Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. VIII, No. 9 (Apr. 22, 1938)
22 April 1938 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Pacific

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ISLANDS

Monthly

VOL. VIII. No. 9.

April 22, 1938

[Regi stered at the\ G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper .]

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This remarkable photograph was taken by Pilot A Koch, from a Guinea Airways aeroplane, when flying over the Ramu region, main land of New Guinea. Near at hand, is the Ramu River, winding between hills and patches of jungle. In the distance is cloud-capped Manam lsland, between Wewak and Madang. It is 20 miles from the river to the coast, and 15 miles from the coast to Mt. Manam.

Pacific Islands Travellers

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PASSENGERS PER “MONTORO” WHICH AR-

RIVED IN SYDNEY FROM NEW GUINEA AND PAPUA ON APRIL 3;—Messrs. Abercrombie, Balzer, Bellamy, Boughey, Brewster, Broodbank, Carter Casey Chester Darling, Dunn, Eagle, Ellis, Evans, Fitzgerald, Floyd, Goodwin, Galton Hurl Jackson, Johansen, Johnston, Lovell,’Low, Mahon, Mant, McAllister, McCay, McLennan, Miller, Nelsson, Neil, Pitt, Polinovsky, Patrick, Rowe, Sinclair, Ryall, Sewell, Shaw, Skelly, Smith, Sorrell, Ternes, Thornthwaite, Towers, Townsend, Tilse, Tucker, Wilkinson, Woodhouse, Yeomans. Mesdames Allison, Bellamy, Ellis, Fitzgerald, Field, Godson, Kanson, Mahon Higgins, Humphries Moates Nicholson, Pym, Pitt, Ryan, Tilse, Sinclair, Willis, Wooden.

Misses Brewster, Chester, Cooper, Coulson, Salas, wakford, Mullholland.

PASSENGERS PER “MONTORO” WHICH

SAILED FROM SYDNEY FOR PAPUA AND

NEW GUINEA ON APRIL 6:—-Messrs. Ansell, Andrew. Allman, Atkinson, Black, Bell, Booth, Boyd, Baker, Beckett, Blake, Cameron, Chadderton, Champion (2), Cameron, Dexter, Dixon, Darby, Eglinton, Erickson, Ewen, Eve, Griffiths, Gillespie, Graham (2), Healy, Hufton, Hopkins, Hoile, Jentysch, Jones, Kudnlg, Murlson, Marshall (2), McKenna, Nosworthy, Nixon, Nor-

ris, Perriman, Paoloni, Pratt, Pryke, Routsa leinen, Gribben, Searle, Strafford, Witts, Wood, Ward, White, Windeyer, Wheeler, Walker, Avery. Mesdames Ansell, Beck, Batze, Bell, Cameron, Chadderton, Champion (2), Ewen, Fisher, Gazzard, Graham, Griffiths. Hanley, Haynes, Healy. Hutton, Hornthwaite, Jentysh, Jones Luff, Northam, Nixon, Norris, Provan, Ryan Searle Sears, Smythe, Shorthouse, Weston, Gribben. Misses Anderson Brown, Einsidedel, Goodhew, Hutton, Hemsworth, Judd, Lidster, McLaughlin, Saunders, Salas, Spencer, Turner.

PASSENGERS PER “NIAGARA” WHICH AR

RIVED IN SYDNEY FROM SUVA, FIJI. ON APRIL 9:—L. E. Bury, Miss Z. G. Bury, A.

W. and F. G. Brooks, R. Bingham, V. L. Dear man, C. L. R. Griffiths, Mrs. E. D. I. Grif fiths, A. S. Hermes, W. H. B. Showsill, A.

W. Saunders, R. G. Smith, J. A. and Mrs. E.

Brown, Master L. K. Brown, Rev. A. H. Black ett, Mrs. E. Brooks, Miss B. M. Cleary. C.

Inchboard, Rev. H., Mrs. V. M., Masters 8., and P., Miss A. Johnstone, R. S. N. Millikin, Rev.

J. Nicolas, Rev. F. Oddenino. G. Sheedy, Cap tain F. A. and Mrs. T. M. Williams, Miss M. D. Clarke. Miss E, M. Day.

PASSENGERS PER “NIAGARA” WHICH SAIL

ED FROM SYDNEY FOR SUVA, FIJI, ON AP RIL 14: S. L. Abseil, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. All man, Mrs. Camp ton, G. S. Dun, Mr. and Mrs.

A. W., Miss and Master Evans, Mrs. C. H. A.

Eager, Mr. and Mrs. C. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Freeman, Mrs. F. W. R. Godden, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Griffiths, Mr. and Mrs. L. N.

Horsfield, W. B. G. King, Miss G. Moffltt, J.

W. Mere weather, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Nicholls, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Rourke, Miss N. W. Ran ken. Mrs. W. F., and Master B. Stevenson, G.

M. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. S.. Master, and Misses (2) Twentyman, Mr. and Mrs. L. W.

Vance, E. J. and Mrs. B. Wilkins, J. West, Miss P. McNiven, Mrs. G. P. Stanley, Mrs. P. J. and Mrs. J. B. Turner, J. B. Turner, Mrs.

W. and Miss J. Teulon, Miss E. V. Walcot, Mr. and Mrs. L., Misses N. and D. Setu, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss A. Simona, Mrs. A. P. Ward.

PASSENGERS PER “MACDHUI” WHICH AR

RIVED IN SYDNEY FROM PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA ON APRIL 14: Messrs. Boileau, Brand, Cameron, Cornell, Carson, Cherry, Carey, Freund, Garrod, Greig, Gearfield, Gordon, Gear in, Hadley, Hoyle, Lang (2), Lambert, Miller, Merrin, Miller, Marshall, Muir, MacLeod, Nev itt, O’Reilly, Owners, Partridge, Penglase, Reas on, Rankin, Turner. Thompson, Todd, Upson, Watson, Wilson. Mesdames Cornell, Preuiid, Greig, Hadley, Holland, Penglase, Sherman, Taylor, Upson. Miss Harford.

(CONTINUED ON PAGE 82.)

PASSENGERS PER “NEPTUNA” WHICH AR

RIVED IN SYDNEY FROM N.G. PORTS ON"

APRIL 14: Messrs. Gilliland, Brewer, Bodger, Colclough, Griffiths, Healy, Henderson, Johnson, Monteith, Oates, Poland, Peadon, Swanson, White, Egglestone, Evensen, Symington, Sedgers, Tudor, Eekhoff, Ross, Hughston, Thomas, Tay lor. Mesdames Brewer, Bodger, Griffiths, John son, Laws, Oates, Poland, Swanson, Symington, Watson, Ross, Hughston, Thomas,.

Briggs, Walstab. Miss Wilson.

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Contents

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A New Policy in New Guinea? ... 1 Sydney-N.G. Airmail Held Up ... 2 P.A.A.’s Pacific Service 3 Midway Is. To Be U.S. Navy Base 3 Loloma Co. Pays Dividend 3 N.Z. Govt, and Fiji Bananas ... 4 Mission Influence in Tonga 4 “Morinda” Ashore in N. Hebrides 4, 27 British and Americans on Canton Is. 5 Two “Lugs” in Papua 6 Fracas in New Caledonia 7 New Guinea Oil 8 M.V. “Bulolo”—New B.P. Ship ... 8 Copra Market 8 Tropicalities 9 About Islands People 10 Hides Expedition 11

New Guinea’s Finances 14 New Hebrides Pessimism 15 The Pomares of Tahiti 17 Planes in D.N.G. Gold Search .. .. 20 Seven Wonders of the Islands 25 Norfolk Island’s Anniversary 28 Our Responsibility for Native Welfare 33 Trading Trip Through the Yasawas 39 Coir Industry in N. Guinea 41 Employers’ Troubles in N.G 45 America’s Pacific Naval Strength .. 47 The Dilemma of Ah Fu 52 Cutter Missing in Fiji 61 Fashions for Islands Women 65 Radio Programmes 71 Mining News 72 Islands Produce and Exchange ... 77 Market Quotations 7S Shipping Services in Pacific 79

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A New Policy In New Guinea?

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THE recommendation of the Federal Committee on the subject of a new site for the administrative estab lishment in New Guinea should be known very soon; and, following that, quick action may be expected.

There are three confident predic tions. One is that the administrative establishment simply will be moved twenty miles to the westward of Rabaul, on to a tableland 1,200 feet high, and out of the volcanic belt, and with communication with Rabaul by a good motor road. Another is that a suitable site will be found on the south coast of New Britain, near the western end. The third is that the new capital certainly will be placed on the mainland of New Guinea, and probably on the table land near the Markham River, at a spot which will be suitable for a junc tion of roads leading to the seaport ‘of Salamaua, the airport of Lae, the mining towns of Wau and Bulolo, and the vast, fertile and as yet undeve loped plateaus drained by the Mark ham, Ramu, and Purari Rivers.

The foregoing is all speculation, of

course. Knowing the character of the three gentlemen who comprise the investigation committee, we may take it as certain that no decision will be reached until every proposal and plan has been carefully and honestly examined. Furthermore, the repu tation of the chairman of the Com mittee (Brigadier-General Griffiths) is sufficiently well known in New Guinea to provide a guarantee that no selfish interest will try to bring influence to bear upon him or his associates.

The “Pacific Islands Monthly”, nearly a year ago, expressed the opinion that it would be necessary to remove the administrative establish ment from Rabaul; and arguments then were adduced to show that it would be to the advantage of the Territory if the Administrative centre were placed upon the mainland, as part of a policy of using the facilities and funds provided by the gold in dustry to actively exploit the mag nifleent natural wealth of the Mark ham, Ramu, Purari tablelands, and thus establish permanently in this

rich territory an agricultural industry which would give a livelihood to Europeans.

There is no need to go over the ground again. International events, during the past year, have made it clear that Australia cannot expect to hold New Guinea if she continues to treat New Guinea as she has done since 1921. Except Greenland, New Guinea is the largest island in the world, and Australia is responsible for more than half of it. It is a country of incalculable natural wealth, and capable of enormous develop ment. The newly-discovered central tablelands will provide a home for large numbers of Europeans. The clearly-defined aspirations of three land-hungry nations Germany, Japan and Italy—suggest to us that, so far as New Guinea is concerned, Australia must get busy or get out.

There is a consideration even more urgent than that. This great terri tory of New Guinea provides Australia with a natural barrier, imposed be tween the restless masses of Asia and the Commonwealth. A new Japan has arisen—aggressive, militaristic, determined to gain the mastery of the Western Pacific. It is absolutely essential, as part of Australia’s de

fence plan, that Australia shall hold New Guinea and the adjoining islands.

What better system of using New Guinea could there be than that of encouraging the settlement there of Europeans, so as to create there suit able bases for air-squadrons, sub marines and warships?

We may take it as certain that these important considerations will weigh with the Federal Committee in making its recommendation concern ing the new administrative centre in New Guinea. The volcanic eruption in Rabaul last May was a disaster; but this unfortunate event may be turned to good, if it forces the Australian authorities, in seeking a new capital, to recognise the urgent need for a vigorous policy of development and defence in New Guinea.

Sydney-N. Guinea

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AIRMAIL

No Start Yet—Aerodromes Not Ready

AT the moment of going to press, no one knows when the new airmail service between Sydney and New Guinea will be commenced.

The contractors (Messrs. W. R. Car penter and Co. Limited) have had their De Havilland machines and expert staff ready for several weeks; but the Com monwealth Government is still fumbling and footling over its part of the job— namely, that of providing adequate radio equipment and meteorological service at the principal stations en route, especi ally Cooktown, Port Moresby and Sala maua.

It was originally arranged, when ten ders were called in 1937, that the ser vice should commence in January, 1938.

Messrs. Carpenter & Co. Limited pur chased their aeroplanes and made their arrangements accordingly; but the Fed eral officials just muddled and dithered.

By the end of the year it was seen that there was no likelihood that they would have the aerodromes ready; and the date for the opening of the service was post poned from month to month.

In March, April was confidently an nounced; but. to-day, workmen are still busy on the installation of equipment at Salamaua and Cooktown, while, so far as can be learned, the erection of the radio masts at Port Moresby has not even been commenced.

On April 14, in reply to pointed en quiries by the “Sydney Morning Her ald”, the Commonwealth Minister for Defence stated that “the Sydney-New Guinea airmail would open in the first week in May”. Those in touch with the situation simply laughed. This, they said, was typical politicians’ bluff —there was no chance of the aerodromes being properly equipped by the end of the first week in May.

Meanwhile, the contractors are doing what they can. They are using their pilots and their machines for “survey” flights, which are being regularly carried out between Sydney and Rabaul, and a few passengers and some cargo have been carried. This does not alter the fact that the air--fleet and personnel are semi

idle, and a claim upon the Common wealth for compensation may be expect ed. The three De Havillands cost about £50,000; and, in aircraft, there is one huge overhead item which goes on whether the machines are idle or not.

That is obsolescence, and it represents probably 20 per cent, per annum or £lO,OOO per annum in the case of the Carpenter fleet. These machines are ob solete at the end of five years.

The inefficiency of Australian aviation control can be seen in other directions.

There is still no sign of the Australian- New Zealand air service; while the com mencement of the London-Sydney flying boat service, owing to Australia’s failure to provide suitable stations en route, is not now expected before October.

Mr. V. Gordon Johnston, who for 20 years was an employee of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited in the Fiji Group, died suddenly in Sydney in April.

Mr. A. J. Peadon, of Ramu, New Guinea, joined Mrs. Peadon in Sydney by the April “Neptuna”. His gold claim, situated just on the border of unprotect ed country, is one of the richest in the whole territory.

(Under the influence of floods of whale oil, the copra market is depressed.) The Rotund Mon: What are you calling the new plantation?

The Thin Man: Jonah.

The Rotund Man: Jonah! What for?

The Thin Man: Because it looks as if the darned thing is going to be swallowed by a whale.

Manam Island Volcano

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fJTHE N. G. Administration reports A .that there recently has been considerable volcanic activity on Manam Island, off the coast of the Madang Dis trict. It has a cone-shaped crater 4,265 ft. high. An official report in February by Patrol Officer J. B. Mackay stated:— “Since my arrival at Bogia (on the North Madang Coast) in January, Manam has been in eruption night and day. This also concerned me regarding the inhabitants. None of the Manam people has been able to get to the main land owing to heavy seas, and strong winds.

“The crater on the south side, which is beneath the main one, has been very active, shooting lava into the air hun dreds of feet, and burning all bush for hundreds of feet down the mountain side. So far it has not caused any damage to the gardens”. (See front cover of this issue for photograph of Manam Island, as seen from the air.)

The sport of horse-racing is followed in every Pacific Island. Here, on the beach in Raro tonga, are the horses and riders lining up for the start of a race.

Hawaii —Auckland

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Nothing Definite About Start of P.A.A. Service

THERE still is no information as to when the airmail service between Honolulu and Auckland, planned by Pan-American Airways, actually will come into operation.

No official announcement has been made since Pan-American Airways’ plans were disorganised by the destruction of the “Samoa Clipper” at Pago Pago on January 11.

It is stated that the service will not commence until the new Boeing seaplanes (huge machines capable of carrying 72 passengers) are available. The first of these was to be completed and tested at Seattle in April.

The “New Zealand Herald” suggests that this machine will be used on the Honolulu-Auckland service; but it seems more likely that the craft will go on to the ’Frisco-Asia service—which has been successfully operated by Pan-American Airways during the last 18 months—and that one of the clippers from that ser vice will be detached for the obviously less important Honolulu-Auckland ser vice.

There is still controversy as to whether Pan-American Airways will continue to use the Kingman Reef and Pago stations on their mid-Pacific route. Some people seem certain that they will use the al ternative route—Honolulu, Canton Island (Phoenix Group), Suva, Auckland.

An official investigation into the loss of the “Samoa Clipper” at Pago Pago was concluded in Washington in April.

It was decided that the probable cause was fire, associated with the dumping of fuel, but the precise cause of ignition was not determined—and probably never will be.

Information received as we go to press suggests that:— I.—The agreement between P.A.A. and New Zealand has expired, because the service was not operating by March, 1938, and it may not be renewed unless Britain gets aviation landing-rights in Hawaii and San Francisco. These may not be granted, because Japan might demand similar rights. 2.—The United States and Canadian Governments are not friendly disposed towards P.A.A. 3.—P.A.A. is building up a friendship with the Dutch airlines in the East In dies, which may have important re actions.

Midway Island

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To Be a Powerful U.S. Air Base

From Our Own Correspondent,

HONOLULU, Apr. 6.

JOBS for 100 skilled labourers is announced by the U.S. Government for the spade work of the 1,000,000 dollars project that will convert isolated Midway Island, now a cable station and a stop on the air route to the Orient, into a first-class navy air base.

All workers must be U.S. citizens. The first expedition will depart from Hono lulu about July 1. U.S. army engineers have charge of the job.

Th,e main work will consist of blast ing more runways and anchorages in the great lagoon for the use of navy bombers which frequently visit Midway and Wake Islands from the potent base at Pearl harbour, near Honolulu.

Secret bombproof underground gaso line and water stores will be built also.

Step by step the U.S. defence chess game is moving into the Western Paci fic, to be alert against any move made by a would-be Orient aggressor.

N.Z. Governor

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To Visit Cook Islands

From Our Own Correspondent.

RAROTONGA, Mar. 24.

IT has been officially announced that the Governor-General of New Zea land (Lord Galway) and Lady Galway will visit the Cook Islands sometime in June.

Besides making a two-days’ stay in Rarotonga, they also will visit the other islands of the Lower Cook Group.

SAMOA MAKES PLANS.

It is expected that the Governor-Gen eral, while in the Pacific, will also visit Western Samoa; and native plans already are afoot.

It is said that the non-Mau party pro poses to make a demonstration to show that it is now, in numbers and influence, just as strong as the Mau organisation.

Fiji Gold

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Loloma Pays a Dividend— Memories of Mr.

Lawlor

THE first dividend has been paid in connection with the Tavua goldfield of Fiji—that goldfield on which a most spectacular share boom, and an equally spectacular collapse, were based in 1934-36.

The dividend has been paid to share holders in Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines N.L.

It is 1/ per share and it will absorb £41,- 250. Loloma was the first of the Tavua leases to be floated into a company (January, 1935), and this flotation was followed by dozens of others. Shares in a mere optimistic hole in the ground went to fantastic prices.

Only three companies survived —Loloma (which was the richest of the lot), Emperor and Koroere. These three leases are close together, covering a volcanic cone in the centre of the goldfield. The Emperor and Loloma mines between them are now producing gold at the rate of 6,000 ounces per month. A dividend from Emperor seems to be due—though the market is pessimistic about it.

Koroere has not been developed. There should be good gold there, but the right lodes do not seem to have been found.

It is now proposed that Koroere Gold N.L. shall be taken over by Emperor Goldmining Company Limited as a going concern, the purchase consideration to be an allottment to Koroere of 50,000 fully paid 10/- shares in Emperor Mines Lim ited. The details are given in our mining columns.

The story of Loloma is one of the ro mances of the Islands. The mine was bought in an irresponsible moment for £2O, by Mr. W. Lawlor, a young English man who was seeking fortune in Fiji, and not making much of a success of it.

To his amazement, he discovered that Loloma was very rich. He received for it £lO,OOO in cash, and shares then nom inally worth £15,000 —but within a few months his shares were worth £70,000.

The market valuation of Loloma Mines to-day is £963,000.

At Makogai, Fiji's Leper Settlement

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Native Minis ters, Catechists and Teachers, at the Makogai Leper Station, Fiji. All are patients except the one stand ing in the cen tre of the group.

Photo.: “Mission Review”.

Fiji Bananas

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Government Control In New Zealand

Prom Our Own Correspondent

SUVA, Apr. 1.

CONSIDERABLE interest has been aroused in Fiji at the announce ment that the New Zealand Government intends to take over the purchase and marketing of bananas.

The N.Z. Labour Government con siders that the price paid by the public is too high and it will take over the marketing itself to supply the public with cheaper bananas. It will buy the fruit f.0.b., Suva, at a price to be fixed from time to time by the N.Z. and Fiji Governments.

It is unlikely that the change will make much difference to the price paid to Fijian growers, but against that it is anticipated that there will be a greater demand for Fiji fruit in New Zealand, with a consequent higher re turn to growers, as the fruit quota to be shipped will be increased.

No Bananas!

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Samoa and Tonga Benefit at Cook Is. Expense

AN extraordinary banana situation has developed in the Central Pacific.

The N. Z. Government controls the Cook Islands, and has imposed a “fruit control scheme”, which included bananas from April 1. Growers, under this, were offered 3/6 per case. They declined flatly, and the “Matua” sailed from Rarotonga in mid-April with 728 cases, instead of the 2,500 expected.

But it was a godsend for planters in Samoa (suffering from the fall in cocoa) and Tonga (smitten by drought). New Zealand’s markets have eagerly absorbed both Samoan and Tongan bananas, at prices which will return growers more than 3/6 per case. All the vacant “Matua” space was taken by Samoan bananas.

Fiji, also, is taking a keen interest in the N.Z. banana market. The Fijian, Sa moan and Tongan bananas are better than the Cook Island product—probably because the Cook Islanders have not been encouraged to properly cultivate their banana The Cook Island people are reported to be on the warpath against the “fruit control scheme” —at least, so far as bananas are concerned.

New Guinea Exploration

p. 8

A PATROL, under Assistant District Officer Tailor, is'at present explor ing the region of New Guinea be tween Mt. Hagen and the border of Dutch New Guinea. Mr. Taylor reported on April 9 by radio-telephone that the party is camped at an altitude of 7,800 ft., in th,e vicinity of the headwaters of what is thought to be the Maramuni River, a tributary of the Yuat River, which flows into the Sepik. All mem bers of the party are well.

Mission Influence

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IN TONGA

Alleged Interference With Government

ALMOST from the time that Tonga came under European influence, there has been trouble between the civil ians and the missionary bodies. Persons acquainted with Pacific history will re collect a bad period in Tonga, when powerful missionary influence, under a gentleman named Shirley Baker, abso lutely controlled the islands, and almost caused a revolution.

Mission activity is necessary, especi ally in countries where there is a colour ed race, controlled by a dominant white race. But whenever missionaries have se cured complete administrative power, there has been serious political confus ion and social disturbance.

Apparently, judging by the letters we receive, many people believe that Tonga is headed for another period of trouble, as a result of missionary influence with the Government.

The Methodist Church is all-powerful in Tonga, and the Royal Family, which practically rule the territory, are ard ent church-goers. It is said that no im-« portant step is taken by the Government, nowadays, unless the Royal advisers (the Methodist missionaries) are first consult ed. This system has caused bitter critic ism.

The following is from a letter to the editor. It was not written for publica tion, and it is typical of several com munications:— “The Wesleyan Mission, which is a branch of the Methodist Church of Aus tralasia (famous in other parts of the Pacific) is bidding for a position of para mount political power in Tonga. The first question to be answered in the af firmative by any successful native appli cant for a position in the Government is ‘Are you a Wesleyan?’ At the last elec tion of people’s representatives in the Tongan Parliament (chock-a-block with nominated Wesleyans already) the in struction went forth from the Mission pulpits to vote for three named individu als, thereby turning their chapels for the nonce into election agencies. At the annual collections from natives of money for the Mission, the services of high, per sonages in the State—very high—were re quired to use their influence to drag the last penny out of the poverty-stricken ad herents. Not only that. The sentiments of the people were stirred at these col lections by public reference to their dead relations exhorting them to contribute lib erally in memory of their departed. This is a very sensitive spot to a Tongan, and that it should be exploited for the ma terial ends of a mission is unfortunate”.

Extensive Damage To S.S.

p. 8

"MORINDA"

THE accident to the Burns, Philp steamer “Morinda” (described on page 27) caused extensive damage. She was put into dock in Sydney on April 11, and it was found that so much damage had been done to the hull that repairs must take about three weeks. The ship’s trip to Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, due to start on April 14, was cancelled.

She may leave for those two islands, and the New Hebrides, about May 12.

Papuan Apinaipi Co.

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LAUNCH WRECKED

Loss of Machinery is Setback for Papuan Apinaipi Co.

THE 7-tons launch “Apinaipi”, owned by the Apinaipi Petroleum Co., Ltd., was wrecked recently on the Biaru Bar, Gulf Division, Papua. No lives were lost and no one was injured; but valu able stores and machinery were lost.

They will throw the Co.’s plans out of gear, until the machinery is replaced.

The vessel was on her way to the base camp at the Biaru River from Port Moresby when a squall arose. The waves quickly tore off the deck-house and flood ed the engine-room, completely wrecking her. On board were Messrs. T. Rowe and Tynan, with a crew of three; they were flung on to a sand spit at the south east of the entrance, and managed to reach shore safely.

Everything on board was lost; but most of it was covered by insurance. However, the disorganisation of the transport ser vice and the loss of the machinery, which formed part of the cargo, will greatly in convenience the Company.

Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co., Ltd., which was registered in the territory to search for oil in April, 1937, holds Permit No. 6. Its concession is an area to the west of Jokea, on the old Popo oilfield.

Libel Action Settled

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THE action taken by Mr. O. P. Nelson, of* Apia, * Samoa, against Mr. A. M.

Gurau, also of Apia, alleging defama tory libel in respect of articles which ap peared in the Honolulu “Star Bulletin” and in the “Pacific Islands Monthly” was settled in the High Court of Samoa on March 21.

Mr. Gurau withdrew the statements which appeared in the Honolulu “Star Bulletin” as “untrue and without any justification”, and tendered to Mr. Nel son his apologies for same.

With reference to the words published in the “Pacific Islands Monthly”, Mr.

Gurau denied responsibility; but, insofar as they might be attributed to him, he apologised for their use.

“Please Join Us In A Cold Beer!”

pp. 9-10

How British Officials on Canton Island Greeted the American "Annexationists"

BY JOHN WILLIAMS.

HONOLULU, Mar. 28.

AMERICA’S, “surprise” occupation of Enderbury and Canton Islands in the Phoenix Group of Central Pacific went off without a hitch, according to U.S. officials who returned to Honolulu to-day in the coastguard cutter “Roger B. Taney” after supervising the land ings and formal raising of the Stars and Stripes on each island and leaving behind permanent colonists.

Evidently the Americans expected Messrs. George Langdale and Tom Man ning, Colonial Office employees who have occupied Canton since August, 1937, to become “hot-headed” about the Ameri can landings because the fact that Messrs. Langdale and Manning, men long experienced in “outpost” work, were out standingly friendly has been played up by the American press.

The Britishers, indeed, completely rounded out their characteristic hospi tality by saying to the Americans: “Let’s leave the wrangling, if any, about the islands, to the diplomats of London and Washington, and toast our meeting in good old-fashioned beer, plenty of which we have in our refrigerator.”

However, the serious American party had work to do: landing their seven colonists, building materials, radio and meteorological instruments, and the ceremonial hoisting of the Stars and Stripes, which was done, according to the official handout, “at 9.05 a.m. on March 7”.

The Britishers stood by and watched the activities and Mr. Manning made a complete photographic record of it, which he has sent to Mrs. Manning in Auckland.

AFTER four hours of this, the Ameri cans at long last got on the right side of the British beer, the subtle effects of which were so friendship cementing that the Britishers went a step further and enticed the Americans into a poker game.

Anyhow, during the three-days’ stay of the American officials, a good time was had by all. No doubt Messrs. Lang dale and Manning will be ordering ur gent replenishments of their stores!

The Britishers told the Americans that they heard about the projected American occupation through listening in to an American mainland broadcast, but probably British official archives will tell a different story.

The Americans have set up a radio station and meteorological unit, a fea ture of which is the recording of upper air movements. Daily schedules will be maintained by Canton and Ender bury with the powerful Pearl harbour navy radio near Honolulu, in the same way as the American radio stations on Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands have been reporting for years.

The Americans left on Canton are: Messrs. Alfred Voight, Hensley Towill,

Alex McGalliard, James Kamakaiwi, Henry Kaahea, Jacob Haili and Manuel Pires. Those on Enderbury are: Joseph Anakalea, Yau Fai Lum, William Tav ares and Harold Kim. As the names indicate most of these comparatively young men are part Hawaiian, part Chinese, part Portuguese. All come from Hawaii. It is significant to note that in her occupation of many Pacific Islands in recent years, all of which have definite strategic meanings al though the commercial aspects are be ing self-consciously emphasised, Ameri ca has not used any American-born Japanese, although such Japanese pre dominate in the population of the Hawaiian Islands.

It is a point that is not lost upon the sensitive Japanese.

THE Canton and Enderbury colonists will proceed with surveys of the best stretches for aeroplane landings.

Canton, of course, has one of the finest lagoons in the Pacific, which makes it an ideal clipper and navy patrol bomber base. It also has a stretch of hard coral sand for landplane use.

Enderbury is good for landplanes only.

Captain Perry 0. Paxon, of the U.S. army engineers, accompanied the

Britain and U.S.A. now jointly, and quite harmoniously, occupy Canton and Enderbury Islands valuable airways stations in the Phoenix Islands. A “condo minium” formula, it is believed, has been worked out.

Mr. Williams, in this article, gives some sidelights on the American “occupation”—which history will regard as one of the most remarkable diplomatic in cidents in the Pacific.

expedition and he directed the routine of work that will be followed. Mr.

Frederick E. Edgecomb, supervisor of the U.S. 19th Lighthouse District, with headquarters in Honolulu, also landed on the islands and chose sites for navi gation lights which America will build as soon as possible.

It is said that the navy “will make a very exhaustive examination” of Ender bury and Canton during the current war games of the U.S. Pacific fleet, which has announced its intention of going en masse to the vicinity of American Samoa.

Sensational stories, of course appeared in the American press about the occupation of the islands, and even Congressional members claimed that the British colonists had despoiled the American tablet on Canton (which was set “in memory of America’s war dead” by the American sun eclipse ex-

Left: James Kamakaiwi, part Hawaiian, typical of the class of young men who have been sent by U.S.A. to occupy Canton and Enderbury Islands. Top right: The British plinth, placed on Canton Island last year by the scientific expedition, and the present British camp, in the background. (Photo. by Mr. Rostier, British official recently on Canton.) Lower right: How the Americans land their gasoline and drinking water through the surf of the islands they have occupied.

pedition last year). These entirely base less statements are typical of the super ficial anti-British sentiment in America.

Officially, of course, America respects Britain. The American “annexationists” emphasised the fact that they did not molest the British flag they discovered flying on Enderbury.

The “Honolulu Advertiser” carried a typical story in which it panned the British, and the local British consul in particular, for attempting to question the right of the American sun-eclipse party in using the Phoenix Islands.

However, the consul, Mr. A. A. L.

Tuson, informed the “Advertiser” that their story was baseless, that he had not contacted the eclipse expedition at all.

MR. BOAKE CARTER, a naturalised American of British birth, who now is one of the leading news and radio news commentators in America, rapped President Roosevelt’s executive order which caused the occupation of the islands.

Asked Mr. Carter: “. . . Under what authority of the Constitution does the executive issue a ukase to take over new territory so blandly? His secretary may be superficially correct, that the annexation has nothing to do ‘with war plans’, but actually every additional is land we as a nation possess to ourselves in the Pacific is an additional stick of war dynamite thrust willy-nilly into the hands of American citizens. When the statesmen (?) of Washington issue orders picking up new territory, United States citizens are obligated to defend those islands whether they like the idea or not . . .”

Washington was swamped with re quests rrom adventurous Americans, who want to see the fabulous South Seas and play a minor role in history making, but Government officials, who received more than 100 applications on the first day, have announced that no more colonists are required for Canton and Enderbury.

I LEARN from Washington sources that the Government has prohibited Pan American Airways from using Pago Pago and Kingman’s Reef as bases in a passenger and air mail ser vice to New Zealand from Hawaii ow ing to unsatisfactory aspects of the bases as all-year operating points.

Meanwhile, the company went ahead and surveyed and okayed Rose Island, an atoll and most easterly of the Samoa Group, 150 miles east of Pago Pago.

If Pago Pago is too landlocked and small for clippers it also is too small for navy patrol bombers; and, putting two. and two together, this explains America’s hurried sharing of Canton with Britain. (This is not in accord with statements made recently by Pan American Air ways.—Ed. P.T.M.) Pan American will be permitted to use Canton, as will any British or American airline company. Imperial Airways are scheduled to make a trans-Pacific survey flight from Auckland to Canada via Canton and Hawaii in May-June next.

It isn’t much use the American press

becoming excited about Canton. No doubt John Bull has said to Uncle Sam: “Sam, if you want better air bases in the Pacific, more and more to check Japanese moves in the Pacific, I’ll move up a bit and let you in”.

And this is what Uncle Sam is doing methodically. Outwardly there will be diplomatic conversations, furrowing of brows, and protests from Japan. But what can Japan do about it? She, after all, is a past mistress at grabbing territory. Mr. Cordell Hull can make all the tactful denials he likes about secret agreements, but British and American

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Anglo-American Control

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Suggested

LATE in March, the situation regarding: con trol of certain Central Pacific Islands, held by the British and desired by the United States, was puzzling. It was stated, for instance, that the Americans were going to “annex” Can ton and Enderbury Islands (Phoenix Group), and already had landed American officials thereon, although British officials were already there, In nossession. It was said that the Americans were likely to take Christmas and other islands in the vicinity. Yet there was no sign of friction between London and Washington.

The situation was cleared up by the following news despatch in the “Sydney Morning Herald” of March 29, dated London, March 28:— The Diplomatic Corresnondent of the Australian Associated Press under stands that Enderbury and Canton Islands, in the Phoenix Group, and several other islands in the Central Pacific may shortly be placed under the joint control of the British Empire and the United States, with the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes flying side by side.

It is hoped that this will solve the dispute concerning the ownership of the islands, and provide the world with a striking example of peaceful adjustment of international differences.

Negotiations are proceeding, directed personally, it is understood, by the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mr. Chamber lain, and President Roosevelt, and it is hoped that an agreement will be con cluded in a fortnight. It would be sub ject to approval by the Dominions.

The joint control would be tantamount to a condominium form of administra tion, but more practicable than that exercised by Britain and France over the New Hebrides. It would be on a “share trust” two-Power standard, in which both nations would be jointly responsible for defence and maintenance, and would jointly use the islands as bases for trans-Pacific air services.

It was announced recently that the United States coastguard cutter “Taney” had raised the United States flag on Canton and Enderbury Islands. Brit ish flags already there were not touched.

Getting Expedition

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TWO"LUGS “ IN

PAPUA

Dromgolc's Merry Story of a Film- Getting Expedition

I HAVE just read “Two Lugs on a Lug ger”—the long-awaited book by George Dromgold. It is a delightful and diverting volume and I think that it will be read widelv because of its intrin sic merit—especially its colourfulness its clever portrayal of tropical scenes, and its rich humour; and I also expect that it will become a cherished possession of 95 per cent, of Europeans in Papua, who will want to read Mr. Dromgold’s pleas ant descriptions of themselves and their neighbours.

George Dromgold and James B Shackleford went to Thursday Island and thence to Papua to secure a high-class scenic film, which was to form the back ground of an important Hollywood film The equipment they carried probably was the best ever seen in the South Seas.

They hired the old “Veimauri” from Cap tain Pitch, in Port Moresby, and loaded their gear on the little ship at Thursday Island, and thence set out on their me morable expedition.

To any prosaic person, it would have been simply a job of hard work in a filthy climate, wherein one is beset by every kind of pest from tireless cochroaches to cranky officials. But George Dromgold has made of it, in this book, a truly delightful adventure.

Frankly, I do not know what a “lug” is, used in this sense—l heard it first from my Scottish grandmother, who in this word indicated an ear. and later from sailormen, who thus described a sail.

However, in American slang, Dromgold and Shackleford were “lugs”, and we shall have to let it go at that. There was a third member of the party—Mel Ward, the famous Sydney “crab-ologist”—who apparently was not a “lug”, although a darned good fellow. Why the distinc tion? Cannot an Australian be a “lug”?

Anyone who knows Papua must ad mire Dromgold’s powers of observation, in that he notices all sorts of little things that the average person sees only sub consciously, and his cleverness in lining up all these little things to provide an interesting and delightful narrative. Be hind a whole series of discouraging in cidents and setbacks, Mr. Dromgold found a background of rich humour, and there is a laugh on every page. One forms a high regard, too, for the grim and industrious Shackleford, who was determined to get a film, even though the heavens fell; and one learns to love Mel Ward, whom they made “President of the Department of Science and Strange Goings-On”—which was their charming way of describing his huge col lection of jars, in which he pickled high ly malodorous crabs.

All Papua’s well-known residents walk across the pages and take their part in this merry story of a successful adven ture—Sir Hubert Murray, Leonard Mur ray, Captain Fitch, “Bill” Dupain, John Boileau, “Ma” Vessieux, Ben Hall. Capt.

Clay, Mrs. McGrath, G. Stewart, Secret ary Champion, A. C. English, E. A. James, Rev. Short. W. G. Saville, E. C, Skelly, L. E. Austen, and dozens of others.

The book contains probably the finest collection of photographs ever made in Papua—about 100 of them, full-page.

The book has been published by Hut chinson and Co., London, and may be purchased in Sydney bookshops for 14/6.

R.W.R.

Road-Side Signs In Tahiti

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OVER the gateway of the public school at Punaauia, about 5 miles from Papeete, is a sign which has amused many visitors, and caused much discus sion. Many years ago there was em ployed at the Government Printing Office, Papeete, a Monsieur Souvy, who held very definite views on education.

Out of his meagre earnings he had saved a sum of money, with which he pur-

chased a piece of land at Punaauia.

Learning of a proposal to erect a school in that locality, he offered to give his land to the Government for a school site, under certain conditions. The con ditions were that the scholars should be given a thorough grounding in the three R’s—readin’, Sitin’, and ’rithmetic— and that a sign should be erected to indicate the practical nature of the in struction obtainable at the school.

Monsieur Souvy’s offer was accepted, and the school erected. He has long since passed away, but the sign (2 + 2 = 4) still remains to puzzle the pass ing visitor.

About 30 miles further on, in the district of Papeari, the road passes close by the once beautiful home of the late Robert Keable, author of “Simon called Peter”, “Recompense”, etc. Since his death the house has fallen into disre pair, and the formerly well-kept grounds are a wilderness of weeds. Keable was a great bird-lover, and where the road passes by the edge of the lagoon, near his house, he had erected a sign in French. Broadly translated, the sign reads:—“Do not shoot at my sea-birds.

Thank you. R.K”. Keable died in Tahiti on December 22, 1927, at the age of 41.—J. D. McCOMISH.

Complication

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FRACAS IN NOUMEA

Hitler, Finns and a Love Complication

WHEN the Finnish barque “Pamir” visited Noumea, New Caledonia, in March, and loaded a cargo of 4,420 tons of nickel ore for Germany, she caused a little social and political trouble.

The good-looking young Finns formed various attachments in Noumea, and thereby apparently upset numerous hus bands and lovers; but the serious trouble developed when the crew of the barque, although not of German nationality, developed the practice of shouting “Heil Hitler” in the hearing of the Noumeans.

As a result of this taunting cry, a free fight took place near the waterfront, and

Brigadier-General T. Griffiths and other members of the New Guinea Capital Selection Committee, arrived in Sydney by the “Nankin” on April 21.

The Committeemen would make no com munication to the press; but we learned from others on the liner that the discourt esy with which General Griffiths had been treated in Rabaul was a subject of com ment there. It appears that when the ex-Administrator arrived in Rabaul there was no official car to meet him and he took pot-luck in the matter of transport.

He was given a lift to his hotel by a minor official.

a number of the Finns wete returned aboard in a somewhat damaged condition.

The French authorities asked the captain of the ship to keep his men on board after dark.

Our correspondent, however, says that although there was some excitement, there was a good deal more of the love motif than of the Hitler motif in it.

New Governor Of New

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CALEDONIA

IT is announced_ that M. Jore has been appointed Governor of New Cale donia in' succession to M. Marches sou. M. Jore is expected to arrive in Noumea on May 20, and M. Marchessou is to leave for France by the same liner.

M. Marchessou, in December, 1936, suc ceeded M. Siadous (who had occupied the post from May, 1933, to December, 1936).

M. Jore is well known in New Cale donia. He formerly held the position of Governor (following’ M. Guyon) from July, 1932, until April, 1933.

There have been many changes in this position. Since 1891, New Caledonia has been controlled by 22 Governors.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cameron, of Mel bourne, departed for Misima Island, Papua, by the “Montoro” on April 6.

Mr. E. Johnson, mill superintendent of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., Edie Creek, T.N.G., arrived in Sydney by the “Neptuna” early in April, on a holiday trip. He went on to New Zealand.

Mr. Thomas Hughes, a prominent Syd ney business man, died at his home in Darling Point, on April 7, after a short illness. Born in 1857, he joined the Col onial Sugar Refining Co.. Ltd., in May, 1886. In 1894 he went to Fiji as man ager of the Labasa mill, serving there for four years. He remained on the admin istrative staff until 1921, when he retired.

Tonga’s Troubles

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Food Shortage Follows Drought

REPORTS from several sources indi cate that economic conditions in Tonga are serious.

An exceedingly severe drought, extend ing over six months, broke on March 28 and there since has been copious rain: but. in the meantime, the Tongans are without their usual crops of yams and other foods, and are dependent upon im ports of rice and Australian flour, which have been in short supply, but of which large quantities are needed.

The Government is still pressing the neople for payment of taxes and one au thority calculates that half the taxpayers in the kingdom (7,000 in a population of 34,000) are in default and being threat ened with gaol. One critic points out that it is proposed to increase the poll tax from 36/- to 41/- per annum, while the Government is making no effort to reduce the expensive civil service, which is held to be overloaded with Europeans.

Books Worth Reading

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“WHALEMEN ADVENTURERS”, by

W. J. Dakin, B.Sc.. F.Z.S. This is a second edition of a verv remarkable book, which tells the story of whaling in South Pacific waters, from the days of sail up to modern times. It is at once an his torical record, checked and annotated by a trained seeker after the truth, and a fascinating book of adventure, which holds the attention from cover to cover.

Some notable characters appear in its pages: Ben Boyd, for instance—the man who tried to found an Empire in south ern New South Wales, and was murder ed in the Solomons. Coconut planters will read this book with grim interest and, maybe, some pleasure: for it shows very clearly that the whales—which pro vide the world with the chief rival of coconut oil—are due for early extermin ation. (Our copy from Angus & Rob ertson, Sydney. 12/6.)

“ATOMS, MEN AND STARS”, by

Rogers D. Rusk, Ph D. Great advances have been made, in recent years, in knowledge of the physical sciences. It is possible, now, to see a little more clear ly the relationship of our world to the mysteries which surround us in the uni verse, and to recognise how little we know of the fundamental purpose of life.

This writer, in simple, non-scientific language, explains hundreds of scienti fic discoveries and concepts that, until now, have baffled our understanding, and yet which intimately affect our life upon this earth, and our vision of the future.

For instance, he sets out to explain the Einstein theory of relativity, and its ef fect on the scientific world. Every in telligent man and woman will want to read this book. (Our copy from Angus & Robertson, Sydney. 8/6.)

“TWO LUGS ON A LUGGER” and

“JAPAN REACHES OUT” are reviewed elsewhere in this issue.

Mr. Hendy Humble, accountant at the Hotel Bulolo, Wau, New Guinea, is spend ing three months’ leave in Australia.

New Guinea Oil

p. 12

Enterprise Is Knocked Back Again

THE well-known New Guinea mining company, Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum N.L., managed by Mr. Harold Taylour, is still fighting hard for what it considers its rights to enter the uncontrolled areas in New Guinea and there prospect for oil; and it is still being knocked back by. the Ad ministration.

