Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXVI, No.8 (Mar. 1, 1956)
1 March 1956 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Islands

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PACIFIC

Monthly

MARCH, 1956

Vol. XXVI. No. 8.

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STOP ME AND BUY ONE: —This owner-driver of Nukualofa, Tonga, invented and made his pie-wagon from pieces of two lawn mowers, a bicycle and a cabinet sewing-machine. Selling pastries and delicacies, he pedals along the straight, level streets of the Kingdom’s capital tinkling a tiny bell and hailing customers and others alike with a cheery greeting.

Photo by G. B. Bowman.

[?]ipping Time-Tables

pp. 9-11

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

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea

HV Malaita sails from Sydney for Rabaul, deng, Lombrum, Lorengau, Wewak, icishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney. Next ing Apr. 21. [V Malekula sails from Sydney for Pt. •esby, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, tishafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai, ney, Melbourne, Sydney. Next sailing r. 21.

EV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ■y six weeks: Sydney-Brlsbane-Moresby laral - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul tarai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. Next ng Apr. 18. stalls from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., ridge Street, Sydney.

V Sinkiang: Departs Melbourne Apr. 6, tiey Apr. 12, for Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Madang, Kavieng, Rabaul, Melbourne.

V Soochow: Departs Sydney Mar. 26 Brisbane, Port Moresby, Rabaul, ieng, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby, ley. stalls from G. S. Yuill & Co. Pty., , 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

Far East-S.W. Pacific-

Australia

ling S.W. Pacific ports on south-bound journeys only.) ning: Departs Japan Apr. 30, Hong- E May 8, Rabaul May 20, Madang 24, Lae May 26, Samarai May 30, Moresby May 31.

Fengning: Departs Japan Mar. 24 Hong kong Apr 1 Kavieng Apr. 13, ’Rabaul Apr. 15, Madang Apr. 19, Lae Apr 21 Port Moresby Apr. 25.

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

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Aros, Citos, Delos, and Milos main tain a three-weekly service between Japan and Australia, calling at Papua-New Guinea ports southbound.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agencv 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-Tonga

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 Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Apia, Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Each Autumn there is a temporary rearrangement of schedules while the respective vessels are on annual survey. Next sailing from Auck land: MV Tofua Mar. 27, MV Matua Apr. 12.

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

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel Maul Pomare is expected to resume sometime in March-April. Occasional limited pas senger facilities are available on trans pacific freighters. (Over)

Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA

Sailings of

Orient Line

Passenger Ships, 1955-56.

ORION

ORSOVA

ORONSAY

ORCADES

1956 1956 1956 1956

SYDNEY

depart 2 Apr. 1 June 13 July

AUCKLAND

arr/dep 6 Apr 4 June 16 July Prom

SUVA

arr/dep 10 Apr. 7 June 19 July Panama

HONOLULU

arr/dep 16 Apr. 12 June 24 July

VANCOUVER

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

SAN FRANCISCO arr

27 Apr. 21 June 2 Aug. 7 Sept. depart 28 Apr.

Then 3 Aug. 8 Sept.

HONOLULU

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

SUVA

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

AUCKLAND

arr/dep 14 May 17 Aug. 26 Sept.

SYDNEY

arrive 18 May — 20 Aug. 29 Sept.

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 Tulagi, 10 passengers, leaves Sydney for Norfolk, Vila, Luganville, Honiara,

Tenaru, Yandina, Gizo, Bougainville ports, Rabaul, Sydney. Next sailing Apr. 24.

MV Muliama, 8 passengers, leaves Sydney for British Solomons ports about monthly, ports varying with cargoes. Next sailing Mar. 27.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti

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

MV Polynesie (Messageries Maritime maintains about monthly passenger ssi ings between Sydney and Noumea a the New Hebrides. Next sailing Apr.

SS Neo Hebridais-11, 1,266 tons, mas tains an irregular cargo service 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. Sleii Ltd., 115 York Street.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacifi«

Ports-Sydney

Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passenc 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 excc in hurricane season. Next sailings: We bound, departs Sydney Apr. 16 for M/ bourne, Fremantle, Durban, CapetoTi England.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, et

Pacific Islands Transport Lin vessels Thorsisle and Thorshall mas tain a regular service from Pam Coast North American ports, with sailiil every 35-40 days. Some ports depend cargoes offering. Next sailing: Thorsha Sails Vancouver Mar. 1, Papeete Mar.

Nukualofa Mar. 21, Pago Mar. 23, A#

ir. 25, Suva Mar. 29, Noumea Apr. 7, wr.sville Apr. 12. Thorsisle: Sails San ancisco Apr. 26, Papeete May 10. Pago ty 17, Apia May 18, Suva May 21, utoka May 24, Noumea May 29, Lae ae 4.

Jetails from General Steamships Cor •ation Ltd., 432 California St.. San incisco, U.S.A., and Island Agents.

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

AUSTRALIA

latson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco rates a regular passenger-cargo service m Los Angeles. Southern terminal ports y with cargoes offering. Vessels call at >eete, Pago Pago, and Suva, depending cargoes.

SYDNEY-SUVA-HONOLULU

VANCOUVER

acific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva Dsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) rate a service three times yearly with 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel emba along the above route. Accom lation is entirely First Class, two-berth Ins. Next sailings from Sydney May, 1956. etails from American Trading & Shlp ; Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney.

HONOLULU-PAPEETE

le 242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, srican - owned, operates a luxury ienger service to a regular schedule, i calls at Marquesas and Line Islands required. Details from Darr Lines Theo. H. Davies & Co., Honolulu, or )lissements Donald. Papeete. [r. and Mrs. Ray Lovell, of Port

■ esby, have been spending three

iths leave with Mrs. Lovell’s ;her, Mrs. F. M. Harrison, of

ible Bay, Sydney.

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., Fn., 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. (Over)

SOUTHWARDS

Wed.*, Pri.*, Sun.* San Francisco - Honolulu-Nadi (Fiji)-Sydney. Sundays service begins at Vancouver. (Note: Crosses date-line enroute). • TEAL DC3 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) The following amended service will operate from Apr. 4; Every Wed. Sydney - Nadi - Honolulu - Vancouver-Amsterdam.

Every Sun. leave Vancouver for Sydney by same route.

Every Fri. Auckland - Nadi - Honolulu - Vancouver-Amsterdam.

Every Tues. leave Vancouver for Auckland by same route. (Note; Crosses date-line en-route).

SECTIONAL SERVICES IN

PACIFIC

2. Sydney-New Guinea

Service by Qantas Empire Airways (Sbymasters)

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.

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

Moresby, 1.00 pm Brisbane, 7.35 Brisbane, 9.00 pm Sydney, 11.45 Depart: Sat. Arrive: Lae, 7.00 am Moresby, 8.30

jresby, 9.30 am Cairns, 12.20 pm irns, 2.35 pm Townsville, 3.45 pm wnsville, 4.30 pm Brisbane, 8.15 pm Isbane, 9.00 pm Sydney, 11.45 pm

3. P-NG Internal Services

Operated by Qantas E —HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea)

(DCS)

ernate Wed. (Mar 21, Apr. 4, 18, etc.), parts Lae 10.30 am, calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandla 3.0 pm. Every alternate Thursday (Mar. 22, Apr. 5, 12, etc.), dep.

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

LAE-MANDS (DCS)

very Wednesday. >. Lae, 8.00 am: Finschhafen, Rabaul, Kavleng, arr. Manus 3.00 pm. urns Saturdays (dsp. 8 am), via Kavleng, Rabaul and Finschhafen arr.

Lae, 2.55 pm.

MOBESBT-DARU (Catalina) Yule Is., Kerema, Kikori, L. Kutubu.— lit. Fri. returning same day (Mar. 30, Ipr. 13, 27. etc.).

PORT MORESBY-RABAUL

(Catalina) Tues. (Mar. 20, Apr. 3, 17, etc.) *o r t Moresby - Samaral - Esa'ala -

jOsuia-Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Jacqui

tot Bay-Rabaul. Returning via same iorts (except Losuia and Esa’ala ptional) alt. Thu. (Mar. 22, Apr. 5, 9, etc.).

NEW BRITAIN-BOUGAINVILLE

(Catalina) Wed. Rabaul - Buka - Kieta - Buln Mar. 21, Apr. 4, 18, etc.). Returning ame day.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS

KAVIENG-RABAUL SERVICE

(DCS)

Thur. Dep. Lae 6.30 am, Madang rr. 7.35 am Wewak, Manus Is., :avleng, Rabaul arr. 3.40 pm. only Dep. Rabaul 8.00 am direct ladang, arr. 10.50 am, Wewak, tadang, Lae arr. 4.35 pm.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

(DCS)

ays—Lae (8.30 am) ta Wabamunda, ailing at any of: Qoroka, Nondugl, anz, Mlnj, Mt. Hagen, Balyer R., fabag, Wabamunda. Return to La« rrivlng 6 pm.

LOWER HIGHLANDS

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

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (DCS)

Lae.—Mon. 7.30 am, Tues. 2 pm, ed. 11,30 am, Fri. 2.00 pm.

Wau.—Mon. 9 am, Tues. 3.30 pm, ed. 1 pm, Fri. 3.30 pm. Bulolo is nitted on these flights which take 35 inutes, Wau-Lae.

MADANG-GOROKA (DCS)

WS- —Depart Madang 8.00 am, arrive aroka 8.35 am, returning same day; ;part Goroka 9.05 am, arrive Madang 35 am.

NEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN

(DCS)

ys—Depart Lae 12.55 pm, Finschhafen 45 pm, arrive Rabaul 3.55 pm. •days—Depart Rabaul 10 am, Madang 25 pm, arrive Lae 2.30 pm.

Sundays—Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen 1 pm, Rabaul 3.10 pm.

Tuesdays—Depart Rabaul 5.45 am. Pinsch hafen 8.10 am, arrive Lae 8.45 am.

SERVICES BY MANDATED AIRLINES

Scheduled Flights with DCS Aircraft Mon.: Depart Lae at 7.30 am for Goroka, Madang. Wewak, Madang, Rabaul remaining overnight. Depart Lae 8.00 am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 6.30 am for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.; Depart Lae 7.30 am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Fri.: Depart Lae at 7.00 am for Madang.

Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining 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 Blak, DNG, and Manila Philippines.

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, and Manokwari.

5. N. Guinea-Solomons

By Qantas with DCS (Three flights every four weeks) Mon. (Mar. 26, Apr. 2,9, 23, 30, etc.) Lae dep. 6 am Finschhafen-Rabaul-Buka- Vellalavella - Yandina - Honiara. BSI, arriving 5.25 pm.

Tues. (Mar. 27. Apr. 3, 10, 24, etc.) Honiara dep. 7 am Yandina - Vella lavella - Buka - Rabaul - Lae. arriving 3.35 pm.

6. Paris-Saigon-Noumea

By Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux.

DC6B aircraft depart Paris every 2 weeks (Mar. 27, Apr. 10, 24. etc.) for Cairo Karachi, Saigon, Darwin, Noumea.

Leave Noumea on return Mar. 31, Apr, 14, 28, etc.

7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

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

Return flight each Tuesday and Thursday.

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 Skymasters Flying-boats were replaced by Sky masters in 1955. Service now termmai.es at Tontouta (N. Caledonia) until Vila- Santo airfields ready. (See table 20.).

10. Sydney-Noumea

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, Mar. 21, Apr. 4, 18, etc.

Dep. Noumea, Mar. 22, Apr. 5, 19, 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.

Fri. only: Dep. Auckland 6.15 pm, arr.

Sydney 9.45 pm.

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

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

Tues., Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 pic arr, Auckland Wed., Fri., Sat., 6.30 au

13. Christchurch-Sydney

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

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

Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 8.00 au arr. Christchurch 3.10 pm.

14. Christchurch-Melbourro

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

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

Fri.; Dep. Melbourne 7.30 am, arr. Chrisi church 3.00 pm.

15. New Zealand-Fiji

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

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

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

16. Fiji-Tahiti

Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with extt flights as required.

Departs Suva Friday 9 am, crosses daft, line, arrives Satapuala (W. Samoc Thur. 2 pm, departs Fri. 2 am, arriw Aitutaki 7.30 am, departs 9.30 au arrives Papeete 2 pm. Departs Papee Sun. 7.30 am, arrives Aitutaki 11 au departs 1 pm, arrives Satapuala 5.. pm, departs Mon 7 am, crosses datt line, arrives Suva Tues., 9.55 am.

Leaves Suva Mar. 30, Apr. 12, 26, May 1 24; Papeete Apr. 1, 15, 29, May 13, 1

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 j Suva 4.55 pm.

Next flights Mar. 29. Apr. 19, May ;

18. E. Samoa Service

Pan American Airw’ays.

Approximately monthly flights, current! shuttling Honolulu-Canton-Tafuna ( Samoa)-Canton-Honolulu, but this me soon be replaced by a Nadi (Fijit Tafuna-Nadi monthly shuttle serviu

19. Fiji Internal Airways

Fiji Airways, Ltd. Drover and Rapide Aircraft.

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

Suva-Nadi: Tues., Sun. (additional to ti above return flight).

Nadi-Suva: Mon., Wed.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Daily except Sun.

Suva-Taveuni-Suva; Mon., Wed., Fri.

Suva - Savusavu - Taveuni .- Savusavuu Suva; Mon.

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

. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service

ciete Caledonienne de Transports Aeriens (TRANSPAC).

Rapide aircraft. nea ( Magenta)-Lifou (Chepenehe;foumea; Tues. am. nea-Mare (Tadine)-Noumea: Tues. pm. nea-Mare-Lifou-Noumea, or Noumea jifou-Mare-Noumea, alternatively, hurs. am. nea-Koumac-Noumea (with condi ional call at Plaine des Gaiacs); Pri. n. nea-Lifou-Ouvea Is: Wed. mornings. lea-Poindimie-Noumea (with condi onai call at Houailou); Pri. pm. lea-Iles des Pins-Noumea; Saturday id Sunday afternoons.

HEBRIDES SERVICE

is company operates an unscheduled ze Noumea-Vila-Santo approximately fortnightly.

. French Oceania Inter-

Island Service

egie Aerienne Interinsulair (RAI) (Amphibious Catalina) i weekly service to the Leeward oup. esday; Papeete-Raiatea-Bora Bora iatea-Papeete.

r- Papeete-Huahine-Ralatea-Papeete.

king agents in Papeete: Messageries iritimes.

22. Micronesia

Trans Ocean Airlines.

Using Grumman Albatross twin-motored amphibious flying-boats, operates a service throughout the American Trust Territory of Micronesia on behalf of the Govern ment. Details from Trans-Ocean Airlines Agana, Guam.

Fiji to Have Motor

p. 15

Rally at Easter

AN innovation for Fiji is the 450mile motor rally around the main island of Viti Levu at Easter. It was not so many years ago that the organisers of such an event would have been hard put to find 450 miles of motoring road any where in Fiji.

The main route is over the two main roads, Queen’s Road and King’s Road, with detours at Tailevu to Matavatacou, from King’s Road to Vunidawa, from King’s Road to Nadarivatu, and from Queen’s Road up the Sigatoka Valley.

Entries will be divided into three groups according to power and each car will carry a driver and a co driver.

The course is to be completed in a set time. Each vehicle will be allocated a certain number of points and penalties for early or late arrival at checking points will be

deducted. Average speeds are not to exceed 25, 24 and 23 miles per hour, according to the grading of vehicles.

Record Tonga Copra

p. 15

Production

The official Tonga Daily News sheet reports that copra pro duction in the Kingdom was an all-time record in 1955, the quantity £A?750363 eing 21,258 tOnS Valued . The quantity exported was slightly m excess of the quantity produced, , Q a hold-over of copra from Actual 1955 production is given 0l io^ S ; Ton T gatapu. 9,133 tons; Eua 125 tons; Ha’apai, 3,283 tons; Haafeva, 446 tons; Nomuka, 304 tons; VavaU 7,205 tons; Keppels, 90 9 q J Thl s makes a total of iko?? p roduc ed, as compared with 15,251 tons in 1954. .JJ 16 price paid to producers in £A - 57 ’ as compared with iA.63/10/- per ton in 1954

Contents:

p. 17

Editorial: Good Times—and a Word of Warning . .. 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Long Copra Price Negotia tions 19 “Fiji Times’’ Purchased by Pacific Publications Pty.

Ltd 19 Are They Expendable? Ara karimoa—Last of Long List of Pacific Sea Tragedies . 21 Hurricane Nerves as Suva Battens Down 21 Oil Search to Proceed in N. Caledonia 21 Hebrides Tuna Fishing .. 21 BSIP Murder—Psychiatrists Visit Poole 22 Samoan Home Rule by 1960 23 Strike Stir in the Fiji Cane fields 23 Proposed New Airservice from Sydney to Santiago .. 25 Mr. Casey Whitewashes Soekarno 25 Big Company Will Prospect Near Gold Ridge 25 Territories Talk Talk .. .. 27 Current News Items from Papua-New Guinea .. 33 End of a Dream —Papuan Shangri-La 46 Closing Manihiki is Unneces sary 47 Van Pel Investigates P-NG Fish Resources 49 Future Plans for Ex-Fijian Fighters 51 Marine Scientists Trace River In the Ocean .. .. 55 Fiji’s Speaker Takes London Course 58 The Yanks Are Back On Tarawa 59 Heyerdahl Makes Easter Is.

Discoveries 65 Some Fish Stories From Ex perts 66 Making Cook Group Fit For Islanders to Live In , 67 Tagging Migrating Tuna .. 70 Fiji Schoolboys Go Into Print 73

MAGAZINE SECTION:

Tropicalities 77; Finding Who’s Where At the NG Bar, 80; Radar’s Magic Box Soothes Islands Skippers’

Brows, 82.

On the Fish-Line At Palmer ston 86 Prison Reform in P-NG .. 89 Fiji’s Newest Population Figures 90 They Are Rare—But Hurri canes Are Known In Fr.

Oceania 91 New Caledonia’s Mineral Future Is Bright .. 95 News of the Smallships ... 97 A “First” for Fisherman’s Island 115 PNGPSA Has Discussions In Canberra 117 Spotlight On Bananas .. .. 118 Wau Is Now On the Bus..

Route 119 More Light On Poisonous Fish 112 No Betel-Nut Chewing Per mitted In P-NG Taxis .. 127 New Patrol Officers For

P-NG 130

Markham Valley Cocoa “Equals W. Africa” .. .. 131 Chief Scout In Fiji, Tonga 134 No Super-Connies On BOP Route 135 Proposed Flying-Boat Ser vice to Main Islands Group 143 OBITUARY: James Ryan; C. R. Muscutt; John C.

Sucking; High Chief Letuli; Mrs. Adele King, 145; R. K.

McLaren 158 Guadalcanal Club Has Troubles 147 International Airport For E. Samoa 149 Help Sought In N. Hebrides Biographies 150 Fiji’s Headache Not Enough Houses or Hotels 151 American H. Bomb Tests In Pacific 153 Commercial and Markets Information 160

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

Editorial...

pp. 19-20

[?]0D TIMES —AND A WORD OF WARNING

RODUCERS and merchants and traders in the South Pacific, while benefiting from and enjoy the high prices of all South hfic products—copra, gold, sugar, oa, coffee, bananas, oranges—and quite generous gifts of the ruling ntries, should not accustom mselves to the idea that these ;ors form the basis of their future manent economy, conomic conditions in the South Ific to-day provide a pleasant I stimulating picture; but an ex ination of the background sug :s some elements of uncertainty, fter World War 11, all the South ific countries got away to a ?nificent start. The Territories wards of New Guinea and )mons and especially New 3donia and New Hebrides, lerto rather poor—received a tiendous injection of United tes dollars; and turned back ards normal life with a “stock ’ that in many instances still is :ing. apua and New Guinea, despite taged plantations, wrecked towns general devastation, also were d most substantially to a new t by £12,000,000 of Australian 1 Damage Compensation, liber spread around. other words, when World War /as over, and the South Pacific itries made up their balance ts, it was found that most of i (the war-battered Solomons, derella of the Pacific,” being table exception) had been deeply permanently enriched. This was wed by important rises in the values of practically all Islands ucts. Ever since, a good time been had by all.

I classes have benefited. Living dards have been raised. Many ines have been made. The good ; have lasted so consistently and ng that they now are regarded some places, with inexcusable )lacency—as a permanent con n. ere has been a big, permanent, forward, but the step is not ly . so big as many people ine.

E factor which is of importance in maintaining economic stability in the South Pacific is protection given by Britain to i and sugar. The price of each uaranteed by Britain under standing contracts, the case of copra, the price i all British countries receive at fixed by the British Min of Food Contract (until the 3f 1957); and, thus, all British are receiving a rate is substantially above that of world’s open market. After South Pacific copra will sell

in direct competition with the pro ducts of Indonesia, Malaya, Philip pines, etc.—and growers will have neither the same profits nor the same certainty of profits that they have known since 1949.

As other evidence of what can happen it should be noted that the really remarkable prices which growers of coffee and cocoa received up until the end of 1954 have fallen substantially.

Cocoa now is half what it was 18-24 months ago. There was a period when the Western Samoans, for example, were getting about £stg.soo a ton for their product—and living conditions throughout Samoa were perceptibly sweetened as a con sequence. Cocoa, at between £2OO and £250 Stg. a ton, at present, still is quite a profitable crop; but some pepple and some countries who had built a sort of permanent economy around £4OO-£5OO Stg. a ton, have suffered considerable embarrassment.

Similar embarrassment almost certainly will be felt by unwise copra-growers who have adjusted

their lives to the comfortable rates provided under the MOF contract.

A similar word of warning should go out to the people of Papua and New Guinea who, while enjoying high prices for copra, coffee and cocoa, have also got the happy back wash from the annual expenditure of the Australian grant of from £6 to £8 million pounds per annum, and the £2 million per annum spent on the search for oil.

There is no indication that these lavish supplies will be cut off with out ample warning—but it could happen.

THERE is no sign of a recession— nothing to be alarmed about.

But there is a very real danger inherent in the tendency of people to accept the conditions which have ruled since World War II as per manent, and to build their lives around them, when anyone can see that an international disturbance could reduce Islands incomes sud denly and substantially.

With more and more people striving steadily towards higher standards of life, the tendency is for world demands generally to grow, and the prices of commodities m demand to at least, stay steady.

But the levels thereby ensured are above the levels which somewhat extraordinary conditions have estab-

The Student...

lished throughout the Islands. All traders, from the small planter or sheller or miner, to the healthy co operative society and the big cor poration, would be very wise to assess for themselves the proportion of their income which may be re garded as extraordinary or imper manent, and to place that margin sternly away in a reserve account, and build their regular economy around what is left —and which may be regarded as reasonably normal income. If no serious readjustment of Islands revenues comes along they will have that much tucked away safely in their savings. If •it does come, then they have a set-up that will take care of the new con ditions, plus a reserve to cushion the shock if the change is more severe than expected.

New Guinea —with huge revenues and no income taxation —especially should be careful, and build up re serves for the future.

Editorship Of Pacific

p. 20

ISLANDS MONTHLY

THE founder and editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Mr.

R. W. Robson, has spent some time recently in Fiji, in connection with a reorganisation of The Fiji Times (recently purchased by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. and associated interests —see article opposite page this issue). It is ex pected that his immediate task there will be completed in April; and he has made plans for a lengthy visit to Papua and New Guinea in May.

Mr. Robson continues to write frequently for the Pacific Islands Monthly, but last year, while he was abroad, and this year, while he is absent in Fiji, New Guinea, etc., the editorship of the PIM has been, and will be, carried on by the Assistant Editor, Mrs. Judy Tudor.

It may interest old friends of the original Pacific Islands Monthly to know that Pacific Publications Pty.

Ltd., either directly or through associated companies, now controls and directs: Pacific Islands Monthly.

Pacific Islands Year Book.

Handbook of Papua and New Guinea.

The Fiji Times.

Shanti Dut (Fiji-lndian weekly newspaper).

Power Farming in Australia and New Zealand.

Australasian Baker.

Australasian Confectioner.

Better Farming Digest and three other old-established technical journals.

The large publishing and printing organisation which Mr. Robson now supervises, therefore, is fairly evenly divided between nroviding news paper services for all the South Pacific Islands, and technical in formation services for large in dustries in Australia, New Zealand, and the Islands.

The Editors’ Mailbag

p. 20

When Fiji Times Printed

Stamps, Bank Notes

The death of Mrs. C. S. McOwan recalls to the mind of one old Fiji resident some interesting facts about her father, Mr. George Littleton Griffiths.

It was Mr. Griffiths who started the Fiji Times at Levuka in 1869 when Cakobau’s short-lived Fiji Government was in power. (Fiji was not ceded to Britain until 1874) .

Mr. Griffiths was responsible also for the establishment of Fiji’s first postal service and printed the first bank-notes on his printing press.

During Cakobau’s government there were no postal services but Griffiths printed the Fiji Times Ex press Stamps and established a mailing service that worked until the British Government took over.

He had a whale-boat with a crack Fijian crew. This whale-boat was rowed out several miles off Levuka to meet the early sailing boats on their regular routes between Aus tralia and San Francisco.

About the same time he printed on Fiji Times equipment the first crude bank notes. They were in dollars —showing the early American influence in Fiji.

German Bombardment of

Papeete

M. Emile Mazel, of Papeete, has vivid memories of the shelling of Papeete by the German warship Scharnhorst on September 22, 1914. (See PIM issues of September and October, 1955).

M. Mazel was a policeman at the time and was, he claims, the first to be advised of the identity of the two warships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau that appeared off Papeete at dawn on that day.

It was inevitable that panic would ensue when sleepy, laughter-loving Papeete was suddenly confronted with the might of the German navy, but M. Mazel speaks well of the actions of some of the officials in authority, with special praise for Major Destremeau.

In a letter to PIM, M. Mazel states that only one instance of loot ing by locals was actually sub stantiated.

English Translation of

Parkinson's Famous Book

From a reader in NZ: “Has any one made a translation of Parkin son’s Thirty Years in the South

Seas?” ,

Yes, the famous German book was translated by Mr. Noel Barry, of Kokopo. NG. and the transla tion (still in MS form) is now in

the safe keeping of the Librarian of the School of Pacific Administra-j tion, Mosman, Sydney. It has s curious history.

During World War 11, the Editoic of PIM assisted Mrs. Dolly: Messenger. Dolly was a daughter o;c Mrs. Phoebe Parkinson (widow o:c the author) and was married first to a German. The Parkinson family (Phoebe was a full sister or “Queen Emma” Kolbe) had strongj German associations; and, wher World War II settled upon thu Pacific, Dolly was interned in Ause tralia, although her second husbanoj was British. Later, she was releasee* from Tatura, and was rather brutall;!

“man-powered” to a hospital kitcheif job in Cobar, NSW. The PIM helper her to escape from there, and intd a job in Sydney: and, just befori she died, about the end of the war, she told the PIM about a “ven valuable manuscript” which shr claimed was her property—the Barn translation of her father’s book.

We found out that, before the Jai invasion, Mrs. Parkinson (who dies in New Ireland during the Jai occupation) gave the MS to as American sea-captain connectes with Millionaire Archbold’s scientific expedition; and the captaii promised that it would be publishes in USA.

The subsequent search for the MI by the PIM occupied years, and ws prosecuted in three countries Eventually, we located it in Souti Carolina, USA, in the possession o the widow of the American ses captain; and it came to us H registered post.

The idea that it was valuable has spread. Claim was laid to it U another member of the late Mn Parkinson’s family. A claim alsJ was lodged on behalf of Mr. Barr —the man who, in association win Mrs. Parkinson, had done all tn work.

But their hopes were in vain. Tli original German printed text wr lavishly illustrated: the origin: illustrations have long since dir appeared: the text is useless witn out the pictures. No publisher woui look at it.

Unable to decide between the rivv claims, and unwilling to allow thi valuable record of early New Guinu (the only translation extant) to 1 lost, the Editor of the PIM handtt the MS over to the Library namti above.

U Mr. R. B. Carpenter, Managiri Director of W. R. Carpenter & C Ltd., Sydney, and Mr. J. B. Bail©.

General Manager of the Southed Pacific Insurance Co., were, in eau.

February, on a visit to Fiji fron Australia. Mr. Carpenter was ti specting the various interests of n Company in the light of the ntu Carpenter-Morris Hedstrom alliamr

Long Copra Price

p. 21

OF

GREEMENT

Long Copra Price Negotiations

IHE 1956 price of copra sold by British South Pacific producing countries under the UK Min ry of Food Agreement was still itative when PIM went to press March 12.

Negotiations have been going on ice December and according to 3 Department of Territories in nberra, finality was expected “at y time.” !n the meantime, copra is being rchased in most British South cific territories on a price based the full permissible 10 per cent. 1 on 1955 prices—that is, at

;g.58/10/- FOB.

[?]ew Governor

p. 21

[?]rrives In Noumea

'EW Caledonia’s new Governor, M. Aime Grimald, arrived in Noumea on March 4. The Gov or is also High Commissioner for ince in the Pacific.

I. Grimald, who was born at lefranche-sur-Saone in 1903, has 1 a distinguished career in the /ice of the French colonial em 3, a considerable part of it in o-China. More recently he has o service in Oubangui-Chari and had some advisory appoint its in metropolitan France.

India's Sixth Anniversary Celebrated in Fiji

p. 21

The sixth anniversary of the inauguration of India as an independent Republic was celebrated by the Indian community of Fiji on January 26.

The Indian Commissioner in Fiji, Mr. Devi Diyal Bhatia, spoke over the Fiji Broadcasting Commission network during the morning, and in the late afternoon he and Mrs. Bhatia held a reception for 400 guests in the Grand Pacific Hotel. Our photograph, taken at the reception, shows, left to right, The Commissioner; Mrs.

Bhatia; ADC to the Governor of Fiji; Lady Garvey; and Sir Ronald Garvey, Governor of Fiji.

[?] Times Purchased By Pacific Publications

p. 21

ST February 29, the Company known as Fiji Times and Herald Limited, owners of The Fiji les (daily newspaper), Shanti Dut dian weekly newspaper) and the jest printing factory in Fiji, was I by Sir Alport Barker to Mr.

W. Robson. bout two-thirds of the shares e transferred immediately to ific Publications Pty. Ltd., of ney (owners of Pacific Islands ithly and several associated lications) and the remainder to nail group of private investors, [r. Robson, then in Suva, im liatedy assumed control of the Times Company, as Managing sctor, and since has been en ed there in the work of re alisation. This is a large and ving and profitable business; but is often characteristic of old blished concerns—it has been many years conducted according ;he rules and ideas of an older eration. r. Alan Moyle continues in the ice of the Company as Manag- Editor. Mr. Robson proposes to oint a business manager and

iting-house manager.

is probable that The Fiji

Times, hitherto issued as an evening paper, will become a morning news paper as soon as the necessary alterations can be made in plant, staff, news service, etc. Fiji, owing to its community structure and transport organisation, can best be served by morning publication.

The Fiji Times was first published in Levuka in 1869 by Mr. G. L.

Griffiths. In 1887, he moved its publishing office to Suva, and merged it with his Suva Times. About 1901, Mr. Thomas Alport Barker estab lished the Western Pacific Herald in Suva. He bought The Fiji Times in 1918; and he has carried on the combined newspaper, as Fiji Times and Herald, until now, without any serious opposition.

The newspaper will be known in the future as The Fiji Times.

In a prominent article in The Fiji Times, and in a broadcast, Mr.

Robson paid a tribute to the services given to the Colony over many years by Sir Alport Barker (who retired last year from active direction and now is living in Auckland).

In explaining the newspaper ser vices which his Company proposes to provide in Fiji, Mr. Robson made

a strong point of his belief that the large and prosperous Colony now is merging into young nationhood, and that the future of Fiji belongs to the Fiji-born—Europeans, part- Europeans, Fijians, Indians, Chinese, Polynesians—and that it will be the duty of the newspapers ( The Fiji Times, Shanti Dut, and a weekly journal in Fijian which it is planned to establish soon) to assist the younger people of all races to work together as one community and to prepare themselves to exercise a growing measure of self-government. fl Taesali of Ululei, 68, American Samoa, World War I veteran and leader of the former Fita Fita Guard, died February 7. He once escorted several German prisoners of war to Hawaii, also was com mended for being a member of the boarding party that helped ex tinguish the flames on the burning ex-RMS Tahiti that came into Pago Pago Harbour in 1930. He is sur vived by his wife, Puni, 4 sons and 3 daughters.

ARAKARIMOA —Latest in a Long List

pp. 22-140

Are They Expendable?

ARAKARIMOA —Latest in a Long List of South Pacific Sea Tragedies

The sensational appearance of the Gilbert Islands auxiliary ketch Arakarimoa, off the Southern Guadalcanal coast, on Feb. 28, 1,000 miles from where she disappeared 64 days previously, emphasises once again the casual manner in which smallships operations in the Pacific is regarded.

DETAILS of the long drift and rescue of survivors is still sketchy as the area where the survivors got ashore is one of the most isolated in the Solomons. In addition, these waters were at that time be ing lashed by the gales that were prevailing over almost the whole of the South Pacific. However, this appears to be what happened: The Arakarimoa, a 60-ft auxiliary ketch, and one of two vessels owned by the Tangitang Society, a Tarawa Co-operative, with a crew of 12 and eight passengers including women and children, sailed in company of the Society’s other ship, Aratoba, from Tarawa on December 28. Their destination was Maiana, 19 miles away.

The vessels were in sight of one another till midnight, when Arakari moa increased speed and went ahead. In the morning it was neces sary to await the tide to enter the pass and Aratoha anchored at Tebikerai anchorage, entering in the afternoon to find that Arakarimoa had not arrived.

This was reported to Tarawa and The Govenment vessel Nareau commenced a search to the westward on the afternoon of December 30, returning on the evening of De cember 31, reporting that she had sighted nothing.

No request was made to the

RNZAF air-sea rescue organisation at Suva for an aerial search although the acting secretary of the Western Pacific High Commission is reported in a New Zealand paper as having said United States aircraft searched for the vessel on January 3.

Nothing was made public about the ketch’s disappearance until early February, by which time the vessel had been missing over a month.

It seems that then the ketch was written off and left to its fate.

Some details of the last chapter in Arakarimoa’s history are still not clear but the following details are taken from a statement made by Mr. J. C. Grover, Government Geologist, who was surveying in Southern Guadalcanal at the end of February.

ABOUT 8 a.m., on February 28, two native runners arrived at Avu Avu mission with news that the missing ketch was drifting off the steep-to coast of Guadalcanal and that 12 survivors had come ashore in a dinghy, weak from hunger. A message to this effect was sent to the nearest radio, at Marau, 24 hours walk away, for despatch to Honiara.

Father de Block, of the Mission, and Grover immediately set off to Malageti, the nearest mission to

where the sur vivors had landed, but an hour along the way, the ketch was sighted and while Fr. de Block went on to Malag e t i, Grover returned to Avu Avu, where parties were organised to watch the ship for sur vivors and then he walked to a village five hours away to the east to organise canoes to rescue the six still be lieved to be on board.

During the night a gale blew from the WSW which made cau rescue impossible and at the sas time blew the ketch out of sii; of those waiting at Avu Avu. Lax Arakarimoa was sighted 21 miles the south and was subsequen found to have gone on the Po' reef.

Heavy storms with winds of un 70 mph swept the area on Feb..

Early on the morning of Marctl runners arrived to report the arrh of two survivors ashore at Tab after a 12 hours swim in lifejacK from the ship. Four other peoc including a woman and a child, I left the ship with them to sw but nothing had been heard of tM and they are presumed lost. (Accounts from the first survivors to n Honiara show that the first 12 people to r the shore were in two 8 ft. dinghies belom to the ketch. Both dinghies turned over im surf, and a five year old boy was lost the first one—he was the son of a we (saved) who had given birth to a child om ship at the end of January. It lived om few days. Captain J. E. Hugill, of Arakarii had promised to go back for the other s people on board when he got his first I load ashore, but when the storm made impossible, they apparently got desperates six, including a 1 year old child, tries swim for it. The two survivors of this ( are the ones who came ashore at Talise.; Meanwhile, on the night of El ruary 29, two ships had been spatched from Honiara —they w the Myrtle, with Captain J. Max 1 : in command, and the medical s Betua. The Government had i asked New Guinea for a plan© search the area and drop supn to survivors. On March 1, bees of violent seas, the two small si; had to shelter. On March 2 ti again put to sea and swept a \r area. A Qantas plane from reached Vella Lavella with difficc on the night of March 2, and! the morning of March 3 loot; Arakarimoa on Poole reef, direis the ships to her and drop* medical and food supplies to .

Avu Mission.

Captain Maxwell succeeded in ; ting onto Arakarimoa by dinx where he found the ship’s bott ripped out and the body of am man on board. Because of approai ing squalls he could not remove j body. • • • Piecing together the story ofi English-speaking survivor, it appq that the engine broke down tld hours out of Tarawa, it could J be started because the “battery ’ cracked.” The sea was too deepq an anchor and a sea anchor fa to stop the drift. After two « they “put up a small sail” and fi to beat back to Tarawa, but ; wind drove them south for : days, after which they were calmed for three days. The c thereafter continued south, southwest to west.

A survivor is reported to I said, “We had no radio,” and no means of signalling. ThL contrary to what PIM has beem formed as to the equipment ofi

Arakarimoa.— Photo by Nancy Phelan.

;ssel. However, the radio may ave been taken out, or what is ore likely, been useless once the igine was out of action, or the uteries “cracked.” PIM informa m is that Arakarimoa was [uipped with radio, using the phan Gilbert and Ellice Is. fre lency upon which Tarawa keeps itch two or three times per day, id which is unheard by any other ation.

The ship carried no maps or

irts (the italics are ours) lough a compass is said to have owed us where we were going ” n he meagre supply of food on i'd was rationed after the first ee weeks but long before she :hed the end of her freak voyage, d consisted only of what few l were caught, plus rain water. |wo ships were sighted, both at ht; oil flares were lit to try to 'act the ships but they were ter unseen or misunderstood, istralian newspapers have tried make something out of this— )S Ignored by two ships” is how yas put, and it was alleged that ships put out their lights and ippeared. The ships are believed lave been Japanese fishing boats , after the crimes, ranging from rder and piracy downwards, of ch the Japs have been accused ecent months, it is small wonder :hey cut and run at the first l of anything unusual). 1 much for the story of Arakari moa—the ends results of which were apparently much better i were expected in so far as at t 14 people were saved. But karimoa is just one incident in mg line of South Pacific sea :edies of recent years which

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ht not have happened if lentary precautions for the safety mall ships at sea were enforced. is quite obvious that while the ority of small ships in the .fic are run with every regard afety, the minority are not, and people who entrust their lives hese latter take the same risks ay as were taken 100 years ago, that modern technical advances ; availed them nothing. It might i be said that more risks are n as sole reliance is sometimes in engines that fail to work or adios whose batteries are run i, or whose frequencies are und beyond their own home bases. hat might be done to make ges by small ships safer is ;ed fully in “News of the Small- 5” in this issue of PIM. But at stage it is a fair question to what is the official attitude to ? small sea disasters. Can it be n that the official and public is that anyone who goes out small ship in the South Pacific be regarded as expendable? e case of the Arakarimoa seems idicate that this is so. . attempts to locate Arakarimoa abandoned within a week of iisappearance. The G & E. Govlent ship Nareau searched for for two days—then gave up— because Arakarimoa was not

around any more—as has been proved by the fact that she has now turned up—but because Nureau apparently looked in the wrong places. A search is said to have been made by a US plane—presum ably one of the planes being used to set up the new US meteorological station at Tarawa, which would come in from the north, After this, Arakarimoa was callously left to her own fate. Some one now is likely to be asked why, although if the vessel had not incon veniently turned up again, sleeping dogs would no doubt have been allowed to lie.

Arakarimoa is just one of a dozen small ships which in recent years have been involved in incidents that ended in tragedy or nearly missed tragedy.

The Joyita affair is of so recent a date details need not be repeated here. Two other vessels whose fate is even more of a complete mystery are Awahou and Monique.

Awahou, well known in G & E and Fiji waters, disappeared on a voyage in rough weather, between Sydney and Lord Howe Island in Sep tember, 1952. What appeared to be a distress signal had been received from her on September 10 but after that there was complete silence, Because she was registered in Suva, the Australian Navigation De

partment could not hold an in quiry without Suva approval. This inquiry was held in Sydney seven months later. The Court found that she had been given a certificate of seaworthiness before leaving Sydney and that the cargo had been properly stowed. Awahou had been involved in an incident in Suva

waters some years before, when she had had to be towed into port by the Government vessel Degei and it had been suggested that under some circumstances she was unstable.

Eighteen lives were lost on her.

The biggest tragedy of recent years was, however, when the French 240-tons motor vessel Monique dis appeared on July 31, 1953, on a 75 miles voyage between Mare, in the Loyalty Group, and Noumea.

About 120 people, including 20 Europeans, disappeared with her.

An extensive air search was made for this ship without result and the general opinion was that she had simply turned turtle and sunk, im prisoning her crew and passengers.

It was alleged that sacks of copra were stacked on the bridge four or five feet above the rail, that the life boats Monique carried were piled high with luggage as were also the passageways so that passengers were unable to move about the ship at all.

One thing is certain about these sea “mysteries”—they are not caused by submarines, Red, White, Blue or any other hue, or by Flying- Saucers, Little Green Men, Space Ships or any other un-natural phenomenon. They are caused by either the natural hazards of the sea, or the failure of the human element to take precautions some where along the line —and, it seems, it is too frequently the latter.

Junk Jinxes Johnson

p. 23

ONALD JOHNSON, champion Pacific ocean drifter, set sail alone from Sydney on March 15 in his 30 ft. Chinese junk :ep Blue Sea". First stop: Honiara, BSIP. he junk was painted bright blue and on rd was a complete trochus fishing outfit e hoped to sell the junk and gear in the jmons as a "going concern" or failing I, go into the trochus business himself, n a blaze of newspaper headlines the junk ich he brought from Hongkong a year ago board a freighter) was towed out of the four and then, with a 30 mph southerly ind it, disappeared quickly over the zon. Johnson said before leaving that fitsmen laughed at his junk but in spite the fact that he had only cumbersome icse-type, lateen sails, and had never d it on ocean cruising, he was sure "that would be all right".

'ell, that was yesterday—and presumably yachtsmen are now laughing because this ning (March 16) the "Deep Blue Sea" wrecked just north of Broken Bay and es of the junk were strewn along the NSW ;tline. e would have almost bet on Johnson elves he has been involved in a ber of sea adventures—the most famous which was his drift of several months in from Hawaii to Fiji in what is now the fi|i-waters flagship "Tovata".

ajale, S rttt

p. 23

HURRICANE

NERVES

Suva Battens Down But Misses Blow

SUVA had a hurricane nanir nn «.;■ s, wh warning” flags

people, includLrkly technicians in

and STAS tS

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ments respective manage f And, as it happened, it was ali o° r Suv a m was ß^ battened 16 down™ and stifling the threatened d ofvfti a fevu° fl AlTsuv? I KM

ajale, S rttt

Hebrides Tuna Fishing

p. 23

DEVELOPMENTS

LIKELY

SOME finalitv nnnn thp P 4. th P r °P° sed Sw Sr sl ? lr ?§ venture at Santo, New Hebrides, which recently raised some controversy because of local prejudice against Japanese in filtration, is expected at an early date. P edr y

approval th^Fvlnc^British and

Condominum Governments, it was rumoured a couple of months ago that it was to be abandoned be cause of “Canberra pressure.”

Mr. Don Gubbay, promotor of the scheme, has been negotiating with American interests for some time, and is expected in Sydney in March to attend a meeting of interested parties.

Proceed

p. 23

Oil Search to Proceed In N. Caledonia

THE predominantly French Gov

ernment-owned oil-prospecting

company SREPNC, which got encouraging results from a drill in the Bouraii district of New Cale donia last year, will continue oil prospecting in the Colony.

This has been made possible by increasing the capital of the com pany by 40 million francs (£A280,000).

The New Caledonian Government will provide six millions of this, the Oil Research Bureau in Paris 26 million francs and the remainder will be subscribed by private share holders in Noumea.

Siesmic tests will be made at the Bouraii site, and prospecting followed by seismic tests will be carried on in the Noumea peninsula which overseas geologists have described as an “interesting” area.

Back before World War I, oil drilling was tried in the Noumea beach-side suburb of Anse Vata (which now, of course, is also the headquarters of the South Pacific Commission).

This Month This Man Made Sydney News...

p. 23

The Major...wife wanted. —Daily Telegraph Photo.

SIX-FEET tall Major J. Sciortino, 38 and an ex-Dragoon Guardsman, was in Australia in late February looking for a wife to take back to his plantation on Lahir Island off the coast of New Ireland. At least that is what Sydney newspapers said that he said.

The Major had just completed a three months holiday in the UK, France and USA— but prospective wives shied off when they knew they would have to live in New Guinea, which they associated with cannibals. The Major hoped that Australian girls would be "more sensible".

The number of Sydney girls (photographs supplied) interested in the Major's proposition was said to number "scores". But perhaps he developed cold feet because he left for Adelaide before they could contact him and is now believed to be on his way back to Lahir.

It could even be that he was pulling the

reporters' legs.

Psychiatrists

p. 24

BSIP Murder

CASE OF THE SHY

TN order to have a little each

way, the British Solomon

Islands Protectorate has imported

(a) a gallows; and (b) some

tear-gas from Hong Kong.

The gallows are to hang Reginald Poole, who was sentenced to death in Honiara in February for the murder of a mission native, if the appeal which he has now signed fails. The tear-gas is to quell native rioters if Poole wins his appeal.

Anyway, this is what rumour and the newspapers say. The reader may believe it if he wishes.

Two psychiatrists have visited Honiara and departed. They were sent by the British Home Office.

They arrived in Sydney from Lon don in late February and while they were waiting for a plane connection to Honiara went —according to the Sydney Sunday Telegraph —“into hiding.”

If they are good psychiatrists they probably know that this is the wrong thing to do —not only is it likely to cause them to develop complexes but it is the sort of conduct cal culated to drive newspaper reporters to a frenzy.

The reporters found their hotel, where the manager said they were registered and where the receptionist said they were not.

The psychiatrists are Dr. Harvie Snell and Dr. Joseph Hopgood. They were in Honiara “observing” Poole.

There appears to be no legitimate reason why they should not do this; no reason why the whole thing should be shrouded in mysteries; and no reason why the psychiatrists should go into hiding—if they did.

It Was a Case of

p. 24

FIJI AIRCRASH

INQUIRY

It Was a Case of Pilot Error

CLAUSE of the Fiji Airways Drover crash between Nausori and Nadi on December 30 has been found to be due to pilot error. Con tributory factors were breach of flying regulations by the pilot; and faulty airmanship displayed by fly ing the aircraft in such a manner as to be trapped in a blind valley.

The investigation was conducted by Squadron-Leader M. S. Gunton,

RNZAF.

Captain Brian McCook was pilot of the plane. He was injured in the crash but was able to walk to a village. There were no passengers.

