Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXVI, No.6 (Jan. 1, 1956)
1 January 1956 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Pacific

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ISLANDS

Monthly

JANUARY, 1956

Vol. XXVI. No. 6

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NUMBER 449, a Fijian member of the Fiji Police Force, which has European and Indian members as well. The conventional “Big Hair” is a tradition amongst Fijian policemen although most other male Fijians crop their hair short these days. —Photo by Bruce Moss.

Shipping Time-Tables

pp. 9-11

ill sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks.

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea

MV Malaita sails from Sydney for Rabaul, vieng, Lombrum, Lorengau, Wewak, sxishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney. Last ling Dec. 31, next sailing Feb. 14 approx. [IV Malekula sails from Sydney for Pt. resby, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, xishafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai, Iney, Melbourne, Sydney. Next sailing ‘thbound from Sydney approx. Jan. 18.

IV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ry six weeks; Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby aarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul narai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. Next ling Jan. 31. letails from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., irldgc Street, Sydney. [V Shansi: Sydney-Brisbane-Norfolk Is.- Moresby - Rabaul - Kavieng - Samarai - -Sydney. Sailing Jan. 17. [V Soochow; Sydney - Brisbane - Port •esby - Samarai - Lae - Sydney. Sailing . 20. [V Sinkiang: Jan. 13. etails from G. S. Yuill & Co. Pty., 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

Far East-S.W. Pacific-

Australia

lling S.W. Pacific ports on south-bound journeys only.) LINING: Left Moresby Jan. 5, due ney Jan. 12, dep. Sydney for Japan via sbane Jan. 13.

FENGNING: Sails Hongkong. Jan. 21 • Rabaul, Feb. 2; Madang, Feb. 6; Lae Feb 8; Port Moresby. Feb. 13. Returns to Japan via Sydney and Brisbane.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (G. S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St.. Sydney.

MV Aros: In Melb., Jan. 10, then North bound.

MV Citos: Rabaul, Jan. 10; Madang, Jan. 13; Lae, Jan. 15; then returns to Far East via E. Australian ports.

MV Delos: Now northbound.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 63 Pitt St., Sydney.

Sydney-Netherlands N.G.

Monthly service from E. Australian ports to Hollandia and Sorong (with Biak and/or Manokwari if inducement) thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255

George St., Sydney.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-T onga

MV Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva. Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland.

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Lautoka, Apia, Suva.

Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auck land. Each Autumn there is a temporary rearrangement of schedules while the re spective vessels are on annual survey.' Next sailing: MV Tofua Jan. 17; MV Matua Jan. 31.

Details from all offices of Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel Maul Pomare should resume early in 1956.

The 700-ton freighter Viti is meanwhile operating a cargo service from Auckland

and occasional limited passenger facilities are available on trans-Pacific freighters.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Terri tories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ. Ltd.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI-

Rabaul, Etc.

MV Tulagl, 10 passengers, leaves Sydney

for Norfolk, Vila, Luganville, Honiara, Tenaru, Yandina, Gizo, Bougainville ports, Rabaul, Sydney. Next sailing Jan. 31.

MV Muliama, 8 passengers, leaves Sydney for British Solomons ports about monthly, ports varying with cargoes. Next sailing; Jan. 13 approx.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti

Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Llil coming from Marseilles, via West Indb and Panama, call about every six wees at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noun® and Sydney, and return by same rouu (At present on this run are the new motd ships, Tahitien and New Caledonien).

MV Polynesie (Messageries Maritime maintains about monthly passenger sat ings between Sydney and Noumea s the New Hebrides. Next sailing Jan. 20) SS Neo Hebridais-11, 1,266 tons, mas tains an irregular cargo service betwr, Sydney and Noumea, and four chan trips per annum to Wallis Is. via Sue Owners: Soc. Miniere et Maritime Hagg Noumea. Sydney agents: H. C. Sleiil Ltd., 115 York Street.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacifio

Ports-Sydney

Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passenr liner Southern Cross makes four rouu the-world voyages per year, two we bound, then two east-bound, calling Suva every trip, and at Papeete exco in hurricane season. Next sailings: We bound, calling Suva only, Jan. 12; We bound, calling Papeete Mar. 30-31, S\< Apr. 5.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, et

Pacific Islands Transport Lin. vessels Thorsisle and Thorshall mas tain a regular service from Pao Coast North American ports, with sailii every 35-40 days. Some ports depend cargoes offering. Next sailing: Thorsisi Sails Vancouver Dec. 23, Papeete Jan.

Nukualofa Feb. 6, Pago Feb. 8, Apia H 10, Suva Feb. 14, Lautoka Feb. 17. Noum

sb. 22, Lae Feb. 28. Thorshall: Vancouver sb. 9, Papeete Mar. 5, Pago Pago Mar.

I, Apia Mar. 12. Suva, Mar. 16, Noumea ar. 20.

Details from General Steamships Cor iration Ltd., 432 California St., San •ancisco. U.S.A., and Island Agents.

U.S.-PAPEETE-PAGO PAGO-N.Z.-

AUSTRALIA

Matson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco crates a regular passenger-cargo service jm Los Angeles. Southern terminal ports ry with cargoes offering. Vessels call at peete, Pago Pago, and Suva, depending cargoes.

SYDNEY-SUVA-HONOLULU

VANCOUVER

Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva ibsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) erate a service three times yearly with ; 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel kemba along the above route. Accom idation is entirely First Class, two-berth a ins. Next sailings from Sydney e Jan. and late May, 1956.

Details from American Trading & Ship ig Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney.

HONOLULU-PAPEETE

rhe 242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, lerican - owned, operates a luxury ssenger service to a regular schedule, ;h calls at Marquesas and Line Islands required. To dep. Honolulu Dec. 31, arr. peete Jan. 15. Details from Darr Lines, i Theo. H. Davies & Co., Honolulu, or iblissements Donald, Papeete.

Australia-New Zealand-Canada-USA

p. 9

jhSailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships , , 1955-56.

ORSOVA

ORION

ORSOVA

ORONSAY ORCADES

1956 1956 1956 1956 1956

SYDNEY

depart 27 Jan. 2 Apr. 1 June 13 July

AUCKLAND

arr/dep 30 Jan. 6 Apr. 4 June 16 July From

SUVA

arr/dep 2 Feb. 10 Apr. 7 June 19 July Panama

HONOLULU

arr/dep 7 Feb. 16 Apr. 12 June 24 July

VANCOUVER

arrive 13 Feb. 23 Apr. 18 June 30 July depart 14 Feb. 24 Apr. 19 June 31 July 11 Sept.

SAN FRANCISCO arr

16 Feb. 27 Apr. 21 June 2 Aug. 7 Sept. depart 17 Feb. 28 Apr.

Then 3 Aug. 8 Sept,

HONOLULU

arr/dep 21 Feb. 3 May to 7 Aug. 16 Sept.

SUVA

arr/dep 28 Feb. 11 May Panama 14 Aug. 23 Sept.

AUCKLAND

arr/dep 2 Mar. 14 May ■ 17 Aug. 26 Sept.

SYDNEY

arrive 5 Mar. 18 May — 20 Aug. 29 Sept.

Airways Time-Tables

pp. 11-15

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICES

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji-

Hawaii-N. America

(First and Tourist Class available all Services.)

BY PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths* Tues., Thur., Fri., Sun.: Sydney - Nadi -

Canton Is - Honolulu - San Francisco - Seattle - Portland.

Mon., Tues., Thur., Sat.: Return same route. • DC4 from Auckland connects, arriving Nadi Tues., Thur., Sun., departing Nadi Wed., Sat., Mon. DC4 shuttle service once monthly connects Nadi and Tafuna, American Samoa.

BY QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS

(Super Constellation Service)

NORTHWARDS

Tues.*, Thur.* and Sat.* Sydney - Nadi (Fiji) - Canton Is. - Honolulu - San Francisco —with Sat. service extending to Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS

Wed.*, Fri.*, Sun.* San Francisco - Honolulu-Nadi (Fiji)-Sydney. Sundays service begins at Vancouver. (Note: Crosses date-line enroute). * TEAL DCS services between Auckland and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and Sat. northwards; Wed. and Sun. southwards.

BY CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Wednesday—Sydney-Auckland-Nadl (Fiji)-Honolulu-Vancouver-Amsterdam.

Every Sunday leave Vancouver by same route. (Note: Crosses date-line en route).

SECTIONAL SERVICES IN

PACIFIC

2. Sydney-New Guinea

Service by Qantas Empire Airways (Sky masters)

NORTHWARDS

Mon., Tues., Sat., Sun.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8.00 pm Brisbane, 10.45 pm Brisbane, 11.45 pm Moresby, 6.35 am (Tues., Wed., Sun., Mon.) Moresby, 7.35 am Lae, 9.00 am Thnrs.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8 pm Brisbane, 10.45 pm Brisbane, 11.45 pm Townsville, 3.30 am (Friday) Townsville, 4.15 am Cairns, 5.30 am Cairns, 6.30 am Port Moresby, 9.20 am Port Moresby, 10.20 am Lae, 11.45 am

SOUTHWARDS

Tues., Wed., Sun., Mon.

3. P-NG Internal Service:

Operated by Qantas LAE—HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinn

(DCS)

Alternate Wed. (Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, . etc.).

Departs Lae 10.30 am, calls at MadL and Wewak, and arrives at Hollara

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.30 am Moresby, 12.00 m’night.

Moresby, 1.00 am Brisbane. 7.35 pm Brisbane, 9.00 pm Sydney, 11.45 am Sat.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 7.00 am Moresby, 8.30 am Moresby. 9.30 am Cairns. 12.20 pm Cairns, 2.35 pm Townsville, 3.45 pm Townsville, 4.30 pm Brisbane, 8.15 pm Brisbane, 9.00 pm Sydney, 11.45 am

3.0 pm. Every alternate Thursday (Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 23, etc.), dep.

Hollandia at 9.30 am, and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.40 pm.

LAE-MANUS (DCS)

Ivery Wednesday. >. Lae, 8.00 am: Finschhafen, Rabaul, Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.00 pm. ;urns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via Kavieng, Rabaul and Finschhafen arr.

Lae, 2.55 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Yule Is., Kerema, Kikori, L. Kutubu.— Mt. Fri. returning same day (Jan. 6, JO. Feb. 3, 17, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-RABAUL

(Catalina) Tues. (Jan. 10, 24, Feb. 7, 21 etc.) Pt.

Moresby - Samarai - Esa’ala - Losuia kloewe Harbour-Talasea-Jacquinot Bay labaul. Returning via same ports (ex sept Losuia and Esa’ala optional) alt. rhu. (Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 9, 23, etc.).

NEW BRITAIN-BOUGAINVILLE

(Catalina) Wed. Rabaul - Buka - Kieta - Buin Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, 22, etc.). Return ng same day.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS

KAVIENG-RABACL SERVICE

(DCS)

i„ Thur. Dep. Lae 6.30 am, Madang ,rr. 7.35 am Wewak, Manus Is., Lavleng, Rabaul arr. 3.40 pm. only Dep. Rabaul 8.00 am direct fadang, arr. 10.50 am, Wewak, ladang, Lae arr. 4.35 pm.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

(DCS)

ays—Lae (8.30 am) to Wabamunda, ailing at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, lanz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Vabag, Wabamunda. Return to Lai rriving 6 pm.

LOWER HIGHLANDS

(Beaver) ays.—Lae (7.30 am) to Goroka, call ig at any of: Nadzab, Kaiaplt, Gusap, lantu, Goroka, Arena. Arrival back t Lae depends on stops made.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (DCS)

Lae.—Mon. 7.30 am, Tues. 2 pm, Ted. 11.30 am, Fri. 2.00 pm.

Wau. —Mon. 9 am, Tues. 3.30 pm, Ted. 1 pm, Fri. 3.30 pm. Bulolo Is mitted on these flights which take 35 linutes, Wau-Lae.

MADANG-GOROKA (DCS)

ays.—Depart Madang 8.00 am, arrive oroka 8.35 am, returning same day; epart Goroka 9.05 am, arrive Madang 35 am.

NEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN

(DCS)

lys—Depart Lae 12.55 pm, Finschhafen .45 pm, arrive Rabaul 3.55 pm. rdays—Depart Rabaul 10 am, Madang .25 pm, arrive Lae 2.30 pm. lays—Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen pm, Rabaul 3.10 pm. days—£)epart Rabaul 5.45 am, Finsch ifen 8.10 am, arrive Lae 8.45 am.

BVICES BY MANDATED AIRLINES

liedaled Flights with DCS Aircraft ; Depart Lae at 7.30 am for Goroka, ladang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul maining overnight. Depart Lae 8.00 n for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, au, Goroka, Lae. .: Depart Rabaul at 6.30 am for adang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae. : Depart Lae 7.30 am for Goroka, au, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Depart Lae at 7.00 am for Madang, ewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul maining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30

am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Sat : Depart Rabaul at 7.00 am for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea

By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

A weekly service with Super-Cons, between Sydney and Amsterdam with a call at Biak, DNG, and Manila.

Philippines.

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandla.

Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, and Manokwarl.

5. N. Guinea-Solomons

By Qantas with DCS (Three flights every four weeks) Mon. (Jan. 2,9, 16, 30, Feb. 6. 13. 27) Lae dep. 6 am Pinschhafen-Rabaul-Buka- Vellalavella - Yandina - Honiara, ESI, arriving 5.25 pm.

Tues. (Jan. 3, 10, 17, 31, Feb. 7, 14, 28) Honiara dep. 7 am Yandina - Vella lavella - Buka - Rabaul - Lae. arriving 3.35 pm.

6. Paris-Saigon-Noumea

By Transports Ariens Intercontinentaux DC6B aircraft depart Paris every 2 weeks (Jan. 6. 20, Feb. 3. 17. etc.) for Cairo, Karachi, Saigon, Darwin. Noumea.

Leave Noumea on return Jan. 10, 24, Feb. 7, etc.

7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd., With Sandringham Flying-boats.

Return flight each Tuesday and Saturday.

8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Every Sat. returning next day after return flight Norfolk-Auckland.

9. Sydney-New Hebrides

By Qantas with Sbymasters Flying-boats were replaced by Sky masters in 1955, Service now terminates at Tontouta (N. Caledonia) until Vlla- Santo airfields ready. (See table 20.).

10. Sydney-Noumea

(Nadi Service Withdrawn from Jan. 4) By Qantas Skymaster (Fortnightly) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, alt. Wed.. Tontouta, alt. Thu., 11.30 pm. 7 am.

Tontouta, alt. Thu., Sydney, alt. Thu., 9.30 am. 3.20 pm.

Dep. Sydney, Jan. 11, 25. Feb. 8, 22, etc.

Dep. Noumea, Jan. 12. 26, Feb. 9, 23, etc.

11. Auckland-Norfolk Is.

TEAL, by Qantas (charter) Each Sun. return flight Norfolk-Auckland- Norfolk (see 8 above).

12. Auckland-Sydney

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Mon., Fri., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 9.30 am, arr. Sydney 1.00 pm.

Sun., Wed.; Dep. Auckland 11.30 am, arr.

Sydney 3.00 pm.

Tues., Thurs: Dept. Auckland 4.15 pm, arr. Sydney 7.45 pm.

Tue., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10.00 am, arr. Auckland 5.00 pm.

Mon., Fri. Sat.; Dep. Sydney 3.00 pm, arr. Auckland 10.00 pm.

Tues., Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 pm, arr, Auckland Wed., Fri., Sat., 6.30 am.

13. Christchurch-Sydney

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Mon., Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 pm, arr. Sydney 8.40 pm.

Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 8.00 am, arr.

Christchurch 3.10 pm.

14. Christchurch-Melbounr

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 pm, as Melbourne 9.30 pm.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 7.30 am, arr. Chrii church 3.00 pm.

15. New Zealand-Fiji

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Tue., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 1.15 am, as Nandi 6.30 pm.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Nandi 10.30 am, as Auckland 3.45 pm.

16. Fiji-Tahiti

Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with exs flights as required.

Departs Suva Friday 9 am, crosses das line, arrives Satapuala (W. Same.

Thur. 2 pm, departs Fri. 2 am, arri'i Aitutaki 7.30 am, departs 9.30 & arrives Papeete 2 pm. Departs Papes Sun. 7.30 am, arrives Aitutaki 11 as departs 1 pm, arrives Satapuala 5 c pm. departs Mon 7 am, crosses dae line, arrives Suva Tues., 9.55 am.

Leaves Suva Jan. 6, 20, Feb. 3, 17, Papes Jan. 8, 22, Feb. 5, 19.

17. Fiji-Tonga

Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Irregular Service.

Dep. Suva 6.30 am. Arr. Nukualofa 9» am. Dep. Nukualofa 9.50 am. A Suva 4.55 pm.

Next flights Jan. 30, Feb. 23.

18. E. Samoa Service

Pan American Airways.

Approximately monthly flights, current! shuttling Honolulu-Canton-Tafuna Samoa)-Canton-Honolulu, but this im soon be replaced by a Nadi (Fiji Tafuna-Nadi monthly shuttle servh

19. Fiji Internal Airways

Fiji Airways, Ltd. Drover and Rapide Aircraft.

Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily exco Sun., Mon., Wed., one flight.

Suva-Nadi; Tues., Sun. (additional to 1 above return flight).

Nadi-Suva: Mon.. Wed.

Suva-Labasa-Suva; Daily except Sun, Suva-Taveuni-Labasa-Teveuni-Suva: Mo; Wed., Fri.

Suva - Savusavu - Taveuni - Savusavir Suva: Mon.. Wed.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu Suva: Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.

20. N. Caledonia-Loyalty !

Internal Service

Societe Caledonienne de Transport!

Aeriens (TEANSPAC).

Rapide aircraft.

Noumea (Magenta)-Lifou (Chepenehri Noumea: Tues. am.

Noumea-Mare (Tadine)-Noumea; Tues. 5 Noumea-Mare-Lifou-Noumea, or Noumc Lifou-Mare-Noumea, alternativr Thurs. am.

Noumea-Koumac-Noumea (with com tional call at Plaine des Gaiacs): T am.

Noumea-Lifou-Ouvea Is: Wed. mornim Noumea-Poindimie-Noumea (with com tional call at Houailou): Fri. pm.

Bumea-Iles des Pins-Noumea; Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

HEBRIDES SERVICE

This company operates an unscheduled rvice Noumea-Vila-Santo approximately ice fortnightly.

21. French Oceania Inter-

Island Service

Regie Aerienne Interinsulalr (RAI) (Amphibious Catalina) vice weekly service to the Leeward Group. ednesday; Papeete-Kalatea-Bora Bora- Ralatea-Papeete.

Iday: Papeete-Huahlne-Ralatea-Papeete.

Booking agents in Papeete: Messageries Maritimes.

22. Micronesia

Trans Ocean Airlines. [Jsing Grumman Albatross twin-motored iphibious flying-boats, operates a service roughout the American Trust Territory Micronesia on behalf of the Govern ing Details from Trans-Ocean Airlines, ana, Guam.

Fiji’s final draft of 48 reinforce mts for the battalion in Malaya w from Fiji via Brisbane in nuary. The Fiji Battalion, which s been fighting terrorists for three ars, is now expected to return me in June.

Approximate Airways Fares

Fares quoted are First Class. Tourist Class at 20 per cent, lower is available on trans-Tasman, Auckland-Nadl, Sydney- Nadi, and trans-Pacific services. Fares to points east of Nadi include air connection to Suva by Fiji Airways.

FROM SYDNEY (Aust. currency) TO

t The West Indies cricket team travelling to New Zealand in the Southern Cross will play an exhibi tion match at Albert Park, Suva, on January 12. The match will be gin at 10.30 a.m. and conclude at 3.30 p.m.

Single Return Table No.

Moresby . £48 11 0 £83 16 0 2 Lae .. 55 7 0 99 13 0 2 Rabaul .. 64 19 0 116 19 0 2, 3 Honiara 80 7 0 146 13 0 2, 5 Noumea 38 15 0 69 15 0 10. 9, 8 Norfolk Is, 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 L. Howe , 12 15 0 25 10 0 7 Nadi . .. 58 15 0 105 15 0 1, 10, 19 Suva . .. 73 5 0 131 15 0 1. 10, 19 Auckland . 47 5 0 85 1 0 12 Christ’ch . 47 5 0 85 1 0 13 Honolulu . 243 6 0 437 19 0 1 S. Fran’co 301 7 0 542 9 0 1 Vancouver 301 7 0 542 9 0 1 Nukualofa 92 9 0 165 19 0 1. 10. 17 Apia . .. 97 7 0 175 3 0 1, 10, 16 Aitutakl . 119 8 0 214 19 0 1, 10. 16 Papeete (direct) 139 2 0 250 8 0 1, 18, 16 FROM AUCKLAND (NZ currency) TO— Single Table Return No.

Suva . .. 44 8 0 80 19 0 1. 15, 19, 16 Apia . .. 52 3 0 94 18 0 1. 15, 19. 16 Aitutakl 72 12 0 141 14 0 1, 15, 19, 16 Papeete . 87 11 0 158 12 0 1, 15, 19. 16 Norfolk .. 19 15 0 35 11 0 11

Pacific Islands Monthly

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Contents:

No. 6 Vol. XXVI

January, 1956

EDITORIAL, New Year Opens to Liveliness in Cold War 17 Carpenters to Buy MH Shares 19 Noumea-Nadi Airservice Suspended 19 Moresby Brewery Under New Control 20 Price of Copra in 1956 ... 20 Pilot Escapes When Fiji Plane Crashes 21 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 21 Editors’ Mailbag 22 Bogus PIM Advt. Directed Against CSR Officials ... 22 Three New Knights in New Year Honours 23 Another Good Year Ahead for Fiji Sugar 23 Pacific Airline Manoeuvres 24 Notes Made in Fiji by R. W.

Robson 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 27 No TEAL-NAC Merger ... 32 Pineapple Cannery for Lae 33 Current News Items from Our Correspondents in Papua-New Guinea .. .. 35 Scholarships for Fiji Students 49 Restricting Islanders’Entry to NZ 50 3d. a Share is Acceptable to NGG Shareholders 51 News of the Smallships ... 53 Christmas Parties in Sydney 66 Buyer Resistance Starts Chain Reaction in Cocoa Industry 67

Papeete Assembly Discusses Budget, Taxes 13 Tari Has a Landrover ... 75

MAGAZINE SECTION:

Reminiscences of an Islands Skipper, 79; Strange Death and Strange Burial of “Queen” Emma, 80; See ing Norfolk on the Run, 82; This Months’ New Reading 84 [slands Boxers Do Well Over seas 99 They Are Making Villagers Money-Conscious in Fiji .. 107 Results Soon in Papua Hydro Survey 118 Road Neglect in New Guinea Highlands 122 OBITUARY: Mrs. Kathleen Bignell; Professor Radcllffe Brown; R. M. Farlow; Mrs.

C. S. McOwan; Mrs. Grace Rasmussen; Fred Rennie; Mrs. Mary Sorby .. ... 130-131 New Hebrides Murderer Suicides 133 DCA Decision Means Hard ships for NG Highlands 135 New Caledonia at Sydney’s Royal Show 135 Gas Flow In Papua Causes Oil Shares to Rise 138 Plywood Helps BGD’s Total Earnings 145 Disaster on Promising US Flying-Boat 146 Whitehall Could Not Care Less 147 NZ Ban on Fiji’s Part- Europeans 149 Yankee Voyages to End After 25 Years 151 Market Information 160

A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Techntpress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street is 10 yards from the intersection of Goulburn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

Editorial. ..

pp. 19-20

NEW YEAR OPENS TO LIVELINESS IN

THE COLD WAR

SERE is nothing comforting or inspiring in the prospect for 1956. There is phenomenal pre ss in scientific achievement, and ;he creation of material wealth; in the field of spiritual things, in the security of the average i, the outlook is as dismal as it ! can be.

The Cold War is on again, ed and undenied.

Actually, it never was off. The 1 War is simply an international spiracy, inspired and directed by icovite Communism, to impose Communist system—enslave t by the State, instead of gov nent based on individual free —upon the world. The Reds, e armed to the teeth, plan to this, not by open war, but by srmining the economic structure Western civilisation, so that >s will ensue, and political jsterism (of which Moscow pro s the supreme example) will control.

The economic condition of it Britain, nerve centre of the ish Commonwealth, becomes in singly worse. Early in January, y motor car factories, main ig of the nation’s bverseas trade, reduced to a four-days week, lin’s biggest newspapers are ig out against fumbling govern t and uninspiring leadership, ritish press and people seem )le to visualise the terrifying lems created for their Govern : by (a) the loss of Britain’s >ea investments, which before d War II put a backbone of 000,000 per annum into her mal economy; (b) the loss of vast Emnire in Asia, which erly gave her an enormous pro d market for her products: and the impossibility of holding >eas markets while trying to (tain a short working week, wages and other features of Welfare State.”) The general election in France made political confusion worse >unded. The Communists, who 98 members in the old Parlia . now have 152. Nothing re ling a mandate has been given other party. France’s position, as an organised nation and as estern Power, has further de rated. oscow must be very happy with success of its underground in :e. Over a year ago, France

rejected the Paris Treaties—first clear evidence that the Western Alliance was breaking. Now, the Communist hold a quarter of the Chamber of Deputies, and the De Gaullist Party (once the largest party, and thought to guarantee France’s protection against Com munism) has been wiped out.

France, increasingly, is undepend able as a member of the Western bloc —which is exactly what Moscow has been working for). • Britain is suffering great political and financial embarrass ment by rebellion or threats of re belion in Cyprus, Singapore, Malaya, etc.; while similar embarrassments, in a greater degree, have been thrust upon France in respect of Morocco, Algeria, and Indo-China.

(The cost of maintaining armed forces in Cyprus and Malaya is very heavy; while, for France, the cam paigns lately finished in Indo-China, and current in North Africa, are almost crippling. This is all part of the Cold War). • The Russians have replied to the West’s formation of METO (Middle East Treaty Organisation, linking Pakistan, Persia, Iraq and Turkey) by making huge gifts— especially of armaments —to the Arab nations—especially Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia. (Little has been said about this in the newspapers—not enough to indicate that Moscow’s sudden move into the Middle East has created a situation of acute tension between the Western Powers and the Soviets.

Such a development is typical of the Cold War). • The British Prime Minister is making a formal visit to the United States for secret consultations with President Eisenhower. (It has been evident since the breakdown of the Foreign Ministers’

Conference in Geneva in November that a re-appraisal of the inter

national situation by USA and Britain is necessary. Two important new factors in the situation since the Summit Conference was arranged nine months ago are the re-emerg ence of Germany as a Great Power, to take the place of France in the Western line; and the illness of Pre sident Eisenhower, making it im probable that he will contest the next Presidential election. This poses for Britain and the world a vital question: Will a Democratic President follow the same line as President Eisenhower in relation to the Cold War?) • Russia’s Bulganin and Kruschev, touring the Asian States of India, Burma and Afghanistan, made a series of speeches deliberately offensive to the Western Powers, and especially Britain. (This, of course, is another calcu lated angle of the Cold War, planned to lessen Anglo-American influence and reduce our trade. The Russian purpose is to sow, in these aggressively neutralist countries, seeds of suspicion against Britain and America. • It is revealed, in the first week of the New Year, that Russia in recent months, has moved large, modern, naval and air forces from Europe into the Northwest Pacific. (In World War I, and in World War II until the intervention of Japan, the Pacific countries were not involved. The Pacific countries have been hoping that, if there is to be a World War 111, they can escape the worst of the explosion. There are no Asiatic countries now with sufficient sea and air forces to get into the Pacific countries south of the Equator. But if Russia really is putting a third of her sea and air forces into East Siberian and Chinese bases, the prospect assumes a different colour for the South Pacific countries. fTtHESE recent events show re- JL sounding successes for Russia in the Cold War; while the West’s only notable score is the formation of METO.

Events have been moving steadily towards the point where the West may acknowledge itself most seri ously embarrassed by the Cold War in most national structures based on economics, politics and social organisation.

But there is one unknown factor in the situation which yet may prove an embarrassment to Russia, and alter the trend of international events. It is the attitude of China.

The co-operation of China is vital to the Russian plan of undermining Western economy by destroying or crippling their interests in Asia. But British diplomacy never has ceased to believe that China, racially in dividualistic, ultimately will refuse to support Russia’s plan to impose

Communism on the world —even though China now is nominally Communist.

It is not a pretty picture, this which has been set up for the open ing of our New Year. But at least it is an interesting and lively one.

The moves and counter-moves in the Cold War —with your liberty and mine as the stake —are more fascinating than the unfolding of a Whodunit plot.

Colombo Planners

p. 20

Some Realism for the Colombo Planners

AUSTRALIA is throwing herself with spendthrift energy into the Colombo Plan; and there is not even a squeak of protest from any direction. Australia already is com mitted to gifts to Asiatic countries totalling £31,000,000, and that is by no means the end of it.

The Colombo Plan is typical of the wave of idealism—amounting at times to hysteria—under which a section of the West, since World War 11, has been trying to avoid World War 111 by insisting that all other races are friends and brothers.

The assumption apparently is that other races hate us because we “colonised” them; and that, if we now take them to our bosom, they will love us and leave us alone.

Under the Colombo Plan, a group of European nations with interests in Asia are making food, education and technical facilities available to Southeast Asia peoples, without any charge.

There lies before this writer news paper cuttings showing that Aus tralia, at this moment, is among other things (a) handing over a fully equipped hospital ship to India, to enable India to give better service to the Andaman Islanders; (b) maintaining a number of In donesian students in Australian schools; (c) building a series of radio stations in Pakistan: (d) showing a group of eight Indian farmers the primary producing organisation of Australia, from college to pig-farm. All this, at Australia’s expense.

It is a beautiful and ennobling conception. Now, take a look at the population figures in Statesman’s Year Book : India 356,891,000 Pakistan 75,842,000 Ceylon 8,103,000 Indonesia (est.) ... 80,000,000 Indo-China (est.) .. 28,500,000 China (Communist) (est.) 602,000,000 Malaya and Singapore (est.) 6,000,000

In other words, Australia, w* 9,000,000 people, is spending its tsJ payers’ hard-earned money onr. puny attempt to assist 1,157,000„( Asiatics, the great majority of whr have never heard of Australia, s who are too hungry and undb privileged to care, anyway.

Instead of fiddling around m the Colombo Plan, why cannot Ai tralia and New Zealand leave Asiatics to pull themselves sociologically, as the Europeans hi done, and spend the money in doc everything possible to prepare the inevitable day when thri countless masses of Asiatics bea their march southwards into fertile, desirable and almost emr lands of the South Pacific?

Idealism has its place in hum affairs, of course—but so has re' ism. Anyone who imagines ti Asia will not soon begin to s over into Oceania is blind to the lessons of racialism and of corded history. If he still clings his belief that the expenditures Colombo Plan funds will turn ar the menace, he should look records which are not yet 15 ye old, and read of that other E 3 which brought the Japanese swau ing into the South Pacific in 19(

METO Has Joined

pp. 20-21

NATO and SEATO

THERE now is a Nato, a Meto . a Seato, through which Western Alliance against Muscovite Bloc is extended ri' through from Scotland and Nor': to the Philippines.

NATO is the North Atlaj Treaty Alliance, by which Western European Powers are lim together in the West’s most portant defensive pact.

METO is the Middle East Tit Organisation which has just tas shape, and which extends fl Southern Europe, through Tun Iraq, Persia and Western Pakis to the middle of India.

SEATO is the South East , Treaty Organisation, which can on the defensive alliance thro Ceylon, Singapore, Malaya and S into the Philippines, and of wl\ Australia, New Zealand and Urn States are the original members’

A glance at the map shows i these three “Organisations” toges create, around at least half of : Northern Hemisphere, a broad fcf of countries which have uniteo; protect Western and SoutM; Europe, Southern Asia and South Pacific against the thrus Communism of Eastern Europe, < Northern and Eastern Asia.

There is one break in the ctl at India and Burma; and, as is written, Soviet leaders Bulgn and Kruschev are in Southern A receiving the adulation of

leutralist” mobs in Afghanistan, idia and Burma.

The Russians do not like Meto, id are trying to counter it by aoing the Arab nations and mak g arms available to Egypt.

[?]Oumea-Nadi

p. 21

[?]IRSERVICE

[?]SUSPENDED

IHE Noumea-Nadi (Fiji) section of Qantas' old Sydney-Noumea- Fiji service will cease after the ;ht leaving Sydney on January 4. le service has not been patronised Eficient to make it profitable.

Since Qantas changed over from ing-boats to landplanes in mid >s, this part of the route has ved little purpose. Previously, the ing-boat terminated its flight in va and this was of considerable lefit to travellers. However, the ymasters which replaced the fly :-boats go to Nadi, and except for i representatives travelling to ith Pacific Commission meetings Noumea, and occasional New ledonian residents who wanted pick up the trans-Pacific services Nadi, the ser v i c e—run once ■ month—had only limited use.

Intil such time as the New brides airfields are brought up to A standard, Qantas Skymasters I run twice monthly between Syd r and Noumea and return.

Carpenters to Buy the M

p. 21

M. Hedstrom Shares 90% of MH Shareholders Approve

BY January 10, holders of more than 90 per cent, of the Ordinary shares in Morris Hedstrom Ltd., of Fiji, had indicated their willingness to sell their shares to Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co.

Ltd., of Sydney; and a formal in timation to that effect was made to the Stock Exchanges of New Zea land and Australia by the Chair man of Morris Hedstrom Limited (Mr. H. E. Snell).

It is understood that the offer made by Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. in November (see December issue of PIM, pages 14, 15) will be formally accepted forthwith.

When the share transfers are completed—which will make W. R.

Carpenter & Co. Ltd. the majority shareholder in Morris Hedstrom Limited—there probably will be some change in the Board of the latter Company—but it has been formally stated that Mr. Snell will remain as chairman. It is expected, also, that Mr. J. Maynard Hedstrom (general manager) will remain with the Company.

So far as the public of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga are concerned, there will be no discernible change in the trading activities of Morris Hedstrom Limited and W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd.—they will carry on with the same management and staffs as at present.

It is expected, however, that the managing director of Messrs.

Carpenters’ Fiji Company, Mr. W. G.

Johnson, will join the Morris Hedstrom Board at an early date; and that there will be far-reaching policy changes in such important matters as overseas buying, copra buying, inwards and outwards ship ping, and the effective use in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga of the very large funds made available as the result of the new alliance.

Electing A Deputy

p. 21

N. CAL & NH

AT POLLS

Electing A Deputy For Paris Chamber

SUNDAY, January 8, was polling day in New Caledonia and New Hebrides, The election was for a Deputy to represent these territories in the French Chamber of Deputies in Paris.

Four candidates were standing for election—but only two of these were given any hope of election.

They were retiring Deputy Maurice Lenormand, who is anti-Trust (that is, against the big commercial houses, the Nickel Co., and the Bank of Indo China); and M.

George Chatenay, who, although declaring himself an Independent, is the “Trust’s” candidate. —Noumea Correspondent. v NOUMEA, Jan. 12: M. Lenormand was successful by an outright majority of 5,000 votes.

New High Commissioner for W. Pacific in Condominium

p. 21

The new Hight Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr. John Gutch, accompanied by Mrs. Gutch, made his first official visit to the [?]Hebrides in Nocember. These photographs were taken during the party's stay in Vila. At left: The High Commissioner inspects the [?]Guard. Heads . of the Condominium Government departments are shown in the background. At right, the High Commissioner and Mrs. [?] Ch receiving guests at a reception given at the British Residency on Iririki Is., Vila. —Photos by Fung Kuei.

P. Moresby Brewery Under

p. 22

Swift Moves on the Beer Front

P. Moresby Brewery Under New Control

Controlling interest in the South Pacific Brewery, at Port Moresby, has been bought by the brewers of Tiger Beer in Singapore, for a reported £330,000.

THIS company, Malayan Breweries, is registered in Singapore but its parent company is a Ger man one with many international ramifications.

The Malayan company probably believes that money invested in Papua is safer than money invested in Singapore or Malaya under the present political condition of that part of the world.

Negotiations in the deal were undertaken by Mr. J. F. Howard, brewery consultant of Sydney, who provided the know-how in establish ing the Moresby brewery. The deal was carried through swiftly and in secret —it is conceivable that some of the Australian breweries would have been interested as the suc cessful establishment of the Moresby brewery cut severely into their lucrative trade in that area.

Only the shareholdings of Messrs.

P. A. Yeomans, T. Yeomans and T.

Zoffman have been purchased. The new company is apparently not in terested in the minority sharehold ers, about 150, mostly in P-NG.

The idea for a brewery in the Territory was that of Mr. Joe Bourke, of Wau, NG. With Mr. Tom Yeomans, in a small syndicate, he launched a company with a nominal capital of £150,000, fully subscribed.

There followed some years of pre parations and the first Moresby brew went on the market in Nov. 1952.

Because Territorians are discrim inating beer drinkers with decided preferences, whether or not they would take to the local product was a gamble. But the game went to the promoters—most residents liked South Pacific lager, even when it was supplied only in bottles. By 1954, when most of the leading hotels and clubs in the Territory had installed equipment, for dis pensing SP in draught, its success was assured.

Before the war, Papua and New Guinea had been lucrative markets for Australian beer and when South Pacific made its debut some breweries dumped Australian beer in P-NG for half the price it sold for in Australia, although in the post-war years it had been supplied to the Territory only in small quantities. These tactics failed, however, and Port Moresby beer continued, on its own merits, to gain in popularity.

It is probably fortunate that the controlling interest in the company has not been bought by Australian breweries, whose tactics in the Commonwealth have been to buy up small local breweries and then to close them. In that event the Terri tory might have again found itself without a brewery. As affairs stand, it will be in the new shareholders’ interest to keep the organisation flourishing.

Nominal value of the South Pacihc Brewery shares was £l. The majority shareholders sold for £3 per share.

Better Shipping

p. 22

SHANSI'S DEVIATION

NI Whale Industry May Mean Better Shipping

THE New Guinea-Australia Line vessel Shansi will make a trip to Norfolk Island on its way from Sydney to New Guinea in mid- January.

It is probable that several other trips will be made in succeeding months and a regular service may commence later in the year when the new whaling station at Norfolk Island begins oil production.

The Norfolk Island deviation in January will be made after leaving Brisbane. After discharging at Norfolk, the Shansi will then go straight on to Samarai, Papua.

Shansi will carry component parts for the factory to be built by the whaling company and any other general cargo that is offering.

The whaling station expects to be in operation by the beginning of the next whaling season—around August or September. Oil will be shipped in bulk.

A spokesman for the NG-A Line would not commit himself blit it is understood that the company is examining the possibility of carriage of whale oil.

Norfolk Island’s only regular ship pi n g connection at present is through the two-monthly calls of Burns Philp’s motor-vessel Tulagi on its Syd n e y-New Hebrides- Solomons-New Guinea service.

1956 Copra Prici

p. 22

MOF Negotiations

OOTH Papua-New Guinea as

Fiji have announced

tentative price for copra in 19h

based on a fall of approximate

10 per cent, on the 1955 prices Negotiations between the Britt Pacific countries and the Unit Kingdom Ministry of Food had : been finalised by January 10, most producers that MOF will, this year, demand full permissible fall. (Under agreement, prices must not risee fall by more than 10 per cent. , the price of the previous year)..

The price for 1955 was based J £Stg.6s fob, Islands ports. Fn this the various Pacific governm© deducted export taxes, stabilisatt fund levies, etc. The 1955 price T 7.14 per cent, lower than the II price.

If the full 10 per cent, fall accepted for 1956, the new price T be based on £Stg.sB.lo per I Islands ports. During 1955, t market price of copra has be consistently lower than MOF prr (See Dec. PIM, page 13).

January 8, Straits copra was quo at £Stg.6s, c.i.f. London.

In January, the Papua-M Guinea Copra Marketing Board formed planters that until negotiations between the MOF ; the producing countries were co; plete, it would pay £A62.10 per for hot-air dried copra. 1955 p:c for the same grade was £69.15 ton.

Fiji is tentatively paying at rate of £57 Fijian (equivalent d over £A64) per ton for first grn copra. This is slightly higher tl; the P-NG tentative price, the bet? rate being made up from pro held by the Fiji copra board.

Change of Address

p. 22

For N&R

THE old-established Islands tri ing firm of Nelson & Robert!

Pty. Ltd. will move, early February, from its present local; at 2 Spring St., Sydney (where company has been for 30 yearsXi its own building at Plantat < House, 197 Clarence St., Sydil The new phone number will J BX 2871 (10 lines).

Tf Sir Ragnar Hyne, Fiji’s CK Justice (he was knighted at I Year) and Lady Hyne, will lei Fii for the UK on leave at the of January. They will then retii to Fiji for another term.

Fiji Plane Crashes

p. 23

[?]lot Escapes when Fiji Plane Crashes

A Fiji Airways Drover aircraft crashed in heavily timbered gged country near Nasauvere, in the headwaters of the southern m of the Wainimala River, about 8.30 a.m. on Friday, Decern r 30. The Wainimala is a tributary of the Rewa.

[E plane had been in the air for about 35 minutes and was on a mail run from Nausori miles from Suva) to Nadi, Fiji’s •national airport, a flight that lly takes about an hour, lere were no passengers in the e. It was piloted by Captain n McCook who has been a pilot Fiji Airways for the last 3 years. Previously he was with L. mediately the plane became iue, two other FA planes two RNZAF Sunderlands began irch. On December 31, a Fijian er arrived at Nadi and reported the pilot was safe, although ed, in the village of Nasava. /eral land parties were im ately organised to go to the tance of the pilot. Mr. Arthur ps, a planter on the Wainimala *, was the first to reach him, ig heard where McCook was igh Fijians who came to his e. Two Fijian AMPs and two 3 arrived soon after and Dok was carried on a stretcher i the river to Matainasau , then Leutu, where he was placed in fiall motor boat belonging to Philips, later transferred to a

r craft in which he finished iourney to Bau Levu on the Rewa, and was picked up by lance and taken to Suva, ore he was put in Philips’ he was met by another party i included Dr. Shaw. McCook offering from cut fingers, mul bruises on the left shoulder lossible chest injuries. He was spital in Suva three days after rash —late on January 2. - plane crashed in some of the est country in Fiji. It is on et side of Viti Levu, there are )ads and only a few native It is slightly east of the mountain chain of the island. merican plane which was lost j area during the war was not d for 10 years. The search s and the Fijians who carried ok on the first part of the rd journey did an amazing o extricate him so speedily, ir he reached hospital, McCook

said that his plane had hit a tree and lost the right wing. He had held the nose up so that it would crash tail first.

After impact the mail bags were strewn around but he had collected them and put them under the wing to protect them from bad weather He had then (about 9 a.m.) set off down a stream, sometimes through gorges and around water falls until at 3.30 p.m. he had met a native pig-hunter who had helped him into the village. He had walked about ten miles. The Fijians later

carried him a further 19 miles to

Philips’ boat.

It was reported from Suva on January 3 that police had been sent to locate the wrecked plane and to guard the mail bags. Later, 9 mail bags were brought in to Suva An inquiry will be held into the crash following an inspection of the wreck by engineers.

FIJI Airways purchased two Drovers in Australia in 1954.

Shortly afterwards one of them had a forced landing on a Fiji reef when it ran out of fuel—this machine was presumably salvaged The Drovers, an all-metal, three engined light aircraft were built in Australia for the Flying-doctor service and for other special duties.

A number of them were used in New Guinea by Qantas and two of these were the ones bought by Fiji Airways.

Drovers were involved in one fatal and one serious crash in NG, after which modifications were made to the propellers.

. Harold Gatty, owner of Fiji lys, visited Sydney in mid iry and purchased two Drover ’ s ; one will be delivered to Fiji yril; the other in June.

Do You Remember ?

p. 23

From PIM of 20 Years Ago.

A LTHOUGH there was still hard ship in some parts of the Pacific, most Islands residents were able to face the new year of 1936 with increasing confidence.

Mining was booming in Fiji and

New Guinea; there was much activity in the same line in BSIP.

Copra was showing signs of stability,

at a price higher than it had been for years. The activities of Germany, Italy and Japan were still no more than small clouds on the inter national horizon.

The following extracts are from our issue of 20 years ago—January, 1936: King George V had died peacefully in his sleep on January 20. He was 70 and had reigned 25 years. ❖ sH “The copra quotation continues to rise and there is joy accordingly throughout the Pacific territories.” (The price was approximately £l5 per ton, cif, London.) Then, as now, there were plenty of cruising yachts in the Pacific. Three which occupied space in PIM columns for many months were: Lord Moyne’s yacht “Rosaura”, with its titled passenger list (the yacht was in Rabaul in January, 1935, and later sailed up the Ramu River, where Lord Moyne claimed that he was the discoverer of pigmies); “Joseph Con rad” on a world cruise with Alan Villiers in command and a crew of cadets in training; and American Dwight Long’s "Idle Hour” which had just made an eventful Pacific crossing from US to NZ.

Sir Hubert Murray, Lieut.-Governor of Papua, after much campaigning, had in duced the Federal Government to declare a “preference” of Id per pound in favour of all tea produced in Papua and New Guinea. The preference was a technical one only, and in the 20 ensuing years Australia has not been even one penny

out of pocket because of It. It would, however, be interesting to know if the old statute is still on the books—tea is grown in the NG Highlands these days, although not yet in sufficient quantities for export. * * * At the annual meeting of Oil Search, Ltd., in Sydney in January, 1936, the chairman, Mr. W. A. Freeman, said that the company’s geologists were unanimous in the view that New Guinea merited major attention as offering opportunity for development of oil fields comparable with some of the rich areas in the East Indies. In 1956, 20 years and £l5 million after, Oil Search, now a minor shareholder in the giant Australasian Petroleum Com pany, is still carrying on the search for oil in the Territory. * * * Another search that was even then going on. was for gold on Guadalcanal, BSIP.

We reported; “The search for gold in BSI is still going on in spite of many difficulties It is beyond doubt that there is gold in the ranges of Guadalcanal but no worthwhile field is likely to be developed until there is brought into existence some firm with the financial resources necessary to overcome the enormous obstacles.” Such a firm is still wanted. * * * Fifty unemployed Europeans of Apia, Western Samoa, many of whom had large families to support, had radioed the New Zealand Government asking that they be included in a Christmas hand-out of £lOO,OOO that was being made available for those out of work in NZ. Well—that is something that has changed in 20 years. Western Samoa still rides the crest of the uost-war boom. (In 1936, Western Samoa—particularly the Mau organisation—was rejoicing at the recent election to office of NZ’s first Labour Government). ❖ * * The New Year’s Honours list of 1936 contained amongst the names of the new Knights, that of Walter Randolph Car penter.

Stupid Fraud in Fiji

p. 24

Bogus PIM Advt. Directed Against CSR Officials

WE regret to state that some person—believed to be a Euro pean and clearly of criminal character succeeded in getting past our guard in November and caused to be inserted in the Pacific Islands Monthly of November an advertisement which has cast ridicule upon well-known members of the staff of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., in Fiji.

We are tendering this public apology to the men concerned — Mr. G. Alison, chief engineer for the CSR Co. in Lautoka, and Mr. J. H.

McMillan, chief engineer at Rarawai, The circumstances, which indicate a cunning fraud, planned to defame at least two well known CSR officials, are set out below.

On November 17, there arrived in this office a letter, so mis-spelled as to suggest it was written by an illiterate person, and signed “G.

Alison & Nagan C 0.,” in pen-printed letters. The writer sent 30/- in Fiji notes, and said: “If you please to print in your papers the PIM of our advertse ment because our business is to big now and covers all the northern division. So please will you kindly have down in your papers immedi ately, so we can get in touch with the other parts of the Pacific island.”

The advertisement was enclosed.

It began: “Under the guidance of my friend, partner and shareholder, C. G. Alison, Chief Engineer, CSR Mill, Lautoka”; announced that the firm was undertaking certain engineering work; and concluded; “ ‘Snowy’ MacMillian, the Chief Engineer, is our helping hand from Rarawai Mill. G. ALISON & A.

NAGAN CO, Farmers Welfare Ser vice, Ba, Fiji.”

The advertising executive who re ceived this missive should have checked back with Messrs. Alison and McMillan. Instead, the thing was accepted at its face value, and was published in November PIM.

The attention of the PIM pub lisher was not directed to the “advertisement” until he received a letter, early in January, from Mr.

Clive Elliot, Chief Manager for the CSR Co. in Fiji; and we now have learned— The “advertisement” was entirely bogus.

It is part of a campaign which has been going on for three years 'to defame Mr. Alison.

Anonymous letters have been written to the CSR Co. management from time to time, accusing Mr. Alison of having some sort of partner

ship with Nagan. These letters have been placed in the hands of the Fiji police, but the police have not captured the culprit.

Mr. A. Nagan, who runs an engineer ing business in Ba, insists that he has no knowledge of the writers of such letters, and emphatically disclaims any knowledge of or con nection with the “advertisement” sent to the PIM.

Neither Mr. Alison nor Mr. McMillan has any connection whatsoever with the Nagan firm.

We take this, the first opportunity, of expressing our regret that we un wittingly allowed the Pacific Islands Monthly to be used in this way to annoy Mr. Alison and Mr. McMillan; and we wish to publicise the fact that the “advertisement” was entirely bogus.

We have sent all the documents in our possession to the Chief Officer of the Fiji Police, with a request that every effort be made to track down the person responsible for this stupid fraud. We believe that there is a very good chance that the police may succeed —the criminal concerned unwittingly pro vided, in his carefully mis-spelt documents, a series of clues which may be of value to the police.

PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY.

LTD.

10/1/56.

The Editors' Mailbag

pp. 24-25

For and Against the Indonesians

Ex-Fijians, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Exon, now are in Pakistan, where he is supervising the erection of radio stations given to Pakistan by Aus tralia under the Colombo Plan. In a private letter, Frank writes in terestingly of impressions they gained when they passed through Indonesia, en route to Karachi, in December: AFTER a few days of enlighten ment, first in Sourabaya and then in Djakarta, we feel much as you did about Indonesia.

Not for generations will these pathetic peoples build a worth-while nation —unless some leader arises brave enough to mould rifles into plough-shares and their precious rubber estates (already sadly neglected) into contraceptives rather than motor tyres. For the rich fertility of these lovely islands, and the fecundity of their peoples are their undoing—and could be ours...

In a lush land, crying for agri cultural development, too many of the young and reasonably capable sit either in Government offices

pushing around files and peoples career round in military lon armed to their excellent teeth with a purpose as vague, it w t . seem, as that of the coffee-colou co-ordinators of the latest eleo platform—leaving all useful won the peons and peasants.

The waste of capable man-po< would not matter quite so muc'.c a rural community. But thi sullen, wilful, bewildered child have suddenly inherited mo« cities of up to two million se with all the complex services ne«f to keep a modern city’s head aj Its sewage.

If they are not to revert to juu their inhabitants must call in side help—and it won’t be Du For too long the Dutch have gs too little and taken too much., could be us (or our side) if n of us thought more highly of; Colombo Plan —even as highly < as Russia seemingly does, sinces is paying it the tribute of erm tion or attempted emulation Nehru and India.

