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Up Front

With The Editor

Now that there are new people in Port Moresby’s Government House, I predict we will be hearing about the need for a new and better Government House overlooking that historic harbour. And with it, I predict, will come some words in the Assembly about the cost of it all, and whether the country can afford to spend anything on a Government House while it still needs roads to Hagen and more golden handshakes for public servants.

YOU’LL never avoid that kind of comment. Which is a pity, because a new Government House is needed. The Hays can only hope— presuming they are still there when this prediction of mine comes good —that the issue won’t raise heat enough to cause embarrassment when the appropriation has to be approved.

When it comes to Government Houses, it’s easy to forget that those who might best know the disadvantages of such establishments are the people who live in them. And if one of the occupants also happens to be the country’s chief executive with responsibility for spending a few score millions, it doesn’t necessarily follow that his brain ceases to function responsibly when he is faced with the decision of having to spend some of it right on his own threshold.

The Fosters Yet there is always the innuendo.

Some nearby colleagues of the Hays, Sir Robert and Lady Foster, probably were aware of it over recent proposals to replace Government House, Honiara, which was built in 1943 as part of a New Zealand military hospital, and occupied by Army nurses before a succession of Western Pacific High Commissioners were promoted to that privilege.

Last year Gabrielle Lawson, of Honiara, referred to it in one of our issues as a “patched up army hut with a leaf roof, fighting white ants, in a hot and steamy location by the water”. She said it was a sore point with Melanesians that the Queen’s representative lived in a slum house; and PlM’s heading (not Gabrielle’s) suggested Sir Robert was losing face.

The attack on Government Hous was, I suspect, inspired by somethin said by the refreshingly frank Lad Foster, bless her, and I agreed wit) it in principle and in fact. I haj pened to be in Honiara at the tim our piece was published, returnin from a visit to Nauru, and develoj ing, so it turned out, a wog whic sent me to bed at the New Guine Club in Rabaul, where I survive only because of the sympatheti ministrations of that kindly factotui Pang Chung Sing (whose dead tragically, has recently been reported A lot of interest PlM’s few paragraphs abon Honiara’s slum house had caused a inordinate amount of interest i some Honiara quarters, which is th way it is in small territories withon newspapers of their own, and despit my wog I took part in a rad! interview with a bloke whom gathered hadn’t long been out fron London.

I didn’t make much of a fist of th interview, and I gather my intei; viewer wasn’t much happier himsell having failed to get across the me;; sage that he thought the PIM repoii was “scurrilous” (as he confide afterwards). I allowed myself to g on record as inferring that it wa important for money to be spent cr economic development before Got eminent House—which was onl part of the point I wanted to make.; The point is, where does economi development priority stop?

When I made my first visit tt Honiara some years ago the broao casting station consisted of a poke; announcer’s room and an ope;; verandah for guest broadcasters, bu 12 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Regrets But Government House has not lly changed much, and this reids me of something said by rrie Niall, after he relinquished long-held post of District Comjsioner of New Guinea’s Morobe strict to take on his present hedged post of Speaker of the P-NG use of Assembly. Horrie had been md of the fact that he worked for g as DC in Lae in quarters which re sub-standard and inadequate, :ause he wanted the money to be :nt on local developments of a her priority. tfe came to regret it, because the mey that Peter was being robbed to pay Paul, actually got spent John and Luke in Port Moresby i Rabaul, and the Morobe District ; neither a decent administrative tiding nor anything much else. 5o it would be, I think, in Honiara 1, if the Government hadn’t reitly decided to go ahead anyway J spend money on a new Govern- :nt House —tenders for which •sed the other day.

What the new two-storey building U cost I don’t yet know, but if :re is to be any more argument, it be on details of cost and conuction, not on the principle of orities. And that would go for Port aresby too.

Stuart Inder 13 4CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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37, No. 5, MAY, 1967 This Issue ERAL ; Co-operation Plan 19 ral History of Palm Trees 94 by Francois Doumenge 97 an Fishermen for Pacific 101 a Price to Rise 131

Rican Samoa

s for Union with Neighbour .... 22 rnor Lee on Land 22 K ISLANDS s Go Up 18 ps Delay Explained 32 rial Series 41 r Problems 75 cal Shopkeepers 20 tel TV Documentary 24 Air Services to Tonga 49 fog a Cabins 49 Lodge Manager 49 st Office for Sydney 50 marau Island 53 r Mill Safety Record 69 dchair Sportswoman 73 ries Officer Leaves 73 id of Tagimaucia 91 onfruit Troubles 130 d Breeding 147

Ch Polynesia

Deputy 32 ; Starts on Taharaa Hotel 50 sries of the Bass Islands 95 m Carriers Caught 103 Nuclear Tests 124

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

It's Boom Time 61 Watches for Islanders 61 Tourist Potential 65 New "Moana Raoi" 107 Training Vessel Arrives 109 NAURU Independence Talks 25 Way Cleared for Air Services 49

New Caledonia

Prison Scandal 24 PanAm for Noumea 49 Messageries Passenger Service 105 New Shipping Service 107 NZ, Norfolk Island Service Retained . 109

New Hebrides

"No Doubt" on Big Bay Wall 29 Key to Wall's Identity 30 Santo Land Disputes 31 Big Meat Exports 64 Tall Tales of Big Bay 85 "Tutuba" Sinks 103 Another Freighter for Rusden 105 New Marine Head 105 NIUE Prices Go Up 18 Rough Weather for "Tofua" 53

Norfolk Island

NZ, New Caledonia Freight Service .. 109

Papua-New Guinea

Need for New Government House .... 12 Giant Snails Loose in Moresby 25 Artifacts Survey 26 Work of Special Branch 37 1969 Games Site 47 Daylight Air Services 47 Role of Police 55 Port Moresby Personality 57 1919-39 Era "Misunderstood" 58 Jap Plane Found in Sepik 60 Fuss Over Decentralisation 69 Native Author 97 Moresby-Kerema Yacht Race 101 New Port Managers 103 Manus Island Plans 105 Economic Progress 129 Coffee Planting to be Discouraged .... 130 Bougainville Copper 131 Tips on Cattle-raising 151

Solomon Islands

Government House 12 Relics of the War 49 Cyclone Brings Damage 116 Airstrip Will Aid Nickel Company ... 131 TONGA Filming the Coronation 23 Mystery of 30-Seniti Stamp 37 Abacuses for Schools 38 Peace Corps Survey 40 Coronation Expected to Boost Tourism 52

U.S. Trust Territory And Guam

SEACOM Cable Station 38 Judy Tudor on Peace Corps 39 Commercial Air Services 51

West New Guinea

Border Troubles 28

Western Samoa

Move for United Samoa 22 Peace Corps Coming 39 Tourism Conference 52 Independence Celebrations 53 Mata'afa to Seek Aid in Japan .. 75, 105 Protests on Chinese Fishermen 76 Fruit Sent to NZ by Air 131 EPARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 12; Travel, 41; Percy Chatterton, 55; lands Press, 67; Magazine Section, 85; Yesterday, 93; Book Reviews, 94; flipping, 101; Cruising Yachts, 109; People in Pictures, 118; People, 121; usiness and Development, 129; Produce Prices, 133; Shipping, Airways Schedules, 135; Deaths of Islands People, 143; The Practical Planter, 147.

Niue feels the spiralling prices breeze, too Prom a Niue correspondent £fVERYONE on Niue, particularly low paid workers, has been noticing a marked increase in the cost of living.

This is partly due to the recent removal of consumer subsidies in New Zealand on flour and butter, and partly due to other factors.

In late March, for example, the Niue Island Assembly doubled the “aid to revenue tax”, which all employees have to pay on all income. It also raised other taxes, such as those on overseas insurance companies, and companies and public authority taxes.

The recent removal of consumer subsidies in New Zealand has sent the price of bread up by 50 per cent, and has increased the price of butter from 1/- to 4/- a lb.

Some Niueans have been fighting the price rise on bread by buying cabin bread—which is expensive anyway. But the bakers are still baking the same quantity of bread, so somebody must be eating it.

Some bakers are baking loaves of a smaller size and selling them at the old price.

There is also to be an increase in the price of cigarettes due to a tax increase on them; and an increase in freight rates will mean increases in prices of almost everything arriving on the island.

On the other hand, Niueans have had some relief from the general increase in prices through being able to buy fresh milk for the first time.

The first milk went on sale in March. It comes from a herd of cattle that were imported to run on the coconut plantations which are being established.

The milk is being sold at 6d a pint. It has become very popular with the Niueans, who no doubt find it easier to find the money for it than for a large tin of powdered milk.

Cook Islands Hard Hit By

Cost Of Living Increase

From W, H. Percival in Rarotonga Recent heavy increases in the cost of living in the Islands are expected to become an added incentive to many \ Cook Islanders to emigrate to the El Dorado of New Zealand, f where unskilled and semi-skilled workers can earn at least five t or six times as much as they do at home.

SHORTLY after the New Zealand Government vessel Moana Roa arrived at Rarotonga on March 22, the prices of basic food lines such as bread, butter, and canned meat rose alarmingly.

The cause of this was the New Zealand Government’s decision to remove subsidies from wheat, flour and butter.

The New Zealand price increases were naturally passed on to the Cook Islands.

Many other food lines, such as biscuits, breakfast foods, milk powder, evaporated milk, vermicelli and spaghetti, were also affected.

Cook Islanders with large families and low incomes were the hardest hit, especially outer islanders living in Rarotonga. These people have no land on which to plant, and most of their income goes on food and rent.

Tougher still Ironically, the people who will have to pay the highest prices for basic food lines will be the inhabitants of the northern atolls who can export only limited amounts of copra and dwindling supplies of pearl shell. In addition to paying the highest freight rates in the Cook Group, boating charges from ship to shore and extra cartage costs are added to the already high costs of the canned food they buy.

Life in the outer islands has always been tough, especially in the northern group—and these sudden price increases can only accentuate the people’s problems.

The first price increases to be announced were: Flour in 160 lb sacks, £2B/7/6 per ton (an increase of £2/11/6); butter, lOd per lb.

The Premier, Mr. Albert E.

Henry, said in early March that to alleviate and stabilise prices, the Cook Islands Price Tribunal would be brought into operation immeo ately.

All prices for goods and servio were to be maintained at existiiJ levels until increases had bea< authorised by the tribunal.

Mr. Henry also made these pointn • Although the Government w firmly of the opinion that wage an salary levels should be stabilised, J acknowledged that workers on ba:£ rates of pay might have stroD grounds for an increase. • Old age pensions, which & fixed by enactment, would be i viewed when the Legislative A sembly met later this year.

O The position of Public Serviv salary earners would be discusses with the New Zealand Governmeie which had met the cost of ruliil rate survey increases in past years..e • Everything possible would done to mitigate the effect of tt inevitable increases in the cost living.

The Premier went on to request tJ Mr. Albert Henry, Premier of the Co Islands. Photo: W. H. Percival. 18 MAY. 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLJ

peration of traders and bakers in mising price increases in basic commodities. Planters and copra ucers were asked to make every t to increase production.

"here is,” he said, “an unsatisfied and for many export products for fruit for processing. Every t should be made this year to est our crops. By this means :an recover more than the extra of the essential foodstuffs on h subsidies have been lifted.”

Prices pegged ie Cook Islands Price Tribunal for the first time on March 16, issued a Price Order pegging prices of all goods and services le prices charged on that date, ie tribunal made it illegal for is not covered by Price Orders >e increased without its prior oval. lis action ensured that prices d not be increased until after the al ol new stocks on the March na Roa.

Because price control covered "*sees ".he inviteJ “the services, the tribunal invited the chamber of Commerce to present a st S ooc * s and services that they considered should be exempted, To save time and frustration in the outer islands, the tribunal delegated its powers to the Resident Agents and Clerks-in-Charge, enabling them to deal with applications for price increases on the spot, The next Price Order issued showed that bread prices on Rarotonga had jumped by 50 per cent, A 24 to 27 oz loaf now costs 1/6 instead of 1/-, and smaller sized loaves have become correspondingly dearer.

After the Moana Roa shipment was received, shoppers discovered a few more hard facts.

Butter had leapt from 2/8 to 3/7 per lb; a 12 oz tin of first grade corned beef now costs 4/9 against the previous 4/-, and a 12 oz tin of second grade corned beef costs 3/8 instead of 2/8. A 2i lb tin of full cream milk powder, which is essential for rearing infants when the mother cannot provide breast milk, rose from 9/6 to 10/5.

Breakfast foods had also risen. A li lb packet of malted whole wheat biscuits now costs 3/9 against the former price of 3/3. There were many other price rises.

Passenger fares up Even before the increases, the four-fifths of Rarotonga’s working population, which existed and perhaps supported a wife and four children on the basic wage—about £5 per week—had found the going more than tough.

The going, it need not be said, is going to be a lot tougher now.

But that is not all.

On April 13, the NZ Department of Island Territories announced that freight rates and passenger fares to and from the Cook Islands in the Moana Roa would be increased the following day.

The cargo charges would go up by 15 per cent, and the fares by 10 per cent. —due to the rising cost of running the ship.

This means, of course, that it’s going to be even more expensive to get to El Dorado than it used to be. • For another angle on high prices and the problems of Islands women working to a budget, see p. 20, "The pirates are not all dead!" uropean AND Pacific Common Market ?

Islands territories are studying possible trade effects as a result of itain’s announcement in April that it will bid for membership of the iropean Economic Community. But too few details are available for y real assessments to be made. The Fiji sugar industry could be the ust vulnerable—unless Fiji can also be admitted to the Common Market an associated British territory, and this is possible.

Meanwhile, moves for a Pacific trade federation came from two rections in April—from Tokyo at a meeting of the Japan-Australia isiness Co-operation Committee and from Sydney at the Pacific Instrial Conference, sponsored by the US Stanford Research Institute.

The question of a Pacific trading federation was one of the main ms discussed in Sydney. Top businessmen from the Pacific Basin ssed the subject around quite a lot. There were several Islands businessm present, including Mr. lan Downs, MHA, of New Guinea.

Nothing definite was decided on but it was agreed to leave the matter the hands of the Stanford Institute to see if it could get something ing along the lines of increased Pacific commercial co-operation.

The point was repeatedly made that commodity prices in the Pacific d on world markets had not increased by the same proportions as mufactured goods—and that this was handicapping primary producers ch as coffee growers, banana, orange and copra planters.

At Tokyo, Australia, New Zealand and Japanese business leaders t up a Pacific Basin Economic Co-operation Committee, open to mibership by American and Canadian businessmen.

The body will aim to expand trade, encourage the exchange of pital and technological information, promote tourism, joint studies, Rural and scientific exchanges. he arrival of the New Zealand overnment vessel "Moana Roa" [?] the Cooks in March was a [?]gnal for basic food prices to se alarmingly. Will Cook landers now use the same ship ) flee to the greener fields of ew Zealand? l C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

But the pirates are not all dead! • Happy with your local shopkeepers? Get a fair deal from them always? Get good, friendly servlv that makes you want to go back again? Retorts this Suva housewife, "Not on your life!" If you agree wiv her, wherever you live, and have some pet hates of your own, let off steam through RIM. It may help to o things changed.

From JANE GREGOR, in Suva Ask the female residents of Fiji about shopping and you will see flashing eyes and hean indignant stories. The males of the community, coming less frequently into contact with the shops, t may make tolerant noises in the background and endeavour to ensure that their womenfolk only \ fume gently. . . .

BUT, for once, the women are right; there’s cause for complaint.

Too many housewives around Fiji can tell tales of old stock, particularly of foodstuffs, being sold without due warning or a price reduction; of prices which are far in excess of what they need be; of unfair methods in too many shops.

Most people are aware of the high cost of freight and duties. And most people who can afford to buy imported goods at all are willing enough to give the merchant his fair markup. But fair is the operative word.

Take the case of a young Nausori wife who, recently back from a trip overseas, gasped at the Suva price of breakfast cereal . . . three times what she’d been paying while on leave. Meeting a local citizen who also happened to be a reporter, she exploded her righteous indignation at him. Next morning, The Fiji Times told the story, asked why such a popular food should need such an elevated mark-up and . . . happy ending ... the day after, that breakfast cereal in one particular store, at least, was cheaper by quite a substantial amount.

Daylight robbery!

The humble but essential plastic laundry basket, too, can be picked up overseas for a few shillings in any popular-price chain store but after it has travelled a few hundred miles to Fiji it costs something like four times the amount it retails at “back home”. Now that seems to me just a little on the greedy side.

And for sheer daylight robbery, another case takes one’s breath away.

In a Suva shop you can have the choice of a bottle of milk or a bottle of cold milk from the fridge; but you’ll have to pay fourpence extra for the cold one!

There are dozens of similar stories being told by the shoppers of Fiji, who are growing so resentful of being taken for suckers that a Consumers’ Association has now been established to try to create a better state of affairs between shopper and shopkeeper.

Another anomaly which strikes me as odd, in this land of the widely proclaimed “duty-free” bargains, is that some transistors and cameras, as well as perfumes, prove to be far more expensive if bought in Fiji than if bought in their country of origin.

Bitter complaint One bitter complaint of Suva residents in particular is the often too short shrift given to locals in the teeth of competition from the tourists.

Especially frustrating in this respect are the Indian tailors who will blithely keep a regular customer dangling for weeks while they rm off orders for tourists.

I see their point . . . tourists doo have time to be critical about altoJ ations; they’re not in a mood to finicky, they pay up and they g Which is good if your businer method is merely to take as muir as you can get the easiest way poc sible.

I think, and so do many Suu residents, that it would be muu smarter to pay attention . . . real ; tention ... to building up a nuclei of good, satisfied, regular customes through them, as many merchasi kings of the past have found, comtn eventually, the best foundation ft profits.

The same grumble over tourih preference applies to shop hours. H maddening for working wives . i, or husbands, for that matter . , . .

Shopping in the busy streets of Suva is a tough enough problem without it beilis made more difficult by some of the commercial practices Jane Gregor complains 20 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

lable to shop during lunch hours to have shop doors shut in our as we try to make the most lucky break in finishing work minutes early some afternoon, often our clock-beating spurts to that essential forgotten item end But it’s even more :ing when you see that shopts find no difficulty whatsoever ening at the most unlikely hours if there’s a tourist ship in. ere are many lesser complaints.

Dr service is one you hear over over again; here, I blame the :eepers . . . not the sales staff, itions of service for most salesand women are not good and ng appears to be, in most cases, lal. i you, then, blame the counter who can’t be bothered to even what they do stock, let alone d find out if and when a specific :an be obtained? Like the young /ho, pointing to three scraps of ling, curling-edged ham on a tray, the other morning, ly informed me that was all the the supermarket had. tunately for me, a senior saleswhom I have often dealt with, nost happily, came along and le matter right. as lucky, but too often shoppers 3t. And, merchants please note, >nly is the would-be shopper ited, but she’s just slightly more against that particular store time such an encounter occurs, at it’s not only the immediate /hich is lost. ie of these incidents can, of :, be put down to the growing natural among an emerging country’s peoples.

But other trading practices are carried on by people who should know better.

Why, for instance, do shops sell inferior quality “seconds” without always telling the shopper what he’s really getting for his money?

A friend of mine discovered a piece of cloth, bought in good faith as first quality material, had, in fact, a large fault in it; when she returned it to the shop where it had been bought she was told she should have noticed it at the time.

When I heard this story I remembered that, as a newcomer to Fiji, I was warned by an “old-hand” that much of the merchandise sold was, in fact, seconds and to beware. Unhappily, my informant was not wrong.

But when you move into the big money items and still find they are too often faulty, you really do begin to wonder if the days of piracy will ever end.

It is a sad fact that every major item I’ve bought in Fiji, that “shopper’s paradise”, has proved faulty. Sometimes seriously so, sometimes only to the extent, for example, that a slide-projector had a large smear across the lens which I could not get at.

Being a resident, I can get these things rectified by taking my purchases back, which is tiring and time-consuming. But one doesn’t expect to pay £5O for a tape recorder, let us say, only to have the mike pack up on you a month or two later; or for a record-player which unaccountably changes speed in mid-record.

Maybe there are good, simple answers to much of this . . . like packages being clumsily handled . . . but after a run of unsatisfactory buying of what to me are major items, I begin to harbour dark thoughts.

Can it be . . . even in this price bracket . . . the tailor/tourist story all over again . . . “Sell ’em anything . . . they’ll never be back to complain”? (Continued on p. 132)

There Are Some Bouquets

Just in case you think that what I have had to say about Suva shopkeepers is all brick bats, I would like to throw a bouquet, aimed at some of the stallholders at the Suva market. I have had excellent service and fair prices from some of these people and from many of the other one-man businesses around Suva.

Week in, week out, the bulk of the fruit and vegetable buying for our household has been done at one particular stall in the market owned by a Chinese family. Never have I had better, friendlier service or fairer prices from anybody in any country. Not only can I handpick my tomatoes, my apples and oranges, but I can pinch the cucumbers as much as I like until I find one firm enough to my liking, and if, for reasons beyond their control, my stallholding family feels that their produce hasn’t been quite up to scratch, or if they are just feeling good anyway, I get a little gift—perhaps a couple of bananas, a coconut, a mango or two.

Shopkeepers like these, and those I knew on the Continent, and the old-fashioned Scots shopkeeper, know the value of a little “come-backagain” present dropped into the basket of a regular customer. But not, it seems, Fiji’s bigger boys of the merchandise world.

JG.

Tourists off the ships flock around one of the stalls at the Suva markets.

Service is good. But when the cruise ships are in, it's not always so good in Suva for the locals, who complain they get short shrift while the visitors get the attention. 21 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Move For Union In Samoa

East Is U.S. And West Is

West-And, Oh, That

The Twain Shall Meet!

By a staff writer A move by two American Samoan senators in late March to seek ways of welding Western and American Samoa into one political unit appears to have fallen on rather stony ground— at least for the time being. But it shows that, even after three generations of separation, there is still a strong feeling of kinship among the people of those islands.

THE two Samoas have been politically separate since 1899, when Germany annexed Western Samoa and the United States assumed sovereignty over the eastern islands.

The eastern islands have remained under the US flag ever since; but Western Samoa was under New Zealand control—first as a League of Nations mandate and later as a United Nations trusteeship territory— from World War I until it achieved independence in 1962.

"Immediate exploration"

The move for a union of the two Samoas was made by Senators Rapi Sotoa and Mulitauaopele by means of a joint resolution introduced in the Tenth Legislature of American Samoa.

The resolution says it would be imperative that the political union should be under the protection of the United States, but it does not make any suggestions on the nature of this protection.

If passed, the resolution would ask the United States Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the State Department “the immediate exploration of all possible means” of uniting the two Samoas.

The resolution is the first attempt for many years on the part of Samoans in either Western or American Samoa to have the union of the two Samoas discussed on an official level.

There was a mixed reception to it among politicians in American Samoa; and almost complete silence about it elsewhere.

The main points of the resolution are that: • There is a strong desire on the part of many people of American Samoa to form a union with the people of Western Samoa, with whom they have many ties of kinship and culture. • A union of Samoa is the ultimate desire of the people as a race, inasmuch as American Samoans and Western Samoans are one people and one colour, with the same langusi and culture—“an existing race of tt Great Polynesia”. • No matter when Samoa w united, American Samoans would n consent to any union without the pic tection of the United States.

In a discussion on the resolutit in the American Samoan Senate, t president, Lauvao-Lolo, said he w sure that some Western Samcoi They re “shrewder than Palagis think "

Pago Pago’s weekly Samoa r Times was quick to notice the a discrepancy in two important Ji statements made by Governor H., Rex Lee in discussions with the a local Legislature on his return toe American Samoa in April.

One statement was that “ifi the door was wide open” fori American citizens to enter andb settle in American Samoa, thea Samoan people would “lose thein land, dissipate the money ob—< tained from selling it, and havea nothing”.

The other statement, in effect,,! was that the Samoans were in—i dined to “stifle progress” in thein country because they would noth willingly surrender their land too the • Government for schools,,? roads, etc.

Pointing out that “Samoa must!? be shrewder than palagis (Euro~< peans) think,” the Samoa Timesv added: “With only 76 squarea miles of land in the . . . the chances of replacingg family land after condemnationn are very slim indeed ... It mayy well come out that the Samoam people would rather risk loss ofh progress than loss of their most!? precious possession.”

The dividing line between the two Samoas was man-made, and has only existed since 1899. 22 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH It

ials would not be receptive to idea. He added that there would nore support for it in Western oa on Savai’i than on the main d of Upolu. ther comments were that while idea behind the resolution was Ilent, it would have been better andle the matter fa’a Samoa (in Samoan way) than through the ; Department and the New and Government (which would to become involved because it lies Western Samoa’s external rs). ae American Samoan senator “The official approach would specially unfortunate considering t’afa’s recent remarks on Dean ;, and his attitude of ‘no money, riendship’. It would be better if lington and Wellington were told decision by the Samoan people, ad of being asked to conduct ligations.” te Samoa Times, of Pago Pago, i editorial on the resolution, said: hould be the occasion for wide, st discussions on the hopes and tions of the whole Samoan race.”

"Silly barrier" e idea that the two Samoas Id be united was strongly urged IM in January, 1955, when the editor, Mr. R. W. Robson, said “if the silly political barrier were m down” and American Samoa’s )my were joined to that of the , the problem of how to provide ■ican Samoa with an overseas ne would be solved overnight, nerican Samoa, at that time, was e financial doldrums because of vithdrawal, a few years earlier, e US Navy from the Pago Pago base. Western Samoa, on the hand, was “rich and comfort- ’ because cocoa-production had established as the chief industry ddition to coconut-growing long ago”. >w, however, the boot is on the foot. :stem Samoa, with a population 140,000 and a land area ore than 1,100 square miles, is g a lean time because of ageing mt plantations, crop pests and factors. :anwhile, the 20,000 American ans are having a reasonably easy of things thanks to massive Duts from the United States for us projects over the past six They all want to film Tonga’s coronation From “PlM’s” Nukualofa correspondent Arrangements for the world-wide television and film coverage of King Taufa’ahau’s coronation in Nukualofa on July 4 have reached an interesting stage.

THE Kingdom of Tonga intends to make the most of the publicity this important and glittering event in her history will bring; for with her five-year development plan developing well and the South Pacific being discovered by world travellers, Tonga —like other territories nearby—is anxious to cultivate the tourist industry and to get her share of people and profits.

The forthcoming celebrations are a better occasion than most to focus attention on the Friendly Islands.

First on the scene was the New Zealand Broadcasting Commission, based in Wellington and with a traditional link with Tonga broadcasting. It showed keenness to do the job.

Then the BBC representative in Australia and New Zealand, the Hon.

Humphrey Fisher, on a tour of radio stations in the Pacifiic area, visited the kingdom, and undertook to discuss the publicity problem with the head of the Commonwealth Television Services in London, in April.

The Hon. Humphrey’s father, Archbishop Lord Fisher, was the man who crowned Queen Elizabeth.

Meanwhile, an independent American television producer and writer, Mike Grillikhes, arrived in Tonga seeking exclusive rights to do a main coverage for world cinema and television. He planned to have named Hollywood stars to host and narrate the films. But it seems the “exclusive rights” clause was regarded as a stumbling block to the negotiations.

The Fiji Public Relations Office has offered to do the film work for her smaller neighbour, and several other European and Australian organisations are also interested.

It seems likely that much of the distribution (whoever does the actual filming) may be arranged by the King Taufa'ahau at Pago Pago airport, American Samoa in April, after seeing off Queen Mata'aho on an Air NZ flight to Auckland. With him is Mrs. Owen S. Aspinall, wife of American Samoa's then-Acting Governor, and a Samoan policeman. 23 ' I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

BBC and a major American organisation.

Press and magazine writers and cameramen from many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, America and Britain, have booked accommodation for the celebrations.

Arrangements for cabling and telephoning news, and the dispatch of photographs have been made.

In April, Radio Australia, from their Melbourne studios, instigated a radio circuit through Sydney, Suva and Nukualofa to carry a report on the currency changeover, as a test for similar on-the-spot reporting during the coronation.

King back from London Radio New Zealand has already reserved daily radio-telephone links with the Tonga Telephone and Telegraph Department for the coronation.

King Taufa’ahau returned home in April from a visit to the United Kingdom, after an absence of seven weeks, and was given a traditional welcome. While in London he was fitted for his coronation robes.

Schoolchildren lined the route from wharf to palace and as the King stepped ashore, a 21 gun salute was fired. His brother, Tu’ipelehake, the Premier, who was Prince Regent during his absence, was there to meet him; also the British Consul, Cabinet Ministers, and members of the clergy and judiciary.

As the royal car passed, the children cheered and threw flowers. The Police Band led the parade, followed by the Palace Guard, Boy Scouts and then the schools in their gailycoloured uniforms of blue, green, red, maroon, khaki and white.

That afternoon, despite a heavy tropical downpour, a Royal ks: ceremony was held in the palsl grounds. This ancient ceremony is 1 same that will be performed, onn grander scale, during the Tongi version of the coronation.

It included the ha’unga. or pq sentation of foodstuffs, the centti piece of which was a huge cooked n accompanied by a large root of grei kava. About 100 chiefs drank ks: with, and paid homage to, thrl monarch.

It was significant that, for t first time since Queen Salote’s dess in December, 1965, the King was i wearing mourning.

One man in the crowd remarkd loudly, “When our King is away, o right hand is cut off; when he is hoic again, it is restored”.

The Tongan Government is buyiy a big house in London to houses; diplomatic representative and an Tongan students under training in t United Kingdom. On his visit, t King inspected a number of statdj homes near London and located b 10-bedroom mansion set in acres of grounds, approximately miles north-west of the city.

The purchase offer of £34,000 H been accepted by the owners, as following a survey by Crown agene negotiations will be completed for t purchase of the estate. • See, "Coronation expected boom tourism", p. 52.

New Sensation In

New Caledonia'S

Prison Scandal

From Fred Dunn in Noumea THERE was a new sensation in New Caledonia’s sensational prison scandal on April 26 when the death was announced of Roger Maylie, head of New Caledonia’s prison department.

An official statement said, enigmatically, that Maylie had died “during an acute crisis of depression”.

Maylie, a fonctionnaire from France, who had been in Noumea since 1954, was responsible, among other things, for the administration of Noumea’s Nouville Prison, whose chief warder, Henri Pommelet, is at present in custody awaiting trial.

Pommelet and six assistants were arrested and imprisoned following the death in January of a prisoner, Marx Arsapin, 25, who was beaten up at Nouville ( PIM, Feb., p. 15).

Two other prisoners, who had escaped from the prison with Arsapin, and who had been recaptured on New Year’s Eve, were also beaten up.

At the height of the Arsapin scandal, Noumea newspapers clamoured loudly for Maylie’s head, attributing to him the final responsibility for Pommelet’s actions.

Subsequently, a report of a twoman commission of inquiry into conditions at Nouville stated that “Pommelet’s superiors knew nothing of the continued brutalities taking place at the prison”.

However, one of the two members of the commission—a Melanesian, Theophile Wakolo Puye—refused to sign the report.

The other member was Mr.

Arnold Daly, a European lawyer.

Attacks by the Press on Maylie and others were cited by the French High Commissioner, Mr. Jean Risterrucci, in a speech to open the current session of the Territorial Assembly when he bitterly criticised New Caledonians over their attitude towards Metropolitan Frenchmen, particularly fonctionnaires.

Members of the Assembly were astonished by the speech, and bitterly counter-attacked. The president of the Assembly, Mr.

Ohlen, said it was only the dignity of parliamentary procedure which prevented him from walking out.

The Nouville prison scandal has thus grown into something far bigger than it was at first. It has fanned flames of resentment of the New Caledonians towards their imported administrators.

Intertel Will

Survey Fiji

A television documentary with a world-wide distribution will shortly take a hard look at Fiji.

The documentary will be one of a series produced by Intertel, and sponsored by the BBC, the ABC, the Canadian Broadcasting Commission and the Westinghouse Corporation of the United States.

Members of Intertel take it in turns to produce hard core documentaries of international interest.

The Fiji film has been allotted to the ABC, and in May Sydney writer Keith Adam and director Ken Hannan will make a preliminary survey of Fiji before filming begins about June. Adam has made frequent visits to the South Pacific Islands in recent years and has produced radio documentaries on their problems. 24 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LJ

Snails got ’em moving!

Giant Japanese snails such as these, brought to New Guinea during the war, caused a mild panic in Port Moresby in April when nine of them escaped from a tin in which they had been put by an agricultural officer who planned to destroy them.

They cause serious damage to gardens, but are not yet a pest in Moresby, as in some other parts of New Guinea. Seven snails were recovered. The remaining two were suspected of having taken refuge in grass near the Treasury, so a makeshift flame-thrower was brought in to raze the area. No dead bodies were seen, but officials are keeping their fingers crossed.

Nauruan Cat Among

The Pigeons

By Stuart Inder

The showdown talks held in Canberra in April to decide /hether the Nauruans will achieve their aim of independence •y next January, and/or ownership of the rich phosphate deposits, put the cat among the pigeons properly. And there are lore ruffled feathers to come.

IE talks were between Nauru’s three trusteeship powers—Ausa, Britain and New Zealand—led the secretary of the Australian artment of Territories, Mr. G. wick Smith; and a Nauruan delean led by Head Chief Hammer oburt, and including the mans’ economic advisers, he April talks, which discussed >phate only, lasted about a fortt and then adjourned to early , when the parties will also iss independence. But the two lets are vitally connected.

Hard view he Nauruans in April took the I view and threw overboard their proposals of last year that the sh Phosphate Commissioners, work the Nauruan phosphate on ilf of the three governments, ild act as the Nauruans’ managing its and continue to operate the stry for them for a fat fee. istead they proposed they take possession, establish their own man Phosphate Corporation to ace the BPC, and buy the BPC’s 1 Nauruan assets. Present BPC would be re-engaged, and the ner governments would be guarana regular phosphate supply at than the world price, he details of the Nauruan Corition were planned many months by the Nauruans and their economic advisers, but they took the partners by surprise. The partners saw clearly enough in April that if they handed over the phosphate they might just as well give the Nauruans independence, for the Nauruans would have a richer economy than say, independent Western Samoa or the self-governing Cook Islands.

Thus, upon the decision of the partners on this question of phosphate ownership will depend the result of the May talks on Nauru’s freedom. The partners could, of course, hold up the independence talks.

The Nauruans also in April drove a hard bargain on phosphate royalties for 1966-67. They are being paid 17/6 a ton for 1965-66.

Two years ago the Nauruans proposed that they should get 35/- a ton for 1966-67, a figure which made the partners’ hair stand on end, but in April the partners offered to pay just that amount. But then Hammer Deßoburt wouldn’t accept it—he held out for 45/-! He explained that the extra 10/- was to meet the needs of housing and water on Nauru, which really were a Government responsibility, he said. The talks reached no decision on the figure.

It is a measure of Hammer Deßoburt’s toughness that it was he who first decided to ask for 45/-.

To some of his associates the request didn’t seem entirely wise, but a closer look at the figures showed that on a payout of 45/- the BPC would still make a very handsome profit.

The Nauruans also continue to press for rehabilitation of the onethird of the island which has been mined. “The rehabilitation of Nauru [in the long term] will be an arduous and costly process,” said DeRoburt at the end of the April talks, “and we will need all the money we can get, even if the partner governments do accept their share of rehabilitation costs.”

What now? At the resumed talks in May the Nauruans will no doubt come up with a draft constitution to show the partner governments how they intend to manage independence.

Work on it is being done by Professor I. W. Davidson, Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University, who presumably won’t make any final decisions until he visits Nauru.

A Nauru constitution probably would look something like Western Samoa’s. Nauru would be an independent State linked by a treaty of friendship with Australia; with a President (obviously Hammer De- Roburt), a Legislative Council, as it has now, and three or four ministers in charge of key departments.

By wedding the American and British systems, which would seem to suit the Nauruan environment, it would not be necessary for the ministers to be elected by popular vote. Expatriates with administrative experience could be used if necessary.

With the huge returns from phosphate there would be no need for any grants from the partner governments.

If the Nauruans do not achieve their objectives at the resumed May talks then they plan to put on the pressure when the UN Trusteeship Council meets soon. • See, also, "New Nauruan Post for Mr. Leydin", p. 30. 25 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Culture Drain

Brings New Look

To Ng Artifacts

TRADE By staff writer KEN McGREGOR The drain overseas of primitive New Guinea artifacts, which has been going on at an accelerated rate over the last 10 years, has finally had its effect. Large areas of the territory, particularly the artistically-rich Sepik, have now been almost washed out of items worth preserving, and the whole pattern of artifacts collecting in New Guinea has been changed. These are the conclusions I reached after investigating the situation with dealers and traders, anthropologists, museum officials and P-NG Government officers.

New Guinea and Australia must face it —most of the worthwhile items of primitive New Guinea culture are today in museums abroad, in Europe and America .

And in getting there they have often made fat profits for middlemen.

SOME experts I talked to in Sydney believe that, as a centre of culture and art, the territory has simply had it.

“Anything left is very hard to find, because it would have to be in an isolated region,” said one dealer. “1 have had to go farther afield, and now I am interested only in the Solomons, where it is still possible to get genuine old material.”

Professor R. W. Geddes, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, told me that old Sepik masks and several other types of native carvings were impossible to find in New Guinea.

The biggest Sydney dealer, Mr.

Stephen Kellner, who has been reexporting artifacts from Sydney for 10 years, estimated that artifacts worth $50,000 had been leaving Sydney every year—and at least $150,000 worth left the territory every year, most of it direct from the territory.

A big Sydney forwarding agent, Youngs Pty. Ltd., in 1965 exported 608 artifacts for Sydney dealers.

Their value varied from $2 to several hundred dollars for a fertility statue.

More than 40 per cent, went to the United States and about 35 per cent, to Japan.

The firm told me of one big purchase a year ago, when the American department store, C. S. Roebuck, collected 700 artifacts for the American market.

Official P-NG figures put the value of “native curios” exported in 1964- 65 at $83,900, but the Department of Territories, Canberra, says this figure will be greatly exceeded when the 1965-66 figures are released. And it does not include artifacts taken by travellers in their luggage.

Sepik drums fetch $4OO to $5OO overseas, Mai masks no longer than 24 inches are worth $lOO to $2OO, and big canoes, which have extensive carvings on their sides, have sold for well over $l,OOO, but would be worth a lot more now if you could get them.

Big prices for originals Private European and American collectors are prepared to pay big sums for original material. Sepik masks, world-famous because of their colour and carving, are constantly in demand.

Until two years ago there was nothing to stop anyone buying genuine old New Guinea art in New Guinea and selling it overseas.

Many Administration officers in the outback areas have made good mom doing this. Most of the artifae were, and still are, exported throm Madang and Wewak—probably aboc 80 per cent, of them.

In 1965 the National Cultuu Property (Preservation) Ordinam came into force, after it had b©( considered since 1959.

Under this ordinance the trustU of the Papua-New Guinea Museuu Port Moresby, are responsible i issuing permits to export and hsi wider powers of acquisition tW: existed under previous laws.

The trustees can delegate thd authority to District Commissioner and there is a weakness here, becaur the system needs to be policed museum staff members, or others to know their artifacts. District Coo missioners are already heavily bid dened with work without worrya^ Genuine old artifacts of museum qua[?] are scarce now in New Guinea. So[?] changing pattern is to make new on[?] which sell as readily and more cheap.[?] Some of the new art is junk, but most[?] it is good, and is as entitled to be cals[?] "genuine New Guinea art" as the ol[?] pieces. It is, after all, made in N[?] Guinea by New Guineans, to New Guin[?] designs.

siting collectors will be checked in future ut the finer points of permits, so 5 still possible to export rare items lout real difficulty.

E the museum decides that any facts are of unique cultural value / can ban their export. The Adistration has not in fact withheld nits from accredited museum colors for export of pieces collected e the ordinance was introduced.

Jenuine museum collectors and ntists have donated many pieces the territory museum and have a willing to collect artifacts for museum when they have been ;d to do so.

Tiat does not mean that all over- ; collectors in New Guinea have a honest. renuine artifacts have been exted under permits issued for nonnine ones, and natives have been ped by dishonest dealers. But the ves today know values. l ruse which has frequently been ;tised in the past is for visitors daim they are collecting for overi museums when in fact they are ely middlemen who will offer Pacts for sale to the museums, filer overseas museums have often a glad enough to give these dlemen letters of accreditation, e they stood to gain some pieces n the expedition, even if only a .11 portion of what is collected. middleman has sold most of it the highest bidder.

