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NOVEMBER, 1968

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

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New improved TAA services. From Port Moresby to and from all main centres and through the Highlands a greater spread of services with better connections throughout the Territory. From Port Moresby, to and from Australia, fly TAA’s ‘Bird of Paradise’ T-Jet service. Contact your Travel Agent or TAA: Port Moresby 2101. Lae 2311. Madang 2478. Rabaul 2567. Goroka 8. Mt. Hagen 4. Wewak 103.

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Pacific Islands Monthly

39. No. 11, November, 1968 This Issue lAL re cuts still possible 26 or W. Pacific post 28 meeting report 30 omes of age 31 ler's letter 36 to leave NZ? 51 lOAC jets in 1969 53 for sea current 105 -ine ships to stay 107 Carpenters profit 121 ''s Fiji Restaurant 153 CAN SAMOA on newsletter 39 urism future 45 got to be impressed 60 >hanel, radio DJ 150 chief's problem 151 iitcher on sailing 153 ISLANDS ing of Aitutaki airstrip 51 to Penrhyn 89 Chambers dies 159 Serna dies 159 tensions ease 27 agreement 27 3f "Tui Lau" loss 29 en" inquiry .... 29 new traffic scheme 38 uinea air services 51 Big Walu caught 57 Sugar cargo record 107 Reef blasting continues 107 Work for "Taranui" 107 Yacht race—record entries 108 Decimal preparations 121 Trade figures up .124 Rice growing efforts 145

French Polynesia

Statue for Pomare V? 37

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Air services next year 55 Shipping future promising 101 Japanese ships next year 103 Ocean Island phosphate talks 116

Lord Howe Island

Site found for airstrip 39

Papua-New Guinea

Breakaway parties 25 Bougainville moves .... 26 Carpenters buy plantation 26 Moresby's trade union "war" 37 ANGAU picture—who are they? 38 New aircraft arrive 49 Fiji air services opposed 51 Bibliography released 97 Papua's $4 million timber deal 121 P. L. James dies in Brisbane 159 NAURU Football pools—the details 32

New Caledonia

Nickel exports 122 Record trade hampered 124

New Hebrides

New novel by Thea Astley 97 Tonga to build Vila wharf? 103

Norfolk Island

New petrol plant operating 107 Fryer industry approved 123

Solomon Islands

New aircraft next year 49 Rice grown in 1934 57 Boatbuilding school's future 103 Filei, master of Southern Cross .... 116 TONGA Miss Nukualofa marries 26 Vavau airstrip wrong place? .... 55 Wharf work in Vila? 103 Captain Filmer—a profile 105 Daniel Tufui in London 116 Oil has potential 122

Us Trust Territory

Small ship travel suggested 53 Self rule possible 59 Bob Halvorsen retires H 6

Western Samoa

Letters of Harry Moors 85

West Irian

Peter Hastings' report 69 Up Front with the Editor, 19; Tropicalities, 37; Travel, 41- To ? mt o r h D r n y Chatterton ' 34 '- Otters, 57; Magazine Section, ' 85; Brda y 93; Book Reviews, 95; From the Islands Press, 115; Shipping 101smg Yachts, ,08; People, 116, Commerce, ,21; Produce Page p-ng. Airways Schedules, 127; Practical Planter, 143; Deaths of Islands People, 159; Index to Advertisers, 134.

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I’ve got three other jobs that only need a new little ratchet thingummy.

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UP FRONT with the editor When, one day, there is no further need for those small roneoed newsletters now put out by the Administrations of nany of our smaller island territories, PI M's “From the Islands Press” section will lose much of its flavour. iESE newsletters take the place of newspapers in the smaller itories which have no newspapers their own, although sometimes i supplement existing newspapers give the Establishment its own :e.

"he best fun is to be had from ;e news-sheets which have the il publishing field to themselves, se are usually crammed with all s of public announcements, small it ads., letters and local trivia ch are the true stuff of the South 5 (“Lost: A male dog, white with wn spot near the tail, has been sing from Miss Morning Glories ddie’s home in Lakepa since last irday”, reports Tohi Tala Niue, how else would you know about s Freddie’s colourful Christian ies?).

What's not there Tie newsletters are often revealy noteworthy too for the material is not in them, and certainly s the awareness of missing items ch sets off the critics of the ernmental mini-press. lie report from Pago Pago on criticism of Pago’s official News letin, mentioned in this issue, is recent example. Some Samoan slators have complained that :ialdom carefully sifts the news content, and “if the content suits ain people then it is printed, if then the public is not subjected this particular news”. ’ersonally I’m not aghast, as some the Samoan legislators appear to at this “un-American suppression the news”. how me the South Seas Adminition (or any other) which doesn’t select only the news it wants known and omit the rest. Obviously it can’t fit all the local news into its news-sheet, and once it starts the process of selection it will select the items which it thinks might help its aims, or certainly omit those items which don’t help its aims.

Even an independent-minded editor of a government publication will be overruled at times by departmental officers who are less enlightened but carry more rank. It’s the price you pay for the service you get, and since the service is free, this is fair enough.

The editors, too, have to lump it, although I don’t imagine any one of them would believe for a moment he was producing an independent newspaper. There are ways he can fight back, as Walter Hambuechen, editor of the government-operated, roneoed daily Cook Islands News showed recently, when he objected to office censorship on a story he was running about the French A-bomb on nearby Mururoa. He was told his story was against government policy, so next day he paid for an advertisement in his own paper to explain the censorship and his own stand in the matter. That’s the true stuff of the South Seas!

On your toes l can appreciate the complaints of private enterprise editors about the continued existence of a separate government news-sheet in their area, if they confine their objections to the loss of newspaper revenue represented by the news-sheet’s policy of free public advertisements. But a government news-sheet, with all its shortcomings, can still help keep the independents on their toes, and also provide them with editorial ammuni-

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Edward Street, Huntmgdale Victoria, Australia OUR COVER The street scene is i Noumea, French New Cah donia, where the mini-buses i blue and with roll-down blina on all windows are among th most popular means of tram port. And where the Mothe Hubbard dress, as worn by th two local ladies in the fore ground, is still popular femal attire. Noumea is the head quarters of the South Pacific Commission which held ai important Pacific-wide con ference in October. What hap pened at the conference is dis cussed in this issue. The Noumei scene was photographed b: Bruce Adams. tion with which to thump Establishment from time to time.

Fifteen years ago, in New Guin the professional thorn in my s was Kate Vellacott-Jones, the I ministration’s PRO, who was dedicated to digging out good ne stories for her own releases that was rarely safe to seek her help contacting government sources case she put two and two togetl and scooped you on your own ra< bulletins.

And in Fiji 10 years ago, wh I was doing a short stint as edii of The Fiji Times, my particu problem was a pair of first-r; reporters masquerading as Govei ment PRO’S, called Jack Hackett a George Rawnsley. May their qui never run dry, but their task u to produce daily government har outs for the newspapers and o weekly summary of the news f radio broadcast on Friday night.

Extraordinary how many imp< tant government releases were ma on Fridays, so that first news of the would be contained in the PR bulletin—thus scooping the nev paper. The coincidence never ceasi to amaze even Jack and George— so they maintained during t] inevitable post-mortems at the loi bar, which at that period constitufi the Club Hotel in its entirety. In tl anxiety to compete, our ulcers m< not have benefited, but Fiji’s new paper readers probably did.

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Pompous platitudes about "one nation" won't stop breakaway movements From a Port Moresby correspondent Close on the heels of the move for a referendum on Bougainville’s future comes the formation f the “Melanesian Independence Front” at Rabaul. But whereas the Bougainville move, which sked for a referendum on whether Bougainville should stay with New Guinea, join the Solomons, r become independent, was made by Bougainville men in Port Moresby, and, to some extent at ny rate, took Bougainville itself by surprise, the Melanesian Independence Front originated in Rabaul and appears to have taken Port Moresby by surprise. le surprise is, of course, only ive, as talk of this kind has been g on sporadically for years both Bougainville and New Britain, t is surprising is that it should so enly have become articulate. )th Don Barrett and Matthias Liman, who should know their ml as well as anyone, seem to I a rat. icy feel that there may be a conon between the abortive efforts ;ome Europeans to form the icultural Reform Party” at the of the last House of Assembly ions and the present move, and ler to what extent this also may mropean-inspired. rhaps the most surprising feature le formation of the “Front” is 3 Baining’s association with it as lairman. It is difficult to see how in square this role with his many ory-wide interests, such as his chairmanship of the P-NG ist Board. at, of course, is his problem, wer, this dichotomy, like that 3 aul Lapu n ’ s simultaneous isal of the Bougainville referenand a bill to establish a common for the territory, suggests that is muddled thinking going on.

Front's platform e front’s platform is forthright separate independence for 'JG Islands (New Britain, New id, Bougainville and Manus), a parliament based at Rabaul, nembership of the British Com- /ealth and the UN. rrently the NG Islands contain eventh of the territory’s people re responsible for over one-third ; exports. far there has been little interest id less enthusiasm for the proamong NG Islanders in Port shy. Their number, by the way, nsiderable. [ministration attitude and the Administrator’s Executive Council to these expressions of separatism has been one of prim disapproval, and the A.E.C. has announced its intention of seeking a debate on the subject in the house, which meets on November 18.

Support unknown Fair enough. But attitudes of prim disapproval and emotional rhetoric are not going to get us far. In Bougainville this week a conference of local government councils discussed the earlier proposal for a Bougainville referendum, and there was a majority against it.

But there seems to have been a sizeable and certainly a vocal minority in favour of it. Just how much support there is in the Islands generally, or in New Britain in particular, for the new proposals of the front is at present anybody’s guess.

A hard look at the present administrative and governmental set-up seems to be called for.

How do we go about commending national unity to the people? Do we need to delegate more responsibility and more power of decision-making to regional, district and local government levels?

Do we need to create governmental agencies between the local government level and the national level of the House of Assembly, just as we already have district and regional headquarters in the field of administration? Should the present rather wishywashy district ‘advisory councils be Vin To Baining, MBE.

Territory - wide interests, and now chairman of an "independence front". 25 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

replaced by elected district councils with some real authority?

What to do?

Should there be regional councils with some power of subsidiary law making within the national legislative framework?

And, touchiest question of all but one that must be faced, is there any real hope of containing separatist tendencies with a national legislature in which one region, by virtue of its high density population, is in a position of permanent political dominance?

If the debate envisaged for the November meeting of the House of Assembly faces up to questions such as these, much good may come out of it. But a smoke-screen of pious and pompous platitudes will do us no good at all.

As Don Barrett has recently said, there is a need for more than lipservice to the concept of a Papua- New Guinea nation. • Although the South Pacific’s seven international carriers failed to agree on any fare cuts at a recent meeting of the International Air Transport Association at Cannes, France, Mr. R. L, Frederick, Pacific vice-president, American Airlines, told PIM in October that more airline competition in the area would soon bring down fares. He added that American Airlines had lodged an objection to the tentative approval for Eastern Airlines to fly the South Pacific next year, and that his company was still hopeful that it would get a permit to fly trans-Pacific.

There'S A 'Right

OF SELF- DETERMINATION' By LEO HAN NETT, a Bougainvillian in Port Moresby Proposals for a referendum to enable the people on Bougainville to decide if they want to remain with Papua-New Guinea, become independent or join up with the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, will be discussed in the November meeting of the P- NG House of Assembly—and it is apparent there will be a lot of opposition to the proposal from all sides of the House.

Opposition will certainly come from the government, which is well aware of its responsibility to work for unity of the whole territory— as well as being aware of the benefits that will flow from the rich copper deposits on Bougainville.

Plenty of people have been voicing their opinions since the moves were introduced into the Assembly last meeting, but the Administration is trying to play it cool. At a forum held in late September at the University of Papua-New Guinea, called to discuss the referendum proposal, the Administration refused an invitation to send a speaker.

It seems to me the Administration is using the period before the debate in November to divide the Bougainvillians. But this won’t help. It will rebound once the leaders of Bougainville, together with the majority of the educated, thinking Bougainvillians who are behind this move, make a concerted effort to win their people.

I was one of the people who called for this referendum. The moves began on September 8, when two members for the Bougainville Open Electorate, Paul Lapun and Donatus Mola, had a meeting with a group of 25 Bougainvillians staying in Port Moresby. The group was composed mainly of students and men working with the Administration. We passed a motion which resulted in the application which will be discussed in November.

The main reason we called for a referendum was to get the people of Bougainville to think seriously of their future. It is commonly feared by Bougainville people that the isle will aways be a hard-working si; girl to feed fat Mrs. Territory. 1 this is of secondary importance. 1 fundamental reason for the call a referendum was the belief in right of self-determination.

Bougainvillians should have chance to think about their o viction that they are a differ people, a well-knitted group v should therefore be on their own.

Their tie with Papua-New Guii was due to an accidental act history—to a bungling act of t alien powers, Germany and Engla in a settlement of their dispute o Samoa in 1898.

The meeting very favourably c< sidered union with the Brit Solomons, to whom Bougainvilli; are more akin racially, and for im Bougainvillians in Buin and Sh there are even affinity ties.

It seems to us that the feeling close relationship and desire for un between the Solomons people a the Bougainvillians is mutual.

Paul Lapun, espousing the Bougainville movement.

Pretty Mrs. Miss Miss Nukualofa 1968 (above) is now [?] Tupou. Soon after arriving back from prize trip to Fiji in late September [?] Nukualofa, 24-year-old Saane Tu[?] married Tonga's new Assistant Crc[?] Solicitor, Tevita Tupou, 27. The cuu[?] have known each other for six ye[?] Meanwhile, due to a mix-up in dona[?] monies, Miss Siosi'ana 'Uheina Tonga now been declared winner of the fu[?] raising section of the Miss Nukual Contest, replacing Miss Fale Siliva. 26 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

Calmer approach to Fiji's political problems From a Suva correspondent An easing of tension and a calmer approach to Fiji’s politial problems came in October, although meetings held by the 7 ijian Association—the Fijian political arm of the Alliance *arty—continued to give rise to anti-Federation Party statements. was hoped that the Chief ister, Ratu K. K. T. Mara, who Iso president of the association.

Id make a statement relating to in Association activities. How- , journalists interviewing him >wing his return from the South fic Commission Conference were d to refrain from political itions. Up until the end of )ber, Ratu Mara had not been uaded to comment on the subject, he Chief Minister may have felt, nany others do, that “no talk is 1 talk” at the moment—at least i tempers have cooled sufficiently animosity arising from Fijian iciation —Federation Party clashes ided.

Appeals to government eas not to over-emphasise race lict resulting from the September lection results came from several :tions. Thirty-eight employees of •uva engineering company ap- ;d to government authorities and Press to cut down on the “unl and unnecessary amount of icity shedding light on the mous friction that exists between two party opponents”. This city, they said, “extols more i rather than mollifies the situaley urged that incidents of nee be placed in a proper >ective and recognised as being mmon social problem of today ;her than the direct result of it political and racial friction, couldn’t be denied however, cases of stone-throwing and lit reached a disturbing peak in October. During one two-week d, Western Division police red reports of 60 cases of crate stoning of cars, taxis and ; and 33 cases of stoning of js and shops. In several cases, lefendents claimed their reasons political. One said he stoned les because he was not in agreement with Federation Party policy.

Another said he was disturbed by the result of the elections.

Magistrates voiced their concern over the increased violence and hooliganism, emphasising the court’s neutrality in matters of political and racial consideration. Social problem or not, it was obvious that the political climate had become an excuse for some to give vent to feelings of tension and resentment.

Europeans had no cause for complacency either, since Fijian Association meetings showed that the Fijian people had discovered a new determination to play a much larger role in the governing of things.

At a meeting at Labasa, a resolution was passed stating that Legislative Council membership should be restricted to people of Fijian descent

Sugar - Sweet

AND SOUR Fiji will export less sugar at prices over double current world prices as a result of a new international sugar agreement. The agreement, restricts all sugar exports, but offers exporters prices of about £Stg.37 a ton, compared with recent £stg.l6 a ton prices.

The colony’s future production will be limited to about 336,000 tons, which include 145,000 tons to the free world market, 140,000 tons to Britain (under the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement), 36.000 tons to the US and 15,000 tons for home consumption.

Welcomed by Fiji’s only exporter, CSR, the news may be harder to take for farmers—lndian and Fijian—who can produce over 336.000 tons of sugar under good weather conditions.

A competition was held in Suva to find the best illuminated house and the best illuminated business premises on the night of October 21 which is the Hindu "Diwali", or Festival of Lights. Pictured is Mrs. S. P. Mahara[?], of Suva, carrying a bowl of lighted "deeyas" (candles), fruit and flowers.

Photo: Ambika Prasad. 27 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI-N O V E M B E B , 1968

through either the maternal or paternal side.

“This is in keeping with the rules of the Indian Parliament, where persons other than Indians are not eligible for membership,” the resolution stated.

“Using the same principle the Fiji Legislature should be open only to persons who have a trace of Fijian blood.”

The meeting decided that big businesses like South Pacific Sugar Mills, Carpenters, Burns Philp, Morris Hedstrom, Millers, the insurance companies and banks and town councils, township boards and the government should strike a racial balance between Indians and Fijians, department by department—“even if by so doing the standard of efficiency suffers slightly”.

Other resolutions approved were: • Indians who had lived for seven years or more in Fiji should not be issued with a Fiji passport. Their right to reside by virtue of being resident for seven years should be “unilaterally abrogated” and they should be given six months to leave Fiji. Those of this category in employment in the government and commerce should be dismissed and their positions filled by Fijians.

Deportation • Those not descended from indentured labourers should have their names removed from the electoral role so that they may not be an elector or a candidate in national or local elections. • Those descended from indentured labourers should be kept under surveillance—if it is established that their activities “are not consistent with the general desire for good neighbourliness and good race relations, they should be given six months’ notice to leave Fiji”. • Legislation should be introduced to limit Indian families to three children. Deportation within six months would be the penalty for failure to comply with this.

At the Fijian Association’s meeting at Tavuki, on the island of Kadavu, it was stated that Fijians of Kadavu did not want officials or even members of the Federation Party to set foot there.

The meeting also repeated earlier demands for the deportation of the Federation Party leader, Mr. A. D.

Patel, repeal of the Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Ordinance, abolition of the two seats proposed for Indians on the Native Land Trust Board, no renewal of Indian leases and no common roll until the Fijians were ready for it. It opposed immediate independence, but supported internal self-government.

The Federation Party was quick to challenge the legality of the deportation demands, stating that deportees would be the responsibility of the United Kingdom Government —which would have to defend such action in the United Nations.

Furthermore, it stated, India would be under no obligation to take back any of the British Indians who had gone aboard and who were no longer citizens of “Free India”.

A high official in the government agreed with the illegality of deportation. “These demands absolutely cannot be implemented—they carry no legality whatsoever,” he said.

“You cannot deport people en masse like that—you can’t even deport one person without very good reason, certainly not for political beliefs.

“All these resolutions do is express the very strong feelings of a certain section of the Fijian community.”

The Suva branch of the General Electors’ Association passed a unanimous resolution at its annual meeting in Suva on October 22, opposing any reduction in General Electors’ seats in the Legislative Council.

This following a speech by Mr.

Charles Stinson, the Minister for Communications, Works and Tourism, who said that last year ministers had agreed in principle to consider reducing their representation —and that the time to accept such a reduction would be when discussions were held in London on further changes to the constitution.

Mr. Stinson said the decision had been reached at a time when ministers considered that racial understanding of politics in Fiji was improving. It was reached before the walk-out of the Opposition at the Legislative Council, before the introduction of policies of boycott and non-co-operation with representatives of other races and before the launching of a “vicious campaign based on racial and class hatred and personal abuse of opponents”.

“I have been disturbed by these events and by the results of the by-elections. They have caused me to change my mind,” Mr. Stinson said.

It still remains for the Federation Party to reveal its intentions regarding the next session of the Legislative Council. The first sitting is expected to be held on November 22, when the Minister for Finance, Mr. H. P. Ritchie, will present his Budget report.

Gass To Take Up

Western Pacific

Post In December

From a Hong Kong correspondent The new High Commissioi for the Western Pacific, Mich Irving Gass, expects to be on way to take up his appointm toward the end of Decemt Mr. Gass, who will succ< Sir Robert Foster, is preset Acting Governor of Hong Ko while Sir David Trench is leave in England.

Mr. Gass, who is a former Cl Secretary to the Western Pacific E Commission, will be sadly missed Hong Kong, where he did valm work as Acting Governor during Communist disturbances of 1 i summer. In fact, many Hong K organisations do not want to see 1 go, and already there is speculal that he might become Governor Hong Kong when Sir David Tre completes his present term in 19 Asked to comment on this ] sibility, Mr. Gass joked that had nothing to do with him si he did not appoint Governors. Pres further, he replied, “Personally think there is not the slightest ] sibility at all.”

Mr. Gass acted as High O missioner several times during Latest photo of Mr. Michael Gass. 28 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

n as Chief Secretary of the stern Pacific High Commission n 1958 to 1965. hiring this time he was closely >ciated with Sir David, who was h Commissioner from 1960 to 3.

Ir. Gass will leave Hong Kong r Trench returns from leave on ember 16. orn in April, 1916, Michael Gass educated at King’s School, ton, and Christ Church Oxford, was appointed Chief Secretary VPHC in July, 1958, and became g Kong’s Colonial Secretary in ember, 1965. He began his er with the Colonial Service in , 1939, as Administrative Officer ic Gold Coast, now Ghana, where ivas appointed Assistant District imissioner. He saw military serwith the Gold Coast Regiment ast Africa, and Burma, and was j mentioned in dispatches. After war he resumed his Gold Coast it as District Commissioner, and promoted Senior Assistant jtary, 1951, Assistant Regional er, 1953, and Permanent Secreand Regional Officer, 1957. is next move was to the Western ip- The Hong Kong newspapers lined his new appointment with question, “Will he be our next ‘mor?” Mr. Gass, who certainly ?e knighted following his appoint- , will lose money to take on the He has a great interest in the i Pacific and was popular in olomons.

Robert Foster, whom he suc- , is to become Governor of A formal marine court of ry at Suva in October found ;he master of the MV Wallisien grossly negligent in his handling * ship shortly before it grounded lukutolu Reef, Yacata Island, ay 8, last year. ! court found that Captain J - Lamberty was incompetent, ight not generally incompetent, lation to particular aspects of avigation and handling of the etween her departure from Suva be grounding. ; court recommended that he 1 be severely censured, en she grounded, the Wallisien tons) was about 18 miles south r dead reckoning or intended >n, the court said. 3mpetent steering by one or helmsmen was probably a conng cause of the grounding, the found.

Tui Lau Loss Shocks Fiji

From Sue Wendt, in Suva Shock and consternation were the local reactions when the Tui Lau was abandoned as a total loss after the 800-ton tourist carrier was grounded on a reef near Totoya Island, 120 miles south-east of Suva, about 11 p.m. on October 25.

Two attemps to pull her off the reef by the guided missile destroyer HMS Fife failed.

The anti-aircraft frigate HMS Puma stood by while 42 passengers, including about seven children, and 37 crew were winched to safety by the Wessex helicopter off the Fife.

Tui Lau had grounded forward on then slewed around into rough seas and began to break up. She was heading from Kabara to Suva.

The three overseas passengers were an American widow Mrs. Elizabeth Museus of Los Angeles, and two Wellington businessmen Vern Edwards and his brother-in-law, Alan Ramsey.

No casualties There were no casualties and all on board were calm.

Conditions were described as unpleasant and nasty for boats.

Passengers later praised the calmness of the crew, especially Tui Lau’s hostess, Lulu Leiser of Lomaloma.

She constantly moved among first class and other passengers to keep them calm.

Without the help of Fife rescue operations would have been far more perilous and Fiji’s Governor, Derek Jakeway went aboard Fife later to thank the ship’s company for the rescue by speaking over Fife's internal television service.

Last off Tui Lau was Commander Jerome Benson, executive officer of Fife, who directed uplift operations of passengers and crew from Tui Lau’s deck.

Captain Don Wendt was Tui Lau’s master.

The loss of Tui Lau is a severe blow to both commercial and tourist development and demoralising for the Fijian people.

She was bought earlier this year by a group of Fiji provinces, the Marine Co-operative Association, and cost over £FIOO,OOO to put into service (PIM, Aug., p. 47).

Mr. C. D. Aidney, a director of her managing agents, Williams and Gosling, said Tui Lau’s loss was “a moral tragedy for the Fijian people”.

“The Fijians had such an affection for the ship which they regarded as their own,” he said.

A replacement?

He said a replacement must be obtained and it was not the end of the association.

Insurance cover is expected to recoup some of loss but not all.

Salvage chances seemed extremely slight but attempts were made by the Uluilakeba to recover passenger luggage.

Shortly after Rob Wright took this picture of the "Tui Lau" on the reef she began to break up and became a total loss. 29 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

There was blood and thunder about more power for the Islanders From KATHLEEN HANCOCK, in Noumea Beetles and burgeoning populations loomed large on the horizon at the Bth South Pacific Conference held here in October. For 10 days, delegates from Islands territories serviced by the South Pacific Commission aired their views on subjects that ranged from rhinocerous beetle control to mental health.

And they also approved or cut items in the works programme and budget submitted to them by the commission.

Delegates arrived from islands as distant as Guam and Tahiti, the Solomons and the Gilberts. The problems that face them in their home territories are equally diverse.

Some are as old as the Pacific itself, but most of them have been aggravated by contact with Western civilisation.

Fiji’s Chief Minister, Ratu K. K. T.

Mara, chaired the conference, and it was clear from the outset that he had no intention of being a mere figurehead.

In his opening address he said, “While I shall certainly do my best to be a fair and impartial chairman, I do not propose to be a silent one. In fact, Ratu Mara will be in a much more favourable position to catch the chairman’s eye!”

More say He suggested that delegates should have a more direct say in the projects proposed for their benefit. And he put forward the idea that delegates to the South Pacific Conference should be elected representatives of their peoples, rather than appointed, as they are now. This would help to ensure that conference decisions would be carried out in the territories.

It was soon clear that the chairman was frustrated—to put it mildly —by the relationship of the Islands’ delegates to the six commissioners, who sat at the top of the conference room, looking rather like a group of schoolmasters in charge of a study group.

It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that ancient Pacific rivalries could have entered into this attitude.

Western Samoa, in the person of that formidable old party, Afoafouvale Misimoa, sits with the commissioners of the five Western Powers administering South Pacific territories.

By right of her complete independence, Western Samoa was elected to the “ Commissioners’ Club” some years ago. And however gratifying it may be to other Pacific territories to have one of their own occupying a commissioner’s seat, old jealousies die hard.

When Ratu Mara stated bitterly that under the present rules Fiji was less equal than some who participated there, it could be that he had Western Samoa in mind.

As for the commissioners themselves, probably they did not feel like schoolmasters so much as prisoners in the dock, under strong verbal attack from the bar. The UK Senior Commissioner, Mr. F, D.

Webber, proposed that next year the commissioners be distributed among the delegates.

The chairman referred in his opening address to the “extension and strengthening of the conference in the operation of the South Pacific Commission.” He thanked the metropolitan powers for “their readiness, not only to accept this new concept, but to actively co-operate in making it work.”

Irked But later in the week he said that although he didn’t think the commissioners intentionally tried to muzzle him by asking him to become chairman, he was irked by the idea that the commission could impose its decisions on the delegates.

“It seems,” he said, “ that the delegates have come of age, but not the Commission.”

There was also a good deal of blood and thunder from the floor of more power for delegates. Tor who sends a delegate, but has vote because of her British adv on defence, complained that decisi of the conference lacked finality.

“Why,” asked Inoke Faletau, the decisions of the conference as recommendations to the a missioners? What right has session (of commissioners) to del what the conference puts forwarc He went on to make the pi that the South Pacific Commis; was not recognised by the UN an entity. And so there would alv be delays in getting assistance fi the international agencies for c< mission projects that requ monetary or specialist help.

But in the end, the confere delegates ended with far more in affairs than some of tl apparently expected.

At this 1968 meeting there seer to be signs of a more indepenc attitude on the part of the Fre Pacific territories. Last year, and gates from New Caledonia, Fre Polynesia, and Wallis sat obediently to put forward t whispered views of their advisers to approve the pronouncements their commissioner. This year tl were healthy signs of an inten to stand on their own feet.

Mr. Nettre, the French Comi sioner, for some reason stroi opposed the extension of the rh cerous beetle research project a United Nations Development 1 gramme help. This attitude to a search project that is literally matter of life and death to s( islands puzzled the conference, met with a barrage of criticism.

Mr. Nettre was roundly defeated Ratu Mara—no mere figurehead. 30 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

:nch Polynesia’s Jean Bambridge 1 that though his islands didn’t ’er from infestation, they would ! to share the problems of other itories and make a contribution the cost of the project.

I new feeling of sympathy towards Commissioner for France finally jrged. This could have arisen n Mr. Nettre’s acceptance of the iv of independent thinking from e French Pacific delegates. Or :ou!d have come from a wider isation of the totally different remship between France and her •seas territories, in contrast to the e bonds that tie the US, Great ain, Australia and New Zealand heirs. itizens of French territories are ichmen, represented in the French eminent in Paris. And so it’s imible for the French Commissioner ;ive a snap decision on matters :ting their welfare. The French eminent, as their elected repreitive, has the final say. was interesting to hear Ratu a, in spite of earlier criticism 'ranee’s blocking tactics, complit Mr. Nettre on making a great ession in agreeing to a conferdiscussion on the future of the h Pacific Commission. And I t think there was any tongue-in k about his sentiments. ’oafeuvale Misimoa at one point out of his way to congratulate French Commissioner for stickto his guns. And Mr. O. P. tes, speaking for New Zealand, ; the point that relations between rs and territories were not ys the same. seemed obvious that here he red to the often difficult posi- Mr. Nettre found himself in. The nissioner for France has been up into something of a conferbogey-man over the years, partly ise of his insistence on precision accuracy in the area of finance, aostly because he is often forced stonewalling tactics by France’s ic relationship with her Pacific es. £ imminent upgrading of Nauru delegate to commissioner will anew look to the group of men” at the top of the conferroom. When the membership ais newly independent Pacific i is confirmed (in about three is), the commission won’t be so ly weighted in favour of the ipolitan powers. The delay in i’s entry was merely technical, g from the need for the French nsult with Paris, sident Deßoburt, though not (Continued on p. 135)

And Now The Spc'S

Crisis Is Over

By Stuart Inder

It’s been 21 years, and the South Pacific Commission has come of age. It reached adulthood during the Eighth South Pacific Conference in Noumea in October. Nobody should underestimate the significance of what has happened there. meetin 8 has spelled the end of the “ exclusive dub ” charge that was first leveded at the commissioners by Ratu Mara ’ of Fip ’ in - 1965 ' lt is vld<H 7 for the Islanders in their sustamed assault on the remnants of the SPCs metro P olitan Paternalism.

It means the way is finally clear for the SPC to become a genuine, useful forum for the exchange of opinions by the Islanders themselves, and for the Islanders to take a real P art in making the policy that may help satisfy some of their wants.

Among the important improvements to have come out of this Noumea conference are an understanding that Islands delegates are old enough now to be able to draw U p an agenda and discuss what they want at their own conference; and that their recommendations on the SPC budget and works programme should be accepted by the commissioners.

PrAnf nf iTOOT 01 Tn 6 puddlDQ s the c^fo 0 "’ th conference, ratified changes ™ — l ° § lve affect the progr amm e in four hours, compared with four days last year. (The budget was for a total of $A983,892—5885,000 of it from the financial contributions of the six participating governments, which have agreed to increase their contributions by 10 per cent this year.) T SPC has "<* -ceded to ‘hemse $ lves qU be S allowed 6 financial contributions to help them become more responsible; or thS dele B ates be elected by their territories rather than be nominated But these are matters that can be discussed next year when the Ninth South Pacific Conference is expected to set up a review committee “to the results of the recent changes in the conference and the commission and consider what further changes might appear desirable”, Ratu Mara would have liked to have seen the review conference established immediately, but one at a time is good fishing, and he has no reason to be dissatisfied at the size of this year’s catch. Next year it looks like Mr. Albert Henry, of the Cooks, will be in the conference chair, and the work of softening up what s left of the opposition should continue apace, TheV / VG 01*0WI1 UD ' ° ** Certainly with Nauru, and presumably Tonga (soon to get full independence) sitting at the cornmissioner’s table at next year’s conference, the days of dominance by metropolitan commissioners will have zfbTer fi xr hatthels,anders h Paternalism once was acceptable, but today, as Ratu Mara has said, the terntones have grown up.

If . the metropolitan powers had continued to insist on being overlords ’ listening with only half an ear to Islanders droning away on a largely irrelevant agenda drawn up by somebody else 12 months ahead the SPC would have been wrecked’ . * . eir recognition of the facts . . in me Pacific today’s com- “"credit" gOVernments Certainly there is still some way to go > some technical problems to be overcome before the SPC will become geared to the new pace. But its crisis is over, and that is a very yeTr ™ b ' rthday ** fOT itS 2,St

More than coupons in Nauruan pools scheme By KEN McGREGOR No Pacific Islands territory has held more magic for overseas businessmen over the last 12 months than tiny Nauru.

