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OVEMBER, 1967

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UP FRONT with the editor A passing question in this month’s letters column wantin to know why PIM doesn’t include Hawaiian news in its page deserves more than a brief sentence in reply. The question real!’ invites us to define the South Pacific community.

HAWAII, of course, isn’t in the South Pacific. But if PlM’s coverage followed the strict geographic definition of the South Pacific as being all that part of the Pacific below the Equator, there would be some notable omissions and some irate customers.

We would have to exclude, for instance, many of the Gilbert Islands —including Tarawa, the main atoll of the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony—and many of that colony’s Line Islands. We would not mention the island groups of the US Trust Territory—the Marianas, the Marshalls and the Carolines.

Nauru would barely scrape in.

In its 38 years, PIM has always reported on the affairs of these groups, together with those of the islands south of the Equator, from the east coast of Australia to the west coast of South America. Some have had greater attention than others—the US Trust Territory getting less than anybody, because, before the war, those islands were lapanese-held, and secretive about their affairs. And the bigger population groups were, and are, south of the Equator.

Occasional articles But never have we attempted to give any kind of coverage to Hawaii.

We do have an article on some aspect of Hawaiian life from time to time. (Recently we discussed at length the history of surfing in Hawaii, and an experiment on fish behaviour there. We published not long ago an article on mysterious rocks on Molokai, Hawaii as a tourist resort has occasionally been given on-the-spot treatment by staff writers en route to somewhere else).

I suppose you could say we pay about the same attention to Hawaii as we do to Easter Island (owned by Chile) in the far eastern corner of the geographical South Pac and to Guam, which is also pari the good old USA, on the no western fringe of the Pacific ba In deciding what is the real Sc Pacific, the South Pacific G mission, too, has been aware difficulties. Although that Gov< ment-sponsored body is a Sc Pacific commission, it included fi its inception in 1947 the Gilbert Ellice Islands Colony in its area operations. It did not at the be: ning include the US Trust Territ of the Pacific Islands, although it cover American Samoa. Am© later asked if she could throw in US Trust Territory, because she those islands had the same kinds problems.

And this is what the definil finally seems to come down to. F concentrates on those islands of Pacific with the same kind problems. Problems are the island community of interest, even thoi no less than six metropolitan govc ments (Britain, America, Austra France, New Zealand and Chile) i one independent government, that Western Samoa, are involved v the solving of those problems, i often adopt different attitudes them.

These, to us, are the Islands, v a capital I. These are our busine; All of these island groups, e' nouveau riche Nauru, are faced v the long-term job of establishing viable economy in order to survi And they have to do it remote fr the rest of the busy world. Haw as an American State, has a gr deal more economic security tl Fiji or Western Samoa have at 1 moment, or are ever likely to ha In the realm of South Pac economics is the question of gett a continuous supply of trail European experts in fields such agriculture, health, and educati 14 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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Trade Enquiries to:— CAROMA SALES PTY. LTD. 83 Sydenham Rd., Marrickville, Sydney, N.S.W. 51 1341 THE COVER It was announced in October it Nauru is to become inpendent soon. This month's ver picture was taken on juru by Ian Mitchell, of the istralian Department of Terrifies, and shows Gilbertese girls king part in a colourful atere”, or dance. There is a ? Gilbert and Ellice Islands mmunity working in the luruan phosphate industry— 2 basis of the island’s economy. enough of their own people are sd. While Islands economies are Lich a low level how do you :t the right people from better ies and conditions in America, ce or Australia? The State of aii hasn’t got that problem, but JS Trust Territory has.

Loses atmosphere >u could go on and on with ar examples, brought about by South Pacific’s remoteness and jarth of natural resources. This i flavour of the South Pacific, an island has a pipeline to the Wide World it loses some of its sphere simply because it does idopt the same attitude towards problems. Thus Kieta, on ainville’s east coast, is true i Pacific in its attitude, but Port ;sby isn’t. Most Port Moresby le these days have a direct pipeto mainland Australia (whose ay newspapers come over their fences the same day), lich brings up the question of future of the South Pacific as community of interest. Of course Islands will change. They are »ing. Twenty years ago nobody awaii would have asked us for aiian news. e old atmosphere will go, and ing, and I am unable to convince If that there will always be that able community that PIM has yn a loose net around for nearly years—that community which Zealander R. W. Robson first sd in a practical way when he :hed, hesitantly, the Pacific ds Monthly. iere will, in fact, be more aiian news in PIM as the aiis of this shrinking world come r to the South Pacific comfy, and the South Pacific draws r to the world’s Hawaiis.

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Pacific Islands Monthly

38, No. 11, November, 1967 This Issue ERAL Morrison of Burns Philp 87 a Market Eases 127 rofit Rise Likely 128 enter Profit Drops 133 rniies" Do Better 136

Rican Samoa

to Nature 31 : Starts on New Warehouse .... 105 K ISLANDS of the Frisbies on Film 28 ging Social Conditions 30 ng the Water Problem 40 ers' Strike 21 •p Enthroned 23 ling Inquiry 23 ipion Swimmer Quits Colony .... 26 y Football 28 ;ers for Policemen 29 s Tailors 32 'sion Air Fares 59 Airways' New Plane 61 Facto" Marriages Cause Problems 75 Book by C. A. Perkins 95 i Blasted for Boat Passage 101 enter Shipping Run Ends 103 University Pictures 117

Ch Polynesia

r Ski-ing Record 28 Female Crusoe for Mehetia 30 Athletes Shape Well 70 Visit to "Typee" Valley 85 Pierre Loti Museum 91

Gilbert And Ellice Islands Colony

Socio-Economic Survey 125

Lord Howe Island

New Book 96 NAURU Independence Soon 18 Pictorial Series 45-47 Interest in 1969 Games Marathon 71

New Caledonia

Higher Cost of Dying 30 Tourist Quotas Double 49 New Hotel at Noumea 55 Third Nickel Consortium 136

New Hebrides

New Plane Services 61 Lost Yachtsman Safe 109 Athletics Records Broken 121 NIUE Whitewashing Alofi 29

Norfolk Island

Spinning Factory 24 Laws to Protect Islanders 37 Night Aircraft Landings Soon 57

Papua-New Guinea

Constitutional Changes 19 BP Loses Shipping Subsidy 24 Sin in Port Moresby 28 Getting More, Enjoying it Less . 38 Attractive Madang 39 Investment Opportunities 42 Aviation Statistics 61 Motel for Port Moresby 61 Hotel Kerema Opens 61 Handicapped Children's Centre 79 Book by Maslyn Williams 98 Western District's New Ship 103 Ship for New Ireland 105 Army's Landing Barges 105 Search for Oil in Papua 125 "Steamies" Employees Sacked 134 Desiccated Coconut 134

Pitcairn Island

Satellite Trackers Arrive 104

Solomon Islands

Book by Dr. Fox 20 Islanders' Association in Sydney .... 29 "The Happy Isles" 48 Small Jet-planes on Inter-island Runs 61

South Pacific Commission

Conference in Noumea 25,119 TONGA Views on Coronation 32 Not Enough Land for All 37 Fiji Airways New Service 61 Tourist Bureau 63 Queen Salote Wharf Opened 105

Western Samoa

Peace Corps, Potlatch, Hydro Plan 41 Bright Future for Tourism 56 Sir Guy Powles on Davidson's Book 65 Soap Factory 127 APARTMENTS: Up Front with the Editor, 14; Tropicalities, 28; The Editors' \ailbag, 32; To the Point with Percy Chatterton, 38; Port Moresby Personality, 0; Travel, 41; From the Islands Press, 73; Magazine Section, 85; Yesterday, 93; ook Reviews, 95; Shipping, Cruising Yachts, 101; People in Pictures, 117; eople, 121; Business and Development, 127; Produce Prices, 135; Shipping, urways Schedules, 139; Deaths of Islands People, 148; Practical Planter, 151.

It'S All Over Bar The

Shouting For The

Republicans Of Nauru

Years of effort by Naum’s Head Chief Hammer Deßoburt culminated in the announcement in Canberra on October 24 that the phosphate island will get “full and unfettered” independence as soon as legal arrangements can be made. It is almost certain the Nauruans will be able to declare January 31, 1968, as Independence Day. Nauru will thus become the second Trust Territory in the South Pacific to have been given independence. Western Samoa has been independent since January, 1962 Nauru now has to complete a draft constitution, set up a Nauruan constitutional convention to approve it, and terminate the trusteeship agreement with the UN. A Nauru Independence Bill, to allow the Nauru Legislative Council to establish the convention, was passed by Federal Parliament on November 1, and in the same week talks were going on in Canberra to complete the draft constitution.

The constitution The constitution will follow the framework of proposals submitted to a Canberra conference in May (details PIM, June, p. 57). It will create the Republic of Naum with a President who will also be Chief Minister. There will be a Cabinet and an Assembly; a Nauru judiciary (with, possibly, appeals to the Australian High Court); and a Public Service that will come under the Chief Minister’s control. Elections to the Assembly will be by universal suffrage, and the President will be elected by the Assembly, to hold office during the Assembly’s life.

If the complete machinery measures cannot be carried out in time for January 31 (and there is every chance that they won’t be) then the current Canberra talks will try to evolve a make-shift scheme which will allow independence celebrations to go ahead on that date, but with the establishment of a caretakergovernment to operate until the full details can be carried through.

The Nauruans could have had the details approved months ago, if the Head Chief had been willing to settle for partial independence, with Nauru linked to Australia by a Treaty of Friendship, giving Australia the right to run ISfauru’s defence and external affairs. But Deßoburt held out for all or nothing ( PIM , July, p. 23, for a full report).

There might well be a treaty, but the Head Chief says it is up to Australia to make the move. He told a Canberra news conference that he wanted Nauru to retain links with the Commonwealth, and hoped to apply for Commonwealth membership after independence (Western Samoa has never applied).

He also told the conference that it was not Nauru’s intention to join the UN, as the country was too small. Nauru would have Australian currency if Australia would agree to this.

There would be five ministers besides the President/Chief Minister —the Ministers for Finance, Health/ Education, Justice, Works/Communications, and Island Development.

Nauru had already begun to search for a Secretary for Island Development, at a tax-free salary of $8,500, with free accommodation (and there are no duties or sales tax on goods landed in Naum).

Deßoburt's statement To questions about the ability of the island to handle any trouble with the immigrant labour force, such as developed during the recent strike on Nauru, the Head Chief said he had no worries that the Nauruan police could maintain law and order.

No outside help had yet been needed.

He said that with independence there would be more than enough jobs for the island’s young people “for the next 25 years”, and there would be no problems about the Islanders having to leave for Australia to find employment. But Nauru was short of trained people.

Asked whether he had any doubts that independence could be esta lished by January 31, in view the technical difficulties, Deßobi replied: “I always have hopes, un a thing is proved impossible”.

Which, in a sentence, is t] Head Chiefs whole philosophy.

In Parliament The independence announceme came as an anti-climax in Feder Parliament on October 24. The Ar tralian Minister for Territories, M C. E. Barnes, was an hour late wi his prepared statement because tl Prime Minister and the House we occupied with a domestic politic squabble about the misuse of Go eminent aircraft.

When this debate was adjourne most of the members on both sid of the House lost any further intere and adjourned too, leaving M Barnes to talk to only 19 member most of them on the Oppositic benches. But the visitors’ galleri were packed. Visitors included tl Head Chief, councillors Josep Detsimea and Buraro Detudamo, ar Professor J. W. Davidson, tl Nauruans’ constitutional adviser.

Mr. Barnes told the House thi the decision by the trusteeship powei —Britain, Australia and NZ—t grant Nauru full independence wi an historic one, and the choice w i theirs.

“We wish them well,” he said. “] after independence the Nauruan Goy eminent wishes to continue clos links with Australia, as forecast b the Nauruan delegation, the Au! tralian Government will be read to respond and to conside sympathetically any requests that ma be made for assistance.”

He said the Nauruans wished t maintain a Nauruan Office in Am tralia and would be happy to se an Australian Office established ii Head Chief Hammer DeRoburt 18 NOVEMBER, ] 9 § 7 --- P .4 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHL

iru. They hoped Nauruan lents would continue to come to itralia. he Leader of the Opposition, Mr. igh Whitlam, said it was appriate Mr. Barnes should have le his “momentous statement” on ted Nations Day, and added: This is the first of the territories which Australia became respon- -2 to which Australia has helped ;ive independence. The association veen Australia and Nauru has nded over half a century. The mgements which the Minister has announced are very satisfactory ;ed. The negotiations have been I, but they have been friendly, iru and Australia will always be jhbours and there is every reason believe that they will always be nds.

Dne can hope that in due course e will be a similarly satisfactory :ome for the New Hebrides, for ch Britain and France are jointly onsible; for the Solomons and for which Britain alone is onsible; for eastern Timor, for ch Portugal is responsible; and ve all, for Papua and New nea, for which Australia is reisible.”

Reasonable Producing the Nauru Indepence Bill a couple of days later, Bames said he felt Australia’s r to undertake Nauruan defence external affairs commitments had i a responsible one, put forward the best arrangement for Nauru, since it had proved unacceptable the Nauruans the governments not persisted in it, and he ight this also was the right course, tralia had followed for Nauru policy of self-determination, he ed. bere are 3,100 Nauruans in the ?osed republic. Their island has area of only 8i square miles, has been administered by Ausia since an Australian force took session of it from the Germans, )dlessly, in 1914. be island has phosphate reserves >9.5 million tons, which are being chased by the Nauruans from British Phosphate Commissioners r the next three years for about million. The Nauruans have a tract with the BPC to sell the sphate at the rate of two million i a year for Sll a ton, which give the Nauruans a return of ut $6 a ton after costs. >ee pp. 45-47 for a Nauru )icture record.

And In P-Ng The Question

Is: Will Ministers Work?

Prom a Canberra correspondent Papua-New Guinea is to get an embryo ministerial system following next year’s general elections. Seven members of the new 94-man House of Assembly will be given titles of “Ministerial Member”, and each will be responsible for an Administration department, together with a departmental head, and will represent that department in the House.

This is one of a number of constitutional changes in the territory which will flow from the announcement by the Minister for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes, in Federal Parliament on October 26, that the Government accepted entirely the recommendations of the final report of the P-NG Assembly’s select committee on constitutional development.

This report, the committee’s third since 1965, was presented to the Assembly in Port Moresby in June ( PIM , July, p. 28). In it, the committee proposed that the seven be called “Ministers”, but Mr. Barnes said the Government preferred to make a change in title, although not in functions, because the new officers would not in effect exercise full executive responsibility. “Ministerial member”, and “assistant ministerial member” would be more appropriate, he said.

There will be no other deviations from the committee’s report, and the Commonwealth will amend the Papua and New Guinea Act next year in time for the arrangements to take effect when the new Assembly meets in May or June.

The seven ministerial members. together with the Administrator and three official members, will form the Executive Council, the principal instrument of authority in the territory.

Assistant ministerial members will also be appointed (they will not be members of the council) who will replace the present parliamentary under-secretaries.

The ministerial members and their assistants will be nominated by the Administrator and by the House, with the help of a standing committee.

The members of the Executive Council will not publicly oppose policies approved by the council.

The other main changes in 1968 concern the territory budget. There will be a standing budget committee, comprising five elected members not appointed to office. Budget proposals from the House will be channelled through this committee to the council or the minister concerned.

Mr. Barnes' statement Mr. Barnes said the new changes represented an important step towards self-government. He added: “As I have pointed out previously, the basic policy of the Government towards political development in P-NG is self-determination. This means that if they wish to do so the people of the territory are free to terminate their present territory status. On the other hand, they are free to remain an Australian territory for as long as they choose. The Government believes that the pace and nature of the changes which should be made at any time should accord with the wishes of the majority of the people, and that the scheme of government now proposed by the select committee does accord with the people’s wishes.”

The question now is will the system of ministerial members work any better than the system of undersecretaries, which has been useless?

P-NG's Administrator, Mr. David Hay. 19 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

Frank new view of the BSIP— past, present and future If there were any doubts that the remarkable Rev. Dr.

Charles Fox will be forgotten in the Solomons after his death, they can be dispelled. At the age of 89 he has just published a book which is his guarantee that he will be remembered.

'Y'HE Story of the Solomons came off the Melanesian Mission’s press, DOM Publications, in the Solomons in October, for the benefit of local schools. And what a fascinating little book it is!

The two-paragraph preface by Dr.

Fox hardly does it justice. He writes: “Bishop Alfred Hill asked me to write something for our schools. I first taught Solomon Islanders and learnt to speak one of their languages in 1902, at St. Barnabas school, Norfolk Island; spent some months on San Cristobal in 1908; and finally settled in the Solomons, where I still live, in 1910. So I have known a good deal of their history.

“I offer this story to the new generation of our people—with one apology. I do not think I have done justice, through my ignorance, to the people of the Western Islands.

They are fine people; so is their art.”

Frank The Story of the Solomons is a book of less than 100 pages but in it the author’s scholarship and his 60 years’ experience of the Solomons coalesce to produce a refreshingly frank and unexpected outline of modern Solomons’ history.

Dr. Fox manages to discuss development of the Solomons through both Island and Western eyes. He is probably the only writer alive who could have successfully done this.

Although his narrative continually refers to “we”, meaning the Islanders, there is no doubt in the reader’s mind that he has also taken into account Western attitudes. The result is balance.

He is able to point to both the evils and advantages of colonialism; the evils and advantages of life in the Solomons before the coming of the European.

Dr. Fox, MBE, MA, Litt. D., is, of course, the grand old man of the Solomons. He was born in England and educated in NZ. He has written a number of works, the best known of which are the Threshold of the Pacific (1924) and Kakamora (1962). He lives at Taroaniara.

His short history begins with the European discovery of the Solomons in 1568; the early days of European contact, with their problems of headhunting, black magic and the slave trade; the effect of the missions (with a potted mission history from 1850 to 1950); the establishment of the protectorate and the appointment of the first Resident Commissioner in 1896; and the period of colonial rule from 1900 to World War 11. The war itself has a chapter; there is another on the Marching Rule cult; and finally a comparison between old ways and new. And there is not a dull word in any of it!

Extracts Probably the best way to display the extraordinary flavour of the book is to give generous extracts from it. Here is a selection, quoted verbatim: • Burns Philp’s Handbook of 1899 says of the Solomons in those days: “They are stained with the blood of travellers, traders and missionaries.

Cannibals and headhunters, they murder all they can lay their hands on, feasting on their bodies and carrying off their heads.” Nothing is said of what our people suffered at the hands of the Europeans. • A result of the Pacific War was that our islands became known to the outside world, because of the battles fought here; and indeed a new era began in our history, a new government with a set purpose to lead us to self-government; perhaps in time to independence. The war for us in the Solomons was the dividing line between the old and the new. Before that we had been known as “the cannibal islands”, though we were already largely Christians. This surprised the outside world, especially the Americans. • Our land was the most important thing, and in the days of colonial government, there was a great fear that the Europeans would gradually take all our land. When land was sold to the missions it w often because that land was full i evil spirits and haunted, as at Siot or Bungana. When it was sold planters we thought it would be r turned in the next generation, as w; our own custom, nor did we thii that land not used should belong i the government. These are ne ideas. • What sort of way of life is tl government leading us? To a Britii way or to one more natural to u Perhaps, without knowing, Coven ment and Church have been tryii to make us as British as possible wh« we are really Melanesians in characte more Asiatic than European. Tl way in which Melanesians think is di ferent from the European way ar much more like the way of Chri who, the Bible says, never spoke 1 the people except in parables. If Solomon Islander were asked, “E you think that English is a bett< language for us than Pidgin?” 1 might say: “I think it is better 1 plant taro than yams on the hills, meaning Pidgin is better for Me anesians. (Taro does not do well o the shore, nor yams on the hills.) 1 • Colonialism now has a ba name, but will be judged more sane] in time to come. It helped us whe we might have been exploited b stronger races, it could not do muc more. How could a divided an savage people, such as we were, b guided otherwise to better things When a people has been ruled b Dr. Fox —a photograph taken several year ago. 20 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

iother race for the sake of gain, at is an evil thing, but there have en different motives in colonialism d not all have been bad. In our rlier years of colonial rule the ief thought was that it did so little r us in education and seemed to ve no real purpose or goal. It is without resources to do more. • What is worst in colonial rule the spirit of superiority in the ruly race; to think of those ruled as a lower plane, sometimes despised, metimes treated as children or olescents (untrue, as well as galling) d as incapable of ruling themselves, icy are only inferior to the ruling :e in knowledge, which the rulers lerit from centuries of civilisation, any Europeans think a man is ; erior because he is brown; not bease he is poor, not because he is educated, but just because he is pwn. • Even in the days of fighting if ;re was much cruel and cowardly hting there was also courage, darl and adventure. Our people were h in art, and drama, in merry isting and dancing, in the unitten and handed down stories, ey were in love with their farms, :y loved the sea; these things were aracteristics of our race. They reined to be built upon in a happier ure. • We can and must adapt curves to this new way of life with ifidence in our future as we grow numbers and new knowledge, but ;r remaining Solomon Islanders; ;ping what was good in our old y of life.

Marching rule 3f the Marching Rule movement Malaita, Dr. Fox says it was only tly a cargo cult. It was sponsored a desire to return to the old way life and reject the British way life, strongly encouraged by the ;i-colonial talk of the friendly lericans. Part of the Solomons way life was village government: lien anything was to be decided : whole village met and everyone cussed it,” Dr. Fox writes, “last all the chief gave his decision. We 1 doubt the British way of count- ; heads to decide, thinking heads t equally as wise.”

Fhe book has a bibliography, ich unfortunately has a number of nting errors, and which would be )re useful if it included fuller dels of authors and dates. This perps can be done in a later edition and there certainly will be one, for deserves to keep on selling.—Sl, THE STORY OF THE SOLOMONS.

P.M. Publications, Taroaniara, BSIP. 35.) Spanners in the works from Fiji's union leaders From a Suva correspondent It began on Thursday, October 5. And the question Fiji people are still asking at month’s end is—when will it finish, this wave of industrial unrest which is bedevilling the colony at one of its most crucial times?

Self-government or independence are somewhere along the road.

Financiers overseas are considering pouring money into Fiji’s tourist industry. And given racial and industrial peace, Fiji has a big chance of making the grade, but its chances are being sold out by politicians and wild-cat trade unionists.

On October 5, in obviously planned combined operations, two unions—the Airport, Hotel and Catering Workers’ Union and the Municipal Workers’ Union—without warning brought out 800 men. Of these, 400 were members of the former union working on building projects in Suva, and nearly 400 were Suva City Council workers.

The claims Five days later, Apisai Mohammed Tora, the airport workers’ leader, called out, again without warning, 96 Qantas employees at Nadi Airport.

The unions, both working on identical logs of claims drawn up by James Anthony, former graduate of the University of Hawaii and now working for his PhD at the Australian National University, are asking for what Fiji employers say is “the moon”.

They want a 40-hour week with a minimum wage for unskilled workers of £ll/6/8 a week; overtime at H times normal rate between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., double time between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m., and treble time between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m., with double time on Saturdays and treble time on Sundays and public holidays.

They also want leave of 24 normal working days a year for employees with five years’ service; 36 days for employees with up to 10 years’ service and 21 days a year, plus three calendar months’ leave at the end of every three years for those with over 10 years’ service.

They want an education fund established, with the employers paying 3/- a week for each child of the worker. They are also asking for numerous fringe benefits of meal allowances, sick pay, and free transport.

In every case the employers have rejected the log of claims as being unrealistic.

The Government meanwhile had in its hands a report by a UK economist, Professor H. A. Turner, on a wages, incomes and prices Strikers outside Suva's new Travelodge in October. Bearded Apisai Mohammed Tora, the airport workers' leader, is on the right. The placard abuses Fiji's Labour Commissioner. 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

policy for Fiji, which called for the establishment of an Incomes and Prices Advisory Board, and actually suggested a brake on wage increases for unskilled workers because of the rapidly closing gap between the wages of the skilled and the unskilled (see p. 23).

To the brink The strikers brought Suva to the brink of chaos on the morning of Wednesday, October 11. About a thousand people gathered at the Suva bus station and a lightning strike of bus and taxi transport workers began.

It was obvious that intimidation was playing its part and the atmosphere at the bus station began to thicken when Apisai Tora, after asking police permission to speak, harangued the crowd.

There was some nervousness in the city, which retained vivid recollections of December, 1959, when a similar situation developed into rioting which no one has forgotten.

Tora told the restive crowd he did not want a repetition of 1959.

But he congratulated the transport workers on coming out on strike in support of his union. (Who brought them out is a mystery, because the Transport Workers’ Union hadn’t voted for it).

It was obvious the bus drivers didn’t want to strike, but few strikers can intimidate as effectively as the Fijian striker. The situation looked ugly but the police stepped in quietly and made “specials” out of buses with co-operative drivers.

The transport workers’ strike petered out from then on. It was not broken by the Government, as has since been suggested in some quarters.

But the situation did remain tense until late in the morning, when Fiji’s Chief Minister, Ratu K. K. T.

Mara, acted. Back only a few days from his world tour, he went on the air from the Fiji Broadcasting Commission studios and in quiet tones made the Government’s position clear.

It was obvious from his first few sentences that there would be no repetition of 1959, when the Government of the day handled the situation badly.

Mara's speech “There were signs of unrest in Suva this morning,” Ratu Mara began. “Transport services have come to a halt. There are indications of the possibility of interference with essential services.

“There are also, unfortunately, indications of intimidation of some of the workers who are being forced by threats and not by peaceful persuasion to leave their jobs.”

His next sentence really meant something.

“Government will not tolerate this,” he said. “It will use all necessary powers to ensure that the law-abiding citizen can go on his peaceful way unmolested, unafraid and free to act as he wishes within the law!”

That lifted the tension like a curtain. Buses and taxis rolled again.

Nervousness disappeared and it hasn’t been back. Public Safel) Regulations were imposed and they were still in force at the end oj October.

Behind the scenes, the unior leaders were having other problems Some of the strikers were getting s little impatient at the stalemate, and a little light in the pocket.

Sweet reason On October 12 peace feelers and talks got nowhere. Then, almost out of the blue on Friday the 13 th, came sweet reason. All the builders and municipal workers would go back tc work while talks got underway.

The builders went back on that day, and the council workers reported for duty on the Monday.

Then there were hopes that the Qantas workers would go back, foi the airline offered to negotiate a wage increase which would be back-dated to August 1 if the workers would go back immediately.

But, on Sunday, October 15, the union rejected the offer.

And on October 18 they gave notice that they intended to bring out, after 28 days, the airport firemen. The firemen are an essential service, and as such cannot legally strike without having first given 28 days’ notice.

Qantas might bypass The union also decided to boycott the Government’s board of inquiry into the dispute, which opened before an Australian judge, Sir Trevor Gould, and closed its public sittings on October 21 without a single union representative having been present.

Qantas, Fiji Airways, the Master Builders’ Association, the Fiji Employers’ Consultative Association, the Government’s Ministry of Finance, the Fiji Visitors Bureau and the City Council, all made written submissions. But the workers’ case went by default. Even the Industrial Workers’ Congress, which has been regarded as a most responsible body by most employers, kept silent.

Qantas made some oral submissions, through Mr. P. J. C. Rogers of their industrial relations department, which contained an overt threat that Qantas would overfly Nadi if the strike continued.

The two building companies.

Cementation Overseas Ltd., who are building the new Travelodge Hotel and the Development Bank, and W.

C. Hines (Fiji) Ltd., builders of the new Government Buildings extensions and the new Suva Town Hall, began When the Suva City Council's garbage collectors refused to work overtime on Saturday, October 7, the Suva Market was left in a vegetablestrewn, smelly mess until the following Monday. It did not endear Suva to tourists from the liner "Mariposa", which can be partly seen in the background.

Photo: Nitin. 22 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

ks with the Airport, Hotel and itering Workers’ Union which, for good reason at all, caters for the ilding workers.

These were still in train on :tober 30, but talks which were to ve begun between the Municipal orkers’ Union and the City Council [lapsed before they began.

The Suva Mayor, Cr. Harvey mt, told the union the council mid not allow the union’s advisers, >ya and Company, to take part in : talks, although they would make filities available for the union to tisult its legal advisers, who could up office outside the conference Dm.

More trouble The union reacted to the Mayor’s vision by walking out. The council ;n offered to allow the adviser be present at the talks but not take part in the discussions, but : unions’ reply to this was to give days’ notice of intention to strike.

And there it rested on October with Fiji facing a very uncertain ure —airport workers still out and municipal workers again threaten- The Fiji Government has made clear that unions can act freely thin legal requirements. They can rsuade others to strike by peaceful >ument but there must be no eats, no intimidation—and no ting.

Meanwhile behind the scenes the deration Party is indulging in its (ourite sport of fishing in troubled ters. (Its members comprise the •position in the Legislative Council, but the Opposition is on strike too.

It walked out of the House on September 1 on a political issue).

The Federation’s propaganda sheets and journals have attacked the Government for what it calls intervention in the strikes, and its Englishlanguage paper, published at Nadi, has increased its virulent attacks on members of the Government and on the Europeans in general.

Its leaders individually have given support to the striking unions who, curiously enough, have taken action to improve the workers’ standard of living against only European-controlled organisations.

The only recruiting that has been done by the Airport Hotel and Catering Workers’ Union has been done among workers employed by European overseas firms.

The living wage Two members of the Federation Party are acting as advisers to the striking unions.

The party has made no pronouncement on this matter of a living wage for workers, but the big problem of course is that a sudden increase in wages of the kind envisaged in these logs of claims would bring on inflation. There was certainly no support in Professor Turner’s report for such a drastic uplift of wages and conditions demanded by the two unions.

Footnote: Both logs of claims by the Airport Hotel and Catering Workers’ Union, and the Municipal Workers’ Union, are identical, even to the mispellings.

Historic Suva Ceremony

The new Archbishop of Suva, the Most Rev. George Pearce, was enthroned before a crowded congregation in the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva, on October 22. It was a history-making ceremony because, for the first time in a Roman Catholic church in the Southern Hemisphere, the most solemn part of the ceremony, the canon of the Mass, was recited in English instead of Latin. It followed recent reforms in parts of the Mass procedure made at the Second Vatican Council.

Archbishop Pearce was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in 1921. He was ordained a priest in 1947; assigned to Samoa as a missionary in 1949; and consecrated Vicar Apostolic of Samoa in 1956. He lived in Apia until his Fiji appointment.

Another enthronement in October was that in Honiara of the Right Rev. John Chisholm as 10th Bishop of Melanesia.

Need Seen For

Inquiry On

Fiji Retailing

Professor H. A. Turner, the British economist who in September submitted to the Fiji Government the results of a brief survey of wages, incomes and prices in the colony, commented in his report that the retail marketing situation in Fiji “seems to be an obvious case” for a form of public inquiry.

Following a request by the Fiji Government, Professor Turner was asked to do the survey by the UK Commonwealth Relations Office and Ministry for Overseas Development.

His terms of reference were to advise on the general level of wages and incomes and relativity between different grades in relation to economic development, and the methods which might be adopted for wage determination in relation to prices and economic needs.

He arrived on August 14 and submitted his report on September 17.

The Government asked for Professor Turner because it suspected that recent wage increases indicated a trend which could not be supported by the colony’s economy.

In his report, Professor Turner said that it was most noticeable in Fiji that there appeared to be a strong price “ratchet”. Retail prices went up when there was a shortage (Continued on p. 145) 23 % C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

Loss Of Bp Subsidy Will

Bring Changes To P-Ng

Shipping Services

By staff writer KEN McGREGOR Burns Philp and Co. Ltd.’s loss of its $400,000 annual subsidy from the Australian Government to run a shipping service from Australia to New Guinea with Australian crews means no replacement will be bought for the company’s flagship Bulolo for the time being. There will also be some re-routing of BP’s ships in New Guinea.

In early November BP’s brokers were examining a Singapore offer to buy the Bulolo, which carries passengers and cargo on Australia- New Guinea runs. The Singapore offer is less than what BP’s asked for the ship over a year ago but it is understood the loss of the subsidy has obliged the company to consider lower offers for the ship, whose registration comes up in June, 1968.

Unregistered, the Bulolo would be hard to sell, other than for scrap.

News of the subsidy was announced by the Australian Government in October. It was not unexpected by BP’s, who had received the subsidy since 1955. 13 services to NG The Government said “changing circumstances” had led to the decision to withdraw the subsidy.

Thirteen ships now served Papua- New Guinea and the withdrawal was unlikely to affect these services, it said.

The subsidy will be reduced in stages and completely withdrawn at the end of 1968. Special privileges granted to BP's to carry copra and Government-controlled stores also will be withdrawn on June 30, 1968.

The Bulolo’s subsidy would be the first to go in April; the Malekula’s on June 30 and the Moresby’s subsidy in December, the Government decided.

BP’s other ships on the run— the Braeside and the Montoro —are not affected because they have Asian crews and do not receive subsidies.

The Tulagi operates the Norfolk Island-New Hebrides-Solomons run and it is also not affected.

When the Bulolo goes—and it is only a matter of time—BP’s passenger services to New Guinea will be severely curtailed. Bulolo has been very popular with round-trippers.

Bulolo carries 208 passengers.

Malekula and Braeside carry 24 people between them. The Montoro and Moresby carry only cargo.

Tulagi carries 12 passengers to the Solomons. BP’s feel the Braeside, which can carry more cargo than the Bulolo, is sufficient to meet their current cargo needs, and therefore won’t suffer by the Bulolo’s disappearance.

Other changes likely The company is doing a lot of rethinking about its ships, and it is likely there will be other changes before January, 1969, when operations will be without any subsidies.

BP’s feel they had legitimate reasons for receiving the subsidy, which incidentally was taxable by about 40 cents to the dollar.

The company’s annual wages bill for shipping services is about $600,000, and is far in excess of other shipping competitors to New Guinea, who all use cheaper labour, in the form of Asian crewmen.

BP’s view is that new shipping companies to New Guinea have “picked the eyes out of the territory” by servicing only the big ports, but BP have continued a regular run to all small ports, particularly on the north coast of the mainland. Calls at these smaller ports are rarely worthwhile for freighters of the Malekula or Montoro size because there is so little cargo handled. With the subsidy gone and cargo privileges waived next year, BP’s is apparently reconsidering the value of these particular calls.

BP’s shipping fleet, owned by the parent company—Burns Philp and Co.—has shown an annual loss for many years now.

However, because the ships service BP stores and plantations in New Guinea, they indirectly contribute to healthy profits of the big firm’s subsidiary companies.

Therefore, despite general speculation, there is no chance that BP’s will sell the entire fleet. While there are big BP trading interests in the islands BP’s need the ships—but not passenger ships.

In the light of recent attempts by the Australian National Line to sail its ships overseas, it will be interesting to see if the ANL will plug any gaps BP’s may be forced to leave in New Guinea in the near future.

And it will also be interesting to know what developmment will be offered by other lines which have been making noises in recent years for a piece of the NG passenger trade.

BP agreement Under the agreement, BP ships had carried all copra produced in New Guinea—a valuable backloading for ships operating to New Guinea because more freight is carried in than taken out of the territory.

Now, with its copra privileges waived, BP expects to carry well over half NG’s copra and perhaps lose up to a quarter to its competitors,! in particular the China Navigation Company.

Up till April next year BP will carry about 80 per cent, of government freight to NG; after April the company seems to be confident of keeping over half this business.

It was bound to happen dept.

IT’S taken quite a few years foi someone to wake up to it—bui now it’s happened.

An Australian firm, Fin 1 a v Industries, of Melbourne, plans tc take advantage of Norfolk Island’* duty-free status by opening a smal spinning factory on the island anc exporting the finished products tc Australia.

As a start, the company is sending 12 knitting machines to the island together with an engineer who wil supervise their installation and opera tion. He will also train local people to operate them, and, it is hoped eventually to take charge of them.

