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INSIDE • ALBERT WENDT ON MEACkFREEMAN Samoan poet and novelist Albert Wendt writes a warm but incisive review of Professor Derek Freeman’s book, Margaret Mead and Somoa The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth 10 • TALES OF GREAT PACIFIC ROWERS Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson write on the exploits of the “ordinary British eccentric” Peter Bird who is at present rowing from California to Australia, and use the occasion to recall an even more remarkable Pacific rower of the past, the Swedish-born New Zealand citizen, Anders Svedlund 27 • NASA JOINS SATELLITE RACE The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the USA has joined the race to become the main provider of satellite services to the Pacific Islands. Australian freelance journalist Liz Fell has the story 59 • THE PALAU TANGLE Floyd K. Takeuchi takes a sober look at the tangled scene that has emerged in Palau following the February plebiscite there... 23 • SUB-SEABED DUMPING OF RADIO-ACTIVE WASTE New Zealand scientist Dr G. P. Glasby examines research now under way in several countries on the techniques of dumping high-level radio-active waste under the seabed. The Pacific is the favored dumping ground, and Dr Glasby believes that “a Pacific voice” should be heard on the issue 15 • THE WHONSBON-ASTON PAPERS It’s a fond farewell to the Papua of the 1930 s in this month’s extract from the memoirs of the late Charles William Whonsbon-Aston, Anglican Archdeacon Emeritus of Polynesia 51 Cover picture: A friendly smile, a colorful head scarf and a decorative band of green leaves contribute to the charm of this month's cover picture which comes from New Caledonia.

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Marshalls To Ditch Compact?

The Republic of the Marshall Islands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs is “seriously considering abandonment of the draft Compact (of Free Association) which is deemed too technical and complicated for the people to understand,” says a March news release from the ministry. The ministry has drafted a new proposal to be presented to the U.S. for consideration after review and approval by the Marshall Islands Cabinet. The new proposal, says the release, is a shorter, cleaner document, devoid of the numerous details and technicalities of the original compact. It will assure the sovereignty of the republic and establish its relationship with the United States under a treaty arrangement. The new draft agreement calls for U.S. recognition of complete independence for the Marshalls with military rights in the Marshalls for the U.S and the right of the U.S. to deny military use or access to all other nations. It includes a provision banning the testing or disposal of nuclear weapons and chemical or biological weapons in the Marshall Islands and, except in certain emergency situations, it bans the storage of such weapons in the Marshalls. It also provides for continued U.S. military use of Marshallese territory, such as Kwajalein Atoll, subject to the terms of a separate agreement. The release adds that the negotiations between the Marshall Islands and the United States became deadlocked over an issue unique to the republic, the settlement of Marshallese claims for injuries and damages inflicted upon them in the U.S. nuclear-testing program in the Marshall Islands during the 1940 s and 19505. The Marshallese leaders no longer believe that this issue can be settled by negotiation, and their new proposal would leave the problem for judicial review in the U.S. Federal Courts.

Fsm Plebiscite In June

The Federated States of Micronesia and the United States as administrators of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands have agreed that the plebiscite on the Compact of Free Association shall be held on June 21. The people of the four partners in the federation, Truk, Ponape, Kosrae and Yap, will vote on their future relationship with the United States. If the compact, which will govern the relationship between self-governing FSM in free association with the U.S., is rejected, voters will have the choice of independence or some form of continuing relationship with the U.S.

Png To Become Republic?

The final report of the Papua New Guinea General Constitutional Commission, tabled in Parliament in March, recommends that PNG should become a republic with a president. The Queen would no longer be Head of State but the country would remain a member of the Commonwealth. The report said the proposal to cut ties with the British Crown was based on submissions from the public. The president would have powers to dissolve Parliament and future national governments should be removed from office if they did not follow the national goals and directive principles set out in the constitution.

Leremia Tabai Back As Kiribati President

President of Kiribati until the government resigned on a “noconfidence” vote in December, leremia Tabai has been reelected on a national vote for a third and final term of four years. President Tabai received 49.6 per cent of the votes, 21.9 per cent more than his nearest rival, medical practitioner and new MP Dr Harry Tong. The new government is almost sure to be little changed from the last one. Teato Teannaki is again the Vice-President; Matita Taniera has been re-elected Speaker and seven of the ministers in the last Cabinet retained their seats in the general elections in January.

“Peace Winds” Slam Moruroa

France's nuclear testing site of Moruroa Atoll was hit by Cyclone Drama on February 27. It was the second time in a month that the atoll had been struck by a cyclone (PIM Mar p3l). On February 26, 500 Polynesians had gathered in Papeete for what wes called a Bikini Day rally, commemorating the disaster of March 1, 1954, in which a radio-active cloud from a 15-megaton H-bomb test staged by the U.S. spread to inhabited Micronesian islands. The Papeete rally was organised by the Puhi Hau peace committee. Puhi Hau can be translated as “Peace Wind” and to many deeply religious Polynesians the cyclones that have twice devastated Moruroa in recent weeks were divine “peace winds”. Resolutions adopted at the rally were addressed to French President Mitterrand and the Vice-President of French Polynesia’s Government Council, Gaston Flosse. They called on President Mitterrand to: work for disarmament and the abolition of nuclear weapons, respect the desire expressed repeatedly by French Polynesia’s Territorial Assembly for an end to nuclear testing in the territory, make public the full facts about the Moruroa tests, and publish all the studies that armed forces doctors claim to have made since 1966 on the medical consequences of nuclear testing. The resolution also asked the president when the nuclear wastes were to be cleared off Moruroa Atoll, when the poisoned Mangareva lagoon was to be cleaned up, and when the scientific team promised several months before by the government emissary Haroun Tazieff was going to arrive to make its “detailed study” of the Moruroa Atoll.

Of Gaston Flosse the rally demanded that he act on his own resolution of December 21, 1981, for the setting up of an impartial committee of inquiry into nuclear testing, and the establishment of a permananent territorial radio-biological laboratory. Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson.

France Denies Vanuatu Claim On Islands

French Defence Minister Charles Hernu in March denied that a party from Vanuatu had landed on the uninhabited islands of Matthew and Hunter which are in dispute between France and Vanuatu. Earlier, Port-Vila reports had claimed that a group of people from Vanuatu had raised the Vanuatu flag on the islands.

Mr Hernu said that the French patrol vessel La Dunkerquoise had noticed a Vanuatu yacht in the vicinity of the islands. But, he said, the yacht had departed without “entering New Caledonian waters”.

Vanuatu Orders Journalist Out

The Vanuatu Government in March ordered the deportation of English-born journalist Christine Coombe who runs the weekly Voice of Vanuatu, the country’s only non-government newspaper. Ms Coombe, who also writes for PIM, was given 14 days to leave the country in a letter from Home Affairs Minister Sela Molisa. The letter declared her an “undesirable person”, but gave no reasons. Ms Coombe is reported by Radio Australia as saying that the reason for her deportation is that her paper has carried a number of reports that could have embarrassed Prime Minister Walter Lini. The paper has reported an impending legal action against the prime minister and the government in relation to an international loan he is said to have negotiated for Vanuatu.

Nz, Png, Fiji, React To Soz Devaluation

A March devaluation of the Australian dollar by 10 per cent prompted New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji also to devalue their currencies. Under the new exchange rate, the Australian dollar was worth UScB5.5. Australia’s new Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, said the devaluation was necessary because of a recent huge capital outflow from Australia. He said the move would enable local industries to compete more effectively against imports, and encourage export industries to make maximum use of any world economic recovery. The Australian devaluation was the first big adjustment to Australia’s exchange rate since November 1976. New Zealand devalued its dollar by six per cent, which the Prime Minister, Mr Muldoon, described as “a confounded nuisance”. Australia is New Zealand’s biggest trading partner. PNG announced that its basic currency unit, the kina, would be devalued by five and a half per cent against a range of currencies. About 30 per cent of Papua New Guinea’s total budget is made up of Australian aid, and the devaluation of the kina has avoided a huge gap in the budget.

Fiji devalued its dollar by two-and-three-quarters per cent.

Government finance officials in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands were reported to be still considering how their countries would be affected by the Australian devaluation. Before the devaluation, the exchange rate for Vanuatu’s money was 90 vatu to the Australian dollar. The rate later became 81 vatu. The Solomon Islands dollar had been falling in value, and was worth about the same as the devalued Australian dollar. 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

Solomons Minister Freed Amid Protests

In Solomon Islands the release in March of a government minister from prison after serving only a month of a three-month sentence has caused a storm of protest. The Minister for Telecommunications, John Ngina, was jailed in February after being found guilty of causing another man bodily harm, and was released in February after appealing to the Committee of Mercy.

All the committee said publicly was that Mr Ngina was freed on welfare grounds. But the parliamentary opposition attacked the decision as an irresponsible act of favoritism. The opposition said that unless the reasons for the release were better explained, the public could only decide that Mr Ngina was freed because he was a minister. Other prisoners at the central jail in Honiara went on strike in protest. They refused to do any work, and a prison spokesman said they will be charged with not obeying lawful orders.

Png Public Service Union Leaders Sacked

Most of the executive members of Papua New Guinea’s Public Employees Association have lost their jobs with the government because of a February strike by several hundred public servants. The executive had called the strike in protest at the government’s two-wage structure under which foreign contract workers are paid more than local servants. Before the strike began, the government warned that it was illegal and that anybody who failed to work would be sacked. Most public servants ignored the strike, but the government compiled a list of several hundred who failed to report for work. Their jobs were to be advertised. Among these were the jobs held by members of the executive of the Public Employees Association.

Fiji To Check Ships For African Snail

Fiji quarantine authorities in future will check all container ships passing through areas infested with the giant African snail, which causes widespread environmental damage. In an effort to protect Fiji from the pest, all container ships calling at New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Western Samoa and American Samoa will be checked on arrival in Fiji. The checks which are to continue indefinitely, follow the discovery of 22 of the snails in Fiji in February. Fiji authorities believe the snails were brought into the country on a ship which called at Vanuatu.

Chemical Dump For Johnston Atoll

The US Army plans to build a multi-million dollar chemical disposal facility on Johnston Atoll, an isolated strategic military base 717 nautical miles south-west of Honolulu.

Nauru Seeks “Home” In Philippines

Nauru began a search in March in the Philippines for a home island ” The Nauruans have been told by their President, Chief Hammer Deßoburt, that an approach was made to Philippines President Marcos for an “island in the Philippines which could be utilised as a home island along with Nauru. President Deßoburt said Nauru had been told that four islands, any one of which would be suitable for their needs, were available Nauru is about 4500 km from the southernmost islands of the Philippines.

Presumably, Nauru’s president is looking for a holiday island tor

Now E Palau Gets British Power Plant

Negotiations have been completed for the building in Palau of a new power station by Ipesco International Power Systems, or London. A complex financial package, negotiated over nearly 12 months, will provide funds for the new power plant and also tne first international loan contracted by Palau in its own right.

Guarantors of the loan package are the British Government and five international banks, the Morgan Grenfell, the Morgan Guarantee Trust of New York, the Bank of Tokyo the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Scotland. The funds are being provided by the Westminster Bank, of London. The amount ot the loan has not been divulged. The new power station will eventually satisfy all Palau’s power requirements including he whole Babeldaob (Babelthuap) area where the new Palau capital will be sited and will also include a fuel storage facility which, through the resale of fuel, will provide funds for servicing the loans and operating the plant. Ipseco and the republic will jointly manage the power station for 10 years with pseco supplying the senior management team. Construction will begin in two months. The new power station will be similar to one by Ipseco in the Marshal Islands.

Sp Breweries Swallows San Mig

Papua New Guinea’s South Pacific Breweries, a subsidiary of the big European firm Heineken, has taken over its rival, San Miguel, subsidiary of San Miguel of the Philippines, paying $A1.37 million for more than 90 per cent of the shares. Both companies lost money in a beer price war last year which cut the price in Port Moresby by nearly a third. San Miguel never made a profit in PNG.

Call For Islands Commonwealth Centre

Fiji’s Minister for Education, Dr Ahmed Ali, has called for the establishment of a Commonwealth-sponsored centre catering specifically for Island states in the South Pacific. Dr Ali said an Asia-Pacific centre already operated in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. But the needs of Island states differed considerably from those of the large metropolitan countries and the region should have its own facilities. Dr Ali made his call in Suva in March when opening a course for youth workers from Pacific Island countries. The course, organised by the Commonwealth Youth Program, aims at developing the skills of youth workers and was attended by representatives from Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Nauru and Fiji. _

New Home For New Caledonia’S Unions

Union organisations in New Caledonia in February moved into their new headquarters building in Noumea. The building called Union House was built with funds provided by the territorial government.

Png Says Farewell To Kumul I

The Papua New Guinea Government’s controversial VIP jet, Kumul I, left the country for the last time in March. The jet was bought by the former Prime Minister, Sir Julius Chan, in early 1981 for about $7 million. The new PM, Michael Somare, made the jet an issue in last year’s election campaign, and promised to < sell it if elected. Kumul I left Port Moresby for Denmark, where it: will be sold.

Leadership Code In Action In Png

The chairman of the Papua New Guinea section of the!

Australian company Burns Philp has resigned after being told to( do so by the PNG Ombudsman. Mekere Morauta joined Burns?

Philp late last year, after leaving the PNG’s Governments? finance department. Mr Morauta was secretary for finance fon about eight years, and one of the first Papua New Guineans toe head a government department. Under the country s stnett leadership code, heads of government departments may nott become directors of private companies for at least three yearss after leaving government service. Mr Morauta asked the Uhietr Ombudsman, Ignatius Kilage, not to enforce the ban in his case,.; but the Ombudsman stood firm. Mr Kilage praised Mr Morautas for following the rule and resigning.

Islanders Talk Of Volunteers Scheme

A conference on regional co-operation ini the Pacificheldl in Western Samoa has discussed the possibility of establishing o volunteer organisation for the region. Under the scheme, Pacific Islanders would volunteer their services to help people ano governments in other Pacific countries. The conference waj sponsored by the Hawaii-based Pacific Islands Developmenr Program and the University of the South Pacific, Suva.

“Fighting Zone’’ In Bougainville?

The Premier of Papua New Guinea’s North Solomons Province: Leo Hannett, warned in March that the Bum area of south Bougainville might be declared a fighting zone. Fighting zone are regularly declared in the troubted highlands < pf I PNG but noo in any of the country’s five island provinces. Thedeclaration< gave police extra powers to curb lawlessness. Mr Hannett. warning followed the ransacking of the Bum provinciall hig«£ school and other trouble in the area. A I Radio Australia coires oondent in Rabaul said the unrest m Bum began m Fobruari when people demonstrated against the national government nomination of a Bougainvillian public servant, Leo Morgan, to open a building at Buin, instead of the MP for North Solomonsi Father John Momis. 6 Pacific Report

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LETTERS Sad fate of Eita’s M'aneaba The M’aneaba in Eita Village, South Tarawa, where Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip were officially received as guests of Kiribati in October 1982, collapsed under its own weight on Sunday February 13, three months and 19 days after the illustrious Royal occasion.

Eita is the place where distinguished visitors to Tarawa are traditionally received. The Queen and her husband, the Duke, were by far the most distinguished visitors yet to come to Kiribati so the old M’aneaba was not considered a fitting abode for them. Even for half an hour. A new M’aneaba had to be built.

Coconut and pandanus trees were felled and sennit string rolled by all the able-bodied men and women of Eita. A new, bigger, wider, longer, taller M’aneaba sprung up with the speed of light. An old man from the village told me they were going to put in some boutabu (centre pillars) but never got round to it after the Royal visit.

He said the freshly cut wood, shrinking as it dried, may have loosened the lashings and the heavy rains on the previous Saturday, the first downpour in the New Year, may have put extra strain on the already weakened structure. At one o’clock on Sunday morning the village was awakened by the thunderous sounds of cracking timber and snapping sennit twine.

The M’aneaba in Kiribati tradition is the centre of community life. It is the free hotel for travellers, the sanctuary in tribal wars, the court room, the meeting house and the place for executions in the days of old. No one was injured.

Billy Schultz

Tarawa Kiribati Sorry, you two Tonys Your article (PIM Jan p!7) on the “new wave” of interest in the Pacific region in New York City, written by Caroline Yacoe, was quite interesting and informative.

The new Michael Rockefeller wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Pacific collections and film festivals of the nearby American Museum of Natural History have transformed NY’s Central Park into the only marae in the Western Hemisphere (winter blizzards notwithstanding!).

However, I must point out one unfortunate error in the text of the article. The Australian anthropologist who assisted the Gogodala of Papua New Guinea in their “cultural revival” is named Tony Crawford, not Tony Curtis. Mr Curtis, an American, has played a number of roles in his film career, but never to my knowledge an anthropologist!

James A. Baldwin

Indiana University Indianapolis USA The error, we believe, was that of a film-struck type-setter PIM.

Samoa’s divided families From 1850 until 1899, the Samoan islands, an ethnic unit, were entangled and divided arbitrarily and without Samoan representation by Western nations (England, Germany and the United States).

As a result, in 1899, our islands were divided into two unnatural political entities. Eastern Samoa, now called American Samoa, was acquired as a possession by the United States.

Western Samoa was administered by the Germans until it became a mandated territory of New Zealand in World War I, and an independent nation in 1962.

The notion of possible reunion was unsuccessfully dealt with by our Samoan governments just before Western Samoa became independent. However, I personally believe that, without US concern, if any, American Samoa would continue to refrain from unification. American Samoa is now solely and economically dependent upon federal funds from the US. They assume that a merger with Western Samoa could mean a loss of this economic support; however, this is unlikey, because of the importance of this strategic location for the United States. In view of this, uniting the Samoas is to a great extent dependent upon the US Government.

Moreover, because of colonial influence, our islands have not only been divided in two politically, but unnatural relations have arisen between them as well. For instance, shortly after Western Samoa became independent, it became law that Western Samoans had to be residents in American Samoa at least five years before they could obtain employment. In response, Western Samoans have been creating and tightening up their immigration rules and regulations aimed at American Samoans. It may be hoped that the humanitarian American Government would take action to alleviate this important problem for our people.

Since Western Samoa became independent, our governments’ lack of amicable relationship has primarily affected our families.

For instance, in my own family, my father moved to American Samoa in 1959 for contractual employment. For a while, he lived with his aunt who was married to an American Samoan chief, namely, Ifopo, in the village of Fagatogo. In 1961, my mother, with some of my young brothers and sisters, moved to American Samoa. Some are still in Western Samoa, but most are now living in American Samoa.

In all, there are 14 brothers and sisters, seven of whom were born in American Samoa and seven in Western Samoa.

Those born in American Samoa have the advantage of free medical and dental care, free access to the continental United States, free education, and freedom from legal entanglement, whereas those bom in Western Samoa are considered aliens and, therefore, have to pay for medical and dental care. They are without free access to the US; they cannot attend the community college which was established in American Samoa in 1971, since the school is federally funded. They are sporadically threatened with deportation and have to be residents in American Samoa five years before obtaining employment, among other inequities. Since there is no legal mechanism existent in American Samoa to change this status from aliens to US nationals or citizens, they continue to feel humiliated within their own family.

A people with a common heritage, whom the US divided, ought to be united and assisted together again not only by the Samoan Governments but by the American Government as well.

Falani A. Peters

Seattle Washington USA Kiribati report criticised Your comment in the January issue of PIM (Political Currents: Kiribati Government Ousted) is tendentious and misleading. I shall be obliged if you will print this letter in your next issue. It sets out the facts and refrains from comment.

The 1982 Kiribati Budget, which was passed by Parliament, contained, in its Introduction, the following statement: the Budget “allows for a 5 per cent salary increase across the board for the Public Service”. The Budget includes salary provision for certain statutory office-holders whose salaries are contained in the Schedule to the Statutory Offices Salaries Act. Unfortunately at the time the 1982 Budget was passed the necessity to amend the Schedule to that Act was overlooked: nevertheless the money had been voted.

A Bill to amend the Act was introduced at the 1983 Budget Meeting. It was this Bill which was defeated in Parliament. Its purpose was to give effect to the decision already taken in 1982 for a 5 per cent across the board salary increase so far as statutory office holders were concerned and in future to empower the President in Cabinet to amend the Schedule to the Act by Order whenever, and in the same proportion as, a salary increase was approved for the Public Service.

The provision of additional funds was not involved.

J.A. JONES Former Parliamentary Office Management Adviser Tarawa Kiribati 7 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

The Commonwealth Collection

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A Limited Edition album in commemoration of Commonwealth Day, March 14th 1983.

For the first time ever in the history of the Commonwealth —an official stamp collection reflecting the heritage of its member nations.

In terms of content the Commonwealth Collection has no equal.

Even the most dedicated philatelist will be unable to assemble this collection with all the important extras. It is undoubtedly a philatelic treasure which is certain to be highly sought after, now and in years to come.

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Three faces of Samoa: Mead’s, Freeman’s and Wendt’s ALBERT WENDT, Samoan poet and novelist, reviews Professor DEREK FREEMAN’S book Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth * Along the way he provides many insights into how Samoans, the “objects” of the study of such anthropologists as Mead and Freeman, feel about the whole business.

He writes of the media debate on Freeman’s work: . . once again, we, the ‘informants and objects’ of Mead’s and Freeman’s research, are being ignored.

The inferences in ignoring us are that: we don’t know enough about ourselves to contribute intelligently to the debate; in terms of selling newspapers the news is Freeman slogging it out with Mead, an American institution, not us, the ‘objects.’

And when we read and hear the learned pronouncements by foreign anthropologists, ‘specialists’ on us, in this debate, we are doubly convinced that they are continuing to earn their comfortable livings and enhancing their reputations by using us . .

But none of this prevents Albert Wendt from warmly welcoming Professor Freeman’s book, which he calls “the most important study of us made this century by a non-Samoan.”

Derek Freeman’s Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth * is, in my view, the most important study of us made this century by a non- Samoan. It is a devastating refutation of the most influential study of our society Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead, which was first published in 1928 and, appearing in 16 languages, became the bestselling of all anthropological works.

To review Freeman’s book is really to examine two contrasting visions of Samoa held by two non-Samoans who claim to know the truth about us. Because I am Samoan and a writer who, in fiction, has built up his own Samoa, I do feel strange (that’s the word, I think) commenting on the Samoas of Mead and Freeman.

Margaret Mead Everywhere: My first encounter with Margaret Mead’s Samoa was in 1958 when, as a student at Ardmore Teachers’ College, in New Zealand, I had to study Coming of Age in Samoa, in one of my education courses.