No Australian interest Inly recently there was an example his which has so annoyed territory dais that future collectors can be ired that their credentials will be dully scrutinised. lost material goes overseas bese Australian agents claim there no genuine private collectors in tralia, where, they say, little is wn about New Guinea primitive mstralian museums, the dealers aren’t interested. A big Sydney ler said he offered a rare canoe to a Melbourne university. The /ersity said it would pick up the ae from New Guinea through the ler’s agent. But the university i’t contact the agent and as a lit the canoe was given to someelse. mother Sydney dealer, Mr. Robert ;s, said he offered a 14 ft Upper ik canoe to the Australian seum, Sydney, for ssoo—after an erican proposed giving him $l,OOO for it. The museum turned him down and the canoe is now in Alabama. , ~ The museums say that they haven t got the money, and that they are overstocked anyway. The Australian Museum has far more New Guinea material in its vaults than it can find room to display.

Mr. Roy Mackay, preparator-mcharge of the Papua-New Guinea Museum said that the museum could not afford to buy all the material available to it at present but added: “I should like to point out that as a result of the museum’s development over the past two years, since it has had effective staff, the acquisition of artifacts last year totalled 1,500, which is three times the total of acquisitions for any previous year, Already, the material to be brought in from New Guinea outstations— at great cost—points to this being another very productive year.

“The museum has no field staff and cannot afford them. To be able to compete with overseas museums we must be in a position either to pay the same prices or to restrict dealers to the sale of newly manufactured items.”

A spokesman for the New Guinea Administration in Port Moresby, said native artifacts were prone to decay in their normal state, “and in a changing society such as New Guinea today it is better for genuine articles to be preserved in museums rather than be left to rot”. Administration patrols often collect artifacts as part of their routine.

He added: “The Administration has never been in a position where it could afford to purchase every piece of museum quality collected. In any case there is no reason why it should do this, as most cultures produce only a few different articles. For example, the Elima people produce literally hundreds of different designs on Gope boards, but they are all Gope boards. No one museum could have the finance available to purchase everything offering.

Costs go up “Although a piece may be purchased for a small sum in a remote village, by the time the cost of the patrol is added, the cost of getting each piece to the post may be 10 or 20 times the price paid for it. Breakages and losses could bring this figure even higher.”

The official said that of every 100 pieces exported there would be fewer than one of museum quality. The Administration was satisfied if genuine pieces went to other museums.

He added, “The vast majority of pieces are today made purely for commercial purposes. The Administration is interested in building up trade in this field as it offers a source There are good craftsmen left in New Guinea but more official moves must be made to encourage them. These splendid carvings are by the Bipi Islanders, Manus. Their prices are from $20 to $30. 27 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1967

Genuine artists should be helped' of income for many New Guinea people who have little opportunity otherwise for a cash income.”

The official thus put his finger on the changing trend.

The days of large-scale collections of NG artifacts are over. Of the old pieces of individual art still left even the big dealers find the prices beyond their means. Commercial curios are now the vogue.

Mr. Mackay put it this way: “At the same time as these collections were made and taken to overseas countries a fashion or cult of primitive art evolved. This fashion appears to be reaching its peak and with it the commercialisation of the traditional art forms is rapidly developing to meet the demand of primitive art galleries, private collectors and tourists.

“Much of this can be very good for the native manufacturers, as it tends to maintain their skill in carving and their knowledge of form and colour.

“This side of things might be considered distinct from the requirements of art museums and ethnographic or ethnological museums, where the material culture of peoples is preserved for serious study and for everyone to see and admire.

"A major crime"

“One of the major crimes committed by dealers has been the transfer of unique carvings, paintings and other artifacts into the hands of private individuals who, for their own lifetime, might enjoy having the specimens hanging up on their sitting room walls, collecting dust and gradually being destroyed by termites or borers.

“Eventually these specimens lose their value with the loss of documentation and so become entirely lost to science, to the people’s own cultural heritage and to public education.”

Mr. John Pasquarelli, well-known Sepik trader and member of the P- NG House of Assembly, who is the official collector for the Sepik District for the Territory Museum, believes the last really big shipment of genuine pieces left the Sepik six months ago, headed for the Basle Museum.

He said. “In the Sepik today the large-scale manufacture of new ‘tourist’ material is the vogue. The smaller dealers tend now to concentrate on the purchase of this newer material and some of them have tried to pass off this new material as a genuine article. This has led to a somewhat diminishing reputation for Sepik art.

“The local government councils are also to blame, as young uninformed native clerks and European patrol officers have over-zealously purchased large quantities of this new art, and have paid prices out of all proportion. The inflationary trend has led to a fall-off in quality and has encouraged faking.”

Mr. Pasquarelli said that the Sepik missions had helped mass-production take place. The Catholic Mission at Wewak (which is certainly the largest single exporter) had “virtually a mass-production workshop” and certain controls should be introduced in the Sepik to help preserve the reputation of Sepik art.

Education needed Mr. Pasquarelli said the trustees of the museum had been approached on the matter and it had been suggested by the P-NG Chief Justice, Sir Alan Mann, that it would be beneficial if native local government clerks could be educated in the purchase of Sepik art, so they could differentiate between a good or bad article.

All agree that missions in the past have destroyed much genuine art in their zeal to civilise the people, but attitudes have now changed. Some Sepik natives have even been to the missions in an effort to obtain some sort of reparation for artifacts and ceremonial houses destroyed by missionaries before the war.

But neither Mr. Pasquarelli nor any other experts in New Guinea see the position as hopeless, and that’s the important thing. There are still a large number of genuine native artists at work in the Sepik, and these must be encouraged so they can hand on to the next generation.

There's hope left Mr. Pasquarelli suggests that genuine artists could be assisted if the Territory Museum could provide some sort of scholarship to augment their supply of tools, or to help them travel.

He adds: “The Territory Museum still has a long way to go, but with the co-operation of local and overseas dealers, and the missions, all need not be lost.

“Overseas authorities have told me that the Territory Museum now has a great collection of Melanesian art.

The museum simply needs more finance and more space to preserve what it has and what is left in the territory.”

More trouble in Indonesia's West N. Guinea About 1,200 people had crossea from West New Guinea into Papwv New Guinea since Indonesia tow over control of West New Guinu from Holland in 1963, the Australia Minister for External Affairs, Paul Hasluck, said in April.

ON humanitarian grounds a “ven very small number” of tM people had sought and been gives asylum by the Australian Administrsi tion of Papua-New Guinea, Ml Hasluck said.

He was commenting on recen; reports of big numbers of people crossing the border from West Ne*: Guinea. His statement followed whistle-stop tour of the main centreof P-NG by the Indonesian Ambasr sador to Australia, Major-General A Kosasih.

The visit was far from uneventful! as in Port Moresby he was conn fronted by 13 energetic demonstrate™ carrying banners demanding IndcD nesia’s immediate withdrawal from West New Guinea.

The leader of the demonstrator: - ! a West New Guinean refugee, Mil Jerard Kondjol, thrust a papes demanding independence for Wes: New Guinea into Major Kosasih*: hands, and cried: “Don’t kill nrr people. ... go back to your country. 5 .

Manokwari trouble Later, in Port Moresby, Generaa Kosasih denied that 2,000 peopld had been killed at Manokwari by air Indonesian bombing raid but he! admitted that “maybe some people! were killed”.

The Ambassador also visited theri West New Guinea capital, Sukarnas pura. As a result, liaison officer:! may be exchanged between the two'territories.

Unrest in West New Guinea made! news in Australian, and even Indoo nesian newspapers in April.

One Indonesian paper said ther trouble was caused by “dissatisfaction: with Indonesian Administration”.

Later, in Djakarta, the West New Guinea military commander.!; Brigadier-General Bintoro, admitted): that 40 Arfak tribesmen had beem: killed in three air strikes by Indo-o nesian aircraft on January 18 whem 1,000 “rebels” were strafed for hav-v ing taken up arms against the gov-v ernment. 28 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

ew Hebrides Govt. "should act"

"No Shadow Of Doubt"

Over Origin Of

That Big Bay Wall

By Robert Langdon Despite no less than seven theories to the itrary, there is now no shadow of doubt in mind that the strange wall found at Big Bay, ?iritu Santo, is—as I suggested in PIM in irch —a relic of the Spanish expedition of Pedro rnandez de Quiros of 361 years ago.

JE wall was discovered in January by Mr. Ted Hebblete, of Sydney, and reported to i in February. However, several pie in the New Hebrides have e claimed that they have known ut the wall for years.

'he wall is in the south-east ier of Big Bay, about three miles of the River Jordan. It is 175 200 yards from the coast and ut the same distance from a small r, unnamed on modern maps, but ch the Spaniards called El /ador. It is about 25 feet long, r to five feet high, and 15 inches e, with two bevelled apertures ch answer to the description of embrasures in fortresses of former times.

After a lot more research and a good many inquiries since writing my original article, I can think of at least 17 good reasons for believing that the wall is a relic of the Quiros expedition. 17 reasons On the other hand, I cannot think of one good reason for pinning my faith in any of the seven theories (see panel) put forward by other people.

My 17 reasons for sticking to the Quiros theory are: • The wall is exactly where you would expect a relic of the Quiros expedition to be, as it is on record that the Spaniards’ anchorage was “almost a stone’s throw from a small river, which they called El Salvador”. • It is known that, in that vicinity, the Spaniards cut down trees, made a clearing and built a stockade to protect themselves against attacks by the natives. • It is known that the Spaniards had good reason for wanting to protect themselves with a stockade or fortress. But I can find no documentary evidence that anyone else visiting that area did. • The wall answers in every way to the description of the “rampart with its embrasures” mentioned in the journal of Fray Martin de Munilla, one of the Spanish chroniclers (see story p. 30). • The Spaniards had men in sufficient numbers to build such a wall, whereas most of the people suggested in the seven other theories would not have had them. • The wall looks like a Spanish wall, being similar in appearance to many such structures that I have seen in Spain and South America. • If the wall is not the “rampart with its embrasures” described by Fray Munilla, what has become of the Spanish rampart? As stone does not dissolve or melt, it should be around somewhere. • For the wall to be anything but a Quiros relic, it is necessary to suppose that the builder of it built it exactly where the Spaniards built theirs and to exactly the same specifications. • Although seven counter-theories have been put forward, no documentary evidence has been provided Eight people with seven other theories iITHEN these pages went to press, PIM knew of eight people who had » t put forward anti-Quiros theories on the origin of the Hebblewhite /all at Big Bay. Some of their theories were mentioned in last month’s *IM (p. 40); others have come to our notice since.

The theories are that the wall is or may be the remains of: • A sandalwood trader’s station of the 1850’s or 1860’s. (Put orward by Dr. Dorothy Shineberg, a research fellow at the Research chool of Pacific Studies, Australian National University). • A whaling station. (A New Hebrides resident in a letter to Ted Jebblewhite.) • A Melanesian Mission establishment. (Mr. Reece Discombe, of fila). • A Presbyterian Mission establishment. (Chief Buluk, of Santo). • A trading store built by the Compagnie Coloniale des lies the manager of which was a Mr. M. M. Witts. (Mr. E. W. of Santo, who leases a property at Big Bay; and Mr. Brian Cidney, manager of Burns Philp & Co., Santo). • A trading store built by the Societe Francaise des Nouvelles lebrides. (The British Newsletter issued by the British Residency in ?ila). • A store built by the Compagnie Coloniale des lies Banks.

Bulletin d’lnformation of the French Residency in Vila). 29 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

to prove or support any of them-i except by the Newletter of the Britisi Residency in Vila, which said: “** map of the Big Bay area shows thd not very long ago there was omr an SFNH store on the site whe;s the wall was found”. This, howev© does not prove that the wall is NO a relic of the Quiros expedition; ndi that, if a store did exist there ono the wall was built as part of tU store. • Until the Hakluyt Society puu lished a translation of MunillsJ journal last year, together with tU narrative of Juan de Iturbe, it w,v always assumed that Quiros’ Ne Jerusalem was on the banks of till River Jordan. Therefore, anyone finding Quiros relics anywhere eli would naturally have tried to fini some other explanation for them. •.W there were enough Nes Hebrideans living in the vicinity « the wall to make it worthwhile fo] someone to open a trade store then why considering the good anchoragi nearby did all the Presbyterian Roman Catholic and Seventh-dsJ Adventist missionaries neglect the:a people and establish their missioit miles away on the opposite side c the bay? (See map p. 86). • Near the wall, on what wouk have been the inner side of it, theia is a heap of stones, which weis almost certainly dumped there, bic were not used in the building opern tion. These stones, being an untitbi heap, would scarcely have been les where they are if that side of tH; wall had been the interior of a ston But their presence is understandabid if a Spanish origin is attributed to tH: wall, as the Spaniards used thee stockade but seldom after building i • The lack of unanimity amonn the anti-Quiros theorists—even ii official circles—makes one doubt tM validity of any of their theories. (TM Bulletin d’lnformation of the Frence Residency in Vila has a differem theory from its British counterpart) ( Spanish priest's journal "holds key to wall's identity"

The precise interpretation and translation of a single sentence in the journal of Fray Martin de Munilla is the key factor, in my opinion, in establishing the identity of the strange wall found at Big Bay, Espiritu Santo, in January.

FRAY MUNILLA, the father commissary of the Quiros expedition, is the only one of the seven known chroniclers of the expedition to leave more than a vague description of the fortress which the Spaniards built at Big Bay.

Fray Munilla said that some 60 men went ashore and built the fortress on May 9, 1606. His words, in Spanish, describing the erection of the building were: Y hizieron el lastre y la barraca fortaleziendola de muy buenas estacas y faxina terraplenada con sus troneras.

In an English translation of Fray Manilla’s journal, made by Father Celsus Kelly, OFM, and published by the Hakluyt Society last year, the foregoing sentence is rendered to read: Then they collected ballast and built a stockade, fortifying it with sturdy stakes, and earthworks with loopholes.

However, Father Kelly, in a letter from London, has since informed me that—“as a working hypothesis” — the sentence in Manilla’s journal could also read; And they collected ballast (heavy stones or i even coral rocks ) and built a stockade, fortifying it with sturdy stakes and a rampart with its embrasures.

“I should mention,” Father Kelly said in his letter, “that elsewhere I have pointed out that some passages [in Manilla’s journal] could be rendered in two or even three ways.”

Anyone with a knowledge of Spanish will readily agree with, and sympathise with, Father Kelly, for the key words in the Munilla passage— faxina terraplenada con sus troneras — are extraordinarily difficult to translate into readily understood modern English.

The literal translation of the five words is: ramparted fascine with its embrasures (or loopholes).

The above sketch is my idea of what the Spaniards’ stockade at Big Bay would have looked like.

The guns would have been pointing inland, into the bush seen in the picture on p. 29. (The bush is NOT between the wall and the sea, as was erroneously stated in a caption in March PIM). — ROBERT LANG DON.

New Nauru Post For

Mr. Leydin

A surprise development in Nauruan affairs in early May was the appointment of Mr. R. S. Leydin, Administrator of Nauru from 1954 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1966, as Nauru's representative in Australia. Announcing the appointment in Canberra, Nauru's Head Chief Hammer De- Roburt said: "Mr. Leydin will represent the Nauru Local Government Council in all activities in Australia that it would handle itself if it were here". • Father Celsus Kelly, OFM. Photo: "Catholic Weekly", Sydney. 30 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

i All the documentary evidence t I have been able to find on the tory of Big Bay (see p. 85) :ually eliminates the possibility t anyone but the Quiros expedition ild have built the wall. » There is no physical evidence t any European planter has had plantation in the vicinity of the [1 in the past 70 years. There no coconut trees in that area, rough the effective life of a onut tree is about 70 years. » If the wall was built as a tress in the past 70 years, or at r other time since it is rcely possible that its existence 5 never recorded by any visitor to Bay, or that knowledge of its »in should now be confused or gotten. i If the wall was not built as t of a fortress, what are the brasures in it for? n the light of all the foregoing, iclieve that no reasonable person continue to argue that the wall y not be of Spanish origin— ess he has positive, concrete proof the contrary. am certain that no such proof i be found.

Jowever, as some people will bably not be satisfied merely by :umentary evidence or the lack it, I hope that the American haeologist, Dr. Richard Shutler, 0 is working in the New Hebrides, 1 go ahead with his plans to iduct a “dig” at the wall site, and t he will be lucky enough to find nething of indisputably Spanish gin.

There may be one really convincing item awaiting a finder—and that is a bottle, or some other container, enclosing a copy of the document by which Quiros took possession of the land he called Austrialia del Espiritu Santo and founded the city of New Jerusalem.

Dr. Shutler could therefore be on the verge of making an exciting historical discovery.

But whether he makes such a discovery or not, it seems to me that the New Hebrides Government should immediately take steps to safeguard the treasure that has already been found.

This, by a long stretch, is the oldest relic yet found of European penetration in the South Pacific. It antedates by 10 years the oldest relic ever found in Australia —the Dirk Hartog plate, which was nailed on a tree in 1616, and which is now in an Amsterdam museum.

Ted Hebblewhite’s discovery is therefore something quite extraordinary.

In future years it could well be a popular tourist attraction and moneyspinner for the New Hebrides.

If legislation does not already exist in the New Hebrides to protect sites of major historical interest, I believe it behoves the Administration to enact some quickly—before some rich and enterprising American buys “the rampart with its embrasures” and ships it off to a museum or sideshow in the United States! • See also "Land of Tall Tales/' p 85.

Daughter denies M. M. Witts had store MRS. B. L. TYLER, of Berrima Road, Moss Vale, New South Wales, told PIM in April that her father, the late Mr. Maurice Myles Witts, never at any time owned or managed a store at Big Bay, Espiritu Santo.

Mrs. Tyler was commenting on a statement by Mr. E. W. Lamberty, of Santo, who said in a letter to PIM that the ruins discovered in the iouth-east corner of Big Bay in January were the remains of a trading store built by the Compagnie Coloniale des lies Pacific in 1902 or 1903, and that the manager of the store was “a certain Mr. Witts or similar name” (PIM, April, p. 40).

Mr. Brian Kidney, of Santo, has also told PIM by telegram that he has supported Mr. Lamberty’s trade store story, and that he is “awaiting :onfirmation” of the names of the owner and manager, who “may be M. M. Witts, possibly living Bowral or Moss Vale area”.

Mrs. Tyler told PIM that her father, who died last year at the age nf 89, went to the New Hebrides just after the Boer War (about 1901 nr 1902) and left there after his marriage about 14 years later.

In partnership with two cousins, Arthur and Theo Thomas, and a friend, Ewen Corlette, he established a plantation at Hog Harbour.

Mrs. Tyler said she was certain that her father never owned or managed a store anywhere in the New Hebrides.

Big Bay Story

Brings Land

Tiffs Into Open

A chief of the island of Espiritu Santo has appealed to the South Pacific Commission to stop Europeans from encroaching on land in the Big Bay area, which he claims is the property of himself and people.

THE appeal is a direct result of the story published in PIM in March about the discovery in January, by Mr. Ted Hebblewhite, of a mysterious wall in the south-east corner of the bay.

The New Hebridean who made the appeal is Chief Buluk, who directed a letter to the SPC from Panvo, Santo. The letter was written in broken English by another New Hebridean, D, K. Olsen, of North Ambrym.

After claiming that the wall found by Mr. Hebblewhite was built “just after three Presbyterian missionaries were there,” Chief Buluk said that, following Mr. Hebblewhite’s visit, a European had landed 100 rolls of wire in that area of Big Bay.

In gaol As a result of a clash over this, five local natives had finished up in the French District Agent’s gaol in Santo.

Chief Buluk claimed that “all the dark bush” in the area belonged to him and “our coming native children”.

He said he had “reported” this dark bush over 10 years ago to both the French and British Agents, but that “all the planters” were still cutting the bush without giving notice to “us the people of Santo”.

“Please stop these planters not to do this thing any more,” he added.

With Chief Buluk’s letter came a letter written on February 8 by Jimmy Tubo, of Panavo, Santo, which claimed that there was trouble between himself and a French company over the ownership of “dark bush land” at a place called Matantas.

The French company, which claimed the land, asserted that the land had been paid for, whereas Tubo said he knew from his grandfather and father that no payment had ever been made.

Tubo said that all the members of his family had lived on the Matantas land years ago. But as many of them 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

had died of sickness, his grandfather had made the land tabu and the people had left it.

Although there has always been an undercurrent of discontent among the New Hebrideans over past land transactions with Europeans, it is only in recent years, as the population in the Group has begun increasing sharply, that the New Hebrideans have become outspoken on the subject.

Probably the most outstanding example of their outspokenness was at a meeting of the Advisory Council in Vila in December, 1965.

On that occasion, Dr. Philip Ho, speaking on behalf of all the native members and claiming to be putting the views of all New Hebrideans, told the Joint Administration that the New Hebrideans regarded all previous land registrations as “improper”.

Joint Court's view AS these pages were going to press, PIM received a letter dated April 18 from the Registrar of the Joint Court in Vila, New Hebrides, replying to an inquiry from us on titles to land in the south-east corner of Big Bay.

The Registrar’s letter said that the Societe Francaise des Nouvelles Hebrides (commonly referred to as SFNH) had applied on July 23, 1913, for the registration of a Big Bay property called Jourdain, of a declared area of 162,472 acres.

The letter continued: “The application was based on deeds of purchase from natives, dating back to 21st/ 23rd June, 1883, and on occupation, consisting of the drawing up of a plan and the building of an ‘Ancient Agency of the SFNH at Big Bay’. On the plan annexed to the application for registration the location of this ‘Ancient Agency’ is shown at the exact position of your ‘site of wall, near rivulet’ on your plan ( Pacific Islands Monthly, April, 1967, page 41).

“. . . the property, Jourdain, has been registered by judgment of the Joint Court, No. 668 of November 17, 1956, for an area—on expert’s advice—of 66,718 acres.” • Commenting on the above, Robert Langdon says: “Nothing in the Registrar's letter alters my opinion that the 'Hebblewhite wall ’ at Big Bay is of Spanish origin. But I would very much like to know what evidence SFNH has of its occupation of the south-east corner of Big Bay— beyond the plan showing its ‘ancient agency ’ there”.

New Deputy Seeks

Dissolution Of

Tahiti'S Assembly

By a staff writer Mr. Francis Sandford, the new deputy for French Polynesia in die French Parliament, had talks in Paris in mid-April with the French Minister for Overseas Territories, Mr. Pierre Billotte, on the possibility of dissolving French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly. 11/fR. SANDFORD claims that the -tTA Assembly no longer represents the people of French Polynesia and should be dissolved.

He said after his election on March 19 that this would be the first task he would attempt to achieve.

At the last count, the composition of the 22-member Assembly, which was elected for five years in October, 1962, was: 14 former members of the banned RDPT, a party usually described as leftist; and eight members of two moderate parties known as UTD and UNR.

Election results The UTD-UNR candidate in the March election, Nedo Salmon, polled only 1.232 per cent, of the total votes, so it would certainly appear that the UTD-UNR is over-represented in the Assembly.

The complete election results were; Sandford, 13,633 votes; John Teariki, 13,285; and Salmon, 336.

Mr. Teariki, who is chief of Afareaitu, Moorea, and an interisland shipowner, had been French Polynesia’s deputy since 1961. He has been a frequent and outspoken critic of France’s nuclear testing project at Mururoa Atoll.

His narrow defeat in the election seems to have been mainly due to a desire for change rather than to any real dissatisfaction with him among the electorate.

The new deputy, Francis Sandford, is a locally-born man whose paternal grandfather was an American.

He has gained a reputation as a dynamic administrator since he became mayor of the newly-created municipality of Faaa (Tahiti’s international airport district) two years ago.

Mr. Sandford was born on May 11, 1912. He began his career as a dock worker and waiter, and eventual!! became a schoolteacher.

In 1939, he was chef de paste ii the Gambier Archipelago, which hi rallied to the Free French flag o de Gaulle after the fall of Franco: He subsequently volunteered fey service overseas in the French Arnm but was sent instead to Bora Born to act as French liaison officer witli the American forces stationed them His work won him America’s Medal of Freedom.

After the war, Mr. Sandford roi mained on Bora Bora as a schoolc teacher until 1956, when he becamn Director of Primary Education in thri territory.

From 1959 until his election as mayor of Faaa, he occupied senioo positions in the government.

He married Elisa Snow in 1939 anm has seven children, of whom thd eldest is 25.

Mr. Sandford has never been , member of the Territorial Assembly! and was little known in the public life until two years ago.

His line appears to be that French Polynesia suffers from too mamn sterile discussions, too much politico and not enough action.

Footnote: In the election in New: Caledonia and the New Hebrides foio a new deputy in the French Parliae ment, the sitting member, Mr. RocHc Pidjot, of the Union Caledoniennen (nationalist party) had a comfortablel* win.

Cook Islands Stamps

Delay Explained

The Philatelic Bureau at Rarotonga in April explained and apologised to the numerous overseas stamp dealers and collectors who had not received the Cook Islands Christmas stamps they had ordered nor their money back (PIAA, April, p. 8).

The bureau said reasons for delays in filling orders were: The disruption of normal air services to the Cook Islands, infrequent shipping services, the "unexpected, ever-growing, overwhelming international demand" for Cook Islands stamps, the necessity to deposit foreign exchange in an Auckland bank because of the lack of banking facilities in Rarotonga, shortage of staff, and the delayed arrival in Rarotonga of some of the Christmas stamps.

It added that million stamps had been shipped out in the past three months. 32 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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NEW CALEDONIA: Etablissements Ballande. Rue de L’Alma Boite Postale 18, Noumea. 8.5.1. P.: British Solomons Trading Co. Ltd., Honiara.

NEW HEBRIDES: Les Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles-Hebrides, Vila and Santo.

FIJI: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, Lautoka, etc.

WESTERN SAMOA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.. Apia.

TONGA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Nukualofa and Vava’u.

TAHITI: Etablissements Donald. Papeete.

JAPAN: Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd., Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe and Nagoya.

EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, 9Connaught Rd.,Central. Hong Kong.

General Agents in Australia SWIRE & YUILL PTY. LTD., 8 Spring Street, Sydney. 27-4701. 34 MAY. 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLH

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These products are brought to you in jute, calico and hessian sacks, flour and meal also being available in drums. An important feature of Hutchinson flours and sharps is that they are entoleted, a process ensuring outstanding keeping qualities even under the most adverse conditions.

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Tropicalities If officials of the French company, Compagnie Francaise de I’Oceanie still take an interest in Pacific phosphate matters, they must frequently heave a sigh of relief that the deposits they worked at Makatea, French Polynesia, for 53 years have now given out.

HE fact is that exploiting—and you can put your own interpretai on that word—a Pacific phoste island is not what it used to ione are the fine old carefree s when it was just a matter of ging the phosphate out and shipg it away; when the happy-gocy local inhabitants were content i a 6d a ton royalty you paid them, s compensation for any trees you troyed.

'he time has now come when the Us —having woken up to the imise value of their islands’ deposits re demanding, at every oppority, that they be paid a fair price their phosphate.

'he world—Australia and New land, in particular—has heard a d deal these last few years of the :ess of the persistent people of jru. he Banabans, from neighbouring, •sphate-rich Ocean Island, have been able to make their presence to anywhere near the same effect the Nauruans, or to make anyire near the same financial press.

Getting noisier lut they have been moving fast 1 getting noisier in the last two rs. in April, Banaban leaders ded for London to demand more n the 7/- a ton they are getting. ; delegation comprises Rotan Tito, Banabans’ veteran leader, his son, Rev. Tebuke Rotan, and their U adviser, Mike Saunders, of r a.

Ve’ve seen the Banabans’ prepared 2. It says that “a just and equit- -2 distribution” of the financial efits derived from their island’s tsphate would be half to them, and f to the Gilbert and Ellic Islands ony, of which Ocean Island is a t. it present, 88 per cent, of the money

Plain Talking

FROM THE BANABANS available for distribution to them goes to the GEIC Government as tax.

This tax, the Banabans say, “is inequitable, wrong in principle, wrongly assessed, and based on figures reached by breaches of trust.”

These are strong words from polite people like the Banabans. But they believe the time has come for plainspeaking.

Mystery of Tonga’s 30-seniti stamps THE current mystery among the South Pacific’s increasingly cynical stamp-collecting fraternity is: What has become of all the overprinted 30-seniti stamps which the Tongan Government issued recently?

According to the Pacific Stamp Journal issued by John J. Bishop Ltd., of Auckland, there are supposed to be 28,800 30-seniti stamps, overprinted on the 2/- values in the 1953 definitive series. They are part of what the Journal describes as “an emergency provisional set necessitated by technical delays in the production of the new decimal definitives”. There are 16 other overprinted stamps in the set.

A friend of ours in Nukualofa, who tried to buy a couple of the 30-seniti stamps locally, finished up writing to a contact in New Zealand in an effort to get some from an NZ stamp dealer.

But the nearest he got to setting eyes on his quarry was a statement, received at about third-hand, that an Auckland dealer had had two sheets of the stamps, but had sold them to an overseas client.

Meanwhile, another friend of ours in Auckland has written to say that, after much trouble, he has managed to get one 30-seniti stamp, and that it has an error on it. There is an odd “3” at each end, so that the overprinting reads: “3 . . . 30 seniti . . . 3”.

Grassy green Norfolk IN spite of the scepticism of one interested reader, that grassy green picture of cattle grazing contentedly on Norfolk Island used on our March cover, is typical of Norfolk Island scenery. Norfolk is one South Seas island which does not greet the visitor with a vista of waving coconut palms.

The transparency, by the way, was taken by Mr. Wykeham Perry, private secretary to the Australian Minister for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, and it was used on Mr. Barnes’ personal Christmas card this year. Mr.

Perry is a keen colour photographer.

P-NG Intelligence at work WHILE we are in this explanatory mood, now seems a good time to say something about the background and the purpose of the New Guinea Special Branch. The branch has got a great deal of publicity in New Guinea lately and Percy Chatterton discusses it in his column this month {To the Point, p. 55), The Special Branch is part of the Papua-New Guinea Constabulary, and created as a result of a decision by a former Minister for Territories, Tebuke Rotan. 37 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Mr. Paul Hasluck. It’s creation was notified in the P-NG Government Gazette of October 15, 1964.

The present strength of the branch is 11 overseas officers, two New Guinean officers, four New Guinea sergeants and 18 constables.

We now take words out of the mouth of the P-NG Secretary for Law, Mr. W. W. Watkins, speaking in the House of Assembly; “The functions of Special Branch are the same as in Australia and most other countries of the world, including developing countries. Its responsibility is to detect subversive activities and thus contribute towards the maintenance of internal security.

Subversive activity is activity aimed at disrupting the work of Government by unconstitutional means.

“Officers of Special Branch are in fact Government Intelligence officers.

They collect information and make it available to the appropriate authority in Government who decides what action, if any, should be taken. They do not take any action themselves.

“Procedures for obtaining and processing intelligence are modelled on those used by Special Branches throughout the British Commonwealth. They are standard procedures and our Soecial Branch is not a clandestine organisation. It acts overtly and collects the greater part of its intelligence from District Intelligence Committees, which are comprised of the District Commissioner and his District staff.

“The Constabulary at present is concerned with the development of an efficient and effective Special Branch organisation which when properly established, will be capable of forewarning the Government of the day of any serious threat to its security which may arise.

“It is hoped that such an organisation will be operating in its intelligence gathering role well before -subversion is practised in the territory.

It is too late to start setting up such an organisation after the Government is subverted.”

That’s the background. For some of the practical problems and dangers, read Percy Chatterton.

A little bit of Australia THEY call it Guam, USA, and it is just about as American as an unincorporated territory of the United States can get. But one small part of it, high on the cliffs above Agana, is to all intents and purposes Australian.

It is the new SEACOM cable station operated by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia). The unusual looking station building and the staff houses behind it were designed and built in Guam but the personnel is Australian—a minor victory for the Commonwealth because the United States, naturally enough, would have preferred to work the station on an agency basis.

Guam is the only SEACOM station on non-British soil. It is connected to the south with Madang in P-NG, and to the west with Hong Kong.

Terminal points of SEACOM are Singapore and Cairns, Queensland.

Landlines then Jink the cable wi Sydney and COMPAC.

Although Guam OTC station dc not accept business it works wi United States communications opei tors who are joint-owners of t Guam-Philippines-Japan cables ai it also gives Guam and the USA new cable communication link wi Australasia and South-East Asia.

Including wives and children the are about 20 Australian residents the OTC compound—an Australia accent oasis in a sea of Americ; and Chamorro. The manager is W C. Hale; most of the personnel ha served in other Pacific cable statior including Suva and Fanning. Son knew New Guinea in the pre-w days before AWA was swallowed \ by nationalised OTC.

In April Mrs. Betty Wood w filling-in as receptionist in the fro office in Guam. She used to be Bet Holland of Rabaul. Her father, 01 of the best-known pre-war AWA rm in the territory was lost in tl Montevideo Maru.

Niueans can get into debt now jl/TANY years ago, when jobs an money were scarcer than the are today, a man on Niue who g( into debt would have found it almo: impossible to get out of it.

For this reason, the Niue Del Limitation Ordinance was introduce in 1923 to prohibit traders from e? tending credit to the Niueans, an so protect them from running int debt.

But conditions have changed o Niue, and those who could perhap run themselves into debt, now hav a chance of eventually paying it ofl In keeping with the changing times the old ordinance has been repealed and a new one enacted.

The new ordinance allows credi sales, provided that the purchase has sufficient ability to pay the ful purchase price. And provided he cai pay, on most items, 50 per cent deposit.

Gable from Honian

Your April Story Report

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Guam's new SEACOM cable static 38 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LI

W. Samoa To Get

200 PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS From R. F. Rankin in Apia Western Samoa’s Prime Minister Mata’afa announced n April that about 200 Jnited States Peace Corps olunteers would soon be /orking in the country.

IE said that the first group of about 140 volunteers, assigned i health, agriculture and public 'orks would arrive in November, nd another group of about 60, ssigned to education, would rrive in February. All will be niversity graduates.

They will serve for a two-year extendable) term after three lonths’ training in the Samoan mguage and culture, probably at le University of Hawaii. They ill live in Samoan villages as rdinary villagers.

About 80 of the volunteers will ssist in rural health and sanitaon. Of the education volunteers, ve will go to government ;condary schools and about 50 to lission primary and secondary :hools.

Education "crisis"

Agriculture will get about 20 olunteers for extension work, and ic rest will go to Public Works > water supply, road and ectrical engineers.

Some eyebrows were raised in pia at the low numbers rejested by the Education Departed, especially in view of msistent claims over the past few :ars that education was in a ate of crisis because of lack of lance and insufficient qualified aff. However, the Director of ducation, Mr, I. E. Dorman, said lat the primary school system as now adequately staffed and ;eded no European teachers.

Prime Minister Mata’afa said at Peace Corps assistance would :celerate the country’s drive wards economic, social and lucational improvement, which, itil now, has been hampered by ck of finance and insufficient ghly trained personnel.

Peace Corps? Fine! But Micronesia needs aid at the grass roots By JUDY TUDOR, just returned from Saipan At present there are about 450 Peace Corps volunteers working in the U.S. Trust Territory of Micronesia and before the end of 1967 there will likely be 250 more. There then will be one volunteer to every 150 Micronesians and one and a half volunteers to every regular expatriate public servant.

THE volunteers are mostly young, mostly inexperienced, mostly eager—and therein lies the strength as well as the weakness of the system.

Although American Peace Corps volunteers have been going to other under-developed countries for years, they did not move into the US’s own Trust Territory of Micronesia until late last year.

Micronesia asked for volunteers in May, 1966. A team of PC experts immediately went into operation in the US on a recruitment drive through 65 major colleges and universities.

They distributed thousands of attractive booklets that were entitled, predictably enough, The Peace Corps goes to Paradise.

The first paragraph in the booklet said: “Tropical islands. Enchanted evenings. Swaying palms and sunkissed maidens. Under-staffed schools. Bad roads. Insufficient medical facilities. Inadequate water and sanitary systems. An island territory that has to import its seafood. In short, there are problems in paradise.”

Some of the usual tests were dispensed with, applications were called for through newspapers and television advertisements and the usually exhaustive application form was cut down to suit. As a result the Trust Territory may have got a few more misfits than normal.

In no time at all, 3,000 applications were in from people who wanted to go to Micronesia and set paradise right. By August, 1966, 500 had been selected and were in training programmes in the United States or Hawaii. By the end of October the first 300 volunteers were in business in the Trust Territory.

The average age of the volunteers is 24; 70 per cent, are recent college graduates although some have inter- The Director of the US Peace Corps in the US Trust Territory is Mr. John Pincetich, who is seen here explaining a problem to members of his office staff, Joan M.

Rekemesik (left) and Margarette Agulto. Photo: "Micronesian Reporter". 39 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Saipan: Until recently, a school for spies rupted college courses for financial or other reasons. (Service in the Peace Corps can earn deferment from military service but does not carry exemption; while I was in Saipan two volunteers were, in fact, drafted.) About 70 per cent, of the corps are what are termed “generalists”. They have a BA degree and the theory is that they are, at this stage, easily trained for a variety of jobs—health work, social work, teaching English as a second language (which was the main aim of the programme in the initial stages).

Some are trying—and I say “trying” advisedly—to show Micronesians how to run hotels and small businesses.

Each volunteer is paid $BO a month plus $lO a month rental allowance.

A further $75 per month “readjustment allowance” is paid to them in a lump sum when they get home.

Washington foots the bill. Corpsmen serve for two years, including the initial training period.

Altruistic ideals Directing the volunteers, who are scattered over the territory’s 2,100 islands (total dry land area 687 square miles, afloat on three million square miles of water), is a headquarters staff in Saipan of about 13 who are on normal salaries.

The whole scheme is based on altruistic ideals, but it allows great scope for initiative and original thinking among these young volunteers, so it can have a practical value to them as well.

There are, for example, quite a proportion of young lawyers fresh out of law-school who would probably be sitting on their behinds in offices for some years before cases came their way.

In an undeveloped country like the Trust Territory, with no nongovernment legal opinion available, they have a ready-made clientele.

They get good experience and, as someone pointed out to me, they may even get to write the constitution in some emerging country and get a good background knowledge of international law.

The same goes for budding engineers. architects, surveyors and others who have already assisted the Trust Territory and its people in practical ways.

Nonetheless, the bias up to date has been on social services and as the whole basis of the scheme is for the volunteers to get right down to grass roots level with the indigenous people, this gives plenty of scope for starryeyed and impractical idealism in all its aspects.

It is this which occasionally produces friction between the volunteers and the more mature public servants on Saipan’s Capitol Hill, and out in the District Headquarters.

The volunteers are not subject to public service discipline, although it is laid down in their agreement that the High Commissioner must approve the number sent to the territory and the type of service to be performed by them. Otherwise, it seems up to the corps to decide what to do and how to do it. There appears to be a great deal of scope for both the corps and also individual members of it to initiate programmes or abandon them.

Some energy is thus dissipated in unproductive directions and there are complaints that because service is “voluntary” some corpsmen feel that they can fix their own hours of work, and also the kind of work, regardless of departmental or anyone else’s convenience.

The 1967 intake of volunteers is to be trained in Truk and not the United States; there has been time to screen them better and, I believe, there has been some effort made to recruit those with agricultural, horticultural and other scientific skills.

No veterinarians There is, at present, not one veterinarian in the whole of the Trust Territory, although private enterprise has now set up a ranch that occupies a quarter of Tinian and has stocked it with imported cattle.

There is a lamentable lack of tradesmen of the ordinary motormechanic, carpenter, plumber type and—with respect—it appears to me that this is the class of help the Trust Territory needs rather than an endless stream of young academics.

Peace Corps volunteers in the Trust Territory, at present, do in fact reflect the American education system that seems to turn out BA’s ad nauseam —graduates with often no place to go.

The civilian administration of the Trust Territory has had a tough time since the end of the Pacific war. It inherited three completely different groups of islands and people, scattered over vast areas of ocean.

The most governable islands, the Marianas, had been literally beaten into the ground by active warfare; its people bewildered after havii been adminstered by Spain, German Japan and then the United States, less than a century. The Mariam Carolines and Marshalls are n economically rich and the annu budget of the civil administration h never been of a size capable of cove ing more than essential expenditure Furthermore, from the early 195( to the early 1960’5, the main islan of the Marianas were again tak< from the civil administration. Behii the facade of the US Navy, th< were used by the US Central Intel gence Agency as a huge school f training master-spies from National] China for the infiltration of R( China.

During this time the Trust Ten tory headquarters operated fro Guam.

It is only in very recent years th the government has been gettir around to grappling with the re problems of the territory and no> of course, it is doing it in a Pacif that is alive with new politic thought.

The territory needs practical hel quickly and to this extent the Pea( Corps volunteers are an expedien But I doubt that they can ever I more than that.