New Ships

p. 24

MATSON LINE

New Offices and New Ships

THE Matson Line’s attractive new booking offices in Sydney, at Berger House, Elizabeth Street, were officially opened on February 27 with a cocktail party for gentle men (about 50) and ladies (3) of the Press. This booking office is sub sidiary to the company’s main offices in Martin Place but is now in busi ness making advance bookings on Monterey and Mariposa, both of which will be on the Pacific service at the end of this year.

In the new office good use has been made of Queensland maple in the furniture and fixtures. A large illuminated mural map of the Pacific takes up part of the main wall and the “switch-back” ceiling in half-round hardwood strips looks like bamboo.

But the description of two new ships is as mouth-watering as the new offices —particularly to hardened South Pacific travellers who are used to taking what they can get and lumping it. All (repeat, all) cabins have private showers and toilets and some have baths —and, if you have that kind of money, you can have a “Lanai or deluxe suite.”

There is a variety of lounges and bars, swimming pool, theatre, dining rooms; the ships are entirely air conditioned, and equipped with stabilising fins.

Each vessel will carry 365 passeng ers, all in first-class. Fares were published in February PIM, but in Australian currency, the minimum fare. Sydney-San Francisco, is £245/11/-.

Mariposa will arrive in Sydney on her maiden voyage on November 21.

Monterey will begin her service shortly afterwards.

The entry of these two £lO million ships to the Pacific service has ended 10 years of uncertainty. It was ex pected that the old Mariposa and Monterey would be reconverted to passenger use after Pacific war transport duties but high costs and failure of negotiations between the Oceanic Steamship Co. and the US Government prevented this. The old Marpiosa is now the Homeric, operating in the Atlantic under the Italian flag; the old Monterey will

re-enter Matson service. She is H ing reconditioned and as the Mq sonia will go onto the California.

Hawaii run about June next year;

Artist's sketch of one of the new Matson ships.

Pacific Service, T[?]

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New Ship on S.W.

THE MV Milos, latest addition i the Swedish-owned Australl West Pacific Line fleet, arriv in Sydney mid-February. She v enter the three-weekly “expn service” that this company operae between Australia, Manila, Hon kong, and main Japanese ports, wv calls at New Guinea and BSIP pco on the southbound journey.

Clean and modern in outline, 1 Milos is of 6,635 dead-weight tonns offers high-class accommodation 12 passengers, and steams at knots fully loaded.

A feature of the Milos (and 1 sister ship Delos ) is the complete self-supporting masts, which s serve as intakes for the force draught ventilation of the hold;l The Aros and Citos complete quartette of modern vessels maintain this service.

Messrs. Wilhelm Wilhelmr Agency Pty. Ltd., are the manage agents for Australia.

$3 Million Worth o[?]

p. 24

Tuna in 6 Mont[?]

AFTER shipping approximaii 25,000 cases of canned fishr January to the US, the T Camp Sea Food Company passedfc $3,000,000 mark in total exp« since July, 1955.

New fishing vessels chartered fi Japan are coming in to catch ; for Samoa’s cannery. The freeze ship Chikeuzen Maru arrived in I* Pago on January 5 to handle fishl fleet needs for the next six monr Eleven fishing vessels have arrr and others will come in shoic These vessels run from 65 to feet in length, with cargo carry capacities of 20 to 65 tons.

[?]amoan Home Rule

p. 25

"By 1960."

IE people of Western Samoa, destined for self-government by Constititional Convention of 4, have been asked to pass judg t upon a plan released in January the New Zealand Government aimed at Samoan Cabinet ernment in 1960. lis plan, made known by the i Commissioner, Mr. G. R. les, provides for the establish t of Cabinet Government by e steps, the first to be taken year, the second at the end 157, and the third, if satisfactory ress has been made, in 1960. abinet Government having been sssfully established,” the official ment says, “only one more fica’nt step would be necessary re it could be said that self rnment had been achieved, his would be a change in the is of the New Zealand repre itive and the assumption by the I State of the proper powers functions of that office.

Tien this should be done would le subject of discussion between new Government of Western Da and the Government of New md.” iitors to Western Samoa to-day truck by the vigour with which mile people are prosecuting the msibilities already handed over tern, particularly in the educa -1 field. t this spirit is not universal, i political apathy exists, and j Samoans, content with their under prevailing prosperity, ir a slow transition from the nt trust administration to a ; rule that bristles with diffi ;s, due mainly to the age-old isies that divide the still rful and ambitious chiefly ies. stern Samoa has been riding :ocoa and copra boom, but the - peak has passed, and, con -3 of the phenomenal birth rate e group, the New Zealand Gov ent urges the Samoan leaders ct in the realisation that cal progress depends largely a sound and adequate economy. 24-years-old Brisbane school er, Miss Joan Coley, has left alia to take up her appoint as principal of St. Mary’s •1 for girls of the Indian Mission basa, in Vanua Levu, Fiji. ?adier H. B. Norman, Admin or of Norfolk Island, is negoti with TEAL for a weekly air it link with Auckland to com e this year, the centenary of nding of the Pitcairn Islanders Drfolk.

Dutch N. Guinea

p. 25

IT’S NOT OFFICIAL

P-NG Administrator In Dutch N. Guinea

THE visit which the Administrator of Papua and New Guinea, Brigadier D. M. Cleland was making to Dr. Van Baal, Governor of Dutch New Guinea, in early March, was on a “personal basis,” said Brigadier Cleland before he left by air on February 29.

This is a return visit to one made to the Australian Territory by the Dutch New Guinea Governor some time ago.

A visit by Brigadier Cleland was expected to take place last year. It was cancelled and no reason given.

At the last meeting of the P-NG Legislative Council, Mr. George Whittaker, elected member for New Guinea Mainland, brought up the subject of the Administrator’s can celled visit. The implication was that it was the result of changed Australian policy towards the Netherlands and Indonesia.

Top Grade

p. 25

NG Coffee Can be Top Grade

COFFEE seedlings taken to Papua- New Guinea by Professor Y.

Baron Goto, one of the world’s leading authorities on coffee, were destroyed by Plant Quarantine authorities in Port Moresby. This is normal quarantine procedure.

A small quantity of Hawaiian coffee beans, also taken to the Terri tory by the Professor, will be grown in the plant introduction centre near Port Moresby and will be dis tributed later.

Professor Goto is reported to be enthusiastic about the prospects of coffee production in the New Guinea Highlands.

The Professor’s visit to P-NG was sponsored by the Bank of New South Wales, Commonwealth Bank, Colyer Watson (NG) Ltd., Robert Bunting and the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association at Goroka.

Professor Goto’s views on NG Highlands’ coffee potential, made known in Sydney on March 12, will be featured in the April PIM.

How A Publicity Seeker Was Exposed By

pp. 25-158

A STIR IN THE FIJIAN CANEFI ELDS

HIS OWN VERBIAGE

By R. W. Robson, in Suva

THERE has been an extraordinary disturbance lately in that section of industrial and commercial Fiji that is dominated by sugar— and that is practically all Fiji For the most part, the interest and excitement is confined to Fiji; but PIM readers elsewhere may like

to know the background of the row, and what it is all about.

On first glance, it may seem to be the outcome of discontent among the very many thousands of Indians who grow cane on contract for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. The CSR (as it is everywhere called) is the very large Australia-based organ isation which owns and runs the sugar industry in Fiji, and which thereby has provided this prosper ous British Colony with at least two-thirds of its economic backbone.

But the trouble is not economic or industrial. In my view, it stems directly from the personality and ambitions of an unusual type of European—a British lawyer named N. S. Chalmers, who has assumed leadership over a section of the Indians, and apparently envisages himself as a sort of Moses, leading poor helpless Asians out of the British-Fijian wilderness. He is a tireless and most prolific letter writer.

Actually, I think he is a menace to the peace and security of the more responsible type of Fiji-Indians (who are certainly in the majority) and, so far as Fiji generally is con cerned, if he is taken seriously he can be a public nuisance.

First, let me try to show how “Nat Chalmers” (as he is usually de scribed) comes into this picture.

THERE are seven separate unions of Indian cane-farmers, and not one of them claim to speak for the cane-farmers of Fiji, as a whole.

Political considerations seem to enter largely into the activities of each union. To a large extent, each union might be called an extension of the political personality of its principal leader, or group of leaders.

The unions tend to line them selves up in accordance with the political groupings of their leaders.

Changes in these groupings occur from time to time. These changes sometimes result from personal an tagonisms or rivalries. Sometimes they are the result of bargaining between the various leaders.

It can be assumed that usually, if one union or group of unions advocates or supports a proposal, those unions with leaders in rival groups will oppose it. It is unusual for the unions to speak with a united voice. Rivalry tends to in crease in election year, as the vari ous political leaders jockey for posi tion.

As nearly as I can get it (and I have been assisted here by an ex pert on Fijian affairs) the following is the disposition of the groups: The two main opposing groups are (Continued on Page 155)

by the Maha Sangh and the ;an Sangh. The Farmers’ Asso bion of the Southern District is re or less independent.

MAHA SANGH GROUP

. Maha Sangh : Headquarters at li. At present led by Krishna [dy (Nominated Member of Legis ve Council). James Madhavan, of lasa (Elected Member for Eastern ision) is a close supporter. . D. Patel and Swami Rudranand e also prominent in the Maha igh, but Krishna Reddy appar iy quarrelled with them last year, ;n it was suggested that the nakrishna Mission should take r the assets of the Sangam. (The en India Sanmarga Ikya San i” is an organisation, mainly of th Indians, which runs schools other institutions. The Sangam 3s at Nadi publishes Pacific Re o and Jagriti.) he struggle for power between shna, Reddy and the Swami and D. Patel appears to be still go on within both the Maha Sangh the Sangam.

Vishal Krishak Sangh. Head rters at Ba. Leaders are Bakshi ?h and Baijnath, but they follow Maha Sangh closely—e.g., a lished letter attacking the Imers strike threat was signed :he presidents of both unions.

Nausori Kisan Sangh. Leader Z. B. Singh, former member of islative and Executive Councils, is opposed to Chalmers and ihya Prasad and is allied with ). Patel. At present it is perhaps e correct to say that this union Dposed to the Kisan Sangh than ; it is linked with the Maha gh.

KISAN SANGH GROUP

Kisan Sangh. Headquarters at toka. N. S. Chalmers is Pre nt, and Ajodhya Prasad Gen- Secretary. Ajodhya Prasad is an Elected Member of Legis re Council for the North Western rict, having defeated A. D. ;1. In my opinion, Mr. Patel is real leader; but Mr. Chalmers useful front, making speeches writing letters in a ceaseless *t to get publicity. The aim is aake him popular as a martyr y to sacrifice the approval of Europeans for his efforts on be of the cane farmers.

Rewa Farmers’ Union. Head ters at Nausori. Leader —Faiz ammed.

Labasa Kisan Sangh. Leader, iu Lai.

FARMERS’ ASSOCIATION OF

r THERN DISTRICT. Head

ters at Nausori. Leader is nu Deo, for many years Indian ted Member for the Southern rict. He is a shrewd and able ician who follows the line (in ndence or alliance with other ns) rendered most desirable by situation of the moment.

THE present excited controversy began in mid-February, when the Kisan Sangh held a largely attended general meeting in wadi, and endorsed a rather provocative proposition by Chalmers that, unless the CSR made some economic con cessions, and the Government promised quite far-reaching consti tutional changes, the cane-farmers should “go on strike” in June.

The meeting was reported at some length by a European who was pre sent by invitation; the report was supplied to The Fiji Times; and the latter rather unwisely published the report with banner headlines on its front page; thus giving to Mr.

Chalmers and his threats and his tub-thumping a prominence and an importance that are not justified.

Repercussions were abrupt and re markable. Some of the unions usually grouped with the Kisan Sangh gave Mr. Chalmers qualified approval; but practically all the others dissociated themselves promptly from the general strike threat of Mr. Chalmers.

ANE outstanding event was the v/ reaction of the Fijian Associa tion, the chairman Of which is Ratu Edward T. Cakobau — a highly educated Fijian noble, who for a time was the Lieut.-Colonel in charge of the Fiji Battalion in Mr. Chalmers asked the Fijians

io join him in his campaign.

Ratu Cakobau said, in plain and simple language, that the Fijians represented in his Association had no wish to be associated with Mr.

Chalmers in his so-called demands for “constitutional reform;” that they deplored his threat of a gen eral strike; and that they preferred to follow their own line, as an organised community of Fijians, in seeking from the Government what

ever constitutional changes seem desirable in view of the growing literacy of the Fijians and the socio-economic progress of the Colony.

The Fijians expressed no hostility or ill-will to the Indians on the contrary—but they made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with Mr.

Chalmers and his methods. „ „ . rjIHE reply of Mr. Chalmers was JL written on February 18, and was something unique.

It opened with a series of bombastic demands—Who and what is the Fiji Association? How many were Civil Servants? Did they not know that he had a definite mandate from his 8,000 members to demand these reforms, and if they

were not granted, to carry the de mand to the “League of Nations?”

That was all right, as far as it went; but then Chalmers, in the course of his extremely long letter to the Fiji Association, plunged over into a tirade of insult and abuse of the Fijian race, such as I seldom have seen equalled.

Among other things, he described the Fijians as totally unreliable and untrustworthy: “most of our jails are filled with Fijians;” and he ended up with “Fijian women are now also becoming common prosti tutes in Suva and the towns,” with more to the same effect.

The Fiji Association replied to that briefly, and with dignity, but without mincing words. It clearly was the end of the road for any

association between Fijians and i Chalmers-led Kisan Sangh.

The Fijian Association did! clever thing. It persuaded The I Times to publish Chalmers’ let! exactly as he wrote it—with rn spellings, insults, threats, and all J evidence of (shall we say) sew emotional upset and the Fijias reply to it.

It all took up most of one is* of The Fiji Times (February ; and it caused a mighty stir. Eves one seemed to take sides—but neae everyone not already commit) hastened to dissociate himself fn Mr. Chalmers and his deplorae sentiments.

The Fiji Times has been to busy dealing with letters of praj comment and invective. I Chalmers is around, in full panoc of fountain pen and barbed wo< —he seems to have an endll capacity for writing, and a boundll egotism. But the excitement sg the shouting are dying away.

IN my opinion, the misguio gentleman will do all he cam drive a wedge between the cs farmers and their livelihood, order that the Government and i CSR Co. may be embarrassed.

But the threat can be taken seriously. Some sections of i Kisan Sangh really may wish travel the Chalmers road, at tt stage; but when the deadll approaches, in June, they mos will waver, and refuse to go chi ing moonbeams with a man who— put it mildly—is not regarded wj confidence by the Euroneans, Fiiis and a large section of the IndiaE The Indian section of Fiji is co; trolled by a sugar economy. T rates paid for Fiji sugar by the woe are not arranged by Fiji or by 1 CSR Co. —they are created by< combination of circumstances, « of which is the cost of labour s production in great areas, like the West Indies.

If Fiji had to sell in close coc petition with West Indies sugar, \ Fiji sugar workers would get 1«J Fortunately for Fiji, the major dustry there is helped by Britt protection.

The Indian cane farmers here ; not live on the Australian workir class standards; but. still they very well, and quite content with their lot. Slow as the Fijian-born Indian adju himself to Fiji conditions, his must improve—in his home life,, well as socially and nolitically.

This process cannot be hastem It is tied in irrevocably with many kinds of slow-moving devel ments.

Therein lies the danger ofl slick-tongued, ignorant man I N. S. Chalmers. He nominallv is? educated man, a qualified lawy and, of course, he impresses r instructed, semi-literate India They are not to know that as economist, and a political theon he is either a menace, or a blun erer or a joke—whichever way : see it.

Copra Survey

p. 26

COPRA PROCESSOR

MEETS PRODUCER

Unilever Makes Copra Survey

ON an eastbound world tour of all copra-producing countries, Mr. H. D. Howard, a Unilever technical officer representing the International Association of Seed Crushers, spent a week in Sydney mid-March. The purpose of his tour is to: • Study production methods and the reasons for the great variation in the quality of copra exported to Europe; • Study the steps being taken by Copra Marketing Boards and local producers to improve quality; • Discuss further means of im proving quality and obtain views on the type of incentives considered necessary to achieve results; • Discuss the effect of poor quality copra on the production of edible oils; mutual processing prob lems, and the latest developments in British seed crushing mills.

The International Association of Seed Crushers, of which Unilever is a member, has been functioning for many years and meets annually in some European capital to estab lish the position and requirements of independent seed crushing associ ations throughout the world.

Mr. Howard has already visited Ceylon, Singapore, the Federation of Malaya, Indonesia, the Philip pines, Papua-New Guinea, and British Solomons, and is due in London in April via Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

He told PIM that he is gratified with the genuine interest shown to date in this get-together on copra quality.

This is probably the first occasion on which a practical man on the manufacturing side has made such a thorough survey in the field.

As a Unilever representative, Mr.

Howard’s tour was naturally of con siderable interest to copra producers, but as a purely technical officer he was unable to give an opinion on some of the more interesting conun drums with which the industry is pre-occupied at present. So that 64-dollar question—what is likely to happen to the copra industry after the expiry of the MOF contract in 1957, and the role Unilever is likely to play in subsequent events—still goes unanswered.

NG PLANTERS MEET TO

DISCUSS MARKETING

A meeting will be held in Rabaul, NG. mid-March to discuss the continued operation of the P-NG Copra Marketing Board beyond the termination of the British Ministry of Food Copra Agreement next year.

Representatives of the Depart ment of Territories, the Adminis tration, the Copra Marketing Board

and both the Papua and New Guinea Planters’ Associations will attend the meeting.

All aspects of the future marketing of Territory copra will be discussed.

The proposed talks follow representations by the Planters’

Associations of both Territories to

continue semi - government - cor trolled marketing of copra after tl; Agreement ends in December 195* Recent plebiscites taken amor planters returned a 100% vote Papua in favour of a ssmi-govern ment marketing organisation. I New Guinea, the majority was om slightly lower.

Do You Remember?

p. 26

From PIM of 20 Years Ago.

IN most respects Pacific Islands news followed the same pattern in 1936 as it does now. Big busi

ness deals, Jap poachers, and the

future of copra were exercising our minds 20 years ago, and there was even a sensation of sufficient scope to interest the Australian news papers.

These are some items from our issue of March, 1936: "Latest information from Honolulu indicates that Pan American Airways Inc., in collabora tion with the United States Government, are making steady progress with their plans for the new airmail service between Hawaii and Auckland, NZ." * Hs * "Reports from outlying islands in the Manus Group (NG) tell of further visitations by Japanese shell poachers. One report says that poachers landed on an island where there is a copra plantation and burnt down some build ings belonging to the estate."

W. R. Carpenter & Co., had, we said, "entered Fiji". This company whose activities had formerly been confined mostly to the SW Pacific, and particularly New Guinea, had bought for about £BO,OOO a controlling interest in the old-established firm of Brown and Joske, Ltd. * * * After it had begun to appear that the copra market was developing some stability, suddenly in March of 1936 there was a sharp fall in price—£3 per ton at one stage. The cause, we said, was a "complete mystery". (Price for top grade in mid-March was £l3/15/- per ton, cif London.) BP's "Montoro" ran aground in the Brisbane River. Her passengers and cargo were picked up by the company's other ship on the NG service, "Macdhui". * ❖ ❖ "An investigation of the value of kuru-kuru (or kunai) grass is proceeding in Papua and New Guinea. The present enterprise is the result of conclusions reached by the Common wealth Hemp Corporation of Australia, formed to produce sisal hemp in Papua Paper making experts in the UK have proved that high-grade paper can be made from kuru-kuru grass." (In spite of this high opinion, nothing came of the project although leases of grass growing areas were held by the company in Papua until recent years). * * * The international fate of Howland, Jarvis and Baker Islands was sealed when the UK grace fully decided not to dispute America's claim to them. The atolls had come into prominence when Pan American Airways began to plan a trans-Pacific service from the US to NZ. * * This was the month in which Ludwig Schmidt died on the gallows in Rabaul —the first and only European during the Australian administra tion of NG to thus die for the brutal murder of natives. Three other men were implicated in the events that led up to the arrest of Schmidt; two of them later served prison sentences and one of them got away to Germany before charges were laid. The crimes had taken place in an isolated part of the

Sepik River in 1934 and PIM commented, March, 1936, that the party had "appeaie to act like wild beasts in relation to thi treatment of the natives". Stories of i provoked murder and rape seeped through Rabaul and Sydney, and the Administratt acted promptly. Public opinion was unanimouj with Judge Wanliss when he pronounced ' death sentence—although Schmidt had appeaie three times before the NG Supreme Court beft the final verdict.

Sir Arthur Richards, formerly Governor Gambia, had been appointed Governor of I and High Commissioner for the Western Pacii:

Planters Los[?]

p. 26

Tails or Heads Planters Los[?]

A SURPRISE dawn raid to rouu up New Britain native desert© was carried out in Rabaul had an unexpectJ result.

A PIM correspondent reports the District Officer Max Orken, who w; in charge of the raid, said that ; some of the charges which the ch serters had made against employe were found to be true, the employe would be charged.

For years, planters in New Britas have complained that hundreds natives recruited from the mainlau and flown to Rabaul at consideraU expense, deserted before the expii of their contracts and that they, tf planters, had no redress. A test cas brought before the court a few yes ago was defeated through the ii tervention of the then Departure of District Services.

There is nothing in recent even to change employers’ opinion thl regulations covering native labor contracts are administered so thl the obligations are all on one sin the employers and that ti natives, for their part, may bree them with impunity.

As a result of the raid (an area i Rabaul was cordoned off and natives entering it were questionee about 10 natives have been returns to plantations. Apparently no Go eminent action is to be taken again: them. To please UN Trustees!* Council, penal clauses were remow from the contracts some years ai* Most of the complaints made other natives concerned what thl claimed to be unsuitable accomrrr dation provided by employers. t A son was born to Mr. and ML Warren of Vila, NH, on January y

[?]Dney To Santiago Along The Taylor Route

p. 27

[?]ew Airservice [?]ming Up?

World famous air-route trail-blazer, Sir Gordon Taylor, told PIM in Sydney in March that the rumour that an Aus tralia-Chile airservice across the South Pacific is projected is “practically correct”.

was reported in February that an 8,500-ft airstrip on Easter Island is to be built as a re iling stop for the service which is r being discussed by Chilean and tralian civil aviation officials. , was reported, further, that th Pacific Air Lines would be operators of such a service, with IB aircraft which could make the it Santiago-Sydney in 30 hours, aptain Brian Monkton visited ney a few weeks ago, officially in lection with his company’s other ected service—with Solent fly boats —between Honolulu and eete, via Christmas Island. This ice, after many delays, is ex ed to go into operation about middle of this year. He made announcement about his com fs interest in an Australia-S. trican service with land planes, r Gordon Taylor pioneered the ;h Pacific route via Easter Island 5 years ago in a Catalina, which ailed Frigate Bird 111. His book his flight was one of the most :ing descriptions of aerial ad are. Twice —both on the forward return journeys—he almost met >ter at Easter Island, which has lighting area suitable for flying 3. On the island at the time vas there was the wreck of a 3an amphibious Catalina which crashed when taking off Easter Island on what was to survey flight to Australia in reverse direction to Taylor’s, ylor has always been interested n airservice across the South ic and strongly urged it in his At the end of 1955, he made vate visit to Chile—“just to re old friends.” hough Sir Gordon was in ted in South Pacific Air Lines s initial stages, he pulled out time ago and it has been re (dly denied in the last 12 hs that he has any present in t in the company, len the matter of the proposed -alia-Chile service was referred im in March he said that ugh the reports were “practic correct” he could add nothing er at this stage. clear picture of soil erosion low to prevent it is the essence veil-illustrated and informative et for Fiji farmers just released le Fiji Department of Agri "e, 2/-. The author is Mr. C. E.

Jhead. Soil Conservation Officer at Colony.

Whitewash For

p. 27

MR. CASEY

APOLOGISES

Whitewash For Soekarno

AUSTRALIAN External Affairs Minister Casey has an evident desire to go down in history as the Peacemaker in Asia. This be came more than usually suspect in February when he made a public apology to Quisling Soekarno, of Indonesia.

The affair started when Senator Rankin (Country Party, Vic.), said that Soekarno’s “gang of pro-Jap anese Quislings wanted to thieve New Guinea.”

The Senator’s choice of words was not in the best Diplomatic tradition, but everyone knew what he meant, and most of them endorsed it.

Mr. Casey then announced: “This remark is wholly unjustifiable, and the Australian Government repudi ates it in the strongest terms.

“I would ask President Soekarno and the Government of Indonesia to accept the profound regrets of the Australian Government that any such offensive and unjustified re marks were made.”

People with a better memory for recent events than Mr. Casey know that what the Senator had to say about the Indonesian gang was sub stantially correct —he reminded Mr.

Casey that when the Japanese took Singapore, Soekarno had sent them a cable of congratulations. The Senator had a lot more to say—about Mr. Casey’s personal habits, which was uncalled for and left Rankin open to criticism.

The Senator was on pretty safe ground in his name-calling of a senior member of his own Govern ment —he is one of fhe Senators due to retire in mid-1956 and is not seeking re-election.

The Indonesia Ambassador to Australia, then weighed in with his explanation; The Indonesians were so anxious to rid themselves of the Dutch that they instituted a “pretentions collaboration” with the Japanese.

This piece of information might have been easier to swallow if, shortly afterwards, two announce ments had not been made simul

taneously: That an Indonesian mission was seeking financial aid in Russia; and that they wanted more assistance from Australia under the Colombo Plan, particularly in the field of education.

Big Company

p. 27

GOLD RIDGE

Big Company Will Prospect

THE application for several thousand acres surrounding the Gold Ridge area in Guadalcanal by Clutha Development Ltd., re ported in PIM in February, was con firmed by a spokesman for the com pany in Sydney in March.

The company plans to “do some prospecting in the area,” but other than that does not wish, at this stage, to comment.

Mr. J. A. Johnstone, described by a BSIP friend as the “most silent of the pre-war Silent Six” who are the present Balasuna Syndicate, was in Sydney for a few weeks in Feb ruary-March and left for Honiara on March 3 with his reputation for silence intact.

The Balasuna Syndicate owns the prospecting rights of Gold Ridge, central Guadalcanal, where gold lodes were discovered last year.

These lodes are the source of the alluvial gold that is concentrated in the rivers on the northern fall of Guadalcanal’s central mountains.

The area has for many years been of great interest to prospectors and mining interests—including the late E. G. Theodore. But it is just a year ago that the BSIP Government announced that the three lodes had been discovered.

Both the BSIP Government and the Syndicate have endeavoured to interest Australian gold-mining companies in the area and last October three mining experts of Clutha Development (which is one of the Placer Development sub sidiaries) examined the area.

It is understood that testing Gold Ridge will be a major undertaking.

Extra Shipping

p. 27

Unlikely For N[?]

HOPES of an improved shipping service to Norfolk Island as a result of the January visit of the NG-A Line Shansi, with equip ment for the new whaling station, are not likely to eventuate.

According to a spokesman of the New Guinea-Australia Line on March 2, the cost of modifying deep tanks for the bulk carriage of whale oil has been found to be out of pro portion to the anticipated freight.

Considerable equipment has yet to be delivered to Norfolk Island for the whaling factory, including a 29ton item from Norway.

Territories Talk-Talk

pp. 29-34

By Tolala

oathy in P-NG Politics

laving an interest in the delib itions of the P-NG Legislative uncil —to say nothing of a desire follow debates at the Council otings—l applied, enclosing a >tal note, for copies of Hansard i addressed my letter to the Gov iment Printer, Port Moresby, ifter the effluxion of time I re yed an answer from that gentle n informing me that “No Legis ive Council Debates have been nted since March 25, 1955.” t was only a few weeks before Council meeting held from rch 21 to 25, 1955, that Minister sluck issued his Press statement icerning the apathy of P-NG ;tors and the very slight chance y had of any change in the pre t Council. )ne can only surmise that an er terminating the publication of isard —that valuable record of incil Debate verbatim, and ch all good citizens enjoy read —was issued by some top-level hority. But with what motive? counteract European apathy? To ourage an interest of the voters the debates of their represent res? Of was it a pinch-penny isure? attended a Council meeting back June, 1955, and noticed the re ting staff flat out recording the feedings. Is the transcrintion of r notes only made available to tall poppies? It would seem so. t is possible that the P-NG Gov nent Printer is just that far be -1 with his printing.—Ed.)

yards Better

derstanding

irwin’s newspaper, The Northern ntory News, made a few com ets the middle of last month n J. C. Archer (“Clarrie” to his )ers), handed over the reins of ;rnment to Administrator F. J. S. 3 on the latter’s return from a months’ trip abroad. As rie has been an off-sider of the fltories Department Secretary remarks from the NT paper are iterest, and I quote: haps nowhere in Australia (except the NT) vate enterprise so frustrated, are Govern departments faced with such problems of ange control, lack of initiative in Can changing staffs and other difficulties. these things faced Mr. Archer. His task nade more difficult by virtue of the fact le was here in a temporary capacity only, salt with some tricky local and political m a manner which won him consider admiration from within and outside the service. re is a general feeling that Mr. Archer

learnt a great deal about the issues which retard development, about the problems of high costs, transport difficulties, shortages of labour and material . . . and the great red tape.

These things are not only common to the Territory, but here they are aggravated by lack of political influence and isolation.

It is one thing to see and comment in Darwin. Another thing to bring to the Minister and others in whom the control of the Territory is vested, a picture of the true position.

It is anticipated with confidence that the experience gained here by Mr. Archer will be put to good effect after his return to Canberra.

Let us hope that Mr. Archer’s ex perience in the NT may give him and his Department, as a whole, a more practical and realistic appre ciation of the requirements of Terri tories which come under the Can berra autocracy. (Over)

Murder in the

Solomons The above was a title more appro priate to a modern Whodunit than the tragic incident at Moravovo, but such was the heading on numerous letters addressed to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald in Feb ruary, in which many and varied cerrespondents took the opportunity of having a tilt at their favourite windmill. And, watching the column daily, I must confess I had some

fears of homosexual skeletons being tumbled out of cupboards. Fortun ately, this was not so. A knowing editor probably used his blue pencil with kindly effect.

One correspondent Anne P.

Nettleship (whom I remember liv ing in Salamaua and Rabaul at one time) —was more or less on the beam when she deplored the meagre salaries (or stipends if you prefer the word) paid to missionaries, though in more recent years my experience has been that missionaries live in comparative luxury to their predecessors.

There is, however, one corre spondent with whom I join issue and he is Canon M. A. Warren, Secretary of the Australian Board of Missions in Sydney.

In a letter appearing in the SMH (Feb. 20), he gives a blanket denial of homosexuality existing in New Guinea. I agree with him that in NG homosexual relations are “not the order of the day.” But I must

certainly disagree with him when M claims that “with other Islano. residents, for over a period of thirt' years, not a single case had evr come under my notice.”

I admit the phraseology is somej what ambiguous. He refers to It own seven years in Papua, but i general he is referring to Nea Guinea. And to say that homoj sexuality does not exist there is jut so much poppycock.

It is a well known fact that i most parts of the Sepik and Aitag districts many native men would nu recruit for work on plantations un less they were accompanied by thea “monkeys” (young boys). Homu sexuality was an accepted practid in those districts and there wr nothing anti-social in such activitt In some areas of NG it existed; : others it did not. Just the sam as cannibalism, head-hunting an the immolation of widows. Differed tribes, different customs.

A Sociologist

Has a Say

S. W. Reed, a well known Amen can student of sociology, who spe:£ some time in various parts of TW during the ’3o’s and wrote TV Making of Modern New Guinea,”' work accepted as an authority c such matters, has this to say: “Few indentured labourers har any normal outlet for their sexuj feelings. Some plantations as situated close to native villages, arj in such cases the boys may resort surreptitous prostitutes. Ordinarii however, homosexual practices as the easiest adjustment; all Eun peans agree that they are ves common and are increasing. T 1 natives have a growing awarenej of the growing revulsion with whit Europeans view such behaviour, an they know of the harsh pris<g sentences that frequently ini posed for it. In the aboriginal cu: tures, however, there existed no sui severe sanctions on this form conduct, and thus the native wj try to get away with it when can. . . .”

The new Boroko Hotel, in suburban Port Moresby, which was opened in January. —Photo by Papuan Print

>cal Government— -0 and Con ’he report of Mr. Winders, follow his survey of the possibilities introducing Local Government chinery into P-NG should make sresting reading. His survey imences this month and it is esti ted will occupy six weeks. Some vn Advisory Councils welcome suggestion of LG in the Terri 7, no doubt in the hope that h a set-up will abrogate the ;em of Absolutism now prevail and may short-circuit some of red-tape which is slowly ngling the country, cannot see how any relief can Dbtained from the present over ng autocracy from Canberra ledobu if LG, as implemented in tralia, is introduced and it will iably accelerate the introduction icome tax within the Territory, know naught of LG expert ders. He is probably quite a 1 cove; but I see no reason why, use he comes from Queensland, should be especially qualified to ;e P-NG conditions even if lority decrees “conditions in snsland are similar to the itory’.’ P-NG conditions are similar to conditions any 'e in Austr a 1 i a and the er that myth is exploded and 3 asserts its own individualism better for all concerned.

Third Anniversary

I write (February 29) my ghts go back to Rabaul on this in 1944 when the town really its bomb-bath and many a ing, which had escaped the ous extensive bombings in the ous years, were levelled. This the day on which Rabaul “got yorks.” e attack synchronised with the i landing at Manus and .ul’s strafe was merely a dis ion to the main coup de guerre. as on this day that the Jap ; troops abandoned the town went to earth in outside areas s elaborate tunnel systems had created. d yet actually it is only the anniversary! ... I often er how many of the present aean population realise to-day Rabaul and its people suffered ose grim years. ae is a great healer and little ilised by present-day residents e hell endured by those who ?d put” during the tragic days Nippon’s flag flew over Rabaul. ain did the conquerors en ur to break the Aussie spirit, ;e the indignities heaped upon and the menial tasks allotted " r y type of citizen. The “white s” did their iob with a laugh 3 face of bullying guards and g, dumb-founded native on 's - (Over)

An Incident of

Internment There comes to mind an incideß to serve as an illustration. A fes days after the occupation in Januan 1942, I was one of a work-pan detailed to unload the personr baggage of a ship-load of Korea; lassies imported for troop amenitie.

No degradation, in Nippon eye 1 could be imagined greater than tL carrying of such luggage. Among§ my co-workers were several high ranking Government officials, prom inent missionaries and commercr; executives.

On completing the job we w© lined up to be checked by swaggering three-star private au during the counting Father Barro* (pre-war Parish Priest in Rabai who later died of dysentry Kokopo) remarked to me in H Irish brogue: “I wonder what H Holiness would say if he knew I w/ a-portering for prostitutes?”

Bother Posterity!

It is sad indeed to read in tf South Pacific Post’s Drum colun that the Territory’s Historioi Society “is about to die in infancy Usually the present generation any young country is too busy the making of history to won about Posterity. And this is a gr©' pity for it only means so much mo research work has to be done lati on. There are many and varr long-haired experts on the P-H Administration staff now; sure room could be found on the ests lishment for the appointment of Official Historian.

It surprises me that Minis?

Hasluck, himself a recognisj historian of no mean tonnage, H not done something in this regan Perhaps the foreshadowed derm of the present Society is due the top-heavy burden of offioj bureaucrats. I heard some such sir; gestion last year when I was there from pioneer private dividuals who complained of irritd ing red-tape tactics —“too mu regimentation and not enou history,” as one old-timer explaim Where the Boys

Go in Sydney

An article in a Sydney weeh People, gave the New Guinea : at Usher’s quite a write up (see pic 80, this issue), and apart fn violating the sacredness of a ms. thirst-quenching habits the stt made good reading. However/ don’t know whether the fame Ethel will appreciate the statemn of being “big and fair” as descnii by one of her clients. Ethically fl without a doubt, but her “crowm glory” was undoubtedly da s.

No register of touring Islanders T kept in her day, for she was register and ever a fund of formation of Expected Arrivals 5

Departures of her clientele. But the number has grown since her day— over twenty years ago. Islanders’ rendezvous before War I was Bel- Reld’s and the lounge of the Metro pole. But there was only a handful Df lads in those days from Papua, Mew Guinea and the Solomons.

Many of them pretty tough babies, ;oo!

31d-Time Whoopee

There was no compulsory leave ;very 21 months in those days.

When Islanders arrived in town here was usually whoopee made in i big way. With some it may have ►een three, five or ten years since heir last visit to the Big Smoke, nd those years had literally been pent amongst the wild tribes of Jew Guinea, the Solomons or Papua.

You seldom read of their arrival a the daily Press —human interest tories were not a feature then and lany a good story was lost as these haps stepped ashore from the bblenz, the Moresby or Mindini. . . . here was old Peter Hansen—“ King” f the French Islands—who had rading rights in the Witu Group, nd after whom Peter Haven is amed. Attired in silk hat and frock Dat he turned it on without any ihibitions.

One night he entertained the hole chorus from the “Tivoli” to

a champagne supper at Paris House And then there was . . . But why rake up those nostalgic memories? ft was a different world then and a different people, opening up primitive country the hard way The word “amenity” was not ‘even known. They worked hard and they

played hard. So comparisons are odious.

Over the Air-Waves From past experience, I usually steer clear of New Guinea serials, sketches and what-have-you which come over the radio, but I was

pleasantly surprised last month hear the start—and later subseques instalments of Kiap O’Kane, Osmar White. Not only is it w'v written, but it is well produced, ap those responsible can certainly tae a bow —so far as I am concernej It is dedicated to members of ti) District Services; the pidgin realistic and the cast well selects It comes from 2UE. (Osmar Whitd reporting on NG in the Melboun Herald group of newspapers hi been missed recently).

Bits and Pieces

Among the nurses who graduat) from the Royal Prince Alfred Ho pital, Camperdown, last month w Mary Esson, of Rabaul. CongratuL tions... Victor Friedlander, of Rabsi has returned from a trip overse and expects to be joined soon his wife and daughter. He has so; his home in Rabaul. . . . Mrs. T.

Backhouse (wife of Rabaul’s w© known pathologist in pre-war yeai has retired after 15 years honorary director of the NSW RF Cross Library Services. She o lighted many a Rabaul audien with her piano recitals in the « days.

Ex-Wing Commander

p. 34

UNDER NEW

MANAGEMENT

For P-NG’s DCA

rpHE Papua-New Guinea bran JL of the Department of Ci: Aviation has a new chief —I V. A. Rule, a former Wing-Cot mander, RAAF.

He succeeds Mr. John Arthur, w has presided over the department:) the Territory for a number years and who now goes to t Executive Branch of the Dept.

Melbourne.

A former Senior Route CaphJ with Trans-Australia Airlines, I R. M. Green, has also arrived Port Moresby as Superintendent c Flying Operations.

The Territory role of DCA, whr at times has wielded its somewh dictatorial powers without mu tact, has been occasionally resem by Territorians. Air communicatioi in Papua-New Guinea are vitas more so than in any other earth —and the slavish devotion i red tape can be correspondingly furiating. On the other hand, ultimate judgment of the Depas ment has to be on whether its act); ities produce safe flying in Territory, or not. t Nukualofa, like certain ott Islands capitals, has an acute elect: power shortage. Recently all elect: lights have been banned for peril following a mechanical breakdo to meet hospital and public wod demands.

Current News Items From Our Correspondents

pp. 35-45

In Papua-New Guinea

BOMBERS AND BIKINIS

A group of French aviators had i enforced but acceptable 10 days ave in Port Moresby in early Feb lary. They were the crew of a rivateer bomber which developed igine trouble while flying from loncurry, Qld., to Biak, in Dutch ew Guinea. Two other bombers in ie flight flew on to Biak the day ter landing in Port Moresby en ute to Saigon, in French Indo lina.

The three aircraft were diverted Port Moresby when a cyclone reatened Darwin.

A new engine had to be flown om Saigon to Port Moresby to stal in the grounded bomber.

A Privateer is a converted Lib itor four-engine bomber. The main [ference is that it has one tail me instead of the Liberator’s o.

The only sensation the French m created was when they peared on Ela Beach, PM, in the lie version of the Bikini swim it.

ROAST PIG AT HALF-TIME

Another stage in P-NG’s “Ad vancement of Natives” occurred at Goroka on February 5 with the playing of a cricket match there be tween a team of Papuans working in Goroka. and a team of Papuans working in Madang.

The match was only “second-rate” but that was only a minor matter What was important, and historic', was that one team flew from Madang to the Eastern Highlands Headquarters to play. This is the first time a group of natives has travelled by air to play cricket.

Goroka won the match, which was broken off at half-time for a typical Highland lunch of roast pig, pota toes and cabbage.

SIMOGUN: NO PUNCHES PULLED

A recent meeting of the Madang District Advisory Council turned down a suggestion to appoint a native member to the Council but later carried a resolution that one or more natives be invited to at tend meetings as observers.

Speaking to his proposal that a native be appointed to the Council,

Mr. G. Bliss said that there were already native members of the Legis lative Council and that prior mem bership of an Advisory Council would have been an ideal training ground lor this where native mem bers were a little out of their depth. (It appears that Mr. Bliss is a little out of his depth in this. The newest member of the native trio, John Vuia, may still be bemused by proceedings but Simogun and Merari Dickson are old stagers and understand what goes. Dickson does not cut a swath inside the Chamber whatever may be his influence out side. But Simogun knows what he wants to say and says it without pulling any punches. Most of his contributions to debate are far more to the point than those of his more learned European colleagues. In fact, Simogun’s speeches, in rapid fire Pidgin, are about the only thing that enlivens the usually dull pro ceedings of Legco, where the official majority is always used like a bludgeon. Nonetheless, PIM agrees that if there are native members of Legco, it is logical that natives should also serve on TAC’s.)

BRIDGES IN TWO DISTRICTS

A 215-ft suspension bridge over the Dunantina River, 25 miles south of Goroka, was opened in February.

The bridge permits access to the Lufa Patrol Post, where Patrol Officer H. J. Mater, represents law and order for 20,000 natives. Lufa is about 50 miles south of Goroka.

Extensive bridgework is reported to be in progress on Bougainville, too.

One bridge was opened recently, another is being repaired and a start is expected to be made soon on a third, over the Poro River.

HOUSING RABAUL’S ’’FOREIGN”

NATIVES

Stricter enforcement of that section of the Native Labour Ordinance dealing with housing is being sought by the Rabaul Town Advisory Council. A resolution urged that where “foreign” natives at pre sent living in shanty towns in Rabaul were working for Europeans or Asians, the provisions of the Ordinance regarding housing should be enforced, and that the Adminis tration investigate conditions and take immediate steps to make avail able a suitable area where “foreign” natives, i.e., natives who come from other districts, could erect suitable dwellings. The Council was told that there were scores of these natives living in the Rabaul town area, or near the town area, under sub-standard housing conditions.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON LAUNCH

A Roman Catholic Missionary, Brother Reis, was killed on February 12 in an accident on board the Mission launch Morning Star.

Brother Reis was working a winch which got out of control. He was struck on the head.

He died five hours later and was buried at Nimoa Island.

NOSE LANDING FOR

NORSEMAN

A Gibbes Sepik Airways Norseman made a forced landing on a beach

12 miles from Aitape in February The plane was carrying two Euro' peans and several natives, none a whom was injured.

The plane is reported to haTi landed on its nose but the pild

lickly pulled the tail down when jtrol started to flow into the hot [haust-pipe.

A Landrover, sent from Aitape, cked up the passengers and took tern to Aitape airstrip, where they ere later flown to Wewak by mother Gibbes Norseman.

A track was cleared to the nearby !alol airstrip for the Norseman to ke off again. This strip had not ;en used for some time and had i be cleared first.

JDIA AND NG somfttttnt''

*DIA m COMMON 0

v. °gmmon An exchange of Indian and Ausalian officials handling Native Ad-

ministration was suggested nn ttph ruary 14 by the retiring Indian Hioh Commissioner to Australia. GeMral Cariappa. prior to his return to Svd ney at the end of a farewell visit to Port Moresby 1 VlSlt Ponornl . . fv,?f on^ al Ganappa told reporters SJJL “Ji 6 * Governor of the Indian State of Assam was particularly in in Australian methods of Administration in the Territory, T said “ e . k a d forwarded to India some details of Australian P a . troll l n § *nd h * s Government was interested to get more information There was no Department in India similar to the Territory Department

These photographs of new buildings in and around Wewak show the progress being made the township of Sepik District. Top photograph shows almost completed passenger [?]inal building at the new airport at Boram. The rumour locally is that this will be an "inter [?]nal airport, and will be "used by French and Dutch planes". The centre photograph shows attractive bungalow that has been provided for the District Commissioner. Lower: The new an Catholic Cathedral, in process of construction at Wewak. Portion of the old "church" it replaces can be seen in lower left corner. —Photos by Walter Barker.

Native Affairs and that the Admstration of the country in which ; primitive Haga tribes lived was ' dlre £t responsibility of the Goviqr of Assam Patrol work was Tied out by the Army.

This makes a nice change. It is ■ I^v„SLe I iS dia ?i dele .f ate the Tiusteeship Council who has derogatory to say about

ine^ ia Wp^'hnn^^ViQf l $

„ hope t ha t General r!^^ pa wllpasa ol x 9 the Indian /ernment the fact that NG has lethmg to recommend it. The leral must like the Territory— ; is his second visit during his

term of office in Australia anH tw is unusual. But General’ Cari^nni is an unusual man year, when travelling toroJmh a NSW country town he got o,ut nf his car and personally scrubbed thP town’s war-memorial which he appeared to think looked dirtv or neglected. The townspeople say very much—probably because the cap htted-but what they did say indicated that they were no too pleased with the General’s

house-cleaning zeal)

STILL TROUBLE AT MENYAMYA

The Assistant District Officer at

Menyamya, Mr. Chester, in mid- February returned from a patrol into the area south of Menyamya headquarters with four murder suspects. . This followed his investigation into reports of seven murders in the area recently.

After replenishing supplies, Mr, Chester will return to the area to

At a farewell party to Rev. Father H. Eather to the RC Mission, Port Moresby. After being [?] Priest for seven years he had now been transf erred to Camp Hill, Brisbane. On his right [?]w Parish Priest, Farther Cuneo. They are chattin 9 to well-known Moresby resident, Mr. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

continue the investigation and seek out more natives believed to be im plicated in the trouble. . , These natives took to the bush when the patrol first entered the area and could not be located.

FOOD PANIC ENDS WITH

STRIKE

The Territory has come through the Australian shipping strike with out too many hardships—in a way, unfortunately so. Hardships would have proved to the Administration that their native food stocks are not sufficient. , .

Frantic calls were made to the outstations from Port Moresby to conserve native foods, and where possible, use native-grown foods in rations. At one stage, it looked as if Port Moresby would have to send out a call to'the outstations for help in the way of rice and other staple native foods. . Europeans had few troubles, although things might have been grim had the strike lasted longer than it did. Unofficial rationing was started by some stores on some lines, but generally, stocks held out.

MORE DOCTORS NEEDED

URGENTLY

More medical officers for the Sepik district of New Guinea are being sought by the District Advisory Council.

Four important centres —Vammo, Aitape, Yangaru and Ambunti—are all unmanned. The Sepik District has a population of 220,000.

