Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXII, No. 5 (Dec., 1951)
1 December 1951 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

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PACIFIC

Monthly

DECEMBER, 1951

Vol. XXII. No. 5.

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FATHER CHRISTMAS does seem to be very sensibly dressed for the tropics, but here he is, beard, red coat and all, in Western Samoa. —Photo by Forsgren Studios.

Hipping Time-Tables

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There now are comparatively few ship ng lines running on regular time-tables the Pacific Islands. The following time- Dies are only approximately correct— ey are subject to much alteration at ort notice:—

Sydney-Suva-N. America

Kanadian-Australasian liner Aorangi (,500 tons) maintains regular two

in thly sailings—Sydney-Auckland-Suva

nolulu-Vlctoria-Vancouver, and return.

RMS AORANGI

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea

IV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ry six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby narai - Lae - Dregerhaven - Rabaul

tiarai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney.

ast departure from Sydney December 3. rv Malaita, freighter with some corn table passenger accommodation, sails varied schedule about every seven jis usually Sydney - Samarai - Lae

aang-Manus-Rabaul-Samarai-Sydney.

ext sailing early January. 11 details from Burns, Philp & Co.,

Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga

[otor vessels Tofua and Matua, from r Zealand, service Suva (Fiji), Nukua . and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago 0 (American Samoa), Apia (Western 10a). Tofua leaves Auckland for any ill of above ports at approx, five weeks rvals. Matua calls at Wellington and telton (NZ) and supplements Tofua’s ;dule in Islands, calling at ports as cted by owners. 3fua scheduled to leave Auckland iden voyage) December 21. atua’s next sailing, scheduled January from Auckland. etails from Union SS Co.

Zealand-Cook Is.-

Niue-Samoa

id MV Maui Pomare (40 passengers) Qtains fairly regular service between Eland and Rarotonga (Cook Islands), 1 alternative calls at Niue and Apia Samoa).

Jtails from NZ Government Shipping

dney-Norfolk Is.-

N. Hebrides-Solomons

j a h “ e , r Morinda, 40 passengers, runs about 6 weekly intervals: Sydney r°J,k Is, _* (alternative) -Vila and N. rides ports-Honiara (Solomons), and rn direct to Sydney, stalls from Bums, Philp & Co., Ltd.

rdney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti

fcf 1 ® ° f Messageries Maritimes Line. g from Marseilles, via West Indies

and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route. Details from Messageries Marl times.

Small motor-ships Polynesien (Messa geries Maritimes) and Neo Hebridais (H.

C. Sleigh, Ltd.) maintain fairly regular service between Noumea and Sydney.

N. America-French Pacific Is.-

Samoa-Fiji

Pacific Islands Transport Line (Nor wegian) run a regular freight and passenger service between Pacific coast ports in USA and Canada and Tahiti.

Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia and New Hebrides with Motorship Thor I.

d. . . Nov. 8 Jan. 10 Mar. 13 ck. . . Nov. 12-13 Jan. 14-15 Mar. 17-18 va . . Nov. 16 Jan. 18 Mar. 21 a'l’u . Nov. 23 Jan. 25 Mar. 28 :t. . . Nov. 29 Jan. 31 Apl. 3 nc. . Nov. 30- Dec. 6 Peb. 1-7 Apl. 4-10 :t. . . Dec. 6 Feb. 7 Apl. 10 iTU , .. Dec. 13 Peb. 14 Apl. 17 va . . Dec. 22 Peb. 23 Apl. 26 ck. . • Dec. 25-28 Peb. 26-28 Apl. 29- May 1 I. ..

Jan. 1 Mar. 3 May 5

Airways Time-Tables

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TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICES

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji-

Hawaii-N. America

BY PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes, and Berths Thur. and Sun.—Sydney-Nadi (Piji)- Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattle- Portland.

Sun. and Wed.—Return via same route.

Twice weekly.—PAA run shuttle service DC4 between Nadi (Fiji) and Auckland.

Y BRITISH COMMONWEALTH PACIFIC

AIRLINES (BCPA)

red. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver. very 4th trip terminates at S. Francisco. :on. and first Tliur.—Dep. southwards, same route. On second or alternate Thursday, flight commences at S.

Francisco. lies.— Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Hono lulu-S. Prancisco-Vancouver. •I.— Dep. Vancouver and S. Francisco alternatively; thence same route to Auckland.

BY CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES

(CPAL)

ternate Wed.—Sydney-Nadl (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver. ternate Wed.—Return by same route.

SECTIONAL SERVICES IN

PACIFIC

2. Sydney-New Guinea

Service by Qantas Empire Airways

NORTHWARDS

Tuesdays, Saturdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: iney, 7.45 pm Bris., 10.30 pm is., 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am resby, 7.30 am Lae 8.50 am •onnects at Lae with DC3’s for Wau 010 (Wed); and (Sun.) Rabaul, direct.

Mon., Thur., Fri. (DCS’s) iney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.30 pm sbane, 11.30 pm Rock’ton 1.50 am (Tue., Fri., Sat.)

Depart: Arrive: Rock’ton (Tue., Fri., Sat.), 2.25 am Townsville, 5 am Townsville, 6 am Cairns, 7.10 am Cairns, 7.40 am Cooktown, 8.35 am Cooktown, 8.55 am Moresby, 11.50 am Moresby. 12.20 pm Lae, 1.40 pm Lae, 2.15 pm Madang, 3.30 pm

SOUTHWARDS

Tuesdays (DCS) Madang, 4 pm Lae. 5.15 pm

Wednesdays (DCS)

Wau. 11.30 am Lae. 12.35 pm Saturday, Thursday (DCS) twt«« s k 4s n 1?.: Moresby, 7.05 am Moresby, 7.35 am Sydney, 10.15 pm Via Cairns, Towns., Brisbane, with optional call at Rockhampton.

Monday (DCS)

Rabaul, 7 am Moresby, 10.20 am Moresby, 10.50 am Cairns, 2.10 pm Cairns, 3.10 pm Towns, (over „ night), 4.30 pm Towns., Tues., y 8.15 am Brisbane, 1 pm Brisbane, 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) "f e ’ 1 0 - 30 a m Moresby, 11.40 am Moresby. 12.40 pm Bris., 7.10 pm Bris., 8.25 pm Sydney, 11 pm

2A. Sydney-N. Guinea

Service by Trans Oceanic Airways With Solent Flying-boat Sundays and Wednesdays Depart: Arrive: £fc ney i’t 715 Pm Bris., 10 P“ Bris., 11 pm Moresby, 6.30 am Mondays and Thursdays Moresby, 9.30 am Bris., 5 pm Bris., 6 pm Sydney.. 8.30 pm This service connects at Moresby with the planes of Mandated Airlines, which

provide service to all points in New Guinea.

3. N. Guinea Internal

Services

Operated by Qantas

LAE-MANUS (DCS)

Every Wednesday.

Dep. Lae, 8 am; Finschhaven, Rabaul, Kavleng, Manus (3 pm).

Retums Saturdays (dep. 8 am), same route, arr. Lae, 2.45 pm.

LAE-MADANG-GENERAL SERVICE

Every Monday.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-RABAUL

GENERAL SERVICE

Every Thursday.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Kikori, L. Kutubu. —Every alternate Wednesday: returning same day.

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Catalina)

Alternate Monday.—Dep. 9 am—Abau- Samarai-Esa’ala-Losuia (overnight).

Alternate Tuesday.—Return to Moresby, via Deboyne Lagoon, Samarai, and Abau.

MORESBY-NEW BRITAIN

BOUGAINVILLE

In Alternate Weeks, by Catalina Alternate Monday.—Moresby-Abau-Sama rai-Esa’ ala-Losuia-Rabaul.

Alternate Tuesday.—Rabaul-Q. Carola Har bour-Buka-Kieta - Buin (Bougainville) and return. Inus optional.

Alternate Wednesday.—Rabaul - Talasea- Moewe-Jacquinot 8., and return. Linden hafen optional.

Alternate Thursday.—Rabaul - Losuia-Esa’ ala-Samarai-Abau-Moresby.

MORESBY -N.E. PAPUA (DHB4)

Tuesdays and Fridays Moresby (7.30 am)—Kokoda (8.20 am) Higatura (8.55 am) —and returns to Moresby 10.15 am direct.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (DHB4)

Tuesdays.—Madang (7 am) to Goroka, Kainantu, Aiyura, Arena, as required.

Returns to Madang (noon).

Thursdays.—Madang (7 am) to Wabag.

Baiyer R., Hagen. Optional; Kerowagi.

Chimbu. Returns to Madang (noon).

Fridays.—Lae (6.30 am) to Wabag, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arona, Aiyura, Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Chimbu, KerowAgi, Kup, Non

dugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Ogelben Baiyer R., Wabamunda. Return Lae.

LAE-GARAINA (D|HB4)

Tuesdays.—Departs 7 am; returns 9 am.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (Drover)

Dep. Lae.—Tues., Pri., Sat.

Dep. Wau.—Tues., Pri., Sat.

Time: 65 mins, each way.

Wed.—DCS from Lae to Wau, Bulolo, a' return.

SERVICES BY MANDATED AIRLINES

With headquarters at Lae, this compa: runs regular services for passenge: xreight and mails to all New Guin settlements.

4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin

By Netherlands Government, with DC< Weekly service, between Darwin and Bis Also, new KLM weekly service, calli at Biak, on flight between Manila a Australia.

5. N. Guinea-Solomons

Operated by Qantas Alternate Monday (DC3). —Lae (dep. am) - Pinschhafen - Rabaul - Toraki (Bougain.) - Vellalavella - Yandina Honiara (BSD (arr. 4.25 pm).

Alternate Tuesday.—Honiara (dep. 7 an Yandina - Vellalavella-Toraklna-Raba Pinschhafen-Lae (air. 3.15 pm).

6. Indo-China-Brisbane-

N. Caledonia

By Air France, Monthly.

DC4 (Skymaster) dep. Saigon every days for Labuan-Darwin-Brisba: Noumea, and return.

Australian agents: Messageries Maritinc

7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

y Trans Oceanic Airways, with Flying boats egular twice weekly service.

8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymaster Iternate Thursdays; returning same day.

9. Sydney-New Hebrides

By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying-boats:

Additional services operate subject to the proval of the Governments concerned.

10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva

By Qantas, with Flying-boats, Weekly Depart: Arrive: dney, Thur,. Noumea, Fri., • 9 30 P m 6.30 am umea, Fri., 8.30 am Suva, Fri., 3 pm va, Sat., 6 am Noumea, Sat., . 10.30 am umea, Sat., Sydney, Sat., 12.30 pm 7 45 p m

11. Auckland-Norfolk Is.

*y NZ National Airways, with DC3’s day^ — From AuckJ and, returning same ernate Sundays.—One additional service same day. See also table No. 8.

12. Sydney-Auckland

Tasman E. Airways, with Solents J. Sydney, Wed.. Sat., Sun.. 2 am lly except Sun.. 12 midnight, s., Fri., 7.30 am. ). Auckland, daily, 9 am. Arr. Sydney 2 pm. * * itralian bookings: Qantas or TAA.

13. Sydney-Wellington

Tasman E. Airways, with Solents • Sydney, dally, except Fri., Sat., 10 30 pm.

'• Wellington, daily, except Sat., Sun., 11 am.

I. Melbourne-Christchurch

Tasman E. Airways, with DC4 irs— Dcp. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. Ch’ch 5.15 am next day. —Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., 450 3m.

15. New Zealand-Fiji

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solent Flying-boats.

Depart: Arrive: k and ’ 19^ es ” Suva, Tues., 7 am i<5.JO am a, Tues., 9 am Labasa, Tues., “*■ Tues Suva, Tues.“ pS Noon a. Wed., 7 am Auckland, Wed., 1.30 pm

16. Auckland-Fiji-Samoa-

Cooks

By NZ National Airways Corporation Alternate Wednesdays, by DCS, via Norfolk Is., Nadi (Fiji), Faleolo (W.

Samoa), Aitutaki (Cook Is.)

Alternate Wednesdays—DCS Depart: Arrive: Nadi, 6.45 am Faleolo, 12.30 pm Faleolo, 1.15 pm Nadi, 5 pm • Western Time.

17. New Zealand-Chatham Is.

By Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solent Flying-boats.

During the 1951-52 summer, services

will be operated on following dates:— Nov. 10; Dec, 5, 15; Jan. 30; Mar. 13; April 3.

AUCKLAND-TAHITI .. See p. 15.

18. Tahiti-Cook Islands

By Tahiti Airways, of Papeete Once monthly, from Papeete to Aitutaki (Cook Is.) with mails and passengers, returning same day.

19. Micronesia

Civilian services, based on Guam, using 2-engined amphibious Catalinas, run re gularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West Carolines). Truk (Central Carolines), Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) and Saipan (Marianas). Details from Trans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu.

20. Fiji Internal Airways

By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviland Rapides One daily service between Suva and Nadi and Lautoka and return.

Daily service (except Sunday) from Suva to Labasa and return.

Depart: Arrive : rdney, Alt. Mon., Noumea, Alt. Tue., 9.30 pm 6.30 am umea. Alt. Tue., Vila, Alt. Tue., 8.00 am 10.35 am la, Alt. Tue., Santo, Alt. Tue., 12.5 pm 1.20 pm nto, Alt. Wed., Vila, Alt. Wed., 6.00 am 7.15 am la, Alt. Wed., Noumea, Alt. Wed., 8.15 am 10.55 am umea, Alt. Wed., Sydney, Alt. Wed., 12.30 pm 7.45 pm

Depart: Arrive: Auck., 9 am Norfolk Is.. 12.55 pm Norfolk, 2 pm Nadi, 8.40 pm Nadi. Thur., 10.15 am Faleolo, 4 pm Faleola, 8 am Altutaki, 1.50 pm Altutakl, 2.50 pm Rarotonga, 4 pm Rarot’a, alt. Sat., 8 Altutaki, 9.15 am Altutaki, 10 am Faleolo, 3.15 pm Faleola, Sun., 10 Nadi, 1.45 pm Nadi, 5 am Norfolk, 10.55 am Norfolk, noon Auckland, 4.50 pm

approximate Airways Fares

fhe following figures are not guaranteed :urate, but they are approximately rrect. Details should be obtained from ; Air Company named in the Table, less otherwise indicated, figures are in strallan currency.

"ROM SYDNEY TO— Table

single icetarn no. resby . £39 5 0 £70 13 0 2, 2a, 48 15 0 87 15 0 2, 3 haul ., niara. 61 12 0 110 18 0 2, 3

JSI ..

a, N. tebrides unea, 77 0 0 138 12 0 5 42 10 0 76 10 0 9, rc . .. 37 10 0 67 10 0 10, 9, 6 •folk Is. 25 0 0 45 0 0 8 Howe . i d 1 10 16 0 21 12 0 7 Fiji) . i v a 57 15 0 103 19 0 1 Fiji) • 55 10 0 99 18 0 10 kland Lling- 39 8 0 70 19 0 12 >n . istch. :rom 39 8 0 70 19 0 13 elb.) . 44 2 0 79 8 0 14 LOlUlU . 217 15 0 391 19 0 1 Pran’co 265 10 0 477 18 0 1 couver 265 8 0 477 15 0 1

ROM AUCKLAND TO —

Table Single Return No. f. Is. i d i £ 14 0 0 NZ Less 10% 11, 16 >U1) . v a 31 0 0 . ■ 1, 16 ’iji) . 31 0 0 , 16 10a 39 10 0 , * II 16 k Is. v a 45 0 0 ” 16 lirect) 31 0 0 £55 16 0 15

Modern Hotel For

p. 11

MADANG

r HEN Malaita sailed from Sydney on November 23 there was at least one passenger aboard h plenty of faith in the future of v Guinea as a tourist resort. Mrs.

D. Gilmore, 30 years resident in

the area and re turning to Ma dang after four months’ South, showed the PIM the plans of her new £35,000 luxury hotel.

Work is going ahead rapidly and the official open ing is scheduled for the end of January.

The ultra modem, tropical style hotel is at tractively situated on a neck of land with water on

Je sides, and only a few minutes’ k from the Madang wharf. With rescent lighting throughout, ipletely soundproofed, and the ping accommodation entirely irated from the dining-room and iges, it conforms with modem )ical standards. There will be a Jem sound-system throughout, ling radio or record-player to room, and incorporated with aging system. The culinary de tment will include deep-freeze.

Fijian Language Book

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NO one who has any interest in Fiji can affort to be without that handy volume compiled by the Suva Marist Brothers, “Fijian as Spoken.” It first was published in 1906, and is well known; but the new edition, which has appeared recently, has been so completely revised and enlarged as to really constitute a new book.

The book is skilfully arranged.

The student is taken along, step by step, assisted by phonetic spelling or phonetic indications; and, in a short time, a newcomer to the Colony should be speaking in teligible and reasonably correct Fijian. The vocabulary thus acquired would not go beyond a simple stage however. It would allow one to deal with the material needs of the day; but it would not permit the preaching of a sermon or the writing of an editorial. There is an extensive Fiji-English vocabu lary. Price is 7/6, Fijian.

Index To Advertisers

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tchun, Gabriel 100 Lkta-Vite ... 113 laddin Lamps . 44 ,lois Akun ... 96 luminium Ltd. 48 mplion (A/sia) 96 ngus & Robert son Ltd. ... 30 rdath Tobacco 88 spaxadrene 23, 111 spro 121 /s Thor Dahl 3 aker, W. Jno. 58 ank of NSW . 89 ell, S. P. & Co. 7 Bellhaven” . . 51 erry’s B. B’y’d. 9 “thell, Gwyn . 7 leri, O. & Co. 46 [axland Rae . 97 undell Spence 80 irthwicks Pty. 33 )vril Ltd. . . 54 ay & Holliday 110 •aybon Bros. . 40 ■istol-Myers 43 ■cornfields Ltd. 3 unton & Co. 11l inting’s . 53, 101

P. (NG) ... 69

P. (NH) ... 115

P. (SS) ... 87

P. Trust . . 117 tterfly Supply 126 dbury’s ... 52 ine’s Studios 55 rpenter, W. R. fe Co. 98, cov. iv. rpenter & Co. • Fiji) ... 57 rr, Pountney 81 assifled ... 126 Iman Mustard 29 lonial Meat . 36 lumbia Pic tures ... 28 Iyer Watson (NG) 49, 85, 123 mmonwealth Bank ... 74 rrie & Co. . 25 ammond’s . . 10 stex ... 119 ngar. Gedye & Kalloch ... 11 naghy & Sons 53 nald Ltd. 38, 91 novan. A. . . 5 uglass, W. C. 93 nlop Rubber 116 Donald . . 54 rren Price . 56 rd Sherington 87 rrett, D., M. 128 rrick Hotel . 79 bey, W. & A. 95 llespie Bros. . 46 despie, Robt.

Ltd. . 1, 39, 105 ilespie, Robt.

NG) Ltd. 71, 92 rdon’s Gin . 42 ugh & Co. . 109

P.H. (Suva) . 12

ove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 27, 88 & R. Pty. . 113 Ivorsen Sons 125 avy Equip. . 90 inz & Co. Ltd. 84 rco Pty. . 29, 78 rcules Cycles 58 Hand Rusk . 41

'flicks Ltd. . . 70

unphreys &

McConnell . . 77

geia Co. . . 121 ind Industries 73 Electric Co. 119

Kennedy, Capt. 125 Kerr Bros. Ltd. 42 Kerry, M. Pty. 30 Kolynos, Inc. . 31 Kopsen & Co. 107 Kraft Walker . 115 Lillis & Co. . . 76 Mac Robertson’s 83 Mcllrath’s Ltd. 112 Mendaco ... 116 Merrillees, J. C. 99 Millers Ltd. . . 50 Mobile Equip. . 72 Moderne Knit wear ... 50 Morris Hedstrom 22 Morris Hedstrom (Aust.) Ltd. . 51 Mungo Scott . . 26 Murray Co. . 120 N. & R. Ltd. 6, 34 “Nixoderm” . . 104 Nordman, O. G. 105 P.A. Airways . . 24 Parer Pty. Ltd. 103 Pinkettes ... 112 P.I. Society . . 73 P.I. Trading Co. 47 Proud’s Ltd. . 102 Qantas . . cov. ii.

Qld. Insurance . 31 Quirk’s V.L. . 118 Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies . 108 Reckitt’s Blue . 101 Reed, Wm. E. 32, 108, 124 Riverstone Meat 106 Robinson, G. H. 45 Rohu, Sil . . . 91 Savitz, B. ... 57 Scott, J„ Ltd. 100 Scots School . 49 Seward Ltd. . 100 Shell Co. . . . 55 Sherwin-Williams 35 Simpson Bros. . 84 Sims, A. G. . . 4 Sly’s Ltd. ... 59 Smith Copeland 86

S.M.P. Co. . . 82

Spartan Paints 92 Spruso Co. ... 27 S. Ltd. . . 78 Stewarts-Lloyds 104 Stratford School 26 Sthn. Pac. Ins. 37 Sullivan Ltd. . 41 Swift & Horn dale Ltd. . . 34 Tallerman Ltd. 59 Taylor, A. & Co. 95 T. ... 60 Thornycroft Co. 2 Tilley Lamps - 81 Tillock & Co. . 75 T.O.A. . . cov. iii.

Tongaq( Photos 47 Tooth & Co. . . 37 Turners & Growers Ltd. . 25 Tyneside Eng. . 75 Undersee P. Co. 33 United Traders 71 Vacuum Oil Co. 122 Ventura Co. 8, 128 Vessels for Sale 6,9, 120 Vincent’s APC . 114 Warnock Bros. . 38 West Pty. Ltd. 124 Williams’ Pills 103 Wills Ltd. ... 94 Winstone Seeds 109 Wright & Co. . 5 Wunderlich Ltd. 79 Yorkshire Ins. . 83

In This Issue

p. 14

Editorials: Where are our Defences Against Red Asia? :: Legislative Cel. Breaks Down Official P-NG Reti cences 13-14 Another £5 per ton for Pacific Copra 14 New Hebrides’ Labour Diffi culties 14 Suva Has a New Mayor ... 15 Dr. Macmillan Leaves SP Commission 15 Vila Uneasy over Ambry m Eruption 15 P-NG Legislative Council Opened 17 Air Service for Phosphate Islands .. .. 18 “Pardon” for Wilkinson .. .. 19 Cost of Living in P-NG .. .. 20 £3,000,000 in Stabilisation Fund 20 Territories’ Talk-Talk 21 Fiji’s Indians and the Malaya Battalion 23 Fijian Causes White Australia Trouble 25 P-NG Urged to Grow More Rubber 26 Fall in Sugar Production in Fiji, Australia 27 P-NG Trade Figures 29 Recruiting Saltwater Boys for

RAN 30

Samoan Cocoa Position ... 31 Samoans Get Along Without Us Very Well-—Up to a Point 33 The Starling Arrived in Fiji .. 39 El Ritiro, the Vila Flyer ... 39 Inducing Native Papuans to Grow Rice 41 Lautoka Escapes Moresby Reef 42 Churchill’s 1943 Plan and the Chaos of 1951 43 Why Copra Bags are So Costly 45 BSI Govt. Aid to Medical Missions 50 The Isles of Unwisdom 51 Suva Wharf Will be Repaired— But Not Yet 55 NZRE Benefits W. Samoa ... 55 TB in Tonga—Visitor Urges Use of Vaccine 57 Active Tax Dodgers in Fiji .. 59

MAGAZINE SECTION:

No longer off the Record 61 Crossquiz 62 Tropicalities 63 Round and About in Fiji .. 64 The Mules that Wouldn’t .. 67 New Guinea Women Sentenced for Drinking 71 News Notes from the Goldfields 77 Dry Samoa! 78 US Territories Welcomed to the SPC 79

Rabaul Social Life 8 Fleeing from City Frustrations to Seek Utopia 8 Huge Crocodile Taken in Ex citing Fight .. 8 Praise for Suva’s Wharf Labourers 8 Muddled Shipping in Vila .. 8 NZ Catalina Carries US Visitors to Pago Pago 8 Tragedy of the Pensioned — Black Outlook for Retired Islands Officials .. 8 Leprosy on Nauru 9 Of Ships & Sailormen—Ship lovers’ Society of Victoria .. 9 News Notes from Vavau .. .. 1C Another Native Messiah Goes to Gaol 1C Notes from Lae 11 New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney 11 Norfolk Is. Fatal Explosion .. II OBITUARY: Lady Barker; Sir Peter Buck; The Rev. C.

Beharell; A. J. Tattersall; E. E. De Brath; R. McMil liams; S. R. Foy; Capt.

Victor Brisson; Mrs. Joe Winchester; T. E. Bunkley; Christian Jensen; Franz Franzen; Madame de Vas seau Devaux; Dan Cos tello 119-121, IS South Pacific Commission .. IS Small Craft News IS Markets, Commercial, etc. .. IS

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In South Pacific.

Where Are Our Defences Against Red Asia?

pp. 15-16

HE extreme political unrest of the Oriental world is reach ing down through Indonesia, i almost touching Australia. n the last few weeks, these tigs have happened: China, iting the Western nations in rea. is beginning to disclose rming air power. The Reds have ipleted the invasion of Tibet, I have been involved in a revo on in Siam. The Red-inspired ellions in Malaya and Indo na have worsened. The anti tish trouble in Persia is build up to another outburst. There growing restlessness in Iraq, ia, Lebanon, Israel. Egypt is king itself up into war with tain. Turkey has been solemnly ned against the West by Russia. fe here are immediately con ned with events in the New nea-Indonesia area. Since the toval of the Dutch, there has a steady spcial, political and aomic deterioration throughout onesia. It is manifesting itself •evolt in some of the archipela 3, and that revolt is bound to ime worse. he Indonesian Government, 'ever remains vociferous and tically aggressive. One day it 5 to Australia; next day,’ it seches at us all because Aus ia is said to be friendly to the ch m Western New Guinea, he Dutch, holding the Western ;> to co-operate with the '‘Sh. holding the Eastern half, •he development of New Guinea,

the world s biggest island, and one of the richest. It is quite a sound idea. The arrival in Port Moresby, the other day, of the Governor of Dutch New Guinea, with some of his high officials, for friendly talks, seemed a proper and logical thing, AUSTRALIA’S “Foreign” Minis ter, Mr .Casey, visited The Hague in November. He was reported by the New York Times to have spoken in favour of an economic union between Dutch and Australian New Guinea.

There seemed to be nothing wrong with that. But before the Indonesians could start howling, Prime Minister Menzies hurried out a flat denial of the report; and Mr.

Casey, now in London, also issued a contradiction. But the Indone sians howled, just the same.

The New York Times, which is not a sensation-monger and is generally reliable, said that Aus tralia was most anxious, for defence reasons, that the Dutch should hold West New Guinea firmly against the Indonesians; and Mr. Casey had undertaken that Australia would, if necessary, support the Dutch in their stand. The newspaper said Mr. Casey’s proposals included: • A joint Australian-Dutch air and sea patrol around New Guinea. • Australian aid in re-building Dutch New Guinea airfields which the United States built in the war. • Economic co-operation in de veloping Dutch New» Guinea’s natural resources.

The reader may assess the pro babilities for himself. This writer hopes that the New York Times is right.

Why should the Australian poli tical leaders worry about the feel ings of the Indonesians, whose political ineptitude is creating, every day, a wider channel for the ultimate approach of the Asiatic Reds to Australia, and all the lands of the South Pacific?

A map which accompanied an in teresting article in Sydney Daily Telegraph on November 18 showed that the great air-sea base at Manus—now steadily coming back into effective occupation by American as well as Australian forces—is within 2,600 miles of Japan, Hong Kong, and all In donesia. The strategic importance of Manus, in relation to New Guinea and Indonesia, cannot be exaggerated.

WHEN the Dutch New Guinea Governor, Mr, S. L. J. van Waardenburg. was in Port Moresby recently, he said the Dutch Government has provided Dutch New Guinea with a 3 per cent, loan of 40 million guilders; and there would be a lot more money for the development of the Territory if its political status could be fixed. The new loan will be used for the build ing of communications, and especially ports at Hollandia, Merauke and Sorong.

When an Australian Socialist Government connived at the re moval of the Americans from Manus, and the Dutch from In donesia. it did Australia and the South Pacific countries a disservice that can be measured only in terms

of history. Maybe, an Australian anti-Socialist Government can undo some of that harm by establishing the Dutch in Western New Guinea, and encouraging the return of the Americans to Manus.

Australian and New Zealand Mlnisters are always ready to talk platitudes about their planning in certain limited sections of the Pacific. ;But when they are asked

to express a clear-cut over-all policy in relation to a vital thing like the defence of the South Pacific against the mounting power of Red Asia, they run like scared rabbits. It would be, for us in the South Pacific, a very dis heartening picture, if it were not for the growing strength and firm ness of the Americans in the North Pacific.

Legislative Council Breaks Down Official Reticences

IN its issues of Nov. 30 and Dec. 7, the South Pacific Post, of Port Moresby, did an excellent job of reporting the sessions of the new Legislative Council, which was for mally opened on November 26.

This was the first time that all classes in the Territory—and es pecially the non-official Europeans —had had an opportunity of really getting face-to-face with the Ad ministrator and his Departmental heads, in a survey of Territories affairs.

As a result suggestions were offered, criticisms made and ques tions asked on a generous scale; and for once, from behind the iron cur tain of official reticence, there flowed a stream of information such as P-NG has rarely experienced.

Most of it was real news.

The Moresby newspaper, very wisely, dropped all else and con

centrated on reporting the Council discussions; with the result that the Territories got the best budget of information on matters which concern them personally, which they had had since the war.

If this system is followed —frank discussions at the Legislative Council, and adequate reporting of same—much of the savage discon tent that has been manifested against the Administration will tend to disappear.

Residents, with a better under standing of the Administration’s problems, will be more tolerant.

Officialdom, realising that it is to be subjected to merciless question ing at Council meetings, will be more inclined to hurry matters along to decision and action.

An alert Council, plus good news paper service, should be of real benefit to the war-battered Territories.

With Regret

p. 16

PIM RATES ARE RAISED—

AS indicated in November, we are compelled, owing to big in creases and pending increases in our three main items of production cost—paper, wages and postages—to fix higher rates for Pacific Islands Monthly subscrip tions and advertisements, as from January 1. r ..

By reducing the page-size of the PIM we avoided taking this step during 1951, although costs had risen sharply. But the vicious spiral still goes on; all manufac turers are being compelled to raise their prices, or go out of business; and, with much reluctance, we can only follow suit.

The subscription for the PIM, after January 1, will be at the rate of 24/- Australian per annum, paid in advance, (single copies 2/-) for all readers in South Pacific Terri tories, except New Caledonia and French Oceania, where the rate will be 27/- per annum. This in cludes postage. Elsewhere, the new rate is 30/- per annum United States, and Canada, 31 Dollars.

The new rates for advertising are being sent to all persons interested.

The increase is in about the same ratio —not enough to absorb all the new costs, but enough to allow us to continue functioning.

PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS

PTY. LTD.

S amoan Trade Promises

p. 16

A Record

APIA, Dec. 3.

rIS year’s figures will show that Samoa’s production and export of cocoa beans will exceed 3,000 tons, while copra exports will exceed 15,000 tons. With cocoa and copra at their present prices, it is apparent that the" value of 1951 exports will reach an all time high—well on towards £1,000,000.

Exports of bananas and desiccated coconut have fallen. Owing to an acute shortage of local food, Samoans have been eating their own bananas; while the price available has not encouraged pro duction of processed coconut.

The APC bore at Hohoro, Pamia, is now down to 9,940 ft.; the IE Go’s, at Omati, is at 8.921 ft. This is about as deep as they go. A third “seismic party” has arrived in Papua and is working in the region between the Turama and Bamu rivers.

Owing to ill health. Mr. A. J.

Smeaton has resigned from the Directorate of Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd., New Guinea. Mr. W.

J. Macgregor has been appointed to the vacancy.

Per Ton

p. 16

ANOTHER £5

FOR PACIFIC COPRA

COPRA authorities in the Sou Pacific have been advised th the British Ministry of Fo< proposes to raise the copra contra price for the 1952 period of tl nine-year-contract, by the maximu amount of 10 per cent.

This will mean a rise of betwei £5 and £6 per ton for British cop producers in the Pacific during 19{ This is nothing to be grateful f( Ever since Britain, after making tl nine-year contract in 1948-49, d valued Sterling by over 30 per cen British Pacific copra producers ha been deprived of about £4O per tc Non-British Pacific copra growe: being able to enjoy the wor market, have been getting t: equivalent of £BO-£l2O Sterling, Cl European ports.

Labour

p. 16

NEW HEBRIDE

Plans To Use Javanese ar Italians

From Our Own Correspondent

NOUMEA, Dec. 3.

IN Paris, M. Durand Revil Senator for Gabon, has giv to the paper he owns (La Pres de I’Union Francaise) an arti( dealing with the labour problem the New Hebrides.

He says that at present only 3 Tonkinese out of 1,800 are worki on plantations, and he asks t.

French Government to study t matter and to establish an “Imir gration Bureau.”

The French authorities introduc in the New Hebrides over 2.G Tonkinese from French Indo-Chir on five years’ contracts. The To kinese proved fairly good worke Recruited prior to World War they could not be repatriated at t end of five years owing to shippi: shortage and were allowed to i main in the Condominium as fr citizens. A certain number becar small shopkeepers and the othe worked as casual labourers.

The French authorities repatriat a certain number of them duri 1948 and 1949. To replace the the French brought in Javane labourers, the first boat-load whom arrived in 1949.

In 1951, a French settler C Grazziani) arranged for Itali labourers to be introduced into t Condominium. It is said, in V and Noumea, that the first si load of Italians has left Genoa.

Suva Has New Mayor

p. 17

From Our Own Correspondent f

SUVA, Nov. 19

The Suva Town Council on fovember 14 elected as Mayor, Mr. ». M. N. McFarlane, a prominent )licitor.

Mr. McFarlane was elected to the buncil when the elective system as restored in 1949. Councillors re elected for a three-year term, at the Mayor is elected annually a a councillors’ ballot.

The retiring Mayor, Sir Alport arker, CBE, had held the post for iree years, after a long term as lairman of the Govemment- Dminated Town Council. He was Iso the last Mayor of Suva under le municipality abolished in the 130’s.

After his election, by five votes to iree, the new Mayor moved a lotion expressing high apprecia on of Sir Alport’s work in the lunicipal life of Suva for more lan 40 years.

“The change in Mayor is in no ay a reflection upon you, Sir Al jrt,” Mr. McFarlane said. “A •eat deal of your working life and )ur spare time has been devoted i the interests of this town and le welfare of the taxpayers. Both idy Barker and yourself are well lown and respected figures in this unmunity, and we feel sure that ie work you have done for Suva ill live on.”

The motion was enthusiastically ipported by all members.

R. Macmillan Leaves

p. 17

S. PACIFIC COMMISSION

IOR reasons which have not been disclosed, the South Pacific Commission demanded and re ived the resignation of Dr. H. G. acMillan, head of the Economic evelopment section of the Re arch Council; and Dr. MacMillan Ivises that he will be leaving the rvice of the Commission, and oumea, early in the New Year.

Dr. MacMillan was appointed in 48. He spent some 20 years as a ithologist in the US Department Agriculture, and he then was in le service of other official bodies the Pacific Islands as an agri- Qtural economist. He speaks :ench, German and Spanish.

NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL

After the meeting of the Com ission in October, Sir Brian Free on, late Governor of Fiji, pro dded to Noumea and settled in to s new position as Secretary eneral of the Commission.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Trotter and their lighter returned to Suva in Nov nber after visiting the USA and K.

Auckland-Tahiti

p. 17

May be Monthly Service

From December 27

ALTHOUGH daily newspapers have repeatedly announced an “inaugural” flight by Tasman Empire Airways Limited between Auckland and Tahiti, the new fly ing-boat service actually has not yet commenced.

A Solent, carrying a large official party, passed through Suva on November 27; and, after calls at Apia (West Samoa) and Aitutaki (Cook Islands), the party was warmly feted by the Tahiti com munity, led by the Governor of French Oceania (M. Petitbon). But this appears to have been only the last of the several survey flights.

TEAL, in mid-December, were tentatively taking bookings for a flight leaving Auckland on Decem ber 27; with an overnight stop at Suva, no call at Apia (where land ing facilities are not complete) and a stop at Aitutaki en route to Papeete. Subject to certain facili ties being provided, it was hoped thereafter to run a monthly ser vice, along the route named, with the call at Apia included. Qantas are the Australian agents of TEAL

Vila Uneasy Over Ambrym

p. 17

Prom Our Own Correspondent

NOUMEA, Dec. 5.

NOW that there is almost con tinuous volcanic action at Mounts Benbow and Marram, on Ambrym Island, New Hebrides, life is becoming uneasy in Port Vila.

Mounts Benbow and Marram are sending up huge columns of smoke, and heavy clouds of pumice dust are hanging over the archipelago.

The Resident Commissioner for France, M. Anthonioz, who has arrived in Noumea for a holiday, says that Vila is suffering from the eruptions, although they are taking place over 100 miles away, A few days ago, pumice fell for hours on the town, causing damage. “And, as the weather is very dry,” added the Resident Commissioner, “Vila has not much water.”

On Ambrym itself, ashes in some places are now more than 4 feet deep. Much vegetation is dying off.

Most plantations are being ruined and it is said in Vila that the pro ductivity of the island is finished for a great number of years.

* Young Tony Taylor’ is

Called to New Hebrides

From Our Own Correspondent

MORESBY, Dec. 2

THE official vulcanologist in Papua-New Guinea, Mr. G. A.

Taylor, at the request of the New Hebrides Administration, is

about to make an inspection of the big volcano at Ambrym.

Mr. Taylor’s first appointment was watchdog to Rabaul’s volcanoes.

His routine changed overnight in January 1951, when Mt. Lamington erupted. He has received much praise for his work there.

Papua-N. Guinea Travellers

p. 17

John Franklin, Noel Owers and Peter Owers returned to Wau per Qantas for the school holidays.—RlGHT: Mr. H.

Ricketts proceeded per plane on transfer from Shepparton (Vic.) to take up an appointment as accountant at Common wealth Bank, Lae.

Edmund Tsang and Tommy Sieto, of St.

Bernard’s School, Katoomba, returned by Qantas to Lae for the school holidays.— Miss C. Grubb, who was employed in Rabaul in 1945, returned by Bulolo for one month’s holiday.

Mr. A. R. Lamont, connected with the NG gold industry for the past 20 years, returned to Wau, after leave in Australia.— RIGHT (reading from left): Sister M.

Anne, Sister M. Beatrice, Sister M. Jane Francis (Order of Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) were passengers on Bulolo. Sisters Anne and Beatrice were returning to Port Moresby after visiting Ireland and France, following 17 and 23 years’ service in NG respectively. Sister Jane Francis, going to NG for the first time, will be stationed at Nimoa, in the mountains of E. Papua. She is a fully trained nurse.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Briggs (Civil Aviation Dept., P. Moresby) returned after six weeks’ leave in Australia, “and glad to be going back.”—RIGHT: Mr. R. P. Walker (manager of Colyer Watson’s Kavieng branch) returned from leave in Australia by December Bulolo.

Legislative Council:

p. 18

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

In furtherance of its deter mination to encourage the pro duction of rice in Papua-New

Guinea, the P-NG Administration

has inviteH f.ho Chief of the revision

Department of Agriculture (Mr. W.

Poggendorff) to visit the Territories in January, He will make a survey of both high and low country, to nspert.a.in their snitahilitv for rieei

Western Somoa’s first casualty in

the Korean war was notified in an

official New Zealand Casuality list

on November 11 when it was announeeri that. Gunner A. Ah Mn

Regiment had been accidentally in jured while on service in Korea.

Gunner Ah Mu, one of half a dozen

of Western Samoan soldiers fight

insr in Korea is the son of MVs J

BACK ROW: Aisoli Salln, T. P. M.

Byrne, Rev. F. G. Lewis, J. R. Foldi, E.

A. James, J. B. McAdam. Obscured: B. P.

Essal (Clerk Assistant).

ABSENT: J. K. McCarthy.

—Photo, Papuan Prints.

THIRD ROW: Simogen, C. Champion, S.

Elliott Smith, W. W. Watkins, B. E.

Fairfax-Ross, I. F. Champion, Rev. D. E.

Ure.

FOURTH ROW: D. I. McAlpin (Clerk of Council), J. B. Sedgers, Dr. J. T. Gunther, H. L. R. Nlall, C. M. Jacobson, D. Barrett.

Left to Right — FRONT ROW: Mrs. Doris Booth. His Honour the Administrator, Mr. D. M.

Cleland.

SECOND ROW: J. H. Jones, H. H. Reeve, W. C. Groves, E. P. Holmes, C. C. Marr, Father J. Dwyer, Merari Dickson.

P-Ng Legislative Council

pp. 19-113

OPENED

New Channel for Reaching Moresby and Canberra

rS Legislative Council which was established at Port Moresby on November 26 is not i new thing: it is new only so far is the Papua-New Guinea combined idministration is concerned. Before World War 11, both the Mandated territory of NG, and the old Aus ralian Territory of Papua had .legislative Councils, set up to assist nd advise the Administrations.

The new Council, however, has ome new features, summarised hus: • It has rather wider powers than leretofore in the making of new aws, and its general procedure con orms more than previously to that f an Australian Parliament. (But 11 its Ordinances are subject to ac eptance by the Administrator and ome, over and above that, to ap proval by the Commonwealth Par ament.) • Of the 29 members, three Euro eans are elected by popular vote, ill the others are there either ex fficio, or as the nominees of the idministrator. • Three of the nominated mem ers are natives.

A very wide range of subjects was iscussed by the Council during its vo weeks’ session; but, over all, was re consciousness that, through the x officio members, and because of is power of nomination and veto, le Council was entirely subject to le control, of the Administrator.

Everyone is agreed, however, that the first session of the Coun cil has been very successful, and a big step forward in P-NG government.

MORESBY’S HECTIC WEEK

For Port Moresby, the first was a eek of ceremonies and talk.

On Saturday, November 24, the .dministrator of the Common ealth, Sir John Northcott (acting i the absence of the Governor ieneral, then abroad), and the [mister for Territories, Mr. Paul lasluck, arrived by plane.

The visitors were accommodated t Government House and that irening, at dinner, they were the nests of the Papua Club.

On Sunday, a Commonwealth arhamentary delegation of five, ac- Jmpanied by the Department’s ecretary, Mr. C. R. Lambert, ar ved by air. Mr. Lambert went to bvemment House and the Parlia lentarians to the Hotel Papua.

On Monday, 26th, natives gathered i their thousands to see the In nguration.

Military units and Papuan Police araded; the highest officials took ie salute; and then everyone pro dded to the new Red Cross Hall,

temporary meeting-place of the Council.

Sir John Northcott delivered an inaugural address and then, at the request of the Minister, administered the oath of office, as President of the Council, to the Administrator (Colonel Murray).

At 4 pm, the President took the chair; the new Councillors were sworn in; they were addressed by the Minister (Mr. Hasluck) and by members of the Parliamentary dele gation; the President delivered an address; some of the new Council lors spoke; and the draft of the Standing Orders were tabled.

That evening, at the Hotel Papua, a Territorial Dinner, at tended by all the local people who could be accommodated, celebrated the opening of the Council.

Early next morning, Sir John Northcott and Mr. and Mrs. Has luck departed for Australia.

THE NEW COUNCIL

Later in the day, the Council dealt with various formalities and then settled down to serious dis cussions. The following constituted the new Council; — President; The Administrator.

Ex Officio Members: D. M.

Cleland, Claude Champion, J. H.

Jones, Dr. J. T. Gunther, Ivan Champion, H. H. Reeve, W. C.

Groves, C. C. Marr, E. P. Holmes, J.

B. McAdam, W. W. Watkins, T. P.

M. Byrne, H. L. R. Niall, J. K. Mc- Carthy, J. R. Foldi, S. Elliott-Smith.

Elected Members: D. Barrett (New Guinea Islands), C. M. Jacobsen (New Guinea Mainland), E. A.

James (Papua).

Nominated Non-Official Members Missions: Revs. D. E, Ure, J.

Dwyer, F. G. Lewis.

Native Members.: Merari Dickson, Aisoli Salin, Simogen.

Non-Official Members: B. E.

Fairfax-Ross, Mrs. D. R. Booth, J.

B. Sedgers.

A very big business paper had been arranged.

The following are some of the main points of interest in the in numerable speeches delivered:—

CHINESE COMMUNITY

A broad outline of policy was given by Sir John Northcott. Sub ject to protection of the rights and future of the natives, he said, it was the intention of Australia to develop the Territory by private en terprise and by encouraging new settlement, especially by former servicemen.

(Continued on Page 105)

It had been noted that, although here is a large, healthy and growing Jhinese community in New Guinea, 10 provision had been made for [irect Chinese representation in the Jouncil. Sir John made this com aent: “As for that section of the inmigrant population which is not f European origin, we recognise hat their future is bound up with hat of the rest of the Territory and hat they can make their contribu ion to the deVelppment of the ountry. They should be encouraged ) feel that their hope for the future es in association with Australians i a common task, a common oppor unity and a common allegiance, he fact that European, Asiatic and ative have all suffered in the de snce of this country and that mem ers of each group have been onoured for their service to the ling should help to bind them in Dmmon endeavour in peacetime,”

NATIVE LABOUR SUPPLY

On the subject of a native labour ipply, Sir John Northcott said:— Native labour cannot be regarded s a perpetual supply. Already langes in the personal inclination f natives who are free agents in lis matter are discernible. We

consider the Territory will have to think more purposefully in terms of greater mechanisation and the raising of the skill of the individual workman.”

PURPOSE OF THE COUNCIL

This Council provided an oppor tunity, hitherto lacking, for the clear and responsible expression of opinion by various sections of the

community, said Mr. Hasluck. He hoped to see an honest interchange of views on matters of common in terest, an avoidance of sectionalism —“that stubborn defence of pre pared positions which is character istic of argument in some older assemblies.”

He urged members during Council sessions to take the fullest

ivantage of “question time” to id out what was going on in the aim of administration.

The composition of the Council is not fixed. Its constitution and >wers would be altered in the fht of experience.

“It is the purpose of the Com onwealth Government to make ovision so that, continuously over number of years, major develop ental works, the encouragement industry, and the extension of cial policy can take place on such scale as to ensure both the pro ess of the Territory and the ful ment of our obligations to its ople.”

PROBLEM OF FINANCE:

TAXATION

In his survey of the economic and lancial position, the Minister said e Commonwealth had voted ,371,000 to the Territory; the Tritory’s own revenue of 720.000 would provide a total in tne of £7,091,000; which was about 30.000 more than last year. Steps ire being taken to ensure that, though the estimates had been merely cut, efficiency and develop mt would not suffer unduly. The blic service would be set at 1,400, lich was 110 higher than last ar, but definitely less than the 25 of the approved establishment, rhe Minister was listened to most refully—residents were anxious to ow whether there was to be in me taxation. But, on this sub :t, this was all the Minister said: ‘Another matter to which atten n will be given is the most equit le way in which a local contribu n to revenues to be expended in 3 Territory can be made. ‘The Government does not wisn take any actions which would icourage developmental and pro ctive activities; but it believes at some of the wealth derived >m the Territory should be mghed back into the Territory. ‘We observe, too, that a number services to which the user cus narily contributes in other lands 5 here provided at low cost or ' nothing.” rhe Administrator (Colonel Mur y) said much the same thing in sse words: ‘Additional sources of taxation 11 have to be tapped. We must asider ways and means of bievmg this, such as the collec n of appropriate forms of direct cation, the introduction of stamp ties, and generally the taxation such commercial and industrial tiyities as may be capable of armg taxation without undue ect on the incentive to provide 'vice and develop this Territory.”

HIGHER CUSTOMS DUTY

rhe introduction to the Council a Bill authorising a 10 por cent, rcharge on all dutiable goods en 'ing PNG caused a shock. Non icial members protested that this

would add substantially to the al ready high cost of living.