Self-love is a feature of all peoples. Even for a Samoan, the tendency to see one’s country through technicolor glasses is strong. And Mead’s alluring idyllic depiction of my country (especially her enticing account of free love) appealed to me more than greatly because I had just lived through five strict years of boarding school, and I wasn’t having much free love in the puritanical New Zealand of the 19505. (I'm positive that the instant worldwide popularity of Mead’s Samoa was due largely to her delectable portrayal of free love without guilt under the hugely swaying palms!) To me (and millions of other readers, particularly those living in cold climates) Mead’s Samoa offered other delicacies. Her Samoa was a place with little conflict, no disturbing passionate commitment to causes and other people, no fights to the death, no poverty or great disasters, no wrathful gods or cannibalism.

Life was unhurried, multipleparenting (a phrase used by my lecturer in Child Development) ensured that every child found parental love; the gifted were held back until their less gifted brethren caught up with them; Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. By Derek Freeman. Published 1983 jointly by Australian National University Press, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2600 and Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., USA. price $A25.00. ISBN O 7081 1271 4. 10 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

caring was slight, love and hate and jealousy and revenge and sorrow lasted only briefly; and because of the harmonious social environment adolescents did not undergo the painful turmoil associated with adolescence elsewhere. Our culture assured “the greatest degree of mental health in its members,” Margaret Mead persuaded me.

I too wanted to believe and wanted my unfortunate Kiwi friends to believe it too that I was from Mead’s paradise and was returning to it, promptly, gratefully, after I had survived the innumerable perils and diseases of papalagi society. So when my lecturer asked me, in class, what I thought of Mead’s views, and especially her conclusions about Samoan adolescence, I confessed that Mead’s Samoa was the genuine article. (I had no “solid anthropological evidence” to base my agreement on; I had spent my adolescent years in New Zealand and had suffered, with New Zealand adolescent boys, the often bewildering pain and stress that come with pubic hair and descending testicles!) Later, even before I left training college, when I started writing seriously about Samoa, I realised the Samoa I was creating out of my childhood storehouse of images and memories was one contrary to Mead’s attractive but superficial stereotyped paradise.

It is a Samoa with all the emotions, problems, hopes, and so on, common to all humanity. For over 20 years now, that is the Samoa I have been exploring, discovering, creating. And if I need non-Samoans to confirm the validity, the “truth”, of much of that Samoa then I can now turn to Derek Freeman and the younger anthropologists of the late 1970 s and ’Bos.

In my travels around the world I keep running into the formidable Margaret Mead everywhere.

To most non-Samoans, my country is Mead’s Samoa. Even when I point out to them the enormous errors in her book, most of them want to go on believing her.

Why?

A Yearning: People everywhere look to other cultures for cures for their own ills: the grass is greener elsewhere. We imagine others to be happier than us, that the inhabitants of sunny, exotic lands have fewer hangups, and enjoy emotionally healthier lives. This yearning for utopia/paradise seems more pronounced in industrialised societies (or in pre-industrial times, in the so-called “civilised world”). I’m sure there’s also much of this in why people want to be anthropologists studying “exotic” cultures.

Throughout history, the papalagi has searched for El Dorado and the Noble Savage.

And Polynesia has suffered more than its fair share of being stereotyped as a permanently sun-tanned heaven of ease, free love, comfort, nubile maidens and noble warriors. The tourist industry today continues to peddle the same myth and it continues to strike a powerful and lucrative chord in people around our sad globe. Many Polynesians themselves want to believe the myth.

However, we expect the well trained anthropologist to break through the stereotype and see “the native” (the so-called object of his research) in all his dimensions, colors, meanings, depths and pretensions as he would try to understand his fellow countrymen. But, alas, even Maragaret Mead, who later became the grand matriarch of anthropology a superstar, as it were couldn't rise above the stereotype, her own ideology, and the arrogant preconceptions about “primitive societies” of her time. As Freeman points out, no critic, in the otherwise hectic and questioning intellectual climate of the 1920 s questioned her extravagant claims.

Freeman recalls what David Hume wrote in 1748, that if ever we hear a traveller’s tales of foreign lands inhabited by people who are free of avarice, ambition, or revenge, and who are magnificently generous and public-spirited, we should immediately suspect that traveller’s tales. But even the perpetually sceptical Bertrand Russell (and a Three faces of Samoa: (From left) Albert Wendt, Samoan poet and novelist, whose review on these pages suggests that foreign anthropologists are earning “a comfortable living” out of writings on Samoa; Derek Freeman who has devoted years of research to what he calls “unmaking a myth”; and the late Margaret Mead who started it all. 11 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

whole horde of social scientists, sexologists, and other types of “ologists” since 1928) fell for Mead’s account of such a foreign land.

Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa is part of that whole romantic/escapist tradition which idealises Polynesia (Samoa in this instance), holding it up as a healing mirror to their own societies’ maladies.

A Champion to our Rescue: While 1 was at university I heard that a New Zealander, Derek Freeman, was working on a refutation of Margaret Mead. He had started his research in the 19405.

I read a few of his papers about Samoa and found them extremely accurate.

My wife and I returned at the end of 1964 to live in Samoa. In 1965, Derek Freeman, with his family, returned to live in Saanapu and to continue his field work. Sometime that year, one “Did she fear the truth she would find if she returned?” of my friends, the nephew of Saanapu's pastor, brought him to our house for supper. Of our first meeting I remember his moving account of how, in 1942, he had been adopted by Lauvi Vainu’u, an old tulafale of Saanapu, whose son, the same age as Freeman, had died suddenly.

In 1981, he came to Samoa, wanting people to examine and check his final manuscript. I was one of these people.

I read it in one hungry sitting.

Since then I have read it many more times, and my admiration for it grows with each reading.

I am astounded that a non- Samoan could have constructed such a comprehensive, insightful, honest portrayal of the Samoa I know. (All societies have “secrets” they don’t want divulged to outsiders. Freeman has had the courage to divulge some of our “secrets” and many of our people aren’t going to like him for it!) I am not surprised, however, that he was able to do such a masterly study.

He had been studying us for about 40 years; he has probably read everything ever written about us (and Margaret Mead); his easy fluency in our language at all its intricate levels, and his familiarity with our customs and traditions, have allowed him to understand much of who we are; he is the adopted son of Lauvi Vainu’u and a matai who takes his mataiship seriously. Most importantly, he has a deep love and respect for us. This I think helps explain his almost obsessive quest to correct what he deems was the wrong Margaret Mead did to us. Perhaps he has not felt at home in his own society, and in understanding us hoped he would find a people to belong to, to champion, to be needed by. The condition of the outsider is one I know well. (There was a huge elemenj of it in Margaret Mead too).

The Unmaking: Freeman opens his “unmaking” of the Mead myth with an impressive history and analysis of the nature-nurture debate (which reached its peak in the 19205), and the rise of radical cultural determinism and its champions. Into this sequence he fits Margaret Mead and Professor Franz Boas, her mentor and the leading advocate of cultural determinism, In 1925, at the optimistic but inexperienced age of 23 and as a fervent disciple of Boas, she entered Samoa and the myth she was to create. And, by “discovering” the negative instance, provided “the absolute answer to the nature-nurture war. Her answer, since 1928, had influenced all the sciences and the intellectual world.

In an exciting, detective-like manner. Freeman reconstructs Mead’s nine months (August 31, 1925 to June 1926) in the field, in Tutuila and Manua. She tried to learn our language in nine weeks; decided not to live in a village or with a Samoan family but with an American couple. selected 68 young girls as her informants (yes, that’s what anthropologists call the people who provide them with their information!) She was to rely heavily on 28 of them and daily interviews she was to hold with them in a small government dispensary.

She knew very little of our history and had read little of the literature about us. Though her study was initially to be focused on adolescence, she didn’t hesitate in using the information she gathered from her small sample to fashion a total picture of us and our culture. She assumed, like most papalagi at that time, that any trained student needed only a few months to master the basics of any “primitive culture.” Until recently it was taken for granted, even by papalagi writers of fiction, that they could, with only a little bit of research and a lot of imagination, get inside the minds and personalities of “primitive peopies.” After all, “primitive peoples” aren’t complex beings!

So it is no wonder that Mead arrived at a very naive, uncomplex picture of us.

The question is: Would Margaret Mead have taken seriously an anthropological study of America written by a 23-year-old Samoan who had done only nine months of field work, couldn’t speak English, and was ignorant of American history and the literature about America?

Freeman does not pose this question but he makes it clear that Mead’s findings were based on shoddy, superficial research, and on unscientific preconceptions about “primitive peoples.”

Such was the ferocity of the nature-nurture war that Boas and his lieutenants did not see (or want to see) the flaws in Coming of Age in Samoa, but immediately hailed it as the ultimate proof of the truth of their cause.

Margaret Mead, Freeman explains, continued to campaign for the sovereignty of culture, right into the 19305, basing her argumerits on her Samoa/New Guinea researches. In 1939 she declared that the battle had been won. By then, the example of Samoa was part of all the social sciences. By the 1950 s she was a celebrity.

The enthusiasm for her did not lessen even when a few anthropologists began in the early 1960 s to voice public doubts about her Samoa.

According to Freeman, Mead herself contributed, actively, to her public acclamation: in later editions of her book she continued to assert the validity of her Samoan researches. In 1969, in the light of the work of a few ethnographers who were questioning her extravagant claims, she admitted there was a serious problem reconciling her Samoa and other historical records and accounts of contemporary Samoa. However, right up to 1975, though she travelled widely, she never again conducted fieldwork in Samoa to put her original findings to the test. Nor did she ever revise the 1928 text of her book.

Such was Mead’s stature that even when the young anthropologist, Elinor Gerber, collected field evidence in 1972/73 which contradicted Mead’s conclusions about our sexuality, Gerber blamed the contradiction on the time lapse since 1925, suggesting that our sexual morality had become more stringent during that time.

Freeman does not pose the question which interests me: why did Margaret Mead, the extremely honest and dynamic champion of feminism, sexual freedom and more enlightened child-rearing methods, racial equality and energy conservation, never again put her Samoa to the test by going back into the field?

Perhaps for her it was too late, too hazardous, to relook at the basis of her fame. Perhaps she feared the truth she would find.

She was no longer the forthright, adventurous 23-year-old fighting for a cause; she was myth, Establishment, what one of her admirers called “a symbol of all anthropology.”

The Important Question: Did Margaret Mead lie about us?

Freeman argues that she didn’t.

Mead came to our country and found what she wanted to find:

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the negative instance, final proof that culture and environment were the determinants of human personality. In this, she was aided by obliging young informants who. Freeman claims, duped her.

In our culture it has always been taboo to discuss sexual matters publicly or freely or in mixed company. The Church’s strict Victorianism merely reinforced this. Yet here was an adult (and a papalagi woman at that) trying to get young girls (children in our terms) to divulge everything about their sex lives and the sex lives of their community. So Mead deservedly got the answers her informants sensed she wanted to hear.

The bulk of Freeman’s book goes on to deal with each of Mead’s conclusions about Samoa. He demolishes each one convincingly, using very impressive evidence, documentation, observation and argument. He concludes that Mead’s assertions “are fundamentally in error and some of them are preposterously false.”

If the two works are compared in terms of scholarship, breadth and depth of research and vision, reading, knowledge and interpretation of data, Margaret Mead’s Samoa has to be viewed as the creation of a naive 23-year-old anthropologist-to-be.

Anthropology was still anew field, its methodology not yet highly developed, so Mead can be excused some of her errors.

But her refusal to relook at her findings cannot be excused. She died leaving the harm she had done to us unhealed.

Freeman claims that when Margaret Mead visited his university in November 1964, he gave her a full explanation of the basis of his disagreement with her Samoa. They corresponded after that. In August 1978 he offered to send her a draft of his refutation. He received no reply from her. She died in November of that year.

One can only speculate as to how she must have felt knowing that, sooner or later, she would have to squarely and publicly face Freeman’s attack.

Freeman’s Samoa: Freeman’s Samoa is similar to the Samoa I know and have depicted in my fiction. But a caution must be made: a novelist creates his own truths, an anthropologist strives to “discover” the truths he believes exist already in a people’s way of life.

In short, a novelist does not write anthropological studies.

Our public face is nearly always placid, obedient, courtly, orderly, generous, hospitable, considerate, impassive. Freeman knows this face well; it is the tufaatamalii, the way of the true aristocrat, the ideal on which all human behavior must be modelled; it is a very severe and demanding way which is enforced by our elders and our churches on everyone, including our children. That was as true in the 1920 s as it is today.

There is also the opposite way, the way of the tu-fanua, he who transgresses, who does not behave like a tamalii, and brings “Freeman restores to us the virtue of being truly human” shame to his aiga, village, country. Extreme anti -faatamalii behavior is described as tufaamanu, the ways of the beast.

Freeman tries to understand and describe all these opposites.

To counteract Mead’s idealised Samoa, he delves, in great depth and at length, into what he calls “the darker side” of Samoa.

This is the side of his book which has been sensationalised by the media. Some people will use his findings about rape, suicide and violence to justify their racist stereotypes of us. Freeman’s observations will also disturb some of our people and make them dismiss his work. Both reactions have happened to my work.

An honest reading of Freeman’s book will reveal that though he delves unflinchingly into our dark side, he does so with great concern and alofa. He says: “In refuting the conclusions reached by Mead in the 1920 s I have necessarily had to discuss in some detail the darker side of Samoan life, which, in constructing her negative instance, she so ignored as to turn the complexly human Samoans into characterless nonentities.

The Samoans ... do indeed have a dark side to their lives, but this, I would emphasise, is something they share with all human societies. And, as with all human societies, they also have their shining virtues.”

Here is a brief summary of Freeman’s main conclusions about our “darker side.” We are highly competitive and, though we preach group co-operation and solidarity, there is much intense rivalry within aiga, between aiga and villages. This sometimes breaks out in violence, for, once we are committed, we will fight to the bitter end.

We suffer high rates of assault, manslaughter, and rape.

Because we live in a highly authoritarian system where our elders rate obedience from the young as an unquestioned virtue we suffer from many psychological disturbances ranging from compulsive behavior to suicide.

The incidence of ulcers, strokes, diabetes, and other stress-related illnesses is very high.

We are very prone to jealousy, and not given to sexual promiscuity, and have one of the strictest virginity cults in the world.

So what’s new? you may ask.

It’s like any other society. That, precisely, is Freeman’s point: he is restoring to us those other dimensions of being truly human, dimensions denied to us by Mead.

Some Flaws: The easily discernible flaws in Freeman’s book stem mainly from its polemical form. To prove Mead wrong, some of his claims tend towards exaggeration and idealisation. (This idealisation is also perhaps the result of his profound trust in us).

For instance, he is correct in stating that we place a great priority on female virginity, we institutionalise it in the taupou, we forbid pre-marital and extramarital sex and promiscuity. But it does not mean that a lot of all these various types of sex do not go on. As in other societies, what we preach publicly to be our standard of morality does not necessarily reflect how we actually behave. There are a great deal of double-standards in all societies. In this instance, Freeman accepts too readily the evidence of our elders, the guardians of our public morality, who, if they are really human, often break, clandestinely, the very standards they set up.

It may be true that our high incidence of rape is due to too strict a ban on sex, but Freeman forgets that in Samoa we have always treated our women as second-class citizens to be used and dominated. Machismo has always been a supreme virtue, so, though it is correct that the tradition of moetolo is institutionalised rape, it is also institutionalised bravado and machismo.

In sexual matters. Mead erred far too much on the side of free love and promiscuity, while Freeman errs on the side of sexual purity, strictness, and abstinence. “Ask the sailors”

Freeman says rhetorically.

Meaning: sailors know that Samoa is (and was) far from being a promiscuous port. But I know that sailors know that with the right approach and persuasion the right dollar value all ports (including Samoa) will open up. Admittedly some ports are easier than others.

Even in the 1920 s Samoa wasn’t anywhere near “all virginity,” as it were.

An Irony: Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa and her lifelong campaign for more sexual freedom helped bring about the socalled “new morality” in the West. One can say that there is much more free love in America today than there ever was in Samoa! Many of the enforcers of our very strict public standards of Continued on Page 69. 14 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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Political Currents

Pacific is favored for sub-seabed radio-active waste disposal It is now just over 40 years since the first self-sustaining chain reaction was initiated at the University of Chicago. Since that time, we have seen the development of nuclear weapons such that each of the superpowers now has a massive arsenal of these weapons. We have also seen the development of civilian nuclear reactor programs.

Nuclear reactors for power generation were first built in Britain in the 1950 s but are now appearing in increasing numbers throughout the industrial world and in some Third World countries. The reasons for this are not hard to find.

In a world where fossil fuels represent a finite resource, nuclear power is seen as a cheap means of supplying energy which can bridge the gap until a more sophisticated technology (such as the fusion reactor) can be developed. We are therefore entering a nuclear era in which an increasing amount of energy will be produced by nuclear means and which will supersede the coal era and the petroleum era which have so far fuelled the industrial revolution. Ultimately, the world is likely to develop a “plutonium economy”. Dr Walter Marshall, chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Agency, has suggested a possible “plateau scenario” of about 3000 nuclear reactors worldwide in the year 2020.

One of the by-products of nuclear power generation is radioactive waste. This falls into two categories.

High-level wastes are the result of the re-processing of spent nuclear fuel elements and represent 99 per cent of the total radioactive wastes to be disposed of.

These wastes consist of longlived radio-isotopes of which plutonium is probably the most important.

Low-level waste, on the other hand, represents the normal discharge from a nuclear reactor Dr G.P. GLASBY* writes on plans for the sub-seabed disposal of high-level radio-active wastes. The north central Pacific is regarded as the most promising area for the practice, and, says Dr Glasby, there is need for “a Pacific voice” to be heard on the issue. during operation, as well as from radio-chemical experiments.

It is now apparent that the long-term disposal of high-level radio-active waste is one of the major strategic problems confronting the nuclear industry.

Two principal methods of radioactive waste disposal can be employed, either localisation (or storage) of the waste so that it does not contaminate the environment or dilution (usually in seawater) to a level below which it ceases to be a significant environmental contaminant.

For high-level waste, the only viable option is storage. At present, high-level waste is stored on a temporary basis and the search is going on in many industrialised nations for suitable, long-term, storage sites. Because of the long-lived nature of the radio-isotopes involved, storage on a time scale of 100,000 to 1,000,000 years is required. This is much longer than the timescale of human institutions.

Much debate has centred on what to do with these wastes and a number of suggestions were made in the early days. These included: (i) transmutation of the elements; (ii) removal from the earth by rocket into outer space; (iii) disposal in a terrestrial environment. ’ Careful examination has eliminated many of the options originally discussed (such as the polar ice-caps) which might have appeared attractive at first glance. The search is now on for stable areas of the earth’s crust where long-term storage might be possible. One of the options being studied, particularly in the US and UK, is that of sub-seabed disposal of the waste. This has been the subject of an article in Science (1981, v. 213, p. 1321- 6). It must be emphasised that, in each country, land-based programs are also being evaluated and a final decision on dumping is still a number of years away.

For the sub-seabed disposal option, the area selected must (i) be geologically stable over a long time period (of the order of a million years); (ii) be geographically isolated; (iii) have no resource potential; (iv) permanent disposal must be possible.

Present investigations are centred on the so-called midplate/mid-gyre regions, as in the central north Pacific. These are red clay regions far from land in deep water (5000 m). These regions are known to be geologically very stable with no known earthquake or volcanic risks, and the over-lying ocean water has low biological productivity. A considerable amount of effort in the US is being directed towards evaluating the geology of this area as a first step in establishing the viability of the sub-seabed disposal option. Correlation of the sediment history of the red clays taken in ultra-long piston cores over small areas are an important part of this program.

The idea behind sub-seabed disposal of nuclear waste is the “multiple-barrier principle”. In this, the waste is incorporated as a glass or ceramic into a canister.

The canister would then be introduced, probably by free fall, into the marine sediment.

The waste would be contained by three discrete barriers: the glass in which it is contained; the canister walls; and the sediment in which it is incorporated. Each of the barriers would be expected to retain the radio-isotopes for a period of time until breached.

The idea is that an effective isolation lime of 100,000- 1,000,000 years would be required before the radio-isotopes would escape to the overlying seawater. By this time, the radioactivity would have decayed to a negligible proportion of the original. Much work is being carried out in the US and UK to assess the viability of this method. Searches are being made to find the best canister materials and sophisticated mathematical models developed to assess the response of each barrier.

I have a number of objections to this method of disposal.

Firstly, the method appears to contravene the 1972 London Dumping Convention which covers dumping of wastes at sea.

This convention specifically prohibits the dumping of high-level radio-active wastes at sea. Further, “dumping” is defined as any “deliberate disposal at sea of wastes or other matter from vessels . . .”.

Since the proposal to dump high-level waste beneath the seabed would take place from vessels, it is clearly prohibited under the terms of the convention.

The preamble to the convention also takes into account the principles governing the seabed and ocean floor and the subsoil thereof which is where the dumping could take place. This method of dumping therefore appears to be prohibited under the *Dr Glasby is a scientist at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the DSIR, or of the NZ Government. 15 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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It has been argued (in the Science article, for example) that this method is not “dumping” but “precisely engineered empqacement within a suitable geological formation beneath the seabed”. Yet, as I have shown, the convention (written by skilled international lawyers) chooses not to make this distinction and refers specifically to the “subsoil thereof’ ’.

I have also heard it said that it was not the intention of the convention to consider this method of disposal and that, if one looks at the legislative history of the convention, a different interpretation could apply. However, nowhere does the convention make such a disclaimer. It would seem to me (as a non-lawyer) that this method of dumping is specifically prohibited under the convention until such time as the convention is re-negotiated.

It must be emphasised that this dumping will take place in the seabed under international waters (outside 200-mile limits and beyond national limits of the continental shelf). In my view if such dumping should ever take place, it should be carried out under strict international controls. A possible body to administer this would seem to me to be the proposed International Seabed Authority.

Secondly, no estimate of the likely scale of dumping is ever given. Assuming that a canister would contain about one cubic metre of glass or ceramic, the total amount of high-level waste per canister might be about 0.25- 0.33 cubic metres. By the year 2000, approximately 72,000 canisters might need dumping worldwide (if this was the only method chosen) and on the time scale of the nuclear era (to the middle of the next century) about a million to 10 million canisters.

Whilst I have no objection to the idea of limited dumping of these canisters, I feel that the scale of the proposed operation could be so huge that serious attention should be given to this aspect.

Thirdly, the multiple-barrier model depends on maintaining the integrity of three principal barriers vitrified or “synrock” waste, the canisters, and the sediment in which the canister is buried for a long period before each of the barriers is breached. The canister itself would have only a limited lifetime. A period of about 1000 years has been suggested for a canister with a 1 cm thick wall.

However, for a canister containing 1.5 kilowatts of high-level waste, the surface temperature of the exterior canister walls would reach 250 deg C and 150 deg C after one and 10 years respectively. These elevated temperatures would last for tens or hundreds of years. Under such conditions, the canister would become encrusted in salt from seawater and the sediment would become acidic. These conditions are extremely corrosive.