MALARIA CONTROL

INTENSIFIED

An Englishman, Dr. W. Peters, has been appointed Chief Malan ologist with the P-NG Department of Public Health. He reached Port Moresby on February 27 to take control of anti-malarial work throughout Papua and New Guinea.

He has had considerable experienr in this field in India.

The Acting P-NG Director Health, Dr. Alec May, says the DC partment will begin a campaiji this year to spray all natu homes with a solution of DDT au kerosene. Staff to do the job is no* being trained at Minj, in the Higj lands.

The Department would concen tte first on native homes to rid em of mosquitoes, but later Euro an homes would be sprayed.

VO PEOPLE CAN NOW SAFELY

BE BITTEN BY TAIPANS

fi limited supply of the newly veloped serum to counteract ipan venom is now being kept at : Port Moresby European Hospital, is understood there is enough um to treat two cases, rests carried out by the Common alth Serum Laboratory with ipan venom forwarded from the rntory by Mr. Ken Slater have »wn that the P-NG Taipan is :htly more venomous than the stralian species, which is, itself, arded as one of the deadliest kes in the world.

Ir. Slater, formerly with APC, recently become Administration mal ecologist.

)56 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

young European schoolgirl who for first place in the annual sidy examinations, has been rded this year’s Cromie Scholar 1, valued at £5O per year, tie girl, Wendy Ann Aveling, last • attended the Mount Hagen lary school. This year she will y the Seventh Day Adventist i School at Wahroonga, in ley. te Milne Bay Branch of the RSL awarded this year for the first ■, three scholarships, each of a year, for children of ex icemen in the area who are irtaking secondary studies in ralia. le first awards go to Robert nan, now studying at Charters ?rs; Noel Crosbie, who started )1 at Charters Towers this year; Floyd Pauline Smith, who •ed grade 7 at St. Ann’s Church igland, Townsville.

VETERINARIANS MEET

change visits between the Chiefs ivisions of Animal Industry in 7 and the Northern Territory been arranged in Canberra by lasluck. 3 *? hie A . of Division in a New Guinea, Mr. Marley, will soon for a three weeks visit e Northern Territory to study tions in the pastoral industry er, Mr, Marley’s counterpart in Northern Territory will spend weeks in Papua and New la.

LHE YAWS CAMPAIGN

Anti-Yaws campaign is pro tig well. On Nissan Island, every native man, woman and received a penicillin injection anths ago, there has not been ew case of the disease.

Bougainville, officers of the i Department have now almost eted the big task of treating native. rtly, a similar campaign will •?

get under way in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. The World Health Organisation and

Former UK air hostess, Miss Margaret McMillan, was married to Mr. P. Clarke of the Administration, Port

Moresby, on February

18. On the left is Mrs. O'Dell, who was matron-of-honour, ex treme right, Mr. O'Dell, who gave the bride away. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

* United Nations Children’s Fund 1 assist the campaign. t is intended to have three teams the field simultansously. in the t stages of the campaign, two ns will work on Malaita Island, 1 the third will be in the Western »up.

CATTLE ARRIVE UNDER

SUBSIDY SCHEME

be first batch of cattle to arrive er the new freight subsidy ;me reached Port Moresby on ruary 26. le 30 head of cattle in the con ment went to Eilogo Plantation, • Port Moresby. They travelled i NSW by ANA Bristol freighter, r. lan Louden, of Eilogo Planta said that the cattle would cost ■t £6,000 landed in Port Moresby, er the Government freight idy scheme, the Administration pay about £l,OOO of this, ic cattle, made up of 28 heifers two bulls, came from Aberdeen is studs in the New England ict of New South Wales arrival in Port Moresby, they trucked immediately to Eilogo.

DRI DROWNING FATALITY

English seaman, Malcolm ~t Gibson, 31, was drowned in Cikori River, February 21. >son was an engineer on board lotor-vessel Melinqa, which was ged several months ago when s struck by a tidal bore in the

Kikori River. Gibson fell off the wharf at Middletown.

NONDUGL SHEEP ARE OK

A suggestion that the flock of sheep at Nondugl was not progress ing satisfactorily was refuted late February by officers of the P-NG Department of Agriculture.

The Department is more than satisfied with the condition of the flock—a criterion of the success of

the management of the Highlands station was that the sheep, breeding are £ with an an nual rainfall of 100 inches, needed drenching only three or four times a year. In Aus traha, sheep had to be drenched about the same number of times within the 40-inch rainfall belt.

The Station recently has received a gift of 30 stud ewes and two rams from Sir Edward Hallstrom. These are reported to be settling in well.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Seeto shown outside the Catholic Church, Rabaul, after their marriage in January. The best man was Mr. Joseph Chow, and the bridesmaid was Miss T. Chow. The Rev. Father Dwyer performed the ceremony. —Photo by C. H. Meen.

EX-MORESBY RESIDENTS

CHEQUES BOUNCED

A former Port Moresby resident was sentenced to six months im prisonment in the Court of Petty Sessions in Sydney late February for passing valueless cheques.

The man, Albert Alex Breshyars, worked for a short time for the De partment of Works last year, then transferred to private employment.

He was convicted on three charges of passing valueless cheques drawn on the Port Moresby Branch of the Bank of New South Wales. The cheques involved amounts of £46, £45 and £l4.

LOCAL TELEPRINTER BOY

The increasing part that natives are playing in the Territory’s com munications network is shown in an announcement on February 24 that a Papuan is now working as a tele printer-operator at the Port Moresby Post Office. Four others are being trained for the work The newly-opened teleprinter link connects the Post Offices at Pprt Moresby and the administrative centre at Konedebu. It is therefore now possible to lodge local and over seas telegrams at Konedebu.

AUTOMATICS IN ACTION

Port Moresby will have automatic

telephones from March 10. The cutover will be made at night. New telephone books will be issued to all subscribers prior to the cut-over.

No one will be more pleased about

the change than Port Morseby long suffering public, which for yeas has had to put up with long war to get through to the various eE changes.

The P-NG Director of Posts and jlegraphs, Mr. W. Carter, says ►out £69,000 worth of equipment is been installed in three ex langes at Port Moresby, Boroko id Konedobu. All subscribers have peived new telephones, rhe exchanges will handle 1,600 bscribers initially but can be ex ided to cater for an additional two Dusand.

Ml equipment for the exchanges re supplied by a UK manufacturer d installed by technicians em •yed by the Administration.

Contracts have now been let for i construction of buildings to ase automatic exchanges at Lae 1 Rabaul, and automatic phones >uld be operating within 18 nths in those centres.

NEW CAT FOR APC

Tie first aircraft APC has owned several years arrived in Port resby on February 29 from the ited States. The plane, a Cata i, was brought to Port Moresby the Managing Director of World le Air Services, Mr. Sumarlidason. rid Wide will operate the plane

APC.

he Catalina was delivered by a te not used by a commercial air t—by way of Honolulu, Johnston nd, Kwajalein and Rabaul. pecial permission was granted by ihington for the Catalina to land Johnston and Kwajalein, both jrican bases. ne red and cream Catalina will ised to transport men and cargo he oil drilling fields in the gulf :ict of Papua.

\.SLES SERIOUS IN SAMARAI

i outbreak of measles at Samarai sported (early March) to have hed serious proportions, le local school has been closed Health authorities have warned quarantine regulations must be tly adhered to. They are asking lents of the Island to avoid erings, meetings or parties of kind.

[?]boo-Rival to the [?]nut

p. 45

[?]nut

MBOO rivals the coconut in its nany uses, and in vast areas it s the one material that is suf itly cheap and plentiful to y all housing construction needs hundreds of objects in daily n the home and in the liveli of the individual, ny good reasons why bamboo be used as an effective means the domestic economy icific Islanders are revealed in rticle on bamboo culture, pub ’ in the January issue of the Bulletin, and written by ist F. A. McClure, of the US of Agriculture.

Letter to the Editor

DO DOCTORS ENTERTAIN?

I am out of touch with the customs of the cities, but it has occurred to me to record what has happened in our particular part of the Terri tories.

In the last decade we have had a large number of Government medical officers, some with families and living in their own homes others single men boarding out. ’

All have been hospitably received by residents of the district and in vited to every party. But to my knowledge not a one has ever given

a party in return!

Maybe housewives in other parts get a little tired of the hard work involved in entertaining, too, and have a similar story to tell.

I am, etc.,

A TERRITORIAN.

t The anti-rhinoceros beetle cam paign continues in Vava’u, Tonga.

According to a recent official report 1.602 persons were engaged in searching and cleaning work on the island in the period January 2-14 last. They accounted for 134 eggs, 420 larvae, 10 female and 9 male beetles. No pupae were found in the period.

[?]ort Moresby Arrivals and Departures

p. 47

Left to right: General Cariappa, High Commissioner for India in Australia, paid a brief [?]well visit to Papua-New Guinea in February (he is returning to India) and left again for [?]n ey February 4. Mr. Darcy Pavlich, manager of the 16 Millimetre Film Co. returned [?]port Moresby (with a new bride) on February 6. After spending three months in Port Moresby [?]relieving manager for 16 Millimetre Film Co., Mr. Llyod Ravenscroft and his fiancee Miss [?] Geremais, departed for Sydney by Qantas on February 11. Both made many friends while

Moresby.

—Photos by Papuan Prints.

[?]ggered Air Service

p. 47

For N. Caledonia

ANTAS’ fortnightly Sydney-

Noumea air service and French TAl’s fortnightly Paris-Noumea

service will now reach Noumea on alternate weeks instead of the same week, as recently prevailed.

This will allow a once-weekly air mail to Europe, but only a fort nightly air-mail to Australia. TAI (successors to Air France), calls only at Darwin in Australia.

Shangri-La-Rain

p. 48

END OF A DREAM

Shangri-La-Rain And Pig-Houses

REMEMBER Shangri-La, the so called “lost” valley of Lavani, in the Southern Highlands of Papua? In its day—less than two years ago—it was as big a news paper sensation as the Joyita or Arakarimoa, or Fiji’s Red sub marines. , Newspapers all over the world clamoured to be first to send a cor respondent into this new glamour land. And, in a way, it is a pity that they were not permitted to.

A routine air-survey by two P-NG Departmental chiefs of unpatrolled areas of the Highlands started the rabbit running and when geologist John Zehnder emerged from the same area a little later to say he had visited the valley, the news hawks were in full cry. .

Officers of P-NG’s Native Affairs Department always recognised this valley as just another of many isolated communities in this newest of P-NG Districts.

Since the first sensation, patrols have been made to the valley, the latest of them in November-De cember, 1955, when Patrol Officer J P. Sinclair and European Medical Assistant A. Speer, as part of a

larger patrol in the Duna area, spent 26 days in the valley.

Mr. Sinclair later described Lavani as the coldest and wettest place he has ever seen —only six of the days they spent there were without rain, and at that altitude (the valley floor is 7,000 ft) the rain is icy.

Much of the valley is marshy very inferior sweet-potatoes are tfa staple diet; the people are secretatiw and suspicious; and the populatioc is not nearly as large as at firs believed because many of the larg' pig-houses were mistaken for tW standard type Lavani house.

Unnecessary

p. 49

[?]losing Manihiki [?]agoon Unnecessary

IR. PHILIP WOONTON, veteran '1 trader and mother-of-pearl shell dealer of the Northern )oks, who was In Auckland in ;bruary, has commented on the jsing of the Manihiki lagoon to vers for the calendar year 1956.

Mr. Woonton said that he felt 3 Cook Islands Administration had en ill-advised in the matter. It is true that under-sized shell had en shipped from the atoll, but is did not mean that the vigorous st-war fishing had fished out all e large shell. [n fact, nothing could be further >m the truth. Mr. Woonton was iphatic that shell was reaching iturity at a rate well in excess of s post-war rate of fishing, turally, with present prices high, rers might try to sell everything it came to hand, but the Admin .tion would be far better advised tighten its policing of these ictices rather than to close the oon. tfr. Woonton said that enormous .sses of clustered shells were to seen in all parts of the lagoon, was important that these clusters broken up. In such clusters there i some large shells and many all shells. If allowed to remain clusters the small shells failed ievelop as they would if separated i scattered. Boring worms were y inclined to attack such clusters, ecially the larger shells.

Ir. Woonton considered that ivier fishing of the Manihiki oon must be undertaken if this Liable lagoon is to be kept free tn serious worm infestation. A >e-down of the lagoon will be mful, in his opinion and in the oipn of other old residents who r e been associated with the in try over the past half-century. [r. Woonton said that the output n Penrhyn lagoon will be ited for some years. There will nuch large but wormy shell, and will be much more difficult to Manihiki is a closed lagoon, rhyn, with its large passages to open sea, is badly invested with d which considerably reduces bility. There are many moray in the lagoon, and divers are htened to feel about in weedy md under such circumstances, tie lagoon, being larger, is also, course, more subiect t 0 rough which hamper operations. r ith shell currently at £AB6O per c.i.f. Svdney, and about 2/2 per nd on the beach, the closing of lihiki is going to mean an •mous—and, Mr. Woonton feels, cessary loss to the Cook ads economy and especially to population of Manihiki. He ‘s that the Administration will nsider the matter.

NG Fish Resources

p. 51

[?]N PEL

[?]VESTIGATES

[R- H. Van Pel, Fisheries Officer L of the South Pacific Com mission, made a ten-days sur , in late February, of certain ects of fisheries potential in >ua and New Guinea waters. •is report to the Administrator, jadier D. M. Cleland, will cover recommendations as regards: (1) hods of preserving fish locally: the economic prospects of the stal swamp areas adjacent to t Moresby; (3) oyster culture spects in the same area; and, culture in the High tiroughout his survey, Mr. Van who is one of the most energetic popular officers of the SPC, was impanied by Mr. W. R. Reed, inical Officer of the Adminis ion Fisheries Division, irly in February, Mr. Van Pel engaged on similar work in the sh Solomon Islands Protectorate, uch study has been made of the ements of migratory fish, but pace that Mr. Van Pel maintains covering his Pacific fisheries nment is a study in itself.

Present and Past Suva Residents Get Together

p. 51

Visitors to a party given recently by the Polynesian Association of sydney, included (left to right): Mrs. Harry Edmund, Mr. Gerry Anness, Jnr., Mrs. Robertson; Mr. Clarrie Robertson; Mrs. Maisie Caesar; and Mr. Harry Edmunds, Asst. Postmater-General at Suva, brother of Mrs.

Caesar. All are well know in Fiji. Mr. and Mrs. Edmunds were in sydney en route to Fiji

after a holiday in the UK.

—Photo by Parker Studios.

A Ripley From Papua

p. 52

A LEGAL advertisement in a Bris bane daily recalls one of Papua’s most unusual happenings: At the close of the last century a party of successful miners was returning to Samarai from the NE Coast gold fields.

At East Cape the men were pack ing up when a sudden squall made the cutter they were on heel over, and, to the owner’s consternation, his “shammy” of gold went over board.

Making a note of the position, the party sailed to Samarai and en gaged a deep sea diver who happened to be there. At the site of the loss the diver descended several times in different parts of the area and each time reported no luck.

At last the party gave the search away, and “Up Anchor” for the last time. Have you guessed it? Yes, the missing bag of gold was brought up stuck in the mud around the flukes of the anchor.

The diver was Percy Leigh, who died some time ago at Oonoonba, Townsville, NQ.

Percival Herbert Leigh, married a daughter of Captain Armit, Resident Magistrate , who was buried at Tamata Creek, loma, in Papua’s old Kumusi Division, now the ND. He was very well known and highly respected in the Papua of “Before.”

SANASI.

t The No. 1 band of the Fiji Military Forces, 28 strong, under Lieut.- Colonel C. C. Jordan, Lieut. J. N. B.

Toganivalu, and Bandmaster K.

Cava, will visit Auckland, NZ, for the Easter Show, between March 24 and April 7. A programme of public band concerts, and of Fijian songs and dances will be given.

tin response to agitation growers, the Cook Islands Adminr tration has approved on a trial bas for one season, the shipping tomatoes as small as 11 inches i diameter (small grade) instead the former 2 inches (stands grade).

[?]ack From the Jungle

p. 53

THE FUTURE BEFORE

[?]JIAN FIGHTERS

IHE men of the Ist Battalion, . Fiji Infantry Regiment, have enjoyed killing bandits in alaya (about 205 at last score), id the Fiji Government is now ced with the problem of rehabil itmg these fit young men in the latively prosaic background that ey left behind them.

The first body of Fijian jungle :hters left Suva for Malaya in nuary, 1952. When they had com bed two years service with dis union, many people felt that they d done their bit and should be urned to fill the gap in Fiji’s de ited land development force.

But the military authorities de ed otherwise, and, with numer -5 replacements from time to time, : Ist Battalion has served in laya for over four years 7his regiment of redoubtable iters is expected home in June Council Paper No. 4, of 1955, re 1s that the Fiji Government has en considerable thought to the abilitation of these men.

Imphasis in the Scheme is ards a return to village life, to iculture and other out-of-tow r n upations, particularly to fishing, very returned serviceman is to ;ive a basic grant in kind. Those > choose to return to their iges and agricultural pursuits be exempt from communal es for six months after discharge will receive agricultural imple its or replacements of fishing :s and gear. md settlement is an important of the scheme, but only for e who genuinely wish to farm heir own account, lis will be organised provincially a committee with the title The Malayan Ex-servicemens’ lement Committee,” consisting of Economic Development Officer, local Agricultural Officer, and a tentative of the Native Land t Board. lection for land settlement will place 6 months after applica- This is to allow the com -56 to assess the veteran’s zeal ability as a farmer, and to r the ex-soldier to make up his as to whether he really wants ake up farming on his own mt. ly men, who, in the opinion of Board, will make a success of Ing, will receive the necessary cial aid. e Labour Department will act mployment agency *or those

wish t 9 enter town employ

immediately on their return, vision is made for vocational ng, technical and agricultural, aursaries for higher education be available for those who Js the necessary qualifications svish to enter trades or pro ns.

New Caledonia's Wealth

pp. 53-55

IN 1955, New Caledonia exported 458,312 tons of merchandise, to the value of 1,940,201 000 Pfrs (£A13,858 578). The greater portion of this tonnage was mineral ores and smelted nichel. s

France was the biggest customer ° f „ thls ’ her coiony, taking all the £ offee - copra and smelted nichel. ? econd biggest buyer (on value) was Ja £ ai ?i, m - purc bas e s of nichel ore. 41 ? e . im P ort field - Australia ranks hlghest because of the coal and coke requirements of the smelting in austry.

S, S' i H ‘ v - Hodgess, of the ish Solomon Islands Protectorspent a brief holiday w r ith her

sister-in-law, Miss Dorothy Hodgess, recently, at “Glenwood,” Too woomba, Queensland.

T A female rhinoceros beetle was found aboard the Yanawai, at Suva, cn her return from Apia in Feb ruary by officials of the Rhinoceros bettle campaign. Eleven more beetles were located recently in south-eastern Viti Levu and 126 grubs in the Bau district, mostly in dead ivi leaves.

Rabaul

Wedding

[?]n Rabaul recently, Leong Sun Yee was [?]ried, at the Rabaul hodist Church, to [?]s Leo. They are [?]wn here (centre) [?] Miss Grace Seeto, [?]esmaid; and Mr. [?]r Cheung, best man. [?]ding at the back Mr. Leo Man Tung the Rev. John Su. -Photo by C. H.

Pacific Islands Society

p. 56

ANNUAL MEETING

AT the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Society, held in the Feminist Club Rooms, Syd ney, on February 23, officers were elected for the year and the annual report and a comfortable balance sheet were accepted with acclama tion by a good attendance of mem bers.

The withdrawal, for health reasons, of Mr. H. E. Maude, QBE, as patron of the Society was accepted with regret. His successor as patron is Mr. R. W. Robson, FRGS, managing director of Pacific Publications Pty.

Ltd.

The following officers were elected for 1956: President. Major C. A.

Swinbourne, OBE; Vice-Presidents, Dr. G. Mackaness, MA, PhD., Mr.

J R. Donaldson, Mr. N. F. Foxcroft, Mr. H. Sabben. OBE, Mr. A. E.

Stephen.

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer, Miss M. M. McGavin; Hon. Assist. Secre tary, Mr. L. R. Haynes, FRGS.

Members of Council; Mr. A. E.

Sturt, Mr. L. R. Howell, Mr. N. B.

Casey, OBE, Mrs. J. Edwards, Mrs.

N. F. Foxcroft, Mrs. H. Sabben, Mrs.

A. E. Sturt.

Following the business of the evening an interesting travel talk on Ceylon, with coloured slides, was presented by Mr. F. J. Salisbury.

A feature of the March meeting will be a colour-movie travelogue by Mr. W. F. Trinick.

if Mr. Dadi Wirz, who arrived in New Guinea from Brazil last year, to attend to the affairs of his late father, left New Guinea in January, and has returned to South America via New York. His father, Dr. Paul Wirz, who was a well known Swiss anthropologist, died at Maprik, in the Sepik area of New Guinea, last year, and was buried at Wewak. Dr

Wirz visited New Guinea ma: times between 1915 and 1955. t Work on the £10,000,000 Yate ds project in New Caledonia w accelerated by the arrival of Tahitians at Noumea per Messager Maritime Tahitien, in Februa; Some 300 Wallis Islanders £ already engaged on this work.

[?]racing a River

p. 57

[?]ORK OF US

[?]ARINE SCIENTISTS

[?]racing a River [?] the Ocean

jWERYONE knows something J about the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic, but not many, even sidents of the Pacific Islands, know uch about the Counter Equatorial arrent which flows like a great Per across the Pacific from west east—back against the Trade inds and the general surface drift tropical Pacific waters.

The men who have most to do th the Counter Equatorial Current s the Masters of the Western cific High Commissions’ small ift which maintain communica ns within the Gilbert and Ellice ands, and with the Northern Line ands far to the eastward.

Vot a great deal is known of the unter Equatorial Current, except it it is one of the answers as to at happens to all the water that pushed westward by the trade ids. It flows back to the eastward ng that zone where the North 5t Trades of the Northern Pacific 1 the South East Trades of the ith Pacific meet—if not exactly d on, at least in such a way that y cancel each other out and re ; * n the Doldrums—a zone of ns and variables, an area which rates slightly north and south a the seasons. ecently the United States Fish Wildlife research vessel, Hugh M. th, engaged on an American me Oceanic Fishery Investiga s project, came south from iolulu to locate the exact ; hern boundary of this great :n stream. The Gulf Stream’s gins are often visible to the eye ugh a difference in the colour ae water, and easily determined the marked difference in tem ture. ie Counter Equatorial Current is so spectacular in this regard, there is a marked though small lerature difference, and this rence was used by the Hugh M. h researchers. ie vessel sailed due south from )lulu towards Christmas Island the northern margin of CEC at 10 degrees 30 minutes i latitude. She then sailed pard for 2,500 miles on a zig eourse, crossing and recrossing tream’s border and plotting its - position at frequent points, work took from September 26 :tober 16 last, and it was found the stream’s northern border deviated more than 20 miles \ or south of 10 degrees 20 tes north, in all of the 2,500 cruised. s known that the CEC not only

has a seasonal movement north and south, but also varies from year to year, as does the doldrum zone Both have a tremendous effect on the climate of the Line Islands.

But the Hugh M. Smith ers are more interested in its fishing potentialities and influences. Ameri can tuna fishermen know that where such ocean streams meet, fish are often found in profusion. They want to know how far south they will have to come at different times of finp y fnH fish , along the invisible line, and they also want to know the temperature difference, and the abundance of plankton at vo lS ,u marginal zone > is sufficient to exploitable Concentra-

The answer so far does not seem to have been encouraging. The re search vessels Hugh M. Smith and John R. Manning have been coming south of the Line Islands area for several years past, sampling water at many depths, studying it for plankton, etc., and also to actually fish the area—the proof of the pudding!

Results have been very irregular as far as fish hauls are concerned.

But the work goes on, and the “by products” of this work will be of value to navigators, climatologists, and perhaps even coconut planters. t A branch of the ANZ Bank has been opened in Lae, NG. Mr. A. Watt is manager.

New Caledonia Beauty Spot

p. 59

Many tourists who have visited Noumea will remember the trip to Plum beach a few miles [?]utside the town, and the ice-cold spring that gushes out of the mountain hight up the flank [?]f Mt. Dore. Recently the local Syndicat d'Iniative, which is the local tourist organisation, [?]ad this retaining wall built above the spring. A considerable amount of other work has [?]een done-and some noumea residents wish the project had gone even further and a swimming pool built. The volume of water is sufficient for this. From the spring there is a sweeping [?]iew down to the sea coast.

-Photo by F. E. Dunn.

Fiji Waters

p. 59

BIG GAME FISHING IN

L/fR. and Mrs. Frank Hayford, an American couple at present in Fiji on a big game fishing ex edition, have been sampling the aters in Lomaiviti and south of ava.

A large silver marlin was hooked

by Mr. Hayford on February 9, but not landed - MrSr Hayford caught a 155-lb sailfish 3 days later near the island of Wakaya, using a locally made rod of Fiji timber. r ?f r : Mrs> Ha y ford h ave estab llsned a base at Levuka and will fish in Lomaiviti waters over the next few weeks.

Fiji Police Bribery Charges

p. 60

INQUIRY ENDS

IT was malicious gossip that had been responsible for the setting up of the Commission of Inquiry into alleged bribery in the Fiji Police Force, said Mr. A. M. Duncan, chair man of the Commission, in February.

The gossip had created a great deal of suspicion against the Police and “the sooner that this is eradicated from the minds of the community the better.”

The inquiry began in Suva on No vember 2, had some sittings in Lautoka, and ended on February 10.

Over 200 witnesses gave evidence.

The findings of the Commission will be presented to the Fiji Gov ernment in due course.

Fiji’s First Speaker

p. 60

On Visit to Mother Parliament

Ratu sir lala sukuna, K.C.M.G., K.8.E., who is to be the first Speaker of the Legis lative Council of Fiji, is now Lon don-bound per Orsova to attend a course in Parliamentary procedure, organised by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

Ratu Sir Lala will attend House of Commons proceedings in London and also visit the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Fijian Development Fund

p. 60

FINANCES

CONTRIBUTIONS by Fijians to their Development Fund for the August-Decemtaer period totalled

£89,836 for the whole group.

Biggest contributors were the disa tricts of Cakaudrove and Lau, witl: £25,748 and £23,290 respectively.

In the same period, Namosi diss trict was last on the list with 10 7.

[?]ew Meteorological

pp. 61-63

[?] HE YANKS

[?] RE BACK

[?]ew Meteorological [?]tation on Betio

S a sequel to several officially l unexplained visits by senior American military officers to rawa, Gilbert Is., last year, an lerican tank landing ship sud ily arrived on December 11 and fan to disgorge equipment, tech ians, and constructional staff at ;io islet for an important meteor gical station. )n December 14, a PBM flying ,t arrived from Kwajalein, Micro ia, with a crew of 11 and 10 ior US Army and Air Force [cei’3 and construction foremen, s aircraft departed two days ;r, but other PBM’s were ex ted on December 20, 28, and uary 4. A C-47 land-based air :t was expected to call, ot since the Americans departed r World War II has Tarawa seen nuch activity and excitement, ailing an official statement, best sses are that the station has i established in preparation for forthcoming series of H-bomb 5. By extending the meteoro 'al network for the study and casting of high-altitude winds, Atomic Energy Commission is mg certain that there are no ’edicted “fall-outs” this year, as rred in the last tests with dis ms effects to some Micronesians Japanese fishermen, is also considered possible that station is part of American re ;h plans for the International ihysical Year, which com bes in 1957. e American station at Betio is in marge of Mr. Charles W. Kelley, ere is, of course, a New Zea ■manned meteorological station irawa, as part of the extensive i Pacific network controlled Wellington through Nadi urological centre in Fiji.

loons Ride Jet-Stream

January United States meteor logists launched the first of a 3gular series of giant balloons Japan in a project to as e facts on the so-called ■ jet n a fast-moving migratory air at which speeds across the .Pacific and round the world height of about 30,000 ft. balloons carry a radio trans wmch operates simultane on three frequencies, and the s reveal the position of the ns and a great deal of meteor al information as they speed ii’d at about 200 miles per

It is believed that one of thp functions of the American meteorological station at Tarawa is to in tercept the signals from these balloons. n mese The commencement of this let stream project recalls a little-knnSn Japanese activity of World War II when the Japanese Army set un n special unit for the launching nf similar balloons with incendiar/and anti-personnel bombs for delivery to Canada and the United States From November, 1944, until April of thp following year some 9,000 balloons were launched, about half of whir*h reached their though they did little harm. ’ g American military investigations after the war showed th It * ?h|

v,r>n , ™i£° ns er l Fe l eased in batches, each b . atch was a rubber carrym £ radio equipment which wa « monitored in Japan on «^orT 1 + g i? t ac^ oss - signals indicated when the balloons had reached the hZnfnf The other SSlir? n f 0f the batch were made of f lay oo S * of P ar chment paper

Fili^ r^th f VV lametl ;L

™Siirt d ,5 th hydro Sen they each ™nfo d three °f four 32-lb in °o a nti-personnel bombs ThPv^fp™ 6 '!?- ° f sand ballast f ey were adjusted to rise to be -30’0?0 , ft a ? d 35 ’ 000 ft where westerly winds are known to I blow - If the balloons

Glased,'^"WStoS;

30,000 ft they released ballast. Each paper balloon with equipment cost about $BOO to manufacture.

The American post-war investi gations showed that the Japanese ibandoned the project after six nonths because they did not think hat the cost was worth the results ichieved, but had they continued hrough the summer months the US LUthorities are satisfied that their lush-fire hazard would have been ery considerable.

Special bush-fire-fighting teams fere prepared in the US and lanada to combat the menace—but tiey were not needed.

Balloons landed all the way from laska to Mexico. They had a de ice which was supposed to explode lem after they had released the LSt bomb, but in ten per cent, of ises this device failed, and about )0 balloons were captured intact :ter landing. The only casualties msed took place when a balloon nded at a children’s picnic in regon State. The children played ith the balloon causing the bombs explode. Five children and one iman were killed.

In another war, similar balloons uld be released from Siberia, and are than likely, such balloons are ready being used to-day for secret lotographic and other purposes, they could well travel round the >rld and land again roughly at hit of take-off.

Kerema Rubber

p. 63

A Good Year For Kerema Rubber

THE annual general meeting of Kerema Rubber Ltd. will be held m Port Moresby on March 15. wily submit a report that shows substantial progress dur ing 1955.

Nett profit for the year ending SvwS!n r f £38 ’ 158 and tota l dividend for the year will be 15 per The report shows that the planta tion produced 386.198 lb of rubber dui ing 1955 a record. Average price received was 3/2 per lb and cost of production c.i.f. Australian ports, 1/6 pe ? *o"r7^ ur i ng y ear - Kerema had only 87 inches of rain instead of the average 134 inches.

During 1955, 98 acres were planted up with high-yielding rubber seed lings raising from imported Malayan seed. Total planted area is now 1,598 acres—about 350 of them post war plantings. Another 35 acres of virgin land will be ready for planting by November.

TI Mr R. j. Keegan, formerly a well-known pfficial of the British Colonial Service in the South Pacific, and now retired, arrived in Aus traha from Europe in November, and has been living in Sydney. Mrs Keegan is a daughter of Mrs Lockhart Bell, recently deceased Mr and Mrs. Keegan probably will make their permanent home in Eng land.

COCOA: World Supply

p. 64

and Demand

THE new year has opened poorly for cocoa producers. The period of price stability is past, and cocoa is now cheaper than at any time in the last five years. Prices started to sag late in December when the final estimate of the 1955/56 crop in the Gold Coast, the largest producer, indicated that production had been maintained, contrary to general belief.

Confidence weakened further when the British West African marketing board on January 6 sold 15,000 tons to a large American manufacturer at about 240 - a cwt.; and unusually early sales of Brazilian cocoa from the temporao crop have strengthened expectations of a good crop in Brazil.

Late this week Accra cocoa could be bought for as little as 222/6 a cwt. for March/May shipment.

A fair amount of business has been done at declining prices, but there is little interest in prompt supplies.

Most buyers are waiting to see a„ what price the big British manufac turers and the marketing board will do business. Consumers’ stocks are high, and the credit squeeze in creases their reluctance to add to stock Yet the outlook is not too dismal.

Lower prices are constructive, lor consumption in Europe and the United States is picking up. The

question is how long it will be before consumption draws level with avail able supplies.

World consumption last year is estimated by Gill and Duffus at 707.000 tons and production at 799.000 tons, leaving an apparent increase in stocks of some 90,000 tons. Hence, even if production were to fall well below that of last season, consumption would still

have to rise substantially befores supplies became tight.— London r Economist, Feb. 4. t A past understanding that the Maui Pomare, during the CoolcJ Islands fruit season, would call att any island having 1,000 cases oft oranges, or 3,000 cases of tomatoes,; is likely to be accepted again dur ing the 1956 season.

Apia Rifle Club Active Again

p. 65

J Mr. Willoughby, of New South Wales, is the new headmaster of the Norfolk Island school.

because of building plans encroaching on the old range area at Vaivase, the Apia [?]e Club has been inactive since 1951. How [?]r, a new area was recently granted at [?]alii by NZ Reparation Estates and a modern [?] yard range built under the supervision the club armourer Mr. A. Belford The [?] membership of 50 is full and there is a ting list of prospective members. A move already under way to raise funds to send eam to compete at the NZ National Cham [?]ships in 1957. [?]een here at a special shoot on the opening are (left to right): J. Schaafhausen, A. [?]ussen, D. R Eden (the president), T. [?]h (acting High Commissioner and Patron).

Photo: R. F. Rankin.

Treatment Of Yaws

p. 65

Letter to the Editor 1943 and 1944, while stationed on Vella Lavella as a medical officer with the United States 7 y> I went to two Islands inannga and Simbo) to treat the ives once a week for several iths, for yaws with Mapharsen Bismuth, i those months I never saw a lary yaws—the first sign of yaws ction—only the secondary mani ations, and the later stages. I id out through an interpreter ; experience had taught the ves that the complications of s were less if treatment was not bed until after the secondaries present. lis observation in treatment of nlis has been followed by my essor of Syphilis, Dr. C. C. nie, of Kansas City, Missouri, is a world authority on the sub- I told Dr. Dennie what I had □ on Vella Lavella. He was very •ested and wanted me to get °gy (blood tests) on these res but, being a forward station id not have the laboratory avail for such studies, yonder whether, with the advent 'enicillin, the natives are still rising this theory.

D. A. ANDERSON, MD.

South Santa Fe, a, Kansas, USA. aybe, some medical missionary is section of the Solomons could de the American doctor with information he is seeking.— >IM.) s

Cook Is. Shipping Should

p. 65

Improve—Soon

According to unofficial estimates made by men engaged on the extensive refit to NZGS x/[ou i Pomare at Auckland, the vessel would be unlikely to resume services on the Auckland-Cook Islands run until “well into April”

The .x inter “island 300-tonner Charlotte Donald, following an extensive refit at Auckland, cleared Auckland in February for Raro tonga.

It is possible that a small cargo vessel might visit the Group from New Zealand in March, if sufficient cargo is offering.

Saved by Mercy Flights

p. 67

On the stretcher is Tete, a Gilbertese girl 18 whose life was saved at Fanning Is. the end of last year through the co-operation the local manager of Cable and Wireless, the District Officer on Christmas Island, [?] the manager of Fanning Plantations, Ltd. [?]ete developed tetanus when local supplies serum were insufficient to save her life, um was brought by plane from the US two occasions. —Photo by B. E. Kiraly.

Is. Discoveries

p. 67

WESTWARD

THE COURSE?

Heyerdahl Makes Easter Is. Discoveries

OINCE Norwegian Thor Heverdahi O and companions made the Kon-tiki raft voyage from to Polynesia in the whiter S mi 7 U in an effort to nrovp of the present da v h Pnf^ Cestors

an/Z 4VST

American continent wS? 1 theorf Lf been deha t3 6y^rdah J bitterly in scientifir almost AlmL m aloTe nt S C hTs rC^ Set in a g e s » r d u migration theory researches to ™ 6d theory ™ further prove his

At the end of December an expedition headed by Heyerdahl and including a Chilean archaeologist, Mr. Gonzalo Figueroa, reported important finds from Easter Island. Advice was received in Valparaiso from Mr. Figueroa that excavations had uncovered “columnar sculpture” strikingly similar to funeral monuments built by the Incas of ancient Peru, and entirely different to the well known sombre-faced stone images for which the island is famous.

Mr. Figueroa was reported to have given the opinion that the discoveries would tend to prove that pre-Columbian civilisations in South America migrated into the Pacific.

Mr. C. K. Smith, of NG Goldfields staff, with Mrs. Smith, returned to Lae on the January Soochow.

Some Fish Stories From

p. 68

EXPERTS

EXPERTS concerned with the global pattern of food for the earth’s teeming millions are looking more and more towards the comparatively untapped wealth of the oceans, and Japan stands out as the nation that is most pro gressive and determined in explor ing and exploiting the vast oceanic food resources—especially of the Pacific Ocean.

As evidence of this the Tokio Uni versity of Fisheries has a staff of 28 professors, some 70 technical officers, and owns three research ships, the largest Umitaka Maru, a diesel-powered steel vessel of 1,387 gross tonnage.

A visit to the above University was made by the delegates from the 16 countries who attended the Indo Pacific Fisheries Council, held in Tokio last September-October.

This sixth session of the IPFC was covered by the versatile Mr.

Van Pel, Fisheries Officer to the South Pacific Commission, and he reports upon it, and also upon latest developments in fish-farming, in the January issue of the SPC Bulletin.

Another fish story in the same publication, contributed by M.

Boeseman, covers the fresh-water fisheries potential in Netherlands New Guinea.

If Count F. T. Goedicke van Asten, who was a resident of Tonga for very many years, and who went to live in New Zealand after World War 11. is suffering from minor ailments, and now is a resident of a private nursing home in Auckland. His eyesight is practi cally gone but, despite his great age (about 95), his memory is clear

and lively. He was a member of ' an aristocratic family in Germany— he is related to the former kings of Bavaria, and in his childhood was i an associate of the late Kaiser Wilhelm ll—and he first came to< the Pacific when the Germans* entered New Guinea, about 75 years* ago. He acquired British after World War I.

Cooks Can Be Made Fit

pp. 69-71

REPORT SHOWS HOW:—

Cooks Can Be Made Fit For Islanders To Live In

r[E Belshaw-Stace “Programme” for economic development in the Cook Islands was recently sub mitted to the New Zealand govern ment. It is based on an investiga tion made in the Group in 1955 and makes these points: • There is too much free-aid to Islanders and insufficient emphasis on self-help. • The feeling of Outer-islanders that Rarotonga is “favoured” by [Government is justified. • It is a disservice rather than i help to exaggerate the possibil ties of economic expansion. • All is not well with the citrus ■eplanting scheme.

The Report calls for improved ransport and marketing, provision ►f capital and supplies, increased esponsibility to be borne by the /ook Islanders, and better educa ional facilities.

Great emphasis is placed on im proving public relations to stimu ate and direct the Interest of the eople in local affairs and to pro lote an at present non-existent ammunity spirit.

Certain public buildings in Raro )nga are cited as examples of misguided policy”—i.e., favouring .arotonga—in that they cannot be uplicated in the outer islands, omething less grand would have sen adequate, and more desirable ewed from an outer-islands point ' view.

Before any firm suggestion can be ade regarding the expansion or versification of agriculture in the roup a thorough survey of popula m trends, soils and land capabil ies will be necessary. Such surveys tould be carried out immediately.

The researchers also emphasise iat even although certain crops ight grow well in these islands, e temperament of the people ust be considered. A crop like nilla, which requires a great deal painstaking work, is not likely be a success. High priority is ven to agricultural experimenta m, but with the above aspect iphasised.

Ihe researchers show in detail at all is not well with the Citrus Scheme and its future tlook. They consider that bananas uld better suit the Southern oup outer islands. Due to ship ig problems, the tomato crop auld be encouraged only in Raro iga, and the pineapple crop only Mangaia. The copra crop could d should be greatly expanded and

npletely reorganised.

The report calls for the appoint ment of an assistant to the Director of Agriculture, an experimental officer with the necessary Maori staff, an additional field officer for the Southern Group, a field officer for the Northern Group, and an agricultural education officer A forestry officer will also soon be re quired.

A marketing board should be established, and also a copra board though the former board might per form both functions. The present system of copra marketing was found to be completely unsatis factory.

The researchers consider that there is likely to* be a considerable rise in population in the future, as health conditions are improved and the present heavy infant death rate lowered.

This will call for greatly expanded food crops.

Resident Agents will have to take active roles as development officers, and will have to be leaders exercis ing initiative and guidance in the promotion of community activity and economic development. They will have to be men specially picked for their jobs, and their terms of service, to preserve continuity, should be lengthened. This should also apply with the Resident Commis sioner.

A reorganisation of the taxation system is recommended, the appli cation of New Zealand income tax ceasing. Taxation should be thoroughly explained to the people.

There should be a local income tax and a local schedule of Custom duties. Export duties should stand as at present but consideration

should be given to applying the pro ceeds to the particular industries vhich yield these taxes.

A Bank of the Cook Islands is ■ecommended along similar lines to he Bank of American Samoa, to irovide finance for development. It hould be a quasi-public concern, lot a government department. It /ould provide full banking facil ities, at present non-existent. It hould take over the present Post )ffice Savings Bank accounts.

As the principal means of im roving public relations, which will e a vital part of the plan, the pre mt broadcasting system will have ) be considerably extended. This ill call for equipment and for the ppomtment of a technician, pro ramme production officer, a home jonomist, and a translator-in irpreter.

Development of the North Group lands, all atolls, should be limited 1 the copra industry. A field officer recommended for the Northern roup to supervise this develop ed. He would be based at mrhyn, which would assume new iportance as a northern capital.

A Government-owned schooner mid be based there for the use the field officer and other admin iration officials, as well as for the avement of passengers and limited aounts of cargo.

The authors stress that these de lopments must be spread over me years.

Some Recent SPC Publications

p. 71

SINCE its establishment in 1947 the South Pacific Commission has produced many technical papers as solid references in com pact form for the planter, the ad ministrator, and the educationalist in the South Pacific.

Among those just to hand are the following: Educational Aspects of Community Development, a survey of fundamental aspects of com munity education by the Senior Social Welfare officer of the Papua and New Guinea Department of Education, paper 74, 4/-; Catalogue of the South Pacific Commission Co operative Library, paper 75 5 -a Bibliography of Tropical Housing paper 76, 2 /-; A List of Insect Pests Recorded in South Pacific Terri tories, paper 79, in English and French, 6/- or 55 frs. CFP; and the Distribution of Mosquitoes in the South Pacific Region, paper 86, in English and French, 8 - or 75 frs

CFP.

r Mr. M. Hoskins, ARIA, Newcastle architect, left on the Polynesie on January 20 for New Caledonia and New Hebrides. This was his 54th round trip, and it is claimed to be a record for an Australian-born person. Mr. Hoskins said he was making the round trip to survey progress on a number of projects,

now under way in the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, which are be ing directed by his organisation, i 4 J 2 e Bishop, 14, promising Aitutaki student attending the Rarotonga Tereora College, was accidentally killed in a shooting accident while hunting wild fowl near Ruatonga in January.

Migratory Secrets

p. 72

TAGGED TUNA

Migratory Secrets Revealed

F)R several years now, US Fish & Wildlife Service scientists have been tagging tuna in the North Pacific, releasing them, and hoping that some day some of the tagged fish might be again caught and their migratory habits partly re vealed.

According to a recent press state ment from F & WS, the tagging project has started to yield results.

Last November 24, the first tagged tuna was recaptured by a Japanese fishing vessel north of Hawaii and 810 miles due west of a point 400 miles north-east of Midway, where it had been tagged ten months earlier. The Big Eye had grown by 10 lbs in the interim. The tag was returned by the skipper of Nikko Maru No. 5.

No. 2 fish, an albacore, was taken by another Japanese vessel 75 miles north-east of Tokio Bay on January 19, 471 days and 2,670 miles from point of release 1,300 miles north of the Hawaiian Is. That fish had weighed 20 lbs when tagged and over 40 lbs when recaptured.

Next tag to come in was delivered by the Honolulu sampan Neptune.

This aku had been at liberty for 252 days when hooked on February 1, but its point of recapture of Barber’s Point was only a few miles from where it had been tagged. Its weight had increased from 7 lb to 14 lb.

US Fish & Wildlife Service, PO

Box 3830, Honolulu, appeals to all: Pacific fishermen to return such tags with dimensions and weight of fish and details of where, when, and how the fish was taken. The tag resembles a piece of plastic spaghetti and is attached to the back muscles of the fish.

Blasted Channel

p. 73

Letter to the Editor: Final Word on That Blasted Channel

11/TTH regard to the Mangaia V t reef Channel (see PIM, January, page 77) I should ike to say this; Mr Edwin Gold was not present it the meeting in Mangaia during yhich the captains of the various urf-boat crews asked me to clear he Atuakoro reef channel for them, /enturies ago, there may have been , reasonable channel at this point. >ince then, however, coral heads nd shifting boulders had choked t to the extent that the passage fas gradually becoming impassable 0 all but the smallest boats.

The representative of Keia dis rict pointed out at this meeting bat his village wished to build a ew surf-boat that would be capable f carrying 4 tons of cargo at a me; there was no point in their oing so while the channel remained 1 its then lamentable condition.

Being the only person in Mangaia ho knew anything about explosives, agreed to tackle the job. A very )-operative Cook Islands Adminis ation provided me with the limited :ar at their disposal. The explosive ley supplied was Polar blasting dignite. Not having used this irticular explosive previously for iderwater blasting, I approached .e manufacturers with a request r technical data on the matter, hen this was obtained, I secured luntary local labour and went .ead with the job.

Mr. Gold writes: “The aim of asting was not to create a passage t to blow away the reef-lip that s always impeded entrance to is lagoon. . . . This was abortive”. ; is apparently unaware that the mgaians specifically asked me not cut away the reef-lip as such don would have aggravated the ngerous currents at this point. [ must apologise to Mr. Gold for 3 “feeble bangs” (of the ex •sions) to which he referred in earlier letter. Any kind of mech ical noise represents loss of 3rgy, so he may gain some satis ;tion from* learning that the nparative silence of the under ter explosions may have indicated sonable efficiency on the job. finally, if any firm cares to state h accuracy that its products were d in so-and-so connection, it is ; for anyone utterly unacquainted h the facts to question their bt to do so. n self-defence, I must add that ing the war I trained sabotage ads in the use of explosives.

Eden, NZ, I am, etc.

i. 7, 1956. RONALD SYME

Vo further correspondence will received on this subject. — Ed.)

Ambitious Bsip

p. 73

NATIVE

TRAINING PLAN

A STEP towards meeting the widespread demand for native school teachers, artisans and clerical workers in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate has been taken as the result of a grant under the Colonial Development and Welfare Scheme.

A vocational training college is to be erected at a site adjoining the Kukum airfield, six miles from the capital, Honiara.

f ll , wll cost nearly £24,000, will be of steel and cement, and the Gov eminent Architect’s design shows a central two-storey block with three classrooms and amenities on the ground floor, dormitories above.