I know you think that what Ij many others are doing is om drop in the ocean and that ; Colombo Plan won’t alter hiss Maybe—but it doesn’t take m Pot: Permang,, either, to tun deluged countryside red—a here and there will do it if the ing and the concentration are n Despite Dutch warnings yours—we wandered with our wod (a foursome) through dockland r fifty miles inland to lovely 80. and met with nothing but help < shy courtesy, from official civilian alike.

In the justly-famed Botar.

Gardens there we wandered fox hour, encouraged by the man ofi trees and the warm friendlines the Malayan women as they 1 changed smile for smile with oc Only from private enterprise, , prisingly enough, did we meet ; courtesy or disinterest, or botM hotels and shops—and that critii —plus one for serving fl crockery and doubtful food — for the famed Hotel des Indies,,i

Take that Amphibious

Jeep, Sisters

Ex-Islanders have a never-enr source of entertainment in pic:up “blues” in metropolitan nr papers. Because of geography, mostly come from Australia— newspapers in US and UK d<r too, when they bother to e Islands news at all.

So, according to a clipping sen by a reader of the Sydney M.\

mtly, St. Vincent’s Hospital ses Ann Ryan and Noeline Man fly to Port Moresby in mid uary and from there motor th to spend some time on a itation near Lae.

Lther the newspaper was mis rmed; or the nurses are in for itter disappointment. The only I that goes approximately north i Moresby ends about 50 miles in the sticks. From that point could walk the rest of the oda trail, over the Owen Stanleys best point about 13,000 ft.) and n to Gona or Buna (which is in Papua) . From that point could. . . but why bother? A naster service leaves Moresby larly Tuesdays, Wednesdays, lays and Mondays. Flight time: •oximately an hour. ■ the sisters are still determined mtor, the only other solution is amphibious jeep, around the t).

New Guinea

luce Tea?

ERE has been much talk re ;ently about the possibilities of 'Tew Guinea growing tea for enormous market in Australia es a Brisbane correspondent). a we doubters ask how New ea natives are to be trained to tea, in the manner followed iccessive generations of trained ackers, we are told that this be done by machines. An ex nced tea-planter friend of , now here in Brisbane, asks many machines can pick the itional two leaves and a bud.” s is more to tea-picking than Dulling off the leaves, r old friend, Bob Trent, late ie Government tea plantation le Waria River, has resigned his Administration post at ina, where he has been plant ed has bought a dairy farm Dganlea, some 10 miles south isbane. He seems settled down I think, somehow, he will feel that call of the Islands, and to go back. He is another man J an discuss NG tea possibilities

interestingly.

Stamp Issue

p. 25

FOR NEW CALEDONIA

: New Caledonia Post Office as just issued a new series of amps. The set consists of 4 ts with a face value of 25.50 > (about 3/6). The series is as s: fcs value showing nickel s value, coffee plant, fcs value, Hienghene rocks, s value, ditto.

Three New Knights

p. 25

NEW YEAR HONOURS

HONOURS were evenly distributed to the Pacific Territories in this New Year—Fiji and New Guinea each has a new Knight, and a former NZ Minister for Islands Territories also has been knighted.

The list is as follows:

K.C.M.G.

Thomas Clifton Webb, QC. High Com missioner for NZ in the United Kingdom and formerly NZ Minister for Islands Territories.

K.B.E.

Frederick Phillips, Chief Judge of the Papua-New Guinea Supreme Court.

Ragnar Hyne, Fiji Chief Justice. 0.8. E.

Commander Clive Elliott, chief manager, CSK Co..

Fiji.

Officers Harold Brockett Gibson, Labasa, Fiji.

Jerry Auret Marais, Post-Master General.

Suva. Fiji.

Members William Carlyle Baker, planter, of Fiji.

Filimone Canimanu Raiqiso, Department of Agriculture, Fiji.

Although Sir Ragnar Hyne and Sir Federick Phillips have received identical honours, Sir Frederick has a distinction that Sir Ragnar has not: He is the only Knight in the whole of the big Territory of Papua and New Guinea, while there are about half a dozen in the small Colony of Fiji.

Sir Frederick is the Territory's first post-war Knight. Even before the war they were rare. Sir Ramsay McNicol, immediate pre-war Admin istrator of New Guinea, received the honour for the work he did during the 1937 volcanic eruption at Rabaul, and Sir Hubert Murray, who was Lieutenant-Governor of Papua from 1907 until his death in 1940, was knighted many years before that.

In the post-war years, Australia has been going through a semi socialist phase and all honours are apparently to be avoided like the plague.

There has been agitation to have the present Administrator renamed a Governor or High Commissioner, but the official answer is always “No.”

The story of Sir Frederick’s career is told by Tolala in Talk-Talk in this issue.

Sir Ragnar was born in Norway but is a Queenslander by adoption.

He went to school and University there and entered the Qld. Educa tion Service. He served in World War I and then went to Tonga as Director of Education. He was called

to the Bar in Queensland in 1924, seconded to the BSIP in a legal capacity in 1929, returned to Tonga again as Director of Education in 1932 but on several occasions until 1936 acted as Chief Justice. He had appointments in Suva and BSIP as well as Tonga until 1944, when he be ca m e Solicitor-General, Sierra Leone. Transfer to the Gold Coast followed in 1948 (as Puisne Judge).

He arrived in Fiji as Chief Justice in 1953.

Ahead for Fiji

p. 25

1956 SUGAR PRICE

Another Good Year Ahead for Fiji

COMMONWEALTH sugar produc ing countries will, in 1956, re ceive £4O/15/- Stg., c.i.f. UK, per ton for raw sugar delivered under the terms of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement.

This is the same price as for 1955.

Under the terms of the Agree ment, a price for a certain fixed quota of raw sugar is negotiated each year. Fiji’s quota is 125,000 tons. Sugar produced and sold over that quantity is based on world price, which is usually the spot price obtained by Cuba. In early January the spot price of Cuban sugar was about £26 Stg., f.o.b. Cuban ports.

Although the difference in the Agreement price and current world price seems very great it gives any thing but a true picture of the sugar market. Little sugar is sold at “world price,” most sugar deals be considerably higher than that. For example, Cuba sells a considerable portion of its sugar to the United States under an agreement for about 5 cents per lb., which is about 2 cents per lb above world price.

Most sugar deals, outside of Agree ments, are negotiated on-a basis of world-price plus—plus being what ever the producer countries can persuade the consumer country to add to the price per pound.

The result of this year’s negotia tions, so far as the Fiji sugar in dustry is concerned, means that there will be another year of prosperity in the Colony. But although Commonwealth sugar pro ducers, like Commonwealth copra producers, are now getting the best end of the bargain this only goes to level out the war and post-war years when the UK took all Empire sugar at ridiculously low prices.

Cost of production, moreover, is still increasing. If so-called “world price” were the amount actually re ceived for raw sugar, the sugar in dustries in Australia and Fiji would be completely uneconomic.

Hebrides And Samoan Business

pp. 26-139

AIRLINE MANOEUVRES

NEW CONTENDERS FOR THE

Reports from several parts of the Pacific indicate that 1956 may see changes in the established set-up of international and local airlines. The New Hebrides, which has had no air service since mid-1955, may now have a choice of operators; and American Samoa, which has had no service since the war, is back on the air map.

rE battle of the New Hebrides skyways is apparently under way. Two companies in mid- December thrashed out before the New Caledonian Assembly the ques tion of which one was to get the New Hebrides franchise. The in ternal airways company, Transpac, has asked the Local Assembly to obtain the loan of 14 million francs from the Mother country to pur chase two “Heron” planes for which they have obtained an option in Australia.

With these two planes the young company plans to develop a com plete service Noumea-New Hebrides, and perhaps go further afield.

The company operates a de Havilland Dragon and has an nounced the purchase of another of these machines in Australia.

The company has doubled its capital to permit further expansion.

The projects of this infant com pany are being challenged by the French company T.A.I. (Transports Aerians Intercontinentaux, which is to take over the liaison with France from Air France in the New Year.

This company, completely private and not subsidised, proposes using DC6s on the Paris-Noumea run.

They are studying also the pos sibility of basing DC4s in Noumea to run a subsidiary service from Noumea to Australia, Tahiti, New Hebrides and New Zealand.

In the debate before the local Assembly, the representative of T.A.I. stated that if the Noumea- New Hebrides run was not avail able the company would have to “reconsider its position”, adding that, naturally that did not apply to the Paris-Noumea run, which was definite.

Following a long debate, during which the President of the local Transpac assured Members that full security would be found for the loan and that the question was urgent as the option on the machines was for 15 days only, a decision to radio the French Government was made.

From all this, one point is clear —that the New Hebrides will, in the near future, have a regular air service.

One wonders whether, if all the hopes of T.A.I. are realised. Qantas will find it economical to continue to fly into New Caledonia at all. — Noumea Correspondent.

FRENCH AIR COMPANY’S PLANS

rE new company that supersedes Air France is called Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux (not Internationales, a s previously stated) and it will run the complete Paris-Noumea route —not just the Saigon-Noumea section, as prev iously reported in PIM.

TAl’s schedule on this service will be fortnightly—the first flight leaving Paris (Orly Airport) on January 6; and departing Noumea on the return flight on January 10.

Calls will be made at Cairo, Karachi, Saigon. Darwin. Air France called also at Brisbane. This call has been cut out but the company hopes to get permission for a Sydney call.

DC6B aircraft will be used.

Papeete reported in December that a Catalina aircraft of TAI arrived at Bora Bora on December 4 from Noumea on a survey flight.

The Papeete report says that TAI will soon extend its service east ward from Noumea to Bora Bora (where there is an aerodrome) via Pago Pago with a DC4 aircraft. To connect Papeete with this service and provide for an expansion in its operations, the French Oceania organisation Regie Aerienne Inter

insulaire (RAI) will soon take i livery of another Catalina aircn The company has sold a Grumn Mallard amphibian which v damaged by fire in mid-1954. Sc October, 1954, RAI has been opra ing a single amphibious Catalinsi a scheduled inter-island servioi The establishment of an French connection to Papeete wo no doubt, result in the loss of S 2 business, more especially Fre' Government travellers, by TEAA

PAA TAFUNA-NADI FEEDS

SERVICE

Pan American Airways will, January, introduce a DC4 fra service between Tafuna ain (American Samoa) and Nadi, to connect with the main ’

Stratocruiser service between . tralia and North America. Frequt will be once monthly.

This supersedes the PAA f© service that formerly operated monthly between Tafuna and HI lulu. Only PAA through-passerr to and from the US and Amen; Samoa will be accepted. That) passengers cannot use the servio journeys between Tafuna and or for breaks of journey in This DC4 service will be run to i nect with the service that le.

San Francisco on the 4th TuesdsJ each month. First Nadi-Tae flight will be on Jan. 27.

WILL NADI LOSE OUT? <

The US Government has autj ised the expenditure of $l,OO on Tafuna. (See page 74). S people, including Mr. Harold GI owner of Fiji Airways, see in j fact a threat to the continued ©

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ce of Nadi, Fiji, as the South cific’s main international airport, itty thinks that if the 5 countries io make up the South Pacific Air ansport Council do not soon get sy on improving Nadi or building new airport for jet require mts, Fiji will lose out in inter tional aviation. A third runway ■ Nadi has been under discussion ■ years by the governments re msible for Nadi —but so far has t progressed beyond that.

P AIRLINES DEVELOPMENT

CCORDING to a Honolulu an . nouncement, all shares in South Pacific Airlines Ltd. w T ere taken over by the Robert Dollar Co., San Francisco, as from January 1. n reporting this, the company d that management would re in unchanged with Mr. Stanley liar as President; Mr. S. Van rkleo, a leading Honolulu busi ;s man as Vice-President, and ptain F. I. L. Barnes, of Sydney, operational manager. l large percentage of shares has along been held by the Dollar 'he announcement also reported

that one of the 40-seat Solent flying boats was now ready to carry out route tests on the Honolulu- Christmas Island-Papeete route.

Flights could not commence, how ever, until the necessary naviga tional, meteorological, radio, and fuelling facilities were completed on Christmas Island. There had been a delay in getting delivery of equip ment, but all should be ready “early in 1956.” The company will not receive afiy Government subs-dy.

Fares,* Hono 1 u 1 u-Papeete are approved at $2BO single and $532 return.

Advice received by PIM direct from South Pacific Airlines early in January was, however, less optimistic than the Honolulu reports. Target date was given as “before Bastille Day”—July 14.

Additional to the Christmas Island facilities provision still has to be made for a weather observation station on an island adjacent to the southern sector of the route—that is, between Christmas Island and Papeete. Malden, Starbuck, Vostok Caroline, and Flint are all adjacent, but according to SPAL, Flint appears the best location in view of the fact that this small island is at present inhabited by Tahiti copra workers. The possibility of provid ing radio equipment and training

the manager at Flint into the tak ing of weather observations is now being investigated.

Silver Wedding for Suva Couple

p. 26

Mr. and Mrs. R. Prasad cutting the cake at their silver wedding anniversary recep[?] the Parish Hall, Suva, recently. More than 100 guests representing all communities[?] the function, believed to be the first Indian silver wedding anniversary celebrated publ[?] Fiji. Mr. Hari Charan (seen standing beside the couple), president of the Indian Assn. was master-of-ceremonies. Other speakers included the Indian Commissioner in Fiji (Mr. [?] the Rev. Mr. Figgess and the Rev. Mr. Deoki.

—Photo by Popular Art

Notes Made in and Around Fiji

pp. 27-131

FROM R. W. ROBSON , IN SUVA, DEC. IS

Political Conditions

; More Tranquil

all the 25 years since first I established the PIM, and began to look over the Central Pacific dd intervals, I never have known more tranquil. lere is plenty of politically ex ive material there. Five com lities—European, part-European, m, Indian, Chinese —are liable, irritate each other with their ;h edges in any country where have to live together; and Fiji known plenty of community in. le Indians have been the worst ble-makers. “Well here we are, ■we are as good as any Euro 1, and entitled to European irs and privileges here,” seemed im up their attitude, over many s. it, since the war, and since an -larger proportion of Fiji-born ans have come to the fore, the an community seems to have a ;r appreciation of Fiji’s peculiar lems, and of the definite obliga ; of the British towards the ns. They see the Fiji situation agh the eyes of the responsible Lnistration, rather than through iwisted spectacles of old India — nsion distorted by age-old idices and an inferiority com-

This better outlook among Indians has been encouraged and assisted by the present Governor. Unlike his predecessors, Sir Ronald Garvey, out of his long experience in this region, has a clearer understanding of Fiji’s background, and of the psychology of the different races he has to control.

Also, unlike some high officials, he has no prejudice against Indians.

While accepting Fijian welfare as his primary responsibility, he seems to find much to admire in Indian culture and Indian character. He has not forgotten that Britain’s finest achievements in India would not have been possible without the loyal and very capable help of many famous Indians.

All communities give the present Governor much of the credit for the present peaceful condition of the Colony. If his work is not sub jected to overseas interference, he may do much to provide a solution for Fiji’s fundamental problem— namely, how Indians and Fijians may live together in comparative calm and security.

Bau Now is of The Past AN interesting and important de parture from native custom and tradition was made recently in Fiji.

When Lieut.-Colonel Edward Cakobau took over Development and other administrative duties in South East Viti Levu, it was assumed that his headquarters would be out on the islet of Bau, regarded as the focal point of native administration ever since the first King of Bau established himself there.

But Bau is very small, and some what inaccessible: and the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) and the Fiji leaders had a talk about it. As a result, the South East native head quarters were placed in Tailevu (northeast of Suva, beyond Nausori) —from which point most of the big and important district is accessible by road—and Edward Cakobau has taken up residence there.

Bau, of course, will be maintained as a place of great historic interest; but its administrative and economic importance is gone.

Ten Fiji Cigarettes

For 8d! 1 NOTICED many of Fiji’s gentle ladies using cigarettes out of a neat red-and-white packet marked “Star”; and when I dis played interest in something new, they coyly presented me with some of them.

They are the new cigarettes being made in Fiji by a Fiji Company formed by the W. D. and H. O. Wills interests to cater for the local market. They are made of imported tobacco, and are somewhat loosely packed to take care of certain local

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The morning of Wednesday, December 14, was notable the history of Nadi Airport, Fiji. The great Comet jet [?]er, on a round-the-word test, flew from Auckland to Nadi [?] less than 3 hours on the 13th; and at 8 a.m. on the [?]th it took off for Honolulu. It is seen, in the inset, [?]st leaving the ground at Nadi, before circling the airport.

Meantime, that morning, there was—quite by chance— [?] remarkable assemblage of Trans-Pacific airliners on Nadi, [?]e photo below, by Charles Stinson, shows them all. [?] the extreme left is a Fiji Airways Drover, just in from [?]usori. Then, a Pan American Airways Strato-Cruiser [?] its way from America to Australia; a Pan American [?]4, just in from Auckland; a Canadian Pacific airliner [?]st in from Amsterdam, via the North Pole and Van [?]uver, en route to Sydney; a Qantas Super-Constellation, [?] route to Sydney; and, in the background, barely visible, TEAL airliner just in from New Zealand.

natic conditions. I smoked some, 1 their quality is excellent.

'he Government approved the n because it represents a local Bring for Fijian and Indian con lers. I do not think that either pernor or manufacturers an pated the European reaction. ; European women have taken to m because they are good, and ause they sell at 10 for Bd—a reduction on the imported lines. hat evening, I sat in on a little 3 party where I met a bright interesting Londoner who is a elling representative of Carreras, ous makers of cigarettes. He he had been “looking round.’' ,” said I brightly. “And where when do Carreras start manu uring?” He said indignantly Carreras had no such plan. He in a minority—most of the illy well-informed people in Fiji led sure there will be a Carreras 3ry there before dawn of 1957. r all, Wills cannot be allowed et away with a successful and itable enterprise like that.

Comet Looks In RRIVED in Nadi on the heels F the big new Comet, which ad flown from New Zealand in • absurd number of minutes. e whole district made it a fete sion —well-known district folk, Lautoka right around to Siga came in to see England’s ler-machine, and the large mbo lounge was crowded to the es. Merriment grew, the cash ter sang tunefully, and Barry >’s famous smile spelled borne” in all languages. e Comet boys were abstemious; ;he uninhibited sightseers saw reason for early retirement, lolically shaken, I got behind Cadi Hotel’s hospitable mosquito in at 12.30 a.m.—and was red forth at 6 a.m. by a very mined Rex Steele, who insisted I see the Comet off at 7.30 a.m. 3 take-off was impressive. One run—Zoom!—and she was in tir and doing a dip overhead 'OO feet before we had time to ie twist out of our necks. at was even more impressive the unrehearsed assembly of -Pacific air-liners at that mt on the Nadi airfield—big s from ’Frisco, Vancouver, and, Sydney—and even the iian Pacific airliner in from jrdam via the North Pole, had chosen that morning for 1. (See photo, page 25.)

More and More

Suva Buildings

SUVA’S lines of shops and offices, from the reclaimed Walu Bay area (west of the docks) right along the lagoon-side to the Grand Pacific Hotel, are changing.

Right in the centre of the city, there is a substantial addition being made to the Bank of New Zealand.

Any day now, the new Burns Philp Arcade, to cover the site of hurricane - wrecked McDonald’s Hotel, opposite the Triangle, will get under way.

Further east, facing Victoria Parade, the big and impressive building being constructed for the Fiji Native Land Trust is half built.

But, near it, the impressive lower storey of the South Seas Hotel is still at the stage where it stopped after the earthquake two years ago, and tropical creepers are beginning to cover the concrete pile. Suva, however, expects that the new Morris Hedstrom-Carpenter alliance will re sume building.

At the other corner of Gordon Street, mainly facing the Parade, the large, new two-storey building for the Barker Estate is under rapid construction.

There are long waiting lists of

eager tenants, mostly Indian, for all these forthcoming new shops and offices.

Managing-Director Helson showed me the plans of the fine, four storey building which Burns Philp (South Seas) Co. Ltd. will shortly erect on the large area of vacant land directly opposite the present BP building. It will fill the whole area from Rodwell Road to the waterside, and up to Scott Street, and will be used mainly by BP de partments. They have just extended their main store, in modern styles, from the back westwards —but that does not meet all requirements.

There are additional buildings in the docks area, around Malcolm Brodie’s enterprises; and over in the Walu Bay reclamation there is an absolute welter of new construction.

I prophesy more vigorous new con struction when the Carpenter- Hedstrom alliance gets into its stride.

Suva surely is growing up.

Elizabeth Hennings of

Naitauba

IT was a pleasure in Suva to meet Mrs. Elizabeth Hennings, of Naitauba —one of Fiji’s well-loved

and gracious matrons of the old school.

I had known her over many years, as an occasional PIM contributer.

I had met her daughter, Mara, in Sydney (wife of Banker “Dusty”

Miller), and her daughter, Bobo, in London (wife of Cinema-Director Pennington Richards), and her daughter, Elizabeth, in Suva, when she was working on the O’Keefe film, but had not previously seen Mrs. Hennings herself.

Friends try to persuade her that she should now live in Suva or Aus tralia, or Europe; but I saw her go with obvious pleasure aboard the little ship, home to the Lau Islands.

She has a deep sentimental regard for Naitauba, to which lovely isolated island she was taken by the late Gus Hennings from Germany about 1912.

Her hair is white, but she retains still the fine complexion and slim figure of the German girl who cap tured Gus Hennings in Germany in the days before World War I.

He Carries Around Plans for W. Samoa MET unexpectedly in the GPH, my old friend (and PIM corre spondent of 25 years standing)

Hon. A. M. Gurau, MLC, of WesM Samoa. He was en route on Tofua to New Zealand, for a ha day, accompanied by his smilL wife and their lovely little grau daughter.

I tried to hold him to persoc gossip about mutual friends Samoa —but it was no use. Ew so often he would break away T , discuss the politico-economic affj of the Western Samoans (n 100,000 and increasing steadiJ which are his chief preoccupatio Cocoa is down to half of whai was a year or two ago; but evern £St>g.2so per ton, the Samoans main passing rich.

Mr. Gurau wants someone to vestigate the possibility of establi. ing the cattle industry in Samco he says that selected breeds sho flourish on the high country at eastern end of Upolu.

Local Paper Makes

War on the PRO SUVA’S Top Brass, official and official, has been observing, v cynical amusement, the attenr of the Fijian Times to administe public caning to the Public Relati: Office.

When Suva, in November, was i

,ded by a swarm of reporters, avid r sensational stories about the njita affair, the Times tried to in ice PRO to let down its back hair so, and join in the sensation mgering. When PRO insisted on eping to the sober truth, and tting cold water on some of the ight boys’ more absurd stories, the mes declared war on the PRO, d lectured the Government ntifically on the shortcomings of 5 Department. fhen Len Usher, head of PRO d on holiday in NZ, talked to an ckland newspaper about the fita reports emanating from Suva, 3 —with commendable restraint— d they were “ridiculous.”

Vhereupon the Fiji Times, on De riber 12, expressed its very great loyance with Mr. Usher, and the O, and the Government, and re dded them of what it considered •e their duties and obligations. It 3 that the reporters who were ponsible for the stories at which Usher had jeered were very nous correspondents indeed, jreas Mr. Usher is not even “a fessional journalist.”

' sa id that the PRO should cease :oncern itself with the collection presentation of news, and de ; itself to explaining the Gov nent to the people, iva really was amused. It has a ly memory of the long and barren ’S when Fiji was without a real spaper service, and the need filled by the PRO’S weekly news the Joyita stories represent the * of real news Paper-men and PROs weekly Bulletin is the luct of a non-professional nahst, then Suva is quite sure the class of service it would er. ji folk may not know it—but e are no Territories in the fic, and few British Colonies in world, better served in the field übhc Relations than is Fiji.

Usher, deservedly, has an inter )nal reputation—not only as a but as a journalist. ing Old But

ig Strong

is 20 years since I first sat in the Suva Rotary Club’s Thurs iy luncheon, on the GPH idah. Old friends have gone, there now are many new faces ie getting sterner, with the of the ageing years. But the now under the presidency of Elliott, goes on its useful way. ule we sat there chuckling, eant-Major” Claude Israel, merciless ingenuity, imposed i upon a wide variety of ished members, for hitherto crimes. The culmination he extraction of 3/- each from

o worthy citizens ’’for imagining at they would not be fined.” rhe total was added to the fund der which this healthy little fanisation gives its Christmas at annually to children in hos als and other institutions. :e from Oversea!

OCAL merchants and traders in form me, with a suitable display or irritation, that “a lot of rice m India is coming into the Fiji rket.” ’he picture is enough to annoy r economist. Fiji has the rice d, the rice mills, the know-how, the market, and should be grow every ounce of rice consumed the Colony. It is absurd that d Fiji money should be going rseas for such a commodity, he explanation probably lies in ’s increasing purchases of goods n India, and the consequent culty of arranging exchange in ment therefor. ension into N. Guinea JOVIAL face, surmounting a schoolboy figure, had me baffled, momentarily. It was the face of Lawlor but where was magnificent 17-stone body, so known in the happy caravan is of Sydney, London and Paris? appears that under doctors’ rs he went on a diet; and five

or six stone of good Fijian brawn and muscle, and maybe a little fat has gone into thin air, to the great benefit of our genial friend.

He tells me that his well-known Suva firm, Pearce and Company has extended into New Guinea, where as Pearce and Co (New Guinea) Ltd It. is being managed in Rabaul by Mr. Eric Lawson.

Why Not a Cool Station for Suva?

DRINKING tea on a hospitable verandah, I noticed that even old-timers were perspiring. Me I was frankly sweating—l couldn’t keep the rivulets off my spectacles.

Facing me, across Suva Harbour, I noticed some small mountains I asked, “Were they accessible, and how high were they? Why did not Suva folk, like Europeans in similar countries, maintain hot-season cool ing-off places in the nearby hills?”

Pat Costello smiled wryly. “That is Mount Rorobaba,” he said, point ing to the highest peak. “It is 1,408 feet above sea-level, and seven miles from the Post Office, and I own the country thereabouts. In Governor Mitchell’s time I donated 250 acres covering the top of that mountain,’ which is quite accessible, to the Fiii public.

“I thought it would be appreci ated by those people in Suva who,

otherwise, must stay down here at sea-level and swelter.

“The Government accepted it, and called it the Costello National Park.

I thought they would have put a road in, with all the spare bull dozers around after the war, so that people could have got up there in 30 minutes. But nothing was done."

I said I would write a nasty note about it. This is it. Facts speak louder than comments.

Fiji Pineapple

Cannery Closes

This is the last week of pineapple canning. The CSR Co. is closing down what, at one time, appeared to be a sound and profit able secondary industry for Fiji.

There was nothing wrong with the Fiji pineapple, or with the pack, or with the prices the Co. could sell at in the available markets. It is just that there are not enough pine apples produced in Fiji to keep the industry going on a scale which would keep It economic.

The Co. has been growing its own pineapples. No other planters have come along in sufficient numbers; and CSR cannot increase its pine apple acreage without sacrificing good sugar lands. It considered a plan to establish large pineapple plantations in the Labase area - but a survey showed the soil there’ was unsuitable.

Territories Talk-Talk

pp. 29-33

By Tolala

ependent People”

; popular euphemism, coined by ie long-haired theorist to de be the more primitive native bs. is “dependent people,” and in ny official reports and theses on ; New Guinea native one comes jss this pompous, patronising n which, to my mind at any L is a decided misnomer, he New Guinea native in his ural state is anything but a de dent person upon the “sovereign L” which we are pleased to call selves. i fact I doubt if you could find lore independent, self-contained vidual than the primitive native, i is capable of supplying all his l requirements by his own toil a prolific soil; for the simple On his needs are limited to the i necessities of life, his joys are pie and his appetites under full ;rol. is only after our contact with and experiencing the influence ur own high-pressure sales-talk ; he develops an appetite for the iries, the non-essentials of our isation and, as a result of our ng, becomes —w hat we are

pleased to term —a unit of a “de pendent people.” ... In fact, it is the super-civilised individual who is the dependent person in the Scheme of Things these days. Isolate him from his push-button gadgets and the average civilised bloke is lost.

The Tolai “Incident”

The bunger set off by the South Pacific Post (Nov. 23) concerning the Tolai situation over Village Councils, schools and Missions has proved to be anything but a damp squib.

In fact its repercussions may be as far-reaching as a lesser atomic bomb if the de-lousing squad doesn’t get onto the job properly. After reading published official statements (which are not very illuminating) and unofficial information from on the-spot observers (which is some what disquieting) I find a difficulty in deciding which is held to be the main problem: Is it the status quo of Village Councils; the ban on Village schools; mission activities or is each a bone of contention of equal magnitude?

If the incident has done nothing else, it certainly must have im

pressed upon the Administration weaknesses in its policy and/or its implementation which for years un official observers have attempted to point out, and repeatedly voiced warnings of potential unhappy re percussions. Principally they were: • The excessive speeding-up of the inoculation of sophistica tion to the native people— urged on by a hypercritical political UNO. (Many of the UNO members well knowing the dire results such a policy must have on a primitive people). • The absence of experienced officers, whose retirements have been occasioned as a result of frustration caused by Admin tration policy; o The overlapping of mission activities, where some zoning system should have been in troduced.

Administrator Cleland, after his December conference with the in terested parties in Rabaul, said: “. . . . It should be clearly under stood that at any stage in the progress of a dependent people there will always be an element of unawareness of things which to us may seem obvious.

“Any policy of development in regard to a dependent people can only be a long range one which

requires patience, diligence and understanding in helping them over these difficult periods.”

Despite his reference to a long range policy of development requir ing patience, S’Honour later refers to the task of bringing health and education to all the people “in the shortest possible time,” and con tinues: “It is for all of us wherever we be or whatever station in life we occupy, to appreciate and realise that the sectarian issue must not and should not be raised in a society which is primarily composed of de pendent people. . . .”

My opinion—and that of old and experienced residents living in and around Rabaul, and who give me more detailed accounts of incidents than are reported in the Post— is that an embarrassing situation has arisen and there is no one in a government position, with sufficient knowledge and experience of Tolai mentality, to handle the situation with the degree of diplomacy re quired.

In such situations you have to think native to successfully deal with the matter. And that is where the loss of experienced officials comes into the picture. In some instances it would almost seem as though the Administration does not want to retain the services of B 4 officials.

There’s one thing very certain that comes out of the whole affair: And that is that Government officials must be on the ball 24 hours a day. Native minds and meander ings do not observe the forty hours week (yet). And one of these days —repeat, one of these days—officials may find that their arbitration-fixed hours may be their undoing; not only for themselves, but for their wives and children and others who look to them for protection.

From Opposite

Ends

From as far back as I can re member there has always been rivalry—and not always of a friendly nature—between the Manus and the Buka. They had only one thing in common; They were both sea faring people and in earlier days were the two types mostly sought after by schooner skippers for boats-crews.

The Manus, light-skinned and virile; the Buka, black as the ace of spades and a real dandy.

A modern difference lies in the fact that whereas Paliau and his henchman in the Baluan group, have adopted Village Councils with all their up-to-date regimentation (in cluding, so I am informed, the edict that all males must wear trousers and drink tea; are not allowed to leave the island without permission of the Council; and everyone’s task is allotted each day by being written on the Council roster blackboard), the Bukas are steering clear of this new-fangled regime that seems to them to cramp their individualism.

Recent issues of The Rabaul News (the Pidgin voice of the Education

Dept, amongst the Tolais) special prominence to the vise Administrator Cleland and his : to the Baluan Council, where were met by local dignitaries : District Commissioner English Chairman Paliau, whom many\ remember in a more unofi' capacity some years ago.

Whether publicity of the sui of Village Councils in Manus isJ result of the somewhat antagon attitude displayed by some ofi Tolais, is a moot point. The BE still maintain their opposition Manus “fashion.” An attempts made in Buka, shortly after-: Rabaul “incident” registering tagonism towards Councils, to : Village Councils in that area,, the Bukas would not have it ok They are certainly an indivio istic crowd, those Bukas. Evem so-called co-operative movement not found favour with them.

Those Import

Restrictions

I am inclined to think the “fon resident of New Guinea” has? something (Editor’s Mailbag, n regarding the imposition of irm restrictions in the Trust Terrii I have heard it explained, officially, but by one who shr know, that Australia bases action on Article 4 of the Trusj ship Agreement, which gives hen same powers of legislation ant. forth as if the Territory were integral part of Australia.

What happens when such leg? tion conflicts wflh the comr rights of UNO members remains be seen. It is, apparently, just: other one of those internatjt anomalies which exist until a legal-minded eagle of UNO ra the point. And then the aggrit! nation (even as France or Sc< Africa) gathers up its toys and , it won’t play any more because affects the integral working ofi domestic policy.

Not for one moment do I sugs that the extension of Austral import restrictions to NG mayj a major issue but—and I sug? it may be a big “but”—with V North countries eager for mark and considering the recent chan colour of UNO members (who now in the majority). I thinKj unlikely if the issue is allowed to unchallenged.

With one hand we distriF largesse under the Colombo H and with the other withdfc legitimate trade. Anyway, Trust : has no economic need for import f strictions. But (another “but”-' must bear it share of Australia’s < verse trade balance as part of privilege of receiving the ov< generous Australian subsidy'.

jable the Public Service to carry i in the merged territories.

A different situation to that of •e-war years when the Trust Ter tory was more than self-support g! '

electing Seed

uts It was interesting to read in a cent issue of the SP Post’s “On e Land” column all about the in duction of seed coconuts to the ;rritory. , The Choiseul Plantations Co. s

•wly-acquired properties in

lugainville in 1912-14, consisting of iraken, Baniu, Teopasmo and ■igua, were nearly all planted with ecially-selected nuts from the SIP. taken from SID and SIP operties on Guadalcanal and lortlands, and Jim Campbell the ;al big noise of the company at e time—was very strict on seed

lection.

As strict as was his war on ■ontispa froggatti. Many of the >rman planters at the time liculed this carefulness but, judg g by production returns in later ars, it has paid off.

rise. Sir Frederick!

Congratulations to the Chief stice of P-NG, Sir Frederick liUips, on the Knighthood con ned on him in the New Year mours’ list.

It will be well received throughout e Territory. “Montie,” as he is tectionately-known by his many i-time friends, is most certainly a ivening influence behind the rone and most fitted as an Iministrator, could he but be per aded to leave the judiciary.

What he doesn’t know about the tive land business (which appears be a top-level business these days) nobody’s business. His first job that connection was down in the SIP in 1920, after his return from ar I with the AFC.

He first went to Rabaul as Puisne dge in 1928 and later did an ex isive Land Inquiry into some vast eas, alienated during the German ne in the Madang area. I have rsonally reported many big iminal cases brought before him the Rabaul Supreme Court and is always impressed with his clear nming-up and acute knowledge of tive customs and traditions where ey conflicted with our mere Ddern trend of justice.

During the Rabaul eruption he 1 a masterly job of Rabaul’s acuation as Acting Administrator, r which he collected the CBE.

He was well off the mark in War and during 1940 to 1946 served th the RAAF. He was a lover the arts and he is a man who,

jars ago, saw the writing on the ill which is causing so many head hes to-day amongst those who mid not, or could not visualise a Ranging social attitude in the uth Seas.

Ihis new dignity will sit well on b shoulders of Sir Frederick. oken Promises When I first went to New Guinea, old and experienced resident said me: “Always keep your promise a coloured person—no matter 10 he is, or what you have pro sed him —present or punishment.” later realised the need for not jmising something I could not fil, and that a European might able to understand the cir nstances which prevented a rniise from being carried out, but it a coloured person could not.

Jnfortunately, down the years I ire noticed that many promises ide to Chinese, Malays, Mixed >ods and natives by Europeans ire been broken, and one of I greatest offenders has been t Government itself which, h all its advisers on native r chology, should be the last break its promises. Constant mges of personnel and a general regard of the importance of the en word by inexperienced officers » been the main cause, md that is why it is so regrettable read the remarks of the Kombiu lb’s President made at the De tiber meeting of the TAG re ding the non-supply of electricity the Club building in Malay vn, Rabaul. A supply said to have n promised over five years ago. t is not a delay; it is a broken mise; a promise which should er have been made if it could not re been fulfilled. It appears to a very poor show on the part the Government.

re Bop’s

’he wanderings of an American ithologist, E. Thomas Gilliard, I his wife through the Sepik and ts of the Highland districts are 1 recorded in The National a graphic Magazine of October, 5. The colour photography is ex ent and the Gilliard couple ained several specimens of rare ds-of-Paradise.

r the People

the People

hades of our democratic form of ’eminent!

Minister Hasluck is candid if hing else in his reply to five ited Members of the NT Legis ve Council, who protested over a

block vote by the seven official Mem bers of the Chamber who, it was claimed, were told how to vote by the Government.

Thus the Minister: “I suggest the key to the situation is that, just as an elected Member has responsibil ities towards his constituents, so the Official Member will be conscious of a responsibility to the Government which appoints him. The obligation of Official Members to the Govern ment is not a matter of law, or Ministerial instructions but conven tion. You imply there is dissatis faction with the Legislative Council as now constituted. But the whole history of constitutional growth tells of dissatisfaction.”

That seems to knock the idea on the head that the Government could, by any stretch of the imagination,’ represent the people.

Sounds more like the castigation of a power-intoxicated despot of the Public Service, rather than a communication from a Minister of the Crown, elected by the people to the people’s House of Represent atives.

Lucky Island?

p. 33

PACIFIC H-BOMB

Which Will be the Lucky Island?

IT was announced, just before Christmas, that British and Australian scientists will, at the end of 1956, explode an H-Bomb on an “uninhabited Pacific Island/’

The Australian government has refused to allow the H-bomb to be exploded on the Australian main land, but a couple of plain A-bombs, used as triggers for the H-bomb, will go off sometime this year.

The researchers have a list of 20 islands “suitable for the test” and will make a survey of them shortly —the bomb will “probably be flown from the UK to the chosen island.”

As the uninhabited Pacific islands under Commonwealth administra tion are strictly limited —particularly when they have to have facilities for landing bombs by air we can scarcely wait until we find out which is to be the lucky one.

Anticipating those screams of rage that are sure to come from some reactionary Pacific residents, we would like to point out that it is nice to think that the vast open spaces of the Pacific are useful for something. Moreover, the experi ment will have some advantages— there are unlikely to be any Japanese fishing boats around the “chosen” island at that time, and those of you who live within a thousand miles or so of it will be able to find out if H-bombs really do affect the weather.

Nz Airways

p. 34

NO TEAL-NAC MERGER

THE CASE FOR THE

Letter to the Editor IT is wished to refer you to No vember, 1955, issue of Pacific Islands Monthly, page 107, article “Merger with NAC Suggested.”

In past years the Corporation has raised with you inaccuracies and derogatory reports of its activities published in the journal, and it now feels bound to do so again. NAC acknowledges the scope and influ

ence of Pacific Islands Monthly— this is illustrated by the fact that it has advertised in the magazine for a number of years—and it is accordingly perturbed when preju dicial implications against its opera tions are featured.

In the article now raised with you the report quoted from the Sydney Morning Herald concerning a possible merger between TEAL and NAC has since been answered in the Dominion Press by the New Zealand Minister of Civil Aviation, who very concisely commented: “Utter rubbish!” He added that a few years ago, when the future of BCPA was under determination, the possibility of a TEAL/NAC merger

was investigated; but at an e stage it was revealed as impracti Your article also refers to Corporation as a “white elephs It continues in the vein: “Sinces National Government gained poo efforts have been made to unr the non-profit making NAC. . .

You should know that in ; NAC annual financial reports tae in the NZ House of Representafj since 1947 only three have achieved a profit after the paym of full taxation and interest d capital. In addition, during financial year ended March 31, 1 a further sum in excess of £9o' was paid to the Government in port dues.

Such losses that have been j curred took place during the eo years of development and expana and after the closure to the 0 poration aircraft of the Rong and Mangere airports, which sg the two principal centres of Air land and Wellington. Profits m during the remaining years M absorbed those losses and the 0 poration to-day is in a heai financial position. It has recce ordered three Vickers “Visco Series 800”, 52/60 seater turbo-p peller airliners and has provr from reserves alone, accumulateo; earlier years, for more than £5003 of the capital cost of this ; equipment.

When operations were commen after the war, 80,000 passengers 1 annually with NAC. To-day nr than 400,000 passengers travel es year. The Corporation’s aircraft every day the equivalent of o around the world, making m than 300 landings and take-offsg 88 scheduled services.

Although a substantial part of Dominion’s air services are operas by NAC, it is by no means the © operator, as implied in your arti; Your Islands readers will aware that the Corporation £ operated for more than five ye a popular scheduled air-service tween New Zealand, Norfolk Islas Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa, AL taki and Rarotonga. A hr regularity factor was achieved, s all flights were completed withr incident.

In the circumstances, your operation would be appreciated! providing more factual references; NAC operations in the columnsg Pacific Islands Monthly.

I am, etc.,

J. H. DRISCOLL

Publicity Manage]' NZNAC, Wellington, NZ. t Mr. Andre Verard, of the M Hebrides, formerly of New Caledom recently won first prize in an A J tralian lottery.

[?]uggested Cannery

p. 35

PINEAPPLE

[?]NTURE

[?]uggested Cannery For Lae

GROUP of residents of Lae, New Guinea, have formed a committee to promote the idea establishing a local pineapple aery. tie company is to have a nominal tal of £lOO,OOO, which is to be ed in the Territory and in Aus ia. The committee believes that entire output of canned pines Id find a ready market. CSIRO »rts indicate that New Guinea oth-skinned pines are suitable canning for the market that the rioters have in mind. It is be ;d that New Guinea could grow cient of the fruit to produce )0 tons of canned pineapple annum.

EDITORIAL NOTE

large book could be written it the pineapple canning busi , as it applies to Pacific Islands, t ventures that have started riciously have ended in failure, details of the new industry in are available in Sydney and it be that the promoters have in

mind a market that will counteract the initial difficulties that they are sure to encounter.

Only one Island has made a suc cess of pineapple canning and that is Hawaii, which has a virtual monopoly of the tremendous Ameri can market. Fiji has had pineapple canneries for the past quarter century but with the end of the 1955-56 packing season, the last cannery—that owned and operated by the big Colonial Sugar Refining

Company—closed down.

When announcing this in March, 1955, the Company simply said that operations were “uneconomic.” The CSR cannery had been operating then for about 20 years.

At the time of the announcement the feeling in Fiji was that “If the CSR cannot make a go of it, no one can.” The Company had its own land, grew its own pines, had the necessary engineers and workshops at its sugar mills in Fiji; it had chemists, soil scientists and experi enced agriculturists. Furthermore, it had the raw sugar.

However, lack of suitable land was the vital factor in the CSR decision, as a large slice of the former pine apple growing lands was resumed for Fiji’s international airport at Nadi. The CSR had been under taking experiments in pineapple growing on the other large island

of Fiji, Vanua Levu, but the land was proved not suitable.

This is where NG will have an advantage over Fiji—the promoters calculate that NG can grow sufficient pineapples to provide 10,000 tons of canned fruit per annum, and that is a lot of pineapples in any language.

New Moresby Manager

p. 36

of ARC

t The Union Co.’s fruit freighter Navua suffered an engine break down early December when 7 miles west of Vavau. Temporary repairs were effected and the vessel abandoned the scheduled Tonga call and headed for further repairs in Suva. The ship had fuel for the Comet airliner aboard, for use at Nadi.

t By mid-December , half of 1 £2,000 Sir Peter Buck Memorial H established in New Zealand, been collected. The fund will on March 31. t Mr. George Allen, Educsc Officer on Pitcairn Island, and Allen, have completed their tK; year appointment and will soon turn to New Zealand.

Mr. Stan R. Stephens, of the Vacuum Oil Company, who has been appointed administrative manager in Port Moresby for Australasian Petroleum Co. Vacuum is one of the largest shareholders in APC.

In Papua-New Guinea

pp. 37-119

[?]urrent News Items From Our Correspondents In Papua-New Guinea

3RISTMAS WAS GAY IN THE

TERRITORY

Papua-New Guinea had perhaps I gayest Christmas on record, with ainly fine weather, numerous rties, Father Christmas on time, id best of all, no serious accidents.

Several towns, including Port wesby, had heavy showers on iristmas afternoon; Boxing Day d somewhat cooler weather. Big jwds, however, were on beaches at sports events.

But for the majority, Boxing Day sant a day at home recovering »m December 25, or entertaining ests. For the children, as for ildren throughout the world, it s another day to play with their w toys.

Father Christmas in the Terri y put in appearances at all the jn centres and at many of the posts. rhe weather being a trifle too hot reindeers, he left them behind i arrived in alternate transport, iging from Dakota aircraft to bive canoes and small dinghies.

Port Moresby, he arrived astride (rilliant red fire-engine, fcetail traders reported record ristmas business. The emphasis, y said, was on semi-luxury goods.

Qk officials said that the bank le for the Territory was also a ord.

Jhurches throughout P-NG were ked with worshippers at mid ht services and at all services on ristmas Day. For many natives the interior, 1955 was their first ristmas in the Christian spirit, were the people to whom isionaries came only this year.

Ifith Christmas over, Boxing y and the following day were m over to sports and native 5-sings —the biggest being at roka, where the P-NG Admin ator and Mrs, Cleland were nding three weeks local leave, wards of 12,000 gaily-dressed ives took part, and some later fived prizes from Mr. Cleland. roroka and Wau were by far the st popular places for tourists dur the holidays—there was not a ant bed available in either tre. i Lae, police and the master of motor-vessel Buka spent part of :ing Day afternoon rescuing r native adults and two children n an overturned canoe two miles n shore. The rescuers managed save all the natives’ possessions the canoe, on the way from Lae Labu, was lost. hristmas did not go unnoticed Mount Hagen (Western High is) either, but the Big Celebra i there was a dance on New

Year’s Eve. It was the inaugural function at the newly-formed Mount Hagen Country Club.

NEW GUINEA NEWSPRINT?

The Australian Government is re ported to be looking into the pos sibility of using certain New Guinea timbers for paper pulp—a suggestion made by the PIM in dependently in December.

The Federal Minister for National Development, Senator Spooner, told reporters in early December that the need to increase the Australian out

put of pulp, paper and paper-board represented a challenge of national Importance.

Senator Spooner was commenting on a review of the industry which disclosed that imports of pulp and paper were one of the biggest single items on Australia’s Import Bill in 1964/55.

He said that in view of Australia’s limited forest resources, the ex pansion of newsprint production might depend on certain New Guinea timbers and a variety of Australian eucalypts.

THE UN-MOBILE CLINICS

The mu c h-discussed Outpost question of “what’s happening to the Mobile Clinics we bought” was

kly answered by the P-NG Ad istrator early December. [*hey will go out on the first lable ship,” he said, territory residents subscribed y thousand pounds to the Queen abeth Coronation Trust Fund, it was later decided that six ile clinics would be bought with money. Since their arrival in Moresby six months ago, they ; been standing idle awaiting e interior modifications). •igadier Cleland, during his re

cent Rabaul trip, called at Madang on the way back to Port Moresby and obviously was told at first hand that “people are talking, especially the natives who put in about £3,000 to the Fund.” (Madang is to get one of the Clinics).

Typical of the comments at a recent Madang Town Advisory Council meeting, when the subject of the Clinics arose, came from the P-NG Regional Agricultural Officer, Mr. Vicary.

He said: “One of the worst things

that could be done in a native country is to make promises and not fulfill them.”

On arrival back in Port Moresby, the Administrator agreed that “something was wrong.” He said, “The Clinic for Madang will go there on the first available ship.

A popular way of raising money for charity in Papua-New Guinea is a mannequin parade, [?]tly Madang followed the example of Port Moresby and Rabaul and staged one of its own photographs were taken during the parade.

The others will go as soon as pos -sible.”

MISSION IN RABAUL

A varied programme marked the 'visit to Rabaul of the Leader of the Australian Mission to the Nation, the Rev. Alan Walker, on the week end of December 3-4.

On December 3 he travelled into the mountains to speak to the most primitive people of New Britain— the natives of the Baining area.

Hundreds sat under the trees of a Mission Station and heard an address of welcome given by their native minister before the Methodist missionary spoke.

People of many racial groups in Rabaul heard the message of the Mission to the Nation on Sunday, December 4. In the morning, Euro peans assembled at the Kokopo Club, and in the afternoon, Mr.

Walker visited natives at the Dr.

George Brown Training Centre.

Young Chinese and Malay people heard Mr. Walker at a tea-time session, in the Rabaul Methodist Church.

The final meeting was held in the Palms Theatre in Rabaul, where a large crowd from every racial group in the town took part.

DOWN WITH DEMON DRINK

A policy of total prohibition was suggested by Mr. Walker before re turning to Australia, as the only sensible liquor policy for Papua and

New Guinea. No other form of o trol, he said, could protect the nas peoples from the ravages t H alcohol had released in every oh society.

Ax. Walker said everyone in the rritory should be ready to accept ihibition as a personal contri tion to the native welfare, le continued “It is unworthy and -Christian for us Europeans to nand liquor when it is obvious it it will carry great destructive >s to the native society.” le added that the Australian Ad nistration in the Territory had a lat opportunity of saving the iive people from evils which had ne to every other native society ere liquor had been permitted, tal prohibition, he said, can be more effectively administered in any form of liquor control.

It is a pity that Mr. Walker had ; something more constructive to r on the native liquor question, ropean self-sacrifice in P-NG is rer likely to go to those lengths the sake of native welfare or anything else. It would be un 3ly to do much good even if it 1. Most Pacific Islanders have me Brew of one sort or another; 1, according to statistics, NG ;ives’ favourite tipple has a thylated spirit base. —Ed. PIM).

AERIAL-MAPPING P-NG

in aerial mapping survey being ried out in various parts of Papua i New Guinea by Adastra Air ys has now covered an area of irly 8,000 square miles. ’rom Madang, a survey over the roka, Ramu and Wahgi Valleys > been completed for the Depart nt of Interior, and from Lae, a vey of the Bulolo area has been npleted for the Territory Forestry partment. All photographs were ;en from 25,000 feet, it present, the survey team, fly a Lockheed Hudson, is working Kikori area from Lake Kutubu vn to the Fly River, and south of sori itself, on behalf of Aus lasian Petroleum Company.

Cloud conditions

are hampering

progress on this survey which de mands bright clear days for successful photography.

Other problems, such as previous inaccurate map ping and vast changes in the height of the terrain are slow ing-up the job.

And, as the air craft is based at Lae, the lack of suitable airstrips, particularly in the Kutubu area, means that the plane has to be flown 200 miles to

the operation area and then a further 200 miles back to Lae.

The photographs taken of each survey are eventually interpreted by the Australian Mapping Council.

MEDALS FOR LOYAL SERVICE

A Woodlark Island Village Con stable with 50 years service in the P-NG Administration is among a group of 36 natives who have been awarded the Loyal Service Medal, Civil Division.

The awards, which were an nounced on December 27, go to 31 natives with at least 25 years Ad ministration service and to five other natives who have rendered outstanding service to the Admin istration or in the interests of the native people.

