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dI. 36, No. 9, September, 1965 [?]n This Issue iNERAL Iture Pearl Possibilities 61 iorge Baxter, Colour Printer 81 ok on "Queen Emma" 93 ey're Emulating Famous Voyagers . 99

African Samoa

st Yachtsman Turns Up 11 ief Justice Retires 13 imp Hits Tuna Industry 63 iw Law Should Help Tourism 117

)Ok Islands

I of Self-Government Begins 27 i Epidemic 30 gher Loss for "Moana Roa" 105 II iw Constitution Proposed 8 th Rate Down 13 nabans Were Ready for Violence .... 16 imorial to Wilkes Expedition 21 iw Way of Handling Prisoners .... 35 isad Case Repercussions 36 edit Union Movement Spreads .... 71 rolevu Hotel Fire Hits Tourism .... 119 eap Tours 123 urism Statistics 127 conut Pest Found 130 ndfall for CSR Shareholders 130 iw Interest in Low-grade Phosphates 130 panese Fishing Boat Wrecked 147

Ench Polynesia

rly Population Figures 81 egularities in Annexation of 1880 88 >orea —A World Apart 113 irodrome Opened at Rangiroa 121

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Record Copra Shipment 13 Christmas Island Soil Survey 13 Banabans Were Ready for Violence .... 16

Lord Howe Island

Fishing Vessel Abandoned 105 Tourist Accommodation 127 Palm Seed Record 131 NAURU Executive, Legislative Councils 35 Liquor Issue Looming 57

New Caledonia

Scarcity of Jobs for Girls 23 New Woman Swimming Star 55 Old Landmarks Go 125 Amadee Lighthouse's Centenary 125 More Australian Trade Likely 130 New Nickel Contracts with Japan 131

New Hebrides

Visit by High Commissioner 13 Santo Earthquakes 15 New Definitive Postage Stamps 25 First Russian Ship Calls 105 Vila Trader Wrecked 105 Tourist Brochures 123 Regulations on Native Artifacts 123 NIUE Aerial Photographs Taken 21

Norfolk Island

Ball Bay Harbour Idea 25 First Women 85

Papua-New Guinea

No Worries in Latest Budget 10 First Political Party Formed 10 Public Service Ordinance Disallowed 11 Tertiary Education Appointments 13 More Lost Tribes Found 21 New Loom from Old Idea 23 Linguistic Studies 24 Territory's Missing Silver 24 Angoram People's Perfect Teeth 27 RSL Congress 31 Main Challenger at Noumea Games 53 Matthias Toliman 65 "Moresby's" Maiden Voyage 101 Wharf Facilities Criticised 103 Another Jap Ship to Call 103 Tourist Plans for Highlands 121 Move for Cocoa Stabilisation Scheme 129 New Customs Rates 129 Milne Bay District Phosphate 130

Pitcairn Island

Something for Davy Jones to Read 23

Solomons Islands

Choiseul's Social Structure 91 Copra Production Down 131 TONGA Portrait of Queen Salote 37 Coconut Processing Corporation 129

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First Micronesian Administrator 51 Shipping Contract Awarded 105

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New Aircraft Arrives 13 Russian, Italian Interest .... ... 21 Moors True Life Adventure .41 Death of Captain J. W. Jones 43 Agricultural Development Difficulties 43 Teacher's Reminiscences 45 Bigger Deficit Predicted 45 DEPARTMENTS: In a Nutshell, 13; Tropicalities, 21; People in Pictures, 38; Territories Talk-Talk, 47; Personality Parade, 65; Planters' Digest, 69; Magazine Section, 81; New Books, 91; Shipping, 99; Cruising Yachts, 107; Travel, 113; Commerce, 129; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 137; Deaths of Islands People, 147.

Important Advances For Fiji In New Constitution An enlarged Legislative Council and the extension of adult franchise to Chinese, Rotumans and other Pacific Islanders are two of the main features of the new constitution for Fiji recommended by the London conference.

A third important feature is a system of cross-voting under which electors of all races will vote in three electorates for Fijian, Indian and European candidates, on a common roll.

The new Legco, elected for five years, will comprise: Fijians elected on Fijian communal rolls, comprising Fijians, Rotumans and other Islanders 9 Fijians elected by Council of Chiefs 2 Indians elected on Indian communal rolls 9 Europeans or others elected on communal rolls of Europeans, part-Europeans and Chinese 7 Each of three constituencies into which Colony to be divided, each with a common roll, to elect one Fijian (or other Islander) one Indian, and one European (or Chinese, or part-European) 9 Total membership 36 Plus four official members.

It is calculated that the above system probably will produce, in elected members, 14 Fijians (or Islanders), 13 Indians, and 10 Europeans (or Chinese, or part- Europeans).

For the purpose of elections, Chinese will be regarded as Europeans, and Rotumans and other Pacific Islanders will be considered Fijians. They will be eligible both to vote and to stand for election.

Other features of the new constitution are that: • The Governor will appoint a Council of Ministers from the Legislative Council.

He will also retain control over defence, external affairs and internal security. • Public Service, Police, and Judicial and Legal Service Commissions will be appointed.

New Fiji Constitution

Planned-But Patel

Group Doesn'T Like It[?]

By R. W. Robson After intense discussion in London from July 26 to August 8, the Fiji constitutional conference accepted a plan for constitutional and administrative changes in Fiji (see panel), although four of the six Indian delegates, led by Mr. A. D.

Patel (Indian Minority Group) would not agree. The latter demand a common, all-Fiji electoral roll instead of communal rolls.

THE plan probably will come into operation in 1966. It represents a definite step towards complete selfgovernment, but no break in the ties between the British Crown and Fiji is contemplated.

At the end of August, all sections in Fiji were waiting to see whether the Patel-led Indian minority would respond to the Colonial Office’s appeal for unity among the Indian, Fijian and European communities to make the new constitution work harmoniously, or whether it would launch a campaign against the London plan.

Hopes of harmony were not too bright after the London Daily Telegraph published an apparently inspired article on August 20 saying that Fiji-Indian sources in London had affirmed the previous day an Indian intention to wreck the constitution. The article claimed that: • Indian influences were tht busy in London trying to brii pressure to bear on the Coloni Secretary, Mr. Anthony Greenwoc by threatening “grave racial d; harmony” if he attempted to activa the new constitution. • Fiji’s Indian population wou be urged to refuse to register on t] proposed voters’ rolls. • The four Indian elected mei bers of the Legislative Council wou resign. • There would be an appeal the United Nations through “friendly” foreign power. • The Indians might launch series of strikes and a civil d obedience campaign in Fiji.

Two days after the Daily Telegra\ article appeared, Mr. Patel, who w still in London, denied that tl Indian community planned “wreck” the new constitutio although his group still “disapprove* the conference report.

Mr. Patel added that his groi would take no action until he r turned to Fiji and discussed tl situation with the Indian communit General Satisfaction Apart from hostility expressed 1 Patel followers, the announcement the new constitutional plan gave wit general satisfaction in Fiji. Noi expressed their pleasure mo forcibly than the younger brigade Fiji-born, Fiji-educated Indians.

Messages from the European ai Fiji delegations in London gave war praise to Ratu K. K, T. Mara, wl led the Fijians at the conference.

These tributes added to the reput tion he made in July at the Son Pacific conference in Lae (PH Aug., p. 23) and suggest that Ra Mara will have an important plat in the future government of Fiji.

The Fijian and European deleg Mr. A. D. Patel. 8 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Responsible Indians Must Be Encouraged To Repudiate Patel ions worked together impressively, nd there is no doubt that the Colony } at last getting some constructive sadership from those communities.

Now, it is hoped, the two commnities will be able to encourage le non-Patel Indians to provide the jadership that is needed to enable 11 races in Fiji to go forward armoniously to build up the rchipelago’s economic strength to ike care of the rapidly-growing opulation.

If the Patel group is going to fight, ad seek the interference in Fiji of le wild-eyed visionaries of the fnited Nations (we have seen lore than enough of them in New ruinea!) it will be necessary to show le world that the majority of Fijiidians are quiet and dependable sople, who can play their proper art in the future development of le country.

Great Harm Great harm was done to Fiji by ie quibblings and posturings of the del group in London, especially hen they insisted that they spoke ir the majority of Fiji’s Indians. The olonial Office finally was convinced at the group represented only a inority.

It is important, therefore, that the ore sober and responsible sections Fiji-Indians be encouraged to ake their voices heard, in repudia- >n of Mr. Patel and all his political orkers.

Unless that is done, and with the jians in their present temper, a sastrous situation could develop in e Colony.

At present, the people of Fiji are mposed amost equally of Indians id non-Indians. At the beginning this year, the total population was: Indians 228,176 Fijians 189,169 Europeans 10,831 Part-Europeans 9,803 Other Islanders 7,232 Rotumans 5,635 Chinese 5,423 Others 121 Fotal 456,390 As everyone knows, today’s oblem stems from (a) the Cession Fiji to Britain in 1874 by the iefs, and since treated by Britain an inviolable trust and (b) the reduction of Indian labourers to >rk the huge sugar industry, witht which Fiji today could be no >re advanced economically and :ially than the Solomon Islands.

The Europeans introduced epimics which decimated the Fijian population for 40 years. The Indians brought with them a phenomenal birth-rate. In 1921, there were only 85.000 Fijians, but there then were 60.000 Indians. In 1944 there were about 117,000 of each. Now, Indians outnumber Fijians by 40,000, although the Fijians are healthy and quickly increasing.

Now the Indian political agitators say: “We are entitled to the political power represented by our numbers.

We are half the population. We claim at least the privileges of the other immigrant race, the Europeans.”

The governing Europeans are in two classes—the British officials, who hitherto have said, “Our chief responsibility here is to protect the rights of the Fijians, to whom we made certain pledges under the 1874 Deed of Cession”; and the planters and traders, mostly Australians and New Zealanders, who have no official voice in government, but whose investments represent probably 75 per cent, of the Fiji economic structure and whose influence is marked.

Both classes, for 20 years, with growing uneasiness, have watched the developing economic and political strength of the Indian community; but it took the bombshell of a disintegrating British colonial empire to blow them into activity.

Awkward Factors Now they face two awkward factors. One is the lack of strong leadership among the majority of Indians quiet-living, industrious folk, who want nothing better than a peaceful life in well-endowed Fiji; but who, in default of positive leadership, are being claimed as followers by the aggressive and noisy minority led by the Nadi lawyer Patel and his associates.

The other factor is the conservatism of the land-owning Fijians, who have been quite content with the Colonial Office regime; and who, in any event, are profoundly suspicious of the political ambitions of the Indians, as enunciated by the Patel group ind its shrieking little newspapers. Under present conditions, a common roll system would give Indian politicians control of Fiji.

That is what Governor Jakeway faced when he arrived in Fiji early in 1964.

Behind him was a Colonial Office anxious to be rid of the headaches —political and financial —represented by the remnants of the Empire.

Before him were three main communities (Europeans, Fijians and Indians) split three ways—because there were some important differences between the political thinking of the Europeans and Fijians, as well as between Fijians and Indians.

The Governor found himself with a non-official Legco of 18—six men from each of the three main communities—and four of the six Indians were (and still are) Patel followers, regarded as anti-European and motivated by aggressive political ambitions.

With praiseworthy patience and tact, he spent most of 1964 and 1965 trying to make a silk purse to contain acceptable constitutional reform out of a pretty ugly sow’s ear.

He brought one leader from each race into his Executive Council— including the redoubtable Mr. Patel —and gave them administrative responsibility over certain departments.

He assisted the Colonial Office in organising a constitutional conference (to be attended by all 18 nonofficial Legco members) in London.

He got far more co-operation and help from the European and Fijian leaders than he might have expected.

But when he tried to get the leaders of the three communities to agree, in general terms, on principles to be licked into shape in London, his commendable plan blew up in his face.

Four Indians, led by Mr. Patel, withdrew from the private discussions organised by the Governor. Two Indians stayed with the Europeans and the Fijians.

And that was the way in which they arrived in London for the crucial conference.

Disunity In London Six Fijians, six Europeans and two Indians indicated there that they would go with the Colonial Office in quite a large measure of constitutional reform—although it was known that there were some areas of difference between them.

But the four Patel-led Indians soon disclosed their unequivocal demands, the principal of which were: • Election of a Legislature on a common roll, as against communal rolls. • A large and increasing measure of self-government. • Independence within some definite time.

The Indians’ stubborn insistence (Continued on p. 147) ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

£ Commonwealth grant .. 31,000,000 Internal revenue . .. 17,090,000 Loan monies 3,080,000 No Worries For Money-Happy P-NG In Latest Budget From Judy Tudor in Port Moresby Public galleries were packed with eager or apprehensive citizens half an hour before Papua-New Guinea Treasurer, Mr. A. P. J. Newman, delivered his 1965-1966 Budget at 8 p.m. on August 24. But what he had to say isn’t going to hurt anyone in this money-happy Territory very much.

TERRITORIANS, like Australians, will lose more out of their pockets this year but only about £820,000 more in actual increases in direct and indirect taxation. The rest of an estimated £3 million increase in internal revenue will come as a natural growth.

This coming year public revenue for P-NG will be made up of: This gives a total of £51,170,000 to which can be added another £15,000,000 which the Commonwealth contributes through directly financed activities such as Commonwealth Departments and other instrumentalities.

With a grand total of over £6O million in the community purse, it is clear that for another year, at least, P-NG will float along in the economic heaven to which it has become accustomed.

Increased Taxes The Budget speech outlined tax increases only in general terms.

Specific increases to various items will be the subject of legislation later in the session.

The largest revenue increase will come from revised import duties.

This is expected to yield £460,000.

“The new varied tariff structure,” said Mr. Newman, “will ensure an equitable contribution by all income earners.”

An additional excise on cigarettes has been in operation since July 1 and is expected to yield £90,000; excise on local beer will also be increased to bring in much more (See p. 129). Increased postal and telephone charges will produce £90,000; and income tax rates will go up in line with the recent increase in Australia (2i per cent.) and result in £BO,OOO more revenue in a full year.

The Treasurer gave warning that work was in hand on other income tax measures to be introduced at some future time which will catch the lower income groups (mostly native), who now escape making a direct contribution to revenue.

Development, He Says The overall object of the 1965-66 Budget, said Mr. Newman, was to follow the World Bank recommendations that emphasis should be placed on economic development “with a restricted approach to other spheres”.

In line with this intention, £IOO,OOO has been earmarked for the establishment of a Territory Development Bank.

Allocation for capital construction is close to £l2 million—half of it to go on architectural works (which usually means more houses and offices); and another £5 million on engineering works.

But in spite of these brave provisions, the other figures quoted by the Treasurer are nothing like so encouraging and present a pretty well-known and tried Territory budgetary picture.

A huge slice of planned spending (61.39 per cent.) will go on departmental expenditure—£l6,sßl,6oo on salaries alone.

It is intended to recruit a further 490 expatriate officers, with all the consequential costs involved (including anew rash of hideous high cost housing at Boroko). If these recruitment figures are realised, it will put the total in the public service, indigenous and expatriate officers, at over 18,000.

Although development plans call for expert staff, the size and scope of the P-NG public service begins to look less than ever like one that an aspiring but backward self-governing country could possibly afford.

Nor does the present P-NG trade pattern look any more digestible.

Imports rose by 24 per cent, in 1964-65 over the previous yeara huge, all-time record £43,400,000, Exports rose also, 20 per cent., but produced an exj income valued at only £24,580,C leaving a trade deficit of nearly million.

While Australia pours in & bounty, these extraordinary trac figures are possible but there: certainly no indication in these,, in this year’s Budget, or in anytW else in this country, that P-NG getting any closer to the point wH it can tear itself away from / tralia’s apron strings.

In short, what Mr. Newmi Budget adds up to is that in next year, despite depressed prices; some export commodities, there

First Political

Party Formed

IN P-NG The formation of Papua-New Guinea's first political party, the New Guinea United National Party, wai announced at the end of August.

The party's president is Gala Gala Rarua, president of the Port Moresby Workers' Association.

The party is the idea of Zur< Zurecnuoc, of Finschhafen, Under Secretary to the Treasury. To the en< of August it had 15 members, al from the P-NG House of Assembly except Rarua and an Australia! journalist, Don Hogg. The member included four of five Europeai Assembly members from open electc rates.

The party's aims fill several fools cap pages and are mostly a repetitioi of Administration policy. The Party' original primary aim was to set target date for self-government, bu this was later watered down to "ir ternal ministerial government by th end of 1968".

No one seems to know what thi means, and personally I doubt the any of it merits national headlines.

The announcement of the new part coincided with a statement in Me bourne by the Australian Territorie Minister, Mr. C. E. Barnes, that could be up to 20 years before P-Ni achieved self-government, provide outside pressure was not exerted.

Mr. Barnes said he opposed th idea of Australia bowing to pressure to rush the Territory into sel govenment or independence.

JUD TUDOR. 10 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

oing to be a great deal of loose loney floating about in this Territory >r enterprising merchants and proiders of services to pick up. > ublic Service Irdinance Disallowed On August 25, the second day of ic Assembly’s Budget session, feelig ran high in some sections of the buse, and Australia’s Territories [inister, Mr. C. E. Barnes, came in ir some personal abuse, when it was arned that assent to the Public Scree (P-NG) Ordinance had been with- :ld. The ordinance had been passed I the House last February.

The ordinance was regarded as a alter of principle, more than as a ece of legislation—the principal beg that the House of freely elected embers was “responsible” in matters political importance.

The history behind the “shemozzle” gan last January when elected memrs of the House tried to remove me of the control of the P-NG iblic Service from the Department Territories in Canberra to Port oresby.

When the Minister would not comomise, unofficial members forced jislation through the House providy for an independent Public Service lard which, among other things, mid have the power to create or disnd departments, control overseas :ruitment of officers, fix salary issifications and overseas allowces.

Ordinances concerning the Terriy Public Service are among those it must have the assent of the Govlor-General—and, in this case, this s been refused.

First Time Disallowance of legislation that anated from the old Legco was linary enough, but this is the first ic that legislation from the House Assembly has been so treated.

Mr. Ian Downs, member for the ihlands (Special) electorate, said t the Minister responsible for the ird stage of this foolish act” should “transferred to some other task t requires less brains.”

Mr. Don Barrett, member for ist Gazelle (Special), said that lough the legislation was said to 'e been thrown out for technical sons, the real reason for its rejeci was that the Territories Departnt was loath to give up any of its ver.

Mer members feared for the honour of the House, which they felt had been slighted; or believed that the eyes of the whole world were on Australia which would now be “discredited” for not living up to the principle of allowing the Territory people a dominant voice in their own affairs.

To make the pdl easier to swallow, the Minister has now stated that the Australian Government is willing to consider changes in existing arrangements to provide for Territory opinion to be taken into consideration when significant discussions on the Territ°ry Public Service are being undertal g n - . , ' He suggested a committee of two elected members of the Administrator’s S' o^ Cll ? ieml ? er representing the P-NG Administration and one member representing the Territories Dea j| ■ a A/T !t was said Mr Downs, just somehke this that members had asked for m January—only to be met f b , y the uncompromising attitude of the Minister. The result was that they were forced into making the amendments that now made the ordinance unacceptable to the Australian Government.

Dr. John Gunther, Assistant Administrator (Services), in a we-toldyou-so statement, went only part of the way towards smoothing ruffled feathers. He said that the legislation was a hastily created piece of work that was bad legislation from the start; that official members had begged unofficial members to hold their hands in February but they would not. Asa result they had got a piece of legislation that was unworkable. Nonetheless, if thev refleeted, they would see that they had actually got what they wanted—a committee that could take cart in deliberations on the public service. say what was pretty obvious: That while the Australian Government still provided 60 per cent, of the Territory’s revenue it naturally wanted to control the prime instrument for spending it.

Lost Yachtsman Turns Up After Four Months Prom Ed. Johnson in Pago Pago After no word had been heard from him for four months and eight days, David Meigs, a 23year-old American yachtsman, turned up in Pago Pago late on August 20 in his trimaran “Extended Adolescence”.

Meigs left Pago Pago on April 12 to sail solo to Honolulu, and nothing was heard from him from then until his return to Pago.

Meigs came ashore in Pago with long, unkempt hair and a beard, and in very ragged clothes, after spending all day beating into the harbour. His trimaran had been much battered by the weather.

After communicating with his mother in Atherton, California, taking a bath, and having his excess hair removed, Meigs revealed that he had got as far as Kingman Reef in his voyage to Honolulu, but had then been forced to backtrack to Pago because of westerly winds and bad weather.

He said he had had ample provisions throughout his voyage and no water problem, but that he had done “funny things" at times.

On one occasion, when he was down to his last needle for making repairs to his canvas, he suddenly tossed it overboad.

This was the second time in less than two years that “Extended Adolescence” was virtually given up for lost in the Central Pacific.

Early last year, with a crew of three, including Meigs, the trimaran became overdue on a voyage from Tahiti to Honolulu.

She was finally located 165 miles south-west of Honolulu by a US Coast Guard vessel and towed in to port ( PIM, Sept., 1964, p. 105). That voyage took 149 days instead of 30 as expected.

David Meigs. 11 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1965

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Australia’s Minister for Territories, r. C. E. Barnes, said this in August len he announced the appointment ; chairmen of the two educational dies.

The chairman of the Interim tuncil of the University is Professor H. Karmel, Ph.D., BA, Principal the University of Adelaide at dford Park and formerly Professor Economics at the University of lelaide from 1950 to 1964.

The chairman of the Council of : Institute of Higher Technical ucation is Sir Herbert Watkin, I, Dip. Ed., Queensland Directorneral of Education from 1952 til his retirement at the beginning 1965, and Deputy Chancellor of ; University of Queensland.

STr. Barnes said he hoped it uld be possible for the first dents to enter the University in 36 to take a preliminary year of leral studies, and for degree irses to begin in 1967. 9 The Chief Justice of American noa, Judge Arthur A. Morrow, I retire on October 16 after having ved as the Territory’s Chief Justice 23 years. However, he will conje to serve the Government on a t-time basis. Judge Morrow ched the mandatory Civil Service rement age of 70 in August, 1963, agreed to a request from the US partment of the Interior to stay on serve in the Territorial courts.

Ige Morrow’s successor as Chief tice will be Mr. H. Edward den, a Department of the Interior sal specialist in Indian Affairs.

I The managing director of W. R. •penter and Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Mr.

G. Johnson, entered the Royal rth Shore Hospital, Sydney in gust for a minor, but severe ration. He came through the eal satisfactorily, and planned to irn to Suva early in September. > The Bank Line’s MV Lagenk left Tarawa, GEIC, on August 2 with about 2,450 tons of copra the largest shipment of copra ever made from Tarawa. The shipment was expected to fetch a record high price. • Fiji’s rate of natural increase of population was down to 32.33 per 1,000 last year, according to the annual report of the Colony’s Registrar-General. This figure is lower than that of the previous year, and lower than the average for the past 10 years, which has been 34 per 1,000. The birth rate last year was 37.2 per 1,000. Fiji’s peak birth rate was 41.91 per 1,000 in 1957. • The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Robert Foster, will formally open a new radio station for the Condominium Posts and Telecommunications Department when he makes an official visit to the New Hebrides in September. • Polynesian Airlines’ second DC3 touched down at Western Samoa’s Faleolo airport on August 15 after its delivery flight from the United States, It was flown by Polynesian’s chief pilot, Captain G.

Washington, with J. Best as engineer. • Mr. R. Jenkins, a soil surveyor from the British Ministry of Overseas Development, and Mr. M, A.

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EPICENTRE of the earthquakes A was a few miles off Santo, uring the quakes the tide conmally retreated for 300 to 400 rds, and then returned.

“It was quite amazing,” said one tness, Mr. Barry Badger, a PIM presentative, who was visiting nto from Sydney. “You could e the ocean retreating at a conmt pace for about five minutes, len at the same pace it would come .ck to the shore. This went on all £ time in front of Luganville.”

During this period, the Caledonien, lich had disembarked tourists at nto wharf, blew emergency blasts i her siren for passengers to return the ship. The ship hurriedly left on afterwards.

Wharf Drops The tremors, which were strength yen, caused the centre of the big nto overseas wharf to drop about foot below the concrete wharf cing. A new public toilet only cently built on the wharf, after any requests for it, cracked down £ centre. Total damage to the larf —the main damage in the wn —is estimated at £25,000.

In the town, several stores were yerely cracked and damaged. One linese shop under construction was irtu a 11 y demolished. Shelves llapsed in some stores, including irns Philp’s, and stock was lashed. Water pipes broke and the iter was off in town for frequent riods. The town was also blacked it on occasions.

On August 12 a rumour went und the town that a tidal wave 3uld hit Santo during the night, id the town was quickly deserted, any people slept in the open on gh ground and on the airstrip. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

Banabans Were Ready For

Violence To Get Justice

By a Staff Writer Prompt action, tact and persuasion on the part of Mr. R.

L. Hughes, British District Officer at Savusavu, Fiji, helped to prevent an outbreak of violence involving several hundred islanders on nearby Rabi Island on April 14.

THE islanders, who are Banabans from Ocean Island, the immensely rich phosphate island, had threatened to murder several of their countrymen, to burn down buildings and to deport a British official on Rabi.

The incident —news of which has hitherto been hushed up—was the culmination of nearly 20 years of Banaban resentment, anger and bitterness against the British Government over its treatment of them.

The Banabans, of whom there are now nearly 2,000, were resettled on Rabi after World War II because their own island (from which the Japanese had deported them) was too war-damaged to be reoccupied immediately.

Rabi had been bought for the Banabans by the British Government in 1942 against the day when the Ocean Island phosphate deposits were exhausted.

Banaban Money The island was bought with Banaban money—money that had been set aside from royalties paid to the Banabans by the British Phosphate Commission which works the Ocean Island deposits.

In resettling the Banabans on Rabi, the British Government promised— among many other things—that the transfer would in no way affect any rights to land that the Banabans owned on Ocean Island.

It also arranged for the appointment of an official known as the Banaban Adviser to live with and advise the Banabans on all matters connected with their social and economic advancement. The current Banaban Adviser is Mr. Paul Laxton.

However, the Banabans have never been entirely happy in their new home.

Within six months of their arrival in December, 1945, there was an outbreak of lawlessness instigated by the Banabans’ leader, Rotan Tito, which was aimed, apparently, at attracting attention to their troubles.

The result was an inquiry by Mr.

P. D. Macdonald, then Assistant Colonial Secretary in Fiji, and Mr.

H. E. Maude, First Assistant Secretary to the Western Pacific High Commission, both of whom had served on Ocean Island before the war.

The inquiry found that the Banabans had much to complain about on the scores of land rights on Ocean Island and Rabi, phosphate payments, health facilities, inadequate housing and lack of food; and comprehensive suggestions were made on what should be done to rectify the situation.

Some of the suggestions, it appears, were carried out, but others were not; and new resentment against the Government has been building up among the Banabans over the last few years.

Neglected The Banabans have particularly resented the fact that although they have not been part of the Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony since 1945 and have been paying taxes to the Fiji Government since then, the British Phosphate Commission pays a royalty of 23/- a ton to the GEIC Government on all phosphate mined from their island, while they, themselves, get only 2/8 a ton.

The Banabans have also felt that both the GEIC Government and the Fiji Government have neglected them, and that the Banaban Adviser is of little help to them.

Their resentment over these things finally came to a head on the morning of April 14 when between 300 and 400 men, armed with spears, knives and clubs, marched to the public hall on Rabi intent on violence to attract attention to their plight.

At the meeting, the Banabans decided to: • Kill several of their countrymen who had supported the Banaban Adviser. • Burn down the Banaban Adviser’s house and office, and deport him across the narrow strait to Napuka on Vanua Levu, with a warning that he would be hurt if he returned to Rabi.

However, before these acts could be carried out, a radio messi brought District Officer Hug speeding to Rabi from Savusavu, ; he and others, after arguing with armed men all day, finally persua. them to lay down their arms.

In doing so, Mr. Hughes promi to ask the Fiji and GEIC Gove ments and the Western Pacific H Commission to treat the Banal situation as one of urgency ; gravity.

However, to the beginning August, nothing had been done, ; when the Banabans heard that a P representative was visiting Fiji, tl leader, Rotan Tito, chairman of Rabi Island Council, sent his son fr Rabi to Suva to see him.

Rotan’s son, the Rev. Tebuke Rot of the Methodist Church on R begged PIM to give publicity to wretched and worsening plight of countrymen on Rabi.

Tebuke said that the Banabans w angry because it was from Pi and not fro m the Governm that they had first heard of agreement between the British PI phate Commission and the GI Government to increase the exti tJ on rate of phosphate at Ocean Isl; from 310,000 tons a year to 350,' tons (PIM, July, p. 8).

Great Poverty He said that since the Banah had moved to Rabi, the GEIC pec pretended to forget that the Banah were the rightful owners of the 1 on Ocean Island, and were depriv them of their “rightful place as s recipients of all Ocean Island pi phate monies.”

Meanwhile, the Banabans on R were suffering great poverty and cc not get the educational facilities t: wanted. Only 10 Banaban child were able to attend the higher scho in Suva, while many people w heavily in debt to the co-opera store on Rabi—so much so that credit had been stopped.

Tebuke added: “We Banabans Rabi have always followed the ri channels in our efforts to get jus; from the British Government. N our people look on the British G ernment as a great enemy and worthy of their trust, and you ■ say that I said so”.

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Tropicalities wo European Powers, Russia and Italy, which haven’t previously lown overmuch interest in the South Pacific—publicly, at any te—did a little wooing of Western Samoa in August, we noticed.

RUSSIA pressed its suit by presenting a gift of books, including >rks by some of Russia’s bestlown authors, to the Nelson emorial Public Library in Apia.

The deed was done in Wellington the Soviet Minister to New Zeaid, Mr. Borafeev, who said he ped the gift might lead to closer derstanding between his country d Samoa.

The Italian overture was made by ily’s Minister to New Zealand, Mr. >erto Fabiani (whose territory also dudes Fiji, Tonga, French Polynesia d Samoa) during an official oneek visit to Western Samoa with the object of increasing trade and other contacts between Italy and Samoa.

Just before Mr. Fabiani arrived it was announced that the Italian Government was offering an annual scholarship of one-year’s study at an Italian University or in other advanced training for a Samoan student.

The first scholarship has gone to Pita Alailima, brother of the Public Service Commissioner, Vaiao Alailima, who himself is studying public administration on another fellowship at the East-West Centre in Hawaii.

Pita holds a BA degree from Dew University, Madison, New Jersey, where he studied economics and was prominent in United Nations activities and studies. He is to study development economics, of which Italy has had considerable experience in its depressed southern areas.

Mr. Fabiani said in Apia that Italy bought a considerable amount of cocoa and copra from the Samoan area and that he had hopes of direct shipments to Italy.

In return, he hoped to see a reciprocal increase in the imports into Samoa of Italian goods.

Hie only imports from Italy last year were seven Fiat cars.

Mr. Fabiani has appointed an Apia businessman, Mr. K. von Reiche, as Italian trade correspondent in Apia.

Mr. von Reiche was already the Fiat agent.

Niue Says "Cheese"

At Last rR many years they’ve been trying to make an aerial photographic survey of little Niue Island, about 300 miles east of Tonga, by using the DC3 calibration aircraft which regularly checks navigation aids in the South Pacific for the NZ Civil Aviation Department.

But always the distance, allied with cloud cover defeated them.

Since Niue has no landing strip, the DC3 had to take off either from Western Samoa or Tonga—more than two hours’ flying distance away—and by the time she got over Niue the clouds had always closed in.

Sometimes the DC3 waited up to four days in the hope that the weather would be right—and always missed.

But at the end of July, DC3 aircraft ZKAUJ finally made it. She took off at dawn from Tonga, and got over Niue just in time to beat some lowlevel cumulus. She did a high altitude run (at 16,500 ft) and some low altitude shots of villages.

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An Administration patrol, led by Patrol Officer R. Barclay, recently found a “lost tribe“ in the Sepik District of Papua- New Guinea.

The patrol found about 1,230 people living in hamlets on the ridges and slopes in the Schattleburg Ranges, near the headwaters of the Leonard Schultze River, which runs into the Sepik.

They had not been visited by a Government patrol.

Mr. Barclay set out from Ambunti, on the Sepik, after a helicopter sighted clusters of huts in the Schattleburg Ranges.

Another “lost tribe” of about 500 people was contacted for the first time recently by a patrol led by Acting District Officer B. Mulcahy. The people live in groups of hamlets near the headwaters of the August River, about 50 miles northwest of Telefomin.

The discovery of this tribe was also through an Administration helicopter search for tribesmen in remote areas.

Memorial Recalls Bad

Old Days In Fiji

Way back in December, 1963 (p. 77), we published an article by Captain Stan Brown, of Suva, about the visit to Fiji in 1840 of the United States Exploring Expedition, under Commodore Charles Wilkes. This article was of particular interest to Mr. C. L.

Legge, of the Department of Anthropology at the Chicago Natural History Museum, who has now sent us this photograph of a memorial to the men who died on that expedition in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One inscription re* cords that "Lieutenant Underwood and Midshipman Henry, fell by the hands of savages while promoting the cause of science and philan* thropy at Malolo, one of the Fiji Group of Islands, July 24, 1840." 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Operated by two men, the loom an produce six 8 ft x 5 ft woven tieets in about eight hours. One ieet of this size would take a man dth average speed about one day > hand-weave.

The new loom, designed by Mr.

B. Brealey of the Department of /orks Research Station, Port foresby, is a wooden structure 0 ft by 5 ft. Mr. Brealey based his esign on old-type looms previously sed in some parts of the Territory, [is can be built for about £10 and eeds little skill to operate.

Sago Stalks Mr. Brealey says each loom-made teet would cost about 2id a sq. ft. ► produce in rural areas. In one ly three men can cut enough sago alks to supply material for six leets.

Another three men can strip the irk from the stalks and maintain ic flow of material to the two >erators working the loom.

Costs in urban areas, based on the •ban cash wage, would be double ose in rural areas.

With the existing system, an operator feeds single bark strips into the loom.

“We are experimenting now with a new type of shuttle to take 24 strips instead of one,” Mr. Brealey says.

He says loom-woven bush material sheets can supply villagers in agriculturally poor areas with an additional source of cash income. The wall linings can be sold.

Although the sheets cannot compete in durability with permanent materials, experience with sago bark and pit-pit (wild sugar cane) has proved them to be very satisfactory wall-lining, resistant to white ant and termite attack. They can be expected to last more than six years before renewal.