Wings from the central block will bouse the technical classrooms, library, dining hall, kitchen, etc.

Two-year courses for teachers, beTb f fi W 0 a , nd carpenters will fi S f ai j n: later ’ other classes will be introduced in metal work, electricity, radio operation, etc.

Plans of the training college and further details of this BSIP developm * ent a PP ear in the January issue of the spc Quarterly Bullet \ n

Fiji Schoolboys

pp. 75-76

Go Into Print

rWO school magazines were re ceived at the end of the year: both from Fiji, one Indian and me Fijian, and both excellent.

Queen Victoria School—the all rijian secondary school of the Jolony—calls its magazine Nanumi T iti and it takes the usual form of chool magazines, most of the letter less being provided by the pupils tiemselves.

This is the magazine’s second year f issue—and we hope that there ill be many more as it gives an scellent idea of how these young ijians, now established in their ew school at Matavatucou, are de- Jloping in an environment designed ) fit them for living in a Euro sanised world.

As well as a chronicle of school ;tivities in 1955, there are numer is original contributions from the )ys on subjects ranging from gay • grave. This is one of the best them—from NHD, of Form VI. e called it Invisible.

"Well, if you really must know how I made discovery, I suppose I had better tell you," said to the reporter, who for the last five fs had been pestering me for an interview.

What do you think made him try so hard

for an interview with me? Now, do not make the excuse that your breakfast has caused you to forget so quickly. If you really cannot find the cause perhaps I had better tell you There is every reason for every reporter in the country to want to interview me, for you see I am the scientist whose name recently hit the headlines on account of my discovery Inv. 5 a serum which when introduced into the body at the business end of a hypodermic needle makes the recipient invisible after exactly five minutes.

I had, for three years and for no clear purpose at all, been experimenting on a large number of mixtures in the hope of finding one that when injected into a living organism, would make the refractive index of its tissues similar to that of air. After many disappoint ments I finally stumbled upon my serum. I say stumbled because my discovery was made quite by accident.

It was about half past three on Friday morning when, completing my mixture, I went into the kitchen for a cup of coffee. I returned in about 10 minutes and thinking that I still had to add a certain chemical to the mixture, measured out the required amount and did so!

To my great surprise the mixture frothed and foamed and went through five different changes of colour, a factor which had not occurred in any of my previous preparations.

Full of hope I injected 2 c.c. of my new serum into one of my few remaining guinea pigs, at the same time recording the tem perature and heart-beat of the animal. In exactly five minutes after the injection, the animal disappeared completely from sight, hence the name Inv. 5. Crowned with success and now full of confidence it was no difficult matter for me to work out an antidote to my serum.

You may be sure that I did not make my discovery known until I had made the best possible use of it. Scientist though I am, cheap movies offer a great attraction for me and for a month I went around seeing every movie possible—free of charge. It was only when I realised that I was not the only one who wished to see a movie free of charge that I made my discovery known.

The other magazine is from the Vivekananda High School at Nadi. This High School was started in 1949 and although the roll of 315 is predominantly Indian, there are 12 Fijian students and one Chinese.

There were 43 girls attending the school in 1955—0ne of them a Fijian girl. This seems to suggest that the

Indian resident of Fiji, has still to be persuaded that girls are worthy of higher education.

There are reports on school activ ities and contributions by past and present students but the magazine differs from the usual school annual in that it contains also articles and illustrations on Indian cultural matters and articles of gen eral interest to education.

Most of the magazine is in Eng lish but there are also sections in Fijian, Hindi, Tamil, Gujerati, and Malayalam. Judging by the original contributions, it seems that the Indian schoolboy is a much more serious fellow than his Fijian counterpart. Here is one typical contribution from Govardhan, of Form V. He calls it Man over 'Nature.

In the pre-historical period man prayed and offered tribute to lightning, lions, other wild animals, Rain God, Wind God, and thousand and one other gods whom he needed.

But as time passed on, man progressed. The gods to whom he prayed became his slaves and the man became their master. Man made fire, domesticated wild animals and cultivated lands.

Iron and copper were converted into knives, saws, axes and other implements. The river, which he once worshipped and never dared to go near, was crossed by boats.

As time marched on still brighter and clearer discoveries were made.

Though man does not have wings he can now fly higher than birds and faster than sound. Man harnessed water to supply him

with power to run factories and so on.

Man lives in all the climates and countries.

He lives in the skyscrapers, igloos, bures and long houses. He is both carnivorous and herbivorous. He is no longer scared of the forces of nature. He is the master of them.

He thus lives true to the words of the great Greek philosopher—" Man is the measure of all things".

IT Mr. Alan Donald BVSc., has been selected for appointment to the

post of Veterinary Officer

(Pathology), in the Department

of Agriculture, Fiji. He was

a Colonial Development and Wel fare Scholarship holder, recently graduated BVSc., at the University* of Sydney, and has accepted a teaching fellowship in veterinary pathology at the Sydney University* Veterinary School during 1956. He will likely take up his appoint ment in Fiji early in 1957. Mr: Donald was born in Fiji and is the only son of Mr. D. A. Donald (who served as an Agricultural Officer in Fiji prior to his appointment a: Senior Agricultural Officer to the BSIP) and Mrs. Donald.

Exploration

p. 77

Letter to the Editor:

ACHIEVEMENTS IN

THE John Lewis Memorial Fund is administrated by The Royal Geographical Society (SA Branch) Incorp. and the Gold Medal is awarded annually for “the most noteworthy achievements in exploration, research and literary work.” Prizes or books are given —for papers on either the history, exploration or administration of the Northern Territory—or, at discre ;ion, monetary assistance to enable ;he writer to effect research.

Bronze medals are also awarded hr University examinations.

Your remark (Dec. PIM, p. 13) ibout the lateness of the presentat ion of the Gold Medal needs ex )lanation. The awards to Ivan Champion, Sir Gordon Taylor, Dr.

Donald Thomson, and Sir Edmund Hilary have been made, but the iresentation in each case was held ver at their request to enable their .ttendance if possible at the iociety’s Library. The presentations o both Sir Gordon Taylor and Sir Idmund Hillary are still awaiting heir return from abroad.

If you or your associates come 3 Adelaide it is hoped that you dll find time to visit our Library, 'here you will find the most unique Dllection of books of travel, maps nd manuscripts based on the riginal purchase of the famous ork Gate Library of London. To ns has been added the Gill Library f SA history and the Benham brary of travel, etc.

I am, etc.,

CHAS. C. DELAND.

delaide.

(In our caption to the December photograph, were not referring to the fact that the 'ard was made in 1953 and the medal pre ited in 1955. But to the fact that (accord- I to our correspondent in Moresby) the ard was made for Mr. Champion's journey oss New Guinea from the Fly to the Sepik ir 25 years ago. That is the delay to which

referred.—Ed.)

[?]O Fiji Departmental

p. 77

CHIEFS TO RETIRE

|R. J. M. CRUIKSHAJSTK, C.M.G.

" Director of Medical Services in i, ? 1J1 ’ is due to retire shortly and 11 be replaced by Dr. P. W. Dill j * s present Director Medical Services, Cyprus. Dr. uikshank will commence his pre ;irement leave in March.

Mr. H. A. Ragg, Director of Public Drks, is to go on pre-retirement ve in April and will be replaced Mr. John Common, Assistant rector of Public Works, Aden.

Mr. Common is already well- Dwn in Fiji, where he served as icutive Engineer from? 1947 to O.

Tropicalities

pp. 79-80

MAGAZINE SECTION

fHE WHISTLE WENT PEEP, PEEP

EUROPEAN girls in Honiara get whistles—but they aren’t wolf whistles.

This and other fearsome data were irought back to Sydney at the end f February by Miss Marjorie 'isher, an ex-BSIP Government em loyee, an English stenographer, and nursing sister who had found con itions of work in the Protectorate intolerable.” All girls had broken heir contracts.

Miss Fisher said that she wanted d warn other Australian girls gainst going to Honiara because Dnditions were “dreadful.”

The things that were dreadful in uded: • The war-time American army uts that served as Government flees; « The land-crabs that walked ;ross the floors; • The unbearable heat; • The snobbish caste-system of le British administrative officials— icy “ignored Australian girl enographers.” • The single girls’ quarters which id no kitchen facilities so that ey had to eat in the hotel.

Miss Fisher said that the acting aief Secretary, who lived in a 5,000 house, told them that they id to have a pioneering spirit.

The English stenographer, Miss ella Myers, said that the girls had en issued with whistles after a iropean girl had been nearly 'angled by a native three months o. Said Miss Myers: “We were d to whistle three times if natives mbled us. . . but the next girl packed found the whistle would ly gd feebly ‘peep peep.’ ”

FORECAST; Shortage of Aus dian stenographers and nurses in ? BSIP in next few months.

SHADES OF THE COCONUT!

STRIKING manifestation of the . changing South Seas is seen in a recent Cook Islands Legislative uncil decision to supply every 100 l child between the ages of 5 3 12 years with a regular supply cow’s milk. rhirty years ago (or less) such a [gestion would have been laughed scorn. The milk of the coconut s capable of turning out fairly •d samples of children for 1,000 rs, and the atoll children of to for , exar nple Tokelau children mere the coconut is still in vogue,

are probably the finest physical specimens to be found anywhere.

Not that the Cook Islands move is revolutionary. Milk is being dis tributed to many Island schools to day; usually it is dried milk-powder which is mixed with water.

GETTING

THERE

faster!

QANTAS’ Super-

Constellation C o nnoisseur! service to London has now had 20>,

hours travelling'

time clipped off it. I Planes leave Syd ney at 6 p.m.

Fridays and arrive in London

the following

Sunday a t 2.30 p.m. London time.

This is achieved by cutting out the night -st op in Singapore and over-flying Dja karta and Bang kok.

Getting there a day earlier will probably be fine for people in a hurry—but it takes all the fun out of travelling by air.

Most people, after a night and a day in a plane, are glad enough to break the journey to sleep in comfort in an a i r - c o nditioned room, and Dja karta and Bang kok airports were worth an hour’s visit. Djakarta for it s overcrowding, flies, armed guards who ride bicycles around the air field, and the howls of fury with which the Indonesians react to the wayward traveller who dares to put a foot outside the door of the terminal building. And Bangkok for just the opposite. The huge terminal building with its

air-conditioned lounge and dining room, is one of the best in the world; and the courtesy of the staff is in sharp contrast to the Djakarta staff.

As Qantas can no doubt point out, people who want to dawdle can still take one of their three other ser vices that are run each week. These, however, are mixed-class services and do not give the same feeling of spaciousness as the Connoisseur ser vice which carries only 43 people.

COLD-SHOULDERS (MALE) FOR

FOUNDATION GARMENT PLAN

OUR Tahiti correspondent reports that one of the largest founda tion garment manufacturers in the United States has been recently

investigating market possibilities and suitable agents in Polynesia.

Our correspondent says, however, that there seems little enthusiasm locally towards the idea of further promoting the confinement of the generally attractive Tahitienne figure within foundation garments from the United States or anywhere else.

One leading importer, dismissing the suggestion that this might be a worth-while agency, recalled with nostalgia the well dressed woman of yesterday. Then the sole dress was a “wispy muslin chemise, suspended from the shoulders by two straps,” with accompanying volumnious and airy drawers —on special occasions only.

Thus attired, the local beauties greatly enhanced the evening sun set view from the verandahs of the Yacht Club, Cercle Bougainville, and other popular male lounging-places, as they passed between sun and viewer in their promenade along the Broom Road.

To-day, the importer said, there was no such view. The foundation garment had already made deplor able inroads.

Two years ago there was a sug gestion that an American firm might set up a foundation garment factory at Pago Pago—but the in tention had been only to manufac ture garments, not sell them in the Islands. The scheme fell through.

“WHO IS SPEAKING, PLEASE?”

A CALL on any one of the hand cranked party-line telephones in rural Rarotonga is always an adventure, and the outcome is rarely predictable.

When the line is not dead—as it frequently is—it is very much alive.

This you gather from? the rapid series of faint clicks that tell of receivers removed and clamped eagerly to the ears of neighbours, all able, willing and anxious to lis ten, and participate if allowed.

Seasoned subscribers will clear the line to base with a few searing words to “line crashers”, and per haps a cheery aside to some pet neighbour, distinguished by the way in which he or she breathes into the receiver.

As evidence of the uncertain out come of a call on this line, the following conversation took place recently in Rarotongan when a Titikaveka lady was interrupted in her efforts to contact Avarua. "Who is that speaking?” she queried.

“This is Jesus speaking Jesus Christ,” said a young and obviously female voice. The Titikaveka lady, who is familiar with the ancestry and problems of every Maori on the island, rapidly ticked-off in her mind all the young upstarts likely to be tuning in at that hour.

“Where are you speaking from?” she asked. A , , “I am speaking by the telephone here,” was the cautious reply.

“ And what is your father’s name?” , J „ And the voice replied, God.

GFR.

BIRTH CONTROL AS ANSWER

TO SOME PACIFIC PROBLEMS

IT is a law of the human species that, as the standard of life im proves, the birthrate declines.

Among the swarming millions of Asia, where over-population keeps the masses very poor and the standard of living very low, the birthrate is fantastic.

Both in India and in Japan, where the birthrate has been so high that it creates almost insoluble politico economic problems, the Govern ments have been advocating systems of birth-control.

The problem has been reflected, for many years, in Fiji, where an annual birthrate of well over 40 per thousand per annum has placed the Indian population, in numbers, well ahead of the Fijians, although the latter are quite healthy, and have a normal birthrate. A few years ago a Governor of Fiji, Sir Brian Freeston caused a stir in high official circles by urging the Fiji Indians to observe the principles of birth control.

Actually, a deliberate birth-con trol policy in Fiji may not be neces sary. It is likely that, as the Indian standard of life in the rich and prosperous sugar Colony improves, the age-old law will bring the birth rate down to normal and less than normal.

An “International Conference on

Planned Parent hood” recently broadcast some startling statistics about the way certain world populations are in creasing and the probable economic and political effects of these in creases.

Following that, Japanese leaders announced that Japan, as a nation, now is deliberately encouraging birth control. They said that in no other way could Japan avoid disaster.

There are over 90 million people in Japan, increas ing by more than one million per annum: and there is not enough room now in Japan for the pre se n t population, and no overseas Japanese territory to which the sur plus people may go.

Prince With Rumpled Sox

p. 79

Prince Taufa-ahau, seven years old, and son of Prince Tugi of Tonga, spent a month's holiday in Sydney with his grandmother.

Queen Salote Tupou, in January-February. Here he is shown, on arrival by plane from New Zealand, with Vaea Tupou, aide-de-camp to the Queen.

Women's Weekly photograph.

Shell-Collector and Painter

p. 80

Painter of BOP

MRS. ANNIE KUSTER of MANUS (below) is an attractive, talented part-Polynesian with a strong German flavour. Her father was Charlie Munster, a well-known adventurer who had run away to sea from Germany, obtained British citizenship when he was a newspaper boy in Australia, and then went to the Solomons for Lever Bros.

They sent him to Lord Howe Atoll (or Ontong Java), where he was finally told by the Buala, or King of the Atoll, to get out, get killed or get married, so he took the same alternative as Harold Markham, and married the girl in question. She was the lovely Va'ule, daughter of the Buala himself. She died giving birth, in 1907, to Annie Johanna.

Charlie left for New Guinea a couple of years later, and while he was around Rabaul little Annie was cared for by the famous Mrs. Parkinson there. In 1910 Charlie settled in Manus, where he lived the rest of his life as a planter and trader. During the First War he was interned with other Germans, but after proving his British nationality in Aus tralia was allowed to return to New Guinea.

During the Second War he was not interned but was collected by the Japanese and did not survive the war.

Annie married Ludwig Kramer about 1929.

He had been planting at Kokopo, and then went to seek his fortune on the Goldfields, where Annie made her home at Wau, and had three children. Kramer died in 1940, Annie married again the next year, to an Australian of distant German descent, Gus Kuster, and they moved to Australia ahead of the Japs.

Gus first joined the AIF, then the NGVR, and finally the American small-ships. Since the war the Kusters have settled at Manus, and have four children. Annie is a keen shell collector, and also paints in oils and water colour, mainly island scenes and birds of paradise, all in fine detail, and some miniature

paintings for Christmas cards.-

BRETT MILDER.

Porkers’ Picnic

pp. 81-82

Kimi and the Judge were embarrassed but it was a—

By W. H. PERCIVAL.

KIMI’S heart was full as he looked down at his sick brother.

He saw the little muscles round the lad’s mouth jerk as sudden pain caused his nerves to twitch; heard his faint moan as he turned on his side. The sweat from his thin face soaked into the pillow-slip, making a damp patch that spread round his curly black hair.

He turned to the Native Medical Practitioner who stood at his side.

“Can’t you do anything for him?”

“I’ve done all I can, Kimi. There is only one thing left. He must be sent to Rarotonga hospital at once, rhe Aratangi leaves for Rarotonga 10-morrow.”

Lines of worry showed in Kimi’s smooth young face.

“But I have no money for the are.”

Nobody on the island had any noMey. The profits of the tomato :rop had been spent weeks ago; and he orange season was three months -way. He felt the Medico’s hand on lis arm. “Go and see the captain, Cimi. Maybe he let you pay later.” * * * Kimi stared at the lean, battered mgth of the small ship tied up to be rough jetty. The once-white aint was peeling off in places, show ig patches of red lead as ugly as ropic sores. Polynesian seamen r ere lashing boxes of shell and bags t stinking copra into position on dirty deck. He crossed the arrow gangplank and stepped over

the sagging guard rails.

“What do you want?”

Captain Vosco eased his flabby bulk down the bridge companion He wore a filthy singlet and three days’ growth of beard. A leather belt made a dividing crease across his gross stomach and supported wrinkled and stained duck trousers.

Kimi wet his lower lip with the tip of his tongue and smiled nervously. “Captain, my brother, Mata, he very sick. Doctor say he must go to Rarotonga hospital. But I have no money for his passage.

I pay you when you come back in the orange season. I have plenty money then.”

“What sort of a mug do you take me for, kid? How do I know that you’ll pay me? If your brother’s sick he’ll have to travel cabin.

That’ll cost £5. And the terms are strictly cash.”

“But captain, no other ship call here until after the hurricane season, and if Mata not go hospital very soon, maybe he die.”

“That’s none of my business. I’m running a trading vessel—not the Public Health Service. Come and see me when you have the money.

No dough, no passage.” He turned and walked aft.

Kimi trudged up the wharf towards the coastal road with tears blurring his vision and spilling down his cheeks. Where to get so much money, so quick, he thought.

All my friends and relations are as broke as me. Too much big fool, me.

When I have money I spend it all on ice-cream and paper hats. I take my girl to the cowboy pictures and buy her new dresses. Now I have no money.

He stopped suddenly as the idea came to him. There was just about enough taro and kumera on his plot to raise the required amount. The vegetables were ready to be gathered and it was market-day to-morrow.

His neighbours would loan him their horse and buggy, and he would be sure of selling all he could pro duce, for food was getting scarce.

He hurried along the dusty coral road, then turned inland up the track that led into the hills. The jungle was a thick green carpet that covered the land, except where an occasional r<pcky outcrop showed a grey, basaltic face, and coconuts and citrus marched in orderly ranks across the level spaces.

When he reached his own small plot he was perspiring freely. He looked about him—and sudden dis may sickened him like a blow in the stomach. The kumera plants were smashed and trampled down and half-devoured vegetables lay rotting m the sun.

He jerked his eyes towards the taro swamp, feeling rage build up at the sight of further damage. Less than a quarter of the crop was un spoiled.

“Damn pigs,” he said. He could hear th e m grunting somewhere among the taro leaves. And then he saw them, a large black boar and a fat old sow, almost invisible as they wallowed in the black mud.

He walked over to a clump of wild hibiscus saplings, and with his clasp knife, hacked one down and trimmed it. He tore at the green bark with his teeth and ripped it off in strips. Within a few minutes he had nooses of pliable bark He began to stalk the pigs.

Half an hour later he sat down in the shade of the trees to rest, too tired to be angry any longer.

The pigs were safely tied to con venient trees and would stay there until he had decided what to do.

He crossed his mud-blackened legs and began to think about old Judge Charleston.

Lately the Judge had increased the fines for this offence. He also lectured the guilty ones at length and threatened them with drastic punishment if they should come up before him again. The Judge under stood the islanders and their problems. He was a good man, and a fair man. Kimi stood up. I go see the Judge, he thought. He tell me what to do. * * * KIMI crossed the wide, well-kept lawn that surrounded the spaci ous bungalow. He could see the Judge sitting in his bamboo chair on the verandah. He stood at the foot of the steps as the Judge put

Speak up, lad...who is the owner?"

down his book and reached for his whisky glass.

“Well, my lad. What can I do for you?”

“Good afternoon, sir. I am sorry to disturb your honour. But I have some troubles about some pigs.”

“Oh, yes? Well, sit down a minute and tell me about it.”

Kimi sat down carefully on the edge of a chair, began to tell the Judge about Mata’s illness, the necessity of his travelling on the Aratangi, of his efforts to raise the passage mDney being frustrated by the pigs.

“I feel very bad, sir. The puakas, they spoil my crops. So I come to ask you, what shall I do?”

“Did you catch the pigs?”

“Yes, sir. And I tie them to the trees.”

“Right, then. The next step is to send for the owner, show him the damage and ask him to pay for it. If he refuses to pay, issue a summons against him and bring him to court. I promise you that I will deal very severely with him. There is no excuse for this sort of thing.

And I’m determined to stamp it out.”

The Judge sipped at his whisky and placed the glass on the table.

“By the way, do you know who the pigs belong to?”

“Yes, sir.” Kimi lowered his eyes and stared at his feet.

“Well, speak up, lad. Who is the owner?”

“You are, sir.”

“What?” The Judge’s mouth fell open. He sat upright in his chair and surprise made his round face comical. “That’s not possible. Are you sure? Describe them.”

He got out of his chair and paced the verandah with short, jerky steps as he listened. “By George, that’s them all right. How much did you say the damage amounted to?

“Five pounds, sir.”

“Hum —a fiver, eh.”

The Judge reached for the wallet that bulged his hip pocket. t The District Medical Officer Eastern, the Roko Tui Lomaiviti, Messrs. E. Ashley, I. D. Cammell, Gulabdas, A. G. McCown, R. A.

Ricketts and W. G. B. Williams have been appointed members of the Levuka Township Board, Fiji, under the chairmanship of Mr. E. O.

Sundin. t By notice in the French Oceania Journal Official of January, Mr.

Carlos-Gracia Palacios is confirmed as Consult for Chile in Papeete.

The Road

pp. 82-83

JUST ONE FOR

By DAIKA TAU

IN the days before World War II there was an outpost of Empire situated in the islands East ot Samarai, staffed by an Assistant Resident Magistrate, and a Patrox Officer, who did the wandering around the countryside; the station was supplied by a Gov ernment vessel about every six weeks. The place was regardeo highly by the staff although supplies' did run a bit short at times.

On one occasion the trawler was. returning from a trip to anothei; place and called in to pick up the mail and to anchor overnight. As. is usual at such times, the unj expected arrival and imminent de ; parture caused a last-minute flurr:' of letter-writing and checking. oc orders, lasting into the hours oc darkness.

The Captain visited the office about 9 p.m. and found the ARIV just finishing off his mail. Thes* men were old friends and were botl keen students of Grogology whei the opportunity offered, even goinu as far as to make opportunities; And here was a golden one offering The only cloud was the fact thac

the ARM’s wife was aware of his failing and endeavoured to keep his intake of alcohol under supervision sufficiently for him to be able to proceed under his own power when heading towards the marital couch To ensure this, she had locked up his grog supply as soon as the boat was sighted. But ARM’s did not reach their position without being able to cope with obstacles, and this one had been well coped with, earlier Precautionary measures taken had been to place grog in well-dis guised containers in various unlikely places and it was to one of these hideouts that the two old friends looked for spiritual comfort.

The first one lasted until the pressure-lamp went out. By then, he ARM was unable to rise unaided,’ he Captain was talking thickly and he time when wifely suspicion was ikely to produce results was getting lose.

By the light of a dim lantern, inder the mumbled instructions of he ARM, the Captain procured a mottle from another hideout and loured himself one for the road.

The ARM had passed the stage of eing able to contain any more and ven uttered an occasional snore, he Captain, knowing that he would et no more until he reached amarai, poured himself out another rink for the trip, a real woodener, nishing the bottle.

Just then a feminine voice came

from outside, asking the ARM to come home and let that othe?brut2 ™a y . With great presence of mmd the Captain downed his drink and, staggeringly discreet, left by the back steps for his boat, getting away from the wharf at oncl g H me after dawn th e next day the two passengers on board were shown a bottle containing some murky-looking fluid and were could be Blackwater.* Neither was sure, so to be on the safe side, the Captain took to his bunk and the passengers conned the boat with all speed to Samarai, where the Captain was carried to hospital on a stretcher. He had no temperature but Blackwater was a serious thing and it was wise to take precautions.

After several days, he was dis charged and came back to take his boat over again, saying that he had caught the complaint at a suf ficiently early stage to avoid serious complications.

A trip to another station caused a delay of several weeks before he saw his old friend again. As he sailed into the small harbour, he

could see the ARM walking up and down agitatedly. Before he was able po tie his boat up, the ARM called; Captain, have you any office sup plies aboard for me?”

“Yes,” was the answer, “I have your six-monthly requisition. Are you short?”

The answer was explosive: “Short!

You have held up the whole work ot the Government in this district.

We have not been able to hold a court case legally. And it is your Jamt. The night you left you drank the last of the ink on the island.”

Mr H. T. C. Bentley, who was transferred from the Fiji Postal Service in 1947 to the position of Bead Postmaster in Nyasaland, East Africa, was recently appointed Postal Inspector - Surveyor in Southern Province, with head quarters at Blantyre. Mr. Bentley is the son of Mrs. Ella Leembruggen now of Sydney. t In January, a meeting called in Suva by the Indian Society of Fiji, to discuss the Fiji Constitution! lapsed through lack of a quorum.

* For the uninitiated—now that malaria is regarded as an “entirely preventable disease”—Blackwater is an acute disease frequently associated with persistent or neglected malaria; it has a high mortality rate (about 50 per cent.) and one of its symptoms is the passing of red or dark brown urine.

At the NG Bar

p. 83

FINDING OUT

WHO’S WHERE

'T'HIS clever piece of photography (left) is re -1 produced by permission of the Australian magazine “People" where it originally apoeared in the issue of February 8. The subject: Ushers New Guinea bar in Sydney, famous for about a quarter-century with men from that Territory, although unknown to most Sydneysiders until recently introduced to it through an article by Stuart Inder.

Stuart Inder, until mid-1955, was ABC journalist at Port Moresby and recently he has been doing a good job for the Territory in People" and other Australian publications by showing that stories about the Territory can stand on their own merits as interest-holders without being propped up by the usual ima ginative sensationalism given most things Pacific. 3 As weH as providing the usual refreshment, the New Guinea bar has been famous for two things—for the women who were in charge of it, and for the fact that it was the unofficial meeting place and news exchange for men down on leave from the Territory Ethel was the first, and probably the most famous, chatelaine of the bar; and the present incumbent is Joan—seen in the photograph The information exchange is through "the book which is kept under the bar. Territory men wanting to announce to their friends that they are around enter their names in it Con versely, if you want to find out who is in town, you look through it and perhaps leave a message. The present "book" is. of course one of a long line of such volumes—past books now could probably be regarded as works of historical interest. ..?, ee " 'I 1 J h j S photograph, in characteristic attitude left to right, are Messrs. Mick Foley, last posting ADO Talasea; Ted Hicks, ADO: John Baldwin, of Moresby Customs Dept.; Arthur Costello, who was with the "South Pacific Post in Port Moresby for some time; Allen Burns, shipmaster for APC; D. Clancy, Patrol Officer of Mendi; Frank Cleary, of the Postal Department Moresby; Jim Hoile, well-known resident of Wau; and Harold Hindwood, of Mandated Airlines, Lae.

The Sun Features Bureau can supply copies ot the photograph to anyone interested.

the Brows of Islands Skippers

pp. 84-85

RADAR IN SHIP NAVIGATION

The Magic Black Box That Smooths the Brows of Islands Skippers

By. CAPT. BRETT HILDER

TO the harassed navigator radar has come as a boon and a blessing, acting like Alladm s Genie of the Lamp, solving problems from its magic black box. It re stores confidence and soothes anxious nerves like a magic balm, and is the greatest aid to inter-island naviga tion since the introduction of charts and the magnetic compass. In fact, for close pilotage, it almost super sedes the compass. . , Navigating through the isles of the Pacific calls for a lot of night navigation, in addition to periods of bad visibility due to rain haze or volcanic dust. In the past, this has caused a lot of eye strain, and hours of peering through binoculars at murky horizons, trying to pick out the land from the clouds.

Sometimes, at close quarters, on dark and stormy nights the only glimpses of the land are in flashes of lighting, and often it was neces sary to go dangerously close to land or breaking reefs in order to pick them up at all. All these anxieties can now be modified by ships which are lucky enough to carry radar.

All Burns Philp ships are now fitted with it, largely as a result of the stranding of SS Mangold three years ago on Kar Kar Island (NG).

This was one type of accident that radar could have prevented.

Radar consists of a combined transmitter and receiver about the size of a man and situated on top of the bridge; and several large boxes of electromagnetic mysteries which project their answers in visual form onto a luminous screen rather like a television set.

Radar uses radio waves of very high frequency, that is, of very short wave length, about an inch in length, compared with ordinary short-wave radio which has a wave length of about 20 yards.

Radio waves are identical in nature to light waves, except for their higher frequency, and radar uses them as a substitute for eyesight.

As well, it does a lot more, tor a radar set transmits its waves in a beam which sweeps around the horizon, illuminating any object it strikes, and then receives back any echoes which are strong enough to record on the screen.

Our eyes can see only objects which either produce their own light, or are illuminated by other sources. Even if our eyes were fitted with searchlights they would still not do all that radar does, for

as well as seeing objects and record ing them on a screen, it also measures their distance off very accurately, by automatically timing the echoes and showing all these distances on the screen.

The combination of direction and bearing of each object on the screen produces a bird’s eye picture of the whole area around the ship, like an aerial photograph. The ship is

represented by the dot in the csntres of the circular screen, and the ship’s course, or heading, is the vertical line from the centre to the top oft the screen.

Radar cannot see any further tham the human eye on a clear day, im fact it cannot see quite as or sharply, so that it is possible to: see the masts of ships below the horizon by eye before radar can pickn them up. Most sets are- limited) to a range of 40 miles and so can not record any high mountains be yond that distance, though the mountains can be seen by the naked) eye.

To offset this handicap, radar can give accurate distances of anything it sees, while an observer has to guess at distance, or use a sextant and trigonometry, or an optical rangefinder if he has one to help him. This ability to give distance:

Photograph of the Radar Screen when ship was leaving Port Purvis one d a rk night in t[?] Solomons. To get out of this port safely it is necessary to pass the Points of land and re[?] ¼-mile off which would be too hazardous to attempt on a dark night without Radar. T[?] screen shows the picture on the 3-mile range scale, and the range rings surrounding the sh[?] in the centre are a ½-mile apart. The vertcal line shows the ship's heading, and she has alrea[?] travelled about a mile on this course, which happens to be about South West. Bearings can [?] measured by means of a radius, and read off against the numerals around the circumference.

ff is of very great value in naviga ion.

When navigating by eye at night, yen when land is visible and it is ossible to take compass bearings f it, it is often very difficult to eep the necessary distance off it to yoid unseen dangers like rocks and lallow reefs. A bearing and dist nce by radar of a single object ill give an accurate position of the lip, and ensure her safety.

The later type of radar set has ;en designed for accuracy for short stances to enable ships to enter irbours in fog or rain, by being )le to pilot by radar past floating loys and fixed beacons, as well dodging other ships in the irbour.

To enable all this to be done on e screen, the range can be limited one mile, instead of showing up 40 miles, and this, of course, gives picture of the vicinity just 40 nes larger. rhe set may also be switched to termediate ranges, usually a 3le and a 10-mile scale, for coast s' pilotage. The one set therefore fils most of the functions needed it in ship navigation. well as looking at the horizon, * beam looks a little above and ow, and we therefore get heavy n clouds showing up on the pic e, and also the waves of the sea we could cut out the return m the waves, we would also : out any small boats, buoys, idbanks, and lines of breakers h as mark the edges of reefs, .ches, rocks and tide-rips. 5y tuning the set with different .trols it is possible to distinguish vy rain clouds from solid land oes, and to diminish the sea arn and show the rest of the :ure more clearly, rather in the le way as a radio is tuned to get best reception of a broadcast, here is a lot for the observer earn to get the best results from radar. lERE is a danger that the con fidence inspired by radar may lead to over-confidence, so that ead of slowing down or coming complete stop in dangerous cir istances, a shipmaster may be pted to charge on, regardless of mess or poor visibility, and run collision, strandings or the wrong ; by mistake. » many collisions have occurred ind Europe by ships using radar the expression has been coined, iar-assisted collisions.” For a one ship, in fog or rain, picks nother by radar she cannot tell ;her the other ship is fitted with r or not and her evasive action therwise often turns out to be the wrong thing to do. so, with radar, there is not the ; visual recognition of objects lat boats may be mistaken for nation buoys, and ships mistaken small islands, or islands mis i for each other. All these

mistakes must be guarded against, for the whole object of fitting radar to ships is to increase the safety factor, not just to make things easier for navigators.

Radar has many other uses than are described here, but the main one so far unmentioned is its use in making charts. As well as an in creasing use for naval hydrography, it has been used by the writer to make plans of small uncharted harbours along the coast of Bougain ville, and two on Guadalcanal. It will be seen from this that the screen gives a fair representation of a chart, or aerial photograph, though there is quite a lot of work to be done before a plan can be plotted, and so add to the safety of navigation in the South Seas. ‘

Sketch Plan of Numa Numa, a small anchorage port on the coast of Bougainville; the plan was made with the help of Rader to measure the distances to be plotted. The port can be seen to be barely ½ mile wide, while the reef extends 3¼ miles to seaward as a considerable hazard to navigation. The only previous plan was a German one which was very rough, and showed the main reef to be only 1¼ miles long.

Book by Pastor A. G. Stewart

p. 85

DURING the 48 years in which he was actively engaged in missionary work on behalf of the Seventh Day Adventist Organ isation in the South Pacific Islands, Pastor A. G. Stewart, now retired, saw some extraordinary changes in social and political conditions in the Islands, and had many interesting personal experiences. Probably, there is no South Pacific Islands missionary more widely known in the islands than Pastor Stewart.

A book written by him, covering those 48 years, will be published in America about the middle of this year, under the title of “Trophies of the Cannibal Isles”—a typical American title. It certainly should be readable—and, as a study of the most critical period in South Pacific Islands history, it probably will have great reference value.

Memories of Time-Before

p. 85

at Maron

A note from Arthur Richards, of Rabaul: Your article on our old friend, Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen, was very

interesting.

He may be interested to know that his old plantation at Maron (Northwest Islands), now being run by Mr. C. Batt, is now producing about 156 tons annually of copra, and also considerable shell. Cattle, the progeny of his original herd, are running on these islands, and also many deer, which he intro duced.

At my home in Rabaul I have Mr. Wahlen’s original writing-table, and one of his square marble table tops. Out at our house in Toma I have his large round quila table— I wish it could talk!—and also his large quila bed, which has been reduced in size.

Upon which the irrepressible Mr.

Wahlen make comment : “Thanks —I am most interested. Yes, I think that big quila table could tell a few stories. But why the favouritism—why not ask that big quila bed to talk, too?” tDr. W. L. I. Verrier, Fiji Medical Statistician and director of the Fiji Yaws Campaign, has recently been granted a fellowship of the World Health Organisation. His field of study will be Medical Statistics and Epidemiology. He left Fiji at the end of February for the UK and on his return journey will visit Geneva and New Delhi.

Parenthood Plus

p. 86

THIS MONTH’S

ONLY READING

SINCE the Christmas rush, book publishers have been hibernat ing somewhere, nursing them selves back to full strength. Con sequently, this has been a lean month for book reviewers: and for readers.

Our only offering (Bread to the Wise, by Barbara Goolden), cannot be expected to take up all the slack.

This is a story that begins as though it were going to be brilliant, but mid-way changes its mind and comes perilously close to mawkish sentimentality.

This is the story of Judy, aged 11. and her mother Amice, a gay young divorcee, and Karin Alfriston, a jenny-wren person who shares their London flat. Karin falls in love with Murray Romford, who is married to a career-woman who had no time (or inclination) to have children. Judy is precocious and sometimes amusing and is presented as a problem child bordering on a nervous breakdown because of the unsatisfactory manner in which she lives —in a "broken home” as the popular newspapers have it. The situations with which Judy is con fronted are real enough, and common enough: what the author does not allow for is the natural resilience and toughness of the human child.

Karin and Murray understood Judy’s problems because they are child-minded and child-mmded ness is the underlying theme of the story.

Both believe that the ultimate fulfilment of life is to have children.

But Karen can’t, because she has no husband; and Murray can’t because his wife is a non-starter in the maternal stakes. Furthermore, she refuses to divorce him.

After much beating around the bush —during which time Murray develops a nauseous habit of asking all and sundry, like a neurotic woman, whether they think he is fit for parenthood or will make a good father—they decided to set up an establishment together for the pur pose of having children. On tms note the story ends.

It can scarcely be said that the writer, having satisfactorily made her point about the effect of in security on Judy, is consistent when she allows the hero and heroine to embark on a course that is likely to produce even worse problems *or their offspring to face. Neither Karin or Murray hide their lights under a bushel in going about this business; and with a legal wife like the career-woman in the background, life for the de facto Mrs. Romford is not likely to be unalloyed joy.

Whether you like this book or not will probably depend upon whether you think children are a part of life; or the sole reason for being. (Published by Heinemann; Australian price 17/-.)

With A Blade And A Prayer.

p. 86

By AMEL

“Attractive property for sale, 21 hours run hy launch from Suva...

SO said the advertisement, and the rest of the description was so alluring that we decided to go and “take a look,” as the Americans say.

At eight o’clock on a teeming wet morning, we sat in a launch at Walu Bay, waiting to be taken along the coast. The canvas curtains of the launch dripped dismally, and it looked like being a terrible day.

However, the sun appeared—with the crew. They were an hour late, owing to a slight misunderstanding.

Leslie was waiting for Douglas, Douglas was waiting for Leslie, and Kai was waiting for both of them.

The matter was soon straightened out to everyone’s satisfaction.

After the rain, the sea had a crisp sparkle, and we got away down the harbour to a reassuring roar from the engine.

Near Lami, the scars of the 1953 earthquake disfigured the green hills. The coastline from there towards Navua seemed strangely deserted. Had one been unaware of the existence of a city of 25,000 souls nearby, one could easily have imagined that hungry cannibals still raided the coastal villages, or prowled through the fastnesses of the rugged interior.

The launch wove a tortuous path among the beacons which marked the channel, like fencing posts with out any wire.

Douglas and Kai trolled their fish ing lines. They were so confident of catching a fish that they had brought a saucepan to cook it in.

The tide was falling, and the boat bumped once. Nobody took much notice. Our attention was focussed on a small aeroplane which was swooping down to give us a buzz.

Did I say “buzz”? Why, it almost came on board and shook hands with us!

We gazed at it, open-mouthed, our ears ringing.

Someone remarked that the launch was vibrating, but nobody took much notice. Leslie hooked a nice fish, and Kai described the soup he would make for us.

Within the scheduled time, we reached our destination, and anchored the launch in a bay.

Above us was a s f eep bluff, on which stood a cement bungalow, sur rounded by long grass, and flower ing shrubs in a neglected garden.

Kai hopped overboard, and ducked his head under the launch to see what had been causing the vibra tion. He surfaced, very promptly, with a startled expression on his round face.

“There’s a blade missing from the. propeller!” he gasped.

Leslie was unperturbed. “It music have come off when we bumped reef,” he said, calmly. “Never mindfc we’ll get home on two blades.”

While we explored the property* Kai and Douglas commandeered thu kitchen, to prepare lunch. We coulo hear them, chattering like magpies Delicious smells of fish and omonx floated out on the breeze.

Presently, we had lunch —fruitt cake, tea, skyscrapers of sand! wiches, and great bowls of fish sour liberally seasoned with pepper ginger and chillies.

“I only made it a little bit hoc this time,” said Kai, blandly, as w coughed, sneezed, spluttered ami choked over it. “Only three chillies; instead of six.”

“Well, next time,” said Leslie with a sly look at our red facei; “mind you season it properly.”

Douglas suggested that we shoull go outside the reef on the return journey, to catch some big fish. Wv all agreed, and Kai said he woull have another look to see if we stii had two blades on the propeller.

We washed the dishes, packed in the remains of our lunch, and pr© pared for departure. While w. threw oranges and coconuts oni the launch, Kai submerged agaiii to check on the propeller.

To our amazement, he came in with a rush, and exclaimed “Whadyathink? There’s only on blade left on the propeller!”

One blade —and, as far as on could see, no mast, sail, dinghy, oae lifebelt or pole to help us, shouli the remaining blade give up tM ghost. So casual, taut yet so typicic of Fiji, where, times without nunr ber, people set out on sea journe;; in small craft, without thought < providing for any emergency whio might occur.

This disturbing news cancelled s our plans for going outside the re©; so we fished near an island until tH, tide rose sufficiently for us to naw gate the inside passage. Thee vibrating madly in every plank, will water pouring in through the crank shaft, and the crew bailing doggedf from start to finish, we set out o the painful journey home.

We completed it, too, under ox own steam —in 41 hours ins f ead 21. The Suva skyline looked ves good to us.

As the launch chugged unde Walu Bay bridge, Douglas, the i:i curable optimist, sang “Walkin’ M Baby Back Home.”

“Not so late for the party tt night, after all,” said he, cheerful!

life on the “fish-line"

pp. 88-89

HURRICANE’S WAKE

life on the “fish-line" at Palmerston

HOW much does a “balanced” diet!; matter? The answer—in as fan as it affects Pacific Islanders in times of emergency—appears to be “nott< very much”.

An interesting article dealing withl this matter of subsistence —on as hurricane devastated atoll —appears' in the South Pacific Commission’s quarterly Bulletin, issued im January. It is written by Mr. Ron-i aid Powell, well-known Rarotonga resident, who spent some years on Palmerston atoll, home of the celeb-( rated Marsters family.

When Mr. Powell went to Palmer-' ston to stay he subscribed to thei popular belief that a balanced diet is essential to health, and, with thu aid of a little volcanic soil from Rarotonga, humus from stands oc Tamanu trees on Palmerston, pigi manure, wood ashes, etc., he had considerable success in an excavates pit wherein his sweet corn, tomatoes; beans, pineapples, onions, etc., din well, irrigated by tidal moisture bea low the soil.

Then the hurricane struck anti within 24 hours the sea had dea stroyed almost everything on thr atoll. When the fallen coconut! were consumed resort was had ti the Kamuka, or millionaire’s salao in the crowns of the fallen coconm palms, and later a somewhat similas food from the hearts of the uprootea pandanus trees.

When the above sources wen exhausted, only fish remained, anr on this unrelieved diet (fortunatell; in ample supply) the people r© mained healthy, but the pigs—thi few that survived the hurricane died.

Some months after the devag tation, a schooner from Rarotonga was able to furnish six sacks o maniota starch, a welcome break o which the net result was a crop o boils (nutritionists please notes which vanished only when the fim nuts of the new coconut crop wen: large enough for consumption, mon( than a year later.

To Mr. Powell the experience ws 1 an adventure in elemental!: economics. He was impressed witti the ability of people of Polynesias stock to continue healthy and hapn under such adverse conditions.

The fear of death from starvatioo or disaster from malnutrition ws* never considered. They were uo. hampered, he points out, “from tri frustation of being without tn myriad of trivialities which we nm essential to carry on the patten 1 which life in cities imposes upm us.”

Having been impressed over soim fifty years with the Christian do?c

trine that “clothes maketh the man”, the Masters’ only worry was the maintenance of basic respec tability by European standards. As

tvoven remnants disintegrated, girls

vere to be seen clad in fragments >f old tarpaulins, sugar bags, and ;ven medical lint.

Although renowned for the jeautiful hats that they weave from loconut fibre, the people were not mpressed with Mr. Powell’s sugges ion that they could provide body :arments in the same manner. “The tep of going backwards, as they elt, to the grass skirt, was a bigger tep than they were prepared to ake. Had the depression lasted mger,” he adds, “it would have been iteresting to see what dire neces ity might have brought about.”

Palmerston island has been de asted by hurricanes quite a number f times since first settled by Wil am Marsters and some Polynesian omen in 1863.

A Qantas Super-Constellation and PAA Stratocruiser were delayed at ascot, Sydney, on January 31 for hours because of cyclonic weather Nadi, Fiji. One Qantas Super mstellation, which was already on ; way had to by-pass Nadi and fly l to Canton. Ten Fiji passengers ;re carried on and later flown back Nadi at the company’s expense.

Urquhart Handbook

p. 89

On Cocoa

COCOA planters in the South Pacific will be interested to know that Mr. Urquhart has compiled a handbook entitled Cocoa.

This cocoa-expert visited New SS e 4 on l a ’ N w Hebride s, Western and Eastern Samoa, Fiji and Dutch New Guinea for the South Pacific Commission in 1952. Earlier he had

visited Papua-New Guinea and the Solomons for Cadbury’s, Cocoa is a comprehensive survey of “one of the world’s most favoured crops,” and carries an extensive in dex and a wealth of illustrations.

It is the latest of a series on tropical agriculture being published by Longmans, Green & Co.

H The Rev. C. L. Mountford, new rector of Honiara, BSIP. with Mrs.

Mountford, arrived in the Protec torate on December 22.

Papua-New Guinea

p. 91

CALABOOSE BECOMES

"CORRECTIVE INSTITUTION”

Prison Reform in

Papua-New Guinea

T seems that in future, District . Commissions in Papua-New Guinea will have to do without le services of labour from the local fiaboose for a little light road work r weeding in the garden. Nor will le prisoner, any longer, have a lance to “ sit down nothing”—he ill be receiving training that will t him to become a useful member f society.

What is more, the calaboose will mceforth be known as a Corrective istitution.

This development, announced re ntly from Canberra, is the result (a), an inspection of the existing ■ison system in the Territory by ie Minister for Territories (Mr. asluck) ; (b) an examination of s recommendations by officers of e P-NG Administration: and (c), report by Mr. W. Rutherford, mtroller-General of Prisons in leensland, who was co-opted to omote the Minister’s recommenda ms.