If the canister was to be breached early due to stress corrosion at these extreme conditions, then the glass waste would also leach rapidly. Early breaching of the canister would invalidate the entire principle on which this method is based.

Canadian workers have emphasised the importance of maintaining low salt levels around the canisters, and have stated that “once in the repository, the canister plays a negligible role in preventing the dispersal of its contents. In some instances for example in salt beds rapid deterioration of the canister would be expected. However, the inherent characteristics of the geological formation will contain the waste”. These views cast grave doubts on the “multiplebarrier principle”.

Fourthly, because of the likely scale of operations, the only viable method of dumping will be the free-fall penetrometer method. Because of the drift of the canister during descent to the seafloor, it will be impossible to determine the exact position of the canisters and burial will be essentially irreversible. It will, of course, be possible to determine the position of test canisters exactly and recover these.

Nonetheless, my view is that, because of the extremely long time scale of the dumping, a period of at least 50 years would be required to test the method fully under the proposed conditions. A 50-year moratorium on full-scale dumping should therefore be declared whilst the method is fully tested under in situ conditions. This is already the situation in the UK.

In my view, the approach of sub-seabed dumping of highlevel radio-active waste is an attempt to internationalise the problem of high-level waste by dumping in the last area not under national jurisdiction. I would prefer to see the problems solved by countries storing the wastes within their own territories.

In the US in particular, this is quite feasible, and extensive underground nuclear testing is already carried out in Nevada.

Nuclear waste disposal would pose less environmental damage than this.

Nonetheless, internal political pressure might prevent the choice of optimum areas for disposal from a geological standpoint. This is well illustrated by the Reagan administration’s decision to prepare permanent disposal sites at the nation’s temporary storage facilities a decision made without proper geological evaluation. It would seem to me that final decisions should be made only after a critical assessment of the total national and international energy budgets and that, if sub-seabed disposal is to be carried out, it should be done only after full consultation with the international community and not simply after agreement between the industrialised nations.

A Pacific voice should be heard on this issue.

George Chan, Northern Marianas planning officer, has become one of the region’s strongest campaigners against any form of nuclear waste dumping in the Pacific. 17 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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THE MONTH Balanced books, cooler politics Balanced books that’s what Vanuatu can be proud of.

As the young nation heads to its first general election since independence, July 1980, it has paid all it owes.

What would many other nations give to be in such a position?

However, this happy state very nearly didn’t come about.

Prime Minister of the island republic, Walter Lini, is said to have signed a loan agreement to borrow SUS3SO million. Now commission agents are to sue Walter Lini and the republic for their two per cent commission and expenses.

They want their money, even though the agreement was called off.

It seems there were only vague plans to raise the loan. And the country would have found itself financially crippled for generations if the loan, signed for by the prime minister, without cabinet consultations, had gone through.

Through the back door, cabinet learnt of the agreement, and it became part of a list of points raised last year in a motion to depose the prime minister.

But Parliament failed to agree.

The matter came to public notice again recently following the sacking of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs, Fred Timakata, by the prime minister, and the resignations of two other ministers in support of Timakata.

These ministers, like Mr Timakata, were founder members of the Vanuaaku Party, headed by Walter Lini. They are former Transport and Public Works Minister, John Naupa, and Education Minister, Donald Kalpokas.

Embarrassment caused to the nation by the disqualification of five candidates, all civil servants and Vanuaaku Party supporters, on the eve of the Santo Town Council elections was given by the prime minister as his reason for sacking his deputy.

This reason falls flat. The decision to disqualify the candidates who weren’t eligible to stand because they had not resigned from their civil service in time was a cabinet decision.

The minister of home affairs is accused by the prime minister of not doing his job well, not organising the Santo elections, and not organising by-elections earlier this year.

The turnout of voters in the municipal elections was poor.

But as the former home minister says, the people have the right to vote in Vanuatu or not to vote, as they see fit.

Santo is a controversial island, the seat of the rebellion at independence to secede from the republic. It seems definite that a splinter group on the island is putting pressure on the prime minister for representation in Parliament.

Santo and the eastern region off Santo, Ambae-Maewo, now have parliamentary representation. Newly appointed Home Minister is Sela Molisa, a Santo MP. He is the man who was government’s special agent on the island at the time of the rebellion. Newly appointed Education Minister is Onneyn Tahi, MP, Ambae-Maewo.

The transport ministry slot took some filling, but at the end of February, Albert Sandy, MP Vila-Urban, was sworn in as minister.

This was a 50 per cent change in the Lini government.

“Resign, Lini,” was the cry from the opposition Vanuatu Independent Alliance Party. Opposition Leader and leader of the Union of Moderate Parties, Vincent Boulekone, asked people to stay calm in the wake of the political crisis.

He needn’t have worried. The most significant fact emerging from the political crisis is thatpeople are far more worried at the moment about the malaria outbreak, particularly in Port- Vila, paying fees for the start of the new school year, and the head tax they will be up for if they register as voters in the coming general election.

National radio has made frequent appeals lately for people over the age of 18 to register as voters.

Prior to independence, and in the two years following, a political crisis of this magnitude would have rocked the people.

They would have taken sides, and given the issue all their attention.

Politics dominated the thinking of people in the early days not surprisingly, with the attempted secession on Santo a reality on independence day, and a high risk of the same happening in the south, particularly on the island of Tanna. Joint rule by Britain and France prior to independence sowed the seeds of division and side-taking.

But Vanuatu is maturing and is able to look at this present crisis as a “scenario,” as a letter- Report from Vanuatu Christine Coombe Vanuaaku Pati: It went Into power at independence calling itself the party of the real people of Vanuatu, blanketing the pre-independence New Hebrides with placards and slogans and showing a high degree of internal unity. Now there are splits within the party and signs of public cynicism towards politics. 19 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1983

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People know this sort of carryon by politicians is normal in other countries, and they aren't shocked by recent political turmoil. They are far more concerned with day-to-day living.

The malaria outbreak results from there being no money to spray and the poor hygiene standards of people who’ve only recently moved to town from villages. The outbreak is responding to treatment.

Cash needed to pay school fees and head tax, both imposed by the present government, is seriously changing the lifestyle of people. Subsistence living in Vanuatu is luxurious by many standards. But there is now a need for hard cash.

Certainly Britain, France and Australia are responsible for the happy state of the books being balanced. Government knows the aid will be steadily reduced, and is making efforts to curb imports and increase exports to narrow the great trade gap.

Much more could have been done earlier, had the Europeans had their way. But government and Melanesian leaders took their time. They did things their way and now the pressure to improve things financially is coming from the people, particularly the Melanesian custom land owners. And it’s the effective use of land that is basic to the future financial health of Vanuatu.

Since writing this month's column Christine Coombe, who was born in England, has been deported from Vanuatu. The government told her early in March she would be deported in connection with material published about Vanuatu, particularly in her own paper Voice of Vanuatu.

On March 27 police came to her home in Port-Vila and escorted her to the airport where she was put on an aircraft flying to Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland.

RPCR’s clean sweep in Noumea New Caledonia’s antiindependence Republican Party, RPCR, surprised even themselves by winning all 45 seats on Noumea’s Town Council at the municipal elections on March 6.

The elections were held in parallel with those in France. The campaign in New Caledonia was characterised by a diversity of party lists. The system is a “proportional integral” one, with no modification of party lists allowed. And a five per cent ban excluded many small groups from gaining seats on the 32 town councils.

The most important and dramatic result was in Noumea, where the vote had been claimed by major parties to be an overtly political matter a demonstration of whether New Caledonia wants independence or not.

The long-time mayor of Noumea, Roger Laroque (also an RPCR member of the Territorial Assembly), who again headed the Republican list, described himself as “fiercely opposed” to independence. Speaking to the press at the launching of the RPCR campaign Mr Laroque said the municipal elections had far more political importance than ever, and would show that New Caledonia wanted to remain French. The Noumea results, and those in the outlying areas of Mont-Dore, Dumbea, and Paita, certainly demonstrated that, with the RPCR in Noumea gaining 74 per cent of the vote, and all of the seats.

To underline the political significance of this vote the Noumea RPCR list contained many well known political figures in prominent positions such as the President of the Territorial Assembly, Jean Leques, and the former Vice-President of the Government Council, Dick Ukeiwe. Jaques Lafleur, President of RPCR and Deputy to the French National Assembly, also stood for the council but at position No. 45 on the list, not expecting to be elected, Three of the five Independence Front parties ran an IF list in Noumea Union Caledonienne, Parti Socialiste Caledonien, Front Uni pour la Liberation Kanak while Liberation Kanak Socialiste ran a separate list with the Parti Socialiste (the Chivot tendency). Both lists fell just under the five per cent bar in Noumea. Led by FULK’s James Wright, the IF team also stressed the political importance of the Noumea election. He said that a vote for the IF would show the readiness of non-Kanaks to decolonise, and to “take the hand preferred by Kanaks to construct the country together”.

Henry Bailly, who led the LKS-PS list said that they wanted to show the common aims and interests of the Kanak people with workers of all races.

In the rest of New Caledonia, about half of the 32 Town Halls were won by pro-independence lists. But, following the RPCR victory in Noumea, Mayor Laroque said that the results proved that “Noumea, like the rest of the interior, is absolutely hostile to any idea of independence”.

Following the election count at Thio, on the East Coast, violence broke out when around 100 demonstrators attacked the Town Hall, following the victory of an anti-independence group led by Roger Galliot. Windows were broken, cars damaged, and punches thrown. Several people were injured, though not seriously.

French High Commissioner, Jaques Roynette, returned from Paris in early March with the news that the statute of autonomy will be submitted for study by government leaders before the French Spring. The State/Territory Commission will comprise representatives of the French and New Caledonian governments.

The Secretary of State for Overseas Departments and Territories, Henri Emmanuelli, was due to visit New Caledonia at the end of March, to open discussions on the new statute.

However, UPM, one of the five IF parties, has rejected the idea of internal autonomy and said that their leaders will not participate in the discussions.

The steering committee of Union Caledonienne, which met in late February, underlined their congress resolution (PIM Jan. p. 15) directing their leaders to discuss autonomy only if there were a guarantee that it will lead to independence. • • • New Caledonia’s new “Union House” has recently been completed, and five unions or federations of unions have moved in.

Noumea Notebook Helen Fraser 21 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983 THE MONTH

Within the next few months three more unions will occupy offices in the building, situated in Noumea’s Vallee du Tir. Union House was built at a cost of 40 million CFP (about $A360,000), paid for out of the territorial budget. The foundation stone was laid on May 12, 1982 by the previous French High Commissioner, Christian Nucci. • • • Passing through Noumea in late February were two scientists who have had remarkable success with a mosquito control program in Tuvalu. Dr Marshall Laird and Joseph Mokry, from Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, used an “integrated mosquito control” program to combat dengue haemorrhagic fever. The attack on dengue fever has been identified by the South Pacific Commission as a top health priority for the Pacific.

Sponsored by the SPC, the project was funded by the Intemational Development Research Centre in Canada.

A four-pronged approach, using two bio-control agents, a chemical agent, and a sanitation program, has been used on Funafuti atoll over the past 18 months. The findings of Dr Laird and Mr Mokry show that the number of mosquitoes entering a house per day had been dramatically reduced from 60 to 0.5 (or one every two days).

Mr Mokry told PIM: “We are delighted with these results because they show that this program offers the best solution for breaking the cycle of transmission of mosquito-carried diseases.”

Mr Mokry said that they are confident that their findings have applicability for other atolls in the Pacific. Their mosquito control program is an on-going one and return visits will be made to Tuvalu to monitor its progress.

The study on Funafuti involved the total population of 2000 (350 households).

Helen Fraser.

Pro and con of the PBDC As recalled in the debut of this column last month, in the late 19705, and after a period of neglect following World War 11, the United States began to rediscover the Pacific. As one manifestation of the renewed interest in the islands, three international conferences were held in Honolulu during 1979 and 1980, and each led to the formation of a new organisation. For example, last month’s column reviewed the founding of the East-West Center’s Pacific Islands Development Program.

The concerns leading to a second conference had their origins in what have been called the “American flag islands”. They are represented in the organisation and at the annual meetings of the Western Governors’ Conference also included are Alaska, Hawaii, and the 11 westernmost of the adjacent 48 states and in 1978, Hawaii’s Governor George Ariyoshi chaired the conference which met in Honolulu.

The concerns of the western states are often different from those of the State of Hawaii and the island territories. Ariyoshi urged that the interests and needs of the islands be given more attention, and federal agencies responded. With the Department of Commerce taking the lead, it and the Departments of Energy and Interior and the four island governments of American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands cosponsored the Pacific Basin Development Conference in Hawaii in February, 1980.

The island governors generated a “wish list” of over 300 developmental proposals in nine functional areas; fisheries, coastal zone management, telecommunications, ports, transportation, trade, tourism, energy, and municipal services. The most tangible result, however, was the formation of the Pacific Basin Development Council (PBDC).

PBDC is a non-profit corporation with its office in Honolulu, and it serves as a joint agency of the four island entities. The four governors are the members of PBDC and also constitute its board of directors. According to their responsibilities as defined by PBDC’s by-laws, they appointed Mr Jerry Norris as executive director in July, 1980, to administer the organisation. He brought to the office his experience as director, Western Office, Council of State Governments (the organisation noted above) from 1970 to 1979.

PBDC’s staff is small. Ms Carolyn Imamura serves as director of planning and programs.

A planning position is currently vacant, and PBDC hopes to fill it with a Pacific Islander. A fiscal officer and two secretaries round out the permanent staff. Two research internships are reserved for islanders. They are at present occupied by Mr Marcelino Actouka (Ponape) and Mr Vince Diaz (Guam).

There are two main sources of funding: the Department of Commerce provides $150,000 annually, and each of the four governments makes a yearly contribution of $40,500. Other funds are derived from federal grants and the private sector.

PBDC’s goals are several: to assess the economic and social needs of the member islands; examine development strategies; promote co-operation between members, the federal government, and the private sector; articulate the views of the islands to those outside the region; collect and distribute useful information to the region.

PBDC’s basic position is that the only viable approach to development is an integrated one.

For example, the development of a fishing industry requires that all components of such a venture be considered. These might range from the physical plant to other variables such as relevant social/ cultural factors, access to markets, federal and local regulations, etc.

PBDC has been working since July 1980, with little publicity.

Norris reports several accomplishments. On a general level, involvement with PBDC has convinced the four governors of the value of co-operating with each other and dealing with federal agencies as a collective body. More concretely, informational profiles (overviews) of the island entities have been prepared. Development plans (essentially feasibility studies) for developments in fisheries and tourism have been completed, and substantial progress has been made on an assessment of the essential air services required by the islands. During 1982, PBDC A View from Honolulu Robert C. Kiste 22 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983 THE MONTH

reported involvement in a total of 64 projects.

As would be expected with any new and ambitious organisation, PBDC has encountered some difficulties. As suggested by the number of projects noted above, its resources are stretched thin. Federal agencies are not organised in ways conducive to an integrated approach to development. For example, energy and commercial concerns are the bailiwicks of separate departments, and a magician would be required to bring them together in common cause. Officials in far-off Washington DC, exhibit an infamous lack of familiarity with the islands; hence the country profiles, and Norris reports that perhaps one-third of PBDC’s time is spent in educational efforts.

A handicap for PBDC is a lack of direction from Washington DC. The February 1980 conference was an initiative of the Carter administration. To date, the Reagan administration has yet to articulate any policy regarding the flag islands or the larger Pacific region. Further, the governors have not been pleased with the absence of Pacific expertise on the part of Reagan appointees who administer Pacific affairs in the nation’s capital. The governors have gone on record to express their displeasure with the latter (PIM Sept. ’Bl, p. 11), and they have publicly opposed any further dumping of nuclear wastes which could contaminate marine resources. Given Reaganomics, there is also the spectre that federal funding will be discontinued.

Normally, PBDC’s governors meet twice yearly, and they select from their ranks a president for a one-year term. Their first meeting was in October 1980 in Honolulu, and Governor Ariyoshi was named president.

The 1981 meetings were in Honolulu and Guam, and Governor Peter Tali Coleman became the organisation’s second president.

Only one meeting was held in 1982, again in Honolulu, and the governors were scheduled to meet during the first week of March 1983 in Washington DC.

Governors Ariyoshi and Coleman have been members of PBDC since its inception. The other original members were Governors Paul Calvo, Guam, and Carlos Camacho, Northern Marianas. They were replaced by Governors Ricardo Bordallo and Pete P. Tenorio respectively after gubernatorial elections in their islands in 1981 and 1982.

Like the East-West Center’s program, it is too early to assess PBDC. A couple of questions, however, may be raised about its future. The American flag islands have been closely tied to the U.S. because of both the federal administrative structure and funding. By its very nature and purpose, PBDC may further strengthen the linkage with the American mainland and impede the fostering of any meaningful relations with other Pacific countries.

At the same time, American Samoa on the one hand, and Guam and the Northern Marianas on the other, have certain interests with their immediate Pacific neighbors, and only time will tell if these can be accommodated within the framework of PBDC.

American Samoa has designs to link itself with other countries south of the equator by serving as a port of transhipment for imports and becoming a “gateway” into the Pacific for tourists and business interests.

Guam and the Northern Marianas have considered the emerging states of the U.S. Trust Territory as potentially being within and part of their development plans, especially in the area of tourism. This raises another question will the new states of the Marshalls, Belau and the Federated States of Micronesia be eligible for future membership in the PBDC? Indeed, it is not certain that they would desire such a status. The issue has been raised in the governors’ deliberations, and PBDC’s by-laws provide for the addition of members by an unanimous vote of its board of directors. For now, they are waiting to see what shakes down in Micronesia.

As a final note, PBDC’s promotional literature claims that it is the only regional body in the Pacific that “addresses a multitude of issues.” This must indeed be news in Noumea and Suva!

Robert C. Kiste.

The super tangle that is Palau Question: when is a majority a minority?

Answer: When it votes in an election in Palau.

If that seems nonsensical, it gives one an indication of some of the so-called analyses of that fledgling republic’s February plebiscite on the Compact of Free Association.

This is how the “logic” is developed: Yes, it is true that nearly 60 per cent of the 7000 Palauans who voted in the plebiscite supported the compact.

That’s a clear majority, in anybody’s book.

But because the Palauans did not approve by the requisite 75 per cent the changing of their constitution to allow the transit and storage of nuclear material (as in U.S. navy ship reactors or in weapons), the compact is “dead.” That is the operative phrase.

The actual vote on the nuclear question was split, about 50-50.

A third ballot question was also divided in about the same way on whether independence or a closer relationship with the U.S. should be pursued should free association be disapproved.

Obviously there is a problem in Palau. The constitution is out of step with the compact, and the U.S. has maintained that unless the offending section of the constitution is altered, Washington cannot fulfil its defence obligations as outlined in the compact.

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But anyone who has followed Micronesian politics, and the peculiar brand that is practised in the Palau Islands, should know that there is no such thing as a strict constructionist approach.

Politics in those islands is dynamic in the extreme. There are no real ground rules. And in the case of the free association compact, where each step establishes new precedent, anything goes.

What that means in Palau’s case is that there is considerable latitude in considering options to this apparent stalemate. It also means that the compact is very much alive, and should not be counted out of the picture.

It remains a significant factor because of that 60 per cent vote.

Palau’s politicians have a welldeserved reputation in Micronesia for being especially wily, and being good pols, they know a majority when they see one.

That 60 per cent is essentially a resounding yes for the $1 billion the U.S. has agreed to pour into Palau over the next 50 years.

A lot of Palauans have their dreams tied up in that sum.

So for a local leader now to claim that the compact is dead, and with it the $1 billion, would be tantamount to political suicide. The people may be ambivalent about the possibility of U.S. Marines using part of Babelthuap as a training base, but they clearly want the big bucks promised by Washington.

That is why the compact of free association remains the central option. That is why U.S.

Palau: A country of tiny islands and atolls in a wide area of sea, where local involvement is increasingly emphasised. Shipwrights are part of the skilled workforce, and these are shown at work on Koror Island.

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Ambassador Fred Zeder says, and rightly so, that the question of how to adjust the discrepancy between the compact and constitution is a Palauan matter.

Should the Palauans decide, by whatever methods they choose, to prevent a U.S. military presence, Washington has a ready response; the value of the package would be lowered. How low it might go would depend on how complete the ban on the military is.

In February, voters were in effect saying “we want the money but keep the Marines out.” That’s an understandable stance, but hardly a realistic one given the American defence obligation as described in the compact. There’s an inescapable trade-off.

Sooner or later, that trade-off will take place in Palau because the political dynamics are such that there is really no other viable option.

Complete independence with Palauan leaders calling all the shots? Not likely. The plebiscite showed how divided voters are over that delicate issue, If voters had the choice between free association as now defined and independence, it is likely the vote for the compact would be even larger than 60 per cent.

Most Palauans, like a good number of other Micronesians, are too concerned about where the money will come from for economic development, for material goods, and for other services to want the scary unknown of independence, That may be different in a few years. Palauans are particularly adept at functioning in the outside world, and doing well at it.

But for the time being, independence as the chosen posttrusteeship status does not seem on the cards, On a political spectrum, that would leave closer ties with the United States at the other extreme. That choice would probably face stiff opposition from younger Palauans, many educated in the U.S. who correctly feel that a commonwealthtype arrangement would guarantee them a dependent status in the worst possible way.

That leaves a compromise position, which is what free association is. It maintains a certain level of dependency, less than commonwealth and possibly less than independence, but gives Palauans a well-defined financial security blanket, too.

There is a need, then, to see the Palauan situation in those terms. This is a political struggle, with few rules, considerable emotion, and much flux.

But the essential issue is money; how much the U.S. is willing to give, and at what price. This is not, as some would portray it, a “nuclear” debate.

This is definitely not, as two Americans recently wrote in The Los Angeles Times, a matter of “principle above expediency.”

The post-plebiscite struggle in Palau is expediency in spades.

And the referendum results were, in a sense, expediency over principle.

There is a moral aspect to the debate. One must approach it with considerable trepidation, for we do not always understand the values of others. But it plays a role.

Undoubtedly there are Palauans who strongly believe their lush islands should not be a player in the international madness that we call the nuclear arms race. They swear by their constitution’s anti-nuclear provisions.

But the sad fact is that they cannot have it both ways. They cannot proclaim their nuclear neutrality and still expect to have the millions upon millions from America.

The odds greatly favor a decision to make the necessary adjustments to allow in a U.S. military presence. The power and lure of $1 billion should not be discounted.

Floyd K.

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Looking outward: Palau, 1983. - Picture by Margo Vitarelli. 25 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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Tales of great Pacific rowers Over the next few months the following warning should be broadcast regularly throughout the South Pacific: If you should encounter on the high seas a bearded man in a small rowboat named Hele on Britannia, drifting aimlessly or rowing like mad, please do not attempt to rescue him. He is not the last survivor of some great maritime disaster, but an ordinary British eccentric named Peter Bird, who, of his own free will, is rowing across the Pacific from California to Australia.

