assist —and to witness the wreck of a colourful vessel, well-known throughout the by-ways of the South Seas. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Flares were fired from the Yankee and an S.O.S. flashed by lamp.

Ashore, other officials were roused From their beds.

The only vessel in port capable Df towing the 96 ft brig off the reef tvas the small motor ship, Tagua, vhich had arrived at Rarotonga only he previous day on her maiden voyage from Hong Kong, for the interlock Islands trade.

But the Tagua had been fumigated )n arrival with a deadly gas and lobody was allowed on board until ;he was declared safe by Public iealth inspectors. It was about 8.45 i.m. before her master, and one of ler owners, Captain Dunsford, and lis crew were able to go on board.

Just as they prepared to do so it vas noticed that the Yankee, about a nile away, had swung broadside on o the reef—which meant there was low no hope of towing her off. The ttempt was abandoned.

Crowd Watches Rescue Meanwhile, a crowd had gathered t the scene of the wreck to watch he rescue of passengers.

Big waves kept pounding the tricken brig, throwing great bursts if spray as high as the lower yards nd working the vessel higher up on d the reef.

Suitcases were piled on deck ready d be taken ashore. The deck was ilted at about 60 degrees.

As the Yankee lurched and rocked inder the impact of the rollers, about 0 young Maori men waded out toward the vessel and hung on to a ne thrown from the ship.

Down the life-line came passengers nd crew and those who had gone board to help.

An on-the-spot recording was made y Mr. Percy Henderson for Radio Larotonga. He stood in waist-deep 'ater and, when the waves surged in, ad to place his tape-recorder on his ead to protect it.

The oldest passenger, a whiteearded man of 65, was helped along le beach by two stalwart Maori oys.

The last to leave the Yankee was aptain Lumbers.

The famous Yankee was built in 912 at Emden, Germany, for use s a North Sea pilot vessel. In 1945, le was aquired by Britain, and some me later was bought by globercling American Irving Johnson.

Under his command and over a period of years, Yankee became wellknown in the Pacific.

Irving Johnson maintained Yankee in first-class condition and filled her with young and fit people who worked as crew and helped pay the expenses of Yankee’s round the world cruises. When owned by the Johnsons the brig made seven happy Pacific cruises.

Recent Ownership About 1957, Johnson sold Yankee to a Mr, Reed Whitney and took up cruising through Europe’s waterways from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.

Later Yankee was purchased by Captain Mike Burke and a syndicate known as Windjammer Cruises Inc., which operates four large schooners out of Miami, Florida, on almost weekly tourist cruises.

Yankee’s first round-the-world voyage under the new ownership was made in 1961, and it was not a happy voyage.

Neither was the current one which ended on Rarotonga’s reef. It started from Nassau in the Bahamas in early February. In April, a tragedy occurred when the brig called in at the Galapagos Islands. One of the passengers, Miss Sara Reiser, aged 70, went for a walk on one of the islands and never returned. An intensive search failed to find her.

There were other troubles too, trouble with equipment from the start of the cruise, trouble with the crew, and considerable dissatisfaction among the passengers.

From the Galapagos, Yankee sailed to Tahiti and Bora Bora and from there to Rarotonga. She was to have visited Tonga, Suva, Singapore, sailed through the Suez Canal to Gibraltar and then crossed the Atlantic on the last leg to Nassau.

Now she lies on Rarotonga’s reef, which has claimed many ships and many lives, her sailing days apparently ended.

The Cook Islands Marine Board held a preliminary inquiry into the stranding of the brigantine soon after the disaster, but withheld its decision after hearing evidence and inspecting the wreck and its equipment.

The names of those on board the Yankee on arrival in Rarotonga were: Captain Lumbers, R. Addison, J. Addison, D. Allan, J. Appelbaum, M. Appelbaum, P. Cook, A. Flynn, M. D. Hunt, J. Jones, N. McNamara, D. Nightingale, M. Olin, C. Pharo, J. Townsend, M. E. Vincent and M.

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F’rom a Fiji Correspondent Fiji has run into a local beef shortage which has not only caused prices to rise, but has led to a rise in the Colony’s imported meat bill. The public at large was unaware of any shortage until early this year, when a Lautoka butcher and small goods processor imported more than five tons of beef sides from New Zealand to meet the demand.

HE announced then that he would have to import even bigger luantities very soon, and that he vould have to rely, to a great extent, in imports for several years to come.

Te could see no end to the shortage mless large-scale development of icef was undertaken.

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Ml of them had brought in beef Tom New Zealand in an effort to neet the demand. One of them relorted that he had scoured the :ountryside and had only been able o pick up a few head of cattle.

Tough But Tasty Fiji butchers largely have not had o cater for a selective type of mstomer. Thus any sort of cattle are jood enough for beef. Butchers in he main use dairy animals which lave outlived their life as milk prolucers or bullocks whose days of lulling a plough in the canefields are iver. Tough meat, yes, but not disiked by the Fijians, who can make it nto tasty stews.

Viti Levu, the main island, has luffered chiefly through,the shortage, "or some reason there are not as nany dairy cattle to slaughter, and n the canefields the tractor, operated in a co-operative basis, is slowly lusting the bullock.

The coconut plantations of Vanua -evu and Taveuni are believed to be carrying many head of cattle, for the planters are realising, as farmers in New Zealand and Australia did years ago, that cattle are handy for keeping down rank growth. And they can be turned into extra cash when needed.

There are practical difficulties in the way of getting live cattle from Vanua Levu and Taveuni to Viti Levu, simply because the Colony’s inter-island ships are not designed for the large-scale carriage of cattle.

Small Farms There are schemes afoot to raise beef cattle on small farms. There are several such farms established in the south-east area of Viti Levu. Farmers, encouraged by the Department of Agriculture, are producing a good type of animal for slaughter when about two years old, and by breeding properly they may be assured of a good supply of young animals for the future.

Fiji’s land laws made it difficult for individuals to undertake cattle ranching in a big way. One butcher had a flourishing scheme in the interior of Viti Levu and on 4,000 acres had built up a herd of 600 head. He had plans eventually to run a herd of 1,000 head to give a constant supply to his slaughter yards.

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Land is available and many Indian farmers would like to use it to run cattle. But as it is native reserve land it can only be used by the Fijians themselves unless somebody is really keen and is prepared to wait for a year or two while all the red tape is unravelled to give him a lease.

Even then, the lease is generally short-term, which does not give a prospective farmer much incentive to outlay the money necessary to build up a cattle ranch.

So, the human population is growing, but the cattle population is not keeping pace. The chances are that as far as beef is concerned Fiji will be depending on New Zealand for many years.

Fijians Aren’t So Mighty From a Suva Correspondent THE New Zealand Maori Rugby team gave Fijian pride a sharp jolt when they made an unbeaten tour of the Colony in July-August.

They played eight matches and scored 207 points against 54.

The Fijians will leave in September for a tour of Wales, France and Canada, and they should go off greatly humbled. The Fijians aren’t what they were.

Another blow to them has been the departure (in July) for England to play Rugby League of tough front row forward Jo Saukuru, who was captain of Fiji’s gold medal South Pacific Games team; Tomasi Naidole, a clever centre, and the promising Jone Ravitale.

During the New Zealanders’ tour the Maoris were much too clever for all home teams, and the Fijians to a regrettable extent played the man rather than the ball.

The Fijians’ general performances were a far cry from those of the 1952 team which captured popular imagination when it toured Australia.

The Maoris scored a handsome 26-9 win in the only test of the tour.

Scores in their other games were a stunning; Nadroga, 19-8; Suva, 21-11; Northern Unions, 31-9; Rewa-Lomaiviti, 44-6; North Viti Levu, 6-0; Lautoka, 33-3; Nadi, 27-8. 68 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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From Elspeth Robbins in Suva.

Every year in Suva, a somewhat unusual pet show takes place. Exhibitors are restricted to children and classes are graded to encourage the children of all races to join in.

BREEDING doesn’t count; pets are judged on their general condition, their tail-wagging abilities or their manners.

This year the show is to be held at the end of August.

Ever since we have been in the Colony, our family have been most enthusiastic pet show goers.

Lupee, the result of an alliance between Lulu, a little jungle hen and Peter, the proud rooster next door, was our first entrant.

We decided to enter her for The Most Unique Pet but a gentleman guinea pig won the event that year.

Undaunted, next year Lupee was again entered in the same class (this time along with numerous guinea pigs) only to find that someone had entered a flying fox, indisputedly the winner and a great attraction to curious onlookers.

Late Entry But our eldest son discovered that there was only one entry in the poultry section and by producing another 3d., we could register Lupee as a late entry.

That Lupee was well-conditioned could not be discounted. She did us proud as she sat quietly on a bed of clean straw in my work-basket (borrowed for the occassion) with every feather shining, beak and legs a bright yellow, comb plump and rosy, and perky bright eyes appraising the scene. Her prowess in egglaying was never questioned.

A blue rosette was attached to her basket and three small boys achieved a state of pride and bliss to remember all their lives.

For three years, Lupee Repeated her success in the poultry section— not because of her pedigree or her egg-laying statistics, but because she was loved and lovable.

The offspring from our own guinea pigs have been winning prizes for some years now. It is always a source of disappointment that Basil and Annabel, the two originals, can never time the arrival of their frequent litters to coincide with the date of the pet show so we can enter them in the Best Pet Family.

Once only we entered our cat, Paw- Paw, the memory of which sears my soul to this day.

Compensatory Gesture Since his early kittenhood, Paw Paw has slept all day among the cool fragrant shadows, dappled with sunlight, of a neighbour’s fern house and never has he once touched a dendrobium or a cattleyea.

As a gesture on our part to compensate for the risky situation of puss among the orchids, we suggested that the neighbour’s little girl could enter our cat in her name . . . and, of course, keep the prizemoney if any.

As this meant we would have four children, one Fijian housegirl, two guinea pigs, one hen and one cat to transport to the pet show by 2 p.m., Dad was asked to forego his usual 12 till 1 p.m. Saturday session at the club—a suggestion which he took resignedly.

Lunch was to be ready at 12.30., leaving ample time for the children and animals to be assembled for departure at 1.30 p.m.

All went smoothly until Dad, still smarting slightly about his lost half hour at the club, tooted the horn to signal he was going ... or else.

Paw Paw, who had so far endured be-ribboning and talcing with stoical, male indifference, now took umbrage and disappeared under the hedge.

Two small children immediately opened their mouths to the fullest and bellowed. The pandemonium roused our neighbours who kindly joined in the chase.

Dishevelled Ten minutes later, panting and dishevelled but with only a few whiskers bent, Paw Paw was confined in his box and his ribbon was retied.

This encounter with near disaster left us all so weakened, we drove to the Pet Show in silence..

That the car spluttered a bit as we went past the club was probably purely coincidental. Anyway, Paw Paw won a white rosette and 5/-.

The annual children’s pet show is run by the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and to mark the start of a “Be Kind to Animals Week” when efforts are intensified to instruct children and others about the proper care of animals. 69 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Veteran Lord Howe Islander Has Seen Many Changes From a Lord Howe Correspondent The name of Wilson has long been associated with Lord Howe Island— since 1878 in fact —and the Wilsons are now the largest family on the island, which has a population of about 240.

THE oldest Wilson on the island is Herbert Thomas, who is now in bis 80th year. He is one of the few :>f the “old school” who remain.

Mr. Wilson (pictured) was born on Lord Howe on December 9, 1884, and has spent all his life there, except For a break of about a year in 1904- 35, when he worked in Sydney, and For other brief periods. With such a long association with the island he can be fairly described as a “walking history book” about his homeland.

His father, Thomas Bryant Wilson, ihe patriarch of the family, arrived at Lord Howe in the schooner Esperanza in 1878 from Fiji.

He was a well-educated man, and as there was no schoolteacher on the island it was natural that he should accept such a post when it was offered to him.

Thomas Bryant Wilson married Mary Thompson, who had been his oldest pupil at school, and they had five children, of whom Herbert was the second.

Palm Seed Exports T. B. Wilson was the first person to export Kentia palm seeds from Lord Howe to Europe. His consignments went to the Kew Gardens, London.

Herbert Wilson did all his schooling on the island. In those days school was a half-day affair. He spent the other half collecting palm seeds, or in helping to provide for his family by hunting, fishing or gardening.

He has seen radical changes on the island. Steam has replaced sail, and now flying-boats have replaced steam as a regular means of transport to and from the island.

Bullocks and horses are things of the past, and trucks, cars and tractors operate in their stead. Oil and kerosene lamps have given way to electricity.

Herbert Wilson has been interested in many Lord Howe ventures besides the export of palm seeds commercial fishing, vegetable and flower seed growing, and the tourist industry.

Semi-Retired Now leading a semi-retired life, he farms about an acre and a half of land for vegetables and fruit, mainly for his family. Any surplus goes into the tourist industry in the way of supplies for guesi houses.

He works his land with a hoe and a fork.

For a change, he takes a day off here and there and goes fishing.

Herbert Wilson was one of the first Lord Howe residents to accept the Seventh-day Adventist teaching.

This was in 1913 under the ministry of Pastor Butz, who was well known in the Pacific.

With a natural flair for story-telling, plus a good memory, he has given much enjoyment to others. One of his favourite stories is how he just missed a watery grave when he was 34.

Watery Episode After the Bums Philp ship Makambo ran aground on a rock on the eastern side of the island in June, 1918, she had to be beached to stop her from sinking.

When she was refloated, one of the anchors was left in a position from which it was impossible for the ship to recover it.

Mr. Wilson and four other islanders undertook to shift the anchor to a position where the ship could pick it up on the next trip.

Using two surf boats lashed together with spars, they hooked on to the anchor at low tide and started to lift it out. But the weight was too much and the spars broke. The two boats crashed together like a clam with the five men still inside.

As they sank in about 60 ft of water, Mr. Wilson pulled his knife from his pouch and cut away the lashings, allowing the men to escape.

Two other, older men, watching from the beach, had seen what happened, and they launched another surf boat and went out to help the men.

Mr. Wilson said he never cared much for swimming, and after that experience cared even less.

Panorama of Lord Howe Island from Mt. Malabar. 71

Pacific Islands Monthly September , 1964

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A slight decline in the tota world production of oil and fai raw materials should ensure i continuation of current gooc prices for copra for at least another 12 months. r THE trend for the last year or sc has been for prices to rise, noi spectacularly, but slowly so there ha< been no violent fluctuation through sudden demand or unexpected glut It s all been good news to the South Pacific, where copra in most places is the backbone of the economy.

Throughout July there was a firming tendency on the London market except right at the end, when there was a slight drop. The drop was in keeping with trends which have showed regular small rises for weeks on end, and then slightly lower prices tor a week or so before the next series of small increases.

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Although concentrated mainly over the northern part of the islands and having little effect on the main producing areas in the centre and south, it disrupted shipping and communications, and delayed arrivals in the northern ports and later shipment of the copra to the overseas markets in the first half of July.

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Chiefs Really Were Chiefs

In The Pre-War

Trobriand Islands

Some Recollections by Basil Hall A case of beer was not the only thing I took to the Trobriand Islands when I went there before the war, but it was an excellent form of introduction. The ARM (District Officer) spoke of landing charges that could be paid in kind, and then made sure of a share by offering me a bed on his verandah. [HAD been warned that accommodation went by invitation. Visitors vere as rare as hens’ teeth, for, in pre-war days, the Trobriands were as far away as one could get in Papua, md the only means of getting there vas by launch that made the 150nile run from Samarai at infrequent ntervals.

The isolation left the people more Dr less untouched—a collection of pleasant people, whose manners and customs seemed to have more in common with Polynesia than Papua.

There is a good deal about the Trobriands that has never been explained. For one thing, the people were strangely ignorant about the facts of life, for, while devoted to their children, they had no idea of how they happened to arrive. They were almost as proud of their pigs.

Yet, they would geld the village boars, and leave the sows to find a mate amongst the ill-bred bush pigs, which were despised by everyone.

Pigs Lent Prestige As in other parts of the Pacific, pigs went with prestige. The best of them were to be found in villages belonging to the five families of chiefly rank, who, between them, ruled the 9,000-odd inhabitants of the group.

There was nothing phony about these hereditary chiefs. What they had was theirs by right of birth, and, if dynastic quarrels rocked the place at times, the effect was to maintain a rough balance of power, which made for a peaceful way of life.

And that meant something to the 14 Europeans who worked in the group as missionaries, traders, pearlbuyers and the like.

The chiefs exercised undisputed power, but the trouble was that much of their power was based on sorcery.

Always in the background was the puri puri man, whose bag of tricks contained all sorts of magic.

There was the harmless kind that went with things like when to plant yam crops, the blessing of canoes, etc. But there was a sinister side to it as well, and, in one form or another, death sometimes came to those rash enough to challenge authority.

Sorcery has always been a problem in the Trobriands. When the first Government station was opened in 1907, attempts were made to stamp it out.

Unsuccessful in that, it was decided to adopt the principle of what you can’t beat you have to live with, and the chiefs were given a monthly subsidy of tobacco in exchange for tribute paid by the people to use their influence in the right way.

In my day, the paramount chief, Mitakata, came in at the beginning of the month, and, having picked up the 25 lb of tobacco that was his share, he returned to his village of Omarakana, where he lived with numerous wives and lots of pigs.

The one came with the other, for pigs, like yams and various sorts of garden produce, formed part of the tribute paid by the people to their chiefs.

It was very much a matter of give and take, for the chiefs were expected to turn on a party every now and then, and on those occasions pork was sure to figure on the menu.

The Trobriand Islanders firmly believed in the inequality of man, and, as part of the outward and visible signs of what was considered to be the natural order of things, men Men bowed respectfully and women almost crawled when they passed Mitakata, paramount chief of the Trobriand stands before the war. — Photo: Basil Hall.

A Trobriands Islands chief with ornaments of rank, including a wig, cowrie shell bracelet and pig's tooth lime gourd stopper.— Photo: Basil Hall. 77 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1964

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Those who manipulate the winds of change may have altered things like that, but, in the ’thirties, customs of the kind were accepted, if only because the success of the schools and medical patrols depended largely upon the goodwill of the chiefs.

Impressive Clinic Both the Methodist and Roman Catholic Missions provided schools, and, in the case of the former, a baby health nurse as well. For the rest, the health of the community was looked after by a second-year medical student from the Sydney University, who ran a most impressive clinic in the north-west corner of Kiriwina.

In the last quarter of 1938, that competent youth—long since a fullblown doctor—dealt with more than 500 in-patients and about 200 outpatients, operating when necessary, and treating any ailment from yaws to lung infections.

The magic of modern drugs may have played a part, but success rested as much on the trouble the “doctor” took to learn the language, and then the fact that he went out of his way :o gain the co-operation of the chiefs.

In the Trobriands, those of rank aelieved that they were not raised above their fellows without cause. To arove the point, any chief attending he weekly council meetings in would stand throughout the aroceedings, while those of lesser clay squatted comfortably upon the floor af the DO’s office.

The court room wasn’t very grand, ; or, of necessity, kerosene and other itores were also housed there. But he DO played his part as magistrate, vhile the councillors were present in he role of jury.

Sins Of Omission As such they dealt with sins of amission, such as the failure of 23 nen to do their “Friday” work— cleaning up the village on the day appointed.

When asked their views, the councillors suggested that each offender ae made to cut and bring in two aosts, as a contribution to the ■ new aolice barracks.

Then there was the mystery of the murdered pig. Was it magic or just plain spite? Here the system showed its weakest point, for the ownership of the pigs was so involved, that no councillor would buy into the argument.

Far different was the joy with which they tackled a case concerning a man, who, having paid five armshells (valued ornaments but rarely worn), five cooking pots and 5/- in cash for his wife, subsequently transferred his affections to another woman.

Not having a bar of that, the wife took up with some other man, who, by unanimous vote of the councillors, was ordered to repay the lawful husband three armshells and two cooking pots. How they arrived at that decision is something else again.

Changing Times Thousands of US and Australian troops were stationed in the Trobriands during the war, but things were beginning to change before that.

I once caught a glimpse of blue, that seemed out of place in a grass skirt, and I still think it was, for it turned out to be a pair of trade store knickers.

The men were using a plane iron in place of their old stone adze, and it’s no use saying that the wooden bowls and carved stools offered to tourists in Samarai, are nothing like they used to be.

It cuts both ways. If progress tends to diminish the standing of the the Trobriand chiefs, enlightened thought has certainly improved the quality of village pigs.

Dancers of the Trobriands —a pre-war picture. 79 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Windows In Norfolk Island Church Honour Victims Of Arrow Attack From Merval Hoare on Norfolk Island Two commemorative windows in All Saints Church at Kington, Norfolk Island, honour two young missionaries from that island ;ho were killed in the Santa Cruz Group of the Solomons exactly : century ago. The missionaries, who had well-known Norfolk- *itcairn names, were Fisher Young and Edwin Nobbs CHEIR names are also inscribed on a brass tablet in St. Barnabas’ lhapel, the Melanesian Mission Ihurch on Norfolk Island, which r as built as a memorial to the ishop of Melanesia, Bishop John loleridge Patteson.

Bishop Patteson was also killed in le Santa Cruz Islands—in 1871.

In Bishop Patteson’s day, the lelanesian Mission ship Southern ross used to call frequently at Noralk Island.

The mission headquarters were len at Auckland and Norfolk was convenient stopping place for the essel on its journeys to and from le New Hebrides and the Solomon dands.

Less than a month after the itcairn Islanders arrived at Norfolk i June, 1856, Bishop George elwyn, the Bishop of New Zealand, ailed to meet the people and from len on a friendship grew between le missionaries and the islanders.