The main object in establishing e corrective institutions is sound ough. In Mr. Hasluck’s words, ustody of prisoners is to be re dded not only as a measure of itraint but as an opportunity for :ing reformative and educational asures.” t is proposed that in the insti ions inmates will receive train : in useful occupations and educa n in hygiene, standards of living, I the English language. ■lr. Hasluck admits that there are iculties inherent in the plan, but it it is a lost opportunity if anyleaves a prison without “a ter understanding of our aims for dancing their welfare, and, as a a better spirit towards J 1 this seems a far cry from the >py days when a carefree minority Pacific Islanders looked upon the il jail as a source of good, regular i” and interesting company, ny stories have been told of the int ways of Pacific Islanders in grip of the law, and presum- V some of this flavour will vanish h the establishment of “corrective ;itutions.” here are 443 persons in the Terri- T serving sentences of more than months, a figure “remarkably the Minister thinks, for a total genous population of over U ion. [r. Rutherford points out that nature of offences differs from mainland of Australia. In the

Territory there is virtually no com munity of confirmed criminals (an interesting slant on civilisation') as a very high proportion of natives committed to prison are offenders through tribal custom or ignoranrp of European law.

A Controller of Corrective Insti tutions will be appointed—applicants to come from within the P-NG Service (a most unusual course) ■ and a Corrective Institutions Branch (of Civil Affairs Dept.) will be created.

POLICE TRAINING SCHEME

The establishment of a new training scheme to promote a nucleus of Sub-Inspectors in the Papua-New Guinea Police Force has been announced.

Applicants must be single men between 21 and 28. Those chosen will receive 3 months training at a State Police School, an induction course of 3 weeks at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, Sydney, and, after arrival in the Territory, a further period of 11 months training at Police Head quarters.

On successful completion of the examination at the end of the course, the cadets will be advanced to the rank of Sub-Inspectors. t Copies of the latest edition of the Fiji Annual Report have reached Fiji from London and this small but comprehensive handbook on the Colony is available from the Gov ernment Press, Suva, at 4/6 a copy.

Indians Top Fijians

p. 92

POPULATION OF FIJI

Indians Top Fijians By 20,000

ON December 31, 1955, Fiji’s popu lation totalled 345,164, an in crease for the year of 13,775 (4 per cent.) The new racial totals, with the increase for 1955 in parentheses, were: Indian 166,262 (5,959); Fijians, 146,842 (3,742) ; Europeans, 9,391 (931); Part-Europeans 7,956 (208); and among the 14,713 “in the field” were 4,183 Chinese and 4,247 Rotu mans.

The latest census draws attention once again to the growing lead of the Indian population over the native Fijians in spite of the Indian death rate (9.61 per thousand) re maining as the highest in the Colony.

The European increase of almost ten per cent, is striking and is mainly due to migration rather than to natural increase. This is to be expected under the present “boom” conditions that prevail in this well endowed and well-organised Colony.

fl Fijian Empire Games represent ative, Sakiasi Wagan, who is now a medical student at Queensland Uni versity, will compete with Uni versity athletics clubs in Brisbane this season. Wagan competed in

the 120-yd hurdles and high jumpc at Vancouver in 1954 and still holdse the Fijian high jump record at 6ftf 4 in. He is also a promising sprinter,,' having run 9.8 secs, for the 100yd£ dash behind world-class Joe Levula„.

Hurricanes Are Known

pp. 93-96

THEY ARE

RARE , BUT—

Hurricanes Are Known in Fr. Oceania

FRENCH Oceania in February recalled the last great hurricane to strike that area, just 50 years go.

There have been many occasions f heavy winds in these islands ince then, and damage from at ;ast one “tidal” wave not due to a urricane, but it

; believed that le blow of Feb iary 7-8, 1906 : as the last true urricane “with i the meaning of le act.”

The first re dded hurricane 1 strike these

islands with European knowledge was in 1795—a very serious blow indeed. Offhand, we know of another that hit the Leeward Group in early 1845, and of the great Tuamotu hurricane of 1903 in which many lives were lost, and upon which Jack London based his story, Mapuhi.

News of the 1906 hurricane did not reach the outside world until March 5, when the Matson liner Mariposa arrived in San Francisco from Papeete with wildly exaggerated stories of the number of lives and damage sustained.

However, the New Zealand Herald of the day records a more sober

account cabled to the Donald firm in Auckland from their San Fran cisco Agent on the basis of advice received from their Tahiti manager.

Later, when the Union Co. island vessel Taviuni arrived at Auckland on March 14, full details were pub lished.

In so far as Papeete was con cerned, the winds were only mod erate, but the heavy blow to the eastward caused big seas and an exceptionally high tide on the' night of February 7. The seas swept the quarantine island on the reef off Papeete and went on across the harbour flooding, to a depth of some feet, the lower part of the town as far as the market place and the famous Tiare Hotel, whose equally famous 20-stone hostess Lovaina (or Lovina as her name is also recorded) was some time later rescued floating down a main street on a section of her back fence.

Damage was greatest along the foreshore, reports mentioning especi ally the wharf and its buildings,

The old Papeete

[?]arf, built by an

[?]erican company and stroyed by the 1906 [?]ricane. At the [?]arf, the old Mariposa, [?]ead of her can be [?]n the masts of the

Barkentine "Tropic

d".

Photo Oscar Nordman

he Club Hotel, post office, American onsulate, Donald’s store, and the esidences of Captain Gamier, the arbour master. Most damage was ue to the sea sweeping under the uildings on their high piles, lifting tiem, then dumping them off the iles.

The only direct casualty in Papeete was Monsieur de Biloc cai’etaker on the quarantine islet' Lights were seen to be flashing dur ing the night but no help could be sent, and in the morning his bodv was found in the harbour. Madame de Biloc had saved herself by taking

to the top of a palm.

One Chinese merchant committed suicide on sight of the damage to his store.

In the Tuamotus it was a dif ferent story. Word of the disaster there was brought to Papeete by the schooners Papeete and Takarara on February 10. An official report eventually gave the casualties as 7 at Motutunga, 6 at Hikueru, and 95 drowned at Anaa, 7 at Marokau, 5 at Faaiti. In addition, heavy shipping losses were reported.

Vessels missing were the 120-ton schooner Eimco, Captain Narii Salmon, with some well-known people aboard, also the schooner Tahitienne, Captain George Dexter, and the schooner Tauturu. Another schooner, Moruroa, was cast up on Tikihau, but her crew survived.

Those lost at Faaite included the

Damage in the town of Papeete.

Rev. Fr. Paul Terlin, Mrs. Louisa Johnson and her son Calmer, long time residents of French Oceania, and Louis G. Dexter, aged 4.

The British 4-masted barque County of Roxburgh was cast up on Takaroa, with the loss of 10 of her crew.

The Government promptly des patched the gunboat Zelee and three schooners from Papeete to render all aid.

These hurricanes of the past should be a reminder to wandering yachtsmen that French Oceania can, at times, be very much within the hurricane zone.

Seeing How Trochus Grows

p. 96

THE tagging of trochus is part of a project now being carried out by the .French Institute of Oceania, Noumea, on the barrier reef of New Caledonia.

A picture of live trochus shellfish being tagged for identification, and a description of the work, appears in the January issue of the SPC Bulletin.

In a drilled cavity in the lip of the shell a small copper rivet is inserted. This is soon covered by a mother-of-pearl layer but re mains easily discernible as the trochus carries on with its shell building, and growth over a given period can thus be established with fair accuracy.

The research programme is de signed to cover the distribution, growth, and reproductive activities of the trochus, and environmental influences, and is expected to extend over three years. 11 Mr. W. J. Drysdale, Fiji Com missioner of inland Revenue, has re turned to Suva after overseas leave.

Ngg Production

p. 96

New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., reports thir for the month of January, 1956, the followini returns were received; Golden Ridges Mil! 1,308 oz fine gold, 1,506 oz silver; Goldel Ridges Alluvials, 21 oz fine gold; Koranor Alluvia Is, 503 oz fine gold; Tributes, 97 • fine gold; Timber, 224,097 super feet.

[?]uture is Bright

p. 97

[?]ew Caledonia’s [?]lineral [?]uture is Bright

IHE Nickel Company which mines . and smelts at Thio, New Caledonia, and at Noumea, ex ited 10,680 tons of pure nickel in 55; this constituted a record.

The Japanese market for nickel e remains bright, buyers being ger to enlarge their stocks. The inion is, however, that this market ay later drop. Two reasons are r ered. First, that when Japanese icks are sufficient buying will ase; and second, that at the pre it rate of extraction the percent e of nickel in the ore will decrease, e of 3.50 per cent, is marketable t when it falls lower it is hard sell. A time may soon come en only ore of 3 per cent, will be ered to buyers. It may sell if the per is unable to get ore at other irces. The price of nickel re ins constant at 64.5 cents a md, that is 480 Metropolitan ncs a kilo. In France the Gov ment has fixed the price at 800 tro francs per kilo. ’he chrome market is buoyant, 3ks of chrome in USA being orbed with a happy effect on the v Caledonian industry. Over 'OO tons of ore were exported in > and the largest mine, the Tie hhi, hopes to enter into full pro tion again early in 1956. he port and loading installations ;he Bay of Prony, Southern NC, coming along per schedule and it is expected that the first ship its pf iron ore destined for the tralian BHP will be shipped in second quarter of this year. The to be shipped, which comes from Plain of the Lakes, a huge iron eau occupying the Southern end *ew Caledonia, contains 51 per . metallic iron. le French metropolitan Govern t organisation “Bureau Miniere” laking an extensive survey of huge plateau, pushing roads ss it in different directions. Par ar interest is being paid to the sits which were once worked by Japanese. These mines are now property of the French Govern t and it is rumoured that the :s may be put into production Government participation. e Falconbridge Co. of Canada, h has received permission from French to produce cobalt, has fet given signs of activity, particularly happy aspect of the nt mining activity in NC is the cipation of the native popula- The Melanesians are becom mechanical minded, and one finds them operating such com ;ed machines as bull-dozers and types of earth-moving gear.

They have proved themselves excel lent truck drivers.

Prospects For Pacific Pepper

p. 97

Pacific Pepper

FIVE of the six countries which control the destinies of the South Pacific are either partially or wholly dependent on foreign markets for their supplies of pepper and the cultivation of Black pepper as a promising cash crop is now re ceiving attention in this area It is thriving in Fiji.

The pepper plant grows in hot damp countries and flourishes best

in low-lying areas with good drain age and a moderate to heavy rain fall.

It requires shade from other foliage and is averse to strong winds and prolonged drought. Pepper is easy to process and store and lends itself to cultivation in association with coffee and cocoa.

An interesting article on this sub ject appears in the January issue of the SPC Bulletin. t At the end of January an RNZAF Sunderland went to the aid of a Fijian boy who had been mauled by a Barracouta in the Lau Group. The flyingboat could not land but directed a ship to the aid of the boy.

sisss

pp. 99-115

News of the Small-Ships

IT HAPPENED IN THIS MONTH:

-Presumably because of its history f wrecks, Oeno atoll, in the Pit urn administrative group, is marked ow and dangerous” on navigational aarts; and that was the way that le Boston clipper Wild Wave found le little atoll to be when she crashed i the reef there on March 5, 1858.

Commanded by Captain Josiah N. nowles, the vessel with a crew : 30 and ten New York and Boston isiness men as passengers, was 24 lys out of San Francisco on the ind-jammer route to New York, ben disaster struck. Earlier in the »yage a boy had been lost over >ard.

All managed to get ashore though ree were injured. The vessel did >t break up and in subsequent days 3res were landed, also 18,000 dollars gold from the master’s safe.

As there seemed little prospect of rly succour the captain, mate, id five seamen—and a number of sting seabirds to be used as rrier-pigeons—sailed for Pitcairn, miles to the south-east, where it is considered that a ship might intercepted. The lifeboat arrived ere safely on March 15, to find a tice posted in the village inform l callers that the Pitcairners had

quit the island and gone to Norfolk- Islana in April, 1856 This news was sent to Oeno hv a bird which hastened back to its eeis Under these circumstances it seemld unlikely that many vessels would be calling at Pitcairn, so Captain Knowles was planning to head eltp where when one of his seamen took the lifeboat and wrecked it—nos sibly to prevent any further nautiral excursions.

This man “went bush’’ and the ethers set about building a new boat Tne new DOcit, nß.med John, Addins Se re d „rLo J^en an fai!»r

da^phaTsigTtolnd^l l VaudahS

m port—first American vessel to call thTnoh/of Sh fv, Wa f S n Adams g when the John A % vSf o r i Ved ’

The boat was thereupon sold to a local missionary for $250 and the shipwrecked mariners were taken to Knowtes sailed for Honolulu French sloop Eurydice, and Vandalia,

with the others still aboard, pro ceeded to Oeno. One man there had died but the others were taken ab oard, also two more men at Pit cairn. What happened to the others at Pitcairn is not quite clear, Fourteen years later, as master of °f the Seas > Captain Knowles a f ai ? called at Pitcairn, where many the peo P le ha d meanwhile re turned from Norfolk Island. On their return they had found a letter from Captain Knowles telling of his , earlier visit in the Wild Wave’s life boat, LESSONS of repentt l tv/tatpt-nti?

DISASTERV•

sisss

to h&ve m&dp verv plppit fpw

Stftl

evileSc^was 1 sub mitted on behalf of the RN7AF ■ hat ’ after the discover y of the drift* . vessel ’ tests carried out showed that no satisfactory reflections could be obtained from the vpccpl hv thp radar equipment fitted in Sunderland Aircraft. 1

"are

entirely dependent upon U the re-

flective properties of the objects which the radar waves strike.

Wooden objects have poor reflective properties, and the reflective pro perties of even metal objects depend largely on their shape, or more cor rectly, the angle at which radar waves strike them. There now are metal devices shaped to reflect radio

waves back to their source no matter fiom what angle they strike.

There is now better radar equip ment available than that fitted in the RNZAF Sunderlands, but in the S. Pacific it is the Sunderlands which will be doing the searching when ships go missing.

Every small ship engaged in epen-water voyages—and especially every wooden ship—should carry a satisfactory type of radar reflector for emergency use. Such commerci ally-made reflectors are inexpensive; or any tinsmith could make a highly efficient, collapsible type.

Plans will be given in a later PIM, but the RNZAF could supply same to all South Pacific shipping authorities.

The smaller the vessel, the more 1 urgent is the need for such a re-; fleeter.

Another point which cannot be toe strongly stressed is that a simples fool-proof, self-powered distress? transmitter like the Gibson Girl which has been described in receni PlM’s, is a far better insurance than depending upon location b:< means of radar equipment. Rada.i range is limited under the best ox circumstances.

A Gibson Girl using kite aerias has a proved daylight range of a* least 500 miles, and much further at night. The Gibson Girl operates on a frequency which is constantly monitored by many Pacific coass stations and by big ships. Signall

At extreme left, A. B. Donalds' "Charlotte Donald", which return flew back to NZ to join "Maui Pomare" as Mate; at extreme right, Tony Thomson, who took "Charlotte Donald" back to the Cooks, then flew back to NZ to join "Maui Pomare" as Mate; At Right, Mr. Roy Gubbay, of Santo, who recently purchased "Vila Star", and extreme right, Capt. John Bradley, who has taken command.

11 almost certainly be quickly eked up and—here is the import it point—having been picked up, is easy for a ship or aircraft to ome” onto those signals—that is, tune them in on a direction-find l receiver and steer straight to ,rds them. rherefore, every small ship should rry one of these sets. These are 3 immediate measures which DUld be taken.

Finally, it is essential that an cient continuous small-ships’ iio watch be kept on one univers y agreed frequency by the main inds coast stations —Port Moresby, imea, Suva, Apia, Rarotonga, and peete. Such a continuous watch y involve extra staff, though there ms to be no reason why these mds’ coast stations could not be lipped with automatic-alarm re fers such as are carried in most sign-going ships. In these, a ies of dashes transmitted will se alarm bells to ring in neigh ring ships where the operators off-watch. Such a system might rate on the 2182 kc/s small-ships’ e frequency, calling a coast ion operator onto watch, or, versa, calling other small-ships the aid of the one in distress, s an example of the present ation, something appears to have pened to the Gilbert Is. vessel karimoa between midnight and n. Tarawa is the only Pacific nds station which listens on the uency used by vessels in the lerts inter-island trade, and awa does not maintain watch /een 4.15 p.m. and 6.45 a.m. vessel can be right alongside awa screaming for assistance, nothing will be heard, because e is no means of bringing an ator onto watch, awever, if such a vessel used a ;on Girl transmitter at such a ; it would almost certainly be d in Suva, where continuous :h is kept on the Gibson Girl not on the small-ships R/T) aency, ast South Pacific shipping men currently asking the question: sufficient effort made by the C authorities to locate :arimoa? Failure by the RNZAF ocate Joyita may explain the re to call in the RNZAF on this sion. The fact remains, how that the RNZAF’s Lauthala headquarters is the Search and ue Organisation for this area, efore all missing vessels should eported to that cenire, and it Id be left to the trained air ;h men of that centre to decide her a search is warranted or :icable, and how it should be ed out. lat made this failure the more rkable was that another in it had only shortly preceded the arimoa incident. On November jo men failed to return from y’s fishing in a launch outside awa. As in the case of arimoa, a very limited search

was made by the Government vessel Nareau— then the men were written off with regrets.

Thirteen days later the Japanese fishing fleet mother- s h ip, Koyo Maru, re ported by radio that she had come across the men in their

Preliminary sketch plan of Melanesian Missions proposed "Southern Cross VIII" —a wooden vessel 87 ft. long, with 21 ft. beam. (See page 102).

lunch alive and well, 200 miles est of Tarawa But for that Japnese ship they would probably have rifted until dead.

It may be argued that there would 3 fewer shipping incidents in the ilands if the vessels were manned y fully qualified mem Such men :e only available on Australian or ew Zealand conditions of pay and ;commodation. If such conditions ere enforced in the Islands most :ivately owned vessels would disipear. The men manning the land ships are equal to the task, ’ as certain minimum safety andards are enforced. The items entioned here seem to come at ■ e very head of any list of miniurn requirements, and they do not present any major financial outy *

THE LITTLE THINGS THAT

ATTER:—Before we get off the bject, we would like to put in a >rd for the humble heliograph hi c h saved more than one itched” airman’s life during the ,cific War.

A. flashing mirror has meant the ference between life and death in :h cases.

Fhe beam of reflected sunshine >m an ordinary mirror cannot be ned accurately. The RAF-type liograph, of which hundreds are rrently available in Auckland at • each, consists of a 4-in. square inless steel plate with a 3/16th :h sighting hole an inch from one

corner. Round this hole concentric rings, 8 in. apart, are “Sed Close to the same corner tiny hole with a 6-in length S cord, at the other end of which is

a 4-in. white-painted paddle!

shaped metal sighting-strin To use the device the sun has of course, to be at within 90 degrees of the target. The operatorholds the plate up to one eve looking through the hole towards the target —the searching plane or shin With his other hand he holds the little paddle-shaped sighting-strop which has a small hole near its upper end upright in front of the mir?or and in line with the target d Then by moving the mirror the sun’s reflected light is cast onto the

sighting-strip, with the concent?*

circles appearing as black lines and , mi J ror peephole appearing as a black dot When this black dot, the f lOl6 i n the sighting-strip, and the target, are all in line, the light beam dead on target. Complicated to describe, it is all very simple and effective. ...device is complete in a neat bttle canvas pocket container, lined with flannelette to prevent scratch ing of the mirror surface. These gadgets are cheap insurance at 2/-.

SANTA TERETIA lI—A few

more details of the Sacred Heart Mission’s Santa Teretia II for the Gilbert Is. are available. The vessel lost in late 1954 measured 71 ft x 16J ft x 9 ft. The new one is 79 ft

x 20 ft x 6 ft. The lower draught will be a great advantage. The twin motors are Ruston & Hornsby 90 hp.

About half the cost was provided by Gilbert Is. Catholics and the re mainder by benefactors all over the world, the necessary funds coming to hand much quicker than could have been hoped.

The loss of the other vessel was

a blessing in disguise for Brother F.' Gautier, her skipper. He was able to have his first vacation from the Gilberts in 23 years. He arrived; back from France in time to take delivery of the new vessel and bring her up the NSW coast to Sydney for completion. If this work pro ceeds according to expectations Santa Teretia II should be seen inj the Gilberts soon after Easter.

BADDELEY IS THE NAME:

Last month we reported that work is proceeding on the smaller of two vessels for the Anglican Melanesian Mission. The 50-ft cargo vessel willl be named Baddeley, after Bishop Baddeley, who was Bishop ol Melanesia from 1932 to 1946, later: Bishop of Whitby, England, ano now Bishop of Blackburn, England!

The larger 87-ft cargo and passenger vessel will carry on the name ok Southern Cross —number eight in the series.

RESUMING DUTIES:—A. BE

Donald & Co.’s 300-tonner Charlotte Donald, under Captain Tony Thomp c son, and with Mr. Peter Hough ar mate, and Mr. Frank Murray? formerly of Vila Star, as chieK engineer, and Mr. Charlie Adams, o:c Rarotonga, as second, finally cleareo: Auckland on February 15 to resumu in the Cook Islands trade.

On her return, Skipper Hugli Williams is expected to take hii ketch Inspire south for refit. Ins spire has been kept particular!;! busy during the absence of Charlotte Donald.

KURIMARAU GETS AWAY

FROM SYDNEY:—S. Berg & Co.”.

Kurimarau, with Captain James GI McCormick, late of Tonga Copra.

Board’s A’oniu, in command, am. with Captain Richard Gloster, weh known in Western Pacific waters, ar

The new "Santa Teretia" just prior to he[?] launching at Nowra, NSW, in February. She is now in Sydney having additional accommo dation built.

ite, cleared Sydney for Port iresby on February 21. Next day ; vessel was reported in Newcastle ;h engine trouble.

SAFELY DELIVERS DMr.

ircel Marinacces New Hebrides ating trade-store Deutgan, was de jred to Noumea in February by ptain Haines, who there handed ir to Mr. Marinacce. Deutgan re ties after a lengthy period in 3ney. (See Feb. PIM). ’OUGH VOYAGE: —Mee t i n g ivy head weather on her delivery age from Sydney to Port Blair, daman Is., the hospital vessel ! 'austral —better remembered in Solomons as Ruena —reached gapore February 16, 20 days be d schedule and all but out of •es and fuel. Her radio was also of action. his vessel, it will be recalled, was chased by the Australian Gov ment from Fairymead Sugar Co., ipped as a hospital ship, and ;n to the Indian Government for ice in the Andaman and Nicobar nds under the Colombo Plan.

EW OWNERS:—'The GEIC Gov

nent despatch vessel Kiakia,, on r for some time past, was sold December to the Butaritari Co native Society Ltd. She will thus ain in the Gilbert Is. trade. :ain alterations were made to vessel following the sale.

E P A I R E D: — Suzanne, 56-ton eete trader, damaged by fire late ember, was reported back in ser in February.

\DY WITH A PAST:—Ernst

iberty, writing from Aore, New rides, has an interesting com t on the French sloop Francis nier, which has made an ex ive Pacific cruise in recent ths. Lamberty was attached to utch destroyer operating from comalee, Ceylon, during World II when he first met up with sloop—then flying the Italian and named Erytrea. She was ed by the Italians as a “Colonial D”-type.

May, 1940, when Italy declared Erytrea was in the Red Sea. could not get back home but "eded in running the gauntlet British warships stationed at i and reaching Japan, though ed all the way. len Japan entered the war in mber. 1941, Erytrea and a 3 of Italian submarines were hed to the Japanese navy. After fall of Singapore she operated submarine escort, serving Jap b, German, and Italian sub aes at different times, en when the Italians sur ged in 1944, Erytrea narrowly ied detention by the Japanese this time joined Allied naval >. becoming an escort to British, ican, and Dutch submarines, as is some Italian subs which had escaped from Japan, nberty again met Erytrea at

the Japanese surrender at Batavia in 1945. The war ended, andflvS years later, in the yacht Kroia he arrived at the Marquesas on an in tended world voyage. (Kroia was wrecked there.) One day, while at Atuona, a French naval sloop of faintly familiar profile steamed into the bay with the Governor of French Oceania aboard. Inquiries soon con firmed Lamberty’s suspicions—now flying the French flag and named Francis Gamier the vessel was the same Erytrea which had come into French hands as war reparations.

SUB-PANIC: —Like Flying Saucers, Mystery Submarines are invariably reported in batches, from widely dispersed areas, and this was

true of the February sub.-epidemic.

Thanks to Suva press efforts to link mystery subs with the Joyita- Arakarimoa-Pacific Star—Shell 40 incidents it was not long before these sinister craft were being sighted on the New Zealand coast.

While Naval authorities discounted the reports, neither they, nor the daily press, put forward the thought that it would surely not be in the least surprising if Russian, American, or British submarines were sighted.

Though the respective naval authorities may be reluctant to give public details of all their submarine cruises, it may be assumed that lengthy voyages to foreign shores are undertaken for training and

i for intelligence purposes, ier present international law a isian—or any other —submarine r linger in the vicinity of Solo it until doomsday if it wants to. sensationalists have not at pted to put forward any faintly able theories as to why such a narine should be assigned to ;, or merely pluck the crew from, e completely unimportant little r-island craft.

JO IN THE NIGHT:—While Fiji in goose-pimples over mystery ;, French Oceania was tingling i reports of a mystery surface t. There was plenty of evidence uggest that it was just another fisherman —someone made out suffix Maru (and someone else ight that the first word might ; been Bandit ), though the le was “mysteriously” smeared he bow. The report came from Walter Johnson, American yacht ilys, which having cleared sete, January 10, for the US via Marquesas, was followed by a 11 vessel near the Tuamotus. The irican flag was hoisted and the stery vessel” changed course. ?ete is now satisfied that this is craft which has been causing the trouble. If Jap fishing pers have any sense of humour read foreign newspapers they t enjoy a good deep belly-laugh imes. . mystery ship [only “a row of ;ed portholes” was visible] was

seen hanging around outside Suva in February, too. The only mystery that hasn’t been reported from the South Pacific recently is a flying saucer and little green men).

JAPS BACK IN NG, TOO:—Jap

anese shell poachers are reported to be operating again in the New Guinea Western Islands.

A plantation operator, Mr. Cliff Batt, of Maron Island, said at Manus, on February 14, that during the previous ten days a Japanese vessel of approximately 130 tons had persistently closed the reef in the Hermit Group, obviously with the intention of poaching shell.

Its arrival from and departure for the South-East gave the impression that the uninhabited reefs to the SW of Manus were being poached.

The Hermit Island group has long been a popular hunting ground for Japanese poachers.

WANTED, THE FACTS:—The

Fiji press, which has been raising so many other mares’ nests, might have queried a Fiji Government an nouncement of late January. This was to the effect that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has granted the Japanese permission to salvage the fishing vessel Miye Maru, ashore on Ongea Driki reef, Southern Lau, since October 13, 1955.

The Fiji Government has never published full details on the circum stances surrounding this stranding

which had all the marks of having occurred while the vessel was poach ing within territorial waters. The present announcement suggests that investigations established that this was not the case—as it would be normal for the vessel to be con fiscated if proved poaching.

Had she been leaking, and de liberately beached to save her, the

situation would be different, and this was evidently the finding.

The Jap fishery research and training vessel Jinyi Maru, with a salvage party, was expected at Fiji late in February to commence work on Miya Maru.

ONE OFF, ONE ON: —Fairymead Sugar Co.’s Solomons trader Makila was scarcely salvaged from Rua Suia reef when Mr. R. Pearson’s small vessel Black Opal was reported a total loss on the reef near Lavoro, Guadalcanal, during the heavy weather of last December. No lives were lost.

ANOTHER SLIPWAY: —So u t h

Pacific small-ships slipping facilities were considerably advanced during 1955. Slips were completed at Noumea and Madang, and good pro gress was made with a large one at Hollandia. Early January, Mr. J.

Chan Cheong put his new Tulagi slipway into service, the first vessel handled being the Solomons trader Biliki. Capable of handling most vessels in the Solomons trade, this slipway is an important addition to local marine facilities. Previously all but the smallest craft had to go to Samarai, Papua, or more distant points for slipping.

IN TROUBLE AGAlNFijian

Affairs Department’s 55 ft auxiliary vessel Yatu Lau was again in trouble in February. Bound for Tuvana-i-Ra to load copra for Suva the vessel

went up on the Oni-i-lau reef at 3 a.m. on February 8. The mishap was reported to Suva late that day and the following morning W. R.

Carpenter & Co.’s MV Tovata was despatched to render assistance, with Mr. Colin White, of Millers Ltd., builders of the vessel, aboard to

supervise salvage. Tovata was v able to haul Yatu Lau clear so pc mission was obtained to despa* the Shell Oil Co.’s tug Shell- While this was being arranged Fiji Government’s maid-of-all-wn Degei arrived on the scene, to co: bine efforts with Shell-40.

hell-40 cleared Suva but in the [ weather and poor visibility rshot Oni-i-lau, a low atoll, and ame lost. As usual, the RNZAF’s ,rch and Rescue flyingboat unit > called to aid and eventually ited Shell-40 a reported 260 es from her destination. Fortun ly the tug was in constant radio ch to aid the searchers. Mean le, alone and unaided, Degei lied Yatu Lau clear, and she was n Suva-bound for another ex sive and expensive refit, ut into service early 1953, Yatu i is, from a constructional and eral-finish viewpoint, possibly finest vessel ever launched in a. The vessel was built to serve Lau Group. There were some ial difficulties with the rudder ign. These were corrected, then le months later the vessel suf ;d damage which put her out of imission for some time. Return to sea, she promptly cast her peller and had to be towed back Suva.

IME, GENTLEMEN, PLEASE:

he contortions of the “popular” 5S in exploiting every sensational le to the Joyita tragedy, draw mtion to another sensational y under a Hamburg date-line ch appeared in PIM of June, I. The Hamburg resident had gedly received a letter with a lington, NZ, post mark, written a crew-member of a German U

boat which had slipped out of a Norwegian port in 1945 when Ger many was collapsing.

How the letter had been posted was not disclosed, but the seaman one of 40, said he wrote from an isolated Pacific island, where the U-boat had been scuttled and the men were then living with local native women in a little community completely cut off from the outside world. They did not intend to re veal themselves until 1955.

Well, 1955 has come and gone, and we’ve not heard of the men coming forward yet. Allowing that in the popular press “Pacific Island” can include Indonesia it’s difficult indeed to believe that the idyllic community would not have been ferretted out ere this.

PORT OF ENTRY:—A remit con sidered at the last session of the Cook Islands Legislative Council proposed permitting cruising yachts and sailing craft to enter the Group at Penrhyn if coming from the north. The proposal was rejected, the authorities considering that adequate facilities exist only at Rarotonga for customs and health control. Yachts wishing to visit the Northern atolls will therefore still have to enter at Rarotonga, whether coming south from Honolulu or not, then return the 600-700 miles along their course, as in the past.

RENAMED; The former Hawaiian Is. passenger vessel Hualalai, more recently known as Ngaio in the New Zealand inter-island passenger trade, has now been renamed Moiz.

[?]P: The 37-ft. auxiliary-ketch "Nani", of [?]lulu, which was recently in Papeete. [?]ER; The "Pacific Star" unloading cargo Noumea. This ex-landing craft lost her tion in the Coral Sea in February, (see 113).

ider that name the vessel cleared dlington, NZ, on delivery to her sv Pakistani owners in mid-Feb iry.

BAD START: —Loading her first •go of phosphate at Nauru for w Zealand, British Phosphate mmissioners’ new Triaster limped to Auckland in mid-February h a cracked cylinder.

ANOTHER NAME CHANGE:—

ten the necessary formalities have in completed, Mr. Roy Gubbay, of ito, plans to change the name his recently acquired Vila Star Tutuba —the name of a small nd off Santo. r ollowing purchase in Welling , NZ, the vessel went to Sydney February to load for Norfolk md, Noumea, Vila and Lugan e. She is now commanded by ?tain John Bradley, formerly of R. Carpenter & Co.’s Lautoka.

Dtain Bradley last year delivered amships Trading Co.’s Kia from ydney yard to Port Moresby. His te is Mr. Peter Mounsey, of Syd- Mr. Mounsey is planning an snsive cruise in his 38-ft ketch apinta, probably commencing t year.

HRILLS AND SPILLS: T h e

nch fisheries research and train craft Orsom 111, based on imea, caused a little excitement December. The vessel cleared for a to undergo refit. Prior to de ture a good deal of ballast, con

sisting of steel girders set in con crete, had been discharged.

The vessel’s sea performance with out the ballast apparently proved more exciting than reassuring. She put into Lifu, Loyalty Is., where some aboard expressed reluctance to proceed, whereupon Orsom 111 put back to Noumea. When the vessel gets to Suva she is to be fitted with a modern echo-sounder and radar equipment.

RETIRING AGAIN:—CF & H’s

trim little Albert Bonneaud, recom missioned some months ago follow ing a lengthy lay up as the result of a hurricane stranding, is apparently soon io be laid up per manently. She is said to be now in poor hull condition. The owners are debating whether to purchase a new vessel or to charter tonnage for their New Hebrides require ments.

TROUBLE AT SEA:—In De

cember we reported that Captain Max Stanton, well known Pacific Is. ship-delivery specialist, with Mr.

Willie Schutz, of Tarawa, as Second Officer, cleared Melbourne with the Australian coaster Iron Knob —renamed Clarisse —on delivery to Trieste. We now learn that as the result of a stabbing affray while the vessel was crossing the Australian Bight, a seaman later died. Clarisse arrived at Malta late in February.

LOST POSITION:—The New

Hebrides Condominium Govern

merit’s new Rocinante, delivered last June, was due back in Newcastle late in February for a hull check over.

Late on February 28, when she was nearing the Australian coast, faint distress signals were heard from her. RAAF Dakotas immedi ately took off to try to locate her; when darkness closed in radar and search-light equipped Neptunes took over. Rocinante had given her position as north of Newcastle.

The RAAF searched from New castle north to the Queensland border for two days in some of the worst weather the NSW coast has experienced for years. The search was then abandoned until the weather moderated but the vessel was believed lost.

Then late on the evening of March 1, Rocinante turned up out side of Ulladulla, about 200 miles south of Newcastle. The Captain thought that he was then near Bris bane.

An Italian fishing boat captain piloted the Rocinante into Ulla dulla. Xhe vessel had been 11 days on the way from Noumea, some of them hove-to. But in spite of the violent weather, there appeared to be not much wrong with the vessel —and although navigation might have been at fault there certainly was nothing wrong with the crew’s seamanship.

Rocinante, of 48 ft 1.0. a., was built last year by Wynne S. Breden Pty. Ltd. and designed by Arthur

Swinfield, Naval architect of Syd ney.

ONE-WAY VOYAGE;—In De

cember we mentioned the Costa Rican banana vessel Rican Star, which called at Suva southbound from the US to Sydney, with a cargo of dynamite. The 495-tons steel ex yacht broke a crankshaft in one of her motors before arrival at Sydney.

This was to be repaired but the Australian navigation authorites de manded a hull survey following rumours that some plates were rather thin.

These matters, combined with crew troubles, apparently decided the Canadian owners to dispose of the ship at Sydney and she is currently for sale through Captain Kennedy. With two holds totalling 19,600 cubic ft. capable of being maintained at zero Fahrenheit, and a large deck house at 32 degrees, Fahrenheit, Rican Star seems an in teresting vessel. She has a service speed of about 11 knots.

SYDNEY’S NEW SEA SERVICE

STATION:—Mr. John Barraclough, who conducts the shipbroking and marine service agency firm of John Barraclough Pty., Ltd., Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, intends sailing his 36ft ketch Nimrod up through the Islands later this year.

In spite of his association with the sea, he is perhaps better-known

in Australia as a crack road-racing driver.

At present Barraclough’s are building a modern sea service-station at their Rushcutters Bay establish ment. This will supply everything from oil to a “yacht-wash” from foam hoses.

Much of the firm’s ship-broking business comes from Islands clients.

AND ONE FOR THE ROAD:—

Ray Blaxland, ex-resident of

Bougainville, TNG, and now wv Sydney ship-brokers John Barr dough Pty. Ltd., recently signed as a crew member on a small-sH; being sent to the islands by firm. On the way, the crew spei a particularly hectic night in Bn bane and it was Ray’s luck to dn first watch next morning. It w with considerable difficulty as bleariness of eye, but he was mas aging to get by when the skipp came up on deck and asked: “Ho’( the head?”

“Not too bad, thanks,” Ray iswered modestly, “how’s yours?”

“Not your head, you blithering iot,” the skipper barked, “the head the ship!” rIAFT FEVER;—WhiIe radio yelps r assistance were coming from nowhere in mid-Pacific from the ruvian balsa-wood raft La Cantuta ;e in February, Captain Eric de sschop, former owner of the much blicised junk-yacht Cheng Ho, nounced from Papeete that he ins to make shortly a voyage im Tahiti to Peru and return on 10-ft by 16-ft green-bamboo raft. \t least Captain de Bisschop juld have a good idea of what is r olved. Back in the 1930’s he and companion set out in a Chinese ik from Hongkong. A while later ; junk was seized and confiscated, d Captain de Bisschop and his npanion acquired another —Fuo 'i ll —in which they called at New inea and other island ports, be e that vessel was wrecked in the waiian islands. Captain de schop then built a big out-rigger toe, naming it Kaimiloa, and sail it most, if not all, the way to ince from Honolulu. !aptain de Bisschop’s association h the junk-yacht Cheng Ho and involved legal entanglements re been covered very fully in PIM post-war years. After that craft ame legally immobilised in aeete harbour, Captain de schop was engaged to do certain d survey work in the Austral ,nds and has been there in recent rs. e now plans to build the raft he Fare Ute navy yard, Papeete, ct four companions, and sail for le possibly this year. The raft be called Tahiti Nui, and the jet of the voyage, according to itralian reports, will be to prove it the Polynesians originated in uti” and did not come from East West originally. It may appear lifficult thing to prove, and it i not be clear how a voyage on amboo raft will prove it—as the m currents of the area are lady well enough known to sfy everyone that a two-way age, east-bound by the southern ;e, and west-bound by the hern route, should be quite pos- Bu f that is the programme, it will receive plenty of news er support. atest news from La Can.uta was Feb. 22, when she was reported a whirlpool 25 miles wide, out as and water and with one crew iber, Rost. ill. She gave her tion as 3.37 N. and 108.20 W.— is about 1,000 miles west of the apagos islands. ae five on board were later picked by the US hydrographic ship ohoth and the drift has been idoned. Officers of the US ship 1 able to convince the drifters in the position in which the

raft was. adverse currents would prevent it ever reaching Polynesia.

NOT SO HAPPY:—When Mr.

Gaston Guilbert purchased the New Zealand-bound fishing vessel Happy Return as she lay wrecked on the reef near Papeete recently, he thought he had a bargain. Now he is not so sure.

The vessel was successfully salvaged and brought to a Papeete boatyard for alterations and repairs It is now reported that the Customs authorities have placed a much higher value on the vessel than that actually paid by Mr. Guilbert. Our correspondent says that duty alone will amount to 200,000 Pacific francs —so work on the boat has been halted.

Mr. Henri Lambert, who pur

chased the American yacht La Paloma, wrecked on Maiao Island recently, is in similar trouble—duty in this case is assessed at 120,000 .rancs.

US NAVY TO RESCUE:—Ameri

can submarine USS Caiman-E-323, which called at Papeete recently, towed the Papeete fishing vessel Nacirata to Makatea Island when she came across the vessel with dis abled engine. Later the submarine helped refloat the fishing vessel Hohio, stranded at Arutua. The owners of these vessels have asked that their thanks be expressed.

Nacirata is owned by Teari Tapu tuarai Fils, and Hohoio by Henri Nimau. (Over)

'ACIFIC STAR TO BE SOLD:—

:ific Star, 220-ton, Australian- It ex-army landing craft, recently ift in the Coral Sea and taken tow by the French naval sloop re is now safely at Noumea, I reports suggest that she is up sale. in February 1, Captain Davis, ster of the Pacific Star, short of I and uncertain of his position a result of heavy weather and a Ity compass, signalled Vila radio assistance. he vessel was located three days ir near the northern tip of New edonia by a Sunderland RNZAF rch and Rescue aircraft based Laucala Bay, Fiji, he French sloop Tiare was then tcted to the scene and towed the ific Star to Thio Bay in New sdonia. There the vessel was re lied and proceeded to Noumea ,er her own power.

ARELY WHITE:—The 1,000-

> Papuan Explorer, owned by the tralasian Petroleum Company, is ergoing extensive overhaul at State Dockyard at Newcastle, V. She has a crew of 17—ten of n natives and the rest European •, as one Newcastle newspaper it, six Europeans and one Aus ian.

DYITA FOR FIJI TRADE:—A

lent of Whangarei, NZ, well wn in the Islands, has offered the Joyita.

He is Mr. T.

Sheehan, who formerly owned the New Golden Hind and, later, Lady Stirling.

The latter for a time was on loan to the Catholic Mission in Fiji.

Mr. Sheehan has radioed Dr. Kath eri n e Luomala, owner of Joyita, for an early de cision and if his offer is accepted he will probably refit the vessel in Suva and use her in the local trade.

It was reported earlier that Dr.

Loumala wished to retain Joyita.

The New Hebrides Condominium ship "Rocinante" which was missing off the NSW coast for a few days in February-March. (See page 109.)

News of Cruising Yachts

pp. 115-117

\ NYONE interested in the history of deep water yacht cruising is likely to be in terested in the Slocum Society, which, so far as we know, is the only organisation of its kind in the world. Formed about 1953, it now has an international membership, and a good deal of historical information at its finger tips.

It offers a reduced-rate cruising-yacht book service, a service of special information on specific yachts, and a most interesting monthly periodical entitled "The Spray" in which current, planned, and past voyages are dis cussed. The membership fee varies but is pay

able in any national currency.

Interested persons should write for informa tion to The Slocum Society, Horn Point, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

AUCKLAND-SUVA RACE: Up to February 7, there were 14 firm entries for inaugural Auckland-Suva yacht race scheduled to begin on May 12. All are New Zealand yachts except one, DAYDREAM, 27 ft. plywood craft from Sydney, now in New Zealand waters.

Royal Akarana Yacht Club of Auckland, spon soring the event, gives the following list of yachts and owners: MATUKU, ketch (J. Lidgard); AOMA, ketch (G. Smith); DAYDREAM, cotter (P. Fletcher); TAURANGI, cutter (K. Middon); KEHUA, ketch

(G. Clements); HOPE, ketch (G. Norris); LADY PAT, ketch (Thomas brothers); RANG), ketch (M. Anthony); RELIANCE, cutter (W. F. Rush brooke); WANDERER, cutter (T. Buchanan); KISMET, cutter (W. Patterson); RANGINUI, ketch (M. Whitten); NINA, ketch (J. Moody).

There is also an unnamed cutter, still building, owned by M. Goodman.

TAURANGI has been seen in the Islands previously. RANG!, largest present entry, is a new craft. The other boats or skippers have taken part in the Tasman Race.

The race will be very carefully supervised and the fleet will be accompanied by the Fairmile cruiser NGAROMA which will act as mother-ship, maintain radio contact with the yachts, and, via her more powerful radio transmitter, with the shore terminals. The race will undoubtedly create great interest in Fiji and New Zealand and is likely to become more widely patronised, as, at time of the year when it will be sailed, it should normally prove a fairly easy race from a meteorological viewpoint.

LOS ANGELES-PAPEETE RACE: Mr. Eugene

Overton, on February 6, supplied us with de tails of the present situation in regard to the Los Angeles-Papeete Race planned to commence early June. There are four definite entries: JADA, 56 ft Los Angeles yawl, owner William T. Sturgis; VIVEKA, 73 ft San Francisco schooner, owner Robert D. Fraser; CELEBES, 69 ft San Francisco ketch, owner John H.

Hedden; and QUEST, 64 ft Los Angeles yawl, owner Dr. Howard Murphy.

In addition, the 109 ft San Francisco schooner RAMONA, already known in Tahiti waters, is an almost certain starter, and several other owners have indicated intention to enter but have not yet lodged papers.

These possibles are said to include Walter Johnson's NORDLYS, 800 Paschall's KIRAWAN, John Scripps' NOVIA DEL MAR, and Lyman Farwell's SEADRIFT. These are all very well known Pacific Coast craft.

• DAYDREAM, mentioned as a starter for the Auckland-Suva Race, arrived at Auckland from Sydney via Whangaroa early February.

This 27 footer is claimed to be the first ply wood boat to cross the Tasman. She was manned by owner Peter Fletcher, his brother Doug, and lan Stillman. • SKAFFIE, another 20 footer, reached Bar bados from Lowestoft via ports on February 2, bound round the world, with Nukualofa and

Auckland mentioned as intended ports. Aboo are D. Beard and G. Auchterlonie. • CRUSADER, 27-footer from Hobart, cleas that port for Wellington, NZ, and the US Pacific Islands on February 11. This ones manned by Barry Robertson, 19, and Cripps, 22. • PHOENIX moved on from Auckland Wellington in February, after replacing a wt infested mast. From there Dr. Reynolds >

lily are expected to soon head for Sydney continuation of the world cruise. > EOLO, 57 ft Sydney cutter, cleared that I for Auckland and the US via Islands ports February 5. With owner-skipper Len Gul is Peter Dona, John Johnson—described as New Guinea plantation manager—Derek Ms, and ferian Leyland. Papeete is to be a f of call. > LANG SYNE will be remembered as sing the Islands in 1947-48. Bill and Mis Crowe have recently had a book pub ed on their world voyage—" Heaven, Hell Salt Water". » STORTBECKER Ill's successor, now build in England for Dr. Franklen-Evans is a b-designed yawl, 391 ft x 29 ft x ft ft. She should be seen in the Pacific by winter of 1957. • OMOO, possibly the first Belgian yacht circumnavigate the world—she called at nds ports several years ago—is now bound the Seychelles via the Mediterranean, with van de Wieles still in command, i NANI of Honolulu, mentioned recently, red Papeete February 18 via Caroline nd, Southern Line Is., 27 days out of olulu. Aboard are Mr. and Mrs. John E. tall and baby daughter, and Mr. Norman 3aker. NANI was built at Longbeach in D, is a ketch 37 ft x 111 ft x 6 ft with 5 hp Gray Marine diesel.

Fisherman’S

p. 117

FIRST FOR

(From Our Own Correspondent) DVERSE weather in the Port Moresby area in early February brought about another “First” in Territory’s aviation history. ’or the first time, 23 passengers a Qantas Dakota from Lae dis barked at Fisherman’s Island and :e taken to Port Moresby by a A launch.

'isherman’s is a long, flat island y a few miles from Moresby r nship and is maintained (at a b of several thousands a year) an alternate airstrip for Jack ’s strip. It’s used mainly, how r by Aero Club planes for •cuits and bumps.”

'he regular airlines do not favour ig Fisherman’s as there are no senger facilities, and in any case, two strips are only a mile or apart so that if one is closed Dugh bad weather, the other one isually closed also, i the few cases where passenger les have landed before, they re ined aboard the aircraft and flew to Jackson’s when the weather ired.

nd Another for Moresby

eat this, Suva: P-NG’s first set raffic lights is to be installed in t Moresby soon. he lights will be set up at the srsection known as Calamity ner as soon as they are received n Australia. Calamity Corner, as name implies, is notable for the iber of accidents that occur there. lights are not before time.