According to American press reports, this lonely long-distance rower left San Francisco on August 23, 1982, in a home-made plastic boat 10 metres long and a metre and a half wide. His intention? To beat the world endurance record of another Englishman, John Fairfax, who, it seems, took 180 days to row across the Atlantic back in 1969.

To succeed, Peter Bird had of course to choose a larger ocean.

This meant the Pacific.

At least here in Tahiti, nothing more was heard about this not terribly interesting attempt until mid-February when Bird’s very British promoter, Kenneth Crutchlow, disembarked at Papeete’s Faaa international airport. Equipped with an enormous Queen’s Guard royal moustache, Mr Crutchlow informed us with a completely straight face that he owned a fleet of London taxi cabs, operating out of Sonoma, California. He then turned on the old trick of trying to make Peter Bird appear as some kind of shy hero, claiming that he couldn’t swim and was mortally afraid of sharks.

Luckily, these silly claims were quickly brushed aside by news of the very real achievement of the lone sculler: Peter Bird had already covered 4790 miles in 177 days, and was at that time drifting at the end of a sea anchor in rough seas 146 miles north-west of Borabora.

He was therefore clearly set to beat the existing world record within a few days perhaps even on his birthday, February 19, when he turned 36.

Mr Crutchlow, it appeared, was on the look-out for some kind-hearted yachtsman willing to take him and a bottle of champagne out to meet the recordbreaker all for no charge, of course. It’s true he also proposed to take out some fresh food, but this was hardly essential since Peter had taken on board supplies for 300 days before he left San Francisco. As for water, he had desalination equipment aboard.

We also learned that Peter was a film cameraman by profession, and carried with him no fewer than 10 still and movie cameras with which to record his experiences.

In spite of all this, Mr Crutchlow was accompanied by a TV crew so that he could film the meeting ceremonies from his own angle.

A third British eccentric, Jeff Allen, now came on the scene. A veterinarian by profession, Allen has been cruising the Pacific on a trimaran known as Dick’s Song for the past 10 years. He finally yielded to Crutchlow’s request to undertake the Bird hunt.

The junction took place on February 20, when Peter had been at sea for 181 days, and had thus established the new record.

On his return to Taihiti from the great rendez-vous, Crutchlow was rather tight-lipped. (Perhaps he was saving the big story for a fat “exclusive rights” deal?) All he would say was that Peter had read 45 of the 100 books in his boat’s library, that he spent most of his waking hours listening to the BBC or to recorded music, and that he had given himself two birthday presents (hidden on board since he left San Francisco). They were a pullover, and a travel guide, Postmark Papeete Marie-Thérèse and Bengt Danielsson Anders Svedlund’s plastic rowing boat, Waka Moana, was covered at both ends and open in the centre where he had fitted a sliding seat. The boat was just under six metres in length, and when fully laden displaced one tonne. 27 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1983 THE MONTH

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And in view of Australia’s current inflation rate, won’t his book be a bit out of date by then?) While congratulating Peter Bird on his remarkable performance, and wishing him bon voyage all the way to Australia, we cannot help feeling that the title “Great Pacific Rower’’ still belongs to the Swedish-born, naturalised New Zealander, Anders Svedlund.

We first met him in July 1974, when he quietly stepped ashore from his plastic five-and-a-halfmetre boat right in front of our home here at Papehue, on the west coast of Tahiti, during a truly epic trip across the Pacific.

The sole reason why Anders repeatedly escaped to the sea was his love of nature, and the peace of mind he experienced when lost in the solitary contemplation of it.

Unlike Peter Bird, he cared very little for records, shunned all publicity, and never kept a log or wrote down the story of his many exploits.

For instance, in 1971, after accomplishing the amazing feat of rowing across the Indian Ocean from Fremantle to Madagascar in 64 days, he went straight back to Auckland, and, without telling a soul where he had been, resumed his old trade as a house painter.

After three years the time it took him to save enough money he set out again on what was to become an even greater adventure.

The point of departure was Huasco in Chile, which he left on February 27, 1974, at the oars of the same old plastic boat he had used for his Indian Ocean trip, but now renamed Waka Moana.

His only aim was to follow the sun for as long as he could. He rowed with such determination, however, that he sighted his first Polynesian island after only two months. Since he had no navigational instruments, and it was uninhabited, he never found out its name.

But he didn’t at all mind being alone on land for a change, and managed to pick and open a few green coconuts.

The next island he came across seemed on the contrary to be definitely over-populated, and was full of weird concrete buildings. It was the top-secret Moruroa nuclear testing base.

But the French pilots and navy “The next island he came across . . . was full of weird concrete buildings.” Moruroa, the nuclear testing island which Svedlund skirted without incident. 28 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983 THE MONTH

men patrolling the area never imagined for a moment that people could come all the way from South America in a small boat of the sort they used for fishing and fun. So he rowed all day unnoticed along the northern coast of the island, within shouting distance of the shore.

Moruroa is situated at 22 degrees south latitude, and Anders made the mistake of trying to reach the Austral Islands still further south, which involved him in a losing battle against strong westerlies. Luckily for him, the captain of an interisland cargo boat, whom he encountered at Rimatara, took pity on him, and brought both him and the Waka Moana to Papeete, whence he rowed on the calm lagoon waters out to our home.

We immediately took a great liking to Anders, whose only fault was his excessive modesty and gentleness.

He devoted his first week in Tahiti to mountain-climbing which he considered the best way “to stretch old sealegs.”

But we cornered him eventually, and got very straightforward answers to some questions that had long intrigued us.

For example, he had no radio and no books, so we suspected he must have felt mightily bored at times. No, he said, the sea offered a splendid, everchanging spectacle, which he never tired of watching. It actually made him so happy he often burst into song. Mostly he sang old Swedish folksongs he had learnt as a child. He could go on singing for hours. He made up poems, too. Or he discussed philosophical and religious problems with himself.

We were equally interested however in the more practical sides of his spiritual quest, among other things how much sleep he managed to get. Anders assured us that he slept very soundly for 10 hours a night. He slept on a mattress in the forward “cabin” which was so low that he had to crawl in and out of it.

He added that Waka Moana, when left to her own devices, had a most fortunate propensity to turn her nose to the wind, which prevented her from capsizing. The one thing he regretted was that she heaved and rolled so much that it was absolutely impossible for him to stand on his head for any length of time. To function normally one must stand on one’s head for at least an hour a day, he said.

During his first rowing adventure in the Indian Ocean, Anders had equipped himself with a kerosene stove. But it didn’t work well, and he soon ran out of kerosene. This time he made all possible space available for the storage of food. When he left Chile he had in his aft cabin 250 kilograms of flour made from roasted South American quinoa wheat. It kept better for having been pre-roasted, he said. Twice a day he mixed this flour with water to make cold porridge. He also carried a good supply of honey which he poured over the porridge. For desserts, he had about 50 kilograms of dried fruit.

His water supply did not exceed 300 litres. But he had been able to catch some rain water. Finally, he took the wise precaution of swallowing a vitamin C tablet every day.

What surprised us most was that Anders had no fishing gear.

But the explanation was simple: he was a vegetarian (and a teetotaller, as well).

When, at the end of July, Anders decided to continue his voyage, we gave him what we considered a most appropriate farewell gift: a sackful of green, slow-ripening grapefruit, likely to last him for several weeks.

With this last sack loaded aboard, the weight of the water and food supplies was over 600 kilograms. Since the canoe itself weighed 360 kg, it was more than a ton that Anders had to drag across the ocean with the help of his two tiny oars. It was not without serious apprehension that we watched the heavily loaded Waka Moana confront the choppy seas outside the reef and disappear in a westerly direction “towards Australia,” as Anders himself in very broad terms had formulated his sailing direction and destination.

As we learned two months later, Anders had kept rowing in his usual style towards the setting sun at an average speed of about 40 miles a day. But he eventually had to give up because of our grapefruit!

They simply did not agree with his accustomed diet of cold porridge, and before he could bring himself to throw them overboard he was suffering from chronic colic which caused him such severe pain that he had to put into Apia harbor. His date of arrival was September 9, which meant that his whole Pacific trip had lasted six and a half months.

We saw Anders a few years later in Auckland. It was obvious from-his dejected air that the sort of urban life he was then leading made him even sicker than our Tahitian grapefruit had. His solution was, of course, to go to sea again. But before he could do so, quite unexpectedly, he set out on another, much longer, voyage, as related by the following brief item in an Auckland newspaper of April 23, 1979:

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KITCHEN: Anders Svedlund, who achieved international fame in the early 1970 s for two marathon solo rows across thousands of miles of open ocean, died on Friday night after a fall in his kitchen. The police first thought that he might have been shot. But a post-mortem examination established that he had struck his head on the side of a table following a fall.

Marie-Thérèse and Bengt Danielsson.

A Tahitian welcome for Anders Svedlund when he came ashore at Papehue, on the west coast of Tahiti, during his 1974 rowing marathon in the Pacific.

Marie-Thérèse Danielsson is hanging the lei round his neck.

This picture was taken shortly before the grapefruit incident, told on this page, which delayed him in Western Samoa. 29 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1983

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The plaited palm bag in my photograph of Governor Mangefel is typical of those carried by nearly all Yapese men and women. The dexterity and skills required to make these bags and baskets are learned very early in life, as I saw during a visit to a Traditional Culture class at Gagil Elementary School.

In addition to Yap’s natural beauties, the abundance and accessibility of its famous stone money and magnificent traditional houses, make the shortest visit a visual delight. Rai, stone money discs of crystallised limestone, ranging in size from approximately 30 centimetres to three metres in diameter, were quarried centuries ago in Palau and perilously transported to Yap up through the early 1900 s. Today this stone money is still considered legal tender even by Yap is reputed to be the most traditional country in Micronesia, and has long taken pride in this characterisation. A reflection of this attitude is Governor Mangefel’s pleasure at the legislature’s recent passage of a constitutional provision requiring Traditional Yapese Culture classes in all elementary schools.

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At the Gagil Elementary School, training in the arts of boat-building starts early with a Traditional Culture teacher.

Once learned, these skills are exercised for a lifetime, as vividly demonstrated by an 82-yearold Yapese man I saw repairing his canoe. These outrigger canoes are still used in Yap for Governor John Mangefel: The importance of local culture 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1983

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Most of the traditional Men’s Houses, as well as many family dwellings, are constructed from local materials and lashed together in the old manner by sennit rather than nails. Canoe prows, shells and other sea memorabilia including a whale’s vertebra decorate these houses.

These are vivid evidence that the sea and marine life are as important a part of Yapese life today as in earlier times.

Formerly colonised by Spain, Germany and Japan, Yap since 1947 has been administered by the U.S. as part of its Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

Along with Palau. Truk, Ponape, Kosrae, the Northern Marianas and the Marshalls, Yap is part of a “sacred trust’’ given by the United Nations to the U.S.

Governor Mangefel is approving about the U.S. administration’s role in the development of education and political awareness during this period. As he points out, all the Trust Territory countries have their own elected legislatures and leaders.

However, he is critical of the U.S. administration’s lack of success in promoting economic development and infrastructure.

The governor feels that U.S. failure in this area is the main reason for the region’s present state of dependency on outside assistance.

Ultimate independence of the Micronesian countries constituting the U.S. Trust Territory was always a condition and goal of the U.N. trusteeship agreement.

During the 13 years of negotiations on the future status of these countries and their relationship to the U.S., Yap joined together with Ponape, Kosrae and Truk to form in 1979 the Federated States of Micronesia. On October 1, 1982, the FSM representative Andon Amaraich, signed a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. which is to be ratified by plebiscites, tentatively scheduled for this (northern) summer.

Governor Mangefel frankly said that he was not too happy with the conditions of the compact. But he recognises the necessity for give and take in the situation. Of specific concern to him is the provision on “strategic denial.’’ This provision requires the government of the FSM to inform the U.S. in the event of a third country seeking access or use of any part of the FSM by military personnel or for military purposes. It also gives the U.S. the right to remove from the FSM individuals whose presence constitutes access to or use of the FSM by military personnel or for military purposes.

On the sunny side, however.

Governor Mangefel freely admits that the current Five Year Development Plan of Yap is based on receiving Yap’s portion of the money committed to the FSM by the U.S. upon ratification of the compact. Of the $U.5.325 million promised during the next five years, 40 per cent or approximately $l2O million, is earmarked for economic development in the FSM. According to Yap’s Development Plan this money will be used for programs in five main areas: 1. To strengthen and diversify Yap’s economic base: Governor Mangefel believes this goal will be attained by supplementing the present production of copra, farm produce, fishing, betelnut and handicrafts with timber, phosphate (formerly mined by the Japanese), citrus fruits, spices, tobacco, sugar, cut flowers, coconut candy and coconut oil. 2. To provide for the basic human needs of all the people: The recent signing of a contract for a new water system in the Gagil district is an example of how this goal is being implemented. Also under consideration is another water system for the southern part of the island. 3. To develop economic selfsufficiency in food production: Governor Mangefel acknowledges that complete attainment of this goal is a bit unrealistic in view of the present and ever increasing population of Yap (in 1983, 10,264 with 42.3 per cent 32 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983 TROPICALITIES

under 15 years old). However, he pointed out some encouraging trends for example, Yap is now fully self-sufficient in egg production and a planned chicken farm on Ulithi will, it is hoped, reduce the present degree of dependence on imported frozen chicken. Chicken now accounts for 55 per cent of all imported meats. Another way the governor hopes to increase food self-sufficiency is to induce people to eat locally grown taro and yams instead of imported rice.

In Yap as well as many other Pacific Island countries a large percentage of the percapita cash income is derived from government salaries, and is spent on beer, soft drinks and tobacco.

Since all of these goods are imported this situation adversely affects the country’s cash outflow, without in any way benefiting local producers.

Governor Mangefel is keenly aware of this situation. He has attempted to alleviate the problem by slapping a ,35c tax on all beer sold. Public drinking is also discouraged in Yap. One of Colonia’s two hotels does not have a bar at all, and the other restricts the clientele allowed at its bar.

These practices appear to have helped Colonia (Yap’s capital) avoid some of the problems associated with excessive drinking and violence found in other district centres.

The remaining goals of Yap’s Five Year Development Plan are; 4. To create a government of a size and structure that can be locally sustained: A minor but significant step in this direction is the construction of new government buildings that are not air-conditioned. Instead the offices are designed to take advantage of Yap’s natural breezes so that the energy saved can be used for other purposes. 5. Provide socio-cultural values for people according to the tradition of Yap society: First, we have the constitutional provision to provide Traditional Culture classes in all Yapese elementary schools. The continued validation of stone money, and construction of new Men’s Houses in the traditional style, are other indications of the viability of traditional ways in Yap.

Governor Mangefel feels that relations between Yap and the other federated states Ponape, Truk and Kosrae have improved over the past four years.

He credits this partly to the incumbent leaders of these countries, and to the guidance of the Federation’s President, Tosiwo Nakayama. The governor is of the opinion that Yap and the other Federated States of Micronesia will ratify the Compact of Free Association with the U.S. Then, he hopes, the long overdue economic developments of the region can get underway without diminishing the distinctive culture and life styles of Yap and the other Federated States, that have survived so many colonisers.

Caroline Yacoe in New York.

Top left: Weaving a basket at Gagil Elementary School. Top centre: An 82-year-old man works on a Yap canoe. Top: Traditional Culture Class at Gagil school. Above: A traditionally designed house at Gagil. Note canoe ornaments and stylised fish on gable end and stone money in foreground. - Caroline Yacoe pictures. 33 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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PEOPLE Longas Solomon is Papua New Guinea’s new consul-general in Sydney. He replaces Dr Alkan Tololo, who is now PNG high commissioner in Canberra.

Mr Solomon, from PNG’s East Sepik province, has a background in finance and trade, having worked for the Bank of PNG, and as acting registrar of the country’s Registry of Savings and Loan Societies. He has also worked for the department of foreign affairs and trade as assistant secretary (trade relations).

He was educated in Queensland and later at the University of PNG, where he obtained a degree in economics.

Fiji’s Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs Satya Nandan has been selected by the United Nations secretary-general, Javier Perez de Cuellar, for the Number Two executive post in the newly created International Seabed Authority.

As head of Fiji’s delegation to the United Nations Law of the Sea conference, Mr Nandan, a lawyer by training, achieved international recognition for his work in securing acceptance of the concept of a special regime for archipelagic countries like Fiji.

Vanuatu’s representative at the United Nations, Robert Van Lerop, recently visited the country for the first time.

A lawyer turned photojournalist, Mr Van Lerop became internationally known for his work in reporting on developments in the guerrilla zones of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau during the struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Some people who knew of this work recommended him to the Vanuatu Government.

He says his primary responsibility at the UN is to follow the instructions of the Vanuatu Government with respect to votes on resolutions, and to attempt to project a correct image of Vanuatu.

The Holland-based pop music group Black Brothers, made up of musicians from Irian Jaya, which to them is West Papua, will settle in Vanuatu.

But first they are to tour Vanuatu and New Caledonia (at the invitation of the Independence Front).

Manager of the Black Brothers, Andy Ayamiseba, told a press conference in Port- Vila in March: “Though we are living in Europe we know that the Pacific is where we belong.

After we have set up our studio in Port-Vila, we will do all we can to promote music and help Ni-Vanuatu musicians to attain international recognition. ’ ’

French naval officer Jacques de Roux, a contestant in the singlehanded round-the-world yacht race whose yacht Skoiern was * wrecked in the South Pacific in February, was rescued by British fellow-competitor Richard Broadhead in Perseverance of Medina.

Jacques de Roux told the Papeete daily Les Nouvelles: “Richard Broadhead intended to take me to the Falklands and leave me there, because it wouldn’t have been proper to take me right on to Rio, especially as I had no right to help him with the work on board. But from radio contact with naval Robert Van Lerop Barak Sope (left), on behalf of the government of Vanuatu, signs an agreement with Andy Ayamiseba of the Black Brothers. - Tam Tam picture.

Jacques de Roux: Bad luck between Australia and Cape Horn. - Les Nouvelles picture. 35 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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The French single-hander said that race organisers would make allowance for the time spent by Broadhead on his rescue, but that he believed that his unselfish action would still work to his disadvantage in the race results.

He expressed his gratitude to amateur radio operators in a number of countries who helped in his rescue, and to the French navy for sending the Henry to take him to Papeete.

He said he’d be sailing singlehanded around the world again in three years time.

Succeeding Paul Noirot-Cosson as France’s high commissioner in French Polynesia is Alain Ohrel.

On his second day in Tahiti, Mr Ohrel, wearing a suit and tie, met the press in a nonairconditioned area of his official Papeete residence.

The press corps, of course, were much more casually dressed.

As the conference ended, Mr Ohrel gave one and all a firm assurance: the next time he meets the press, it will definitely not be in suit and tie . . .

Stephen V. Nygard is in the editor’s chair of Guam Business News, a monthly magazine which made its debut in March.

The new magazine is published by Glimpses of Guam, Inc, which also publishes the quarterly Glimpses of Micronesia.

Ernie and Maggie Reid celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Port-Vila’s Le Lagon Hotel on February 11. They were married on that date in 1933.

More than 250 guests were present to honor the occasion.

Speeches were given by Reece Discombe and three custom chiefs, all of whom paid tribute to the splendid example set for the community by these two longtime residents of New Hebrides/V anuatu.

Professor Derek Freeman is to donate more than SWSSO,OOO to the University of Samoa for the establishment of the Le Tagaloa Research Fund.

The money will be invested and the interest from it used to finance research projects on Samoan culture, and also to finance the return to Samoa of overseas archives dealing with the country, especially correspondence and the reports on Samoa written by early missionaries. Many of these are in overseas archives.

Professor Freeman said the money would come from anticipated royalties on his book, Margaret Mead and Samoa The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth.

Some of the wittiest comments on the Freeman/Mead imbroglio that have come PlM’s way are those of New York resident Lelei Lelaulu, son of a Samoan chief and president of the recently founded Pacific Islands Association in that city.

Lelei Lelaulu wrote in the Sydney-based newspaper The Weekend Australian of March 12-13: As a Samoan, I have never quite made up my mind whether to be grateful to Dr Margaret Mead, or rue the day she chose to test her anthropological theories in our islands.

My own “coming of age in Samoa’’ seems to have been spent mostly under coconut trees relating the lurid details of my pubescent gropings to yet A traditional greeting in Tahiti for Alain Ohrel, France’s newlyappointed high commissioner there. - Tahiti Press picture.

Stephen V. Nygard 36 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983 PEOPLE

another anthropologist or sociologist.

It was mostly wishful fantasy, of course. But they were always noted in careful detail, later to be tabulated and analysed in unreadable form in some learned academic journal.

But when I went to university myself, my view of the Margaret Mead industry perked up.

At cocktail parties I was always being pounced upon by earnest young women eager to explore Dr Mead’s theories that we were just a bunch of easy-going noble savages making love on a south seas beach as the Pacific Ocean lapped over our happy brown feet.

Being patronised I could just about take since there were compensations in the shape of these delightful young ladies so anxious to indulge in immediate field research . . .

In Samoa, virginity and chastity are highly valued. As Professor Freeman says, he knows of no other society in the world where the status of virginity is so important. He noted that it was practically sacred.

But this is a dead give-away which he appears not to have picked up.

The value of a commodity is usually determined by its scarcity. Although we were not supposed to, and all hell broke loose if we were found out, Samoan boy did meet Samoan girl under the stars. But certainly not in the open, casual way Mead chronicled .. .

As one myth is debunked, I am concerned that another is about to begin. I met Professor Freeman several times at parties in Samoa. He’s a very determined man. He has been trying for decades to get his research published fighting off the hostility of colleagues who resent the merest hint of criticism against the goddess of anthropology.

He finally succeeded in proving his thesis when he was given access to the colonial archives.

There he found figures which suggest the incidence of rape is among the highest in the world.

If Dr Mead was right, and sex was available to anyone whose rocks were burdening them, how could there be rape?

What Professor Freeman does not realise is that in our islands, rape is not the serious criminal offence which the term implies in the West.

On my island, there were many, many occasions when a boy caught enjoying consensual sex would take the chivalrous way out and admit to rape. Usually it was punished by our village chiefs with the culprit being ordered to work for the girl’s family in the fields or fishing their boats for a set period of time. Honor was satisfied all round, and the shamefaced pair usually ended up getting married.

I have never once known violent, forced rape. In this, Dr Mead was correct.

But now, from the records taken by the colonial administrators who used the word rape as a convenient criminological catch-all, another anthropological edifice is to be painstakingly pieced together.