Since it became an independent republic on January 31 this year, the phosphate-rich nine square-mile island has attracted more potential investors than any other South Pacific island in the last 10 years.

Nauru offered no taxes. It was an ideal strategic base between South-East Asia and Australasia for business projects aimed at markets which could be counted in the hundreds of millions of customers.

And, of course, Nauru needed to start diversifying for the time when its phosphate will run out.

So they came. Hoteliers from the US and Britain, several international airlines, financiers, casino operators from the US and Europe, builders from Australia and fish canners from Japan and Nationalist China. Even the French had a quiet look.

Even the French Some “swotted up” on every 4 conceivable fact about the island before jumping aboard chartered aircraft for Nauru. Others just went willynilly.

Nauru listened, pondered and rejected scheme after scheme. It lost count of the propositions to put up a pub, and it couldn’t recall how many tips it received on how to invest its phosphate royalties.

The republic took a tough stand on all proposals. Businessmen wanted a foot in Nauru but the price asked by Nauru was too high.

Then, in September, the thaw came. A big deal was clinched to give Nauru two lucrative projects which will not cost one Nauruan cent.

As reported in PIM, October issue, p. 26, the Sporting Pools Bill was passed by the Nauruan Parliament to give an Australian-owned, Nauru-registered company, Pac Sporting Pools Ltd., a 1 6-year ‘ elusive licence” to run a masi football pools operation.

The promoters expect that upws of one million football coupon: week will be filled in by Australi and New Zealanders and proces by Nauruan headquarters. The i moters expect to take a share the estimated $35,000 a week wl goes to British pools from Austra s2m hotel The extraordinary part of 1 parliamentary bill concerns w went with the football pools. I moters of the company agreed form four subsidiary compar build a luxury hotel costing upwa of $2 million at Anabare Bay, Nai and hoped to operate weekly frei services with chartered aircraft their own airline, between Nauru Australia. All at the compai cost.

Pacific Sporting Pools will pay Nauruan Government $25,000 fr the whole project by June 30 t Pacific Sporting Pools intends to[?] DC6 aircraft weekly on Nauru's strip (left, back of the picture) build a hotel at Anabare Bay, out the picture at right. Nauru's s[?] used to handle chartered DC4's of Australia and now can take D[?] and HS748's. Fiji Airways will crease its fortnightly services weekly calls early next year, but present has temporary landing rig[?] only. Micronesian Airways will she operate to Nauru from Majuro.

Nauru's President Hammer DeRoburt.

Nauru gave Pacific Sporting Pools permission to set up a football pools operation. 32 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

r. This is expected to be the ial payment to the Nauruans.

Vhat is the company and who the men behind it?

Tie two principals of the company Mr. H. G. Pearce and Colonel M. Mayberry.

Larlier this year the pair operated of a tiny down-town Sydney ee. They had no staff; an attracdownstairs receptionist conally took messages because most ;s both were out —commuting to eminent contacts in Canberra or bourne. Mr. Pearce made several rlwind trips to Norfolk and orally acted as spokesman. .bout August, they got a new ress. A suite in an expensive k in Sydney’s business heart. A ty receptionist of their own, rate offices, a manager, big rs over the wide glass doors: ntral Pacific Airlines”, “Central fic Hotels”. here is talk of hiring public ions consultants in the New r. Conferences with international ties to charter DC6 aircraft, rush s to Melbourne and Sydney :>rt to confer with President imer Deßoburt. flurry to get first equipment y on the Triaster in October, ig visits to top Australian artment of Civil Aviation people correspondence with Reserve i and Postal officials, auru’s football pools are on their Good contacts ; 51, Mr. Pearce is a former ral politican of long-standing more recently a lobbyist, ling government liaison work for Australian companies. He >usly has very good government icts and remains convinced that Nauru project will not fail. 53, Colonel Mayberry is very i the former company director Army type. He will put his Mr. Pearce’s ideas into practice, working behind the spotlights, :ome technical and other details, cific Sporting Pools Limited’s building team and supplies id at Nauru in October and i work on the first stage of lotel and pools complex. Comm date for this stage is April xt year and it will include 34 ►oms, lounges, dining-room, bar pools offices, estimated to cost 000. swimming pool will later be for Nauruans as well as hotel 5. e company has not yet gained approval from Australia’s Department of Civil Aviation to operate air services between Nauru and Australia to carry the hundreds of thousands of football coupons. It is here there could be trouble if other carriers protest that the company is trying to set up a passenger service in competition with established airlines.

There is little doubt the company wants the aircraft only to get its coupons delivered. But the attitude of Nauru is different. It wants its own passenger-carrying airline one day.

Mr. Pearce said that Central Pacific Airlines was formed “specifically for the carriage of mail and freight, generated by the football pool operation”.

Do its best “No existing or planned air facilities can cope with the deadline or volume,” he said. “It is proposed, therefore, that CPA provide suitable aircraft and operate as a carrier between Nauru and Australia.

“Under the agreement with Nauru, the company will use its best endeavours to make the airline available for the carriage of passengers between Nauru and Australia as required by the republic from time to time.”

Mr. Pearce said DC6 or DC6B aircraft were suitable and the company intended to charter two of these aircraft from overseas when it obtained permission to land in Australia.

He said services would be weekly, Nauru-Sydney, on Fridays and Saturdays. The DC6’s were capable of doing this run non-stop with limited loads.

Few busier offices By early November there were few busier Sydney offices than the luxurysuite headquarters of Messrs. Pearce and Mayberry. Both remained confident that the Nauruan venture will go over smoothly and they said $120,000 in funds from Australiawide shareholders had been subscribed by then to get things moving in Anabare Bay.

All in all, phosphate may not be the only thing which puts Nauru on the map for the outside world in future. Millions of tiny coupons may do it.

Colonel W. M. Mayberry, who is backing Mr. Pearce in moves to get football pools, air freight and hotel operation going on Nauru by April next year. He put in several months duty on Bougainville during World War 11, and afterwards joined the boards of several Australian companies, including insurance groups.

Mr. H. G. Pearce, a director of Pacific Sporting Pools, "takes five" on a recent visit to Nauru. Born in Queensland, Mr.

Pearce has spent a good deal of time in Great Britain watching English football pools operations. Now he is confident they can be equally successfully operated from the Central Pacific. He has also had hotel experience—in 1962-63 he spent several months on Norfolk Island getting one of the island's major hotels started. 33 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

In Niugini, as elsewhere, people don't always matter very much When following news of events in various parts of the world one finds oneself asking, “Dc people matter any more?” Even in our little world of Papua-New Guinea the question sometimes obtrudes itself.

PORT MORESBY is overlooked by two BPs—Burns Philp and Burns Peak. The former calls for no explanation. The latter is an 800 ft hill which looks down on its shoreward side on Konedobu, Government House and Hanuabada Village. On the inland side it looks down on what I can remember as a quiet, grassy valley to which, when I lived at Hanuabada in those faroff days before the war, we used sometimes to repair—climbing over a saddle in the hills—for picnics, scout and guide outings and suchlike.

Now that once grassy valley is crossed by a bitumen highway, and is full of the little concrete-brick boxes which comprise the lowcovenant suburb of Hohola. A substantial proportion of the hundreds of Papuan and New Guinean public servants who work in the Administration’s headquarters at Konedobu live there.

Years of talk For years we here in Port Moresby have been talking about the Bums Peak road, a road which would cross or cut through the saddle south of Bums Peak and give a direct link between Hohola and Konedobu, cutting the road distance between these two places from over five miles (by the route the buses follow) to under two miles.

We have differed among ourselves as to whether this road could follow the existing contours or whether it would involve extensive excavation; we may have held varying opinions as to how soon we would get it; but we have all assumed that this was something we ought to have as soon as possible.

Now the experts have flabbergasted us by telling us that we don’t really need it at all.

Why have they come to this unexpected conclusion? I think that it’s because they have been watching the wheels go round instead of watching the faces of the people who use the wheels.

Hoholas public servants have to be out of their little boxes by 7 a.m.

To The Point

WITH PERCY ChATTERT at the latest if they are to be in time for work in Konedobu at 8 a.m.

The timetable rating for the bus journey of 51 miles is three-quarters of an hour, but in the rush hour it may well take substantially more than that, especially since, at each of the numerous stops, the driverconductor has to dispense tickets before he moves on.

As a matter of fact, many of the lower paid of these workers have to give away the bus journey towards the end of the fortnightly pay period, when funds are running low, and foot-slog it over the hills to Konedobu. They may well arrive at work sooner, though sweatier, than their more affluent colleagues who travel by bus.

Of course, it isn’t only the Niuginians who live in Hohola who would benefit from the Burns Peak road, though their gain would be the most spectacular. Overseas public servants living in the high-covenant suburb of Boroko would also find the new route quicker and more c venient, as would the people of b races who are rapidly filling up new suburb of Gordon; while th whose job is in Port Moresby Tc would benefit by the drawing off the Konedobu traffic.

But the men who watch the wh( go round and feed traffic flow c into computers say we don’t n it. Don’t people matter any mor A FEW weeks ago an astonish scene was witnessed at I Moresby’s Taurama Hospital, police riot squad, complete with s helmets, truncheons, pistols, shi< and dogs confronted a group grief-stricken villagers who v objecting to an autopsy being can out on the body of a fellow villa who had collapsed and died sudde after an all-night party.

The intractable factor in sue! situation is that both sides are ri —from their respective points At present the [?] from Hohola to K[?] dobu (shown) is miles long. The posed road via B[?] Peak would cut distance to 1½ m[?] But will anyb[?] build it? 34 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

w. The villagers (they come from ullage which expanding urbanisai is threatening to swallow up but ich is essentially still a bush age) said, “This is our flesh and od; we claim the right to mourn bury him according to our own toms”. The doctors and the aner said, “We don’t know why man died and it is our duty to out”.

Barrier of truncheons ut there were people available ► could have found a less drastic tion than the riot squad if they been given the chance. Ministers the United Church, of which t of the villagers are adherents, ht have helped if they had been sd in. hen there was the District linistration man from District -e who, following a deputation villagers to the Administrator, called in 48 hours after the ition first developed! He □aded the deputation to accept autopsy and accompanied them ; to the hospital, only to find the autopsy had already taken 3 willy-nilly behind a barrier of zheons, pistols, shields and dogs, as this confrontation necessary what did it achieve? »me of the dead man’s relatives, iding his widow, came to talk ae after it was all over. They known me since they were and talked freely. They had , and indeed still were, stirred nd resentful. ley may well have appeared le and dangerous to timid or inrienced Europeans. But I didn’t the impression that they had usly contemplated violence. They hoped to persuade, perhaps to urise, the doctors to forgo the isy. I doubt whether they had asly contemplated breaking into norgue and snatching the body, t even if they had! Moresby’s ral Police Station at Boroko is than a mile from the hospital, e event of the situation becomigly, a single police officer on spot with a walkie-talkie radio have brought a riot squad on -by to the scene in two minutes, hy the histrionics? ;11, the doctors got their own Presumably they found out why nan died. Possibly they made small addition to the sum total cientific knowledge. Certainly added yet another group of e to those (for this kind of mt has occurred before, though o dramatically) who have made ieir minds never to allow themselves to be taken to hospital, howeV r J? ay be .‘ When I talked with them, I found that what stuck in their throats most wa fi ~ e „ d°g s * * Are we pigs ° r wallabies , they asked, “that they have to bring out their dogs to us?”

Surely the proper use of police dogs is to track down suspected criminals or escapees. Their value in confronting mob violence is dubious; i understand that even those tough characters, the American police, are coming round to this view. And anyway, this was not a violent mob.

Not in fact, nor probably in intern 10 n nn . t . nnn°t thp,w P r matter .. a " y ™ ore , ?

Dont their feelings matter? Doesnt their grief matter?

St a vnr' \ i n tt UDA KOGA is 10. He comes from the Goilala, a mountainous stretch of country less than 100 miles from Port Moresby, but still very primitive.

Recently police in Moresby rounded up a number of vagrants.

Without visible means of suonort they were living with and on relatives employed about the town. As usual, some of them were from Goilala, and of these a dozen or so were .^ ough *° be d ealt with by the Childrens Court rather than the ...

Suda was the youngest. Eileen Tom, middle-aged welfare assistant from Hula, on the Papuan coast. was there as a sort of prisoners’ friend. The magistrate told them that they would have to go back home and if they hadn’t the price of an air fare they would have to walk back.

What else could he tell them?

Glummer and qlummer 3 they’re going to walk. I’m g° in g to walk with them,” said Eileen Tom - And she did.

I saw them off. Suda was a merry Httle chap, but he got glummer and glummer as the time drew nearer for him to board the truck which was to take theip to the Toad .^ the Vanapa River, some 20 miles out of Moresby, from where they would start their long trek into the hills. What is he going back to? n , .... lfle Goilala sub-district has a stee Ply mountainous terrain and a s f arse population (as compared with those in . tbe Highlands proper) scatter cd in small hamlets over a large area - The first contacts its people had with the outside world were when they were visited by missionaries of the Order of the Sacred Heart over half a centur y aRO. and no" °ong after they made their first acquaint- A riot squad, such as the one above (plus dogs), recently confronted a group of griefstricken Niugini villagers who were objecting to an autopsy being carried out on the body of a fellow villager at Port Moresby's Taurama Hospital. The autopsy was carried out, of course, but a handful of Niuginians were, and probably still are, resentful.

Photo: Bruce Adams. 35 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R . 1968

Letter from the Publisher We're going to need your help Next year, Pacific Islands Monthly will be in its 40th year.

As life-spans of magazines go these days, that’s getting on a bit.

At the same time, the Pacific Islands territories which we have served for two generations are changing more rapidly than ever before and we need extra information on our growing readership, if we are to continue to plan PIM intelligently.

In the December issue, therefore, we will conduct a readersurvey, You will be asked to tick off some answers on a simple form and return it to us. It will be quite painless and, to make it more entertaining, there will be prizes of $2O each for the first three letters opened on a certain date.

You will get the full details of this next month.

Some people may dismiss coupon-filling and lucky number prizes as a gimmick or kid stuff, not to be taken seriously. We suspect that some of our long-time and most discerning readers are in this category.

We want the opinion of this type of reader and therefore assure you that we are quite serious. The few minutes that you spare in ticking off answers will be of inestimable value to us. May we count on your help?

As for the money prizes: Most people should find something to do with $2O that they get for nothing, but if they cannot, their pet charity would be delighted to have it.

Next month, then, we will be seeking your indulgence and your active participation in our first reader-survey.

JUDY TUDOR, Publisher, Pacific Publications Pty, Ltd.

World's most hair-raising airstrip ance with government officers.

They did not receive either with enthusiasm, and they have not been given much cause to become enthusiastic since. Goilala became and has remained Papua’s Cinderella.

Goilala has no road link with the coast, and of its two airstrips one, Tapini, is probably one of the world’s most hair-raising strips—a sloping shelf on the edge of a gorge, on which planes land uphill, and from which they take off again by rushing off the end of the strip and becoming air-borne over the gorge.

English potatoes and other cool climate vegetables grow well on these mountains, but transporting them to Port Moresby and marketing them at a competitive price is the problem.

Papuan Air Transport’s new “Skyvan” planes, when they arrive, may make the problem a bit easier to solve, but the only real solution is a road link to meet the Brown River road, which now reaches from Moresby past the Brown to the Vanapa River, currently being bridged. This road is planned to continue through flat country to Bereina, in the fertile Mekeo plain.

A road from the Goilala mountains to link up with it would be quite a project, and the experts say that as compared with similar projects in other parts of the territory it isn’t worth it.

In the meantime there is only one Administration primary school in the whole of the Goilala (population 30,000). There are a number of mission primary schools, but, according to Louis Mona, Goilala’s MHA, only one of them covers the full primary curriculum. So of course there is no high school in Goilala, and so far appeals for a vocational school have fallen on deaf ears. Even these schools, apparently, only cater for a primary-top intake, so for Goilala they are out.

Goilala men, harried by their local government councils to pay tax, flock into Moresby to take jobs as unskilled labourers, and quite often get involved in crime; while small boys head for town in the forlorn hope of being able to wriggle their way into an urban school and so get their feet on to an educational ladder which will go somewhere and not turn out to be a variant of the Indian rope trick.

No wonder young Suda Koga looked glum as he headed for home.

What’s in it for him? Frustration and boredom in his village? A job on one of Moresby’s garbage trucks?

Or a cell in Boumana Gaol?

A few weeks ago a small boy in New Guinea, just about the same age as Suda, was bitten by a death adder. A radio and aviation network swung into action in an attempt, unfortunately unsuccessful, to save the lad’s life. The economics of the exercise were not considered.

And quite right too.

But does a 10-year-old have to be bitten by a death adder before he is treated as a human being i not as a potential unit of manpow Don’t people matter if they ] in an area of low economic potent; Doesn’t Suda Koga matter? Eil Tom thinks he does.

Suda Koga, 10, and Eileen Tom. 36 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Tropicalities The beginnings of trade unionism in Papua-New Guinea took the form of the establishment of “Workers’

Associations” catering for workers in all occupations. Such associations were formed in several of the main towns, and in one or two cases on a district basis, and have functioned with varying measures of success. )utstanding has been the Rabaul ociation, which, under its able and rgetic president, Thomas Toßun- , has successfully negotiated with Employers’ Federation a whole es of awards for various groups workers, including awards for lifted tradesmen. Rather less sucful has been the Port Moresby rkers’ Association, which, once hie lead, seems to have drifted into doldrums. .11 along it has been recognised these all-inclusive Workers’ Asations could only be regarded as age on the way to craft unions, during the last few years moves i been made in several parts of territory in this direction, notably ;he timber industry and among hers. :>rt Moresby Workers’ Associas president, Oala Oala-Rarua, on other hand, has advocated a ral association with specialist ps within its structure. His at- >ts to get this concept off the nd have not, however, met with iSS.

Overtones Port Moresby the issue has now i on political and personal over- ;. It began when Gavera Rea, one he four co-chairmen of Pangu made it known that he was help- Port Moresby’s wharfies to lise themselves into a union of own the Central District rside Workers’ Association. ;ly after, it transpired that Pangu ; secertary, Albert Maori Kiki, helping workers in the building try to form and secure registrafor a “Central District Building :ers’ Union”. ese moves were clearly a threat le Port Moresby Workers’ Astion’s already crumbling foundaand president Oala Oala-Rarua sd vigorously, claiming that the There's a trade union war in Port Moresby formation of these unions was a Pangu Pati move to get the workers on-side politically.

To get the full flavour of this dispute it is necessary to remember that Oala Oala-Rarua was one of the founders of Pangu Pati, and subsequently resigned from it (or was tossed out of it—we never quite learned which) after a disagreement over some rather brash statements he had made on independence during a visit to Sydney.

Messrs. Kiki and Rea denied that they were grinding a political axe, claimed that they had been asked by the workers concerned to help them form unions, and asserted that the Port Moresby Workers’ Association was no longer effective, if indeed it could be said to exist.

Mr. Oala-Rarua retorted that the Workers’ Association had more than 400 members and was campaigning for more.

“It’s a pity to see the Port Moresby Workers’ Association going down the drain,” riposted Albert Maori Kiki smoothly.

Messrs. Kiki and Rea went on to challenge Mr, Oala-Rarua to lodge an objection, under the Industrial Organisations Ordinance, to the registration of the Building Workers’

Union, a move which would expose him to cross-examination on the real state of his Workers’ Association.

There the matter stands at present.

Perhaps the day of the general “Workers’ Association” is nearly over.

One can feel sympathy for Oala Oala- Rarua, who has pioneered Papua- New Guinea trade unionism; but it does look as if his star as a trade union leader may be setting. Maybe he won’t mind all that much; as Assistant Ministerial Member for Treasury he has plenty of new interests and opportunities.

Just to what extent there may be political motives behind the two Pangu men’s incursion into trade unionism is anybody’s guess. But, as a South Pacific Post editorial has pointed out, even if Pangu Pati has ideas for using unions to increase its mass support, this is a perfectly legitimate political tactic which it is entitled to employ.

Tahiti’s political monument ALTHOUGH Tahiti already has more historical monuments than most of the other South Pacific islands put together, it seems that these days, with about 25,000 tourists visiting the island annually, and looking for things to see, it can never have quite enough.

The monuments put up in the past year or two to Samuel Wallis, Tahiti’s first European visitor, and to Bougainville, the French explorer, have been valuable additions to such tourist sights as the Gauguin museum, and the Cook and Duff memorials at Point Venus.

Now there is a proposal to put up a statue to Tahiti’s last king, King Pomare V, who ceded Tahiti and its dependencies to France in 1880.

However, when the question of the Pomare V memorial was considered in October by one of the committees of French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly, the member charged with supplying facts about the project Oala Oala-Rarua. 37

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was not enthusiastic—apparently for political reasons.

“If a monument is to be erected to King Pomare V,” he said, “then the French Government should entirely foot the bill.

“However, if Tahiti wants to put up a monument to one of its sovereigns, then it should choose Queen Pomare IV, who reigned for nearly half a century and who presided over the destiny of the country in particularly grave circumstances . . .”

We gather from these remarks that Tahiti’s pro self-government politicians see nothing to be proud about in Pomare V, the “giveaway king”.

On the other hand, they would be pleased to honour the king’s mother, Pomare IV, who reigned from 1827 to 1877, and who refused to submit to French authority for nearly three years after France declared her country a protectorate in the early 1840’s.

Is the passing of the bure far off?

PICTURE FIJI: Sunny islands and atolls, slender palms and gentle seas . . . and instead of the traditional thatched bures, hundreds of little boxes. Maybe thousands.

Fiji’s landscape might be ditted with flat-roofed, box-like dwellings, prototypes of a £2OO house designed by the Medical Department as a suggested substitute for bures and for housing farmers on development schemes.

The low-cost house, with an area of 320 square feet and containing a living area, kitchen and washroom (with shower and water-seal latrine), can be put up on a do-it-yourself basis. A Medical Department spokesman estimated that it would take about a fortnight for one man to build it.

Sad as the passing of the picturesque bure might seem to anyone who doesn’t have to live in one, the introduction of a practical, hygienic, inexpensive substitute became necessary in Fiji with the rising costs of 6wre-building. A few years ago, you could have a decent bure built for around £5O-£6O. Now, certainly in areas close to towns, it will cost £l5O or more—if you can get the materials.

As the Medical Department fellow said: “The substitute mightn’t look very beautiful—but it’s more sensible 1 the working Fijian. Even if he bi a bure for £l5O, it would need repa ing after three years. And the 1 expectation of a bure is only abx 10 years all told.

“The low-cost house would last family man at least until his childi were grown up and able to affc homes of their own.”

The day when the village-st; bure, atmospheric but not really co fortable, is little more than a musei piece, may be fast approaching.

Run for your life!

ANY pretence of low-gear livii far from the hectic pace madding crowds and such, has 1 Suva forever. On the roads, anyw; With the introduction in Octol of the city’s new traffic seller Suva’s drivers, possessed of a suich disregard for life, have achieved n heights of enthusiastic recklessness, The scheme introduces a new tral flow along Stinson Parade and 1 new bridge across Nubukalou Cre and a system of one-way stre< Those one-way streets do it! Drive intent upon reaching some obsci destination in the fastest time thr caution to the winds. Pedestrians j invisible, or they’re regarded prime targets in the game of hum skittles . . .

Confusion reigned during the fi few days of the new scheme’s inti duction. Cars were parked in i NAMES PLEASE. We know who some of those former members of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles are, but we have drawn a blank with others. At a recent re-union the NGVR-ANGAU Association in Australia the above picture was produced by F[?] Still and after a lot of discussion this caption was worked out: Back row (left to rig[?] —Albert Pawley, Fred Halford, Les Kissick, Fred Still, (Unknown), (Unknown), [?] Fred Blakey (or Dick Ashwell). Front row (left to right)—Doug Clark (probably), Hardacre, Reg Plumb, Tom Zoffman and Alan Dunwoodie. Can anybody fill the ga[?] The photograph was taken in Wau about 1942. Secretary of the NGVR-ANG Association is Bill Tuckey, 1 Bellevue Drive, Carlingford, NSW, who can supply e[?] copies of the photo.

The "Vale Sau Rawarawa" (very low cost house) in the picture is partly cement and partly rough-treated timber. At com mercial prices in Suva, either or both materials could be used, with the total cost only £200. 38 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

ipping areas, particularly at intercom. There were still traffic signs be erected, others to be taken wn. People complained that it took ;m longer now to get from one int to another. Drivers negotiated indabouts, only to find themselves :ing a fearsome stream of onning one-way vehicles. More than j policeman, watching safely from sidelines, appeared to find the lation amusing—or ludicrous.

Within the first few days, a bus ;hed happily into the side of a ked taxi in the centre of town; a engine careered into a car and Drry at the busiest intersection (the (-officer in charge of the fire- ;ine was praised for his quickiking: he threw hose and beaters ) a passing taxi and rushed on to fire). *erhaps it’s only the comparatively t number of vehicles packed into datively small city area that makes a’s traffic seem so frantically hellt. The buses, frequently proceedat a terrifying pace, do nothing help. Neither do the children, who t unexpectedly from footpaths, y games in the roadway and seem er to have heard the “Look first :he Left” jingle. fiva pedestrians can only agree i the sentiments of Ratu Edward :obau, who said recently that Fiji ■ proceeding at too fast a pace. words referred to the colony’s irs in general, but they really n to have particular application to traffic. irstrip for Lord owe is nearer IEY’VE finally decided on what appears to be a satisfactory site Lord Howe Island’s first air- ) —and the thing that remains to lone now is to convince the NSW Commonwealth Governments money should be spent on buildit. he Australian Department of Civil ition says the strip can be built $900,000, and would run 4,000 om the top of the bank at Blinky :h to a spot in the lagoon off dy Point, 20 yards offshore, here would be a strip of bitumen n the centre 100 yards wide, the rest would be grassed. Four >es would have to be moved to e way for the airstrip, ord Howe, 300 miles east of the tralian coast, is a popular tourist rt for Australians, who at preget there by flying-boat. But flying-boats won’t last for ever, thus the necessity for the airinvestigation.

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From GLEN WRIGHT, in Pago Pago A charge of deliberate censorship of news has been levelled at the United States Government Information Office here by Samoan legislators. The accusation was contained in a statement signed by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and the Leader of the Senate of American Samoa.

The Office of Samoan Information, among other things, publishes a daily news bulletin that is widely disseminated.

“The news, of whatever nature, that is given to the News Bulletin, is carefully sifted for content,” reads the critical statement. “If the content suits certain people, then they are printed; if not, then the public is not subjected to this particular news.

“The legislature of American Samoa desires to go on record at this time as having the desire to give all the news to the people.

“Suppression of the news is not an American tradition and an American Samoan legislature will follow American tradition. The legislature hereby calls on the News Bulletin and anyone having to do with the publication of this government news medium and especially on Governor Owen S. Aspinall, to join in this great American tradition of freedom of the Press in all its connotations.”

Activities of the US Information Office here have been criticised for some time by the publishers of nearby Western Samoa’s two weekly newspapers. The Samoa Times and the Apia Advertiser, both edited by New Zealanders, argue that its publication of a free-distribution daily bulletin is unfair competition that hampers their efforts to grow and prosper.

Peter Creevey, editor of the Times, says that his protests have elicited the answer that when one of the local papers becomes a daily, the US government will quit publishing the NewS' Bulletin. Creevey protests that this is absurd: the Samoan papers cannot get enough circulation to do that so long as the Bulletin competes.

“While an enormous amount of money is spent by the US on the Office of Samoan Information to produce government news, the local independent newspapers are asked to replace the Daily Bulletin; but they are stymied by its give-away policy, its cheap production methods, and free inclusion of public notices which would normally provide revenue for non-subsidised free enterprise,” says Creevey.

The Times, owned by a consortium of Samoan investors, was started in 1962 and has grown phenomenally during the past two years of Creevey’s tenure. It has a weekly paid circulation of 7,500 in both American and Western Samoa. Its 16 tabloid pages are fat with advertising, 70 to 78 in recent issues.

Nine of its 16 pages are in English.

The Advertiser, 12 smaller tabloid pages per issue, also bi-lingual, is only two-years-old. Despite its front page assertion in every edition that it was “the largest selling newspaper circulated in Western Samoa”, it gave up trying to compete for paid circulation with the Times, as of its September 4 edition, and became a free circulation shopping news of 2,000 copies, fortnightly instead of weekly. It is owned and edited by R. F. Rankin.

It will continue Nevertheless, the News Bulletin will continue. Several members of the legislature had moved to ban it, but chief of the Office of Samoan Information, Ed Engledow, argued effectively before the lawmakers for its retention.

He asserted that the services now provided by the Bulletin could not be carried out by any other medium. If there was a sufficiently good newspaper around he would be happy to lower the Bulletin’s colours, he said.

As a result of Engledow’s testimony, the legislature voted $76,000 subsidy for support of the Office of Samoan Information in 1970.

Engledow is talking through his hat when he says that the local Press cannot cope.

Hundreds of Americans do not subscribe to the local newspapers because they get the Bulletin free. With the income thus lost the local Press could afford to install wire news service, upgrade editorial staffs.

All news items could easily be included in the news columns and propaganda run in Letters to the Editor departments or as signed opinion articles. 39 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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Acific Islands Monthly November. 19C8

Local life is colourful, and styles of dress can be depended upon to differ widely.

That's part of the territory's charm. It's shell that is being worn at right. 42 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Papua-New Guinea's main towns have their differences too. At top is hilly Port Moresby by the Coral Sea, and below, flat Lae, spreading around its airstrip on the shores of the Huon Gulf. Above right are pig jaws and a human skull near an outpost at Telefomin, in the Sepik.

Telefomin can be reached by air. 43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

From west to east. Top, the harbour at Vanimo, near the Indonesian border. Below, the volcano ringed harbour of Rabau main town on New Britain. At right is part of the road to the Highlands as it climbs up from the Markham Valley. 44 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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RAVEL ONSCIOUS MERICAN AMOA HAS [?]IGGER [?]LANS By KEN McGREGOR Cricket, American Samoan style, is today so far away rom the cricket that early missionaries brought to the Samoans ■ l ust doesn t matter, and lovers of real cricket will have to lake allowances when they visit American Samoa. But it will € worthwhile to watch a game, if only for the sheer fascination f it. imoans have vastly changed ish cricket rules and procedures transform the game Islands ion. But they also bet quite ily on a game. A loss can mean one village is SUS3OO out-ofet!

I watched a vigorous ' of Samoan cricket played a le of miles from Pago. Faleniu Pavaiai villages combined to Taputimu village by an innings two runs. ic whole game had a musical with Samoans clapping all the dancing and singing. Samoan nen were apt to miss most of wildly-tossed balls, but when connected the result was often auty —with the ball ending up a way away, in a nearby lagoon, ips, or past a nearby busy e teams had 25 men, or boys, de for batting, and at least le this number for fielding, e bowls were delivered altered from each end of the pitch dozens of villagers not in the collected on the sidelines to loud Polynesian songs. th at least 50 fielders of varying spread out up to 200 yards from the sand-pitch, the eyes of the bowling team were on two Samoans near the pitch, each armed with a whistle.

All fielders slow-clapped until a batsmen was caught, or bowled out.

Then silence.

Victory dance Suddenly the Samoans with whistles began blowing them loudly.

These two started a short vigorous victory dance which every fielder immediately copied. With the whistle bursts being the only sounds for about two minutes, the dance worked up to a climax when everyone jumped in the air with a cry of glee.

Meanwhile, the next batsman had arrived, supported by an exuberant song from the sidelines. And the extraordinary game went on.

At the finish, Faleniu and Pavaiai villagers collected SUS2S from the luckless Taputimu villagers.

Samoan cricket is one of the treats in store for visitors to American Samoa. The territory’s main (but small) island of Tutuila has a great deal to offer tourists during a two or three-day stay.

American Samoa is serviced almost daily by Pan American jets out of New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii or the US, and it boasts one of the most attractive and modern resorts in the Pacific Islands—Pago Pago’s 101-room, fully airconditioned Intercontinental Hotel.

During my stay at the Intercontinental in early September, the hotel’s manager, Mr. Rudy Ritcher, told me the hotel had begun making good profits since early this year.

Since it opened in late 1965 the hotel has chalked up considerable losses and this is the first year it has entered the black.

Mr. Ritcher said the hotel had maintained a 75 per cent, room occupancy this year and several times had been full, with more visitors, particularly Americans, making threeor four-day stopovers in American Samoa before heading northwards to Tahiti or Hawaii or southwards to Australia or New Zealand.

Intercontinental’s current high room occupancy is the best argument for a $2.2 million, 114-room extension to the hotel, which the American Samoan Government hopes the US Will pay for.