Nylon and other fibres will be spur at the factory.

“The amount of fibres importec and yarn exported is expected tc considerably increase the tonnage handled by the lighterage workers,’

Norfolk’s local paper, the Norfolk Islander, says. 24 NOVEMBER, 1967- PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

South Pacific Commission Has A New Look

It's not an exclusive club now - and the Islanders like it From a special correspondent in Noumea The decision by the participating governments to give Islands delegates a bigger voice in determining the work of the South Pacific Commission ( PIM, Oct., p. 22) resulted in the Seventh South Pacific Conference in Noumea in October being rather less lively than had been expected.

The decision was announced soon fter the conference began by the enior Commissioner for Great ritain, Mr. A. J. Fairclough. Deleates from 17 Pacific territories ttended.

They were told that the participatig governments —Great Britain, Ausalia, New Zealand, France, the fnited States and Western Samoa— ad agreed that the South Pacific Conferences should be held annually, nd that Islands delegates should ansider, debate and make proposals n both the SPC’s work programme nd budget for the following year, heir proposals would be subject to le final decision of the participating overnments, meeting in session at le end of the conference, Mr. Fairclough said the new arangements were due to Fiji’s Chief linister, Ratu K. K. T. Mara, who ad pressed hard for the territories to xert influence on the commission.

However, Ratu Mara, who had reviously claimed that the SPC was an exclusive club of the metropolitan overnments”, said in reply that the lea was not entirely his, but the onsensus of opinion of delegates at ic conference in Lae in 1965.

Now a forum The Cook Islands Premier, Mr. dbert Henry, said he was pleased a say that the SPC was not a club f the metropolitan governments any anger, but a forum for the expression f Pacific Islands opinion.

The other delegates made it clear ti one way or another that they were leased with the new arrangements— he only matter for regret being that he participating governments had not ncreased their contributions to the CPC budget over the $804,000 of ast year.

As it was France’s senior commisioner. Mr. H. Nettre, who did the xplaining on the status-quo contributions, it was generally assumed that the French Government had opposed any increase.

The presence of Ratu Mara and Mr. Henry at the conference showed that their governments regarded it as a matter of considerable importance to the Islands. Other “big guns” at the conference were the Governor of Guam, Mr. Manuel Guerrero, who acted as chairman; Mr. Gaston Flosse, mayor of Tahiti’s Pirae district and a member of French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly; and Mr. V. R.

Singh, Fiji’s Minister for Social Services.

Wide range These delegates, naturally, were able to speak with a good deal more authority than many of those from the other territories; and they certainly spoke more often. However, it would not be true to say that the “big guns” dominated the conference in the same way as Ratu Mara did in 1965.

Topics covered in discussing the commission’s work programme ranged from witchcraft to lagoon fishing to combating the rhinoceros beetle.

On the subject of witchcraft, no one denied that this was still practised in the Pacific. But delegates agreed that if the remedies of the witchdoctors were effective, then these should be studied so that science would know about them.

Another matter on which delegates were in general agreement was the amount of paper produced by the SPC publications bureau.

Mr. Henry (Cook Islands) complained that he received so many SPC papers in his office that he never had time to read them all. What was worse, he could not always understand those that he did read, and he urged that the publications be written so that they could be more easily understood. Many of the other delegates said much the same thing.

Evaluation programme Mr. Guerrero said that so many publications arrived on his desk that he needed a secretary merely to file and record them all.

The SPC Secretary-General, Sir Gawain Bell, said that an evaluation programme on this subject was already in progress, and that it had already been decided to discontinue the monthly news summary, South Pacific News. He added that it might be possible to make a precis of a number of other documents that were now published in full. (Some delegates thought that Sir Gawain had selected for the axe one SPC publication which could in fact be understood by all and did serve a useful purpose.) Some of the liveliest exchanges of the conference concerned the question

Pim To Cost More

The price of your PIM has gone up this month. In most islands readers will pay five cents a copy more over the counter. The increase is bigger in Australia and New Zealand.

The increases do not mean greater returns for the publishers. They merely cover rising costs of publishing and especially distribution. PIM goes by airfreight to all Islands readers and it is our policy to charge a moderate price per copy. But our airfreight costs to many territories have made our sale prire uneconomic. The higher prices will enable us to distribute our airfreight costs evenly.

On the other hand, we are now offering concession rates for two and three-year subscriptions ordered direct from the publishers on renewal.

Mr. Henry. 25 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

of reef and lagoon fishing. Delegates felt that the SPC had devoted too little attention to this in the past.

They complained that, although Islands communities depended on reefs and lagoons for subsistence, many of these areas were being fished out. Both conservation and regeneration of fishing grounds were needed, they said.

Ratu Mara said that since an SPC fisheries conference in 1962, nothing had been done about fisheries research.

Research was needed, he said, to provide an inventory of edible fish and other types of fish found in territorial waters.

Hot spot Mr. Flosse thought another SPC fisheries conference was so important that he suggested the possible deletion of other conferences to make it thoroughly feasible.

It was not long after these exchanges that a procedural change was introduced, which resulted in a certain amount of discomfiture for one or two SPC officials.

The delegates agreed to ignore the hundreds of pages of draft resolutions and documents that had been put before them and concentrate on budgetary allocations for SPC activities during 1968, beginning with individual project officers. • A series of photographs taken at the conference by Mr. Ben Goffman, of the SPC, appears on page 119.

When the amount set aside for a position was read out, the officer himself was often called upon to explain his duties.

It was rather like appearing before a tribunal, but without some of the rights which an individual has in such situations.

Ratu Mara questioned the SPC expert on rat control, Mr. E. J.

Wilson, on rat damage to coconut palms. When Mr. Wilson said there was not sufficient evidence to justify a claim that 30 per cent, of nuts were lost through rat damage, Ratu Mara said that if this was the case, Fiji would delay the introduction of banding of palms.

The New Hebrides representatives, on the other hand, said they were grateful to the commission for the help in running a recent rat control training course In the Condominium; while Governor Owen Aspinall (American Samoa) who was acting as senior commissioner for the United States in the temporary absence of Governor Carlton Skinner, said that the SPC Handbook on Rat Control was one of the best publications the commission had brought out—clear, unambiguous, and comprehensive.

And so the cross-examination continued.

"Most worthwhile"

When the SPC English languageteaching specialist, Mr. George Pittman, explained that a panel of experts had recommended the extension of his project, Ratu Mara exploded and said: “If this is the case, then we might just as well throw the whole programme out of the window.”

Mr. Nettre (France) in one of his repeated warnings, spelled out the dangers of employing specialists beyond a limited period, and said that the commission often failed to discharge its experts once their duties were completed. Instead, the experts, themselves, recommended further periods of engagement. However, Governor Aspinall said that as far as American Samoa was concerned, the language-teaching programme was by far the most worthwhile and effective project the commission had ever undertaken.

After representatives of the US Peace Corps and United Nations Development Programme had been invited to address the conference, the question of fisheries again came up when a committee appointed earlier in the conference to evaluate the SPC programme of activities for 1968 reported its findings.

On this occasion, there was an (Continued on p. 137)

Fiji’S Human

Dolphin Slips

THROUGH THE NET As in football (see opposite), so in swimming. That, anyway, is the reaction in Fiji to the news that 12year-old Fiji swim star Olive Pickering is off to Australia to swim for a Sydney club and eventually qualify for the NSW state championships stepping stone to the Olympic Games.

She is to be trained by NSW coach John Down, who has recently been coaching in Fiji.

Mr. Bown arranged for her to go to Australia—indeed, her parents and her sister and brother are emigrating t°o —where it was hoped she would get better opposition in training and make greater progress than she could in Fiji.

"The greatest"

Olive is the greatest female swim prospect the colony has had.

She represented Fiji at the 1966 South Pacific Games in Noumea, and although she was much younger than all of the other women competitors, she won two silver medals and one bronze. She later won five gold and four silver medals in NSW country championships.

Better training, harder opposition and a chance to get on to the bottom rung of the ladder to greatness are fine things for young Olive, whose whole life revolves around swimming.

But again, Fiji’s loss is somebody else’s gain. There is no question of professionalism here of course, but Fiji had hoped Olive would be the first-ever swimmer at an Olympics to have “Fiji” across her swim-suit.

Perhaps in 1968, or in 1972.

Now, obviously, this will not be.

If Olive makes the grade and does appear in an Olympic Games, she will be wearing “Australia” across her costume instead.

Australia, already one of the richest countries in the world in swimmers, will have gained yet another star at Fiji’s expense.

That’s no personal reflection on Olive. But it rankles.- A. F. Tinsley.

Ratu Mara. 26 NOVEMBER. 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Fiji football beleaguered From A. F. TINSLEY in Suva Rugby Union football is not just a game in the Crown Colony of Fiji. It is an obsession; almost a religion. Out of the colony’s 450,000 people (of whom over half are Indians, and Indians are soccer devotees), there is a potential of some 25,000 Fijian Rugby players, and there is a registered Fiji Rugby Union playing list of 8,000 members in scores of clubs.

Thousands turn out every week to atch and cheer Rugby games played the typically Fijian style—hard, st, often unorthodox in tactics, ith tremendous flinging about of e ball, fantastic handling and often draordinarily fine kicking.

The game has been a national iort for many years, but only since iji sent a Representative XV to r ales in 1964 (the playing of which tonished the people of a country here Union is also a sporting ligion) has Fiji’s name become ally internationally known.

Tours galore Fiji has been invited to send a am to tour England in 1970 for e English Rugby Union’s centenary lebrations. Next year, also, Fiji ill play the NZ All Blacks in Suva, id there will be a visit to Fiji by ritain’s famous Barbarians. Also in )68 Tonga will send a representative am to Fiji.

For these reasons, and because by r the greater percentage of Fiji ugby players are steadfastly loyal Union, the recent news that Ausalian Rugby League clubs are to nd “spotters” to Fiji to gauge the )tential there for introducing League the colony, came as a decided cal shock.

The Fiji Rugby Union issued a rongly-worded condemnation, ex- •essing its “gravest concern and smav” that Australian League Ticials were planning to introduce sague into the colony.

Rugby Union, it declared, had a ace in Fiji life out of all pro- 3rtion to the numbers actually aying; its importance to the ilony’s image abroad was enormous.

Derek Robinson, a noted Fiji ugby Union official, commented: fhe entry of League into Fiji can ily be at the expense of Union—the two cannot exist side by side. Fiji is too small for both codes”.

Mr. Robinson is right.

Fiji people cannot pay high prices to watch Rugby, because the majority of its followers are young people unable to afford them. Rugby League would have to charge high prices, or at least prices higher than already charged, to make the game pay and to pay those who played it professionally.

Further, there are no suitable grounds surplus to those already required by Union players for big matches, and these total perhaps only half-a-dozen at the most.

But of course there is more to this battle than that. Under Union international rules, players who associate with League in any way other than as spectators are barred from playing Union again. Fiji has already suffered by losing good men for ever.

Three or four years ago Fiji lost some of its finest Union players to Rochdale Hornets and other Northof-England League clubs, some of them as a direct result of an advertisement published in Suva by the Hornets’ manager, inviting Fiji players to come to Lancashire for attractive wages.

Several went, and conquered both their clubs and the public by their sterling play, their exemplary sportsmanship and their decent behaviour wherever they went, Understandably, although Fiji was happy that its image was enhanced in Britain, it was not so happy at the efflux of several fine representative players.

One who went to England three years ago to the Hornets was Apisai Toga, a great man physically and a great forward on the field. In the North he did as much as anyone to enhance Fiji’s image as a sporting country. He was never known to be out of order on the field, regardless of how severely he was provoked, Now Apisai is to play for Sydney’s St. George Rugby League Club for more money, perhaps, than he ever earned in his life. He was one Fijian who left England because he could not get along with the weather or food.

In a nutshell, Fiji cannot afford any further weakening of its player potential by Rugby League, especially with international tours coming up, Fiji does not want League in the colony, nor does it want League promoters to entice its best players away, and “spotters” may be assured it will fight bitterly to prevent tbi;m doing it!

Apisai Toga, Fiji's burly star Rugby footballer who is to play for a Sydney Rugby League team, crashes through in a game in England. 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

T ropicalities The Papua and New Guinea annual reports once used to state that there was no problem of prostitution in the territory because there was no system of organised brothels in the territory. They no longer make this naive statement, the Administration having perhaps learned that prostitution and brothels are not interdependent.

AS the Oxford English Dictionary makes it clear, prostitution does not necessarily entail hire or payment, and looked at this way there has always been some prostitution in Melanesia. In Port Moresby, sex has been available at moderate prices to men away from home since the end of the war.

But the trade has now moved from canoes and dark village houses into the town, and, as an inevitable adjunct to the revision of the liquor laws, into the pubs and taverns. It has, in short, become more open in Port Moresby.

Girls may be seen on Port Moresby’s street corners in two’s or three’s. While this sight does not represent any wild and sudden emulation of Paris, or of the Susy Wong district of Hong Kong, it is a change from the days not so far back when the Papuan girl worked through a male procurer, and did not herself solicit. They now openly indicate to you in a bar or lounge that they are available.

Of course the old form of procuring still goes on, in exactly the same words as are used in Rome, Paris or London. You can hear it on the steps of the Louvre, or in the bar of one of Moresby’s taverns.

“You are a nice man, I have sister Yes, even Port Moresby has open sin now at home . . . And much of the old unpaid prostitution still exists.

Relationships between males is not an uncommon Melanesian pastime.

It is only of very recent times that the male prostitute has become noticeable in public places in Port Moresby, leaning on the bar or making a suggestive movement in the toilet. It appears that these New Guineans are interested in expatriates almost to the exclusion of their own race. Why is this? Perhaps some form of distortion in the sexual pattern can be expected because of the large, unmarried male population of Moresby, both expatriate and Melanesian.

Life of the Frisbies on film—perhaps pEOPLE in the Cook Islands and A elsewhere who have enjoyed reading the books of the late Robert Dean Frisbie and his daughter Johnny (now Mrs. Carl Hebenstreit, of Dunedin, New Zealand) will be interested in a New Zealand report that Universal Pictures, of Hollywood, is thinking about bringing out a film based on four of the Frisbie books.

The books are The Book of Buka Buka and Mr. Moonlight’s Island by Frisbie pere, and Johnny Frisbie’s Miss Ulysses from Buka Buka and The Frisbies of the South Seas.

The four books tell the story of the Frisbie family on various islands in the South Seas, but particularly in the Cook Islands.

Frisbie pere, an American, migrated to the Islands soon after World War I, He married a Polynesian woman, had five children, and lead a dreamy, impecunious life in all sorts of out of the way places until his death on Rarotonga in November, 1949.

Frisbie, or Ropati, as the Islanders i knew him, always lived in the hope that he would one day write the Great South Seas Novel and make lot of money out of it for his family.

He never succeeded on either

How About Thiski!

A French adventurer, Jean Pierre Marquant, 25, who set one of the world's crazy records by hiking across California's Death Valley in the heat of July, claimed another strange one on October 27 when he travelled 180 miles from Tahiti to Bora Bora on one water-ski. His time was seven hours five minutes. Marquant practised for the record by doing a daily flip between Tahiti and Moorea, a distance of 10 miles. He is a UTA flight steward.

Johnny Frisbie as a hula dancer.

Robert Dean Frisbie. 28 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

int, although there is much more the real South Seas in his writ- ;s than in those of a number of ier much better known and better d Islands writers. The Book of ka Buka, for example, is an mds classic which must surely be ; for republication.

Fhe film that Universal Pictures > in mind will probably be called pati —if it is made. It has been iced on the studio’s production icdule. but the studio reportedly > until next May to decide whether will buy the necessary rights from ihny Frisbie and go ahead and ike it.

A, film about life on an atoll :h as Puka Puka would certainly different. letting together in le “big smoke”

YDNEY’S growing population of young Solomon Islanders —about at present —living in the “bright tits” to complete their secondary tertiary educations, have formed association so they can meet, talk 1 cure a bit of their occasional mesickness.

Fwo young men from Honiara — lathan Quan, 19, an engineering dent, and Robert Leong, 19, who studying for his high school tificate formed the Solomon ands Students’ Society in Sepnber.

The objectives of the society are foster mutual friendship and derstanding, assist Solomon anders in matters affecting their crests, and arrange non-sectarian d non-political activities.

By late October, the society had id its first annual meeting and cted seven foundation members; sed about $l3O in funds; held its >t “annual” dinner; and had anged a charity festival in Honiara January 6 next year.

Mr. Quan told us that about 50 lomon Islanders were interested in joining the society. This showed that Solomon Islanders wanted somewhere in Sydney to meet and talk about the Islands.

Many were overawed by Sydney and lived miles from each other, boarding or in flats, he said.

“We are aged between 13 and 25 years,” Mr. Quan went on. “There are more girls than boys and we have members from Honiara, the Russell Islands, New Georgia and Malaita.”

Heath Robinson goes to Niue NIUE was recently startled by a weird and wonderful machine.

It consisted of a heavy truck with a petrol-driven concrete mixer mounted on a tray, noisily mixing lime and water. This mixture was fed into a drum which was pressurised by a huge, roaring, mobile air compressor normally used with drills and hammers for digging up the Niue roads.

From this drum snaked yards of thick, black hose tended by overalled figures wearing masks, like men from outer space. With the clatter of the concrete mixer, the deafening roar of the compressor and the hiss of compressed air, Niueans could be excused for being alarmed.

But this giant spray gun, which in effect it was, was being used to whitewash the famous coral rock fences and walls around Alofi, an operation normally done by hand.

A certain amount of the whitewash missed the walls, and much of the green grass looked as if it had been dusted by frost. A very curious tropical sight, but that’s the price of progress.

Fashion note, with a bite in it FIJIAN policemen are among the biggest men in the world, and mosquitoes are among the smallest insects.

But big men are no more immune to mosquito bites than small men, and it could be that the mosquitoes will force the Fijian policemen before long to wear trousers after dark, instead of the picturesque sulus (serrated-edged kilts) that they have worn ever since the force was formed donkeys’ years ago.

Asked recently about a rumour that the sulus might be entirely replaced, Fiji’s Police Commissioner, Mr. R. T. M. Henry, smiled and said: “No fear! We want to keep them because they are a traditional feature of the Fiji scene. Fijian policemen may, however, be provided with long trousers for night duty only, because of the mosquito bites which they suffer when wearing sulus which give no protection to their legs”.

Memories of Mago’s sugar TURNING over some forgotten articles in a storage cellar recently Mrs. Zena Borron, of Suva, brought to light a big silver cup, of apparently heavy metal, and with this inscription: “From Levu and his people—their gift to Mr. Brown—with their love to him—togal oikarea—given at Mago, Christmas, 1887”.

Mr. J. S. K. Borron gives us the interesting bit of Fiji history which the cup represents. His father, Mr.

J. Meiklejohn Borron, took up the island of Mago (in the Lau Archipelago) in 1872 and there grew, in [?]nathan Quan (left) and Robert Leong.

It wasn't so long ago that the "big hair" of Fijian policemen gave way to short haircuts. Now it looks as if they may start wearing trousers at night to protect their legs from mosquito bites. 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

succession, cotton and sugar and then coconuts. Mago Island is still one of Fiji’s healthiest producers of copra.

Mr. J. M. Borron brought to Mago some 60 New Hebrides labourers, who worked the sugar plantation there for a number of years and then were repatriated to the New Hebrides.

Their leader was named Levu. The happy relationship between Mr. J. M.

Borron and his New Hebrides gang was shown in the presentation of the old silver cup, exactly 80 years ago.

Not many people know that sugar was ever grown on Mago. Mr. J. S. K.

Borron says that the mill which processed the sugar-cane there was taken to Penang, in Viti Levu, when the plantations on Mago were turned over to coconuts.

Laws for the hurrying Islands SOME of the legislation passed during the 11th session of the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly in September threw interesting light on the territory’s changing social conditions, particularly on Rarotonga.

An amendment to the Transport Act, for example, now makes it compulsory for motor cyclists and their pillion or side-car passengers to wear safety helmets.

The introduction of this law follows the importation into Rarotonga over the past few years of about 1,000 Japanese motor cycles and motor scooters. These vehicles have almost replaced the humble pedal cycle on Rarotonga’s roads, which are also carrying many more trucks and cars than they used to.

The new law brings the Cook Islands into line with New Zealand and some other Pacific countries.

There was quite a debate on the amending bill in the Assembly—the Minister of Police, Mr. Apenera Short, saying that if the bill was passed, the government would probably arrange for the importation of safety helmets to be sold at landed cost, less tax.

Another bill which reflected the times was the Criminal Justice Bill, which provides for a Probation Officer and a Parole Board.

Cost of dying to be higher TARIFFS for funerals are to be raised in New Caledonia from January 1 next year.

This has prompted our Noumea correspondent to suggest that those seeking bargains had better get in early!

She wants to play Crusoe in Bougainville's Boudoir

By Robert Langdon

Reports from Tahiti in early October that a 28-year-old Frenchwoman, Mrs. Jeannou Rouillere, planned to live the life ot a Robinson Crusoe on uninhabited Mehetia Island, 60 miles east of Tahiti, has pushed into the limelight a speck of Pacific r r a L C , S i? te that has not P revi °usly made news in the 38 years of PIM s existence.

Mehetia is a Robinson Crusoe’s paradise. It has a rich volcanic soil, luxurious vegetation, fish and fruit in abundance, and plenty of pigs, fowls and goats running wild.

It has no anchorage and the only landing place is so difficult to negotiate that many another wouldbe Robinson Crusoe could easily be deterred from trying to establish himself there.

Yet despite the difficulty of landing on it, Mehetia was once an important staging post in the commerce of Tahiti. In pre-European and early European times, all trading canoes proceeding from Tahiti to the Tuamotus used to make for Mehetia first to wait for a suitable wind.

In more recent times, the island was so rarely visited that the lonely islanders gradually moved to Tahiti in search of a gayer life and better employment opportunities. The island was finally abandoned in the early 1930’5.

Since then it has been visited only spasmodically by fishermen and copra cutters from Tahiti.

Volcanic cone Mehetia is a bold volcanic cone rising steeply from the sea to a height of 1,427 ft. It is roughly circular in shape, about 12 miles in circumference, and about 600 acres in area.

Its northern side is so steep that only some 200 acres are suitable for crops and human habitation.

Mehetia has been known to Europeans for 200 years. Captain Wallis, of HMS Dolphin, who came upon it on June 18, 1767, called it Osnaburg Island, a blatant bit of flattery for King George IH’s second son.

As most of his crew were down with scurvy at the time, Wallis had high hopes of getting fresh food there. But when a boat party went in to reconnoitre, they found the only landing place guarded by about 100 men and a number of women, arme< with spears and sticks.

Although the Mehetians made wel coming signs for the visitors to g( ashore, the Englishmen thought bette: of it, and came away with only on< pig, two fowls and some fruit, whicl they obtained by barter.

However, what Wallis had seei of Mehetia convinced him that large] and more important islands must li( m the vicinity, and he therefore pushed on to the west until he discovered Tahiti.

Two names The French explorer Bougainville, who followed Wallis into the Pacific in the Boudeuse in 1768, made no attempt to land on Mehetia when he discovered it. But he added two more names for it to the map—Le Boudoir and Boudeuse Peak. No one now knows what prompted him to call it Le Boudoir.

The first Europeans to land on Mehetia were a boat party from the Spanish ship Aguila, commanded by Domingo Boenechea. They went ashore in November, 1772. Boenechea called the island San Cristobal. His description of it is still one of the most detailed and informative.

However, it was left to James Morrison, the boatswain’s mate of the Bounty, to record the part that Mehetia played in the Tahitians’ commerce with the Tuamotus.

Morrison said that the chief of Taiarapu, the easternmost district of Tahiti, employed a large canoe, with

many as 100 paddlers, to ply ularly between Tahiti and Mehetia.

In her,” Morrison said, “he sends i work and what European comdities he can raise as presents to chiefs, who, in return, send back , rls, pearl shells, stools for seats, □ws and pudding stools made of lanu, with dishes and trays of the le wood, matting, cloth, oil, hogs, , etc. —and she seldom returns lout a cargo.

By means of this island, they : Tahitians] have communication h. several others to the NE of dti, and taking advantage of northerly wind, reach Myetoo ;hetia] where they watch wind ting to stretch to the northward a group of small islands, the ital of which is called Tapoo- 4ot much was added to the rature on Mehetia until the mid- -o’s, when a rich English couple, d and Lady Brassey, called there ;heir private steam yacht Sunbeam. n her Voyage of the “Sunbeam ” ly Brassey said that the sailing ;ctories of the day had little to about how or where to land the island, and that when a boat ty from the Sunbeam tried to find anding place, both she and a lady npanion became quite sick because the “violent motion” of the boat the heavy swell.

Grave reception however, it was evident from the t that the Mehetians had had nty of contact (indirect or other- «) with Europeans, for when y saw the boat coming ashore they ed to the landing place in all ts of European clothes. 3n stepping ashore, the Brasseys re escorted to the house of a chief, o, with his pretty wife, received :m gravely and with much dignity.

The chief lavished gifts upon :m, while the rest of the natives Dught them pearls, shells, motherpearl, small canoes, fish-hooks, ung boobies, and all sorts of other ngs for barter.

“Perhaps, the greatest curiosity ;y offered us,” Lady Brassey wrote, “was about six fathoms of fine twine, made from human hair.

“Before these islands were visited by Europeans, this was the material from which fishing lines were made; but it is now rarely used, and is consequently very difficult to procure.”

Lady Brassey said the natives seemed to know all about money and the ruling exchange rates.

However, most of the Mehetians seemed puzzled over why the Brasseys had visited their island at all.

“No sell brandy?” they asked.

“No.”

“No stealy men?”

“No.”

“No do what then?”

Lady Brassey added that the Mehetians’ knowledge of English was too limited for her to make them understand that she and her husband were “only making a circumnavigation in a yacht”.

Visit by scientist After Lady Brassey’s descriptions, the literature on Mehetia is again pretty sparse until the early 1930’s when Dr. Kenneth Emory, of Honolulu’s Bishop Museum, and a friend, Clifford Gessler, visited the island to see what maraes and other stone relics of the ancient Polynesians they could find.

Mehetia had no Mehetians by that time, but a group of unpainted, ironroofed houses still stood, with limes, oranges, bananas and papaws ripening around them on overgrown trees.

“Over Mehetia,” Gessler wrote, “hung an atmosphere of silence and desertion—silence despite the crowing of cocks that have run wild in its forests, the song of innumerable mosquitoes, and the steady rumble of the surf.”

If the mosquitoes are still there, they will presumably welcome the arrival of Mrs. Rouillere with eager anticipation.

Mrs. Rouillere, who comes from Nice, on the French Riviera, is described as a “beautiful grev-eyed blonde”. She plans to live on Mehetia alone, without any link with civilisation.

She will get a boat to drop her off on the island, and will then live on what she can find there.

By all accounts, it should be a good hunting season for all parties!

Escapists * Footnote: Mehetia is privately owned. Mrs. Rouillere presumablv has the owners’ permission to go there.

And They Want To Go

Back To Nature

A Los Angeles couple made headlines in October with an announcement that they were going to get away from it all on “a deserted island about 80 miles from Pago Pago".

The couple, Bruce Johnson, a fortyish health club director, and Shari Guam, a 22-year-old former nurse, arrived in Honolulu on October 12 and later went on to Pago Pago.

Johnson said that as a boy be used to play Robinson Crusoe by eating crackers in his backyard behind a blanket hung over a clothes line. He and Miss Guam wanted to revert back to nature, and they planned to land on their deserted island —apparently Rose Atoll, 125 miles east of Pago Pago—with only one camera, film and sound equipment, and one bathing suit each.

They planned to take no food, medicine, weapons or communications equipment —and the only reason for the bathing suits was the camera.

Mehetia, the easternmost "high" stand in French Polynesia, is the [?]eak of a submarine mountain 12,000 ft high. There is no anchorage for ships, and only one reasonable landing place.

The only habitable land is on the Island's southern side—on the left of the picture. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

The Editors' Mailbag

In Defence Of Suva'S Tailors

Sir, —We refer to a statement by Mr. R. B. Narotam {PIM, Aug., p. 30) under the caption “In defence of Suva’s tailors”.

We are certain that many prominent tailors of Suva would join us in differing from the views expressed by Mr. Narotam in connection with the price and period of completion for making a suit.

We are one of the tailoring firms whose clientele includes several Governors of Fiji, as well as the Governor-General of New Zealand, and local and overseas personalities such as Mr. R. W. Robson and Mr. T. C. Read of your company.

We are proud to say that we have been able to produce most satisfactory fitting and workmanship quite often within 24 hours, for which we have numerous references from satisfied clients.

We ourselves, as well as many good tailors of reputation in Suva, have maintained a 24 hours’ service for tourists or local clients in need, and we strongly detest the assertion by Mr. Narotam that “a suit made m 24 hours for, say, £FI7, is worse than ready-made”.

D. G. BILLIMORIA • n Managing proprietor Bilhmona & Co., Suva BLUSHES DEPT.

Sir, I have been meaning to write to you for a long time now to congratulate you on the excellence of PIM and the changes you have been making. Each edition seems to be more attractive, more interesting and more informative than the last.

Indeed, it must be one of the finest publications produced in Australia and is worthy of comparison with the best international magazines. My criticisms of several years ago have long since become irrelevant! With all best wishes for every future prosperity. (REV.) IAN D. STUART.

Boroko, Papua.

That August Cover

Sir, —I wish to question your identification of the cover picture on the August issue. This view looks remarkably like that from the front lawn of the Relais de Kanumera at the Isle of Pines, south-east of Noumea, even to the outrigger canoe in the left corner and the trading vessel at anchor. (DR.) G. L. PICKARD Vancouver, Canada Sir, —Somehow the sunset cover looked familiar to me, and I know it’s certainly not Noumea, as you reported. Maybe it would be good if you informed Qantas that the photograph was taken in front of the Hotel Relais de Kanumera on the Isle of Pines. I used to work there and remember it very well.

Congratulations for a very interesting, objective magazine. But, why isn’t Hawaii included in PIM ?

John R. Baumgartner

Honolulu, Hawaii • Both readers are correct. Qantas wasn’t responsible for the caption error we were. Why isn’t Hawaiian news included in PIM? See “Up Front with the Editor”, p. 14.

Mental Tests

Sir, —I am enclosing a clipping from a local newspaper which reports that 8,000 New Guinea Highlanders are being given injections as part of a health probe into a high mental deficiency rate in the Jimi Valley.

It amazes me why such experiments have to be carried out amongst the poor primitive natives of the New Guinea Highlands when here in Australia we possibly have many thousands more people with a “high mental deficiency”.

My husband and I lived in the Solomon Islands for some years and always enjoy reading PIM.

MRS. D. CORRIE.

Mareeba, North Queensland.

Nauruan Beauty

Sir, —Your September cover picture of Miss Milka Philip, of Nauru, has solved a particular international problem which lately has been bothering me.

Ever since the controversial issue of Nauru’s independence was brought to the forefront I have been puzzled by Australia’s reluctance to grant the Nauruans independence. It is now apparent that the political and economic implications of Nauru’s rich phosphate deposits provide half the clue.

The other half, though mo subtle, is revealed by your cov photo. I can now appreciate Ar tralia’s reluctance; for what sa] country, or person, would be willii to forgo the exploitation of su< “natural resources” in the interest i international harmony and unde standing?

Kinza Cloduma

Canberra, ACT

Tonga'S Coronation

, Sir, —I imagine you wish I won discontinue my subscription to PL or quit writing letters about certa articles. But I am interested ar often take exception to things read, and in the August issue, I real enjoyed reading about the coronatio: but as usual I take exception to son of your statements.

First of all it sounds like you a] making fun of the ceremonies. Aft< all, a coronation is something sped; and why shouldn’t the king want to really be something special? Yc mentioned their robes and finery. IS one ever mentions the plumed h; and sword-carrying of some gentl< man in Australia. I don’t recall h name, or who he was, but I d remember the picture and it wasn Sir Derek.

I realise I am not an authority o these things, but I have been to th South Pacific a number of times an seen things I wondered about. Fc instance, one time on my way to th Gilbert Islands we spent the night i Funafuti. On the plane with us ws a judge and some other high official on their way to try a case in th Gilberts. They were both fror England.

That night in Funafuti all of u peasants got cleaned up for dinne at the hotel but these two gentlemei really got dressed up in white shirts ties, dark trousers and cummerbund to have dinner with the administra tor, who was a bachelor at that time Nobody made fun of them, but sure seemed odd to me, especial!; because the weather was so very ho and I couldn’t see why men shouh dress so fancy to eat dinner together I also take exception to that las paragraph [of Stuart Inder’s report about the people of Tonga begging Again, I don’t claim to be ar authority on this subject, but I was there for two days the first time. Nc one begged from me, but instead they gave me things. One family gave me a big feast one evening, then wantec to load me down with gifts. They asked nothing from me. Everybody was so nice to me that I went back (Continued on p. 147) 32 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Population explosion creates job problems There's not enough land to go round , Tonga's king says The kingdom of Tonga, with a total land area of only 269 quare miles scattered over 20,000 square miles of ocean, has un out of land for its rapidly-expanding population, according 3 King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV. ie king told Tonga’s Legislative mbly in October that whereas ; were now 39,837 males in the dom who are, or will be, entitled ix allotments, there are currently 13,017 allotments to distribute lem. tax allotment is a bush area of icres and a town site of 2/sths an acre, which every Tongan mes entitled to apply for from 2rown (which owns all the land) i he attains the age of 16 and by becomes a taxpayer, ie king said the growing populaand shortage of land had created ablem which could not be pushed his is a major problem which government, the Legislative Asily and the entire kingdom must usly look to,” he said. : is obvious that it is no longer ble to rely, as we have in the on the land to provide for the s of the nation. wo-thirds of the entire male lation of this kingdom must find other than on the land. . . . me should waste their time and \y on worthless things.

X the present day, there are ! who have no tax allotments who are wasting their time from ling to night in billiard saloons, I to dances, movie shows and ; every night of the week.

Petty thievery loney, with which to do these :s, is, of course, required, and rtunately must come from petty ery and similar crimes.” ie king said that because of the age of jobs, he felt the time come to establish a new governdepartment to seek ways of ing more employment. It would keep records of the unemployed the daily labourers, so that a )lete picture of the work force able for various projects would vailable.

It would be difficult, in a short time, to increase the number of people working in many of the avenues of employment that already existed for Tongans, he said.

However, there were others that could be greatly expanded.

The fishing industry was relatively untapped, with very few commercial fishermen operating.

House-building and engineering were other industries in which more people could be suitably employed; and the steady increase of tourists visiting the kingdom would also give more people the opportunity of employment.

The king said that those people who had land would have to do more to ensure that it was worked to the maximum.

Similarly, it was necessary to consider increasing the teaching of technical and vocational subjects in schools, and reducing the teaching of subjects to prepare students for office jobs that did not exist.

“We must diversify our educational system to prepare students to work on the land, in industry and on the sea,” the king went on. ‘There are various departments in great nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom and the European nations whose objective it is to give assistance to developing countries such as Tonga.

UK representative “With the establishment in the future of our own representative in Great Britain, we will be able to maintain a closer contact with departments such as these for guidance and assistance in creating work for the unemployed.”

The king added that it was the desire of all parents to produce children who would be better educated, more responsible, better workers, and better citizens.

“However, we will not be able to do this if we do not plan our family so that we can suitably educate them according to our desires,” he said.

Footnote: A census in Tonga last November revealed that the kingdom’s population had increased by more than 20,000 to 77,429 in 10 years. By far the greatest increase was on the main island of Tongatapu, whose population rose from 31,261 in 1956 to 47,920 in 1966.