The company recently asked permission to send a geologist with the official pa trol party, which is exploring uncon trolled territory between Mount Hagen and the Sepik River. It offered to co operate with any other oil interest and defray any costs incurred by the inclu sion of the geologist.

The Administration said that the in clusion of even one geologist would hamper the movements and progress of the party; and it was not possible to say when permits to enter the uncon trolled area would be considered.

Officially, the attitude of the Adminis tration is strictly correct. But the in cident is typical of its attitude towards plans made by private enterprise for the development of the territory. It is often difficult to reconcile official rectitude with plain commonsense.

M.V. "Bulolo"

p. 12

On Sydney-New Guinea Run by End of Year

THE new Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., motor vessel, which is being built on the Clyde, in the yards of Barclay Curie & Co., Ltd., is expected to be in commission in the Sydney-Papua-New Guinea run, replacing the “Montoro”, be fore the end' of the year. It will be about 6,000 tons gross weight, and will have twin-screw Diesel engines, giving a speed of 16 knots.

Five large cargo holds will be operated by electric winches, with two heavy lift derricks, and provision has been made for shipments of freezer and cooler car goes.

Accommodation for 232 passengers in one, two, and three-berth cabins has been provided on the main and upper decks.

There will be talking picture apparatus, swimming pool, and full sporting equip ment.

The name of the new ship is “Bulolo” —the directors for once having abandoned their old practice of always selecting a seven-lettered word beginning with “M”.

The new vessel’s wireless equipment, supplied by Amalgamated Wireless

(A/sia.), Limited, will include a 750 watts short and long wave I.C.W. transmitter and receiver, an auto-alarm, a three channel music amplifier for the enter tainment of passengers, and a direction finder.

Copra

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Affected by Politics and Whale Oil

LATEST. London advices (by air mail) are that copra prices directly re flect the depressed commodities markets; and that the poor markets are caused by (1) widespread uncertainty regarding the trend of international affairs, and (2) the huge production of Antarctic whale oil. The position at the end of March was that the Japanese had sold 64,000 tons of whale oil, the Norwegians 12,000 tons and the British 7,000 tons, at prices around £l2 per ton; and four Antarctic expeditions had still to be heard from.

Rev. C. J. Steley, of the London Mis sionary Society in Papua, reached Aus tralia via Thursday Island in April. He was accompanied by Mrs. Steley.

The Chinese Community In Fiji

p. 12

Photograph of Fiji Chinese Primary School opened recently by the Chinese Community of Suva for the primary education of the Chinese children resident in the Fiji islands. This will be interesting to all students of Pacific affairs, as showing a population trend.

Tropicalities

p. 13

MEMO from a Solomon Islands planter:— “I heard two of my boys swearing and, suffering for once from a spasm of piety, I took one of the boys aside and told him he must not swear, other wise he would not go to Heaven. The boy answered that he did not care, as there was only one man in Heaven—all the others were Marys.

“When I tried to find his method of reasoning, he produced for my inspec tion a book that had been given to him by one of the missions. It contained a picture of Heaven, in which the Saviour was depicted clearly, and surrounded by a dozen angels—Marys, to the primitive mind.” * * • IT is noted that the Rev. Roger Page, a Methodist missionary, of Tonga, went to Wellington recently to officially represent Tonga at the Conference called by the New Zealand Government to discuss banana quotas. Mr. Page has much influence with the Queen of Tonga. The distinguished Page brothers seem to have a gift for being the power behind the throne. There are three of them. Dr. Earl Page, next to Mr. Lyons, is the most influential man in the Aust ralian Government. Mr. Harold Page is Government Secretary in New Guinea, and acts as Administrator when the head is away. And Rev. Roger Page is as sociated with a whole host of things in Tonga, besides church organisation and bananas. • • • WHILE sensational American news papers gnashed their teeth and howled, and various fat-headed publi cists chanted “The Star-spangled Ban ner”, a small U.S.A. vessel went to Canton Island (already in the occupa tion of British officials, and flying the Union Jack). American officials landed on the island, formally established a station there, and hoisted the Stars and Stripes. It was, in a sense, an act of war, and the excitement of the Press was intense.

The brown and bearded Britishers were not in the least excited. They greeted the invaders warmly and, with a grin, invited them to have some cold beer. The Americans, having finished a hot job on a hot equatorial island, accepted gratefully. The two parties, queer outposts of London and Washing ton respectively, are living amicably on the island.

And that was that.

One is reminded of two other inci dents in Pacific history.

In 1889, British, American and Ger man warships were trapped by a hurri cane in Apia roadstead, and only one, H.M.S. “Calliope”, escaped. As the British ship fought her way out in the teeth of the tempest, the crew of the doomed American ship “Trenton” (they were nearly all dead within an hour) lined the rail and cheered.

In the naval battle in Manila harbour,

between Americans and Spanish, in 1898, there came a moment when an inter ested, onlooking British warship was cleared for action on behalf of tjhe Americans. The battle favoured Uncle Sam, however, and the British, got no excuse to interfere; but the in cident was “front page news” for a few days.

It will take a lot of misrepresentation by the pack of snarling young Com munists who control a large section of American newspapers, to break down traditional Anglo-American friendship in the Pacific. ♦ * « DOES anyone know anything about Clipperton Island?

It appears to be a tiny speck of land in the Pacific, about 700 miles south west of the coast of Mexico. The in formation is sought by Mr. E. C. Lush, of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, N.S.W. The records of Pacific Publications Pty., Limited have failed to meet the request. If any reader of the “P.1.M.” can oblige, please com municate with Mr. Lush. * * * THE following is awarded first prize in any competition there may be for the silliest paragraph published in the Sydney “flapper press” in April:— “Five head-hunting tribes in the wilds of the Papuan jungle are claimed by the Oxford Group as converts. Mr.

Geoffrey Baskett, of the Kwato mission station, who is visiting Sydney, said that in 16 months 3000 head-hunters had been won over. The Oxford Group doc trine was explained in sign language to chiefs of the five tribes. Now sorcerers were apologising to the relatives of

those they had put to death. The Ad ministration appreciated the change, and was encouraging the Oxford Group, said Mr. Baskett”.

It is that kind of twaddle that brings the fine work of the mission bodies into ridicule and disrepute.

S* £Zn fij* patrolled

p. 13

MOSQUITO-EATERS

Japanese Medaka, a small yellow J- fish between one and two inches long, which preys upon mosquito larvae. attempt to control the city’s mosquito pest.

It appears that their special merit is that they continue to kill the larvae, even after their hunger has been satisfied, and that they hunt in packs, so that what one fish misses another one catches.

Their disadvantage, however, is that they live only in fresh water. Salt water

S* £Zn fij* patrolled

y other kmds of smaU fish '

Misappropriation.

p. 13

A JOURNALIST well known in Samoa, J. Griffith, was sentenced in March to one year’s imprisonment for misap propriating £lO4, the property of the Apia Turf Club, for which he had been acting as secretary and treasurer.

About Islands People

p. 14

Messrs. H. D. Eve and J. N. Marshall sailed by the April “Montoro” from Brisbane for Port Moresby. They are on the staff of Oil Search Ltd., now seeking oil in Western Papua.

Monsieur Bergerot, of Londres, France, has replaced Monsieur Ledez in the Noumea branch of the Messa geries Maritimes Company, New Cale donia. The latter will return to Paris in May.

Rev. and Mrs. M. Nixon left Sydney for Port Moresby, Papua, by the “Mon toro” on April 6, after spending three months’ furlough in Sydney. Mr. Nixon is head of the London Missionary Society’s station at Moru.

Rev. Father J. Docherty, of Butari tari, Gilbert Islands, is at present in a Melbourne hospital recuperating from a serious illness contracted at his lonely mission station. He has been a worker for the Sacred Heart of Jesus Order in Central Pacific for five years.

Messrs. T. J. Marks and J. McA.

Ritchie have been appointed to the board of directors of Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum N.L.

Mr. F. A. Champion, of the Papuan Administration left Sydney for Port Moresby, Papua, by the “Montoro” on April 6.

Mr. H. Locke, of Rockhampton, Queensland, has joined the staff of the Thursday Island Customs House.

M. Seo, of the Nippon Kokan Kaisha, arrived at Noumea, New Caledonia, by the “Brisbane Maru” in April to super vise the operations being carried out at present by the Japanese company at the mines leased at Goro.

Mr. and Mrs. James Fergusson, accom panied by their son Robert sailed from Thursday Island by the March “Marella” for Singapore, Colombo, and thence Scotland.

Monsieur G. Jeanson, Registrar of Land Titles in the New Hebrides, is at present spending leave in France. His office has been taken over temporarily by M. Gaetan Jeanson.

Dr. and Mrs. J. Nimmo, of Thursday Island, sailed by the April “Changte” for a holiday visit to Hong Kong and Japan. Dr. Horan arrived at T.I. from Melbourne in late March as locum tenens.

Mr. L. J. Higgins, of Rabaul, New Guinea, married Miss Cilia Love, on March 31.

Rev. Father McCullough arrived at Thursday Island recently to assist at the Roman Catholic Missio'n of the Sac red Heart.

Sir Walter McNicoll, Administrator of New Guinea, made a tour of inspection to New Ireland and Bougainville early in April. He returned to Rabaul on the 14th.

Captain D. D. Tyer has been appointed a Torres Strait pilot. He has had over 15 years’ experience with the Austra lian-Oriental Line on the “Changte” and “Taiping”.

Mr. D. Crawley, of Rabaul, New Guinea, married Miss Kathleen Allen, of Tasmania, at the Methodist Church, Rabaul, on March 22. Rev. Howard Pearson conducted the ceremony.

Mr. W. J. R. Smith, of Thursday Is land Post Office, returned from furlough in Southern Queensland by the March “Changte”. He was accompanied by Mrs. Smith.

About Islands People

p. 15

Mr. N. Penglase, Assistant District Officer at Wau, and Mrs. Penglase, arrived in Sydney from New Guinea by the “Macdhui” on April 15 on their way to Victoria to spend furlough. During his absence, A.D.O. Roberts is relieving on the goldfields.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Portley, of the Thursday Island School, returned to T.L in March after sick leave in Queens land.

Mr. Peter Swanson, surveyor in the N.G. Administration, came South to Australia by the April “Neptuna” to seek medical attention.

Mr. John Wilson, Melanesian Mission representative in New Zealand, has re signed to enter College House, Christ church, to study for the ministry.

Mr. S. G. Andrews, M.A., Dip. Ed., re cently arrived in Fiji from New Zealand to assist at the Methodist Mission’s School for Boys at Toorak.

Mr. Noel Owers, of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Golden Ridges, New Guinea, joined his wife and children in Australia in April on three months’ holiday.

Mother Margaret and Sister Made leine, of the Order of the Community of the Cross, Bunana, British Solomon Is lands, left Sydney in March by the “Orcades” for London.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bodger and their child reached Sydney from New Guinea in mid-April by the “Neptuna”. They were en route to their homeland, New Zealand. Mr. Bodger is an executive of N.G. Goldfields Ltd., at Edie Creek.

Dr. P. T. Harper is a popular medical practitioner, who has been in the Fiji Group for 20 years. He served in the War Memorial Hospital, Suva, for 7 years; as chief medical officer at the leper station, on Makogai, for nearly 3 years; and he is now district medical officer at Lautoka, where he has been for 8 years. Dr. Har per served in the Great War. The Indian population of Fiji, in particular, hold him in high regard.

Hides Expedition

p. 15

No Further Prospecting Likely

THERE is no indication that any fur ther prospecting work will be under taken in Papua or New Guinea by Investors, Limited, the Sydney Company which was formed in 1936 to back Mr Jack Hides.

Mr, Hides went into the unexplored country on the Upper Strickland, West- ? rn ,££. pi i a ’ at the end of 1936; and, early m 1937, his company was given title over two large dredging claims on the west ern bank of the Strickland. A drilling party under Mr. Dufaur was despatched dredging claims about the middle of 1937; and, meanwhile, Mr. Hides and Mr. Lyall proceeded up river, into the re mote interior.

There, Mr. Lyall became desperately ill and Mr Hides raced back with him to P a J‘ u » ™ hei ?;M r - L y all died in September last. Mr. Hides came to Sydney to re cover from a serious bout of the same that killed Mr. Lyall (Beri Beri).

Ail this very seriously disorganised the company’s plans.

Mr. Dufaur returned from the Strick l£^ n< iL a l end December and report ed mat the dredging claims were worth less.

Mr. Hides at present is living in Coo gee, Sydney.

World Wandering

p. 17

THIS is a photograph, taken between South Africa and Tasmania, of the world - cruising barquentine “Cap Pilar”, owned and sailed by Captain Adrian Seligman. At the end of 1937, the “Cap Pilar” sailed from Auckland to Mangareva (French Oceania) and thence into the Marquesas Islands. She left Hao, in the Tuamotus, in January, for Europe. (Photo, kindly supplied by Mr.

Oscar Nordman.)

Mr. Ward Williams

p. 17

TIDINGS of our friend, Ward Williams, lately gold-prospector and explorer in Papua, are contained in a letter re ceived by the editor from Mr. George Dromgold, of California, “Our mutual friend, Ward, is at pre sent in a remote spot among the moun tains of Nicaragua”, says Mr. Dromgold.

“He has a man-sized job on his hands —that of flying a complete mining town into the interior—a similar set-up to the famous mining-town flying in the Man dated Territory of New Guinea. Ward has the same problems, I imagine. It is a frightfully expensive show, and will re quire time to complete even the prelim inary work leading up to the actual move-in by the big transport ’plane. I think you will agree that they have pick ed the right man to handle the job”.

Monsieur A. Jocteur is acting as postal clerk at Vila, New Hebrides,, during the absence on furlough of Mr.

G. Seagoe.

Mr. W. E. Ryall, director of Nelson and Robertson Pty., Ltd., Islands mer chants, of Sydney, returned to Australia early in April after a business visit to Papua and New Guinea.

Messrs. J. and E. Cox, L. V. Osborn, and R. C. Langford, members of the Suva Yacht Club who were in New Zealand in March, accepted a challenge from the Ponsonby Cruising Club, Auckland, to race in 14-footers. Great was the joy in Fiji when the Suva-ites were suc cessful

Easter Island

pp. 17-18

MYSTERIES

A Solution Claimed

IT was claimed by Professor Carl Tau ber, a Swiss scientist, who was in Sydney on the cruising ship “Reli ance”, on April 2, that he has evolved the riddle of the “writings” upon the stone monuments at Easter Island, which have baffled scientists since they first were dis covered there 74 years ago. The inscrip tions are in the form of pictographs of men, birds and fish.

It has been thought that if the Easter Island writings can be deciphered, the world might learn something of the ear liest history of Polynesia, and know whether there actually was in the Paci

fic a great nation, powerful and cul tured, which sank into the sea several hundred years ago.

Professor Tauber s&ys that after 15 years’ research, he has identified the hieroglyphics, and _he says “they tell the story of Easter Island, which is the bur ial-ground of the greatest sea heroes of those people”. However, he is keeping his findings a secret until they are pub lished in Paris towards the end of this year.

Port Moresby will remember Professor Tauber. He was so interested in studying the Papuan natives that he was left be hind when the “Reliance” sailed, and the great ship had to put back from 40 miles out, in order to pick him up from a launch in which he was chasing her.

Pilot J. Todd has resigned from Steph en’s Aviation Limited, New Guinea.

Mr. F. Miller, clerk of Madang, New Guinea, reached Sydney by the “Mac dhui” on April 14, on holidays.

"Laurabada" In A Cyclone

p. 18

From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Apl. 8.

THE Government vessel, “Laurabada” returned to Port Moresby on April 7, from Thursday Island, Daru and Yule Island, with the Lt.-Governor (Sir Hubert Murray) on board. His Excell ency was accompanied by the Official Secretary (Hon. H. L Murray) and Hon.

J. T. O’Malley (Commissioner for Native Affairs). Bishop de Boismenu was also a passenger from Thursday Island to Yule Island, Owing to a cyclonic disturbance, the “Laurabada” had an extremely difficult crossing, from Thursday Island to Daru.

Those on board, for three days, were lash ed to their chairs, owing to the high and heavy seas which continually swept the decks. The “Laurabada”, commanded by Hon. H. L. Murray, is a very gallant and sea-worthy little vessel, and has weather ed many storms since she was first put into service as the Governor’s yacht, over 14 years ago. % Dr. H. Bonney, of Samarai, Papua, is now spending leave in Sydney.

N. Guinea Surplus

p. 18

NOW £78,000

Huge Sum In Trust Funds

THE New Guinea Administration showed an accumulated surplus of £78,530 on December 31, compared with £61,906 on July I—six months earlier.

In comparison with the same period of 1936, there was an increase of £17,281 in Customs receipts, and of £30,897 in the sale of postage stamps (new issues of stamps, and the stamp-collecting craze, are a godsend to the smaller treasuries).

There was £55,000 of additional revenue available; and the Government reduced its Treasury expenditure by £16,000. Almost every other depart ment showed increased expenditure, however; so that, when £28,639 had been set aside to cover volcanic eruption ex penditure at Rabaul, there was only £16,000 left to add to the surplus in the oank.

This Administration holds some large amounts on trust. It accumulated £72,683 of interest-bearing money, with drawn from circulation when it issued its own coinage; it holds £16,000, re ceived from private employers as a guarantee that their native labourers will be paid; and it has on hand £123,000 subscribed by its officials to a superannu ation fund in the pious belief that some day they will be permitted to retire on pensions. These trust funds, together with £78,530 of surplus, means that there is a sum of about £300,000 in the hands of the Administration.

New Guinea’s surpluses come from the gold royalty. If it were not for that lucky revenue, the whole Adminis tration would appear top-heavy and luxurious.

New Guinea’s present financial pic ture probably will give pleasure to an unimaginative auditor; but, as an indi cation of what is being done with a great Territory, ripe for development and progress, it simply is a pain in the neck.

Mr. Arthur Thompson, formerly pro prietor of the Goldfields Supply Com pany, Wau, New Guinea, died at Aitape in March.

New Hebrides

p. 19

PESSIMISM

THE following are extracts from a per sonal letter to the editor, written by a New Hebrides planter who has been 20 years in the group:— “Conditions are much the same in this Government-forsaken group, “We few British planters still linger on in the hope that something may hap pen, which will, at long last, at least put us on a level footing with the natives.

“To quote an instance: The French supercargo on the Burns, Philp steamer ‘Mirani’, came ashore here, and quoted the following prices for copra: French, £ll/12/-; native, £10; British £7.

“This kind of thing hardly tends to make one proud of being a British sub ject in this group. It means that one must either try and push oneself in as a native, or lose at least £3 per ton.

“I am often told that as my copra is unquestionably British, I must put up with the consequences. So that is that, and it often makes me wonder what I fought for in the Great War.

“If the administration of the New Hebrides can be taken as a fair sample of British colonisation, then the sooner she hands over ex-German possessions and, saves face, the better for all con cerned.

“There are rumours floating around that Australia might take over Britain’s share in the administration of this group.

Again, I must admit that I am sceptical, as I presume Australians would fashion their tactics on the lines laid down by Britain. Still, they are of a younger country, and might learn by experience, and might not be so tied up with hide bound tradition, and might try to keep pace with the French in the matter of colonisation and assistance to settlers, and so justify their right as partners in the Condominium”.

"Turning The

pp. 19-20

IS TONGA REALLY

CORNER?"

Letter to the Editor.

IT is with a certain reluctance that I encroach upon your valuable space to make some comment upon the con tribution from your own correspondent, appearing, in the December issue of your journal, on the subject of Finance.

So far is the tone of the article from the acknowledged acceptance of the real situation by every section of the commu* nity, except the Government and its em ployees, that it is obviously either Gov ernment-inspired or actually written by one of the complacent crew.

In a Kingdom of a few scattered is lands containing a population of 32,860 (about as many, say, as would be in and about George Street, Sydney, on any day except Sunday), to have a budget in the neighbourhood of £56,000. is in itself ar imposition. And on such a budget, to have a surplus of £17,534, so far from being a matter of exultation, should cause the Government to hide its head in shame, alike for its gross inefficiency, as its brutal heartlessness.

It is not possible within the limits of available space to recount in full the dreary story of how the exploitation of the Tongans has been developed into the fine art it is to-day, of the sacrifice

of British interests, and of the building up of a top-heavy, largely inefficient and highly expensive governmental structure which spreads its baneful influence and leans its oppressive weight upon a hitherto free and happy people.

Suffice it to say that, during the inflated prices for copra, just after the war, when the Kingdom’s exports were worth about £300,000 per annum (as against £58.591 in 1936 and £97,762 in 1937, according to your correspondent), the then British Agent and Consul, with his two satellites and place-hunters which he elevated to the Tongan Cabinet, con-

ceived and put into being the gigantic racket that is to-day crushing the very soul out of these natives. All very well, perhaps, on an earning capacity of a third of a million sterling; but brutal, heartless and disgusting on the little country’s annual wealth for several years past, and what it is likely to be in the future.

There are at this moment thousands of summonses out, or about to be issued, against Tongans for not paying their head tax. Some of these taxes are years in arrear, and will never be got. Two or three large native houses to accommodate

some hundreds of defaulters in relays are to be erected, and the men turned on public works, such as improving the waterfront. But what is the use of ap plying a bit of plaster when the limb re quires amputation? While writing, news has been received of the suicide of one of these taxpayers.

At the village of Veitogo, 5J miles from Nukualofa, two policemen had arrested one Uhfia to bring him to Court for stealing. He was in arrears to the ex tent of a year’s head tax. He complained of thirst and asked to be allowed to climb a coconut tree to get a nut, a request with which the police complied. When at the top of the tree he Informed those beneath that he was not going with the police, and notwithstanding repeated re quests to come down, he threw himself away from the trunk and fell to the ground. He was taken into Nukualofa to the hospital where he expired shortly after admission.

It is to be hoped this will prove an iso lated case, but the murmurings of dis content, and even of revolt, among the population are audible.

I am, etc.,

DE BUNK.

Tonga, 22 2/’3B.

N.G. Agriculture

p. 20

Valuable Official Journal

IF the “New Guinea Agricultural Ga zette” can maintain the standard set by the issue of January, 1938, it should be of increasing assistance to New Guinea planters, and of interest to plant ers in the South Seas generally. The following were some of the articles in January:— “An Agricultural Survey of the Mark ham Valley”, by Colin Marr.

“Biological Control of Insects”, by B, A. O’Connor, “Charcoal Manufacture from Coconut Shell”.

“What to Grow in the Islands—How the N.G. Department of Agriculture is Experimenting to Assist Planters”, by the Director of Agriculture.

“Copra Drying and Ceylon Driers”.

There are also several highly techni cal articles.

Mrs. Robert Parer, of Wewak, arrived in Sydney in April from New Guinea, with her nine-months-old twins, Carolin and Robert. She was on her way to Melbourne to attend the wedding of her brother.

Miss Ida Kent, of the New Guinea Mission staff in Papua, who has been assisting the organising secretary of the Australian Board of Missions in Queens land for a time, will return to Taupota, Papua, at the end of April.

Trans-Pacific Liners

p. 20

Canada Reluctant Plan May Now Affect Far East

IT was disclosed during the month that ‘the reluctance of Canada to contri bute to the scheme is likely to cause the abandonment of the plan under which Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand were to provide a subsidy to enable the Union S.S. Co., Ltd., to run two modern liners across the Pacific, be tween Australia and Canada, in competi tion with the Matson line. Canada now appears to be unwilling to co-operate on any terms.

The matter is to be discussed by the Australian Trade Delegation in London in May.

One very interesting suggestion that has been made, and one that may affect the whole plan, is that these fast mod ern liners (perhaps 30,000 tons, travel ling at 22 knots) may not run directly backwards and forwards between Van couver and Sydney, but may, instead, make a round trip through the Pacific, which will take in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Obviously, such a plan would have an important bearing upon British defences in the Pacific and upon British prestige; and it also would have to be worked out with, the greatest care for American in terests, both commercial and defence.

Miss Agnes Laurenson, of New Zea land, has been appointed headmistress of the Methodist Mission's new school

in Suva, Fiji.

The Pomares Of

pp. 21-23

TAHITI

Origin of Royal House

By W. W. BOLTON, M.A.

THE Pomares were not always so named; it is but a secondary name chosen by the Head of the Family less than a century and a half ago.

The ancestors of that Head bore various names and dwelt on Fakarava, some 220 miles from Tahiti, one of the “Dangerous” (and, it must be confessed, cannibalistic) atolls of the present day Tuamotu Group.

Dates, of course, are impossible till white men appeared upon the scene; but, about 1600 A.D., one from Fakarava

This picture has unique value—it was found, after years of search, by Mr. W. W. Bolton, M.A., and is published, here, for the first time—the only known picture of a very tragic figure in Tahitian history.

Pomare 111. was bora on June 25, 1820; crown ed April 21, 1824; died January 8, 1827. He was educated at the “South Sea Academy”, at Afareaitu, on Moorea, of which J. H. Orsmund was headmaster, and Mr. Bolton believes that it was Mr. Orsmund who drew the portrait of the royal child. “He was to be brought up as an English schoolboy”, says Mr. Bolton. “Hence, the Eton collar (quite clearly seen in the orig inal picture) and the close-cropped and smoothed hair”. struck out in his canoe for broader and better fields, and made his way to Tahiti, entering through the Taunoa Pass where, as a Chief even of the des pised Poumotus (their ancient name), he was made welcome in Pare-Arue by Mani-i-hiti, Chief of that district; and, later, he married his daughter. Upon the death of his father-in-law, he be came Chief in his place—but in no sense paramount Chief of Greater Tahiti. His name is unknown.

From him descended Ta’aroa Mana hune, who married Tetua-ehuri, the daughter of Vehiatua-i-Matai, the para mount Chief of Lesser Tahiti, which link became later on of great impor tance. There now comes a gap, where

native tradition and memory fail, of two generations, when Vehiatua’s lino and him of Pare-Arue are compared, the former being known. About 1740 A.D., Ha’apai appears as the Chief of Pare-Arue, who had a son with whom things become definite and clear.

This son, Tu-nui-ea-ite-atua, happily always shortened to Tu, was ambitious.

He was not content with his small slice

of territory; he would be paramount Chief of both Greater and Lesser Tahiti, and set to work to attain his aim. It was he who assumed the name of Poinare (“a night cough”), through a passing fancy of his, as was oft the custom, and became known to white folk as Pomare I, as if he had started a reigning house—which he attempted but never attained to—rather than as

THE BOY KING OF TAHITI, POMARE III.

the First Pomare, which is a very dif ferent thing.

And here it must be noted that there never was, nor is there to-day, any Tahitian word for either King or Queen, Prince or Princess. They have but one word, Arii, which is (e.g., Queen Pomare) always used. These titles are foreign importations. A paramount chief might be specially termed an Arii-rahi, and this was what the First Pomare was determined on.

Through his cousinly connection with Lesser Tahiti and the Vehiatuas, he se cured, without a fight, the paramountcy of the whole South Coast for a younger son of his, owing to a dispute among claimants; whilst a brother was Chief of the East Coast of Greater Tahiti; he himself being Chief of the North Coast.

But the west coast proved more than a match for him. Fight and struggle as he might, the Teva Clan of Papara, of the west coast, held him at bay. He died—suddenly, in a canoe, on Matavai Bay, opposite his home—a disappointed man, leaving his successor, a son, to achieve what he had failed to accom plish.

Pomare II left two children, a boy and a girl. The third died, an infant of months. Though the girl was by years the eldest, it was the boy, as yet also an infant, who was to be Pomare 111.

Dying as a boy, his sister became Queen, and the direct Pomare family of yesterday and to-day all follow from Queen Pomare IV, Her children were many, but those who survived ipfancy were six in number—five sons and a daughter. Of these, four left no issue.

The Royal Family of to-day, therefore, traces back to but Tamatoa and Terii tua, the Queen’s third and her youngest sons.

There seemed promise of a numerous progeny through Tamatoa, who had five daughters and a son, but son and eldest daughter died in their early years.

Teriitua was not so blest a parent. He had but one surviving child, a son Hinoi I, who married one of his Tama toa cousins, Teriimaevarua, whose off spring died. But he was not to be de nied. Nita brought him two boys: the eldest, Hinoi 11, who grew a very giant in stature, and Ariipaea, of normal size, but of abnormal geniality. The giant died childless, but his brother fortun ately has a progeny which are far too great in number for the Pomare Family ever to die out. Rather, it is likely to spread in ever-increasing numbers as the years mount up.

This is the present-day direct family of the Pomares, for Tamatoa’s other daughters married white men, English men, and though their offspring—to-day, but six adults in number—are within the circle of the Royal Family, they have ceased to bear the surname Pomare, as will their children, unless “adopted” into the Hinoi line.

There are, of course, sidelines of the family, for the first Pomare, as. has been noted, left another son than Pomare 11, besides a daughter, known to the first white men as Ovo; and, what is not known generally by other than French folk, children of an undi vorced man and wife are by French

Law bound to bear the husband’s name, whether they be his or not. He may refuse to “recognise” them as his, but they must needs bear his name. The actual parentage plays no part.

There may be such Pomares or other allied relatives or there may be not.

The matter is not of interest, however, to that student of the past or present who seeks only the direct line of the Pomares of to-day, coming directly through the Sovereignty and without dispute.

Mr. Habidullah Chaudhari, 8.A., LL.B., who has been in legal practice in India for ten years, arrived in Suva by the “Ganges” in March to join the firm of Hasan and Hasan, barristers at-law.

Papua's Trade Rises

p. 23

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY. Mar. 23.

PAPUAN imports— £305,114—f0r the six months ending December 31, 1937, showed an increase of £196,081 over the same per iod for 1936. Duty collected was £30,479. Total trade for the period was £512,679 —last year it was £446,171.

Exports, amounting to £207,565, show a de crease for the half year. The main falls were copra, rubber, and trochus shell. Gold, how ever, showed an increase—18,935 oz., valued at £50,235, as against 15,934 oz. valued at £43,118.

Mr. W. Brewster, of Itikinumu, Papua, came South to Australia with his

daughter by the April “Montoro”. They

joined Mrs. Brewster who arrived here several months ago.

Another Link In Pacific

p. 24

RADIO NETWORK

I XTrr^_._ ,• , NTERESTING radio tests were made in March between Sydney and the new 10,000 ton Islands vessel “Trienza”, built in the United Kingdom for the Bntish Phosphate Commission. She is making her maiden voyage to the Pacific and her wireless equipment, manufactured in Sydney by Amalga mated Wireless and fitted m England, was succesfully tested by A.W.A. Syd ney stations.

The “Trienza” will supply a new link iir the wireless network of the South

Seas. She is provided with a radio tele- P h °ne installation which will enable the Commander, while at sea, to speak with the Commission’s offices at Ocean Island a nd Nauru, and also with the “Tri enza’s” companion vessels, “Triona” and “Triaster”.

The “Trienza’s” radio equipment in cludes an auto alarm (or distress signal rece iver), an echometer (or depth sounding device) with both visual and recording attachments, short, medium an d i ong wave transmitting and receiv ing During the year \ sister ship to the “Trienza”, the “Triadic”, which is in the course of construction, will be fitted with similar radio apparatus.

Planes Sn D.N.G. Gold

pp. 24-25

SEARCH

Large New Lake "Spotted" From The Air

AFTER a three months’ spell, the Netherlands New Guinea Mining Company will shortly begin prospecting again in Dutch New Guinea, from their new base on the Digoel River. The previous expedition did not meet with any outstanding success, although patchy gold was found. Between the source of the Lorentz and Reiger Rivers, the party discovered a coal seam, close to the surface.

The expedition, after vainly seeking a lake, called the “Violet Lake”, which had been reported by an American aviator several years ago, reached the head of the Eilander River (one of the largest in the Territory) in October last year.

On this river the natives .are uncivil ised and treacherous, so that the party had to be provided with extra guards, and a sharper lookout kept. These pre cautions, however, proved unnecessary.

In order to assist the expedition in their valuable work, the Netherlands Navy put at their disposal, for a short time, three Dornier flying-boats, and they made a flight along the Eilander River, landing in several places. The fact of these airboats flying overhead so frightened the natives that in one night they all disappeared from their villages and did not return for about three weeks!

It was while the flying-boats were on this patrol over the Eilander River country that one discovered a new lake.

Now called “Wissel Meer”, it is about 15 miles long and 10 miles broad and would make an ideal base for seaplanes.

The Dornier flying-boats were found to be too heavy for the reconnaissance work, and the company chartered two Fokker seaplanes to assist them. These machines arrived on the Eilander River in November, taking two days from Sourabaya (Java). Mr. P. Jansen (Man aging Director of the D.N.G. Mining Co.) was a passenger to and from the Eilander. The planes were used as fol lows: — (a) Prospecting from the air for the most likely places for gold, (b) Locating the easiest way for land parties to search. (c) Making a final search for the “Violet Lake”. (d) Making a general reconnais sance from the air of the country from the Eilander River to the Digoel River.

The Fokker seaplane venture did not produce any material facts, apart from giving information of the general out line of the rivers, mountains and country situated between the Eilander River and the Digoel. Owing to mists hanging over the mountains and at times over the low-lying country, visi bility from the air was limited, and little data could be gathered to serve as a

guide to the suitability of using planes for this kind of work.

The airmen were unable to locate the “Violet Lake”, but confirmed the posi tion of “Wissel Meer”. They reported that the natives living on the shores of this large lake, are light-coloured in skin, are of good physique, have well kept and orderly planted gardens, and apparently have a better idea of culti vation of crops, etc., than any other primitive natives in Dutch New Guinea.

The Netherlands Government proposes to organise a scientific expedition some time this year to study the habits, etc., of this “Lake Tribe”.

In the middle of December, a start was made to transfer the base from the Eilander River to the Digoel River, and this was completed before the end of the year, when the Company called a halt for three months.

Mr. W. Evans, cashier at Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd’s branch at Salamaua, New Guinea, is at present in Australia on sick furlough.

Mr. W. N. M. Chester, Collector of Customs at Port Moresby, Papua, reached Sydney by the last “Montoro” with his wife and family. He came South to seek medical attention.

N.S.W. in Papua

pp. 25-26

New Premises for Bank of N.S.W. in Papua

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Apr. 2.

THE Bank of New South Wales has purchased the land and buildings of Messrs. Clarke and Whiting, situated on Port Road, adjoining the Post Office, in a prominent position facing the wharf. A substantial two-storey bank building will be erected, having accom modation for the manager.

The purchased property consists of two allotments with store and office buildings on each. The site is con sidered to be the most valuable and cen tral one in the town.

Rapid changes are taking place in Port Moresby—all the old landmarks are disappearing and in their place are ris ing imposing structures. Steamships Trading Co’s recently enlarged premises will shortly be adjoined by Burns, Philp and Co’s Hotel, which is already show ing signs of its future proportions. This building, in particular, when completed will be outstanding.

Miss V. Sayers, of the Melanesian Mission, 8.5.1., is now on leave in N.Z.

Dr. S. M. Lambert, medical repre sentative of the Rockefeller Foundation in the Pacific, arrived at Niue Island from Western Samoa in March.

Mr. C. Hurl, of Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., Salamaua, reached Sydney from New Guinea by the “Montoro” in early April on his way to Adelaide, South Australia, to spend two months’ fur lough.

Mr. C. C. Beckett, wireless operator at A.W.A.’s station at Wau, left Syd ney for New Guinea early in April.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Champion left Syd ney for Port Moresby, Papua, by the “Montoro” on April 6. Mr. Champion last year led a Government expedition to Lake Kutubu in Central Papua.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Ewen left Brisbane for Rabaul, New Guinea, by the April “Montoro” after furlough in Australia.

He is manager of B.P.’s branch at Tim bur.

Norfolk Is. Trees

p. 26

Letter to the Editor.

A WRITER in the February number of your journal suggests that the future of Norfolk Island lies in its tourist traffic. If that is so, its two most mar ketable products are its climate and its beauty.

Some of this beauty lies in Govern ment-owned reserves; but the greater part is on the property of the residents of the island.

Surely those wh,o despoil this beauty by ruthlessly cutting down the magnifi cent and unique Norfolk Island pine-trees are killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

I am, etc.,

TREE LOVER.

Norfolk Is., March 20. 1938.

Sister de la Warr has joined the staff of the Torres Strait hospital.

Whirlwind In Rabaul

p. 26

THE accompanying photographs give some indication of the character of the whirlwind which struck Rabaul, T.N.G., on February 28. Trees in Mala guna road were damaged, a labour house at Mr. Furter’s residence was overturned, and a good deal of damage was done to residences in Chinatown.

The house in the foreground was overturned, and the one shown in the background was shifted off its base, about six feet. The galvanised iron of its roof was blown 200 yards away.

A Floating Laboratory

p. 26

BUILT by Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty., Ltd., to the design of Mr. Peter Miller, of Melbourne, the “Casiano”, a 58-ft. vessel to be used as a floating laboratory by Island Explorations Ltd., was successfully launched in Sydney Harbour at the end of March. She will assist in the Company’s oil-seeking activities in Western Papua.

The “Casiano” has accommodation for eight passengers and a crew of four. She is equipped with an 80 h.p. Vivian diesel engine; and her beam is 17 ft.

Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Graham left Syd ney by the April “Montoro” for Wau, T.N.G., where Mr. Graham is account ant for Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.

Rev. Father Vincent A. Wheeler, S.V.D., joined the April “Montoro” at Brisbane en route to Alexishafen, New Guinea, where he is engaged in mission work for the Society of the Divine Word.

Broadcast Of Samoan

p. 27

Choruses

From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Mar. 20.

THURSDAY is the red letter day of the week for radio listeners at Tahiti, and, we are sure, at all other islands of the Pacific; for at 9 p.m. of that day Samoa sings.

It rejoices our hearts to listen to those splendid choruses, which are the nearest thing we have heard, in over twenty years, to the old massed “himene” of Tahiti and Raiatea.

Samoa is setting a standard of fine chorus singing that the people of other islands would do well to emulate. The voices are good, the training is good and the music they sing is full of beauty.

We salute the musicians of our sister archipelago and offer our congratulations.

May we beseech them to abide with their native composers and not —as so many of their neighbours of other island groups have done —allow the pure beauty of their native music to become corrupted by the horrors from Tin Pan Alley.

Tongan Lawyer

p. 27

Clash Between Chief Justice and Tongan Lawyer

From Our Own Correspondent.

NUKUALOFA, Mar. 17.

THERE was an unexpected stir at the Quarterly Sessions of the Supreme Court here last month when a Ton gan lawyer, Uili Vea, clashed with Mr.

Ragnar Hyne, the Chief Justice.

Vea vigorously objected to. his client (a native youth) being tried bv the Chief Justice on a charge of illegally entering a dwelling at night. He alleged that Mr.

Hyne was instrumental in remanding the defendant in custody. Saying that Vea was misinformed, the C.J. replied that he had had nothing to do with the impris onment of the accused while awaiting trial. He declared that the case came under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and he therefore would proceed with it At this juncture, Vea formally told the Court that he declined to conduct the case, and then walked out. In order to give the native charged an opportunity to get a new lawyer, Mr. Hyne adjourned the case until the following day.

When the hearing next came before the Court, the accused said he did not want a lawyer other than Vea. He further re fused to be tried by Mr. Hyne. The case proceeded, however, and the native was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment. He was also fined £5 for contempt of Court.

Before Vea left the Court, on the first day. he announced his intention of insti tuting a claim for damages against the Chief Justice for the unlawful imprison ment of his client. No further develop ment was made by him. however, before Mr. Hyne left Tonga by the last “Matua” on transfer to the Solomon Islands.

Mr. J. Russell, Director of Education

in Fiji, accompanied by Mrs. Russell,

left Suva by the “Aorangi” on March 25 for England on leave.

Mr. H. H. Vaskess, Secretary to the Western Pacific High Commission, re turned to Suva, Fiji, from short leave on March 25.

Emperor Produces A Ton Of

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GOLD

From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, Apr. 1.

SINCE the Emperor Gold Mining Co. commenced operations at Tavua, Fiji, over a ton of gold has been pro duced. The total to the end of January was 33,071 oz. of fine gold, valued at £260,425 (Fijian). A total of 2,445 oz. of fine silver, valued at £3OO, was also produced.

The whole of the gold, with the ex ception of 2,000 oz. from the new mill was produced and treated through the original plant. Thus, it took three years for the old mill to produce a ton of

gold, but it will take only one year for both mills to put through the next ton of gold.

The production of Fiji gold this year, according to reliable estimates, will total between 70,000 and 75,000 oz. and will be valued at £600,000 (Fijian), com pared with last year’s yield of 21,000 oz., valued at £166,000. It is possible that new mining ventures may begin production this year.

Mr. S. Cooper, an A.W.A. radio en gineer, arrived in Papua in March to supervise the installation of the wire less equipment being set up at Port Moresby in connection with new air mail service between Australia, Papua, and New Guinea.

The £1,000 Door

p. 28

Gauguin Vogue in Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Mar. 20.

THE Gauguin vogue came upon the world in 1916 or thereabout.

We of Tahiti—absorbed as we were in war news —did not know of it until after the visit of a distinguished English novelist, who came to our island to ab sorb atmosphere for the book, founded on the life of Gauguin, he was then

writing.

This writer had a marvellous method of acquiring local atmosphere. Day after day, from morning until night, he would sit at a table in the Hotel Tiare veran dah, with a frheezy colonel (who had once been a soldier of fortune in Ecuador, or some such place, and had contracted emphysema while campaigning in the high Andes, but could, nevertheless, swear lustily for 15 minutes without repeating himself); a man with a big beard; and his secretary—over a perpetual game of bridge.

Once only, to our knowledge, did he leave that game of bridge. On that occa sion, he hurriedly summoned a motor car and disappeared in a cloud of dust; to return, several hours later, bearing a house-door of the type common in the island, the glass of its upper half com pletely covered by a painting.

The author told us it was the door of the house occupied by Gauguin while he dwelt in the district of Pa’a’a. He had painted over the glass to prevent curi ous passersby and exploring neighbours from peering into the interior.

The owner of the house was glad to get rid of what he considered a mons trosity and take in exchange a new door of bright, clear glass.

Months later, when news came that the English author had disposed of the door to a collector for the tidy sum of £l,OOO sterling, the house-owner became a pessimist, an atrabilarian and a mis anthrope for the remainder of his days.

Nor did he suffer alone.

During the tragic years when Gauguin, weak in body and poor in pocket, was resolutely pursuing his ideal, he had dis posed of many sketches and small can vases in exchange for trifling sums. Most of them had been cast aside as of no interest or value.

But, when the intelligence of the £l,OOO door reached Tahiti there began a gen eral ransacking of old boxes, rubbish heaps, under houses, and dusty comers of outbuildings, with indifferent success.

One householder remembered having stored a bulky roll of Gauguin sketches on the top shelf of an ancient clothes press. But he found nothing. A general house cleaning, some months before, had consigned the sketches with other flotsam to a bonfire.

And so elsewhere. Very few were re trieved. Moisture, omniverous worms and the decay of neglect had completed the destruction.

Rev. and Mrs. A. Mason, of North Mala, 8.5.1., who have been associated with the Melanesian Mission for over 20 years, departed from Sydney for England on long leave by the March

“Maloja”.

Monsieur Francois Gagnon died on March 10 at Canala, New Caledonia, at the age of 65.

Tongan Judge Goes To The

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SOLOMONS

Mr. W. H. Leydin, formerly Customs Officer at Daru, Western Papua, has now taken up duties in the Central Court, Port Moresby.