Most of the new rooms, each of which, like the present rooms, would have a bathroom, are planned for the Pago Pago side of the hotel, • If you're looking for spectacular South Seas scenery, you'll find it on the main island of American Samoa, Tutuila. 45 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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Big improvement ‘Before, we had to wait up to minutes before we were asked at we wanted,” one American said.

Iso, the food has improved.” \mericans said the hotel’s prices food compared well with prices Tokyo and Hawaii hotels. Some, vcver, commented that the general el service was not as good as overs hotels. ‘The hotel is overstaffed because hink Samoans as hotel employees not yet as productive as some el employees elsewhere,” a Calilian said. l2O Samoans are employed the hotel as waitresses, waiters, tenders, cleaners, cooks, pool sndants, gardeners and service ids.

The ideal number of employees fid be about 100, but Samoans not yet trained to the extent of rseas hotel employees and can’t expected to work as well,” Mr. :her told me.

I stay on the hotel grounds as :h as possible to try to keep constant touch with all our departits. In this way I am getting to w the Samoans better and find- I can help them more.” ome Australians and New landers will find that on top of jasic tariff of from SUSIS to >25 for a room without meals, es generally are high. But they about the same as in French mesia and New Caledonia—and e hotels in Fiji can be dearer.

Spectacular scenery ji unanswered question crops up i the hotel’s current profitability: t returns can the 1,200 Samoan eholders, who contributed 1350,000 to its original cost, set? The undisclosed losses up to year may prevent dividends for e time yet, but a statement from hotel’s nominal owner, the ;rican Samoan Development Corition, to put these Samoans in picture would be well-received lly. Somebody should do it. fter travelling Tutuila’s major 47 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT-N O V E M B E R . 1968

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Tourist future looks very good' jstern and eastern roads and its iwly-developed road across the high irt of the island to Fagasa Bay, it obvious that one of American xnoa’s greatest tourist assets is its ectacular scenery.

Smooth, sealed roads, often curl- ? within yards of bright beaches, d the impact of the jagged >untain ranges that surround you Pago, are tourist-getters.

But if the visitors are looking for changed islanders in traditional five huts then they would be tter off almost anywhere else in s South Seas. On Tutuila the new rricane houses have almost reced traditional fales.

Although there is the anxiety to :ourage tourists, some visitors n’t always find themselves properly ved when they get there. There i be an irritating attitude of it’s- )d-enough.

Short measure! »Vith three others I took a Dutapu Tour with Samoa Tours I Travel Agency, a Samoan-run r operator. We each paid SUS 6 the tour in a late model Ford an to the western side of the nd. Time of the tour was adfised in a Samoa Tour handout as 5e hours and the charge: “SUSS person”. )ur Samoan driver-guide stopped V once, for five minutes, near a top. Although he reeled off the les of villages as we passed them guide didn’t tell us anything ut the places we saw, despite ly questions from us. /e were back at base in an hour a half, where we found the active girl who had sold us the had gone home and her replaceit, equally attractive, was unable inwilling to explain why the tour half as long as advertised, at ter cost.

Three new hotels? ast year, 10,000 people stayed e than a day in American Samoa.

Y stayed an average of three to i-and-a-half days and spent a of SUS 2 million. This year 00 visitors are expected, and they spend at least SUS4OO,OOO more. ie territory’s two major tour ators are Samoan Tours and > Pago Tours, owned by the -sified islands firm, N. F. ibuhl, Inc. iere is talk of at least three new t hotels to be built on Tutuila. osals from two American airfines, Continental and Eastern, depend upon their obtaining flying nghts into the territory and the final government go-ahead has not been given for a locally-financed hotel, to be built near Tafuna airport.

Governor Aspinall’s attitude remains that a profitable future for Intercontinental Hotel must be assured before other hotels go up, and he is unlikely to allow additional hotel construction before he is convinced the hotel’s 1,200 Samoan shareholders will not suffer as a result of hotel competition.

Generally, American Samoa’s tourist future looks very good. More hotels certainly will be built, a golf course is proposed behind Pago Pago, and Tafuna airport is likely to become even a busier stopover for trans-Pacific jets in the near future.

A model Samoan village and a modern restaurant are planned on reclaimed land areas in Pago Pago Bay.

What needs attention is the service out of Pago to Apia, Western Samoa, and some of the onward connections from there. I heard many complaints in Pago about the unreliable air connections between Tafuna and Apia, operated by Polynesian Airlines. One man was furious at having been delayed a fortnight in Tonga because Polynesian flights from Apia did not arrive; it cost him $lOO and upset his entire Pacific travel itinerary, he said. The thing to do is to check and double check, and even then not work to a tight schedule. • See "American Samoa: In Many Ways You've Got to be Impressed", p. 60.

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Mr. H. P. Hunt, of H. M. Hunt Motors Pty. Ltd., of Sydney, told PIM that four of the 10-seater £Stg.3o,ooo British planes were sold to Macair, operator of Solomon Islands Airways and NG charter activities, and Aerial Tours of Port Moresby, a charter operator in Western Papua and the Sepik.

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The whole deal is worth nearly $500,000.

Option lapsed Mr. Hunt said several other parties in the Pacific Islands were interested in buying the Islanders and some held options to buy the planes. Fiji Airways Ltd. had previously held an option to buy two, but one of these options had lapsed, and the other option ended in December.

H. M. Hunt Motors is Australian A Britten-Norman Islander aircraft off the Australian coast.

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From TRIVANDRUM a side trip to the famous PERIYAR GAME SANCTUARY, or a short car ride to the breathtaking beauty of the three ocean coastline at CAPE COMORIN. India's southernmost point. At COCHIN on the west coast, board a powered canoe and explore the labyrinth of canals that weave and wind between tree-lined villages. For cochin is the Venice of India.

Then a plane-hop via COIMBATORE for a scenic drive high into the hills to OOTY. A spectacular climb through lush forests to this hill station resort nestled 7,000 feet above the prolific green of India's garden southland. Inland to BANGALORE, commercial heart of the South. Thriving. Wealthy.

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And then a decision. Whether to head North to the romantic Lake Palace at Udaipur and the majestic Taj Mahal at Agra, to press on to Europe, or to head back home rich in knowledge and laden with treasures. Or whether to dwell forever in the bosom of India. The incredible South.

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' returned to Fiji in October a trip to the US and Britain, s he discussed Fiji Airways’ with the British Board of 5 and BOAC, a partner in the e. *• Stinson examined several rement aircraft for Fiji Airways’ of ageing Heron aircraft but he no decisions had yet been made hich planes to buy.

PER 18 years, Canadian Pacific drlines’ fortnightly jet services to New Zealand, from Vancouver via Hawaii and Fiji, look like ending by mid-1969. The Canadian Government has received 12 months’ notice from the New Zealand Government of the termination of the two governmental reciprocal air service agreement.

Canada is expected to confer with NZ over this action, which stems mainly from the 5300,000-odd revenue Canada is taking out of the NZ economy by flying people and freight from NZ. .. X 7„ , , Air NZ has never taken up reciprocal rights to fly to Canada and all NZ-Canadian air business has gone Canada’s way.

A spokesman for CPA in Sydney told PIM that NZ’s move would not affect the new Canada-Australia weekly flights, which were due to start on November 1. \ ITUTAKI airstrip is to be up- -Braded as a temporary replacem^ nt * or the strl P. at Rarotonga, w . cb * s be rebuilt as a jet stnp by 1971 - Work on Aitutaki was to in September so that it will be ready by next March, when the present Rarotonga strip will be closed. 51 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R , 1968

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We have about 10 ships of under )00 tons each,” he said. “They all freighters and they operate n the US West Coast to the terri- ’ or from Japan to the territory r merely inside Micronesia.

MILI won’t be competing against new airline for passengers, but hope to work out package tours hat part of a tour of Micronesia one by aircraft and part is done boat.” lr. Murer said travellers could to Saipan or Guam from Japan the US and then pick up a finer for three or four stops at soiled atolls before catching planes out of Micronesia.

Others could take round trips by freighter from San Francisco or Osaka, Japan.

Mr. Murer said Marine Chartering Co., Inc., of San Francisco, the parent company of MILI, was a small shipping company by international standards. Its ships were small enough to make its 10-year Micronesian contract economical.

MILI would not receive a government subsidy but it was expected the company would carry most government cargo as well as general goods and building material cargoes and Micronesian copra exports to Japan and the US.

BOAC, which operates three transpacific flights a week via Fiji and Hawaii with Boeing 707 jets, will introduce rear-engined VC-10 jets on this run in October next year.

The VC-lO’s, a great success for the airline on the high-density Atlantic runs, are expected to win BOAC a bigger slice of the South Pacific travel cake. The VC-lO’s are similar to the 707’s but their basic weight is more.

BOAC will also change its west coast US stopover from San Francisco to Los Angeles—a move which will interest Air New Zealand, which chose Los Angeles in preference to San Francisco when they began their trans-Pacific services. 53 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R , 1968

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Phe newly-constructed strip on vau, on which Air Pacific aircraft fe been landing lately, fully-laden h Tongan officials as a demonition that the strip is safe, still ; not been approved for comrc’ial flights and it is even possible vau may have to provide another drip site.

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Early Rice Growing

Sir,—l have just seen the June ue of PIM with the note that rice Itivation in the British Solomon ands began in 1937, the venture ng a total failure.

However, several years before the pointment of Johns to the Protorate, rice had been grown on a all scale at Ugi Island. I have a Dtograph of a field of hill or dry d rice grown on that island about 14 by the Melanesian Mission. [t is interesting to read that the t lot of rice grown post-war on adalcanal gave poor yields ough being of an unsuitable type, the Americans grew very satistory rice, as I saw for myself 1945. Further, an expert from w Zealand by the name of Ojala 5 given hints by the Fiji Departnt of Agriculture on the best ieties suitable for the Solomons; ; would probably have been in 14. It is certainly very encouragto know that it is already possible look forward to the Protectorate ig self-supporting in rice.

Yours sincerely, R. A. LEVER rey, *land

Explanation For Haze

■ir,—l would like to comment on i’s September article titled “Well, it the Bomb”, referring to the haze” over Fiji in ?ust. There is nothing mysterious ut this smoke haze which erally occurs every winter season which originates from the :anoes of Ambrym Is., Lopevi Is.

Tanna Is. in the New Hebrides, 'he craters of the volcanoes on ;e islands are continuously active it least the extent of pushing out e quantities of smoke into the osphere. This smoke normally >erses fairly rapidly, though in the v Hebrides area itself a noticeable 5 exists at all times, luring the winter months of i year a temperature inversion nally occurs somewhere between 10 to 9,000 ft altitude and covers SW Pacific area. The effect of inversion is to contain any dust, ke, salt spray, etc., in the air >w and to prevent these particles n dispersing into the atmosphere ve. If sufficient quantities of these urities are present we get the lomena of “haze” or “smog”.

Additionally during these same winter months the general wind pattern in this area tends to winds at times quite fresh and persistent blowing from west to east.

The effect of this is, of course, to contain the large quantities of smoke from the New Hebrides volcanoes in that area below the inversion layer and to blow this smoke from the New Hebrides towards Fiji to the east.

As an example, the following conditions were observed on September 15 and 16 during the course of a flight from Fiji to New Hebrides to Honiara and return. A marked inversion was apparent with a cloud layer at 8,000 ft. Above, the sky was completely clear, while below 8,000 ft a thick smoke haze occurred.

Over Ambrym Island a cloud generated by the heat of the volcano towered to 20,000 ft with thick brown smoke rising to the inversion layer. West of the New Hebrides only slight haze was noticeable, but eastwards all the way to Fiji and beyond the smoke haze was contained below the inversion layer.

I trust that the above explanation will assist in clearing the “fog” which seems to surround the reasons for this normal yearly phenomena, A. G. SHEARER Suva, Fiji • Many thanks to Captain Shearer, of Fiji Airways, for this enlightenment. Presumably, though, the smog that troubled the Gulf of Papua about the same time, and which was also discussed in our story, came from another source?

"Fascinating" Cruise

Sir, —We left Sydney for P-NG earlier this year on our yacht Astrocyte with Ray Moon, of Sydney, and Yvonne Hackett, of Melbourne, as crew.

We visited Rossel Island, Misima, Samarai, Fergusson, Urasi, Kiriwina, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Angoram on the Sepik, and Vanimo.

This was roughly the route taken by La Belle Sole last year and we feel that the north coast of P-NG is a fascinating and rewarding cruising ground.

From Vanimo our next ports of call were Biak and Sorong in West Irian, then Ambon and Bali in Indonesia, The weather there was decidedly equatorial and oily calms, light winds and heavy squalls made it necessary to use the engine for long periods.

However fuel is available at all the ports mentioned.

Contrary to the predictions of friends and acquaintances, the Indonesia port officials and people of West Irian treated us with courtesy and hospitality and were most helpful.

Only in Ambon were we disconcerted. While the skipper was ashore three naval policemen, bristling with guns, came aboard and proceeded to demand cigarettes, food, a watch, radio and even the cat!

We had been forewarned of this and advised to give in. However, our decided “No’s” to all demands except cigarettes caused only sour looks and no strife, and after an hour of conversation, we emerged with three smiling new pen pals!

We sail shortly for Durban, regretfully leaving behind us the “green isles” but look forward to PIM for many years to come.

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Lotteries For Fiji?

Sir, —I have resided in Fiji for over 61 years, and have lived in many areas of the main island of Viti Levu. It is most disheartening and distressing to see in all parts of Fiji the number of children who have no schooling whatsoever, on Fishing made easy Was the big walu which leapt out of the sea in Fiji’s Somosomo Strait recently and accommodatingly stranded itself on a hatch cover of the MV Tui Lau, a gift from Dakuwaqa, the shark god? Or was it simply escaping from the jaws of a hungry shark?

No one knows, but the obliging walu—somewhere between 30 and 40 lb was subsequently featured on the menu.

Its leap into the Tui Lau was emulated by a big ogo a few seconds later, but the ogo was luckier. It managed to throw itself back into the sea. When the fish themselves are proving to be so co-operative, where’s the challenge for big game enthusiasts? 57 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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ccount of their parents underrivileged status.

Lately I have met many young tidian and Fijian boys who, when asked them what school they 'ent to, invariably replied, “Me ever go school”. Goodness knows ow many thousands are in a similar ;ate.

All private schools charge quite irge quarterly sums for admission, uite beyond the means of many imilies. Many small boys take up ork selling newspapers, others roam bout shining shoes of the tourists, ad others carry parcels for tourists hen the ships are in.

What kind of a society are we ring to have when these children row up?

The roads around the island, even i the environs of Suva, are still of ic gravel and grade variety—dusty, irty and shocking to drive on. Great ritain’s first thought in all the rionies she governed was TRADE, id her last thought was roads.

The Americans in contrast make lie tarred roads (such as those in 'awaii) wherever they go.

The Australian States and New ealand, Ireland, Malta, have state itteries, which have greatly bolered their economies, and their ivernments are able to provide free nd compulsory) schools, and large ims are spent on hospitals and iblic works.

If a vote were taken in Fiji I low that an ovewhelming number ould vote for the establishment of state lottery. After all, it is only iman nature to have the occasional utter”.

A few months ago a questionnaire is given to several civic bodies garding the establishment of a ite lottery, and for reasons quite iderstandable they turned it down, few moralists and church leaders )uld have felt duty bound to pose any such action, and would ve censured those voting for it.

Fiji asked the Australian Governent for a £F3 million loan a little file ago, and were turned down ry smartly. The Australian onomy is greatly helped by the ide they do with Fiji, but that did t soften their hearts. The Austrian Government will help all the ist Asian countries, such as Indosia, but the Pacific Islands near rir doors are quietly ignored.

H. S. FADDY va, Fiji.

Micronesia Capable Of

Self-Rule: Norwood

Micronesia’s 92,000 islanders are now capable of governing themselves, but because they have no major industry they are far from being economically self sufficient. This is the thinking of the territory’s High Commissioner for the past three years, Mr. William R. Norwood, who told a PIM staff writer in Sydney in October that Micronesia’s biggest problem remained economic development.

Mr. Norwood said Micronesians had made good political progress since their two-house Congress had started nearly four years ago. And he believed that if a referendum on the political future of the territory were to be held this year “a conservative 70 per cent.” of Micrones'ians would vote for “some form” of a continuing relationship with the US.

The question was, when should such a referendum be held? “I also think almost 90 per cent, of the educated islanders of the Marianas would favour affiliation with Guam, which is already US-owned territory”, he said. “Guam’s prosperity and its similar ethnic and cultural ties appeal to these islanders.

“I personally feel that the improved travel developments among our islands, particularly with our new air services and our coming shipping changes, will improve contact and help to mould Micronesia into more of a nation than a group of scattered islands.

“Hopefully, then, Micronesians may come to think of themselves as part of a distinct race and stick together rather than some split up and go to Guam and the rest eventually become independent.

Nationhood “Congress has already, and is continuing to, contribute to this feeling of nationhood.”

Mr. Norwood, who is a former journalist and public relations consultant, said the biggest industry on the horizon for Micronesia was tourism. Improved air services had begun this year and the new airline operator, Continental Airlines, was committed to build six hotels.

Work on two—at Truk and Palau —was expected to start by the end of this year.

Mr. Norwood said he welcomed the current Fiji Airways proposal to fly its HS74B prop-jet from Nauru to Majuro, Marshall Islands, and to establish a link with the South Pacific. He understood Air Micronesia would also fly this run.

“Tourism could be a big future employer of Micronesians, not just as bell-hops and tour guides, but as employees in the other industries like dry-cleaning, bakeries and stores which follow tourist developments.”

Developments delayed He said US tariffs—which were payable on goods produced in Micronesia—were delaying developments in two possible other major industries —fishing and handicrafts.

“I realise Micronesians, like American Samoans, won’t go fishing for weeks on end away from their homes. But I am sure technological breakthroughs Will come which will eliminate the need for fishermen to do this.

“Currently we have at least one big fish cannery which has operations in Pago Pago wanting to set up a cannery here. But all our exports to the US would have to pay tariffs while in American Samoa canners don’t have to pay these tariffs because the fish is produced in a USowned territory.

“The same applies to handicrafts —we have US manufacturers willing to invest only if they can get around the tariffs which don’t make big operations economic. However, 1 remain hopeful the tariffs can be waived and these two industries can get going.”

Mr. Norwood said Micronesia had no known mineral resources but an agreement had recently been signed with a subsidiary of Continental Oil for a prospect to look at phosphate deposits in the Palau group.

Mr. Norwood said there could be a “population crisis” ahead because of the limited land area available.

He was hopeful Micronesians could be absorbed into the US, Guam or Hawaii or that people from certain over-populated districts could be persuaded to move to less-populated areas. 59 \CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968 LETTERS

American Samoa: In Many Ways

You'Ve Got To Be Impressed

Staff writer KEN McGREGOR recently spent a week in Pago Pago, American Samoa, where he spoke to just about everyone—from Governor Owen Aspinall downwards. Here are his impressions.

The young American Samoan looked at the rain bouncing on the roof of Pago Pago’s new shipping terminal—one of the more garish signs of change in the territory—and told me, with measured optimism; “Every new car that is landed, every jet that comes in, and every new visitor who comes to our shores —they all change us and we can never be the same again. But it’s no use crying out that change should never have started. We must accept changes and prepare ourselves for the future.

“Here in American Samoa it may be that we are the only Islanders who are properly equipped to cope with change.”

Measured optimism is a feature of the territory, and it suits this land of contrasts. For instance: • American Samoan schools have television masts perched on their roofs (a sign of the televisionorientated education system, one of the most up-to-date in the world); yet, despite an annual rainfall of 200 in., there is a water shortage in the territory.

Land of contrasts e The latest American cars run along top-class roads; yet the territory cannot—or will not —support a bakery. • American Samoan soil is fertile, and her waters abound in fish, and yet there is a woeful shortage of territory-produced food. • There are the latest style business suits, but no dry cleaners.

And yet, despite the contrasts, I judged after my recent visit to American Samoa that the US Administration not only means well, but is doing, if not consistently well, then at least as well as can be expected.

That is the general picture. Now that picture in detail.

The US policy in Samoa is based on the premise that to survive as a Polynesian race the Samoans must be able to cope with the rapid changes of today—many of which are foreign to the hearts of easy-going Polynesians—and that to be able to cope with these changes Samoans must be well educated. Thus education is the cornerstone of the government’s policy.

Instructional television is being beamed at an average of two hours a day to all primary and high schools on Tutuila, the eastern Manua Islands and northerly Swaii Island.

The telecasts, begun late in 196 are designed to give Samoan childn at the age of 18 a thorough unde standing of the English language ai an education to final high scho level.

The American Samoan Cover ment already feels the scheme is success. “It has exceeded our me optimistic dreams”, a govemme official told me.

Best results Mr. Roy Cobb, Director « Education, said: “We are findii only if we start TV lessons wi the youngest Samoans of six primary school entrance age c* we get the best results. Those si One of American Samoa's new TV-orientated schools. 60 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

r ear-olds who started off with us in 964 and are now 10 are undertanding English far better than lamoans of high school age who ame in at an older age. When these 0-year-olds finish the television ourse, in 1976, they will be able to old their own with any other of 18 in the world”.

He pointed out that there are Iready more American Samoans livig in the US than living in Samoa -and working in second class jobs, his showed, he said, that an insnsive education system was called >r, “If you remember that because f American Samoa’s small size it ill never be able to support a Dpulat'ion bigger than 50,000 there ill continue to be a steady flow I Samoans to job opportunities over- :as,” Mr. Cobb said.

And educated Samoans, of course, ill have better job opportunities, an ill-educated Samoans.

Mr. Bill Dale, the Assistant irector of Education, told me that levision programmes were conlually being prepared and the lildren were never shown the same ow twice. His department preires new films and tapes every year -no tapes are kept.

“All schools are in talkie-radio ntact with other schools and if achers don’t feel that a certain >son was successful or did not get ross to the children the next proved lesson does not go on.

“We remake the film, rewrite the struction books and repeat the unccessful lesson in another fashion itil we feel the Samoans have iderstood what they are being Jght. If they don’t take in the ;son the second time, the whole ocess is repeated, in a third fashion.

Criticism “When the children understand, d only then, do we proceed with j following lessons.”

On the face of it American moa’s education system is an imessive one—it certainly impressed j and it certainly impresses many moans—but there is criticism of 5 system in the territory.

One Samoan put it this way: “To grade Samoa, we must be healthy st. It took us seven years to get modern medical centre—the LBJ opical Medical Centre—and even •w the centre is still not welluipped. Other priorities should have been considered before huge sums were allocated for education.

“We have a huge rainfall of 200 in. a year and yet we don’t have any good water systems.” (There was a water shortage while I was in American Samoa, although it rained heavily every day of my stay).

A Samoan from Se’etaga Village said that he thought that many children were satisfactorily repeating sentences learned on television without knowing anything of the structure of sentences.

Outside education, American Samoans can expect a watering down in major public works, intensified efforts in agriculture and a steady growth in tourism.

Governor Aspinall (one year a Governor and six years in the territory), who works long hours, favours white suits in public appearances and is less interested in publicity than his predecessor (H. Rex Lee), has yet to show he has Governor Lee’s capacity to extract extra US funds for American Samoan projects.

And with the US tightening its purse strings it seems likely that it will reduce its grants to the territory.

Reduce grants Probably no one in American Samoa is watching this month’s US elections more closely than Governor Aspinall. His job is a political “plum” awarded by pressure in the US Congress.

During his years in Samoa, Governor Aspinall has built up a good working knowledge of Samoa. He has just completed his first year of Governorship and has not yet had time to put into action any ideas he may have as opposed to the policies of Governor Lee.

There is plenty of scope, for instance, for him to put the territory back on a solid food production basis.

Government to blame After all, American Samoan agriculture is a shambles. The territory cannot produce even half of each of the two staple foods for its people —taro and bananas.

Most food is imported, whether it’s taro from Western Samoa, or tinned food from the US. With no bakery, all bread is flown in by jet from Hawaii. Households must order weeks ahead or stockpile huge Mrs. Owen Aspinall, attractive Samoan wife of the Governor.

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Drain on economy Copra payments to growers by the ritory’s Copra Board were recently sreased from $lOO a ton to $125 a i. However, copra production ;ms poorer than ever with annual xluction at about 100 tons.

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It is a sad fact of life in American tnoa that the territory can’t feed df. No matter how far the newer sorts, such as fish and assembled tches, can be stepped up, there I be a continual drain on the )nomy because of the high prices 63 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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One Samoan, a well-educated in, holding a key job with the nerican Samoan Government, had ne strong feelings on the subject American Samoa’s future.

He stressed that American Samoa not equipped for independence— . But, he said, “Let us run our n country internally for a few irs and then let the Samoans :ide by a national vote what they uld like to do”.

He said that the US Department the Interior cannot continue to a negative policy on American noa. [n my view, American success in territory will depend ultimately her revolutionary educational tern. Of course, it’s too soon tell whether the system Will work not. The first real results won’t felt for another eight years.

However, if ambition and money anything to go by (and the lericans have plenty of both: the icational programme is costing m a hearty SUS 2 million a year), n it is likely that the present lerican policy in the Pacific will >ve to be a lot more than a mere >p in the Big Pond. 67 &CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

West Irian: Agonised casuality of the Indonesian crisis The time is fast approaching when the West Irianese will be given an opportunity to decide whether to remain within the Indonesian Republic. In this article, PETER HASTINGS discusses the possible method of determining the people’s wishes, and is validity, and reports on the present state of West Irian at first hand. A more detailed account, from which this article has been distilled, is to be found in the latest issue of New Guinea Quarterly, which Peter Hastings edits.

The agreement signed in New York by Holland and Indonesia in 1962 transferred sovereignty to Indonesia with the obligation that Djakarta would hold an “act of selfdetermination” before the end of 1969 to allow the West Irianese to decide “(a) whether they wish to remain with Indonesia; or (b) whether they wish to sever their ties with Indonesia”.

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The people who count in West Irian politically are the urban elites and the coastal Papuans who have had some 80 years or so of more or less continuous Christian missionary contact—Protestant in the north, Catholic in the south.

An Indonesian “electoral team” has been in West Irian for some time trying to determine a “formula” for ascertainment. So far they have not produced one, although a “one man, one vote” ascertainment has been rejected. West Irian’s terrain contains some of the worst country in the world and the costs and logistic requirements of a universal referendum are too enormous for Indonesia to afford.

Not one man one vote Djakarta also rejects the notion of “one man one vote” on the not unreasonable grounds that half the population wouldn’t have the faintest idea of what it was supposed to be voting for or against.

It is likely that the method of ascertainment will be through consultation between the Indonesian Government and elected and appointed “tribal” leaders—a difficult and scarcely convincing act of self-determination in a country which has neither tribal organisation nor tribal leaders in the African sense and where there are more than 300 separate languages, Coastal Papuans who' are the important voters are already angry and resentful over a series of resolutions, voicing solidarity with Indonesia and requesting cancellation of the act of self-determination, passed by the regional councils of Biak, Sukarnapura and Manokwari.

These are successors to the regional councils set up by the Dutch, which used to consist of appointed and elected members. Today they consist only of members appointed by the Indonesian Administration.

They are widely condemned as stooge bodies, and West Papuans fear that the outside world will regard them as genuine voices of Papuan feeling. The chances ar that the UN representative an( his assistants may be obliged t take Papuan reservations of thi sort into account at the time o ascertainment.

Indonesia’s dream of sovereignt in West Irian was more excitin than the reality.

Indonesian civil servants, troop! political agitators and black marke operators poured into West Iria after the takeover in 1962, but nc thing had prepared them for th reality of the area; its gaunt, forbic ding, strangely beautiful landscape: its primitive people (“they are s black”, an Indonesian civil servai remarked to me with refreshin candor) or for the immense admir istrative effort that would be require of Indonesia to maintain its new pr( vince.

Indonesia’s administration of We: New Guinea in the last five yeai has been nothing short of calamitou; Sukarnapura, in Dutch times—"extraordinary beautiful". Now it's another Asian townwith the Papuans noticeably absent. 68 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

[hile many members of the West ianese elite were prepared to try id work with the Indonesian Jministration nothing prepared em for what was to follow. Indosia quickly abandoned all pretence maintaining either a proper iministration or the economic velopment projects started by the itch.

Indifference in Djakarta, the com- Isions of confrontation and sheer pstical incapacity led to rapid ministrative breakdown in an area ►re than ordinarily dependent upon ;h grade administrative skills and art and upon good communicans.

Beatings, shootings fhe Indonesian Army carried out nerous beatings, shootings and lings in order to ensure a passive •ulation. In 1965 the situation so deteriorated that the pro- :e was virtually closed to all signers and to all but carefully cted members of the Indonesian icstic Press. ollowing the 1965 coup in Indoa, West Irian once again became issue of Indonesian political connce and attempts were made to irbish the Administration and to ct new life into the practically met West Irianese economy. he problem in providing a new for West Irian was the dire lomic straits in which Indonesia id itself. It had practically no ping, no aircraft and very little to spare for what was yet her part of the Republic clamoring for assistance even though the Province’s political pacification was obviously a top priority matter, not ordy * n v * ew °f the coming act of self-determination but because of *h e problems posed Indonesia’s rnorale and national self-respect by 2,000 or more refugees who had crossed into Papua-New Guinea seeking asylum or permissive residence. The vast majority of the refu g ees were the economically dis- ? f Sukarnapura and J ° bS 3nd con ! um f r “ d tEXST* ’

Nevertheless about 300 West Irianese > including families, who had suffered or might suffer hardship under the Indonesians have been ? ranted “permissive residence” in Australian New Guinea on the strict understanding that tbpv n/iu undertake anv nnlitiVall - t ? ot Many have sfmnlv clisobLed S fn* junction thp 1R f suffering to feXgs of pan-Papuanism already loosely established among some of the elites by Dutch-Australian actions in the years P rior to 1963.

F ° r those familiar wit h the fragmePted nature of Papuan society, and its terrain, the ability of Welt Papuans to organise politically has been nothing less than amazing. At least three organisations exist in West New Guinea devoted to the notion of West New Guinea independence.

They are the Odganisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) or Free Papua Organisation, the Gerakan Papua Merdeka (GPM) or Free Papuan Movement and the Gerakan Nasional Papua (GNP) or National Papua Movement. They represent different degrees of anti-Indonesian feeling and all have loose links, but the OPM is the better organised and is financed by private Dutch, Japanese, US and, allegedly in Djakarta, Australian money. Some officials in Djakarta insist that the money isn’t entirely private—that foreign government funds play a role.

Political rebellion There is also some evidence that Chinese Communist funds find their way into West New Guinea on the logical grounds that Peking can only profit from anything that embarrasses the present Djakarta regime.

Despite sporadic denials from Djakarta the OPM has been undoubtedly at the back of the continuing rebellion of the Arfak tribespeople in the mountains at the back of Manokwari.

In 1965-66 there were 4,000 disaffected Arfak people, a problem tribe in Dutch times, with nothing more at their disposal than primitive weapons and rusty World War II Japanese, US and Australian arms.

The situation they created was "UNO DON'T SELL US LIKE ANIMALS", "New Guinea Belongs to the Papuans", are among the signs on these placards displayed by West Irianese demonstrating against the Indonesian take-over in 1962.

Today their islands are in economic and political shambles. 69 3IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R , 1968

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My own return to West Irian after i five years’ absence proved somehing of an anti-climax. I was the irst foreign journalist permitted an maccompanied visit since 1964 and \dam Malik moved heaven and larth to obtain the reluctant permision of a suspicious Home Affairs Ministry to obtain approval.

At first glance Sukarnapura hadn’t hanged much since Dutch days ilthough this was more a tribute to he solidarity of the Dutch infratructure than to maintenance and levelopment since the takeover.

The bitumen roads that serve the own and airport had stood up well, tie docks and installations put in y US forces in 1944 looked much lie same, the comfortable villas uilt high on the steep hillsides surounding the stunning, glittering anorama of Humboldt Bay looked 00l and inviting as ever. But there changes.

Sentani Airport was in bad shape nd there had been hardly any new uilding in the intervening years part from a new Christian church, le completion of the West New ruinea Regional Council chambers darted by the Dutch) and next to , the somewhat flashy, sinister new jgional police headquarters.

Troops everywhere In Dutch days Hollandia, like lanokwari, had been an extrardinarily beautiful, somewhat eepy Dutch tropical outpost with a lint East Indies flavour. Sukarnaura is now another Asian town, an lusion created is not so much by the bundance of Indonesian flags and mguage signs but by the Indonesian uality of life.

Indonesian troops and police in ingle greens throng the town, lakassarese huddle over stalls in le central market.

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Their stories weren’t pretty though all were similar. There aren’t enough jobs and wages were w. The Indonesians had taken er all the principal administrative bs and the only ones available for 73 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1968

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Hundreds of Papuans were in aol, beatings were common and lany had been shot out of hand. In lanokwari, in Merauke and further in Sorong many Papuans had een shot in the market place as a earning. There had even been public xecutions in Sukaraapura itself.

Those who had been civil servants nder the Dutch had been kicked ut of their houses and dispossessed.

Wiat about the well-stocked shops, 'e asked?