Jnfortunately, our correpsondent 3 not say which is Calamity ner, and PIM can think of a iber which qualify. P-NG’s only fic-cop, a native, performs daily he intersection of Musgrave and Lglas Streets).

New Fiji £1 Note Issue

p. 117

NEW £FI notes, which bear the portrait of Her Majesty the Queen, were made available through the local banks in Fiji on February 4.

The new notes are smaller in size and stronger in texture than the previous ones. New notes in other denominations are to be issued la er Attractive notes to the value of Id were issued in Fiji during World

War 11, due to an acute shortage of the well known Fiji Id “washer.”

It would be interesting to know what these Id notes are worth to-day—as collectors’ pieces. !i Miss Betty Banff, a triple certifi cated from Queensland, has volunteered for three years nursing service with the Anglican Mission in Papua.

At Polynesian Association Gathering in Sydney

p. 119

This photograph, taken at a recent social gathering of the Polynesian Association, Sydney, [?]ws, left to right, Tongan Noble Vaea Tubou, ADC to HM Queen Salote; Mrs. Colin Jones, formerly [?]ty Carruthers of Apia, Samoa; Felix Emberson; Miss Felicia Emberson; and Oscar Emberson, with [?]nd (unidentified). The three Embersons are children of well-known Suva resident, Mrs. Matilda berson. The boys are at Sydney University doing Medicine, and Felicia is training as a nurse at St. [?]cents Hospital. Tongan noble, Vaea Tubou was then in Sydney in attendance on HM Queen [?]ote. Before leaving Sydney in February, Queen Salote received these representatives of the [?]lynesian Association: Mrs. Olga Page, of Apia; Mrs. Ann Griffen, of Levuka; Miss M. Shober, Nukualofa; the Association president, Mr. Leonard Moran; and Mr. Hugh Aspinall, of Suva.

Photo by Parker Studios.

Sandy Creek Production

p. 119

luring January, 1956, approximately 80 oz dwt of gold were recovered from approxi tely 6,400 cubic yards of material treated Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing, Ltd.

If Five more Communist Terrorists were killed in Malaya on February 13 by a patrol of “A” Company, Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, led by Lieut. W. B. Toganivalu.

P-Ng Psa Has Quick

p. 119

DISCUSSIONS

WITH MINISTER

THE meeting between Papua-New Guinea Public Service Associa tion delegates and the Minister for Territories in Canberra at the end of February was brief.

All the business was discussed, if not finalised, in one day.

The delegates, Messrs. R. B.

Brennan, S. Pearsall, and R. T.

Thompson, arrived from Port Moresby late on February 26 and returned to the Territory on Feb ruary 28.

Included in a list of 10 items that were placed before Mr. Hasluck were absorbtion of the Public Service of Papua and New Guinea with the Commonwealth Public Service; leave fares to home States, rates of pay and cost-of-living allowance, Terri torial allowance: secondary school allowance; the all-important subject of housing; and the introduction of a Medical Benefits Scheme.

Membership of the Territory Public Service Association now ex ceeds 1,000. Eight years ago, there were only 57 members.

Mr. Brennan, who is President of the Association, said in February that the Executive Council of the Association was greatly encouraged with this growth, particularly as membership was voluntary.

Spotlight on Bananas

p. 120

SPC EXPERTS

FOCUS THE—

WHILE rich in vitamins A and 1 the humble but wholesonr banana is not the complee food that some advertising carr paigns have claimed.

But take one ripe banana and or pint of milk, and you have a well balanced food.

Most of the economic varietii of bananas in the South Pacit have been introduced, some by tl Islanders themselves (probably frot the Indo-Malayan region), anr some by Europeans.

The Chinese, or Cavendise banana is indigenous to Asia an is well known commercially in tH South Pacific by various names, e.f.

“China,” “Samoa,” “Amoa ” “Hamoas It was introduced in an interest ing manner by the renowned LM missionary, the Reverend Joh Williams.

During a visit to England in 182 Williams visited the Duke of Devor shire, who cultivated in glasshous tropical plants sent to him from s over the world.

When Williams left England 1839 he took with him seven suckers of a new banana plant th;j the Duke had received from Chinr One of these suckers managed ' survive the rigours of a nine-montl voyage to Apia, and from it tl LMS missionaries spread the Chin variety throughout their Sout.

Pacific stations.

To-day the China banana grown commercially in many Sout Pacific islands, and, with othi varieties of the same family, Mu.i paradisiaca, provides an importau cash income for the growers.

Properly cultivated, these varietii can produce 4 to 8 tons of fruit p< acre, representing 2,800,000 5,600,000 calories.

In Apia, the bananas rejected If the grading officers are sold local! very cheaply and are the main foo of the urban-Samoan population!

In New Guinea and the Solomoi banana bunches are wrapped in dt banana leaves as a protectio against damage by birds.

In New Caledonia, and at timi in the highlands of Papua, ripenin is speeded up by burying the gree bunches in mud.

These and other interesting fac: are revealed in a brief historical r* view of banana varieties found the South Pacific, in the Janua'j issue of the SPC Bulletin.

It is the eighth of a series o Pacific subsistence crops prepared I SPC officers Emile Massal an Jacques Barrau.

Just how, where, and when grow the commercial banana is des with in the same issue in a wel; documented article by J. C. GerlacD agronomist to the New Zealar Dept, of Agriculture.

Vau—Now on he Bus Route

p. 121

he Bus Route

TEW Guinea followed Fiji into the I tourist-bus field recently when Crowley Airways, of Lae, intro iced a 10-seater Volkswagen speci [y designed for tropical use.

At present the bus runs two arist services—one for a week-end p to Wau and return; and the tier for a special tour for ships’ ssengers visiting Lae. On the ips’ tour, one load of tourists is wn to Wau and later returns by ad; while one load goes up by air,

and returns by bus.

Only European drivers will be em ployed.

This service should be a great boon to people other than ships’ passengers—particularly as BGD are now running a new hotel at Bulolo.

Previously, the only way for the visitor to the district to see the famous Wau-Lae road, was to beg a lift in a jeep or a truck. t Rarotonga airport registered 25.70 inches of rainfall during December, 7.45 inches falling on Christmas Day.

Rain fell on 25 days with the maxi mum fall on December 25.

Moresby

p. 121

Wedding

The wedding took place in Port Moresby on January 28 of Miss Joan Graham and Mr.

Paul Patterson, They are shown here with bridesmaid Miss Maureen Shorthouse and Mr. Jack Walsh. The wedding was celebrated at the Roman Catholic church. -Photo by Papuan Prints.

[?]lands Weddings of Interest...

p. 123

rhe Acting Resident Commissioner the Gilbert & Ellice Is. Colony, ■. F. N. Pusinelli, officially opened

the new Betio, Tarawa, primary school on January 7. t Semesa Sikivou has been re

appointed to the Fiji broadcasting Commission for a period of two years.

[?]T LEFT: Well-known families of Western [?]oa and Fiji were united in Auckland on [?]uary 26 when Miss Betty Meleisea, daughter Chief F. Meleisea, Assistant Public Service [?]missioner in Western Samoa, and Mrs. [?]eisea, was married to Mr.. Francis Muller, of Mr. A. J. Muller, of Fiji Public Works [?]artment, and Mrs. Muller. The wedding

took place at St. Benedicts Catholic Church, and 400 guests were afterwards entertained at Auckland's Maori Community Centre.

The photo shows, left to right, bridegroom and bride, groomsmen Phillip Muller and Alex Meleisea, bridesmaids Teresa Meleisea and Mary Pereira, and flower girls Julia Curry and Carol Tousoon. Photo: Belwood Studios, Ltd.

AT RIGHT: At the Lutheran Mission Church, Lae, New Guinea, on January 21, Miss Judy Chung was married to Mr. Eric Woo. Seen here with the newly-married couple are Miss Betty Chung, bridemaid; and Mr. Nelson Woo, best man.

Photo by Y. C. Wong.

Poisonous

pp. 124-125

MORE LIGHT ON

FISH MYSTERY

FSH poisoning is a recurr© happening and subject of i terest throughout the Souj Seas, but it is douooful if Mr. C.

Smith’s reported assertion, in F© ruary PIM, “Beware of daniva wr scales in reverse!” will be accept! by serious investigators of this ul solved mystery.

If Mr. Smith can produce od specimen of this tasty, silvery litf fish with “some scales running fro head to tail, and some in the i verse direction,” it is likely that, 0 many marine biologists will resit their appointments; and (b) Darw will turn in his grave.

It is easy to imagine the übiqut ous flies “avoiding the oddly seal fish like the plague” but dififici; to understand how Mr. Smitd worthy ancestors could unerringj pick out the “baddies” from a suj stantial catch of these tiny-scalj fish.

Dr. Guy Loison, Health Resean Officer to the South Pacific Cok mission, reviewed this subject of ff poisoning competently in the Sl< Bulletin of October, 1955, and urg further research to determine caim and cures.

Amongst a wealth of island fis lore several basic facts are revealj in Dr. Loison’s article: • Frequently the same type fish is poisonous in one locality at not in another. • The maximum concentrate of toxins is in the liver and i testines of the fish. • Few fish, large or small, appe< to be immune from toxicity at sou time or place. #On some islands a majority ' fish species are toxic (e.g., 75 i cent, on Johnson Island) most the time. • Islands long immune from ca* of fish poisoning are subject sudden epidemics (e.g., Fannii Island, 1946-47). • Fish poisoning predominates e tropical seas and notably in t coral atoll groups.

O The chemical nature of t toxin is still unknown. It is neitll; protein, protamine nor alkaloid. • All attempts to find a deciss remedy for fish poisoning haj failed.

According to an Americi: authority on the subject, Dr. Brv W. Halstead, fish poisoning definite originates in the diet of the fish as research should be directed towa:i the analysis of stomach contents Present scientific opinion favac a vegetable origin and the poisi could well be of planktonic ong

already proven in the case of nyaulax catanella, a plankton ,t forms long rusty-coloured trails the sea. unongst the 300 species reported poisonous, or potentially so, the t known are the toad—or swelll —box-fish, moon-fish, porcupine i, trigger-fish, and barracuda, 'rom the economic view, the :ey of fish poisoning will need to ippear before the fishing industry be fully developed in the Pacific.

Palmyra Comes To life

p. 125

[?]in-Land Palmyra Comes To life

NCE the US Navy withdrew from Palmyra atoll after World War 11, this privately owned cluster about 50 small islets —administively Honolulu’s most outer urb —has had a one-man popula i. But all this is changed, at >t for a while. a February, a ship went south n Honolulu with men and sntific equipment, and a US mil •y aircraft made several flights the atoll.

Research will be carried out there ough the International Year and an aircraft i fly south with supplies every • weeks. The isolation of Mr. 0 Hornung, caretaker for the lard-Leo family, of Honolulu, ch owns all but two of the islets, be broken, everal times in the past few rs there have been reports that atoll was to be put to/nse. A Pacific Coast tuna fishing com iy was to set up a cannery or izer there —had they succeeded catching tuna in commercial ntities in the area, hen there was talk of a South ific “dude rancTi” or a luxury -game fishing camp being estab ied —a place where the dollar sn Honolulu tourists, bored with ikiki’s attractions, might head a week-end now and again, hen again came rumours that ith Pacific Air Lines might use atoll as a staging point on the d to Papeete. Instead they chose Christmas Island further south, may have been Palmyra’s per ual rain that killed the dude ch, as it has killed the copra ustry. ow it seems that the boffins can 1 a use for the atoll, if only for diile. tr. William Douglas Forsyth, the t Secretary-General of the South ific Commission, passed through imea recently per Tahitien and ewed old friendships at SPC dquarters. Mr. Forsyth has com ;ed his appointment with the ted Nations in New York. It is lerstood that his next appoint it will be an Australian one.

t The Manihiki people at the Tutakimoa settlement, in Rarotonga, turned out in force in January in a big community effort to drain the area which had suffered heavy flooding during the rains of December.

t A RNZAF Sunderland flying-boat from Lauthala Bay, Suva, on a routine training flight, dropped a parcel for the Resident Commis sioner at Rarotonga, Cook Is., from a height of 50 ft on the morning of January 26.

Pago Pago Wedding of Interest

p. 127

The marriage took place in Pago Pago, American Samoa, recently of Miss Miliama Tauvela, Mr. David Miller. The bride is the daughter of a local Minister of Religion, and the bride [?]m is in charge of the laboratory at the local hospital. Shown (left to right): James St. [?]ur; Salu Lefotu; Lalago Moananu; bride and groom; Lui Fatuesi (best man); Taavale, brides [?]; Nick Fenech.

Photo by Pan American Prints.

[?]Ining Ng Native Nurses

p. 127

O young New Guinea girls sft Port Moresby on February to start a three-year nursing e at the Central Medical School ava. e girls were Saperi Pengai and cousin, Margaret Silooy, both New Ireland. present there are three Terri native girls studying nursing at One is in her final year and )ther two are in their second anwhile, from Melbourne comes that the first Papuan girl to the Victorian Leaving Certi , Dalai Munyan, of Milne Bay, een accepted as a probationary at Epworth Hospital, at iton, in Melbourne.

[?]Ound Trip For Roti

p. 127

r ould appear that Roti Maruata, L7-year-old Tahitian girl, is the ;est victim of the “white man i woman” disease that afflicts tourists to Tahiti. ;i stowed away on the French Tahitien on the February e of that vessel from Tahiti dney, via Vila and Noumea, i claimed *hat a passenger on ''ahitien told her to go to his on sailing day, and she ht he had a ticket for her.

SToumea a Danish passenger on ien was arrested and sentenced ) days imprisonment for assist stowaway. Roti is now home bound for Tahiti on the same . and will, she said, “never Tahiti again.”

H Dr. F. J. Harlow Advisor on Tech nical Education to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, made a tour of technical and other schools in

Fiji in February. Dr. Harlow visited Fiji in 1952 in connection with a vocational training scheme sponsored by the South Pacific Commission.

Islands Travellers from N[?]

p. 128

Included amongst Islands residents wh[?] turned home from Auckland in February top to bottom; Mr. Philip Woonton, veteran trader of Northern Cooks, and Mr. Ted Estell, of tonga Public Works Department. Mr. Wo[?] returned home as a member of the cre[?] "Charlotte Donald".

Miss N. Matafeo, centre, who returned to Apia, by "Tofua", was farewelled in land by Mr. U. Matafeo and Mr. A. Imo.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Beddows and Ant[?] who after vacation in Australia, returne[?] Suva per February "Tofua".

Norfolk Isl[?]

p. 128

Few Insect Pests on Norfolk Isl[?]

USEFUL advice on how combat insect pests especially how to guard agas the fruit fly—was given the i dents of Norfolk Island due January by Mr. H. Hogan, C Entomologist of the Vic toe Department of Agriculture. He prepare an official report.

Mr. Hogan said that Noiti Island is notably free of in pests but he recommem systematic enrayinr, as a mearn maintaining this happy position

Chewing Permitted

p. 129

[?]G TAXI

GULATIONS

Betel-Nut Chewing Permitted

(From Our Own Correspondent) [E first set of regulations gov erning the operation of private and public hire-cars in Papua New Guinea were gazetted in ■uary. le regulations stipulate, among r things, that taxi-drivers must smoke, or “chew betel-nut” out the consent of passengers; : not leave the vehicle to tout passengers or permit the vehicle iter. At the same time, drivers ; be clean and tidy, wear re :able clothes and be civil to mgers or intending passengers. tether section of the regulations ibits drivers from sleeping, ?ing or eating meals inside vehicle or picking up other mgers without the consent of priginal hirer. e regulations allow drivers to le to accept as hirers anyone ring from an infectious or con >us disease, a person who is k or dirty, or noisy or violent. :tion 25 of the regulations sets that fares will be charged on leage basis.

FARES ARE TOO HIGH

is, perhaps would be the best ; of the necessary and long ted regulations. Taxi fares are ►f all proportion to what might •egarded as a “fair thing,” ially in Port Moresby, is writer fails to understand the sity for the high fares. Vehicles lo dearer than in Sydney (some a lot cheaper); petrol is the price; and natives are em d as drivers. They, naturally, paid a lot less than a Sydney r, and the owner of a Sydney le never seems to complain. So ; owner of a Sydney unrestricted is making—and most of them a clear profit of about £4O per , it does not take much time )rk out what Port Moresby cab rs are making. •haps the two main operators n for a big shock soon, how if a permit to operate ten cabs mted to “an interested person.” pur has it that this “interested n” plans to “greatly reduce” ate of charges currently made, use a current expression: Port sby residents can hardly wait.

Justice Bignold, of the P-NG jme Court, has been appointed dent of the Papua and New sa Public Museum and Art ry. Plans for the Territory um are now taking shape. It ped to build an institution that •e an “outstanding credit to the bory.”

Chief Scout at Rally in Rabaul, New Guinea

p. 131

World Chief Scout, Lord Rowallen is shown here during his recent visit to Rabaul, New [?]ea. In the photograph, left to right: Mrs. J. P. Foldi, vice-president of the local Girl Guide ciation; Mrs. Betty Richardson, Guide District Commissioner; Mr. R. Galloway, Scout District missioner; the Chief Scout, shaking hands with Johnny Koese of the 3rd Rabaul troop: [?]hen Cheong, ASM, 1st Rabaul troop. -Photo by C. H. Meen.

[?]e Gauge at Christmas Is.

p. 131

December, the US fishery re search vessel John R. Manning made a call at Christmas Island, 3 Islands, to install a recording -guage. The work was carried

out by Lieutenant Herbert Lippold, of the US Coast and Geodetic Sur vey, which organisation supplied the instrument. A Gilbertese meteoro logical observer on the island was trained in the servicing of the in strument.

A year or more ago the Ameri

cans installed a sea-temperature re corder on the north-west coast of the big atoll. The under-water portion of the equipment was later smashed in heavy weather but was reinstalled, and this instrument is also serviced as required by the Gilbertese. The records are picked up at intervals by Fish and Wild life Service vessels from Honolulu.

For P-NG

p. 132

New Cadets Arrive For P-NG Native Affairs Dept.

rriHE first large group of new Cadet J. Patrol Officers to reach Papua- New Guinea for 12 months arrived in Port Moresby on March 3.

There are 30 young men aged around 20 in the group.

They have already completed a short orientation course at the School of Pacific Administration at Mosman and will do a Departmental induction course of about three to four weeks soon after arrival. They will then receive their postings.

Meanwhile, Assistant Director Toogood, of the Department of Native Affairs, has left for Aus tralia to interview other applicants for Patrol Officer Cadetships.

Mr. Toogood will be Chairman of a Selection Board which will sit in all States except Tasmania and Western Australia. Several applic ants from West Australia will go to Adelaide for their interviews.

Response to a recent Australia wide advertising campaign to recruit Cadet Patrol Officers has been “most encouraging.” r Mr. E. P. Hitchcock returned to New Ireland on the January Soochow.

t While Rarotonga experienced steady downpours during December, Penrhyn, in the Northern Cooks, was experiencing water-rationing, no rain having fallen for weeks. t Due to a poliomyelitis outbreak in Rarotonga in December, restric

tions were placed on travel within the Cook Is. t The Rarotonga electric pc supply, now operating at full will be expanded with the inc lation of additional equipment mid-1956.

Equals W. African "

p. 133

arkham V. Cocoa Equals W. African "

lALL shipments of cocoa beans from the Markham Valley, New Guinea, are now being received Macßobertson (Aust.) Ltd. he company’s chemists say that beans are equal in quality to best from West Africa. This in If is an advance —in the past,

some Australian chocolate manu facturers have insisted that cocoa from the Territory is generally in ferior to the West African product.

Macßobertsons has spent about £60,000 on its cocoa plantation in the Markham Valley which it bought about 18 months ago. About 3,000 trees that were planted before the war are producing; and since the purchase a further 130 acres of cocoa have been planted. Ultimately 600 acres will be planted to cocoa.

IT A tour of inspection of French Colonial Gendarmerie posts brought General Cases back to his birth place—Noumea—in February. He is the son of a gendarme and was born at Anse Vata, Noumea. The General travelled by Tahitien.

ships' Travellers to P-NG

p. 133

sengers who sailed on "Sinkiang" from [?]y to Papua-New Guinea on February 27 [?]ed: [?], Mr. H. R. Cooper, a director of Nelson Robertson Pty., Ltd., who is visiting the [?]ny's offices at Rabaul, with Mrs. Cooper. [?], Dr. P. S. Enders, who was returning to with his family after leave. Lower, Mr. [?]illips, of the Department of Agriculture, [?]n his way to Rabaul, with Mrs. Phillips.

In Tonga, Sabbath Must

p. 133

BE OBSERVED

'T'HIS notice recently appeared in 1 the official Tonga news-sheet: Sabbath Day Observance: Owing to the increased violation of the law governing the observance of the Sabbath Day, the Police Department does hereby remind the public that the buying and selling of any articles including foodstuffs, fish, etc., on Sunday is strictly forbidden. Even now certain bakeries start baking their bread on Sunday afternoon, while getting fish from fish fences and selling and buying of fish is also a very common practice. All this must cease for the Sabbath Day shall be sacred. . . . Ulukalala- Ata (Minister of Police).

[?]ravellers from NZ to the Islands...

p. 135

[?]avellers bound for the Islands from Auckland per "Tofua" in February included, left [?]ht: Michael Walker, returning to Suva, who was farewelled by Miss Diane Walker and [?] Hargreaves. The Rev. W. W. Robinson, Mrs. Robinson, baby Mark, Nigel, and Stephen, [?]turned to the Anglican Mission, Labasa, after vacation. Mr. Siua Vakauta, of Nukualofa, as returning home, with his New Zealand friends, Mr. K. Bruce, Mr. J. R. Bruce, Mrs. and [?] L. Bruce.

[?] Rubber Market

p. 135

[?]RVE FUND

[?]on’s Return to [?] Rubber Market

11-million dollar Rubber Re 3rve Fund is being established y the Ceylon Government as a uard against a possible price

slump when the five-year trade agreement with Communist China terminates next year.

Malayan rubber price is the accepted world price and current military operations against the Com munists in Malaya are expected to affect some of that territory’s most productive rubber areas.

This may be offset by Ceylon’s leturn to the free-world open rubber market in 1957.

Fiji, Tonga

pp. 136-137

CHIEF SCOUT

VISITS

LORD Rowallan, on a world tod of Scout centres as Empire CM Scout, made a favourable it pression among all sections of i Fiji community during his eas February visit to that Colony.

The 2,500 Scouts and Cubs of I were quick to discover that Lt Rowallan, like the founder of i movement, Lord Baden Powell, I a sense of mission combined wv a fine humour and genuine love-: young people.

Typical of Lord Rowallan’s brc programme in the Colony was visit to Makogai, the Fiji lee island.

There he inspected the Scov< Guides and Rovers and presem the Gilt Cross, the third highc award given to Scouts, to Svi Ortquist, who had saved the life s a boy by pulling him a live wire with no thought his own safety.

Letters of Commendation wv also given to Scout Terenani as Scout Waisiki for initiative as prompt action in applying artifio. respiration and making a stretch for the electrocuted boy.

A Civic reception in the City H;I Suva, was given for Lord Rowalli by the Mayor and members of t Suva City Council and well atteno. by all races.

At this gathering the Mayor • Suva, Mr. A. D. Leys, said tH; when the Fiji Battalion went Malaya a large proportion of Fijit Scoutmasters had volunteered service, and had formed an actt Scout Troop in Malaya.

The event which the Scouts as Cubs undoubtedly enjoyed best as will remember for a long time w the Camp Fire held in the groundS3 Government House, at which t Governor. Sir Ronald Garvey, Chi Scout of Fiii, was present with Lsi Garvey and their children.

Lady Garvey is President of t Fiji Girl Guide Association, s takes an active interest in Guidif in the colony.

Lord Rowallan impressed on t boys that the true way to happinr was through service to others.

Life should be a joyous s venture, he said, but it was t often spoilt by personal fears. Tl was because people did not face ; to difficulties when they were you;i Prior to departing for Tonn Lord Rowallan opened the m Scout Hall in Holland Street, Suu On this occasion he thanked t Colony Scout Commissioner, TI R. A. Derrick, for his wonderful o votion and affectionate loyalty ' Scouting in Fiii, and presented hi with the Scout orange ribbon wv silver acorn.

Lord Rowallan left a suggests which may have a lasting effect ; the Colonv’s agriculture. Soeakn to the Scout Council in fr

cecutive Council Chamber at Gov nment House he said that during s tour of the main island he had sen shocked by the amount of soil osion. He suggested that instruc m on soil conservation be given to ery Scout in the Colony, and that Soil Conservation Badge be issued.

The Chief Scout also visited Tonga it a visit to Western Samoa had be cancelled. The TEAL flight i which Lord Rowallan travelled id to return to Suva because of id weather at Satapuala.

[?]o Super-Connies

p. 137

On BOP Route

r is reported from Lae, New Guinea, that a Qantas Airways official there has said that when e new aerodrome is completed at idzab (26 miles from Lae) and im ovements are made to Jackson’s, >rt Moresby, the company will use iper-Constellations on the Sydney ;w Guinea Bird of Paradise ser 3e, instead of the present Sky aster aircraft.

A press officer of the company in r dney said on March 6 that it ipeared to him highly unlikely

at Super-Constellations would be

ed on the Sydney-New Guinea rvice, even when the airports were i to that standard. He said that e kind of aircraft used on a route .s not merely a matter of airports: l e Super-Constellation was a ecialised aircraft, suitable for long ternational hauls and with an ective range of 3,000 miles.

Fhis seems sense. It is PlM’s guess at Super-Constellations may at me time use the airports men med—when they are on the way somewhere else, such as the Far st; and that when Skymasters are Dlaced by something better, it will by an aircraft more suitable for e Sydney-New Guinea service. [t will be remembered that a aple of years ago DC6’s were leduled to go onto this route and i in fact make one trip. How er, when a BCPA DC6 crashed ortly afterwards in America, the 26 service to New Guinea ceased.

Passengers boarding the Orient er Orsova in Suva in February in ided: Sir Ragnar Hyne, retiring def Justice of Fiji, and Lady Hyne, und for England; Ratu Sir Lala kuna, bound for England; Mr.

H. Ragg, Suva Post Master, with :s. Ragg and family, bound for ielaide on vacation: Mr. and Mrs. rl Corbett: Mr. and Mrs. Stinson, nior, and Mr. Allan Winsbury, of hie & Wireless Ltd., who was ned by his wife and daughter in ickland, bound for England on npletion of service in Fiji.

Mr. Allan Aikens, of Cable & reless Ltd., Suva, and Mrs. Aikens, ivelled to New Zealand on dough in February.

Ridiculous "Cannibal" Story

pp. 140-141

A SYDNEY newspaper on March 6, under a banner headline,

CANNIBALISM IN SEA

DRAMA, printed a story from some one alleged to be a special repre sentative, which began thus;

HONIARA, Tues. —Survivors of the "Deao Ship" Arakarimoa are believed to have eat»t human flesh.

They did so in the grim battle for surviw during a horror drift of 2,000 miles in 6 days.

This shock message was brought to Honiaia yesterday by a native runner from Malaget' Mission on the south coast of Guadalcanal. (Oven

had to swim crocodile-infested rivers and igh floodwaters to bring his terrible news. ewspapers everyw he re fight inst any restrictions on their ;dom —but there is, at times, lething to be said for legal isures that would compel news ers to divulge the source of some ;heir more fantastic statements; when they are proved wrong, to ipel them to print a correction, ew of the fantasies that appear the daily Press these days are • corrected, even when they are r proved to be nothing but sheer sationalism.

INQUIRY AT HONIARA

n inquiry into the Arakarimoa t will be held in Honiara late •eh, with special reference to: Whether the vessel was ihanically fit to go to sea when left Tarawa; and Why passengers were left ard after all crew abandoned the

for Papua

p. 141

Medical Missionaries for Papua

number of lay medical personnel recently Sydney by MV "Bulolo" for Anglican on stations in Papua. These photographs to right, top to bottom), show some of missionaries who sailed in the party: Leonora Carlyle and Miss Beryl Jones, nursing sisters, from the United Kingdom.

Kenneth Houston and Mrs. Houston and [?]ter Christie from Dublin. Dr. June enson, of London, and Miss Beryl Norman rsing sister, also of the UK. -Photos by Canon M. A. Warren.

Bulolo Buffaloes

p. 141

ENTERTAIN

r Guests of honour at the second annual Regalia Ball of the Lodge Bulolo, Bulolo, New Guinea, on February 25 were Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bergstrand. The ball was held in the Bulolo theatre and it is quite evident that, under the supervision of the Director of Ceremonies, Knight John McMath of W.u local bultaloes and their friends who attended had an interesting and enjoyable time. It is said that "the regalia worn by the men for the ceremonial opening fought a brave but losing battle with the ladies' lovely gowns ". 3 7 3 The ball got under way at 9.45 p.m., when

the Director of Ceremonies admitted the Guard of Honour through which guests who sat at the official table were escorted: Mrs. Ha I pin, escorted by Primo John Langhorne of Lae, Primo and Mrs. A. W. Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs.

A. E. Gazzard; lastly, the guests of honour escorted by Knight R y ona d H alpin. The ladies were presented with posies of flowers, and Mr Bergstrand wit h two engraved napkin rings as a souve nir of the evening, . , . . . . , A . Il^ e ’ s ' ze „ d . bufFa . lo and tbe h « ad ® f a

Central "mjtifs in "ho decoratT.n,

„ piece de resistance " at the supper table was a roast suck i n g-pig supplied by Mr. Mick Leahy from his Zenag f ar m. , Visitors came from Wau and Lae, some staying overnight at the new Pine Lodge Hotel at Wau.

[?]eturning to the South-West Pacific

p. 143

t A Dragon Rapide plane of TRANSPAC recently came into col lision with a large bird shortly after taking off from Mare in the Loyalty Group for a flight to Noumea. A hole was torn in the fabric of the right wing and although the plane’s performance was apparently unaffected, the pilot re turned to Mare, where the hole was patched.

TOP PHOTO: Among passengers on the Burns Philp vessels "Malaita" and 'Tulagi", both which sailed from Sydney on February 29, were, Inset, Robyn Holder; left to right, Mr D [?]hant, with the Commonwealth Department of Works at Madang, who was seen off by Mrs. [?]hant; Mrs. J. Holder (mother of Robyn), who was returning to Santo, New Hebrides; Mrs. [?] Corrigan, teacher with the Roman Catholic Mission on Malaita, BSIP, returning after [?]ugh in NZ; the Rev. Father Esch, who was going to the Catholic Mission at Vunapope, [?] Britain. LOWER PHOTO: Passengers on the Sinkiang, which sailed from Sydney for Papua [?] Guinea ports on February 27 included, left, Mr. G. Edwards, returning to Rabaul [?] leave; Mr. D. Fox, seated centre, who is going to Rabaul to do constructional work [?] Nelson and Robertson Pty., Ltd., and Mrs. Fox, with two friends. At Right—Mr. August [?], Rabaul merchant, returning from a holiday with Mrs. Chan and their children.

Recent Travellers on Burns Philp Line Ships

p. 145

Amongst those who left Sydney for the SW Pacific aboard "Malaita" and "Tulagi" on February 29 were the following (left to right): Mr.

McLellan, who with his wife and daughter Maxine, returns to Wau, NG, after leave; Mr. D. B. Page, Assistant District Officer at Madang, Who returned after leave; Sister E. C Pyatt, who is to be Sister-in-Charge of Godden Memorial Hospital, on the island of Aboa, New [?]ides, was seen off by Canon M. A. Warren, of the Australian Board of Missions; the Rev. L. Lemay, Provincial of Marist Fathers in South Pacific, who is visiting the South and North Solomons, with the Rev. Frank Kennedy, who is returning to the Catholic Mission at [?]alcanal, BSIP, after leave in NZ.

[?]Posed Air Service To Link Islands

pp. 145-147

AND BUSINESS IS

[?]NG-BOAT BUSINESS”

A group of Australian aviation specialists, with substantial financial :king, has the knowledge, the equipment, and the urge to operate a lity freight-passenger service between main South Pacific island groups.

[ETHER they go ahead depends pon the result of a survey they ill make shortly at Islands es. ise experts point to the mdous growth of air-freighting ghout the world in recent years hey believe that once adminis :s, merchants, missionaries, ers, miners and others have i the fruits of bulk “delivery y,” they will be quick to assess alue in relation to the time ming, unpredictable and in iate movement of inter-island :e vessels. ; recent spate of inter-island s lost, strayed, wrecked and wise written-off, has focussed tion on the perilous condition Dsidiary transport in the South c to-day. sent air services to, and with ic South Pacific Islands cater it exclusively for passenger ; (Papua-New Guinea ex i), and have scheduled flights ain ports and trading centres i promoters of the new scheme e that such air services are e to contribute directly to the port and development problems my island enterprises of great tial wealth and importance in roadless areas off the beaten are dependent upon circuitous, :ono m 1 c, and unscheduled es by Islands craft. Flying can land at a thousand and 'Oints remote from the nearest i airstrip. jy believe that directors of is enterprises would welcome dee that could deliver say, eight of precious freight, or 100 ly precious employees, at the st bay or jetty in a matter of , by Solent flying-boat, ile the tendency towards land s has been evident in recent the promoters of this venture

believe that Islands business is fly ing-boat business.

A 3-years pioneering plan is en visaged, operating from a central island base with an eventual fleet of three Solent flying-boats for estab lished services and two Sea Otter amphibious aircraft for feeder ser vices.

Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji, suggests itself as a central base for freight and passenger utility services to French Oceania, Samoa, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, the

lomon Islands, and other smaller jups, with a possible feeder link mi the Solomons to Port Moresby, NG. :t is not the intention to touch Inland business, which is already 11 catered for by existing air ser es. rhe Sea Otter amphibious air ft can be put into service in some i months time and it is likely that ! first of the Solent fleet would be lilable about September, iformation from Islands residents existing or potential business in groups mentioned would be wel led by Mr. J. Conley, Australian craft Sales, 40 Darlinghurst Road, Iney, NSW.

Australian Students

p. 147

CAL. BURSARIES FOR

TTTi x Tm „ „ , IE New Caledonian Government has granted two bursaries for Australian students to the La ouse College, Noumea. The sanes cover tuition, travelling lodging for the academic year 1956. Both youngsters selected le from High Schools in Ade e, South Australia. One is rina Norbert and the other a ng man called Carasso (Christian le not given) • ■ . ‘ , . , - 1S as s P ecialls fd v.9 a ? aSSC f c s P o aks J lo * 18 of s P anish ? iany years i his paren.s in Cairo. uring her year in Noumea, ■ina will lodge at fhe new bolic Girls’ School in the centre :he town. She is renorted as ig a little “dismayed” to find ; she will have to be inside the /ent at 7 p.m. each night.

Deaths Of Islands People

p. 147

MR. JAMES (“SHAMUS”) RYAN

The death occurred in the Rabaul Hospital on February 19, of Mr.

James Ryan, more popularly known as “Shamus” Ryan. He was only 41.

Mr. Ryan had been in Rabaul with the Public Works Department for about 12 months. Formerly he was with APC in Papua and was at one time a member of the crew of the ill-fated Elsie Bee which disappeared last year in the Gulf of Papua.

C. R. MUSCUTT

News was recently received in Brisbane of the death at Toft, Lincolnshire, UK, of Charles Robert Muscutt, a one-time magistrate of Papua.

He resigned in the 20’s and settled in the UK but he is well remembered by Papuan old-timers. He was stationed at Baniara for some time, but is best remembered for his ex ploratory patrols back of Kerema, in the Gulf Country, at a time when the Kukukukus there were reported to be “as wild as hawks.’’

He drew very well and his studies of heads, weapons and other native artifacts are preserved in old Papuan annual reports.

MR. JOHN C. SUCKLING

Well known as an Agricultural Officer in Fiji from 1938 to 1948, Mr.

John C. Suckling died recently at Carnarvon, Western Australia, as the result of an accident.

The late Mr. Suckling’s parents were also well known Fiji residents, his father as a Methodist Minister stationed at Nadroga.

HIGH CHIEF LETULI

High Chief Letuli, 57, Samoan Governor of the Western District of Tutuila Island died on January 22.

He was district governor for eight years, a former member of the Legis

lature and also a member of the Council of Paramount Chiefs. He is survived by his wife Tafea, four daughters, Usaali’i, Manino, Legalo and Fa’amelea, three sons, Liligo, Toloa (now in the Armed Forces) and So’onoaso, as well as numerous grandchildren.

MRS. ADELE KING

The death occurred in the United States in January, of Mrs. Adele King, sister of Mr. Oscar Nordman, of Papeete.

Mrs. King was the grand daughter of Isaac Thompson, an* American, who was one of the picturesque characters of the American whaling days in the Pacific. He later married a Poly nesia! woman of high birth and lived at Paea, Tahiti. A daughter of this marriage, Julia, married Mr.

Axel Nordman. t The introduction of the giant Gurami fish into ponds in the Mount Hagen area, NG Western Highlands, is expected to be recommended by the fisheries officer of the South Pacific Commission. Mr. H. Van Pel, who was visiting the Territory in February. Mr. Van Pel is “very satisfied’’ with the progress of the Administration and native Tilapia ponds.

E. Samoa Wedding

p. 149

and Mrs. Mulinu'u Tuiolesega after their age which recently took place in Eastern [?]a. The bride was formerly Miss Nia [?]et. The bridegroom is a son of High Tuiolesega and is an assistant adminis [?] at Pago Pago Hospital. -Photo by Pan American Prints.

Guadacanal Club

p. 149

AUDITOR WON’T

SIGN

Guadacanal Club Has Troubles

WHEN the Guadalcanal Club met at its annual general meeting in Honiara, BSIP, on January 27, the auditor refused to sign the balance sheet for the second year in succession.

The incoming committee subse quently voted to put the matter of an £l,BOO deficit for 1954 in police hands.

A member, in a typical British understatement, says that there re cently has been a loss of public confidence in the club. The incom ing Committee is expected to put affairs on a better footing, tl A 1 Lolotai, a Samoan, won the professional wrestling championship of Hawaii in the heavyweight class and also a golden belt, awarded to him by Ring Magazine. Lolotai, weighing 230 pounds, defeated Bollas, a 240-pound opponent in a battle that lasted 61 minutes before a decision was reached. Lolotai gained the only fall of the match.

Nickel Miners' Strike Ends

pp. 149-151

AFTER some months of ineffectual arbitration on the issue of pay parity with other unions, the miners of New Caledonia struck on February 13 and were joined later, in sympathy, by the nickel smelting workers.

Mine owners justified the prevail ing below-parity wages on the score of free housing provided, but the miners classify these habitations as slums and point to the high, and increasing, cost of living.

The nickel mines are operated by Societe Nickel and owned and con trolled by the Rothschild interests and the Bank of Indo-China.

The strike ended on February 23.

The strikers gained their demands.

H High Commissioner and Mrs. G. R.

Powles, of Western Samoa, and their two sons, paid a two days visit to Governor and Mrs. Barrett Lowe, of Eastern Samoa, in mid-January. tl American Samoan singles tennis championship was won by Smith Ho Ching, who defeated Leonard Yandal in the senior branch of the singles by scores of 6—4, 6 —4. Buck Huff won the Junior singles in a round robin series by defeating all-comers in that class.

Islands Social Events

OVE: The wedding of Miss Saliy Leung to Mr. John Wan took at the Lutheran Mission Church, Lae, NG, in mid-January, the bride and groom are Miss Mary Wan, bridesmaid, and Mr. [?]o, best man, with the small flower-girl.—Photo by Y. C. Wong.

RIGHT: Thre well-known members of Australasian Petroleum [?]any's executive staff have recently been transferred from Port [?] by to other overseas positions. They are Messrs. John Ahearn, [?]borne and P. Wainwright. Mr. Ahearn now goes to Melbourne, Osborne to Sydney and Mr. Wainwright to the United Kingdom probably later, to Persia. Shown here at an APC party in [?]by are (top to bottom) Mr. N. Osborne with Mrs. J. Ahearn; [?]ohn Ahearn with Mrs. P. Wainwright; Mr. P. Wainwright with N. Osborne. -Photo by Papuan Prints.

[?]Ernational Airport

p. 151

FOR EASTERN SAMOA

was announced in Pago Pago, merican Samoa, recently that le Territory had been “given ?reen light” to go ahead with instruction of an international >rt at Tafuna. runway of 9,000 ft is planned, e airport, when built, is ex d to boost tourism as well as industry. ar-Admiral F. T. Kenner, of US Coast Guard services, npanied by three officers, two Weather Bureau officials, four officials, an officer and two L chief petty officers and Mr.

Mullahey, Pan American Air representative from Hawaii, d American Samoa January to examine the airport, >ur area and general facilities, ir officials remained in Ameri- Samoa, conducting tests and :s on the new airfield site.

JAA plane arrived in Tafuna lary 11 with Governor R. tt Lowe, who had been on a visit to Washington to discuss

Samoa's Budget. With him were six more CAA officials, as well as two technicians.

The visitors conferred with Gov ernor Lowe and went over held plans and then returned to Hawaii, departing from Tafuna on Feb ruary 15.

t A Noumea newspaper has warned that the increasing number of clashes between New Caledonia natives and the Tahitians who are arriving in a s eady stream to work on the Yate dam project, are likely to result in serious incidents if stern measures are not taken by the police.

Help Sought In Search

p. 152

Search for N. Heb. Biographic

THE Anglo-French Condominiuj in the New Hebrides is fifj years old this year.

To mark this event, Father O’Reilly, a well known historiaj is preparing a catalogue whio will contain accounts of the pm cipal personalities who worked ft the prosperity of the Ne Hebrides. Colonists, traders, plam ers, missionaries, officials, seame? businessmen—all will be review* and each will receive as detail* and exact a mention as possible. TH time of their coming to the Hebridl

will be given, their achievement, an the circumstances of their life.

The author’s wish is not only bring to life again the great namr in the Hebrides (MacLeod. Procto Higginson, the Kerr brothers) be also the portraits of more mode or lesser-known workers.

For this, an effort is needed « the part of the families of the fin colonists. They should look im their family documents, coll© photographs and recollect in pressions of fathers and uncles wf have vanished. They should wri te Father P. O’Reilly, 104 rue Vaugirard, Paris V, and tell him thr someone known to them or any their relatives is worthy of attenti«i in the catalogue, and send detail Some might be persuaded to drs up an account of a better-know character themselves; this will gratefully accepted. It is only active collaboration (writes Fathri O’Reilly) that this monument C!.: be built to the glory of those wl: brought about, by their unceasri efforts, a very notable colonr achievement. t Four cases of poliomyelitis we reported from Rarotonga, Coc Group, in late February. No fres cases have been reported from F: r Western Samoa, or the Tokelf Islands.

The Rev. Father Patrick O'Reilly.

Not Enough Houses

p. 153

[?] S HEADACHE

Not Enough Houses or Hotels

SUVA, March 3. ,NE of the most baffling and ' irritating problems in Fiji to day is the lack of suitable hous ; and hotel accommodation.

Ordinary bungalows and flats are an unbelievable premium. Owners Suva to-day are demanding pthing from £35 to £7O (£4O to i Australian) per month for a sonable house or flat —and the pless folk who must house them /es here are cursing bitterly, but ring the exorbitant rates.

Imall plain blocks of four and six iedroom flats are being erected in ces in Suva, and the builders are ifidently demanding £25 per flat, a 3-years or 4-years lease. A ck of 4 flats may cost £17,000. A ital of £25 per month per flat es a gross return of £1,200 per rum—not an excessive return on s kind of enterprise.

HE hotel position in Suva re mains tragic. In a rush time — and especially when the cool rist season comes —the hotels mot meet the travellers’ needs in This in turn limits the volume valuable tourist traffic to Fiji, hinstructed people say frequently, hy on earth doesn’t someone Id another modern hotel in Suva?” answer is: “For exactly the le reason that no new hotel has n built since the war in Sydney, 3re the need is desperate. The ital cost of such an establish it makes the operation of a hotel fconomic.” 7e all thought, when the Car ter-Hedstrom alliance took place, t the new Board immediately ild recommence the building of South Seas Hotel —now an un r heap of shaped concrete at the tier of Victoria Parade and •don Street, in the condition in ch it was left when the earth ke stopped operations late in 1953. ut there is no sign of resumption, tead, there is every reason to pose that Morris Hedstrom Ltd. abandon the project altogether, sss some completely new factor ears. : will cost at least £300,000 to iplete that building plan. The >t careful calculations show that earnings of such an hotel will give the investment anything a approaching a fair return, he answer may lie in an alliance tveen the Government and the firms. 11 classes, from the tax-gather- Treasurer down to the smallest pkeeper, want to see an ever •easing stream of tourists coming mgh Fiji. If the people as a )le —that is, the Government — Id in some way reduce the capital : of new hotels, so that private srprise could make a fair orofit of operating them, all classes

would benefit. But—can it be done, and how?

These problems of accommoda tion are not peculiar to Fiji, of course —all South Pacific countries are suffering under them.

Brady Defeats Ban

p. 153

IN a boxing contest at Carlaw Park, Auckland, on February 21, the Fijian Boxer, Joveci Bau, was defeated on points by Ken Brady, th e ex-Australian heavyweight champion, who is out to regain the title he lost to A 1 Williams.

Joveci Bau—described as a “simple, sunny character” outside the ring, and a holy terror in it—defeated

Ken Brady at Hastings, NZ, last year.

In turn, it was Ken Brady who stopped the winning run of Tonga’s Kitione Lave, at Western Springs, Auckland, two years ago.

Interest now centres in Brady’s next move, and also in the expected return match between Joveci Bau and Johnny Halafini, the Tongan heavyweight, scheduled for this month at Western Springs, Auck land. t During 1955, over 79 inches of rain were recorded in Vila, NH —which was about 7 inches less than in 1954 and 1953. However, there were more wet days in 1955—243 of them.

[?]erican H-Bomb

p. 155

[?]ITICISM AT

[?]ME AND ABROAD

[?]erican H-Bomb Tests in Pacific

BE most extensive American H bomb tests yet held in the Pacific are scheduled to com nce in March or April, in the wetok-Bikini area, and it is in jsting to learn that criticism of ; project is not confined to ex lal “foreign” sources.

Jondemnation is reported from i American publications, the \e Law Journal, and Nation ?azine. he Yale organ points to the 000-square miles Marshall nds danger area which is “off its” to all but American ships 1 planes. noting Earl Jowitt, in the House Lords, this journal says, “Ships their lawful occasions may be ig through these waters and you lerica) have no right under m lational law to warn people off.” is noteworthy that the Ameri criticism is on legal grounds r, n the humanitarian side, India appealed to the United Nations steeship Council to have the nic tests stopped, he Japanese Foreign Ministry is quoted recently as saying that Government was not satisfied i guarantees given by the US the safety of people affected in H-bomb tests. ore than a dozen nuclear and mo-nuclear detonations are duled over a period of two to e months. r. Hanson Baldwin, military Dr of the New York Times, said ebruary 23. that “the imnortance ie new tests was that they pre d ‘the age of hydrogen plenty,’ ” a '■ant note that will not be ersally acclaimed.