Mrs. A. C. Turnbull, wife of the Act ing Administrator of Western Samoa, returned to Apia in March by the “Matua”, after spending a few months in New Zealand.

Mr. Ragnar Hyne, formerly Chief Justice of Tonga, who will leave Brisbane by the “Ma laita” at the end of April for Tulagi, British Solomon Islands, to take up the post of Chief Magistrate and Legal Adviser.

The Seven Wonders

p. 29

OF THE ISLANDS

By G.R.

‘l. The man who owes money every where. He can sneak off to Sydney, where he rents a flat (£lO/10/-, lux. furn. tel. radio), takes a large interest in the hotel business (saloon-bar trade), graces the paddock at Randwick, runs a streamlined motor car (drive-your self, 6d, mile), plays Santa Claus to the girls, borrows a tenner from an Islands pal—and gets away with it all. . 2; The woman who journeys South for a change, has her photograph in the newspaper, a par. in the society column and buys half-a-dozen copies and leaves them around, open, at the appropriate page, in various rooms of the board— sorry—guest house; runs amok with a credit account in the most exclusive emporium; travels three months before her husband—and returns some time after him. 3. The child who runs the house-boys, knows all about plantation work, en gines, motor trucks, speaks two lan guages (including “pidgin”), says the smartest things, doing very well at school (correspondence course, taught by fond mother). In short, he promises to cut quite a figure in the world—and somehow doesn’t. 4. The planter whose property ie the finest for miles around, who raves about

unit cost (freight, non-effective units, etc., omitted), never has any labour trouble, gets more work from his boys than anyone else —and everybody knows darn well he doesn’t. 5. The warriors in the smoke-room of the steamer. This is where all the doughty deeds are done. They’ll give you all the gory details as the spirit continues to move them. Note: There are more “boys” taught a lesson in these confessions of the happy warriors than the whole native population of the Pacific—and then some. 6. The mining engineer. Some years ago, this profession was almost unknown in the Islands. An ordinary miner is hard to find, so the mining engineer runs down to Sydney every second trip, apparently in search of them—and re turns with another two shillings paid up on the shares, but no miners. 7. The miser who saves every bean for two years, lives on boy’s meat and rice, indulges in a little quiet trading, takes the boys’ photos at one shilling a time, stacks them on their edges— and then spends it all on a doctor’s bill.

The following mining concerns have been struck off the register of New Guinea Companies:—British New Guinea Gold N.L., Equatorial Gold Explor ation (New Guinea and New Britain) Syndicate N.L., Barola Gold Reefs N.L., and Mineral Exploration Syndicate, Ltd.

Unless cause is shown to the contrary before May next, Edie Options, Ltd. will also be removed from the list.

cally Undamaged

p. 31

"MORINDA" ASHORE

Resumes Voyage Practi cally Undamaged

THE Burns Philp steamer “Morinda” at 4 o’clock in the morning of March 28, when steaming from Bush man’s Bay to the island of Tangoa, in the New Hebrides, in intense darkness and blinding rain-squalls, ran on to a coral outcrop off the south-western corner of Malo Island, and began bump ing heavily. There were only about ten passengers aboard, and they included Mr. Joy, the British Resident Commis sioner in the New Hebrides, and his wife and son.

Everyone below rushed on deck, but Captain R. Perry and his officers de clared that there was no immediate danger and calm was restored.

When dawn broke, it was seen that the steamer was fixed amidships on a coral reef, about 50 yards from the beach. She remained there all day on Monday, bumping heavily at times. She swung from the point where she was held amidships. There was deep water fore and aft.

In response to radio messages the French sloop “Rigault de Genouilly” left Vila hurriedly, to give whatever assist ance was possible.

The “Morinda’s” officers were con fident that they could refloat the vessel, especially as the tides were getting higher. Attempts to refloat her on Monday failed.

The French warship appeared about 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, and the “Morinda’s” passengers and mails were rowed across to her, taken aboard, and landed later at Luganville.

At 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, the “Morinda” was successfully floated off the reef, apparently undamaged. She picked up her lifeboats, and resumed her voyage to Tangoa.

The section of the Pacific where the “Morinda” grounded is very badly charted, and vessels cruising in that region literally feel their way around — they are in constant danger of bumping a coral outcrop.

Tourists At Port Moresby

p. 31

From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Mar. 29.

ON March 3, the luxury liner “Stella Polaris” arrived from Fiji with 71 tourists. A native dance arranged for their entertainment took place on the Parade ground at Konedobu. The ves sel sailed the same afternoon for Bali and Java.

On March 27, the liner “Reliance” (19,821 tons), of the Hamburg-America Line, arrived from New York, via Europe with a large party of world sight-seers. They were entertained by visits to neighbouring native villages and other points of interest.

Sir Hubert Murray Visits

p. 31

THURSDAY ISLAND

PT. MORESBY, Mar. 29.

THE Lieutenant-Governor of Papua (Sir Hubert Murray) returned to Port Moresby by the “Laurabada” on March 23, after a visit of inspection to Government stations in the Eastern and North-eastern Divisions. He was accompanied by the Official Secretary (Hon. H. L. Murray) and Hon. C. T.

Wurth (Director of Agriculture).

His Excellency left again on March 28 for the Western Division stations and Thursday Island. He was accompanied by the Official Secretary and the Com missioner for Native Affairs (Hon. J. T.

O’Malley). The “Laurabada” will re turn to Moresby about April 8.

Hon. J. G. Nelsson, of Woodlark Island, Eastern Papua, arrived in Aus tralia on a short holiday by the April “Montoro”.

Unusual Surfboat For

pp. 31-32

NAURU

FOR passenger and mail service be tween steamers in the roadstead at Nauru Island and the shore, the British Phosphate Commissioners have under construction at the yards of Messrs.

Codings and Bell, Auckland, a fast 28foot motor-boat of unusual design and construction.

The boat has to negotiate a surf bound gap in the reef and when not in use is to be hoisted in davits near the loading cantilever. To minimise risk of swamping the craft is divided by transverse watertight bulkheads into four compartments, the forward one for the mails, the next for the helmsman, the third for the engine and the after one for about a dozen passengers.

Mr. O. H. Clifford, baker, of Thursday Island, is at present in Sydney on sick leave. He will return to T.I. in June.

Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Woodman, Of New Guinea, drew the first four marbles for the major prizes in the 490th N.S.W. State Lottery, Sydney, on April 1.

Monsieur F. X. Gsell, M.S.C., admin istrator of the Apostolic of Darwin, who was a missionary of the Sacred Heart in Papua between 1900 and 1906, when he was transferred to Bathurst Island, has been appointed Bishop of Darwin.

Mr. Henry Holland, who has served for 28 years as a layman in the Aus tralian Board of Missions’ field in Papua, has been ordained to the ministry. He will be stationed in the Sangara district.

Anniversary

pp. 32-34

Norfolk Island Celebrates Its 150th Anniversary New Administrator Creates Favourable Impression

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

NORFOLK ISLAND enjoys the repu tation of being so intensely loyal in the observance of anniversaries, such as the King’s Birthday and Armistice Day, that it is somewhat singular that never before had the people thought fit to celebrate an anniversary in which they themselves were supremely inter ested: —the proclamation and foundation of Norfolk Island on March 6, 1788.

To make amends for their long neg lect, there assembled on the 6th of last month at Kingston (the township of N. 1.) a representative gathering of 300 people to celebrate the occasion. A united, religious service was conducted in the Anglican Church by the three local ministers, while His Honour the

Administrator (Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal) gave an address.

The Administrator prefaced his speech by reading congratulatory messages from Lord Gowrie (Governor General of Australia), Mr. J. A. Lyons (Prime Minister) and Mr. W. M. Hughes (Min ister for Islands Territories).

Reviewing Norfolk’s history, Sir Charles said that their celebrations

happily synchronized with the 150th anniversary celebrations in New South Wales. He stated that it was during the early days of settlement there that Governor Phillip despatched H.M.S.

“Sirius” to N.I. to effect a settlement and, in the King’s name, take possession of the island which Captain Cook dis covered 14 years previously on his epoch-making voyage in the S.-W.

Pacific when he also discovered and named the neighbouring archipelagoes of New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

AN ANNUAL EVENT

The Administrator, while expressing surprise that no previous effort had been made to celebrate the anniversary of such a notable discovery and settlement, regarded the large gathering as a happy augury for the future and entertained the hope that the celebration of the anniversary would now become an established institution of the island. The murmur of approbation that greeted his words showed that the sentiments struck a sympathetic chord and gained the en dorsement of the audience.

N.l.’s CONVICT ORIGIN

The Administrator referred to the oft repeated statement that Norfolk people

A link with the past—a seaman’s chest taken from H.M.S. “Bounty” at Pitcairn Island, now in the possession of Miss Young, Norfolk Island.

were glad to forget the convict origin of the first settlement, but he regarded such a notion as foolish and mistaken.

He reminded his audience that in “the good old days” people were punished for trivial offences, and that it was more than possible that many of the prisoners were loyal and respectable subjects, un worthy of the degradation to which they were subjected. He thought it only fitting that they should mark their appreciation of the splendid, construc tive work accomplished by the daring adventurers, and pointed to the fine roads that intersect the island in every direction as silent but lasting memorials to the skill and industry of the first settlers.

Sir Charles referred also to the cour age and heroism displayed by the pioneers in face of the difficulties and dangers they experienced in disembark ing from the “Sirius”. He remarked that when people now complain of the lack of facilities for landing at N.I. they should remind themselves of the hazards of the first settlers when going ashore at Anson’s Bay.

At the same time, the Administrator remarked, there was no reason why they should wish to perpetuate such names as Slaughter Bay, which constantly re minded them of the convict origin. He recommended that they should revert to the original name of Sydney Bay, by which it was called in the early days of settlement, in order to link them with the rising township across the seas.

NEW ADMINISTRATOR POPULAR

The Administrator’s address created a favourable impression, and the appre ciative attention with which it was fol lowed revealed the bond of loyalty and friendship that already exists between him and every section of the community.

Although only five months have elapsed since his appointment there has sprung up a strong attachment between the Administrator and the people of Nor folk Island.

Hitherto, the island has had the un enviable reputation of being rent and torn by rival factions which disrupted the social life of the community. Due to trade difficulties and monetary strin gency, caused really by over-estimating the agricultural resources and market facilities of the island, there was a feel ing of unrest and a strong anti-Govern ment element which blamed the Admin istration for much of the ill-fortune that befell the community. The long and varied experience of Sir Charles Rosenthal enabled him to make a rapid and searching survey of the situation, and by consumate tact and foresight, he has succeeded in welding the people into a homogeneous community.

In his address he was able to refer to the island as a happy family, a term reminiscent of the relationship which formerly existed among the islanders on their arrival from Pitcairn. The people realise that if any man can render them assistance in the troubles and difficulties through which Norfolk is passing, the present Administrator is the man.

Sir Charles concluded an interesting address by a complimentary reference to Norfolk Island’s most distinguished son, William Charles Wentworth, whom

he described as one of Australia’s out standing personalities, the author of her legal and political rights and the framer of her Constitution.

SANG PITCAIRN HYMNS

A feature of the religious service was the singing of hymns which the early settlers brought from Pitcairn Island

in 1856, when, owing to congestion, Queen Victoria bestowed upon them grants of land on Norfolk Island. The tunes to which they were sung were composed by a settler on Pitcairn, Mr.

Driver Christian, and it was noteworthy that his grandson was present at the service, as organist.

Another interesting feature of the service was the presence of two great grandchildren of Lieutenant King, the Commissioner to whom was entrusted the direction of the first penal settle ment and who afterwards became Gov ernor of New South Wales. His daughter married a Norfolk Islander and their two children, now an elderly man and woman, were present and played a con spicuous part in the anniversary cele brations.

Mr. Aubrey Koch, one of the senior pilots of Guinea Airways Ltd., left Syd ney for New Guinea early in April, after two months’ furlough.

Mr. G. Toogood, Patrol Officer in the Papuan Service, has been transferred from Samarai to Kerema, Gulf Division.

Methodist Leaders In Tonga

p. 34

A recent informal “snap” of Rev. R. C. G.

Page, President of the Methodist Mission in Tonga, and Rev. Walter Shepherd, M.A., B.D., the new Principal of the Nafualu Wesleyan College.

Photo.: A. Hettig.

Compiled First New Britain

p. 34

DICTIONARY

REV. R. H. RICKARD, a former Methodist missionary in the Pacific Islands, died at his home in Wollstone craft, Sydney, on March 21, at the age of 79. He was one of the first workers in New Britain, having arrived there shortly after his ordination in 1882.

He compiled the first dictionary of the native language and translated sec tions of the New Testament into the native tongue. His translations have been the basis of the work of many subsequent missionaries. Mr. Rickard still retained a considerable interest in South Seas missionary work after he returned to Australia from Rabaul to take over a parish.

Monsieur Louis Bouvier, a French traveller and explorer, who for nine years has been seeing the world on foot, arrived at Port Moresby, Papua, early in March. He left later in the month for New Guinea to visit the Morobe Goldfield. Monsieur Bouvier will return to France in a few months, after first making his way through Polynesia.

Ner's “Treasure"

p. 35

COUNT VON LUCK

Box Dug up in French Oceania

THE sensational Australian news papers were very happy during the month with the story of Count von Luckner’s treasure.

It was reported in this journal some months ago that the Count, while in French Oceania on his yacht the “See Teufel”, had visited Mopiha Island and had searched there for a box of valu able documents and money, which he buried when his raiding ship the “See Adler” was wrecked there in 1917.

Count and Countess von Luckner went on to Samoa in their yacht and then on to Auckland, where they arrived in February.

Later, in March, a New Zealand news paper made the announcement that the Count had found his buried box of treasure, that it was enormously valu able, that he had successfully sent it away to Germany, and that he now was rich for life.

Immediately, the whole pack of “human interest purveyors” were in full cry, and we in Sydney had von Luck ner’s treasure served up to us in all sorts of fancy dress.

Finally, Count von Luckner became fed up with the newspaper publicity and, on March 28, in Auckland, he made a statement to the effect that the story that he had unearthed huge treasure was “all moonshine”. He said that he had succeeded in finding his box, which had been buried for 21 years, and that the alleged valuable treasure consisted of the log-book of the “Sea Adler”, and a certificate signed by the German Em peror, which entitled him to raid ships during the war, a few samples of pearls, and a quantity of gold, worth perhaps £lO. The box certainly had contained a large sum in German pre-war marks —but, of course, these now are worth less.

Count von Luckner added that if the box had contained real treasure it neces sarily would have been sent at once to the German Government, to whom it be longed.

Five Injured in Pt. Moresby Car

p. 35

Accident

PT. MORESBY, Mar. 29.

FIVE young men were injured—one seriously—when a Chevrolet tourer skidded off the road on Three Mile Hill, outside Port Moresby, and crashed down the embankment on March 15. The occu pants were Messrs. M. Garfield (mana ger of Gerald Smith and Co.), Garden ( a Guinea Airways pilot), E. Ashbrook (Bums, Philp and Co.), Stevenson (Papua Oil Development Ltd.), and J.

Shade (Bank of N.S.W.). The car was badly damaged.

Mr. \V. Marchant, who for some years had charge of a store at Dreketi, Fiji, died in Suva early in March, aged 70.

Our Responsibility For Native

pp. 37-39

WELFARE

New Guinea Missionary's Spirited Reply to "Papuan's" Letter

Letter to the Editor.

IT would be hard for a person unac quainted with the Islands to believe that the letter about native education, which appeared in your December issue over the anonymous signature of “Papuan,” could have been written by a sane or civilised man. Although it was sub-titled “The Commercial View point,” it is to be hoped that it repre sents the views of very few people inter ested in commerce.

Since is does, however, state the case of the man whose sole interest in the Islands is to make as much money as he can as rapidly as possible and by whatever means; and since, moreover, one sometimes hears like views ex pressed with equal vehemence and bad logic, it may be well to offer some re buttal.

It would be useless to attempt to re fute all the erroneous statements made by Mr. Papuan. His remark about the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case is simply false. The Constitution of the same States, which acknowledges that the negro has exactly the same rights before the law as the white man, is one great document he failed to quote in support of his ideas.

But he makes a grievous error when he identifies civilization with “Com merce and the Enterprise of Capital.”

It cannot be denied that commercial enterprise plays an essential part in the development of anew country, and that it has an important share in the work of civilizing primitive peoples.

But civilization is a thing of the mind and the spirit, and does not mean merely the outward material condition of man.

It is precisely because our civilization has for a long time been losing sight of spiritual values, and concentrating on business and money, that it is in grave danger of disappearing. No more glaring example of such error is needed than Japan (or Russia) of to-day. Who can seriously say that the present activi ties of the Japanese are more civilized than those of any savage Islands tribe ? And yet what people have made greater strides in commercial endeavour and modern methods ?

Mr. Papuan’s viewpoint is wrong, therefore, because he is in the wrong position. But it may also come from a false idea of the nature of the educa tion that is desired for the natives. If, by the education of the native, we mean a training suited to his requirements and abilities; if we mean teaching him re ligious and moral truth and the forma tion of good habits and character; the fundamental skills of reading, writing and simple mathematics; the principles of hygienic and healthy living; the knowledge of simple agriculture; and

other practical and elementary matter —if that is what native education aims at, then Mr. Papua is either foolish or ignorant in opposing it.

INDEED, such education is in reality an extremely important need in a primitive country. It is, in fact, essen tial to the well-being of all the people, white or native, and should form one of the chief objects of governmental solicitude. Before attempting to demon strate the truth of this view, however, it should be observed that education of some sort is inevitable. There can be no question of whether or not the native is to receive education. The only ques tion is about the kind of education he should get. For, apart from all formal and organised education, the native is learning new things, and unfortunately, sometimes, new tricks, by mere contact with the white man and his civilization.

He observes the ways of his masters and, in his ignorance, often misunder stands.

For instance, the natives of this dis trict are at present convinced that all the business of making money and pur chasing goods is a tribal secret of the whites; and that if they could only get the key to the matter they, too, could get into the swim. That has possibilities for trouble.

Your own experience, sir, can suggest many similar, and even more trouble some episodes in primitive places. They are the fruit of the activities of “bush lawyers” and the informal self-educa tion of uncivilised races in contact with

Europeans. If there were ho other reason for a proper training of natives, this fact alone would make it at least advisable.

BUT other reasons urge the same conclusion. Even from a purely mer-

cenary viewpoint it has advantages. It is reasonable to suppose that such an education as we are considering will contribute to raising the standard of living of the native. That entails in creased business for the merchant. If the native can be taught the importance of proper housing and gardening, for instance, somebody is going to make money by providing him with building materials, and agricultural implements, and the many other things that an im proved economic condition would de mand.

Again, the very reason advanced by Mr. Papuan for opposing education— namely that business requires cheap and abundant supplies of labour—is really an argument demanding education. For it is plain that the natives of these parts are rapidly decreasing in numbers.

Education of the right sort can help greatly to stay the death march by im proving sanitary conditions, by lower ing the rate of infant mortality, and most of all by giving the native people something to live for.

Mr. Papuan could lighten the burden of his ignorance by reading the essay by Dr. W. H. R. Rivers in “Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia”, pub lished at Cambridge University in 1922.

Or would he like to pay coolies 2/6 a day to do the work, as people in Fiji must do ? But perhaps he hopes to have made his fortune and got out be

fore the consequences of his methods would fall upon us.

Anything that will provide commerce with stronger and more intelligent ser vants should have its support, and edu cation would do that. And if those who talk in high terms, as Mr. Papuan does, of the development of the Territories, are sincere, they must admit that de velopment will proceed more rapidly and efficiently with the intelligent and active co-operation of the natives.

BESIDES, commercial ventures could hardly prosper or even begin, if some measure of education did not pre cede and accompany them. The very safety of our lives in these places is due more to the influence of the education given by the missions, than to the rifles of police boys. And if we are to hope for honest and upright natives in the future; if we wish to be free from the danger of native risings and like troubles, we should place our reliance on right training. Peace and order are essential to prosperity, and the most effective force for peace and order in any state is education based on and permeated by solid religious principles.

Such education is of immense value not only to the commercial interests, but also to the government. Certainly, it makes the preservation of public safety a simpler matter. It could be a valuable force for co-operation in the work of public health, a vital concern of all of us. And in a general way, it makes in telligent co-operation possible between the natives and the officers who are charged with their welfare.

BUT when all is said the great and fundamental reason for such edu cation is that the native has a right to it. Before God and before the law he has precisely the same fundamental and inalienable rights as the white man, be he King or Mr. Papuan. One of those rights is that of knowing and serving God, and of developing his intelligence in order to do it better. And against his rights no mere selfishness of white adventurers can prevail.

Mr. Papuan surely must be such a man. Those citizens who have settled down permanently in these Territories, who have a stake in the country and an interest in its future, can hardly share his views. His kind are happily rare.

After all, if the Christian missionaries of other times had not educated Mr.

Papuan’s barbarian forefathers, he would be roaming the primeval forests of Europe to-day. Likely enough, selfish citizens of the Roman Empire opposed the idea.

When any government does everything in its power to assist such education it does only its plain duty. In some places, unfortunately, limited finances, and lack of definite policy, among other things, hamper such action. But the Papuan Government is to be commended for at least an earnest try.

Finally, it might be well to call the attention of the Papuan Police to this fellow’s letter. Any man who thinks that “natives have no rights” and that “we have no duties toward them” be yond a vague humanity, is a dangerous citizen. If they do not expel him from

the Territory, he should at least bear watching. Whether he walks out or is thrown out, however, he will probably land finally in some club, where he can flay the government and the missions to' his heart’s content, and explain to bored members how education ruined the honest settler and Empire-builder. 1 am, etc.,

JAMES HENNESSY, D.D.

Buka, New Guinea, February 1, 1938.

New Competitors on Trans

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pacific Routes.

From Our Own Correspondent.

HONOLULU, Mar. 24.

E UROPEAN nations once more are taking an interest in steamer routes across the Pacific.

The Hamburg-American Line, which before the World War operated trans pacific services, has entered member ship of the Associated Steamship Lines in Manila, whose present run between the Gulf of Mexico and the Orient has been subject to irregularities because of China-Japan hostilities.

German and Japanese interests, as a result of the recent diplomatic agree ments between the two countries, evi dently will get into step in exploiting what is a lucrative field.

The Salen line, of Stockholm, will begin regular freighter service from San Francisco and San Pedro to Yokohama, Hong Kong and the Philippines on April 15, it has been announced in San Fran cisco.

The company will operate under the name of Transmarine Navigation Co.

It is announced that Japan will build two 22,000 ton liners for the trans pacific trade.

Fisherman Killed In

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EXPLOSION

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Mar. 12.

A SAMOAN native, Sufia, of Manase, Savaii Island, went out recently to the reef to fish, using gelignite. When holding a strong charge in his hand ready to throw it, a premature explosion took place which shattered his hand and tore part of his face away. In spite of the efforts of the Native Medical Prac titioners, he died a few hours later.

Rev. C. G. Stallan, who has served six years in American and Western Samoa for the London Missionary Society, arrived in Sydney in March to tour Australia on deputation.

Mr. James H. D. Waterhouse married Miss Iliganoa Schuster at Apia Pro testant Church, Western Samoa, in March. Rev. H. S. Perkins performed the ceremony.

Mr. R. J. Lotze, of Tulagi, has been appointed a member of the British Solo mon Islands Advisory Committee, vice Mr. J. S. Spiers, deceased.

"Hurricane" Film Libels

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the French and Misrep resents the British

I WENT to see the film “Hurricane”, which is a Hollywood dramatisation of the excellent novel by our Tahiti friends, Charles B. Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The film is a winner, mainly because of the genius of Samuel Goldwyn’s producers in depicting a

Pacific island in a hurricane. The hurri cane scenes are amazing: I know some thing of studio tricks, but I could not imagine how much of this was accom plished.

Some of the things in this presenta tion are idiotic, however. One sees, for example, the local governor dining every evening in a heavy black dinner-suit, with a shining, stiff board “front”—and, apparently, there is not a dewdrop upon his beetling brow!

And the fight with the shark—that is

priceless. The producer has read somewhere that South Seas natives sometimes dive deep under a shark, come at him from beneath, and swiftly and suddenly rip open his belly with a sharp knife. So our hero does something of the sort. But this super-man doesn’t sneak upon his shark—no, he attacks it face to face, wrestles furiously with

it for several minutes and finally, with arm and leg hooked over the gentle crea ture’s back, he leans down sideways and cuts open its stomach. It’s quite ob viously and necessarily a fake with a dead fish; and it is also one of the silliest things that have ever been on the films, Still, the audience loved it.

But the reason why I came away

cursing “Hurricane” had nothing to do with the whimsicalities of producers.

I charge Mr. Goldwyn with giving to the millions of people who will see this film an entirely wrong conception of the prison system in Tahiti, and of the nation responsible for the prison sys tem. In this film, one is shown in scenes reminiscent of Siberia under the Czar, incredibly brutal overseers flogging lines of toiling and moaning prisoners, and methods of administering justice so hor rible and callous that I could hear the people in the audience around me growl ing and muttering. That is a gross libel upon the French administration in Tahiti—nothing like this possibly could exist—nor has it existed.

But the thing has a worse angle than that. Not one person in one hundred knows that Tahiti is a French colony; and practically nothing is done by the producer to make that point clear.

Ninety-nine out of every hundred per sons will come away from that enter tainment in the belief that they have been witnessing a system controlled by the British Colonial Service. All the scenes are British in presentation and character. The whole of the dialogue is in English, of course: the Tahitian gov ernor, to whom a vain appeal for mercy is made, replies in a marked Oxford accent, after the supposed manner of the English official in the tropics. Once or twice, one sees a Tricolour fluttering; there is one vague reference to “Cay enne Prison”; but, otherwise, the pic ture is 100 per cent. British. There are a few obviously faked pictures of Papeete, but not a French word or name among them. The fact is, apparently, that none of this film was “shot” in Tahiti—otherwise, there must have been some local atmosphere.

“Hurricane”, as it stands, is an in excusable libel upon the French admin istration in Tahiti, and upon the Brit ish Colonial Service generally; and some action ought to be taken to show money chasing, fact-perverting producers of films that they cannot thus make their playthings at the expense of the good reputation of institutions whose honour, otherwise, is jealously guarded.

Fairy stories have been a legitimate entertainment since the beginning of mankind. But fairy tales which delib erately, for the sake of gain, give the masses a completely wrong idea of im portant governmental institutions, do not go into the category of entertain

ment.-

R. W. Robson.

Wreck Near Thursday

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ISLAND

THE South African Government steamer “Dalia” (5,188 tons) went aground on Mecca reef, near Thursday Island, on March 26.

The vessel was badly holed forward and was abandoned. She was bound from the Philippines to Brisbane with a cargo of timber.

Mr. K. Prosser, of Lae, N.G., is at present in Sydney on leave.

To Nukuhiva

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Plan for "Ideal Community"

SYDNEY “Daily Telegraph” is respon sible for the story that a young Australian, Fred. Briggs, newly-married, is organising a colony to settle on Nukuhiva Island, in the Marquesas, in French Oceania, It is to be an “ideal community”, in which all will be equal, sharing alike in work and wealth, and forgetting, as far as possible, the horrors of a war-tom, dictator-ridden world.

It is said that about 50 or 60 men and women are ready to join in the plan; and that they will soon proceed to Nukuhiva, via Tahiti.

The selection of the island is sound, at any rate. Nukuhiva, 20 miles long by 12 across, is a rich and beautiful land of broad, well-watered valleys, lying between steep, verdure-clad hills. There is a splendid harbour at Tai-o-hae— once the busy administrative centre.

When Europeans first visited Nuku hiva—and introduced their diseases and vices—there were at least 100,000 natives in the Marquesas, and Nuku hiva supported tens of thousands of happy, handsome Polynesian people.

To-day, there remains only a miserable remnant, consisting of a few hundred natives, in all the group.

There is plenty of room in the Mar quesas, especially on the three large islands of Hiva-oa, Nukuhiva, and Tahuata, for a large population. They lie in the same latitude as Thursday Island or Eastern Papua, but they en joy a cooler and more equable climate.

Mr. William J. Gasgoine married Miss Nellie Churchward at Apia Pro testant Church, Western Samoa, re cently. Rev. H. S. Perkins officiated, and the reception afterwards was held at the Tivoli Theatre.

Cook Is. Fruit

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First Year under Government Control

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

RAROTONGA, March 4.

BY the February “Matua” there re turned the Resident Commissioner (Mr. Smith) fresh from conferences with the New Zealand Government con cerning the Cook Islands fruit industry.

On February 7, Mr. Smith addressed a large meeting of growers and others interested in the fruit industry. He stated that the N.Z. Government was satisfied with the result of the first year’s working under government con trol. A profit of £1,358/3/9 was made.

The Government will take control of bananas as from April 1. The price to be paid the grower will be 376 per case (but where grower has no debts with the stores, an extra 6d. will be paid).

The price for Samoan bananas is 5/per case, because they are packed better and tighter than the Cook Island product. If the Cook quota is filled, 53,000 cases will be exported between April and December, bringing to the island £7.000.

The Government will pay a straight out price of 4/- per case for oranges (plus the extra 6d. where no debt). It is ex

pected that this year’s crop will yield 20,000 cases from Rarotonga, and 70,000

cases from the outer Islands. All oranges will be shipped only on the “Matua”, none on any of the Trans pacific tramp steamers. The Union Co. is prepared to send the “Matua” on an extra trip in October, so that the late crop of oranges may be marketed.

Concerning the future of the orange industry, the C.I.A. have now planted 80,000 orange seedlings. When these are ready for transplanting, all growers with suitable land ready will receive the young trees free of charge.

The Commissioner said the Govern ment did not intend taking over the control of tomatoes this year, nor going ahead with the building of cold store.

Those matters would be considered next year.

Many speakers expressed satisfac tion, including:— Makea Nui Tinirau Ariki, 0.8. E.: “1 am pleased to hear what Mr. Smith has told us. I am speaking as a grower on behalf of the growers, everyone is pleased with the price of our fruit. I am going to tell my people to go ahead and plant.”

Mr. J. D. Campbell (Manager C.1.N.A.): Congratulated Mr. Smith on the balance sheet presented on the first

year’s working, and expressed pleasure at the prices for oranges and bananas.

Tukaro (Atiu): Speaking as the official representative of Atiu Island, he thanked the Resident Commissioner for the prices mentioned for bananas and oranges. Atiu would fall into line with the Resident Commissioner and the Government.

Mr. W. Mcßirney: The information brought us to-day is the most promising and helpful we have ever received in the Cook Islands.

NATIVE DEBTS.

Natives who have debts incurred be fore April last are deducted fid. per case. Traders are pleased with this arrangement as in many cases they had not hoped to recover. Last year, £957/8/- was collected by this levy of fid. per case, and this year it is thought there will be approximately £3,000.

Guinea

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Sullen Labour in New Guinea

THE following is part of an outspoken editorial in the “Rabaul Times”: — “Besides this difficulty with which the com mercial firms are faced, in regard to the ob taining of labour, is the unsatisfactory stand ard of work being performed by those already under contract. There appears to be a general ‘go slow’ (and go slow sullenly) policy being adopted by large gangs of labourers. This was particularly noticeable when the Administra tion employed casual labourers on the rehabili tation work in Rabaul; it is still apparent on the wharves when cargo is being worked or ships are arriving and swift action is essential for the preservation of life and property.

“The behaviour generally of natives—free and indentured—has every indication of a lack of discipline. There is a crowding on the foot paths in Chinatown, the which was at one time strictly forbidden and the footpaths kept clear by police-boys; there is a general tendency to overstay leave, well-knowing that no action will be taken by the employer for it means the loss of service and personal inconvenience to the employer if the delinquent is gaoled; there is a general disregard by natives in their quart ers to observe the regulation for a cessation of singing and loud talking after 9.30 p.m. Po lice patrols seem to overlook this breach of the Regulations, even as they seem to overlook lor ries when they are dangerously overloaded.

Where Regulations regarding discipline are in troduced they should be enforced’’.

These are sweeping charges. The editor says, sadly, that they have been made frequently, but no one takes any notice; and he wonders whether the appointment of an official committee of investigation would achieve anything.

The “Pacific Islands Monthly” ex

presses the opinion—brutally, maybe,

but sincerely—that it is not an official committee that is needed, but an Ad ministration with sufficient experience and intelligence to understand the situa tion, and sufficient strength and energy and courage to act accordingly.

The New Zealand Rugby Council has approved of a visit being paid to Fiji this year by a representative Maori team. The team will leave the Dominion on July 12 and be back in Auckland on

August 5.

A Trading Trip Through

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the Yasawos Little-known Outer Islands of Fiji

BY “TUI YASAWA-I-LAU”

LEAVING Lautoka, Fiji, in the aux iliary ketch “Vonu”, a beam wind enabled us to make our first port of call in the Yasawas in just on seven hours. This port is Qeleni, situated on the island of Naviti, and is the trading headquarters of Captain Fred Giblin, a very popular skipper known throughout the Fiji group, having been in command of various interinsular vessels.

Some ten years ago, Captain Giblin gave up the sea, transferring his activities to trading, and took over the interests of Mr. Arthur Robinson in the Yasawa group. At this port, unbounded hospitality awaits one—hospitality that only one who has enjoyed it can fully appreciate.

Listening to the radio, and the Cap tain accompanying numerous old-time tunes on his one-string fiddle (which he made himself out of an old ukulele and a piece of boxwood, and on which he is adept), yarns and experiences which have befallen him in various parts of Fiji, keep one entertained until a late hour.

The day dawns with a fresh easterly breeze and, to the chug-chug of the engine, the creaking of blocks and the rattle of chain, we get under way against a dead headwind. The trolling lines are put out and, instead of the usual “bought” spoon being used, the white stem of the lily (via via) is tied around an ordinary hook.

We do not have to wait too long for results, for passing quite close to a reef between Naviti and Yageta, we get a strike and, on hauling in the line, we find a nice twenty-pounds walu, well and truly hooked.

Our first call is at the island of Tavewa, to deliver goods and empty sacks which will be filled with copra, ready for shipment by next trip of the “Vonu”. Here we meet the owner, Mr.

James Doughty, an interesting person ality, to whom the wonders of wireless, talkies and motor cars are totally un known. He has not left the island for the past twenty years. A half hour suffices for all business here and, once again, we get under way.

All the way up, one is struck by the beauty of these islands—the sandy beaches, palm-fringed shores, the rocky islets with perhaps a single coconut tree standing sentinel, the evergreen appear ance of that most useful of trees, the coconut, and the tortuous, yet beautiful coral patches, that strew the ocean bed all along the coast.

Our next port of call is Nacula and, as we wend our way through the pas sage to anchorage, our attention is arrested by the peculiar shape of a small islet on our port bow. This has the form of a crouching lion with a man's head.

Safely anchored, we go ashore and while cargo is being unloaded for the trading station here, we wander through the native town, seeing the natives in their natural environment, happy and contented. We see the natives performing their daily tasks, the menfolk bringing in the day’s need of native vegetables, yams and tapioca, or perhaps thatching a house; the womenfolk cooking over an open fire, or sitting under the shade of a flamboyant tree plaiting mats.

We came across the remains of a church, almost covered with undergrowth. This building is some 84 feet

long, 42 feet wide and 12 feet high; and the walls, which are made of a mixture of ceme nt and coral are 26 inches thick, The roo f was blown away years ago by a hurricane which swept the group, , . hours run brings us to the island Tamasua, where we spend the night, Going ashore here, we are made more than welcome by the European manager of the trading station, to whom visitors are almost as scarce as the mythical “snowball in Hades”. A lonely life in deed, yet not altogether shut out from the outside world for, per medium of a wireless set, he is at least able to keep

in touch with the daily doings of the outside world.

At daybreak next morning a start is made up coast, to load copra, and we pass within a couple of hundred yards of the island of Yasawa-i-lau, which is honeycombed with caves, one of which has water inside and where one can en joy a real good swim. On one wall of this cave are scripts discovered by Cap tain Giblin (and investigated by Mr.

A. J. Vogan), and which are believed to be of Chinese origin.

Along the treacherous coast we go, enjoying to the full the good stiff easterly breeze until we come to a beautiful land-locked bay, Enenbavu by name. Here there is no native town, but two or three huts wherein copra is stored.

Ashore, one is fascinated by the numerous small shells of every variety that are to be found strewn along the beach. An obliging native appears as if from nowhere, decides we would like a drink, and proceeds to climb a coconut tree, knocking down just sufficient for our need. Then, with a few deft cuts with his cane knife, he hands us each a nut 4 to partake of the cool and refresh ing contents.

Three hours and all the copra has been loaded and we are off again to take on more, this time at a town called Teci. Passing a small rocky islet on our starboard side as we go in to anchor, we disturb the peace of dozens of wild duck, which fly off to the safe sanctuary of some inland pool.

Suddenly there is a yell from the native holding the trolling line and, on pulling it in, we find we have hooked a bonnie Bonito, of a most vivid blue, and which tips the scale at 38 pounds.

Our impressions of Teci are best left undescribed. Suffice to say that its appearance suggests that each house in the town has to lean at an angle to enable it to stand up against the ele ments.

Having completed our loading, and this anchorage being too dangerous to spend the night there, we find we have enough time to get back as far as Tamasua and a safe anchorage, and so away we go.

On one of the trolling lines a boy has tied a piece of fish instead of the lily skin and, just off Yasawa-i-lau, we catch a shark—a baby one measuring two feet nine inches.

Daylight next morning finds us on our way back to Qeleni, calling in at Nacula to pick up mail and orders and catching on our way down a varied assortment of fish—saga, walu, ogo and donu. We drop anchor about 4 p.m. and spend another exceedingly pleasant evening with the genial Captain and his family.

The boat cannot leave until 10 a.m., so we pay a visit to Kese town, and"here are entertained by the Government representative, Ratu Filimone Kama and his two charming daughters, Adi Joana and Adi Lala.

After partaking of ceremonial kava and a pleasant hour’s chat, we make our way back to Qeleni, and board the “Vonu”, this time Lautoka-bound.

Coir Industry in New

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Guinea Bags and Mats from Coconut Husks

Letter to the Editor.

IN the latest issue of the “New Guinea Agricultural Gazette” there appears an article by Mr. G. H. Murray, Direc tor of Agriculture, on Coir Fibre as an industry for Mandated New Guinea.

Such an article was about due. Ten years ago I concluded research into coir fibre as an industry for New Guinea.

Eleven years ago, under the specious encouragement of the then Prime Min ister (Mr. Bruce) and the Common wealth Economic Adviser (Mr. Wilkin son) I brought here a most elaborate plant for large-scale testing of the New Guinea coconut husk.

After a great deal of work I managed to secure some interesting data regard ing the possibilities of this industry, in view of the great demand in Australia for cheap wheat bags and wool bales.

About this time I got in touch with a Dutch investigator, Mr. Van der Jagt, of the Hague, who was the patentee of a most ingenious mechanical method of softening, bleaching, spinning and weav ing coconut husks into fabric superior in many ways to that produced from jute. After a close study of my proto cols, Mr. Van der Jagt agreed with me that the only way in which coir could successfully be produced in Mandated New Guinea would be by large-scale co operative or Government-aided effort.

Small plants would be foredoomed to

failure for a great number of reasons.

It is perhaps unnecessary to detail the battle, year in and year out, that then ensued in order to drive the idea into the heads of the Administration and the Federal Government, and also into the heads of the local plantation-holders.

The senior officials were able to persuade the Commonwealth Government not to aid the establishment of a coir industry here. This, of course, exemplified the truth of a remark made to me by Brigadier-General Wisdom when on my first arrival here I visited him and told him I wished to carry out certain re search work into coconut products. He said that “that kind of thing was de cidedly not encouraged by the Admin istration”. It took me years to discover not only the truth of this pronounce ment, but also the reason for it.

Mr. Murray now advocates that coir extraction become a village industry in place of native copra drying. Mr.

Murray is not only ignorant of coir pro duction, but also of local village condi tions. Some time ago we started here the village drying of copra. Immedi ately, a terroristic campaign was launched against those natives with the temerity to pioneer the movement. I complained dozens of times to the Ad ministrator of the methods being adopted by his officials. Perhaps in explanation of this conduct he was kind enough to send me a pamphlet by Mr. Murray, in which the latter proved, at least to his own satisfaction, that New Guinea natives were too primitive to dry their own copra. At this period natives using the small kilns designed by myself, and built entirely by themselves, were turn ing out a grade of Rabaul Hot-air copra

that was distinctly in advance of the f.a.q. plantation product. Nevertheless the Administration did its utmost to strangle this industry at its birth. If this statement is disputed I shall be pleased to supply my full reasons for making it.

As it is, the original concept that natives should not only dry and market their own product, but should carry out a further detailed campaign for the planting-up of waste land and the im provement of sanitary and social con ditions in their villages, has been stopped. The threat was made by Ad ministration officers that natives band ing themselves together for the co operative furtherance of this project would be sent to imprisonment up the Sepik River—equivalent to a death sen tence to any native. I am cynical to believe that certain vested interests saw in the movement the ultimate destruc tion of the cheap labour supply.

The first requirement of any coir maker is an abundance of fresh water for the retting of the husks. The lack of water in the villages here is a serious matter, as the natives find it difficult in most villages to secure enough for cooking and drinking purposes. In many places, the women have to carry water for miles in bamboo pipes. How then, under his present scheme, would Mr.

Murray have the husks retted ? An alternative might possibly be the build ing of concrete retting-pits in the vil lages. The rainfall would be insufficient to keep these filled even with stagnant water, so a daily task would have to be the carrying of water for these pits,

perhaps for miles. The stench given off from rotting husks would be enough to make the village uninhabitable.

My tests on New Guinea husks lead me to believe that at least six to nine months soaking in cold water would be necessary to render the husks pliable enough to be disintegrated by a power driven machine. In a previous state ment, Mr. Murray has laid down that the local natives are much too primitive to understand even the simplest machinery. When the High Chief Tin gai wished to purchase a machine for cleaning his home-grown rice, this was the reply given him. The fact that many natives here are motor-mechanics, schooner-engineers, printers, typesetters and book-binders has apparently as yet not impressed itself upon the Admin istrative consciousness. The only other method then, apart from the use of machinery, would be the beating out of the coir fibre with sticks, after 12 to 18 months’ soaking, as is done on parts of the Malabar Coast. Viewed as a matter of £ s. d. the return to the individual native under the Murray scheme would at the most be a few shillngs a year.

Yet Mr. Murray publicly brings this forward as a substitute for the native copra-drying movement.

Coir here is demonstrably a business for big capital, close co-operation, and the most modern methods. One would have thought that an expensive Agri cultural Department would long ago have realised this. Even this “village industry” idea seems to be a re-hash of a suggestion of my own, put forward many years ago. New Guinea natives

have remarkable manual dexterity, and I suggested that they be provided with coir yarns and that a mat and carpet weaving industry, carried out on cheap hand looms, be inaugurated.

Australia, at the present time, is im porting for cable and pipe-wrapping purposes a great deal of coir-cloth pro duced in France under the Van de Jagt process. Husks are imported into France from the West Indies and exported to Australia as a finished product.

I am, etc.,

THOMAS V. WALLACE.

Walaur, Rabaul, March 12, 1938.

Mr. C. H. Honson, managing director of Honson Ltd. and Jang, King, Loong and Co. Ltd., of Suva, sailed from Syd ney for Fiji by the “Aorangi” on March 17, after a brief visit to Australia.

Dr. and Mrs. B. A. Sinclair, of Sala maua, New Guinea, reached Australia on three months’ furlough by the April “Montoro”.