These natives include the Senior Clerk of the Department of Educa tion, a New Guinea interpreter, a

[?]olf Club Associates held their Annual Dinner at the Hotel Moresby, [?]Moresby, on December 7. Photo shows Mrs. Davison, secretary, [?]ding a trophy to Mrs. Heather Johns, who won also, a number of [?]ers, whilst the captain, Mrs. L. Allen, looks on. —Papuan Prints photo.

Ired member of the New Guinea ice Force who was awarded the itinguished Conduct Medal dur ! the Pacific War, and a Native [age Headman in the Tari Basin a who assisted early patrols ough the district. mmonwealth bank helps

NATIVE CO-OPS

Tie Commonwealth Bank has de a second grant of £3,500 to p promote native Co-operative cation in Papua-New Guinea, his Bank last year made a similar nt to assist a proposal that ive co-operative societies finance I maintain their own training 001. At that time, the training natives in bookkeeping and co rative principles was financed by Administration but the shortage accommodation for pupils made ecessary to consider the erection i permanent centre with board ■school facilities for 40 students, he Commonwealth Bank made initial grant of £3,500 from its al Credit Development Fund to ■t the scheme. Native Societies nselves donated £3,000 and will in another £5,000. s well, native building societies e undertaken all construction k at a nominal fee. Two dorm- Les and another building are rly finished, and great credit it go to the natives for the ex ;nt work they carried out.

Everything, including the designing, was done by the natives.

The latest bank grant, together with additional donations from the native societies, will enable work on the actual school and mess build ings to be completed in 1956 at a total cost of £12,000.

The Registrar of Co-operative said on December 27, that the education centre, when completed, would pro vide lectures in basic agricultural principles, copra production, co operative bookkeeping and com mercial subjects.

The prime object of the training, he said, was to enable natives to utilise more fully their existing agricultural potential through better processing equipment, more highly organised production and improved marketing facilities.

TWO ON AND TWO OFF

Two passengers on the MV Bulolo reached Lae by air on December 28

after missing the boat at Samarai.

The ship’s departure without the tourists, however, made no differ

An art exhibition was held at the Catholic Mission House, Port Moresby, on November 26.

Our photograph shows Mrs. D. M. Cleland, wife of P-NG's Administrator, and Mr. J. Ahearn examining (Mr. Ahearn somewhat critically) the work of French artist Paul Roqueplo. Mrs.

Cleland opened the exhibition. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

ence to catering or accommodation arrangements—two Samarai people forgot to leave the boat at Samarai and were carried on to Lae.

THE FIVE-DAYS WEEK BEGINS

Public Servants in Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul will start a quarter of an hour earlier and have only an hour for lunch when the 5-day week comes into operation in the New Year, A spokesman for the Public Ser vice Commissioner’s office said on December 28 that the 5-days week would apply to departments or branches located in the three centres except certain sections which the Public Service Commissioner decided were “essential services.”

These are the European and Native Hospitals, Post Offices, Transport Pools, Police Stations, Public Libraries and Public Schools at Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul.

Officers attached to these sections would continue to observe their normal hours of duty.

Arrangements have been made to roster a duty officer or officers in the Departments of Agriculture and Customs on Saturday mornings, as required. This is apart from roster ing a duty officer in most depart ments to supervise Native Staff, who will continue to work a five-and-a half days week.

SUKI—FOR A PROTEIN-RICH

DIET

An area described as a “sports man’s paradise” has been located in the Upper Moorehead and Suki River area of the Papuan Western District, between the Fly River and the Dutch Border.

In a report to headquarters, Patrol Officer C. C. Giffard said fish and ducks abounded in the area and swarms of geese were a common sight. Wallabies, wild pigs and

cassowaries were also plentiful as were hunted by the small nati population who, he added, appeau to enjoy one of the most prote;£ rich diets of any native group the Territory.

Mr. Giffard said that domes pigs were not bred by the natri but wild piglets were captured as fattened in small bamboo cagj which were extended as the pc grew.

He reported that the native peo;c

i very few fowls and it appeared it this was partly due to the large tnber of hunting dogs owned by ; people and to the prevalence hawks and snakes.

It one Patrol site, native carriers led and ate a python 131 ft long i 10 in. in girth.

Jr. Gilfard added that crocodiles re supposed to be numerous in i area, but none were seen by i patrol.

CINDERELLA IN LAE

i pantomime is to be presented Lae for the benefit of school Idren during their long Christmas idays. ?he production, “Cinderella,” will presented by the Lae Musical and amatic Society on two consecutive hts towards the end of January, in enthusiastic cast has re irsed twice weekly, and the ;iety has the services of an ex ienced producer, ballet mistress, ge manager, wardrobe designer, sicians and scenic artists all de mined to make the show the nax to the children’s vacation.

PRAISE FROM ON TOP

)ecember marked the last day in ! Territory Public Service of Mr. i Downs, District Commissioner the Eastern Highlands.

Jr. Downs, who entered the ser e in 1936 as a Cadel Patrol icer, became the third District tnmissioner of the Eastern High ids to resign and enter private £rprise in the area. Mr. Downs

was posted to the Highlands in 1952 and has guided its growth from practically nothing to one of the most thriving areas of the Territory.

In Port Moresby, the Assistant Administrator, Mr. Wilson, said the Administration greatly appreciated the work Mr. Downs had done and the great contribution he had made to the development of the Territory, particularly the Eastern Highlands.

Mr. Wilson said the Administration was happy, however, that Mr Downs had seen fit to remain in the Territory so that his valuable experience would still be available.

Mr. Wilson said, “Mr. Downs typifies the fine type of officer of

the Administration work of dlveloping th e g Ter?itorv

and advancfng plople

pcupie -

FIRE AT OIL SITE

Fire early on December 9 de stroyed the clubrooms and Mess building at the APC drilling site at Bar akiwa, north-west of Kikori, Pa P ua - T* l6 buildings had only been up two or three weeks, An APC official in Port Moresby said that it was not yet known how the “ re sorted. Inquiries were be ing made -

EAST COAST ROAD SOON ALL

WEATHER HIGHWAY

Work is proceeding steadily on making an all-weather road out of

photograph at the reception which followed wedding at St. John's Church, Port Moresby, December 10, of Miss Debie Holt to Mr. [?]ony Normoyle. The bridegroom is the son [?]Police Commissioner and Mrs. C. Normoyle. young couple will live in Lae. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

old German road from Kavieng Namatanai, on New Ireland, he Department of Works has ;ady constructed about 40 bridges ag the 166-mile road, and about

another 20 bridges have yet to be built.

Three of these will be more than 100 ft long, and the rest range from 20 to 75 ft.

The New Ireland East Coast road was constructed in German days, but it was constructed for carriage traffic. War-time neglect and post war increase in heavy motor traffic has often made it impassable dur ing the wet season in recent years.

AND A ROAD FOR MANUS

Meanwhile, work has started on the construction of a much-needed road across the Eastern portion of Manus Island. It will link Lorengau with M’Bunai, on the south coast side, which at present is accessible only by sea.

The road will be 40 miles long and will be constructed by voluntary village labour.

It is hoped that the road will stimulate native agricultural pro duction and at the same time stop population drift from the inland villages down to the infertile M’Bunai coastal strip.

ANTI-TAIPAN

The P-NG Acting Director of Health, Dr. Alec May, says supplies of the newly-developed serum to counteract Taipan venom will be obtained for the Territory as soon as they become available. (Over)

[?]e marriage took place at the Catholic [?]ch, Port Moresby, on December 10, of Pat Norton, formerly a Sister at the local [?]pean hospital, to Mr. R. Thurecht, of the [?]th Pacific Post". —Photo by Papuan Prints.

The serum had been used suc cessfully on a young boy in Cairns who was bitten by a Taipan some weeks ago. The Taipan is regarded as one of the world’s deadliest snakes and a number of natives in the Territory have died in recent years from its bite.

Dr. May says supplies of the new serum will be sent to outposts as soon as possible,

TROUBLE NEAR POPONDETTA

Arrangements have been made to build a permanent infant Maternal Welfare Clinic building at Saiho, near Popondetta, Papua, to replace one destroped by fire on Christmas Day.

The fire broke out when a kero sene refrigerator exploded and although no one was hurt, the building was gutted and all equip ment destroyed.

About 30 babies were in the build ing when the fire started.

44,000 GALS. OF FUEL FOR

HIGHLANDS

A Mandated Airlines Dakota re turned to Lae on December 11 after five weeks in Australia for overhaul

and certificate of airworthiness.

The Dakota’s first job will be a record air-lift of one thousand 44gallon drums of fuel which were to

be flown into Goroka before tid end of this December. MAL e£ pects to complete the job in separate flights.

LTIVE COUNCILS AND EDUCA

TION IN N. BRITAIN

fhe results of conferences held in haul early December between the NG Administrator, Administra n officials and each of the Bsions operating in the Gazelle ninsula were announced in Port iresby December 13. i Press statement issued by the ministrator said the conferences ulted in what could be termed le Rabaul Agreement,” which tvided a formula for relationships ween Native Local Government incils and Council and Mission ools in any part of the Terri y- ’he Agreement maintains the it of Native Local Government incils to build and maintain incil Schools; but it preserves the vious decision that no funds will allocated by a Council for the Iding of Mission Schools. It pre ss for the establishment of a :al Education Committee which [ advise the Council on the need I location of schools in the incil area and it stipulates that h a Committee will consist of resentatives of the Administra i, the Council and each Mission rating in the area, nder the Agreement, if in any ticular area there is a registered ision school conforming to the idards of a Council School, then Council school need be estab ed in that area. A Council may st any Mission school by way ervices rendered or by the supply naterials and equipment, but, in case can an actual cash grant made. he Administrator emphasised in statement he was satisfied that situation in the Gazelle Pen ila, with particular reference to increasing tempo of native de pment, was basically sound and ire. he following day the Roman holic Priest of Rabaul, Father les Dwyer, commenting on the ninistrator’s statement, said that Agreement reached was the out e of several months of negotia s between the Administration the Mission, and was acceptable he Roman Catholic Mission.

EN THE KUKUKUKUS NOW

WORK

group of Kukukuku natives hed Lae on their way home on ember 13, after working for 18 iths as general labourers at )10. he experiment in taking the ;ukuku’s to Bulolo is reported to l complete success. All of them speak Pidgin. In the early days the Morobe goldfields, Xuku ii’s were regarded as useless as urers.

NEW MET. AID TO NG WEATHER

MEN

A new meteorological device to determine winds and conditions in the upper atmosphere in adverse weather is to be added to existing facilities at Lae.

The equipment is expected to be installed early in the New Year. A building to accommodate it is now almost complete.

The equipment will enable meteorological officials to plot a large balloon to a height of 100,000 feet.

A small transmitter is attached to the balloon and radio signals from it are modulated by temperature, pressure and humidity elements as

the balloon climbs into the upper atmosphere.

An ABC correspondent at Lae says the American armed services had a large network of these aids during the war years, but this is the first the Civil Meteorological Bureau has erected in the Territory.

Others are planned for P-NG, but it is expected that the next will be erected at Honiara, BSIP.

CRUISE SHIPS FOR P-NG

P. and O. and Orient Shipping Companies will be running three major holiday cruises from Aus tralia this year. Two of them are of interest to the Territory.

The Oronsay will run from Sydney

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Rabaul for the first time since war in a cruise starting at the of June and lasting 12 days, he P. and O. Line will run the lalaya on a 15-day cruise from ney to Suva and Port Moresby June. oth ships will return to Sydney ivay of the Great Barrier Reef.

STRALIAN STUDENTS WORK

IN NEW GUINEA

hile many medical students in tralia are working as counter ds, railway porters and postal cs during their Christmas tions, a group of 11 students are the Territory getting some tical work. le students—from Sydney, Mel ne, Brisbane and Adelaide Uni fies—were selected from a large ber of applicants to work with Lerritory Department of Health ig their holidays. iey will work as European cal Assistants, and be paid at same rate. is money will off-set their fares nd from the Territory, which must pay themselves, as well ve them a little to spare, e male students among the ) will probably go on a medical 1 while in the Territory.

ADAM IN YELLOW CLAY

A recent patrol of the Upper Turama area of Papua located a small group of natives who had not previously had any contact with Europeans.

The Patrol, led by Acting ADO Leen, found the group at Iwatubu and reported that they were re ceived peacefully.

Mr. Leen said he found 21 people in the group but estimated that there were another 15 or 16 hiding in the bush. All were of powerful physique with massive legs indicat ing that they had at some time migrated from the mountains. They were fairly light skinned and the men all smeared their bodies with a yellow clay.

The patrol, which set out from Kikon, planned to get through to Lake Campbell but was unable to do so because of extremely dif ficult terrain and torrential rain.

AGRICULTURAL DEPT AID

WANTED

The Madang District Advisory Council is seeking the appointment of a travelling agricultural officer to advise and assist both Europeans and natives on cocoa planting.

One Council member, C. E. Bliss,

the world that had not been affected at some time or other, A mission representative, the Rev.

Father Misik, said he agreed but pointed out at the December meet ing that there was a tremendous amount of native cocoa planting go ing on in the district but very little qualified supervision.

He said cocoa was a crop liable to disease and that there was not a major cooca-growing country in

thought the Department of Agri culture should provide particularly for supervision of native planting.

He said that in the event of an out break of disease, natives would be liable to neglect their crops beyond the stage where the disease could be checked.

Another Council member, Mr.

Perkins, said he also agreed, but that European planting should also

be supervised.

Mr. Perkins explained that some plantation managers were required by their employers to plant crops with which they had not previously had any experience. A visiting agricultural officer would therefore be of great help to them.

TWO-WAY RADIO FOR

TIMBER-GETTERS

Two-way radio is to be installed to improve communications between the South Pacific Lumber Company Mill, at Lae, and its timber lease 11 miles away in the Trans-Busu area.

A Company official said on De cember 19 that it was planned to have the main transmitter at the Mill and a mobile set in a vehicle to be stationed permanently in the lease area.

The official explained that Lae was in process of having its annual rain fall of about 180 inches and it was to be expected that the road to the lease area w'ould be impassable on

a number of days during the year.

Two-way radio would warn cart ing contractors of road conditions, and mean quicker assistance in cases of injury or accidents.

THE FLEET WAS IN SAMARAI

Samarai in mid-December had one of its busiest periods for some time, when the MV Sinkiang, MV

Soochow, MV Malekula and W.

Malaita, as well as two Catalixi flights, arrived at the Island i within four days.

A total of 450 tons of cargo m discharged together with 152 bs of mail.

Normally, about 80 bags of maili month are delivered to Samarai. .

jECTION of tag members?

Election of Ward members to pua-New Guinea Advisory Coun -5 is being sought by members of ‘ present Port Moresby Town Ad ory Council. rhe Council also wants Public wants to be eligible for election. it present, Ward members are minted by the Administrator, and rules governing Town Advisory mcils exclude Public Servants m representing the Wards in ich they live. meeting on December 20 adopted •esolution put forward by Mr. er Fox, and supported by Dr. ite, both of whom claimed that mere fact that members were ted by the people would give e strength to Advisory Councils, r. Fox suggested that the elec of Ward representatives could the forerunner of fully-elected ncils, re Chairman, Mr. E. A. James, >orting the proposal that Public ants should be eligible for elec said he had always maintained because a Public Servant was üblic Servant he did not stop ? a citizen. s only a small portion of P-NG ents bother to vote for the j Legislative Council, it seems tful if there would be any in t at all in local Advisory Coun lections.—Ed. PIM).

POWER’S ON AGAIN

rt Moresby’s power rationing nded—at least, for the time be announcement on December the Department of Civil Affairs that No. 4 Generating set at dobu Powerhouse had been re -1 and the power restrictions im about a month ago would no r be necessary.

Departmental spokesman said o-operation of the public dur the restrictions was greatly ciated by the Administration.

'he public failed to co-operate, >uld have been impossible to ;ain supplies.

POSTAL FACILITIES STILL

OFF

/ever, just to prove that Port by is not yet Arcadia, an an ement about the same time tes that Port Moresby will ;° keep on suffering bad postal les.

Director of Posts and Tele- Mr - W. Carter, said there ttle chance of additional pri nail boxes being provided at )rt Moresby Post Office before iresent, only a few boxes are ed— most people, unless they 'heir mail addressed to their of employment, have to ask ?irl behind the counter” if any mail for them. They

then wait until the clerk sorts through a pile of letters. Behind them are other people waiting to buy stamps, or perhaps, to find out if there is mail for them, too.

Mr. Carter explained that extra mail boxes depended on the re modelling of the present antiquated Post Office building. Plans and de signs for this had been prepared, he said, but “due to more important Administration works for other De partments, it was not placed on the works programme for the current financial year.”

Therefore, he added, there’s not much chance of more boxes before the start of the 1956-57 financial year.

Mr. Carter is not alone when he

said he regarded the remodelling of e ,^ Moresby Post Office as one of the Department’s most pressing needs. The general public—that class of people for whom the P-NG Administration seems to have little regard—is. right behind him.

P-NG NATIVE TEACHERS

TO SEE QLD.

Ten native teachers from Papua and New Guinea will pay a 6-weeks’ visit to Queensland in April, 1956.

The teachers, drawn from Papua and the New Guinea Islands and accompanied by the Assistant Director of Education, Mr. Roscoe will visit Townsville, Cairns, Mount Mount Morgan, Brisbane, Warwick and Stanthorpe. (Over)

They will go by plane to Towns lle and the remainder of their ivels will be by train.

Ihe purpose of the tour is to jrease the native teacher’s know- Ige of Australia and her primary d secondary industries.

FOLLOW THE BAND—IN

KAVIENG

newly-formed brass band at vieng marched through the town the first time on December 22, lowed by the Kavieng detach nt of the Royal Papua-New

inea Constabulary.

Tie band was made up of local ;ives of all ages, trained by ice-Sgt. Rubens. Their bugles, mpets, cornets and other instru cts cost £6OO, raised by donations jne shilling or less from natives Dughout New Ireland.

ADMITTED TO THE BAR

or the first time, all four judges ;he Papua-New Guinea Supreme rt were on the Bench when two ■isters were admitted to the Bar he Territory Supreme Court on ember 19. tie barristers were Mr. Frederick n Winkle, who will join the staff he P-NG Crown Law office, and Douglas Hugh Morris, th e istrar of the Supreme Court, leir admission was moved by the vn Law Officer, Mr. W W kins.

[?]ack to the Cook Islands ...

p. 51

Passengers travelling per USS Co.'s "Waitemala" from Auckland to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, December included, left Captain J. D. Campbell returning home; and right. Miss Evelyn Ingram, was returning to Rarotonga for the school holidays. She was farewelled by Mr. Jim Murray was for many years a resident of the Group.

[?]holarships for Fiji

p. 51

Students

INNER of the Morris Hedstrom Scholarship for 1956 is Josua Doviverata Cavelevu, who will iy for a science degree at Canter y University College, New Zea i. Cavalevu was 1955 Head Boy Victoria School, where he been since leaving Kadavu vincial School in 1948. e has distinguished himself at •t also and is Fiji’s Junior sprint

champion. He toured NZ’s South land with a Fiji athletics team in 1954.

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

SCHOLARSHIPS

The Australian Government has made available a second scholarship for 1956 and names of the two suc cessful candidates will be announced shortly by the Selection Board which comprises the Fiji Directors of Education and Agriculture; Mr.

J. N. Falvey; Ratu Mara; and Dr.

C. M. Gopalan.

Australia awarded these scholar ships to Fiji students under the South-East Asian Scholarship Scheme—part of Australia’s contri bution to the Colombo Plan.

Restricting Islanders'

p. 52

ENTRY TO NEW ZEALAND

A RECENT Wellington announce ment indicates that in future it may be more difficult for Cook Islanders, Samoans, and other Islanders to gain entry to New Zea land.

It is likely to be a case of “No accommodation, no entry,” as a re sult of NZ publicity given in recent months to considerable overcrowd ing in the living conditions of certain Islanders, especially in the Auckland area.

The Minister of Immigration said that Samoans, who are on a different footing to Cook Islanders in that they are not New Zealand citizens, are already being closely watched.

If found to be living under unsat isfactory conditions their entry per mits are not renewed and they must find less crowded accommodation or return home.

Cook Islanders require permits from the Resident Commissioner before they may leave home. The Department of Island Territories was now considering restricting the issue of such permits.

News of this brought a sharp re action from the Cook Islands Legis lative Council, which considers that people could not be forced into liv

ing at, or not living at, certain addresses. The Council feels also that the Cook Islanders in New Zealand are actually aiding the acute housing situation by providing a valuable much needed labour pool for the building trade, or by re leasing other workers to that trade.

t Early in January, 60 New O donian tourists will visit New land. Unit cost of the trip lasi 2 weeks is 25,000 francs (£AI7S c TEAL DC6B plane will be used... plane will take a certain numb»( New Zealand tourists to NC.

[?]d Go Quietly

p. 53

IS ACCEPTABLE

[?]G Shareholders [?]e Film [?]d Go Quietly

SERE were no fireworks at the meeting of New Guinea Gold fields shareholders in Sydney on ;ember 15, and the directors’ re imendation that 3d per share dend be paid was accepted with one dissentient voice. 11 other business at the meeting ; also despatched with speed and i almost complete lack of inter tion. his was a different reaction n that which occurred at the ly annual meeting in January, >, covering activities for the nous 12 months and when on the .ouncement that the improved tion of finances permitted pay it of the company’s first dividend 3d. per share, a section of the reholders present insisted that it a miserable return after 13 :s’ operations. (See Dec. PIM.) he reason for the closing of the pany’s accounts on June 30 this r was that the directors have id that economies will be effected this action, for administrative ions in the Territory and for ions connected with the com y’s claims for subsidy under the i-Mining Industry Assistance This will be the procedure in ire years. l the 9 months period October 1, -June 30, 1955, net profit was 190, which was substantially ,ter than the profit for the whole nonths period in the preceding (£32,712). le company has submitted a n for subsidy to the Common ith Treasury under the Corn wealth’s Gold Mining Industry stance Act of 1954. NGG Chair - . of Directors, Mr. J. Krutt litt, told the meeting on De ber 15 that if the company’s n is accepted without important istments, they could receive a idy of about £25,000. has previously been pointed out PIM that with the 4/3 NGG ■e selling at under 2/- on Aus an Stock Exchanges, 3d per •e dividend represented a good rn for investment. However, Australian investors appear in sted, and at end of December 3r shares were still being quoted round 1/10 and 1/11. 5 the meeting the retiring ctors, Messrs. H. H. McNall and I. Hohnen, were re-elected. : the conclusion of the meeting, 5-minute coloured documentary

film on the company’s activities at Wau, NG, was screened. The film, produced by Mr. Norman Wallis, of BSIP and Sydney, under the auspices of the Timber Development Asso ciation of Australia, covered NGG’s mining and timber enterprises in the Morobe district, but incorporated many fine shots of the surrounding countryside.

The film is being sent to England for a screening before UK share holders of the company.

If Mr. P. W. Brosgard who was well known in New Guinea for several post-war years as an officer of the Department of Agriculture, is now in the service of a New South

Wales firm as a technical adviser on poultry-farming and subjects allied thereto. He was a Yuletide caller on PIM, and sent greetings to many friends in New Guinea.

U Dr. L. G. Poole, Senior Medical Officer, Fiji, will leave the Colony in January on leave prior to transfer to Nigeria as Tuberculosis Specialist.

Sandy Creek Results

p. 53

Advice has been received that during the month of November, 1955, approxi mately 53 ounces of gold were recovered from approximately 5,330 cubic yards of material treated, from the company’s leases in New Guinea.

News Of The Small-Ships

pp. 55-99

T HAPPENED IN JANUARY: —At

i.m. on January 5, 1848, a sailing ;sel then known as Maria Helena, Chilean registry, ended her in esting history by stranding in the y of Wrecks, Christmas atoll, Line ands.

Umost exactly three years earlier, the American whaler Averick, s ship was thrown ashore at aru harbour, west coast of iatea, when a heavy blow came while she was rendering her ale oil. ►he was then written off by her ster as a total loss, and sold on i spot to a Captain Stephen ;gins, long-time British resident that island. The crew arrived in Deete aboard the schooner Union February 22, 1845. it the time of her stranding, vrick had just commenced rations and was fully provisioned a 3-years whaling cruise. She iady had 200 barrels of Wright oil I a quantity of bone aboard. All » was landed by Captain Higgins I his partners and by March 19, jr a great deal of hard work, the sel was refloated, he Hamburg brig Ferdinand, n in Papeete, was thereupon rtered to deliver to Valparaiso the salvaged cargo, and after ther work Averick, under British istry, was renamed Recovery. [er new owners then sailed her Valparaiso and sold her at a dsome profit, the Chilean owners ng her the name under which finished her days, t daybreak, following the final ck, all hands were surprised to another vessel on the reef five 5s along the coast. On landing ring which one man was drowned the surf) they found an ndoned settlement of tents on atoll. The explanation came a days later with the arrival of shooner and salvage party from lolulu, to strip the other vessel, he was the Bremen whaler mrt, wrecked late December while leward bound from Honolulu i 4,000 barrels of oil and much e aboard. Her crew had been :ed up after a few days by ther whaler and taken to lolulu. t about the same time as the lolulu salvage party arrived on scene there also arrived the nch sloop-of-war Sarcells, which £ off the survivors of Maria ena. taces of these and many other cks are still to be found in this orious Bay of Wrecks.

OWARDS GREATER SAFETY:

he great advantages from the vpoints of safety and conveni e of the standardisation of radio

frequencies for the Smallshlps R/T Pnrifip l C nnH t^f°Vbp°^ t «tiw e - Soi 3 th Pacific, and of the institution of a continuous watch by all the main islands coast stations on one such beT e ?eyaTe^ r Tre P sse r rown P y stressed m thls rA nccf fvomiQ „ n „ In the past, frequency allocations have been mainly a purely local arrangement, with no thought to ° r of . a ve ssel between the various ad mmistrative areas, such as the many

°i , the tramping

type of small Island freighter.

Frequently, the authorities in one area have had no knowledge of what frequencies neighbouring ad ministrative areas are using for ship-shore R/T communications, and the frequencies in use have not had the sanction of international tele communication agreements.

Happily for ship-o wne r s and masters this chaos is slowly dis appearing, though Australia and her Territories still cling tenaciously to the obsolete and non-standard 6 mc/s frequencies.

Latest advance in the right direc tion comes in an announcement from Suva Radio. On November 1, this station adopted the correct in ternational channels of 4379.3 kc/s

and 8811.5 kc/s, but continued! listen for ships on their old t official channel of 6280 kc/s.

The Gibson Girl distress transmitter, avai[?] in Australia at less than £10, which[?] been described in PIM. Upper view s[?] transmitter and kite container. Middle shows generator crank handle fitted on aerial reel swung open, and earth wire (lower left corner) unscrewed ready for drop[?] into the water. In use the operator woul[?] facing camera with set between his thighs[?] the heavy webbing strap passed round [?] his legs to fasten on the left.

Lower photo shows set and aluminium fr[?] silk box-kite assembled. In upper and m[?] photos a wooden spanner for undoing the[?] and earth-wire plug holes is lying at front of set.

Originally set and aerial container were[?] in a large orange-coloured kapok-padded c[?] pack, but the packs are usually not avai[?] with the sets on the disposals market, an[?] not essential though they give protection.

There was also a cylindrical can contain[?] chemical. On adding sea-water, hydrogen [?] generated and a large balloon was inflate[?] aerial-hoisting in calm conditions when [?] kite was inoperative. A bottle could be for this purpose, and meteorological ball [?] of the right size are available.

Suva Radio, under date of Me mber 30, has advised ship-owners lose vessels regularly communicate th that station, that they must opt the correct ship frequencies 4073.9 kc/s and 8262.3 kc/s by ne 1, 1956, after which date no >ly will be made to calls on 6280 fs. [n some cases this will involve ly the purchase of new crystals. others it may involve some uctural alterations to the trans tter as well. rhe Suva Post Office station, ich for reasons not apparent, ontains communications with sels in the Fiji inter-island trade i service applicable to the official ast Station, in this case Suva dio operated by Cable & Wire -5 Ltd. —has already adopted the rect mobile R/T channels and al craft are correctly equipped h the above frequencies in most, not all, cases. iuva Radio, in its announcement, nts out that the correct authorised ling channels for R/T equipped sels lie within the following ids: 4063-4133 kc/s; 8195-8265 s; 12330-12400 kc/s; 16460-16530 s; 22000-22070 kc/s. tations known to be listening and dying on one or other of the rect channels are Hollandia, nmea, Papeete, and Suva Post ice, with Suva radio on the rect channel.

In addition, Pago Pago maintains continuous watch on the international 2182 kc/s distress frequency, while Papeete, Rarotonga, Niue, and Nukualofa maintain a limited watch on that frequency. Elsewhere still reigns supreme.

THE GIBSON GIRL:—A corre-

spondent referring to PlM’s advocacy of the Gibson Girl as

standard safety equipment in the islands, says in effect, what is the use of a Gibson Girl when we can not raise the coast station with our ship’s R/T set when right alongside it—and he cites a particular case, which in fact is typical and actually stresses the advantage of the Gib son Girl over the R/T set in case of distress. (Over)

ifhat our correspondent apparently is not know is that the coast tion mentioned maintains watch his particular ship frequency y at certain very limited watch iods, outside which it is useless call.

Jut at the same time that coast tion, and many other coast and p stations, are maintaining con nous watch on the Gibson Girl’s kc/s frequency, which is the mal big-ship calling and distress luency. Even if that particular st station should not hear his :ress signals, there will be an ex ent chance that another ship or

coast station will do so, as no frequency is more closely watched throughout the world than 500 kc/s.

Chances of interception there are much greater than on 2182 kc/s R/T, where, especially in the tropics, there is considerable static, and pos sible “skip” of signals at night.

JOYIT A INVESTIGATION:

During the month there was an an nouncement from New Zealand’s Minister of Island Territories that preliminary examination of Joyita excludes piracy, mutiny, explosion, collision, or grounding as possible explanations of the loss of all aboard, or of damage caused to the

vessel. Evidence collected by the Chief Surveyor of Ships would be included in a full report to the Gov ernment and would soon be con sidered by a competent commission of inquiry at Apia.

At about the same time the New Zealand Company of Master Mariners, in a letter to the A Jew

LEFT: The former WPHC vessel "Kurimarau", refitted by present owners E. Berg & Co., of Sedney, and preparing in December to depart for New Guinea. RIGHT: June and Buz Champion the American yacht "Little Bear", now in Auckland.

Zealand Herald, deplored the fact that the Minister had sent an en gineer surveyor to Suva instead of “one who has been in command of a ship, a master mariner, who has stood the test of difficult examina tion in navigation, seamanship, meteorology, ship construction, stowage of cargo, handling of crew and passengers.” The Master Mariners said, “what happened to the Joyita is a serious question and one requiring sound survey to obtain some plausible explanation of the calamity.”

Beyond a continuing spate of conjecture and rumour no new firm facts had been made available to the public to mid-December.

MORE OPERATIONS SCREW

BALL:—For the second time in a year a runaway boat-load of Easter Islanders turned up in Polynesia— this time at Atiu, Cooks, early De cember, after a 54-day passage apparently right through the Tua motu and French Oceania. The five men aboard, like their predecessors who arrived at Kauehi, Tuamotu, in December, 1954, had stolen an open Government rowing boat and were actually bound for Tahiti. The first had been a 22-ft boat, and the voyage under sail had taken 29 days.

On this occasion the boat was a 28-footer. Evidently winds had been light or contrary, and the five men had been without food, other than

fish caught, for the last 24 days.

They were taken to Rarotonga by Viti some days later and no doubt will be shipped home via the only possible route—New Zealand, Panama, Chile. The boat has been left at Atiu.

A few days after this voyage ended, another Kon-Tiki/Seven

Little Sister type of voyage from Callao, Peru, now the recD nised kicking-off place for Pao raftsmen.

Named La Cantuta, aften Peruvian flower, this 30 ft x 13i balsa raft is breaking new groir only in that there is a wonr aboard. The party consists of lea£

iuardo Ingris, 45, Czechoslovakian >rn naturalised Peruvian; Mirko uerecky, 29, a Czech radio operator; ndy Rost, 27, Dutch seaman; daq u i n Guerrero, Argentinian icrtsman; and the lady, Natalia azuelos, 29. PIM is seeking in rmation from Callao as to radio equencies in use, etc. Senor Ingris edicts a landfall in about 80 days

om departure—presumably De

mber 4—which would indicate id-February in the Tuamotu —or rhaps a lot later and a lot further jst, depending on circumstances [Countered. (With the use of its emergency itboard motor, Cantuta put into ilapagos about Christmas because iss Mazuelos was ill. Departed ain on drift, Dec. 28, Miss Mazuelos stored to health. Report from America to the effect that a urth balsa raft being prepared by iruvian named Nicanor Sanchez, 10 proposes to drift to Australia).

IHOSE LEPER KETCHES:—Two

ars ago it was announced that the ;w Zealand Lepers’ Trust Board >uld finance the building of four tches for medical work by Mission cieties in the New Hebrides lomons area. There were many lays in agreement over a standard m, but tenders were finally called d a contract let early in 1955 to b Auckland yard of Chas. Bailey d. for three vessels. [t was then stated that the con ict called for delivery of first ketch thin 13 months, and the following o at four-monthly intervals there ter. A visit to the yard in mid icember showed that though some mes and timbers were cut, no keel d yet been laid for the first vessel, le builders reported that they ire held up pending arrival of rdwood timber from Australia, d the construction was well he ld schedule. One Mission—the esbyterian—decided that the funds uld be better applied to a hospital, only three of the original four ssels will be built.

WHERE TRADE OFFERS:

issrs. Athol Rusden and Ronald ker, formerly associated with the looner New Golden Hind which, Artimese, was later wrecked in b Tuamotu; and with Philante 11, ice wrecked in the Loyalty Is., may ing another from England to the cific next Winter. They are gotiating purchase of the 72 ft x ft x 9 ft ketch Keriyea, which •uld be fitted to carry a certain lount of cargo to engage in Island iding where the opportunity offers.

Keriyea, built 1949, is mahogany mked, with teak decking, and wered by a 70-hp Glennifer diesel.

Since disposing of Philante II to i'. Martinet, of Noumea, the rtners have been in business in ickland. If the purchase is final id, as expected, they plan to leave

for England to take delivery about May.

DEGEI WAS THERE :—In its

desperate search for sensational

angles to the Joyita tragedy the Aus tralian press overlooked one in teresting feature of the case which concerned what they called the

The 495-ton Costa Rican vessel "Rican Star", mentioned last month, which called at Suva in November-December. She had a full cargo of dynamite for Sydney. Right: Captain Julius Jensensen, who was in command.

tftnch” Degei —which happens to i over 200 tons gross. This was it vessel’s curious link with other ill-fated vessel, lust six years ago, in the same *a where Joyita was found drift- Degei had rushed to the aid the 437-ton Suva-registered xihou, which had sprung a seri i leak. As Degei towed her the I miles south to Suva all that it her afloat was a cargo of empty ims —just as empty drums had >t Joyita afloat. n September, 1952, Avoahou and >ry soul aboard disappeared in jumstances as remarkable as >se surrounding the Joyita case, lie bound from Sydney to Lord we. A weak and garbled distress I failed to explain just what had opened to cause that vessel’s iplete disappearance without ce.

lANNAH DISMANTLED; The

)den 300-tonner Rannah, on the f off Avarua, Rarotonga, since member 16, 1954, and sold several aths ago by the insurance under ters, has now been stripped and equipment was put up for tion on December 10. The vessel I been purchased by Messrs. 11s Brothers, of Pelorus Sound, at a very low figure, iflthin hours of their arrival in

Rarotonga this firm’s represent atives proved that they had made a good investment by having one of the two main motors running in the vessel as she lay on the reef.

Results of the auction sale were not to hand but it was thought probable that the Cook Islands Administration would purchase the motors for use in the new cool store which is now being built at Raro tonga.

Unless the stripped hull is broken up there is the possibility of it being thrown right across the reef into the harbour in heavy weather and becoming an obstruction in the already very restricted navigable area.

ANOTHER BP ADDITION:

Burns Philp (SS) Ltd. of Suva have purchased the attractive and modern Dutch-built New Zealand coaster Zephyr II for use in Fiji waters.

A single-screw steel motor vessel of 257 GT, 115 nett, she measures 125.1 ft bp x 23.1 ft x 8.8 ft moulded depth, and will be an important addition to the Fiji smallships fleet. New Zealand owners were North Westland Shipping Co. The vessel was expected to clear Well ington for Suva late December or early January. Negotiations for the purchase of the vessel were reported some months ago.

BIRD’S LAST FLIGHT;—Com -

pagnie Francalse des Phosphates de I’Oceanie’s graceful 3-masted steel 398 GT schooner Oiseau des lies (Bird of the Isles ) has probably made her last voyage from Makatea phosphate island to the Cook Islands where she has become well known in post-war years.

The schooner, between her routine voyages with stores and personnel between Papeete and Makatea, has regularly made recruiting and re patratiion voyages to the Cooks, where most of the labour has been obtained. With the free-market copra price unfavourable there is some unemployment in French Oceania and the local people are seeking work with the phosphate company.

The Makatea job was popular with the Cook Islanders and there were invariably more men offering than could be signed on. Late No vember, the last group was re

patriated to Atiu and Mauke Islands, the schooner clearing then for Bora Bora.

NEW BPC VESSEL:—To serve the British Phosphate Commis sioners’ Nauru-Ocean phosphate trade with Australia and New Zea land the new 9,993 GT vessel Triaster arrived in the Pacific in December. She takes the name of the Triaster, lost to German raiders off Nauru on December 8, 1940, to gether with the BPC vessels Triadic and Triona and the chartered vessels Komata and Vinni. The three BPC vessels have all now been replaced.

Trienza, fourth vessel of the BPC fleet, survived the war.

The latest addition has very fine accommodation for 48 passengers, and a phosphate capacity of 11,200 tons. She has the overhanging cable-ship type of bow and special powerful windlass required for lift ing and relaying the heavy moor ings at the islands.

By arrangement the BPC vessels also service the Makatea Island moorings for the French company when this is necessary. Triaster No. 2 is commanded by Captain J. E.

Semmens, who was serving in her predecessor and taken prisoner by the Germans when his ship was sunk, spending over 4 years in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

SHIPS’ OFFICERS IN DEMAND:

—An intensive recuiting campaign for young men capable of being trained as officers and engineers on local ships is to be undertaken in New Caledonia. There are at present only enough qualified men available to fill about half the jobs offering in local waters —and 50 per cent, of

those available are between -j and 50.

The young men are to be tral locally and then go to max schools in France to be “finishes

KWATO CREW FOR KTX

MARAU:—Eleven Kwato natt arrived in Sydney from Sams

La, on board the Malaita in De aber They will crew the Kun rau on her forthcoming voyage Port Moresby. (See Smallships tion, December PIM. Also photo ph this issue).

!X-HONOLULU CUTTER IN

OUBLE:—The eight tons brig / was reported in trouble at Big j, Santo, New Hebrides, in early jember and cables indicated that : was a total loss. She was valued approximately £A2,000. Ehy was It in Honolulu in 1938 and was led by local Vietnamese, Vu Tien u. After they got ashore, the w had to walk through the bush it across the Island from Big Bay Luganville.

PATCH ON THE JAPS:—The

. Government announced in De iber that it would keep a 24irs radio watch on Japanese fish boats working near the Fiji >up. he watch will be kept with a j radio receiver recently landed n the UK. The Government aits that the receiver will not ite trespassing fishing boats but ;ans of minimising the possibility infringing of territorial rights” i being explored. he Jap. fleet that was in Fiji ers in October-November (about time of the Joyita incident) has i returned to Japan.

[AKING Cl SHIPPING SAFE;

•ing the October sessions of the ik Islands’ Legislative Council Inter Island Boat Travelling 1955 was passed. The object he new Ordinance is to see that js will travel with reasonable jty for passengers and crew, hipmasters are now required to ly for permission to make inter nd voyages and must state the riber of passengers to be carried, amount of food and water ard, and other relevent details, he Collector of Customs at Raro ?a, and the Resident Agents of er islands, are authorised to ster such sailings, and a blanket horisation to cover a twelve iths period can be made by the ident Commissioner in order to id loss of trading time, he authorised officials may refuse mission for a trip if they con ;r the boat to be overcrowded, un worthy, undermanned or under visioned—or if weather reports tl Rarotonga Radio Station in ite that the trip would be igerous. Persons who fail to com with the regulations laid down the new regulations will be >le to fines of up to £5O, or im jonment up to three months.

'he first practical result of the it Travelling Bill was seen on member 29, when the Inspire left •otonga for Aitutaki and Penrhyn. i number of passengers was

limited to 35 for Aitutaki and 15 for Penrhyn. The Inspire now carries a radio which was used for the first time on this trip to give test calls.

ANOTHER JAP ON A REEF.

—lt was confirmed in Port Moresby on December 4 that another Jap anese fishing vessel had been wrecked on the reefs off the Fead Islands, New Guinea.

The trawler, of about 300 tons, was abandoned and its crew of 25 was picked up later by another Jap anese vessel.

The reefs off the Fead Islands claimed their first Japanese fishing boat about 12 months ago.

LONG STAY ON REEF:—The 8-

tons auxiliary ketch Hollydene

(previously reported as Holy dream') which went up on a reef at Ava Island in the Ninigo Group, NW New Guinea, in late October, was reported end of November to be still on the reef. Bad weather in the area had prevented any attempt to salvage it.

UNUSUAL SHIPPING MISHAP;

—Nowhere else in the Pacific Islands but in the big rivers of Papua’s Gulf country could this sort of mishap occur—the 450-ton MV Melinga was struck by a 10-ft tidal bore while lying at anchor on the Omati River, on the night of De cember 28.

The managing agents, N, F.

(Continued on Page 97)

ttu Penaia, who has been Lieut.nel in charge of the Fiji ;alion in Malaya since Colonel e returned to New Zealand some ths ago, and who now is in pro of bringing the Battalion back after three years’ foreign

service, will, in 1956, join the Fiji Government staff as Development Officer in charge of the Vanua Levu District. Ratu George Cakobau and his cousin, Ratu Edward Cakobau, are the two Development Officers in charge of the Viti Levu Districts.

Award to

Scientist

Jacques Barrau been awarded the [?]de Medaille de [?]ze for 1955 by the [?]te Nationale [?]climation de France, [?]private scientific [?]ty with HQ in the Museum, which is [?]nised by the French [?]nment.

Barrau, who is 30, [?]een with the South [?]ic Commission in [?]ea as Technical [?]r. Subsistence Agri [?]re, since 1952. [?]ously he was Head [?]he Department of [?]ulture, in New [?]onia. [?] has made a special of subsistence [?]ulture in Mela [?] for the SPC and [?]ook on the subject appear in 1956. now investigating

same subject in Polynesia. Our photo shows him studying a Western Samoan

variety of swamp taro, locally called Pula'a.

Photo: Donald E. Ross.

oloney and Co., disclosed later at the Melinga’s steering was imaged when the force of the bore used her to drag her anchor. Her jrn struck the bank as she was rned around in the river. A sur yor left Port Moresby the next y to inspect the damage. Melinga under charter to APC.

SLOW T U R N-R O U N D IN \BAUL: —A protest was sent to irt Moresby and to Canberra in rly December by the Master of e MV Pollurian and the Bougain le Association, which owns the ssel, regarding unsatisfactory con dons connected with the discharge copra from Inter-Island vessels Rabaul. rhe Master of Pollurian, Captain illam, says the protest covers the ability of the Copra Marketing iard to meet local requirements, e shortage of Copra Inspectors, insport, storage space, wharfage, dly organised native labour, and efficient working hours.

Captain Hallam said all these ngs caused serious delays and necessary expense to the owners local small ships, le said the discharging time for J Pollurian on her last trip to baul was 12 days. Normal dis arging time should be no more than days.

Sydney Christmas Parties

p. 68

For Young and Old

r I ''HE following donations towards the A cost of their Christmas party for NG children were received by the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney:

The children’s party, held on December 13 in the Club Rooms in Sydney, was a great success. Over 90 children received a gift from Santa Claus.

SYDNEY CHRISTMAS PARTIES

The Pacific Islands Society of Sydney held a Christmas cocktail party for a

large number of members and their friends on December 9. A week later, on December 16, the New Guinea Women’s Club gave their annual party for past and present residents of Papua and New Guinea.

Both functions were as usual, very successful.

t Mr. Ralph Craib, a newspaper man on the Oakland Tribune (Cali fornia) , has been granted a fellow ship by the Reid foundation for a

U Mr. Jacob Rahiman, a son o:c and Mrs. Peter Rahiman, of I Fiji, has passed his final fon degree of Bachelor of Dental Suu at Otago University.

year’s study of the Australian!

Dutch approaches to administr in New Guinea. He will visit territories towards the end of: year.

£ s. d.

Previously Acknowledged

40 12 0 Mrs. Jones 2 2 0 Mr. & Mrs. Keenan 1 1 0 Mrs. Mears 10 0 Mrs. M. White 1 11 fi Nestles . .

Sweets Mr. & Mrs. Pennefather 3 3 0 Pacific Islands Monthly . 2 2 0 Mrs. L. Roberts 3 18 0

Mrs. Lesley

10 0 Mrs. Parry ... 1 0 0 Mrs. Page . 1 0 0 Mrs. Green 2 0 0 Colyer Watson 10 0 0 Mrs. A. W. Laws 2 2 0 Mrs. M. Costelloe 2 2 0 Mrs. T. T 5 0 Mrs. Barr 3 0 0 Lady McNicol 0 0 Mr. & Mrs. J. Dnnbar-Reid 2 2 0

Mrs. Symmington

10 0 Capt. & Mrs. McFaydan 1 0 Kokopo Sports Club 5 0 0 Mrs. H. W. Johnston 2 0 0 Smalls Chocolates Sweets £88 11 6

[?]msumer Buyer-Resistance Starts

pp. 69-73

Chain-Reaction In Cocoa Industry

An address given in Tasmania by Mr. I. P. D. Lloyd, chairman of rectors of Cadbury-Pascall-Fry, has been published as a monograph by e Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand. It gives an excellent rvey of the cocoa industry. Mr. Lloyd recently visited New Guinea, d his remarks are of interest to all actual and intending Pacific cocoa inters. A summary of the monograph follows.

has been found from surveys made overseas and in Australia that the consumption of con ionery varies closely with the I of national income—in the past years in Australia it has been it 1.2 per cent, of income, which pproximately the same as it was ire the war. This figure includes i chocolate confectionery and i made of ingredients other than ia-beans. jwever, in the 1953-55 period, ;her factor entered into con ionery statistics: the steadily in sing price of chocolate which re *d in an overall fall in the con ption of confectionery, and, as , a switch from chocolate to r confectionery which had risen >rice in the pre-war period by 85 per cent, in comparison with date’s 130 per cent. (Ice cream cordials have risen in the ten s, 1945-55, by only 65 per cent.; cco, beer and cinema seats by 40 ) per cent. The Australian basic j has risen 150 per cent.). le rise in the price of chocolate >f course, directly linked with phenomenal rise in the price icoa-beans in 1954 and 1955.

L LLOYD went on; The main end-products of the cocoa bean are cocoa powder and eating olate. The most important form he latter at present is milk olate. -day, to make cocoa powder h is used in the home, we ex lome of the cocoa butter in the in order to reduce the richness ae drink, and in another part le process we add back the ex d cocoa butter to other cocoa s and to sugar in order to make ; plain chocolate.

Ik and other ingredients are in jrated at different stages in the ess to give the variety and 3 of eating chocolate which are :eted. [stralia, with a raw cocoa con ation of about 10,000 tons a year of a total world production of t 700,000 tons a year, is a com tively small user, istralia cannot of itself greatly t the fortunes of the cocoa in ry as a whole and has to accept economic position of the world , which is controlled on the one by supply and on the other end

by demand which comes in the main from the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the countries of north-west Europe.

Because in Australia over the last

few years, there has been a swing away from the chocolate product to cheaper forms of confectionery, the output from chocolate manu facturers has been reduced from about 35,000 tons in 1950 to an annual rate of about 23,000 tons in the first half of 1955.

One of the main factors con tributing to the restricted supply of cocoa—and therefore to its high price—is the spread of pests and disease, especially in some provinces of the Gold Coast, where the cut ting out of trees is the only effective remedy found so far.

Raw cocoa is an important com modity in world trade. The crop is essentially tropical and almost the

hole output finds its way to the insuming countries in the more mperate zones.

If you put a value on cocoa of 1tg.300 a ton, world trade in the mmodity is of the order of 1tg.200 million.

As so much cocoa is grown in jmmonwealth countries and sold the United States, it is a valu ile dollar earner, providing the jrling area with nearly 100 million liars a year.

However, during World War II tput dropped by nearly 30 p.c., e mainly to the spread of pests d disesases, of. which swollen Dot, black pod and capsid are the >st important. ro-day it is estimated that pests d diseases account for about ),000 tons of cocoa a year through b the world, so that if this effect lid be eliminated, total produc n would rise immediately from j present level of 700,000 tons fear to 900,000 tons.

Because of the world shortage of v cocoa and buoyant demand for ; end-products, supply and de nd have equated at a high price.

Phe Sterling price of cocoa fell m about £llO a ton in 1918 to i a ton in 1940, but by mid-1954 i increased to over £5OO a ton. ule raw material prices generally re about four times the pre-war el, cocoa prices were, in mid 4, about 18 times higher.

It became clear that these high prices could not be maintained, and it was found, particularly in the United States and indeed in Aus tralia, that consumers would not pay the necessarily high price for choco late, and use in the United States dropped considerably in the first six months of 1955.

We have already seen what has happened to chocolate output in Australia.

The effect of a decrease in con sumption because of the high price is already having its effect on the price of cocoa beans. The manufac turer reduces his stock of cocoa, and buys on a hand-to-mouth basis, and as a result the price is now below £Stg.3oo a ton.

It may be asked why the relatively high prices being obtained for raw cocoa since the war—and at the present level they are approxim ately ten times the pre-war level— did not encourage quicker expansion of production.

One reason is that the cocoa tree does not come into full bearing until about six years after the seed has been planted, so that supply is to some extent inelastic.

The great problem which faces the cocoa industry to-day is how we are to stimulate supplies to bridge the gap between the present production of 700,000 tons a year and an estimated demand of 1 million tons a year.

One result of inadequate produc tion is that it gives rise to the use of substitutes or alternatives which have some attributes akin to those of raw cocoa or of cocoa butter.

THERE are three ways in which cocoa production could be in creased: firstly, by the control of pests and diseases in those countries which now produce; secondly, by more intensive cultiva tion and by the improvement of stock in these countries; and, thirdly, by the development of raw

cocoa as a crop in tropical countries such as Malaya and New Guinea, from which considerable contribu tions may be made.

Papua-New Guinea, is a suitable land for cocoa.

Many parts of the country have the required climatic conditions and the rich volcanic soil in which the cocoa tree flourishes.