Are we Samoans now to be known as a race of sex-starved rapists? I much prefer my previous reputation as a free-loving orgiast, and so have some advice for Professor Freeman and the rest of the sociology trade.

I now live on an island, torn apart by tribal tensions and sexual neuroses and wide-open for trendy academic research, which might do wonders for the tourist trade. It’s called Manhattan.

Pundit Vivekanand Sharma, a former minister for youth and sport in the Fiji Government, has obtained a doctorate in the Hindi language, the first Fiji citizen to do so.

Mr Sharma obtained his doctorate from the Sardar Patel University, Gujerat, India.

He is the present editor and managing director of the Suvabased Hindi weekly, Prashant Samachar.

Travelling doctor-nursing sister couple Stephen and Elisabeth Weinstein were in Sydney recently after a three-year stint in Hawaii.

They were on their way to Solomon Islands, planning a week in Honiara before taking off for more remote places.

They will spend a few days in Bellona before heading out to Rennell. They will fly to Rennell and again to Tingoa. There they will take a tractor along the Japanese-built mining road (created as part of an abortive bauxite mining project). Then it will be a journey by canoe around the Rennell coast . . .

They will then scale the makatea cliffs and live in the village of Hutuna on the edge of the lake, said to be the largest in the South Pacific.

Licensed to practise in Solomon Islands, Stephen will be responsible aided by Elisabeth for the medical care of the villagers.

They expected to spend about two and a half months on Rennell.

Then it will be back to Honolulu where Stephen plans another two years of training as a specialist pathologist.

Hamuera Orupe McLeod usually known as Joe McLeod is a 24-year-old Maori from the Tuhoe people of New Zealand. He is a great-greatgrandson of the Maori prophet Rua Kenana (see Books, p 45) and he works as an assistant to the chef at the Port Moresby Travelodge in Papua New Guinea. He is becoming widely known through the Pacific and as far west as Japan for his skill in carving delicate sculptures from chocolate, margarine, ice and snow.

He recently visited Japan as a nominee of the New Zealand Master Chefs Association, and demonstrated his skills in snow sculpture in company with other experts from many parts of the world.

Joe McLeod draws extensively on traditional Maori designs for many of his sculpting projects.

The designs include the intricate patterns of Maori canoe prows, canoe stern posts and artefacts.

He has won a number of awards. His interest in the art began during his catering training, where basic skills in sculpting food products is a standard part of the course.

Dr Isi Kevau of the Port Moresby General Hospital has been made a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, the first Papua New Guinean doctor to gain such a fellowship.

PNG Health Minister Martin ToVadek said in a tribute to Dr Kevau, 32, of Pari village near Port Moresby, that he had already achieved a number of distinctions. These included being the first to graduate in medicine from the University of PNG (in 1973), and gaining a master of medicine’s degree (in 1982).

Dr Kevau is senior medical officer (physician) at the Port Moresby General Hospital.

Joe McLeod shows some of his designs to New Zealand diplomat Rod Miller. 37 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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BOOKS Travel book with a sad, sour ‘epilogue' Journey to the End of the World A three-year adventure in the New Hebrides. By Charlene Gourguechon. Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1977. No price given. ISBN 0 684 14847 1. pp 338.

The reason why it seems worthwhile in 1983 to review a book published six years ago is not only that the book has some intrinsic merit. It is also, and perhaps especially, because the book has a social “epilogue” which has universal significance and which is not yet at all widely known.

Journey to the End of the World is actually a translation into English by the author of her own work I’Archipel des Tabous dans les mers du sud une femme affronte les interdits (Editions Roberts Laffont, Paris, 1974). It is a travel book written in rather sensationalistic vein by a young American woman who joined a photographic and filming expedition in Vanuatu (the then New Hebrides) during 1968-71. The photographer and leader was Kal Muller; the film cameraman Jacques Gourguechon, whom the author married on Santo in 1970. The book concentrates mainly on personal recollections of visits to some of the areas of Vanuatu where aspects of the traditional lifestyles were still strong: areas of Malekula, Pentecost, Ambrym and Tanna.

The expedition or the series of expeditions amassed a large collection of photographs and films of great ethnographic importance, of which the Vanuatu Cultural Centre is trying to obtain copies. Examples of the photographic coverage can be found in Kal Muller’s various articles for National Geographic in the early 19705, and his various ethnographic notes published in the Journal de la Societe des Oceanistesi Paris).

An occasional fellow-traveller with the expeditions was Louis Nedjar, who had his (rather thin) reminiscences in Peuples Oublies des Nouvelles Hebridespuhlished in Montreal in 1974.

The rather sad “epilogue” to the book lies in the unfulfilled promises made by the expedition to the inhabitants of at least two areas of Vanuatu.

The people of Bunlap village, south-east Pentecost, were promised several thousand dollars in return for permission and assistance in filming traditional and ceremonial life in Bunlap, and the people of Fanla village, north-central Ambrym, were also promised money in return for permitting the crew to film and photograph ceremonial life.

The Vanuatu Cultural Centre, on behalf of these villages, has been trying to obtain for them the monies promised over 10 years ago, but so far without result.

We have found that the film made in Bunlap, called Land Divers of Melanesia, is available commercially from Phoenix Films Inc., 468 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, for $U.5.450. The Fanla films, still unedited, are in Paris.

The moral of this story is: Olgeta waet man we oli kam stap (ivin long sotfala taem nomo) long Pasifik oli mas respektem kastom mo kalja blong olgeta man pies. Taem yu givem wan promts yu mas kipim. Ino gud long spoilem ol man pies.

For non-speakers of Bislama, the gist of the above is: Outsiders coming to the Pacific should respect the local traditions. In Vanuatu an oral promise can traditionally be as binding as a legal document. Do not make promises and then conveniently forget them. This shows nonrespect, and can create problems for others in the future . . .

There is a cynical saying in English: “Promises are like piecrusts, made to be broken.”

For the peoples of the Pacific, they aren’t.

Kirk Huffman . *Kirk Huffman is Curator (Museum), Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port-Vila.

Much-photographed Vanuatu, islands of intricate art and elaborate ceremony. But let visitors show respect and keep their promises, writes Kirk Huffman. 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-APRIL, 1983

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Memories of oldtime Solomons, New Guinea Yield Not To The Wind. By Margaret Clarence. Published by Management Development Publishers Pty. Ltd., Sydney 1982. Distributed by the author, 3/18 Ramsay Street, Collaroy, NSW 2097. Price $A9.50. ISBN 0 909633 07 X.

There can be few things harder to assess objectively than the lives of loved ones. That Margaret Clarence has succeeded in doing so in such an interesting work as this is a tribute to her sense of proportion as well as to her parents, Charles and Kathleen Bignell.

The story is set in Solomon Islands and New Guinea in the period between 1911 and 1945, and was compiled from Kathleen Bignell’s diaries and from episodes related to the author by her father. It describes the setting up of a plantation in the Solomons, the managing of a hotel and plantation in New Guinea, and Kathleen Bignell’s imprisonment in Japan during World War 11.

The book is well-written in an easy straight-forward style and is illustrated with black and white photographs of the era. It is good reading for anyone interested in the life of European settlers in the area in the first half of this century.

Charles Bignell was bom in Dungog, NSW, in 1892. He began his career as a cabin boy at the age of 12, and spent the next three years travelling around the world. He then joined the Minota, a large yacht owned by trader Captain Oscar Svensen, used in the Solomons for recruiting labor and transporting stores.

The Minota’s job was to open new trading posts in the Solomons, and it was decided that 17-year-old Charles Bignell would be responsible for overseeing Gozoruru Plantation on Santa Isabel for 18 months. So began the Bignells’ involvement with the Solomons.

On termination of his contract with Captain Svensen, Charles Bignell decided to buy his own plantation, along with two whale boats for trading purposes. His enterprise was successful, and rapidly expanded. In 1913 he met Scottish-born Kathleen Dorothy Freeman, who had been visiting her sister in Beki, and a year later they were married.

Thus began an interesting but rather erratic marriage relationship.

The author writes in the preface that she has tried to present the story in “as clear, frank, unsentimental and sympathetic manner” as she could, and I think she has been successful.

The book is an honest and genuine account of the conflicts that can arise between the ties of family and home, and for me the unsentimental and intriguing look at colonial-style married life is one of the story’s great charms. Older expatriates will possibly recall days with the Bignells at Beki Island and Fulakora Plantation, and at Waranvula and the Rabaul Hotel with Kathleen Bignell. Many, many names come into the story of early settlers in the Solomons and the friendships bom there.

The book is liberally scattered with Kathleen Bignell’s poetry and doggerel, as she was a prolific writer. I thoroughly enjoyed these additions to the text and I am sure there must be an audience who would delight in the vivid imagery and free-swinging rhythms that Kathleen conjured up so powerfully and resonantly, should Margaret Clarence care to release more of her mother’s work.

I am very moved by the laconic style of the five chapters devoted to Kathleen’s imprisonment in Japan, and the war service of Charles. In these chapters the author quotes very extensively from her mother’s writings, with the minimum of comment, so emphasising the first-hand nature of the account of the ordeal.

It is a particularly vivid and moving part of the book and contains some of the most poignant of Kathleen’s verses.

Two minor remarks: the New Britain mission is really Vunapope, not Vunapopu. And the use of the word “native” to mean non-European resident is now considered derogatory.

To add a personal note, it was not until I was half-way through the book that I realised that as a child in 1949-50, I met the redoubtable Kathleen Bignell at Springwood, NSW, when my family were holidaying next door. She was still tremendously energetic, but was having to slow down. She entertained us, and let us three young strangers, plus her grand-daughter, work with her. I remember she treated us as individuals, a refreshing and not very common experience for children in those days.

Wil- Ham Sharpe-Dunn.

The auxiliary ketch Valere which Charles Bignell used to take wartime refugees out of the Solomons.

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Salute to Maori prophet Rua Mihaia, The Prophet Rua Kenana and his Community at Maungapohatu. By Judith Binney, Gillian Chaplin and Craig Wallace. Published by Oxford University Press, Wellington, 1979. 208 pp, lavishly illustrated, $24 (paper). ISBN 0 19 558042 7 cloth; ISBN 0 19 558052 4 paper. Rua and the Maori Millennium. By Peter Webster. Published by Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1979. 328 pp, illustrated, $l5.

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Out of relative obscurity the Maori prophet and leader Rua Kenana has emerged as a fascinating historical figure eminently worthy of the two substantial books about his life and movement that have been published recently.

Before 1979 the long tradition of Maori prophet leaders had attracted much attention, and the names and lives of Te Ua, Te Whiti, Te Kooti and Ratana were well known, but Rua, although he claimed direct links with this prophetic line through Te Kooti, had not been studied. The facts that his following was small and his successes limited may partly explain this.

Rua Kenana, a Tuhoe, was bom in 1869 during the closing phase of the Anglo-Maori wars, which left the Maoris defeated but in no way reconciled to the loss of land, authority and dignity they had suffered during the conflict, and which they continued to suffer throughout the ensuing decades.

The Tuhoe lived in the rugged Urewera ranges on the east coast of the North Island, largely removed from Pakeha presence and pressures. But by the turn of the century they faced tragic population loss due largely to introduced diseases, a stark contrast between Pakeha wealth and their own poverty, and a white demand for land that could no longer be resisted.

Amongst these people Rua slowly gained a following and he first attracted European notice in January 1906 with his prophecy that King Edward would come to Gisborne, New Zealand, later that year, and return all the land to the Maoris, while most Pakehas would be expelled. King Edward’s non-appearance did not deter Rua, who led his people to a new settlement at Maungapohatu in the heart of the Urewera, where they attempted to create an autonomous prosperous farming community. Its history and fate, which both Binney and Webster cover, and the life of Rua after he had served a Pakeha-imposed prison term, which Binney explores, make compelling reading.

Mihaia was first conceived as a photographic history by Craig Wallace, who recognised the extent and potential of the pictorial record of Rua and his people that had been preserved. Later the project expanded to include recent photos of places and surviving Rua followers, documentary archival research and the collection of oral evidence from Maori and Pakeha who remembered Rua.

The result is a superb selection of photographs that accompanies a sensitive biography of Rua and his people in which the author of the text, Judith Binney, has recorded Maori opinion about the prophet, both positive and negative, but has scrupulously refrained from stating her own judgments or opinions.

Peter Webster’s book, which belongs more clearly in the academic, anthropological tradition, focuses on the millenarian aspects of Rua’s movement. His theoretical discussion of millenarian movements in general, and his analysis of Rua’s movement within this framework, is masterly. But his audience will remain largely academic.

It is the Binney-Chaplin- Wallace approach through image and word that evokes the spirit and ethos of Rua and his people, and which is therefore more likely to win a large Maori audience, as well as a more general one.

Audiences aside, both books have much to offer and together they make an important contribution to the history of the Maori people Caroline Ralston. (Below): One of the fascinating period pictures from the book: Police prepare for the controversial march on Maungapohatu to arrest Rua in 1916. (Below right) Rua’s meeting house, sometimes called the temple, in 1908. Rua is third from the left on the top landing.

Rua Kenana in 1908, about the time he was gaining a reputation as a leader and prophet. 45 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983 BOOKS

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What were the New Guinea highlands like when the whites arrived there in the early 20th century?

On the face of it, most of us would think that was a fairly simple question, which could be answered by looking at the explorers’ accounts, interviewing old inhabitants and reading the works of anthropologists. One of the major results of Hughes’ study is to show that such a conclusion would be seriously inaccurate. Highlands societies were not, as many whites think, unchanging stone age ones, where the daily and yearly patterns of life ground on unchanged through the centuries. They changed constantly, and in major features: the arrival of Europeans speeded up on-going processes as much as it added new ones.

Hughes’ study is concerned with trade: what was moved around, where did it come from and go to, how much was traded and who participated? He investigated these questions mostly through a series of more than 300 interviews conducted in 1967- 1968, and through documentary and archaeological research. The interviews were mostly with older men. He discusses fully the problems involved with researching oral history the need for open-ended questions, for constant cross checking, the tendency among people to conflate events into a short-term past. He points out that a consistent and realistic story is obtainable, at least for the last century or so.

In order to obtain this story, Hughes had to be clear about the changes which had occurred in the highlands during the 30 years or so between white contact and his study. I can mention only two examples of such changes here.

The first is the changed value of shells. Seashells have been imported into the highlands for at least 10,000 years. They must always have been rare, and presumably valuable, items certainly this was so in the early 20th century.

When the white explorers, patrol officers and missionaries found that men would work all day for one small cowrie shell they used these shells, flown in by the planeload from the coast, as money. Within a decade between five and 10 million new shells were put into circulation.

The photos of highlanders hung about with hundreds of shells therefore do not represent the traditional situation, but one in which shells had been considerably devalued relative to other goods, the fact that shells came by plane to such centres as Mt Hagen rather than from hand-tohand through a long chain of trading men was also important in that it altered the balance of power between traders.

“Fringe” highlanders, who had been part of the supply line, were now cut out, and their power weakened. Groups such as the Chimbu and Metlpa, which had preferential access to the new sources of wealth, had their power strengthened.

The second example of change derives from the imposition of colonial peace. Men who wanted to trade were no longer dependent on their immediate neighbors but could by-pass them and seek out trading partners further afield. Even the routes by which goods travelled changed to some extent as roads were built, and people walked along them rather than traditional tracks. It is these kinds of changes which Hughes has had to grapple with in order to construct his picture.

The area covered by Hughes’ research is large, some 200 kilometres north-south, from the hills northeast of the Ramu River to the middle Purari and 150 km east-west, from the lower Asaro Valley to the Baiyer-Wahgi divide. This of course includes the main eastern and central highlands valleys, with their dense populations. It includes many groups whose direct contact with the world beyond their immediate neighbors is a part of living memory.

One of the notable features of trade in the highlands is that it did not involve food, except when it was on the hoof as living pigs. Further, many of the goods which were moved around were durable and valuable. They were thus likely to survive and their trading was remembered.

Hughes has capitalised on this by focusing on trade in pottery, ground stone tools (mostly axes), seashells and pigments. Each of these has the additional advantage that the sources from which it is derived can be determined, in some cases quite accurately.

Other goods were, of course, also traded. These ranged from live animals and birds, through their dried and smoked carcasses, skins and feathers, to forest products such as oil, vines, bow staves and other tools. Where detailed local studies have been made, such as by Paul Sillitoe among the Wola, it is apparent that an enormous range of goods formed part of every community’s trading network. Hughes recognises this, but decided to concentrate on the larger-scale trading patterns, and on traceable goods.

Hughes makes it clear that within his study area there was no trading “system”, such as there was in a number of coastal regions. Nor were there specialist “traders”. Rather, goods moved in all directions, dependent in each case on an individual’s network of connections.

Comparative advantages in supply, and regional and local dif- A PNG Western Highlander, 250 km from the sea, uses seashells for status. It’s largely symbolic today but once the shells represented an arduous import along an ancient trade route. 47 BOOKS PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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I will not, in this review, elaborate the detailed trading patterns which Hughes describes for each of his major goods. His work, which was originally written as a PhD thesis at the Australian National University, is thorough and careful, the results both fascinating and convincing.

When Hughes researched, many people were able to inform him; now, 15 years later, the number is many fewer. It was intelligent of Hughes to make such a study and to do it so well. He has made a substantial and elegant contribution to the history of the highlands.

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From the ISLANDS PRESS From an Editorial in The Samoa Times, Apia, commenting on the new controversy surrounding the old writings of anthropologist Margaret Mead The current debate involving Dr Derek Freeman and his critique of Margaret Mead’s, until recently, masterpiece “Coming of Age in Samoa”, highlights once again the need for more Western Samoans to be trained in the social sciences such as anthropology, psychology and sociology ... Dr Freeman has made an exhaustive study of Samoan culture and we should be grateful to him for bringing many aspects of our true culture to the world, especially for correcting many of the false assumptions that Margaret Mead has made about our culture in her famous, or infamous, book “Coming of Age in Samoa”.

While Dr Freeman is not the first to hit at Mead’s ridiculous claims, at the same time he has made what has amounted to a complete refutation of Mead’s romantic and idealised notions about Samoa.

From The Times of Papua New Guinea The “Queen Elizabeth 2” was Queen of Port Moresby for a day when she paid a rare, stately visit on Monday. Her 1,700 guests became the guests of Papua New Guinea, travelling to the cool Sogeri plateau and seeing other sights of the national capital.

About 50 VIPs from Papua New Guinea were invited on board.

All, it is understood, later returned reluctantly ashore. ... and from an article in the Cook Islands News, Rarotonga, on the visit there of the Queen Elizabeth II There are two sets of cabins on board, costing $270,000 for the cruise which lasts 90 days. There are many cabins costing $lOO,OOO, and for poor people there are cabins that cost only $20,000.

From a letter in Voice of Vanuatu headed Lost Bins I wanted to take this privilege to thank the municipality workers especially those working on the garbage truck for their great help in taking out the rubbish (household wastes). I also would like to put out some comments on their work. I think their boss or whoever is in charge of their work didn’t really do his work well in explaining whether they should throw out the dust bins as well. I put it this way, because their work is only to throw out the rubbish rather than the rubbish bins, but to my surprise at the area in which I lived women are seriously complaining about their rubbish bins being thrown into the garbage truck as well. I think, their boss or whatever they call him, should look into this matter because the municipality didn’t help to pay for our dust bins.

From Voice of Vanuatu Port-Vila Beaujolais Nouveau parties rage in France at this time. And a Beaujolais Nouveau party was given in the capital on Monday by the restaurant, Sur le Toit. Members of the diplomatic corps and invited guests tasted the first wine of the new year. Three casks boarded a ship bound for Port Vila when the wine was just six weeks old. It fermented in the wood for the four weeks of its journey. It was still fermenting while it was being drunk, restaurateur Karl-Heinz Okon said.

From “The Times Opinion” on “Keep military out of Remembrance Day”, in The Times of Papua New Guinea . . . Who knew, really, who or what they were fighting for?

How many Papua New Guineans were personally concerned whether it was the Japanese or the Americans and Australians who won? There must be no focus on the “winning” of the war. Papua New Guinea was in the hands of foreigners before, during and after the war, fought on its soil without its permission for the sole benefit of foreigners. We suggest the focus of future Remembrance Days must be on the ending of wars, on sorrow and repentance for the wars and violence with which we have been or are associated. How can we glory in “triumphant dead”?

From an interview with Cook Islands singer Apiti Nicholas on her visit to Tahiti, as reported in the Cook Islands News “The Tahitians think they are better than us at singing, but there are many top singers in Rarotonga. Compared with the Tahitians, we’re all the same,” said Apiti.

From a letter by Jerry Akove, “Embarrassed Melanesian”, in the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier Our ladies are becoming extraordinarily westernised with gold and silver painted toes, fingernails, red lips and painted eyelids.

Please my counterpart madame, did your grandmother or your motherlive that way? I just feel like swearing at PNG women whose hips go up and down, like a New Guinea cassowary, when she walks in her high-heeled shoes. I want to see a prompt stop to this collapse of Melanesian identify held by women.

From Letters to the Editor in the Samoa Times, Apia, from a Melbourne correspondent Last year you inserted a call for penfriends column. I did receive some answers, but unfortunately they did not seem interested in friendly correspondence as it turned out. One lady wanted me to send her money, as she said she was poor, and the other two wanted me to sponsor them to Australia.

From a letter by S. Ranck (University of Papua New Guinea) in The Times of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby Your banner headline. “Our sick economy is going to get worse” reflects the exceedingly one-eyed view of a particular special interest group. In fact, the Papua New Guinea economy is not sick. A small part of it, the so-called modem sector, is indeed suffering because it depends on a workd economy engulfed in depression and eroded by inflation. The majority of Papua New Guineans share but marginally in that sector. They are still able to feed and house themselves in a self-reliant fashion and they all have some claims to property. It is precisely as a result of their healthy economy that they are not suffering the starvation, degradation and slave wages so common in the Third World and an integral part of poverty in the developed world.

From the Cook Islands News, Rarotonga, reporting on comments on Samoans by Titikaveka College students after visiting Samoa Most of the students found the Samoan way of life of “Fa’a Samoa” very different from that of the Cook Islands. “Boys do the cooking” commented student Piritau Nge. Another added that they never saw a lawn-mower in Samoa and they cut their grass with a big knife. One girl commented “They don’t tie their pigs up . . .” When asked about the people all agreed “They’re very friendly, kind or very generous.”

From a USP Information Bulletin article on David Fanshawe who is recording and researching traditional music in the Pacific Islands On Rapa Mr Fanshawe recorded some of the most interesting examples of music of his travels. They were religious hymns which were performed to sound like a tape recorder with flat batteries, out of tune by Western standards. He said this unique music thoroughly justified the journey. The only music he had ever heard which sounded anything like it were the hippo hunting songs of the El Molo tribe of Lake Rudolph, North Kenya. 49 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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YESTERDAY The ‘sin’ of Bishop Strong, and the Seventh Commandment Philip Nigel Warrington Strong, Fourth Bishop of New Guinea, arrived before the weekend, a pleasant smiling friendly soul.