The Norfolk pastor, the Rev. leorge Hunn Nobbs, was impressed y what he saw of the mission and fter Patteson was made Bishop of lelanesia, he offered him his 18-year- Id son Edwin for mission work, imon Young, in the same way, ffered his young son Fisher.

Islands Voyage Three years later, after training in mckland, Edwin Nobbs and Fisher r oung journeyed in the Southern Cross around the islands with Bishop Patteson. Another inslander, Hunt Christian, was a member of the crew.

On August 15, 1864, the Southern Cross arrived at Santa Cruz, where the bishop went ashore in a small boat with the three islanders and two Englishmen, Atkin and Pearce.

After speaking to the Santa Cruz people on shore, the bishop returned to his boat—followed by 300 or 400 armed natives.

When the boat was about 15 yards from the shore, the natives shot at it with bows and arrows.

One arrow hit Pearce in the chest; another hit Edwin Nobbs in the left cheek; and Fisher Young, was shot in the wrist. However, Nobbs and Young still pulled at their oars, while Atkin took that of Pearce, and Hunt Christian took the fourth.

In about 20 minutes they reached the Southern Cross, where the bishop operated on the wounded men.

Second Death For the next five days, all seemed well. But then Fisher Young developed tetanus and died. He was buried at Port Patteson, Vanua Lava, in the Banks Group of the New Hebrides, in a spot which a visitor a year later described as “a melancholy-looking place, shrouded in long pendent creepers and weeping parasites”.

Despite Bishop Patteson’s loving care and day-and-night attention, Edwin Nobbs also developed tetanus.

He died a fortnight after Young and was buried at sea.

Pearce, the Englishman who was wounded in the chest, recovered.

When the Southern Cross reached Norfolk Island, the bishop had the sad duty of telling the Rev. George Hunn Nobbs of the deaths of the two young men. But strong winds prevented him from getting ashore and it was by means of a letter written from Auckland on September 19, 1864, that the news was finally conveyed to him.

Fisher Young’s parents did not hear of their son’s death until 1866, for they had returned to Pitcairn in December, 1863, with the second group to return to their home island, and they did not receive any letters from Norfolk until the Mutine called there some three years later.

A brass tablet in St. Barnabas' Church on Norfolk Island commemorates the deaths of Fisher Young and Edwin Nobbs, two young missionaries from the island who died from arrow wounds received in the Santa Cruz Group.— Photo: Dept. of Territories. 81 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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When Pitcairn Island Goes To The Polls, Everyone (Probably) Knows Who’ll Win By Murray Howse, a former Education Officer on Pitcairn.

Although party politics have 10 place in the lives of the Pitcairn Islanders, the triennial election for the position of chief nagistrate creates plenty of nterest because the community ooks to the elected candidate for )rosperity and harmony among hemselves. rHE position, usually contested by three or four of the older men, s coveted not so much for the money hat goes with it, but for its social tatus.

The chief magistrate’s word is eldom questioned locally and his ;ommands are always obeyed.

To be a candidate for election, you nust be Pitcairn-born and you must lave lived on the island for at least !1 years.

Traditionally, the elections are held m Christmas Day, with the voting leginning at 6.30 a.m.

Campaigning usually starts in the irst week in December, when regulaions require the Island Secretary to irepare the rolls for public display.

But the names of aspirants for the :oveted magisterial post are not ifficially known until a public meetng is held seven days or so before lection day, when nominations are eceived.

At this meeting, nominations are also received for the unpopular post of chairman of the internal committee, which is voted for annually.

This position is always difficult to fill because the elected person has the onerous task of organising public works, and he receives only £9O a year for his labours.

In December, 1960, when I attended a nomination meeting, the nominations for chief magistrate were quickly dealt with. But it took three hours to find someone to accept the post of chairman of the internal committee.

Eeveryone possible was asked at least three times to accept the nomination, and in most cases, wives answered in no uncertain terms for their husbands, for the committee’s chairman comes in for a good deal of criticism during the year, and no Pitcairn woman takes such criticism of her husband easily.

I think it was 11 o’clock before someone gave way and accepted the nomination. But the strangest part was to follow, for the nominee demanded that the people should record their votes for him on election day.

My suggestion that no election was necessary was strongly opposed, and I have since learned that no man would accept the position unless he polled at least three-quarters of the votes, (Voters not in favour of the only candidate indicate this on their ballot papers).

Much Lobbying From nomination night to election day, there was much lobbying for the position of chief magistrate, and many rumours were put around belittling the characters of the nominees. This method of attack, I learned, had been used for a number of years.

The ringing of the bell at 6 a.m. on December 25, announced that every voter had an hour in which to record his or her vote. Voters’ names were checked off by the inspector of police (the late Floyd McCoy), and votes were cast through the letter holes of the post office.

The police inspector made an announcement when voting was completed, and after council-selected scrutineers had counted the votes, the names of the new chief magistrate and chairman of the internal committee were read out.

No one displayed any emotion on hearing the reults. And little wonder.

Everyone knew who the new chairman of the internal committee would be; and it was probably a foregone conclusion that the magisterial candidate with the greatest number of relatives would get the magistrate’s job.

First Find Your Octopus, Then Thrash lt...

THERE are plenty of octopuses in Noumea’s market at present—this being the season when they are easily found in reef holes at low tide.

Even so, they are bringing 3/to 4/- a lb. because many people in New Caledonia look on them as a great delicacy.

Preparation of an octopus for the table is a muscledeveloping job as it entails thrashing the beast against a rock, preferably immersed coral which is glass-hard, for from half an hour to an hour. Without this, you might as well serve up a dish of plastic garden hose.

When boiled, the flesh is white and tender and tastes like crayfish. The skin and suckers easily slip off the cooked flesh.

Octopus can be served up in many ways. It may be chopped up and served with “vinaigrette” sauce of vinegar oil and garlic; or chopped up and served with mayonnaise or the various sauces that go with crayfish.

One of the best ways of presenting octopus is in Coquilles St. Jacques—the flesh being minced and mixed with bread crumbs, seasoning and garlic, nut into imitation shells and baked in the oven. The one pirtured made a much-^ppredated curry.

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John Christian, Pitcairn's chief magistrate from 1960 to 1963. 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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yesterday The issue of PIM for September, 1944, carried the announcement that an Australian Cabinet subcommittee, dealing with territories matters, had decided that civil administration would be restorerd in Papua early in 1945. However, the administration of the Trust Territory of New Guinea was to remain the responsibility of the Army.

OTHER news items in that issue of PIM of 20 years ago were: The promotion was announced in Suva of Major Ratu J. V. L.

Sukuna (later Sir Lala Sukuna) to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. * * sis After being completely cut off from France for four years, New Caledonia contracted to sell her 1944-45 harvest of Robusta coffee to the Provisional Government of France at 11 francs a kilo, fob. * * ♦ The effects of a January cyclone were still evident on Mangaia, Cook Islands. Verandahless houses were leaning askew, or were proped up; the native chestnut crop, a standby between February and June, was totally obliterated; and so was the breadfruit crop. * * * Fifteen Fijian men and women lost their lives on August 11, when a small sailing boat, which was taking 27 of them from Lautoka to a small island off the coast, was swamped by heavy seas. All of them managed to cling to the overturned boat from noon until 2 o’clock next morning when the boat began to break up. Six men and six women finally made their way, clinging to small pieces of wreckage, to the small island of Narara. * * * Noumea businessmen were talking of forming a hotel and tourist company in New Caledonia to develop tourism after the war.

They considered that Noumea should have two good tourist hotels, and that there should be a string of hotels at scenic spots on the east and west costs. * * * A special general meeting of shareholders in Morris Hedstrom Ltd. unanimously approved a proposal by the directors to give £25,000 from the company’s funds to establish an annual scholarship worth £2OO a year, with a tenure of three years, to help selected Fijians to finish their education at a university. * * * A second returning contingent of Tahitian and New Caledonian soldiers from the Fighting French Pacific Battalion, arrived in Melbourne on July 14, Bastille Day.

They were on their way home from the Middle East after chasing the Germans across North Africa with Montgomery’s Bth Army. ♦ ♦ ♦ The head of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit, Major-General Basil M. Morris, was badly burned in a plane crash.

His native chauffeur hauled him from the burning plane on the Cape Gloucester airstrip. General Morris suffered a broken right arm, and badly torn muscles and ligaments in the left arm.

CONTRAST: These two pictures, taken from virtually the same spot on Iririki Island in Vila Harbour, illustrate vividly how Vila, the New Hebrides capital, has grown in the last 30 years or so. The top picture was published in PIM for January, 1932. The one below was taken recently by Fiji PRO photographer Rob Wright. 85 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— SEPTEMBER, 1964

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The Month'S New Reading

A GLOSSY AUSTRALIA k WHOPPING big volume ob- * viously produced as an overseas ift (for those who can afford the ostage) is Australia, designed to low off the Commonwealth in all s facets.

In 240 pages, 9\ inches x Hi iches, most of them glossy and many I them in full colour, the story of ustralia is traced from its formation, irough its early history, up to the as ;t unbuilt Sydney Opera House. The Ictures make it a gift book, for [ere is nothing else about it that is [ceptional or original.

Much of the text appears to be a hash from official documents, or e result of public relations handouts om commercial enterprises. There is been no attempt made at an ijective survey of Australian comerce and industry, and the reader constantly being invited to buy particular brand of wine or of mned goods or underclothes, premably because the manufacturers ive sponsored the plug.

The section on the Press in New mth Wales, for instance, deals itirely in puffs for the publications Australian Consolidated Press and i subsidiary engraving firm, which ippens to have made most of the [gravings used in the book. It’s no incidence, of course, that the book’s iblishers are also an associate cominy of Consolidated Press.

Obviously such a luxurious proiction as this could not have been ne at the price Without support, d those who are prepared to over- -3k the commercial method of lection, and the publisher’s reticence confessing his sins, will find it a ndsome presentation volume.—Sl.

AUSTRALIA. Published by Oswald gler Publications and distributed by gus and Robertson. 65/-.) |FF On Holidays is a new annual holiday guide, on “where to go d what to do in Australia, New aland, Pacific, the Orient and overis”. It is another bulky book, well xluced in offset, in colour. Cover- \ such a wide territory it manages t to give too much information out any of them, but intending vellers might get some ideas out of It is published by Holiday Pubations, Sydney, at 10/-.

Lively Memoirs Of A Lone Adventurer To most Australians under the age of 40 or so, the name of Francis Chichester is not likely to mean much. But those over 40 will probably remember him as one of that intrepid band of airmen, including Kingsford Smith, Hinkler and Ulm, who performed astonishing feats of aerial derring-do in the days when aircraft were virtually tied together with string.

THE difference between Chichester and most of his better-remembered contemporaries is that Chichester is still alive and is still performing astonishing feats.

In 1960, 26 months after he had been told he had advanced cancer of the lung, he won a single-handed yacht race across the Atlantic in his yacht Gipsy Moth 111 in 40i days.

This was eight days better than. his nearest rival. But it was not fast enough for Chichester, who, at the age of 60, made a second, and recordbreaking solo crossing in mid-1962 in 33 days 15 hours.

During the 1960 race, Chichester also found time to write 50,000 words of log, which formed the basis of a book called Alone Across the Atlantic.

Now he has published an autobiography of well over 100,000 words, aptly called The Lonely Sea and the Sky, which traces his adventurous career from the age of 11 (when he was bitten by a snake) down to the present day. The book is a Book Society Choice, and deservedly so.

Chichester, who was born in England, was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service, Farm Job But he did not think studying at university until he was 25 in preparation for this would be “a proper life”. So he left college of his own accord, whereupon his father more or less disowned him by getting him a job on a farm in Leicestershire, When Chichester was fired after upsetting a drayful of milk churns, his father shipped him off to New Zealand, After working in New Zealand as a station-hand on a sheep station, Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth aircraft is brought alongside Cascade Pier at Norfolk Island after Chichester completed the first leg of his solo flight from New Zealand to Australia in 1931. The photo was taken by Roy Bell, of Norfolk Island, a profile of whom appeared in PIM in July, p. 87. Chichester was the first airman to make a solo Tasman crossing from east to west, and the first to land at Norfolk and Lord Howe. 87 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

New Zealand Birds BIRDS of New Zealand by Gordon R. Williams is an attractive little book containing 50 full colour plates of New Zealand birds—some of them among the best colour photographs of bird life we have seen.

Each bird has a page of notes to itself.

The photographs, showing the birds alive and in action, were taken by a number of nature photographers, but the author, Gordon Williams, is a well known New Zealand writer and lecturer, and has visited Pitcairn on biological surveys. (BIRDS OP NEW ZEALAND. Published by A. H. and A. W. Reed. 23/6.) Chichester tried his hand at writing, then worked for a timber mill, in a coal mine, and as a gold fossicker.

He made no money at these jobs, and as he had resolved on leaving England that he would not return until he had saved £20,000, he soon turned to more profitable pursuits.

These included selling yearly subscriptions for the Christchurch Weekly Press and selling a bookkeeping system to farmers.

After a year, he had earned £7OO and had saved £4OO, which he invested in a real estate business with a man called Goodwin.

By the time Chichester was 26, he was earning £lO,OOO a year and he and Goodwin owned three companies operating in land. Goodwin then sold Chichester the idea of an aviation company, and so the Goodwin- Chichester aviation company was formed.

Learned To Fly The company took the New Zealand agency for A. V. Roe, bought two Avro Avians and began taking passengers on joy rides. Four of the best pilots in New Zealand were engaged but after they crashed the two planes a few times, Chichester got exasperated and learned to fly himself.

In 1929, just over 10 years after his arrival in New Zealand, Chichester returned to England for a visit.

There he bought a Gipsy I Moth, which weighed 880 lb. unloaded; and after a trial run round Europe, he decided to fly it to Australia solo.

“This may not seem much of a project today,” Chichester writes, “but at that time only one person had flown alone from England to Australia, Bert Hinkler, a crack test pilot from Bunderberg”.

Chichester did the trip in 180 flying hours—not much longer than Hinkler’s time—and found himself something of a hero on his arrival in Sydney. He then decided to fly the Tasman alone, which no one had yet done.

The problem was: How to do it?

His Moth was already carrying 60 gallons of fuel with two extra tanks fitted, and was taking off with a load equal to its own weight.

More than 100 gallons were needed to span the Tasman, but no more tanks could be added to the Moth, and no plane with the necessary range was obtainable in New Zealand.

Three Hops Finally, Chichester decided that the only way out was to make the crossing in three hops—from the northernmost tip of New Zealand to Norfolk Island (481 miles); from there to Lord Howe Island (561 miles); and from Lord Howe to Sydney (480 miles).

However, as he couldn’t find out much about the topography of either island —the Pacific Islands Year Book was still a thing of the future then— Chichester decided to turn his Moth into a seaplane and alight on the sea.

This decision created all sorts of flying and technical problems, in addition to which was the problem of navigation: How could Norfolk and Lord Howe be found from the air?

Norfolk Island, approached frc the northernmost tip of New Zealai was only half a degree wide, or oi one-fourteenth as wide as t Hawaiian Islands, which were 1 smallest target hitherto aimed at an aviator —from San Francis< Moreover, there were no radio ai then.

Astronomical Navigation In the end, despite “expert” opini to the contrary, Chichester decid that the only way of finding 1 islands was by “shooting” the sun and he began learning astronomy navigation.

While he was doing this, an Ai tralian pilot, Menzies, crossed 1 Tasman by air for the first tin using the same plane in whi Kingsford Smith made a record flij from England to Australia.

This, at first, was a disappointrm to Chichester, but he soon got it as he was “firmly gripped by 1 idea of finding my island by my o system of navigation”.

Chichester’s account of how, 1931, he eventually did find b( Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands his own system of navigation for a highly dramatic part of his ben for, besides the difficulty of this fo of aerial navigation, Chicheste The Monster- when local resident Raymond Hoare pointed his camera into the wilds of Norfolk Island recently it snapped this monster from space. He discovered later that he had set his lens on close-up and that what he captured was a moth. 88 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

lane was so sensitive after floats /ere added to it, that it dived or limbed abruptly whenever he moved is head.

The last few minutes before he ighted Norfolk Island were almost nbearably exciting, for if he missed is landfall, he was finished. There /as not enough petrol in his tanks 3 enable him to search for it for mg, and there was no other land e could make for.

Like A Lifetime “Every minute seemed a lifetime, s I scanned the horizon ahead,”

Chichester recalls. “The wind was ropping with approaching nightfall . . The sea looked grey blue, cold nd hostile.

“At 5.08 p.m. I ought to have ighted the island 10 miles earlier, yell, I thought, this is a grand nish; risking everything on the cool r orking out of my own system.

“At 5.09 I thought I saw land away ) the left, but it changed shape as watched it, for it was a cloud on le horizon. At 5.12 the island ought > have been in sight 15 miles earlier.

“Suddenly I relaxed, feeling that orrying was stupid when there was othing I could do. The cloud lifted, nd there was land. I felt like burstig with thrill and elation. My ivigational system had proved right.”

Wrecked At Lord Howe Chichester piloted his frail craft ) Lord Howe Island four days later ith the same “bang-on” accuracy 5 to Norfolk. But on the night of is arrival, his plane was wrecked y a cyclone while anchored in the igoon.

Undaunted, Chichester set about ;building it himself, with the aid of le islanders; and after six weeks, e flew on to Australia.

An epic flight to Japan followed; nd, six years later, a 21,000-mile ight from Sydney to London, via eking.

During the war, Chichester served s a navigation instructor in the oyal Air Force, but he was not lowed to fly, and was not allowed ) wear pilot’s or navigator’s wings n his tunic.

After the war, Chichester founded i entirely new business in England -map and guide publishing—and, sing too old to fly, took up sailing.

Judging by the way life has gone >r him so far, he must have a few tore careers and adventures ahead P him yet. But it is difficult to tiagine that he could write a livelier aok about them than his present tie, The Lonely Sea and the Sky. -RL. (THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY. odder and Stoughton. 45/-).

South Seas Message In Welensky Memoirs Readers who require an antidote to Sir Hugh Foot’s A Start in Freedom (reviewed last month), have the remedy at hand in Sir Roy Welensky’s 4,000 Days—The Life and Death of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Apart from the fact that Sir Hugh and Sir Roy are both members of the genus contemporary man, all else is sheer coincidence.

SIR HUGH believes that to be human is qualification enough for a vote and that if there are enough of the same kind of votes, they should rule.

Sir Roy believes that all humans are not born equal and that until, with the effluxion of time, they become more equal, the one-man-onevote principle, or rule by weight of numbers, is nonsense.

Although the subjects of their respective books are quite different, their battleground is the same and to read both within a short time is a salutary experience in the divergence of men’s minds today.

Sir Roy never mentions Sir Hugh in his book—although Dingle Foot gets some attention. Sir Hugh merely lumps Sir Roy in with his other pet hates—Tshombe, Salazar and Verwoerd.

What causes Sir Hugh mental anguish—for example, the British stand over Southern Rhodesia in the UN at the end of 1962 which led to Foot’s resignation from the UK Mission—gives Sir Roy satisfaction.

And the things that give Sir Hugh much sentimental pleasure—such as hauling down the Union Jack on yet another newly independent territory— probably causes Sir Roy to be sick to his stomach.

Foot is always a gentleman. Even when he disagrees with the British Government, he does so in pained, diplomatic language. Welensky wastes no time on niceties. He considered that the British Government, over 10 years from the creation of the Federation to its dissolution at the end of 1963, let him down. He says so and spares no one.

South Seas Interest At no time, even at his most angry, could Sir Hugh be imagined describing (as Sir Roy does), a message from Mr. Harold Macmillan as having the “customary thick coating of Macmillan treacle and cottonwool,”

Both books are of singular interest to many in the South Pacific, Welensky’s particularly so. Even allowing handsome discount for prejudice, his description of the backroom vacillations of the British Government between 1956 and 1963, is sufficient to stop anyone still in a vulnerable position in his tracks.

Roy Welensky was the 13 th child of a Polish migrant father and a ninth generation Afrikaner mother.

He was born on the wrong side of the tracks in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, in 1907.

He left school at 14, had a number of dead-end jobs, at 19 was champion heavyweight boxer of Rhodesia and at 21 joined Rhodesian Railways as a fireman. It was as an engine-driver that he entered politics as an unofficial member of the Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council in 1938.

In late 1948, the then Labour Government of the UK called a conference in London to consider the New Quadrant QUADRANT, one of the small group of Australian literary journals, is having a new lease on life. Its previous view, shared by its contemporaries, that to be intellectual you also have to be dull has been put aside in recent issues, and a new, larger format has also helped to make the magazine (published every second month) more readable.

A recent excellent article on the Australian businessmen is now followed in the June-July issue by another memorable piece. Hugh Atkinson on the cult of the “Surfies” on Sydney beaches. There are other pieces on the ballet, metaphysics, music, Shakespeare and journalism. Quadrant's address is Box 4714, G.P.0., Sydney, 89 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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)WN. Angus and Robertson Ltd. /6.) uture of Britain’s dependencies in ifrica. Welensky was a member of le Northern Rhodesian delegation nd it was at this time that he began > consider a closer association beveen the two Rhodesias—first as an malgamation, then as a federation n the Australian pattern, and in- [uding Nyasaland.

The Federation had a stormy birth, idia had achieved independence and le attention of the British intellectual eft was free to focus on Africa and iricans.