Official members retorted that, although PNG was committed to huge additional expenditure, com pared with 1950-51, only £700,000 additional income was available this year. Either additional income must be found, or many important developmental works must cease.

The measure was adopted, but in the face of strong non-official dis content.

ADMINISTRATOR’S SURVEY

In formally opening the Council the Administrator (Colonel J. K.

Murray) gave a lengthy and in formative survey of administration responsibility and activity in the combined Territories.

He commented upon the progress

“made in the social and political development of the native people”; the work of the Missions, especially in education, where they main tained over 2,000 native schools; the work still to be done in re lation to health and education; and the importance of encouraging in dustrial development.

SHIPPING SERVICES

The Production Control Board has taken over control, for the Com monwealth Government, of the inter-island shipping services and plans are in hand by the PCB, the Territories and the Shipping De partments “to bring the shipping services more fully into line with current and prospective require ments.” The introduction of the Polurian by Bougainville interests

was welcome and it was hoped that private enterprise would further extend in this direction. (Adminis trator) .

PCB is to be replaced at once by a Commerce Board of 5 members.

PRICE OF COPRA

Referring to the MOF copra con tract, which has six years to run, and planters’ discontent with the returns therefrom in comparison with world values, the Adminis trator said: “Negotiations are in train with United Kingdom authorities with the object of gaining 'producers some of the benefits of the current high open-market prices.” (See p. 14.)

FUTURE TERRITORIES’

INDUSTRIES

Referring to other industries, the Administrator said that the two major gold companies had turned to timber projects “which promise a perpetual forest industry”; and that, if the right standards are maintained, “there should never be any real difficulty in selling all the Territory’s output to Australia.”

Cocoa production had “very good prospects.” Coffee production was increasing and in some areas, where there was native labour, was probably the best crop.

He described the production of fibres as “most promising.” He em phasied the world shortage of jute, etc., and said that important ex periments were afoot with Kenaf, Manilla hemp, Sisal hemp, and Pandanus fibre.

“Rice grows successfully in many parts”; and “rice production should be increased up to about 20,000 tons p.a., so that we will not be dependent on imports for this im portant item of native labour rations.”

It was hoped to establish cattl. production in the Territory, and target of 40,000 head had been se to make PNG self-sufficient in be and milk. There were now on some 4,000 head in PNG. The At ministration had established cattl, breeding stations in key locations.,

FUTURE OF RABAUL

There was a concensus of opinic that Rabaul, as a residential are should be abandoned, said the At ministrator. The problem w where to place the residential are and where the wharf faciliti should go.

He said that, under the Ministei instructions all necessary data w being assembled, “so that early the New Year a decision can 1 made in exact terms."

MARKHAM BRIDGE

The wartime Wau-Labu road being continuously improved and carrying increasing traffic. The ir portant Markham Point bridge, eliminate the existing ferry link wi Lae, was to have been commenct this year. The materials for tl bridge are still being accumulate The date of the commencement construction will depend on tl availability of funds. —Admini trator.

MFC’s LOST IN WAR

In his opening address, the Ai ministrator (Colonel J. K. Murra; recalled that the following membe of the old New Guinea Legislatf Council were lost through w; causes following the Japanese ii vasion.

Messrs. H. Adams, R. L. Clarke, R. Field, G. F. Hogan, George ] Murray, Harold Page, V, A, Pra and H. O. Townsend.

Subsequently, death had carri( off the following Council member

x. E. Aumuller, A. Jewell, S. R. )ldham, S. Smith, and F, W.

Williams.

THE NATIVE MEMBERS

The apppearance of native mem ers in the new Council was r atched with interest and curiosity, y both Councillors and spectators.

The three native members con ucted themselves with quiet ignity, and were neither obtru ve nor “flash.”

Aisoli Salin, on behalf of the iree natives, spoke briefly and Bfectively during the opening sremonies on the 26th. In his jeech—which, of course, had been repared and carefully vetted by Eficials —he expressed appreciation I the help the native peoples have ;ceived from the Europeans, be >ught sympathetic assistance in the iture, and hoped that, in time, ative members would contribute >mething valuable to the work of le Council.

Merari Dickson made a real con ibution to debates.

\ NATIVE MEDICAL SERVICE

The principle of creating a Native

Medical Service within the De partment of Public Health was generally approved; but a Bill authorising same was postponed for further consideration because it was feared that, unless great care was taken, standards of pay and service for natives would be es tablished which might have a crippling effect upon native em ployment by industries generally.

OVERALL PLAN AND LAND

TITLES

Responding to a strong and logically - expressed plea by Mr.

Barrett for an over-all plan for the development of PNG, in which all sections of the community might co-operate—and in which he em phasised the importance of defining a land policy and making land titles available —Mr. Cleland made some interesting statements.

He agreed with Mr. Barrett that real co-operation in planning and achievement could best be effected at District Office level.

He said the task of making land available would be accelerated.

A Land Titles Commissioner had

een appointed for NG, and a Fative Land Commissioner would e appointed soon. A policy must Don be adopted in relation to ative lands.

Four areas—Gazelle Peninsula, [arkham Valley, Mambare area Northern Division) and Port [oresby hinterland were now larked for early investigation in jlation to settlement; and a survey I areas in the Wau district, to ssess suitability for agriculture, ;c.. was proceeding.

THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM

A Bill to amend the judicial rstem was introduced, but it was that this was only to per lit a jury to be empanelled in the fust Territory for the trial of uropeans on capital charges. There as no provision for a jury in ■iminal cases.

Father Dwyer suggested that the ock-Wilkmson case indicated that reform was necessary to allow for ial by jury in all criminal cases, e urged the simplification of the

Dpeals channel—something to re

ace the costly procedure of appeal i the High Court.

The Crown Law Officer, Mr. Wat ns, said that an Appeal Court (a nil Court of the Supreme Court) as not possible at this stage.

VARIOUS

Mr. Fairfax-Ross pointed out that any navigation beacons were issing, along the coast-line of apua.

The Council passed an Appren- Deship Bill. Mr. Groves explained iat it was designed to regulate the lationship between employers and itive lads who were accepted as jprentices.

To facilitate the settlement of de based estates, the Council agreed a Bill providing for the registra nn of deaths which occured in artime, in circumstances which ade a death certificate impossible obtain.

Sharp comment upon the number undesirable Europeans in the srritories was made by Mrs. Booth.

She said that men with criminal records had been allowed in and they were encouraging bad practices —especially alcoholism —among the natives.

Mr. Barrett declared that the in cidence of TB in some districts of the Gazelle Peninsula was alarming, and he deplored the supension of work on the Bita Paka hospital.

Students Receive

p. 19

DIPLOMAS

UNDER the Directorship of Mr.

C. D. Rowley, the School of Pacific Administration, at Mosman, Sydney, is building up a sound and healthy spirit.

This is reflected in the School’s monthly journal, where young officers of the Administration now are encouraged to write of their experiences and elaborate their ideas. Some of these articles are definitely helpful.

A writer in the November issue made a strong plea on behalf of District Officers for less desk work and more time in the field.

This is exactly what many non official observers have been urging for some years. The extraordinary multiplication of form-filling duties in P-NG in recent years has tended to reduce the value of the District Services.

There was an important ceremony at the School on the afternoon of December 14, when Diplomas won by the students who had success fully completed the two-years’ course were formally conferred upon the students as follows:

BROWN, K. A. COLLINS, G. D.

(1, 2,3) COPLEY, B. T. (4> DRIVER, F. G.

ENGLISH, W. M. FOSTER, L. R.

GAYWOOD, H. C. GEELAN, R. M.

(4) JOHNSTON, W. J. KELLY, W. J. (2) (1)

KIMMORLEY, C. W. LIDDLE, C. W.

McCABE, B. A. (3) McLEOD, J. S.

MURDOCH, W. G. MARCUS, B. B. O. (1, 2,3, 4} ROBB, F, P. V. SEBIRE, P. F. (1, 2, 3. 4)

SINGLE, C. V. TOLHURST, N. M.

(2, 3) TOMASETTI, W. E. WEARNE, G. R. (4) (1. 2,3)

WEBB, R. A. WILLIAMSON, K. R.

WREN, D. E.

Figures following names indicate that that student has been given special credit in (1) History, (2) Law, (3) Colonial Administration, (4) Anthropology.

Papua-N. Guinea News

p. 20

From Our Own Correspondent

PORT MORESBY, Dec. 10

NEW ALTERNATIVE AIRSTRIP

Construction of the new air strip on Fishermen Island, off Port Moresby, is finished, and the aero drome will be opened as soon as the runway is consolidated.

This is an important airfield, as it will provide an alternative landing ground when adverse weather com pels the temporary closing of Jackson’s strip. Until now, when the latter has been closed, planes on the north-bound run have had to go straight through to Lae; and, similarly, south-bound aircraft from Lae were compelled to go on to the first North Queensland airport.

This has involved carrying extra fuel reserve, with consequent re duction of payload.

At certain seasons in the year too, heavy mists blot out Jacksons, and planes have then had to stay on a money-wasting circling flight until the fog lifted.

UNDERGRADS AS MEDICAL

ASSISTANTS

Somewhere around 10 medical undergraduates from universities in Australia are going to have an exceedingly interesting long vacation over the Christmas and New Year period, working as medical assist ants in the Territory.

Last year, three future medicos put in their two-months Christmas vacation on this work in the Territory, and now the maximum authorised by the Territories Minister has been raised to 10.

They will pay their own return fares, and they will help to tem porarily overcome the Health Department’s shortage of European medical assistants. At present the number is 20 below strength.

MORE VOLCANOES?

There are plenty of shortages in the Territory, but there is certainly no lack of volcanoes. Recently, a pilot on a routine supply flight in the Popondetta area ONE Papua) spotted a cluster of five small craters south of the Hydrographer Range, between Mount Lamington and the coast.

On the next aerial trip the official vulcanologist, Mr. G. A. Taylor, from the Sangara Seismic Station, went along and cast a professional eye over the countryside. His report said the group comprised three small, perfect cones, and two large vents, and they might be “parasitic vents of a major volcano,” which might be located in the near by Hydrographer Range. But this theory needed confirmation by a detailed survey of the district. He considered the well-preserved form of the craters suggested they were of comparatively recent origin. The slopes were grass-covered, and showed little evidence of erosion.

Phosphate Islands

p. 20

AIR SERVICE FOR

“/ANE good result of the Japanese V/ occupation of Nauru was that they left behind them a large airstrip,” said Mr. John Howse, MP.

Assistant to the Australian Minister for Territories.

Mr. Howse said that when he visited Nauru with the Minister in November their DCS landed smoothly on the Nauru strip; and it now was hoped that an aircraft will, every two months, carry freight and passengers from New Guinea, via Honiara (Solomons) to Nauru, and Tarawa Island, in the Gilbert & Ellice Colony.

The plane, going from Nauru to Tarawa, flies almost directly over Ocean Island, which is the big in dustrial centre of the Gilbert & Ellice Colony. But there is no land ing-strip on Ocean Island, which is simply a huge, upheaved mass of broken coral.

“I once made a land survey of Ocean Island,” said Mr. H. E.

Maude, formerly Resident Com missioner in the Gilbert & Ellice Colony, “and I think I walked over every acre of it. Nowhere is there a bit of ground suitable for conver sion into an airstrip, except at enormous cost.”

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Derrick re turned to Suva, from the UK, in the November Aorangi.

A snapshot of a small family party at the christening of newly-arrived Jeffrey William Reid, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Reid, of Port Vila, New Hebrides. The god-parents were Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Seagoe. The photo shows Mrs. Reid, hold ing the baby, Mr. Reid, and Rev. James Edwards, who performed the ceremony.

Daily Suva-Labasa

p. 20

SERVICE

SUVA, Dec. 101

NOW that TEAL is taking ov the NZ-Fiji-Polynesian se; vices, and NZ National At ways are moving out, the new ii ternal air service, Fiji Airways, accepting responsibility for tl Nausori-Labasa service. Fiji Aii ways will make its first regul; flight on December 14, and then after there will be a daily servic except on Sunday.

Do You Remember?

p. 20

TWENTY years make history

the South Pacific Islanc These extracts are from tl Pacific Islands Monthly of Decer

ber, 1931:

With the low prices ruling for cocon products, efforts are being made to fi new uses for the coconut. . . . An i: portant development is reported from t Philippines, where scientists have demo strated the practicability of using cocon oil for diesel engines. . . . Opinion h been expressed that this will revolution: the coconut oil industry.

European planters in Western Samoa a bitter regarding the high wages they mi pay their Chinese labourers (3/6 per da; In no other country where Chinese coo labour is employed is the rate so hi] Some planters suggest a more accepta source of labour would be found in i Gilbert and Ellice Islands. * * * A C3l plane belonging to Bulolo G< Dredging and operated by Guinea Airwa transported on one flight, the up] tumbler shaft of No. 1 Bulolo dredge fn the coast to the goldfields. The sh weighed 6,870 lbs. * * * Permission for the introduction Indian coolie labour to certain pla tations was sought by Levers Pad Plantations Ltd., at the November me ing of the Solomon Islands Advisi Council. The proposal did not rece wanm support, but it is understood tl representations will be presented again (In an editorial note to this item, P said: “Opposition to the proposal is d ficult to understand. Native labour unprocurable: and the enormous potent wealth of the Solomons cannot be develoj without an adequate labour supply. 1 introduction of Indian labourers a peasant farmers should be as great economic success in this Group as in F There is, of course, the social effect . . but the social effect of introduci Indians to Fiji has not, so far. been bad * * * The protests made by various intere against the German steamer Bremerha* having unrestricted access to outports the New Guinea Territory have receh the attention of the Commonwea authorities. The responsible Minister 1 decided against any restrictions on 1 Bremerhaven. ♦ * * In December. 1931, in London, co] was selling at approximately £l4 per t( Para rubber at ll&d. per lb. In Sydn cocoa beans were selling at £32 per t< trochus shell at £47 to £57 per ton.

Pardon’ For Wilkinson

p. 21

Queer Features of Extraordinary Judicial Tangle in Papua

FOLLOWING the publication of a ' statement on the Wilkinson- Bock case, of Papua, issued to le Australian Territories Minister, “wspapers and Parliamentarians, 7 the Editor of the Pacific Islands hnthly, the Papua-New Guinea dministrator, Colonel Murray, inounced on November 23 that he ad decided to grant a pardon to ancelot H. Wilkinson, who would ; released from gaol on December !.

This decision makes confusion orse confounded. If the circumances entitle Wilkinson to a irdon, why keep him in gaol until ecember 22?

Virtually, the Administrator says: : consider the 18 months’ imprisonlent imposed on Wilkinson exissive, and I accordingly reduce ,s sentence from 18 to four onths.”

The point at issue is not the verity of the sentence but hether, in view of the sharp conict of opinion by two Supreme Durt judges, Wilkinson is guilty ’ all- Two men were charged with the me crime. One judge said Wilkinn was guilty. Another judge said Dck was innocent. One of them is rong. The chances are even that ie judge in error was the judge 10 dealt with Wilkinson.

Therefore, the chances are 50 in

100 that Wilkinson is innocent, and is being wrongly held in gaol.

Why has Administrator Murray been so dainty and legalistic in his handling of this case? Why could he not show some robustness of judgment and, as soon as Judge Kelly found Bock innocent, have released Wilkinson from gaol, and ordered an inquiry into the whole judicial muddle?

Why, above all, could he not give some official attention to Judge Bignold, who, by the severity of the sentence he imposed on Wilkinson, and the extraordinary situation he created by causing the brothers Champion to be charged with contempt of Court, directs attention to a judical system that does merit some official concern?

Surely the Administrator does not imagine that this extraordinary case will end with his so-called “clemency.” If Wilkinson and his friends insist that Wilkinson is innocent (in other words, that Judge Kelly is right), then they will take steps at once to establish his innocence, and collect a large sum from the Administration for wrong ful imprisonment, To serve justice, and to resist the indifference and sloth of some high officials (who would like the case to be forgotten) we shall re-state what (Ve believe to be the facts of this, the Wilkinson-Bock Affair.

History of the Wilkinson-Bock Case

pp. 21-117

'HESE details are supplied by Wilkinson, Bock and their friends, and may itain bias. We are ready to give equal ice to the officials’ side; but officialdom, this extraordinary case, has been igularly silent and aloof.

H. WILKINSON has been a resident Eastern Papua for many years, except absence on honourable war service. , his brother and his uncle (Cuthberts sima Gold Mines) are well known, tfter the war, he settled down as a nter and trader, in the islands out of tnarai. He has a wife and small family, lenneth Bock (now 30, with a wife and i child) was employed after the war by ! Misima Gold Mines. When Misima dded up,” he went to Moresby, and s employed by the Production Control ard. Mr. MacDonald, head of PCB, s spoken well of him. In February, 0. Bock was appointed Acting Super or of Native Labour at Ebuma Island, t out cf Samarai. lock and Wilkinson had been friends on sima. Wilkinson frequently came in m his main store by launch for sup es. There is poor accommodation at narai for small boats. The wharf sheds re closed at week-ends when Wilkinson uted to get his goods. Bock went fre ely back and forth with native labour ween Ebuma and Samarai (half a mile »y).

To assist Wilkinson, Bock frequently picked up goods in Samarai addressed to Wilkinson and dumped them in the Government store on Ebuma, where Wilkinson picked them up at his con venience.

One day (say the defendants) Wilkinson noticed cases of canned fish among Bock’s Government stores, and remarked that his people were demanding canned fish, but he could not buy any anywhere. Bock said that his labour preferred canned meat; and they agreed to exchange—Wilkinson gave Bock five cases of canned meat in return for five cases of canned fish.

They say the exchange was made openly —Wilkinson loaded the five cases of fish into his launch one day in May, 1951.

A native medical orderly, Paul Tommy, saw the cases being taken away in Wilkinson’s boat. He told others and the report reached Mr. Greg Neilson, who was senior official in DO; and the latter re ported to Mr. Greg Neilson, who was then acting as District Commissioner. Neilson reported the matter to Police Inspector Phillips.

Phillips waited until Wilkinson came in again; and he informed him of the com plaint. Wilkinson denied theft. Phillips asked if Wilkinson would go out with him and the ADO in the Government boat, and let them examine his store. Wilkinson agreed. The inspection disclosed the five

(Continued on Page 113.)

ises of fish. Wilkinson explained that ley had been exchanged for other goods.

Phillips reported to Moresby. Inspector roodmansey flew to Samarai, and inter iewed Wilkinson and Bock. The latter [plained the exchange arrangement.

Woodmansey pointed out the gross im ropriety of the whole affair. Wilkinson ad no right to be using the Government ore at Ebuma; Bock should never have [lowed him in there; and, even if the arrangement were made as ascribed, both men were technically lilty of the wrongful removal of Govern ent property. He urged them both to ead guilty and gave them the impression lat if they would thus save a lot of ouble, they would be let off with a mtion and fine.

Thereupon, on May 23, when Wilkinson id Bock were brought before a minor mrt, presided over by ADO Neilson, both eaded guilty. They were remanded to higher Court.

On the same day, Bock was informed the Acting District Commissioner that, he had been charged with having stolen Ive cases of Tasfiscan Flair Fish Cutlets, .lued at approximately £2O/18/1, the operty of the Administration,” he had en that day suspended from duty, and s salary would cease forthwith.

Somewhat belatedly, Wilkinson and Bock ;nt to Moresby for legal advice. Mr. omie, well-known solicitor, told them at they should not have pleaded guilty theft, and should immediately seek ive to amend their pleas. He found a rious error in the papers covering the osecution of Wilkinson, in consequence which the Administration had to file a

nolle prosequi; re-arrest Wilkinson; and bring him again before the minor Court.

This time, Wilkinson pleaded “not guilty.”

Although the arrest took place in May, it was August before the cases came be fore the Supreme Court. Wilkinson, on bail, was able to carry on his business; but unfortunate Bock with wife and child, for months, was left to kick his heels in Samarai and “live on his fat.”

Judge Bignold went to Samarai to deal

with the cases. He called Bock’s case first. Mr. Dudley Jones, Rabaul solicitor, was there to defend, and Bock sought leave to amend his plea to “Not Guilty.”

The Judge gave him leave, and then called on the Wilkinson case.

Having heard the evidence, the Judge (there is no jury in the PNG Supreme Court) said he considered Wilkinson’s de fence a fabrication; found him guilty; and sentenced him to 18 months’ hard labour.

For reasons that have not been clear! stated, Judge Bignold decided he woul not hear the case against Bock, and lei it to another Judge.

The heavy sentence imposed on Wilkir son gave the public a shock. Many hel that Wilkinson’s explanation was reasor able enough, even if the Judge did m accept it. It was also argued that, eve if theft had occurred, Wilkinson’s recor as a citizen and soldier entitled him 1 first offender leniency—namely, a fine or suspended sentence. There was a mov< ment to contest the verdict, or appe: against the sentence.

T>UT a more extraordinary incident ws developing. A week or so was 1 elapse before Wilkinson could be remov* to Moresby Gaol. There was no gaol f( a European in Samarai. The Acting Dii trict Commissioner, Mr. Frank Champioi after discussions with the police and wit his Departmental head in Moresby (it ha] pened to be his brother, Mr. Clauc Champion) agreed to let Wilkinson lii at his own home, on parole, for a da or two, while some sort of temporal gaol was prepared.

When Judge Bignold heard of th arrangement, he set afoot processes < law which resulted in the two Chan pions (Acting Director of District Service and Acting District Commissioner) beii formally charged with contempt « Court, insofar that they set at liberty person who had been sentenced to in prisonment—or words to that effect.

The two high officials had to star their trial in Port Moresby. They wer of course, discharged without a stain c their respective escutcheons. But what farce! And a farce it was adjudged I the whole hilarious community. jV/TEANWHILE, the suspended (and ur . _P a *d) Bock was patiently awaitir his trial. Judge Kelly heard the case, i September. Mr. Dudley Jones defended.

Points made were that Wilkinson ha not sought to conceal the canned fis transaction; that Inspector Woodmans! acknowledged that he had recommend!

Wilkinson and Bock to plead guilty, i the manner described; and that a official check of the stores in Bock’s cai had shown no discrepancies such as i suggest theft.

Judge Kelly found Bock not guilty.

So here was another angle of this vei remarkable case. Both Judges could m be right. Either Wilkinson had bee wrongly convicted, or Bock had bee wrongly discharged.

It was no longer a question of whethi Wilkinson had been too severely punishei It very definitely was a question < whether Wilkinson was guilty at all.

Obviously, the case should be reviewei But the only channel of appeal from th PNG Supreme Court was to the High Com of Australia—a very lengthy and cost! procedure.

Wilkinson (now in gaol), immediate! after Judge Kelly’s verdict, and acting o advice, petitioned the Administrator for pardon.

On the assumption that the High Com procedure was too costly and slow, an in the belief that the Administrator, i the very extraordinary circumstance would act swiftfly and definitely—as b has the power to do—the course followe by Wilkinson and his solicitor wa justified.

But they expected something from tb Administrator that they did not get. Th petition to the Administrator was lodge on October 4. A month later, the edit® of PIM received from Wilkinson a letti

imuggled out of Moresby Gaol, begging hat some inquiry be made concerning the ate of his petition.

We wrote the Government Secretary in doresby, asking what decision the Ldministrator had reached; and we said hat, if there was no decision, we would ;ive the facts to the newspapers and ’arliament of Australia.

A letter from the Government Secre ary, dated November 16, curtly intimated hat the matter was still under con ideration by the Administrator.

We publicised the case on November 21. >n the 22nd, the Territories Minister, Mr. lasluck, courteously informed the PIM hat, as this was the first he had heard f the case, he had radio’d the Adminis rator for a report. On the 23rd, the Ldministrator announced the “pardon.”

Bock, after being kept waiting from May intil September, was found “not guilty.” le got no pay for that period, except 49 ays’ pay in lieu of leave; and he was ummarily dismissed. He was cleared of he theft charge; but he had placed him elf off-side by allowing Wilkinson to use he Government store and facilities on buma Island, without official permission, le is now on the staff of the China Strait instruction Co., in Milne Bay.

It is a sorry story of stiff-necked, lega istic muddling, and of mountains being reated out of a molehill. The pity of it 5 that, if Wilkinson gets compensation, t is the poor old taxpayer who will pay, nd not the real culprits.

MV Bulolo left Sydney for P-NG ■orts on Dec. 3. She has been in ock in Sydney since a fire occurred a her holds in August.

Reorganisation

p. 21

of Samoan Police Force

Prom Our Own Correspondent

APIA. Nov. 17.

rE new Western Samoan police ordinance came into effect on November 1. The Force is now on a similar basis to that of New Zealand.

Provision is also made for an in terchange of members with members of the police forces of Fiji and New Zealand.

Mr. J. R. Corston, who has been Inspector of Police, now becomes Superintendent of Police; and Sub- Inspector H. Irwin, becomes In spector.

Ministerial Visit To

p. 21

W. SAMOA

From Our Own Correspondent APIA, November 17.

THE newly-appointed Minister of

Island Territories in the New Zealand Government, the Hon. T. Clifton Webb, will visit Western Samoa in January, travel ling from New Zealand on the first trip of the new Union Steamship Company’s motor vessel Tofua, which is scheduled to arrive in Apia on New Year’s day, 1952.

The arrival of the new island ves sel in Apia will be marked by a number of special celebrations. It is intended to hold a special Race Meeting organised by the Apia Turf Club in honour of the occasion.

The Prowl?

p. 21

ARE RUSSIAN SUBS ON

AUSTRALIAN newspapers at the end of November published re ports that unidentified sub marines—believed to be Russian had been seen off the Northern coasts of New Guinea. , .

As a result, Australian warships have been asked to exercise special The Australian Minister for the Navv said he did not regard the reports seriously— he had received no confirmation from official Navy circles. He added: “It would be ex tremely difficult and hazardous for a submarine to venture so far south at this time.” , The fact remains, howevei, that 11 Russia really is planning war one of the first things she wouid do would be to instruct her trans-ocean submarines (of which she has many) to make just such distance test voyages as would be represented by the trip from Vladi vostok to New Guinea.

Cocos Is.

p. 22

PREPARING THE

NEW AIRPORT

THE Australian Government is making steady progress with its plan for the construction of a first-class airfield on one of the Cocos Islands, which lies far out in the Indian Ocean, about equi distant from the north-west tip of Australia and the south-west tip of Java.

Cocos will be a very important station on the new air route, via the Indian Ocean and East Africa, which may take the place of the now disturbed Indonesia - India- Middle East section of the regular airways track between Australia and Europe.

Large teams of men are now con structing the airfield, and the necessary buildings. The airport will be ready in six months.

During November, a 40-tons air sea rescue launch arrived at Cocos, as part of the equipment there, after a 40-days voyage from Aus tralia. About the same time, a large landing-craft was unloaded from ss Dongala.

THE RULER

John Clunies Ross (known as Clunies Ross V, he governs the little group acquired by his great-great grandfather) has now settled down in Cocos with his young bride, whom he met while he was studying colonial development at Oxford (she was studying occupational ther aphy.) She was Miss Daphne Par kinson, daughter of a wealthy Lan cashire manufacturer, The English newspapers, describ ing the “romance,” said the “queen of the Cocos Islands” would see a ship perhaps only twice a year. But Cocos now is an Australian Terri tory, and from July next Mr. and Mrs. Clunies Ross will be living be side one of the world’s busy trans ocean airports.

Drought, Smoky Haze

p. 22

AND ’FLU AT SUVA

From Our Own Correspondent

SUVA. Dec. 3.

rpHE heat of a Suva December has JL followed a phenomenal period of dry weather. November was the driest for 63 years—the month’s rainfall was only 1.03 ins. compared with an average of 10.29 ins.

Since September all parts of Fiji have frequently been covered by thick, smoky haze. The haze has generally been attributed to the disastrous fires in Australia, with a contribution from the normal seasonal burning-off in the Viti Levu canefields.

These persistent haze patches,

sometimes hanging like a fog over south-east, west, and north Viti Levu, have caused the calling-off of the partly-completed and expensive aerial survey, which was being undertaken by a UK firm.

Almost invariably, prolonged dry weather means an epidemic of some sort in the Suva area. For several weeks now townspeople of all races have been suffering from a par ticularly vicious form of influenza.

Higher Costs Of

p. 22

LIVING

IN PAPUA-N. GUINEA

MORESBY, Dec. 7.

WITH the provision of a mouth piece (the new Legislative Council) the Papua-New Guinea community seems to be due also for a series of financial shocks.

Rubber exports are to be sub jected to an export tax. If the declared value is not over 2/6 per pound, there is no tax. For every sixpence in excess of 2/6, there is a tax of one penny.

In spite of resistance by planters’ representatives in the Council, who declared this was sectional taxa tion aimed at the planter, the tax went through. Official attitude was that copra, desiccated coconut and gold paid a tax —why not rubber?

The tax is expected to produce £30,000 p.a.

In spite of opposition by a large section of Council, the 10 per cent, surcharge on all dutiable goods was agreed to. This will increase the cost of many items.

A number of smaller taxes are to be imposed.

Public resentment has been voiced by the South Pacific Post, which de clares that it is most unfair that taxation should be so heavy, while the people have so small a voice in the Administration.

At the same time, to the grave discontent of the traders, the Ad ministration at the end of Novem ber, introduced price control. Here are some of the maximum prices fixed: The landed cost, plus— Fresh butter, 6d per lb.

Eggs, eVssd per dozen.

Non-packaged cheese, SVzd per lb.

Flour, Id per lb.

Fresh beef, 5d to 6d per lb.

Fresh mutton, 3d to 4d per lb.

Mutton cutlets, 6d. per lb.

Pork, 4Vfed to 6d per lb.

Canned corned beef, 3Vfed per 12 oz. tin.

Milk, powdered, 3Vfed per 12 oz. tin, per 3 lb. tin, or 4d per lb.

Condensed, 2d per 4 oz. tin.

Onions, 3d per lb.

Potatoes, 2d per lb.

Rice, Id per lb.

White sugar, iy 2 d per lb.

Tea, 9d per lb.

In Copra

p. 22

£3,000,000 Now In Copra Stabilisation Fund

Although there is no £3,000,000 in the Copra Stabil sation Fund (created by tl Australian Government by reguli deductions from payments due Papua-New Guinea copra-produce! over the last five years) there st: is no indication of what is going be done with the Fund.

Questioned in Parliament Canberra on November 27, tl Territories Minister (Mr. Haslucl said that rules for the control ai use of the Fund were being pr pared. He said there was i possibility at present of the mom in the Fund being returned to tl contributors.

Sir Hubert Murray

p. 22

MEMORIAL

UNDER the direction of the P-1n Administration, and with t active encouragement of t Australian Minister for Territorj (Mr. Hasluck) a fund for the pr vision of a Memorial to the late £ Hubert Murray, Lieutenar Governor of Papua, has been i augurated. Subscriptions are bei: sought by Committees in Mores and Sydney. Australian contrib tions should be sent to Mr, C.

Rowley, Principal of the School Pacific Administration, Mosms

N.S.W.

Distinguished Naturalists

p. 22

NG Highlands

Count and Countess Gyldenstolpe, Sweden, who have now returned ho[?] after spending some weeks at Nondu[?] Central New Guinea Highlands. They w[?] collecting specimens for the Stockho[?] Museum. In the photograph, the Count holding a rare “King of Saxony” Bird Paraise.

Territories Talk-Talk

p. 23

By Tolala

[T is good to hear these Voices from the Past, as demonstrated by Herr H. R. Wahlen, in the Sditor’s Mail Bag (Nov. PIM).

There is no doubt but that he was i Personality Plus, long before that ;erm came into general usage, rhere is one point I do not agree on n respect to his early days in New j-uinea.

If my memory serves me right, he ;ame out originally for the Hern heim Co., not the New Guinea Co., ls stated in the PIM. and it was luring a trip for this company that le recognised the potentialities of he Western Islands, which he was lesircus of developing on his own iccount. H & Co. gave him no en ouragement, so he approached Sueen Emma for the finance, and he agreed. That was the start of I. R. Wahlen Gesellschaft, which operated exclusively in the Western slands.

His South Sea castle —Wahlenberg -built on Maron, in the Hermits >roup, was a palatial affair—even ieer were imported to range over he surounding grounds. After the stablishment of Maron the NDL teamers, en route from Sydney to long Kong, made it a port of call.

Another correction: Hemsheim & Jo. never amalgamated with E, E. ’orsayth or HSAG.

One notable aspect of the acti ities of the big German firms in >eutsch Neu Guinea, Bismarck Ar hipelago and the Solomon Inseln fas the absence of any competition i a big way. The Neu Guinea Jompagnie’s big holdings were con ined to the mainland of Neu Juinea, Neu Pommern and Witu, nth a few smaller areas on Neu lecklenburg, HSAG, or E. E. For ayth, concentrated on Neu Pom lern, Bougainville and the outly ig islands with a few on Neu lecklenburg; while Hernsheim & !o. held areas in Neu Pommern, Feu Lauenburg and Manus, with a tore and plantation at Kieta, in tougainville, at one time doing a onsiderable trade with the British blomons.

The “Long Handle Firm” (Deuts tien Handels und Plantagen Gesell chaft) before 1914 had only one ig store, situated at Mioko, in the hike of Yorks (Neu Lauenburg) nd was operating in Neu Guinea rincipally as a base for its recruit ag vessel “Samoa.” seeking ibourers for its plantations in Wes ern Samoa.

Talking about the Western slands; Only recently I received a creed from an old Island govern ment officer. He writes; “In the Islands I have tasted some oul beverages—i.e. XYZ’s home

brew fortified with a nip of rum, and tomato “beer” at Avarua in the Cooks—but for sheer non potableness I give Old Charlie Matthie’s ‘coffee’ top marks! He made it himself (Aua, 1920). It looked like Instant Postum, which I believe is made from maize; but Charlie’s concoction was from scorched breadfruit ‘acorns’ plus a root which looked like chicory, but wasn’t. His ‘coffee,’ of which he was very proud, tasted like some of the muck dished out in the Dago joints down Railway way (Sydney). Need any more be said? It was vile and bitter.”

Matthies was a real king of the Western Islands. He married into royalty on Aua, and the natives there would do anything in the world for him. When the Expro board relieved all staff of the Ger man firms in ’2O and ’2l, he was allowed to remain and carry on at Aua, for no one—despite his vile coffee! —was deemed capable of con tinuing his work.

In those days we had no fast travelling launches—save the “Phyl lis,” that chugged slowly between Ralum and Rabaul each day; there were few auxiliary vessels; no radio —the nearest cable station was at Yap, in the Carolines; there were no cinemas, no refrigerators, no European gaol. But, withal, we lived a happy life, for we had no international body pimping on us— although we did have an Advisory Council, representing every Euro pean interest in the colony. And they had a greater say in the laws then than they have now.

Indonesia’s exports to Australia are to be increased this coming year by almost £2 million, making in all £6.8 millions; while Australia will export nearly £5 million, made up principally of flour, metals, machinery and foodstuffs, receiv ing from Indonesia rubber, timber, tea, kapok and coffee.

Let’s hope it does not affect the exports from NG. It should be government’s policy to develop NG sufficiently to supply Australia with all her tropical requirements. Give NG first preference every time.

Despite the fact that an Indo nesian Trade Mission visited Aus tralia at the beginning of this month, there is every indication that the Javanese are going to be a pain-in- the-neck in a short while.

The Malan government in South Africa appears to be on the point of cutting the somewhat fragile painter with UNO. As a self-gov erning nation, it makes no secret

of its antagonism towards UN, and steadfastly sticks to its guns when that organisation starts to push it around.

Its present attitude towards UNO is somewhat reminiscent of the Japanese policy, adopted in the Carolines and Marshalls before War II with the League of Nations. That country did what it liked, and got away with it. All of which shows a decided weakness in these international set-ups, and rather makes one wonder why Aus tralia gets all hot and bothered if any member of UNO even looks sideways at our administration in NG.

At the same Trusteeship Commit tee meeting, when South Africa walked out, the French delegate also left the meeting in a huff. So all is not so well with our UNO masters; which is really not at all surprising.

I was under the impression that planters, as a whole, welcomed with open arms the change in govern ment, until I met an old-time planter from around Rabaul, down for a short leave. He is not usually given to wingeing.

“How are things?” he echoed my question. “Things are up to putty how with the new government. Rice up £5O a ton, meat up £4 a case, our cigarettes and tobacco double the price, and trade tobacco 13/- a lb, and all the time patrol officers doing everything possible to dis suade the native from working.”

I was surprised to hear such a wail, for it certainly does not fit in well with the Government’s urge to encourage private enterprise. But then, after all, it might have been one of John’s bad days. If the rise in prices is his only complaint against the new government, then he will not be on his own, by any means. There are one or two around Sydney who are also com plaining.

Administrator Murray in addres sing the natives at the first anni versary of the Hanuabada Village Council: “ . . . Learn to read and speak English. Learn Australian methods of production and organ isation. ...” Was he really serious about Australian production?

Frost Brothers Reach NZ in

p. 23

Axelle

DONALD and Ronald Frost, who were in Fiji in October, with their yawl Axelle, arrived in Russell, North Auckland, NZ, in mid-November.

They had sailed the Axelle from the United Kingdom by way of the West Indies, Panama and the Pacific Islands but now want to sell her and buy a farm in NZ. They said they had had enough of the sea and wanted some work they could “get their teeth into.”

Malayan Battalion

p. 25

Fiji’s Indians and the Malayan Battalion

IURPRISE reaction to the decision ) of Fiji to recruit a battalion of infantry for the Malayan impaign, has been the expressed esire of members of the Indian immunity to enlist.

Although there is small chance of leir offer being accepted, and al lough it is easy to be cynical on le subject in view of the Indian immunity’s total lack of support of le Allied cause in World War 11, lost European residents of the olony hope that this indicates lat they are now showing the ght and proper spirit.

In his address to the Legislative ouncil at the end of November, the ctmg Governor of Fiji, Mr. A. F. . Stoddart, explained that the ijian’s native background made im particularly suitable for the r pe of fighting required in the [alayan campaign and certainly, ; first, he would be the only one msidered.

The Acting Governor did not say , but it is also a fact that unless le Indians were able to form a lilitary unit, complete in -itself, ieir various religious observances, irticularly in relation to food, ould make their inclusion in a ijian unit difficult. The inclusion : Indian units in the Fiji Military orces has previously foundered on lis rock of religion. Nor have re mits been amenable to military iscipline.

VEW INDIAN COMMISSIONER

CONCURRENT with this recent j expression of belated, but wel come, Indian loyalty, it has Jen announced that a new Com lissioner for India has been ap finted.

The position has been vacant for year or more, since the departure : the first Commissioner, Mr. S, . Waiz. The new Commissioner is [r. A. K. Sen, who was expected to :rive in Fiji about the middle of lis month.

The appointment of Mr. Waiz was iade soon after India was granted [dependence in 1948 and at first tused some resentment in non idian circles as the great majority • Fiji Indians are not citizens of idia, but are Fiji-bom.

However, Ml’. Waiz was a man of itelligence, justice and sound com lonsense and became well-liked by uropeans, official and otherwise, nd did not do any of the things lat Fiji’s Indian political busy adies hoped that he would do.

When he left Fiji, he dropped a ombshell into the middle of the idian community—which had been lught by its leaders to demand ither than to serve—by telling

them that their allegiance should be to Fiji first; that they should be prepared to serve it in peace and defend it, if necessary, in war.

He said, particularly, that when, or if, he returned, he hoped to see a “Private Patel” or a “Sergeant Sharma” in the FMF and made it clear that he thought little of their non-co-operation during the Pacific war.

There was no reply to this advice on the part of Indian leaders, but most residents of the Colony agree that the friction between Indian and other sections in Fiji has les sened in the past year and that there have been signs of a con sciousness that the welfare of Fiji as a whole is important, and that it is not simply a sponge to be wrung out for the benefit of the Indian community.

It may be that outspokenness is the medicine needed. The last Governor, Sir Brian Freeston, did not mince words when dealing with the Indians, apparently with salu tary effect. Previously it had been the custom to handle the “Indian problem” with kid gloves.

If the new Commissioner carries on the good work started by Mr.

Waiz, he can do a tremendous amount for Anglo-Indian relations in Fiji.

RECRUITING FOR MALAYA

MEANWHILE, recruiting for the Fijian Battalion for Malaya has gone on in Fiji. An Army instructor from Malaya has arrived to advise on training.

The difficulty has been not to get suitable men but to keep them away.

Thousands of young Fijians have clamoured to join up.

Quotas have now been filled from all districts and it is expected that they will sail for Malaya in January and do jungle training there.

It has been announced that Lieut.-Colonel R. A. Tinker, MC, MM, a NZ permanent army officer and World War II veteran, will command the battalion. Other officers have yet to be chosen.

Col. Tinker went to the Middle East in 1939 as a driver. He won the Military Medal and rapid pro motion in the desert, became a parachutist and was dropped into Yugoslavia where he fought with the partisans. He has been in Fiji with the FMF since 1949.

No Pay, No Comforts

p. 25

From Our Own Correspondent

SUVA, Dec. 3.

MANY of the 1,000 recruits now in camp at Luvuluvu, near Nausori have not received a penny in pay since they enlisted more than a month ago.

An angry reaction in some Euro pean quarters has followed this dis closure; and more than sour is the comment on the fact that the Fijians’ response to the call for

recruits is being used as recruiting propaganda in New Zealand.

The call for recruits was made on October 23. By December 1 no effective move had been made to provide worth-while recreation, or recreation facilities, at Luvuluvu Camp, and no transport is provided for leave-men to get to and from Suva.

Each of the Fijian provinces is sending generous gifts of food to Luvuluvu, but nobody else sends anything. This, it should be noted, makes despicable contrast to the Fijian sacrifice involved in the War Memorial Appeal, and such fund raising activities as those for Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gift. (The gift, ostensibly from Fiji, was virtually a gift from the Fijian people).

Fijian Causes White

pp. 27-28

Australia Trouble Jackson Deportation Case

I NOTHER White Australia storm X blew up in Sydney in Novem ber when Immigration author! es ordered the deportation of a ijian who goes locally by the name I George Jackson, but whose ijian name appears to be Waqa iqa.

He works in a metal factory in ydney and lives with his wife vhom he married in 1949) in East pdney. Over 4,000 of his neigh )urs and fellow unionists have gned a petition to the Minister of emigration (Mr. Holt) asking that j be allowed to remain in Aus alia; and, at the end of Novem sr, three Church leaders flew to anberra to plead his case.

The business is further compli ited by the fact that his wife, dose father was a New Hebridean id mother an Indian, but who as born in Australia, is pregnant The fact is that Jackson has, gaily, much less excuse for being lowed to remain in Australia than ay of the other Pacific Island ;ople who have, in recent years, icome victims of the White Aus alia policy.

Mr. Holt said that Jackson had sited Australia in 1944 and 1946 it there was no evidence to show lat he had been brought in, as leged, to work on defence pro cts. He returned to Australia as stowaway at some unknown date id escaped detection until March iis year. In June he was sentenced six months’ gaol as a prohibited imigrant but was released after couple of months on the under anding that he would leave Aus alia voluntarily as soon as a issage could be arranged. Jack n then sought permission to stay icause his wife was Australian irn. This permission was refused.

Mr. Holt said that his Department Duld pay Mrs. Jackson’s fare to iva if she wished to go with her isband.

This was in mid-November. In .rly December, Jackson’s deporta m had been stayed while Mr. Holt nsidered the petition and the evi nce of the three clergymen who id flown to Canberra.

Jackson is a steward in the Syd >y Central Methodist Mission; his arkmates describe him as “the tiitest man on the job—a good astralian.”

He says that if he is forced to > back to Fiji there will be noth g for him to do but a labouring b at £2/5/- per week; his wife ill have to live in the native corn unity and his wages will have to

be shared by a dozen or so of his relations.

All of which is probably perfectly true.

Meanwhile, Mr. Holt grapples with the problem. If he allows Jackson to stay it will be another nail in the coffin of the outmoded White Australia policy. If he deports Jackson, he is going to be a very unpopular man in East Sydney.

Australia has allowed an extra ordinary conglomeration of migrants in from Europe and the Mediter ranean in the post-war years.

Although they are technically Caucasians many of them are not fitting into the Australian way of life. Europeanised islanders, like the Jacksons, are much more easily

assimilated than many of the tech nically acceptable New Australians who are already settled in the country.

Miss R. Davies of the Melanesian Mission Girls’ School, at Bunana, BSI, returned after furlough in NZ, in November.

Mrs. Mark Pitt who although in indifferent health, has provided the only accommodation for travellers in Madang, New Guinea, expects to leave for Australia in February. She will not return to Madang but will live in the NG Central Highlands where she plans to build a home that will accommodate a few pay ing guests. The Madang Hotel,

which will take the place of Mrs.

Pitt’s rest-house is making slow progress. At the end of October only the foundations and floor joists were installed.

Mr. Keith Whittle, of Renmark, South Australia, has been appointed Chief Accountant to the P-NG Production Control Board, Port Moresby.

Grow More Rubber

p. 28

What Australia is Doing [?] Encourage the P-NG Indust[?]

THE Australian Government, sa Mr. Hasluck, Minister for Te ritories, in November, examining the rubber industry Papua-New Guinea with a view expanding it.

Rubber, he said, is a strata material and every facility is to given to persons seeking suital land for rubber planting.

The Government is examining t use of mechanical equipment a: is arranging for a visit by an e pert from Malaya to advise methods of improving the quali of the rubber and the genei efficiency of the industry, and recommend the best methods of e pansion. The establishment of rubber research scheme for P-NG also being considered.

Exports of rubber from Pap have reached an all-time high tl year with 2,179 tons. Exports frc the New Guinea part of the ter tory are negligible.

In Papua there are 23,000 acres u der Para rubber but there are pro ably less than 1,000 acres unc para rubber in New Guinea. Duri the German days there was a co siderable planting of “natun rubber —Ficus Elastica —and an of cial estimate is that about 80,C remained in the entire Territc after the war. There is little coi mercial tapping carried out, ho ever.

In the early war years wh rubber became more valuable, the trees were tapped and in 1940rubber from the Mandated Ter: tory to the value of £19,000 w exported. The Japanese invasi put an end to that, and product! was not resumed until 1944-45 wh 14 tons were exported.

No exports were made in 1947when there was a world-wide slur in rubber prices. During ti period, some of the establish Papuan rubber producers also we out of business but in the last r years rubber nrices have ns steeply (current price is 57|d I pound in Sydney).

So long as threat of war remai and so long as the Terrorists c moralise the rubber industry Malaya, the price should rerra high and rubber business in Papr New Guinea should be of immer importance to Australia. Even more normal times Australi growing secondary industries shoi be able to take all the rubber P-£ can produce.

A bazaar of native handicra was held in the Paton Memor Church at Vila, New Hebrides November 21. Organised by t Presbyterian Mission, proceeds w< in aid of the Presbyterian Wome: Association.

[?] Fiji, Australia

p. 29

Fall in Sugar Production [?] Fiji, Australia Adverse Weather to Blame

HHE Colonial Sugar Refining Com- L pany expects that this season’s sugar crop in Australia and iji will be smaller than average, ue to the adverse weather condi ons prevailing during the growing ;ason in the two countries.

Raw sugar production in 1951 in ustralia is expected to be about to.ooo tons—about 200,000 tons be iw average. The fall is the result : too much rain during the early art of the cane’s growth, followed y drought conditions more re jntly. It was hoped to produce a dllion tons in 1951.

Australia’s export of sugar will robably be only 165,000 tons — le lowest figure for many years.

In Fiji the same weather pattern ■too much rain, then not sufficient has had the same effect as in Aus alia and the Fiji mills are ex acted to produce about 110,000 tons sugar this year which is 35 per Tit. below mill capacity and about 1,000 tons below previous peak •oduction.

This fall in production is bad business for Australia and Fiji,, both of which are anxious to fill their whole export quota in face of growing competition from Cuba.