The territory now produces about 1,000 tons of bean a year, and it has been estimated that there is a potential for 20,000 tons a year eventually—about twice Australia’s present requirements.

There are, of course, difficulties— the planter himself, if he opens up new land, is faced with substantial capital outlay, and it has recently been estimated by the P-NG De partment of Agriculture that for a cocoa plantation of 150 acres, total indebtedness at the end of the fourth year will be something of the order of £23,000.

When an area of this size is in full bearing, the running costs, in cluding repayment of capital and interest thereon, are estimated at about £2OO a ton for cocoa on the basis that the crop will be 50 tons a year from the 150 acres.

If the price received for cocoa beans is £3OO a ton in plantation

store, the planter’s return will be £5,000 a year.

A planter developing new land

faces risks, and even if he can ras the necessary money to give It financial security while he is getti

d crop from his trees, he must be man of many attributes.

He must be able to recruit and anage his labour, to cut his timber, it up his building, and maintain is machinery. Above all, he must ive the courage which will make im face an area of virgin jungle id subdue it.

Cannery Means More Mail

p. 73

Business

h-ince Tungi, Prime Minister of nga, returned to Nukualofa by i December sailing of the Matua er a short visit to Auckland with ;een Salote. The Queen remained Auckland and is now on a visit Sydney.

One result of the Van Camp canning opera [?]s at Pago Pago, American Samoa, is an [?]ease in postal business. To cope with this ranch postal office was recently opened at [?]aitua Village, Eastern Tutuila, and another the western district of the island at Leone. photograph shows the opening of the [?]aitua branch with Talking Chief Laumilo, [?]will be the local postmaster, shaking hands [?]Postal Chief Hunkin. In the background Faae, son of the Talking Chief, and [?]al assistant Mrs. Jane Uhrle. —Photo by Fitzreed Studio.

Samoan Bananas

p. 73

Better Than Fijian

IN August, a party from Fiji visited Samoa to study banana growing and exporting. A report on this visit issued by Messrs. A. R. Brown ing and V. N. Koroi has now been issued.

The report suggests that damage from leaf spot, bunchytop and scab moth is not as severe in Samoa as in Fiji. The Samoan product looks better when shipped than does the Fijian product and the report finds much to admire in the organisation and working of the Samoan banana scheme.

The investigators consider that the system whereby individual growers

pack their own fruit is better than the system of collective packing stations existing in Fiji. The only constant fault they found in pack ing was the inclusion of small fruit.

They found the export pack of Samoan bananas generally very good.

The report concludes;—“lf the difference between Samoa and Fiji fruit is as great on arrival in New Zealand as it is at the points of departure, Fiji can expect to meet serious competition from Samoa should more shipping become avail able to that country, unless a better product is exported in a more at tractive pack from Fiji.” f[ Mr. C. L. Cheng has been appointed a member of the Suva City Council for a term of 3 years.

Indian Dinner for Fiji Governor

p. 75

Ram Chandra and Shiuchandra, e twin sons of Mr. Odin Ramrakha, Suva, Fiji, have passed their lals for their MB, BSc degrees at rdney University. They will spend 56 as residents at one of Sydney’s >spitals and then intend to practise Fiji.

t Mr. Douglas E. Pearce, an officer of the Literature Bureau of the South Pacific Commission, arrived in Apia, Western Samoa, in November.

He advised the Government on the establishment of a library and a bookshop and other matters con nected with literature.

The Indian Association of Fiji entertained the Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, and Lady [?]rvey at a dinner in Suva in late November. Shown in the photograph (from left to right): [?]s. Shankar Pratap, Mr. A. Lateef, Mrs. Hari Charan, Mrs. Ragnar Hyne, Mr. Hari Charan [?]esident of the Association), Sir Ronald Garvey, Mr. D. D. Batia (Indian Commissioner in Fiji), dy Garvey and Mr. Shankar Pratap. —Photo by Caine's Studios.

Papeete Assembly

p. 75

Discusses Budget and Taxes

THE last session of the Assemblee Territorial of French Oceania for 1955 opened in Papeete on November 14.

Main business was the debate on the 1956 budget of 420 million francs.

Also on the agenda were sup pression of the hire-purchase tax on foreign cars; the introduction of a new 8 per cent, sales tax and a tax on gasoline.

Cugola-McCoy Wedding

p. 76

t To guard against the importation of plant diseases and pests, such as the rhinoceros beetle, two fumi gation units are being established in the Cook Islands, one at Aitutaki and the other at Rarotonga. The one at Aitutaki will handle inward air freight and passenger luggage.

The Rarotonga unit will handle the main seaward imports.

A photograph taken after the marriage, on December 7, of Miss Barbara McCoy to Mr.

Reggie Cugola, at the Roman Catholic Church, Vila, New Hebrides. —Photo by Fung Kuei.

New Airfield Site Survey

p. 76

Planned in E. Samoa

A CTING Governor Alan Mac- Quarrie, of Eastern Samoa, on November 7, stated that a land survey will soon be made by Ameri can Samoa’s Public Works Depart ment to determine the amount of land that will be required for con struction of a new airstrip in the Tafuna area, Western District of Tutuila.

The land is needed for a new air

strip, roads, power lines, etc. Pea mission is being sought from lan owners for rights of way in ordt to make the surveys, which w/ take 3 or 4 months to complete. E added that several months wv elapse before actual constructs work will begin and stated furthr that the rights of all propen owners would be respected.

H Mr. J. D. Yelf, a new senior Agn cultural Officer, will arrive in Suw Fiji, early in the new year o transfer from Northern Rhodesia,j

[?]f You Can’t Fly it,

p. 77

[?]ARI HAS A

[?]ANDROVER

[?]f You Can’t Fly it, [?]ou Can Carry it

N New Guinea, if you are sufficiently determined, anything is possible.

Consequently, there is now a indrover vehicle at Tari, in the Duthern Highlands district, a place here, if ordinary rules prevailed, d motor vehicle would yet be.

It was possible to fly the engine the vehicle, and other detachable irts, into Tari in a Norseman ane but the chassis and frame Duld not fit in anything smaller tan a Dakota.

So the Landrover was dismantled Minj, the engine and some other ovable parts flown to Tari by Drseman and the frame and assis flown to Wabag by Dakota, id then taken by truck to tiagam.

From Laiagam, 60 nartive carriers, ider ADO Crellin, completed the erland porterage in 11 days, jring the 60 miles trek, they ossed ranges of up to 10,000 ft. id for three days, followed a ack 9,000 ft above sea-level.

To facilitate movement of the ame and chassis, local natives ong the route cleared a track 30 wide for practically the entire GO iles. The Landrover is the first hide to reach the Tari sub-district id will be used on the 44 miles roads constructed since the ation was opened three years ago.

Its arrival in Tari has shown the 3al inhabitants why the Kiaps :ve been insisting on something der than footpaths: previously ey had not seen a road vehicle her than a bicycle or motor cle.

Leper Man To Retire

p. 77

IR. P. J. TWOMEY, of Christ church, NZ, to whose untiring efforts the leper patients of the cific Islands owe a great deal, has nounced that he intends retiring >m the position of Secretary of e Leper Trust Board at the end 1956.

Mr. Twomey will remain director the organisation, however, and as ch may still visit Pacific Terri fies from time to time.

Mr. and Mrs. Mostyn Hart have gently left Norfolk Island. Mr. irt is on the staff of Cable and ireless Ltd., and has been trans fred to Sydney.

Mr. J. K. Stone, formerly of ji Times, Suva, and Pacific Islands onthly, Sydney, has joined the iff of The Dominion, Wellington, j.

Tropicalities

pp. 79-80

MAGAZINE SECTION

) NOW— DEHYDRATED BEER!

sounds a technical impossibility -but there may be a hint of hings to come in the Pacific by sport from London which says ; the Army is co-operating with breweries in developing a method lehydrating beer to reduce the ■/y cost of shipping to troops ■seas. T tie Army rightly observes that e is no point in shipping the er cent, of water content of the , which can be added at destina -1 very well, of course, if the t kind of water is available at ination—or will any water do the Army? the research is successful there be some interesting develop ,ts in territories like Western oa and the Cooks, where liquor Id by the Administration, under lit, through the Treasury Office, le can imagine Monday, per ;, as beer-mixing day at Raro a, with the junior treasury :s plying their trade —one add the buckets of water, one wield the paddle in the big vat at the re of the office floor, and another ly ladling off and crown-topping bottles; with the rich, possibly er cent, (they like it stronger), ir of the brew floating along the jrfront road to remind all and Iry that it’s permit day! • will it be sold in powder form, every man using his own dis icn as to additives? A show of is will, no doubt, call for the ir.—JPS.

JOYITA BRAINSTORMS

IE of the best items of Joy itaiana collected recently was the report (with large head -5) in a Sydney newspaper that ler, reading a tea-cup in Well on, NZ, had seen the survivors he ill-fated vessel on an island ter identified as Swains Island, le seer had identified a ship, h bows rising out of. the water” he tealeaves in her cup—also a /ily-timbered island with one on. As she knew nothing about Pacific, she went to the Well on library, where the only island fitted her description was ins—which was providentially in right locality (it is between the elau group and the Samoan ids.)

While the Joyita flap was upon us, PIM heard also—by coconut wireless from Suva—that the reason that the Japanese murdered the 25 people aboard was because they had discovered the Japs building a secret submarine base.

Unless they were building it at the bottom of the deep blue sea, it would be pretty difficult to see how the Japs or anyone else could be making use of anyone else’s islands to carry out construction of that

sort unbeknown to Authority which has a long arm these days.

Before and during the Pacific war, the Japanese did all the charting and spying that was necessary around our Pacific Islands—there can’t be much more that they need to know. Yet PI residents see all Japs as spies, first—and as shell poachers (as they very often are) second.

THAT BLASTED CHANNEL

AGAIN!

WE are interested to hear (Sept.

PIM, Page 18) that ICI made the explosives that blasted, at Ivirua village here on Mangaia, Cook Is., a channel connecting beach with reef-lip, affording easy passage for w h a 1 e-b o a ts . Also that “magician” Aloysius Smith wrought this eighth wonder.

There appears to be confused

Sigatoka

Valley

The 33-miles feeder road up the Sigatoka Valley from the coast to the Fijian village of Keiyasi gives access to this rich part of Fiji and should be of in terest to tourists who hitherto have not had much opportunity of seeing what the interior of Viti Levu is like.

The Sigatoka river is never far away and on top of some of the switch-back hills, magnificent views are obtained of the whole valley.

The road is aiding the development of flourish ing farms that grow potatoes and other root vegetables, greens, sugar cane, bananas, fruit and tobacco. It is also aid ing the manganese in dustry—a road branches off just before Keiyasi and leads to the mines.

Our photographs show, top, a manganese dump beside the road; centre, part of the valley road; lower, Keiyasi Village. —Photos by Lema Low.

data. The channel is a natural one.

It has always been there, connect ing beach with outer ridge of Ivirua lagoon. The aim of blasting was not to create a passage, but to blow away the reef-“lip” that has always impeded entrance to this lagoon (and at Oneroa village also).

The abortive attempt of a wander ing novelist to achieve improvements pales into insignificance beside the magic success of Mr. Smith!

But our trouble is that ICI has got all its facts wrong. Mr. Smith only inspected the alleged improve ments. Perhaps he wasn’t quite clear just what the site had been like before the explosions. Locals saw little difference.

We find it remarkable that the nonsense as quoted was from, of all places, “canny” Scotland.—EDWlN

GOLD.

HE TIES HIMSELF IN KNOTS

SOME people do odd things for a living, and Palmer Chetti Appalsami, 32-years-old Fiji- Indian exponent of yoga, is one of them.

He started practising yoga postures

at the age of 9, when he visited an ashram in India with his parents.

After a spell back in Suva, where he attended the Marist Brothers’

School, he practised for a few more years before staging his first public performance of yoga in 1940, since when he has become well known in Veti Levu for the excellent way in which he ties himself in knots.

In 1941, he became the light weight wrestling champion of Fiji, and remained undefeated for 5 years.

In 1946 and 1948 he toured New Zealand, demonstrating yoga postures at sideshows and cabarets.

Now he has recently returned to Fiji after a visit to Tonga, where he tied himself in knots to the astonishment—and amusement—of

audiences at 24 shows staged in various parts of Tongatabu.

Appalsami plans to visit Samoa and Tahiti early in 1956. This photo, by Jack Thornton, show the supple Indian doing one of his less com plicated manoeuvres the yoga version of sitting cross-legged.

After this most readers will, no doubt, prefer to stick to more orthodox ways of relaxing in the islands.

FILMING IN WESTERN SAMOA

WORK on the film, Pattern of Islands, had been 60 per cent, completed by late November and all concerned were reported as well satisfied with it.

The original story is based on a book of the same name by Sir Arthur Grimble—but Grimble’s story is about the Gilberts, while the movie makers decided to make it in Western Samoa.

There is a great deal of geographical difference between Samoa and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony—but apparently Samoa had advantages over the re mote atolls in the movie makers’ estimation—less isolation being one of them.

Grlmble’s book was very popu overseas, but most people who ki well the area Grimble wrote abj ridiculed much of it.

There have been a number movies made in the Pacific in cent years—none of which have ceived the seal of approval fr Islands residents.

Moira Macdonald, who did well in the Gary Cooper fi Return to Paradise, is again app© ing in the Pattern of Islands. Mo —who is now married—had no sire for a Hollywood career. : now two movie making compar have come to her door with tH blandishments. Few movie actres; have been so accommodated.

The Samoans who have tab part in the new film have b( praised for their work. They natural actors who enjoy the jof t The Royal Suva Yacht Club have a representative at the footer world contest at Brisbs Qld., in January. The yacht TV has been shipped from Suva i will compete in five races.

Pim Crossquiz No. 71

pp. 80-92

Solution om Page 90.

ACROSS

1. —In which form of musical composition is the principal theme repeated after one or two minor themes are introduced? 5. —Which famous British novelist, because

he wrote annonymously was called "The Great Unknown"? 8. —Who was outstanding as a trapeze artist before he be came a film star? 9. —What adjective relates to modern Persia? 11. What term for a doc trine is a palindrome? 12. —Which flightless bird of the southern polar regions does not inhabit the North Pole? 15.—What is a plan for de ceiving the enemy? 17. —What is a popular term for an amateur radio operator? 19. —What is a counting frame? 20. —What valiant horse carried the good news from Ghent to Aix? 22. —What does a barrister take when he becomes a senior? 23. —Who assists an actor when he is at a loss for words?

DOWN

1. —What famous eastern poem did E. Fitzgerald trans late into English? 2. —Which is the most famous opera of Bellini? 3. —With what commodity did Rockefeller make his fortune?

4. —-Which war in Spain and Portugal was carried on by Great Britain against Napoleon's marshals? 5. —What word signifying hardy endurance and simplicity is named from a Greek city? 7. —Which valve controls the flow of gas into a motor?

10. —Who was the Saint that founded 1 Jesuit order? 13. —Who always plays the part ox pessimistic pianist on the screen? 14. —ln boxing what is the term fco sudden thrust?

16. —What is the trunk of a statue witHt head or limbs? 17. —Who painted "The Laughing Cavaliei 18. —Which famous thoroughfare leads to c gates of Buckingham Palace? 21. —What is the German word for "thi

[?]Slie Gill Of Gizo ...

p. 81

■SLIE GILL, of Gizo, in the Western Solo mons, has always led a very full life, no time for holidays and too busy to married. lot of his time and energy has gone into using good causes in the islands. He was in Melbourne in 1887, and was trained in electrician. After a spell at Chillagoe, h Queensland, he went to Ocean Island for old Phosphate Company, serving there under Albert Ellis. : ter 1\ years Les Gill went to Papua for ange, clearing and planting rubber at Aroa, nd Kanosia. From Papua he went to the mens, arriving at Gizo in 1911, and im ately was put to copra planting by his Later he went recruiting for them in the

ner "Enid", which took him round the er parts of the group. In 1913 he took and for himself in Vella Lavella, and ed it. After 15 years in the Solomons, had a holiday in Australia, about 1926. ring the Depression he was forced to go ig, and was able to buy Labete on Munda, later still Joroveto and Sangrana estates ella Lavella. For some time Gill had been ig for the "Bulletin" of Sydney; and was eminent member of the Solomon Islands ers' Association at Gizo. When they id the "Planters' Gazette" he became one ie editors, sharing the board with Mac n, and McKerlie. This newspaper was sd for them in Australia, and demanded ns in land tenure, labour regulations, and institution of an advisory council. Two ons were sent to the King, and their aign was a complete success. his spare time Gill had been studying infancy, and is now a Fellow of the Aus n Society of Accountants, with 25 years' tership. ter a stretch of 14 years in the Solomons iut leave, except a change of occupation mes, Les was compulsorily evacuated from Sroup when the Japs were sweeping down ?42. >m Australia he managed to be sent back he Solomons as a Sergeant in the BSIP ice Force, but soon found himself attached ie American Forces, after being posted to and Noumea. Les went with the convoy captured the main positions in the Western nons. He was at the landing at Rendova, later, at his own island of Vella Lavella. eturned to the BSIP Forces as Lieutenant the Yanks left for Bougainville, and went iustralia when the War ended. 1947 he returned to the Solomons to

rebuild his wrecked properties and trading posts. He was responsible for the re-opening of Gizo as an overseas port. From 1950 till 1954, Leslie Francis Gill, MBE, FASA, was a member of the Advisory Council, but was forced to retire because of failing eyesight.

He has been in Australia for medical atten tion to his one good eye; the other was lost in an accident at Ocean Island about 1908.

Gill had a close friend and neighbour in the Rev. J. F. Goldie, who founded the Methodist Mission in the Solomons and ran it from 1902 till 1952. It was said that the Gizo district had a trinity of G's, "Gill, God and Goldie".

He has been on equally friendly terms with his fellow men in the Western Solomons, including vagabonds and sailors, and has been a valuable influence for good in the group for nearly 45

years.-

BRETT HILDER.

The Years Have Brought Many Changes

pp. 81-95

Some Reminiscences of an Islands Skipper

By CAPTAIN W. J. BUCKLEY

MY first sight of the Santa Cruz Islands, of which I was to see a good deal in later years, was from the deck of the schooner Lindsay , ten days out of Sydney, with only a glimpse of the Mellish Reef en route.

Vanikoro was in sight by the 10th evening and the following morning we anchored in Pau Harbour.

The history books tell us how Quiros first discovered these Islands, of how he made attempts to settle at Graciosa Bay, Ndendi Island, of how his crew mutinied, of the abandonment of his settle ment and the return to Peru; and of how, a 100 years later, La Perouse and his men perished there.

The passage through the reefs that La Perouse is believed to have taken is what is now known as Blind Passage, though then it was evidently navigable. There in Pau Harbour he repaired his ships with the excellent kauri timber which is now exploited commercially, but there, too, the ships ended their days, evidently blown ashore.

Looking down from the hills of Vanikoro on a clear sunny day, one can see the coral bottom in the Passage. In one place the growing coral forms the shape of a ship.

During my many years in the Santa Cruz, I often came across relics of the old navigators. In a village on Ndendi I saw a native cracking coconuts with a bronze sword hilt. He had owned it for a number of years; it had been handed down to him from his father. It was obviously the hilt of a Spanish sword.

At Vanikoro there was a large sheet of beaten copper in a tambu house, which had been there lor countless years. It was looked upon by the old natives as sacred but the younger generation knew noth ing of its origin. A friend of mine acquired it for a few sticks of to bacco and had it fashioned into a large dinner gong. It no doubt

belonged to the La Perouse ships.

Silver coins have been found dating back to Charles I of Spain.

According to Captain Dillon’s re port of his search for traces of the La Perouse expedition, the islands of the Santa Cruz Group were then densely populated. On my first visit in 1909, the population was estimated to be about 20,000 and was a great hunting ground for labour recruits.

But in 1932, when I helped to take a census of the Group, there were only 48 natives living on Vanikoro, and they had not been born on the island. The Vanikoro natives had completely died out through tribal wars, European-introduced diseases, and black-birding.

On Ndendi, the largest island, there were 1,600 people in 1932, where in 1908 there had been be tween 5,000 and 6,000. On one re cruiting trip in 1912 I obtained a full ship and the people asked me to take more. Returning some time later to that village I found that they had all died in a dysentery out break. I believe that in a few years the Sana Cruz natives will be extinct.

Quite the reverse is the case in another Solomon Island. In 1932, on my last visit to Tikopia, 90 miles south-east of Vanikoro, the popula tion there was 16,000 and the people had strict laws to control the further increase in population on the crowded island. The word of the three chiefs was law. Only one son of a family could marry.

A man caught in adultery was put in a canoe with no paddles, given a few coconuts, and set adrift. If the canoe were blown back, well and good, but it rarely was. On my way to the Solomons in my schooner I once picked up such a castaway 100 miles from Tikopia and in a very bad way, having drifted for days.

He was returned to his homeland some months later, but his relatives had to pay the chief before he was allowed to remain.

There was once a populated island about 40 miles to the north of the Duff Islands, from where canoes used to come visiting. About 1880, at the same time as the volcanic island of Tinakula appeared, this other island disappeared, complete with population, when a seismic wave swept the area. To-day there is about 7 fathoms of water in that area.

Thirty years ago the people in the Shortland Islands, Solomons, had some strange customs. One was known as Ha-a-ariro, or the leading

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away of ghosts. When a person died the body was usually painted with a red clay called moamoa in order to lessen the odour. Then on suc cessive nights the body was taken to the houses of various relatives, before finally being taken to the burial ground and covered with coconut fronds for the night. By next day the ghosts had departed, the body was embalmed and buried.

On Malaita in those days the only ways a young man could win an attractive girl were either by being a skilled dancer, or by possessing a trophy of one or more human skulls as a token of personal bravery. fl Mr. C. J. Hammett, Acting Puisne Judge, Fiji, returned with his family to the colony from leave in the UK in December.

Strange Death and Strange Burial of “Queen Emma "

pp. 82-95

“Queen Emma " of N. Guinea

By R. W. ROBSON

T IKE most of the famous and picturesque characters of the Pacific Islands, Mrs. Emma Kolbe (better known as Mrs. Emma Forsayth and “Queen Emma”) of Western Samoa and New Guinea, suffered grievously at the hands of cheap and shoddy space-writers.

These people string together a few facts and many unsupported reports and rumours to form the backbone of a sensational story; fill in the gaps from their own imagination; and then sell the result to some careless editor who publishes the lot as authentic history. They— editors and writers —seem to be too tired or indifferent to engage in a little research and check the facts.

A lively story and a sensational headline are all that matter. In time, these silly stories are accepted as truth.

Again and again, in the past decade, I have seen sensational and completely untrue stories published about the death of Emma Kolbe at Monte Carlo One, not long ago, took her and Kolbe to Monte Carlo in 1914, after a grand tour of Europe', set them gambling, and dissipating their fortune; and then killed them off in a suicide-by poison act on the very eve of World War I (August 2 or 3, 1914). All untrue, except that both died in Monte Carlo.

During the last 20 years, piece by piece, I have gathered together a fairly complete story of “Queen

Emma’s” remarkable life, in Samoa and New Guinea. Through the kind ness of her relations, I now have a valuable collection of old 'photo graphs and documents illustrating events of her career. Soon, if time and business permit, I shall write the story of “Queen Emma”—a South Seas tale so picturesque that no imaginative embellishment is needed.

But there was one bit missing. Mr. and Mrs. Kolbe died natural deaths, in quite extraordinary circum stances, in Monte Carlo; and their ashes were afterwards interred in New Guinea. But none seemed to know exactly why they had been in Monte Carlo, or the date of their death, or how their bodies were dis posed of.

So, while I was in Europe in 1955, I made a call upon Mr. H. R.

Wahlen, aged 82, German-New Guinea pioneer, who lives in Ham burg, and who gave me a lot of early New Guinea history. At the same time, my friend Gordon Thomas (editor of the pre-war Rabaul Times) and his friend, A. H. Cress well, gathered for me a good deal of data at “Queen Emma’s” old home at Ralum, NG.

The following article, about the death and burial of “Queen Emma,” and the disappearance of her ashes . is assembled from material provided by Mr. Wahlen and Messrs. Thomas and Cresswell, and my collection of records.

EMMA COE, daughter of Amr can Government Agent Jod M. Coe and a high-caste worn of the Mataafa family of Sam was married in Apia about 1868 a well-born Englishman. Forsa:: and had one son, named Jonas< Coe Forsayth.

In New Guinea, in 1894, when was a 44-years-old widow, married Captain Paul Kolbe,, German. She already had hao remarkable life, in both a romar and commercial sense. She tic was very rich; and she was mu richer when, about 1909-10, she s out most of her interests. She s her husband travelled widely.

By 1912, both Mrs. Kolbe s Kolbe were in poor health, and be suffered from diabetes—a killer-: those days.

In 1912, word came to Mrs. Koc then here in the South Pacific, t‘J her husband was gravely ill Europe, and she decided visit him immediately. On her v to Europe, she called in at Rabsi and saw Mr. H. R. Wahlen (who H bought many of her assets) at ; old home at Gunantambu, Ralv. (Mr. Wahlen’s agents in Hambc acted also as agents for Mrs. Koc and for her remaining interestsE New Guinea).

Mr. Whalen recalls that she tK was in poor health—“very we and accompanied only by a nat servant of the Tasman Island She was 63. She was very anxli about her husband, and departed Germany by the first available sK THERE is no complete account! what happened in Europe al.

Mrs. Kolbe arrived. But thi facts are established: Kolbe I apparently formed a new liaisoc or resumed an old one—after IV Kolbe left him in 1911-12 to w Australia; and, although he was i

The burial • ground of the Emma Forsayth section of the Coe family in New Guinea, as it is to - day, after being practically wrecked during the Japanese invasion. The con crete slab, in which the ashes of Captain and Mrs. Paul Kolbe were interred in 1913, is in the foreground. In the upper picture is a close-up of the slab, show ing the hole made when the urns containing the ashes were removed about 1923, it is thought.—Photos by C. H. Meen.

ing the hole made when the b ' tVV U • % «r*jJ i.'C> • 1Y '" * , *f urns containing the ashes were , V* . • -'" 3 " . removed — about 1923, it is " : — _^g^PPf| 4: . thought.-Photos by C. H. Meen. ' / ‘ •* • ' <C'-

creasingly ill, the lady was still around when Mrs. Kolbe returned.

However, Mrs. Kolbe arranged matters so that she and her husband went off together on a travel wander; and eventually, in the Autumn of 1913, they took up their residence in a hotel in Monte Carlo.

Kolbe by now was very ill indeed; and then a bad situation was made worse by the appearance of Kolbe’s “girl friend.” She was a German, 3f considerable attractiveness; Kolbe was apparently fond of her; and she insisted on staying there and assisting to nurse Kolbe.

The high-spirited “Queen Emma” did not accept this situation passively. In the midst of the tension Kolbe suddenly collapsed and died. The German woman was still there.

The presence of this woman, and the further fact that her presence md demands caused Mrs. Kolbe very deep distress, gave rise to a lot of rumours of which there is no proof whatever. The most persistent is that the woman claimed that she ivas Kolbe’s legal wife; but it never was shown that she was married to Kolbe before 1894, or even that she made the claim.

Emma, herself very ill and under ?reat emotional strain, suffered a :omplete collapse, took to her bed,

and died within 24 hours of Kolbe.

I can discover no foundation at all for the reports that Emma poisoned Kolbe and then com mitted suicide by poison. There is nothing to sup port the report that they had lost their fortune in the gaming rooms, and then suicided —although Kolbe, while there by himself, may have been gambling.

Mr. Wahlen says: “Mrs. Kolbe was of ha 1 f-Samoan blood, and in temperament she had the heart and beliefs of a Samoan. A Samoan, when under great physical or mental stress, can just give up, and die.

I think that is what happened to Emma Kolbe.”

There was no police excitement, as there would have been if there had been murder or suicide. But

the hotel people were embarrassed by the double death, and urgently sought assistance from Mrs. Kolbe’s agents in Hamburg, who were also Mr. Wahlen’s agents.

The agents acted swiftly. They sent one of their men immediately to Monte Carlo, to take charge of the tragic situation. The two bodies were embalmed and sent to Ham burg, where they both were cremated.

The ashes were placed in two urns: and instructions then were awaited from Mr. Wahlen and Mr. J. C. M.

Forsayth, in New Guinea.

The mysterious German woman was never heard of again.

MR. WAHLEN thus has told me the rest of the story: “I gave instructions that the urns, containing the ashes, be sent to me in New Guinea. It was the wish of ‘Queen Emma’ that she should lie under the palms in the South Seas, where she had lived nearly all her life.

“When the urns arrived, Mrs.

Kolbe’s son, Mr. Coe Forsayth, who then was living in Sydney—he is now dead—j oin e d me in New Guinea; and I presented to him a piece of ground in the cemetery of Ralum (about one mile away from Gunantambu) where members and friends of the family already were resting. It definitely was the wish

of Mrs. Kolbe that she should be interred there.

“When the case containing the urns was opened in the presence of Mr. Forsayth and myself, at Gun antambu, Mr. Forsayth expressed much indignation because the people in Hamburg had not marked the urns for identification. Then he took up the bigger one—Mrs. Kolbe had been a heavy woman—and, say ing, T think this will be my mother,’ he kissed the urn.

“The death of the ‘Queen’, and her return home for burial, was re garded as an important event in that colony, and many European residents and officials, including the Governor, and thousands of natives, gathered at Gunantambu to take part in the ceremonies. My wife had decorated the great sitting room, and the walls were covered with black calico. A nice pulpit was erected, where the Methodist preacher, Mr. Fellmann, conducted the service.

“After the service, Mr. Forsayth took the two urns in his arms, and he and I got into my car—the only car in New Guinea at that time— and we drove to the cemetery.

“There, the Governor said a last farewell to ‘Queen Emma’; and then Forsayth put the two urns into a small mausoleum which my work men had constructed there. Then Forsayth shouted, ‘Wahlen, give me a hand’—and I helped him to close the opening, and Forsayth person ally cemented down the cover.

“Then we drove home again; and Forsayth, as he entered Gunan tambu, exclaimed: ‘Wahlen, let us have a Magnum Bonum. God be thanked, the matter is over.’ (Our ‘Queen Emma’ loved champagne— on many an occasion, I helped her to empty many bottles, imported from France.) “Many people came in; and all that afternoon and evening, and until next morning, we had a wonderful time, celebrating the burial of the old ‘Queen’ in the way she would have wished—and as it was done in the olden times, when the dead went to Valhalla.”

When I saw Mr. Wahlen, in Ham burg, I inquired about dates—when exactly did Mrs. Kolbe die, and when did that burial take place?

But he could not supply the dates —when he left New Guinea in May, 1914, he did not even guess that he would not return, and he left ail his diaries there, to be lost in World War I. But he was positive that Mrs. Kolbe died in Monte Carlo in 1913; and the burial at Ralum must have taken place either late in 1913 or early 1914, as Wahlen left New Guinea in May, 1914.

AFTER gathering the foregoing information, I decided to get a photograph of the “mausoleum” near Gunantambu. I got the will

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Mrs. Emma Kolbe ("Queen Emma") with Captain Paul Kolbe, soon after their marriage in German New Guinea in 1894. (Photo per favour of Mrs. R. Davidson, of Apia, Western Samoa. Copyright protected.)

g help of Mr. Gordon Thomas — id here we uncovered another •ange set of circumstances.

The ashes of “Queen Emma,” who d died and been buried in so usual a manner, have disappeared and no one knows exactly how d where.

Gordon Thomas enlisted the help his friend, A. H. Cresswell (now b owner of Neu Kauern Planta n, near Rabaul) and Rabaul otographer C. H. Meen. In July, >5, Messrs, Thomas and Cresswell nt out to Ralum, to Malapau natation, now owned by Mr. Bill we. (Mrs. Kolbe’s famous resid ce, Gunantambu, once stood on s plantation, but it was destroyed the Japs in 1942-45).

Vtr. Rowe had no idea where the ive site might be; but he sent a rty with the searchers to the ar b y plantation of Kuradui here Mrs. Kolbe’s sister, Mrs. oebe Parkinson, lived in the Icyon days of “Queen Emma”), ey searched in the area for an cemetery believed to be there )uts, but without success, lordon Thomas would not give up. had to return South, but he got . Cresswell to continue the rch; and Mr. Jock Essen (in ictor for Coconut Products Ltd.) ped a lot by putting on a team natives to search the area and the grass. Thus, Mr. Cresswell er found two private cemeteries, •se of Malapau and Kuradui, and ntified a number of graves which 1 been placed there in the days “Queen Emma” and Mrs. Parkin i.

The beautiful tomb-stones and rings in the Kuradui mat-mat metery) were damaged and ttered,” reports Mr. Cresswell. le local natives said the Japs did 3.” They located six graves, and ntified three of them.

In the Malapau cemetery idently the Ralum cemetery re red to by Mr. Wahlen—Editor) established the outline of 12 ves—but there were probably ny more. Desolation and vandal t showed everywhere—and again Japs were accused,”

ND here is what Mr. Cresswell found when he searched for “Queen Emma’s” resting place: There is a small, flat square of icrete level with the ground . . . but the edges of this slab of lent have been dug up, leaving ihallow hole. On this spot had id the cairn in which the ashes ‘Queen Emma’ had rested.

I was informed by Max Lees, o was Malapau manager at that e, that in 1923 a man sent from iney by Forsayth removed the

rresum a abfv to to k ivdnev y

S?on ot y Fred JoSey (M?

Jolley, deputy chairman of the Expropriation Board in New Guinea 30 years ago—Editor) had been obtained. Malapau boys were used job.”

One of Mr. Meen’s photographs, herewith, shows the concrete slab as it now is, with the hole cut in it.

T'HIS was new to us. Nothing had J. been published hitherto about Tv/r the moval of the . u s ns -

Mr. Thomas appealed t 9 Mr.

Jolley (now retired and living in Sydney). Mr. Jolley said he had no recollection of what took place in relation to the ashes’ removal.

Wlth the f <*™ur of the true h L storlan ’ Mr. Thomas sought else and in , Nove . mber - 1955, he re an interesting letter from a grandson of Mrs. Phoebe Parkinson (Mrs - Kolbe’s sister).

“i can only relate what my grand mother told me about the removal of the ashes,” he says. “They were placed in a small cairn in a valley, e a ith v “ y at e? next-of-kin removed the cairn and urn, because they expected to find jewellery in it. . . My grandmother was very upset about it all, and broke off all ties with the family concerned. . . The person who did this act disposed of the urn and

the ashes somewhere up here, be cause of disappointment at not finding any treasure. This person accused sundry people of filching the supposed treasure. .

The grave may have been desecrated by some ignorant and greedy resident of NG, who had oeen impressed by stories of “Queen Emma’s” wealth; but Mr. Wahlen’s account of the burial ceremony at 3unantambu in 1913 indicates that mly the urns were interred there.

It is more likely that the urn >r urns were removed, as re )orted, in 1923, by Mr. J. C. M. rorsayth, when German New Guinea became a League of Nations Territory—he had a deep lentimental regard for his mother — md that the ashes were brought o Sydney for re-interment. Mr. and Jrs. J. C. M. Forsayth are now dead, md all official New Guinea records irere lost in the war; so the final esting place of “Queen Emma’s” shes probably never will be known. ! ’or historical purposes, the story f “Queen Emma” may be allowed o end with the colourful ceremonies rtiich surrounded the interment of ter remains at Ralum, in 1913.

NOTE: In examining the old mrial-grounds at Malapau and turadui, Mr. Cresswell uncovered a ood deal of the history of the Coe amity, during the “Queen Emma” period of German New Guinea. This nil be made the subject of a eparate article in the PIM.

Seeing Norfolk On The Run

pp. 84-98

One Crowded Day

On the inaugural flight of the new weekly Sydney-Norfolk Is.-New Zealand service at the beginning of November, a party of press and travel-agency representatives flew from Sydney and made the day’s stop-over at Norfolk while the plane went to Auckland and back. Among them was a PIM representative, Selwyn Hughes, who made these notes:

Attracting Australian

Tourists

rOM the moment the Qantas DC4 slid down through cotton wool clouds and a dazzling pic ture of rugged cliffs, lace-edged with breaking surf, rolling emerald-green parklands and magnificent pine trees filled the eye, Norfolk Island and her people won over yet another plane-load of visitors.

With a sub-tropical climate that has few equals, Norfolk Is. should be a “natural” for Australian holi day-seekers—but, although it is Australian territory and tourism is a main source of revenue, the majority of visitors in recent years have been New Zealanders, taking advantage of Nl’s sunshine and the favourable exchange rates. Until recently, NZ National Airways ran a regular service to NI.

However, if the dozen or so Syd ney travel agents who made the first trip can sway their customers, then Norfolk can expect more and more Australian tourists.

Travel-agents say that there will be no overnight invasion of Aus tralians —the tourist traffic will have to be built up gradually by a vigor ous programme of publicity.

Three main factors militate against the expansion of the tourist trade.

The air fare, Sydney-NI-Sydney, at around £5O, is high—a married couple would need £l5O for fares, accommodation, and extras for a

fortnight’s holiday; but later on a special tourist rate may be fixed.

Secondly, holiday-seekers look to Norfolk Island only after Hayman Island (Qld. Barrief Reef) or Lord Howe Is. (currently attracting the younger people—at half Nl’s fare).

Finally, the experts assert, the pre sent first-class accommodation is too limited—the island is crying out for a modern hotel, with all the trimmings: the three principal guesthouses can accommodate only 70 between them.

Fruit, and

No Market Since the Hon. Paul Hasluck, Minister for Territories, was arriv ing on the first plane, at 6.30 a.m., it was met by the NI Administrator (Brigadier H. Boyd Norman) and the air terminal was crowded with residents. All the 850 people on NI are Europeans—known either as Islanders (descendants of the original Pitcairn Islanders) or Main landers (those who have settled within the last half-century, mostly retired professional and business men). All are friendly and hospit able.

In a matter of minutes, with a minimum of fuss and red-tape, we were through the customs and whisked off in the island’s vintage taxis to the main guesthouse, “Lincoln Lodge,” for breakfast.

There we savoured the first of the luscious NI fruit that was to tempt

us throughout the day. NI is so fertile that practically all fruit grows abundantly, but Australia’s own fruitgrowers and high freight rates see to it that NI fruit does not get a fair share of that market.

Church of a

Murdered Bishop

In the Tourist Bureau’s char abanc-cum-truck that weekly takes tourists around the island, we set off helter-skelter to see the sights, along the red-gravel lanes and roads bordered with scarlet tecuma, hibiscus and oleanders. Since the travel-agents wished to see all of Norfolk’s five by three square miles in their brief stay, they moved at the double. A running commentary by three knowledgeable Tourist Bureau officers, Messrs. Bill Simmons, Aub. Greenwood, and Jim Needham, completed the picture for them. • Norfolk Island has one of the most beautiful chapels in Australasia— St. Barnabas’ church, memorial to John Coleridge Patteson, first Bishop of Melanesia.

For half a century, the Melanesian Mission had its headquarters on Norfolk, and hundreds of native youths from the Solomons and New Hebrides were trained there as teachers and then returned to their own islands to advance Christianity.

Bishop Patteson was murdered at Nukapu, Santa Cruz Group, on Sep tember 20, 1871 —“payback” for five Nukapuans carried off to Fiji by

Three landmarks on Norfolk Island: Bloody Bridge; rear view of St. Barnabas Church showing the walls of local sandstone and shingle roof cut from local timber; Kingston—with Government House in the centre.

—Photos by Qantas

lackbirders. When the body was by the crew of the Mission lip Southern Cross, it had five jparate wounds inflicted on it and ring on the breast was a palm ranch with five knots tied in it. ppropriately, the chapel’s finely irved altar is fashioned in a five not palm-leaf design.

With pew-ends inlaid with delicate other-of-pearl set in black cement, :ained-glass windows designed by le famous English painter, Sir dward Burne-Jones, and a Devon larble floor of white, pink and ack, the chapel is a gem in its vn way.

e Brought

is Pot-Plants

i LONG every roadway and in L every field, one sees the lantana pest, with its bunched yellow id pink flowers.

Forty-odd years ago, a newcomer to the neat little cable station at Anson Bay brought with him a few potted plants to add colour to his window sill. One was the lantana, and its seeds, scat tered by the winds that sweep the island from the south, took root and spread—and spread.

Nowadays, the

cable man is for gotten, but his memory is daily cursed by the Islanders as th e

overhanging lan

tana plants clutch at them as they walk along the paths and by ways.

Cook Went

That Way

THAT’S where

Cook’s party landed,” said our guide, point in g north-w es t towards Buncombe Bay. We were atop Mt. Pitt (1,044 ft), at the trig, station and, like an unrolled map, most of the island stretched out below us.

On his second voyage, en route

to New Zealand from New Caledonia, Cook came upon the uninhabited island at daybreak on September 10, 1774. Honouring the Howard Family, who held the Duchy of Norfolk, Cook called it Norfolk Island.

In his Journal, he noted the abundance of spruce pine, the luxuriant flax plants and the fact that the bird-life resembled New Zealand’s. He did not tarry, but sailed on next day.

Nowadays there is a cairn of local stones and concrete at Buncombe Bay, marking the region where the Resolution’s boat-crew landed.

Convict Days

One of the reasons for the original settlement of Norfolk was to grow wheat and other foodstuffs for the young colony of New Wales, P'oo miles away. Governor Arthur Phillip, first Governor of NSW, de

spatched Lieut. P. G. King to Norfolk with a small party of convict settlers in 1788, and he founded King’s Town (now Kingston) at Sydney Bay, in the south. Within five years, the island had a popula tion of around 1,000 free settlers and convicts and some 12,000 bushels of wheat were being pro duced.

(Continued on Page 94)

TOP: Bulldozers excavating site for the new whaling station at ascade.

LOWER: Lincoln Lodge, one of the main guest-houses on the [?]sland. —Photo by Qantas.

Remains of the deep-dug silos of those days can still be seen.

In 1806, the NSW Government de cided to abandon the island and from 1813 until 1826 only the sea birds, the multi-coloured parrots and the quail were in possession.

A second penal settlement was established in 1826, but this time the convicts were the incorrigibles and Norfolk became a “hell-island.”

Finally, the settlement was with drawn to Tasmania. To-day, the basalt stone ruins of the barracks and the ancient buildings (now re st9red) along Quality Row, at Kingston, are the only grim re minders.

Two of the most pointed-out places on the island are associated with the old convict days—Head stone Landing and Bloody Bridge.

A memorial cross at Headstone, above the rocky southwest coast, records the fate of two guards who captured Barney Duffy, an escaped convict said to have spent seven years at large, mostly hiding in a great hollow tree.

As he went to the gallows, he roundly cursed the men who found him. Fishing from the rocks, a week later, the two warders were swept into the boiling ocean.

Bloody Bridge was the scene of

the murder by 14 convicts of a hated guard whose body was then walled up in the bridge they were build ing. It was assumed that he had been lost off the reef; but bloodstains seeping through the stone-joints of the bridge gave away the grisly secret.

The convicts were marched to a spot outside the cemetery, and in

unhallowed ground were forced to. dig their own mass-grave before' they were executed by shooting.

Centenary of

Pitcairners’ Arrival On June 8, 1956, Norfolk Islanders' will celebrate the centenary of the arrival at Kingston by the ship

Morayshire of 194 Pitcairners, de scendants of the Bounty mutineers —all bearing the eight family names still dominant among the Islanders: Adams, Buffet, Christian, Evans, Nobbs, McCoy, Quintal and Young.

The Territories Minister met mem bers of the Norfolk Is. Centenary Celebrations Committee (under Pre sident Ray H. H. Nobbs) on the morning of our November visit and agreed to a Commonwealth grant for a few hundred pounds to assist ,n the work of the Committee. He also took steps for a souvenir book et to be produced and printed by ;he Commonwealth Government to nark the occasion.

Norfolk Islanders hope that the Australian Governor-General, Sir William Slim, Lady Slim and other iistinguished visitors will be present it the celebrations. 2ost of an

Aerodrome

Though there was opposition to he plan, in wartime, to cut down he majestic avenue of 500 Norfolk sland pines, 100 ft tall, to make /ay for an aerodrome, the Islanders tow have become accustomed to heir loss.

Planted a century ago by a fore ighted garrison commander, the ines when fully grown served a ual purpose—they screened the leak southern winds to moderate reezes and they became an avenue f beauty.

The Americans, after the Coral ea battle in 1942, decided that an ir strip was vital on tiny Norfolk 3., as an emergency landing-ground etween Australia and NZ, and the Hied base in New Caledonia.

The only possible drome site at orfolk was on the plateau, where le avenue of pines would make an leal runway. The Islanders rumbled and tried to hold up the reject but the ’drome was essential -and New Zealand construction nits started in with bulldozers and izzsaws.

The incident of the aerodrome was ctionised and received world-wide nblicity later as one of the Tales f the South Pacific by James A. fichener, who served in the Islands 3 a US naval lieutenant.

Not long after the NI airstrip be ime serviceable, a US Air Force savy bomber, in trouble, came into nd at Norfolk and rolled to a halt iree-quarters of the way down the mway—completely out of gas. The mericans reckoned the compensa on paid to the Islanders for the nd and the cost of the ’drome was danced that day by the lives, the ane, and the equipment saved.

omestic Life

: the Terns

Always in view, wherever the

party journeyed around the roads that skirt the cliffs, were pairs of the little white terns that come to Norfolk from August to November for nesting. They do not build nests —the female lays her mottled whitish egg on a horizontal tree branch, near a bole or a wood-hole, and there it balances. When hatched, the young, fluffy tern squats on the same spot for days until the parents coax it to fly.

The driver of our charabanc was to be young Owen Evans, the patient lad who captured the photo graph of a baby tern published in September PIM. He lay with his camera trained, for eight hours be fore he was fortunate enough to get his rare shot. His mother, Mrs.

Ivy C. Evans, who supplied the story of the terns’ nesting time, was

for years the island’s school teacher.

Plans for Scientific

Whaling

On and off for years, whaling has been a subsidiary industry at Norfolk Island. From mid-July until late November, hump-back whales in numbers move up from the chill Antarctic waters south of New Zea land into the warmer latitudes for breeding.

From Ball Bay, on the eastern side of Norfolk, the Islanders used to harpoon whales by hand from 30-ft open boats, but in 1949 the South Seas Whaling and Sharking Co. introduced a launch and a whale-chaser with a harpoon gun.

However, the company’s activities

were dogged by ill-luck and finally were abandoned.

Now, after a successful season atj Byron Bay, NSW, Anderson’s Meau Industries Ltd., under the direction of Mr. Alan W. Anderson (son o:c the celebrated Sydney “sausages king,” A. W. Anderson, also known in New Guinea, where a subsidiary company has a freezer) is reviving; the NI whaling industry.

The Norfolk Whaling Company Ltd. has been formed with adequate financial backing from the parenr company and is preparing a station at Cascade, on the North Coast.

In November, bulldozers working two shifts (one flood-lit at nights were hacking out the factory site which will occupy three levels. A concrete dam has been built ano a water pipe-line is being laid. Somx of the factory buildings are beinj; prefabricated on the island t«J facilitate erection.

A few Islanders worked last season with Anderson’s at Byron Bay; mostly flensing, and they will form the nucleus of the trained, expen staff at the new station, under Mr; T. Hamilton.

One plan under consideration ii to pipe whale oil directly intd overseas tankers for shipment td Europe, instead of sending it iii drums to Sydney first, with costl;I freight. The tankers, which faring diesel fuel to NI from Australis, will flush their tanks with seawatei and then pipe in the whale oil.

Tax Storm

Blows Over

After the recent storm between officialdom and the Norfolk Islanden over proposals to increase duties anx taxes, the visitors were interested tt learn at first-hand that the comr promise revisions agreed to by Cane berra appear to be working fairlf satisfactorily and that the Islanden-: collective blood-pressure, up tt danger-point at the beginning o the year now is back to somethinr like normal.

Residents generally praised then present Administrator, Brigadier H Boyd Norman, DSO, MC, and spotol warmly of Mrs. Norman.

His appointment to NI evokes criticism in some quarters becaus men with long and creditable sen; vice in Australia’s tropical terri: tories were passed over in favou; of Brigadier Norman; but it ws criticism of the system, not the mai himself.

Norfolk Islanders, usually “agii; the government,” recognise Brigadiei Norman’s energy and sincerity Most of them would prefer to se; Norfolk with a less expensive system of administration but, they say, Canberra decrees there has to be ae Administrator, well, they’ll be satisi fled with the present one.

She's OK Now

p. 85

JUST LIKE THE

ADS SAY—

True Story by Daiku Tau

THE publicity recently given to the language problem in Papua- New Guinea reminds me of a happening during the latter end of the war.

I was in charge of a native hos pital and had several outstations under native orderlies who had to submit their monthly reports to me to be incorporated in the one for the district.

These orderlies were chosen care fully for their ability to write clearly as well as for their medical knowledge. The report I had to make listed all the usual diseases in their alphabetical order and also had a space for “Enemy Action,” any case of which had to be in vestigated in case of possible com pensation.

The area had been free of the enemy for nearly two years so you can imagine my surprise when an orderly on an outstation, who had never made a mistake previously, sent in his report with one case of “Enemy Action.”

Apart from the native population the only people I knew of in the area were several missionaries and I could not imagine them injuring a native or being called an enemy.

But there were several crashed Japanese planes which probably still had some ammo left on them, so I held up my report and sent for further particulars.

I eventually received the follow ing letter from the orderly: OC, Native Hospital, Dear Sir Taubada, I get your letter about Enemy Action case number 166 in hos pital case book, and I tell you.

This patient was aged female and she have constipation for four days so I give her enemy and she have action and I mark my book Enemy Action. She alright now. 1 am,

NMO

in charge Outstation.

This Month’s New Reading

pp. 86-91

Sex, Life and Death

in Pennsylvania

THE Book Society has puts its seal upon A Murder in Paradise (by Richard Gehman). We mention this fact only because it may mean something to PIM readers. It means nothing to us.

This somewhat extraordinary book tells a true story—the story of a sordid and brutal murder in Lancaster Pennsylvania, USA, in January, 1950, by a college student of a young woman.

Apparently it was something of a cause celebre at the time in America, but it is unlikely to have caused many ripples on the duck pond else where and the non-American reader might reasonably wonder why this particular crime has been singled cut for the meticulous treatment given it by Mr. Gehman.

For the student of the American scene or of American crime detec tion it has considerable merit, but in a desperate effort to include every detail of the crime and of the events that led up to it and the case histories of the principals, the author at times becomes exceedingly weari some.

British readers are likely to be left wondering if it is to be regarded as a serious presentation of a famous case or whether it is designed—with its jazzed-up title and long descrip tions of the murderer’s sex life —for popular appeal. Probably the latter.

Any nation which can stomach the Dragnet, radio and movie series of real crime, is likely to have un expected tastes in crime literature.

A medical witness said: “In my opinion his sex life was definitely abnormal. . . During his high school years and before, Gibbs (the murderer) had no sex relations at all.”

Amazing. (Published by Peter Davies, Ltd. Aus tralian price, 18/9.)