His speech, somewhat staccato, evidenced his close contacts with the “Wee Geordie” world he had just foresaken. He was a Cambridge man with his home in Oxford, and had been ordained by that fascinating character, Hensley Henson, of Durham.

His sense of the humorous in later years would bring him to relate his life with Henson, with appropriate gestures and action.

He was a thorough comedian.

He was also the new unknown quantity ready to plunge into the unknown and was to prove his worth in the face of great tribulation. He was accompanied by Father Benson, a former monk.

The rains departed, the sun shone forth, the seas calmed.

There was even the evidence of dust raised by the quiet pad of over 2000 calloused bare feet that bore naked bodies, some hillmen clothed in simply a few shreds of grass caught up on a thing around the waist, as they wended their way in silence to the long thatched building that was to serve as a temporary cathedral.

In the afternoon there was the New Guinea people’s own reception to their new bishop, with speeches and dances. There was drama in the opening speech the New Guinea man beginning to seek deeper than the surface.

Later it became clear that the orator had been “primed” by some anti-Mission element.

“Bishop,” he cried, “Why have you come here?” At least that was the interpretation given of the Wedauan dialect in which he spoke. This sounded like an opening gambit, but, after a space, he repeated: “Bishop, why have you come here?” The silence that followed suggested a form of rhetoric, but when it was asked a third time, it carried an implication; just what are you In this fourth extract from the memoirs of the late Charles William Whonsbon-Aston, Anglican Archdeacon Emeritus of Polynesia, he describes the eventful arrival of a new bishop, the decline in his own health, and his final departure from Papua. getting out of us? He required an answer, and the answer the bishop gave was that he felt sure he had been called of God to come to New Guinea. From the standpoint of material gain, he profited in no way.

The bishop, entirely new to conditions and looking forward to a triumphant entrance into his heritage, reached the Mamba and the model station there, coupled with the softly spoken personality and genuine hospitality of Romney Gill. He could not but be impressed.

One interesting tale told by James Benson about Strong’s first visit to northern Papua illustrates a point. So often newcomers produce idioms that are readily intelligible to a European audience, but convey an entirely different interpretation to Papuans.

It would seem in New Guinea, that the only breach of the Commandments that has the direct penalty is that of the Seventh (or Sixth in the Roman order), so that “Sin”, in the New Guinea mind, seemed to limit itself to “Sex”.

It was at Isivita, Benson would retail, that the bishop stood with an interpreter before a great body of tribesmen, many of them still “hearers”, or people just on the fringe. Range upon range of shining dark eyes gazed up as the bishop out of dark faces crowned with fuzzy hair, or long maidenlike curls. The bishop based his remarks on his experience at the reception at Dogura. “I have been asked,” he said, “why have I come here?” His interpreter said his piece. “All have sinned,” he continued.

There was a lowering of heads, for they knew what “Sin” meant from the newcomer’s viewpoint.

“You have sinned” and the heads, according to Fr Benson, bent even lower and, had they been properly instructed, they would have beaten their breasts with a “Mea maxima culpa”.

Then the bombshell: “I have Philip (later Sir Philip) Strong, who became a leading figure in Papua New Guinea history up to, during and after World War II. Top picture shows him during his membership of the PNG Legislative Council, and above (at right) he consecrates a Kokoda Trail wartime carriers’ memorial in 1959. He now lives in retirement in Australia. 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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During a visit to Melbourne I was approached by a canon of the cathedral, who as a member of the Australian Board of Missions Committee opened with the remarks: “I understand that you need more priests for New Guinea. I know a man who would probably just suit. The only thing that is wrong with him is ...” I stopped him there, asking: “Why do you think that we want people with something wrong with them? Are we supposed to be a party of misfits or escapists ‘with something wrong with us’?”

The same point was raised by Hobart Spiller, the planter at Mukawa. He sat with me on the edge of the government rest house near the beach for a minute’s talk. Soliloquising, he remarked: “Do you know I am certain all we outsiders here in New Guinea are mad. I am sure I must be mad. I left a perfectly good job, with a big future, in Auckland, New Zealand, where today I would have been ‘sitting pretty’. Here I am. Today I’m pushing for some sort of returns with copra at its lowest point (it was selling at about six pounds per ton), the cost of bags is almost more than I get from the products, and I’ve got to get about in a small ship over those rough waters just to get by. lam certain I must be ‘nuts’.” He turned to me with: “As for you missionaries, I am certain you are all mad. Look at yourself.

You could probably hold down a good living wherever you came from, yet you people live on a pittance in sub-standard houses, traipsing miles in mud and slush just for these people, who just are not that appreciative.” Then, with a roguish look, he added: “They tell me you single missionaries are provided with plenty of lime juice to help you to restrain your passions. Isn’t that so?”

I replied: “If you are personally in need of plenty of lime juice, I am afraid I could not supply it.

It has never been on my list.”

Our stores and mail landed, he left us and I could see the little ship tossing up and over the tumbled seas.

My personal diary at this time has many blanks and, looking through the station logbook 30 years later, there are evidences of pages that have been tom out for amendment, records made under stress, and altered later. I had been very unwell: I had been living alone, in terms of the company of fellow Europeans, under circumstances that could give rise to strains. In spite of precautions I was having bouts of malaria, became anaemic and my weight fell to 6 stone 7 lbs (41 kilograms). An attack of gastric malaria prompted me to send a note to my friend the ARM (asistant resident magistrate) to see if the Una could take me to the Samarai. Next evening, on Palm Sunday, a sea-going launch took me off to Samarai and to the new Samarai Hospital, where I claim the record of being the first patient in the obstetric ward.

The English doctor from Kwato Island Extension Mission was acting as medico in the absence of the government medical officer. Kwato, founded years earlier by the Rev C. W.

Abel, of cricket fame, on orthodox lines, was now in the hands of his family, Cecil and Russell, and their sister. They were running the place, for the time, on Buchmanist lines, in accordance with the ideas of the Oxford Group Movement, later known as Moral Re-Armament.

They had held cottage meetings in Samarai among the small community, mainly government and business expatriates, who were getting quite a vicarious thrill out of the “revelations”. The doctor felt that my state was just splendid for a little indoctrination. He produced an eight-page brochure, the whole centre spread being taken up by a large group photo of a Group Conference held in a posh London hotel. Prominent in the picture was Cecil Abel. 52 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983 YESTERDAY

I spent three days of my convalescence on Kwato, which did not attract me in any way to the Group movement. However, though commercialised, the practical training of Papuans in engineering and boat-building seemed to me a more practical approach to the people’s needs.

They had, of course, the advantage of having lived nearer to European influences for some years. In a less sophisticated, much more primitive world, Romney Gill was doing similar work at the Mamba, in a different field. Insofar as the Group Movement was concerned, I felt that far from being “with it”, it seemed to border on the eccentric.

The repairs effected in Samarai to my health seemed to be but temporary and the young Queenslander assistant with me insisted that he felt some responsibility and, for his sake, further medical advice should be sought.

I went once again to Samarai, where the very general diagnosis was malaria, hookworm, whipworm, all contributing to tropical neurasthenia. I should take a year away.

With a glance over my shoulder to the past, I must say that I am grateful for having had this opportunity of living with Papuans in an atmosphere that will probably never be encountered again.

In April, 1967, immediately after my retirement, I decided on a sentimental journey back to New Guinea. Port Moresby had grown into a very presentable city, attractive and with an individuality, but a great contrast to the real New Guinea.

It seemed a great pity that is was found necessary to draw young men completely away from their environment to a city of today’s complicated political, economic and social problems, and expect them to go back to that great hinterland as leaders.

After “city lights”, a considerably higher scale of living, and higher learning, can they be expected to take readily to life in the villages? The old song rings true; “How’re we going to keep ’em down on the farm, now that they’ve seen Paree?” • Next month; Chaplain in Western Samoa.

Top: The Samarai police barracks in the 30s. The black one-piece uniform remained in use until 1963.

Centre: The photographer of the time called this “a typical view of charming Samarai.” Above: Kwato mission near Samarai. Whonsbon-Aston had reservations about some aspects of its program.

“The Worst For 50 Years”

Wide damage in Fiji hurricane Nine deaths, property losses of more than $lOO million and widespread disruption followed Fiji’s Hurricane Oscar in March. ROBERT KEITH-REID in Suva tells the story.

“The worst for 50 years”. This was the description applied to Hurricane Oscar by Fiji Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara after he inspected the devastation inflicted by a hurricane which swept the south-west part of Viti Levu, Fiji’s largest island, in early March. At least nine deaths were attributed to the hurricane and its economic consequences are expected to cost more than $lOO million.

By mid-March the government had estimated that the cost of repairing shattered schools, telecommunications equipment, roads, water supplies and other infrastructure would be about $32 million. About $2O million was being mentioned as a conservative estimate in terms of repairs needed by resort hotels.

However the Fiji tourist industry was frantically trying to convince Australian tourists that it was still in business with plenty of accommodation to spare, and that tourists should not cancel the holidays they had booked.

Thousands however made cancellations.

Part of the vital sugar crop was affected, although how much exactly is something that the Fiji Sugar Corporation won’t know until late April.

The Fiji Pine Commission reported that more than 6000 hectares of pine planted in the Nabou and Nadi areas an investment with a potential value of tens of millions of dollars would be a write-off without emergency resuscitation efforts which could cost around $6 million.

Just over 100,000 people will have to be fed by the government for three months because of the destruction of their food crops and for months to come tens of thousands of people will be living under the cover of army tents Fiji Times pictures show (top) the wrecked cocktail lounge and bar of the Mocambo Hotel, Nadi; and (below) the unroofed staff quarters at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. 54 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

until their houses can be repaired or rebuilt entirely.

Government disaster survey teams counted about 10,000 houses and other buildings destroyed or damaged in the area between Nadi town and Sigatoka, about 55 km away.

At first Hurricane Oscar did not appear likely to cause much nuisance when it was spotted to the north west of Fiji at the end of February as a depression with winds of 70 to 80 knots near its centre. But it began swinging towards the big island of Viti Levu and it rapidly intensified.

The Fiji weather office at Nadi International Airport upped Oscar’s strength to gusts of 110 knots in a 40 km radius around its centre, with gale force winds up to 280 km from it. Later people were warned to brace themselves for steady blasts of 100 knots with gusts to 140 knots.

Oscar began pounding the Yasawa and Mamanuca islands on March 1 and then, moving slowly, it worked over the coastal region from Nadi to Sigatoka.

The centre turned on a more southerly track about 70 km short of Suva, where gusts of only 60 to 70 knots were briefly experienced, then hit the islands of Vatulele, Beqa and part of Kadavu before roaring on a south-west track out of Fiji.

It was several days before the extent of damage in western Viti Levu was fully realised by the government. This was due to the destruction of communication links, in particular a microwave link tower near Nadi that was supposed to be able to withstand 150 knot wind forces. The tower was destroyed, cutting all telephone contact between Suva and Nadi during the hurricane. Radio Fiji, which stayed on the air all night to broadcast hurricane warnings, had to rely on reports relayed to it from Wellington in New Zealand because the Nadi weather office was uncontactable.

Nadi airport was shut down as hurricane-force winds ripped away navigation installations and part of the roof of the passenger walkway. Buildings were deroofed, some collapsed and lowlying land was flooded in south and south-eastern Viti Levu by Top: Amenatave Serowale (left) gets a cup of tea from his son Jone as they sit on the wreckage of their house, destroyed on Matanipusi hill by Hurricane Oscar. Above: The wrecked transit lounge at Fiji international airport, Nadi. Ralph Sharp of CP Air and Airport Superintendent Joe Kamali inspect the damage. - Fiji Times pictures by Sunil Sunny Chand and Asaeli Lave. 55 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1983

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rivers swollen by torrential rain.

It was surprising that the human casualty count wasn’t very much higher. On Beqa island, 28 km south of Suva, some villages were battered by up to eightmetre-high waves. In the Mamanuca islands, several island resorts were shattered. A foreign yacht was thrown up into the lounge of the Mana resort and two more yachts were reported high and dry amid the wreckage of Plantation Island resort. One of the five big cruisers of the Blue Lagoon fleet, the Oleanda after making a dash from the Yasawas, reached the safety of Lautoka wharf only to be sunk there because of the battering she took against the concrete wharf.

Two of her sister ships were badly damaged.

First reports indicated that the hotel resort area along the Coral Coast region, between Nadi and Sigatoka, was particularly hard hit. The Mocambo hotel near Nadi Airport had more than twothirds of its accommodation knocked down and the 300-room Regent of Fiji at Denarau island, 15 km from the airport, announced that damage was such that it would not re-open until July.

About 2000 tourists cut short their holidays and left for home, mainly Australia, in many instances in a highly unwashed state.

But within days the minister for foreign affairs and tourism, Mosese Qionibaravi, said that only 685 hotel rooms of a total of 43,000 were out of use. The tourist industry Fiji’s number two business after sugar was basically still in business, he said.

Flowever, publicity about the hurricane had convinced Australians that all the hotels were closed down. A drive would be needed to be mounted to convince them that this was not so, the minister said.

In mid-March the Fiji Visitors Bureau announced a $200,000 campaign to counter the “wrong impression” it said the press had given Australians about conditions in Fiji.

Reconstruction and rehabilita- Top: The first fury of the hurricane brought torrents of rain, flooding the main street of Nadi and closing the international airport there. Above: Flattened houses at Namatakulu village on the Coral Coast. - Fiji Times and Sunil Sunny Chand pictures. 57 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1983

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Phone (07) 48 5554 NAME ADDRESS POSTCODE tion will be a major industry until the end of the year. This activity would at least temporarily relieve unemployment, announced Prime Minister Ratu Mara in a radio interview.

Outside aid for Fiji was quickly forthcoming. Australia and New Zealand sent helicopters and aircraft to assess damage and ferry relief supplies. Australia and the United States, sent tents and water containers for areas where normal supplies of fresh water had been disrupted. A United States military communications team flew in to set up temporary communications links and various other countries and international organisations sent money, food and relief supplies.

Hurricane Oscar had one beneficial effect. It dumped rain in sugar cane areas where drought was beginning to seriously affect the 1983/84 cane harvest and the Fiji Sugar Corporation hopes that this will offset the losses expected in the Lautoka-Nadi cane areas, which could amount to about ten per cent. Oscar’s rainfall also filled up two lakes formed behind dams built at Monosavu, in the middle of Viti Levu, and at Vaturu, near Nadi, a month before they had been expected to be full following their completion earlier this year.

Engineers said that but for the dams the Monosavu dam is for hydro-electricity and the Vaturu dam is to catch water for the western districty supply flooding might have been much more serious than it was.

Having done its worst, Oscar then brought out the best of Fiji.

Despite their losses, a resilient people, directed by a government disaster reconstruction organisation that, with a dozen hurricanes in less than a dozen years on its record sheets is a highly expert one, were quickly getting down to the business of rebuilding their lives again in many cases from scratch.

Hurricane Oscar in Fiji: Waves smash over the Lautoka Wharf road while winds whip the palms. - Fiji Times picture.

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NASA joins race of the satellite providers LIZ FELL, an Australian freelance journalist specialising in telecommunications, takes us behind the scenes of the big race to become Satellite Provider to the Pacific.

Proposals for constructing an elaborate telecommunications system using the latest in satellite technology will be at the top of the agenda when government heads get together at the annual South Pacific Forum meeting in Australia later this year.

The use of space technology to solve some of the inter and intraisland communication problems has been a high priority since the 1980 Forum meeting in Kiribati.

Satellite providers were informed of this interest, and for the past two years they have had the economic, social and technical requirements of the South Pacific region under close investigation.

The most recent study of rural telecommunication needs was commissioned by the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation (SPEC), the Forum’s secretariat, which covers 12 Island nations; Western Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

The recommendations from this study are now being assessed and discussed by the various nations, and one of the key decisions will be the choice of the satellite provider.

There is a high level of competition for this lucrative and strategic market. At this stage, America and Japan are frontrunners, with Australia and Canada sitting in the wings.

America’s satellite presence in the South Pacific is most visible through the growing number of large earth stations constructed by the U.S. consortium, Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT). This year, there are plans to complete seven new stations in Micronesia alone.

All these stations provide international links via satellites owned by the International Satellite Consortium (INTELSAT).

As COMSAT is the major shareholder in this consortium, it stands to benefit from this new business. Since 1978, the number of Pacific earth stations linked to INTELSAT satellites has increased by 115 per cent.

However, INTELSAT’s monopoly over Pacific space communications is about to be challenged following a recent decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. This permits U.S. domestic satellite providers, such as IBM or ATT, to operate internationally.

In an effort to seek out new business, INTELSAT is moving into the domestic market. For the Pacific, they have proposed a scheme to link island centres with isolated or remote areas.

Called a ‘‘low density telephone service,” this scheme was presented to SPEC’s regional telecommunications meeting last November, and discussed in detail at the recent Pacific Telecommunications Conference in Hawaii.

The service provides for regional telephone, telex and lowspeed data links via shared IN- TELSAT capacity and the construction of small 4-5 metre earth stations.

INTELSAT estimates the costs of each earth station at between $U.5.20,000 and $40,000 while the cost of the leased space segment will be between $200,000 and $BOO,OOO.

However, as INTELSAT readily acknowledges, these costs are only a small portion of the overall cost for island nations. Most will require a terrestrial system, using VHP radio telephone or cable, to connect the stations to public call boxes in remote and sparsely populated areas.

In January this year, another satellite scheme was announced by the Japanese Research Institute of Telecommunications and Economics. The Japanese have almost caught up with the Americans in space technology and are ahead in fibre optic cable technology, so the Pacific is an important and obvious market to capture.

Their scheme would be much more costly than that of INTEL- SAT since it involves the construction of two satellites beaming over the Pacific. One would serve the telephone needs of the remote islands and the other would service mainly business users needing data, facsimile or video links between the islands and the major cities on the Pacific Rim.

The Japanese claim that their proposal is still at the conceptual stage and could not commence before 1987. Meanwhile, they are interested in finding partners to assist in the development and funding of their proposal.

Another surprise entrant in the South Pacific market race is the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

For years, NASA has had a Peacesat users of the ATS-1 satellite attended a computer conference in Hawaii in January and as part of the talks they were linked by satellite to John Flanigan in Pago Pago, American Samoa. Shown at the talks, left to right, are Ed Houlten, Hawaii; Steve Seumahu, Australia; James Lange, Guam; Stuart Kingnan, Cook Islands; Ray Casey, Fiji; Nemaia Esau, Fiji; Gerald Kuczek, Hawaii. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1983

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Some years ago, NASA became aware of the limited life of this satellite and funded a regional study of user needs in the Pacific to see what was required in the way of space technology.

The results of this study have been invaluable in helping other satellite providers design their own proposals. Meanwhile, it was thought that NASA had withdrawn from the field until a surprise announcement at the Pacific Telecommunications Conference in January this year.

NASA recently spent $216 million repurchasing space on one of its new Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), and now this space could be made available for South Pacific use. It will require some technical adjustment which NASA is already studying.

The TDRS satellites have been designed to track the space shuttle and other earth-orbiting satellites. The first will be launched by the shuttle this year, and it will be the largest and most powerful of the U.S. satellites so far. All satellites in this series will be equipped with huge winglike solar panels providing 1850 watts of power.

This power in the sky gives the NASA satellite proposal considerable advantages over the others. It means that earth stations can be cheaper and smaller and can be used to service the communication needs of unelectrifled rural areas.

It will be up to the U.S. government to give NASA permission to use the satellite space for the South Pacific, and this is sure to be opposed by its U.S. competitor COMSAT.

California’s wind farmers look to the South Pacific TOM BARBER, writer of the following article, is a Sydney-based architect at present working in the California Wind Farm industry. He has pioneered the commercial application of wind turbines and their connection to the national electrical grid system in California, where he is project designer for Zond Systems Inc. He is now in Australia evaluating the potential for a wind industry in the South Pacific.

Recent technological developments in the generation of electricity from windmills have made it possible to supplement fueldriven generators with windmachines, at low cost.

The rising price of oil has driven the Danish and Dutch governments to re-examine their traditional windmillsupplemented energy systems.

Holland now has about 12 wind turbine manufacturers and Denmark four. The United States, in a similarly oildependent position, is rapidly developing its own industry.

Zond Systems Inc., a California-based energy systems company, has been installing wind energy conversion systems for the past three years. Zond’s present facility in Tehachapi, The Peacesat program has been a major means of bringing closer contacts between universities throughout the Pacific. Academic, administrative, research and other information is regularly exchanged at link-ups made possible by satellite. Picture shows the University of the South Pacific terminal in use in Fiji.

An array of wind turbines, and the sign outside the wind farm. 61 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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By the year 2000 it is hoped that 10 per cent of California’s electrical energy will be supplied by such alternative systems.

Situated on a windy ridge in the Tehachapi Mountains, the existing facility uses medium range machines in the 40-300 kW/hour range.

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The other is connected to the grid. Use of this system, which has been most successful on a larger scale, has been helped by the California State Government encouraging the public utilities to buy back any surplus power produced by a wind turbine. The utility remains connected to the wind farm, as a storage system and back-up for any downturn on the wind system, or for routine maintenance.

After recent contacts with Vanuatu it is hoped to set up the first supplementary wind system in the South Pacific. It will be particularly beneficial for the tourist and resort industries, both high electricity consumers. The price of a wind system compares favorably to the current kilo Watt price quoted in Vanuatu. This will supplement single installations on the outlying islands, which are still in the project stage.

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Sentinels in the wind: The Zond wind farm in California where developments are expected to have Pacific applications. See PIM last month for details of the Antelope Engineering project which is already installing wind turbines in the Pacific. 62 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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YACHTS lAN G. MENZIES reports from Port Moresby and Rabaul , Papua New Guinea: • KNYSNA. Peter Stevenson always had a yen to wander, and he realised his ambition when he launched Knysna in June 1980. An 11 m Endurance cutter, built in heavily-laid GRP with long keel and internal ballast, Knysna is named after her launching site some 480 km northeast of Capetown, South Africa.

With his 16-year-old daughter, Peter decided to return to the United Kingdom the long way round. They headed around the Cape, across the Atlantic, explored the South American coastline and gradually worked their way northward through the Carribbean to Florida. In Fort Landerdale his daughter flew on to the United Kingdom, while Peter discovered Faith Burton, a lovely lady who has now introduced him to com beef hash, muffins and all things American.

Peter said that their passage across the Pacific was fairly uneventful, except when they had a nervetingling brush with a school of whales off the Galapagos Islands.

Knysna is now anti-fouled in red instead of black Peter does not want his vessel to be mistaken by a short-sighted and amorous whale.