Another Drifter

p. 155

BILE people who do raft-drifts from South America to French Oceania may now be legit ely regarded as corney—New tea has come up with a different on: A crocodile who did a Kon from the Sepik River to Aua id, in the Western Islands, a nee of about 200 miles. ie croc was only a baby—about it long—and was in poor condi when it arrived, giving the im iion that it had spent a long at sea. redo worms from the log had ;ked the belly-skin of the croco lonel Fray, who has been corn ding French forces in the Pacific, now returned to France at the iusion of his tour of duty.

tl Miss Hilary Coles, a lay teacher at the Mission of the Divine Word, Alexishaven, New Guinea, has re turned to that station after three months leave spent in Australia.

Tf Dr. Robinson arrived from Eng land recently with his wife and two children to take up his 3-year appointment as Norfolk Island Medical Officer.

t The helicopter imported by the Nickel Company of New Caledonia had its first trial flights in the Colony on February 29. The heli copter has no fusilage and its “cabin” is a plexiglass dome. The pilot is a veteran of Dien Bein Phu. The company will use the air craft for visiting mines and for carrying prospectors and supplies to isolated sites.

Recent Weddings in Rabaul

p. 155

Top photograph shows Mr. and Mrs. Bill McCully at the reception at the home of Mr. R.

Galloway, following their wedding in the Rabaul Methodist Church in January. Best man was Mr. R. Jennings; Mrs. Jennings was matron-of-honour.

Lower photograph shows bridal party after the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. D. Hanley at the Rabaul Methodist Church, Rabaul, in late January. The bride was formerly Miss Bere Dumble.

Shown, left to right, standing behind the bride and groom, Mr. Graeme Jebb, best man; Mr.

Stewart Cook, who gave the bride away; and Miss Kerry Bailey, bridesmaid. —Photos by C. H. Meen.

[?]elevising the S. Pacific

p. 159

[?]APTAIN COOK MEETS GIRL!

IR. JAMES FITZPATRICK,

world-renowned travelogue pro ducer, is at the moment fully tended upon a full-length colour m and television feature, Assign int South Pacific.

He needs to be, for the film is to ver native life in Fiji, New Zea id, Australia and New Guinea, and due to be comple f ed by May 15; xt project, The Life of Captain mes Cook, is to be finished by ptember 1. :t is fair to add, however, that '. Fitzpatrick does a considerable lount of advance reading on the mtries he is going to film and ects focal points of interest ’orehand. le then “lets the country and the )ple make a spontaneous impact m his camera.” rhe script of the Captain Cook ry is already prepared and much it will be filmed in Hawaii, ome people shudder anew at each sh onslaught of Hollywood upon i South Pacific. They will be last to learn, for example, that . Fitzpatrick had one eye cocked a suitable island girl to play leading lady opposite Captain >k! iut all is not high-pressure and rilige, for Mr. Fatzpatrick had le rather nice things to say in

Suva in February, as reported by a correspondent.

He has made many films in Empire countries and has a great admira tion for what the Empire stands for.

“While it is diminishing in size,” he said, “the remaining links in the chain are becoming stronger and more reliable.” In his opinion, this was particularly true of Fiji.

Assignment South Pacific, in addition to touching on native manners and customs, will focus on some of the contrasts of the impact of Western ways and mechanisation upon native life and agriculture. It is understood that the movie version will be in Cinemascope.

In February, Mr. Fitzpatrick and his wife and team of photographers were shooting avidly on foot, in cars, and in the air, making the most of the sunshine in Suva’s sticky hurricane-season weather.

A highlight of the Fiji section will be the Fiji Military Forces band, marching down Victoria Parade in full regalia.

Mr. Fitzpatrick said that tele vision is forging ahead technically and he was of the opinion that it would reach Fiji much sooner than people imagined. t Harold George Sindel, Australian manager of a timber firm at Honiara, BSIP, was found fatally shot 18 miles from Honiara by his son, Robert, aged 20, on February 13.

Sindel’s wife and two children live at Pymble, in Sydney.

In Session

p. 159

BEER DRINKERS

PROMOTED

E. Samoa Fono In Session

MEMBERS of the Fono, or Legis lative body of American Samoa, feel that now having become accomplished drinkers of beer they can handle stronger spirits with success.

Accordingly, they have recom mended to Washington that all varieties of intoxicating liquor be available to adults in the Territory. (Beer is sold locally without restric tions) .

This was one of the measures re solved at the January meeting of the Fono. Other resolutions in cluded that of a recommended 2 per cent, salary tax on all persons em ployed in American Samoa. This would take the place of the $5 yearly poll tax on all males over 18 years of age.

Recommendation for a general 5 per cent, increase in salaries, as well as a request for Social Security Measures and also setting up a Naval Recruiting Station in Samoa in order that young Samoans can enlist in the US Navy, were also passed on to the Secretary of State. t An anti-yaws campaign will begin in BSIP in 1956. It is hoped to eventually eradicate the disease.

Charmed Li

p. 160

VALE JOCK MCLAREN

Car Accident Ends Charmed Li

FATE took a hand at last w/ Robert Kerr McLaren (“Joel on March 3 when he was kill, in a car smash at Wau, New Guim McLaren was a double MC s survived more adventures in • Pacific war than any platoon j ordinary men—even an appenr operation which he performed hii self, after he had signed his oo death certificate so that his coo panions would not get into trouj if he died. McLaren was a Scot with a So accent that survived until his de:£ although he had lived a great pq of his life far from his nat, country. He was a World Wa;i veteran but joined the AIF in IT and went to Malaya with the Division.

He fought with guerilla fom after the surrender, was betrayed) the Japs and was sent to Born from where he escaped and m;r his way to the Philippines. li the Japs put a price on his hn and the Australian Governim heard of his activities, commission him in the field and awarded H his first Military Cross. He earr the second later, when back : Borneo.

It was while on the run Mindanao that he used his v inary knowledge to perform operation on himself. A few ye ago in New Guinea he told a mej ber of PIM staff how this cs; about.

He had been in agony for so; weeks and knew that there wass choice in the matter. He mirror, a razor-blade, a pair * forceps and an old pair of scisss He sewed the incision with mai hemp. He had no anaesthetic..

A couple of old Filipino midwr. mopped off his sweat occasions, otherwise he was on his own. " operation lasted 4i hours, dun. which the Filipino men of the ps sat around scared —that is why tit had prevailed upon him to sign hr self a death certificate before 1 began. They did not want toe found later with a European com on their hands.

He was walking around a hours after the operation and spq the three days following it on run from the Japs.

He was proud of the fact tt when doctors did examine him, a;e some months, they found it a feet job.”

McLaren joined the P-NG partment of Agriculture as a t erinary officer after the war. He be missed by his many friends.? t Pathe cameramen ex Orsova w shooting Fiji local colour late FT ruary towards a travel film e being made for the Orient Linee its London publicity department

Index to Advertisers

p. 161

1 35 . R. Ltd. . . 137 L. & F. ... 73 -Vite ... 57 linium Ltd. . 64 l. Bank ... 44 Air Sales . . 74 tt, Wm. . . 148 3 38 of NSW 115,156 of NZ ... 87 iclough, J. , 30 ill, Gwyn . . 9 , 0. ... 133

:wood Hodge . 4

and-Rae . . 138 lell-Spence . 126 wicks Ltd. . 61 : ord Mills . 128 on Bros. . . 141 woldt ... 62 m, W. S. . 103 )l Myers . .51 Iway Motors . 9 on & Co. . 87 ; Farm Sup ;s ... 160 : Pty. ... 130 ig, A. H. . 109 •fly Museum 45 85, 96, 131, 149 :orn Charters 98 nter Ltd. . . 60 er Cars . .16 E 107 e ... 102 al Meat . . 92 W's'n. . . 157 onwealth k ... 123 Bros. . . 155 Co 127 lond Co. . 154 ... 141 n Paints . 150 I Ltd. ... 90 iss, W. C. . 27 i Rubber . . 31 Ltd. ... 97 i, L. . , . 13 maid ... 46 lay Prod. . 143 Wm. . . 125 & Heidecke 46 ! Rum ... 61 r Eng. . . 108 : Hotel . . 10 W. & A. .90 ie Bros. . . 93 ie, R. . 1, 41, 109, 111, 144 's Gin . . 70 (Suva) . . 13 Ltd. . 49, 114 ;en, B. . . 101 ;en Sons . 99 »n Court . 127 & Spear . 42 m & Hall 146 Trinder . 159 Agencies . 74 is Diesels 2, 40 ’ Ltd. ... 67 iks Ltd. . 133 Co. . . . 62 5 37 ron" ... 47 ustries . . 89 nsport . . 103 i's Wax . . 75 lO /, Capt. . 106

Kerr Bros. ... 54 Kiwi Polish ... 66 Kopsen & Co. . . 140 Kwit 132 Lanchoo Tea ... 11 AAadang Slipways 100 Marine Spares . 98 Masse Batteries . 56 Mcllrath's ... 147 Mears Earphone . 27 Mendaco . . . .137 Millers Ltd. . . 110 Morris, P. ... 54 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 55 Morgan Vernex . 53 Mungo Scott . . 119 National In. Co. 112 N. & R. . . 95, 106 Needham & Co. . 94 Nestle's ... 142 NG Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products . . 38 Nixoderm ... 129

N.Z.N.A.C. ... 5

Pan Pacific Service 31 Parker Pens ... 3 Pabco Prod. ... 52 P. I. Line ... 8 Papuan Prints . 94 Penfold, W. C. . 50 Piccaninny Wax . 32 Qacavula Est. . 125 Qld. Insurance . 57 Qld. Milling . . 69 Ransomes Co. . . 34 Refrig. Inst. Co. . 66 Riverstone Co. . . 76 Rohu, Sil . . . . 65 Rozema Bros. . .14 Royal Interocean . 12 Sails and Covers 105 Seppelt & Son . 116 Seward Ltd. . .145 Shaw Savill ... 7 Sleepmakers Ltd. . 91 Sparklets Ltd. . . 59 Spruso Co. . . . 28

S.T.C. Co. . . . 58

Stapleton, J. ... 37

Stewarts-Lloyds . 58

S. P. Brewery . . 119 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 28 Sullivan Ltd. . . 39, 117, 129 Suva Motors . . 130 Tait, W. S. . . . 45

Thoryncroft Co. . 110

Tilley Lamps . . 63 Ti Hock & Co. . . 86 Tongala Milk . . 72 Tongan Photos . 91 Tooth & Co. ... 65 Turners & Growers 70 Tyneside Eng. . . 71 United Insurance 101

U.R.D 155

Vacuum Oil . . . 36 Vincent Bros. . . 104 Ventura . . 105, 160 Vi-Stim ... 145 Vincent's APC . . 29 Warnock ... 38 Wakefield Oils . 152 Waters, Ed. 134, 135 Westfield Meats . 120 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 White Rose ... 42 White, John . .138 Wills Ltd 68 Wilson, W. E. . . 53 Wunderlich Co. . 151 Yorkshire Ins. . . 69

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 Mar. 15. 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 was £ Stg.6s, FOB mam ports —a reduction of 7.147 c 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

£S4I/12/- xor the three gradings in use.

E. SAMOA; —Adjusted with free-raarket 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

£AS9/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

NEW HEBRIDES;—Buying price Mar. 1. 5.600 Pac. francs (£A39/4/-) delivered Vila/Santo.

FRENCH OCEANIA;—Mar. 1, top grade 8.36 Pac. francs per kilo (£A6O/12/0 per long ton) in store, Papeete. Minimum price for lowest grade 5.35 Pac. francs (£A39 per long ton).

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 Mar. 6, was £Stg.2l3/15/- f.o.b.

P.-N.G.: £A265, delivered Sydney.

W. SAMOA: Feb. 8, £Stg.2so, f.o.b.

Apia. Business dull. No recent quote.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.; Top grades 5/6 lb. in store, Sydney; Fr. Oceania: 60 francs per kilo, unhusked.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.: Market only for Virginia Bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, 1/4 per lb. delivered Sydney.

RUBBER: —P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore, which quoted Mar. 7, No. 1 RSS, spot 98 cents (34.69 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp. Tulk & Co., Sydney, quoted Mar. 6 buying price, c.i.f. Sydney, Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 42/-, Green, 40/- per lb.

RICE (Australian):—Price adjusted Majj each year. P.-N.G.; Dry brown and dresss £65 per ton, f.o.b. To other Territorn £7B per ton, f.o.b.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices between Torir Strait producers and Otto Gerdau O • USA) not yet fixed for 1956. ManihiTi Lagoon closed. Last shipment £AB6O c.i.

Sydney. Divers now working Penrhr Lagoon. Tuamotu: £A9IO, long ton, t raw shell on beach, Mangareva.

TROCHUS:—Mar. 6, in store Sydnn subject to rejects, SW Pacific £550 n ton.

New Caledonia: Season closed Oct. I GREEN SNAIL:—SW Pacific, in sto; Sydney, to £445, subject to rejects.

LONDON AND U.S. PRICES

Copra:—London, Mar. 1, Straits, c.i.i £Stg.64/10/-; Philippines, SUSI 77, c.i.

Pac. Coast, del. weights.

Cocoa: —London, Feb. 18: Gold Coa( Mar.-May del. c.i.f., £Stg.2ls long ton..j Coffee:—London, Feb. 18; Uganda natid f.a.q., Feb.-Mar. £Stg.262 f.o.b. Moic basa; Belg. Congo Kivu Arabica £560, bond, London.

Shell: —London. Nov. 17, Singapo< trochus, Nov.-Dec. shipments £Stg.s. c.i.f. Greensnail £Stg.s6s c.i.f. No rec© quote.

Rubber: —London, Mar. 7, Spot buyee Stg.29y 4 d; Feb. c.i.f., Stg.2B%d; July-Sen Stg.27V 2 d.

Islands Mining Share

p. 162

FIJI

Aug.,1939 June, ’55 Mar. 7, T Emperor . . b9/ll sl4/sll/— Loloma . . . s25/6 b23/9 b26/--

PAPUA-NEW

GUINEA

Bulolo . . . bl24/b47/b41/-' N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 sl/9 s2/2 1 a 1 Oil Search .

S3/11 S9/- S13/98 Ent. of N.G. . b3/s2/6 Oriomo OH . b5/s4/6 b6/lll Papuan Apia. b4/ll s3/b4/3 Placer Dev. . b68/6 s295/bll5/v Sandy Creek . bl/5 s9d biy 2 o

Exchange Rates

p. 162

FIJI. —Through BANK OF NSW, AM

BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fli basis £lOO Fiji: Buying. £Alll/2/6; Beilin. £ AJI3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Londoo B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-FiJl, basis £ll NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. Am tralia on Samoa, basis £ 100 Samoo B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samoo London, basis £lOO London: B. £lOO/7/0 S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NH B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, ba!£ £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

PAPUA - NG.—COMMONWEALTH BAM

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavien Madang), BANK OF NSW (branches: E Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul. Madan, Samarai, Goroka; agencies; Wau, Borolc Kokopo) and ANZ BANK (Port Morestf; quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NK 10/- per £lOO.

BSI.—COMMONWEALTH BANK (brann

at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Act tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES. —Pacific framr most valuable of the three franc grouu in French Union, are used in New Cafa donia. New Hebrides, and Fr. Ocean:n FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Natiom.

D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quote} Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: 180 P£ c fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.

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Any Travel Agency will tell you all you want to know about the Qantas roundthe-world air-travel plan. * Fares subject to change without notice.

QANTAS

AUSTRALIA'S OVERSEAS AIRLINE

to 5 Continents

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD. (INC. IN Q’LAND) IN ASSOCIATION WITH 8.0.A.C. AND

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Your Guarantee of Satisfaction Backed by Established Service

Depots Throughout the Islands

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LANTERNS

SOLUS STOVES

KEROMAN LAMPS

tied to withstand heavy usage xposure to all weathers these ene lanterns have built in iatic jet cleaning needles, air-seals on pumps and heat shock proof globes. They t spill and burn safely in osition. Two sizes.

Coleman Solus Kerosene stoves are sturdily constructed with heavy brass pressure-tested tanks. The burners are of high grade brass containing a high copper content for good heat conductivity. All parts are interchangeable with similar stoves. Available in Silent and Roarer types.

Table lamps of lasting quality finished in polished brass. Burns kerosene and gives a brilliant yet pleasant incandescent white light.

Has centre draught feature with heat resisting glass chimney. No pumping or preheating is necessary.

Height 24 in. Diameter of base 74 ins. Weight 3 lbs.

►4a PITT STREET

SYDNEY

ROBERT GILLESPIE

PEARCE & CO. LTD.

SUVA

EOR FIJ 1 ISLANDS

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WITH

CATERFEIAR

Only when the lush but useless jungle is cleared can the rich soil of New Guinea and the Pacific Islands be used to produce money crops of cocoa and coconuts.

The mighty 191 horsepower Caterpillar D 8 Bulldozer pictured here is at work clearing the 1,000-acre estate of Macßobertsons Ltd. This plantation, situated on the fertile silt of the Markham Valley, is covered with thick rain forest, but the D 8 Tractor pushes, pulls and stacks in windrows all the trees, roots and brush at the rate of U acres per day.

And behind the inbuilt strength and performance of this mighty D 8 Tractor stands the Hastings Peering Organisation, with engineers, mechanics and a parts service second to none.

Not all clearing jobs justify a DB. but from the D 2 with 43 h.p. to the D 9 with 286 h.p. you can be sure there is a Cat-built Tractor to meet your clearing needs cheaper than any other method.

Caterpillar and Cat are Registered Trade Marks of Caterpillar Tractor Co.. U.S.A.

HASTINGS DIERING

(NEW GUINEA) PTY.

LIMITED

Milford Haven Rd., Lae, Konedobu, Port Moresby

SERVICE AND PARTS

by a trained staff devoting their energies exclusively to tractors

Parker‘sl’

A gift that famous people are proud to receive With a Parker ‘ 51 ’

they have shaped your destiny

Most of the world’s great leaders including, almost certainly, those you

particularly admire—proudly own a

Parker ‘sl’ and remain always grateful to the person who gave it to them.

With it they have planned the reforms that have shaped your destiny. Would it not be wonderful if someone were to honour you with a present like this?

The Parker ‘sl’ has always been far in advance of all other pens. Now, with its unique Aero-metric ink system and equally exclusive nib-point of electropolished Plathenium, it is even further ahead.

Parker‘sl’

The world’s most wanted pen

GIVEN AND USED BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

For best results in this and all other pens, use Parker Quink, the only ink containing solv-x.

PRICES :

Parker ‘sl’ Gold Cap Pen 165 6; Set 268/6 Parker ‘sl’ Lustraloy Cap 137 6 ; Set 215/- ‘sl’ Ball Point to match, Gold Cap...95/6

Lustraloy Cap...72/6

Distributors and Repair Service Stations throughout the Pacific Islands

BROWN AND DUREAU LIMITED

G. and G. Smith Building, Douglas Street, Port Moresby —P.O. Box 74, Rabaul

DIESEL

veteran tugboat

on

Sydney

Harbour

CUMMINS

powers this

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Nicholson Bros.

War Disposals CUMMINS

HS 600 Diesel still going strong

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.

The hard, constant work of general lighterage is the lot of the diesel tugc "Protrude", owned and operated by Nicholson Bros. Harbour Transport Pty. Ltd., at Sydney.

Powered with a 200 h.p. supercharged Cummins Diesel engine, it is on the job whenever needed always with a reserve of power and traditionac Cummins dependability. Nicholson Bros, have been using this Cumminsi engine since shortly after World War 11, with a minimum of time out foie overhaul.

Write us on your problems of marine power—we will be glad to give you full details on what Cummins Diesels can do.

Cummins Diesels 60 to 600 h.p.

Sales, spares and service from the sole Australian distributors:

BLACKWOOD HODGE

N.S.W.: Ferndell Street, South Granville. YU 8231 Melbourne: Princes Highway. Brisbane: 257 Wickham Street. Adelaide: 303 North Terrace Perth: Norma Indus# North Clayton. UJ 8691 Valley. L 2557 W 5861 Estate. Melv.lle Associated Companies Branches Works and Agencies throughout the World M.l

New Zealand

tour in a suitcase

A holiday in New Zealand is an adventure in superlatives, with all the scenic wonders of the world encompassed in two small islands.

Thermal regions . . . towering alps .. . snow sports .. . big game fishing . . . fighting trout in stream and lake . .. beauty of forest and fordland . . . all this in a genial, temperate climate, fever-free and without noxious insect pests.

And each scenic splendour just a few hours away ...

when you fly

N.A.C. links all principal New Zealand cities and tourist resorts, and has offices and agents throughout New Zealand, Australia and the South-West Pacific. ■S I —l'-Ll new

ZEALAND NATIONAL

Hli r

RWA Y S

CORPORATION

THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD.

(A British Company incorporated within the United Kingdom ) 4

M.S. SOOCHOW

M.S. SHANSI . .

M.S. SINKIANG

NEW GUINEA AUSTRALIA LINE

Passenger and Cargo Liners Regular Services between AUSTRALIA and NEW GUINEA Samarai and Sydney Brisbane Port Moresby return.

Sydney Brisbane Rabaul Kavieng Madang Lae and return.

Melbourne Sydney Port Moresby Samarai Lae Madang Kavieng Rabaul and return.

HONGKONG NEW GUINEA LINE

New Monthly Service between JAPAN, HONGKONG and NEW GUINEA 5.5. FUNING 1 Japan Hongkong Madang Kavieng Rabaul Lae 5.5. FENGNING f Samarai Port Moresby and return.

Calls at Kavieng are on alternate months, or subject to inducement.

Calls at Samarai subject to inducement.

Through bills to and from U.K., Continent, U.S.A. & Japan.

For further details please apply to agents, or refer to the weekly advertisement in the South Pacific Post

AGENTS

PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Samarai. Cables: Steamships.

NEW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd., Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Rabaul. Cable: Colyeram.

BRISBANE: Wills, Gilchrist & Sanderson Pty. Ltd., 400 Queen Street. Cables; Wilgilsand.

MELBOURNE: John Sanderson (Shipping) Pty. Ltd., 11l William Street. Cable: Syndicate.

JAPAN: Tokyo, Yokohama. Osaka, Kobe: Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd. Cable: Swire.

GENERAL AGENTS AUSTRALASIA; Swire & Yuill Pty. Ltd.. 6 Bridge St., Sydney. Cable: Swireship . BU 1712 EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable: Swire.

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'TwmmS Shaw S&

.inking the Pacific Islands with

The Shaw Savill Tourist Class Liner

S.S. SOUTHERN CROSS.

The 20,000 ton round the world tourist liner, Southern Cross carries no cargo and is a floating hotel devoted entirely to the needs of her 1,160 tourist class passengers. With air conditioning installed in every cabin, passengers rest in cool comfort even during the hottest weather.

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IMUM FARES: TO ENGLAND

n Suva via Panama £lO5 stg. via South Africa £132 stg. m Tahiti via Panama £lOO stg. via South Africa £l5l stg. for full particulars apply: FIJI liti Call is Subject to Weather Permitting

'TwmmS Shaw S&

Any Branch or Agency of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Head Office: Suva. Cable address: Burnsouth.

TAHITI

Etablissements Donald Tahiti, Papeete.

Cable address: Donald, Papeete.

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRANSPORT LINE

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "Thorsisle" and "Thorshall"

Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

TAHITI SAMOA FIJI NEW CALEDONIA

NEW HEBRIDES NEW GUINEA

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

General Agents 432 California Street, San Francisco 4, Calif., U.S.A.

PAPEETE—Etablissements Donald Tahiti. APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA —Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

PORT VILA —Comptoirs Francais des LAE—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd, Nouvelles Hebrides. SYDNEY—Birt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd.

Introducing ... M.V. "Milos

The latest addition to the Australia-West Pacific Line fleet •* 1 * ■- • » »» »»t tn-fs f- With the addition of the new M.V. Milos to our Pacific-Far East fleet which already comprises the sister ship “DELOS” and the modern motor vessels “AROS and “CITOS”, we are in the position to offer the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Australia to the Main Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage these vessels call at Hong Kong, Manila, Sandakan, Madang, Lae, Rabaul, and thence to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

Bi-monthly calls are made at Honiara and Vanikoro on the southbound voyage.

Further particulars may be obtained from: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 63 Pitt St., Sydney. Phone: BU 6301.

Branch Office at Melbourne; 51 William St. ’Phone: MB 2840.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs, Bright & Co.

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang, Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul, Town Transport Ltd.; Honiara, British Solomon Islands Trading Corporation.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan.

AUSTRALIA-WEST PACIFIC LINE

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Direct

LONDON-SUVA

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

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ave a Car ALL Your Holidays and Save! iadway Motors 7 special Islands 7 plan I save you money on your holiday

isport in Australia!

Buy a guaranteed used car on Low Deposit.

Drive your OWN car ALL your leave.

Sell it back to Broadway Motors when you eave. \ from over 100 Guaranteed cars: See more ... do ■ . pack more fun into your leave with a good car from Sydney's famous Broadway Motors. So Simple! select your car pay cash, or if you wish make a down payment. If you buy on terms the monthly pay- -1 W| H be reduced to the absolute minimum to leave fhe maximum spending money. When your holiday is ed Broadway Motors buy it back and finalise all outing money. This gives you the use of a good car for UNDER ordinary hiring rates. What's more each car rered by a written 30 day new-car guarantee for your ticn. Write to-day and let us know the car you prefer ive, then leave the rest to us.

Many hundreds of clients have been satisfied by our “Special Island Arrangement”—so write for particulars now to the Sales

Manager.

BROADWAY MOTORS (N.S.W.) PTY. LTD.

AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST USED CAR ORGANISATION

184-200 Broadway, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

TIIE GARRICK HOTEL

SUVA, FIJI

W I *l*4 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..

Fly to Europe

direct from

Bak

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.

ROYAL DUTCH

AIRLINES

A U/.

KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES

(8 MARGARET STREET. SYDNEY

IT'S

LAN-CHOO

TEA

You’ll enjoy the rich CEYLON flavor of this

NEW TEA.

LAN-CHOO is a blend of CEYLON’S choicest smallleaf 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

Regular Monthly-Service from

MELBOURNE SYDNEY BRISBANE AND HOLLANDIA

to

NORTH BORNEO BANGKOK AND SINGAPORE

By Motorvessel:

"VAN NOORT", "SIBIGO" AND "SINABANG"

Carrying 2 to 12 Passengers Passage Fare; Sydney-Singapore, from £Stg.79.

Hollandia-Singapore, from £Stg.s4.

Further information from —

ROYAL lATEROCEAA LINES

Incorporated in the Netherlands as KJCPL, NV. 255 George St., Sydney. Phone: BU 6771

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Excised f

FOR SALE

c£? KI u NS DIESEL generating brand new, never used. 25 K.V.A. 380/220 to 415/240 volts Direct coupling 1,500 R.P.M. Switchboard. Self-starter, Tank, Tools.

Battery, etc. At half price £BOO (or near offer). For particulars, P.O. Box 14, New Lambton, N.S.W.

c hc '3litif r ? Un ds S ‘‘ Ua,e d r ‘ a citi v " H l >arbo''u r rl ' JOl ‘ing' n SS’iifi- ° r Piii. Ho ‘?i < s ">e u^- s Spec-.tro tenti -cialjy Wes.

Excised f

vt C . e,, .em for ive ■ aite * Se Z7 c Mish Pie, from ° c &nd uy trains ,-> day. s °/- d *cf, an Ce Olre arlhr OUOh t ' On '' -J. ao Tre ncy) *riff Per

MERSEY SHIPYARDS

DEVONPORT, TASMANIA

1 r ==f Sh B-i

COPRA CARRIER

fa/ left) Length Overall 65 ft. 9 in.

Beam, 19 ft. 3 in.

Draft, 5 ft. 6 in.

Cargo Space, 3,000 cub. ft.

STEEL FISHING TRAWLEI;

(below) Length, 40 ft.

Beam, 12 ft. 6 in.

Draft, 8 ft.

WE ALSO . . .

design and build all typv of fishing, commercial an pleasure craft. n m l! —tncinl—7^- All vessels in either wooden or ste£ construction.

Diesel Engineers Ship Repairs

DUTCH SHIPYARDS IN AUSTRALI

Enquiries welcome. Copies < plans readily available.

Proprietors:

ROZEMA BROS

(formerly of Holland) Telephone Dev. 1119

Distributed in AUSTRALIA,

NEW ZEALAND and the

following PACIFIC ISLANDS:

Australian Territories: Papua.

Norfolk Is. Cocos Is.

Aust, Trust Territories: New Guinea. Nauru British Crowii Colonies: Fiji.

Gilbert & Ellice.

British Protectorate: Solomon Is.

British Protected State: Tonga.

N.Z. Territories: Cook Is. Niue.

N.Z. Trust Territory: W. Samoa.

French Territories: N. Caledonia.

French Oceania. knglo - French Condominium: New Hebrides. [J.S. Territories: E. Samoa. Hawaii. [J.S. Trust Territory: Micronesia (Caroline, Marshall & Mariana).

Dutch Territory: W. New Guinea.

Editor and Publisher.

R. W. ROBSON.

Assistant Editor:

JUDY TUDOR.

Business Manager:

SELWYN HUGHES.

TELEPHONES: General Business, Editorial, Advertising, Subscriptions:

MA 9197. MA 9198.

G.P.O. BOX 3408, SYDNEY.

Registered Address for Telegrams, Radiograms, and Cables: “Pacpub,”

Sydney.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

ti Australia and New Zealand and Australian, NZ, and Br.

Pacific Islands .. .. £ 1 4 0 few 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 nd stores in the Pacific Islands.

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Haulage...

TAKE THE FIRST STEP

TO MORE PROFITABLE

AHEAD IN STYLING, COMFORT,

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Brilliant styling • Big new one-piece windscreen, clear vision at the sides and behind • Natural chair-high seating • Hydraulic brakes • Springs engineered for maximum stability and riding comfort.

AHEAD IN WORK SAVING,

MONEY SAVING FEATURES!

A Engine B.H.P. 112. Torque 198 lb. ft. at 1,400 r.p.m. 6.6 to 1 compression ratio for greater efficiency • Heavy duty cooling • Easy steering • Even better manoeuvrability • Correct load distribution • 12 volt electrical system • Filtered fuel system.

A UNIT TO MATCH YOUR JOB!

15 cwt. 108” w.b. units, De Luxe and Standard Utilitt Panel Van, Express Utility, Suburban. TRUCKS 126” w 20-25 cwt., 133” w.b. 30 cwt. 159” w.b. 2i/3 tonner, w.b. 5 tons, 165” w.b. and 17U” w.b. 6 ton (petrol) 17 w.b. 6 ton (Diesel). l Available from Authorised Fan Plymouth Distributors and Dear through Australia and the Pao j Islands.

Products of

CHRYSLER

AUSTRALIA

LIMITED

Adelaide, South Austin LMJslpz^ra MoPar, the only recommended and gu.u teed for Fargo Plymouth.

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Air Fare Increase

IT is expected that air fares e international routes through! the world will be increased! 10 per cent, from April 1.

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Morris Hedstrom Limited

Head Office: SUVA, FIJI :: Established 1868

General Merchants, Importers and

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 an* associated businesses include:

DRAPERY

MOTOR SALES

AND SERVICE

TOBACCO

TIMBER AND

BUILDING

GROCERY

CONFECTIONERY

HARDWARE:

ELECTRICAL

LIQUORS

DRUGS

Branches Throughout^ Fiji- Samoa a u (1 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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Fountain

DEAF ?

"CHICO" INVISIBLE EARPHONES,

£A2/5/- pair. Worn inside your ears, no cords or batteries. Guaranteed for your lifetime. Write for Free Booklet.

MEARS EARPHONE CO., No. 64 State

Shopping Block, Market St., Sydney.

In business 35 years.

FOUNTAIN

V 07r:T--.--,v-,

KITCHEN

TESTED

for finer flavor

2\k

Hour Cakes&Scoms net

SPECIALLY

PACKED FOR

THE ISLANDS!

Fountain Brand Self-Raising Flour is triple-sealed for protection against tropical conditions! So you can always be sure that Fountain Brand is Fresh whenever you buy a packet!

ROYAL SHOW

COOKING AWARD!

First prize in the scone making section of the 1955 Royal Easter Show was won by Mrs. McLelland of Greville Street, Clovelly, who used only Fountain Brand Self-Raising Flour! You, too, should use only Fountain Brand Self- Raising Flour and make scones and cakes of prizewinning quality! Fountain Brand Self-Raising Flour for lighter cakes! Finer texture!

More delicious flavour!

W. C. DOUGLASS LIMITED

BOX 512 G.P.O. SYDNEY,

AUSTRALIA

Specialising in Pacific Island Insurances.

FIRE—MOTOR VEHICLE—MARINE

—HULLS AND CARGO-

EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY.

BONDS—in accordance with Administration Ordinances —COPRA 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: O. 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.

Southern Pacific Insurance

Co., Ltd.

Head Office: 60 Hunter St., Sydney.

pnuce up on

S«*o

3/oup Hair

SPRUSO LIQUID, SPRUSO LIQUIDSHEEN, and SPRUSO

CRYSTALLISED SHEEN.

SPRUSO is the best selling Hairdressing in Australia TRADERS : write for samples.

SPRUSO COMPANY, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia.

X m m m m i s

make life easier!

Ease the strain on jangled nerves! Relieve headache and pain quickly and safely!

Vincent's a.p.c will replace that tired, headachy and depressed feeling with a feeling of fresh, revitalised exhilaration! Vincent's a.p.c will make you feel better and brighter in a few minutes!

TAKE VINCENT’S A.P.C WITH CONFIDENCE

FOR HEADACHE. NERVOUS DEPRESSION

VINCE

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SAFEST & BEST!

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Ship Brokers Shipwrights Marine Engineers

New Beach Road, Edgecliffe, Rushcutter's Bay, Sydney,

Australia

FB 2542, FB 4347. Cable Address: Backoff, Sydney.

Our services are available as Agents in all matters relating to COMMERCIAL OR PLEASURE boats. Our business is conducted on the highest ethical standards and we assure you of our best attention at all times.

We are anxious to have new listings of Vessels lying in the Pacific.

T4O. Motor Cargo Vessel (steel), lying Moresby, damaged steering, Surveyor’s assessment to repair, £6,000. 450 H.P. B & W Diesel (aft) 154 x 34.6 x 8.5, gross 536, nett 243 tons, £15,000.

T4l. 2-60 ft. LC 40 Steel landing Barges. In survey, excellent diesels, ideal Island work, £lO,OOO each.

T 45. L.S.T. 347 ft. ex-Navy, good condition throughout, requires approx. £3,000 permit to sail. £BO,OOO.

Cl 5. ‘3o’ diesel luxury, big game, beamy, 5 years old, £2,300.

TlB. 62 ft. Torpedo Recovery vessel. Triple S6M Diesels, fast, ideal inter-island, good value, £6,000.

T 63. 45 ft. Diesel, big game seaboat, good draught, fast, luxurious at £B,OOO.

C 64. 38 ft. R.A.A.F. Crash boat fitted twin Royals, good condition, 20 knots, original cond. £3,500.

T 26. 40 ft. Twin diesel fast supply launch, very clean and sound, £4,500.

T 6. 50 ft. Typical trawler, 5 years old, good condition, for plantation or trade work, 40 H.P. Lister, £5,500.

T4B 116 ft., Out of Survey, Mission-passenger cargo vessel 112 ft.

Twin HD. Diesels, 6,000 cu. ft. capacity, £lO,OOO.

T 5 41 ft. workboat, 30 H.P. diesel, ideal plantation-to-store boat, £2,500.

Tl 5 72 ft. Luxury-trade passenger diesel in survey, excellent condition, £9,000. ideal inter-island passenger.

T 37 Kauri built trawler 42 x 12.6 x 4.6, Kelvin 44 H.P. Diesel, excellent condition, £5,800. (Deckhouse aft.).

T 49. 43 x 13.6 similar to standard Army workboat 100 H.P. Diesel, 18 months, sound, £4,000.

C 62. Almost new 40 ft. quarter plate welded cruiser, suit convert to commercial, £2,000. 00. 20 ft. launches (2) offered at £25-£495, runabout, use coastal plantation.

C2S. Beautifully built fast fishing cruiser, 26 x 9, good cockpit, modern appointments, £l,BOO.

Yl. 40 ft. Schooner, Kermath Diesel, American built, excellent ocean cruising, could convert commercial, interesting, £2,300 Sterling. Delivery Suva.

Tl. Trawler 50 x 14.6, New £8,500, see last P.I.M. Photo.

T 39. 50 ft., in Survey, passenger launch, Gardner Diesel, £4,000.

T 27. 45 ft. Cargo or recruit vessel. Teak const. V 4 Turner diesel, £2 600 T 33 Fairmile Twin Grey Diesels, accom. 27, standard below decks with Big Saloon above, refirgeration and cool room, dirty but sound, £7,500, offers submitted.

T5O. Landing barge, 110 x 28, 39M Diesels, in survey and use, £15,000, delivery Noumea.

Variety of Cruisers, Yachts, launches, dingies, tenders, etc., many for full listing here, photographs available upon request. too

For ihose who are really time conscious ,.,

A JEWEL OF BEAUTY AND PRECISION

ELECTION

One of tjie /Jest Swiss Watches

The newest Election designs appeal to all who ask for quality.

There is a style for every taste, every pocket. Election watches are obtainable in 9 ct. gold, rolled gold or chrome.

SHOCKPROOF • NON MAGNETIC • WATERPROOF

Visit your leading store—They are your discriminate suppliers.

Wholesale distributors for N.S.W., Queensland , and Pacific Islands: B. M. BACON 6- COMPANY, Box 4610, G.P.0., Sydney.

Wholesale jewellers

DRY REPLY

TO STORMY

WEATHER

DUNLOP

WATERPROOF FOOTWEAR

DUNLOP

COWBOY BOOTS

DUNLOP BOOTEES

m

DUNLOP GOLOSHES

DUNLOP

REGULATION KNEEBOOTS

• • best on earth

HI

DUNLOP

FARMYARD ANKLE BOOTS

D 09317

t:* tw M* »ov

tVOO*

now* WHu gSiS

PRFPARFD WAY

PREPARED WAX

FLOOR POLISH

FOR LINO. FLOORS. FURNITURE. LEATHER e MOTOR CARS " Twice the shine in half the time"

Piccaninny imparts a glow of youth and Beauty to floor surfaces that might otherwise soon begin to show their age. There is nothing more perfect for linoleum or natural wood floors.

Piccaninny's tough wax skin protects surfaces from tropical moisture, wear and tear —saves you hours of work and gives Twice the Shine in Half the Time!

ASK FOR

PICCANINNY

BROWN STAIN FLOOR POLISH

For Jarrah, Cedar, Stained Floors & Woodwork Piccaninny Polishes are manufactured by

PICCANINNY MANUFACTURING Co.

254 Pittwater Road, Manly, N.S.W., Australia.

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Wm. Breckwoldt & Co.

SOLE AGEN

Rabaul, New Guinea; Suva, Fiji; Honiara, Apia, W. Samoa.

<K

ansomes

LIGHT STEEL PLOUGH!

Famous

ALL OVER THE WORL

Ransomes ploughs are built to give a lifetime of good service.

"Victory", illustrated, weighs 86 lbs. and turns a furrow up to 6 inr deep x 9 ins. wide. It can be drawn by one or two draug? animals.

Another famous plough is the "Cub", ideal for cotton ae sugar cane cultivation. Has exceptional clearance under ft beam and 8 in. or 10 in. cut.

Write for illustrated literature of these and other types.

Agents: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, Lautoka and Ba. By appointment “if 8 Made by: Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd., Ipswich, England.

Manufacturers of Ao cutwral and Horticultuu Machinery to Her Majes the Queen.

Pike Brothers . . .

“Calcutta ”

MAIL ORDERS

Please state size and colour required.

Please add freight and indicate transport-airmail or surface mail.

genuine Indian Pith Helmets

Cool! Smart! Sensible!

Ideal for the tropics! Cool because they’re light, amply ventilated! Smart because of their anti-glare green underbrim, clean rugged appearance and obvious quality! Senible because they give excellent protection from sun. White or Khaki drill covered; self pugaree; chin strap. Imported from India —the home of Pith Helments! Sizes 6| to 71. 35/- (Australian currency).

Pike

BROTHERS LTD.

the mens wear store

QUEEN ST., BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND

+hrtpaint

THE SENIOR

REFRIGERATOR

' s ® s » Interior view Hotpoint HP 73 Refrigerator.

The ENTIRELY NEW 7\

cubic jeet refrigerator with

these outstanding features:

• Exclusive British Hotpoint sealed unit for economy plus. • Two shelf freezer, fully refrigerated to give extra freezing space. • “Crisp - Cold” drawer for salads, fruits and vegetables. • Chiller tray and meat dish below freezer.

Buy Hotpoint for Reliability and Economy.

For information contact —

AUSTRALIAN

INDUSTRIES

IN ANY CAPITAL CITY

Formerly known as Australian General Electric Pty. Limited.

IE/10/151

THE PERFECT KEROSENE

FOR REFRIGERATION

«J 6 & W A, V« f >///* X \V x \ The best results from your re* frigerator will only come from using the best fuel, and there's no better kerosene than Laurel.

Laurel burns with a steady, even flame, without smoke, soot or smell.

Always ask for Laurel.

VACUUM

. OUAIIIY PRODUCT

LAUREL

For Lighting • Heating • Cooking • Cleaning • Freezing

YOUR NEXT

LEAVE

Modern up to the minute homes between Dee Why and Palm Beach available to Island Residents for Holidays.

Write for information to:—

J. T. STAPLETON

PTY. LTD.,

ESTATE AGENTS,

133 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

BU 3420, BL 1737.

or any of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why. Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach.

There is a Big Future

for YOU if Qualified!

H.R.l.Successful Career Training Covers: Accountancy Secretaryship Cost Accountancy and Factory Organisation Bankers Institute Examinations Practical Banking and Securities Local Government Examinations Bookkeeping (all grades) Station and Dairy Bookkeeping effective Correspondence private Secretaries (for ladles) Commercial Shorthand (Pitman's) business Fundamentals \dvertising >alesmanship detail Practice and Selling Wholesale Softgoods Course Hardware Distributors' Course icket and Showcard lusiness Administration

Merchandising Management

\ll Business Subjects Merchants, Bankers and business organisations are always seeking the fully qualified man. YOU can be that |nan— successful-prosperous, with a bright future—simp’ly by studying at home in your spare time. The Hemingway Robertson Institute will gladly assist you in your ambition.

Since 1897, H.R.I, has been preparing ambitious men and women for all business positions. Our tuition is simple, practical and modern and whilst being up-to-the-minute with the latest, the H.R.I. training method is certain of success. t nder 31.1t.1, 5 on \o Experiment To H.R.l.—Pleosc send me informotive literature, FREE!

Marne Interested Address ■Age.

tiHohvrtsnn institute

Consulting Accountants - - - Professional Tutors 126 BANK HOUSE - BANK PLACE - MELBOURNE Offices all Capital Cities, Newcastle and Launceston

Warnock Bros. Limited

AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Manufacturers of well known brands of Laundry Soap

“KIA ORA” AND “NATURU”

★ Obtainable from Auckland and Island Merchants

w

TROPIC TROUBLES

Quit Mi/ yield to

ASPRO

dots not harm

HEART or

STOMACH

H.C.6.

Asm

saga *** Most tropic troubles have an element of irritability about them. For that reason ‘ASPRO’ is the desirable form of relief. ‘ASPRO’, in addition to its swift effectiveness, acts in a SOOTHING manner, so that you immediately feel calmed and serene.

There are no unpleasant after-effects. Take ‘ASPRO’ wherever you go and be ready. You can tear off several tablets from the sani-tape strip and carry them hygienically in pocket or handbag.

The Purify of ‘ASPRO’

The purity of 'ASPRO' conforms to the standards laid down by the British Pharmacopoeia a guiding authority of the Medical Profession.

REG . TRADE MARK

HEADACHES

HEAT ENERVATIOH

/A./u'/.. . OXi'thu i

and

- PRONTO -

makers of the famous TROPIC-MATIC WATCH, specially made for moist, humid climates, have pleasure in introducing the

NEW AUTOMATIC

ONE WINDOW CALENDAR

Solodate

20 microns, Waterproof, in gold-plated or chrome steel-back

models. FULLY GUARANTEED.

if Sole agents for the Pacific Islands:

C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

379 Kent Street, Sydney.

Sole distributors required where not already represented.

rt ii- « ' H

uni/v

WDDD S Rota

This view of the parklike 700-acre Karlai Plantation. New Britain, shows the Wood's Cutter at work. The plantation is leased by B. & C. Parer and, with 80 natives in 1954, it produced 43i tons of copra per month. In 1955, with a Wood's Rotary Cutter and only 60 natives, it produced time of falling prices. The increased production is due to the greater recovery of nuts which are visible after the cutter has passed at 12" high. 45i tons per month

SALES & SERVICE

These figures of lower cost and higher production cannot be ignored in this

HASTINGS PEERING

(New Guinea) Pty. Limited Milford Haven Rd., Lae, Konedobu, Port Moresby.

HD253

The MASSE TIGER BATTERY

hds always Seen of pun cS '—

A/OIV /TS

TERRJf/C,

Masse

batteries

WITH

■■ s*. r V v V

PERMASS£P

J7Ae Jfyara/o?* T/GERS FOR WOR/f"

Distributors for Pacific Islands

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD.

54A PITT STREET, SYDNEY. Tel.: BU 2221

THE IDEAL REFRIGERATOR

FOR SMALL SHIPS!

“Hardie & Spear” refrigerators are ideal for smallships, caravan or any type of mobile use.

The specially designed Mobile Kerosene Tank eliminates all danger of spilled kerosene or of fluctuation or instability of flame.

AVAILABLE IN THREE

SIZES

There is a “Hardie & Spear” refrigerator for your home? too.

Write for full particulars toi the Sole Pacific Agents:—

MODEL 225

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney.

WHITE

ROSE

WHEATMEALS TO MEET THE

REQUIREMENTS OF ALL

WHITE ROSE FLOUR MILLING CO. PTY. LTD. ultimo. SYDNEY. N.S.W. Phono: BA 4027

CABLES: “WHITEROSESYDNEY

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I Hell

More energy... more power per gallon makes

of difference between SHELL with ICA

and any other petrol...

Specially refined SHELL has a higher energy content than any other motor spirit. Each and every drop gives out more heat . . . more energy. This is a scientific fact! When you drive on SHELL you feel this extra energy in greater power and better road performance.

You get more miles from every gallon.

The most

Powerful

Petrol you

can buy!

. r *v s i= I

vMikM

\UM

ig#i ..

4

I HELL

MS 5428 J

WITH

m

p* UMh.' \ <r: La e> Rjbaul C X. > • 9 *6 y Lautoka • Suva Brisbane Sydney Aucklanc

Your local A.N.Z. Branch

offers a complete and world

wide banking service

The Manager of your nearest A.N.Z. Bank branch has the staff and facilities to provide the type of Banking service best suited to your individual needs, whether your requirements are purely local or world-wide in extent. The experience and knowledge of your local manager is backed by the full resources of A.N.Z. Bank, which has over 800 Branches and Agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand, in Fiji, Papua and New Guinea and in London, and world-wide banking connections.