The people of the territory are HI unwanted orphans who have bee handed around among indifferei relatives too long. What they wai now is some sort of fixed fathe; figure; someone whom they can curs* damn and blame, if they wish, bi essentially someone who will sta put and not go off after two years.

In short, they need well-traine field officers, permanent, mature e? patriate public servants and practicj technical experts.

They probably also need outsid private enterprise to come in and prc vide a living example of how efficier businesses operate—but that is ar other story, I don’t see the Peace Corps volur teers, idealistic although their motive are, fulfilling any of these vital an< down-to-earth needs.

Corps For Tonga?

Three members of the United States Peace Corps visited Tonga in April and had discussions with members of the Government and church leaders "to define"—as Tonga's "Chronicle" put it—"the areas in which the Peace Corps may possibly be of assistance to the kingdom". 40 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Seas Tourism And Travel

From The Inside

keep your eye on the Cooks rpHE atolls and islands of the Gool A Group are small and isolated, j far flung aggregate of only 93 squan miles of land rising out of 850,0(M square miles of ocean. There are U islands, lying almost exactly in th( centre of the South Pacific—astridt the 160th meridian and 1,660 mile: nor’east of New Zealand. Tahiti i: some 650 miles to the east of the main island of Rarotonga, and Samo< is 750 miles in the other direction To the south the ocean stretches awaj to the Roaring Forties and tc Antarctica.

Cook Islanders are New Zealand citizens, but since Atigust, 1965, they have been internally self-governing with a New Zealand High Commissioner representing the Queen. A Premier and a Cabinet handle the business of the day.

You travel by ship The traveller gets to the Cooks by ship—either in the 2,750-ton Moanc Roa, which makes monthly calls tc Rarotonga from New Zealand, or ir the Matson liners Mariposa and Monterey, which call alternatively every three weeks on the south-bound voyages from the US. There are occasional cruise ships, such as the Bergensfjord, which makes a dramatic picture on p. 41 as it anchors off Rarotonga against a remarkable moutainous backdrop.

No regular air service these days calls at the Rarotonga airstrip (below), for it is too short for the commercial aircraft available to use it. But there are plans to extend that strip so that more travellers may see the Cooks, and the Cook’s official policy now is to encourage them. So keep your eye on the Cooks.

Extended airstrip or not, the visitor will still need to travel by sea to reach the fascinating outer islands such as Mauke (right top), and Mitiaro (right, below). In the outer islands you land through the surf and take your chances with the rest. But what’s a little tropical rain? The photos are by Van Eijk and Meers. ■

43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

When work began recently on the foundations of the new Travelodge Hotel, next to the Grand Pacific, at Suva, a problem was to locate wartime tank traps, of steel rails embedded in concrete, which were thrown into the area for fill after the war. They were pinpointed in this aerial photograph, taken by the Fiji PRO in 1946; then carefully counted and removed without further trouble (right).

Hotel Takes

SHAPE Work is going ahead steadily on Fiji's late luxury hotel, the Fijian Hotel, on the beach Yanuca, about two hours from Nadi internation airport. This is the unusual dining room, bui on a rocky promontory, overlooking the reef ar beach. The photograph was taken from the r ception area. All photographs on this page ai by Rob Wright. 44 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

Pacific Air Services Will Soon Be

Like Heyday Of Trans-Atlantic'

By a staff writer The South Pacific air travel boom, which has been predicted for years, is right on the doorstep now according to three airline chiefs who all visited Sydney in April. They said the next few years would be “like the heydays of the trans-Atlantic run”, and economies of the Islands territories could expect to benefit in a big way.

OWER return fares and more to I come; package air tours, faster mbo jets, plus the lure of the cific as a different kind of holiday im Europe, will mean tourists in iter numbers.

Phe three top executives were all Sydney to arrange for a bigger :e of the new business.

Phe executives, Sir Giles Guthrie, tirman of BOAC, Mr. J. C. Gilmer, sident of Canadian Pacific Airlines, 1 Mr. J. G. O’Donnell, a vicesident, Pacific sales, of PanAm, ned up in Sydney within days of i another.

Jir Giles was inaugurating BOAC’s t service across the South Pacific m San Francisco to Sydney ough Nadi and Honolulu. It rted on April 1, with Boeing 707’s. lATA fares BOAC flew out nearly 60 travel ters from Europe and the United tes to promote the flight and pubse the South Pacific. At a Sydney ss conference, none of the writers flayed the slightest interest in the ith Pacific, and instead bombarded Giles with questions about the icorde and the Boeing 747. Neverless, the Pacific travel build-up has too much money behind it to dr. Gilmer was in Sydney to :nd the Pacific Industrial Conmce held at Qantas’ new Went- -th Hotel. dr. O’Donnell flew to Sydney for lAm’s celebrations of its 20 years trans-Pacific flights to Sydney.

'he three discussed their reactions the new lATA fares, the 747 ibo jets and what each airline had mind in the way of South Pacific /ices. ir Giles Guthrie said BOAC exted revenue from its new run dss the South Pacific to be worth i. 10 million by 1972-73. This ued to indicate that BOAC has is. not in the too-distant future. for increasing its three-a-week flights to make that sort of money.

Sir Giles felt travel potential in the South Pacific was “fantastic” and noted that two-way passenger traffic in the air between Australia and the United States was growing at a rate three times greater than that of the Atlantic run.

The lATA fares were “pretty reasonable” and the new package deal fares would be a major factor in the big travel increase.

Later, speaking in Melbourne after he had noted that cheaper fares were an important question to Australia and the Islands, Sir Giles said that a further cut of 25 per cent, in Pacific fares could occur within two years.

The cuts would be discussed by lATA within 12 to 18 months.

Sir Giles also had a word to say about hotel investment, and said that while BOAC was not committed like some big airlines, such as PanAm, it was looking at the hotel situation in Fiji with the British Development Corporation.

There was need for more hotels there, he said. He added that he could say no more.

Canadian Pacific’s Mr. Gilmer said the lATA fare reductions, which had taken effect in April, had not gone far enough. He believed that ordinary fares and return fares, without any conditions, could have been lowered by at least 45 per cent, and up to 50 per cent.

Another 25 pc cut?

The new fares could be cut by a further 25 per cent, and airlines could still make a profit. Mr. Gilmer went on: “We want to get the wageearner or the average man to fly and for this the existing fares are still too high. Canadian Pacific operates a fortnighly service from Vancouver to Sydney and can make a profit on this run. We would be prepared to cut our fares more if lATA would agree to it.”

He said Canadian Pacific had been overruled by the six other international air carriers at last year’s lATA conference when it urged 45 and 50 per cent drops in fares.

“All we managed to do was force the operators to reconvene the conference in 1968,” Mr. Gilmer said.

Canadian Pacific, although in the South Pacific for 18 years, is still small fry in this area. In May it was negotiating with the Australian Government for a weekly air service across the Pacific. Mr. Gilmer met the Prime Minister, Mr. Holt, in Canberra and no doubt raised the matter.

He said in Sydney he was “honeful” the weekly service would be apnroved because the current fortnightlv run was not a service, but an “infrequency”.

Canadian Pacific wants a greater Sir Giles Guthrie. travel CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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Prince Charles Edward’S Liqueur

More and more people are asking for the historic liqueur from Scotland.

The ancient recipe for Drambuie includes old Scotch whisky, heather honey and delicate herbs I DRAMBUJt frequency on its present run and m new stops at present in the Sout] Pacific.

It will continue using DCB’s am has not ordered any Jumbo jets. Lat this year it expects delivery of th new DCB-63 jets, which will carr 205 passengers (the present DCS’ carry 141 people).

However, the DCB-63’s will fl south only as far as Hawaii and ther are no plans to put them in the Sout] Pacific.

Jumbo Jet Boeing 747’5, capable o carrying 350 passengers, will fly th South Pacific in 1970, possibly lat 1969, on a United States-Australi run if Pan Am’s current applicatioi to the US Civil Aeronatics Board i approved.

Mr. O’Donnell said as PanAm wa the first airline to order the Jumbi jets it will get the first delivery am so be ahead of its six rival inter national air carriers in the Sout] Pacific.

Hie Jumbos, so called because o their immense size, are being built a the Boeing company’s plant nea Seattle. They will be the world’ biggest commercial jet airliner am fly at 625 mph. The first prototyp is scheduled to be ready early nex year and fly before the end of 1968 Cabin arrangements at presen include nine-abreast seating, split b two aisles.

The 747 is seen as an air-bus o the future on long-distance route around the globe, although thi problem of airports to take them ha not yet been solved.

Jumbos daily Mr. O’Donnell, said the Jumb< 747’s would fly daily from Lo Angeles to Sydney and Melbourm via Honolulu and return.

“Hie 747’s will only need the om stopover on the run from the UJ and we are hopeful they will neec only one stopover, at Honolulu, oi the way back to the States, but thi: is not certain yet,” he said.

PanAm at present stops off at Fiji American Samoa and New Zealanc on its trans-Pacific runs with Boeing 707’s and in June will also operafi through Noumea. (See p. 49).

Mr, O’Donnell said 707’s would b( retained when the 747’s went intc service and the 707’s would continue stopping off in the South Pacific.

To PIM questions, Mr. O’Donnel said PanAm had examined the idee 46 travel MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

a triangle route from Honolulu to go Pago and then on to Guam, or yajalein in the Marshall Islands of : US Trust Territory. The three ps were well within the flying ige of a Boeing 707, he said. ‘We just don’t have any immediate ns to fly a commercial service 0 the Trust Territory because flic doesn’t warrant it,” he said, ut we certainly haven’t ruled out ; idea.”

Te said the lATA air fares, which ne into operation in April, were ;11 of a good progress” towards jviding cheaper fares for trans- :ific travellers, but he had nothing say about moves to lower them 1 further.

Meanwhile, with all fares pegged der the lATA agreement, and liliar jets in service on all lines, thing which will win or lose itomers in the South Pacific is the ndard of service. [n a battle for the tens of thousands travellers who will spend millions dollars in the South Pacific, someng like an original menu, a genuine ile or a comfortable seat could ke an awful lot of difference.

Footnote : Pacific managers of the inch airline UTA were to meet in dney early in May to discuss plans ■ coping with the increasing tourist crest in the region. The airline’s siness manager, Mr. Gilbert Mas- , was to come from Paris for the :eting.

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By a staff writer The introduction of pure-jet Boeing 727 s on the Australia- New Guinea route cuts the return flying time by three hours and enables travellers, at last, to visit New Guinea and return to Australia in daylight hours.

IN addition, on some days each week the New Guinea service will begin from Melbourne. Until now all NG services have originated and ended in Sydney.

From May 11 the two Australian airlines, TAA and Ansett-ANA, will replace their Electras with the 727’5, which carry up to 116 people.

The 727’s will terminate in Port Moresby instead of Lae; and onwards passengers will travel either by Viscount or Fokker Friendship. This is a backward step for Lae travellers, made necessary by airport restrictions.

Flying time of an Electra on a single trip from Sydney to Port Moresby will be cut from five hours 35 minutes to about three hours 55 minutes with the 727’5.

For example, the 727 will leave Sydney at 7 a.m., arrive at Brisbane at 8.10 a.m., leave Brisbane at 8.50 a.m, and arrive at Port Moresby at 11.35 a.m.

After over an hour’s break, the 727 will leave Port Moresby at 12.45 p.m., arrive at Brisbane at 3.30 p.m., leave Brisbane at 4.11 p.m. and return to Sydney at 5.20 p.m,—only a couple of hours more than a day’s work.

Ansett-ANA will make 727 flights to Port Moresby from Melbourne, via Sydney and Brisbane, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays; on Fridays the airline will fly to Port Moresby from Sydney via Brisbane.

All flights will return to Sydney or Melbourne the same day.

TAA will make two flights a week to Port Moresby, starting at Melbourne (Tuesdays and Thursdays) and two from Sydney (Saturdays and Sundays).

From May 11 both airlines will introduce Viscounts on their Queensland-Port Moresby runs to replace Fokker Friendships. The Viscounts will cut flying time on the Cairns-Port Moresby hop by about 20 minutes.

The new daylight schedules between Australia and P-NG have been longawaited, and are long overdue.

Present services make it necessary for midnight departures from Sydney, and flights through the night ending in dawn arrival at Port Moresby.

All very well for airline trafficscheduling offices, but plane-hell for NG travellers, whose needs have been made subservient to the glamour inter-capital runs. 47 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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An Air Navigation Bill, paving te way for regular air services ) Nauru, was introduced at a leeting of the island’s Legislave Council in March by the 'fficial Secretary, Mr. Vizard.

LT present, the only aircraft visiting Nauru are those on charter ghts—usually to take official >itors or schoolchildren to and from jstralia.

However, the United States Govament has recently shown interest establishing an air link between mru and the Marianas District of ? US Trust Territory. ( PIM, Nov,, 131).

Explaining the Air Navigation Bill the Nauru Legco, Mr. Vizard said it before any regular air service to d from the island could be estab- )ed, control over the aerodrome d any air service that would operate auld be placed on a proper legal sis.

Control He said the bill provided for such itrol and incorporated the basic nciples of Australian legislation on ■ subject.

It provided for the establishment an aerodrome and associated seres and facilities to be under the ieral control and management of Administrator, yir. Vizard said it was extremely ikely that any aircraft operator uld be prepared to fly aircraft ularly to and from Nauru unless sort facilities were of an acceptable idard of safety. He added that the did not provide for any particular e of aircraft to be operated.

SYDNEY surgeon, Mr. N. H.

Morgan, and his wife, have inted £8,500 in three beach cabins, 1 a house at Korotoga, near the end of Fiji’s “Golden mile”.

Tie manageress in charge of the ject, known as Korotoga Cabins, s in one of the cottages, which is available for letting. cottage has a bed-sitting m, with sleeping accommodation four, a kitchen and bathroomi-toilet.

'here are three double bedrooms in the house, and a big living room, about 40 ft by 40 ft, plus kitchen, bathroom, toilet and laundry.

The buildings are only 15 ft from the sea, and about three-quarters of a mile from the Reef Lodge Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Morgan expect that electricity will be installed within six months.

Each unit is fully self-contained. All a tenant has to provide is food.

The rent for the cabins is £l2/10/a week, and the house is available at £l5/10/-.

Hunts Travel Service is in charge of bookings.

FROM May 6, subject to Government approval, Fiji Airways will have three weekly services between Nadi, Suva and Nukualofa instead of two. The existing services are on Tuesdays and Thursdays; the new service will be on Saturdays.

On Saturdays, the plane will leave Nadi at 0845 and Suva at 1000, arriving in Tonga at 1400. The return flight will begin at 1445, reaching Suva at 1645 and Nadi at 1815.

PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS from June 17 will fly through Noumea on Mondays on its trans-Pacific runs and so provide a daily trans-Pacific service in both directions.

The Noumea run will leave Sydney on Monday at 4 p.m., and arrive at Noumea at 7.35 p.m., leave at 8.30 p.m., arrive at Pago Pago at 1.45 a.m. Monday (having crossed the International Dateline), leave at 2.25 a.m. and reach Honolulu at 8.30 a.m.

The return flight will leave Honolulu on Sunday at 1 a.m., arrive at Pago Pago at 5.10 a.m., leave at 6.10 a.m., arrive at Noumea on Monday at 7.55 a.m., leave at 8.45 a.m. and reach Sydney at 10.45 a.m.

Pan Am from June will operate to the US West Coast from Sydney on Mondays via Noumea and Pago Pago, Tuesdays via Nadi, Wednesdays via Nadi, Thursdays via Auckland, Fridays via Nadi, Saturdays via Auckland and Pago Pago and Sundays via Nadi All flights will go through Honolulu.

LES PEARSON, one of Fiji’s best known businessmen, was to take over as mine host at one of the colony’s leading resort hotels at the beginning of May.

Mr. Pearson severs a long connection with Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. to take up an appointment as sole executive manager of the Reef Lodge Hotel, at Korotoga.

Built four years ago by New Zealand financiers on property purchased from Barry Philp, the hotel has had several managers. Until lately it was administered by Fiji chartered accountants R. S. Kay and Company, who have now handed control over to a firm of accountants in Christ- The things you find!

Although more than 20 years have passed since World War II ended, visitors to the Solomons can still find plenty of evidence of the fierce battles that raged there. Here Rhondda Wraith, 20-year-old member of the crew of the Australian ketch “Eilander”, holds a shell that she picked up on Guadalcanal.

The BSIP is currently making a drive for tourists. 49 travel CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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Mrs. M. Hardwick, well-known i Fiji’s hotel industry, who has manage the hotel for the past year on beha of the Fiji accounting firm, is t make a world-tour before rejoinir the staff of the Fiji Mocambo Hob from which she was seconded at th request of R. S. Kay & Co.

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AN indication of the growing in portance of tourism in the Ne l Hebrides was seen in mid-April whe Miss Tessa Franklin, who is i; charge of the Tourist Enquiries Offic set up by the Chamber of Con merce in Vila, left for Seattle t attend a conference of the Pacifi Area Travel Association. Mr. Fieri Bourgeois, of Coral Tours in Vih is also attending the conference.

THE foundation stone of the 20( room hotel to be built a Taharaa, about 2i miles east c Papeete, was laid on April 20 in th presence of about 500 invited guest; The hotel is being built by French-registered company, Societ Hoteliere de Taharaa, of which Mi Joseph M. Long, of San Franciscc is president ( PIM, Mar., p. 135).

THE Fiji Visitors Bureau expecl an increase in travel to Fiji as result of the establishment of a nei Mr. L. Pearson. 50 MAY. 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Tourist inquiries are at present tidied by the Fiji Government Repicntative’s office in Sydney, which s had such an increase in requests it it became obvious that a special ice was required. Sydney manager 1 be Mr. Russ Gribble (pictured), o has been Fiji Government Printer ce 1960. His first task will be to iduct a market survey.

TVITATIONS to more than 25 prospective contenders among ding air carriers to submit •posals for the operation of comrcial air services in the Trust ritory of Micronesia were sent out April. Advertisements in aviation, le and financial journals will invite other interested parties to make offer for at least five years of /ice. *an American Airways has served Territory since July 1, 1960, and present agreement will expire on member 31, 1967. Because of the ence of local commercial facilities, Trust Territory is contracting for imercial air transport. ‘resent commercial service consists of a daily DC-4 service, except Sundays, between Guam and Saipan; bi-weekly DC-4 service between Guam, Yap and Koror, Palau; and weekly DC-4 flight service between Guam, Truk, Kwajalein and Majuro, Marshall Islands. Weekly service between Truk and Ponape, and Ponape- Kwajalein, is provided by SA-16 amphibian aircraft making connections at Truk and Kwajalein with weekly eastbound and westbound DC-4 flights. The current air service system consists of 2,589 unduplicated route miles and it is expected by the Administration that approximately 30,000 revenue passengers will be served during the current fiscal year.

THE Matson company next year is to re-schedule its ports of call in the South Pacific as a result of increased traffc between Australia and the US.

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Vila has been added to the schedule for the first time, and this port is being visited instead of Noumea.

The Mariposa will visit Melbourne later in that month and from Sydney will sail direct to Suva, missing the Noumea stop again. 51 travel C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1967

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THE details of the conference wer given in PIM in March (p. 121] The Heart of Polynesia Conferenc is designed to prove to the masse that authentic Polynesians don’t a come from over-publicised Tahiti.

Certainly there is no doubt tha there is a new consciousness o tourism in the kingdom of Tonga Tourism is a much discussed subjeci Work on the new deepwater whar at Nukualofa is progressing and soo: modern ships will be able to com alongside instead of being anchored i: the stream with passengers bein lightered ashore, and subjected to a: occasional drenching.

Most local Tongans are aware tha the new wharf will mean a steppin up in the cottage industry business with still more souvenirs, shells, hats shoes, baskets, maps and tapa bein required.

This will suit the local residents who now await the arrival of cruis* ships to make their own purchases ii the malae, since on boat days th selection of native ware is far greate and the price cheaper than on ordi nary days.

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At the end of April this broac outline of the coronation programme was released in Nukualofa, and give; visitors an idea of what to expect: JULY 4: Morning; Coronatior service Royal Chapel. Evening: Choir festival, and Tupakapakanava 52 travel MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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“Friday afternoon and Saturday will be taken up by activities by the Sports Federation, the Turf Club, the Rugby Union and the Tennis Association. In addition, over the three days there will be arranged a display of Samoan artifacts, an agricultural display and an art display by local artists who have reached a surprisingly high standard under instructor Fr. George.”

FOR the first time in many years, through passengers were not allowed ashore when the Tofua called at Niue in March. The weather was too rough. The weather, however, was not bad enough to stop cargo operations, but it would have made landing conditions for passengers difficult.

The sellers of baskets and hats and fans, and other Niue woven ware, who sell to passengers on boat day, had a disappointing day.

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WITH PERCY CHATTERTON I sensed that I had lost the attention of my pupils and looked round to discover why. The reason was immediately apparent. The village constable was standing in the doorway, and he didn’t look at all pleased. I took him into my office to find out what was the matter. He was very hot and very annoyed, and he plunged straight into his story. i N overseas vessel had been in port x over the weekend, and, as was ic custom in those days, a number I small boys from the village had liled across the harbour in a canoe i provide the passengers with enterinment, and themselves with pocket oney, by diving for pennies. Standg on their canoe or splashing about the water they shouted “Throw e”, “Throw me”, to the passengers tiing the rail. (Incidentally this practice added neologism to the Motu language, iha teroumi”, volunteered a young lice in explanation of a fellow-pupil’s isence from roll call . . . “He’s gone i dive for pennies”. Puzzling at st hearing, but simple enough when lu’ve worked it out).

A quarrel Presently a quarrel had arisen nong the young divers, and they had arted abusing one another in good, ilourful Australian. Unfortunately •r them, our Resident Magistrate he pre-war Papuan equivalent of istrict Officer) had been on board siting friends among the passengers, id he had overheard them.

Now, our RM had been recently ansferred to Port Moresby from an itstation, and was unaware that the ustralian expressions he had overjard were among the small change : Hanuabadan conversation. He was locked.

So on this Monday morning, as »on as the village constable had ported at the RM’s office, he was ■dered back to the village to scover the young culprits and bring iem in for a magisterial reprimand.

The VC was not amused. He had ready walked the 2i miles from anuabada to the RM’s office in iwn; there was no motor transport i speak of in those days.

He had had to retrace his steps, id he would now have to return to iwn with the culprits, and finally Role of the New Guinea police trudge back to the village in the afternoon —ten miles instead of five.

I assembled the school, between 400 and 500 young Papuans of both sexes and all ages from six to 16, and handed over to him. From my own experience in similar situations, I expected that it would take him several hours to uncover his victims.

I misjudged him; it took him five minutes.

The seven small swearers were lined up in front of the school, the cynosure of all eyes. Then the VC turned to the assembled pupils and addressed them.

The use of European swearwords, he said, was reserved for Europeans only. Europeans did not like to hear Papuans, and particularly Papuan children, using them.

Their use was forbidden by the Government and (with a deferential gesture in my direction) frowned on by the Church. Moreover it was quite unnecessary.

As his hearers well knew, the Motu language contained some expressions quite as abusive, and reflecting quite as unfavourably on the abused person’s parentage, as any of those introduced by the white men.

These could safely be used in front of, and even about, Europeans, as very few Europeans understood what these expressions meant except (with another deferential gesture in my direction) quite unusual ones such as their missionary.

But the use of European swearwords was an offence against God and the Establishment, and worse still, caused him, their constable, a great deal of trouble. This must not occur again.

His eyes travelled slowly over the Hanuabada is still the same distance from the Port Moresby District Office as it ever was—and still built for the most part over the sea, although the houses themselves have been rebuilt since the war.

This photograph was taken in March. 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1967

lines of children, producing an effect reminiscent of a gust of wind passing over a wheatfield. Then he turned menacingly on the luckless seven.

“Now”, he roared, “you come with me, you little b s”.

The cortege withdrew. The sudden expulsion of air from the lungs of nearly 500 children who had all been holding their breath at the same time dislodged a large map of the world, which fell to the floor with a crash. Peace reigned.

He wasn't a bad VC, though, that chap; and Hanuabada was a better behaved village then than it is today.

Village constables are a dying race. As local government comes in, the VC’s are retired. Many of their former functions are now performed by local government council officials, while their purely police functions have been taken over by regular police of the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary.

'Amateur' village constable In an increasingly sophisticated society in which the force of “tribal law” is fading, it is probably just as well that the professional policeman should take over from the amateur, which is what the village constable generally was.

Of course, it did occasionally happen that an ex-regular policeman But is Port Moresby really so lawless? was appointed as VC of his home village. But often village constables were chosen for qualities which were not immediately apparent.

“He was my cook for years and looked after me well,” said an ADO of one of these. “When he decided to go back to his village I thought it would be fair enough to make him VC”. He may have been a good cook, but he was a very indifferent village constable.

As I have said, Hanuabada was a more law-abiding place in pre-war days than it is now. So, for that matter, was Port Moresby town, with its one European policeman, Tom Gough, assisted by a small squad of Papuan constables.

True, there were only about 400 Europeans in the place, and a mere handful of non-local Papuans, mainly cooks from Suau and wharfies from Goaribari. And Tom, trudging around on foot, gentle and soft-spoken, managed to keep us in order without too much trouble.

Today, with 10,000 Europeans and 30,000 Papuans and New Guineans, it takes a small army of police— European and indigenous—dashing around in patrol cars equipped with sirens and searchlights, to keep the place under control; and according to some of my fellow MHA’s the control is not too good.

At the last meeting of the House of Assembly, some members had hard things to say about what they regarded as the lawlessness of Port Moresby, the inadequacy of the police, the too lenient sentences passed on offenders, and the too luxurious conditions in the gaols.

On the last point, our Controller . Corrective Institutions has reacted with vigour, commenting tartly that the honourable member who compared our Port Moresby Gaol with the Chevron-Hilton Hotel had probably never stayed in either.

I certainly haven’t, so I refrain from comment. But I do think that a point made by the Controller, that the most rigorous and austere conditions which our civilised consciences will allow us to impose may well appear luxurious to some of the territory’s more primitive citizens is well taken.

No easy solution There doesn’t seem to be any easy solution to this difficulty, short of acceding to the demands of those Highlands leaders who cry with Alice’s Duchess, “Off with their heads!”

On the general question of lawlessness, we cannot expect as low a crime rate now as we had when the town population was numbered in hundreds and tribal sanctions were still strong in the neighbouring villages. Lawlessness has been on the increase during the intervening years not only in Port Moresby, but throughout the “civilised” world.

Is Port Moresby really so lawless?

To date we have had no bank holdups, and I have heard of only one mass-rape case.

We don’t have raids on betting offices, because, fortunately, we don’t have any TAB offices to be raided.

We have our occasional murder, but so have Australian cities.

Not a high crime rate I have no'figures to go on, but I would venture to guess that, in proportion to population, our rate for murder, rape and other crimes of violence is not higher than that for Sydney or Melbourne.

My wife and I live in an area which was shown by the 1966 census to be the most thickly populated In an increasingly sophisticated society it is just as well the "professional policeman" should be trained to take over from the "amateur"—the old village constable —says Percy Chatterton in this article. Here, one of the new professionals, a police recruit, gets his first instructions at the P-NG Constabulary training centre, Port Moresby. 56 may, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

:ctor of the town, and the populaon of this area is predominantly idigenous. But we have no worries; e feel at least as safe as we would [ a Sydney or Melbourne suburb, irhaps safer.

Our nights are quiet enough too, Lcept for an occasional guitar party i pay night. Occasionally a brawl •eaks out, and then, as we have le of the very few telephones in e area, I am generally asked to ng for the police.

My experience is that on such ocisions they arrive with a minimum ; delay and, contrary to criticism hich has been levelled at them from me quarters, deal with the situation omptly and effectively.

It is an advance in relations ;tween police and public that in ich situations the police are called r at all. Only a few years ago, if had approached the scene of a awl, half-a-dozen of the brawlers ould have rushed up to me and id, “Don’t call the police, we’ll ttle this ourselves”.

So on the whole I don’t go along ith the critics.

Police are improving I think that the police are not too id, and are steadily improving in ficiency and, in spite of some dismtent over pay and working contions. improving in morale.

The change to a more sensible if 5S picturesque, uniform, and the lining of Papuans and New uineans as sub-inspectors, has a t to do with this. And I think that ly increase in lawlessness which s taken place here is far less serious an the increase in lawlessness which is taken place in Australia, or in most any country you could name the “western world”.

Anyway, our police force is now nipped with all mod cons, includg photography, ballistics and fingerinting. We have police dogs too, id by all account these live in some easure of luxury even if the gaolrds don’t.

Finally we have a Special Branch, lould we have a Special Branch? so, what should it do and how ould it go about it?

Individual freedom That enterprising body, the Papua id New Guinea Society, recently aged a panel discussion in Port oresby on “Individual Freedom and e Police Special Branch”.

Two of the three speakers who )ened up the subject were lawyers, ae being the Professor of Law at the University of Papua and New Guinea. The third speaker was a Papuan high school teacher who is also a part-time student at the university.

The stream of questions which followed their addresses reflected the keen public interest in this subject.

It appeared to be generally agreed that in this age of conflicting ideologies we have got to learn to live with a “special branch”; though the Papuan member of the panel had reservations about this, and thought that Australia should have waited until the indigenous people asked for Particular 0/ the Special Branch one instead of wishing one on to them.

The lawyers made great play with the fact that members of the Special Branch have no powers over and above those possessed by other members of the police force, but some members of the audience seemed sceptical about the value of this safeguard.

It emerged very clearly that what Papuans and New Guineans fear is not that the Special Branch will take them to court, where their guilt or innocence can be established before an impartial tribunal, but that it won’t.

Instead, so the fear goes, it will communicate inadequately substantiated reports on its files to employers, to the detriment of the employee’s chances of promotion, opportunities for educational visits overseas, and even continued employment.

This fear undoubtedly, and understandably, looms large in a situation in which a very large majority of educated and politically aware indigenes are employed by the Administration itself.

Assurance needed An assurance that the contents of the Special Branch’s files will not be divulged either to Government departments or to outside employers unless and until it has been decided to institute court proceedings against the persons to whom the files refer, would do much to reconcile Papuan and New Guinean public opinion to the existence of the Special Branch.

A second point which emerged from the discussion was that special branches throughout the Commonwealth seem to have adopted “Eyes Left” as their motto, and don’t seem to be much worried about threats to security from other sources than Communism.

Is this attitude realistic in the territory situation? In the light of events in other parts of the world, is not an army take-over at least as likely as a communist one?

And in our local situation, is a seizure of power by a communist minority more likely than a coup d’etat by fanatical seventh-staters, or a secession plot by Western Highlanders bent on establishing a Rajahdom of Pyrethrumia?

Port Moresby

PERSONALITY Ex-nurse Pam Kirke has been living in Port Moresby since her marriage 14 years ago. She belongs to Inner Wheel and the Victoria League —owns a fashion shop at Boroko and a children’s wear shop at Badilli. Her husband is a Port Moresby solicitor.

They have a family of two boys and two girls, aged 13, 12, 11 and 8 years.

The three eldest are schooling in Sydney.

Sibyl Lloyd 57 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Eric Feldt believes ( and he was there)

New Guinea'S Between-Wars Administration

Is Too Frequently Misunderstood

By ERIC FELDT, pre-war District Officer A new edition of Dr. Peter Lawrence’s, Road Belong Cargo, issued in paperback by the Melbourne University Press in April, will give many people the chance to read the work of an anthropologist who applies his specialist knowledge to New Guinea as it is, and does not inhabit an ivory tower in a static native society.

DR. LAWRENCE’S book is an investigation of cargo cult in the southern part of the Madang District, and he derives most of his information from natives. To do so he had to win their confidence, and thus his book is not only a work of anthropology but a valuable account of the course of native thought.

As such, it is a book that I welcome and it should, I think, be required reading for all at the United Nations who make trusteeship decisions.

Dr. Lawrence traces the rise of cargo cult from the landing of Baron Miklouho-Maclay on the Rai Coast in 1871 to the beliefs which have persisted to the present day.

When Maclay landed, the white man’s goods—firearms, knives, axes, cloth, ships, shoes and sealing wax— were so far beyond native comprehension that they could only ascribe the creation of such goods to magic. And yet today the beliefs persist despite the evidence of the participants’ own eyes that bullocks can be turned into tinned meat.

Future not easy Dr. Lawrence points out that cargo cult can become an important feature in the political relationship between Australia and Papua-New Guinea, and discusses ways in which the belief may be guided into an evolution towards modern thinking.

But in my view it will not be easy.

The native has such an ability to twist anything he is told into his own different version that no one can be assured of the outcome.

It is, for instance, because Dr.

Lawrence has derived so much of his information from native sources that he is, I think, less than iust to the between-wars Administration of New Guinea. For the record. I would like to say something on these aspects.

In the early twenties, our first concern was to avoid the drastic decline in population which had taken place in every other Pacific area after contact with western culture. Anthropological advice at the time was to leave the native, as far as possible, to lead his own life in his own way until he adjusted himself to a commercial world.

There was no real fall tion in New Guinea, but for this we get no thanks.

Dr. Lawrence reports the plea that natives were deprived of their land.

I do not defend the acquisitions by the Germans in the early days, but it should be pointed out that all of these were investigated and the wrong righted as far as possible.

Today in New Guinea the plea i being raised that natives did no understand the transaction and s< the land should be restored to them First of all, such a small proportioi of land has been alienated that thi cannot be a general claim.

Further, it is noteworthy that nativi claims to restoration are almos always for valuable land—land whicl has only become valuable by reasoi of European development. There an claims today for land at Lae, bu none for land at Morobe and Sala maua.

We had no financial assistance fron the Commonwealth in those earlj days but lived on our own revenue Our first duty was to bring the country under control and so establish a peaceful order. This with the supervision of native labour and the supply of medical services (which themselves cost more than the head-tax collected), left no money for anything else.

Cultural indigestion We could have done more in education, but not much more in view of the cultural indigestion of the natives.

Opportunities were there for the native to make money if he would.

He had his own land, he knew how to grow coconuts and make copra, as he had worked at it on plantations, and there was a ready market. But only rarely would he do it.

In the early twenties, I remember that Goi, of Namatanai, was one man who did so, and he had a Europeanstyle cottage. His wife would not live in it, and occupied a native material hut alongside.

Some officers, at the risk of being accused of having used forced labour, ordered natives to plant coconuts on the excuse that they were food crops, “Road belong cargo”

Peter Lawrence, author of “Road Belong Cargo”, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Queensland. The new paperback edition of his book (published by Melbourne University Press in April at $3.00) follows the original hard cover of 1964, with the exception of a brief preface in which he makes one or two corrections, and a two-page “Postscript for 1966”, which brings cargo cult development in the Madang area up-to-date. In the postscript he says that since 1958 many natives in southern Madang seem to have accepted development as a potentially satisfactory alternative to cargo cult.

The main problem is still how far progress is being impeded by a series of small but active cargo cults, or by diffuse cargo thinking. 58 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

>ut really with the object of increasng their money income. But the latives were lethargic.

It has been pleaded that the natives lad no money, but it was later ;stimated that 10 million shillings vere hoarded in villages by the time Vorld War II broke out. Another :xcuse is that they did not know ;nough about money, but anyone who ried to take it off them found, finally, hat they knew something.

When the depression came, many >f us believed that the native producer, laving no overhead, would weather t better than the planter. But it did lot work out that way. Native-proluced copra was of such poor quality hat it could not be sold, and copra nspection had to be introduced to irotect the market. There was no inister plot to prevent the native naking copra.

Wages compared well Incidentally, native wages were not educed during the big economic deiression—a rare distinction. Overall, he wages of the unskilled worker :ompared well with those in such :ountries as the Philippines, Hong £ong, Malaya and Java. And there vere so few skilled native workers n New Guinea that no comparison :an be made at this level.

But copra production was for the :oastal natives. For the inlanders there was no economic solution apart from going off to work, unless the country round was auriferous. Though hundreds of them had worked alluvial gold, they would not work their own areas. Both as DO and as Warden, I tried to induce them to do so without success. The Waria Valley was perfect for it.

Today natives are working gold but there is no reason why they should not have done so 30 years ago— nothing except conservatism and laziness.

Our Administration was admittedly paternal. But I still believe it was the most humane way of governing the country at the time. If we had forced the native into a civilised commercial way of life then, he would have died off in thousands. The other alternative was to have imported Eastern coolie labour, in which case the result would have been worse still.

Such a long time We waited for the native to adjust himself to modern life, giving him the opportunity to learn from what went on around him, and from activities in which be participated.

But we did not realise that it would take such a long time.

While we were doing what we could with a shortage of money and staff, cargo cult waxed and waned through the years, as Dr. Lawrence now tells us. It never died out, even with missionary influence—for Christianity had them searching for a new way to break the white man’s hold on cargo—the search for the correct ritual.

Most whites knew nothing of any of this at the time. In the two years I was District Officer at Madang I heard not a whisper of it (although, admittedly DO’s, like husbands, are the last to hear).

Might I make a comment about Yali, that native of great courage and strong character, who became the

Man Behind The Coatwatchers

ERIC FELDT was an officer of the New Guinea Administration from 1923 to World War 11.

As a wartime commander with the Australian Navy, he was responsible for the organisation and supervision of the Coastwatcher intelligence network. He now lives in Brisbane. Mr. Feldt takes advantage of the publication of Peter Lawrence’s “Road Belong Cargo” in paperback to explain and defend some of the attitudes of the pre-war New Guinea Administration. In some things, he feels, the Administration is not given sufficient credit for attempting to do a difficult job with insufficient resources. By happy coincidence, the Australian publication of Lawrence's “Road Belong Cargo” coincides with the release of the first Australian paperback of Feldt’s own book, “The Coast Watchers’ * (Angus and Robertson, $1.25). “The Coast Watchers” has had only one hard-cover edition, the original one of 1946, which is now a collector’s item, likely to fetch as much as $20,000 on the second-hand market. There have been two previous paperback editions —one published in America and another in France, in French. The American paperback is a more concise edition of the original; and the French one is not a literal translation, and also it has been rearranged. The new Australian paperback is thus the closest to the original 1946 edition, and therefore of special interest. It is a reprint of it, omitting the foreword, the photographs and the lists of those Coastwatchers who served—but it has a final chapter bringing the story to the end of the war, as have the French and American editions. Some controversial items about the commandos at Kavieng, and Coastwatcher Murphy at Rabaul have been amended or omitted, on legal advice, in this new edition as in the others.

A recent photo of Yali. 59 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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Colourful but vague promises were made, but it is just possible that Yali asked someone if ships would bring cargo (in the cult sense) and had got an affirmative reply meant in the ordinary commercial sense.

I think it is important to remember that Yali gave his story after his failure, when he was an embittered man following his savage gaol sentence (and he has my full sympathy for what happened to him there). But after failure we all enhance points which protect our self esteem.

There is criticism of our Administration that any District Officer could legally put any native in gaol if he set out to do so; for that matter any traffic cop can catch any motorist in Sydney or Brisbane if he tries hard enough.

Cargo cult is, basically, a belief in a ritual solution of a practical problem. But ritual cannot be dismissed altogether; we have our own people who believe in it. Apart from religious ritual, some people vote for the same political party every election; some attend universities and acquire degrees they will never use; others collect orders and decorations.

In Road Belong Cargo, Dr.

Lawrence shows how native thought works when confronted by the modern world, which is a step towards knowing why he thinks that way, and so combating it.

But it remains to be explained why, in areas as far apart as Bougainville and the Vailala. whose myths are quite different, the same cargo cult beliefs have appeared. I hope that Dr. Lawrence will be able to apply himself to this problem. (1) OUT OF THE PAST A wartime Japanese fighter plane of the type known as “Tony” has recently been discovered in the Sepik jungle about 40 miles from Ambunti. Cadet Patrol Officer Alan Stevens in April reported it in “exceptional condition” with the rear controls still working smoothly, the airframe sound, and the ammunition still good and covered with a thin film of grease.

All ammunition trays were full. 60 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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From a Tarawa correspondent Nobody, it seems, quite knows why, but in recent months an era of rapid development has begun in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony such as the colony has never known before. rHE colony’s Marine Department is getting more and bigger ships; he Public Works Department is acing ahead with all sorts of proects; the Wholesale Society has >egun several ambitious schemes; the Uopra Board and the co-operative ocieties are on the march; and the -oans Board seems anxious to proide funds to promote new fields of >usiness.

The opinion is widely held that the arious developments are part of a Jovernment scheme to prepare the olony for eventual independence; yet otal independence seems unlikely, as t is hard to see that the colony can ver stand on its own feet without nancial aid.