From Port Moresby, Peter and Faith will head west through the Torres Strait, thence to Christmas Island and the Red Sea. • ALCHERINGA. It is not often you come across a well-known racing yacht that has been converted for cruising, but Alcheringa is one that has successfully made the transition.

Alcheringa, which is Australian Aboriginal for “Dream Time,” is an Alan Payne design built by J.

Thomas and Sons and launched in 1962. Between 1965 and 1973 the yacht successfully competed in no fewer than seven Southern Cross series and Sydney to Hobart blue water classics.

This 15 m round-bilge steel sloop, with a draft of 2.3 m, still carries most of its original racing hardware and bears proud witness to its racing pedigree with appropriate bulkhead nameplates presented by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.

Now under the ownership of Rudolf and Olga Krause, the yacht has already completed two circumnavigations via the Red Sea (in 1975 and 1980). With th‘em on these two trips were their daughters Tonya and Frances. The family, who have been living aboard boats for 20 years, are justifiably proud of their vessel, with its tall wooden mast and traditional varnish throughout. Alcheringa has been beautifully maintained. Rudolf, who is a shipwright by trade, says that Alcheringa is a surprisingly good cruising boat, and, although fairly stiff, still has a good turn of speed.

This is the third visit made by Rudolf and Olga to PNG waters.

From Port Moresby they will head for Rabaul, their favorite port of call, where Rudolf hopes to ply his trade for a few months before venturing eastward across the Pacific. • JOALIE 11. When John Sladek, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Joan decided to go cruising, they didn't mess around. Twelve months after they laid the keel of their 17 m steel ketch Joalie 11, she was launched fully provisioned and ready to sail. Both John and Joan agree that it was the best decision they ever made, for in four years of cruising they say they have made more firm friends than in 40 years of living ashore.

Joalie 11, met in Rabaul. is a beamy, solid boat, with a welldesigned pilot-house that has proved a boon on stormy passages. Originally built to house two cruising couples (sadly, John’s partner died before the boat was completed), Joalie II has a pleasant spaciousness that is both practical and yet “homey.”

Following the launching in Wollongong, Australia, in June 1979, the couple, with two of their three children, sailed for Noumea and then, blown by the southeast trades, made leisurely passage via Rabaul and Indonesia to Singapore. The children returned to Australia from Singapore, while John and Joan continued on alone to cruise the Philippines.

Though they had no problems with security in Philippine waters, the “electric fence’’ that John rigged around the deck gave them lots of peace of mind!

South of the Philippines, Joalie II was caught in the wing of typhoon Nancy, and was forced to run south under mizzen and jib for days. Battling huge swells, through which ran 2 m waves, the couple were indeed thankful for the solid and watertight construction of their pilot-house. A week later, in a complete reversal of the weather, Joalie II drifted for eight days on a windless sea, while John struggled to repair a fractured propeller shaft.

Now safely moored in Rabaul harbor, John and Joan are enjoying the comfort of accommodation ashore, where they were joined by their son Michael who had flown in from Australia. • MOMTAZ. It all started for Eva and Hakan Norling in Saudi Arabia, when they decided the best way to spend their hard-earned savings was to go cruising. That was in May 1978, and they are still at it.

Eva, a former nurse, and Hakan, who was a fitter and turner, returned to their homeland Sweden, and purchased a standard Shipman-designed 9 m GRP sloop. After some very basic modifications, and a quick course in navigation, they set sail for the Mediterranean. Following several months cruising in those waters, they crossed the Atlantic, entered the Pacific via the Panama Canal and eventually reached New Zealand in mid-1981.

The eight months then spent by the Norlings exploring the myriad bays and inlets of New Zealand’s south island have been the highlight of their world cruise so far.

Hakan said the key to the success The big sloop Alcheringa, converted from a racing to a cruising yacht; with Rudolf and Olea Krause and daughter Tonya. - Ian G. Menzies pictures.

Peter Stevenson and Faith Burton: Sail repairs for Knysna. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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Now anchored off the Rabaul Yacht Club. Eva and Hakan intend to make leisurely passage to the Carolines, Guam and thence on to Japan by Christmas 1983. • PAVO. Every now and again one comes across a story that needs to be told if only so that others will not make the same mistakes. But to begin at the beginning.

Pavo, originally built in Holland in 1962, is a classic steel Van de Staadt sloop, with full keel and 11.6 m overall length. She has cruised far and wide over the last 20 years.

Owned by Uwe Belschner of Germany and Salvatore Cillare of Italy, Pavo was purchased by them in New Zealand and sailed north to Port- Vila, Vanuatu, where they were joined by Nigel Pollitt (from New Zealand). Safe passage was then made via the Solomons and Kieta to Rabaul. But it was when they left Rabaul that it all nearly came to a tragic end.

The trio departed, headed for Cairns, in moderate seas. They decided to anchor off Cape Gazelle rather than risk night passage amongst local reefs. The combination of a lee shore, a big swell and rising seas, anchors that did not hold, coupled with an engine that did not work, soon saw Pavo beam on to a reef. Despite efforts in the dark to sail off, the vessel was swept on to the reef and come morning and the falling tide, she was high and dry right on her port side!

The final capsize of the vessel had caused a kerosene lamp to shatter, causing a fire in the main saloon.

Luckily, this was doused quickly.

With all their stores waterlogged, and with the rising tide threatening to fill the vessel completely with water, it was a race against time to lighten the vessel and tow her off.

They won! With the aid of a local workboat, some village people, and lots of vigorous bailing, they were able to keep her afloat and gradually right her on the incoming tide. She was towed back to Rabaul with her gunwales almost awash.

It was not a happy trio that your correspondent interviewed, as they began the task of pumping out the vessel, stripping the engine and electrics and salvaging what little was left of usable stores, personal effects, books and charts.

Amazingly, there was no structural damage at all, with only a few paint scrapes and bent stanchions to tell the tale the well-built steel hull had withstood the battering of both seas and reef. Inside however, was another story weeks of work would be needed to restore her to a liveable condition.

A tragedy at sea had been averted and three young men had learned a valuable lesson in safety and seamanship. As to Pavo she will sail proudly again as mute testimony to proven design, quality construction and the strength of steel.

Hakan and Eva Norling (left) have been sailing since May 1976. They are from Sweden.

Their standard Shipman GRP sloop Momtaz is shown at anchor in Rabaul. - Ian G. Menzies picture.

The solidly-built steel ketch Joalie II (see previous page) anchored in Rabaul and showing its watertight pilot house. At left Joan and John Sladek on the deck of the ketch. - Ian G.

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Though he did not have time to fit Carmen with a wind vane auto-pilot of any kind, this has been no hardship since the long-keeled Carmen will self-steer for days at a time.

Ame’s immediate plans were to rendezvous with friends in the Great Mercury and Great Barrier Islands of NZ’s east coast. Heavy duty mechanic Ame predicts that when he completes his circumnavigation, “I don’t think I will stay many years back home before I leave again. This is the life for me.” • VISNA. Tied up alongside Carmen at Marsden Wharf was the 10 m fibreglass double-ended sloop Visna.

Single-hander Leif Sjogren of Stockholm built her himself. Leif sailed Visna to the West Indies and back to Sweden in 1977-1978. This latest voyage, which is planned as a circumnavigation, is notable for the fact that ever since leaving the Marquesas, his friends on the Norwegian yacht Carmen have maintained “eye contact” with Visna as the two yachts sailed in company those many thousands of miles to New Zealand. • NAVIRE. A third Scandinavian yacht, this one a maxi-racer flying the Finnish flag, was seen a few months back in downtown Auckland.

The 18.5 m sloop was mastless, and had been laid up on the hard for a year. She is the former Swedish Entry, built in Sweden in 1981 by Havsboter AB Ocean Boats for the Whitbread Round the World Race.

Her owner, Finnish industrialist Pekke Herlin of the Kona Company, had a crew of three men readying the vessel for her next voyage home to Finland. • HELIOS. “It’s no great deal crossing oceans as long as you’ve got a lot of books and a few groceries. ’ ’ So said single-hander Eric Scholium of Sailed from Galveston in the U.S. state of Texas, the 15 m ketch Hummingbird has been cruising in the South Pacific, and was reported in New Zealand by Jane DeRidder. The yacht is sailed by Tim and Teri Bonge with Jon Knedel as first mate. 66 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983 YACHTS

Waiheke Island, New Zealand, after a virtually non-stop 71-day voyage home from San Diego. (He paused for two hours in Borabora to take on water.) Eric arrived in Auckland on Helios, his 16-year-old 10.6 m Piver Lodestar trimaran, having sailed 31,000 miles in 19 months. He had interrupted his scheduled circumnavigation when he learned his mother was dying, arriving home in time to spend Christmas, 1982 with her and with his children. When visiting Sausalito in the San Francisco Bay, area Helios was vandalised.

It took Eric three days to clean up the mess. But, worst of all, all his camera gear was stolen, a tragedy for one whose potential major source of income comes from photo-joumalism.

Eric hopes to get away again before too long, westward bound this time.

“I can’t go ashore again for any length of time,” he explained. “I’ve only slept ashore once in four or five years . . . and never slept of course • REVELLER. After less than a week in New Zealand, the UK Nicholson 32 Reveller of Ramsgate was due to leave Auckland for the Falklands Islands, an estimated eight weeks voyage of some 6500 miles, in an attempt to round the Horn before the season is too far advanced. The owner/skipper Charles Crawshaw is a Lancashire sheep and cattle farmer.

Crewing with him are Tony Lawson, mechanical engineer, and Devon innkeeper Angela Herbert. Angela, coproprietor with her husband of the Norway Inn in Falmouth, wrote a booklet telling of Reveller’s proposed circumnavigation. The booklet is being sold in conjunction with a car raffle, the proceeds of which are being donated to cancer research.

People all over the UK follow with interest the adventures of Reveller.

She is scheduled to arrive back home in Falmouth in October ’B3 after a two years cruise. • OCEAN GIRL. When the Vancouver Maple Leaf 48 Ocean Girl arrived in Suva two years ago, Don Tiflin, marine geophysicist with the Canadian Geological Survey, was offered a post with CCOP/SOPAC a branch of the UN technical secretariat engaged in offshore evaluation of the South Pacific’s sea floor mineral potential. Don accepted a two-year contract and Ocean Girl, a comfortable 14.6 m Huntingforddesigned yacht, family-built to perfectionist standards, made the Tradewinds in Suva its base. Carolyn, Don's wife and first mate, was hired to teach Home Economics and English at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. Daughter Gwendolyn rejoined the Ocean Girl last December in Auckland having completed her sixth form at a school in Masterton, New Zealand. Fourteenyear-old Kathleen just finished her fourth form year in Suva, while Gillian, eldest of the Tiflin daughters, is back in Vancouver. After a family Christmas and a refit in Auckland, the balsa core vessel which the Tiflins spent eight years building together Don calls it “A one-off backyard job” will sail back to Suva. Don plans on one more year with SOPAC before Ocean Girl’s cruise of the South Pacific continues.

Meanwhile, he enjoys the opportunity of exploring the Pacific Islands which his job provides. • DELIVERANCE. A former Royal Yacht of Monaco, the gaff schooner Deliverance was a splendid sight as she tied up at Opua Wharf to clear New Zealand customs, a long red pennant streaming from her masthead. Built in 1956 as a yacht by Quincy Adams Shipyard near Boston, she is a copy of a grand Banks schooner. The hull is African mahogany on double-sawn oak frames. Instead of cargo holds, there are staterooms. David and Lonny Higgins of Boston, the ship’s fifth owners, bought Deliverance in 1979 with an extended circumnavigation in mind. The Higgins cruise with no fixed itinerary, accompanied by their two children, David, nine, and Jessica, five. They like to stay long enough to learn the history of each area visited and to make friends wherever they go. They read a great deal about each port of call. The children do their schooling by Calvert correspondence lessons. David and Lonny take turns supervising their children’s studies. David, Boston attorney, one-time instructor in legal writing and former nagivation officer aboard a U.S. naval frigate, has a novel underway. Lonny, MD, specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, accepted a position in the New Zealand National Women’s Hospital during Deliverance’s stay in Auckland.

A vessel of Deliverance’s type and size she’s 25 m on deck, 29 m overall requires a sizeable crew in order to keep abreast of maintenance, and of course for sail handling. Deliverance is self-sufficient; she carries a chief mate, ship's carpenter, engineer, bo’s’n, cook, and steward or stewardess, all highly qualified. (Right) Breeze shows her paces in the Russell Tall Ships Race.

The brigantine is sailing out of New Zealand ports. (Above right). The former Monaco royal yacht Deliverance, a gaff schooner, was “a splendid sight" on her arrival in New Zealand, reports Jane DeRidder. 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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sexual morality journey forth from Samoa to immerse themselves, furtively but deliciously, in America’s dens of “free love.” However, when they return to us they continue to forbid the practice of free love. Alas!

The Controversy: Expectedly, the Mead-Freeman controversy is raging internationally in the media. The size of the media attention and the controversy is a tribute to Margaret Mead’s stature and reputation. An attack on her is big news.

But once again we, the “informants and objects” of Mead’s and Freeman’s research, are being ignored. The inferences in ignoring us are that; we don’t know enough about ourselves to be able to contribute intelligently to the debate; in terms of selling newspapers the news is Freeman slogging it out with Mead, an American institution, not us, the “objects.” And when we read and hear the learned pronouncements by foreign anthropologists, “specialists” on us, in this debate, we are doubly convinced that they are continuing to earn their comfortable livings and enhancing their reputations by using us.

Some of them are saying that Freeman is being unfair to Mead by not having published his book before she died. That’s like saying that if I had wanted to disagree with someone who has died I should have done so before he attained that permanent state, These critics should also read Freeman’s magnificent study and then consider whether Mead would have been able to survive the truth and power of Freeman’s polemic.

Other critics are trying to discredit Freeman’s book by attacking him as a person. Very unscholarly behavior!

The more blase claim that Mead wasn t really an important anthropologist and her work on Samoa isn’t worth refuting. This ignores the damage her book has done to us. Her influence is present even today. In New Zealand, we find a recent book called Growing Up in Polynesia by two reputable anthropologists.

Despite the well known differences between the various present-day Polynesian cultures, this study lumps us all together and makes huge Mead-like generalisations about our childrearing practices, and so forth.

There is little worth defending in Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, but Mead’s supporters will defend it.

Perhaps she should have published her book as a work of fiction and her prose style is one of the most lucid I've ever read depicting the utopia she wanted the world to be. But to claim that her Samoa actually existed and was founded on anthropological truths which can be observed and measured was, ultimately, to invite attack for giving “fanciful” information, Conclusion: The polemical nature of Freeman’s book makes it exciting reading. For me, however, the polemic is of secondary importance. What is of the utmost worth is Freeman’s very solid and complex vision of Samoa, a Samoa constructed painstakingly over nearly the whole of his academic life. The study, at times, attains quite poetic heights. It is apt justification for his life, his mission, his search to belong. To us.

Albert Wendt. highly motivated, young people. The crew take a pride in such traditional arts as scrimshaw, carving, knotwork and woodwork. Though Deliverance is primarily a family cruising vessel, she does occasional educational/adventure charters. Future cruising plans include a visit to the People’s Republic of China tentatively scheduled for December 1983. • BREEZE. The Russell Tall Ships Race in the Bay of Islands on January 9 was a treat for those who love clouds of canvas. Tall ships taking part with other, less lofty but faster yachts in the light wind which plagued the race were the training ship Spirit Of Adventure, the gaff schooner Deliverance, Austrian artist Frederick Hundertwasser’s stripedsailed Regentag, and the 16.5 m brigantine Breeze. Breeze a copy of a 19th-century New Zealand coaster, designed, built and sailed by the Sewell family of the Coromandel, is now making regular trips from Auckland and the Bay of Islands accompanied by members of the Breeze Sailing Club, a charitable trust. Club members are entitled to sail on the traditional square-rigged vessel for a small charge to cover cost of the trip plus maintenance. Captain Jim Cottier is serving as master of Breeze, with young Peter Sewell, first mate, and his sister Janet, cook. Visitors to Northland. NZ. may direct inquiries to the Secretary of the Devenport Steam Ferry Company of Auckland’s North Shore (P.O. Box 1346, Auckland) for information regarding club membership and scheduled adventure sailings. • CLOUD NINE. A U K.-built, Minneapolis-registered Bowman 57 ketch. Cloud Nine arrived in Opua in January seven days out from Suva with six persons aboard. Her owner, Minnesota com/soy bean/hog/cattle farmer, Roger Swanson, who sails with sons Steven and Philip and friends, attributes the salt water in his blood to a stint in the navy. The Swansons left Miami in July, 1981.

From N.Z. they plan on visiting Australia, then Japan before continuing a circumnavigation. • SKOIERN 111. Capsized and dismasted west of Cape Horn in 55 to 60 knot winds and enormous seas, Skoiern /// was one of the participants in a single-handers’ round-theworld race. Jacques de Roux began to cut the rigging free, but while still partly attached, the mast holed the boat. Though Jacques tried to plug the hole, water continued to flood in, and he had to hand pump for two hours out of every three. Nevertheless, he jury-rigged the vessel in an effort to get underway again.

Another single-handed race participant, British entry Perseverance of Medina, made a rendezvous with the sinking yacht near 55 degrees south, 126 degrees west, took Jacques aboard and continued on course at eight knots. The French navy sent a 20-knot vessel to intercept Perseverance, fetch Jacques and take him to Papeete. The encounters at sea were made possible by Argos navigation systems pinpointing the yachts’ positions, and by amateur radio operators serving as relay stations. Those ham radio operators involved in arranging the “lift-off” on 14.347 mHz were Finn ZL4HI, with fellow South Island operators ZL4MK and ZL4JO; also FOBGM in Papeete; and FKBED mm Alain Martel on yacht Tropic Bird in New Caledonia. • TROPIC BIRD. Well known to their fellow cruising yachtsmen because of their frequent help on various South Pacific maritime mobile nets, Alain and Gisele Martel (FKBED/mm) have been sailing about the Pacific on their Nicholson 38 Tropic Bird for several years now.

Frequent visitors to New Zealand and New Caledonia, the French couple plan to return to French Polynesia in a few months time, an area they cruised first in the early 1970 s in their previous yacht, Paihere of Toulon, a Nicholson 32. Like amateur radio operator John Anderson on Norfolk Island (VK9JA) Alain transforms morse-coded weather reports into weather charts, a skill which has earned him the sobriquet, “the walking weatherfax.” • GANESH. This 16.7 m schooner with masts of equal height tied up briefly in the Kerikeri Stone Store Basin in January after an Auckland haulout and refit. Built and registered in Venice, Italy, in 1981, Ganesh is a CCYD 55 owned by Giorgio Villa, a dealer in precious metals, who manages to fly in to join the vessel for about four weeks each year. Villa’s parents were aboard in New Zealand.

Ganesh is sailed by skipper Gavin Prescott and Sarah Fenwick, crew.

They are to leave for Tonga in April.

It was Ganesh and her crew who were instrumental in salvaging the Bermuda-registered Tyler 42 Titanic when she was holed and stranded on Beveridge Reef last year. They picked up the owner in Niue, returned to Beveridge Reef, patched and refloated Titanic after which she was sailed to Niue for further repairs. • SIROCCO. “A family adventure” is how Ed and Patti Nichols describe cruising on their customised hardtop CT 54 which they had spedally built in Taiwan. Ed supervised the construction with several flying visits to the Taiwan yard. Sirocco is now homeward bound at an average speed of 1600 km a week after a year and a half in the South Pacific. The Nichols left Opua in early February, harnessing fresh westerlies to sail via the Australs to Papeete. Accompanying their parents are Liz, 20. and Matt, 18, a football player who keeps fit with weight-lifting while cruising.

Capper, 22, was left in Fiji to return to college studies. The family keeps in touch with him by means of amateur radio phone patches. (Ed’s call sign is WB3FGA). Sirocco is due back in the U.S. in June. It’s back to work for Ed, a political consultant in Washington, D.C., for the Republican party. Ed was among the pioneers who introduced the computer into politics. Though they plan on selling Sirocco after their arrival in the U.S.. Patti, who describes herself as “a suburban Maryland housewife”, says she hopes it won’t be long before they are cruising again: “Once you’ve been cruising it’s hard to give it up,” she says. The couple previously cruised the Bahamas, Central America, and the Galapagos on Faith Jones, their 14.6 m North Sea ketch. 69

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Shipping Schedules

SHIPPING Should any shipping company wish to have its services cargo and passenger included in these listings they should contact PIM.

Australia - Fiji

Karlander (Aust) Pty. Ltd. operates monthly cargo services from Sydney to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty.

Ltd., 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (232- 1011), Dalgety Shipping, 460 Bourke Street, Melbourne (616-6700). Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., Suva and Lautoka.

Sofrana-Unilines (Fiji Express Line) operates to Suva and Lautoka every two weeks from the main ports on the east coast of Australia and monthly to Lautoka from Melbourne and Sydney.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-9851), Trans- Austral Shipping Pty.Ltd., 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162); ACTA Pty. Ltd., Brisbane (221-3116); Elders- ANL Pty. Ltd., Port Adelaide (47-5688); ANL Newcastle (049-24364); Clements and Marshall, Burnie, Tasmania (31-1833), Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson St., Suva, Fiji (312-244), Tlx 2199 FJ.

Australia - Samoas - Tonga

Warner Pacific Lines operates a regular cargo service from Sydney to Nukualofa, Pago Pago, Apia and Vavau.

Details from Hetherington Wesfarmers Shipping Agency, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).

AUSTRALIA - NEW CALEDONIA -

Fiji - Samoas - Tonga

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully containerised service (general, reefer and ro-ro) from Sydney to Noumea, Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Pago Pago, Nukualofa, Sydney. Cargo centralised from Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Sydney: Union Bulkships, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne; SATO, Noumea, Union Company, Lautoka, Suva and Nukualofa; Pacific Forum Line, Apia.

AUSTRALIA - LORD HOWE IS -

Norfolk Is

Compagnie des Chargeurs Caledoniens operates four-weekly cargo service Sydney - Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.

Details: Hetherington Wesfarmers Shipping Agency, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).

Australia - Kiribati

Karlander operates a 5/6 weekly service from Melbourne and Sydney to Kiribati (Tarawa).

Details: Karlander (Aust) Pty. Ltd., 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (232-1011).

Australia - Nauru - Kiribati

Nauru Pacific Line operates regular cargo/passenger service from Melbourne to Nauru and Tarawa.

Details: Nauru Corporation (Vic.) Inc. (Shipping Division), Nauru House, 80 Collins Street. Melbourne (653-5709).

Nedlloyd Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (2-0522).