Extensive stands of sago palm are found in many areas of the Territory. For many years sago bark has been the traditional material for wall and wall-lining construction.

Pit-pit, found in abundance in the Highlands, is used for the same purpose.

Officers of the Research Station are currently conducting a survey to assess the variety of bush materials available in the Territory suitable for loom-woven wall linings.

The loom has meanwhile been introduced into the Western District of Papua by Mr. Brealey and Mr.

Robert Tabua, member for Fly River in the P-NG House of Assembly. 67 Into 25 Leaves A Lot Over A RATHER sobering statistic was released in Noumea, New Caledonia, recently when it was stated that 67 applications had been received for an examination to engage 25 typists for the local Administration, Commenting on this, the local Press emphasised the already wellknown fact that there is a very narrow choice of positions open to young women in Noumea. They can become either typists, secretaries or shop assistants—and that is about all.

At present, more than 300 young Something For Davy Jones To Read If you happen to be wondering why you didn’t get some mail that you know was posted to you from the “Pioneer Gem”, off Pitcairn Island, in mid-June, then we can tell you where it is. It’s down in Davy Jones’ Locker.

This is how it came to get there.

On June 18, the “Pioneer Gem’s” master radioed Pitcairn that his ship would be passing the island about two o’clock next morning, but as he could not stop, he would put the ship’s mail over the side. He said it would be in a yellow drum attached to a bundle of dunnage timber, which would make it more easily seen and would be a reward to the islanders for finding it.

Although the islanders were not keen to go searching for mail in choppy seas in the middle of the night, a few of them launched a boat as the ship was passing and went out to search for the mail.

They returned at 8 a.m. without having seen anything and convinced that the mail had not been dropped at all. However, when they contacted the ship by radio again, they were told that the ship’s releasing gear had become fouled and that she had been 4± miles off the island to the north-east before the mail and timber were released.

A later search from the heights of Pitcairn still located nothing, and on June 20 a radio message was sent to the ship that the chances of finding the mail were slim. The mail has not turned up since—at least, not to the end of July.

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The Loom Of Language PAPUA-NEW GUINEA has never been attacked so persistently by so many linguists as it has in recent years. Their work is beginning to open new language horizons.

For instance, that especially persistent linguist from the Australian National University, Dr. S. A. Wurm, whose work in the New Guinea Highlands has been mentioned here before, reports in a recent paper that 50 of the languages found in the three Highlands Districts of the Territory can now be grouped into five language families—and that the five families are inter-related.

They can be combined into a larger group, or stock, which has been named the East New Guinea Highlands Stock. This stock has a total of 735,000 speakers (out of a total P-NG native population of about two million).

Dr. Wurm is currently working on a detailed description of the individual language families. He points out th the borderline between language a; dialect is a very difficult matter New Guinea, and if the languag of these five families are looked from a different view it is possible regard a few of them as dialects one language, rather than as sepan languages.

And if you are wondering what a the reasons for the interest by lingui; in New Guinea languages, Dr. Wui has the answer.

He says there are two main reaso —the first being that the study languages naturally gives a greater i sight into the people. The second more important from the scienti view. ”In spite of the simplification of t New Guinea linguistic picture in ] cent years,” he says, “the fact remai that there are still very numero highly complex and diverse languaj in New Guinea to provide lingui with a wonderful opportunity for t study of the still not fully understo phenomenon of language as such.

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Where Has All That Silver Gone?

WITH the changeover next ye to decimal currency in Ai tralia and many of the Pacific tt titories, there has been renewed i terest in the “millions of poun worth of silver coins” that are sr posed to be buried in New Guinez The owners are allegedly natrv who don’t trust banks, and all so* of publicity is being directed to t locals in an effort to get the sil\ out of the ground and back ir circulation.

A New Guinea friend of on has a theory on all this. He sa these hidden caches don’t exi That is, the amounts buried are r nearly as large as officialdom thin!

His view is that all this silver fc long since gone to the Far Ea where it has been made into jew lery. It has been smuggled out the country by Chinese seamen the ships that regularly service Ni Guinea and the Far East.

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FOOTNOTE ; After an absence years, those New Guinea coins th holes in the centres have come ck in circulation again. They, at ist, must have escaped the atition of the Chinese—probably cause they would be regarded as Drt measure! At the South Pacific inference at Lae in July, the official iteen did a brisk business offering ;m to the South Seas delegates for dr curio value. Official exchange e was one coin with a hole for 5 coin without a hole—which was r value, we thought.

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[?]Ra Of-Government

Begins The Cook Islands

From W. H. Percival on Rarotonga The 19,000 people of the Cook Islands became fully selfgoverning on August 4 when Mr. Albert Henry, leader of the Cook Islands Party, was sworn in on Rarotonga as his Territory’s first Premier.

Mr. Henry took the oath of allegience after the New Zealand Resident Commissioner in the Cook Islands, Mr. A. O.

Dare, had been sworn in by Chief Judge Fraser as New Zealand High Commissioner.

Also sworn in were the members of Mr. Henry’s Cabinet— Dr. Manea Tamarua, Deputy Premier, and Messrs. Julian Dashwood, Mana Strickland, Apenera Short, and Tiakana Numanga.

OLITICAL events in the Cooks had moved rapidly during the ceding nine days. >n July 26, the Legislative Asibly convened for the first time :e May, and two new members— . Henry, who had been elected a by-election on July 9 ( PIM, g., p. 13), and Mr. Nato Temu, > member for Manihiki—were >rn in. dr. Henry then moved what he cribed as “the most important lion in the political history of the )k Islands”.

Historic Motion Tie motion read: “That the Cook nds Legislative Assembly resolves : the Cook Islands shall be selferning in free association with v Zealand; that it requests New land, in consultation with the merriment of the Cook Islands, to harge the responsibilities for the srnal affairs and defence of the >k Islands; that it approves the istitution of the Cook Islands, as aided, in accordance with the les of the Assembly; that it lests that the Constitution be jght into force on August 4, 5.” he motion was approved by 20 :s to two the dissentient tibers being Mr. T. Tangaroa, Penrhyn, and Mr. P. Robati, of ahanga. peaking to the motion, Mr. garoa said that the Penrhyn pie wished to be excluded from government and that they wished lecome a part of New Zealand.

Robati said that the inhabitants Rakahanga, a 1,000-acre atoll in Northern Cooks, which supports a few hundred people, were not in favour of self-government.

Two days later, Mr. Henry was elected to the Executive Committee, which made him a Minister in the shadow Cabinet. On the same day news was received that, in the absence of New Zealand’s Governor- General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, Major-General Sir Harold Eric Barrowclough, Administrator of the New Zealand Government, had signed a proclamation bringing the Cook Islands Constitution into force on August 4.

The proclamation stated that the New Zealand High Commissioner would have power to appoint as Premier the person who, in his opinion, commanded the support and confidence of the majority of the Legislative Assembly.

Thus, the way was cleared for Mr. Henry to become Premier and for his Cabinet to be appointed.

After he and his Ministers had taken the oath on August 4, the Assembly met under the chairmanship of the Clerk of the Assembly who called for nominations for Speaker.

Mr. Short nominated Mrs.

Marguerite Story, Albert Henry’s sister, and as there were no other nominations, she was appointed.

It is believed that Mrs. Story thus became the first woman Speaker in the democratic world, although India has a woman Deputy Speaker Mrs. Story’s appointment as Speaker was also unusual in that she is no longer an elected member of the Assembly—having resigned the seat she won in April to enable her brother, who had then been debarred from standing by a residential regulation, to contest a by-election after the regulations had been changed (PIM, Aug., p. 13).

However, Mrs. Story’s appointment was perfectly in order, as the new Cook Islands Constitution provides that the Speaker of the Assembly may be chosen either from within or without the Assembly.

Following her appointment, Mrs.

Story took her oath of allegiance before the High Commissioner and, a little later, all members of the Assembly took their oaths of allegiance before her.

She then adjourned the Assembly until September 10, which is the day on which the Cook Islands will officially celebrate the attainment of self-government.

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They also found that the people in surrounding villages suffered from normal dental decay.

MRS. SPEAKER; The Cook Islands Legislative Assembly began its first session under self-government in unusual, possibly unique fashion, on August 4 when it appointed a woman, Mrs. Marguerite Story, as its first Speaker. Mrs. Story is Mr.

Albert Henry's sister and a former official Government interpreter. 27 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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concentrated quality pays off in each capful of cleansing rnard Fergusson, the Prime nister, Mr. Holyoake, the Minister Island Territories, Mr. Hanan, er notables, and a large contingent radio, TV and film people will md the celebrations. >oon after the Assembly was ourned, Mr, Henry and his deputy, Tamarua, left for New York, New Zealand, to attend a meeting the United Nations General lembly in New York at the inition of the New Zealand Governat. lie purpose of the visit was to r the presentation of a report the United Nations Special Corntee on Colonialism, made by the mission that observed the elects in Cook Islands Legislative embly in April.

Portfolios Announced wo days before he left Rarotonga New York, Mr. Henry annced the allocation of portfolios his Cabinet. He also announced it had been decided to create aciate Ministers so that Cabinet’s k would not be disrupted by mce or sickness, y agreement with the New land Government, Mr. Henry hold the Overseas Portfolio :h takes in External Affairs, le and Commerce. He will also Minister for Finance, Justice, ition, Shipping, Immigration, gration, Tourism, Economic elopment, Labour and Employer. Tamarua, Deputy Premier, 1 is a medical doctor and a iter, will hold the portfolios of Health and Agriculture. He will also be Associate Minister of Economic Development, Finance and Justice.

Mr. Dash wood will hold the portfolios of Social Development and Police, which he held as Minister of the shadow Cabinet in the previous Legislative Assembly. He will be Associate Minister for the Post Office, Hotel, and Printing Offce.

Mr. Short, who was appointed Acting Premier during Mr. Henry’s and Dr. Tamarua’s absence in New York, is Minister of Co-operatives and Associate Minister of Economic Development. Mr. Short is an exschoolteacher who transferred to the Co-operatives Department when it was formed in 1955 and who became its Assistant Registrar.

The Minister for Education is Mr.

Mana Strickland who has been a schoolteacher all his working life.

Mr. Strickland was head teacher at Ngatangiia School before he became head teacher at Avarua School, a post he has held for the last 11 years.

He is also Associate Minister of Finance, Aviation, Shipping and Immigration.

Mr. Numanga, also an ex-schoolteacher, and a planter and businessman, has been appointed Minister of Public Works and Survey, and Associate Minister of Labour. • The Cook Islands Premier, Mr. Albert Henry (standing) names his Ministers on August 4. They are, from left, Dr. Manea Tamarua, Deputy Premier; and Messrs. Mana Strickland, Julian Dashwood, Apenera Short and Tiakana Numanga.

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ISLANDS From W. H. Percival, on Raroton More than three-quarters Rarotonga’s population of 8,00 plus many people on Aituta and Penryhn Island, were vi tims of an influenza epideir which reached the Cook Islan in August.

THE epidemic hit Rarotonga af a period of chilling southe] winds and record low temperatui early in the month.

The temperature at Rarotonga’s a strip on one occasion dropped to 4* degrees; and old-time residents agre that the cold spell was the sever they had ever experienced on t island.

On August 6, 244 of Terec College’s 440 students were confin to their homes with the flu. Sev Tereora teachers also went down w it, and the college was closed.

The Teachers’ Training College s fered 60 casualties; and three do later most of Rarotonga’s schools ported that more than half of thi pupils and many of their teacht were absent. As a result, all scho< were closed for almost a week.

Resurgence The staffs of trading stores a Government departments were aj drastically reduced for about a we< and the Health Department said tl about 500 people were receiving da medical attention both at home a in hospital.

On Monday, August 16, the scho< re-opened, but a resurgence of the closed them two days later for I remainder of the week.

During the previous weekend, th<j had been one death due to comj cations of the flu and, by August most of Rarotonga’s 8,000 inhabitai had been down with a bout of Doctors visited between 6,000 s 7,000 people, some of them be; repeat cases.

All dances, public meetings, s Rugby and basketball matches w\ cancelled and all cinemas were clos; Schools were also closed Aitutaki and Penrhyn. 30 SEPTEMBER. 1965-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHE

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At The RSL Congress P-NG Security Men Will "Watch For Discontentment "

From a Lae Correspondent A strong warning on the angers of subversion in Papuafew Guinea was one of the jatures of deliberations at the nnual congress of the P-NG ranch of the Returned Serviceten’s League, held in Lae in oigust. The warning was made y P-NG’s Police Commissioner, It. R. R. Cole, who is a former district Commissioner. lIS statement follows a recent announcement in Port Moresby on le formation of a Special Branch of ic Constabulary, which will check i possible security risks in the Terriiry.

Mr. Cole, in opening the congress, tid that the Special Branch would so keep in touch with public opinion, mrticularly on matters which could tuse discontentment with the Govnment and its policies.”

Mr. Cole said criticism was damagg to Papua--New Guinea’s security iless it was “well considered, well esented, and indeed warranted.

Unreasoned Criticism “Not only do we have a large unlucated Territory population ripe for ly unreasoned form of criticism of ir Australian Government, but there e many countries looking on and aiting for any such expressions of ternal dissatisfaction,” he said.

“I am satisfied there is much being me in the field of security, and there much the RSL can do to foster ese efforts by avoiding damaging iticism and educating the public, )th European and native, to realise at it is in their interests to avoid bversive elements which encourage ob rule.”

He added: “We must expect an inease in subversive activity by those terests who are critical of the Ausilian Administration. Our immedie and greatest danger is not from iy armed onslaught, from any atant unwarned invasion by military ight or saturation bombing.

“This type of warfare is something in which we have experience and know the answers. Rather we must be prepared and watch for a much more insidious approach a softening-up process with subtle propaganda.

“We must watch for creation of discontent and dissatisfaction towards employers and Government,” Mr.

Cole said.

“We must be on our guard against subversive political approaches to weaken loyalties, fostering discontent among frustrated semi-educated politicians.

“We must watch for the formation of ‘front’ organisations with lofty ideals but overt political control, and for penetration of unions and industrial organisations to distort their aims.”

Mr. Cole, a World War II Military Cross winner, warned against what he called “the quiet men who never appear in the forefront but lead from behind in the shadows.”

He added: “This is the cold war approach and I suggest it is possibly being practised in the Territory today.

Much of it is cleverly engineered and developed to well-organised plans and there is no hesitation in using the illinformed ‘do-gooder’ to spread such discontent.”

Coastwatchers Speakers at the congress also called for a reorganised and improved Coastwatching system in the Territory.

The congress recommended the establishment of a school for Coastwatchers at Rabaul and the urgent appointment of an experienced officer to head the organisation.

Delegates said the present Coastwatching organisation would not work efficiently in wartime.

The State president, Mr. R. F.

Mr. Cole. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Mr. L. E. Ashton, a Coastwatcher i New Guinea during World War 11, aid it was essential tha t Coastratchers had the best equipment availble.

Mr. P. Dennis, of Rabaul, said that 0 time should be lost in the training f volunteers as Coastwatchers.

“It is not just a matter of having wireless set on a plantation,” he ud. “You have got to have men ho know how to make good reorters.

“Lots of reports from Coastwatchers 1 World War II were misinterpreted scause the men who made them had ot been properly trained.”

Army Pay Disparity Another delegate to the congress tiled for the removal of pay differices between native and European embers of the Territory’s CMF lits.

The delegate, Mr. R. Kerruish, of Dugainville, said this difference in ty rates in the Papua-New Guinea olunteer Rifles had created a rtentially dangerous situation.

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“Eventually these men may go into don together and the indigenous dier could say, ‘You get more pay in I do, you fire the shots.’ ”

Mr. Kerruish was speaking during discussion on a resolution calling the expansion of the CMF to engthen the Territory’s defences.

Phe question of pay rates was not r olved in the motion.

Phe congress decided to ask the ivemment not to send the Papuaw Guinea Volunteer Rifles to fight ;rseas as a unit. \ resolution adopted said the troops uld be needed in the Territory beise of their specialised local trainer. P. Dennis, of Rabaul, said his •-branch was concerned at reports t members of the unit might serve Vietnam. ‘We don’t want them bunged over Vietnam or Malaysia or anywhere We want them here,” he said, tfr. L. Shoppee, of Wau, said that if individual members of the unit wanted to volunteer to serve overseas they should be free to do so, Congress urged the Australian Government to stop training Indonesian officers and NCO’s.

A resolution said Australian troops were actively engaged against Indonesian insurgents who could be led or have been trained by Indonesian officers trained in modem warfare at Australian Army establishments, The resolution was carried unanimously without discussion.

The congress also called on the Government to warn Indonesia that it would not tolerate any infringement of Papua-New Guinea’s borders, Mr. F. Turner, a Port Moresby delegate, said Indonesia was likely to start border incidents unless the Australian Government took a firm stand, The congress decided to ask the Australian Government to do everything in its power to ensure that the people of (Indonesian) West New Guinea were given the opportunity to vote on their future, Mr. F. Sagar, of Madang, said New Guineans were very concerned about the fate of the people of the former Dutch territory.

“They have the feeling that the Indonesian action there is the thin edge of the wedge for Papua-New Guinea,” he said.

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Fiji Tries A New Way Of Handling Its Prisoners From a Special Correspondent in Suva Major Basil Sellers, former Superintendent of Prisons in Fiji, stood on a hilltop at Naboro at the end of July and saw the realisation of a dream. Below him was a neat prison block, perhaps the most modern of its kind in the South Pacific and Australasia. In the surrounding countryside roads ran through thriving crops.

TfORE than two years earlier, Major Sellers had stood near the me spot and looked out on thick ish as he outlined plans to develop prison farm to give practical agriiltural training to men sent to gaol, nd here it now was.

The Naboro project is more than just new prison block to ease the strain i the Colony’s overcrowded gaols, though it will certainly help to do is. By about September it will have I inmates. (Suva’s gaol, alone by imparison, has more than 300 men, though it was built for only 200).

Rehabilitation Naboro’s chief virtue will be that will enable young offenders to be parated from hardened criminals.

The emphasis at the Naboro Farm on rehabilitation. It will accom- Ddate selected first and second : enders between the ages of 17 and . They will be given practical trainl in agriculture to enable them to d a living at the completion of fir sentences.

Living conditions are good. Build- ?s are light, modern and airy.

Prisoners will be accommodated in -bed dormitories. Each man will ve his own locker, sprung bed, ittress, pillow and blankets. All i buildings are screened against )squitoes and flies. Toilet and Dwer facilities are far superior to )se of any other prison in the ilony.

Fhe dining room, where food will served cafeteria style, will also ve as a classroom and recreation )m.

Fhere are washing and ironing )ms. \ parade ground within the comund will also serve as volleyball irts. A sports field is planned oute the compound.

But prisoners will have to work rd.

Every minute of the day, from reveille at 6 a.m. to lights out at 8.30 p.m., will be planned. There will be work and discipline.

Except for weekends, when there will be a change in routine, each day will begin with cleaning of dormitories and 15 minutes’ physical training before breakfast. The prisoners will work on the farm from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an hour for lunch and a 10-minute break, morning and afternoon.

After the evening meal there will be an hour of recreation followed by evening classes, where the emphasis will be on agricultural subjects and English.

Training will also be given in firstaid by the St. John Ambulance Brigade, and churches of various denominations have combined to provide a series of lectures and discussions. After that will come a halfhour reading period, an inspection of dormitories and lights out.

Visit Of Inspection The Acting Superintendent of Prisons, Mr. E. Smith, showed a small party over the project recently. The party included the Secretary for Social Services, Mr. K. R. Bain, the Visiting Justice, Mr. Moti Tikaram, and the architect, Mr. D. Greenman, who designed and supervised the buildings.

Also present were Major Sellers, who first conceived the scheme, and Chief Prisons Officer, Eddie Raddock, who will be in charge of it.

When completed, the project, including quarters for prison officers, will have cost about £70,000.

What has been completed so far is the first stage of a larger project to rationalise the treatment of prisoners. Essentially, this stage is aimed at the rehabilitation of young offenders who have gone off the rails, but who can, it is thought, be put back on the right lines by sympathetic but firm treatment and practical training.

There is another class of young offender—the young man with a bad record who is rapidly heading towards a life of crime. For him, a different kind of treatment is planned—short, sharp shock treatment at a detention centre which is planned at Naboro.

There life will be tough and designed to teach the offender that crime does not pay.

Finally, there is a third class of offender—the hard-core criminal with a bad record, who is serving a long sentence the trouble maker who needs close confinement and who needs separating from the younger and lesser offenders on whom he is a bad influence.

For this type of criminal a security training prison is planned. This will also be built at Naboro, as part of a five-year development plan.

This first stage at Naboro may well prevent young offenders from eventual confinement in the security prison— at least that is one aim of this imaginative scheme.

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"No complications" are expected in setting up Legislative and Executive Councils on Nauru by next January, according to Mr. R. S. Swift, First Assistant Secretary of the Australian Department of Territories.

Mr. Swift said this in Port Moresby early in August after visiting Nauru to discuss the establishment of the councils.

Others who attended the talks were the Administrator of Nauru, Mr. R. S. Leydin, members of the Nauru Local Council led by Head Chief Hammer Deßoburt, a representative of the Australian Attorney-General's Department, two other members of the Department of Territories, and Mr. K. E. Walker, of Sydney, who has been acting as economic adviser to the Nauruans.

"The talks were very successful, and we've reached the stage where we are certain the timetable for setting up the councils by next January can be met," Mr. Swift said.

Legislation to enable the councils to be established will probably come before the Australian Parliament soon. Also expected soon is an announcement on the composition of a committee to study the possibility of rehabilitating Nauru's worked-out phosphate lands by shipping soil to the island. 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

Fiji Indians Fear Prasad Case May Rebound On Them Indians in Fiji are concerned that the hullabaloo over the six-year-old Fiji-Indian girl Nalnie Prasad, who was deported from Australia early in August, will have adverse repercussions on them if they want to enter Australia.

THEY say that the Australian authorities will now make it “awkward” for them to get permits, and that there are already straws in the wind.

They say that one of these is a notice in The Fiji Times of August 19 from the Australian Commissioner in Fiji informing intending applicants for entry into Australia (including tourists) that they should submit their applications well in advance of the desired date of travel.

The Indians say that their applications may not be refused, but that entry permits may be so long in coming that they will die of old age before getting them.

They point out also—although it may only be coincidence—that an Indian nurse, a trained hospital sister, who applied recently to enter Australia to do two years’ midwifery and child welfare training, has had her application turned down. This is believed to be the first time that such an application has been refused.

Manoeuvring Nalnie Prasad, also known as Nancy, was deported to Fiji after two years of manoeuvring by relatives in Australia to enable her to stay, plus hundreds of letters to the Australian Immigration Department, countless twisted, angled, and hysterical words in her favour in some sections of the Australian Press, and a fake kidnapping at Sydney’s Mascot airport.

Nalnie had come to Sydney from Fiji in April, 1962, with her father Mr. Shiri Prasad, a Suva carpenter, her mother, three brothers and sisters, and Mr. Prasad’s mother-inlaw.

The Prasads, who have relatives in Australia married to Australians, entered the country on tourist permits.

These permits were subsequently extended to April, 1963. Meanwhile Mr. Prasad bought two houses in a Sydney suburb, and when his family’s permits expired in April, 1963, and he showed no sign of going home, the Australian Government issued deportation orders.

With the exception of Nalnie, the Prasad family returned to Fiji in the liner Orsova the following November.

At Mr. Prasad’s request, the Government allowed Nalnie to say a further two months because of a throat infection. However, at the end of that time, her relatives failed to return her to Fiji as agreed with her father.

Subsequently, Mr. Reg Powditch, an English-born panel beater, of Sydney, and his wife Shashi (Nalnie’s grown-up sister) attempted to adopt Nalnie to avoid having to send her home. However, the courts turned down their application and they had no option but to send her back.

But on the night Nalnie was due to leave Mascot airport, she was kidnapped by a part-aboriginal—by arrangement, it was later revealed, with the Powditch family.

On being returned to the Powditches, the Australian Immig] tion Department promptly issued deportation order, and she return to Fiji the following night in t company of Mr. and Mrs. Powdito All fares were paid for by the At tralian Government.

During the two years manoeuvrings to keep Nalnie in At tralia—and particularly in the 1 stages—some sections of the At tralian Press tried to make out ti Australia’s Minister for Immigratic ex-world cycling champion Hub Opperman, was a wicked villain 1 insisting that Nalnie should go hoi to her parents. They also made c that virtually the whole of Asia v rising in wrath against him what, in their view, was a flagn example of the White Austra policy in action.

Annoyance, Anger Despite statements by Mr. Opp man that the Prasad case had be “constantly and gravely misrepi sented” to the public (which certainly had), and efforts by h to set out the facts calmly a correctly, his side of things v usually ignored.

Meanwhile, in Fiji, the feeli among the Indian community v one of annoyance and even ang rather than sympathy, at the attem by the Prasads and Powditches “buck” the Australian Governmen Now, Fiji’s Indians look like be: made to suffer as a result of it.

Nalnie Prasad smiles for a "Fiji Times" photographer soon after her arrival in S[?] from Australia in August. She is with her brother-in-law Mr. Reg. Powditch, of Syd[?] and his wife Shashi (Nalnie's grown up sister). Behind are other members of Prasad family. 36 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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In August, Queen Salote had been on the Tongan throne longer than any previous monarch—47 /ears and four months. Congratulatory telegrams were received from all over the world for the Famous Queen, photographed here in the Royal Palace by Government photographer I. Vaka. Our print is reproduced by courtesy of the fongan Government Printer.

People On a recent visit to Papua-New Guinea fromi South Australia, Mrs. H. C. Hosking, wife of NG's pre-war Deputy Director of Health, renewedl acquaintance in Port Moresby with Dr. A. V..

Price, in the picture above left. At right, former Territory planter Mr. E. Fulton, now living ini Victoria, said hello again in Port Moresby toi Mr. Eric Chin, who is seen with his son Adrian..

Left, Ratu Jale Bulamainbau, retired AMO of the; Fiji Medical Service, with the Medal of Honour recently presented to him by Fiji's Governor,, Sir Derek Jakeway.

Opposite page, top left, OTC engineer Mr. D., Temperley, and Australian Broadcasting Control!

Board official Mr. C. Elsworthy, received a warm! welcome when they visited Nauru by special! aircraft recently. The same aircraft took Judge; D. G. Andrews, of Queensland, to preside at a trial.

Top right, opposite, is a group of Fijians currently visiting Australia for a course in public: administration. From left they are Elimelekii Lomani, Mr. Fred Gibson, Nacanieli Unuiviti and Napolioni Dawai (seated). They were photographed in Sydney. 38 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Below, looking bright and happy, is pretty New Caledonian Lizette Kawiane, who in 1959 made news by being the first New Caledonian "blue baby" to fly to Sydney for an operation. Today she is 17 and healthy. Recently the New Caledonian Assembly thanked Australia for its medical help on behalf of New Caledonians.

Below right, the centre of attention is popular New Hebrides chief telephone mechanic George Marshall, about to be led aboard ship in Vila with a dog collar. Occasion was his retirement after 10 years in the post. He is now in Sydney.

Photos: Chin H. Meen, Rob Wright, Irene Sextor[?] Reece Discombe, Fred Dunn. 39 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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From R. F. Rankin, in Apia.

Apia is still not quite the same after its recent encounter yith a true life adventure series—better than anything an maginative script writer could produce—involving threats of issassination and murder, armed police guards and orders of leportation. The only trouble is that Apia still doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

AIN actors in the play were the Moors brothers—Captain Harry Oliver—and the forces of law order. PIM reported the basic 5 in August (p, 16), but what basic facts in a story like this? aptain Harry Moors is used to hes with authority. Early in July unhappy association with the ernment came to an end when services as Harbourmaster were dnated on direction from Cabinet. followed the findings of a imission of Inquiry into the ine Department earlier in the mong those who felt Harry ild have got a better deal is his her Oliver, a professional enter- ;r, who returned with his wife i the States several months ago, the intention of starting a night in Apia. airy and Oliver are sons of ninent politician Afoafouvale Misimoa. They were born in Western Samoa but both hold United States citizenship.

On the morning of Thursday July 8, after attending their sister’s birthday party the night before, the brothers sojourned to the RSA Club.

Some witnesses claim that while drinking in the club Harry and Oliver threatened to kill the Head of State and the Prime Minister and certain Europeans, including Auditor General J. Campagnolo and Acting Harbourmaster Captain J. Jones (who has since died, see below).

The RSA reported this to the police and by Saturday there were armed guards around the home of Head of State Malietoa at Vailima, and Prime Minister Mataafa at Lepea.

Later guards were also placed on the homes of Captain Jones and Mr, Campagnolo.

The same day Harry and Oliver received notices from the Prime Minister, as Minister of Immigration, ordering them out of the country within a week.

Mataafa claimed they were “disaffected, disloyal or likely to be a source of danger to the peace, order and good government of Western Samoa”.

On Tuesday the matter came up in Parliament. The Prime Minister dismissed the view put forward by Pilia’e that this was properly a matter for the aiga (families) to settle.

After three hours’ discussion, a motion by Tofilau amended by Asiata to put aside the deportation order and reconsider the matter was defeated by 25 votes to 13.

Deadline The Saturday deadline came and went. The Moors stayed put, and the police waited in vain for orders to lay charges against them for disobeying the deportation order.

On Tuesday Mataafa called Harry and Oliver to his office where a discussion was held, and, according to an aide, it was in a “very cordial atmosphere”.

On Friday Mataafa revoked the deportation order. He was satisfied that the Moors brothers were not a threat to peace and good order, he said.

To most people, the incident should never have got further than the walls of the RSA Club. (over) Armed Guard For Mataafa in armed policeman stands guard r Western Samoa’s Prime Minister taafa as he arrives at Parliament use on July 17, following alleged ?ats to the lives of the PM, the id of State and some Europeans.

Photo; “Samoana” 41 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - SEPTEMBER, 1965

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APTAIN J. W. Jones, who had been acting as Harbourmaster Apia since the dismissal of ptain Harry Moors earlier this r, died after an accident in Apia rbour on August 5. aptain Jones fell into the sea m the pilot boat as he was about board the Thorsisle to bring her ) harbour. He collapsed soon after ng helped back on board and was nd to be dead on being taken to pital, Captain Jones, who was in his I-sixties, held a master’s ticket both sail and steam vessels. He /ed under sail in World War I I was later an officer in the Maui nare, which linked Western noa with New Zealand, n the early thirties, he became a citation manager for New Zealand jaration Estates in Samoa; from 7 to 1940, he represented Burns Ip at their plantations at Hull and Iney Islands in the Phoenix iup; and from 1940 until 1942, ;n he was appointed Harbourster in Apia, he was back with jaration Estates.

'aptain Jones remained as rbourmaster until his retirement 1959, when he took up coffee and ana-growing in Samoa. it the time of his death, he was sident of the Returned Services ociation, for which he was an ent worker. A large crowd atled his funeral.

'aptain Jones left a widow and daughters. ☆ ☆ ☆ ET another expert has had a long hard look at Western Samoan iculture and has come up with a liliar answer—the social and nomic inequalities inherent in the tai system make agricultural de- Dpment pretty well impossible, bearing the end of a two-year term Western Samoa, FAO agriculture msion services adviser, Mr. F. C. iganiban, a Filipino, recently exssed grave doubts about Samoan icultural development in an article Miifasi Ola, an information bulletin dished intermittently by the Detment of Agriculture.

In the midst of almost world-wide ancements, Samoan agriculture has ged behind, even in comparison h other Pacific Islands,” said Mr. iganiban. le said the Government had tried improve the social and economic idition of villagers by providing )r e schools, hospitals, fertiliser ms and forestry seedlings and by organising rhinoceros beetle gangs and so on.

“The facts of the actual situation show the existence of a great disparity between objectives and facts,” he said.

“Most of the village people are still pitiful in their lack of enthusiasm and their seemingly indifferent attitude to life, “Is is apparent that there is something wrong,” he went on, calling for a reappraisal of existing programmes and policies to determine the cause of failure.

He said that the basic problems in the development of Samoan agriculture lay in land tenure, capital, education, social justice and public service, He placed most blame for failure on the lack of security for farmers using customary land, and on inadequate capital available for development.

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ACCORDING to figures released by the Economic Development Secretariat and obtained from the Bank of Western Samoa, remittances overseas of earnings of overseas firms in Samoa for the first six months of this year were greater than similar remittances for the whole of 1964.

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Betham, painted a gloomy financial picture when he presented his Second Supplementary Estimates to Parliament in mid-July.

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Reserves were expected to fall from £438,191 at the end of 1964 to £157,273 by the end of 1965, he said, Mr. Betham blamed the unwillingness of the House to impose extra taxation for the “critical position” of the reserves.

A Teacher’s Tale Of W. Samoa In 1948, when George Irwin, a New Zealander, went to Western Samoa with his wife Judy to become principal of the Teachers Training College, Samoa's educational system — according to him —was in a state of disorganisation and muddlement.

There was virtually no continuity of educational policy, school organisation, or teaching methods; and the Samoan children sat back to see what was going to happen every time a new teacher arrived.

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ET us hope that the suggestion i of names remains in the hands the native people alone, and that eir choice is not influenced by any ntastic expatriate contractions, or [mixture of built-up words. Keep ose for new brands of sandwich read, racehorses or anti-obesity jatment.

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THE move to introduce a bill in ■ the House of Assembly to lift e ban on bird-of-paradise shooting is naturally caused a stir in the we-cots of the professional decoders.

When the ban in NG was first induced by Australia some 50 years ;o I remember reading a long reed from some, no doubt welleaning, woman in Britain drawing sorrowful picture of the poor other bird being shot down and t poor little chicks waiting with iaks agape for her return.

The female bird has no glamour ess to compare with the male and erman BOP shooters, with whom have spoken, tell me they never rthered about shooting the females.

Crocodile shooters, claiming they »uld make a million if the ban were ted, might have to adjust their idgets. Do they imagine that, once e ban is lifted, the plume market ill not be flooded by synthetic bstitutes, manufactured by presently “ethical” businessmen, ever on e look-out for a quick quid?

I understand the move to lift the ban is prompted mainly by the feeling of injustice experienced by certain of the New Guineans, living not far distant from the border with West New Guinea, who are compelled to see their neighbours blithely shooting away at the birds, and making good money, while they— the owners of the land on which the shooting occurs—are debarred from having the same privilege. . . . Seems a bit tough, doesn’t it?