Laws Will Protect

Interests Of

Norfolk Islanders

New regulations are to be introduced on Norfolk Island to protect the interests of permanent residents against those of "mainlanders" attracted to the island by the current tourist boom.

The Norfolk Island Council discussed the regulations with the Australian Minister for Territories, Mr. C E. Barnes, early in October when he paid a brief visit to the island—his second since becoming Minister in late 1963.

As a result of the discussions, the island's immigration laws will be tightened to prevent the island being flooded with new settlers; and the electoral laws will be amended so that new settlers will not become eligible for election to the council until they have lived on the island for three years. They will, however, be able to vote in council elections, after six months' residence —if they qualify as permanent residents.

The proposed amendments to the electoral laws could prevent a complete change in the composition of the council after the next elections in July, 1968.

King Taufa'ahau. 37 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

To The Point

WITH PERCY CHATTERTON Earning more, but enjoying it less During my early years in Papua I found myself functioning not only as a schoolmaster, but also as an unofficial employment officer. There was no Department of Labour in those days, nor, for that matter, was there a Department of Education.

COME to that, there weren’t many job opportunities either. There were fewer than 500 Europeans in Port Moresby. There was minimal economic development, and a modest little public service geared to a Commonwealth grant of £40,000 per annum.

There were no Papuans in the Public Service proper, but a sprinkling were to be found around the Government offices. Most of them were, in effect, office boys, though the Government Printing Office and the telephone exchange stood out among the rest in their efforts to train Papuans for skilled jobs.

How it was once The status of these Papuans was that of “administration servants”.

They received a small wage plus rations. They had no security of tenure, being liable to dismissal at a fortnight’s notice. And they had no pension rights, though it is only fair to say that those who worked for many years for the Government did in fact receive ex-gratia pensions.

The picture in the private sector was much the same. Papuans went round to the post office to collect the mail, made cups of tea and carried them round the offices, and did other menial chores.

In the stores they saved the European counter hands the fatigue involved in getting such of the customers’ requirements as could not be reached from a sitting posture.

After all, this was the tropics, and one had to be careful not to engage in too much physical exertion in the interval between hanging up one’s solar topee on arrival at office or store and taking it down again on departure.

Such were the jobs to which a small proportion of my school leavers aspired in the 1920’s and 30’s, and my efforts to place the right bov in the right job were appreciated both by the boys and their employers.

I say “boys”, because although girls also attended school the idea of there being any other vocation than marriage for girls was unheard of. Indeed, teenage girls had to keep very close to mum’s apron strings until they were married off.

Most of the boys, too, on leaving school, became subsistence farmers and fishermen, for Hanuabada’s economy in those days might be described as a subsistence economy with money as an optional extra.

This is still the situation in many villages even today.

Papua’s pre-war missionary teachers are often blamed, both by Europeans and by Papuans, for the fact that they didn’t give more attention than they did to the teaching of English. There are several things which may be said in their defence.

Teaching of English First, school hours were limited, and in my early years at Hanuabada a suggestion that the school week might be extended from four to five days was strenuously opposed by parents, on the ground, reasonable enough at that date, that their children had to learn to hunt, fish and grow food as well as to read and write.

Second, most of the modern methods of teaching English as a foreign language had not then been worked out, and of course there were no tape recorders or even longplay records. There was practically no suitable reading material available; books in sufficiently easy English were infantile in content, and books suitable in content were written in too difficult English.

Third, most pupils had hardly any opportunity at all of using outside the classroom the English thev learned inside it, unless and until they took a job in town.

Fourth, an all-English curricuh would, at that time, have meant tl for the vast majority of our pup their schooling would have been dreary and meaningless waste time.

By basing our curriculum on t vernacular and teaching the ru ments of English as a subject, 1 produced no BA’s, but we also pi duced no misfits. The schooling c pupils received served to stimuli their interest in, and satisfy th curiosity about, the outside woi without unfitting them for, or mt ing them dissatisfied with, the life the village.

At the same time it did inculci some basic knowledge of simj English upon which those few w! entered European employment cot build. In those simpler days ] didn’t have to worry about “drc outs”. If our pupils dropped out school they dropped into an enviro ment in which they fitted and we happy.

Today's problems I know that today’s problei cannot be solved in so simple manner. All I am saying is that! that time it was a sensible ai reasonable course to take.

We can hardly be blamed for n being able to foresee, back in tl thirties, that within the next decai the territory would be sucked into major war, colonialism would b come a dirty word, the Europe? population would increase tenfo and job opportunities maybe ! hundredfold, and an atmosphe would be created in which Papuai would be allowed and even ei couraged to aspire to jobs moi responsible than those of carrier round of tea and tenders of filii cabinets.

But let’s get back to those schoo 38 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

avers of mine who did get jobs, id especially to those who entered te service of the Government. Their iwly status as administration ;rvants continued into the fifties, hen a decision was reached to Imit indigenes to the Public Service, special division—the auxiliary [vision —being created for them.

Incidentally most of the foundaon members of the auxiliary [vision were my ex-pupils of the venties and thirties. In the insrvening quarter of a century they’d arned quite a lot “on the job”.

They’d cured themselves of the ommie English I’d taught them and ad learned to talk like honest-tofod Australians, even to the extent P saying “good-night” when they leant “good-evening”.

Salaries must be geared And now they went back to :hool. They attended evening lasses. They toiled over home-work i one-roomed houses, with their ounger children squalling round lem and, if they were lucky, their etter educated first-born helping lem over the hard bits. And finally mny of them qualified for admission ) the auxiliary division. As there r ere no overseas officers in this ivision, no great problem arose in stablishing a suitable salary scale Dr it.

But before long a new problem >omed. Some Papuans and New luineans were now reaching educaonal standards which qualified them 3r entry to the third and even the jcond division, and these local fficers received the same salaries as verseas officers, less certain “exatriate” allowances.

Belatedly it was realised that this process, if continued, would build up a fantastic salaries bill for some future indigenous government. The cry was raised that the salary scale must be geared to what the future economy of the country could afford.

Nobody seemed quite to know into what crystal ball we should peer to discover just what the future economy would be able to afford.

And the irreverent suggestion that the size of the Public Service might also have to be geared to what the future economy of the country could afford was brushed aside.

On September 10, 1964—“ Black Thursday”—a new Public Service structure was introduced. The auxiliary division was abolished and its members were transferred to the third division. Many more administration servants were taken into the Public Service. And a brand-new “realistic” salary scale for local officers was introduced.

The realism was so stark that most of the administration servants admitted to the Public Service at this time had to be given “non-reduction allowances” to prevent their remuneration as public servants falling below the cash value of the pay and rations they had received as administration servants. Non-reduction allowances were also given to local officers already in the third and second divisions.

After a shocked pause, the Public Service Association lumbered slowly into action, and a year later the Public Service Arbitrator began to hear what became known as the local officers salaries case, the hearings of which dragged on wearily for 15 months.

Odd stories told In the meantime, in an effort to meet widespread dissatisfaction and at the same time to short-circuit, if possible, the arbitration marathon, the Administration introduced, in July, 1966, a revised scale with a new component, a “family needs allowance”, designed to boost the pay of low-level local officers with families to support. Then, at long last, the local officers’ salaries case came to an end, and, in July of this year, a further revised scale, based

Attractive Madang

AAadang, a pretty town with a beautiful harbour, is not photographed as often as some of the other New Guinea towns. These pictures were taken by a Qantas photographer. The aerial view shows the Pacific in the foreground and Binnen Harbour in the centre, with the main section of the town in between. The white column in the right foreground and also in the lower picture is the Coast Watchers Memorial Lighthouse, which serves as warning to mariners and a monument to the many wartime Coast Watchers who risked their lives against the Japanese. 39 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1967

on the arbitrator’s finding, was introduced.

Not long after this I began to hear some odd stories of local officers who were getting less in their pay packets than they got before all the ballyhoo began. I started to ask questions, and eventually asked one in the House of Assembly.

The answer came tardily, and when it did come revealed an astonishing state of affairs. Out of more than 12,000 local officers, 7,172 were receiving more take-home pay than before, 1,745 were receiving exactly the same, and 3,227 were receiving less.

How is it possible in this Alicein-Wonderland service to get a rise and find less in your pay packet?

Here is an actual case: “X” is a married man with a family to support. In 1964 he was an administration servant, on pay and rations. In 1965 he was admitted to the Public Service, and, as his salary on the Black Thursday scale would have been considerably less than the cash value of his pay and rations as an administration servant, he was given a non-reduction allowance to bring his total remuneration up to its former level. His score now stood at Salary $640 Non-reduction allowance . $340 $9BO p.a.

In July, 1966, family needs allowances were introduced, and “X” qualified for one. His non-reduction allowance was reduced accordingly, and his score now looked like this: Salary $640 Family needs allowance $290 Non-reduction allowance . $ 50 $9BO p.a.

In July, 1967, as a result of the lecision handed down by the arbitrate, he got a salary rise. His score :ard now reads: Salary $7OO needs allowance $230 allowance . $ 50 $9BO p.a.

But because his salary has gone ip he now has to make an increased ontribution to the retirement benefits und. So every alternate Friday he nds himself with 10 cents less in is pay than he got in 1965.

Ten cents may not seem a lot, but > a man trying to provide for a amily on less than $2O a week, very cent counts. And of course this is not all. Since the beginning of this year he has had to pay two cents in the dollar income tax—the so-called mini-tax. His tin of bully beef costs him a third more than it did two years ago. And the minimum charge for water in Port Moresby has just gone up 100 per cent., from 50 cents to $1 a month.

“X” and his mates are the new Light Brigade. Every time they get a rise their pay packets get lighter.

Those who are inclined, from their comfortable expatriate homes or their plush offices in the Department of Territories, to lambast the Public Service Association for not being willing to “accept the umpire’s decision” would do well to ponder the plight of the Light Brigade.

“X” needs their prayers. Any time now he may get another rise; and he just can’t afford it.

Port Moresby

PERSONALITY "Ronnie" Galloway, wife of the District Commissioner, Central District, arrived in the territory in 1947 when her husband was a patrol officer. Born in Brisbane, her life in P-NG has Included periods in many outposts.

She was the first white woman to settle in Tapini where she lived for four years, improvising with cooking and making her own bread. Sometimes six weeks passed before food supplies turned up.

She is a keen worker for the Red Cross and other charities. Her hobbies include tennis, golf and fishing. Mrs. Galloway has a son Anton, aged 15, who is going to school, in Brisbane.—SlßYL LLOYD.

They'Re Beating

The Cook Islands'

Water Problem

With the exception of Rarotonga, the southern group of the Cook islands has always lacked an adequate domestic and agricultural water supply. The shortage has become of increasing importance in recent years now that the pineapple industry on Mangaia is being expanded, coffee is being grown for export on Atiu, and a large-scale banana replanting scheme has been started on Aitutaki.

A LL these projects demand much more water than is available at present. (The atolls of the northern group are not so dependent on water as their only exports are copra and pearl shell).

Last March, Mr. D. J. Gilberd, who is an expert on the practical side of obtaining good water supplies, arrived at Rarotonga and later visited Aitutaki and Mangaia {RIM, May, p. 75). He wanted to determine the type of machinery necessary for drilling wells.

Mr. Gilberd estimated that sufficient water could be tapped on Aitutaki for agricultural purposes, and that there was enough on Mangaia to make the establishment of a small fruit juicing factory there a reality. The Mangaians want their own juicing factory so as to avoid future losses of pineapples which ripen before they can be shipped to the juicing factory at Rarotonga.

Orders for a drilling rig and other equipment recommended by Mr.

Gilberd have now been placed, at an estimated cost of SNZ 17,000. He will return to the Cooks in 1968 and 1969 and will establish water supplies on Mangaia, Aitutaki and Mitiaro.

Dr. Chan, a water expert from the South Pacific Commission, spent two months on Mauke recently, and left Rarotonga for Noumea at the end of August. He constructed a water reticulation system on Mauke, which will supply all the villages from a single well. The well relies on seepage, and the pure water is pumped to the surface by a windmill.

Dr. Chan will return to Mauke in November to complete the work and will then go on to Atiu to complete the well there.

Tt is understood that when an adequate water supply is assured on Atiu, a small coffee processing factory will be built there. 40 NOVEMBER. 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Western Samoa girds its loins for the Peace Corps-Potlatch revolution From an Apia correspondent The first two weeks of October may well be remembered as the fortnight that changed the course of Western Samoa’s history. In this period, legislation allowing the giant US firm of Potlatch Forests Inc. to set up business in Samoa was tabled in Parliament, and the first 85 United States Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Apia.

Potlatch plans to invest up to US 10,000,000 over the next five ;ars in developing a major timber dustry on the island of Savaii, but unoan leaders are being very cagey )out the whole deal.

Faced with the necessity of providg improved living standards for an [ploding population when each year e costs of administration and welopment are growing faster than venue, the Government is aware at the proposed timber industry ill go a long way towards solving e country’s economic problems, at nobody likes the thought of the ain from the country in the years lead of the profits that will accrue om the exploitation of this natural source.

Social revolution With the choice apparently be- 'een foreign capital developing the nber industry, and inevitable onomic hardship under financial dependence, there is not much )übt that, after a lot of argument, Dtlatch will soon be setting up busies in Samoa.

While Potlatch promises some sort economic revolution, the Peace orps holds the seeds of social volution.

Despite the 60 years of European Iministration before independence re years ago, European influence is been largely restricted to the pia area, and village life is still uch as it has been for the past mdreds of years. Few seconded ficers have lived anywhere but in wn and the great majority ended eir terms without ever having spent night in a village.

The Peace Corps will change all lis. Another 90 volunteers are exited in January, and most of the SO or so Peace Corps personnel will >end their two-year term in the villages, living in a Samoan fale, eating Samoan food, speaking Samoan and being integrated into village life.

There is not much doubt that this intimate contact with well-educated and well-meaning Europeans will do much to provide the broadened outlook needed to ease the transition now taking place from the narrow constraints of primitive village life to the confusing role of citizens of the world.

Nearly all the volunteers are university graduates and those in the districts are being employed mainly in mission schools and on Government projects such as rural health and public works.

They have been enthusiastically welcomed in Apia and have impressed everyone as a particularly fine group of young people. Their average age is 23.

There is, of course, some speculation as to how well they will succeed.

“The only danger is that our people will spoil them too much,” said one Samoan official.

Market for fruit PRODUCE marketing officials see a bright future for the marketing in New Zealand of fresh fruit and vegetables air-freighted from Western Samoa to Auckland.

Large quantities of papaws and other fruit and vegetables from Western Samoa are already being flown to New Zealand in the temperature-controlled holds of Air New Zealand’s DC-8 jets for selling in Auckland’s produce markets. This produce is flown to New Zealand every Sunday on the weekly Pago Pago-Auckland service and is sold fresh to New Zealand merchants.

All the Western Samoan produce so far sent air cargo has arrived in excellent condition. It is exported from Apia by the Produce Marketing Division of Western Samoa’s Department of Agriculture, and by one private Apia exporter.

Results of these early trial shipments by air have been so encouraging that the quantity and range of fruit and vegetables sent to Auckland will be greatly increased by next year. At present, the produce is flown from Apia to Pago Pago by Polynesian Airlines DC-3 aircraft for trans-shipping to the Air NZ service. But with the operation by PAL shortly of a DC-4, the capacity for moving air cargo between Apia and Auckland will be increased.

Big hydro scheme WHILE Western Samoan departmental estimates are being slashed; education faces retrenchment; reading and other development works being restricted; and agriculture scraping the bottom of the barrel for more finance, it was revealed in Apia at the end of September that the Public Works Department is planning a new hydroscheme that would almost treble the country’s output of electricity and cost between li to 2 million tala.

The scheme involves tunnelling a water race through about a mile of mountain to divert water from Lake Afulilo and the Salani river to a power station situated on the shore of Fagaloa Bay.

A United Nations hydro-electric engineer is being recruited to assist in planning the scheme. He is expected to arrive in Apia in January.

Western Samoa's Prime Minister, Fiame Mata'afa, and three members of his government will visit Japan from November 1 to 5. Their visit is at the invitation of the Japanese Government. 41 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

Message for the Yanks: "Great opportunities in New Guinea!”

An invitation for American capital to invest in Papua- New Guinea development has been made to American businessmen by Mr. Steven Rich, chairman of the Australia New Guinea Corporation. Mr, Rich, Sydney-based, made the invitation in a long and carefully prepared paper on New Guinea investments which he presented to a seminar arranged by the American Management Association in New York in September.

Mr. Rich surveyed the whole progress—political and economic— of Papua-New Guinea since the war and detailed specific opportunities for overseas investment.

He said that the USA held out the best prospects as a potential source of investment funds for New Guinea, and there were good opportunities for American capital. He discussed the attitude of New Guineans to foreign investment.

Among the points that Mr. Rich made were: • In their own environment the New Guineans live a relatively affluent and comfortable existence.

Subsistence production comprises an estimated 38 per cent, of total supplies produced in the territory, and provides basic supplies for many indigenes in the monetary sector. • By far the highest rates of growth within the monetary sector itself have been in the non-primary production fields. The economy is thus becoming less dependent on primary production, which contributed an estimated 36 per cent, of the gross territory product in 1964/65, compared with 43 per cent, in 1960/61. • Together with direct expenditure by Australian Government departments in the territory, the Australian Government’s financial contribution to territory development in 1966/67 was SlO7 million, and this year it is estimated at about $l2O million. This represents approximately $5O per head of population —a higher level of outside aid than that received by most other developing countries. However, if the territory’s development is to be speeded up in conformity with the World Bank’s recommendations, there will be need for further increases in the financial aid from outside. • The Government and the territory people realise that local capital is inadequate to meet the requirements of development, and that overseas capital is essential if the territory’s development plans are to be successful. • To make a country attractive to foreign capital, three conditions are of foremost importance—political stability, favourable attitudes to foreign investment and a fast rate of economic growth. All these prerequisites for sound investment can be found in P-NG.

Investment attitudes Mr. Rich said there appeared to “be no reason why this climate (of stable politics) should not continue future”, and he added: “The attitudes of the indigenous people to foreign investment have been free of the extremes evident in some other newly developed nations. There is a growing awareness among indigenes of the benefits flowing from economic development and of the need to attract overseas capital to step up the development process.

“This awareness was recently demonstrated by the Development Capital Guarantee Declaration, which was adopted by the territory House of Assembly in September, 1966. . . .

I would like to quote it in full: “This House, recognising that the economic development of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea is dependent upon the steady inflow of outside capital, and, representing the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, determines that such inflow shall be encouraged for the benefit of the territory and its peoples and invites and welcomes capital investment for developmental purposes and guarantees to the world that expatriate capital invested in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea for establishment of new industries, or the development of existing industries, shall not be subject to expropriation, nor to discriminatory taxation or other like levies, nor to oppressive trading legislation, nor to unreasonable limitations on its repatriation, and solemnly charges future parliaments of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea with the obligation not to legislate in a manner inconsistent with this declaration unless that posed legislation has support of the majority of the electors of the territory expressed by a referendum, and resolves that this resolution, which shall be transmitted to the United Nations Organisation and to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, shall be known as the Development Capital Guarantee Declaration.”

Joint ventures Mr. Rich said no restrictions were imposed in the territory on the payment of dividends or the repatriation of capital overseas.

He stressed, however, that the New Guinea Administration was also aware of the need for joint ventures with the New Guinea people, to avoid future trouble should all major investments be controlled by expatriate and overseas capital. The Government was trying to encourage local participation in development projects financed by overseas capital, particularly development of natural resources.

Since the present ability of the New Guineans to take part in major projects was limited, the Government had sought local participation in large-scale investments by taking up a share of equity on behalf of the territory people, to be disposed to them later when their savings had increased sufficiently, or as a future Mr. Rich. 42 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

itory government might deterle.

"he Administration was a partner a forestry venture, an oil palm ustry and had an option of 20 cent, interest in Conzinc’s jgainville copper project, rtr. Rich said most of the private estment in P-NG at present came m Australia. The UK was now second largest source of overseas lital, and there were also investnts from Japan, Malaysia, North lerica and Europe, but in his view, orth America, particularly the A, holds out the best prospects a potential source of investment ids”.

Hie territory’s proximity to Auslian and South-East Asian markets »vided good opportunities for icrican capital, and he understood it American investment there uld not be subject to the interest lalisation tax, which applied to estments in more developed jntries.

World bank decisions In outlining some of the strong ints of the territory’s developing momy, Mr, Rich said many of the commendations of the World Bank ssion which visited the territory 1963 had already been implemted, including; a Papua and New Guinea Development Bank; the appointment of an economic adviser with a small professional staff; the Pioneer Tax Incentives Ordinance 1965 —to encourage secondary industry; a Tourism Board to promote tourism; • a Harbours Board and a Coordinator of Transport; • recruitment and training of local teachers; • setting of salary levels in the Public Service in line with living standards and costs in the territory.

Opportunities listed Mr. Rich told the American businessmen that a five-year development plan based on the mission’s report was being prepared, and included proposals to increase production of major agricultural commodities by 80 per cent, and double the value of exports of all territory products. There were also plans to treble log production and the value of timber exports between 1965 and 1972.

A further mission had visited the territory this year to review progress since 1964 and examine ways of financing development. New projects being considered included a comprehensive transport survey of the territory by the UN, a telecommunications scheme, agriculture and livestock schemes and development of the hydro-electric potential of the Upper Ramu River.

Discussing investment opportunities in detail Mr. Rich said the main ones were in primary industry and mineral exploration and development. The territory’s vast timber resources as yet were little developed, and the territory could become a major exporter im the Asian Pacific region.

The availability of concession areas, low taxation rates and the stable political climate made it one of the most attractive timber investment areas in the South Pacific.

In agriculture both tea and oil palm offered good investment, and about 10 million acres of natural grasslands were suitable for cattle raising.

On mineral exploration. Mr. Rich said that at June 30 this year, 19 prospecting authorities were in force and a further 17 applications were being considered. Much interest had been aroused by the discovery of low grade copra on Bougainville by Conzinc Riotinto, and present indications were that within a few years after mining had started mineral exports from Bougainville would be worth about $5O million, which was about equivalent to total territory exports in 1965/66.

Other prospects now being investigated included: • A gold-silver mineral lode on Misima Island, Papua—companies involved are Pacific Island Mines Ltd. (of Australia) and Cultus Exploration Ltd. (of Canada); • A low-grade copper deposit at Worangoi in New Britain (American Metal Refining Co. Ltd., have an interest); • A copper prospect near Bundi in the Eastern Highlands of New (Continued on p. 146) After years of comparatively little change, the Port Moresby business section is now on the move. This photograph (taken in September from Paga Hill by James Anderson) shows the wharf at left, the framework of the new Reserve Bank building in the foreground, and in the background at right, the almost-completed multi-storey ANG House, the territory's tallest. 43 • ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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• The mid-Pacific phosphate island of Nauru, only 5,263 acres in area, has achieved its independence. It will now have to solve for itself the problem of how to rehabilitate its worked out phosphate lands. One-third of the island has so far been destroyed, and all but the circular green coastal strip will be destroyed in the next 30 years as the deep phosphate deposits are removed, leaving only coral pinnacles. Much of the island's centre is already like a moonscape, and nothing lives there. The Nauruans may bulldoze some of the coral flat and build an international airport to replace the present grass strip on the valuable coastal fringe. In PIM's own aerial picture above, the darker areas in the background are worked-out weathered pinnacles; the lighter area in the centre is currently being worked by draglines, and in the foreground is soil overburden carrying vegetation, to be removed when that area is worked. ...MOONSCAPE

travel The Happy Solomons AS part of a campaign to attract more tourists to the Solomons the Honiara Chamber of Commerce has published the BSIP’s first trave: brochure in colour.

The brochure promotes the Solomons as “The Happy Isles”, a sharp contrast with such terms as ‘The Cannibal Isles” and “Savage Solomons”, which were in current use a good deal less than a century ago when humar feasts, blackbirding and murders were the order of the day.

There’s nothing savage about the Solomons today, according to the brochure.

They’re “a string of tropical islands in the sparkling Coral Sea” with “a happy friendly people” and “youngsters shyly peeping from the village school. . .”

It’s a “wonderful world to explore.’ 1 Honiara’s small size and relative isolation from major air and shipping routes in the South Pacific are pros, not cons, the brochure says, because these two factors add to the “serene enchantment of the Solomon Islands” and make a “unique and off-thebeaten-track holiday.” The brochure contains valuable facts, about such things as passports, visas, vaccinations, clothing, currency, accommodation, transport and shopping.

Prom November, some 20 American tourists are scheduled to visit Guadalcanal each month as part of a three-month South Pacific tour from San Francisco to San Francisco, via New Zealand, Australia, Papua-New Guinea, the Solomons, Fiji and Tahiti.' Topless fashions are disappearing, but the old way of life is still to be seen at Langa Langa Lagoon, Malaita (below). 48 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Friendly, Nickel-Happy New Caledonia

Doubles Its Tourist Quota

By Judy Tudor

New Caledonia, where the country and the economy is nickel-happy right now, is also getting ts quota of Pacific tourists. The local Office du Tourisme expects that by the end of December, he year of 1967 will have produced 14,000 visitors —just twice as many as in 1966. r ery few of these paying omers are French —about 40 per L are Australian, 40 per cent. v Zealand, and 20 per cent. North erican. Some, no doubt, are lured e because it is an island on the ific circuit; most of those from tralia and New Zealand because s French and different—because imea is not Pacific Islands ich. as in Papeete; but French ich, as in Mediterranean, he similarities—such as the preunantly Australian scenery, a lar colonial background and out- :—they are willing to overlook lo not understand: If 95 per cent, visitors don’t speak French, then at 95 per cent, of the New Caleians don’t speak English, either, i linguistic hiatus makes no irence to the friendliness, and laps it even enhances it. igger and better hotels, more and sr air-services that give the eller a variety of return routes , in the future, probably attract e Americans. But right now it is a reasonably Australasian pree.

Three popular hotels he three most patronised tourist Is in Noumea, in that order of e, are the Noumea, on the Baie Citrons, the Nouvata at Anse i, and the Chateau Royal a few dred yards further along, on >nin Point. The Noumea grew of what originally was a club; Nouvata seems to be a developt of what was once known (and is) as The Bungalows; but the teau Royal is architect-designed, the picked position of all Noumea :1s right on Anse Vata beach, is ounded by green lawns, gardens, aresque coconut trees and two idfather banyan trees, opened about 15 months ago for the first months of its life ;ed as though it could turn out be a very expensive blue-tiled :e elephant. In more recent iths UTA has gone into partnerwith the private company that s it (40 per cent, by US interests. . 1 w fife mr I B/ CB w BJ' M. 60 per cent, by local and French interests). UTA, or its hotel subsidiary, runs it and it is believed now to be financially off the ground.

As well as glazed, blue-tile roof, marble floors, wedgwood-blue or cream carpets, crystal chandeliers and Louis XV furniture (not to say air-conditioning and a heated swimming pool), the original publicity promised that it would be a centre of French art and culture, including wine tasting in a “wine cave” and lessons in the French language.

Perhaps the new management has different ideas. When I spent four days there in August, lessons in French culture or the French language seemed to be conspicuously absent and, judging by the expression on the one small girl I saw trying the swimming pool, the heat had been turned off there too. ■ i LOVGiy TOOmS Nonetheless, I liked my gold-andwhite room with its neat bathroom; the quietness; the sun on the beach where, as it happened, I never had time to sit; and, despite the August chilliness, the marble-halls and their chandeliers. Furthermore, I imagine that a high proportion of the things that did not tickle my fancy can be attributed to the fact that someone alone, working to a tight business schedule, sees things in a different Poolside—Nouvata Hotel. 49 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

light to that of a member of a party in Noumea to have fun.

But a few more smiling faces on the staff side would be an asset.

The small Melanesian who hauls around the baggage seems the only one unaffected by the decor; the rest are polite and chilly; or brisk and efficient, or withdrawn and preoccupied with large sheets of paper which they are perpetually conning over. Or so it seemed to me.

Hong Kong waiters Outside the sun shines on the translucent green-blue of the sea and occasionally you have an old nostalgia for a fat Tahitian vahine waitress who will collapse into a chair, put her feet up and tell you, over your pamplemousse, that they are killing her.

But the opulent Chateau Royal restaurant is operated by a dozen Chinese waiters recruited in Hong Kong whose French is non-existent and their English sketchy. The menu is table d’hote and dinner costs 450 francs, which under the circumstances is not outrageous if you can accommodate all that is available.

But even under the happiest circumstances, even at Chateau Royal prices, I rarely feel like eating 450 francs worth of food in one sitting.

My Chinese waiter is no help in sorting anything out. I order sc and something that looks reasona familiar and then bow out, feel frustrated—mostly, I think, by French couple at the next table w had been there when I arrived £ had gnawed doggedly and wordles through five separate courses £ look good for a couple more.

During the day there is a sna bar down on the beach-side. The in the mornings, one may have r< and coffee, or even, if given to si things, bacon and eggs; and at nc an excellent buffet lunch. But if ) have any ideas of sneaking hi from work about 8 p.m. and hav a quiet sandwich and a beer th while you look out across the moi lit harbour, you can perish thought. The snack-bar closes ab 5 p.m., evidently with the idea nipping just such intentions in bud and forcing customers into restaurant.

Where else do you eat?

This is not, of course, peculiar the Chateau Royal. Proprietors hotels all the way from Korotc and Nadi, Fiji, to Honolulu hav« mortal fear of customers who live buns and tea in the snack-bar wl they should be ordering caviare £ champagne in the restaurant, £ they metaphorically turn their fa and physically shut the doors firr against this atrocious tendency on part of guests.

In Honolulu it does not mat very much—within a few yards any given spot there are dozens eateries. But in the South Pac • The Chateau Royal and its beach Everyone in Noumea, well-heeled tourist and local Melanesian alike, patronise the mini-buses which are fast, frequent and, as things go in Noumea, cheap. Fares any point are a flat 15 francs. They are individually owned and rigidly control and inspected by the authorities. City terminal (pictured) is in "Coconut Square" the city centre.

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there are frequently miles betwec hotels, and usually no alternatives eating where you happen to 1 sleeping.

However, the Chateau Royal h: further shots in its armoury. For tl entertainment of its guests it h dinner-dances—perhaps two a we< —when the food is special (such Cantonese).

Now, there are times in one’s li when one wants neither to go to dinner-dance nor eat Cantonese foo but under the circumstances her there are but two alternatives: order a taxi and go look for som thing else, elsewhere in the town; avail oneself of room-service.

There may be people who fe that sitting crouched on a Louis X chair over a low, low Louis X coffee table, at 8.30 p.m., trying deal with (a) sweet-corn soup, (1 an omelette which is being rapid air-conditioned; and (c) tea th tastes of jasmine flowers, is exoi and really living-it-up, but I ji don’t happen to be one of tho people.

I come of a long line Presbyterian Macdonalds who, wh: they may not have regarded eatii in bedrooms as immoral, certain regarded it as lacking in stand] and something to be indulged in on in extremis.

Expansion plans Part of the Chateau Royal’s initi trouble stemmed from the fact th it had too few rooms to support t] overhead on the rest of the establis ment. It is now planned to add 1; more rooms to the existing 78 and, this eventuates, and the compai can find the extra staff (not easy New Caledonia) it could go a loi way towards fulfilling those ear publicity promises.

Meantime, there are other tour expansion plans. Intercontinental, Pan-American subsidiary, has be< negotiating for a site either at An Vata or Baie des Citrons, where can build a 300-room hotel; bo Nouvata and Noumea hotels wa to add more rooms; and a direct of the Club Mediterranee has r cently visited New Caledonia wi the idea of building at Bourail on the Isle of Pines, Club Mediterranee is a chain “clubs” rather than hotels and w established originally around t] Mediterraneaan to give Europea: what euphemistically was describ< 52 travel NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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an out-of-door, South Sea islandpe holiday. As an extension of the )tion, a club was established on oorea, French Polynesia, in 1962, give Europeans a package-deal ok at the real thing; and since •66 a similar package deal of two seks has been offered at the same ah to Americans.

The deal includes air-fares, all msport, food, living and everything at goes with a get-away-from-it >liday except the liquor drunk at e bar.

The watch-word is “relax” and part the therapy is to wear bikinis or pareu, park your outer-world oney in the front office and wear string of shells instead —which you e supposed to use to barter for ose items not already covered in e package.

There is no reason to believe that tunger Australians and New alanders would not be happy to ke part in such whimsies too, if s price were not too steep. A New dedonia Club Mediterranee would obably do very well.

To help tourism along, the New dedonian Government, in co-operam with airlines and hotels, plans a untry club at Dumbea, a few miles it of Noumea, with an 18-hole golf urse, bowling greens, swimming iols and horse-riding, and has iened a small hotel-school where it hoped to train some of the staff gently needed by the country’s owing number of'hotels.

But although tourism is on the ove it is unlikely that it will ever as dominant in the local scene as, r example, in Fiji and Tahiti, and is could very well be its enduring arm.

Someone said to me in Noumea cently that you could scrape the

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hole island of New Caledonia down , sea level, and put it through a recessing plant, and that virtually /ery cubic yard would produce >me valuable mineral. This is so ;arly correct it doesn’t matter.

For one thing, New Caledonia has ic largest reserves of nickel ore in ie Western world and as well as ic present Nickel Co. that is response for 98 per cent, of the local :onomy, it soon should have another -International Nickel—which will ;e a chemical process to deal with wer grade ore. There is enough ore sight for both companies for the jxt 200 years.

All this being so, it is likely that urism will never be more than an teresting ornament to the New aledonian economy. With all due spect to those Pacific territories at are trying to get into the tourist t to give their people a “better ay of life”—that is where I think I tourist industries ought to remain. l NEW tourist hotel, fronting L on celebrated Coconut Square, is opened in Noumea. It is the ew Orleans, a refurbished version the historic Hotel de France, lich PlM’s Noumea correspondent ed Dunn says was “once the ►isiest dump in town”.

“The Hotel de France,” he says, fas famous for the fights that curred there every Saturday night, len clients, mostly Melanesians, ;pped into Coconut Square to settle ;ir differences.

“The building is easily one of the lest in New Caledonia, and, as the Dtel de France, it figured in many ivel books in the old days.

“Over the last 20 years, the busiss fell into disrepute and in the it few years it became an ill-famed /e. It caused considerable annoyce to the Catholic sisters who run j girls’ school across the way.

“The good sisters’ dormitory Dked down on the Saturday night ings-on and they must be relieved know that the establishment is w a tourist hotel where at least a nblance of respectability will have be observed.”

The New Orleans has 17 rooms d can accommodate 33 to 35 ests. Its tariffs are extraordinarily v for Noumea—3so to 450 francs A 3.50 to $A4.50) per day.

A bar, snack bar and reception ulities are on the ground floor. 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967 travel

Chic entrant Lovely West Samoan-born Georgina Pritchard, a descendant of George Pritchard —a controversial figure in the South Pacific in the mid 19th century will represent Air New Zealand at this year’s International Air Hostess Quest at Surfers Paradise, Queensland, in November.

Miss Pritchard, 22, lived in Apia until the age of 13 when her family moved to Auckland. She finished her education in New Zealand and has lived there since, working first as a nurse and then for the past year, as an air hostess with Air-NZ.

The South Pacific is her “beat” and she travels to Nadi, Pago Pago, Noumea, Sydney and Honolulu regularly.

George Pritchard, Miss Pritchard’s great, great-grandfather, arrived in Tahiti as a London Missionary Society appointee in 1825. In 1837 he was appointed consul for the Society Islands and the Samoan Islands.

The French deported him from Tahiti in 1844 for opposing French protection over Tahiti and he was transferred to Apia as British consul there.

He lived in Samoa for many years.