Whatever the answer is, the new ra has brought increased wages and n abundance of work; more motor chicles and more traffic offences; nd more of the various other social roblems that go hand in hand with regress.

New ships Until recently, the Marine Department controlled three vessels—the ister ships Nivanga and Ninikoria, ach of 140 cubic ton capacity; and le 50 ft survey craft Nei Auti. Now le Ninikoria has been sold, and the epartment is to get two new 85 ft assenger vessels, a 50 ft landing arge, a 200-passenger vessel, a assenger ferry for lagoon service, nd a training ship.

With flexibility the keynote to current lanning, the larger passenger vessel 'ill be reconvertible to a freighter, necessary; and the landing craft 'ill be capable of ploughing through pen seas as well as on the calm 'aters of the lagoon.

Meanwhile, the Wholesale Society as sold the Moana Raoi to Noumea iterests and has replaced her with faster vessel of twice the capacity.

The new Moana Raoi is expected ) be able to handle all inter-island •eight as well as recently promoted transhipments to Majuro in the US Trust Territory.

The Government training vessel mentioned above is to become the home for 90 students, each to undertake a year of instruction as seamen, greasers, or caterers. Running expenses and instructors will be provided by the Columbus Line, of Hamburg, and graduating cadets will be offered employment contracts with Columbus at the same pay rates as the German crewmen they will replace.

It seems likely that port facilities at Betio will be improved soon following a recent engineer’s survey under Australia’s South Pacific Technical Assistance Programme.

Mushrooming houses The odds are Betio to a brick that substantial capital will be shortly poured into port improvements by all interested parties and that a competent port authority will be established.

It is also expected that much thought will be given to the old question of moving the government stores to Betio or building a causeway to link Betio with Bairiki and Bikenibeu.

Meanwhile, Public Works are racing ahead with various projects.

Contemporary homes are mushrooming throughout Tarawa; modern workshops are churning out school, office and hospital furniture; building materials, prefabricated frames, and skilled construction teams are flowing to the outer islands; heavy equipment for road, airfield and causeway construction are beginning to arrive; and four additional power generators are to brighten the lights of Tarawa.

In addition, an expatriate officer has been appointed to control outer island development.

Wholesale society Communications deserve special mention too for the three “B” headquarters (Betio, Bairiki, Bikinibeu) are almost isolated by the limitations of the existing systems. Installation of a new seven channel VHP link up will be completed before 1968 dawns.

The Residency may even boast a “Hotline”.

Early last year, the Wholesale Society began several ambitious schemes which broke colony tradition.

Its scattered offices are now joined (2) OUT OF THE PAST Two Gilbert and Ellice islanders have recently received unexpected gifts of wrist watches from a former American serviceman who found he was unable to forget.

The American, Mr. Felix Fox, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, wrote to the Resident Commissioner, GEIC, that he had been in charge of GEIC labour during World War 11, under the command of Colonel Fox-Strangway. He added, “Many times my thoughts go back to those days and it makes me feel happy to recall the loyalty and devotion of the Gilbertese and Ellice. Two of them particularly stand out in my memory, losefa and Peter Kanere. Will you please send on to them watches I am enclosing”. losefa Lameko, BEM, is these days Headmaster of the Ocean Island Primary School, and Peter Kanere Koru lives on Tabiteuea.

The Colony Information Notes commented: “Mr. Fox’s generous gesture is a reminder of the firm bonds uniting these old wartime friends, and at the same time reflects great credit on losefa and Peter, held in such regard after over twenty years.” 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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A partly-erected, two-storey office, lore and amenities block at the boatyard, has already assumed “skycraper” proportions; foundations lave been laid for a workship Comdex to house mechanics, joiners, dumbers and shipwrights; a new imber store has been completed; lipping facilities will shortly be ivailable for craft up to 100 tons; nd the roofing of all these buildngs will drain to a huge underjound water storage.

Not satisfied with all this home ront activity, the society has underaken contracts to erect copra stores or various island co-ops. One store ias been completed, and two more re under construction.

The Copra Board is on the march, 30, for an experiment has been onducted in producing copra at anely Gardner Island in the Phoenix iroup.

Similar schemes elsewhere in the ninhabited Phoenix Islands may allow.

Meanwhile, the various co-operative ocieties are almost reeling under ae introduction of modern managelent ideas. They are gradually dopting the idea of allocating re- ;rve funds for future capital deelopment.

Pushing hard on their doorstep to icrease copra production and to itroduce new food crops, chicken ;ocks and better bred swine is the igricultural Board. Additional funds ave just been granted for agricultural 'ork.

Fisheries, tourism The Loans Board, financed by the 'opra Board, appears to be anxious ) provide funds to promote new elds of business. Expert advice has een sought on various schemes, inluding fisheries and tourism.

Recent shipping developments, the ecision to proceed with construction f airfields for an internal service, nd dreams of a through air link dth Guam and Honolulu, could give irth to a tourist trade (see p. 65).

British Petroleum have already lade a survey for the installation f proper refuelling equipment at onriki.

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One condition of service is that appointees will not be permitted to serve the local government of their home islands, for the Gilbertese and Elice Islanders are followers of the old adage, “blood is thicker than water”.

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Until now the colony has boasted only one union, that formed by Wholesale Society employees some time ago.

All of these briefly outlined changes have wrought an effect on the community.

Increased wages and an abundance of work have naturally followed; purchasing power and taste are altering dramatically.

Cars doubled Private car registrations on Tarawa almost doubled in 1966 while registrations of new motor cycles soared to 129.

In 1967, registrations will greatly exceed the 1966 total as the Wholesale Society is now importing machines for sale in all of the islands.

The extra motor vehicles have brought more convictions for traffic offences, and drunken driving has caused three fatalities.

There are now more prisoners in HM gaols than there used to be; and drunken brawls and organised crime have appeared and trespassing and delinquency have become part of the GEIC scene.

On the credit side missions. Red Cross, youth movements and adult education programmes are rapidly expanding.

Just like a Christmas pudding, sleepy hollow has been well stirred. • The development of cattle raising and the establishment of canning factories at Santo and Vila, New Hebrides, have become significant factors in the Condominium’s economy. Nearly 100,000 cans of meat worth over seven million NH francs were exported in the year ended July, 1966. 64 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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OF GEIC The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Government in April was considering the report of Mr. P. Wales-Smith, a tourist consultant who was asked to investigate tourist potential in the Colony.

AMONG the proposals made in the report are the suggested construction of a 32-bed tourist hotel on South Tarawa, and the establishment of “atoll camps” at Abaokoro, Abemama and Funafuti.

The report says an improved air service is needed, as the present necessity for visitors to backtrack to Fiji is “frustrating and expensive”.

With a better, and preferably, through air service, enough traffic might be generated to warrant hotels and atoll holiday camps, which ‘would really get the colony’s infant industry under way”.

Mr. Wales-Smith said tourism should be one of several means of strengthening the colony’s economy against the day when the phosphate sland of Ocean Island was abandoned. The tourist potential of the area vas “both novel and adequate enough” to warrant the creation of he facilities required at an early date.

Fine fishing He said no islands in the Mediterranean or the Caribbean had anything similar to offer in the way of scenery, md none of the islands in either the s acific or Indian Oceans which were ilready discovered by tourists was of he atoll type. The atoll was a strong idling point. On a flying visit to the :olony nobody could fail to marvel it their beauty from the air, and on he ground the atolls had an intimacy vhich must appeal to visitors.

About sport, the consultant said: “Marlin, sail-fish, tuna, king-fish md other big game have been caught )ff the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, isually by the islanders in canoes, construction of these canoes, in mrticular the carved-plank canoes of he Gjlbertese, requires real craftsmanship, The fishing trip arranged or my visit was rewarded by a fine :atch of a 42 lb bluefin tuna and a '8 lb king-fish, before breakfast, mder overcast conditions and with joor visibility.” 65 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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from the Islands Press THIS afternoon, an RNZAF Sunderland will fly over Suva for the last time as an operational aircraft based on Laucala Bay.

It is not easy for the people of Fiji, and particularly those of Suva, to realise that Sunderlands will be seen no more overhead or at their moorings in Laucala Bay, and that the last training exercise, the last air-sea rescue search and the last mercy flight have been made from the Bay, The gratitude of the people of Fiji for the protection given in time of war, and the service freely offered since then to meet needs and to cope with emergencies outside the military sphere, will remain for a very long time in the hearts of the Colony’s people.

So they will say good-bye this afternoon with sadness, the sadness with which one parts from a true friend. Editorial in the “Fiji Times”, Suva.

LOOKING for a good investment? Observer in charge of Mulinuu Observatory, Phillip Muller, suggests that there is no better investment for the future than a club, for there is every chance that in another fifteen years Apia will be seriously short of water, and beer may well be the only thing fit to drink.

According to Mr. Muller’s figures, at the present time Apia has about three times as much water available than the town needs—but with the rapid growth of population this surplus will soon disappear.

In most countries no one is allowed to set foot in water catchment areas. In Samoa people pass through these areas with their animals daily, hunters kill pigs leaving the entrails to rot and seep into reservoirs, and farmers use dangerous sprays above the areas.

Mr. Muller said that after the French nuclear test last year, radioactive contamination of Apia’s water for a week went five times above the permissible safety level. —ltem in “Advertiser", Apia.

IT is now a popular habit of small children (mainly on Betio) to stay awake all night, which is not very wise. This habit will certainly bring the children to a poor education, and which will not raise their people to a higher standard. If these children are left neglected they will never learn what life means to them in the future. It would be advisable for parents to stop their children from roaming about at night doing things that are not very pleasant.

Children should be reminded that life during their childhood is very *precious and it would seem worthwhile for parents to comsider and improve their children’s lives.

If, however, mothers take time to explain, patiently and lovingly, the child will listen and soon will learn what he does not understand.— Letter in the GEIC “Colony Information Notes".

FOUND: One bar of laundry soap outside the Post Office last Thursday. Claimants please enquire at the Post Office.— Notice in “Tohi Tala Niue”, Niue.

I AM writing to ask why do people who work in District Headquarters (like Buka, Manus, Kavieng, Daru, Wewak and other places) receive many allowances and also get higher wages than people who work in the outstations?

I think most of the money comes into the Territory from the work of people outside the District Headquarters, from the plantations and out-stations. I think that in a few years people might not want to work in these places any more. They will want to work in towns and get bigger pays.

There should not be a big difference between our wages. We have the same knowledge, we work the same, we all have wives and children to look after.

It also costs more to live outside the towns. A trade store at Kunua in Bougainville, where I work, sells a tin of corned beef for 60 cents. The same tin costs 45 cents in town.— Letter in “Our News", administration newspaper, Port Moresby.

A NEWSPAPER report from New Plymouth (NZ) gives what appears to be some alarming statistics on the motor traffic here [on Niue]. Interviewing Constable Viliamutama while he was undergoing part of his training as a traffic officer, the reporter has elicited the amazing news that 15 new cars arrive on Niue every month from New Zealand.

What we would like to know is where do all these shining new vehicles go to and how do they come? Unless they are the kind of car that comes in a box the size of a match box the Tofua would arrive here every fourth Saturday absolutely chocka-block.

Visions of queues of happy owners lining up at the Treasury to take delivery, the problems of finding parking space each morning, traffic lights at Utuko Corner, rise before our eyes. Alas, the vision fades.

Investigation shows that about 15 new cars arrive each year, not each month. And they come from Suva, where delivery is given promptly and cheaply—all we get from New Zealand are a few old fourth-hand rattletraps that should never have been allowed into the country.— Editorial in “Tohi Tala Niue", Niue.

AN octopus caught an eagle in a West New Britain river last week. A correspondent, Mr. James Tomalagene, said he was walking near the Russemi River with a friend when he saw the eagle swoop down into the river, apparently to catch a fish.

When the eagle did not come up again, the two men went to find out what had happened.

They found that an octopus had caught the bird.

Mr. Tomalagene said he and his friend killed both the eagle and the octopus.— News item in the “Times Courier", Lae.

It/TAY I inquire when, if ever, . "*■ w . e are . to h av e television in this country? I believe television has great educational value. If American Samoa can have it. why can’t we?— Letter in the “Fiji Times".

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Oh , what fuss and bother over decentralisation!

From a Port Moresby correspondent Papua-New Guinea’s Institute of Higher Technical Education, educational companion to the University of Papua-New Guinea, has also opened for business this year—and found itself with more growing pains than the university. rHE institute is currently in temporary accommodation at dubada, Port Moresby, because plans o give it a permanent home in the erritory’s capital have been upset by >ressure from the House of Assembly o decentralise.

Thus the institute is to be moved o the New Guinea side of the terriory, on a site five miles outside of .ae, next to an area where the Ausralian Army is spending a few trillion dollars on barracks for the rd Battalion of the Pacific Islands legiment.

Nobody can say exactly when it dll be moved.

The Administration, in a delibertely blunt statement of the facts, Did the House of Assembly’s March leeting that the move to Lae would ost at least an additional $417,000 -plus another whopping sum for acilities which in Port Moresby it rould have been able to share with ae university.

The 'Assistant Administrator Services) Mr. L. Johnson, pointed ut that it had been planned to share oads, sewerage, electricity and other jrvices between the institute and uniersity, and in the early years it rould have been possible for the two ;udent bodies to share the library, porting fields and dining rooms.

Now the basic engineering facilities needed at Port Moresby would not be “significantly reduced”, even though the institute wouldn’t share the site. Therefore the cost of establishing both the institute and the university “would be increased by a substantial amount”.

Facilities to be built at Lae in place of those the institute would have shared with the university would require an additional $360,000 in the next three years, although this may not have been necessary for some time later.

Mr. Johnson said all the extra money needed to relocate at Lae would have to be met from territory revenues. Money would have to be diverted from other projects, or else both the institute and the university would have to be developed at a slower rate.

Mr. Johnson then twisted the knife: “When the bill to alter the location of the institute to Lae was before the House it was proposed (by the Administration) that consideration of the amendment be postponed until the effects of the possible change could be examined, so that the House could make its decision in the light of the implications of the proposals.

The House did not accept this suggestion. . . .

“The purpose of this statement is to draw the attention of the House to the financial consequences which the House did not consider at the time it passed the amending ordinance.”

Dismissed with a sniff The Assembly appeared not to be impressed, and virtually dismissed Mr. Johnson with a sniff.

The decision to move the institute to Lae was made as a result of a private member’s bill, introduced by Mr. Don Barrett, of Rabaul, into an Assembly whose members frequently deplore the development of Port Moresby ahead of other territory centres. Thus it was obvious the bill would be supported.

And despite the extra cost, Lae is a better site. There is likelihood of considerable industrial expansion in Lae or Madang if the Ramu River hydro electric scheme goes ahead, and there is also a greater volume of road construction going forward on the New Guinea side, requiring Mr. L. W. Johnson. 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY. 1967

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But more importantly, institute students, most of whom will come from the New Guinea side, will prefer Lae. Port Moresby has never been popular with New Guineans because of its long dry seasons and the lack of native foods and vegetables.

In the current wet season Port Moresby is positively beautiful, with the hills and valleys green, but this is an unusually wet wet and for most of any year Port Moresby looks like the brown North Queensland outback.

Like the university, the institute was established by an ordinance in 1965. It is governed by a council, two of whom are members of the House of Assembly.

Chairman is Dr. Louis Matheson, vice-chancellor of Monash University, Victoria, who is also a member of the Papua-New Guinea University’s interim council. Director of the institute is Dr. W. E.

Duncanson, who was director of a similar institute in Ghana and later moved to India where he was chiefly responsible for establishing a technical institute.

Has 32 students The P-NG Institute opened its classrooms at Idubada this year with 32 students. Six of them had begun last year on a surveying course conducted by the Department of Lands, and they will now complete it as students of the institute.

The other 26 have started basic studies which will lead some of them to a Diploma in Civil Engineering and others to a Diploma in Surveying.

The decision to start with these two courses makes sense. The territory is in urgent need of local surveyors in considerable numbers— whether employed by the Administration or on their own account.

The institute also plans to undertake research into hydraulics, soil structure and stability, and the importance of these subjects is underlined when one looks at the huge annual sum spent on road construction and maintenance in the territory.

Professor John Lavery, who heads the civil engineering division at Queensland University, is a foundation member of the institute’s council.

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Mechanical and electrical courses should start at Lae by 1969 if the building programme goes to plan.

The P-NG Electricity Commission is already training its own staff and will want to put its best trainees into a diploma course.

Most of the new institute’s students will study under Administration scholarships, but this year’s first intake includes two students sponsored by Conzinc-Riotinto, the company involved in copper exploitation on Bougainville. More privately sponsored students will no doubt follow.

The Council of the Institute of Higher Technical Education is also concious that standards have to be high. No institute or university is of value unless it accepts, and produces, students with proper qualifications.

The present territory secondary school system allows of only four years leading to a school certificate.

English, surprisingly enough, is not compulsory for a school certificate, but the institute demands good passes in English, mathematics and science, with at least one other subject, for those seeking entry.

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WHEELCHAIR From Beryl Cates, in Suva Joint holder of Fiji’s Sportswoman of the Year award is archer Mrs. Margaret Ross, mother of three teenage boys. She’s a wonder in a wheelchair!

MRS. ROSS shares the award with Tarika Varo, the 30-year-old mother of five, who during the past year made an astonishing comeback to Fiji athletics, to carry off the national and allcomers record for the 100 metres.

Eight years ago Mrs. Ross’ life was typical of that of the wife of a South Pacific Sugar Mill official living on one of the company’s estates on the north-west of Viti Levu.

She had no wheelchair then, nor suspected she would ever need one.

Born in Fiji, she was educated in Australia, and her education included five years at East Sydney Technical College, studying textile design and crafts.

She returned to Fiji as soon as she achieved her diploma, married David Ross shortly after her return, and settled down to marriage. She spent her leisure hours not in painting but at basketball, hockey and tennis, at all of which she excelled.

At first, despondent About 1959 she became aware of a persistent backache, which began hampering her activities. Eventually she went to Australia, where doctors discovered a tumour in the spinal column, inoperable because of possible damage to nerves.

Two years of pain and distressing treatment followed, and Mrs. Ross returned to Fiji in a wheelchair.

Doctors said the tumour was arrested, but beyond that they could do nothing.

She was despondent at having to give up her active outdoor life but the founder of the Nadi Archery Club, Arnie Anfinson, told her she should try the sport, and one day her husband wheeled her chair to the ground, they gave her a bow, showed her how to set the arrow and she fired.

The sport gripped her imagination, and she and her husband soon were regular shooters with the Nadi Archery Club.

Meanwhile, in other ways Mrs.

Ross was successfully rebuilding her life. She began giving art lessons, and in so doing revived her own desire to paint.

She began making pictures of dried flowers and wood, which find sale with tourists to Lautoka. She also drives the car, shops, sews, and takes an active part in her church guild and Nadi Multi-racial Women’s Club.

Between times she practises her archery. “As with most sports you have to keep at it,” she says. “Playing only weekends you’d get nowehere.”

During her husband’s after-work hours the pair make arrows, buying the shafts and doing the assembling themselves.

Uor kin rlianro ner Dig Cnance She got her big chance while on leave in Australia in February last year. She shot in the NSW State paraplegic competitions and bettered by one the Commonwealth record for the Columbia Round. The record had been set at the Perth Games at 507, With that success, Commonwealth Games officials invited her to go to Jamaica to compete in last year’s Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.

The Archery Club at Nadi soon had organised an appeal for funds, and Mrs. Ross began practising with grim determination to keep faith with the people who were financing her trip.

Her determination paid off. From Jamaica she brought back a gold medal for a score of 564 for the Columbia Round, the one in which she had scored 508 in Australia, Life today is full for Margaret Ross. She rises at 5.30 a.m., sees her husband off at 6 a.m. to start the labour on the sugar company estate, and is ready to breakfast with him when he returns to the house at 8 a.m.

She sees him off again 8.30 a.m., and at 9 a.m. is ready for her art students, who arrive three mornings each week, She’s a fine choice for Fiji Sportswoman of the year, o Mr. L. Devambez, Fisheries Officer in the Fiji Department of Agriculture since early in 1965, left Fiji in April to take up a new appointment as Fisheries Training Officer for a Food and Agricultural Organisation project in the Caribbean. He will be based at Barbados. Before going to Fiji, Mr.

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Tarika Varo, of Fiji's Sportswoman of the Year award, has not allowed a wheelchair to keep her from a busy and successful life. Photo: Nitin. 73 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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From W. H. PERCIVAL, in Rarotonga One of the major handicaps to agricultural development in the southern islands of the Cook group is the inadequate water supply.

IN the Legislative Assembly last December, a Member for Aitutaki, Mr. Matai Simiona, said that Aitutaki “was a dry island” and that agricultural production had suffered because of lack of water.

An increased water supply on Aitutaki is certainly necessary if the Banana Replanting Scheme, to be carried out there at the cost of £53,000, is to be successful.

In another southern island, Atiu, where coffee is being grown as an export crop, modern processing machinery and factory equipment is ready to be installed —but the factory cannot be built until a site with a water supply can be found.

In Mangaia, some of the pineapple growers are bitter about losses due to their fruit ripening before it can be uplifted to the fruit juicing factory in Rarotonga. The pineapples have to be delivered to the Rarotongan factory in a half-ripe condition, and the growers feel that if a small fruit juicing factory could be established on Mangaia their losses would be avoided.

Again, the chief objection raised against the establishment of such a factory is the lack of an adequate supply of water.

Three generations So it was good news for a lot of people when in late March, Mr. D.

J. Gilberd, who is an expert on the practical side of obtaining good water supplies, arrived at Rarotonga. His grandfather founded a water engineering firm in New Zealand, and his firm was the first to use a water drill in that country.

He is here to decide on the type of machinery required to drill water wells on some of the southern group islands.

He works from information supplied by previous water surveys and then decides whether to dig or drill for water.

Once he knows what type of machinery is required he has the habit of scouting around until he locates it at the cheapest price. He will overhaul it if necessary.

Mr. Gilberd has already visited Aitutaki and Mangaia and he told us in Rarotonga that there is plenty of water available on both islands.

There should be enough for a fruit producing factory on Mangaia.

Aitutaki, he mentioned, was “very hard” and would require the use of diamond-tipped drills.

Water is dug for when the required depth of a well is between 20 and 30 ft, and sometimes when it is impossible or impracticable to get machinery ashore. Wells that have to reach depths of between 120 and 160 ft require machinery to bore them.

Success elsewhere Mr. Gilberd carries out his waterprocuring activities for six months of the year, and spends the remaining six months working on his farm near Whangarei, on the northern finger of New Zealand’s North Island.

He has had considerable success at drilling for water on remote Pacific islands. Due to his initial efforts, 20 wells are now being drilled on Niue Island, and four in American Samoa.

He trained the Niue people in the use of the drilling rig and now they do all their own water drilling.

Cook Islanders, Mr. Gilberd told us, need educating in the treatment of drinking water. They should also be shown where to dig so as to obtain the best water available. Parents should be made aware that when their children swim in reservoirs they contaminate the water and render it unsuitable for human consumption— even if it does look clean.

Mr. Gilberd was due to leave Rarotonga by air in early April and plans to spend five months on Niue where he will continue his work on water supplies.

He will make recommendations to the Cook Islands Government on his findings at Aitutaki and Mangaia.

Says Mata'afa: ‘Aid, and more aid! ' From an Apia correspondent Prime Minister Fiame Mata’afa will probably leave Apia for Japan in June in an effort to seek more foreign aid for independent Western Samoa.

HE said this in April following his re-election as Prime Minister for a third three-year term.

He reiterated the statement which caused some slight panic in some places last year, that if “he cannot get help from the West he will be forced to seek aid from the Communist bloc”.

“This does not mean we are turning Communist. But we must get help from somewhere to maintain our development programme,” he said.

The Prime Minister said the Samoan Government over the next three years would concentrate its main efforts on seeking economic aid and investment, “through which the standard of living of the ordinary people can be improved”.

He said he was not satisfied with the achievements of the first five years of independence.

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BIG BAY, ESPIRITU SANTO:

Land Of Tall Tales

And Weird Imaginings

By Robert Langdon Ever since April, 1606, when the Spanish navigator, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros discovered and named St. Philip and St. James Bay at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, the bay has been a place of weird imaginings and very tall stories.

HIS is one of the conclusions I have come to after reading ough such literature on the bay I have been able to find, following discovery there in January of a ange wall, which I have suggested y be a relic of the Quiros edition (PIM, Mar., p. 13). \nother of my findings is that, ept for the Quiros expedition, re is no documentary evidence of r Europeans ever having lived in south-eastern corner of the bay, ere the strange wall is situated, ■ of having attempted to establish mselves there. (Some people have gested that the wall is the remains a trade store). fhe European history of the bay ually known these days as Big 0 is, in fact, quite brief, for lough the bay was one of the t places in the Pacific to be disered, it is only in the last 70 years that Europeans have been living in any part of it.

The tall stories and weird imaginings, however, have been going on for much longer than that. Indeed, it was Quiros, himself, who started them, for on the very day that he sailed into the bay, he imagined that the outcroppings of white coral rock that he could see on his port side were deposits of the finest marble, and he immediately had visions of building a huge cathedral with it.

Later, when he got back to Spain, Quiros insisted, among many other fantasies, that the land he had seen abounded in gold, silver and pearls, and he implored the king to allow him to lead another expedition to Espiritu Santo to exploit them. The king refused, fortunately, as no gold, silver or pearls have been found there to this day.

For the next century and a half, thanks to Quiros’ fantasies, Big Bay remained in the realm of the semifabulous.

Then, in 1774, it was visited again by the down-to-earth Captain Cook, whose descriptions of the bay contained none of the fairy-tale qualities of his Spanish predecessor.

"Ruined edifices"

But fantasy again crept in when an anonymous seaman, who visited the New Hebrides several times in whalers between 1828 and 1834, wrote about the Cape Cumberland peninsula of Big Bay in the Sandwich Island Gazette for February 10, 1839.

“Not far from Cape Cumberland,” this man said, “are to be seen appearances of several antiquities in the shape of ruined edifices of great size, pillars of regular shape composed of large stones, and detached portions of wall.

“Fragments of cemented masonry are scattered over a plain about three miles in extent. The mortar with which the stones appear to have been connected resembles chenam. . .

The writer went on to speak of ruined cities in various parts of the world, and so gave the impression SAH PEDROY PABLO 1606 Pedro Fernandez de Quiros and his flagship "San Pedroy Pablo", as they appear on a new Pitcairn postage stamp. Quiros discovered Ducie and Henderson Islands on his voyage across the Pacific to Espiritu Santo.

These islands are now under British sovereignty as units of the "Pitcairn Islands".

Captain Cook. 85 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

that Cape Cumberland had once been the centre of a great civilisation.

His descriptions were later incorporated into the sailing directories for the South Pacific, whose compilers had no way of knowing that the “ruined edifices of great size”, that the writer had described were merely huge white rocks, strewn about extravagantly, by landslides.

Faith in those “ruined edifices” persisted in some quarters well into the present century. Meanwhile, other writers had added their mite to the legends of Big Bay.

Gold dust One of the most blatant liars of them all was an American, Thomas Jefferson Jacobs, who published a book called Scenes, Incidents and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, in New York in 1844.

In this book, Jacobs claimed that he was a member of the crew of the brig Margaret Oakley, which sailed from New York in March, 1834, on a trading and exploratory voyage under Captain Benjamin Morrell.

In the course of the voyage, Jacobs claimed, the Margaret Oakley anchored in Big Bay, where she was soon surrounded by canoes full of natives —“stout, well-made Negroes, who wore nothing but the cocoa girdle or sash around the waist”.

Next day, some of the natives were retained on board as hostages, and Jacobs and his friends went ashore to a village.

“I showed a loquacious young woman some samples of gold and gold-dust,” Jacobs wrote, “though they happened to be brass and brass filings. “She said the latter abounded in a mountain stream in the interior and promised to send her brother to get some for me, “The next day, when the anchor was apeak, she came alongside and presented me with a folded banana leaf that contained what W. . . . and myself firmly believed to be golddust, mixed with sand.

“We intended to keep it to ourselves, but the captain, who was on the lookout for such things, politely pocketed it, and pleased the young woman greatly by presenting her a beautiful gold (brass) earring by way of payment. . . .”

Almost immediately after this, th< Margaret Oakley set sail and wa “soon coasting northward”—surely ai extraordinary proceeding for a shi] on a trading voyage when gold couh be obtained so easily!

It was not until 1864-65 that Bi; Bay is definitely known to have seei its first authentic European ship sine Captain Cook’s.

Mission ship This was the Melanesian missioi vessel Southern Cross, under Captaii T. C. Tilley, which called at the ba in the course of a tour of the Ne\ Hebrides and Southern Solomons.

The southern islands of the Ne> Hebrides, by this time, had bee settled for 20-odd years by a numbe of Presbyterian missionaries, sandal wooders and other Europeans, wh travelled frequently from island t island. Yet, strangely, none of ther ever seems to have visited Big Ba before the 1870’s, although th sandalwooders are known to hav had stations in various parts c Espiritu Santo in the 1850’s an 1860’s.

Captain Albert Hastings Markhan in his book, The Cruise of th Rosario, published in London i 1873, stated categorically that Bi Bay had “only twice been visite since the days of Quiros —once by a officer and boat’s crew sent on shor by Captain Cook in 1773, and agair a few years ago, by Bishop Patteso in his mission schooner, the Souther Cross”.

Labour trade Markham’s statement, made afte an extensive tour of the Ne> Hebrides from November, 1871, t January, 1872, to police the ofter nefarious labour trade, suggests ths Big Bay was still a closed book t the labour recruiters who were the operating in the group.

The shipment of native labou from the New Hebrides to plants tions in Queensland, Fiji and Caledonia began in 1863.

By 1870, between 3,000 and 4,00' New Hebrideans are estimated t have been abroad; but the first one to go from the Big Bay area do nc seem to have been recruited unti two or three years later.

The first writer to mention th recruitment of labour from there wa Commodore J. G. Goodenough, th senior naval officer on the Australia] station, who visited Big Bay ii August, 1875, en route to Santa Cm to investigate the murder of Bisho] Patteson.

Commodore Goodenough steamei 86 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

ito the bay in HMS Pearl on August and stayed three days.

Less than two weeks later he was ortally wounded by a poisoned row.

He was therefore unable to pudiate the fantastic claims about mself and Big Bay, made by a •enchman, Henri Le Chartier, in book called La Nouvelle Caledonie les Nouvelles Hebrides, published Paris in 1885.

Le Chartier, a fonctionnaire in jw Caledonia, claimed that he had sited Big Bay in the recruiting ssel Tanna at the same time as jmmodore Goodenough, that he ;nt on board the Pearl, and that Dodenough had told him, in effect, at Britain would not object if ance annexed the New Hebrides.

"Colonnades of bricks"

Le Chartier also claimed that he d discovered the ruins of Quires’ :w Jerusalem in Big Bay.

“Nothing remains but colonnades bricks, where that fervent iristian must have erected the arch that he built before everyng else,” Le Charter said—blissly unaware that Quiros had never lit a church at all. (Le Chartier’s book was published a time when Australian feeling was :h on the possibility of French aexation of the New Hebrides, is therefore interesting to note that ontemporary French writer, Alfred gen, described it as “a tissue of i”).

A reporter of a completely different stamp from Le Chartier was Dr Bolton Glanyill Corney, an Englishman who visited Big Bay m August, 1876, aboard the 260-ton barque Prospector.

Recrmtmn shin 9 P This ship had been chartered by the Fiji Government to return 476 New Hebrideans to their homes after working on the cotton, maize or coconut plantations of Fiji.

Dr. Corney described his visit 28 years later in the Hakluyt Society edition of The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros.

He said the Protector anchored about 300 yards west of the River Jo y dan - .

We recruited four men to go with us to Fiji for three years,” Dr.

Corney wrote.

I cannot say if they were the true ” h ‘f' s ° f r *{“ as we saw V *\ or . huts ’ they may have teHnr mou , l ? tameers from the m “ Fy * I,; exactly two years after Dr. rey s visit, some Presbyterian missionaries called at Big Bay for the DalsDriil m heiF toUrmg vesse1 ’

Uaysprmg.

Tbe anchored m the bav th ’whlVe (^ Ul m° n S n COmer * f - the oay, where a man came off m a canoe who had been in Fiji and knew a little English.

“We took him ashore with us and saw his place, and also visited another village where we were very well received,” the missionaries said in their annual report. “Only one I ? lan knew a little English, and through him we explained who we • • • Thls . whole bay contains a large population who seem quite tractable an . d . friendly and anxious to have missionaries. This is the true key to Santo, and should be occupied as . ? oon as possible by two missionaries.” fhartc nronarorJ LnarTS prepared Despite this promising report, the Presbyterian missionaries were unable to send anyone to Big Bay until 1896 because of lack of staff and more urgent commitments elsewhere Meanwhile, the bay was apparently visited with increasing frequency by labour recruiters, and the French Navy decided it was worthwhile to send a survey team there aboard the Estrees to prepare charts of the two best anchorages Table Anchorage (where Quiros’ ships anchored) aid Talomako Anchorage (near where the French Catholic missionaries subse£ l uently established a mission), , ' (Over) Commodore Goodenough.

This native of the Sakau peninsula of Big Bay was photographed 30 or 40 years ago by one of the SDA missionaries working in the area. His firearm probably came from one of the early labour recruiters. 87 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

These charts were prepared in 1882 and published in 1884. No buildings are shown on the one of Table Anchorage, which is still in use.

It was in 1884 that Douglas Rannie, author of My Adventures Among South Sea Cannibals, called at Big Bay aboard the ship Flora, which was recruiting and returning labourers for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. in Queensland.

Rannie, a labour inspector, recorded that the Flora landed a few return islanders at the mouth of the River Jordan, but that few of their friends came down to meet them.

“The country had every appearance of being fertile and the soil very prolific,” Rannie said, “but there was little sign of life.

“After landing our returns, we went for an exploring trip up the River Jordan, accompanied by a few of the natives of the locality. By boat and foot we got inland about 15 miles, but saw nothing of any ancient ruins, except the foundations of some old native fences, which, in ages past, had been erected by the ancestors of the natives with us for the purpose of keeping pigs out of their yam patches.”

Rannie added that the River Jordan was “named by Don Quiros, when he is said to have founded the city of New Jerusalem in 1606, the ruins of which city are said to still exist, although in all my researches I have never been successful in finding them”.

Visit by Higginson In 1890, Big Bay was visited by the spectacular John Higginson, of New Caledonia, whose Compagnie des Nouvelles Hebrides was interested in acquiring land in the bay to link up with its holdings on the other side of Espiritu Santo.

There were still no European settlers in the bay at that stage, but the recruitment of labour was still going on, as the Australian labour vessel Archimede arrived at Talomako Anchorage during Higginson’s stay.

Some of Higginson’s party made an excursion up the River Jordan in search of traces of New Jerusalem, but found nothing.

Eleven years later, in 1901, Higginson sponsored another expedition to Big Bay—beginning this time at the Segond Channel and marching overland.

The expedition consisted of six Frenchmen and 26 porters, who took six days to traverse the island. This expedition also made an'nnsuccessful search for Quiros relics and visited the French Roman Catholic mission at Talomako.

The Talomako mission had been established the previous year by Father Pierre Bochu, who moved soon afterwards to Port Olry. He was succeeded by Father Casimir Bancarel, who remained at Talomako from 1901 to 1905, when he was transferred to Ambrym.

The French Catholics were preceded in Big Bay by a Presbyterian missionary, the Rev. Dr. James Sandilands, who established a mission at Terebiu, a few miles north of Talomako, in 1896.

Unhealthy Terebiu, however, proved to be a most unhealthy place, and the reports of Dr. Sandilands during nearly eight years he stayed there almost invariably referred to bouts of fever and deaths among the natives from consumption and dysentery.

It was during Dr. Sandilands’ sojourn that the first European planters came to Big Bay. One of these was a Frenchman called Rosier, who established himself there in 1900; another was an Englishman called Scott.

Both Rosier and Scott were still in the bay in November-December, 1902, when the Acting Governor of New Caledonia, Mr. E. Picanon, visited the New Hebrides in the cruiser Protet and made a list of all European inhabitants. Picanon, unfortunately, did not state where the European plantations were; but there is no evidence that they were ea of the River Jordan.

The Rev. Dr. Sandilands w; succeeded at the Presbyterian missic in the early years of the century 1 the Rev. C. E, Yates, an expe linguist, who translated several boo] of the Bible into the language of B Bay. He was followed in 1909 by tl Rev. W. Mackay.

The latter missionary was apparent not so good at keeping the nativ under control as was his predecess* —at least, not in the opinion of tl Swiss scientist, Dr. Felix Speiser, wl saw a good deal of Big Bay in 191 Dr. Speiser recorded in his bo( Two Years with the Natives of t) Western Pacific that there we hardly any natives left in the sou of Big Bay.

Only to the north of Talomal were there a few villages. There, tl remnants of a once-numerous popul tion, mostly converts of the Presb terian mission, had collected.

No organisation “It is a very mixed crowd witho organisation other than that whic the mission has created, and that not much,” Dr. Speiser said.

“A few years ago, the populatic had been kept in order by a Presb terian missionary of the stern ar cruel type; but he had been recalle and his place was taken by a ms quite unable to cope with the lawles ness of the natives. . .

In 1915, when J. M. Anderson pul lished a book called What a Touri Sees in the New Hebrides, the: were only three Europeans in B Bay—one missionary and two trader The oldest, in terms of residenc was J. E. Fysh, who had a plant tion between the mouths of tl Tawoli and Hapuna Rivers.

It was J. E. Fysh who enable the Seventh-day Adventists 1 establish a mission in Big Bay, f< in 1916, he sold part of his proper! to Pastor A. G. Stewart, represents the SDA Church.

Pastor Stewart, who now lives i retirement in Sydney, told me recent] that the first SDA missionaries i the bay were Pastor Ross James an his wife, who arrived in 1916 ( 1917 and stayed until the ear] 1920’5. They were followed t Pastor Weil and his wife, then t Pastor J. H. Perry and his wife.

The Presbyterian missionaries wit] drew from Terebiu before Worl War I ended, so the SDA repr< sentatives were the only Europea missionaries in the bay from Paste James’ time onwards.

John Higginson. 88 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Meanwhile, J. E. Fysh’s plantation is taken over by a former bosun of ; Makambo, “Hookrope” Robertn, and a New Zealander, P. L. in, started a plantation half way the west coast.

Robertson’s plantation was stroyed by a tidal wave in March, 34, as was the SDA mission. >bertson left Big Bay soon afterirds to manage a plantation at Port ry, but the SDA missionaries reilt their station and stayed on until 38.

Since 1938, there have been no iropean missionaries of any kind in 5 Bay as far as I can establish, ropean planters have been almost aally scarce.

At present, the only European inter there is Mr. Joseph Santino, 10 works a property which Mr. E.

Lamberty has had since 1955. is property, like all the other mtations and missions of which I i find a record, is on the western e of the bay.

Not much business Phis, therefore, brings the history Big Bay down to the present day. does not prove any particular ory about the wall in the southtern corner. But it does, I suggest, row down the period in which could have built a store in it locality.

Phat period would have been bejen 1902 (when Acting Governor :anon listed the European instants) and 1910 (when Dr. user said there were hardly any ives left in the south of the bay). [n view of Dr. Speiser’s remarks, •ugh, I cannot imagine that any re in that vicinity would have had ich business to do.

Pastor Stewart. 89 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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Modzelewski, of Encino, California, who ints out that botanists have also reded finding "tagimaucia" on Mt. Seatura Vanua Levu. Another reader, Mrs. nifred McHugh, of Auckland, has itten to tell us the legend of "tagiucia", which, she says was originally led "kau ni drano" (tree by the lake).

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TAGIMAUCIA By Winifred McHugh T the village of Drano, on Taveuni, in the olden days, a Son s born to Tui Drano, and was led “Ravouvou ni Drano” (Prince Drano). His plaything was thing but the “flower of the lake”. 3ne day Tui Drano and his wife, di ni Drano, quarrelled and the ter ran away with her son to her her, Tui Vione. They stayed there some time, when the son began miss his plaything, the flower of lake, as it did not exist at Vione.

Phe mother brought him all the vers she could think of, but no icrs would satisfy him.

Eventually, after the child had :n restless and had been crying for ne time, the mother said: “My son i are crying in vain. There are no vers here which resemble the vers by the lake, which were your ythings at Drano. Climb on my :k and we will return to Drano ere your favourite flowers grow.”