In the past, seasonal shooting, with permits, had its advantages: • It helped to plant many a coconut plantation along the Madang coast, and • Public revenue collected a good few marks from permits and gun licences. • Export duty on BOP plumes in 1914 was £1 each; Gaura pigeon 5/-, cassowary and emu feathers 12/6 lb and heron feathers £25 lb.

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Australian peanut crop has failed and we shall be importing peanuts from the US for the third time in 40 years”. No peanuts, either, in NG? . . . Isn’t it time we started a demistering campaign? A NG newspaper referred to “Mr. Ratu Mara”, the leader of the Fijian delegation at the South Pacific conference at Lae.

And, of course, there is the constant redundant use of the title “Mister” before the Tolai To. However, it will be easier for sub-editors in a few years’ time, after the university at Port Moresby gets cracking. All politicians and VIPs, rating a mention in the printed page, will no doubt have attained their doctorate of one thing or another.

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TREMORS “QUAKE Rocks NG Island,” sa, a 36 pt head-line in a Sydne afternoon paper in August ar followed with a message fro; Rabaul: “The sharpest earthqual for years shook a wide area of Ne Britain yesterday. People ran fro; buildings in fear. . . . However, litt damage was reported except to she stock which fell from shelves.”

The report went on to say that vulcanologist put the epi-centre Jacqueline (sic) Bay about 30 mil from Pomio. “One store at Kokop . . . reported several hundred poum damage to stock”. In Rabaul tl strength of the tremor was reports as six.

There certainly has been son seismic activity in parts of Ne Guinea recently, with eruptions ; some areas, but these are always good sign (up to a point) showir that nature’s safety valves are wor] ing, and not gpmmed up in prepar; tion for a major upheaval.

Some Australian newspapers ai inclined to over-play these shake creating earthquakes out of tremor and then, on the other hand, loc residents seem now to under-ph the potentialities of a quria, \ witness the shop stock falling froi the shelves.

This would never have happene in the early days.

Not Appreciated Even just before the war in ar around Rabaul the fact that the are was located in one of the world greatest earthquake and volcaa regions was not appreciated by tl majority.

“Familiarity breeds contempt,” ca be held responsible for the blatai disregard by Rabaul people c nature’s warnings in May, 1937, pric to the Vulcan eruption.

When Vulcan Spewed. Well d I remember, on the day prior to tl upheaval, talking with Jimm Twycross, then manager of the AW, station at Rabaul, He was con cerned at the frequency of the earl) tremors over a long period. We botl agreed that “something unusual” ws afoot. We drove over to Matup Island. There the natives showe us substantial cracks in the roao way—feet long and inches deep.

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sk ourselves why nobody did anyling; then went our way.

I returned to my office and from lere rang Central Administration: Was everything under control?” I sked. To what was I referring, lease? , . . Twenty-four hours later le kite went up.

Twenty-six years earlier I had [rived in New Britain and on my rst night, when going to bed, my [>st said to me: “Don’t leave the mp on the dressing table; put it on ic floor”. And, in answer to my iquiry: “We have a lot of qurias, irth tremors, and the lamp could 11 to the ground and the kerosene ould be spilt. Don’t be alarmed; e wardrobe is hooked back against e wall; but don’t close the door, it ►uld jam in a ’quake. And if there a shake, don’t rush outside, it is st as safe inside—unless the house falling down. Good night, sleep ill!”

What sort of a country had I me to, thought I, diving under the election of my mosquito-net.

In those early days they took cessary precautions. All store elves had safety strips to prevent s goods from falling in the event a shake. All large furniture was chored to the walls by hooks: ardrobes, sideboards, book cases, mos.

I wonder if there is a single irdrobe hooked to the wall in ibaul now? I wonder, too, if ilders allow that required “give and :e” quantity when constructing uses in this seismic area.

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HARE HIS month’s Picture of the Past will bring back to some mories of the days before the war. e photo was taken by Frank ►lloway, who was with BP’s, haul, in the late ’3o’s, but is now ired and living at Redcliffe, eensland.

Fhe scene is the Rabaul main arf. From left to right: Wally it, Peter Matthies, Dickie Bird, den Jones, Bert Rawnsley and Big ic McLaughlin.

Walter Tail was in charge of BP’s yedoring in Rabaul during the 10’s up to the invasion; an allind man’s man and most depende. He smoked a pipe and (tained the Water Rats bowling m. During the war years he was Moresby, and I think it was there passed away.

C. P. Matthies was an assistant Wally; a Euronesian of royal th; his father was the well-known Charlie Matthias, of Aua (Western Islands) and his mother was the chiefs daughter.

Charlie himself was virtually ruler of the island from the German times when he was engaged as trader and medical assistant, I think it was, by H. R. Wahlen. Anyway, he was mentor and friend as well as Medicine Man to all and sundry on the island and a well-loved man.

Although “expropriated” in the early 1920’s he was not relieved of his duties on Aua until the ’3o’s.

Young Peter the son, I remember first meeting at Ralum in 1912. He was a handsome, curly-headed officeboy for the HSAG headquarters there and a great favourite of Wilhelm Mirow, the manager. Peter has also passed on.

Customs Officer R. A. (“Dickie”) Bird was a Customs officer and one of the few who, when he stamped “JERKED” on your entry form, gave you a smile and a kind word. He came to the fore when the Japs came in.

“Dickie” had been learning the Japanese language. Supercargoes on Jap boats, calling at Rabaul before the war, were attached to the invading forces as interpreters and knew of “Dickie’s” knowledge so he was promptly appointed an interpreter, adorned with a fantasticlooking arm-band and a certain “status”. He used to give us some handy information. He was lost in the Montevideo Maru.

Baden Jones, known far and wide as the Transport King of Rabaul, was the clerical half of Rabaul Carrying Coy, with Eric Hopkins carrying the mechanical section, Baden spent a number of years in Rabaul.

A good public-spirited citizen, he was affiliated with a number of organisations to which he gave generously of his time and financial support. He died in Sydney during the war years, H is partner, Eric, was one of a party taken prisoner by the Japs and who mysteriously disappeared shortly before the armistice. (That was certainly one of the war mysteries of which I would like to know the answer. The party con- Sted ° f Chauncy ’ Evensen, Korn, Cameron, Badger, Ostrom, Beaumont, Bachmann and Sherwin).

We now come to Bert Rawnsley, the m <>st cheerful soul of all, despite or probably because of a slight polio disability. He was Big Mac’s righthand man in the BP shipping department; book anybody a passage anywhere, find any stray cargo . . . just .Bke that—ping! A wonderful pianist for the boys; keep the glass filled and Bert would play all night, He was south when the Japs came * n ’ but died some time in the ’so’s, A good cove was Bert, As for “Big Mac” McLaughlin, he was a tough-looking guy on the surface, but had a golden inner lining once you knew him. For years he was in charge of the company’s shipping and a most efficient man.

He was in Rabaul when the Japs These were ail well-known Rabaul shipping men in 1941. From left, they are: “Wally"

Tait, Peter Matthies, "Dickie" Bird, Baden Jones, "Bert" Rawnsley anl "Big Mac"

MacLaughlan. The photo was taken on the Rabaul Wharf by Frank Holloway, 19 Eversleigh Road, Redcliffe, Brisbane, Queensland. 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Telegrams: “BURNSTRUST”, SYDNEY. ame in, but before the general sxodus by Montevideo Maru, he fell II and was put into the hospital at Cokopo, where he died.

And so, we have this little group m the Rabaul wharf in the late 30’s, important cogs in the movenent of shipping and now ... all ►f them passed on.

[Hey Still Pass On

A ND there are others of the oldtime crowd who have passed way more recently.

On July 28, Harry Woolcott, one ime of Kabanga plantation in the Cokopo district, and latterly of 'urramurra (NSW) died. He would lave been in his 70’s. I knew him in he ’2o’s as an Exproboard plantaion man. He bought Kabanga, /eathered the bad years, retired to lydney and lived peacefully at 'urramurra.

On August 7, Jessie Jamieson bouton died at her residence in lellevue Hill (NSW) at the good ge of 91. Jessie Mouton was the econd wife of the Territory’s only urvivor of the Marquis de Rays expedition back in the ’Bo’s, Jean taptiste Octave Mouton, who died n the late ’4o’s.

Mouton was a quiet, unassuming haracter, but gifted with great tamina. He got away from the •outh New Ireland settler camp where, as a cabin boy, he had landed with other members of the expedition and eventually contacted Emma Forsayth, who at that time was associated with Farrell at Mioko.

She gave him a job and eventually he took up the land at Kiniqunan, near Kokopo, and made himself a plantation and a home. Later he sold the property to the Catholic Mission at Vunapope. He retired to Sydney, but maintained his interests in New Guinea, among them being the ownership of The Rabaul Times newspaper, which he maintained until the invasion. Jessie did not spend much time in New Guinea after the plantation was sold.

She was the mother of Leopold; the other son, Max, was by the first wife, On the following day in Brisbane Margherita (Margot) Symington passed on. She was a popular woman with everyone. The wife of J. S. (“Don”) Symington, WRC’s manager in Rabaul during the ’3o’s and who was manager for Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd. at Gavutu in 1918. Her home in Rabaul was a favourite social centre and she was ever a keen worker for the various welfare organisations in the town.

Margot came from an artistic family; her sister was the noted Australian sculptor, Theo Cowan, who died in 1949.

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He replaces Governor Peter Tali Coleman as Administrator of the Marshalls. Governor Coleman, who had held the position since 1961, was Governor of American Samoa from 1956 to 1960, and the first Samoan to serve in that capacity.

Governor Coleman has now been appointed District Administrator of the Mariana Islands.

He succeeds Mr. Roy T. Gallemore, who has retired after more than 31 years of Government service. 51

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By Jim Huxley, former managing-editor of “The New Guinea Times Courier” [n my view, Papua-New Guinea should again erge as the main challenger to Fiji at the :ond South Pacific Games, to be held in umea next year. And the overall totals are fiy to be much closer than they were at Suva, en Fiji was too good a match for its rivals.

APUA-NEW GUINEA was second in the points table at Suva, with e gold medals, 12 silver, 11 bronze nd 62 points. This compared with ’s 34 gold medals, 23 silver, 27 nze—and 175 points. New Caleia was third in the Suva point -e, with 50 points (seven gold, nine sr, 11 bronze), and, being the host ritory this time, she should have iral advantages. iji for the Second Games will not I a Rugby Union team, but Papuav Guinea will probably send one Noumea, despite the fact that on in the Territory has not reached where near as high a standard as ;by League. ut P-NG must pick up at least a ize medal, as it is probable that r two teams will contest the event le other being Western Samoa, ga has also declared itself out : year.

New System Is Better ugby Union has been played only Moresby but efforts are bemade to start the game at Rabaul. t Suva some events were decided a knock-out system, and because Lis Papua-New Guinea suffered.

Soccer and table tennis teams ; eliminated in the first round, yet e observers at the Games believed both teams, especially the Soccer would have gone on to better gs and most probably picked up edal and a point or two, if given r chances, he system has now been changed.

Noumea all team sports will be lucted with each team appearing everal matches. A points system decide the three placings. uring the two years since Suva, ja-New Guinea’s native athletes ■ shown great improvement. In icular this will be seen in track and field, and on the basketball court.

A Soccer team of a higher standard should also be available for next year’s tournament.

In the last two years New Guinean players, but mainly from centres outside of Port Moresby, have practically dominated basketball. Natural ballplaying youngsters of all sizes and ages have taken to the game, and many of the youths who were very ordinary in 1963 are now playing topclass basketball.

When the team is selected next year I expect to see about five New Guineans in the Papua-New Guinea basketball squad.

Papua-New Guinea ran third in men’s basketball at Suva, and must again be rated a silver medal chance.

With a little luck they could do better, but again they will most probably have ahead of them the two teams which dominated the sport at Suva—French Polynesia and American Samoa.

Athletes from Papua-New Guinea, both men and women, can be expected to improve considerably on their performances at Suva, where the men won seven gold medals.

This was borne out in August when the 1965 Territory Championships were held at Rabaul.

At Suva, European athletes won three of the major medals and relay teams (European and New Guineans) won two others.

New Guineans won the high jump and discus.

Next year the New Guineans can be expected to do better in the men’s events—both field and track—and the women should be 100 per cent, better than they were in 1963.

At the P-NG titles in Rabaul 55 events were contested and 18 records were broken.

Top officials, Cyril McCubbery, who was team manager at Suva, and Don Barrett, athletic manager and coach, were elated after the results at Rabaul and they confidently announced that Papua-New Guinea would “collect a bagful of medals at Noumea”.

And in my book, it does point that way.

Richter's Times Bruce Richter, the Territory’s best sprinter, who is just short of world standard, won the 100 and 200 metre events at Rabaul.

His time for the 100 metres was 10.7 secs.—This is his best recorded effort over this distance, and only one-tenth of a second outside the South Pacific record.

And his 22.1 secs, for the 200 metres was also only one-tenth of a second outside his own record for the event, created at Suva.

Richter is sure to represent at Noumea and is certain to be right in the firing line again, but there are The ball went well out of reach during this scramble for a goal during a women's international rules basketball match in Port Moresby recently.

Photo: Australian News and Information. 53

* C I F I C Islands Monthly September, 1965

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One of these is A. Kaumata, of haul, who almost pipped Richter the 100 metres at the champion- :ps. The two were credited with the ne time.

Kaumata finished second to Richter the 200 metres in his own best ic, 22.5 secs.

Other New Guineans to do well at haul were youngsters Sailas Tita, 10 was only inches away in the 100 ;tres final, Enos Friday and Eliakim ienge.

At Rabaul the women sprinters owed good form, but just how many them will make the grade in Dumea remains to be seen.

Papuans and New Guineans love play sport, and although green len they start in athletics, they are en and quick to learn. In no time all their times improve, they jump d throw better, and quickly find smselves pushing the stars of the oment.

Swimming is a sport at which ,pua-New Guinea would perhaps do tter if teenage youngsters attending :ondary schools in Australia could called on and sent to Noumea.

There are some excellent student swimmers in Australia, but with more secondary schools now in the Territory a swimming team of some ability may be organised during the next year.

The team can be expected to comprise mainly European children, not New Guineans. It was found in Suva that the Europeans were better competitive swimmers than the natives, which was surprising.

Territory boxers did reasonably well at Suva and can be expected to do as well, but no better at Noumea, unless some kind of interest can be injected into both officials and fighters.

Efforts have been made to organise tournaments but so far this year they have met with very little success.

More interest is being shown in Rabaul than in other centres, because the Territory championships are being held there this year. If the Territory is to send a capable and truly representative boxing team to Noumea many tournaments will have to be staged over the next few months.

Boxers with potential must be given every opportunity to improve their standards and they will only do this if they are engaged in actual combat in the ring.

Between now and the Games there should be at least four tournaments, with all Games’ team aspirants appearing, organised in the main Territory centres.

Of the other sports at the Games Papua-New Guinea will no doubt be represented, and could pick up a medal or two, but it is too early yet to visualise who would go as tennis, table tennis, women’s basketball and volleyball representatives.

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Freedom To Drink Looms As

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By a Special Correspondent Restive but silent, the Nauruan drinker chafes while other Pacific Islanders indulge in their new freedom. Papua-New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Fiji, the Solomons, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands—the list grows.

BUT the Nauruan who wishes to drink can still only do so at a price involving both cash and risk.

Cash is no deterrent as he has plenty of it, but if caught in possession of either imported liquor or a locally made brew the unfortunate offender may spend time in prison or be slapped with a heavy fine.

The Arms, Liquor and Opium Prohibition Ordinance 1936 prohibits the consumption or possession of intoxicating liquor by the Nauruans and also by the Gilbert and Ellice Islanders recruited from their home islands to work for the phosphate industry. The law also forbids the manufacture of alcoholic liquor in the island. Breaches of the Liquor Ordinance constitute the greatest number of breaches dealt with by the Courts.

The island’s other two communities, the Europeans and Chinese employed by the phosphate industry and the Administration, receive a regular weekly liquor ration.

The Chinese are indentured workers from Hong Kong and receive three 26 oz bottles of beer a week, and their wives each receive one bottle. When the wife gives birth to a child she also receives a bottle of brandy.

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European married staff receive two dozen bottles of beer a week and two bottles of spirits a month. The smaller Administration European staff are on unlimited supplies, within reason.

Despite the law, the fact that most Nauruans and Gilbert and Ellice who want to drink, do so, is pretty openly acknowledged. They can buy either imported or locally made liquor.

High Price For Risk The Chinese or European who wants to sell his imported ration asks for and gets 16/- for a 1/11 bottle of beer, or £8 a carton of one dozen.

The high price is considered compensation for the risk involved.

Under the ordinance a supplier is liable to a maximum penalty of £2OO or imprisonment for two years. Sixty years ago visiting traders to the island asked for and got 500 coconuts in return for a bottle of square gin.

Now it’s cash, not coconuts, although sometimes barter arrangements are made between the Nauruans and Chinese. But the irritant remains—it’s against the law.

Before imported liquors became accessible to the islanders, sour toddy, methylated spirits and bush brews generally filled the gap, and even today some elaborate stills making a very creditable whisky and vodka supply some of the “needs” of the island. There is profit in home-made brew.

Sour toddy is said to have been introduced to Nauru by a Gilbert Islander, but under German rule— which lasted from 1888 to 1914 the making of sour toddy was prohibited. This prohibition has carried on to the present day.

Fresh toddy which is the sap of the coconut tree is a good source of vitamin B but after a day or two it becomes fermented and is then highly intoxicant.

One seasoned drinker claimed the after-effects of drinking undiluted methylated spirits were “much less severe” than the effects of drinking imported brandy. The metho can be diluted with soda water or lemonade, depending on the strength required.

The favourite bush brew is “Eibertha”, The most recent still discovered and confiscated included a haul of 130 gallons of this brew.

A half-caste Gilbertese woman reputedly introduced the recipe of raisins to Nauruan drinkers, hence the name “Eibertha”, “ei” prefixing the female name in Nauruan. The most popular mixture is raisins, vegemite, sugar and water. When Beer gardens such as this one at Boroko, Port Moresby, where drinking may be done in leisurely comfort, might be the answer to the kind of facilities to provide on Nauru.

The right to do openly what this Tolai of New Britain is doing is still denied the people of Nauru, but it may not be so much longer. 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Another brew called “Ebeda” uses yeast which is not easily come by.

The distillers of spirits do a lucrative trade until caught. Recently, the Administration’s Medical Officer cautioned the drinkers of home-made spirits and said they frequently contain methyl alcohol, which can cause permanent blindness and death.

The fact that at official and private social functions held by Europeans to which Nauruans and Gilbert and Ellice are invited, liquor is provided, makes the law look a little silly. Both sides are conscious 9f the law and are embarrassed by it.

Soft drinks are, of course, provided but the guest chooses his own drink, and out of consideration for his host, many an islander will dutifully sip soft drink all night. Where he does not, the islander doing “time” for being caught doing the same thing somewhere else may be forgiven for wondering where justice begins and ends.

Referendum Any Nauruan or Gilbert and Ellice may drink once he steps off the island. This applies to “wet” ships to and from Nauru.

As the present prohibition seems to serve little purpose, the question is: “Can the law be changed?”

A referendum held last year among a group of four Nauruan districts on whether the liquor restrictions should be lifted produced 111 “yes” votes, 67 “no” votes, and 86 abstentions from voting. So far there has not been an all-island referendum.

The Nauru Local Government Council, an all-Nauruan body, has the power to change the ordinance but has so far been reluctant to do this. At the Council’s monthly meeting in June, 1964, a councillor moved that the liquor laws should be amended to enable Nauruans to drink alcoholic liquor. The voting was three in favour, two against and two abstentions. Abstentions were counted as negatives in accordance with the Council’s rules and the motion was declared defeated.

Afterwards, one councillor who voted in favour said that the fact that most people drink already, coupled with the fact that nothing could be done to stop them, influenced his vote in favour.

Those who do not want to lift the restrictions say they have no great faith in the ability of their own people to know when to stop drinking once they start. Money is plentiful on Nauru and imported liquors are cheap.

Some also fear an increase in the traffic accident rate. With over 1,000 registered vehicles and more than 2,000 licensed drivers on an island with only one main road 12 miles round, they perhaps have reason to worry. Now, a drinker tends to sleep it off rather than risk detection, but legalise the whole business, the “no” voters argue, and the drunks will be everywhere.

This danger could be minimised by the fact that the island has no hotels or drinking establishments.

The Europeans have a recreation club and bar open at certain hours, but the majority drink only in their own homes or at each other’s. As the Gilbert and Ellice indentured workers live together in the BPC compound, a licensed club there has been suggested. Such an arrangement would be workable.

But for the Nauruans a central club might not be the answer. Their homes are scattered around the island’s 12-mile coastal belt, and their drive home after a drinking session might well prove the traffic accident theorists right.

But one thing is certain: It is unlikely that the Nauruan drinker will allow his elected councillor to sidestep the issue much longer. For many Nauruans the lifting of the liquor prohibition ordinance is of more vital concern than the question of independence. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1965

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By a Staff Writer Lying on the reefs of islands hroughout the Pacific is “white ;old” worth millions of pounds, iccording to a Sydney culture >earl expert, Mr. C. D. George.

HE believes the culture pearl industry could provide a muchiceded lift to the economy of everal of the island groups.

“There is plenty of pearl shell in he islands, and the future of the :ulture pearl industry lies there,” he ;ays.

After 15 years of experiment, luccesses and disappointments along he coasts in the north of Australia, md on nearby islands, Mr. George ms now produced culture pearls vhich, he claims, are bigger and of letter quality than anything the lapanese can produce in Japan.

Spherical The pearls produced on the Ausxalian coast are spherical, and, he ;ays, are worth 50 times as much as similar pearls produced in Japan.

In fhe United States, on an average, i pearl produced and processed in Australia would be worth $125, while a pearl produced and processed in Japan would be worth $2.70.

Mr. George has produced both the spherical and half pearl, from black lip and gold lip oysters.

There is an abundant supply of black lip oyster shell, of different varieties, throughout the Pacific, and reasonable quantities of gold lip oysters and other varieties of pearl shells in some of the groups, chiefly in Melanesia.

The half pearl takes six to nine months to develop to a commercial size, and the spherical pearl takes about two years.

But the shape of the pearl has nothing to do with the time taken to develop it, for both types are produced by different processes.

A half pearl produced and processed in Australia can be sold for £3 to £5 or £6, depending on quality and size, while the value of a spherical pearl ranges from £lO to £5O.

In many cases spherical culture pearls produced in Australia have sold for £l,OOO and more, and one, which was produced by a Japanese, sold for £5,250.

But, says Mr. George, the Japanese cannot produce in their home islands pearls of the size and quality which they can produce ,in Australia.

The accompanying picture shows the size of the shells used in the pearl culture industry in Australia and Japan.

The small one on the left is a Japanese pearl oyster, Akoya Gai, used for the production of spherical pearls.

Because it is so small, cornparatively, the maximum size of the pearl it produces is only one-quarter or three-eighths of an inch in diameter. Most, however, are smaller, The Australian shell, on the right, can produce a bigger pearl, and more than one pearl because it is so much bigger, Generally these shells produce one spherical pearl and three to five half pearls.

Spherical pearls from the Australian shell are generally from three-eighths to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, The smaller shell was the basis of the Japanese half pearl industry 50 or 60 years ago but this shell is now use d to produce the spherical pearl, _ JapdtlGSG PrOQrSffimG Jhe Japanese are now using the bj sh £„ in their pearling enter- , the Australian coasts.

H 15 ... nAA 1° 1964 they produced 220,000 pearls in Australia, and sent them back to J a P an to be processed for lb® wor ld markets.

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CHE director of Industrial Relations for Van Camp Seafoods, one f Pago’s two tuna canneries, said this i Pago in July at a wages inquiry onducted by a committee from the Fnited States Department of Labour, 'he director is Mr. W. S. Rule.

Mr. Rule said the tuna industry ad experienced “a dramatic downrend” since a 1963 sausage poisonig scare which originated in a lainland cannery.

Japanese vessels operating out of •ago Pago had dropped from 69 in 963 to 28 now because their owners ought more profitable fisheries in apan or in the Atlantic, “Deliveries of albacore, the iremium fish, have fallen off here,” dr. Rule said, “and today we can iroduce a case of tuna in California it less cost than we can produce it a Samoa and land it in California.”

Mr. Rule hinted that if there were continued unprofitable operations” n American Samoa, his company yould have to consider closing its annery.

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Mr. Robert Pedersen, vice-presilent of Star-Kist Samoa Inc., said lis firm’s Samoan cannery was Virtually without profit at this time” ind that the “outlook in the industry s not bright”.

At the end of the hearing, the vages committee agreed that there hould be only a minor increase in he territory’s Federally-regulated ninimum wage, which ranges from tl an hour cannery workers to 55 rents for ships’ crews.

“An overwhelming view of the witnesses was that there should be no increase,” a spokesman said. ‘We were also greatly concerned because there was evidence that the tuna industry is not now flourishing.”

He added: “Tuna cannery representatives all indicated that the companies are taking measures to improve the industry position here.

All were very hopeful for the future.”

Footnote : A report recently from a Japanese fishing research vessel, Surugu Maru, indicates excellent fishing potential in Tongan waters.

Catches of surface fish of the tuna, bonito and mackerel types were favourable, and the catch of bottom fish, particularly m the vicimty of Hunga Haapai, was outstanding 30 hooks on a set line landed 24 fish. The vessel had been fishing between Piha Passage in Tongatapu to Dido Shoal in the west, and between the entrance to Nukualofa Harbour and Hunga Haapai m the east. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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New Guinea’s Matthias Tollman If you happen to be present at the Budget Session of the Papua-New Guinea House of Assembly in late August, you will probably be impressed by the parliamentary performance of Matthias Tutanava Tollman, the Deputy Leader of the Elected Members, who represents the Rabaul Open Electorate and is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Administrator's Department.

HHIS tall, good-looking Tolai has L been much in the news. He has sited Kenya, and on his return made e headlines when he eloquently had motion carried in the House, the Feet of which was to make it clear the Afro-Asian bloc in the United ations that the people of Papua and sw Guinea themselves were deterined to work out their own destiny, irticularly in regard to the date and ning of independence.

He has recently returned from a o-month world tour, during which acted as a special adviser to e Australian Government at the usteeship Council meeting, and is honoured to have a private audice with the Pope.

Matthias (he prefers to use his ptismal name) comes from Papa- ;ava, in the Toma region of the izelle Peninsula, some 15 miles nth of Rabaul. Toma is a hilly area, d the Tolai people who live around ;re are often quite distinguishable >m their better known brothers from ; coastal areas of Nodup, Matupit, luana and Vunamami.

Much Taller Physically, they are much taller in the coastal Tolai, there are some nor variations in the way they ;ak the euphonious Kuana language, J they have remained much more ached to their farmer-type existence in have their commercially-minded )thers on the coast.

Very significantly also, they are lost exclusively Catholic, whereas ist other Tolai areas are equallyided adherents of either the tholic or the Methodist Missions.

Paparatava, Matthias’ birthplace, 5, for the past 60 years, been one the most important centres of tholic Mission activity, outside of napope itself. It has been noted for i excellence of its maternity and leral hospital, and the high quality its Primary school.

Matthias was born into a Catholic lily on August 25, 1925, so he is : yet 40. As a boy, he came under influence of the late Father G. irtens, MSC, a saintly man who ved at Paparatava for many years.

Matthias and his well-known brother Stanis (Torambilat) were two of Father Mertens’ star pupils. They began minor seminary studies at Vunapope before the war.

Matthias was not yet 17 when the Japanese occupied Rabaul, and the seminarians went into captivity with the missionaries. Later Bishop Scharmach often extolled the heroic manner in which the young seminarians held fast to their Christian faith, and how, by the most courageous means, they helped to supplement the meagre food and medical supplies available to the missionaries.

In these activities, Matthias played a leading part until he was detected (or betrayed), and he suffered severe physical punishment at the hands of the Japanese.

Teacher When the war was over, he returned to his seminary studies for two years, but about 1950 he quit to become a teacher in Catholic schools. He is reticent about what caused him to give up his studies for the priesthood, but there was nothing dishonourable about it. It was apparently a case of “many are called but few are chosen”.

He completed three years’ secondary general education and also a “C” course teachers’ training course in 1956. For the next seven years he was a teacher in Catholic schools in New Britain.

At the time of his election to the House of Assembly in 1964, he was the president of the Catholic Teachers’

Association of New Britain and New Ireland.

Personality Parade With such a background, one might suspect Matthias to be a political “front man” for the Catholic Mission, but nothing could be more inaccurate. There is no doubt about Matthias’ fervent Catholicism, but he has never allowed his devotion to his faith to cloud his judgment or to deter him from speaking out frankly on matters in which sometimes the Church has proved to be reactionary and wrong.

An example of this was in the early days of the establishment of the Native Local Government Councils and the Tolai Cocoa Scheme when there was much bitter and unreasonable opposition from the Bishop and many of his priests to these Administrationsponsored moves to advance the Tolais.

Matthias, and, indeed, almost all the people of the Toma area, were strong supporters of the councils and the cocoa scheme, and at meetings of Catholic Action groups and other Church-sponsored movements, Matthias took a prominent part in urging on his pastors a more progressive attitude.

In the House, his attitude has been similarly broad-minded and progressive. He can be relied upon to speak on a variety of topics, but each contribution he makes is well thought out and logically presented. He is a fluent speaker of English and in recent months has perceptibly ridden himself of the pulpit manner he once had.

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Fenbury, a shrewd, hard-bitten, ardonically minded man, is a power >ehind the scenes in Port Moresby and le has a high opinion of Matthias.

There can be no doubt of Matthias’ nfluence among the Tolai. In the Sections of 1964, he defeated the riuch-respected and venerable Nason rokiala, of Nanga Nanga, by more han 4,000 votes in a poll of about 3,000. His achievements since his lection make it certain that his inluence and prestige have grown.

White Support But how he stands with his fellow lected native members is a different latter. John Guise recognises him s a formidable rival, and at the loment, Guise has more influence nth most elected native members ian has Matthias. At the moment, do, the 14 native members from the iree Highlands districts are more rone to follow lan Downs than anyody else, but next to him, they would jpport John Guise in preference to latthias.

This will probably continue to be ic case during the lifetime of the resent House. But after the next lections, when a number of white lembers will not hold their seats, latthias might well emerge as the :ader of a centre or moderate group hose main appeal to the electorate ill be their reluctance to enter too seedily into independence.

In this role, they will undoubtedly ave the support of the whites, and icy almost certainly will have that of le Catholic Mission, and all the lission bodies in the Territory.

This support will make Matthias a )rmidable figure. Those who know im best are confident he will exercise hatever power comes to him with ►lerance and discretion.

Yet he will need something more ian his undoubted ability and talents, our of the areas, Rabaul, Kavieng, [anus and Bougainville, from which 5 normally could expect a lot of ipport, are areas where the onset of ilf-government and independence mid produce scenes of violence.

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rHERE is an old saying that a heavy mango crop indicates a lurricane ahead. Fiji’s mango trees lave been burnished with blossoms, >ut these days few heed the old aying.

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Many plant varieties are quite reistant to Wither Tip (but none is ompletely), and care should be aken what variety is planted. All arieties grow better in dry areas.

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Igatoka Spot Disease

JIGATOKA Spot disease is now 5 present in every important anana-growing region in the world, nd as far back as 1911 it became rst serious in the Sigatoka Valley f Fiji—hence the name by which : is known the world over.

Sigatoka is found only on the ;aves of the plant, and young leaves re usually the most susceptible to hack. The banana bunches produced n heavily-infected plants will usually e undersized, and have a tendency ) ripen prematurely, thereby causing re fruit to be below marketable rade.

The first indication of infection is le presence of very small, light ellow spots which are visible only ! the leaf is held up to the light, /ithin a few days, these specks nlarge to form dark brown spots r hich vary in size up to half an ich in length. The centres of these spots eventually dry and become light grey.

The spots are often surrounded by a light yellow zone, and they unite to cover a large part of the leaf surface, giving it a burned appearance. The leaf stalks of severely infected plants often break, so that the infected plant may have only a few erect leaves.

Control of the disease is mandatory in some Pacific areas, and in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji control has been achieved with a mixture of Dithane and light orchard oil, applied at the rate of two gallons of Dithane and half a gallon special orchard oil per acre in five to eight gallons of water.

A special banana misting oil, hitherto used for control, fell out of favour because of its inability to clear itself of the suspicion that it affected yields.

Spraying with Dithane should continue as often as every 10-14 days during rainy seasons and when nightly dews occur. During dry weather spraying cycles can be lengthened considerably. The continued cycles are necessary for improvement as mixture suppresses spot development without preventing infection.

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Navua Sedge Will Take Over

GIVE it an inch, and Navua Sedge (Cyperus aromaticus ) will take a mile—and take it most thoroughly; choking out pastures and crops, and resisting all but the most rigid forms of control.

Not palatable to stock, and difficult to eradicate because of its rhizone underground runners and tubers, Navua Sedge has the dubious distinction of being viewed by agriculturalists as “the worst weed in Fiji”.

Many of the Islands are reluctant hosts to the unwanted sedge, including New Hebrides and Samoa.

That it will impose its presence on other areas is more than probable, for it is reported to be spreading rapidly.

This is understandable, for its light, inconspicuous seed attaches itself easily to clothing and farm sacks. Car, ship and plane travellers are suspect carriers.

A perennial, usually 1 ft to 2 ft high, but sometimes up to 6 ft, the sedge is known under many names in the Islands. It is easily recognised by its three-ranked leaves, mostly clustered at the base of the stem, two to eight inches long and about i in wide, and also by the spikes borne in a cone or button-like cluster at the apex of the stem, subtended by three long and three short leaflike bracts.

The pest may be attacked either with chemicals or by traditional cultivation and repeated planting of crops plus chemical control.

For those preferring the latter means, infected areas should be thoroughly ploughed, disced and harrowed, and given a follow-up deep harrowing as soon as the weed seedlings appear.

This procedure should be followed three to four times and then the area planted immediately with a vigorous grass.

During cultivations and planting, chemical control of the verges is necessary, and later spot chemical control in the area itself will be found necessary.

For full chemical control a mixture of 4 C.P.A. (8 lbs acid equivalent) and 2 lbs 100 per cent, sodium chlorate mixed with 80 gallons of water will be necessary to treat one acre of land suffering 100 per cent, infestation.

The use of the full 80 gallons to the acre is strongly advised; any stinting is false economy. Mixture should be applied to crowns and growing parts of plants.

Spray pressure should be adjusted to 250 lb-300 lb per square inch.