Mr. D. Bellamy, of Islands Explora tions Co’s staff in New Guinea, has been transferred to Western Papua to assist in the oil-seeking activities there.

Mr. C. J. J. T. Barton, of Suva, has been appointed President of the newly formed Fiji Society, which has been established to create an interest in Fijian history, botany, anthropology, marine biology, geology, etc. Vice- Presidents are: Rev. W. R. Steadman, and Messrs. Barker and Ward; and the Secretary is Mr. C. R. Turbett.

On The Road To Kokopo

p. 45

Right: A car on the Rabaul-Ko kopo Road, New Guinea. This short trip along a typical Is lands palm-fringed thoroughfare is seldom missed by tourists vis iting the Territory. The travel ler can obtain fine snapshots featuring native scenes, villages, plantations, and tropical vegeta tion. The road and villages, however, were seriously damag ed in the eruption.

Left: The Blue Lagoon—one of the many delightful spots along the Kokopo Road, as it was be fore the eruption. The visitor secs fascinating panoramic vis tas of Blanche Bay, Rabaul, Mt.

Mother and Matupi Crater. A call is generally made at the Vunapope Mission, headquarters of the famous Sacred Heart missionary order.

Planter's Daughter

pp. 47-48

A Day in the Life of a Fiji Planter's Daughter

“/"10ME along,” said my revered papa.

VJ “Grab that saw and follow me, and we’ll soon see what sort of stuff you’re made of.”

Horrors! I hadn’t expected my words to be taken so literally! A few minutes previously, when Dad had been raising his eternal moan anent the “infernal firewood” problem, I had jeered—rather unwisely, as I afterwards saw: “Why, it’s not very hard work, is it? I’ll bet a dollar to a coconut that I could pull on that saw without turning a hair.”

Dad had pounced on my words with what I considered indecent glee and haste.

“O-ho, you could, could you?” he com mented grimly. “All right, my girl, just grab that saw and follow me.”

Inwardly chiding myself for my rash ness, I shouldered the long, flexible cross-cut, and trudged through the plantation in the wake of Dad and the two working bullocks, which were yoked together and led by a piece of rope. Be hind them dragged a chain, by means of which they would haul the firewood from the bush to the homestead.

As we drew nearer the source of the firewood, I tried to bolster myself up with philosophical thoughts. Oh well, I mused, it might be worse. I might have been given the job of leading James and Thomas (the bullocks). Not that they would hurt a fly, but I’ll swear that James’ horns were a yard long, and ... well, one never knew.

The cross-cut kept jumping around and wouldn’t behave at all, until I learned to hold it better and properly ... I was learning many things fast!

Occasionally, Dad glanced over his shoulder to see how I was faring. Was that a pleasant smile on his face, or only an unsympathetic grin? I couldn’t decide.

At length, we reached the hill where on lay the prospective firewood. Ty ing James and Thomas to a tree, Dad took the saw and led the way to the top of the hill, where he indicated a large caukuro log, and looked at me sig nificantly. The hint was not to be evaded, so I spat on my hands, rolled up my sleeves, grasped my end of the saw and fell to.

I think we took a dozen spells during the hour that followed. In between spells, and admonitions from Dad to pull instead of push, I mopped the sweat off my fevered brow and heroically strove to conceal the fact that I was one big ache. When at last that log was severed, I heaved a sigh right from the soles of my boots!

Came the ticklish part of the business.

The log had to be hauled down the steep hill. Up came the bullocks, and around the log went the chain. Then the blow fell. I was to lead James and Thomas down the hill (!), said Dad, while he came behind and guided the log to see that it didn’t swerve into the bush.

I quavered and shook and shivered,

but finally picked up the rope and stepped gingerly forward.

“Take it easy,” counselled Dad, “and if they start to tread on your heels, just turn round and look ’em straight in the eye and say, ‘Whoa! You adjectival so-and-sos!!’ ” All of which was fine arid dandy.

But when they did start to tread on my heels, Dad’s advice went clean out of my head. I began to walk faster, and consequently they walked faster, too. And, one of their strides being equal to about three of mine, they swiftly gained on me. My walk de veloped into a trot, the trot became a run, the run changed to a gallop, and in two shakes of a donkey’s tail, I had dropped the rope and was pounding in full flight down the hillside, with

James and Thomas thundering behind me, and the log careering madly on the end of the chain!

From somewhere up in the bush, Dad bawled: ‘‘Don’t drop the rope! Don’t drop the rope! Turn round and look ’em straight in the eye . .

He may as well have spoken to the air. I was breaking all records for the half-mile.

When I crept back ten minutes later, it was to find James and Thomas kissing each other round a coconut tree, and Dad muttering unseemly things as he untangled the mess.

Nowadays, I do a mental kow-tow be fore every piece of wood I burn, and am very chary of making rash state

merits!

AMEL.

Mr. E. J. Turner, Sydney mining engineer, sailed for New Guinea by the ‘•Macdhui” .on March 12 to make a comprehensive report on the Edie mine of Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development N.L. A reef ing proposition, the mine has been worked for several years by the Com pany, with varying results. It form erly was operated by Edie Creek Gold Mining Co. N.L., which went into liquid ation.

Dr. G. R. Baxter, who recently was appointed Medical Officer of Health at Suva, Fiji, took up duties: in March.

Mr. Allan McCay, the Wau dentist, arried in Sydney from New Guinea by the “Montoro” early in April, en route to Melbourne. He recently sold his practice to Mr. Eric Weine, and will spend the next two or three years study ing and taking dental degrees in Eng land and America.

Unusual Arson Case in Samoa.

p. 48

From Our Own Correspondent.

APIA, Mar. 14.

RECENTLY a case of arson with rather unusual features was heard in Apia High Court. A girl of Aleipata, eloped with a young boy, the son of Chief Laulu. The girl’s family strongly objected to this elopement. While the girl’s father deliberated with other village chiefs on the matter, his son and three friends, armed with knives and axes, went out to take revenge on Laulu’s family.

Threatening the family, the boys pro ceeded to set fire to two houses belonging to Laulu. They were only prevented froni doing further damage by the inter vention of Rev. Dieter, who persuaded them to lay their arms down and extin guish the fire. One of the houses, how ever, was totally destroyed with all household effects, while the other was partly burned.

At the Court, the four natives pleaded guilty. The chief offender, Tui, was sen tenced to one year in gaol, the other three receiving sentences of six and four months’ imprisonment.

Wau-Black Cat Road

p. 48

From Our Own Correspondent.

WAU, Mar. 24.

FOR years now there has existed a track from Wau (centre of the Morobe Goldfields, in New Guinea) to the miners at Black Cat; and now it is visible from Wau.

This “track” is said to be on the loca tion of the recently-surveyed road from Salamaua to Wau, and its appearance as a definite highway on the mountain side below the “Gap” may be the intro duction of something bigger—the much discussed and disputed Salamaua-Wau Road.

Whale Oil And Copra.

p. 48

JAPANESE whalers now returning’ from the Antarctic report that the number of whales there are steadily de creasing in numbers and the huge out fits being sent each year to the South by Anglo-Scandinavian interests and by Germany and Japan are finding it necessary to travel farther and scout wider. Nevertheless, it is calculated that the Japanese this season will pro duce an enormous total of whale oil— which must have a depressing effect on the copra market.

Rev. A. C. Hobson has taken up Chaplaincy duties at the Anglican Church, Apia, Western Samoa, replac ing Rev. Canon F. Riley, who has re turned to Australia.

Mr. A. E. Osborn has resigned from the 8.5.1. Advisory Council. -Dr. H. B.

Hetherington has been appointed tem porarily in his place, as an official mem ber.

Guinea

pp. 49-50

EMPLOYERS’ TROUBLES IN NEW

Some Pertinent Comment on Territory Affairs

WRITTEN FOR THE PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY BY MRS. HELENA M. REX

I BELIEVE the administration is gen uinely trying to administer justice to black and white alike in the Mandated Territory—no easy task for ordinary humans.

But the majority of residents who are in a position to criticise are very disturbed and shocked at some of the severe sentences passed on employers of native labour in the last few years.

Away in the bush, or on a lonely plan tation, the employer often has to be doctor, nurse and arbitrator to his labour. There is no Kiap or police master around the corner to run to.

If the employer has a flash trouble making native to deal with, he has two courses to pursue. He must master that native or throw in his job. Sometimes he hasn’t that option; he must master that native or possibly be murdered.

Insubordination spreads like a flash, and quick action has to be taken, I have always maintained the average Government official doesn’t know what the raw native is like. He has never dealt with one; there is always the go between, the police boy. A native takes far more notice of another native than of a white man. He is well aware that the white man dare not lay a finger on him; not so his fellow native.

I think, if our cadets or patrol officers, at some period of their training, were sent to the bush with only raw natives to discipline, and no police-boys to aid them, they would quickly realise the im possibility of running a disciplined camp with their hands in their pockets, and would be more fair to the employer who does on occasion break the law by cuffing or hitting a native when driven to it. It only makes trouble to demand the impossible from people.

Once, I cuffed a native on the head with a dish. I didn’t hurt him, and he admitted I didn’t. However, the native was taken from me for a month, I paid his wages, while he grew vegetables for the police and washed floors for the Assistant District Officer’s wife. To maintain I had assaulted him was both unfair and ridiculous.

On all sides, you hear employers complaining of similar treatment.

THE views of the missionaries (who, I fear, rather run the Territory) on this subject are worthless. They always have and always will deal in bribes. If it doesn’t take the form of something concrete, its a promise of Heavenly felicity to come. They do not play fair. They obtain from the Ad ministration special concessions on the strength of their activities being of a spiritual nature. But that doesn’t pre vent them entering into the sordid, money-making businesses they affect to so despise. Many a small trader’s

honest and legitimate business has been ruined by the Mission Stores. If they are going in for trade give them no concessions. It all has to be paid for out of the taxpayer’s pocket.

Almost any employer of labour will fight shy of the mission product—he is so utterly untrustworthy—and I don’t wonder at it.

IT seems to‘me that it is hard on the small miner in New Guinea that he should have to contribute so largely to the Administration funds. He has to pay a fee for this and a fee for that; a fee for signing on labour; for a licence to hold a revolver; and for another licence to use it; and so on. There is a never-ending call on his pocket, as well

as the tax of 5 per cent, on all the gold he wins. Storekeepers, business men and officials are practically exempt from all taxation, as this tax is only on gold, and they have little use for fire arms, and do little signing on and off of labour, that the miner and plantation owner has so much of.

I would like to see the small miner exempted from this 5 per cent, royalty tax on gold. He is a definite asset to such a country. He opens up and pioneers the country. Why can’t the big companies bear the burden of the 5 per cent, tax? As is well known, they have had special laws enacted in their favour. They are holding up miles and miles of good alluvial ground that the mining laws were originally framed to make available for the small man.

If these companies were prohibited from working alluvial ground, the popu lation of Wau would be fifty times greater than it is. There would have been a road to the coast long ago; farming, business and building would have increased beyond recognition. The money now pouring overseas would have been spent in the country. Although some directors and shareholders might still be using the humble tram, surely the prospector, the pioneer, is of more

importance to the country than he is now treated as being.

IAM in favour of the indentured labourers being given “hand-money” —that is, a percentage of their wages every month—instead of allowing it all to accumulate for the two or three years of their contract. If they get a little every month, say only 2/-, they get more pleasure, and so more reward for their work, and are not subjected to the temptation to steal.

It is a pity the trade stores are allowed to stock such tinsel rubbish as they do—mostly Chinese and Japanese junk. You can see to read through some of the lap-laps. No effort is made to teach the native to appreciate quality, or to spend his savings wisely.

Editorial Note

p. 50

ON the question “hand money”—the following is from an article in “Rabaul Times” of March 4:— A matter that concerns both employer and employee is the new clause that pay shall be half current and half deferred.

It concerns the natives because the prime cause of most of them in coming to work is to return home with suf ficient capital to buy a wife, some worldly goods for their relatives and friends and to satisfy the tax collector.

Under the new law the majority will return with but half. The other half either will be lost, stolen or spent and the sullen idea that they have been em bezzled out of the other half. Very few take into consideration their current pay and judge their total by the amount re

ceived at the expiry of their contract and for this reason the employer will find it hard to get “re-signs” or new re cruits from that village.

Islands Softwoods For

p. 50

AUSTRALIA

A SHORTAGE of softwoods in Aus tralia may mean that the Common wealth will look to islands in the Pacific to fulfil the demand, said Mr.

W. G. Nosworthy, of Melbourne, re cently. He added that about 1,000,000 feet of logs was annually imported into Australia from New Guinea, in addition to timber from the Philippine Islands and British North Borneo, and Vani koro kauri from the Santa Cruz group.

There seemed every likelihood that the islands would eventually supply most of the needs of Australia in the soft woods trade.

Dr. N. B. Watch, M.8.E., of Rabaul, arrived in Australia by the March “Macdhui” from New Guinea on several months’ leave. Dr. Rogers is at present relieving at Rabaul.

A fine cloak of plaited pandanus-leaf, once the property of the high chief Tamasese of Samoa, who was killed in an affray there in 1929, has been pre sented to the Dominion Museum (New Zealand) by Mrs. H. F. Dykes. It was presented to Mrs. Dykes’ father, Mr.

J. C. Westland, in 1922, when he was stationed at the Apia Observatory, and was the gift of Tamasese.

American Naval Strength In

pp. 51-54

THE PACIFIC

Secret Ship and Aeroplane Manoeuvres on Enormous Scale

By JOHN WILLIAMS

THE entire striking strength of America’s Pacific fleet—lss war ships, 600 warplanes and 80,000 officers and men—is being fully tested in Prob lem 19, this year’s war games which will not end until the first week of May.

Problem 19 is involving a new defence strategy which only a year ago had not been worked out in detail by America’s strategy board in Washington. It has caused the coining of a new term: aero naval strategy.

Work it out: More than 5,000 miles of sea separate California and Japan, traditional enemies, whose navies bristle before each other in much the same way as do the forts on the Franco-German frontier.

Few warships have a cruising range to make the round trip across this great ocean without refuelling. But between America and Japan there are lots of hitherto unimportant islands, many of which are admirably suited for conver sion into strategic air bases!

Consequently America is developing more than any other nation the per formances of navy patrol bombers, which to-day have such long range that America has shuffled the disposal of her surface ships and replaced the scouting advance tactics of destroyers with her latest high-speed bombers.

The destroyers, under the new strategy, keep in closer to the main fleet.

It is this new strategy which will be severely tested in this year’s war games.

America’s defence front against Japan is along a curving 5000 miles line that starts at the west tip of the Aleutian Islands (only 2000 miles from Tokio) down through the Hawaiian islands to American Samoa, which is adjacent to the territorial waters of British-owned

islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

The survey flights of Pan American Airways from Hawaii to Auckland

Over 250 of these twin-engined patrol bombers are attached to the American navy, mostly in the Pacific. They can carry 3,000 gallons of petrol, giving them a range of 6,000 miles. They are said to be the most heavily-armed naval ’planes in existence. In addition to dropping bombs, the ’planes carry guns in the front turret, also in a hatch just behind the wing, and also in a position just forward of the tail.

amply proved that Kingman’s Reef and Pago Pago, the landlocked harbour of American Samoa, are not ideally suited for all year operation of the latest (and contemplated) long range airboats.

John Bull and Uncle Sam swap tech nical details and it is obvious that, the better to protect their skins, their de fence plans in the Pacific must overlap and thus dovetail. If the two great white races can’t get together, what price the future of democracy?

Uncle Sam had been banking on Kingman’s Reef and Pago Pago, accord ing to ideas now some years old. How ever, aircraft have developed amazingly and they need more elbow room. So it was not surprising to observers that, in March, President Roosevelt (after two years’ dickering with the British Foreign Office), with one of his grand gestures, “annexed” Canton and Ender bury Islands in the Phoenix group, although for years these isles had been actively occupied and surveyed by Brit ish units!

Canton’s lagoon is fine for seaplanes, and Enderbury, with a little smoothing out, will make the finest natural air port for landplanes in the Pacific, so therefore Canton and Enderbury are the logical answer to Uncle Sam’s prayers for better bases than Pago Pago and Kingman’s Reef.

Thus, with Canton and Enderbury, Uncle Sam has more potent “teeth” in his front line against Japan. Another angle: John Bull was willing to let Uncle Sam have them because, to lighten the burden of defence costs and to greatly strengthen the united front against threats to democracy in the Pacific, it pays to toss a few islands into Samuel’s eager lap.

Naturally, the commercial airline aspects of the islands will be heavy pedalled by both nations in the same way as the same ballyhoo is used about Mid way and Wake Islands, the U.S. navy bases west of Hawaii.

Months before the actual tactics of Problem 19 were commenced, the U.S. navy, without much ado, set about sprinkling assignments of its latest patrol bombers at bases from Panama and the Mexican border right around to the Aleutian Islands. This involved long mass flights, during which world records were established for such move ments.

For example, squadron flights were made from San Diego to Panama (3080 miles nonstop) and to Hawaii (2500 miles nonstop). The new twin-engined sky cruisers demonstrated without the slightest fault or hitch, through fine and bad weather, a new power in guard ing remote frontiers, reducing great Pacific distances to mere 20-hour flights! These results will make the Aleutians and the new air bases being developed at Wake, Midway and John

United States Navy ’plane in Apra Harbour, Guam. .Note how these ’planes can be beached safely in the calm waters for survey and minor repairs. This beach extends for miles.

ston Islands, play important roles in Problem 19’s tactics. And it is known that the fleet will examine, under simu lated war conditions, the potentialities of the undeveloped new bases at Can ton and Enderbury.

Most potent new move, however, and one which is an outright gesture at Japan, is the navy’s announcement that during Problem 19 exercises, and “probably for an indefinite period after ward”, a squadron (15 planes) of the latest navy bombers is to be stationed at Guam, America’s base right in the centre of Japan’s mandated islands!

The only harbour in Guam suitable for navy purposes is Apra harbour, upon which the village of Sumay stands. The harbour was declared a closed port by presidential order in 1912. From 1921 Jto 1931 the U.S. marine corps had am phibian defence planes stationed there, and to-day Pan American Airways uses the hangars, etc., built by the marine corps on the shore of Apra harbour.

Apra is only 1300 miles from Japan!

The navy patrol bombers to be sta tioned at Guam need not depend on shore facilities. They will be “shadowed” by self-contained aircraft tenders, super tugs which contain reserve gasoline stores and repair facilities. The bombers, moreover, are remarkably self-contained, which is only one of the features of their long-range patrol pos sibilities.

Where there is a navy air base there also is a highly technical weather re porting and radio system. Navy war games in the past have proven beyond ' any doubt the tremendous gains obtained from the expansion of weather fore casting facilities. Surface vessels that normally would run into bad weather for days on end, now can be forewarned and so dodge round storm areas in the same way as aircraft do.

This results in better economic (and thus strategic) use of all forces avail able.

These new navy bases, in a few words, mean that America is closing in, get ting closer and closer, tighter and tighter, with her encirclement of Japan’s threat to the democracies of the Pacific.

America has abandoned the “gentle man’s agreement” she had during the term of the London Treaty with Japan, which means that no more will the American forces remain behind or east of the 180th meridean, but will go ahead with establishing and maintaining a bolder front, much closer to Japanese territorial waters.

Problem 19, at the President’s per sonal orders, will sweep far south of the equator and virtually use British territorial waters, a potent gesture of friendship for Australia and New Zea land, two young countries'that may now plan and work for the future of Pacific democracy in the friendly shadow of America’s great striking power!

It is Mr. Roosevelt’s personal interest that is affecting other angles of Prob lem 19, too. He has ordered that, for the first time, newspaper reporters and photographers cannot accompany the fleet in the war games.

He has ordered complete silence of the the high command in connection with

details of the games in the Pacific.

He has ordered a large zone between the Mexican border and San Diego navy base as closed to all ships and aero planes, thus making it a secret zone in which will be carried out highly tech nical bombing tests with the latest de vices for greater accuracy.

He has ordered the storing of extra supplies, mainly of oil and gasoline, at such an out-of-the-way place as Pago Pago.

President Roosevelt means business.

He is the master of grand gestures.

Rev. Father F. Lyons, a missionary stationed in the Samarai district of Eastern Papua, is at present in Sydney, undergoing medical treatment.

Sir Maynard Hedstrom has been elected chairman of directors of Pacific Insurance Co. Ltd., Suva, in succession to Sir Henry Marks, C.8.E., who re cently resigned. Mr. B. H. Marks has been appointed a director of the Com pany.

Captain A. V. Johansson, of Messrs.

J. R. Clay and Co.’s schooner “Royal Endeavour”, of Papua, is at present on leave in Australia. Captain A. Mark well is temporarily in command of the vessel.

Mr. S. Smith, Accountant *of the Papuan Treasury Department, has been appointed Treasurer of the Territory in succession to Mr. E. C. Harris who last month retired on superannuation.

Miss Ivy Leslie, well-known in the Morobe District, New Guinea, arrived in Australia by the April “Montoro”.

She will shortly leave on a world tour, the greater part of which will be spent in travelling through Great Britain.

Mr. G. R. Edmonds, who has been acting as manager for the Union Steam Ship Co. Ltd. at Rarotonga, returned to New Zealand from the Cook Islands by the March “Matua” to take up duties at the U.S.S. Co’s Wellington office.

Rarotonga Wedding

p. 54

RAROTONGA, Mar. 12.

Mr. valentine g. a. f. savage, school teacher, was married on Feb ruary 16 to pretty Miss Eliza Tutana Snow, in the L.M.S. Church, by Rev.

Mr. Challis.

Two “Umu-Kai Maata” (Big Feasts) were given in their honour. The feast at mid-day was given entirely by Mrs.

Stephan Savage, step-piother of the bridegroom, assisted by her many Mani hiki friends. After the guests had done ample justice to the super-abundance of good food, they were entertained by song and dances given by the Mani hikians. The ball given that night, was, by the untiring efforts of the two families, another huge success. Young “Val” is the son of our well-known Stephan Savage, recognised as one of the authorities on the Maori language and Polynesian mythology. His nearly completed dictionary of the Cook Island language will be the standard work on that subject. The bride belongs to an old Tahiti family, which is related to the Royal Family there.

Woman's Appeal Upheld

p. 54

MRS. FLORENCE MARION COX, of

Wau, New Guinea, in the Supreme Court, at Rabaul, on March 4, appealed against sentences imposed upon her by the District Court at Wau some time ago, regarding payment of a hotel account owing by her to Wau Hotel Limited. The grounds of the appeal were that Mrs. Cox, being a married woman, was not personally liable for the debt; and that, in any event, she had been refused her right to give evi dence on her own behalf during the hearing at Wau. Mr. Justice Phillips upheld both appeals, set aside both con victions, and remitted both cases to Wau for re-hearing. Mr. Anthony Kelly appeared for Mrs. Cox and Mr. Erwin Cromie for Wau Hotel Limited.

Rugen Harbour Plantations, Limited and Rugen Coffee Estates (No. 1), Ltd., both associated with the coffee-growing Industry in New Guinea, have been voluntarily wound up.

A new, double-seater Fox Moth Aero plane was shipped to Guinea Airways, for use in New Guinea, by the “Montoro” early in April. It takes the place of the G.A. Fox Moth recently destroyed in an accident.

Suva

p. 55

Trees the Tourist Sees in Suva

ON seeing the Suva Botanical Gardens, bright with colour, the home of many valued plants and trees from other lands, as well as a refuge for some less-known Fijian shrubs, the visi tor would scarcely believe that less than 100 years ago this peaceful spot was the scene of what has been called “the fiercest and bloodiest fight in Fiji’s history!”

Before and in 1843, these Gardens were the site of a flourishing and fortified Koro, whose inhabitants were killed and their town burnt ruthlessly to the ground. Even 50 years ago, both moat and rampart were still to be seen in tact.

Not very far away was the land ing-place, called the Ucu-ko-Bau, be cause there the Bau canoes were in the habit of landing their fighting men, after they had sailed past the town, with their masts erect and streamers flying, while the conch shells blew and the lalis thundered. At that epoch Suva and Bau were very friendly. The kaisi, or common people, came ashore at Vuni vesi—at the spot where now stands the fine Grand Pacific Hotel.

Interest centres on the Gardens, and is well repaid with pleasant vistas of Royal Palms in their stately array.

These are, of course, not indigenous, but were brought from the West Indies; they have taken kindly to their new

habitat, in spite of being at times spoken of as “bottle trees”. They are a gallant sight standing, as it were, as sentinels always on guard, close to the residence of the Governor!

There are no mounted guns in evi dence, but a “cannon-ball” tree is always the cynosure of all eyes, for it is strangely foreign and yet really beauti ful. It is the interesting “Couroupita guianesis”, its classical name telling us that once its home was in Guiana.

A very fine specimen of the “Eleo carpus cyaneus” is sure to attract the eye, for this beautiful tree has grown to a goodly height, and is a handsome representative of the family of the “Tiliaceae”. To Australians, it is doubt less familiar, for it is known there as the Blue-berry Ash. The flowers are white and resemble those of the “Hinau” (Lily-of-the-Valley tree) of New Zea land. “Hinau” may be taken to mean sap-shrub—in the Maori language “Hi” is sap, and “nau” represents shrub.

A percentage of the leaves of this tree in the Botanical Gardens turn a very beautiful crimson colour after fruit ing time is over. The fruit is a bright blue round berry, about the size of a marble, and when the skin is removed a crinkled brown nut is revealed. In some countries a number of these nuts when dried are threaded on elastic to make necklaces, bracelets, etc., for the visiting tourists.

Space forbids further description, but the “Lagerstrormia indica”, with its beautiful mauve flowers, the many coloured “Butterfly” trees, as well as the “Cassias” and “Caesalpina pul

cherrimas”, and a score of others all enamour the tourist with the beauty of the trees of Suva.—H.B.R.P.

Papua's Superannuation

p. 55

FUND

From Our Own Correspondent

PT. MORESBY, Mar. 28.

THE Report of the Superannuation Fund Board discloses that 37 Papuan officers received superannuation allowance during the year amounting to £10,260. Contributions paid to the Fund by 143 officers totalled £3,178. The Papuan Government paid £15,523.

Interest on investments brought in £1,191. These investments were £29,840 in Commonwealth 4 per cent. Loan, and £lO,OOO on fixed deposit with the Bank of New South Wales at 21 per cent.

Right Rev. L. S. Kempthorne, M.A. (Oxon), Bishop of Polynesia, whose headquarters are at Suva, Fiji, will pay a visit to Ocean Island and Nauru in June next. He will then go on to Aus tralia, where he intends to spend six weeks.

Mr. R. B. Perriman, manager of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd.’s branch at Rabaul, New Guinea, reached Sydney by the “Tanda” on March 24.

Mr. Allan Lovell, of Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., Wau, reached Sydney from New Guinea in April, on three months’ furlough.

A True Story of Rarotonga in the 'Eighties

pp. 56-60

THE DILEMMA OF AH FU

BY JULIAN HILLAS

(Rarotonga, prior to its annexation in 1900, was nominally a British Protectorate. But, until well after the events described in the following sketch took place, official supervision was of the slenderest government beinr m the hands Arm or cwe,L“rthat lime One« L ' ta. A„ the charter' mentioned now ate d«d with the exception of “Amos Beere”—who under his own name enjoys the distinction of being „ne Ot the oldest white residents ,n the Group).

AH FU shuffled on to the verandah, the heels of his wooden slippers slap-slapping on the board floor. By leaning over the low railing he could have touched the people passing along the road below; men in scarlet and white pareus, women and girls in ankle-length Mother Hubbards and children in very little at all.

But Ah Fu was not interested in the people of Rarotonga on that particular afternoon in 1885. His thoughts, masked behind inscrutable almond-shaped eyes, were on his recent interview with Chang Ho Chang Ho smoked opium and lived in a big house on the shady waterfront, while he Ah Fu, slaved from morning till night as manager of the galvanised iron store in Avatieu. Chang Ho had complained that the business was not making enough money.

Ah Fu nodded to himself like a little soapstone Buddha which had been trans-

planted from its native element and was * f f i h ; o C ° ut ot i flvrio Just as if any store could be expected to do well while Wong Li lived on the I™?*?*- but - uns f “ssfu,y he had »PP OSed the ° f W °"g That was four years ago. How clearly he remembered the arrival of the dried up Cantonese . A schooner from Tahiti bad berthed overnight and, in the mom- Chang Ho went aboard; and, when he came on shore again, Wong Li accom- P amed him.

“Velly sick man”, Chang Ho had said. ‘‘Maybe he die velly soon. Maybe not.

You put him in the room at the back and feed him. See?”

Ah Fu had seen a good many things since then. From the outset, his guest seldom left the lean-to at the rear of the store and Ah Fu, who preferred eat ing alone, sent him in his meals by the man-of-all-work. Occasionally they met in the yard, or on the verandah, and then he would notice that the Cantonese kept his hands hidden beneath the folds of his wide sleeves.

But in those halycon days of the early ’eighties trade was brisk and he was too busy to think much about Wong Li. The astringent, faintly rancid odour of copra filled the store continually; barrels of

coconut oil stood ready in rows for ship ment; and in the compound, a great pile of iridescent pearl-shell flashed with multi-coloured fire as the sun struck down on its smooth surfaces. In ex change for these things, Ah Fu sold bolts of cheap printed cottons, rolls of scarlet and white pareu cloth, tobacco, ships’ biscuits, fish-hooks and all the hundred and one articles with which Chang Ho sought to beguile the brown man from his carefree, unproductive existence in a Garden of Eden, where the serpent had a pigtail and slanting eyes.

They had been good times, indeed.

Had been. The frown on Ah Fu’s parch ment-like face deepened as he recalled a certain evening when his store-boy had given notice.

“I not work here any more. No more back to-morrow. That fella belong ’um China too much sick”.

Ah Fu pressed for details.

“You no savvy that sickness?” The store-boy spat expressively in the thick dust. “You go look see. Him leper man. I not stop here any more. No blurry fear!”

Ah Fu, having verified this for him self, hurried to Chang Ho. But the latter scarcely listened . . . Wong Li and he were members of the same tong.

Besides, had not the Cantonese paid him well that he might be allowed to end his days in Rarotonga ? Ah Fu must be patient. Wong Li would die soon, anyway.

But, from then, business had fallen off. Groups which used to collect on

the verandah, gossiping in the cool late afternoon, no longer formed. Customers who formerly lingered over their shop ping now scuttled home as quickly as possible; and the more cautious ceased coming at all. People talked, and the Native Council, feeling that some action was necessary, officially waited upon Chang Ho, who received them suavely, professing his own ignorance of Wong Li’s condition until just recently. He agreed with them that it would be diffi cult—if not impossible—to find any shipmaster willing to carry such a pas senger . . . Patience . . . The Council, fuming inwardly, but baffled by this Oriental urbanity, filed out in silence.

As the weeks turned to months, and Wong Li continued to occupy the lean to, a gradual change came over Ah Fu.

Daily he made a practice of inspecting the former, peering quietly at him through a crack in the flimsy match boarding. The progress of the disease grew into an obsession. At first, only the hands had been affected; but, later, a curious puffiness appeared indiscrim inately and this, assuming a putty-grey pallor, subsided into soft ulcerous sores at mouth, nose and ears.

Towards the end of the second year, Ah Fu made one concession to his busi ness instincts. Without consulting Chang Ho, he erected a wire enclosure, twelve feet by twelve, and inside built a tiny palm-leaf hut. Into this he herded the still mentally alert but bodily decaying creature who was his guest.

Here, Wong Li at once became an ob ject of morbid public interest. Leprosy was rare, and natives visiting Avatieu from the outer villages were taken along in the hope of obtaining a glimpse of the unfortunate man. Twice daily, food was pushed between the lower strands of the cage, and bystanders considered an hour’s vigil well rewarded if they saw the almost shapeless stump, which served Wong Li for a hand, reach out from the hut and scoop in the basin of food.

And so passed another and another year. Ah Fu’s sparse black hair was shot with grey, his thin moustaches drooped miserably and over his high Mongolian cheek-bones the skin was yellow and veined like old ivory.

But, if Ah Fu had fared badly, there was one whom the passage of Time altered beyond recognition. Wong Li was now literally dropping to pieces.

Four years . . . and yet that very day Chang Ho had had the temerity to in fer that somehow the fault lay with Ah Fu. Further, he even managed to insinuate that the latter was responsible for Wong Li’s longevity.

AT this point Ah Fu’s meditations were interrupted by a short stocky European in dungarees and a high crowned rito hat. Ah Fu pushed his stool against the wall and followed the newcomer inside.

Amos Beere, trader, planter and one time mate of an Islands schooner, leaned on the counter. He had rather a liking for the little shrivelled-up Chinaman.

“How’s that leper pal of your’n gettin’ along?” he asked, “Ain’t ’e dead yet?”

“Him never die, I think”, Ah Fu shook his head sadly. “Velly bad my business this time, Amos”.

“Sure—that’s right. It’s a pity there ain’t no way of gettin’ rid of him—not as ’ow Pd care to ’ave ’im aboard. I suppose you never heard tell ’ow much Chang Ho got for lettin’ him stop

over ? I’d say myself it was a tidy bit”, Amos winked confidentially. “You Chinks don’t start off for China with out a few quid in your pocket—an’ yet PH bet you’ve never seen any money on Wong Li. ’Ave yer now?

Ah Fu confessed that he had not and Amos, pushing the wide-brimmed hat further on his head, prepared to leave, At the door he paused. “Mind you”, he continued, “There ain’t no law worth

speakin’ of down here an* a chap that’s as far gone as ’e is don’t require a lot

of helping. I don’t expect anyone would ask no questions, either, if they was to hear ’e’d died kind of sudden. Wot I mean is that if business is bad, it’s yer own fault—if yer get wot I’m drivin’ at”.

WHEN Amos had gone Ah Fu re mained for a minute or two lost in contemplation. Amos’s words had drawn up to the surface hitherto sub merged thoughts and given them definite shape.

He shuffled back onto the verandah.

The sun had sunk lower and hung, an amazing orange globe, above the dark blue of the ocean where the latter melted into the paler blue of a late afternoon sky. Behind him, the hills reached up swiftly in a flying buttress of naked peaks and serrated battle

merits, flood-lit by the tawny blaze of sunset. On his left, a grove of palms bent before the steady drive of the trade-wind and, from seaward, across the road facing the store, came the in cessant boom of breakers along the coral reef, rising to hollow thunder as the white lines of running surf went charg ing down the crescent sweep of the coast.

But Ah Fu was not interested in these things. His squinting yellow eyes rested on the wire enclosure into which he could easily have pitched a stone from where he stood. The more he thought about it, the more obvious Amos’s mean ing became. Who, after all, were likely to concern themselves with what happened to Wong Li? The Council?

The old Queen in her ramshackle palace ?

He dismissed them both immediately.

There only remained the rare British warship which visited the island— “ Commodore’s Law” —and this, also, he felt it might be safe to disregard. For some time, the question of just how to set about things worried him, for he was by nature a methodical creature, and liked to round off his actions in a neat and orderly manner.

And then, abreast down the darken ing road, came the answer to his prob lem. “Jacky Coconut” and “Monkey”, Rarotonga’s two hardest-case natives, arm in arm and open to any proposi tion which held out hopes of rum, money or women—but preferably rum.

Ah Fu leaned over the verandah rails and called gently to them.

IT was evening, and the main doors of the store had been closed for some time. An oil lamp bit feebly into the gloom of Ah Fu’s room, at the back of the building, illuminating faintly the faces of six men who sat around a stone demijohn, from which came the fine fruity odour of old Jamaica.

“Jacky Coconut”, a bronze-red moun tain of a man, with a ragged palisade of broken teeth, wiped the loose earth off his hands as he stretched across for the glass which Ah Fu held out. Be side him, the wizened “Monkey” was al ready drinking, the lamplight glitter ing on a bead of rum where it clung like a great ruby to the hairs on his unshaven chin.

Amos Beere, who had dropped in casually, and stayed to broach the demi john, glanced at their host.

“Wot’s up?” he enquired, “Gettin’ flush with money, ain’t yer? Enter tainin’ an’ all that kind o’ thing”.

But Ah Fu was plainly ill at ease, and he avoided the planter’s eye.

“Wong Li velly sick to-day. I look see this morning, an’ then I think may be he going to die soon. So I get ’um Jacky an’ the boys to dig grave all same ready put him in quick”.

Ah Fu plied his visitors with the fiery spirit, drinking nothing himself and re maining, by his own sobriety, a baro meter of the company’s intoxication.

The rum gradually loosened their tongues. Names, woven into the very fabric of Islands history, were bandied across the room. “Monkey” had sailed under the famous blackbirder, Bully

Hayes; Amos had been mate of a trad ing schooner on which the adventurous John Salmon eloped with the young Queen of Arorangi, but was pursued and brought back by her powerful kins woman, Makea Takau. Men and women, pearls, copra and trocas shell—the talk ran on interminably; and all the while Ah Fu watched them and waited.

Amos was the first to go under. His voice thickened and once or twice he almost slipped off his box. Ah Fu then judged that the moment had come for putting into execution the second part

of his plan, and he quietly replaced the cork in the demijohn.

“You drink him all up by-an’-by”, he said to the four natives. “This time you go look see Wong Li. I stop insides with Amos”.

They rose unsteadily to their feet, and he pushed them through the door.

In the yard, Jacky Coconut took charge.

Picking up two long poles which had been prepared during the afternoon, he led the way across to the wire enclosure.

A coldly metallic moon patterned the ground with strange shadows, and sil

vered the ash-grey fronds that composed the walls and roof of the hut, in one corner. A furry brown flying-fox passed overhead in zigzag flight, its shrill cry fading away as leathery wiflgs bore it swiftly inland.

Kicking open the door, Jacky Coco nut peered inside. “Bring a light", he directed while one of them rolled a palm leaf torch. Crackling red flames, he thrust this before him through the door way and, for a moment, even his rum deadened nerves jumped horribly as Wong Li, roused from sleep, pushed aside the pile of rags which covered his body. All but faceless, and thrice terrible in that lurid light, he stared at the intruders.

“What you wantee me for?” he quavered.

“We take you ’nother place”, Jacky Coconut informed him, “You keep quiet”.

They slid the poles under him, impro vising a kind of sedan-chair by means of the mat on which he lay and to which he now clung desperately. Their bur den was pathetically light, and they swung clear of the enclosure at a jog trot, heading for a patch of sandy ground on the beach side of the road.

It was an eerie procession, silent ex cept for the flip-flap of their bare feet in the dust, and as they went the tall warden shadows of the trees seemed to march with them.

Perhaps Wong Li sensed the strange ness of this journey.

“Where you taking me?” he called out; and when “Monkey”, with an oath,

The old store of Ah Fu still stands in Rarotonga. It was in the yard behind this building that the leper was kept, in a little hut.

Photo, taken recently by W. H. Watson.

told him he beat feebly on the poles with his mutilated hands. “But I not dead man yet. I not dead”, he moaned, his voice thin with a nameless terror.

“Then you damn well should be”, they shouted back, and the grim cortege proceeded, Wong Li continuing his fruit less tattoo.

At a point where the palms screened

them from the road, the four men halted, setting down their burden be side a freshly-dug pit. Jacky Coconut examined the grave critically, measur ing with his eye both its capacity and the object for which it had been pre pared.

“Lift him up”, he ordered; and under his direction the poles were held para llel with but above the opening; and, the ends of the mat slipping over them, Wong Li descended by his own weight into the hole.

Seeing the fate which awaited Kim the unfortunate creature struggled weakly.

As he touched bottom “Monkey” reached down and turned two sides of the mat inwards, folding them over the Chinaman like the flaps of an envelope.

On this, the others began shovelling earth, those who were without spades using their hands.

During a pause, Jacky Coconut leaned over the grave. The soil stirred with minute tremors and very faintly the voice of Wong Li could be heard call ing “Me no dead yet”.

Jacky Coconut bent lower. Spittle, running from the corners of his great bull mouth, trickled into the pit.

“You no dead yet, Wong Li?” he chuckled, “Never mind—you soon will be”, and, springing to his feet, he set to shovelling again, never stopping until the grave was a cylindrical mound, which they then stamped level with the surrounding ground.

“We go now an’ finish the rum”.

“Monkey” shouldered his spade with the satisfied air of a man who has suc cessfully accomplished a difficult task, and the others followed him up the path without a backward glance at the dark rectangular patch under the slow-rock ing sentinel palms.

Their entry roused Amos Beere from the half-sleep into which he had fallen.

He sat up and looked at them with fuddled curiosity.

“Where you bin?” he demanded, “What you bin doin’ outside?”

But it was Ah Fu who answered, and a great weight seemed to have been

lifted from the little storekeeper.' “Velly sad business, Amos”, he said impas sively, “Wong Li he die an’ these boys put him in ground for me. Velly good boys”.

“So ’e died at last, did ’e ? When was that?”

“Wong- Li dead now”, Ah Fu repeated, uncorking the demijohn. “You have ’nother little drink, Amos, an’ then go ’long home. We not worry any more for Wong Li—he too much dead now I think”. And for the first time that night, Chang Ho’s manager drained a tumbler of the old Jamaica.

BY the “Monterey” which reached

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Melbourne from Suva at the end of March, there arrived Rev. C. 0. Le lean, who has just retired from the Chairmanship of the Fiji Methodist Mission after having given nearly 35 years of service in the Colony. He has reached the age limit and has relin quished active work in the mission field after having most successfully directed Methodist affairs in Fiji for many years.

Entering the ministry in Tasmania, he was in charge of various circuits there for 10 years and was then appointed to Fiji, in 1902. For 32 years he served con spicuously at Bua, Nailaga, Ba, and Davuilevu, and then returned to Aus tralia for two years to recoup his lost health. In 1936 he went back to Suva as District Chairman for a two years’ term.

Mr. Lelean’s successor in Fiji will be Rev. William Green, who will reach Suva from Australia in May. The latter has already served the Methodist Church in Fiji, having been stationed at Rewa and Levuka.

New Freezer For Ft.

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MORESBY

From Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Mar. 29.

ANEW freezer is being constructed for the Port Moresby Freezing Co.

Ltd. It will be up-to-date and much larger than the existing one, and will stand at the far end of the Picture Theatre. The volume of business has been increasing to such an extent that this has become a necessity.

Miss Stock joined the nursing staff of the Namanula Hospital, Rabaul, New Guinea, in March.

Mr. R. S. Thacker, K.C., Attorney General of Fiji, has been appointed a Puisne Judge in Kenya, British East Africa. After four years’ service in Fiji, he is now on furlough and will proceed shortly to his new post.

Mr. W. S. Patterson, M.A., of N.Z., is a new worker for the Fiji Methodist Mission.

N.G. Public Service

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THE following particulars concerning staff ap pointments and transfers in the N.G.

Public Service was issued by the Government Secretary, Rabaul, on March 3: —

PERMANENT STAFF TRANSFERS.

Public Health Dept.:—R. T. Squires, Medical Assistant, Gasmata to Madang; J. H. L. Mc- Guigan, Medical Assistant, Rabaul to Kavieng; A. E. Wilkinson, Medical Assistant, Talasea to Rabaul: M. C. Mann, Medical Assistant, Wewak to Rabaul: A. R. K. Atkinson, Medical Assist ant, Kieta to Rabaul; J. Lockhart, Health In spector, Rabaul to Wau; R. G. Pickwell, Medi cal Assistant, Rabaul to Kieta.