Back in May, Australian pro ducers complained that an agree ment signed between Canada and

Cuba “was damaging and most in defensible.” They believed that Canada, which previously got all her sugar from Empire countries, including Australia and Fiji, would not have signed the agreement if the United Kingdom government had not encouraged it.

Papua-New Guinea

p. 31

TRADE

Less In Volume But Enormously More In Nominal Value

ALTHOUGH, at first glance, it 1 would appear from the trade figures (given in terms of

New Guinea, in the same year 1950-51) imported goods worth 6,186,669; and Papua, £4 : 642,988.

Owing to inflation, and the normous increases in the nominal alue of goods, it is impossible to ompare the trade of the Tern aries, when it is stated in terms of loney, with similar trade in other ears. For example, the total trade f the two Territories, in and out, ras about £18,000,000 in 1951, com pared with about £5,000,000 in 1938- ; yet the two Territories are not reducing now as much as before he war.

It is interesting to note that, rtiile the two Territories combined xported goods worth £7,375,906, heir importations cost £10,829,657 -an adverse difference of just inder £3i millions.

Furthermore, a large proportion f the money received from the sale if copra, gold' and rubber did not emain in the Territories.

That unknown amount, plus the 3J millions referred to as the osten ible difference between imports and ixports, gives the measure of the mge sums that are being poured nto the Territories by the Aus

value) that the combined Territory of Papua-New Guinea has made a remarkable recovery from war-time destruction, an analysis shows that in two of the three main products— copra, gold and rubber—produc tion is well behind post-war figures.

Only in rubber has there been an increase over pre-war production.

The following were the chief ex ports of Papua and New Guinea in the year ended June 30. 1951. The production figures of 1938-39 are given for purposes of comparison:

tralian Government, for administra tion, and by the companies which are searching for oil.

The secretary to the Samoan Government, Mr. J. B. Wright, re turned by air on November 14 from Noumea where he attended a session of the South Pacific Com mission as representative of the New Zealand Government,

New Guinea Quantity Value £ Quantity 1938-39 topra 64,301 tons 3.200.715 73.345 tons told 87.593 oz 1.356.962 237.705 oz Silver 88.639 13,834 — tocoa beans .. . 317 tons 92,181 235 tons )es. coconut 939 „ 218,166 1.590 ., toffee 32 .. 8.110 38 ., Shell 909 ., 127.913 176 „ timber 24,332 1,718,916 s. ft.

’OTAL

5.436.617 Lubber Papua 1,952 tons 802,177 1,290 tons topra 11.181 644.532 9.357 „ )es. coconut 591 .. 105,509 1,580 „ Shell 231 .. 44,797 137 lides, skins 6.440 (£105) ’imber 1,153 (£119) toffee 9 249 111 ..

Manganese .. . 20 tons 2.075 — told 248 oz 3.715 64,622 oz ilver 90 — 'latinum .. .. . 81 U oz (£51) •earls — 1.200 (£15)

’OTAL

1.939.289

War Legacy

p. 32

WHEN the Australian Navy sloop Warrego returned to Sydney in mid-November her commander, Captain G. D. Tancred said that a sunken battleship in BSI waters was a menace to shipping.

The top of the wreck is only 16 feet

below the surface.

The Warrego has been undertak ing a five-month, 15,000 miles sur vey in Australian and Pacific waters.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Pery-Johnston, and family, returned to Suva in November from overseas leave.

Recruiting Saltwatei

p. 32

BOYS FOR THE RAN

THEY are recruiting just unc 100 Papua-New Guinea sa water boys for a special bran of the Australian Navy—the la will man 70-ft naval craft used Territory waters, mostly for t transportation of stores.

Recently, a Sydney Morning Hers writer visited these newest adc tions to the RAN and wrote som thing of them. An old Territory reader of PIM sent us a clippi: with the sour comment that If labour recruiter used a bit of ps chologv to induce boys to sign-c that was exploitation, or sla labour, or something; but if t Navy blokes used their nuts th that was good business.

The extract from the SMH a tide, to which he refers, says:— “Recruiting native sailors has technique of its own. In t villages, the coloured braves list open-mouthed as a naval man e plains the terms —25/- a monl beds like those of the white maste free food.

“Then, with a well-timed flouri: a petty officer lays out the kit issu free to members of the native “The kit is one of the biggi attractions —two lap-laps, one wh and one blue, emblazoned with t naval insignia, shirts, shorts, pu over, comb, shaving gear, pipe, a penlmife.

“But to prevent impulse-recru ing, the patrol ship sails off. leaves the boys a week or two think over the idea.

“When it returns, /willing a suitable natives are taken on boa the ship and signed on for tlu years,”

American Governor’S

p. 32

HURRIED RETURN

Mr. PHELPS PHELPS, Goven

of American Samoa, v returned to his post in Pi Pago in mid-October, had make a hurried departure agi four weeks later on accoi of illness. He developed condition which apparently cal urgently for operation and he p: ceeded to Fiji and at Nadi a plane for San Francisco.

It is hoped in the South Pac that Mr. Phelps, who already 1 proved himself an exceedingly poi lar Governor, will make an ea recovery and soon return again duty.

Mr. J. P. Bayly, a. well-known resident of Suva, has been und going special treatment in Scottish Hospital in Sydney, left the institution early in Dece ber, after a fortnight’s treat me and is spending a short holiday New South Wales before return to Fiji.

Samoan Cocoa

p. 33

Exports Up-Quality Down

From Our Own Correspondent

APIA. NOV. 17.

DURING November the Matson cargo vessel Alameda lifted 400 tons of Samoan cocoabeans onsigned to USA buyers, while the iS Waitomo took an additional 140 ons consigned to England.

There are still large quantities f cocoabeans stored in Apia sheds waiting shipment.

The price has lately dropped to 200-£2lO f.o.b. Apia; from the pre ious quotation of £240-£250.

Complaints have recently been nade regarding deterioration in the uality of Samoan cocoabeans which iow constitute the most valuable xport from the Territory—for the Lrst time in Samoan trade history ocoa surpasses copra exports in alue.

The deterioration in quality is due o several causes, but mainly to the ut-throat competition of trading tores in outside districts of Upolu ,nd Savaii. Many of these stores lave been opened during tecent ears by the large Apia concerns ,nd small independent, Samoan and lart-Samoan traders in cocoa dis ricts and in order to survive the trong competition, both new and ild traders accept cocoabeans of

fered by Samoan growers even if drying and fermentation are not up to standard.

The long dry spell in the middle of the current year has also con tributed to low quality cocoabeans, not only of those produced by Samoan growers, but also of those produced by European cocoa planters.

An increasing proportion of Samoan cocoabeans are graded second quality to the detriment of producers who receive smaller re turns for their product.

This year’s export of cocoabeans is bound, however, to constitute, in quantity at least, an all time record, as it is expected to exceed 3,000 tons.

Pacific Islands Society

p. 33

A DISCUSSION on the subject of the preservation of historical records of the Pacific Islands, showing of a film taken by Colonel Dickinson during his recent period of duty on Manus Island, and a series of Canadian films occupied the November meeting of the Pacific Islands Society in Sydney. There was a large attendance, including many visitors.

The Society’s annual Christmas cocktail party took place on Thurs day, December 13; and many mem bers entertained friends at this function.

Samoans Get Along Without Us

pp. 35-40

Very Well—Up To A Point

BY JUDY TUDOR

THE ability of the Samoans to accept the added res ponsibilities of their new [constitution has been a source of satisfaction to New Zealand ac cording to the latest annual report of the Department of Island [Territories. Many Europeans, in cluding the heads of the biggest [firms, agree that the experiment in self government is going along ■'“quite well.” The Samoans them selves are certainly pleased with

[their efforts.

f And, to-day, what the majority [want is right.

There are naturally those on the bther side of the fence, Europeans of long residence, who insist that [this political freedom has been handed over in over-large doses to the Samoans, with the result that a numerous species of political hoodlum has been bred in the and that the civil con dition of the country is far from good. They quote the various crime waves that they have experienced— the murders, bashings and robberies that have occurred in the last five

Shears.

f Conservative opinion says also

that the present-day representatives of the High Chiefs have too much power and that it is not always

wisely used.

To comment at all on these opinions would be an impertinence, without devoting about 12 months’ study to the whole set up on the spot, and from the ground up.

Therefore this article claims to be no more than a very superficial impression gained on a very brief visit to the Territory.

LET me say, here and now, that these brief visits of mine to Samoa and Tonga, too were the most interesting of my recent trip. The only thing that would have made it more interest ing would have been to have had a party of a dozen of my most con servative friends from New Guinea along—those who complain loudest and oftenest that they don’t know what the world, and the New Guinea native, are coming to. (And here I think particularly of that man who, through PIM. objected so strongly to three Papuans attending an ANZAC dinner in Brisbane).

This is an area in which the revolution is not away off on the horizon somewhere. It has happened, and the European, as such, just does not matter any more. The fact that you have been born with a white hide, instead of a brown one, is a liability rather than an asset.

The Matua, which does for Fiji,

the Samoas, Tonga, etc., what the Bulolo and Malaita do for Papua- New Guinea, is very crowded and, until now r , has been doing the w'ork of two ships. You know this in advance but, nonetheless, I filled in many odd moments while on her, trying to see things through the eyes of some of our P-NG readers, and being considerably entertained thereby.

For example, one morning when we were at Apia, it started to drizzle. The Samoan stevedores immediately left the winches and what they were about, and stretched themselves out in the passengers’ deck chairs. Has this happened yet on the NG ships?

Then the rule up there is that anyone who has the fare has an equal chance of accommodation

with everyone else. Therefore yoi may be called upon to share a cabii with Indians, Samoans or Tongan —or even be put into the dormitor; accommodation of the Jungle (i used to be the Matua’s lounge with a couple of dozen Samoai mothers and their children. Thi happened to some European Suvi nurses on the September trip.

Most Europeans object to this not necessarily because they fee superior, as some of the Islander think, but because they just hav different ideas of what is com fortable.

There seems no scope for beini very much of an individualist, u Polynesia. It is a case of, if th moo sings, you sing—or lump it Therefore, as the Polynesians out numbered the Europeans in thes parts on board or ashore th European finds himself very mud in the position of lumping it.

Going to Apia, I shared a two berth deck cabin with an elderl; European woman. On the returi trip I shared it with a youni Samoan girl. She came on boan with a crowd of her friends swathed to the ears in a successioi of frangipanni leis; she shed man; tears as the ship pulled out, thei washed all her underclothes am hung them in the cabin, and go into her bunk. She was still ther two days later when we got int Suva; and I imagine that she con tinued on to Auckland in the sam way. She had two Europea]

stewards and the stewardess danc ing attendance on her, and they seemed to take it as a matter of

fcourse.

Between the islands ports Matua carries deck passengers." They bring their mats and bed-clothes and i embroidered pillows and suitcases, and camp on the hatches under ftarpaulins; and spread out in the f alley-way that runs around out |Side the deck cabins, and spill into ; the lobby between what should be the lounge (and is the Jungle) and the dining saloon.

I My cabin opened into this lobby and every time I left it I had [literally to wade knee-deep through [Samoans or Tongans and rolls of

[mats.

I For this reason, the door of the cabin had to remain shut, and the window shutter permanently closed, if you did not want to provide free enter lainment for the continual procession along the alley way.

Shutting the door and window made it very hot, but it also helped to keep out some of the noise of babies crying, people being sick or the perpetual strumming of ukeleles and guitars. There are only two ways about these people—if they are nut making music of some sort, then they are sick.

I am not complaining about this —just stating a fact. It proves not only that the Matua is far too small for the job she was called upon to do (from December, she will be assisted by the new Tofua) but also that, unlike Melanesia—where to be European is still to be privileged— here you compete with the native inhabitants whether it is for a Chance to use the bathroom, or for a job.

TOURISM

SIX years ago there was much talk in Western Samoa of the establishment of a tourist industry. There seems not so much interest in the subject to-day possibly because, while cocoa and copra are bringing rich returns, there is no real need.

Tourism requires more, anyhow, than to sit on BP’s verandah in Apia and sell baskets and strings of shells; and in their present state pf prosperity I just cannot see that the Samoans are conditioned to receiving large numbers of tourists as they should be received in contrast with their cousins in American Samoa, who are looking for an industry to replace lost Navy incomes.

On my previous visit to Apia I complained, somewhat bitterly, that in the whole long length of Apia waterfront, which is the business centre of the Territory, there was absolutely nowhere where a visitor could sit and rest. There still isn’t, pnless you sit on the ground under the few trees along the harbour or squat on the edge of a shop verandah.

Between appointments, I walked until my legs threatened to give up; and then I found a large peanut tin—4-gallons size—in Morris Hedstrom’s new store, where I sat and consumed fizzy drinks to give me a legitimate excuse for being there.

If there were waterfront seats Samoans would be sitting on them, anyhow. And if they were marked “For Europeans Only” there would be a yell that this was a plain case of “racial discrimination”; and if

they were marked “For Visitors,” that would not please many more, TMniNTRv fTVHE Samoans, to-day, give the X impression of being happy, prosperous, full of confidence, They obviously feel that there is nothing they themselves cannot do in shaping the destiny of their own country. They may be right.

But one thing they seem to leave right out of their calculations is the fact that this happiness and con

[fidence, to a large extent, depend fon their prosperity, and that their prosperity, at present, very much [depends on the outside European ► world continuing to buy their copra and cocoa. Should the bottom fall [out of these markets, what then? ; There is the banana industry [which is capable of considerable expansion for the NZ market [(Samoan bananas now are much (superior in quality to Fijian) but fthe greatest problem at present

tolmana

Eer and COSt aboUt 7/ ' r . . , There seems to be scope here for a local case-timber industry. Fiji recent years has made great [strides in this direction and reduced ithe cost of exporting bananas con-

jSideraoly.

According to Mr. G. R. Powles, the High Commissioner, there is also a planned expansion of the local beef industry, and the manufacture of desiccated coconut, which has a ready sale in the Dominion. He said that there had also been a strong suggestion that they should begin the manufacture of soap.

M9st Pacific communities ineluding Tonga and American Samoa seems to be toying with the Idea of making soap—which perhaps is a natural outcome of their engagement with the copra

industry. But how much soap do these people use? If all are to try it, will their home markets be sufficient to give adequate return on the capital outlay of setting up factories?

It is doubtful. Soap manufactur in S has been flourishing in Fiji for years. It has a reasonably large trade to other Pacific Groups but it has not ousted popular overseas brands entirely,

EURONESIANS

316 f° Ut <f°

1 present,* 11 ZfTppSt^

5,000 of part-European descent, but f o r all political and practical pur poses these people are classed as full Europeans. There is no plan, within the wider plan of total Samoan independence to “do some thing for them” as a group.

Unless they are members of the old European planting or business families, in the main they are landless, the Samoan patrilineal social set-up more or less auto matically precluding them from the inheritance of land through their mothers, who are generally the Samoan partners in any Samoan- Foreign alliance. (In other parts of the Pacific, where inheritance of property is through the female line, part-European children can fare much better.) There is no tendency in Samoa for a part-Samoan to emerge as

either a leader of the Samoans or of people of mixed descent. They can and do become leaders of the European community—but like the full European their days appear numbered in a population of 80,000 aggressively nationalistic full- Samoans.

The High Commissioner, when asked about these people, said that

some of them were already solving this problem for themselves by re nouncing European status and tak ing Samoan. I do not know sufficient of the Samoan community set-up to know how this is likely to work. But some of the older Euro pean residents, when told of this expression of opinion by the HC, said that it was not so—that people

of European-status were most un likely to renounce it.

A large proportion of the younger members of families of mixed descent have solved the problem in recent years by migrating to New Zealand where, under post-war conditions of labour shortages, they find no difficulty in getting per

manent employment and setting u] permanent homes.

In this, as in other ways, it cai be said that the future of th Euronesian in Samoa is exactl; the same as that of tne Europea: —there just is no future for thei sons and daughters.

IN conclusion, just a couple o stray observations on the stat of affairs in the Territory.

I was struck by the fact that th five European members of th Legislative Assembly seemed not t adhere to any hard and fas sectionalised interest in publi affairs. They seemed just as kee: for Samoans to manage their ow affairs as the Samoans themselves and just as anxious that th Territory should be regarded a adult and not tied to anyone' apron-strings.

And they have their “dolla problems”. Current moan is tha restrictions prevent the importatio of American canned fish, whid retails for 1/10 against th alternative, imported NZ canne meat, which costs 3/-. Howeve dollar shortages seem not to hav unduly restricted the importatio of American cars; and in the store there seem to be plentifi supplies of American sweets, break fast foods, groceries, orange juic and canned goods.

The Starling Arrives In

p. 41

THE European starling, long established in Eastern and Southern Australia and throughout New Zealand, and re corded from the outlying islands of Lord Howe, Macquarie, Campbell, the Antipodes and the Kermadecs, is now found to be in Fiji too — though only just.

Rev. Walter Hill, of the Method ist Mission, who combines with his official duties a watchful eye on bird-life, found the bird firmly established at Ono-i-lau, Fiji’s south-eastern extremity, when he called there in January last.

The local story is that the starl ing. which has been given a ver nacular name roughly equivalent to “woodpecker,” was first seen at Ono following a hurricane, “about 20 years ago.” No one would expect the islanders to be more accurate than that.

From those first few arrivals have bred a present-day population run ning into many hundreds, if not thousands. Most probably the bird was storm-borne from the nearby Kermadecs. No doubt future storms will help to spread it over the Fiji group, where it promises to be even less welcome than its first cousin, the Indian mynah.

Though in some respects a pest, the mynah at least has not turned to the local fruits as a diet; but those who know what the starling can do to soft fruits, farther south, will not be surprised to hear that it is already attacking bananas and paw-paws in Ono-i-lau.

Smallpox Danger In

p. 41

ISLANDS

From Our Own Correspondent THE serious outbreak, some time ago. in Scotland, of virulent i Asiatic smallpox threw a hearty scare into the Cook Islands, where mail-matter is sometimes re ceived from the infected area.

An epidemic among small children of skin-eruptions has therefore given our local Medical Department cause for swift action. Victims are isolated, and treated with injections etc. The current disease is ob viously not smallpox, nor is it dangerous to the sufferer, save in the unsightly weals. It appears to be infectious (or contagious) hence the isolation of sufferers, as far as that is possible in native huts.

One wonders what would be the effect, upon an unimmunised native community of genuine smallpox.

With not one in two-thousand vac cinated. the death-roll would be im mense; it might even wipe out the islanders. The danger is so great that the wonder is that the authorities have not taken precau tionary measures.

“El Retiro,” The Vila

p. 41

FLYER

WHEN genial Captain Emile Savoie brought his little ship.

El Retiro, alongside an Auck land wharf on October 14, he re ported, with considerable satisfac tion, that he had travelled 4,000 miles and handled cargo in three ports in the past 40 days.

Ships often remain in one port for longer than that these days.

The ship—formerly the NZ coaster Kapiti—was acquired by Captain Savoie a year ago and has since been operating out of Vila, New Hebrides.

His present voyage was from that port to Noumea, thence Sydney, Norfolk Island, Sydney, Noumea and Auckland again.

From Norfolk she brought empty drums and left Auckland fully loaded with timber on October 17 after a quick turnround.

To the suggestion that a profit able trade could be developed be tween Auckland and Noumea, if shipping were offering, Captain Savoie replied that his ship was always available, but no such car goes were offering.

He plans, however, to acquire another vessel from New Zealand shortly for the New Hebrides-New Caledonia trade.

Papuans

pp. 43-44

INDUCING NATIVE

TO GROW RICE

From Our Own Correspondent

P. MORESBY. Nov. 30.

TERRITORY rice production was back in the news during November, when figures be came available on the 1951 Mekeo rice crop, ; Total government plantings and Government-sponsored native rice areas amounted to 272 acres, which yielded 175 tons. The Government crop was grown at the Epo Experi mental Station, where 132 acres produced 80 tons.

The Government-sponsored crops were raised by two Native Rural Progress Societies, which put in a combined acreage of 140, and har vested 95 tons.

The great bulk of this was handled by machinery, both for sowing and harvesting; and the sys tem is that the Native Societies have the work done on a contract basis by Government machinery, worked under Departmental super vision; and the hire costs and operating expenses are recovered from the native growers when the harvest is gathered.

The critic, of course, immediately isks what happens when the crop

fails, if it should fail. Who, then, pays the piper? Also, are the charges levied against the crop suffi cient to cover the very heavy over head of the Mekeo rice experiments? !For instance, last season a worthy attempt to raise extra rice for Mt.

Lamington evacuee food require ments was frustrated when nearly 200 acres of young crop was washed out by flood. Now if the flood had washed out the Progress Societies' crops instead of the Government acreage, who would have paid those seed and sowing costs?

But perhaps it is not entirely logical to want a balanced account ing on the Mekeo venture; for cer tainly, if enthusiastic agricultural officers can persuade the wily Mekeos to get within a stone’s throw of honest work, and stick at it as a pattern for the rising genera tion, that certainly would be worth something to the Government.

There has been a lot of criticism of the Mekeo agricultural experi ments. To a large extent the Ad ministration has brought this on its own head by lack of factual infor mation on the venture. Because no statements have been made on the cost of producing the rice grown in the Mekeo, fantastic rumours have put the figure at almost so much per grain rather than per pound.

Idealism is an essential factor in

the none-too-promising attempt to

lead the Mekeo races into the path

<pf thrifty husbandry and consistent industry; but equally essential is realism in regard to the costs on the financial side.

Maybe the Mekeos do need all kinds of expensive machinery, to be coaxed into assuming the role of rice farmers. But at Amele, near

Madang, and Dagua, 30 miles from Wewak, native style production, with hand tools and back-bending, has produced some very tidy little crops.

Undoubtedly there is a happy medium between grubbing around with little more than a digging stick, and riding aloft on high

priced machinery; but there is no doubt which will stand the test of profit and loss on operations.

It might be an idea to have a little less machinery in the Mekeo and a little more in the other centres.

Anyway, the Mekeo venture will continue to be under suspicion by

the general public until some c the mystery about its cost is dis pelled.

Moresby Ree[?]

p. 44

LAUTOKA ESCAPES

THE 30-years-old, 7,000-tons Car penter vessel Lautoka wer aground on a coral reef i Basilisk Passage, entrance to Poi Moresby, shortly after leaving tb wharf in the evening of Novembc 19. Because she was lightly loade (she had just discharged £ Moresby, and was bound for Sole mons to pick up timber), and be cause they were neap tides ths week, she was not easily refloated but, after several attempts, she w£ dragged off the reef, apparently ur harmed, on November 25.

On this voyage, the Lautok carried horses to Rabaul, an thence took timber and other carg to Moresby. Before the war, sb was called Salamaua.

Entrance to Moresby is a place < peculiar treachery, as many wel known Islands skippers have dis covered.

Miss Margaret Stubbs, daughti of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stubbs, ( New Guinea and Sydney, hi announced her engagement to M Frederick Wilshire, of Lae, Ne Guinea.

Why Copra Bags

pp. 47-49

ARE SO COSTLY

the most important ["/ economic factors in copra production to-day is the high price of copra sacks. This is a survey of the factors influencing that price, and of the outlook.

Probably tne most important date in the copra sack story is August 14, 1947 —the day on which Pakistan, with its rich jute-growing soils of ;East Bengal, declared itself a separate country. Thereby Pakis tan set in motion a chain of events [contributing mainly to the world shortage of jute products—for the f great weaving mills were all in India.

Trade and transport were imme diately disrupted by the political up heaval—and the chaos became complete when, in September, 1949, 'lndia devalued her currency, along with other Commonwealth countries, but Pakistan decided not to follow suit.

Jute then became a political bargaining weapon. Pakistan, with almost all the raw jute supplies, stood to profit greatly by devalua tion of the Indian rupee. The Indian jute mills must buy—or close down. Unable to pay the higher price, they closed when the exist ing supplies were exhausted.

A price agreement was finally reached early in 1951; but by that time the jute transport services were gravely disorganised one of the principal shipping companies involved having gone bankrupt.

The enormously involved diffi culties in re-establishing the flow of supplies from Pakistan are set out in the Indian Jute Mills Asso elation report for 1950 Although by the 1951 agreement 'between the two countries India is to receive about half her total reouirements transport of the raw material by water and rail will be the limiting factor.

India had hoped to attain the other half of her needs from home production during the current season. Considerable planting has

centrXon an“er fo?d

Mglted"^ls Ut,llSe the riCh ’ gacea solls ’ buy- r° IN ? roEN J ™ th f the shorta « e of Jute products from the Pakis , tan-Indra region-the only im- P° producing country—normal demand was on the increase. The

Korean war, and stepped-up arma ments production in the US and elsewhere, call for sacks in ever greater quantities for the transport of the raw materials involved.

In America, particularly, con siderable profiteering developed in the hessian (a product of jute) trade, importers making large profits on resale to the consumers.

The Indian Government, aware of this, imposed an export tax on all jute products, arguing that if the US consumer market could stand the higher price, then India was more entitled to the proceeds than the American importers, who, of necessity would have to reduce then profits when the consumers refused to go still higher.

Australian importers consider that, whilst probably justified in the case of hessian, the present 15 per cent, export tax on sacks is not warranted and they are* making every effort to have.it removed.

Some further factors enter the supply situation insofar as Island Territories (which draw their sacks from Australian sources) are con cerned. The copra-trade’s heavy demand for good second-hand sacks has, in the past, been largely sup plied by the linseed trade; but to day this prolific source of sacks has almost entirely disappeared. The linseed trade finds it cheaper and more satisfactory to import the oil in drums or in bulk, rather than

import the bagged seed and express the oil locally.

Although sugar sacks were never of interest to the copra trade it may be mentioned that, due to the jute situation, the Colonial Sugar Refin ing Co. has changed to calico and recently has imported 6 million yards of that material from Japan.

These second-hand calico bags are available in Sydney at 25/- per dozen, but, like the hessian sugar bag, are much too small and fragile for copra use.

AUSTRALIA to-day receives from India a larger allocation of jute sacks than any other country—about 30 per cent, of the

total Indian output. This is mainly because of India’s need for Aus tralian wheat, and the transport of the wheat requires large quantities of sacks. Importers agree that the present 200,000-tons allocation does not fall far short of Australian new sack requirements. They insist that plenty of new sacks are available to the copra trade —but at the Govern ment-fixed price of around 70/- per dozen f.0.b., Sydney.

The high price, rather than any shortage of new sacks, created a heavy demand for good second-hand sacks.

An acute shortage of the latter developed during the first half of 1951'—not so much because of ab sence of sacks, taut because the merchants held back second-hand supplies in anticipation of a price rise—and they were not disap pointed. In February, the fixed price of first-quality second-hand 4-bushel sacks was 19/- per dozen, On June 29, the merchants woke to find their patience richly rewarded, the Gazette of that date raising the price to 55/-, “to bring the price into line with new-sack prices.”

Details of the basis on which this new price was arrived at are nol available.

Since then, the second-hand sad situation has eased insofar as supply is concerned, but other fac tors still influence the export trade

SACK shortages complained of by individual planters—even at the new price—may generally be traced to the fact that the merchants are reluctant to bother : with export where local markets are [ Those who are interested in ex [port, and have the facilities for fumigation and dumping into bales —only the larger merchants have I these facilities —are still reluctant to handle small orders from the smaller Sydney Island agents. Thus, such agents may phone every sack merchant in the city and invariably ■meet with the reply, “No sacks available” —while the Big Island Firms seem to have no trouble whatever in obtaining supplies. The Big Firms take care of their own dumping problems, and the sack merchants therefore prefer to deal ;With them. In exchange for this business the Big Firms naturally insist that, when sacks are in short supply they shall have first priority.

Thus the individual planter finds difficulty in obtaining supplies.

COMPLAINTS by planters that, having obtained new sacks for copra shipments to Rabaul, they invariably receive back noor quality sacks in exchange, would appear to be untenable. All sacks go into the general pool, and ob viously some planters must be re ceiving good sacks in exchange for poor ones. Naturally, no complaints are received in this case.

Though the average jute sack has completed its life cycle by the third filling, a contributory cause of wastage would seem to be over ramming, especially if an excessive number of bags are allowed to a ship’s sling: the sling often cuts such tightly-filled bags in half if they are at all old.

To-day, with almost all copra ex ported in bulk from the main con centration depots, sacks are mainly used for transport to those depots, and for storage pending shipment Jverseas. But even where sacks ire used for copra, export quaran tine regulations do not permit the reimportation of such sacks from Europe; and it is doubtful whether, ifter all the handling involved and :he cost of reimportation, it would 3e an economic proposition to fumi- Sate and re-import such sacks.

A s to the outlook, Australian jute ■ljl importers consider it most un likely that this country will lave a jute sack industry of its )wn in the foreseeable future.

Even allowing that suitable areas can be found in New Guinea and elsewhere for jute culture—and no country has so far produced jute )f the quality of the Pakistan- India jute—considerable finance would be involved in establishing

sack-weaving plant.

Importers consider that any fibre supplies that may come from the current experimental plantings of jute, kenaf (canna lily) and abaca (plantain), if any, will not affect the sack position. Such fibres will be used for the easier processes of rope-making, etc.

Meanwhile, India is stepping up its jute plantings, and British capi tal is considering the establishment of weaving mills in Pakistan.

The importers consider that, long before any sack industry is well established in Australian territory, those countries will be supplying jute sacks at a much more economic figure than the cost at which Aus tralia can produce a product from an inferior fibre.

The Fiji Medical Department’s new vessel Vuniwai was launched bv Lady Maraia, wife of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, recently in Suva. The boat will be used for medical in spections and to carry medical stores and staff to the dispensaries in outlying islands.

Farewell to Apia

p. 51

THE good wishes of the residents of Apia, Western Samoa, will go with Mrs. Peg Lloyd, when she leaves the Casino Hotel in De cember to go to Fiji.

Mrs. Lloyd has accepted the position of House-Manageress of the Dueba Beach Hotel which has recently been completely renovated by the Philp brothers.

She will be acompanied by her wo-year-old daughter, Frances, md Fiji will mean reunion for her rith her elder daughter, Pippa, who s a boarder at the Suva Girls’

Grammar School.

Friends in the Gilbert and Ellice

Islands, to which Mrs. Lloyd went with her husband, the late Elliott Lloyd during his service with the WPHC, will be interested to hear of her new venture. Apia, remembers with affection Elliott Lloyd, the in augurator of the Broadcasting Ser vice in Western Samoa.

With her in this photograph (taken at a recent Apia wedding) is Mr. Roy Wills who has been manager of the drapery department in Morris Hedstrom’s Apia store for the past seven years. He left Apia for Australia in October, en route to England in 1952. Producers for the Apia Playreading Circle will regret the loss of a willing partici

pant in the Circle’s activities.-

K.N.

Moresby

p. 51

World War II Memorial at Moresby

ON Sunday, November 11, a Second World War Memorial was un veiled by the Administrator, Colonel J. K. Murray, at Port Moresby.

The ceremony was combined with a Remembrance Day Service, and was attended by detachments from the PNGVR, the PIR and the Police Force. There was also a fine parade of 200 native scouts and guides.

The rapidly growing Scout and Guide movement among the younger generation of natives in the Terri tory is one of the most encouraging

postwar developments in the Islands. Their leaders, European and native, are rendering invaluable service to the country and its future.

Mrs. R. H. Hicks, of Madang, New Guinea, is at present holiday ing in Perth, Western Australia.

Water Meters for Moresby

p. 52

THE Bobbie Dico Meter Co. Ltd., of Adelaide recently secured a £13,822 contract from the De partment of Works and Housing for the supply of water meters, for use at Port Moresby, Darwin, and Canberra.

Port Moresby’s quota is 205 —160

of them, i in. type, the remainder, i in., 1 in. and 5.2 inches.

At normal rates of flow the error in these meters does not exceed 2 per cent.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Shields at Madang Euro pean Hospital (New Guinea) on October 16.

Bsi Grants Aid Mission

p. 52

MEDICAL SERVICES

From a Special Correspondent MISSIONS operating in tin British Solomon Islands an pleased by the decision 01 the Administration to allocate tin sum of £3,000 per annum to h divided among all Christian Mis sions in the area as a subsidy fo; medical services to the natives.

The basis of the allocation is; £3OO for each doctor, £lOO foi each fully-qualified nurse, anc £5O for each partly-qualified nurse If the total amount claimed b: the Missions exceeds £3,000, then the amount per medical worker wil be reduced proportionately.

An additional sum of £2,500 pe: annum is to be spent on drugs foi distribution among the various mis sions in accordance with the worl they carry out.

Comment by the Methodist Mis sionary Society of NZ, which ha one doctor and about 15 Nev Zealand nurses in BSI and Bou gainville is: “While these grant are small compared with thos< made by the Administration o Papua and New Guinea, they ar more generous than a few year ago.”

‘The Isles Of Unwisdom’

pp. 53-56

(CONTRIBUTED)

A BOOK about the early dis coveries in the Solomons has been published recently. It deals with Mendana’s second and last voyage, when bad planning and leadership defeated the first attempt to colonise the Solomons.

The Spaniards dreamed of rich and fertile lands, thickly populated, where domains could be carved for the pioneers. The expedition landed at Graciosa Bay, Santa Cruz in September, 1595. Hostility of the natives, due to ignorance of and harsh treatment by the Spaniards, sickness and shortage of foods, caused the abandonment of the enterprise.

Later, an account of the voyage was written and the foreword was: “The Tragedy of the Islands where no Solomon was found and no Wisdom.” The Spaniards showed some wisdom in leaving the Solomons, and never returning.

Three hundred years later, another attempt to colonise the Solomons was begun—and is now being defeated by ignorance and apathy.

WHALERS had visited the Islands looking for food and water, and picking up natives for their boats’ crews. Later, recruiting for plantations in Fiji, Queensland and Samoa, started.

With a view to regulating this traffic, a British Protectorate was formed and the sale of firearms, headhunting and the kidnapping of labour was checked. Later, in 1906, the Queensland Government re turned all natives, and all recruiting for Queensland was stopped. Re cruiting for Fiji lasted until about 1912. To absorb this returned labour, the Colonial Office opened up the Islands for planting. The Pacific Islands Co. later absorbed ay Levers, was invited to take up and for planting, on long lease lolds.

Planting on a large scale started.

Fraders took up land, the new companies were formed. Coconuts vere “The Consols of the East.”

Fhe Administration encouraged Dlanters to acquire land, and issisted them to recruit labour.

Regulations were made, protect ng the labourer against bad treat nent and giving the employer lecurity of tenure. The native land )wner was paid 2/- per acre for lis land, and this was leased to the )lanter for a term of 99 years; ’entals were on a sliding scale.

Experimental crops of rubber and iocoa were tried. Cotton was uccessfully grown at Mamara, but lasual cotton-pickers could not be obtained.

Planting died away in the 1930’5.

With the Depression, and the low price of copra, planting was a gamble. Plantations were aban doned; and, by the outbreak of

planters had left’the Group. Then Americans, In 1945, planters began to return to their plantations, to find them choked with jungle and the trees

killed by vines. All buildings had been destroyed and looted.

No welcome was given them by the Administration; some were asked to put up a Bond of £5O. No labour was offering, no transport was available, and no assistance was given by the Administration to start again. No compensation was ever paid for war damages.

The Administration took over, from the retiring American forces, the docks, roads, bridges and a certain amount of building material, in return for which the American Army was freed from all claims.

Later, the Administration re pudiated all claims. The latest good word on this matter was said at I'the last Advisory Council at Honiara. Said the Resident Com missioner; “Planters are all doing well. They don’t need compen sation.”

BUT —look at the future of the Group. Planting finished in the 30’s. Half the present yielding trees are over 40 years old. The economic life of a coconut planta tion is 50 years, after which there is a gradual decline in the yield of copra—our main product. The present yield of plantation copra is less than half the pre-war yield; only the high price now received enables the planter to carry on.

Labour is scarce, expensive and lazy; the price of rations is sky high; and transport is costly.

The natives are in a similar position. Most of them are living on trees planted by their grand parents. The present generation is not keen to plant more crops. Copra is a good price, so why worry!

Planting of rice and cocoa does not interest them. Why should it? They have no cares; food is plentiful; copra a good price—so why worry.

I venture to prophesy that in 25 years no coconut plantation will be bearing economically, and the native groves will be finished.

This calls for the exercise of some wisdom by our Administration. The world is crying for fats and oils.

Investors should be allowed to bring in outside labour; natives should be compelled to plant more coconuts and develop their lands. Rice, kapok and cocoa can be grown profitably on suitable soils and the natives should be taught agriculture.

Let the Administration forget all about schools and the higher •education. Leave that to the Missions. Subsidise the Missions and they will do a good job—better than any Government-run school.

The ideal native is not the “flash” clerk at Honiara, apeing the white man, the native that should be en couraged is he who stays at home, plants his garden and crops, builds a house and marries, unspoilt by the artificial life at Honiara, with its sly-grog shops and gambling dens.

The native should be assisted by

an Agricultural officer, with his own vessel, giving advice and help.

The office of Travelling Medical Officer should be re-introduced, to give the native advice on health, housing and sanitation. A vessel for the TMO is far more important than a yacht for the Resident Com missioner.

The Isles of Unwisdom! Who

here is the latest fool? Is it the white man who invests his money, gambles with his health in an effort to develop the Islands; or the Ad ministrator who frustrates him and does nothing practical for the native and ignores the coming collapse?

“After me, the deluge!”

Mr. and. Mrs. Barry Kelly, of Madang, New Guinea, arrived in Australia on leave, in October.

The well-known British author, Mr. Eric Linklater, found his recent short visit to Papua and New Guinea interesting and worth-while. His most memorable experience was a trip in a small Gibbes Airways plane, with Pilot Goosens, to Tapini, in the Goilala district, inland from Yule Island. The plane “landed on a shelf on a mountainside” and was the “most spectacular flight” the famous writer ever made.

Wholesale Theft From

p. 56

APIA STORES

From Our Own Correspondent

APIA. NOV. 17.

NINE Samoan, part-Samoan and Niue employees—most of them young—of the Apia branch of Burns Philp (SS) Ltd., appeared in Apia High Court on November 9 charged with theft and receiving goods stolen from their employers.

All pleaded guilty and were sen tenced to terms ranging from 12 to three months.

Police prosecutions for theft and receiving from two other Apia firms will be held in the High Court shortly.

Australian commonwealth

p. 56

Jubilee Sporting Fixture in Nauru

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Jubilee celebrations in Sep tember-October included two fishing contests. Large crowds assembled to view the catches which ranged from the small red fish to the largest sharks.

Jubilee Cups were presented to the winners by the Administrator, the Hon. R. S. Richards.

In September a Jubilee Tennis Tournament for Nauruans resulted in a Mens Singles win for Aida Club. Boe Club claimed the Men’s Doubles and Evergreen Club the Women’s Doubles.

Repaired

p. 57

Suva Wharf Will Be Repaired

Prom Our Own Correspondent

SUVA, Nov. 19

THINGS —usually heavy trucks— frequently go through the King’s Wharf, the main berth ing-place for overseas ships at Suva. They go through to the ex tent of breaking a heavy, decayed hardwood plank in the decking, re cover and go their way leaving yet another hole.

Shipping men, pointing to cargo handtrucks lurching over the ter raced planks have said that no body has any right to ask wharf workers to push heavy loads over such a surface.

It has now been discovered that for many months the Public Works Department has been trying to squeeze sufficient hardwood out of Australia to put down a completely new top to the wharf, Australia, however, will not come across with the timber, and the Department has now announced that it is about to put together detailed plans for re placing the timber decking with re inforced concrete, plus reinforced concrete supports where necessary.

In the meantime, the Department has toyed with the idea of banning heavy lorries from the wharf, but as this would add to the present state of hopeless congestion in the inadequate wharf sheds, and would delay shipping, it has been decided to let lorries go ahead.

Chegg-Wong Wedding

p. 57

A photograph taken after the wedding of Miss Margaret Lilian Wong, to Mr. Louis John Chegg, on August 4, 1951, at St.

Michael’s Cathedral. Aleishafen, New Guinea. About 200 guests, including a large number of their European friends, assembled at the wedding reception, held at the home of the newly-married couple.

NZRE Profits Samoa

p. 57

From Our Own Correspondent

APIA. NOV. 10.

SAMOANS are doing pretty well out of the New Zealand Re paration Estates of Western Samoa.

During the year ended March 31, 1951, the NZRE paid £34,589 in taxes to the Samoan government; their wages bill was £109,735 (1,600 Samoans are regularly employed and 600 casually); and out of profits substantial grants were made for medical services, education, develop -

ment, agricultural research, road making and broadcasting.

Most of the profit came from cocoa and copra production—other ventures such as the timber mill on Savaii and the Casino Hotel in Apia showed a loss.

Tb In Tonga

pp. 59-60

Visitor Urges Use of A New Vaccine

AT our urgent request, Dr. Ed ward Jacomb (at present visiting Norfolk Island, en route to the New Hebrides) con sented to discuss the problem of Tuberculosis in Tonga, which he recently visited. He declares that the incidence of TB in Tonga is high, and very grave; and it is said that the Government of Tonga is not doing enough to meet the scourge. Dr. Jacomb advocates the use of BCG vaccine.

Dr. Jacomb was a legal practi tioner in the New Hebrides over 30 years ago. After he retired to England, he studied medicine and qualified as a medical practi tioner. He did not practice, but engaged in research work during a long residence in the Channel Islands.

WHAT is known as BCG vaccine, which is a valuable immunis ing agent against TB, was discovered twenty or more years ago; but, owing to an unfortunate accident, was for long discarded as a practical method.

Within the past few years, how ever, it has been revived with great success. It has been found to pro tect during infancy and childhood (the most dangerous period for in fection); and I was assured by Dr.

K. MacKlnstry, CMO of Jersey (Channel Islands), who for the past four or five years has been system atically inoculating all children born in Jersey within a few days of birth, that tubercular meningitis is now unknown there, and that he has good reason to hope that within a generation the island will be com pletely free from the scourge.

It should be noted that BCG only immunises; it does not cure persons who have already contracted the disease. There is still no cure for TB. Many cases are benefited by open-air treatment in sanatoria, and some cases have benefited from in jections of aureomycin.

For a long time, the main diffi culty in systematic treatment of communities remote from Paris and Denmark (for long the only two centres where this BCG vaccine could be procured) was the evanes cent viability and consequent loss of efficacy of the vaccine, which only lasts for some nine days.

Within the past two or three years, however, what is known as Freeze-Dried BCG has been evolved at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

This, with proper care, remains potent up to six months, and so it is completely suitable for use in tropical countries, and especially in such places as the Pacific Islands,

with scanty and difficult communi cations with the outside world.

This Freeze-Dried BCG is now also manufactured at the Common wealth Serum Laboratories in Mel bourne, according to Dr. Poole, head of the Tamavua Hospital for TB in Suva, and so is readily available for this part of the world.

Dr. Poole told me that it is now being used systematically in Fiji, though a number of the more re mote islands have still to be dealt with. The immunisation is being carried out mainly by Native Medi cal Practitioners.

It seems obvious that BCG Freeze-Dried vaccine should be used in Tonga; but up to the time I left, in July, it was not, and (according

to Dr - W. G. Burrows, the then CMO there) there was little pros pect of it being so.

I was informed (this is only hear say) that a Dr. Black, one of Dr.

Burrows’s predecessors, had urged its employment on the Tongan Gov ernment, and that the only reply he got was that as there is already in existence a cure for TB (aureo mycin) the BCG vaccine would be a needless expense. No doubt, for the same reason, other procedures advocated by the medical men are regarded as needless. This, of course, is nonsense, and merely goes to show what must be expected when supreme power is handed over (as it has been by us in Tonga) to people who are not sufficiently trained for a self-government.

The CMO in Tonga in 1939 (when I first visited the Group)—l forget his name, but he was an Australian —told me that in the preceding six

months he had put in over 30 re quisitions and recommendations on medical matters to the Premier’s office (then in charge of the late Prince Tugi) and that he had not had a single reply to any of them.

The present Crown Prince and Premier is currently reported to have advised his people not to have so many children, and to have advo cated modern methods of birth control, as he considers the Group is becoming over-populated. If this be so, it would serve the purpose well to continue to refrain from in troducing immunisation by BCG vaccine—the ravages of TB will act as a better method of birth-control than perhaps even he anticipates.

Madang Notes

p. 60

From Our Own Correspondent

MADANG. Nov. 22

MR. and Mrs. Roy Kansen and small son have arrived here on transfer from Kokopo. Mr.

Hansen will take over the duties of Mr. R. Weidenhofer, who with his wife and family left by the last Malaita to spend nine months leave in Queensland.

Other Malaita travellers were Mr.

Middleton of Kulili Plantation and Mrs. Baume and family of the SDA Mission.

Madang residents who have re cently gone South on leave include Mr. and Mrs. B. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs.

Jock McKee, Mr. Alan Clark and Mr. Ron Chugg.

Mr. and Mrs. P. Chandler have also gone to Australia —but intend to stay there. They will be missed bv many friends in Madang.

The Madang Golf Club recently held a successful dance which raised £B4 for Club funds. The newly-formed Aquatic Club held its first dance at the Madang club recently and it too was a success.

Madang harbour lends itself to all types of water sports and local resi dents hope that this club will flourish.

At the Lutheran Mission Hospital sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. S. Evans of Dylup Plantation and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cunnington of Madang.

The Department of Works and Housing has commenced work on the first of three new PCB bunga lows at Kalibobo.

Masonic Grand Lodge mem bers from Brisbane who visited here recently for the In stallation ceremony, added to their New Guinea experiences when their plane, owing to bad weather, was forced to land at isolated Dumpu strip in the Ramu Valley where they spent a most uncomfortable night. Captain H. P. Whitlock, who for the past 21 years has been ADC to the High Commissioner of Western Samoa, returned to NZ with his wife and two children on the October Matua.

Active Tax-Dodgers In

p. 61

FIJI

From Our Own Correspondent

SUVA. NOV. 5.

THE unfairness of Fiji’s taxation system, under which a great many well-to-do Asiatics es cape all direct taxation because of the inability of the Inland Revenue Department to track them down, is emphasised by the department’s annual report, which discloses that about 3,000 persons are dodging the £2-a-year residential tax.

Every male between the ages of 18 and 50, other than Fijians (who are taxed to the hilt by their own administration), Banabans and Ro tumans, is liable to residential tax, but there are generous exemptions, as in the case of fathers of five or more children.

In 1950 the tax realised only £47,430, plus £1,470 in arrears. This means that 23,715 persons paid the tax (22,446 in 1949). Registered tax payers who failed to pay the 1950 tax numbered 2,018, compared with 1,908 in 1949.

Most people would say that the department’s estimate of 3,000 dod gers is extremely conservative. (There is a population of about 130,000 non-natives in the Colony.)

TAX MILLIONAIRES

rR the first time in the Colony’s history, the Inland Revenue Department during 1950 col

lected more than a million pounds in taxes. The amount paid was £1,060,666 which included income tax, stamp duties, residential and other taxes.

Mining royalties amounted to £132,600; income tax to £835,600. The sum of £llB,OOO was paid in income tax by 2,580 individual European taxpayers. European companies contributed £651,150; Indian com

panies £1,637; Indian individual taxpayers £42,000; and Chinese in dividuals and companies about £20,000.

Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Ward, of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, Pitcairn Island, left the island on the Rangitata on October 5, en route to Australia.

Magazine Section

pp. 63-73

NO LONGER OFF

THE RECORD

R. W. ROBSON

EXAMINES

AN OLD

LETTER-FILE

EVER since I established the Pacific Islands Monthly, in 1930, I have stored, in a locked cabinet, communications given to me “off the record.” That cabinet has been overflowing, for some time. To-day, I cleared it out.

Back to daylight has come a mass of material that had been forgot ten. Most of it now can be pub lished. Either the persons are dead, or the incidents disclosed do not matter any more.