Vlother and son then returned to i Drano who said: “I did not send i away. You went of your own ord.” iadi ni Drano then explained that ir son was very unhappy at Vione, :ause of the absence of his favourite ythings, whereupon Tui Drano t for some of the flowers, and soon as the boy saw them he pped crying.

Yom that day the name kau ni mo was changed to tagimaucia, ich is made up of three words— i (cry), maumau (in vain), and a (resemble) —the words uttered Radi ni Drano just before returnto her husband. 91 c I F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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yesterday There was no world-shattering news coming out of the South Pacific 20 years ago this month but an epic voyage from South America to French Polynesia had begun which would revive universal interest in the enigma: Where did the Polynesians come from? Thor Heyerdahl, in his raft, Kon-Tiki, had left Callao, Peru, on April 22 and by May 10 had drifted 500 miles westwards towards the Tuamotus.

Other items in PIM for May, 1947, were; SEVEN overseas airlines terminated at or passed through Fiji. On April 25 the first Skymaster on a new Auckland- Vancouver run operated by Australian National Airways landed at Nadi. Qantas Empire Airways ran a fortnightly flying-boat service between Sydney and Suva and Pan-Am planes were expected to start a Sydney-San Francisco service via Nadi.

NATIVES on Bougainville were reported to be starving. “They are too lazy to plant their own gardens and have arrived at the state when they are quite satisfied to sit down and be dependent on the Government which has been supplying food to them at intervals,” a PIM correspondent claimed.

MORE frequent cargo services between the United States and Australasia were planned following the announcement that the Oceanic Steamship Co., of San Francisco, had been granted subsidies from the US government.

The company planned eventually to operate 13 round trips a year making calls at Pacific Islands ports en route.

THE Burns Philp ship Malaita, after suffering much damage when she was hit by a Japanese torpedo in Port Moresby during the war, returned to the Sydney- New Guinea run in April.

DESPITE difficulties and disruptions in trade during the war, Burns Philp, Sydney and its subsidiary, Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd., both reported good profits. The Sydney company made £258,063 and the Fiji company, £89,085, both for the year ended January 31.

A COMMISSION of the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations was to visit Western Samoa to investigate requests by a number of Western Samoans for self-government.

“POLYNESIANS Are Threat- A ened With Nakedness” ran a PIM heading inspired by the fact that not enough cloth was available to provide the Tahitians with their famous wrap-around garment, the pareu.

THE people of the Manua district of American Samoa were to have their own merchant marine—a refitted 256-ton former minesweeper renamed the Manua Tele. The Manua Tele was due to sail from Hawaii in late April to begin services between the villages of the Manua district and Pago Pago.

IN Fiji there was dengue in epidemic proportions over the larger part of the colony. The Suva Mosquito Control officer appealed to householders to eradicate all possible mosquito breeding places and the British Government made an additional grant for the antimosquito battle.

AREALLY weird epidemic of some sort had ended on Mangaia, in the Cooks. “The female patients who had it, and have recovered, have found that their once abundant tresses, came right away, leaving only a downy growth between them and a humiliating state of baldness,”

PI M’s correspondent at Mangaia wrote. “It’s a major disaster to Islands girls, proud as they are of their crowning glory.”

SUVA’S month-long beer drought was broken when supplies arrived at the end of April. Said our report: “There may be some connection between this and the fact that although HMAS Bataan was recently in Suva for a four-days visit, the occasion gave rise to not a single ‘incident’ worthy of comment.”

THE South Seas writer, Charles B. Nordhotf, the collaborator of James Norman Hall, died in California. Both lived for many years in Tahiti.

THERE was quite a bit of insectwatching going on. The war and the speeding-up of plane services had brought at least 28 new immigrant insects to the Pacific area, and entomologist had their work cut out discovering what the insects were like. Three were classed as major pests, five were listed as beneficial and seven had “an unknown effect on agriculture”.

This picture of the South Seas writer, Charles B. Nordhoff, as a young man, appeared in PIM of May, 1947, when his death was reported from California. 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Book Reviews

On the track of the mysterious coconut The South Seas are filled with coconut palms. Most of the population, one way or another, earns a living from them. But have you ever stopped to ponder where the coconut palm comes from? Frankly, we haven’t, and thus we were all the more fascinated to learn that botanists have as much unanimity on how the coconut got here as anthropologists have on where the Polynesians came from.

IN The Natural History of Palms the author, Professor E. J. H.

Corner, of the University of Cambridge, suggests the coconut’s origin was the Indo-Pacific east of Borneo.

But he admits nobody knows for sure.

He argues that monkeys, bears, squirrels and rats would have prevented it surviving in Asia, west of Borneo.

The theories “Its survival until the coming of primitive man must have been outside the range of these intelligent mammals, eastwards in the ancient Pacific,” Professor Corner says. He adds: “In 1906, H. B. Guppy suggested that the palm was native to the Pacific coast of tropical America and that it had been carried westwards by ocean-currents or sea-rovers to Polynesia, and, thus, to Asia away from the Cocoid home in South America.

“The nut is capable of floating for three or four months without the growing seedling being destroyed— and during that time it might have drifted 3,000 miles. Native craft nearly aways carry coconuts on their journeys for use or to plant at their destination, “In 1910, O. F. Cook developed this idea of Cubby’s but gave it an improbable turn by supposing the palm to have had an inland origin, quite contrary to its nature.

“There is some evidence that the palm was on the Pacific coast of Panama in pre-Columbean days. It is certain that it was not in the Caribbean area, the Guineas, or the Amazon region when Columbus arrived, but the Spanish and the Portuguese quickly brought it there from India.

“There is the question how the palm got to Cocos Island which lies 250 miles west of Panama.

“That it thrives on the Cocos- Keeling Islands of the Indian Ocean is sure because they lay in the path of the Malaysian sea-rovers that went to Madagascar.

“The Kon-Tiki expedition proves that all round the world there has been ‘Westward Ho!’ to the setting sun. For the Amazon region, Wallace wrote of the coconut; ‘lt is in a foreign land. It flourishes . . . but no part of it is applied to any useful purpose, the fruit only being consumed as an occasional luxury. ‘ln the towns and larger villages where the Portuguese have settled it has been planted, but among the Indians of the interior it is still quite unknown.’

“Beccari replied to these ideas in 1917 by marshalling an amount of evidence in favour of the Old World origin of the palm. He suggested the Cocos-Keeling Islands, Ceylon, or some extinct island of the Indian Ocean.”

Professor Corner says the recent discovery of small fossil nuts, in the form of small coconuts, in the North Island of New Zealand, indicates that coconuts existed in this part of Polynesia long before it was reached by man.

Coconuts no longer grow in Ne Zealand, which is far too south fi their cultivation, but the fossil di coveries are important because tl possibility of migration to the Pacil from Gondwanaland or Antarctii cannot be ruled out.

And so the argument continues botanical circles, as does the Pol nesian question in anthropologic ones.

Its habits About its habits, Professor Corn, tells us that the coconut palm canm tolerate drought or cold. Dry weath* impedes its growth. The productic of leaves, roots and nuts declin< as rain becomes infrequent. If tl water-table is not near the surfac the roots must get continual rail heavy water-logged soils are unsui able.

“It can be grown up to son: two thousand feet in altitude an< though fairly tall palms may be see at four thousand feet, they do n< flower,” he says.

“It has been said that it will m fruit far inland, but this may be question of dry seasons rather tha distance from maritime conditions.

“The coconut water in the fres green nut is remarkably cool, slightl aromatic, and saturated with carbo dioxide, derived from the interns tissues of the nut . . . and this sell effervescence, though slight, adds t its delectableness.”

According to the professor th Sir Francis at the right price With Sir Francis Chichester and his Gipsy Moth very much with us, a paperback of his autobiography, The Lonely Sea and The Sky, has come at the right time.

The Pan edition, selling for 90 cents, is illustrated with the many pictures that were in the hard cover including those historic ones _of his aircraft at Cascade Landing, Norfolk Island, in 1931, and upside down in the Lord Howe Island lagoon the same year. He can also be seen rebuilding the fuselage on Lord Howe, helped by the islanders— who reminded him of that incident during his recent dramatic return to the South Pacific.

A fascinating, remarkable book about a British all-rounder. 94 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Id’s annual harvest of copra is nated at more than three million ric tons, three-quarters of which east comes from the Far East.

Production figures or comparison, palm-kernels and n-oil are estimated at two million i, mostly from Africa; and olive mostly from Europe, at a little than a million tons each year, his copra is produced from over million acres of plantations, or at 600 million palm trees—and e figures he thinks are probably underestimate. ftth a world population of three isand million, there is thus a mut palm for every five persons, •oughly, one per family. As the a bears 50 to 100 nuts annually, e should be 10 to 20 nuts for yone every year, f palm trees generally, the test number of species in the Id are in the Asia-Australasia ;io n s (including the Pacific Islands). Here there are 1,150 species. A big majority of these would be coconut trees—but certainly not all.

This great number of species in Asia and on islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans could mean the area is the origin of the whole palm tree family, not merely the coconuts, Professor Corner seems to believe.

Dozens of drawings of nuts and leaves, several photographs and an appendix of palm tree species and where they are found, makes this work a fine reference book for the botanist, if a bit heavy-going for the layman.

The book is, after all, a history of all palms, and Pacific planters may be a little disappointed there is not more about coconuts in their area, especially as Professor Corner made a recent study of coconuts in the Solomon Islands.—K. McG. (THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PALMS.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. $16.30.) Our copy from Hicks Smith & Sons, Kent St., Sydney.

Mysteries Of

THE BASS ISLANDS If you cast your eye over a map of the South Pacific, find Tahiti, and run your finger downwards an inch or two to the south-west, you may or may not find a scarcely visible dot labelled Bass Islands, or, perhaps, Marotiri.

THE Bass Islands (alias Marotiri) are not the sort of islands that most cartographers bother about.

They consist merely of nine rocky crags, jutting out of the sea like giant fingers. They are miles from anywhere (lonely Rapa, 50 miles to the west is their nearest neighbour); nobody lives on them; and few people, apart from the Rapans, ever visit them or even sail past them.

Yet for anyone who likes to worry his head with intriguing, but profitless problems, the Bass Islands have a lot to recommend them.

For one thing, no one has yet been able to establish with certainty who the European discoverer of the Bass Islands was, nor how they came to get on the map for the first time.

George Bass Sailing directories and handbooks on the Pacific usually attribute their discovery to George Bass, the discoverer of Bass Strait, who made a voyage to the Eastern Pacific in the brig Venus at the turn of the 19th century in quest of salted pork for the infant colony of New South Wales.

Bass, however, seems never to have been any closer than about 400 miles to the islands that bear his name.

On his outward voyage from Sydney, it is on record that he left Dusky Bay, New Zealand, on December 21, 1801; that he “discovered an island near Tubuai” on January 13, 1802, and stayed there for two days; and that he reached Tahiti on January 24.

Details of his homeward voyage are less explicit, but it is known that he left Tahiti for Moorea on August 19, 1802; that he called at other islands in the Society Group, Samoa and the Friendly Islands, and reached Sydney on November 14, 1802.

Tubuai, or the island near it— probably Rurutu or Raivavae—there- [?]e are various ways of climbing palms, as these illustrations from "The Natural ary Of Palms" show. Upper figures, left to right, are: African going up an oil [?]n; mid-17th century drawing of a native climbing a coconut tree in the Moluccas; [?]ng-legged Tamil of Madras climbing sideways up a coconut; a trained coconut [?]key, used in lower Burma, Thailand, Malaya and Sumatra. Lower figures show [?]azilian climbing the coconut in the improved African way, using horizontal braces [?]ged into two stirrups, one for the thigh and the other for the foot; and Singhalese rope-work, linking adjacent trees. 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1967

fore seems to have been Bass’ nearest landfall to the Bass Islands, and that is some 400 miles away.

So why are the Bass Islands called what they are? By whom were they discovered? And when?

Australian author Frank Clune raised these intriguing questions in his recent book Journey to Pitcairn (P/M, Jan., p, 105) without being able to solve them. Now another author, Edwin Ferdon, has raised an even more baffling one about those same islands.

Ferdon, an American archaeologist, was a member of Thor Heyerdahl’s archaeological expedition to Easter Island and the Eastern Pacific, which Heyerdahl described in his bestselling book Aku-Aku some 10 years ago.

Ferdon’s book. One Man's Log, is an extremely belated account of the same expedition; and while it is not in the same literary street as Heyerdahl’s often-exciting story, it does contain some interesting material that Heyerdahl did not touch on at all.

Ferdon describes, for example, how the expedition visited the Bass Islands after several men on Rapa (where the expedition conducted an extensive “dig”) had insisted that archaeological remains were to be found there.

“The morning was delightfully clear as we approached the Marotiri (Bass) islets,” Ferdon says.

“It was immediately apparent that eight of the nine pinnacles could not possibly contain anything archaeological, for they rise sheer from the water and their tops have no real surface.

“This is not true, however, for the remaining islet. It is far more massive than the others, and instead of rising in a single peak, it has two tall projections with a broad saddle between.

“Its sides are excessively steep, but around its base is a wave-cut terrace, the outer edge of which drops abruptly into the sea.”

Ferdon says that the archaeological remains are on the saddle of this sheer rock, and that sevei members of the Heyerdahl expedite landed on it and climbed to t ruins, where they mapped, measur and sketched what they found.

Some of the buildings were 1c platforms, but others had been bu up high to form miniature towe: It was by no means clear what th< purpose was.

Although they had probably be used as lookouts in times of dang( it seemed that they might also ha had a religious function.

In fact, Ferdon believes that ti towers may have started off as lo religious platforms, and, when the secondary value became apparent years of strife, they rose in heig to become towers.

Whatever their function, “th must certainly have been designed f temporary use”, Ferdon says, “f there is no fresh water, no soil f gardening, and . . . not even a bead on the island on which they stand Spelling errors About half of Ferdon’s 200-pa; book deals with Easter Island. Ti rest is divided fairly equally betwe< the Galapagos Islands, Pitcair Mangareva, Raivavae, Rapa ai Tahiti.

A noteworthy feature of the boc -—and this is almost a recommend tion—is that it contains more spellii errors than any book this review* has ever read.

The author spells words with Shakespearean disregard for tl dictates of dictionaries or commc usage, and the publishers, eitb through awe, ignorance, laziness ( pressure of work, have not brush* him up for the “gentle reader”.—R] (ONE MAN’S LOG. George Allen ai Unwin. $5.15. Our copy from Australasis Publishing Co. Ltd., Sydney.)

Book Notes From The Islands

• Copies of Vols. 2 to 8 of the transactions of the Fiji Society are still available, according to the president's report for 1966. Vols. 2 to 4 cost £FI/1/each, and Vols. 5 to 8 £FB/3/- each. Vol. 2 covers transactions for the years 1940-44; Vol. 8 those for 1960-61. The society's council is now considering reprinting Vol. 1 and bringing out Vol. 10. A list of the contents of the available volumes can be had from the secretary, Mr. A. I. Diamond, P.O. Box 2025, Suva. • The British Government has presented £250 worth of books to the Cook Islands Library and Museum Society. The British High Commissioner in New Zealand, Sir lan MacLennan, was responsible for the gift. When he visited Rarotonga for the internal self-government celebrations in September, 1965, Sir lan said the British Government would make the gift to show its continuing goodwill towards the Cook Islands. The books reached Rarotonga in March.

Raivavae, one of the islands described in Edwin Ferdon's book "One Man's Log", was a rich field for archaeological research. Its highest point, 1,434 ft Mt. Hiro (seen here), overlooks Raiurua Bay. Photo: David Fletcher. 96 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

“Time Expired”

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It is a book whose warmth and sincerity commend it strongly. . .

“Time Expired” is a story of Cargo Cult, that mysterious political and religious movement that underlies so much of New Guinea life.

It is the story of a Patrol Officer, and Magistrate, George Beechcroft, and of the problems the Cargo Cult causes at a small outpost Naviu during and after the war.

It is the story of Americans as soldiers and missionaries, of the loyalty and devotion of Sergeant Adisa of the Royal Papuan Constabulary, of Beechcroft’s mistress Mulu and of the Ramsays who own Naviu plantation; but above all “Time Expired” is the story of that legendary cult hero the Old Man of Lamon and the new leader Tanadia and what happened to them.

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A 14-page booklet, which the blishers believe is the first by a live New Guinean to be pubied, has been brought out by ford University Press, Melurne.

Die booklet is called Kum mun of Minj. Its author is ulias Matane, who was the first w Guinean to be awarded a urchill scholarship, With the help of several photoiphs and a map on the back ftv, Matane tells, in simple glish, the life of a New linean, Kum Tumun.

ECum lives in the Western Highids district of Minj and works his own coffee plantation. After four children have finished iool, Kum insists that they leave the big coastal centre such as rt Moresby to train as a teacher, missionary, a nurse and, of irse, a coffee grower. [raining completed, the children urn to lead useful lives near nj. \n interesting aspect of the 3klet is the author’s enthusiasm white man’s ways. He makes clear that the New Guineans mid adapt themselves to his ys.

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Its author, Francois Doumenge, a 40-year-old Frenchman, obviously has an encyclopedic approach to life, a sponge-like ability to soak up facts, a computer-like facility to sort them into order, and the knack of regurgitating them on paper with the speed of an Edgar Wallace.

Limitations Although his book frequently touches on New Guinea, it is mainly concerned with the islands from the Solomons to Easter Island.

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IVERAL New Zealand newspapers have recently quoted reports in Soviet Press on plans to send ts of the Far East fleet to the th Pacific. )ne report quoted Dr. I. Kizevetter stating in Pravda that as Russia’s consumption went up, it was inisingly difficult to meet the deid from the established fishing ands. )r. Kizevetter said that the Pacific itute of Fisheries and Oceano- 3hy in Vladivostok was surveying is in the South Pacific most suit- : for commercial fishing, be work began in 1956, but until ntly it had been carried out nly in the area around the ator. However, in the past two s ships from the institute had made investigations not far from Australia and New Zealand.

“The penetration of the Soviet fishing fleet into the South Pacific is only just beginning,” Dr. Kizevetter was quoted as saying, “for up to now the Pacific institute has not had a sufficient number of ships for surveying.

“There are only 29 research ships for 22.4 million square miles of the Pacific, whereas in the Atlantic three times as many ships of the same type are working over an area of 17.8 million square miles.”

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Union Company Ends

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The 7,364-ton steamer Waitemata, run by the Union Steam Ship Company for 21 years between North America and New Zealand, has been sold to a Panamanian company, the Compania Naviera Pearl SA.

The ship was to be delivered to her new owners at the completion of her last voyage in Dunedin about the middle of April, She will be renamed the Amelia. Her disposal will bring an end to the trans-Pacific service which the Union company began more than 80 years ago.

The Waitemata is the last of five ships the Union company acquired in 1946 to maintain a regular monthly freight service across the Pacific. The ships called at various Islands ports.

Two of the five ships— Waikawa and the Wairuna —were sold in 1962.

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The company began running to the United States in December, 1885, when its steamer, Mararoa, left Sydney for San Francisco.

Many well-known ships, such as the Makura, Niagara, Marama and Aorangi, were introduced on the run.

Its Deep Out There!

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The 1967 Port Moresby to Kerema yacht race over the Easter weekend was won by the 52 ft staysail schooner Pavana which covered the 160-mile course in 47 hours 30 minutes.

Pavana was skippered by owner Bill Brown.

Second was the 35 ft masthead sloop Manuriki, skippered by Jim Wright, with a time of 62 hours 40 minutes. The 42 ft Fremantle ketch Red Boomer, skippered by Bill McNeill, was third with a time of 65 hours 12 minutes.

Pavana is a veteran of two Sydney-Hobart races and two trans-Pacific races. She holds the record for the fastest time from Honolulu to Los Angeles—l 2 days and 10 hours.

The race started in good weather, but there were heavy rain squalls west of Yule Island, and four yachts were forced to retire to Port Moresby. Only two yachts besides the placegetters reached Kerema.

The first Port Moresby- Kerema race was held last year ( PIM , June, 1966, p. 111).

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Rt Managers Appointed

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rwo more port managers were jointed in Papua-New Guinea reitly. rhey are Mr. R. S. McCoshim, 0 is to go to Lae, and Mr. G.

Pullen, who is expected to go to idang. rhe new port managers will take irge of the ports after the rbours Board assumes responility for territory ports on May 1. rtr. McCoshim, 37, comes from itland. He holds a first mate’s tificate of competency and has nt seven years at sea on a number routes including the Far East. * the past nine years he has held nagerial positions with commercial erprises. rtr. Pullen, 41, is from Norfolk, gland. He has worked in Japan, laysia and West Africa. He has 1 considerable experience in the idling of materials, movement of 'es, and the general direction of idling organisations. More recently was cargo surveyor and port cer in Tripoli. dr. P. A. J. Warman was apnted port manager for Port resby in February. fourth port manager will control 1 administer the port of Rabaul.

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'he remains of an old wharf at jaul, considered a hazard to jping and an eyesore, will soon demolished by a Navy demolition n.

'he wharf is more than 50 years , having been built when Rabaul ; German territory. It extended jral hundred feet into the harbour. l fire before World War II burned much of the wharf and the rest dually fell apart till about 200 s were left standing above water.

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'wo Malayan sailors from the senger-freighter Thorsgaard were :sted in Papeete on April 8 for attempting to smuggle nearly 5 lb of opium ashore.

The sailors, both from Singapore, were stopped for questioning when it was noticed that their shirts were unusually bulgy.

A paper found on them suggested that the opium was to be delivered to a Chinese temple at Mamao, but police later searched the temple without finding any indication that anyone connected with it was involved in the drug traffic.

Because of the sailors’ lack of knowledge of French, English and Chinese, the police could gain no clue from them as to the origin nor destination of the opium.

New Hebrides Trader

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Passengers and crew had to abandon ship when the pumps could not cope with the water. They reached Dillon’s Bay, Erromanga, in two of the ship’s boats.

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Ig Trader Sinks

'he Josie, a 48-ton P-NG trader, k off Kar Kar Island, Madang trict, on April 8. The master, )tain A. Gilbert, and a crew of were reported safe. ’he ship was owned by the North- >t Trading Co,

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hipping freights between New land and ports in the Pacific iced by the USS Company’s ships, ua and Mania, have been lifted about 15 per cent, he USS Co. manager in Fiji, Mr. t St. Julian, announcing the new s, said that rising costs had caused increase.

Western Samoa’s Prime Minister a’afa said on April 22 that was “deeply disturbed” at the ease, and that he would look the possibility of buying a ship Samoa during his proposed aiding trip to Japan in June.

Nus Naval Base

Be Restored

he Royal Australian Navy is to d $3.5 million to restore part of huge wartime defence complex Manus Island as a patrol boat plans to base five of 20 new ft patrol boats at Manus, which Imost 200 miles north of New lea mainland. he Chief of the Naval Staff, Vicefiral Sir Alan McNicoll said in sane recently that the patrol boats Id mainly be used for training air-sea rescue work.

Jch Line May Stop

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Noumea newspaper reported Uly that Messageries Maritimes i may stop carrying passengers between Marseilles and Sydney, issenger-carrving would be left 'utch or Italian interests, le paper said the rumour was stent, but that nothing of the sort intimated by Mr. Gilbert idval during a recent visit to mea. r. Grandval is Director-General fessageries Maritimes.

His company operates only two passenger liners on the run at present, Caledonien and Tahitien. A chartered Italian vessel, Oceanien, was taken off the run last year. The Caledonien and Tahitien carry 100 first class passengers, 100 tourist class and 200 third class. Freighters of Messageries Maritimes operating on the Suez and Panama Canal routes carry a limited number of passengers.

The MM service was once the Public Service line as all government officials, including military personnel, used it of necessity.

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The Messageries Maritimes line is subsidised by the French Government.

New Ship For P-Ng

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A Port Moresby shipping man, Mr. Bill Cunningham, has taken delivery of the cargo vessel Frisia for use on the coastal run in competition against vessels from overseas lines.

The Dutch-built Frisia will operate between Port Moresby, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus Island and Lae.

She will carry timber and general cargo.

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The barrel of a Japanese cannon, cut to 10 feet in length, filled with and encased in concrete, is the keel of a 26 ft yacht built by a lav missionary, Mr. Peter Meunnich, of Vunapope, Kokopo, New Britain.

The cannon was a war relic found near the Junior Technical School at Vunapope.

The yacht has been named the Tavurvur and will be used for fishing and pleasure cruising around Kokopo and Rabaul.

She is built of local timber to a Swedish Royal Yacht Club design and is equipped with three sails and a 3 hp diesel engine.

Trials at sea have proved the keel to be most efficient and satisfactory, according to the South Pacific Post.

New Master For New

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Commander F. W. Hunt, MBE, has arrived in Vila from the United Kingdom to take up an appointment with the Marine Section of the British Residency as successor to Captain H.

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Commander Hunt will be superintendent of the Marine Section and master of the Euphrosyne 11.

Commander Hunt served in South Another ship for Captain Rusden New Hebrides shipowner Captain Athol R. Rusden has bought the MV Holmlea from the Holm Shipping Company, of Wellington.

The ship was to leave Auckland for the New Hebrides on April 25 and then take over a Noumea - Fiji - Wallis and Futuna Island trading run from another of Captain Rusden’s ships, the MV Konanda, which is to return to the New Hebrides to work within the group.

The Holmlea can carry 800 tons and has a speed of 11 knots. She will be renamed Wallisien.

Captain Rusden’s fleet now comprises the motor vessels Altair, Darnley, Konanda, Paulmarkson, Colorado del Mar, and Tui Cakau in addition to the Holmlea. 105 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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Captain Kirkwood established the ritish Marine Service which now as three ships, Euphrosyne 11, fangaru and Lopevi. He also took keen interest in the training of New ebridean seamen.

Two of his sailors attained their 50- >n master’s certificate after a course : study in Papua-New Guinea. One ? them, Mr. A. Kalchichi, subseaently took command of the touring ;ssel Mangaru.

Farewell parties to Captain Kirkood were held at Santo and Vila f members of the British Marine id Police Services. Among the prentations made to him was an un- ;ual wooden carving from Mota ava representing two policemen, one ritish and one French, standing side i side.

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Her mission included the use of two-man underwater sea sled to rry scuba divers through feeding hools of skipjack tuna ( aku ). The ;d is towed by the ship.

The Charles H. Gilbert is owned id operated by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory of the US Department of the Interior in Honolulu.

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The GEIC Wholesale Society’s new vessel Moana Raoi, which left the United Kingdom on March 6 for its voyage to the colony via Panama and Christmas Island, is expected in Tarawa early in May.

The new vessel was due at Christmas Island in mid-April to load 125 tons of electrical-generating equipment and other stores for the Public Works Department.

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G.E.I.C. SHIP The former GEIC Wholesale Society ship Moana Raoi, which has been sold to New Caledonian interests, has been renamed Moana and will run a passenger-cargo service from Noumea to the New Hebrides, Fiji and the Wallis Islands.

The new owner is the Societe Francaise de Navigation, the leading lights of which are Captain H. J.

Helme and Mr. S. Leeman.

The new service, which will start immediately, will help greatly to ease the isolation of Wallis and Futuna.

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Australian and New Zealand fruit and vegetable exporters should exercise a little more care in their shipments to New Caledonia, according to PI M’s correspondent in Noumea, Fred Dunn.

“A recent shipment of potatoes from New Zealand arrived in Noumea showing signs of deterioration,” he said. “Before they could be sorted and packaged the whole shipment suddenly collapsed like pricked balloons releasing an evilsmelling liquid.”

In a similiar shipment of fruit from Sydney many cases of plums

Us Barquentine Sinks Off Africa

The 161 ft American barquentine Verona, which cruised the Pacific in 1965-66 under Captain Christopher Sheldon and with a paying crew of 24 young Americans, burned and sank off the island of Fernando Poo, in the Gulf of Guinea, on February 21.

An account of the disaster was sent to PIM in April by Miss Joan Apfelbaum, of Wyncote, Pennsylvania, who joined the barquentine in New York last September for a cruise round Africa and through the Caribbean.

Miss Apfelbaum was also aboard the famous brigantine Yankee when that vessel was wrecked at Rarotonga in July, 1964 ( PIM, Sept., 1964, p. 63). She lost everything in the Verona disaster, including her clippings from PIM on the wreck of the Yankee and its aftermath.

Miss Apfelbaum said that the fire on the Verona broke out just after the barquentine had sailed for Nigeria from Fernando Poo, a Spanish possession. She was then about 12 miles from the island.

After the fire was twice brought under control, it flared up strongly again and Captain Sheldon gave orders for the 25 people on board to abandon ship. They drifted in two inflatable life rafts for 2i hours before being picked up by a Spanish Navy launch. The Verona sank shortly afterwards.

All but nine of the 25 survivors were Americans. One was a Suva man, John Naryan. the Verona’s cook.

"Charles H. Gilbert". 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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The potato incident cause a minor mine In Noumea because there was tie local production.

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■FITTED MV Craestar, Conzinc Riotinto’s ineral exploration ship, sailed from isbane to the Solomons early in 3ril after being refitted and having air-conditioned assay laboratory stalled.

She reached Honiara on April 15 collect sediment samples from aadalcanal and was then to sail for alaita to collect samples from the and’s river system.

A landing base has been built on ; Craestar’s deck for a helicopter.

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The New Zealand Government has reed to continue the freight service [>vided by Holm and Company, d., to New Caledonia and Norfolk and for a further year.

The NZ Minister of Overseas ade, Mr. Marshall, said this in >ril.

NZ Press reports say the Govern- ;nt’s agreement with the company avides for six trips at two-monthly ervals. Last year the company proed nine trips at six-weekly intervals.

Mr. Marshall said the Govern- :nt’s action had been strongly suprted by commercial interests, who re confident that, given a regular d more frequent service, trade uld be built up.

JD A FEW lEF ITEMS • A new Chinese fishing vessel, ong Kuo, reached Santo from rmosa recently to join the fishing it operating from Palekula. • Mr. P. Corbett left Sydney in : Nuivakai on April 14 for ikualofa, where he will become sistant Superintendent of Marine. : planned to spend a week in Suva peering local shipping. Mr. Corbett s engaged in shipping management »rk in British territories on the st coast of Africa for several ars. • Mr. K. Payne, an instructor ide available by the China Navigan Line for the GEIC’s new irchant Marine Training School, ived at Tarawa a few weeks ago. ie training school’s vessel Teraka •ived in Tarawa on April 7.

Cruising Yachts f • WORLD CAT, 44i ft catamaran, was to leave Auckland in April for Noumea to continue a round-the-world trip begun last July in Los Angeles. Aboard will be Guergen Wagner, the owner-skipper, and Holger Rahlff, both from Hamburg, Germany.

The catamaran reached New Zealand last December after stops at Hawaii, Tahiti, Raiatea, Penrhyn Island, Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji.

World Cat will call at New Guinea after Noumea and then Darwin, Durban, the Cape of Good Hope, Rio de Janeiro, the West Indies and back to Hamburg.

Wagner and Rahlff write for German yachting magazines and are making a movie of their trip. • PORPOISE, 38 ft ketch, with Mrs. Louise Myers, of Illinois, USA, and two new crew members, left Sydney in mid-April for Honolulu.

Mrs. Myers had originally intended to sail for Japan via the Barrier Reef and New Guinea.

She has been sailing the South Pacific in Porpoise since she left California in 1964, • YOUTH, 35 ft South Australian steel-hulled sloop, was due to continue a cruise of the Pacific Islands in April after waiting out the hurricane season in Auckland.

With skipper-owner Allan Quigley, of Adelaide, and a crew of four or five. Youth visited the Society Islands, Tonga, Niue, and the Cook Islands last year, starting from Sydney in March. • HIGHLIGHT, 35 ft New Zealand trimaran, reached Lord Howe Island from Sydney on April 9. The owners are John and David Glennie, of Blenheim, NZ, who have been cruising the Pacific since May, 1965. On their latest trip they had with them three New Zealand girls.

Highlight will stay at Lord Howe for several weeks before returning to NZ via Norfolk Island. • DOVE, 24 ft fibreglass sloop, with 18-year-old solo American yachtsman Lee Graham, left Port Moresby on April 18 for Darwin and then South Africa on his roundthe-world voyage.

Graham left Los Angeles in July, 1965. He has called at Hawaii, Fanning Island, both Samoas, Tonga, Fiji, the New Hebrides and the Solomons.

After South Africa, he plans to return to California via the Panama Canal, • TREASURE, 45 ft cutter from Southampton. England, reached Russell, NZ, from Sydney at the end of January with John Guzzwell, his wife Maureen, and their twin sons, John and James.

Guzzwell first visited Russell in 1956 in the 20 ft Trekka in which he was the first Englishman to sail round the world single-handed.

Trekka was also the smallest yacht ever to do the trip.

The Guzzwells intend to settle in New Zealand. • TA’AROA, 50 ft luxury American yacht, reached Sydney on April 13 from Auckland.

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Mr. Sederlund told PIM he bought \’aroa in 1965. Her name is that a Tahitian god of the sea.

“I liked the Astrolabe reef best of the stops we made because it is so remote,” he said. “The natives :re particularly friendly and the ly visitors were yachtsmen like us. • VALIANT, 40 ft ketch, with ixie and Bill Hoving, picked up ck Ferguson at Matahiva Atoll in e Tuamotus in January and took m to Honolulu.

Jack was stranded on Matahiva opulation 158) last July when his ft ketch Te Matangi ran aground ere {PIM, Feb., p. 113). High seas oved the ketch 150 feet across gged coral making salvage ipossible. • JACOB DAN, a tiny yacht of c metres, left Noumea in mid-April attempt a westabout voyage round e world. The yacht is owned by a utchman, Mr. Holthauson. Two >ung New Caledonians, the Bargimt brothers, are with him. • KITTIWAKE, yacht with Ed Bowen aboard, was to leave Papeete in late April for the Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji and then New Zealand.

The yacht left the Virgin Islands last year and made stops at Panama, the Galapagos Islands and Nukuhiva (Marquesas). She reached Tahiti early in January. • PROCAX, 33 ft Belgian cutter, on a world cruise with Dr. Guy Cappeliez and his wife Viviane, will be seen in the Islands soon.

She was due to leave Panama on March 29 for Buenaventura (Colombia) and then the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tahiti and points west. • LA BELLE SOLE, 64 ft American luxury ketch, will sail from Sydney for the Barrier Reef, Darwin, Indonesia, Singapore, Ceylon, Ethiopia, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea early in May.

The ketch’s complement comprises Mr. Roger Franson, a Los Angeles engineer, his wife Anne, their two children and a crew of two.

La Belle Sole reached Sydney on February 18 after a 12-month trip across the Pacific from Los Angeles ( PIM, Mar., p. 113).

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The last contact was a radio telegram on August 19 saying his son and crew of two were 300 miles out and all was going well.

“My opinion is that in the event of mast trouble my son may have drifted to some uninhabited island and be held up there,” Mr. Nicol said. 111 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1967

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ff CROWN " PACIFIC ARROW m m 'x'Wn :* HIE heiUsC nf* ' m co ;tch reached the Black Sea, although i did not know of any privatelyvned American yacht visiting Russia Tore. • VALKYRIE, 31 ft ketch, with 1-year-old American lone-handed ipper John Goetzcke, left Durban •r Cape Town in March. Mr. oetzcke spent about a year in the icific Islands in 1963-64. He is i a world trip which began in the irgin Islands.

In Durban he underwent appendix id hernia operations ( PIM, April, 115). • HOPE, 29 ft gaff-rigged cutter, hich left Sydney in April, 1966, ached Durban in late March after aps at Brisbane, Thursday Island, hristmas Island, Cocos, Diego arcia, the Seychelles and Mombassa.

On board were her owners, Jutta id Graham Townes, from Sydney, eir pet cat Jinky, and a Californian tchhiker, Tom Money.

The Townes plan to leave Durban September and visit Cape Town, 10 de Janiero, the West Indies id finally Miami, where they hope sell the cutter. Then they intend travel through Europe in a motor uiser before settling down in awaii. • T AMU RE, 37 ft New Zealand )op, left Durban on March 18 to ntinue her world trip, via the Cape Good Hope to Britain.

The crew are New Zealanders ;rry Chaillet, Dave Baxter, Mac.

HI, and English school teacher 11 Fuller who arrived in Durban 1965 aboard the yacht Salamaat.

The New Zealanders plan to stay Britain and Europe several months earn money and see the sights fore pushing off again. Their trip gan in Auckland last April at the irt of the Auckland-Suva yacht ce. • THUMBERLINA, 20 ft yacht, lich reached Auckland last ecember after a 7,000-mile trip am Vancouver, began the long lyage back again in mid-April with ne yachtsman Ken Weis.

Mr. Weis, 40, plans to call at oumea, Papua and the Orient on e way. • BONA DEA, 40 ft sloop, left 'dney on April 16 for Darwin on e first leg of a round-the-world >yage with three New Zealanders -brothers Fred and Andrew Price, id Dick Thornbury, • TRITON, 35 ft Australian imaran, left Sydney on March 27 sail around the world with three lung bachelors, Don Marno, 24, lan Eeles, 27, and Tony Spooner, 26, all of Sydney.

Triton cost $9,000 to build and was completed 15 months before the departure.

The crew, there is no skipper, plan to stop at Auckland first and work for six weeks and then continue on to Tahiti, Hawaii, San Francisco, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, the Mediterranean and return to Australia via the Suez Canal. • CARRONADE, 32 ft Australian cutter, rounded Cape Horn in early April with three Australians aboard and reached Port Williams in Chile a few days later.

The cutter left Sausalito, California in January (P/M, Mar., p. 115) and only stopped at Papeete before the Horn. Aboard were Andrew Wal, Robert Nance and Desmond Kearns, who are making a round-the-world trip.

They were to stay at Port Williams for a few days and then head for Ushuaia and Buenos Aires in Argentina. • ATARUKA, 32 ft ketch, reached Auckland from Sydney in late March with owner-skipper Rollie McManus, his wife Judy, and crew member Paul Leusche.

Mr. McManus tells us in a note 113 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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Captain Liggett kindly sent us vs of six other yachts, mentioned these pages, that were moored at iboa at the same time as Bacchus. » DAWN BREAKER . 41 ft lerican trimaran from Florida, is iding from Panama for the lapagos Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, ice and Gilbert Islands, Fiji, New dand, Australia and onwards east, e skipper is Russell Garcia. Also board are his wife Gina Valentina, Ronald Schneider, and ineider’s son Steve. Mrs. Schneider to join the trimaran in Tahiti. • KYRENIA, 26 ft British sloop, s to leave Panama on March 24 New Zealand via the Galapagos, irquesas, Tahiti and Cooks. The pper is Alastair Robertson, whose : e Beth and two-year-old child have flown on to NZ. A Frenchman, Luc de Saint Seine, completes the crew. • MANUMA, 32 ft British sloop, with solo yachtsman Eric Hall, is heading from Panama for New Zealand via the Islands from England, which he left on June 28 last year. • SNORIS , 37 ft Swiss ketch, also on a world cruise, has been on her way since June, 1964, with Robert Haymoz and his wife Claire.

After stops at Las Palmas and Barbados, the Haymoz couple worked in Martinique for a year before cruising the Windward Islands and going on to Curacao and Panama.

Their departure date from Panama was set for March 25. They are bound for the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, New Hebrides, Torres Strait and onwards. • BELIGON, 35 ft French cutter, owned and jointly skippered by Guy Quiesse, Claude Quiesse and J, Claude Bazoin, was due to leave Panama on March 25 for the Galapagos and Tahiti. She is on a world cruise, which has included stops in Spain, Portugal, Madeira, the Canaries and West Indies. 115 kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1967

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An 80 miles per hour cyclone, one of the worst to hit the area for many years, did widespread damage in the Central Solomons at the end of March VVfORST damage was in the ” Honiara area, where seafront gardens were destroyed, the fishing village of Kukum was flattened, buildings of the Marine Training School washed away, and wharves damaged, including Honiara’s main one at Point Cruz.

In late April estimates were still being made of the total damage, particularly to coconuts, as reports continued to come in from outer islands.

The cyclone ripped across Guadalcanal and went on to T»an Cristoval.

Malaita, which was badly damaged in a cyclone last year, seemed to miss the worst of this one.

Henderson, Honiara’s international airport, was flooded with water just up to the engine nacelles of the parked Megapode Airway’s aircraft!

A TAA Fokker Friendship from Australia had to land at nearby Kukum, and Herons from Fiji Airways also were diverted.

Henderson damaged When the floodwaters had subsided it was found that there was an eroded patch across the middle of the Henderson runway, exposing coral pinnacles.