Plea for Christmas

ONLY in America, surely, could a parson become a public hero with a movie and a pop-song written about him. That is what happened to Peter Marshall, any how (The Man Called Peter), and as a result this year one of his Christmas sermons has been pub lished by Peter Davies Ltd. as a gift booklet. It is called Let’s Keep Christmas.

It is too late now for PIM readers for 1955, but the sentiments ex pressed in the sermon are all of the well-tried variety and will keep another year.

The book is attractively produced, with numerous humorous drawings and complete in its own envelope for mailing. It would be an accept able gift for one of one’s more sentimental friends (leave the blase off the list).

Subscribers to the Readers Digest will already have read the sermon.

You can take our word for it that the publishers have done an ex cellent job in preparing it as a gift book. Australian price 6/3.

Nightingale of

the North

According to publishers, an stories about the Pacific should have “Paradise” somewhere in their titles; and all books written about nursing should have “Lamp.” (The dim-witted please note that Lamp = Florence Nightingale = Nursing).

So we now have Lamp in the Snow (by Mary E. Hope), which is the experiences of a young nurse, fresh from a 900-bed hospital in a city, in the wilds of Canada’s frozen north.

Books about doctors, nurses and medicine generally are the present vogue and people who like to read about these things, with the human interest slant predominating, will find this particular Lamp standard fare.

As well as lively anecdote on nursing in less than favourable con ditions, the book does give a view of life in a primitive community “at the end of the road” where ignor ance still flourishes.

The heroine does not marry the doctor —he is middle-aged and woman proof—and Mary is usually delivering a baby when any of the other eligible swains of the district call to take her out.

General verdict: a good gift book for a young woman. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Australian price, 16/-.)

Out of the Dust

and the Mulga

TWO books received this month complement each other. They are Justin Baynard by Jon Cleary; and Wealth in the Wilder ness by Arthur Groom.

Both are about the Australian far Outback —Northern Australia where conditions don’t come any tougher— and although Groom wanders further afield than Cleary both have the same background of cattle, natives and isolation.

There the real similarity ends be

cause Justin Bayard is a novel;; Groom’s story is factual. It is in teresting however, to compare ones, with the other and to see that the 9 novelist scores top marks fon authenticity. Cleary’s last book was Climate of Courage —a story of the war in New Guinea, which received: a very good reception from re viewers.

It is not impossible that Aus tralia’s great Outback should become the literary glamour-land of the future, taking the place that eastf and southern Africa had in the period between the wars.

These northern cattle lands should: abound in the right kind of back ground to appeal to the armchairt adventurer, and little ingenuity is required of the author to fit in the right kind of plot.

The country itself is certainly no less attractive than Africa. Evem the advantage that African authors once had of being able to dispose of unwanted characters by having therm eaten by lions or trampled to death! by rogue elephants, no longer holds, good; all the South African game is now safely corralled in the game re serves. There is still, of course, that, uncut gem, the Australian himselfl He perhaps makes less of a hero than the Remittance Men and Dukes’ younger sons who obliged the writer of things African.

JUSTIN BAYARD was a police-i man, headquartered at Fitzroy Crossing, in the Kimberley country of N-W Australia. It was. not a glamour job, because in Aus-; tralia —north-west as elsewhere —a policeman is only a cop; often just; a “mug copper.”

Most Of Bayard’s job consisteo of apprehending tribal murderersa and, unlike the Canadian Mounties who had only to get their manr Baynard’s real trouble commenceo once he had his. The difficulty wau to keep Emu Foot amongst the liv-' 1 ing until he could be handed over to; the processes of the white manY justice at Wyndham.

During the course of his dutiesa Bayard brings Emu Foot into Kootapatamba Station, there to; await the plane. But it is at tho end of the Wet, the airstrip is un i usable and Bayard must resign himself to several weeks’ wait.

At this remote station he find! the young owner, Tad Kirkbrid© and his wife, Julie, for both oc whom Sydney is a spiritual home The overseer, Palady and hiii daughter Blanche, who is parti native. Crispin, who has been Julie’s lover—presumably to pasa the tedious hours of the Wet. (Hav\ ing tired of the affair he hesitates to end it, fearing that this couloi interfere with his desire to interesa Tad in Beef Lift, Crispin’s idea or slaughtering cattle in the outback

and air-freighting them to the ses coast).

In addition to the above there a b the station natives —tribal broth© of Emu Foot, who take a dim viej of his being incarcerated (in a hut boab tree).

A complicating factor is added this brew when Bayard au Blanche begin a passionate loc affair.

The scene is authentic and Cleae has no trouble with his ms characters, but his females pas ticularly Julie —are uncon vincin Julie, according to the book, “bitchey.” There is no adjectf: more suitable for describing Jui but one is left with the convictii that she is a bitch less because the way she behaves than becau the author says she is.

Julie was a Sydney social butt© fly, she had been six months in ti Kimberleys, most of them in ti wet; she hated the isolation, ti flies, the climate and the enviroc ment. She had very little to and nothing to take her mind < herself. It is a pretty safe bet ttrd 95 per cent, of women with simili background, would have reacti like Julie—and most of them wou have been more convincing bitchf Because she is a pest, Julie murdered. And because Bayard J a policeman he feels that he hr better do something about it (if yv are looking for detective fiction yy will be disappointed in this polio man’s methods) but to his amaz. ment, and the reader’s bewilderme:6 the others, white and black, a against doing anything.

“She is better dead,” is the ge eral opinion.

It is necessary for the story tli Julie be removed. But nothing the preceding narrative is likely convince anyone used to the cuss© ness of human nature that Juj deserved to be murdered for M very ordinary sins. For her to hs returned to Sydney and run off wh an old lover would have suited ti purpose of the story as well, ar fitted more with the Julie chsj acter.

Julie was evidently designed as very grand arch-villainess. TI character does not jell and s emerges only as a pestiferous ferns And as Julie is the pivot of tr story, this is its weakness.

Nonetheless, we hope Cleary vr write again about the AustraliJ Outback—when he has learned m«i about bitches. (Published by Collins. Sydney. tralian price, 16/-.) IN 1952, Arthur Groom (who d£ shortly before this book w published) loaded up a sim utility truck and headed westws across Australia from Brisbane.

There appears to have been reason why he did this, and certainly gives none, and one is li

guess that he went to gather terial for a book, and that this the book. t seems probable that he first ;led the title of the book —Wealth the Wilderness —and then sought material and wrote the story to A century ago, in the fashion those days, he could have added alternative title: “Or How they Making-out in the Outback ”

Generally, it is a survey of the pie who are thinly spread across itralia’s great north —the peanut tvers of the Daly Waters, the Air f enterprise of Glenroy in the iberleys, the many scattered ion people from the Centre to North, the mica miners, the ekeepers, the road builders, :kers, the outback pub keepers, he fact that the year Groom se to go was a year of intense ight, following the failure of the isoon rains, adds to the interest the story rather than detracts n it. For this is an area in :h flood and drought follow each ir in inevitable sequence—facts must be reckoned with by all dwell therein, ice the reader has got over his al feeling of not knowing where s going, and has settled down

to an unexplained, if exhaustive, visit with Mr. Groom to every out post from Glenroy to the Diamantina, he will likely be fascinated by the descriptions of this vast, sparsely populated land stretching north wards to the very doors of teeming Asia.

He will probably be struck too (in this and in Cleary’s book) with the increasing part played here in the

North by the aborigine. It is the aborigine who, in cowboy shirt and cowboy hat, has taken the place of the European station hand; it is the aborigine who, with wife and piccaninnies, lives in a humpy next the government bore and tends the diesel engine that pumps the life giving water. It is the aborigine who tinkers with the station tractor and drives the truck and the jeep; his

-omen who supply the household ibour around the stations.

For generations, Australians have een told to “look what you have □ne to the Abo,” whereupon they ave been smitten with such a guilty mscience that they have failed to Dserve that in the North and entre, the problem now seems to » working itself out in compromise, nd that the Aborigine is no longer dying race. These large runs are citenable without the help of the atives and although the purists are tely to regard work on a cattle ation a poor substitute for tribal fe, few of these natives are likely i agree.

In a way, the Outback has pro ded a better solution to its labour oblem than Papua or New Guinea, here the labour force is constantly tanging. In Australia’s north the itives identify themselves with in vidual stations; generations of the me family live and grow up— cept for their periodical walk louts—on the same property.

It would be interesting to look 100 ars into the future and see how e two systems, both under Aus ilian direction, work out: Whether e Australian native will come out it much worse off than his care lly coddled cousin across the Coral a in the jungles of P-NG.

Published by Angus and Robertson, Iney. Australian price, 21/-J

The Gubbays on

p. 91

the North Coast

Australian author e. v. Timms once wrote readable stories. At least this reviewer, when very young, thought so. Something about Hannibal and his elephants; or the French revolution is vaguely re membered. But some years ago, Timms began to write an Australian saga, which, God knows, has suf ficient material for high dramatics.

The result has been unfortunate, and the latest offering, They Came From the Sea, worse than that.

The book has the germ of a good story: 14 survivors from a sea disaster drift for 12 days in an open boat and are cast ashore on the North Coast of New South Wales near a primitive community of cedar cutters. The coast between Sydney and the Queensland border lacks nothing in the way of sub-tropical scenery or history to make it an ideal setting for a pioneering novel.

Yet at Timms’ hands it becomes an endurance test of long, stilted conversations sandwiched between slabs of local history evidently taken from official documents or from the files of early newspapers. His cnaracters are wooden and the tneme ol the story seems com

pletely purposeless except as a vehicle to drag in, like persistently recurring decimals, some of the characters from all his earlier books —the insufferable Gubbays who, in a period when a 20 miles journey was a considerable undertaking, have appeared (in succeeding books) in Western Australia, the Victorian goldfields, NSW, Sydney, and now the North Coast. In this respect the series bears a striking resemblance to the Pollyanna books.

According to his publishers, how ever, these Australian books of Timms’ are “powerful” and he has an “immense following.” This is quite likely so. There is just no way of accounting for Australian taste. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd., Sydney. Australian price, 16/-.)

Matson Men in Tutuila

p. 92

Tutuila

WITH an eye to tourism, the Matson Navigation Company sent their Public Relations officer, Mr. John Pincetick and a free-lance photographer, Mr. Jon Brenneis, to American Samoa to take suitable pictures and collect travel material which will be used in their forthcoming advertising for

tourists in 1956 when the new vessels run between the US Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia.

The team remained a week and then proceeded on to Suva, Fiji, via Western Samoa. t The Fiji Government was calling for tenders in New Zealand in De

cember for the construction of t'J first portion of the new Suva Po Office. The building, when con pleted, will be of five floors withr total space of 6,000 ft. t The Civil Aviation Administrate at Nadi Airport, Fiji, is shortly be equipped with six Italian moth scooters for use round the airpon

Hotel Opened

p. 95

BGD IN

NEW BUSINESS

P-NG’s Most Modern Hotel Opened

THE most up-to-date hotel in Papua-New Guinea, Pine Lodge, was opened at Bulolo, on De cember 20.

This hotel, planned on American motel lines, was built by Bulolo Gold Dredging and is of a standard that is now expected from this big and efficient company.

The hotel has been used as a “showcase” for New Guinea timber products, and beautiful panelling of walnut, ash and cedar has gone into the buildings.

The establishment consists of a main block which accommodates the dining room, lounge, bar and offices, and separate two-roomed cabins all with private bath and some with car-ports.

The hotel is expected to be a great attraction for local holiday-makers as well as overseas visitors who previously could not make anything but the briefest visit to this in teresting valley unless they were able to arrange private accommodation in the town.

News of Cruising Yachts

pp. 99-100

• With 1956 under way, we give another reminder to cruising and racing yachtsmen everywhere of two important yachting events planned for this year. First is the new Airck land-Suva race, scheduled for May, details of which are available from the secretary of the Royal Akarana Yacht Club of Auckland which is sponsoring the event.

The other is the Los Angeles-Papeete race scheduled to commence in the first week in

June to allow yachts to reach Tahiti in time for the annual July celebrations.

A u large number of well-known American yachts have already signified their interest or firm intention to enter this revived event.

Details are available from Mr. Eugene Overton 727 W. 7th St., Los Angeles. There has also been talk of another Sydney-Noumea race. The last was raced in September, 1953. It is known that the Noumea civic authorities would en courage the event. • SOLACE, which cleared Rarotonga for

Auckland via Palmerston Island on October 29, arrived at Auckland on December 8 and is now under a complete refit. With Commander Clark and his West Indian companion, Stanley Mathurin, are two Palmerston men, Tuatai and Korinoko Marsters, who assisted in rebuilding the 25-year-old yacht following the stranding on Palmerston. • TRES DAMAS, 47 ft. motor sailer from Quintero, Chile, arrived at Papeete November 19 with seven persons aboard. The 3-year-old vessel is owned by Arturo Prieto Urioste.

Others aboard are Beatriz De Preito, Daniel De Parto, Odette De Parto, Oscar Herrera, and Jo Ann De Parto. Next ports of call had not been decided early December. • VIKING of Sweden, in which Sten and Brita Holmdahl sailed round the world several years ago, has been sold to another Swede and is now bound for the Pacific. The Holm dahls have purchased a 54 ft. hull and are now preparing it for another world cruise in due course. A book on their last voyage will soon appear.

Plane Mishaps

p. 100

The Aero Club of Noumea badly damaged one of its planes, a Tiger Moth, during a take off in Decem ber. No one was hurt but the plane is extensively damaged.

The de Havilland Dragon of Transpac had an incident about the same time while taking off for a trip to Lifou. It is thought that one of the motors cut out whilst taxi-ing, causing the plane to turn and run off the strip. No damage was done but the trip was postponed to a later date.

Helicopter Arrives

p. 100

in Noumea

THE Nickel Company of New Caledonia shortly before Christmas, took delivery of a helicopter ex the British ship Armagh.

The helicopter will be used fa communication between Noumti and the new hydro-electricity prn ject at Yate, where the dam is be ing greatly enlarged. Yate is aboK 50 miles from Noumea.

Over 200 Wallis Islanders have rn cently reached Noumea on the AM Hebridais 11. It is expected thf they will go to work at Yate.

Well Overseas

p. 101

[?]slands Boxers Do Well Overseas

TONGAN light-heavyweight boxer

Johnny Halafihi defeated Syd ney boxer Bruce Farthing by a chnical knock-out at an Auckland ntest on December 8.

The fight ended at the end of the cth round. Both boxers struck ie another after the bell, Halafihi :iking Farthing a light blow, and irthing replying with two blows, ilafihi was appealing to the teree when Farthing suddenly col- Dsed.

I’he collapse was not attributed the after-bell blow, but to the mulative effect of some heavy nishment inflicted by Halafihi ring the contest, though Farth l’s trainer tried to claim a foul, 3 referee ruling against this. ?rom the point of view of the aple back home in Tonga, the »st unsatisfactory feature of the ht was that it was not broad -5t by Radio NZ due t® a dispute ?r fees. fh e broadcasting authorities rmally pay £l2/10/- for broadcast hts on a boxing contest. The unoters claimed that this was an ;nt of special interest and wanted higher fee. The broadcasting >ple disagreed—and the Tongan is ground their teeth and waited the next New Zealand news letin which gave the results only. ?he fight was attended by Prince ngi, then in Auckland.

N the other side of the world, Kitione Lave, who was the first to display the prowess of Tongan :ers, had a very unpopular defeat a contest with former British ivy weight champion, Jack rdner, at Birmingham, UK.

Iveryone except the referee )eared to be unanimous that re was the clear winner of this it which went the full ten nds. Most English boxing writers sidered that Lave had given rdner “his worst beating ever”

I were at a complete loss to lerstand how the decision could e been given against the Tongan. ondon’s Daily Telegraph said e crowd set up a storm of booing t might have been heard so far ly as Lave’s pleasant Friendly mds.” ►ther papers considered that r e’s boxing skill has been greatly ierrated and that he is a top fighter.

lAN BOXER FOR NZ FIGHT

3XING trainer Mr. Ned Henne berry, of Auckland, back from a visit to Fiji in December, said t the Fiji boxer Tom Hini was n to go to New Zealand to it Johnny Halafihi, of Tonga,

and Joveci Bau, of Fiji, now fight ing in New Zealand.

Hini has won 15 out of 19 fights contested in Fiji.

CI Personality Retires

p. 101

AFTER 28 years’ service with the Cook Islands Administration, Mr.

W. W. Graham left for New Zealand, and retirement, in No vember.

For many years, “Wes” Graham was a member of the Education De partment staff and started his career as assistant teacher to Mr.

McGruther, at Mangaia.

In 1930 he became head teacher

at Titikaveka school, Rarotonga, and later transferred to Ngatangiia school in the same capacity, remain ing there for six years. Further periods as head teacher at Atiu and Rarotonga terminated in his con firmation as Education Officer in 1950. In April, 1953, Mr. Graham became Resident Agent of Mangaia, holding this appointment until October, 1955, when he retired from the Cl Administration.

H A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.

Morrie Hegan, at Rarotonga, Cook Is., on November 30. Mr. Hegan is senior clerk in the Resident Com missioner’s office.

[?]Llagers Money-Conscious

pp. 109-113

[?]But Necessary Development

[?]EY ARE MAKING THE FIJIAN

By R. W. ROBSON

NTIL recent years, the European administrators of Fiji left the Fijian natives alone in their ages. he Fijians were perfectly happy leir bountiful land gave them anuts and fish, fowls and vege les and pigs; and they could tnselves manufacture by hand all y needed in the way of shelter , clothing. here was no place in their age economy for money—the tokens ised by Westerners for the ing and distribution and use of ngs, or accumulated credit, ow, under the urgent drive of :ialdom, all that is being nged. The Fijians are being ?ht to save and borrow, to work jer and harder so that they r earn the money wherewith to the goods which represent an nsion of their domestic needs. 11 idealists ask savagely why has been done. Why not leave Fijians—and other happy, Die folk —undisturbed in their tges? So far as Fiji is con ied, here is the answer, in five 3! iar Fijians Indians 01 .. .. 94,937 17,105 21 .. .. 84,475 60,634 38 .. .. 99,595 89,333 46 .. .. 118,083 120,414 55 .. .. 130,000 150,000 le Indians, active individualists, outbreeding and outnumbering Fijians; and, if the latter inue to live together in itionless communities under lal chiefs, they inevitably will ;übmerged and exploited. ) save the Fijians, the Govern t has prescribed less feudalism more individualism. Instead of ng in the shade of the village dfruit tree, the Fijians must iut and work. mce —among other things—the Credit Union. i RONALD GARVEY—likely to become notable as the first Governor to tackle the Fiji munal problem in a practical, a-to-earth fashion —introduced idea of village saving and ding. hile Governor of British duras, he had noticed the irkable success of the work of atholic missionary, Father M. ey, who had introduced the nanic-American Credit Union and thus had created among ble village folk an organisation

for financing the needs of individual villagers through funds created by the villagers’ own thrift and savings. Thus, he had raised their standard of living.

The Governor thought that such a system, applied to Fijian villages, might hasten not only a greater measure of individualism, but also a psychological change and a new standard of living. He wrote forth

with to the Roman Catholic Bishop in British Honduras.

“Sorry,” replied the Bishop.

Father Ganey’s work here is too valuable—he can’t be spared.”

But His Excellency is a tenacious man. No one knows how or why —but in November, 1953, Father Ganey arrived unobtrusively in Fiji, and quietly settled down to work.

Little was said about him, because this Union is not a Government instrumentality. I do not know how he is sustained—but, after an inspection, I think the Fiji Govern ment would regard him as cheap at £lO,OOO a year.

He was assisted, in an effective and practical way, by a local com mittee, which included Messrs. J.

N. Falvey, R. M. Major, B. J.

Smith, L. Whysall, R. Steele, Connolly, J. Amputch, R. L. Gribtfi F. E. M. Warner and Ratu Jose Naisara.

Up to September 30, 1955—t1: is, within 18 months —Father Gan. has formed 135 Fiji village Cr© Unions (with a membership of oc 15,000) which have saved £50,0 and have loaned out a total £92,267. About £51,000 has bee repaid, and loaned out again.

A BACK-STREET shop in Svl has been converted into i Credit Unions’ head offl Here, Father Ganey introduced to a half-dozen educated you Fijians, keeping a formidable seti ledgers. I was allowed to inspq the accounts of a dozen villsJ Credit Unions.

And there was the story, in pH figures. That £50,085 was built i of sums contributed weekly by Unions’ members sums rang* from 1/- to 5/- per week, 1 mostly 1/- and 2/-.

Each village retains its own fui Each fund is managed by a sra committee of villagers. Each co mittee deals with applications loans; makes the decision to leij and then sternly polices the rep: ments. Only members can loans. r[OSE records of loans s repayments told of the Fijiss changing way of life, and full of significance. The follows are the notes I took as I ran quits through the ledgers. • A woman borrowed £2B whe with to buy a sewing machine. S has mostly repaid the loan charging small fees for villi sewing. • Villager Jesse borrowed S 3 that he could buy iron gardenr implements, which replaced err wooden things. • A man in one village t financed into the purchase of 1 oxen; and another, in the rr village, was helped to buy a fishr boat. Both loans were repaid frt increased earnings. • One ambitious man borrov £5O so that he might purchase; banana plantation. He repaid: within one year. • Some loans assist the villi house builders; others go into purchase of domestic animals, are being repaid. • An £lB loan for a radio brout new life into one village—repc ment is a united effort.

“I did this kind of work many years in Honduras,” s Father Ganey, “but I never i anything like this. The movemn is spreading rapidly all over country. It is made for themr fits their way of life like a glcrc I WAS most interested in repayment records. The Fij:i notoriously, has no prope< sense and no sense of repayment or gation. In village life, for thousar of years, what’s yours has bd

le. A man howling because he i been eaten out of house and den by a horde of visiting itions would be regarded as an

indescribable vulgarian.

That is why so many people laughed at the idea of a Credit Union.

But somehow, it works —and it

A BANK ON WHEELS. —The Credit Union van pulls up at an intersection of bush roads at [?]ppointed town, and there meets the Treasurers from half-a-dozen village Credit Unions, receives their deposits and cashes their cheques.

works because those village man agement committees are like hawks in their supervision of loan repay ments. I think an important factor is Father Ganey’s insistence that there shall be a village wife or two on the management com mittees. Among Fijians, as else where, women are tougher than men in these things.

MOST Fijians are Methodists, and Father Ganey is a Roman Catholic priest. But there is no sign of sectarianism in this movement —all Church folk are supporting it with enthusiasm. The strength of the movement, and its success, is one of the most remark able developments of latterday Fiji.

The South Pacific Commission has manifested a lively interest in it.

As the movement spread into the more distant and isolated villages, a real problem developed—how promptly to bank the cash collected from members, and how promptly to cash the cheques given to successful applicants for a loan.

The bank deposit is an essential section of a Credit Union. No village money-box!

The Unions’ managers solved it by purchasing a small and powerful motor-van, designed to travel over rough tracks. It works to a timetable; and the village unions’ treasurers, instead of having to walk endless miles to a bank agency,

now meet the van at pre-arranged places and put in their cash, and cash their borrowers’ cheques.

Peni, driver and manager of the van, and expert accountant, probably is now one of the country’s bestknown young Fijians. (Sydney and Melbourne gangsters who grab pay-rolls and who might

see in this some sweet picking) are hereby warned that the Fijiai in charge of the Credit Union are armed, and good marksmenr and, being typical Fijians, thri don’t run when trouble starts).

The weekly contribution made 16,000 members is not a gift—it a loan, earning a very modest rs'

interest, and repayable to the ider on demand. The borrower io pays a small rate of interest, st enough to cover administration penses.

STo one connected with the Credit lion likes the idea of interest ing charged for profit. What they nt is self-help—those with ac mulated credit to help those who sh to use credit temporarily, to nr mutual advantage, rhus there is being introduced o village life the simplest con >tion of community economics. >n that conception rests the ucture of Western civilisation.

[?]ound for Western Samoa

p. 113

r. Abela Williams, of Manihiki, c Is., has been appointed a Com lioner of the High Court of the c Islands as from November 1,

[?]atua" passengers from Auckland to the [?]s in December included, top to bottom: Maka Sapolu of W. Samoa Health Depart and Mrs. Sapolu; Miss D. Salter, who visiting friends in Western Samoa, fare [?]d by her mother, Mrs. C. W. Salter, of and; Mr. G. A. Schuster and Mr. H. P. [?]ith.

No Balolo for Mr. Gatty

p. 113

SINCE Mr. Harold Gatty became a resident of Fiji he has taken much interest in that pheno menon of some coral waters—the halolo (or palolo) .

Balolo is usually regarded as a worm—although Mr. Gatty says that it is a string of eggs—and at certain times of the year, usually around November, it rises from the

dei?cac reef rt is regarded as a told PIM a year ago that he could predict the rising but this year Mr. Gatty and everyone else (in Fiji) was out in the reckoning. His big launch went from Suva to Levuka and waited three days for the calculated rise on December 7, but nothing happened, There was only a token rise a month earlier, too.

for Recruits

p. 119

Islands Govts’ Drive for Recruits

IF you must become a public servant it will probably pay you to do so in Papua and New Guinea rather than in Fiji The Fiji Government at present is being urged to create an Executive Division in its Civil Ser vice, the purpose of this being to train cadet officers who will eventu ally become departmental account ants, secretaries, etc.

Cadets should have passed the NZ University Entrance examination and be in their late teens or early 20’s. Commencing salary recom mended is from £360-£4OO per annum —and this is what the Fiji Public Relations Officer says about the rest of it: “On confirmation of appoint ment, after three, or in special cases two years, a salary of £5OO per year is recommended. . . An exceptionally bright candidate could reach a salary of £750 in eight years, or at the normal rate of progress, after 10 years.”

Papua and New Guinea also has cadetships covering District Services staff, medicine, teaching, forestry agriculture and so forth. In most cases these youngsters are paid while they stay in Sydney and finsh their training.

They have to be between 18 and

24, and salary (in 1954) ranged from £444 at 18 to £920 at 24. Once they get to the Territory they receive the usual territorial allowances—and although £750 Fijian is worth about £B4O Australian, they certainly don’t have to wait 10 years to get it.

Still, cadets do not live by bread alone—and civilised Fiji probably has a lot of virtues that primitive New Guinea has not.

Papuan

p. 120

WATER INTO

WEALTH

Results Soon in Papuan Hydro Survey

A DIRECTOR of New Guinea Resources Prospecting and De velopment Company, Mr. Peter Cunliffe, said in Port Moresby on December 20 that he believed that hydro-power could prove one of the greatest single factors in develop ing the Territory.

Hydro-electricity could lead to the establishment of heavy industries in Papua and New Guinea.

Mr. Cunliffe said his company ex pected to know by April or May whether the fast-flowing rivers on the Papuan southern coast could provide power in economic quantities.

Survey work in Arnhemland in the Northern Territory had shown deposits of bauxite, and if these proved worthwhile, hydro-electricity in Papua could be used for an aluminium processing plant, most likely at Yule Island. (Field units of the NG Resources Prospecting and Development Co. have been investigating the hydro electricity potential of the Western

Rivers of Papua for several years.

Their interest is in the processing of bauxite to make aluminium, for which vast quantities of com paratively cheap electricity are re quired. In the manufacture of aluminium this is the most import ant factor—the proximity of de posits of bauxite are a secondary matter. Some bauxite processed in

Canada is brought from Souti America but Northern Canada hsi the vital hydro-electricity potentis.

It is understood that if the Arnhem land bauxite deposits are tory, and sufficient electricity cs; be generated in Papua, the finish ing process of any aluminium produced will be undertaken at B«- Bay in Tasmania).

Cinderella Solomons?

pp. 121-123

[?]rguments in Favour of an Asiatic Colony

[?]HAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE

By Paul Mason

EOPLE ask: What is wrong with the British Solomon Islands Protectorate? t would be easier to make a short of “What is right with the EP?”

'hat word “Protectorate” is the . BSI should be a Colony, t takes courage these days to de d Colonialism; but then it took rage to colonise and build Em ts. The advancement of the pies of this world to-day owes it of its progress to that spirit, he crushing of the colonising •it in the Solomons goes back a : way. The Commissioners, mak laws and administering them

r the Pacific Orders-in-Council, the word “Protectorate” always ■e them to influence their ies.

VERNMENTS must live on the leople they govern—unless they an find some other people to )rt the m. The Solomons nistrations for many years dis ced the true colonist. 3y found by experience that had to have outside capital to nd thereby exist. Their solution o encourage the big companies, irms were less of a headache ie officials than the small ists; and, anyway, it was a ectorate,” and colonists were anted. little men started to move out after the first Resident Com ber moved in with his Gov :nt, and by 1939 very few re d, leaving the field to the n companies.

Companies, given incentive, nd will develop such a place; leir profits are taken out of

juntry, leaving the indigenes

better off. The true colonist is in his adopted country with

the fruits of his labour The country’s welfare is his welfare The natives, whose care should be —and was supposed to be—the main object of the Protectorate did not thrive or advance much. Such pro gress as was made was almost wholly

due to the Christian Missions. The position in the Solomon has de teriorated since 1921.

The w e 11-meaning, blundering idealists of the Post-World War II period did not help.

They had hoped to run the country with the indigenes and the Chinese. They failed, and then sought to woo the big firms, with varying success. Only of latter years nas the little man been given en couragement.

Unfortunately, it is too late The Government has grown too big in proportion to the country’s earn

Fhe writer of this article for the PIM Mr. Paul Mason, a planter in Bougain e, who first went into the Solomon »nds some 40 years ago. He now lives se to the boundary between the British smons and the Australian Solomons ka and Bougainville), and he has owed developments thereabouts for r decades. aul Mason was a much-decorated man World War 11. He was a coast-watcher i stayed on Bougainville and, although ted constantly by Jap patrols, he kept Americans in Guadalcanal apprised ost daily of Jap ship and plane move its in the Rabaul area, and so con uted much to the American success in bitter campaign.

js; which means the tax burden too great to encourage new terprise. flow loans are offered by the Gov iment to induce the development the country. But with copra nost the only source of revenue, d with a big possibility of the >ra market collapsing after the )F contract terminates, the future gloomy. iome fool economist introduced ome tax into the Solomons —a mtry which has practically no in nal turnover of taxable produc i wealth. Such direct taxes are urden on production. The burden Id easily be more evenly dis »uted by import and export taxes diich already existed, and are ier to collect than income tax.

IE Chinese have proved good subjects. Unfortunately, these people are traders and have not ti encouraged to become pro ers—except perhaps as builders, they are not given a stake in country they cannot be ex ;ed to give allegiance, tie native people lack social inisation, self-discipline and the and incentive to work. Why lid they work? Life is good to n. Thousands of tons of nuts, y to be turned into copra, simply annually on the ground on de

id plantations, including their

own. A native by his own labour could harvest and cure £4 worth of copra in a working day.

That natural law that people who live soft have to fight hard— unless some other people are prepared to fight hard to protect them—is still true. Someone has to protect the natives of this Protectorate. Britain cannot. Australia is not in the posi tion to protect herself and her high standard of living, and can only hope that when in need the USA will again come to her succour. r[E answer? Annex— make a Colony of the Solomons. Ask the Australian Government to in clude BSI in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Do anything to scrap the word “Protectorate.”

Among the land-famished hordes of Asia many immigrants could be found, suitable as labourers and settlers.

The Indians in Fiji are a problem for Fiji and the Fijians. But the Indians have made, in an economic sense, Fiji and the Fijians. Look at Hawaii—now ready to be accepted as the 49th State of USA—a land richer by far than many American States. It can be done, too, in the Solomons.

Among the hungry millions of Asia, settlers could be found who would be only too willing to accept a period of labour in the Solomons

to enable them to obtain a plot of land of their own. Properly led and managed, these people would become more loyal than the indigenes.

Ample capital, given incentive, would be forthcoming to set them up.

These newcomers would, by pre cept, competition and example, give new life to the native people. They would be loyal so as to protect their new standard of living. t In a court hearing at Manihiki atoll, Cook Islands, in December, Mehau Johnson was found guilty of witchcraft and sentenced to five days gaol by High Court Commis sioner Abela Williams.

NG Highlan[?]

pp. 124-125

ADMINISTRATION

UNDER FIRE

Road Neglect in NG Highlan[?]

THE Eastern Highlands Distn Advisory Council at Goroc New Guinea, is seeking minimum of £35,000 a year : road construction and maintenan in the area.

A resolution to this effect w carried unanimously at the Deces her meeting of the Council folio ing one of the bitterest attacks the Administration ever recoro at an Advisory Council meeting The attack was led by Mr. I Downs, who presided at the mes ing for the last time in his capao as District Commissioner. I Downs has since retired from Public Service and after leave Australia will enter private enti prise in the area.

He said the amount of moi( provided by the Administration roads and bridges in the Eastd Highlands amounted to “aim a deliberate sabotage of progrec and that the Administration seem to have accepted, as a matter' course, the fact that local peoc including natives, had done sou thing on their own to improve roc and bridges.

“It is only a matter of w ee.t he said, “since Mr. Don Barn MLC for NG Islands, made strongest representations for ■ sealing of one road in Rabaul. amount of money he asked fok five times as much as has been gi to Eastern Highlands district its 500 miles of roads”.

Mr Downs said the Adminiss tion should realise that there v/ 20 mission stations, 800 on Europeans living on nearly farms and settlements, and 260 natives in the Highlands all uttr and completely dependent on ro as their only means of access communication.

He described the Kainantu i as “a disgrace” and added that; Administration would be to bll if there was a serious accident they were deliberately pursuing policy of letting local officers natives do the job without pnc funds.

EDITORIAL NOTE

Most of the roads in the If lands area of New Guinea have 1 made with little more in the of labour and equipment t primitive natives, digging svt and woven carrying baskets, road work has been supervisee Patrol Officers and others of District Services Departnr Bridges have been made by contractors. As a result,

indreds of miles of Highlands ads which have opened the coun -7 for coffee plantations and other riculture have cost a small frac >n of what it would have done d it been made by the Department Works.

What is more, the road already ists. If the Highlands districts d had to wait their turn for a ad made by the Works Dept,, sy would have been waiting yet. rhose who pushed the road rough never expected to be left carry the burden of it in per :uity. But having once committed ; blunder of showing the Adminis ,tion that they could help them ves, they apparently are to be t to do it while more clamorous jtricts get the benefit of the id grants and the technicians.

Fly Bring Big Money

p. 125

[?]OCODILE SKINS FROM THE

iOCODILE skins from the Fly River area of Papua are be coming big business to the iters who take care to cure the is properly. ecently 3,000 skins—worth up to ;ach —reached Brisbane for ship it to the UK and the Continent, bey are made into shoes, bags other luxury items.

t Educational broadcasts for Cook Islands schools were resumed by the Rarotonga station in November and now take place each Thursday at 2.30 p.m., Rarotonga time, on 5050 kc/s. When the station first came on the air two years ago some

educational broadcasts were made but later discontinued due to opera tional difficulties. The station’s activities have since been confined to a weekly evening broadcast for the general public, and occasional special broadcasts.

Deaths Of Islands People

pp. 132-133

MRS KATHLEEN BIGNELL

The death occurred at her home in Springwood, in the NSW Blue Mountains, on December 27, of Mrs.

Kathleen Bignell.

Mrs. Bignell will be remembered by all old residents of Rabaul, New Guinea, where she managed the Rabaul Hotel in the 1930’5. When other women were evacuated from Rabaul after the 1937 volcanic eruptions, she remained behind and under her direction the hotel carried on a policy of business as usual. For her work during this period she was awarded the British Empire Medal.

Again, when Rabaul’s women were evacuated to Australia when the Japanese invasion was imminent, Mrs. Bignell stayed behind with the men. As a result she was taken prisoner by the Japs and in com pany with half a dozen Army nurses was sent to Japan, where she spent the Pacific War years in a POW camp. She never fully recovered from the effects of this ordeal.

Before going to New Guinea she had lived for some years in the Solomon Islands.

She is survived by her two daughters, Margaret and Jean, and by four grandchildren.

PROFESSOR RADCLIFFE

BROWN

The distinguished anthropologist, Professor A. R. Radcliffe Brown, died in England early in November. It is

many years since he was in South Pacific; but he was a mem of the staff of University of Sydi in the ’Twenties, and some fut administrative officers in Papua £ New Guinea learned their anth pology from him—Messrs. Ben H Monty Bastard, Sydney Chance i

I late W. R. Humphries were iong them. Radcliffe Brown went m Sydney to Chicago, and thence England.

MR. R. M. FARLOW

'he death occurred at the jatriation Hospital at Heidelberg, [bourne, on December 19, of ;eigh Monash Farlow. He had q ill for two years. [r. Farlow had been on sick r e from the District Services lartment, of Papua-New Guinea, had joined the old New Guinea ninistration in 1927 and was ticularly well known in Bougain ! and New Ireland, where he had is as District Commissioner in post-war years. i World War II he joined the and served in the Middle East i the 2/Ist Pioneers under :her Territorian, Major Norman le. He was commissioned in the . and on his return to Australia commanded the Garrison at :olk Island and later joined rAU, (Australian New Guinea imistration Unit). He led the > Troopers in their action in the k and later was a regional nander of ANGAU. i is survived by his wife and [hters Janette, Patricia, and »ara, and by his son Robert. r are at present living in lourne.

MRS. C. S. McOWAN

e death took place suddenly on mber 6, at a Convalescent Home [osman, Sydney, of Mrs. C. S. wan, widow of the late Islay ven, CMG, formerly well known le South Pacific as a senior r of the Colonial Service (Fiji) for ten years HBM’s Agent and ul in Tonga. s. McOwan was 86 and will be mbered for her hospitality and willing help to those in trouble, father, George L. Griffiths, led Fiji’s first newspaper, the Times, at Levuka; and also first postal service. 5 is survived by her daughter, J. Judd,- of Neutral Bay, five Ichildren and four great [children.

RS. GRACE RASMUSSEN

i death has occurred in Apia, jrn Samoa, of Mrs. Grace ussen at the age of 66.

J. Rasmussen was the wife of reorge Arthur Rasmussen, head J of the pioneer island families. is survived by her husband, sons, three daughters and 40 children. funeral on November 11 was led by a large gathering of fes and friends.

MR. FRED RENNIE

>ate Paiau Maretu Frederick apo died peacefully at his home

?atangiia, Rarotonga, during

the night of November 29, aged 72.

Fred Rennie, as he was usually known, was a keen cricketer in his youth and figured prominently in Church activities for many years.

He was a natural leader, a member of the Rarotonga nobility, and acted as official spokesman for Pa and Kainuku Ariki.

He was a modest, quiet mannered man who held the respect and con fidence of the Ngatangiia people.

His passing will be mourned bv many. y

MRS. MARY SORBY

Mrs. Mary Sorby, 83, died on De cember 8 in Suva at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. King.

Mrs. Sorby was the widow of the

late Captain Tom Sorby, for many years Master of Fiji Sugar Com pany’s tugs at Navua.

She is survived by two daughters and three sons: Mrs. P. King, Mrs.

P. Lelo and William, who are still m Fiji; and John and Joe, who are in New Zealand.

There are 38 grandchildren, 67 great-grandchildren and two great great-grandchildren.

One of Mrs. Sorby’s grandchildren is serving with the Battalion in Malaya with the rank of Captain. t A daughter—the third—was born to Laurie and Robin McKay of Aropa Plantation, Bougainville, New Guinea, on January 9, at King George V. Hospital, Sydney.

Koen-Aboc Wedding

p. 135

U Mrs. Roy Foreman, of Nauru brought six young Nauruan girls to Sydney recently for a “Christmas present” holiday. The girls are all members of the Girls’ Life Brigade —a church movement similar to Guiding. Money for their trip was raised by the other members of the Nauru brigade.

Queen Salote Visits Australia

QUEEN Salote of Tonga arrived in Australia by air from New Zea land on January 4.

Her visit will be private and will last several weeks. She will attend the Council of Churches’ Festival of Faith at the Sydney Showground in early February.

End of

Season

Playing members of Vila Cricket Club at the conclusion of the 1955 competitions in which the Commercial team won all games and has thus regained the Presi dent's Cup from the Government team. —Photo by Fung Kuei.

[?]s Ana Aboc was married to Mr. Leu K oen [?]e Chinese Club, Vila, New Hebrides, on [?]ber 4. Our photograph of the couple is [?]ng Kuei.

[?]w Hebrides Murder

p. 135

MAN named August Faucher vas arrested for the murder, in October, of Mr. Maurice Vedel, anto, New Hebrides, was alleged that he already a police record, in New Hebr des in France, and that when a eman and witness went to ;ion him shortly after the ler, he fired on them. They iwly escaped being shoi e population of Santo was ?ed and to prevent possible mstrations, the prisoner was to Noumea to await trial.

UMEA, Jan. 6: August Faucher was confined to a mental in ion here for observation, has found dead in his cell. It is r ed that he poisoned himself.

Hardship for Settlers

p. 137

[?]G HIGHLANDS

[?]IR SERVICES

DCA Decision Means Hardship for Settlers

)EPARTMENT of Civil Aviation in P-NG proposes to close a number of New Guinea High nds’ strips to DCS aircraft—full asons are not quite clear.

On a recent visit of Group-Cap in Wiggins, Assistant General irector of Civil Aviation, Mel urne, several deputations from estern Highlands’ residents met roup-Captain Wiggins at various ntres and complained about the oposed closing of certain strips.

Mount Hagen air-strip is still ised to all aircraft operations, and the present time goods are ferried Norseman aircraft, from either nj or Banz airstrips in the Middle ahgi, necessitating double-hand g of cargo, extra freight rates etc. :t is not anticipated that the gen strip will be opened before xt April, when it is anticipated 3 blue couch grass which has :n sewn after complete recon uctjon of air-strip, will have tted sufficiently. A good deal of our and money was expended an this air-strip to meet Civil iation standards. This seems a

great waste if, when eventually opened, it will take only light air craft.

Owing to the high freight rates into Western Highlands, settlers who are pioneering the coffee in dustry are dependent upon DC3 charters to bring in their supplies at a cheaper rate and to back-load their produce to the Coast. They are most apprehensive about the future, if these air-strips (as yet unnamed) are closed to the bigger aircraft.

Most of the air-strips concerned were used by large numbers of DC3 aircraft during the latter part of the war, carrying loads of up to 7,000 lbs, and all accidents which occurred were owing to an error of judgment on the part of the pilot and not because of the air-strips.

The present allowable pay-load for a DCS aircraft, is up to 5,900 lbs. —Special Correspondent. t When Sir Robert Stanley, who retired last year from the High Commissionership of the West Pacific, arrived in London towards the end of 1955, he was invited to describe the Solomon Islands to a section of the Conservative Com monwealth Council. Six persons at tended. That is typical of the in terest taken in Britain’s Territories in the South Pacific by British public men.

Sydney's Royal

p. 137

New Caledonia at Sydney's Royal

NEW CALEDONIA is preparing its display for the French Ex position which will be held dur ing the Sydney Royal Show, 1956.

Amongst other things figuring on the the NC stand will be models of the £10,000,000 dam on the Yate River; the nickel mining establish ment at Thio, and the fabulously rich chrome mine “Tiebaghi” in Northern New Caledonia.

Special maps showing the country’s mineral riches, together with samples of metals will also be shown. A special place will be given to New Caledonian coffee, almost unknown in Australia but immensely popular in France, which country gladly absorbs all local production.

The tourist aspect is also to be put before the public and it is hoped that the Exposition will have a happy effect on the island’s economy.

12 NC FARMERS GET FREE TRIP

The Local Assembly has chosen 12 New Caledonian farmers who will be the guests of the country at the next Sydney Show. This gesture is to become an annual fixture and will be greatly appreciated by the hard working men of the soil.

Australian Students Visit

p. 139

NEW CALEDONIA

A LARGE party of Australian students arrived in Noumea by air on December 15 to spend some weeks in New Caledonia under an exchange plan. They were in charge of a teacher, Mr. Hudson, and stayed with French families.

An extensive programme was arrahged for their entertainment and everything was done to see that they carried away happy memories of their visit. The two students who likely enjoyed their visit most were the two boys who went, at the in vitation of a native school teacher, to Mare, one of the Loyalty Islands about 50 miles off the coast near Noumea. These people are of Poly nesian stock and their hospitality is famous. Mr. Hudson accompanied these two lads.

The party was expected to return to Sydney by air on January 6. A week later a party of 20 New Caledonian students will make a similar visit to Sydney.

New APC Well

p. 140

PAPUAN OIL

SHARES RISE

Gas Flow In New APC Well

WHEN news of a gas flow in the new Australian Petroleum Co.’s well at Kuru, Papua, was re ceived on January 11, Oil Search shares rose from an overnight level of 9/9 to 13/3 in Sydney and by January 16 were over 16 -.

The new well at Kuru was spudded in only on January 1. On January 10. APC advice was to the effect that the well was drilled to 449 ft,

to which depth 181 in. casing had been cemented. Apparently, however, the drilling had been carried on for another 500-odd feet —the gas is re ported to have manifested itself at 998 feet.

APC has stated that the signific ance of the gas cannot be de termined until the hole is put in “satisfactory condition.”

It has been stated that gas is escaping not only from the well head, but from cracks in the ground around the site. Port Moresby speculators radioing orders to Sydney brokers started the share buying “flap” on January 11. Most of the subsequent buying has come from UK, Singapore and P-NG.

Last occasion that Papuan < search caused such excitement Australia was about two years ae when an oil drill stuck at 31,743 I after signs of gas pressure at Omsj No. 1. At that time, Oil Sean shares rose from 2/- to 32/- c July, 1954). It took a year for AH to get back to work on Omati No t —then the hole was deepened 14,000 ft and abandoned. The gsj in that instance, had meant not! ing.

Search In Papu[?]

p. 140

Millions For Oil Search In Papu[?]

ANOTHER £5 million will be spent d oil search by the APC in Papua GC country during the next two years—tl will bring the total expenditure on search there to over £3O million.

Future of the venture depends considfa ably on results from three new wells tot commenced this year—Kuru this mom Morehead in April and Barikewa abc June. However, even if these wells failures the search would not necessan cease, but may be modified.

Oil Search’s investment in APC will 1 £1,944,150 when shares taken up in recent share issue are fully paid. TT means that by June, 1957. the compa will have somewhat less than a 10 cent, interest in APC.

PAPUAN APINAIPI’S NEW

PERMIT AREA

The chairman of the Papuan Apinn Petroleum Co., Ltd., announced at annual meeting in December that company was granted last June an prospecting permit for over 8,600 sqm miles of country to the north-west of H Moresby, from about Galley Reach to Kikori River. This area (called Pen No. 23) includes the company’s old * (No. 6) of only 75 square, miles, the pen for which expired in 1952.

Main activities of the company si. 1952 have been the restoration of a pen area and achieving the financial strem necessary to undertake large-scale search. However, a field party, led J Dr. E. K. Sturmfels and Mr. R.

Mathews is now in Papua.

ENTERPRISE’S PROSPECTS

“NEVER BETTER”

Prospects of Enterprise of New Guii Gold and Petroleum Development NL better now than at any other time inn history.

Mr. W. L. Moss, chairman of the co pany, said this at the annual meeting shareholders in Melbourne on December!

In their oil search permit area on upper Sepik River, NG, geological evide confirmed that a sedimentary trough ex and the company’s geologists are consid ing the next step to be taken. It is < dicated that a gravity survey or ou geophysical work will be necessary.

On the gold mining side, little headb could be exoected until an access r was constructed from Edie Creek to company’s leases. This would enable ht>i machinery to be taken to the site.

P-NG Mines Dept, has promised assists;! in surveying the road. (Enterprise was formed before the T but for years was denied the righto/ prosect for oil in the Territory—in official view the company had insuffio capital to undertake the costly busiii of oil search. However, more capital raised and in 1954 the company was g§ permission to prospect an area betw the October River, a tributary of Sepik, and the Dutch border.)

[?]bour Ordinance

p. 141

[?]lanters' Views On [?]ew Guinea [?]bour Ordinance

IHE New Native Labour Ordin ance of Papua and New Guinea, which has been threatening for considerable time, is expected to introduced at the next meeting the Legislative Council about irch. 3ut before then, the Administra n will have discussions with inters of the Territory, rhis represents a major victory ■ planters who are the greatest ployers of native labour in P-NG. inter’s representatives met the ministrator of the Territory, igadier D. M. Cleland, in early De tiber and gained his approval for ther talks. deviously, a similar request by nters to the Assistant Adminis ter, Mr. R. Wilson, was turned m. )nce an Ordinance comes before ;islative Council, all hope of endment is past. The Council ; an Administration majority and 3 is used to push through all tentious legislation.

SUAL EMPLOYEES REGISTER

i future all employers of casual 3ur in the Territory—and this udes domestic labour—will have :eep a book register. Entries will made for all engagements and ninations of service. Once a r the original sheets will have be sent to the Native Labour nch in Port Moresby. 0 date, employers of casual >ur have had to send in engage it and termination forms when 1 transaction took place. The ’ system is considered an im fement on the old.

[?]N Geological

p. 141

EXPEDITIONS IN BSIP

IOLOGICAL expeditions to Guadalcanal and Santa Ysabel, BSIP, will be undertaken this ith (January) and next by two or members of the geological at Sydney University. They Drs. R. L. Stanton and P. J. man. )th men have been in the mons before—five years ago on expedition led by Professor C. E. shall, also of Sydney University. *• Stanton, assisted by Mr. lard Thompson, of the BSIP logical Survey, will work on )el; Dr. Coleman, assisted by J. C. Grover and Mr. P. Pudsey son, will work on Guadalcanal.

A Colonial Development and Wel fare grant will pay for the ex peditions.

Drunkenness Among

p. 141

FIJIANS CAUSES CONCERN

INCREASING drunkenness among the Fijian people, which was emphasised this Christmas and New Year, is causing great concern to the authorities and also to the Fijian Chiefs.

Both on Christmas Eve and at New Year’s Eve no sensible people would venture into Suva hotels, or

for that matter loiter on the streets.

There was a considerable amount of fighting and bad language. It is unfortunate that when Fijians are drunk these tendencies immediately become apparent.

By common agreement, all hotels closed down at six o’clock instead of ten o’clock. It was a wise measure, but one not appreciated by many Europeans and part-Europeans, who do not belong to clubs.

A report is current that Ratu George Cakobau intends calling a meeting of chiefs at Bau to consider ways and means of curbing ex cessive drinking among Fijians.— Fiji Correspondent.

For N. Cal. Nickel

p. 143

[?]om Year Ahead For N. Cal. Nickel

HE New Caledonian nickel in dustry is expected to have a record year in 1956. n the 70 years between 1875 and 5. about 10 million tons of cel ore were extracted and ing that time, there was a pro ssive lowering of the ore’s mess. In the early mining days, richness was between 10 and per cent. Each year the value diminished as the tonnage ed was increased. The present mess is about 3 or 4 per cent, he New Caledonian mines pro ed, in 1954, 525,000 tons of nickel Final 1955 total is expected to i million tons, a record produc . In 1956 this total will be ;ed. has been revealed here that mese buyers will take a large ion of 700,000 tons which have i contracted for for export. r.C. is able to satisfy this export and, together with the needs the smelters at Noumea, the 1 extraction.of ore will be more i 1,200,000 tons for 1956. If rate of extraction continues Caledonia will have to turn

more and more to mining poor per centage ores.