JAMES LARKIN

Here are the original papers in the James Larkin case. James Larkin, a planter in Manus, New Guinea, was attacked by a cheeky native labourer, in 1931. In return, he gave the native a severe thrash ing. The native died—the cause was never proved—probably a “spleen case.” In Rabaul, on Novem ber 30, 1931, Larkin was convicted by Judge Wanliss of murder, and sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour.

In the proven circumstances, it was a really savage sentence. For two years, Larkin’s friends tried to get the case reviewed, but official dom would not move. In 1934, the PIM commenced an agitation. Offi cialdom still was aloof.

New Guinea men then subscribed some hundreds of pounds for the Larkin Defence Fund. We briefed counsel, engaged experts and, in January, 1935, circulated a petition, asking Administrator McNicoll to grant mercy to Larkin and remit the balance of sentence. It was numerously signed, and presented.

The late Judge Wanliss regarded the movement as a reflection upon dim, and resisted it with everything de had.

When officialdom saw the strength )f the plea for Larkin (I put in mormous work on the thing, and New Guinea civilians gave splendid support) Larkin’s friends were con ddentially informed that if they vould call off the PIM. Larkin vould be released.

A young woman whom Larkin was engaged to marry came to me and peremptorily ordered me to “lay «r*--she said she had seen certain OT’s, and had “arranged” Larkin’s ■elease. Naturally, I refused to fade )ut. Either officialdom would give in answer to the plea of the NG People; or we should take the case so the highest authority in Aus-

There was a bitter fight, under ground. Certain gentlemen, now dead, wanted the credit for releas ing Larkin; but I would not budge.

Larkin was released in 1935, and hurriedly shipped away with his bride to South America. He never said one word of thanks to me or the Committee for all the work we had put in on his case. But on the eve of his sailing, a solicitor, acting for the lady, demanded from me immediate payment to him of the balance, in my hands, of the Fund which had been subscribed for Larkin’s defence by the NG people.

We handed it over.

CHARLES NORDHOFF

In 1938, the PIM had been direct ing attention to Jap war prepara tions throughout the Pacific. Writ ing to me on September 12, 1938, Charles Nordhoff, in Tahiti, said: “Europe, as I write, seems about to explode; yet I have an inner feeling that Hitler will end by taking what we call in the States ‘backwater,’ and there will be no war this year. If war comes, you may count on us the moment Japan raises her head.”

How right he was! Literally within a few days of that date, Chamberlain met Hitler at Munich, and the evil day was postponed.

In 1941, Japan “raised her head” —and America knocked it off.

Nordhoff also said: “My finances at present are not too bright, with several big children at school in California, and our old family ranch (50,000 acres) in Mexico ‘ex propriated,’ together with mines, oil-wells and God-knows-what, the property of people more important than ourselves. But don’t broad cast this—we have not yet given up hope.”

Nordhoff’s domestic set-up in Tahiti collapsed in ruin soon after that; and he later died in Cali fornia. James Norman Hall died a few months ago. The great literary partnership is now but a memory.

Most people now have forgotten “the great Mexican steal in 1938”; but it set the pattern for Persia at Abadan, and Egypt at the Suez Canal.

GEORGE MURRAY

A letter dated November 27, 1938, from dear old George Murray, the New Guinea Director of Agriculture,

reminds me he was among the hundreds of civilians sacrificed in Rabaul in January, 1942, by Can berra’s addle-pated officialdom.

I had asked Murray for a photo graph, for publication. He sent me a photograph of himself, as a young man, but forbade me to use it if I were going to publish also photo graphs of certain fellow-members of the Legislative Council, whom he named.

He was a mighty hater, was George Murray, and the things he says in this letter about his fellow- Councillors and about “corruption in Rabaul” almost blister the paper. One of them is still very much alive, so the letter remains “off the record.”

George Murray’s parents were pioneer missionaries in the Islands.

His grandmother’s cousin was the first missionary in the New Heb rides, about 1840. Another kinsman.

Dr. John Macgillivray, was a scien tist on HMS Fly and HMS Rattle snake, in the Pacific, over 100 years ago.

PRIME MINISTER LYONS

Here is a letter dated April 10, 1933, and bearing the signature of J. A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Aus tralia.

Many people whose opinions I respected were alarmed, in 1933, by growing evidence of Nazi Germany’s determination to return to the Pacific and regain her “lost colonies.” Certain New Guinea in

The late George Murray as a young man

cidents had come under my notice which, added together, made rather an interesting picture.

I gathered up all the informa tion which I had and, under advice, submitted it to the Australian Prime Minister. This was his reply. He carried out, to the letter, his pro mise to examine the New Guinea situation very carefully.

Germany did not strike until 1939.

In the ensuing 6 h years, pro-German activities in New Guinea did not go unobserved. Personally, I was not much interested in what the Germans were doing—l was too busy trying to keep track of the penetration of the South Seas by the Japanese.

SIR HUBERT MURRAY

Talking of Japan, here is a letter written to me from Port Moresby on November 29, 1938, (shortly after Munich) by Sir Hubert Murray, Lieut .-Governor of Papua; “We hear rumours of the whole Japanese fleet having been seen off the coast of New Guinea during the critical days of September last. I wonder if there is any truth in them.”

There was truth, indeed. But Sir Hubert did not live to see it proved—he was dead before the Japs invaded the Territories.

DICK ROCHE

A file inscribed “Dich Roche” is next to hand. These documents, dated around 1932, remind me that Mr. John Earnshaw, of North Sydney, and I tried very hard to learn something of the fate of Dick Roche, Bird-of-Paradise shooter, who disappeared in Dutch New Guinea before 1930. He had col lected a large quantity of priceless material in a series of diaries, writ ten in New Guinea; and, even if Dick were lost, we wanted his diaries. , , , But 20 years have passed, and not a trace of Roche has been dis covered.

JACK HIDES

I find treasure in a dusty old file labelled “Hides,” with dates bet ween 1932 and 1935.

Here is the very first MS that young Patrol Officer Jack Hides sent me. It is an account of an extremely arduous patrol which he made in 1931, looking for the head waters of the Tiveri River. He got away over the Kratke Range, and down into the Watut Valley, behind Bulolo, and there he and his party, literally starving, blundered into the camp of the famous prospector, Baum. Three weeks after Hides left, Baum was murdered by the Kukukukus. I had completely for gotten this MSI —we shall publish it, one day soon.

Hides wrote this to me on November 11, 1934; “I leave in 10 or 11 days for the Strickland. I am taking 14 police —the pick of the veterans ... all are

eager, and splendid types. My carriers will be 25 convicts —all hill men from the N and NE Divisions — long-sentence men who for some years have been breaking stones, getting three good meals a day and being well-disciplined. Cortes may —or may not —have dragged ships across mountains to the lakes of Mexico; taut I know these men will drag me food and equipment across 300 miles of unknown Papua.

These are the men who are going to make my patrol possible; and, if I watch them, they will see me through.”

And they did see him through.

Nearly a year later, he came back to report his most successful patrol— penetration of that magnificent up lands country southwards of Mount Hagen. I saw some of it from the air last year, and I still wonder how young Hides, and Champion, and Karius, ever got through those mountain barriers.

Hides was a natural writer.

W. C. GROVES

And here is another dusty old file inscribed “W. C. Groves.” When I started that file, the now sober and serious Director of Papua-N.

Guinea Education was then, exactly 19 years ago, a lusty and enthusias tic young education officer in the Kavieng district of New Ireland; and he wrote for me some of the most valuable comments on native life and conditions we ever had from that area.

I hope that “Bill”—at this moment a responsible Australian SP Commissioner at Noumea—will forgive me if I quote a little bit of unrecorded history which he wrote me in the last letter in the old file, dated February 14, 1934: “It is rumoured here in Rabaul that General Griffiths, for private reasons, desires to be released from his engagement (as Administrator), to leave New Guinea permanently at the end of June. In certain

(Continued on Page 70.)

quarters, it is believed that he hi found the reconciliation of tl various clamant interests in tl Territory impossible, even to one < his patience, tact and administn tive experience.”

If I remember aright, that wi the first hint I received that tl best Administrator New Guinea ew had was being driven out by pet: official intrigues. And so it prove But the only thing that Tom Gri: fiths (dead long since) said himse about it was: “I will not tolera office-boy control.”

“BILLY” HUGHES

Does anyone remember the fiei invasion of New Guinea affairs I Australia’s everlasting “Bilb Hughes? I am reminded of tl incident when I turn up a copy of circular we sent to all our Morol readers on August 15, 1938.

“Billy,” briefly, was Minister f< Territories. Rabaul, in 1937, ha been more or less grilled in an erui tion, and a new capital had to I found. “Billy,” in a rush, ar nounced the selection of Salamar as the new capital, and the builc ing of a road “directly over tt mountains from Salamaua to Wau The PIM promptly circularised a Members of Parliament, pointir out that any attempt to build sue a road was lunacy—it must g around the mountains, via tt Buangs or the Markham.

This was reported to the Ne Guinea Mining Association as a attempt by the PIM to kill the roac and it called for a boycott of tt PIM. We replied by direct circuls that we were not attacking the roai but the route.

“Billy’s” selection of both capits and road were soon forgotten. Tc day, 13 years later, the Lae-Mark ham-Wau road, built by the mil: tary, is in constant use; and th once-busy port and airfield c Salamaua is completely deserted.

CARL HEINE

This one brings many memorie It is a carbon copy of a letter ad dressed to Mr. Carl R. Heine, Micro nesian Mission, Jaluit, Marsha Islands, and it is dated Augus 1941.

Mr. Heine, a well-educated Ameri can missionary, was one of the bar half-dozen Europeans allowed b the Japanese to remain in th Marshalls. From time to time, h wrote very interesting little article for PIM about native life and condi tions.

In 1941, being certain that Japa: would attack, I was trying to hel; Intelligence by getting any availabl details of Jap installations in th Marshalls and Carolines; and I be thought me of Carl Heine.

So I wrote him a letter most arefully phrased. I inquired about is health, said we were associated Ith a fund for providing mission ries with furlough in a cool place, id suggested that we might be able » help him to furlough in Australia. remarked, incidentally, that I as sure there would be no war in le Pacific.

I do not suppose that letter ever ‘ached him. Only eight weeks Eter I wrote it, I was myself up in le Gilberts, and I found that the ipanese had completely closed rery channel of communication be veen the Gilberts and Micronesia, earl Harbour followed, almost im lediately.

I never heard again of Mr. Heine -I often wondered what became of im. Murdered, I suppose, like so lany of the Europeans in those olated islands.

Crossquiz — No. 24

pp. 64-69

(Solution on Page 67)

ACROSS

I. —ln cricket, what is the term for the devia tion of a ball towards the wicket from the side opposite to that on which the batsman stands? s.—What is the natural outside covering of an animal body? 9. —What do we call a man who professes not to be bound by conven tional authority in re ligion? 10. —Which club has a wheel for a badge and each member is of dif ferent occupations? 11. —What poem re counts a great event in elevated style? 13. —Under what other name is a newt known? 14. —What do you call a simpleton named from a village in Nottirtg hamshire? 15. —What kind of frame for winding yarn is a lively dance in Scotland?

17.—What is the name of a mountain nymph? 19. —In a friendly way how would you term an experienced sailor? 22. —What is the crown of the head called? 23. What name can be applied to any greasy liquid? 24. What arched channel of masonry is built for carrying water beneaath a road? 25. What is the Arafura?

DOWN

I—What is the name of the informal circles maintained by the followers of Mr.

Frank Buchman? 2. —Where is the centre of newspaper life in London? 3—What is the musical expression for ‘‘diminishing in speed”?

4.—What do you call a song in an opera which is composed for one voice sup ported by instruments? 6. — what petroleum product is used for lighting and heating? 7. —Which English prison is known from its Calendar? 8. —What is the term for the master of a merchant-ship? 12.—What kind of fortress served A. J.

Cronin as a title for a famous novel? 16. —What measuring unit contains VU yards? 18.—What island received the George Cross during the last war? 20. —Which one of Adam’s sons was the victim of fratricide? 21. drinking cups hold but half a pint? 24. What is the symbol for calcium?

Tropicalities

p. 65

COLD COMFORT

THE very cold “winter” we experienced in the Cook Is lands this year was not with out its hilarious side.

Those who had Makatea blankets, the relics of a past prosperity, got them out of sea-chests and were snug. The unfortunate ones with out, resorted to copra-bags, old Army greatcoats, and similar ersatz, with more or less satisfactory re sults.

But old Mori had only a sack, and complained to the AMP of being cold, among other ills due to anno domini. He mentioned that he “had a hot-water-bottle” (some islanders amazingly, possess these articles) but didn’t quite know how to manage it.

The medico told him to just fill it with hot-water, and put it in the bed.

Later, Old Mori returned, more full of cramns and coughs than be fore. The HWB, said he, had been entirely ineffective. He was told to try again, with the hottest water available.

When the ancient came back the second time unrelieved, the Doc. iecided to look into the matter. So le went with Old Mori to his hut. [he hot-water-bottle, that had jeen totally unsuccessful in creating :alories, was produced.

It was a battered and ancient fhermos flask! —ETI.

XMAS WILL BE EARLY THIS

YEAR

PIHRISTMAS is likely to be 10 U days early this year in the Chatham Islands, 500 miles ast of NZ, because that is the day m which the TEAL Solent will tiake its pre-Christmas flight.

During the southern summer, ?EAL services this lonely group on

. fairly regular schedule).

It has been decided to make De ember 15 something to remember bis year in the Chatham Islands -the Solent will carry to the chil ren of the islands, a Christmas ree, Santa Claus and gifts includ ig ice-cream, sweets, balloons and rtiat-not. all provided by NZ firms.

The children will travel by horse ack or boat (there are no roads in he usual sense) to Te Whanga .agoon where the Solent lands.

Everything is organised to make bis the biggest thing in the Chat ham Islands calendar. Only one bing has been left to chance—and bat is the weather which can be ile in the wind-blown Chathams.

GENERAL POST—FIJI FASHION

WHEN the Acting Governor of Fiji (Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart) returned from the South Pacific Commission’s eighth session at Noumea (which he attended as Senior United Kingdom Commis sioner), he added one of Fiji’s periodical and bewildering moves round in high places.

His Excellency became Acting Governor when the retiring Gover nor (Sir Brian Freeston) left; and the Financial Secretary (Mr. R. M.

Taylor) moved into Mr. Stoddart’s place as Acting Colonial Secretary.

And when the Acting Governor goes away, everybody moves up again accordingly. But Mr. Taylor does not become Acting-Acting Governor. He becomes Governor’s Deputy and is referred to not as his Excellency, but as his Honour.

And, until the separation of the two administrations comes into force, the same thing happens, on a smaller scale, in the Western Pacific High Commission. (If it were not for fear of lese-majeste, the irreverent might recall the moves-round at a certain tea-party attended by Alice while in Wonder land).

TURN RIGHT . . . YOU CAN’T

MISS IT

Prior to the last war, the world wondered at a whimsical aviator by the name of Corrigan. It will be remembered that he set off from New York to fly to California. He landed in Ireland, in the totally opposite direction. The press dubbed him “Wrong Way” Corrigan. He claimed his compass was reading back to front.

We have a dusky “Wrong Way”

Corrigan here in Santo, or I should say, he WAS in Santo. He is now in the Solomons.

In charge of a French-owned small ship with a crew of boys, this native set sail for Pentecost Island.

When you leave Santo for Pente cost, you bear right. To get to the Solomons, you take a sharp turn left. Some folks say that his com pass was on the blink but other reports say the ship experienced engine trouble. No matter what the cause, it was a remarkable bit of work, whichever way you care to look at it.—Vernon Wheatley.

IT JUST WOULDN’T DO, IN FIJI!

“Introducing the British Pacific Islands,” the latest of a series of lavishly-illustrated booklets pub

lished by the British Government’s Central Office of Information for the Colonial Office, made its appearance in London in early November.

The booklets are official and anonymous and most of them have been written by Government people in the various colonies concerned.

The Pacific Islands volume, how ever, was written by a non-official journalist, Mr. J. K. Stone, of Suva.

Although officially complimented on the job, the writer was aghast on sighting the near-lyrical advance

“blurb” about the booklet. Some body in London, summarising the highlights, had produced a clear suggestion that Pidgin English is spoken in the copra districts of Fiji, In the interests of brevity the London publicist had lumped Fiji, the Solomons and the New Hebrides together . . . Somehow the idea of the European planters of Taveuni running about talking Pidgin to one another is both delightful and terrifying. (In the booklet Pidgin in the Western islands is described as “a dreadful compromise”).

Miss Catalina

p. 65

When Manasa Vere, popular Fijian AMP at Savusavu, Vanua Levu, found that there were complications to a maternity case he was attending, he lost no time getting to the R-T station and talking to Suva medical authorities. The result was that an RNZAF flying-boat was despatched to the scene, the expectant mother flown to Suva, and, in due course, a baby girl was born.

During a recent visit to Savusavu, I was taking an early Sunday morning stroll along the beach road, when I found I had company—a young father taking his child for an airing. We chatted, and I inquired the infant’s name. It left no doubts as to who she was, for Miss Catalina Lilo had been named after the mercy plane which took her mother to Suva nearly 12 months before. Here she is with her father.—ROB WRIGIHT.

Around and About

pp. 66-69

Written from Fiji in October by Judy Tudor.

ALTHOUGH the rubber planta tions of Mr. J. P. Bayly, beside the road somewhere between Navua and Sigatoka lie neglected, he has started a couple of saw mills in the same district.

The sawmills are sawing timber for banana cases and are therefore performing a useful service.

Samoa, on the other hand, im ports all its case timber and a banana case there, I am told, costs something like 7/- now.

The Bayly rubber trees were tapped during the war years, but not since, which is surprising when one reflects on the high price rubber has been bringing in recent years.

The trees which look old and ne glected, cover a good many acres near the main road.

MR. AND MRS. MONK who,

until a couple of years ago, owned the Sigatoka Hotel, now live about . five miles away down the road to Suva in a house surrounded by about two acres of gardens and trees—including some coconuts.

In the backyard is an erection which is called a vata in these parts—a sort of table used for dry ing copra.

Mrs. Monk —prefacing her con fession by saying that Heavens, it's worth over £SO per ton these days— admits that she does a bit of copra making in her spare time. Apart from nuts from her own trees she buys nuts from a neighbour at 10/a hundred.

SOMEWHERE close to Lautoka an Indian has a concession for working manganese. Appar ently this appears as a brown, rocky outcrop. The owner of the conces sion simply breaks it up, packs it in drums and sends it to Australia.

There are also supposed to be copper deposits in the hills around Lautoka; but, presumably, neither these nor the manganese are suf ficiently extensive to warrant work ing on a large scale. rIS long narrow bridge over the ’Sigatoka River, down the middle of which runs a railway line, is a backseat-driver’s night mare.

There are no side-rails and there is room only for one-way traffic,

and that proceeding at snail’s pace Predestrians, who also use the bridge, must get out on the little side appendages to let vehicles pass.

I am told, however, that in spite of all, there have been remarkably few accidents although a few days earlier an Indian child had fallen off it and had been rescued by a Fijian policeman.

They are now widening the bridge —as can be seen at left of the photograph. The new portion has a concrete decking.

THE road from the coast near Tavua up to Nandarivatu— which should be Fiji’s hill station and is not—also has its thrills. (Photograph above.) Many of the grades are first-gear work for a car, the surface is rough, loose gravel and the road itself twists around upon itself like an infuriated corkscrew. But on a

clear day—and this was—the view from near the top is magnificent.

This photograph gives some idea of the twisting road but nothing of the dark greens of the bush, brown of the sun-dried grass on the lower slopes, the pale green of the cane fields away off, and beyond that, the very blue sea.

After the view, Nandarivatu is something of an anti-climax.

Perhaps I had been expecting the majesty of the New Guinea Central Highlands, but this was more like an abandoned New Zealand saw mill settlement. Half a dozer European residents of northern Viti Levu have built holiday cottages up there, scattered along a mile or s( of road, but this apparently was the wrong season and they were al] shut up.

There had been a rest house that took visitors, but it was no! sufficiently profitable and nov literally every stick and stone of i has been removed. Only the chimney remains to mark the spot Yet even with its ghost-towr atmosphere, I can imagine thal Nandarivatu would be a pleasam place to rusticate in Fiji’s hd season. It seems extraordinary thai the local population cannot keei at least one mountain rest-house going full blast all the time. Al one can conclude is that the Britisl just don’t go for hill-stations They would rather stew on the coast, hoarding their pennies so tha once every few years they can ge off to Auckland or Sydney to stane in queues, to squeeze into trams an< buses and scramble madly for the privilege of paying £lO a week for i so-called, holiday fiat.

Fiji’s be6t timber —akin to N 5 kauri—comes from close to Nanda rivatu and at the time I was then some engineers from Vatakouls were deliberating on water reticula tion for a market garden that tin mines hope to establish “on top.”

DOWN in the valley, just befon the road makes its las desperate five-mile climb t< Nandarivatu, there is an attractive Fijian village beside the stream But that seems to be the last o them.

Some time later, when I flev across from Nausori to Nadi by Fij Airways, I was struck by this lad of inland population. There wen plenty of tracks running along the ridges—where they went one coul<

not see—but the only sign of life was a horse and a foal galloping madly on a hilltop.

As the highest mountain in Fiji is only 4,400 feet it is hard to believe that this is complete waste-land. In similar foothill country in New Guinea, each hilltop has its top knot of coconuts, its cluster of native houses, food gardens down the slopes. Certainly it is a purely native economy, but the foothill districts support thousands upon thousands of people.

But not here —in Fiji they stick to the fertile coastal belt, the valleys and the banks of streams.

Perhaps when the proposed road is built right up the Sigatoka Valley, this foothill country will find some use as grazing land.

LAUTOKA is

not to be outdone b y Suva. By now these new market buildings are probably near completion this was the stage they had reached in late September.

They are shaped like the three sides of a hexagon with adminis trative offices in the centre. Built throughout of re inforced concrete.

Up until now, Lautoka’s market ing has been an alfresco sort of business. Indians and others simp ly set up stalls alongside the roadside.

rpHIS is part of the 1,050,000 JL super feet of Oregon lumber that was unloaded from the Lakemba at Lautoka in five days in September.

It was temporarily dumped off in the area around the CSR Co.’s mill as shown here. This amount of Oregon lumber was Lautoka district’s quota for six months.

The multiple chimneys of the

mill have only recently replaced a single stack. It is supposed to reduce the smoke menace or get rid of more gas or something like that but it has given rise to a believe - it - if you - like Indian story.

“You can’t kid me that the CSR is not making

profits,” says the Indian, in effect.

“A while back they had only one chimney now they can afford about half a dozen!” riIHE painting of Chloe in Young A and Jackson’s pub in Mel bourne has no more local fame than the mural that hangs above the bar in the Mocambo, at Nadi airport.

The mural was painted by an American serviceman during his term of service at war-time Nadi and depicts a GI, clothed only in a pair of pants, sitting eating bananas and surrounded by about a dozen stark-naked damsels with long flow ing hair and native features, but snow-white skins—obviously the GI alrtist has been too long in the tropics.

Since Nadi has become an inter national airport, used by hundreds of civilians from all parts of the globe each week, several VlP’s in the air-transport business have demanded that the mural be pulled down in case it offends someone. I believe, at times, it has been dis creetly curtained off, but pulled down it has not, and at present it is fully on show.

During one of the periods of heated controversy I am told that

Nadi ,was visited by Sir Leonard Isitt, NZ’s most important air transport VIP. Sir Leonard was for the mural, and suggested that they ascertain public opinion forth with.

He approached an elderly, re served looking woman who had just got off a plane from San Francisco, drew her attention to it and asked her what she thought about it.

She looked at it in silence for some minutes and then said mildly.

“Quite interesting—but what is the significance of the bananas?”

ONE of the most interesting parts of the journey around Viti Levu, to me, was that area of Fiji’s banana lands which run be side the road and the Wainimbuka River for 20 miles or so. (Below.) There are many villages on the roadside and both sides of the river are planted thick with bananas.

Piles of banana crates at the villages and bamboo-rafts at the sides of the stream show that they are just not there for tropical local colour.

I should have liked to spend longer there just to see if these bananas, for which Fiji is famous, do grow themselves without atten tion, as they appear to do.

There seems no attempt to plant them out, plantation fashion, to irrigate them, to cultivate around them or to spray them.

Never having produced as much as a humble spud without cultivat ing it, watering it and defending it against swarms of wogs, I stood and gazed in wonder at the apparent inactivity in Fiji’s banana planta tions. If all you have to do is to plant ’em and pick ’em, I wonder that the pioneer European planters let the whole industry fall into the hands of unambitious Fijians.

fTIHE largest shower-bath in the X world is currently in the possession of Dr. Lindsay Verrier, Government Medical Officer at Nausori. I don’t know who designed and installed it, but the man was a genius—and when he dies he should be made assistant to St. Christopher, patron saint of travellers. (Next page.)

When I arrived at the Verrier establishment, hot and caked with dust after a long journey from the other side, the Doctor took one look at me and asked if I would like a shower. Would I! Two seconds later I was in the bathroom.

The rest of the bathroom fixtures are at floor level but the shower Is down a flight of steps. There are no taps but a sort of lever arrangement. I pulled it and what seemed like a whole tank of water descended on me—swoosh!

The shower-rose is about 15 inches across, designed purely for countries with no water shortages.

It was one of the nicest things that happened to me in the whole of Viti Levu.

mHE Wellpark, (top) loading sugar X at Ellington Wharf looks as though she is sitting on the mud. Overseas ships usually load first at Ellington as a precautionary measure, but other than that it appears to be a satisfactory enough port—from the owners’ point of view. I should imagine that sea men must regard it as about the world’s-end in ports.

Ellington is “wharf-nothing,” the closest bit of civilisation for sailors is the Raki Raki Hotel, a consider able number of miles westward through the cane fields or along the dusty road.

Another of these strange un inhabited ports on the Viti Levu north coast is at Vatia Point, (lower photograph) between Ba and Tavua where the Loloma and Emperor goldmining companies land and store their fuel oil. Vatia Pt. too is “wharf-nothing”—plus a couple of large steel storage tanks.

In the photo, also, is the chariot I hired to take me on my Viti Levu pilgrimage, and Duruga Prasad whom a friend of PacPub loaned to me as driver.

He is an excellent driver, has the patience of ten ordinary men and is a fund of useful information—l couldn’t feel that there was any “Indian problem” involved here.

He gave me a recipe for rotis — Indian for pancakes; we decided that, on a tonnage basis, the grow ing of yaqona, which is the in gredient of kava, beloved of the Fijians, is probably the most profit able crop in Fiji (the Punjabis grow a good percentage of it); and discussed the relative merits of curry as a staple diet.

The last question came up when I remarked on the fact that hundreds of the Indian schoolchildren we passed on the road all carried a small, tin billy-can. No cut-lunches for these youngsters—their mid-day snack consists of a noggin of curry ex the billy-can.

In European countries, curry is not supposed to be “good” for children. These young Indians, although all on the lean side, look healthy enough. I saw only one fat Indian youngster—the six or seven year old son of the cook at the Raki Raki Hotel, who is a regular little Billy Bunter. to a Fijian village in the j neighbourhood of Ba, I was mobbed by these Fijian

schoolgirls who swarmed all over the car, poked their heads in the windows and asked where I was from and where I was go ing. If I had been a visitor from Mars they could not have been more flatteringly interested.

When I sug ges t e d that I might take their photo they screamed with delight and got into a huddle in the middle of the road. This is it.

Several of them spoke good English and a couple of them had most un- Fijian features.

mHE strange configurations of the JL Fiji landscape, the serrated mountain ranges, the bumps and lumps and outcrops from what should be plain plains it a never ending source of interest to the traveller.

The Americans, I am told, had rude names for some of the more prominent bits and pieces—and at that I don’t wonder.

Just near the Raki Raki Hotel there is a great mound of red earth which the Fijians have used as a burying ground. The whole thing is planted with frangipani, whose petals perpetually sift down over the strange collection of graves. Under a sort of cairn of stones is the mass grave of 1918 flu epidemic victims. Nearby is a grave outlined with three rows of very ancient beer bottles.

(Continued Foot of Next Page.)

(Continued From Previous Page.) Others have cement slabs on top >r have crude wooden crosses.

But this graveyard is only one of he thousands of humps and bumps hat go to make up Fiji.

Out somewhere near Viti Levu 3ay this strange looking object sticks up on the skyline where it las no right to be. It is covered n scrub and you don’t have to be m American to find a “rude” name or this. (Top of opposite page.) Scientifically, of course, it prob ably goes under the name of a ‘weathered volcanic plug.”

Wouldn’T

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THE MULES THAI

Amusing Memory of the Murray Era, by Sydney H.

Chance

TO quote Eric Peldt; “There is a chance of preserving some history of the Territories by articles in the PIM, and the more if them that appear the better.” As [ think so, too, I propose to tell •eaders something of Papua’s tragic, nit laughable, experiment with mule Jransport of Police Camp stores, letween Aropokina (at the head of he Ethel River, which debouches nto Hall Sound, 60 miles west of MGoresby) and the Kambisi Camp [a mere seven days, or 128 hot, nuddy miles, inland).

After the murder of some M.S.C. jarriers in the Ononghe district, it vas deemed necessary to “educate” he trouble-makers.

In the early 20’s Charles Karius ind Halford Thompson went in to nake a strong camp at Kambisi; ind what they didn’t do to the •ecalcitrant tribesmen is not worth •eading about. They were relieved )y Logan and Baker, who did lothing but hold the place until [van Champion and PO Hartley irrived. Hartley was succeeded by lack Hides.

All these officers were hampered )y lack of stores. As a matter of ‘act, it was while Hartley was away it the coast getting up stores, that [van was surrounded by hundreds of Dop and PO killers, at Waitape. It’s ;oo long a story for here.

Champion scientifically and najestically bluffed them not a hot was fired they just left!

Later, Ivan went on leave and Dave Pullen took over with Hides as PO.

As I have already pointed out in his paper, it was while Hides was >n his way to the coast for stores hat the Mavi deaths occurred.

About this time, Sir Hubert wrote; “One of the worst ‘eatures of the police camp is the senseless and unnecessary waste of

coastal native man-days on the labour of carrying up stores. The horrible road has to be traversed to be appreciated, and don’t forget it Is a mule track of sorts, and not a foot pad. We must endeavour to use mules to eliminate wastage. At present only 25 per cent, of the stores reach the camp, the rest being eaten en route on the anything of up to 10 days’ trek. The weather factor is a big consideration.”

Thus, Sir Hubert said: “Let there be mule transport.”

At this time, the only man in the Administration who knew anything about mules was RM Dick Grist, who had been in Canada, and also with Younghusband in India, if not Tibet.

Was Grist consulted? No. With out thought of first providing way side mule paddocks, or of the training of native muleteers, mules were ordered. It’s as simple as that, thought somebody in Moresby. ••Mule Transport.. You must have mules. Ipso facto —order 30 from Australia.”

IN due course, one Archie Lomax was engaged, and a Mule Camp was made at Aropokina. The RMS X-Word Funnel brought the mules to Yule Island, where Hides and Lomax were to receive them as they swam ashore. Brother Alexis, who said he knew all about mules, was there, too, in the capacity of Honorary Adviser.

The mules were as wild as hawks.

One, on being dumped overboard, made for the Passage to the open sea, and was last seen bound for Cooktown.

One of the first to get ashore, with teeth bared, made straight for the saintly Brother, who dashed for the lee of a friendly palm!

Eventually, the mules got to Aropokina; and this is the story of their first trip inland, as told to me by a French Father whose English wasn’t too hot.

“Ha, ha, Mr. Chance! The mules, they start off from Aropokina quite all right. But of the boys there are too many. One boy to four mules it should be, not four boys to each mule.

“They kick, they lose the loads.

The precipice it is there. One mule falls over and the rope has to be used.

“The boys carry the mules’ food (fodder), and the mules carry the boys’ food. They eat each other out, and when they get to Mafulu there is nothing left. The backs of the mules are, what you say, so sore that the boys carry the saddles back to Aropokina. It is to laugh.”

ONE thing I will say—Lomax did try. When I went up to take over the Camp, after the Pullen business, some of the mules were still at Mafulu, never having been caught.

After all this, night-camp mule paddocks were made by Lomax and his successor Nagel, an ex-chemist’s helper from Australia. They were both ably hindered by the thieving Mekeos, who had not heard of that Commandment, and who required the fencing wire for fish spears!

All the time I was at Kambisi, with Hides as assistant, we “gave the mules away” and took it in turns to bulldoze laden carriers from the coast to the camp.

Hides went on leave and, for a while I was on my own, until joined by S. EUiott-Smith. We did a gruelling trip all over the Ivane Hills, eventually reaching the alleged mule-track at the Popole Mission.

Said the Father: “You will be pleased that your mules have arrived.”

Smithy, who had threatened to clout me if I ever again said the word “mool” to him, almost em braced me. Of course it was only a furphy: the mules were still at the coast!

Eventually (1927), I became due for leave, and Smithy and I ordered tons of stores to be delivered at Yule Island. At Aropokina Depot there were some miles of fencing and some of the fattest mules I have ever seen.

Nagel left and his successor soon took a tumble to the job and threw it in. That was Harry Rosser.

But I have it on hearsay that Mule Boss No, 4, old Jack Seymour, who was a South African War veteran, actually did get some stores up into the hills by mules.

When I was recently in Central Queensland, I saw a chappie load ing up mules, and I said to myself; “You poor so-and-so. I’m glad its you and not I that has to deal with those kicking half-castes.”

In one sentence; During the (eighteen months I was at Kambisi, not one ounce of food, or anything else, came up to me by mule trans port.

For Drinking

p. 73

NG WOMEN SENTENCED

From Our Own Correspondent

RABAUL, Nov. 11

N passing sentence on three . native men and two native women in Rabaul District Court i November, the Magistrate, Mr.

Walter Shand, said that it was the rst time in his experience as a lagistrate that he had had to

sentence native women for drink ing intoxicating liquor.

The five natives had been drink ing in a taxi while travelling from Ramalmal Village to Rabaul.

Two of the men were sentenced to five months’ imprisonment; one to six months. One of the women got five months and the other, who had a small child, was fined £3.

;Mr. Ken Page is now settled down as the Pacific Islands travelling rep resentative of Palmolive and asso ciated lines, and is making regular visits to all the Territories. Mr.

K!en Page is a son of the late Mr. T.

E. Page, who was at one time well known in the Pacific as a member of the staff of W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.

Tahiti News

pp. 75-76

Prom Our Own Correspondent

PAPEETE, Nov. 10

OPIUM HAUL IN PAPEETE

Papeete’s new Chief of Police, M. ■ank Biesel, with the aid of two ecoys”—gendarmes in feminine tire—made a clever arrest just ior to the departure of the Chung ig for Sydney on October 23, when it men —two members of the crew, local resident, and a gendarmer ie detained on charges of opium higgling.

Though Coconut Radio has it at the accused gendarme was ramed,” he will go to France for al.

M. Biesel, fresh from 14 years’ rvice in China, arrived in October relieve retiring Police Chief M. an Pascault.

ELL-KNOWN PEOPLE DEPART

Passengers departing per Chang ow on November 3 included re ing police chief Jean Pascault r ho leaves many friends after 5 ars’ service in Papeete), M. Jean eaud (Paris banker and business an and owner of Atimaono Plan tion), Miss Anatila Nordman aughter of a well-known resident, und for New York and Paris), M. colas Tuhiva (Tuamotu planter), & Mme. Negre, Doctor Florisson, Renault (of automobile fame), , Roger Simonet (well-known cafe oprietor), Messrs. Rusden & tker (former owners of the NZ looner, New Golden Hind) and my others.

BENECIA SALVAGED

The well-known Benecia, pur ased from the underwriters by . Herve as she lay on a Tuamotu sf, following her stranding on ly 19, 1950, has been hauled across e reef to the sheltered inner foon and brought to Papeete, at cost of six months’ hard labour d some two million francs.

Built in Tahiti by Mr. Charles ’own Petersen for his own use 20 ars ago, the schooner, now in dry ck, will soon re-enter service.

JEW GOLDEN HIND MISHAP

On her initial voyage to the Tua -stus for Messrs. Adram, Gobrait id Chinese interests (who had just irchased the ketch from Messrs, isden & Baker, of NZ) New Dlden Hind went aground at 8 a on September 28. Luckily, the lather was calm and the vessel is hauled clear two hours later.

Dry docked on return to Papeete, i damage was discovered and she iled again on November 6.

LUXURY SCHOONER-YACHT

PURCHASED

The Chin Poo interests of Papeete ive acquired the American luxury

schooner Seaward from Mr. Charles Williams for conversion to cargo carrying in the Tuamotu trade.

The schooner—of typical Grand Banks type—has been in Papeete since June, 1949. Mr. Williams has returned to the States. Hart’s shipyard is handling the extensive conversion-work.

WEDDING: JUVENTIN-GROLEZ

On October 27, Mademoiselle Doris Juventin, daughter of the director of the Government Print ing Department, was married to Monsieur Jean Grolez, of Lille.

SHELL OIL FOR TAHITI

The Cerion, arriving on November 10, inaugurated the landing of the first barrels of Shell oil in Tahiti.

The company’s agent in French Oceania is Mr. Baldwin Bambridge, of Papeete. (next page)

ELECTION OF DEPUTY

On September 2, M. Pouvanaa a Oopa was re-elected as Deputy for French Oceania to the National Assembly, Paris, by a considerable majority. Of the 22,957 electors, 17,318 registered votes, 90 of which were informal. Results:— Pouvanaa a Oopa .. 12,096 Emile Vernaudon 2,171 Henri Hoppenstedt . 1,584 Francis Sanford .. 986 Alexis Bernast .. .. 391

TAHITI AND AUSTRALIA

A group of Tahiti business men have joined forces with the inten tion of aiding in every possible way the stimulation of closer trade re lations between Tahiti and Aus tralia. The group includes M. Jean Breaud (a Parisian banker), M.

Jean Bres (formerly of the Poly technic School of Engineering in Paris), M. Brenot (former officer of the French Navy), M. Valence (en gineer of the Public Works Dept.)

and M. de Crignis (Director Public Works). Their represen tive in Sydney is M. Pelletier, ? sident of the French Chamber Commerce in Sydney, whose of is at 16 Bridge Street.

OROFARA THANKS NEW

ZEALAND

It is not generally known that Lepers Trust Board of NZ- wh makes substantial contributi towards the welfare of the patie at Makogai, Fiji, also assists in upkeep of the French leper hosp: in Tahiti.

NZ this year donated 633,( francs to the Orofara settleme: reports M. Albert Leboucher, we known political figure of Tah: who is in charge of the funds a donations of the Lepers’ Trust Boa of NZ.

In this group, taken in front of the Tal Lepers’ Hospital, appear (left to righ M. Tony Bambridge, M. Milland. and Albert Leboucher.

Goods Damaged In

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P-NG PORTS

Prom Our Own Correspondent

RABAUL, Nov. 15

rE Rabaul Advisory Coun disagrees with the P-NG A ministration’s contention th damage and pillage of import goods occurs in Australian por The Council believes that the br of damage is sustained at the Te ritory port of discharge.

Handling and stacking of goo has improved to a certain extent but only because of previous cril cism by the Council which shou continue its campaign until su< time as this side of shipping is 1 per cent, perfect.

IRoad maintenance around Raba was also discussed at the Novemb meeting of the Council.

Although the Commonweal Government was curtailing financ it was felt that sufficient fun should be provided for the repa of existing roads. A recommend; tion to this effect will be passi on by the Council to the Admini tration.

Noted Noumea Wedding

p. 77

A photograph taken after the marriage of Melle. Jacqueline Herault to Monsieur Bernard Quepy in Noumea Cathedral on September 29. The bride is the daughter of Captain Henri Herault and Madame Herault, of Noumea, formerly of Tahiti.

The families of both bride and groom are well know in New Caledonia and the reception at the Noumea Cercle des Officiers Militaires, was attended by Noumea’s leading citizens. —Photo by William’s Studio, Noumea.

Apia’s Oldest Building

p. 79

The photograph at right shows the [?]dest building in Apia. This was the [?]rst, and only, Apia Town Hall, the seat [?] the Apia 'Municipality in pre-German [?]mes. To-day, this old wooden building. [?] years old. and in Vailima St., is the lost dilapidated structure in Apia town; [?] is on the verge of collapse and a [?] angerous fire risk. For unknown reasons, [?] Government has failed to condemn it. work shop is operated within it.

News From Morobe

pp. 79-80

GOLDFIELDS

Prom Our Own Correspondent WAU, November 20.

I SON was born to Mr. and Mrs. i Terry O’Sullivan on October 28. at Wau Hospital.

Mr. Tom Upson of Manus, with [rs. Upson, recently arrived in Wau > take over Police duties in this ►istrict. Mr. Max Corliss has now eparted for Port Mioresby.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hawley, with aby son John, )of (New Guinea roldfields Ltd., have departed for iree months’ leave, to be spent in ewcastle, NSW.

Mrs. Vemie Thomas, popular lanageress of the Wau Club, has ow left for Rabaul, where she was ell-known before the war.

The finals of the Associates’ Golf hampionship were played this eek with Mrs. I. Crawford winning :om Mrs. H, Seale with one up.

Irs. Crawford also won this ronth’s Medal.

Mrs. Jensen, a dairy farmer from therton, North Queensland, is mimencing dairying in Wau. Mrs. ensen purchased six Jersey cows :om the Agriculture Department jcently, and will bring a DC3 plane •ad of Illawarra Shorthorns direct *om Atherton to Wau early in De smber —a unique airlift even for lis country.

Mrs. Doris Booth, CBE, of Cliff de, is back with us again after a jw months in Brisbane. Mrs. both has been nominated to the egislative Council, and Authority • to be congratulated on choosing jmebody like Mrs. Booth who nows this Territory, especially this Oldfield area.

Mrs. Booth has received con ciliations from near and far on er nomination.

An interesting and entertaining fternoon for the children of Wau r as held here recently when the bildren of the Luther Mission bhool (Katharine Lamond) and ie Wau School children competed i a sports afternoon at the Oval.

The children enjoyed themselves d such an extent that parents r onder why similar afternoons can ot be a monthly event next year.

Mrs. Norman White, Snr.. of Wau, as returned from several months pent at Beauty Point, NSW.

'The Wau Swimming Pool is corn iced at last—lack of cement held i up for some time.

Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday were observed in Vila, New Hebrides by services at the Paton Memorial Church and Mass in the Roman Catholic Church followed by ceremonies at the Cenotaph. On the previous night, a successful Ball was held in the recently completed Cine Pacifique.

Dr. G. E. Hoult, a New Zealand doctor and dentist who went to 8.5.1. three years ago as Medical Superintendent of the Methodist Mission, has offered to continue for a further period. He will take a '’Otfrse in tropical medicine and hygiene in Australia during his next furlough.

Thirsty Samoa!

p. 80

Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA, November 12.

DURING the nine months, April to December 31, 1950, the fc lowing quantities of liquor we sold by the Government of Weste] Samoa “for medicinal purposes”:whisky, 2,024 gallons; brandy, 5' gallons; gin, 1,007 gallons; rum, 3: gallons; liqueurs, 72 gallons; win (port and sherry), 272 gallons; ve; mouth, 65 gallons; beer and stor 21,907 gallons.

In spite of the large quantities ( “official” liquor consumed by tl public, there is still a lot of “hom< brewing” of beer going on as well. (Ed. Note./ —This is not a ba effort for a country that is techn cally “dry” and has a populatic of about 200 full Europeans an 6,000 part Europeans, who obtai their liquor on a permit system “f( medical reasons.” The 80,0( Samoans were saved from then selves by article 3 of the old Leagi of Nations Mandate (and presun ably something of the same so: operates under Trusteeship) whic said the “supply of intoxicatir: spirits and beverages to the Nativ< shall be prohibited.”) Mr. W. Fergusson, of Qanta Madang, NG, with Mrs. Fergusso] arrived in Australia on leave, i October.

Rabaul Social Life

p. 82

From Our Own Correspondent

RABAUL, Nov. 25.

THE dining room, which the New Guine, Club has recently opened, has quick! become popular with members and thei guests.

The RSSAILA Raffle, in aid of th Education and Distress Purposes Trus Fund, was drawn in early November. Th first prize, a; Morris Minor car, went t Mr. Laurie Chan, of Sohana; the secom prize, a Cold Flame refrigerator, to Mi Bruce Hills, of Kavieng; and third prize a Phillips Radio, to Mr. Charles Blake, o Rabaul.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. 1 Mollinger at Namannla Hospital. Rabaul on October 28; a daughter was born t Mr. and (Mrs. K. Leen, of Sohana, at th same hospital, on October 31.

The Rabaul Bachelors’ Ball was held a the New Guinea Club on November 5 About 200 people were present to enjo the fun.

Mr. Chris Avenell, with his wife am family, has left Rabaul to take up ai appointment in Australia with the Depart ment of Civil Administration. Both Mi and Mrs. Avenell will be missed fror community life here. He is a basebal enthusiast and she has been in charge o the local kindergarten for the past si months.

Mr. Don Williams, who has been loca manager of the Vacuum Oil Company, ha been transferred to Lae.

Miss Kelsie Shrubb, who has spent thre years in Rabaul with the New Guine Company, has been transferred to Lae.

In order to raise funds, the Rabat] Anglican Women’s Guild is holding a luck number competition. The prize will be Christmas hamper—including a bottle o Scotch whisky, wine, fruit, canned hair sweets, cake, etc.

Mr. Ron Lange, son of Mr. and Mrs G. R. Lange, of Rabaul, left for Australi on November 15. He will join the per manent Army. Mr. Tony Normoyle. so of Mr. and Mrs. C. Normoyle, left on th same day to join the RAAF in Australia The RSL Entertainment Unit presente the three-act play. The Ghost Train, t appreciative Rabaul audiences on Novembe 12 and 14—and, by special request, agai: on the 16th.

The play was produced by Mrs. Norm Showman and Mr. Keith Armistead stol the show by his protrayal of the sill young man who turns out to be a famou detective.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs Platt, of Hotel Ascot, Rabaul, oi November 11, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Henderson, o Kerevat Experimental Station, arrived bac] recently after a business trip to th United Kingdom.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Arrowsmith and thei children arrived in mid-November after holiday in England.

Mr. and Mrs. D. O’Farrell are back afte leave spent in Australia. Mr. O’Farrel is a member of BP staff.

Mr. John Kellman, a member of th Commonwealth Bank staff, has returns to Australia. During his term in Rabat] he became local Gold Club champion.

Mr. Keith McCarthy, District Commis sioner of Rabaul District, at present oi leave in Australia, has entered Heidelberj Repatriation Hospital and is expected t be there for about six weeks.

Mr. Bill Washington, of Kabaira Plan tation, is also in hospital in Australia.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs G. T. Hutchinson, of Lae, at the Nama nula Hospital, Rabaul, on November 23.

Fleeing from City

p. 83

Frustrations to Seek island Utopia

1/fELBOURNE newspapers have .▼1 been giving publicity to Mr.

John Greenston, described as i Black Rock bachelor of 57. He nvited people to sail with him on Christmas Day, 1951, to seek an islands Utopia.

Up to mid-September, 40 men and i women had manifested interest; tut the organiser said he still waited a doctor and a nurse, and le felt that the party needed an ther 20 “romantic, intelligent romen.” He said that honeymoon buples would be ideal.

Mr. Greenston proposes that each iccepted applicant shall put in £250. rhey will buy a yacht and farming ■quipment, and they will then ruise around the Islands of Torres Strait, New Guinea and Fiji until hey find a suitable site for a co iperative village settlement.

One newspaper reported late in September that the party had grown o 23 men and 10 women. They yere arguing about the best site for heir settlement. An Island near Auckland, and another one off

North Queensland, had been added to the others under consideration.