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From a Suva Correspondent In the middle of the rara (village green) of a Fijian village near Suva, and visible from the Queen’s Road, stands a white monument. It marks the seed bed of a movement which is gathering impetus in Fiji and which could play a tremendous part in the life of an independent Fiji.

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Father Marian Ganey, landed in Fiji after 18 years in British Honduras, bringing the credit union idea with him.

The idea began in Germany in 1848 and spread to the other side of the Atlantic by 1900. Father Ganey made it a success in British Honduras.

The credit union teaches thrift and encourages financial planning. Father Ganey was told that these ideas would find little encouragement among the Fijians.

But the gloomy Jeremiahs were wrong. In 10 years the movement has made giant strides.

Nearly 300 Unions A map of Fiji on the wall of the Credit Union League HQ at Suva shows the extent of growth of the seed planted at Kalokolevu.

Nearly 300 coloured pins each representing a union are dotted all over the map, the majority edging along the coastal roads of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. Some follow the river valleys up into the hills and into the almost inaccessible heart of Viti Levu.

Father Ganey chose as his righthand man Jone Naisara, who is now the managing director of the Fiji Credit Union League, the parent body of all the credit unions in the Colony, “We have had no time to rest,” says Jone, “because at the moment nearly 200 villages and groups are pressing us for assistance in starting new credit unions.”

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South Seas Pictures

By Robert Langdon Among the first things you notice when you walk into the room of Professor J. W. Davidson, head of the Australian National University’s Pacific history section in Canberra, are two coloured wall pictures of Islands scenes, which were obviously done some time last century.

F you are familiar with early South Seas art and literature, u will immediately recognise them Baxter prints.

But unless you have ever made a tint of finding out who Mr. Baxter is, you will probably have no idea w he came to produce these South as pictures, or why they, and the any other pictures he published, j now much prized and sought ;er by collectors.

This, however, is nothing to be tiamed of, for neither the Encyipaedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia nericana nor Collier’s Encyclopaedia recognises the fact that Mr.

Baxter ever existed, while Britain’s massive Dictionary of National Biography dismisses the man in three or four lines. j t wou a p pe ar, though, that these great reference works have treated jvf r . Baxter with a contempt he did not deserve, for inquiry reveals that was one t^e g initiators in , he fie|d of p rinting .

He was (he inventor of an oil colour process which enabled coloured pictures to be printed cheaply and in unlimited numbers for the first time.

This invention stimulated colour printing in the same way that the invention of moveable types stimulated literature, and it enabled ordinary people to do what only the rich had previously been able to do—possess coloured pictures.

The London Morning Post of March 21, 1859, described Baxter’s process as “one of the most beautiful and ingenious inventions of our time,” and it said it had “certainly done more than any other single modern discovery to make the great mass of people fond of good pictures and familiar with them,”

Yet despite the recognition that Baxter achieved in his own day, no contemporary journalist ever thought that he was interesting enough to interview. And as Baxter, himself, left no diaries and few other papers, little is now known about his life or of the process he invented.

Such details as are known were not collected until nearly 40 years after his death by one, C. T.

Courtney Lewis, who wrote several books about him.

From these books one learns that Baxter—his Christian name was George—was born at Lewes, Sussex, on July 31, 1804, and that he was the second son of John Baxter, a printer. (John Baxter, by the way, was the first printer to use an inking roller, now an indispensable part of every printing establishment, and the first person to write and publish a book entirely devoted to cricket).

George Baxter went to school at Lewes and nearby Brigton, worked for a time in a Brigton bookshop, then apparently became apprenticed to a wood engraver. (over) Beware Of Those Early Figures!

An article on the difficulty of obtaining an accurate idea of the number of people living on various Polynesian islands in the early days of European contact is a feature of the latest (March) issue of the Journal of the Polynesian Society.

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In 1827, he helped to produce the lustrations in two books on Sussex üblished by his father, and in the ime year he married and moved to ondon.

In London, he continued to work 5 an engraver, apparently spending inch of his time in experimenting n colour printing. The first colour rint that he is known to have prouced depicted three butterflies, and ppeared in a book published in 829.

First Colour Print Five years later, his first oil colour rint, produced by the process of is own invention, was published j a book illustration.

Baxter immediately took out a itent for his invention, and by the me of Queen Victoria’s accession [ 1837, his work had reached a igh standard.

It was in 1837 that Baxter began Elaborating with a man called low, who had just been appointed iblisher for the London Missionary xdety.

This was the beginning of Baxter’s isociation with the South Seas. was also the beginning of two jw phases in Baxter’s career—the •oduction of portraits in colours, id the production of prints of his mdiwork for sale separately, i.e. her than as book illustrations.

Baxter’s first portrait in colours was of the famous South Seas missionary, John Williams. It was originally intended solely as an illustration for Williams’ book A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, which was published in London in 1837.

But Snow found there was a market for it separately, and it was this discovery that led to the sale of separate Baxter prints.

Rarotonga Chief The first truly South Seas picture produced by Baxter’s process was a full-length portrait of Te Po, a nude, tattooed Rarotongan chief, which appeared as an illustration in Williams’ book.

In the following year, 1838, Baxter published a print of the departure from London of the London Missionary Society ship Camden with Williams and other missionaries bound for the South Seas. This was the first of Baxter’s pictures designed especially for sale separately and with no thought of use as a book illustration.

Three years later, when the sensational news reached England of Williams’ massacre at Erromanga, New Hebrides, Baxter designed two colour prints to raise money for Williams’ family.

One of these prints depicts Williams’ reception at Tanna, New Hebrides, on November 13, 1839.

The other shows Williams and his assistant, John Harris, being murdered at Erromanga the following day.

The two prints were sold to subscribers at £2/2/- the pair and to non-subscribers at £2/12/6. You could also get the pair in gold frames for £4/2/-.

Buyers of the prints were also given free copies of a slim book, containing the same prints, which Baxter published. The text of the book comprises an account of the last two days in the lives of Williams and Harris by J. Leary, one of the survivors of the massacre; accounts of Tanna and Erromanga as Captain Cook and Captain Peter Dillon found them in 1774 and 1825 respectively; and a description of the pictures themselves.

Tribute An explanatory note in the book says “These prints have been executed by Mr. Baxter, for whose new art of printing in oil colours Mr.

Williams, when in England, showed great partiality, having engaged him to illustrate his work on Missionary Enterprises. A friendship sprang up from their daily intercourse, and when Mr. Williams left the Thames in the Camden, Mr. Baxter was one of the last persons with whom he bade adieu . . . Upon the arrival in England of the fatal intelligence of his death, Mr. Baxter thought he could not better evince the sincerity of his regret for the loss of his friend than by dedicating his art and his labours to perpetuate the memory of so estimable a man.”

These prints, however, were not the last of Baxter’s work depicting Williams. In 1842, a print showing Williams in one of the Camden’s boats, offering presents at Erromanga to some natives in a canoe, was published in the Rev. John Campbell’s The Martyr of Erromanga. (over) [?]e Rev. John Williams, George Baxter's [?]St subject. This picture, however, is not reproduced from a Baxter print.

The "Camden" leaving London for the South Seas with John Williams and other London Missionary Society missionaries. This was Baxter's first colour print designed especially for sale as a separate item. 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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One of the prints shows Tahiti’s Queen Pomare and her family “at the afflictive moment when the French forces were landing” on her island. The other shows George Pritchard, the British consul in Tahiti, who played a prominent role in Tahitian affairs before the establishment of the protecto:ate, and who was deported by the French soon afterwards The last of Baxter’s South Seas prints appeared in a book on Fiji published in London in 1857 by the Rev - J - w - Waterhouse, secretary of the Wesle yan Missionary Society in Australia and Polynesia. c;;; ail N|ian rnnCGSS The book is called Vah-ta-ah, the Feejeean Princess; with Occasional Allusions to Feejeean Customs, and Illustrations of Feejeean Life. The print is a half-length oval portrait of Princess Vah-tah-ah, herself.

Baxter’s South Seas prints ther fore covered four Island groups—tß New Hebrides, Cook Islands, Socie Islands and Fiji.

As far as I know, they were tB first pictures of any of those grouj to be printed in colour by ar process, which makes them of moi than ordinary interest to collector of Pacificana.

To produce his prints, Baxter aj parently worked in most cases froi drawings or paintings done t others, although he is said to ha\ been a highly competent artist hin self.

For every colour or shade c colour that he intended to use, t had to make a separate block, an some of his prints called for th use of more than 20.

Each of these blocks had to I the engraved outline of the pictui without a hairbreadth’s deviatioi and it is one of the marvels of h art that they did even where minut areas were involved.

Courtney Lewis says in one c his books that Baxter was coo pletely devoted to his art, “coi templating his plates, even at mej times, in search of ways of io proving on them.”

Devotion To Art This devotion to his art, couple with tactlessness and a poor busi ness head, always kept wordly wealt beyond Baxter’s reach, even thoug there were few prominent people c noteworthy events that he did nc portray during the quarter of century that he was actively pro ducing his colour prints.

However, by 1860 he had ao cumulated sufficient money to h able to retire to a large house a Sydenham, near London.

He died there seven years late after having been kicked in the heai by an omnibus horse during a vis:; to London.

Baxter’s licensees and others con tinued using his methods for abou 20 years after his death. But the; never succeeded in reproducing hi effects completely, and the proces died out.

Many of Baxter’s secrets hav\ never been rediscovered.

Footnote : The two Baxter print! on the wall of Professor Davidson* room in Canberra are of Joffii Williams at Tanna on the day befon his death, and of his massacre as Erromanga. 84 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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By Merval Hoare, author of “Rambler’s Guide to Norfolk Island”.

Although it is well known that the first European settlers of Norfolk Island were convicts, few people probably know that the convict party included six women, one of whom was mistress to the island’s first commandant, Lieutenant Philip Gidley King.

HHE women convicts, like the L men, were chosen by King from lose brought to Sydney early in 788 by the transport vessel Lady enrhyn, one of the 11 ships in ustralia’s First Fleet.

The convicts had not then disnbarked from the Lady Penrhyn, id King’s choices were made after insulting the ship’s surgeon, Arthur owes.

Bowes recorded that King had sleeted those of both sexes “whose behaviour on board during the voyage had been the least exceptionable”.

Five of the six women recommended by Bowes consented to go to Norfolk, but one of them, Anne Yates, preferred to stay in Sydney and was replaced by Susan Gough.

The remaining five were: Elizabeth Colley, Elizabeth Hipsley, Elizabeth Lee, Olivia Gascoyne, and Ann Innet.

King's Promise In an address to the convict party chosen, King promised good treatment on Norfolk Island provided they behaved well, and assured everyone that they would be sent back to Sydney for punishment if they misbehaved.

The ship chosen for the voyage to Norfolk was the brig Supply, which left Sydney on February 14, 1788, and reached Norfolk 15 days later.

But because King spent nearly a week searching for a suitable landing place, the new settlers—a total of 23, including 15 convicts—did not disembark until March 6.

The early days of colonisation were difficult for all, including the women. As “servants of the Crown” till their sentences expired, they laboured “for the public good”, and, no matter how leniently King may have wished to treat them, there were certain privations and hardships that just had to be endured.

Two-Thirds Allowance The allowance of rations for the women from the Government store was only two-thirds of what the men got, though they probably fared better when fish and birds caught locally were shared out.

Domestic duties naturally fell to their lot, but, in addition, there were other tasks not normally allotted to women.

Though not called on to fell trees, it was their job to drag away the boughs and burn the tops and branches. They helped to clear ground • for gardens and, when harvest time came, they were employed “breaking down and gathering Indian corn” and “leasing the barley”.

When plagues of caterpillars and grubs attacked the crops, it was nearly always the women who spent back-breaking hours picking insects off the vegetables and beating the ground with staves where the pests lay inches thick.

For many months the six women were the only members of their sex on the island, but in October, 1788, 11 more women, also convicts, arrived from Sydney.

First Child The names of five of the six pioneers have lapsed into obscurity, but that of the sixth, Ann Innet, has a place in the island’s history.

She it was who lived with King during his first term of office on Norfolk, which lasted two years.

During that time she bore him two sons. These were Norfolk King, the commandant’s first son and the first child born on the island, and his brother Sydney.

Later Ann Innet was transferred to the mainland and married a free man in good circumstances in Sydney.

Perhaps the others enjoyed similar good fortune, for, whatever their crimes might have been, life on Norfolk in 1788 could not have been a picnic for them. [?]rfolk Island's first convict settlers no [?]ubt dressed something like this convict [?]uple, who were depicted in Sydney in [?]93 by an artist with the Spanish exedition headed by Captain Alejandro [?]alaspina. The picture is reproduced from [?]e original in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, [?]d is published by permission of the library's trustees.

Philip Gidley King, Norfolk Island's first commandant. 85 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Yesterday The capitulation of Japan on August 15, 1945, the appointment of General Mac Arthur as Supreme Allied Commander in that country, and the formal surrender of Japan to the Allies in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, were among the important news items in PIM of 20 years ago. PI M’s pages for September, 1945, also recorded that : ALONG series of “Victory V’s”, blown by the siren of an American warship in Suva harbour, gave most Suva people their first intimation that the end of the war with Japan had come.

Special coloured posters showing Allied flags and bearing the word “Victory” in English, Fijian and Hindustani, which had been prepared by the Public Relations Office, soon began appearing on windows and walls. The Governor of Fiji, Sir Alexander Grantham, announced over the radio that Fiji would have 2 i days to celebrate.

MANY New Guinea people had been disappointed that Brigadier D. M. Cleland [now P-NG’s Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland] had failed to win the Fremantle seat in the Australian Federal Parliament, made vacant by the death of Prime Minister Curtin. “During the time that Brigadier Cleland was the active executive head of the Production Board in Papua and New Guinea, he made many friends,” PIM said. “He filled a difficult job with efficiency, tact, courage and honesty—qualities which are sadly needed in the Australian Parliament.”

A FORCE of 250 Australians sailed from Bougainville on September 9 to recover the phosphate island of Nauru which had been occupied by a Japanese garrison since April, 1942. Sir Albert Ellis, the New Zealand Commissioner on the British Phosphate Commission, expressed the hope that phosphate shipments would be resumed six months after Nauru and Ocean Island were reoccupied.

MEN of the Australian 11th Division landed in Rabaul on September 10. They had been preceded three days earlier by Captain Bryce Morris, RAN, who reported: “What used to be the town area is overgrown with jungle 20 to 30 feet high. Not one building is standing, unless you include one or two shanties resembling dog kennels that the Japs have built. The wharves were completely demolished, and the whole foreshore is littered with wrecks, from large steamers to little boats.

Practically the whole population of Japanese and natives had gone underground against bombing, and lived in miles and miles of tunnels.”

When Captain Morris stepped ashore, he saw a group of eight white prisoners standing behind some Japanese soldiers. After the Japanese had tried to prevent him from speaking to the prisoners, he gave them cigarettes and left an officer to care for them. Later, HMAS Vendetta took them to Jacquinot Bay.

A report, then unconfirmed, said that the prisoners included Gordon Thomas (former editor of the Rabaul Times and now PlM’s ‘Tolala”), J. H. Ellis (electrician), A. D. Creswick (public works mechanic), E. Till (Bainings), two men called Rundnagel, and an engineer called McKechnie.

COLONEL J. K. Murray, Professor of Agriculture at the University of Queensland since 1927, and who was acting as Chief Instructor at the School of Civil Affairs, Duntroon, had been appointed provisional Administrator of the combined territories of Papua and New Guinea.

BAURO RATIETA, a Gilbert Islander, and Penitala Teo, an Ellice Islander, had been appointed Native Administrative Officers in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. They were the first local men to receive such appointments. [Penitala Teo was one of the two GEIC delegates at the Sixth South Pacific Conference in Lae in July. The other delegate was Buren Ratieta, Bauro Ratieta’s son].

THE offices in Sydney of the British Solomon Islands Government, which had been opened in 1942 after the Japanese invasion of the Solomons, were closed on September 1, 1945, following the return of Treasury staff and records to the Protectorate.

THE New Caledonian Administration had approved a decree granting free residence, with the right to compete at a reasonable wage on the free labour market, to over 10,000 Indo-Chinese and Javanese coolies in New Caledonia.

CAPTAIN R. M. L. Gladney, Commanding Officer of the Rarotonga Maori Defence Force, had been appointed Resident Agent of Penrhyn Island. • When this primitive motor car was brought ashore at Tahiti round the turn of the century, its appearance in Papeete's streets filled some people with panic, for it was one of the first cars — possibly the first—to be seen anywhere in French Polynesia. Its driver, William Bardury, was still living in Martinique when the photograph first appeared in PIM in July, 1951. Nowadays, Tahiti has more than 8,000 automobiles, and officials predict that at the present rate of increase, there will be 10,000 on the island within 12 months. These figures compare with only 4,226 vehicles in 1962 and 5,041 in 1963. 87

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Queens Unpublished Memoirs Reveal . . .

The Skeleton In Tahiti’s Cupboard Back in 1880, when King Pomare V of Tahiti and 20 chiefs of Tahiti and Moorea signed a document handing over Tahiti and its dependencies to France as an outright colony, it was the generally accepted view among well-informed observers that the French had used pressure on the Tahitians to get the signatures to the document of cession.

IT was said at the time that the French—who had held Tahiti as a protectorate since 1842—wanted undisputed control of that island and its dependencies because of their expected value as coaling stations, etc., en route to the then-projected Panama Canal.

What was not said—but has now been said in public, for the first time, as far as I know—is that, of the 20 Tahitian chiefs who signed the document of cession, only nine were “authentic chiefs” with sufficient authority to put their names to it.

Moreover, as Tahiti and Moorea actually had 22 chiefs, the document should have borne two more signatures.

Book By Queen's Son The statement revealing this was made by Queen Marau, Tahiti’s last Queen, in a book published in France last year by the Societe des Oceanistes.

The book, Alexandre Salmon et sa femme Ariitaimai, was written by the late Ernest Salmon, a grandson of the subjects of the book, and a son of King Pomare V and Queen Marau (formerly Joanna Marau Salmon).

In his book, Ernest Salmon recalls that the documents of annexation were signed on June 29, 1880. He then quotes several passages from his mother’s as yet unpublished memoirs, which, he says, are “both curious and suggestive”.

Translated from French, Queen Marau’s statements are: — “Below the signature of the King, the first document [of annexation] carries the signatures of 20 Tahitians which, in accordance with a foregoing proclamation of the Commissioner of the [French] Republic, one would believe to be the chiefs of Tahiti and Moorea convoked to give their consent to the annexation.

“But, besides the fact that the chiefs in question numbered 22—two more than the signatories—it appears that of the signatories, only nine are authentic chiefs, namely: Aitoa, chief of Paea; Hitoti Manua, chief of Tiarei; Tere a Patia, chief of Mataiea; Marurai a Tauhiro, chief of Teaharoa; Terai a Faaroau, chief of Afareaitu; Tarii Vehiatua, chief of Tehaupoo; Teriitapunui, brother of the King and chief of Mahina; Ariipeu, uncle of the King and chief of Arue; and Opuhara, chief of Papenoo.

“The 11 other signatures are those of two sub-chiefs and of eight unknowns (inconnus), who do not figure in any of the lists of chiefs, Queen Marau. 88 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Or from Islands Stores and Booksellers. ib-chiefs or district councillors— ith the exception of one, whose lief had already signed—that are irnished us in the Annuaires de ahiti of the time.

“One is thus led to suppose that le refractory chiefs, or those who ere considered* such, like my mother, ere replaced on the spur of the oment by no matter whom, with e object of giving that capital msaction the appearance of having :en approved by the authorised presentatives of the Tahitian people.

“This astonishing state of affairs is not discovered my me, but by former naval officer while doing Jtorical research. He communicated 5 discoveries to me as matters of riosity, adding whimsically: ‘Do u perhaps doubt that the act of nexing Tahiti to France constituted kind of forgery in a public cument?’ ”

No Rancour Ernest Salmon said in his book it, in her memoirs, his mother had ted that she did not want it to be >ught that she felt rancour or imony over the French annexation; it no one loved and venerated mce more than she did; and that ; was well aware of what France 1 done for her country. ‘But,” she added, “this is no reason not showing things un as they , for not speaking the truth— whole truth . .

According to a preface in Ernest mon’s book, written nearly three irs ago, the memoirs of Queen rau were to be published in their irely “soon” in a de luxe edition strated by Jacques Boullarie. far as I know they have not been published. >ueen Marau, by the way, died Tahiti in 1935 at the age of 75. f marriage to Pomare V, who 1 in 1891, had been dissolved 1887; but the French accorded a pension as ex-Queen until her th.

Robert Langdon 89 CIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y - S E P T E M B E R , 1965

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The Month'S New Reading

Off The Beaten Track In The Western Pacific Serious students of the social customs of Pacific Islands people will be interested in two recent American publications, although neither is likely to attract readers of lighter Islands fare.

IHE first— Kapingamarangi—Social and Religious Life of a Polydan Atoll —is by Kenneth P. lory, of the Bernice P. Bishop aseum in Honolulu.

In spite of its long name, the total id area of the islets that make up i oval-shaped atoll of Kapingairangi is 260 acres. These acres, manage to support a pulation of 500.

Hie atoll is an outlier of the roline Islands and is thus now t of the US Trust Territory of Pacific Islands. But with the t of the Carolines it previously i a Japanese period, a German iod, and a Spanish period.

Is inhabitants are interesting :ause they are the descendants of ynesian castaways who must have fted there centuries ago and en root in this no-man’s land ween Micronesia and Melanesia, is 1,500 miles west of Polynesia, per, lying just above the Equator 154 deg. 46 min. E. longitude and >ut 400 miles north of Rabaul. It hus one of a string of Polynesian* •ulated outliers that occur along windward sides of the Bismarck ihipelago and the Solomon Islands.

"here have been several Bishop seum expeditions to the atoll >o known as Greenwich) since the t in 1947 which was led by the Sir Peter Buck. The most inking fact to emerge from the ts is that although separated by ance and time from their home- 1, the people have managed to in much of the ancient Polynesian r of life.

Tie second of the anthropological ks is Choiseul Island Social icture, by H. W. Scheffler a nber of the Department of hropology at Yale University. lr. Scheffler conducted his fiddle on Choiseul, the most northterly of the islands of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, in the 18 months between November, 1958, and April, 1961, but had previously spent a year at the Australian National University in Canberra.

The approximately 6,000 Choiseulese are typical Melanesians, surrounded by other large and small islands of typical Melanesians. They have been missionised since early this century, and were in contact with Europeans through traders and 3D nrpasinnal labour rprrnitpr for an occasional labour-recruiter tor half a century before that.

Today, however, in comparison with their Melanesian cousins of neighbouring New Guinea they are somewhat out of the main stream of advancement.

There are only two small European plantations on the island; the islanders’ main cash income comes from selling copra to Chinese traders —the Choiseulese being the largest producers of native copra in the BSIP.

Politically, the islanders have had a Local Council since 1948; and more recently they took part in the election of a member to the new Legislative Council.

This work, however, is more concerned with the Choiseulese as they were about the turn of the century than as they are today. (RAPINGAMARANGI; published by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu.

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STRUCTURE; published by University of California Press, SUS 7.) 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1965

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Fascinating Story Of The Pacific's “Queen Emma”

In 50 years of travelling and working in the Pacific Islands, R. W. Robson has been fascinated by the history of scores of men and women of unusual character who made the South Seas their home. But none fascinated him more than the girl who was bom in Samoa in 1850 as Emma Eliza Coe. His book about her, Queen Emma, is the result of many years research in the Islands, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Europe.

MMA COE’S life was one of paradox in that she was able take full advantage of the age of isting European acquisition in the ific; and at the same time achieve ilts that few women of the period 2d, or were permitted, to do. ler mother was Samoan, of royal lietoa blood; her father was Jonas Coe, son of a respectable erican family. He ran away to at 14 and at 16 was washed up the shores of Savaii, Samoa, ging to the broken spar of a eked American whaler, anas soon got his first taste of loan life and love, and although was finally “rescued” by the next American ship to call at these islands, he never forgot Samoa. He returned there permanently in 1845 and set himself up as a trader.

Subsequently he was official United States representative—or Consul— in Samoa until he got himself embroiled in the native kingship wars and a fiery brand of local politics that displeased the people in Washington.

In all, Jonas had six acknowledged wives, all Samoan. Some of these were churched; other unions were simply fa'a Samoa; and some of the wives overlapped—that is, there was more than one in residence in the Coe establishment at the one time.

From these six marriages, Jonas recognised 18 children as Coes and meticulously listed them in his big family Bible. Emma was the second child of his first wife Le’utu, and his favourite. She was nearer to him in temperament and in her late teens and early twenties became his able lieutenant in trading and politics.

Coe saw to the education of all his acknowledged children but he was particularly careful with Emma.

He sent her to a convent school in Sydney when she was 11; and when she was in her mid-teens he persuaded his brother Edward, in San Francisco, to take her into his household so that she might finish her education.

Good-Looking When Emma returned to Apia in 1869 she was 19. She was good looking in the sultry way of part- European girls but her Polynesian love of fun was leavened, to an extent, by Yankee shrewdness. For a while she engaged in the carefree life of the sprawling township of Apia but within months Jonas, who knew better than most the pitfalls of the prevaling social conditions, was urging marriage upon her.

Fortunately the means were at hand—22 years old James Forsayth, well-educated, English, second-mate on the vessel that had brought Emma home from California.

With Coe’s help, Forsayth became a trader and schooner owner in Apia and in these enterprises he was helped by Emma. Their first child, a daughter, was born in 1870 but did not long survive; their son was born in 1872 but Emma’s interest in Forsayth did not long survive the

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Among specialised books received this month is "The Teaching of Biology in Tropical Secondary Schools," published by Oxford University Press at 45/-.

The book is, in fact, aimed at developing countries and whether they are tropical or not seems to have little to do with it It is one of a series of UNESCO Handbooks on the sciences and it is possibly thought that "tropical" sounds more respectful than "developing".

The book will probably be of considerable interest to teachers of science in Islands schools.

"Queen Emma" photographed with Captain Paul Kolbe soon after their marriage in German New Guinea in 1894. 93 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY- S E P T E M B E R , 1965

Gem Hunting In Australia ALTHOUGH opals have always been associated with Australia, it is only in recent years that there has been much interest in other Australian gem-stones. Even now it takes the form of a hobby rather than a commercial enterprise.

Diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, topaz, agates and a variety of quartz crystals and other interesting stones are found all over Australia.

Something rewarding is available for weekend fossickers not too far from any of the large capital cities, but the best areas are in Queensland and northern NSW and usually require somewhat more time.

The Australian Gemhunter’s Guide by K. J. Buchester, covers the fundamentals of gem fossicking—where to look, what to look for, how to go about it. There are also descriptions of the gemstones themselves.

There is a complete list of all the places in each State where gemstones have been found and another of the names and addresses of the mineral and lapidary clubs in Australia. Illustrated in black and white, and colour. (THE ATTSTW.AT.TAN GEMHUNTER’S GUIDE. Ure Smith. 45/-.) Forsayth did not long survive the event. Increasingly Forsayth was away at sea and the suggestion is that he was finally lost with his ship off the China coast.

By 1873 Emma apparently regarded herself as free to again indulge in affairs of the heart; and at the same time she and her father both became entangled with notable events in South Pacific history and in the local Samoan kingship wars that involved the governments of Britain, Germany and the United States.

Emma became more personally involved with Colonel Albert Steinberger, whose manipulations of Samoan affairs severely embarrassed the US President, General Ulysses Grant; and when Steinberger was finally discredited in the eyes of the Samoans in 1876, and her father was temporarily deported, Emma entered a black period of her life.

Left Samoa When Jonas Coe returned to Apia in 1877 he found Emma withdrawn from social life, living in a Samoan village. The story is that he then connived with a red-bearded Australian labour-recruiter, Tom Farrell, to get her out of the village and back into circulation. It is a fact that they left Samoa together in a sailing ship in 1878 as Mrs.

Forsayth and Captain Tom Farrell; and that by mid-1879 they were established in Mioko, Duke of York Islands, in New Guinea, as Mr. and Mrs. Farrell. It was assumed that they had been married in Sydney but this was not the case—at this time Forsayth’s fate was still uncertain.

It was in New Guinea that the Coe part of Emma’s nature began to predominate. In this then savage no-man’s-land of deadly fevers and marauding cannibals she was the first to see the potential wealth in coconut planting. She got possession of rich areas of land on the mainland of New Britain and in the offshore islands before German annexation and then fought the Germans for her right to retain it.

She had a strange association with the scandalous enterprise of the Marquis de Rays to colonise New Ireland; Farrell faded from the scene and after her huge Dalmatian lover and her brother were killed by natives, she married Captain Kolbe, a German officer.

In the years between 1879 and 1900, the fun-loving part-Samoan girl, Emma Coe, changed into Queen Emma of New Guinea. In her planting enterprises she was assisted by her eminent botanist brother-in-law, Richard Parkinson; and she surrounded herself with members of her own family brought from Sam Through Emma and her fan: much of the foundations of N Guinea’s modern copra indus was laid.

From her home at Gunantara on the shores of Blanche Bay, dispensed hospitality on such a sc that it became a Pacific legend; : frequently took time off from serious business of planting i trading to indulge in escapades t make entertaining reading 60 ye later.

Death At Monte Carlo Shortly before World War I, ageing Queen Emma, worried looming international crises and own marriage to a German natioi sold her New Guinea interests fc huge sum. In 1913, at Monte Ca she and her husband died mys iously and tragically within a hours of each other.

In tracing the fantastic story Emma, the author covers also ra of the early history of New Gui and Samoa —history that is i fast being lost in the rap changing world of the Pacific.

Emma’s life-span coincided t the period of greatest Europ colonial enterprise. It was a t when such places as New Guinea Samoa were untamed and ale unknown by the world at I although possession of them already hotly contested by one another of the great powers.

The book is illustrated with b: and white photographs, some of tl from old prints. It is fully ind» and an appendix outlines the de I swindle —the plan for establis* “New France” at the south-east of New Ireland —between 1877 1884. (QUEEN EMMA. Pacific Publicat 30/-.) The home of "Queen Emma" at Gunantambu, on Blanche Bay, New Britain, was scene of lavish hospitality in her heyday in New Guinea. Only the foundations of building remain today. 94 SEPTEMBER. 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTBfc

About Churchill - And Lady Bonham. Carter r iolet Bonham Carter’s book, Inston Churchill as I Knew Him”, written and in the process of lication when the old statesman I. This portrait, as she calls it, originally intended to cover his >le life, but with an embarrass- \t of material, she concluded this, first part of the story, in the • 1916, when Churchill, after the lipoli fiasco, was in eclipse.

IDY Violet Bonham Carter is the daughter of the late H. H. uith, one-time British Prime ister. She was born into British ;ics and first met Churchill—and icdiately fell under his spell— -906 when she was a girl of 19 he was making his first essays political life. icrefore she had a close-up view he remarkable man for the best of his career and she is able tell her story with a unique vledge of the background of ►st 60 years of successive British rnments, lis is not only the story of 'chill, of course. It is the story he events that preceded World I, and of the men who shaped fumbled the events that led it. It is, in a way, also the story .ady Violet Bonham Carter, as idable in her own way as chill in his, and, like him, somelarger than life. ;r creation as a life peer at the of 1964 may have been someof a culmination, but in the that went before she filled a tude of high posts in British c life—from president of the al Party to Governor of the Above all and always, she has in the thick of every political comes as some sort of surprise such a woman also found time, >l5, to marry and subsequently reduce two daughters and two

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They are factual—or basically so —written around characters he met in the days when he was a “bushie” himself.

He is unlike the old-time writers about the Australian bush who saw only the tragedy—people with barbed wire in their souls who, when they were not being battered by drought, were up to their necks in flood water.

He tries to see the positive side of outback life, which, the way he tells it, is usually entertaining.

His stories concern pioneers like Mulga Jackson—who declined the honour: “My old man was the pioneer ... he was speared in the back and had his skull cracked by a nulla-nulla. But he survived and later fathered five kids.”

They also concern the customs of the country—such as the difference between being a one-nail man or a six-nail man in the days when lowboys and wardrobes were not part of the furnishing of men’s quarters in the outback.

It is good entertainment, although it comes under the heading of nostalgia rather than anything pertaining to contemporary Australia.

Contemporary Novel Hugh Atkinson’s novel is contemporary, although the characters are Australian—or New Australian —it could equally as well have been placed in the United States setting.

The theme is psychological. The stories of half a dozen men whose lives have, one way or another, come unstuck at the seams, are brought together as they attempt to hunt down a Polish migrant who has fled from the farm where his employer’s wife has been bloodily done to death.

This novel was financed by a Commonwealth Literary Fellowship.

Its author has tried everything professionally, from advertising copywriting to magazine editing. He also classes himself as an ex-beachcomber, having some years back been deported from Tahiti. He is now married and lives in London.

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PIM's Very Own Pacific, In Book Form Regular Pacific Islands Monthly readers won’t need an introduction to the 37 writers whose stories have been published in PI M’s Pacific.

Most have been fairly consistent contributors to the Monthly between 1950 and 1965—the years from which this collection of South Seas stories has been made.

The writers come from all walks of life—ex-Governors, public servants, school teachers, journalists, crocodile-shooters, pub-keepers, master-mariners, cruising-yachtsmen, traders—but all of them have been closely associated with one or other of the Pacific Islands.

Most of the writers are interesting in their own right—a fact that is brought out in the short biographical notes that introduce each story.

Although those in the collection are not necessarily the best stories that have appeared in PIM over the last 15 years, they all have an enduring quality that will—we hope—make them as interesting to read 10 years from now as they are today.

An effort has been made in their selection to give an overall picture of Pacific Islands life as it appears, or has appeared, to those most closely connected with it; and, at the same time, to produce something that can be read with equal appreciation by the Islands and the non-islands reader.

The stories were not chosen for their penetrating soul-searching into Pacific politics or other serious matters; they are designed for relaxation and entertainment. Subjects covered are adventure, travel, personal experience and history.

Material was selected and edited by Judy Tudor.

The book is illustrated, has 224 pages, is cloth-bound and has an attractive full-colour dust-jacket illustrating what might be called four aspects of Islands life. (PIM’S PAClFlC—Stories from the South Seas. Pacific Publications. 27/6.) 97 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts Everybody's Doing It -Emulating The Epic Voyages Of The Past Now that modem man has pretty well mastered the trick of flying to the moon in a rocket, more and more people, it seems, want to put back the clock and emulate some of the great sea voyages of the past. [N the last few weeks no less than four voyages of this kind, which will take in the South Pacific, have segun.