Tourism seen as W. Samoa's biggest future money-earner From R. F. RANKIN in Apia Most people in Apia now agree with Western Samoa’s Director of Economic Development, Mr. A. Gerakas, that tourism will probably be the country’s biggest single moneyearner by 1970, bringing in an income of SWS 1,400,000 or more.

The number of tourists has been increasing dramatically in recent months. In the first eight months of this year, the number of Americans was up to 1,713 (an increase of 75 per cent, over the same period last year), and the number of New Zealanders rose to 1,021, an increase of 25 per cent.

The fact that tourism brings in cash without the labour of digging, planting and clearing required by agriculture gives it strong appeal.

And what with the vagaries of the overseas market and the setbacks of crop diseases and last year’s hurricane, the bitter opposition of Samoan traditionalist politicians towards the disruptive influence of tourists has given way to a grudging acceptance of them.

So far both Government and private enterprise appear to be answering the challenge of this new industry well.

Association formed Under the expert hands of Mr.

Gerakas, the Economic Development Department succeeded in getting legislators to agree to Western Samoa’s joining PATA; the department dreamed up the very successful Heart of Polynesia Conference, which was held in Apia at the end of May and was co-sponsored by American Samoa and Tonga; and during the rest of this year the department is to spend $lO,OOO on brochures and publicity aimed at the North American market.

Meanwhile, businessmen and others interested in tourism have decided to form the Western Samoa Travel and Holiday Organisation.

The aims of the association are to promote and maintain tourist traffic to and within Western Samoa; to guard the interests of tourists when visiting Samoa; to encourage the improvement and development of travel and allied facilities for the service of tourists within Western Samoa; and to protect the legitimate interests of members of the association and the industry in general.

A steering committee set up to draw up a constitution and report back in October included Mrs. Billy Retzlaff and Messrs. I, Rumsey, O.

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Western Samoa’s tourist facilities are now almost unrecognisable by comparison with what they were a year ago.

Aggie Grey’s hotel has been substantially enlarged, and the service, food and entertainment there invariably draw praise from guests.

Hazards for tourists Where not so long ago, all a visitor could do was to hire a Gold Star taxi for a trip, now there are three or four operators in the tourist business who can keep a tourist occupied with special trips by taxi or mini-bus for days on end.

There are daily sightseeing tours by comfortable bus with skilled and beautiful guides.

There is a model village especially constructed for the tourist not far from the Prime Minister’s residence at Lepea.

And for those who really want to savour island life, one operator can arrange trips by jautasi (a long boat rowed by 30 or more oarsmen) to Manono, a small but lovely island within the reef at the western end of Opolu. Manono is the nearest thing to a South Seas paradise that anyone could find.

What the development of tourism means to the average villager is still hard to say.

Small boys still occasionally throw stones at passing vehicles; or get laughs by insulting amiable middleaged Americans in a language they do not understand.

Youths still sometimes put the squeeze on small parties they have accompanied up Mt. Vaea to Steven- Miss Pritchard with some lively Air New Zealand cargo —day-old chicks. 56 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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jn’s tomb; and tourists’ sunglasses r purses sometimes disappear from le beach.

But all this is bad manners —not lalice, as some who have suffered isult or loss would have others besve.

Most villagers seem to enjoy havig visitors and are more concerned ; their ability to provide proper aspitality than with the threat of ien culture to their customs and aditions.

Prime Minister Mataafa summed p the official Samoan view at the sitor conference in May. He said lat while Samoan leaders had been inscious for some time of the Dtential of the tourist industry, they ave also been concerned “at the feet a full-scale promotion of it ould have on the social structure.

Successful co-existence “We are now satisfied that, with oper organisation and control, the vo can co-exist successfully, and i fact, give each other strength,” he Ided.

Samoa, then, is committed to the icouragement of the tourist injstry under close government introl, and there is little doubt that le industry will flourish and bring ■osperity to many.

There is little doubt also that in lother 10 years or so, the people [ the bustling metropolis of Apia ill look back with longing to the ays when people had less money i their pockets but when life was lore relaxed and perhaps happier.

But such is the price of progress.

As UN educationist Dr. Chester Williams said a few years ago, the /erage Samoan villager, with his eative potential virtually untapped, living the life of a mere vegeible. But whether a wage slave ill be happier than a vegetable is aybody’s guess. kTORFOLK Island’s airport will soon be able to take night indings. A team of Australian department of Civil Aviation techicians and linesmen have installed ixiway lights and an illuminated pproach landing system. These lould enable the Qantas and Air lew Zealand planes to have more exible schedules than in the past. 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967 travel

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HE Fiji tourist people certainly have no objection to the fares such—but to the period in which V apply.

Under the new arrangement operat- ; from last April the return mrsion fare from Australia to Fiji about 30 per cent, less than the iinary return fare. However, it ;s not apply between April 1 and ly 31, and between August 22 1 October 22.

Unfortunately Australian school lidays occur in this second period, 1 under the old arrangements :ursion fares applied and many nilies from Australia spent a week two in Fiji during August and )tember.

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August and September are Fiji’s ik months for tourists and the ony has in the past had more )ple visiting it then than at ristmas. Now the set-up could reversed.

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riods were introducd to suit holiyers from the United States, rather in from Australia or New Zealand, ith more Australians and New alanders visiting Fiji than Amerins it is hard to see why the nericans should have holiday time jference over those “Down Under”.

The simplest solution is to have cursion fares all year round —an ;a opposed by most of the transcific airlines. >APUA-NEW GUINEA’S three scheduled airlines—Ansett-MAL, LA and Papuan Airlines Pty. Ltd. flew 9,121,554 short ton miles ring 1966, actually 189,071 miles ;s than in 1965. This is stated in 2 Australian Department of Civil nation’s Report for 1966-67, which ntains some interesting statistics on • travel in the territory during 1966. though the report doesn’t say it, ison for the drop on mileage apars to be due to increased use of ad transport in the Highlands.

More passengers arrived at Lae an Port Moresby, and Madang ndled the greatest amount of ught and the biggest amount of craft movements.

Australia’s overseas airline, Qantas, its 1966-67 report, announced its st-ever 1055—51,510,130 —caused a 28-day strike by the company’s ots last November and December 7M, Jan. p. 133).

IHE Outrigger, a modern threestorey motel in Van a m a escent, about a mile from Port oresby’s main business centre, will en about November 14.

Built by New Guinea Motels Pty. d. which is a local syndicate of isinessmen, the motel contains 36 in-bed units, all air-conditioned th separate bathrooms, refrigerators id telephones.

Tariff will be about $9 per person r bed and breakfast or $l6 double, anager of the motel is an old New uinea hand, Mrs. L. E. Barclayillar.

IHE Hotel Kerema, in the Gulf - of Papua, opened in early :tober with 15 beds, lounge and ning rooms and a 50 ft long bar. le hotel licensee is Mr. H. G. llson, The Gulf of Papua is one ; the more primitive off-the-beaten ack areas of P-NG and hasn’t yet weloped tourism. Most visitors are ere on business.

Small, fast jets give a new look to Islands air routes By a staff writer Regular air services between several South Pacific territories took on a modern look in September and October with the appearance at local airports of two small, fast jets.

The aircraft —a British Hawker Siddeley 748 turboprop 40-seater for Fiji Airways, and a French-built 76passenger Caravelle jet for UTA Air France both cut hours from previous scheduled times and carried over four times as many passengers as before.

These fast, modern jets commuting between island groups should encourage more visitors to see more of the South Pacific than they get by passing through Nadi or Tahiti airports. Up to now the only jets in the South Pacific have been on the trunk routes.

The travel industry expects that more tour groups or charter operators will take advantage of the new equipment and see Islands territories that have no international airports.

Within a month, the Fiji Airways 748 will be flying regularly from Suva to the GEIC, the Solomons, the New Hebrides, Western Samoa and Tonga. In the new year the 748 could be going through Tarawa in the GEIC to the Marshall Islands, providing a direct Fiji link with Guam, via the GEIC and the United States Trust Territory.

Noumea-Vila-Tahiti UTA’s bigger Caravelle jets started twice weekly services from Noumea to Vila on September 15, and a Noumea - Vila - Tahiti return flight service by Caravelle, to link France’s South Pacific interests, is not so very far off.

On its first two flights to Vila and Honiara from Suva in October, the shiny $1 million-plus 748 carried 16 passengers. The Heron, which it replaced, could carry only eight passengers on this run.

A big crowd turned out to see the 748’s landing at Vila’s Bauerfield airport on September 20 for the first time. In the afternoon, several distinguished passengers, including the French Resident Commissioner, Mr.

J. Mouridan, went for a demonstration flight around Efate.

Five days later, it was the Caravelle’s turn, and it took over the Noumea-Vila run from the aged DC4 as from that date. On September 29 the Caravelle arrived again from Noumea and took both Resident Commissioners on a flight.

Champagne was served.

The 748 had its most colourful reception when it arrived on a proving flight at Tonga from Nadi on October 9. It flew via Pago Pago, American Samoa, and picked up Tonga’s first group of 39 Peace Corps volunteers.

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An hour after landing, King Taufa’ahau was the first passenger aboard for a special flight over Tongatapu.

On November 8 the 748 will make General manager of Fiji Airways, Captain A. J. R. Duffield. 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER. 1967 travel

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'he plane’s first regular flight to GEIC was expected at Tarawa October 22. It will return to Fiji next day and from then on run :nightly.

'he first 748 services from Fiji to stern Samoa were to have started October 28, but the Samoan ition authorities made it known ut a month earlier that Apia’s solo airstrip was still not up to idard to handle the new plane, lowever, it was thought in avia- [ circles that there might be someig more to it than that—that Air v Zealand, a shareholder in stern Samoa’s Polynesian Airlines lited, might want its yet-to-bevered DC4 operating before the appears on the Samoan scene.

Ir. Frank Nicol, Fiji Airways imercial manager, told PIM the two 748 Suva-Honiara flights “very promising” loadings, and yard bookings were “very enraging”. he jet was also available for ■ter, providing charter times did clash with regular services. Mr. hoi said he expected many ericans would fly with the 748 Honiara and then catch TAA ker Friendships through Rabaul New Guinea and on to Port •esby. .t Vila, the 748 also linked up i modern aircraft—the Caravelles tid travellers now had a fast ifortable ride from Suva to ney, via Vila and Noumea, if ’ wanted to see two extra terrijs before arriving in Australia, iji Airways is owned by four :ies—Qantas, BOAC, Air New land and the Fiji Government— each has an equal share.

However, since 1958 Qantas have managed and virtually run the show with their own managers and maintenance men.

Qantas’ 1966-67 report says that Fiji Airways had a loss of £F71,605 for the year ended March 31, 1966.

Part of the loss was attributed to increased costs of operating the Heron aircraft—two of which will be replaced by the 748.

When Fiji Airways’ results to March this year are revealed in December they are expected to show a small profit.

While the arrival of the 748 is too late to influence these results, its operations should put the airline’s results well into profitability for 1967-68.

Fiji Airways Ltd. was first set up in late 1932 by Guinea Airways Ltd., of Lae, NG. However it lasted only a year.

Pioneer Australian navigator, the late Harold Gatty, formed the present airline as his private company in September, 1951, A Dragon Rapide aircraft connected Suva with Nadi and Lautoka.

This later extended to Labasa, on Vanua Levu.

With the aid of a considerable tax subsidy from the Fiji Government, Gatty made a tidy profit for six years. Gatty died in 1957 and his wife sold to Qantas. Qantas put in its own manager and replaced the De Havilland Drover fleet with Heron aircraft.

Domestic services were extended to Savusavu on Vanua Levu, and to Matei and Ura on Taveuni.

In the 1960’s regional services to other territories began and today the airline services the GEIC, the Solomons, the New Hebrides, Western Samoa and Tonga besides Fiji, BOAC and Air New Zealand bought into the company in January, 1960. The Fiji Government followed suit in March, 1965.

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CAPTAIN J. N. Weir, BOAC’s manager, South-West Pacific, for the past eight years, will retire at the end of this year and be replaced by Mr. Sidney Hildrew, at present BOAC’s manager for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, based in Beirut.

In Suva in October the interior of Fiji Airways' HS748 is inspected by (from left) Mrs, D. Thorpe, Mrs. G. Ganley and Ratu David Toganivalu, MLC.

UTA's Caravelle jet shows off its modern lines at Vila's Bauerfield in September after a 45 minute flight from Noumea. 63 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967 (ravel

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Another view on West Samoa's post-war development to independence A letter from SIR GUY POWLES Sir, —I read with considerable interest your review of Professor Davidson’s Samoa Mo Samoa. I had already read the book, and been greatly impressed by it. Your review, however, has prompted me to suggest that Professor Davidson’s account of Samoa’s post-war development to independence should not be accepted as fully balanced and authoritative history.

THINK he would agree with this suggestion, because he makes it ir in his introduction that his own ticipation in some of these events I no doubt affected his presentai, and he records his sincere hope t others would write their own :rpretation of these years, le says, as you quote in your iew, “history can only be written )ugh the process of progressive roximation”. I myself hope, once im released from the cares of ce, to attempt to play a part in historical process and to proe my own account of this period, a default of being able to make extensive contribution to the ject at this stage, I hope you will nit me to use your columns to :e a few broad comments which n my point of view are necessary )rder to put the Samoan scene in ipective now that the Davidson k has come out. My comments inadequately prepared, are by no ms a review of what is a major arical work, and are jotted down hat he who runs may read, think that Professor Davidson ild have written two books—the being a history covering Samoa to 1947, and the second being own personal account of what calls his “passionate partisanship” be Samoan scene after that date. history as autobiography s to the history itself one can i this only with the greatest sure, appreciation, and regret, isure because of the graceful :, appreciation because of the Hence of the sheer historical petence, and regret because it not available earlier, when it Id have been an invaluable bandit for the young administrator of early post-war years, ut, when history becomes autoraphy, the narrative inevitably hasises those events in which the sr personally took part or in ;h he was particularly interested, s Professor Davidson pays in- Sir Guy Powles, who until 1960 was NZ High Commissioner of Western Samoa, here comments on Prof. J. W. Davidson’s book on the emergence of Western Samoa, “Samoa mo Samoa”, which was reviewed in July PIM (p. 26).

Sir Guy now lives in Wellington, and is New Zealand’s first Ombudsman, but his interesting comments on a phase of Western Samoan history in which he himself played a prominent part are made in his personal capacity. sufficient attention to the first Constitutional Convention, at which he was not present, and overplays the second, at which he was.

He devotes much space to local government, in which he was keenly interested. His coverage of economic and social affairs is inadequate, while his study of local Samoan politics is intimate and excellent. Even here he misses the flavour of those politically fruitful years of 1951 to 1958, when he was not there.

Professor Davidson stresses the inadequacies of the New Zealand public servants in Samoa in such a way that his book appears to you [PIM’s reviewer, Stuart Inder] to show “how badly Samoa suffered at the hands of brash and uncouth New Zealand officials over a great many years”.

I cannot help feeling that this emphasis, both his and yours, is unfortunate, and does grave injustice to a group of men, the great majority of whom were honestly and loyally devoted to the cause and service of Western Samoa. I have had the opportunity of having some experience of colonial administrations, and I am quite sure that the New Zealand officers in Western Samoa were good representatives of a historical period.

If they were ill-trained and illprepared, which some of them were, it was not their fault. The fault lay with policies and attitudes at the political and governmental level in New Zealand, and the men in Samoa were just the instruments of a policy with which they had to do their best.

It was not such a bad best—judging by results, especially if one looks round the world today.

Not a classical situation I think also that Professor Davidson fails to indicate that this was not a classic colonial situation.

In fact, the constitutional arrangements under which Samoa operated after the passing of the 1947 Amendment Act were unique, indeed almost bizarre.

The legislature, which had full control of the public revenues, had an unofficial majority. The Public Service came (in 1949) under the control of an authority who was quite literally and legally responsible to no one. The High Commissioner whose acknowledged, perhaps selfimposed, task was to develop Samoa to self-government or independence, had no powers whatever other than a veto.

In retrospect the whole exercise seems to have been one of most prolonged and, at times, exhausting persuasion. That important results were achieved was due largely to the basic commonsense and intelligence of the Samoan leaders and people, but the steady unremitting co-operation of the New Zealand officers provided an essential element.

In another respect, too, the Samoan situation was special.

Western Samoa was a Trust Territory of the United Nations, and the business of annually reporting on and debating the territory’s progress in the Trusteeship Council, together with the triennial visiting missions, had a profound effect on New 65 CIPIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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Lautoka, P.O. Box 366 Devoted Public Service ealand policy. This needs more :udy than Professor Davidson has iven it.

It would be interesting to argue le thesis that if Samoa had not een a trust territory she would not ave achieved independence when ad how she did. Samoa’s post-war istory was developed from disassions and arguments in New brk, Wellington and Vailima, as ell as in Apia and the rest of amoa, whereas Professor Davidson ancentrates very much on the last vo.

I agree with PIM that the Samoan ;sires and attitude were not always > clear as Professor Davidson’s xount implies—nor does he make lequate allowance for the strong id understandable strain of conrvatism in Samoan thinking.

His much loved scheme for district id village government, upon which ; spent much time, was really pre- :nted from coming to fruition by e opposition of the Samoan leaders the centre. Economic development the pace which Professor Davidson >pears to think warranted was premted by Samoan opposition to any hemes involving loan finance.

Public servants defended Professor Davidson is justly critical the Public Service structure, but is should not lead to criticism of e individuals working under it. lere were many cases of selfless id devoted service on the part of ;w Zealand officers without which is difficult to see how much of e progress could have been made.

His criticism of the inadequate lining schemes in the Public Service wholly valid, but this was due the extraordinary fact that no one, it even the New Zealand Cabinet, d authority to direct the Public rvice Commissioner in Samoa to 1 anything about it.

Professor Davidson also rightly iticises the tensions that arose in s early days of the Samoan »islature over the position and tions of the official members, but overlooks the difficulties of havg to attempt to govern without a ajority in the legislature, when 2 legislature had absolute control the purse strings.

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French Polynesia’s champion sprinter John Bourne, who won the 200 metres race in 22.4 sec. at the Second South Pacific Games in Noumea last December, looks as if he will be even harder to beat at the next Games in Port Moresby in 1969.

AFTER establishing a French Polynesian record of 10.5 sec. foi the 100 metres on April 26, Bourne clipped a tenth of a second off it al a sports meeting in Tahiti on September 15. This makes his best time two-tenths of a second better that the South Pacific Games record foi the event, which was established bj J. Pothin, of New Caledonia, in Suv£ in 1963.

Bourne’s best time for 200 metre: (the French Polynesian record) i: also better than the Games recorc of 22.0 sec. established by Bruce Richter, of Papua-New Guinea, ir one of the semi-finals in Suva it 1963. Bourne’s best time, 21.8 sec. was set on April 26.

Another French Polynesian recorc that he holds is 50.5 sec. for the 400 metres, established on July 7, This however, is well below the Games record of 49.7 sec. set by P-NG’s C. Harrison in Suva in 1963.

In mid-September, the full list oi athletics records for French Poly nesia, with the record-holders anc dates they were established was: MEN 100 metres J. Bourne 10.45.* -j Sept. 15, 1967. 200 metres J. Bourne 21.85.* April 26, 1967. 400 metres J. Bourne 50.55.

July 7, 1967. 800 metres J. Golaz 2m. 1.75.

July 21, 1963. 1,000 metres J. Cervos 2m. 41.2 s May 31, 1964. 1,500 metres A. Toulliou 4m. 26.2 s June 29, 1963. 3,000 metres M. Faille and J. Guittor 9m. 46.55. Oct. 19, 1966. 5,000 metres J. Guitton —17 m. 15.4 s Nov. 9. 1966. 110 metres hurdles C. Tetaria 15.25.* Aug. 13, 1963. 400 metres hurdles P. Martin 58.55. Nov. 25, 1966.

High jump J. Salmon 1.95 metres (6 ft 5 in.)* April 28, 1965.

Long jump C. Tetaria 7.31 metres (24 ft.)* Dec. 13, 1966.

Triple jump M. Thunot 14.23 metres (46 ft BV2 in.) May 7, 1965.

Pole vault B. Balastre and S. Drollet 4.15 metres (13ft 7Ms in.)* Dec. 10, 1966 and Aug. 18, 1967 respectively. 70 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Shot put J. C. Duaze 13.37 metres 23 ft 10»/ 2 in.) Aug. 29, 1966.

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Hammer J. Deane 38.52 metres 74 ft 8 in.) Nov. 25. 1966. 1 x 100 metres relay Favereau, Mairai, •urne, Tetaria 43.75. Aug. 18, 1963. 1 x 400 metres relay Lichtle, Nouveau, mroy, Martin 3m. 31.35. Nov. 2, 56.

WOMEN 80 metres Y. Temeharo 10.45. iril 19, 1967.

LOO metres D. Chaze —13 s. Nov. 1966.

JOO metres D. Chaze 27.95. Oct. 1966. 400 metres M. Prebault Im. 3.65.

Dec. 11, 1966. 800 metres M. Prebault 2m. 38.55.

Nov. 26, 1966. 80 metres hurdles N. David 12.65.

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High jump M. Hunter 1.47 metres ft 10 in.) May 25, 1966.

Long jump Y. Temeharo 5.10 ;tres (16 ft 9 in.) Dec. 10, 1966.

Shot put M. Tetuaiva 11.17 metres 5 ft 8 in.) Nov. 16, 1966.

Discus C. Maitere 34.52 metres 13 ft 3 in.) Nov. 26, 1966.

Javelin Y. Salmon 36.34 metres 19 ft 3 in.) Nov. 25, 1966.

I x 100 metres relay Tamui, Tefana, laze, Prebault 53.25. Nov. 25, 1966.

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From the Islands Press FOR more than 30 years, Mr.

Paul Miller has made a hobby of taming sand cod, so that they will come to the beach [at Nananu-i-ra, Fiji] and eat out of his hand.

It is a kindly hobby, the fruits of which have given much pleasure to a great many people over the years. So much has been written about the tame fish that they can undoubtedly be counted as one of the colony’s tourist attractions.

But, not for the first time in history, becoming trusting and docile has led to destruction. The tame fish, lying happily in the shallows beside beaches less hospitable than Mr. Miller’s at Nananu-i-ra, have been easy prey to the spears of fishermen from nearby Malake.

So of Mr. Miller’s proteges, which last year numbered more than 25, only one now survives, and it has suffered a spear wound.

It is quite clear that unless the fishermen concerned can be persuaded to leave the tame fish unharmed, or unless some form of protection can be devised, the pleasure which has come from seeing the fish at Nananu-i-ra will be denied to all future visitors to Fiji, and a gracious, if small, feature of life in one part of the colony will be gone.— Editorial in “The Fiji Times”, Suva.

PASSING vessels have left their share of unusual coins [on Pitcairn Island] in the past and one collection viewed recently contains pfenning, rupee, sen, francs, lira, krone, peso, guilder, centimes, and one Isle of Man pound note which was left by Commissioner Cowell on his last visit.

When two heavy, well-sealed ammunition boxes of the new NZ decimal currency arrived on Pitcairn, [there were] a very busy two days making the change-over for both government offices and private citizens. Everyone was keen to see the new money and the general opinion was that it “looked good”. This was not the case with some of the old currency handed in.

Pitcairn has no banking facilities and it was obvious from the condition of some of the notes and coins that some novel and unusual places of safety had been used.

Notes were crumpled, rolled, folded in half (both ways), stapled, pinned, clipped, tied with string, fishing line, cotton, rubber bands, and contained in plastic bags, canvas sacks, cotton sacks, paper bags, tins, cigar boxes, etc.; some were new and uncreased, others fusty and mildewed, long hidden from the light of day, but all were worth their face value and were duly honoured.— News item in “Pitcairn Miscellany” , Pitcairn.

MORE than 500 villagers on Santa Isabel Island (Solomon Islands) had a feast recently— and all the meat came from one giant fish.

The Santa Isabel Islanders said they called the fish a sangarua in their own language, but were unable to identify it further.

They said it was caught with lines and nets and when it was placed on the beach it was so big that a five-year-old boy walked into its mouth without bending. The fish was 16 feet long, six feet wide and more than four feet high according to the description of the islanders.

They said that the mouth of the fish was about four feet by three feet. News item in “South Pacific Post”, Port Moresby.

THE remarks by the Commissioner of Police [of Western Samoa] concerning liquor and clubs confirm a general belief that the liquor situation in this country is infinitely more sane and sensible than the laws purportedly regulating it and which have been openly flouted over the past few years.

The police several years ago. undoubtedly with the sanction of their Minister who is also the Prime Minister, embarked on a bold experiment. They felt that discrimination on the grounds of race and social position was both unfair and illogical.

They believed that the people of Samoa are just as capable of civilised drinking habits as people anywhere else in the world. And anyone who has seen the drunks staggering out on the footpath at six o’clock in any New Zealand city would agree this is so.

A couple of the best clubs in Apia are as good as one would find anywhere in the South Pacific, the behaviour of patrons at all of the numerous clubs is generally very good, home brewing has been eliminated, and generally speaking the police experiment towards educating people to live with liquor has been successful ...

The present policy of easy access to liquor in well-controlled clubs would appear to be the best possible in the circumstances both theoretically and, as results have shown, in reality.

The fact remains, however, that this policy has made a mockery of the law and the sooner the law is brought into line with actuality and the real needs of the country the better it will be for all concerned.— Editorial in “Apia Advertiser”, Apia.

TWO raids were made on vegetable patches this week—both of them on Mrs. Gallie’s property at Middlegate [Norfolk Island].

At least a sugar bag full of vegetables was taken on Monday evening. It was evident that attempts had been made to pull them out but because the soil is so hard at the moment, the miscreants used steel fence posts lying nearby to get at them.

The second raid was made late on Wednestday afternoon.

Mrs. Gallic said: “I would willingly show people how to grow their own vegetables, but this sort of thing does discourage growers who are trying their best to supply the need of the people”.— News item in the “Norfolk Islander”.

HHHE [New Hebrides] Malacological Society would like to remind all shell collectors that it is very important to replace any rocks they turn over, otherwise the eggs and larvae underneath will die and the area will soon be bare of shell life.

Also, it is best not to take large numbers of shells of any one species, however common, because it is very easy to denude the coast of shell life in this way.— Notice in the “British Newsletter”, Vila, New Hebrides.

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De facto marriages a growing Fiji problem From a Suva correspondent There are two Latin words which everybody in Fiji knows, even the illiterate. De facto, meaning, in fact. Those two words signify a way of life in the colony which causes as much family tragedy as alcohol. And social workers are seriously concerned.

DE FACTO has become a euphemism for “living in sin”.

Such alliances number thousands in Fiji. Social workers know about many of them long before the neighbours do. They come to the attention of the general public when the neighbours have to intervene in some sordid beating up, or when the police are brought in and there is a court hearing. Or perhaps the de facto husband deserts his “wife”, who is then unable to support his children.

In court, a woman who might have been assaulted by a drunken man she lives with, invariably tells the magistrate she is married.

“Legally?” asks the experienced magistrate. Then she hesitantly admits that the marriage is not legal and adds, somewhat defiantly, “He is my de facto!” As if this were a sort of near-marriage—as if it were a term denoting respectability.

But courtesy titles give no legal protection, especially in regard to maintenance, and this is one of the big problems of the de facto arrangements.

No legal claims If the woman is prudent enough she can have the man declared the father of the child, so long as she does it within a year if he is a chance acquaintance. Then she can claim maintenance for the child.

But for herself she has no claim.

She must depend entirely on what he is prepared to give her.

If the couple have been living together for more than a year, and it can be proved that the man has supported the child, then a court order can be applied for in respect of any offspring not registered in his name.

But the man can leave her for another, more attractive and younger woman, whenever his fancy takes him. What would normally be ordinary family squabbles could lead to him walking out.

Thus the de facto wife lives in a permanent state of insecurity. She has an unconscious fear of a rival coming on the scene, or of an argument that will go too far.

Misery for children Social workers find that the deserted de facto wife often makes no attempt to bring the man to book because she cannot produce any documents to support legal action.

Even when a maintenance order can be served there may be so little evidence about the man’s whereabouts that the police are unenthusiastic about searching for him.

In the meantime there is great misery for the children.

Fiji social workers are continually campaigning among young women, warning them against living with men who will not or cannot marry them.

They point out that if marriage is possible, then a marriage licence from a registry costs only 10/-, and every woman intending to cohabit with a man permanently should get one in case she should ever need legal protection.

The social workers continually stress that women who have had a child by a man who is not their husband should have him adjudged the father, so they can base a claim for support if needed.

The social workers point out that there is a job to be done here by strong bodies in Fiji such as the churches and social organisations the Red Cross, the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the YWCA. During their contacts these organisations should hammer home repeatedly the dangers of de facto living.

Fiji survey needed The problem can also be met, say the social workers, by an intensive survey of the incidence of de facto marriage in the colony.

Those who are involved closest with the problem say that it has ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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Examples of misery own in recent years because of the eakdown of social sanctions with e growing urbanisation.

In village life, behaviour habits ;re controlled, and in any case egitimate offspring were absorbed to the family.

Poverty, due to low wages, high dng costs and families that are too rge, has caused some parents to ve away their daughters to men 10 will relieve them of the burden supporting them. The daughter, no education, has no earning »wer.

Here are some sordid examples of e misery occasioned by this form de facto marriage. • One father gave away his ughter at 16. When she was 19 is girl had a 2i-year-old retarded ild, plus a two-months-old baby, alf way through her second pregmcy the de facto husband joined s relations overseas.

Since court orders of this kind are »t reciprocal there has been no dress, and the father is now supirting his daughter and her two ildren, together with several other ildren of his own, including a by aged six months. • A beautiful girl given away by r father now has an 18-months- -1 child on her arm, but her de zio husband has legally married a fe of his choice. The young mother a cripple unable to work. She es in a chicken shed, and her rmer “husband” allots her 7/6 a ;ek! • A 16-year-old girl was given by r stepfather to his next door ighbour. Half way through her st pregnancy the de facto husband serted her and she worked for her ing; the baby died at birth. Man d girl lived together again, and dory has since repeated itself actly. • A girl asked a social worker, 10 has already borne many of her oblems, for “permission” to marry man of 40. A check by the social irker revealed that the prospective itor was already married, with four ildren.

And so it goes on.

Fiji’s social workers know only o well that even happy de facto arriages frequently end in hearteak—for instance, following the ath of the “husband” the children’s ritage can be in doubt, since the ather is not legal next-of-kin. Blood lations have a nasty habit of aparing from the sidelines when the tate is to be divided.

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CHE centre, a Red Cross project, was officially opened recently by ady Casey, wife of Australia’s Govrnor-General, Lord Casey.

The idea of building such a centre as born almost four years ago, when [r. Brian Hockings, then generaljcretary of the P-NG Red Cross, icommended that a survey be made ) see how many physically handiipped children there were who might mefit from skilled physiotherapy.

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Children have helped Appropriately, children have had a big hand in making the centre possible.

Australian schoolchildren contributed about $4,500 towards its cost, and a further $3,000 was collected by territory schoolchildren.

In recognition of this effort, the guard of honour drawn up to greet Lady Casey at the official opening was composed entirely of children—3oo of them—Representing all the schools in the Port Moresby area which contributed to the centre’s cost.

Mr. Bob Clarke, the P-NG Red Cross general-secretary, who for much of the time has been the project’s organising power, working quietly in the background, estimates that the final cost of the clinic will be about $29,000. He hopes to go on to bigger things when funds permit. The Red Cross wants to make it into “a complete welfare centre for handicapped people.”

Provision has been built into the design for two more buildings, which will house a centre for handicapped adults, plus a workshop.

The centre at a pinch could now step up its 30 children a week to 50.

Preliminary NG border marked The West Irian-Papua-New Guinea border is now marked.

The second and final stage of demarcation was completed in September by joint Indonesian- Australian survey teams. Six meridian markers were placed on the border in the first stage, which was completed in September, 1966. In the second stage, eight markers were erected.

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TYPEE REVISITED: A trek to Melville’s cannibal valley I It is now more than 120 years since the American novelist Herman Melville, then a young sailor, spent several months among the cannibals of Taipi Valley on Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands, after deserting from a whaling ship. In those days, the valley supported a thriving population. Melville's experiences among the "Typees" provided him with the material for his first book. Today, the Taipi Valley is largely deserted and is seldom visited. Here one of its rare visitors,Australian yachtsman Ken Mills, tells what it is like . . .

By Ken Mills

Herman Melville will live long in the minds of all those who go down to the sea in small ships and no doubt many will recall one of his earlier books, Typee.

This book, first published in 1846, tells of the writer’s adventures as captive of a cannibal tribe who inhabited Taipi-vai, an enchanting valley on the island of Nukahiva, Marquesas.

RECENTLY I visited this remote valley, but unlike Melville, I lew what was on the other side of e Nukahiva plateau. Yet the ivenutre was nonetheless exciting.

It was early morning when I set f to climb the forbidding mountains irrounding the valley of Taiohae, id it was not until the sun was well ftv the zenith that I could look >wn on the tiny white yacht in [uch I had come *° Nukahiva, mg peacefully m the bay far below.

The hardest part of the trek over, continued on across sunburnt lling hills. Here and there a clump pandanus trees broke the monony; a herd of wild cattle grazed i a distant hillside; clouds raced dsc overhead. Some of the clouds emed so close that I imagined I and reach up and grab one of them ±ey were borne westward by the ssh trade wind.

Suddenly my eyes focused on a le of black volcanic rocks just to the left of the track. Closer inspection showed that they were carved, but the carvings were not the doing of some recent passer-by.

They were grotesque faces, with huge gaping mouths and eyes surrounded by crazy concentric circles.

Ancient fortress Although some of the rocks were worn by ages of wind and rain, for the most part they were pretty much as they must have been in the days when the strong Taipi tribe waged war against the weaker tribes of the Haapa and Taiohae valleys.

I was standing on an ancient fortress, a sort of no-man’s land, beyond which no warrior dared trespass without fear of losing his life. Now there was nothing more fierce to be seen than a couple of mountain ponies nudging each other in the shade of a lonely pandanus tree.

As I walked along, the narrow path I passed a group of pae paes (house platforms) which showed that in times gone by many people must have lived on the plateau of Nukahiva, mostly in the depressions between the ridges, and nearer Taipivai than Taiohae valley.

Soon I was half-running, halfsliding down the steep descent into lush Taipi-vai.

A silvery waterfall sparkled and ant-like figures were moving about on the black sand beach where the blue Pacific waves dashed themselves to a foamy death.

Except for the few iron roofs that reflected the waning sunlight, the scene must have been exactly the same as that which Melville saw more than 100 years ago.

Children giggled Possibly many more people roamed the valley floor, maybe he even heard the crying of children.

Once down in the valley, I waded across a swiftly flowing mountain stream which meandered through its centre. People silently stared as I walked along a roadway towards a shop. Children giggled and some even stepped off the path to let me pass.

Then a woman’s voice called: “Attend!”

I spun round to see a middle-aged but well-preserved Polynesian woman hurriedly making her way towards me. “I am Koa Clarke,” she said in French. “Where have you come from?”

“I have walked over from Taiohae Bay after arriving from Tahiti in a yacht,” I replied as well as my poor French would permit. (Over) In Taiohae, the chief port and settlement on Nukuhiva, this "signpost" indicates that the distance to Melville's cannibal valley is 16 kilometres. 85 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

“Well you must come and stay at my house,” she insisted. “Stay as long as you like”. I accepted this unexpected invitation and went with her to a two-storey house, the most luxurious in the valley.

Limited vocabulary Mme, Clarke introduced me to Lucien, a Frenchman, who was staying with her. With my somewhat limited French vocabulary, I told them of my interest in the old Polynesian culture, and Koa suggested that I take a ride with her up the valley, where she would show me an ancient temple—a relic of the times before the white man had left his unsavoury mark on the valley and its inhabitants.