The organiser said the members of his party must be people who were “fed up” with the frustrations and irritations of city life. “We will have no laws, because laws rob a man of freedom,” said Mr. Green ston. “Nobody will be boss . . . Aus tralians have become the victims of

the petty tyrannies of crude and vulgar politicians. These power drunk men want to feel they are bigger than they really are.”

The late Mr. William H. Chance, who was a well-known trader in the Milne Bay area of Eastern Papua, left a gross estate officially valued at £6,961.

[?]Uge Crocodile

pp. 85-86

[?]AKEN

[?]N EXCITING FIGHT

BY K. S. POOLE

HONIARA, Sept. 30.

HHE capture and killing of one L of the biggest crocodiles ever seen in the Solomons has been »scribed by Mr. Pat Campbell, of faiai, San Cristoval. It happened Dout a mile from Waiai plantation omestead.

One Sunday, in August, planta on boys came rushing in to say ley had seen a large crocodile in small, deep pool in the river earby.

Mr. Campbell called other boys, id the party set out armed with lears, axes and knives. Mr. Camp “ll carried a .22 rifle.

When they arrived at the pool, irious plans for killing the croco ile were rejected as too risky.

The bossboy then suggested that ley should try to rope it and aul it up to the surface where it mid be shot and speared. This lea seemed rather risky, too; but, i the absence of a better one, Dlunteers were called for, to try . Nobody stepped out.

The bossboy then said that as he ad suggested the plan, he would

do the roping himself. Before doing this, he said, he would first dive down and spear it.

He took a spear, and asked another boy to jump into the river with him and hold on to the end of the spear while he himself dived down and placed the spear in posi tion on the crocodile’s neck.

He then dived down and, when he came up, he told the other boy to heave the spear with all his might.

This was done, but nothing happened. When the spear was pulled up (it was made of a kind of palm* used in the old days for making spears) they found that its point was burred.

The spear was re-sharpened, and the bossboy again dived down and placed its point on the crocodile’s neck.

When the boy came to the sur face, the other boy again gave the spear a mighty heave, and then the fun started.

They saw the spear dragged down; and then it went along the surface like the periscope of a sub marine, the end coming to the sur face and disappearing again, till it finally came to a standstill.

THE bossboy dived down again and came up with half the spear. He said the crocodile was now lying under a big rock, with half the spear still in it.

Mr. Campbell told the other boys

to run into the bush and cut several lengths of loia cane. When this was done he made a loop at one end of a length, and gave it to the bossboy who fearlessly dived down again, to the great excite ment of the rest of the party.

When he came up he said he would rope the tail first; and when he gave the loia cane a tug, the

rest were to pull steadily till they could feel the weight of the croco dile. then stand by.

This they did.

The boy came up, asked for another piece of loia. dived down, and put it around the crocodile's neck. The shore party again drew it tight and held on.

When the boy came up again,

Mr. Campbell told him to tome out of the water; and, when he came out. the end of each piece of cane was tied to a small tree nearby.

Once the ends were secured, every one began to heave on the ropes.

They felt the crocodile gradually being pulled out from under the rock; and all of a sudden it began to fight.

On the first lash of the tail, th two boys in front of the ropes wer jerked into the water—and brok all swimming records for the oppc site bank.

Boys and crocodile struggled an fought for nearly an hour; anc when they got the brute to th surface it took another half hou to finish him off with spears, stone and the .22 rifle.

A platform was made, and 2 boys carried him back to Waiai t be measured.

The crocodile was 18 ft. lonj with a girth of 6 ft. When the cut him open, they found bone and eight pieces of turtle shell in side.

Mr. Campbell thinks he know where the three young calves an the yearling lost on the plantatioi in the last twelve months hav gone.

The skin of the crocodile is bein: dried and will be stuffed as i trophy.

Mr. F. M. Campbell, father o Mr. Pat Campbell and well know] in the Solomons for more than 2 years, says he has only once seei a larger one; and that'was stuffec and on the verandah of the Emi Park Hotel, near Rockhampton The head could only just be seei from the bar door—it was a warn ing to gentlemen not to over-in indulge in alcoholic refreshment.

[?]raise for Suva’s Wharf

p. 87

Labourers [?]ob-an-hour Anachronisms

Prom Our Own Correspondent

SUVA. NOV. 5

IUVA’S Fijian watersiders are ) patted on the back by the District Commissioner.

Duthern (Mr. J. W. Sykes) in his mual report. Stevedoring labour t the Suva Wharf, the report ates, “maintained its high stan ard of performance/' In a strike-happy world, the Suva harfies very seldom get the praise lat is their due. And they get only fraction of the wages lavished on rerseas wharfies although since ovember 15, members of the Fiji tevedores’ Union get a 15 per cent, icrease in pay,' with certain other inor concessions. The old rate was '2 a shift of ten hours with hot teals and free accommodation if squired.

When the union secretary (I. N. aveta) announced the increase on ovember 3 he expressed his organ ation’s thanks to the employers >r their co-operation at the con rence that preceded.the wage in ease.

There is a standing force of 150 atersiders permanently on call at iva, or in the nearby Fijian llages. At rush periods additional en are recruited, and this practice, as produced a showdown with the rovincial Councils of Rewa and ailevu.

The men employed as recruiters ave frequently disregarded in ructions and an unwritten agree ent by which the employers un- Jrtake to consult the Roko of a rovince before additional labour recruited. At times villages have ?en almost denuded of manpower ithout reference to the provincial ithorities. This has resulted in a •owing agitation for legislation to mtrol the recruitment of steve 3ring labour.

Filariasis in Maldives

p. 87

i SMALL expedition of three 1 scientists, sent by the World Health Organization, has been irveying the extent of filariasis in le Maidive Islands, a British Pro ictorate, 400 miles west of Ceylon.

The Maldives comprise an rchipelago of about 2,000 small Dral islands with a total population f some 85,000. Of the 4,000 persons xamined by the three scientists, rincipallv in the southern atolls, tie in every three was found to be iffering from some stage of lariasis. They surveyed the breed ig places of the mosquitoes and scommended ways of control, giv ig practical demonstrations of imple methods of prevention, litiating them in one village.

Naea Fu’e Komisi, the driver of a bus which plunged down a cliff near Solosolo, Western Samoa, in July, killing three passengers and injuring 14 others, was recently fined £35 and had his licence suspended for two years. He was convicted of negligent driving but the jury recommended that his previous good record be considered.

The Rev. and Mrs. William Anderson, who recently retired from the Presbyterian Overseas Mission after 53 years service in the New Hebrides, left Sydney after a short stay, in early November. They are now living in New Zealand —at 16 Havelock St., Ashburton. Canter bury, NZ.

Muddled Shipping

pp. 89-90

P. VILA, Nov. 28.

1/fINOR shipping mishaps have .▼1 given the waterfront plenty of subjects for discussion ately.

The long and expensive search or the French-registered Vila Star formerly the New Zealand coaster lolmglen) ended when the ship was ;iven her position by a plane and xrived late in October. Critics eem inclined to blame the people n the Vila Star for the muddle. ?he planes were looking for her a ong distance from her estimated losition.

When she berthed, the Vila Star aused Captain Brett Hilder some nxious moments. His Morinda ras lying at Pier 3 discharging; and he Vila Star tried to tie up nearby. she could not make it. and struck lorinda’s stern. Then she drew ff. and tried her luck at Pier 5. )nly superficial damage was done o the ships.

The New Zealand vessel Awahou rrived at Santo, in the mistaken elief that Santo is a port of entry. )fficials refused entry, and she had o up anchor and retrace her ourse to Vila to undergo Customs ,nd Health formalities. She re umed to Santo and discharged her argo.

This interesting group of Tahiti people was caught by the camera-man on a sidewalk in Noumea in October. They are, from left to right: M. Pugibet, Mme.

M. Oscar Northman, Mme. Turere, M. Santot and Mdlle. Denise Drollei. M. Sautot is Mayor of Noumea. He is the famous former Governor of New Caledonia, who led. the rally to General de Gaulle in 1940.

A mild epidemic of influenza put a lot of people on the sick list in Port Moresby during the middle of November. Whole batches of natives were affected although most of them made a good recovery in a few days. A number of Euro peans also caught the wog and many gaps appeared in office staffs.

Nz Catalina Carries Us

p. 90

VISITORS TO PAGO

From a Special Correspondent

PAGO PAGO, Oct. 30

A RNZAF Catalina unexpectedly visited Pago on October 28, bringing with it a party of US

Congressmen who wanted to s* how things were here, and hai on-the-spot discussions with Go' 1 eminent officials and Samoa chiefs.

The flight in the Catalina dire* from Suva saved the visitors tt miserable boat trip from Aoia 1 Pago.

However, weather conditions wei not ideal for flying either when tt Catalina arrived. She w£ scheduled to arrive at 3.15 p.m. an enthusiastic crowds were at all var tage points waiting for her lon before she was due.

She appeared out of the clouc right on time—but rose steeply an went away again. There ‘ wei groans of disappointment until i was seen that the plane had jus dropped a wind marker, whic bobbed up and down smokin merrily and supplying amusemer] to the crowd. Then she skimme down the slope known as Fagas Pass and touched down for a per feet landing.

While the official visitors ar making their investigations, th RNZAF crew are being entertains royally.

NZ planes are rare here. Thre years ago a NAC plane landed a the local airport and in 194 another flying-boat landed on Pag harbour.

The Director of Education ii Western Samoa, Mr. K. R. Lambic is at present on four months leav in New Zealand.

Tragedy Of The Pensioned

pp. 91-95

Bleak Outlook for Retired Officials from Islands

BY ERIC FELDT.

VHEN the man from Papua-New Guinea is down on leave, and meets one of the old Public srvants who has retired, he is jnerally a little surprised at the lange in the old-timer.

He looks a lot older and his othes seem odd. While they have couple of drinks together, and lat of things Territorian, the older an is pre-occupied and not so terested in current events as he lould be. He excuses himself and >parts, and is evasive to meet ;ain, saying he does not come to wn often. The younger man links it a pity that the old boy has t himself slip.

It isn’t that. The old boy is living i his pension during an inflation, id he just hasn’t got the dough >w. He is pre-occupied because he wondering what he will have to it out to make up for the two ibudgeted drinks he has had. His Dthes look odd because they are i old cut (and they have to last lot longer, too). He doesn’t come town often because that costs oney.

And those things, with the rtainty that things will get worse stead of better, do make a man Dk old.

UPERANNUATION was intro -1 duced into the Papuan Service in the early twenties. It was ,sed on a service of 28 years; the tiring age being 55, and the allow ice was a proportion of the salary l retirement. The Public Servant ntributed 5 per cent, of his lary and the Administration a like tiount.

The scheme was designed py tuaries to be self-supporting. The nsion died with the drawer, and e amount paid to pensioners ried from about £6 per week to 2 per week—the latter to a few in e highest salary brackets. ' In New Guinea, Superannuation came effective in the late r enties, with the proviso that back tyment could be made by the iblic Servant to the commence ent of his service with the Civil iministration. Again 5 per cent, the salary was deducted, and the iministration contributed a like aount. The pension was a pro >rtion of the average annual salary id, on the death of the pensioner, df of the pension became payable his widow. The retiring age was or after contributing to the perannuation fund for 20 years, iter, an amendment was made by lich the retiring age of 55 became mpulsory; but anyone serving

under the earlier scheme was per mitted to retire after 20 years if he desired to do so.

This scheme was also actuarily designed to be self-supporting.

Under it, a Public Servant who re

tired at 55 drew from about £4 to about £7 per week, depending on his average salary and length of service. rpHERE was no great wealth in it X for the Public Servant; but, as the Australian basic wage, which measures the cost of living, was about £4 during the years in which the contributions were made, it then seemed that the Public Servant had a reasonable expectation that he would be free from want in his old age. He could, on the

Igures then supplied, be sure of he necessities of life and a bit over or comfort.

Now (September, 1951) the cost of Iving, measured by the basic wage, i over £9, and due to increase urther.

I To meet this increase, the Aus ralian Government granted an xtra 25 per cent, to widows, and to hose who were invalided or retired fter 55 years, not to apply if the ension is more than £lO per week, r if the pensioner is employed y the Commonwealth Government r any of its agencies.

It has since made a further icrease of £1 per week to all who articipated in the last rise and ere drawing £5 per week or over.

Ith a proportional rise for those rawing less than £5 per week. By lis, the man who drew £5 per week ension originally now gets £7/5/-; lat is, the value of his remunera on has altered from being 25 per snt. above the basic wage to only 3 per cent, of it a percentage lange downward of nearly 50 per ;nt., which is radical.

For those who retired, after 20 jars, from the New Guinea Service, ad who have had no increase, the osition is worse still.

T can be argued that super annuation was purely a money mtract, and that we are being paid hat is our due under it. However,

it was not a contract because the Public Servant had no choice, but was forced to join in.

The Public Servant was pro hibited from engaging in business in the Territory; he could not take up land or invest in agriculture or mining, which were the only industries; he could not trade nor, above all, take part in recruiting.

He had to stand aside from personal gain and maintain his disinterestedness for the benefit of the Administration.

Salaries were not high, but the cost of living was, for those days.

Holidays south were a necessity for health, while those who had families were under heavy expense to educate their children in Aus tralia. So that, in all, there was little chance of saving.

An insurance policy was the best that anyone could manage, and on that the premiums were loaded, in the early days; and on drawing an endowment it, too, had suffered from inflation.

We depended on our pensions to keep us in our old age and we felt that the whole terms of our service were such that it would be enough to let us live in moderate comfort as, I think, we were entitled to do.

WHAT did we do to deserve con sideration? Between the wars, we governed New Guinea on its own finances and Papua on a subsidy of £30,000 per year, as against the millions now being spent on those Territories. Australia made a good thing out of thei balance of trade, plus the money we spent in Australia when we were on leave. We risked our health, some faced real dangers on patrol, and all gave up any chance of mak ing a good living in Australia, to do so.

When the Jap invaded the Terri tories, he found a native population which was loyal to us to a degreei beyond the expectations of anyone in Australia, and who welcomed us back, while Indonesia, India and

Burma clamoured for and got independence. This record is a proud one and for it the Public Service must be given the greatest share of the credit.

We, like the most renowned economists, did not see an inflation coming. It fact, if we had, there

was nothing we could do about it— except hold the hat in the hand that was not held out, an attitude stultifying to pride in past achieve ment. This we have done, and have been given increases which are quite inadequate to put us in the position In which we formerly were.

There is ready sympathy f victims of a depression, but not i those of an inflation.

THERE may be further increas for those who have already h. them, but they will not compe sate for the rise in the cost of livir As a result, many pensioners ha taken jobs. They will explain th they got bored sitting about ai had to have something to do—the pride not allowing them to adir the more cogent reason that th want the money.

And, in this matter, there a not many highly paid jobs for tl man over 50 who has lived most his adult life in Papua or Ne Guinea. He must accept a low type of employment and finds bin self drawing a pay envelope whic with his pension added, is much le than he would have earned if 1 had never gone to the Territori at all. That is, there is no rewa: for having served the Commoi wealth in its outposts.

Then when he is 65, with tl inflation going on at its prese] rate, he will find himself with Superannuation Allowance which large enough to disqualify him froi the old age pension, but ni enough to live on.

As the years go on, retired Publ Servants can be expected to g poorer and poorer, giving up fro

me to time those little decencies liich make life worth living.

First, associations and charities ill be cut out; then the telephone ill be discontinued, and sub riptions to magazines; he and his ife will not go to the pictures so ten; social life will be reduced; pairs and upkeep of the home (if e pensioner is lucky enough to m one) will be let slide; and there 11 be small economies in living til, if we live long enough we will id in the poorer suburbs in shabby iverty.

Perhaps it is not as black as that, srhaps the inflation will end and i may get some value back into e pound, though not all.

The attitude of the Government is not been one of disinterest, and oposals for the betterment of our ; have been considered. I, per aally, acknowledge gratefully that l anomaly in my case was rectified th generosity within the limits of e scale now applying.

But it is in the interest of the immonwealth that pensioners )m the Territories should be well sated, so as to ensure that only e highest types of Australian will to the Territories—for it is on eir quality that the success of our

[ministration depends.

Hsitor To Rapa

p. 95

COMING UP!

K Sydney in October was a 43year old Englishman who was on his way to fulfilling a 20-year

i ambition—exploring and photo

aphing exotic Rapa, in French :eania. Anyway, that is what the dney papers said.

His name is Jim Fillylove.

Back in the 30’s Rapa, a pint ;ed, seldom-visited island just on e edge of the Tropics, was iscovered” by some wandering

chtsman and enthusiastically

scribed to the world as a Mecca r Men. ft was supposed to have a dozen Uing females for every male and ere was nothing for any whit© m to do, once he got there, but sit about and be waited upon by rgeous native Dorothy Lamours.

Naturally, it at once became the tibition of every wandering chtsman to pay a call—and many them did until the French got agh and closed it to Europeans.

Mr. Fillylove is sailing to Rapa th a friend who won an Irish sreepstakes and bought a 40-ft. at. We can hope that all their pers are in order, and that they -ve a good story to tell the thorities in Papeete who, with od reason, are suspicious of any chtsman who has as much as ard of Rapa.

Leprosy on Nauru

p. 95

DR. C. J. AUSTIN, Superintendent of Makogai Leprosy Hospital, 'Fiji, left the Colony for Nauru on October 21.

On Nauru he will undertake a survey to determine the incidence of leprosy. He will submit a report to the South Pacific Commission.

At one time the incidence of leprosy on Nauru was exceedingly high about 30 per cent, of the population was affected. But following a policy recommended by tropical disease expert, Sir Leonard Rogers, this percentage is known to have dropped.

[?]Read Ib

p. 97

[?]OOR FOOD MAY

[?] NEW BRITAIN

JOMETHING should be done to j put a stricter control over the system of handing money to tive labourers, in lieu of the tions which are provided for in e native labour regulations,” said iptain James Duncan, an old New linea planter and official, in Syd y recently.

A.s foodstuffs become even scarcer d dearer, explained Captain Dun n. the employer is more and >re inclined to allow his native jourers to feed themselves, and to re them money instead of food iffs. rhe effect of this is that a large of these men are not be \ adequately fed, and they are ►re susceptable to disease. The idence of tuberculosis among the tives of New Britain was too high eady; and he believed that poor ►ding was assisting the spread of 3 disease. Cases had come under > personal notice in New Britain recent months.

Mter a short engagement, Mr. rman Plant of Port Moresby was irried to Miss Suzanne Fowler Sydney in November.

Helena Goldie Hospital,

p. 97

BSI

THE Helena Goldie Hospital in BSI is a memorial to the late Mrs. Goldie, wife of the Rev.

J. F. Goldie.

She was the first white woman to go to New Georgia at the turn of the century when the islanders were still engaged in tribal wars.

The transfer of the Helena Goldie Hospital to Roviana, New Georgia, is now proceeding. The original hospital buildings were destroyed in the war years.

Wards of permanent material are the next priority job of the mission carpenters. When these are com pleted the mission will have an effective medicai unit.

Dr. G. E. Hoult and two nurses are now in residence in comfortable temporary homes.

Nauruans to Elect Own

pp. 97-98

Council

A LOCAL Government Council is to be set up in Nauru and will have much the same function as a Municipal or Shire Council in Australia.

This move is designed to take the Nauruans one step nearer self government.

Since 1927 the District Chiefs have formed a Council of Chiefs to advise the Administrator on matters affecting the natives, but the new Council will supersede this Chief’s Council. The new Councillors —nine of them—will be elected by adult suffrage. The first election will be held on December 15 and voting will be compulsory.

The Council will control its own finances and have executive authority in such local matters as sanitation, road maintenance, water supply and the peace, order and well-being of the Nauruans.

Mr. A. A. Roberts, Assistant Director of District Services in Papua-New Guinea, is taking a long spell of accumulated recreation leave, and in consequence has re signed his presidency of the Public Service Association. During the balance of the Association year Mr.

G. T. Wells, who was the Senior Vice-President, will serve as Presi dent. Other temporary vacancies

on the P.S.A. Council have been filled by the election of Mr. P. H.

Clarke as a Trustee, and Mr. F.

Barber and Mr. W. Nicholas as technical officers’ representatives.

It has been proposed by Australia that the Government and BGD join forces to produce in New Guinea 10 million feet of plywood per year.

Cross

p. 98

New Master for Southern Cross

WHEN the Melanesian Missl ship Southern Cross sail from Auckland on Novemt 8, she was under the command a well-known NZ ex-naval offic Lieut. Commander J. F. A. O’Ne DSC, RNZN (retired).

He joined the NZ Navy early World War 11, and was in coi mand of the minesweeper Ki when she successfully engaged Japanese submarine in the Sol mons in 1943. For this he w awarded the DSC and the Americ Silver Star.

Lieut. - Commander O’Ne probably was beteer known to ] lands people however, when commanded the NZ corvette, A butus, in 1946 and the cruie Bellona.

He ended his ten years service the RNZN in December, 1950.

He takes over the command the Southern Cross from Capta A. Everson.

Mr. Eric Ramsden, well-kno\ New Zealand journalist and auth( who has written extensively i Maori affairs, is visiting the Unit States. On his way back to NZ i stayed at Honolulu with the late £ Peter Buck, director of the Bish Museum. He has been gatheri] material for a Buck biography f some years.

Of Ships and Sailormen

pp. 99-101

Annual of Shiplovers of Victoria

}NE of the pleasantest little books that has come our way is the Annual Dog Watch, published y the Shiplovers’ Society of Vic oria. It is packed full of meat for hose even remotely interested in he sea and the men and ships that ail on it.

Compilation of Dog Watch is on n honorary basis from the editing pwards. Many of the excellent tories and articles are contributed y active seafarers in every part of le globe, or by others interested in istory ancient and modern, and the art played in it by ships and sailors f all kinds.

Dog Watch has the distinction of eing edited by a woman—Miss S. . E. Strom, of 177 Williams Road, rahran, SI, Victoria—which is nique for a journal with a nauti li flavour.

The Shiplovers’ Society of Vic >ria (there are Societies in every ustralian State with the exception I Queensland) meets in the Mel- Durne Public Library on the second Wednesday in every month. Any le interested in the Society or the nnuai can contact Miss Strom at Br home address given above. )F tropical interest in this, the eighth Annual, is a story by Captain A. J. D. McArthur, 9w a Port of Brisbane pilot, but ice a schooner master in the Solo ons.

It was Captain McArthur, in the ranee (later called Dawaun) who ent out to Vanikoro to rescue the anish expedition that had come i grief there in the Monsoonen. he author, Hakon Mielche, was a ember of the expedition—as he is been a member of the present anish survey party in the Gala tea.

Capt. McArthur tells how he un :rtook the 15-day dead beat :ainst the S-E Trades from Tulagi Vanikoro to pick up the Danes; id of how he took as unwilling tssenger, a planter who had been i a prolonged jag in Tulagi and is thus got rid of by Authority.

The planter was brought on board, iconscious, on a stretcher. He me to, a couple of days later, ocked to find himself bouncing ong on the open sea, far from nd. When he recovered he reatened every legal action in the ilendar; later accepted the situa m philosophically and did every ing to assist.

The schooner’s unchancy auxiliary wer failed early and practically e whole 500 miles was done under il—l2 days out of sight of land lich was something out of the perience of the coastal-sailing itive crew.

The skipper’s now daily use of the sextant, which was not used in their usual point-to-point voyages m the Solomons Group, fascinated them. They took it to be some super x£ rt of telescope through which the captain could see land hundreds of miles off, and 12 days before they made a landfall.

On the return voyage, the captain says, he was approached by the boss-boy who commented: “Im he good fella glass; 12 days you lookim Vamkoro along this fella glass; eye belong boy 'e no lookim.”

During the France’s long trip out to Vamkoro, the Danes had salvaged everything they could from the Monsoonen, and after two of the busiest days Vanikoro has

probably ever known, France set sail again, Tulagi-bound.

Cant. McArthur decided to leave the island by an uncharted pas sage instead of making a dead-beat out through the SE passage where Monsoonen had come to grief. It was a poor decision—the captain spent a whole day in the cross trees directing the helmsman, while France missed a maze of reefs 'by inches Five days after clearing Vanikoro they were in Tulagi—but for three 0 f them all hands had been at pumps and buckets: France had developed a severe leak before they got very far Captain McArthur says that one> of his most treasured possessions

is the book Hakon Mielche wrote of the Monsoonen’s voyage—but he says he still thinks that the writer’s description of him as “a hard swearing Scotch captain” could have been toned down a little.

Fijian Footballers For

p. 101

AUSTRALIA

A FIJIAN Rugby Union team will play eight games in NSW and Queensland next winter and will probably receive 20 per cent, of the profits.

They will be the first Fijian foot ballers to play in Australia and it will be the first time that the Fijian Union will have any share of the profits of a tour. Union prac tice is for the home country to pay all expenses of a touring team and to keep all profits. NSW Union has made the suggestion that pro fits should be shared—on the principle that the stronger Union should help the weaker.

A Fijian Union team toured New Zealand in 1951 and had a spectacu lar success for its bright football and for the popularity of team members.

In Australia Rugby League is a much more popular branch of the sport than Rugby Union.

Honeymoon Cruise On

p. 101

HOMEMADE KETCH

MR. and Mrs. Bert Raisbeck ar rived back in Australia in November after a 15 months honeymoon cruise in a 30-ft ketch which Mr. Raisbeck made himself and called Lemuria.

During their cruise, they visited Tonga, Sluva, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and New Zealand, and, they say, met about 20 other cruising couples—Australians, New Zealanders, Americans and others from Europe.

When they left Melbourne in July, 1950, Mr. Raisbeck’s main naviga tional aid was a book on Pacific birds, many of which show a pre ference for certain Pacific Islands.

Later, with the help of a veteran island schooner-master, he learned navigation on more conventional lines.

Injured In A Fall

p. 101

SAMARAI. Nov. 26.

MR. BILL YOUNG, our famous “handy man” —he can mend a watch, build a house or solder a tank—fell 15 feet off a ladder recently and suffered con cussion and partial paralysis.

Although over 70, he is recovering.

He has been here a very long time —he was a resident of Papua when he enlisted for World War I.

Norfolk Is.

p. 101

SOUVENIR BOOK ABOUT

USING very expensive, thick paper, blank verse of high literary quality, intriguing impression istic sketches, and luxury binding, Miss Merval Connelly has produced a kind of souvenir book, called “Norfolk Island,” at the Pegasus Press, in Christchurch, New Zea land. It is sold at 12/6 (15/- Aus.).

The story of the island —discovery

by Cook, the first and second con vict settlements, the arrival of the Pitcairners—is told in a series of poems. Then there follow a number of short pieces—Island Nocturne, One Wonders About the Women, The Legend of Bloody Ridge, King ston.

A most artistic production. But a plain guide-book for the use of visitors to Norfolk Island might have served the purpose more use fully.

News Notes From Vayau,

pp. 102-103

TONGA

Prom Our Own Correspondent VAVAU, October 26.

HER Majesty, Queen Salote Tu pou, paid a fortnight’s visit to Vava’u recently. During her stay, she led birthday celebrations on October 7 in honour of her year old grandson, Prince ’Uluvalu Ngu Takeivulai Tuku’aho.

Prince ’Uluvalu is the only son of the Queen’s younger son, Prince Tuipelehake Fatafehi, who is the governor of Vava’u. „ In Tonga, the first birthday is the one held to be the most important in a person’s life. A royal birthday is the occasion of widespread re joicing and little Prince ’Uluvalu’s birthday was marked by a large feast and by presents brought by people from all the villages of Vava’u.

400 women, members of the Wes. leyan Church in Vava’u met foi five days recently in their Annua Women’s Camp meeting which wai held in Neiafu.

The purpose of the camp, whicl was opened by Queen Salote Tupou who is intensely interested ii women’s church work, was to creato greater community interest in rais ing the spiritual and material leve of Tongan homes.

Speakers who addressed the as sembly were, in addition to th Queen, Princess Melenaite Fatafeh: wife of the governor of Vava’u, wh< spoke on adherence to churcl duties; and Dr. Farquhar Mathesoi who spoke on adequate housing fo Tonga. (Sister Evelyn B. Llewellyn, Pub lie Health Nurse of Nuku’alofa re cently made a month’s tour o Vava’u and Niuafo’ou. While ii Vava’u, Sister Llewellyn addresse< the Tongan Medical Practitioner on Child Welfare and conducts clinics throughout the group. Sh was accompanied by Miss Silia ’ll of Nuku’alofa.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph “Lolo Sanft of Neiafu are the prom parents of twin daughters who wer bom at the Neiafu hospital on Oc tober 16. Mr. Sanft is associate! with his father Mr. Otto Sanft i] the motion picture business am merchandising business in Neiafi The second Annual Agricultur Show was held in Vava’u on Octo ber 11. It featured exhibitions o fruits, vegetables, farm animals flowers and Tongan handicraft Horse races, cattle judging, copn cutting contests were all part o the afternoon’s entertainment.

Prince Fatafehi’s footballers bea the men of the New Zealand cruise Kanieri nine points to three in i closely contested game which wa played in Neifau during the recen two day visit of the cruiser to Vava’u. During the game officers o the ship were served with afternooi tea. Other events of the visit wer' dances for both officers and men.

The Rev. S. Edwards, Warden o the Anglican Theological College a Siota, BSI, returned from Auck land by the Southern Cross.

Mr. F. L. (“Benny”) Burrow, well known engineer of Eastern Papua, where he runs several slip ways, returned to Samarai by air from Sydney on November 3, after a month’s business visit. He has been in the Territory since 1926 and served in the RAAF during the war years.

Photograph shows the group outside [?]e Roman Catholic Church, Port Moresby, [?]the recent wedding of Miss Mary Evans Mr. Stewart Clark-Kennedy. The group [?]eft to right): Mr. W. Evans (grooms [?]an); Mr. J. McDiamond (best man); Mr.

Evans (father of the bride); Miss M.

Evans (bridesmaid); Miss L. Evans (chief bridesmaid); bride and groom (Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Clark-Kennedy); flower-girl, Elizabeth O’Brien. Mr. T. Evans, father of the bride, is an old Territorian and is the owner of a plantation at Hom brom Bluff. —Papuan Prints.

Another Native Messiah Goes To Gaol

pp. 105-106

Dealing with Cargo Colts in Melanesia

rHE fate of all “cargo cult” leaders in Melanesia —and there have been plenty of them Ince the war—seems to be the ame: gaol.

To gaol went the leaders of the Solomons’ Marching Rule, and ■ladang’s post-war native Big Noise, fall; and, more recently, the select ompany has been joined by Paliau, if the Admiralties, self-confessed onfidant of God and a six feet lunk of man who, according to one Australian journalist, has been riaking Manus missionaries appre lensive and Manus Administration fficials blanch.

The real facts of all these cargo ult manifestations are hard to get ecause officialdom, for some reason lard to understand, has refused to pen its mouth about them; they ome into the very hush-hush, top ecret group. But officialdom’s aethod of dealing with these /ould-be native dictatorships ollows the same pattern—they play : down, they won’t talk about it, hey try moral suasion, and psy hology—then they clap the cul irits into gaol.

In Paliau’s case he is in for adul ery (six months), which apparently > a penal offence under the native rdinances of the Territory. It is lid that he had five wives, although his in itself cannot be regarded as [legal—NG natives away from Mis ion influence have always had as nany wives as they can afford.

Jut part of Paliau’s doctrine was ree love.

Paliau apparently had been a tolice sergeant before the war; he pent the war years in New Britain nd came home to find the people n Baluan, his small home island, outh of Manus, ripe for some lationalistic caper of the kind he Levised.

Some believe that the seeds of ’arliauism were sown by the Ameri an negroes who served in the area luring the war and were treated like white men.”

This may be so, but there have teen cargo cults in the past with ut the benefit of American negroes; lor was New Guinea, before the var, devoid of non-Europeans of oloured skin who were treated as omething less than equal by the uling white “masters,” but as su >erior to the native masses.

PALIAU’S methods followed the usual cargo cult pattern: he promised his 3,000 followers, vhich he collected in no time at ill, the usual ships laden with cargo md that they should be free from European administration: he or :anised their daily lives; he collected taxes” from them and men were jiven instructions in drill and

marching and, so it is alleged, rifle practice.

He was supposed to have organ ised a canoe flotilla and a plan to sail into Larengau, the administra tion centre, and to capture it.

During the height of his power, officialdom gave him a free trio to Port Moresby to impress upon ‘him how unfitted the natives really were to rule themselves, but this seems to have had the opposite effect to what was intended, and Paliau came back with his reputation much en hanced.

Six months ago the Administra tion cracked down on him and he was given a term in the local cala boose*—for adultery!

He is, it is reported, a model prisoner but few Admiralty Islands residents believe that six months gaol has cured him of his aspira tions; when he comes out, which will be shortly, they expect that there will be fireworks.

One experienced missionary who regards the set-up seriously says that a foreign power would have

only to send a ship loaded with free gifts for the natives, to have them go over to them in a body. He says the natives are ripe for any simple ideology—including Com munism.

It is perhaps time to reflect that

although there has been a singular dearth of native leaders in Papua- New Guinea, those who do arise are fanatics or anti-European, and usually end in gaol. For compari son we can take these people’s cousins, the Fijians, where the people’s leaders have not only made British administration possible, but increasingly are carrying it out themselves.

A high administrative official on

Manus is reported to have said that his patrol officers are so tied up with filling in official forms and in other varieties of non-essential work that they can no longer get about among the people.

This is probably so—although the beneficial effect of official patrolling among the villages is well known to all Territorians.

Officialdom has tried psychology and pandering to these cult-follow

ers and giving them sufficient rop in which to strangle themselves—fe no avail. Experience now shoul show that the time to stamp out Cult is at its beginning; and that th counter to it is less form-filling fo the United Nations and more con tact with the outside villages working with them, giving thei] education, improved agriculture and a purpose in life.

If there is one thing that Ne\ Guinea natives can be expected t admire and to understand, it i practical performance on a larg< scale. And if there is one thing fo: which they have a contempt, it i a man, or an Administration, tha natters and does nothing.

Apply

p. 106

Only Millionaires Need Apply Pacific Tourist Plans

TRAVEL business representative: from Australia, New Zealand Fiji, Malaya, the Philippine: and Hong Kong have already ac cepted invitations to attend a con ference in Honolulu in mid- January.

The theory is that Americar millionaires are tired of visiting austerity Europe and are ready tc transfer their patronage.

One Australian travel expert say: that these tourists will want th< most luxurious amenities, expens< will be no object and that they ar< looking for new playgrounds ir which to spend their dollars.

As an example of the sort of thing in mind, he quotes the Magic Cara van which is a “luxurious double decker Stratocruiser” which wil leave the US in July for a 50 daj round-the-world tour. It will earn 15 members of the Caravan Glut who each will pay £10,000 (Aust.) for the trip. They will spend foui days in Australia and some time ir Alaska, Japan, Hongkong, Manila Bali, India, Rome, Paris and Lon don.

Chauffeurs, butlers, footmen maids or Geisha girls will be sup plied as required at the various stops. The key note is to b€ “luxurious” —laid on with a trowel It seems to be an awful lot ol trouble to take over 15 tourists, even if they are dollar millionaires.

MATSON LINE RUMOURS

THERE are persistent, non-official reports that nassenger ships of the Matson Line will presently return to the America-Australia South Pacific service. One report has it that the required ships will be built in Japan, and that one Jap shipyard has guaranteed delivery within 18 months.

Notes From Lae

pp. 113-114

7?rom Our Own Correspondent LAE, Dec. 4

NO SCHOOL

PLEAS for even some temporary kind of school for European children in Lae have had no results.

The officials seem to be doing their best. “Temporary” accom modation is promised for some time in 1952; a permanent school is or dered, but is not in sight. A Hawkesley aluminium pre - fab structure seems to be bogged down in transport difficulties in Brisbane.

Meanwhile, the exasperated Euro pean community has noted that officialdom has completed the erec tion of a school building for native children near the Butibum River — and cannot get enough pupils to attend it!

NO TOWN LIGHTING

Lae has a grievance, also, in re lation to lighting. Qantas has its own plant for lighting its extensive residential establishment on the Terrace. Residents complained of the noise, and Lae Advisory Council investigated.

It appears that in 1950 Qantas said that Works and Housing could take over its two generating units, free of charge, on condition that Lae got a 24-hours’ service. W & H seemed agreeable; but now ad vises that a 24-hours’ service is impossible, pending arrival of an engine now lying in Moresby.

NO EUROPEAN HOSPITAL

During a recent visit to Lae the Minister for Territories, Mr. Has luck, was questioned about some of our more urgent public needs.

The Minister acknowledged that the construction of a European Hospital here was urgent; but the job was now being considered in relation to other urgent construc tion works.

COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS

The Minister was questioned about the policy followed by the Administration in appointing local Advisory Councils. It was pointed out that, of the 8 persons appointed

to Morobe District Council, 3 al ready were members of the Lae Council; while there were a number of prominent men in the Morobe district who had been ignored.

The Minister said he knew noth ing of the matter. But he asked the Assistant Administrator, Mr.

Cleland, to investigate.

SERVICEMEN SACKED

The RSL has taken prompt action regarding the sacking of two public servants, following the decision to reduce staff.

The two men concerned were both returned and decorated servicemen, It is claimed that men without war service have been appointed since the servicemen. The position has been brought before the Minister.

MASONIC TEMPLE

After five years’ effort Freemasons in Lae District have erected a Temple, and established a Lodge in Lae. A party of Grand Lodge Officers from Queensland conse crated and dedicated Lae Lodge No. 419, and Masons from all parts of Papua and New Guinea were present.

RSL CLUB

The Returned Soldiers’ long awaited Servicemen’s Club building, on Namanula Terrace, overlooking the old section of Lae, should be completed and ready for occupa tion in February. It will contain reading and committee rooms, a

billiard room, lounge, and ba: Work thereafter will be comment on a spacious dance hall. Officu include: Mr. H. F. James (Fret dent), Messrs. W. Fleming and J Petersen (Vice-Presidents), Mr. J.

Knight (Secretary), Mr. Peter Hir (Treasurer) and Messrs. McKea C. C. Beckett, W. J. Jackso J. Lilyman and C. Wilkins*

(Committeemen).

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

Recent births include: To Captain a Mrs. G. Macßae (Qantas), a daughti Mr. and Mrs. A. Strachan (Bulolo Gob a son; Mr. and Mrs. L. Hurrell (Al Meenyamya), a daughter; Mr. and Mrs.

Martin (Buntings, late of Samarai), son.

Mr. L. Hawkins, with family, has i turned from leave, and has comment duty at Lae Post Office. Mr. Bert B< (building supervisor) is back from an ovi seas trip—Jiis wife will return later. ® Mark Schultz, of Mumeng, has return from overseas. Mr. T. Drury (Lae a port manager of DCA) is on leave Sou l Bob Whitcross is relieving Mr. and M John Baker (Bums Philp Ltd.) and B G. Thorpe (Diesel engineer for W. & I are on leave. Mrs. Perc. Smith (wife the proprietor of Lae Motors) and Mrs.

Fernan (wife of our well known Custo: Agent) both with infant sons, are aw in Queensland. Mrs. Bruce (wife of 1 H. B. Bruce, Senior Medical Officer, La has returned from South. Captain Deegan (of MAL) is back again.

Whales Invade Rabaul

p. 117

RABAUL, Dec. 2.

THERE was an extraordinary spectacle in Rabaul Harbour on November 27, when a large number of whales were chased into the inner Harbour, apparently by a school of dolphins.

A couple of dozen whales became stranded and natives, with shouts of glee, jumped on the backs of the creatures and tried to ride them.

Some were killed by the natives and the Native Labour Department went down to get fresh meat —but the Medical Department condemned the Medical Department vetoed it.

Some of the fish were drifting onto the beach and the health authorities and the police, fearing a nuisance, ordered their removal.

Some, still alive, were driven away and the carcases of the dead whales were towed outside the harbour.

It is said there was a similar occurrence near Matupi in 1927.

Ng Women’S Club Of

p. 118

SYDNEY

fTVHE following donations towards JL the expenses of their Child ren’s Christmas Party have been received by the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney:—

The party will be held on th afternoon of December 17, at th Feminist Club, 77 King Street.

A cocktail party for adults will b held in the same rooms on Decern ber 20, from 6.30 pm.

H. Small & Co., has donate chocolate; Gartrell White Ltd Xmas Cakes, and South West Paci fic Trading Co., has given mout organs.

Mrs. Hosking 10 Mr. Duncan 0 Mrs. Barr 10 Mrs. Pennefather 3 Mrs. Wauchope 2 Mrs. Bates 0 Mrs. Vallentine 1 Mrs. Elvy 5 Dr. E. T. Brennan 1 1 Bulolo Gold Dredging .. ., 5 5 Mrs. Normoyle .. 1 1 Mr, E. Taylor 1 1 New Guinea Co. Ltd 5 5 Mrs. Page 0 Pacific Islands Monthly .. . 2 2 Total 15

Mrs. Downing 1 1 0 Anonymous 1 1 0 Mrs. Northam 1 2 6 Mrs. Price 3 3 0 Mrs. Burrows 10 6 Miss Powell 2 0 W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. .. 3 3 0 Burns Philp & Co. Ltd 3 3 0 R. Gillespie & Sons 5 5 0 A. Edgell & Sons New Guinea Ex-Servicemen’s 1 1 0 League 2 2 0 Mrs. Innes 2 2 0

£ s. d.

Mrs. Bignell 10 0 Miss Wall 1 3 0

Workshop For Honiara

p. 118

A WELL-EQUIPPED, privately owned engineering workshop capable of handling the worl of plantation and small-craf owners will be established ii Honiara, BSI, early in 1952.

Mr. A. Colin Blair, foreman o; the PWD workshop, is starting tin new business.

[?]O Alice

p. 119

[?] NI’s

ATAL EXPLOSION

Prom Our Own Correspondent

NORFOLK IS. Nov. 28.

IHE two Sydney detectives, Messrs. Armstrong and Abbott, who were called to Norfolk and to investigate the suspicious •cumstances surrounding the ex- Dsion which caused the death of o Norfolk Island women a few icks ago, return to Sydney to )1T0W. [t is understood that malice has Bn eliminated as a factor in the tgedy and that irresponsible ac m by children was the cause.

Be this as it may, the action — lack of action—by persons who ould have been in charge of the plosives at the old Whaling ition is deserving of comment: ?ligence in leaving dangerous ex >sives about is a matter for cen :e. rhe victims were Mrs. Phoebe zabeth Christian (45), and Mrs.

Lvia Hilda Quintal (31). \fter a fishing expedition, they re preparing a meal in the store an old bunk house at the Ball y Whaling Station when the ex >sion occurred. It was surmised the time that old harpoon heads detonators had been hidden in fire box of the stove.

During his stay on the Island, Mr. mstrong was instrumental in ob ning a conviction against a local ident for “dangerous riding,” or legal equivalent—in other words, ing a nag on the public thorough e while “nursing a jug.”

Honiara Radio Schedules

p. 119

DDITIONAL to broadcast . schedules given on page 112 of November PIM, we learn that niara (BSD broadcasts a local vs session for the Solomons area h Sunday morning at 10.30 am. iturday 2330 GMT). The fre ;ncy used is 6675 kc/s. This is ’ a broadcast transmitter and no ter broadcast transmissions are de from the station which is mally used for communicating, morse or voice as required, with omons outstations and with pping in the area. \>r the benefit of small craft iding in that direction, it may be ted that a listening watch is intained for periods throughout day on the above frequency, ’ vessels equipped with the Aus lian small-ships frequency of 0 kc/s should arrange via Sydney lio for Honiara to listen on that luency at a specified time.

Ir. H. E. Canard, Secretary, Fiji 3hc Works Department, accom lied by his wife and family, left Colony for Aden on transfer in member.

Deaths Of Islands People

pp. 121-129

LADY BARKER

CHE death occurred in Suva on November 27 of Lady Evelyn Barker, wife of the well nown Sir Thomas Alport Barker, roprietor of the Fiji Times, and ;veral times Mayor of Suva.

Lady Barker had been an invalid >r several years. Prior to that, she as a well-known figure in Fiji, here she ably assisted her husband i the many duties connected with is public life.

Sir Alport and Lady Barker had le child—Molly, who now is the ife of Mr. Frank I. Ryan, a well aown citizen of Suva.

Many public tributes were paid to le qualities of the deceased lady, ad messages of sympathy from all /er the South Pacific poured in pon Mrs. Ryan and Sir Alport arker.

Some of the most touching came om native Fijians, among all inks of whom she had many d friends. She was bom in Fiji, aughter of Mr. and Mrs. James urton Turner, pioneer settlers in le Rewa River area; and, except hile being educated in Sydney, she red all her life in the Colony, lie married Alport Barker in 1909.

During all her adult life, Lady arker took a prominent part in ►cial and charitable work, es jcially during the two World Wars. r hen the terrible flu epidemic of 118 was raging in Fiji, she and her asband were assigned the district : Nasese, where they nursed over K) people, mostly Fijians. She was woman of fine character and rong personality, who will long j remembered in Suva.

SIR PETER BUCK, KCMG

rS death occurred in Honolulu on December 1 of Sir Peter Henry Buck. He was 71 and ad been in ill-health.

Sir Peter was recently described 3 “the world-renowned Pacific Sinologist, scientist, author, Yale rofessor of Anthropology, and Irector of the Bishop Museum in bnolulu since 1936.”

He was born in Taranaki, New ealand, the son of an Irishman ad of a Maori chieftainess. He as educated at Te Aute College, scame highly proficient in his Lother-tongue, and gained the agree of Doctor of Medicine in 110. He subsequently won other igh scholastic degrees, including rts, Law and Science, As Dr. uck, he became a well-known New ealand medical officer; he was a [ember of Parliament for several ears; he served as a Medical •fficer in World War I, where he ained the DSO and other decora ons; and he carried out important ledical and scientific missions in ie South Pacific Islands for several

years after the war, both before and after his appointment to the Bishop Museum. He was the acknowledged world expert on Polynesian ethnology. He wrote many books and papers on Polynesian culture generally, and on the Maori race in particular. Britain made him a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, and from Sweden he received the coveted Order of the North Star. Although he received great distinctions from the United States, he remained a British subject.

He was greatly assisted in his work by Lady Buck whom, as Miss Margaret Wilson, of Greymouth, New Zealand, he married in 1905, and who survives him.

A Honolulu correspondent says: “He was an interesting and gifted scientist, and we shall miss him . .

He had no enemy in the world—only friends . . . Most of us here hope that the new Director will be our friend Edwin H. Bryan Jnr.”

THE REV. C. BEHARELL

fTIHE death occurred at Esk, JL Queensland on December 2 of the Reverend Caleb Beharell who was an LMS Missionary in

the early part of this century. He was at Hula Mission (Rigo district of Papua) more than 30 years ago.

One of his sons was in the Papua Service at one time as a Patrol Officer.

MR. A. J. TATTERSALL

Anew Zealander, Mr. a. j.

Tattersall, who had lived in Samoa for 65 years, died on November 25 at the age of 85.

Through his professional work he was known all over the world—he had been a professional photo grapher for 50 years. He lived through the Samoan wars; he wit nessed the 1889 hurricane; he was a personal friend of Robert Louis Stevenson; he saw the German flag

raised in 1900, and the New Zealan flag in 1914; he saw the Ma rebellion and, finally, the develop ment of present conditions. Th history of Samoa is embodied in hi collection of photographs.

Mr. Tattersall, in 1891, marrie Miss Blanche Yandall, and thei family is well-known. One soi Mr. Ralph Tattersall, is a Com missioner of the High Court of Apk

ERIC ERNEST DE BRATH

Eric ernest de brath, bor: in Simla, India, and resides in Tahiti since 1931, died a Haapape on September 17. H served in World War I as a Secon Lieutenant, Infantry, Indian Arm Reserve of Officers. In 1939 h again volunteered for duty, but wa not accepted. He married Iren Josephine a Taraihau in 1936, an leaves a widow and three childrer He was popular in Tahiti.