The voyagers who are being emulated are Captain Joshua Slocum, ;he first man to sail solo around the world; the crewmen of the raft Kon-Tiki, who drifted from Peru to he Tuamotus in 1947; Captain Cook, who began his first voyage of dis- :overy in the Pacific in 1768; and Ferdinand Magellan, the first European to cross the Pacific and leader 3f the first expedition to circumnavigate the world.

"Pretty Easy"

The latter-day Slocum is a 16year-old American schoolboy, Lee Graham, who completed the first 2,400-mile leg of a planned circumnavigation on August 18 when he reached Honolulu from San Pedro, California, in his 24 ft sloop Dove.

Lee described the voyage, which took 25 days, as “pretty easy”, and said he would go on to Fiji via the Phoenix Islands in two weeks to four weeks.

He expects to complete his circumnavigation in about two years—and if he makes it, he will have the honour of being the youngest sailor to complete such a voyage.

Lee’s only companions are two kittens, Suzette and Jolliette, which were born on the day Dove was bought and which were two months old when he left California.

Despite his age, Lee is no novice as a sailor. He has been knocking around in sailboats since he was 10, and was a competent navigator at 13.

Before his latest cruise, he had covered more than 15,000 miles at sea, mostly in the South Pacific, and had made two crossings between Hawaii and California.

Most of his previous sailing has been done with his parents, whose ketch Golden Hind was mentioned several times in PIM in 1963 when the Grahams were in the South Pacific.

Dove is fitted with wind vane steering which automatically corrects the yacht if she gets off course.

She is also fitted with a 6 h.p. auxiliary engine and a radio receiver.

There is no radio transmitter.

Commenting on the lack of a transmitter, Lee’s father, Mr. Lyle Graham, told PIM : “This puzzles most power boat people, but most sail boat people understand that carrying a big, expensively adequate radio, with the necessary batteries and generator, is like taking along another boat in case one sinks.”

However, Lee does have safety equipment of another kind. On board, he wears a safety harness with a life line attached to the boat.

Lee told newsmen in California that he was making his voyage In The News This Month Aikane Air Wave Andante Ataluma Awahnee Barbara Allen Bounty Queen Canaima Damala Dove Eleuthera Endeavour Favourite Gunners Knot Highlight Hopa Nora Kon-Tiki Lady Lee Lucent Mamari Marmaduke Marquesa Mia Mia Moana Roa Moonflect Monsoon Moresby New Endeavour Okeanos Pacific Islander Paisano Palau Islander Pipe Dream Popeyduck Sea Fever Sea Sharp Shireen Sletta Slitan Southwind Spree Surugu Maru Tahiti Tu Ululani

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Je added that he would keep up studies on board through the jrnational Correspondence Schools that he could enter college when returned to California, ust before he set sail, he said: hat a great way to finish school.”

Raft Voyage Tie people who are emulating the n-Tiki raft voyagers are Carlos avedo, a farmer, Jaime Toledo 1 Jose Matheus.

Vith a cat and a parrot coming their crew, they were towed to sea by a Peruvian Navy tug the Peruvian port of Callao July 27 and cast adrift on the tnboldt Current. )aravedo is making his first long ; voyage, but the other two men e tried this sort of thing before, 'hey hope to make the crossing to uti or Samoa in about three nths. Their object: “pure enture”.

Tie new version of Captain )k’s first voyage does not sound a very genuine copy of Cook’s ievement. It is being done by a ooner called the New Endeavour ch left Ramsgate, Kent, for ney, Australia, early in August— r rigging fetchingly festooned,” one reporter put it, “with three tty girls in matelot’s shirts and te denim bell-bottoms.”

Tie New Endeavour’s departure i marked by a splurge of publicity tl Fleet Street, which made much the promoter’s claim that the ooner would follow in the wake Captain Cook’s Endeavour in iB-70.

Follow in the wake,” though, is itching things a bit, for the New ieavour will not only sail through Panama Canal, but will use her iliary engine whenever the going omes a bit tough.

"Nonsense" )ne man who was somewhat put by what he called “this nonsense >ut retracing Captain Cook’s rage” was veteran Australian ing ship skipper, Captain Alan Hers. fhe reason is that in 1969-70, ptain Villiers plans to sail an igineless) replica of Cook’s ieavour from England to Auslia over much of the route eluding the Cape Horn part) that ok actually did take, to mark the )th anniversary of the great dgator’s first Pacific voyage ( PIM, c., 1964, p. 97).

Captain Villiers’ voyage is being supported by the Australian Government, which is contributing £lO,OOO to the Endeavour project.

“I am not connected in any way with the schooner that has been renamed New Endeavour,” Captain Villiers told the London Press.

He added: “My own Endeavour has not yet been built, though plans and specifications are complete and we are considering quotes from several yards interested in building her. We should be ready to lay the keel by the end of the year,”

The man who wants to emulate Magellan is a Spaniard, Carlos Etayo, who sailed from Spain for Teneriffe, Canary Islands, on August 18 in a replica of a caravel used in Magellan’s day. She is 49 ft long with a beam of 12 ft 6 in.

Mr. Etayo and a crew of nine hope to retrace Magellan’s route to the bottom of South America and across the Pacific to Guam and the Philippines.

Magellan’s voyage across the Pacific, in 1521, took 95 days. His voyage began in San Lucar de Barrameda on September 20, 1519.

It was more than a year later that he sailed through the strait which bears his name into the Pacific.

Maiden Voyage For

New Burns Philp Ship

Burns Philp’s new 3,000-ton freighter, Moresby, sailed from Sydney to New Guinea on her maiden voyage on August 10.

Her introduction to the Australia- P-NG service was delayed by industrial trouble at the Newcastle State dockyard, where she was built, and then by further trouble on the waterfront.

A few wellwishers went on board to wish the master, Captain J. Ealey, a successful voyage.

The Moresby was expected to reach cargo capacity, about 3,500 tons, at Brisbane, before leaving for Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Alexishafen, Wew a k , Lorengau, Kavieng and Rabaul.

Captain Ealey was master of the Lee Graham's yacht "Dove" leaving Los Angeles on July 27. 101 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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He has been in Burns Philp’s arine service for about 20 years, :cept for one break overseas.

The Moresby was the first ship lilt in Australia for Burns Philp.

The chairman, Mr. James Burns, caking at the launching ceremony the Newcastle State Dockyard on arch 6, said that if the Moresby as a success, Burns Philp hoped to iprove any additional tonnage they lilt by increasing the speed and :rhaps adding some passenger ac- ►mmodation.

He reaffirmed the company’s >licy of gradually replacing its ips as they grew older with vessels ; suitable carrying capacity and eater speed.

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Mr. James Burns, chairman of urns Philp and Co. Ltd., has added s voice to those of many other itics of wharf facilities in Papuaew Guinea.

In his address to stockholders at e annual meeting in Sydney in ugust, he said: “The trouble with e Papua-New Guinea trade at •esent is that there is not enough harfage accommodation for the rge number of vessels calling there, id frequent delays waiting for harfage space often occur.”

Mr. Burns repeated, in effect, what ; has been saying for a number of jars about the profitability of the impany’s shipping line.

He said the company’s business merally continued to be prosperous, ut the shipping service to Papualew Guinea suffered heavy losses sspite a subsidy received from the ederal Government.

However, Burns Philp did not ant to discontinue the service, as icy had been running it to the Tertory for more than 80 years.

“Notwithstanding heavy losses, r e hope, for the time being, to ontinue,” he said.

Mr. Burns said the new freighter ioresby had cost about £1 million.

The Moresby did not carry passngers, because there was enough assenger accommodation in other essels.

Concluding his remarks about the ompany’s shipping activities, he said iat with the slow turn around in ydney, it was hard to avoid losses i this field.

“However, with our world-wide aterests built up over 80 years, we re lucky in being able to stand up o our shipping losses, and still pay our stockholders a reasonable dividend,” he said.

The parent company had a net profit of £1,113,888, and dividends from subsidiary companies amounted tC> Tha? figure, with the trading profit, gave a very satisfactory result.

Another Jap Ship For Moresby

A Japanese shipping line, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, is the latest to enter the Japan-Australia service, taking in a P-NG port.

The P-NG agents, Burns Philp, announced in July that the first ship on the new service, the Suruga Maru, was expected at Port Moresby about August 26, en route from Kobe to Sydney, The Suruga Maru, a fast modern ship, carries cargo and passengers.

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fhe insurance representative for 400-ton fishing vessel, Favourite, ich was badly holed when she was :pt on a reef off Lord Howe Island August 7, has decided to abandon vessel because pounding on the f has broken her back. Tenders [ now be called for the purchase the wreck. ■fie ship, valued at £50,000, was led by a food processing company, 1 operated from Eden, on the ith Coast of New South Wales, 'live Wilson, a resident of Lord we Island, was called out of bed >ut 3 a.m. on August 8 to take motor boat Pacific Chieftain out assist the Favourite. n a note to PIM, he said, that after went aground, the crew refloated under power, but the pumps Id not keep the water down, so was run on the reef at the rthern end of the island. .ater, when no world had been ;ived from the insurance company, as there were signs of the sea ig and the vessel breaking up, island superintendent, who is • the receiver of wreck, sought ;nt permission to begin salvage the valuable equipment. alvage work began on the 9th, ipment being ferried across the into the lagoon in a dinghy.

Ir. Wilson said that on August representatives of the insurance ipany and the owners of the ourite arrived at Lord Howe, t first they thought that it would possible to tow the Favourite off reef with the Jacques del Mar, a later inspection revealed that ship’s back was broken.

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Vila Trading Vessel

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The MV Air Wave, a Vila trading vessel, was wrecked in a storm off the north coast of Tanna, New Hebrides, recently. The Air Wave, of about 30 tons, was carrying a cargo of cocoa and sandalwood from Tanna to Vila.

The master tried to shelter in the bay at Back Beach, Tanna, but the wind was so strong that the Air Wave dragged her anchor and was blown on a reef. She sank in about 30 feet of water.

A Vila message says first reports indicate that the Air Wave will be a total loss.

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'o meet the increased costs, freight s were raised from October 1, 4.

Tie report adds that bad weather more calls to the outer islands ited the Moana Roa to only 10 ages between New Zealand and Cooks during the year compared i 11 the previous year.

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'itcairn Islanders are planning to d a twin-engine ocean-going ich to make regular trips to ngareva, in the Gambier Islands French Polynesia. An editorial in aim Miscellany suggests that the r launch could be called Bounty •en.

Tie 280-mile trip to Mangareva Id be made in about 35 hours in lunch of this type.

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lew Zealand Army sappers are blasting gaps in the reef at aofu atoll in the Tokelaus to ; free passage and a sheltered borage for small lighters used by islanders. l team of engineers, which started k on the project in May, was aced by a second team early in ;ust. /hen they finish their work, the iders will no longer have to >ot the reef’ in small lighters n they are loading copra boats.

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. closed circuit television unit is be installed in the hydrographic r ey ship, Ataluma, owned by tralian Hydrographic Services to give the helmsman a greater wledge of reefs and other gerous waters round the ship, he Ataluma is working in P-NG ;rs under charter to the Adminition.

Cruising Yachts • MARQUESA, 40 ft ketch, left Honolulu on August 1 for a cruise in the Pacific. On board were ownerskipper Harold L. Whilldin, his wife Mary, daughter Tina, and Jim and Marie Anderson.

They planned to visit the Marquesas, Tahiti, Society Islands, Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Auckland and Sydney. • SEA SHARP, 25 ft yacht, with Mrs. Sharon Sites, 34-year-old Los Angeles widow, sailing solo, arrived in Honolulu on July 21 from California.

The first woman to make the crossing single-handed, Mrs. Sites did the 2,225 miles in 40 days. • LADY LEE, 43 ft ketch, which was in the Galapagos Islands in February, was in Tahiti in June. On board are Fred and Doris Murphy, of Long Beach, California. • ELEUTHERA, 48 ft steel ketch from Seattle, with Earl and Paula Schenck, was back in Papeete, in mid-June, after a cruise to Bora Bora and Maupiti in the Leeward Islands of the Society Group.

Eleuthera arrived in Papeete from Seattle in July last year (PIM, June, p. 119). • SHIREEN, 52 ft ketch, dropped anchor in Nukualofa on August 11 and left for Auckland on 17.

Owner/skipper, Michael Crocket with a crew of three, is on a world tour, having left England in July, 1964. Shireeris last port of call was Rarotonga. She was carrying three passengers to New Zealand. • HIGHLIGHT, 35 ft ketchrigged trimaran, owned by John and Dave Glennie of NZ, was in Tahiti in late July waiting for Mr. W. E.

Glennie (the owners’ father) to join the party for a South Pacific cruise.

Highlight was attacked by a whale on the first leg of the trip, from Auckland to Rarotonga, and the hull was damaged {PIM, July, p, 25).

Repairs were made at Rarotonga.

The Glennies plan to be back in NZ by October. • PIPE DREAM, an American trimaran, owned and skippered by an American missionary, Alvar Wolfsen, arrived in Vila, New Hebrides, on July 25 after a 12-day voyage from Lautoka, Fiji. Also on board were Wolfsen’s Japanese-born wife, Yashiko, and a 20-year-old Fijian missionary, Misiraini Seru.

Pipe Dream had spent four months in Fiji before leaving for the New Hebrides. • AIKANE, 43 ft Kettenburg sloop, owned and skippered by Jack Baskin, arrived in Honolulu from the South Pacific in June after logging more than 7,500 miles and touching 14 islands in the Marquesas, Tuamotus and the Society Islands.

Also on board were Benson and Janet Rotstein, and Norris Michaelson, all of California. • ANDANTE, 34 ft fibreglass sloop, arrived in Apia on July 3 from Pago Pago with Don and Catherine Wood. They planned to spend a week at Savaii before sailing to Hawaii. • DAM ALA, 35 ft trimaran (we’ve also seen her name spelt Dombala), left Nelson, NZ, for Tahiti in early August after remaining in port for two months while a new mainmast was being constructed.

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Mr. Proctor, who is circumavigating the world from England, ill return to England via the idian Ocean, and the Red and lediterranean Seas. • MIA MIA, 67 ft steel ketch om Melbourne, owned and skipped by Geoff Hammond, left Norfolk Island on July 17 for roumea and Brisbane.

Also on board were Frank arsons, Peter Neilson, Bill Grey and en Caithness. The ketch had preously called at Lord Howe Island. • SEA FEVER, 42 ft ketch, with airy and Margaret Alexander, their >n John, aged 10, and nephew ichard Lewis, arrived in Honolulu i July 31 after a 4J-year cruise ►und the world. (PIM, April, 1963, U 3).

Sea Fever, which was built in ipan, cruised to the American West oast via Hawaii to start her world ip. Thence she went to South Pacific >rts, Australia, Africa, 56 ports in e Mediterranean, across the Atlantic i the Caribbean, South America en Los Angeles via the Panama anal.

The Alexanders plan to stay in awaii indefinitely. • PAISANO, a 61 ft American ;tch, arrived in Port Moresby in irly August, with owner-skipper ►hn Hazelhurst, of Colorado. He to collect specimens of the Tertory’s insect life for an American useum.

Also on board was his wife, anne, a Tahitian screen actress who >peared in the Marlon Brando film r utiny on the Bounty.

Our last report on Paisano was om Apia in mid-June, 1964. • MONSOON, a schooner, left onolulu in June for Fiji, with her vner, John Curran, of Fiji, Jim ill, Roland Ernst, and Roger and Jth Bath of the 37 ft ketch, Au An Kai. The Baths arrived in Honolulu in February after a twoyear South Pacific cruise. • MARMADUKE, a yacht from Los Angeles, was one of the many in Papeete harbour for the Bastille Day celebrations in July. She arrived via Nukuhiva in the Marquesas.

On board were owner-skipper Patrick Ballenger, his wife, their two children and three crew members. • ULULANI, 63 ft ketch, skippered by Ray Jones, left Sydney on August 21 for a four-month cruise to Rarotonga, Tahiti, Panama, and Nassau, in the Bahamas.

Jacques Meiss, John Morow, Robert Finlayson, Michael Knight, j an Maddocks and George Archibald are a i so ma king the trip. xhe owner, Mr. Benjamin Moore, who sailed jjlulani to Sydney last October, was to fly home to America. • CANAIMA, a 38 ft Germanbuilt steel ketch from Venezuela, left Pa g° Pa g° for A P ia on August 16 after a week’s stay.

On board were her four part- 109 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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The 20-year-old Canaima is on >yage round the world which is pected to take 20 months. She has ready visited Colombia, Panama d the Galapagos, Marquesas, ►ciety and Cook Islands. • TAHITI TU, a double-ended cht sailed by Mr. and Mrs. Walter, rived in Papeete early in July :er a 30-day cruise from Honolulu. • LUCENT, a 68-year-old lugger- ;ged ketch built for the North a mackerel fishing grounds, arrived Rarotonga on July 6, after almost ing wrecked some days earlier tering Oneroa Passage, Mangaia, heavy seas. Her unusually rugged nstruction enabled her to withnd the heavy pounding she reved.

Aboard Lucent were Roger neson (skipper), his wife, David Ifour (who visited Rarotonga reitly on Barlovento) , Richard Sixrry, and his Tahitian wife Moea. cent is on a shell-collecting cruise the Pacific, under the direction Mr. Sixberry, a malacologist at ; Smithsonian Institute.

Before reaching Rarotonga, Lucent led at Raivavae, Tubuai, Rurutu i Rimatara in the Austral Islands French Polynesia. She passed inhabited Maria Island, east of mgaia, but bad seas prevented a iding being made.

Phe crew plan to collect shells from the Cook Islands except Manuae. • AWAHNEE, Dr. Robert iffith’s 56 ft ferro-concrete yacht, ived in Pago Pago harbour on y 16 from Bay of Islands, New iland. On board were Robert and ncy Griffith, their son Reid, aged and three crew members. • MAMARI, 28 ft ketch, sister vessel to Marco Polo, was cruising in the Society Islands in late July.

On board were owner-skipper John Bracegirdle, from England, Gavin Marks and Keith Higgins, from NZ, and an Australian, Tim Seale.

Mamari left Auckland on May 9 and visited Raoul Island in the Kermadecs, and Rarotonga before reaching Tahiti in time for the Bastille Day celebrations.

However, the crew found the fete disappointing and Tahiti below expectations because of the high cost of living and the number of military personnel in Papeete.

After cruising around Huahine, Raiatea and Bora Bora for a month, Mamari was scheduled to return to NZ via Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji, • BARBARA ALLEN, 30 ft gaffrigged yacht, with a crew of four, which was reported missing last month (p. Ill) on a voyage from Honolulu to Pago Pago, is safe.

After a rough trip, the yacht duly reached Pago; went on to Apia, where the crew got the flu; set off for Tonga, but finished up being blown to Futuna; then reached Suva in mid-August for a refit after almost being stuck fast on a reef at Nanuku, east of Taveuni. • SOUTHWIND, 30 ft trimaran built in California by Jo Hudson, was anchored in the Sarakata River, Santo, New Hebrides, in July while the occupants, Jo and his wife Jenny, fabricated a self-steering wind vane for the rudder.

They were planning to return to the USA via the Ellice and Phoenix Islands, and Honolulu—a three to six-month cruise, • SPREE, a ketch from Picton, NZ, arrived in Rarotonga early in July on the homeward leg of a cruise to French Polynesia. She came via Bora Bora and Raiatea. On board Spree are Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Grigg and Messrs. A. W. Stewart and A. P. Tuxford. • OKEANOS, Joe and Benita Pachernegg‘s 39 ft staysail schooner arrived in Suva in early June from Tahiti and Pago Pago, American Samoa. Okeanos (formerly Moonfleet) has done 40,000 miles since she was last in Suva six years ago.

In that time she has been right round the Pacific, in the Caribbean and back through the Pacific.

The Pacherneggs are now thinking of selling Okeanos and building a larger boat in Chile to do charter cruises to Juan Fernandez and the Patagonian channels, or of building a new yacht and taking charters in the Fiji area. They may visit Sydney first and perhaps lecture about their cruise.

In a letter to PIM from Suva dated July 23, the Pacherneggs reported that they had had a “rather hectic trip” from Tahiti.

“We were intending to head for Rarotonga, and in fact were almost in sight of it when we ran into some quite foul weather, making it impossible to anchor off Avarua,” they said. “Instead we changed course for Pago, where we arrived a week later on a howling windy, rainy day.

“It was raining almost all the time during our stay in Pago. Still we managed to see a little of Tutuila.

We took a ride out to the east side of the island on one of the local buses. A beautiful ride indeed. Unspoiled villages and most impressive scenery with the ocean within stonethrowing distance of the road.”

Among the more recent of the many landfalls made by Joe and Benita Pachernegg in their schooner "Okeanos" was Pitcairn Island, but deteriorating weather didn't allow them to stay for long.

The 28 ft ketch "Mamari", photographed in Auckland. 111 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1965

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the many thousands of tourists and cruise trippers who now visit Tahiti eacl year, probably no more than one in 20 takes the trouble to visit Moorea Tahiti’s craggy, picturesque sister island, about 10 miles from Papeete. Such £ visit, however, is well worth making, for Moorea, even though it is so close, i< a world apart from Tahiti. It still has much of the unhurried charm that Tahit had earlier this century—there being comparatively few motor vehicles (“le truck” pictured, being one of them) and little commercial activity. Besides that, Moorea’s scenery is more spectacular and romantic-looking than Tahiti’s. There are now 113 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

two easy ways of reaching Moorea from Tahiti. You can go over on the big diesel launch that leaves Papeete each morning at about 9 o’clock and returns about six in the afternoon. Or you can fly over at weekends in the RAI Bermuda flying-boat which recently inaugurated a package deal service in conjunction with the Hotels Aimeo and Bali Hai, and the Mediterranean Club (a French tourist organisation).

The flight in the Bermuda takes about eight minutes compared with about two hours in the launch. It is particularly recommended for people prone to< sea-sickness, as the sea trip between Tahiti and Moorea is; almost invariably turbulent, noi matter how calm the sea may look from Tahiti (top picture).

The Bermuda lands within 114 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

150 yards of the Hotel Aimeo, which is near the head of Cook Bay (below, opposite) a fjordlike inlet on Moorea’s northern >ide. The Hotel Aimeo is run by i Frenchwoman, Mrs. Christa Winkelstroeter (pictured being carried ashore from a small seaplane, a predecessor of the Bermida). Three young Americans run the Bali Hai Hotel, which is about a quarter of a mile east of the entrance to Cook Bay. Its accommodation (lower picture) is in the form of attractive, native-style huts.

Photos: Qantas, Rob Wright. 115 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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IHE new law relates to duty. It - was passed by Congress in July.

A US traveller returning from rerseas after October 1 will be lowed to bring in to the State only 00 worth of purchases, computed retail value, and only one quart liquor.

The law, which was introduced to Ip keep American dollars at home, ics not apply to American travellers turning from American Samoa, □am, the US Trust Territory of the icific Islands, and the Virgin lands.

Travellers from these areas will 11 be allowed five bottles of tax- ;e liquor and $2OO in tax-free irchases. At least $lOO of the tax- ;e purchases will have to be mght in those American territories.

American Samoa is especially eased with the new law, as the rritory is on the threshold of a urist drive. A big new hotel opens Pago at the end of the year, and moa hopes to get an influx of urists as a result of new aviation hedules in the South Seas following e opening of the Mangere Interitional airport, Auckland, soon.

Pago, which has a first class jet rport, is being built up by the mericans as a key transportation ik in the South Pacific, and as an iportant tourist port.

Unofficial reports from Pago dicate that when Mangere is open igo will receive three aircraft a ;ek —two from Honolulu through igo Pago to Sydney and one from onolulu through Pago to Auckland, lere will also be a new service mnecting Pago with Tahiti—and is should be a most valuable link r the tourist trade. 117 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Fiji Tourist Trade Hit travel By Korolevu Hotel Fire From a Suva Correspondent Fiji’s whole tourist industry was thrown out of gear early in August when seven Fijians, sacked from their temporary jobs at the Korolevu Beach Hotel, put torches to 26 Fijian-type bures at the hotel, burning them to the ground.

HE fires caused damage estimated at £50,000 and deprived the teliers, Northern Hotels Ltd., of income of £l5O to £3OO a day til the bures are replaced.

The fires were lit late on the night Monday, August 9.

Obviously unwilling to risk putting man lives in jeopardy, the chose a time when >st of the guests were enjoying smselves in the Adi Kuila Lounge.

Only one visitor, a woman, was in d in her bure and she escaped hurt. There were no casualties, hough the bures went up like der in a few minutes.

Hotel staff fought the blaze, mpered in some instances by men io attacked them.

The attackers, no doubt, were me of the firebugs, who hung 3und the fire and really gave the me away.

Within a few hours the police had unded up a crowd of suspects, and thin 36 hours, seven of them had en found guilty in Nadi Magistrate’s >urt of setting fire to the hotel, ley were each sentenced to three ars’ imprisonment.

All seven pleaded guilty, but six cused a trade union leader of riting them to start the fire.

On the surface, the loss of 26 twin-bedded rooms might seem a small matter in the broader perspective of Fiji’s tourist industry, but the tourist experts say otherwise.

The managing director of Northern Hotels, Mr. David Ragg, says: “As most tourists come to the Colony for a 10-day stay, the destruction of 26 bures means, in effect, that 520 fewer beds will be sold in 10 days.

“That will have a repeating effect until such time as the accommodation is made good.

Many Other Losses “In addition to Korolevu, which will be deprived of at least £l5O a day, there is also the income from the sale of meals, souvenirs, dutyfree goods and the other things tourists buy, drinks, taxi fares, excursions, etc. The average tourist spends something like £lO a day or more.

“If you repeat that loss every day until our accommodation is made good—and that won’t be until the end of the year—you will have an idea of what the burning down of the bures means to Fiji’s tourist industry.”

According to a travel agent, Korolevu, the mainspring of the industry was booked “solid” until well beyond the end of the year.

So that will mean many cancellations because almost every other hotel, motel and boarding house is also booked up throughout the same period.

However, Mr. Charles Stinson, Mayor of Suva and chairman of the Fiji Visitors’ Bureau, is not too pessimistic about the effects of the fire.

“There should be no prolonged effects,” he says, “although it is bound to influence the figures for August and September. After that the peak falls off until January.”

Mr. Stinson says that even if the fire had not occurred, the Colony would have reached saturation point in tourism for August and possibly September because accommodation for tourists has not kept pace with the ever-increasing number of visitors.

He adds: “All who concern themselves with tourist matters realise that if we are to enjoy the full benefits of this rapidly-growing industry, then the pace of hotel-building must be speeded up.

“An analysis of the tourist figures for 1965 already indicates that • Some of the attractive "bures" that were burnt down at Korolevu.

Photo: Stinsons. 119

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Commenting on adverse comments m overseas linking the Korolevu : with an alleged atmosphere of sion throughout the Colony, Mr. ison says: T do not hesitate to say that this quite untrue. It was an act of er irresponsibility on the part of : ew persons. This regrettable act ;ompletely out of character where people of Fiji are concerned, I will shock overseas visitors who re been to Fiji as much as it i the people of Fiji, and especially Fijians themselves.”

Meanwhile, Korolevu Hotel has arned to normal in its unburned tions. In fact, it was back to mal within a couple of days, work is under way on rec'ing the burned-out sections. The ditional Fijian-type bures are out the present, however. In their ce will be four two-storey, eight- -1 units in concrete. fhey will not be concrete boxes. 2 exteriors will be decorated with -proof materials giving a rustic sh in keeping with the genuine nd atmosphere. fhe new units will add 64 beds the hotel, an increase of 12 on the -fire accommodation.

The reason for rebuilding in icrete is because it is speedier in ction and will restore public conmce in the safety of our ommodation,” Mr. Ragg says.

Provided there are no hitches, expect to start building about 1-September and the first unit will ready within 12 weeks of the *t of building.”

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HIGHLANDS travel Tourism has at last been given a shot in the arm in New Guinea’s swiftly-growing Highlands areas through the formation of a Highlands board of the P-NG Tourist and Travel Association. Committees of the board are being formed throughout Highlands areas, and there is a move to form others on the coast, at Lae and Madang.

THE board is encouraging tours through the Highlands, and the formation of tourist bureaux attached to various Local Government Councils. It is planning to organise publicity and brochures, and also aims to co-ordinate tourist activities throughout the New Guinea mainland.

A recent meeting of the Highlands board, held at Kainantu, was told that even the Southern Highlands of New Guinea had excellent tourist potential. The less-developed native people, coupled with ideal photographic country, a good climate, fresh vegetables and attractive lakes, were a “sound foundation” for tourism. A new airstrip was to be build at Mendi, The board hopes to encourage native Local Government Councils to help develop tourism by building safari villages, and providing lunch areas and sing-sings for tourists making day visits.

The Kainantu meeting reported that the next Goroka Show will be held in the second or third weekend of May, 1966, and the chairman of the board, Mr. S. Fox, said he hoped those shows would be held annually in future.

AN international aerodrome was opened on the atoll of Rangiroa, 200 miles north-west of Tahiti, in mid-August. The airstrip is more than 7,000 feet long, and will be used by a DC4 to connect Rangiroa with Tahiti twice a week.

Opening the airport, the Governor of French Polynesia, Mr. Jean The beach at Korolevu, 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1965

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Rangiroa, which was previously inected with Tahiti by Bermuda ing boat, will be the scene of the >rld Spearfishing Championship m September 1-7. Representatives m 15 countries will take part.

Hiree members of the International jarfishing Federation arrived in hiti in August en route to Rangiroa arrange safety measures for the itest. Besides the regulation canoe Idler in each contestant’s canoe, re will be an official sharkiter in diving gear, equipped with anti-shark gun loaded with exsive-tipped spears to protect the itestants against shark attacks. iach group of contestants will ;> be accompanied by a boat lipped with walkie-talkie radio >aratus to call to the scene any ; of five doctors standing by for ergencies. following the Rangiroa contest, arfishermen from at least 10 intries will compete at Noumea a Cup of the Pacific.

TOURIST brochure is to be issued soon by the New Hebrides adominium Government for the reasing number of tourists calling the New Hebrides, mainly from stralia and New Zealand. A Vila ssage says that while the tourists by no means be described as an ux, they do show that visitors are Tested in the New Hebrides.

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Those on the Standard Tour stay at the Cathay Hotel, Lautoka, and the Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva. The Budget tourists stay at the Hotel Lautoka, and Loloma Serviced Flats, Suva.

THE New Hebrides Condominium Government has decided to bring in new regulations under which people who want to export old carvings and other articles of historical or artistic interest must first get a Government permit.

A report from Vila says that there is great concern about the number of traditional carvings and statues being taken out of the islands by art collectors. It is feared that traditional carvings like the great wooden gongs and masks still to be found in the older New Hebridean villages will all be taken away unless something is done to safeguard them.

Under the new regulations, anyone who wants to sell items of New Hebridean art must now tell the Government first, so that the authorities can have a chance of buying them for the New Hebrides. • PlM's schedules for cruises in the Islands appear this month on page 142. 123 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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From Fred Dunn, in Noumea I Woumea is losing the landrks of its colonial past, and rists who knew the town in old days would shed a tear wme of the recent changes.

I \TEST to go is the Grand Hotel Central, once one of the town’s ling hotels. The Grand Central its Noumea’s Coconut Square ich also is part of the town’s ory. lack in the bad old days of the victs, Coconut Square was reined throughout the Pacific for the id concerts given twice a week by excellent band composed of . . . con- ;s. All travel books written at that iod about New Caledonia menicd those concerts in Coconut lare.

During World War II the name ired in many correspondents’ )atches. A book was written. The r From Coconut Square; and ong other things it was a well >wn trysting place for servicemen, f tradition is to be believed “I’Hotel itral” could have inspired a host de Maupassants. Following war’s 1 a considerable effort was made to ke a first-class hotel of the oldlioned one-storey building, but no avail. It gradually sank lower the social scale. Its bar was someig of a Hell’s Kitchen, the brew of ich inevitably overflowed into zonut Square resulting in fights in :ens, especially on Saturday nights.

It retained its penchant for the bizarre right till the end, hitting the local headlines when an aged native waitress dropped dead while ladling out the soup in the hotel restaurant.

The building has been sold to a Noumean businessman, who is having it demolished and will construct a multi-storey apartment and commercial building on the site. Neighbours have been delighted to hear that the new building will have no bar.

Another hotel which will probably end the same way is the Grand Hotel du Pacifique. This hostelry is even more implanted in Noumean history than the Central. Its chief claim to fame is that it was the headquarters of the American forces during the war. General Patch and his merry men took it over when they landed. The General’s air raid shelter is still visible (though concreted up) across the road from the hotel.

The Pacifique started out in life with the romantic name of Hotel de la Gare (Railway Hotel) because it fronted the Noumean terminal of the Noumea-Paita railway of some 20 miles. This line closed down two years before the war because of a chronic deficit, and was reopened by the US Forces, using diesel traction.

In contrast to the always bawdy reputation of the Central, the Pacifique was very strait-laced. Everyone of any importance stayed there—and behaved themselves.

When the hotel was returned to its owners after the war the centre of hotel gravity in Noumea had already begun to shift to the other side of the town, to the beaches. As with the Central, a determined effort was made —with the same result. The Pacifique gradually slipped down the social scale until half of its accommodation was occupied by Wallisian labourers.

The hotel has been closed now for twelve months, and is for sale for a price that its owner will never get.

So far as first-class hotels go, the property is in an impossible location.

It fronts the nickel smelters, half a mile away across a bay. When the wind blows strongly and wrongly the place is covered in smoke and gas from the smelters. Then, too, it is on a 90 degree turning of the main road out of Noumea and the roar of traffic and screeching of tyres on the turning make life a nightmare for those living nearby.

While both these historic hotels were sinking, there was one department which kept the flag flying high —the kitchen. Until the last, both hotels were renowned for their excellent cuisine. . . . But The Harbour Light Shines On New Caledonia’s A madee Lighthouse, which stands on the reef at the entrance to Boulari Passage, giving access to Noumea’s harbour, will complete its 100th year of service to shipping this year. The lighthouse, a steel structure, was built in France in 1862, dismantled, and shipped to New Caledonia piecemeal in the “Emile Pereire”, which reached Noumea on November 15, 1864.