These were very recent, the Papans answered, and besides very few adonesians could afford the prices, ;t alone Papuans.

A Papuan standing by asked the levitable question—“ What can Aus- *alia which promised us so much i the old days do to help us now?”

I wanted to go to Manokwari nd Sorong and Merauke as I had een promised, and I asked the right fficial about this. He shook his ead sorrowfully. Very well then ould I see the political prisoners?

“Which political prisoners?” he sked blandly.

“Specifically the 31 held at Ifar icluding the former Irianese Govrnor, Bonay, and some young stuents,” I replied.

“Oh, those political prisoners,” he nswered, “I’m afraid you cannot, hat is an internal Indonesian latter. Incidentally, who told you bout them?”

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HIDE-OUT: Thirteen hundred West Irianese had come down from their mountain ‘hide-out’ to seek the protection of Indonesian troops posted in the Bird’s Head region of the province, said a Djakarta message dated September 21.

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Indonesia is trying to make amends (FUNDWI) organisation which had just set up its headquarters to oversee administration of the SUS2S million grant—originally $3O million—made by Holland at the time of the takeover.

The missionaries were uniformly gloomy. The Administration was old order, they said, inefficient, corrupt and xenophobic. Missionary Aviation Fellowship Cessnas were providing nearly 80 per cent, of all Administrative contact with outlying bush strips in the Highlands and in the southern part of the territory.

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The situation of the missionaries throughout the island, comprising some 200 to 300 families, was uncomfortable. In the Highlands, missionaries were almost entirely responsible for civilising contact and even for such small economic development as there was. Indonesian field staff was well-trained and resented missionary activities.

Church conflicts There is a growing conflict between Christian and Islamic interests.

Djakarta might have saved a great deal of friction and hostility if it had taken care to see that Indonesian administrative field staff and senior Administrative officers in West New Guinea had been recruited from among Christian Indonesians.

Although this would have run counter to the Republic’s policy of recruiting its civil service regardless of regional or religious affiliations it would have been politically wise.

Islamic interests are now militantly interested in West New Guinea and the almost certain result will be a further alienation of the indigenous population.

The economic development of the island is practically at a standstill. The Dutch commenced various projects, rice growing near Merauke, a large and very efficient native timber and saw mill co-operative at Manokwari, market gardening at Sentani and various projects on Biak —the island to the north of New Guinea which was also the site of the KLM Boeing jet strip.

At the time of their departure they had a large number of economic development projects on the books, mainly of a co-operative nature but these have all been abandoned.

FUNDWI was set up to administer a $3O million gift from Holland to which Indonesia was supposed to contribute a similar sum. When Indonesia left the United Nations the fund was frozen.

It now stands at $25 million—ss million having gone on administrative expenses, into an emergency fund and into paying salaries and expenses of the special UN economic survey teams that have visited the island since Indonesia rejoined the UN.

Half the fund is being devoted to rehabilitation of utilities such as water purification plants in the main centres and to communications.

Indonesia’s capacity to maintain air services in the island the only means of communication with the Highlands—has long since been exhausted.

At present, apart from Missionary Aviation Fellowship resources, it has three twin Otters currently grounded for lack of spare parts, a Piaggio, a Dakota which is unserviceble and a few other small craft. The Indonesian Air Force is also almost without transport facilities.

Coastal shipping is practically nonexistent. A senior Army officer, an old friend of mine, told me that officers and men in Manokwari had been without home leave for three years owing to lack of transport.

The other half of the special fund will go on long term economic projects, mainly in food growing and timber development. Some of this amount is earmarked for investment loans in small local industries such as importing leather for shoes and flour for urban bread consumption.

The total grant, equal to one year’s Netherland’s subsidy before the takeover, will be spent by 1970.

It is a pitifully small amount of money and there is no more in sight.

There have been some investigative activities by several Japanese companies into timber and fisheries development and Freeport Sulphur has been examining the feasibility of copper extraction on the far west coast. Access is difficult and costs are high and there are rumours that Freeport Sulphur may pull out or examine the possibilities of nickel in the island of Waigeo to the north.

One way and another West Irian is a sorry mess but not the sort of mess that can be easily swept under somebody’s carpet and quietly forgotten. The chances of West Irian registering a severance vote next year are slim and the thought of the explosive chain reaction in Indonesia if it did—horrifying.

Winds of change West Irian is an unfortunate casualty of Indonesia’s continuing economic crisis. Currently Djakarta is making what amends it can. The majority of the political prisoners are being released and those still detained at least accorded more humane treatment.

The Army’s switch of commanders, the sudden spurt of Djakarta interest in the province’s economic problems and the attempt to clean up the Administration are straws in the wind of change.

The question is whether the same wind will continue to blow at the end of next year. Probably not, despite the coming problem of the two New Guineas and their nascent inclinations towards a free, Melanesian state in the future.

It is an ironic comment on the age of decolonisation that relatively huge sums of money, almost $ll a head for every Australian, are being spent in East New Guinea to prepare it for independence only to make it the envy and despair of its captive neighbour and the target of Indonesian resentment.

Former Governor Bonay, installed by the Indonesians, but who quickly lost favour.

Now he's in gaol, and said to be ill. 76 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Apia trader wrote his "wonderful" Islands tales at the urging of R.L.S. • Former PIM assistant editor Robert Langdon is these days with the Australian itional University, Canberra, where he has established the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau the Research School of Pacific Studies. The main purpose of the bureau is to ck down unpublished documents of value concerning the Pacific Islands and to tain copies of them on microfilm for four world libraries specialising in Pacific learch. The four libraries are the National Libraries of Australia and New Zealand; > Mitchell Library, Sydney; and the Library of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, me of the documents that come into the bureau's hands have strange and romantic tories to them. Here is the story of how an. . . .

By Robert Langdon

Two evocative and exciting novels about the South Sea slands, which were written at the suggestion of the celebrated tovelist Robert Louis Stevenson, are among a number of unmblished literary items that have been lent to the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau recently for copying.

Fhe two novels are the work of late Harry J. Moors, an Amerii, of Apia, Western Samoa, doors died in Samoa in March, 16, after more than 40 years in Islands. He was the author of a dy book of reminiscences entitled th Stevenson in Samoa (Boston, 0). doors’ book describes how Stevenurged him to write down some the “wonderful stories” about his ly career that he had related to venson. fhe book also tells how, shortly ore Stevenson’s death in 1894, ors and Stevenson had planned to to uninhabited Nassau Island, ich Moors owned, so they could h do some serious writing, unurbed.

Leading businessman doors was one of the leading inessmen and planters in Apia ;n Stevenson first arrived there in member, 1889. He was closely asated with the novelist throughout five-year sojourn in Samoa, iorn in Detroit in 1854, Moors ; went to Samoa in 1875, probably i supercargo of a ship trading out San Francisco.

After a second visit to Samoa in 1878, he entered the service of the Government of Hawaii (then an independent kingdom) and worked as an agent for the Board of Immigration. In that capacity, he made several voyages to the Marshall and Gilbert Islands to recruit labourers for Hawaii’s sugar plantations.

The Marshalls and Gilberts in those days were raw, lawless places, where fierce islanders frequently fought each other, and picturesque and ruffianly European beachcombers were commonplace.

Moors had a number of adventures in these islands. Then, in 1883, he went to Samoa again, married a part- Samoan girl, and settled down.

In 1884, he established a wholesale and retail business in Apia with one E. A. Grevsmuhl; and two years later, he set up in business on his own account. By the time Stevenson arrived in Apia, Moors was a prosperous man and a leading figure in the local business and planting world.

Having been forewarned of the famous novelist’s arrival in Samoa, Moors made a point of meeting him and his entourage—partly, no doubt, with an eye to business—as soon as Stevenson’s chartered schooner Equator dropped anchor in Apia harbour.

“At that time,” Moors recalled in With Stevenson in Samoa, “there was but one hotel in Apia, and as it badly needed to be ‘under new management.’ I invited the party . . . to stay at my house. This was the beginning of a long acquaintance.”

Moors said that after the Stevensons had stayed with him for some time, they rented a small cottage nearby; but even then the novelist still spent a large part of his time at his house.

“Often during the fine evenings,”

Moors wrote, “he would sit on my balcony facing the moonlit sea; and he would relate in his most engaging way some of his experiences and adventures to eastward in the Marquesas and Tahiti groups, and then carry me with him in a dissertation on the wildly savage Gilberts.

I was familiar with all the different islands, and having visited them much earlier than he had, I was able to point out how conditions had been R. L. Stevenson and family in Samoa at the time H. J.

Moors knew him. 85 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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Moors recorded that when th Stevensons decided to make the] home in Samoa, RLS approache; him to look out for a suitable prc perty. Moors arranged for th novelist to inspect a number of prc perties, among which was Vailiim an estate behind Apia of 400 acre: Stevenson bought it for $4,000.

The novelist and his family the went off on a voyage to Sydney leaving Moors to supervise the cor struction of a temporary house fc them at Vailima, pending the erec tion of a permanent one.

On their return, Stevenson agai spent much of his time in Moor: house, where he wrote A Footnot to History, an account of Samoa political troubles over the previou eight years.

One of Stevenson’s biographer: Elsie Noble Caldwell, has recorde that Stevenson became less friendl with Moors as time went on becaus Moors overcharged him “in nearl all his dealings”.

However, Moors’ own accour gives the impression that gres cordiality always reigned betwee them; that Moors had the privileg of reading most of Stevenson' Samoan works in manuscript; an that he and Stevenson spent man hours discussing the novelist’ literary projects.

Frank discussions On such occasions, Moors wrote “all reserve was thrown aside; w talked to each other as man to mac and friend to friend”.

It was in one of these frank dis cussions, about the end of 1893, tha Stevenson suggested that Moor should try his own hand at author ship.

Moors, who had recently returne* from the World’s Fair in Chicago had severely criticised Stevensoi over The Wrecker, which had jus appeared, and which the novelist has written in collaboration with hi stepson, Lloyd Osbourne.

Stevenson took Moors’ plain speaking in good part, and declares that if he could only get away some where and work undisturbed, h( might accomplish something better. ’

Moors suggested that Stevenson should try Nassau Island, an uni inhabited atoll several hundred miler east of Samoa, which Stevenson has 86 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

Tsited in the Janet Nichol in 1890. doors had recently bought the atoll rom a fellow-American for $4,000.

At the mention of Nassau, Stevenon declared brightly that it was “the ery thing”. “We will go down there agether,” he said, “and I’ll see that ou write down some of those wonderful stories you have told me, f your early experiences among the >lands. You can do it, Moors—do it dmirably, I’m sure —and I’ll help ou over all the rough places. In eturn, you will be able to help me i many ways”.

Moors recorded that although he ad never written anything apart rom “a scattering lot of political ocuments,” he readily consented to make an effort in the direction idicated,” although he scarcely leant his promise to be taken jriously.

Not long afterwards, he went to lassau and set a party of islanders ) work clearing away vegetation, lanting coconuts, and otherwise imroving the atoll’s 350 acres.

On Moors’ return to Apia, Stevenan took a lively interest in his ccount of the work at Nassau, and le pair drank “a quiet toast” to their future happiness in Elysian fields”.

However, the Moors-Stevenson terary partnership on Nassau was ot destined to eventuate, for Moors 'ent off on another business trip to le United States, and while he was icre, Stevenson died.

Shattered “All our plans were shattered in n instant,” Moors wrote quaintly, ut Stevenson’s words of encouragelent to him were not forgotten; and yentually he began writing the story f his early islands career in the form f a novel. It turned out that he had a much material that he wrote two ovels.

One he called The Tokanoa: A lain Tale of Some Strange Advenires in the Gilberts. The other was ntitled Tapu: A Tale of Adventure i the South Seas. Both tales were llegedly compiled “from the diary f John T. Bradley, labor agent”.

For Tapu, Moors got an old friend, Arthur Mahaffy, a brilliant British olonial administrator in the Pacific, a write a preface. Mahaffy, who had len spent 15 years in the South eas, said that Tapu was “a most wonderful book”, of remarkable ccuracy, and quite surprising detail nd local colour.

“As I read the book,” he went on, the glare of the equatorial sun on le snow-white coral beaches, the eep shade of the dim maniapa or ‘speak house,’ the wonderful virtuosity of the ruioa or Gilbert Island dance, all of these and many other features of Island life came back to me.”

Mahaffy was similarly generous in his praise for other aspects of Tapu, and wound up with the remark that Moors probably knew more about the South Seas than anyone living.

Had Tapu been published, and had it taken the public’s fancy in the same way as it took Mahaffy’s, it would clearly have been a bestseller.

However, for some reason possibly because Moors’ business ventures in the islands had made him independent of the proceeds of literary endeavours—neither Tapu nor The Tokanoa got beyond the typescript stage.

The typescripts were still among Moors’ papers when he died in 1926, and they have remained in his family ever since.

Wondering About a year ago, one of Moors* daughters, Mrs. Priscilla Munsch, of Manila, Philippines, happened to look through the novels, and, wondering whether they might yet be publishable, she sent them to a Suva friend, the Venerable C. W. Whonsbon- Aston, to see if he could do anything with them.

Archdeacon Whonsbon-Aston sought the advice of Mr. Stuart Inder, editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly.

Mr. Inder suggested that, regardless of whether a publisher might be found, Mrs. Munsch should ensure that the novels were preserved for study by Pacific scholars by allowing the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau to make microfilm copies of them for deposit in the four Pacific research libraries.

Now a chance Mrs. Munsch agreed to this suggestion. She also gave the Bureau permission to allow the Department of Pacific History at the Australian National University to seek a publisher for her father’s work. Thus, there is now a chance that the two novels will yet achieve the dignity of print, and that Robert Louis Stevenson’s faith in her father’s literary ability will be justified after three-quarters of a century.

Stevenson and Moors spent long hours discussing the Gilberts —which they both knew well. Many years later this picture was taken of Te Kop, of Abemama, whom RLS had considered to be "the handsomest man on Abemama".

Vailima, as it was when RLS owned it. The author is standing on the balcony. Harry Moors helped him find the land on which to build. Today Vailima is the official residence of Samoa's Head of State. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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Where You Find Them

• Dr. David Lewis, a New Zealand medical practitioner and yachtsman, has recently taken up a research fellowship at the Australian National University, Canberra, to study the star navigation techniques of the Pacific Islanders in the context of Pacific history. He was sailing around the world with his family when he learned of his appointment, and he made a hurried trip from England in his 39 ft gaff ketch "Isbjorn" to take the appointment up. En route, the Lewises—Dr. David, his wife Fiona, 19-year-old son Barry, and daughters Vicky, 6, and Susie, s—called at isolated Penrhyn Island in the Cook Group. Here (which the natives call Tongareva) they found that . . .

By David Lewis

We reached Tongareva after a leisurely voyage of 1,100 miles from Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands.

At 9 a.m. one day in August, the tops of coconut palms came abruptly over the horizon 10 miles ahead.

Eagerness to enter Tongareva’s lagoon was tempered by prudence.

The passage through the reef being to windward, we laboriously dismantled the steadying canvas and hoisted staysail and gaff mainsail to forestall any such untoward event as engine failure.

But all went well.

Our 30-year-old Kelvin diesel drove us steadily through Taruia Pass, stemming the swirling outflow.

Isolated coral patches that studded the lagoon were easily picked out from the ratlines and avoided.

Twelve and a half days out from Nukuhiva the anchor went down in eight fathoms off the village of Omoka.

Jostling “Kiaorana!” came the familiar greeting, as Resident Agent and the doctor (both Cook Islanders) came on board, while the yacht was surrounded by a jostling throng of outrigger canoes.

The Resident Agent proved to be Dane Rasmussen, a son of the famous Danish Islands skipper, Captain Viggo Rasmussen, who married a Tongareva girl and spent his last years on that island.

A fair proportion of the atoll’s 600 people were children, and it seemed that most of them were accompanying us whenever we went ashore.

Our Pied Piper progress up the village street was repeatedly interrupted by greetings, questions and invitations to visit. Gauguinesque groups of women sitting back on their heels were usually to be seen paring pandanus leaves with knives made out of a crashed wartime B-24 (It also provided material for combs and aluminium watch straps).

Whipped white The men would be drying copra or working on their semi-open cutters or the lateen rigged asymetric outrigger canoes whose design had been adopted from the Gilberts years before.

A famous schooner skipper, Philip Woonton, whose mother came from Manihiki, the next island (185 miles away), had retired to Tongarev where he had been born.

The day he visited us the lagoo< was being whipped white by a strom south-easter and Isbjorn was tossini so widly that I feared lest his 8 years might preclude his comim aboard.

I might have saved myself th worry. He strode up to the landing hefting a sack heavy with drinkin nuts and sugar cane.

With a hearty “Good day captair here’s some kai for your wahine' galley!”, he tossed it to me on handed—and I collapsed under th weight.

He went up the yacht’s side witl more agility than I could muster, ani after an interested inspection of ou rig, went below for refreshments.

“Pearls? Yes,” he told us, “th men still dive for them in the lagooi whenever the price of copra is down Most shell is in 20 fathoms.

“No, their only gear is a pair o goggles and a stone to carry then down.

Pearls in their oysters “But there are often pearls in th( smaller shallow water pipi oysters.' The rest of his talk was full o fine sailing ships; his memories wen clear, though sometimes hard t< follow over so great a time span his escape from capture by Felix Voi Luckner in World War I. being inter larded with reminisences of th< Islands in the Second.

When I returned from rowing hin ashore, I noticed a dreamy look ii Fiona’s eyes.

“Don’t be silly, you would have to dive for weeks before finding i single pearl,” I asserted, correctl) interpreting her thoughts.

Nevertheless, that afternoon founc "Isbjorn" under sail. 88 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

jr Avon rubber boat tethered to a >ral head in the lagoon and our Tie being divided between care of e bobbing children and swimming )wn through shoals of brilliant-hued ;h to prize out clams and small :arl oysters with marlin spikes.

Back on board, Fiona was preiring the shellfish for supper when e suddenly cried out—and held it a small golden pearl!

Next day, we prepared to continue ir voyage towards Australia. Papercks were enthusiastically exchanged th the Resident Agent and the ctor.

Chances were nil “No car magazines, I suppose?” the ter inquired wistfully, “I know 5 have only four miles of road, but y patients do enjoy looking at ;m.”

It was not easy to repay all the ; ts that were pressed upon us— sadfruit, coconuts, shell necklaces, ndanus mats, a stem of bananas, ar hen’s and one turtle egg.

The best we could do was to give Be cigarettes, one of my books, two gallons of lubricating oil and sweets for the children.

“There are still two hours till the tide turns in the pass,” said Fiona tentatively.

“But the chances of finding another pearl are literally nil,” I protested.

“Besides it’s a long way to row against this wind. . . .”

I was certainly out of breath by the time we reached a distant coral patch in the Avon, and, to make matters worse, no sooner did we begin diving than I spotted a white shark with a black tipped fin. Not wishing to alarm Fiona, I said nothing.

Moreover, this type of shark is reputed to be generally harmless.

But a little later when a second and then a third swam by, each bigger than the last, my nerve failed and I told Fiona, urging immediate departure.

“Oh, you mean because of the sharks?” she remarked, reluctantly tossing her string-bag of shell into the Avon. “Yes, I saw them all the time but they didn’t seem interested in us.”

As soon as we began trying to winch in the 18 fathoms of anchor chain to which Isbjorn was lying, it became apparent that it was snagged beneath a mushroom head of coral.

By dint of letting out more chain, zig-zagging, and frantically winding in, we managed to clear it after an exhausting hour and motored belatedly to Taruia Pass where we hoisted sail and stood to sea.

Triumphant That evening we dined on fried coconuts and bananas, boiled breadfruit, and oysters and clams fried in batter. As Fiona was preparing it, there was a triumphant exclamation in the galley.

Feminine logic in the face of mere probality had been vindicated. She had discovered a second pearl! [?]ool's in aboard "Isbjorn". Mrs. Fiona Lewis superintends the lessons of six-year-old Vicky (left) and five-year-old Susie.

Penrhyn Island women plait pandanus leaves. 89 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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A Pacific Passenger

One of a series, by BILL DAME Our trans-Pacific luxury liner carries a cross section of society at any given time and it’s the cruise director’s responsibility to make sure that each passenger enjoys his or her voyage. His job is one of the most sensitive aboard ship. He has to be a quick-witted super-diplomat, since he never knows what kind of new experience he’s going to have from day to day.

A veteran cruise director was having coffee one morning with an engineer who was glad that he worked with predictable equipment instead of unpredictable people, and said so to the cruise director in no uncertain terms.

But the cruise director stuck up for people. He said: “People are always interesting, and I never know when someone will challenge my control of a situation.

“The closest I ever came to losing control came with dear Della, bless her heart. She was one of those old fashioned ladies from the old school. A cameo pin on her high lace collar, long sleeves trimmed with lace and she always smelled of violets.

Soft spoken, delicate and very polite, she had an inner radiance that approached being angelic. We all loved her.

But not Della “Well, when the ship dropped anchor in the Bora Bora lagoon the main deck foyer was jammed with excited passengers waiting to board the launches for shore. A few passengers were up on Prom and Boat Decks taking pictures of the island backdrop, and when they came down to go ashore they brought word that dear Della was sitting up on deck under her lifeboat, wearing her life jacket.

Naturally, I went right up to see what was the matter, “I approached her gingerly and asked her what she was doing and why she was wearing a life jacket.

She said, ‘Oh, don’t worry about me, dear boy. I’m not going ashore. I just want to sit here and look at the pretty island. I’ve never seen an island before and I wanted to before it’s too late, and isn’t it beautiful?’

“She turned her face back towards the island and started dabbing at her eyes with her hankie.

“I was quick to offer solace.

I said, ‘Yes, it is beautiful. But you’ll smile again as soon as you’re ashore and smell the flowers and see the people and all the scenery a little closer.

Come on; I’ll ride in the same launch with you’. I held out my hand to her.”

"The islands will sink"

“ ‘Oh, no!” She said. “I’d rather stay here, thank you, but I do feel that I . . . that I . . . should . . . tell someone what I know, but you’d think I’m foolish if I did. Would you?” She turned those big, troubled, misty blue eyes on me and I just had to ask her what she knew. And this is what she told me: “I read a book about the Pacific that had a chapter in it about sunken islands, and the author said that just as all islands have risen from the bottom of the sea in past ages, the islands that are out here now can just as surely sink!

“I hope all those people in the boats can swim, and all those poor people who live on the island, but, but, . . . Her voice really wavered and she began to sob as she confessed, ‘I can’t;’”.

This really amused the engineer who gave a belly laugh as he got up to leave. “That’s what you get when you work with people!” he said.

“Wait a minute, Greasy Hands; you haven’t heard the best part,” the cruise director said, and the engineer sat down again. “Dear Della didn’t go ashore at Bora Bora, Tahiti, New Zealand or Suva.

“And there was nothing that I could do, or that anyone else could do, that would convince her that the islands wouldn’t sink.

This is a true story, brother. This is real.

He laughed again “She was even afraid that the hook would get caught in some underwater cave or around some mammoth boulder which would pull the ship down when the island sank. But she did go ashore at Sydney because Australia’s a continent.

“She was perfectly happy and relaxed at sea. It was only when we were anchored in some lagoon or tied up at a wharf that she got uneasy and either wore or carried her life jacket.”

The engineer laughed again and made to leave, but the cruise director said: “The best is yet to come,” and the engineer sat down again.

Her senator told her “She was the first one off the ship at Honolulu,” the cruise director said with a satisfied smile.

The engineer looked blankly at him in silence for a moment, then asked, “What made her change her mind? Surely she knew that Honolulu’s on an island, didn’t she?

“She did, indeed,” the cruise director replied. “But she had written a letter to her senator before she left home and asked if Hawaii was safe to visit and he had answered that it was. She showed me the letter when I congratulated her on the dock!”

The engineer left the officers’ mess for his predictable engines, still shaking his head. 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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yesterday Norfolk Island was well up in the news 20 years ago.

Prosperity for the “Little Island” could be on the way, PIM said. The Australian Government had undertaken to build a £120,000 hotel near the south-western section of the airport (it never did) and also start a regular cargo service with the “Dongarra” (2,500 tons), then under construction in Australia.

Burns Philp had, of course, been running ships to Norfolk for many years, but in 1948 only the old steamer “Morinda” was making regular calls at Norfolk —and then only once every three months.

OTHER items in PIM foi November, 1948. included.

THE newly-formed South Pacific Commission held its second session in Sydney in October.

Secretary General was Mr. W. D.

Forsyth, now an Australian Ambassador in the Middle East, and his deputy was Mr. H. E.

Maude, now with the School of Pacific History, Australian National University, Canberra.

PAPUA’S fruitless oil search was in full swing and the Australasian Petroleum Company was busily sinking a well at Oroi, 60 miles northwest of Port Moresby. Nearly 400 Europeans and 2,500 Papuan labourers were involved.

NATIONS were debating Australian and New Zealand trusteeship control of New Guinea and Western Samoa in the United Nations. New Zealand was being praised for its administration of Samoa, but Australia was being blasted, by Russia, for its operations in New Guinea. The Russians said that Australians in NG were stealing native lands and depriving NG of adequate health services.

THE New Zealand vessel Matai was a most welcome sight in Luganville, Santo, New Hebrides, in mid-October when she arrived with her holds filled with NZ beer. The island had a shortage of beer “adding up to years,”

PIM reported.

THE old Island trader was a thing of the past in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, said a visitor to Tarawa, administrative centre of the islands. All business was being handled by native cooperatives. Lovers of the old South Seas viewed this news with regret because in the 1800’s and earlv 1900’s the GEIC boasted many of the South Pacific’s most bizarre and colorful trading characters.

LONDON-BORN Frederick Cuthbert, who made a fortune of over £lOO,OOO in the 1930’s through his big shareholdings in New Misima Gold Mines Ltd., and Cuthberts Misima Goldmine Ltd., died in Brisbane, aged 92. A bachelor, “Freddie” made and lost two mining fortunes in Queensland before he started mining Misima Island, Papua, in 1929 —while in his seventies. In the early 1930’s on extraordinarily rich extractions of gold, his New Misima company was paying dividends of 120 per cent. When he died (as a result of a fall) he was worth at least £250,000.

HAROLD CATTY, pioneer Pacific aviator and chairman of South Seas Marine Products Ltd., announced plans to set up a tuna industry which would be based at Suva with all catches to be sent to Pago Pago, American Samoa, for canning before they were exported to the US.

SSMP was to be a Suva-registered company with British and American shareholders, Mr. Catty said. (The firm was not a success).

THE Free Church of Tonga had acquired a sleek, 80 ft schooner, Caroline, for maintaining operations among the numerous mission stations in the Tongan Islands. She was built originally for the British Admiralty and sold to the church for £6,500.

MR. E. J. MAELSTROM (now Sir Edward), Sydney philanthropist and manufacturer of refrigerators, gave £20,000 to the Australian Government to set up a sheep-breeding industry at Nondugl, in the Highlands of NG.

Mr. Hallstrom had 500 Romney Marsh sheep flown to Nondugl from Australia.

THERE was a backlog of 100 passengers in Apia waiting for berths to New Zealand because the Union Steam Ship Company vessel Matua, withdrawn to NZ in August for her annual survey, was not expected to be back on her normal run until mid-November due to delays in Auckland dockyards. The delays meant more headaches for the USSC and “further exasperation” for the already frustrated Islands traveller, PIM said.

The Rev. Wilfred F. Paton, of the Presbyterian Overseas Mission, retired from the New Hebrides in October, 1948. Picture shows him with his native elders. 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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Book Reviews

Parer: The bloke with the eccentric aeroplanes Most pre-World War II residents of New Guinea knew Ray Parer as the bloke with the claim next door; as a drinking mate; or the owner of sometimes eccentric aeroplanes. Most knew, too, something of his pre-New Guinea days and his famous flight, with John Mclntosh, from England to Australia in 1920.

A new book, Battling Parer, by Englishman John Godwin, gives the full story of the Parer-Mclntosh flight to win the £10,000 offered by Australian Government for a flight from England to Australia; while the later Parer-Hemsworth attempt in the Melbourne Centenary Race, of 1934.

In neither race was Parer and partner successful but in both, some kind of record was put up for improvisation and endurance.

Off-the-beam A small part of the book deals with Parer’s life in New Guinea— which lasted from the late 1920’s until he left there in 1961 for good but this section is mainly superand occasionally off-the-beam An example, the wrecked Bristol freighter was not at the bottom of Wau airstrip while Ray Parer was flying. Bristol freighters did not come into use until after the war and this one was wrecked a few years after. It was being flown around the world for its makers during a sales campaign and, in Wau, parked on the sloping airstrip and without anyone in attendance, rolled downhill to crash in a coffee plantation.

But everyone who knew Ray personally, and a great many who are simply interested in aviation, will find the account of the two UK-Australia “races” in which he took part of absorbing interest.

In both cases his plane was out of the race almost before it started, but he carried on against what seemed like impossible odds because he seemed incapable of quitting.

When he decided to take part in the 1920 race, neither he nor John Mclntosh, who was not an airman but a Lieutenant in the AIF, had been discharged from the services, and the first part of their incredible journey included some cloak-and dagger stuff when they imagined that they had to keep out of the sight of the Army and Air Force authorities.

But this typical Parer antic was only part of their troubles. To begin with, they had no money to buy a plane. This was eventually overcome, with the help of Peter Dawson, a whisky millionaire who “liked Australians”, and they purchased a war-disposals DH9, which had originally been built as a day bomber. Its greatest asset was a range of 500 miles—a range that was necessary if they were to cross the last hurdle of the 12,000-mile journey—the Timor Sea between Timor and Darwin.

Hazards But except on that one vital occasion, the DK9 rarely flew for more than a fraction of 500 miles without experiencing engine or radiator trouble; or being forced to land because of weather or other hazards.

Their first hop, after leaving Hounslow at 10.30 am on January 8, 1920, was typical. They had scarcely crossed the French coast when they were enveloped in cloud and were finally forced to land in a ploughed field.

A tyre blew out, a wheel was twisted beyond repair and Parer ended by borrowing a horse and dray from a farmer, drove 15 miles to the nearest railway station, took smashed wing in this picture prevented Ray Parer and Charles Lexius-Burlington (to Parer's right) from being the first airmen on the Edie Creek Goldfields.

Ray Parer as Brett Milder saw him in later years. 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

Most other men would have quit a train to Paris and at Le Bourget got a replacement wheel.

Three days later they took off from the ploughed field and reached Le Bourget, where they were to re fuel. The weather closed in, they went sight-seeing for three days until it cleared. They then found a fault in a petrol-pump. It was January 17 before they left Paris.

Fog came again and they were forced to land eight miles from Lyon, where they spent two days again repairing the petrol-pump and a crack in the exhaust pipe.

And so it went on. They had another forced landing in the Syrian Desert (stalled engine). In Calcutta they stayed two weeks and, with the help and guidance of an ex-Indian Army Major, made £2,000 stunting over the city and dropping leaflets advertising Lipton’s tea, Shell petrol and Firestone tyres.

On April 1 they left India and flew into Burma. Over Moulmein the engine cut out and rather than land in a crowd of people who had come to see their arrival, Parer deliberately crashed the plane.

It was almost a write-off. They were there seven weeks while the plane was virtually rebuilt and while they pondered the sense of going on.

Both reached a low point of despond ency at this stage.

Typical Most other men would have quit right there. But as repairs pro gressed, their spirits, which were never dampened for long, rose. In mid-June they were in Singapore, but not till August 2 were they poised in Timor, ready to tackle the last hop across the sea to Darwin.

Crashes, oiled-up plugs, engine fail ures, leaky radiators, weather, all had continued to play a part in never-ending chapters of accidents.

They landed in Australia at 6.25 pm on August 2, 1920—six months and 25 days out of Hounslow. It was typical that they were hours overdue on this last leg of the jour ney and that the petrol-tanks were bone dry on landing. The winners took 29 days.

Throughout the long months of effort, Parer had landed on open fields, paddocks, golf courses, polo grounds and, once, on a shingle island in the middle of the Irra waddy. Only occasionally on aero dromes—one reason being that, in those days, there were few con structed airfields outside Europe and the US.

Fourteen years later, the 1934 Melbourne Centenary air race was, in some respects, Parer history re peating itself. His friends on Morobe goldfield contributed to the cost of the effort but the plane purchased was again an ex-Air Force job a Fairey Fox machine that had originally served with RAF bomber squadrons. Although aircraft were now growing in sophistication this one, with modifications, cost less than half of the DH9 of 1920.

Parer perhaps, should have been fore warned by that fact alone.

On this occasion he had as a running-mate a young pilot, God frey Hemsworth, who had worked for Parer’s NG air-freighting com pany. But the results were little different. Before the Fairey Fox was half way across the Channel, on October 20, the engine began to backfire and they had a forced land ing in a field near Boulogne. They made two attempts to reach Par before succeeding. As they got goii again they heard that Scott ai Campbell-Black had already reach* Australia and won the race.