District Services Dept.:—G. Stevenson, Cadet, Rabaul to Salamaua; L. G. R. Kyngdon, Cadet, Wewak to Rabaul; F. H. Moy, Patrol Officer, Wewak to Salamaua; J. A. Grant, Cadet, Ma dang to Rabaul; M. H. Wright, Cadet, Madang to Rabaul; J. A. Costelloe, Patrol Officer, Kieta to Rabaul; R. E. Styants, Cadet, Talasea to Rabaul: J. K. McCarthy, Assistant District Of ficer, Buka Passage to Rabaul; R. M. Farlow, Patrol Officer, Rabaul to Buka Passage; T, G.

Aitchison, Patrol Officer, Rabaul to Kieta; H. W.

Evans, Clerk, Rabaul to Manus.

Surveys Dept.:—G. E. Ballam, Surveyor, Ra baul to Salamaua: D. A. Madden, Surveyor, Ra baul to Kavieng: A. R. Miller, Surveyor, Wewak to Rabaul.

Agriculture Dept.:—W. A. Mossman, Inspec tor and Instructor, Kavieng to Rabaul.

Treasury Dept.:—T. R. Walsh, Linesman and Mechanic, Wau to Rabaul.

Public Works Dept.:—H. P. Barrie, Road master, Rabaul to Kokopo.

Customs Dept.:—J. Laird, Schooner Engineer, Manus to Rabaul.

TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS.

Government Secretary’s Dept.:—Miss S.

Boyle, Typist, Crown Law Office; Mrs. E. E.

Clyne, Assistant Teacher, Education Dept.

Public Health Dept.:—Mrs. I. Walsh, Nurse. * District Services Dept.:—A. H. Miller, Chain man; W. Scott, Chainman.

Public Works Dept.:—J. P. McGrath, Road master; C. E. Bignell, Overseer Native Labour; G. M. Broad, Draftsman; H. D. McLennan, Overseer Native Labour; G. A. Hately, Road master; E. C. Condren, Roadmaster.

Suggestions that the shipping service from the Pacific Coast to New Zealand, discontinued nearly a year ago by the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Com pany, might be resumed, have been made in Auckland. At present the Union

Steam Ship Company is maintaining the

only purely freight service across the

Pacific to the Dominion.

Polynesians

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THE HOMESICKNESS OF

Pitcairners Who Went Home

WHEN we came to Papeete many years ago," we were ‘interested to find there a colony of Pitcairn Islanders.

They had voyaged from their isolated native island, a few at a time, in the ancient schooner (owned in community by Pitcairn), the “Vahine Tahiti”, and had settled in the neighbourhood of a little chapel of their faith situated at Manu ho’e, a small district within the boundar ies of the city. They were chiefly younger people who, restless under the restrictions of the life on Pitcairn, had sought the wider horizons and more ample oppor tunities of the outer world.

It was Norfolk Island all over again.

So long as the “Vahine Tahiti” voyaged occasionally to and from Pitcairn, the ex iles were more or less content.

But when the schooner went out of commission, and they found themselves cut off from their birthplace and their relatives there, the outer world and all it contained became dust and ashes to their senses.

Finally—after a long time—a schooner came from Pitcairn. It had been fash ioned by the islanders themselves from a handsome miro tree, which had been a landmark on their island. In shape this vessel resembled the craft in which the Three Wise Men of Gotham put to sea.

She was as broad as she was long and could, apparently, sail sideways with equal facility and speed, as fore-and-aft, A steady south-east trade wind carried her in due time to Papeete; but it was many months before she could find wind and weather which would enable her to return. She made several attempts, only to be blown back by head winds to Papeete, there to await a more propitious season.

At length, a happy combination of wind and favourable weather permitted depar ture. Under the command of the patri arch of Pitcairn Island, Captain McCoy, who had been marooned on Tahiti with the others, the colony sailed away, and since that time there have been no ad venturing expeditions from Pitcairn to foreign lands.

Few people in the world are so afflict ed with nostalgia as are Polynesians when separated from their native island.

Some years ago a colony of natives of Reao were brought to Tahiti. It was not long before they became so low in health from homesickness for their far away atoll, that they had to be returned, to save their lives.

The writer has met in the United States Tahitians who have emigrated there and lived there for many years.

When questioned, if they missed Ta hiti, invariably tears came to their eyes and they say; “Oh, if I could taste agatn breadfruit, fe’i and miti hue! Not a day passes that I do not long for them”.

That is their way of expressing their never-ending nostalgia for their home land.

A. C. R.

Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited has declared an interim divL dend of 5 per cent, for the half-year ended December 31, 1937, Dividend is payable on April 30.

Whither Goes

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TONGA?

Effect of Education on Younger Generation

(Contributed.) THERE is a very complicated matter of education in Tonga to be settled be fore long in its two main aspects— first, that of the financial burden it en tails, and secondly, its effect upon the rising generation of Tongans; that is, whether it is beneficial or otherwise.

Respecting the financial aspect, there is the annual vote for education in the Government’s budget, usually running to about £6,000, providing primary and sec ondary education for those attending the Government schools. In addition, there are denominational schools charging fees for tuition, the aggregate cost of which might be put at another £6,000. Then there is the actual equipment of the child for school (clothing, bedding, books, etc.) on a better scale than if he or she were at home, the cost of which in toto might be £B,OOO. That is approximately £20,000 which directly and indirectly comes out of the total wealth produced in Tonga, given as £58,591 for the year 1936. An extortionate proportion!

On all sides it is claimed that the Tongan people are deteriorating morally; they are not what they were, even one generation ago. After having passed through this educational mill, the boys show a marked reluctance to work on the cultivation of their 8k acres; they want either a job in the Government (stout fel lows!) or in a store, which together ab sorb one per cent, of the yearly output.

After having solved most of the myster ies of algebra, trigonometry, and many other subjects only remotely connected with, the hard graft of working on the land, they do not take kindly to the bush, which is for 99 per cent, of them the only means of a respectable if meagre livelihood. What little control their parents ever had over them is complete ly gone, their behaviour in general is cheeky and flippant, and in the public roads and such places they have a mark ed tendency to “show off”.

A growing proportion of these young Tongans become useless larrikins, and others develop a most offensive arrogance.

Many of them become thoroughly lazy and some are criminals. Hardly a month goes by without a store being broken into and robbed, and the police court reflects a sad condition of moral depravity.

As for the girls, the outlook for 99 per celnt. of them is to marry one of their countryman and look after the domestic side of the 81 acres. But, in their own estimation, their education has fitted them for something more exalted than that, and about one per cent, find em ployment as nurses, telephone operators, sales-women in stores, etc. The rest hope in vain for matrimony with a mytho logical Duke of Windsor.

What is to be done? The British Gov emment gets only the Consular reports of its representative, which hitherto have been of the white-washing variety, in order to imply “Everything’s all right.

Im here”. If it knows the truth, it has done nothing.

There is no use in leaving these peo ple to be exploited by a handful of career-men. on the excuse that it is an independent Government. Where is all this justice and fair play, liberty, and all the rest of it, to which front-benchers in the House of Commons are never tired of giving expression? Do they know the conditions? They should know them. The size of the kingdom does not exonerate them; the principle is the same.

Is there anything outrageous in an 1m

partial Commission being appointed to enquire thoroughly into the economic conditions obtaining in the Kingdom; to find out what the actual wealth produc ed really is, and where it goes; and some endeavour made to prevent the further exploitation of these people?

Memorial Hospital For Lord

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HOWE ISLAND

AIDED by a Government grant, the Gower Wilson Memorial Committee, which has raised £2OO, is building a cottage hospital on Lord Howe Island.

It will contain two wards, an operating theatre, and a dispensary. Mr. C. Ret mock has given portion of his land on the island; Burns, Philp and Co. will carry the materials and equipment on the “Morinda” at half rates: and Lord Howe residents will erect the hospital volun tarily.

It will be a memorial to the late Mr.

Gower Wilson, who, with his son Jack and a crew of four, was lost between Sydney and Lord Howe in his launch “Viking” in November. 1936. Previously, the Islanders were isolated from trained medical aid until last year, when a doc tor subsidised by the N.S.W. Health Dept., took up residence on Lord Howe.

Dr. Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), the New Zealand-born director of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Hawaii, has been awarded a diploma of honorary fel lowship by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

System In Fiji

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Move To Abolish Assessor System In Fiji

From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, Apr. 2.

IN the Fiji Supreme Court most of the criminal cases are tried by the Chief Justice and assessors. The essen tial difference between a jury and asses sors is that the judge has power to over-rule the finding of the assessors.

When this happened in Suva a few weeks ago there was an outcry among the assessors.

The businessmen who act as assessors contend that it is a waste of time sitting all day in court and giving attention to

a case if their decision can be reversed by the judge. A petition has been cir culated among those liable to serve as assessors, asking that the system be dis continued. It is understood that it has been widely signed.

In the case in question, one of lar ceny against an Indian, the two asses sors found the accused guilty on what they contended was a doubt, the bene fit of which the accused was entitled to However, His Honour disagreed with them. He found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him accordingly.

Mr. Morton Crocker, of the New Guinea Department of Agriculture, arrived in Sydney from Rabaul on fur lough by the March “Tanda”.

THIS bad-tempered cartoon is supplied by a Suva resident, who says: “As the public of Fiji are still harping upon the new arrangement, under which British officials get £7OO p.a., etc., per haps this would be an opportune time to open a subscription, to place a statue in Suva’s Triangle. Design for statue respectfully submitted”.

U.S. Warship Visits Papeete

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From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, Mar. 24.

COMING by way of Samoa and Aus tralia the U.S. cruiser “Louisville” arrived at Papeete on March 14. The United States Consul (Mr. George C.

Cobb) gave a reception to the officers; and the Captain and his staff dined with the Governor. The warship sailed on the 16th for Hawaii.

This is the first time in several years that a ship of the U.S. navy has anchored in Papeete Harbour. Shortly after the Great War the “South Dakota”, with the Admiral commanding the Asi atic station on board, called for a few days. The greatest occasion was in 1925 when the flagship, “Seattle”, of the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. navy and two cruisers paid a visit.

The last to call at Papeete, before the coming of the “Louisville”, was the cruiser “Chicago”.

Suva Police officers met at the home of the Commissioner of Police, (Lt.-Col.

J. E. Workman) on March 18 and pre sented an inscribed chiming clock to Sub-Inspector C. W. Tucker and Miss K. Jacomb, whose marriage took place the following day.

Miss Phoebe Mills, 8.A., of Queens land, arrived in Suva, Fiji, on April 7 by the “Monterey” to take up teaching at the Methodist Mission’s Ballantine Memorial School for Girls.

Mr. C. A. Leembruggen, Acting Com missioner of Lands in Fiji, been provisionally appointed a nominated member of the Legislative Council.

"Pioneer" Passes

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Fiji Government Yacht Sunk

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, Apr. 1.

ON March 24, H.M.C.S. “Pioneer”, the yacht which has served the Fiji Government for many year on official business throughout the Group, made her last voyage. The dismantled hull was towed 12 miles out to sea and sunk by an explosive charge.

The sinking was supervised by Cap tain G. B. Nasmyth (Harbourmaster), and Mr. H. Sabben (Engineer of the Public Works Dept,), and the old ship, which held happy memories for many residents of Fiji sank with her flag fly ing.

Her master for many years, Captain J. P. Mullins, and the Chief Officer, Mr.

J. Neville, are both absent on leave at the present time, while her Second Officer, Mr. G. V. Langdale, is acting Administrative Officer at Canton Is land, so that none of her deck officers was present at the sinking.

The “Pioneer” had an interesting his tory. Completed just about the out break of the Great War, she was the first vessel built in England to be fitted with internal combustion engines. She was built for a millionaire, Mr. Singer, of sewing machines fame, but was com mandeered for war service by the Ad miralty. She saw service as a despatch boat and then, at the cessation of hos

tilities, the owner refused to take de livery of her. She was then sold to Fiji as a Government yacht and saw much service in the Group.

At the last meeting of the Legislative Council, an appropriation for the build ing of a vessel to replace the “Pioneer” was approved. It will be constructed at Hong Kong.

Pacific Islands Club

p. 65

THE Annual Meeting of the Pacific Islands Club was held at the Carlton Hotel, Sydney, on April 6. In his re port, the President (Dr. H. lan Hog bin) spoke of the progress made during the past year—the club’s membership has grown to 100. During the year the Treasurer, Mr. W. Fetch, resigned. Mrs.

Lamacraft, Mrs. C. Tennant Kelly and Mr. H, R. Rabone did not seek re-elec tion to the Council. The vacancies were filled by Miss E. Blacklock, Mrs. Allen Innes, Mrs. Meredith, Captain A. Mid denway and Mr. F. D. McCarthy.

Dr. Hogbin addressed the gathering on “European Civilisation in the Solo mons”, and illustrated his talk with in teresting lantern slides. The evening was rounded off with musical items by the Maori Chief, Noho Toki, and Miss Julie Werry.

Mr. A. G. Sorrell, of the office staff of Messrs. Guinea Airways Ltd., Lae, New Guinea, reached Australia by the April “Montoro” on three months’ fur lough.

Fiji

p. 65

Cutter Missing In Fiji Believed Lost at Sea With Crew of Six

From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, Apr. 2.

AS she has been missing for over a. month, it is presumed that the auxiliary cutter “Tui Savu Savu” has been lost with all hands. She left Suva on February 25 for Gau to load bananas and has not been heard of since.

At the time she left Suva there was a hurricane scare and heavy winds were expected. She anchored for the night off Laticala Point, and got under way on the morning of the 26th, again be ing sighted off Naselai about 12.30 p.m.

About an hour later there was a ter rific squall in that vicinity.

The “Tui Savu Savu” was under a native skipper with a native engineer and a crew of three. There was also on board a half-caste, Abraham Picker ing, in charge of the loading of bananas for Mr. J. A. Garnett, for whom the ves sel was making the trip to Gau. She was owned by Mr. George Barrett, of Suva.

Since the vesel has been missing, a lantern, a boot, and a box containing clothing have been washed up on the island of Kadavu. A report was received in Suva that the “Tui Savu Savu” was at Sigatoka, many miles out of her course, but this was proved unfounded.

Mission Ship's Cruise

p. 66

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, Mar. 27.

ON her 23rd voyage in the Pacific, the London Missionary Society’s schooner “John Williams V” (Capt. E.

Kettle) departed from Fiji on March 14 to visit all the islands in the Gilbert and Ellice Group, Nauru and Ocean Is land. She had just completed a lengthy overhaul at Suva.

The only passengers were Rev. and Mrs. J. Spivey and their family, who were returning to the L.M.S. station at Abaian in the Northern Gilberts after spending leave in Great Britain.

Cook Is. Chief Visits New

p. 66

Zealand

ON a health visit to New Zealand, Makea Tinerau Ariki, paramount chief of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands arrived at Auckland on March 21 by the Union Co’s motor-ship “Matua”. The chief, who will spend several months in the Dominion, was met by Mr. H. F.

Ayson, C.M.G.,. former Resident Com missioner of the Copk Group.

Mr. A. O. Barrack, of the Western Pacific High Commission staff, departed from Suva by the March “Aorangi” for England, on leave. He was accom panied by Mrs. Barrack.

This Freedom!

p. 66

Some Reflections In Superannuated Retirement.

(BY “WILLIAM GOAT”).

EVERY now and then some simple Austral-Papuan gets up on his hind legs and bewails the fact that he is de nied the right to vote, the right to trial by jury; to Arbitration Court awards, unemployment relief, child endowment, preference to unionists, and every other social and political “right” enjoyed by his fellow-citizens on the Southern side of the Coral Sea.

If never seems to occur to him that, so far as his strictly personal liberties are concerned, he is free as the wind.

Colonial Office despotism—even its Papuan offshoot—is wholly benevolent.

What of New South Wales? And Sydney, her Queen City? The homing wanderer who has come to believe in the theory that Australia is the “freest” country in the world is startled to dis cover that, at almost every point where he attempts to live his normal life, he is thwarted by some footling law primarily designed to thrust tin-taber nacle moralities upon him.

Sydney, who once enticed her lovers with gay sorceries, wore vine leaves in her hair, and flaunted her saucy clothes with delicacy and grace has, within two decades become the dullest city on earth.

Her personality is that of the family pew-holder, the uncompromising pietist, the dyspeptic puritan who finds grace and beauty only in those things most depressing to the souls of men. The pleasures she offers to the visitor are the hectic amusements of the Methodist social; her public resorts are as provo cative as a church bazaar.

Virtue by legal enactment is the con suming ideal that enraptures the Syd ney of to-day.

Hence, her inextinguishable army of busybodies, with its passion for forming committees to discourage this and that; the irritating restrictions upon the hardy sinner who sees no harm in a “spot” or two after dusk; the wildly hilarious spectacle of Customs clerks become book censors; the stupid legal pottering about the length of swimming costumes and the lewd pastime of sun-bathing; the fiery controversies as to tea or cock tails for visiting broadcasters; the un ending argument concerning the wicked ness of folk who play games on Sun days. Hence, also, the frowsty Flossies who haunt the dark doorways of city buildings at night; and the horde of confidential gents whose “able ter win ready ter win and above orl, tryin’ tei win”, wheezed through loud-speakers, represents a means, of attaining riches without the necessity of work.

Hence, also, the dreary politicians who conduct the affairs of a great State as they would a village School of Arts; and the militant moralists and connois seurs, of naughtiness who, egged on by the silliest flapper press in the world, yearn hotly to flay alive all who refuse to applaud their sonorous platitudes.

Wau, T.N.G.

p. 67

TENNIS TOURNAMENT AT

ISIT in an after-theatre restaurant.

The waitresses give me black looks the while they noisily pile chairs on the tables in readiness for to-morrow’s mop-and-bucket brigade; for the lights go out at midnight—and so do my hopes of a night’s diversion.

The film I have seen has moved the world, but here it has been mutilated by a censorship so incredibly puerile as to make the continuity illogical and the conclusion completely incomprehensible.

I resurrect the stub of a cigarette doused, on the word of command, as I entered the theatre; and I reflect, with secret glee, upon the tram tickets I have dropped in the streets, the grass I have walked upon, the thoroughfares I have crossed at impossible angles, the cruising taxi-man I debauched by offer of a fare, the beer I surreptitiously con sumed at 6.35 p.m.—and the alacrity with which I have “moved on” when ordered by authority so to do.

And so, on a blue and burning day, to the galloping sea, the sea that sounds the keynote of sunny N.S.W. I travel, perforce, by train—the Transport Act having outlawed the motor-car —and occupy a corner seat in a crowded com partment euphemistically labelled “first class”. When I am not combing smuts out of my hair or rubbing them into my eyes, I stand up and hang on to the luggage rack in response to the oft repeated “Excuse me’s” of my fellow sufferers. It is that kind of corner seat.

The train arrives late. I sally forth in search of live bait, and capture half

a-dozen under-sized fantail mullet, which I hide in a derelict fish-trap; for the Fisheries Department’s inspector is a low and cunning fellow. The hospitable facade of the hotel is, at once, an in vitation and a challenge—for it is Elec tion Day. The publican, however, is a reasonable man and, soon, I am feeling for the brass rail. A horse whose name I like is engaged to-morrow which, if permitted, may win his race. I don’t know the animal’s price, for the ex

quisitely virtuous Sydney press is pro hibited by law from publishing such subversive information unless disguised in a numerological formula that baffles my simple mind. Can the publican ob lige me? He can, and does, and five bob changes hands.

I seek the nearest polling-booth.

Happily, my name is on the roll. A two pounds’ fine for non-voters is two pounds, despite one’s hatred of political claptrap and the bombastic humbugs who expound it. The party machines offer me the choice of a noisy windbag who knows everything except the mean ings of words, and a plausible rascal who, if not elected, will inevitably find himself again on the dole.

I cross out both names.

“Give me Liberty”, howled the old time Yankee patriot, “or give me Death!”

So they gave him a lemon; but, praise be, the jewfish are on the bite.

A snapshot during the recent tennis tournament at Wau, New Guinea. Supporters of Salamaua are shown modestly celebrating their success.

Water And Electricity For

p. 67

FT. MORESBY

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

PT. MORESBY, Apr. 2.

THE Administration has recently been approached by several different in terests with a view to establishing a permanent water supply for Port Mores by, in conjunction with a supply of electric current. It is understood that the Administration is considering the various schemes put forward.

Light For The Plantation

p. 68

BUNGALOW.

THE problem of efficient lighting with low fuel cost for the residents of the Pacific Islands is claimed to have been solved by the Tilley Lamp Co., Hendon, London. These lamps burn ordinary kerosene under pressure and give a white, steady light of 300 c.p. at the cost of Id. for 6 hours. They are insect proof, simple in use, and require no tools— each part, big or small, is easily removed by the fingers.

The Tilley table lamp is finished throughout in lacquered brass. Its brilliant light shows a room to the best advantage and enables one to read, sew, etc., without eyestrain. It can be carried from room to room with absolute safety and will burn steadily without hissing noise when standing in a draughty place in the bungalow.

The Tilley storm lantern is strongly made of stout brass with no parts to rust, corrode or get out of order. It is invaluable for all work outdoors after dark in connection with plantation work, building, etc., as it burns steadily, unaffected by weather however severe.

It is equally useful indoors and may be used with complete safety in copra sheds, boat houses, workshops, etc.

All Tilley lamps and lanterns can be ob tained throughout the South Seas from the branches of Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd., Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd., and W. Kopsen & Co., Ltd., Clarence Street, Sydney.—*

Pattern Service

p. 68

WE have arranged with a well-known Sydney firm of pattern-cutters to publish each month a diagram of a seasonable frock, patterns of which may be obtained by our readers direct from this office, post free, on payment of the sum stated under the diagram.

Address your letter to “Pattern”, Pacific Is lands Monthly, Box 3408 R, Sydney, and en close a note giving the number of the pattern wanted and bust size, and enclose also the price of the pattern in postal note or stamps.

The pattern will be sent by return mail.

4524—A straight-down house frock with front fastening; waist is marked with a contrast sash. Shaped collar and the pockets may be bordered with contrast. Material (for 36 in. bust): 3% yds. 36 ins. wide; contrast Va yd. 36 ins. wide. Bust sizes 32 to 40 ins.

Rev. and Mrs. F. J. Searle left Syd ney for Samarai, Papua, by the “Mon toro” early in April. Mr. Searle is a worker for the London Missionary Society at Lawes College, Fife Bay.

Miss A. Hemsworth left Sydney for Port Moresby, Papua, by the “Montoro” on April 6. From Port Moresby, Miss Hemsworth will fly across to Wau, N.G., where she will marry Mr. Nichol, pilot of Mandated Airlines.

Miss N. Fagan, who has served the Melanesian Mission at Raga, New Heb rides, since 1930, sailed from Sydney on a holiday visit to England by the “Ma loja” in March.

House Frock, 4524—15. Id.

Fashion Hints for Islands Women

pp. 69-70

By Therese.

17HAT jaundiced .feeling which at one . time was part and parcel of the dread ’tween seasons is now no more.

Women have grown of the weak ening effect on their morale of clothes that have seen them gaily through one season and must be made to “do” until the arrival of the next. They plan their wardrobe expenditure carefully so that it will include bright frocks for that doubtful period between summer and autumn.

The mid-season’s showings are all that could be desired. They perhaps lack the startling novelties of a season in full swing but they fill every need with at traction and charm. They also give more than a hint of what is in store for us when the new season’s clothes are un packed in all their glory.

Evening clothes scintillate in fashion’s firmament, and sequins appear on many gowns—sometimes a whole coat of se quins covers a gown. In others they are scattered lightly over the entire skirt.

Even in the day time they appear in the shape of attractive collars which give zest to a dark frock.

Since fashion decrees that we must glitter, the sun tan top of an evening gown takes unto itself a Peter Pan col lar of sequins and clusters flowers at the neckline in truly delightful fashion.

Lovely mists of pink lace lightly scat tered with silver sequins float across the dance floor in a dress with two enorm ous sleeves, which meet at the neck and leave the back bare. Their fulness is gathered into a bracelet of flowers at the wrists.

Yards of tulle go to the making of the dress beneath which a taffeta petticoat rustles with complete allure, whispering of romance. Silver and gold make dra matic entry and gowns of lame satins mould the figure to perfection. A floor length cape of purple velvet is equally ef fective over gold or silver.

Slim fitting fronts and widely flaring

backs are the new trend for evening.

The panel in the back of the skirt marks the only seams and the lovely moulding of the hip line has been made possible by this medium.

Empire fronts still continue on their graceful way and bodices are simplicity itself. Those frocks that do not glitter rely solely on their exquisite cut and ma terial to give them perfection.

Coats come in varied lengths, and the little bolero jacket shares equal popular ity with the coat that sweeps to the floor. All sorts of materials go to their making, so one’s choice is endless. Backs of coats are draped with wide swinging fulness, and shoulders are squared but not so exaggerated as a season ago.

Picture frocks topped by tiny jackets are the mode, as are the svelte sophisti cated frocks that cling lovingly to the figure and flare to fulness at the back.

Skirts are shorter and sometimes very full, and altogether fashion offers var ied and delightful silhouettes for us to follow.

Flowers are in evidence on day clothes again. Lovely clusters on formal frocks and tiny posies on the tailleur give a touch of gaiety to the wearer. Frocks the acme of simplicity trim themselves with flowers which strike the only note of adornment.

Go barbaric if you will be in the fore front of fashion! Slave bangles and heavy chains are gold washed, and cabo chons and chains of the same type lift a black frock to the heights.

Day clothes are gayed with lots of white, but brilliant contrasts also come into the picture. Rust and green is a popular combination; and the same green allies itself with brown. If you are clever and have the gift of colour sense you can combine three and even four colours and strike a note that is full of individu ality and charm.

New season’s clothes are of extreme sim plicity of line by day though you can let

your imagination run riot for festive hours. Frocks are neat and close fitting for day wear, almost tailored in their line, but with some little feminine touch that relieves their severity. Coloured zipps oust buttons and attach the quaintest gadgets as a finishing touch. Zipps are no longer utilitarian only. They are de corative to the nth degree, those for evening wear being diamante trimmed.

Bags are of great importance these days and never has there been such end less variety. No longer does one grip one’s bag tightly heath the arm, it has a handle that has ceased to be an orna ment and justifies its sphere of useful ness.

The early Victorian reticule has been called on for inspiration and the pouch bag is the result. It is such a conveni ent shape and has the virtue of holding the maximum amount not of money, but of the 101 things that woman mysteri ously finds use for when she gads. En velope bags appear on the scene, but envelope bags with a difference. They are quite huge affairs and they, too, hold an inordinate quantity of things even to one’s needs for over night, if necessary.

Suede appears to be the most popular medium for bags this season, and it is allied with patent leather and calf with great success. Calf and pigskin bags are enjoying well deserved attention. They have such marvellous wearing propensi ties and are the ideal accompaniment for tweeds.

Evening bags are gay and glitter and

sparkle along th,eir way equally effec tively as the gowns with which they are worn. Metal brocade bags match up with little jackets of the same material.

Gold kid, too, comes in for a share of preference votes, and since gold and black are having a wide vogue at the moment will match up well with the gold belt and shoes that are worn with the even ing gown of black.

The question of gloves is all important.

They must be given due consideration, but as they come in a greater variety than ever before, this aspect should pre sent no difficulty even to the most dis criminating. Evening gloves are rather startling though still retaining beauty.

Two fingers of your glove may be quite a different colour to the rest of it, or you may go one better and have gold gloves with rose velvet palms.

Lacing, stitching, and patterning all do their part in making the gloves part of the beauty scheme for clothes. Orna mentations of all kinds trim the backs, and you can allow your imagination just as much riot with your gloves as with the crazy hats that are presented for your amusement and edification.

In the morning, th,e gloves are the short slip-on variety. In the afternoon they increase in length, and when even ing arrives the gloves reach to five, six, and eight button length, and you may choose any colour you please to match or contrast with your gown. Fine kid or suede may be their medium.

Missionary's Bride

p. 70

Miss Rita Bell, of Adelaide, South Australia, who will shortly leave for Suva, Fiji, to be married to Rev. M. G. Wilmshurst, B.A., Methodist Missionary at Nadroga.

Photo.: “Mission Review”.

Broadcast Of Copra Prices.

p. 70

SOUTH SEAS produce prices (including copra) are broadcast weekly from Sydney as the first item in the news bulletin from A.W.A.’s world range short-wave station VK2ME each Sunday at 9 p.m., and Monday at 1.30 a.m. (Sydney time). Operating on a 31.28 wave length (9590 kilocycles), VK2ME transmits a special programme on Sundays between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. (0600-0800 G.M.T.) and 8 p.m. and midnight (1000-1400 G.M.T.); and on Mondays between 1.30 a.m. and 3.30 a.m. (1530-1730

G.M.T.).

Sister P. E. McKenzie, of the Melan esian Mission station at Lolowai, who has been on short furlough, returned to the New Hebrides by the March “Morinda”.

Miss Nancy W. Brown, 8.A., Dip. Ed., sailed from Brisbane early in April by the “Montoro” for Rabaul, New Britain, where she will teach at the Chinese school. A short time ago Miss Brown underwent special missionary training at Selly Oak College, England.

Sister Estelle Field, of the Melanesian Missions’ nursing staff in the British Solomon Islands, departed from Sydney for England on furlough by the “Or cades” in March.

War Memories

p. 72

Von Luckner's Escape from Motuihi

DURING his recent visit to Auckland, Count Felix Von Luckner made a spe cial visit to the Island of Motuihi, in Hauraki Gulf, where he was a prisoner of war 20 years ago, and from which he escaped in sensational circumstances.

There was a war prisoners’ camp at Mo tuihi, and Von Luckner and some bold companions got away in an official launch, and then captured the scow “Moa”, in which they reached the Kermadec Is lands, where they were subsequently re captured.

Count Von Luckner made up a picnic party, consisting mostly of men who were either his guards on the Island or his captors in the Kermadec, and they had a merry picnic together on Motuihi. He took a certain grim pleasure in pointing out to them, on the spot, how he had escaped.

He showed them how. by raising or lowering his window, he could secretly communicate with his picked colleagues.

When it was fully open they were to watch for instructions; when three-parts open, they were to continue with their preparations; when just a few inches rais ed, he wanted to see one of them, and so on. Then he revealed to an astonish ed audience that to his room he had sum moned each man, and had drilled them singly with a wooden rifle. No sound had been made, and no one discovered what was happening.

The count said that the little party of escapees sailed boldly out of the bay.

“But”, he added, with a smile, “your Government liked me so much that they sent 36 motor-boats, seven steamers and three cruisers to bring me back”.

“Pleasant Island!"

p. 72

Reports of Serious Friction on Nauru

THERE are persistent reports of seri ous friction at Nauru Island between officials themselves, between the offi cials and the British Phosphate Commis sion chiefs, and between the Europeans and the natives. Our information is;— That the natives are showing a re luctance to renew the phosphate agree ment (under which they are beneficiar ies and, incidentally, probably the rich est aborigines in the world). The agree ment expires soon. The natives give as their reason their lack of faith in the Administration.

That the attitude of certain high offi cials of the British Phosphate Commis sion on Nauru is arrogant and intoler ant, especially towards their subordin ates and towards certain officials of the Government, and that their behaviour has made life generally very difficult on the island.

These gentlemen apparently want to exercise a dictatorship, in which they shall be arbiters of all social, industrial, and administrative activities.

That there is grave friction between the Administrator and certain senior of ficials, and that charges reflecting up on the administration have been made to Canberra.

It is natural that there should be pri mitive savagery and back-biting in a community so small and isolated as that on Nauru; taut present conditions there appear to go far beyond mere petty squab bling.

One report is that friction all round is serious and that unless Canberra makes a serious inquiry into the position—and especially into officialdom’s attempt to cruelly sacrifice one or two officials with a good record—there will be an explosion which will react badly upon the Mandate over Nauru (held jointly by Britain, Aus tralia and New Zealand).

The former name of Nauru, by the way, was “Pleasant Island”!

On March 28, the Papuan Rubber Com pany was registered in Port Moresby un der th,e Firms’ Ordinance, with the object of planting rubber at loma in the North ern Division. Partners of the firm are Messrs. R. Durcher and A. E. Spellacy.

"Japan Reaches

p. 73

OUT"

A New Book Indicates What Is Likely to Happen in the Pacific

NEVER did a book come more oppor tunely than “Japan Reaches Out”, by Willard Price, an American writer, who has been for several years in the Orient, and knows Japan, Manchuko, China and all contiguous Eastern coun tries very intimately. It tells much of what students of Pacific affairs urgently want ed to know. • Mr. Price has studied the Japanese character with sympathy and under standing; he has discussed Japan’s do mestic and foreign problems at great length with the Japanese themselves, and with hundreds of people who can see what is happening in the Orient; he has taken what he calls a ”plane’s-eye view” of the whole situation in the north-west ern Pacific, in regard to both immediate problems and the distant future. He writes as an American, who has formed a warm regard for the Japanese, and whose friendship for British people and British countries is fundamental.

We tried to summarise, within a short article, some of the conclusions reached by Mr. Price, through the unescapeable logic of living facts. But such a sum mary is fair neither to Mr. Price nor our readers. The book is so admirably written, the facts are marshalled with such care, the argument is so conclusive, and the conclusions are so clear and startling, that there is only one thing to do —every man who is interested in the future of the Pacific must get this book and read it carefully for himself.

It is in no sense a product of the de corative American globe-trotter the kind of indescribable rubbish prepared by yellow American journalists for the titil lation of the radio-sated palates of Ame rica’s millions. It is a book of serious fact and cold logic—presented, however, in an attractive and entertaining man ner.

Here are a few provocative headings from various chapters:—“Japan—Trained to Die—lron Men from Paper Houses”; “Japanning China—China will Rise- Nobles of the Soil”; “Japan in the Paci fic —Mistress of the Yellow Seas —the Philippine Whirl-pool—Japan goes South to face Britain—America retires ungrace fully”; “Rising Sons on Par Horizons— Japan’s Divine Mission”

We never had less hesitation in recom mending a book to the notice of our readers. In fact, it is the duty of all well-informed people in the Pacific to read this volume. Our copy is from An gus & Robertson, Ltd., of Sydney, and it is priced at 10/6.

Archbold Expedition

p. 73

IT is expected that the scientific expe dition led by ■ Dr. Richard Archbold, will leave San Diego, California, about the middle of May in a large and modern twin-engined flying boat, for the north coast of New Guinea, to collect flora and fauna for the American Museum of Natural History.

Dr. Austin Rand, who has been recent ly in Java, is proceeding to New Guinea to establish a camp for the expedition.

The large flying boat, in addition to carrying Dr. Archbold, will have also as a crew Mr. L. A. Lancey, navigator, Mr.

Russell Rogers, pilot, Mr. Raymond Booth, wireless operator, and Mr. Gerald Brown, flight engineer. Mr. L. G. Brass, an Aus tralian ornithologist, probably will join the expedition in New Guinea.

The flying boat will travel via Hono lulu, Midway Island, Wake Island and Guam, and thence will fly due south to New Guinea.

Another report is that the flying boat will go directly across the Pacific to Aus tralia, and thence will fly north to New Guinea.

Other reports state that the field of the expedition’s activities is Papua, in the neighbourhood of the newly discovered Lake Kutubu; and other reports, again, suggest that the expedition is going to Dutch New Guinea.

Lady Rosenthal, wife of the Admin istrator of Norfolk Island (Sir Charles Rosenthal), arrived in Sydney from N.I. by the “Morinda” on April 9. She will remain in Australia for a month.

Mr. Ambrosini, an Italian miner, was killed by a fall of earth at Edie Creek, New Guinea, on March 11.

Mr. R. H. Nolan, a former member of the staff of the Bank of N.S.W., Port Moresby, has joined the Papuan Ser vice as clerk in the Government Stores.

Australian Short Wave

pp. 75-76

Broadcast May 8-May 28.

AUSTRALIAN National Short Wave

Programme, broadcast from Mel

bourne, Victoria, on 31.34 metres for

listeners in the Western Pacific. Call

sign: VLR.

p.m. DAILY WEEKDAYS

12.35 Recorded Music. 1.00 Time Signal, and News Bulletin. 1.05 Interstate Weather. 1.15 Music. 3.00 (Monday, Tuesday, and Friday) Broad cast to Schools. 3.20 (Tuesday and Friday) Classic Music. 5.00 Close (Monday and Wednesday, 5.15). 6.30 Comment by “The Watchman.” 6.45 (Tuesday excluded) Sporting News. 7.00 (Saturday excluded) News, Markets, and Weather for North Australia, 7.20 Overseas News Service. 7.30 Queensland and North Australian News. 7.40 (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Talk. 7,40 (Tuesday and Thursday) News In French 8.50 (Usually) Musical Programme. 10.30 Australasian News Service. 10.50 Musical Programme. 11.30 Close.

p.m. EVERY SATURDAY

12.45 Music. 1.15—5.15 Description of current sporting and athletic events, interspersed with music. 6.30 Markets Summary. 7.10 New Zealand Mail Bag. 7.35 Sporting Highlights of the Week. 10.50 Australasian Mail Bag. 11.00 Dance Music. 12.00 Close.

p.m. EVERY SUNDAY

6.00 Musical Programme by various State Orchestras. 6.80 Talk on International Affairs. 6.50 News Bulletin. 7.00 “Alice in Orchestralla”. 7.30 Recordings of Overseas Artists. 8.30 Story. 10.15 News. 10.30 Close. (Times given are Australian Eastern Stand ard —10 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.)

MAY 8 TO MAY 28.

May 8 (Sun.) —6.35 p.m. Talk on Drama Week; 7.30 Orchestral Hour—George Szell, visiting celebrity conductor; 8.50 New Note Octet; 9.15 Play.

May 9 (Mon.) —8 p.m. Seriat—“lnto the Light”: 8.30 “At the Sign of the Maison Rouge”; 9.30 Travel Letter; 10.50 Military Band.

May 10 (Tues.) —3 p.m. “Everyday Science and Nature Study”; 8 Recital by Alexander Kipnis, Russian Bass; 9 Play; 10 Harry Bloom’s Dance Band.

May 11 (Wed.) —1.30 p.m. Bendigo Races; 8 Request Items; 8.40 “Emma and ’Erbert”; 9 Play; 10 Light Orchestra.

May 12 (Thurs,)—l.ls p.m. Bendigo Races; 8 “The Play’s the Thing”; 9.15 Silver Sextet; 9.45 “Chorus, Gentlemen, Please!”; 10 Talk on World Affairs.

May 13 (Fri.) —3 p.m. “Adventures in Mu sic”; 8 Jim Davidson’s A.B.C. Dance Band; 8.30 Organ Recital; 9 Play; 9.30 Choral Fantasias.

May 14 (Sat.)—l.3o p.m. Ascot Races; 8 Alex ander Kipnis (Bass); 9 Play; 10 Plano Recital; 11 Dance Music.

May 16 (Sun.) —6.30 p.m. “Science in the News”; 8.50 Vocal Recital; 9.30 “Around the Organ With Sattkey”.

May 16 (M0n.)—1.15 p.m. Organ Recital; 8 Serial; 8.30 “At the Sign of the Maison Rouge”; 9.30 Ballad Recital; 9.40 Travel Let ter.

May 17 (Tues.)— l.ls p.m. Desmond Tanner at the Organ; 8.5 Alexander Kipnis (Bass); 9 Everyman’s Music; 10 Talk; 10.50 Military Band.

May 18 (Wed.)—l.ls p.m. Organ Recital; 1.30 Geelong Races; 8 Request Numbers; 8.40 “Emma and ’Erbert”; 9 National Military Band; 9.30 Lionel Lawson and Bessie Coleman.

May 19 (Thurs.)—l.ls p.m. Desmond Tanner at the Hammond Organ; 8 “The Play’s the Thing”; 9.15 Silver Sextet; 10 Talk on World May 20 (Fri.)—l.ls p.m. Organ Music; 8 Jim Davidson and A.B.C. Dance Band; 8.30 Des mond Tanner at the Organ; 9 Light Opera— “ Les Cloches de Cornville”.

May 21 (Sat.)—l.3o p.m. Willlamstown Races; 8 A.B.C. (Melbourne) Symphony Orchestra; 9 Play; 9.20 John Morley Quintet; 10 Special Programme.

May 22 (Sun.)—6.3o p.m. Talk—“ Memories of Rome”; 8.50 Organ Recital by Arnold Colman, with Strella Wilson, Soprano: 9.15 Recent Film Release.

May 23 (M0n.)—1.15 p.m. Organ Recital; 1.30 V.T. and R.A. Trots, at Ascot; 7.40 Talk— “ Morals”; 8 Serial; 9.30 History of Jazz; 10 Travel Letter.

May 24 (Tues.) —1.15 p.m. Organ Music; 1.30 Seymour Races; 8.10 British Musical Composi tions: 8.40 Alexander Kipnls (Bass); 9.30 Pa triotic Airs.

May 25 (Wed.) —1.15 p.m. Desmond Tanner at the Organ; 1.30 V.T. and R.A. Trots, at As cot; 8 Request Session; 9.30 Raymond Beattie and Heather Kinnaird in Solos and Duets.

May 26 (Thurs.) —1.15 p.m. Organ Recital; 1.30 Mornington Races; 7.40 Book Reviews; 8 “The Play’s the Thing”; 10.15 Harry Bloom’s Dance Band.

May 27 (Fri.) —1.15 p.m. Desmond Tanner at the Organ; 8 Dance Music; 9 Light Orchestral Programme; 9.40 Apollo Male Quartet; 10 Or gan Recital.

May 28 (Sat.) —1.15 p.m. Moonee Valley Races; 8 Symphony Hour; 9 Sketch—" The Selector’s Daughter”: 9.30 Ballad Concert.

The American cruise liner “Franconia” on a voyage round the world with 250 tourists arrived in Port Moresby, Papua, on March 17, from Java ports. She left late in the same evening for Sydney.

Mr. G. Brewer, of B.G.D. Ltd., Bulwa, N.G., reached Australia in April.

Pacific Mining

pp. 76-77

NEWS

From Fiji.

KOROERE GOLD N.L.

THE directors of Koroere Gold N.L., Fiji, in their annual report state that the Em peror Gold Mining Co., Ltd., has offered to absorb as a going concern the whole un dertaking of Koroere at Tavua. The purchase consideration is £25,000, to - be satisfied by the allotment of ‘ 50,000 fully-paid shares of 10/each in Emperor Mines, Ltd. The directors re commend its acceptance.

Results of development work at Koroere for the year ended January 31 were for the most part disappointing. Rather than call up fur ther capital to finance the more expensive prospecting of the deeper ground, the direc tors decided to adopt the recommendation of the managing director (Mr. E. G. Theodore) by opening up negotiations for disposal of the Company’s assets.

Since the last annual report, additional work has been done at the southern end of the Car digan lode without disclosing much additional ore. The main shaft is being sunk by 100 ft. to test the Cardigan lode at the 200 ft. level.

As there seems some probability of the pay able ore in the West Cardigan lode continuing in depth, it is proposed to sink a shaft over the position of the winze (where 10 dwt. values were disclosed), and continue the exploration of the ore body from that point. An adit was

driven on the North Cardigan lode, and values of 8 dwt. a ton were disclosed: but these val ues declined to 2 dwt. and 3 dwt. The adit was driven 85 ft. and crosscuts at 55 ft., and 85 ft. failed to show anything more encour aging.

Mr. F. A. Campbell, mine surveyor at the Emperor Mine, reports that there are 35,000 tons of mineable ore in the Cardigan lode as saying 9.2 dwt. gold a ton, and in the West Cardigan lode 9,000 tons of mineable ore as saying 11 dwt. A new adit was commenced on the same line of lode as that driven on by No. 5 adit, but at a lower level, from the southern flank of Koroere Hill. As this is the supposed continuation of the Loloma lode, the adit will be continued for some distance if con ditions warrant.