Exactly a year later, the lighthouse was officially opened by New Caledonia’s Governor Guillain. The lighthouse is 150 feet high. • Noumea's Grand Hotel Central (left) is seen in the process of being demolished. The other picture shows the Grand Hotel du Pacifique. 125 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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We Can Cope With [?]urist,"Lord [?]owe Islanders Say travel The Lord Howe Island Adory Committee decided in late ly that local enterprise could equately care for tourist :ommodation requirements on j island in the immediate ;ure.

HE committee decided this after holding a meeting to discuss a ter from Captain S. C. Middlemiss, leral manager of Airlines of NSW, ose company, a subsidiary of Ansett ansport Industries, operates a fly- ;-boat service to the island, rhe letter had been referred to the nmittee by the Lord Howe Island ard in Sydney which controls the md, and which so far has consist- ;ly supported the principle of giving icessions only to Lord Howe mders for the erection of guest uses.

In the letter, Captain Middlemiss aressed concern at the reduction in ;nsed guest houses on the island, i said that as a result of the percent closing down of some guest uses, and the closing of others dur- ! the winter, the registered guest use accommodation for winter uld be reduced by 50 per cent.

Outside Interests Captain Middlemiss added that his line was experiencing difficulty in jping the subsidy paid to it by the deral Government down to a isonable figure, and that if the preit accommodation trend continued Lord Howe, the board would have consider allowing outside interests develop the tourist potential.

In discussing Captain Middlemiss’ ter, some members of the Advisory immittee said they thought it was barefaced attempt by Ansett inests to get a foothold on the island, hers, with some reservations, felt it the company had cause for con- •n.

However, it was finally decided that isting accommodation was adequate • all but five or six weeks of the iristmas-New Year period, and that ; board should be so advised.

Since then, Mr. R. A. Williams, proprietor of Somerset Guest House, which had been closed indefinitely, has let it be known that he will reopen on December 16 for the summer season. Somerset has accommodation for more than 30 people.

Footnote ; The Lord Howe Island Signal reported on July 21 that after the Airlines of NSW flying-boat left the island on July 23, there would probably be only one tourist on the island—the lowest number since the flying-boat service began in 1947.

“Well below 20” was the previously figure—in another July.

MORE than 16,600 tourists visited Fiji in the first half of 1965 compared with just over 13,600 in the same period last year, according to Fiji Government figures.

Of the visitors 4,500 came from the United States, 4,100 from New Zealand, and 3,600 from Australia.

PAN American World Airways has opened a new district sales office in Pago Pago’s Recreation Hall Building, facing the historic malae in the heart of the Bay Area mercantile zone. District manager is Mr. Don Pegues. 127 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1965

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CORPORATION Pacific Commerce and Produce m Dorothy Lavin, in Nukualofa After months of doubt and oulation over the future of the conut Processing Corporation Pago Pago, it has been relied that the Tonga Copra ard has taken over most of the .res held by American inand now has virtually full itrol.

UGINALLY, the Tonga Copra Board owned 49 per cent, of the ■es and American interests, 51 cent. It was envisaged that the >oration’s factory in Pago Pago ild be processing 100,000 cocoi a day by February, 1964.

M, Aug., 1963, p. 36). towever, because of finance diffiies, the factory has not yet gone production, and recently one the American promoters, Mr. mond C. Turnbull, found it ossible to procure the cash they ; committed to, and withdrew i the corporation, onga then took over most of the shares, making its financial ■est to date about $735,600.

Production allowing a recent visit by Tonga’s nier, Prince Tungi, to the US to Pago Pago, plans are now g ahead to complete the factory start production. heady the bulk of machinery, as driers, boilers and classifiers, arrived and is being installed, it is estimated production will in about 18 months, tie corporation has a new board nanagement. At present it conof Prince Tungi (chairman) the assistant manager of the ra Board, Tom Nakao (presi- ). Three other members are ie appointed. tie manager will be a mechanical neer from the US, to be recomded by the Food Machinery xiration of San Jose. This oration will undertake the confer completing the Pago illation. ie Coconut Processing Corporahas been one of Tonga’s main iys in its efforts to rehabilitate its finances, and it is hoped that things will begin to look up soon now that the murk of indecision over the corporation’s future has been lifted.

Meanwhile, the Tonga Copra Board is installing a pilot plant at its Havelu factory to process sugar cane. This is on similar lines to the plant installed by FAO in Apia, and it is expected that all local requirements for raw sugar will be catered for.

Two other schemes, which were investigated, show promise for the future in local industries —the processing of paper from banana trunks, and wallboard from coconut husks.

But money is not available at present to go ahead with these.

P-NG Move For Cocoa Stabilisation Scheme THE Australian Minister for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, told Federal Parliament in mid-August that the Government would urgently consider any proposal for a stabilisation scheme from the Papua-New Guinea cocoa industry.

His statement coincided with a decision by the annual conference of the New Guinea Planters Association in Rabaul to ask for the establishment of such a scheme.

The association decided to ask for an initial Government loan to set up a stabilisation fund, with growers contributing to the fund as world prices improved.

Contributions from growers would eventually pay off the Government loan and the industry would support the fund.

Delegates to the conference did not indicate the extent of contributions which growers should make to the fund. They said, however, that the contributions would be in the form of a levy per ton, based on a sliding scale governed by world cocoa prices.

The move for a stabilisation scheme follows a sharp fall in world cocoa prices this year, and marked instability in recent weeks—prices sometimes varying by as much as £5 a ton for beans overnight.

Prices for cocoa beans in store at Rabaul varied from about £l7O to £l9O a ton during most of 1964, and fell to £l5O in February, 1965, about £llO in March and April, £9B a ton in May, less than £BO in June, and less than £7O in July. However, quotations in August were up to £lO5 a ton.

Devastation caused by the Army worm has also been worrying the 27 European and 60-odd New Guinean ex-servicemen cocoa growers at Popondetta, Papua.

The State president of the P-NG RSL, Mr. R. F. Bunting, told the annual Congress in Lae in August that the ex-servicemen growers faced disaster unless they received financial help urgently.

One of the growers said: “We are in a desperate plight”.

Mr. Bunting added that the RSL national president, Mr. A. J. Lee, had told the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, in a letter that the only hope for the settlers was for them to be given additional finance to enable them to hold on until the Army worm was eradicated, and in expectation that cocoa prices would improve.

It was later announced that, to assist the Popondetta cocoa growers in their fight to control the Army worm, the P-NG Department of Agriculture was buying bulk insecticides which would be resold to bona fide growers at cost price.

New Customs Rates AMENDING legislation to the Papua-New Guinea Customs tariff was passed by the Territory’s House of Assembly in August.

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The duty on the foodstuffs was withdrawn after the Government and elected members worked out a “deal” whereby the duty on imported beer, which had been increased on August 25 from 9/6 to 10/6 a gallon was further increased on August 30 to 11/6 a gallon, and the excise on local beer was similarly increased from 5/6 to 7/6 rather than 6/6. 129 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Mr. McEwen said recently that in recent years the importation of most foodstuffs into New Caledonia from Australia had been subject to import licensing restrictions, whereas imports from France and other western European countries, had been admitted freely.

Australia had made repeated representations to the French authorities, both in Paris and Noumea, about this discrimination, and the restrictions had now been relaxed.

Mr. McEwen said Australian exports of foodstuffs to New Caledonia last year had been worth about half a million pounds. This figure was expected to rise sharply as Australia’s proximity to the market would assist exporters to take full advantage of the relaxation.

Sugar sales, which had been negligible in recent years, could rise to over £lOO,OOO annually. Other commodities which could benefit were meat, cheese, eggs, honey, fresh vegetables and canned and dried fruits.

While welcoming the move to freer trade by New Caledonia, Mr.

McEwen said he was disappointed that some foodstuffs remained subject to licensing restrictions when imported from Australia. These included flour, rice, butter, win© and fruit juices.

Coconut Pest Found In The Yosawas A BIG clean-up campaign to destroy likely breeding places began on the island of Naviti in the Yasawas Group of Fiji in mid- August following the discovery that the rhinocerous beetle had become established there.

The beetle, which attacks coconut palms and eventually kills them, was introduced accidentally into Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu several years ago.

Many thousands of pounds have since been spent in trying to prevent its spread to other islands in the group.

The Yasawas are 25 to 40 miles off the north-west coast of Viti Levu and stretch for a distance of 50 miles. The coconut is the main crop in the group, although the production of copra in the area makes up only a small proportion of that produced throughout Fiji.

The rhinoceros beetle may have reached the Yasawas via the islands of Vomo and Kadavulailai, two small islands between Viti Levu and the Yasawas, where the beetle was discovered last July (PIM, Sept., 1964, p. 35).

New "Windfall" For CSR Shareholders Shareholders in the csr Co.

Ltd. will receive their third “windfall” since 1962 with a l-for-8 issue of £1 shares at a 10/- premium.

The company expects to maintain the 12i per cent, dividend on the new capital, which will be increased by about £3.3 million to £29,8 million.

The directors decided to make the issue after a review of the company’s capital requirements.

The last capital issue was in October, 1962, when shareholders were offered one share for every seven held, also at a 10/- premium.

Last year CSR borrowed £7 million on debentures, an issue which was quickly oversubscribed to the extent of about another £8 million.

The issue was announced on August 18, the day after the Australian budget, when the £1 shares were selling for about 63/- on the Sydney market. That price gave a theoretical rights price of 29/4.

The new shares will not participate in the interim dividend, payable in December or January, but will rank fully for the final dividend for the year ending March 31.

The issue will be based on holdings on September 3, and the new shares will be payable in full on application by November 1.

New Interest In Low-Grade Phospha PHOSPHATE deposits in vari South Pacific islands, which w once considered of no commercial portance, may soon be studied ai by fertiliser organisations as som of raw material for the manufacl of superphosphate.

This follows the discovery that 1 grade phosphate can be used as fe liser after being subjected to a sin heat treatment.

Several long-known deposits of grade phosphate that have rece: attracted new interest as a result the heat-treatment discovery are the Lau Islands of Fiji.

The deposits are on the islands Vatoa, Ogea Driki, Vanua Vatu Tuvuca, The Vatoa and Ogea D deposits were found in 1909 by All F. Ellis, discoverer of the enorm Nauruan and Ocean Island depo Those on Vanua Vatu and Tuv were found in 1956-57.

The Fiji Mining Board report 1964, which was issued recently, s the Lauan deposits have been inv< gated at various times as poss sources of raw material for su] phosphate manufacture, but v found to be unsuitable because c high iron/alumina content.

“Recent technological advances other countries,” the report goes “have shown that similar mate can be used as fertiliser after sub tion to a simple heat treatment.

“Tests by the Department of A culture have shown that Lauan pi phates treated in this way give response in plant growth equivaj to imported superphosphate.

“Canadian organisations have pressed interest in exploiting the pi phates, but they have not been ] mitted to go ahead, as Governm wishes to complete the present se of pot and field trials before mall any decision on the exploitation! the phosprates.

“It is possible that the inter market for fertiliser will be suffic to support an industry to mine, t and market this material.”

New Guinea Find Meanwhile, a team of Governm geologists has recently completei two-week investigation in Papua-F Guinea of an occurrence of pi phatic rock near the Nigo Nigo Rii Milne Bay District.

P-NG’s Senior Government Gee gist, Mr. A. Renwick, said in I Moresby in August that the pi phatic rock occurred as a bed atl 130 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Resident Officer at Lautoka: S. D. Sharma.

NOUMEA—W. Johnston.

VlLA—Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited.

SANTO—Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited.

Papua & New Guinea

PORT MORESBY—D. J. Granter, Manager for Papua & New Guinea.

Port Moresby—Samarai—Lae

—Madang—Rabaul—

KAVIENG.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited.

Resident Officer at Rabaul: R. P. Hiley.

Resident Officer at Lae: K. J. Clark.

HONIARA (8.5.1. P.): Wm. Breckwoldt & Company.

PAGO PAGO: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

OTHER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Also at any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z.

Trading Notes LESS BSIP COPRA: Copra production in the BSIP for the second quarter this year was 6,550 tons, or 526 tons less than that for the corresponding quarter of 1964. The half-year’s total, 12,204 tons, is 793 tons less than the first half-year’s production last year. The BSIP Director of Agriculture, Mr. P. M. Spencer, says the carry-over from drought conditions in 1964, and shipping shortages, particularly in the Western Solomons, have probably been the main causes of the lower production.

HIGHER PROFIT: The net profit of Lolorua Rubber Estates Ltd., New Guinea, was £15,410 in the year ended April 30, an increase of £2,721 on the previous year.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC PROFIT: The W.

R. Carpenter-dominated insurance company, Southern Pacific, had a fall of £10,491 to £195,546 in net profit in the financial year ended March 31. The dividend is held at 12 V 2 per cent. :t wide, and was exposed on the iks of the Nigo Nigo River. The ;ral and depth limits could not be srmined at present because of the •k soil and dense forest cover. specimen collected previously ai this bed contained approxitely 6 per cent, of phosphate. This i considerably less than economic de, which was assessed at 15 per t. or more. lr. Renwick said the low grade narrow width of the phosphate t in the Nigo Nigo River area ild not permit economic mining, [e added: “The presence of phoste in the area indicates a favour- ; environment which the geologists eve may extend along a narrow dull belt continuing north-westerly n Mullins Harbour through the t Moresby area, to Redscar Head.” ist-War Record For sntia Palm Seed )RD HOWE ISLAND had exported more than 1,100 bushels Centia palm seed to July 21 this —the largest quantity since Id War 11, and collecting for season had not been completed, he Kentia palm, which is regarded the hardiest and most beautiful the world, is unique to Lord ye. Its seeds are collected and under the direction of the Lord ve Island Board of Control. >re the days of tourism they were lally the only source of income the island. he yield in 1913 was 5,000 ids but this decreased steadily 00 bushels in 1948 because rats royed the seeds before they could larvested. nee then the rats have been ight under control and exports : gradually built up again. sw Nickel >ntracts With Japan iW Caledonian interests recently signed new contracts for the >ly of nickel ore to Japan. The new racts will be in force for three s, instead of 12 months as previyie tonnages involved will be aniced each December during the ency of the contracts, eanwhile, directors of the Societe Nickel are optimistic about the re of the nickel industry in New donia. t the company’s annual meeting aris in July, it was revealed that 1,777,000 tons of nickel ore were extracted in the territory in 1964, compared with 1,500,000 tons in 1963.

Overall deliveries to world markets in 1964 increased by 23 i per cent.

A programme of rebuilding and extending is hoped to lift figures for nickel production in New Caledonia much higher in the years to come.

PlM’s Noumea correspondent says an idea of the magnitude of the programme can be gauged by the tonnage of material which has been landed from ships coming from France.

HONOURED. Captain Fred Ladd, chief pilot and manager of Auckland's Tourist Air Travel, who has been flying amphibians out of Auckland since 1955, has been awarded the Brackley Memorial Trophy by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators. Captain Ladd helped pioneer Fiji Airways services. He was chief pilot of Fiji Airways in 1951-54. 131 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

1 SYDNEY July 26 Aug.

Seller Selle Bali Plantations . 4/6 5a Burns Philp . . . 80/b79/ Burns Philp (SS) . b46/- 49a Carpenter. W. R. . 25/- 24/> Choiseul Plntn. . 94/- 110 a C.S.R, Oo. 63/6 61a Dylup Plantations 6/9 b7/, Fiji Industries . . . b!7/3 bl7/, Hackshall’s . . . 15/bl3/> Kerema Rubber 2/11 3a Koitaki Rubber 11/6 bl2 A Lolorua Rubber . 5/9 b5/, Makurapau Plntn. 4/2 4/, Mariboi Rubber . b4/- 4a Pacific Is. Timbers 4/9 4a Palgrave 2/8 2/, Plantation Holdings i • 4/- 3a Queensland Insurance 81/- 79/ Rubberlands . . . 3/6 3/: Sogeri Rubber . . 6/6 6a Sthn. Pac. Insurance 25/b2lA Steamships Trading 10/3 10/ Watkins Consolidated 2/3 b2A

Oil And Mining Shares

July 26, Aug. 1965 196 Emperor . . .

S4/11 s5/8 Loloma . . , s21/- S20/6 Bulolo G.D. . s84/s80/- N.G.G. Ltd. . s4/3 s4/7 Oil Search . s2/2 S2/1 1 Ent. of N.G. . s2d s2d Pac. I. Mines S2/11 s3/4 Papuan Apin. s2/sl/9 Placer Dev. . s205/- S223/, Sydney Stock Exchange share ; price dex for “Ordinaries” on August 23 ’ 324.84, on June 26, , it was 319.40.

Produce Prices (Unless otherwise stated, quotations are In Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; 5U52.25.) COPRA PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production Is delivered to Copra Marketing Board, controlled by six members, including three planters’ representatives; and the Board directs distribution and sales, and makes payments to the producers. Production goes mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Australia for local consumption, (c) crushing-mill in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus as available). Prices generally tally with ruling rate in Philippines, with premiums for hot-air dried.

P-NG Board’s Tentative Purchase Prices for Copra delivered main ports are: Hot-Air Dried, £7l/10/- per ton; FMS, £7O/-/- per ton; Smoke-Dried, £69/9/9 per ton.

FIJI:—No Government control—producers sell where they wish. Bulk of copra goes to crushing-mills in Suva.

August 23 prices were: HAD £F6I/5/-, M £FSB/15/-.

WESTERN SAMOA: Official Copra Board takes all production, sells same and makes payments to producers. It goes mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, and the open market. Local price recently was £56/12/6 Samoan, first grade.

TONGA; Sales are under Government control. Part of production goes to Europe, under arrangement with Unilever controlled by Philippines prices, and part on to open market.

SOLOMON IS.: All production marketed through official BSI Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rate. Output goes to Unilever. UK; to Australian crushers: and the balance on to the open market. These prices, in August, were: Ist grade, £7O/-/-; 2nd grade, £6B/-/-; 3rd grade, £63/-/- per ton, f.0.b., BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina and Gizo).

GILBERT AND ELLlCE;—Production marketed in Europe through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rates less freight, etc. The Copra Board subsidises the price at: First Grade £6/4/2 per ton, Second Grade £2/2/1 per ton.

NEW HEBRIDES:—Price on July 29 was approximately £A47/10/- (9,500 Pac. francs. French price on July 29 was 1,035 francs per metric ton, c.i.f., Marseilles.

COOK IS.:—Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, who operate the only NZ copra crushing mill. Price paid is average London price for previous three months, less handling charges. Prices for third quarter, July-Sept., 1965, are £NZBO/11/2 Ist grade, £NZ79/6/2 standard grade— both f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

COCOA:—lslands prices are usually based on the rates for Ghana cocoa.

On August 23 these were approx. £Stg.l2o/-/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

Sydney buyers in late August reported an unsettled market, with prices varying widely from day to day. On August 24, Quote No. 1: In store Rabaul, export quality £lO5 per ton, ex-wharf Sydney, £l3O.

On August 23, Quote No. 2: Best quality, on wharf Sydney, £ll5-120, in store N.G. ports £9l/10/- (for UK, continent and USA shipments).

W. SAMOA: —Nominal prices quoted in Sydney, August 13, were: Grade 1, £ Stg.lso/-/-; grade 2, £ Stg.loo/-/-, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE.—P.-N.G.: August 23. good quality A grade, per lb. 4/4y 2 ; B grade 4/2 y 2; C grade, 3/6 y 2 to 3/9 y 2, c.i.f., Sydney.

Approximate overseas c.i.f. coffee prices were reported on August 23 as: Kenya AA UQ, A £Stg.4l7/6/-, B £ Stg.4lo, C £ Stg.4os; Tanganyika AA UQ, A £ Stg.4oo, B £Stg.39s; Uganda Robusta (standard) f.a.q. £Stg.2s6 cleaned and washed £Stg.26l; Mataari £ Stg.4lo; Sannani £ Stg.39o.

PEANUTS. P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported Aug. 23 —f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 1/7 y 2 lb.; Virginia bunch 1/9 y 2 lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Aug. 19 was: No. 1 RSS, Spot, Sept, shipment, 67 y 2 Straits cents per lb (23.54 d Aust.); Oct. shipment, 68 Va Straits cents per lb (23.76 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported Aug. 23: White and yellow label processed, standard packs, 49/6, green label 48/6, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): (New prices being negotiated in late August), current prices— P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, £5B/10/- per ton, f.o.w. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, £65/-/f.o.w. Other Pac. Islands: Dry, white or brown, etc., £6B/-/- (any quantity), f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Quotations for Australian M.O.P. Shell on August 23 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.—Sydney buyers on Aug. 23 indicated tide following quotations to Islands producers; No. 1 Papua nominally £9O per ton, f.0.b., Papuan ports; N.G. and 8.5.1. £B5- £9O, f.0.b..

Islands ports. No. 2—Papua—£Bo-£9O per ton; N.G., 8.5.1.—£75-£B5 per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyers quoted on August 23: No. 1: Ist grade only, £235 on wharf, Sydney. No. 2: £220 (best quality), on wharf, Sydney.

CROCODILE SKINS.—On August 23 Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over, first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G,— 28/- per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) 17/- per in. 8.5.1. 28/- (small scale) del. Sydney.

PAPUAN GUM: £B2/15/- f.o.b. Islands port, £95 del. Sydney or Melbourne.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quoted F 2- (4in. to 7 in.) to F3/- (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, offers F4/6 per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality.

London and US Quotations COPRA: LONDON, Aug. 23, Philippines, in bulk, $214 US (equal to £Stg.76/14/-) per long ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan 1% c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports, UQ. NEW YORK; Aug. 23, Philippines, $lB7 US c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports. CEYLON: 1,050 Rupees per ton, f.o.b.

COCONUT OIL: LONDON, August shipment, Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £ Stg. 118.

RUBBER: LONDON, Aug. 19, Sept, shipment c.i.f. 21-l/16d Stg. lb; Spot 21d Stg. lb; Oct. shipment 21d Stg. lb. (£ 1 Australian is equal to about 2.2 US Dollars or 10 Vz Rupees.) The Stock Market

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, A BANK, BANK OF NZ and THE BAi OF BARODA LTD. Australia on B basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2 Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £; London: B, £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. NZ-H basis £lOO NZ: B, £lll/11/9; £ 110/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. At tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa:: T. B. £AI23/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Sam London, basis £lOO London: B. £99/7 S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO i B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji b:< £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

NORFOLK IS. —Commonwealth B:« quotes exchange rate Australia-Norl- Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

Papua-Ng. Commonwealth Bap

(Pt. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Goroka, Bull Kavieng, Madang, Wewak), BANK NSW (branches: Port Moresby, Lae, Bult Rabaul, Madang, Samarai, Goro agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokopo), A BANK (Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul)

National Bank Of A/Asia. (H

Moresby, Lae) quote exchange r Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £AIOO..

French Pacific Colonies.—Pao

francs (CPF) are used in New Cj' donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Polynes FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Natio D’Escompte de Paris, Sydney), in Af 1965, quoted: Selling, Noumea, 196 K francs to £ Aust.; Papeete 196 (noo Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 247 Pac. fras to £ Stg., approx. 90 Pac. francs to USI Noumea 18 Pac. francs to 1 Free franc (conversion rate: 1 Pac. fn equals 0.055 French franc), Paris-Loncb Selling 13.674 francs to £Stg. 132 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH:

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Men of tomorrow need Weet-Bix today (that goes for all the family, too.) Nothing nourishes quite like Weet-Bix.

It's made from Australia's finest wheat.

Every golden flake is a whole wheat grain enriched with malt and toasted to a delightful crispness.

Every Weet-Bix biscuit is loaded with the sort of energy kids need.

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m -; 1 PS !•** rm r l GP m - --'■ freshen up down south Lazy, lazy you. Another mountain to be climbed, another fish to be caught, another show to be seen and you just sitting there! Savouring the cool, green comfort of a shady oak the year-round spring-fresh crispness of New Zealand air.

Yet here’s the beauty of a New Zealand holiday! You can tramp the forests of Fiordland or survey them lazily from a launch. Catch / massive fighting trout in a mountain lake or feed tame ones at Rotorua.

Ride the “wild west” gold trails of Central Otago or watch a rodeo from a deck chair. And enjoy your holiday, either way, because you stay so cool.

AIR NEW ZEALAND’S service, too, is refreshingly different. Its service, comfort, cuisine make the perfect start to a perfect holiday.

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In association with QANTAS and B O A C 136 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

Oronsay Canberra Arcadia Oronsay

SYDNEY depart Sept. 9 Oct. 25 Nov 8 Jan r AUCKLAND arr/dep Sept. 12 Oct. 28 Nov 11 Jan 11* SAVUSAVU arr/dep Sept. 15 Jan ‘ 11 SUVA arr/dep Sept. 16 Nov 14 r«m ir PAGO PAGO arr/dep Sept. 17 Nov 15 15 HONOLULU arr/dep Sept. 22-23 Nov. 4-5 Nov 20 Jan 20 21 VANCOUVER arr/dep Sept. 28 Nov. 9-10 }an 26 SAN FRANCISCO arr/dep Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Nov. 12-13 Nov. 25-26 Jan! 28-29 LOS ANGELES arrive Oct. 2 Nov. 14 Nov. 27 Jan. 30 * Oronsay calls at Lautoka on Jan. 14. 1966.

Details from P. and O.-Orlent Lines of Aust. Pty., Ltd.. 55 Hunter St.. Sydney (2-0317

San Francisco

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Hipping Timetables

411 sailings are approximate and may ry by as much as two weeks.

BRISBANE - SYDNEY -

West Ng - Indonesia

fhe P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping mpany operates a monthly cargo service ween Indonesia, West New Guinea and stralia. tfext voyage: Visaya Regidor, dep. isbane Sept. 6, Sydney Sept. 13, Melirne Sept. 22, thence West New Guinea i Indonesian ports subject to induceut. )etails from Mcllwraith McEacharn 1., Union House, 247 George Street, Iney (27-1481).

Sydney - Fiji

JV Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney >roximately every three weeks for Suva 1 Lautoka with cargo and passengers. it Sydney sailings: Sept. 24, Oct. 22 iprox.). )etails from Colonial Sugar Refining Co. ~ 1-7 Bent St.. Sydney (2.0515).

R Dney - Fiji - Tonga - Samoa

Inlon Steam Ship Co. maintains nthly cargo services from Melbourne I Sydney (periodically from Adelaide) Lautoka, Suva (including transhipits for Vavau and Niue), Apia and cualofa.

Fext Sydney sailing; Waiana, Sept. 7. letails from Union Steam Ship Co. of Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydney 0528); or other branches and agents.

Sydney - Fiji - Vancouver

aciflc Shipowners Ltd., of Suva, mally operate a passenger-cargo ser- ; three times yearly with the Lakemba ig the above route. text sailing from Sydney: Early Jan. prox.). •etails from American Trading and pping Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, ney (27-4147).

Sydney - Geic

olumbus Lines of New York, operate regular passenger-cargo service from ney to Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice .nds Colony. Next voyages from ney: Cap Blanco Sept. 13. tetails from American Trading and pping Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, ney (27-4149).

SYDNEY - NEW CALEDONIA -

Lew Hebrides - Fr. Polynesia

assenger-cargo vessels of Messageries ritimes Line, from Marseilles, via st Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete (with occasional calls at Taiohae, Marquesas Group), Vila, Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Next inwards voyages, ex-Marseilles: Tahitien: Taiohae Oct. 5, Papeete Oct. 7-11, Vila Oct. 18-19, Noumea Oct. 20-24, Sydney Oct. 27.

Caledonien; Papeete Nov. 13-17, Vila Nov. 24-25, Noumea Nov. 26-30, Sydney Dec. 3.

Next outwards voyage, ex-Sydney: Oceanien: Dep. Sydney Sept. 11. New Hebrides Sept. 15-23, Noumea Sept. 24.

Papeete Sept. 30-Oct. 3, Taiohae Oct. 6.

Polynesie maintains monthly passenger sailings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila, Pt. Sandwich (occasionally), and Santo.

Sydney sailings: Sept. 17, Oct.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 2 Young St.. Sydney (8U2654).

SYDNEY ■ NZ - FIJI - TAHITI -

Panama - Uk

Southern Cross and Northern Star passenger vessels each make four roundthe-world voyages per year, calling at Fiji and Papeete every trip.

Southern Cross: Prom Southampton (UK) via South Africa, at Sydney Oct. 14-16, Wellington Oct. 19-21, Auckland Oct. 23, Fiji Oct. 26, Papeete Oct. 30-31, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr Nov, 25.

Northern Star: From Southampton (UK) via South Africa, at Sydney Dec 1-3, Wellington Dec. 6-8, Auckland Dec. 9-10, Tahiti Dec. 15-16, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr. Jan. 13.

Details from Shaw Savlll Line, 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (28-1828).

SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI -

Panama - Usa

Holland-America Line nassenger vessel Maasdam leaves Sydney Dec. 23, Wellington Dec. 27, Papeete Jan. 2-3, thence via Panama to USA.

Details from Europe-Canada Line 291 George St., Sydney (29-3477).

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

New Caledonia

Jacques del Mar (owned by Societe Maritime Caledonienne. Noumea), makes a regular three weekly passenger-cargo voyage from Sydney or Melbourne to Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., New Caledonia (Noumea).

Next sailing: Jacques del Mar from Sydney Sept. 24 (approx.).

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd 13-15 Bridge St., Sydney (27-8311).

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. 137 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1965

Daiwa Line

Direct Service

Japan South Pacific

M.V. "KOKEI MARU"

Maiden Voyage or Substitute LAUTOKA September 22-23.

SUVA September 26-27.

APIA September 30-31.

PAGO PAGO October 1.

Dep. JAPAN September 2.

GUAM September 6-7. *SANTO September 14-15. *VILA September 17. *NOUMEA September 19. * SUBJECT TO CARGO INDUCEMENT.

Heavy lift, reefer space and passenger accommodation available.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

Next sailing — M.V. “Tahiti Maru” V-S.

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.

Sydney - Norfolk Is. - New

Hebrides • Bsi • Bougainville

MV Tulagi (passenger-cargo) leav Sydney about every six weeks for Norfo Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara and BSI por Next Sydney sailings: Sept. 24, Oct.

Details trom Burns, Philp and Co. Lt 3 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Sydney - Papua - New Guine

Burns Philp passenger/cargo vessi make regular voyages to New Guinea por Next vessels: Malekula sails from Sydney for Br bane, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Man; Kavieng, Rabaul, Bougainville, : Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney sailin Oct. 2.

Bulolo sails about every six weel Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samar Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Samarai, ‘ Moresby, Brisbane, Sydney. Next Sydr sailing: Oct. 5.

Moresby sails from Melbourne Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samar Lae, Madang, Alexishafen, Wewi Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby, Sydney. N* Sydney sailing: Oct. 13.

Montoro sails from Melbourne ; Sydney, Pt. Moresby, Samarai (opt Rabaul, Kavieng, Lombrum, Lae, Mada: Wewak, thence Hong Kong. Next Sydr sailing: Oct. 21.

Braeside sails about every six weel Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Mores) Samarai, Rabaul, Wewak, Madang, L.

Pt. Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney ss ing: Oct. 29.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Lit 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

Soochow and Shansi provide a reguj fortnightly passenger-cargo service fn Sydney to Brisbane, Pt. Mores!

Samarai and Sydney, sailing from Si ney every second Monday.

Next Sydney sailings; Soochow Sept. : Shansi Sept. 27.

Details from New Guinea Australia L:. (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents),, Spring Street, Sydney (27-4701).

Karlander New Guinea Line ca: vessels leave Sydney at regular inters for New Guinea ports. Next vessels; Sletfjord; Dep. Sydney Sept. 10, Br bane Sept. 14, due Pt. Moresby Sept.

Lae Sept. 26, Madang Sept. 29, Wew Oct. 1, Brisbane Oct. 8, Sydney Oct.

Slitan: Dep. Sydney Sept. 10, Brisbs Sept. 14, due Rabaul Sept. 20, Wew Sept. 23, Madang Sept. 25, Lae Se 27, Brisbane Oct. 4, Sydney Oct. 8.

Details from Karlander NG Line H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., agents), 13 Brk Street, Sydney (27-8311).

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo ves Makati runs between Australian p(E (turn round at Melbourne) and Papti New Guinea.

Next voyage: From Melbourne, depa Sydney Sept. 13, Brisbane Sept. 17, Moresby Sept. 22, Rabaul Sept.

Madang Sept. 29, Lae Oct. 1.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) H Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney (27-12 T

Sydney - P-Ng - Far East

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo vet: Malaysia runs between Australian po (turn round at Melbourne) and Sin* pore, via Pt. Moresby.

Next voyage: Dep. Melbourne Sept.

Sydney Oct. 4, Brisbane Oct. 8, Moresby Oct. 14, thence to Singapore 8 Malaysian ports.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aua Pty. Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydil (BU 1271).

Australia-West Pacific Line’s Mot) vessels maintain passenger-cargo servit SEPTEMBER. 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH®

n Australia to Hong Kong and Islands ;s. amos: From Melbourne, dep. Sydney t. 10, Brisbane Sept. 12-14, Pt. •esby Sept. 17-19, Rabaul Sept. 22-23, Sept. 24-26, Madang Sept. 27-28, ice Hong Kong. [ilos: From Hong Kong and Manila, Madang Sept. 23-24, Lae Sept. 25-26, aul Sept. 27-28, Brisbane Oct. 2-6, Sydney Oct. 8. hodos: Prom Melbourne, dep. Sydney , 12, Brisbane Oct. 14-15, Pt. Moresby , 18-20, Rabaul Oct. 23-24, Lae Oct. !7, Madang Oct. 28-29, thence Manila Hong Kong, etails from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301). hina Navigation Co. Ltd. cargo vessels chang, Wenchow and Wanliu call thly at Rabaul on their way north i Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to g Kong. ext vessel; Nanchang, dep. Sydney 2, Brisbane Oct. 4-5, Rabaul Oct. 10, ice Manila. aina Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels ngsha and Taiyuan provide a monthly ;enger-cargo service calling at Pt. esby when northbound between Ausla, Manila and Hong Kong. Next el: aiyuan: Dep. Melbourne Oct. 16, arr.

Moresby Oct. 30, thence Manila and g Kong. etails from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., its, 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU4701)! ominion Navigation Co. Ltd. (UK) els maintain monthly passenger-cargo ices between Sydney and Japan (via lila, Hong Kong and Formosa), return Guam and Rabaul.

George Anson: Dep. Sydney Oct. 6, Brisbane Oct. 8-9, thence to Far East, due Guam Nov. 12-13, Rabaul Nov. 17-18, Sydney Nov. 24.