The price of nickel on the French market has risen recently from 745 frcs to 800 frcs the kilo of metal The “International Nickel’’ with which the local Nickel Co. is allied is in a very flourishing state. Profits for the first 9 months of 1955 were 67 million dollars, an increase of 20 millions over the same period last year; and 2,500,000 dollars more than the total profit for the entire year of 1954.

In the light of these figures the New Caledonian Deputy in the French Parliament has asked why the Nickel Co. fought so bitterly and desperately to prevent a recent raising of salaries and privileges to workers in the smelters at Noumea.

These adjustments were long overdue. The number of fatal accidents in the smelters has reached a total of three for 1955. —Noumea Correspondent.

II Dr. Bengt Danielsson, who took part in the Kon Tiki drift in 1947, arrived in Sydney in January with his wife and small daughter. They will spend six months in Australia while Dr. Danielsson gathers material for a book.

Polynesian

Visitors

Recent visitors to the Polynesian Club in Sydney were Mrs.

Emmerar Brown (for merly Miss Crummer, of Ngatangiia, Rarotonga) and, right, Mrs. lira Bailey (formerly Miss Rongo, of Totikaveka, Rarotonga). Both are now residents of Sydney. —Photo by Parker Studios.

By Fish

p. 144

Five Fijians Poison[?] By Fish

WHEN five Fijians died agonir. deaths at Beqa, Fiji, shoj after eating fish it was i lished that the fish had been can by the use of cyanide. This been denied by Government, wX states that they were killed use of an explosive.

The villagers had eaten a o munal meal of a small fish cs: daniva, on December 20. Many thi after became ill and a message ; sent to a native Assistant Meo; Practitioner, who ran two n through the rain to find the vili in distress, many people crying? in pain. He used morphine worked 24 hours without sleep, , or food. Four men and a girl ♦ but he managed to revive five otl: The Medical Department st; that a Fijian procured a quai. of fire crackers and made a ho made bomb with which he toJ the fish.

The dynamiting of fish has common in Fiji, and cyanide is; also being used in some parts,.; practice being to throw a bai cyanide into the middle of a I shoal of fish.

Daniva, states the Departmen known to be poisonous at cei; times of the year. It is know; be poisonous when the bololoJ sea worm) makes its annual n from the sea depths, but this ; for some reason, there was no rii It has also been stated that* daniva at times eats poisoc weeds on the reef, but the dco is a small fish which swims closk shore, and is not a reef fish.

The medical authorities didt consider a post-mortem necess This was unfortunate for no mr what was the cause of deatt would have been more satisfao and a safeguard for other Fix if it had been done. —Fiji C, spondent.

Marine Earthquake So[?]

p. 144

OF FIJI

A VIOLENT mid-ocean earthcp was recorded in Sydney obc atories about 6.58 pmr January 10.

Distance from Sydney was about 1,650 east of Sydney.

Subsequent reports place centre of the disturbance about miles south of Fiji, betweenr Kermadecs, Norfolk and Lord I Islands.

In the Kermadecs, the tp caused slight damage to some 03 meteorological station buildfc but no damage is reported anywhere else.

[?]eturning to Polynesia in December

p. 145

nited Nations diplomats gave -?’fr. F( Si yth v a b- SpoC ii al 1^ ncheon 'L Y ? rk ’, when *l e com “ ed four years service in January Australia’s special representative UNO headquarters. He is well wn to Pacific Islanders because was the first Secretary-General the South Pacific Commission, organised the establishment at e Vata, Noumea. New Guinea

knows him, also, as a doughty fighter against the UNO cranks and visionaries who, through the Trusteeship Council havp tripri so often to , tertere with Australian administration in the NG Trust Territory. WDF now returns to Canberra, and probably will become an Australian Ambassador some where.

li Australian priests, brothers and nuns of the Dominican Order left Sydney in January to work in the Shortland Islands and Choiseul, BSIP, under the direction of Bishop Thomas Wade, SM.

Mr - A. N. Brown, Collector of Customs, Fiji, will shortly leave Fiji for North Borneo, where he will be Senior Assistant Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

[?]assengers bound for Polynesia per "Waitemata" from Auckland in December included, [?]hoto, Miss Monique Faugerat, centre, whose parents own the well-known Grand Hotel [?]eete, and rigth , Mr. George Na pa, of A . B. Donald & Co.'s Rarotonga staff. They were [?]lled by Mr. G eorge Na P a Jr . ( at left ), now resident in Auckland. In right hand photo, is Mrs. L. R. Hayes, who was returning to Papeari, Tahiti, and who was farewelled [?]ckland friends, Mrs. F. Adams and Mrs. T. A. Daley.

Appointment in N. Caledonia

p. 145

Mr. John I. Molloy, who has gone to Noumea, New Caledonia, as manager in that French Colony for Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd. He succeeds Mr. Fred Robilliard, who has returned to an executive position with the company in Mel bourne. Mr. Molloy is a science graduate of Sydney University and had three years' service in the AIF on radar installation and repair.

He initially was a chemist in the com pany's laboratory, but later changed to the sales side of the organisation.

Training Radio Operators in P-NG

p. 147

The native lads in this photograph will, this year, be attending a school in Port Moresby [?]e trained as native radio operators. They are all from Baluan, in the Manus district and are shown receiving their basic training at Lorengau. It has not been possible in the post-war [?]d to obtain sufficient European radio operators to fill all the requirements of Papua and Guinea radio communication; it is hoped that trained natives will be able to ease the [?]ion Already native operators who were trained before the war by Amalgamated wireless [?]als are efficiently carrying on their work in regional stations in the Territory —Photos by C. J. Fonceca.

On You Give

p. 147

LANESIAN NATIVES—

On You Give Them a Name?

IE difficulty of finding a name for the natives of Papua and New Guinea was emphasised ly in a Sydney newspaper article Stuart Inder, recently on ABC : in Port Moresby. :om Dutch New Guinea east 1s through Australian New aea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomons, New Hebrides and Caledonia there are people of jwhat similar type, loosely called mesians. But, in detail, they ide a very wide variety of types ick, brown and reddish; negroid, c-nosed and Mongoloid: giant, ium and pigmy; and they k an extraordinary variety of uages—there are 700 in the Aus an Territories alone, le natives in Papua usually are d Papuans (although “Papuan” ally is applied to a distinct .ological type, which is not by means restricted to Papua—there ably are more Papuans in Aus an New Guinea than in Papua'). ving to the old-time jealousy een Australian Papua and Aus an New Guinea (now being run inistratiyely in double harness) Mew Guinea folk will not agree le simple proposition that their fes be called Papuans. Yet it is that the natives of the Aus an Territories be given some e other than “New Guinea re” ew Guineaite” is favoured by ■, but it is a harsh and un iant appellation, ey have the same general of native Melanesians —in

Solomons, New Hebrides and New Caledonia; and a similar difficulty in naming them. “New Caledonian” and “New Hebridean” gets by. but not “Solomonite” or “Solomon Islander.”

Plywood Helps BCD's

pp. 147-148

Total Earnings

PROFIT made by Bulolo Gold Dredging on gold mining in New Guinea dropped in the year ending May 31, 1955, by almost 30 per cent, on the previous year, but still amounted to £A317,200.

Dividend was declared at 75 cents on the $5 share.

PROFIT ON PLYWOOD

Bulolo’s plywood venture in asso ciation with the Commonwealth Government (Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers) earned a net profit of £A169,610 in its first full year of operations up to June 30, 1955.

The company has a paid-up

capital of £li million, of which the Commonwealth has subscribed 51 per cent, and BGD 49 per cent.

The company was formed about three years ago and began opera tions in January, 1954. In the last year under review, 32 million square feet of plywood were produced and went to markets in the United States, Australia and New Guinea.

It is now felt that the company has been established on a satisfac tory earning basis, and that the saw mill and joinery sections will be more profitable in the current year.

t A party of fourteen Sydney teachers will tour New Caledonia during January. They will travel by Messageries Maritimes ship and special rates have been made for them in Noumea hotels.

Disaster On Promising

p. 148

US FLYING-BOAT

THE giant US Seamaster flying boat exploded at trials on De cember 8, killing her crew.

Last June (p. 146), PIM gave de tails of the revolutionary new jet flying-boat which many believed might be the forerunner of a type of aircraft best suited to the needs of Pacific aviation. The 600-mph 4-jet Seamaster had at that time been delivered by the Glenn L.

Martin Co., of Baltimore, to the US Navy for test-flying.

The aircraft made its first flight on July 14. Results were said to be satisfactory, and on November 2 the big flying-boat put on a spectacular display for the US Chief of Naval Operations and the British First Sea Lord. Following this, the US Navy announced that the aircraft would go into production.

One other machine was already nearing completion, and others will be ready by early 1956. With a pay load of 13i tons these huge flying boats are capable of carrying a com plete floating operating base with them, so that they could operate within a few hours from any bay, anywhere in the world.

The outlook for this aircrn whose development seemed of a: siderable interest to Island resides appeared very good, indeed —ui the first one exploded in mid-j near the mouth of the Potoin River. Cause of the disaster T not immediately known. It follow 50 hours of uneventful flying.

Nc Rice Production

p. 148

STILL SOME WAY TO

IN order to stimulate the prod) tion of rice, the I Caledonian government guan tees about 1/6 per pound. Thii about 6 francs per kilo more tJ imported rice.

Largest producer is a farmen the north coast. However, II rice production is only a sn proportion of rice requiremenr 50 tons in 1955, against a consuu tion of 2,200 tons. t A special Qantas Skymas carried 48 Scouts from Noumesi Sydney in December. From Syo the Scouts went on to Melbou where they attended the Pan Pa* Jamboree.

Whitehall Could Not Care Less!

pp. 149-151

[?]a’s Threat to Future Security of South Pacific Countries

London, in September, the Editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly addressed the following \r to the Editor of the London y Telegraph. ie Daily Telegraph that summer published all sorts of contri ons about the discovery of is* nests in hayricks, and the edness of manual workers who slow, and the importance of king claret at the correct tem ture; but it did not print one of the visitor’s letter, which was d on personal observations in y countries. e PIM man’s outstanding im non, after meeting many people ie United Kingdom, is that the ish generally are completely r ant of conditions in the South dc —and could not care less. the Editor of the Daily Velegraph, London: )n the eve of returning to ralia, and after visits to In sia, Singapore and Malaya, and ssions with all classes of people in England, I should like to ;ss the deep uneasiness of a official Australian observer at ignorance and indifference of British public towards events developments in the Far East, ar as they affect the South ic. luenced by the fact that it was f independence to India, Ceylon Burma (long before such a de ment was due), the British Gov ent in 1945-47 deserted its war allies, the Dutch, and allowed olitically immature Indonesians row the Dutch out of the East s, where they had been estab l for over 300 years. uenced by the school of ht so disastrously represented Ir. Malcolm MacDonald, the h have permitted the estab ent of near-independent gov snts in Singapore and Malaya, before the people concerned ntitled to them. > same British have sat with I hands while Chinese forces. or less Communist, have n the French out of Indo t, I idealistic planners imagined lat, as the Dutch moved out, ie Indonesians would take over administration, trade, planta and shipping. Actually, it is Chinese, not the Indonesians, are taking over in Indonesia tyself saw it happening.

MacDonald idealists imagine riendly little groups of Asians oing to run Singapore and a in future as part of the

British Commonwealth with tender regard for European residential and commercial rights It is a pity the British public could not have seen the thousands of young Chinese—socalled students —rushing around Singapore’s streets during the riots there in May, screeching Communist slogans and murdering any unpro- IS?bS^n 11 Ai? y vi* C ? Uld et their hands on. All history (ind Sf.i« aP w neSe P iQ r /o° r i?? n i es in the Pacific War in 1942-45) showed

that that is the measure of what Europeans can expect from Asians, once the Asian is on top.

Let there be no mistake—the Chinese are on the march, 600 millions of them. They appear rarely, if at all, in political organ isations; but they are the real power in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaya, Indo-China, and I do not think they now can be stopped.

The fate which overtook British people and interests in China in recent years surely will overtake all European interests in the remainder of Asia within a couple of decades.

For that, the British people affected can blame their rulers.

UT why should Australia, New Zealand and the large Islands Territories be sacrificed to tish blundering and weakness, [ British inability to visualise the :ome of their policies in South i? \ the 12 million English-speaking opeans in the South Pacific, and 2 million native Islanders in r care, are not to be extermin l by masses of Asians, South t Asia must be held firmly by □peans, and the Chinese must be allowed to take possession ndonesia.

'esent indications clearly are ; the British and French are ing Southeast Asia; the Dutch going rapidly from Indonesia t virtual land bridge between ay a and Australia); and within w years there will be nothing een us in the Pacific, and hungry and merciless masses of — except perhaps the power of United States. iat is the picture as it is seen ober Australian observers; and ;he horrors which it implies, I, one, blame the planners of ;ehall. Since World War 11, they seemed incapable of seeing hing beyond the nationalist tors of Asia—of looking beyond the South Pacific, where the *e of “the Britain of the South” nds upon the measures taken iduce the Asians to remain at * PER what I have seen person lly, in recent weeks, in South last Asia, and in London, I am jinion that it is too late now nything to be done by Britain isure the safety of the South ic against Asia; and history, sing the causes of the fumbling blundering Asian policies which led to this tragedy, will write T black mark indeed against :n so-called British “diplomats.” irt from the strength of North ica, I think our main hope of i now lies in the rapidity with i three great Asian races—the Jse, the Japanese and the

ns are developing their

ssive powers.

history means anything—and

all the only sure way of read he future of the races is to

me history—then sooner or

those Asian races will be in ct; and, maybe, they will for -3r a time the rich and com

ity empty and undeveloped

ries of the South Seas. But it

lender hope.

R. W. ROBSON.

dents who gained sports ies at the Queensland Agri ,al College in December in * I- Codrokadroka (champion e), Fiji; A. Hazelman, of Fiji• tomasi Tonga, of Tonga.

Part-Europeans

pp. 151-152

NZ Ban on Fiji’s Part-Europeans

THE New Zealand Government has adopted a policy which virtually prohibits persons of mixed descent from visiting the Dominion, according to Mr. Maurice H. Scott at the recent meeting of the Fiji Legislative Council.

Mr. Scott’s protest expressed the resentment of many Fiji people of mixed descent. In recent years the NZ regulations governing admittance of people from Fiji have been in tensified in this direction, although it is significant, as Mr. Scott pointed out, that people of mixed descent serving with the Fiji Government have no difficulty in obtaining permits.

One interesting and rather illogical case concerns a woman of mixed descent who had great dif ficulty in obtaining a temporary permit to visit her son. Her mother was a Wallis Island woman and her father a European ship’s captain trading for years in the South Pacific. Her grandfather, a Euro pean, fought as a sergeant in the Maori wars.

The son she wished to visit had been able to enter the Dominion, where he now occupies a good posi tion.

Many people from New Zealand

find good positions in Fiji, but apparently it is to be a one-way traffic.— Suva Correspondent. t The annual report of the Societe Francaise des Niles. Hebrides shows a profit of 26i million francs against 30i milions for 1954.

If The Roman Catholic parish Priest of Port Moresby, the Rev. Father Father, celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his ordination on December 1. He was ordained in St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney by the late Archbishop Kelly, and spent the first 8 years of his priesthood as a teacher at the Sacred Heart College, Too woomba. He then moved to Central Australia and remained ten years at Alice Springs before proceeding to the Territory, where he has been parish priest of Port Moresby since 1949. t The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr. John Gutch, paid a short visit to the New Hebrides in November.

Luxury Buses on Service in Fiji

p. 152

anyone may book a seat —but travel on [?] is sold on the "tour" basis. Trips us[?] include meals, and sometimes night stops.[?] is not intended that passengers use them m[?] as transport between points. The buses seen on Fiji roads for the first time in De[?] ber. This photograph of two of the buses pretty Fijian village was taken by Stinso[?] Suva.

Motor buses are a feature of the landscape in Fiji and have been so for many years. But they are of the utility type—and only poor cousins to the two pictured here. These buses are owned by Pacific Transport Co. but are chartered to Whites Travel Agency. They are luxuriously equipped and attractive hostesses are employed as well as efficient drivers. These buses are not restricted to overseas visitors—

Ngg Production

p. 152

The operational report for New Guinea Goldfields for November, 1955, showed the following results: Golden Ridges mill.

1,530 oz of fine gold; 1,781 oz of sili Golden Ridges alluvials, production Koranga alluvials, 388 oz fine g Tributes, 95 oz of fine gold. Tina 245,962 super feet.

Yankee” Voyages

p. 153

[?]END AFTER

YEARS

DR 22 years, Commander Irving M. Johnson, of United States Naval Reserve, and his equally ious wife, have been sailing the gantine Yankee on around-the •ld voyages—they are now com ing the sixth. In those leisurely •Id wanders, they have been seen ny times in the South Pacific mds. From the Marquesas right ough to Indonesia, the Yankee thousands of friends and well bers. ut the Irving Johnson saga is ing. In a letter to the Pacific nds Monthly, congratulating the lisher on our Quarter-Century e, Mrs. Electa Johnson says: We plan that our next voyage be our last long one. We think ;n voyages around the world is •e than anyone can expect and, ;he end of the next one, we will e covered twenty-five years.

We think it is best to stop from ice, when things are good, as ing in the Yankee is not as well ed to the years after fifty as ■nalism, for instance. We will >orry to leave the Islands with the usual prospect of a return, we have always believed in leav port while we still wanted to myway we are going to retire to oat —a small one, about 44 ft, low-draft, midships cockpit, ?d to two couples, and we hope build in Holland or Germany spend several years in the Us and rivers of Europe and ibly the Mediterranean and ?an.

Ve hope someone will continue ail the Yankee on long voyages to the South Seas, where she jally in her element.”

[?]Heep-A Ng Headache

p. 153

WRITER in the Sydney Bulletin in early December is of the opinion (shared by a lot of r people) that sheep are not the lals for New Guinea conditions, le 1,000 Romney Marsh sheep ted to the Nondugl Trust in the ern Highlands by Sir Edward trom several years ago have —according to this writer —based to 1,200 wormridden speci 3, poor in fleece as well as in says that parasites thrive in 5 animals in spite of frequent ching and, as well the sheep a good protein diet. He sug fencing for intensive manage ; and legumes added to their Better still (he seems to O switch to cattle, preferably or Aberdeen Angus.

[?]Iewed Interest In

p. 155

MANGAIA MANGANESE

EW ZEALAND’S search for means of improving the prosperity and financial solvency ;he Cooks has lead to Govern it interest in the manganese de ts on Mangaia Island, le existence of the deposits, and fact that at least a part are high-grade material, has been vn for many years, but the ex of the field has never been ed, and the Government has t shown any active interest in exploitation. is believed that the present in st is a direct result of the recent omic report made to the gov tient by Professor H. Belshaw Mr. V. D. Stace. geologist of the Department of itific and Industrial Research, Horace E. Fyfe, travelled to gaia from New Zealand per the ia special voyage in November, t three weeks on the island, and ned to Auckland per Viti in December. •. Fyfe was not prepared to make comment. He said that noth would be known of the field’s it or value until samples £ht back had been assayed. He d make a report to his Depart is believed in Mangaia that Mr. did not consider the deposits extensive. vate interest in the Mangaia sits has always been blocked by jaian opposition and land rship complications. Should tfangaians decide to work the ;its on their own behalf they i be faced with the major em of shipping the ore from island which possesses no )urs or sheltered anchorages has notoriously bad reef ges. It would be uneconomic :empt to load ore into an over ship at Mangaia without some n of mechanical delivery by [ever arm to lighters outside reef, and even then work I be slow and costly, h-grade Fiji manganese is at nt worth about £l2 per ton f.o.b.

William Mcßirney, long-time ;nt of Rarotonga, has shown ;st in Managaia’s manganese e past years. In November, a ' notice was posted through tie Cook Islands advising that ative Company known as aian Minerals Co. was to be d up by order of the High This was apparently the isation with which Mr. mey was associated.

K. J. B. Simpson will arrive ji in February to take up an atment as a medical officer in outh Pacific Health Service.

Planter’s Questions

pp. 155-157

Answers for the Planter’s Questions

HOW long has the coconut been in the Pacific Islands?

Why do some people spell cocoa COCOA, while others insist on

CACAO?

How long will a coconut palm keep or, bearing?

How many separate pests and diseases attack the coconut palm?

IF you are intrigued by these questions, as we were, you should get a copy of Mr. Albert Richards’s revised edition of Practical Planting, which he has just pub lished in New Guinea at 25 - per copy.

It apparently was planned as a manual for the New Guinea coconut planter, but its well-known and ex perienced author has wandered over a wide field. He is a practical New Guinea man who has taken an in terest in many subjects—we re member his handy Pidgin English Dictionary.

The book tells one how and where and when to plant coconuts and cocoa and—what is more important —how to make the plantation pay.

He has a good deal to say about other tropical crops. He presents a wide range of statistics—but some are out of date—there are now

16,000 Europeans in Papua and New Guinea, not 8,020.

He has much to say about soils.

A coconut planted in unsuitable soil may not last two decades. But, he claims, there is proof that a healthy coconut in the right soil can still be bearing merrily—and profitably —after 100 years.

WE take issue with Mr. Richards on his “it is questionable if

coconuts did pre-date the •ival of the native people.” rhree thousand years—probably s—is the maximum life of native tlement in the Islands. The re liable ability of the coconut to ft for months in the sea, and :n take root and flourish on a )b of coral, practically awash, was ; evolved in three thousand years, ere would have been no native tlement in the Islands if the life tng coconut had not been firmly iblished there, long before. ’he distinction between “cocoa”

I “cacao,” we learn, is merely antic. Cacao is the correct mtific name. Cocoa is the corrupt n evolved by traders when they an to handle cacao’s product 350 rs ago. We fear that however :h the purists may writhe and ?gle, the term in future for both it and product will be cocoa. [r. Richards’s book fills a need I felt in the South Pacific. Well ited and well bound, it also is ience of the high technical Ity of the Vunapope Mission itery at Kokopo, TNG.—R. be marriage will take place in ney, on January 21, of Mr. •cy Pavlich, of Port Moresby, to 5 Margaret McCosker, of Bellevue

Papua’s Income

pp. 157-159

Rubber, Malaya and Papua’s Income

PLANTERS and merchants In Papua should keep their eye on the political situation in Malaya.

If the Red terrorists in Malaya really do cease operations, the rub ber planters in Malaya may be able to supply increasing quantities of their product to the world markets and at a lower price, which may hold the markets. But if the eight years-old terrorist war goes on the Malayan rubber output will be cost lier; and that in turn will encourage synthetic rubber production.

The Economist, reviewing the world situation in December, notes that the market is high because United States and Western Eurone are producing more and more cars, and because Russia now is buying steadily. That tendency (which brought the world price of rubber from about 16d per lb in 1954 to over 40d in late 1955) appears likely to continue in 1956.

Rubber consumers prefer natural rubber. But when the price gets much beyond 36d, consumers begin to find it uneconomic for their purposes, and turn to the less de sirable synthetic rubber. At any

ng over 30d, and in normal dltions, natural rubber is quite fitable.

'he world consumption of rubber now close to 400,000 tons per aim. Total world production of

natural rubber is no more than 1,900,000 tons—synthetic takes care of the balance.

The immediate outlook for plan ters is good. But they should never forget that, as new techniques are

developed, the quality of synthetic is improving steadily, and produc tion costs tend to get less. In the view of The Economist, the long distance prospect for planters is not so good. t Flight-Sergeant E. W. Metcalf, of the RNZAF Station, Laucala Bay, Fii, has been awarded the British Empire Medal.

The IDS Get Things Done

p. 159

story of enterprise and hard work lies [?]the building of a church, reception hall [?]arge missionary house in Rarotonga, by [?]hurch of Christ of the Latter Day Saints, ptember 8, a ground breaking service was On the site and on November 25 the new [?]ngs were dedicated by President Howard [?]ne of the Samoan Mission, [?]t of the material came from America. [?]al of 20,893 working hours were con [?]ed by 82 people, all of whom worked [?]t pay. Approximately 40,000 dollars

was contributed by the Church Headquarters in Salt Lake City.

As is the policy of the Church, there were no outstanding debts and all bills were paid before the building could be dedicated. Much of the food to feed the workers was grown by adherents of the Church in the Cook Islands.

A supervisor of construction and 10 con struction missionaries from Samoa also helped in the construction without pay This photo graph shows (left) the chapel and recreation hall; and (right) the mission home.

Index to Advertisers

p. 161

l4l R. Ltd. . . 129 .. & F. . . 123 Vite ... 37 inium Ltd. . 5 ion Ltd. . . 73 . Dairies . . 154 . Bank . . 36 t, Wm. . . 14 of NSW . . 11l of NZ ... 50 dough, J. . 11 11, Gwyn . . 9 wood Hodge . 56 md-Rae . . 53 ell-Spence . 122 wicks Ltd. . 74 5. Holliday . 148 3rd Mills . 156 on Bros. . . 49 woldt . 46, 113 i, W. S. . . 62 I Myers . . 35 way Motors . 9 )n & Co. . 87 md, Wm. . 38 Pty. Ltd. . 34 Pty. . . 102 ig, A. H. . 69 r 4, 85, 92, 131 W. J. . . 101 jrn Charters 130 iter Ltd. . . 4 ram, D. . . 106 E 63 e . . . 75, 86 al Meat . 144 W's'n. . . 16 Bros. . . 153 Co 47 lond Co. . 152 33 r, G. & M. 159 , S. W. . .58 Agencies . lOC Ltd. ... 94 ss, W. C. 138 Rubber . . 33 ... 146 laid ... 114 Wm. . . 109 ciety ... 73 & Hiedecke 126 Rum . . 65 r Eng. . . 64 , D. & M. 160 Hotel . . 12 W. & A. . 87 e Bros. . . 49 e, R. . 1, 41, 72, 107, 117 ... 142 ook's Is . . . 105 's Gin . . 155 le Books . 42 (Suva) . .13 .td. . 110, 137 en, B. . . 57 en Sons . 59 n Court . 145 & Spear . 130 Trinder . 108 . 106 ; Diesels . 124 Ltd. ... 71 ks Ltd. . 133 d Bros. . 157 Co. . . . 98 . ... 135 : 31 ustries . , 95 nsport . . 55 i's Wax . . 54 lO

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Kodak . . . .118 Kopsen & Co. . . 116 Kwit 104 Lanchoo Tea . . 103 Lillis & Co. . . . 140 Madang Slipways 60 Marine Spares . 61 Masse Batteries . 76 McCallum's ... 67 Mcllrath's ... 143 McNiven Bros. . 134 Mears Earphone . 28 Meggitt Ltd. . . 50 Mendaco . . . .117 Millers Ltd. ... 42 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 43 Morgan Vernex . 94 Morris, Phillip . 55 Mungo Scott . .125 National In. Co. . 48 N. & R. . . 51, 61 Needham & Co. . 90 Nestle's ... 136 NG Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products . . 88 Nixoderm . . . 113 Pabco Products . 3 Pacific Watch . . 13 P. I. Line ... 8 Papuan Prints . 90 Piccaninny Wax 151 Pike Bros. ... 27 Plantation for Sale ... 149 Qld. Insurance . 125 Qld. Milling . . 98 Ransomes Co. . . 123 Refrig. Inst. Co. . 66 Riverstone Co. . 112 Robinson, G. H. . 114 Rohu, Si I . . .69 Rozema Bros. . . 2 Royal Interocean . 10 Sails and Covers 57 Seppelt & Son . 132 Seward Ltd. . .141 Shaw Savill ... 7 Sleepmakers Ltd. . 97 Sparklets Ltd. . 147

S.P.C 127

Spruso Co. . . . 28

S.T.C. Co. . . . 45

Stapleton, J. . . 146 Stewarts-Lloyds . 70 S. P. Brewery . 109 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 49 Sullivan Ltd. 34, 115 Strike Bros. . .150 Suva Motors . .157 Tait, W. S. . . . 88 Taylor & Co. . . 41 Thornburgh College 46 Thornycroft Co. . 62 Tilley Lamps . . 99 Ti I lock & Co. . . 96 Tongala Milk . . 40 Tongan Photos . 93 Tooheys Ltd. . . 44 Tooth & Co. . . .70 Turners & Growers . . . 110 Tyneside Eng. . . 91 United Insurance . 45

U.R.D 153

Vacuum Oil ... 128 Vincent Bros. . . 52 Ventura 32, 117, 160 Vi-Stim . . . .145 Vincent's APC . . 29 Warnock ... 97 Westfield Meats . 30 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 White Rose ... 38 Wills Ltd. ... 68 Wilson, W. E. . 149 Woolf, J. C. . . 155 Wright, N. R. . . 58 Wrigley's ... 39 Wunderlich Co. . 35, 139 Yorkshire Ins. . . 37

Islands Produce

p. 162

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are In Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs: 5U52.23.)

COPRA

(Negotiations between MOF and British SP producers for 1956 price not finalised Jan. 10. Fiji and P-NG have announced tentative price based on £ Stg.sB/10/-FOB.) Price negotiated between British Ministry of Food and British South Pacific Territories for 1955 is £ Stg.6s, FOB

main ports—a reduction of 7.14% on the 1954 price. Stabilisation funds and other charges reduce the actual prices to pro ducers to those given below, per ton:

PAPUA - NEW GUINEA:—Hot Air

£69/15/-; FM (Sun) £69; Smoked £66/15/-.

FlJl:—Plantation £F63/5/6; FM £F63; moister grades to £FS9/15/- minimum.

W. SAMOA:—£S42/6/-, £S4I/18/-, and

£B4l/12/- lor the three gradings in use.

E. SAMOA;—Adjusted with free-market fluctuations. Currently $89.60 (£A4O approx.) per long ton. Periodic bonus if average proceeds exceed Government buy ing price.

SOLOMONS:—Honiara/Gizo: Hot Air

£ A6B/10/-; Mixed HA/FM £A64; FM

£ A59/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

NEW HEBRIDES:—Jan. 9. Merchants paying 6,450 Pac. francs (£A46/1/-) de livered Vila/Santo.

Continental buyers 69.75 Met. francs per kilo c.i.f.

FRENCH OCEANIA:—Latest quotation 7.00 Pac. francs per kilo (£A49/5/approx., per long ton) delivered in bulk, Papeete, for top grade.

TONGA:—£AS9 and £AS3 per ton for the two gradings in use.

COOK IS.:—Growers receive £Stg.37 to £Stg.3o depending on quality and freight rates from particular island to Rarotonga.

COCOA: —Islands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which, on Jan. 9, was £ Stg.24B/15/- f.o.b.

P.-N.G.: £A3OS, delivered Sydney.

W. SAMOA: Jan. 9, £Stg.2so, f.o.b.

Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Top grades 5/6 lb.

PEANUTS;—P.-N.G.; Market only for Virginia Bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, 1/5 per lb. delivered Sydney.

Kernels up to 1/2 del. store, Sydney.

RUBBER;—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore, which quoted Jan. 6, No. 1 RSS. spot 125 cents (44.25 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, quoted Jan. 9 buying price, c.i.f. Sydney, Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 55/-, Green, 54/-.

RICE (Australian);—Price adjusted May 1

each year. P.-N.G.: Dry brown and drej £65 per ton, f.o.b. To other Territo: £7B per ton, f.o.b.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed betw Torres Strait producers and Otto Gen Co. (USA) for 1955: Sound grades, £Aft D, £ A 390; E, £A3OO; EE. £A225,, f.o.b. Australian port. Manihiki: Lajj closing throughout 1956. Last shipn £ABOO c.i.f. Sydney. Divers transfen to Penrhyn. Tuamotn: £A725, long on beach, or £A1,015 f.o.b. Papeete..

TROCHUS: —Jan. 9. in store Sycb subject to rejects, SW Pacific £5OO-; per ton. Market considered “dangen and drop expected.

New Caledonia: Season closed Oct.: GREEN SNAIL:—SW Pacific, in s Sydney, to £420, subject to rejects..

LONDON AND U.S. PRICES

Copra:—London, Jan. 9, Straits, « £Stg.6s/10/-; Philippines, SUSI 77, weights.

Cocoa:—London, Dec. 17: Gold O new season, Jan. del. c.i.f.. £Stg.2s2 ton; May del. £Stg.262. New York, 17: Dec. 30.10 cents; March del. Z cents per lb.

Coffee;—London, Dec. 17: Uganda n;r f.a.q., Jan.-Feb. £Stg.277/10/- f.o.b, V basa; Santos, £Sgt.46o, in bond, Londtl Shell:—London, Nov. 17, Sings trochus, Nov.-Dec. shipments £StJ c.i.f. Greensnail, £Stg.s6s c.i.f.

Rubber:—London, Jan. 6, Spot but Stg.3s%d; Jan. c.i.f., Stg.3s s /ad; Apl.-J Stg.34%d.

Islands Mining Shares

p. 162

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Bulolo . . . bl24/b47/b4H N.G.O. Ltd. . bl/1# sl/9 b2/.!

Oil Search S3/11 s9/bll.

Ent. of N.G. . b3/b2,J Oriomo Oil . b5/s4/6 b4/J Papuan Apln. b4/ll s3/b3 A Placer Dev. . b68/6 s295/b32l Sandy Creek . bl/5 s9d b2o

Exchange Rates

p. 162

FIJI. —Through BANK OF NSW,

BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on e basis £lOO FIJI: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Set £AII3. Fijl-London, basis £lOO Lonn B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-FIJi, basis ; NZ: B. £lll/11/8; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ.

tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Sat;

B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/8. Sa*

London, basis £lOO London: B. £lOO/: S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO * B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, I £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

PAPUA - NG.—COMMONWEALTH B.f

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kav/ Madang), BANK OF NSW (branches:; Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul. Macb Samarai, Goroka; agencies: Wau, Bo:c Kokopo) and ANZ BANK (Port More' quote exchange rate Australia-Papuaa 10/- per £lOO.

BSI—COMMONWEALTH BANK (brn

at Honiara) quotes exchange rate tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific fr«most valuable of the three franc gn in French Union, are used in New O donia, New Hebrides, and Pr, Ocei{ FRENCH BANK (Comptolr NatfJ D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney qua Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: 180 fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.

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HONG KONG and main JAPANESE PORTS.

Southbound from JAPAN, HONG KONG and MANILA to MADANG, LAE, RABAUL, HONIARA, VANIKORO thence main AUSTRALIAN PORTS.

AROS-CITOS-DELOS

Cargo Service, with Luxurious Passenger Accommodation, by Fast New Motor Vessels specially built for the Far Eastern Trade.

General and Refrigerated Cargo Space; also Special Mechanical Ventilation for Fruit, Vegetables, etc., in ’tween decks.

M.V, DELOS—A.W.P. Line's new motorship for Australian-Far East trade.

MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 63 Pitt St., Sydney, 'Phone: BU 6301. Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William Si. 'Phone; MU 5906.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs, Bright & Co.

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang, Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul, Town Transport Ltd.; Honiara, Government Trade Scheme.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS; Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan.

LONDON-SUVA

S£^

VIA

PANAMA

For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To: — BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD., BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA)

138 LEADENHALL ST., CO. LTD.,

LONDON, E.C.3. SUVA, FIJI

Dwn a Car on Your Holidays AND SAVE* Broadway Motors' SPECIAL ISLANDS' PLAN will save you noney on your holiday transport in Australia! 1. Buy a guaranteed used car on Low Deposit. 2. Drive it ALL your holidays. 3. Broadway Motors will buy it back when you leave. lect from over 100 guaranteed cars. See more . do more . . . pack more fun into your holiday th a good used car from Sydney's famous Broadly Motors. So simple! You select your car . . . y cash or, if you wish, make a small down paymt. If you buy on terms the monthly payments II be reduced to the absolute minimum to leave you the maximum ending money. When your holiday is finished Broadway Motors buy it ck and finalise all outstanding money. This gives you the use of a good for WAY UNDER ordinary hiring rates. What's more, each car is 'ered by a written 30-day new-car guarantee for your protection.

ROADWAY MOTORS (N.S.W.) PTY. LTD.

Australia's Largest Used-car Organisation

84-200 BROADWAY. SYDNEY, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

M .0 The Sales Broadway Manager, Motors (N.S.W.) Pty. Ltd.

Please send me free particulars of your Special Islands' Plan without obligation.

NAME-..

ADDRESS-

: p.i.m. i

Regular Monthly-Service from

MELBOURNE SYDNEY BRISBANE AND HOLLANDIAi

to

NORTH BORNEO BANGKOK AND SINGAPORE

By Motorvessel:

"VAN NOORT", "SIBIGO" AND "SINABANG"'

Carrying 2 to 12 Passengers Passage Fare: Sydney-Singapore, from £Stg.?9.

Hollandia-Singapore, from £Stg.s4.

Further information from —

ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES

Incorporated in the Netherlands as KJCPL, NV. 255 George St., Sydney. Phone: BU 6771

Fly to Europe

direct from

Biak

m

and save £lOO

KLM

Interested? Of course . . . especially when you travel Super Constellation by KLM, the world's oldest and most experienced airline. Your saving by this new route will be anything from £55 to £llO. • Your bank or travel agent, or any office of Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., our Agents in New Guinea will tell you all about this money-saving route.

DUTCH

ROYAL

AIRLINES

A

KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES

*8 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY

Un

arraciouqh

t\ Jhl

Ship Brokers Shipwrights Marine Engineers

New Beach Road, Edgecliffe, Rushcutter's Bay, Sydney,

Australia

FB 2542, FB 4347. Cable Address: Backoff, Sydney.

Knl+c Sef n° eS t, af ® avai, . able as a 9ents in all matters relating to COMMERCIAL or PLEASURE on ,he hi9hest e,hicai s,andards and *• « vo s r.f We are anxious to have new listings of vessels lying in the Pacific.

LAUNCHES

I- 5 : Ex .?u yal Na , vy , " Joll fy Boat " runabout with cockpit fore and aft. Hard chvne design, with rugged diagonal planking below. 30 H.P. Parsons Marine Engine. Price; £350 L. 6.—24 ft Prawn Fishing Launch with flush decking swept upwards to the Bow. The u° a j IS o-V. ». • h 9 al y anised outriggers and prawning gear. Powered by Thornycroft Handy Billy Marine Engine. Price: £595.

L. 9.—28 ft x 5 ft. Thames Excursion River Launch with half round cabin fwd. and long open cockpit aft. Powered by a Rugby, newly reconditioned Marine Conversion giving 15 m.p.h. Overhead canvas awning. Price: £475. t' 11 : - IEJ. 1E J. Ar !" y . Dory i ft : x ? f f- 6 in - * 2 ft. 6 in. Conventional hard chyne Hull with «xx and steering deckhouse amidships. Open cockpit aft. Has just been fitted with 20 H P Petters Diesel. The boat is sound throughout but in need of paint and is not furnished in any way. Price: £1,150. dolphin . Outside fishing launch used for weekend fishing parties each weekend the year round. Raised Deck Hull with open cockpit Mast and Boom. 18 ft. x approx. 8 ft. 6 in., round Bilge. A particularly sturdy and good looking boat. Powered by C.L.A.E. Fisherman, 5 H.P. Heavy Duty. £550.

L.l9—Open Cockpit Wheelhouse Launch 30 ft. x 9 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. Powered by V 8 Thornycroft converted Ford, Toilet, Stove, etc. £2,000.

COMMERCIAL VESSELS

T.l. Trawler. Built at Forster, N.S.W., 6 months ago for wealthy Sydney man. Dimensions are 50 ft. x 15 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in., constructed of Hardwood below W/line with Blue Gum keel. Beech topsides and decks. Built with more style than is usual for commercial vessels.

Raised deck fwd. with accommodation for crew. Powered by a new G.M. Diesel of 96- 122 H.P. controlled hydraulically. £8,500.

T-4.—Trawler or Light Cargo Carrying Vessel, hard chyne construction, 9 months old.

Dimensions 50 ft. x 16 ft. x 3 ft. 9 in., accommodation for 4. Powered by Ronaldson Tipetts diesel engine 50 H.P. fitted with twin disc gearbox. Vessel has full Tuna fishing equipment including bait tanks and lies at our moorings. Boat is in Maritime Survey for Comm. Fishing Parties. Price: £5,500.

T.s.—Trawler. Dimensions 40 ft. x 13 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. 6 in. with counter stern. Boat is privately owned and used out of Wollongong for fishing parties. In the last six months she has been completely reconditioned at a cost of approx. £1,500 which included new ribs throughout. The boat is powered by a 33 H.P. Southern Cross Diesel which also has been overhauled. Price: £2,500.

T.6.—Trawler or Light Cargo Carrying Vessel. 50 ft. x 14 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in. raised deck fwd., flush decked aft, deckhouse fwd. Powered by Lister 40 H.P. Diesel. In survey for fishing parties, 5 years old, accommodation for 6 and T/R radio. The entire boat is in good order, maintained carefully by owner. Price: £5,500.

T.7.—Steam Trawler. Steel construction 130 ft. x 26 ft., powered by a triple expansion steam engine 76 H.P. Govt, survey on this vessel expired in December, 1954, and it was estimated that the cost to renew it for local trawling or trading would be £2,000 to £3,000. This vessel and its sister ship "Samuel Benbow" could be easily converted for use in Singapore or any place where native labour is available. Price; £3,500.

T. 11. —Trading Ketch. Length 95 ft., beam 22 ft. Draught, loaded, 6 ft. fwd. 7 ft. 6 in. aft; draught, unloaded, 4 ft. 3 in. fwd. 6 ft. 6 in. aft. Loading capacity 80 tons (perhaps slightly more). Construction to Commonwealth Navigation Department specifications of Blue Gum and Iron Bark. Carvel planking 2 in. timbers 5 in. x 5 in., these are double making 10 in.:; x 5 in. All timbers and knees are grown. Clipper bow and counter stern. 165 H.P, G.M. Diesel 3:1 reduction about 100 hrs. running. Electric Start. Deck engine is 6 H.P. diesel. £6,000.

T.l2.—Trawler, Cargo or Towing Boat. Actually designed as a towing vessel 26 ft. x 9 ft. 6 in. x 2 ft. 10 in. flush decked. 8 months old. £2,000.

T.2l. —Passenger Launch. 45 ft. x 12. ft. x 4 ft. 6 in. Counter stern. Formerly R.A.N. Supply Launch. Superstructure refitted in 1947. Timbers Teak with U in. Oregon planking.

Ailsa Craig R.F. 4 Diesel with 2:1 reduction. Copper sheathed. In Maritime Survey.

Radio included. Vessel is sound throughout. Price; £2,300.

T. 26.—40 ft. x 12 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. Deep hard chyne Ex R.A.F. personnel launch built by Taylors Eng. Never used by R.A.F. Single diag. planked skin very heavily constructed throughout, fitted with echo sounder and twin Perkins diesels 100 H.P. approx, giving speed of 19 knots. In first class order throughout. £4,500.

T. 27.—45 ft. xl2 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 6 in. Missionary, Copra or Recruiting Vessel. Stuart Turner V 4 cyl. Diesel (new). Accom. fwd. (or cargo), wheelhouse amidships, cargo hold aft, rails around all decks. Built of Indian Teak for British Navy. Extremely robust construction. £3,000. Owner going abroad.

T.2B.—Fairmile, 112 ft., powered by twin G.M. 165 H.P. Diesels. Accommodation for 26 persons, at present working. £7,500.

We have many other schooners, ketches and deep sea cruising vessels. Details upon request. Photographs are available of the vessels listed and will be forwarded when required.

THE GARRICK HOTEL

SUVA, FIJI

r m 1 m I ff 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.

Telephone: 80. VINCE COSTELLO, Proprietor.

PACIFIC

WATCH SERVICE

GUARANTEED REPAIRS

6 Months Written Guarantee by Fully Qualified Tradesmen

FREE QUOTATIONS BY

AIR MAIL

Repairs Post Free (Ordinary Mail) Air Mail Postage Extra.

LARGE SELECTION OF SWISS

WATCHES

Chosen to withstand tropical wear. 12 months free service, shockproof and water-resistant, automatic or manual winding. Stainless steel, gold and chrome.

Illustrations on request. Orders post free by return Air Mail.

59 AVOCA STREET,

RANDWICK N.S.W.

*l/1, a „ y ° Cf * ce 01 ", rop ]C s desig* H %& «*

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IN

WAX-DIPPED

MOISTURE-PROOF

PACKETS

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Keep a in the house for use indoors and for outings mcwi

Sao Biscuits

There is no Substitute for Quality

Distributed in AUSTRALIA,

[NEW ZEALAND and the

'allowing PACIFIC ISLANDS:

Australian Territories: Papua.

Norfolk Is. Cocos Is.

Aust.. Trust Territories: New Guinea. Nauru British Crown Colonies: Fiji.

Gilbert & Ellice.

British Protectorate: Solomon Is.

British Protected State: Tonga.

N.Z. Territories: Cook Is. Niue.

N.Z. Trust Territory: W. Samoa. r rench Territories: N. Caledonia.

French Oceania. inglo - French Condominium: New Hebrides.

J.S. Territories: E. Samoa. Hawaii. 7.5. Trust Territory: Micronesia (Caroline, Marshall & Mariana). )utch Territory: W. New Guinea, Editor and Publisher.

R. W. ROBSON.

Assistant Editor:

JUDY TUDOR.

Business Manager:

SELWYN HUGHES.

ELEPHONES: General Business, dltorlal, Advertising, Subscriptions:

MA 9197, MA 9198.

G.P.O. BOX 3408, SYDNEY,

;egistered Address for Telegrams, adlograms, and Cables: “Pacpub,”

Sydney.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

i Australia and New Zealand and Australian, NZ, and Br.

Pacific Islands .. .. £ 1 4 0 ew Caledonia. Tahiti . £l7 0 Isewhere $3.50 U.S. or £1 10 0

REPRESENTATIVE IN NEW

ZEALAND:

D. Whitcombe, P.O. Box 5179, Auckland.

EPRESENTATIVE IN LONDON,

U.K.: T. Wallis. 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3., England. [ELBOURNE OFFICE: Newspaper House, 247 Collins St.—Tel.: Cent. 2053.

GENTS: All main trading firms Qd stores in the Pacific Islands.

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to the markets of the world!

AGENTS FOR:

The China Navigation Co. Ltd.

New Guinea Australia Line The Hong Kong New Guinea Line Lombard Insurance Company Ltd.

Union Assurance Society Ltd.

Aust. T. & G. Mutual Life Society Ltd.

We have our finger on the pulse of world markets . . . for many years that has been our business— shipping your cocoa or other pro-

duce—We're experienced—like-

wise we bring the best of the world's products to you.

COLYER WATSON («RS.| LTD.

• RABAUL • MADANG • KAVIENG • LAE • GOROKA Associated with: COLYER WATSON PTY. LTD., COLYER WATSON & CO. LTD., Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. Wellington. Auckland, Christchurch.

They Are Looking South ...

(There are 1,000 million people in Asia.)

—CARTOON BY BILL GILL.

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Morris Hedstrom Limited

Head Office: SUVA, FIJI :: Established 1868

General Merchants ,lmporters and Exporters,

Shipowners, Plantation Owners,

Commission and Insurance Agents

BX 2678

SERVICE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS

Through 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

TIMBER AND HARDWARE

BUILDING ELECTRICAL

GROCERY LIQUORS

TOBACCO CONFECTIONERY DRUGS

Branches Throughout Fiji, Samoa a

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.

"Chula" Copra Dryers.

Electrolux Ltd.

Ford Motor Co.

General Electric Co. Ltd.

Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co.

B. A. Hjorth & Co. (Primus Products).

Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

International Harvester Export Co.

Matson Navigation Company.

Max Factor and Co. Inc.

Pacific Islands Transport Line.

Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd.

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd.

Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom Limited are LLOYD’S AGENTS in Fiji and Samoa.

IN AUSTRALIA:

MORRIS HEDSTROM LIMITED,

(Incorporated in Fiji.) 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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Pike

Brothers...

Australia's Finest

2-Pocket Shirt

The "STRONGHOLD" ...

THE FABRIC is our own exclusive Blue Sanforised Cotton Oxford, specially woven for us in England to suit Australian conditions.

It will not shrink or fade.

THE MAKE is cur well-known Albatross quality from our own workrooms, with generous cut, good length, full body room.

THE STYLE is double-duty with collar attached for work or casual wear —looks well with a tiel Two pleated pockets with button flaps and special pencil pocket. Collar sizes: 14 to 18£. Long sleeves, 34/6. Short sleeves, 30/6.—(Australian currency).

Pike

BROTHERS LTD.

the men's wear store . . .

MAIL ORDERS

Write for free pattern or post your order. Please state your chest measurement, height and collar size.

Please add freight and indicate method of despatch desired air freight or surface mail.

QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND.

DEAF ?

"CHICO” INVISIBLE EARPHONES,

£A2/5/- pair. Worn inside your ears, no cords or batteries. Guaranteed for your lifetime. Write for Free Booklet

WEARS EARPHONE CO., No. 64 State

Shopping Block, Market St., Sydney.

In business 35 years.

p/*uce up on

S»0

/7J r ML, ,

J/Oupflair

SPRUSO LIQUID. SPRUSO LIQUIDSIIEEN, and SPRIJSO

CRYSTALLISED SHEEN.

SPRUSO is the best selling Hairdressing in Australia TRADERS : write for samples.

SPRUSO COMPANY, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia.

BANISH

(P\NKI

PAIN

Llj

Take Vincent 9 s

and Feel Better

and Brighter!

7f?'' m

ONE DOSE

BRINGS RELIEF

wm.

N.8D.27(A)

i/vuryuamnfa

--m

beef

CORNED

SALISBURY" canned meats, SPECIALLY PACKED for the PACIFIi ISLANDS ARE the popular choice, ALWAYS.

CORNED BEEF

CORNED MUTTON

MEATREAT

SAUSAGES 0 TOMATO SHEEP TONGUES

STEAK & KIDNEY PUDDING OXTONGUES

LAMB & GREEN PEAS SANDWICH PASTI

MIDGET (Cocktail) SAUSAGES Also "WESTFIELD" Brand

CORNED BEEF CORNED MUTTON

CORNED BEEF WITH CEREAL CORNED MUTTON WITH CEREAL

KEGGED MEATS DRIPPING AND LARD

WESTFIELD FREEZING CO. LTD

Postal Address: Private Bag, C.P.0., Auckland, N.Z.

Cable Address: Filalora, Auckland

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Robertson

The re

SPLENDID

CAREER

to

YOU

INESS

BUS

There are well-paid positions vacant now in business. They await the right men men who can shoulder responsibility men with the initiative to train themselves men who can see beyond tomorrow.

The H.R.I. method of tuition is designed to reach a man anywhere wherever he lives, wherever ho works. It is a method which, every year, brings more commercial examination honours to H.R.I. students than to all other students in Australasia combined.