R. MdWILLIAMS

ON November 16, Mr. E McWiliams Senior, died sud denly at Santo, New Hebride; His funeral was attended by th British District Agent, the Trend Delegate, the French Chief of Polic (Santo) and many British an French residents, including repre sentatives from business houses The funeral service was read b; Captain Hamilton of the Tamates Mr. McWilliams with his son 80l was engaged in a trading store oi Malekula Island. He had a cheerfu personality and was well-liked.

MR. STANLEY RALPH FOY

rpHE death occurred on Novembe X 18, of Mr. Stanley Ralph FO5 at his home in Rabaul, Ne\ Guinea.

He trained as a Barrister at th Inner Temple, London and for th next thirty years practised u Burma. In 1942, he was one of th refugees who walked from Burms through the Hukon Valley t< Chittagong, India.

Mr. Foy joined the Legal Brand of the Army and rose to the rani of Lieut. Colonel.

He was 58 and is survived by hi widow, two daughters and a son.

CAPTAIN VICTOR BRISSON

CAPTAIN Victor Brisson died ii Noumea on September 29 after a long period of ii health. He was born in Savigny sur-Orge, France, and arrived ir Papeete in 1913. He was for manj years in command of the Frend revenue schooner Mouette; th( four-masted schooner Aneiura: vessels of Maison Balland, Noumea; the American yacht Wander lust; and, finally, his own little vessel Bissy Girl, in which he travelled extensively in the Soutt Pacific before settling in the Solo mons trade. Finally, owing to ii health, he sold Bissy Girl and went to live in Noumea with an adoptee

T. E. BUNKLEY

Mr. T. E. Bunkley, once a well nown merchant in Tahiti, died on ictober 19, aged 80. His wife pre eceased him by two years. He left large estate, to be divided among weral children, some in America nd some in Tahiti. The story of is life will be told by Oscar Nord tan, in an article in January PIM.

MR. CHRISTIAN JENSEN

Mr. Christian Jensen, American tizen and veteran of World War I, ied in Tahiti on November 27. He as buried in the American con jssion at Paurani cemetery, the jrvice being conducted by the rotestant Pastor, Mr. Rey Lescure. [e is survived by his wife and 17sars-old daughter, Louise.

MRS. JOE WINCHESTER

Rose Marguerite Sophie Terai eia, widow of the late Captain Joe Winchester (unjustly immortalised 3 “Lying Bill Pincher” by Frederick ►’Brien in his “Mystic Isles of the outh Seas”) died in Tahiti on bvember 1, aged 73, at the Arue ome of the late James Norman iall, who was her son-in-law. She tarried Captain Winchester in 197, and their daughter Sarah tarried Mr. Hall.

Maraea, as she was affectionately nown to all, was a close friend of ovaina, of Hotel Tiare fame. Her

mother was Mrs. William Rose, and

th”&sf T

b « a christlan marriage to a European.

The late Mrs. Winchester was buried beside her son-in-law. There was a large attendance at the funeral.

MR. FRANS FRANZEN

riSlh^in

Aucldand on October 7 of Mr. Frans Franzen who, for the past 30 years, h as been head of the Dental Ser vice in Tonga,

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It is largely through his efforts lat Tonga’s fine corps of dental ssistants has been trained and that le present high level of dental jrvice has been maintained.

Mr. Franzen had gone to Auck ,nd after a recent illness. His 3me was in the capital, Nukualofa, at he was well known throughout onga and had many friends in eighbouring Pacific Islands groups.

VIDME. DE VASSEAU DEVAUX

Delayed advice has been received . Papeete of the death of Madame ? Vasseau Devaux, nee Stella r illiams, a descendant of the well lown Isaac Thompson family of ahiti.

Madame de Vasseau Devaux died i June 26 at Lyons, France, fol wing a severe throat operation, er body was returned to Tahiti by le Chungking on August 29 and le was interred at Paurani jmetery. She was born in the imaauia district in 1916, and she aduated from the Protestant Girls’ 3hool and became a popular school acher. She was also an amateur tist, and a display of her work had cently been given at Lyons, Her isband is a Lieutenant of the rench Navy, at present attached to ie Soudanais.

MR. DAN COSTELLO

Mr. Dan Costello, well known sident of Fiji, died unexpectedly l Auckland on December 7, at the je of 56. He underwent a severe >eration in Auckland several weeks ?o; rallied, and returned to Suva; id then became seriously ill again, id was flown back to Auckland.

Daniel Bernard was one of the ist known and highly esteemed of ie six Costello brothers who made ieir home in Fiji about 40 years ;o; and he engaged successfully in unmerce in several directions. His ife and some members of their unily were with him when he died, is elder brother, Mr. Pat Costello, tLC, and Mrs. Costello, were in ustralia at the time; and the un cpected news came to them as a reat shock.

Outh Pacific Commission

p. 125

May Be Community Project In N. Ireland

COMMUNITY development L project, similar to that being carried out at Moturiki, Fiji, ay be undertaken by the Papua ?w Guinea Administration, in co oration with the South Pacific >mmission, on one of the Tabar lands, off the coast of New eland.

The South Pacific Commission is decided to engage an expert to rry out the recommendations of l international conference on ariasis and elephantiasis, held ider its auspices in Tahiti last igust, and to supervise the Com ission’s part in the campaign ainst these diseases.

The Commission has reviewed the eld Research carried out in rritories last year by a tuber losis team. The survey will be mpleted next month, and the Council, at its next meet g, will study the results.

The Commission has authorised a ntinuance of field studies on itrition problems, including infant eding, in 1952, and the collection technical information on itrition from territories.

In conjunction with a survey leprosy, the Commission has ithorised the engagement of a prologist to work in territories lich seeks his services.

The Commission proposes to ar nge a conference of fisheries perts, to take place at Noumea jxt year; and will continue re arch and experiments relating to ,e introduction and distribution economic plants, including im oved strains of coconuts. The Council will undertake a irvey of present and future in istrial development in the islands.

A housing survey of the Pacific discover the type of native veilings and public buildings in trious territories most suitable for ie varying climates and conditions ill be continued next year.

The work of the South Pacific terature Bureau set up this year j the Commission was reviewed - the conference and its con nuance approved. The Bureau’s ain function is to stimulate the 'oduction of simple literature eluding text books and readers, id to promote their circulation iroughout the islands.

An agenda has been approved for ie Second South Pacific Con rence, to be held at Commission Jadquarters early in 1953. The inference is held at intervals of it more than three years and imprises representatives from the rritories, mainly indigenous people, tnphasis will be placed on the

economic aspects of problems of the South Pacific relating to the con servation and improvement of the resources of soil and sea. Other topics include the role of women and women’s organisations in the area, and health education of the peoples.

Miss Violet Withford, from Santo, New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney in December to take up work as a dressmaker. Her mother, Mrs. D.

Hooker, who accompanied her, has gone on to Norfolk Island.

Service

p. 125

New Asia-Australia Air Service

ROYAL Dutch Airlines on Decem ber 12 inaugurated a new weekly air service between London and Sydney.

The Dutch Constellations, after crossing India, follow the route to Bangkok (Siam), Manila (Philip pines), Biak (north coast of Dutch New Guinea), and Darwin (Aus tralia), and thence on to Sydney.

The planes, returning by the same route, will now give Australia a regular weekly airmail connection with Dutch New Guinea.

Small-Craft News

pp. 126-127

BACHELOR’S WIFE, sailed from Honolulu to Australia and thence on to the rocks of Lord Howe Island, was successfully sal vaged during November.

Acquired by Mr. Roy Wilson (of Lord Howe) in partnership with Mr. Bill Mitchell of Sydney, as she lay in what seemed to the former owner to be a hopeless condition, she was patched up, floated off, and sailed to Sydney. When visited by PIM she was sitting snugly in a cradle at Lavender Bay, completing repairs and looking little the worse for her misadventure.

Reports in Sydney, forecasting use of the vessel in a Sydney-L. Howe cargo service, were denied by one of the owners. He pointed out that, with an overall length of only 36 feet, the yacht obviously could not carry a payable cargo over the 480miles route.

Formerly valued at £6,000, the yacht was a won derful bargain at £3OO. However, even at that price she would have been worthless had the weather failed before sal vage was com pleted.

Catwinchar, a 32-foot English yacht with a crew of three, dropped anchor in Neutral Bay, Sydney, in mid - November.

Strangely named by a former owner after his three children, Cathleen, Wini fred and Charles, the yacht crossed the Pacific by

way of Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Apia (Samoa) and Suva. The crc were high in their appreciation hospitality along the route, and e pecially grateful to Mr. B.

McKettrick, Donalds’ representati in the Marquesas, who supplit them with much-needed stor though he was unable to acce their travellers’ cheques as paymer “Just send the money from Apia or Suva— or Sydney, whenever y( can.”

Catwinchar is now preparing f the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Rac Then the crew intended to sell tl yacht and settle.

Inspire (PIM, October, page 4i still lying in Berry’s Bay, Sydne has two very home-sick Ran tongans aboard—Patrick Poi Manu and his brother John Pepe Manu< Glad of the opportunity to ta with someone familiar with the home island, they complained the PIM representative that thoug

ON LEFT: Bachelor’s Wife, on the slip in Sydney. ON RIGHT[?] Mr. George Hunt, formerly of Tahiti, with crew of Catwinch[?] on their arrival in Sydney. LEFT TO RIGHT; Mr. Hunt. Denn[?] Tanner, Eddie Mossop (skipper), Bert Bartlett.

ley write home regularly by air lail, they receive no replies. They re hoping that Mr. Williams will gain abandon his Sydney cafe in ivour of some further cargo-carry ig in the Cook Islands.

Siren (PIM, October, page 118) recked near Avarua. Rarotonga on ictober 2, and abandoned to the nderwriters, was purchased by Mr. >. C. Brown, local ship-owner and

trader, for £6O Without waste of time “Dicky” and about 300 of his cousins laid skids across the reef and succeeded in hauling the Suva built 45-foot ketch to safety. Though extensively damaged, it is believed that she will sail again.

“Dicky” and his team performed a similar feat a couple of years ago with a smaller yacht, which was

later taken to Manihiki and is now in use as a pearl-shell diving ten der.

Mrs. Arthur Jewell, of Port Moresby, was in Sydney on holiday in December.

Mr. Bill Tebb, of Port Moresby, was in Sydney on leave in Decem ber.

On Sunday afternoon, November 16, the [?]rge and attractive residence in Lae. New [?]ulnea, of Mr. and Mrs. Geoff Griffith (he Regional Works Officer of Department Works and Housing) was totally des [?]oyed by fire. Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths [?]ere away golfing, at the time, and they [?]st all their personal effects. Damage is timated at £6,0000. As there are no [?]ater mains in the town, yet, there is no [?]e-fighting service worthy of the name. —Len Harrop photo.

Competition

p. 129

ANNOUNCEMENT

Islands Film Script Competition

The closing date of the Islands Film :ript Competition, being promoted by iistralian Instructional Films, Turella, rdney, has been postponed until April 16, >52, to allow time for competitors to iter scripts for special prizes, which are sing donated by Island trading com mies.

The special prizes are for scripts on •ecific subjects. Full details from Instruc onal Films or in January PIM.

Tahiti Notes

p. 129

Yacht Vega Dismasted

PAPEETE, Dec. 4

THE steel luxury-yacht Vega,,ac quired by the new Compagnie Generale des Voyages Poly nesiens, suffered a serious mishap only a few hours after sailing from Papeete on her first commercial passenger voyage between Tahiti and Honolulu.

On November 23 a large crowd witnessed the ceremony of change of registry, the French replacing the American flag. At 6 pm on 24th the big yacht

left Papeete with passengers and mails.

At 3 am on the 25th she limped back to port in the condition shown in this photo.

The Vega struck a violent squall at 10.30

pm, 8 miles north of Point Venus.

A bob-stay fitting parted, causing fore-topmast to go overside. This was followed by the fore and main masts giving way, together with most of the standing rigging. The captain was knocked overboard but seized a lighted buoy which was thrown to him, and was picked up.

The vessel will be sent to San Francisco to be completely re rigged. She is insured.

STRIKE SOON OVER

A one-day strike, supporting a demand that Tahiti-born Public Servants receive the same allow ances as French officials, was staged by Administration workers

on November 29. They demanded the 12 per cent, cost of living allowance now paid to officials from France. The strike ended when the Administration granted a 6 per cent, allowance.

Retirement of Mr

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Mr. B. Blackwell

From Our Own Correspondent

VILA, Nov. 20.

DURING the first half of Novem ber the Vila Cricket Club formed itself into two teams —one Commercial and one Govern

ment —and played a competitive match on the British paddock as a prelude to a presentation dinner at the Hotel Reid.

The dinner was a farewell to As sistant British Resident Commis sioner, Mr. B. Blackwell. Mr. Black well will shortly retire, and, accompanied by Mrs. Blackwell, will take a holiday in the United King dom.

In the absence of the Cricket Club president, Mr. S. G. Jones, British Resident Commissioner, Mr.

H. G. Flaxman, presented Mr.

Blackwell with a pen and pencil set, the gift of the club members, together with their best wishes for the future.

Islands Produce

p. 130

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency)

COPRA

Papua-NG.—Production Control Board price: Main ports. Hot-air, £57 per ton (Kokopo, £55/12/6); Smoked, £56/7/6 (£56). Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air, £76; F.M.S. £75; Smoked, £74/7/6. Australia has 9 years’ con tract with UK, based on £53/15/- Stg.

Fiji.— £FS9/10/7 per ton. f.0.b., Suva— producers get £FS4/10/6 ton, plantation grade, Suva or Levuka; £FS4/5/-, FMS; £FSI-£PS3, other. Fiji has 9 years’ con tract with UK Pood Ministry.

Samoa.—Producers receive £S4S/11/- (par with Stg.) per ton, f.0.b., Apia based on MOF rate of £ Stg.s3/19/- (less £SS/7/ll Duty, £S3/0/l Stabilisation).

BSI. —Growers have been receiving £ASI per ton, f.0.b., Honiara or Yandina (based on £ Stg.s3/15/- MOP price).

New Hebrides.—London quotation gives 100,000 Metropolitan francs (approx. £129 Aust.) per 1,000 kilos, delivered weights, c.i.f., Cont. ports.

Tahiti.—London quotation: 101,500 Metrop. fr. (approx. £l3l Aust.) per 1,000 kilos, d.w., c.i.f., Cont. ports,

COCOA

Islands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W. Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on December 5 was £Stg.23o (£ A287/10/-) c.i.f.

Pacific cocoa was quoted nominally on Sydney market in December at:— New Guinea.— £A2BO per ton, ex wharf.

New Hebrides—Nominally £A2BO.

Samoa.—Sydney agents in December quoted Samoan cocoa at £S2IS (£ A268/15/-) f.o.b. per ton, first-grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.)

COFFEE

New Caledonia.—Production exported to France at nominal equivalent of £A4SO per ton, Arabica; £A4OO, Robusta.

Papua-NG.—Nominally £375 to £425 per ton (c.i.f.), according to quality.

RUBBER

Sydney firms use London and Singapore rates as basis to buy Papuan rubber.

Dec, 7: No. 1 grade, RSS (sellers) Spot 41%d. Stg. lb., c.i.f., London (54-3/16d.

Aust. lb.); Singapore, RSS No. 1, 140 cents lb., f.o.b.

VANILLA BEANS

Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.): White Label, 18/9; Yellow Label, 18/9; Green Label. 17/6 per lb., c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE

Rice shipped from Sydney to Islands was fixed in May at £6O per ton, f.0.b., White, Unpolished and Brown. (On plan tation in Papua-N.G., approx. £85.)

TROCHUS SHELL

Market for trochus shell in Sydney is still Unsettled and confused—most agents state they are not interested in buying

until prices firm. Western Pacific she price was quoted in December at apprp; £l4O per ton on wharf, Sydney.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL

Nominal quotation is at £165-£l7O pi ton, on wharf, Sydney.

PEARL SHELL

By a contract between Gerdau C (USA) and majority of Torres pearler TI shell prices were fixed, 1949-52, a Sound grades, £A325 per ton, f.0.b., T “D” grade, £A225; “E” grade, all plus bonuses. The free market prl< is around £A7OO for Sound grades.

London Prices

p. 130

LONDON, Oct. 11.

The following are to-day’s quotations:- Copra, c.i.f., Continental ports, pi ton:— FM Straits/Mixed DEI .. .. £9B/10/- Stj Ceylon, FMS nomina Philippines (bulk) $277Vi U Coconut Oil, c.i.f.:— FM Straits (3Vi%) £l5l St) Ceylon (cyl.) £159 St| Cocoa, c.i.f., Stg.:— Accra, 240/- per cwt., London bon (Jan. shipment).

Accra, 245/- Stg., Nov.-Jan. shlpmen per 50 kilos, Continental ports.

Bahia, 239/4 per 50 kilos, f.o.b.

Islands Mining Share

p. 130

Price of Gold.—Commonwealth Bank fixed price for gold is: Pine oz £AIS/9/10; Standard oz., £AI4/4/-.

FIJI

Aug., 1939.

Nov. 1.

Dec.

Emperor . b9/ll S12/3 b9/- Loloma . , S25/6 b36/9 s33/-

PAPUA-NEW

GUINEA

Bulolo G.D. . bl24/b55/b55/- Mandated All. b3/8 b2/s3/- N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 s2/4 b2/- Oil Search . .

S3/11 b3/7 b3/8 Orlomo Oil . . b5/s2/3 bl/3 Papuan Apin. b4/ll bl/3 sl/- Placer Dev. . b68/6 b385/b425/ Sandy Creek . bl/5 s9d. slOd, Sunshine Co. b6/5 s2/6 bl/3

Exchange Rates

p. 130

The following exchange rates exist 1 Sydney In December:— FlJl.—Through Bank of NSW and Ban of NZ.—Australia on Fiji basis £lO FIJI: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling, £AIK Fiji-London, basis £lOO London: Buy ing, £lll/2/6; Selling, £ll3.

SAMOA.—Through Bank of NZ.—Aus tralla on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa Buying, £AI23/12/6; Selling, £AI24/10/S Samoa-London, basis £ 100 London Buying, £lOO/7/6; Selling, £lOl/10/-.

Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ: Buying £100; Selling, £lOO/10/-.

Samoa-Piji, basis £lOO Samoa: Buying £111; Selling, £llO.

PAPUA - NG. —Commonwealth Ban! (branches P. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul Madang) and Bank of NSW (P. Moresby Lae, Rabaul) quote exchange rate Aus tralla-Papua-NG as 10/- per £lOO.

BSl.—Commonwealth Bank (branch a Honiara) quotes exchange rate Aus tralla-BSI as 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs most valuable of the three franc group) in French Union, are used in N. Cale donia, N. Hebrides, and Fr. Oceania French Bank in Sydney quotes (nomin ally): 141.75 Pac. fr. to £Aust,; 178.31 Pac. fr. to £Stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $.

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Papua-N. Guinea Election

In the elections for the Papna-New Guinea Council, Messrs. James, Barrett and Jacobsen headed the primary votes.

After the allotment of preferences, the final figures were:—

NEW GUINEA ISLANDS.—D. Barrett,

150; P. A. MacKenzie, 95; G. Renton, 40; Informal, 30.

Enrolled, 496. Voted, 315.

NEW GUINEA MAINLAND.—C. M.

Jacobsen, 158; S. B. Barker, 67; N. H.

White, 66; E. C. N. Helton, 20; Informal, 5.

Enrolled, 537. Voted, 316.

PAPUA.— E. A. James, 268; J. I.

Cromie, 223. Other Candidates: J. R.

Bleck, T. F. Rosser, M, Infante, and N. F. Maloney.

Enrolled, 664. Voted, 664.

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Morris Hedstrom

General Merchants, Importers and Exporters,

Shipowners, Plantation Owners,

Commission and Insurance Agents

HEAD OFFICE

SUVA, FIJI

Established 1868 Registered Cable Addresses : Deuba Suva Morrished . . Levuka Morstrom . . Sydney Suvamark . . London Morrisco . . Nukualofa Deuba Apia Telephones : Suva . . 32 (8 lines) Sydney . 8X2677 and BX 2678

SERVICE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

TERRITORIES

rjpHROUGH our Large Establishments in Suva and our Numerous Branches, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of General Merchandise and provide almost every kind of service. Our departments and associated businesses include:

DRAPERY

MOTOR SALES

AND SERVICE

TOBACCO

TIMBER AND

BUILDING

GROCERY

CONFECTIONERY

HARDWARE

ELECTRICAL

LIQUORS

DRUGS

Branches Throughout Fiji, Samoa and Tonga

There is a Branch or Agent of Morris Hedstrom Limited in every Town in the Three Territories. We are Sole Agents in these Territories for British Drug Houses Ltd.

Electrolux Ltd.

Ford Motor Co.

General Electric Co. Ltd.

Goodyear Tyre £r Rubber Co.

B. A. Hjorth & Co. (Primus Products) Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

International Harvester Export Matson Navigation Company Max Factor and Co. Inc.

Pacific Islands Transport Line Ransomes, Sims Cr Jefferies Ltd.

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd.

Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd.

Co.

Morris Hedstrom Limited are LLOYD’S AGENTS in Fiji and Samoa.

IN AUSTRALIA:

Morris Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.,

Asbestos House, 65 York Street, SYDNEY

IN GREAT BRITAIN:

Morris Hedstrom Limited,

Barclay's Bank Buildings, 73 Cheapside, LONDON, E.C.2

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The

ONE

DAY

IN 365 There was a “Crundall the Chemist” over 100 years ago when the immortal Charles Dickens wrote:— “There are people who tell you that Christmas is not to them what it used to be, that each succeeding Christmas has found some cherished hope or happy prospect of the year before, dimmed or passed away. Never hold such dismal reminiscences. There are few men who have lived long enough in the world who cannot call up such thoughts ANY day of the year. Then do not select the merriest day of the 365 for your doleful recollections, but draw your chair nearer the blazing fire, fill the glass and send ‘round the song.’ ”

Incidentally, the ideal Christmas Gift for an Asthmatic is an Aspaxadrene [Registered under the Victorian Health Act (Pat.

Med.) 1942] outfit costing 28/6 complete; bakelite presentation box 5/- extra.

XMAS IS COMING—THE GEESE

ARE GETTING FAT, PLEASE PUT

A PENNY IN THE OLD MAN’S

In the case of an Asthmatic, make it an Aspaxadrene outfit —known all over the world as the Asthmatic’s dream come true.

Being an atomised Inhalant, it “touches the spot” unchanged, and so relieves in seconds. No dieting, so a good normal Christmas dinner may be partaken of.

Complete outfit still 28/6 (no price “popups”) —bakelite presentation box 5/- extra —suitable also as gift container for cigarettes, perfume, soap, etc.

FROM CHEMISTS AND ISLANDS

or A. H. CRUNDALL, Ph.C., M.P.S.A., Box 58, Prahran, Victoria, Australia.

HAT.

STORES

■3 Downstairs club lounge where you /nee* fellow passengers, enjoy refreshments.

Only Pan American offers you

DOUBLE-DECKED “STRATO” CLIPPERS*

to London from Sydney!

Now fly in the world’s largest, finest, most luxurious airliners —direct from Sydney to San Francisco —New York to London. No dollars needed. Fare payable in Australian pounds. Pan American’s Commonwealth Plan provides direct transit expenses en route.

Private sleeping accommodations. No “doubling-up”. Between Australia and U.S., everyone sleeps in his own foam-soft berth or Pan American’s bed-length Sleeperette* at no extra charge. From New York, your fare includes de luxe lounge-chair seats —berths and Sleeperettes at a small surcharge.

Finest foods. No other airline matches Pan American’s wonderful meals —served with fine wines and champagne all complimentary.

Book now with Pan American or your Travel Agent

Pm Mmm World Annvm

WORLD'S MOST EXPERIENCED AIRLINE

SPEED VOUR PARCEL BY CLIPPER CARGO

Pan American World Airways, Inc., Ltd., Incorporated in U.S.A. *Trade Marks, Pan American World Airways, Inc,

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Turners & Growers Ltd

Telephones: FA 2176 (3 lines).

Telegraphic Address: Corrientes, Brisbane.

CORRIE Cr CO.

Douglas M. Corrie, Robin M. Corrie, Stock and Sharebrokers. (Established 1877).

Members Brisbane Stock Exchange.

Scottish Union House, Eagle St., Brisbane.

TURNERS & GROWERS Ltd

Wholesale Fruit & Produce Merchants Auckland New Zealand

lii

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'Jr<‘ nOj *8 f2:m 2£ R =Nfi,HT r 1 mfwmmm E'.'.. v. Ji."L. - i

ESTABLISHED 1895.

EXPORTERS OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE

POTATOES. ONIONS. GARLIC.

VEGETABLES. APPLES.

FRUITS IN SEASON,

All Inquiries to Our Export Organisation :

Turners Supply Company Limited

POSTAL ADDRESS: CABLE ADDRESS:

Box 1370, “TUSCO,”

Auckland, N.Z. Auckland.

STRATFORD

Church of England School for Girls.

LAWSON, N.S.W.

Chairman of the Council: The Archbishop of Sydney.

Day and Boarding School. Ideally situated on the Blue Mountains, 60 miles from Sydney.

Pupils prepared for Public Examinations.

Facilities for Tennis, Swimming, Netball, etc.

Some vacancies for 1952.

For prospectus apply to Headmistress Mrs. Helen McT. Wayne, (formerly of Rabaul, T.N.G.) Tel.: Law. 18.

Give Us Our Bread, %

Our Daily Bread!

with

BLUE SUPERB FLOUR

A Prosperous and Happy New Year to all our Customers Representatives: A. MCDONALD & CO., Apia, Western Samoa.

C. L, HARRISON & CO., Box 413, Suva, Fiji.

MUNGO SCOTT PTY. LTD.

Flour Millers, Smith St., Summer Hill, N.S.W., Australia. #1

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sppo

spnuceup on

4*2J V •

J/oup flaw

SPRUSO LIQUID, SPRUSO LIQUIDSHEEN, and SPRUSO

CRYSTALLISED SHEEN.

SPRUSO is the best selling Hairdressing in Australia TRADERS : write for samples.

SPRUSO COMPANY, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia.

m

GROVE

BViUHNSS

r it

W. H. GROVE

& SONS LTD.

P.O. BOX 490, AUCKLAND,

NEW ZEALAND.

ISLAND

MERCHANTS

REPRESENTING

ENGLISH

MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT THE

PACIFIC ISLANDS

In Fiji as:

W. H. GROVE & SONS

(FIJI) LTD.

Office and Sample Room: Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji.

W|

COLUMBIA PICTURES

35 M/Mand 16 M/M are available through-

out the SOUTH WEST PACIFIC, NEW

CALEDONIA, NEW HEBRIDES, PAPUA

and NEW GUINEA, AUSTRALIA and

NEW ZEALAND.

FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY AS UNDER: CABLES: COLUMFILM Columbia Pictures Pty. Ltd. 251 a Pitt Street,

SYDNEY. Tele. MJ 4624.

Columbia Pictures Pty. Ltd., Columbia House, 266-270 Queen Street.

MELBOURNE. Tele. M 1528.

Columbia Pictures Pty. Ltd., Shell House, Ann Street,

BRISBANE. Tele. B 1781.

Columbia Pictures Pty. Ltd., Richards Buildings, Currie Street, ADELAIDE. Tele. Cent. 2223.

Columbia Pictures Pty. Ltd., 447 Murray Street,

PERTH. Tele. B 6355.

Columbia Pictures Pty. Ltd., Guthrie Bowren Buildings, Albert Street,

AUCKLAND. Tele. 44-463.

AGENTS:

Educational Sound Films Ltd., Southern Cross Building, Brandon Street, WELLINGTON,

NEW ZEALAND.

Hunts Agency, Bank N.S.W. Building, Victoria Parade,

SUVA, FIJI.

NEW GUINEA

New Guinea Company Ltd.

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Herco

c 0 m m

for the skin

Herco Skin Lotion contains Olive Oil and Lanolin, the two Ingredients known to Science as being the best to protect and soften the skin and guard against soreness and roughness. 9 Have skin beauty from the top of your head to the tip of your toes.

Stocks available at your usual WHOLE-

SALER or BURNS PHILP and MORRIS

HEDSTROM, Suva, Fiji.

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Angus & Robertson Ltd.

SELECTED BOOKS

SINGING CORAL. By Sverre Holmsen. An epic story of love, battle and adventure set against a background which brings to life the mystery and magic of the lost ancient Polynesian civilisation. 16/- (post lid.) FLIGHT OF FANCY. By James Riddell. Diary of a 35,000 mile “grasshopper flight” in a small plane from England to Australia and back, and countries and islands en route. 69 magnificent photographs. 31/6 (post 1/7)

89-95 Castlereagh Street, Sydney* Australia.

66-68 Elizabeth St., Melbourne, Australia.

£s £s £s

£s £s £s

A MILLION THANKS

FOR YOUR SUPPORT

A Prosperous and Happy New Year to all our Island Customers

M. KERRY PTY. LTD.

Island Buying Agents and Merchants,

369 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY.

Cable address: “MARNIKAY,” Sydney.

Representatives: A. MCDONALD & CO., APIA, WESTERN SAMOA.

C. L. HARRISON, BOX 413, SUVA, FIJI.

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QUEENSLAND

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated 1886 in Australia).

Assets Exceed £6,000,000

Head Office:

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE

BUILDING, 80-82 PITT STREET.

SYDNEY.

Specialists in South Sea Fire, Marine & Accident Insurances Apply to:— FIJI. —Branch Office: J. F, Drury, Manager.

Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co., Ltd.

VlLA.—Burns Phllp (N.H.), Ltd.

Comptoirs Francais Des Nouvelles Hebrides.

NOUMEA.—L. & W. Johnston.

NEW GUlNEA.—Manager for the Territory of New Guinea and Papua, W. A. Anderson.

POET MORESBY—SAM ARAI—LAE

—MADANG—RABAUL.

Burns Phllp (New Guinea), Ltd.

PAGO PAGO.

Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co., Ltd.

G. H. C. Reid & Co.

OTHER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd.

Also to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z.

EGYPTIANS mow.

m ti sa -a % *s> m Archaeologists in Egypt

HAVE FOUND MUMMIES FITTED

WITH ARTIFICIAL TEETH MADE

FROM SCENTED WOOD I TODAY

MOST PEOPLE RELY ON

KOLYNOS TO KEEP THEIR

1 MOUTH FRESH AND SWEET.

V FOR A REFRESHING CHANGE

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GERMS

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NORTH AMERICAN

AND EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES

PROVE UP TO 92% Of DENTAL

DECAY BACTERIA IN THE

MOUTH ARE DESTROYED BY

KOLYNOS THIS EXCLUSIVE >

KOLYNOS ANTI-DECAY S

ACTION LASTS FOR

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AN INCH OF KOLYNOS

<-0. AFTER MEALS x . V 1

»'WILL STOP V V:v /

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QX£&> <cd - -<£Q 0

WILLIAM E. REED

(Established 1913)

ISLAND TRADE BROKER & COMMISSION AGENT

145 a GEORGE STREET, CIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY.

Cables “WILREED,” Sydney.

SrS We extend to all Stores and ..

a cordial invitation to avail them

selves of the Reliable, Prompt and

Courteous Services of an old estab

lished organisation.

BUYING DEPARTMENT

BOAT SALES DEPARTMENT

All Merchandise purchased at best wholesale prices and original invoices supplied. A quarter of a century's experience is behind us.

Island Products sold on a Commission Basis. We obtain the highest possible prices.

We have a very comprehensive range of work boats available for all Island requirements. We invite genuine buyers to call and inspect photographs and leading particulars or let us know the particular type of vessel required and we shall post you details of those within your specified range.

AGENCIES DEPARTMENT

Sole Agents for Pacific Territories for — " ELECTION " Grand Prix Wrist Watches.

" MIAMI " Wrought Iron Furniture.

Sole Agents for New Guinea — " LAMBRETTA " Motor Scooters.

N.S.W. Agents for Pacific Territories for — " COVENTRY VICTOR " Marine Diesel and Petrol Engines.

" CRAMMOND " King of the Air Receivers and Transmitters.

“ WILLIAMSON " 3 cubic feet Absorption Refrigerators for Boats.

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i«e cmm or we island

-i

—Scr

“UNDERSEE” Swimmers’ Masks—fit any face comfortably.

"LOXIN” Underwater Guns are Accurate, Powerful and Safe. Double pressure trigger with safety catch within trigger guard. Synchronised line discharge.

Bayonet and line reel.

Standard (2 rubbers). Super (4 rubbers).

Knives, Safety Lead Belts, Handspears, Swim Flippers and Breathing Tubes.

ENQUIRE FROM YOUR AGENT OR

UNDERSEE PRODUCTS

81 Ramsgate Avenue, BONDI, N.S.W

i«e cmm or we island

wliiiii r Preserve it, in all its enchantment, with a paint fortified for tropical weather resistance, for a rich color permanency and for a mellow, even weathering.

In the Tropics

USE ONLY

BO RTH WICKS

HIGH

GRADE

REINFORCED

HOUSE PAINT

MORRIS HEDSTROM (AUST.) PTY. LTD. AGENTS FOR

BORTHWICKS PTY. CO., Sydney

Suppliers to Defence Specifications.

MARK

TRADE

BARDIN ET

RUM

THIS lUEL MEANS

Agents:

SWIFT AND HORNDALE

PTY. LTD,

2 6 CLARENCE STREET

SYDNEY AUSTRALIA

NELSON and ROBERTSON Pty. Ltd

Established 1895.

SHIPOWNERS - BROKERS AND ISLANDS MERCHANTS

All classes of Merchandise purchased at Best Wholesale Prices. Original Invoices supplied t Island Clients. Cocoa Beans, Copra, Rubber, Trochus Shell and All Islands Produce Sold o Commission.

Entrust your requirements to the firm with over fifty-five years’ practical experience in the Pacifi Islands.

Represented in All Parts of the World.

Overseas Indents Arranged for Clients.

Sole Agents:

SKANDIA DIESEL ENGINES

Inquiries Solicited.

Prompt attention given to all inquiries Managing Agents : " Tusculum "

PRIVATE HOTEL

Potts Point, Sydney.

NELSON & ROBERTSON

12 SPRING STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Telegraphic Address: “IVAN,” SYDNEY.

we hand it to

you

Real economy demands that you buy only good paint the best paint. Sherwin Williams Paints and Finishes are the result of constant and intensive research by a compact corps field specialists and qualified paint consultants. The combined fruits of this extensive research and developmental work by the Sherwin-Williams companies throughout the Empire are available to you when you specify Sherwin-Willia Paint for all tough paint assignments . . . espec 'ally those under trop cal climatic conditions

Sherwin-Williams Paint

To meet the test of the tropics m

COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

Insist on

44 ff

BRONTE

CANNED MEATS, HOTMEALS AND SOUPS

Available in 12 oz. and 1 lb. sealed cans in the following

appetising flavours and

• Corned Beef Loaf With Cereal • Braised Steak and Onions • Boiled and Roast Beef • Beef Steak Pudding • Mutton and Peas • Steak and Onions • Chili Con Came • Curried Mutton • Curried Beef • Irish Stew • Mulligatawny Scup • Vegetable Soup • Mutton Broth • Tomato Soup • Camp Pie "BRONTE" Brand high-grade products are made from the finest fat stock and the richest vegetables in Australia, deliciously flavoured.

THE COLONIAL WHOLESALE

MEAT CO. PTY. LTD.

Canning Factory: State Abattoirs, Homebush, Sydney, N.S.W. ’Phone; UM8436. Cables: “WOOLMILL,” Sydney. p M 1 wftftutA! i' ■' ' . var’ iff

Specialising in Pacific

Island Insurances.

FIRE—MOTOR VEHICLE—MARINE

—HULLS AND CARGO-

EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY.

BONDS—in accordance with Administration Ordinances—COPßA Insured from drier to buyer—and all other classes arranged at lowest current rates.

Established Agencies throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

Managing Agents: New Guinea Co..

Ltd.

Island Representative: G. D. A. Kent, Rabaul Branch.

Southern Pacific Insurance

CO., LTD.

Head Office: 60 Hunter St., Sydney.

■ M

you &/

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layeras

There s no finer roay to L«««* 1 E «

UGER

TOOTH’S

o. UlMIttD

R T TOOTH » C

aN d bottled brewed a; v\ 9

A. B. DONALD

LTD.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

ISLAND TRADERS AND GENERAL

MERCHANTS

P.O. Box 1509. Cables and Telegrams: “Kingdom,” Auckland.

War nock Bros. Limited

AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Manufacturers of well known brands of Laundry Soap

“KIA ORA” AND “NATURU”

■ ★ Obtainable from Auckland and Island Merchants

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Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd.

<m

FOR

VERANDAHS

SUNROOMS

LOUNGEROOMS

KITCHENS

LAUNDRIES

This ultra modem window comprises a series of glass blades swung one above the other and inclinable to any angle.

Air entering the room is diverted towards the ceiling, thus preventing draughts. AGCO Supaluvres have all the advantages of other louvre windows plus exclusive features.

HOW THEY WORK;—

1. Handle automatically locks louvres in closed position. 2. Pawl holds louvres locked open in four positions. 3. Pinion engages driving rack to revolve louvres. 4. Patent “Rainguard” stops rain entering between glass holders and channel.

Full light and air with yearround weather protection. \ : d <D

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD.

54a PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

SLI.

PETROL ELECTRIC GENERATING SET

240 OR 110 VOLTS, A.C., 50/60 CYCLES, TO ORDER Capacity 1,000 watts, 1,500/1,800 R.P.M. For lighting of shops, factories or domestic purposes, including electric washing machines, vacuum cleaners, ironing, floor polishing, ironing machines, fluorescen lighting, 16 mm, projectors. Will start motors up to l/3rd H.P., single phase. Automatic excitatioi gives flat voltage regulation under load. inlural J - . & ENGINE: Norman twin opposed, well balanced and governed. A high-grade engine with magneto ignition. 4-stroke, 2% H.P., air-cooled. Easily started by hand.

ALTERNATOR: Ball bearing, single phase, 1,500/1,800 R.P.M.. 4 pole, self-excited through rectifier, no exciter maintenance, well balanced, wound rotor, self-regulating, fitted with thermal overload protection.

A lightweight, portable generating set specially developed to meet the requirements of power con sumers in the low capacity field, including farm and station owners, missionaries, shopkeeper! storekeepers, factories, schools, dance halls, etc.

PRICE EACH COMPLETE: £220—F.0.R. SYDNEY

ALTERNATOR AND PANEL ONLY: £95.

(All prices subject to confirmation at time of order).

Plus Sales Tax if applicable

BRAYBON BROS. PTY. LTD.

ENGINEERS, MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS.

27-33 WASHINGTON STREET, SYDNEY.

•Phone: HA 6853. Telegrams: "BRAYBONIAN," Sydney

C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

Now Available For the blonds

HOLLAND RUSK

and Allied Products We manufacture Holland Rusks, Butter Johns, Speculaas, Jubilee Par-T-Pack.

Almond Rings, Breakfast Cake, Edam Cheese Crunches. Cocktail Buttons, Celery Rondelles, etc. Individually packed and shipped in sealed, tins and cases for the Tropics.

Write for Price List.

"HOLLAND RUSK"

3* PARRAMATTA RD., STRATHFIELD,

SYDNEY, N.S.W.

On sale at Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd. stores, or order from your favourite Agent.

C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

HEAD OFFICE

379 KENT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Telegrams and Cables: “CHASULL” Sydney. Telephone: MJ4657.

And at Melbourne, Victoria—Brisbane, Queensland.

Associated Companies : C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji.

C. SULLIVAN INC., 230 California Sfreef, San Francisco, U.S.A.

Over 30 Years' Pacific Island Experience

Expert Buying Service

Original Invoices Furnished

Overseas Indents Arranged

BEST PRICES FOR COPRA, COCOA, SHELLS AND GENERAL ISLAND PRODUCE

KERR BROS. Z

G.P.O. Box 3838, Sydney.

ISLAND MERCHANTS SINCE 1895

Over so years old, but as young as ever and eager to serve you.

Cocoa Beans. Copra, Coffee and all Island Produce Sold on Commission.

All merchandise purchased at best wholesale prices and original invoices supplied.

Use Our Co-operative Specialised Overseas Buying Service.

•m-m *V «5# 0° 0$ co»°.

By Appointment Gin Distillers to H.M. King George VI Tanqueray. Gordon & Co. Ltd.

Gordon's

Stands S

DE C E

MBER, 1951 PACIFIC

SLANDS MONTHL

And The

Churchill’s 1943 Plan And The Chaos of 1951

ON October 25, 1951, Winston Churchill returned to the Prime Ministership of Britain, .but with a majority of less than 30 [—-probably not enough to give him strength to handle the colossal prob lems of a. bankrupt England, a dis integrating Empire and a chaotic

international situation.

1 It is worth recalling that on Sep tember 6. 1943, in a public speech, Prime Minister Churchill said this; I “At the present time we have in continual vigorous action the British and United States Com bined Chiefs of Staff Committee, [which works immediately under the President and myself as represen tative of the British War Cabinet. [ “This Committee, with its elab orate organisation of Staff officers of every grade, disposes of all our resources, and in practice uses British and’ American troops, ships, aircraft, and munitions just as if they were the resources of a single State or nation. . . .

“This . is a wonderful system.

There was nothing like it in the last war. There never has been anything like it between two

(lilies. . . .

i “Now, in my opinion, it would be a most foolish and improvident act on the part of our two Govern ments, or either of them, to break up this smooth-running and im mensely powerful machinery the moment the war is over.

I “For our own safety, as well as for the security of the rest of the world, we are bound to keep it (forking and in running order after ;he war—probably for a good many fears, not only until we have set up lome world arrangement to keep the peace, but until we know that it is an arrangement which will really fve us that protection we must lave from danger and aggression, [protection we have already had to (eek across two vast world wars.”

Within a few weeks of the sur render of Germany in 1945, there Pas a general election in Britain; tfr. Churchill’s Government was hrown out; Britain and her Em pre were delivered into the hands tf the Socialists; and all possibility if the world’s affairs being policed md guided back to orderliness and jeace by. the combined power of America and Britain was swept way.

Is it now too late to set up the mglo-American power which Phurchill, with characteristic lanty of vision, pointed out in 1943 f being mankind’s only hope after Vorld War II had ended?

A young lady born in Port Moresby has been awarded the Melba Vocal Scholarship. She is Miss Jean Munro, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Munro, former Port Moresby residents, and a niece of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bock. Mr.

Munro was a building contractor in Port Moresby before the war, and his wife and daughter were evacuated when the Japanese en

tered the war. Since then they have been living in Brisbane. Miss Munro’s scholarship will give her two years tuition in Melbourne.

About 40 Chinese labourers for the BPC arrived in Nauru by MV Ankmg in mid-October. The family of Mr. Charles Cheung, Chinese interpreter on Nauru, arrived by the same vessel.

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TAKE THIS

MOST IMPORTANT STEP

TO KEEP TEETH SPARKLING WHITE

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Doctors and dentists all agree that gum troubles are the cause of most tooth extractions. That's one important reason why you should always use IPANA the tooth paste that keeps both teeth and gums clean and healthy. IPANA gives icstmg radiance to your smile — because it protects as well as cleans your teeth to sparkling v/hiteness.

add sparkle

TO Y °U> SM,U,

A PRODUCT OF

BRISTOL-MYERS

Aladdin lights the way to better living

STORMPROOF

LANTERN

This Pressure Kerosene Stormproof Lantern gives 300 candle power of brilliant light. in any kind of weather.

MODEL 1609;

Throws a flood of light on to the work area. Avoids direct light being thrown into the eyes.

THE WORLD’S MOST WONDERFUL LAMP

Aladdin light is the closest of all to natural daylight, and these non-pressure lamps give a steady white light of 75 candle-power. There is no smoke or fumes, no pumping. They light at the touch of a match! Burning 94% air and only 6% kerosene, these modern lamps are extremely economical in use, and safe and easy to use.

2 BURNER PORTABLE STOVE

Compact efficient pressure Kerosene stove has adjustable self-pricking burners. Available with metal carrying case for outdoor cooking.

X'

5 BURNER RANGE

Modern porcelain-finished pressure Kerosene range has all the advantages of gas or electric stoves. Heat is adjustable from “simmer” to “boil” and insulated oven cooks perfectly.

ELEVATED RANGE

Compact, modern pressure range is attractively finished in porcelain.

Has five self-pricking burners adjustable to any heat, and insulated oven cooks perfectly.

MODEL

1609.

MODEL

1630.

MODEL

1671.

Good lighting and convenient

cooking contribute much to com-

fortable living, and Aladdin lamps

and cooking appliances have beer

famous for more than a cen-

tury. Burning ordinary lighting

kerosene, Aladdin products

provide the comfort anc

convenience of gas or elec-

tricity. They are un-

equalled in efficiency

and ease of operation.

MODEL

1680.

MODEL

1630.

fi wsm

KEROSENE APPLIANCES

ALADDIN INDUSTRIES PTY. LTD., • BOURKE ST., WATERLOO Obtainable through your Australian Buying House or Local Storekeepe

Manufacturers: ALADDIN INDUSTRIES PTY. LTD.,

61-71 Bourke Street, Waterloo, N.S.W.

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G. H. Robinson Exports & Imports Pty. Ltd

c=> G. H. ROBINSON EXPORTS & IMPORTS PTY. LTD

Pacific Island Traders and Merchants.

Sol© Distributors of Bradford Commercial vehicles, Jowett Javelin Cars and Uni- . Diesel Engines—(Franchises available in certain Pacific Groups.) Sellers on Commission of all kinds of Island produce—Cocoa Beans. Green Snail, Copra, Fungus, M.O.P. Shell, Trochus- Shell, etc.

Agents in London and Manchester for the Disposal and Supply of Produce and Special Requirements.

EVERY ATTENTION GIVEN TO ORDERS IRRESPECTIVE OF SIZE Make use of our 30 years’ personal experience and direct your inquiries to: G. H. ROBINSON EXPORTS & IMPORTS PTY. LTD. 51 MACQUARIE STREET, SYDNEY. Telephone: BW 4575.

Cables: “SUNRISE ” SYDNFV

iDNEY. Postal Address: Box 3317, G.P.0.. Sydney.

Kloster Beer

Sole Agents for New Guinea, British Solomons, New Hebrides, etc.: —

O. BIERI & CO.

3 YORK STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA.

Wholesale Distributors: KERR BROS. PTY. LTD. —British Solomon Islands, New Guinea and New Hebrides.

SOUTH WEST PACIFIC TRADING CO.—New Guinea.

MR. F. L. KWOCK CHEONG.—Rabaul Representative.

for

GILLESPIES

Gillespie’s Anchor Flour is milled from selected high quality Australian wheals and is entoleted for purity. Its consistent high quality has made it the best-known, most asked-for brand of flour in the Islands. (Entolelion is a special new purifying process which reduces the risk of insect infestation).

NCHOR

FLOUR

ILLESPIE BROS. PT Y. .LTD.. ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS, SYDN^ Y 7

ART POSTCARDS OF TONGA

Per Dozen (Including a Tin-Can Mail Cover), Postage Paid: 6/- (or one US Dollar).

TONGAN PHOTOS BUREAU,

Nukualofa, Tonga

Many Pacific Islands

T raders

Have read oar advertisement In this Magazine, And Then Sent us an Order.

You, too, will profit By placing an order For American-made goods Through our office.

Shipped direct from Mill and Factory to you:

COTTON TOWELS—DRESS MATERIALS—

GROCERIES—HARDWARE—PAINTS—

OILS—FLASHLIGHTS, etc.

In fact, we can ship almost anything obtainable to you.

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRADING CO.

244 CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 11,

CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.

We Want Your Goodwill !

H

figs

t M m i

the paint pigment with a

* Registered Trade Mark While Alpaste aluminium paint is similar to other paint in ease of application A working properties, it is fundamentally different In the structure of Its film.

Instead of fine particles in granular form found in ordinary paints. Alpaste consists of minute flat flakes of pure aluminium. jilT'"ll.