Francis Drake: At Guam Oct. 15-16, Rabaul Oct. 20-21, Sydney Oct. 27-29, Melbourne Oct. 31-Nov. 6, Sydney Nov. 8-10, Brisbane Nov. 12-13, thence to Far East, returning to Guam Dec. 24-25, Rabaul Dec. 29-30, Sydney Jan. 5.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 York Street, Sydney. Tel. (2-0253).

Sydney - Tahiti - Uk

Chandris Line vessel Ellinis maintains a regular passenger service from Sydney via Papeete to Southampton, and return via Papeete to Sydney.

Ellinis: Leaves Southampton Oct. 1, arr. Papeete Oct. 8-9 and Sydney Oct. 28-29.

Details from Chandris Line, 10 Marti* Place, Sydney. Tel. 28-2451.

Europe - Tahiti - New Caledonia

Bsip - Png - West Ng

A regular passenger-cargo 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.

Karimata: From Continent and London arr. Papeete Sept. 10, Noumea Sept. 19, Tarawa Sept. 25, Honiara Sept. 28, Pt.

Moresby Oct. 2, Rabaul Oct. 5, Lae Oct. 7, Madang Oct. 8, Alexishafen Oct. 9, Wewak Oct. 10, Sukarnopura Oct. 11, thence Biak, Manokwari, Sorong.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

EUROPE - TAHITI - NEW HEBRIDES -

New Caledonia - Australia

Messageries Maritlmes passenger-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: Velay Sept. 27 (Noumea Oct. 4); Ventoux Oct. 25 (Noumea Nov. 1).

Other MM vessels run between France and Sydney, via Panama Canal and Pacific ports.

Next vessel: Mauricien, due Papeete Sept. 11, Noumea Sept. 23, Sydney Oct.

Details from Messageries Maritlmes, 2 Young St., Sydney (8U2645).

Far East - Fiji - Bsi

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels provide a monthly passenger-cargo service from Japan and Hong Kong southwards to Fiji direct and BSI returning to Japan direct.

Mui Ann: From Japan and Hong Kong, due Suva/Lautoka Sept. 16-20, returning to Japan Oct. 4.

Sinkiang: From Japan and Hong Kong Suva/Lautoka Oct. 7-14, Honiara Oct. 18-20, returning to Japan Oct. 31.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents, 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701). • PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

Schedules For Cruises In The Islands A regular service for travellers in search of South Seas tours, and for Islands residents and traders who need advance information on shipping movements.

P and 0-orient “Arcadia”: Sydney Oct. 25, Auckland Oct. 28, Bay of Islands (NZ) Oct. 29, Suva Nov. 1. Lautoka Nov. 2, off Norfolk Is. Nov. 4, off Lord Howe Is. Nov. 5, Sydney Nov. 6. 1966 “Arcadia”, February: Sydney Feb. 14, Auckland Feb. 17, Pago Pago Feb. 20, off Niuafou’ou Feb. 22, Suva Feb. 23, off Norfolk Island Feb. 25, off Lord Howe Is. and Ball’s Pyramid Feb. 26, Sydney Feb. 27.

“Orsova”, March-April: Sydney Mar. 25, Nukualofa Mar. 31-Apr. 1, Suva Apr. 2-3, Noumea Apr. 5-6, Hayman Island Apr. 9, off Lord Howe Is. and Ball’s Pyramid Apr. 11, Sydney Apr. 12.

“Himalaya”: Sydney July 21, off Norfolk Island July 23, Pago Pago July 25, off Niuafoou July 27, Suva July 28-29, Nukualofa July 30, off Kadavu July 31, off Balls Pyramid and Lord Howe Island Aug. 3, Sydney Aug. 4.

“Arcadia”; Sydney Aug. 30, off Balls Pyramid and Lord Howe Island Aug. 31, Honiara Sept. 3, Lautoka Sept. 6, Suva Sept. 7, Noumea Sept. 9, Sydney Sept. 12.

Toyo Yusan Co.

“Oriental Queen”, Sept. 23- Oct. 15, Sydney Sept. 23, Auckland Sept. 27, Nukualofa Oct. 1, Pago Pago Oct. 2, Suva Oct. 5-7, Auckland Oct. 11, Sydney Oct. 15. Oct. 16-30, Sydney Oct. 16, Noumea Oct. 19-21, off Norfolk Island Oct. 22, Bay of Islands Oct. 24, Auckland Oct. 25-26, Sydney Oct. 30. Nov. 18-Dec. 9, Sydney Nov. 18, Lautoka Nov. 24, Suva Nov. 25-27, Vavau Nov. 29, Nukualofa Nov. 30, Bay of Islands Dec. 3, Auckland Dec. 4-5, Sydney Dec. 9. Dec. 19- Jan. 12 (1966), Sydney Dec. 19, Auckland Dec. 23-24, Nukualofa Dec. 28, Pago Pago Dec. 29, Apia Dec. 30, Suva Jan. 2-4, Auckland Jan. 8, Sydney Jan. 12.

China Navigation Co.

“Kuala Lumpur”: Leaves Wellington Oct. 15, Noumea Oct. 20-21, Vila Oct. 22-24, Suva Oct. 26-28, Auckland Nov. 1. Leaves Auckland Nov. 3, Nukualofa Nov. 7, Haapai Nov. 8, Vavau Nov. 9, Pago Pago Nov, 9-10, Suva Nov. 14-16, Auckland Nov. 20.

Leaves Auckland Nov. 21, Suva Nov. 25-27, Pago Pago Nov. 29-30, Vavau Dec. 2, Haapai Dec. 3, Nukualofa Dec. 4, Auckland Dec. 8.

Holland-America Line “Maasdam”: Sydney Dec. 5, Brisbane Dec. 6, Noumea Dec. 10, Suva Dec. 13, Wellington Dec. 17-18, Sydney Dec. 22.

Sitmar Line “Castel Felice”: Sydney Oct. 26, Auckland Oct. 29-30, Suva Nov. 2-3, Noumea Nov. 5-6, Auckland Nov. 9, Auckland Nov. 13.

“Fairstar”: Sydney Dec. 22, Noumea Dec. 25-26, Suva Dec. 28-29, Sydney Jan. 2 (1966). 1966 “Fairstar”: Sydney Apr. 2, Suva Apr. 6-7, Pago Pago Apr. 9-10, Sydney Apr. 17.

“Fairstar”: Sydney Jan. 3, Papeete Jan. 10-14, Suva Jan. 20, Sydney Jan 24.

“Castel Felice”: Sydney Jan. 27, Auckland Jan. 30-31, Suva Feb. 3-4, Noumea Feb. 6-7, Auckland Feb. lo’

Sydney Feb. 14.

Chandris Line 1966 “Australis”, January: Sydney Jan. 14, Auckland Jan. 17-18, Nukualofa Jan. 20-21, Pago Pago Jan. 22-23, Suva Jan. 25-26, Noumea Jan. 28-29, Sydney Jan. 31.

Lloyd-Triestino Line 1966 “Marconi”: Sydney Apr. 7, Nukualofa Apr. 11, Suva Apr. 12-13, Noumea Apr. 14-15, Sydney Apr. 17. 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

Fiji Direct Service

Via Panama

Regular Sailings every four weeks London to Suva & Lautoka Through Bills of Lading to

Lab As A - 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

Far East - Fiji ■ Nz - Sydney

Royal Interocean Lines operate a passenger-cargo service from Singapore to Fiji, NZ and Australia, calling periodically at Suva and/or Lautoka.

Tjiliwong at Suva/Lautoka Oct. 25-26; Tjimanuk at Suva/Lautoka Nov. 29-30; Tjitarum at Suva/Lautoka Dec. 23-24.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

FAR EAST - P-NG - BSI - NEW

Hebrides - New Caledonia

China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels maintain a monthly cargo service from Japan southwards through P-NG, BSI, New Hebrides and New Caledonia, usually return to Japan direct.

Yochow: From Japan and Hong Kong due Rabaul Sept. 17, Madang Sept. 21, Lae Sept. 25, Samarai Sept. 29, dep.

Pt. Moresby Oct. 5, arr. Santo Oct. 9, Noumea Oct. 13-23, thence to Japan, arr.

Nov. 3.

Chengtu; From Japan and Hong Kong, due Wewak Oct. 11, Rabaul Oct. 13, Kavieng Oct. 16, Madang Oct. 18, Lae Oct. 22, Pt. Moresby Oct. 29, Vila Nov. 2, Noumea Nov. 6-16, thence to Japan, arr. Nov. 27.

Details from China Navigation Co. Ltd. (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

JAPAN - SAMOA - TONGA - FIJI - N. CAL. - N. HEB. - BSI The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd. runs a regular passenger/cargo service from Japan to Pacific ports.

Current voyage: Kokei Maru dep. Japan Sept. 2, arr. Guam Sept. 6-7, Santo Sept. 14-15, Vila Sept. 17, Noumea Sept. 19, Lautoka Sept. 22-23, Suva Sept. 26-27, Apia Sept. 30-31, Pago Pago Oct. 1.

NEW ZEALAND - COOK IS.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes approximately monthly voyages from Auckland (NZ) to Rarotonga (Cook Islands), with calls at Niue and some other Cook Islands when cargo warrants.

Details from NZ Department of Island Territories, Wellington (Tel. 45-117) or any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

NZ - FIJI - HONOLULU -

Nth America

Crusader Shipping Co. has vessels running between NZ and North America, via Pacific ports.

Next vessel: Crusader, dep. NZ Oct. 13, due Honolulu Oct. 23, thence North American ports.

NZ - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. Next Auckland sailing; Sept. 14.

Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, 4pia, Suva, and return to Auckland.

Next Auckland sailing: Sept. 28.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland. (Tel.; 49-430).

New Zealand - Tahiti

New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels, operating between NZ and UK, via Panama, make a call every two months at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Next southbound voyage: Rangitane from London, due Papeete Sept. 21.

Next northbound voyage: Rangitoto, dep. Wellington Oct. 6, due Papeete Oct. 12.

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ.

Tonga - Fiji - Australia

The Tonga Copra Board vessel Niuvakai operates a four to five-weekly passenger-cargo service between Australia and Tonga via Fiji. Next Sydney sailings: Sept. 29, Nov. 3 (approx.).

Details from Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (80547).

Tonga - Fiji - Samoa

Tonga Shipping Agency operates a cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, Ellington, Rotuma) with MV Aoniu. Calls are also made as required at Apia (W.

Samoa) and Pago Pago (Am. Samoa).

Turn-round in Suva is usually two days, and the agents there are Morris Hedstrom, Ltd.

Uk - Panama - Samoa - Fiji

The Fiji Direct Service is maintain! by Conference vessels, sailing at regull monthly intervals out of London, v Panama, for Apia, Suva and Lautofe Bethell, Gwyn and Co. Ltd., act as Loai ing Brokers in London.

Next sailing: Ex-London, Sept. 9.

Uk-Panama-Tahiti-Australia

Cogedar Line operates a passenger se vice regularly from Southampton, v Panama and Papeete to Sydney. Ne vessels; Plavia; Dep. Tilbury Sept. 18, ai Papeete Oct. 12-13, Sydney Oct. 24.

Aurelia: Dep. Tilbury Sept. 27, a: Papeete Oct. 21-22, Sydney Nov. 2.

Details from agents: H. C. Sleigh 1 York St., Sydney. Tel. B 0253.

UK • PAPUA - NG - BSI Bank Line operates a direct service frc Europe to P-NG and BSI, vessels goii on to Australia for cargo-loading ai returning to UK via Suez. Next vessel Cedarbank: From Continent ai London, due Pt. Moresby Sept. 2 Samarai Sept. 27, Lae Sept. 28, Madai Oct. 1, Wewak Oct. 4, Kavieng Oct.

Rabaul Oct. 8, Honiara Oct. 12.

Weybank: Prom Continent and Londa due Pt. Moresby Oct. 28, Samarai O* 30, Lae Nov. 1, Madang Nov. 3, Wews Nov. 8, Kavieng Nov. 11, Rabaul Nov. 1 Honiara Nov. 17.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pt Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (27-2041).

USA - TAHITI - AM. SAMOA - FIJI AUSTRALIA Matson-Oceanic Line operates a fiw weeks passenger-cargo service from L> Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra an Ventura. Terminal ports, in Australi vary with cargoes offering. Vessels cs at Papeete, Pago Pago, Suva, Sydne Brisbane, etc.

Brisbane, Sierra Oct. 7; Sonoma Na Details from Matson Lines, 50 Your St., Sydney (8U4272).

Usa - Tahiti - Australia

Farrell Lines passenger-cargo ships « US Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney servlJ make periodical calls at Tahiti on soutl bound voyages.

Details from Wllh. Wllhelmsen Agenc 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 6301).

USA - TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI -

New Caledonia

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vess© Thorsisle and Thor I maintain serviti from West Coast Nth. American ports Pacific Islands.

Thorsisle: Dep. San Francisco Sept. 2S Los Angeles Sept. 28-Oct. 1, Papeete Oo 12-14, Pago Pago Oct. 18-21, Apia Oo 22-23, Suva Oct. 26-27, Noumea Oo 29- 1, Apia (open), Pago Pago Noe 5-8, Los Angeles Nov. 22-24, Ss Francisco Nov. 25.

Thor I: From San Francisco at Paj.

Pago Sept. 13-15, Apia Sept. 16-17, Sur Sept. 20-21, Lautoka Sept. 22-23, Noumti Sept. 25-27, Vila Sept. 28-29, Santo Sepi 30- 1, Pago Pago Oct. 3-5, L<.

Angeles Oct. 18-20, San Francisco Oo 21-22.

Details from General Steamship Cot poration Ltd., 1 Bush St., San Francises USA and Islands Agents. 140 SEPTEMBER, 1965-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

[?]Rways Timetables

Trans Pacific Services

)NEY - BRISBANE - HONOLULU -

Nth. America

By Qantas Empire Airways, with Boeing 707 V-Jets NORTHBOUND Dep. Sydney 1700, arr. Brisbane .815, dep. 1900, arr. Honolulu 0730 sat., dep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 640.

SOUTHBOUND Dep. San Francisco 1145, arr. lonolulu 1335, dep. 1445, arr. Brisbane sat., 1955, dep. 2040, arr. Sydney 1200.

Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii - Usa

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Boeing 707 V-Jets) NORTHBOUND rs.: Dep. Sydney 1700, arr. Nadi 240, dep, 2330, arr. Honolulu 0730, ep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 1640. i., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1900, rr. Nadi 0040, dep. 0125, Honolulu, an Francisco. ~ Wed. and Sat.: Sydney (dep. 900), Nadi (arr. 0040, dep. 0125), [onolulu, San Francisco, New York, iondon.

Sydney (dep. 1900), Nadi (arr. 0040, ep. 0125), Honolulu, San Francisco extends to Vancouver alternate reeks from Sydney Sept. 10, 24, Oct. , 22, etc,).

SOUTHBOUND ~ Wed. and Fri.: London, New York, an Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 325, Wed., Fri., Sun., dep. 0430), ydney (arr. 0645).

Thurs., Sat. and Sun.: San rancisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 0325, burs., Sat., Mon., Tues., dep. 0430), ydney (arr. 0645).

San Francisco (service begins from anvouver alternate Sats. Sept. 11, 25, >ct. 9, 23, etc.) Honolulu, Nadi irr. 1855, Sun., dep. 1945). Sydney irr. 2200). iternational Dateline is crossed ben Nadi and Honolulu.)

Y Canadian Pacific Airlines

(Bristol Britannia and DCS Jet) NORTHBOUND Fri. (Sept. 3, 17, Oct. 1, 15, etc.): ep. Sydney 1300 by Britannia for uckland (arr. 1850).

Dep. Auckland 1935 Fri., arr. Nadi 540 Fri., dep. 0045 Sat., arr. Honolulu -10 Fri., dep. Sat. 0900 by DCS for ancouver, arr. Sat. 1725, dep. 1855, msterdam (arr. Sun. 1210).

SOUTHBOUND Dep. Amsterdam 1420 by DCS for ancouver (arr. Fri. 1715, dep., 1845), onolulu (arr. Fri. 2130, dep. Sat. 555 by Britannia), Nadi (arr. Mon. 145, dep. 0830), Auckland (arr. 1240).

Mon. (Sept. 13, 27, Oct. 11, 25. :c.): Dep. Auckland 1340 for Sydney rr. Mon. 1605.

PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication. • PlM's airways schedules are arranged alphabetically from point of departure under five main headings: Transpacific Services, Australia-New Zealand, Australia-Pacific Islands, Inter- Territory Services and Internal Services.

Sydney - Fiji (Or Am. Samoa)

Hawaii - Usa

By Pan American Airways

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers) NORTHBOUND Sat., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 1900 for Nadi (arr. Sun., Wed., Fri. 0040, dep. 0130), Honolulu arr. Sat., Tues., Thurs., 0935, dep. 1145 for Los Angeles, arr.

Sat., Tues., Thurs. 1940.

Mon.: Dep. Sydney 1900 for Pago Pago (arr. 0255, dep. 0340), Honolulu arr. 0945, dep. 1145, Los Angeles (arr. 1940 Mon.).

SOUTHBOUND Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 0515 Tues., Thurs., Sat., dep. 0615), and Sydney (arr. Tues., Thurs., Sat. 0830).

Sat.; Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Pago Pago (arr. 0510 Sun., dep. 0555), and Sydney (arr. 0900 Mon.). (International Dateline crossed between Nadi-Honolulu, and Sydney-Pago Pago.)

Sydney - Fiji - Tahiti - Mexico

By Qantas Empire Airways with Boeing 707 V-Jets NORTHBOUND Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 2000, Nadi, arr. Fri. 0140, dep. 0225 for Papeete, arr. Thurs. 0835, dep. 2300 for Acapulco, arr. Fri. 1050, dep. 1150 for Mexico City, arr. 1240 (to Nassau, Bermuda, London), SOUTHBOUND (From London, Bermuda, Nassau) Sat.: Dep. Mexico City 2145 for Acapulco, arr. 2235, dep. 2335 for Papeete, arr. Sun. 0345, dep. 0445 for Nadi, arr.

Mon. 0720, dep. 0805 for Sydney, arr. 1020.

Sydney - N. Caledonia - Fiji

Tahiti - Usa

UTA Air France with DCS Jets Wed.: Dep. Sydney 0940 for Noumea, arr. 1320, dep. 1420 for Nadi, arr. 1700, dep. 1745 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr.

Tues. 2350, dep. Fri. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1950.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 0100 for Papeete, arr. 0605, dep. Tues 0130 for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Wed. 0410, dep. 0610 for Noumea, arr. 0705, dep. 0905 for Sydney, arr. 1100.

Alt. Mon. (Sept. 6, 20, Oct. 4, 18, etc.): Dep. Sydney 1820 for Noumea, arr. 2200, dep. (weekly) 2300 for Nadi, arr.

Tues. 0145, dep. 0245 for Papeete (cross Dateline), arr. 0900 Mon.

Sat.; Dep. Papeete 1200 for Nadi (cross Dateline), arr. Sun. 1440, dep. 1540 for Noumea, arr. 1635.

Alt. Sun. (Sept. 5, 19, Oct. 3, 17, 31, etc.); Dep. Noumea 1800 for Sydney arr. 1955.

Note: Noumea’s international airport is at Tontouta, which is about 50 miles from Noumea itself. The New Caledonian airline Transpac provides a service between Tontouta and Noumea on Wednesdays to connect with UTA’s service from Sydney.

There is also a bus service from the airport.

Australia-New Zealand

Because days and frequencies of trans- Tasman services change at short notice, it is impossible to give reliable detailed information on the services outlined below. Intending passengers are advised to check timetables with the airlines or travel agents.

Auckland - Brisbane

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. IPs Twice weekly, both ways.

Auckland - Melbourne

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ITs Twice weekly, both ways.

Christchurch - Melbourne

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. IPs Three times weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ITs Daily, both ways, with two services a day on most days.

BOAC, with Comet IV’s Twice weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. II s and Boeing 707’s Pour times weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Wellington

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. IPs Daily services both ways, with two services a day three times a week.

Wellington - Brisbane

AIR-NZ with Electra Mk, II One service weekly, both ways.

Wellington - Melbourne

AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. II Twice weekly, both ways.

Australia-Pacific Islands

Sydney - Fiji

Air-India with Boeing 707 Tues.: Dep. Sydney 0945, arr. Nadi 1530.

Wed.: Dep. Nadi 0730, arr. Sydney 0950.

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

Airlines of N.S.VV. (Sandringham Flyingboats) Frequent services from Rose Bay Base each week. Departure time is dependent on time of high tide at Lord Howe Island.

Sydney - New Caledonia

QANTAS, with Boeing 707 Alt. Thurs. (Sept. 2, 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, etc.); Dep. Sydney 1100 for Noumea (arr. 1430), dep. 1545 for Sydney arr. 1735.

Note: Noumea’s international airport is at Tontouta, which is about 50 miles from Noumea itself. The New Caledonian airline Transpac provides a service between Tontouta and Noumea on Thursdays to connect with the Qantas plane from Sydney.

There is also a bus service from the airport. 141 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

Nedlloyd Lines

Managers: ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD—Rotterdam. NEDERLAND LlNE—Amsterdam.

Regular sailings by Fast, Modern, Cargo Vessels from EUROPEAN PORTS and UK. via PANAMA to

Papeete, Noumea, Honiara, Port Moresby, Rabaul

LAE and MADANG other Ports called at subject to sufficient inducement.

Vessels are equipped with refrigerated and (deep) freezing cargo space.

Also equipped with facilities for self-loading and discharge of heavy cargo of up to 240 tons.

Most vessels are equipped with comfortable, air-conditioned, passenger accommodation.

For further particulars apply to Agents — ETS. DONALD TAHITI, AGENCE MARITIME PENTECOST, BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD., Papeete. Noumea. Port Moresby and Lae.

WM. BRECKWOLDT & CO., NEW GUINEA COMPANY LTD., Honiara. Rabaul and Madang.

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

QANTAS, with Skymaster DC4 Aircraft Wed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0800, arr. NI 1445. Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI. (See “Inter-Territory Services’’).

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. NI 1445, Sydney, arr. 1845.

Sydney - Papua - New Guinea

Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett-ANA operate from Sydney to Lae and return with Electras.

NORTHBOUND TAA; Daily except Tues. and Sun., dep.

Sydney 2340, arr. Brisbane 0110, dep. 0155, arr. Port Moresby 0600, dep. 0645, arr. Lae 0730.

Ansett-ANA: Daily except Wed. and Sat., dep. Sydney 2345, arr. Brisbane 0115, dep. 0200 next day, arr. Pt. Moresby 0605, dep. 0650, arr. Lae 0735.

SOUTHBOUND TAA: Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sun., dep. Lae 0930, arr. Port Moresby 1015, dep. 1055, arr. Brisbane 1445, dep. 1525, arr. Sydney 1655.

Ansett-ANA; Daily except Thurs. and Sun., dep. Lae 0925, arr. Port Moresby 1010, dep. 1050, arr. Brisbane 1440, dep. 1520, arr. Sydney 1650.

Old. - Papua-New Guinea

TAA, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet Mon.: Dep. Brisbane 0940, arr. Townsville 1250, dep. 1350, arr. Pt. Moresby 1750.

Wed.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 1415, arr. Cairns 1635, dep. 1735, arr. Townsville 1830, dep. 1850, arr. Mackay 1955, dep. 2010, arr. Brisbane 2230.

NOTE: On Monday a Viscount service leaving Sydney for Brisbane at 0740 connects with the 0940 plane for Pt. Moresby.

Cairns-Pt. Moresby-Cairns

Ansett, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet NOTE: Services to P-NG operate via Townsville during runway extensions at Cairns.

Fri.: Dep. Cairns 1100, arr. Townsville 1155, dep. 1230, arr. Port Moresby 1520.

Fri.: Dep. Port Moresby 1600, arr. Townsville 1850, dep. 1920, arr. Cairns 2015.

Inter - Territory Services

Fiji - Am. Samoa

PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sun.: Dep. Nadi 1200, cross International Dateline, arr. Pago Pago 1605 Sat.

Tues.: Dep. Pago Pago 1600, cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi 1810 Wed.

Fiji - Gilbert & Ellice Islands

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Sun.; Dep. Suva 0745, arr. Nadi 0825, dep. 0910, Funafuti, arr. 1305. Mon., dep.

Funafuti 0700, Tarawa, arr. 1140.

Tues.: Dep. Tarawa 0630, Funafuti, arr. 1110, dep. 1210, Nadi, arr. 1605, dep. 1635, Suva, arr. 1715.

Fiji • New Hebrides

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron aircraft Mon.; Dep. Suva 0700, arr. Nadi 0740, dep. 0825, arr. Vila 1100.

Mon.: Dep. Vila 1230, arr. Nadi 1700, dep. 1730, arr. Suva 1810.

Fiji - New Hebrides - Bsi

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircra Mon., Thurs.; Dep. Suva 0900, Nadi, i 0940, dep. 1025, Vila, arr. 1300. N day (Tues. or Fri.) dep. Vila 0£ Santo, arr. 0915, dep. 0945, Honlg arr. 1340.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Honiara 0630, Sai arr. 1025, dep. 1055, Vila, arr. IS dep. 1235, Nadi, arr. 1705, dep. 11 Suva, arr. 1815.

Fiji - New Zealand

PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sat., Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 0645 for Au land, arr. 1130.

Sat., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 1830 for Nj arr. 2315.

Air-NZ, with Electra Mk. ll’s Daily: Dep. Auckland 2030, arr. N 0015.

Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 1000, arr. N 1345.

Sat.: Dep. Auckland 2100, arr. Nadi 0C Daily (except Mon.); Dep. Nadi 0E arr. Auckland 0905.

Mon.: Dep. Nadi 0925, arr. Aucklj 1315.

Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 1430, arr. Aucklj 1820.

Sun.; Dep. Nadi 0300, arr, Auckland 06 Thurs., Fri., flights ex-Auckland i Fri., Sat. flights ex-Nadi are operated Qantas under charter to Air-NZ.

Fiji - Tonga

Fiji Airways Ltd,, with DCS Aircraft Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. St 0700, dep. 0800, arr. Nukualofa 12 Dep. Nukualofa 1300, arr. Suva 15 dep. 1600, arr. Nadi 1645.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Vlcto Arcade, Suva. 142 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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.

Fiji - Western Samoa

ji Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircraft urs.: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0745, cross Dateline, arr. Apia Wed. 1325. ars.: Dep. Apia 1000, cross Dateline, arr.

Suva Fri. 1340, dep. Sun. 1600, arr.

Nadi 1645.

W Caledonia - New Hebrides

UTA, with DC4 Aircraft ss.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Vila 0955, dep. Vila 1505, arr. Noumea 1700. irs.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Vila 0955, dep. 1025, arr. Santo 1140. ,: Dep. Santo 0700, arr. Vila 0815, dep. 0845, arr. Noumea 1040.

New Caledonia - Nz

AIR-NZ with Comet 4 Jet Dep. Noumea 1430 for Auckland, arr. 1815. ,: Dep. Auckland 1100 for Noumea, arr. 1300.

W Caledonia - Wallis Island

UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Monthly service (second Saturday) . (Sept. 11, Oct. 9): Dep. Noumea 0800 for Wallis Is., arr. 1530. i. (Sept. 12, Oct. 10): Dep. Wallis Is. 0700 for Noumea, arr. 1230.

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA AIB-NZ with Electra Mk. II i.: Dep. Auckland 2030, arr. Nadi 0015 Mon. Dep. Nadi 0215, cross International Dateline, arr Pago Pago Sun. 0550. ..: Dep. Pago Pago 0655, cross International Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. 0835.

Dep. Nadi 0925, arr. Auckland 1315.

Norfolk Is. - New Zealand

i-NZ by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) ,: Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 1945. i.: Dep. NI 1600, arr. Auckland 1945. ..: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1330. irs.: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1330.

P-Ng - Solomons

\A, with Fokker Prop-Jet and DCS Mon.; Dep. Lae (DCS) 0600 for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara, arr. 1620 (Sept. 6, 20, Oct. 4, 18, etc.).

Wed.: Dep. Honiara (DCS) 0730 for Vandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 1545 (Sept. 8, 22, Oct. 6, 20, etc.).

Tues.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 0900 for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Honiara, arr. 1635 (Sept. 14. 28, Oct. 12, 26, etc.).

Wed.: Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 0645 for Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 1200 (Sept. 1, 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, etc.).

P-NG - WEST NG TAA, with DCS Aircraft Tues. (Sept. 14, 28, Oct. 12, 26, etc.): Dep. Lae 1000 for Madang, Wewak, Sukarnapura, arr. 1350.

Wed, (Sept. 1, 15, 29, Oct. 13, 27, etc.): Dep. Sukarnapura 1005 for Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 1605.

Wed. (Sept. 8, 22, Oct. 6, 20, etc.): Dep. Lae 0915, arr. Sukarnapura 1210.

Tues. (Sept. 7, 21, Oct. 5, 19, etc.); Dep. Sukarnapura 0935, arr. Lae 1320.

Biak (West No-Lae

Garuda Indonesian Airways (DCS) Alt. Tues. (Sept. 7, 21, Oct. 5, 19, etc.): Dep. Biak 1815, Sukarnapura, arr. 0825, dep. 0925, arr. Lae 1330.

Alt. Wed. (Sept. 8, 22, Oct. 6, 20, etc.): Dep. Lae 0915, Sukarnapura, arr. 1215, dep. 1300, arr. Biak 1510.

Tahiti - Usa

UTA, with DCS Jet Aircraft Wed : Dep. Papeete 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1950. Dep. Los Angeles 0100 Thurs., arr. Papeete 0605.

Fri.: Dep. Papeete 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1950. Dep. Los Angeles 0100 Sat., arr. Papeete 0605.

Pan American Airways, with Intercontinental Jet Clippers Mon.: Dep. Los Angeles 0900, dep. Honolulu 1300, arr. Papeete 1825.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 0915, arr. Honolulu 1435 dep. 1600, arr. Los Angeles 2355.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2145, dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr, Papeete 0515 Sun.

Sun.: Dep. Papeete 2200, arr. Los Angeles Mon. 0855, arr. San Francisco Mon. 1100.

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. U5OO, 0745, 1900, Tues. 1400, Thurs. 0600, Fri., Sat. 1530.

Dep. Pago Pago (American Samoa): Sun., 0630, 0900, Mon. 0900, Tues. 1515, Thurs. 0715, Fri., Sat. 1645.

W. Samoa - Cook Islands

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Between Western Samoa and Cook Islands (Aitutaki and Rarotonga).

Thurs.: Dep. Faleolo 0900, arr. Aitutaki 1500, dep. 1530, arr. Rarotonga 1635.

Fri.; Dep. Rarotonga 0800, arr. Aitutaki 0905, dep. 0940, arr. Faleolo 1410.

W. Samoa - Fiji

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Wed.: Dep. Faleolo 1000, arr. Nadi Thurs. 1330.

Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 1430, arr. Faleolo Wed., 2010.

International dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nadi.

W. Samoa - Tonga

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Sun.: Dep. Faleolo 1030, arr. Nukualofa next day 1345.

Mon.: Dep. Nukualofa 1445, arr. Faleolo Sun. 1800.

International Dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nukualofa.

Details from Polynesian Air-Centre, Beach Rd., Apia, or any Polynesian Airways agent.

Internal Services

FIJI Fiji Airways with Herons, Drovers, and DC3s.

Suva-Nadi: Daily, dep. Suva 0730, arr.

Nadi 0815. Thurs., dep. Suva 1230, arr. Nadi 1315. Daily (except Thurs. and Sat.) dep. Suva 1500, arr. Nadi 1545. Thurs., Sat., dep. Suva 1600, arr. Nadi 1645. Mon. dep. Suva 1600, arr. Nadi 1645. Tues., Wed., Pri., Sun., dep. Suva 1730, arr. Nadi 1815.

Thurs., Sat., dep. Suva 1830, arr.

Nadi 1915.

Sat.), dep. Nadi 1615, arr. Suva 1700.

Nadi-Suva: Daily, dep. Nadi 0615, arr.

Suva 0700. Daily, dep. Nadi 0845, arr.

Suva 0930. Thurs., dep. Nadi 1445, arr. Suva 1530. Dally (except Thurs., Thurs., Sat., dep. Nadi 1715, arr.

Suva 1800.

Suva-Ura-Suva; Dep. Suva 0725, Wed., Sun., Ura, arr. Suva 0955.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Dep. Suva 1430, Wed., Thurs., Sat., Sun., for Labasa, arr.

Suva 1640. Dep. Suva 0730 Wed., Sun., Labasa, arr. Suva 0950. 143 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

AUSTRALIA WEST

Pacific Line

m Linking M.V. “SAMO with the FAR EAST and AUSTRALIA Further particulars may he obtained from: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 13-15 Bridge St., Sydney. Phone: 27-6301.

Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. Phone: 61-3031.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide—Gibbs, Bright & Co.

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang (New Guinea) —B. J. & J. R. Back. Lae (New Guinea) —A. H. Bunting Ltd. Rabaul (New Britain!

Town Transport Limited. Port Moresby (Papua)—lsland Products Ltd. Wewak (New Guinea)—J. A. Corrigan Wewak (1963) E Ltd.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Japan and Hong Kong—Dodwell & Cd. Ltd. Manila —Everett Steamships Corporation.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Dep. Suva 1200, Mon., Pri., Savusavu, Matei, arr.

Suva 1510.

Suva-Matei-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. Suva 1035, Tues., Sat., Matei, Savusavu, arr. Suva 1340.

Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva: Dep.

Suva 0730, Mon., Fri., Labasa. Matei, Labasa, arr. Suva 1140.

Suva-Labasa-Savusavu-Labasa-Suva: Dep.

Suva 1030, Tues., Sat., Labasa, Savusavu, Labasa, arr. Suva 1410.

Suva-Savusavu-Labasa-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. Suva 1030, Wed., Thurs., Sun., Savusavu, Labasa, Savusavu, arr.

Suva 1355.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

French Polynesia

RAI, with DC4 and Bermuda Aircraft Services to the Leeward Group (Isles Sous le Vent), Society Islands.

Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Papeete 0800, Raiatea, arr. 0855, dep. 0915, Bora Bora, arr. 0935.

Tues.; Dep. Papeete 0700, Huahlne, arr. 0750, dep. 0810, Raiatea, arr. 0830, dep. 0850, Bora Bora, arr. 0910.

Fri.; Dep. Papeete 0700, Raiatea, arr. 0800, dep. 0820, Bora Bora, arr. 0840.

Mon., Wed., Sat.: Dep. Bora Bora 1600, Raiatea. arr. 1620, dep. 1640, Papeete, arr. 1730.