&SZJ& "**■

R.l. Career Local Goven u grades) Distribution—_ Management Selling and A dvertlSl “ g imm A Tamtafi«« on Manager Man’g’t You Make No Experiment Under H.R.I.

Name.

Address Interested in.

H etninyway

Robertson

institute

126 BANK HOUSE, BANK PLACE.

MELBOURNE

Offices in all Capital Cities

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(/lot atei

THE NATION’S FINEST VENETIANS!

Before buying Venetians you owe it to yourself to see National Venetians—the best your money can buy. Nationals are acclaimed world-wide for their unexcelled beauty and built-in quality.

P

(hidmuJ.

NATIONAL VENETIAN BLINDS

INCLUDE

¥i uxa ex p

SNAP-BACK SLATS

WIPE-CLEAN PLASTIC TAPES

Wonderful Luxaflex snap-back slats bend to the touch of your duster—flip right back into shape! A damp cloth gets wipe-clean plastic tapes like new at a stroke!

Write for further particulars to the Sole Pacific Islands Distributors:

VENTURA TRADING Co. Pty. Ltd.

26 BRIDGE ST., SYDNEY

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Dunlop

If Backaches

Ttav A Kidney

Houskleaninc

Are you embarrassed and bothered by too frequent elimination during the day and night? These symptoms, as well as Bladder Irritation Backache, Swollen Ankles, Leg Pains, Nervousness, Dizziness, Lumbago, Interrupted Sleep, Circles Under the Eyes and a generally rundown feeling, are usually due to germ-caused kidney and bladder troubles. The very first dose of Cystex, the scientifically compounded medicine, goes right to work overcoming these troubles In 3 ways. 1. Quickly kills germs causing troubles. 2. Gets rid of poisonous acids. 3. Strengthens and reinvigorates the kidneys and bladder. Get Cystex from your chemist to-day under the guarantee of complete satisfaction or money back.

otyre 0 tyre

oet more «*» „ B 1 yo«t o« ffISSS * thottS a« ds d ’ J 5 Broader, tougher treads, casings of the world’s best rayon, high tensile dual beads and tread patterns designed and proved for every kind of hauling are the marks of every Dunlop tyre.

There’s extra mileage in every tyre and that means more trucking at lower cost in the

long run.

DUNLOP

TRUCK TYRES

nN^ rVxe G* es* 9 0 ?0 cO°° \C^o c.v *o* a* 6 \o* rO^ 0* X o* voo •je' v,r c * i N N 5 xs

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C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

MOLASSES GRASS

A Tropical Summer Growing ?

of Proven Merit We will be pleased to supply information about highes quality GOVT. TESTED seed of RHODES GRASS, PAS

PALUM DILATATUM, PASPALUM COMPRESSUM

GREEN PANIC, and PENSACOLA BAHIA.

BUDDS Farm Supplies Pty. Ltd.

SEEDSMEN

Box 817, Murwillumbah, N.S.W., Australia.

Cable: “Fa^nsto^es ,,

C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

379 KENT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

telegrams and Cables: “CHASULL,” Sydney. Telephone: BX 6381 (6 linesa And at Melbourne, and Brisbane.

Associated Companies: C. SULLIVAN (Q'LAND) PTY. LTD., 318 Adelaide Street, Brisbane.

C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) Ltd., Sura, Fiji.

C. SULLIVAN (NEW GUINEA) Ltd., Rabaul, T.N.G.

C. SULLIVAN (N.Z.) Ltd., 22 Swanson Street, Auckland, N.Z.

C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) Pty. Ltd., 66 Victoria St., London, S.W.I. England.

C. SULLIVAN INC., 230 California Street, 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.

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rttindeblich-

lightweight

ROOFING

for

modern

homes

B

Wunderlich Metal Tile Roofing...

It’s easy and economical to fix involves no costly alteration to roofing timbers. Ideal for new homes also, this striking tile-like roofing is completely watertight will not pollute rainwater used for drinking purposes.

Ask your local hardware merchant, ’phone MX 2411, or write to Wunderlich Limited, Baptist Street, Redfern, for illustrated folder and prices. 62MT2

rttindeblich-

METAL TILE ROOFING

STAMPED AND STOVE ENAMELLED ZINCANNEAL

COMPREHENSIVE

BANKING SERVICE

Whether your financial transactions are local or reach to the far corners of the world, A.N.Z. Bank, with over 800 branches and agencies, world-wide banking connections and strong financial resources, is fully equipped to provide every type of banking service you may require.

A*N*Z

A.N.Z. BANK

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANK LIMITED

Over SOO Branches and Agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand, in Fiji, Papua and New Guinea, and in London, Agents throughout the world.

W. C. G. Roberts: Manager, Suva Branch N. H. Scott: Manager, Lautoka Branch F. A. S. Robertson: Manager, Ft. Moresby Branch T. M. Nicholson: Manager, Rabaul Branch

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 . Pearce & Co. (N.G.) Ltd.

LAE . New Guinea Industries Ltd.

MADANG R. Macgregor MANUS . . Edgell & Whiteley Ltd.

HONIARA, 8.5.1. P. . E. V. Lawson SUVA . . Williams & Gosling Ltd.

NOUMEA Y. Mortensen

NORFOLK ISLAND . A. E. Martin

Energetic in

Topics ?

OF COURSE

What a wonderful difference daily *AKTA nakes to the whole family ! And it costs so )elicious ‘AKTA-vite* contains the vitamins iced for bounding health—A, B 1? C, D—with :alcium and phosphorus for turdy growth. Chocolate and malt flavoured, lkta-vite* can be taken in )t or cold milk, on fruits, jsserts and ice-cream, in ndwiches or straight from icjar. ‘AKTA-vite* makes 'e in the tropics a daily joy. r ade by Nicholas Pty. Ltd., Melbourne , Australia

AEIS/2048

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little you

TRADE MARK

I

FOR SALE

D.C. GENERATING SET, 110 Volt-220 amp.-22KW.

Direct Coupled to

40 H.P. PELAPONE-RICARDO DIESEL ENGINE

Complete with Switchboard and Mounted on Base Girders This Plant, produced by MAUDSLEY LTD. of ENGLAND witlc Generator by COMPTON PARKINSON, is BRAND NEW and hat never been used.

Further details will be sent on request.

Would cost well over £3,000 to land to-day.

BEST OFFER SECURES

Write "Generator/ 7 Box 2478, G.P.0., Melbourne

WHITE ROSE FLOUR

ULTIMO. SYDNEY.

CABLES: “

WHITE

ROSE

WHEATMEALS TO MEET THE

REQUIREMENTS OF ALL

MILLING CO. PTY. LTD.

N.S.W. Phone: BA 402 7

SYDNEY

7t fm i G V^ F. 6

MAKE WORK EASIER!

A help on the job Don't let the hours drag.

Chew Wrigley's Spearmint Gum.

Gives you a nice little lift.

Helps work go smoother, easier.

Healthful-

Refreshing'

Delicious!

i NOW faw° uS to process

NEW I and Here NOW... tUR issP US*.

H OMO 6EH,SEO j

JL »KT

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Expertly

Most Processed in Modern Milk Australia's

Factory

TONGALA Sweetened Condensed MILK prepared from pure, creamy cows' milk, keeps its wonderful flavour right to the bottom of the can.

TONGALA Evaporated Unsweetened MILK is richer, creamier, and retains all its smooth, farm-fresh flavour right to the last drop.

IK k yf TONGALA Condensed MILK in TUBES stops waste. Ideal for picnics, boating, camping, for a long period—stays fresh.

Keeps TONGALA Natural Pure Whole MILK Use straight from the can. Sterilised for added purity and long-lasting qualities.

MONT BLANC Full Cream Powdered MILK contains all the original butter fat, milk sugar and proteins of full-cream dairy milk. Dissolves quickly and completely.

RIVERSTONE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD., 255 a George St., Sydney.

Redbank Meat Works Pty. Ltd., 154-206 Stanley Street, South Brisbane.

■\ CONDENSED

FULL

Ml LI

a i Lm. ii *

SWEETENED

A

7 025. NET WEIGHT

Allen Taylor & Co. Ltd.

COMMERCIAL ROAD, ROZELLE, SYDNEY.

Sawmillers and Wholesale Suppliers of Hardwoods for Constructional Purposes GIRDERS . . . PILES . . . POLES . . . SLEEPERS, Etc.

Exporting to the Pacific Islands Since 1893.

The MASSETmBATTERY

has always Seen -full

oh punch ' —

A/oiv/rs /

TERR/F/C/ - ( f “

‘Masse

BATTERIES

w I T H \ \

PERMASS€P

j7/ie Qrmarienh Jfyctw/ot 9 T/ GERS FORWOR A* f. & r \A \\\% m Distributors for Pacific Islands

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD.

54A PITT STREET, SYDNEY. Tel.: BU 2221 MB6

MILLERS LTD. uniiioiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniliiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii

SUVA and LAUTOKA, FIJI. "

Every Branch of Engineering and Buildm

Construction

Sewmillers and Timber Merchants; Shipwrights and Sailmakers; Joinery as Furniture Manufacturers; Upholsterers; Plumbers; Electricians; Hardwr Merchants; Motor Dealers.

Agencies: Chevrolet, Bedford, Vauxhall, Nash Motors, Land Rovers and Rover Qb Firestone Tyres. Frigidaire Refrigerators. G.E.C. Radio Sets. Priestnn Excavators. British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd. Atlas Assuran Co. Ltd.

II There Is no need to send to Australia or NV Zealand for Repairs or Replacements. We o give yon a sound Quotation and gnaranu First-Class Workmanship.

INTERESTING READING...

A FABLE, by William Faulkner

This is a fine novel, set in France in 1918. the struggle between man’s individual and Prize winner. 18/9d plus 1/ld postage.

The theme, never more urgent than today, is his social conscience. The book is a Pulitzer CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN, by Thomas Mann Thomas Mann has now added to his vast gallery of characters, Felix Krull, trickster, rogue and confidence man and the world is richer for a great comic novel by this great writer. 22/6d plus I/ld postage.

THE SILENT CONTINENT, by William H. Kearns & Beverley Britton This is the story of the discovery and exploration of Antarctica, told in terms of the adventures and heroism of more than thirty Antarctic expeditions 25/- plus 1/ld postage.

STIRLING MOSS'S BOOK OF MOTOR SPORT

Britain’s top racing driver has produced a book about motor racing and famous drivers which will enthrall any racing enthusiast. The book is well illustrated with fine photographs and is packed with factual information about the sport. 13/9 plus 1/ld postage. * * ♦ Avail yourself of our mailing service to obtain your book requirements. All orders are promptly fulfilled and the service is specifically designed for your needs.

GRAHAME BOOK COMPANY PTY. LTD.

39 -49 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY.

INQUIRIES ARE INVITED

Concerning the Distribution and

Sale of All Typ es of

Merchandise in the

Pacific Islands

WE ARE AUSTRALIAN AGENTS FOR—

MILLERS LTD., Fiji.

8.5.1. P. GOVERNMENT TRADE SCHEME, Honiara.

G. Cr E.I.C. WHOLESALE SOCIETY, Tarawa.

MAX HALECK, Pago Pago, American Samoa.

Original Invoices Supplied. Quotations on Request. ★

MORRIS HEDSTROM LIMITED

(Incorporated in Fiji)

ISLAND MERCHANTS

Asbestos House, 65 York St., Sydney.

Box No. 2512, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: “MORSTROIM”, Sydney.

BANKERS: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY.

- R |H*

too

The pleasan

The UNITED

Insurance Co. Ltd.

(Inc. in New South Wales.) mm £ mism

FIRE, MARINE AND ACCIDENT

INSURANCES EXPERTLY

ARRANGED

LAE, T.P.N.G.

Branch: Eighth Street, Lae, D. B. Killeen, Manager.

PAPUA, T.P.N.G.

Chief Agents: John Stubbs & Sons (Papua) Ltd.,

PORT MORESBY.

TEAMSHIPS TRADING COMPANY LTD.

PORT MORESBY AND SAMARAI PAPUA

holesale & Retail Merchants, Shipowners, Planters, Sawmiliers, Engineers, Slip Proprietors,

Shipping, Customs and Insurance Agents.

INAGING AGENTS for:

AGENCIES:

WMILLERS & TRADERS LTD.

COALANDS LTD.

ME BAKERY COMPANY.

IRIBOI RUBBER LTD.

BBERLANDS LTD.

IREMA RUBBER PLANTATIONS LTD.

NEW GUINEA AUSTRALIA LINE OF THE CHINA

NAVIGATION CO. LTD.

ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINE.

KOKE BAGU PTY., LTD.

LOLORUA RUBBER ESTATES LTD.

HARVEY TRINDER (N.S.W.) PTY., LTD. (In-

surances effected at Lloyd’s.)

DISTRIBUTORS

MSTRONG-HOLLAND PTY., LTD.

Jarth Moving and Logging Equipment.

LLYS-OVERLAND EXPORT CORPORATION.

teep cars, etc.

LLMAN MOTOR CARS.

IN PAPUA for:

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. OF AUST. LTD.

International Trucks, McCormick-Deering Farming Machinery, Defender Refrigerators.

SYDNEY AGENTS: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., 12 SPRING STREET.

PRESBYTERIAN AND METHODIST SCHOOLS' ASSOCIATION

THORNBURGH

AND

BLACKHEATH COLLEGES

CHARTERS TOWERS, NORTH QUEENSLAND

For BOYS AND GIRLS, from Grade 1 to University Courses available:—ACADEMlC COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, HOME SCIENCE ART MUSIC AND SPEECH to Diploma, A.M.E.B. or Trinity College.

AGRICULTURAL COURSE FOR BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS TO JUNIOR. Animal Husbandry, Farm Engineering, Tropical Agriculture and Horticulture.

Good Climate for ISLAND CHILDREN; Excellent Sporting facilities.

Enrol for

Prosepectus from the Principal, Rev. C. D. Alcorn 8.A., B D or Secretary 309 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland.

SOLE AGENTS

Wm. BRECKWOLDT & CO,'

Raboul, New Guinea; Suva, Fiji; Honiara, 8.5.1 ; Apia, W. Samoa.

THE PERFECT STARCH

FOR TROPICAL CONDITIONS

Coral Starch does not stick to the iron.

Coral Starched clothes keep their crispness all day long even in the most humid weather.

Coral never lumps or spots—won’t streak even dark colours.

Coral starch saves 15 minutes work in every ironing hour. 0 o tk a

CORAL ” STARCH

Manufacturers: —

CORAL MANUFACTURING PTY. LTD.

26 Clarence Street, Sydney. BX 3508.

UNRIVALLED ON THE SEVEN SEAS

NATIONAL INSTRUMENT CO. PTY. LTD.

ANNOUNCE THEIR APPOINTMENT AS

Sole Australian Agents for the World-Famous

ELAC-ECHO SOUNDERS

now available for Immediate Delivery

ELAC

ECHOMETER

ELAC-ECHOCRAPH

I JUNIOR

Convincing proof of the capabilities of the Elac-Echograph Junior has been received from Fishermen already using this equipment in Australia.

Mr. Cyril Stephens, leading Gray-Fisherman of Port Welshpool, Victoria, reports outstanding results from the Echograph Junior installed in the “VALDA S.” — . . Positive identification of all types of sea bottom . . . Reefs only three feet high clearly shown on chart , . . crayfish pots shot accurately and quickly , . . time only 15 minutes using the Echograph Junior, compared with 2 hours using old-fashioned hand line . .

THERE IS AN ELAC ECHO SOUNDER TO SUIT YOUR BOAT AND TYPE OF FISHING. Contact the National Inslrumenl Company in your State for further information.

ELAC

ECHOSCOPE

ECHOGRAPH

SENIOR

ECHOGRAPH

JUNIOR

Sole Australian Agents:

NATIONAL INSTRUMENT CO. PTY. LTD.

Head Office and Works: Aerodrome, Essendon, Vic. Phone FX 1528 Sales Office: 390 Flinders Street, Melbourne. Phone MB 5281 Adelaide; LA 0461 Branches at Perth: ML 453 - Sydney: B 0229 - Brisbane; M 5015

ELAC

FISCHLUPE

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Braybon Bros. Pty. Ltd.

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.

RABAUL, T.N.G.

Managing Agents: New Guinea Co., Ltd.

Island Representative; Q. D. A. Kent, Rabaul Branch.

SUVA, FIJI

Colony of Fiji Branch Office: W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Ltd., Bldg., Suva.

Branch Manager: R. W. Connolly.

Head Office: 60 Hunter St., Sydney.

Southern Pacific Insurance

Co., Ltd.

QUALITY DIESEL SETS

This low priced economical to operate 1,500 watt A.C. diesel plant will power 25-60 watt lamps and operate movie projectors, irons, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc.

Also pumping machines, electric drills and workshop equipment with motors not exceeding 1/3 HP.

Available as electric remote start/ stop if required.

BRAYBON BROS. PTY. LTD.

The Sign of Quality Products Price: £267/10/0 F. 0.8. Sydney

U KVA 240 VOLT A.C.

or 110 VOLT A.C. SET

li KVA Set

27-33 WASHINGTON STREET, SYDNEY.

Cables: “Braybonian”, Sydney.

Write for further particulars on the “All Australian Plants”

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eummtuUMUTY

ImSHO MS OF

iiwgiS

There's a "MEGGITT

LTD." or "BLUNDELI

SPENCE" Linseed Oil for every Painting ou Manufacturing purposes Wherever first quality linseed oils are requiredt specify either of these long • established ano

uniformly reliable

brands. "MEGGITT

LTD." or "BLUNDELI

SPENCE. 1

Manufactured by MEGGITT LTD.

HEAD OFFICE: 67 York St., Sydney.

Box 1555, G.P.0., Sydney.

MILLS at: Parramatta. N.S.W., Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane.

LINSEED OILS

Branches at SUVA, LAUTOKA, LABASA, NADI and BA (Fiji), and APIA (Samoa).

Agencies in Fiji at MARKS ST.,

SUVA, LAUCALA BAY AIR-

PORT and NAUSORI.

offers you

a complete commercial and

personal banking service

Export and Import Facilities Currency Exchange Financial Transactions Trade Information and Introductions Collections and Payments Travellers’ Cheques Letters of Credit . Safe Custody General Advisory Service Travel Arrangements, Bookings, etc.

If you have business with or are travelling in the Islands, the comprehensive facilities and wide experience of the BNZ are at your service.

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Nelson And Robertson Pty. Ltd,

Established 1895.

P.O. Box 5316, G.P.0., Sydney.

Address: 12 SPRING STREET, SYDNEY

ISLANDS MERCHANTS, IMPORTERS

AND EXPORTERS

Merchandise purchased for Clients from any part of the World at best factory and wholesale prices.

Cocoa Beans, Coffee Beans, Trocas Shell and all Island produce sold on commission.

Representing throughout the Pacific Islands

SKANDIA DIESEL ENGINES.

GENERAL MERCHANDISE

E. WHITE AW AY & CO.,

England.

KUNST & ALBERS, Germany.

AGIMER & COMPANY, Italy.

INCOVER COMPANY, Italy.

CALVERT & COMPANY,

Sweden.

KANEMATSU & CO., Japan.

ARCHIMEDES OUTBOARD

ENGINES.

FAMOUS EL TRUST SHOT

GUNS.

NANDR QUALITY PRODUCTS.

ASTER CANNED FISH.

For your New South Wales and Victorian Requirements: Communicate with our HEAD OFFICE. Cables: “Ivan”, Sydney.

For your Queensland Requirements: Communicate with our Brisbane Office: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., Stanley Street, SOUTH BRISBANE. Cables: “Ivan”, Brisbane.

New Guinea Representatives: RABAUL HOTEL & TRADING CO. LTD., Park Street, RABAUL. Cables: “Ivan”, Rabaul.

VINCO LAUNCHES & WORKBOAT

FOR THE ISLAND

* ... .. . I § 8i « order for 10 Half Cabin Launches being shipped Andrews and Roberts, Port Moresby, P.-N.G. 20 ft. raised deck model (mast extra) is&zt'-m m Standard models (all types) or built to detail, any size 12 ft. to 30 ft.

Fitting any make or type of engine.

Inspection of work by your

Sydney represen-

tative invited. i % Vincent Bros. Modern Factory 16 ft. open type (coamed and decked) standard model.

Literature with prices, illustrations and particulars by return airmail.

INSTALL A VINCO ENGINE

IN YOUR BOAT

We also manufacture well-known Vinco Engines (3 port, 2 cycle petrol marine, inboard), 21 H.P., 4 H.P., 8-10 H.P. (twin).

• STURDY

• DEPENDABLE

• EFFICIENT

18 ft. Sedan Cabin Standard Model.

VINCENT BROS.

947 Victoria Rd., West Ryde, Sydney,

Australia.

Cable:—Vincoproducfs.

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Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd.

CAPTAIN W. L. KENNEDY

(Established 1031.)

SHIPBROKERS, BUSINESS Cr REAL ESTATE

63 Pitt Street, Sydney.

’Phone: BU 3797. Cables: “CAPKENSydney.

LISTING:

VESSEL, 330 tons dwt. of 11 ft., last Survey 6/1955. 16,000 cu ft 2 holds, 3 hatches, B. & W. diesel, built 1952, 550 B.H.P. 300 rpm 11V 2 knots, 3 winches/derrlcks. £15,000 Sterling.

WORKEOAT, 48 ft. x 15 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. 3 in. Built of hardwood In 1949. ;°w/i^i J JL ster -, manne diesel - 2/ 1 reduction, well maintained throughout. £5,500.

LICENCED FERRY BOAT, 47 ft. x 12 ft. x 4 ft., cruiser stern, well deck 4 cyl. 44 H.P. Kelvin marine diesel installed new 1949. Licenced to carry 70 passengers in semi-open waters. £2,500.

NEW 50 ft. x 16 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in. cargo hull, accommodation aft, mast derrick, etc., ready for installation of engine. £6,500 or builders will quote to finish to clients’ requirements.

WORKBOAT, about 38 ft. x 11 ft. 6 in., Gardner 5 LW marine engine with reduction, engine aft, copper sheathed, in first-class condition, good buying £3,500.

WORKBOAT, near new. 30 ft. x 10 ft. x 4 ft., built of best materials, 3 LW Gardner marine diesel. 2/1 reduction, el. and hand start, 2 way radio. A seaworthy craft. £4,000.

WORKBOAT, near new, 22 ft. x 8 ft. x 2 ft. 3 in., 10/12 H.P. Fetters marine diesel, 2/1 reduction gear. £1,300.

We shall be pleased to obtain independent Surveys of any craft we offer and subsequently arrange delivery either on ship’s deck or sea as desired.

BLAXLAND■CHAPMAN

MARINE ENGINES

sustained operation “8.R.” products are

WONDER LAUNCHES • PUMPING UNITS

• ENGINEERING PRODUCTS

Engineered for heavy with minimum upkeep, ideal for Island service.

Marine Engines, open or V 2 cabin launches, pumping units, engineering products, contact the Sole Pacific Distributors.

For •mi

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

4 O’CONNELL ST.. SYDNEY.

8, G.P.O. Cables: “Carefulness”, Sydney.

DAMPNESS AND HUMIDITY CAN

RUIN YOUR

FLOORS

* tm S’*.

By Appointment Suppliers of Wax Polishes to Hit Late Majesty ling George VL . . . and there are no other wax polishes in the world that can beautify and protect lino and floors as thoroughly as Johnson’s.

REMEMBER! Johnson’s Wax contains a greater percentage of genuine Brazilian Carnauba Wax, yet the cost per oz. is cheaper than most other wax polishes sold.

JOHNSONS

WAX

c o NT

ENTS 1 POUND

Johnson*

JOHNSON

WAX:

JOHNSONS

ltHt Ull ea LV»®ao* a B«ltWa*SS ALL PRODUCTS OF S. C. JOHNSON & SON PTY. LTD.

Established 1886 WORLD'S LARGEST AND ONLY WORLD-WIDE MAKERS OF WAX POLISHES

THERE MUST BE A REASON!

Island Distributors ex Sydney Bums, Phil p & Co. Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd.

Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd.

Fiji Trading Co. Pty. Ltd.

Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd.

International Trading Co.

Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd.

J. C. Merrillees Pty. Ltd.

Nirex Pty. Ltd.

Morris, Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd.

Maurice Pelletier Pty. Ltd.

P, E. Scrivener & Co. Ltd.

C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

W. S. Tait & Co. Pty. Ltd.

Tallerman & Co.

SERVING ALL PARTS OF FIJI

Carrying Passengers and Cargo

S.S. "Al SOKULA"

Motor Vessels; "KOMAIWAI," "TOVATA" (t/s) All equipped with Radio telephone. Operating to time-tables published in the Press and announced from VRH Broadcasting Station.

ISLAND TRANSPORT LIMITED.

Managing Agents: W. R. CARPENTER & CO. (Fiji) LTD.

SUVA, FIJI.

Telephone: 114—6 lines. P.O. Box 299.

PHILIP MORRIS

n ow made in Australia and available to you.

Philip Morris, introduced to Australia in March, 1955, has been an overwhelming success. And now Philip Morris of Australia is assisting the parent United States company in covering many export territories throughout the Pacific area.

Orders or enquiries should be placed with your usual source of supply, or direct to Sales Director, Philip Morris Aust. Ltd., P.O. Box 35,

Moorabbin, Victoria.

IMPORTANT

Philip Morris makes this guarantee on every pack: 'The cigarettes contained herein are made under exactly the same method and formula as the world-famous Philip Morris cigarettes made in our factories in the U.S.A."

DIESEL

veteran tugboat

on

Sydney

Harbour

CUMMINS

powers this

n a w

CUMMIN

il Mm

Nicholson Bros.

War Disposals CUMMINS

HS 600 Diesel still going strong

The hard, constant work of general lighterage is the lot of the diesel "Protrude", owned and operated by Nicholson Bros. Harbour Transport Pty. Ltd., at Sydney.

Inset shows the Cummins HS 600 installed in the tugboat. Cummins Diesels are available in a wide range of models for marine work, industrial and automotive applications.

Cummins Diesels 60 to 600 h.p.

Powered with a 200 h.p. supercharged Cummins Diesel engine, it is on thes job whenever needed always with a reserve of power and traditionali Cummins dependability. Nicholson Bros, have been using this Cumminss engine since shortly after World War 11, with a minimum of time out fom overhaul.

Write us on your problems of marine power —we will be glad to give youu full details on what Cummins Diesels can do.

Sales, spares and service from the sole Australian distributors:

BLACKWOOD HODGE

N.S.W.: Ferndell Street. South Granville. YU Melbourne: Princes Highway, Brisbane: 257 Wickham Street, Adelaide: 303 North Terrace Perth: Norma Indun North Clayton. UJ 8691 Valley. L 2557 W 5861 Estate. Melvill* Associated Companies Branches Works and Agencies throughout the World

SAILS & COVERS

LTD.

Box 415, Auckland, New Zealand * Largest Sail Loft in Australasia.

We also stock all widths and weights of canvas.

Tarpaulins supplied at short notice.

40 FT. ARMY-TYPE WORKBOATS

Photo shows 40 ft.

Gardner Diesel Powered Workboat built by us for Australasian Petroleum Co.

Pty. Ltd., Port Moresby, Papua-N.G.

These vessels and also 56 ft. K. class Copra Scows are in regular production in our yards with choice of engine installations.

ISLANDS VESSELS. • ALL KINDS OF BOAT BUILDING AND REPAIRING • NEW AND USED BOATS AND ENGINES FOR SALE.

For further particulars please write to: ■ We Specialise in:

BJARNE HALVORSEN LTD

John Street, Berry's Bay, North Sydney, N.S.W.

W. DAVIDS & SONS

Cleveland Foundry

TOWNSVILLE, NTH. QUEENSLAND

> GENERAL ENGINEERS • FOUNDERS

• BLACKSMITHS • BOILERMAKERS

• SLIP PROPRIETORS

2 Patent Slips—l,2oo ton, 100 ton

• BOAT BUILDERS & SHIPWRIGHTS

417 Telephone: 4067, 4068 J

DESIGNED and BUILT VESSELS up to 225 TONS Captain Heath 15 0 tons Pilot Vessel Leisha 90 tons Cargo Vessel Simb a n g 82 ft.

Mission Boat MacLaren King 68 ft. Mission Vessel Stradbroke 91 ft.

Pleasure Launch Mirimar 97 ft.

Passenger Launch *>/ II High Speed Launches Pleasure Boats Sailing Yachts (inch record breaker “Flying Saucer”) Pearl Luggers Trochus Luggers Fishing Launches Trawlers Contractors to: R.N., R.A.N., R.A.A.F., and Allied Services Commission Agents and Ship Brokers.

Norman R. Wright, Design; Norman J. Wright, Construction; Ronald T. Wright, 8.E., (N.A.), A.M.1.N.A., Naval Architect.

Over 56 years of Achievement and Experience.

NORMAN R. WRIGHT & SONS

26 Quay Street, Bulimba, Brisbane. Phone XL 2771 Ship's large or small are “Wright” or Wrong.

Have Them Designed and Built by NORMAN R. WRIGHT & SONS—Established 1909

40 ft. Worlcboats

This boat is giving good service to the Australasian Petroleum Co. Pty. Ltd., Port Moresby. It’s a new Halvorsen-designed modification of the army-type work boat. The new raised deck gives maximum space and it’s more seaworthy.

Engine installation will be planned to give the most reliable and economical service for your particular job.

EARLY DELIVERIES

Maintenance costs are always at a minimum. • Precision engineering and first-class equipment are guaranteed with every Halvorsen boat.

Send for specifications and full details of this 40-ft. work boat and of the standard 30-ft. work boat with 5-ton carrying capacity . . . it’s proved itself in performance for 30 years.

LARS HALVORSEN SONS PTY. LTD.

BUILDING YARD: Waterview Street. Ryde, SYDNEY. WY 3248.

BOAT SHEDS: Bobbin Head. JJ 2489. (Tel.: "Halvorsens Sydney").

BUILDERS' OF HALVORSEN BOATS'

MARINE REPAIRS

at Your Front Door !

G * We can handle all classes of Marine and

General Engineering

work, including oxy and arc welding, metal spraying, fitting and turning.

Our slip is certified to cater for all vessels up to 450 tons and is under supervision of a certified marine arcchitect.

We also cater for all building contract work. 411 ton M.V. "MEKLONG" on slip Particulars on request.

MADANG SLIPWAYS LTD.

Slipowners, Shipwrights, Marine & General Engineers. Building Contractors.

Phone 88. Cable Address; EMESCO P.O. Box 47, MADANG, T.N.G.

Managing Director: N. Grieve.

MARINE SPARES

Suppliers of all marine equipment, spare parts for diesels, benzine, outboards, etc., new and secondhand.

Prompt service. Marine Spares, 57 Railway Parade, Marrickville, N.S.W.

SKANDIA

DIESEL MARINE AND STATIONARY ENGINES

Power Range 3 H.P.—425 H.P.

Acclaimed by hundreds of satisfied owners.

Ideal for Island use.

Built to last.

FOR:

• Faithful Service. • Low fuel consumption • Easy starting Sole Agents:

NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY.

LTD.

12 SPRING STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

Cables: “IVAN”, SYDNEY.

WYNNE S. BREDEN

PTY.

LTD.

PHOENIX SHIPYARDS NEWCASTLE, N.S.W.

Ocean-Going Aux Ketch. ♦ 25 ton gross * 60 H.P. Diesel.

Speed 8i Knots. 770 cu. ft. in Hold. 350 cu. ft. ini Aft. Cabin.

This and othen types of vessels always under construction.

SHIPWRIGHTS, BOAT BUILDERS, MARINE ENGINEERS.

Builders of Island Vessels up to 150 tons gross. 40 ft. Workboats of 180 Bag Capacity and Other Commercial Craft. Complete and Ready for Sea. (“A Good Boat is a Lasting Asset and not a Liability”)

MARINE ENGINES

We introduce the new RJD2 16

H.F. MARINE DIESEL ENGINE

designed to replace the "Handy Billy" which has been so successful in the Pacific Islands for the past 25 years. Of exact dimensions as the "Handy Billy" the new diesel retains its famous characteristics, also it includes freshwater cooling and all the features desirable in an efficient propulsion unit for use in the Pacific Islands.

• ACCESSIBLE • EASY OPERATION

• EASY STARTING • ECONOMICAL

• PROVED DESIGN • RUGGEDLY BUILT

• SMOOTH RUNNING.

Accepted by Lloyds and M.O.T.

Full specifications available on application to:

THORNYCROFT (Aust.) Pty. Lid

Efficiency

Reliability

Long Life

Box Telephone: FF4224.

Cables “Thornmotor,” Sydney, 2622, G.P.0., Sydney

THE FISHERMEN'S CHOICE

THE CLAE FISHERMAN 6

Like every other CLAE engine, the “Fisherman 6” is precision engineered, a product of highly-skilled technicians, is built in the most modern marine engine works in Australia, and designed to have that rugged strength, staying power, fuel economy and absolute reliability so necessary in a marine engine. Above all, the Fisherman 6” gives profitable performance year after year under any operating conditions. The “Fisherman 6 ’ is used exclusively by 90% of professional fishermen in Australia.

CLAE ENGINE PTY. LTD.

31 Hoskins Avenue, Bankstown, N.S.W.

Fiji Distributors: Burns Philp South Sea Co. Ltd., Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Fiji Islands New Caledonian Distributors Auguste and Paul Mercier 3 Rue de la Somme Noumea P.1.M.1/56.

MARINE DIESEL

ENGINES

FOR DEPENDABILITY, ECONOMY

AND LONG LIFE

Tried ami Proved for over 20 Years in the Islands

LW SERIES

GARDNER MARINE

36 BHP at 1,200 RPM

WITH

REVERSING &

REDUCING GEARS.

ALL SIZES,

24, 36, 48, 60, 72 BHP,

AVAILABLE FROM

STOCK & SHORT

DELIVERY.

¥ 1717/1 Sales, Service and Spare Parts, Catalogues From

FERRIER & DICKINSON PTY. LTD.

SOLE AGENTS FOR PAPUA-NEW GUINEA & SOUTH WEST PACIFIC ISLANDS Herbert St., St. Leonards, N.S.W.

Telegrams: “FERREOUS”, Sydney Telephone: JF 1215

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9+UnOAty

u/jevtf

Minn wm * SO?

QMmpid hn Imm

Buying Agents for all Pacific Territories

and Authorised Agents for

"AGCO" SUPALUVRES • "POPE" PRODUCTS

BLACK & WHITE SCOTCH WHISKY • MASSE BATTERIES

• "COLEMAN" LANTERNS AND STOVES

• "LOTUS LAND" INNER SPRING MATTRESSES

Island Produce Sold on Commission

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LIMITED

54a Pitt Street, Sydney Cables: ROBERGILL G.P.O. Box 7011

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Coldstream Refrigerator*

All over the world Smart people —

START the day right

with a Kiwi Shine

From New York to Timbuctoo— From Birmingham to Hawaii— From London to Papua Smart people start the day right with a Kiwi Shine.

Kiwi puts a gleam on your shoes that lasts all day. —« They’re well worn, but they’ve worn well, thanks to

KIWI

/ I s 8156

Coldstream Refrigerator*

EAM

N.S.W. Representatives: Refrigerator Installation and Service Co. Pty. Ltd. 8 Bridge Road, Glebe, Sydney.

Cables and Telegrams “Colstrim,” Sydney.

ALL EQUIPMENT ENGINEERED SPECIFICALLY FOR

TROPICAL CONDITIONS

We specialise in the following: Ice Cream Cabinets for transportation, hardening and storing of Ice Cream. All types of food storage Cabinets and Refrigerated Glass Display Showcases, Milk Bars, Deep Freeze, Water Coolers and Domestic Refrigerators. Prefabricated Coolrooms and Freezing Rooms. All mechanical equipment available for electric (all voltage) or engine driven operation.

All enquiries through your Island Trader will receive our prompt attention.

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(D°Callurn’s

but for closest friends and 0) special occasions cots V/Us *v only will do

Whisky

DISTILLED AND BLENDED IN SCOTLAND.

NEW GUINEA CO. LIMITED

RABAUL, LAE, KAVIENG, MADANG, KOKOPO

because

it's VACUUM PA6KCP

■ vi £ U A VW ■f. o H H.

CA p SI RW

O

G tH

EH H ST P nH£ VACUUM PACKED, your Capstan fine cut Tobacco is always fresh in the new Vacuum Sealed Tin.

TO OPEN, TWIST A COIN. The patented sealed lid is easily opened by merely inserting a t ,, . coin and twisting. ... it 3 CIijOCHCIQ u!6

CAPSTAN

FLAKE FINE CUT i NAVY CUT—FRAGRANT VIRGINIA

TOBACCO

OUR HANDS MAKE GOOD ARMS.

For your Fishing and Shooting Wants Consult Us.

Lithgow .22 Cal. Repeating Rifle .. £lB 19 « I Post Lithgow .22 Cal. Single Shot .. .. £9 19 6 f Extra. (Prices Subject to Change Without Notice.) R C H U , 143 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY.

A. H. BUNTING LTD.

SAMARA! and POPONDETTA

Buntings

LAE and GOROKA

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL MERCHANTS SHIPOWNERS IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS, PLANTERS SHIPPING, CUSTOMS, AND INSURANCE AGENTS

SAMARAI & POPONDETTA

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd.

South British Insurance Co.

National Mutual Life Association.

Webley & Scott Ltd.

Ekco Radio.

Davison Paints Ltd., N.S.W.

LAE

South British Ins. Co.

Ekco Radio.

Webley & Scott Ltd.

Davison Paints Ltd.

GOROKA

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd.

Mandated Air Lines.

South British Ins. Co.

Ekco Radio.

Webley & Scott Ltd.

Agents: BUNTINGS BISCUITS

LTD. rabaul

* STEWARTS

and LLOYDS

(AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD.

Manufacturers for 40 years of tough, reliable "S. & L. M PIPES and FIT- TINGS specially made for GAS, WATER, STEAM and other purposes.

Distributors, also, of GALVANISED IRON, plain or corrugated. NUTS

and BOLTS, ELECTRODES and ALL

WELDING EQUIPMENT.

8 -

IcKferas/wfike &/

How refreshing to sit at ease with a glass of sparkling cool K.B. Lager . . . truly "lager as you like it" . . . truly the favourite of men and women everywhere!

Tooth's

Lagi

BREWED AND BOTTLED BY TOOTH & CO. LIMITED

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For Qualify and Flavour

be sure its

«n

MEATS

Famous in the Pacific

for over SO years

P UAKATORO

APINGA TIK AI

ROW HELLABY LTD

AUCKLAND

NEW ZEALAND

PISUPO LOLOLO

TELE

BU LAMAKA U

VINAKA SARA

PUA A T

W/a Ya m #1 § r %

SLUMBER PLANNED

y IRNtRSPRING MA TTRfS.

■■ ' ' ' . ; v 52 A N ■V O o o o

SWT, FLEXIBLE, PRE-BU/LT WHICH

CANNOT SAG OR BREAK DOWN WITH USE

ATTRACTIVE. UN/fORNI BUTTON TUFTING

SPRING UNIT MANUFACTURED IN THE LOTUSLAND

WINKER" LAB€L

LOOK FOR THE

Representatives for Pacific Islands: —

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD.

54A PITT ST., SYDNEY. G.P.O. BOX 7011. CABLES: “ROBERGELL”

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Morrison

FIJI SOCIETY

Transactions and

Proceedings

(Papers on anthropology, botany, geology, history, meteorology, zoology, etc.) Volumes 2, 3 and 4 (1940-50) now available. Price. 21/- per volume —post free, Fijian currency.

Volume 1 (1938-40) to be reprinted in near future.

Volume 5 (1951-53) in preparation.

Address orders to: Treasurer, Fiji Society, Box 358, Suva, Fiji.

a "Velvet - Smooth" lawn ..

Co *o nN^ E ° to t ct\t* s vv\**° >/\v. \\o' t* *4Cfc to fcPA-* Q\M* nN* tAO insist on the rugged Morrison Motor Mower. Around flower beds, around trees and edges the Morrison's "DIVIDED- REEL" cutting blades, which throw the grass evenly into the catcher, cut a slick velvet-smooth 16" swath all the way. The Morrison's UNIQUE SINGLE CONTROL means one-handed operation—so easy to manoeuvre, so safe, so dependable.

MORRISON

MOTOR MOWER

Check the sturdy construction and the exclusive features of the Morrison Motor Mower that assure years of trouble-free service.

PRICE £B9, also 20" model £9B/10/-.

Australian Representatives :

AMPLION (AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LTD.,

88 Parramatta Road, Camperdown, Sydney, N.S.W.

Let yowi Home,

BURNS PHILP (New Hebrides) LTD.

Registered Office: VILA, NEW HEBRIDES.

Branch Office at SANTO.

Exporters, Importers and General Merchants,

Commission, Shipping and Customs Agents.

Representatives for BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD., QUEENS- LAND INSURANCE CO. LTD., and LLOYD’S OF LONDON, Agents for SOCIETE DES PETROLES SHELL DES ILES FRANCAISES DU PACIFIQUE, and numerous overseas manufactures of all classes of merchandise.

Sydney Agents: BURNS. PHILP & CO., LTD., 7 Bridge St.

San Francisco Agents; BURNS-PHILP CO. OP SAN FRANCISCO INC., 215 Market St.

London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD., 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

Let yowi Home,

Protect its attractive exterior against nature's destructive forces with Borthwicks "AB" paint, specially fortified for tropical weather resistance.

You'll find lasting satisfaction in its color permanency and mellow, even weathering.

BORTHWICKS

HIGH

Si

GRADE

to

owi

n m i 1 S 3 REINFORCED HOUSE PAINT CONDITIONED FOR THE TROPICS Morris Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. Agents for

BORTHWICKS PTY. CO., SYDNEY

Suppliers to Defence Specifications.

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Doctors Prove Palmolive

CAN BRING YOU

IN 14 DAYS

The very first time you change from careless cleansing to the Palmolive Beauty Plan, you’ll actually see Palmolive begin to bring out beauty while it cleans your skin. And in 14 days or less, your skin can be softer, smoother, vounger looking.

you TOO

NOT JUST A PROMISE

SuT A PROVED BEAUTY PLAN

,uu un look for ' complexi «.

Pavements in u flays Here s ail you do. Gently massage Palmolive’s extra-mild, pure lather onto your skin for just a minute twice a day. Then rinse and pat dry. c? fresher brighter c °m plexion V Less oiliness Adtied softness

REGULAR - BATH SIZE

SUPERBATH

and smoothness <0 fem tiny

famishes

blackheads

Compiexio

clearer more radiant K2B USE PALMOLIVE . . . IT’S SO MILD-SO GENTLE . . . THAT’S WH PALMOLIVE IS BY FAR THE LARGEST SELLING TOILET SOAP IN AUSTRALIA

TROPICAL

BATTERY PROBLEMS

ELIMINATED

GREATER

STRENGTH

NO SELF-

DISCHARGE

LONGER

LIFE

SIMPLER

OPERATION

m m.

LOOK AT THESE FEATURES!

★ No lead or acid, therefore sulphation is

impossible.

★ The steel plates cannot buckle, grow or shed: active material. it The steel container cannot crack. ★ The battery is not harmed by overcharging, rapid discharge or short circuiting. it Will hold a charge for long periods. ★ No deterioration if left for long periods— charged or discharged. ★ The NIFE Alkaline Battery is built to stand violent vibration and hard usage and is particularly suitable for:

HOUSE LIGHTING

EMERGENCY LIGHTING

MARINE WORK

DIESEL STARTING

and is not adversely affected by tropical conditions. ■

VJAAI

MN 1.86 Sole Australian Representatives: MASSE BATTERIES PTY. LTD.

SYDNEY: 398-400 PACIFIC HIGHWAY CROW'S NEST

PHONE: JF 4111

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C^Opwnc

{URNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

OF THE

territory

OF

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA

f A 4 General Merchants, Skipping, Custom? avd General jjhhW CS7

KAVIENCP

COPRA /

RABAU

COPRA VXU

cocoa )y

MADANG

COPRA

O

LAE

COPRA

JIM 8&

BUIOLO

LYWO

GOLD

w

-COFFEE

PEANUTS

PJ.MORESBY

Q S 3

RUBBER

RICE

COPR

OKOPO

COPRA

inches throughout Papua-New

Head Office: Port Moresby Guinea

SAMAR Al

TROCHUS

COPRA

f ' * Associated Pacific Isl.

Companies: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co.

Ltd.

Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.

Australian Agents: Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd.

ALL STATES.

San Francisco Agents: Burns-Philp Coy. San Francisco Inc., 510 Matson Building.

London Agents: Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd.

London House, 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

Agents for

The Shell Company of Australia Ltd.

Representatives for:

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

LLOYDS

AGENTS

DISTRIBUTORS OF

TOR VEHICLES, TRACTORS, AND MACHINERY FOR: COPRA, RUBBER, COFFEE, RICE, COCOA, PEANUT PRODUCTION, SAWMILLING AND GENERAL FARMING.

c*

JUST ONE BRUSHING WITH

Colgate

Dental Cream

CLEANS

YOUR

BREATH

M y *SS£:

WHILE IT

CLEANS

YOUR

TEETH

m and stops tooth decay BEST!

Every time you brush your teeth with Colgate Dental Cream, you can actually feel how smooth and clean they are. Your teeth are whiter . . . brighter . . . and you are assured of round-theclock protection against decay-causing enzymes.

That’s why Colgate Dental Cream is Australia’s largest— America’s largest—the world’s largest selling dental cream.

Get the family economy size and save ' t t

PLAIN AND

SELF RAISING

FLOUR,

CMc fo*c i#/

ESTABLISHED 1868

Agents for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa: C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji.

i s.

All the signs point to w "M ,

bigger sales of v^3ksj

JILBEY’S GIN/ XT

this year I I , es, the Gilbey Zodiac for Wise § rinkers is making new cust- I aers for you through Metro- I ™||]| ditan Daily newspapers in the 1

ost unusual advertising drive 1 SAGITTARIUS

years. Ask your Gilbey re- II esentative for full details and II sure you are ready with good £ 3cks of Gilbey’s in the bar ai d ready to wrap in your n )ttle Department. £ GANGER A 7 Whatever your £ sign, don’t sell gut, 1 \Xy

•ell GILBEY’S I

1230 VIRGO

ARIES

TAURUS

<£ ★ *

SCORPIO

LIBRA

CAPRICORN

GEMINI

AQUARIUS

LEO

BUY

Nil*

PRODUCTS

FROM YOUR

SYDNEY AGENT

KILE

ATHLETIC AND T SHIRTS

Available in all sizes (men and boys), in white, navy and a large rangg of bright, attractive colours.

NILE SLEEKS & TRUNKS

Masculine comfort calls for the "freedom fit” of Nile sleeks and trunk): Fashioned from the finest Egyptian yarns, Nile underwear withstand: laundering . . . gives lasting satisfaction.

LADIES’ BRIEFS AND SINGLETS

Nile offers a particularly fine range of ladies’ and children’s cotton anu rayon cotton briefs, pantees and singlets.

NILE HANDKERCHIEFS

Kile products include a beautifully varied range of ladies’ and men** handkerchiefs, including printed bandana in assorted designs and colours* fU7 r A

PJRE

NIGH

T»«iU SH

GETS

NILE SHEETS, PILLOW CASES AND TOWELS

Nile Distributors Pty. Ltd., 125 York Street, Sydney, N.S.W. BX 6041

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Pacific Islands

AIR PHOTOGRAPHS

Norfolk Is.. Lord Howe, Noumea, Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa, Apia, Aitutaki, Rarotonga, Papeete.

Moorea, Kermadecs. Also Rabaul, Port Moresby, Lae.

Size 10 by 8 Inches —7/6 (N.Z.) ea., plus 1/- pack & post. Enquiries invited for colour or larger sizes.

WHITES AVIATION LTD.

P.O. Box 2040, Auckland, New Zealand.

ter giving the matter some )ught, our advertising man 5w this peculiar bird as being )ical of the sort of thing Taits uld NOT supply. He said it was quite impossible to illustrate everything they CAN supply.

This is hardly surprising—after ail, they have been dealing with the Pacific Islands since 1890.

The name, incidentally, is still W. S. TAIT & CO. PTY. LTD. of 8 Spring Street, Sydney, N.S.W,

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Solution to Crossquiz from Page 78

Manufacturers' Representatives

P.O. BOX 16

PORT MORESBY

PAPUA

Cables: "PAPRI".

WHOLESALERS AND

RETAILERS

Enquiries Invited Specialising in:

EVERYTHING PHOTOGRAPHIC

EXCLUSIVE GIFTS

ORIENTAL HANDICRAFTS

BEST SELLING NOVELS

Territory Representatives for: Voigtlander Cameras. Gevaert Films & Papers.

Futura 35 mm. Cameras. King Regula 35 mm. Cameras.

Sixtomat Exposure Meters. Metraphot Exposure Meters.

Metz Flash Units. Pelikan Products.

Paillard Bolex Movie Equipment. Hermes Typewriters.

POSTAL SERVICE TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD~

NATIVE HANDICRAFTS & CURIOS

PHOTOGRAPHS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ABOUT

THE TERRITORY

SOUVENIRS OF PAPUA Gr NEW GUINEA

307-309 QUEEN

G.P.O. Box 908.

STREET, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA.

Cable Address: “BRUCECO,” Brisbane.

IMPORTERS - EXPORTERS

MANUFACTURERS' REPRESENTATIVES

Distributors for Leading Australian and Overseas Manufacturers.

Sole Agents : Papua-New Guinea and Solomon Islands for- Docke & Co., Bremen (Cardock Bush Knives, Hatchets, Axes, etc., including All Trade Lines).

“Geo” Spanish Shot Guns.

Dominion Flour and Wheatmeal.

Sunnyside Canned Fruit.

Issue Blankets.

Palm Brilliantine.

Ashby Bicycles.

Webster’s Biscuits.

“Columbia” Canned Fish.

Northgate Axe and Hammer Handles.

Inner Spring Mattresses, Pillows, etc.

Specialising in Piecegoods and Mosquito Nets for Native Issue.

TRADE ENQUIRIES INVITED—ALL TYPES OF MERCHANDISE

OVERSEAS INDENTS ARRANGED.

SUPPLIED,

4k

the greatest aid fa

Jp*

better Copr^

Practical experience has proved that, where “CHULA” Copra Dryers are used, better quality

Copra is produced when dried by

this scientific process. No discolouration, free from mould, thoroughly

and evenly dried throughout, Copra

can be produced the whole year round —irrespective of the weather.

By the way, are you growing RUBBER? If so, let us supply you with the latest Huttenbadi Rubber Machinery. Further information

gladly supplied on request.

PIAHT.no,

Agents: PAPUA: The B.N.G, Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby.

NEW GUINEA ; Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd., Rabaul, Lae, Madang and Kavieng.

FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA : Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, Fiji.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: K. H. Dalrymple Hay Esq., Honiara.

BURNS PHOP (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

Registered Office: SUVA, Fiji.

Code Address: “BURNSOUTH.”