From 1947, African nationalists, ot Indians, were lionised and the mse of Africa for the Africans— r more correctly, perhaps, for the frican political elite—found powerful [lies in some churchmen, such as anon Collins (better known these ays for his activities on the Ban the omb Committee of 100); the Rev. [ichael Scott, of the Africa Bureau; id the Church of Scotland, which ad traditionally strong links with yasaland.

The Banda Problem Most of their activity was centred *ound Dr. Hastings Banda, who had ft his native Nyasaland in 1935 and ad been practising medicine in orth London since 1941. From MB, as an absentee, he became ineasingly interested in African ilitics, increasingly ambitious, ineasingly opposed to plans to fedate the three States. Banda was the >ck on which, 10 years after the ory Government founded the Fedation, the same Tory Government acked it wide open.

The Federation came into being in sptember, 1953, with Lord Malvern □rmerly Sir Godfrey Huggins), as •ime Minister. When Malvern reed in 1956, Welensky inherited the jst—and the Suez crisis.

Suez, according to Welensky, was e watershed. After it, Britain no longer had the will to rule her former overseas territories; all thereafter was tempered to Mr. Macmillan’s “winds of change” and to shedding the burden of Empire.

“Suez,” he says, “was, or ought to have been, a blazing danger signal to those of us in Africa who still depended on Britain. For the last time probably in this century Britain tried, along with France, to defend her overseas rights, responsibilities and interests.

“We all know the reaction of the United States and the results of that reaction. We all know that Parliament, the Press and the BBC in Britain were deeply and fiercely divided; that the Commonwealth was split, with Australia and New Zealand, as well as ourselves, on Britain’s side and Canada and India against her; and that from Suez there dates that French suspicion and coolness towards Britain which culminated in the flat rejection of her efforts to enter the Common Market.”

From 1956, the cracks that had been cast into the Federation at its birth began to widen and the process of disintegration speeded up after the return of Dr. Banda to Nyasaland in mid-1958. His followers had asked him to come on June 29 but, according to Welensky, Banda never answered and, in fact, on that day, busied himself addressing a meeting in London. Nevertheless a crowd of 2,500 and all the Congress bosses, assembled at Chileka airport to welcome him . . . When the aircraft arrived without Dr. Banda there was wild excitement and the crowd thronged on to the tarmac. Rumours flew around: The Government had withheld telegrams; there was a plot to kill Dr. Banda. The crowd threatened to burn the aircraft , . . and insisted on searching it from nose to tail.”

Federation Died Slowly The crowd was eventually dispersed when Congress leaders telephoned London to find out what had happened to the messiah. He arrived a week later.

If the Federation had any chance of fruitful life up to this point it had few after it. Through the various reigns of Lord Home, lain Macleod, Sandys, Maulding and Butler as presiding deities of Colonial Office or Commonwealth Relations; through Royal Commission and Congo crisis, one by one the props on which the Federation precariously stood were whittled away and the structure was destroyed—“not by our avowed enemies,” says Welensky, “but by those who called themselves our friends and said they believed in what we had built. They killed it slowly, in the dark and by stealth; and they wept hypocritical tears as they finished the deed. That is the measure of what happened in Britain between 1952 and 1959.”

To the struggle to keep the Federation intact, Welensky brought vast tenacity, a capacity for political “infighting”, as he called it, and, in view of his mixed Jewish-Afrikaans ancestry, a surprisingly naivety in assessing the upper-class English politicians with whom he assumed he was working in a partnership.

In this Welensky was neither Polish, Jewish nor Afrikaans but all Southern Rhodesian, with a long ingrained belief in the integrity of the word of the British Government and the thing that was once called the British Empire.

Chequers Weekend His scepticism of the treacle and cottonwool, of the British political devices of the “Chequers weekend,” the private dinner party, the dear old boys together, came only gradually.

Welensky, whose mind is probably a great deal more devious than his book indicates, writes like an outraged colonial or an angry enginedriver. It is a most damning indictment of the Macmillan Government, and of the men who made up that Government; it throws the whole Congo-Katanga operation into sharp new focus; and presents new facets of African nationalism seldom gleaned through contemporary sources of information.

His book isn’t cricket and, undoubtedly, will be the most unpopular of the year. He outrages all current popular thought, flies in the face of providence but, in a world dedicated to the sweet sauternes of sentiment he produces a draught as vigorous as a pint of good, icy-cold beer. In the humble view of this reviewer, the world would be a better place with a few dozen more like him.—JT. (WELENSKY’S 4,000 DAYS. Published by Collins. 46/-.) • Unless otherwise stated, all book prices quoted are in Australian currency. 91 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

Best Of The Paperbacks Thrillers and Crime: VINTAGE MURDER; SWING,

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Three murders. (Fontana, 4/-).

THE AVENGING SAINT is, naturally, a Leslie Charteris thriller.

As this one was written in 1930 it is now something of a historical novel. (Hodder, 4/-).

VIOLENT SECURITY is a bank raid thriller, set outside London, by new writer George Burnett. (Pan, 4/-.)

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the Peter Cheyney thriller that introduced private eye Slim Callaghan. (Pan, 4/-).

The Heartless Light, By

Gerald Green, who wrote The Lotus Eaters, is a fat thriller (450 pp.) on events surrounding a kidnapping. A study in attitudes rather than thrills. (Pan, 9/-.) ANNALISA, by Forbes Rydell.

Family mystery in Louisiana. (Four Square, 4/-.)

The Long Farewell, By

Michael Innes. Suspected murder of a Shakespearean scholar. (Four Square, 6/-.) Fiction: WHITTAKER S WIFE, by Harry Bloom. Sex life among the social set of Johannesburg. (Fontana, 5/6.) THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING, by Kingsley Amis, has been printed before under the title of Only Two Can Play, by which name it became a film featuring Peter Sellers as the librarian with sex problems. (Four Square, 5/6.) THE DREAM MERCHANTS.

More Hollywood expose stuff by Harold Robbins, author of The Carpetbaggers (which contained so many four-letter words that the Australian Customs wouldn’t let it in). (Four Square, 10/-.)

The Shores Of Night, By

Robert Muller. Fleet Street journalist in a matrimonial triangle. (Four Square, 6/-).

Reason For Violence, By

Deanne Doubtfire, tells how Paulette goes to bed with Gilbert because he threatens to let beetles crawl over her if she doesn’t. And she hates beetles.

LUST FOR INNOCENCE, by the same author, is a suspense novel involving a child. (Both Pan, 6/- and 4/-.) ADRIFT IN SOHO. Angry young man Colin Wilson (The Outsiders ) sets his novel among the Soho set.

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THE LOSER. Peter Ustinov’s excellent story of a Nazi who is all mixed up. (Pan, 6/-).

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Hunter Diack, lecturer at Nottingham University, is the title of a series of three books, one each dealing with READING, WRITING and SPEAKING. They are designed to be bought separately. (Four Square, each 6/-.) THE CONCEPT OF THE COR- PORATION, by Peter F. Drucker, is a study of General Motors, and explains why it has become a model for other world-wide corporations. (Mentor, 9/9).

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Memoirs of American chemist shop proprietor Harry Zane, mostly humorous. (Signet, 5/6.) SHAKESPEARE, by Ivor Brown is a revision of a work first pul lished in 1949. It details what j known of Shakespeare’s life an brings him and his work into focu: (Fontana.) THE FALL OF CRETE, by Ala Clark, deals in some detail with th successful German invasion of Cret by parachute in May, 1941. Th author is strongly critical of som senior New Zealand commanders, br he has the advantage of 20 year! hindsight, and makes little allowanc for the fact that an invasion by para troops was something new to the de fenders. There are several irritatin small erors, e.g., in his survey o events leading up to the battle h deals briefly with the earlier battl in Greece and says that the firs Allied convoy sailed to Greece oi April 7. The battle started on Apri 6, and the first elements of the Allie< force were in Greece a month befon that. In other parts he refers to somi of the New Zealand brigadiers a “brigadier-general”, a rank which di( not exist in the 2nd NZEF. He refer to Major-General Weston of th< Royal Marines as Lieutenant-General but Weston was never more than i Major-General on Crete. There an several other simple errors which in evitably lead to a doubt about th< accuracy of many other points, am leave the impression that Clark’i story is not strictly dispassionate.— NB. (Four Square, 5/6.) (Fontana and Pan are distributed b; William Collins (Overseas) Ltd. and Fou: Square, Mentor and Signet by Tudor Dis tributors Ltd., Sydney.

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From the Islands Press WHY should New Zealand’s share of the valuable trade in beer imports to Western Samoa be so small, considering the Treaty of Friendship and the moral obligation to give our trade to New Zealand in return for her banana custom?

The main blame must be on New Zealand for lack of enterprise and promotion. In a few short years Australian beer has built up a wide support from local consumers, and the Customs Department has seen no reason to favour New Zealand in its ordering. [Only the Government has the right to import liquor into Western Samoa.] Directors of New Zealand’s largest breweries could well be asking whether there is scope in this country for a brewery. The (lion’s or leopard’s) share of £4,000 (the present value of beer imports into Samoa) should be worth investing plant for, and when the present hypocritical attitude to drinking is changed the market for their products could increase enormously.

The change in attitude by the Government can surely not be stalled off for too long. The police force is making an attempt to control home-brewing, but with three houses out of five engaged in brewing the attempt is really futile.

As has been said so often before —it is better to make a good moderate beer available to everybody than to have our people consuming any quantity of dangerous home-brews, or our young men beginning to drink methylated spirits before they are even 21. Editorial in “Samoa Bulletin”, Apia.

I KNOW dirty play does exist in Rugby, but this should be done so that the spectators and the rest of the team do not see it.— Letter from I. N. Wasilosilo in “The Fiji Times”.

IN various ways the Administration appears to be in a haste to increase its revenue before the Budget session begins in September. Water and telegraph charges are the latest and most impressive of these pre-Budget excesses. By raising internal telegram charges by 30 per cent, and abolishing the lower Press rate charges (an increase of 300 per cent.) the Administration is setting quite a record . . . Mr. Peckover, Acting Director of Posts and Telegraphs, states that in the seven or eight years since the Hd a word Press rate commenced in the Territory comparatively little use has been made of it. In a matter of about 13 years the number of working journalists in Papua New Guinea has risen from one to 28 and is still continually rising.

But if, as Mr. Peckover states, the usage of the Press rate is so relatively small, why increase it so drastically? It cannot be important from the revenue viewpoint. It is simply another decision which puts us out of step with the Commonwealth and the rest of the free world. Editorial in the “South Pacific Post”, Port Moresby.

WOULD residents please note that such items as gauze dressings, sticking plaster, cotton wool and aspirin tablets, will not be issued from the hospital, except when prescribed for an existing condition for which treatment at home has been recommended by the patient’s medical attendant. Supplies of simple dressings, aspirin, etc., which may be required for first aid for minor conditions for which medical advice and attention are not necessary, are stocked by local commercial stores. Health Department notice in the “Niue Newsletter”.

I, T. MADHOJI, wish to thank Suman Dayal Sharma (s/o Mr.

G. D. Sharma, editor Shanti Dut), who has found my £65 cash in a wallet and very kindly returned it to me. I really admire his honesty.— Advertisement in “The Fiji Times”.

SAMOANS under bondage in Eastern Samoa are not American citizens, in fact only nationals and therefore counted as inferiors in American eyes. Other nations too, of course, have been guilty of similar crimes, but as a whole today they are trying to make amends. The US is not.

We make one big mistake here in Western Samoa when we refer to our Eastern area as American Samoa. At all times we should refer to it as Occupied Samoa.

The assembly should be enlarged to include representatives from Tutuila and Manu’a, and each time the Assembly sits these representatives should be marked as “absent under duress”.

World and free Samoan opinion will eventually triumph and it will be “Yanqui gone home”. The puppet Assembly in Tutuila is, of course, a farce.— Letter from “Liberty” in “Samoana”, Apia.

THE people of New Zealand are going to find it strange to be dealing with their projected decimal currency, but when it appears on Pitcairn it will not cause as much concern because dollars and cents are almost as common as pounds, shillings and pence, either sterling or New Zealand.

The growing emphasis on decimal systems will mean little expense to Pitcarn (a few modifications to typewriters) and a minor re-appraisal of the school work plan.— Editorial in “Pitcairn Miscellany”.

AN extension of the duty-free list, especially to “luxury” goods not usually, or not frequently, bought in Fiji, would bring still greater benefits with no corresponding loss, apparent or real, to the public revenue.

Fur coats, cardigans, fine silver, portable typewriters—these are only some of the things which have been suggested as additions to the list of shopping magnets to attract visitors, and money, to Fiji.

The inexplicable delay in putting such magnets to work means unnecessarily missed opportunities to add to the prosperity within Fiji. Editorial in “The Fiji Times”.

BY New Zealand’s calendars this was Queen’s Birthday observance, so arrangements were made accordingly, but at the last minute it was realised that this was not the appropriate date for this island, so it was a case of back to public work for the men and back to school for the children and Education Officer.— “Pitcairn Miscellany”. 95 •ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts Fiji Govt Officers Criticised Over Orders To Skippers The Fiji Marine Board in July criticised senior Government officers who brought pressure to bear on ships’ masters to nove their ships in darkness from safe anchorages to iangerous waters.

IE board “absolutely condemned” the practice of passengers in il vessels, and particularly senior :ers travelling in Government >els, directly or indirectly atpting to influence ships’ masters the conduct and navigation of r vessels.

Unfortunately, this practices is of [uent occurrence,” the board said, is most hazardous and must be >rously discouraged.”

Tie board made its remarks after inquiry into the stranding of the yernment motor ship Cagimaira Monkey Face Passage, off Vanua u, on March 6.

'he master, Poasa Talevarua, said evidence that he had left safe ers in darkness to try to reach >asa in time to allow the Coconut •sidy Officer, Mr. J. S. Matheson, :atch an aircraft for Suva.

Tie board found that the pmaira stranded because of the uest to reach Labasa by a certain e.

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Ltd. trader, Zephyr 11, for allowing the vessel to run aground in the Navula Passage, off Momi, near Nadi, at 1.35 a.m. on June 5.

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Sandys said he had only had about one hour’s sleep on June 4. He was standing at the wheel when he went to sleep and when he awoke, in response to a call, he found himself partly over the chart table.

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The Fiji inter-island auxiliary cutter, Fijian Princess, foundered in heavy seas in Nasoata Passage, off Nasilai Point, early on August 14.

The 13 passengers and crew of 14 went ashore in lifeboats.

The ship sprang a leak after being battered by heavy seas about five hours after leaving Suva for Labasa.

The master, Sunia Vosaki, 54, in an effort to save his ship, took it through the passage into calmer waters. However, the inrush of water was more than the pumps could cope with, and the cutter sank a few minutes after she was abandoned.

Later people living on the coast near the scene of the sinking picked up wreckage and cargo.

The Customs Department immediately advised that cargo or wreckage was to be handed over to the Comptroller of Customs in his capacity of Receiver of Wrecks.

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In The News This Month Akatere Ashipaka Maru No. 18 Bodmer Cagimaira Defiant Diavolo Diogenes Dobiri Easterling Elsie Europe Extended Adolescence Fijian Princess Fjord 111 Gannet George S. Stirling Gorgon Hamutana Heemskerk Herstein Hunakai Jessica Kochab Langu Lunkentuss Macdhui Mamutu Mangana Marius IVlaroro Maylis Meko Minerva Mistress II Neophyte Niuvakai Novia del Mar Palakana Paraita Sea Call Seawyffe Seisho Maru No. 12 Sinkiang Sorana del Mar Stephen Crane Sunbow Tagua Tarawa Twomey Te Reva Theofano Livanos Tiare Traveller Trekka Tropic Seas Van Heutz Viator Wanderer Windsong Yankee Zephyr II FOR SURVEY: The Tonga Government ship "Niuvakai" left Nukualofa in July for Japan for her annual survey in dock. She carried a load of 1,510 tons of copra. She was expected back in Tonga early this month with a cargo of cement and other building materials for the new hotel at Nukualofa. 97 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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survey team on the harbour ;ct at Asau, Savaii, Western □a, ran into trouble early in ist when a small group of people t Utuloa pulled up survey :ers. The people then announced they expected compensation for markers being put in on their ie survey group, from Merrittm-Fletcher, the contractors for harbour project, went back to with their work unfinished, ie matter eventually reached sterial level and a conference, 'hich it was hoped to iron out rences, was called, eanwhile, work is proceeding lily on Western Samoa’s other our project, at Apia. At the mtu site, the wall for the town imation area is being pushed well into the harbour.

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r. Athol Rusden, of Vila, whose ton New Hebrides trading vessel na del Mar was gutted by fire July 14 after leaving Santo for , via Norsup ( PIM, Aug., p. 5), ntly chartered the former French al vessel Tiare for trading in the up. r. Rusden also runs the motor ;ls Darnley and Nikau. i a note to PIM on the loss of Sorana del Mar, Mr. Rusden the vessel was insured for 000, but the owner’s cargo of and general goods valued at 00 was not. e added: “The loss of this vessel sad blow to local planters and ers as she was in continual ice between Tanna, Vila, ekula and Santo”.

Iga Orders Fishing

SEL IN UK he Tonga Government has ;red a Fairisle long line fishing el from Fairmile Construction Co. Ltd. of Great Britain, Delivery is expected in about 15 months.

The ship will have an overall length of 73 ft 9 in. and a deadweight of 80 tons.

It will have a hold capacity of 50 tons of refrigerated space. Advance hopes are that the ship will supply Tonga with an abundance of fresh fish, and that enough will be left over to sell to the Pago Pago cannery, and possibly the new Levuka cannery.

It may also be used to carry bananas from Niuafo’ou and Niuatoputapu to Vavau to connect with USS Co. ships for transport to New Zealand.

Customs Post Re-Established

AT LEVUKA With increased activity in overseas shipping at Levuka, chiefly through the establishment of a base for a Japanese fishing fleet, Fiji’s old capital has retrieved some of its importance as a port of entry.

The increased activity in the port has resulted in the re-establishment of the Customs post, with a Senior Collector of Customs, plus staff.

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A new trading ship for the Cook Islands, the Tagua, arrived at Rarotonga on July 23 on her delivery voyage from Hong Kong, under the command of Captain G. W. Dunsford, of Auckland. She was welcomed by a big crowd. The Tagua, a motor vessel, cost about £28,000.

She belongs to Messrs. Boyd and Silk, who operate a trading business at Rarotonga. Built to Lloyds’ 100 A 1 specifications, she is 85 ft long, 100-ton, single-crew, and is powered by a 250 hp Gardner engine.

The Tagua is broad in the beam, and has comfortable accommodation Popular Port For Yachtsmen Every year about this time, PlM’s yachting columns begin to get that bursting-at-the-seams feeling as cruising yachts meander from one side of the Pacific to the other, free from the menace of hurricanes.

Papeete, Tahiti, as always, is among the most popular ports of call at this season, and when a PIM representative strolled along the waterfront there on August 1 he found no less than 11 sleek yachts tied up.

From east to west, they were: Minerva (San Francisco), May Us, Wanderer (San Francisco), Viator (San Francisco), Jessica (Honolulu), Diavolo (Long Beach, California), Meko (Papeete), Diogenes (Costa Rica), Te Reva, Seawyffe (Seattle) and Sea Call (San Diego). • For other yachting news, see page 105. 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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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.

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The electrically operated anchor and mooring windlass with independent cable lifters is fitted with warping drums on e end: The windlass operates singly and the warping ends opef independently of the cable lifters. It is capable of breaking and bringing home two anchors at an average speed of 30 per minute. The after electric warping capstan is capable of pull from the barrel of 1 ton at 50 ft. per minute. Supplie Thos. Reid & Sons (Paisley) Ltd.

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Mr. Chaney, who was replying to questioner in Federal Parliament,' d the casualties were: Her stein (Norwegian), bombed and ik, Rabaul, February-March, 1942, e life lost; Macdhui (Australian), mbed and burnt out, Port Dresby, June 17-18, 1942, 10 lives t; Mamutu (British), sunk, off rt Moresby, August 8, 1942, seven es lost; Van Heemskerk (Dutch), mbed and damaged, Merauke, cember 27, 1942, three lives lost; n Heutz (Dutch), bombed and ensively damaged, Oro Bay, 101 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1964

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:aptain Stan Brown, a team of ;rs, and a boilermaker, all from a, made the normal periodical lection of the Shell Company’s marine pipeline and mooring ys at Point Cruz, Honiara in »ust.

Tie pipeline is laid at a depth of feet at the seaward end. The ;rs went down in two cages like one used by Captain Terry Hardy blast Pelope Shoal about two rs ago. The two big buoys were Light in for scraping and painting, replaced.

'aptain Brown will be in the 3mons again next year with his iliary vessel Maroro, which has n chartered by a Royal Society ntific expedition from July 1. he leader of the expedition is E. J. H. Corner, a Cambridge versity botanist, who will also 1 a land party of botanists and logists to study inland areas. A ■ine party, led by Professor J. E. rton, will study shallow water shoreline biology.

Shipping News In Brief • PNG VESSEL AGROUND; The P-NG Administration boat Langu, which ran aground near Cape Hoskins, New Britain, on July 20, was towed off on July 22 by the Government ship, Mangana, which was sent from Rabaul to help.

The Langu was seriously damaged and had to be towed to Rabaul. No one was hurt.

• Inter-Island Trader

RENAMED: The Dobiri, a small Fiji inter-island trader, has been renamed Viani Princess. She can carry a pay load of 100 tons. The Viani Princess will be operated by the Princess Shipping Co., of which Mr. A. Evans is managing director.