Tues.: Dep. Bora Bora 0930, Tikehau, arr. 1120, dep. 1515, Papeete, arr. 1630.

Thurs.: Dep. Bora Bora 1700, Papeete, arr. 1810.

Fri.: Dep. Bora Bora 0900, Tikehau, arr. 1050, dep. 1410, Rangiroa, arr. 1435, dep. 1505, Papeete 1630.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, or any UTA office.

New Caledonia

TRANSPAC, with Heron and/or Aztec Noumea-Mare: Mon., Tues., Pri., dep Noumea 1430, 1430, 1430, resp., arr!

Mare 1510, 1515, 1515. Dep. Mare 1530, 1545, 1545, arr. Noumea 1610 1630, 1630.

Noumea-Lifou: Tues., Wed., Pri., dep Noumea 0800, arr. Lifou 0845, dep. 0915, arr. Noumea 1000. Sat. dep.

Noumea 0815, arr. Lifou 0900, dep 0930, arr. Noumea 1015.

Noumea-Ouvea: Tues. dep. Noumea 1045, arr. Ouvea 1130, dep. 1315, arr.

Noumea 1400. Sat. dep. Noumea 0800. arr. Ouvea 0845, dep. 0915, arr.

Noumea 1000. Thurs., dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Ouvea 0840, dep. 0900, arr.

Noumea 0940.

Noumea-Isle of Pines: Daily dep. Noumea 1045, arr. Isle of Pines 1115, dep. Mon.

Wed., Pri., Sat., 1145, Tues., Thurs. 1125, arr. Noumea Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat. 1215, Tues., Thurs. 1145. Sun. dep.

Noumea 0800, arr. Isle of Pines 0830, dep. 1700, arr. Noumea 1730.

Noumea-Houailou: Mon., Tues., Pri. dep.

Noumea 0815, arr. Houailou 0850, dep. 0940, arr. Noumea 1015. Sat., Sun. dep. Noumea 1330, 1500, arr. Houailou 1405, 1535, dep. 1455, 1625, arr.

Noumea 1530. 1700 resp. Wed. (via Koa.), dep. 0800, arr. Houoilou 0915 dep. 0925, arr. Noumea 1040.

Noumea-Poindimie: Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri. dep. Noumea 0815, arr. Poindimie 0910, dep. 0920, arr. Noumea 1015. Sat., Sun. dep. Noumea 1330, 1500 resp., arr. Poindimie 1420, 1555, dep. 1435, 1605, arr. Noumea 1530, 1700.

Noumea-Kone: Mon., Wed., Pri « Noumea 0745, 1400, 1400 resp.

Kone 0845, 1445, 1445, dep. 0945 li 1545, arr. Noumea 1030, 1630, 16: Noumea-Koumac: Mon. dep. Noumea O' arr. Koumac 0910, dep. 0920, Noumea 1030, Wed., Pri. dep. Noui 1400, arr. Koumac 1510, dep. 1520 Noumea 1630.

Noumea-Kouaoua: Mon., Wed. < Noumea 0815, 0800 resp.

Kouaoua 0915, 0850 resp.’ i 1015, 0950 resp., arr. Noumea r 1040 resp. Sat. dep. Noumea i; arr. Kouaoua 1320, dep. 1330, Noumea (via Houailou) 1530.

Noumea-Tontouta; Wed., and Thu Connecting with UTA, Qantas flig' Pri. Connecting with Air New Zeal flights.

New Hebrides

New Hebrides Airways, with Drover

Vila-Southern Islands

Mon.: Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Lenakel, Ta: 0945, dep. 1100, arr. Vila 1215.

Wed.: Dep. Vila 0830, Erroma; (optional), arr. Lenakel 1000, « 1030, Erromanga (optional), arr. 1 1200.

Pri.: Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Lenakel 0! dep. 1530, arr. Vila 1645.

Alt. Pri. (Sept. 3, 17, Oct. 1, 15, et Dep. Lenakel 1030, arr. Aneitj 1105, dep, 1400, arr. Lenakel 1435.

Fri. (monthly); Dep. Lenakel 1030, s Futuna 1115, dep. 1400, arr. Lens 1445.

Vila-Northern Islands

Tues.: Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Ton 0905, dep. 0930, arr. Santo 1040, c 144 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

Pacific Islands Transport Une

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "THORSISLE" and 'THOR I"

Regular Freight and Passenger Services between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

Tahiti - Samoa - Tonga - Fiji - New Caledonia

New Hebrides - New Guinea*

* Transhipment via Noumea.

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

General Agents 1 Bush Street, San Francisco 4, California, U.S.A.

APlA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, SYDNEY—Birt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd.

Ltd. SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, PA mMw.]7 Tah'fi' lAE/«ABAUL-Burrs Philp (New Guli.ee) NOUMEA-Ei^issements I*'Balland.?' 1 *'Balland.?' PO JJ, V l L *" C ° m P tolrs Frsnc>is Nouuellee L 230, arr. Tongoa 1340, dep. 1400, arr.

Hla 1430.

L: Dep. Vila 1300, arr. Tongoa 1330, irr. Lonore* 1430, arr. Sara* 1505, arr. jongana 1545, arr. Walaha 1630, arr.

Santo 1705. rs.: Dep. Santo 1400, arr. Walaha .420, arr. Longana, 1445, arr. Sara* 510, arr. Lonore* 1530, arr. Tongoa .630, arr. Vila 1715. rs.: Dep. Santo 0800, arr. Walaha* 1820, arr. Longana 0845, arr. Lonore* 1920, arr. Sara* 0945, arr. Longana 010, arr. Walaha* 1055, arr. Santo 130. : Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Tongoa 0905, :ep. 1030, arr. Vila 1100. (GTE; Asterisk represents optional . Lonore and Sara are on Pentecost: iha and Longana are on Aoba; ikel is on Tanna.) itails from New Hebrides Airways,

Papua - New Guinea

Operated by TAA LE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) Tues.: Dep. Lae 0900, Rabaul, arr. 055 (Sept. 14, 28, Oct. 12, 26, tc.).

Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 1010, Lae, arr. 200 (Sept. 8, 22, Oct. 6, 20, etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0845 for Dam, burning same day via Balimo, arr. 125 (Sept. 3, 17, Oct. 1, 15, etc.), s. (every 4th week, by Catalina ept. 9, Oct. 7, etc.): Dep. Pt. [oresby 0800 for Daru, returning ime day at 1420, direct arr. 1630.

MORESBY-WEST PAPUA (Catalina) : Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Kerema, aimuru, Kikori, Baimuru (on relest), Kerema, Pt. Moresby, arr. 525. Reservations beyond Kerema ibject to administration requireents. s. (every 4th week): Dep. Pt. Moresby 500 for Daru, Lake Murray, Daru, :r. 1500 (Sept. 23, Oct. 21, etc.), (every 4th week): Dep. Daru 0900 •r Pt. Moresby, arr. 1115 (Aug. 27, jpt. 24, etc.).

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Catalina) Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for imarai, Esa-Ala, Samarai, Pt. oresby, arr. 1630 (Sept. 6, 20, Oct. 18, etc.). ;h Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for imarai, Deboyne, Samarai, Pt. oresby, arr. 1630 (Sept. 13, Oct. 11, c.), ;h Mon.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for imarai, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1630 (Sept. \ Oct. 25, etc.). : Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Gurney, isima, arr. 1100, return via Gurney, t. Pt. Moresby 1420.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Wieng-Rabaul Service (Dcs)

Fri.: Dep. Lae 0730 for Madang, ewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 05. : Dep. Rabaul 0730 for Kavieng, anus, Wewak, arr. 1250.

Dep. Lae 0900, for Madang, Wewak. r. 1155.

Tues., Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Wewak 00 for Madang, Lae, arr. 0845.

Dep. Kavleng 0630 for Rabaul. arr. 35. : Dep. Rabaul 1245 for Kavieng, arr. 50.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Mon.: Dep. Madang for Baiyer R., Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1420.

Wed.; Dep. Madang 0800 for Wabag, Wapenamanda, Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1420.

Sat., Sun.: Dep. Madang 0655 for Goroka, Lae, arr. 0845.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Baiyer R., Wapenamanda, Wabag, Madang. arr. 1510.

Sat.: Dep. Mt. Hagen 0650 for Banz (opt.), Lae, arr. 0820.

Tues.; Dep. Mt. Hagen for Goroka, Lae, arr. 0845.

Sun.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj.

Banz, Mt. Hagen, arr. 1205.

Pt. Moresby-Popondetta-Lae (Dcs)

Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0730 for Kokoda (opt.), Popondetta, Garaina, Lae, arr. 1015.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 1045 for Garaina, Popondetta, Kokoda (opt.), Port Moresby, arr. 1330.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo-Lae (Dcs)

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1045 for Wau, Bulolo, Lae, arr. 1320.

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Lae 0730 for Bulolo, Wau, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1000.

Madang-Goroka-Lae (Dcs)

Tues.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Madang, arr. 1330.

Mon.: Dep. Madang 1010 for Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1435.

Sat., Sun.: Dep. Madang 0645 for Goroka.

Lae, arr. 0845.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 0940 for Goroka, Madang, arr. 1140.

Pt. Moresby-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Sun., Tues. Thurs.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Goroka, Madang, arr. 1100.

Sat., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Madang 0740 for Goroka, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

Lae-Rabaul-Lae (Dcs)

Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Lae 0930 arr. Rabaul 1205.

Sat., Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 0600, arr. Lae 0835.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Pinschhafen, Cape Gloucester, Kandrian, Talasea, Jacquinot Bay, Rabaul, arr. 1520.

Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 0900 for Jacquinot Bay.

Talasea, Kandrian, Cape Gloucester.

Pinschhafen, Lae, arr. 1520.

Lae-Finschhafen-Lae (Dcs)

Tues.: Dep. Lae 0700 for Pinschhafen, Lae, arr. 0830.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Wed., Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 0800 for Buka, Wakunai, Kieta, Buin, Kieta, Wakunal, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 1540.

RABAUL-TALASEA-RABAUL (Piper) Mon.: Dep. Rabaul 0800 for Hoskins, Talasea, Hoskins, Rabaul, arr. 1130.

Operated by Ansett-MAL (with DCS’s and Piaggios) Mon.: Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1200 Rabaul.

Dep. 0545 Rabaul, arr. 0825 Lae.

Dep. 0730 Madang, arr. 0835 Lae.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1010 Goroka, arr. 1105 Madang.

Dep. 0700 Goroka, arr. 0755 Lae, arr. 0845 Wau, arr. 1025 Pt. Moresby.

Dep. 1100 Pt. Moresby, arr. 1210 Bulolo, arr. 1310 Lae, arr. 1435 Goroka, arr. 1545 Mt. Hagen, arr. 1710 Madang.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1125 Wewak.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1045 Mt. Hagen.

Dep. 0700 Mt. Hagen, arr. 0830 Lae.

Tues.: Dep. 0700 Wewak, arr. 0815 Madang, arr. 1005 Goroka, arr. 1125 Lae.

Dep. 1620 Vanlmo, arr. 1735 Wewak.

Dep. 0700 Madang, arr. 0755 Mt.

Hagen, arr. 0840 Banz, arr. 0910 MinJ, arr. 1000 Goroka.

Dep. 0715 Rabaul, arr. 0815 Kavleng, arr. 1010 Momote, arr. 1220 Madang, arr. 1405 Wewak, arr. 1550 Vanimo.

Dep. 0845 Madang, arr. 1020 Momote, arr. 1220 Kavleng, arr. 1350 Rabaul.

Dep. 1315 Mt. Hagen, arr. 1345 Chimbu, arr. 1415 Goroka, arr. 1450 Kainantu, arr. 1530 Goroka, arr. 1630 Mt. Hagen.

Dep. 1100 Mt. Hagen, arr. 1125 Mendi, arr. 1210 Erave, arr. 1240 lalibu, arr. 1305 Kagua, arr. 1345 Mt.

Hagen.

Dep. 0700 Mt. Hagen, arr. 0755 Madang.

Dep. 1100 Wewak, arr. 1145 Lumi, arr. 1220 Nuku, arr. 1315 Wewak.

Dep. 1415 Wewak, arr. 1440 Maprik (Hayfleld), arr. 1515 Yangoru, arr. 1545 Wewak. 145 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

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Dep. 0915 Telefomin, arr. 1030 Wewak.

Wed.: Dep. 0920 Lae, arr. 1200 Rabaul.

Dep. 0545 Rabaul, arr. 0825 Lae.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1020 Madang, arr. 1200 Wewak.

Dep. 0615 Wewak, arr. 0730 Madang, arr. 0850 Lae.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1010 Goroka, arr. 1105 Madang.

Dep. 0630 Lae, arr. 0725 Goroka, arr. 0825 Madang, arr. 1005 Wewak, arr. 1225 Momote, arr. 1430 Kavieng, arr. 1600 Rabaul.

Dep. 0645 Goroka, arr. 0740 Lae, arr. 0830 Wau, arr. 0905 Bulolo, arr. 1035 Pt. Moresby.

Dep. 1100 Pt. Moresby, arr. 1210 Bulolo, arr. 1310 Lae, arr. 1435 Goroka, arr. 1540 Madang.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1045 Mt. Hagen.

Dep. 0700 Mt. Hagen, arr. 0830 Lae.

Thurs.: Dep. 0700 Rabaul, arr. 0800 Kavieng, arr. 1005 Momote, arr. 1225 Wewak, arr. 1410 Madang, arr. 1520 Goroka, arr. 1645 Lae.

Dep. 0700 Madang, arr. 0735 Goroka, arr. 0850 Wau, arr. 1020 Pt. Moresby.

Dep. 1100 Pt. Moresby, arr. 1240 Wau, arr. 1405 Goroka.

Dep. 1445 Mt. Hagen, arr. 1530 Goroka, arr. 1605 Chimbu, arr. 1650 Mt. Hagen.

Dep. 0730 Wewak, arr. 0815 Aitape, arr. 0900 Dagua, arr. 0925 Wewak.

Dep. 0730 Wewak, arr. 0845 Vanimo.

Dep. 1115 Vanimo, arr. 1230 Wewak.

Dep. 1200 Wewak, arr. 1225 Angoram.

Dep. 1235 Angoram, arr. 1300 Wewak.

Dep. 1000 Wewak, arr. 1030 Ambunti.

Dep. 1040 Ambunti, arr. 1110 Wewak.

Fri.: Dep. 0920 Lae, arr. 1200 Rabaul.

Dep. 0545 Rabaul, arr. 0825 Lae.

Dep. 0730 Madang, arr. 0835 Lae.

Dep. 0630 Lae, arr. 0725 Goroka, arr. 0825 Madang, arr. 1005 Wewak, arr. 1225 Momote, arr. 1430 Kavieng, arr. 1600 Rabaul.

Dep. 0700 Goroka, arr. 0755 Lae, arr. 0845 Wau, arr. 1025 Pt. Moresby.

Dep. 1100 Pt. Moresby, arr. 1210 Bulolo, arr. 1310 Lae, arr. 1435.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1010 Goroka, arr. 1115 Minj, arr. 1140 Banz, arr. 1215 Mt. Hagen.

Dep. 0615 Wewak, arr. 0825 Lae.

Dep. 0700 Madang, arr. 0755 Mt.

Hagen, arr. 0840 Banz, arr. 0910 Minj, arr. 1000 Goroka.

Dep. 1045 Goroka, arr. 1120 Madang.

Dep. 1400 Mt. Hagen, arr. 1610 Pt.

Moresby.

Dep. 0950 Tari, arr. 1030 Mt. Hagen.

Dep. 1100 Mt. Hagen, arr. 1125 Mendi, arr. 1205 Kagua, arr. 1235 Erave, arr. 1305 lalibu, arr. 1340 Mt.

Hagen.

Dep. 0900 Mt. Hagen, arr. 0940 Tari.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 0955 Kainantu, arr. 1025 Goroka, arr. 1125 Mt. Hagen, arr. 1210 Wapenamanda.

Dep. 1230 Wapenamanda, arr. 1240 Wabag, arr. 1325 Mt. Hagen.

Dep. 0700 Mt. Hagen, arr. 0830 Lae.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1030 Madang.

Dep. 1415 Vanimo, arr. 1530 Wewak.

Sat.: Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1200 Rabaul.

Dep. 0545 Rabaul, arr. 0825 Lae.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1020 Madang.

Dep. 0700 Rabaul, arr. 0800 Kavieng, arr. 1005, Momote, arr. 1225 Wewak, arr. 1410 Madang, arr. 1520 Goroka, arr. 1645 Lae.

Dep. 0700 Madang, arr. 0735 Goroka, arr. 0845 Lae.

Dep. 0615 Wewak, arr. 0825 Lae.

Dep. 0700 Pt. Moresby, arr. 0910 Mt.

Hagen.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1010 Goroka.

Dep. 0915 Lae, arr. 1045 Mt. Hagen.

Dep. 0700 Mt. Hagen, arr. 0830 Lae.

Operated by Papuan Airlines Pty. Ltd. (“Patair”) Mon.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0730 for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1010.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0800 for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Kairuku (opt.), Bereina, Woitape, Tapini, Bereina, Kairuku (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Rorona (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 1130 (20 mins, later if call made at Rorona, Aroa, or Kairuku.) Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0820 for Tapini, Woitape (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 0950 (20 min. later if call made at Woitape).

Tues.: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 0730 for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1010.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 1045 for Dam, Balimo, Daru, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1700.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1100 for Cape Rodney, Paili (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 1250 (20 min. later if call made at Paili).

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Kairuku, Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1535 (35 min. later if call made at Rorona and Aroa).

Wed.: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 0830 Kokoda. Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, t 1100.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1C Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 Rorona, A.roa, Kairuku, Pt. Mores arr. 1535.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 1430 Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1635.

Thurs. (Piaggio): Dep. Pt. Moresby 0 for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, t 1030.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Kaim Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1535 min. later if call made at Ron and Aroa).

Alt. Thurs.: Sept. 9, 23, Oct. 7, etc.): Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0 for Popondetta, Wanigela, Vivigs Losuia, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, i 1330. (Sept. 2, 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, et Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0700 Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 0900.

Fri.: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 0730 Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 0930.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 1030 Gurney, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1400.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1100 Cape Rodney, Paili, Pt. Moresby, i 1310.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1C Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku. Pt. Mores arr. 1535.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 1430 Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1635.

Sat.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0730 Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, 1010.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 10:

Solomon Islands

Megapode Airways with a Dove

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Tues.: Dep. Honiara 0800 and 1600, Auki (Malaita) 0825 and 1625, Honiara 0900 and 1700.

Tues., (in Fokker week): Dep. Honi 0930, arr. Yandina (Russell Is.) 0> dep. Yandina 1015, arr. Honiara li Wed. (DCS week); Dep. Honiara 0a arr. Kira Kira 0905, dep. 1300, Honiara 1405.

Thurs. (Fokker week): Dep. Honiara 0( arr. Yandina 0955, dep. 1230, Honiara 1300.

Fri.: (in Fokker week): Dep. Horn 0800, arr. Munda (New Geor 0915, dep. Munda 0925, arr. Barakc (Vella Lavella) 0945, dep. Barakc 1000, arr. Munda 1020, dep. Mu 1030, arr. Honiara 1145.

Fri. (in DC3 week): Dep. Honiara 0( arr. Yandina 0825, dep. 0840, Munda 0925, dep. 0945, arr. Barakc 1015, dep. 1045, arr. Munda 1105, 1125, arr. Yandina 1210, dep. 1J arr. Honiara 1300. (Note: Fokker week and DCS week r to TAA services from Papua- Guinea. See timetable under In Territory Services.) Details from Megapode Airways, P.O. 103, Honiara, BSIP. • The 100-ton Japanese fisH vessel Hoyo Maru No. 1 abandoned on a reef off Kadf Island, south of Suva, in late Auji after attempts to refloat the stranr vessel failed. The crew was brou to Suva. 146 SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

; these things be written into itever agreement was reached— high-up Colonial Office officials ked literally day and night in an eavour to persuade them that i demands would get them noire—drove the Fijians and Euroas into a solid camp, he Europeans made it clear that r would not at this stage dream of ing into the hands of Indian polil agitators the kind of power repnted by the common roll, hey quoted the record of Mr.

J’s Indian group (especially in 3 and 1960-1) in Fiji’s affairs. They tioned the history of Mauritius British Guiana—sugar-growing itries which acquired a large an population, and suffered endpolitical and economic trouble n the Indians gained political rol. he general tenor of the Patel-Inspeeches was anti-British, he Fijians made it clear that they ed to maintain close administraand commercial ties with the sh. he sessions were all in private; it soon became known that the gations were deadlocked on the mon roll demand, and on matters ing to Fiji’s future “indepen- ;e”, le Colonial Office people went to t lengths in seeking a “comprobut the Fijians and Eurois would not accept anything h would give political power to Indians, or break the tie with tin. nally, a majority report was aniced and signed, with the Patelndians withdrawn and protesting, le report will now be the subof a British Government White t, which will be presented to the Legislative Council. It is not exxl to be acted on until about 1 next year. eanwhile, it remains to be seen her the three racial groups can together to make the proposed titution work.

Mr. C. G. Cox, Director of ic Works in the Solomons, has appointed Deputy Director of hiblic Works Department in Fiji.

Cox who comes from Britain, ;d in Nyasaland from 1948 until when he went to the Solmons.

Deaths Of Islands People

Mrs. A. E. McCoy A highly-respected Norfolk Islander, Mrs. Alice Elizabeth McCoy, died on Norfolk Island on August 8, in her 90th year. Mrs. McCoy was known to most people as “Aunt Liz”, and to older Norfolk Islanders and friends in Vila, New Hebrides, as Mrs. “Chinny”

McCoy. Her husband, Mr. Christian McCoy, who died some years ago, was known as “Chinny” McCoy.

Her parents were among the Pitcairn Islanders who came to Norfolk in 1856. She was the daughter of Pastor Alfred Nobbs, who was Norfolk’s first Seventh-day Adventist minister, and granddaughter of the Rev. George Hunn Nobbs, the Pitcairn pastor. On her mother’s side she was descended from Fletcher Christian.

Mrs. McCoy was born in an old convict-built stone house at Kingston then used as a surgery, and spent her early life on the island.

In 1913 she went to Vila, returning to Norfolk in 1928. She had eight children. Six of them died in Vila.

Despite her great age she lived an active life and was in good health until three months ago.

Mrs. McCoy is survived by her sons Jim and Eric, who live in Australia, and her sister, Mrs. Elsie Adams, of Norfolk Island.

Captain T. Biggar Captain T. Biggar, a well-known personality in the Solomons, died on August 11 in Honiara. Captain Biggar brought the MV Gumleaf from Australia to the Solomons in 1950 for Guadalcanal Plantations Ltd., and then joined the Fairymead Sugar Company as master of the MV Makila. Later, he was master of Lever’s Pacific Plantations’ MV Cape Torrens. He joined the Marine Department in 1961, and was master of the RCS Coral Princess until early this year.

Brother William Overkaemping The death occurred at Vunapope, New Britain, on August 18 of Rev.

Brother William Overkaemping, MSC, who devoted 55 years of his life to the Sacred Heart Mission on New Britain.

Brother Overkaemping, who was born in Germany in 1883, came to New Britain in 1910, when he was 27.

He was, by profession, a bricklayer, and his qualities were soon recognised by his superiors. In due course, he became plantation manager, builder and architect.

After World War 11, during which the mission had been completely ruined, he drew up the plans to rebuild it, provided timber lists with details for the buildings, and trained natives to read blue-prints and erect buildings on their own.

Even after he turned 60, Brother Overkaemping steered his jeep to every station around Rabaul and Kokopo, supervising the buildings in progress.

His associates say that in his death, the mission has lost a great man and the natives, a friend, for the natives flocked to him on Saturdays asking for building plans and timber lists to build their own houses.

Brother Overkaemping had been ill in hospital for about a year, Mr. Yao Ting Chen The Chinese community in Tahiti was in mourning in July for the death of Mr. Yao Ting Chen, the first Chinese (Nationalist) Consul- General in Tahiti. He occupied the post from 1944 to 1957.

Mr. Yao died in Formosa on July 14, leaving a widow and five children.

He was a cultivated, warm-hearted diplomat, who did much to unify the Chinese in Tahiti and to look after their rights.

Born in Malaya in 1905, he served in the Chinese consulates in Austria and Johannesburg before being posted to Tahiti. He later served in Athens.

Mr. A. S. R. Macalister Mr. Archibald Scott Ritchie Macalister, of Suva, died at his home on August 23, after a series of heart attacks. He was 44.

After service in Europe in World War II in fighter aircraft, he went to Laucala Bay. On his demobolisation he went into business in Suva as an engineer. His premises near Suva wharf soon became known as “Mac’s Place” and developed into a sort of club where people could drop in for a bowl of yaqona and a yarn.

Mr. Macalister married Miss Patricia McCaig, who survives him.

He also leaves three daughters and a son.

Mr. H. 0. Williams Mr. Henry Oscar (“Okker”) Williams, a platelayer at the Lautoka sugar mill, died suddenly on August 15, aged 57. 147 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1965 Fiji Constitution Conference (Continued from p. 9)

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Ltd 46 Hellaby, R. & W„ Ltd. .. 84 Hongkong & Whampoa Cfock Co. Ltd 102 Horwood Bagshaw Ltd. .. 98 Hutchinson, Robert Ltd. .. 74 1.C.1.A.N.Z. Ltd 1 Ilford (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. ..128 Industrial Enterprises Ltd. . 151 International Harvester Co 42 Interflora 124 Kenrick Douglas Pty. Ltd. .. 43 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 55 Kodak (A'asia.) Pty. Ltd. . 122 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 152 Kraft Foods Ltd. ... 3, 90 Lysaght, John (Aust.) Ltd. . 150 Marrickville Holdings Ltd. . 19 Massey-Ferguson (Aust.) Ltd. 96 Mendaco 47 Millers Ltd 48 Mono Pumps (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd 106 Morris Hedstrom Ltd 12 Moulded Products (A'asia.) Ltd 66 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. .. 34 Murray Sons & Co. Ltd. .. 40 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. 112,142 Nestle Co. (Aust.), The 17, 135 N.G. Aust. Line .. ~ 76,77 Nicholsons Pty. Ltd 25 Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. .. 5 Nixoderm 47 Northern Hotels Ltd 117 N.Z. Forest Service .. 80 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. 70 Pacific Islands Society . .. 148 Pacific Islands Transport Line 145 Parker Eversharp (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd 48 Perma-Sharp Aust. Pty. Ltd. 50 Philips, N.V 72, 92 Qantas 126 Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. .. 131 Rewa Dairy Co 30 Ronson Products Ltd 86 Rothmans of Pall Mall (Aust.) Ltd 20 Sanitarium Health Food Co. 134 Scotts Provisions Holdings Ltd 79 Scotts Detergents (A'asia.) Pty, Ltd 29 Sears, Robert & Co. Pty.

Ltd 14 Shaw Savill & Albion Co.

Ltd 128 South Pacific Brewery .. 66 Stapleton, J. 1., Pty. Ltd. . 123 Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd 73 Stebbins 30 Sthn. Pacific Ins. Co 31 Stewarts & Lloyds (Dist.) Pty. Ltd 59 Sullivan Ltd 60 Swoboda, E. R., Inc 88 T.A.A cov. ii Taubmans Industries Ltd. .. 82 Taikoo Dockyard 104 Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L .. 4 Tatham, S. E., & Co. P/L 33 Tooth & Co. Ltd 68 Toyota Motor Sales Co. Ltd. 133 Trans Pacific Marine Ltd. .. 103 Tulloch Ltd 34 Turners Supply Co. Ltd. .. 109 Twiss & Brownings & Hallowes (Export) Ltd. .. 70 Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd 143 Valspar Supergloss Paints .. 71 Victa Mowers 24 Vi-Stim 148 Walpamur Co. (NG) Ltd., The 110 Westfield Freezing Co. Ltd. 52 Weymark Pty. Ltd 105 Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/L 144 Wunderlich Ltd 22 Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd. 70 149 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

Stormproof. Fireproof. This is the ideal roof for Territory homes When tropical storms follow scorching sunshine, only the strongest roofs can last. That is why Lysaght Red Orb is the logical choice for roofing in Papua and New Guinea. The world’s strongest roofing material, its extreme rigidity makes it virtually shatterproof, fireproof and stormproof. Durability under severe tropical conditions is ensured by the use of 1.75 ozs. of zinc coating per square foot.

Looks smart, too —particularly with the current “clean-cut” trend in domestic architecture.

LYSAGHT RED ORB

Corrugated Steel Sheet

Available ex stock from: burns philp (new guinea) ltd., Port Moresby, Rabaul, Samarai, Madang, Goroka, Wewak, Kavieng, Lae. new guinea go. ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Goroka, Mt. Hagen, Kavieng, Lae. colyer watson (new guinea) ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Goroka, Lae, Mount Hagen, steamships trading go. ltd., Port Moresby, Samarai. rabaul metal industries ltd., Rabaul. island products ltd.. Port Moresby.

RSOng SEPTEMBER, 1965 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Southern Cross [ Galvanised |

Squatters’ Tanks & Tahkstands

For Agricultural and Industrial uses 0* ■ MACHINERY ■pty. ltd!

These SOUTHERN CROSS storage tanks and tankstands are made to the highest standards with heavy galvanising that adds years of life and cuts maintenance costs. Tanks are available 6ft. and Bft. high with capacities from 2,000 to 40,000 gallons; tankstands are from sft. to 50ft. high for various capacity tanks. Send for full list of sizes and prices.

BRISBANE: Cnr. Ipswich & Ashover Roads, Rocklea, Qld.

SYDNEY: 1 Grand Avenue, Granville, N.S.W.

NEW GUINEA DISTRIBUTORS: LAE: V. Bryant, Cnr. 15th & 17th Avenue. AAADANG: J. Duncan POPONDETTA: F. S. Maynard. PORT MORESBY: T. F. Leonard, Lawes Road.

RABAUL: J. L. Chipper & Co. WESTERN HIGHLANDS DIVISION: K. D. Pryde, Banz. 151 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965

Passenger - Freight And

Motor Boat

== owners How Long Is It Since You Checked Your Safety Equipment?

We Provide You With The Following

Check List

This is a guide and 1. Anchors—C.Q.R. Dreadnought, E 2. Barometers 3. Bearings—Rubber—Bronze, Etc. 4. Bilge Cleaner 5. Bollards, Deck Hardware, Etc. 6. Bowden Wire Controls 7. Brackets Gangway 8. Caulking Compounds Vulcatex, Seamflex 9. Chains. Anchor Galv. or Black 10. Chain Links 11. Clear View Screens. "Kent" 12. Clocks. 8 Day All Brass or C.P. 13. Clothing Marine "Taft" 14. Cocks Drain 15. Compasses 16. Dekol. Dry Rot Preservative 17. Dividers Chart 18. Extinguishers 19. Fenders. Kapok-Rubber Range 20. Flags—Flag Poles, Ropes, Etc.

Write for no means complete. 21. Flares Range Distress Signals 22. Gudgeon Rudder (Fittings) 23. Hand Rails 24. Holmes Lights 25. Hooks Boat 26. Horns Electric —Gas & Hand 27. Instrument Panel 28. Lamps Aldis-Cabin-Elect. & Oil P&S, M&S 29. Lifeboat Rations 30. Lifebuoys —Lifejackets 31. Liferafts R.F.D. 32. Oars —Row Locks, Etc. 33. Rule Parallel 34. Searchlights 35. Sextant 36. Shackles. Thimble W/R Grips, Etc. 37. Rope—Coir —Manilla —Wire, Etc. 38. Pumps Henderson —Vortex her details W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD.

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Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: 61-9197). Wholly set up and printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

» I (new GUINEA » I ptp m t— 7== &kJS?r I OT Mi"*nv:.; GENERAL MERCHANTS, & CUSTOMS \ AGENTS % tvh«q.

Head Office: Port Moresby, Papua Cable Address: BURPHIL.

Agents For

Burns PHHp Trust Co. Ltd.

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds Distributors Pty. Ltd.

Shell Company (Pacific Islands) Ltd.

Overseas Agents

Burns Philp & Co. ltd., all Australian States Borns Philp & Co. ltd., London Burns Philp & Co. ltd. of San Francisco

Trade Inquiries Invited

SHIPPING AGENTS FOR: Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co, ltd.

Cogedar Line Campagnie Des Messageries Maritimes Crusader Shipping Co. Ltd.

Cunard Steamships Co. Ltd.

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail P. & O. Orient Line Royal Rotterdam Lloyd The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. ltd.

AIR LINE AGENTS FOR: Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines Qantas Empire Airways international Air Transport Representatives DISTRIBUTORSHIPS INCLUDE Beresford Pumps Briggs & Stratton Engines British Paints Buckingham & Carnatic Textiles Canon Cameras "Cecoco" Machinery Conditionaire Air Curtain Doors International Majora Paints "John" Valves Joseph Lucas Electrical & C.A.V. Equipment Land Rovers & Rover Cars Massey-Ferguson Tractors and Equipment Mikimoto Pearls National Radios & Appliances Noritake Chinaware Pioneer Chain Saws Rover Power Mowers Sunbeam Appliances Tempair Air Conditioners Vauxhall Cars & Bedford Trucks

Exporters Of

Coffee & Cocoa Beans, Peanuts, Rubber & Trochus Shell.

BRANCHES ond SHOPPING CENTRES PAPUA: Port Moresby, Boroko, Samarai, Popondetta and Daru.

Travel Department

Consult our experienced personnel for planning world wide travel.

NEW GUINEA: Rabaul, Kokopo, Kavieng, Lae, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Wau, Bulolo, Kainantu and Mt. Hagen. lift

Shopping Centrs

ISLANDS M O N T H L Y - S E P T E M B E R , 1965

m H i if i mm i APITAL £10,000,000

General Merchants

Fifty years of Development and Service in the Pacific Islands 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.

W. R.

Established 1914 Wholesalers and Retailers.

Buyers for Island trade of all classes of merchandise from World Markets.

Buyers of Island Produce: Copra, Cocoa and Coffeebeans, etc.

Buying Enquiries

Agents for Australian!

European and Americar Manufacturers including Electrolux, Chrysler, Ford McCallum's Whisky, Viet# Mowers, Enfield Engines.

LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

SYDNEY: W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., The A.N.Z. Building, 68 Pit Street, Sydney.

CARPENTER & CO. LTD. the A.N.Z. Building, 68 Pitt Street, Sydney, Austral!

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address: "CAMOHE" BL 5421 G.P.O. Box 168, Sydne, PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1965