I mounted one of the horses she fetched and slid into the unique wooden saddle as comfortably as my Western posterior would allow.

As we rode up the valley, it was not too hard to picture the many dark, healthy warriors whom Melville wrote about.

The many fruit and coconut trees by the wayside showed that the valley could once have supported a thriving community.

The many pae paes by the side of the narrow track could easily have been crowned with thatched huts, although the brightly-coloured pareus which hung in the open windows of the few houses spoiled the image a little.

Suddenly we swung off the main track and the unshod ponies climbed the steep muddy hillside with the agility of mountain goats.

When we came to a clearing, Koa told me to dismount and follow her into the dense foliage 50 yards or so further up the hill.

To my amazement I found that we were in a level area of crumbling ruins surrounded by stone tikis, some six feet in height.

Further back, and half hidden, were more tikis. Some were upright but most of them had tumbled on to their sides.

Koa explained that this was the remains of what once was the temple of the Taipi tribe. It was here that they used to hold their sacrifices and occasionally decapitate an enemy warrior before devouring him.

From the descriptions in Melville’s Typee, I could almost have rebuilt the temple and filled it with hundreds of handsome warriors waiting to feast.

After a very uncomfortable and somewhat scaring ride back to Koa’s house, Lucien suggested that we take a swim in the river just in front of her house.

I stripped off and dived into the] cold, refreshing water. It helped stop the aches and pains from unaccustomed horse-riding.

The water was deep and clear: and for almost half an hour I swam in the stream. But there was no Fay a way that Melville spoke about— only one Australian, one Frenchman and half-a-dozen brindle children of vague ancestry splashing and talking in a mixture of Polynesian, pidgin- French and a word or two of English, more often than not used completely out of context.

Difficult for ponies Next day Koa and I set off to the end of the valley.

As we left the scattered huts of the village, the track became difficult even for the mountain-bred ponies to traverse.

Among the thick foliage beside the track I noticed scores of pae paes, most of them obviously had not been used for many years.

There were bridges and retaining walls to stop the rivulets washing away the gardens.

Koa dismounted and told me to do likewise. I followed her through dense undergrowth to where there was a larger than usual pae pae nestling beneath towering black cliffs.

A clear mountain stream ran through what must have once been the front yard.

This was the place where Melville had lived, according to Koa.

She showed me the different rooms, the remains of a stone oven, and the low walls that surrounded the house. Meanwhile, I slapped the annoying no-no flies from my legs and wondered if these pests had always A Marquesan tiki.

The Marquesas Group, with a total land area of 492 square miles, is about 750 miles north-east of Tahiti.

Nukuhiva, with its Taipi Valley, is 14 miles long by 10 wide. 86 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

en in the valley. I concluded that the early days, when there was organised system of plantations, ; undergrowth must not have been thick and therefore the pests iuld not have been so numerous.

We wandered back to the horses d continued up the valley. Up and we climbed towards a magnificent terfall.

It fell some 2,000 feet in a silvery broken stream to a crystal clear d 1 at the bottom. Rainbows bounced the shining black wet volcanic :k face as the sunlight caught the irkling droplets of the cascading ter.

Hie noise of falls did not quite >wn out the sound of birds and ier wild life of the valley.

Fhe sweet scent of tiare Tahiti fted up from the greenness below; wreath of wind rustled among the :onut trees; and I was again taken :k to Melville’s book, Jut there was something missing! ere was no laughter of children ying in the river below. I could no fine young warriors roaming valley floor. No Fayaway.

Recruits for Mururoa t was almost dark when we jrned to the village. Smoke was ling from the iron-roofed builds of the more fortunate, or, ier, the more wealthy inhabitants, I the aroma of cooking drifted of the open windows to mingle h the smell of wet undergrowth.

Relaxed on the verandah after ner, Koa told me how the French ruited workers in the valley for nuclear testing project at ruroa Atoll in the Tuamotus. hey stayed away for several nths and returned with big savings, lowever, money was of little use them in Taipi-vai; and some of m moved with their families to liti, where they were under the sion that living and employment ditions were better, lut from my observation I think 7 are mostly disappointed and are :ed to join the many poverty- :ken natives who sleep in ragged, y blankets in the shop fronts of icete’s back streets. ’hey’d be better off staying at tie in unprogressive Taipi-vai.

Croc, skins, bikes, dogs, pearl shelltor 50 years they were his business By staff writer KEN McGREGOR Two days after joining Burns Philp and Co. Ltd. in June, 1915, as a junior clerk in the firm’s Island shipping department, 16-year-old Bill Morrison was in strife.

He was attending a meeting in BP’s old offices in Bridge Street, Sydney, opposite their familiar headquarters of today. Colonel James Burns and other directors of the firm were present.

A short, red faced man called out “Harry”, once, twice and then three times—the last time glaring at Morrison.

“My name’s not Harry, sir,” Morrison told the man, hesitantly.

“1 don’t care what your name is, sonny,” the red-faced man said, “you’re in Harry’s old office and that’s good enough for me.”

The red-faced man, it turned out was Mr. Adam Forsyth, a BP director, and such was the authority of such august personages in those days that it was several years before Bill Morrison was recognised as Bill instead of Harry.

Mr. Morrison told me this on his retirement from BP’s recently after nearly 50 years’ service.

Forty-six years of this time was spent buying, selling and handling Islands produce. For many years he was head of the firm’s produce department, and for the last three years he controlled BP’s shipping fleet as the general shipping manager.

Mr. Morrison in his time handled so many varieties of Islands produce that he took a good 10 minutes to remember them all.

The list is a veritable Who’s Who of Pacific Islands products—copra, pearl shell, green snail shell, bechede-mer, cocoa, coffee, ivory nuts, trochus, rubber, Papuan gum, turtle shell, gold, crocodile skins and Birds of Paradise feathers.

Supercargoes “When I joined the firm, they still had two supercargoes Arthur Haynes, who covered the Marshall Islands, and Robert Etheridge, who worked in the New Hebrides,” Mr.

Morrison said. “Neville Chatfield, who had previously worked the Gilberts and Solomons, had just left.

“Etheridge was a naturalist, and whenever he was in the Hebrides, which was pretty often, he used to buy skeletons from the native burial grounds. He resold the skeletons to museums all over the world and died a wealthy man.

“Skeletons were probably the only Taipi Valley from the sea. One hundred and fifty-four years ago, this area of the world was the scene of a colourful incident when an American, Captain David Porter, commanding the frigate "Essex", took possession of Nukuhiva for the United States. The United States never ratified his act of annexation, and 30 years later, France took possession of the whole group.

Mr. Morrison 87 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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hid was packed in women's bloomers ling we didn’t buy over the years om the Islands.

“During World War I we did a rrific trade in dogs and push-bikes the Islands. These were the natives’ vourite articles in the Gilberts and [arshalls so the firm advertised in ustralia to buy old bikes and collect )gs.

“I can remember we shipped mdreds of both of them to the lands to the delight of the islanders.

“The produce manager about this ne was Mr. Walter Lucas who had unique way of selling the turtle ell we brought to Sydney from elanesia.

“There were always about six or ven wealthy German buyers. Mr. icas would invite them to inspect ir shipment of turtle shell, then i would ask them to sit around a g desk in his office. I would sit at e side of the room to see what was ing on.

“Mr. Lucas would pass each man small piece of blank paper. The lyers would write down their offers r the turtle shell and hand their pers back to Mr. Lucas who sat lietly at the head of the table.

“Mr. Lucas would compare the pers on his lap under the table and ere wouldn’t be a sound in the om.

“Then he would get up and say: Snider, the shell’s yours. Good arning, gentlemen’.

“He merely picked out the highest fer.”

Served in France Mr. Morrison said that when the me method was later used to sell 3ry nuts, the buyers, who had sanwhile caught on, conspired to at Mr. Lucas by arranging beforend. who the successful bidder )uld be.

After writing their bids on the ;ces of paper handed to them by r. Lucas, all but the “chosen”

Jder crept from the room while r. Lucas was examining their bids.

When he looked up, he was surised to find himself confronted ly by the successful bidder.

In 1916 Mr. Morrison joined the jstralian Army and served in ance. He returned to Sydney and oined BP’s Island department in ptember, 1919.

Soon afterwards, he worked for 5 for three months at Noroflk and, and about 1926 he was sent the booming New Guinea goldids to inspect dredges and handle consignments of gold at Wau, Salamaua, Edie Creek and Bulolo, “I can remember flying in tiny planes with tough determined pilots such as Ray Parer, Bertie Heath, Orme Denny and lan Grabowsky,” he said.

Mr. Morrison said he handled shipments of gold worth up to £i million. His job was to sell the gold to the Royal Mint or gold purchasing firms.

“We used to pack the gold in cases,” Mr. Morrison said, “but there was one occasion when we used a pair of women’s bloomers when we ran out of the usual containers.

“We pushed one leg of the bloomers into the other and sowed up the bottom. Then we packed the gold into the leg and patched up the top when it was full. It was just like a huge plum pudding.”

After Mr. Morrison was appointed BP’s produce manager in the 1930’5, he travelled to all major New Guinea ports and the Solomons.

One of the firm’s customers of this period whom he remembers well was Dr. J. R. Baker, an anthropologist from the British Museum, who walked into the Sydney office in 1933 and asked for a shotgun.

Dr. Baker said he was off to Hog Harbour, Santo, New Hebrides, to hunt crocodiles and catch hermaphrodrite pigs.

“Instead of the normal shotgun pellets he wanted a big round ball, so we bought him a single-barrelled shotgun and had big bullets specially made for him,” Mr. Morrison said.

“He told me the best way to kill crocodiles was to stalk up on them while they slept on the sand, make a noise and wait until their mouths opened. Then you shot them through the mouth and so saved their valuable skins from being damaged.

“It had always been the normal thing to shoot crocodiles through the eyes and we had never heard of this rather dangerous method before.”

Mr. Morrison said that Dr. Baker returned from Hog Harbour with some of the biggest crocodile skins he ever saw with not a mark on their skins. He also collected his hermaphrodite pigs, which were taken to the London Zoo.

Mr. Morrison recalls that rubber was very slow in picking up after World War 11, but that there was a great run on trochus, particularly from Manus. Good trochus shell fetched £5OO a ton and some territorians made a fortune.

Mr. Morrison also remembers how pearl shell was once worth up to £l,OOO a ton, and when green snail shell, as big as your head, was worth big money as material for beautiful clasps and buttons.

“Plastics and synthetics like cultured pearls killed a lot of these products exclusive to the Islands,” he told me.

“I don’t think many of them will ever regain the popularity they enjoyed in my day and shortly before I joined BP’s.”

In terms of service, Mr. Morrison’s 50 years with BP are nothing out of the box. Many employees have worked equally as long, and far longer. The general manager, Mr. J.

Mitchell, for example worked for the firm for 75 years before retiring last year.

Mr. Morrison’s “premature” retirement at 68 was due to serious eye trouble. He now plans to live quietly with his wife, Caroline, at his Roseville home.

Next year, if an eye operation for Mr. Morrison is successful, they will make a world trip together and visit Mrs. Morrison’s relatives in England.

Crocodile skins I asked Mr. Morrison, who is probably without peer as an expert on Islands produce, what was a good tip for the future.

“ I think crocodile skins are a good bet if you can get the crocs,” he said. “The prices of women’s handbags and shoes made of crocodile skins are fantastic today and someone must be making big money.

“There are still plenty of crocs in New Guinea and the Solomons for hunters who are prepared to look hard for them.” 89 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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By a staff writer The success as a tourist drawird of the Paul Gauguin luseum at Papeari, Tahiti, has ispired that island’s tourist jthorities to draw up plans for similar museum to comlemorate the French novelist ierre Loti.

OTI, whose real name was Julien * Viaud, visited Tahiti as a young ival officer in the frigate Flore for veral weeks in 1872.

This glimpse of Tahiti in the later ys of Queen Pomare IV, when the and was still only a French protecrate and not a fully-fledged colony, spired him to write a romantic •vel describing an idyllic love affair tween himself and a young native '1 called Rarahu. It also painted vivid word picture of the Tahiti of ose times.

The novel was first published in iris under the title, Rarahu, Idyle *lynesienne, in 1879. It has since en republished in numerous French itions as the Mariage de Loti, and is 11 popular in the French-speaking )rld.

Translation An English translation appeared in 25, but the story is rather too itimental for Anglo-Saxon tastes, d there are probably few English- ;aking people these days who have sr read it.

The idea of building a museum to ti was first mooted after the Govlor of French Polynesia, Mr. Jean :urani, returned from a visit to ris in July.

At a Press conference on his Paris p, Mr. Sicurani said that the iseum was “still in the realm of ;ams”, but that if it could be built, would house relics and documents the later days of Queen Pomare and of Loti’s connection with hiti. ; ‘At present,” the Governor went , “the Maison Loti project lacks patron, it lacks cash, and it lacks id for the building. But it does least have the precedent of the uguin Museum, which was opened Papeari two or three years ago.”

Since July, means have apparently ;n found to finance the museum project, for early in September it was announced that the administrative council of Tahiti’s Office de Development du Tourisme had decided to go ahead with it. An inquiry is now being made to determine how the project can best be carried out.

The Loti museum will be the second memorial to the French novelist in Tahiti. The first, a monument, was unveiled during the Bastille Day celebrations in 1934. The monument is at a spot known as Bain Loti (Loti’s Pool) in the Fautaua Valley, a mile or two from the centre of Papeete.

It consists of a stone pedestal, surmounted by a bronze bust of Loti as he was when he visited Tahiti nearly a century ago. On the pedestal, carved in high relief, is a representation of Rarahu crowned with tiare Tahiti and holding a garland of the same blossoms.

In Loti’s day, the Bain Loti was much more of a pool than it is now, for in those days, there was a dam below the Fautaua Falls which made the pool a sizeable sheet of water.

Nowadays, the pool is just a wide place in the shallow Fautaua River with a picnic area beside it.

It was at the pool that the novelist first met Rarahu. As he put it in his atmospheric prose: “It was about noon on a calm and scorching day. . . The young Tahitian women who frequented the falls— drowsy with the heat—were lying on a grassy bank close to the stream, their feet dipping in the clear, cool water. . . Large black velvet butterflies marked with lavender eyes fluttered languidly past as though their sheeny wings were too heavy to bear them. The air was charged with heady and unfamiliar perfume. ..”

Loti’s Mariage de Loti induced many a young Frenchman to dream of migrating to Tahiti. One who actually did was the artist Paul Gauguin.

One might gather from reading Loti’s novel, and the many other exotic love stories that he subsequently wrote, that he was a bit of a cissy. Such was not the case.

Only 11 years before he died in 1923 at the age of 73, he offered to throw out of his window the seconds of a Bulgarian major who wanted to fight him because he had sneered at Bulgaria. • The Paul Gauguin Museum at Papeari, Tahiti (above), was officially opened in June, 1965. The idea of it was first suggested by Father Patrick O'Reilly, the well-known historian of the French Pacific; the Singer-Polignac Foundation sponsored it; and the design was prepared by a Parisian architect, Claude Bach. A notable feature is the library, with its tall, pyramidal roof. The monument to Pierre Loti (right) was unveiled beside the Bain Loti, near Papeete, in 1934. Our picture was taken at the unveiling. 91 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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Yesterday Marching Rule, a cargo cult movement in the Solomons, was in the news in PIM 20 years ago this month. United States wartime troops with large amounts of money to spend were thought to have started the movement, which began on Malaita and, over two years, had spread to Isabel, Guadalcanal and other islands. In North Malaita, natives had built 43 houses, which stood empty waiting for goods and cargoes to come from across the sea. The BSIP Government had gaoled 35 natives, not for being Marching Rule members, but for setting up illegal courts and imprisoning and fining other natives.

OTHER items in PIM, for November, 1947, included: MEAT-STARVED territorians in New Guinea were in for some relief because Mr. A. W.

Anderson, Sydney’s “sausage king”, was sending his ship, Wayama, to Lae and Rabaul with a cargo of meat, “Presumably Mr. Anderson is not in this business for the good of his health, but if the venture is successful and the territory is assured of a plentiful supply of fresh meat, territorians will rise up as one, and call his name blessed,”

PIM said.

Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Burns Philp’s only serious competitor in Papua, reported a record profit of £34,314 and paid a 10 per cent, dividend for the year ended July 31, 1947. During the Japanese invasion in 1942-44, the company had faced almost complete ruin but it had recovered and was in a sound position.

A CATALINA plane, owned by the Societe Francaise de Transports Aeriens du Pacifique Sud, had inaugurated a monthly air service from Noumea to Tahiti with calls at the New Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and the Cooks.

The single fare was £AIOO.

MR. Nicolas (“Tibby”) Hagen, well-known throughout the South Pacific in commerce circles, died in Noumea on November 3, aged 68, He was so well-known that when a friend in Paris sent out a cablegram addressed simply "Tibby, South Pacific”, it was delivered to Mr. Hagen in Noumea within a few hours.

ALONE Japanese soldier had been captured on Guadalcanal, where the war had been over for more than two years.

“He was an amazing figure—long, matted hair, clothing in shreds, his feet in bundles of rags bound with telephone wire,” said PlM’s Honiara correspondent. “His worldly goods were two water bottles, a broken American bayonet, and a Japanese trenching shovel.” remains of Alain Gerbault, -I- the noted French yachtsman and writer, had been transferred from Timor, where Gerbault died during the Pacific War, to Bora Bora in French Polynesia. A simple tomb was to be built on Bora Bora for him.

THE famous South Seas writer, Robert Dean Frisbie, was completing his novel, Dawn Sails North.

BECAUSE of an acute shortage of sacks and shipping services New Britain and New Ireland copra planters couldn’t sell their copra. Without financial resources, they couldn’t buy supplies. PIM said the big firms were not allowed to buy copra, the Copra Production Control Board wouldn’t advance money and the only bank in Rabaul, the Commonwealth Bank, would not finance the planters.

NATIVES around Finschhafen, New Guinea, were slouching around wearing Army boots many sizes too large for them.

“Although the Administration has now decreed that a native may wear anything he wishes, old residents, who love the country, resent any alteration in native attire,” PlM’s correspondent said.

“One reason is that it holds them to ridicule among visitors to the territory.”

A DECISION on where Fiji’s international airport should be built—Nadi or Nausori—was being awaited. PanAm and ANA airlines were both using Nadi.

Meanwhile 220 workers at Nadi Airport had gone on strike for a week after two workers were dismissed by the New Zealand Public Works Department.

NEW GUINEA’S WAU aerodrome, built on an incline so that planes had to land up-hill, was the scene of the wreck of a £50,000 Bristol freighter. The plane broke away down the slope and crashed into rough country. • Alain Gerbault, from a painting by Sir John Lavery. 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

Australia supplies and Australia buys Paper to Papua, sunglasses to the Solomons, commercial vehicles to New Caledonia, fuel to Fiji. The variety of Australian products selling in the Islands is wide. So is the range of services Australia makes available : consulting engineers, ship repairs, hotel outfitting and many others. Australia is a major trading country, exporting to world markets.

Australia is also a big import market. It is a source of investment capital for Pacific territories. It seeks an exchange of trade and tourists with the Pacific Islands Australia's fifth largest market.

For information on Australian products, manufacturers and agents, contact the Australian Trade Commissioner for the Pacific Islands. His address is 12th Floor, A.N.Z. Bank Building, 68 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S. W. 'Phone 20372.

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Book Reviews

Observant, happy traveller in multi-racial Fiji In 1963 Charles A. Perkins, a Canadian, spent four months in Fiji with two American friends. Fiji—Many Flowering Islands is the result. It is illustrated by some of Rob Wright’s best photographs.

Personal experience plus homework id diligent research among the cal archives make up this essentily outsider’s view of the colony.

If it is a pretty idealistic view and le that would probably be denied r the professional sour-pusses of ji, it is not because the author does >t see the problems but rather that ; does not “believe that what is irk and unpleasant is necessarily »nificant”.

Perhaps, as a stranger, he sees ji’s problems in their right persctive—something that is denied the st of us who have perhaps been too ng in the Fiji bush.

Perkins’ book reflects the impressions of an observant traveller with an eye for the essential Fiji ingredient; it also reflects the impressions of a happy traveller.

If he was ever infuriated about anything; or if he suffered the normal frustrations and irritations about getting anything done in Fiji, it does not show. His journeys and his reflections are a pleasant odyssey among pleasant people who are ever willing to discuss their problems with sweet reasonableness. Although this is far from the view of Kai Vitis and other insiders, at least it is a view that will do Fiji no particular harm abroad and may do some good.

In the end one of the author’s American companions asks: “Can everything be quite as peachy as it seems?” To which her husband (a university professor) replies: “I’m quite satisfied that my first feeling of social well-being has been borne out. This is a healthy community, capable of solving its problems.

Wouldn’t you say so, Charles?”

Charles agrees: “These people have come out of the experience of colonialism with a strong sense of their own worth—and a secure enjoyment of the world’s affection. Even more important, perhaps, they don’t seem to have any emotional or economic instability among themselves . . . This can’t be compared with the West Indies, the Middle East or Africa.”

A lucky country As well as settling that Fiji is a pretty lucky country, the author makes numerous excursions into 19th century Fijian history—something that has had scant attention from contemporary writers. He talks of the early missionaries, Cakobau, Ma’afu from Tonga, the great measles epidemic that followed close on the heels of cession, and the troubles of Sir Arthur Gordon, Fiji’s first Governor, who set about introducing a system of government that was to last almost a century and only now is being whittled away.

This and much more is set out in interesting fashion, interspersed with the personal encounters, or travels by sugar train, taxi or local schooner, and adds to the value of the book. It would have been even more valuable if the author had added a detailed index.- JT. (FlJl—Many Flowering Islands. Collins. $4.75.) [?]is photograph by Fiji PRO photographer Rob Wright is NOT in Charles Perkins' book, Fiji —Many Flowering Islands". But it will probably turn up in somebody's book one [?]these days, as few books are published on the colony that don't owe something to [?] camera work. The picture shows the Duke and Duchess of Kent watching a bilibili (bamboo raft) race on the Ba River during their visit to Fiji recently. 95 % C I F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

Chatty Volume

ON LORD

Howe Island

In 1878, Captain Richard Armstrong, a retired British naval officer, was sent to Lord Howe Island by the New South Wales Government to investigate persistent rumours of discord and discontent among the 100 people living there.

THE Lord Howe Islanders were a motley collection of shipwrecked and runaway sailors, get-away-fromit-all types, and settlers with an eye for business, who had arrived on the island in dribs and drabs during the previous 44 years.

They had got along fairly well during the heyday of Pacific whaling, when numerous whalers put into their island for supplies. But with the decline of the whaling industry, life became more difficult.

In trouble After Captain Armstrong made a report on their situation to the New South Wales Government, he was appointed resident Government representative on the island—his job including the posts of magistrate, postmaster, forest ranger, coroner, register of births, deaths and marriages, clerk of petty sessions and officer-in-charge of Government boats.

Captain Armstrong’s appointment marked the beginning of a new and more orderly era for Lord Howe. He brought new plants and trees to the island, improved the scant harbour facilities, started new industries, built the first road, imported four New Caledonians to clear scrub, and even enticed a schoolteacher from a passing ship to settle on the island and teach the local children.

When he found that the islanders had been brewing their own liquor from fig and banana leaves, he provided them with wine and spirits from his own resources.

But as Alan and Valrie Finch reveal in their new book, Lord Howe Island, even obliging, helpful fellows like Armstrong can get into trouble sometimes.

In 1881, an absconding debtor called Ponder arrived on the island from Noumea, with the idea of shipping guano from both Lord Howe and the nearby Admiralty Islets.

Ponder apparently took a great dislike to the captain, and by whispering stories in certain ears he rekindled some silly grievances from the past. When some of the islanders complained to the New South Wales Government early in 1882, a com missioner was appointed to inquir into their complaints. The result wa that Armstrong was removed fron his port.

Armstrong protested to the gov eminent that he had been unfair!; treated; a group of Lord Howi Islanders backed his protest with | petition to the NSW Parliament; am newspapers fulminated in editorials In the end, a parliamentary com mittee looked into the whole affair found the captain had been unfairl treated, and voted him £3,000 a recompense for his damaged honou and dignity.

Kentia palm seeds Captain Armstrong used the mone for farming in NSW and Tasmani and sponge fishing in Western Aus tralia, where he died in 1910.

Meanwhile, the development o Lord Howe Island’s unique Kent! palm seed industry was under wayan industry that was the economi mainstay of the island until th current days of tourism.

The Finchs devote a good deal o space in their book to the palm seei business, and along the way they alsi go into most of the other prominer aspects of the island’s past.

They tell of the island’s discover in 1788 by Lieutenant Ball in th Supply; they discuss the treasure o 5,000 sovereigns which is suppose! to have been buried in 1830 afte the whaling brig George was wrecked

Tikopia Brought Up To Date

pROBABLY no anthropologist in the world is more closely identified A with a single place than is New Zealand-born anthropologist Dr Raymond Firth with the isolated Polynesian island of Tikopia (population: 1,200-odd) in the Santa Cruz group of the Solomons.

After he first visited that island in 1928-29, Dr. Firth wrote his well-known study of kinship, We, the Tikopia; his account of Tikopian economics, Primitive Polynesian Economy; and his study of Tikopia’s pagan religious cycle, The Work of the Gods in Tikopia.

Since that first visit. Dr. Firth has been back to Tikopia on two occasions—in 1952 and 1966—and has found much more to write about, for the Tikopian way of life, like that of many another South Sea Island, has changed greatly in the past 30 years.

In 1956, for example, the last remaining pagans on Tikopia adopted Christianity following a disastrous epidemic, and Dr. Firth’s The Work of the Gods was thereby converted into an historical document.

The Work of the Gods in its original form has long been out of print. But Dr. Firth has now brought out a new edition, adding postscripts to most of the original chapters to compare the religious ceremonies he saw in 1952 with those of 1928-29, as well as an epilogue on the final eclipse of the traditional ritual, based on his visit of 1966.

The new edition of The Work of the Gods (Melbourne University Press, $8.75) is the first of three volumes on Tikopia religion which Dr. Firth is bringing out. The second volume, Tikopia Ritual and Belief (Allen and Unwin, $9.80), is a collection of papers published between 1930 and 1966. The third volume, yet to be published, will be entitled Rank and Religion in Tikopia.

RL.

Lord Howe Island's two mountains, Mt.

Gower and Mt. Lidgbird, always make an impressive backdrop for photographs. 96 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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Name Address Post to: BIBLE MISSION, P.O. Box 40, SEVEN HILLS, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA (A Free Bible Study Course is also available) id they describe the island’s first ttlement in 1834.

Then there is the comedy about a dney taxi driver who made repeated ortive attempts to sail to Lord awe with his family; the tragedy Gower Wilson, who was lost at a after trying to reach Lord Howe am Sydney in a ketch; the story of * Francis Chichester’s ill-starred sit in a seaplane in 1931 while ing from New Zealand to Ausilia; the tragic Catalina flying boat ash of 1948; and numerous shipecks over the years.

But the Finchs’ book is not a story, nor are the historical aspects it always in chronological order, ic authors’ main aim seems to ve been to put together a chatty ok about the island to appeal to i hundreds of people from Austrawho spend holidays there each ar.

The book has an attractive dust :ket and several excellent photoaphic illustrations, and being the ly book on Lord Howe on the arket, it is bound to sell well.

I would have liked it better if jre had been less about the island’s rly history and more about the anges of the past 20 years and the al “characters” whom one still ;ets on the island today.- KMcG.

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The of the attractions of Lord Howe and is that you don't have to try very hard to catch fish like this. 97 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

BOOK NEWS LITTLE CHIMBU (created by Nancy Curtis of Mt. Hagen, TPNG, a year ago) who romped all over New Guinea having adventures with kokomo-birds and kind lady crocodiles, is to have a cousin, FIJI JOHNNY.

Johnny is the result of the whole Curtis family (Bill, Nancy and the six-year-old twins) having spent three months at Korotogo, Fiji, at the beginning of this year.

Johnny is a little more sophisticated and a bit more of a scamp than Chimbu. He wears a sulu and not a bunch of leaves,- he plays with a ukelele and not a kokomo-bird; he sings for tourists,- runs a copra boat on a reef; meets a kind Indian cane-farmer with 10 daughters who looked long and sad (Johnny made them look short and happy); and a sugar-train that had got the sack because it had lost its whilstle.—The Book Editor.

FIJI JOHNNY will be in colour and black and white. It will be available before Christmas. Price: $A1.95 plus postage.

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Readable Novel

On New Guinea

Patrol Officers

Although another novel abou New Guinea patrol officers migh well fill one with justifiable fore boding, The Far Side of the Sky by Maslyn Williams, turns oul in fact, to be a distinctly read able story that stands on its owi merits.

The Williams prose-style, beinj naturally on the rich side, fits th novel form better than some of th factual stories that he has ahead; written, and his characterisation I generally very good.

Because it seems to be inescapabl in this day and age, there is a fai slice of soul-searching among th four white characters in the storyor “examination of motives an justifications” as it is called; an there is a great deal of abstrac thought attributed to the primitiv villagers who form the metaphorical and sometimes actual, opposin forces—and this is sometimes fa from believable.

Nonetheless, on the whole, evei hard-bitten New Guinea old-hand will find only a minor amount t< cavil about in this novel.

Convincing characters Of the four white men in the storj the most important is Marshall, ai Assistant District Officer, an ex perienced field officer who manage to combine convincingly a superiont; complex about his work, a send mental attachment to the countr and its people, a perpetual “cross 1 against those in authority but pleasun when they recognise his expertise an< reputation. He is married but wedde( to his job; his wife remains in Sydne] and as a husband he is rated wa] down the ladder.

The others are Korbin, a not-quite qualified European doctor who work as a European Medical Assistant Scully, a young patrol-officer of ex emplary toughness and enterprise wh( is occasionally troubled by the fac that while last on leave in Sydnel he slept with Marshall’s wife; and finally, Father Herschell, an America® linguist, who provides the reasons for much of the tension in the novel anc also its climax.

Marshall, Scully and Korbin are 98 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Prices are per copy and apply only to this offer. All orders must be accompanied by remittance. paring to set out into unexplored □ntain country on a two-montlis’ rol to bring the last of the primipeople into contact with goveruit when Marshall is instructed that / will be accompanied by a holic priest, an internationally- •wn expert whose visit is spon- ;d by UNESCO. larshall is annoyed. What idiocy, thinks, to let an inexperienced, nown new chum go piddling about uistically among savages who ild as soon stave in a head as c at you. An academician! Worse priest who would without doubt useless in all practical matters, •sentminded, wearing spectacles when not in the way, would als be sneaking off secretly to f. n A the same time Marshall was tsed that he, Marshall, had been irded as suffiicently skilled to lead party into unknown territory and the same time protect such a ility. ather Herschell, for his part, turns much as expected. The walking ost kills him, he is terrified most he time, not only of the country of being terrified. He has little in mon with the other three. And nays, secretly and otherwise. For of the time, however, he can himself in his work—recording age words, of strange languages, is Father Herschell’s recordings put an end to the patrol and limself,—JT.

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The man behind them all, Captain in Brown, is one of the South cific’s best known inter-island ppers. He has been spending nost as much time underwater as has on top of it in his well-known :ch Maroro.

The blasting away of coral reefs to prove boat passages and make ligation easier has been a “must”

Fiji for years, but a “must” which 5 remained little more than a >hful thought because of lack of ids to buy highly-priced explosives.

Except for a few occasions where explosives were lowered and detonated to remove isolated coral heads, nothing was tried in Fiji until last year.

The underwater demolition business did not really get under way until Stan Brown put some theories he had picked up over the years to TV personality Raymond Burr, who bought Naitauba Island in 1965.

Stan had been present during the war when a passage was blown through the reef into Canton Island’s lagoon by US Army engineers.

Later, he examined the passages blown at Tarawa, where the Americans made a new harbour after the destruction of the old one in the famous Battle of Tarawa.

Useful lessons He also saw a similar man-made passage in Noumea—another product of the war, where cost was of little account; and he saw what explosives could do in removing coral heads at Christmas Island in 1957 when the Royal Engineers improved the alighting area for the RNZAF Sunderlands associated with the nuclear bomb tests. The destruction in 1963 of Pelope Shoal, a navigational danger for ships using the port of Honiara, provided further useful lessons.

So when Stan put his theories to Raymond Burr, he was anything but an armchair theorist. Mr. Burr listened, and put up the money for an experimental bang at Naitauba.

Several coral heads were removed from the boat passage at Naitauba, which was so improved that it can now be worked at all states of the tide instead of only from half-tide upwards.

Captain Brown then blew a passage into the small lagoon at Toberua Island, off the Rewa estuary, which Sydney company director Joe McHugh is converting into a tourist resort.

Then followed more work at Naitauba where another passage was cleared in the hope that small seagoing craft could use the lagoon.

More work is still needed there but the passage has already been used by an overseas yacht which stayed several days.

Stan Brown’s next job was for the Shell Company, when he and other divers, working from the Maroro, removed large coral heads at Waiyevo on Taveuni so that the company’s new tanker, Sigawale, could berth there.

When the Government was given information on costs and the amount of coral removed, the new Marine In The News This Month ogee adne rocyte na Dea efoo ekiang imere ud •sair II ihera ru untless ivnbreaker Viajero dler’s Green e Flight 516 ;r ob Dan se W iros asa met temba Lautoka Levuka Maroro Mar Quesa Mauri Koa Myonie Ninsa II Nirvana Pacifique Prelude Procax Rabaul Rebel Rendezvous Sigawale Skunda Strider Suva Tamatea T rekka Trendaway Valhalla Vnushitelryy World Cat Youth A big bang—and the ticklish job preparing for one. 101 l G I F I C ISLANDS M O N T H L Y N O V E M B E R , 1967

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partment employed the Maroro n to carry out underwater lolition elsewhere.

"he first job was to improve the ranee to the lagoon at Fulaga nd in the Lau Group. Several al heads were shattered, includone which has accounted for jral local vessels, and now some the largest inter-island ships can into the lagoon, where previously f would have needed wings, leads have also been removed in ;ral boat passages at Kabara nd (Lau Group) and the anchorhas been improved out of all ignition. n the islands where blasting has n place, the Fijians have been icing both for the better shipping ities and because each big bang s its toll of fish. Islanders have :r had so much fish with so little -t. larks have caught on too. They : learned that a big bang means eal, and no sooner has the spray sd down after an explosion than race in for the harvest, hey put on a polished performance Naitauba and Fulaga where olition work went on for days, before the last bang the sharks worked out the modus operandi remarkable degree.

At Waiyevo, a large black whaler shark made a practice of working the area early in the morning and taking any fish that were lying on the bottom.

Meanwhile, the Maroro divers have become aquatic explosion experts and they’ll go anywhere.

The only thing that stops them from doing even more work than they do is the price of explosives— £ 1,000-worth of commercial explosives is soon used up.

Last Of Carpenter

Ships Goes To Bottom

The sinking of the 7,500-ton passenger-freighter Lakemba in early October, after striking a reef off Vatulele Island, Fiji, brought an end to more than 20 years of transpacific trading by W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., and its subsidiaries.

The Lakemba sank in about 600 fathoms of water on October 8, four days after she had gone aground in the early hours on Cakaulekaleka Reef, about 45 miles from Suva (PIM, Oct., p. 23).

All passengers and crew were transferred safely by lifeboats to the cable repair ship Retriever, which responded to a call for help. The Lakemba was holed in three places and was thought to be hard and fast on the reef.

Salvage operations were under consideration when strong winds and high seas drove her off the reef and to the bottom.

All the passengers’ luggage had been salvaged, but her cargo of timber, stated to be worth £F300,000, had floated away.

The Lakemba, which had been on the Sydney-Fiji-Honolulu-Vancouver run for 21 years, was on her way from Suva to Lautoka when she hit the reef.