GENERAL MERCHANTS AND SHIPOWNERS

Agents for;— • Queensland Insurance Go. Ltd. • Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

• Shell Company (P. 1,) Ltd.

ALSO AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES FOR:

• Ardoth Tobacco Co. • Associated British Oil Engines (Exp.) Ltd. • Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. • Ferguson Tractors (Exp.) Ltd. • Hercules Cycle Gr Motor Co. Ltd. • A. J. Caley Gr Sons (Confectionery) . • Charles Hope Ltd.-Cold Flame Refrigerators. • Huntley Gr Palmers Ltd. (Biscuits) . • International Harvester Co. • Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. • Joseph Lucas (Exp.) Ltd. • McAlpine Refrigeration Ltd. • McLeay Duff Gr Co. (Whisky). • S. Maw Son Gr Sons (Surgical Dressings). • Mullard (Overseas) Ltd. (Radios). • O'Cedar Ltd. (Oils Gr Mops). • Reckitt Gr Colman Ltd. • S.F. Appliances Ltd. • Slazengers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. • Standard Motor Co. • Stewarts Gr Lloyds (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd.

Shipping, Customs and Forwarding Agents

Shipping

THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.

LTD.

(Regular First Class, One Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from NEW ZEALAND

PORTS to UNITED KINGDOM, via PANAMA.)

SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD.

(Regular First Class, One Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from NEW ZEALAND PORTS to the UNITED KINGDOM, via PANAMA; and

via AUSTRALIAN PORTS and SOUTH AFRICA.)

Agents for

PORT LINE LTD.

(One Class Passenger Services from NEW ZEA-

LAND PORTS TO UNITED KINGDOM, via

PANAMA.)

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIME S

(Regular First Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from FRENCH OCEANIA to MAR-

SEILLES. via PANAMA.)

BANK LINE LIMITED

BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION

CO. LTD.

Also INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES for

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

Agents Throughout the World.

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Death and Burial of Queen Emma (Continued from Page 81)

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Reminiscences of an Islands

Skipper (Continued from Page 79)

Nchor

ART POSTCARDS OF TONGA

Per Dozen (Including a Tin-Can Mail Cover), Postage Paid: 6/- (or one US Dollar).

TONGAN PHOTOS BUREAU,

Nukualofa, Tonga

FOR

GILLESPIES

Gillespie's Anchor Flour is milled from selected high quality Australian wheals and is enfoleted 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

GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD.. ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS. SYDNEY G. 1.97

A. B. DONALD

LTD.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

ISLAND TRADERS AND GENERAL

MERCHANTS

P.O. Box 1509. Cables and Telegrams: “Kingdom,” Auckland.

MORGAN YERNEX CIE

PAPEETE, E.F.O.

Commission Import Export

REPRESENTANT ET AGENTS EXCLUSIFS POUR LES E.F.O. de NIREX PTY. LTD., Australie— WAßßEN COY., U S A —HAAS BROS, US A THE ENFIELD CYCLES CO., England— JOHN McINTOSH & SONS, England— CARLSBERG BRYGGERIERNE, Denmark —PER LUSTUCRU, France —lTßACO, Suisse Beurre "Waratah"

Petrole "Ampol"

Savon "Waratah"

Margarine "Meadow-Lea"

Confiserie Mclntosh, chocolat "Caley"

Refrigerateurs "Quicfrez"

Motocyclettes "Royal Enfield"

Bombes Insecticides "Eston"

Conserve "Trupak"

Biere Carlsberg Pates aux oeufs frais Old Bell's Scotch Whisky MONTRES: “Itra,” “Sicura,” “Samba/

Uniform With International Standard

"DELANA" MARJARINE

An Island Product for Everyone!

MADE BY

ISLAND INDUSTRIES LIMITED

) Delana has a Delightful ( ) Dairy Product Flavour ( ) and is Really Economical. (

< "DELANA" IS SOLD IN >

< i lb. Pats— 1 lb. Waxed ) ) Punnets, which keep in ? ) beautiful condition in hot f ) weather, and also 1 lb. (

) tins. (

EXPORT ENQUIRIES WELCOMED

By

ISLAND INDUSTRIES LIMITED

P.O. BOX 299, SUVA, FIJI

Features that make

better home baking

in the tropics certain

, k iH

MARYS

MKIN6

mo

ALWAYS FRESH

CAKES KEEP LONGER

AIRTIGHT CONTAINER

CONSTANT FULL STRENGTH

To give your cakes and pastries extra freshness and lightness you must be confident that the ingredients you use are fresh.

That’s why you can be sure of first-rate results with Aunt Mary’s Cream of Tartar Baking Powder. It never deteriorates and is always dependable. You also cook with the added advantage of adding the rising agent when you do your mixing—that is the right time—the best time for sure results.

Clunt ttlaU/±

Cream of Tartar

BAKING POWDER

ALWAYS ASK FOR AUNT MARYS

Seeing Norfolk on the Run

(Continued from Page 83)

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Ews Of The Smallships

(Continued from Page 63)

Warnock Bros. Limited

AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Manufacturers of well known brands of Laundry Soap

“KIA ORA” AND “NATURU”

★ Obtainable from Auckland and Island Merchants

Correct Sleeping Posture

for a Lifetime!

—yours with the Idlest Americdii-slyleil

MATTRESS!

sleeping posture will always be yours.

It’s like downy nothingness to sleep on, does wonderful things for your health, vitality and looks not for years but for a lifetime! Invest in “Sleepmaker” rest.

SLEEPMAKER GIVES YOU A

10-YEAR WRITTEN GUARANTEE

>c Here is the PERMANENT NON-SAG CONSTRUCTION of a famous American name in sleeping comfort ... a special tempered steel wire spring unit reinforced at every point by a flexible steel edgeband that can never sag! . . . Keeps your mattress new! On this mattress correct

Famous

BURNS PHILP

“Sleepmaker

Sleepmaker" Innersprings available

IN ALL PACIFIC ISLANDS

If unable to obtain—contact our Agents for the Pacific Islands: All Branches of (N.G.) LTD, BURNS PHILP (S.S.) CO. LTD., BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD.

Mattresses are made by Sleepmakers Pty. Ltd, 74 Wilson St, Newtown, Sydney.

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Dominion

A Self Contained Sanitary System

Approved by the N.S.W. Board of Health.

THE HYGEIA DISSOLVENATOR

Established 1927

No Water Supply Required

The Sewage matter Is chemically transformed Into a sterile solution which is absorbed by the surrounding soil.

NO FLIES—NO GERMS—NO

SMELLS—NO EMPTYING-

AUTOMATIC.

Any handy man can install.

Correspondence Invited. %

HYGEIA SANITARY CO. PTY. LTD.

26-30 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Phone: BU 2521 Cables: “Berbl,” Sydney

SEAFOAM

DOMINION

SILVER SPRAY

TOPIC (Gluten Rich)

Flours

i

MILLED FROM PRIME SELECTED QUEENSLAND WHEATS.

QUALITY ENSURED BY CAREFUL BLENDING AND TESTING IN OUR MODERN

LABORATORY.

ENTOLETED FOR PURITY AND KEEPING QUALITY.

FLOUR, MEALS AND SHARPS IN ALL PACKS, INC, TINS AND DRUMS, THE QUEENSLAND CO-OPERATIVE MILLING ASSOC. LTD., Sth. Brisbane.

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longer!

lamps

burn

brighter

longer!

★ 100% BRITISH.

★ SOLID BRASS CONTAINER.

★ HIGHLY-POLISHED PLATED FINISH.

★ BURNS 12 HOURS ON |l PINTS OF KEROSENE.

★ 300 BRILLIANT CANDLEPOWER.

★ FEW SPARES NEEDED.

If you have any difficulty in obtaining TILLEY Products, please contact your nearest representative for further information.

A

REPRESENTATIVES

FIJI:

Mr. K. WITHERINGTON. 2 Burns Philp Buildings. SUVA

AUSTRALIA & NEW GUINEA:

T. H. BENTLEY Pty. LTD. 123-125 William St . MELBOURNE, C.

DBIKA AGENCIES' Pty.|imited

CABLEGRAMS; DEMKAV " SYDNEY

TELEPHONE : BX 3695

BANKERS; BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

(HEAD OFFICE) SYDNEY

ROOM 219. SHELL HOUSE

2-12 CARRINGTON STREET

SYDNEY. N.S.W.

X. S.!

We especially request your attention to the following five pages inserted by our Australian principals: W. J. Bush Cr Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Bunge (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Lan Choo Tea Co.

Glazebrooks Paints Aust. Pty. Ltd.

Scotts Detergents (A/sia) Pty. Ltd.

We also represent the following overseas houses:— D. A. K. Meat Packers Ltd., Roskilde, Denmark.

Leechman Cr Co. Ltd., Colombo, Ceylon.

William Murray Cr Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland.

N. V. Visconservenfabriek, "Vico", Ymuiden, Holland.

EMKA AGENCIES PTY. LIMITED

D.M. KAMERLING.

(Governing Director)

mSSm

“OL Jfouse BU ”

train/If/ announces the Sol/ou'inff .V#:ll' Essence for

LEMOMDE “55”

Now released after prolonged testing under severe conditions and ideally suited for use in tropical climates due to its ability to retain its full flavour after prolonged exposure in direct sunlight. Economical in use and smooth in flavour, we suggest you write now for a sample.

The JIJICEMASTEIt Series

of Pure Fruit Drinks

ORANGE - LEMON - LIME

Based on concentrated fruit juices and having the tang of the fresh fruit. The line in particular introduces to aerated drinks the popular character of this citrus fruit for the first time. Simple in use, they require only the addition of syrup to be ready for bottle.

Most attractive labels are available.

nd DO remember

their ...

JNTACT

TECHNICAL

SERVICE

A comprehensive, free technical service is available to all users of Bush Essences. This service covers all problems encountered in production of your products and is backed by the worldwide facilities of the House of Bush.

I N. J. BUSH & CO. (Aust.) PTY. LTD

59 Wenfworth Avenue, Sydney

or their Sole Export Agents for the Pacific Islands:

DEMKA AGENCIES' Rtyumited

2-12 CARRINGTON STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Perfectly Balanced

BAKERS' FLOUR

WHEATMEAL

Specially milled for Pacific Islands requirements in our own Flour Mills having a combined capacity of over three million bushels of wheat per annum at

ALBURY (N.S.W.)

MURRUMBURRAH (N.S.W.)

WARWICK (QUEENSLAND)

BALLARAT (VICTORIA)

Heritage Brand %

RAND

Bison Rouge

Also for

SHARPS

Approach . . .

BUNGE (AUSTRALIA) PTY.

45 Market Street, Sydney or our Sole Export Agents for the Pacific Islands

DEMM AGENCIES* pj^DMmsp

Willow Tree Brand

LTD

2-12 CARRINGTON STREET, SYDNEY

LAN-CHOO TEA

You’ll enjoy the rich CEYLON flavor of this

NEW TEA.

LAN-CHOO is a blend of CEYLON’S choicest small-leaf teas which brew so quickly and go so much further.

LAN-CHOO Tea requires less in the tea-pot than other teas.

Ask your grocer for

LAN-CHOO

Sole Export Agents for the Pacific Islands: DEMKA PTY Uviurp

2-12 CARRINGTON STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Kwit

CONCENTRATED FOAMING DETERGEN

MAKES HARD WATER SOFI

and cuts washing-up time in half!

° O

V-MS.

% m No need to install expensive water-softenin equipment—just a few drops of Kwit Conces trated Foaming Detergent makes the harde water soft. When washing-up add a few droc of Liquid Kwit to the water then just wash t dishes and put them in a rack to dry—then no need to use a teatowel. Powder Kwit w wash your clothes cleaner than they've ev/ been washed before. Kwit is safe to use wi septic tanks and if used always will keep yc drains clean.

Get

Kwit

from your grocer or store to-day.

Keep a BOTTLE in the kitchen and a PACKET in the laundry.

Sole Export Agents for the Pacific Islands

DEMKA AGENCIES'' pm™!™.

2-12 CARRINGTON STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

SPRED

i.'W %

SPHtf

Sati

coming

Spred Satin is a completely new type of paint made with a rubber latex base. It’s the biggest selling paint in the world and has been tested and proved over the last ten years in 17 countries.

Spred Satin can be slapped on to any kind of surface without showing brush or lap marks, and without special sealers or undercoats. It dries very quickly, has no painty odour, Spred can be washed and even scrubbed without harm. And Spred Satin has a “built-in” inhibitive

Made by

GLAZEBROOKS

Brookvale • Sydney • New South Wales which discourages moulds, mildew and fungoid growths.

When you’ve finished you just wash brushes out under the tap. Spred Satin has a big range of beautiful colours, plus thousands of colours you mix yourself, quickly and easily, plus a free colour design service that gives you expert colour schemes for your home.

Yes, Spred Satin, the most wonderful interior paint in the world is coming.

Approach us direct, or the sole export agents for the Pacific Islands:— S'

DEMKA AGENCIES Pty ijmited

2-12 CARRINGTON STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Samoans in Auckland

S' 5 u ■ These Samoan people were photographed farewelling friends aboard "Matua", in Auckland, in December.

Upper: Mrs. R. Muliau, Mrs. R. Lotan, and Mr. A. Enari.

Lower: Mr. Daniel Betham, Mr. Murphy Pule, Miss F. Leavasa, Miss F. Sua, and Miss E. Meredith.

H One of the real “old hands” of the Burns Philp service stepped down into retirement in 1955, in the person of Mr. A. K. Mclntosh, who had been in charge of BP’s London office since 1915. He was well known prior to World War I in the Pacific where he managed various BP branches.

Having completed 40 years in Crutched Friars (the intriguir. name of BP’s London street), at become one of London’s best figures in the South Seas tra«j AKM decided to call it a day, as retired to his residence at Bright©* on the South Coast.

U At Mitiaro, Cook Islands, on N' vember 25, Kapiriela Ngatoko as Tungane were married at the LM church. More than 50 guests s tended the wedding feast. A be was given that evening.

HART’S PACIFIC AGENCIES

Island Merchants, Importers, Exporters

P.O. Box 1416. 27 Queen Street, Auckland, C. 1., New Zealand.

Shippers of all First Class New Zealand

Products for Island Traders and

Merchants

Trade enquiries invited. Original Invoices Supplied.

Current prices for Island Produce.

Cables “HARTSEAS, AUCKLAND.”

ATTENTION -

Pacific Islands Traders...

this is KONG CAUINGH

WE ARE EXPORTERS OF

Ladies', Gents' and Children's Wearing Apparel

for both Native and European Trade also of numerous Hong Kong products hard to

mention here.

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE! Ask for free Samples and Catalogues from:

D. CHELLARAM

P.O. BOX 340, HONG KONG

Enquiries Welcomed Cable: “Chellaram’

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Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd.

«£i

3 PHASE i TO 10 H.P.

SINGLE PHASE i TO 1 H.P.

TOTALLY ENCLOSED.

FAN-COOLED.

Prices and TROPIC PROOFED. specifications PRECISION BUILT. on application PRECISION CHECKED.

GUARANTEED 12 MONTHS.

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD.

54a Pitt Street, Sydney.

m

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■■ m *A % ■

Who’ll Sign the Cheque ?

If you are a professional man, a highly paid executive, or owner of a small business, who will sign the cheque when you are laid up through sickness or accident?

Will you sign it, or will we do it for you because you had the foresight to protect yourself with an All Sickness, Disease and Accident Policy with us.

When we sign that cheque it gives you medical benefits, provides sustenance for your family and, where needed, makes it possible for some expert to carry on your business for you.

All you pay is a low premium and it is a low premium when you consider the benefits that may accrue.

Our advice is available without obligation.

HARVEY TRINDER (N.G.)

LIMITED

Insurance Brokers

PORT ROAD, PORT MORESBY

Box 104 P.O. Port Moresby

Agents

PORT MORESBY & SAMARAI . Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.

LAE A. Scott. RABAUL .. .. A. Hopper.

WAU F. Leydin. BULOLO .. .. A. Carter.

HONIARA, L awson. CK>ROKA .. .. V. Cox.

MOUNT HAGEN MANUS ISLAND

N. J. Camps. N. McKauge.

MADANG .. .. Madang Marine Workshops Ltd.

Insurances at Lloyd's and Companies

GOLDEN LAG^

FXPOBTSPfOAV

WILLIAM FARRER PTY. LTD.

Flour Millers

1 BERESFORD RD„ STRATHFIELD, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “Butterfly”

UB FINEST DU

ffISTRAU^

tree:

SHARPS

MISTT

FIG TREE” BRAND.

“IBEX” BRAND.

TURNERS & GROWERS LTD.

AUCTIONEERS FRUIT & PRODUCE MERCHANTS

AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND

WE SPECIALISE IN THE EXPORT TO THE TROPICS OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE, POTATOES, ONIONS ,

APPLES AND FRUITS IN SEASON

All Inquiries to our Export Organisation:

Turners Supply Company Limited

Box 1370, Cables: Auckland, N.Z. “Tusco,” Auckland

W. H. GROVE & SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

Island Merchants

16-18 FANSHAWEST., AUCKLAND.

Telegraphic and Cable Address: “Grove,” Auckland. P.O. Box 490, Auckland, New Zealand.

Entrust your requirements to the firm with more than 60 years practical experience in the Island trade.

REPRESENTING MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALEDONIA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOCIETY ISLANDS, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE, PAPUA,

NEW GUINEA, 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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Going places?

Your trip will be much happier if you know that every detail has been settled in advance but there is no need to do it yourself. Much time and trouble can be saved by letting the Bank of New South Wales Travel Department assist you.

W hat the 64 Wales” Travel Department offers you Whether your journey is in Australia or overseas, the “Wales" will gladly plan itineraries, make transport bookings and hotel reservations, arrange travel finance, and, for trips overseas, advise on passport, visa, and taxation clearance procedure.

Travel finance The modern way to carry money safely is by Bank of New South Wales Travellers’ Cheques, which are readily accepted by all banks and by principal tourist bureaux, transport offices, hotels, restaurants, and stores.

FIRST AND LARGEST TRADING BANK OPERATING IN AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, FIJI, PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA

/ BANK OF

NEW SOUTH WALES

These services are available through all branches of the (INCORPORATED IN NEW BOOTH WALES WITH LIMITED LIABILITY) A 54470

$ . <s- «■

EMS;

toe

'- jSk? <««?•

CANNED

MEATS

Order NOW 7 /rom ycwr Nearest Supplier

HOT PACKS

16-oz. Braised Beef Steak Stew. 16-oz. Steak and Kidney Pudding. 16-oz. Steak and Tomato. 16-oz. Irish Stew. 16-oz. Beef Steak Pudding. 12-oz. Steak and Onions.

TOMATO

PRODUCTS

8-oz. Tomato Soup. 16-oz. Tomato Soup. 28-oz. Peeled Tomatoes.

CANNED FRUITS

16-oz. Grapes. 30-oz. Peaches. 30-oz. Pears. 30-oz. Apricots. 16-oz. Raspberries. 30-oz. Raspberries. 16-oz. Loganberries. 30-oz. Loganberries. 16-oz. Gooseberries. 30-oz. Gooseberries. 16-oz. Cherries. 16-oz. Fruit Cocktail.

COLD MEATS

12-oz. Trim (Pork and Beef). 12-oz. Meatreat. 12-oz. Hampe. 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. 12-oz. Taper Corned Beef W/C.

SAUSAGES

16-oz. Beef Sausages. 16-oz. Oxford Sausages. 16-oz. Cambridge Sausages. 16-oz. Pork Sausages. 10-oz. Vienna Sausages. 16-oz. Vienna Sausages. 4-oz. Vienna Sausages.

TONGUES

12-oz. Sheep Tongues. 12-oz. Lamb Tongues. 12-oz. Calves’ Tongues. 12-oz. Lunch Tongues. 2-lb. Ox Tongues.

CONDENSED MILK

14-oz. Sweetened Condensed Milk. 12-oz. Unsweetened Evaporated Milk. 12-oz. Chocream. 8-oz. Reduced Cream.

CANNED FISH

12-oz. Flair Pish Cutlets. 16-oz. Tins Dripping. 37-lb. Tins Dripping.

MARGARINE

56-lb. boxes Cake Margarine. 56-lb. boxes Pastry Margarine.

"RIVERMEDE"

BUTTER

56-lb. boxes Bulk Butter. 16-oz. pats Butter.

Vz-lb. pats Butter. 12-oz. tins Butter. 16-oz. tins Butter.

CANNED JAMS

12-oz. & 24-oz. Pig. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Plum. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Raspberry. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Quince. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Marmalade. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Apricot. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Peach. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Melon & Ginger. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Melon & Lemon. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Melon & Pineapple.

AGENCIES

FISH CANNERIES OF TASMANIA PTY. LTD., Tasmania. (“Flair” Canned Fish).

GARTSIDE PRODUCTS PTY. LTD., Victoria. (“Gartside” Canned Vegetables).

TONGALA MILK COMPANY, Victoria. (“Jersey Cow” and “Mont Blanc”

Condensed Milk). PORT HUON FRUITGROWERS’ CO-OP. ASSOCIATION LTD., Tasmania. (“Huoncry” Canned Fruits and Jams). MAIZE PRODUCTS LTD., NSW (“Kream” Cornflour. “Acme” Starch. “Cameo” Custard Powder). PEEK

FREAN (AUST.) PTY. LTD., (Biscuit Manufacturers).

W. ANGLISS & CO. (Aust.) PTY. LTD.,

255A George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Branches.— N.S.W.: Riverstone Meat Co. Pty. Ltd., 255A George Street, Sydney. QLD.: Redbank Meat Works Pty. Ltd., Stanley Street, Sth. Brisbane.

TO

SKIN ITCH

Don t let ugly, disfiguring Pimples, Eczema, Acne, Ringworm, Psoriasis, Blackheads or Itching, Cracking. Peeling, Burning Skin Troubles make life miserable and spoil your fun.

Don’t be embarrassed and feel inferior because of a bad skin.

Now every chemist has a new American Hospital Discovery called Nlxoderm that stops the itch in 7 minutes, kills germs and fungus and in 24 hours begins to heal the skin clear, soft and smooth. No matter how long you have suffered or what you have tried, get Nixoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return your money if not entirely satisfied

WM.

BRECKWOLDT &

CABLES: "BREWO"

RABAUL,

New Guinea.

P.O. Box 22.

VOLKSWAGEN

Cars—Pick-ups

GRUNDIG

Radios

SUVA, HONIARA,

Fiji Islands. Brit. Solomon Is.

P.O. Box 369. p.o. Box 42.

REPRESENTING

Breckwoldt & Co., Hamburg, Germany.

Brewo-ItaHa 5.r.1., Milano, Italy.

Konishi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan.

Brewalo (Belgique) S.A., Antwerp.

Breckwoldt, Peel & Co., Ltd., London.

Breckwoldt & Co. (Hong Kong) Ltd, Hong Kong.

CO.

APIA,

Western Samoa.

P.O. Box 47

MERCEDES BENZ

Cars and Trucks

BAYER

Medicines Organs /j~ NSU p Motor I fy cles -' Contm ental Tyres and Tubes—Hohner Mouth Radios etc re , W °T, ,° Wer B'kes—Bosch Electrical Products—Telefunken nnd Hnrrir'nnA olleiflex and Rolleicord Cameras Petromax Pressure Lamps Feuer- %h-Trfde T *° L,ons ” Butcher Knives—Becks’ Beer—BREWO Canned lative issue Piecegoods Copra Sacks—Mosquito Nets and Blankets for ve issue—BßEWO Brand Perlon Fishing Lines—BßEWO Brand Briar Tobacco Pipes an d a variety of other trade goods.

ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI

HEAD OFFICE QUAI DU COMMERCE PAPEETE.

Telegraphic Address; “DONALD, PAPEETE”.

General Merchants (Wholesale & Retail) & Shipowners;

Importers & Exporters

Brances Throughout the Marquesas Islands

ASSOCIATE HOUSES: A. B. Donald, Ltd., Auckland. N.Z.; A. B. Donald, Ltd., Rarotonga, Cook Is.; Dominion Fruit Co., Suva, Fiji.

Lloyd’s Agents.

Booking and Handling Agents for Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd.

Agents and Distributors for:

U.S.A.: General Steamship Corp.; Radio Corp. of America; Brown & Williamson, Ltd.; Cigarettes: Luckyr Strike, Wings; Champion Spark Plug Co.; Steelcote Paints & Lacquers; Remington Rand Inc.

ENGLAND: Reckitt & Coleman (Overseas), Ltd.; Hercules Bicycles; The Bank Line, Ltd.; The Shaw Savill Albion Company, Ltd.

FRANCE; Hennessy Cognacs; Marie Brizard & Roger Liqueurs; Charles Hiedsieck Champagnes; Gruber Beer.

NEW ZEALAND: Vacuum Oil Co. (NZ.), Ltd., Petroleum Products.

SWEDEN: Hjorth & Co., Primus Stoves: Elektrolux Refrigerators & Motors.

GERMANY: Breckwoldt & Co., Hamburg; Beck’s Beer, Bremen SvHn.v Atrents- BURNS PHILP & CO., LTD. San Francisco Agents; BURNS PHILP CO OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC. London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO.. lS in Francef HARTH & CIE, PARIS; A. BICKART, MARSEILLES;

G. H. ROBINSON EXPORTS & IMPORTS PTY. LTD.

Pacific hlands and_ it

51-3 MACQUARIE ST., SYDNEY Telephone: BU 6581-2-3. ★ ★ Sellers on Commission of all kinds of Island produce - coa ® ea "%.,® re *“ S " all ’

Copra, Fungus, M.O.P. Shell, Trochus Shell, Beche De Mer, Shark Fins, etc. ★ ORDERS SUPPLIED ON INDENT BASIS A SPECIALTY.

EVERY ATTENTION GIVEN IRRESPECTIVE OF SIZE OF ORDER. ★ WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR 30 YEARS PERSONAL WE cordia^ aspects of pacific islands trading.

Cables: “SUNRISE,” SYDNEY. * ★ AddreSS: B °* S3l7 ' °

JEWEL

The new German Portable Typewriter

with all the latest improvements Made in Germany.

FULL KEYBOARD—STRONGLY CONSTRUCTED—

IDEAL FOR OFFICE WORK

Available with Standard or Leather Case, in 5 models from £lB/0/0 Sterling, F. 0.8. HAMBURG

ENQUIRIES INVITED FOR SOLE DISTRIBUTING

RIGHTS IN AREAS WHERE NOT ALREADY

REPRESENTED

Sole agents for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD.

379 Kent Street, SYDNEY

KOPSENS' FOR SHIPCHANDIERV

■iKOPSEh^CABIh^BO^m

.r

PROPELLER SHAFTING

Kopsen open and cabin boats made in sizes 14 ft. to 26 ft. long powered with Simplex and Penta marine engines. Clinker or carvel built, strong, safe and seaworthy. We can quote also for diesel powered boats of larger sizes.

Bronze and brass propeller shafting all sizes fn I in. to 3 in. diameter. Machined and fitted required. We also supply propellers in all si< and bearings, couplings, universal joints, etc. *

KOPSEN GEAR PUMPS

Kopsen gear pumps for oil or water. Easily fitted to engine or shaft drive. Very efficient in operation. w

VORTEX PUMPS

Vortex pumps. World’s leading hand bilge pumps, 40 G.P.M.

Easy hand operation, almost everlasting. r>

ALOIS LAMPS

Aldis daylight signalling lamps.

Ideal for small craft. Also as a searchlight. Complete in box with battery if required.

CHAIN WINCHES

Galvanised anchor chain winches, easy to operate, quick and positive in operation. Provided with foot brake.

SHEATHING METAL

Copper sheathing metal in shu 48 in. x 14 in. in several gaut Large stocks always availas Also sheathing nails and felti suit.

KOPSEN RIGGERVICE

Kopsen rigger vice, portable, use aloft or ashore. A wondei new tool. Price 65/-.

ASK FOR GENERAL

W. KOPSEN & CO.

SIMPLEX MARINE ENGINES

Simplex marine engines. Australia’s finest marine engine spec designed for use in tropical waters. Simplex are heavy duty r built to run all day and are the choice of commercial users everywA Australian fishermen use hundreds of Simplex engines and depeno. their livelihood on Simplex. Simplex have every modern m*j feature and are rugged and strong. They are dependable when r out at sea. Simplex cost no more than competitive engines and 20 years of smooth running with little attention or trouble.

CATALOGUE OR BOAT & ENGINE FOLDER

PTY. LTD. - 380 Kent St., Sydm

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Current News From Our Correspondents in P NG (Continued from Page 47)

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taDM

ASTHMA

Don’t let coughing, sneezing wheezing attacks of Asthma and Bronchitis poison your system, sap your energy, ruin your health and weaken your heart.

Mendaco, a famous new American scientific medicine starts immediately to circulate through the blood, quickly curbing the attacks. The very first day the thick phlegm is dissolved. thus giving free, easy breathing and letting you sleep the night through in peace and comfort. Get Mendaco from your chemist or store to-day under positive guarantee to return your money if not entirely satisfied

WEED ONE

AGRICULTURAL

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WEEDKILLIRS

mon

cOV Hl SO v to

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A GUARANTEED KILL

FOR

NEW CALEDONIA: Lantana, Sensitive Grass.

NEW HEBRIDES: False Peanut, Sensitive Grass and Blue Grass.

NORFOLK ISLAND: Lantana.

T. NEW GUINEA-PAPUA: Kunai, Sen-

sitive Plant.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Kunai, Sensitive Plant.

TRIED AND PROVED BY NEW HEBRIDES PLANTERS. CONSULT US WITH YOUR WEED

AND UNDERGROWTH PROBLEMS. WRITE FOR LITERATURE.

/entura Trading Co. Pty. Ltd. “

Sole Agents for Abovementioned Island Groups

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Jf y„u Can

uppiy

COCOA BEANS, COFFEE AND VANILLA BEANS,

TROCAS and GREEN SNAIL SHELL

or ANY ISLAND PRODUCE

WE SHALL GLADLY LET YOU KNOW

WHAT PRICES WE CAN OBTAIN FOR YOU.

Write to us

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

P.O. Box 3838, G.P.O. Sydney. Cable Address: Carefulness.

4 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY

The first really portable lightweight, noiseless 16 m.m. souir projector . . .

THE

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Gives big projector quality with small project* convenience.

Newly designed in smart easy-to-operate st;J Packs into one case, weight only 36 lbs.

Maximum brilliance and clarity in the sen image are made possible through the fci quality f/2 coated lens and 750 watt hi source.

Exceptional fidelity of sound reproduce Noiseless, smooth and dependable operatioc thanks to nylon gear transmission.

Amazingly simple film threading.

Operates direct from 240 V A.C. supply, oiling required.

Price: £lBO/15/0 (exclusive of Sales Ta: Plus Freight and Packing The Cinevox Premier will be distribu by all

KODAK DEALERS THROUGHOUT THE ISLANDS

Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., Sydney

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Multiport

THE FIRST NAME

IN SELFWINDING

AND

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WATCHES

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HOCK-PROTECTED

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Distributed by: —

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD., SYDNEY

rsft°K ?h i : r S^ A: Widdowson & Mayne . . . SAMOA: s. V. Mackenzie & Co.. Ltd. * s - : United Island Traders . . . TONGA: P. Bhagwan . PAPUA ar NEW GUINEA: Robert Gillespie (New Guinea), Ltd. ’ * jj 0

“GRAND

PRIX"

POWUWX

s rS3K-«*^“-r -> A general - purpose cartridge ideal for shooting birds •J Q uj5S and small game

“DUXBAC”

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tern

X IB Select from the wide

1.C.1. AMMUNITION RANGE

Shooting wild game can be an even greater thrill when you use the best

ammunition procurable.

Accurate, hard-hitting 1.C.1. shells are

the choice of champions the world over.

Load with 1.C.1. shells whenever you shoot.

Select from the wide 1.C.1. range illustrated here. Ask your local dealer about supplies.

Famous for duck shooting.

Developed for the shooter who prefers to use a 2}" v shell but likes the efficiency of a 2|" load with oz. shot.

"Duxbac” are loaded into crimson star-crimped, waterresistant shells. 25

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Available in shot sizes 2 to 10.

Obtain your requirements from your local ammunition dealer, or, if you should have any difficulty in obtaining supplies, contact:

ICI

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A 2\" crimson-lined case with deep brass head. Contains 1? oz. shot. Star-crimped SPECIAL” for best P atterns and lacc l uered for moisture resistance ideal for tropics.

AM.981 IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LTD.

ROLYT HOUSE, 4-6 WENTWORTH AVENUE, SYDNEY

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 and cultural centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherings with lectures, are held at the Feminist Club Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King St Sydney, on the fourth Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Address for correspondence:—

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY,

Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney. (The President may be contacted by telephone at XJ 3205.)

TROPIC TROUBLES

Quit kty yield to

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By W. V. D. PIERIS

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*QUAi/rA

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Hytest

You

Can Always

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AH Hytest Axes and Tools are forged from specially-developed Australian Steel, and are readily available from all Island Merchants. Write for the illustrated leaflet showing the full range.

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Airline Manoeuvres in S. Pacific (Continued from Page 24)

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Sinks

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Mcilraths

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Modern up to the minute homes between Dee Why and Palm Beach available to Island Residents for Holidays.

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Sparklet

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ii ;u« i i i Another view of the "Brahol ' Export Counter case, showing width of counter space.

Cost of packing and transport to w? depends on the number and size counters required. A quotation for pi in g will be submitted promptly request.

This Modern Display

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in YOUR Store I

and it's specially built for Export As smart as those in leading Australian stores, and built by a firm that has b making fine store and office fittings for forty years.

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Made from first-class well-seasoned Queensland Maple or Silver Ash, hand French polished to natural colour.

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The plate glass front is 22 inches high.

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Makers of Fine Store and Office Fittingsi for over forty years.

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Fob Sale By Tender

IPptical Service

OF of

REPAIRS & PRESCRIPTIONS

PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO

BY MAIL

Special Attention to the requirements of Islands visitors . . Call upon us during your visit to the mainlaind.

W. E. WILSON, M. 1.0,

F. E. WILSON, F. 1.0.

Optometrists

National Mutual Buildings, 350 George St., Sydnev Phone: BL 2640.

Established 1910

FOB SALE BY TENDER

KELATA PLANTATION

Highly Productive and Fertile Coconut and Cocoa Plantation Situated in the Well Known Madang District of New Guinea Area; App. 330 hectares (825 acres).

Location; App. 75 miles north of Madang, on seafront, and 18 miles south of Anchorage; Excellent south east anchorage for any large vessel, and loading can be earned out in any season.

Soil: Typical of the well-known and rich Madang Coast.

Coconuts: App. 33,000 fully bearing Coconut Palms.

Cocoa: App. 20,000 Cocoa Trees from seedlings to 3 years.

Buildings: Estate buildings have all been recently built, and are of Sawn umber, Corn Iron and Fibre construction, and all in excellent condition.

Plant; Motor Transport, Tools. Lighting Plant and all necessary equipment are sufficient and ample for the efficient running of plantation, and this Estate is a going concern.

Native Labour: Approximately 50 Labourers are engaged on the Estate and will be transferred in the usual manner. All Labour engaged on “Kelaua” is recruited locally, and no recruiting expenses are incurred.

Tenders for the above Plantation will be received by Vendor’s Solicitors — Messrs. Dettmann, Austin & Maclean, Bull’s Chambers, Martin Place, Sydney, and tenders will close at 12 noon on 31st. January, 1956.

The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

For further particulars and arrangements for inspection please contact Messrs. •Dettmann, Austin & Maclean, 28 Martin Place, Sydney. BW 5252, BW 9160.

DUCKLINGS

Ducklings from Australia's Duck Farm; Ayles- Pekin, Muscovy or

fKhaki Campbells _2/- each.

£9 per 100.

STRIKE BROS.,

Denison St., Matraville,

N.S.W.

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200 Tons!!

From the Smallest Scales to Units Weighing

Made by GEO. SALTER & CO. LIMITED England’s oldest scale makers—Established 196 years.

PRICES, DISCOUNTS, ETC., FROM SOLE PACIFIC ISLANDS AGENTS

C. SULLIVAN (Export) PTY. LTD

379 Kent Street, Sydney Cable: “Chasull”, Sydney

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PICCANINNY MANUFACTURING Co.

254 Pittwater Road, Manly, N.S.W., Australia.

The Ultimate in Radio Communication

Recent development has enabled us to offer this wonder of the radio age. A compact, crystal locked transceiver, which has features not available in other types of receivers and also incorporates facilities for the remote operation of the transceiver, thus permitting the unit to be installed in a safe and dry location.

SHIP

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0 m m CRAMMOND S CTR 12-£llO (ex. fac. Brisbane) Vessels now equipped with this transceiver have communicated with other fishing boats over 600 miles. The broadcast band is provided and the two working frequencies used by fishing boats are crystal controlled and therefore do not require tuning. Press to talk switch in microphone automatically changes from receive to transmit when pressed. Operation is from 12 Volt D.C. All steel cadmium plated enamelled cabinet to prevent harm from salt spray. Loud speaker in cadmium plated enamel box for bulk head mounting.

Here is the New Model CTR 8 This is a more variable transceiver than the CTR 12 and is designed for ocean going small ships requiring daylight transmitting, also for bushfire control and other services where a set is necessary that can stand up to the worst conditions. Ranges up to 750 miles. A six valve triple wave receiver, using one stage of radio frequency amplification, in incorporated in the CTR 8. "Press to Talk" switch in microphone. 12 volt DC operation. Price complete with microphone and loudspeaker, £179/10/- (ex fac. Brisbane).

YOUR ENQUIRY

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MANUFACTURING CO. PTY. LTD.

103 Wickham St., Volley, Queensland. f

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Cooke Bros.

ATTENTION

All Musical and

Radio Dealers . . .

COOKE BROS.

(Q’LAND. PTY. LTD.)

(Completely owned and controlled by Queensland interests) Est. 25 Years.

SUPPLIERS TO THE

TRADE ONLY

Capitol Records—Peter Pan Radios —Hohner Accordions—Borsini piano Accordions—Social Piano Accordions—Cookslea Portable Gramophones—Cookslea Mandolin Banjos —Violins—AßC Sapphire Needles— Songster Gramo and Pick Cp— Nylon Radiogram Needles. Hawaiian and Hill Billy Guitars. A complete range of instrument strings and all accessories.

COOKE BROS. (Q’LD.)

PTY. LTD.

454 George St., Brisbane.

Our Island Service

Satisfies Every

Radio and Electrical

Need i

• Orders from the Pacific Islands for our larger range of Radio and Electrical needs are increasing month by month, due to the complete satisfaction given to our regular customers. • You can be assured of complete personal and prompt attention from our experienced staff whether you require the smallest radio valve or a complete 240 volts 50 cycle Diesel Generator. • Place you orders for everything electrical through Shipping and Confirming Houses or direct to—

UNITED RADIO DISTRIBUTORS PTY. LTD.

175 Phillip Street, Sydney

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The Famous "ANCHOR" Family includes . . .

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• ANCHOR FULL CREAM MILK POWDER

• ANCHOR SKIM MILK POWDER

• ANCHOR PAT BUTTER

• ANCHOR CHEDDAR CHEESE

Also ACORN BUTTER (in tins) and SNOWFLAKE

UNSWEETENED CONDENSED MILK

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS: AMALGAMATED DAIRIES LTD., AUCKLAND, N.Z.

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Typewriters

NEW AND RECONDITIONED

DESK & PORTABLE MODELS

Late models with standard keyboard and operating features.

£l5, £l7, £2O, £25 to £4O

Suitable for every typing purpose in busy office or home.

Every machine has been thoroughly serviced in our old-established and wellequipped mechanical department and is positively free from defects.

They stand the closest inspection and severest test.

Buy with the utmost confidence

TWO YEARS' GUARANTEE

Special attention to Island inquiries.

We pack and despatch anyhere.

If writing please state the purpose for which the typewriter will be used and the price range.

J. C. WOOLF TYPEWRITERS

PTY. LTD.

Typewriter Engineers

310 GEORGE ST., SYDNEY

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PORTED FROM LONDON, ENGLAND

★ Because of the superb quality, drinks never taste thin with Gordon's Gin.

The secret of masterly

distilling, maintained

through the years, is the reason why to-day, as ever, Gordon’s Gin stands supreme. 6501

X / / \ The continuous oil exploration activities of Australasian Petroleum Co. Pty. Ltd. carry them throughout the length and breadth of Papua. Weather conditions are at all times extreme and protection of men and equipment is vital. That is why they specify canvas goods, tents and covers, made from WARDEN proofed fabrics.

WARDEN lasts longer !

BRADFORD COTTON HILLS LTD,

414 Collins St., Melbourne, Vic.

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Suva Motors Limited

To Bakers and

Pastrycooks

ALL KINDS OF OVENS

ERECTED

Scotch, Vienna, and Pastrycooks’ Brick Ovens; Coke and Hot Air Chambered Ovens.

Plans drawn and Bakehouses and Ovens erected under personal supervision.

All kinds of OVEN REPAIRS at shortest notice.

Tiles and Fire Lumps, Fire Bars, Pyrometers and Steam Boxes always on hand.

Recommendations from Leading Master Bakers.

NORWOOD BROS.

OVEN BUILDERS

28 Oswell Street, Rockdale, N.S.W, Phone: LX 5031

SUVA MOTORS LIMITED

VICTORIA PARADE, SUVA-NAVITI STREET, LAUTOKA

Distributors in Fiji for • Gem Rotary Hoes • Greens Motor Mowers • Enfield Air-Cooled Diesel Engines • Penta Outboard Motors • Icemaster Kerosene Refrigerators • Allen Motor Scythes and Attachments • Armstrong Shock Absorbers • Michelin Tyre and Tubes • Chrysler Australia Limited: Plymouth and Chrysler Cars Fargo Utilities and Trucks, Genuine Mo-Par Replacement Parts and Accessories. • Caterpillar Tractor Co.: Farm Tractors, Earthmoving Equipment, Tool-Bars and Implements, Motor Graders, Genuine Caterpillar Replacement Parts.

Write for Further Details and Illustrated Literature

SUVA MOTORS LIMITED

Box 250, Suva, Fiji

Classified Advertisements

Per line, 2/-; Minimum, 6 lines.

POSITION WANTED

BY MASTER MARINER, Radio Operator (British), former 8.1. and Orient Line officer. L/A Marine & General Surveyor (damage assessor) Far East, Middle.

General Port Experience including Suction and Grab Dredging. Former Small Craft and Crew M/Superintendent. General and Iron Ore Loading and Welfare Officer Chinese, Malayan and Indian Labour.

Languages, clerical knowledge, typing, filing correspondence. Service, sales and display knowledge. Active and in sound health. Willing and able to carry out any or all of the above or other available posts. Please contact: D. Bruce Woods, c/- Bank of N.S.W., Head Office, George St., Sydney, Australia.

CLERK, bookkeeper, experienced office routine, able to type, single, age 40. desires interesting position in the islands (New Guinea preferred), references. Further particulars: A. Ferris, 2 Ashton Ave., Earlwood, N.S.W., Australia.

ACCOMMODATION

NORFOLK ISLAND, “Burnt Pine” Real Estate Agency. Cable Address: "Adage, Norfolk Island”. Properties for sale in peaceful surroundings and beautiful climate of Norfolk Island. All enquiries promptly attended to.

FRENCH PENSION with French cooking.

Apply: 6 South Avenue, Double Bay, Sydney. Phone; FB 3549.

KANIMBLA HALL. 19-29 Tusculum Street.

Potts Point. 5 minutes city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant. S.C., furn. serviced suites with separate lounge, bed and bath rooms and h’ettes. Refrig., H.W. from 2Vz gns. daily lor two. From 4 gns. for three. Write or 'phone FL 3014.

TO LET

SYDNEY HOME

Modern three-bedroom all-electric home to let furnished April to October while owner abroad. Garage, select suburb, extensive views bays, golf course. Suit family on long leave. R. Robinson, c/- Box 3408. G.P.0., Sydney, Australia.

LOLOMA MATAELE

AGENCIES

P.O. Box 3, Nukualofa, Tonga.

Exporters and Importers, at

present on a small scale, wish to make good business friends in Australia, New

Zealand, etc.; so please write

us—we can SELL for you.

Members Tonga Chamber of Commerce.

FOR SALE

SHARES FOR SALE, 1,000 £1 shares in Madang Slipways Ltd. (New Guinea).

Will sell all or any part of them. Contact: A. E. Pedler, 143 Holme Street, Brighton, Q’ld., Australia.

FOR SALE

FLEETS offer 40 ft. x 12 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. 6 in. carvel trawler, 3Vz years old, 30 H.P.

Ailsa Craig Diesel, 2 way radio. £2,500. Also 72 ft. x 15 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 6 in. carvel, built by Norman Wright in 1928, 72 H.P.

Gardner Diesel. £9,000. Fleets, Water St. East, South Brisbane, Qld., Australia.

LIGHTING PLANT, brand new, never used.

Fetter (style) generator 240 volts, 12 amps, 1,500 R.P.M. This plant can be inspected by your agent or representative. Any reasonable price will be accepted. W. G.

Smith, 10 Countess Street, Mosman, N.S.W.

Phone: XM 7250.

PLANTATION WANTED

COCONUT and/or cocoa, partly or fully developed, any size, Papua-New Guinea.

Alternatively prepared to finance present owner to develop property substantially.

Will consider any proposition. Replies to; “Advertiser”, 59 Milson Road, Cremorne, Sydney. Phone: XY 2615.

STAMPS WANTED

ISLANDS STAMPS WANTED. $1 US. per

200 paid for postally used British Pacific Is. Colony stamps on pieces of envelopes undamaged. Double this price for stamps of 6d and over, and even higher rates for 2/- up. Send for buying list with prices I pay. On lots of 500 and over I pay all postage. W. P. Strauss, P.O. Box 1218, Grand Central Station, New York 17, N.Y.,

U.S.A.

PENFRIENDS

RETIRED American, who has travelled through Europe, Asia, and the Philippines, and lived in Tahiti and Hawaii, wishes to correspond, as a hobby, with persons In the South Seas. Write to: Mr. Joseph E.

Rynning, 10432 Linden Ave., Bloomington, California, U.S.A.

DON’T BE LONELY.—Men and women all over Australia are finding happiness through my Friendship & Matrimonial Correspondence Club. Someone wants to be YOUR friend. Select and confidential.

Write TO-DAY. No obligation. Locker P, Dorothy Pope Friendship Club (regd.).

Box 182, Haymarket P. 0., Sydney, N.S.W.

HELP yourself and another lonely person to a full life. Be introduced the modern way by correspondence. Members In Australia and overseas. All ages (from 18 on), faiths, nationalities and walks of life; cities and country. State age, sex, languages, etc., and write for free information brochure to be sent to you, in plain sealed envelope, to: Milton’s Friendship Club (Regd.), Dept. 5, Box 2871, G.P.0.. Sydney. Strictly confidential—No obligation—New Australians welcome.

WANTED Contact correspondents, philatelists, hobbyists and Pen Friends throughout the Pacific. Island representatives wanted. Members in almost every country of the world. Write for specimen copy Club journal “Island Life” and application form, to Secretary, South Sea Islands Correspondence Club, Natuvu, Fiji Is.

DRIVE YOURSELF CA,

IN SYDNEY.—Drive yourself—all Hole cheapest rates, N.R.M.A. road sea Make the most of your leave. S:< (late Wentworth) Drive YourselftJ Wenthworth Ave., or 196 Elizabeth!

City. MA 9204 (after hours, FM 3112 J

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At youn

vice in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier i Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward I Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: FAA Enquiries Invited.

BOOKS, MAGAZINES

PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK. IT

The 7th. Edition of the P.I. Year Boi now in the. final stages of compilatioic will be published shortly. Every c is described in detail —geography, hii administration, trade and commerce ( available statistics), main trading population," industries, education, hr! etc. Special sections deal with: History of Pacific; Political Changes,, 55; South Pacific Commission; People the Pacific: Radio Networks; Shippino Air Services; Islands Mission Persts 500 pp. and maps. Price: 35/- pen (plus 1/6 posted within Empire:?

Foreign) or $4.50 U.S. (including posa

A SERVICE FOR READERS. That dii

to obtain volume; let us find it fon Fiction, text-books, biography, hij etc. Moderate fees only if succk Box 2671, GPO, Sydney.

ANY NEW BOOK (English), which . print now, posted to you in a few ' I also find rare and out-of-print to order. Large Pacific clientele. Bas accounts at Sydney and Wellington.

Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Wesa Wilts, England.

“BETTER FARMING DIGEST”, as

monthly, is a “must” for every pq who is interested in the latest des ments in agricultural science. The scription rate is 24/- per year foie monthly 130-page journal. Write too Sydney & Melbourne Publishing C 0...

Ltd.. Box 1813, G.P.0., Sydney, foo particulars and a free, sample copq

HANDBOOK OF PAPUA & NG, I

320 pp and maps; contains all « about the administrative and comm organisation in the two territories eludes directory of all European res; and business firms and of the H Chinese residents. Price: 15/- (pluj

posted). HANDS OFF PIDGIN ENG)

by Professor R. A. Hall, Jnr., of O University, U.S.A. A defence ro “lingua franca” of Melanesia and i for its official use and control. Price; fplus 1/- posted). Copies from II Stores and Booksellers or direct c Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., 29 A\ St., Sydney.

PLANTATION FINAN(

AVAILABLE

SYNDICATE, with very substantial ft available, prepared to back plantatici velopment. Replies to: Howse, BoJ Madang, N.G.

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printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

Consign Your Shell

Purchasers at Full Market Prices on Assay Value of

GOLD, SILVER

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Also Platinum Group Metals

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Official Assayers to Bank of N.S.W.

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We can offer highest prices for all types of Shell and Island Produce, and invite your inquiry.

Cables: “VENTURA,” Sydney.

fascinating Kingdom of Tonga.

• Businessmen use the regular TEAL air

service for travel, mail and cargo.

• Tourists can enjoy the experience of a

one-day return international flight (Fiji-

Tonga-Fiji) leaving Suva at 6-30 a.m. and arriving back at 5 p.m. Wonderful scenic

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INQUIRIES AND RESERVATIONS AT LEADING TRAVEL

AGENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED

In association with Qantas and 8.0.A.C.

> U.K m

SAMOA

TO U.S A

TAHITI

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COOK ISLANDS

TONGA

MELBOURNE

CHRISTCHURCH

AP6F

GENERAL MERCHANTS

Capital £2,500,000

ESTABLISHED 1914

GENERAL MERCHANTS

and

PROVIDORES

TRADE THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

BUYERS AND EXPORTERS OF ALL KINDS

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA,

M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

AGENTS FOR AUSTRALIAN, EUROPEAN

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

DISTRIBUTORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION

OF MERCHANDISE.

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:

“CAMOHE.”

Telephone: BW 4421.

Postal Address: G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

In London: W. R. Carpenter £r Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lone, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC:

IN NEW GUINEA; IN PAPUA: IN F1JI: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd.

Suva.

Pacific Islands Monthly— J A N U A R Y . 1956