Other ships which the company operates are the Tai Valevadra and Asha. Another ship, the Fijian Princess, foundered on August 14 (see p. 97). • TONG AN CUTTER SINKS: The Tongan cutter Palakana, owned by Tongatu’a, of Foa Island, Tonga, sank at Tofua early in July. The ship had anchored for the night and Tongatu’a and the four passengers were ashore. During the night the wind changed direction and smashed the Palakana against the rocks. As the anchor held fast there were hopes that the cutter could be salvaged. • WAHOO RECORD: Mr.

“Boots” Langham, a Texas oilman, broke a world record for game fish recently with a 118 lb wahoo off Korolevu, Fiji. He beat the record for the species and class by 6 lb.

Mr. Langham used a 50 lb line.

With him, when he landed the wahoo, was Mr. Graham Wallace, fishing guide of the launch Mistress 11, from which the fish was caught.

• Ship Abandoned: The

Japanese fishing ship Ashipaka Maru No. 18 was abandoned after she went aground off Rossel Island, at the eastern tip of Papua, on August 1.

The crew was taken into another Japanese fisher, Seisho Maru No. 12, on August 3.

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P. J. Twomey, will seat six. • INDONESIANS RESCUED: Twelve Indonesians wrecked north of New Guinea early in August were rescued by the China Navigation Steamship Co.’s vessel Sinkiang while she was steaming from Hong Kong to Nauru. They were taken to Madang for transfer to Sukarnopura. 103 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Branches Throughout Cook Islands • DEFIANT, 60 ft sloop-rigged cean-going ketch, owned by welltiown Auckland shipbuilder Roy idgard, left Suva for Auckland on .ugust 7 after several weeks in Fiji.

Mr. Lidgard made Suva his headuarters for three trips to Kadavu to ;e old friends at the villages of Bulia nd Dravuni, near the Astrolabe agoon.

On board with him were Mrs. Lidard, his son Jim, brothers Bob and en Sklenars, Boer War veteran rank Peal, and an Auckland sur- ;on, Mr. Lester Aitkin.

The Lidgards have taken an inrest in reviving canoe building at ladavu. In 1961, they organised a ;gatta and Mr. C. V. Young, a Suva usinessman, presented a cup for the inner of the sailing canoe race, here were only three canoes then, fow there are 12.

The Lidgards organised the regatta »ain this year with the help of Mr. bung. The canoe race was won by ioji Kovelali. • ELSIE, yacht, sailed solo by rank Caspar, arrived at Rarotonga n July 15 from Bora Bora. She was ue to leave for Pago Pago and Auckmd on August 3, • EXTENDED ADOLESCENCE, 1 ft ketch-rigged trimaran, was >wed into Nawiliwili, Hawaii, on me 3 after a hazardous trip from ahiti.

She had left Tahiti on January 5 a what was supposed to be a 30-day ay age, but in March the Coast uard was out looking for her, and Hind her 165 miles south-west of onolulu ( PIM, April, p. 107).

The three men on board when she ■rived at Nawiliwili, James H. hompson, skipper, of Salinas, Caliirnia, David Meigs, of Atherton, alifornia, and George Balben, of elena, Montana, were all reported i “good shape”.

On the voyage she lost her mast id had to sail under jury-rig. She iso took water in the after-cabin, ith water filling part of the outboard lotor well. • FJORD 111, 49 ft cutter, has jen sold to Messrs. George and ihn Knowlton, of the United States.

Her previous owner was Dr. George Lapin, who was drowned in Ousey’s Gully on the reef at Korotogo, Fiji, on January 27. Dr. Lapin’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. M Lapin, arrived in Fiji in August to dispose of the yacht.

A Chilean, Georges de Giorgio. will sail Flord 111 to the United States on behalf of the new owners.

The yacht left the slip at Suva on August 5, and the skipper then considered her in excellent order for her voyage. He planned to sail via Tonga, Rarotonga, Tahiti and either the Galapagos or Honolulu. • GANNET, yacht, arrived at Rarotonga on July 15 from Bora Bora with a crew of two, Ronald Russell and Richard Pane. # HAMUTANA, 89 ft all-steel k e tch, escort vessel for the Whangarei-Noumea yacht race in April, sa ii e( j 4,000 miles before returning to home port of Tauranga early in j, After the race, Hamutana cruised j n j s j ew Caledonian and New Heb- ■, watpr „ ndes waters - r _ _ • HUNAKAI, 36 ft Block Island 105 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Seven hundred miles out of Tahiti, Hunakai lost the top of the mast hrough a broken shroud, and the Christophers sailed to Kona coast, Tawaii, jury-rigged. • KOCHAB, 40 ft yacht, skiplered by John Evans, arrived at sfukualofa on July 31 from Raroonga. Also on board were Rudd s aul, of Takapuna, NZ, and Makau Masters, who joined her at Raroonga. • LUNKENTUSS, 26 ft cutter, vith two young Swedes, Gunnar Dahlgren and Dag Ekholm, arrived it Port Moresby from the New Hebides in mid-July.

They left Sweden early in 1962 >n a world cruise, and do not expect o return home for another year.

Since entering the Pacific, they lave called at the Galapagos and Marquesas, Tahiti. Tuamotus, Cook slands, Samoa, Fiji and the New Jebrides. They spent 4i months in fahiti. • MARIS, 36 ft yawl, arrived it San Francisco recently after a 17lay voyage from Mahaina, Maui.

Jawaii. On board were Jack Earl skipper), his son Mick, and Honoulu postman Bill Horton. Maris irrived in Honolulu on August 18, 1963, from Tahiti (PIM October, 963, p. 111). Earl, a well-known iydney marine artist, executed many ine oils in Hawaii. • EASTERLING, an American arrived in Tahiti from the Vlarquesas early in August with kipper Bruce Katter, Alan Forsythe md Richard Anderson.

The yacht had patches over a :ouple of holes in the hull caused )y a 50 ft whale, which, according o Le Journal de Tahiti, had “exlerienced the need to scratch its lack” on their vessel. Le Journal ;ays it was thanks to the coolness md skill of the yachtsmen that they vere able to save their vessel afid each the Marquesas to make repairs. • TROPIC SEAS, a yacht, from s ort Macquarie, NSW, left Lord Towe Island on July 27 for New Zealand. The yacht was to have left :arlier, but waited for a navigator to irrive by air from Sydney. The mvigator did not turn up so one of he crew took instruction from vlr. E. Rhoades, of Lord Howe. r ropic Seas is owned by five young idventurers. • NOV IA DEL MAR. 90 ft ketch, arrived in Nukualofa on August 8 from Tahiti Bora Bora and Rarotonga, and sailed for Vavau and Samoa on the 10th. Novia del Mar was second in the recent yacht race from San Francisco to Tahiti. ( PIM, Aug., p. 141). On board are owner John Paul Scripps, of San Diego, sailing master Fred J. Allen, and 14 others, including a woman doctor. • WHITE CLOUD, 48 ft cutter, reached Yokohama, Japan, on August 14 after an eight-month voyage from Thursday Island via Port Moresby, Rabaul and Guam, during which many typhoon-lashed seas were encountered.

On board were owner-skipper Yorke Davis, his wife, their fivemonth-old daughter Carolyn, who was born while the cutter was in Port Moresby, John Drew, 22, of Perth, and Geoff Wight, 18, of Melbourne. • EUROPE, 75 ft yacht, with a crew of three, arrived in Vila on August 10 from Apia. She will spend several weeks in the New Hebrides.

The yacht is on a cruise round the world. The skipper is Rene Corpel. • YANKEE, 96 ft brigantine, was wrecked on the reef at Avarua, Rarotonga, on July 24 (see p. 63).

At the beginning of August, her skipper, Captain Derek Lumbers, was 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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“still determined to refloat the vessel,” according to the Cook Islands News. • NEOPHYTE, 45 ft ketch, arrived at Nukualofa late in July from Auckland with owner-skipper Lee Quinn and his all-girl crew of three New Zealanders and two Australians. Quinn’s wife and her three children joined him at Nukualofa.

Pat Seedman, one of the Australian girls, had a narrow escape from death when the Neophyte was nine days out of New Zealand.

She was swept overboard by a big wave.

Everyone else was below when they heard her call out to Quinn, who went on deck to find her grasping one of the poles at the stern. The rest of the crew quickly pulled her back on board. • SUNBOW, 65 ft steel motoryacht, which is one of the swankiest pleasure craft afloat, called at Suva in July on her maiden voyage from Singapore to her port of registry, Honolulu.

Her owner is Mr. James V.

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Mr. Guthrie is a former rancher of California who “hankered after a life at sea”, sold his ranch and achieved his ambition by building Sunbow.

The Guthries plan to live in the Sunbow for five years.

The yacht is full of gadgets, including an electric can opener, and the latest in navigation equipment.

Mr. Guthrie is lean and rangy, like the novelists’ idea of a cattleman. During the years he ran his ranch at Colton, Southern California, he spent most of his spare time in boats.

The Guthries spent nine months in Singapore while the Sunbow was being built. The launching took place on May 1 and 12 days later they left for Timor.

From Timor they sailed to Thursday Island, Cairns (Queensland), and Vila (New Hebrides) and then Suva.

From Suva they were to go on to Apia, Pago Pago and Papeete. They will spend several months in Tahiti and hope to get to Honolulu by Christmas.

A 21-year-old Suva man, Parnell Morgan, joined the yacht in Suva fc the voyage to Papeete. • TRAVELLER, 30 ft sloop, h £ been in Hawaii recently following single-handed voyage with Le Woyshner from Whangarei, NZ.

Woyshner left Whangarei on Marc 18, and 24 days later arrived at Rare tonga. From there he reached Tahi in 12 days; and he then sailed t Hilo, Hawaii, in 22 days, arriving o June 27. Traveller was built in 195 S • TREKKA, 20 ft yawl, whici was single-handed round the world i 1954-58 by John Guzzwell, was ex pected to leave Honolulu in mid August for Samoa, Fiji and Ne\ Zealand.

Trekka arrived in Honolulu oi August 1 with her new owners, Clif ford and Marian Cain, after a 25-da 1 voyage from Monterey, California, t< Hilo.

Twenty-one days of the crossinj were made self-steering by the us< of twin staysails. • WINDSONG, 48 ft ketch arrived in Honolulu at the end oi July after a 15-day passage from the Marquesas.

Windsong left Melbourne or January 12 and called at Aucklanc and Rarotonga before reaching Tahiti, where she stayed for five weeks. She then cruised among the leeward islands of the Society Group before heading for the Marquesas.

On board were the builder. Jack Walker (skipper), owner Phillip Weate, and Clive O’Connor, all of Melbourne; and Kerry Walshe, of New Zealand.

Walker planned to leave the ketch at Honolulu and fly back to Australia, and the others planned to sail about mid-August for San Francisco.

The Guthries (left), in Suva, and the motor yacht "Sunbow". — Photo lef Stan Whippy. 108 EPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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[Esidential Qualifications

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r,—I regret that the letter which ared over my signature in the ast issue of PIM contained some •red information, hile it is true that the residential ifications for electors and idates in the Cook Islands are lined in New Zealand regula- , and not, as stated by your •tonga correspondent, in a local lance, these qualifications are 12 ths residence in the case of ors and three years for idates for the Legislative Aspiring their discussions last year Constitutional advisers recomled that these qualifications be ght into line with those in force few Zealand, but the Legislative mbly declined to accept the ge. though this Article will, no t, be the subject of further conation both in the New Zealand Cook Islands legislatures this the Constitution Bill has been ed in accordance with the Native Assembly’s recommendaam sorry that my previous letter ised the issue.

Yours, etc., L. J. DAVIS itant Secretary, irtment of Island Territories, ington, NZ.

Angau Association

r, —lt may be of interest to you mow that we have formed an :iation of war-time members of jAU, FELO and M and Z Special s. As members of the Royal lan Constabulary were a section the Australian New Guinea linistration Unit (ANGAU) ig the war, they, too, are eligible iin our association. le association came about through nvitation to former members of jAU by Mr. lan McDonald, now rman of the Copra Marketing •d, last year to a reunion dinner iis home. A similar dinner was here in July at the CWA, when McDonald was on an overseas and it was decided to form the ciation. We hope to hold an lal dinner and to prepare an )ur roll to be displayed in a promt place. le association’s office-bearers are: President, Mr. C. Normoyle, vicepresident, Mr. K. Chambers; secretary, Mr. H. Jackman; treasurer, Mr. K. Atkinson, As Mr. Normoyle will retire in September from the Public Service, Mr. Chambers will act as president and we shall have to find a vicepresident. We have just placed an advertisement in the two local newspapers, inviting eligible persons to join, and I hope to send an application form and a copy of our constitution to all inquirers.

Anything you can do to pass this information on to interested persons in Sydney will be much appreciated.

I shall send you a copy of the constitution and the committee’s statement as soon as we have them printed. —Yours etc.

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What'S In A Megapode?

Sir, —Re your article headed “A Dove in the Megapode’s Nest” ( PIM, July, p. 15), the reason Megapode was chosen as the name for our airline in the Solomons is because this is its natural habitat and, secondly, because it can fly the day it is born.

Pat Williams, Crowley Airways’ secretary, designed the insignia and painted it on the aeroplane with her own hands.

Megapode, which means “bigfoot”, lives on Savo Island across Iron Bottom Sound from Honiara, overlooking the scene of the desperate naval battles of 1942.

The natives have the hatcheries divided and owned by families who are responsible for their welfare. The eggs, bigger than a domestic fowl’s, are laid in holes scratched in the warm, damp sand, covered over and left to hatch. This is a first-class example of adapting to environment and general sagacity. There is no loss of time and dignity by having to go “broody” or “ducky” to accomplish something that Nature has provided better facilities to do.

When the young bird is hatched, it comes to the surface and immediately flies away into the jungle. It is fully feathered in a lovely soft, matt-black colour. The ability to fly the moment it is born is unique among bird or man. Their flight is strong. One evening at Murray Falconer’s house on the ridge overlooking Honiara, six 113 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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these beautiful little birds flew into : house. Their angle of climb was least 45 deg. up the hill.

Although most of their time is :nt in the jungle scratching for rms and grubs, they still continue fly. After laying their eggs they away from the hatchery with a aping flight similar to the crow.

Fhis is a very un-technical descripn based on my own observations 1 I would like to hear more about ; bird from someone better qualified in r.

Fhe main point is that Megapode rways, like its namesake, did fly the y it was born and continues to do —Yours, etc.

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Of Many Things

Sir,—l notice that in the article leasant Legends” {PIM, March) iptain Cook is credited with having aught the tortoise Jonathan to St. dena, but in three years residence re, I have never heard of any nnection between the two.

Captain Cook spent about six ys here in 1775 when Resolution sited the island, but according to ;ords, Jonathan did not arrive until out 1820, having been brought re by a master mariner, according the Lowe Papers, and presented the Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, gather with two other smaller rtoises, long since dead.

Jonathan still has free use of the ounds of Plantation House, the d residence of the Governors of e island, and is the only living link th Napoleon. He has been clasied by an officer of the British useum as elephantina, a species ►ssibly from the Aldabra Islands, to e north of Madagascar, but even if is is correct, Jonathan is much rger than any Aldabra tortoise I member having seen in Seychelles, hen I was living there. He is more a size with a Galapagos tortoise id is considerably larger than Tui alila in Nukualofa, Tonga, which have not seen since 1929.

In Tolala’s Talk-Talk (April) the enunciation of Papua has cropped ) again. It is certainly a Malay ord, but the Malay-English dicanary of a former Malayan civil rvant, late R. J. Wilkinson, latex overnor of Sierra Leone, gives the idling as Pepuah, with the vowel being almost completely elided, id having the sound of “a” as in *o. The second syllable would then j stressed. I am sure this will be E great interest to your Motu, Suau, oaribari and Orokaiva readers. I do not remember hearing the word ■‘pepuah” in use in Malaya. The word “kereting”, in reference to the hair, was more commonly used.

Former Solomon Islands man, Bill Baverstock of Mosman, is very well remembered, and I did appreciate the news of former days contained in his letter PIM published in April.—Yours, etc.

A. H. GREEN.

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Sir, —I am writing to you to know if you could possibly look into a matter which I heard on the BBC London recently, when it was indicated that the Administration of BSIP was asking Australia to provide 1,000 fierce cats to transport to one of the Solomon Islands suffering from a plague of rats.

I have written to the Secretary of State for the Colonies about this, but you are on the spot and perhaps you could publish an article giving the full facts, which would set my mind at rest.

I was a member of the Administration during the period 1956-1958, during which time I came to love Honiara more deeply than any place I have ever known.

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I believe that the Americans ii ported toads to combat the mosqi toes during the war—now, of cour: the place is literally running ali with them. This could happen unh they send all neutered cats, or all cz of one sex—in which case they wou rend each other to bits.

I get the magazine each mon through your agent, H. A. Mackenz of London, and I enjoy it thorough —particularly any information abo the Solomons. Unfortunately the never seems enough of it, but occ sionally I come across a name or face well-known to me.

I am afraid I am not likely go out that way again until I reti: and can perhaps manage a trip, which case I also look forward to stay in Australia. I have made sho stops in various parts of Austral and thought it was a wonderfi country.

I love the PIM. Please get all tl news you can about BSIP for thos of us who are heartsick in Englam will you? My issue gets passe around, as there are quite a few c us who would like to be bac there.—Yours, etc. (Miss) MARGARET E. COL!

St. Albans, Herts., England. • The place that wanted the cat was Bougainville, TPNG, and nc BSIP. Those appealed to in Australic including the RSPCA, came to th same conclusion as Miss Cole—tha the wholesale importation of cat would not work — and, as far as w know, none were sent. — Ed. PIM.

Japanese Wreck

Sir, —The ship that Mrs. Stephensoi referrerd to in her letter {PIM, July p. 62) is the Tenyo Maru. It was, ! think, one of the ships which wen carrying troops and supplies to Buna She was caught in an air raid and hit and her skipper tried to beach her but a bomb on her stern stoppec that, and she lies on the edge of the deep water shelf. Nobody while ] was in Lae went aboard her. It was said that she carried troops, and that the holds were full of bodies, However, apart from that there was very little of her that you could get at, plus the fear that she might slide right under. Another, the Myoko Maru, was beached and burnt out at Malahang.—Yours, etc.

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NAME ADDRESS People • The Methodist Church in Fiji July accepted seven candidates for 5 ministry, and ordained four Fijian inisters. The new ministers are the ;vs. Isireli Caucau, Onisimo Vuniiqa, Aminiasi Qalo and Isimeli :nelala. • Mrs. Raywatti Tulsi, a Fijiandian, has been appointed a fullae court clerk and reporter in uth Australia. She is the first >man to hold such a post. Her rents are Mr, and Mrs. P. D. imswarup, of Suva. • The South Pacific has a role the New York World Fair through group of American Samoans who e attracting big crowds to their nces in the Polynesian Building, r. Edward Johnson and his wife, Pago Pago, recently took in the ir during a tour of the United ates.

Mr. Johnson says the Samoans ve won many friends “because ly are young, amateur, and always ady to smile”. • The president of the Malaita mncil, BSIP, Mr. Mariano Kelesi, has been awarded a United States foreign leader grant. He will spend about three months in the U.S. • Miss Mary Edwell-Burke, an artist who has been living in Fiji for the last seven years, left for Vancouver in the Lakemba in August. She plans to settle in Canada.

In the last 30 years she has made 22 arrivals at Suva, and has been a painter in the islands since she was 21. • Mr. J. Golson, Senior Fellow in Anthropology at the Australian National University, visited Fiji in August to inspect archaeological sites in Viti Levu. He is at present engaged in excavations in Tonga, • The Rev. Allan Dutton became the first European member of a fully-elected local government council in the BSIP on July 22 when he won the seat in Belaga ward in the Gela local government council elections. In Haleta Ward, the sitting member. Father John Bosmata, and Dr. C. E. Fox were defeated by ex- Sergeant Dudley Gorosi. Dr. Fox, who is nearly 86, has been a missionary in the Solomons since 1908.

VA WEDDING: Mr. Douglas Guise, of [?]oua, and Miss Losa Felix, of Suva, were arried recently at the Sacred Heart thedral, Suva. The bride is the daughter Mrs. C. Felix, of Suva, and the groom the son of Mr. John Guise, MHA, of [?]ne Bay, Papua, and of Mrs. Guise, [?]uglas is a dentistry student at the Fiji School of Medicine. 117 \CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Robin McKay, of Aropa plantation, Bougainville. Mr. Seale, formerly District Commissioner, Eastern Highlands, has bought a modern home unit in Cremorne, but is not certain of his future movements. If a suitable posting shows up he may return to the Territory. Mr. McKay has sold Aropa, and his family is currently occupying a house (with swimming pool) at Killara while he decides on his future plans. He does not expect these will involve severance of his Territory conne tions after 29 years there. • New South Wales members i the Council of New Guinea Affair which is linked with the New Guine Corporation, were announced August by the chairman, Mr. Norms Cowper, a Sydney solicitor. T 1 Council will eventually appoint a pe manent executive director and wi encourage seminars and discussior on NG, stimulate contact betwee New Guineans and Australians, an produce an independent journal. (PEV June, p, 11).