Australia - New Caledonia

(And Or) Vanuatu

Sofrana-Unilines ships serve Noumea every two weeks from the main ports along the east Australian coast.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-9851), Trans- Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd., 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162), ACTA Pty. Ltd., Brisbane (221-3116), Elders- ANL Pty. Ltd., Port Adelaide (47-5688), ANL, Newcastle (049-24364), Clements & Marshall, Burnie, Tasmania (31-1833).

Compagnie des Chargeurs Caledoniens operates a three-weekly containerised cargo service from Sydney to Noumea.

Details Hetherington Wesfarmers Shipping Agency, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).

Compagnie Generale Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Noumea, Port Vila and Santo, for containerised and break bulk cargo.

Details Compagnie Generale Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

AUSTRALIA - NZ - FIJI -

Hawaii - Us

P&O liners call at Auckland, Suva, Pago Pago and Honolulu on eastbound and westbound voyages between Sydney and the US.

Details from P&O Booking Centre, World Travel Headquarters Pty.Ltd., 33 Bligh Street, Sydney (237-0333).

AUSTRALIA - NZ - FIJI - TONGA - VANUATU - NEW CALEDONIA -

Solomons - Samoas - New

GUINEA Sitmar Cruises operates a yearround cruise program to include most of the above countries.

Details from Sitmar Cruises, 47 Elizabeth Street, Sydney (232-7511).

AUSTRALIA - NZ - FIJI - TONGA - VANUATU - NEW CALEDONIA -

Solomons - Samoas - Tahiti

P&O liners call at Auckland, Bay of Islands, Honiara, Lautoka, Noumea, Nukualofa, Pago Pago, Papeete, Port Moresby, Santo, Savusavu, Suva, Vavau and Vila on cruises from Australia.

Details from P&O Booking Centre, World Travel Headquarters Pty. Ltd., 33 Bligh Street, Sydney (237-0333).

AUSTRALIA - NZ - SOLOMONS - PNG Pacific Forum Line operates containerised and general cargo service from Lyttleton, Napier and Auckland to Honiara, Lae, Port Moresby, Brisbane.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Auckland: Steamships Shipping, Port Moresby: Sullivans Ltd., Honiara.

AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND -

Pacific Islands - South East

Asia - China

Minghua Cruises operates cruise services from Sydney to Hawaii, Tahiti and most Pacific ports, with several cruises to South East Asia, including Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Hongkong and China.

Details Minghua Cruises, 7 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000 (2-0547), Burns Philp Travel offices in Melbourne (62-0151), Brisbane (31-0391), Darwin (81-2871), Auckland NZ (31-544); National Bank Travel in Adelaide (212- 7347) and Perth (320-9365).

Australia - Micronesia

Nauru Pacific Line operates a regular container service from Melbourne to Majuro, Kosrae, Ponape, Truk, Guam and Saipan.

Details Nauru Corporation (Vic.) Inc. (Shipping Division), Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne, (653-5709), Nedlloyd Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (2-0522).

Australia - Tuvalu

Karlander operates a three monthly service from Sydney and Melbourne to Tuvalu (Funafuti).

Details from Karlander (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd., 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (232- 1011).

Australia - Png

Karlander New Guinea Line’s cargo vessels call at Melbourne, Sydney, Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kimbe, Rabaul, Popondetta.

Details from Karlander (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd., 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (232- 1011), Dalgety Shipping, 460 Bourke Street, Melbourne (616-6700).

Australia - Png - Solomons

A consortium of Conpac, NGAL/PNGL have three container vessels operating on a 28 day turn-around from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Kieta and Honiara.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (2-0547) and Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (2-0522).

New Guinea Express Lines operates a fortnightly container service from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Alotau, Kimbe, Rabaul, Kiuta, Honiara.

Details from New Guinea Express Lines, PO Box R 73, Royal Exchange, Sydney (241-3991); New Guinea Express Lines, 127 Creek Street, Brisbane (221-9333); New Guinea Express Lines, 327 Collins Street, Melbourne (61-3053); Niugini Express Lines, Port Moresby (21-4572); Lae (42-1536); Rabtrad Niugini Pty. Ltd., Rabaul (92- 2911) and Kieta (95-6185); Alotau Stevedoring & Transport, Alotau (61- 1318); Ngatia Wholesalers Pty, Ltd., Kimbe (93-5102); and Trading Company, Mendana Avenue, Honiara (588).

Sofrana-Unilines (PNG Line) operates a monthly service to Port Moresby and Lae, from main ports on the east coast of Australia.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-9851); Trans- Austral Shipping Pty. Ltd., 570 Bourke Street, Melbourne (67-9162); ACTA Pty. Ltd., Brisbane (221-3116); Elders ANL Pty. Ltd., Port Adelaide (47-5688).

Australia - Tahiti

Compagnie Generale Maritime operates a monthly service from Sydney to Papeete for containerised and breakbulk cargo.

Details Compagnie Generale Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

Australia - Tahiti - Us

Karlander operates a monthly cargo service from Melbourne and Sydney to Papeete, US west coast.

Details: Karlander (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (232-1011).

Australia - Nz - West Coast

South America

South Pacific Seaboard Service offers a regular cargo service from Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne to New Zealand ports Lyttleton and Tauranga and to the west coast of South America, calling at Beu’ventura, Guayaquil, Cailao and other ports on inducement.

Details from South Pacific Seaboard Service agents, Meridian Shipping & Transport Agencies, 50 Clarence Street, Sydney (290-1633), Tlx 25970; Melbourne (67-5907); Brisbane (267- 6355); Adelaide (47-6600); Oceanbridge Shipping Ltd., 22 Emily Place, Auckland (33-279). Tlx 60523; lan Taylor Y Cia Ltd a, Prat 827 Of. 301, Valparaiso, Chile (59096), Tlx. 30331.

SINGAPORE - HONG KONG - FIJI -

Islands Ports

Kyowa Shipping Co. Ltd. operates a monthly service from Singapore, Hong Kong to Lautoka, Suva and then to island ports.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson Street, Suva, (312- 244), Tlx FJ2199.

Far East - Fiji - New

ZEALAND New Zealand Unit Express (NZUE) operates a monthly palletised cargo service from Manila, Keelung, Kaoshiung and Hongkong to Lautoka, Suva and thence to NZ.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson Street, Suva (312-244), Tlx Fj2199, Burns Philp, Suva (311- 777) P&O S.N. Co. Wellington (736- 477) or Nedlloyd Swire Pty. Ltd., Sydney (20-522).

Nedlloyd operates bi-weekly cargo service with four ships from Sourabaya, Jakarta, Bangkok, Port Kelang and Singapore to Suva, Lautoka and NZ ports.

Details from Nedlloyd (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd., 8 Spring St., Sydney (27-3801), Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., Suva and Lautoka.

Far East - Mid-S. Pacific

China Navigation's New Guinea Pacific Line operates a regular container service from Hongkong, Taiwan, Manila, Port Kelang and Singapore to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul and Honiara monthly and to Wewak, Madang and Kieta every three months. Cargo from the same Far Eastern ports to the South Pacific ports of Noumea, Santo, Vila, Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia, Rarotonga and Tarawa will be shipped via Japan on the monthly Bali Hai service.

Details from Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd., P.O. Box 1, Port Moresby (22- 0222).

Kyowa Shipping Ltd., operates monthly services from Japan to Guam, Saipan, Solomons, New Caledonia, Fiji, Western and American Samoa, Tahiti, Cook Is. Tonga and Vanuatu.

Details: Hetherington Wesfarmers Shipping Agency, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671); Carpenters Shipping, Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199.

Japan - Fiji - Island Ports

Kyowa Shipping Co. Ltd., operates a monthly service from main ports of Japan to Suva and Lautoka and thence to island ports.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson St., Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199.

Japan - Fiji - Island Ports

Bali Hai service operates a monthly service from main ports of Japan to Suva and Lautoka and thence to island ports.

Details from Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson St., Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199 and Burns Philp, Suva (311-777).

Japan - Micronesia

The NYK Shipping Line operates a monthly cargo service from Japan to Micronesia, calling at Yoko, Nagoya, Kobe, Guam, Saipan, Truk, Ponape and Majuro, returning via Yoko, Nagoya and Kobe.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (2-0547).

Japan - Png

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines operates a monthly service from main ports Japan and Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kieta and Kimbe.

Details from Robert Laurie (PNG) 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

Pacific Islands

Transport Line

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West Coast ports and

Tahiti Samoa

JUUL Qeqeral Steeuriship (Corpora tiori /n> General Agents 400 California Street, San Francisco, CA, USA PAPEETE: Agence Maritime Internationale, Tahiti PAGO PAGO; Polynesia Shipping Services, Inc.

APIA: Burns Phi Ip (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

Pty. Ltd., PO Box 922, Port Moresby (21-2466/21-1898).

New Caledonia - Fiji - West

Coast North America

PAD Line operates an approx. 3weekly ro-ro service with Noumea and Suva to Honolulu and West Coast USA and Canadian ports.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines SA, BP 1602, Noumea (27-51-91), Tlx NMO4B; Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson St., Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199.

Png - Inter - Mainport

Papua New Guinea Line offers scheduled 10/20 day coastal liner services linking all PNG major ports with containerisation, reefer, heavy lift and transhipment facilities.

Details from PNG Line, Box 543, Port Moresby, PNG (21-1174), Tlx 22269.

Png- Uk/Continent

The Bank Line operates regular cargo service from Port Moresby, Oro Bay, Kieta, Rabaul, Kimbe, \Madang and Lae to Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Le Havre.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty. Ltd., 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27- 2041); Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd. PNG ports.

Solomons - Uk/Continent

The Bank Line operates regular cargo service from Honiara to Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Le Havre.

Details from The Bank Line (A’asia) Pty. Ltd., 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27- 2041); Tradco Shipping (588).

NZ - COOK IS - NIUE - TAHITI Shipping Corporation of NZ Ltd. operates cargo services based on pallets and similar units from Auckland to Niue, Cook Islands and Tahiti.

Details from the Shipping Corp. of NZ Ltd., PO Box 3420, Auckland (797- 210). Waterfront Commission, PO Box 61, Raratonga; Cook Islands; Niue Govt. Offices, Niue Island Compagnie Maritime Polynesienne, BP 368, Papeete, Tahiti.

New Zealand - Tahiti

Pacifique Polynesie Line operates a monthly service carrying general and freezer cargoes to Papeete and outlying islands in the group.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd., PO Box 1372, Auckland, (30229), Tlx 2554 NZ.

NZ - FIJI Reef operates a regular 18-day service from Auckland to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Reef Shipping Agencies, PO Box 3382, Auckland, NZ (77- 1221-3); M.V. Fijian Shipping Agencies Ltd., Private Bag, Suva, Fiji (31-1056).

Pacific Line with one ship operates fortnightly ro-ro cargo service New Zealand, Lautoka, Suva.

Details; Sofrana Unilines, 18 Customs Street, Auckland (773-279) PO Box 3614, Telex: NZ2313; Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson Street, Suva (312-244), Tlx FJ2199.

Nz - Fiji - North America (Wc)

Blue Star Line Ltd. Pacific Coast container services. Only direct service to and from New Zealand. Blue Star vessels call at Suva and Honolulu on NZ-US-West Coast voyages.

Details from Blueport ACT (NZ) Ltd., PO Box 192, Wellington (739-029).

Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., GPO Box 355, Suva, Fiji (311-777), Tlx. FJ2168 Burship.

Nz - Fiji - Samoas - Tonga

Pacific Forum Line operates a fully containerised three-weekly service (Gen/Reefer) from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Pago Pago and Nuku’alofa.

Details from Pacific Forum Line, Auckland: Union Co. Auckland, Lautoka, Suva and Nuku’alofa: Pacific Forum Line, Apia.

NZ - N. CALEDONIA - VANUATU -

Png - Solomons

Sofrana Unilines with three ships operates to Vila and Santo, to Honiara and Papua New Guinea and to Norfolk Island and Noumea.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, 18 Customs Street, Auckland (773-279), PO Box 3614, Tlx. NZ2313.

NZ TAHITI Compagnie Tahitienne Maritime SA (as CTM-Tahiti Line) operates one ship, MV Bounty 111, monthly Papeete New Zealand.

Details from Sofrana Unilines, PO Box 3614, 18 Customs St., Auckland Tlx NZ2313; Agence Maritime Cowan, PO Box 9012, Papeete (39042), Tlx Tahitlin 322 FP Tahiti).

Nz - Tonga - Samoas

Warner Pacific Line services Auckland, Nuku’alofa, Vavau, Apia, Pago Pago fortnightly carrying general and freezer cargoes.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd., Downtown House, 21 Queen St., Auckland, PO Box 1372 (30-299). Cables MACSHIP, Telex NZ2554, Warner Pacific Line, Box 93, Nuku’alofa, Tonga; Mealelei (Western Samoa) Ltd.

Box 4171, Apia, Western Samoa, Kneubuhl Maritime Services, Box 39, Pago Pago, American Samoa, 96799.

Nz - New Caledonia

CP Line operates a monthly cargo service from Auckland, Lyttelton, Napier and Mt. Maunganui to Noumea.

Details from McKay Shipping Ltd., PO Box 1372, Auckland (9-30229); Tlx 2554 NZ.

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New Caledonia

Compagnie Generale Maritime operates services from Europe and Mediterranean ports to Papeete and Noumea using three ro-ro and multipurpose vessels thus ensuring a bimonthly sailing to and from.

Details Compagnie Generale Maritime, 12 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (231-3700).

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Polish Ocean Lines offers regular monthly sailings for containerised and breakbulk cargo and reefer space, conventional and in reefer containers, from Hamburg, Antwerp, Dunkirk and Rouen to Papeete, Noumea, New Zealand, Honiara, Lae, returning to Europe via Suez. Other ports in the South Pacific can be served with inducement.

Details from Sotama, BP 9170, Papeete (27805), Tlx. 296; SATO, BP C 2, Noumea (272094), Tlx. 163 NM SATO: Union Steamship Co of NZ, PO Box 50, Apia, Tlx. 25; Williams and Gosling, PO Box 79, Suva (312633), Tlx. 2163; Warner Pacific Line, PO Box 93, Nuku’alofa (21089), Tlx. 66219; Universal Shipping Agencies, PO Box 2282, Auckland (30930), Tlx. 21517.

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA -

Fiji - N. Caledonia

Nedlloyd offers regular cargo services from Northern Europe and U K. to Papeete, Apia, Fiji and New Caledonia.

Details Nedlloyd (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 8 Spring Street, Sydney (27-3801); Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thomson St., Suva (312-244), Tlx. 2199 FJ and Vetari Street, Lautoka (63988), Tlx. 5215FJ.

EUROPE - TAHITI - W. SAMOA - TONGA - FIJI - SOLOMONS - PNG - VANUATU Columbus Line Reederei GMBH operates regular services from Hamburg, Hull, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Dunkirk, Le Havre, to Papeete, Apia, Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, Port Moresby, Lae, Honiara, Kieta, Rabaul, Lae, and return to Europe.

Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty. Ltd., 333 George Street, Sydney (290-2966). Columbus Maritime Service, 17 Albert Street, Auckland (77-3460); Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson St., Suva (312- 224), Tlx. 2199 FJ.

Uk - N. Continent - Fiji

The Bank Line operates a regular cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Le Havre to Suva and Lautoka.

Details from The Bank Line (A'asia) Pty. Ltd., 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27- 2041); Burns Philp (South Sea) Co.

Ltd., Suva and Lautoka.

UK - N. CONTINENT - PNG - SOLOMONS The Bank Line operates a regular cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Le Havre to Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Kimbe, Rabaul, Kieta and Honiara and on inducement to Yandina.

Details from The Bank Line (A’sia) Pty. Ltd., 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27- 2041); Burns Philp (PNG) Ltd. PNG ports; Tradco Shipping (588).

UK/N. CONTINENT - TAHITI - N. CALEDONIA The Bank Line operates a regular cargo service from Hull, Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Le Havre to Papeete and Noumea.

Details from The Bank Line (A'asia) Pty. Ltd., 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27- 2041); Ets A M. Fare UTE, Papeete; Ets. Ballande, Noumea.

US - FIJI - TAHITI - NZ - AUSTRALIA The Bank Savill Line Ltd. operates regular cargo services from U.S. Gulf ports to Australia and N.Z. Calls at Suva, Lautoka and Papeete on demand.

Details from The Bank and Savill Line Ltd., 51 Pitt Street, Sydney (27- 2041) or Orient Shipping Services, 32 Bridge Street, Sydney (241-2753).

U.S. - HAWAII - KIRIBATI - MICRONESIA Philippines, Micronesia & Orient Navigation Co. (PM&O Lines) operates regular container service on selfsustained ship with ro-ro capabilities from Oakland, Portland and Honolulu to Tarawa, Ebeye, Majuro, Kosrae, Ponape, Truk, Saipan, Yap and Koror.

Details for Micronesia can be obtained from Larry Guerrero, PM&O Owners Rep. PO Box 803, Saipan, Ml 96950, Cable COMMONTIME, Tlx 783605; PM&O: PM&O Lines, 181 Fremont St., San Francisco, California 94-105, Cable PMONAV, 72 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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Agents - P.N.G. - Robert Laurie PNG PORT / MORESBY P.O. Box 10 Phone: 212466 Tlx: Carship 22182 LAE P.O. Bo* 1032 Phone: 423811 Tlx: Carship 42508 / CAIRNS CAIRNS BRISBANE Mason Shipping Co. 26A Abbott Street.

Phone: (070) 516933 Tlx: 48405 John Burke Shipping P.O. Box 509 Phone; (07) 521701 Tlx: 40483 P.O, Box 840 TOWNSVILLE US - HAWAII - NAURU - MICRONESIA Nauru Pacific Line operates regular conventional container and passenger service from San Francisco and Honolulu to Majuro, Ponape, Truk and Saipan. Cargo is accepted for Nauru and Kosrai with transhipment at Majuro and Ponape.

Details from Nauru Corporation (Vic.) Inc. (Shipping Division), Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne (653-5709); North American Maritime Agencies, 100 California St., San Francisco, California 9411.

Hawaii - Tahiti - Samoas

Marshall Islands Maritime Co operates a service every 32 days between Honolulu, Papeete, Pago Pago and Apia.

Details from the Maritime Co. of the Pacific, 567 South King Street, Suite 310, Honolulu, Hawaii, Morris Hedstrom, Box 189, Apia, Western Samoa and the Marshall Islands Maritime Co., Box 679, Majuro, Marshall Islands.

Us - Noumea - Fiji

PAD Line operates an approx. 3weekly ro-ro service from West coast USA and Canada to Noumea, Suva and Lautoka.

Details from Sofrana-Unilines SA, BP 1602, Moumea (27-51-91), Tlx.

NMO4B; Carpenters Shipping, 100 Thompson St., Suva (31-2244), Tlx.

FJ2199; Trans-Austral Shipping, Box R 232 PO, Royal Exchange, NSW (27- 2441), Tlx. AA21204.

Us - Tahiti - Samoa

Pacific Islands Transport operates a five weekly cargo service from North America west coast ports to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia.

Details from Polynesia Shipping Services Inc. PO Box 1478, Pago Pago 96799.

Polynesia Line operates container and general cargo service from US west coast ports to Papeete and Pago Pago.

Details from Polynesia Shipping Services Inc., PO Box 1478, Pago Pago 96799.

DEATHS of Islands People Silas Eto (Holy Mama) In New Georgia, Solomon Islands, on January 12, aged 78.

The founder of the Christian Fellowship Church, the Reverend Silas Eto also known as “Holy Mama,” or “Holy Priest,” was among the outstanding religious leaders in the South Pacific in this century.

He transformed both the lives and the physical environments of the people in the many villages of New Georgia which followed the church he founded.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni, in a message of sympathy to the followers of Silas Eto, said; “His death has indeed shaken the hearts of many of his faithful followers and also those who have had the privilege to have known him personally.

“He was indeed a great spiritual and community leader.’’

Mr Mamaloni, on behalf of his government and the people of Solomon Islands, said he would like to extend to the chairman and followers of the CFC “their thoughts and prayers in their time of sorrow.”

“May the Almighty God’s blessing comfort you as you go through these hours. May he rest in peace.”

Writing in PIM of July 1978, Dr Richard E. Chesher, who had shortly before visited Paradise, the founding village of the CFC, said of Silas Eto: “He has a strange dual personality. During his everyday life he is just plain old Silas Eto; quiet, shy, reserved, always busy on some project to help others. He goes barefoot, like everyone else, and wears only a piece of old calico around his waist. But when he marches into church he changes. Maybe it is the people who change him. He really seems to take on another personality.

“He dresses in snowy-white robes with colorful decorations and a strange fire lights his eyes.

He strides through his congregation casting love like a glowing net over everyone. He ascends the pulpit with a weightless step and speaks in a deep, resonant voice. His sermons are simple and beautiful. He is a brilliant speaker. His messages are straightforward. He tells of his love for Jesus and the beauty of the Holy Spirit. He asks the people to love one another, be of > one mind, to work together.

“Somehow, the way he says it, it makes you really want to do it. What’s more, with the help of the Holy Spirit, he’s actually got his villagers to really live that way.”

Douglas Evan Maclnnis On the Gold Coast, Queensland, after a long illness aged 78.

Douglas (Mac) Maclnnis was a director of lands in Papua New Guinea before independence.

Doug was a bachelor of Laws, and a former senior legal officer with the department of mines in New South Wales. He had been admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of both New South Wales and Papua New Guinea.

He joined the administration of Papua New Guinea in 1952 and was Director of the department of lands, surveys and mines in that territory until his retirement in 1964. During this time he was largely responsible for facilitating transactions involving land and mining by restoring Silas Eto, as he appeared on PIM’s cover in July 1978 73 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1983

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As chairman of the Land, Petroleum Advisory and Mining Advisory Boards he played no small part in ensuring that permits were controlled and granted only to those genuinely searching for oil or minerals, and his work in this regard would have been of inestimable value to the now independent nation.

Mr Maclnnis, who was a former member of the Legislative and Executive Councils of both the Northern Territory and the Territory of Papua New Guinea, served with the A.I.F. from 1940-46, attaining the rank of Lt.-col. as C.O. of the 2/4 Pioneer Bn.

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Lance-Corporal Leone Natubecule In Lautoka, Fiji, on February 19 aged 42.

L/Cpl. Natubecule joined the territorial battalion in 1963. He was in one of the first contingents to serve in the peacekeeping force in Lebanon in 1978. Apart from his part-time military career, L/Cpl.

Natubecule was a shipping officer at Union Maritime Ltd, where he’d worked for 17 years.

Ratu Josua Ketonivere In Labasa, Fiji, on February 21 from a heart attack, aged 74.

The Tui Tui Macuata, Ratu Josua Ketonivere was a direct descendant of one of the 13 high chiefs of Fiji who signed the Deed of Cession to Great Britain in Levuka in 1874.

Sister Mary Patrick In New Zealand on February 6 from cancer, aged 77.

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