Issued capital of Koroere comprises 90,000 shares fully paid to 10/- each and 210,000 shares of 10/- each paid to 4/6 per share. Net ex penditure of the Company in the year ended January 31 was £5,970, of which £5,414 was spent on work on the Cardigan lode. At the balance date current assets were £1,747 and outside liabilities £456.

LOLOMA (FIJI) GOLD MINES, N.L.

Consistently good gold values over satisfac tory widths of ore continue to be reported by Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines N.L., Tavua.

The Company reported early in April that at the 224 ft. level in the mine, the South drive off the main East crosscut at 60 ft. had been extended to 730 ft. Average assay value Of the last 38 feet was 30 dwt. a ton, over a width of 68 inches. No. 3 rise off the South drive at 628 ft. from main E. crosscut has been extended to 68 ft. and connected with the winze from the 120 ft. level. Average assay value was 34 dwt. a ton over a width of 57 in.

Recent productions were announced as;— Four weeks ended Dec. 22 Man. 28. Feb. 23. Mar. 23.

Tons treated .. 1,700 1,663 1,875 2,020 Gold, oz., fine 1,999 1,790 2,408% 2,656 Silver, oz., fine 755 591 459 464 Residue, per ton 3.4dwt l.Sdwt I.7sdwt I.9dwt *Mill shut down for 6 days during holidays to convert elevator housing from wood to steel.

MOUNT KASI MINES, LTD.

March production of Mount Kasi Mines Lim ited, Vavua Levu, Fiji, compared with the two previous months as under;— Pour weeks ended Jan. 26. Feb. 23. Mar. 23.

Ore, tons 2,861 2,411 3,128 Gold, fine, oz. . 584 615 661 Value, £ A .. .. 5,110 5,381 5,784

EMPEROR MINES. LTD.

The secretary of Emperor Mines, Ltd., states that the option over 70,000 shares paid to 10/-, due on March 18, has been exercised and cer tificates have been issued. Application has been made for the placing of these shares on the official list of the Stock Exchange of Mel bourne. Issued capital of the Company is now £805,000, in 1,710,000 shares of 10/- each.

In the following table the latest production figures of the Company’s operating subsidiary in Fiji, Emperor Gold Mining Co., Ltd., are com pared with those of the two preceding four weekly periods:—

Tons, crushed ..

Jan. 26. .. 11,426 Feb. 23. 12,113 Mar. 23. 12,064 Head value, dwt. 6.8 6.8 6.8 Yield, oz., dwt. .. 3,044 3,798 3,812% Dwt., a ton .. ..

Tailings, dwt. .. 5.33 6.27 6.32 0.63 0.53 0.48

SUKULAKI GOLD DEVELOPMENT, N.L,

Shareholders in Sukulaki Gold Development N.L. (one of the dozen “shows” formed during the Fiji mining boom), at an extraordinary meting held in Melbourne at the end of March authorised the voluntary winding-up of the Company. A liquidation dividend of approxim ately 4/- a share will be paid to shareholders.

From New Guinea

p. 77

ENTERPRISE OF N.G. GOLD AND PETROLEUM

DEVELOPMENT, N.L.

MR. H. TAYLOUR, general manager of En terprise of New Guinea Gold and Petro leum Development N.L., in a report on the progress of operations at the Edie Creek mine, advises that the pilot plant has been clos ed down, pending a decision concerning the installation of compressed air drills in the underground workings, and the installation of additional treatment units in the plant. Metal lurgical tests show that the association of gold values in the ore is by no means identical with that found in other ores in the vicinity.

Ore testing is not yet finalised, but results to date indicate definitely that the run-of-mlne ore can be profitably mined and treated on a large scale.

The Company’s holdings at Edie Creek com prise eight gold-mining leases, having a total area of 336 acres. These leases extend for 6,000 ft. along the direction of strike of the main lode. The mineralised zone in which the main lode and several smaller veins occur, has been prospected within the boundaries of the Company’s leases for 4,000 ft. along the strike, and quartz located at intervals throughout.

The drainage adit is being advanced on three shifts to cut the main lode on the footwall side, 150 ft. vertically below the level of the main West drive, or 450 ft. below the apex of the outcrop. The drainage adit has been advanced to 596 ft., and is expected to cut the main lode within the next two months.

On the adjoining property of New Guinea Gold fields, Ltd., the downward extension of payable ore has been proved to a vertical depth of 150 ft. below the horizon of the Company’s drain age adit, or 600 ft. below the apex of the Com pany’s main lode. A large tonnage of ore is now practically developed on the Enterprise property.

Mr. Taylour also advised that for March 4,070 yards of wash and 5,470 yards of overburden were treated for a yield of 58 oz. 12 dwt. of unrefined retorted alluvial gold. This compares with January and February as follows: — Jan. Feb. Mar.

Wash dirt, yards .. .. 5,103 1,747 4,070 Overburden, yards . . .. 3,159 3,495 5,470 Unrefined retorted allu vial gold, oz 33 32 V 2 58 Va

BULOLO GOLD DEPOSITS, LTD.

Bulolo Gold Deposits, Limited, New Guinea, report that a clean-up will not be made until about April 24, as the manager is taking out larger paddocks on both the Morobe Alluvials and the Morobe Deposit areas.

BULOLO GOLD DREDGING LTD.

Production of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd., for March, compared with that of the previous two 4 periods, as follows: Jan. Feb. Mar.

Cubic yards .. .. 862,800 897,000 1,041,000 Bullion, oz 15,096 11,624 16,281 Gold, fine, oz. . 10,408 8,020 11,235

VALUE—

Aust. currency* £91,070 £70,175 £98,306 Value, per c. y. /25.3 /18.7 /22.6 Working profit . £65,493 £52,421 £68,958 •At £ AB/15/- per fine ounce.

The No. 5 dredge will not be operating at full capacity until the end of April. No. 6 dredge began digging to bedrock on March 24.

SANDY CREEK GOLD SLUICING LIMITED.

The mine manager of Sandy Creek Gold Sluic ing Limited, New Guinea, has issued the fol lowing comparative figures of production:— Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar.

Cubic yards .. .. 26,558 15,150 18,441 17,260 Gold, oz 377 249 258 338 Per cubic yard .. 2/iy 2 2/5% 2/114 2/10V 2 Working cost .. 1/2 1/6 1/5 1/1

DEVELOPMENTS (NEW GUINEA), N.L.

Developments (New Guinea), N.L. has obtain ed an option over a sluicing area of 400 acres situated at Booloumba Creek, Conondale, Queens land. The area was reported on by Mr. E.

Ross, mining engineer, and his report shows

good values from test shafts. Mr. F. A. Ro berg has also inspected the property. He recom mends that the area be systematically tested by pitting.

NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS, LTD.

The Mining Trust, Ltd., consulting engineers to New Guinea Goldfields, Limited, reported in March that during the previous three months production, etc., had been:—

Dec.

Jan.

Feb.

Edie Creek mill—• Gold, oz., fine 1,190 1,181 652 Silver, oz., fine 3,951 4,126 2,936 Alluvial— Gold, oz., fine 1,337 1,274 914 Silver, oz., fine 961 904 665 G«ld Ridges mill- Gold, oz., fine 296 308 601 Silver, oz., fine 346 359 671 Operating profit— Edie Creek . . £2,329 £2,502 £1,214* Alluvial 5,540 5,503 2,383 Golden Ridges . 1,199 1,018 3,532 •Operating loss, due to a reduced tonnage. caused by influenza epidemic and low-grade ore from the Karuka vein.

Reduced alluvial production in February was due to a pump breakdown. Golden Ridges production was from tailings retreatment.

From Papua

pp. 77-78

CUTHBERT’S MISIMA GOLD MINE, LTD.

ON operations for the year to December 31 last, Cuthbert’s Misima Gold Mine, Ltd., Misima Island, Eastern Papua, reports net

profit of £31,783, compared with £27,634 for the previous period of 14 Vi months. The 1937

result has been struck after providing £3,388 cost of development, writing off £4ll old plant, and £1,400 proportion of flotation expenses, and placing £2,000 to special reserve. Pour dividends, each of 6d. a share, were paid dur ing the past year, equal to 20 per cent, of the nominal value of the shares, the distribution in volving £30,000.

A total of 26,119 tons of ore was treated for 7,407 oz. gold, and 21,387 oz. silver, net cost being 23/1.5d a ton, against 22/I.ld in the pre vious period. Costs were affected by interrup tions due to construction operations, higher cost of raw materials, and higher trucking costs.

Oxidised ore reserves are estimated at posi tive 190,091 tons, and “probable” 112,925 tons, being net increases of 44,591 tons and 5,725 tons respectively. No estimate has been made of “possible” reserves above No. 9 level and No. 1 branch lodes. The general manager antici pates that it will be possible to mine about 300,000 tons in the oxidised (or upper) zone of the northern section of the mine. No work was done in the sulphide zone.

At December 31, assets included cash £4,251, bullion in transit £6,500, debtors £1,819. Cre ditors stood at £6,897. Flotation expenses ap pear at £12,600.

Recent production figures have been:—

BORNEO OPTIONS, LTD.

A three months’ option over two areas in Papua was obtained by the directors of Bor neo Options, N.L., when the Company with drew from Borneo. The areas now are being tested.

They comprise 125 acres, reported to contain large deposits of manganese ore, and also a gold lease of approximately 77 acres. The Company’s Sydney director, Mr. S. Hall, left for Papua on March 29 to make arrangements for an examination of the areas by a com petent engineer. The manganese areas are 4 X A miles inland from Rigo at Kapa Kapa, and 39 miles from Port Moresby. The gold mining lease is bn the Astrolabe gold mineral held, 20 miles from Port Moresby. In the event of the option being exercised the purchase price will be the allotment to the vendor of £B,OOO worth of fully paid-up shares in the Com pany, in addition to the casu payment of £6OO.

GOLD MINES OP PAPUA. LTD.

The general manager of Gold Mines of Papua Ltd., Misima Island, Eastern Papua, reports that a preliminary run of the plant has been com pleted. Operations were intermittent, on ac count of acute shortage of native labour and mechanical and metallurgical adjustments. To March 31, 1,750 tons of ore were crushed, from which was recovered gold valued at approxi mately £1,150, in addition to which the esti mated value of the gold remaining in the plant is £350. The plant will continue to operate intermittently and at only half capacity until all mechanical and treatment difficulties are overcome.

SAPPHIRE CREEK (PAPUA) SYNDICATE.

The directors of Sapphire Creek (Papua) Development Syndicate, N.L., advise that they have abandoned the option over the alluvial tin property at Catarrh Creek (N.S.W.).

MANDATED ALLUVIALS, N.L.

The management of Mandated Alluvials, N.L., whose property is situated near Port Moresby, Papua, pointed out in March, in a circular to shareholders, that, of 300 first mortgage deben tures of £lO each offered for subscription, only about one-third had been applied for. The money was required to enable production to be commenced. Unless further sums were sub scribed immediately, the management states, it will be impossible to carry on the work. The assets of the company would then be taken over on behalf of the present debenture-hold ers, who are fully secured by a trust deed over the whole of the property.

Jan. 23 Feb. 23. tMar. 23.

Ore treated, tons . 2,611 3,062 2,805 Bullion, oz. .. 2,698 3,305 2,814 Gold, fine ozs. . . . . 788 918 845 Silver, fine ozs. .. 1,587 1,876 1,550 *Est. value . . £6,374 £7,438 £6,833 Value of ton of ore 48/10 48/7 48/9 •Gold at £8 an oz., Australian currency. fTwo working days lost, short month.

Quotations for Islands

p. 78

Gold Shares.

FIJI.

Mid-Nov.

Mid-Feb.

Mid-Apr.

Emperor Mines ..■ b!2/6 bll/9 bl2/5 Koroere ... b2/9 s4/3 bl/5 Loloma ... b!7/ bl7/10V 2 b23/6 Mt. Kasi ... b6/ b4/3 b3/ll Vatu Kasia ... 82/ sl/6 sl/2

VFW GUINEA.

Bulolo Deposits .- bl/3 blld blOd Bulolo G.D. ... b £ 6 s£7 b£6 E nlj e r p rise ot N.G ... b£ 1/7/6 b£ 1/2/6 b£ 1/7/6 Guinea Gold bl3/3 bl3/3 bl2/10 N.G.G., Ltd. ,... b2/0 1 / 2 bl/6 bl/4 Oil Search . .. b7/6 b6/6 b6/l Placer Dev. ,... b £ 3/13/ s £3/19/ b£3/ll/t Sandy Ck. bl/6 bl/4 Sunshine Gold . bll/1 bll/6 bll/8

PAPUA.

Cuthbert’s ... b20/4 V 2 b21/6 bl9/ G.M. of Papua blO/5 b9/10 b7/ll Mandated All. . .. b2/8 b9d bl/7 Oriomo Exp. ... b3/3 b3/2 b2/3 Yodda Gold Co — b2d b6d

Derris Root Industry

p. 78

AS a result of investigations made by an officer of the Commonwealth Dept, of Trade and Customs, South Seas planters have been advised by the Gov ernment that there is little purpose in cultivating Derris roots in the Islands, as an alternative crop. Derris has a limited commercial market on account of its Retenone content.

The authorities point out that the two main difficulties in marketing are lack of knowledge of its toxic value, and exces sive shipment cost. Another problem is the difficulty of economical milling—the roots have first to be fed to a cutting ma chine before being placed in the grinding mill, where close supervision is necessary.

At present, Straits Settlement is the main producer. The average return is about £l5O sterling per ton f.o.b.

Torres Strait Notes

p. 80

Prom Our Own Correspondent.

THURSDAY IS., Apr. 5.

THE motor schooner “Vanora” is in Thurs day Island harbour at present, en route from Singapore and Merauke (D.N.G.) to the South Seas: she is owned by Mrs. M. Hart, flies the Stars and Stripes, and has been quietly cruising round the globe.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rowan have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Sullivan, of T.I.

Mr. Rowan founded the Lockhart River Mis sion on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula 14 years ago, and has been its only Superin tendent. Persistent rumours of Mr. Rowan’s ill-health have no foundation —he is the pic ture of robust health. His resignation will take effect at the end of the year.

The German luxury liner “Reliance”, of Ham burg, called here on her world tour. About 180 tourists came ashore.

Considerable quantities of building material are being unloaded here from overseas steam ers to be transhipped across the Gulf of Car pentaria to the new flying-boat base at Groote Eylandt. There is also to be another flying boat base at Karumba, near Normanton, North Queensland.

The Lord Bishop of Carpentaria and Mrs.

Stephen Davies have journeyed on the “Francis Pritt” to the Mitchell River Mission in the Gulf of Carpentaria. With them was Mr. Joseph Chapman (the Superintendent), who came back by the “Changte” from holidays in Sydney and on Norfolk Island.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allison, of Wynnum, Queensland, have been the guests for some weeks of Mr. and Mrs. Somerset Vidgen, at Somerset, Cape York Peninsula. Mr. Vidgen is hoping to attract many tourists from Australia to this unique centre.

The British cruiser H.M.S. “Dorsetshire” which is stationed at Singapore, paid a visit to T.I. on her circumnavigation of Australia after spending a week at Darwin. Football, cricket, golf and tennis matches were arranged.

New Executive Head Of

p. 80

VACUUM OIL CO.

Mr. C. K. Gamble, who has been appointed managing director of the Vacuum Oil Co., Pty., Ltd., arrived in Sydney from America in March to take up his new position. He previously was in Australia as a Melbourne executive between 1927 and 1934.

"Montoro" In Cyclone

p. 80

THE Burns, Philp steamer “Montoro”

'was severely buffeted by a cyclone off the North Queensland coast late last month. Leaving Cairns, en route to Sydney from Papua and T.N.G. on March 23, she ran into stormy weather which quickly developed into a cyclone, driving all shipping in the vicinity to shelter in the numerous bays along the coast.

About 30 passengers left the ship at Bowen, and continued South by train. Six days behind schedule, the “Montoro” ar rived in Brisbane on April 1, and Sydney on April 3. No damage had been done and the vessel left again on April 6, four days behind schedule.

On the “Montoro’s” January voyage, she met with bad weather but despite this, maintained her schedule.

"Bulolo No. 7" Held Up

p. 80

From Our Own Correspondent.

WAIT, Apl. 3.

BULOLO Gold, Dredging Ltd. are dis missing many of the hands which have been employed locally—the rea son given being that the construction of the new No. 7 dredge will be held up in definitely. At the moment there is no new constructional work for these men to be transferred to.

The No. 6 dredge near Wau has now started digging, and the dredge staffs have been transferred from Bulolo. The housing position at Wau has not improv ed on account of the number of married men who have come from Bulolo, and at the moment the position is acute.

Islands Produce

p. 81

Coffee

THE following quotations were obtained In Sydney during April:— Robusta, f.a.q., imported from Java on firm conversion of exchange, c.i.f., prompt shipment, Sydney;—Quote No. 1: 26/- per cwt.; quote No. 2: 19/- per cwt.

Kenya, f.a.q., immediate shipment, c.i.f., Syd ney, per cwt.: —No. 1 quotations: Grade “A”, 51/-; grade “B”, 46/6; grade “C”, 43/-. Triage 36/-. No. 2 quotations: Grade “A”, 59/-; grade "B”, 48/; grade “C”, 44/-. Triage, 36/6 (drought coffee). No 3 quotations: Grade “B”, 46/6; grad* ‘"G”. ?8/- ; Mysore, f.a.q., prompt shipment, c.i.f., Sydney, per cwt.: No. 1 quotations: Grade “A”, 53/-; grade “B”, 52/6. No. 2 quotations: Grade “B”, 54/-; Triage, 42/6.

Arabian (Aden) Hodeidah, f.a.q., immediate shipment, c.i.f., Sydney—No. 1 quotation: 62/per cwt. No. 2 quotation, 62/3 per cwt.

Note; Importers of coffee from Java, etc., pay the following additional charges: Exchange, duty (4d. lb.), primage (10 per cent.), landing costs (1/- per cwt.). Coffee from Papua and New Guinea escapes most of these charges.

Kapok

Based on firm conversion of exchange, the c.i.f. official prices for kapok quoted in Sydney in mid-April, were:—Average Java 7Vad. per lb., and prime Japara, 7 7-16 d. per lb.

Cocoa

Quote No. 1: Cocoa beans, £36-£3B per ton.

Quote No. 2; New Guinea cocoa £36-£4O per ton.

Quote No. 3: Accra, good fermented £32 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

Cotton

During the month, London, c.i.f., cotton prices were:—March 25, 4.85 d. lb., April shipment; Ap ril 1,4.78 d. lb.. May shipment; April 8,4.69 d. lb.. May shipment; April 14, 4.78 d lb., May ship ment. I

Ivory Nuts

No. 1 quotation; £B/10/- per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

No. 2 quotation: £lO per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

Green Snail Shell

Green snail shell, good quality, was quoted by Sydney buyers in mid-April, at £5O-£55 per ton.

Rice

Rangoon nee: packed in 100 lb. bags, £l3 per ton; 200 lb. bags, £l2/15/- per ton, f.0.b., Sydney.

Australian table rice, packed in 56 lb. bags, £lB per ton.

Trochus Shell

Nominal quotations for trochus shell obtained in Sydney from two different sources were: (a) Trochus, shell, No. 1 grade .. £B5 Trochus shell, No. 2 grade .. .. £75 Trochus shell, No. 3 grade .. .. £65 (b) Trochus shell, No. 1 grade .. .. £9oya Trochus shell, No. 2 grade .. .. £79 Vi Trochus shell, No. 3 grade .. .. £7O Vi All quotes are f.0.b., and on the Australian £,

Mother of Pearl Shell.

At the March London sales of Mother of Pearl shell, a good supply of Torres Strait shell came forward and was sold at prices ranging from £2OO (Australian) for A. A.

Chicken to £145 (Aust.) for defective pickings, fair to good. Black Edged Shell (Tahitian) sold at firm prices. There was no New Guinea shell offered. Darwin shell fetched £2lB (Aust.) for Ist grade to £llO (Aust.) for fair defective pickings.

Mr. D. W. Martin, a director of Messrs. Gill and Duffus (Cocoa) Limi

ted, London, spent several weeks in

Western Samoa in March studying the

territory’s cocoa industry.

Exchange Rates

pp. 81-82

THE following exchange quotations, gathered in Sydney, show the rates existing in April:—

FIJI—THROUGH BANK OF N.S.W.

AND BANK OF NEW ZEALAND

Australia on Fiji on basis of £lOO Fiji: Buying £Alll/2/6, selling IAIIB.

Fiji-London on basis £lOO London:

DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER

SELLING RATES

Quoted by

BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

in Australia

NEW GUINEA AND PAPUA

THROUGH COMMONWEALTH BANK

From Australia, Pt. Moresby £1 per cent. ; on Rabaul 10/- per cent.—Other New Guinea districts £1 per cent.

From Rabaul on London, same as Australia on London:— Buying: T.T. £AI2S equals £stg. 100.

Selling: T.T. £AI26/10/- equals £stg. 100.

THROUGH BANK OF N.S.W.

Australia on Papua £1 per cent, premium each way, equivalent to commission of £1 per eent. ; Australia on Rabaul 10/- per cent, premium.

Papua and New Guinea on London: Same as Australia on London and rice versa.

NEW CALEDONIA—THROUGH

FRENCH BANK

Drafts, Sydney-Noumea and Noumea-Sydney, are on the basis of current rate of exchange on Paris, less li per cent, (approx.) either way.

As quoted by the Comptoir National d’Escompte de Paris, in Sydney, and the Banque de ITndo chine, Noumea: On April 19, when the Aus tralian £ was nominally worth 124.7 francs, £lOO Australian would purchase a draft in Noumea of 12,470 francs.

WESTERN SAMOA—THROUGH

BANK OF N.Z.

Exchange, Australia on Western Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa—buying £AIOO, selling £AIOO/10/-.

Exchange, Samoa on London, basis £ 100 in London:—

Pastor J. E. Steed, at one time super intendent of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission at Samoa, Western Samoa, died recently at the age- of 78. His son, Pastor H. Steed, is an S.D.A. worker in New Guinea.

Dr. L. S. Duke, who has been Govern ment Medical Officer on Norfolk Island for 13 years, has resigned, and will re turn to Australia.

Hon. Tom Nevitt, of Papua, reached Sydney from Port Moresby by the April “Macdhui”, en route to England on a business visit.

Mr. Charles Rossiter, of “Chalgrove”, Norfolk Island, died on March 13, at the age of 68.

Buying.

Selling.

Telegraphic transfer —. . £110 15 0 £112 0 • On demand . £110 12 < £111 17 6

Average for Australia on week ended Papaete 28/3/38 ..

Francs to £ Australian ,. 126.80 Average for week ended 4/4/38 .. 126.68 Average for week ended 11/4/38 . . .. 125.32 Average for week ended 18/4/38 .. .. 124.08 Australia on Noumea Francs to £ Australian Average for week ended 28/3/38 .. .. 126.75 Average for week ended 4/4/38 *. . .. 126.63 Average for week ended 11/4/38 . . .. 125.27 Average for week ended 18/4/38 .. .. 124.03

Buying.

Selling.

Telegraphic transfer — £125 0 0 On Demand £123 0 0 124 17 6 30 days 122 15 0 124 16 0 60 days 122 10 0 124 12 6 90 days 122 5 0 124 10 0 120 days 122 0 0 124 7 6

Market Quotations

r T % HE Pacific Islands Monthly makes a * close check of the prices quoted for Islands produce; and we regularly put • lish the range of prices during each month, including the last available quota tion before going to press.

Mr. Henry (“Colly”) Quintal, of Norfolk Island, died on March 30, aged 72.

Mr. Francis Christian died recently at Pitcairn Island, aged almost 80. Son of Mr. Thursday October Christian (whose father was Fletcher Christian of the “Bounty”), he was one of the most remarkable characters of that tiny outpost. He taught the Pitcairners boat-building—a craft he learned at Mangareva, French Oceania. Mr. Chris tian is survived by his wife, familiarly known on the island as Grandma Christian.

March 1 £12 2 6 £12 15 0 April 6 . £10 : 16 0 £11 16 0 May 3 — £11 17 6 £12 12 6 June 7 £11 16 0 £12 7 6 July 5 — £9 12 0 £10 6 0 August 2 . £9 : 15 0 £10 15 0 September 6 . £9 17 6 £10 17 6 October 4 £11 7 6 £12 7 6 November 1 . , £12 17 6 £14 0 0 December 6 — — £12 17 6 £14 0 0 South Sea.

South Sea.

Plantation.

Smoked, to Genoa Sun-Dried Hot-air Dried, London j and Marseilles. to London.

Rabaul.

Price on— Per ton.c.i.f. Per ton, c. l.f.

Per ton.c.i.f.

Jan. 8. ’36 £13 2 6 £13 15 0 £15 0 0 Feb. 7 — £13 0 0 £14 0 0 £16 0 0 Mar. 6 £11 16 0 £12 15 0 £13 0 0 April 8 £12 7 6 £13 5 0 £13 17 6 May 1 , . £11 10 0 £11 15 0 £12 10 0 June 5 £11 10 0 £12 0 0 £12 17 6 July 3 £12 0 0 £12 10 0 £13 10 0 Aug. 7 £12 17 6 £13 7 6 £14 7 « Sept. 4 . ,,, £13 2 6 £13 10 0 £14 12 6 Oct. 2 £13 7 i £13 10 0 £14 10 0 Nov. 6 , £16 10 0 £16 2 6 £16 6 0 Dec. 4 £19 7 6 £19 7 6 £20 7 6 Jan. 8, *37 £22 12 6 £22 12 6 £23 12 • Feb. 5 £19 0 0 £19 0 0 £19 15 0 Mar. 5 „ £19 0 0 £19 5 0 £20 0 0 Apr. 2 £19 0 0 £19 15 0 £20 15 0 May 7 £16 0 0 £16 12 6 £17 12 6 June 4 £15 15 0 £15 12 6 £16 12 6 July 2 £14 15 0 £14 17 6 £15 15 0 Aug. 6 £15 2 6 £15 2 6 £15 1.7 6 Aug. 20 £14 10 6 £14 12 6 £15 7 C Aug. 27 £14 0 0 £14 0 0 £14 15 0 Sept. 8 £13 5 0 £13 5 0 £14 0 0 Sept. 10 £13 12 6 £13 15 0 £14 10 0 Sept. 17 — £13 12 6 £13 15 0 £14 12 6

Sept. 24 £14 2 6 £14 5 0 £15 0 0 Oct. 1 . £14 15 0 £14 17 6 £15 12 * 6 Oct. 8 .. £14 5 0 £14 5 0 £15 0 0 Oct. 15 .. £14 10 0 £14 10 0 £15 7 6 Oct. 22 ... .. £13 15 0 £13 15 0 £14 10 0 Oct. 29 ... .. £13 15 0 £13 15 0 £14 10 0 Nov. 5 ... £13 10 0 £13 10 0 £14 5 0 Nov. 12 ... £13 5 0 £13 5 0 £14 5 0 Nov. 19 .. £13 2 6 £13 2 6 £13 17 6 Nov. 26 „ . £12 7 6 £12 7 6 £13 2 6 Dec. 3 . £12 10 0 £12 12 6 £13 7 6 Dec. 10 .. £12 17 6 £13 0 0 £13 17 6 Dec. 17 .. £13 2 6 £13 2 6 £14 0 0 Dec. 24 £13 0 0 £13 0 0 £13 17 6 Dec. 31 .. £12 10 0 £12 12 6 £13 10 0 Jan. 7, ’38 £12 12 6 £12 15 0 £13 12 6 Jan. 14 .. £12 7 6 £12 12 6 £13 7 6 Jan. 21 .. £12 0 0 £12 12 6 £13 0 0 Jan. 28 ... £11 17 6 £12 0 0 £12 15 0 Feb. 4 . .. £11 2 6 £11 10 0 £12 7 6 Feb. 11 .. £10 17 6 £11 15 0 £12 0 0 Feb. 18 .. £10 12 6 £11 0 0 £11 15 0 Feb. 25 . . £11 2 6 £11 5 0 £12 5 0 Mar. 4 £10 17 6 £11 0 0 £12 0 0 Mar. 11 .. £10 15 0 £11 0 0 £12 0 0 Mar. 18 .. £10 15 0 £11 0 0 £12 0 0 Mar. 25 . . £10 12 6 £10 15 0 £11 12 6 Apr. 1 £10 10 0 £10 12 6 £11 10 0 Apr. 8 £10 12 6 £10 15 0 £11 12 6 Apr. 14 £10 15 0 £10 17 6 £11 15 0

Rubber

Plantation London Para Smoked Price onper lb. per lb.

January 6, 1933 4 id. 2.48d.

July 7 , — 5|d. 3.71d.

December 8 — 4 id. 4.0|d.

January 5, 1934 4id. 4.28d.

July 6 6£d. 7.06d.

December 28 , ,, , 5d. 6id.

January 4, 1935 T - ... fid. 63d- July 5 — fid. 7*d.

December 6 „. 6id. ««d.

January 3, 1936 — 6id. 6*d.

June 5 9d. 7id.

December 4 — 1/- 9 l/16d.

January 8, 1937 ... 1/2 10*d.

March 5 ._ Hid. 11 l/32d April 2 ... ... 1/- ... 1/1 15/16 June 4 lid. ... 9 5-8d.

Aug. 6 „.. 9*d. . 9 l-16d.

Sept. 3 ... 9Jd. ... 9 l-16d.

Oct. 1 . ... 9*d. 8 9/16d.

Nov. 5 ... 8d. 7id.

Nov, 12 — 'lid. 7fd.

Nov. 19 ... 7-|d. 6 15/16d.

Nov. 26 — 7*d. 74d.

Dec. 3 « 7£d. 7*d.

Dec. 10 „ ... _... 7£d. 7*d.

Dec. 17 .. 7 J /4d. . .

TVid.

Dec. 24 .. .. 7V 4 d. . . 7V 4 d.

Dec. 31 .. .. 7’/ 4 d. . . ey 8 d.

Jan. 7, 1938 .. . .. 7’/id. . . 7d.

Jan. 14 .. . , 7V 8 d.

Jan. 21 .. . . .. 7d. . . 7y 4 d.

Jan. 28 .. 7y 8 d.

Feb. 4 ., .. 6%d. ey 8 d.

Feb. 18 . . .. 6%d. 7 l-16d.

Feb. 25 .. 6d. 7 3-16d.

Mar. 4 .. . .. 6d. 7y 8 d.

Mar. 11 .. .. 6d. 7d.

Mar. 18 .. 6 3 /4d.

Mar. 25 . .. 5 3 4d. 6 l-16d.

April 1 . . .. 5%d. . . 5 7-16d.

April 8 .. 5%d. 5 13-16d.

April 14 . .. 5%d. 6 l-16d.

Copra

South Sea.

Plantation, Sun-Dried Hot-air Dried, London to London Rabaul Price on— Per ton. c.l.f.

Per ton , c.l.f.

January 1, 1932 £14 0 0 £14 15 0 March 25 — £14 17 6 £15 0 0 June 17 £13 2 6 £18 6 0 September 2 — £13 17 6 £14 0 e December 16 — £14 2 6 £14 6 0 January 6, 1933 £13 0 0 £13 12 6 March 3 £11 7 6 £11 10 0 June 30 £10 17 6 £11 0 0 September 29 £9 7 6 £9 10 0 December 1 £8 12 6 £9 0 • January 5, 1934 £8 0 0 £8 7 « March 30 — £7 7 6 £8 0 « April 27 £7 7 6 £8 0 0 June 15 _1 £8 0 0 £8 12 « July 6 — £7 17 6 £8 IB 0 September 7 — — £7 12 6 £8 15 0 October 6 £8 0 0 £9 0 0 December 28 £9 0 0 £9 12 6 January 4, 1935 — £9 5 0 £10 5 0

Shipping Services in the Pacific

pp. 83-85

Sydney - Papua - New Guinea Subject to alteration without notice.

Hong Kong - N. Guinea -

Sydney

Subject to alteration without notice.

M.V. Neptuna.

Melbourne June 27 Aug. 31 Nov. 7 Sydney Jn.29-Jy.2 Sept. 2-7 Nov. 9-12 Salamaua July 9 Sept. 14 Nov. 19 Rabaul July 11 Sept. 16 Nov. 21 Cebu (opt.) - July 18 Sept. 23 Nov. 28 Manila July 21 Sept. 26 Dec. 1 Hong Kong July 23-27 S. 28-0. 2 Dec. 3-7 Saigon Aug 2 Oct. 8 Dec. 13 Madang Aug 13 Oct. 19 Dec. 24 Salamaua Aug 16 Oct. 22 Dec. 27 Rabaul Aug 19 Oct. 25 Dec. 30 Sydney - Aug 26-27 Nov. 1 Jan. 6-7 Melbourne Aug 29 Nov. 4 Jan. 9

BURNS. PHILP & CO. LTD., Agents.

Sydney - N.Z. - Fiji - Hawaii

Europe - Sydney - Suva -

New Guinea

Subject to alteration without notice.

M.V. Salamaua.

London .. .. Apr. 25 Sydney .. .. Aug. 15 Galveston .. May 18 Salamaua . Aug. 28 Suva July 20 Rabaul .. .. Aug. 31 Auckland .. Aug. 5 London . .. Nov. 3-24

W. R. CARPENTER & Co. LTD.

Fiji Inter-Island Services

S.S. Malake, 736 tons (Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.), under contract with Fiji Government, Regular four weekly itinerary comprises: Two trips Buca Bay, returning by same route to Suva— trip occupying 8 days. Two trips each Suva to Lautoka, returning to Suva direct or via Elling ton —trip occupying 3 or i days.

M.V. Yanawai (Burns Philp (South Seas) Co.

Ltd.) makes regular trips from Suva to Labasa, via Levuka and Macuata ports, then returns to Suva.

Trip A: Suva-Labasa, via Levuka and Ma cuata ports, returning to Suva by the same route. Duration of voyage, 8-10 days. Trip B: Suva-Labasa, via Levuka and Macuata ports, then calling at the ports on the coast beyond Labasa, Natewa Bay ports, Levuka, and Suva. Duration of voy..ge, 10-12 days.

M.S. Adi Rewa (Morris, Hedstrom Ltd) makes trips from Suva to Levuka and Labasa via Macuata ports—trip occupies 8 days. Leaves Suva and proceeds to Levuka, Nabouwalu, Lekutu, Dreketi, Naduri, and Labasa. Returns to Suva by same route. On alternative trips she returns from Labasa via Naduri, Nakaloa, Dreketi, Naiserewaqa.

Lekutu, Galoa, Nabouwalu, and Levuka. The lat ter round trip from Suva occupies about 10 days.

M.S. Tui Kauvaro (Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.) operates from Suva to Levuka, calling at Lautoka and Ellington. Voyage takes 4 days.

Japan - N. Guinea - Noumea - New Zealand Subject to alteration without notice

Montoro.

Macdhui. Montoro.

Sydney May 14 June 1 June 22 Brisbane Townsville Cairns May 16 May 19 May 20 June 3 June 24 June 27 June 28 Pt. Moresby Samarai — Woodlark Is. .

Rabaul Kavieng — Lindenhafen . M. 22-23 „ May 25 May 26 May 28 May 29 June 7, June 8 J. 10-11 June 12 June 30 July 2 July 4-5 July 6 Salamaua 1 Lae \ M. 31-J. 1 J. 13-14 July 8-9 Madang Alexishafen j

Boram (

Wewak June f 2 June 15 June 16 J. 10-11 Madang — Finschafen Salamaua Kavieng — Pnndo — June — June 2 3 June 17 June 18 June 18 June 20 June 21 June 22 June 23 June 25 June 27 July 11 July 12 Rabaul —— June Salamaua — — Samarai —. June Pt. Moresby June Cnirna Tuna 6 8 9 11 14 16 July 14 July 16 July 18 July 20 July 23 July 25 Agents.

Brisbane Sydney . - June June July 1 July 3

5., LTD.,

BURNS.

PHILP & C(

Melbourne Kohzan Brisbane Manx.

Maru ' Maru.

Kobe May 16 June 9 June 30 Moji - M. 17-18 July 1-2 Rabaul - May 27 July 11 Noumea June 1-2 J. 25-26 J. 16-18 Auckland June 5-9 J. 30-J. 3 J. 21-25 Wellington J. 11-15 July 5-8 J. 27-31 Lyttelton J. 16-17 July 9-10 Aug. 1-3 Dunedin J. 18-20 July 11-14 Aug. 4-6 Lyttelton ... — — Wellington ..

J. 11-15 July 5-8 J. 27-31 Auckland June 5-9 J. 30-Jy. 3 J. 21-25 Cebu ...

July 7-8 —- A. 23-24 Manila July 9-10 — A. 25-26 Hong Kong .

July 12 — Aug. 28 Shanghai ...

July 15 —• Aug. 31 Kobe J. 18-21 Aug. 4-5 Sep. 3-6

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISUA AND YAMASHITA

LINE.

Subject to alteration without notice.

Niagara. Aorangl. Niagara.

Honolulu May 18 June 15 July 13 Suva May 27 June 24 July 22 Auckland May 30-31 J. 27-28 J. 25-26 Sydney June 4 July 2 July 30 Sydney, dep. June 9 July 7 Aug. 4 Auckland June 13-14 Jy. 11-12 Aug. 8-9 Suva June 17 July 15 Aug. 12 Honolulu June 24 July 22 Aug. 19

UNION S.S. CO. LTD., Agent*.

Sydney - N.Z. - Fiji - Samoa Hawaii Subject to alteration without Notice

Saigon - Java - South Seas - N.Z. Service Subject to alteration without notice

Solomon Islands-N.S. Service

Subject to alteration without notice.

M.V. Malaita Sydney Apr. 30 June 11 July 23 Brisbane May 2 June 13 July 25 Townsville May 5 June 16 July 28 Cairns May 6 June 17 July 29 Tulagi 1 Makambo }■ May 10-11 J. 21-22 Aug. 2-3 Gavutu J Su’u (. May 12 June 23 Aug. 4 Domma f Mamara ] Tasavarong June 24 Aruligo Lavoro J Mamara ] Tasavarong [ May 13 Aug. 5

Aruligo j

Meringe May 14 Aug. 6 Hivo j Yandina Banika Ufa May 15 June 25 Aug. 7 Faiami Younger Pepesala Lingatu West Bay June 26 Somata Gizo May 16 j une 27 Aug. 8 Paid May 17 j un e 28 Aug. 9 Kieta May 17 j un e 28 Aug. 9 Arigua L May 18 June 29 Aug. 10 Numa Numa f Teopasino May 19 June 30 Aug.ll Rabaul May 20-21 July 1-2 A. 12-13 Soraken May 22-23 July 3-4 Aug. 14-15 Kieta May 24 July 5 Aug. 16 Paid May 25 July 6 Aug. 17 Gizo I May 26 July 7 Aug. 18

Tetipari f

Russell Is. May 27-28 July 8-9 A. 19-20 Gavutu I May 28 July 9 Aug. 20 Makambo Brisbane June 2 July 14 Aug. 25 Sydney June 4 July 16 Aug. 27

BURNS, PHILP & CO. LTD., Agents.

Sydney - Noumea - New

Hebrides - Indochina

Subject to alteration without notice.

Pierre Loti Sydney May 12 June 16 July 14 Noumea May 16-18 June 20-22 J. 18-20 Mare May 18 June 22 Vila May 19-20 June 23-24 J, 21-22 Luganville May 21 June 25 July 23 Lo Dart May 22-23 June 26-27 J. 24-25 Norsup M ay 23 June 27 Saigon Aug. 9-11 Haiphong ... A . 14-18 Luganville Sept. 3 Le Dart Sept. 4 Vila May 24-25 June 29-30 Sept. 5-6 Mare May 26 July 1 Noumea May 27-28 July 2-3 Sept. 7-8 Sydney June 1 July 7 Sept. 12

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES CO.. Agents.

N. Zealand - Samoa - Niue

The New Zealand Government’s steamer Maul Pomare (1169 tons) is the only direct connection between N.Z., the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa and Niue Island. The vessel, which carries mails, passengers, and cargo, is controlled by the Department of External Affairs at Wellington, where application should be made concerning freights, berths, etc.

M.V. Maui Pomare Wellington May 17 June 14 July 12 Apia May 24-26 J. 21-23 J. 19-21 Niue May 28 June 25 July 23 Lyttelton June 6 July 4 Aug. 1 Wellington June 7 July 5 Aug. 2

N.G. Goldfields' Services

Aeroplanes conducted by Guinea Airways Ltd., Mandated Airlines Ltd. (late Carpenter Airways) and other companies, leave Salamaua and Lae, the New Guinea mainland ports, two and three times daily for Wau and other centres on the Morobe goldfield. The aerial services are the only means of communication.

Monterey.

Mariposa.

Monterey.

Honolulu May 2 May 30 June 27 Pago Pago .„May 7 June 4 July 2 Suva May 10 June 7 July 5 Auckland .

May 13 June 10 July 8 Sydney May 16 June 13 July 11 Melbourne May 20-23 J. 17-20 J. 15-18 Sydney — May 27 June 24 July 22 Auckland .

May 30 June 27 July 25 Suva June 2 June 30 July 28 Pago Pago .

June 3 July 1 July 29 Honolulu June 8 July 6 Aug. 3

OCEANIC STEAMSHIP CO., MATSON LINE.

Maetsuycker Swartenhondt.

Tasman.

Saigon May 14 June 13 July 15 Singapore —.

May 16-17 J. 15-16 J. 17-18 Batavia May 19-21 J. 18-20 J. 20-21 Samarang May 22 June 21 July 22 Sourabaya May 23 June 22 July 23 Pt. Moresby May 30 June 29 July 30 Samarai May 31 June 30 — Salamaua — July 2 — Rabaul June 2 July 4 — Vila June 6 Aug. 4 Aug. 5-8 Noumea June 7-10 Auckland — June 13-15 J. 12-13 A. 12-15 Wellington June 17-18 J. 15-16 A. 17-18 Sydney June 22-24 J. 20-22 A. 22-24 Pt. Moresby June 29 July 28 Aug. 30 Sourabaya July 6 Aug. 4 Sept. 6 Samarang —.

July 7 Aug. 6 Sept. 7 Batavia July 8 Aug. 7 S. 8-10 Singapore — — Sept. 12 Snicron — Sept. 14

CO. LTD.

ROYAL PACKET NAVIGATION

Sydney - Noumea - Tahiti

Mails and passengers from Sydney for Tahiti may connect with Messageries Maritimes liners at Noumea, per Pierre Loti (see Sydney-Noumea- New Hebrides service). The M.M. liners run between Marseilles and Noumea, via Panama Canal.

Subject to alteration without notice.

Sydney - Rabaul - Hong Kong Subject to alteration without notice.

Sydney - Norfolk Island - New

Hebrides

S.S. Morinda.

As the result of running on to a reef at Malo, New Hebrides (see elsewhere in this issue), the “Morinda” is in dock undergoing repairs, and it is not expected that she will leave Sydney for the New Hebrides until May 12.

BURNS, PHILP & CO- LTD., Agents.

Central Pacific Services

Subject to alteration without notice.