NSW council members are: M Steven Rich, chairman of the N< Corporation and chairman of Pacifi Islands Timbers (Holdings) Ltd.; S: J ohn Crawford, former permanei head of the Department of Trad< and Professor of Economics at th Australian National University; M] C. R. Darvall, general manager c the ANZ Bank; Mr. A. F. Deer, mar aging director of Mutual Life an Citizens Assurance Co, Ltd.; M] Merlin Hansen, director of Develop ment Finance Corporation Ltd.; Mi F. M. Hewitt, MLC (NSW), chaii man of Huvei Plantation Ltd.; Mi John R. Kerr, QC; Mr. L. Shon secretary of the Federated Iron workers’ Association; and Major General lan Dougherty, Director o Civil Defence in NSW. • Judge Cameron Smith, of th( NSW District Court, has been ap pointed an acting judge of th< Supreme Court of P-NG. The ap pointment, for about four months is to relieve pressure on the remain ing judges following the illness o; the Chief Justice, Sir Alan Mann. • Napoleon Onzem, of Lae, is the first New Guinean to hold j private pilot’s licence. He hopes tc become a commercial pilot Napoleon, 23, was formerly a school teacher.

Married In Adelaide The Rev. Lance Sutcliffe, a member of a wellknown New Guinea family, was married recently to Miss Helen Elder at St. Andrews Church, Walkerville, South Australia, where he is assistant curate. The bridegrom was one of the first European children born at Salamaua. His father was a flier in New Guinea for 10 years during the Morobe goldfields era. 118 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Call sign of the Daru station will be VLBVD, operating on a frequency af 3304 kilocycles.

Initially Radio Daru will use a 250-watt transmitter, but later a more powerful transmitter will be installed. The P-NG Administration operates local broadcasting stations separate from the Australian Broadcasting Commission stations in Port Moresby and Rabaul, which cover the Territory with a stronger signal. • As Honiara grows it is providing more amenities in keeping with its status. The latest addition will be a fish market, complete with freezer room and refrigeration machinery, and an icemaking plant to produce ice for fishing ships. The BSIP Government has offered the council a grant of £6,500 for the project. • The Fiji Legislative Council on September 14, will meet for the first time since the Member system was introduced on July 1. • A new broadcasting studio building for the ABC in Port Moresby will be officially opened on September 5. The new building cost £190,000 and the Australian PMG’s Dept, installed equipment worth £75,000. • Although many Vietnamese were repatriated in the last year or so, there are still 972 in New Caledonia, of whom 837 live in Noumea, according to a recent census of Vietnamese in that territory, The breakdown of the 972 was 288 men, 197 women and 487 children.

Of the Vietnamese born in New Caledonia, 435 have asked to become naturalised French, or have shown interest in acquiring French nationality. • A P-NG Lands Department survey team, working with a helicopter, has completed a detailed geodetic survey of 10,000 square miles of mountainous country in the Western and Southern Highlands in four months. Without the use of a helicopter the work would have taken two years. • A cocktail party was held on the night of August 1 to mark the reopening of Tahiti’s Hotel Taaone, which was almost completely destroyed by fire on August 29, 1963. The rebuilt hotel has 70 rooms, erected at a cost of 30 million Pacific francs (£150,000). • In two years the P-NG Department of Agriculture expects to know if a new predator insect, the platymerus, will be an effective check against the rhinoceros beetle, which causes extensive damage to coconuts, and other coconut pests.

The department in 1962-63 imported the insects from Zanzibar, the only known place where they are found.

They were kept at the Keravat Lowlands Agricultural Experiment Station where they flourished.

The adult platymerus are black and are about an inch long. They live in the crown of coconut palms among the fronds, and attack any insect which feeds on the palms. • In November, 339 P-NG secondary school children will sit for the Territory Intermediate Certificate examination. It will be the first Intermediate examination based on a Territory syllabus to be held in P-NG. • The Australian Government plans to fence off part of the P-NG border with West New Guinea to stop diseased slock crossing from West New Guinea into clean areas. • The RSL national congress, to meet at Hobart in October, is expected to amend the League’s constitution to admit former New Guinean servicemen. The decision will raise an interesting situation in those P-NG RSL clubs which do not admit New Guineans as members (Over) 119 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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And this amazing new gland and vigour restorer, called VI- Stim, has been tested and proved by thousands In America, and is now available at all chemists here. Get Vi-Stlm from your chemist to-day. Put it to the test. See the big Improvement in 24 hours. Take the full bottle under the guarantee that it must make you full of vim. vigour and energy, and feel 10 to 20 years younger, or money back. v r« • To restore Vi-Stim Membership of the RSL does not Automatically confer club rights. • The possibility of basing troop ransport aircraft permanently in 5 -NG will be investigated by the Minister for the Army, Dr. Forbes.

Dr. Forbes, on his return to Can- )erra after a visit to the Territory, ;aid the Pacific Islands Regiment :ould be used more effectively if Aircraft were available permanently.

The aircraft, if they are stationed n the Territory, will be tactical lirlift capacity planes probably Caribous or Dakotas. An RAAF Caribou recently made test landings m a big number of P-NG airstrips, ncluding some near the West New juinea border. • The Fiji Amateur Athletic \ssociation has planned a 150-mile elay from Lautoka to Suva with the Tinners carrying a message for )resentation to Miss Hibiscus, 1964, After she is crowned by the Governor, Sir Derek Jakeway, on September 26. The message will be Tom the Mayor of Lautoka, Cr.

L B. Ingleton. The last runner will ie escorted through Suva by torchjearing athletes. • An anthropological team from he Australian Museum in Sydney )lans to acquire a haus tambaran Torn the Sepik District of New Suinea during on expedition to the erritory in the next few weeks.

A haus tambaran is a steeple-like itructure used in religious ceremonies.

The museum team will leave Sydney on Septmber 29. It will comprise Mr. Douglas Miles, Aslistant Curator in Anthropology, and Mr. Malcolm Cameron, of the exlibition department.

In New Guinea they will join Mr.

Barry Craig, who has been working n the Telefomin area, and who has Almost finished a comprehensive ;urvey of the native culture of the egion.

Mr. Miles told PIM in August that the museum did not want an existing haus tambaran, because it would have religious significance.

So it was proposed to get the natives to erect one in Maprik, then systematically dismantle it and transfer it to Sydney for re-erection in the museum’s Melanesian Gallery.

As no-one in Sydney is capable of reconstructing it, it is planned to employ two Maprik villagers for the job. These men will be fed and clothed by the museum during their stay in Sydney. • The tourist industry of Papua- New Guinea may get official encouragement from the Australian Government, which is gathering reports from the P-NG Administration.

The Government is also consulting tourist organisations about the industry. On top of the official interest private groups, including Ansett, are making surveys, particularly in the New Guinea Highlands, to assess the potential of the industry. • The East-West Center, Hawaii, in collaboration with the Trust Territory Government, recently held a three-week Pacific coconut production and processing course in Ponape, Eastern Carolines. • Members of the Rabaul Town Advisory Council are upset about alleged amplifying of Press reports of Territory matters “when something bad happens”.

Recently, Councillor R. Neale complained that the newspapers took no notice of anything good done. But as soon as something happened it hit the headlines.

During the recent police disturbances relatives of his in Australia had written to him asking him to send his children back to Australia immediately for safety.

ON HOLIDAYS: Mr. and Mrs. G. R. H.

Bentley, of Suva, were snapped at a social gathering of the Polynesian Association in Sydney recently. Mr. Bentley as an engineer in Fiji's Posts and Telegraphs Department.

He and his wife have been spending holidays in Australia. — Telephotos. 121

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£2Sm. Expansion

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Nickel Industry

Le Societe le Nickel, the French company that operates New Caledonia’s nickel industry, is to undertake a £25 million (Australian) expansion programme in New Caledonia.

THE company’s director-general, Mr. Jean Guillard, outlined details of the programme recently to members of the Noumea Chamber of Commerce.

The programme will be financed principally by loans from various credit institutions, banks, etc. But at least one-fifth of the cost will be borne by shareholders of the company.

New shares will be offered on the French stock markets, and some will be offered to New Caledonian investors.

It is hoped that new equipment to be installed in Noumea will double the production of ferro-nickel matte within three years, bringing production to 50,000 tons a year.

New Mining Centres New mining centres on the east and west coasts of New Caledonia will be created, each with ore treatment plants costing about £.400,000.

These plants will transform the ore from the mines into “pellets”, which will go to the furnaces on arrival in Noumea with hardly any other preparation.

Treatment of the ore in this manner means that it will be possible to make use of ore with a lower nickel content than that currently used.

About 600 workers will be needed in the new mining centres, and about 500 more will be required in the Noumea smelters when the expansion programme is completed.

In outlining these plans, Mr.

Guillard raised the point—a sore one with local unions and the majority party, Union Caledonienne —that the company would probably have to bring in specialised personnel from France “as a good deal of mechanisation will be introduced with the new set-up.”

He also raised the touchy point that New Caledonia would have to help the Nickel Company by foregoing customs revenue on much of the equipment to be imported for the expansion programme.

He added: “I hope that my company will be accorded a little relief from the heavy tax burden it carries.

The export tax paid by the company will, of course, increase, but I hope that it will not be doubled.”

PI M’s Noumea correspondent says that the controversial points raised by Mr. Guillard will be bitterly thrashed out at future meetings of the local Territorial Assembly, which will “certainly be hostile to them”.

Increased Profits For Burns, Philp THE consolidated net profit of Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd. for the year ended March 31 was £1,661,176. The actual increase was £304,031 (23.8 per cent.) and was the highest in the company’s history.

The gain in net profit in the previous financial year was £241,190.

The capital of the company will rise to £9 million with a proposed further bonus issue of one-for-four this year.

The group trading profit rose by £556,068 to £2,671,994. The investment income was £929,826, a rise of £49,712.

The dividend of 10 per cent, (steady for 12 years) required £720,000, an increase of £60,000.

The accounts showed a sharp increase in the market value of the group’s investments.

While the book value of investments in listed companies rose by only £249.075 to £10,846,125, the market value of the holdings went up by £4,101,959 to £24,294,713.

The directors reported that the company’s ships continued to be well supported, but expenses connected with their operation again rose disproportionately.

To minimise losses, the Australian- Malaysia service was curtailed by the sale, after balance date, of the Burnside at any “acceptable price”.

By comparison with previous years there was “a gratifying increase” in merchandising sales, through both the wholesale and retail branches.

But rising costs again absorbed much of the advantage.

Revenue from investments and

On South Seas Business

Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Rice, of Lautoka, (top picture), were among the passen- [?]rs in the Matson liner "Mariposa" when [?]e sailed from Sydney in August for the [?]ited States via the Pacific Islands. Mr. [?]e, who has lived in Fiji for the last 40 [?]ars, is manager of the Shell agency in [?]utoka. He and Mrs. Rice were returning [?]m leave in Sydney. In the middle, [?]ture are Mr. Graham Grant, of Sydney, [?]th his daughters, Kathy and Kristine, [?]o were among the relatives and busi- [?]ss associates who farewelled him on the "Aariposa". Mr. Grant is sales manager the mining company, Gilbert Gray and [?]. Pty. Ltd., and was on his way to the [?]peror Gold Mines at Vatukoula, Fiji, a sales mission. Below are Mr. A. W. [?]ssell (left) and Mr. David Tucker, both Sydney, who were to disembark from [?]e "Mariposa" at Pago Pago. They repre- [?]nt the flour milling companies of [?]eorge Fielder and Co., Tamworth, NSW, [?]d Brunton and Co. and the Great [?]estern Milling Co., both of Dulwich Hill, [?]dney. They planned to spend a few [?]ys in Samoa and then to visit Tonga [?]d Fiji before going home. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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The cocoa tonnage showed a further increase, and while prices were somewhat lower than last year, the markets remained profitable for the better grades of produce.

The company has made four bonus issues in the last six years: 1958, one-for-four; 1959, one-forfive; 1962, one-for-five; 1964, onefor four.

Tonga Looks At Sugarcane FJiONGA may follow Western A Samoa’s example and try to . grow sugarcane to save overseas exchange. The Tonga Copra Board has started an investigation into the possibility of establishing cane.

In July Mr. Carl Riechelmann, a member of the board, went to Apia to see at first hand what is being done in Western Samoa. While there he discussed the crop with Mr. Van .Goes, the FAO expert who is advising and helping Western Samoa to establish a sugar industry.

Tonga already has a mill, bought two years ago for experiments in milling sugar and other crops.

It has been estimated that a crop of 130 to 150 acres of cane would be needed to meet local requirements.

Tonga’s 1963 sugar imports were 519 tons, worth £38,992.

Fiji Fertiliser Discovery JAEPOSITS of fertiliser have been ~ found in some of the Lau islands of Fiji, and now the Colony is making inquiries about them.

Samples of the deposits are being tested by the Department of Agriculture, and the results should be known by the end of the year.

But indications are that some of the deposits could be used to supply phosphates for fertilisers for local agriculture.

All the islands have been closed to prospectors for the time being to prevent speculative staking of claims.

The position will be reviewed when the tests of the sulphate deposits are finished.

Tahiti Firm Moves From Historic Site AGENCE Tahiti Poroi, one of -Ci- Tahiti’s leading travel, shipping and import-export firms, moved in August from its old Quai du Commerce quarters in Papeete, to temporary premises a block away in the new Gregory Lau Building.

Within 18 months, it will occupy its permanent new office in a building now under construction at the corner of the Quai du Commerce and the Rue des Ecoles.

There were some sentimental regrets for its owner, Mr. Alfred T.

Poroi, on quitting the old office which occupied the downstairs corner portion of the block-long, blue-painte building known locally as Fare Tor (or Chez Tony, in its Frenc version), and owned by the late Tor Bambridge.

The building fronts the Quai B Hackheim, where there are alwai a dozen overseas yachts moored bov on to the Quai.

The premises were once occupie by the old South Seas firm of S. I Maxwell & Co. Maxwell’s office w* managed for years by a Mr. T. I Bunkley, an American who arrive in Tahiti in the early 1890’s. Alfre Poroi got his first job with Bunkle and worked with him for many yeai while S. R. Maxwell & Co. wei agents for the Union Steam Ship C< of NZ. P S. R. Maxwell & Co. was liquidate in 1936 and the Union Steam Shi Co. established its own branch offic with J. S. Coster as manager an Alfred Poroi as his assistant. Mi Poroi became manager in 1951 whe Coster retired and when the USS Cc closed its Papeete branch in 195 he carried on under his own steac as a travel and shipping agent am importer-exporter.

His firm has the agency for Fia cars and MAN trucks as well a other important French lines.

Mr. Poroi these days mixes politic with business. He has been Mayo: of Papeete for years and since 196: has been Senator for French Poly nesia in the French Senate.

The import-export section of hi; business is managed by Mr. Rober Wan, a young Chinese; the trave and shipping department is run b} Mr. William Baker, an Englishman and the Fiat agency by Mr. Gu> Dupont, a Frenchman.

Scheme To Increase BSIP Cattle Herds A SUBSIDY scheme to increase the number of cattle in the BSIP and to improve the quality of breeding herds has been announced by the BSIP Government.

Under the scheme, the Government will spend up to £lO,OOO in subsidising freight paid for cattle shipped from the New Hebrides, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.

A subsidy of £l6/10/- per beast, or such lesser sums as may actually be payable for freight, will be granted for heifers, and £55, or the actual cost of freight, whichever is the less, will be granted for bulls.

The maximum subsidy payable to any one company or owner will be £3,000.

The scheme is part of the Mr. Alfred Poroi (third from left) with members of the import-export section of his business, Agence Tahiti Poroi.

They are (from left) Messrs. William Baker, Robert Wan and Guy Dupont. (See story below.) 124 SEPTEMBER. 1964-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD., 35 Crutched_ Friars, KO3. tectorate’s development plan, and funds allocated will come from :eeds of the sale of the British imon Islands Trading Corporate ultimate object of the scheme to reduce the Protectorate’s mdence on imported meat dies and to make greater use :attle on coconut plantations. ilolo's Falling ofit JLOLO Gold Dredging Ltd. net profit for the year ended May 1964, was 285,300 Canadian ars, compared with 440,235 irs in the previous financial year, me from investments, other than imonwealth-New Guinea Timbers , fell slightly from 187,000 irs to 161,600 dollars, tie company now has only one ge in operation and the report the president and managing dor, Mr. J. W. Austin, said that as the lower economic operation that dredge which was the :ipal reason for the profit fall, r. Austin said that legal action still pending on the writ issued nst the Commonwealth Governt over outstanding subsidy payts concerning Australian duty velopment of isima Mine ICIFIC Island Mines Ltd. has signed an agreement with Cultus orations Ltd., Canada, to develop Misima gold mine in Papua 4, August, p. 8). tie agreement provides that us will spend £400,000, which entitle it to a 60 per cent, est in the mine. Pacific Island es finished its exploratory drive the island in July. iuri Co. Quits mikoro IE Kauri Timber Company ceased operations on Vanikoro August and all native and ipean employees have left the id. 11 equipment and stores were ped to Honiara by the Philkari ed by D. & J. Gubby, of Santo, the BSIP Government vessel, % fisher. n auction sale of this equipment o be held at Honiara on Sepber 10.

An official of the Kauri Timber Company said in Melbourne that Japanese and other timber interests will not at present resume the operations at Vanikoro.

The last shipment of logs was made on August 15 by the Fiji Maru to Japan.

The meteorological section conducted at Vanikoro by the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology on behalf of the South Pacific Air Transport Council is being reequipped and it is understood that it will continue operations for some time.

Buoyant BSIP Revenue THE revenue position in the BSIP in the first six months of 1964 was most encouraging, according to the Financial Secretary, Mr. L. M.

Davies. Imports and exports were running at higher levels than ever before.

Preliminary figures showed that to June 30 the yield from import duty of £191,000 was about 3 per cent. above the estimate. Export duty had yielded £ 150 ,000, about £23,000 above the estimate, because of the high world price of copra. & The Protectorate’s copra production from January to June was 12,997 tons, 218 tons less than the output for the first six months of 1963. In every month except January, production was high, but it will have to remain that way if last year’s production is to be exceeded.

"Hidden" Timber Port

About 2,000 tons of timber were lifted for Japan recently from Sewa Bay, the "hidden" harbour at Normanby Island, P-NG, by the Japanese ship "Akiura Maru", seen here entering the harbour. The Japanese are reported to have been "very pleased" with the timber and "amazed" at the Sewa Bay harbour. Normanby Island is in the D'Entrecasteaux Group, north-east of Milne Bay. 125 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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NAME ADDRESS 9781/1C J I Concern Over NG Coffee Exports rpHE Papua-New Guinea Coffee A Marketing Board is seriously j worried that P-NG is in danger of 1 losing its £A 1,250,000 coffee export trade to Australia.

A statement made in August by the board’s chairman, Mr. lan Downs, who is also an elected member for the Territory’s House of Assembly, said the board had “paid very close attention to present trends in coffee exports to Australia and to overseas and that as a result it was most concerned at the declining percentage of Territory exports going to Australia.

The Territory supplies Australia with about 30 per cent, of its total coffee needs.

Mr. Downs said the board was concerned about this decline because of the special value attached to a firm market with such a near and friendly neighbour and because the level of sales to Australia could be of great importance to the Territory in later years of the International Coffee Agreement.

Under the international agreement the Territory’s exports to Australia are exempt from the general quota system.

The board had decided, Mr.

Downs said, that after a careful study of the situation it would take firm steps in the coffee year starting October 1 this year to ensure 60 per cent, of Territory exports went to Australia.

He added that an important factor in the present situation was the rapid growth of Australian import consumption of coffee which now appeared likely to reach 14,000 tons in the coffee year 1963-1964.

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Samoa Soap Industry fFHE Western Samoa Trust Estates -*■ Corporation has ordered equipment for a soap factory which it hopes to establish at Vailele within the next 12 months.

The machinery will be capable of producing any kind of soap, from plain laundry soap to luxury toilet soap. Initially production will be confined to laundry soap, and the output is expected to be about two tons a day.

Toilet soap and soap powder production will follow later. It may also be possible to manufacture toothpaste, shampoos, and hair preparations.

In the last financial year Western Samoa spent £69,244 on imported soaps and detergents.

The Stock Market SYDNEY

Exchange Rates

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-F basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. Ai 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-Fiji ba £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth Ba: quotes exchange rate Australla-Norfe Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

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French Pacific Colonies.—Pacii

francs (CPF) are used in New Cal donia. New Hebrides, and Fr. Polynesi FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Nation D’Escompte de Paris, Sydney), in Augus 1964, quoted: Selling, Noumea, 196 Pa francs to £ Aust.; Papeete 196 (nom Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 247 Pac. fram to £ Stg., 96.5 Pac. francs to US I Noumea 18 Pac, francs to 1 Frenc franc (conversion rate: 1 Pac. frau equals 0.055 French franc), Parls-Londor Selling 13.660 francs to £Stg. 126 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Produce Prices iless otherwise stated, quotations are ustrallan currency. Anst. £ equals iximately 16/- Sig., NZ, or W. a; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons PHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; JU52.26.) COPRA PUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production slivered to Copra Marketing Board, oiled by six members, including three ers’ representatives: and the Board ts distribution and sales, and makes ents to the producers. Production mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) alia for local consumption, (c) ing-mlll in Rabaul, and (d) Japan lus as available). Prices generally with ruling rate in Philippines, with lums for hot-air dried.

JG Board’s Tentative Purchase s for copra delivered main ports are: Ur Dried, £6l/10/- per ton; FMS, '-/- per ton; Smoke-Dried, '-/- per ton. ri:—No Government control —pro- 's sell where they wish. Bulk of goes to crushing-mills in Suva. st 17 prices were; HAD £FSB/10/-, F56/-/-.

SSTERN SAMOA: —Official Copra 1 takes all production, sells same makes payments to producers. It mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, the open market. Local price rey was £56/12/6 Samoan, first iNGA; Sales are under Government 01. Part of production goes to pe, under arrangement with Unilever ■oiled by Philippines prices, and part 0 open market.