In spite of this they decided carry on and finally reached Me bourne (after being reported missiu twice), on February 13, 1935. Wi an elapsed time of less than foi months, Parer had beaten his ow 1920 record handsomely. (The wii ners took two days, 22 hours, * mins.) Mr. Godwin’s story of Parer is straightforward account without ar literary gimmicks. He manages t hold interest throughout the narr; live.

Extravaganzas Only slightly less extraordinai than the Parer flying extravaganzs is the fact that his biographer shoul turn out to be a middle-aged En| lishman, headmaster of a primal school in Lincolnshire, who know nothing about New Guinea at first hand, has never been a pilot and

People And Their Emotions In

The New Hebrides

(Or Somewhere)

Although the action in A Boat Load of Home Folk, by Australian novelist Thea Astley, appears to take place in\he New Hebrides, readers shouldn’t be fooled. The novel is about people and emotions and not about places.

The New Hebrides supplies a con venient port for the home-folk to visit; a compliant native youth to partner the homosexual priest; and a hurricane at the psychological moment. Otherwise any place that could supply these same ingredients would have done as well.

Father Lake is, of course, shore based; his aberration discovered on the eve of arrival of the Malekula.

On the ship are the other characters —Stevenson, the government agent, returning from leave and to his mistress; two frustrated elderly spin sters, one sentimental, one still actively optimistic; womanising Gerald Seabrook and his disenchanted wife; and the captain who carries on a running battle with the government agent.

The emotions of all Thea Astley characters are always several sizes larger than life and these are n* exception. Given heat treatment exotic surroundings, an impendini and finally actual hurricane, the 1 ' develop to lethal size and final!: destroy their owners as surely a.

Malekula spits herself on a reef ai the height of the storm.

This writer’s prose always seem: to be achieved with a scalpel rathe; than by normal means, and it is £ tale with small comfort in it. Nc happy endings; no softening rounc the edges. Instead, black, soul searching, men with cancerou? lumps and sex problems and women fretted by their inadequacies. Devoid of humour but with plenty of the comedy of human absurdity. None theless, excellent in its own peculiar way.—JT. (A BOAT LOAD OF HOME FOLK.

Published by Angus and Robertson. $3.25.)( 96 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

ALBURY

Grammar School

New South Wales, AUSTRALIA announces that it has a limited number of vacancies for

Overseas Students

in both Primary and Secondary Grades Established in 1866, Albury Grammar School is a Presbyterian Boarding and Day School catering for boys of all denominations from 6 to 19 years, it offers a first-class education, preparing students for matriculation to all Australian Universities. In addition it has specialist courses in Agricultural Science and Farm Management. The School’s spacious grounds are ideally situated in Albury, on the banks of the Murray River, midway between Sydney and Melbourne.

Enrolments for February 1969 are now being received Enquiries will be welcomed by The Headmaster, Albury Grammar School, Albury, N.S.W. 2640 AUSTRALIA. parently, never met his subject. In :ent years Australian writers have t about done New Guinea to ith; none thought it worthwhile write a book about Ray Parer. ; are indebted to someone 12,000 les away for doing just that.

Fhe book does, however, deserve >etter title than it’s got. A battler, the Australian context, usually ijures up a vision of a man h 17 kids, who had gone through Depression and been evicted ee times from his farm, ending broken in spirit, in an Old Men’s me, very sorry for himself.

Whatever Ray Parer was, he was r er sorry for himself. He made a at deal of money at times and he lost it again, it was not bese of Depressions but because never cared enough about busis. le was the greatest of all impress in the days when planes were ;k together with string and wing-gum. Some of his most 'aordinary exploits resulted from own shortcomings, such as havleft his tool-kit in the hangar, f he had not had to spend so :h of his time and determination ing out of his own scrapes, then probably would have ended up president of an international air- . But if he had, then he wouldn’t e been New Guinea’s Ray Parer.

Territorian tru. —J.T.

BATTLING PARER. Published by iy Ltd. $3.75.) DNEY publishers Angus and Robertson deserve thanks for ing now recognised the real value Gavin Souter’s descriptions of tiey which they interleaved with /ishy-washy collection of photo- )hs in 1965 and released under title of Sydney. They have relished the prose in its own right, )rated with a number of George nar’s sketches, in a more compact lat, retitled Sydney Observed 75). This, now, is a book for ing as well as for giving; a book comes off the coffee table and to the bedside table, where it be better appreciated for what is—a brilliant mosaic of the ;h Pacific’s largest city. For the Sydney, from the pen of a real leysider, you need go no further.

Valuable Bibliography On Ng

MORE than 10,000 references to literature on Papua-New Guinea and West Irian, published in many countries and several languages over a period of more than a century, are contained in a three-volume Ethnographic Bibliography of New Guinea, just published by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Australian National University, Canberra.

The references are to books and articles on “traditional and changing indigenous cultures of this region”— but the compilers make that phrase cover an unexpected variety of material, such as contemporary reports on various Budget sessions of the New Guinea legislature, the development of political parties, the escape of Australian civilians from wartime New Guinea, an article on Papua’s “Nick the Greek”, a reference to John Hunter’s Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson of 1793, a National 97 I F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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The printing is clear and the price ($l2 for the three volumes) excellent value. Publishers are the ANU Press, Canberra. @ Sea Quest, by yachtie Charles A. Borden, certainly lives up to its sub-title, “Small Craft Adventures from Magellan to Chichester”. There are literally hundreds of fascinating anecdotes from all over the world about cruising yachtsmen and the! yachts—and cruises through thi South Pacific get a particularly goo< run.

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Dozens of the yachts mentione< in Quest have filtered through PIM' Cruising Yachting pages in recen years, and names like Awahnee h Dove, Firecrest, Golden Hina Highlight, Jellicle, Kon-Tiki, Nan Sang, Rehu Moana, Sea Wanderei Stella Maris, Stornaway, Tangaro' and Wanderer 111 will be familiar t: regular readers.

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Tom Jordan is employed by a British company as manager of a sugar plantation in a South American state. The peace of his life and that of his young wife is shattered when the country erupts with another revolution and they find the ex- President ill and hiding in the bushes in their front garden.

Their first impulse is to aid the sick man but before the end of the day Jordan and his wife, as well as the deposed President, are being hunted as savagely as wild animals. Most of the action takes place when they try to escape over the mountains into the next country. (ACT OP MERCY. Hodder. 80c.) 98 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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EA QUEST. Published by Robert Hale ted. $5.65.) The biography of Jack Hides, Papua, The Outside Man, is cted to be released any day by idowne Press. It’s by New lea’s Jim Sinclair, of Goroka, an side man” himself, who is mtly working on his third book, the P-NG Constabulary up to period of World War 11. His book was the autobiographical nd the Ranges. Jim reports he appy with the presentation of Outside Man, which is a large tat with plenty of pictures.

Nostalgia For

Car Lovers

Islands auto enthusiasts of sufficient vintage to recall the glamour of names such as Tispano Suiza, de Dion-Bouton, Alvis, Auburn, etc., will ex- )erience nostalgia from Cars In Colour.

Eighty cars of “personality” ire presented on pages of full :olour, with brief technical and ;eneral details on the facing •ages. These notes and the engthy foreword (which reads ike an art show description) re written by UK motoring Durnalist Michael Sedgwick.

Although mainly concerned dth “specialist” and sports/ During cars, about two-thirds of le book is taken up with eteran and vintage models. The election of post-1945 cars is tetchy and despite the fact that lany superb machines have apeared in recent years, the itest model included is a runf-the-mill 1961 MG A roadster.

But the pictures are good and 11 the machines shown are iteresting even to younger •otorists. Everything considered, ’s worth a place on the car ithusiast’s bookshelf, and at le price, is good value for loney, JM. (CARS IN COLOUR. Angus & ►bertson. $4.95.) 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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The Gilbert and Ellice Islands look set to take a bigger share of Central Pacific shipping operations themselves and thus save valuable revenue, and make some good profits.

An aggresive attitude by colony anners could see the GEIC in ming months set up regular shipng links—with Gilbert ships—to auru, parts of Micronesia, the lemons and the New Hebrides.

A northern link to Japan, however, )uld be the biggest success.

Some of the same pushing that ablished the Tarawa-Majuro trade k about a year ago with the Wholee Society’s Moana Raoi is currently eded to take advantage of the jsels owned directly, or indirectly, the GEIC Government.

The vessels include the Ninikoria , $500,000-plus buy which arrived August, the Moana Raoi, the lolesale Society’s smart trader, Teraka, the seamen’s training ship ich arrived back in Tarawa from >ng Kong on September I and is w doing some inter-island work tead of merely “bedding-down” at rawa, and the four smaller tourers vanga, Temauri, Tautunu and bakea.

Successful trip Moana Raoi has now made her ond successful trip to Sydney. She ried 400 tons of top-quality suned copra each time. A day’s run her Tarawa-Sydney route could e her additional stops at New ledonia or the New Hebrides, the them Solomons, Nauru or Ocean md. fhe 997-ton Ninikoria, which can ry up to 150 deck and cabin pasgers, has been maintaining services Fiji, has had recruiting trips to the w Hebrides, the Line Islands and ;rnal runs in the GEIC. ■'o extend operations GEIC is ly to encounter stiff opposition m other shippers. Nauru will get 6,000-ton ship next year and is ious to run her own line with jruan ships. Micronesia Interocean e Inc., based in Saipan, Marianas, would welcome a link-up with Tarawa or Nauru itself and it will also make efforts to replace GEIC trading links in the Marshalls with its own ships.

Burns Philp and Co. Ltd. and the Karlander Line would not let the Moana Raoi into the Solomons or New Hebrides without a fight and Fiji would obviously rather send transshipment cargoes from Suva to Tarawa itself.

But the colony, with the help of the former Wholesale Society manager, Mr. W. J. Kirkby-Jones, has had very great success with its Marshall Islands run and at Majuro, more than any other port, the sight of the Moana Raoi is a very happy one to locals.

One correspondent at Majuro said in September; “The arrival of the Moana Raoi is getting to be an event that one looks forward to. It does mean a profusion of food and trade goods in the local stores”.

Another correspondent, Mr.

In The News This Month Alexander Agazziz Aoniu Atea Beiama Bona Dea Carousin II Cetacean Cythera Daru Dove Fiji Maru Gabrielle 111 Ilahee Iris II Iso Karen Margrethe Kochab Maris Maroro Moana Raoi Mjojo Mundeamo Nagada Nexus Nightingale Ninikoria Niuvakai Nivanga Nomad Ohra Pacific Carrier Perpetua Que Sera Roulette Samoa Maru Schnoufi Snoopy Sugar Crystal Sylvia Tabakea Tally Ho Taranui Tatalagu Taurangi Tautunu Temauni Tokai Maru Viking Ahoy Windwagon Zinas II Proud flagship of the GEIC fleet is the "Ninikoria", which carries up to 150 cabin and deck pasengers and will be invaluable as a recruiter and transporter to Ocean Island, Nauru, the Line Islands and the New Hebrides. Her master is Captain E. V. Ward.

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dney E. Patterson, said many idents of Majuro liked to see the ->ana Raoi “coast up to our dock, its white majesty filled with goodies the Marshalls.” He added: ‘I wonder if there are readers of M who are aware that they can ler now from New Zealand, Auslia, Fiji and Tarawa with the vices that the Wholesale Society made available through the ninal in Majuro,” he said.

This is merely the beginning of /ice throughout the islands of :ronesia, and in time may allow to unite with the Gilberts, possibly a confederation called South East :ronesia.

I proposed this name to the EC’s Colony Information Notes ;n I was in Tarawa last September I was informed that even though IC was looking for a new colony le, this venture with the Marshalls ild have too much of a political rtone, but the article was evenly printed, I understand.

Now, with the ships joining us, e again as we used to be before two world wars, and with the Micronesia route and Fiji Airways te to intersect at Majuro, this icular confederation does not seem so remote, at least to some of U 5 here in the M a rs hal ls.” (Before 1914, Burns Philp, with small steamers and schooners, maintained calls in the Marshalls, via the GEIC, despite German commercial and government opposition).

Mr. Patterson said the only real difference between the Marshallese and Gilbertese was that one group speaks “Queen’s English” and the other, “Americanese”.

“South East Micronesia” or not, there does seem opportunities at present for the GEC to extend shipping operations. The colony has the ships, it continues to produce excellent seamen and its copra and phosphate economy has everything to gain by making its mark felt in regional shipping operations.

Japanese Shipping Moves

Into Central Pacific

Daiwa Line, the Japanese shipping company which operates a monthly passenger-cargo service from Japan to Guam and the Pacific Islands, hopes to extend its calls to Tarawa, GEIC, early next year.

Mr. S. Takato, general manager of the company’s business department, said Daiwa would appoint the Wholesale Society, Tarawa, as its agent for cargoes of canned goods, textiles, cement, steel products and motor vehicles.

He said three vessels—the 9,685ton Fiji Maru, 9,369-ton Samoa Maru and 9,779-ton Tokai Maru —would operate in the South Pacific. Of these motor vessels, Fiji Maru had a speed of 13 knots and the other two ships n knots.

Daiwa currently calls at Pago Pago, Apia, buva, Labasa, Lautoka, Noumea, Vila and Santo.

Whither The Auki

Boatbuilding School?

, What s the future of Auki’s Boat Building School, on Malaita, in the Solomons?

PlM’s correspondent on Malaita recently reported that the school was abeyance at the moment” with nothing finalised about the future, The school’s instructor, Mr. Frank Faulkner, was on leave in Hawaii and n °t expected back in Auki until October and the school’s assistant instructor, Mr. David Pratt, a Solo- ™°. n blander f ro ™ Mimda, was super- V1S1I ?8 small repair jobs Smce the Solomons Government took over the sch ° ol from the South P acif ic Commission, over $60,000 , s b . een s P e nt on the school, primarily to instruct 24 Pacific Islanders on two-year boat building courses. The first two-year course l uly thi , S yea , n No other u ses have been P lanned -

Vila Wharf: Tonga

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Tonga is expected to submit a subcontracting bid for Vila’s proposed milllon P lus deepwater wharf, Tenders for construction of the wharf will close on November 14 (PIM, Sept., p. 103) and at least 12 builders from Australia, Britain and France will make offers. The New Hebrides Condominium will announce the successful tenderer by February next year, and it is hoped work will get underway by mid-1969.

Tonga has already had valuable— and successful—experience in wharf building. Its government-owned Tonga Construction Company combined with English consulting engineers to build visit to Sydney "Moana Raoi's" [?]ster, Captain P. King (left) talks to Mrs. [?]yl Wilson, an Australian Trade Com- [?]sioner for the Pacific islands, and Mr. el Cameron, travel manager of the Bank of New South Wales. [?]red off Majuro, Marshall Islands, [?]na Raoi" is a welcome sight to [?]ents there, with its Australian cargoes.

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omewhere below the surface of South Pacific Ocean is a lost or current, reports Glen Wright, Apia. Ten American “detectives” now searching for it. hey are oceanographers from the pps Institute of the University California, aboard the research el Alexander Agazziz. They ;ed Western Samoa recently en te to where they think they may the elusive flow, heir task is to find and trace the :t course of the current, which r suspect passes near the Samoan ids. It originates in the north intic near Greenland, sweeps n the Atlantic and around arctica, then comes up into the ific off the coast of New Zealand, veen there and the Antarctic it ppears. previous research trip by the pps scientists from Melbourne to paraiso resulted in proof that great “river in the sea” heads ird Tahiti and the Samoas before ets lost. Their present voyage is the purpose of finding and tracks course farther into the Pacific, he Scripps experts explained that » quite easy to identify such a y of water within water even igh it is deep beneath the surface.

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PROFILE New arrival has made his mark /CAPTAIN FILMER is a comparatively new arrival in the Pacific trade, but he made his name very quickly by sailing his 1821-ton command, MV Niuvakai, for several days after the main engine broke down. The ship wasn’t fitted with canvas hatch covers, but he rigged sails from awnings and other canvas and was making good headway, then the wind failed, and a tug towed the ship to Brisbane.

Niuvakai belongs to the Government of Tonga, and carries a full Tongan crew with the exception of the master, chief engineer and electrician. She is running regularly between Melbourne, Sydney. Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, with Burns Philp as agents in most of the ports, Cecil Howard Filmer was born at Johannesburg in 1915, and after school and college there he joined the training ship General Botha at the age of 15. At the end of the two-year course he got first class passes and was appointed Midshipman, RNR. He then spent three years in the merchant ships of Houlder Bros., running to South America, and passed for second mate in London at the age of 21.

After three months training for the Royal Navy he transferred to that service in June, 1 Q 37. In l q 3B he was navigating officer HMS Grenade and in 1939 transferred to the Fleet Air Arm to train as a pilot. During 1940 he was operating from the carriers Glorious and Ark Royal, was shot down twice over Norway, taken prisoner by the Germans and spent five years in prison camps in Germany. He escaped twice but was recaptured each time. He was mentioned twice in dispatches during his operational service, Free in 1945 he commanded a squadron of Mosquito aircraft for two years and then served in the carriers Illustrious and Vengeance for three years. The next five years were spent ashore in important posts of naval air training, including the revision of the Manual of Airmanship.

In 1957, after 20 years of service, “Fil” retired from the Navy and entered the business world of London. Twelve months in the office of the British Independent Air Transport Association cured him of living under a bowler hat, and he entered the boating business at the Isle of Wight. During the long off-seasons he did short voyages in merchant ships, and after four years went back to sea permanently. He sailed in Saint Line ships to South America, and to the Pacific in the Bank Line. In 1964 he was granted a master’s certificate of service and in June, 1965, he went master of the Tongan Government vessel Aoniu, transferring to the Niuvakai six months later, His main hobby now is the handling of a cine-camera with both artistic and professional skill. for he was once a member of the Royal Photographic Society, Indeed, his many skills make him a distinguished member of the mixed repertory of Pacific Islands ship-masters.

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Two directors of the Bank Line imited of London—Mr. I. S.

IcEwen and Mr. E. B. Oliver— ok a six-week look at ports in Ausalia and the Pacific Islands in ctober and November.

They visited Sydney, Brisbane, oniara, Suva, Nukualofa and Apia, id major NG ports to see at first md recent developments.

A Bank Line spokesman in Sydney Id PIM that the company did not an re-scheduling its services to lands ports which handle big loads copra, coffee or cocoa.

He said the company was now king small quantities of NG Highnds tea to Britain and had also en approached by Islands timber porters to carry timber. Most ships ;re full of other Islands produce r Europe at present and there were • plans to begin carrying timber on big scale, he said.

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The biggest cargo of sugar ever to ive Fiji has been carried in a ,894-ton British bulk carrier, ap- □priately called Sugar Crystal.

The carrier, owned by the Sugar ne Ltd., of London (a subsidiary the Tate and Lvle Group) took 17,000 tons of sugar at Labasa d Lautoka before sailing for ndon at the end of September.

Hie Glasgow-built Sugar Crystal, lich features luxury accommodan and a swimming pool for its :w of 35, entered service in January s year.

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Captain S. B. Brown, of the iroro, has reported the completion the first phase of the Fiji Marine partment’s reef blasting programme improve access for shipping in the ;er islands.

Captain Brown said that the pas- :e at Viwa Island had been lightened and coral heads at the ide of the lagoon removed to )w an anchoring for larger vessels, 2 passage and inner anchorage now have a minimum depth of 15 ft, but the passage is still narrow at the outer entrance.

A boat passage into the village at Yasawa-i-rara island has also been completed. The removal of coral heads in the outer harbour will now allow small Government boats to anchor in the lee of protecting rocks.

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„ T , „ • Norfolk Islands new $135,000 bulk petroleum plant stepped into top gear for the first time in October when the tanker Pacific Carrier discharged 160,000 gallons of petroleum products in 10 hours. The tanker, chartered by Mobil Oil Australia Ltd., discharged the petrol at the nearly-completed Mobil plant at Ball Bay. When contractors complete the plant, by the end of the year, supplies will be delivered locally in bulk by a tanker lorry. In future, tankers will have to make only two calls at Norfolk a year because of the plant, The Norfolk Islander quoted Mr.

Frank Thompson, the local Mobil a S ent > a s saying that petrol prices would be reduced once deliveries started from the plant, • For the next two or three months, the Suva-registered freighter Taranui and her Fijian crew will be investigating marine life, conducting 107 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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ff CROWN " PACIFIC "ARROW ” il M *RO KWh life HEIIAeP min magnetic research and taking echo soundings and plankton samplings in New Zealand waters and the western Tasman. The 954-ton freighter, owned by the South Seas Shipping Company, has been chartered by the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. ® A $14,000 wharf will be built at Graciosa Bay, Santa Cruz, in the southern Solomons. Work will be done by the Public Works Department and will start in June next year. Waters at the wharf will be 12 ft deep at low tide so the wharf will be able to accommodate ships protectorate’s Itoe7ve™ ,ly ** protectorate s largest vessel. • The European Common Market has granted New Caledonia a SUSI million loan for deepening and improving its Noumea Harbour to handle more of the bigger liners plying the Pacific Islands on cruises out of Europe, the US and Australia.

Liners have been calling at Noumea for several years now but many passengers have said facilities and amenities were not as good as Suva or Papeete.

New Caledonia has also been granted a $U5671,000 subsidy by the Common Market for the start of construction of a sea wall which will eventually link Noumea with the nearby island of Nou loan is for 20 years with two per cent, annual interest, and payments must start after three years.

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The annual Suva - Levuka yac race, which this year attracted record 52 entries, was won duri: the October long weekend by form World War II bomber pilot, IV James Verran, in his 25 ft cn Shearwater.

Mr. Verran, Fiji’s Controller Transport and Civil Aviation, to both the coveted Mobil Cup (fij prize in the race) and the Prou Trophy (for the first inboard-power launch to cross the finishing line).

Among the competitors, though tl year without luck, were sea-goi schoolteachers Marion Anderson ai Jan Williams, who won the race 1967. They were the first women ev to do so.

From the starting line near B Island, the boats followed a 20-m course along the sheltered east cos of Viti Levu to Natovi, a sect riddled with reefs, then turned e£ for the 10-mile passage across op( sea to Ovalau. They then followi a 10-mile course around the northe end of Ovalau and down the islanc east coast to Levuka.

Despite the advantage held by b launches in rough seas, the race h been won three times in recent yea by small outboard boats.

Several competitors had to wit draw through engine trouble and tv boats were scratched, but the re continued on to make the race tl most successful since it was reviv< in 1959.

The race was held in fine weathe with choppy seas and a strong soutl east wind which favoured the mo highly powered craft. Moderate rough seas were experienced rour Cape Horn, Ovalau, on the last le Walter Whippy won the Adi Vui Cup (for the launch to establish tl fastest time from start to finish) : his 12 ft 6 in. speedboat Moc Doggie ll —on only one propel! blade. The other was broken soc after the start, when the speedbo< hit a coral patch while turning ; high speed.

Despite this, the soeedboat achieve a top speed of about 20 knots j choppy seas between Natovi ar Ovalau.

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Before the Cooks, Pacific calls jre the Galapagos, Marquesas ands and Tahiti. They intended to il to New Zealand, with a possible 11 at Tonga en route, • TALLY HO, 29 tons gaff-rigged tter wrecked at Manuae, a small Dll in the Cook Group, on August , was successfully salvaged by the ft ex-trawler, Heather George. e was filled with empty 44 gallon urns to give buoyancy, and then ked off the reef. The yacht’s mast ipped off about two feet above deck 'el during this operation, and she iched Rarotonga, almost totally bmerged, on September 12. On ptember 20 attempts were made beach her at Avatiu where ownerptain Jim Louden intends to carry t major repairs. Heather George t Rarotonga for New Zealand on stember 16. On board were owner- ?tain Alan McLeod, his wife, Joan, d five of their six children. Also board were Roger Dowman, /igator-radio operator, and offrey Leeden, engineer. All are w Zealanders. • NAGADA, 30 ft ketch, with •. Edgar Haering and his wife, will ve Finschhafen, New Guinea, late s year for Madang and the start 18 month’s proposed cruising.

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Aboard were skipper Bryan Williams, wife Pauline, and their three children, Mark, 14, Suzanne, 13, and Jannise, 11 (PIM, Sept., p. 103). • TAURANGI, 35 ft New Zealand trimaran, with Messrs, F.

Melhop, P. Braithwaite, “Cully” Judd and Grey Easterbrook (formerly of Rabaul), reached the Seychelle Islands, Indian Ocean, in early September after a 20-day passage from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

In a note to PIM, Frank Melhop said for two years Taurangi had cruised South-East Asian waters.

“Taurangi left Rabaul for the Philippines but unfortunately the advent of the north-west monsoon stretched this passage to Zamboanga, took 3,000 miles and 50 days sailing time,” he said.

“After various problems with officialdom, and a loss of some yachting gear, Manila was finally reached. Then a quiet passage was made to Hong Kong.

“A Chinese fishing junk gave the Taurangi crew some bad moments while en route to Saigon but daily visits by the US navy and airforce gave some sense of security to the vulnerable craft.

“Cambodia was the next port of call, before Thailand where Taurangi spent a year, making charter trips to coral islands in the Gulf of Siam.

“May 1968 saw Taurangi's departure from Thailand, and after a stop at Singapore berthed at the Kartika Bahari Yacht Club, Djakarta.

The crew were made most welcome and enjoyed the hospitality of many of the clubmembers. Any yachts wishing to visit Djakarta are advised to write to Colonel Jasa Natakusumah, Yacht Club Katika Bahari, TG Priok, Djakarta.”

Taurangi made many stops in Melanesia in 1966 and appeared in these columns several times. • MUNDEAMO, Californian ketch, with skipper Phil Dutcher and his wife Virginia, arrived in Suva from Vavau on October 2, with the intention of spending three weeks in Fiji waters, • SYLVIA, 47 ft American sloop skippered by Robert C. Welles, arrived in Suva on October 2 from Apia, with Mr. Welles’ wife and three sons. They planned to leave Fiji around October 13, for Auckland. • GABRIELLE 111, 55 ft Vancouver sloop, owned by a Canadian millionaire and skippered by Mr. F.

Christensens, spent a week in Suva during early October, en route to Sydney, via New Caledonia, for the Sydney-Hobart race. The six crew members are George Blackwell, Tom Childs, Robbie Rea, John Hammond, Gernot Spalleck and John Simonett. • CETACEAN, ketch, with skipper R. Clark Barthol and Meta BACK ON THE JOB After lying idle in Suva iarbour for years, the 60 ft notor yacht Viking Ahoy began vork in October, under charter o the Peace Corps.

Her first job was to carry ’eace Corps volunteers and upplies to Kadavu.

After extensive refitting, the kustralian-built Viking Ahoy low has deck space for 60 >assenger and sleeping accomnodation for 18. She is being >perated by a company called /iking Ahoy Golden Sands Charter Cruises Ltd. When not »eing used by the Peace Corps he will be available for tourist barter.

The racintg yach "Maris" - a Tasman Seabird - at Princes Wharf, Suva, in late September, before leaving Fiji for Sydney. On board when she sailed was the owner, marine artist Jack Earl, who once sailed "Maris" to third place in the Sydney - Hobart race.

Also travelling were Bill Hunter, an American, and Kevin Glacken, an Australian. 111 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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Mr. Tretheway bought the 30-year- -1 ketch in July, 1967, from Bob d Dede Connelly of San Francisco, to made many friends in the South cific during a two-year—from 64-66—circuit of the Islands.

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FROM THE Islands Press mm T LEAVE Fiji for the third 11 A and last time tomorrow. I arrived on September 14, the beginning of Hibiscus Festival week.

I then saw the sun perhaps for a total of 12 to 18 hours. The rest was cold, damp, grey weather of unrelieved gloom and, not wanting to buy transistor radios or binoculars, I was confined to a hotel bedroom silently (and sometimes vocally) cursing your travel propagandists.

I took interest in statistics, talked with local residents and came up with the conclusion that my experiences in Suva had not been exceptional. Indeed the rainfall over my two weeks in the city has been less than usual—after all this is the dry season!

I know that Suva cannot help its weather but the truth is that almost any place in the United States gets more sunshine than Suva and this fact I intend to make good and clear as soon as I get back because I feel I have been cheated and I resent it.— Letter from C. H. K. Bushwell, of California, in The Fiji Times”.

I WANT to talk about a very useful time which we are going to discover in the future, that is “independence”. We are going towards that time, we Solomons Islanders.

All departments want us to govern ourselves. You leaders and all people should think about it.

What will make us able to stand?

I think that farming is the only thing whole population on earth lived by. All lives are fed by farms, so I think that planting is very important in the world.

Independence does not come by dreaming and we will not get rich by not working. The best way to develop our Solomon Islands is to work hard and work properly and then perhaps we can attain independence.

We can now prepare for independence by planting more coconut plantations, cocoa plantations and other crops. We must feed our cows, pigs and chickens with good food so they can provide us with milk and meat and then we can earn more money from them. By doing all this the Solomon Islands will grow up.

If it takes hard work to reach independence then we must all work as hard as we possibly can. —Letter from Michael Pedoro in “The Solomon Islands Farmer”.

PIT latrines in Inave will soon become a relic of the past.

Twenty-two cheap flush toilets have been purchased from the Health Department, one for every house in the area, and these have replaced the old pit latrines. These flush toilets are mounted on a concrete pedestal, and require flushing with a bucket of water. They are fly-proof. —Item in the “Cook Islands News”, Rarotonga.

WANTED to a buy a male pig dog—a strong fellow capable of chasing, biting and can have a go at the flesh at the same time.

Ring phone number 51.—Advertisement in “Tohi Tala Niue”, LATEST edition of Australian FIX magazine contains an amusing and fascinating pictorial account of the happy crew of the colony’s trading ship Moana Raoi while at Sydney, for the first time last month.

FIX states it arranged with the ship’s Sydney agents, Kerr Bros.

Pty. Ltd., to show the crewmen the first city they had visited. How the colony sailors enjoyed Sydney is reflected in the happy expressions on their faces as they gazed at the huge and strange animals at Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo.

The FIX representatives were amazed when two sailors, Toke and Tomi, undertook to mount the elephants and rode them with no trouble at all, commenting “It’s no different to climbing a coconut tree”.

From a lower platform the sailors politely viewed the towering “sails” of the new Opera House but only evinced real interest when it was casually mentioned that the ultimate cost of the city’s pledge to culture would be about $lOO million—3o times as much as the annual cost of running the whole of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.— ltem in the “Colony Information Notes”, Tarawa.

THE correspondent from Palmerston Island writes that during the last three months of 1967, 35 big turtles were caught there. Of these, there were two large females the islanders hoped to ship to Rarotonga per Tagua, however, Capt. Silk refused them aboard as he was making the long circuit through the northern group.

The correspondent writes that the turtles came on the main island, on Cooks Island and on Toms Island; presumably they were laying eggs. Many healthy young turtles were hatched, and some were caught and kept in captivity.

The little captives were fed paua until they grew to three or four inches then the careful Palmerston Islanders let them go free.— ltem in the “Cook Islands News”, Rarotonga.

FIJI’S women athletes at the South Pacific Games in Port Moresby next year will be glad to hear that they need not fear being carried off to the hills by raiding New Guinea tribesmen.

This assurance has come from the highest level—the Commissioner of Police for the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary, Mr. R. C. Cole.

Writing to the Fiji Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. T. M.

Henry, Mr. Cole said Games officials in Port Moresby had been amazed to hear that some athletes were worried about visiting New Guinea after hearing stories that “women are not safe from primitive tribes who frequently raid the towns”.

“We simply do not have primitive tribes visiting and threatening the safety of anyone in the towns,” Mr. Cole said.

“It is too fantastic to even comprehend. The normal forces of law and order will be very much in evidence during the Games and no official or participant need be apprehensive in any way about their own or anyone’s safety.”— Item in “The Fiji Times”.

THIS morning a radio message was received from the yacht Sylvia which visited Rarotonga recently. The yacht called in at Suwarrow Island and found the island’s only inhabitant, Tom Neale, safe, well and happy. Tom sent his kind wishes to the government and people of the ■■ B| Cook Islands.— ltem in the |H “Cook Islands News”, Raro- M tonga. ~ m 115 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

People • Mr. George Clarke, a NG old hand and an employee of Burns Philp for about 40 years, has left Madang to retire in Australia. He joined BP’s in 1922 and from 1931 to 1937 served as purser in BP steamers; in 1938 he moved to Rabaul for BP’s and two years later he joined the AIF.

After six years’ military service he returned to Rabaul and rebuilt the company’s business. He was posted to Madang as manager in 1962. • Mr. R. G. Lynch, a New Zealander, was to leave NZ in October for Tarawa, GEIC, for a two-year appointment as chief accountant for the Wholesale Society. He will be accompanied by his wife and their two sons. Mr. Lynch succeeds Mr. K. G.

Ussher, who declined to renew his contract after the company’s general manager, Mr. W. J. Kirkby-Jones, resigned in June following recommendations by the society’s board of directors (PIM, Aug., p. 26). • Mr. V. J. Andersen, Resident Commissioner of the GEIC, and Mr.