She was owned by Pacific Shipowners Ltd., a Fiji-registered subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter Holdings but was making her last run for them as she had been sold.

The Lakemba was the last of a fleet of five trans-Pacific ships operated by Carpenter. The others were: Suva, Rabaul, Lautoka and Levuka.

The oldest, the Suva, operated before World War 11. She was finally sold for scrap about 18 months ago.

Rabaul (20 passengers) and Lautoka (30 passengers) were both sold to a subsidiary of P and O Orient Lines in the late 1940’5.

Levuka, a steamer built in 1945, was sold to the British Phosphate Commissioners and renamed the Triadic and subsequently used to service the phosphate islands of Christmas Island, Nauru and Ocean Island.

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New Vessel For

Western Co-Operatives

A $40,000 vessel to be used for trading activities in the Western District, is due in Papua-New Guinea soon.

The vessel is the 50 ft steel-hulled River Fly, which is being built at Ballina, NSW, for the Trans-Fly Shipping Society to transport produce to Daru.

CHINA NAVIGATION CO.

Has New Plans

Keelung in Taiwan (Formosa) is to be added to the list of stopping places for ships of the China Navigation Co. Ltd., on voyages between Japan and the South-West Pacific.

Announcing this in October, the company said it was also thinking of extending its schedules to take in Papeete.

The first service taking in Keelung will be by the Chefoo, scheduled to leave Japan about November 22 for Vila, Santo and Noumea, via

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News of a sealed bottle with message inside, which drifted the way from the Gulf of ilifornia to Saipan, Mariana ands, reached PIM in October.

The bottle was found on ipan on July 28. The message side was in Russian, and read; his bottle was emptied and -own into the Gulf of Calirnia from the ship Vnushiryy on September 10, 1965. ie ship belongs to the USSR”. [?] "Lakemba" aground [?] Cakaulekaleka Reef, off Vatulele Island. 103

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A company spokesman said tl new service would reduce the freigl cost of commodities imported froi Taiwan, as cargo shipped at Keelur would be freighted at the direct rat i.e., the same rate as from Hor Kong.

“This represents a substantial sa ing over the amount of freight pa in the past when cargo was tra] shipped at Hong Kong,” the spoke man said.

“As most Taiwan products a] fairly competitively priced, it hoped that this new facility will h crease trade between the two areas Referring to the service which mi extend to Papeete, the spokesme said that the China Navigation C was keenly interested in the area.

It was proposed that the Chekian scheduled to leave Japan on Nover ber 5 and Hong Kong on Novemb 13, would call at Papeete, Pago Pag Apia and Suva after Papua-Ne Guinea ports.

The direct service to the area w eliminate transhipment of cargo Sydney.

The sailing of the Chekiang fro Japan will provide a pre-Christm delivery to Tahiti.

The spokesman said that if tl Chekiang’s voyage indicated a ne< for a regular service, the compai would give that question “vei serious consideration”.

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A six-man satellite tracking tea for the American Army Map servi has set up a base on Pitcairn Islai for six months.

The team arrived in the US Arr vessel FS 216 on July 15, and toi a week, with the Pitcairners’ he] to unload their gear and equipme and to set up camp at Palau Valle

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A Messageries Maritimes pi senger-cargo liner, which has be renamed Pacifique, left Marseil] on September 29 on her first voya to the South Pacific.

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The Pacifique is due in Sydney < November 6, via Panama, Papet and Noumea. She will return Marseilles via Cape Town.

A Messageries Maritimes spok< man in Sydney said in October tt 104 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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The main contractors, George Drew, of Oldham, England, removed large sections of the surrounding reef to enable liners of up to 50,000 tons to be accommodated.

By attracting larger ships and more frequent visits, the wharf is expected to give a big fillip to the export of copra and bananas, and also to the development of tourism.

It was designed by Messrs. Sandford Fawcett, Wilton and Bell, of London, who have also undertaken major contracts in Fiji, the new Hebrides, the Solomons, the Gilbert and Elice Isands, and Pitcairn Island.

Work began in June, 1962.

The builders were Dew and Company.

Opening the wharf, the king said it was the largest single project ever completed in Tonga. It would place Tonga squarely on the main shipping routes from Europe and America to New Zealand and Australia. This would most certainly attract more shipping to Tonga.

The king said that Tonga’s main roads were on the ocean, not highways throughout the land as in the major Pacific Islands, “On this day Tonga is coming off the dirt road and travelling on the main highway,” he added.

The king unveiled a memorial plaque to Queen Salote, which was mounted on a 10-ton boulder, recovered from the sea floor recently by divers working on the project.

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Two landing barges operated by the Papua-New Guinea Transportation Squadron spend a good deal of time ploughing through waters which are miles from the sea, and full of navigational hazards seldom experienced by “blue water” seamen. The squadron is a unit of the Australian Army. Its tasks include resupplying inland Army patrols from coastal bases, and moving stores, fuel and equipment for Commonwealth and Administration departments into areas inaccessible to normal shipping. The barges (the one pictured is the “Jaba”) have a carrying capacity of 50 tons.

The "Pacifique" is a replica of her sister ship "Cambodge" pictured here. 105 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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TAMATEA, 48 ft sloop, left i on October 17 for Auckland, pered by her owner, Mr. Ross irane. imatea was formerly owned by Heath Hemphill, secretary of Defence Club, Suva, tie sloop was forced back to Suva lay by bad weather while on her attempted delivery voyage to kland ( PIM, June, p. 115).

KAIROS, 32 ft steel-hulled p with Mr. and Mrs. E. Koch, 'ed back in Hamburg, Germany, ntly after a circumnavigation— [ght to be the first ever by a nan couple. airos was in the Pacific in )-66. Her calls included Suva and avu. Fiji, New Zealand, Noumea Port Moresby.

MAR QUESA, 40 ft ketch i California with owner-skipper Harold Whilldin. his wife Pat crewman, Jamie Lopez, reached s on August 28, but was not wed to berth because she had e from Vavau, Tonga, an area sted with the rhinoceros beetle. • Quesa had to remain more than ile offshore and left after a day’s in the direction of Tonga. • PROCAX, 34 ft Norwegian cutter, with Guy Cappeoiez and his wife on board, arrived at Rarotonga on September 19 from the Marquesas.

The young couple sailed from Belgium to Falmouth, England, last November. They arrived at Madeira after encountering a gale, and reached the Canary Islands in December.

Their next ports of call were Barbados and other West Indian islands, after they had been becalmed and then hit by a gale 500 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.

They reached the Galapagos Islands nine days out from Panama, and took only 25 days from the Galapagos to the Marquesas where they were made welcome at Hivaoa.

From Rarotonga they plan to visit Tonga, Fiji, and to spend the hurricane season in New Zealand.

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Reports from Apia say that Cotton »t into difficulties after the motor his ketch broke down and the ast snapped. He then drifted until iking landfall on Savaii. 109 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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LORI, 34 ft sloop with Jim ard, will start on a cruise of the h Pacific from Marina del Rey, fornia, soon. Ballard spent a year le South Pacific a couple of years in the Los Angeles yacht Strider.

ARIADNE, 70 ft NZ motorr, owned by Tom Newland, is g refitted in Auckland, n leaving Tonga after the coro- 3n, the yacht suffered a fire in engine room and was sailed :tly to Auckland. She made good age under sail. wner Newland reports that she be “better than ever” when the t is completed. is plans include a return to Nukualofa, where he is contemplating going into business, and possible passenger work among the Vavau and Ha’apai groups of Tonga. • CYTHERA, 50 ft Australian ketch with Mr. Peter Fenton, his wife Pat and their daughter Penny, 13, reached Durban on September 25.

Cythera was in Port Moresby in May {PIM, June, p. 113). She made stops at Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Mauritius and Reunion before reaching Durban.

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They are on a par with Papeete )oth Noumea and Papeete have ribly high-priced fresh produce, h other food items cost the same in Tonga, Fiji, and Rarotonga. ‘Liquor and cigarettes are reasony priced and there is fortunately grand variety of wines ranging m really cheap to expensive. The :ht club has a good marina and >m for several visiting yachts to up. ‘The highlight of our stay in New ledonia has been our hiking and nping trip around the island. We ;nt one week with a New Zealand iple (here on their yacht Mauri •a) and saw and learned about many things that the tourist who stays in Noumea misses.

“We packed the minimum of sleeping and cooking gear on our backs, took the bus to the ‘end of the line’ at Hienghene on the east coast, and started walking (hoping, of course, to get frequent rides)!

“Wearing shoes for the first time in over two years was a bit of a shock to the feet for us.

“Naturally we cannot go into the details of the trip here—but we found it great fun and extremely interesting, and the scenery on New Caledonia’s east coast magnificient.” • FREE FLIGHT . American yacht, with Willie and Shirley Barnes, has been exploring the Galapagos Islands recently. Free Flight left Los Angeles in February; stayed in Acapulco for a month; and arrived at Wreck Bay, Chatham Island, Galapagos, on June 15. • CORSAIR 11, 53 ft South African ketch, arrived at Durban on October 3 with one more leg to go —the passage to Cape Town before completing a circumnavigation begun in April, 1964.

On board were the owners Mr. (Continued on p. 116) The Gehrmans of "Myonie". 113 kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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Corsair II made stops in the South Pacific in the Galapagos, Marquesas, Society and Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia and Thursday Island. • DAWNBREAKER, 41 ft moulded fibreglass trimaran, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Russell Garcia, of California, will remain in Pago Pago until March next year when the Garcias intend to resume a cruise of the South Pacific.

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Dawnbreaker, which began her cruise from Florida, reached Pago Pago via the Galapagos (Chathan Santa Cruz and Santa Maria Islands the Marquesas (Nukuhiva and O; Pu) Manihi in the Tuamotus, tb Society Group (Tahiti, Moore; Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa and Boi Bora) and the Cooks (Rarotong; Aitutaki and Suwarrow).

She arrived at Suwarrow in earl September and found Tom Neal enjoying his return stay on the islan< • SKUNDA, 32 ft Tahiti ketcl with Susan and Bruce Lamb, of Lc Angeles, was wrecked on Tetiarc Island, 26 miles north of Tahiti, i June. • KELASA, 36 ft cutter froi Vancouver, British Columbia, reache Sydney on October 17 after a tram Pacific crossing which include several stops in the Marquesas an a short stay in Tahiti (PIM, July, i 113).

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Record sea trek for “Trekka”

The 20 ft yawl “Trekka” recently became the first yacht to circumnavigate the world twice under different owners when she arrived back in California with Americans Clifford and Marian Cain.

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“Trekka” crossed the Pacific in 1965 and was last reported in Durban in early 1966 ( PIM, Mar., 1966, p. 111).

"Trekka" and the Cains in Honolulu 1965. 116 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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THERE was an important development in the establishment of the University of the South Pacific in September when representatives from [?]arious Pacific Islands attended in Suva the first meeting of the interim council of the university. The university will start classes in Suva next yeaar in what was the old RNZAF station at Laucala Bay. Below, chairman of the council, Lord Morris, accepts a donation of £F5,000 for the university from Mr. B. M. Warden, manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Suva.

Above, Sir Norman Alexander, vice-chairman of the council, inspects a cheque for £F10,000 for the university from the CSR company and its subsidiary, South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd. At left is Mr. Stuart Hermes, managing director in Fiji, and Mr. D. Slade. 117 ACIFIG ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

Above, at a party in Sydney in October to celebrate the opening of new offices for Pan American Airways, nine entertainers from American Samoa gave a show.

Here, the Premier of NSW, Mr. R. W. Askin, clowns with four lovely girls from Pago, while Pulefano Lefolasa plays the guitar. At right, these three former pupils of the King George VI Memorial College at Honiara, in the Solomons, are now studying at Te Aute College, Hawkes Bay, NZ. They are, from left, Paul Hebala, of Santa Isabel, Albert Mahira, of Santa Ana, and Gena Te Kula, of Ranongga. All three have done well at sport and music in New Zealand and have formed themselves into a singing trio. They were photographed in the throne room of the old Legislative Council chamber in Wellington.

At a CSIRO fauna area near Canberra in October, 10 Papua- New Guinea Local Government councillors took an interest in a kangaroo which was apparently looking for a fight.

The councillors were making a three-week political education tour of parts of Australia, and are either presidents or vicepresidents of their councils. 118 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

At the South Pacific Conference [?]resentatives from 17 Pacific territories and five [?]ropolitan governments attended the Seventh South Pacific Conference in Noumea in October. Above are [?] commissioners of four of the five metropolitan [?]ernments. They are (from left) C. Reseigh (Australia), Nettre (France), R. Q. Quentin-Baxter, (NZ) and J. Fairclough (UK). In the bottom picture (from left) [?] Richard Simete (Wallis and Futuna), Maxime Carlot [?]d Michael Ala (New Hebrides) and S. Langi Kavaliku [?]nga). In the picture at right are Benjamin T. [?]nglona (US Trust Territory) and Mrs. Taotafa Lutu [?]inall (American Samoa). Mrs. Aspinall, who is the [?]e of American Samoa's Governor, sat in as Samoan [?]resentative when the delegate failed to arrive because of transport difficulties. 119 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

People |NE of the most highly regarded " old traders of the South Pacific ands, Mr. Claude S. Israel, was in dney in October, enjoying what he lied his “second retirement” from M Mr. Israel went to Fiji from Ausilia 62 years ago at the age of 16, d was a clerk in the employ of :nry Marks & Co. Ltd. Sir Henry irks was his uncle. When Morris idstrom Ltd. amalgamated with the irks Co. in 1920, Mr. Israel bene the Lautoka manager of M.H., J was prominent in the sugar town 24 years. He founded the utoka Chamber of Commerce and s its first president.

Fhen he was in Australia for four irs as manager of the M.H. nch in Sydney; and in 1960, when W. R. Carpenter group purised Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Mr. id returned to Fiji, on retirement, was then 60 years old.

Jut he could not stay idle and he led Mr. Charles Sullivan, the Iney merchant, in C. Sullivan cific Islands) Ltd., of Suva, and ; managing director of the comy until October, when he again red.

Ir. Israel thus has been a leading of Fiji all his life and, for services as a Justice of the Peace, for membership of various Govnent instrumentalities, he was le an MBE in a recent Honours’

His old Sydney friends gave a warm welcome in October and e trying to induce him to remain Sydney until December, so that r might help him celebrate his i birthday. » Mr. William Estall, a member he opposition in the Cook Islands islative Assembly, was appointed member of the Cook Islands inet in mid-September. While the nier, Mr. Albert Henry, was nt on a visit to New Zealand and Who is she? She’s a good example of the kind of feminine beauty to be found in the Western Highlands of New Guinea, in local dress.

A Qantas photographer took the picture at the Mt. Hagen show in August.

Noumea (for the South Pacific Conference), Mr. Estall held the portfolios of Works and Communications. His appointment to Cabinet was interpreted to mean that the Cook Islands Government had become a semi-coalition government, as all previous Cabinet ministers had been members of Mr. Henry’s Cook Islands Party. • Mr. John Hawkins has replaced Mr. Richard Mann as United States vice-consul in Fiji. Mr. Mann has been transferred to the American Embassy in Tokyo. Mr. Hawkins, who came to Fiji from Stuttgart, Germany, has also held appointments in Thailand, Syria, Colombia, Egypt, Vietnam and France. • Charles Godden, of the British Secondary School in Vila, broke the New Hebrides record for the 100 metres race at a sports meeting in Vila on September 23. His time of 10.8 sec. bettered that of J.

Pothin, of New Caledonia, who recorded 10.9 sec. last year. Pothin holds the South Pacific Games record with 10.6 sec. On the same day as Godden’s outstanding performance, a men’s 4 x 100 metres relay team clipped 1.2 sec. off the previous best local time of 45 sec. • Mr. Trafford Smith, former Under-Secretary of State at the Commonwealth Office, has been appointed British Ambassador to Burma. Mr. Trafford Smith, who is well known in the Western Pacific, which he last visited in 1966, has been succeeded by Mr. James Morgan. Mr. Morgan has been serving with the British High Commission in Canberra. • The Chief Justice in Fiji since 1964, Mr. Justice R. H. Mills-Owens, has accepted the offer of an appointment as Puisne Judge, Hong Kong, where he previously served from 1956 to 1964. • The Rev, Emil F. Hannemann, an American Lutheran missionary, who worked in the Madang area of New Guinea from 1923 to 1956, passed through Sydney in mid- October on his way back to Madang for another year’s work. Mr. Hannemann will be engaged in translating the Old Testament into the Bel language of the Madang district. A translation of the New Testament was completed in 1956. Mr. Hannemann, who is from South Dakota, took a lively interest in native art and legends during his previous period in New Guinea. He is the author of Tibut: New Guinea Legends, which was published some years ago by the New Guinea section of the Board of Foreign Missions of the American Lutheran Church. • Associate Justice Virgilio Roel, of the High Court of American Samoa, has been appointed to a position of the Board of Appeals and Review of the US Post Office Department in Washington. Judge Roel arrived in Pago Pago in August, 1962. He was one of the top officials of the revived Boy Scout movement in the territory. • Dr. A. H, Penington, who has been the World Health Organisation representative in the South Pacific (headquarters in Suva) for two years, has been transferred to Ethiopia. He left Fiji on October 20. He has a permanent link with the South Pacific—Mrs. Penington is the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs.

Elizabeth Thieme of Western Samoa, and her brothers are Dr. Thieme, and Mr. Paul Thieme, of Apia. Dr.

Penington’s successor is Dr. John Hirshman. • The Tongan Government has engaged a Japanese fishmaster for its 101-ton deep-sea trawler, Pakeina.

He is Mr. S. Kawakami, a graduate of the fisheries department of Tokyo University. • Nearly 80 people from the Pacific Islands attended the Intercontinental Conference of the Baha’i Faith, held in Sydney in early October. They included Mr. and Mrs. Suhayl Ala’i and family, Mr.

Albert King and Dr. and Mrs. Porter (American Samoa); Mr. and Mrs.

Alvin Blum (Solomons); Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hancock and family, Mr. Peter Woodrow, Mrs. W.

Vakarksabi and Miss R. Tekarabi (Fiji); and Mrs. and Mrs. Aritiera and Mr. Mote Kiaman (GEIC).

From the Mariana Islands came Mrs. W. Breaks; from New Guinea, Mrs. M. Bluett, Messrs. R. Hancock, George Larawin, Josep Tamun, John Francis, Miss V. Hoehnke and Mr. and Mrs. David Podger and family; from Tonga, Miss Latai Maka; from the Cooks, Mr. Niu Rua; and from Western Samoa, Mr. and Mrs. Niuoleava Luataga. Delegates also came from Hawaii and Guam.

Principles of the Baha’i faith include the oneness of mankind, independent investigation of truth, equality of men and women, elimination of prejudices of all kinds, universal compulsory education and a universal auxiliary language. 121 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-N O V E M B E R , 1967

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Business send Development Shares rise following renewed interest in Papuan oils search for oil in and around Papua has resumed in a big way. Three huge corporations—Esso, British Petroum and Phillips—will spend up to $lO million looking for oil i the Papuan mainland and $l4 million over a two-year >riod off-shore drilling in the Gulf of Papua.

October, Phillips Australian Oil )any began off-shore drilling in a with a $7 million oil rig ar Conception, and British leum signed an agreement to up to $3.4 million in a )ut arrangement with Oil Search ed. Drilling started in varying s of water from four to 40 off-shore, about 200 miles -west of Port Moresby. 0 work boats —Biloxi and 1 Springs —serviced the huge diich is 400 ft long and has a cement of 11,000 tons. out 60 labourers and technicians perating the rig daily at a cost 0,000 a day to Phillips, Sunray, ipa and Canadian Superior Oil.

Search announced the BP nent and said it would cover mcession areas in Papua not ly farmed out to Esso, o Exploration and Production alia Inc. joined Oil Search early ear to drill four wells on Oil a’s concession areas around >tion Bay and the Taurama in the Gulf of Papua at a cost of up to S 6 million ( PIM , Apr., p. 147).

Under the BP agreement, Oil Search will transfer to BP shares in the operating companies, Australasian Petroleum Company and Island Exploration Company, so that after the programme is implemented Oil Search will have just over 50 per cent, of the capital in these companies.

Then Oil Search’s interest in the Esso farmout areas will drop from 50 per cent, to 25 per cent, should the Esso farmout be fully implemented.

BP will be the operator for both companies.

Where and when Esso and BP sink their wells is completely up to them now, as it is their capital which will be spent.

The 50 cent shares in Oil Search were the subject of huge buying in October and September, and from a low of 13 cents in the middle of this year they topped 50 cents in early October and steadied later at 45 cents.

While British buyers have dominated the buying, at least one Port Moresby businessman who bought more than 200,000 Oil Search early this year under 15 cents has yet to sell.

It is several years since the company’s shares reached par value but trading this year on all Australian stock exchanges has been extremely heavy and with several new wells to be drilled in Papua, with more sophisticated equipment and better-informed technical knowhow, it is unlikely the shares will fall to their lower levels again for some time.

UK team to survey GEIC's potential A FIVE-MAN team of British experts is to spend several weeks in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands from late October to early December making a socio-economic survey and drawing up a plan for the future development of the colony.

The team will be headed by Sir George Mooring, a former Deputy Governor of Western Nigeria, British Resident in Zanzibar, and Permanent Secretary to the UK Ministry of Finance.

The team will survey the policies and practices of the government and of the Wholesale Society in all spheres of activity and will make recommendations for both short-term and long-term development.

Other members of the team are [?]mar Conception", an 11,000-ton self- [?]elled oil driller, began working in the of Papua in October for several overfill oil companies in the first offshore [?]h for oil in the territory. The drilling [?] capable of drilling in water depths [?] 600 ft to 25,000 ft. The first well spudded on October 8 at a depth 300 ft in limestone, 30 miles from the Papuan coast. 125 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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Mr. Keigwin will examine the ElC’s education, health and social jvelopment. id moan soap factory iff to good start VESTERN Samoa’s soap factory, which started production of undry soap early this year and put 5 first toilet soap on the market September, is doing good business.

General manager of Western imoa Trust Estates Corporation, ho built the factory, P. W. Kelly, ported that in the first two weeks ; September the sales of laundry iap had broken all records, and the les of toilet soap had “exceeded all :pectation.”

In that period the factory sold 400 cartons, each containing 28 irs, of laundry soap; and 26,760 ikes of toilet soap. Factory manner G. Werner said he hoped that ;fore long the factory would be supying all Samoa’s soap requirements, nports of soap in 1966 amounted to rtr $lOO,OOO. ?opra market ases slightly CONTINUING good prices in late J September resulted in an 'erage monthly price of £Stg.7l/7/6 i.f. UK/Continent to be applied gainst October shipments, the ;puty chairman of the P-NG Copra [arketing Board, Mr. K. G. Oliver, id in Port Moresby on October 20.

Mr. Oliver said the upward trend mtinued strongly into the first half : October when prices, after reachg a high of £Stg.7B/8/8, eased imewhat.

He went on: “During the months : June and July the appreciable jcline in the supplies of laurics to ic two most important consuming eas in the world continued. Western uropean gross imports of the comined copra and coconut oil during le two months were about unlanged from the previous year but : the same time the imports of jmbined palm kernels and kernel il were down sharply.

“The total imports of the four 127 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

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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, Williams & Gosling Ltd.; Noumea, R. Laubreaux; Norfolk Island, Martin's Agencies; Apia, E. A. Coxon & Co. commodities declined about 20,00 G tons oil basis or 12.3 per cent, with practically all of the decline on account of palm kernels.

“The cumulative total for the first seven months of this year again shows the sharpest decline for palm kernels, though copra imports into West Europe and the US were also down appreciably.

“The reason for this development is twofold—the sharp decline in Philippine copra production with the corresponding reduction in exports from that source, and the civil war in Nigeria which has affected shipments of palm kernels from the Eastern region and partly also from the mid-Western region.

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"Fair profit rise" expected for BP's DESPITE a drop in profits for w.

R. Carpenter and only a marginal profit increase for Steamships, Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., is expected to show a fair profit rise when its accounts are announced early in November. Indications of this were to be seen in the accounts of BP subsidiaries which were to hand in October.

Nevertheless, many shareholders were apprehensive about BP’s results and in late October the BP $1 shares fell to the year’s low of $3.50 on Sydney and Melbourne Exchanges.

Carpenter’s comments on lower turnovers in Fiji, and BP’s loss of its shipping subsidy (see pp. 24 and 133) obviously influenced the share market, but it must be not forgotten that BP’s has a large and rich investment portfolio.

At balance date last year, the company held almost $39 million worth of shares in other companies, while net book assets were worth $4.83 a share—well above market estimation.

Last year’s profits—ss,o93,ooo— more than a full year. • More news of business and development appears on p. 133.

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First WRC profit drop in 23 years was "not so bad"

Although difficulties with and trading resulted in a profit )p for the W. R. Carpenter oup for the year ended June the first downturn in 23 its, Carpenter’s new chairman 1 managing director, Mr. C.

Carpenter, believes that in the mmstances it is “not such a 1 result”.

'o offset the Islands position, e were increases in Islands chandising turnover, the Ausian-based subsidiaries achieved an roved result overall, the company ived increased income from its istment portfolio, and its liquid fion is so strong that it will inise the final dividend from 1\ cent, to 8J per cent., making a 1 of 16 per cent, for the year. he company called a special news ference in October—only its md general Press conference ever, a good piece of public relations k— to present a preliminary jment of profit. A final report be available early in November, he news conference also allowed Sydney Press to take a closer : at the new chairman, who «eded his brother, Mr. R. B. penter, who died on October 3. the conference it was also annced that Mr. W. R. (Randolph) penter had been appointed jty managing director and general lager, and that Mr. S. S. Proud, Id also be general manager.

Details lr, C. H. Carpenter, friendly and ing but admitting to some trepidaat suddenly finding himself in the position and with a Press connce on his hands too, asked ismen to “treat me kindly”. They ted him kindly, and in return Mr. penter gave frank replies to Jtions on the report, and made e predictions about the future of big firm’s activities. e said the percentage of the all profit which had come from ids activities was not yet known, would be available with the final •es.

The holding company’s preliminary figures show a profit after taxation of $4,773,261, compared with $4,862,340 for 1965/66. The 16 per cent, dividend (15 per cent, last year) will absorb $2,400,000, or about 52 per cent, of the net profit for the year.

Among the reasons for the lower returns from the Islands were rising costs, lower prices, particularly from copra, and a fall in the copra tonnage. The rising costs were particularly in wages.

A drought and hurricanes in some of the major copra producing areas had reduced tonnages, and in Fiji there was a “mounting impact” on the community of the prolonged recession in world sugar prices.

Islands subsidiaries had produced a total of 10,917 tons of copra for the year, which was a decline of 652 tons. Cocoa produced was 1,092 tons, which was an increase of 64 tons. An increase in cocoa prices compensated for the weakness in copra prices, nevertheless there was a total fall of about $300,000 in revenue from Islands produce.

Copra prices had since become firmer, and cocoa was “fully firm”.

Merchandising In Fiji, because of the adverse economic factors, there was an overall fall of about three per cent, in the annual rate of turnover of the merchandising companies, and a lower rate of profitability generally.

But in Papua-New Guinea merchandising turnover had increased overall by about six per cent. Automotive sales had made an increasingly significant contribution.

However, because of extensive remodelling of the group’s merchandising structure in New Guinea during the year, with heavy costs, there had been reduced profit for the merchandising group. Trends since June suggested an improved merchandising return next year. The loss of the Lakemba had been reported since the close of accounts, but she had been fully insured with Lloyds of London (see also p. 103).

Substantial development expenditure had been made in the past year and the benefits from this were expected to be reflected progressively in earnings of future years. The first plucking of tea from the New Guinea Highlands estate would be made in the first half of 1968.

“As it would not be economic to create production facilities to handle the small amount of leaf that will be available initially, arrangements have been made at satisfactory prices for the sale of the leaf to another local processor,” the preliminary report added.

In answering questions at the news conference, Mr. C. H. Carpenter said that the position of sugar in Fiji was “still very bad”. And as a result of the poorer condition of Fiji generally there had been a drop of eight to 10 per cent, in the total tonnage of goods passing through Fiji ports, and this had affected the economy.

He hoped that tourism would play an increasing role in Fiji’s economy, and Carpenters would increase its investment in this field. Tourism, too, meant an increased turnover in the stores.

Tourism “We have land and facilities for investment in tourism in Fiji,” said Mr. Carpenter. “We have some major sites.”

He agreed that the company was also interested in developing tourism in New Guinea, but was reluctant to give details. He said he could sum up the Carpenter interest in tourist possibilities everywhere by saying that “if there is anything in it for us we will be in the tourist industry.

If there is no money in it, we don’t want it!”

Mr. Carpenter said that he could see some further improvement coming in copra prices, which were already much higher.

“Nobody knows why this should be, or how long they will stay good,” he added.

Mr. C. H. Carpenter. 133

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Canberra Agent: BURNS PHILP TRUSTEE COMPANY (CANBERRAt LIMITED, Suite 11, Landtrust Building, East Row, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T. 2601. 9.551 Commercial trouble at Mt. Hagen Listeners to the abc were fascinated to hear the following Australia-wide radio broadcast on October 25: “At Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands of New Guinea, nine native employees at a big retail store Lave accepted the sack rather than work under certain Europeans who they allege spoke to them like dogs.

The entire native staff of Steamships Trading Company Limited, twentytwo in all—went on strike yesterday, •claiming that they were habitually sworn at and humiliated by a number of Europeans.

“The ABC’s Mount Hagen correspondent says the striking employees had a meeting with company staff and an officer of the Administration’s Department of Labour, and were told their grievances would be attended to if they returned to work. However, most of the strikers refused to resume duty until the Europeans concerned were spoken to by the management.

“Thirteen of the native strikers were back at work today, but nine were dismissed.

“The ABC correspondent, herself an employee at the Steamships Trading store at Mount Hagen—was a sacked this morning, allegedly having reported the strike to ABC news. The correspondent, M Janet Whish-Wilson, said the m ager had paid her off after tell her it was because of her ne report.

“Mrs. Whish-Wilson was an of! worker in the store. Her husband a surveyor with the Lands Dep< ment in Papua/New Guinea,”

A PIM New Guinea correspond afterwards reported that another the dismissed workers later retun to work, leaving eight out of a —plus the ABC’s corresponde PlM’s correspondent said there v no proof of the allegations agai the European staff and theref none was dismissed; the strikers w dismissed because they refused labour officer’s reasonable instruct to return to work pending an vestigation of their allegations.

In itself, the Mt. Hagen strike v of no national significance, but fact it got so much publicity cau: controversy in the territory. Mi employers asked: “Doesn’t this s of reporting stir up industrial trout and give others ideas? In the terests of sound labour relations th things shouldn’t be publicised”.

Many employees had differ ideas. And thus the Hagen strike whatever its cause, or its rights wrongs—revealed some of the tee ing troubles of industrial relations the emerging territory.

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Mr. Rothkirch has spent his wc ing life in the Philippines. His f experience was on a sugar estate wl he first went as a young man fr Germany. Since then his experie has covered many agricultural asp< including plantation management i extensive manufacture of desicca coconut.

Assisting Mr. Rothkirch in management of the new desicca coconut project will be Mr. C. W, (Granger) Johnson, who has tal an active part in the executive m agement of the W. R. Carper Group’s interests in New Guinea a number of years.

More recently he has been 134 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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When the shares slipped from 90 cents to just above par after the directors’ predictions of reduced profits earlier this year ( PIM , June, p. 129) it was generally predicted that if the shares did not rise, then the company would be taken over.

The shares have certainly not risen much—they steadied at about 60 cents in late October—but take-over offers have not eventuated, either. As _ tU , . long as the company s shares remam at this low level it is vulnerable to take-over bids. Stock Exchange talk was that one big supermarket chain was still more than interested.

“Steamies” difficulty is that it has. big capital, collected through borrowing, tied up in development projects which have not yet begun earning anything like the 20 per cent, the company consistently achieved in the past. If New Guinea’s political situa^ *ion rema i ns favourable to trading, . there is no reason why it f h ° uldn company s currently % tZ,u 1 pay ‘ ng oft m about six months and earning rates would be regained by June , 1969. J B y then, shareholders can probably expect their shares to have recovered to the Si mark. 135 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

Last Sales

SYDNEY Sept. 27 Oct. 26 A. Lemon .50 . . . .75 .77 ANG Hold. 1.00 .99 1.00 Bali Plantations .50 .48 .52 Burns Philp 1.00 . . 3.98 3.75 Burns Philp (SS) 2.25 4.00 3.90 Camelec .50 . , . .58 .58 Carpenter .50 . . . 2.00 2.06 Choiseul Plntn. 1.00 2.90 2.55 C.S.R. 1.00 .... 4.45 4.65 Dylup Plntn. .50 . .58 .60 Fiji Industries 1.12 . 2.60 2.30 Hackshalls .50 . . 1.41 1.50 Kerema Rubber .50 .19 .19 Koitaki Rubber .50 1.08 .85 Lolorua Rubber .50 .42 .38 Makurapau Plntn. .50 .42 .47 Mariboi Rubber .50 .28 .32 Plantation Hldgs. .50 .40 .39 Queensland Ins. 1.00 4.50 4.90 Rubberlands .50 . . .26 .21 Sogeri Rubber .50 . .60 .60 Sth. Pac. Ins. .50 . 1.66 1.60 Steamships Tdg. .50 .62 .60 do. new .... .59 .56 Watkins Cons. .50 . .65 .73

Oil And Mining Shares

C.R.A. .50 ... . 8.34 9.90 Emperor .10 . . . . .51 .66 NG Gold Ltd. .35 . .53 .51 Oil Search .50 . . .32 .39 Pacific I. Mines .25 .50 .47 Papuan Apin. .50 . .25 .34 Placer Dev.* . . . 33.80 33.00 * No par value Sydney stock exchange share price dex for ordinaries on Oct 26 433.76. On Sept. 27 it was 410.29.

Produce Prices (Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. New Zealand $1 equals 5A1.24, Western Samoa $1 equals $A1.24, 8/- Sterling equals SAI; 1 pa’anga (Tonga) equals SAI; 5,381 rupees Ceylon equals SAI; 98 Pac. Frs. equals SAI and 5U51.125 equal SAI.) COPRA PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production Is delivered to Copra Marketing Board, controlled by six members, including three planters’ representatives. The board directs distribution and sales," and makes payments to the producers. Production goes mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Australia for local consumption, (c) crushingmill in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus as available). Prices generally tally with ruling rate in Philippines with premiums for hot-air dried.

P-NG Board’s purchase prices for copra delivered main ports in October were hot-air dried, $126 per ton; FMS, $123 per ton; smoke-dried, $l2l per ton.

FIJI:—The Fiji Coconut Industry Board fixes the prices to be paid for Fiji copra on a formula based on that for Philippines copra, and taking into account freight, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage, etc. The copra must be graded at centres in Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and Taveuni. Prices in Suva to Nov. 12 were; Grade one, £F6I/17/6; grade two, £FS7 and grade three, £F49/2/6. A scale of deductions has been established for copra delivered to grading centres other than Suva.

WESTERN SAMOA:—AII production is sold to the Copra Board of Western Samoa at fixed prices. The Board makes payments to producers through its agents —the local firms—and sells the copra on the open market with a portion to Abels Ltd., NZ. Last prices in October were SWS96 for grade one, SWS9I for grade one sun dried, and SWSB3 for grade two.

TONGA: All copra is sold to the Tonga Copra Board which sends it to Europe and the open market. October prices to growers were $T99.50 first grade and $T87.50 second grade.

SOLOMON IS.; All production marketed through official BSI Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rate. Output goes to Unilever, UK; to Australian crushers; and the balance on to the open market. Prices on Oct. 13 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 France and Venezuela. Official price on Oct. 28 was $B4 (8,400 Pac.