LOMON IS.: All production marketed igh official BSI Copra Board, at s based on Philippines rate. Output to Unilever, UK; to Australian iers; and the balance on to the open et. Local price in August was: rade, £6O/-/-: 2nd grade, £5B/10/-; grade, £56/-/- per ton, f.0.b., BSIP (Honiara, Yandlna and Glzo).

LBERT AND ELLICE: —Production ;eted in Europe through official Copra d, at prices based on Philippines 1 less freight, etc. The Copra Board dises the price at: First Grade 1/2 per ton, Second Grade £2/2/1 ton. 1W HEBRIDES: —Price on June 24 approximately £A4I/-/- (8,200 Pac. ;s), French price at that time was francs per metric ton, c.i.f., leilles. )OK IS.; —Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., Auckland, who operate the only NZ a crushing mill. Price paid is average lon price for previous three months. handling charges. Prices for third ter, July-Sept., 1964, is £NZS9/14/8 grade, £NZSB/9/8 standard grade— f.o.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

)COA: —Islands prices are usually d on the rates for Ghana cocoa. -Sept, shipment is £Stg.lB7/10/- per c.i.f., Sydney. -N.G.: Sydney buyers on Aug. 20 reed: Quote No. 1: In store, Rabaul, rt quality £l7B per ton, or on rf Sydney, according to quality; 0; quote No. 2: Best quality, on rf Syd., £2OO-£205, in store, N.G. s, £177 (for UK, continent and USA ments). . SAMOA; —Nominal prices quoted in ley, August 20, were: Grade 1, £Stg.lBo; grade 2, £Stg.l6s, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: August 20, good quality A grade, per lb. 4/- to 4/2; B grade 3/9 to 4/-; C grade. 2/9 to 3/6, r i f Svdnev Overseas c.i.f. coffee prices were reported on August 24 as Kenya AA £Stg.4os (good quality), £Stg.39o (f.a.q.); A £Stg.4oo (g.q.), £Stg.3Bs (f.a.q.); B £Stg.39o (g.q.), £Stg.3Bo (f aq)' C £Stg.37o (f.a.q.). Uganda Robusta (standard) £Stg.296. Tanganyika AA NQ, A NQ, B NQ.

PEANUTS. P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported Aug. 20—f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 1/5 lb.; Virginia bunch 1/7 i b- RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Aug. 24 was: No 1 RSS, Spot, 66 Vz Straits cents per lb’(23 14d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported Aug. 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, £ p9/10/- 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.

PEARL SHELL.—Quotations for Anstralian M.O.P. Shell on August 20 by Sydney independent shell agents were: Sound £B5O, D £625, E £335, EE £235 (in store Sydney). Cook Islands: Penrhyn £NZ42S (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

TROCHUS.—A Sydney buyer on Aug. 20 indicated the following quotations to Islands producers: Papua nominally £9O-£95 per ton, f.0.b., Papuan ports; N.G. and 8.5.1. £B5-£9O, f.0.b., Islands ports.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyers quoted on Aug. 20: No. 1: £3OO per ton, f.0.b., Rabaul; £2BO on wharf, Sydney. No 2. £295-£3OO (best quality), on wharf, Sydney; or £295-£3OO, f.0.b., Islands ports.

CROCODILE SKINS.—On August 20 Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and oyer, 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 _. nf .

PAPUAN GUM: £B2/15/- f.o.b. Islands port, £95 del. Sydney or Melbourne, BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote F 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, Aug. 19, Philippines, . hulk $194 US (equal to £Rte 69/13/2) per long ton c.i.f.. ux/Nth. European ports. Malayan, fms, NQ, UK/Nth. European ports. new' YORK: August 19, Philippines, * lB O ug per S h o rt ton, c.i.f., Pacific coast ports CEYLON: 960 Rupees per on coconut Oil: LONDON. Aug. 20, Ceylon, in bu n c> £Stg.lll/-/- per ton, c.i.f., UK/North European ports. Straits, 3Vu%, NQ c.i.f.

Rubber: London, Aug. 24, c.i.f., RSS No. 1 Spot, 20-3/16d Stg, lb, Sept. nominal, c.i.f., 19-13/16d Stg. lb, Nov. prompt c.i.f. 20-3/16d Stg. lb. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.2 US Dollars or 10V2 Rupees.) 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Enlarged Advisory Council Holds First Meeting Record New Hebrides [?]opra Production Forecast Despite the ravages of pests nd a hurricane in the Banks iroup and Santo in April, the reduction and export of copra i the New Hebrides are exected to reach record figures tis year.

HHE British and French Resident L Commissioners, Messrs. A. M. dlkie and M. Delauney, said this 1 their joint speech to open the ghth session of the Condominium’s .dvisory Council in Vila on August This was the first meeting of the .dvisory Council since it was entrged from an entirely nominated □dy of 16 members (eight New [ebrideans, four British and four rench) to a partly-elected body of 2 members.

The new council comprises the .ssistant British Resident Commisoner and the French Chancelier who previously attended meetings nly in an advisory capacity); 12 ominated members (six New [ebrideans, three British and three rench); and eight elected members four New Hebrideans, two British nd two French).

The Resident Commissioners said i their opening speech that copra reduction in the New Hebrides for le first six months of this year jtalled about 20,400 tons and that 2,145 tons were exported in this eriod.

There was therefore every indicaon that both production and exorts would reach record figures this ear.

Copra Pests Referring to copra pests, the Commissioners said that a comrehensive commission of the Institut ’rancais d’Oceanie which had inestigated the loss of copra suposedly due to Axiagastus had made preliminary report which tended 3 indicate that this pest was on the ecline, possibly due to climato- 3gical changes.

In any event, the danger from I xiagastus had been “rather overliadowed” by the discovery of the :ale insect Aspidiotus destructor.

Predator lady-birds from Fiji and elsewhere were being introduced to combat this pest, which so far was confined to Efate.

On other economic questions, the Commissioners made these points. • The Cie. Francaise des Phosphates de I’Oceanie, which exploits the manganese deposits at Forari, has “largely overcome” the marketing difficulties experienced last year, and exports for the first half of 1964 totalled 24,500 tons. Exports for the whole year should be well over 40,000 tons —a satisfactory figure. • Other products, particularly cocoa, have shown a drop in production and exports. • The fishing industry run by the South Pacific Fishing Company at Palekula, Espiritu Santo, has been going through “a somewhat difficult time for a variety of reasons”. But catches are improving and it is hoped that, with the impending arrival of new ships from South Korea and the diversification of activities by the SPFC, a new and successful period lies ahead. a Progress made with the beef cattle industry and with regular exports of meat is encouraging. • The opening of a new hotel in Vila has made “a small but sound tourist industry” possible; and it is of interest to note that “the reactions of the air companies’ representatives who attended the hotel opening were very favourable”.

Referring to the projected wharf for Vila, the Commissioners said that progress had been slow, but a meeting of the Wharf Committee would be called soon to consider a report by the consultants.

“Once a decision on the site has been taken,” they said, “a proper scheme can be drawn up, the approval of our Governments obtained, and the project put out to tender.”

The Commissioners added that, before the end of the year, it was hoped to enact a Labour Code and to publish a joint regulation to enable a town council to be created in Santo, The council later received and adopted the report of a special committee on education which was set up at the last council meeting.

Among other things, the committee recommended that; — “Taking into account the increasing efforts made by the two National Governments in the field of education, we think it necessary that the Condominium should similarly increase its share in this task of development by contributing a more and more substantial subvention.

“We appreciate that the subvention has been increased in the last two years, but the 1964 sum of £Stg.3B,ooo represents less than £3 for each child at present in school.

Moreover, the number of children at school can be expected to grow from year to year. We therefore consider that an increase of £Stg. 10,000 in the subvention for 1965 would not be unreasonable.”

In a debate on education, members stressed the need for technical education and trade training; and the education committee was directed to study these matters further.

The council is due to meet again in early December when the 1965 Budget will be presented.

New Hebrides May Hold

First Census Soon

The first census ever held in the New Hebrides may take place soon as a result of a motion presented at the eighth session of the territory's Advisory Council.

The motion was drawn up by Mr.

J. Villemot and was signed by all members of the Council after Mr.

Villemot presented a paper outlining proposals for the economic development of the Condominium.

The general feeling was that plans for economic and social development would be unrealistic if a census was not held first.

The estimated population of the New Hebrides at the end of 1960 was 60,374.

Tuna being processed at the Palekula factory of the South Pacific Fishing Company which has been undergoing difficulties recently. —Photo: Rob Wright. 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. H. C. Corry Mr. Harold Claud Corry, a planter in the BSIP for many years, died in Sydney on June 6. He was 65.

Mr. Corry, who was born in Ireland, went to the BSIP about 1913, where he owned Ivatu plantation and Rere Point.

When the Japanese invaded the Solomons in 1942, Mr. Corry was one of the last to leave. In Australia he joined the BSIP Force, and returned to the Islands with the rank of captain to take part in the Battle of Guadalcanal.

He left the BSIP in 1948 to live in Australia.

He is survived by Mrs. Corry, and four children, all of whom live in Sydney.

Mrs. Elizabeth Carr Mrs. Elizabeth Carr, a well-known Norfolk Islander, died in the island hospital on July 27, aged 77.

She was a daughter of Ephraim and Polly Christian, of Norfolk Island, and a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian and John Adams, of Bounty fame.

Mrs. Carr was a prominent member of the Methodist community and was church organist for 45 years. She opened the guest house, Eureka, after the Second World War, and ran it for several years.

She is survived by her husband, Mr. Alec Carr.

Mr. G. G. Kermode Mr. George Grahame Kermode, who created the fingerprint and photographic sections of the Fiji Police Department, died at Sydney on August 10, aged 79.

He went to Fiji in 1908 from Tamworth. NSW, to join the staff of the CSR Co. Ltd. Four years later he entered the Customs Department, and in 1914 he became a sub-inspector in the police.

He was stationed in several districts in the Colony, and when he retired in 1945 he was a superintendent in charge of the Western District.

A conscientious officer whose enthusiasm in the service was not lessened by the years, Mr. Kermode started the fingerprint department, an essential part of modern crime detection, in 1938; the photographic section followed.

Mr. Kermode is survived by two sons, Mr, R. G. Kermode, MLC, of Lautoka, and Mr. Dennis Kermode, of Perth, and a daughter, Mrs.

Harvey Hunt, of Suva.

Mr. E. C. Robinson Mr. Enoch Cobcroft Robinson, MBE, died at his home at Rocky Point, Norfolk Island, on August 2, aged 88.

In April Mr. Robinson and his wife had celebrated 65 years of married life ( PIM , June, p. 113).

As a young man Mr. Robinson was engaged as a whaler round the Norfolk Island coast, but later he turned to farming.

He fought in the Boer War, and later represented his island at the coronation of King Edward VII.

Mr. Robinson served on the Norfolk Island Executive and Advisory Councils for more than 20 years, and four times was Norfolk Island Council president.

He is survived by Mrs. Robinson, one son and four daughters.

Rev. L. Chaize, SM The Rev. Father Leon Chaize, SM, who died at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Sydney, on July 16, was a pioneer of the Marist Fathers Province of Oceania, which embraces the Pacific missions. He was 79.

He was born in France and was ordained in Belgium in 1911. In that year he went to Bougainville, and remained in that area till 1935, when he went to Provincial Headquarters, Hunter’s Hill, Sydney.

In 1956 Father Chaize received permission from his superiors to spend his remaining years in the Solomons. He stayed there for eight years, when failing health forced him to return to Sydney.

Mr. H. F. Caine Mr. Henry Frederick Caine, i member of an old and well-knowi Suva family, died on July 30. H< became ill at Lautoka last year.

He was a son of Mr. F. Caine who founded Caine’s Studios.

During World War 11, he servec m the Solomons with the Ist Fii Battalion.

He married Miss Joanna Sinclaii and they had eight children, one oi whom was in the Suva yach Sigawale when she left Suva severa months ago for New Zealand anc never arrived at her destination.

Miss E. Coward Miss Elsie Coward, 86, who livec m Fiji for nearly 80 years, died a Mt. Wellington, Auckland, on July 20 Mr. P. J. Sheehan Mr. P J. (Paddy) Sheehan, whc died at Auckland on August 19 at the aged of 82, was well known in Fii before World War I when he wa« there for the construction of Suva’s Grand Pacific Hotel.

A noted New Zealand Rugb) player, he is generally credited witf having introduced Rugby to the Fijians.

Mr. H. H. Whittaker Mr. H. H. Whittaker, formerly oi Fiji, died in the Solomon Islands or July 10. He was born at Dunedin New Zealand, and qualified as a sur veyor.

He served with the Royal En gmeers in the First World War.

Mr. Whittaker, when he lived ir Fiji, married Miss Francis Bowerman a member of a well known Suvz family who survives him.

He is also survived by a son, John and a daughter, Mrs. Olga Hutchinson, of Paraparaumu, NZ.

Mr. 0. B. Krause Mr. Oswald Bertie Krause, whc was a merchant in Nukualofa foi many years, died at Auckland on July 25.

Mr. G. A. Duncan Mr. George Albert Duncan, a Boer War veteran, and former trader of Tonga, died at Auckland on July 22 at the age of 89.

Mr. B. T. Storck Mr. Bernard Thomas Storck, a descendant of a Fiji pioneer, died at Auckland on August 16, after a brief illness. He was 50.

Mr. Robinson. 130 SEPTEMBER. 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Elizabeth Bay Road, Sydney Managing Director, General Manager, Harry Sebel Henry Rose Cables: "Welcomeguest, % Sydney' 'x.W r, .• • TH51.52 New Sea-Air Travel Plan For Holidays In Fiji The extension of Air-India’s services from Sydney to [adi, Fiji, has added another carrier to the list of those perating combined air-sea holidays in the South Pacific.

IN association with Matson Lines Air-India offers a 10-day visit to iji for as little as £236, with an nerary arranged to ensure that tie is missed.

En route to Fiji, the holiday-maker is a day in Noumea.

The Matson liners, Mariposa and onterey, which make Pacific uises, leave Sydney on Mondays id Thursdays, so there are slight nations in the Fiji programme.

In the next few weeks the liners 11 leave Sydney on September 24, ;tober 15, November 9, November I, and December 24.

Free Time In Noumea Noumea is reached three nights id two and a half days out from dney. Here the liner stops for most a full day which gives the dtor plenty of time to explore the ;y and sample French cuisine.

To leave everyone free to follow rsonal interests, no activities are anned for Noumea, but the irser’s office will arrange trips for ose who want to go sightseeing.

Two more nights and a day and half later, the Matson liner arrives Suva, where employees from unts Travel Service meet the dtors to help them through customs id immigration formalities.

The arrival at Suva is early enough the morning to enable everyone get to their hotels—either the rand Pacific or the Club—rest, and lo the shops” for duty free goods fore lunch.

Nothing is organised for daylight mrs on the day of arrival, but in e evening the visitor gets to grips th Fijian life at Tamavua Village, iere, after a traditional Fijian dcome, there is a magiti (feast) id Fijian dances in full ceremonial istume.

Next day, there is a post-breakfast uise on Suva Harbour and out to e coral reef.

After lunch there are trips by ivate car to Korolevu, 65 miles ong the south coast through lush tropical scenery.

At Korolevu accommodation is available in self-contained bures (native houses) or in the main wing.

If the visitor is at Korolevu on a Wednesday he will be a guest at a Fijian welcome ceremony, followed by a feast under the coconut trees.

The next day is one for leisure— swimming, reef exploring, horseriding, bowls, or just lazing on the sand.

After lunch next day, cars leave for the Mocambo Hotel at Nadi, 73 miles away.

This trip is through the dry zone of the island, where much of Fiji’s sugar is grown.

Modern Hotel At the Mocambo Hotel, near Nadi Airport, all rooms are air-conditioned and all have private facilities.

The hotel has a swimming pool and a nine-hole putting course.

The 10-day tour ends next day when Air-India’s Boeing 707 takes off for Sydney at 8.40 a.m. (Fiji time), arriving at Sydney at 11 a.m. (AEST).

The cost of the tour includes firstclass sea travel from Sydney to Suva (two-berth cabins), economy class air travel from Nadi to Sydney, twinbedded rooms with private facilities, all meals in table d’hote style, transfer of passengers and baggage (maximum two cases a person) by private car, guide fees, surface transport provided in the itinerary, hotel taxes and service charges applicable to services given as part of the itinerary, and services of escorts when used.

The tour rates don’t include the cost of passport, laundry, personal spending money, drinks or beverages not normally provided with meals, single room charges, excess baggage fees, room service charges, or any service not mentioned in the itinerary.

Costs of the return tour from Australian capital cities other than Sydney are: Melbourne, £255/4/-; Brisbane, £256/4/-; Adelaide, £273/4/-; Perth, £327/10/-.

The tourist may, of course, extend his stay to include, for example, more time at Korolevu, and a tour of the Yasawa Islands or Mamanuca Islands from Lautoka, which is about 20 miles from Nadi Airport.

Rates for extended holidays are obtainable from travel agents.

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IAGE LIFE JURISTS in Fiji who would like a taste of Fiji village life aid try the Nasilai Tropicana, a mitive” hotel venture launched by Englishman, Mr. Martin Summers, association with the Fijians of ilai and Vadrai villages on the ; coast of Viti Levu.

'he Nasilai Tropicana is about 26 £S from Suva. To reach it, you el 14 miles by road from Suva to inibokasi, and the rest of the way launch along the waterways of the va Delta. The launch runs three gs a week.

Jasilai Beach, one of the finest tches of sand in Fiji, is the place n which Kingsford Smith took off :r he touched down in Suva on flight across the Pacific in 1928. ir. Summers, who used to run a aurant and filling station in lerset, got the idea of building an el on this beach when a Fijian D Nasilai took him to his village •ut two years ago.

Mter discussing the matter with the i people of Nasilai and Vadrai, a ipany with a capital of £l,OOO ; formed—the Fijians getting half shares for building the hotel, lie hotel now consists of a meethouse and six bures with overht accommodation for 16 people. >ceeds from the running of the el are shared 50-50 by Mr. nmers and the Fijians. ‘The bures", says a leaflet put out Mr. Summers, “are typically ian in every way. It must be phasised that except for the luxury a comfortable bed, and electric it (providing the generator behaves), there will be few of the comforts of a modern hotel.

“But you will have bathing by sunlight or moonlight on a perfectly safe beach, fishing on the reef, trolling, surf riding, horse riding along the three-mile stretch of firm sands, lovely walks and the hospitality warmly extended by the Fijians.

“Every evening there will be mekes, Fijian dances, songs by part-singers and dancing to the Tropicana dance band. Occasionally you may watch or take part in Fijian fish drives.”

Accommodation at the Nasilai Tropicana may be booked through Viti River Tours Limited, Box 633, Suva, or agents for this company.

Cars pick up visitors in Suva at 10 a.m. and take them to Wainibokasi. The boat trip to the hotel lasts about an hour, A European-style lunch is served at 1 p.m. and at 7 p.m. there is a Fijian feast.

Visitors returning to Suva next morning leave at 10 o’clock and reach Suva about 11.15.

The inclusive price for a 24-hour visit to the Nasilai Tropicana is £6 a head for doubles. Day trips, leaving Suva at 10 a.m. and returning at 4 p.m., cost <£4 a head.

More Fiji-Nz Flights

TEAL services between Auckland and Nadi with 76-passenger Electras will be increased from one a day to eight a week from October 1. The additional service will operate on Thursdays.

TEAL's Fiji manager, Mr. John Wisdom, said in August that there had been a 30 per cent, increase in passenger traffic between April 1 and August 1 this year compared with the same period last year.

When Air-India inaugurated its Nadi-London service in August it carried a number [?]F guests from Pacific Islands on the first flight. Among them were this group [?]om Fiji (left to right), Mr. G. D. Sharma, editor of the Hindi language news- [?]aper, "Shanti Dut"; Mr. H. B. Singh, of the Pacific Travel Service, Ba; Mrs. L. G. [?]sher, a Suva schoolteacher; Mr. Usher, editor and publisher of the "Fiji Times"; [?]r. C. A. Stinson, Mayor of Suva; and Mr. G. N. Dean, proprietor of the Oceania Printery, Suva. Mrs. Stinson, who is not in the picture, also made the trip. 133 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

ARCADIA ORONSAY ORSOVA ARCADIA SYDNEY depart Sept. 14 Oct. 7 Nov. 16 Jan. 2 AUCKLAND arr/dep Sept. 17 thence via Far East Nov. 19 Jan. 5 SUVA arr/dep Sept. 20* Nov. 22 Jan. 8 HONOLULU arr/dep Sept. 26 Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Nov. 27 Jan. 13 VANCOUVER arr/dep Oct. 1-2 Nov. 6 Dec. 2-3 Jan. 18-19

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arr/dep Oct. 6 Nov. 10 Dec. 8 Jan. 23 HONOLULU arr/dep thence via Nov. 15 Dec. 13 Jan. 28 SUVA arr/dep West Indies Nov. 22 Dec. 20 Feb. 4 AUCKLAND arr/dep to UK Nov. 25 Dec. 23 Feb. 7 SYDNEY arrive Nov. 28 Dec. 26 Feb. 10 • Thence to Pago Pago, arr. Sept. 21.

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Shipping Timetables

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 trip.

Northern Star: From Southampton (UK) via South Africa at Sydney Sept. 9-11, Wellington Sept. 14-16, Auckland Sept. 18, Tahiti Sept. 23-24, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr. Oct. 21.