C. P. North-Coombes, the GEIC’s Attorney-General, were to leave Tarawa on October 21 for talks in London on Ocean Island’s phosphate industry. In London, the two will be joined by Te Reuben K. Uatioa, the colony’s Chief Elected Member.

Representatives from the Banabans of Rabi, Fiji, will also attend the talks (the Banabans are the former residents of Ocean Island), • After 22 years in the administration of the US Trust Territory, Mr.

Robert Halvorsen has retired, and is now expected to live with his family on Ponape, Caroline Islands. Mr.

Halvorsen was first sent to Ponape in 1946 as a Native Affairs Officer; in 1955 he became district administrator for Yap and later for Truk. He returned to Ponape in 1964 as DC for that district and served there until his retirement this year. • Viliame Rasigatale Raikuna— known as “Bill” to the thousands of tourists he welcomed to Fiji during five years as senior tourist officer for the Fiji Visitors Bureau—is now ensconced in the bureau’s new office in Auckland. It opened on October 1.

Mr. Raikuna, 44, took his wife, Vosita, his son, three daughters and his 18-year-old niece with him to New Zealand, where he will spend at least two years as manager of the Auckland office, which is in the Tower Block, Canterbury Arcade, High Street, Bill Raikuna is a much-travelled man, having been in the wartime Royal Fiji Naval Volunteer Reserve and the merchant navy. • Te Naboua Ratieta, the senior executive officer in the GEIC’s Resident Commissioner’s office, Tarawa, won the vacant seat of Marakei in the colony’s House of Representatives following by-election voting in late September. ® After nearly 32 years in education in Fiji, New Zealander Mr. Max Bay retired from the field in mid- October. He had held the position of Deputy Director of Education since 1963. But Mr. Bay isn’t enjoying a well-earned rest —he took up anew office appointment with Carpenters Fiji Ltd. the next day. He and his wife plan to continue living in Fiji.

Mr. Bay moved to Fiji in 1937 and has played an important role in the development of the colony’s education facilities. His past appointments include being headmaster of two schools, principal for 12 months of the Nasinu Training college, an education officer, a member of tJ 1955 Committee on Agricultui Education and Chief Inspector Schools. As well as his distinguish! record in education, Mr. Bay hi been active in sporting circles. B has represented Fiji in hockey ai bowls. He is a strong support of Junior and Senior Young Farr ers’ Clubs and the Student Farrm Scheme. • Mr. Justice Ronald Kna Mawer, Puisne Judge in Fiji sim 1966, has been appointed Chi Justice of both Tonga and Naur He replaces Mr. Justice Cliffo« Hammett, Chief Justice of Tonj since 1956. • Captain O. L. Owen has be* appointed general manager of tl Bank Line (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. I succeeds Captain W. M. Reade, wl died in Sydney on June 16, aged t (P/M, July, p. 131). • John Filei, the first Solomc Islander to be awarded the certificai of master (Solomons) and mai (Pacific Islands), has been appoint® captain of the Melanesian Mission touring vessel Southern Cross. File who has been in the church’s marii service for 12 years, succee* Captain C. F. Healy, who resigned • Dr. George Hardie Mennie, ♦ Scotland, will serve a three-ye: term in the Pacific Islands as medical and health officer for tH South Pacific Health Service. D Mennie, whose wife is a nurse ar midwife, will leave London in mu November to begin his service i Fiji. His area includes Tonga, tB Solomon Islands, the Gilbert an Ellice Islands, the New Hebride Western Samoa, the Cook Islandl Niue and the Tokelau Islands.

Dr. Mennie went into genen practice in April this year. Befoi that he was senior house officer i Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow He studied at Aberdeen Universit Medical School. • Mr. Daniel Tufui, Tonga'j Crown Solicitor, left Tonga on Sep tember 28 for a legal course ii London, to be followed by a perior with various legal authorities. Th first Tongan to occupy this positio* in the kingdom, Mr, Tufui has ai Australian wife, Jean. Anothe Tongan, Mr. Tevita Tupou, will ao for Mr. Tufui. Mr. Tupou returnee from London himself after a studl course a week before Mr. Tufui lef: (More personals on p. 151) Mr. Jim MacGregor-Dowsett, long-time New Guinea planter (he went to NG in World War I and stayed until the end of World War II) was back in NG recently with a party of war veterans commemorating the 25th anniversary of the recapture of Lae. He now lives in Geelong. Victoria. Chin H. Meen took the photograph in Port Moresby. 116 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

• Four pretty faces smiled for "Fiji Times" photographer Chandra Pal's camera after Helena Reiher (centre) was crowned Miss Hibiscus in September. On her left is Mary Fong, who came second, and on her right is third place winner, Elenoa Cuanilawa. In front is petite Paula Singh, this year's Charity Queen. Between the four of them, the girls won 78 prizes—the best, of course, being a £100 cheque for Helena and a trip to Australia by Pan American Airways, returning via Noumea by Matson Lines. Helena is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Reiher, of Abemama, Gilbert Islands.

ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—N O V E M B E R . 1968

Cpl. Tovill, of Rabaul, and Sgt. K. Morcom, of Adelaide, supervise the building of a sports pavilion at Menyamya, P.NG.

Mr. S. D. Wilson, new Resident Commissioner on Niue. He succeeds Mr. L. A. Shanks.

Left, a proud Simon Kaumi, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer in P-NG, with his son, Simon Jnr. Earlier this year Mr. Kaumi was in New York where he attended a session of the UN.

Right, Sa'olotoga Lolesi, Economic Development Officer of Western Samoa, relaxes between seminars at this year's general course at the Asian Institute, Bangkok. 118 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

[?]e, George Ellis, of the Cook Islands, is a karate black belt, 1st dan. (right) he trains with New Zealander John Jarvis. Above right, tea [?] in Fiji—through the lens of Rob Wright's camera. Below right, [?] Hazelman. AIR NZ's entrant in the 1968 International Air Hostess [?] Below, Commodore of the P&O Fleet C. Edgecombe and Miss Hibiscus entrants on the bridge of the "Oriana" in Suva.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

WHEN THE GROUND OPENED UP During September, the Wewak area was rocked by five large earthquakes and hundreds of minor earth tremors.

In the worst 'quake (measured on a seismograph machine at force seven), at the end of the month, damage was widespread—though no lives were lost.

Cracks three inches wide appeared on the Wewak-Maprik road (see picture at left), scores of water tanks split and shelves in stores crashed to the floor (at Wirui, the mission store reported damage estimated at $1,000).

Several native houses collapsed (top); so did a brick wall at the new Public Works Department.

The Wewak hospital admitted several people with minor injuries.

According to the observer in charge of the Port Moresby geophysical observatory, Dr. D. Denham, the number of earthquakes in the Wewak region in September was far greater than the average of the past 10 years.— P NG official pictures. 120 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Bunsiness and Development

$4M Timber Project

FOR PAPUA A $4 million timber and harbour project for McFarlane Harbour, Marshall Lagoon, 100 miles southeast of Port Moresby, was announced in October by Mr. Steven Rich, chairman of ANG Holdings Ltd., Papuan sawmiller, rubber and coffee grower and owner of Moresby’s celebrated local “skyscraper”, ANG House.

The project is aimed at the Auslian and Japanese markets for hard d softwood logs and sawn timber d the Japanese market for wood ips. Development will be over a ee-year period.

Partners in the project will be ANG ddings (51 per cent.), Jardine itheson and Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. ) per cent.) and several Austraa finance houses and industrial npanies (24 per cent.), lardine Matheson is a member of • big Hong Kong-based merchant •up but it is understood funds will ne from its Australian subsidiary.

Three stages fhree other investors are the steel nt, BHP, the insurance group, r C, and the South Pacific subiary of the Honolulu-based Dil- ?ham Corporation. There will also loan funds from the ANZ Bank I the P-NG Development Bank.

Tie project features three stages: > Construction of a 17-mile road m Kupiano, McFarlane Harbour, a sawmill owned by a subsidiary ANG Holdings—Pacific Islands -poration —at Kapa r i , Cape dney. (Work on the road has :ady been begun by Dillinghams).

I Dredging of McFarlane Harbour | constructing berthing and other ilities to handle vessels of up to 30 tons. These are to be finished September next year.

I Development of the harbour, cessing and loading facilities to ble pneumatic loading of 20,000wood-chip carriers by 1970-71.

Tie headquarters of Pacific Islands ■poration will move from Port resby to Kupiano, where a town- > housing 750 Papuans and 50 opean families will be built.

PIC holds nearby timber leases of about 175,000 acres with exceed 1,000 million super feet of timber.

Exports are expected to reach $2 million by 1970 and $4 million by 1972, Mr. Rich said.

The project has been announced at a time when many NG timber log exporters are wondering just what is the future of their industry. For several months they have been offered prices often lower by 20 per cent, than paid a year ago by Japan—really the only market for logs. Several timber firms, particularly on New Britain, have argued that at current prices it is just not economical to export logs.

Japan is overstocked with timber and she is currently in the happy position of offering to buy logs— at her own reduced prices—from several major timber producers in South- East Asia as well as New Guinea.

One major producer on Bougainville recently told PIM the great weakness of NG timber exports, which have been bounding ahead in recent years, is that they are sold mainly to the one source, which in the end names her own price.

ANG Holdings is already deeply committed in timber operations. Following two encouraging, but small, profits, its listed company suffered a $89,865 loss in the year ended June 30 because its major sawmill lost nearly five month’s operations following a serious fire Forecasts of dividends by the listed company have not eventuated.

The company’s view is that timber prices will recover and good markets will be made in Australia. Jardine Matheson, through its Hong Kong offices, will act as selling agent and the company hopes that good markets will eventually be won in South Korea as well as Japan.

Carpenter's profit a real beauty!

It’s impossible not to view the W. R. Carpenter Group’s 1967-68. result as anything but a rip snorter.

Despite devaluation losses of over $300,000, despite increased labour and general expenditure, despite low prices for Fiji’s sugar and despite “disappointing” profits from its two coconut oil mills at Rabaul and Suva, the group has turned in besTever profits and upped its dividend for the second year running.

W. R, Carpenter Holdings Ltd. made a consolidated net profit of $5,165,344 in the year ended June 30 —a figure which includes an extra $lBO,OOO by two New Guinea subsidiaries. It is the first time the group has exceeded ssm. profit.

Yearly dividend was raised from 16 to 18 per cent, (a payout to shareholders of $2,700,000) and the final interim payout of 10 per cent, is equal to an annual rate of 20 per cent., which was last paid in 1950-51.

Subsequently, last year’s small profit drop—which broke a run of

Fiji Closer

TO D-DAY The campaign to prepare people for the decimal currency changeover in Fiji on January 13 is intensifying. By October 11, over 1,000 government officers had been schooled in the complexities of the changeover.

Decimal Currency Board courses for key personnel in commerce and industry are being held throughout the colony until the end of November. Some government departments have appointed their own training officers.

There are also increasing requests for the government to release some coins—those of equal value to the present currency, such as the 10 cent coin which will equal 1/ prior to January 13. It’s felt this would help the tourist industry in particular, enabling hotel staff to get used to the new coins and their value before D-Day. 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1968

23 successsive rises in profits—has been reversed. More important, the group’s falling trend in earning rates in recent years has been reversed also.

Profit jumps by 8.2 per cent.—or $392,083 —and earning rate recovers from 31.9 per cent, to 33.2 per cent; a very healthy cover for the 18 per cent, dividend.

Fiji residents will be more than interested in the directors’ admission that the group made a profit—over book values—of $1,598,491 —on the insurance settlement paid by Lloyds of London on last year’s loss of the trans-Pacific passenger-cargo vessel Lakemba.

This money, shown as part of a figure of $1,715,312 for profits on fixed assets, is not included in the consolidated net profits. (The Lakemba hit a reef off Vatulele Island, Fiji, in October last year and later sank).

Directors said higher prices and bigger production of copra and cocoa, advances in merchandising turnovers in the Islands and improved weather conditions, particularly in Fiji, were the major factors in the improved figures.

They report that turnover and earnings have been maintained in the opening months of this financial year but declined to offer any firm forecasts.

Copra production for 1967-68 rose by 288 tons to 10,896 tons, and cocoa was up by 208 tons to 1,300 tons.

Production of the Suva coconut oil mill was still below capacity but showed an improvement of 20 per cent, on the previous year. The Rabaul mill’s production rate was maintained. Prices fell recently, they said.

Turnover of merchandising activities in NG rose by “about 22 per cent.” while in Fiji they “showed an overall increase”.

The chairman and managing director, Mr. C. H. Carpenter, made the following points; • Earlier plans the company had to invest in hotel ventures in the Islands or Australia are off. • There will be no replacement for the lost Lakemba. • Small profits from the NG tea project, which will cost Carpenters $3 million, are expected late next year. • Profits from the Rabaul desiccated coconut project are already coming in—although this scheme has taken longer to get going and cost Carpenters more than was originally anticipated, • The political climate in both Fiji or New Guinea was not as bad as was generally reported by news media and these two territories remained conducive to investment.

Directors did not think—at this stage —they should withdraw or withhold investment from these major Pacific Islands territories. • Plucking the company’s NG tea crops by machine was virtually out.

No machines had yet been found which could properly do the job and hand labour would most likely be used.

All considered, it was an impressive report and few doubt that if nothing unforeseen happens Carpenters will return next year to its proud 1951 20 per cent, dividend. The group’s 50 cent, shares, incidentally, were around their 52.50 mark in late October. Little wonder.

Tongan oil 'worth more investigation' Tonga’s oil potential at Eua “not negative”, according to a senh geologist with the Shell Company < Australia, Mr. W. F. Kleinmiede, wl paid a four-day visit to Eua in Sej tember.

He examined seepages of oil four by Tongans at Eua in September ar confirmed soon after by Mr. J. C Grover, Fiji’s Director of Geologic Surveys. ( PIM, Oct., p. 27).

Mr. Keinmiede said the oil se page in Eua was not contaminatio It was worth further investigate and Shell would decide whether i continue its search when sample tes and technical considerations we: known.

Record nickel exports New Caledonia’s mining indust] broke all records in the first nil months of this year with expor (principally nickel) worth aboi 7,376,667,000 Pacific francs (approx mately $A73,766,670).

The only other exports were coff< (849 tons worth 48,813,000 francs copra (809 tons, 12,262,000 franci and trochus (31 tons, 327,0( francs).

The future for the nickel indust] in New Caledonia at present is e: tremely bright, as the world produ tion of that metal next year is n expected to meet the world deman The French Secretary of State f( Overseas Territories, Mr. Mach Inchauspe, said in an interview c Paris television after a visit to Ne Caledonia in September, that 6,0( new jobs would be created in Ne Caledonia soon because of expansic in the territory’s mining industry.

However, Mr. Inchauspe said in Press interview that there were st: delays in setting up a second minii company with the Intemation Nickel Company of Canada as participant to exploit New Cal donia’s nickel.

Mr. Inchauspe said “lack of o ordination” was the cause of tl delays. However, a memoranda of agreement had now been drav up, and its final approbation depend* only on technical problems.

At present, the Rothschild-own* Societe le Nickel is New Caledonia only nickel miner. It has been mu* criticised by New Caledonians recent years because of its strangll hold on their country’s economy.

The French Government announce Mr. S. S. Proud, a director of W. R.

Carpenter Holdings Ltd.

Mr. W. R. Carpenter, deputy managing director of W. R. Carpenter Holdings Ltd. 122 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Telegrams: "BURNSTRUST", Sydney. Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), Suva (Fiji) and Vila (New Hebrides).

Canberra Agent: BURNS PHILP TRUSTEE COMPANY (CANBERRA) LIMITED, Suite 601, C.M.L. Building, University Avenue, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T. 2601. 9.604* arly two years ago that it intended end the monopoly that Le Nickel d enjoyed for about a century ’IM, Jan., 1967, p. 142).

In making the announcement in )umea at the time of the Second -uth Pacific Games, the then French inister for Overseas Territories, meral Billotte, said that the second mpany would have French, New Jedonian and foreign interests, but foreign interests would be in the nority.

There have been many reports since :n about the likely make-up and istruction of the new company, t a definite agreement has yet to erge. ales to Reds help iji trade figures Fiji’s trade deficit for August was y £F329,000 —a vast improvement the average monthly deficit of 690,000 for the first half of this ir.

Fhe Fiji Bureau of Statistics report s the improvement is due to bigger ;ar exports. Two-thirds of the gust income from exports, which died £2,721,000, was for 46,174 s of sugar exported to Britain, nada and neighbouring Pacific mds. interesting feature of August le was the shipment of 1,504 tons coconut oil to Russia for a return £192,000. It was the biggest shipit ever of goods from Fiji to ;sia. Total Russian have never risen ►ve £28,000 a year, aigust exports also included 11,175 ounces of gold, worth £170,000 4,842 cases of bananas worth )00. Exports of watermelons proed over £4,000. mports for August cost £3,050,000 lightly up on the first seven months this year.

Tie adverse balance of trade at the of August stood at £10,700,000 ipared with £7,700,000 for this od last year. srfolk to have for industry he Norfolk Island Council in ober gave its approval to the blishment of a fryer (rabbit breedindustrv on the island—even leh the Administrator, Air Cornlore R. N. Dalkin, who is chairi of the council, voted against it. .monq reasons given in council the establishment of a fryer inry: > It could solve the present unilovment situation. • One hundred and twenty tons of fertiliser would be available each week which would improve pastures. • Prices for rabbits and rabbit production, would be lower than in Australia. • Such an industry could encourage young people to go back to the land.

At present two applications are before council for permission to set up commercial rabbit farms; one is from two Australian business men, Messrs. Jamison and Williams, and the other is from local trader Ken Prentice.

Air Commodore Dalkin gave council the following reasons for voting against the introduction of rabbits: There were some weighty arguments against it from the conservationist viewpoint; long-term there may be some unsavoury aspects for the island, such as the effluent problem and the proliferation of flies; the economic prospects may not be as fruitful as people imagined; and the type of employment may not be attractive, especially to younger people.

He said there was no guarantee that only one operator would set up business. Two more such businesses on the island “might affect adversely the unique characteristics of the island.”

Meanwhile, there is considerable

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Restrictions hamper N. Caledonia trade France should scrap New Caledonia’s import licensing system so the territory’s importers could buy more goods from Australia, which was a far closer—and in some cases cheaper— manufacturer and producer than France.

This was the comment of a threeman delegation of Noumea businessmen—Messrs. N. Daly, B. Laroque and G. Lavoix—who paid a week’s visit to Sydney in October at the invitation of the Australian Department of Trade.

Mr. Daly, leading Noumea businessman and also one of New Caledonia’s keenest sportlovers said businessmen felt the import licences restricted freedom of choice of imported goods.

“The licences were introduced maybe 20 years ago, when Australia’s secondary industries were undeveloped,” he said. “Australia, or New Zealand for that matter, didn’t produce the textiles or hardware needed in Noumea and so naturally most of these items came from France.

“We feel today the position has changed. Australia produces dozens of the things she used to import from Britain and she is also exporting many manufactured lines she didn’t make a few years ago.

“If import licences were scrapped we feel many more Australian goods, particularly textiles, hardware and foods, would be highly-competitive with French goods on the Noumea market and importers would have a better choice of what to buy.”

Mr. Laroque said shipping services from Australia to New Caledonia were excellent at present, with one ship arriving each week. Trade restrictions held up more trade, however.

“Through our deputy in the French Parliament we have made representations for our licences to be abolished but so far this has been to no avail,” he said. “France sees New Caledonia, and for that matter French Polynesia, as a part of France, and she does not encourage Noumea’s right to shop around for goods.”

Copra market repor Chairman of the P-NG Copi Marketing Board gave the followii report on the world copra mark on October 23: During the past few weeks the: have only been minor day-to-d: changes in prices, mainly inter-deall trading with little actual interest c the part of consumers.

November shipment prices ha been generally around SUSI9I.I with some odd lots down 5U5190.50. However, there appea to be a firming tendency in tl market at present, with the like: hood of prices going to SUSI 93.

Rainfall in the Philippine growii areas recovered to around norm during August, but over the last ' months or so has only been 67 p cent, of normal.

The market for food oils ai fats is generally steady at preset but it is expected that pressure ■ supplies will be less pronounced du ing 1968-69.

Supply pressure will probably con from fish oil and palm oil. Co sequently one way and anothe supply and demand over the next ye may be expected to remain in fair close balance, without any maj< price movement.

Last Sales

SYDNEY Sept. 23 Oct. 22 A. Lemon .50 . . .85 .83 ANG Hold. 1.00 1.00 1.00 Bali Plantations .50 .83 .85 Burns Philp 1.00 . . 5.45 5.60 Burns Philp (SS) 2.05 3.90 3.80 Camelec .50 .65 .67 Carpenter .50 . . . 2.40 2.45 Choiseul Plntn. 1.00 3.25 3.80 C.S.R. 1.00 . . 5.44 5.10 Dylup Plntn. .50 .92 .95 Fiji Industries 1.02 . 2.20 2.25 Kerema Rubber .50 .25 .18 Koitakl Rubber .50 .68 .75 Lolorua Rubber .50 -22 .21 Makurapau Plntn. .50 .55 .57 Maribol Rubber .50 .27 .24 Plantation Hides. .50 .48 .55 Queensland Ins. 1.00 7.40 6.70 Rubberlands .50 . . .25 .25 Sogeri Rubber .50 . .60 .62 Sth. Pac. Ins .50 1.50 1.80 Steamships Tdg. 50 .80 .78 Watkins Cons. .50 . 1.10 1.25

Oil And Mining Shares

C.R.A. .50 . . 19.00 17.70 Cultus Pacific .25 . .52 .40 Emperor .10 2.75 1.60 NG Gold Ltd. .35 . .82 .80 Oil Search .50 .72 .43 Pacific I. Mines .25 .27 .24 Papuan Apln. .50 . .51 .36 Placer Dev.* • No par value 28.50 31.00 Produce Prices Unless otherwise stated, quotations are Australian currency. Australian dollar uals $l.OO New Zealand; 9/7 Fiji; 98 ench Pacific francs; 80 cents Western moa; $l.OO Tonga; 9/3 sterling and .12 USA.) COPRA PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production delivered to Copra Marketing Board, otrolled by six members, including three inters’ representatives. The board directs itribution and sales, and makes paymts to the producers. Production goes linly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Ausilia for local consumption, (c) crushing- -11 in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus available). Prices generally tally with ing rates in Philippines. ’-NG purchase prices for copra de- Jred main ports in October were hotdried, $l5l per ton; FMS $l4B per ; smoke-dried, $146 per ton. <TJI: —The Fiji Coconut Industry Board es the prices to be paid for Fiji >ra on a formula based on that for ilippines copra, and taking into account ight, taxes, selling costs, shrinkage, . The copra must be graded at centres Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Savusavu and /euni. Prices in Suva until “further ice” were: Ist grade, £FSB/7/6; 2nd de, £FS3/10/-; CAS, £F44/2/6. A le of deductions has been established copra delivered to grading centres er than Suva.

WESTERN SAMOA:—AII production is 1 to the Copra Board of Western noa at fixed prices. The Board makes unents to producers through its agents he local firms—and sells the copra on open market with a portion of Abels ~ NZ. Prices in Oct. were SWSI27 grade one, SWSI27 for grade one dried, and SWSII4 for grade two.

'ONGA: All copra is sold to the Tonga ira Board which sends it to Europe the open market. October prices growers were $T98.50 first grade and 6.50 second grade.

OLOMON IS.; All production marketed )ugh official BSI Copra Board, at es based on Philippines rate. Output 3 to Unilever, UK; to Australian ihers; and the balance on to the open ket. Prices in October were: Ist le. $140; 2nd grade, $136; 3rd grade, i per ton, BSIP ports (Honiara, dina and Gizo).

Exchange Rates

[JI - —Through Bank of NSW, ANZ k, Bank of NZ, Bank of Baroda. tralian dollar on Fiji pound, buyer 35, seller 2.0576. Fiji-London, £FIO4 5 £Stg.loo.

ESTERN SAMOA.—Through Bank of tern Samoa, controlled from NZ seller to SWS Tala 1.2470. 3RFOLK IS., PAPUA-NEW GUINEA. istralian currency used: no exchange ible in transactions with Australia. lENCH PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific cs (CFP) are used in New Calea, New Hebrides (jointly with Ausan dollars), Wallis and Futuna ids and Pr. Polynesia. French Bank, ley, on Oct. 24, quoted: Selling tnea and Papeete, 98 Pac. francs to Jst.; approx. 90 Pac. francs to US $• nea 18 Pac. francs to 1 French franc version rate: 1 Pac. franc equals 3 -,,^ nc . h fr anc). Paris-London; Buy- £> ar l CS to , £Stg ' Also - £ S^ls 215.50 Pac. francs.

GILBERT AND ELLICE —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 Japan. Official market price in October was $B2 (8,200 Pac. Francs). French price was 930 francs per metric ton, c.i.f., Marseilles.

COOK IS.:—Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, who operates 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 $NZ184.06 first grade, hot air dried; SNZIBI.9B first grade, sun dried, and $NZ180.42 standard grade, all per ton packed f.o.b.

AMERICAN SAMOA:—Copra Board buys all copra, for export to the US; Oct. price was US6V4 cents per pound, dry.

Other Produce

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quoted F 2- (4 in. to 7 in.) to F3/- (9 In. to 11 in.) lb for “Sucuwalu” and “Loaloa” varieties.

Honiara.—Live slugs, over six inches, black—six for 10c, other colours—l2 for 10c.

COCOA: —Islands rates are based on Ghana prices. Ghana price on Oct. 22 was £Stg.372 per ton, c.i.f., UK Spot.

On Oct. 22, Quote No. 1: In store Rabaul, export quality $660 per ton, exwharf Sydney, $725, and steady. Quote No. 2: Best quality, ex-wharf Sydney, $730, in store NG ports $648 (for UK, Continent and USA shipments).

W. Samoa. Latest price quoted in Sydney, on Oct. 16, was; Grade 1, £Stg.33o; grade 2, £Stg.3lo.

New Hebrides. beach, Vila, Santo, $250 per ton.

Solomons.—4 cents a lb delivered to a fermentary, 3Vz cents a lb at buying points.

COFFEE.—P-NG: Oct. 22, Quote No. 1, good quality A grade 38 Vic to 42c per lb; B grade 37c to 41c; C grade 34Vic to 36Vic; X grade 36c to 39c and native X grade 34c to 35Vic (ex-store Sydney).

CROCODILE SKINS. On Oct. 22, Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over’ first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G.— $2.80 per in., f.o.b. main ports, small scale (salt water); large scale (fresh water) $l.BO per in. 8.5.1., Honiara; $1.89 to $2.10 per in.; Gizo: $2.10 per in.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL. On Oct. 22 Australian buyers reported very little demand from Japan, Europe and the US.

Prices were not quoted. 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. 22, f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 15c lb.

PEARL SHELL. Torres Strait Pearlshellers’ Assn, recently quoted these prices for MOP: AA grade, $A1,250 per ton; A $1,450; B, $1,800; C, $1,900; D, $1,220' E, $B4O and EE, $6OO f.o.b. Thurs. Is.

Solomons. Honiara, mother of pearl blacklip 15c lb, goldlip 20c lb.

Cook Islands.—Penrhyn Island, SNZ7OO a ton (approx.), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

RICE (Aust.): Prices, until Mar. 31, 1969, are—P.-N.G.; Dried brown rice, 112 lb bags, $136 per ton, f.o.w. Sydney or 56 lb bags, $153 per ton. f.o.w. Brown, Melbourne. Vitamin enriched white rice, 40 lb bags $146 per ton. Other Pacific Islands: Polished white (56 lb bags) or dried brown rice (112 lb bags), $l6l per ton. f.o.w.

Solomons.—sl6o per ton (orders over 2 tons), $l6B per ton (under 2 tons) f.o.b. Honiara.

RUBBER. P-NG price is based on Singapore rates, which on Oct. 22 were - Prompt nominal shipment 57 Vs Malayan cents per lb; Nov., M57V 4 cents per lb and Dec., M57Vs cents per lb (all about 18 Aust. cents per lb).

SANDAEW OOO . —New Hebrides, landed on the beach, Vila and Santo, $3OO a ton.

SHARK FINS: Chang Sing Loong Co Suva, offers F4/6 per lb for well-dried fins commercial quality. ICEP Pty. Ltd. 22 Taylor St., North Curl Curl, Sydney’ quote 65c to 85c lb., ex-store Sydney according to quality.

TR f °£ HUS—A s y dn ey buyer indicated the following quotations to Islands producers; Oct. 22 Papua $175-$lB5 per ton Honiara 4 cents per lb f.o.b. Islands ports—direct shipment to overseas markets.

TURTLE SHELL —BSI: first grade unmarked 60c to $1.50 a lb at Gizo.

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co Sydney, buy mainly from Tahiti for Sydney and Melbourne essence makers.

Price on Oct. 22 were: white and yellow label processed, standard packs, $5.80, green label $5.70, c.i.f., Sydney. Tonga.— $T14.20, f.0.b., Nukualofa: $4.50 Melbourne.

Uk, Us Quotes

• c OPRA: LONDON, Oct. 22, Philippines.

SUSI9S Per long ton. c.i.f.

UK/Nth. European ports; US Pacific coast, SUSI 64 per short ton.

COCONUT OIL: LONDON, Oct. 22.

Ceylon, 1% i n bulk, £Stg.lsl per ton, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports.

RUBBER: LONDON, Oct 22 Snot T' 20 - 13/1M st «- ib - *“>• Stock Market Sydney stock exchange share price for ordinaries on Oct. 22 was 534.63. On Sept. 23 it was 555.25. 125 CIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y N O V E M B E R , 1968

The Bank Line

Monthly Services

United Kingdom And Continent

To And From

Papua, New Guinea And The Solomon Islands

ALSO : FIJI, TONGA, SAMOA AND TARAWA TO UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT ☆

U.S. Gulf/Australasia Service Vessels Calling At

FIJI, ETC., WHEN SUFFICIENT INDUCEMENT OFFERS FROM U.S. GULF PORTS FOR PARTICULARS APPLY: THE BANK LINE (AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LTD., SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Southern Cross-Northern Star

Linking the PACIFIC ISLANDS with . . .

England, West Indies, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa • One Class liners, Southern Cross (20,000 tons) and Northern Star (24,000 tons) —airconditioned with the latest in amenities.

Regular sailings approximately every six weeks via Panama Canal and South Africa, calling at a selection of the following ports: Fiji, Rarotonga, Tahiti, Acapulco, Balboa, Curacao, Trinidad, Barbados, Miami (Pt. Everglades), Bermuda, Lisbon, Southampton, Las Palmas, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland.

For full particulars apply: — Fiji—Any branch or agency of Burns Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.).

Cable Address: Burphil.

Tahiti. Messageries Maritimes, Papeete.

Cable Address: Messagerie Papeete.

Shaw Savill Line

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Shipping, Airways Information

Shipping Timetables

Ustralia - Fiji - Usa - Canada

Pacific-Australia Direct Line, owned by e Transatlantic Steamship Co. Ltd., of reden, operates a fast cargo service, parting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney d Brisbane every three to four weeks r Lautoka and Suva en route to West ast, USA, and Canada.

Details from Trans-Austral Shipping y. Ltd., 275 George Street, Sydney 9-2551).

Orient Overseas Line, with four cargo jsels, operates a monthly service from elalde, Melbourne, Sydney and Brlsne to Suva, Lautoka, San Francisco, get Sound and Vancouver.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 rk St., Sydney (2-0253).

BRISBANE - SYDNEY -

West Irian - Indonesia

rhe P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping tnpany operates a monthly cargo service m Indonesia to Brisbane, Sydney and Ibourne. Calls are also made every .0 weeks at Sukarnapura.

Details from John Manners and Co. ust.) Pty. Ltd., general agents, 4 Bridge , Sydney (27-9164).

Sydney - Fiji

3SR operates a passenger/cargo run ;h the MV Rona, departing Sydney iry three to four weeks for Suva and utoka and return.

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co. 1., 1 O’Connell St., Sydney (2-0515).

Dney - Fiji - Tonga - Samoa

Jnlon Steam Ship Co. maintains six-weekly cargo service with the Jmate from Sydney to Lautoka, Suva eluding transhipments for Vavau and le), Nukualofa and Apia with return Sydney via Auckland. The return trip aslonally takes in Malua (Fiji) and uranga (NZ) for timber.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of , 247 George St., Sydney (2-0528).

Sydney - Nz - Fiji/Tahiti - Uk

niandris liners Australis and Elllnlfl intain a two-monthly passenger service m Sydney via NZ, Suva (Australis y), Papeete (Ellinls only) to Southamp- , returning via South Africa.

Details from Chandris Line, 135 King , Sydney (28-2451). iitmar Line, with four liners, operates monthly passenger service from iney, Melbourne or Brisbane to ithampton, UK via Balboa, Panama NZ, Fiji or Papeete.

Details from Sltmar Line, 22 Bridge St Iney (27-4521).