Just before the cyclone struck, the Dart bank moored alongside the Point Cruz wharf, got her engines going, and cut her mooring hawsers with axes and cleared out to sea, to ride out the worst of it.

Typical of the general picture was this report from a Honiara correspondent: “The waves swept across the coast road at Rove and at Kukum, eroding it and leaving great logs lying about. Soil and vegetation were ripped from foreshores and swaths of broken, stinking coral were deposited.

Power lines and telephone lines were down everyhere. Trees were uprooted and those still standing were left bare of leaves.

“At nightfall in Honiara, people were searching for candles or hurricane lamps to light their way to a meal of sandwiches. The morning light revealed a botanically flatten town.”

The house of Mr. Dick Johnsc of the Colonial Developrm Corporation, seems to be a write-c Mr, and Mrs. Johnson lost many their personal belongings. Peoi rallied around and saved what th could.

Mr. G. F. C. Dennis, of Honiai said two days afterwards: “Honia now represents a scene of desolati in the bright sunshine, with t coastline changed by sea erosii and storm debris everywhere”.

Three days after the hurrica struck Honiara was humming wi the sound of power saws cutting t blown down trees into moveat pieces. People were back in the seafront houses cleaning up, and tl smell of dead crabs and other si creatures made conditions diffici for the housewife—apart from clea ing up what was left of the gardens.

The grounds of Governme; House, on the waterfront, were lake during the hurricane and san filled petrol drums on the sea wa gradually drifted out to sea as tl cyclone grew in intensity. The Hi£ Commissioner and his househol moved out, to leave Governmei House to its fate. But the old hou: withstood the cyclone, although tl gardens are a shambles. 9 The fury of the big seas whippe up by the cyclone can be see in the top picture oppositi taken at Kukum fishing villag near Honiara. The seas swef away the village. Below, th scene the morning after, a small craft cling together fo shelter at Point Cruz. The cutte "Marata", centre of picture, ha sunk and a wharf has collapsec Photos: Ted Marriott. 116 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

STORM FURY 117 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Recruits of the Pacific Islands Regiment took part in a five mile raft race down the Goldie River, near Port Moresby in April, as a test of their fieldcraft.

Above is the winning raft, with crew members Corporal Kione, and Privates Wartovo, Soba, and Sarea. Below, Corporal Roy Gillett, of the P-NG Volunteer Rifles, on an exercise staged by "B"

Company on Watom Island, near Rabaul, in April.

Mr. Louis Frouin (centre), one of the best known French planters in the New Hebrides, has been awarded the French Ordre de L'Etoile Noire for his service overseas. Here he celebrates with the French Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, Mr. J. Mouradian, and Mrs. Frouin.

Mr. Frouin, aged 87, has been in the Condominium since 1895. From 1909 to 1945 he was editor of the newspaper "Le Neo-Hebridais". He was condemned to death by a Saigon courtmartial in 1942 for supporting De Gaulle. Photo: C. Mitride. 118 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

These soldiers of the Fiji Military Forces are dressed in grass skirts [?]vith a tapa midriff for a ceremony of welcome to Field Marshall Sir Richard Hull, Chief of Britain's De- [?]ence Staff, who visited Fiji in March. Photo: Rob Wright. grand old man of the Catholic Missions in the Pacific is shop John Aubin, Bishop of the South Solomons from 1935 [?]til his retirement in 1958. He still lives on Guadalcanal, id will be 85 in December. He arrived in the Solomons in 1907. This study is by Ted Marriott.

Brother Geoffrey (below), guardian of the Anglican Franciscan Friary, Popondetta, Papua, has been elected first Father Minister of the order's new Pacific Province, which means he is head of the Society of St. Francis in Australia and P-NG. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1967

International Trade Fair 1967 Sydney, Australia 19th-28th October The 1967 International Trade Fair will present, for the benefit of Trade buyers, a selected range of manufactured goods and equipment as needed for the growing industries and national development projects of Australia and the South Pacific area.

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r Children TIE CHIMBU, by Nancy Curtis This Is the story of a small boy who lives in a round house at the bottom of a tall mountain on the big Island of New Guinea. He has a father called Big Chimbu and' a mother called Bigger Chimbu, and lots of little brothers and sisters. Nancy Curtis’ story and inimitable drawings in colour and black and white provide a new and different book for children and the first one to come out of the Territory. Price: $1.95 Aust., plus postage 8 cents British Commonwealth, 12 cents Foreign, $2.50 U.S. posted ference

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Jdbook Of Fiji

Second edition published 1965 —completely revised and up-to-date information on the Crown Colony of Fiji. 272 pages of data on history, structure of the administration, geography, finance, taxation, communications and social services. A full tourist guide. Price: $1.50 Aust., plus postage, 15 cents British Commonwealth, 25 cents Foreign, $2.00 U.S. posted.

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People i MAN who left many friends behind him has just left Noumea Fter a stay of three years. He is ie Indonesian Consul, Mr. Tarmudji, ho has returned to Djakarta.

During his stay in Noumea, Mr. armudji attended French classes ven by the New Caledonian Cham- ;r of Commerce. The result is that ; now has a considerable command I the French language. Mr. Tarludji’s successor is Mr. Achmed loegalih. • There was a number of New uinea people at the wedding in on April 28 between Mr. oel Serafini and Miss Jennifer Aplitt, ith of Lae. They included Mr. and [rs. W. A. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. A. inner, Mr. Tony Botsman, all of ae, and Mr. and Mrs. George [anson, of Port Moresby. Best man as Mr. Robert Ferraris, of Lae, and nior bridesmaid was Miss Rena irafini, daughter of Mr. Ernest ;rafini, of Lae. Mrs. Mary Zuydam, irmerly of Lae, came down from risbane. Besides the bridegroom’s irents, Mr. and Mrs. Greg Serafini, e bridegroom’s two brothers, Paul id Carl, were also at the wedding ior to leaving Sydney together on three months’ world tour. The bride id bridegroom will return to live Lae after a world tour of their vn. • William A. McGrath, his wife, leaner, and their sons, Rod and on, who have been in Saipan, US *ust Territory, since February, 1966, e still enjoying life and their new ivironment. Bill McGrath joined the dministration of Papua-New Guinea 1953, and between 1959 and 1961 as with the Native Lands Commis- Dn.

In the Trust Territory he is Lands anagement Officer, and Eleanor is pharmacist in the Health Departed.

They now collect and read books on icronesia as eagerly as they once d on Papua-New Guinea—and II is preparing a bibliography. Their le nostalgic lapse is to occasionally ten-in to 9PA-VLT6 Port Moresby, hich is received very clearly in lipan. The two children, aged eight id six, now speak American with a hamarro accent. • Miss Dorothea Tomkins, who 2kked for two weeks over New uinea’s Owen Stanley Range to escape the advancing Japanese in 1942, has left Papua after nearly 30 years with the Anglican Church there.

She is retiring to Brisbane, where she was born.

Miss Tomkins nursed and taught at half a dozen Anglican mission stations throughout Papua. During the past two years she has been acting as an occupational therapist at Embi T.B. hospital near Popondetta.

She encouraged the people to revive their native arts and crafts which were dying out and has now established a small showroom at the hospital where the patients’ work is on display. • Governor H. Rex Lee returned to American Samoa on April 4 after being absent from the territory since before Christmas. Governor Lee has been busy in the United States mainly with hearings in the Pacific air routes case and American Samoa’s congressional appropriation request for the 1968 financial year. • Dr. John Harold, Director of Education in American Samoa since 1965, was to begin a new job with the National Association of Educational Broadcasters on May 1. He is to make a feasibility study of educational television programmes, such as American Samoa’s, for use in developing countries. • Lafaele Fonoti, a Samoan, has been appointed acting principal of Sili’aga School in American Samoa.

He is the first Samoan to take complete charge of a consolidated school in the territory. • Mr. Gordon Skipper, Director of the New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroad, visited Tonga and Western Samoa recently in the course of a Pacific tour. The aim of the service is to help developing countries in Asia and the Pacific by sending New Zealanders with skills needed in those areas to use and teach those skills. Mr. Skipper had talks with the Tongan Government, and saw possibilities of assisting Tonga in education, agriculture, forestry, public health and public relations. At present there are eight volunteers working in Tonga. Others are serving in other Pacific islands. The New Zealand Government pays for administrative costs and travelling expenses for the volunteers, but remuneration and out of pocket expenses are met by NZ (Continued on p. 124) Miss Dorothea Tomkins. 121 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of this yacht Please Contact The Nearest Police Station or Police Officer. sponsorships, public subscriptions and donations. The host countries supply accommodation, • Mr. Jim Anderson, a 25-yearold freelance photographer from Kansas, USA, who has appeared in PlM’s yachting columns over the past three years, was working in Sydney in April. He left Hawaii in December, 1963, as a crewmember of the 40 ft ketch Mar-Quesa and visited many islands in French Polynesia before signing off to join the 100 ft schooner Dante Deo in Rarotonga.

From Rarotonga he sailed to Niue, Tonga, and Fiji before arriving at NZ where he stayed for most of last year. He plans to marry a NZ girl soon and perhaps head for NG. • Mr. Graham Parmenter, of Rabaul, NG, has started what is believed to be the territory’s most unusual occupation—flying plumber.

Parmenter, who operates his own plane, will fly to outstations in New Britain and on nearby islands to answer the call for his services. He has been a plumber in Rabaul for several years but only recently bought his own plane. • The Senior Assistant Secretary (Finance) in the GEIC, Mr. D. M, Freegard, left Tarawa in April on transfer to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Mr. Freegard had spent a total of nine years in the GEIC over the past 14 year: In this time he held a variety of post both in the Secretariat and in Distru Administration. • The newly-appointed Com[ troller of Posts and Telecommunicc tions in the GEIC, Mr. C. S. Loade was expected to arrive in Tarawa o April 29. • Mr. Paulius Matane, a distru inspector with the New Guinea EH partment of Education, is on a five months’ tour of African States unde a Churchill scholarship. He will 100 at the problems of supervision an inspection of schools in a number c countries, including Uganda, Kenyj Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeru Malawi and Sudan. He will retur in September. • New nuclear tests—the fir; since October—are to be held in Jun and July at the French nuclear tesi ing centre at Mururoa Atoll, Frenc Polynesia, according to an officu French announcement in April. Ir formed sources in Paris expect th new tests to involve the explosion c small atomic bombs suspended fror balloons. These bombs are being de veloped as the trigger for France" first hydrogen bomb.

Gastro kills 26 An outbreak of gastro-enteritis which began slowly in the Rabaul area of New Guinea in February had resulted in the deaths of 26 babies by the end of April. The deaths occurred from about 210 native children admitted to hospital; doctors said that never before in that area had they experienced an epidemic with such a high mortality rate. All the babies were less than 12 months old.

By the end of April it appeared that the epidemic had weakened.

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Business and Development New Guinea has one of the most rapidly developing economies' According to Papua-New Guinea’s Economic Adviser, Mr.

A. W. McCasker, the territory’s rate of economic growth is about 12 per cent, a year—which places it among the most rapidly developing economies in the world. Furthermore the erritory’s comparative degree of dependence on Australian aid lias been declining; the Commonwealth grant fell from 64.9 per :ent. of total receipts in 1960-61, to 58.3 per cent, in 1966-67.

FR, McCASKER gave these L figures, and some more, when aking at the annual territory trict Commissioners’ conference in t Moresby in April. He admitted t it wasn’t possible to be very :ise about the economic developit of the territory because suf- :nt information about production income was not yet available for poses of comparison, loreover, such a large proportion territory income was in the form subsistence income, on which it almost impossible to place a sfactory value, so any totals ded for the territory must be reied as suspect. khout 60 per cent, of the people e still almost entirely in the submce section, Mr. McCasker said, made these further points: > There is an extremely heavy endence on imports which pro- : about 42 per cent, of supplies the monetary sector, and greatly ;ed exports (by $80.5 million in 5-66). > The public sector largely domi- ;s the economy, particularly in tion to capital formation of which rovides more than half. > Industry and commerce are iparatively little developed. > The transport and communicasystems are still rudimentary. > The Administration budget still mds on a very heavy contribution n Australia (58.3 per cent, of 1 expenditure in 1966-67).

Many other indicators of the lively early stage of the territory’s dopment will readily come to d,” he said.

“Nevertheless, despite these humble beginnings the rate of progress of the economy to date has been remarkably fast. For example, total indigenous employment increased by 20 per cent, to 92,000 between 1961-62 and 1964- 65.

“The value of buildings completed increased 2i times to $22 million.

Electricity generally increased by over one-half to 92 million kilowatt hours.

“There was a marked expansion of the urban areas, which had a population of 129,000 by mid-1966.

“Exports have been increasing at the high average annual rate of 11.4 per cent.”

Mr. McCasker said the future development of the territory must be based primarily on its agricultural and forestry resources. But mineral development, which was “the great unknown” at the present time, might well prove to be of “enormous importance in the long run”.

The problems He said recent research suggested a figure for known crop land of about 3.3 million acres, which was more than enough to support a rapid rate of agricultural development.

There were also large areas, thought to amount to some 10 million acres, that could be used for animal production and there was an assessed forest potential of between 20 and 30 million acres.

Some of the most important problems to be faced were provision for investigations and surveys; arranging for purchases of land and timber rights in sufficient quantities and in the right places; achieving large scale native land tenure conversion; planning, organising and establishing resettlement schemes to expand the area of commercial cropping; and the provision of roads and other facilities.

World Bank mission In the same week that Mr.

McCasker was talking another mission from the World Bank was completing a tour of the territory.

Leader of the mission, Mr. R. J.

Goodman, who is deputy director of the Bank’s Asia department, said in Port Moresby that members of the mission had been “encouraged by the evidence of solid progress in the territory” since the first World Bank mission was there four years ago.

He said that although an economic development plan for the territory had yet to be drawn up, the main priorities were already clear. These were: Improved transport and communications; more electric power capacity; and fuller exploitation of the territory’s resources for primary production, especially production for export.

Mr. Goodman said the mission had looked at all these matters, and in particular had endorsed the need for a comprehensive survey of transport, upon which a co-ordinated programme for the development of the territory’s transport system could be based. Such a programme would be an essential part of the general development plan for the next few years.

The mission had also suggested further studies of the Ramu hydroelectric scheme to establish the most effective and economic way of developing the river’s potential.

Other members of the mission were: Dr. C. P. McMeekan, who covered primary production; Mr. E. Minnig, who covered electric power; Mr. H.

Van Helden, who covered transport; and Mr. Gunter Reif and Mr. Ernest Earners, both general economists.

The mission was accompanied throughout the tour by Mr. Gordon Low, of the Commonwealth Treasury, Canberra; and Mr. Garth Mansfield, of the Department of Territories, Canberra. 129 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY. 1967

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P.O. Box 633, Cables & Telegrams: Port Moresby Printer Port Moresby Dilemma of Fiji passionfruit industry By a staff writer ...

Fiji, which can well use every export penny it can get, received an economic setback in April i f-y ~ /T 7 - \ r 4. j when Cottees (Fiji) Ltd. announced the closure of its passionfruit processing factory, because, as directors of the com- ’ . .. „ , . pany put it, overseas markets had not developed to the extent originally envisaged”. But there is hope that something may be J rescued.

T _ , „ , , HE Cottees factory has been processing passionfruit from the Sigatoka Valley for the past two seasons.

Altogether 130 farmers have been affected by the close down 110 Fijians and 20 Indians, who have planted large areas.

There is another factory owned by South Pacific Foods Pty. Ltd., at Nadroga, which will continue to operate. The farmers supplying the Cottee’s factory will be compensated by Cottees, and are expected to receive about £F 15,000.

The sudden announcement of the closing down of Cottees in Fiji came as a shock to the Fiji Government, The decision comes on the heels of the sale last October of Cottees to corporated.

Apparently, poor lines of communication, or poor planning, resuited in the over-supply with no one to tbe P as sionfruit to. Who’s to blame for expecting too much? The Fiji Government or Cottees? In the end result it is the Fiji farmer who stands to lose, Mr - Harold Cottee, chairman of ?°5 tees < Australia ) Lt d-> fr ° m Sydney to Suva on April 29 for talks with the Fiji Government about the passionfruit situation, He told PIM before he left Sydney Jj® say 1 j n u ch about the talks because it would be premature, “I intend to use my best endeavours to keep our passionfruit interests going in Fiji. This job is in my hands for moulding,” he said.

Only persistence, hard work and pioneering is going to find us new markets for passionfruit. Taiwan, the West Indies, South Africa and particularly Hawaii are all producing passionfruit for a limited world market—competition is tough and the markets small, “We feel it is in the interests of the people of Fiji to keep the passionfruit processing going and we would like to find a solution to the problem.

“We are doing all we can.”

Mr. Cottee said he could not comment on reports received by PIM that he would make a personal investment in the Fiji passionfruit industry, He said he was acting only as a representative of Cottees.

Total exports of passionfruit pulp and juice from Fiji last year amounted to 35,505 gallons, which earned £F44,196.

New Guinea will discourage coffee planting The Papua-New Guinea Admit stration has agreed to actively di courage any further coffee plantin, in the New Guinea Highlands—ti territory’s coffee area. It will mai “>a maximum effort” to encourai economic diversification there.

THIS is the result of high lev talks at Goroka on March : between Administration officials ar members of the Highlands Farme and Settlers’ Association. The plante asked for the meeting because < concern for over-production of Ne Guinea coffee.

Highlands’ farmers say that thw understood as far back as 1960 th the administration would actively di courage indigenous coffee planters j that the territory would not produ( more coffee than that allowed by ti International Coffee Agreement. TI agreement allowed for existing nath plantings, plus 20 per cent., but ne native plantings since then have bee considerably higher than thatperhaps 200 per cent.

Last year New Guinea exporte about 12,000 tons, and it is unde stood that this year, to Septemtw 30, the export figure will be 15,0 C tons.

New Guinea coffee is now sellir at 37c per pound FOB as a be quote, which is about five to seve cents a pound less than it was receb ing 12 months ago.

Administration officers at th Goroka meeting were the Assistar Administrator (Economic Affairs] the Director of Trade and Industr the Director of Agriculture and th Director of Lands.

At the conclusion of the talks th Assistant Administrator, Mr. Fran Henderson, and the acting presider of the Farmers and Settlers’ Associa tion, Mr. J. L. Leahy, made a join Press statement saying that it wa generally agreed that new coffe plantings should not be encouraged.

Both emphasised the need for in creased kau kau and other fooi production and said kau kau wa “at least as profitable as coffee am there was a considerable unsatisfie< market”.

They also emphasised the value o passionfruit and cattle to the 20!

New Guinean members of the asso ciation attending the conference. 130 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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P.Q. Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address; "Carefulness". opra prices rill recover' HAIRMAN of the P-NG Copra Marketing Board, Mr. lan Donald, gave the following report the world copra market on April ‘The general trend in the market edible oils since the end of March i been towards lower prices, de- :e earlier indications that prices ild firm as a result of falling pro- :tion in some sectors, particularly »ra.

As usual, the trend can be traced k to US soyabeans, for which re has been little demand in recent ;ks.

Strong competition has come d China, where Japan recently chased a large quantity of soyan, and from Russia, where large ntities of sunflower seed and oil available. Sunflower seed is also viding strong competition in ope.

As a result of this competition, vy price declines have occurred groundnuts, also Peruvian fish oils , of course, in Philippine copra.

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As far as copra is concerned, prices >t recover shortly because of the nite drop which will soon occur export supplies, mainly from the lippines, and which will probably ome more pronounced during the t month or so.”

Dpper 'greater an expected' NO Australian mining companies, Conzinc Riotinto and New •ken Hill Consolidated, will spend million this year investigating the per deposits on Bougainville, NG. ir Maurice Mawby, chairman of Bougainville development section CRA, said in April that twods of this cost would be borne CRA and one-third by New ken Hill. le said cost would rise from 54.2 [ion at December 31, 1966, to .2 million on the same date this r. )nly large organisations with great ncial resources and with worlde contacts can afford to engage exploration programmes of this gnitude,” Sir Maurice said.

“Success could cause many other companies to become interested and speed the development of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea to which Australia has very special obligations.” .

He disclosed that recent diamond drilling on Bougainville had shown copper deposits were “considerably greater” than earlier estimates of at least 90 million tons.

The ore had an average assay of 0.63 per cent, copper and 0.58 dwt per ton gold. Grade of the additional ore was expected to be of the same general order as that already reported.

Sir Maurice said this assay was usual for large deposits found in the US and the Philippines. And at present copper prices this grade was economical—“or we would not proceed with the prospect”.

But because of the difficult terrain, high rainfall and other factors, the establishment of a mining enterprise in the area would involve “many complexities and require many considerations”. By “other factors” Sir Maurice no doubt had in mind the objections of some of the local New Guineans to exploration in their area.

This problem has not yet been solved. 3 Sir Maurice said the increase in reserves was the result of more diamond drilling since the annual report had been written. Detailed calculations of the deposit would be revised shortly when the testing work had been further advanced.

DC ID nircfrln will airarnp Will aid nickel Company ■ 7 A NEW 2,000-foot long airstrip for use by an international nickel company is nearing completion on San Jorge Island, in the Central District, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

The use of aircraft will reduce delays in the delivery of spares and ‘° fidd f ° rCe ~ 8 on Santa Isab f’company recently shipped a c^rn 'l^ Sl^ ln ?u nt tOnS ? f 2T e s / ? mp 1 Yunnc { n Canada, where it is to be tested and analysed for mineral content.

A decision on whether it will be economic to mine nickel deposits in Isabel, San Jorge, and the Choiseul area is expected before the end of this year, SoVTIOQII fruit s6lit - k. 7 , tO IN A by QIT mwn tor.c of a T f *-°. P A P Tf pia t( ? Auc ¥ anc * m April. 2? r e t l^ ar f !st consignment of its kind ever to come from the Islands tF< yffj* a ♦ *ew Zealand reports say the Samoan Government hopes ultimately to send 3i tons of fruit a week by air to Auckland, The Western Samoan Minister for Agriculture, Laufili Time, and the Trade and Development Cornmissioner, Mr. E. Stehlin, visited the city’s markets during the month to discuss air freighting.

CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1967

Unless you are a beneficiary, the appearance of your name in even one Will could be unfortunate, to say the least of it. You could be its Executor, an unenviable responsibility even for the comparatively few people who know how to handle this extremely awkward task.

If you have agreed to act as a private Executor, it is essential to know exactly what are your obligations. Ask for a free copy of the Burns Philp Trustee 20-page brochure at your nearest B.P. Branch. This will give you a very good idea of the task ahead, together with convincing reasons why you should transfer this burden to a professional Executor, Burns Philp Trustee.

The business affairs of Islands residents are the exclusive responsibility of Trust Officers at Head Office. A senior Trust Officer visits Papua-New Guinea every few months.

If you need advice urgently, you are invited to write to Burns Philp Trustee. No obligation for this service.

Burns Philp Trustee

Company Limited

Executor • Administrator • Trustee Attorney • Agent.

Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, SYDNEY.

Telegrams: “BURNSTRUST”, SYDNEY.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides).

Canberra Agent: BURNS PHILP TRUSTEE COMPANY (CANBERRA) LIMITED.

Suite 11, Landtrust Building, East Row, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T. 9.504 Delicate mechanical toys such as we all love to acquire in this gadgethappy age can, obviously, be easily damaged in transit to our “far-away” isle but isn’t it the vendor’s responsibility to inspect such items before he sells them? Or . . , surely it can’t be that, in this field too, there are devious ways of buying-up inferior quality goods which can then be passed on to an unsuspecting public at top-quality prices?

Surely not. Such thoughts are onl> the feverish aftermath of a dose < Fiji shopping?

And yet, the episode which ii flamed me most, in recent weeks, wi certainly not imaginary.

I bought a new camera with a flas attachment especially because wanted to record the imminent bloon ing of a nights-flowering cereus i the garden. All went well until I signed the cheque. Only then did tl salesman “remember” to tell me th: the shop was out of the batterii needed to operate a flash earner But they’d be in soon.

I was disappointed but ui suspicious, I watched the buds c my cactus grow fat and went in agai for the batteries. This time I wj told by another salesman that n< only were the batteries not obtainah but were unlikely to be so . .

“nobody has them at present” I w« told blandly . , . “not even Ne Zealand”.

“It may be weeks or months,” I went on. But at that point I cease to be a polite but disappointe customer. 1 informed the young ma that I had handed him the full pric for a camera including batterie flash and film ... in exchange he' only sold me what amounted, for m purpose, to half a camera and he' better do something about it!

He did. But why not in the fir place? Was this “sale” worth tl reaction?

Then there’s the matter of pric differential. Brand goods are so] with huge differences in various shoi not yards from each other, in mo; of Fiji’s towns. In Suva, for instano a certain roll of film is obtainab] at three different prices, and th variation is eight shillings!

“Caveat emptor” is a time-honoure Latin phrase meaning that it’s up t the buyer to take reasonable pr< cautions to see that he’s not handin over his hard-earned cash foolishly You will tell me that buying an selling still retain something of sporting element all over the work All right, fair enough!

But I can’t suppress a sneakin suspicion that some of the tradin habits operating currently in Fi; smack too much of the method brought here by the 18th centur pirates. They made their profits b trafficking in sandalwood, beche-de mer, mother-of-pearl, and, when i suited them, human beings.

Those pirates may be dead, bn something of their spirit lingers.

First Fiji copper by end of year THE first commercial copper mine to be opened in Fiji will probably be exporting ore soon.

It is an open-cut mine started by a Japanese consortium, which expects to ship 2,500 tons of ore a month to Japan by the end of the year.

The partners in the venture, Banno Mining Company, Dowa Mining Company and Daiwa Bank, spent about £15,000 on preliminary investigations before deciding to mine at Nukudamu. near the northernmost point of Vanua Levu. 132 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL3 But the pirates are not all dead! (Continued from p. 21)

Mar. 23 Apr. 26 Ansett .50 ... . .57 .60 Bali Plantations .50 .53 .50 Burns Philp 1.00 . . 3.71 4.10 Burns Philp (SS) 2.25 4.22 4.30 Camelec .50 , . . .54 .58 Carpenter .50 . . . 2.15 2.20 Choiseul Plntn. 1.00 2.82 2.65 C.S.R. 1.00 . . . . 2.90 3.45 Dylup Plntn. .50 . .59 .57 Fiji Industries 1.12 , 2.25 2.25 Hackshalls .50 . . 1.32 1.36 Kerema Rubber .50 .22 .20 Koitaki Rubber .50 1.20 1.20 Lolorua Rubber .50 .40 .47 Makurapau Plntn. .50 .43 .43 Mariboi Rubber .50 .33 .30 Plantation Hldgs. .50 .34 .35 Queensland Ins. 1.00 4.20 4.20 Rubberlands .50 . . .20 .20 Sogeri Rubber .50 . .60 .58 Sth. Pac. Ins. .50 . 1.60 1.60 Steamships Tdg. .50 .96 .91 Watkins Cons. .50 . .43 .45 C.R.A. .50 5.20 5.24 Emperor .10 .38 .44 NG Gold Ltd. .35 . . .47 .46 Oil Search .50 ... .17 .15 Pacific I. Mines .25 . .44 .39 Papuan Apin. .50 . . .19 .15 Placer Dev.* .... 29.20 31.50 • No par value Produce Prices Unless otherwise stated, quotations are Australian currency. Aust. $ equals roximately 8/- Stg., NZ, or W. Samoa; Fiji; 10/- Tonga; 5.381 Ceylon lees; 98 Pac. Frs.; 5U51.125.) COPRA APUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production delivered to Copra Marketing Board, trolled by six members, including three iters’ representatives. The board directs ribution and sales, and makes payits to the producers. Production goes nly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Ausia for local consumption, (c) crushingin Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus ivailable). Prices generally tally with ig rate in Philippines with premiums hot-air dried. ■NG Board’s purchase prices for copra rered main ports from March 1 were air dried, $l2O per ton; FMS, $ll7 ton; smoke-dried, $ll5 per ton. [JI: —The Fiji Coconut Industry Board 5 the prices to be paid for Fiji a on a formula based on that for ippines copra, and taking into account ;ht, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage.

The copra must be graded at centres Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and mni. Prices in Suva to Apr. 30 were: ie one, £FS4/15/-; grade two, 19/17/6 and grade three, £F42. ale of deductions has been established copra delivered to grading centres r than Suva.

BSTERN SAMOA: Official Copra d takes all production, sells same makes payments to producers. It mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, the open market. Local price rely was £NZS6/12/6 grade one, INGA: All copra is sold to the Tongan a Board which sends it to Europe, r arrangement with Unilever, con- Jd by Philippines prices, and the rest on to the open market. (LOMON IS.: All production marketed

Exchange Rates

ll.—'Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ K, BANK OF NZ and THE BANK BARODA LTD. Australia on Fiji, £F100: Buying, $A221.73; Selling, 6. Fiji-London, basis £Stg.loo: ‘FI 12; S. £FIIO/15/-. NZ-Fiji, basis 1100: B. £Flll/11/9; S. £FIIO/4/3.

SSTERN SAMOA. Through BANK WESTERN SAMOA. Australia on Samoa basis £WS100: B. $A246.67; £ A 249.08. W. Samoa-NZ, basis 100: B. £ WS99/11/3; S. 5100/10/-. Fiji-W. Samoa, basis 5100: B. £FIO9/17/6; S. £FIII.

Samoa-London, basis £Stg.loo: B, 5100/1/3; S. £WSIOI/10/-.

•Rfolk Is. And Papua-New

*EA. —Australian currency used; no inge payable in transactions with •alia.

ENCH PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific is (CPF) are used in New Calei, New Hebrides (Jointly with Ausin dollars), Wallis and Futuna ds and Fr. Polynesia. FRENCH BANK ptoir National D’Ecompte de Paris, ey, on Apr. 28, quoted: Selling, xea and Papeete, 98 Pac. francs to ist.; 240 Pac. francs to £ Stg., )x. 90 Pac. francs to US $; Noumea ac. francs to 1 French franc (conm rate: 1 Pac. francs equals 0.055 :h franc). Paris-London: Buying francs to £Stg. 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. Prices on Apr. 21 were: Ist grade, $120; 2nd grade, $116; 3rd grade, $lO6 per ton, 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 $67.20 per ton for first grade.

NEW HEBRIDES: —Copra sold direct by planters to Prance and South America.

Official price on Apr. 19 was $6B (6,800 Pac. Francs). French price in Apr. was 815 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 Apr., May and June, have been fixed, subject to freight adjustment, at £NZSS/5/4 Ist grade, £NZS4/0/4 standard grade—both per ton, f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

COCOA:—lslands prices are usually based on the rates for Ghana cocoa.

On Apr. 28 these were approx. £ 5tg.222/10/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

On Apr. 28, Quote No. 1: In store Rabaul, export quality $440 per ton, exwharf Sydney, $490. Quote No. 2: Best quality, ex-wharf Sydney, $5OO, in store NG ports $433 (for UK, Continent and USA shipments).

W. SAMOA:—Latest prices quoted in Sydney, on Apr. 19 were: Grade 1, £ Stg.3o2/2/6, grade 2, £Stg.27s per ton. f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE.—P.-N.G.: Apr. 28, Quote No. 1, good quality A grade 40.5 c per lb; B grade 39.5 c; C grade 37.5 c, c.i.f., Sydney.

PEANUTS.—P.-N.G.; Sydney agents reported Apr. 28, f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 15c lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rates, which on Apr. 26 were: Prompt shipment 57% Straits cents per lb, c.i.f. (19.87 c Aust.); May shipment 57% Straits cents per lb (19.87 c Aust.); June shipment 57% Straits cents per lb (19.74 c Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, buy mainly from Tahiti for Sydney and Melbourne essence makers.

Prices on May 1 were: white and yellow label processed, standard packs, $6, green label, $5.90, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices, until Mar. 31, 1968, are—P.-N.G.: Dried brown rice, 112 lb bags, $l2B per ton, f.o.w. Sydney or Melbourne. Vitamin enriched white rice, 112 lb bags, $142 per ton, f.o.w. Other Pacific Islands: Polished white or dried brown rice, $142 per ton, f.o.w.

PEARL SHELL.—Fished by Japanese and Australian interests around Cape York and Broome, North Australia, for mainly cultured shell production. Shells were scarce in May. Two Sydney buyers, on May 1, quoted these prices: Sound $1,650 per ton, D grade $l,lBO, E grade, $650, EE $470 (in store Sydney).

Cook Islands. —Penrhyn Island, £NZ32O (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

TROCHUS.—Sydney buyers indicated the following quotations to Islands producers: Apr. 28 Papua $l6O-$lBO per ton; N.G., 8.5.1.—5150-$l6O per ton, f.o.b. Islands ports.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyers quoted: Apr. 28, No. 1, Ist grade, $490, f.o.b. Islands ports, 2nd grade, nom., $240 on wharf, Sydney.

CROCODILE SKINS. On Apr. 28 Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over, first grade quality as follows; P.-N.G.— $2.90 per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) $l.BO per in. 8.5.1., Honiara: $1.89 per in. Gizo: $2.10 per in.

PAPUAN GUM: Scarce supply in May— sl9o per ton, del. Sydney; New Guinea graded gum $lB5 per ton, f.0.b., Samarai.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote F 2- (4 in. to 7 in.) to P3/- (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. ICEP Pty. Ltd., 22 Taylor St., North Curl Curl, Sydney, quote 65c to 85c lb., ex-store Sydney, according to quality.

London and US Quotations COPRA: LONDON, Apr. 28, Philippines, in bulk, $U5178.50 per long ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan 1% c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports, UQ. NEW YORK: Apr. 28, Philippines, c.i.f.. Pacific Coast ports, nom. SUSI6I per short ton CEYLON: Spot, 940 Rupees per long ton.

COCONUT OIL: LONDON, Apr. 28, Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £Stg.96 per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports.

RUBBER: LONDON, Apr. 26, Spot lYVsd Stg. lb; May shipment 17yad Stg. lb; contract June shipment 17 3 /ad Stg. lb.

Stock Market

Last Sales Sydney

Oil And Mining Shares

(Quotations are in Australian dollars— sA2 = £ Al.) Sydney stock exchange share price index for ordinaries on Apr. 26 was 338.39, on Mar. 23, it was 322.58. 133 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Nedlloyd Lines

MANAGERS - NEDERLAND LINE - ROYAL DUTCH MAIL ■ AMSTERDAM

S ' Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Rotterdam

Regular Sailings By Fast, Modern, Cargo Vessels

from CONTINENTAL PORTS via PANAMA to

Papeete, Apia, Nukualofa, Suva And Noumea

from CONTINENTAL PORTS and U.K. via SUEZ to

Port Moresby, Honiara, Rabaul, Lae And Madang

other ports called at subject to sufficient inducement heavy-lift facilities—refrigerated space—cargo deeptanks excellent passenger accommodation Ets. Donald Tahiti, Papeete.

W. R. Carpenter & Co., Suva.

For further particulars apply to agents Nelson & Co. Ltd., Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Apia. Nukualofa.

Wn. Breckwoldt & Co., Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd., Honiara. Port Moresby & Lae.

Agence Maritime Pentecotl Noumea.

New Guinea Company Ltd Rabaul & Madang. m W m Linking the PACIFIC ISLANDS with...

EUROPE, WEST INDIES,

New Zealand, Australia And Sth. Africa

One Class liners, Southern Cross {20,000 tons) and Northern Star (24,000 torts) air-conditioned with the latest in amenities.

Regular sailings approximately every six weeks via Panama Canal and South Africa, calling at a selection of the following ports: Fiji, Rarotonga, Tahiti, Acapulco, Balboa, Curacao, Trinidad, Barbados, Miami (Pt. Everglades), Bermuda, Lisbon, Southampton, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, For full particulars apply Fiji—Any branch or agency of Bums Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.) Cable Address: Burphil Tahiti Messageries Ma'ritimes Papeete, Cable Address; Messagerie Papeete.

Shaw Savill Line

134 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Shipping, Airways Information

Shipping Timetables

PIM's shipping and airways schedules are revised each month just before publication from information supplied by the shipping and airways companies. Detailed information on ships' sailing dates should be obtained from shipping agents.

BRISBANE - SYDNEY -

West Irian - Indonesia

[■he P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping npany operates a monthly cargo service ween Indonesia (with an occasional call West Irian) and Brisbane, Sydney and Ibourne with the Pilar Regidor. letails from John Manners and Co, ist.) Pty. Ltd., general agents, 4 Bridge Sydney (27-9164).

Sydney - Fiji

?he CSR Company operates a isenger/cargo service, usually with the Rona, departing Sydney every three four weeks for Suva and Lautoka. letails from Colonial Sugar Refining Co. ~ 1 O’Connell St., Sydney (2-0515).

Dney - Fiji - Tonga - Samoa

Jnion Steam Ship Co. maintains six-weekly cargo service with the imate from Sydney to Lautoka, Suva eluding transhipments for Vavau and ,e), Nukualofa and Apia with return Sydney via Auckland. The return trip asionally takes in Malua (Fiji) and iranga (NZ) for timber. )etails from Union Steam Ship Co. of Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydney 0528); or other branches and agents.

Sydney - Fiji - Uk

lhandris Line vessel Australis mainis a two-monthly passenger service n Sydney via New Zealand and Fiji Southampton, and return via Suez to Iney. letails from Chandris Line, 135 King Bet, Sydney (28-2451).

Sydney - Fiji - Vancouver

’acific Shipowners Ltd., of Suva, mally operate a passenger-cargo ser- -3 three times yearly with the Lakemba ling at Sydney, Melbourne, Suva, itoka, Honolulu, Vancouver.

Tie Lakemba will occasionally call at daide on the southbound run if it ries timber or paper. )etails from American Trading and pping Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, Iney (27-4147).

Sydney - Geic - Honolulu

lolumbus Lines of New York, operate iroximately monthly passenger-cargo ings from West Coast, USA (with asional calls at Papeete or Pago Pago) Australia and New Zealand, returning Tarawa, GEIC, and Honolulu to Los jeles or Vancouver. (etails from American Trading and pping Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, Iney (27-4149).

PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

SYDNEY - NEW CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides - Fr. Polynesia

Messageries Maritimes Line passengercargo vessels, Tahitien and Caledonien from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call regularly at Papeete, Talohae (Marquesas Group), Vila Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Polynesie maintains three - weekly passenger sailings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila and Santo.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 2 Young St., Sydney (27-2654).

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - HAWAII -

Canada - Usa

P. and O. Lines passenger vessels call approximately monthly at Auckland, Suva and Honolulu on eastbound and westbound voyages between Sydney and Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, occasional calls are made at Pago Pago and Nukualofa.

Details from P. and O. Lines of Aust.

Pty. Ltd., 55 Hunter St., Sydney (2-0317), or travel agents.

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - TAHITI -

Panama - Uk

Southern Cross and Northern Star passenger vessels each make four roundthe-world voyages per year, from Southampton, UK, alternatively via South Africa and Panama, generally calling at Sydney, Wellington, Rarotonga, Papeete and Fiji (Southern Cross only).

Details from Shaw Savill Line, 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (28-1828).

SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI -

Panama - Usa

Holland-America Line passenger vessel Maasdam leaves Sydney twice a year for Panama and USA, calling at Wellington and Papeete.

Details from Europe-Canada Line, cnr.

Bridge and Pitt Sts., Sydney (27-6432).

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).

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 5 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311).

Sydney - Norfolk Is. - New

Hebrides - Bsi

MV Tulagl (passenger-cargo) leaves Sydney about every six weeks for Norfolk Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara and BSI ports.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547),

Sydney - Papua - New Guinea

Australia-West Pacific Line operates a regular monthly service from Melbourne.

Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby Rabaul, Madang and Lae.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty. Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

Burns Philp passenger/cargo vessels maintain regular services from the Australian East coast to New Guinea ports.

Bulolo maintains a six-weekly service from Sydney and Brisbane to Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang and Rabaul.

Braeside sails every eight weeks from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Pt.

Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney.

Malekula maintains a seven-weekly service from Sydney and Brisbane to Pt. Moresby, Lae, Madang, Lombrum, Lorengau, Rabaul and Bougainville ports.

Moresby maintains a seven-weekly service from Sydney and Brisbane to Pt.

Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby.

Montoro sails every eight weeks from Melbourne and Sydney to Pt. Moresby, Samarai. Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Alexishafen, Madang, Lae and Pt.

Moresby.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Soochow and Shansi provide a regular fortnightly passenger-cargo service from Sydney to Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai and Sydney, sailing from Sydney every second Monday.

Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Karlander New Guinea Line cargo vessels Sletfjord, Saidor, Sarang and Sletholm leave Sydney approx, weekly for P-NG ports, calling at Brisbane, Pt.

Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kieta, and occasionally Gizo, Honiara, Buka and Vanimo.

Details from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 5 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311).

Sydney - P-Ng - Far East

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo vessels Australasia and Malaysia run monthly between Australian ports (turn round at Melbourne) and Singapore, via Pt.

Moresby and Djakarta.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney (27-1271).

Australia-West Pacific Line vessels maintain a regular passenger/cargo service to Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Rabaul, thence to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Manila: returning to Australia via Madang, Rabaul and Lae.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301). 135 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

China Navigation Co. Ltd. cargo vessels Woosung, Wenchow and Wanliu call monthly at Rabaul, Lae and Madang on their way north from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Hong Kong, Okinawa and Japan.

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Changsha and Taiyuan provide a monthly passenger-cargo service calling at Pt.

Moresby when northbound between Australia, Manila, Keelung and Hong Kong.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty Ltd., 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Dominion Far East Line vessels Francis Drake and George Anson maintain monthly passenger-cargo services between Sydney and Japan (via Manila. Hong Kong and Formosa), return via Guam and Rabaul.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd.. 115 York Street, Sydney (2-0253).

Sydney - Tahiti - Uk

Chandris Line vessel Ellinis maintains a regular passenger service every two months from Sydney via New Zealand and Papeete to Southampton, and return via Suez to Sydney.

Details from Chandris Line, 135 King Street, Sydney (28-2451).

Europe - New Guinea - West

Irian - Bsip - Geic

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd operate a service every six weeks from the Continent and London via Suez to Port Moresby, Honiara or Tarawa (alternating each voyage), Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Alexishafen, Wewak, Sukarnapura, Biak, Manokwarl and Sorong.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Europe - Tahiti - New

Caledonia - Australia

Messageries Maritimes vessels Marquisien, Malais, Mauricien and Maori, run monthly between France and New Zealand, via Panama Canal, calling at Papeete and Noumea.

Messageries Maritimes passenger-cargo vessels Vivarais, Vanoise, Velay, Ventoux and Vosges run monthly between France and Noumea via Suez Canal and Australia. From Sydney, vessels go to Noumea: return to France via Brisbane and southern Australian coastal ports.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 2 Young St., Sydney (27-2654).

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA -

Tonga - Fiji - N. Caledonia

A regular passenger/cargo service every three weeks from the Continent and UK, via Panama, to Tahiti, Fiji and New Caledonia, calling at Western Samoa and Tonga every second voyage, is operated Jointly by Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Far East - Fiji

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Kwangsi, Norman, Nanchang and Kwangtung operate a monthly passengercargo service from Japan and Hong Kong southwards to Fiji direct, returning to Japan via New Zealand and Far Eastern ports.

Far East - Fiji - Nz - Sydney

Royal Interocean Lines operate a monthly passenger-cargo service with the Tjimanuk, Tjitarum and Tjiliwong from Hong Kong and Singapore to Fiji and NZ, calling at Suva and Lautoka, and returning via the Philippines.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Far East - P-Ng

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Kweilin and Chekiang maintain a regular monthly passenger/cargo service from Japan direct to Lae and Pt. Moresby, thence Tasmania, Melbourne and Fremantle.

FAR EAST - P-NG • BSI ■ NEW

Hebrides - New Caledonia

China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels Chefoo, Chengtu and Ninghai maintain a monthly cargo service from Japan and Hong Kong southwards to Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, with regular calls at Wewak, Honiara, Santo and Noumea returning to Japan direct.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

JAPAN - SAMOA - TONGA - FIJI - N. CAL. - N. HEB. - BSI The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd. runs a monthly passenger/cargo service from Japan via Guam to Apia. Pago Pago.

Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo and Honiara.

Details from Banno Oceania Ltd., Suva.

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 (45-117) or any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

NZ - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA Union Steam Ship Co. passenger/cargo vessels Tofua and Matua depart from Auckland alternately every two weeks for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

Tofua maintains a service every four weeks from Auckland to Suva, Pago Pago, Apia, Niue, Vavau, Nukualofa, Suva, and return to New Zealand (usually Auckland).

Matua maintains a service every four weeks from Auckland to Lautoka, Apia, Nukualofa, Suva, and return to New Zealand (usually Auckland).

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland. (49-430).

New Zealand - Tahiti

New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels Ruahine, Rangitoto and Rangitane. operating between NZ and UK, via Panama, make a call every two months at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ.

Tonga - Fiji - Australia

The Tonga Copra Board vessel Niuvakai operates a six-weekly passengercargo service from Melbourne and Sydney to Lautoka, Suva, Apia and Nukualofa.

Details from Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

Tonga - Fiji - Samoa

Tonga Shipping Agency operates a cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautok Ellington, Rotuma) with MV Aoniu. Cal are also made as required at Apia (\ Samoa i and Pago Pago (Am. Samoa Turn-round in Suva is usually two day and the agents there are Morris Hedstror Ltd.

Uk - Panama - Samoa - Fiji

The Fiji Direct Service is maintaine by Conference vessels, sailing at reguli monthly intervals out of London, v; Panama, for Apia. Suva and Lautok Bethell, Gwyn and Co. Ltd., act as Loa< ing Brokers in London.

Uk - Tahiti - Nz - Australia

Cogedar Line vessel Flavia, operates passenger service regularlv fro Southampton, via Panama, Papeete ar Auckland, to Sydney.

Details irom agents: H C. Sleigh, i: York St., Sydney. (2-0253).

UK - PAPUA - NG ■ BSI Bank Line operates a monthly direi service from Eurone to Pt. Moresb Samarai. Lae, Madang. Wewak, Kavien Rabaul and Honiara occasionally extern ing to Tarawa, GEIC, or Vila and Sant New Hebrides.

Details from Bank Line iA/asia.) Pt Ltd., 269 George St.. Sydney (27-2041),

Usa • American Samoa - Fiji

AUSTRALIA Matson-Oceanic Line operates monthly passenger-cargo service from L( Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra ar Ventura Terminal ports, in Australi vary with cargoes offering. Vessels ca at Sydney. Brisbane, Melbourne, Fi; Pago Pago. Papeete (occas. i and Honi lulu.

Details from Matson Lines. 50 Your St., Sydney (27-4272).

Usa - Australia

Pacific Australia Direct Line’s vesse maintain a monthly service fro West Coast Nth. American por to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaid occasionally calling at Honolulu, Sm and Lautoka.

Details from agents: Birt and Compar (Pty.) Ltd., 2 Castlereagh Street, Sydn« (2-0313).

USA - PACIFIC PORTS - NZ -

Sydney - Usa

Matson Line ships Mariposa ar Monterey maintain a regular passengei cargo every three weeks from Sa Francisco and Los Angeles to Bora Bor Papeete, Rarotonga, Auckland, Sydne and return via Noumea, Suva, Niuafoo Pago Pago and Honolulu to San Francisc Details from Matson Lines, 50 Your Street, Sydney (27-4272).

Usa - Tahiti - Australia

Farrell Lines passenger-cargo ships c US Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney servi< make three-weekly calls at Tahiti o southbound voyages.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agenc; 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

USA ■ TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI -

New Caledonia

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessel Thorsgaard and Thor I maintain approx mately monthly services from West Coai Nth. American ports to Papeete. Pag Pago, Apia, Suva, Lautoka, Noumei occasionally Vila, Santo and return.

Details from Birt and Compan 136 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Airways Timetables

[International Dateline is crossed be- ;en Nadi and Honolulu.)

Trans Pacific Services

Dney ■ Brisbane - Honolulu •

North America

By QANTAS (with 707’s) urs.; Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Brisbane 1015, dep. 1100, arr. Honolulu Wed. 2340, dep. Thurs. 0045 for San Francisco, arr. 0830. urs.: Dep. San Francisco 1000, arr.

Honolulu 1155, dep. 1300, arr. Nadi Fri. 1715, dep. 1750, arr. Brisbane Fri. 1915, dep. 2015 for Sydney, arr. 2125.

Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii - Usa

By QANTAS (with 707’s) ;s., Fri., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Nadi 1440, dep. 1525, arr, Honolulu Mon., Thurs., Fri., Sat. 2330, dep. Tues., Fri., Sat., Sun. 0045, arr.

San Francisco 0830. n., Wed., Fri., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0040, dep. 0125, arr. Honolulu 0930, dep. 1100, arr. San Francisco 1845 (to New York, London), n., Wed., Fri., Sun.: From New York, dep. San Francisco 2000, arr. Honolulu 2155, dep. 2300, arr. Nadi Wed., Fri.

Sun., Tues. 0415, dep. 0400, arr.

Sydney 0615. „ Sun.: Dep. San Francisco 2100, arr. Honolulu 2255 Sat., dep. 2359, arr. Nadi Sun. 0415, dep. 0500, arr.

Sydney 0715. (From Vancouver via San Francisco alt. weeks May 19, June 2, 16, 30, etc.) !S., Sat., Sun.: Dep. San Francisco 1000, arr. Honolulu 1155, dep. 1300, arr. Nadi Wed., Sun., Mon. 1715, dep. 1800, arr. Sydney 2015.

Dney - Fiji - Tahiti - Mexico

By QANTAS (with 707’s) a.; Dep. Syd. 1000, arr. Auckland 1445, dep. 1545, arr. Papeete* 2225 Sun. dep. 2325, arr. Acapulco 1130 Mon., dep. 1230, arr. Mexico City 1320. i.: Dep. Syd. 2000, arr. Nadi 0140, dep. 0225, arr. Papeete 0830 Wed., dep 2230, arr. Acapulco 1035 Thurs., dep. 1135, arr. Mexico City 1225 (to Nassau, Bermuda, London). is.: Dep. Mexico City 2200, arr. Acapulco 2250, dep. 2350, arr. Papeete* 0400 Wed., dep. 0500, arr. Auckland 0845 Thurs., dep. 0945, arr. Syd. 1050. . (from London, Bermuda, Nassau): Dep. Mexico City 2200, arr. Acapulco 2250, dep. 2350, arr. Papeete 0400 Sun., dep. 0500, arr. Nadi 0740 Mon., dep. 0825, arr. Syd. 1040.

Asterisk indicates technical stop only.) DNEY - HAWAII - USA via FIJI,

Nz Or Am. Samoa

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) is., Fri., Sun.; Dep. Sydney 1730 (arr.

Nadi 2320, dep. 2359), Honolulu arr.

Tues., Fri., Sun. 0805, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1655. i.: Dep. Sydney 1730 for Pago Pago (arr. Mon. 0140, dep. 0230), Honolulu arr. 0835, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1655.

Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 1630 for Auckland (arr. 2110, dep. 2215) for Honolulu, arr. Thurs. 0845, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1655.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 1530 for Auckland (arr. 2010, dep. 2115) for Pago Pago, arr. 0150, dep., 0240 for Honolulu, arr. Sat. 0845, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles 1655.

Sun., Wed., Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100 for Honolulu, Nadi, arr. Tues., Fri., Sun. 0545, dep. 0645, and Sydney, arr. 0900.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100 for Honolulu, Pago Pago, arr. Sun. 0540, dep, 0640, and Sydney, arr. Mon. 0930.

Tues.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100 for Honolulu, Auckland, arr. Thurs. 0815, dep. 0900 for Sydney, arr. 1000.

Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100 for Honolulu, Pago Pago, arr. Fri. 0540, dep, 0630, and Auckland, arr. Sat. 0915, dep. 1000 for Sydney, arr. 1100.

SYDNEY - N. CALEDONIA - FIJI -

Tahiti - Usa

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DOS’s) Wed.: Dep. Sydney 0950 for Noumea, arr. 1320, dep. 1435 for Nadi, arr. 1715, dep. 1800 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr. 0005, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1955.

Fri.; Dep. Los Angeles 2359 for Papeete, arr. 0515, dep. Sun. 0800 for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Mon. 1045, dep. 1130 for Noumea, arr. 1230.

Fri.: Dep. Noumea 1435 for Nadi, arr. 1715, dep. 1800 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr. 0005, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1955.

Wed.: Dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0515 Thurs., dep. Fri. 0800 for Nadi, (cross Dateline) arr. Sat. 1045, dep. 1130 for Noumea, arr, 1230, dep. 1345 for Sydney, arr. 1545. (NOTE: Flights from Sydney to Noumea and return are operated in association with Qantas.) SYDNEY - NEW ZEALAND - FIJI -

Hawaii - Canada

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(with DCB’s) Alt. Sun. (May 14, 28, June 11, 25): Dep.

Syd. 1800, arr. Nadi 2355, dep 0040 Mon. (cross Dateline) arr. Honolulu 0850 Sun. dep. 1010, arr. Vancouver 1835, dep. 2000, arr. Amsterdam 1315 Mon.

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Vancouver 1815, arr. Honolulu 2100, dep. 2245 (cross Dateline) arr. Nadi 0305 Sun., dep. 0345, arr.

Syd. 0600.

On alternate Sundays (May 21, June 4, 18) the DOS’s will end and start at Auckland, leaving at 2040 and arriving at 0640.

NOTE: Canadian Pacific operate a weekly Toronto-Honolulu service.

Fri.: Dep. Toronto 1750, arr. Honolulu 2125.

Sat.: Dep. Honolulu 1745, arr. Toronto 0825 Sun.

SYDNEY - NTH. AMERICA, via

Fiji, Hawaii

By BOAC (with 707’s) Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0040, dep, 0125 Wed., Fri., Mon. (cross Dateline) arr. Honolulu Tues., Thurs., Sun. 0930, dep. 1100 arr. San Francisco 1845.

Tues., Thurs., Sat.; Dep. San Francisco 2000, arr. Honolulu 2155, dep 2300 (cross Dateline) arr. Nadi Thurs., Sat., Mon. 0315, dep. 0400, arr. Sydney 0615.

New Zealand - Tahiti - Usa

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) Thurs. Dep. San Francisco 1400 for Honolulu, dep. 1815 for Papeete, arr, 2340.

Pri.: Dep. Papeete 0130 for Honolulu, arr. 0650, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. Pri. 1555.

Sat.; Dep. San Francisco 2200, dep. Los Angeles 2359 for Papeete, arr. Sun. 0615, dep. 0700 for Auckland, arr.

Mon. 1050.

Mon.; Dep. Auckland 2359 for Papeete arr. Mon. 0655, dep. 0800 for Los Angeles, arr. Mon. 1750 and San Francisco, arr. 2005.

Australia-New Zealand

Brisbane - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with 707’s, DCS’s and Electras) Three times weekly both ways.

Brisbane - Wellington

AIR-NZ (with Electras) One service weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Pour times weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Four times weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Wellington

AIR-NZ (with Electras) Three times weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with 707’s and DCB’s) Daily, both ways.

BOAC (with 707’s) Twice weekly, both ways.

PAN AMERICAN (with 707’s) One service weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with DCS’s and 707's) Daily, both ways.

Sydney - Wellington

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Daily both ways.

Australia-Pacific Islands

Sydney - Fiji

AIR-INDIA (with 707’s) Tues.: Dep. Sydney 1000, arr. Nadi 1545.

Wed.; Dep. Nadi 0730, arr. Sydney 0955.

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

AIRLINES OF N.S.W. (with Sandringham Flying-boats) Three times every week from Rose Bay Base. Departure time is dependent on time of high tide at Lord Howe Island.

Sydney - New Caledonia

QANTAS/UTA (with 707’s) Fri.: Dep. Sydney 1100 for Noumea (arr. 1430), dep. 1545 for Sydney, arr. 1735.

Sydney - N. Caledonia - Fiji - Nz

CTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with Caravelle) Tues.; Dep. Noumea 1200 for Sydney, arr. 1420, dep. 1600 for Noumea, arr. 1955.

Wed.: Dep. Noumea 0930 for Auckland, arr. 1320, dep. 1500 for Noumea, arr. 1705. 137 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1967

Baiwa Line

Direct Monthly Service

Japan/Guam & South Pacific

M.V. "TAHITI MARU" V-13 Dep. JAPAN May 31.

GUAM June 7.

APIA June 19.

PAGO PAGO June 20.

LAUTOKA June 28.

NOUMEA July 1. *VILA July 13.

SANTO July 15. *HONIARA July 18.

SUVA June 24. * Subject to cargo inducement.

Reefer space and passenger accommodation available.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

Next Sailing — M.V. “Usu Mam”, end July, 1967.

THE DAIWA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

Osaka: "Dailine" Tokyo: "Funedailine"

AGENTS: GUAM: Atkins, 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 - New Zealand - Fiji

BOAC (with 707’s) Mon., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Auckland 1345, dep. 2130, arr. Nadi 0020 (Tues., Sat.).

Tues., Sun.: Dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Auckland 0755, dep, 0930, arr. Sydney 1035, thence London via Singapore.

SYDNEY ■ NORFOLK IS.

QANTAS (with DC4’s) Wed., Fri., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0800, arr.

NI 1445. Flight extends NI-Auckland- NI Wed., Sat. only. (See “NZ—Pacific Islands”).

Thurs., Fri., Sun.; Dep. NI 1445. Sydney arr. 1845.

Sydney - Papua - New Guinea

Trans Australian Airlines and Ansett- ANA each operate from Sydney or Melbourne to Port Moresby and return four times a week, with Boeing 727’5.

NORTHBOUND TAA: Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Melb. 0730, arr.

Syd. 0835, dep. 0910, arr. Bris., 1025. dep. 1100, arr. Pt. Moresby 1345.

Sat., Sun.: Dep. Syd., 0700, arr. Bris. 0810, dep 0850, arr. Pt. Mroesby 1135.

Ansett-ANA: Mon.; Dep. Melb. 0640, arr.

Syd. 0745, dep. 0815, arr. Bris. 0925, dep. 1015, arr. Pt. Moresby 1300.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Melb. 0715, arr. Syd. 0810, dep. 0850, arr. Pt. Moresby 1135. 1050, arr. Pt. Moresby 1335.

Fri.: Dep. Syd. 0645, arr. Bris., 0755, dep. 0845, arr. Pt. Moresby 1130.

SOUTHBOUND TAA: Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1445, arr. Bris. 1730, dep 1810, arr.

Syd. 1920, dep 2000, arr. Melb. 2110.

Sat., Sun.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 1245, arr.

Bris. 1530, dep. 1611, an*. Syd. 172 dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

Ansett-ANA: Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 134 arr. Bris. 1630, dep. 1730, arr. Syc 1840, dep. 1900, arr. Melb. 2010.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1425, ar Bris. 1710, dep. 1815, arr. Syd. 192 dep. 2000, arr. Melb. 2110.

Pri. Dep. Pt. Moresby 1220, arr. Bri 1505, dep. 1610, arr. Syd. 1720, de 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

NOTE: Ansett-ANA also operate weekly DC4 from Sydney to Pt. Merest with cargo only.

Thurs.: Dep. Syd. 1930, arr. Bris. 220 dep. 2320, arr. Pt. Moresby 0610 Fi Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0600, arr. Bri 1240, dep. 1735, arr. Syd. 2015.

Old • Papua-New Guinea

TAA (with Viscounts) Sat.: Dep. Townsville 1135, arr. Cain 1225, dep. 1325, arr. Pt. Moresby 152 dep, 1555, arr. Lae 1645.

Sun.: Dep. Lae 0835, arr. Pt. Merest 0925, dep. 0955, arr. Cairns 1155, de 1255, arr. Townsville 1345.

ANSETT-ANA (with Viscounts) Thurs.; Dep. Cairns 1250, arr. Pt. Merest 1450.

Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0835, arr. Cain 1035.

NEW ZEALAND-PACIFIC IS.

Nz - Am.Samoa

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) Fri.: Dep. Pago Pago 0630, arr. Aucklan Sat. 0915.

Sat.: Dep. Auckland 2115, arr, Pago Pag Sat. 0150.

NZ - FIJI AIR-NZ (with DCS’s and Electras) Fri., Tues., Thurs., Sun.; Dep. Aucklan 2130, arr. Nadi 0020.

Sat., Sun.: Electra dep. Auckland 100( arr. Nadi 1355 (not May 13).

Wed.; Electra dep. Auckland 2300, an Nadi 0255.

Sat., Wed., Fri.: Dep. Nadi 0505, an Auckland 0755.

Sun., Thurs.: Electra dep. Nadi 050£ arr. Auckland 0900 (not May 14, 28) Mon.: Dep. Nadi 0930, arr. Aucklan 1220.

Mon., Sat., flights ex-Auckland and Tues Sun. flights ex-Nadi are operated b BOAC.

Sat., Sun.: Electra dep. Nadi 1500, an Auckland 1855 (not May 13).

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA AIR-NZ (with DCB’s) Sun.; Dep. Auckland 2130, arr. Nadi 0021 Mon, Dep. Nadi 0200 (cross Dateline arr. Pago Pago Sun. 0500.

Sun.: Dep. Pago Pago 0715 (cross Date line) arr. Nadi Mon. 0815. Dep. Nad 0930, arr. Auckland 1220.

NZ - HAWAII - USA AIR-NZ (with DOS’s) Wed., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 1500, arr. Auckland 1945, dep. Auckland 2100, arr Honolulu 0720, dep. 0900, arr, Loi Angeles 1655.

Wed., Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100, arr Honolulu 2315, dep. 0030, arr. Auckland 0715 Fri., Sun., dep. Aucklam 0900, arr. Sydney 1005. 138 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S —Sandefjord, Norway.

Motor Vessels "THORSGAARD" and 'THOR l #/ Regular Freight and Passenger Services between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

Tahiti - Samoa - Tonga - Fiji - New Caledonia

New Hebrides

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.

PAPEETE Agence Maritime Inter- SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd. nationale Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

NOUMEA —Etablissements Ballande.

LAE/RABAUL—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

PORT VILA Comptoirs Francais de Nouvelles Hebrides.

Nz - New Caledonia

AIR-NZ (with Electras) ,: Dep. Auckland 1315 for Noumea, arr. 1540. ,: Dep. Noumea 1645 for Auckland, arr. 2105.

NZ - NORFOLK IS.

IR-NZ (by Qantas DC4’s) (Charter) 1., Wed., Sat.: Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 1945. is., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1330.

Nz - Tahiti

TA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DCS’s) : Dep. Auckland 2345 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr. Fri. 0630. irs.: Dep. Papeete 0700 for Auckland (cross Dateline) arr. Fri. 1030.

Ter - Territory Services

Ii ■ Gilbert & Ellice Islands

TJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) : Dep. Suva 0745, arr. Nadi 0825, dep. 0910, Funafuti, arr. 1305. Sat., dep.

Funafuti 0700, Tarawa, arr. 1140. ..; Dep. Tarawa 0630, Funafuti, arr. 1130, dep. 1230, Nadi, arr. 1625, dep. 1655, Suva, arr. 1735.

Fiji - New Hebrides - 6Si

TJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) I., Thurs.; Dep. Suva 0900, Nadi, arr D940, dep. 1025, Vila, arr. 1300. Next day (Tues. or Fri.) dep. Vila 0900, Santo, arr. 1015, dep. 1045, Honiara, arr. 1440. 1, Sat.: Dep. Honiara 0630, Santo, arr. 1025, dep. 1055, Vila, arr. 1205, dep. 1235, Nadi, arr. 1705, dep. 1735, Suva, arr. 1815.

Fiji - Tonga

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with DOS's) is.. Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0800, arr. Nukualofa 1200.

Dep. Nukualofa 1245, arr. Suva 1445, dep. 1600, arr. Nadi 1645. •etails from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoria ade, Suva.

Fiji ■ Western Samoa

-TJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) .: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0750 (cross Dateline) arr. Apia Fri. 1300. : Dep. Apia 1350 (cross Dateline) arr.

Suva Sat. 1700, dep. Sat. 1730, arr.

Nadi 1815.

Hawaii - Am. Samoa ■ Tahiti

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) !S.: Dep. Honolulu 1000, arr. Pago Pago 1410, dep. 1500, arr. Papeete 1850. ;s.; Dep. Papeete 2230, arr. Pago Pago Wed. 0040, dep. 0130, arr. Honolulu 0735.

W Caledonia - New Hebrides

fTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DC4’s and Herons) ;s.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Vila 0955, dep. Vila 1035, arr. Santo 1150, dep. 1330, arr. Vila 1445, dep. 1515, arr.

Noumea 1710. ;.; Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Santo 1040, dep. 1110, arr. Vila 1225, dep. 1400, arr. Noumea 1555.

New Caledonia - Wallis Island

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DC4’s) Monthly service (second Wednesday) Wed. (June 14): Dep. Noumea 0800, arr.

Wallis 1530, Monthly service (following Friday) Fri. (June 16): Dep. Wallis 1000, arr.

Noumea 1530.

P-Ng - Solomons

TAA (with Fokker Friendships) Wed.: Dep. Lae (Fokker) 0900 for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara, arr. 1630.

Thurs.: Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 0630 for Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 1205.

The plane calls at Yandina on alternate Wednesdays (May 31, June 14, 28) and on alternate Thursdays (May 18, June 8, 22).

P-NG - WEST NG TAA and Garuda Indonesian Airways, using DC3’s, run services between Lae and Sukarnapura Both services are fortnightly.

Tahiti - Usa

DTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DCB’s) Wed.: Dep. Papeete 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955, dep. Wed. 2359, arr. Papeete Thurs. 0515.

Fri.; Dep. Papeete 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955, dep. Pri. 2359, arr. Papeete 0515 Sat.

Sat.: Dep. Papeete 0715, arr. Honolulu 1240, dep. 1410, arr. Los Angeles 2205.

PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS (with 707’s) Thurs.: Dep. San Francisco 1400, dep.

Honolulu 1815, arr. Papeete 2340.

Fri.; Dep. Papeete 0130, arr. Honolulu Fri. 0650, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1555 Fri.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2200, dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0615 Sun.

Mon.: Dep. Papeete 0800, arr. Los Angeles Mon. 1750, arr. San Francicso Mon. 2005.

W. Samoa - Am. Samoa

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS) Sun.: Dep. Apia 0445, 0515, 1600; Mon. and Thurs.; 0800; Tues., Fri.: 0800, 1600; Sat.; 0800, 1300.

Sun.: Dep. Pago Pago 0615, 0645, 1715; Mon. and Thurs.: 0915; Tues., Wed., Fri.: 0915, 1715; Sat.; 0915, 1415.

W. Samoa - Tonga

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD, (with DCS) Sun.; Dep. Apia 0800, arr. Tonga Mon. 1115.

Mon.: Dep. Tonga 1215, arr. Apia Sun. 1530.

W. Samoa - Wallis Island ■ Fiji

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS) Sat.: Dep. Apia 1030, arr, Nadi 1345 Sun.

Wed.; Dep. Apia 1030, arr. Wallis 1115 Thurs., dep. 1145, arr. Nadi 1445 Thurs.

Fri.: Dep. Nadi 0815, arr. Wallis 1130, dep. 1215, arr. Apia 1500 Thurs.

Sun.: Dep. Nadi 1445, arr. Apia 2015 Sat.

Internal Services

FIJI FIJI AIRWAYS (with Herons, Drovers, and DC3’s) Suva-Nadi-Suva: Daily.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Mon., Sun.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Mon.

Suva-Matei-Savusavu-Suva; Sat.

Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva; Tues., Wed., Fri.

Suva - Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva; Sat., Thurs.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva: Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sun.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoria Parade, Suva.

French Polynesia

RAI (with DC4 and Bermuda Flying-boats) Papeete-Moorea-Papeete: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Sat.

Papeete - Raiatea - Bora Bora; Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun.

Papeete - Huahine - Raiatea - Bora Bora: Thurs.

Bora Bora-Raiatea-Papeete: Daily.

Bora Bora - Raiatea - Huahine - Moorea - Papeete: Thurs. 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Australia-West

Pacific Line

Linking

Pacific Islands

with the FAR EAST and AUSTRALIA M.V. “ SAMOS’

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. Pty. Ltd.

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang, Lae and Rabaul (New Guinea) —New Guinea Co. Ltd. Port Moresby (Papua)—lsland Products Ltd FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Japan—Dodwell & Co. Ltd. Hong Kong, Manila and Taipei—Everett Steamships Corporation. 9 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.

Bora Bora-Rangiroa-Papeete; Thurs.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hakeim Papeete, or any UTA office.

Guam - Us Trust Territory

Trust Territory Air Service

(with SAl6’s and DC4’s)

Guam-Marianas

Guam - Saipan - Rota - Guam: Mon., Wed. (DC4).

Guam - Rota - Saipan - Guam; Tues.

Sat. (DC4).

Guam - Saipan - Guam: Thurs., Fri (DC4).

Guam-Carolines

Guam-Yap-Koror: Thurs. (DC4).

Koror-Yap-Guam; Fri. (DC4).

Guam - Yap - Koror - Yap - Guam: Sun. (DC4).

Guam-Carolines-Marshalls

Guam-Truk-Kwajalein: Tues. (DC4).

Kwajalein - Majuro - Kwajalein - Truk - Guam; Wed. (DC4).

Truk - Ponape - Kwajalein: Tues. (SAI6).

Kwajalein - Ponape - Truk: Wed. (SAI6).

New Caledonia

TRANSPAC (with Heron and/or Aztec) Noumea - Mare - Noumea: Mon., Tues,, Thurs., Fri.

Noumea - Lifou - Noumea: Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat, Noumea - Ouvea - Noumea: Mon., Thurs.

Sat.

Noumea-Isle of Pines-Noumea; Daily, Noumea-Thio-Noumea: Daily.

Noumea-Houailou-Noumea: Daily.

Noumea-Poindimie-Noumea: Daily.

Noumea-Hienghene-Noumea: Daily.

Noumea-Kouaoua-Noumea: Daily except Sun.

Noumea - Kone - Voh - Koumac - Voh - Kone-Noumea: Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat.

Noumea - Tontouta - Noumea: Charter only.

New Hebrides

Air Melanesia

(New Hebrides Airways and Hebridair) (with NHA Drover and Aztec) Mon.: Vila - Lamap* - Norsup - Santo - Norsup-Lamap*-Vila.

Vila-Tanna-Vila.

Vila - Erromango* - Tanna - Vila - Tongoa - Epi* - Vila.

Tues.: Vila - Lamap - Norsup* - Santo - Norsup*-Lamap-Vila.

Wed.; Vila - Tongoa* - Longana Walaha-Santo.

Vila-Tanna-Vila.

Thurs.: Santo - Walaha - Longana - Tongoa*-Vila.

Fn.; Vila-Tanna-Erromango*-Vila.

Vila - Lamap* - Norsup - Santo Norsup-Lamap*-Vila.

Fortnightly; Tanna - Aneityum Tanna (May 19, June 2, 16, etc.).

Sat.: Vila - Lamap - Norsup* - Santo Norsup* -Lamap-Vila.

Vila-Tongoa-Vila-Epi-Vila.

NOTE: Walaha and Longana are < Aoba; Lamap and Norsup are on Maleku and an asterisk means optional sto Details from Air Melanesia, Vila, or loc agents.

Papua - New Guinea

Operated by TAA LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Friendships and DCS) Daily (exc. Wed.): Lae-Rabaul.

Daily (exc. Mon., Wed.): Rabaul-Lae.

PORT MORESBY-DARD (Twin Otter) Sat.: Pt. Moresby -Dana - Balimo - F Moresby.

Mon., Pri.: Pt. Moresby - Dana - F Moresby.

Pt. Moresby-West Papua

(Twin Otter) Tues., Fri.: Pt. Moresby-Malalua-Keremi Baimuru - Kerema - Malalua - F Moresby. Reservations beyond Keren subject to administration requirement

Pt. Moresby-East Papua

(Twin Otter) Tues.: Pt. Moresby - Gurney - Misima Gurney-Pt. Moresby.

Wed.: Pt. Moresby - Gurney* - Misima Pt. Moresby. • Launch connects at Gurney to ar from Samarai on Wed. only.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS- KAVIENG-RABAUL (Friendships) Mon., Thurs.: Lae - Madang - Wewak Manus-Kavieng-Rabaul. 140 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Fiji Direct Service

Via Panama

Regular Sailings every four weeks London to Suva & Lautoka Through Bills of Lading to

La Rasa - 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 UNION STEAM SHIP CO. OF N.Z.

LIMITED Serving the Pacific for nearly 100 years.

Regular Sailings by Modern Vessels From Sydney to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Nukualofa and Apia.

Also from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Pago Pago, Apia, Niue, Vavau, Nukualofa and from New Zealand to Port Moresby direct.

Ship your cargo by a Union Company Vessel.

BRANCHES AT ALL MAIN AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND AND PORTS. n.: Rabaul-Kavieng-Manus-Wewak.

Jy (exc. Wed.): Lae-Madang-Wewak. ly (exc. Wed,): Wewak-Madang-Lae. a., Wed., Thurs.: Kavieng-Rabaul. a., Tues., Pri.: Rabaul-Kavieng.

ABAUL-NEW IRELAND (Beechcraft) : Rabaul-Namatanai-Rabaul.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

a.: Madang - Baiyer R. - Hagen - Banz-Minj-Goroka-Lae. is.: Lae - Goroka - MinJ - Banz - Mt. Hagen - Baiyer R. - Madang. i.: Madang - Wabag - Hagen - Banz - Minj-Goroka-Lae. , Sat.; Lae-Goroka-Madang-Wewak. irs.; Lae - Goroka - MinJ - Banz - Hagen-Wabag-Madang. s., Sat.: Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Lae.

Lae - Goroka - MinJ - Banz - Mt. Hagen-Madang.

Pt. Moresby-Highlands

(DCS) rs., Pri.: Mt. Hagen - Pt. Moresby - Mt. Hagen.

Pt. Moresby-Popondetta-Lae

(DCS) : Pt. Moresby-Kokoda (opt.)-Poponietta-Garaina-Lae. : Lae - Garaina - Popondetta - Sokoda (opt.)-Pt. Moresby.

Pt. Moresby-Lae-Pt. Moresby

(Viscount) : Pt. Moresby-Lae.

Lae-Pt. Moresby.

Pt. Moresby-Bulolo-Lae (Dcs

and Twin Otter) rs.: Pt. Moresby-Bulolo-Lae. rs.: Lae-Bulolo-Pt. Moresby. : Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo-Lae, ; Lae-Bulolo-Wau-Pt. Moresby.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo

(Twin Otter) : Pt. Moresby - Wau - Bulolo - Pt.

Moresby.

Madang-Goroka-Lae (Dcs)

5.: Lae - Goroka - MinJ - Banz lagen - Baiyer R. - Madang. .: Madang - Baiyer R. - Hagen - Janz-MinJ-Goroka-Lae.

Moresby-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Madang-Goroka- *t. Moresby-Goroka-Madang.

Lae-Rabaul-Lae (Dcs)

;., Thurs., Pri., Sat., Sun.: Lae-Rabaul.

Sat., Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Rabaul-Lae. rs.: Lae - Pinschhafen - Cape lloucester - Talasea - Hoskins cquinot Bay-Rabaul. : Rabaul - Jacquinot Bay - Hoskins - ’alasea - Kandrian - Cape Gloucester - 'inschhafen-Lae.

Rabaul-Bltn-Rabaul (Dcs)

~ Wed., Pri.: Rabaul - Nissan Is. optional Pri. only) Buka-Wakunailieta - Buin - Kieta - Buka - Nissan s. (optional Mon. only) - Rabaul.

Tabaul-Talasea-Rabaul (Dcs)

Rabaul - Jacquinot Bay - Hoskins alasea. : Talasea-Hoskins-Rabaul. .: Rabaul-Hoskins-Talasea. •s.: Talasea - Hoskins - Jacquinot ay-Rabaul.

PAPUAN AIRLINES PTY. LTD. (with DCS’s and Piaggios) Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby-Poponetta-Kokoda-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (opt.)roa (opt.)-Kairuku (opt.)-Bereina- Toitape - Tapini - Bereina - Kairuku opt.)-Aroa (opt.)-Rorona (opt.)-Pt. [oresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Tapini faitape (opt.)-Pt. Moresby. .: (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Popondetta - :okoda-Pt. Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Daru - Balimo - Daru-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Cape Rodney- Paili (opt.)"Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Woitape - Tapini-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (opt.) Aroa (opt.) - Kairuku - Bereina - Pt.

Moresby. (DC3) Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-Pt.

Pt. Moresby - Gurney (Samarai) - Pt. Moresby. wed.: ,DC3, Pt Moresby - Ko.oda fplareloT Pt. SorMby - Tapml .

Woitape-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona-Aroa- Kairuku-Pt. Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Bereina - Pt.

Moresby.

Thurs. (Piaggio): Pt. Moresby - Woitape - Tapini-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona (opt.)- Aroa (opt.) - Kairuku - Bereina - Kairuku (opt.)-Pt. Moresby.

Alt. Thurs . ( May n, 25, June 8, etc.): (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Popondetta - Wanigela - Vivigani - Losuia Popondetta-Pt. Moresby.

Mt Thurs . (May is, June 1, 15, etc.): (DCS) Pt. Moresby-Popondetta-Losuia- Vivigani-Popondetta-Pt. Moresby.

Pri.: (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Popondetta - Pt.

Moresby, S' ’ GUrneJ p^pfMorabf 3resby -° ape Rodn'y- ’._ . . (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Tapinl - Woitape-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby-Rorona-Aroa- Kairuku-Pt. Moresby. (DCS) Pt. Moresby - Bereina - Pt.

Moresby. 141 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1967

Index to Advertisers Adams Industries 60, 116, 154, 156, 158 Air New Zealand 48 Apex Belting (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd 158 Arnott, Brockhoff, Guest Pty.

Ltd 99 Arnott, Wm. Pty. Ltd. .. 16 Australian Dairy Produce Board 1 Aust. International Travel Centre Pty. Ltd 50 Baker, W. Jno. Pty. Ltd. .. 159 BALM Paints Ltd 3 Bethel I, Gwyn & Co. Ltd. 141 Bish Ltd 103 Blum, A. J. & G 53 Booth, Norman G 46 Braybon Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 112 Breckwoldt & Co. Wm. .. 157 British Solomons Trading Co Ltd ..152 Brownbuilt Ltd 62 Brunton & Co 156 B.P. .. 68, 132, 159, cov. iii Bryant & May Pty. Ltd. .. 2 Cadbury-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd. 63 Carpenter, W. R. & Co. Ltd. _ 82, 83, cov. iv Carnation Co. Pty. Ltd. .. insert Charlton, John & Co. Pty.

Ltd 115 Classified Advertisements .. 144 Crammond Radio Co. .. . no Cystex . H 6 Dairy Frost Pty. Ltd. . .. 11 Daiwa Shipping Line .. .. 138 Demka Pty. Ltd 78, 79 Drambuie Liqueur Co. . .. 46 Uunlite Electrical Co. Ltd. .. 150 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty.

Ltd 102 Filmo Depot Ltd 53 Fisher & Co 72 Forminex Pty. Ltd 64 Frigate Rum no General Foods Corporation (N.Z.) Ltd 90 Gilbey, W. & A., Ltd. . . 65 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 157 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 90 Handi-Works Co 155 Harris, Keith & Co. Ltd. .. 160 Hellaby, R. & W., Ltd. ..113 Hobart Bros. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. 124 Hutchinson, Robert Ltd. .. 35 1.C.1.A.N.Z. Ltd 5 Industrial Products Pty. Ltd, 71 International Harvester Co. . 146 International Majora Paints Pty. Ltd 108 International Trade Fairs .. 120 Johnson, S. C. & Son Pty.

Ltd 66 Johnston, J. Stanley .. .. 160 Karlander New Guinea Line Ltd m Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 131 Kodak (A/asia.) Pty. Ltd. .. 7 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 104 Kraft Foods Limited .. .. 10 Lane's Pty. Ltd 149 Lecksand Press, The .. .. 97 Macquarie Boundy Pty. Ltd. 148 Marrickville Holdings Ltd. .. j 125 ' 126 Mendaco 154 Mick Simmons 124 Millers Ltd 106,115 Mono Pumps (Aust.) Pty, .Ltd 114 Montres Rolex S.A 15 Morris Hedstrom Ltd 54 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. .. 84 Murray, Sons & Co. Ltd. .. 4 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. ..134 Nelson & Robertson Pty.

Ltd 50 Nestle Co. (Aust.) Ltd..

The 33,127 Nicholsons Pty. Ltd 76 Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. . 122, 123 Nixoderm 159 Northern Hotels Ltd 46 N.S.W. Timber Industries Pty. Ltd no Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. . 70 Outboard Marine Aust. Pty.

Ltd 8 Pacific Islands Transport Line 139 Pacific Publications Pty.

Ltd 53,159 Pacific Islands Society .. 156 P.-N.G. Printing Co, Pty. Ltd. 130 P. & 0.-Orient Lines of Aust.