The flakes are arranged in the paint film in more or less parallel layers from R to 10 particles deep with a thin cement of vehicle between each 'ayer. In the lop layer the flakes form a brilliant continuous film of metallic aluminium with protective and durable qpal!tleS - Thii leaf!nq property ' 3lveS alum: " ium paint much of its durability and moisture-resisting qualities, its power to reflect light and heat. its resistance to smoke and fumes, and its opaqueness.

The illustrations show part of the Hargreaves Park Housing Settlement. New South Wales. Australia, where aluminium point wos used by the contractor*. Stayseal Products Pty. Ltd. kilo Mi) is Ga in sail iii (Incorporated in the Dominion of Canada) ■incipal British Commonwealth Distributor of Aluminium icean House. 34 Martin Place, Sydney.

N.S.W.

An ALUMINIUM LIMITED Company

SALES AGENTS;

Australia: HARRISONS RAMSAY PTY.

LTD., Melbourne. Sydney, Adelaide. Brisbane, Perth. „ . „ New Zealand: RICHARDSON, McCABE & CO. LTD., Wellington, Auckland. church.

Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga: MORKIb

HEDSTROM LIMITED, Suva. Fiji.

Cook Islands: A. B. DONALD LTD..

Raratonqa. Cook Islands.

French Oceania: ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI. Papeete, Tahiti.

New Caledonia and New Hebrides: AGENCt . r* _i J

A I K A A Ma

December, 1951-Pacific Islands Mqnthl

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December. 1951-Pacific Islands Monthli

School

THE SCOTS

BATHURST

Presbyterian Boarding

School for Boys Primary to Leaving Certificate Standard.

Boarders admitted at seven years.

Bracing inland climate, 135 miles west of Sydney,

N.S.W.

Possesses own dairy herd, poultry, vegetable garden.

Limited vacancies 1952, owing to expansion.

For Prospectus apply: Principal, A. E. McLucas, M.A., B.Ed.

the new soap powder that washes clothes

sparkling white.

Harmless to the skin and excellent for any washing purpose, including silks and the daintiest of fabrics. Economical, too!

Pacific Islands Distributorst

COLYER WATSON PTY. LTD. 22 SSSS

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Millers Ltd.

uni

in

SUVA and LAUTOKA, FIJI.

Every Branch of Engineering and Building

Construction

Sawmillers and Timber Merchants; Shipwrights and Sailmakers; Joinery and Furniture Manufacturers; Upholsterers; Plumbers; Electricians; Hardware Merchants; Motor Dealers.

Agencies : Chevrolet, Bedford, Vauxhall, Nash Motors, Land Rovers and Rover Cars.

Firestone Tyres. Frigidaire Refrigerators. G.E.C. Radio Sets. Priestman Excavators. British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd. Atlas Assurance Co. Ltd.

There is no need to send to Australia or New Zealand for Repairs or Replacements. We can give you a sound Quotation and guarantee First-Class Workmanship.

Jumpers Underoonts Men - Women Children

Athletic Singlets

Sports Shirts

Cardigans

Pullovers I / *5 For Economy Qualify r. r

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HIGH-GRADE KNITWEAR

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TARIFF FROM 16/6 PER DAY.

Manager : A. L. GUARD.

Write or Cable “Bellhaven,” North Sydney.

Phone: XA 1746.

INQUIRIES ARE INVITED

Concerning the Distribution and

Sale of All Types of

Merchandise in the

Pacific Islands

WE ARE AGENTS FOR—

MORRIS HEDSTROM LTD., Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

MILLERS LTD., Fiji.

8.5.1. P. GOVERNMENT TRADE SCHEME, Honiara.

G. & E.I.C. WHOLESALE SOCIETY, Tarawa.

MAX HALECK, Pago Pago, American Samoa.

Original Invoices Supplied. Quotations on Request. ★

MORRIS HEDSTROM (Aust.) PTY. LTD.

(.Established 1922)

MERCANTILE BROKERS

Asbestos House, 65 York St., Sydney.

Box No. 2530, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: “MORSTROM,” Sydney.

BANKERS: BANK OP NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY.

There's a glass and a half of rich, full-cream milk from Tasmania's richest dairying districts in every half pound of

Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate

j » LK n£ That’s the secret of the smooth, creamy flavour and nourishing goodness of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate Cadbury’s insistence on only the choicest ingredients, consistent high quality, and careful manufacture have won a world-wide reputation for Cadbury products.

Cadbury’s chocolates are wrapped in moisture resisting paper and especially packed for tropical conditions.

An order placed with us nominating your usual agent will receive our prompt attention.

CAD BURY-FRY-PAS CALL PTY. LTD.

212-218 York Street North, Sydney And you should try these other

Dairy Milk

combinations . ..

O co

MILK FRUIT & NUT

NUT MILK

BRJviajSJK

M UK CWOCXHMt

BRAZIL NUT MILK

TOASTED ALMOND

for those who like dark Chocolate

■iipo2-

c^SSS.'SSS:

LATE and sustaining

CM7/FP/*

KANGAROO BRAND

Ropes,

Cordage,

and Twines for every piirpose Backed by 98 years of service Manufactured by:

M. DONAGHY AND SONS,

PTY. LTD..

Geelong and Sydney.

Fiji Representatives:

PEARCE AND CO.

LIMITED

P.O. BOX 237, SUVA

A. H Bn LTD.

SAMARAI, PAPUA

Select your own musical

programme with an

AUTO-TABLE CONVERTOCRAM

Just plug in and your radio

becomes a radiogram

“NATIONAL BAND” Auto-Table Convertograms are fitted with latest pattern Garrard Automatic Record Changer, which automatically plays eight mixed 10-inch or 12-inch records of any make and in any combination. High fidelity magnetic pick-up, with rotating head. Needle cups for new and us€ r Cabinets are of delicately grained and matched walnut, beautifully polished in medium or light colour to choice, measuring 141 in. high, 16 h in. deep, 21 \ in. wide. The motor board slides forward to receive records immediately the door handle is pulled ... a slight push and the unit returns to its place inside the cabinet. Model 80 for A.C. Mains 100/250 Volts, 50 Cycles.

F. 0.8., Samarai, £35.

Manufactured by National Band Gramophone Co., London.

A. H

BUNTING LTD., SAMARAI, PAPUA.

Also procurable from Bunting’s, Lae.

ETABUSSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI

HEAD OFFICE—QUA! DU COMMERCE—PAPEETE.

Telegraphic Address: “DONALD, PAPEETE.”

General Merchants (Wholesale & Retail) & Shipowners

Importers & Exporters

Branches Throughout the Marquesas Islands. 7“ ’ ASSOCIATE HOUSES: A. B. Donald, Ltd., Auckland, Lloyd S Agents New Zealand; A. B. Donald, Ltd v Rarotonga, Cook lslands; Dominion Fruit Co., Suva, Fiji.

Agents and Distributors for : FRANCE: Hennessy Cognacs; Marie Brizard & Roger Liqueurs; Charles Heidsieck Champagnes; Perrier Water; Gruber Beer.

NEW ZEALAND; Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd., Petroleum Products.

SWEDEN: Hjorth & Co., Primus Stoves.

U.S.A.: General Steamship Corp.; Radio Corp. of America; Brown & Williamson, Ltd.; Cigarettes: Lucky Strike, Wings, Old Gold; Champion Spark Plug Co.; Rainier Beer.

ENGLAND: Reckitt & Colman (Overseas), Ltd.; Phillips Bicycles; The Bank Line, Ltd.

Sydney Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD. San Francisco Agents: BURNS- PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC. London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO..

LTD. Agents in France: HARTH & CIE, PARIS; A. BICKART, MARSEILLES.

Give yourself

strength with daily

BOVRIL

When there’s a job to be done or a game to be played —a cup of Bovril is the very best of drinks.

Its rich beefy flavour sends a welcome glow through you ; its beefy goodness puts new life into you. There’s nothing like Bovril to build you up and sustain you.

Ojo 111 m ;-.-o

BOVRIL

-HEALTH IN EVERY BOTTLE

AGENTS : BURNS, PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

Shell

We specialize in

COPYING FROM OLD PHOTO-

GRAPHS AND COLOURING IN

NATURAL COLOURS.

Mail orders solicited.

CAINE’S STUDIOS, SUVA

P.O. Box 8. (Estab. 1908.) Phone 68.

Get that British

For 46 years more Shell has been bought by more motorists than any other brand of petrol. It’s a good British habit.

In Australia alone, Shell is refining British petrol from British crude at the rate of 72,000,000 gallons a year. The crude is brought to Australia in British tankers from British wells in British Borneo by Shell—a British company.

Get that British spirit—always fill up at the Shell pump.

SHELL

a*.

pump

MSSO4J

always fill up

at the SHELL

'SHELL) The Shell Co. of Aust., Ltd 1 (Inc. in Great Britain).

These ROLEX Watches have been specially

chosen for tropical conditions

by Farren Price, Australia's ONLY watch specialist.

MILES UP

Wa* actually flown over Mount Everest

/ TORPEDOED

\ during World War \ II and still kept on

BELOW ZERO

Frozen on voyages to the North Pole. *9 S

HUMIDITY

Sweltered in many a steaming jungle. & \

TUDOR OYSTER

300 M.P.H.

Malcolm Campbell wore one at Utah.

B Y

ROLEX

World's Most Tested Waterproof Case Inside this stainless steel Oyster Case the 17 jewelled Tudor movement is hermetically sealed. This assures you DOUBLE the precision and TREBLE the life of your watch. No moisture or dust can get to the delicate bearings; they stay smooth longer and show utmost precision because they’re SEALED IN.

Sweep hand fifth second calibrations, shock-proof, antimagnetic, famous Tudor 17 jewel movement, a Rolex production. Insured and service guaranteed. £27/10/-.

ORDER IN CONFIDENCE BY MAIL.

GUARANTEED AND DESPATCHED

Oyster Perpetual Chronometer

One of the world’s finest watches.

Hermetic sealing. Auto-Rotor selfwinding “Chronometer-grade” 18-jewel movement with Official Timing Certificate and Rolex Red Seal. 18-carat gold, £l7O.

Stainless steel case available at £B5.

Oyster Perpetual “ Precision ”

With new Phantom Crown for 100 per cent, waterproof sealing. Auto-Rotor self-winding movement 17-jewels, sweep second hand, non-magnetic “Precision grade.” In a stainless steel case priced at £57/10/-

EVERY WATCH IS SERVICE

BY REGISTERED POST.

Farren Price

THE WHICH SPECIALIST

MAIL ORDERS TO: FARREN PRICE, 109 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd.

POSTAGE STAMP DEALERS

AND COLLECTORS.

London wholesaler requires AGENTS in

all BRITISH COLONIES in the PACIFIC,

for regular supplies of used postage stamps from MISSIONARIES, BANKS

and SHIPPING OFFICES.

Current London market prices will be paid for all clean usable material.

Remittances by Air for all sendings valued £2 and over.

B. SAVITZ, 8.P.A.,

69 Greenvale Road, Eltham, London, 5.E.9, Eng.

TIMBER

BUILDING REQUISITES

PAINTS, OILS

CEMENT

STEEL

COPRA KNIVES

CANE KNIVES

COPRA SACKS

WHOLESALE STORES

FOODSTUFFS

AGRICULTURAL TOOLS

CARPENTERS' TOOLS

★ Motor Vessels “ KOMAIWAI ” and “ TOVATA ” operating continuously in Lau, Lomaiviti, Cakaudrove and Yasawas.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. (Fiji) LTD.

RENWICK ROAD AND THOMSON STREET—P.O. BOX 299

SUVA, FIJI.

Phone; 114 (6 lines)

VETERINARY

INSTRUMENTS

For Sheep and Cattle can

be Supplied Immediately

EARMARKERS.

SPEYING INSTRUMENTS.

BULLRINGS. FIREBRANDS.

EMASCULATORS.

W. JNO. BAKER

PTY. LTD.

3 Hunter St., Sydney, N.S.W.

WONDER WHEELS N? 3

Why Hercules is

the finest bicycle

Sn : ■ > *T ii>\

built to-day

HERCULES ENGINEERS

TESTING AND

EXAMINING

COMPONENTS

The best designers and engineers in the cycle industry use the finest materials to build your Hercules.

Even the smallest parts are tested many times and each Hercules bicycle is built separately. Add a brilliant finish of highest quality, and you have the reasons why Hercules is “The Finest Bicycle Built To-day.”

The fi* est l

Hercules

SOLD BY ALL LEADING DEALERS

THE HERCULES CYCLE & MOTOR CO. LTD.. BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND 3 AS/15/67.

fresh Crispness

% & <2 J 1 %

fnjoy tfie Oven*

and flavour of

This well-designed, air-tight and moisture-proot pack brings you Savoury SAY-VEE Crackers In perfect condition. Try them with jam, cheese or any other favoured spread.

Each packet contains Vi lb. net ... 4 dozen appetising, wholesome crackers Ideal for suppers, luncheons, and ’tween-meal snacks.

TALLERMAN & CO. PTY. LTD.

60-63 York Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “FRESHET,” SYDNEY.

MOVIES FOR ALL with the

PATHESCOPE 9.5 mm GEM PROJECTOR

SHOW ALL YOUR FAVOURITES: Charlie Chaplin.

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Cartoons. News Gazettes. Documentaries. Dramas,

etc. ALL FOR IMMEDIATE PURCHASE

A first-class precision built Projector, designed to secure simplicity of operation with brilliant performance, the GEM will give you a lifetime of service and satisfaction. Negligible maintenance required. Full range of accessories in stock.

THEN YOU MAY TAKE YOUR OWN

MOVIES and project them on the Gem with the PATHESCOPE H.

MOTOCAMERA, priced at £25/12/0 fitted with f 2.5 lens.

A Movie Camera unrivalled in picture maki qualities.

SLY’S (RETAIL) LTD.

326 QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND, N.Z.

/ aa ng

Price £47/10/0.

Pathescope the Pioneer of Home Cinematography.

. V- - ”

It

EXISTING ROUTES

PROJECTED ROUTES

v cP v S* S s. >.

I I j 9 ■^sj .* * - .*/.* ■f *

SOUTH PACIFIC SKYWAYS

TO NEW ZEALAND

This year take your finest holiday ever. Fly by fast luxurious TEAL airliner to the scenic wonders of New Zealand.

Enjoy famous TEAL hospitality, delicious hot or cold meals served at your table in flight, full bar service, two flight stewards and a stewardess to attend to vour every need. Arrive fresh, relaxed, with your whole ol Jay still intact to enjoy New Zealand's world-famous attractions.

Reservations: TEAL , QANTAS, N.A.C., T.A.A. and leading travel agents.

TEA I

TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED

In association with QANTAS and 8.0.A.C. 6

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SOLUTION TO CROSSQUIZ ON

PAGE 62.

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REAR VIEW OF ASSEMBLY.

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BEHIND THE PICTURE.

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SOLUTION TO LAST POZZLE-

THE SEVENTH COUNTRY WAS

WEOEH. /was CEMENT.

CORNER FOR THE CHILDREN

BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA LIMITED)

General Merchants, Shipping, Customs and

General Agents

Head Office: PORT MORESBY, PAPUA

BRANCHES:

NEW GUINEA: Rabaul (Kavieng, Kokopo), Lae (Wau, Bulolo), Madang.

PAPUA: Port Moresby, Samarai.

S AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: BURNS, PHILP Gr CO. LTD.

All States.

.ONDON AGENTS:

BURNS, PHILP Gr CO. LTD.

"London House/ 7 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

BURNS-PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO INC.

510 Matson Building.

AN FRANCISCO AGENTS:

REPRESENTATIVES FOR

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd. Lloyd 7 s of London.

Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

Distributing Agents in the Territory of Papua-New Guinea for;

SHELL COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA LTD.

Petroleum Products

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

Cars and Trucks

THE ROVER COMPANY LIMITED

Landrovers and Rover Cars

VAUXHALL MOTORS LIMITED

Vauxhall Cars and Bedford Trucks

HARRY FERGUSON LIMITED

Ferguson Tractors and Equipment

CROSSLEY BROS. LIMITED

A. J. ELLERKER

Blue Streak Power Chain Saws Crossley Marine & Stationary Engines

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES

Pharmaceutical & Agricultural Chemicals, Corrugated Perspex

THE COLONIAL SUGAR REFINING CO

Caneite, Asbestos Cement Sidings, Asphalt Floor Tiles

JOHN FOWLER & CO. (LEEDS) LTD.

Fowler 95 H.P. Diesel Crawler Tractors

She’d never heard of

t m

got it was stealing

~her youth and beauty

DOCTORS AND NUTRITION

EXPERTS agree that although we are blessed with an abundance of food, “Hidden Hunger” is far more p common than most people realise.

They say also that you can satisfy your hunger by having three meals every day—and still not satisfy your body’s needs. When we eat the wrong kind of foods, or not enough of the right kind, then we suffer from “Hidden Hunger” and our body is still hungry for certain essential food elements. This means that while we may not feel actually ill, ice are never really well and seldom look our best.

V'

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Your Children

and "HIDDEN HUNGER"

Do they suffer from “Hidden Hunger”? If they are faddy and pick and choose at their food then they are not getting the most good from the food you supply. They tend to tire easily . . . become “grizzlers” and fall behind. So give them Horlicks every day.

Horlicks guards against "HIDDEN HUNGER."

Made with miik, Horlicks is a complete, Balanced Food, You must have nourishing food, to guard against “Hidden Hunger”.

However, with today’s rising costs it is not always possible to have the right kind of foods your body needs. That is why Horlicks is so necessary in your home.

Horlicks contains full-cream milk and the nutritive extracts of wheat, flour and malted barley. Prepared

dunk HORLICKS

with milk and enjoyed between meals, and just before bed at night, Horlicks supplies the essential nutritional elements your body needs every day to guard against “Hidden Hunger”. * * *

FOR DEEP, REFRESHING SLEEP..

a cup of hot Horlicks before bed relaxes your body, soothes your nerves, and induces deep, restful deep. Off you go ... to replace lost energy and wake really refreshed. ©

and guard against

-Sr- tl y In j-lb. and 1-lb. TINS

COPYRIGHT

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(Continued from Page 62.)

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*Masse

Serving the Needs of the Cook Islands . . .

UNITED ISLAND TRADERS LTD.

(Established 1930)

P.O. BOX 42, RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS.

Managing Director: W. H. Watson. Secretary: R. J. A. Ingram, A.R.A., N.Z.

IMPORTERS OF:— EXPORTERS OF:—

Cotton & Silk Piece Goods Apparel & Drapery Building Materials Musical Instruments Trade Jewellery Tomatoes & Cassava Tropical Fruits Sea-shells & Necklaces Island Handicrafts "Broad-last" Footwear STAMP DEALERS & SUPPLIERS OF ISLAND PHOTOS

INQUIRIES INVITED.

Cables: Bankers: “Watson,” Rarotonga. National Bank of New Zealand, Auckland.

U.K. Agents: Geo. H. Penney & Co., Ltd., 197 Aldersgate St., London. E.C.I.

*Masse

BATTERIES

a (5 J. jow more

enjoyable

motoring

It is impossible to build a better battery than Masse.

Every part is made in the Masse factory where it can be thoroughly tested and every part is one hundred per cent, quality.

Agents -for New Guinea and Papua :

ROBERT GILLESPIE (£L.) LTD.

'They're Tigers for Work"

LAE and RABAUL

3 MACHINES IN ONE

m Ta The Shaft drtven Mobilco Circular Saw can be easily moved op to any tree of up to 3 feet in diameter and will quickly fell and cross-cut it into required lengths. This is just one version of the Mobilco 3 in 1 Method. . . . And each Machine a rugged lightweight which can be easily and efficiently handled by one man.

The Mobilco Drag Saw will fell and cross-cut your big timber (up to 8 feet in diameter) and by replacing the Drag Saw attachment with the Circular Saw attachment you have a machine ready to quickly fell and cross-cut timber up to 3 feet in diameter.

The Mobilco Saw Bench attachment allows you to quickly mill the small timber, branches, etc., into

payable firewood.

% an § The Mobilco Circular Saw is easily handled by one man even in rough country. It handles so well that it makes quick and easy work of felling end cross-cutting even the toughest Australian hardwood.

For timber of up to 8 feet in diameter the Mobilco Drag Saw stands alone.

Due to its perfect balance and ease of handling it is a proven timesaver in setting op. The ample power reserve of the Mobilco Drag Saw makes quick work of felling and cross-cutting.

G H m The above diagram illustrates the Mobilco Method.

You con remove the Drag Saw attachment and replace it with the Circular Saw attachment in twenty minutes. The Saw Bench takes only five minutes to attach.

Fig. 1 illustrates the paten:ed Mobilco pressure arm which constantly bears on the blade duringi cutting. It is spring activated and controlled by a lever and ratchet. Fig. 2 illustrates the pivoted main arm which can be positioned to cross-cut big logs, at the same time retaining the engine in a horizontal position.

MOBILE INDUSTRIAL

PHONE: CENT. 4799 - AFTER HOURS: WF3IIB

EQUIPMENT PTY. LTD.

252 SWANSTON STREET, MELBOURNE

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Marjarine

The Pacific Islands Society

(Founded 1937).

Visitors from the Pacific Islands to Sydney, or persons interested in Islands affairs, are invited to communicate with the Honorary Secretary of the above Society which was formed to constitute a social centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at History House, 8 Young Street, Sydney, on the fourth Wednesday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Address for correspondence:—

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY.

Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney.

D)E m 11

TABLE

ISll£i^

(top)

MARJARINE

Packaged like this, DELANA TABLE MARGARINE, a Product of Fiji, is now available to

ALL PACIFIC ISLANDS

Wherever and Whenever Suitable Transport Can Be Found.

A SUBSTITUTE

FOR

BUTTER

In i lb. Pats in

Shipping Outers

of 27 lb.

Fresh, wholesome and nutritious, this is a pure Vitamised Vegetable Product made in accordance with the Pure Food Laws of the Colony of Fiji. It contains no animal fat.

You’ll enjoy eating DELANA . . . You’ll appreciate its

ECONOMY.

Export Prices and Further Information from

ISLAND INDUSTRIES LIMITED

P.O. Box 299, SUVA, FIJI.

Telegraphic Address: “DELANA,” SUVA. • For Local Reasons, the Product is Labelled “Marjarine” in Fiji, and “Margarine” Elsewhere.

C«2 find the many Commonwealth Bank services of great assistance if you are engaged in business or trading of any kind. Wide experience of local and overseas trade enables our Island Branches to help you in matters relating to importing and exporting, finance and exchange.

The Commonwealth Bank offers complete Trading Bank facilities. All types of commercial enterprise may be financed. All advances are made at low rates of interest.

With 420 Branches in Australia, Branches in London, and correspondent Banks in all countries, the Commonwealth Bank provides a world-wide

CbniiiioinwalthJßanti

of Australia.

ISLAND BRANCHES ARE SITUATED AT:—

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA.—PORT MORESBY, RABAUL, LAE AND MADANG; B.S.I.—HONIARA. COMPLETE TRADING AND SAVINGS BANK SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE AT ALL THESE BRANCHES. INQUIRIES WELCOMED.

The Most Complete Trading Bank Service in the Islands.

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Chula Machinery

New Recipe Book

16 C\V& l<& BP C& vr%

FOR LESS

THAN COST

POST FREE

CONTAINS SO SELECTED RECIPES:

• SPECIAL OCCASION CAKES • SCONES

• OLD FAVOURITES • BUNS, TARTLETS

• FANCY BREADS • BISCUITS, VANITIES

• NEW IDEAS, ETC.

Bake mouth-watering cakes that look like expensive bought cakes and taste much nicer. Clear, simple instructions make it easy and Aunt Mary’s Baking Powder makes success a certainty every time. Save money and get better results —with Aunt Mary’s you use plain, economically priced flour. Send 1/6 now for your copy.

AUNT MARY'S CREAM OF TARTAR BAKING POWDER "The'Magic Power behind the Flour"

TILLOCK & CO. PTY. LTD., Box 189, G.P.0., SYDNEY.

Chula Machinery

for the

Coconut Grower...

★ COPRA DRYERS

Capacities 1,000 to 10,000 nuts per day

★ DESICCATED COCONUT DRYERS

Producing 1.500 lbs. of desiccated coconut per day also Parers , Disintegrators and Sifters.

Write direct to manufacturers or to nearest agent for fully-illustrated literature and further information.

TYNESIDE FOUNDRY ENGINEERING

Company Limit,d.

Established 1898.

ELSWICK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND.

“ Chula " Coconut Processing Machines provide: • The Answer to the Labour Shortage Problem. • Greater Efficiency at Reduced Cost. • Bigger Output of Higher Grade Produce.

A( *ENTS:

Tahiti apeete - ‘Ta. ’ New G uinea- Til,grams 9 Cablts: FOUNDRY. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE."

Codts: ABC. sth 9 6th Editions.

THE FINEST FRUIT CAKE

EVER BAKED

fc & 1 *«- Wg £ m h 'Big Sister" is so good it improves with keeping; delicious to the last crumb!

Each "Big Sister" cake is individually boxed and an inner wrap of moistureproof cellophane seals in its oven-freshness. & "Big Sister" Rich Fruit Cake is the real home-style Fruit Cake. Mellowed with fine old rum and brandy, studded with sweet red cherries, tenderized lemon and orange peels, and sunrich sultanas, currants and raisins. In 3 lb. and 6 lb. cartons.

Special packing guarantees

that every “Big Sister” product comes to your plate oven-fresh, as luscious in flavour and as moist and rich as the day it was baked.

"Prize Recipe" is a special light fruit cake, for those •who prefer it. Super-milled flour, first-grade shortening, and tender fruits give it fine texture, and the most delightful home-ma flavour.

B

PP/ZE

*** J m m to

REC/PE PRODUCTS

THE FINEST PLUM PUDDING

EVER MADE! it's vacuum packed for freshness, gloriously rich with goodness, and just as nice cold as hot. In I lb., 2 lb. and big 3 lb. tins. kDE BY LILLIS & CO. LIMITED, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Also ask for Date Pudding, Mincemeat, Date & Nut Roll and Glace Cherries

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A Complete

* n f

Personalised Buying

SERVICE

. . . YEARS OF EXPERIENCE GIVING RELIABLE SERVICE TO PACIFIC ISLAND ACCOUNTS . . . . . . EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVES FOR MANY U.S.A. AND

CANADIAN MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLIERS IN THE

PACIFIC AREA . . .

Merchandise Shipped Promptly and Direct from Supplier to You (Original Supplier’s Invoices with All Orders) NO ORDER TOO SMALL OR TOO LARGE • Foodstuffs and Groceries Flour, Powdered and Condensed Milk —Dried, Fresh and Canned Fruits, Vegetables, Pish, Macaroni, etc.

• Building and Construction

Lumber (Redwood and Fir), Galvanised and Aluminium Sheets, Steel Products, Rods, Bars, Pipe, Roofing, Paints, Cement, etc.

• HUMCO Fabricated Steel Buildings

Any Size for Storage Warehouses, Go Downs, Barracks, Shops, etc.

Fireproof—Earthquake Proof —Termite Proof. Low in Cost—Easy to Erect.

Also—QUONSET HUTS.

• Machinery

Mining, Power Units, Gas, Diesel, Electric, Tractors, etc.

• Motor Equipment and Accessories

New and Used Cars and Trucks —All Makes; Parts and Accessories, Batteries, etc.

• Chemicals—Dyes—Petroleum Products —Textiles—

Sundries—Notions—Films — Drugs — Miscellaneous

HUMPHREYS & McCONNELL

210 California Street, San Francisco 11, California, U.S.A.

Cable: “HUMCO.”

SEND US YOUR PROFORMA ORDERS WITH SPECIFICATIONS. WRITE FOR

OUR 1952 WORLD MAP CALENDAR. FREE.

A famous HERCO product.

OLIVOL

CREAM

for your hands

beauty and protection

• Keeps your hands alluringly silky soft. • Protects against redness, roughness, dryness and windburn.

Stocks available at your usual WHOLE-

SALERS or BURNS PHILP and MORRIS

HEDSTROM, Suva, Fiji.

STEAMSHIPS TRADING COMPANY LTD

PORT MORESBY AND SAMARAI PAPUA

Wholesale & Retail Merchants , Planters , Sawmillers, Engineers , Slit Proprietors , Shipping , Customs and Insurance Agents .

MANAGING AGENTS for:

SAWMILLERS & TRADERS LTD.

CORAL SEA INSURANCE CO. LTD.

ACME BAKERY COMPANY.

MARIBOI RUBBER LTD.

RUBBERLANDS LTD.

KEREMA RUBBER PLANTATIONS LTD.

COCOALANDS LTD.

AGENCIES:

HARVEY TRINDER (N.S.W.) PTY., LTD. (In

surances effected at Lloyd’s.)

VACUUM OIL CO. PTY., LTD.

DIRECTORATE OP SHIPPING —Papua-Ne^

Guinea Division.

ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINE.

KOKE BAGU PTY., LTD.

TRANS OCEANIC AIRWAYS.

DISTRIBUTORS IN PAPUA for:

ARMSTRONG-HOLLAND PTY.. LTD. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. OF AUST. LTD.

Earth Moving and Logging Equipment. International Trucks, WILLYS-OVERLAND EXPORT CORPORATION. McCormlck-Deering Farming Machinery, Jeep cars, etc. Defender Refrigerators.

HILLMAN MOTOR CARS.

SYDNEY AGENTS: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., 12 SPRING STREET.

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to SPC

US Territories Welcomed to SPC

A CEREMONY took place at ft South Pacific Commission headquarters in Noumea, New Caledonia on November 7 at which in agreement was signed bringing he American Trust Territories of ylariana, Caroline and Marshall Groups and US Territory of Guam, within the scope of the SPC.

Formerly, the only US Territory n the SPC area was Eastern Samoa.

The agreement was signed by the ix member governments—Australia, ''ranee, the Netherlands. New Zea and, the United Kingdom and the

ISA.

Dr. Felix M. Keesing, Senior Jommissioner for the United States aid that although the new terri ories lay north of the Equator they ould still be considered part of the South Seas—a term that had been mployed in history and literature o describe a far larger area than hat part of the Pacific below the

Iquator.

The US territories were not in luded in the Commission area at ts inception in 1947 because at that ime, no agreement had been eached between the US and the Security Council of UN regarding Is Government’s responsibility for he administration of their Trust territory.

Dr. Keesing stressed also the lany economic and social problems hat were common to the US terri ories and to those that already ame within the scope of the SPC.

Delegates from Australia, The Fetherlands and New Zealand all relcomed the addition of the new srritories to the SPC. Mr. A. F. R. toddart, Acting Governor of Fiji, epresenting the United Kingdom Government, said that already dur ig the past year one link had been armed between the peoples of the resent Commission areas and hose who were about to join it— oung men from Guam and the US 'rust Territory had joined the Cen ral Medical School at Suva to ndergo training as AMPs.

The French delegate, M. Lassalle ere gave a final brief address ex ressing his Government’s support f the action, after which the six epresentatives formally signed the igreement.

Mr. A. W. Moverley, Pitcairn’s irst Education Officer, who has uccessfully established the Educa ion project which is such an im ortant step in the nrogress and istory of Pitcairn Island, left the Jand on October 5, by the Rangi ata for New Zealand on furlough.

Ie and his wife and daughter have een three years on Pitcairn. Mr.

I. Sanders of New Zealand is the elieving teacher.

When the Acting Governor- General of Australia, Sir John Northcott, visited Madang district during his recent tour of New Guinea, Gulu, the Paramount Luluai presented him with a native bowl of rice grown by the Amele Progress Society. The Luluai of another local village presented Sir John with a cooking pot.

Two Western Samoan traders in outside trading stations belonging to Messrs. Morris, Hedstrom, Ltd., recently appeared before the Apia High Court charged with failing to account for large amounts of cash and goods and with giving un authorised credits. They were both convicted and ordered to make res titution in monthly instalments.

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Qyffiuncl&tiicA

THE ability of WUNDERLICH Craftsmen to produce Architectural Metalwork of outstanding excellence is traditional, for with the founding of the WUNDERLICH INDUSTRY, over sixty years ago, was established a high standard of workmanship and artistry that has remained unsurpassed in the Metal-working field over the intervening years.

Address enquiries to Wunderlich Limited, Box 474, G.P.0., Sydney.

Architectural metalwork

/I IN BRONZE - ALUMINIUM -STAINLESS STEEL• ETC

THE GARRICK HOTEL

SUVA, FIJI

m TM II m m n *» & * This well-known Hotel is centrally situated in Suva’s main business quarter :: Modern accommodation provides comfort in all climatic conditions :: Only the best of Beers, Spirits and Wines is served.

VINCE COSTELLO, Proprietor.

Telephone: 80.

Made in the Australian Branch Factory

Of BLUNDELL SPENCE & CO., LTD.,

Hull, B. & S. SUPER PREPARED PAINT embodies the knowledge and experience gained from nearly 140 years of Paint manufacture.

Tested and proved for tropical conditions, B. & S. PREPARED PAINT is also available in a special Lead-free series for use in volcanic and other sulphurous regions. (Specify B. &S. Series 2301.) Ask for supplies of these and other BLUNDELL Paints and Enamels from your local Storekeeper, or write for particulars and colour-cards to the Agent for Pacific Islands:

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

255 a GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY.

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cm, ronv & a), cm

Cable and Radio Address;

“CARRTNEY”

Postal Address:

BOX 232

cm, ronv & a), cm

Established 1883.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

ISLAND TRADERS

Produce and General

Merchants

a

MODEL OL 5 0

300 candle power.

MODEL O L 5 I

500 candle power.

When widespread illumination is required whether temporary or permanent these suspension lamps exactly fill the need. Absolutely stormproof.

Insist on TILLEY

a Lamp for

Every Job I ’

ALLTILLEY PRODUCTS

BURN ORDINARY

KEROSENE !

TILLEY SDR BEAM

LIGHT. 500 candle power, provides either a brilliant all round illumination or by fitting the special reflector a powerful beam in one direction can be obtained. Ideal for special inspection work. Strongly built and absolutely stormproof.

REPRESENTATION :

AUSTRALIA & NEW GUINEA; T. H. Bentley, Pty. Ltd., 123-125 William Street, Melbourne, C.l.

FIJI : Mr. K. Witherington, 2 Burns Philp Buildings, Suva.

BUY ONLY THE BEST!

Riverside Products are Available Now for Immediate Shipment in the Following Varieties and Packs: — ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Curried Beef, 16 oz.

Stewed Steak, 16 oz.

Corned Beef Hash, 16 oz.

Beef Steak Pudding, 16 oz.

Steak & Vegetables, 16 oz.

Boiled Beef & Carrots, 16 oz.

Braised Steak & Onions, 16 oz.

Luncheon Beef, 16 & 12 oz.

Boiled & Roast Beef, 16 & 12 oz.

Corned Beef Loaf with Cereals, 16 & 12 oz.

Sheep Tongues, 12 oz.

CANNED MEATS

Address All Inquiries to:

SYDNEY MEAT PRESERVING CO. (LTD.)

(ESTABLISHED 1870)

Parramatta Road, Auburn, N.S.W.—P.O. Box 40, Auburn Phone: UX6611. Cable Address: “Meatwalk,” Sydney.

Columbines

THE

YORKSHIRE

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated in England)

ALL CLASSES OF

INSURANCE

Including Fire—Accident—Guarantee —Motor—Workers—Marine Island Representatives: PORT -MORESBY . . E. A. James RABAUL G. B. Black LAE . New Guinea Industries Ltd.

MADANG . R. Macgregor MANUS . . Edgell & Whiteley Ltd.

SUVA . Williams & Gosling Ltd.

NOUMEA . . . . Y. Mortensen

NORFOLK ISLAND . A. E. Martin

COLUMBINES

the richest

caramels

of all!

Agents for "‘Butter-rich Glucose-rich” , ‘‘ Flavour-rich ?

Each “Columbine ” is individually wrapped for freshness and protection.

Made by The Great Name in Confectionery Pacific Islands: S. E. TATHAM & CO. P7Y. LTD. 178 Collins St., Melbourne - 73 York St., Sydney

IT’S BALANCED!

IT’S TESTED!

to give sure

Baking Success

D No ordinary flour this SIMPSON’S FLOUR! Simpson’s Self-Raising Flour is blended and balanced especially for fine baking. And to make doubly sure of this quality, it is PRE-TESTED in the Simpson Test-Kitchen before ever it is packaged. For the BEST results ALL the time use:—

SIMPSONS c S FLDUR

Manufactured by Simpson Bros. Pty., Ltd.. Brisbane, Queensland.

Red Magic

The can't-be-copied flavour of Heinz Tomato Sauce makes a magical difference to stews, gravies and countless other dishes. It's made from Heinz famous "Aristocrat" tomatoes.

Buy today!

HEINZr,

v- 'idj

HEIS2

Xlf\

bmafo Sauce

H. J. HEINZ CO. PTY. LTD.

479 Bourke Street, Sydney. mi

tomato

SAUCE

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Colyer Watson (»%) Ltd.

m.

Wholesale and Retail Merchants—Sawmillers and Timber Merchants —Plantation Proprietors and Managing Agents—Ship Owners — Shipping, Insurance and Customs Agents—Plantation Suppliers- Exporters of Island Produce.

AGENTS FOR:

Australia-West Pacific Line.

Canton Insurance Office, Ltd.

Union Assurance Society, Ltd.

Aust. T. & G. Mutual Life Society, Ltd.

New Britain Shipping & Docking Co. Ltd.

Qantas Empire Airways Ltd.

ASSOCIATED WITH:

Colyer, Watson Pty., Ltd., Sydney, Melbourne. Brisbane.

Colyer, Watson & Co.. Ltd.. Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch,

DISTRIBUTING AGENTS IN NEW GUINEA FOR.

Hillman, Humber, Sunbeam-Talbot, Chrysler and Plymouth Cars.

Commer, Karrler Fargo Trucks. and Willys Overland Jeeps.

G.M. Marine and Industrial Engines.

Olympic Tyres and Cables.

Sherwin-Williams Paints.

Mullard Radios, Prefect Refrigerators.

Aladdin Lamps.

Anchor and Tiger Beers.

Snowflake Unsweetened Evaporated Milk.

Rental Soaps.

Hygeia Dissolvenators.

COLYER WATSON (»%) LTD.

RABAUL

MADANG • KA V I ENG •

Every item in the wide range of "Aberdeen" Canvas Goods is specially treated in manufacture to give the same long service in tropical and sub-tropical regions that has made the name "Aberdeen" famous on the mainland.

"Aberdeen" Canvas Goods are made from special sturdy materials and thoroughly proofed against mildew and rot.

They'll last you for years ... so be sure to specify "Aberdeen"—the brand that caters specially for island conditions.

"Aberdeen"

your guarantee of qualify

CAMP STRETCHER

Strongly made from specially selected seasoned wood with heavy canvas top.

Very comfortable—folds compactly for easy storage.

CAMP OVEN

Made from heavy gauge metal, the "Aberdeen" oven fits on top of any standard primus or pressure stove. Good capacity—complete with tray and shelf

LAMPS • STOVES

"ABERDEEN" TARPAULINS

Sturdy, mildew-resistant "Aberdeen" Tarpaulins are available in a variety of weights and sizes to suit any job where an effective waterproof covering is required. They will not crack or leak and are absolutely waterproof

FOLDING CANVAS CHAIRS

Made from selected seasoned timbers and strongly reinforced with rusf-proof metal stays. Heavy canvas back and seat.

Folds easily and compactly.

FOLDING TABLES

Neat, sturdy tables made from selected well-seasoned timbers with special hardboard top. Patented leg brackets permit easy folding so that table occupies minimum space when not In use.

Special "tropic" and "Far East" lanterns with full capacity tanks—two sizes available. "Aberdeen" Brightest Stoves in either single or double burner styles are rapid-heating and adjustable kerosene burning.

CAMP MATTRESS

These beds are specially made for the tropics with heavy waterproofed canvas back. Generously padded with wool flock they make a very comfortable bed either on the ground or stretcher.

WATERPROOF CLOTHING

"Aberdeen" waterproof clothing is strongly made and reinforced giving best protection where it's most needed.

The materials used are feather-light and absolutely waterproof—ideal for the tropics. A complete range available. from capes to walking coats. (4 i If unobtainable locally write to-day for full details to

SMITH COPELAND CO. PTY. LTD.

33 REGENT ST., SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

MAKERS OF FINER CANVAS GOODS FOR OVER 57 YEARS 5.20.24

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Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

FIBRE TRAVEL and ATTACHE

CASES OF ALL QUALITIES!

In sizes to serve all needs and at prices to suit all types of trade Write for full particulars to —

FORD SHERINGTON LTD.

Makers of Globite, Airway Fordite Travel Cases. and

Kippax St., Sydney, Australia.

BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

Registered Office: SUVA, FIJI Code Address: “BURNSOUTH”

ISLAND TRADERS AND SHIPOWNERS

General Merchants (Wholesale and Retail)

Shipping, Customs and General Agents

Representatives for: QUEENSLAND INSURANCE CO. LTD. BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD.

Distributing Agents for : SHELL COMPANY (P. 1.) LTD. FERGUSON TRACTORS STANDARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY CROSSLEY MARINE ENGINES

BRANCHES:

FlJl.—Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Labasa, Ba, Sigatoka, Tavua. Rotuma Island. SAMOA.—Apia, Pago Pago.

TONGA.—Nukualofa, Haapai, Vavau. NORFOLK ISLAND. NIUE ISLAND.

AGENTS;

SYDNEY.—BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD., 7 Bridge Street.

LONDON.—BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD.. 35 Crutched Friars. E.C.3.

SAN FRANCISCO.—BURNS-PHILP CO. OP SAN FRANCISCO INC., Matson Building, 215 Market Street Agencies Throughout the World.

Ardath Cigarettes, freshly imported from England, are made from the finest Virginia tobacco. The Puria cork tips ensure perfect flavour and hygiene.

Ardath

CORK TIPPED CIGARETTES

Manufactured In LONDON by ARDATH TOBACCO CO. LTD.

W. H. GROVE & SONS LTD.

Established 1896,

Island Merchants

16-18 FANSHAWE ST., AUCKLAND.

Telegraphic and Cable Address: “Grove,” Auckland. P.O. Box 490, Auckland, New Zealand.

Entrust your requirements to the firm with more than 50 years' practical experience in the Island trade.

REPRESENTING ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALEDONIA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOCIETY ISLANDS, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE, ETC.

SHIPPERS OF ALL CLASSES OF NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES AND PRODUCTS SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE ISLAND TRADE WE HANDLE ALL KINDS OF ISLAND PRODUCE .

IN FIJI as : W. H. GROVE & SONS (FIJI) LIMITED.

Office and Sample Room: Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji.

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Trade

A

To promote

The Bank of New South Wales offers these services:— • Introductions to importers and exporters in oversea countries. • Credit information about residents of those countries, with whom you may wish to trade. • Facilities for making: payments abroad and for receiving: payments from overseas. • Arrangements for business visits overseas.

Consult any branch of the

BANK OF

NEW SOUTH WALES

FIRST AND LARGEST COMMERCIAL BANK IN THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC.

HEAD OFFICE: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

Islands Branches : FlJl.—Suva, Lautota, Ba (Agencies at Nadi Airport, Vatukoula).

PAPUA.—Port Moresby. NEW GUINEA.—Lae, Rabaul. (Incorporated in New South Wales with limited liability.)

The largest range

HEAVY EARTHMOVING

INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMEN

in the Pacific

'^s

Available from Stock

CLARK FORK LIFT TRUCKS

CLARK FORK LIFT Trucks enable a single opt to do the work of a gang of 10 to 15 men.

Fork Lifts pick up, carry, lift and stack loac to 4,000 lb. to a height of 9 ft. or load 3,5( to a height of 12 ft. They are petrol pov simple to operate and ideal for airport and work, handling timber, sawn or round, bagged g drums, crates, machinery, etc.

MOBILE DOCK CRANES

Rubber tyres, petrol or diesel powered, capafc lifting loads up to 18 tons. One operator. Car be used as Pile drivers, clamshells or drag Also available are Truck Mounted Cranes for way and mobile work, and Crawler Cranes fo on soft ground.

GENERATOR SETS

Full range of complete generating sets froi K.V.A. to 40 K.V.A. Diesel powered. Ideally s for lighting small settlements or as power unit factories. All in first class running order.

These units are available for immediate deli ex stock in Australia, completely reconditioned warranty.

Crawler and Mobile Rubber Tyre Power Shovels, Cranes, Draglines, Backditchers, Clamshells, Di Digging Machines, Road Graders, Le Tourneau Carryall Scoops, Fork Lift Trucks, Tractors, Genera Sets, Diesel and Petrol Engines, Pumps, Hoists, etc.

HEAVY EQUIPMENT PTY. LTC

SYDNEY, BRISBANE.

CABLES: “Hevequip,” Sydney. LETTERS: Bourke Road, Alexandria, N.S.W.’PHONE: MU3621 <3 line

“OUR HANDS MAO GOOD ARMS.’

For your Fishing and Shooting Wants Consult Us.

Llthgow .22 Cal. Repeating Rifles .. .. £l5 15 0 I Post Llthgow .22 Cal. Single Shot £B2O \ Extra. (Prices Subject to Change Without Notice.) SI L ROHU, 143 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY.

A. B. DONALD LTD.

RAROTONGA COOK ISLANDS

Telegraphic Address: “DONALD, RAROTONGA.”

General Merchants (Wholesale Cr Retail) and Shipowners—lmporters & Exporters

—Branches Throughout Cook Islands

Fire, Marine Cr Motor Vehicles Insurance Agents for Yorkshire Insurance Co.

Lloyd's Agents

Agents and Distributors for: ENGLAND.—Austin Cars & Trucks, Pye Radios, Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Vauxhall Cars & Trucks, R. A. Lister & Co., Ltd., Phillips Cycles, Harpies Tools.

IJ.S.A.—Remington Rand Corp.. Radio Corp. of America, Champion Spark Plug Co., Firestone Tyres. General Steamship Corp.

NEW ZEALAND.—Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd., Petroleum Products.

AUSTRALlA.—Wunderlich, Ltd., Cement Asbestos Products.

NORWAY.—O. Mustad & Sons, Fish Hooks.

SWEDEN.—B. A. Hjorth & Co., Primus Products.

Sydney Agents: London Agents; BURNS, PHILP A CO., LTD. BURNS, PHILP A CO., Head Office: — A. B. DONALD LTD., Auckland.

Associate Houses:—

ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI,

Papeete, Society Islands.

DOMINION FRUIT CO., Suva, Fiji Islands.

CODES: Bentley's Complete Phrase, Acme

San Francisco Agents: LTD. BURNS-PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO INC.

STANDS UP TO

BROILING SUN

a \

PAINTS

RESISTANCE to fierce heat and tropical weathering is the outstanding feature of these time-tested paints.

SPARTAN Prepared PAINTS for perfect protection and lasting beauty.

Ask your Storekeeper for full particulars and colour chart.

SPARTAN PAINTS PTY. LIMITED

cnr. Kavanagh & Ireland Streets, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

V *\C> ov>' Or V*

o^ ct

c/Vert @t

c^y s** ;>Vs s* & ov <o** 'ew guinea <Ag.enfa^(A Philips Wireless Sets Remington Typewriters Burroughs Beefeater (London) Gin Pope Products Rex Aluminium Co.

"Agco" Supaluvre Windows B.A.L.M. Paints Commonwealth Insurance Co. izm^rn

WHOLESALE MERCHANTS ••-MANUFACTURERS AGENTS

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FRENCH CHAMBER OF

COMMERCE IN AUSTRALIA

12 Pitt Street, Sydney. Tel. BL 1936.

For -

LIGHTER,

FLUFFIER

E OTHER

I FAMOUS

FOUNTAIN

PRODUCTS

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FOUNTAIN food products are famous throughout the South Pacific for their consistent quality and suitability of packing for tropical conditions.