M.V. Matua Auckland ... May 5 May 19 June 2 Cook Is May 23 Outer Is M. 24-25 Cook Is May 26 Nukualofa ... May 8-9 June 5-6 Apia M. 10-11 June 7-8 Suva May 14 June 11 Auckland ... May 18 June 1 June 15 The cargo steamer Limerick tons), will depart from Sydney on April 28 (approx, only) for Suva, Lautoka, Papeete, and N. Ame rican ports. She will carry a limited number of passengers in addition to mail and general cargo. The Hauraki (7,113 tons), is scheduled to follow to Fiji and French Oceania early in May.

UNION S.S. CO. LTD., Agent*.

Noumea Australia

The small steamer Neo Hebridais (Societe Maritime et Miniere Hagen) carries on a qaonthly service between Noumea, New Caledonia, and Newcastle, N.S.W. The round trip occupies about 17 days.

New Hebrides Inter-Island

Services

S.S. Mirani (Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.) connects every six weeks at Vila with S.S.

Morinda from Sydney, then proceeds on southern trip, calling at the islands of Efate, Erromanga, Tanna, Aneityum, and returns to Vila—trip occu pying 7 or 8 days. After 2 or 8 days at Vila, departs on northern trip, calling at the islands of Efate, Mai, Tongoa, Epi, Paama, Ambrym.

Malekula, Aoba, Malo, Santo and returns to Vila, trip occupying 25 to 28 days. Vessel extends to Banks Group every second trip equivalent to about every six weeks.

Eridan. D’Amlens. C. Ramel.

Papeete May 6-7 June 19-20 J. 3-A. 1.

Ralatea (opt.) May 8 — — Vila May 17 June 29 Aug. 10 Noumea May 19-27 July 1-8 A. 12-18 Vila May 30 July 11 Aug. 21 Raiatea June 6 July 18 Aug. 28 Papeete June 7-9 July 19-21 A. 29-31

MESSAGEBIES MARITIME CO., Agents.

Nellore.

Tanda.

Nankin.

Hong Kong Apr. 30 June 3 July 2 Manila _May 3 June 6 July 5 Rabaul —May 11 June 14 July 13 Brisbane —May 17 June 20 July 19 Sydney — May 19 June 22 July 21 Melbourne -M. 23-J. 3-4 J. 27-Jly 2 J. 25-A. 3 Hobart —June 6 July 4 Aug. 5 Newcastle -June 9 July 7 Aug. 8 Sydney, dep.

June 15 July 13 Aug. 13 Brisbane —June 17 July 15 Aug. 15 Townsville —June 20 July 18 Aug. 18 Rabaul —June 25 July 23 Aug. 23 Manila July 3 July 31 Aug. 31 Hong Kong July 6 Aug. 3 Sept. 3 E. & A.

STEAMSHIP

CO. LTD.,

Agents.

New Caledonian Services

pp. 85-86

M.V. Le Phoque (Societe des lies Loyalty) makes regular trips, carrying mails and passengers, from Noumea along the east coast to Arama.

Also from Noumea to Poum and Belep Islands, via the west coast. Leaving Noumea on the run up the east coast the vessel calls at Yate, Touarou, N. Goye, Kaukue, Thio, Nakety, Canalo, Gouaoua, Houailou, Moueo, Pouerihouen, Tieti, Poindimie, Wagap, Touho, Kokingone, Hieghene, Tao, Outbatch, Pouebo, Balada, Pam and Arama.

Return by same route. Ports visited on west coast trip are: Bourail, Poya, Mueo, Poumbout, Kono,

Voh, Temala, Ouaco, Koumac, Karamble, Tanga diou, Paagoumene, Nehoue, Mouac, Belep, and return by same route.

M. V. Le Phoque also maintains a 4 weeks’ ser vice between Noumea and the Loyalty Group. The vessel calls at Tadine (Mare Is.), Chepenehe, and We (Lifou Is.), Fajoue, St. Joseph and Banout (Ouvea Is.). Calls are made occasionally at Isle of Pines and Walpole Island.

N.G. Inter-Island Services

5.5. Maiwara and M.V. Muliama (Burns, Philp & Co.) make regular round trips from Rabaul to New Ireland and Bougainville ports. 5.5. Coombar, M.V. Desikoko, M.V. Duranbah (W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd.) make sailings from Rabaul every two or three weeks to various ports in the Territory.

S.S. ISLAND TRADER

5.5. Island Trader (Inter-Island Shipping Co.

Pty. Ltd.) connects at Rabaul with S.S. Fridemn and then makes the following trips:—

NORTHERN RUN—Rambutyo, Pak, Inrim, Pitelu, Papitalei, Salesia, Salami, Lorengau, Noru, Tumleo, Boikin, Kairiru, Wewak, Boram, Sepik Mouth, Awar, Bogia, Kulili, Knrun, Alexis hafen, Nagada, Madang, Finschhafen, Salamaua, Bali. Gama, Toriu, Stockholm, Manuan.

SOUTHERN RUN—Matala, Put Put, Sum Sum, Kekere, Iwi, Aropa, Toboroi, Kieta, Arawa, Numa, Bonis. Buka Passage, Samo, Mageh, Lihir, Kavieng, Patlangat, Rangarere, Notre Mai, Lan ginoa, Asalingi, Neu Kauern, Manuan.

AGENTS: COLYER, WATSON & CO.. RABAUL

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

Service

M.V. Raium (Burns Philp (South Sea) Co.

Ltd.) and M.V. John Bolton (W.R. Carpenter and Co.) operate from Tarawa (Gilbert Islands), and connect regularly with all islands in the Gilbert and Ellice Groups.

Hong Kong - New Guinea -

Solomon Islands

5.5. Fridemn (cabin, third-class and deck pas sengers) runs from Hong Kong to New Guinea, and Solomon Islands ports, connecting at Rabaul (N.G.) with S.S. Island Trader (formerly S.S.

Bremerhaven). In the Solomons she calls at Tulagi, Here, Bina, Fulakora, and None.

GILCHRIST, WATT & SANDERSON, AGENTS

Papuan Inter-Island Services

M.V. Matoma (Burns. Philp & Co. Ltd.) makes round trips on a regular schedule from Samarai to Misima Island, via the Conflict Group.

M.V. Nusa (Steamships Trading Co., Ltd.) hold* the Papuan Government’s contract for carrying mails and passengers on the north-east coast of Papua. The Nusa connects with all Southern, mail steamers at Samarai. 5.5. Papuan Chief (Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.) makes regular round trips from Port Moresby to Samarai via Kapa Kapa, Abau, and Baibara, re turns by same route; then Port Moresby to Dam via Hisiu, Yule Is., Kukipi, Orokolo. Kikori and back via Orokolo, Yule Island, and Hisiu—full trip occupying about one month.

S.S. Papuan Chief.

Pt. Moresby . Apr. 25 Daru Apr.

Yule Is Apr. 25 Daru, dep. .. Apr. 30 Kukipi Apr. 26 Orokolo ... May 1 Orokolo .. Apr. 27 Yule Is May 2 Kikori Apr. 28 Pt. Moresby . May S

Wau - Port Moresby Service

A regular aeroplane service is now maintained by Guinea Airways Ltd., allowing passengers to and from the New Guinea goldfields to connect with the steamers at Port Moresby, Papua. Detail* from the pursers of the Burns, Philp steamers.

Burns Philp (S.S.) Co.

p. 86

Bigger Profits Permit Larger Divi dend and New Staff Fund

Messrs, burns philp (south sea) Co., Ltd. (the section of the “bi£ firm” which operates to the east ward of Australia and New Guinea) made a gross profit in the year ended January 31 of £203,465, as compared with £lBO,lBO in 1937 and £153,393 in 1936. The net profit was: 1938, £65,145; 1937. £58,089; 1936, £42,754.

The dividend has been raised to 61 per cent. £lO,OOO has been taken to re serve (now £125,000, against an issued capital of £725,000), and £5,000 as a first contribution towards a staff retirement

fund.

Two new motor vessels have been put in commission in island trading during the year, and three more are on order for delivery in the current year.

Advertisements & other items

W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.

SYDNEY

NEW GUINEA AIR MAIL

New Weekly Aeroplane Service, for Passengers, Mails and Urgent Cargo, between Sydney and Rabaul, now being established by W. R. Carpenter and Co-, Ltd., under contract with the Commonwealth Government.

The Service is to be carried on with modern 4-engined De Havilland Express Airliners, which have luxurious accommodation for 10 passengers, plus space for mails and cargo. mm

TO RESIDENTS OF

PAPUA AND NEW

GUINEA

You do not get a holiday often. Why not make the best of it? fly: -v ■■• VS. ■ I A Recent Photograph of one of the new De Havilland 10 -Passenger The machine in flight.

TIMETABLE AND ROUTE.

EVERY FRIDAY.

Rabaul 1 p.m.

Aeroplanes to he used in this Service.

SINGLE AND RETURN FARES.

EVERY TUESDAY.

Rockhampton, 1.46 Dep. Sydney 7 a.m.

Brisbane, 10.40 a.m p.m.

Arr. Townsville, 5.05 p.m.

EVERY WEDNESDAY.

Dep. Townsville, 7 a.m.

Cairns 8.20 a.m., Cooktown 9.25 a.m., Pt.

Moresby 1.40 p.m. dep. 2.40 p.m.

Arr. Salamaua, 4.10 p.m.

EVERY THURSDAY.

Dep. Salamaua, 7 a.m.

Arr. Rabaul, 10.5 a.m.

Dep.

Arr. Salamaua, 4 p.m.

EVERY SATURDAY.

Dep. Salamaua, 6.30 a.m.

Pt. Moresby, arr. 8 a.m., dep. 8.30 a.m., Cooktown, noon, Cairns 1.50 p.m.

Arr. Townsville, 3.30 p.m.

EVERY SUNDAY.

Brisbane, 12.50 Dep. Townsville 7 a.m.

Rockhampton, 9.55 a.m p.m.

Arr. Sydney 5.30 p.m.

Lug; ger. fage not exceeding 15 cub. feet, or 5 per cent, of value of fare of each passenwill, if required, be sent on by next available steamer, without extra cost.

Full Details of the Sydney-New Guinea Air-Mail Service may he obtained on application to —

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Merchants and Shipowners.

AGENTS for Australian, European and American Manufacturers, and Distributors of Every Description of Merchandise : : Complete Range of all Stocks Carried.

Head Office: 19-21 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY,

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Pacific If lands Monthly, April 22, 1938

Meats

OX and PALM

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Delicious — Wholesome

PXANDPAIM

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Packed in Cans

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I6oz. 21b. 41b.

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OX & PALM Brand MEATS

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For that perfect Shave

Use a ROLLS RAZOR

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Horlicks

Lets

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I suppose it's

the weather

cricket John r Is your child too tired Does he want to sit about and read when he should he out playing with his mates?

What we so often overlook is that the very fact of growing up makes enormous demands on child vitality outgrowing his strength we say hut the Doctor knows that it is actually ‘under-nourishment’.

Growing children need something more than ordinary meals! Your Doctor will say ‘Give them Horlicks’.

Horlicks taken regularly at bedtime, afternoon or midmorning provides children with the vital nourishing elements they most need for growth and extra energy.

Children love Horlicks —it makes them active and athletic.

Horlicks already contains milk, so where milk is scarce you may use water only but use rather more Horlicks to bring out the full flavour.

Horlicks makes a delicious drink taken either hot or cold.

Ask your chemist or storekeeper to-day for a bottle of Horlicks . (14£ oz. size costs 3/- in all main towns throughout the British Pacific Islands.) mi * c k or w of V Os/ C./> **e/ or //.

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LICKS

HORLICKS

BUILDS SOLID FOUNDATIONS

TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH

W. FINAU

International Stamp & Photo Service,

BOX 40, NUKUALOFA, TONGA IS., OCEANIA.

Photos of native life and scenes in Tonga: 5/-.

Mail cover frankth eight pretty i mint: 4/6; same varieties: 1/6. ;d, postmarked and ed at Nluafoou i Island). mint of 15 all dif- -16/6 postpaid. 1

A MEDIUM-PRICED SUIT CASE MADE

OF IMPROVED, FINE-GRAINED FORDITE

Fordite No. 30 is unbeaten at the price.

It is an "extra quality" suit case, with deeper body on a frame of rolled steel.

It is neatly lined . . . has two stout nickel locks and comfortable handle.

Lid edges are metal bound . . . the corners strongly reinforced. Fordite No. 30 is a genuine economy case, obtainable at good stores everywhere.

FORDITE

SUIT CASE No. 30

SIZES 22, 24, 26 and 28 INCHES FORD SHERINGTON, LTD., Manufacturers (Wholesale only), Kippax St., Sydney

Agfa-Billylteco

W. H. GROVE & Sons Ltd.

AUCKLAND

Islands Traders p.o. box 490 Telegraphic and Cable Address: “Grove,” Auckland.

Shippers of all classes of New Zealand Products, specially prepared for the Island trade.

Representing Rylands & Sons (Col.) Ltd., of London and Manchester. (Including the famous “Dacca” Mills Products.) Parbury Henty & Co. Pty. Ltd., of Sydney and Kobe.

“AGFA” Photographic Corporation, of Berlin.

J. Blair King, of London. World-famed Shirts.

Burrell & Co. Ltd., Millwall, London, E. 14. Oil, White Lead and all classes of Paints, including “FERROCENE” . their special Tropical Paint . . . PREVENTS CORROSION . . . made in RED, GREY, and GREEN. or lo 6)

Agfa-Billylteco

ONE would think that the camera was made from a single cast, so harmonious is the construction of the Speedex Record camera. Elegant appearance, easiness to carry in the case, extremely reliable lens and shutter, all help to make this camera one of the best of its kind. The correct choice of a camera is very important, for one does not buy a new camera every day, and it therefore has to be borne in mind that with the Speedex Record one is always fully equipped. As film use the all-weather Agfa Isochrom film.

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EYES RIGHTS

PENNANT LIGHT

Believe your eyes they’ll tell you that “Pennant” gives the right light the safest, most restful illumination, soft, white and unflickering. Pennant Kerosene is absolutely pure, odourless, smokeless, sootless.

And for cooking, “Pennant” gives a steady, hotter heat.

PENNANT

KEROSENE

PK.

SB/2

Capstan

B.EGD

I \

Stylish Comfortable

and Faithfully Made from Tested Materials

“TOP DOG”

Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Pyjamas, Mercery Hosiery and Knitted Goods will give full satisfaction They Look Well and They Wear Well •

EVERY GARMENT GUARANTEED

AIRTIGHT

TINS/ KEEP THEM

FRESH

ROUND AIR-

TIGHT 50’s

MEDIUM AND

FULL

STRENGTH

CAPSTAN NAVY

CUT TOBACCO

MADE FROM THE

FINEST VIRGINIA

LEAF

Capstan

6335 — 8.7

PURE RICE

STARCH

Always asic for *(

CORAL BRAND

100% PURE

*"*u» **Mweis <• SIS

CORAL BRAND

RICE STARCH

CO»AL «|AtCB UtO.

Noted for Its

QUALITY

and

WHITENESS

Goes Farthest and fives Lasting Finish

WILL NOT

STICK TO

IRON

Obtainable from Leading Island Stores Manufactured by

AUSTRALIAN RICE LTD.

Sydney, N.S.W.

'ah * Australia s Choicest Products Brussels Sprouts White Turnips Sweet Com Tomato Puree Tomato Sauce Tomato Soup Tutti Fruit Sauce (Worcestershire tt&rart Green Peas French Beans Cauliflower Beetroot Spinach Cabbage Carrots Parsnips Celery

garden

K 3, u S?

Always . . . make sure you have at hand an ample Reserve of these Delicious . .

Garden

Vale

Ready-toserve Vegetables

Auht Marys

W M REID. EXPORT AGENT

* offers you a buying service based on • Saving of Shipping Cost . . . Attention to Detail • Contact with First - Class Suppliers

WHOSE GOODS CAN BE SAFELY RECOMMENDED

Send your enquiries to W. M. REID for . . .

"VAT 69" WHISKY—by W. SANDERSON & SON, Leith, Scotland. A fine old Scotch Liqueur Whisky without a rival.

"EMU BRAND" ROPES—by O. PENDERGAST & CO. LTD., who are featuring special Islands' Quality Ropes—Cheap and Reliable.

"CLYDE" LAWN MOWERS—By CLYDE ENGINEERING CO. LTD. The widest advertised and best known ball-bearing Lawn Mowers, Sheffield steel blades.

"SNOW DROP" ICE CREAM CONES—by ZUTTION SNOWDROP PRODUCTS LTD.

A sales help for every Ice cream vendor. Always fresh. Pink and white.

SJOTT & UNDERWOOD PTY. LTD. for the NEW UNDERWOOD —and also for well known brands of Reconditioned Typewriters.

"VIGOR FOODS"—Vegetables, etc. Dehydrated and not compressed, Remain.fresh without refrigerator. No loss of vitamins. No preservatives.

SADDLES, HARNESSES, CANVAS & LEATHER GOODS—by J. P. TALTY LTD. Finest quality materials, and first-class workmanship guaranteed.

For any other requirements in Food, Hardware, Clothing, etc., communicate with . . .

W. M. REID, " Reid House," 75 King Street, Sydney

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C_D . . . to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear than to make flaky pie-crusts without Aunt Mary’s Baking Powder. You can make the flakiest pastry, the lightest of cakes and scones that melt in the mouth with Aunt Mary’s Bak ing Powder and good plain flour. Aunt Mary’s always gives better results when mixed with plain four. Aunt Mary’s never fails.

AUNT MARY’S

FAMOUS

COOKERY BOOK

Contains 212 pages and 400 redpes and useful hints. Send l/2d. to Tillock 8C Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney, for your copy.

AUHT MARYS

BAKING POWDER

PRESCOTT LTP Iy S d E ne S y are sole wholesale adonis

PINEAPPLE BACON s HANS

DAISY BRAND BUTTER

LEA & PERRINS’ H. P. Sauce

LEA & PERRINS’ Sauce

and Most other Super-Quality Lines of the Trade

Swallow & Ariell’s

WORLD RENOWNED

CANTERBURY

CARES

FRUIT

PLAIN

SEED

PLUM

ALMOND

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PRESERVED

GINGER

SULTANA

CHERRY

RIPE

GENOA

Each Cake is Enclosed, by special process, in air-tight tin, and is warranted to keep its condition for a considerable period.

Shy!

This young man got close to Mother when a recent visitor to Papua tried to get a “snapshot”.

Anchor Flour

H.JONES &CO

AUSTRALIA’S BEST

H. JONES & CO., LTD.

Darlington, Sydney Hobart. Tat.

For— Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, and Produce Islands Residents can rely on the old-established Shipping Providers: \S*° Only Address: 421 Sussex Street, SYDNEY All Orders Promptly Attended Island Agents : NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD.

ANCHOR FLOUR

THE STANDARD OF QUALITY

GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD,

SYDNEY - AUSTRALIA

Kork-N-Scal

FOR HOME USE

FOR ALL HOME BOTTLING

—THE LITTLE CAP THAT

will Re - seal 1,000 Times

KORK - N - SEAL (Ausf.) LTD.

106 COMMONWEALTH STREET

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Applied Airtight Pressure Proof Hand

We are Specialists . . . \ Let us have your confidence. Sixty years is our record of supplying the leading Houses throughout the World in ... .

FRESH FRUIT VEGETABLES PRODUCE

’Phones: MA B*l2 (4 lines) Cable Address: “Weymarkson”

Codes —Bentleys Private

WEYMARK & SON LTD.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE MERCHANTS

14-18 STEAMMILL STREET - - SYDNEY

CHI VERS

FAMOUS ENGLISH PRODUCTS

CANNED ENGLISH VEGETABLES

CANNED ENGLISH FRUITS

OLDE ENGLISH MARMALADE

GOLD MEDAL JAMS

JELLY CRYSTALS, ETC.

Obtainable from all leading Grocery Stores

WRITE TO DEPARTMENT "A”

CHIVERS & SONS LTD.

Histon, Cambs., Eng.

FOR ATTRACTIVE RECIPE BOOK

i*' on

CHIV£RS

„ COLD

\ standard ; I % fresh

ENGLISH

PEAS

AWP P* C t

Hallstrom

J. J. SULLIVAN Pty. Ltd.

Sullivan's Buildings

168 -174 SUSSEX STREET. SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable and Telegraphic Address ; “SULLGREN,” Sydney.

GENERAL MERCHANTS IMPORTERS

EXPORTERS SHIPPERS

ALL COMMODITIES HANDLED

• Best Roller Flour . . . Best Biscuit Flour

HIGHEST GRADE "CORAL" BRAND SHARPS

" Pony " Brand Oats.

Dried Fruits, Prunes, Sultanas, etc.

Canned Meats . . . Canned Fruits Jams, etc. • PROMPT ATTENTION TO CABLE AND MAIL ENQUIRIES. WHICH

ARE APPRECIATED

Telephone: M 6268 (3 lines)

Hallstrom

KEROSENE OPERATED ...

REFRIGERATORS

ANNOUNCE NEW EXPORT POLICY

AND THE BEST REFRIGERATOR VALUE EVER OFFERED To enable us to obtain Full Advantage from the enormous Output Capacity of the new Hallstrom Manufacturing Plant, covering 20 acres and including the finost machinery of its type in Australia, we have decided on a policy of More Sales at Lower Prices We now offer the Model as illustrated at £3l-10-0 F. 0.8. Sydney.

This ever popular Hallstrom model has, over a number of years, stood all tests under all conditions, and may be ordered direct from the factory, or is obtainable, at the new price, from all branches of Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd. and W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.

HALLSTROMS PTY. LTD., Willoughby. Sydney

r~i r J

IS MAINTAINED

AND GUARANTEED

IN EVERY TIN

OF NESTLES

MILK

BRAND

m

MAngl

Swiss Condensed s YD EY Milk is the most important of all foods, yet the most easily contaminated. Amazing precautions are taken to ensure the purity of Nestle's Milk precautions that might seem more than are necessary were it not for the fact that you cannot be too careful with milk. The milk supplied to Nestle's comes from chosen herds. It is tested on arrival at the Condensery, condensed under the most hygienic conditions and by the most scientific methods, and then put into hermetically sealed containers. It cannot sour or become contaminated while unopened. That is why Nestle's Milk 1$ the safest, purest and most economical milk that you can use.

NESTLE S

FULL CREAM

MILK

BEST, THEREFORE CHEAPEST

A 262 E

Anchovy

HOLBROOKS

PASTE

The House of . . .

HO LBROOK

Packs in dainty jars a delicious paste made from finest Sorgona Anchovies.

It will keep in any climate and is a wonderful stand-by for the concoction of many delightful luncheon and supper savories.

Try it spread lightly on hot buttered toast, or for a more substantial meal serve it on toast with a poached or scrambled egg.

Other varieties of Fish and Meat Pastes : Holbrooks Bloater, Salmon, Salmon & Shrimp, Chicken & Ham, Ham & Tongue, Veal & Tongue, and Turkey & Tongue. •

Holbrooks

(Australasia) LTD.

WATERLOO - NEW SOUTH WALES

TUBULAR

STEEL

FURNITURE

PRIVATE HOME, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Chromium-plated Tables and Chairs with Black Carrara Tops and Green Mohair Coverings by Newlands.

DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED BY

Newlands Bros. Pty. Ltd. riley&albionsts.,Sydney, n.s.w

AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF

STEEL BEDSTEADS, LAWN HAMMOCKS, "LISTER" HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT, SHIPS' BERTHS, WIRE MATTRESSES, "AERO" AND "MORNING GLORY" BEDDINGS, TUBULAR STEEL FURNITURE

Younger

Do You Know that the Famous . . .

STOVES and

RANGES

made with extended Firebox specially for long Wood fuel, are Self-Setting and, provided sufficient Flue Piping is attached, can be used in almost any position?

The No. 7W " Younger" Ranger can now be supplied fitted with Legs, as per illustration.

Ask for quotation for this Range, also Illustrated Catalogue and Price List for both Single and Double Oven Stoves.

Younger Stoves are Widely Used Throughout the Pacific Islands.

G. FLETCHER & SON 50 Oxford Street, Sydney

Master Sewing Machine Co.

15 ENMORE ROAD, NEWTOWN, SYDNEY

ESTABLISHED FOR 23 YEARS

SPECIALISING IN

RECONDITIONED

SEWING MACHINES

OF ALL TYPES

Hand Machines - - £2 £3 £4 Upright Models - - £4 £6 £8 Dropheads - - - £7 £8 £lO including SINGER —WHITE—NEW CENTURY-HOME—AND OTHER WELL KNOWN MAKES. • Allow us to select a machine for you ... we will strive to please; your subsequent recommendations will reward us.

REPAIR WORK BY

COMPETENT

MECHANICS

EVERY MACHINE

Also in Stock— Machines for Leather, Canvas, Bootpatching, Highspeed Dressmaking. Hemstitching, etc.

GUARANTEED M ECH AN 1C ALLY PERFECT

NEEDLES AND PARTS

SUPPLIED FOR ALL

MAKES OF MACHINES

yaaauM i=

MATONE

Matone shades are washable, fadeless and are practically permanent.

The peculiar "wet edge" enables the operator to join each finished section perfectly leaving an unmarked expanse of soft, restful colour that does not reflect light with a glare.

Ask your Berger agent for the Matone colour card. It gives practical suggestions for interior decoration.

WE

AGENTS THROUGHOUT THE ISLANDS.

~) Wunderlich

Timber, Joinery

ETC.

PREPARED BUILDINGS ready for erection a speciality.

SHIP AND BOAT BUILDING.

TIMBERS specially catered for.

FIBROLITE, PLYWOODS, GALVANISED

IRON.

CONSIGNMENTS shipped

by RETURN STEAMERS

to the Islands.

John W. Eaton

PTY. LTD.

WEST CRESCENT STREET

NORTH SYDNEY

TELEPHONES: X 5051 (5 lines)

BITUMENOID ROOFING

MADE IN AUSTRALIA.

Bitumenoid Roofings, Dampcourse and Insulating Felts are made from the world’s best raw materials. Warranted to stand the most rigid tests.

BITUMENOID THE BEST

Roofing, 1,2, 3-ply; Flooring, Waterproof Materials: Saturated Felt; Resilient Road Jointing; Natural Asphalt Dampcourse; 2 and 3-ply Dampcourse; 1-2 lb. Lead-core Dampcourse; Roofing Cement; Asphalt Paints; Roofing Compound.

SAMPLES AND PRICE LISTS ON APPLICATION.

MAXWELL PORTER & »SON |LTD.

ESTABLISHED 1888. BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES.

107 REDFERN ST., REDFERN, SYDNEY. N.S.W. Phone: M 3157. Cables Bitumenoid.

*2SSf

Obtain a copy before you build.

It contains designs and plans—in colour—of Homes that can be inexpensively built with

WUNDERLICH DURABESTOS,

the indestructible asbestos-cement building sheeting. Write to

WUNDERLICH LIMITED

G.P.0., Box 474 aa, SYDNEY

FOR TROPICAL BUILDINGS, SPECIFY

~) WUNDERLICH

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ASBESTOS CEMENT BUILDING SHEETS

Huon Pine Boat Planks

Practically Borer Proof and Everlasting, also Spotted Gum Timbers—Prices Right.

A. C. Fryer

110 Miller St., Pyrmont, N.S.W.

DEUTZ DIESEL ENGINES

Deutz Engines used Internationally since 1864.

Illustrating the 200 H.P.

Deutz Full Diesel Marine Engine as installed in the new vessel

"LE PHOQUE"

ordered by Societe Des lies Loyalty, New Caledonia. all purposes are obtainable from the agents.

Herbert Del Cott Pty. Ltd.

15 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY. 116 QUEEN STREET, MELBOURNE. ’Phone: B 3135. Cables: “Voltage”. ’Phone: Central 10188.

Si KiiSljiHl Full details of comprehensive range of engines for

Oxymel

HIGH GRADE

TIME TESTED

HOME and SHIP

Paints, Enamels, Varnishes,

Lacquers, etc.

' OXYMEL" Co. have been manufacturing Paints, etc., for just, on 30 years.

We require distributing agents for our products. They are not cheap, shoddy goods.

Catalogues, Colorcards and Leaflets, &c., on request from

THE OXYMEL OIL & PAINT

Co. Pfy. Ltd.

47-51 YARRA BANK ROAD, SOUTH

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA. AUSTRALIA

Telephone M 2375

Ship Chandlery Hardware

[ Write for Ship Chandlery Catalogue ] Special "In Bond" Prices for all Islands enquiries quoted on application.

BROOMFIELD’S LIMITED

152 SUSSEX STREET :: ::

Cables "Boom," Sydney Large and Complete Stocks of

SHIP CHANDLERY

IRONMONGERY OF ALL KINDS,

WHITE LEAD AND OILS

SYDNEY

PAINTS,

Sole Agents for: P. H. MUNTZ & CO.'S 3-CROWN BRAND METAL SHEATHING.

PEACOCK & BUCHANS' ENGLISH READY - MIXED PAINTS.

11l USE

FOR RELIABILITY

AND LONG SERVICE

a gj Manufactured by: Suva Agent*: r Sydney Agent*:

MILLER'S "ANCHOR"

BRAND ROPES AND

CORDAGES.

Manila, Sisal, New Zealand Coir and Cotton Rope of every description.

Twine, Sewing Twine, Shop Twine, Binder Twine and Fishlines, Lasnings, Halters, Plough Reins, Sack Cord, Blind Lines, etc.

LENGTH STRENGTH

QUALITY GUARANTEED

JAMES MILLER & Co. Pty. Ltd.

MELBOURNE, VIC., AUST.

A. S. FAREBROTHER & CO.

And at Lautoka, P.O. Box 36. Tel. 261

P. T. TAYLOR LTD.

BURNS PHILP

(SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

Inc. in Fiji

Island Traders and Shipowners

Also Branches at: Registered Office:

SUVA

FIJI

X Code Address: "Burnsouth."

Fiji: Levuka, Lautoka, Labasa, Ba, Sigatoka, Rotuma.

Tonga: Nukualofa, Haapai, Vavau.

Samoa: Apia, Pago Pago (American Samoa).

Solomons: Makambo, Gizo, Faisi.

New Hebrides: Vila.

Gilberts: Tarawa.

Norfolk Is. Niue. Wallis Is. Futuna Is.

IAMES BUDGE LTD

mm

REFRIGERATION ..

“BUDGE" Automatic or Manually-controlled Refrigeration and Ice-making Plants, with or without insulated Cabinets or Rooms, ranging from 4 cubic feet to 1000 cubic feet or larger, using ammonia in the large and sulphur dioxide (SO2) in the small units.

Where electricity Is not available, crude oil engines may be utilised for driving the larger plants and petrol engines for driving the smaller machines. The accompanying illustration is of a petrol engine driven SO2 unit. Enquirers please state power available (if any), size of’ cabinet and amount of ice required per day.

JAMES BUDGE LIMITED

REFRIGERATION AND GENERAL ENGINEERS

McEvoy and Harley Streets

ALEXANDRIA SYDNEY

Established 1890

ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS

ALL CLASSES OF MACHINES MADE AND RECONDITIONED

i

City comforts

fox island homes

brings every city comfort to you . . . moke your source of electricity supply Clyde Home Lighting Batteries and you will enjoy the maximum of light, life and power.

Clyde Batteries are chosen for the Royal Australian Navy, the Commonwealth Postal and Telegraphic service, and many other public services.

Clyde Home Lighting Batteries are unsurpassed . . .

If you are replacing your batteries, enquire about Clyde's trade-in for replacement arrangement . . . which give you new batteries for little more than the cost of the plates.

CLVDE

HOME LIGHTING BATTERIES

THE CLYDE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.,

61-65 WENTWORTH AVENUE, SYDNEY.

Island Agents: Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., Rabaul: John L. Peadon Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. Fiji: Morris, Hedstrom Ltd.

SYDNEY'S LEADING

SAILMAKER

AND RIGGER

Also Manufacturer of all Canvas and Rope Work ISLANDS WORK a Speciality

HARRY WEST

Balmain East, SYDNEY Tel. W 1105

Woven Wire for all Industry \

COPRA DRYING TRAYS, FLOORS, Etc.

FRUIT DRYING TRAYS, MINING SCREENS

Heavy Mosquito Gauze in Phosphor Bronze and other Metals -Impervious to Salt Sea Air WIRE DOOR MATS AND GENERAL WIRE WORKS

E. WRIGHT & CO. LTD.

Office and Works: 148-162 Cleveland Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Telegraphic Address: "Wrightmake,” Chippendale Or £ £ A

Cable Address:

Scott’s “Renown” Brand Rope,

Cordage and

Binder

Twine

of Every

Description

Ropeyard Sydney

MANUFACTURED AT

MASCOT. N.S.W.

J. SCOTT

PTY. LTD.

Head Office and Store:

163 CLARENCE STREET.

SYDNEY

N.S.W.

Ruston

.t-mmmmmrnaam

OUTSTANDING

FEATURES

• ECONOMY

» EFFICIENCY

© RELIABILITY

• ACCESSIBILITY

RUSTON

MARINE

DIESEL

ENGINES

v f|NE of the most valued orders recently Jv/ received for RUSTON marine engines was obtained from Sir Malcolm Campbell, who purchased 2-150 B.H.P, RUSTON units H® for his new yacht.

SIZE RANGE In addition to the propulsion engines alO 10 hp t 0 iooo H P Hp - auxiliary is also to be installed.

Multi - Cylinder

RUSTON

MELBOURNE SYDNEY

174 KINS ST. 642-4 JONES ST.

& HORNSBY (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

BRISBANE ADELAIDE Sole Agents for the Mandated Territory : BARRY PDE. 20 FRANKLIN ST. BURNS PHILP & CO. LTD., Rabaul, New Guinea

W. Kopsen

TILLEY LAMPS

BURN KEROSENE

with a light of 300 c.p.

Storm Proof, Insect Proof and Fool Proof. British made. New type mantle which is supported top and bottom, and will not shake off. Made of brass and will not corrode. There are 11 different models of Lamps suitable for every purpose.

Complete range of Lamps and Spare Parts available.

Send for Catalogue.

Cables : "Kopsen," Sydney.

W. KOPSEN

SHIPCHANDLERS AND

We have large and complete stocks of Shipchandlery and Mining Gear. Boat fittings of all descriptions manufactured in our own marine foundry.

We are manufacturers of the well known "Pioneer” brand Ash Oars and Tool Handles. : Write for free catalogue of any line which may interest you.

AGENTS OR DISTRIBUTORS FOR ...

SKARSTEN MANUFACTURING CO.

SKARSTEN SCRAPERS

AKTIEBOLAGET PENTAVERKEN

PENTA MARINE ENGINES

TILLEY LAMP CO.

TILLEY LAMPS

COLTHURST & HARDING LTD.

PAINTS. OILS AND VARNISHES

R. HAYWARD & CO. LTD.

HAYWARD’S CANVAS

A. JEFFREY & CO.

JEFFREY’S SEAMFLEX AND GLUES

KOCKUMS

TYFON WHISTLES FOR AIR. Etc.

70 CLARENCE SIRE

& Co. Pty. Ltd.

HARDWARE MERCHANTS

PENTA MARINE ENGINES

3-100 Horsepower, 1-6 Cylinders

FOR KEROSENE, PETROL OR HEAVY OIL

PENTA have just produced a modern 4 and a modern 6, ooth with electric starter, generator, etc., and dashboard, these models are particularly robust and compact and are a real marine job. ... ...

PENTA ENGINES are precision built, and will last the lite of the boat.

Write for catalogue of all models and special export prices.

ET SYDNEY Phone: BW 11 14 (3 lines)

Allen Taylor & Co. Ltd.

SYDNEY

Sawmillers and Wholesale Suppliers of Hardwoods for Constructional Purposes GIRDERS . . . PILES . . . POLES . . . SLEEPERS. Etc.

EXPORTING TO PACIFIC ISLANDS SINCE 1893

Cables: Tuxedo, Sydney

V

The

“Caledonia Dover”

A COOKING STOVE guaranteed to give complete satisfaction and now recognised as THE BEST on the market.

Suitable for coal, coke, or wood fuel.

Illustrated Catalogue on request.

LANE & GIRVAN, LTD.

BONNY BRIDGE, SCOTLAND

BUILD WITH

Fibrolite

ASBESTOS CEMENT SHEETS

By using this Economical, Fire Retardant and White Ant Proof building material for External and Internal Walls and Ceilings, you can build a comfortable and durable Bungalow Home— AT LOW COST! Supplied in big, sturdy building sheets in 44 handy stock sizes. "FIBROLITE” is easily and quickly erected. No waste.

Less labour. No painting.

For full information, write for illustrated "Fibrolite" Booklet F.6—FREE AND POST FREE!

JAMES HARDIE &COY. LTD.

ASBESTOS HOUSE, YORK ST., SYDNEY, N.S.W.

(Box 3935 V.. G.P.0., Sydney)

Malcham & Yeomans

LIMITED

BOWDEN STREET, SHEFFIELD. ENO.

Manufacturers of all kinds of Butchers', Sticking and Sheath Knives Razors and Scissors Specialty Hairdresser Scissors

PRICE LIST ON APPLICATION

READ THE

B.P. MAGAZINE

Autumn Number

NOW ON SALE

Short Stories Pictures Travel Articles Pages for the Children Stage Latest Fashions Screen A

ONE SHILLING PER COPY

ON SALE AT ALL NEWSAGENTS AND BOOKSELLERS BP

SPECIFY

STARLINE

BRAND

STARLINE

CHINESE LACQUER

For all Indoor and Outdoor Decoration

1/- tin covers 18 sq. feet

"STARLINE" CHINESE LACQUER : Is guaranteed to withstand the severe elements to which paint is subjected in the Tropics, including Salt Water, Heat and Rain, etc., and will not lose its gloss or permanence.

To give some idea of the covering capacity, one gallon will cover over 1200 sq. ft. 42 colours to choose from . . . Dries in a few hours.

Won't chip or crack.

MADE IN ENGLAND

Write to us for Colour Chart and full particulars regarding attractive sole agency for territories, still vacant. cmtc £ For Fi i'' Tonga and Samoa, Messrs. MORRIS HEDSTROM LTD.

AtetNlb: l For Tah;+i and Coo(( , s|ands Messrs A B DONALD LTD.

Factory Representative for all Islands and New Zealand : NEW ZEALAND DISTRIBUTORS LTD., Box 530, AUCKLAND, N.Z.

=One Lamp for every purpose In or Outdoors E.X. 4.

TILLEY

“ALL-PURPOSE” LAMP

Light of 300 c.p. 6 hours for Id. Burns Ordinary Kerosene This Lamp is designed for general all-round service. It is the cheapest Vapour Lamp on the market, but at the same time highly efficient in every detail and simple; to operate. Can be carried about as Storm Lantern in the fiercest gale; used as a Hanging Lamp (indoors or out) by fitting 12ins. Reflector which slides on to the Suspension Wire; or turned into a Table Lamp by just detaching the Suspension Wire. The light is perfectly steady and unaffected by draughts, however severe. Lamp is strongly made of polished brass, with no parts to rust, corrode or get out of order. Burner hood enamelled in bright colours. Reflector is enamelled white. Get rid of all antiquated devices and use this up-to-date All-British Tilley Lamp.

Obtainable throughout the Pacific Islands from the Branches of:

BURNS PHILP & CO.. LTD., and

BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEAS) CO.. LTD.

Spare Parts and Lamps also obtainable from— W. KOPSEN & CO. LTD., clarence street, Sydney.

If any difficulty, please write direct to: THE TILLEY LAMP CO. (Dept. P.M.) HENDON, LONDON, N.W.4

DON’T NEGLECT

A Common Case of Piles.

It May Lead to Serious Results.

When people, generally, understand that all such fatal diseases as Fistula, Ulcer of the Rectum, Fissure, etc., almost invariably begin in a simple case of Piles, they will learn the wisdom of taking prompt treatment for the first appearance of this trouble.

Doan’s Ointment is unequalled for every form of piles—bleeding, itching, protruding and blind piles, and hundreds of lives have been saved by using this cheap, but effective remedy right at the start, because at such times a single pot has often effected a cure, while in the old, deep-seated, chronic cases, several pots are sometimes necessary. Here is a case: M\. Isaac Swales, 40 Allison Road Rand wick. Sydney, says; “I used remedy after remedy trying to get a cure for itching piles, but nothing did me any good until I applied Doan’s Ointment. This wonderful Ointment cured me in a very short time and I have been free from the torture of this complaint ever since. Only those who are afflicted with piles know what the irritation is like, but after my experience with Doan’s Ointment I am sure no one need suffer with this trying complaint. I wish I had known about this remedy years before; it would have saved me a lot of suffering.”

Twenty years later. Mrs. Swales says: “My husband is still a great believer in Doan’s Ointment. It keeps him free from the torture of piles and he is never tired of recommending it.”

Doan’s Ointment is sold by all chemists and storekeepers. Foster- McClellan Co., Proprietors 15 Hamilton Street, Sydney.

But. be sure you get DOAN’S.

m

ARE ON THE

Knees of fate

Slacks may soon be out-of-date, And the “backless knits” we wear, Which expose us, chilled and bare.

Surfers on the septic sand Loathe to sprawl and mostly stand; And for colds relief assure With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails.

Rbiimans

For Quality Goods at Low Prices

ESTABLISHED SINCE 1905

165-167 Castlereagh St., Sydney, N.S.W.

Jewellery Specials.

Gent’s Modern Shape “Starlex” Chrome Wrist Watches; Jewelled lever movement, luminous dial, leather strap 19/6.

Men’s Latest Square-shaped “York” Lever Wrist Watches; 15 jewelled movement, Chrome Link Band 39/6.

Gent’s Chrome 7-Jewelled Lever Watches, on leather band 29/6, Men’s 10-year Guaranteed Gold-filled Wrist Watches; 15 Jewels, 5 adjustments, very latest smart shapes 45/-.

Gent’s Solid Gold-filled Wrist Watches, modern shapes, 15 Jewelled movement, luminous dial, leather band, complete with presentation case 55/-.

“Fenchurch” Solid gold-filled Gent’s Wrist Watches, latest square shape, 15 Jewelled, shock-absorber movement, latest modern dial, Rolled-gold Link Band, complete with presentation case £4/15/-.

Lady’s Chrome Wrist Watches, latest miniature shapes, on chrome link band . 39/6.

Lady’s 9ct. Gold Wrist Watches, ultra smart shapes, 17 Jewelled movement, 5 adjustments, 44 hr. time-keepers’ 59/6.

Lady’s Solid Chrome Wrist Watches, brilliant studded bezel, dainty baguette shapes, complete with double-rope moire wristband, with presentation case 75/-.

Chrom. STOP WATCHES, Swiss made, 1-5 or 1.10 second, “Floretta” Levers, Guaranteed accurate racing Time Pieces 27/6.

Postage Paid on ail Jewellery Orders.

Sewing Machines.

“Pinnock” Hand Sewing Machines, torpedo shuttle, slightly used, perfect order .. 75/-.

“Rowley’’ Hand Sewing Machines, torpedo shuttle, slightly used, perfect order .. 65/-.

Powerful Field Glasses.

Extra-powerful Field Glasses, centre focus, complete in case 21/-.

High-power Field Glasses, centre focus, special knuckle joint 35/-.

“Lumiere” Paris, High-power, Field Glasses, centre focus, with case and strap ... 35/-.

Extra High-power, Marine Glasses, day and night use, centre focus 45/-.

High-power Super Dreadnought Marine Glasses, extra wide optics, with case, 50/-.

High-power “Loren” Field Glasses, centre focus, 4 x 36 wide vision, complete with leather strap and case 59/6.

“Audemair”, 8 x 30 Prismatic Field Glasses, extra-wide optics, central and Individual focus, complete with strap and case, £6/10/- Carl Zeiss Field Glasses, 8 x magnification; slightly used, with case £6/19/6.