Francs). French price then was 1,030 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 October, November and December, have been fixed, subject to freight adjustment, at $NZ132.93 first grade, hot air dried; $NZ130.97 first grade, sun dried and $NZ129.51 standard grade, all per ton packed f.o.b.

Other Produce

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote F 2- (4 in. to 7 in.) to F3/- (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for well processed commercial varieties.

COCOA: —Islands prices are usually based on the rates for Ghana cocoa.

On Oct. 26 these were app. £ Stg.23B/15/per ton, c.i.f., Sydney (Oct. to Mar. shipment) .

On Oct. 27, Quote No. 1: In store Rabaul, export quality $460 per ton, exwharf Sydney, $5lO, and declining. Quote No. 2: Best quality, ex-wharf Sydney, $5OB, in store NG ports $477 (for UK, Continent and USA shipments).

VV. Samoa. —Latest prices quoted in Sydney, on Oct. 25, were: Grade 1, £ Stg.24o, grade 2, £Stg.222/10/- per ton, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE.—P-NG; Oct. 27, Quote No. 1, good quality A grade 37c to 40c per lb; B grade 36c to 38c; C grade 35c to 36c; X grade 36c to 39c and native X grade 33.5 c to 34c.

CROCODILE SKINS. On Oct. 27 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.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyers quoted: Oct. 27, No. 1, Ist grade, $5OO, f.o.b. Islands ports, 2nd grade, nom., $240 on wharf, Sydney. Honiara: 16c lb.

PAPUAN GUM: New Guinea graded gum $lB5 per ton, f.0.b., Samarai, ungraded gum $174, f.0.b., NG.

PEANUTS.—P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported Oct. 27, f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 15c lb.

PEARL SHELL.—Pished by Japanese and Australian interests around Cape York and Broome, North Australia, for mainly cultured shell production. Shells were scarce in July. Two Sydney buyers, on Oct. 27, quoted these prices: Sound $1,650 per ton, D grade $l,lBO, E grade, $650, EE $470 (in store Sydney).

Solomons. —Honiara, mother of pearl blacklip 15c lb, goldlip 20c lb.

Cook Islands.—Penrhyn Island, SNZ7OO (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

RICE (Aust.): Prices, until Mar. 31. 1968, are—P.-N.G.; Dried brown rice, 112 P bags, $l2B per ton, f.o.w. Sydney or Melbourne. Vitamin enriched white rice, 56 lb bags, $142 per ton, f.o.w. Brown, 40 lb bags $l3B per ton. Other Pa< Islands: Polished white (56 lb bags) dried brown rice (112 lb bags), $l5O ton, f.o.w.

RUBBER.—P-NG price is based Singapore rates, which on Oct. 21 w Prompt nominal shipment 49% Mala cents per lb, c.i.f. (14.31 Aust. cen Nov. MSOVsC (A14.54c) and Dec. M 5( (A14.71C).

SHARK FINS: Chang Sing Loong Suva, offers P4/6 per lb for well-dried of commercial quality. ICEP Pty. I 22 Taylor St., North Curl Curl, Sydi quote 65c to 85c lb., ex-store Sydi according to quality.

TROCHUS.—Sydney buyers indies the following quotations to Islands ] ducers: Oct. 27 Papua $175-j per ton; N.G., 8.5.1,—5150-$l6O per f.o.b. Islands ports—direct shipment overseas markets.

TURTLE SHELL.—BSI: first grade marked 90c a lb at Gizo.

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tull Co., Sydney, buy mainly from Tahiti Sydney and Melbourne essence mak Prices on Oct. 27 were: white and yel label processed, standard packs, $6 green label, $6.40 c.i.f. Sydney.

Uk, Us, Ceylon Quotes

COPRA: LONDON, Oct. 24, Philippi in bulk, SUS 247 per long ton, c, UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports, UQ.

Pacific Coast, Philippines, SUSI9S short ton. CEYLON: Spot, 1,215 Ruj per long ton.

COCONUT OIL: LONDON. Oct.

Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £Stg.l2s per ' c.i.f., UK/Nth. European ports.

RUBBER: LONDON, Oct. 21, i 19%d Stg. lb; Oct. 14-9/16d Stg. lb Jan. 15-11/16d Stg. lb.

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through Bank of NSW. ANZ Bank, Bank of NZ, Bank of Baroda.

Australia on Fiji, basis £FI: buying $A2.2225, selling $A2.26. Fiji-London, basis £Stg.loo: b. £FII2, s. £FIIO/15/-. NZ- Fiji, basis £FI: b. $NZ1.7923, s. $NZ1.8147.

WESTERN SAMOA.—Through Bank of Western Samoa. Australia-W-Samoa, basis SWSI: b. $A1.2363, S. $A1.2454. NZ-W.

Samoa, basis SNZI: b. SWSI.OOSO, s. par.

Fiji-W. Samoa, basis £FI: SWSI.BIB2, s.

SWSI.BOIB. W. Samoa-London, basis £Stg.l: b, $W52.0200, s. SWS2.OIOO.

Norfolk Is. And Papua-New

GUINEA. —Australian currency used: no exchange payable in transactions with Australia.

FRENCH PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs (CPF> are used in New Caledonia, New Hebrides (Jointly with Australian dollars), Wallis and Futuna Islands and Fr. Polynesia. French Bank, Sydney, on Oct. 27, quoted: Selling, Noumea and Papeete, 98 Pac. francs to $ Aust.; 240 Pac. francs to £ Stg., approx. 90 Pac. francs to US $; Noumea 18 Pac. francs to 1 French franc (conversion rate: 1 Pac. francs equals 0.055 French franc). Paris-London: Buying 13.66 francs to £Stg.

Stock Market 136 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

cvcvcvcvc se and even hostile debate on ler a proposed technical meeting sheries and a fisheries training e should be held in French r a of or t h a : :^oriaT t imeres™ ainly Pr ° mPted mch Polynesia argued strongly French Polynesia was the more ical place; while Mr. B. T. ;lona (US Trust Territory) >ed for Koror, ror finally won the vote as the appropriate location on the ids that it was handy to the West Center in Honolulu; it ly had a training institute; and insport for delegates was already ed. other major point of debate was an SPC recommendation to appoint a specialist in mental health late in 1968. Nearly every delegate spoke on this topic.

Mr. W. Betu (Solomon Islands) doubted whether there was a mental health problem in his territory. But Western Samoa’s young lulai Toma had no such doubts about his; and this was the view of most other delegates, who said that with rapid urbanisation, mental health was a growing problem.

After a suggestion had been made that one of the three psychiastrists already working in Fiji, Papua-New Guinea and New Caledonia should be employed as an SPC consultant, Western Samoa’s senior commissioner, Afoafouvale Misimoa, called on delegates to “dig deep into their pockets” to appoint an SPC specialist. If they left it for even one more year, he said, it might be too late.

The conference voted in favour of the appointment.

This left delegates with only a few minor matters to discuss.

These included the question of whether future conferences should be “large” or “small” and whether or not they should be held in the same year.

No conclusion was reached on this —the matter being left in abeyance in the hope that the metropolitan governments would uncover a solution in time for the 1968 conference.

It semed to be assumed that the 1968 conference would take place in Noumea, although no one actually confirmed this.

The site of the 1969 conference is a somewhat ticklish matter. The Guamanian delegates at the Lae conference in 1965 tentatively offered their territory as the venue for it, but there have been so many changes in SPC business since then that no decision has yet been made on their offer. imea conference (Continued from p. 26)

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BRISBANE - SYDNEY -

West Irian - Indonesia

P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping ny operates a monthly cargo service ndonesia to Sukarnapura, Brisbane, ' and Melbourne with three 12,000eighters. ils from John Manners and Co.

Pty. Ltd., general agents, 4 Bridge dney (27-9164).

Sydney - Fiji

operates a passenger/cargo run the MV Rona, departing Sydney three to four weeks for Suva and a and return. ils from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

O'Connell St., Sydney (2-0515).

EY - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA n Steam Ship Co. maintains -weekly cargo service with the te from Sydney to Lautoka, Suva ing transhipments for Vavau and Nukualofa and Apia with return ney via Auckland. The return trip nally takes in Malua (Fiji) and iga (NZ) for timber, ils from Union Steam Ship Co. of 7 George St., Sydney (2-0528).

Ydney - Fiji/Tahiti - Uk

idris liners Australis and Ellinls in a two-monthly passenger service Sydney via NZ, Suva (Australis Papeete (Ellinis only) to Southampturning via Suez. ils from Chandris Line, 135 King dney (28-2451).

Fdney - Geic - Honolulu

nbus Lines of New York, operate imately monthly passenger-cargo s from West Coast, USA (with nal calls at Papeete or Pago Pago) tralia and New Zealand, returning rawa, GEIC (with transhipments to in the Marshall Islands) and lu to Los Angeles or Vancouver, ils from American Trading and ig Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street. (27-4149).

Ey - Lord Howe - Norfolk

Is. - New Caledonia

aes del Mar n (owned by Societe ne Caledonienne, Noumea), makes liar three weekly passenger-cargo from Sydney or Melbourne to [owe, Norfolk and Noumea.

Us from F. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., luarie Place, Sydney (27-8311).

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, Taiohae (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, with occasional calls at Pago Pago and Tonga.

Details from P. and O. Lines of Aust.

Pty. Ltd., 55 Hunter St., Sydney (2-0317).

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, calling at Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Rarotonga, Suva, and Papeete.

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 Holland-America Line, cnr.

Bridge and Pitt Sts., Sydney (27-6432).

Sydney - Norfolk Is. - New

Hebrides • Bsi

MV Tulagi (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 cargo/passenger service from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Rabaul, Madang and Lae.

Details from Wllh. 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, 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, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kavieng, Rabaul.

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 vessel Papuan Chief leaves Sydney every two and a half weeks for Brisbane and Port Moresby. Alternate trips include a call at Samarai.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., 2 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, Fulleborn 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 from Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane to Port Moresby, Madang, Rabaul and Lae then Taiwan, returning to Australia via Rabaul, Madang and Lae.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St.. Sydney (27-6301). 139 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 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.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 York Street, Sydney (2-0253).

Europe - New Guinea - West

Irian - Bsip - Geic

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd operate a service every six weeks from Europe and London via Suez to Port Moresby, Honiara or Tarawa (alt. voyage), Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Alexishafen, Wewak, Sukarnapura, Biak, Manokwari 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 NZ and the Far East.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

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 vessels Kweilin and Ninghai maintain a regular monthly passenger/cargo service from Japan to Lae and Pt. Moresby, thence Tasmania, Melbourne and Fremantle.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

FAR EAST - P NG - BSI - NEW

Hebrides - New Caledonia

China Navigation vessels Chefoo, Chengtu and Chekiang maintain a monthly cargo service from Japan and Hong Kong 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 - FIJI - N.

Caledonia - N. Hebrides - Bsi

Daiwa Navigation 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 monthly trips from Auckland to Rarotonga, with calls at Niue and other Cook Islands when cargo warrants.

Details from NZ Department of Island Territories, Wellington (71-846) 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 USS of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland (40-430).

Nz - New Caledonia ■

Norfolk Island

Holm and Co. Ltd., vessel Holmburn provides a two-monthly service from NZ to Noumea and Norfolk Island and return.

Details from Holm Shipping Co., Customs Street East, Auckland (49930).

New Zealand - Tahiti - Uk

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.

Nz - Tahiti - Cook Islands

Holm and Company’s passenger-cargo vessel Magga Dan maintains a twomonthly service from Auckland, NZ, to Papeete and Rarotonga, with calls at Lautoka, Suva, Apia and Nukualofa when cargoes warrant.

Details from Holm and Co. Ltd- Customs Street East, Auckland (49930).

NTH AMERICA - TAHITI - AM. SAMOA Polynesia Line vessel Graziella maintains a regular seven-week route (with limited passenger space) Los Angeles, San Francisco, Coos (British Columbia), Papeete and Pago and return the same way.

Details from Interocean Steal Corp., Box 1631, GPO, Sydney (27-J

Tonga • Fiji - Australia

The Tonga Copra Board 1 Niuvakai operates a seven-T* passenger-cargo service from Melb and Sydney to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Pago and Nukualofa.

Details from Burns Philp and Co. 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

Tonga - Fiji - Samoa

Tonga Shipping Agency operati cargo-passenger run from Nukualofa Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, Ellington, Rot with MV Aoniu. Calls are also mai required at Apia and Pago Pago.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), S UK - PANAMA - SAMOA - FI The Fiji Direct Service is maint by Conference vessels, sailing at re monthly intervals out of London, Panama, for Apia, Suva and Lau Bethell, Gwyn and Co. Ltd., act as ] ing Brokers in London.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), UK ■ PAPUA - NG ■ BSI Bank Line operates a monthly i service from Europe to Pt. Moi Samarai, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kai Rabaul and Honiara, occasionally ex ing to Tarawa, GEIC, or Vila and S New Hebrides.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (27-204 UK - TAHITI ■ NZ - AUSTRAL!

Cogedar Line vessel Flavia, opera oassenger service regularly Southampton, via Panama, Papeete Auckland, to Sydney.

Details from agents: H. C. Sleigh York St., Sydney. (2-0253).

Usa - American Samoa - F!

AUSTRALIA Matson-Oceanic Line operates monthly passenger-cargo service fron Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra Ventura. Regular calls include Sy Brisbane, Melbourne, Pago Pago Honolulu.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 7 St.. Sydney (27-4272).

Usa - Australia

Pacific Australia Direct Line’s vi maintain a monthly service West Coast Nth. American to Sydney, Melbourne and Ade! occasionally calling at Honolulu, and Lautoka.

Details from Birt and Co. Pty. 2 Castlereagh St.. Sydney (2-0313). • PlM's shipping and airways timet are correct to time of publicatio 140 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

ST

©Aiwa Line

Direct Monthly Service

Japan Guam & South Pacific

M.V. "SAMOA MARU" V-2 Dep. JAPAN November 30.

GUAM December 5.

APIA December 15.

PAGO PAGO December 15-16.

SUVA December 18-19.

LABASA December 19-20.

LAUTOKA December 21-22.

NOUMEA December 24-26.

VILA December 30.

SANTO December 31- January 1.

Heavy lift, reefer space available.

Subject to alteration with or without notice.

Next Sailing — M.V. “Tokai Mam” V-2, end December.

THE DAIWA NAVIGATION <O., 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. 5A • PACIFIC PORTS - NZ •

Australia - Usa

z Line Ltd., operates regular s from US Gulf ports to Australia Z. Frequency of sailings offering htly availability for calls at Suva lutoka on demand, ils from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty. 169 George St., Sydney (27-2041). ion Line liners Mariposa and ■ey maintain a regular passenger/ every three weeks from San 3co and Los Angeles to Bora Bora, e, Rarotonga, Auckland, Sydney, ‘turn via Noumea, Suva, Niuafoou, ’ago and Honolulu to San Francisco. ils from Matson Lines, 50 Young Sydney (27-4272).

Sa - Tahiti - Australia

ell Lines passenger-cargo ships on lantic Coast-Panama-Sydney service three-weekly calls at Tahiti on ound voyages. ils from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, dge St., Sydney (27-6301). i - TAHITI - SAMOA ■ FIJI •

New Caledonia

fic Islands Transport Line’s vessels aard and Thor I maintain approxlmonthly services from West Coast \merican ports to Papeete, Pago Apia, Suva, Noumea, occasionally a, Vila and return, ails from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty. !75 George St., Sydney (29-2551).

Airways Timetables

:rnational Dateline is crossed be- Nadi and Honolulu.) ;ans-pacific services

Ey - Brisbane - Hawaii - Us

QANTAS (with 707’s) : Dep. Syd. 0945, arr. Bris. 1100, 1145, arr. Honolulu 0025, dep. 5, arr. San Francisco 0830.

Dep. San Francisco 1100, arr. lolulu 1410, dep. 1500, arr. Bris. 0, dep. 2115, arr. Syd, 2230.

Dney - Fiji - Hawaii - Usa

QANTAS (with 707’s) Fri., Sat., Sun.; Dep. Syd. 0945, , Nadi 1535, dep. 1620, arr. Honoi 0025, dep. 0145, arr. San Francisco 0 (to Vancouver alt. Sun.).

Wed., Fri., Sat.: Dep. Syd. 1900, , Nadi 0050, dep. 0135, arr. Hono- -1 0940, dep. 1100, arr. San Francisco 5.

Wed., Fri., Sun.: Dep. San Francisco 0, arr. Honolulu 2310, dep. 2359, . Nadi 0415, dep. 0500, arr. Syd. 0.

Fri., Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 1100, Honolulu 1410, dep. 1500, arr. ii 1915, dep. 2000, arr. Syd. 2210.

By BOAC (with 707’s) Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1900, . Nadi 0050, dep. 0135 Wed., Fri., u. (cross Dateline) arr. Honolulu Tues., Thurs., Sun. 0940, dep. 1100, arr. San Francisco 1745.

Tues., Thurs., Sat.: From London, New York, dep. San Francisco 2000, arr.

Honolulu 2310, dep. 2359 (cross Dateline) arr. Nadi Thurs., Sat., Mon. 0415, dep. 0500, arr. Sydney 0710.

Sydney - Fiji - Tahiti - Mexico

By Q ANT AS (with 707’s) Mon.: Dep. Syd. 1000, arr. Auckland 1445, dep. 1545, arr. Papeete* 2240 Sun. dep. 2340, arr. Acapulco 1130 Mon., dep. 1230, arr. Mexico City 1320.

Wed.; Dep. Syd. 2100, arr. Nadi 0250, dep. 0340, arr. Papeete 0955 Wed., dep. 2230, arr. Acapulco 1020 Thurs., dep. 1120, arr. Mexico City 1210 (to London).

Tues.: Dep. Mexico City 2200, arr. Acapulco 2250, dep. 2350, arr. Papeete* 0400 Wed., dep. 0500, arr. Auckland 0830 Thurs., dep. 0930, arr. Syd. 1035.

Sat.; Dep. Mexico City 2200, arr. Acapulco 2250, dep. 2350, arr. Papeete 0400 Sun., dep. 0500, arr. Nadi 0740 Mon., dep. 0825, arr. Syd. 1035. (Asterisk indicates technical stop only.) SYDNEY - HAWAII (via N. CAL, FIJI, NZ OR AM. SAMOA) - USA

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) Tues., Wed., Frl., Sun.; Dep. Sydney 1730 (arr. Nadi 2320, dep. 2359), Honolulu arr. Tues., Wed., Frl., Sun. 0805, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr, 1655. 141 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1967

• PlM’s shipping and airways schedules are correct to time of publication.

Mon.: Dep. Syd. 1600 for Noumea (arr. 1930, dep. 2030), Pago Pago (arr. 0145, dep, 0235), Honolulu (arr. Mon. 0840, dep. 1000), Los Angeles, arr, 1655.

Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 1600 for Auckland (arr. 2045, dep. 2145) for Honolulu, arr. Thurs. 0815, dep. 1000 for Los Angeles, arr. 1655.

Sat.: Dep. Syd. 1600 for Auckland (arr. 2045, dep. 2145), Pago Pago (arr. 0205, dep. 0245), Honolulu (arr. Sat. 0845, dep. 1000), Los Angeles, arr. 1655.

Sun., Mon., Wed., Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2030 for Honolulu, Nadi, arr. Tues., Fri., Sun. 0515, dep. 1615, and Sydney,’ arr. 0830.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 2030 for Honolulu, Pago Pago, arr. Sun. 0510, dep. 0610, Noumea, arr. Mon. 0755, dep. 0845.

Sydney, arr. Mon. 1035.

Tues.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Auckland, arr. Thurs. 0745, dep. 0825 for Sydney, arr. 0930.

Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 2030 for Honolulu, Pago Pago, arr. Fri. 0510, dep. 0610, and Auckland, arr. Sat. 0845, dep. 0930 for Sydney, arr. 1035.

SYDNEY - NEW CALEDONIA -

Fiji - Tahiti - Usa

UTA-French Airlines (with DCB’s) Wed.: Dep. Syd. 0940, arr. Noumea 1320, dep. 1435, arr. Nadi 1720, dep. 1805 (cross Dateline), arr. Papeete 0020 Wed., dep. 1000, arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Pri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr. Papeete 0610, dep. Sun. 0800 (cross Dateline), arr. Nadi Mon. 1035, dep. 1120, arr.

Noumea 1215, dep. 1330, arr. Syd 1545.

Pri.; Dep. Noumea 1435, arr. Nadi 1720, dep. 1805, arr. Papeete 0020 Pri., dep. 1000, arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Wed.: Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr. Papeete 0610 Thurs., dep. 0800 Fri. (cross Dateline), arr. Nadi 1035 Sat., dep. 1120, arr. Noumea 1215, dep. 1330, arr.

Syd. 1545.

Sydney - New Zealand - Fiji •

Hawaii - Canada

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(with DCS’s) Alt. Sun. (Nov. 12, 26): Dep. Syd. 1800, arr. Nadi 2355, dep. 0040 Mon. (cross Dateline) arr. Honolulu 0850 Sun., dep. 1010, arr. Vancouver 1735.

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Vancouver 1800, arr. Honolulu 2145, dep. 2245 (cross Dateline) arr. Nadi 0305 Sun., dep. 0345, arr.

Syd. 0600.

Alt. Sun. (Nov. 19, Dec. 3): the DCS’s will end and start at Auckland, leaving at 2105 and arriving at 0640.

NOTE: CPA operate a weekly Toronto- Honolulu run (Fri., Sat.) and a Vancouver-Honolulu run four times a week (Sun., Wed., Fri., Sat.).

Sydney - Nz - Hawaii Or

Tahiti - Usa

AIR-NZ (with DCS’s) Wed., Fri.: Dep. Syd. 1500, arr. Auckland 1945, dep. 2100, arr. Honolulu 0720, dep. 0830, arr. Los Angeles 1525.

Sun.: Dep. Syd. 1815, arr. Auckland 2300, dep. 2359, arr. Papeete 0655, dep. 0800, arr, Los Angeles 1750.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Los Angeles 2000, arr Honolulu 2315, dep. 0030, arr. Auckland 0715 Fri., Tues., dep, 0900, arr Syd. 1005.

Fri.; Dep. Los Angeles 2000, arr. Papeete 0215 Sat., dep. 0330, arr. Auckland 0715 Sun., dep. 0900, arr. Syd. 1005.

New Zealand - Tahiti - Usa

By Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0615 Sun., dep. 0700, arr. Auckland 1015.

Mon.: Dep. Auckland 2355, arr. Papeete 0640 Mon., dep. 0750, arr. Los Angeles

Australia-Far East

SYDNEY - P-NG - PHILIPPINES - HONG KONG QANTAS (with 707’s) Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Pt. Moresby 1235, dep. 1335, arr. Manila 1625, dep. 1710, arr. Hong Kong 1855.

Fri.: Dep. Hong Kong 2100, arr. Manila 2240, dep. 2325, arr. Pt. Moresby 0625 Sat., dep. 0725, arr. Sydney 1055.

Australia-New Zealand

Brisbane - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with 707’s and Electras) Twice weekly both ways.

Brisbane - Wellington

QANTAS (with Electras) One service weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Three times weekly, both ways.

Melbourne - Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Three times weekly, both ways,

Melbourne - Wellington

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with Electras) Three times weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Auckland

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with 707’s and DCB’>) Daily both ways.

BOAC (with 707’s) Twice weekly, both ways.

PAN AMERICAN (with 707’s) Two services weekly, both ways.

Sydney - Christchurch

QANTAS/AIR-NZ (with DOS's and We) 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 1045, arr. Nadi 1640.

Wed.: Dep. Nadi 0800, arr. Sydney 1015.

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

AIRLINES OF N.S.W. (with Flying-boats) About twice weekly from Rose Bay. Time of departure depends on high tide in the lagoon at Lord Howe Is.

Sydney ■ New Caledonia

QANTAS/IJTA (with 707’s) Pri.: Dep. Sydney 1100 for Noumea 1430 >. dep. 1545 for Sydney, arr. ' Mon.: Dep. Syd. 1100, arr. Noumea dep. 1545, arr. Syd. 1735.

SYDNEY - N. CALEDONIA - FIJI.

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with Caravelle) Tues.: Dep. Noumea 1200 for Sydney, 1420, dep. 1600 for Noumea, arr. : Wed.: Dep. Noumea 0930 for Auck] arr. 1320, dep. 1500 for Noumea. 1705.

Sydney ■ New Zealand - Fi

BOAC (with 707’s) Mon., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. A land 1345, dep. 2130, arr. Nadi (Tues., Sun.).

Tues., Sun.; Dep. Nadi 0505, arr. A land 0755, dep. 0930, arr. Syd. thence London via Singapore.

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

QANTAS (with DC4’s) Mon., Wed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0800, NI 1445. Flight extends NI-Auckl NI Wed., Sat. only (See “NZ—Pa Islands”).

Thurs., Sun.; Dep. NI 1445, Sydney, 1845.

Mon.: Dep. NI 1600, arr. Syd. 2000.

Australia - P-Ng

Trans Australian Airlines and An ANA each operate from Sydney or bourne to Pt. Moresby and return four a half times a week, with Boeing 72 NORTHBOUND Ansett-ANA: Mon., Wed.: Dep. Syd. ( arr. Bris. 0740, dep. 0820, arr.

Moresby 1110.

Fri.: Dep. Syd. 0700, arr. Bris. ( dep. 0850, arr. Pt. Moresby 1140.

Sat.: Dep. Melb. 0715, arr. Syd. ( dep. 0910, arr. Pt. Moresby 1250.

Alt. Sun. (Nov. 12, 26); Dep. 0630, arr. Bris. 0740, dep. 0820, Pt. Moresby 1110.

TAA: Fri.: Dep. Melb. 0700, arr. 0825, dep. Syd. 0910, arr. Pt. Mor 1250.

Tues., Thurs., Sat., alt. Sun. ( 19, Dec. 3): Dep. Syd. 0700, arr. ] 0810, dep. 0850, arr. Pt. Moresby ] SOUTHBOUND Ansett-ANA: Mon., Wed.; Dep.

Moresby 1200, arr. Bris. 1440, 1545, arr. Syd. 1655, dep. 1800, Melb. 1910.

Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1230, arr. ] 1510, dep. 1615, arr. Syd. 1725, 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1340, arr. 1710, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1915.

Alt. Sun. (Nov. 12, 26): Dep.

Moresby 1200, arr. Bris. 1440, 1545, arr. Syd. 1655, dep. 1800, Melb. 1910.

TAA: Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1340, Syd. 1705, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1 Tues., Thurs., Sat., alt. Sun. (Nov.

Dec. 3): Dep. Pt. Moresby 1230, Bris. 1510, dep. 1545, arr. Syd. 1 dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

NOTE: Both airlines will operate e: services over the Christmas/New 1 period, from Nov. 25 to Feb. 10. details see local travel agents.

TAA and ANA each operate a we DC4 from Sydney to P-NG with ci only.

ANA: Thurs., Dep, Syd. 1930, arr. I 2205, dep. 2320, arr. Pt. Moresby ( Fri. 142 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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 ISLAND PORTS.

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S—Sandefjord, Norway.

Motor Vessels "THORSGAARD" and "THOR I"

Regular Freight and Passenger Services between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

Tahiti - Samoa - Tonga - Fiji - New Caledonia

New Hebrides

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD. 1 Bush Street, San Francisco 4, California, U.S.A.

APlA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, SYDNEY —Trans-Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd.

General Agents Ltd.

PAPEETE Agence Maritime Inter- SUVA —Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

Rationale 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.

Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800, arr. Bris. 0, dep. 1735, arr. Syd. 2015.

Sat.. Dep. Syd. 2000, arr. Bris. 2235, ». 2300, arr. Pt. Moresby 0600 Sun., ». 0735, arr. Lae 0900.

Dep. Lae 0600, arr. Pt. Moresby 5, dep. 0845, arr. Bris. 1545, dep. 5, arr. Syd. 1925.

Queensland - Papua

TAA (with Friendships) Dep. Townsville 1215, arr. Cairns 0, dep. 1415, arr. Pt. Moresby 1635.

Dep. Pt. Moresby 1445, arr. CaL ..s 5, dep. 1800, arr. Townsville 1855.

LNSETT-ANA (with Viscounts) ; Dep. Cairns 1615, arr. Pt. Moresby 5.

Jep. Pt. Moresby 0835, arr. Cairns 5.

W ZEALAND-PACIFIC IS.

NZ - AM. SAMOA

Y Pan American Airways

(with 707’s) )ep. Pago Pago 0610, arr. Auckland . 0845. 3ep. Auckland 2140, arr. Pago Pago . 0205.

NZ - FIJI l-NZ (with DOS’s and Electros) (except Wed., Sun.): DCS dep. ikland 2130, arr. Nadi 0020.

Electra dep. Auckland 2030, arr. li 0025.

Electra dep. Auckland 2300, arr. li 0255. (except Mon., Thurs.): DCS dep. li 0505, arr. Auckland 0755.

Electra dep. Nadi 1000, arr. Aucki 1355. : Electra dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Aucki 0900.

E; Mon., Sat. flights ex-Auckland rues., Sun. flights ex-Nadi are ;d by BOAC.

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA AIR-NZ (with DCS) Dep. Auckland 2030, arr. Nadi 0025 a., dep. Nadi 0200 (cross Dateline), . Pago Pago 0540 Sun.

Dep. Pago Pago 0715 (cross Dates), arr. Nadi Mon. 0855, dep. Nadi 0, arr. Auckland 1355.

Nz - New Caledonia

AIR-NZ (with Electras) Dep. Auckland 1315 for Noumea, . 1540.

Dep. Noumea 1645 for Auckland, . 2105.

NZ - NORFOLK IS.

Z (with Qantas DC4’s on Charter) Sat.: Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 5. , Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. 1330.

Nz - Tahiti

-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DOS’s) Dep. Auckland 2345 for Papeete oss Dateline), arr. Fri. 0635. : Dep. Papeete 0725 for Auckland oss Dateline), arr. Fri. 1055.

Inter - Territory Services

Chile - Easter Island

Lan-Chile, with DC6-B’s, operates fortnightly services from Santiago to Easter Island, with a three-day stopover on Easter Island before returning to Chile.

Details from LAN-Chile, Santiago.

Fiji ■ Gilbert & Ellice Islands

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with HS74B) Alt. Sun. (Nov. 19, Dec. 3): Dep. Nadi 0830, arr. Funafuti 1130, dep. 1215, arr. Tarawa 1545.

Alt. Mon. (Nov. 20, Dec. 4); Dep. Tarawa 0800, arr. Funafuti 1130, dep. 1215, arr. Nadi 1515.

Fiji - New Hebrides - Bsi

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with HS74B) Thurs.: Dep. Suva 0700, air. Nadi 0745, dep. 0830, arr. Vila 1015, dep. 1100, arr. Santo 1200, dep. 1245, arr.

Honiara 1550.

Fri.: Dep. Honiara 0730, arr. Santo 1030, dep. 1115, arr. Vila 1215, dep. 1300, arr. Nadi 1630, dep. 1715, arr. Suva 1800.

Fiji - Tonga

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with DOS’s) Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0800, arr. Nukualofa 1200.

Dep. Nukualofa 1245, arr. Suva 1445, dep. 1600. arr. Nadi 1645.

Sat.; Dep. Nadi 0845, arr. Suva 0930, dep. 1000, arr. Nukualofa 1400. Dep.

Nukualofa 1445, arr. Suva 1645, dep. 1730, arr. Nadi 1815.

NOTE; From Nov. 8 an HS74B will gradually start taking over from the DC3. 143 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

Australia-West Pacific Line

m

Kid Glove Service

Exporters /Importers. Your cargo to and from Papua/ New Guinea is assured “Kid Glove Service” when entrusted to Australia-West Pacific Line.

By advanced, modern techniques in cargo handling, the proven service of A.W.P.L. is still second to none in the Papua/New Guinea Trade.

Your cargo is treated V.I.P. when shipped A.W.P.

For further enquiries, please contact A.W.P.L. Agents:— Sydney and Melbourne — Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty. Ltd.

Brisbane and Adelaide—Gibbs Bright & Co. Pty. Ltd.

Lae, Rabaul, Madang—New Guinea Company Limited.

Port Moresby—lsland Products Limited.

Australia West Pacific Line

1

Fiji ■ Western Samoa

FIJI AIRWAYS LTD. (with Herons) Sat.: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0750 (cross Dateline), arr. Apia Fri. 1300.

Fri.; 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) Tues.; Dep. Honolulu 1300, arr. Pago Pago 1710, dep. 1755, arr. Papeete 2145.

Tues.; Dep. Papeete 2255, arr. Pago Pago Wed. 0105, dep. 0145, arr. Honolulu 0750, dep. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1555.

New Caledonia - New Hebrides

UTA (with Caravelles) Mon.: Dep. Noumea 0900, arr. Vila 1005, dep. 1050, arr. Noumea 1155.

Fri.: Dep. Noumea 1345, arr. Vila 1450, dep. 1535, arr. Noumea 1640.

Air Melanesia runs connecting flights with the Caravelle from Vila to Santo, and return with a Drover.

New Caledonia - Wallis Island

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DC4's) Monthly service (second Wednesday) Wed. (Nov. 15, 29): Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Wallis 1530.

Monthly service (following Friday) Fri. (Nov. 17, Dec. 1): Dep. Wallis 1000, arr. Noumea 1530.

P-Ng - Solomons

TAA (with Fokker Friendships Tues.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0700, arr. 0800, dep. 0840 for Buka, IV Yandina, Honiara, arr. 1630 Wed.: Dep. Honiara 0730 for Ya: Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, Pt. M( arr. 1415.

The Fokker calls at Yandina on alh Tuesdays (Nov. 14, 28), and W< days (Nov. 15, 29).

New Guinea • West Iriac

TAA, using DOS's, flies fortnightly Lae, via Wewak, to Sukarnapura returns the next day (Nov. 21, De

Tahiti - Usa

UTA-FRENCH AIRLINES (with DC Wed.: Dep. Papeete 1000, arr. Los A 1955, dep. Wed. 2345, arr. Pi Thurs. 0610.

Fri.: Dep. Papeete 1000, arr. Los A: 1955, dep. Fri. 2345, arr. Papeete Sat.: Dep. Papeete 0810, arr. Hoi 1340. dep. 1505, arr. Los Angeles PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS (with 1 Thurs.: Dep. San Francisco 1400.

Honolulu 1815, arr. Papeete 2340.

Fri-: Dep. Papeete 0130. arr. Hoi Fri. 0650, dep. 0900, arr. Los Aj 1555 Fri.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2200, dep Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0615 Mon.: Dep. Papeete 0750, arr. Los Ai Mon. 1735, arr. San Francisco 1950.

W. Samoa - Am. Samoa

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS) Daily; Dep. Apia 1600, arr. Pago dep. Pago 1705, arr. Apia 1745.

Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Apia arr. Pago 0840, dep. Pago 0905, Apia 0945.

Sun.: Dep. Apia 0445, 0545, arr. 0525, 0625, dep. 0630, 0730, arr. 0710, 0810.

W. Samoa - Tonga

POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS) Sun.: Dep. Apia 0830, arr. Tonga 1130.

Mon.: Dep. Tonga 1215, arr. Apia 1515.

W. SAMOA - WALLIS IS. - FI, POLYNESIAN AIRLINES LTD. (with DCS) Tues., Dep. Apia 1330 (cross date arr. Nadi 1630 Wed., dep. 0345 T] arr. Wallis Is. 0630, dep. 0700 I dateline), arr. Apia 0940 Wed.

Fri.; Dep. Apia 0645 (cross dateline), Wallis Is. 0725 Sat., dep. 0745, Nadi 1045, dep. 1145 (cross date arr. Apia 1700 Fri.