Pty. Ltd 52 Qantas 51 Old. Insurance Co. Ltd. .. 98 Racal Electronics Pty. Ltd. . 13 Ronson Products Ltd 9 Rothmans of Pall Mall (Aust.) Ltd Ruhr StickstofF, AG .. .. 1 Rytime-Robilt Pty. Ltd. .. 1 Sanitarium Health Food Co.

Sear & Gunn Sales Pty. Ltd. 1 Shaw Savill & Albion Co.

Ltd i Small & Shattell Pty. Ltd. .. 1 Southern Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd 1 Stapleton, J. T., Pty. Ltd. .

Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd Stewarts & Lloyds (Dist.) Pty. Ltd 1 Sullivan (Export) Ltd. .

Swire & Yuill Pty.

Ltd 34, 80, T.A.A cov.

Taikoo Dockyard 1 Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L ..

Tatham, S. E., & Co. P/L Tooth & Co. Ltd Toyota Motors Sales Co. Ltd. 1 Trans Pacific Marine Ltd. ..

Turners Supply Co, Ltd. .. 1 Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd 1 Victa Mowers 1 Vi-stim 1 Watkins-Dow, Ivon, Ltd. .. 1 Westfield Freezing Co. Ltd.

Weymark Pty. Ltd 1 Whites Aviation 1 Wild (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/L 1 Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd. 1 Young, J. H. Boats Ltd. . . 1 Timetables continued Sat.: (DC3» Pt. Moresby - Popondetta - Kokoda-Pt. Moresby. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby - Woitape - Tapini-Pt. Moresby.

ANSETT-MAL (with Fokker Friendships, DC3’s and Piaggios) Mon.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Madang-Lae.

Lae-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Goroka-Pt. Moresby.

Pt. Moresby - Bulolo - Lae - Bulolo - Pt. Moresby.

Lae-Madang-Wewak.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Lae.

Mt. Hagen - Wapenamanda - Wabag - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Wewak-Maprik-Angoram-Wewak.

Wewak-Vanimo-Mt. Hagen.

Tues.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Wewak - Madang - Lae - Madang - Wewak.

Rabaul - Kavieng - Momote - Wewak - Madang-Lae.

Madang - Mt. Hagen - Banz - Minj - Goroka-Madang.

Mt. Hagen - Erave - Kagua - lalibu - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Goroka - Lae - Goroka - Mt. Hagen.

Wewak - Lumi - Nuku - Wewak - Hayfield-Yangoru-Wewak.

Wewak-Telefomin-Ambunti-Wewak.

Wewak-Angoram-Wewak.

Mt. Hagen - Goroka - Kainantu - Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Wed.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Lae-Madang-Wewak.

Wewak-Madang-Lae.

Lae-Wau-Bulolo-Lae.

Lae - Madang - Wewak - Momote - Kavieng-Rabaul.

Goroka - Pt. Moresby - Bulolo - Lae - Bulolo - Pt. Moresby.

Wewak - Angoram - Maprik - Wewak.

Mt. Hagen - Goroka - Lae - Goroka - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Wapenamanda - Wabag - Mt. Hagen.

Thurs.; Rabaul - Kavieng - Momote - Wewak-Madang-Goroka-Lae.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Wewak - Hayfield - Yangoru - Wewak.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Pt. Moresby-Goroka.

Wewak-Aitape-Dagua-Wewak Madang-Wewak-Vanimo-Wewak.

Wewak-Angoram-Wewak.

Wewak-Ambunti-Wewak.

Madang - Mt. Hagen - Banz - Minj - Goroka-Madang.

Pri.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Wewak-Madang-Lae.

Lae-Wau-Bulolo-Lae.

Goroka - Pt. Moresby - Bulolo - Lae - Bulolo-Pt. Moresby.

Mt. Hagen - Goroka - Lae - Goroka - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Erave - Kagua - lalibu - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Tari-Mt. Hagen.

NOTE: Ansett-MAL services listed will apply to May 12. From that date passengers should consult their local airline agency for new schedules. Boeing 727 services from May 12 will terminate at Pt. Moresby so all internal feeder services will operate to this port; previously Lae was the terminal for flights from Australia.

Mt. Hagen - Wapenamanda - Wabag Mt, Hagen.

Lae - Madang - Wewak - Vanimo Wewak.

Rabaul-Kavieng-Rabaul.

Mt. Hagen-Mendi-Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Wewak - Lumi - Nuku - Wewak Hayfield - Yangoru - Wewak Angoram-Wewak.

Madang-Pt. Moresby-Lae.

Sat.: Rabaul-Lae-Rabaul.

Wewak-Madang-Lae-Madang.

Rabaul - Kavieng - Momote - Wewak Madang-Lae.

Mt. Hagen - Goroka - Lae - Goroka Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen - Mendi - Mt. Hagen.

Mt. Hagen-Goroka-Mt. Hagen.

Port Moresby-Goroka.

Sun.: Lae - Madang - Wewak - Momote Kavieng - Rabaul - Goroka Madang-Goroka.

Solomon Islands

MEGAPODE AIRWAYS (with Apache and Dove) (NOTE: See P-NG-Solomons timetab under Inter-Territory Services fi connecting flights.) Honiara-Auki (Malaita)-Honiara: Tue!

Fri.

Honiara-Yandina (Russell Is.)-Honiar Thurs.

Honiara - Yandina (Russell Is.) - Sege Munda, and return: Wed.

Honiara-Kira Kira-Honiara: Wed. rfoniara-Munda (New Georgia) -Barakon (Vella La Vella)-Munda-Honiara: Pi Honiara - Yandina - Munda - Barakoma Munda-Yandina-Honiara: Mon.

Honiara-Avu Avu-Honiara: Thurs.

Details from Megapode Airways, P Box 103, Honiara. BSIP. 142 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

WIS LETT,

Kplorer, Author

ENTLEMAN

Deaths Of Islands People

By R. W. Robson

Lewis Lett, dead on April 23, the advanced age of 88, >bably knew as much as anys about Hubert Murray’s pua. Yet, although he wrote )iously and interestingly about t primitive territory, he never med to be accepted as an hority.

R.OBABLY that was because he was a modest gentleman, and no ister. He stayed in the background, le others gathered kudos. ,ett was the product of an English lie school, and had had experience a qualified civil and marine ineer before he went to Papua in 1, at the age of 32, to the service the British-New Guinea Developit Co. He did not remain in that ice. /ith a partner (Mr. G. H. Thomas, > lost his life during one expedi- ), he went almost immediately Papua’s unknown jungles, exing and prospecting. He is credited i the first discovery of oil, in the f Division. Many millions have i spent since then in the vain ch for a commercial oilfield, ut oil and gold were elusive, and ight exploration returns no profits; Vlr. Lett settled very early in the f Division, near the Vailala River, was a planter, trader, lumberi. He was head of Maira Estates (1916-1925) and Romilly Saws Ltd. (1925-1930).

Ir. Lett was about 52 when I met him and his talented wife, lie, in Port Moresby, in 1932. y then were close associates of Hubert Murray—in fact, I got the ression that the lonely Lieut.r ernor discussed some of his ;hest administrative problems with lie. She was the Papuan corondent of Pacific Islands Monthly a its first issue in 1930 until she [ in 1945. Mr. Lett retained some his Gulf Division interests, and ied out commissions for the r ernor. Mollie and Lewis were abers of the only cultural set wn in Port Moresby in those years before World War 11. hiring World War 11, Mr. Lett ed, to reside in Roseville, Sydney son and a daughter live in Australia), and to devote himself to journalism and authorship.

Altogether, six of his books, all dealing with P-NG history and problems, were published. Most were warmly praised and all went into the libraries as valuable reference works.

I think that his biography of Sir Hubert Murray, and his careful, skilled analysis of what that muchpublicised administrator accomplished —and tried to accomplish—is easily the best work on the Murray regime.

Stories of his own jungle experiences, between 1911 and 1925, told in his books modestly and without fuss, suggest that Lewis Lett should have had a higher place than has been accorded him in Papua’s chronicle of pioneer explorers.

Mr. Nick Penglase Nick Penglase, who spent about l c years as a patrol officer and then a district officer in New Guinea before and during the World War 11, died in Brisbane on April 12 aged about 64.

“Pen”, as he was known to his friends, first arrived in New Guinea as a teller with the Commonwealth Bank at Rabaul in 1925.

Two years later he gave banking away and began working as a patrol officer at Salamaua.

He served in New Ireland, Manus, and then the Morobe District when, in 1929, he led a patrol into the primitive Kukukuku region after the prospector, Helmut Baum, was killed.

The patrol was successful and “Pen” arrested several natives for the murder.

He was moved to the Markham Valiev, the Wau goldfields, Madane and Finschhafen.

Because of illness he left the territory in 1945 for Canberra and worked as an administrative officer with the Department of Territories until his retirement about three years ago.

Said Mr, Eric Feldt in Brisbane: Pen did sterling work in the Morobe District in the early days”.

He leaves a widow, Mollie, and a married daughter, Mrs. D. Gough.

Mr. J. P. Katrei A man who was a credit to his race and to the nation under whose protection he lived and worked, died in Noumea early in April. He was Jewine Paul Katrei, High Chief of Medu, on Mare Island. He was 57 and the father of 10.

A member of the Territorial Assembly since 1957, he had been reelected three times —always under the Union Caledonienne banner.

A special plane carried his body back to Mare for burial.

Pastor Gerald Peacock Pastor Gerald Peacock, a man well known in many parts of the Pacific Islands, died at the Newcastle (NSW) Hospital recently, aged 76. Born in Durham, Victoria, Pastor Peacock, from 1920 until his retirement in 1960 was a minister and missionary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

His first Islands appointment was as a missionary to Papua in 1923.

He later served in the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides and New Guinea, returning to Australia in 1946 to serve as Superintendent of Seventh-day Adventist aboriginal missions in Queensland.

Pastor Peacock leaves a widow, Winnifred, and two married daughters.

Serupepeli Rokotuiloma Serupepeli Rokotuiloma, a Methodist missionary in Fiji and Papua- New Guinea, died at Tamavua Village, near Suva on April 19, aged 98.

He spent seven years in P-NG, and the remainder of his missionary career in Fiji.

Mrs. A. G. Mansell, MBE Mrs. Anne Grace Mansell, who was closely associated with the Scout, Cub and Girl Guide movements in Fiji for many years, died on April 13, aged 68.

When she retired from the Girl Guide movement in 1950 she offered her services to the Scouts and Cubs.

She was responsible for raising the standard of both movements throughout Fiji, and held high appointments.

She is survived by her husband, a daughter and a son.

Mr. W. J. May Mr. Willard (Bill) James May, who died at Brisbane on March 14 after a long illness, was one of the first soldier settlers at Kerema in the Gulf District of P-NG.

He served with the 6th Division AIF in the Middle East, Greece and Crete, and later in New Guinea.

Mr. May was a foundation member of the Port Moresby Sub-Branch of the RSL, and was well known in other activities.

He leaves a widow and two children. (Continued next page) 143 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1967

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Captain Smith, who was 54, v a member of a Vanua Lava fami and spent almost all his life at s Ships of which he was master eluded the Fijian Princess, Niki Zephyr 11, Yanawai and Ratanui.

He left a widow and six childn Mr. G. L. Maharaj Mr, Guljari Lai Maharaj, belie\ to be the oldest man in Fiji, died April at the age of 105 at Suva.

He was born on September ! 1861, at Handai, India, and v educated at Vanarsi Kasi Universi where he took a Brahmin religic course, regarded as the high course in the Hindu religion.

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The Practical Planter

How Fiji tackles the problem of sheep breeding From Jane Gregor, in Suva Nadi, to most people these days, means aircraft and tourists. But to the Fiji Agriculture Department it means sheep, and has done so for the past two years. Under the Colonial Development and Welfare Scheme, financed by the British Government, a total of some £Stg.3o,ooo has been granted, to be expended over a first period of five years.

HE experiment of rearing sheep in Fiji was initiated in December, >4, and got off to an unfortunate rt, for the 90 half-bred ewes, eight rriedale rams and five half-bred is which had been purchased in nterbury, NZ, arrived in the middle a hurricane, and getting them to experimental farm was not easy, rhe farm is situated about 14 es south east of Nadi airport at I ft above sea-level. In the tropical i and malevolent winds of a South :ific hurricane, neither animals nor n relished the herding to their v home. fhat home is some 425 acres of country in the Nausori Highds, known to tourists for their turesque contours.

Little rain "he western side of Viti Levu is drier side of the island but over last two years rainfall has been isually scanty and in addition to expected dry seasons between ril and December, have received y scanty rain in the normal wet son; the average rainfall is around inches per year; in 1966 this ire was halved and at no time ing the two years that the farm been established has the wet son’s average of between five and inches been reached, lo that, once the imported live- ;k recovered from its initial shock, lid not even face good pasture. ; cover on the Highlands varies veen Mission grass, a species ch can grow up to some six feet i, reeds which reach a height of ;n or eight feet, and Nadi blue ss on the more extensive, open as.

Previous controlled grazing had helped to eliminate the taller species and had allowed the shorter sheeptype, Nadi blue grass, to spread.

But one major problem was the infestation of guava; in this case it was a particularly persistent species which could grow to 20 feet in height and could form bush verging on forest. There was a continual balance to be held between overgrazing, thus allowing the guava to infiltrate, and the danger. of erosion from heavy, tropical rains.

The man with this load of problems was Mr. G. Colledge, a New Zealander with extensive experience of sheep farming.

Initially, the sheep had not grown out too well and it was decided to put only the 35 choicest animals to the ram in 1965. As a result, there had been about an 80 per cent, lambing.

In April, 1966, all ewes had been put to the ram but, due to the continuance of the exceptionally dry weather, there had only been a 50 per cent, lambing.

The first lot of sheep had been shorn in December, 1965, yielding an average of about eight pounds a head, which had sold in Australia This is the country behind Nadi where Fiji's sheep experiments are going on, and these are some of the sheep. 147 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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For further information FUMAZONE from *T.M. The Dow Chemical Company. an average net return per ewe bout 20/- (NZ). le wether lambs from this first had been killed at about five ;hs and, when dressed, had aversome 26 lbs, and two of these sved fame by being served at a ;r party given by Fiji’s Governor, Derek Jakeway, to Queen beth the Queen Mother when visited the islands last year. ie remainder of the lambs were on the local market at 2/6 per ressed weight and their meat I have been sold many times so high was local interest in appreciation of the venture.

Estimate of return seems that, this year, the lambs be taken to a heavier weight when ready will again be sold ie local market, to the cheers of housewives. me of these lambs will be sold e Indian population, to test that et and, from the previous year’s ation, it would seem that a reof between £Stg.s and £Stg.B head might be expected. It is ional for Indians to buy a whole , keep it, feed it and kill it selves and ram lambs have been bt for as much as £9 or £lO intended for a religious festival.

Particular difficulties ;arly, problems are tough when mes to sheep rearing in Nadi.

Colledge, whose ideas of the ads best employed did not, unnately, chime with those of the mltural Department, has now pushed his post, which is being over by Mr. A. M. Phillip, a of Fiji.

Phillip is curently in New Zeagaining experience of sheep gement; he has spent time in iland and in North Canterbury ell as at Lincoln College with ssor J. W. McLean and no doubt Phillip will have his own ideas the best way to overcome Fiji’s :ular difficulties. )m the wide selection of sheep tally introduced at Nadi within breed, it seemed that the ?er wooled beasts would probably ie most suitable type from the of view of actual wool producand of fertility in breeding, e search for the best breed goes nd on a recent visit to New nd, Mr. Baker, of the Agri- •al Department, bought two more Corriedale rams from Bushey Park estate and a half-bred ram from C. T. Burrows, of Culverden.

Experiments are now going ahead to discover the best time for lambing, among other things such as the overcoming of internal parasites ... a particular hazard of the wet season —the best types of fertiliser and pasture required, the introduction of legumes such as siratro, all adding up to a thorough evaluation of the situation.

Sheep have been successfully reared in the New Hebrides for a The Practical Planter is a new section in PIM. It is written by people with practical experience, and is published each month. Queries on technical matters are invited. relatively long time and, in the past, Fiji had sheep—up to about 12,000 of them in the early 1900’s, in fact. Niue has also experimented with a small number of sheep.

Although there have been difficulties and diverging opinions as to the best way to tackle them, actual losses of sheep over the past two years have been very light—no more than some 20 ewes.

With the extensive trials planned for the next two or three years, hopes are high and it is planned to give small numbers of ewes to Fijian and Indian farmers so that they may start their own flocks, once rearing has been successfully established.

These initial flocks would number no more than 20 or 30 ewes but even these small numbers would help the small land owner to diversify his agriculture and to augment the incomes of those arable farmers whose leases include a portion of hill country. Such small holdings at present normally grow rice, tobacco, sugarcane, maize, sorghum and passionfruit.

Sheep husbandry would be a new departure for many of these smallholders.

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Pastures were important for this New Guinea cattle man

By Bruce Sutherland

Beef cattle can be raised very successfully in a tropical environment with a 200 inch plus ainfall —provided the right type of cattle are selected and an appropriate system of pasture aanagement is followed. >R the last two years I managed i copra plantation on the coast New Guinea, 20 miles east of where we ran a herd of Zebu s cattle on land which was almost for half of the year, i 1964 the herd numbered about head and included: 30 pure bred “Javanese” Zebu 5 and one “Javanese” bull; 35 imported registered Drought- ;er cows; About 50 crossbred Zebu cows; About 80 crossbred heifers in About 80 calves; One |th Brahman bull and n fth Brahman crossbred bulls, bout 10 years ago the “Javanese” e were brought to this plantation i the Madang district where they proved themselves extremely suitto the excessively wet conditions, [though they are very fine boned, in appearance usually somewhat nble a Jersey cow, they have the rent ability, when crossed with rahman bull, to produce a steer an extremely high growth rate to two years of age, when >ed weight averaged 550 lb to 600 Javanese adapt iis compares more than favourwith the rest of the herd, where bought ourselves lucky to get an age of more than 85 per cent, drop. ie “Javanese” stock are thought ave come from Java but no one vs just when they entered New lea. They have been known to aent the low-lying swampy areas ie Madang district for more than ears. tieir wonderful adaption to the tally inaccessible swamp country Madang allowed many to survive lapanese occupation during World 11. Relatively large herds were id living unattended after the war. jcause of their obvious advantages ir very wet conditions, we started a breeding programme aimed at infusing the “Javanese” blood into our whole herd—which had grown to over 500 in October, 1966.

We found that if the percentage of Zebu blood in the herd fell below 50 per cent, the ability of the animals to cope with the conditions rapidly deteriorated. Their growth rate would become retarded and they rarely developed into a desirable type.

Screw worm problem The only real health problem to the cattle is the screw worm.

It is common throughout the tropics and New Guinea, but it is prevalent around Lae, with its consistently high rainfall and heavy humidity.

The screw worm is a live maggot which is laid in large numbers by a blowfly on to any open wound or injury on cattle—such as barbed wire cuts and scratches. It screws itself directly into the animal’s muscles and quickly forms a very deep-seated wound, the effect of which can, under some conditions, kill a cow in a couple of weeks if left untreated.

Newly-born calves are most susceptible to the worm and are in the greatest danger.

Unless they are treated within hours of birth, nine times out of 10 they are attacked by the worm in their navel cord. The worm gains access to the abdomen from the navel cord and the animal is often beyond help in a couple of days.

About five years ago a veterinary drughouse developed a substance to treat these “strikes”. The preparation resembles grease in appearance and is known as Screw Worm Smear.

When applied to the animal’s wound, it kills the maggots present, promotes healing, and is an excellent fly repellent.

This process has completely revolutionised the treatment of the wounds—previously the usual practice was to remove each screw worm individually and prevent reinfection by use of some kind of fly repellant, none of them being very suitable for this particular application.

We ran the herd among the coconut palms on natural pastures based on an indigenous paspalum into which was introduced the legumes, Calipo and Peuaria.

The legumes were harvested and planted into new areas throughout the year by hand.

We added Para grass in swampy areas. This proved very successful.

With year-round rain the pastures were always green and a constant growth rate was assured. However, this also created a problem as where heavy stocking rates applied and there was no adequate subdivision, the cattle seriously damaged the pasture by trampling.

Consequently we undertook a programme of extensive subdivision and commenced a system of rotational grazing. We felt the extra work and expense involved was economically sound, as the stocking rate, even in the very wet months of June, July, August, when 30 in. of rain per month is usual, was maintained at one head per acre.

As our stock increased toward the 600 head mark and the total amount of land available for grazing (600 acres) grew limited, it was obvious to me we would have to increase the carrying capacity of the land or limit the size of the herd.

Leuceana helps The solution seemed to be the introduction of Leuceana glauca to the existing pasture. The best way to do this is to plant the Leuceana densely in rows about 15 ft apart.

When the Leuceana trees reached a height of about 10 ft we cut them back to about 3 ft, and maintained them at this height.

By doing this a prolific re-growth of foliage was quickly produced. It had a very high protein content and was very palatable. Cattle ate it in Practical Planter 151 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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preference to anything else in the paddock and it was obvious management would play a vital role in the successful use of this legume.

In this locality I prefer the Peruvian strain of Leuceana glauca, as it gave a better ratio of leaf to wood, and did not tend to run to seed so quickly as the local varieties.

The rotational grazing system is essential to allow for re-growth of the Leuceana and prevent excessive damage to the grass pasture by trampling.

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Special warning member, too, not to run the r for more than a second or unless you have attached a 'ng device coupled to a hose— even then don’t run the motor ; idle. Otherwise you may seize ngine or at least ruin the water > impeller. iw check the high tension leads the magneto (or from the butor) to the spark plugs. They d be free of cracks in the ition —if you find cracks or tig bind them with electricians’ but replace them as soon as san. e high-tension lead and fittings d fit snugly into the distributor, ;ed, and onto the spark plugs— ubber boots at the spark plug should be sound and not tied. move the plugs. If they are and oily or covered with sh deposits it may be that you ising too much oil in the fuel ire, not using outboard oil, or super grade petrol (which often i high lead content). ;an the plugs by wiping away ;ummy deposits, or scraping off baked-on carbon gently with a ;t knife. en set the gap between the firip and the prong on the plug, a feeler gauge of the thickness recommended in your owner’s manual. Correct the gap by gently prising up the prong with a screwdriver, or gently tapping it down, until the gauge just slides through the gap. And make sure you’re using the recommended type of spark plug.

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It could be one high tension lead is not making contact inside its terminal. Check that the lead is hard home into the terminal and contacting the terminal prong inside.

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Now let’s check the fuel system.

Start with the fuel itself. Is it standard grade petrol? Did you use outboard oil, in the right quantity— and was it shaken to make sure it blended thoroughly?

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Fuel danger Has the fuel line any splits? You can make temporary repairs with electricians’ tape but don’t forget to shorten the line or replace it before the next trip. Leaking fuel is a fire hazard.

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If the fuel tank connections leak, the usual fault is a perished rubber O ring, which can easily be removed and replaced.

Connect the fuel line to the motor then squeeze the bulb to see that fuel reaches the filter bowl. Go over the fuel hoses from the filter bowl to the fuel pump to the carburettor to check they are not kinked or split.

After you’ve packed up for the day it’s a good idea to disconnect the fuel line from the motor and allow the engine to run the carburettor dry—a precaution against oil settling in the carburettor and causing hard starting next time you want to use the motor. 153 NG Cattle (from p. 151) JIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

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RABAUL, T.N.G. —Managing Agents: New Guinea Co., Ltd. Island Representative: J. V. Marten, Rabaul Branch.

SUVA, FlJl —Colony of Fiji Branch Office: McGowan's Building, Margaret Street, Suva. Branch Manager: L. M. Rolls.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC INSURANCE CO., LTD.

Head Office: The Wales House, 66 Pitt Street, Sydney. & Mmu HUM If you cough, wheeze, can’t breathe or sleep well due to Asthma, Catarrh or Bronchitis attacks, get MENDACO from your chemist or store today.

MENDACO works through the blood and bronchial tubes to dissolve and remove offending phlegm congestion. Then your cough is curbed, you can breathe freely, sleep like a baby, and regain natural energy.

Satisfaction or money back is guaranteed. Save this notice.

Advertisement Lemons For Beauty TO keep your skin clear ai fair you need the natur cleansing and bleaching tonic ( lemons. Ask your chemist f< a bottle of lemon Delph, tl latest type skin freshener use by beautiful women througho the world. Lemon Delph mak( the complexion, neck ai shoulders fair and lovely as melts out plugged pores, clos them to a beautifully fii texture. Lemon Delph freshen) is excellent for a quick clean: or to quell a greasy nose, little brushed on the hair afti your shampoo will give it tl glamour of sparkling diamond This is a luxury skin freshene cleanser and tonic.

For an up-to-date coverage of new and cu plantation equipment. 1966-67 Edition

"Power Farming Technical Anni

Price: $2.50 post free.

Available from: "POWER FARMING", Box G.P.0., Sydney, Aust.

Turn grass into lawn easier with a ’67 SCTA Obtainable from: SUVA MOTORS LTD., Suva, Lautoka.

ISLANDS PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby.

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo, Mt. Hagen, Goroka.

Airviews Of

New Zealand

Photographs of every district . . also pictorial ground scenes. Repr sentative views of South Pacit Islands.

Pictures supplied for use in bool or feature articles—send for pric list.

WHITES AVIATION LTD.

C.P.O. Box 2040, Auckland, New Zealand. 154 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Single Arm Bowl Mixer

This machine is best suited for the mixing of Bread Doughs. The machine is belt driven from a 3 H.P. 3 Phase Electric motor.

All contact faces are tinned for health reasons.

The unit includes facilities for removing the bowl and carriage away from the mixing unit, also the bowl can then be tilted at an angle to suit the operator's requirements. If the dough is to be left in the bowl to proof, then a proofing band would be required for the top of the bowl.

This machine can also be used for mixing shortbread dough.

Average mixing time 25 minutes.

CAPACITY; Approximately 375 lbs. Flour at One Mixing.

DIMENSIONS: Front to Back 4 ft. 9 ins.

Width 3 ft. 9 ins.

Height 5 ft. 6 ins.

Small & Shattell Pty. Ltd. Bakery Engineers

41-49 JOHNSTON STREET, FITZROY, N. 6, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. r / / m i mi m Tl/MPtfMpefro! IRON I st over r ralia's best selling non-electric Iron! For reliability, ease of King, and excellence of quality at a low price, you can't beat HANOI. It's simplicity itself to operate—NO PUMPING IS UIRED. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERFILL THE FUEL TANK and filling does approximately 2 hours effortless ironing. Attractively ihed in nickel plate. Spare parts always available.

The PORTABLE OUTDOORS COOKER at a sensible price!

Twin independent burners for fast cooking. Twin tanks for double capacity. Steel case, when opened, acts as triple-wind shield. Rustproof. Noisy or silent burners as required. Small or large porcelain enamel ovens also available separately. HANOI —the lowest priced QUALITY Twin Burner Portable!

Better buy HANDI! Available at leading stores or direct from manufacturers: — WORKS Viy.Ltd.

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Brisbane Queensland Australia

155 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1967

Advertisement New Way To Reduce Weight A tablet specially designed f sweet tooths that aids weight reduction is now availabl You can now slim and stay sli by taking one or two table after the main meal each day dispel and neutralise the fat unsaturated content of the fo< eaten and lessen body weig until normal.

Excessive weight, besides ro bing one’s youth and beauty, so( leads to the risk of developme of high blood pressure, hype tensive heart disease and ciro lative, coronary, and intern disorders. A sensible diet of le£ meat, fish, fruit and vegetable avoiding excesses of sugary ar starch content foods and the u: of poly-unsaturated oils in tl preparation of food, togethi with Mevon Extract tablets eac day is the safe and easy way 1 reduce excess weight.

These Mevon Extract table quickly sweeten the bread hasten digestive processes of a foods and contribute to healthier, happier enjoyment ( daily living. They are so easy t take and are sucked like sweet. These Mevon Extra< tablets do not need a doctor prescription and are available i most leading pharmacies.

Established Cable Address: 1870 “WEYSEAS, SYDNEY"

Place yourselves in the hands of Specialists for your requirements in

Fresh Fruit & Vegetables

Potatoes & Onions

★ We invite your inquiries WEYMARK & SON (Overseas) Pty. Ltd. 14-18 STEAMMILL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Pre-Assembled Plumbing Supplies

The Sear & Gunn Group of companies are known as Manufacturers of high quality plumbers and builders’ hardware, specialising in prefabricated plumbing that reduces costs and is supplied to you pre tested for trouble-free installation.

We would welcome enquiries for pre-fabricated plumbing for Housing Projects, Motels, Hotels and Hospitals, etc. Quotes quickly supplied on a C.I.F. basis.

SEAR AND GUNN SALES PTY LTD. 44 Hotham Parade, Artarmon, N.S.W., Australia A member of the S. & G. Group of Companies.

PLAIN AND

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FLOUR, Cidk fcU#/ ESTABLISHED 1868 Agents for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa: C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji The Pacific Islands Seen Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney.

Phone: 59-1778.

A social and cultural centre for tl interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherl with lectures, are held at the Femi Club Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King Sydney, on the last Thursday of month, at 8 p.m. 156 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH]

50 TR FOR island 5 GILLESPIE S Gillespie’s Anchor Flour is milled from selected high quality Australian wheats and is entoleted for purity. Its consistent high quality has made it the best-known, most asked-for brand of flour in the Islands. (Entoletion is a special purifying process which reduces the risk of insect infection.) NCHOR FLOUR GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD., ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS, SYDNEY. Cable Address: Gillespie, Sydney.

GILLESPIE BROS. (Q'LD.) PTY. LTD., Albion, Brisbane.

First Quality

\ T I li m For further particulars contact: WM. BRECKWOLDT & CO.

RABAUL—P.O. Box 222. Tel.: 2143 MADANG— P.O. Box 185.

PORT MORESBY—P.O. Box 409.

LAE—P.O. Box 1.

KIETA—P.O. Box.

HONIARA—P.O. Box C 5. Tel.; 84 APIA—P.O. Box 47. Tel.: 76-3 R SYDNEY—G.P.O. Box 5027.

Tel.: 61-7110. 157 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1967

(Advertisement) Beautify Your Hair Your hair will be alive with highlights and exquisite new beauty. It will look clearer and more youthful, free of all dulling film and glowing with rich deep-down tones and lustre when shampooed with the modern ‘Peek-In’ Glow shampoo by Delph.

There’S An Apex Beet

For Every Purpose

For obligation-free Advisory Service contact: — APEX BELTING (N.S.W.) PTY. LTD.

APEX HOUSE, 496 KENT STREET, SYDNEY.

Phone: 26-6938.

Apex Products are available from leading stockists throughout New Guinea and Papua.

> Operating Company

FOR HOPKINS ODLUM LTD.

Branches and representatives throughout Australia.

The Steel Tube Age

Steel tube is, almost without exception, the best way to convey things. Oil, gas, chemicals, wires, voices and water —all can be carried equally well.

Steel tube is, also, a most versatile structural medium, especially suited to humid climates with its resistance to corrosion when ends are properly sealed.

Stewarts and Lloyds ere also distributers for galvanised Iren, electrodes and welding equipment—John Valves and Saunders Diaphragm Valves.

Stewarts And Lloyds

(Distributors) Pty. Limited

For enquiries and supplies, contact any of tha followin« merchants: New Guinea: Burns Philp, Steamships Trading, Island Products Ltd., New Guinea Co., Rabaul Metal Industries.

Fiji Agent: Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., Suva.

IwlMbio Vigour Renewed

Without Operation

II you feel old before your time or suffer from nerves, brain and physical weakness, yon will And new happiness and health In an American medical discovery which restores youthful vim and vigour quicker than gland operation. It is a simple home treatment in tablet form, discovered by an American doctor. Absolutely harmless and easy to take, but the newest and most powerful invlgorator known to science. It acts directly on your glands, nerves and vital organs, builds new.

Bure blood, and works so fast lat you can see and feel new body power and vigour in 34 to 43 hours. Because of its natural action on glands and nerves, your power and memory often improve amaalngly.

And this amazing new gland and vigour restorer, called VI- Stlm, has been tested and proved by thousands in America, and is now available at ad chemists here. Get Vl-Stlm from your chemist to-day. Put it to the test. See the Mg improvement in 34 hours. Take the full bottle under the guarantee that It must make yon full of rim, vigour and energy, and feel 10 to 38 years younger, or money back. « ye g'W * • Id restore Vi-Stim THE

Yorkshire Insurance

CO. LTD. (Incorporated in England) Australian Control Office: 20 Queen St., Melbourne. Manager for Australia: H. N. Crawley.

All Classes Of Insurance

Including FIRE • ACCIDENT • GUARANTEE • MOTOR • WORKERS • MARINE PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA BRANCH: James Arcade, Cuthbertson Street, Port Moresby.

Manager, J. L. Walters.

Chief Island Representatives

Port Moresby, James Services Pty. Ltd.; Rabaul, A.S.P. (N.G.) Ltd.; Lae, New Guinea Industries Pty. Ltd.; Madang, C. Sidaway; Manus, Edgell & Whiteley Ltd.; Honiara, 8.5.1. P., E. V. Lawson, Ltd.; Suva, WiHiams & Gosling Ltd.; Noumea, R. Laubreaux; Norfolk Island, Martin's Agencies; Apia, E. A. Coxon & Co. 158 MAY, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

JEM making Turn rocks into gems with the Robilt Gem Maker, saws, grinds, polishes, facets.

For Free Pamphlet and Price List RYTIME-ROBILT PTY. LTD., 218 Bay Road, Sandringham, Victoria, Australia.

TURNERS & GROWERS LTD.

Auctioneers Fruit & Produce Merchants

Auckland, New Zealand

We Specialise In The Export To The Tropics

OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE, POTATOES, ONIONS,

Apples And Fruits In Season

All Inquiries to our Export Organisation: Turners Supply Company Limited Box, 1370 Cables Auckland, N.Z. “Tusco”, Auckland

Jno. Baker

7 or Veterinary Instuments

(Akers 4-Blade Station-Knife

effield made. 4 in. stag haft. $4.45, postage extra.

)Dge Pattern Calf Dehorner

table for calves up to 12 months' old. $28.50 postage or freight extra.

Keystone Cattle Dehorner

)t illustrated). For grown cattle, very ong. $31.75, postage or freight extra.

W. JNO. BAKER PTY. LTD.

Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W., Aust.

Phone: 27-7584 BURNS PHILP (New Hebrides) LTD.

REGISTERED Office: VILA, NEW HEBRIDES Branch office at SANTO Exporters, Importers and General Merchants Commission, Shipping and Custom Agents Representatives for BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD., QUEENS- LAND INSURANCE CO. LTD., and LLOYD’S OF LONDON, Agents

For Societe Des Petroles Shell Des Iles Francaises

DU PACIFIQUE, and numerous overseas manufacturers of all classes of merchandise.

Sydney Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO. LTD., 7 Bridge St.

San Francisco Agents: BURNS-PHILP CO. OP SAN FRANCISCO INC., 311 California St.

London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO. LTD., 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

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Handbook Of Papua And New Guinea

A reference book for businessmen, travellers, schools, universities and libraries. Government departments, tourists and territory residents. The latest edition contains full details of the structure of the administration including the names of officials, and, of special importance, a summary of the major political developments in the territory.

Price: $2.00 Aust., plus postage, 20c British Commonwealth, 35c Foreign, $2.75 U.S. posted.

From your bookseller or PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD. 29 ALBERTA STREET, SYDNEY (G.P.O. Box 3408). 159 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1967

RECORDS—GoId Star Series only $2.95 CLASSICS RAVEL'S "Bolero" (London Phil. Orch.) GGS 594.

BEETHOVEN'S Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) GGS 676. Mindru Katz at the piano.

GROFE'S "Grand Canyon Suite" (The 101 strings). GGS 592.

TCHAIKOWSKY'S "1812 Overture" and Capriccio Ittal". The Nord Deutches Symph.

Orch. GGS 575.

STRAUSS WALTZES ... The Danube Strings.

GGS 631.

LISZT "Hungarian Rhapsodies" and ENESCO Rumanian Rhapsodies" (Vienna State Opera Orch.). SRV 160.

OPERA . . . Favourite Arias In Opera, without words, by the 101 Strings. GGS 622.

JAZZ KENNY BALL'S "Golden Hits" Kenny and His Jazzmen. PLP 1120.

ELLA IN BERLIN. "Mack the Knife" and other hits. MGV 4041.

Woody Herman'S Woodchoppers And

THE FIRST HERD. (Live at Carnegie). VSPS 26.

STAN GETZ, CHARLIE BYRD, "Jazz Samba".

V 8432.

OSCAR PETERSON TRIO. "We get Requests". (Girl from Ipanema, etc.). V 6 8606.

THE DARGIES ON STAGE . . . Well known favourites. ALP 1023.

ELLA FITZGERALD "Hello, Dolly!" V 6 4064.

Buddy Rich And Gene Krupa In

"Burnin'—Beat". MGV 8471.

POPS PAUL ROBESON at Carnegie. VRS 9051.

WINNIE AND JOE (Mr. Piano) HENDERSON.

An album called "Party Time". GG 510.

"MILLION SELLER HITS of '66". Lara's Theme, Spanish Flea, Zorba the Greek, and by the 101 Strings.

JIM MACLEOD AND HIS BAND. In "More Sounds of Scotland". PLP 1126.

HANK WILLIAMS (and other Country Greats). With the 101 Strings. S 5013.

"I MORE!" (Theme from Mondo Cane).

Featuring Kenny Burrell. V 8551.

"BILL McCORMACK SINGS . . PLP 1097.

"MAX AT THE MET". Max Miller. GG ★ Latest pamphlets dispatched at your request. No charge. ★ All records available in mono or stereo (please state when ordering). ★ Prompt service and safe arrival guaranteed. ★ Postage charge up to 3 lb. is 80c. ★ Large collection of country and western records available.

All records available at The House for Better Music 437-439 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY. 29 7111 • To Islands Cordial-makers . . . Pastryooks . .

Follow The Example Of

Confectioners . . . Canners

Australia'S Leading Food Processors

Who For 30 Years Have Consistently Used

Gold Badge

Fine Quality

Essences And Edible Colours

COI BAD BRAND AND . OCX LTD.

Samples are available for manufacturers We are Flavouring Specialists producing highly concentrated soluble essences for the foo industries and invite your enquiries, either direct or through your usual buying channels.

Keith Harris & Co. Ltd

Sefton Road, Thornleigh, N.S.W Cables Kehar, Sydney 1015 Ann Street, Valley N.l, Qld Cables: Keharbris, Brisbane Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. Telephone: 617-9197. Wholly set up and printed in Australia by The Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

Burns Phils

New Guinea

Aa JEn btiSd |i . «■* «.«&,

General Merchants'

Shipping & Customs

AGENTS lead Office: Port Moresby, Papua Cable Address: BURPHIL.

AGENTS FOR: Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds Distributors Ply. Ltd.

Shell Company (Pacific Islands) Ltd.

OVERSEAS AGENTS: Bums Philp & Co. Ltd., all Australian States Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London Burns-Philp Co. of San Francisco Inc.

Trade Inquiries Invited

SHIPPING AGENTS FOR: Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

Cogedar Line Campagnie Des Messageries Maritime* 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 TRAVEL DEPARTMENT: Consult our experienced personnel for planning world wide travel.

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 and SHOPPING CENTRES: PAPUA: Port Moresby, Boroko, Samara!, Popondetta and Daru.

NEW GUINEA: Rabaul, Kokopo, Kavieng, Lae, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Wau.

Butolo, Kainantu and Mt. Hagen.

Shopping Centre

IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1967

Wr.Carpenter & Co.Ltd

F J ■ a. < ★ GENE RCHANTS For more than 50 years the W. R. Carpenter Group has brought progress and service to the Pacific Islands—as wholesalers and retailers; as buyers of island produce such as copra, coffee and cocoa beans; and by creating industries and facilities which have contributed to the economic development of the area.

The Group is a buyer of merchandise from world markets, and holds many valuable agencies. These include

• Electrolux • Nissan/Datsun • Dewars Whisky

• Ford • Gordon'S Gin • Victa Mowers

• Evinrude Outboard Motors • Chrysler

Associated companies of t Group in the Pacific Islar include:

Papua/New Guinea

Island Products Limited New Guinea Company Limited Coconut Products Limited Boroko Motors & Transport Pty. Ltd.

FIJI W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Lt Morris Hedstrom Limited Island Industries Limited Suva Motors Limited W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD HEAD OFFICE: 68 PITT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA CABLE ADDRESS; "CAMOHE"

TELEPHONE: 25-5421.

LONDON OFFICE: 116-126 CANNON STREET, E.C.4.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1967