Sydney - Geic - Honolulu

Columbus Lines of New York, operate approximately monthly passenger-cargo sailings from West Coast, USA (with occasional calls at Papeete or Pago Pago) to Australia and New Zealand, returning via Tarawa, GEIC (with transhipments to Majuro in the Marshall Islands) and Honolulu to Los Angeles or Vancouver.

Details from Shiptraco Sea Transport Services Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4149).

Sydney - Lord Howe - Norfolk

Is. - New Caledonia

Jacques del Mar n (owned by Societe Maritime Caledonienne, Noumea), makes a regular three weekly passenger-cargo voyage from Sydney or Melbourne to Lord Howe, Norfolk and Noumea.

Details from P. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 5 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311), SYDNEY - NEW CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides - Fr. Polynesia

Messageries Maritimes Line passengercargo vessels, Tahitien and Caledonlen 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/COOKS -

Tahiti - Panama - Uk

Southern Cross, Northern Star and Akaroa passenger vessels each make four round-the-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 Savlll 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) leavea 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).

Australia - P-Ng

Australia-West Pacific Line operates a regular cargo/passenger service from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Madang and Rabaul.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty. Ltd., 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

Burns Philp passenger/cargo vessels maintain regular services from the Australian East coast to New Guinea ports.

Braeslde sails every eight weeks from Melbourne and Sydney to Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Wewak, Madang, Leio, Port Moresby, Sydney, Melbourne.

Moresby maintains a service from Sydney and Brisbane to Lae, Madang, Rabaul and return to Brisbane and Sydney.

Malekula sails every four weeks from Sydney to Brisbane, Port Moresby.

Samarai and return.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

China Navigation vessels Papuan Chief and Island Chief operate a two-weekly service from Sydney to Brisbane, Port Moresby, Lae, Madang and Rabaul.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd. 2 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Karlander New Guinea Line’s six cargo vessels leave Sydney approx, weekly for P-NG ports, calling at Brisbane, Pt.

Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Kleta, Pulleborn, Glzo, Honiara, Buka and Vanimo.

Details from P. H. Stephens Pty. Ltd., 5 Macquarie Place, Sydney (27-8311).

Amplex NG Lines, with the freighter Jette Bue, operates a three-weekly service from Sydney to Rabaul, Lae and Pulleborn, and return.

Details from Auscan Shipping Pty. Ltd 68 Pitt St., Sydney (27-9886).

Messrs. Keith Holland Shipping Company uses a small motor vessel Jardine to operate fortnightly services from Caims, Queensland, to Port Moresby and Daru, and return.

Details from Herbert S. Craig Box 12, Port Moresby (2728).

Sydney - P-Ng - Far East

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo vessel!

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.) (27*1271)*” 32-34 Brl dge St., Sydney • PIM's shipping and airways schedules are revised each month just before publication from information supplied by the shipping and airways companies. Detailed information on ships' sailing dates should be obtained from shipping agents. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

Australia-West Pacific Line vessels maintain a passenger/cargo service from Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane to Lae thence Taiwan, Hong Kong and Manila, with return to Australia occasionally via Island ports.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney (27-6301).

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).

SYDNEY - NZ - N. CALEDONIA -

N. Hebrides - Fr. Polynesia - Fiji

Messageries Maritimes operates a sixweekly service from Sydney to Melbourne, Auckland, Noumea, Vila or Santo, Papeete, Suva, and return.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 2 Young St., Sydney (27-2654).

Europe - Tahiti - New

Caledonia - Australia

Messageries Maritimes vessels Marquisien, Malais, Mauricien and Maori, run monthly between France and New Zealand or Australia 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 South Africa 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

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd operate a regular passenger/cargo service from the Continent and UK every three weeks via Panama to Tahiti, Western Samoa, Fiji and New Caledonia, and every alternate month from Panama to Tahiti, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Transhipments for Tonga, Am. Samoa, Niue and Fiji ports are off-loaded at Suva (Fiji) and Apia (Western Samoa).

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

Far East - Fiji

China Navigation Co. Ltd. four “K” vessels operate a monthly cargo 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

Royal Interocean Lines operate a monthly return service with the Straat Torres, Straat Madura and Houtman from Hong Kong, Bangkok (opt.), Pt. Swettenham 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 - BSI - NEW

Hebrides - New Caledonia

Tahiti - Am. Samoa - Fiji

China Navigation vessels 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, Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Lautoka and Noumea returning to Japan direct.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-4701).

Geic - Sydney

The GEIC Wholesale Society operates a seven-weekly passenger-cargo service between Tarawa and Sydney.

Details from Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd., 4 O’Connell St., Sydney (28-1474).

Japan - New Guinea

Mitsui Osk Lines of Japan, with six cargo vessels, operate a monthly service from major Japanese cities to major NG ports, and return.

Details from Mcllwraith McEacharn Ltd., 247 George St., Sydney (27-1481).

JAPAN - SAMOA - FIJI - N.

Caledonia - N. Hebrides - Bsi

Daiwa Line runs a monthly passenger/ cargo service from Japan via Guam to Apia, Pago Pago, Suva, Labasa, Lautoka, Noumea, Vila, Santo and Honiara.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), 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 - Samoas

Union Steam Ship passenger-cargo vessels Tofua and Taveuni leave Auckland every two weeks. Tofua calls at Suva, Pago Pago, Apia, Niue, Vavau, Nukualofa, Suva and Auckland. Taveuni calls at Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Haapai, Nukualofa, Suva and Auckland.

Details from USS, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auckland (49930).

Nz - Cook Islands - Tahiti

Holm and Co. Ltd. vessels Luhesand and Pahrmannsand maintain a 28-day service from Auckland, NZ, to Rarotonga and Papeete, with other Island calls when cargoes warrant.

Details from Holm and Co. Ltd., Customs Street East, Auckland (49930).

NZ - TAHITI - UK New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd.’s vessel Rangitoto, operating between NZ and UK, via Panama, makes an occasional call at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington, NZ, or P and O, Sydney (2-0317).

NZ - N. CALEDONIA • NG -

Norfolk Island

NZ Export Line operates a 28-day service from Auckland to Noumea, Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Norfolk Island, and return.

Details from Maritimes Services Ltd., 22 Kitchener St., Auckland, or Shiptraco, Sydney (27-4149).

Nz - Norfolk Is. - N. Caledonia

New Hebrides - Wallis Is. - Fli

Reef Shipping Company, Suva, operate a three-weekly service from NZ port to Norfolk Is., Noumea, Vila, Wallis L and Suva, and return to Auckland.

Details from Trans Pacific Marini 29-31 Fort St., Auckland (41-873).

NTH AMERICA - TAHITI - AM. SAMOA Polynesia Line vessel Graziella Zet maintains a regular seven-week carg route <with limited passenger space) froi Los Angeles, San Francisco, Coos Ba (British Columbia) to Papeete and Pag Pago and return the same way.

Details from Marine Chartering (Aust.

Pty. Ltd., Box 1631, GPO, Sydne (26-6701).

Tonga - Fiji - Australia

Tonga Copra Board vessel Niuvaks operates a 49-day passenger-cargo servic from Melbourne and Sydney to Lautok* Suva, Apia, Pago Pago and Nukualofa.

Detailr from Burns Philp ana Co. Ltd 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).

Tonga - Fiji - Samoa

Tonga Shipping Agency operates cargo-passenger run from Nukualofa an Fiji (Suva, Lautoka, Ellington, Rotuma with MV Aoniu. Calls are also made a required at Apia and Pago Pago.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), Suva.

Uk - Panama - Samoa - Fiji

The Fiji Direct Service is maintainei by Conference vessels, sailing at regula monthly intervals out of London, vli Panama, for Apia. Suva and Lautoka Bethell, Gwyn and Co. Ltd., act as Load Ing Brokers in London.

Details from Burns Philp (SS), Suvi UK - PAPUA - NG - BSI Bank Line operates a monthly dlrec service from Europe via South Africa t Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madant Wewak, Kavieng, Rabaul and Honlan occasionally extending to Tarawa, GEIC or Vila and Santo, New Hebrides.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pti Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (27-2041).

Uk - Tahiti - Nz - Australia

Cogedar Line vessel Flavia, operates passenger service four times a year froi Southampton, via Panama, Papeete an Auckland, to Sydney.

Details from agents; H. C. Sleigh, 11 York St., Sydney. (2-0253).

Usa - Am. Samoa - Hawaii

AUSTRALIA Matson-Oceanic Line operates monthly passenger-cargo service from Lc Angeles with the Sonoma. Sierra an Ventura. Regular calls include Sydne: Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Burnli Pago Pago and Honolulu.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Youn St.. Sydney (27-4272).

USA - PACIFIC PORTS - NZ -

Australia - Usa

Bank Line Ltd., operates reguls services from US Gulf ports to Australl and NZ. Frequency of sailings offerln fortnightly availability for calls at Suv and Lautoka on demand.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pt; Ltd.. 269 George St.. Sydney (27-2041).

Matson Line liners Mariposa an Monterey maintain a regular passenger cargo service every three weeks from Sa. 128 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

N»a UM

Direct Monthly Service

Japan Guam & South Pacific

M.V. "SAMOA MARU" V-10 Dep. JAPAN December 25.

GUAM December 31.

PAGO PAGO January 10-11 APIA January 11-12.

SUVA January 15-16. *LABASA January 16-18.

LAUTOKA January 19-21.

NOUMEA January 24-25.

VILA February 4.

SANTO February 5-6. * Subject to cargo inducement.

Heavy lift and reefer space available.

Subject to alteration with or without notice.

Next Sailing — M.V. “Fiji Maru”, V-21, End January.

THE DAIWA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

Osaka: "Dailine" Tokyo; "Funedailine"

AGENTS: GUAM: Atkins, Kroll (Guam) Ltd.

APIA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAGO PAGO: B. F. Kneubuhl.

NUKUALOFA: Tonga Shipping Agency.

SUVA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd.

LAUTOKA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., 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.

I PlM's shipping and airways timetable* are correct to time of publication. rancisco and Los Angeles to Bora Bora, ipeete, Rarotonga, Auckland, Sydney, id return via Noumea, Suva, Niuafoou, igo Pago and Honolulu to San Francisco Details from Matson Lines. 50 Voun*. reel, Sydney (27-4272).

Usa - Tahiti ■ Australia

Farrell Lines passenger-cargo ships ol 3 Atlantic Coast-Panama-Sydney service ake three-weekly calls at Tahiti on uthbound voyages.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency i Bridge St.. Sydney (27-6301).

USA - TAHITI - SAMOA - Fill ■

New Caledonia

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessel* lorsgaard and Thor I maintain approxiately monthly services from West Coast :h American ports to Papeete, Page igo, Apia. Suva, Noumea, occasionally igo, Apia, Suva, Noumea, and ocsionally Lautoka, Vila, Lae, Rabaul, d return.

Details from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty, d., 275 George St., Sydney (29-2551).

Airways Timetables

(International Dateline is crossed beeen Nadi and Honolulu.)

Trans Pacific Services

Rdney - Brisbane - Hawaii - Us

QANTAS (with 707’s) iurs.: Dep. Syd. 1700, arr. Bris. 1815, dep. 1900, arr. Honolulu 0755, dep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 1645. iurs.: Dep. San Francisco 2100, arr.

Honolulu 2255, dep. 2359, arr. Bris. 0525 Sat., dep. 0610, arr. Syd. 0725.

Sydney - Fiji - Hawaii - Usa

QANTAS (with 707’s) ,es., Sat., Sun.; Dep. Syd. 1700, arr.

Nadi 2245, dep. 2330, arr. Honolulu 0735, dep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 1645. in., Wed., Fri., Sat.: Dep. Syd. 1900, arr. Nadi 0045, dep. 0130, arr. Honolulu 0935, dep. 1100, arr. San Francisco 1845. in., Wed., Fri., Sun.: Dep. San Francisco 2000, arr. Honoloulu 2155, dep. 2300, arr. Nadi 0315, dep. 0400, arr. Syd. 0615. in., Tues., Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2100, arr. Honolulu 2255, dep. 2359, arr. Nadi 0415, dep. 0500, arr. Syd. 0715 - BOAC (with 707’s) es., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0045, dep. 0130 Wed., Fri., Mon. (cross Dateline), arr. Honolulu 0935, dep. 1100, arr. San Francisco 1845 Tues., Thurs., Sun. es., Thurs., Sat.: From London, New York, dep. San Francisco 2000, arr.

Honolulu 2155, dep. 2300 (cross Dateline), arr. Nadi Thurs., Sat., Mon. 0315, dep. 0400, arr. Sydney 0615.

Rdney - Fiji - Tahiti - Mexico

QANTAS (with 707’s) d.: Dep. Syd. 2000, arr. Nadi 0145 Thurs., dep. 0230, arr. Papeete 0845 Wed., Dep. 2230, arr. Acapulco 1030 Thurs., dep. 1130, arr. Mexico City 1220 (to London). ;.: Dep. Mexico City 2200, arr. Acapulco 2255, dep. 2355, arr. Papeete 0400 Sun., dep. 0500, arr. Nadi 0745 Mon dep. 0830, arr. Syd. 1045 SYDNEY or AUCKLAND - FIJI -

Hawaii - Canada

CANADIAN PACIFIC (with DOS’s) Fri.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0055 Mon., dep. 0140, arr. Honolulu 0950 Sun., dep. 1130, arr. Vancouver 1950 Sun.

Fri.: Dep. Vancouver 1800, arr. Honolulu 2040, dep. 2245, arr. Nadi 0305 Sun., dep. 0345, arr. Sydney 0600 Sun.

Alt. Sun: the DCB’s end and start at Auckland, leaving at 2205 and arriving at 0640.

Sydney - Nz - Hawaii Or

Tahiti - Usa

AIR-NZ (with DCB’s) Wed., Fri.: Dep. Syd. 1500, arr. Auckland 1945, dep. 2100, arr. Honolulu 0720, dep. 0830, arr. Los Angeles 1625. dep. 2359, arr. Papeete 0655, dep 0815, arr. Los Angeles 1905.

Wed., Sun.; Dep. Los Angeles 2100, arr.

Honolulu 2315, dep. 0030, arr. Auckland 0715 Fri.. Tues., dep. 0900, arr.

Syd. 1005.

Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2100, arr. Papeete 0215 Sat., dep. 0330, arr. Auckland 0715 Sun., dep. 0900, arr. Syd. 1005.

SYDNEY - USA (VIA N. CAL, NZ,

Fiji, Am. Samoa Or Hawaii)

PANAM (with 707’s) Sun.: Dep. Syd. 1815, arr. Auckland 2300, Daily: Dep. Sydney 1645, arr. Nadi 2230, dep. 2315, arr. Honolulu 0720, dep. 0845, arr. Los Angeles 1640.

Wed.: Dep. Sydney 1445, arr. Noumea 1815, dep. 1900, arr. Pago Pago Wed. 0015, dep. 0100, arr. Honolulu 0705, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1655.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 1400, arr. Auckland 1845, dep. 1940, arr. Pago Pago Sat. 0010, dep. 0100, arr. Honolulu 0705, 129 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

UNION STEAMSHIP 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.

General Agents 1 Bush Street, San Francisco 4, California, U.S.A.

APlA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, SYDNEY—Trans-Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd.

Ltd.

PAPEETE Agence Maritime Inter- LAE/RABAUL—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd. nationale Tahiti.

PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co.

NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

PORT VILA Comptoirs Francais da Nouvelles Hebrides. dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1655.

Sat., Mon., Wed.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145, arr. Honolulu 2355, dep. Sun., Tues., Thurs. 0100, arr. Nadi Mon., Wed., Fri. 0515, dep. 0615, arr. Sydney 0830.

Sun., Tues., Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145, arr. Honolulu 2355, dep. Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat. 0100, arr. Sydney Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun. 0745.

Thurs.: Dep. Honolulu 1015, arr. Pago Pago 1425, dep. 1515, arr. Noumea Fri. 1700, dep. 1745, arr. Sydney 1935.

Mon.; Dep. Honolulu 1015, arr. Pago Pago 1425, dep. 1515, arr. Auckland Tues. 1800, dep. 1840, arr. Sydney 1945.

SYDNEY or NOUMEA - USA (via

Fiji, Nz Or Tahiti

UTA AIRLINES (with DCB’s) Mon.: Dep. Noumea 1120, arr. Nadi 1400, dep. 1445, arr. Papeete 2050 Sun., dep. 0900 Mon., arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Thurs.; Dep. Noumea 1020, arr. Auckland 1340, dep. 2345, arr, Papeete 0630 Thurs., dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Prl.: Dep. Sydney 2050, arr. Papeete 0730 Fri., dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Mon.: Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr. Papeete 0500 Tues., dep. 0645, arr. Auckland 1030 Wed., dep. 1230, arr. Noumea 1415.

Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr.

Papeete 0500 Fri., dep. 0645, arr.

Sydney 1055 Sat.

Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr. Papeete 0500 Sun., dep, 0745, arr. Nadi 1030 Mon., dep. 1115, arr. Noumea 1215 Sat.

Nz - Am. Samoa - Tahiti Or

Hawaii - Usa

PANAM (with 707’s) Mon., Fri.: Dep. Auckland 2359, arr.

Papeete Mon., Fri. 0645, dep. 0745 arr. Los Angeles 1830, dep. 1945, an San Francisco 2050.

Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 1940, an Pago Pago Thurs., Sat. 0010, dep 0100, arr. Honolulu 0705, dep. 090 C arr. Los Angeles 1655.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2200, an Los Angeles 2305, dep. 2359, an Papeete Thurs., Sun. 0510, dep. 061 C arr, Auckland Fri., Mon. 0950.

Mon.: Dep. Honolulu 1015, arr. Pag Pago 1425, dep. 1515, arr. Aucklan Tues. 1800.

Wed.: Dep. Honolulu 0115, arr. Pago Pag 0525, dep. 0615, arr. Auckland Thun 0900.

INDONESIA - USA (via DARWIN,

Noumea, Nz, Or Tahiti)

DTA AIRLINES (with DCB’s) Wed.: Dep. Djakarta 2020, arr. Darwb 0225 Thurs., dep. 0305, arr. Noume 0905, dep. 1020, arr. Auckland 134 C dep. 2345, arr. Papeete 0630, dep. 090 C arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Mon.: Dep. Los Angeles 2345, arr. Papeet 0500 Tues., dep. 0645, arr. Aucklam 1030, dep. 1230, arr. Noumea 1415, dep 0050 Thurs., arr. Singapore 0615.

Australia-Far East

Sydney - P-Ng - Far East

QANTAS (with 707’s) Thurs.: Dep. Syd. 1130, arr. Pt. Moresb 1520, dep. 1605, arr. Manila 1900, dep 1945, arr. Hong Kong 2130.

Fri.: Dep. Hong Kong 2130, arr. Manil 2310, dep. 2355, arr. Pt. Moresby 070 Sat., dep. 0745, arr. Syd. 1130.

Sun.; Dep. Syd. 1130, arr. Pt. Moresb 1520, dep. 1605, arr. Hong Kong 2025 Sun.: Dep. Hong Kong 2230, arr. Pt Moresby 0655 Mon., dep. 0745, an Syd. 1130.

Australia-New Zealand

Q Ant As, Air-Nz, Boac And Panan

operate regular trans-Tasman services THE QANTAS and AIR-NZ services linl major NZ cities with Australian eas coast cities.

Australia-Pacific Islands

Sydney - Fiji

AIR-INDIA (with 707’s) Tues.: Dep. Sydney 1045, air. Nadi 1630 Wed.; Dep. Nadi 0800, arr. Sydney 1025 SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

AIRLINES OF N.S.W. (with flying-boats) About twice weekly from Rose Bay Time of departure depends on high tld« in the lagoon at Lord Howe Is.

Sydney ■ New Caledonia

QANTAS/UTA (with 707’s) Mon., Prl.: Dep. Sydney 1100, arr. Noumea 1440, dep. 1600 for Sydney, arr. 1755 Tues., Sat.: Dep. Noumea 0930, arr. Syd 1150, dep. 1310, arr. Noumea 1715.

Sydney - New Zealand - Fiji

BOAC (with 707’s) Mon., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0900, arr. Auckland 1345, dep. 2130. arr. Nadi 002 C (Tues., Sun.).

Tues., Sun.: Dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Auckland 0755, dep. 0930, arr. Syd. 1035 thence London via Singapore. 130 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Australia.West Pacific Line

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:— i Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane—With. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty. Ltd.

Adelaide—Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd.

Lae, Rabaul, Madang—New Guinea Company Limited.

Port Moresby—lsland Products Limited.

Australia West Pacific Line

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

QANTAS (with DC4’s) Fed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0800, arr. NI 1450. Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI Wed., Sat. only (See “NZ —Pacific Islands’’). hurs., Sun.: Dep. NI 1445, Sydney, arr. 1850.

Australia - P-Ng

Trans Australian Airlines and Ansett- NA each operate from Sydney or Melmrne to Pt. Moresby and return five tnes a week, with Boeing 727’5.

NORTHBOUND isett-ANA; Mon.: Dep. Melb. 0700, arr.

Syd. 0805, dep. 0835, arr. Bris. 0945, dep. 1035, arr. Pt. Moresby 1325.

Wed.: Dep. Syd. 0630, arr. Bris. 0740, dep. 0820, arr. Pt. Moresby 1110.

Frl.: Dep. Syd. 0700, arr. Bris. 0810, dep. 0850, arr. Pt. Moresby 1140.

Sat.: Dep. Melb. 0700, arr. Syd. 0805, dep. 0910, arr. Pt. Moresby 1250. in.: Dep. Syd. 0700, arr. Pt. Moresby 1040.

KA: Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Syd. 0700, arr. Bris. 0810, dep. 0850, arr.

Pt. Moresby 1140.

Fri.: Dep. Melb. 0700, arr. Syd. 0825, dep. Syd. 0910, arr. Pt. Moresby 1250.

SOUTHBOUND isett-ANA: Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1415, arr. Bris. 1655, dep. 1800, arr. Syd. 1910, dep. 2000, arr. Melb. 2110.

Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1200, arr.

Bris. 1440, dep. 1545, arr. Syd. 1655, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1230, arr. Bris. 1510, dep. 1615, arr. Syd. 1725, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1340, arr, Syd. 1710, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1915.

Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1130, arr. Bris. 1410, dep. Bris. 1500, arr. Syd. 1610, dep. Syd. 1800. arr. Melb. 1910.

LA: Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Pt.

Moresby 1230, arr. Bris. 1510, dep. 1545, arr. Syd. 1655, dep. 1800, arr.

Melb. 1910.

Fri.; Dep. Moresby 1340, arr. Syd. 1705, dep. 1800, arr. Melb. 1910.

TAA and ANA each operate a weekly 34 from Sydney to P-NG with cargo ly.

Queensland ■ Papua

TAA (with Fokkers) es.: Dep. Townsville 1110, arr. Cairns 1215, dep. 1315, arr. Pt. Moresby 1535. iurs.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 1445, arr. Cairns 1705, dep. 1800, arr. Townsville 1855.

ANSETT-ANA (with Fokkers) iurs.: Dep. Cairns 1325, arr. Pt. Moresby 1545.

I.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0745, arr. Cairns 1005.

NEW ZEALAND-PACIFIC IS. (For other schedules touching these inds see also Trans-Pacific Services), NZ - AM. SAMOA PANAM (with 707’s) urs., Sat.; Dep. Auckland 1940, arr.

Pago Pago Thurs., Sat. 0010. m.: Dep. Pago Pago 1515, arr. Auckland Tues. 1800. *i.: Dep. Pago Pago 0615, arr. Auckland Thurs. 0900.

NZ - FIJI AIR-NZ (with DOS’s) ily: Dep, Auckland 2130, arr. Nadi 0020, dep. Nadi 0505, arr. Auckland 0755.

Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 0800, arr.

Nadi 1050.

NOTE: Mon., Sat. flights ex-Auckland and Tues., Sun. flights ex-Nadi are operated by BOAC.

NZ ■ FIJI - AM. SAMOA AIR-NZ (with DOS’s) Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 0800, arr.

Nadi 1050, dep. Nadi 1145 (cross Dateline), arr. Pago Pago 1445.

Wed., Pri.: Dep. Pago Pago 1600 (cross Dateline), arr. Nadi Sun. 1700, dep.

Nadi 1800, arr. Auckland 2050.

Nz • New Caledonia

AIR-NZ and UTA (DOS’s) Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1300 for Noumea, arr. 1445, dep. 1600, arr. Auckland 1930.

Wed.: Dep. Auckland 1230, arr. Noumea • PlM’s shipping and airways schedules are correct to time of publication. 1415, dep, 1020 Thurs., arr. Auckland 1340.

NZ - NORFOLK IS.

AIR-NZ (with Qantas DC4’s on Charter) Sat.; Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 2000.

Sun.: Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1340.

Nz - Tahiti

UTA-French Airlines (with DCB’s) Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 2345 for Papeete (cross Dateline), arr. Thurs. 0635.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 0645 for Auckland (cross Dateline), arr. Wed. 1030. 131 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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Chile - Easter Is. - Tahiti

LAN-Chile (with DC6-B’s) Alt. Tues.; Dep. Santiago 0100, arr.

Easter Is. 0700 (24-hour stopover), dep. 0700 Wed., arr. Papeete 1500.

Alt. Sun.; Dep. Papeete 1900, arr. Easter Is. 0700 Mon. (24-hour stopover), dep. 0700 Tues., arr. Santiago 1900.

NOTE: Schedules have been cut down on Tahiti-Easter Is. connections. Details from Mr. J. Federer (31-4366), Sydney; or Tahiti Tours, Papeete.

Fiji - Geic - Nauru

FIJI AIRWAYS (with HS74B) Alt. Sun. (Nov. 17, Dec. 6); Dep. Suva 0600, arr. Nadi 0635, dep. 0720, arr.

Funafuti 1020, dep. 1105. arr. Tarawa 1435, dep. 1520, arr. Nauru 1650.

Alt. Mon. (Nov. 18, Dec. 7): Dep. Nauru 0700, arr. Tarawa 0930, dep. 1015, arr.

Funafuti 1345, dep. 1430, arr. Nadi 1730, dep. 1815, arr. Suva 1850.

Fiji - New Hebrides - Bsip

FIJI AIRWAYS (with HS74B) Thurs.: Dep. Suva 0700, arr. Nadi 0735, dep. 0820, arr. Vila 0955, dep. 1040. arr. Santo 1130, dep. 1215, arr.

Honiara 1510.

Fri.: Dep. Honiara 0730, arr. Santo 1025, dep. 1110, arr. Vila 1200, dep. 1245, arr. Nadi 1620, dep. 1705, arr. Suva 1740.

NOTE: An additional fortnightly service operates here, leaving Fiji on alternate Sundays and returning on alternate Mondays. Times are the same as above.

Fiji - Tonga

FIJI AIRWAYS (with HS74B) Wed., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 0610, air. Suva 0645, dep. 0715, arr. Tonga 1015, dep. 1100, arr. Suva 1200, dep. 1300, arr Nadi 1345.

Fiji - Western Samoa

FIJI AIRWAYS (with HS74B) Wed.: Dep. Nadi 1100, arr. Suva 1145, dep. 1240, arr. Apia 1640 Tues.

Tues.: Dep. Apia 1720, arr. Suva 1920.

Hawaii - Am. Samoa

PANAM (with 707’s) Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Honolulu 1015, arr.

Pago Pago 1425.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Honolulu 0115, arr.

Pago Pago 0525.

Sat.; Dep. Honolulu 1615, arr. Pago Pago 2025.

Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat.; Dep. Pago Pago 0100, arr. Honolulu 0705.

Fri.: Dep. Pago Pago 0145, arr. Honolulu 0750.

Hawaii - Am. Samoa - Tahiti

PANAM (with 707’s) Thurs.: Dep. Honolulu 1615, arr. Papeete 2140.

Sat.: Dep. Honolulu 1615, arr. Pago Pago 2025, dep. 2115, arr. Papeete Sun. 0105.

Thurs.: Dep. Papeete 2245, arr. Pago Pago Fri. 0055, dep. 0145, arr. Honolulu 0750.

Sun.; Dep. Papeete 0200, arr. Honolulu 0720.

Hawaii - Micronesia - Guam

AIR MICRONESIA (with 727’5) Sun.; Dep. Honolulu 0700, arr. Johnston Is. 0845, dep. 0915, arr, Majuro 1005 Mon., dep. 1035, arr. Kwajalein 112 i dep. 1150, arr. Truk 1210, dep. 125 arr. Guam 1530, dep. 1615, arr. Saipa 1650.

Sat.; Dep. Saipan 0850, arr. Guam 092 dep. 1010, arr. Truk 1035, dep. 112 arr. Kwajalein 1540, dep. 1610, ar Majuro 1655, dep. 1725. arr. Johnste Is. 2215, dep. 2245, arr. Honolul 0025.

NOTE: A second similar service—c Wednesdays—was to start in late Octobe

New Caledonia - New Hebrides

UTA (with DC4) Tues.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Santo 104 dep. 1110, arr. Vila 1215, dep. 153 arr. Noumea 1725.

Fri.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Vila 095 dep. 1315, arr. Santo 1420, dep. 145 arr. Noumea 1730.

NEW CAL. - WALLIS IS. - NEW CA UTA (with DC4) Second Wed. each month.

Wed. (Nov. 13): Dep. Noumea 0800, ai Wallis 1530.

Thurs. (Nov. 14): Dep. Wallis 1100, ai Noumea 1630.

New Guinea - West Irian

TAA (with DCS’s) Fortnightly flights leave Lae, v Wewak, to Sukarnapura and return tl next day (Nov. 18, Dec. 2).

P-Ng - Solomons

TAA (with Fokkers and DCS’s) Tues.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 0700, arr. Li 0800, dep. 0900 for Buka, Mund Honiara, arr. 1630.

Wed.: Dep. Honiara 0740 for Mund Buka, Rabaul, Lae, Pt. Moresby, ar 1415. 132 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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UTA-French Airlines (with DCB’s) in.: Dep. Papeete 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955, dep Mon. 2345, arr. Papeete Thurs. 0500. urs.: Dep. Papeete 0900,, arr. Los Angeles 1955, dep. Thurs. 2345, arr.

Papeete 0500. t.: Dep. Papeete 0700, arr. Honolulu 1225, dep. 1355, arr. Los Angeles 2150, dep. Sat. 2345, arr. Papeete 0500.

PANAM (with 707’s) n., Fri.: Dep. Papeete 0745, arr. Los Angeles Mon., Fri. 1830, dep. 1945, arr. San Francisco 2050. urs.: Dep. Papeete 2245, arr. Pago Pago Fri. 0055, dep. 0145, arr. Honolulu 0750, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1655. i.: Dep. Papeete 0200, arr. Honolulu Sun. 0720, dep. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1655. d., Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2200, arr.

Los Angeles 2305, dep. 2359, arr.

Papeete Thurs., Sun. 0510. urs.: Dep. Los Angeles 1300, arr.

Honolulu 1510, dep. 1615, arr. Papeete 2140. .: Dep. Los Angeles 1300, arr. Honolulu 1510, dep. 1615, arr. Pago Pago 2025, dep. 2115, arr. Papeete Sun. 0105.

W. Samoa - Am. Samoa

’OLYNESIAN AIRLINES (with DCS) a-Pago Pago: Three times Wed., Fri., twice Tues., Sun., once Sat. ;o Pago-Apia: Three times Wed., Fri., twice Tues., Sat., once Sun. (all flights 45 mins.).

W. Samoa ■ Tonga

’OLYNESIAN AIRLINES (with DCS) i.: Dep. Apia 0800, arr. Tonga Mon. 1100. a.: Dep. Tonga 1200, arr Apia Sun. 1510.

W. SAMOA - WALLIS IS. - FIJI ‘OLYNESIAN AIRLINES (with DCS) xrs.: Dep. Apia 0800 (cross Dateline), arr. Wallis 0835 Fri., dep. 0855, arr.

Nadi 1200. : Dep. Nadi 1245, arr. Wallis 1545, dep. 1600 (cross Dateline), arr. Apia 1840 Thurs. irs.: Dep. Apia 0800 (cross Dateline), arr. Nadi 1200, dep. 1245 Fri., arr.

Apia 1840 Thurs.

Internal Services

FIJI iji Airways, with Herons, DC3’s and HS74B operates regular services to asa, Matei, Nadi, Nausorl and usavu.

'etails from Fiji Airways, Victoria ade, Suva. ir Pacific, with Beech Baron aircraft, rate regular services to Ba, Bureta, olevu, Nadi and Nausori.

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French Polynesia

AI, with DC4’s, Twin Otters and a muda flying-boat, operates regular ices to Bora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, eete, Raiatea and Rangiroa. etails from RAI, Qual Bir Hakelm, 'eete. or any UTA office.

Guam - Us Trust Territory

Air Micronesia, with 727’5, DC6’s and Grumman SA-16 flying-boats, operates regular services to Guam, Koror, Kwajalein, Majuro, Ponape, Rota, Saipan and Yap.

Details from Continental Airlines, International Airport, Los Angeles, California.