Internal Services

FIJI Fiji Airways, with Herons, DC3’s a HS74B operates regular service; Labasa, Matei, Nadi, Suva and Savu Details from Fiji Airways, Vic Parade, Suva.

French Polynesia

RAI, with DC4’s and a Bermuda fl; boat, operates regular services to Bora, Huahine, Papeete, Raiatea Rangiroa.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hal Papeete, or any UTA office. 144 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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London, E.l. Suva. local foodstuffs or when the ;d costs of imports increased, but did not come down (or did not : down as much) when local [y was restored or when import fell. Professor Turner produced iph to show this trend, i said that as a result of the hurricane in Fiji, the average of local foodstuffs rose 23 per between early 1964 and early , but it fell only six per cent, een 1965 and early 1966, and shown no further fall since, : from seasonal fluctations. t said the local merchandising tion might be a factor “in this omenon”, and added: i discussions and interviews, many criticisms have been put to me of the Carpenter and Burns Philp groups, which have played a large role in the colony’s commercial evolution. It was suggested to me that they have a monoply power over local trade, that their profit margins are excessive, that they take large profits out of the colony while putting little back, that they are less efficient than they might be and that they discriminate against certain businesses or in favour of certain countries.

“I doubt very much whether this log of complaints is substantially justifiable. Quite clearly, for instance, a large part of the current industrial and agricultural development (as well as commercial investment) in the colony is being undertaken by members of these groups, and it seems that this is to some extent because intense competition from small traders in certain lines of business is making them unprofitable for new investment in marketing.

“On the other hand, there are clearly understandings or agreements between the two groups as to profit margins in certain instances where this competition does not arise. I suspect rather that there is here a typical case of what economists call “obligopolistic competition”—i.e., a situation in which a market is dominated by two or three firms, no one of which dares cut prices in case this provokes cut-throat competitive warfare by the others, but in which the main firms raise prices together in response to cost increases, and where competition takes the form not of price-cutting but of advertising, the rival acquisition of new businesses, etc.

“Such a situation may lead to a ‘ cost p i us ’ method of price-fixing which does not encourage efficiency, an( j re tail prices will in any case tend to he higher in these circumstances t h an under normal competition, Public feelinQ ruum, iceimy “i n any event, there is clearly so muc h public feeling on the marketj ng situation that it seems an obvious case for the type of formal public inquiry which is suggested in my concluding proposals, and which is already now being applied to wage disputes.” i n his concluding proposals, ProfeSsor Turner does not make a specific suggestion that an inquiry into the merchandising organisation be set up, but he leaves the matter to the government The companies referred to by Professor Turner seem to be undisturbed by his remarks.

Chairman and managing director of W. R. Carpenter, Mr. C. H.

Carpenter, said at his Press conference at Sydney in October (see p. 133) that Professor Turner had made it clear that he was quoting local talk, and Professor Turner himself “doubted very much whether this log of complaints is substantially justifiable”.

The companies’ attitude seems to be that if there is to be an inquiry they will worry about it when it happens.

Jam - Us Trust Territory

i American Airways, under contract, SAl6’s and DC4’s, operates regular :es to Guam, Koror, Kwajalein, :o, Pagan, Ponape, Rota, Saipan, and Yap. ails from any Pan-Am office.

Papua - New Guinea

4, with Fokker Friendships, DOS’s, Otters and Aztecs, operates regular es to Baimuru, Baiyer R., Balimo, Buin, Bulolo, Buka, Cape Gloucester, Hoskins, Daru, Finschhafen, Garaina, :a, Gurney (Samarai), Jacquinot Kandrian, Kavieng, Kerema, Kieta, Madang, Malalaua, Manus, Minj, la, Mt. Hagen, Nissan Is., Popon- Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Talasea, g, Wakunai, Wau and Wewak. >ett-MAL, with Fokker Friendships, and Piaggios, operates regular es to Aitape, Ambunti, Angoram, Bulolo, Erave, Goroka, Hayfield, i, Kainantu, Kagua, Kavieng, iawa, Lae, Lumi, Madang, Mendi, Mt. Hagen, Momote, Nuku, Pt. sby, Rabaul, Tari, Telefomin, Vanimo, g, Wapenamanda, Wau, Wewak and aru. man Airlines Pty. Ltd., with DOS’s Piaggios, operates regular services to Balimo, Bereina, Cape Rodney, Gurney, Kairuku, Kokoda, Losuia, lagen, Paili, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, la, Tapini, Vivigani, Wanigela and ipe.

New Caledonia

ANSPAC, with Herons and Aztecs tes regular services to Hienghene, ilou, Isle of Pines, Kone, Kouaoua, lac, Lifou, Mare, Noumea, Ouvea, [imie, Thio, Tiga and Voh. ;ails from TRANSPAC, Noumea.

New Hebrides

Melanesia, with Drovers, operates ar services to Aneityum, Epl, nanga, Lamap, Longana, Norsup, >, Tanna, Tongoa and Vila, tails from Air Melanesia, Vila.

Solomon Islands

gapode Airways, with Apache and aircraft, operates regular services uki, Avu Avu, Barakoma, Honiara.

Kira, Marau, Munda, Sege and ina. tails from Megapode Airways, PO Box Honiara, BSIP. 145 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967 (Continued from p. 23) ed seen for inquiry on retailing in Fiji

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Today malaria is fought on a global scale at its source— with the eradication of the mosquito itself. Programmes for control are made easier by the fact that the insects must breed in water. The elimination of any possible breeding sites near the home, such as old tins and bottles, roof gutters, flower pots, fire buckets and drains, is a natural precaution to observe.

The mosquito is also a carrier of such serious diseases as yellow fever, dengue, encephalitis and filariasis.

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As mosquitoes prefer shadowed and darkened areas, always spray the Pea-Beu fine mist spray towards pelmets, curtaining, the shadowed sides of furniture and dark room corners where mosquitoes lurk. The wide “umbrella-spreading” action of this concentrated insecticide will keep all your home and family safe from these disease-carrying pests and ensure that every mosquito is killed off. Pea-Beu is pleasantly perfumed, and can be sprayed freely with safety throughout the home.

Guinea (Kennecott Explorat: Pty. Ltd.); • Nickel occurrences in the Pap basic belt region north of Owen Stanley Ranges (Ir national Nickel Co. of Can have done some work). • Offshore oil drilling was i starting in the Gulf of Papua.

Mr. Rich said the manufactu: industry was one of the fastest gr ing sectors, with a growth rate hi| than for the economy as a whole, In the year ended June 30, 1! there were 407 factories employ 10,786 workers and producing gc to the value of about $2l mill Ten years earlier there were factories, 3,394 workers in fad employment and the value of proc tion was only $4 million.

He said the great majority secondary industries were those ] ducing for the local market. T included the manufacture of cigare and tobacco, paints, industrial ga wire products, building mater concrete products, oil drums, bisc and cordials; the assembly electrical appliances; boat-build furniture-making, joinery, light gineering and the brewing of b These industries used in the it imported raw or semi-proces materials.

During 1965/66 output of dustries producing for local consul tion was about $37 million out c total output of $4B million.

Mr. Rich said that industries 1 appeared to have the best prosp< were those serving the growing 1c market.

Mr. Rich added: “Capital < ployed in the territory by and la has yielded, or hopefully will yh sufficient return to the investor make New Guinea a very attract proposition, and this same cap and enterprise has at the same ti contributed to the economic devel ment of the country in provid industry, jobs and opportunities the emerging nation. This two-v street seems to represent a good bi for the future”. • Polataivao Fosi, former hea weight boxing champion and MP the Gagaifomauga No. 3 in Sav Western Samoa, left Apia on Octol 10 by air for Uganda to attend thirteenth Commonwealth Pari mentary Conference. 146 Opportunities in New Guinea (Continued from p. 43) NOVEMBER. 1967-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

i week in 1964, arriving in time the first day issue of their tiful heart and island-shaped ps. Again no one begged from but I begged and received. While ng in line at the post office a g policeman had some first day rs so I asked if I could buy He refused to sell it, but gave me. stayed at the Beach House and d a wonderful time. The bed comfortable, the food delicious everybody was wonderful to me I am a nobody. It seems like people in Australia expect Hilton Is in the South Pacific. Take the s as they are. That makes things jsting.

Gertrude Baker

; Verdes Estates, ornia, USA ;—Your excellent articles about fongan coronation were of great ;st to me. We, too, were there, how different our experiences ! We stayed in a Tongan home rom the centre of Nukualofa, beyond the small area where homes have running water, so their only source is from cisterns—which were unequal to the increased demands, and some are polluted. It followed that we all became ill.

Our room was entered from outside in the early hours of Coronation Day, while we slept, and we were robbed of money, traveller’s cheques and personal possessions. The police were prompt, kind, full of promises and revealed that ours was not an isolated incident. No results followed our daily visits to the police station for information. f did recover an emptied case that had been stolen. A child had found it and was carrying fireworks in it.

The police still have it as “evidence”.

The police inspector promised us information the evening before we departed, and he did come, with more promises of mailing the information to us, and a request that I send him SUSIOO worth of secondhand clothing which he could sell for ST4OO, and to deliver his love to all of us.

Nothing has been received.

Tuesday evening we went down to the waterfront to see the tupakapahanava, and my daughter was deliberately struck in the stomach by a man walking by in the crowd. At Wednesday’s feast at the Pangai, a woman attempted to pick my sonin-law’s pocket!

On the other hand, we were honoured guests at our house (to which the robbery brought great shame) and highly honoured at the police station; ceremonies were given for us; strangers pressed upon us as gifts things we admired; children and adults clustered around us in villages for happy bilingual conversations (with no hint of begging)' and small shell vendors helped me collect shells, instead of selling me theirs!

But why, oh why, were Tonga’s, distinctive ceremonies augmented by alien pomp? How much pipe for pure water, how much police effici* ency could the price of the gorgeous foreign trappings have purchased?

If Tonga now wants a tourist trade, officialdom must be prepared to serve and protect it better. There is a need for more attractions, possibly tourist participation in indigenous activities. Let Tonga be her unique, but best, self.

JOSEPHINE S. THOMSON.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.

Index to Advertisers Industries . 77, 125, 146, 156, 158, 163 idia International .. 11 5w Zealand Ltd. . .. 44 Distributors 154 iuls' School 97 amated Wireless itralasia) Ltd 13 , Brockhoff & Guest Ltd 90 , Wm. Pty. Ltd. .. 16 lia & New Zealand k Ltd 137 Man Dairy Produce d 5 Man Department of le & Industry .. .. 94 International Travel re Pty. Ltd 52 W. Jno 163 Line (Australasia) Pty. , The 138 I, Gwyn & Co. Ltd. 145 A. J. & G 60 in Bros. Pty. Ltd. ..152 /oldt & Co. Wm. ..126 Solomons Trading Co. l6l n & Co 160 1, 134, 160, cov. Mi . Information Services 99 y-Fry-Pascall Pty, Ltd. 69 ion Company Pty. Ltd. insert iter, W. R. & Co. Ltd. 34, cov. iv idelphian Bible Mission 97 Rubber Stores ll4, 115 ied Advertisements .. 148 mwealth Trading < 72 Coseley Buildings Ltd. . 122, 123 Crammond Radio Co 106 Cystex 159 Dairy Frost Pty. Ltd 112 Daiwa Shipping Line .. ..141 Drambuie Liqueur Co. . ..110 Dunlite Electrical Co. Ltd. .. 150 Everyday Products Pty. Ltd. 113 Ferrier & Dickinson Pty.

Ltd 102 Fiat Motors of Australia Ltd 74, 75 Fiberglass (A/asia.) Pty. Ltd. 108 Fiji Airways Ltd. . 51, 53, 55, 57, 59 Filmo Depot Ltd 160 Forminex Pty. Ltd 104 Frigate Rum 160 General Foods Corp, (N.Z.) Ltd 126 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 157 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 124 Haig, John & Co. Pty. Ltd. 162 Handi Works Pty. Ltd. ~ 161 Hardie, James & Co. Pty.

Ltd 66 Harris, Keith & Co. Ltd. .. 164 Heinz & Co. (Aust.) Ltd., H. J 10 Hellaby, R. & W., Ltd. ..159 Holland, C. V., Pty. Ltd. .. 128 Hornibrook, M. R. (Pty.) Ltd. 11l Hutchinson, Robert Ltd. .. 13l 1.C.1.A.N.Z. Ltd 7 Industrial Products Pty. Ltd. 15 International Majors Paints Pty. Ltd 78 Karlander New Guinea Line Ltd 109 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 135 Kodak (A/asia.) Pty. Ltd. .. 76 Kraft Foods Limited .. ~ 12 Lees Trading Co 158 Marrickville Holdings Ltd. 33, 129, 132 Mendaco 159 Millers Ltd 100, 156 Molloy Engineering Co. Pty.

Ltd 110 Montres Rolex SA 4 Morris Hedstrom Ltd 64 Morrison Printing Inks and Machinery Ltd 80 Multiple Incubator & Brooder Pty. Ltd 127 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. .. 84 Murray, Sons & Co. Pty.

Ltd 92 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. ..106 Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd. 60 New Zealand Govt, Tourist Bureau, The 58 N.G. Aust. Line 35 Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. . 82, 83 Nixoderm 159 Northern Hotels Ltd 60 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. . 79 Pacific Islands Society, The 163 Pacific Islands Transport Line 143 Pacific Publications Pty.

Ltd. .. 97, 98, 99, 156, 160 Papua-New Guinea Printing Co. "Pty. Ltd 116 Polynesia Line Ltd 138 Prouds (Fiji) Ltd 52 Qantas 54 Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. .. 162 Rabaul Photographic .. 128 Rabone Chesterman Ltd. .. 72 Racal Electronics Pty. Ltd. . 70 Reckitt & Colman Pty. Ltd. insert Remploy Ltd 8"

Ronson Products Pty. Ltd. .. 6 Rothmans of Pall Mall (Aust.) Ltd 36.

Ryson Rural Constructions Pty. Ltd 71 Sanitarium Health Food Co. 9 Sear & Gunn Sales Pty. Ltd. 16?

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Ltd 54 Small & Shattell Pty. Ltd. .. 124 Southern Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd 158 Stapleton, J. T„ Pty. Ltd. . 159 Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd 81 Steel Marine Craft Pty. Ltd. 110 Sullivan (Export) Ltd. . .. 164 T.A.A cov. ii Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L ..149 Tatham, S. E., & Co. P/L 67 Tooth & Co. Ltd 92 Toyota Motor Sales Co. Ltd. 2, 3 Trans Pacific Marine Ltd. .. 107 Tulloch Ltd 157 Turners Supply Co. Ltd. .. 162 Twiss & Browning & Hallowes (Export) Ltd. .. 156 Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd 143 Vactric Electrical Appliances Ltd 152 Vi eta Mowers 163 Vi-stim 158, Watkins-Dow, Ivon Ltd. ~ 154 Westfield Freezing Co. Ltd. 68 Weymark Pty. Ltd 135 Whites Aviation 160 Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/L 144 Wunderlich Ltd 88 Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd. 128 Zeiss, Carl, Pty. Ltd 108 147 ’ ! F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967 I I tIW (Continued from p. 32) - ~

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Steel wheels can be adapted to work on rails. Also medium sized hardwood cradle, steel wheels, will slip vessels up to 50 or 60 feet. For particulars, phone or write: Manager, Aquarium, Matua St., Walu Bay, Suva, Fiji.

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Trade Enquiries

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you might want from Hong Kong fPhotographic and Cine Equioment. Transistor Radios. Household Appliances. Chinese Brocades. Plastic Flowers. Cultured Pearls, etc.) we can supply you. Right prices and personal care assured Please write us for quotations. Filmo Depot Ltd.. 313 Marina House, Hong Kong. Established in Hong Kong since 1936.

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Stamps & Coins

STAMPS purchased at highest prices; Lists available —Aust., N.Z., Fiji & Pacific, Papua-N.G., Australian States. Send 17- Postal Note. P. Downie, 94 Elizabeth St., Melbourne, Vic., 3000.

STAMPS, wanted, mint or used, British Solomon Is., Christmas Is., Cook Is., Fiji, Nauru, Norfolk Is., N.Z., Papua-N.G., Pitcairn Is., Tonga. St. George Stamps and Coins, Box 27, P. 0., Beverley Hills, N.S.W., 2209, Aust.

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HIGHEST PRICES paid for Island stamps and all kinds of philatelic covers. P. Lee, P.O. Box 1000, Canberra City, A.C.T., 2601, Australia.

TOP PRICES OFFERED for regular supplies of used stamps of Pacific Islands.

Stamps required on paper—as torn from envelopes—from offices, banks, missions, etc. State quantity available monthly and price required or send sample for best offer to: Severn Stamp Supplies, 2, Lea St., Kidderminster, Worcs, U.K.

USED POSTAGE STAMPS of all Pacific Islands, Papua-New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia. Best price airmailed. Kuna & Co., Box 77, P.O. Clarence St., N.S.W., 2001, Australia.

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away September 28, in St. ' Vince Hospital, Melbourne. Formerly of Oc< Island, Central Pacific where she \ infant welfare officer before her marria She leaves a husband, daughter and i (of cancer).

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Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. George M. Taggart Mr. George M. Taggart, a former economics adviser on the High Commissioner’s staff of the United States Trust Territory, died at his home in the Virgin Islands in July. He was 64.

Mr. Taggart spent more than 20 years in the Pacific. During World War II he was a commander in the United States Navy and went ashore with the First Marine Division in the invasion of Saipan.

He led a varied career, including movie-making in Alaska and the South Pacific, and diving for pearls in French Polynesia.

An accomplished sailor, he is mentioned in numerous yachting books.

In the mid-1930’5, with two other Americans, Richard Maury and Russell Dickenson, he sailed almost around the world in the five-t schooner Cimba.

The three men pooled their sources for the trip and had doze of adventures and misadventures a three-year trip which includ many stops in the South Pacific, p ticularly French Polynesia.

The 35 ft Cimba, with the thi young men aboard, finished up on Fiji reef, where she was dragg off unscathed, and sold. Mr. Mai wrote a book about the trip, cal] The Saga of Cimba.

Mr. J. M. Cook Mr. James M. Cook, who died the Guam Naval Hospital early October following a short illness, h been Director of Transportation the United States Trust Territc since 1962.

He is survived by his wife Doni 148 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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The Practical Planter

You can lift your copra yield with the right fertilisers The use of fertilisers to produce better results in South Pacific coconut plantations was one : the subjects discussed at a technical meeting on coconut production, organised by the South acific Commission recently.

E meeting was attended by agricultural experts from all the Pacific, and was held at iroa Atoll, French Polynesia, e experts listed the coconuting soils of the South Pacific the main nutrient deficiencies have been detected in them. ; are: Coral soils of atolls: Serious encies of nitrogen and iron; am deficiencies of manganese DOtassium.

Black, brown and red-brown loams over coral (as in New sa, the Solomons, New Hebrides Fiji): Slight deficiencies of »en and potassium.

Red to yellow clays and clay s over coral (as in New Guinea he Solomons): Serious deficiency otassium; slight deficiencies of >en and phosphorus.

Volcanic ash soils (as in New sa, the Solomons, New Hebrides Fiji): Deficiencies of nitrogen sulphur. recise detection needed Deep red latosolic soils (as in Guinea, Fiji, French Polynesia, Solomons, New Caledonia and Cook Islands): Deficiencies of ?en, phosphorus and potassium.

Alluvial soils (as in New ea, the Solomons and New ides): Deficiencies of nitrogen, sium and sulphur.

Coastal dune soils (as in :h Polynesia): Slight deficiency trogen. e experts pointed out, however, the deficiencies listed might not be present and that they t vary in intensity. They thererecommended several methods iagnosis for the more precise tion of deficiencies and assessment of fertiliser requirements for particular areas.

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These methods are the observation of visual symptoms, plant analysis, and soil analysis.

Nitrogen deficiency, the experts said, could be detected by pale green to yellow/orange leaves, particularly among old leaves. This condition is accentuated by prolonged dry weather.

The symptoms for other nutrient deficiencies are * # Yellowing or bronzing of the margins and tips of leaflets followed by necrosis. Old leaves affected. • Sulphur: Leaves yellow to orange. All leaves affected. Few liv-

Advice On Palm Replacement

Coconut planters who are replacing ageing palms with new ones should apply appropriate fertilisers to the soil to obtain the best possible growth in the young palms. rjIHIS is one of the recommenda- A tions on replanting made by agricultural experts attending a technical meeting on coconut production at Rangiroa, French Polynesia, recently.

The experts agreed that the production of many coconut plantations in the Pacific was declining to an uneconomic level due to old age and reduced fertility, and that 10 to 15 years were needed after replanting began before an overall increase in production was achieved.

They therefore recommended that owners of ageing plantations should give priority to replanting programmes, bearing in mind that: ® Underplanting has been shown experimentally to be feasible, but the treatment of an old stand, to obtain the most economic renewal, will depend on local conditions. • In areas of poor soils and high light intensity (e.g. many atolls) competition occurs between the old and the young palms for soil moisture and nutrients. • Where soils are fertile, the competition between the old and young palms is mainly for light.

The experts said that the competition in poor soils began in the second year after replanting. Therefore, thinning of the old palms should begin in the second year with half the palms removed by three years, and the remainder when flowering begins.

On fertile soils, thinning could begin at the end of the second year, with half of the palms being removed two years before flowering is expected to begin, and the remainder when the first palms have entered into production.

Thinning should be done selectively, removing first the least productive palms distributed at random in the old stand.

“As soil nutrients will have been depleted by the old plantations even on fertile soils,” the experts said, “appropriate fertilisers are needed to obtain the best possible growth of young palms.”

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On the subject of detec deficiencies and assessing fertil requirements by plant analysis, experts said: “This method is most useful diagnostic tool, but use of standardised sampling ] cedures is essential. Detailed inst: tions for sampling of leaves and waters should be obtained from analytical laboratory”.

On soil analysis, they said: “ r method can be useful but interpr tion of results is difficult”.

The experts recommended thai the correction of nutrient deficiem the type of fertiliser, rate, timing application and placement must related to local conditions, inclu< a consideration of economic fac as well as soil texture and dim “The benefit of fertilising may reduced or lost in the absence adequate drainage and maintenan they said.

General principles As a guide, they suggested planters should follow these gen principles: • Nitrogen: On coral soils, young coconuts, annual applica of nitrates of cyanamide will be benefit. For older palms legi cover crops should be establis] On other soils alternative source! nitrogen can be used. Rates, aco ing to age, of 50-200 gm. of N palm annually are suggested. • Phosphorus: Triple su phosphate (up to 500 gm. per p depending on age) should be i annually. • Potassium: Annual applicat of muriate of potash at rates of kg. per palm will be effective. • Sulphur: Annual application 100-500 gm of sulphur, accordin] age, are the most economical m( of correction, • Iron and manganese: In yo palms 10 gm. of ferrous sulp] and 5 gm. of manganese sulp] should be applied in the husk planting and this treatment shoulc repeated after one year. When palms are two or three years 200 gm. of ferrous sulphate and gm. of manganese sulphate sh( be added to the broken husk, mature palms 400 gm. of fen sulphate and 100 gm. of mangai sulphate should be placed in a 1 at the base of the palm every tl or four years. 152 NOVEMBER. 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Market prospects and problems of a new tea industry /hat are the market prospects and problems of the infant New Guinea tea industry? PIM asked a wellnown firm of tea experts for some answers and for predictions based on their experience. The firm repared this article for the Practical Planter section.

What are the market prospects for New Guinea tea, and how should it be manufactured?

Jow that New Guinea is becoming involved in tea production these questions are important, 'he problems are going to be many, for world tea consumption is getting lower, prices are fallig and the supply of tea increasing. Yet the problems for New Guinea are not insurmountable. about 12 to 18 months there will probably be between one million two million pounds of New iea tea to be disposed of, and it lot be stressed strongly enough important it is that only high ity New Guinea tea should be on the London market. First » will affect future sales.

'e would recommend that New tie a tea be withheld from the don market as long as possible I the quality tea is made that f Guinea can, without doubt, luce due to her ideal climatic iitions. In the meantime teas ild be disposed of locally in New nea, or privately in Australia, or taps as far afield as Hong Kong, ;apore and Japan. But not, we at, in London, although there be no doubt that the future t lie in London.

Australian quality is obvious that the Australian ket does not buy the best teas he world, and even New Zealand 5 a higher standard tea than Ausa. The average price for teas keted in Australia at the moment omewhere between 27c and 35c lb. idonesia is making its teas of a ier quality month by month and e are available to the Australian ket at 25 cents and 30 cents per We must not forget the friendship trade developing between Ausia and Indonesia, which is a very e tea-producing country.

Lis in itself strongly supports our v on the importance of the idon market, where high quality is bought. New Guinea can proe tea as good as. and better than, best teas available from Ceylon, ch is commanding and always has commanded extremely high prices at the London auctions.

Type of manufacture In the meantime the type of manufacture best suited to New Guinea must be decided on. There are many different types of manufacture, but we will discuss four main types: ORTHODOX This means using conventional rolling, hard withering. At the moment this method is still widely used on Ceylon estates, but this is being superseded by the Rotovane, or continuous type, manufacture and we would therefore not recommend orthodox manufacture for New Guinea.

C.T.C.

This is being used throughout the Assam and Dooars districts of North India. As these estates are situated at near sea level and are in no way similar to New Guinea, we would not recommend this type of manufacture. There is no doubt that the main advantage of C.T.C, manufacture as used in North India is that some automation is possible, and where tremendous rushes, i.e. large crops, are harvested for two or three months of the year with as much as 100,000 to 200,000 lb of leaf per day, C.T.C. is suitable. But with the even distribution of rainfall and climatic conditions of New Guinea, rushes will not be a problem. Anyway, at the moment, Australian buyers are not willing to accept large quantities of C.T.C., and therefore we feel that C.T.C. will have to be ruled out.

Practical Planter ROTOVANE/C.T.C.

This type of manufacture is proving most successful in Africa, parts of South India and in the lowgrown states of Ceylon, but again we feel that the same arguments as used for C.T.C. manufacture can be applied for this, and we would not recommend it.

Rotovane/Orthodox

This we feel would be the type of manufacture suited to New Guinea, It would produce a quality tea without reducing the size of the leaf to dust, and the end product would be acceptable for both Australia and overseas. The better quality teas could be sold overseas and the poorer teas in Australia.

Experiments needed The fact is that only by experiment can the real answer be found on the most suitable manufacture for New Guinea. The next 12 to 18 months should be used for experiments before people commit themselves to spending a large amount of money.

In Ceylon there is a Tea Research Institute and there are experimental stations at present working in Africa —bodies backed by the various governments—but we feel that New Guinea has got an opportunity to start its own experimental station immediately in the Highlands and this would be of tremendous benefit to the whole industry. There is no reason why tea, like coffee, shouldn’t be one of New Guinea’s best exports and a mere $1 million or $2 million spent by the Government at the outset would have great advantages in the long run.

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tactical Planter other considerations for a New lea tea industry. an a new tea industry survive out a Government subsidy ar to the one for coffee? We ve it can. ost of production will of course ugh, and it will go higher as lards for the New Guinea worker The New Guinea worker now aid 70 cents a day, against the an or Ceylonese labourer’s wage M-\ but oil costs 70 cents a >n against 15 cents in India, e are enormous costs of air and freight in New Guinea and the of producing a pound of New lea tea will be excessive. Cost reduction in New Guinea could letween 25 cents and 35 cents lb.

Could be profitable ill, we see no reason why quality should not be manufactured h will fetch a price of 50 cents 0 cents per lb on the London :et. Even with high freight rates Australia and London, New lea tea could be sold profitably, e presume that freight rates will jduced once an all-weather road ailt between the Highlands and coast. This road should surely bring down the cost of oil, food, ling materials and other esals. ;w Guinea should look into the sr of a tea association. There is in New Guinea at present, iugh we believe that two such Nations are being discussed. This lost unfortunate, because New ea should have a united tea >try if it is to avoid the problems ed throughout the rest of the tea 1 nally, the first sale of any large tity of New Guinea tea has itly been completed—4,ooo lb airumul tea sold into Australia very reasonable price. Let us that this will be a forerunner mny more sales in Australia.

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Installing the engine for’ard gives spacious room amidships but impairs efficiency. With amidships installation normal efficiency results.

Finally the engine can be installed right aft, driving for’ard to a V-drive return box and back through the conventional stern tube with a normal propeller shaft. The latter scheme gives maximum space for cargo, etc., and, provided the engine is not ultra-heavy, it is in a good safe position. Among other things, it keeps water and exhaust pipes short and the noise right aft.

Some owners prefer twin-screw for safety reasons. Naturally this is more expensive, though very good for manoeuvring. Also the question of reliability arises, which may well outweigh any extra costs.

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With a new boat the fitting of steering gear is easy, and one has the choice of positive, i.e. manual, or hydraulic gear. Controls also can be manual or hydraulic.

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Wet exhausts are usual, that is with circulating water going into the exhaust pipe for silencing and cooling, the wet section being of special rubber which does not rot.

With a new craft, install up-to-date stern or underwater gear (propeller shaft, bracket, rudder, etc.). Excellent shafting is now available, and very fine propeller alloys. However, it is advisable to fit anode pads near the propeller.

On the original electrical section, good batteries are essential, and while the nickel alkaline type are excellent trouble-free units, there are very good reliable lead-acid types.

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By giving your baby a Fisher's Teething Powder as needed, you not only keep the little one happy and well, but save yourself dll those upsets and nervous tensions that beset a mother when her baby suffers distress. Be sure to get a supply of Fisher's Teething Powders from your chemist or store. Only 2/6 or 25c for 20. If you have any difficulty buying Fisher's Teething Powders, write direct to Fisher & Co. Manufacturing Chemists, 17 May Street, St. Peters, N.S.W., Australia.

Facade Bookshop

PING'S ARCADE, RABAUL, T.N.

P.O. Box 542 Fiction, Penguins and Pelicans, techn and specialised texts, juvenalia, docks, magazine subscriptions.

Write for our comprehensive catalog) For an up-to-date coverage of new and plantation equipment. 1967-68 Edition

"Power Farming Technical Anf

Price: $2.50 post free.

Available from: "POWER FARMING", Box G.P.0., Sydney, Aust. don’t be vague ask Cor Haig / Scotch Haig VWhislw & s ?ark,nch PINT ¥ Haig Scotch Whisky H 4910 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 QUEENSLAND INSURANCE CO. LTD. (Incorporated 1886 in Australia) Assets Exceed $40,000,000.

Head Office: QUEENSLAND INSURANCE BUILDING, 80-82 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

Specialists in South Sea Fire, Apply FlJl—Branch Office, Suva: R. Quartermaine, Manager and at LAUTOKA, BA, LEVUKA, LABASA—Burns Philp (South Seas) Co. Limited. Resident Officer at Lautoka: S. D. Sharma.

NOUMEA—W. Johnston.

VILA Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited.

SANTO —Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited.

Papua & New Guinea, Port

MORESBY —D. J. Granter, Manager for Papua & New Guinea.

Marine & Accident Insurance to:— PORT MORESBY, SAMARAI, LAE, MADANG, RABAUL, KAVIENG—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited. Resident Officer at Rabaul: A. Leong. Resident Officer at Lae: J. D. Maclean.

HONIARA (8.5.1. P.): Wm. Breckwoldt & Company.

PAGO PAGO: Burns Philp (South Sea/ Co. Ltd.

OTHER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Also at any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z. 162 NOVEMBER, 1967 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Advertisement Lemons For Beauty 0 keep your skin clear and fair you need the natural insing and bleaching tonic of ions. Ask your chemist for bottle of lemon Delph, the ;st type skin freshener used beautiful women throughout world. Lemon Delph makes complexion, neck and elders fair and lovely as it Its out plugged pores, closes m to a beautifully fine ture. Lemon Delph freshener excellent for a quick cleanse to quell a greasy nose. A e brushed on the hair after ir shampoo will give it the mour of sparkling diamonds, s is a luxury skin freshener, mser and tonic.

Turn grass into lawn easier with a ’67 ICTA i Obtainable from: SUVA MOTORS LTD., Suva, Lautoka.

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby.

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Mt. Hagen, Minj, Goroka.

Pacific Islands Society ox 2434, G.P.0., Sydney, 2001.

Phone: 59-1778. icial and cultural centre for those ted in the Pacific Islands, liar meetings and social gatherings ectures, are held at the Feminist Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King St. on the last Thursday of each at 8 p.m.

Jno. Baker

>r Veterinary Instuments

Ikers 4-Blade Station-Knife

Field made. 4 in. stag haft. $4.45, postage extra.

)Ge Pattern Calf Dehorner

ible for calves up to 12 months' old. &28.50 postage or freight extra.

Feystone Cattle Dehorner

illustrated). For grown cattle, very ig. $31.75, postage or freight extra.

V. JNO. BAKER PTY. LTD. ’itt Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000, Aust.

Phone: 27-7584 SEAR & GUNN SALES PTY. LTD. 44 Hotham Parade, Artarmon, N.S.W., 2064, Australia • Manufacturing specialists of builders' hardware and plumbers' brassware. • Pre-fabricated, pre-tested, bath and shower, shower and sink sets complete with cocks and spouts. • Full range of copper and brass sewerage fittings, low and high pressure brassware, etc. • Quotes quickly supplied for housing projects, motels, hotels and hospitals.

Free Brochures Supplied Upon Request 163 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

• To Islands Cordial-makers . . . Pastryooks . ,

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Keith Harris & Co. Ltd

Sefton Road, Thornleigh, N.S.W Cables Kehar, Sydney 1015 Ann Street-, Valley N.T, ( Cables: Keharbris, Brisban

★ Sullivan Export Service *

C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD. 4th Floor, Kembla Building, 60 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY, 2000, N.S.W.

Telephone: 29-8144 (6 lines). Telegrams and Cables: CHASULL, Sydney.

C. SULLIVAN (Q'LAND) PTY. LTD. 318 Adelaide Street, Brisbane 4000 Telephone: 84958. Telegrams and Cables: CHASULL, Brisbane.

C. SULLIVAN (N.Z.) LTD.

Windsor House, Queen Street, Auckland Telephone: 43-307. Telegrams and Cables: CHASULL, Auckland.

Offices at: LONDON, SAN FRANCISCO, AND AT SUVA AND LAUTOKA, FIJI; RABAUL AND LAE, NEW GUINEA.

Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: 61-9197). Wholly set up and printed in Australia by The Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

iad Office: Port Moresby/ Papua Cable Address; burphii..

AGENTS FOR: Burns Philp Trustee Co. Ltd.

Queensland insurance Co. ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds Distributors Pty. Ltd.

Shell Company (Pacific islands) ltd.

OVERSEAS AGENTS: Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., all Australian States 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 Maritimes Crusader Shipping Co. Ltd.

Cunard Steamships Co. Ltd.

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail P. & O. Orient Line Royal Rotterdam Lloyd The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

AIR LINE AGENTS FOR: Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines Qantas Empire Airways International Air Transport Representatives 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, Samarai, Popondetta and Daru.

NEW GUINEA; Rabaui, Kokopo, Kavieng, Lae, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Wao, Bulolo, Kainantu and Mt. Hagen.

Shopping Centre

FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1967

W.R.Carpenter & Co.Lti

0/ GENERAL V A* * *: =r^r=^== NTS i For more than 50 years the W. R. brought progress and service to the salers and retailers; as buyers of island pro3uC^ ,ll sUilr'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 Group in the Pacific Isl ' include:

Papua/New Guinea

Island Products Limited New Guinea Company Limite Coconut Products Limited Boroko Motors Limited FIJI W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Morris Hedstrom Limited Island Industries Limited Suva Motors Limited W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LT HEAD OFFICE: 68 PITT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA CABLE ADDRESS: TELEPHONE; LONDON OFFICE: 116-126 CANNON STREET, E.C.4.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— NOVEMBER, 1967