Southern Cross: 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 vary 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: Sept. 26, Oct. 20 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. 25 (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 sailing from Sydney: Early 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 Maritimes 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: Tahitien; Papeete Sept. 19-22, Vila Sept. 29-30, Noumea Oct. 1-4, arr. Sydney Oct. 7.

Caledonien: Taiohae Nov. 9, Papeete Nov. 11-14, Port Vila Nov. 21-22, Noumea Nov. 23-26, arr. Sydney Nov. 29.

Next outwards voyages, ex-Sydney: Oceanien; Dep. Sydney Sept. 6. Noumea Sept. 9-12, New Hebrides Sept. 13-21, Noumea Sept. 22, Papeete Sept. 28-Oct. 2.

Tahitien: Dep. Sydney Oct. 10, Noumea Oct. 13-16, New Hebrides Oct. 17-25, Noumea Oct. 26, Papeete Nov. 1-5, Taiohae Nov. 8.

Polynesie maintains monthly passenger sailings between Sydney. Noumea, Vila.

Pt. Sandwich (occasionally), and Santo.

Next Sydney sailings: Sept. 18, Oct. 16.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor St., Sydney (8U2654).

Next sailing: Colorado del Mar fr Sydney Sept. 10 (approx.).

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. LI 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-8311).

Sydney-Norfolk ls.-New Hebrides-BSI-Bougainville MV Tulagl leaves Sydney about ev< six weeks for Norfolk Is., Vila, San Honiara and BSI ports.

Next Sydney sailings: Oct. 2, Nov.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Lt 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (80547).

Sydney-Papua-New Guinea Malekula sails from Sydney J Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Raba Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai, ] Moresby, Brisbane, Sydney. At pr’ese undergoing special survey. Next Sydn sailing: Oct. 30 (approx.).

Malaita sails from Sydney for Bri bane, Pt. Moresby, Wewak, Lombru: Lorengau, Kavieng, Rabaul, Bougainvi ports. Next Sydney sailing: Sept (approx.).

Bulolo sails about every six week Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Saman Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Samarai, I Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA USA-Eastern Pacific-NZ-Sydney-Central Pacific-Hawaii PlM'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. 134 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Direct Service

Japan / South Pacific

M.V. "DAISEI MARU" Voy. No. 19 (D/W 6,058 Tons) Dep. YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, August 28.

GUAM Sept. 3.

APIA Sept. 16-17.

PAGO PAGO Sept. 18. ‘NUKUALOFA Sept. 21. * Subject Heavy lift and passe

Subject To Alteration

SUVA Sept. 23-25.

LAUTOKA Sept. 26-28.

NOUMEA Oct. 1-2.

VILA Oct. 4.

SANTO Oct. 5-6.

HONIARA Oct. 10. inducement. accommodation available.

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. Kneubuhl.

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 Company Ltd.

PAPEETE: Etablissements Baldwin. esby. Brisbane, Sydney. Next Sydney ngs; Sept. 11. Oct. 23 (approx.), ontoro sails from Melbourne for iey Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, iara Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Alexissn, Madang. Lae, Pt. Moresby, Sydney, t Sydney sailing; Sept. 18 (approx.), raeside sails about every six weeks: journe, Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, aul Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby, iey. Next Sydney sailing; Oct. 9 etaiis from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., ridge Street. Sydney (80547). jochow and Shansi leave Sydney about ■y four weeks for Brisbane, Pt. esby, Samarai. Sydney, ext Sydney sailings; Soochow Sept. 14; nsi Sept. 28. etaiis from New Guinea Australia Line ire and Yuill Pty.. Ltd., agents). 8 Lng Street, Sydney (BU 4701). letholm; Leaves Sydney approximately •y five weeks for Brisbane, Pt. •esby, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Sydney, t Sydney sailing; Oct. 6 (approx.), letta: Leaves Sydney approximately ry five weeks for Brisbane, Rabaul, tvak, Madang, Lae, Sydney. Next ney sailing; Mid-Oct. (approx.). ietails from Karlander NG Line (P.

Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 13 Bridge eet, Sydney (BU8311).

Lustasia Line’s vessel Makati runs be- :en Australian ports (turn round at [bourne) and Papua-New Guinea. dakati: Dep. Melbourne Aug. 24, Sydney it. 1, Brisbane Sept. 4, Pt. Moresby it. 8, Lae Sept. 12, Madang Sept. 13, Daul Sept. 16.

Jetails from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty., !., 17-19 Bridge St., Sydney (BU1271).

Sydney ■ P-NG - Far East iustralia-West Pacific Line’s Motorsels maintain services between Auslia and Hong Kong via Islands ports.

Southbound vessels call at; NG, BSI larterly), New Hebrides (irregularly), i Australian ports. Northbound vessels m Sydney call regularly at NG ports, iros: From Adelaide and Melbourne, >. Sydney Oct. 7, Brisbane Oct. 9-10, haul Oct. 14-16, Lae Oct. 17-19, dang Oct. 20-21, thence Hong Kong i Manila. _ . renos; From Far East, Rabaul Oct. 12 Madang Oct. 13-14, Lae Oct. 15-17, isbane Oct. 21-23, Sydney Oct. 25-29, ;nce Melbourne and Adelaide, tfilos; Prom Melbourne, dep. Sydney t. 16, Brisbane Oct. 18-20, Rabaul Oct. ■26, Lae Oct. 27-29, Madang Oct. 30-31, ;nce Hong Kong.

Details from Wllh. Wilhelmsen Agency.

Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels king, Ashun and Kweilin call at Rabaul, their way north from Sydney to Hong mg. Next vessels; Ashun; Dep. Sydney Sept. 21 for isbane, Rabaul, thence to Manila and mg Kong.

Kweilin: Leaves Melbourne Oct. 14, for dney Oct. 21, Rabaul Oct. 28, thence inila.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., ;ents, 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU4701).

Dominion Navigation Co. Ltd. (UK) ssels maintain monthly service between 135 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

The "Pacific's Most Modern Cargo Tfeet. • Consign refrigerated and general cargo by Crusader, for fast, efficient delivery to leading Pacific Ports. * * Regular services connect NEW ZEALAND, PACIFIC ISLANDS, NEW GUINEA, JAPAN, SINGAPORE. MALAYA. INDONESIA, HONG KONG. MANILA.

SHIPPING CO LTD Apply to Managing Agents— SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD.

Branches and Agents throughout the Pacific. □ □ 911811 u 4* SARACtH LM Sydney and Japan (via Manila, Hong Hong and Keelung), return via Guam and Rabaul.

Francis Drake: Japan 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.

Schelde Lloyd (RL): From Continent and London, arr Papeete Sept. 28, Noumea Oct. 7. Honiara Oct. 12, Pt. Moresby Oct. 15, Rabaul Oct. 18, Lae Oct. 20, Madang Oct. 22, Alexishafen Oct. 23, Wewak Oct. 24, Sukarnopura, 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 France and Noumea via East Africa and Australia. From Sydney vessels go to Brisbane and Noumea; return to France via Australian coastal ports.

Next sailings from Sydney: Vosges Sept. 21 (Noumea Sept. 22); Vivarais Oct. 19 (Noumea Oct. 25).

Other MM vessels run between France and Sydney, via Panama Canal and Pacific ports.

Next vessel: Maori (Papeete Sept. 8 Vila Sept. 19, Santo Sept. 21, Noumea Sept. 23, Australia Oct. 1).

Details from Messageries Maritimes 36 Grosvenor St.. Sydney (8U2645).

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 Van Neck) calling periodically at Suva and/or Lautoka, Van Cloon at Suva-Lautoka Oct. 6-8; Van Noort at Suva-Lautoka Nov. 13-15- Van Neck at Suva-Lautoka Dec. 7-9.

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 Pt. Moresby Sept 23, Suva/Lautoka Sept. 29, Noumea Oct. 7, retiring from Oct 29 erViCe When She reaches Ja P Chungking: From Japan and He Kong due Rabaul Sept. 11, Kavieng Se 15, Wewak Sept. 18, Madang Sept.

Lae Sept. 25, Pt. Moresby Oct. 4, Sai Oct. 8, Suva/Lautoka Oct. 12, Noun Oct. 19, thence to Japan, arr. Nov. 7 Details from China Navigation Co L (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents) Spring St., Sydney (BU 4701).

Japan-Samoa-Tonga-Fiji- N. Cal.-N. Heb.-BSI The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd. runs regular service from Japan, calling Guam, Sukarnopura (opt.), Apia, Pa Pago, Nukualofa (opt.), Suva, Levul Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo, Honia: thence returning to Japan.

Current voyage: Daisei Maru dep. Jap Aug. 10.

New Zealand-Cook Is.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) mat approximately monthly voyages fn Auckland (NZ) to Rarotonga (Co Islands), with calls at Niue and soi other Cook Islands when cargo warran Details from NZ Department of Islai Territories, Wellington (Tel. 45-117) any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltc NZ-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Tofua maintains a service from Auc land to Suva. Nukualofa. Vavau, Nh Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return Auckland. Next Auckland sailings: Set 29, Oct. 27. 136 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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. [atua maintains a service from kland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, a, Suva, and return to Auckland. t Auckland sailings: Sept. 15, Oct. 13. etails from Union Steam Ship Co.

NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Aucki. (Tel.: 49-430).

YZ-New Caledonia - P-NG- Far East rusader Shipping Co.’s cargo vessels, ning between NZ and the Far East, at New Caledonia and Papua, and, in ie instances, Guam. Next voyages: rusader: Dep. NZ Oct. 21, for Noumea 24. Pt. Moresby Oct. 28, thence (apore, Pt. Swettenham, Manila and g Kong. etails from Shaw, Savill Line, agents.

Queen St., Auckland. (Tel.; 30-310).

New Zealand-Tahiti ew Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels, rating between NZ and UK, via ama, make a call every two months Pahiti, northbound and southbound. sxt northbound voyage: Remuera, Wellington Sept. 12, due Papeete ;. 17. ext southbound voyage: Ruahine i London, due Papeete Sept. 28. etails from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., tomhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ.

Tonga-Fiji-Samoa enga Shipping Agency operates a ;o and passenger service between ualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, igton, Rotuma) with MV Aoniu. Calls also made as required at Apia (W. 10a) and Pago Pago (Am. Samoa), a-round in Suva is usually two days, the agents there are Morris Hedstrom, UK-Panama-Samoa-Fiji be Fiji Direct Service is maintained Conference vessels, sailing at regular thly intervals out of London, via ama, for Apia, Suva and Lautoka, lell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as Load- Brokers in London, jxt sailings; ex-London: Sept. 10, Oct.

UK-Papua-NG-BSI ank Line operates a direct service from )pe to P-NG and BSI, vessels going to Australia for cargo-loading and rnlng to UK via Suez. Next vessels: overbank: From Continent and ion, arr. Pt. Moresby Sept. 28, arai Sept. 30, Lae Oct. 2, Madang 6, Wewak Oct. 8, Kavieng Oct. 11, aul Oct. 12, Honiara Oct. 14. jrucebank: From Continent and ion, arr. Pt. Moresby Oct. 27, Samarai 29, Lae Oct. 31, Madang Nov. 4, rak, Nov. 6, Rabaul Nov. 9, t/ships tabaul, Honiara Nov. 12. stalls from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty. , 269 George St.. Sydney (BU2041).

JSA-Tahiti-Am. Samoa-Fiji- Australia atson-Oceanlc Line operates a fivers 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-Pacific sailings: From Brisbane, Sonoma Sept. 15 approx.); Sierra Oct. 15 (approx.); Ventura Nov 15 (approx.).

Details from Matson Lines, 82 Elizabeth St., Sydney (8U4272).

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. 16; Pioneer Glen Nov. 11.

Details from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Agency. 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

USA-Tahiti-Samoa-Fiji- New Caledonia Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorslsle and Thor I maintain approxmately six weeks service from West Coast Nth. American ports to Pacific Islands.

Thorsisle: From US, at 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-Honololu- 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.

I. 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 (Sept.

II, 25, Oct. 9, 23, Nov. 6, 20, etc.).

SOUTHBOUND Mon., Wed. and Frl.; New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 3.25 a.m., Wed., Fri., 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 137 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

Vancouver alternate Sats. (Sept. 12 26, Oct. 10, 24, Nov. 7, 21, 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. Sat. (Sept. 19, Oct. 3, 17, 31, Nov. 14, 28, etc.): Dep. Sydney 11 a.m. by Britannia for Auckland (arr. 4.50 p.m.).

Weekly from Auckland, dep. 5.35 p.m every Sat. for Nadi (arr. 9.40 p.m. dep. 10.35 p.m.), Honolulu (arr. Sat! 10 a.m., dep. Sun. 10 a.m. by DCS) Vancouver, Amsterdam (arr. Mon. 2 25 p.m.).

SOUTHBOUND Weekly from Amsterdam, dep. 2pm every Sat. by DCS for Vancouver iiV arr ‘ Su . n - 10 35 P- m - dep.

Sun. 11.55 p.m. by Britannia), Nadi lf r - Tu es- 7.20 a.m., dep. 8.05a.m.

Auckland (arr. 12.15 p.m ) Alt. Tues. (Sept. 8. 22. Oct. 6. 20, Nov. 3, 17, etc.): Dep. Auckland 1.05 p.m for Sydney (arr. Tues. 3.55 pm) ■jasssss? Datc,ine crossed between Sydney-Fi|i (or Am. Samoa) Hawaii-USA

By Pan American Airways

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers) northbound Sat ” Thurs.: 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. for Pago Pago (arr. 2.55 a.m., dep. 3.40 a.m ) Honolulu and Los Angeles (arr 7 10 p.m. Mon.).

SOUTHBOUND Tues.. Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 9.45 pm for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.15 am.' Thurs., Sat., dep. 6.15 a.m.), and Sydney (arr. Thurs., Sat. 8.35 a.m.) bat ii 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.).

Mal^ n CT rna f i< ? nal Datelin e crossed between Nadl-Honolulu, and Sydney-Pago Pago.)

Australia-New Zealand

Auckland-Brisbane QANTAS-TEAL with Electra Mk. II’i 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-A/lelbourne QANTAS-TEAL with Electra Mk. II’s Wed., Fri.: Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m arr. Melbourne 11.30 a.m.

Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 7 p.m.

Christchurch-A/lelbourne QANTAS-TEAL. with Electra Mk. II’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. II’s.

Daily: Dep. Auckland 9 a.m., arr. Sydney 11.05 a.m.

Daily: Dep. Sydney 1 p.m., arr. Auckland 6.45 p.m.

Sun., Mon., Wed., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 1.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 3.35 p.m.

Tues., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 12.30 a.m., arr Auckland 6.15 a.m. tSun., Wed., F*ri.: Dep. Sydney 4.30 p.m arr. Auckland 10.15 p.m.

Sept. 28; Dep. Auckland 8 p.m arr Sydney 10.05 p.m. t Does not operate on Sept. 18, 25.

BOAC, with Comet IV’s.

Tues., 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. II’s Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat.: Dep Sydney 12.15 p.m., arr. Christchurch 6 p.m.

Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sun.; Dep Christchurch 7.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 9.35 p.m.

Sydney-Wellington QANTAS-TEAL, with Electra Mk. II’s Daily: Dep. Sydney 9.30 a.m., arr Wellington 3.25 p.m.

Daily: Dep. Wellington 4.30 p.m. arr Sydney 6.50 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 12.30 a.m., arr. Wellington 6.25 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Wellington 8 a.m., arr. Sydney 10.20 a.m.

Wellington-Brisbane TEAL, with Electra Mk. II Sun.: Dep. 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.: Dep. 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 11 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 p.m. Flight extends NI-Auckland (See “Inter-Territory Services”).

Sun.: Dep. NI 2.45 p.m., Sydney arr. p.m.

Sydney-Papua-New Guinei Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett-> operate from Sydney to Lae and rel with DC6B’s. TAA runs the set Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays Saturdays: Ansett-ANA Sundays, T days, Thursdays and Fridays.

NORTHBOUND TAA: Mon., Wed., Sat. dep. Sydney p.m., arr. Brisbane 11.50 p.m. ] Brisbane 12.40 a.m. next day, arr.

Moresby 6.10 a.m., dep. Pt. Mon 7 a.m., arr. Lae 8 a.m.

Fri.: Dep. Sydney 9.30 p.m., Brisbane 11.35 p.m., dep. Brisl 12.25 p.m. Sat., arr. Pt. Moresb: a.m., dep. Pt. Moresby 6.45 a.m., Lae 7.45 a.m.

Ansett-ANA; Sun., Tues., Thurs., dep. Sydney 9.45 p.m., arr. Brisl 11.45 p.m., dep. Brisbane 12.40 i next day, arr. Pt. Moresby 6.10 a dep. Pt. Moresby 7 a.m., arr. 8 a.m.

SOUTHBOUND Ansett-ANA: Dep. Lae Wed., Fri., £ Sun., 9.15 a.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 1 a.m., dep. Pt. Moresby 11 a.m., Brisbane 4.10 p.m., dep. Brisbane p.m., arr. Sydney 6.55 p.m.

TAA: Tues., Thurs., Sun. dep Lae ! a.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 10.15 a.m., ( Pt. Moresby 11 a.m., arr. Brlsb 4.15 p.m., dep. Brisbane 4.50 p arr. Sydney 6.55 p.m.

Sat.; Dep. Lae 9.30 a.m., arr.

Moresby 10.30 a.m., dep. Pt. More 11.15 a.m., arr. Brisbane 4.30 p dep. Brisbane 5.05 p.m., arr. Syd 7.10 p.m.

Qld.-Papua-New Guinea TAA, with Fokker Friendship Prop- Alt. Mon.: Dep. Townsville 1.50 p, Cairns, arr. 2.45 p.m., dep. 3.50 p arr. Pt. Moresby 6.10 p.m. (Sept. 28, Oct. 12, 26, Nov. 9, 23, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Lae 12.30 p.m., Moresby arr. 1.30 p.m., dep. 2.15 p, Cairns arr. 4.35 p.m., dep. 5.35 p arr. Townsville 6.30 p.m. (Sept. 16, Oct. 14, 28, Nov. 11, 25, etc.).

Cairns-Pt. Moresbt-Cairns

Ansett, with Fokker Friendship Prop- Alt. Sat.: Dep. Cairns 3.35 p.m., arr.

Moresby 5.55 p.m. (Sept. 19, Oct. 17, 31, Nov. 14, 28, etc.).

Alt. Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 9.05 a. arr. Cairns 11.25 a.m. (Sept. 20, C 4, 18, Nov. 1, 15, etc.).

Inter-Territory Service

Fiji-Am. Samoa PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sun.: Dep. Nadi 12 noon, cross Int national Dateline, arr. Pago Pago 4 p.m. Sat.

Tues.: Dep. Pago Pago 4 p.m., cr International Dateline, arr. Nadi 6 p.m. Wed. 138 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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 2.15 a.m. Mon. Dep. Nadi 2 a.m., oss International Dateline, arr. Pago ago Sun. 5.45 a.m.

Dep. Pago Pago 10 a.m., cross iternational Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. l, a.m. Dep. Nadi 12.30 p.m., arr. uckland 4.20 p.m. iji-Gilbert & Ellice Islands Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Mon. (Sept. 14, 28, Oct. 12, 26, Nov. 23, etc.i: Dep. Suva 7.45 a.m., arr. adi 8.25 a.m., dep. 9.10 a.m., unafuti arr. 1.05 p.m. Next day (alt. aes.) dep. Funafuti 7 a.m., Tarawa •r. 11.40 a.m.

Wed. (Sept. 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, Nov. ~ 25. etc.i; Dep. Tarawa 7 a.m., unafuti arr. 11.40 a.m., dep. 12.40 m. Nadi arr. 4.35 p.m., dep. 5.20 m , Suva arr. 6.05 p.m Fiji-New Hebrides-BSI Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Thurs.: Dep. Suva 9 a.m., Nadi •r 9.40 a.m., dep. 10.25 a.m., Vila ■v. 1 p.m. Next day (Tues. or Fri.) ;p. Vila 8 a.m., Santo arr. 9.15 a.m., ;p. 9.45 a.m., Honiara arr. 1.40 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Honiara 6.45 a.m., into, arr. 10.40 a.m., dep. 11.10 m., Vila, arr. 12.25 p.m., dep. 1.10 m., Nadi, arr. 5.45 p.m., dep. 6.30 m., Suva, arr. 7.15 p.m.

Fiji-New Zealand PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 6.45 a.m. for uckland, arr. 11.30 a.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 6.30 p.m. r Nadi, arr. 11.10 p.m.

TEAL, with Electra Mk. IPs.

Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., arr. adi 12.15 a.m. , tWed., Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 5.45 m., arr. Auckland 9.35 a.m. , Fri.; Dep. Nadi 8.45 a.m., arr. uckland 12.35 p.m. ; Dep. Nadi 12.30 p.m., arr. Aucknd 4.20 p.m.

“ues., Wed., flights ex-Auckland and idi are operated by Qantas under ,er to TEAL, ept. 16, 23, 30.

Fiji-Tonga Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft alt. Thurs. (Sept. 17, Oct. 1, 15, 29, ov. 12, 26, etc.i: Dep. Suva 7 a.m., •r. Nukualofa 11.15 a.m. Dep. Nukuafa 12 noon, arr. Suva 2.15 p.m. tails from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria le, Suva.

Fiji-Western Samoa Airways, Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Thurs. (Sept. 10, 24, Oct. 8, 22, ov. 5, 19, etc.): Dep. Suva 7.45 a.m., ■oss International Dateline, arr. Apia 25 p.m., Wed. (Sept. 9, 23, Oct. 7, L, Nov. 4, 18, etc.).