Papua - New Guinea

TAA, with Fokker Friendships, DC3’s, Twin Otters and Aztecs, operates regular services to Baimuru, Baiyer R., Balimo, Banz, Buin, Bulolo, Buka, Cape Gloucester, Cape Hoskins, Chimbu, Daru, Finschhafen, Garaina, Goroka, Gurney (Samarai), Jacquinot Bay, Kandrian, Kavieng, Kerema, Kieta, Lae, Madang, Malalaua, Manus, Minj, Misima, Mt. Hagen, Munda, Nissan Is., Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Talasea, Wabag, Wakunal, Wau, Wapenamanda and Wewak.

Ansett-MAL, with Fokker Friendships, DC3’s and Piaggios, operates regular services to Altape, Ambunti, Angoram, Banz, Bulolo, Erave, Goroka, Hayfiela, lalibu, Kainantu, Kagua, Kavieng, Kundiawa, Lae, Lumi, Madang, Mendl.

Minj, Mt. Hagen, Momote, Nuku, Pt Moresby, Rabaul, Tari, Telefomin, Vanimo, Wabag, Wapenamanda, Wau, Wewak and Yangoru.

Papuan Airlines Pty. Ltd., with DC3’« and Piaggios. operates regular services tc Aroa, Balimo, Bereina, Cape Rodney, Daru. Gurney, Kairuku, Kokoda, Losula.

Mt. Hagen, Paili, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, Rorona, Tapini, Vivigani, Wanigela and Woitape.

New Caledonia

Air Caledonie, with Twin Otters, Herons and Aztecs operates regular services to Hienghene, Houailou, Isle of Pines, Isle Ouen, Kone, Kouaoua, Koumac, Llfou, Mare, Noumea, Ouvea, Poindimie, Touho, Voh.

Details from Air Caledonie, Noumea.

New Hebrides

Air Melanesia, with Drovers, operates regular services to Aneityum, Epl, Erromanga, Lamap, Longana, Norsup, Santo, Tanna, Tongoa and Vila.

Details from Air Melanesia, Vila.

Solomon Islands

Solomons Islands Airways, with Dove and Beech Baron aircraft, operates regular services to Auki, Avu Avu, Barakoma, Honiara, Kira Kira, Marau, Mono, Munda, Sege and Yandina.

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t officially on the SPC, spoke with the force and authority of a comissioner proper. From his delegate’s it he strongly supported Ratu ara’s stand on the need for an mediate review of the South cific Commission’s role in the cific. And he was bitterly dispointed in Albert Henry’s resolun recommending the postponement the consideration of a review comttee until the 1969 conference.

Dne of the biggest projects conered by the conference was the ablishment of a reef and lagoon icries agency. Both the UNDP and : FAO promised all the help they ild give with this.

Fhe UNDP observer said his ;ncy was prepared to recommend allocation of 5U5477,000 over ee years. It might seem odd that mds communities need help in an a they’re been concerned with thousands of years, but this is t another example of the effect raising health and living standards, ks Pacific populations have inased, the lagoons have been fished Islanders have found themes short of the one source of tein freely available at low cost, and so they need to leam to build / types of boats to fish outside reef. The habits of deep sea must be studied. Old methods st be discarded, new ones learnt, 'here was some indecision last r about whether the so-called tall conference” held every year ; an improvement on the “large ferences” that used to take place ry three years.

No doubt 'his year there was no doubt in :gates’ minds. A “small confer- -3” will be held every year. There some feeling that the time wed—eight days—was too short. 1 the question of venue also came Noumea was decided on for t year, but if the budget allows, may be the host the following *. The idea is to have them at ;rent venues as in the past, he feeling round the table at this th South Pacific Conference ved an increasing concern with subjects of youth work, mental th, conservation of food and reces. And this concern, coming \ a gathering of peoples unistomed in the past to thinking id, is tribute enough to the intensive work carried out by the South Pacific Commission over the past 21 years.

Credit for the emergence of anew pattern of thinking in Islands territories can largely be laid at the door of the hard-working, under-paid, totally professional staff of the South Pacific Commission.

Talk of tourism took up a sizeable piece of the delegates’ time at the conference Oddly enough, the subject first came up during an early discussion on the devastating effects the introduction of foot-and-mouth disease could have on the economy of the South Pacific.

It wouldn’t be only livestock that would be affected. Joe Blow, his pockets stuffed with lovely dough, would be so restricted in his movements between islands that he would, at least temporarily, disappear from the Pacific scene.

At this point the UNDP observer suggested that the approprite department of the UN would be willing to undertake a preliminary study of tourism in the Pacific in 1969 or 1970.

Ratu Mara didn’t think the rules permitted discussion of tourism, but the commissioners said the rules could be bent by amendment. Even that stickler for precision and precedence, Mr. Nettre, was heard to say that the rules of procedure were a frame from which one should be able to break away. (Gasps all round.) He waxed eloquent And Albert Henry waxed eloquent on the subject of tourism. He said that co-ordination and planning in this area benefited every territory. (Remember that this was early in fhe piece).

On the last morning of the conference the subject of tourism came up again. But what a volte face from the Cook Islands! His territory, said the Prime Minister, could not accept the idea of entry into an outside tourist organisation. All the charm of the Cook Islands would be lost if it were to be sold for tourism. (Mental picture of the lovely Cooks being sold into tourist White Slavery by the wicked UN.) “I do not accept the idea of changing my way of life to suit the tourist,” said Mr. Henry. “I will not change—you will not find a multistorey hotel in the Cook Islands. I will build nothing higher than the coconut tree!”

Now this last statement rang a distant bell. Up in the far-off New Hebrides, a US-Hong Kong syndicate has bought 5,000 acres of land at Hog Harbour on Espiritu Santo, where the beaches are the most beautiful in the Pacific.

They are going to rename the whole area Champagne Beach, which should give Tom Harrisson pause.

And among the slogans of this syndicate is the cry—“We will build nothing higher than the coconut tree!”

Later that morning, over a cup of tea, Ratu Mara said that tourism had many more advantages than disadvantages. It provided work for a great number of people and the benefits filtered down through the community. Crafts were fostered.

The influx gave a stimulus to market gardeners and other producers of foods. And services like water and electricity were being brought faster to once remote areas. (Will Fiji ever get That Road?) Pretty relaxed “And like a woman,” Ratu Mara said, “a country that is admired will start to adorn herself.” Now the villages in Fiji are cleaner, and that section of gaol formerly reserved for offenders against civic tidiness has fallen into disuse.

Inoke Faletau of Tonga was pretty relaxed about the whole thing, too. “Tourists can’t take away your culture,” he said.

Western Samoa made a nice point.

“We have no tourists,” said Pito Fa’alogo. “We have visitors and they are welcome.”

Ratu Mara pointed out that tourism was necessary for over-populated countries like Fiji, where the population was approaching half a million.

Papua-New Guinea’s Joe Paul Langro was all for tourists, too, and said his government had just established a Tourist Board. And French Polynesia echoed Ratu Mara, saying that tourism could help Tahiti with the financial problems arising from conditions that will soon bring her population to 100,000.

UNDP’S Alexander Hixon cleared up a few points on tourism by saying that no one was less fond of the typical cruise director than he was.

However, there was no place to go but on, and a UN study of tourism in the area could result in great savings of money and effort. It seemed, from what Mr. Hixon was saying, that no one was going to be pushed about—only informed, so that they wouldn’t build the wrong kind of hotel in the wrong place for the wrong kind of people. (Continued on p, 136) 135 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968 PC blood and thunder^ (Continued from p. 31)

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In coming months, PIM will publish articles supplied by the British Government's Tropical Products Institute on the various forms of the spice cassia. This month: Chinese cassia.

Chinese cassia, which is derived from the bark of the ■innamonutn cassia tree, has been cultivated in China since time nmemorial. The best of it comes from the Tung Ring district i southern Kwangsi, but there are extensive plantations around oting and Lukpo in Kwangtung, where good cassia is produced. le cassia is grown on artificially iced hillsides at altitudes of from to 1,000 ft. The first cut of is obtained when the trees are it six years old. A few trees are uncut until 10 years old or more rovide the “buds” and seed; such may reach heights of up to t. The majority of the trees that used for bark production are n in plantations, and are usually agated from cuttings planted ig February, March or April— Jtimes, however, seed is used— seedlings are raised in nursery and, when one to two years planted out 2 ft apart, hen the trees are five to seven ; old and five to nine ft high, are cut down close to the ground a number of new shoots grow mm the stump and roots. The ts are harvested twice a year, main harvest in June-July and ler smaller one in Januarynary.

Ringed oots which are 1 in. to li in. are cut a few inches above id level and stripped of their and leaves. They are ringed a large-bladed knife at intervals to 24 in. or else cut into pieces, tudinal slits are made and the is removed in two pieces by s of a curved horn spatula, e bitter-tasting epidermis is ved, either by scraping, or with all plane, and the bark dried in the sun until it turns brown and curls into a hollow tube or quill. These are finally collected into bundles of about 18 in. diameter, and bound with rattans.

After passing through the hands of a number of intermediaries, the cassia reaches Hong Kong. Here the bundles are opened, and the cassia is immediately sorted into grades according to thickness. The rolls, which are still semi-soft, are unrolled and both surfaces are cleaned of mud, insect fragments and dust with a stiff brush. Then they are washed in cold water, dried in the sun and tied into bundles of about 4 lb. each.

After fumigation for 12 hours, the bundles are packed into bales, usually of one picul (133£ lb.), in which form they are exported.

Main areas The main cassia producing areas are situated on or near the mountainous border between Kwangsi and Kwangtung. Trees growing at the lower altitudes yield a relatively thick, coarse bark, somewhat deficient in flavour, containing 1.0 to 1.2 per cent, of volatile oil. This type of bark, the trade in which is centred on Lukpo, is sent to Canton, and forms the ordinary “cassia lignea” of commerce. Being brittle, much of it is broken in course of preparation for the market; it is, therefore, sold in three grades—whole quills, known as “China rolls” or “Canton rolls”, “selected broken” and “extra selected broken”.

The better qualities are obtained from trees growing at high altitudes.

They are thinner, darker and of better flavour, having higher content of volatile oil (up to 215 per cent).

Three grades of whole quills, or “Kwangsi rolls”, are sold thin, medium and thick.

Finest The finest cassias, which are much in demand in the US, are produced in the district of Tung King, in the extreme south of Kwangsi, near the Tonking border. These cassias are marketed as “Yunnan rolls”—thin, medium and thick—and as Yunnan broken cassia. One expert calculates that the volatile oil content of Yunnan cassia varies from 2.0 to 2.75 per cent, in the rolls and from 2.0 to 2.25 per cent, in the broken grade.

The refractive index of the oil varies from 1.58 to 1.602.

Cassia “buds” and seeds required for propagation are obtained from trees which have not been coppiced, but allowed to grow on for 10 years or more. The “buds” are not true buds but are the immature fruits together with the cup-shaped calyx into which the fruit is deeply set, and a short, slender stem.

When dried they are greyish-brown in colour, the fruit smooth and the calyx hard and wrinkled; they have a faint cinnamon-like odour, and a warm, sweet and pungent flavour.

Cassia buds are exported mainly to the US, Germany and Russia.

The twigs bearing the fruits are used by the Chinese as a remedy for fever, and the seeds are taken steeped in wine or eaten with betel-nut. The very thick bark obtained from such 143 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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hese trees as can be spared is not 3rted but is used in China, where is highly valued as a materia Uca. assia oil ; Distillation of this oil, main constituent of which is amic aldehyde, is a cottage istry. The distillation material, listing principally of the twigs leaves cut from the shoots used bark production, is usually stored 1 required, or dried and sold to ill-owner. It consists of about 70 cent. leaves and 30 per cent, s. he stills, which are set up on the ides close to streams from which r can be piped, are made locally consist of a cylindrical body of ;nt and wood or tinned metal, base being a shallow cast-iron ng-pan.

Slowly ie still is charged with one picul 2 lb.) of leaves and twigs and 2\ s of water, and heated by means fire, using as fuel cassia wood which the bark has been rejd. Distillation is carried out ly to prevent the loss of vapours igh the loose fitting joints of the and condenser, and lasts three s or longer. ie mixture of oil and water ti collects on the underside of ondenser drains off into a trough ing round the inside of the head, which it is led away to the ator, the distillation waters being ned to the still and cohobated. e main trading centre for cassia s Wuchow, on the West River wangsi, close to the Kwangtung ;r. From here it is shipped down to Canton and Hong Kong, ssia oil exported from China is ally adulterated to a greater or extent with a mixture of rosin kerosene, sometimes with etic cinnamic aldehyde or a ire of this aldehyde and benzyl te. ur grades of a cassia oil are commonly exported from Hong ; the best quality, containing 95 per cent, of cinnamic aldecontains very little adulterant; ower qualities, containing 85 to ;r cent, and 80 to 85 per cent, lehyde, are prepared from pure >y adding suitable quantities of ture of equal parts of cassia oil, and kerosene. The fourth quality fs of cassia oil of 80 to 85 per aldehyde content, to which "tic cinnamic aldehyde has been to bring the total up to 90 to r cent.

Fiji may soon have own rice variety A new era in Fiji rice-growing was reached recently with the appointment of Mr. Alwyn Chan Choong as rice plant breeder for the Fiji Department of Agriculture. With two graduate officers (the other is Mrs. Suliana Siwatibau) now working towards the creation of new varieties of rice, Fiji may soon move into line with territories which tailor-make their own varieties to suit their own requirements.

It is slow, expensive work and it would be foolish to expect immediate results, but it is the basis from which real results can be achieved. The hope is that it will lead to selfsufficiency for Fiji in rice.

In a report in September, Mr. John Deering, information officer for the department, warned against expecting too much of good varieties which produce high yields in one type of environment.

He said that although the Philippines produced IRS variety, known as “miracle rice”, was undoubtedly a fine piece of work by rice breeders, the claims made for it tended to mislead those who didn’t realise that every variety of every crop has its preferences regarding climate, soil and cultural treatments.

IRS was introduced to Fiji in 1966 and while rather spectacular results— -2i tons to the acre—were achieved under experimental conditions at Dobuilevu in Ra earlier this year, another trial at Korovisilou in Serua resulted in a much less impressive yield of 14 cwts.

But not always In the case of Korovisilou, the variety was grown as transplanted wetland rice. Although the yield was still above the national average, it was of little interest to those seeking a big improvement.

In an identical trial at Vuci, Nausori, earlier this year, IRS pro- New seed introductions are grown under carefully regulated conditions in Fiji. Here young seedlings grow in simulated flood conditions. Photo: Rob Wright. 145 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968 tactical Planter

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The trend is to grow shorter strawed varieties which are stronger, with more woody stems capable of supporting a greater weight. The new variety FKI3S, released after extensive testing at Kornovia research station and other centres, is an example of this stronger variety. It is typical of the new varieties now being produced—any farmer who has grown a crop of the old New Guinea variety, with its problems of lodging, is well aware of the advantages, T »W 0 main C^OUpS Rice varieties fall into two main groups—those which pass from sowing to harvest in a fairly fixed number of days regardless of the time of year at which they’re planted, and those which flower and mature at a fixed date each year, whether they’ve been sown in the ground for eight months or three. The latter varieties are sensitive to the shortening period of daylight as the winter months approach, and, in Fiji, normally mature around the end of April, To increase yields, particularly from limited acreage, its obviously desirable to try to grow two crops a year. This is quite feasible, since most good varieties take only four or five months to mature—and it is especially so if soil moisture can be controlled to allow planting whenever the farmer chooses, This need has led to the developand long strawed varieties of rice, caged against bird damage, being grown in Fiji. Photo: Rob Wright. 147 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER. 1968 Practical Planter

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Officially, attractive Betty id’s job is “assistant to the ager”, but to the thousands of tiers to American Samoa’s new d station WUV she is the tery’s Number One disc jockey. of five Samoan employees at V (“We love to listen to WUV,” oan children say), Betty anices most records on WUV. She at Fagaalu village, Tutuila, not from WUV’s smart new recording re near Leone. Her boss, State- • Vern Williams, often records oan singsongs for broadcasting WUV. He arrived in Pago Pago er this year on a one-year conwith the Government of Ameri- Samoa.

Mr. Manasa Koroi Vatuloka, a jar-old Fijian schoolteacher, was itly presented with the Mountin Medal by the Governor of Sir Derek Jakeway, for rescuing idian woman and two girls from ming. Vatuloka swam through dy water in a Fiji river to find i. They were unconscious but revived by artificial respiration.

Mountbatten Medal is awarded ic Royal Life Saving Society for •est rescue of the year—anywhere lie world—by a qualified life- American Samoa’s police chief, f Tu’ufuli, has plenty of problems (Continued from p. 116) IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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"tv lJd Mid.„ a^ eS r Pt £ Ltd '' * abaul j A.S.P. (N.G.) Ltd.; Lae, New Guinea Industries urn" 9, C -. Sl n av ?. ay; M* 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. ;se days with small burglaries on increase around Pago Pago and eral road fatalities already this ir. But perhaps his major headle is coping with Tutuila’s spirall number of buses. He told PIM ently that were too many buses tund (about 75) for the number would-be passengers. The Samoanned and run buses, many nothing re than rebuilt utilities, sometimes 1 up chasing pedestrians along the ds to win a new customer, he said, j solution? “Well, Pago Pago is ig and deep bay,” he said. » Mr. H. H. Hendon, managing ctor of Fiji Enterprises Pty. Ltd., le a recent business trip to Fiji examine latest trends in tourism, is reported to be interested in :ing hotel investments in the my. Fiji Enterprises operates an and Centre” in Spit Road, ;man, a Sydney suburb. The centre tides a Fiji Restaurant. i Viliame Liga, holder of the Fiji lin record of 236 i ft, is the ny’s sole representative at the mpic Games in Mexico City. He previously represented Fiji at one iipic and two Commonwealth les.

Mr, Rudy Ritcher, the Pago a Intercontinental Hotel’s popular ager, is a sailing enthusiast and never he has a spare moment ich isn’t often these days with ness better than ever) he nips n the hotel’s tiny skiff. The skiff, :h is also available to hotel ts, is housed near the hotel’s 1 private beach. Mr. Ritcher tells le time, when unpredictable winds led him halfway across Pago ) Bay. Ever since, he has been in labit of warning would-be sailors it Pago’s winds.

Nimilote Verebasaga, an en- :r with Fiji Airways, has become first local employee to obtain a licence in aircraft maintenance leering. Nimilote, who comes Nunivaivai Village at Tailevu, n engineering when he was 17 was in charge of maintaining merating plant at the Fulton ionary College. He joined Fiji ays in 1953 and recently passed British Air Registration Board 748 airframe licence examinaconducted by the Department transport and Civil Aviation, He and two other Fiji Airways mtices —R. Southey and A. dale —will attend the Hawker “ley Aviation Technical School lanchester, England, and afters a course with Rolls-Royce.

I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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Phone: 56-3926 (Hon. Secretary).

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From their headquarters in Suva Millers are constantly shipping to islands in the Pacific, items of furniture ranging from expertly - sewn cushions to luxurious lounge suites. Convertible divans, cupboard units . . . whatever you require can be made to order by Millers' experienced craftsmen. And don't forget MILLERS stock a delightful range of Fijian raintree in tables, trays, bowls and novelties.

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And this amazing new gland and vigour restorer, called Vi- Stim, has been tested and proved by thousands in America, and is now available at all chemists here. Get Vi-Stim from your chemist to-day. Put it to the test. See the big improvement in 24 hours. Take the full bottle under the guarantee that it must make you full of vim, vigour and energy, and feel 10 to 20 years younger, or money back.

Vi-Stim To restore I Vim and L Vigour 154 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Rid Kidneys of Poisons&Acids If you suffer from Rheumatism, Sleepless Nights, Leg Pains, Backache, Lumbago, Nervousness, Headaches and Colds, Dizziness, Circles Under Eyes, Swollen Ankles, Loss of Appetite or Energy, you should know that your system Is being poisoned because germs are impairing the vital process of your kidneys.

Ordinary medicines can’t help much, because you must kill the germs which cause these troubles, and blood can’t be pure till kidneys function normally.

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MENDACO works through the blood and bronchial tubes to dissolve and remove offending phlegm congestion. Then your :ough is curbed, you can breathe freely, sleep like a baby, ind regain natural energy.

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One of the best books published on Pacific shells Walter O. Cernohorsky's

Marine Shells Of The Pacific

Fine plates of all shells described; numerous diagrams; over 240 pages.

PRICE: Australia and P-NG, $6.50 Aust., plus 17c posted; Pacific Islands and overseas countries, $6.50, plus 49c posted; USA. $B.OO U.S. posted.

Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd 29 Alberta Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000, Australia. (Postal address: Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., 2001, Australia.) 155 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

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ALL ENQUIRIES DIRECT OR SEE YOUR LOCAL CRAMMOND AGENT 156 NOVEMBER 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L.

Classified Advertisements Per line, 75c Aust.; Minimum rate. 4 lines.

Stamps Cr Coins

SH PAID FOR STAMPS. Collections, umulations. On-paper Used Stamps, ised Stamps. Or First Day Covers, d stamps or detailed list with price Hired. John Laredo, Box 46, Milson’s nt, N.S.W., 2061.

P Prices Paid For Island

IMPS. Current Issues, old accumulations ed or unused), covers, collections, en Seas Stamps Pty. Ltd,, Sterling set, Dubbo, N.S.W., 2830, Aust.

IMP COLLECTORS. Send 5c stamp for ;age and receive free bargain bulletin Bxclting stamp offers. Interpbil (Q’ld), Queen St., Brisbane, Q’ld. 4000.

SLEY FIRST DAY COVERS from tralia and Pacific Islands. Sent to abers at special rates. Join by senda few dollars to Wesley Cover Service, 46, Milson’s Point, N.S.W., 2061.

Ist your Account is in credit, all new es are sent. Don’t delay send today, ley Cover Service, Box 46, Milson’s it, N.S.W.

PROFESSIONAL iLTH MANAGEMENT SERVICES offerspecialised consultation to those with ronmental management problems, d Smith, Palm Cove, P.O. via Cairns, jnsland, 4870, Australia.

Pen Friends

[E NEW FRIENDS all over the world aining our unique correspondence club being formed. Send for free member- Arthur Ward’s Correspondence , P.O. Box 189, Marrickville, N.S.W., , Australia.

Trade Enquiries

L ORDER. Whatever you might want Hong Kong (Photographic and Cine pment, Transistor Radios. Household iances, Chinese Brocades, Plastic ers. Cultured Pearls, etc.) we can ly you. Right prices and personal assured. Please write us for atlons. Filmo Depot Ltd., 313 Marina e, Hong Kong. Established In Hong r since 1936.

ORT garments, footwear, cloth, s, rainwear, watches, wood/cane ture, brilliantine. Import fungus, lest, sharkfin, shell. Johnson Young Box 423, Hong Kong.

Agents Required

all the Pacific Islands to obtain for supplies of used postage stamps )m commercial firms. No knowledge, perience or capital is needed and we y really high rates of commission, ite for further details to; fERS STAMPS LTD., 21 Clifton Grove, irehills, Leeds 9, Yorkshire, England.

BOOKS, MAGAZINES, ETC.

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited. Berkelouw, 114 King St., Sydney. 2000. Telephone: 28-7874.

LARGEST PAPERBACK bookshop In Australasia. Send for list of bargain hardbooks, prints and drawings. Abbey’s Bookshop, 115 Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W., 2000, Australia.

ACCOMMODATION SUN, SURF, HOLIDAY. New 8 storey luxury home units. Ocean front, one block from shops, large pool, full service optional, covered car park, elevator, realistic tariffs. Sahara Court, Surfers Paradise, Q’ld., 4217.

WANTED WANTED. Leading Australian buyers are interested in; battery lead scrap, lead scrap, remelt lead ingots. Please offer to: Berjak & Partners, 424 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004, Vic., Aust.

Land Wanted

Large Tract Of Freehold Land

in Melanesia or Polynesia. Fiji preferred. Can pay cash.

Please write: "MPL", c/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, 2000, Australia.

Positions Wanted

HOTELIER & CATERER with ocean going experience as Passenger Liner Chief Catering Officer, also Hotel, Guest House and Oil Rig Manager in Nigeria, seeks similar position in Pacific Islands or mainland. Have run personnel and purchasing depts. in catering group, and trained kitchen and restaurant staff.

Hold regular and higher grade cookery diplomas. Airmail to John Sutherland, The Cabin, Greenisland, Belfast, North Ireland.

EXPERIENCED Marine Radio Officer (first-class certificate), Astro-Navigation Qualifications, seeks combined deck and radio duties, long voyages. Navigation Services, Box 2145 T, Melbourne, Vic., 3001.

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FOR SALE “TARKARRI”. 110 ft X 20 ft X 8 ft, just completed, full refit. Kauri pine planking on sawn blue gum frames. New BL3B Gardner 200 h.p., range 3,000 miles, engine raom and deckhouse aft, skipper and passenger acc. on deck, crew in foc’sle, cargo 200 tons, fitted for abalone fishing with all gear for three divers, easy converted to cargo. Owing to 25% reduction in price of abalone this vessel can no longer operate at a profit. Price: $A55,000. Contact: Bern Cuthbertson, 8 Esplanade, Lindisfarne, Tasmania, 7015, Aust.

CONCRETE BLOCK MACHINE. Makes blocks, flags, edgings, screen-blocks, garden stools —up to 8 at once and 96 an hour.

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FLEETS. 42 ft carvel workboat, professionally built 1962, 120 h.p. Caterpillar marine diesel, 4:1 reduction, approx. 300 cu. ft freezer space, 2 way radio, sounder. $14,000. Fleets, Rowe’s Bldg., Edward St., Brisbane. Cable: Fleets, Brisbane.

"Samoan Songs Of Love And

DANCING", 33-1/3 LP record containing 14 of the most melodic Samoan songs— recorded in Apia. £2/10/- Samoan currency, post paid. Samoa Records, P.O.

Box 139, Apia, Western Samoa.

OPAL PENDANTS. Solid milky opal, flashing colours, set with r. gold or silver neck chain and clasp, in box, $9 Aust.

Send money order (plus $2.25 sales tax if in Aust.). K. Shells, 36 Tramway Pde., Beaumaris, 3193, Aust.

BODEN’S BOAT DESIGNS. The well known Naval Architect, Cecil E. Boden. has compiled two excellent Boatbuilding Books for the amateur builder. One is a manual on Boatbuilding, the other a Design Book describing and pricing over one hundred boats to build. These books can be yours for $3.50 including surface mail postage, plus $1 for airmail. 695 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W., 2000, Aust.

LAND FOR SALE RABAUL Tenders are invited for purchase of Freehold Land situated opposite Queen Elizabeth Park. Frontage approximately 250 ft. x 100 ft. to Casuarina Avenue between Park and Kamerere Streets. Suitable for residential development. Highest Tender not necessarily accepted.

Address enquiries to: RABAUL TRADING CO.

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C I F I C Islands Monthly November, 1968

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■ II TAHITI: Ets Bredin Freres, Papeete.

PAPUA; Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby.

SOLOMON ISLANDS; Solomon Motors Ltd., Honiara.

NEW HEBRIDES; Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd., Sydney.

FIJI: Niranjan's Auto Port, Suva and Lautoka.

NEW CALEDONIA: Marine Agricole Electrique, Noumea.

NEW GUINEA; N.G.G. Trading Co., Lae.

Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Rabaul.

New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Wau.

Wewak Engineers, Wewak.

Govt. Council, Mt. Hagen.

H2253/E/ 158 NOVEMBER, 1968 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Health Management

SERVICES Under the direction of Lloyd Smith, C.S.I. (C) L.M.R.S.H., Palm Cove P. 0., via Cairns, Queensland, 4870.

Are you satisfied with the sanitation of the area under your control?

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT SERVICES provide consultation services to individuals, companies, and communities and issue certificates of approval to those complying with our scientifically based health protection standards.

Staffed only by specialised personnel qualified to help you recognise and remove hazards to health and safety.

Enquiries are invited. They will be treated in confidence and without obligation. Write Lloyd Smith, Palm Cove P. 0., via Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia.

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We deal direct with manufacturers and save you "middle-man" extras.

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Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. Donald W. Chambers Ir. Donald W. Chambers, who lived in Rarotonga for the last years, died there on September aged 79. l native of Yorkshire, England, Chambers spent his working life Rdia before retiring in 1937 and ig to the Cook Islands. He blished the first Boy’s Club in Cook Islands, using his own ley to do so. The club flourished 1 village cinema shows were >duced, then membership began Iwindle. [r. Chambers was interested in 1 music and bought musical uments for local youths to fise on. His house at Black Rock always open to young people, was a foundation member of the otonga Bowling Club and its secry for many years until ill health ?ed him to resign. He was also ;en botanist and stamp collector represented the Church of land, co-ordinating the visits of lican clergymen, r. Chambers is survived by an r brother.

Robati Sema obati Sema, the oldest retired or in the Cook Islands, died on ember 16 at Rakahanga aged 80. xactly 56 years before, he entered amoa Theological College. In 1, he became pastor for the London Missionary Society at Titikaveka and he was later pastor and schoolteacher at Rakahanga and Manihiki. Pastor Sema became Nikao’s first pastor in 1937 and in that year he laid the foundation stone for the present Nikao church.

After terms at Rarotonga and Mangaia he retired in 1950, at the end of 33 years’ service.

Robati is survived by his widow, 10 children, 69 grandchildren, 42 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

Mr. Phillip L. James Mr, Phillip Lyndon James, a prominent company director and community worker in Rabaul, New Britain, died in Brisbane recently. He was 55.

When Mr. James arrived in the territory with his wife, Hulda, in 1949, he worked for the Rabaul power station. After three years he formed a business which operated agency lines, building prefabrication and a plantation.

Mr. James studied at Perth University Science Faculty, where he was a brilliant student (he obtained an honours degree) and an outstanding athlete.

In Rabaul, he was prominent in sporting circles, and was one of the prime movers behind th e town’s swimming club.

Mr. James is survived by his widow and four daughters. 159 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

The Babcock Desalinator

If you require fresh water from salt or brackish water U Babcock Desalinator is the answer. It is a compact package unit able to produce its own weight of high quality fresh wab every hour for special process work, domestic purposes ar drinking.

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Three sizes of units are available at present, with outputs varyir from 4 to 35 tons per day. All are suitable for both land ar marine use. The dimensions of the smallest unit are: 38" lor x 18" wide x 48" high and the largest, 80" long x 37" wide 72" high.

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BRAND NEW ■J V) 2.5 h.p.

OUTBOARD MOTOR 120 d»y» or 12.000 miles full GUARANTEE Whichever comes 7 Freight $4.50. Brand new 1968 "T.A.S., T.S." outboard motors.

Powerful enough to push a 12 ft boat at 10 m.p.h. Low fuel consumption, uses 1 pint per hour (travel for 10 miles for sc).

Sturdily constructed, thoroughly reliable. Has recoil starter, air cleaner, chrome molybdenum crankshaft and con rod. Spares will be available for years to come.

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lead Office: PORT MORESBY/PAPUACabIe:BURPHIL agents for Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds Distributors Pty. Ltd.

Shell Company (Pacific Islands) Ltd. overseas agents Burns Philp & Co., all Australian States Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London Burns Philp Co. of San Francisco Inc.

Trade Inquiries Invited

shipping agents for Austasia Line Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

Cogedar Line Campagnie Des Messageries Maritimes Chandris Line Cunard Steamships Co. Ltd.

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail P.&O. Orient Line Royal Rotterdam Lloyd The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

Union Steamship Co. of N.Z. 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 m distributorships include Beresford Pumps Briggs & Stratton Engines British Paints Buckingham and Carnatic Textiles Citizen Watches “Cecoco” Machinery Conditionaire Air Curtain Doors Hardie's Building Products 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 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: Rabaul, Kokopo, Kavieng, Lae, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Wau, Bulolo, Kainantu and Mt. Hagen B R BURNS PHILP (NewGuinea)LTD.

J Head Office Port Moresby Telex PM 116 Telegrams all centres Burphil CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968

Wj.Carpenterbco.Itd

GENE & * \ == A |NOV RC HANTS For more than 50 years the W. TTTarpenter Group has brought progress and service to the Pacific Islands—as wholesalers and retailers; as buyers of island produce such as copra, coffee and cocoa beans; and by creating industries and facilities which have contributed to the economic development of the area.

The Group is a buyer of merchandise from world markets, and holds many valuable agencies. These include

• Electrolux • Nissan/Datsun • Dewars Whisky

• Ford • Gordon'S Gin • Victa Mowers

• Evinrude Outboard Motors • Chrysler

Associated companies of tti Group in the Pacific Islanc include:

Papua/New Guinea

Island Products Limited New Guinea Company Limited Coconut Products Limited Boroko Motors Limited FIJI Carpenters Fiji Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom Limited Island Industries Limited Suva Motors Limited W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD HEAD OFFICE: 68 PITT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA CABLE ADDRESS: "CAMOHE"

TELEPHONE: 25-5421.

U.K. OFFICE: 22 PARK ST., CROYDON, CR9 3NP.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY NOVEMBER, 1968