Carl Zeiss Field Glasses, 8 x 30 magnification, wide vision, slightly used .. £ 11/15/-.

"Goerz” Field Glasses, 6 x 24, individual focus, slightly used, with case .. .. £6/15/-.

Postage Paid on all Field Glass Orders.

Musical Instruments.

Ukeleles: Complete with set of strings, Free Tutor 10/6.

Steel Guitars, beautiful tone, Free Tutor, 35/- "Harmony” Guitars, beautiful tone, nicely finished, Free Tutor £3/19/6 “Harmony” Guitars, professional model, pearl position dots, beautiful finish and tone.

With Free Tutor £6/6/-.

Guitar Cases, 19/6. Set of Picks, Steels, 4/6 per set.

Cameras.

Vest Pocket Cameras, slightly used .. 17/6. 1A Kodak Folding Cameras, double lens, slightly used 27/6.

Agfa “Speedex” Folding Cameras, 16 photos. built-in filter 37/6.

Agfa “Record” Folding Cameras, F 7.7 anastigmat lens 57/6.

Voigtlander “Brilliant” Cameras, F 7.7 Volgtor lens £2/18/-.

“Welta Trio” Cameras, 4.5 lens, compur shutter, 1 sec. to l/250th £6/5/-.

“Leica” Cameras, 3.5 lens, 5 c.m. focus and appropriate viewfinder, focal, plane shutter, l/20th to l/500th secs. ... £22/17/6.

Postage Paid on all Camera Orders.

Typewriter Bargains.

Slightly used.

Corona, 3-Bank, Portable Typewriters, in case, perfect order £5/19/6.

Corona, 4-Bank, Portable Typewriters, in case, perfect order £B/15/-.

Remington 4-Bank Portable Typewriters, in case, perfect order £B/15/-.

Bicycles.

Good Strong Bicycles, slightly used, fixed or free wheel, with brake, in good order 45/-.

Gent’s Roadster Bicycle, free wheel, flectric dynamo and lamp, handbrake, good tyres and tubes, slightly used .. £3/15/-.

“Speedwell” Bicycle, Club-racer, brazed on back stays, free wheel, tapered frame, handbrake, slightly used ‘ £ 4/19/6 Brand-new Gent’s “Oxford” Special Roadster Bicycle. Equipment: Brake, lamp, tools, free wheel £5/19/6.

Gent’s Brand-new “Oxford” Club-racer Bicycle, fully tapered frame and forks, brazedon seat stays. Equipment; “Fitz” H/bars, side-pull brake, doubl-sided hub, Endrick rims, “Dunlop” black and white tyres, speedo. Complete Cycle £B/19/6.

Lady’s brand new “Oxford” Special Cycle, fitted with free wheel, dress nets, chain guard, mud guards, spring top saddle and handbrake. All English fittings throughout A variety of colors. At the amazing price of • ■■ £6/19/6.

WE STOCK EVERYTHING. WRITE FOR

YOUR REQUIREMENTS. GOODS FOR-

WARDED V.P.P. OR SIGHTDRAFT.

SERVICE AND SATISFACTION GUAR-

ANTEED. PLEASE ADD FREIGHT. ALL

PACKING FREE.

Sporting Goods.

GOLF SETS.

*‘J. A. Kirkwood’’ Hickory Shaft Matched Golf Sets; special rustless heads made in Scotland, including mid-iron, mashie, putter and brassie-driver, in leather mounted waterproof canvas bag 42/6.

“J. A. Kirkwood” Steel Shaft Matched Golf Sets; latest heavy ridged back design, rustless heads made in Scotland, including midiron, mashie, putter and brassie-driver, in leather mounted waterproof canvas bag. 69/6.

All well-known makes of Golf Equipment and Sporting Goods of every description always in stock. Enquiries invited for particulars of goods in which you are interested.

Camping Equipment.

TARPAULIN SPECIALS!

Waterproof Tarpaulins, made from superior quality canvas and duck. All tarpaulins are less seam measurements. Special sizes made to order. lOoz. duck, 6xB, 13/6; 8 x 10, 19/6; 10 x 12, 24/6; 12 x 16, 31/6; 12 x 18, 39/-. 15oz. Duck, 6xB, 18/6; 8 x 10, 24/6; 10 x 12, 33/6; 12 x 16, 47/6; 12 x 18, 52/-; 14 x 18, 60/-.

“Birkmyre”, green or khaki, 6xB, 25/-; 8 x 10, 37/6; 10 x 12, 57/6; 12 x 16, 86/-; 12 X 18. 94/-; 14 X 18, 102/6. 12 x 8 Lean-to Auto. Tents, 15 oz. duck roof, 10 oz. duck walls, with poles, ropes, pegs, bags, etc £2/19/6.

All Camping Equipment made to order.

Send your order now.

Saddlery.

We specialise in High-grade Saddles made of best quality materials throughout. Strong guaranteed trees and first class workmanship.

All metal work guaranteed Solid Brass.

Strong High-grade Saddles in Stock, Kemp or Poley styles. Strong guaranteed trees, narrow grip, firm pads, best quality flaps and skirts mounted with leathers, girth, and 3bar N.P. irons £3/19/6.

High-grade Station Saddles, in Kemp or Poley styles, deep comfortable kip seat, narrow grip, wide leather facings at back, strong firm pads, extra long kip flaps and skirts, mounted with leathers, girth, and 3bar N.P. irons £4/19/6.

Very Fine High-grade Super Station Stock Saddles, built on strongly plated, guaranteed trees, deep comfortable hogskin seat, with 4V2 in. dip, narrow, grip, wide leather facings at back, very firm 5V 2 In. strong capped pads, raised thigh pads, extended leather points, extra long flaps and skirts made of long wearing flexible kip, mounted with bevelled leathers, girth, and 4-bar N.P. irons £6/19/6.

SPECIAL SADDLES MADE TO ORDER.

FREEMANS

FOR PROMPT SERVICE

and

HONEST VALUE.

165-167 Castlereagh Street, SYDNEY, New South Woles.

Dewars

The sea has a charm of its own, and so has DEWAR’S Whisky. As invigorating as the winds that blow from out of space, DEWAR’S, like a well-found ship, brings content; boundless and satisfying.

lAe SCOTCH WHISKY

59

Ra c 1 1 1 c islands Monthly, April zz,

Engines

Announcing

RADIOMAC

TROPICAL

RADIO

After extensive research, we are proud to be able to offer a radio that will give a minimum of trouble under the most adverse conditions. The chassis illustrated above is housed in a metal cabinet, and the set is supplied with all batteries and aerial equipment. Nothing more to buy.

WRITE FOR FULL SPECIFICATIONS.

PRICE roo/in/.

COMPLETE tA7/lU/'

Incluaes all charges to your nearest port. (T.N.G. Papua, etc.)

PRICE'S RADIO SERVICE

o. G. McINTYRE, 5 & 6, Angel PL, SYDNEY

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MASTER 1

PUR

1 ■ I

CHAPMAN

MARINE MOTORS

Export Pup Standard Pup Master Pup - Super Pup - Greyhound Seadog - - 2 1 h.p h.p 3 h.p h.p 6-8 h.p 10 h.p

THE CHAPMAN

MASTER PUP

3 h.p.—Patented Elevated Selfstarting Magneto—Floatless type Carburettor. "Petroil” method of lubrication. Equipment includes shaft and 3 blade prop., petrol tank, piping, all fittings. Unconditionally guaranteed for 5 years.

Chapman

Engines

are reliable-cost less to own

Apart from minimum upkeep costs, a Chapman engine is cheap to buy. All the while a Chapman engine saves you money— there are no breakdowns—no expensive overhauls—no high petrol and oil bills because simplified methods of construction, plus the "petroil” system of lubrication make the Chapman engines the cheapest to run.

Chapman engines won't let you down—99% of N.S.W. hire launch services depend upon Chapman marine motors.

Without obligation, post coupon for interesting facts.

To CHAPMAN & SHERACK,

26 Clara Street, Erskineville, N.S.W.

Gentlemen, Please send, without obligation, details of Chapman marine motors.

Name L__ Address

Your Tropical Rit

When you visit the Pacific Islands, whether on Business or Pleasure, you need Special Equipment Light Suits of Correct Style, which fit well and launder easily; Tunic Shirts Silk Shirts, Light Underwear, White Shoes, etc.

WALTER HORNE & CO. LTD., established in 1885, specialise in this Service. Skilled Tailors make your Suits from First-class material within 24 hours. Complete equipment can be supplied from our Large Stocks at Reasonable, Moderate Prices.

BUY FROM THE

FIRM WHICH UNDERSTANDS

DRESSES YOU CORRECTLY

YOUR NEEDS AND

WALTER HORNE & CO. LTD,, carry a Full Range of Drapery of all kinds; also Frocks, Millinery, Foundations and Lingerie, Hosiery, Shoes and Sandals, Ribbons and Laces, Household Drapery.

Men resident in any of the Pacific Territories can he supplied with Suitable Clothes.

Ladies' Hairdressing and Manicuring

Write to us and Describe your Requirements.

WALTER HORNE & CO. LTD.

Drapers and Men's Wear Specialists

SUVA. FIJI

A. B. DONALD LTD.

AUCKLAND

ISLAND TRADERS :: GENERAL MERCHANTS

P. O. Box 1509 Cables and Telegrams: "Kingdom," Auckland Branches at Rarotonga and throughout the Cook Islands At Papeete and throughout the Society, Marquesas and Paumotu Islands trading as " ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD, TAHITI "

At Fiji: Trading as "Dominion Fruit C 0.," Suva

Grand Pacific Hotel - - Fiji

Birf* The PREMIER Social Rendezvous of Fiji

EXCELLENT CUISINE, EFFICIENT, TRAINED INDIAN WAITERS AND SERVANTS.

MODERNLY EQUIPPED

Grand

Pacific

Hotel

SUVA, FIJI

Delightfully situ-

ated in tropical gardens overlooking Suva harbour and the Pacific Ocean.

TARIFF: From 17/6

per Day.

Accommodation Reserved by Wireless.

Cable Address; "Grandpacit,"

Suva,

Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd.,

Registered Office - - Suva, Fiji.

BRANCHES THROUGHOUT FIJI, TONGA AND SAMOA

T" Agents tor: >

LLOYD'S

NOBELS (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED—EXPLOSIVES

MATSON NAVIGATION COMPANY

RUSTON & HORNSBY LIMITED

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

JOHN LYSAGHT (AUST.) LTD.

VACUUM OIL COMPANY PROP'TY. LIMITED

FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED

■L GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER EXPORT COY. \ SYDNEY OFFICE: DALTON HOUSE, 115 PITT ST.

For perfect cutting

on all classes of lawns

Perfect results of any class of lawn can be obtained with one machine or other in our wide range of lawn mowers. Whether it is a side-wheel mower for dealing with long, coarse or tough grass, a motor mower, or a gang mower, cutting 50 acres a day, there is a Ransomes 1 model which will give complete satisfaction.

ransomes

LAWN MOWERS

Write for copy of our complete catalogue of hand, horse, petrol . electric and tractor mowers.

MORRIS. HEDSTROM LTD.,

SUVA LAUTOKA BA

Made by: RANSOMES. SIMS & JEFFRIES LTD., IPSWICH, ENGLAND

P. M. Marine Diesel Engines

mm

ILLUSTRATING

MODEL 36

10 H.P.

Marine Diesel

POPULAR ISLANDS' MODEL

FULL PARTICULARS ON REQUEST.

ENGINES FROM 10 TO 60 H.P.

CARRIED IN STOCK IN SYDNEY

SPARE PARTS ALWAYS AVAILABLE

FAIRBANKS-MORSE CO. (Aust.) LTD. G.P.O X2 SYI^EY

From £3

C.I.F. Sydney

'll.

W. M. REID t b o r, y n ou Direct from the Up-To-Date Factory of Haid & Neu, at Karlsruhe, Baden.

Germany, precision built sewing MACHINES with a reputation maintained during “77 YEARS” for supreme workmanship and materials.

A patented hardening process guarantees smooth action and a long life free of repairs.

Needles, Bobbins, eto., can be 5 YEARS * n terchanged with other well r known sewing machines.

Guarantee Information, Parts, Patterns and all dress materials are obtainable from the agent . . .

W. M. REID, “Reid House,” 75 King Street, Sydney, G.P.O. Box No. 137 CC.

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Representative:

ROBERT BLAU (Auii.),

A.C.A. Building, Cnr. King BC. York Street*,

SYDNEY.

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“ALNWICK ”

KINDERGARTEN

74 BUNDARRA ROAD,

BELLEVUE HILL, SYDNEY.

Boarding School for Children from 2 years.

Qualified Nurse and Teachers.

Special attention to health and diet.

Individual Training under ideal conditions of climate and environment.

MISS E. WARRELL, Principal.

Tel.: FM 5638.

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MORE DEAR? FOSTER

CLARKS CUSTARD is

MAKING YOU GROW.'

ITS NICE

CUSTARD,

MUMMY/

She’s such a bright, nealthy Httlc

girl. She enjoys her meals, especi-

ally the Custard Foster Clark’s Custard which is four-fifths milk, and full of nourishment. All kiddies love it, and so do the grown-ups.

Serve Foster Clark’s Custard with all stewed fruits, puddings and pies. Be sure you ask for Foster Clark’s Custard. Refuse cheap imitations.

Write for Elizabeth Craig’s FREE Recipe Book to Foster Clark (Aust.) Ltd., Department R. 8., Redfern, N.S.W.

Enclose id. stamp for .postage.

V757A

Foster Clark's

creamy CUSTARD SERVE IT WITH ALL FRUIT, FOR ADDED

' FLAVOUR AND NOURISHMENT

- o W o *kli F o u

FAIHHOLME”

PRESBYTERIAN GIRLS’ COLLEGE

BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS—TOOWOOMBA. QLD.‘

Founded 1917. Principal MISS D. E. CULPIN, B.A. 12 and over Under 12 Kindergarten NOTE : The fee charge< Class Singing, Physical Culture and ordinary school stationery.

A reduction of 10% on all charges other than special subjects is allowed for sisters, and in all cases fees are chargeable from date of entry only.

COURSES AS PRESCRIBED FOR QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS (Academic, Home Science, Commercial) Provision Is made lor the accommodation of boarders from distant parts during sho:t vacations.

For further information apply to the Secretary . . .

MR. R. T. PHELPS, F.A.A., 491 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, Qld.

Widen your radio Horizon

Pick your programmes from the best the world has to offer with a

SEYON

ALL-WAVE

RECEIVER

incorporating Ferranti and other world-famous components.

Full range of Battery and All-electric Receivers from 16 guineas to 115 guineas.

Write for Details.

NOYES BROS. (Sydney) LTD.

115 Clarence Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Telephones : MJ 4657 (4 lines) and M 2585

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Cable Address : "Vichy," Sydney

379 KENT STREET, SYDNEY

jgUYERS of all Islands requirements on Commission Original Invoices Furnished. 22 Years Islands Trade

Experience.

JSLANDS Produce Sold on Shippers' — Liberal Advances against Consignments.

Bankers : Bank of New South Wales. CORRESPONDENCE IN ENG LISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN

G. M. Rice & Co. Pty. Ltd.

Tropic nights! yet coorestful slumber!

INNERSPRING MATTRESSES

have proved an unqualified success in all parts of Australia, BUT NOWHERE will the benefits to be derived from the new features incorporated therein, be of greater service or be more thoroughly appreciated, THAN IN THE TROPICS. The adaption to mattress construction of the principle of steel inner springing, which has been endorsed by all recognised world authorities as the system supplying the most uniform support for the body and allowing maximum relaxation, makes possible the hygienic INTERNAL AIR FLOW, a highly important factor, assuring at all times an agreeable and healthy mattress temperature, and definite freedom from any degree of “clamminess” in the over-fillings under the most humid conditions.

The “Super-Relaxon” Innerspring Mattress embodies all that is best in modern mattress making. The latest and most scientific principles of spring construction and arrangement are incorporated in this mattress, introduced and built by bedding specialists.

Fitted ventilators and handles, hand stitched and hand super-tufted throughout.

Springs are of highly tempered steel spring wire, securely laced, concatenated and overlaid with closely woven fine mesh web, woven of rustless steel spring wire.

Full hand double side stitched piped borders.

Covered in the highest quality Union Floral Damask or Belgian Stripe Tickings of exclusive designs.

Upholstered with black curled hair and garnetted cotton linters felt.

A 4 ‘ Rico” Product

(Unit Patent No. 10,450). i

MADE IN ALL

STANDARD SIZES.

0 Full particulars of the “Super Relaxon” Innerspring Mattresses, which are moderately priced, may be obtained, or orders placed, through your local store or Sydney buying agent, but should you experience any difficulty in that regard, orders or enquiries may be addressed direct to us.

Correspondence from Islands’ stores and traders will be appreciated and requests for information or stocks executed without delay.

Price lists and advertising matter available.

WRITE TO-DAY.

SPECIAL NOTE:

The innerspring construction in the “Super Relaxon” is entirely new, the usual spiral spring unit being reinforced over the whole top and bottom with a special woven wire web, resulting in a permanent flat resting surface for the soft filling material, in addition to which the comfort, resilience and durability is very considerably improved.

G. M. RICE & CO. PTY. LTD.

Specialist Manufacturers of Bedding and Wire Mattresses, 649-655 PARRAMATTA ROAD, LEICHHARDT, SYDNEY. Phone: LM4419.

Fishing In The Pacific Islands

As pictured by romantic novelists and optimistic dreamers.

As it really is.

Cosmopolitan

rwawwwjH ■

LICENSEE: -

E. J. MORROW

Cosmopolitan

samara! Hotel

First-class Accommodation for Tourists and Travellers Ballroom ; Electric Light; Billiards ; Freezing - works ; Cold Store. Best brands of Wines, Spirits, Ales.

MODERATE TARIFF

Fishing Trips and Launch Excursions arranged

WHERE TO STAY IN PORT MORESBY

Hotel Moresby

Licensee: Papua

First-class Accommodation.

Hotel, Ltd.

Parties Arranged.

The

PAPUA

HOTEL

Catering specially for

Tourists and Travellers.

Situated on high ground overlooking both coasts, its Spacious Lounges are always Cool and Comfortable. Tariff; Per day. 16/-; per week. £5/5/- ; per month, £l4 ; bed and breakfast, 10/-; bedroom only. 7/6.

Cars meet all Steamers.

COMFORTABLE

ACCOMMODATION

ONLY THE BEST

BRANDS OF

WINES, SPIRITS

AND BEERS

IN STOCK

LICENSEE:

Hotel Moresby

Ltd.

NEAR THE

WHARF

4 * 4 * h m

Flour

A

WHEN

MOSQUITOES

RUIN

YOUR

SLEEP

k/U

THEM

WITH

FLIT

1 K.lls a FLIT is now the most deadly to household insects because it contains a combination of killing agents found in no other insecticide f M 4

Sold by ALL Storekeepers

MORRIS, HEDSTROM LTD.

Agents

PRODUCING UNIFORM GOOD RESULTS SINCE 1868

Flour

ALWAYS ASK FOR IT

Brewed • Packed write t<

PABST CANNED BEER

in one of the world's largest and most modern breweries, PABST comes to you in genuine

" KEGLINED " NON-REFILLABLE CANS

TWO TYPES • £ PAI3ST EXPORT BEER—A light Lager Beer. 1 PABST OLD TANKARD ALE—An English Type stronger and heavier than Export. in Cartons containing 24 x 12 oz. cans and sold throughout the Pacific; but, in case of any difficulty in obtaining supplies

BOX 186IK, G.P.0., SYDNEY

"NO LIGHT CAN STEAL ITS FLAVOUR"

“Monte” A. Three in One Combination Roulette Wheel type of game. Fits into outside coat pocket 3/6, with full instructions.

Mantel Model Electric 240 volt A.C. Electric Radios in cabinets as illustrated £9/10/-, with 12 months guarantee. Floor Models, £ 12/10/.

Cabinets only 25/.

Electric Boats all metal 9/6, 12/6, 14/6. Steam Boats 10/6, 12/6, 15/6, 17/6.

Electric Dry shavers for

240 A.C. El-

ectric sup ply. Write for full list.

“VICO” 75/.

Special price to traders. Write for prices. “Packard” 90/.

Outboard model Electric Motors 12/6, 19/6, Small Electric Motors work off wet or dry battery 5/6, 9/6, 12/6. Large size hydrometer tests wet battery 2/6, 3/9, 5/6. Upright Model Steam Engines 15/.

All Bakelite R o u 1 e tte Wheels British 25/-.

Cloths 9/6, 12/6, 15/.

Other types of Novelties 35/, 38/6, 48/6, 65/, 75/, up to £l2/10/. Write for fullest particulars. Small Roulette glass tops with betting sheets, 3/6, In Wooden Types 12/6.

Electric BatjP tery Torch fits a forefa e ad, 10/6 complete for D enti s t s, Doctors, Band smen, Miners, etc. 9 Fountain Pen type pocket battery Torch with switch 2/- complete. 1500 beam 5 cell focussing Torch 6/6. Electric Light Generating Sets for Cycles, 9/6, 11/6, 15/. Portable Gramophones 45/, 50/, 55/, 60/, 70/.

Electric Gramophones, all parts and turnstable. Complete 240 a.c. 39/6.

INSTRUCTIONS

NX As illustrated No. 15 Game, all metal in leather case, put in numerical order.

One at a time; other types 2/6, 2/9, 3/6. Write for full list of Games, Novelties, etc. Ping Pong Sets 7/6, 10/6, 12/6. Housie Sets 3/9, 9/6, 11/6.

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RUBBER CLAD

PERIPL

a OSes® ijiKf-a-nasn ‘Eliminoise’

Aerial Kit, for short or dual wave sets.

Aerial Pyrex ty p e Insulators. transposi ti o n blocks and 200 ft. aerial wire. 22/6. Eliminates unwanted aerial and hideous electrical noises from your dual-wave or short-wave set. m rm<: ROLETTE. You back your fancy in the numbers and colors of three balls. The game ejects 3 colored balls. 47/6. For homes, hotels, clubs, etc. Complete with betting sheet and instructions. m Everlasting All Metal Cigarette Makers. Makes Cigarettes just like the factory, in a jiffy. English make; Vest Pocket size .. .. 6/6.

ioSTRODDS'

50 FT. 56 too rr |o'- H i g h tone \ \ I//, , buzzer for Morse Code Work as 11- " IkT lustrated 3/6, IHfc other 2/6, 3/9 7/6. Morse Keys 12/6 & 19/6.

Pickup Heads, fit all standard Gramophone tone ental 10/6, 12/6.

English Cosmocord 11/6, 19/6.

English “Goldring” 16/6, 18/6, 19/6, with selfcontained Volume Control 21/and 25/- with separate volume control.

“Totem”, the newest and most thrilling Race Game for Home, parties, clubs, hotels, billiardrooms, etc., 21/-. Write for leaflet French-made Black Pegamoidcovered Binoculars, Black Japanned Mounts and Tubes. Fitted with Adjustable Jointed Bars, 45/-, or Fixed Bar, 42/-. Write for full illustrated leaflet.

Build or buy assembled Lakes 1-valve All-wave Battery-operated Radio. Plug in coils for all wave lengths. Coils ready made. Easiway charts, 6d. Free with kit.

Parts 40/1, Valve 12/, Battery 11/9, Phones 30/, complete and built £5.

Buy assembled or build the Air Patrol 2 - valve Battery - operated Radio for all short-wave stations and broadcasts. Easy to operate, change over switch. All parts £4/1/6, Valves 28/9, Batteries £2/15/9. Phones 30/-. Speaker 21/3.

The set assembled and complete, £l2/14/9. Easiway Charts 6d. fO aeri ai

AND

***UtNAL

ON SET

British Manufactured bell shaped Lightning Arresters, fixed in a jiffy for in or outside mounting, 6/3.

We guarantee at lea st 20 per cent, o ff the be s t prices of all rep lacement v a Ive s.

Send along your order. We g u a rantee satisfaction.

Batteryless Hand Holding Microphone for speech or music, 45/- value for 22/6. : ©o As illustrated. Hand Holding Microphone with long lead fitted. Splendid Reproducer.

Excel lent English Mic r o p h o ne, Table Model, with selfconta i n ed pre - amplifier unit in Base: 39/6.

These Microphones suit all sets. The leads plug into the Pickup terminals of the set.

Write for full Illustrated list of the finest range of microphones available.

Cpicssotf

HEAD

om 'll/ Ericssons Professional Phones, 32/6; B.T.H. and S.T.C., 30/-; all 4000 ohms. 6ft. phone cords, 2/6. Rubber Phone Caps, 2/.

Lissen Headphones, 19/6.

Pyrex type Glass Insulators: 3in„ 1/- 4in., 3/6, Sin., 6/6.

Glass egg type 3 for 1/-. 7sin. Genuine

3 INS

4| NS

S/iilKg l mc

i Pyrex 80/-

COSMOCOBD'

25

otuUaA

‘Like a Flash” British make 25/- Gramophone Pickups complete Richards, just arrived 25/- “Cosmocord” 25/- “Cosmocord” De Luxe 32/6 “Cosmocord” high definition ... 38/6 “Cosmocord” Super de Luxe ... 45/- Amplion (English) 28/6 B.T.H. bakelite models 32/6 Build or buy ready made the Linguist 3, all-World Battery Operated Radio. Cover All Wave Bands Parts 58/4; batteries, 19/; Valves, 51/6; Phones, 32/6; Speaker, 20/. If to be assembled by us add 30/extra. Charts, 6d.

Write for Punch Board Leaflets

LEVENSON S RADIO

Write for Pin-Game, Totem and Odds and Evens Leaflets

GAMES, NOVELTIES AND HOBBIES

226 PITT STREET, SYDNEY

Manufacturers, Importers, and Exporters.

Branches: Radio Cheapside, 240 a Pitt St.

N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

Cable address: “Leveradioh.” Goods forwarded V.P.P. or Sight Draft. Satisfaction, and Service Guaranteed. We can supply by mail all General Merchandise at a Better Price. Quotations with pleasure.

Please add freight and packing. Write for full list of interesting leaflets of Games, Hobbies, Novelties, and Electrical Goods.

D.C. Tube Checker

—SPECIALLY DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED FOR TROPICAL

CONDITIONS-the CALSTAN (CALibrated to STANdard) range of D.C.

TUBE CHECKERS are a boon to those who live where direct current is the

only means of lighting and power.

The Calston MODEL 222 TUBE CHECKER incorporates the most circuit features for valve analysing. High resistance leakage and shorts between elements are immediately recorded by the Neon lamp—even as high as 1,000,000 ohms. It includes percentage readings in conjunction with the “Good-Bad” section on the scale of the large fan-shaped meter, and features line-voltage regulation with meter check.

Completely tests every valve used in Australia, including METAL PHILIPS (All Bases) and OSEAM CATKINS.

The Calstan D.C. Tube Checker is a boon to Island radio traders, as it is BATTERY OPERATED . . . will work from a 6-VOLT BATTERY ... the High Tension being supplied by means of a VIBRATOR UNIT . . , thus enabling it to be used in any place or time independentally of Power Lines. PRICES: D.C.

Operated Portable, £l7/6/-; Counter Model, £l6/16/-; Prices Plus Tax. 240 Volt AC Operated Counter Model £ll/5/-; Portable Model, £ll/15/-. • Orders may be placed through your usual buying channel, or sent direct to advanced

SLADE’S

’Phones UJ 5381—5382.

RADIO PTY. LTD,

LANG STREET, CROYDON, N.S.W.

1938 CATALOGUE

FREE AND

POST FREE.

PUMPMOBIL

LIGHT AND PORTABLE

MOTOR PUMP

s & Complete Plant’s weight, 140 lbs. Capacity up to 12,000 gallons per hour.

All heads from 10 to 115 feet.

Fuel consumption, £ gallon per hour.

Pressure 551 b. square inch.

Especially suitable prospecting and all Sluicing Requirements.

NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD

12 SPRING STREET SYDNEY

If you want the Highest Prices for Your

.. GOLD . .

You will without hesitation consign your shipments to us.

Because of the integrity of our business methods . . . our accuracy of assays . . . and above all, prompt payments, we have built up the enviable reputation of being recognised as Australasia’s clearing house for precious metals.

We hold the greatest proportion of the Gold business of the Islands, and in addition we buy for prompt

cash, OSMIRIDIUM, PLATINUM, SILVER, etc, and

pay the highest prices.

GARRETT Cr DAVIDSON

BANK OF N.S.W. BUILDINGS.

REGENT and GEORGE STS., SYDNEY.

Reliability + Economy=

K|@K]SIL Shafting

Monel propeller shafts have established the enviable record of never rusting, in salt water or fresh ... they are stronger than steel and so tough that whip and vibration are reduced to a minimum ... they withstand blows from floating debris which would hopelessly spring shafts of other materials. No matter what type of boat you own, a Monel propeller shaft is a good investment. Its safety, freedom from lay-ups, trouble and repairs, and low life-time cost make Monel the most economical purchase. in our booklet, “A Seagoin’ Metal”—write us The superiority of Monel for marine service is fully described for a copy.

WRIGHT & COMPANY, 81 Clarence St. Sydney. N.S.W.

MONEL IS A BRITISH MATERIAL

mined in Canada, manufactured in Great Britain

Batm

Mining Ore

Treatment

Machinery

COMPLETE CYANIDE

PLANTS SUPPLIED

Dorr Classifiers Dorr Thickeners Dorr Agitators Oliver Filters Merril Crowe Zinc Dust Gold Precipitation Richardson Mine Fans •

FANS AND AIR HEATERS

For Ventilation, Copra Drying Rooms, etc. • Enquire from

CROSSLE, DUFF AND

MACINTOSH LTD.

52 Bridge Street, SYDNEY

The Yorkshire Insurance Coy. Ltd.

ESTABLISHED IN YORK 1824

Agents and Attorneys throughout the Pacific Islands SUVA Williams & Gosling Ltd.

SALAMAUA A. Innes

KAVIENG F. V. Saunders

PAPUA

Port Moresby E. A. James Samarai E. J. Morrow NEW GUINEA BRANCH : Park St.. RABAUL

Fire

Accident

Marine

Total Assets Exceed £16,500,000 J. D. HAIG, Manager

THE NEW TROPICAL PAINT

J /

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TUNGICIDAI

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A Product of British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd.

"8.A.L.M." Fungicidal Paint is specially formulated for use in the tropics and it contains special ingredients to prevent black mould. "8.A.L.M." Fungicidal Paint will beautify and preserve your property— it is a durable, long-lasting paint that gives perfect- protection and reduces repair bills to a minimum.

"8.A.L.M." Fungicidal Paint is available in Gloss for exterior use and Flat for interior use.

DISTRIBUTORS:

Greenwood & Laws Ltd.. Rabaul and Wan.

Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby and Samara!.

Copra Mats and Matting

Send your enquiries to us for Woven Wire Mesh in Rolls or framed for Copra Drying and all Screening purposes, Bird Cages, Sieves and Riddles, Builder’s Gravel Screens, Rat Traps.

Door Mats. Garden Arches, Chain Wire Mesh, Crimped Wire Mesh for Window Guards, etc.

SCOTT AND SONS

WIREWORKS; RAILWAY PARADE AND MURRAY STREET MARRICKVILLE

IT ATTRACTS THEY EAT IT THEY DIE

USOLINE

NEVER

KNOWN

TO FAIL!

v COCKROACH

\ DESTROYER

IT'S A PASTE

AUSOLINE CO

314 CROWN STREET, SYDNEY

(Established 1919) 10/-

PRICES:

Mb. 5/- . . . Bibs

Postage Extra.

Remit Cash with Order.

Obtainable also from Islands stores of;

BURNS, PHILP & Co. Ltd.

W. R. CARPENTER & Co. Ltd.

BULLIVANTS’ wire ropes

THE WORLD'S STANDARD

LARGEST STOCKS IN AUSTRALASIA : FOR ALL PURPOSES Also Blocks, Hooks, Shackles, Thimbles, Strand, Seizing, Aircraft Cord, etc. afWWWWVVVVW Prompt Attention! Efficient Service!! Complete Satisfaction 111 BULLIVANTS' Australian Co. Pty., Ltd.

Letters: Incorporated in Victoria. Telegrams: Box 1298 J, G.P.O. 331 KENT STREET, SYDNEY. “Bullivantsf Ltd.” ♦

Wm. Breckwoldt & Go.,

SOUTH SEA MERCHANTS

POSTAL ADDRESSES:—

NEW GUINEA,:—P.O. Box 89, Rabaul. TAHITI:—P.O. Box 60, Papeete.

FIJI:—P.O. Box 111, Suva. SAMOA:—P.O. Box 124, Apia.

AGENTS FOR...

TRADE MARK

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VESTA

SEWING MACHINES

♦ A

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E R ASPIRIN . . . ATEBRIN . . . YATREN PYRAMIDON . . . PLASMOCHIN . . .

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HURRICANE LANTERNS, LAMPS AND'

ACCESSORIES.

"FROWO"-

HURRICANE LANTERNS, No. 45, 55, 65,

25, 85, Etc.

"TIGER BRAND"-

CORRUGATED AND FLAT GALVANISED'

IRON.

"TAIFUN"-

BICYCLES AND ACCESSORIES.

"TELEFUNKEN"-

RADIO SETS.

"ARARA"-

GAS STOVES

"ANCRE"-

CAST IRON SAUCEPANS.

TWO LIONS"-

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TO-DAY.

SWEDISH Axes and Hatchets . . . Bicycles . . .

Sewing Machines . . .

Knives . . . Razor Blades . . , Lavalavas . . . Toothpaste. also all kinds of

GERMAN, BRITISH

and

CONTINENTAL

GOODS.

BLANKETS

COPRA KNIVES, BUTCHERS' KNIVES

BECK'S-

"KEY BRAND" GERMAN LAGER.

"BIRKO"-

"POLISSE" and "POLO" RAZOR BLADES.'

LOHSE,

URALT LAVENDER.

"TORPEDO" "BIJOU" and "ERICA'

TYPEWRITERS’.

A.W.A. Teleradio No.3A

CD *;

10 WATT RADIOTELEPHONE

4i This portable radio telephone-telegraphic equipment has been designed to provide communication facilities for points where line telephone or telegraph services are not practicable. The receiver can also be used for the reception of world broadcast entertainment.

The equipment is particularly suitable for use by Government administration out-posts, survey and mining parties, light-houses, forestry observation towers, island plantations, cattle stations, patrol launches or small trading schooners, etc.

Many A.W.A. Teleradio installations have, for some years, provided excellent service in isolated areas in Papua, New Guinea and the South Pacific Islands.

Information and quotations for A.W.A. Teleradio equipment may be obtained from A.W.A. Radio Stations throughout Australia, New Guinea, Papua and the South Pacific Islands or from

AMALGAMATED WIRELESS (A/SIA) LTD.

72 CLARENCE ST., SYDNEY; 167 QUEEN ST., MELBOURNE

For Safety

and CONVENIENCE

Wherever you may go within Australia or abroad, you will appreciate the safely and convenience of Bank of New South Wales Travellers’

Cheques.

These cheques being readily convertible into money, even after banking hours, at any place you may visit, relieve you of the necessity of carrying large sums in cash.

Bank of New South Wales Travellers’ Cheques are honoured throughout the world. They are cashed by banks, and the principal shipping and railway companies, hotels, stores, tourist offices, etc., everywhere.

CARRY

travellers' cheques

Obtainable through any branch of the Bank, r ——— —■ *72A.t937_

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN

Hongkong—New Guinea—British Solomon Islands Service.

REGULAR SAILINGS BY

S.S. “FRIDERUN.”

Through Bills of Lading and Passage Tickets issued to all parts of the world.

For further particulars apply to MELCHERS & CO., General Agents, P. 0.8., 423, Hongkong, China.

COLYER, WATSON & CO., N.D.L. Agents, Rabaul, New Guinea.

GILCHRIST, WATT & SANDERSON, LTD., N.D.L. Agents, Sydney.

Cigarettes from bond street, London.

★ Smoke the best at no extra cost!

CAVENDERS MAGNUMS 24/6 thousand. BLACK & WHITE 28/6 thousand.

ABDULLA VIRGINIAN 24/6 thousand. ARMY CLUB .. 24/6 thousand.

GOLD FLAKE .. 16/- thousand.

Prices per 1,000 F. 0.8. Sydney, Australian Currency.

Sole Agents for Pacific Islands:

McLEOD BOLTON & Co. Ltd.

Pacific House, 249 George Street, Sydney.

Paihs

MASTER

' d

POWDERS &

TABLETS

1/4 AND 2/4.

SINGLES 2d. ea.

STOPS SAFELY

HEADACHE

'FLU & COLDS

RHEUMATISM

NEURALGIA

SCIATICA

NEURITIS

LUMBAGO

AND ALL NERVE AND

MUSCULAR PAINS

Over the past 20 years thousands of men and women have proved Vincent’s A.P.C, to be the most effective remedy for relieving all pain. That is why there are more Vincent’s A.P.C.

Powders and Tablets sold in Australia to-day than all other similar preparations.

If you suffer from Headache, Rheumatism, Heat Exhaustion, Nervous Irritability, Sleeplessness, or any nerve or muscular pain, get a packet of Vincent’s A.P.C. Powders or Tablets and take them as directed. Take Vincent’s A.P.C. also to relieve Feverishness and reduce 'temperature. You will be more than satisfied at the speedy, effective relief Vincent’s A.P.C. brings. Vincent’s A.P.C. can be taken with perfect safety, as it does not affect the heart orleave any after-effects.

FOR SAFETY'S SAKE, SAY—"VI N C E N T' S A.P.C."

, u \)SlU ule

Itenax

\S &

TENAX

TH [ CtNUINEIV OEPi M ICIO AI

TOILET SOAP

PREVENT

TROPICAL

DISEASES

You guard yourself against Typhoid, Diphtheria, Malaria, Dhobie Itch, Tinea and Surfer’s Foot when you lather daily with TENAX. It is also invaluable in the cure of Tropical Skin Diseases, for TENAX contains “Ti-Trol”, eleven times quicker than carbolic as a germicide, but NON-

POISONOUS and NON-IRRITANT.

A PRODUCT OF AUSTRALIAN SOAPS LIMITED

\ / 10-240 H.P. for all purposes. Modern compact design—Sturdy construction—Excess strength and stamina —Conservative power rating Dependability Smooth, vibrationless, trouble-free service Simplicity of operation—Low fuel consumption and running costs.

DEMONSTRATIONS ARRANGED.

CATALOGUES AVAILABLE.

AGENTS FOR AUSTRALIA:

MARINE & STATIONARY

DIESELS

120 B.H.P. 6 CYLINDER 61 x 10 MARINE DIESEL, A Vivian engine of this size and description has given 18 hrs. trouble-free service daily for the past year in a tugboat owned and operated by Sydney Ferries Ltd. (Harbor Land & Transport Co. Ltd.).

COMMERCIAL STEELS (Aust) Pty. Ltd.

BOWDEN STREET, ALEXANDRIA, SYDNEY.

'Phone; MX 1191 (7 lines).

QUEENSBURY & CAPEL STREETS, MELBOURNE.

'Phone: F 3616,

Lars Halvorsen Sons

Cables : "Stancarr." Tel. MA 4416

ESTABLISHED 1841

Stanley & Co.

325 SUSSEX STREET

SYDNEY

WHOLESALE & RETAIL

PRODUCE MERCHANTS

Fruiterers and Greengrocers Shipping Providers •

PACKING FOR ISLANDS TRADE

A SPECIALTY

EUROPEAN and CHINESE VEGETABLES

always available in any quantify.

New vessel, “Casiano”, ready for service in Papua .ft; o • t I*

ill

Vi ... * ■

LARS HALVORSEN SONS

Built at the modern

Halvorsen Yards

to the order of Island Explorations Ltd. ★ The "Casiano" is a stoutly-constructed vessel of 58 ft., with beam of 17 ft., and is equipped with an 80 H.P. Diesel engine.

Accommodation is provided for 12 persons, including crew of 4.

Designs and Specifications by Mr. Peter Miller , of Melbourne.

SHIPBUILDERS, MCMTDAI dav

DESIGNERS, NEUTRAL BAY,

MARINE ENGINEERS. SYDNEY.

BUILDERS OF ALL TYPES OF CRAFT FOR ALL PURPOSES. CORRESPONDENCE INVITED.

Pty., Ltd.

Use - -

Modern Direct Wireless Services

' for Your Communications

WITH AUSTRALIA AND OVERSEAS

DIRECT WIRELESS SERVICES are avail-

able for inter-communication between the Islands of the Pacific and for traffic between the Islands and Australia and overseas countries.

Services are now in operation between Papua and Sydney, New Guinea and Sydney, New Caledonia and Sydney, and

Fiji and Sydney. Speedy, economical

and efficient service to Australia and overseas. Route your traffic "Via the Wireless Service."

For overseas traffic to Great Britain, North and South America, and all European countries, route your message via the Direct Australian

BEAM WIRELESS SERVICE

LODGE YOUR MESSAGES AT ANY

WIRELESS STATION OR ISLAND POST

OFFICE ROUTED " VIA WIRELESS”

AMALGAMATED WIRELESS

(A SIA) LIMITED

Pacific Is. Travellers

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE lit.)

Published by Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street. Sydney. (Telephone: BW 5037). Wholly set up and printed In Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co., Pty., Ltd., 29 Alberta St., Sydney. (Telephone: MA7101).

How Aerial Transport

Developed New Guinea

The Territory owes its amazing development to Aerial Transport. Since 1927, when the development of the Morobe Goldfield commenced, New Guinea's European population has been trebled. The new industry has increased the Empire's gold production by nearly £2,000,000 per annum, and has added enormously to the trade turnover of New Guinea.

Only Aerial Transport makes this possible. There is no road between the Goldfields and the coast. Only regular, uninterrupted air services are responsible for the carrying in of Dredges, Crushing Mills, Cyaniding Plants, Motor Vehicles, Hydro-Electric Machinery, thousands of passengers and every type of goods needed by a large and growing European community.

GUINEA AIRWAYS, LIMITED

were established in 1927. They have grown in the following I MRWay One of Guinea Airways’ giant freight-carrying aeroplanes with a typical load. This big G-31 Junkers machine transported from Lae, on the coast, to Wau, the Goldfields centre in the interior, a Baby Austin motor car, an office safe, and 33 bags of rice—a total weight of nearly 21 tons!

GUINEA AIRWAYS, LIMITED, operate regular air services in New Guinea and Papua; they use over fifty Aerodromes and Landing-grounds in the two Territories.

Australian Services.— SYDNEY-ADELAIDE: Direct Service. Flying time, 4i hours. Daily except Sundays.

ADELAIDE-DARWIN: Weekly, leaving Adelaide every Saturday. Arrive Darwin Sunday. n

LIMITED

LAE-SALAMAUA

Head Office: Austral Chambers, Currie Street, Adelaide, S.A., New Guinea Office: Lae, Mandated Territory of New Guinea. ■ m mi ■ BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENTS AT WAU—SALAMAUA—PORT MORESBY AND SYDNEY.

rr " V 5S a - Vj* Z ■% £ ‘77/' ■ BT *i|» »r - Nsr I CO.llMITf^ I Resch’s Lager is protected Ly the crown seal It refreshes and invigorates you as no other drink can. In Resch’s Lager, you get all the original freshness and flavour, because it is fully protected against climatic conditions by the speciallv designed ( ‘Spol” Crown Seal.

RESCHWLACER

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