Thurs. (Sept. 10, 24, Oct. 8, 22, ov. 5, 19, etc.): Dep. Apia 10 a.m., •oss International Dateline, arr. Suva 40 p.m., Fri. (Sept. 11, 25, Oct. 9, 3, Nov. 6, 20, 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. (Sept. 9, Oct. 14, Nov. 11, etc.): Dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Wallis Is., arr. 3.30 p.m.

Fri. (Sept. 11, Oct. 16, Nov. 13, 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., Sept. 5, 19: Dep. NI 2.15 p.m., arr.

Auckland 6 p.m. Dep. Auckland 10 a.m., arr. NI 1 p.m., Sept. 5, 19.

Sun.: Dep. Auckland 10.30 a.m., arr. NI 1.30 p.m.

P-NG-Solomons TAA, with Fokker Prop-Jet and DCS.

Alt. Mon.: Dep. Lae (DC3) 6 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina.

Honiara, arr. 4.20 p.m. (Sept. 21, Oct. 5, 19, Nov. 2, 16, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (DC3) 7.30 a.m. for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 3.45 p.m. (Sept. 9, 23, Oct. 7, 21, Nov. 4, 25, etc.).

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Lae (Pokker) 9 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Honiara, arr. 4.20 p.m. (Sept. 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, Nov. 10, 24, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 6.45 a.m. for Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae arr. 12 noon (Sept. 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, Nov. 11, 25, etc.).

P-NG - West NG TAA, with DCS Aircraft Alt. Tues. (Sept. 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, Nov. 10, 24, etc.): Dep. Lae 10 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Sukarnopura, arr. 2.35 p.m.

Alt. Wed. (Sept. 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, Nov. 11, 25, etc.): Dep. Sukarnopura 11.35 a.m. for Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 5.05 p.m.

Biak (West No-Lae

Garuda Indonesian Airways (DCS).

Alt. Tues. (Sept. 22, Oct. 6, 20, Nov. 3, 17, 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. (Sept. 23, Oct. 7. 21. Nov. 4, 18, 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. Los Angeles 1 a.m. Sat., arr. Papeete 6.30 a.m. 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— SEPTEMBER, 1964

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Tahiti-USA Pan American Airways, with Intercontinental Jet Clippers Mon.: Dep. Los Angeles 9 a.m., dep. Honolulu 1 p.m., arr. Papeete 6.25 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 8.25 a.m., dep. Honolulu 3.30 p.m., arr, Los Angeles 11.25 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 10 p.m., dep.

Los Angeles 11.59 p.m., arr. Papeete 5.15 a.m. Run Sun.; Dep. Papeete 8.45 p.m., arr. Los Angeles 7.45 a.m., arr. San Francisco 9.45 a.m.

W. Samoa-Am. Samoa Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Aircraft Between Western Samoa and American Samoa—flight time; 45 minutes.

Dep. Faleolo (W. Samoa): Sun. 5 a.m 7.45 a.m., 3.30 p.m.; Tues., Thurs.’

Sat. 3.30 p.m Dep. Pago 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 Between Western Samoa and Cook Islands (Aitutaki and Rarotonga).

Dep. Faleolo 8 a.m. each Friday, arr Aitutaki 2 p.m., dep. 2.30 p.m., arr.

Rarotonga 3.35 p.m.

Dep. Rarotonga 8 a.m. every Sat., arr.

Aitutaki 9.05 a.m., dep. Aitutaki 9.40 a.m., arr. Faleolo 2.10 p.m. w. Samoa-Fiji Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Alt. Wed. (Sept. 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, etc.): Dep. Faleolo 10 a.m., arr. Nadi next day 2.04 p.m.

Alt. Fri. (Sept. 18, Oct. 2, 16, etc.): Dep. Nadi 2.45 a.m., arr. Faleolo alt Thurs. (Sept. 19, Oct. 3, 17, etc.), 8.25 a.m.

International dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nadi.

Agents: Polynesian Booking Office Terminal, Air-Centre Buildings, Beach St., Apia; R. E. Pritchard, Pago Pago; Qantas Empire Airways Ltd., Nadi Airport.

Internal Services

Fiji Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily: Dep.

Suva 7.30 a.m., arr. Nadi 8.15 a.m., dep. Nadi 8.45 a.m., arr. Suva 9.35 a.m.; and dep. Suva 3 p.m., arr. Nadi 3.45 p.m., dep. Nadi 4.10 p.m., arr.

Suva 5 p.m. Mon. only: Dep. Suva 7.30 a.m., arr. Nadi 8.15 a.m., dep.

Nadi 10 a.m., arr. Suva 10.50 a.m — all Heron flights.

Suva-Nadi: Dep. Suva Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri. and alt. Thurs,. 4 p.m., arr. Nadi 4.50 p.m.

Nadi-Suva: Dep. Nadi Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat. 6.15 a.m., arr. Suva 7.05 p.m.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 10.30 a.m Wed 10.30 a.m. Tues.

Suva-Labasa-Savusavu-Labasa-Suva: 10.30 a.m. Tues.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Dep. ] a.m. Mon.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Dep. ll Mon.

Suva-Ura-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. 7.20 i Wed.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusai Suva: Dep. 10.30 a.m. Thurs., !

Sun.

Suva-Ura-Suva; Dep. 7.20 a.m., Sun.

Suva - Labasa - Matei - Labasa - Suva: ] 10.30 a.m. Mon.

Suva-Matei-Labasa-Matei-Suva; Dep. 1 a.m. Fri.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. 10.30 a Wed.

Details from FIJI Airways, Ltd., Vlct Arcade. Suva.

French Polynesia RAI. with DC4 Aircraft Services to the Leeward Group (] Sous le VentL Society Islands.

Mon., Wed.. Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Papeei a.m. Raiatea, arr. 8.55 a.m,, dep. a.m.. Bora Bora, arr. 9.35 a.m.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 7 a.m., Huahine, 7.50 a.m., dep. 8.10 a.m., Raiatea, 8.30 a.m., dep. 8.50 a.m., Bora B arr. 9.10 a.m.

Fri.: 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 p Raiatea, arr. 4.20 p.m., dep. 4.40 p 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. 140 SEPTEMBER, 1964 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

PIM'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. 1.: Dep. Bora Bora 9 a.m., Tikehau, arr. 10.50 a.m., dep. 2.10 p.m., Rangiroa, arr. 2.35 p.m., dep. 3.5 p.m., Papeete, arr. 4.30 p.m. iurs.: Dep. Bora Bora 5 p.m., Papeete, arr. 6.10 p.m.

Details from RAI, Qual Blr Hakelm, peete, or any UTA office.

New Caledonia iANSPAC, with Heron and/or Dragon and/or Aztec umea-Mare: Tues. dep. Noumea 2.30 p.m. for Mare, Noumea, arr. 4.30 p.m.

Fri. dep. Noumea 2.30 p.m. for Mare, Noumea, arr. 4.30 p.m. umea-Lifou; Tues., Wed., Fri. dep.

Noumea 8 a.m. for Lifou, Noumea, arr. 10 a.m. Mon. dep. Noumea 8.15 a.m. for Lifou, Noumea, arr. 10.15 a.m. umea-Isle of Pines: Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat. dep. Noumea 10.45 a.m. for Isle of Pines, Noumea, arr. 12 noon.

Sun. dep. Noumea 8 a.m. for Isle of Pines, Noumea, arr. 5 p.m. umea-Ouvea: Tues. dep. Noumea 10.45 a.m., Noumea, arr. 2 p.m. Sat. dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., Noumea, arr, 10 a.m. umea-Houailou-Poindimie: Tues., Wed., Fri., dep. Noumea 9 a.m. for Houailou and Poindimie, Noumea, arr. 10.50 a.m.

Sat. dep. Noumea 1.30 p.m. for Houailou and Poindimie, Noumea, arr. 3.20 p.m. Sun. dep. Noumea 3 p.m. for Houailou and Poindimie, Noumea, arr. 4.50 p.m. umea-Kone-Koumac; Mon. dep. Noumea 7.45 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, arr. 3.40 p.m.

New Hebrides New Hebrides Airways, with Drover. »n., 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. (Usually a flight is made from Tanna to either Aneityum. Futuna, Aniwa or Erromanga before the scheduled departure for Vila). es.: 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. (Sept. 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, Nov. 10, 24, etc.).

LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) :. Tues. Dep. Lae 9 a.m., Rabaul arr. 10.55 a.m. (Sept. 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, Nov. 10, 24, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 10.10 a.m., Lae arr. 12 noon (Sept. 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, Nov. 11, 25, etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8.45 a.m. for Daru, returning same day via Balimo, arr. 2.25 p.m. (Sept. 18, Oct. 2, 16, 30, Nov. 13, 27, 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. (Sept. 10, 24, Oct. 8, 22, etc.).

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Daru 9 a.m. for Pt.

Moresby, arr. 11.15 a.m. (Sept. 11, 25, Oct. 9, 23, 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. (Sept. 21, Oct. 5, 19, Nov, 2, 16, etc.).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m, for Samarai, Deboyne, Samaral, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Sept. 14, etc.).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m. for Samarai. Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.30 p.m. (Sept. 28, etc.).

LAE-MAD ANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service (Dcs)

Mon., Fri.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng.

Rabaul, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Mon.; Dep. Rabaul 7.30 a.m. for Kavieng, 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 Kavieng, arr. 1.50 p.m.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Wed.; Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Wabag, Wapenamunda. Baiyer R.. Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 2.15 p.m.

Thurs.; Dep. Lae 9 a.m. for Goroka, Minj. Banz. Hagen. Baiyer R.. Wapenamunda, Wabag, Madang, arr. 3.20 p.m.

Sat.: 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)

Tues.; Dep. Lae 9 a.m. for Goroka. Mlnj, Banz, Hagen, Madang, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Madang 9.50 a.m. for Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 2.15 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-Rabaul-Lae (Dcs)

Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Lae 9.30 a.m., arr. Rabaul 12.05 p.m.

Sat., Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 6 a.m., arr. Lae 8.35 a.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 10 a.m. for Finschhafen, Cape Gloucester (on request), Kandrian, Talasea, Hoskins, Jacquinot Bay, Rabaul, arr. 1.45 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m. for Jacquinot 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 Flnschhafen, Lae, arr. 8.15 a.m.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Wed., Fri.. Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m. for Buka, Wakunal, Aropa, Buin, Kleta, Wakunai, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 3.40 p.m.

Rabaul-Talasea-Rabaul

Mon.; Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m. for Hoskins, Talasea, Rabaul, arr. 11.30 a.m.

Operated by Ansett-MAL (with DC3’») Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Rabaul, arr. 11.35 a.m.

Dep. Goroka 7.45 a.m. for Kainantu, 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, Kavieng, 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. (Piagglo) Wewak 6.15 a.m. for Goroka. Wewak, Vanimo, Wewak, arr. 2.45 p.m.

Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Mt. Hagen, Banz. Mlnj, Madang, arr. 11.45 a.m.

Dep. (Plaggio) Goroka 8.15 a.m. for Mt. Hagen, arr. 8.50 a.m.

Dep. (Plaggio) Mt. Hagen 6.30 a.m. for Banz. Goroka, arr. 7.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Luml. Nuku, Wewak, arr. 11.05 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 1 p.m. for Maprik, Yangoru, Wewak, arr. 2.45 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) 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 Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 4.40 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna or Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 1.30 p.m. for Banz, Mlnj, Goroka, arr. 2.50 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Telefomin, Wewak, arr. 11.40 a.m.

Dep. (Cessna) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Altape, Sissano, Vanimo, Dagua, Wewak, arr. 12.15 p.m.

Dep. (Cessna or Piaggio) Wewak 3 p.m. for Angoram. Wewak. arr. 4 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, arr. 10.35 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Lae 9.05 a.m. for Kainantu. Goroka. Mlnj. Banz. Mt Hagen, Wabag. Mt. Hagen, arr. 1.10 p.m.

Dep. Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 12 noon.

Dep. Wewak 6.15 a.m. for Madang, Lae, arr. 8.50 a.m.

Dep. (Plaggio) Goroka 7.30 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m. 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1964

Single Return £ s . d. £ s. ( Moresby . . . 48 14 0 92 5 Lae .... 60 4 0 115 5 Rabaul . . . 70 9 0 135 15 Noumea . . . 56 18 0 108 3 Honiara 92 4 0 179 5 Norfolk Is. 27 10 0 52 5 i Lord Howe 16 9 0 32 18 Nadi .... 85 9 0 162 8 Suva .... 91 5 0 175 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 C Vancouver . . 350 9 0 665 18 0 Papeete . . . 181 5 0 344 8 c

From Auckla

ND (NZ curren cy) TO- Nadi .... 43 0 0 81 4 0 Norfolk Is. . . 20 15 0 39 9 0 Papeete . . . 114 10 0 217 11 0 Noumea . . . 45 10 0 86 19 0 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency! i TO— Nadi 5 16 0 12 12 0 Nukualofa . . . 18 10 0 45 3 0 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 Pares quoted are First Class.

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Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae. arr 8.25 a.m.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavleng Rabaul, arr. 4 p.m.

Dep. Goroka 7.45 a.m. for Wau, Pt.

Moresby, Wau, Lae, Goroka, arr. 240 p.m.

Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Mt. Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, MinJ, Banz, Mt Hagen, Madang, arr. 3.30 p.m Dep. (Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 9.30 a.m for Mendi, Kagua, Erave, lalibu, Mt Hagen, arr. 12 noon.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka Madang, arr. 10.35 a.m.

Dep. Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul, arr. 12 noon.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Goroka Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m.

Dep Rabaul 6.30 a.m. for Kavleng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka Lae arr. 4.40 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 8.30 a.m. for Ambunti, Burul, Wewak, arr. 10 05 a.m.

Operated by Papuan Airlines Transport Pty. Ltd (“Patair”) Mon.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m for Popondetta, Kokoda. Pt. Moresby' arr. 10.10 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, Bereina Tapml. Woitape, Tapini. Bereina!

Kairuku, Aroa (opt.), Rorona (opt.) Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.30 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.20 a.m for Tapini, Woitape (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr 9.50 a.m. (30 min. later if call made at Woitape).

Tues.; Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 8.30 am for Kokoda. Popondetta, Pt. Moresby arr. 11 a.m.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m. for Daru, Ballmo, Daru. Pt. Moresby arr. 1.50 p.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 11am for Cape Rodney, Paill (opt.) Pt' if rr ’ „ 12 ' 50 P- m - (20 min! later if call made at Paili).

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 830 a.m. for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby arr. 10.30 a.m. ♦ PIM's airways schedules are arranged alphabetically from point of departure under five main headings; Trans- Pacific Services, Australia-New Zealand, Australia-Pacific Islands, Inter- Territory Services and Internal Services.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.m. for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Kairuku, Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m. (35 min. later if call made at Rorona and Aroa).

Wed.: Dep. vDC3) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m. for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby arr. 10.10 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Tapini. Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.m for Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, Pt Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 11.15 a.m for Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 2 p.m.

Thurs.: (Piaggio) Dep. Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.m. for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.m. for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Kairuku, Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr 3.35 p.m. (35 min. later if call made at Rorona and Aroa).

Alt. Thurs. (Sept. 10, 24, Oct. 8, 22 Nov. 5. 19, etc.): Dep. (DCS) Pt.’

Moresby 7 a.m. for Popondetta, Embi, Wanigela, Vivigani, Losuia, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1.45 p.m. (Aug. 20, Sept. 3, 17, etc.): Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7 a.m. for Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 9 am.

Pri.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m for Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 9.30 a.m.

Dep. (DCS) 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 for Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr 10.30 a.m.

Dep. (Piagglo) Pt. Moresby 1.45 p.i for Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, I Moresby, arr. 3.35 p.m.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 2.30 p.i for Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 4.35 p.j Sat.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.i for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Merest arr. 10.10 a.m.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 8.30 a.i for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, ai 10.30 a.m.

Solomon Islands Megapode Airways with a Dove

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Tues.: Dep. Honiara 8 a.m. and 4 p.n arr. Auki (Malaita) 8.25 a.m. and 4.: p.m., arr. Honiara 9 a.m. and 5 p.i Tues., Thurs. (in Fokker week): De Honiara 9.30 a.m., arr. Yandina (Ru sell Is.) 9.55 a.m., dep. Yandina 10. a.m., arr. Honiara 10.40 a.m.

Pri (in Fokker week): Dep. Honiara a.m. arr. Munda (New Georgia) 9. a.m., dep. Munda 9.25 a.m., arr. Bar koma (Vella Lavella) 9.45 a.m., de Barakoma 10 a.m., arr. Munda 10.1 a.m., dep. Munda 10.30 a.m., ai Honiara 11.45 a.m.

Fi.*i. (in DCS week): Dep. Honiara 8 a.n arr. Yandina 8.25 a.m., dep. 8.40 a.n arr. Munda 9.25 a.m., dep. 9.45 a.n arr. Barakoma 10.15 a.m., dep. 10 * a.m., arr. Munda 11.05 a.m., dep. 11 • a.m., arr. Yandina 12.10 p.m., de 12.30 p.m., arr. Honiara 1 p.m. (Note: Fokker week and DC3 week ref( to TAA services from Papua-Ne Guinea. See timetable under Intel Territory Services.) Details from Megapode Airways, P.O. Be 103, Honiara, BSIP.

Pacific Air Fares

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Index to Advertisers Adams Industries 23, 29, 36 41, 103, 108 Air-lndia International . . 58 Amalgamated Dairies Ltd. . . 33 American Cigarette Co. (Overseas) Pty. Ltd. . . 40 Angel & Weatherley . . . 81 Ansett-A.N.A. 32 ANZ Bank Ltd 118 Arnott, Wm. Pty. Ltd. . . 145 Australian Cotton Manufacturing Co 68 Aywun Poultry Farm . . . . 36 Ballina Slipway & Eng. Co. 96 Bank of New Zealand . . 86 Bethell, Gwyn & Co. Ltd. 139 Bish Ltd 43 8.0.A.C ;; 147 Bramair International Pty.

Ltd ]33 Braybon Bros. Pty. Ltd. 8 Breckwoldt & Co. Wm. . . 44 British Solomons Trading Co. Ltd 46 BrockhofF Biscuits Pty. Ltd. 1 Brown, David, Tractors Pty Ltd * 3 Brunton & Co. 54 B. .. 18, 76, 125, cov. Mi Cadbury-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd. 59 Cambridge Credit Corportion 126 Canon Camera Co. Inc. .. 11l _ Lf d. .. 126 Carlton & United Breweries Ltd 2 Carpenter, W. R., & Co! Ltd. 73, 109, cov. iv Carreras (Overseas) Ltd. . . 37 Classified Advertisements .. 143 Crammond Radio Co 48 Crusader Shipping Co. . . 136 C. Co. Ltd., The . . 90 Cystex 69 Daiwa Shipping Line .. ..135 Donald, A. 8., Ltd 105 Drambuie Liqueur Co. Ltd. 103 Dunlite Electrical Co. Ltd. . . 56 Econo Products Co 46 Electro Motion (Export) Ltd. 31 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty.

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Ltd 99 Handi-Works Co 22 Hardie, James, & Co. Pty.

Ltd 30 Hastings Deering Ltd. . ..114 Hellaby, R. & W., Ltd. . . 67 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd 100 Hornsby Eye Aid Centre .. 143 Hyster Aust. Pty. Ltd. .. 112 1.C.1.A.N.Z. Ltd 82 Industrial Enterprises Ltd. . . 50 International Harvester Co 28 International Majora Paints Pty. Ltd 101 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 54 King George Whisky . . . . 94 Kodak (A'asia.) Pty. Ltd. . . 26 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. . . 102 Kraft Foods Ltd. . 70, 148 Lawrence, Alfred, & Co. P/L 64 Love, J. R„ & Co. Pty. Ltd. 39 Lysaght, John (Aust.) Ltd. .. 128 Massey Ferguson (Aust.) Ltd. 80 Matson Line 132 Mendaco . ’ 59 Millers Ltd. . . . . ’ j ’ 53 Mono Pumps (Aust.) Pty.

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URNS PHILP (New Guinea) LTD.

General Merchants, Shipping & Customs Agents

Head Office: Port Moresby, Papua Cable Address: BURPHIL

Overseas Agents

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., all Australian States.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London.

Burns Philp & Co. of San Francisco.

Trade Enquiries Invited KAVIENG o % WEWAK RABAUL 6 /) KOKOPO»l MADANS 1 GOROKA

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BOROKO SAMARAI • Branches and Shopping Centres.

IPPING AGENTS FOR: Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp Cr Co. Ltd.

Cogedar Line.

Campagnie Des Messageries Maritimes.

Crusader Shipping Co. Ltd.

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P. Gr 0. Orient Lines.

Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

R LINE AGENTS FOR; Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines Qantas Empire Airways.

International Air Transport Representatives

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Agents For

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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.

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Exporters Of

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Shopping Centre

OS CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— SEPTEMBER, 1964

m i § i r? i if# i M i APITAL £10,000,000 : . ■■ > 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 Merchant

Forty-eight years of Development and Service in the Pacific Islands Agents for Australi< European and Americ Manufacturers includi Electrolux, Chrysler, Fo McCallum's Whisky, Vic Mowers, Enfield Engine LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

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Carpenter & Co. Ltd

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Buyers of Island Produce: Copra, Cocoa and Coffeebeans, etc.

Buying Enquiries

Established 1914 Cable Address; "CAMOHE"

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address; G.P.O. Box 168, Sydi PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1964