You are assured satisfaction when you specify FOUNTAIN brand.

Trade inquiries are welcome and all orders are promptly despatched.

FOUNTAIN

W.c. DOUGLASS U M -LL ED

FOVEAUX ST. SYDNEY AUSTRALIA

BRWHMsf

)nu mm Pa »nocrj'

An ornate example of historical keys, this XVlth Century French key features the sporting motif in its club and animal carvings. It seems to have been the key to a Duke's country lodge. m

The key

to smoking pleasure

CAPSTAN

FINE or CUT

NAVY CUT

TOBACCOS

1657/48.

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Gilbey’S

Allen Taylor & Co. Ltd.

COMMERCIAL ROAD, ROZELLE, SYDNEY.

Sawmillers and Wholesale Suppliers of Hardwoods for Contructional Purposes GIRDERS . . . PILES . . . POLES . . . SLEEPERS, Etc.

Exporting to the Pacific Islands Since 1893.

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CALL

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GILBEY’S

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Address all enquiries to W. & A. GILBEY LTD., 33 Rosslyn Street. West Melbourne.

Telephone 136. Telegrams; “AKUN,” RABAUL.

ALOIS AKUN & COMPANY

RABAUL, TERRITORY OF PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

Also at 180 NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON, HONG KONG.

Planters and General Merchants

WE CARRY STOCKS OF:—

(1) Embroidered Silkware, Darved Camphor-wood Boxes.

Eastern Fancy Goods. (2) The Best of Beers, in different Brands—“ San Miguel,”

“Red Horse” and “Three Horse.” (3) Cotton Piece Goods suitable for trade and issues. (4) Trade goods of all descriptions: Wholesale and Retail.

Prompt attention to all orders Sydney Representatives: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., Electra House, 12 Spring Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

aMPUOp

ELECTRIC

UGHTING PLANTS

ONE HORSEPOWER

Bring you brilliant electric light In your home, weekender or plantation. Low operating and initial costs. Treated for the tropics. $ * Press button starting. watts output. l2 and 32 volt

PETROL

ENGINES

models. * * Weight 70 lb.

Special Islands £77/16/(

PRICE:

F. 0.8.

The Amplion makes the most of your petrol, runs longer on a tankful, 8 to 10 hours to the gallon.

It’s light in weight, too —40 lb. Obviously the best proposition for driving; Pumps—Compressors—Post Hole Borers—Lawn Mowers —Saws —Shearing Machines—Crutching Machines — Spraying Outfits—Concrete Mixers—Concrete Vibrators , —Milking Machines.

* 4 CYCLE AIR COOLED DESIGN

* FULL FLOAT CARBURETTOR

* EFFICIENT AIR CLEANER

PRICE ;

£4l/8/6 F. 0.8.

DISTRIBUTORS THROUGHOUT

AUSTRALIA AND THE ISLANDS.

AMPUOK

(Australasia) Pty. Ltd.

36-40 Parramatta Road, Camperdown.

Telegrams: Amplion, Sydney.

Telephone; LA 2828 (6 lines).

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Special Islands Service

Sr* i V* 7 mm At right :

5/7 BLAXLAND TWIN

This multi-cylinder two-cycle engine provides power impulses per revolution equal to a 4-cylinder, 4-cycle engine. For 16 ft. to 20 ft. launches.

Blaxland motors available in sizes: 2Vz , 3, SVz, 4V4, 5/7, 6/8, 10, and 20 H.P. (4V4 H.P. upwards reversible.)

PUMPING PLANT.

Blaxland-Chapman engines are GUARANTEED to outpull any engine on the Australian market of equivalent rated horse-power.

Almost indestructible . . . one professional fisherman claims 25 years of constant use “and she hasn’t missed a beat.” (Guaranteed

5 YEARS.)

• Nearly 50 per cent, of all small marine engines produced in Australasia are Blaxland Chapmans.

SPECIAL ISLANDS SERVICE

Island residents can rely on immediate attention to their inquiries and orders for Marine Engines, Launches, Pumping Units, and other engineering requirements from Kerr Bros. Pty., Ltd., Sole Pacific Distributors for Blaxland Rae Pty., Ltd. (Successors to Chapman & Sherack). ( Full

information

from

255 a George Street, Sydney. Box 3838. G.P.O, Cables: “CARE.” Sydney.

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The refrigerator safeguarding food and

health in thousands of Pacific Island

homes. Here is the latest model with that extra capacity so essential in the Tropics.

Economically operated by Kerosene, Model LKSSI has a simple, precisionbuilt freezing unit that is guaranteed for FIVE

YEARS.

ELECTROLUX offers these important features: • Ivory exterior in gleaming oven-baked enamel BON- DERISED for rust protection. • Storage capacity 5i cubic feet (approx.). ® Interchangeable shelves for your convenience with provision for upright bottle storage. • Four freezing trays—one with double capacity—s lbs. of ice per freezing- -80 cubes. • Ice cream and frozen desserts made the Electrolux way with the new Recipe Book • Economical fuel consumption —uses only 1.8 pints kerosene per day (approx.). • Convenience and comfort are yours with an

ELECTROLUX.

• It serves and saves in silence. • To assure early delivery and for further particulars consult your local ELECTROLUX agent:

PAPUA.—J. R. CLAY & CO. LTD.,

PORT MORESBY,

T.N.G.—NEW GUINEA CO. LTD.

Or write to the Distributors.

W. R. CARPENTER & Co. Ltd. 16 O'Connell St., Sydney

Ice Cream Mix

VANILLA, STRAWBERRY and CHOCOLATE

; ' -N •n SfK. m m r/ I « / >:• i Packed in 16 oz. tins for the Home, 5 lb.

Family Size tins, and 33 lb. tins for Storekeepers, Milk Bars and Cafes.

J. C. MERRILLEES

PTY. LTD.

104 Hunter St., Sydney, N.S.W.

Telegrams: “MERRILLEES.” Sydney.

A Merry Xmas to All Our Clients

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Gabriel Achun

ADAM IN OCHRE (Colin Simpson).—Beliefs & Behaviours, Magic & Art of Australian Aborigines; col. & B/W plates. £l/5/-. Post 1/-.

THE TERRITORY (Ernestine Hill). —Descriptive history of Australia’s Northern Territory; illst. Elizabeth Durack. £l/5/-. Post 1/-.

A WREATH OF FLOWER LEGENDS (R. S. Dugdale).—A “different” gift book to please all tastes; col. vignettes, limited edn. £l/5/3. Post 9d.

ACROSS THE NULLABOR (lon Idriess). —East to west across Australia, illst. 17/6. Post 9d.

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA (Frank Clune).—Gold & Gold-seeking in New Guinea, illust. £l/5/-. Post 1/-.

THE FAR LANDS (J. N. Hall, co-author of “Mutiny on the Bounty”).—Folksong & legend which inspired this exciting story. £l/1/-. Post 9d.

Write for Xmas List. Also free lists of Australiana and Pacific items, new and second-hand. Thousands of books in stock. Also Microscopes from £2 to £l5O.

Surveying Instruments, Binoculars, Magnifiers, etc. Lists on application.

N. H. SEWARD PTY., LTD., 457 Bourke St., Melbourne, Aust.

Scott’s “ Renown

Cable Address; Ropeyard, Sydney.

safest

Brand Rope,

Cordage and

Binder Twine

of Every

Description

MANUFACTURED AT

MASCOT, N.S.W.,

J. SCOTT

PTY. LTD.

Head Office and Store

163 CLARENCE STREET,

SYDNEY,

N.S.W.

GABRIEL ACHUN

Importer and Wholesale Merchant

Specialises in:

BEERS.

BICYCLES.

AERATED WATER MANUFACTURING.

COTTON PIECEGOODS FOR NATIVE TRADE.

AGENT FOR “STANDARD” AND “TRIUMPH” CARS.

Malaguna Road

RABAUL

Territory of New Guinea Proprietor:

RABAUL CORDIAL FACTORY.

Telegraphic Address:

“GABRIEL ACHUN.” RABAUL.

EXTRA WHITE

CLOTHES

RECKITT’S BLUE in the last rinse ensures that extra whiteness without damaging the fabric.

H. BUNTING LTD.

SAMARAI PAPUA

Branches at: MISIMA, TUFI, ORO BAY, SOPUTA.

AMARAI AGENTS FOR:—

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd.

South British Insurance Co.

National Mutual Life Association

SOLE AGENTS IN PAPUA/NEW GUINEA FOR;

Polarizers (U.K.), Ltd.— Polaroid Sun Glasses.* C.S.A. Industries, Eng. —Dual Freeze Refrigerators.

Webley & Scott, Ltd. —Shot Guns, Air Pistols, etc.

E. K. Cole, Ltd., London. — “Ekco” Radio Receivers.

“Getula.”—Nylon Monofilament Fish Lines.

Davison Paints, Ltd., N.S.W.—Paint for Tropical Conditions. • Trade mark patented in U.S.A., Great Britain, and other countries.

REGULAR SUPPLIES OF EASTERN GOODS

WHOLESALE & RETAIL MERCHANTS—IMPORTERS PLANTERS

, fiouds

Comer of King and Pitt Streets, Sydney. Mail to Box 1502, G.P.0. , Sydney Si 'V. ipj2 w yi s\ O'* V 5 i * 9 dr 3

WATERPROOF

£lO/15/r dT y

AUTOMATIC

£l9/18/

Value in Swiss, waterproof

and shockproof watches

Top. Here’s a watch you don’t have to wind. It s automatic, waterproof, shockproof. Has 17-jewelled Swiss movement, chrome stainless-steel case. £l9/18/-.

Left. £lO/15/- will huy you this waterproof, antimagnetic and shockproof Envoy. In an imported case of chrome stainless-steel, centre sweep second hand. 12 months' unconditional free service guarantee with each watch Shopping by mail at Proud’s is easy, convenient and fast. Whatever the occasion, you’ll find just the right gift among the many hundreds in Proud s Gift Book. Write to-day for your presentation copy, post-free. \\ (Mail Order Manager. Box 1502, G.P.0., Sydney.) &

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eica

Weary, Dreary

People

Put Some GO Into Your Life

Too many men, women and girls suffer aching backs, headaches, and feel dreadfully tired —tired, always tired. The cause? Very often, anaemia or bloodlessness.

You see the symptoms in dull eyes, pallid cheeks and lips, breathlessness, vague aches, exhaustion after the slightest exertion. Young children, especially girls, suffer frequently.

If you haven’t blood normal in red corpuscles, you are not receiving sufficient energy-giving oxygen which is dispersed by the blood throughout your body every second of the day and night. Your nerves, organs and tissues are not properly nourished and you remain weary and dreary.

Get the GO which rich red blood can give you. Take the famous Dr. Williams’

Pink Pills for a few weeks. Dr. Williams’

Pink Pills are specially compounded to provide you with a normal rich blood supply. Always at your chemist or store.

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YOUR

LOCAL

LEICA

DEALER

WILL BE PLEASED

TO GIVE FULL

INFORMATION ON

THE NEW

LEICA lIIF

AND VAST RANGE OF

ACCESSORIES.

Sole Aust. Agents:

PARER PTY. LTD

36 Forbes St., East Sydney M Z oc Ul

Stewarts and Lloyds (Australia) pt y . Ltd Manufacturers of "S&L" PIPES and FITTINGS for GAS, WATER. STEAM and other purposes.

AND Distributors of:

MILD STEEL BARS, PLATES and SECTIONS;

GALVANISED IRON; BOLTS and NUTS; ELECTRODES

and WELDING EQUIPMENT.

Stewarts and Lloyds (Australia) pt y . Ltd.

Fiji Agents:

BURNS PHILP (S.S.) Co. Ltd., SUVA

PIMPLES AND BAD SKIN

ATTACKED IN 24 HOURS

Since tne discovery or XNixoderm, the scientific medicine, it is no longer necessary for anyone to suffer from ugly, disgusting and disfiguring skin blemishes such as Pimples, Rash, Ringworm, Psoriasis, Acne, Blackheads, Scabies and Red Blotches. Don't let a bad skin make you feel inferior and cause you to lose your friends. Clear your skin this new scientific way.

A New Discovery

Nlxoderm is an ointment, but different from any ointment you have ever seen or felt. It is a new discovery, and is not greasy but feels almost like a powder when you apply it. It penetrates rapidly into the pores and fights the cause of surface skin blemishes.

Nlxoderm contains 9 ingredients which fight skin troubles in these 3 ways: 1.

It fights and Klls the microbes or parasites often wsponsible for skin disorders. 2. It stops itching, burning and smarting in 7 to 10 minutes, and cools and soothes the skin. 3. It helps nature heal the skin clear, soft and velvety smooth.

Works Fast

Because Nlxoderm is scientifically compounded to fight skin troubles, it works fast. It stops the itching, burning and smarting in a few minutes, then starts to work immediately, clearing and healing your skin, making it softer, whiter and velvety smooth. In

just a day or tw»» your mirror win tell you that here at last is the scientific treatment you have been needing to clear your skin —the treatment to make you look more attractive, to help you win friends. Nixoderm has brought clearer, healthier skins to thousands such as Mr. Bob Weedon, Edmund Street, Fremantle, who writes : “I was troubled with pimples ever since I was 13, and have spent pounds and pounds on so-called cures without results. I then tried Nixoderm with astounding effect. The pimples seemed to fade away, and after a week there was not the slightest trace of them.”

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Get Nixoderm from your chemist or store to-day. Look in the mirror in the morning and you will be ainazed at the improvement. Then just keep on using Nixoderm for one week and at the end of that time It must have made your skin soft, clear, smooth and magnetically attractive —must give you the kind of skin that will make you admired wherever you go, or you simply return the empty package and your money will be refunded in full. Get Nixoderm from your chemist or store to-day. Tim guarantee protects you.

Mixoderm,

For Skirt Sores, Pimples and Itch.

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Robert Gillespie Ptv Ltd

TAHITI

To Shipmasters and Visitors

When calling at Tahiti, and seeking SHIPS SUPPLIES and

FRESH PROVISIONS, see—

OSCAR G. NORDMAN

Supply Agent for Messageries Maritimes, Union S.S. Co. of N.Z. Ltd., Matson-Oceanic Line, United States Line, General S.S. Corp., Etc.

We supply General Service Act as Shipping Agents Address all inquiries to the Tourist Bureau.

OSCAR G. NORDMAN, Ship Chandler

PAPEETE, TAHITI.

Wire before your arrival to “OCEANIC, PAPEETE’’—Our registered cable address.

If All clasps of merchandise purchased for Island clients throughout the South-west Pacific.

Island produce sold on Australian and overseas markets on a commission basis.

IMPORTERS-EXPORTERS

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTV LTD

BANKERS BANK OF NSW,

COMPTOIR NATIONAL

D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS

54a PITT ST. SVDNEV N S W.

CABLE ADDRESS;

•ROBERGILL"

PHONE •• 8U222 I.

TAKE YOUR CHOICE . . .

. . . from this list of quality canned foods.

Packed by the largest meat-processing company in Australia, the Imperial label brings you the Quality meats, right to your table—tasty hot meals and cold meats ready for any occasion.

Stock up with Imperial, the Flavour Sealed

Quality Foods.

HOT PACKS.

16-oz. Braised Beef Steak Stew. 16-oz. Steak & Kidney Pudding. 16-oz. Sausages & Vegetables. 16-oz. Steak and Tomato. 16-oz. Irish Stew. ★

COLD MEATS.

12-oz. Trim (Pork & Beef). 12-oz. Camp Pie. 12-oz. Corned Beef W/C. 12-oz. Taper Corned Beef. 6-lb. Taper Corned Beef W/C. 6-lb. Taper Corned Beef. 4-oz. Hampe. 4-oz. Beef Snack. ★

DRIPPING AND LARD.

1-lb. tins Lard. 16-oz. tins Dripping. 36-lb. Dripping. ★

CANNED FISH.

8-oz. Flair Pish Cutlets. 12-oz. Flair Fish Cutlets. ★ Norwegian Sardines.

SWEET PUDDINGS.

16-oz. Plum Pudding. 12-oz. Jam Pudding. 12-oz. Chocolate Pudding. ★

SAUSAGES.

16-oz. Beef Sausages. 16-oz. Oxford Sausages. 16-oz, Cambridge Sausages. 16-oz. Pork Sausages. 10-oz. Vienna Sausages. ★

SOUPS.

8-oz. Tomato Soup. 8-oz. Clear Beef Soup. ★

TONGUES.

12-oz. Sheep Tongues, 12-oz. Lamb Tongues. 12-oz. Calves Tongues. 2-lb. Ox Tongues. ★

MARGARINE

56-lb. Boxes Cake Margarine. 56-lb. Boxes Pastry Margarine.

“RIVERMEDE” BUTTER.

56-lb. Boxes Bulk Butter. 16-oz. Pats Butter, i-lb. Pats Butter. 12-oz. Tins Butter. 16-oz. Tins Butter. ★

MILDURA FRUIT JUICES.

16-oz. Grapefruit Juice. 16-oz. Orange Juice. 16-oz. Grape Juice. 16-oz. Apricot Nectar. ★

CANNED FRUITS.

7-lb. Prunes. 16-oz. Grapes.

Other Canned Fruits as available. ★

CANNED VEGETABLES.

“Gardside” Brand as available in season. ★

CANNED JAMS.

24-oz. Gooseberry. 24-oz. Blackcurrant. 24-oz. Loganberry. 24-oz. Plum. 24-oz. Raspberry. 24-oz. Apple Jelly. 24-oz. Quince. 24-oz. Quince Jelly. 24-oz. Marmalade. 24-oz. Sweet Orange. 24-oz. Strawberry. 24-oz. Redcurrant Jelly.

RIVERSTONE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD,

5-7 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY.

KAYEN KEROSENE LAMPS

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KAYEN KEROSENE ALL-PURPOSE LAMP.

This is the most useful kerosene pressure lamp made. As supplied with reflector, it is an excellent hanging lamp; without reflector, it is a storm lantern suitable for use in rain or wind. It may be carried about, hung up, or stood down anywhere. 300 c.p. Burns for 10 hours on U pints.

Easy to light and maintain. Made of copper and brass with steel reflector.

SIMPLEX

MARINE

ENGINES

3,5, 12 and 20 H.P.

Made for saltwater use and guaranteed.

Illustrated is the fine heavy duty TWIN CYLINDER SIMPLEX, providing 10/12 H.P. at 1,000 R.P.M. Ideal for fishing boats, work boats, ferries and for pleasure cruisers and auxiliaries.

SIMPLEX are world renowned for modern design and precision build.

WE HAVE THE LARGEST STOCKS IN AUSTRALIA OF

SHIPCHANDLERY, FISHING TACKLE, KEROSENE

LAMPS, AND STOVES.

Write for Details.

ff. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD.

376/382 KENT STREET, SYDNEY.

Tel.: BX 6331 (11 lines). Cables: “Kopsen, Sydney.”

Advertisement.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL

WATCH IN THE WORLD.

ELECTION” is almost a by-word in Australia among those who count quality, accuracy, craftsmanship and beauty, essentials in their timepieces. It is now 103 years since Mr. J. B. Braunschweig, grandfather of the present general manager of Nouvelle Fabrique Election S.A.. first began the manufacture of the world famous “Election” watch.

During this long period the sole objects of the technical department and workshops have been —Quality and Precision. That their efforts have met with signal success is amply demonstrated by the following excerpts from the list of prizes and distinctions they have won:— 1911. —For the first time in history, the Kew Certificate of Precision was awarded for a lady’s model, and that watch was an Election. 1914.—Election won the highest possible distinction —the Diploma of Grand Prix — at the Swiss National Exhibition. 1929. —Mr. Lucien Braunschweig, the Managing Director of the Company, was a member of the Jury at the International Exhibition in Barcelona.

In addition to this list, many other prizes have been won at the Swiss State Observatory at Neuchatel.

One of the most difficult achievements has been to make all models so their parts are interchangeable, Nouvelle Fabrique Election are justly proud of the fact that they possess the machine and the instruments, the finest of their kind in the world, which allow of Election parts being interchangeable.

To-day, on a highly competitive market, retailers can sell and recommend an Election watch with every confidence, knowing that every modern improvement is incorporated in each model.

An “Election” Wrist Watch is William E, Reed’s suggestion for the Tropics and the discriminating Island Resident. Available in a complete range of models for Ladies and Gentlemen, including Automatic and Calendar styles. If unobtainable locally, turn to our full page advertisement on page 32 of this issue and write or cable to-day for full details.— ***

There is a Ransomes Mower for every phase of grass cutting. They are built for long-life service and maximum efficiency. Full details gladly supplied by Agents, or on application to Makers.

RANSOMES SIMS &

JEFFERIES LTD.

Ipswich, England.

Agent:

MORRIS HEDSTROM LTD.,

Suva, Lautoka, and Ba.

BEST OF ALL

Kansomes Motor Mower, 16 in. and 20 in.

Kansomes Gazelle,” 18 in. cut.

m 9 A full descripfive list of our popular chrysanthemum varieties is available now.

JAPANESE EXHIBITION

CUSHION CENTRED

ANEMONE FLOWERED

GIANT EXHIBITION

AUSTRALIAN NOVELTIES

Write for free Chrysanthemum list or ask your local Super Seeds agent

F. M. WINSTONE

(SEEDS) LTD.

71-76 CUSTOMS ST. E., AUCKLAND 8.l

r ■U.

Keep heat and

Glare ou!

Let cool,

fresh air

IMPORTANT!

N. F. MALONEY & CO.

are Papua-N.G.

agents.

Write them for : —V— All the ventilation you need without any dangerous glare.

Fitted with non-actinic glass which absorbs the sun’s heat and leaves you only the light. Imagine how they’d improve your nursery or verandah—cheaper than ordinary windows!

Cheaper to Instal than ANY other kind of WINDOW WL

ADJUSTABLE GLASS LOUVSBS

Rapid Concrete Brick Machines and

STORMPROOF LANTERNS

PORTABLE STOVES

HEATER-COOKERS

PRESSURE RANGES

TABLE LAMPS

STANDING LAMPS

MADE BY

"Aladdin

Kerosene Appliances.

Cooper Adjustable Louvres are manufactured by F. W. GISSING Pty., Ltd.. Sydney. Australia. Always insist on genuine COOPER LOUVRES— they are clearly branded.

|£ J. GQUGr) & CO.

Exporters . . . Importers . . . Manufacturers’ Representative . . . Suppliers to Leading Pacific Island Firms. 1 BOND STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. Box 3615 G.P.O. Tel. 8U2159.

Cable address; “SEAFOODS,’’Sydney. Code: Bentley’s.

'WI 1 m w. m m m ...

Price at Works 6 ft. £43 10 0 Another view of the “Brahol”

Export Counter case, showing width of counter space.

BRIEF SPECIFICATIONS:

To help you get an accurate picture of the “Brahol” Special Export Glass Counter Case, here are the main specifications: Overall size is € ft. long x 1 ft. 9 in. deep x 3 ft. 3 in. high. Made from first-class, well seasoned Queensland Maple, hand French polished, wax finished, natural maple colour. Glass parts are V* inch British plate glass.

The inside is lacquered ivory colour, and the recessed base is lacquered burgundy.

There is a pair of solid core sliding doors, and one glass shelf, 14 inches wide, on adjustable nickel-plated brackets.

Storage space below is 11 inches high.

The plate glass front is 22 inches high. 10 in. additions shelf and bracket if required. £2 5 0 4 ft. Length: £29 8 ft. Length: £5B Cost of packing and transport to wha depends on the number and size counters required. A quotation for pac ing will be submitted promptly u request.

This Modern Display

Counter will Help

to Sell More Goods

in Your Store!

(and it's specially built for Export) As smart as those in leading Australian cii stores, and built by a firm that has bee making fine store and office fittings for ove a third of a century.

Moreover, it is specially built for export, s that it can be readily securely packed, an assembled by anyone, from simple direction in an hour, with no tools other than a screw driver. Retailers all over the world hav learned the selling value of modern displa equipment, and this “silent salesman” wi soon pay for itself in increased sales.

BRAY & HOLLIDA\

PTY. LTD.

Makers of Fine Store and Office Fittings for over a third of a century.

Brahol House, 66-74 McLachlan Ave.

RushcuUer Bay, Sydney.

Telephone: FA 4121

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Aspaxadrene

The Xmas Present for

the Future

as far as an Asthmatic is concerned

is automatically an Aspaxadrene

outfit.

ASPAXADRENE

[Registered under Victorian Health Act (Pat. Med.) 1942].

Is known all over the world as the “Asthmatic’s dream come true”; it is harmless and tasteless, and, being an atomised inhalant, it “touches the spot” unchanged, and so relieves in seconds, and requires no dieting, so he can have a normal Xmas dinner—probably the first for years.

Mr. C. H. Tilton, Umina, via Woy Woy, N.S.W., wrote: “Waited 18 months before writing this—to make sure; Asthma all my life—now 80—weak heart —giddy, dizzy feelings, etc. But NOW never a heart turn in any way; hope you yourself will always have the good health I am enjoying now, etc.”

Honestly It’s Really

Marvellous

is Aspaxadrene (the Asthmatic’s dream come truei—during the year just ending we have received a further 1,000 testimonials, making in all in roughly 10 years 10,000. Such expressions as the followingare commonplace: “Miraculous, sleep every night ... no dieting, eat anything . . . no special mattress . . . first comfort in 65 years . . . Miracle Man, Mandrake, Superman . . . Lord bless you . . . one of the seven wonders of the world . worth more than its weight in gold, diamonds and pearls . . if I had the choice of £lOO,OOO or Aspaxadrene for the rest of my life, I can assure you I would choose Aspaxadrene. You are one of the greatest humanitarians of all time.” (Terribly modest, aren’t we?)

ASPAXADRENE

An atomised inhalant—so “touches the spot” and relieves asthma in seconds.

Complete outfit is still 28/6 (no price “pop-ups”); bakeite Xmas presentation box 5/- extra.

FROM CHEMISTS AND ISLANDS

STORES

or A. H. CRUNDALL, Ph.C., M.P.S.A., Box 58, Prahran, Victoria, Australia.

HERE’S HOPE

For A

Persistent Worry

CONSTIPATION, fore-runner of many troubles, affects people of all ages and walks of life and causes much annoyance and worry.

When the bowels refuse to work naturally and regularly, the body absorbs poisons from the waste that remains in the system. Constipation brings sick headaches, biliousness, coated tongue and unpleasant breath, flatulence, loss of appetite, blemishes and other troubles which quickly upset your health and wellbeing.

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“Victoree” Choice APRICOT JAM.

While stocks last. 24 oz. tins .. .. 23/- doz.

“Victoree” Choice ORANGE MAR- MALADE, Excellent Quality. 24 oz. tins 15/6 doz.

“Mcllrath’s” BRANDY SULTANA CAKE, 3 lb. airtight utility tins .. 10/6 each

“S.P.C.” Dessert PLUMS IN SYRUP,

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“Rosa” JELLY CRYSTALS, 12 popular flavours, 4 oz. pkts 8/6 doz.

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Best BOILED SWEETS—Mixed or Crystallised 1/6 lb.

“Letona” Green Stringless FRENCH BEANS, 16 oz. tins 23/9 doz.

“Letona” CAULIFLOWER, 16 oz. tins .. 21/- doz.

“Gartsides” BRUSSELS SPROUTS, 16 oz. tins, 23/9 doz.; 30 oz. tins .. 37/6 doz.

“Witch” FINE SALT, 5 lb. calico bags 2/4i bag “Glosso” Pure White LAUNDRY STARCH, 14 oz. cartons 13/6 doz.

“Mercury” Tasmanian SPARKLING CIDER, 26 oz. bots 48/- doz.

Case lots of 4 doz 45/- doz.

Plain and Self Raising Flour available in 25 lb. tins. Sugar in 35 lb. tins.

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Icecream

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Elms Philp Trust

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Your beneficiaries will be completely safeguarded by this wise decision which ensures that your affairs will become the fulltime responsibility of capable directors and experienced officers. Full information regarding the Company’s services is given in “Hands That Never Leave The Wheel.” You can obtain a complimentary copy from any branch of Bums Philp (South Sea) Company, Bums Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Bums Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or direct from the head office of this Company.

DIRECTORS:

James Bums Joseph Mitchell.

F. T. W. Black. Eric Priestley Lee.

MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.F.I.A.

Elms Philp Trust

COMPANY LIMITED

Executor • Trustee • Attorney

Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Tel.: BU 5901 Box 543, G.P.O.

N.S.W. Agencies at Armidale, Orange and Tamworth.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane , Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides ).

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This plant provides economical electricity for all your lighting and household appliances. will respond to—operates the new threeblade propeller and as the wind velocity increases the blades automatically feather, reducing strain on tower and plant and maintaining a steady continuous charging rate.

Draw your electricity direct from the generator while the plant is charging and from the batteries when the wind is low. Moreover, this NEW Windlite does not require lubrication for five years.

There are fwo models: The 7,000 waff unit for 32 volf and 50 volf house lighting systems, and the 1,500 watt for 32 volt, 50 volt and 110 volf systems.

Obtainable from

QUIRK’S VICTORY LIGHT CO

229 Castlereagh Street, Sydney

Phone: M 3114

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Islands Electric Co.

SUVA: Phone 536 (2 & 3 rings). LAUTOKA: Phone 69.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS, SERVICEMEN

AND SUPPLIERS OF THE FIJI ISLANDS.

Experts in: Ship Electrical Installations, Repairs and Overhauls. Electrical Trades Contracting. Magneto, Motor, Armature, and Electrical Winding. Refrigeration Repairs and Servicing, Lighting Plant Overhauls and Repairs. Automotive Electrical Repairs.

Manufacturers of: I.E.C. Batteries for Cars, Trucks, Radios and Heavy Duty House Lighting Systems.

Agents for : Liverpool Electric Cable Co.; Quirk’s Victory Light Co.; J.

Wernard & Co., Commutator Manufacturers; General Dry Batteries (Aust.) Pty. Ltd; P. C. Lovelock Pty. Ltd., Refrigeration Supplies; Opalescent Light Co.; Mordiesel Engines.

CABLES: “ISLECT,” SUVA OB LAUTOKA. P.O. BOX 464. SUVA.

Enquiries Welcomed. Country Clients and Shipowners especially catered for.

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FOR

SALE

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"St. Hilaire."

Built 1946 by C. E. Crowley,

Brisbane.

Certificate of British Registry 153491,

5/1947, Port of Townsville.

LENGTH O/A, 48 ft. BEAM, 13 ft. 8 in.

DRAUGHT (LIGHT) MAXIMUM. 6 ft.

6 in. (Pwd. 5 ft., Aft. 6 ft. 6 in.) DIS-

PLACEMENT OR TONNAGE. 13.18 net.

CARGO CAPACITY, 38.97 cubic metres.

ACCOMMODATION, 6 berths (superstructure 3, forecastle 3) ENGINE (MAIN), 60 H.P. Lister (brand new).

LIGHTING SYSTEM, 24 volt. FUEL

CAPACITY, 500 gals—tanks. 2. P/W CAPACITY, 172 gals—tanks, 4. SPEED

(LIGHT), 8 knots. DERRICK, 1.

SHEATHING, copper. EQUIPMENT,

winches (derrick & anchor) and stove.

HULL SCANTLINGS: Keel, wood—carvel; Stringers, 5 aside Blue Gum, 5 ft. x 2 ft.; Frames, Yellow Wood, 3 ft. x 2 ft. (8 ft. centres); Decking, Beech; Fastenings, copper; Planking, 1| in. Blue Gum bottom and Pine topside; Ballast, 1 tonw— stone.

IS IN GENUINELY PERFECT

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Availability On settlement.

£7,500 net at mooring.

Write for further details to Whittaker Bros., c/o KERR TODMAN & CO., Chartered Accountants ( Aust .),

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PAPUA/NEW GUINEA

COLYER WATSON (guinea ) LTD.

RABAUL • MADANC • KAVIENG '

VESSELS FOR

SALE

suitable for Island work

FROM CAPRICORN CHARTERS.

QUEENSLAND.—4O ft. aux. 40 HP diesel, takes 10 tons copra— to order, £5,250. Delivery arranged.

BS 385—77 ft. aux. ketch, 140 HP HD Allen diesel aux. engines, lots spares, carries about 70 tons deadweight cargo, £17,000.

BS 423.-67 ft. Tusa tug, 240 HP superior diesel, refrig., £ll,OOO.

BS 373.—65 ft. trawler. Atlas 100 HP diesel, aux. diesel, £10,550.

BS 302.—60 ft. steel aux. schooner, twin 2-cycle 70 HP hot bulb, slow rev. diesel, £6,000.

BS 411. —55 ft. trawler, 85 BHP Gardner diesel, £6,000.

BS 311.—50 ft. aux. yawl, 34 HP RH diesel, £ 4,500.

BS 202. —50 ft. aux. cargo vessel, 68 HP Gardner, £5,000.

BS 372.—45 ft. ketch, 30 HP Lister. £4,200..

BS 330.—45 ft. aux. trawler, Vivian 52 HP diesel, £5,250.

BS 328.—44 ft. aux. ketch, Thorny, 33/55 BHP diesel, beautiful craft, £6,300.

BS 308. —45 ft. flush deck trawler, 60 HP Buda, £5,500.

BS 377.—New cargo vessel—at present on builder’s slips—42 ft., 40 HP Southern Cross, takes about 20 tons copra, nearing completion. As is, £4,500; without engine, £3,500.

BS 326.—40 ft. workboat, 20 HP Southern Cross diesel, £1,750.

BS 319.—40 ft. trawler, 40 HP RH diesel, £4,000.

BS 301.—40 ft. workboat, wheelhouse forward, cargo midships and aft, 40 HP Gardner, £3,600.

BS 364. —38 ft. aux. workboat, 30 HP Lister, £2,500.

BS 397.—33 ft. aux. mackerel boat, 28 HP Leroy, £1,400.

BS 376.—26 ft. aux. workboat, 10- 12 K. & L. diesel, £BOO.

Above are vessels taken from our range. We have the craft you want* and invite your enquiries. Leading particulars and photographs supplied.

Sea deliveries arranged or shipment on board as freight. Lloyds marine insurance agents.

WILLIAM E. REED

1 45 a George Street,

Sydney.

Cables; “Wilreed, Sydney.”

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Sms. Covers, Awnings

TENTS, TARPAULINS, and all classes of CANVAS GOODS for industrial and home use FLAGS AND PENNANTS FOB CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS.

Send your inquiries through your agent to:

HARRY WEST Pty. Ltd.

"SYDNEY'S SAILMAKER"

DUKE ST. (Waterfront), EAST BALMAIN, SYDNEY.

Telephones: WB 1105, WB 2284.

CAPTAIN W. L. KENNEDY

(Established 1931).

SHIPBROKERS, BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE

63 Pitt Street, Sydney.

'Phone: 8W6461. Cables: “CAPKEN" Sydney.

LISTING;

300 TON DIESEL CARGO VESSEL. —Recent build, in Commonwealth Survey. £32,000 Aust.

NEW 79 FT. TWIN DIESEL CARGO VESSEL.—Not yet launched, but delivery within about one month, £20,000 Aust. 75 FT. STEEL CARGO VESSEL.—Large hatch, commissioned last year, 152 h.p.

Gardner L. 3 marine diesel, £20,000 Aust. 75 FT. CARGO VESSEL. —160 h.p. Blackstone, sheathed, accommodation aft, large hatch, in survey, £12,600 Aust. 66 FT. CARGO VESSEL.—I6O h.p. Superior diesel, large hatch, sheathed, £8,500 Aust. 40 FT. EX-ARMY TYPE WORKBOAT —3O h.p. Lister Marine diesel with reduction, sheathed, £3,500 Aust. 80 FT. AUXILIARY KETCH.—Twin diesels, needs some repairs, would convert to excellent trading vessel, £3,250 Aust.

ALSO Cargo Boats, Tugs, Trawlers, Workboats and L.P.B.’s, Class Bridge and R.D. Cruisers, Auxiliaries and Launches, all types.

WE ARE ALSO AGENTS FOR MOST MAKES OF MARINE DIESELS.

Inquiries Invited.

Through our Business and Real Estate Branch, we can offer a wide variety of Sydney and N.S.W. properties. All Island inquiries promptly and satisfactorily attended to.

MARINE ENGINES

MORRIS "VEDETTE" 4 Cylinder 6/12 h.p. Petrol or Kerosene MORRIS "NAVIGATOR" 4 Cylinder 12/24 h.p. Petrol or Kerosene MORRIS "COMMODORE" 6 Cylinder 20/40 h.p. Petrol or Kerosene CHRYSLER "CROWN" 6 Cylinder 45/102 h.p. Petrol CHRYSLER "ROYAL" 8 Cylinder 55/132 h.p. Petrol LEYLAND DIESEL MARINE 6 Cylinder to 125 h.p.

AMERICAN STERLING AND SUPERIOR DIESELS

Further particulars from the distributors'.

LARS HALVORSEN SONS PTY. LTD.

WATERVIEW ST., RYDE ( )« M.S.W.

Telegrams: Halvorsens, Sydney. ’Phone: Rydc 705

• LARGE RANGE OF BOAT FITTINGS

' rj F s BUILDERS OF HALVORSEN BOATS

; Classified Advertisements

WANTED TO BUY

SMALL ISLAND, suitable for middle-aged couple to retire and escape worldly worries. Only necessities are fresh water supply and soil suitable for growing normal vegetables. Bungalow not necessary. Anywhere with warm climate, not in mosquito zone. Details and price to: Field, 52 Cobbler’s Bridge Road, Herne Bay.

Kent, England.

BOOKS

“FIJIAN AS SPOKEN.”—An attractive 144page book on Fijian, compiled by The Marist Brothers, Suva, Fiji. 100 lessons, of which 50 are translated: also 16 classified exercises, all translated. Very helpful to learners and also to Fijians who wish to improve their English. Procurable at all Suva book stores, or from The Marist Brothers, Box 86, Suva, Fiji.

Price: 7/6 Fijian (or American currency $1.50).

BOOK BARGAINS. —Send for list of real bargains from 2/- upwards. State your interests, please. I also find out-of-print English Books. Mention “PIM.” Nearly 400 customers in the area where “PIM” circulates.—Philip Boulton, Bookseller, Westbury, Wilts, England.

“WHERE THE TRADE WINDS BLOW,”

by R. W. Robson and Judy Tudor.—A collection of tales and sketches of the Pacific Islands, by PIM writers, R. W.

Robson and Judy Tudor; well bound and profusely illustrated. 175 pages. Price: 7/6 (8/6 posted or $l.OO U.S. currency).

From Steele’s Book Store, Suva, Fiji, or direct from the publishers, Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., 247 George St., Sydney.

ACCOMMODATION

WANTED TO EXCHANGE for two

months: modern home in Wellington, New Zealand, two bedrooms, sunporch, for similar in Islands (Samoa or Fiji preferred). Reply: Unsworth, 361 Willis St., Wellington, New Zealand.

SYDNEY.—Furnished, serviced fiats, with private bathroom and kitchenette, morning trays, situated in heart of the city.

Double and family flats available —reasonable rates for Pacific Islands residents.

Wyobe Court, 52-54 Phillip Street, Sydney.

Cable address: “Yarap,” Sydney. Telephone: BU 1376.

POSITIONS WANTED

PLANTATION ASSISTANT, Australian, 24. married, seeks position in the Islands, where energy and initiative will lead to advancement. Experienced in tropical employment. Willing to make 5-year contract: wife willing to assist in plantation household. Both of good appearance and personality. Reply to: J. B. Scott, Jnr., Box 2278, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia.

TWO YOUNG MEN, 25 and 21 years, seek positions in Pacific Islands. Single, strong, healthy, smart appearance. Experienced in small ships, providoring, agencies, trading, and shipping and customs, etc.; used to tropics. Replies to Carroll, Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia.

RETURNED SERVICEMAN, clean-cut and healthy, single, 29, seeks position requiring the highest integrity and versatility in one of the Pacific Territories. Clerical, driving and agricultural experience (Dip.

Agric.). Excellent references. Used to tropics, and at present residing New Guinea. Reply to; Roger P. Murfett, 22 Elmie St., Hawthorn, E. 2, Melbourne, Victoria. - SCOTSMAN, 41, experienced in copra, cocoa, rubber, tea (18 years) production and management, now leaving India, seeks position in South Pacific. Can supply evidence of good record. Write: Wm. Hutton, Khoreel Tea Estate, Dalu Po, Cachar, India.

FOR SALE

NORFOLK ISLAND HOME. —Good house 3 bedrooms, large lounge, dinlng-rooi kitchen, bathroom and laundry, all und one roof. Wide verandah on two side New enamelled range. Complete with h water service, washing machine, sepl tank, Venetian blinds and plenty of bull in wardrobes and cupboards. Interior' i ivory. Excellent well water. Five minut from school and store. Price: £2,750 Am Reply: Mrs. E. K. Ward. Norfolk Island.

NEW Bartile (U.S.A.) Concrete Roof Ti Machinery, complete with pallets, hoppt motor, steel forms for trim, tiles, e 1 Vibration feature produces dense, econ mical tiles. Write Seaboard Corporate Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 3508, G.P.O. Sydne N.S.W., Australia.

PLANTATION FOR SALE on New Irelan Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Ov 10,000 coconut trees, with pre-war ou put of 10 tons per month, but has n been worked since Japanese invasio Further particulars and price fror “Copra,” c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney.

NORFOLK ISLAND.—If you want FRE] DOM from irksome restrictions—come NORFOLK IS. and live with delightfi friendly people. The climate is ide (50° to 85°), mainland and tropic flowers and fruit all grow profusel There are NO TAXES of any sort. No available: 17 acres, freehold, very centra near shops and school, beautifully wood< —only £65 an acre. Great potenti value. Build four cottages on this pn perty, let them to all-the-year-roui visitors and enjoy an easy income.- Peter Goddard, Norfolk Island.

PUPPIES FOR SALE

Pekingese Puppies, bred from best English blood lines.

Lovely gifts.

From 15 Gns. (Aus.).

SHUNTIEN KENNELS,

45 Congee Bay Rd., Randwick, Sydney, Australia.

Plantation or

Mining

Position Wanted

Energetic young man, aged 21 and in excellent health, who has travelled widely, desires a position in New Guinea or one of the Pacific Islands.

Plantation work or mining preferred, but willing to learn and do any kind of work, if the position available has some future in it.

Has had some experience in goldmining (in South Africa) and farming. Can produce good references. Reply to:

R. CIEREMANS. c/o R.

Escott, Taroona, near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

BUTTERFLIES

and the Larger Moths

WANTED.

From all parts of the World, especially Australia and all Islands in the Pacific.

Will pay from £25 to over £lOO per I,o*oo butterflies first quality, perfect specimens, in papers only.

Collectors who can supply first quality Butterflies, Large Moths, Large Insects or Beetles, especially giants of all kinds, should write for instruction on how to pack and ship Butterflies, etc. Do not send any broken or rubbed specimens.

Will pay for sample shipment, and advance money to good collectors.

Write or print clearly, particularly your name and address.

Butterfly World Supply House,

289-291 East 98th Street,

Brooklyn, 12, New York, U.S.A.

PACIFIC ISLANDS

YEAR BOOK

(Sixth Edition—l9so) This standard reference book of the South Seas, with 500 pages and numerous maps, is available at leading stores throughout the Islands, or direct from the Publishers.

Price: 25/- per copy.

Add postage, etc. (Within the British Empire, 1/3; Foreign, 2/6) when ordering direct. (In U.S. Currency: $3.50, including postage.)

PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS

PTY. LTD.,

■247 George St, (P.O. Box 3408), Sydney, Australia.

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Cystex

KIDNEY TROUBLE CAUSES

BACKACHE, PUFFY ANKLES

If you’re feeling out o-sorts, have Interrupted Sleep, or suffer from Dizziness, Nervousness, Backache. Leg Pains, Swollen Ankles, Rheumatism, Excess Acidity, or Loss of Energy and feel old before your time, Kidney Trouble is the true cause.

Wrong foods and drinks, worry, colds or overwork may create an excess of acids and place a heavy strain on your kidneys so that they function poorly and need help to properly refresh your blood and maintain health and energy.

Hetji Kidneys Scientific Way

It has been proven by scientific clinical tests that a quick and sure way to help the kidneys clean out excess acids and poisons is with a scientifically prepared prescription called

Cystex. Hundreds and hundreds of clinical records prove this.

No Benefit —No Pay

The very first dose of Cystex goes right to work helping your kidneys remove excess acids.

Quickly, this makes you feel like new again. And so certain are the makers that Cystex will satisfy you completely they ask you to try it under a money back guarantee. You be the judge. If not entirely satisfied just return the empty package and get your money back.

Cystecc costs little at chemists and stores and the money back guarantee protects you.

for

KIDNEYS

BLADDER

RHEUMATISM

Cystex

The Guaranteed Treatment

Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., Union House, 247 George Street. Sydney. (Telephone; 8W5037.) Wholly set u

and printed in Australia b*r the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA 7101.

Consign Your Shell

Purchasers at Full Market Prices on Assay Value of

GOLD, SILVER

and PLATINUM

Also Platinum Group Metals

Some of Our Services :

ASSAYERS & ANALYSTS—Assays

of Bullion, Ores, etc. Analyses ol Metals, Minerals, Alloys, etc.

SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

METALLURGISTS.—Our range of precious metal manufactures covers all industries—Gold and Silversmiths, Electrical Trades, Dental Profession, Glass Silverers, Electro- Platers, etc., etc.

REFlNERS.—Purchasers and Refiners of Bullion, Scrap, Mining By-Products, and Trade Residues of every description carrying Precious Metals.

GARRETT, DAVIDSON &

MATTHEY PTY., LTD.,

824 George St., Sydney. Works: Surry Hills & Chippendale, N.S.W.

Official Assayers to Bank of N.S.W.

Gazetted Agents of Commonwealth Bank, under the Gold Regulations of the National Security Act.

Consign Your Shell

To

VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD.

26 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY

We can offer highest prices for all types of Shell and Island Produce, and invite your inquiry.

Cables: “VENTURA,” Sydney.

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B Y ''A £ & 3?

V Wi r The “Chieftain” is the most luxurious air travel ever offered to travellers to and from New Guinea. It flies right through, stopping at Brisbane only. No disembarking and re-embarking for overnight stops.

SPECIAL DE-LUXE

SERVICE

Passengers can hoard the “Chieftain” in a matter of minutes from the com-

fortable Passenger Lounge at the

Flying Boat Bases. m \m The "Chieftain" Service Includes: • Full Table Meal Service (also Card and Writing Tables). • Full Bar Service. • Two Flight Stewards and Air Hostess. • The menu standard is unsurpassed by even the best hotels.

MAKE YOUR NEXT TRIP by the "Chieftain" Service and enjoy the luxury and comfort which only tUo "Chieftain" Service offers.

For Fares , Timetables and Freight information consult your local Travel Agent or

TRAMS OCEANIC AIRWAYS

SYDNEY

McArthur Shipping Co.

Pty. Ltd. 31 Macquarie Place

BU 2048 BU 2049

Principal Agents:

BRISBANE

PORT MORESBY The McArthur Shipping Steamships Trading & Agency Co. Pty. Ltd..

Co. Ltd. 121 Eagle Street.

B 2441, B 8881, B 9684.

if § i

GENERAL MERCHANTS

Capital £1,000,000

ESTABLISHED 1914

GENERAL MERCHANTS

and

PROVIDORES

TRADE THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC

OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

BUYERS AND EXPORTERS OF ALL KINDS

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA,

31.0. P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

AGENTS FOR AUSTRALIAN, EUROPEAN

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

DISTRIBUTORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION

OF 3IERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Head Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address; “CAMOHE.” BW 4421. G.P.0., BOX 168, Sydney. n London : W. R. Carpenter Cr Co. (London) Ltd., 4 Lloyd's Avenue, London, E.C.B.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC :

IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

J. R. Clay & Co. Ltd., Port Moresby.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Suva.