A’N*Z

A.N.Z. BANK

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANK LIMITED

W. C. G. ROBERTS: Manager, Suva Branch N. H. SCOTT: Manager, Lautoka Branch F. A. S. ROBERTSON: Manager, Port Moresby Branch C. C. OLDHAM: Manager, Rabaul Branch.

A. A. WATTS: Manager, Lae Branch AM7 -mi OA.

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W. S. TAIT & Co. Pty. Ltd.

AMERICAN DOLLARS

FOR

COLOURFUL BUTTERFLYS

We will pay from $7.50 to over $300.00 for 100 perfect, first quality unmounted specimens, wings closed with good antennaes, and packed only one in a paper envelope.

Collectors anywhere in the world, get in touch with us, send sample parcel. We pay promptly. Can use quantity common or rare. Also colorful day flying moths and saturnida moths.

Yours for the asking A free copy of “The Butterfly World News”; an interesting pamphlet on collecting, packing, etc., for the beginner.

Butterfly World Museum

295 East 98th Street, Brooklyn, 12, N.Y., U.S.A.

TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Associated with W. S. TAI7 (Hongkong) Co. 4"°"> * ®«.p.

Sth. Africa r All Your quirements 66 & ’*3

YEARS

77* 'o 0 From Japan o (V-A la Pot-

* THROUGH

W. S. TAIT & CO

PTY. LTD.

SYDNEY N.S.W.

To To the

SINCE 1890, SUPPLIERS

AGENCIES;

Canadian Salmon, apanese Textiles, apanese Fish, Crab & Oysters. >utch Herrings & Sardines. >utch Canned Hams & Meats.

Hitch Condensed Milk.

British Mining Hand Tools.

British Garden Tools.

Etc.

W. S. TAIT & Co. Pty. Ltd.

Nc w Hebrides To New Caledonia 8 Spring Street.

Sydney, NSW, Australia

Etablissements Donald Tahiti

HEAD OFFICE QUAI DU COMMERCE PAPEETE.

Telegraphic Address: “DONALD, PAPEETE”.

General Merchants (Wholesale Cr 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:

FRANCE: Hennessy Cognacs; Marie Brlzard & Roger Liqueurs; Charles Hiedsieck Champagnes; Gruber Beer.

NEW ZEALAND: Vacuum Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., Petroleum Products.

SWEDEN: Hjorth & Co., Primus Stoves: Elektrolux Refrigerators & Motors.

GERMANY: Breckwoldt & Co., Hamburg; Beck’s Beer, Bremen.

U.S.A.: General Steamship Corp.; Radio Corp. of America; Brown & Williamson, Ltd.; Cigarettes: Lucky 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.

LTD. San Francisco Agents: BURNS-

Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO.,

A. BICKART, MARSEILLES.

Sydney Agents; BURNS, PHILP & CO..

PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC. London LTD. Agents in France: HARTH & CIE, PARIS;

Light Value

A frequent situation in everyday photography: Light conditions remain practically constant for long periods of time, through, possibly, many exposures. However, subject matter changes, sometimes from one minute to the next, requiring perhaps a higher shutter speed or a different lens aperture. In such cases the light value coupling simplifies the operational problem: one motion only, and both speed and diaphragm are adjusted while absolutely maintaining the same basic exposure.

The locking button on the diaphragm control wheel assures maintenance of the selected light value.

Shutter speed and diaphragm scales remain coupled throughout working range. Changing to another light value is possible simply by pressing the locking button.

However, there are cases when the "old method" has its advantages. When working with flash, for instance, exposure changes with different distances and it is necessary to adjust diaphragm and shutter speed separately. In this situation; Press and turn the RoHei’s locking button a quarter .turn - the coupling is disengaged. Diaphragm and shutter speed controls may then be operated independently of each other

Con> (0

Pro

CD &

<R°Ueifi e x

A o o - thus the Rolleiflex copes with all problems, meets every challenge! /O l 5: zz -o

MARCH, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS

M O N T Hf

InVncje? W& S? I JS£

Future of Nadi Airport

.E future of Nadi airport will be discussed at the annual meeting of the South Pacific Air Transport Commission to be held in Fiji in June or July.

This matter is of vital interest to Australia and New Zealand and it is expected that the NZ Minister in charge of Civil Aviation, Mr. Shand mid the Australian Civil Aviation Minister, Mr. Townley, will attend The US Government recently authorised the expenditure of 1,000,000 dollars on Tafuna airport, m Eastern Samoa. In contrast to

InVncje? W& S? I JS£

Sl y e GoVemmentS -

As reported in the January PIM, Mr. Harold Gatty, of Fiji Airways, beli eves that Nadi will lose out in international aviation unless some • i ng 15 done to bring it to Jet " age requirements, It is likely that the future of Tas n)an Empire Airways will also be discussed at the coming SPATC meeting. B —~ . e . .

'Seeking work at Port Vila, New Hebrides, a Chinaman of British nationality, left the west-bound Tahitien at that port mid-February XS .

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Insectron

ALL

FLIES

FLEAS

MOSQUITOES

COCKROACHES

SPIDERS

ANTS &

OTHER INSECT

Vaporize* The New Improved Double Duty

VAPORIZER AND

DEODORIZER

PESTS

with

INSECTRON

ELECTRIC INSECT PEST VAPORIZER

Vapour-kill these pests by the amazing new American method which outmodes messy and wasteful sprays. ★ Insectron is ideal for: Food Stores. Dairies, Milk Bars, Restaurants, Theatres. Hotels, Hospitals. Guest Houses, Poultry Houses, Butcher Shops and other premises used for handling food.

Insectron Double Duty, complete with chemicals:

77/6 (plus freight)

Smaller units for the home, complete with chemicals:

29/6 (plus freight)

Available for 32, 110 or 230/240 volts.

I WRITE NOW FOR DETAILS

WILLIAM NORTH Cr COMPANY

Dept. PA 279 Clarence Street, SYDNEY Please send me full information about INSECTRON.

Name Address

I I

COHO** 5 *

Miiik

I lb. sell

Ike teiiaßie

w The Famous "ANCHOR” Family includes . . .

• ANCHOR UNSWEETENED (EVAPORATED)

CONDENSED MILK

• 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

OLE DISTRIBUTORS: AMALGAMATED DAIRIES LTD., AUCKLAND, N.Z.

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W. H. Grove

mm.

GROVE

BlidDmOS II ■*n. urnm m

W. H. GROVE

& SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

P.O. BOX 490, AUCKLAND,

NEW ZEALAND.

ISLAND

MERCHANTS

REPRESENTING

MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT THE

PACIFIC ISLANDS

In Fiji as:

W. H. GROVE & SONS

(FIJI) LTD.

Office and Sample Room Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji.

March 1956-Pacific Islands Month

Gil!k&pie& f/ffi S&wux

For your documents —a termite proof

STEEL FILE

with lock and key fitted.

Complete Price; £B/15/0

The

Vetro

Personal

File

W. C. PENF OLD &C? PTY LT?

estp STATIONERS,PRINTERS &*SYSTEMATISTS

1830. 88 PITT STREET. SYDNEY.

Gil!k&pie& f/ffi S&wux

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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AL /pans

fjmte ondqet ct!

wl V sr

Fight decay the best-tasting way

with “ ap£

nms.

WD-9 is an active anti-enzyme and destroy* bacteria in tha mouth.

A PRODUCT OF BRISTOL-MYERS

BMI3C-55

You don't need skill to save

costly repair and labor bills with

MALTHOIP

Whatever the building job you have in mind you need Malthoid. Why? Because Malthoid (bought in handy sized rolls) is an asphalt-impregnated waterproof covering to give your roof top-efficiency and durability at the lowest cost. You need no special skills when you roof with Malthoid it’s specified by leading American and Australian architects! You get full “how to lay" instructions on every wrapper. Floor coverings can be safely laid over Malthoid protected concrete floors. You’re right up-to-date when you use Malthoid. Remember Malthoid is a Pabco product don’t be fobbed off with imitations.

HYDROSEAL

A Hydroseal repair is a permanent repair! Get Hydroseal for fixing leaks in metal, stone or wood. A scientific blend of asphalts, black Hydroseal is easy to apply with knife or trowel. For large holes sandwich it under and over a calico or canvas patch ... it makes a completely waterproof seal. With white Hydroseal a blended mastic reinforced with long-fibred asbestos— you don’t just repair the cracks you make them vanish. With the same easy-to-use qualities of black Hydroseal, white Hydroseal is best where appearance is important—walls, for instance. Remember, you can paint over white Hydroseal and it’s easily broken down, with linseed oil, to a brushable consistency.

Fix and dress Malthoid with Pahco Cemem and coating. You’ll get dependable protections rugged efficiency against storms and sweltering heat. % % A little leak can do a lot of damage. Hydrosea y can’t he affected hy water, and withstands ex tremes of heat and cold. Where appearance i important use white Hydroseal it can U painted over.

Brushable

HYDROSEAL

the new plasticised coating as easy to use as paint: you can save pounds and pounds by using it to seal leaks and protect against cracking and corrosion! A heavy asphalt compound, Brushable Hydroseal repairs, preserves and seals iron, asbestos, concrete, tanks and roofs! It won’t contaminate water it’s unaffected by the hottest or coldest day or prolonged immersion! To seal leaks over 1/8 inch wide, sandwich a linen patch between two coats of Brushable Hydroseal.

PABCO Products are obtainable at island stores.

Brushable Hydroseal preserves and proofs as metal against corrosion and cracks concrt* and asbestos, tool Remember, Hydroseal cav not contaminate water.

PABCO

PRODUCTS PTY. LTD.

Head Office: 150 Wigram Road, Glebe, N.S.W.

MW2424 A

PABC<

product:

toptictil Service

OF \\ QB &

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., Sydney.

Phone: BL 2640.

Established 1910

MORGAN VERNEX 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— PEß 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"

MONTRES: “lira,” “Sicura,” “Samba.’

Conserve "Trupak"

Biere Carlsberg Pates aux oeufs frais Old Bell's Scotch Whisky

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Philip Morris

The "JOYBURNER

1/

FOR KEROSENE-SMOKING

REFRIGERATORS

• SAVES KEROSENE

• FREEZES FASTER

• NO SMOKE

• ELIMINATES CARBON

Sole Pacifiic Islands Distributors

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

4 O'Connell Street, Sydney P.O. Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney Cable Address: “Carefulness

PHILIP MORRIS

now 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.

IMPORTAN

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."

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Inquiries Are Invited

Concerning the Distribution and

Sale of All Types of

Merchandise in the

P acif ic Islands

WE ARE AUSTRALIAN AGENTS FOR—

i 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: "MORSTROM”, Sydney.

BANKERS: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY.

COMPLETE

RELIABILITY

. . . under tropical

conditions

TO

ALKALINE

BATTERIES

THESE ARE

FACTS

for ★ HOUSE LIGHTING ★ DIESEL STARTING ★ MARINE WORK

★ EMERGENCY LIGHTING

The Steel-built NIFE, because of its long life and low maintenance cost is the simplest and most economical battery in the world! r • No lead —no acid—so no sulphation. • Steel-built to withstand violent vibration and hard usage. • Steel plates cannot buckle, grow or shed active material. • Steel containers cannot crack, • Undamaged by overcharging. • Undamaged by rapid discharge or short-circuiting. • Will stand for long periods, charged or discharged, without deteriorating. • Will hold a charge for long periods.

L • Low maintenance cost.

For further details on a NIFE Battery for your particular job contact the sole Australian Representatives :

MASSE BATTERIES PTY. LTD.

Sydney: 398-400 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest. Phone: JF 4111

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tropics ? ' A

QUEENSLAND

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated 1886 in Australia) Assets Exceed £9,000,000 Head Office:

R t:t?^ NSLAND INSURANCE

BUILDING, 80-82 PITT STREET

SYDNEY.

Specialists in South Sea Fire.

Marine & Accidentlnsurances Apply to:— FlJl.—Branch Office: J. F. Drury, Manager.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

VlLA.—Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd Comptoirs Prancais Des Nouvelles Hebrides.

NOUMEA.—L. & W. Johnston.

NEW GUlNEA.—Manager of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, R. D. Kennedy.

Resident Officer at Rabaul: K. R Taylor.

PORT MORESBY— SAMARAI—LAE

MADANG—KAVIENG— RABAUL.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

PAGO PAGO.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

G. H. C. Reid & Co.

OTHER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Also to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z.

Energetic in the

tropics ? ' A

OF COURSE ;

What a wonderful difference daily <akta-vite makes to the whole family ! And it costs so little !

Delicious ‘akta-vite* contains the vitamins you need for bounding health—A, B lf C, D—with calcium and phosphorus for sturdy growth. Chocolate and malt flavoured, akta-vite* can be taken in lot or cold milk, on fruits, iesserts and ice-cream, in andwiches or straight from tie jar. ‘akta-vite* makes fe in the tropics a daily joy. fade by Nicholas Pty. Ltd., Melbourne , Australia.

AEIS/2048

AKTA V IE

TRADE MARK

March. 1956-Pacific Islands Monthe

Stewarts

and LLOYDS

(AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD.

Manufacturers for 40 years of tough, reliable n S. & L." 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.

STEAMSHIPS TRADING COMPANY LTD

PORT MORESBY AND SAMARAI PAPUA

Wholesale Cr Retail Merchants, Shipowners,

Shipping, Customs

MANAGING AGENTS for:

SAWMILLERS & TRADERS LTD.

COCOALANDS LTD.

ACME BAKERY COMPANY.

MARIBOI RUBBER LTD.

RUBBERLANDS LTD.

KEREMA RUBBER PLANTATIONS LTD.

Planters, Sawmillers, Engineers, Slip Proprietoi

and Insurance Agents.

AGENCIES:

NEW GUINEA AUSTRALIA LINE OF THE CHII

NAVIGATION CO. LTD.

ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINE.

KOKE BAGU PTY., LTD.

LOLORUA RUBBER ESTATES LTD.

HARVEY TRINDER (N.S.W.) PTY., LTD. (I

surances effected at Lloyd’s.)

DISTRIBUTORS IN PAPUA for:

ARMSTRONG-HOLLAND PTY.. LTD.

Earth Moving and Logging Equipment.

WILLYS-OVERLAND EXPORT CORPORATION.

Jeep cars, etc.

HILLMAN MOTOR CARS.

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. OF AUST. LT

International Trucks, McCormick-Deering Farming Machinery.

Defender Refrigerators.

SYDNEY AGENTS: NELSON Gr ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., 12 SPRING STREET.

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Sparklet

Simple and economical

I

STREAMLINE MODEL

STANDARD MODEL

THE

WM '/v W I I I I I I I I Buy a Sparklet Syphon.

You will be proud to own one. The Sparklet Syphon looks good and is good —whether at home or in a bar. It gives you as much ‘ soda ’ water as you like, is economical, hygienic and so easy to prepare. To refill the Sparklet Syphon you just fill it with water; screw on a new Sparklet bulb; a quick twist and another big syphon-full is ready. It’s as simple as that.

SPARKLET

SYPHON

I I I I I I I I I See Sparklet Syphons at all good stores

SPARKLETS LIMITED, LONDON, N. 17

TheflSS

BUILT FOR

EFFICIENCY

Just What You've

Wanted...

Built-in wall-to-wall

Ice-making & Frozen

Storage Compart-

ment clear across

the top.

CAPACITY: 7.1 cu. ft.

SHELF AREA: 13 sq. ft. • Redesigned interior gives easier access. • Removable rust - proof grid-type shelves. • One-piece porcelain interior lining glistening white and food - acid resistant. • Easy-release ice trays. • Exterior in gleaming oven - baked cream enamel. • Lower running cost with a new freezing unit designed for even greater efficiency. • Kerosene or electrically operated, it can be easily converted from one medium to another. • Precision - built freezing unit with no moving parts, trouble-free and guaranteed for five (5) years.

EARLY DELIVERY.

Ask your local Electrolux

agent for further particu-

lars now.

PAPUA:

ISLAND PRODUCTS

LTD., Port Moresby.

TNG.:

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD.

-v Model LT 701

ELECTROLUX IS ALWAYS SILENT

—Or write to the Distributors :

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY.

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let yom Home, W*

S3 WU VP*

mi nil

;kßu!

3

let yom Home, W*

Protect its attractive exterior against nature's destructive forces with Borthwicks "AB" paint, specially fortified for tropical weather resistance T You'll find lasting satisfaction in its color permanency and mellow, even weathering.

BORTHWICKS

HIGH

i

.GRADE

m ‘h ■ 57 S 3 1 r 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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Wm. Breckwoldt & Co

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 soli.

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

WM. BRECKWOLDT & CO

RABAUL,

New Guinea.

P.O. Box 22.

VOLKSWAGEN

Cars—Pick-ups

GRUNDIG

Radios

CABLES: "BREWO"

SUVA, HONIARA,

Fiji Islands. Brit. Solomon Is.

P.O. Box 369. P.O. Box 42.

REPRESENTING

Breckwoldt & Co., Hamburg, Germany.

Brewo-Italia 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.

APIA,

Western Samoa.

P.O. Box 47

MERCEDES BENZ

Cars and Trucks

BAYER

Medicines Olympia Typewriters—NSU Motor Cycles—Continental Tyres and Tubes—Hohner Mouth Organs and Accordeons—Brewo Power Bikes —Bosch Electrical Products—Telefunken Radios, etc. Rolleiflex and Rolleicord Cameras Petromax Pressure Lamps —-Feuerhand Hurricane Lanterns—“ Two Lions” Butcher Knives—Becks’ Beer—BREWO Canned Fish Trade Beads—Cotton Piecegoods—Copra Sacks —Mosquito and Blankets tor native issu?—BREWO Brand Perlon Fishing Lines—BßEWO Brand Briar Tobacco Pipes and a variety of other trade goods.

Cif I C Islands Monthly March. 1956

Tilley

lamps

burn

brighter

longer!

100% BRITISH.

SOLID BRASS CONTAINER.

HIGHLY-POLISHED PLATED FINISH.

BURNS 12 HOURS ON |i 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.

Fjj( REPRESENTATIVES

Mr. K. WITHERI NGTON, 2 Burns Philp Buildings, SUVA

AUSTRALIA & NEW GUINEA:

T. H. BENTLEY Pty. LTD, 123-12 S William St,, MELBOURNE C.l

Build

out are

roofs that

last a lifetime

with Rogerstone Aluminium Alloy Building Sheet

First cost is last cost when you root or build garages, sheds and other buildings with these light, strong Nora! Alloy Building Sheets. They weather-proof right through. Unpainted, uncared for, these versatile corrugated sheets will look after themselves for a lifetime. Rogerstone building sheets are exceptionally easy to assemble and are punched ready for bolting. The sheets will span up to 10 ft. without extra support.

Construction is simple and fast.

Rogerstone building sheet is produced in two standard widths and a range of lengths. The standard lengths of joining and trimming sections are also

given below:—

Lengths 8. 9, 10. 11, 12 Commodity Full-width sheet (30 ins.) Half-width sheet (15 ins.) Standard angle . .

Corner piece Roof end section Rafter angle Ridge capping Ridge angle 8. 9. 10. 11. 12 12 10 12 12 8 8

MHiw um mm

In r* AnA rl A I (Incorporated in Canada) .

Principal British Commonwealth Distributor of Aluminium Ocean House. 34 Martin Place. Sydney, N.S.W.

An ALUMINIUM LIMITED Company

W N*w ES Zm® n dRICHARDSON, McCABE i CO. LTD., Wellington Fn“ k wit.™ ,,^m« h '.nd Tonga: MORRIS HEDSTROM LIMITED Suva, Fiji.

Cook Islands: A. B. DONALD LTD.. Rarotonga Cook Islam French Oceania: ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI. Papeti Caledonia and New HeL ides: AGENCE ALMA. Nourm New Caledonia.

Territory of Papua-New Suinea-BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LIMITED. Po.t Moresby,

LONDON

MONTREAL

CALCUTTA

SYD N B

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IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1956

Lager

OUR

HANDS

MAKE

GO O D

ARMS.

For your Fishing and Shooting Wants Consult Us.

Lithgow .22 Cal. Repeating Rifle .. £lB 19 6 1 Post Llthgow .22 cal. single shot ... £J g 6 )- Sra. (Prices Subject to Change Without Notice.) S I L R Q H U , 143 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY.

•US?** How refreshing fo 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

Lager

BREWED AND BOTTLED BY TOOTH & CO. LIMITED

KB.ISS.HP

March. 1956 Pacific Islands Monthlt

Coldstream Refrigerators

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 shine daily with Kiwi.

Kiwi puts a gleam on your shoes that lasts all day.

“They’re well worn, but they’ve worn well, thanks to

KIWI

Coldstream Refrigerators

N.S.W. Representatives: Refrigerator Installation and Service Co. Pty. Ltd, 8 Bridge Road, Glebe, Sydney.

Cables and Telegrams “ColstrimSydney.

STREAM ALL EQUIPMENT engineered specifically for

TROPKAL 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.

EAM

For Quality and Flavour

be sure it’s

MEATS

Famous in the Pacific

for over 50 years

R&W HELLABY LTD.

AUCKLAND

NEW ZEALAND

P U AKATORO

APINGA TIKAI

PISUPO LOLOIO

TELE

BU LAMAKA U

VINAKA SAPA

RA

Because

it’s VACUUM PACKED

i <s v 5 » %N Qi a h O

P ST

& J f\he ) / 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 coin and twisting.

...it's dspendable

CAPSTAN

FLAKE FINE CUT & NAVY CUT—FRAGRANT VIRGINIA

TOBACCO

March, 1956-Pacific Islands Month L.

Yorkshire

THE

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

SEAFOAM .

DOMINION

SILVER SPRAY

TOPIC (Gluten Rich) '

Flours

e

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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Turners Supply Company Limited

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

IMPORTED FROM LONDON, ENGLAND

it Because of the supert quality, drinks never taste thin with Gordon‘s Gin The secret of masterly distilling, maintainec through the years, is the reason why to-day, as ever Gordon’s Gin standi supreme.

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better Copra

<» Cfc

the greatest aTd to

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 Huttenbach Rubber Machinery. Further information gladly supplied on request.

N \#j m MW 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.

, I HU

r

* U ftW famous ■

HtW 1 and hers W J , ~% *,,«•■*•• •

H O«O6tM j

> r ■■•■•■

SST

ifiK p»®22Ss

Expertly

Most Processed in Modern Milk Australia's Factory IK

OLE

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.

TONGALA Condensed MILK in TUBES stops waste. Ideal for picnics, boating, camping. Keeps" for a long period—stays fresh.

TONGALA Natural Pure Whole MILK Use straight from the can. Sterilised for added purity and long-lasting qualities.

MONT BLANC Pull 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.

tONGAL^

s *«tene l d c c r o"dehsep SB ▲

COHDEHStD

MIL

7 OZS. NET WEIGHT

March, 1956 Pacific Islands Month L,

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Cream

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.)

It’s all a matter

of BALANCE

1 • • • in blending that makes

Cream

whisky outstanding! bu..rs; AUSTRALIAN MERCANTILE LAND « FINANCE CO. LTD.. 35a York St. Sydney. Cab.es ■Merchyork •.

Phone BX 6091

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.”

Australian Aircraft Sales

FOR AUL TYPES OF AIRCRAFT

from Ausfers to Executive and Transport Types

AIRCRAFT

OVERHAULS

Enquiries invited

IN STOCK

A large range of Army Jeeps and Blitz Waggons

AUSTRALIAN AIRCRAFT SALES—

Head Office; 40 Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross, Sydney Telegraphic Address: “AIRSALES”, Sydney

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Johnsons

DAMPNESS AND HUMIDITY CAN

RUIN YOUR FLOORS!

* By Appointment Suppliers of Wax Polishes to Rli L?te Majesty Übk George ft . . . 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

••ooa

WAX

C On 1 WH*«

POUND

Johnson!

JOHNSON

JOHNSON 5

isir.

WAX

C l«ans i fcjtWa*® 5 , 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, Philp & Co. Ltd. Morris, Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. Nelson & Robertson Ptv Ltd Co 'X? r T W ?. < ‘ on ( N -® l . Maurice Pelletier Pty. Ltd. nil Trading Co. Pty. Ltd. „ c r • 0 , , Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd. f - E ; nven f r * C °- Ltd - International Trading Co. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd. W. S. Tait & Co. Pty. Ltd.

J. C. Merrillees Pty, Ltd. Tallemnan & Co.

Nirex Pty. Ltd.

$ € 4

CANNED

Imperial

m s*

MEATS

•S-®* Km

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),

Order NOW from your Nearest Supplier

CANNED FISH

12-oz. Flair Fish Cutlets. 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. 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. y 2 -lb. pats Butter. 12-oz. tins Butter. 16-oz. tins Butter.

CANNED JAMS

12-oz. & 24-oz. Fig. 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.

Pineapple.

AGENCIES

pvfcti r’ANNFR.fFS OF TASMANIA PTY. LTD., Tasmania. ( Flair Canned Fish).

PRODUCTS LTD., Victoria. (“Gartside” Canned Vegetables).

lilrkr

FREAN (AUST.) PTY. LTD., (Biscuit Manufacturers).

W. ANGLISS & CO. (Aust.) PTY. LTD.,

255 A George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Riverstone Meat Co. Pty. Ltd., 255 A George Street Sydney. QLD.: Redban Meat Works Pty. Ltd., Stanley Street, Sth. Brisbane.

Branches. —N.S.W.:

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tttOPWWC

BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

OF THE

TERRITORY

OF

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA

r A 4 MerOtaHtt, Shipping, Curtw aMd Gemml M„ ts

KAVIENC^

COPRA /

RABAU

COPRA TXJ

cocoa 0

MADANG

COPRA

o

LAE

COPRA

JlMßfr

BULOLO

/PLYWOOD

(In/ GOLD/.

w

COFFEE

peanuts pj.moresby v> Q t)

RUBBER

RICE

COPR

CO

OKOPO

COBRA

& m S' K £ onches throughout Papua-New Guinea Head Office: Port Moresby

SAMARA!

TROCHUS

COPRA

Associated Pacific Ist.

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

3TOR VEHICLES. TRACTORS, AND MACHINERY FOR: COPRA, RUBBER, COFFEE, RICE.

COCOA, PEANUT PRODUCTION, SAWMILLING AND GENERAL FARMING.

Features that make

better home baking

in the tropics certain

i & MA

UKINC

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 lime for sure results.

UmU ttlaUfk

Cream of Tartar

BAKING POWDER

ALWAYS ASK FOR AUNT MARY'S

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Flour

PLAIN AND

SELF RAISING

Oai/c fob Hr/

ESTABLISHED 1868

n bttw , for Fij, » To "ga and Samoa: C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Sava, Fiji

branches at SUVA, LAUTOKA.

ABASA, NADI and BA (Fiji), nd APIA (Samoa).

Lgencies in Fiji at MARKS ST..

UVA, LAUCALA BAY AIR-

ORT 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.

Established in the Pacific Islands since 1876

BUY

VILE

PRODUCTS

FROM YOUR

SYDNEY AGENT

NILE ATHLETIC AND T SHIRTS

ArAllable in all sizes (men and boys), in white, navy and a large range of bright, attractive colours. i/i

NILE SLEEKS & TRUNKS

Masculine comfort calls for the ’’freedom fit” of Nile sleeks and trunks.

Fashioned from the finest Egyptian yarns, Nile underwear withstands constant laundering . . . gives lasting satisfaction.

LADIES’ DRIEFS AND SINGLETS

Nile offers a particularly fine range of ladies’ and children’s cotton and rayon cotton briefs, pantecs and singlets.

NILE HANDKERCHIEFS

Nile products include a beautifully varied range of ladies’ and men’s himdkerchiefs, including printed in assorted designs and colours.

ifU7

W\

II NEN FINISH

SHEETS

To»*»\s

NILE SHEETS, PILLOW CASES AND TOWELS

Nile Distributors Pty. Ltd., 125 York Street, Sydney, N.S.W. BX 6041

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'Delana" Marjarine

Uniform With International Standard

An Island Product for Everyone I

MADE BY

ISLAND INDUSTRIES LIMITED

) Delana has a Delightful ( ) Dairy Product Flavour ? ) and is Really Economical, f \ • > < "DELANA 77 IS SOLD IN > S i lb. Pats—l lb. Waxed / ) Punnets, which keep in ) ) beautiful condition in hot ( ) weather, and also 1 lb. ( / tins. ( •

EXPORT ENQUIRIES WELCOMED

By

ISLAND INDUSTRIES LIMITED

P.O. BOX 299, SUVA, FIJI

March, 1956-Pacific Islands Monthi

A. B. Donald

LTD.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

ISLAND TRADERS AND GENERAL

MERCHANTS

P.O. Box 1509. Cables and Telegrams: “Kingdom,” Auckland.

All the signs point to

bigger sales oj

GILBEY’S GIN

this year I Yes, the Gilbey Zodiac for Wise Drinkers is making new customers for you through Metropolitan Daily newspapers in the most unusual advertising drive in years. Ask your Gilbey representative for full details and be sure you are ready with good stocks of Gilbey’s in the bar and ready to wrap in your

Bottle Department.

Whatever your

sign, don’t sell gin,

sell GILBEY’S

1230 V ★

PISCES

ARIES

TAURUS

SCORPIO

LIBRA

SAGITTARIUS

CANCER

CAPRICORN

GEMINI

* * st

VIRGO

AQUARIUS

LEO

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Correct Sleeping Posture

ART POSTCARDS OF TONGA

Per Dozen (Including a Tin-Can Mail Cover), Postage Paid: 6/- (or one US Dollar),

TONGAN PHOTOS BUREAU,

Nukualofa, Tonga

Correct Sleeping Posture

for a Lifetime!

—yours with the latest

MATTRESS!

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 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

Famous "Sleepmaker" Innersprings available

IN ALL PACIFIC ISLANDS

If unable to obtain—contact our Agents for the Pacific Islands: BURNS PHILP (N.G.) LTD., BURNS A pmLp n< (S e |.) of CO. LTD., BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD.

“Sleepmaker” Mattresses are made by Sleepmakers Pty. Ltd., 74 Wilson St., Newtown, Sydney.

B R

COLONIAL

N So T E m & & VO- (V® >--x

CORNED MW^f 5

RO»UCT Of '

BRONTE'' & "COLONIAL" BRAND

SPECIALLY PACKED EOR THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

CORNED BEEF CORNED MUTTON

CORNED BEEF with CEREAL. ROAST MUTTON

MINCED BEEF LOAF CURRIED MUTTON

ROAST BEEF

CURRIED BEEF

Available in 12-ozJ6-oz. and 2-lb. cans.

Products of

SHEEP TONGUI

OX TONGUE

THE COLONIAL WHOLESALE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD.

Canning Factory:

STATE ABATTOIRS, HOMEBUSH, SYDNEY

N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

TELEPHONE: UM 8436. CABLES; "WOOLMILL,' SYDNEY

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.

FOR over vM *f

we most TROsnv

fiour brand m Tlt *

PACIFIC ISLANDS - •

GILLESPIES

Gillespie’s Anchor Flour is milled from selected high quality Australian wheals and is entoleted for purity. Its consistent high quality has made it the best-known, most asked-for brand of flour in the Islands. (Entolelion is a special new purifying process which reduces the risk of insect infestation).

NCHOR

FLOUR

GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD.. ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS. SYDNEY 6.1.97

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Needham & Co. Pty. Ltd.

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. 35 mm. COLOUR TRANSPARENCIES OF PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

NATIVE HANDICRAFTS & CURIOS

PHOTOGRAPHS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ABOUT

THE TERRITORY

SOUVENIRS OF PAPUA & NEW GUINEA

NEEDHAM & CO. PTY. LTD.

307-309 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA.

GJP.O. Box 908. 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.

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Change Of Address

After 30 years at 12 Spring Street we are moving to our new premises—

PLANTATION HOUSE, 197 Clarence Street,

(near King Street), SYDNEY.

We look forward to welcoming you there on your next visit to Sydney where we will have an up-to-date showroom and modern facilities for the convenience of our clients.

Our ISLAND DEPARTMENT have specialists to attend to the purchasing of your every requirement at the best Prices possible.

Our IMPORT DEPARTMENT has representation in every port of the World and is well equipped to look after the buying of your overseas’ merchandise.

Our PRODUCE DEPARTMENT will handle all Island Produce as hitherto with the additional advantage of representation in the U.K. and Continent.

Please note that our cable address will be as before, namely “IVAN”, SYDNEY.

Tel.: BX 2871 (10 lines)

NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD.

PLANTATION HOUSE,

197 Clarence Street (near King St.), Sydney.

BURNS PHILf (SOUTH SEA) CO. LID.

Registered Office: SUVA, Fiji.

Code Address: “BURNSOUTH.”

GENERAL MERCHANTS AND SHIPOWNERS

BRANCHES:

V• • •

Fiji:-

Suva.

Levuka.

Lautoka.

Labasa.

Samoa

Ba. Apia.

Sigatoka. Pago Pago.

Tavua.

Rotuma Island.

Norfolk Island. Niue Island.

Tonga:-

Nukualofa.

Haapai.

Vavau.

Agents for:— • Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd. * Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

* Shell Company (P. 1.) Ltd,

ALSO AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES FOR:

• Ardath 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. • Me Alpine 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 & Colman Ltd. • S.F. Appliances Ltd. • Slazengers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd, • Standard Motor Co. • Stewarts Gr Lloyds (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd.

Shipping, Customs and Forwardi

Shipping Agents for

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.)

PORT LINE LTD.

(One Class Passenger Services from NEW ZEA-

LAND PORTS TO UNITED KINGDOM, via

PANAMA.)

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIMES

(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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Lam S Ik

Ci?

A Port- Re-

and ntale per/ccf copies foo/

f a i ® ec * Duplicator embodies the simplest method of production from the Stencil Process for Circulars, Maps, Club Notices, etc.

No Service upkeep costs necessary.

New Silk Diaphragm and Tropical Inking Rollers in stock for replacement when necessary.

Plastic Stencils Duplicator Inks and Duplicator Paper available for ALL types of Duplicators.

Mention make of machine when ordering. • Completely able. • Thoroughly liable. • So simple even a Junior can operate it. • Complete with Supplies for immediate use. • Typewriter unnecessary special Stencils for Handwriting and Tracing. • Delivery from Stock. • for Schools and Sports Clubs.

LAM S Ik

.AMS DUPLICATOR CO. (Sydney) PTY. LTD

52 Margaret St., Sydney. Tel.: BX 1998. £25 r

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.

More CAPRICORN boats for the Islands ! y Photograph shows section of our building sheds with vessels under construction for the Pacific Islands. • Specialists in Island vessels and work boats. • Estimates prepared. • Deliveries by our own crews. • Ships Joiners. • Marine Brokers.

©MODERN

PATENT SLIP.

Capacity to 500 tons. • All Classes of repair work undertaken. Early delivery of all stock vessels.

PLEASE NOTE:

Capricorn Charters, est. over 20 years announce the purchasing of Maryborough Slipway, and the transferring of their business from Gladstone to Mary-

borough, Queensland

CAPRICORN CHARTERS Maryborough, qld.

LOOKING FOR A

MARINE ENGINE?

Engines for every type of craft!

CHRYSLER

"ROYAL" "CROWN"

"ACE" ENGINES

SPARES: Complete range of spare parts available.

MORRIS

"Vedette"—4 Cylinder 8/20 h.p.—petrol or kerosene.

"Navigator" 4 Cylinder 12/30 h.p.—petrol or kerosene.

Spare parts are available also for

AMERICAN STERLING and SUPERIOR

DIESELS.

• Large range of boat fittings.

"NAVIGATOR"

LARS HALVORSEN SONS PTY. LTD.

BUILDING YARD: Waterview St., Ryde, N.S.W. Phone:, WY 3248 BOAT SHED: Bobbin Head, JJ 2489 (Telegrams: "Halvorsens Sydney")

BUILDERS OF HALVORSEN BOATS

LHI6.HPM

L

VEDETTE

MARINE REPAIRS

at Your Front Door !

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. m * 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 po - Box 47, MADANG, T.N.G.

Managing Director: N. Grieve.

The UNITED

Insurance Co. Ltd.

(Inc. in New South Wales.) mm. £ iillSHiV

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.

40 FT. ARMY-TYPE WORKBOATS

f# 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.

We Specialise in: • ISLANDS VESSELS. • ALL KINDS OF BOAT BUILDING AND REPAIRING • NEW AND USED BOATS AND ENGINES FOR SALE.

For further particulars please write to:

BJARNE HALVORSEN LTD.

John Street, Berry's Boy, North Sydney, N.S.W.

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, younger looking

NOT JUST A PROMISE

BUT A PROVED BEAUTY PLAN

Here’s all 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.

REGULAR - BATH SIZE -

SUPERBATH

rvT- if

™«e comp/ex/oi Pavements u

0 rre J her ’ Priihtei

complexion \J Less oiliness v S&* ‘

V Complexion

m »re redient K2B USE PALMOLIVE . . . IT’S SO MILD-SO GENTLE . . , THAT'S WH.

PALMOLIVE IS BY FAR THE LARGEST SELLING TOILET SOAP IN AUSTRALIA

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.

WYNNE S. BREDEN [£

PHOENIX SHIPYARDS NEWCASTLE, N.S.W.

Ocean-Going Aux Ketch. 25 ton gross. 60 H.P. Diesel.

Speed 81 Knots. 770 cu. ft. in Hold.

Lizr

■ 350 cu. ft. in Aft. Cabin.

This and other ' types of vessels always under I 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”)

VINCO LAUNCHES & WORKBOATS

FOR THE ISLANDS

h ~W &

lIISIB

i; t< « n

|fW*TT

ss»omm K- One of order for 10 Half Cabin Launches being shipped to Andrews and Roberts, Port Moresby, P.-N.G.

Standard models (all types) or built to detail, any size 20 ft. raised deck model (mast extra) 12 ft. to 30 ft.

Fitting any make or type of engine.

Inspection of

work by your

Sydney represen-

tative invited.

Vincent Bros. Modern Factory 6 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

VINCENT BROS.

947 Victoria Rd., West Ryde, Sydney,

Australia. 18 ft. Sedan Cabin Standard Model.

Cable: —Vincoproducts.

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.

ARMSTRONG - VENTURA

Marine Diesel Engine Economical running. • Easy installation. • Light weight. • Compact design • Easy starting

• 20H.P. 1500 R.P.M.

• 2:1 Reduction. • Full Force Feed Lubrication.

PRICE EA575

SOLE AGENTS:

C.I.F. Pacific Port.

VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD

Cable: “Ventura, Sydney” 247 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

CAPTAIN W. L. KENNEDY

(Established 1031.)

SHIPBROKERS, BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE

63 Pitt Street, Sydney.

’Phone: BU 3797. Cables: “CAPKEN,” Sydney.

LISTING:

DIESEL CARGO VESSEL, 720 tons dwt. Lloyds Class current. Machinery aft, 2 large hatches. 6 winches-derricks, £50,000 Sterling. Owners will negotiate to deliver this vessel to any port of the Pacific.

HARBOUR TUG, 52 ft. x 12 ft. x 4 ft. 3 in., teak hull, copper sheathed. 110- H.P. Paxman Ricardo marine diesel with Lister auxiliary. Vessel new in 1939, £3,150.

LICENCED FERRY BOAT, 47 ft. x 12 ft. x 4 ft., cruiser stern, well deck, 4-cyl. 44 H.P. Kelvin marine diesel installed in 1949, licensed to carry 70 passengers in semi-open waters. Just completed survey, £2.500.

NEW 50 ft. x 16 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in. Cargo hull, excellently built, accommodation aft. mast, derrick, etc., ready for installation of engine. £6.500, or builder will finish to buyer’s requirements complete with 6LW Gardner marine diesel for about £9,000.

WORK BOAT. 30 ft. x 10 ft., built 1950, 3-cyl. 30 H P. Southern Cross marine diesel installed in 1954, £2,550.

WORKBOAT, 24 ft. x 9 ft., twin cylinder Patters marine diesel, 2/1 reduction, £9OO.

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.

SKANDIA

DIESEL MARINE AND STATIONARY ENGINES

Sole Agents:

FOR:

Power Range 3 H.P.—425 H.P.

Acclaimed by hundreds of satisfied owners.

Ideal for Island use.

Built to last. • Faithful Service. • Low fuel consumption Easy starting

NELSON 6l ROBERTSON PIT. LTD.

12 SPRING STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

Cables: “IVAN”, SYDNEY.

f Two famous names combine to give YOU

RELIABILITY

• POWER

• ECONOMY

When the name "Holden", renowned for economy and performance, is combined with the reliability and experience of "Clae" the result could only be the finest Australian-built multiple cylinder engine available. This robust 6-cylinder combines many exclusive features including a "Clae Bulldog" Reverse Gear, closed circuit; 6 Volt Starter Generator, and Regulator, Heat Exchanger Cooling or salt water cooling and is available with Direct Drive or 2:1 reduction. Other Clae Marine Engines from 3 h.p. to 30 h.p., one to four

cylinders.

CLAE ENGINE PTY. LTD.

31 Hoskins Avenue, Bankstown, N.S.W.

Fiji Distributors: Burns Philip South Sea Co. Ltd., Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Fiji Islands.

New Caledonian Distributors: Auguste and Paul Mercier, 3 Rue de la Somme, Noumea.

P.I.M. 3/56

Gardner

MARINE DIESEL

ENGINES

FOR DEPENDABILITY, ECONOMY

AND LONG LIFE

T ried and 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.

R / I sa H i 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

A. H. BUNTING LTD.

SAMARAI and POPONDETTA

Buntings

LAE and GOROKA

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL MERCHANTS SHIPOWNERS IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS, PLANTERS SHIPPING, CUSTOMS, AND INSURANCE AGENTS

SAMARAI & POPONDETTA

LAE

GOROKA

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd.

South British Insurance Co.

National Mutual Life Association, Webley & Scott Ltd.

Ekco Radio.

Davison Paints Ltd., N.S.W.

South British Ins. Co.

Ekco Radio.

Webley & Scott Ltd.

Davison Paints Ltd.

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd, Mandated Air Lines.

South British Ins. Co.

Ekco Radio.

Webley & Scott Ltd.

Agents: BUNTINGS BISCUITS LTD. rabaul

MILLERS LTD. {lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllOllllllllllllllll

SUVA and LAUTOKA, FIJI.

Every Branch of Engineering and Buildin

Construction

Sawmillers and Timber Merchants; Shipwrights and Sailmakers; Joinery s Furniture Manufacturers; Upholsterers; Plumbers; Electricians; Hardws Merchants; Motor Dealers.

Agencies: Chevrolet, Bedford, Vauxhall, Nash Motors, Land Rovers and Rover Cs Firestone Tyres. Frigidaire Refrigerators. G.E.C. Radio Sets. Priestm Excavators. British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd. Atlas Assurai.

Co. Ltd.

There is no need to send to Australia or V Zealand for Repairs or Replacements. We o rive yon a sound Quotation and gnaranc First-Class Workmanship.

MARINE ENGINES

For Efficiency

Reliability

and Long Life

16 H.P.

U

"HANDYBILLY" DIESEL MARINE ENGINE

General Purpose or Auxiliary Thornycroft Marine Engines range from 12 HP—l6 HP—2o—3o—so—9o to 125 HP.

MODERN UNITS embodying all the latest refinements.

STUART MARINE MOTORS

recognised as perfection in their class are available in 1 i—4 —B HP. Generating Sets 300—3,000 watts.

Full details jrom-

IHORNYCROFT (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Box 2622, G.P.0., Sydney. FF 4224 Cables: “Thornmotor”, Sydney.

l&att

'f

%rlron

in da eA e e yn mi e, y e e

Wimble\

on » Cuts all grasses Clean and fast Here's a lawn mower that stays sharp, is easy to push, is light in weight, with a handle that cannot work loose, is chromium plated for all weather protection, has rubber tyres and full 14inch blades.

Representatives for Pacific Islands:

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD.

54a PITT STREET, SYDNEY

UNRIVALLED ON THE SEVEN SEAS

NATIONAL INSTRUMENT CO. PTY. LTD.

ANNOUNCE THEIR APPOINTMENT AS

Sole Australian Agents for the World-Famous

ELAC-ECHO SOUNDERS

ISoiv available for Immediate Delivery

ELAC

ECHO METER

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. jJ* Mr. Cyril Stephens, leading Cray-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 Instrument Company in your State for further information.

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 Branches at Adelaide: LA 0461 Perth: BA 3728 Sydney: B 0229 Brisbane: M 5185

ELAC

ECHOSCOPE

ECHOGRAPH

SENIOR

ELAC

FISCHLUPE

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Three-Quarter Axes

HYTEST is the name

that sells more

and Tomahawks!

While Hytest Green Axes excel where man-sized Axes are needed, there are plenty of other jobs waiting for Hytest Three-Quarter Axes and Tomahawks! But be sure to display them where your customers can see them!

Your Island Merchant or wholesaler will fill your Hytest order promptly.

Ask, too, for the illustrated leaflet showing the entire Hytest range of Axes and Tools—they're Australia's finest forged-steel products!

HYTEST AXE & TOOL PTY. LTD.

Collins Street, Alexandria, N.S.W., Australia

RUDGE

Britain's Best Bicycle Largest Made by the World’s Cycle Factory.

RALEIGH INDUSTRIES LTD.

Nottingham, England.

Stainless Steel Spokes.

See Your Local Agents:

APIA, SAMOA.—E. A. Coxon & Co.

Ltd.

VAVAU, TONGA—O. G. Sanft.

NUKUALOFA, TONGA.—HaIe Veti.

Call and See these First Rate Bicycles, or

pamphlets

Sole Distributors

Rust Proofed Frame.

Dyno Hub Lighting.

Sturmey Archer 3-speed Gears.

Available in De Luxe and!

Standard Cycles.

Write to Stinsons for free STINSONS LTD., SUVA, FIJI (P.O. Box 130)

W. H. GROVE & SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

Islond Merchonts

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 thon 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.

What 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. & Ho' 5 - 0^ These services are available through all branches of the

BANK OF

NEW SOUTH WALES

FIRST AND LARGEST TRADING BANK OPERATING IN AUSTRALIA.

NEW ZEALAND. FIJI, PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA (INCORPORATED IN NKW SOUTH WALKS WITH LIMITED LIABILITY) A 54470

CHATEAU TANUNDA

BRANDY

•tl»c Ve «a»/ /e

OrinK

Serve these favourites :— 'fa CKateau Tanunda Brandy with water or soda.

CKateau Tanunda Brandy with Ginger Ale, crushed ice and slice of lemon.

CKateau Tanunda Brandy with pure orange juice.

Also Brandy Crusta, Cafe Royal and as a Liqueur.

Ask for “CT” then it must be

Seppelts Chateau

Tanunda Brandy

CHATEAU TANUNDA BRANDY . . .

from all retail stores throughout the Pacific Islands. Wholesale supplies through B. Seppelt & Sons Ltd., Box 163, G.P.0., Sydney.

A PRODUCT OF THE HOUSE OF SEPPELT tjsssjr . 1851

EST

floy ■iO

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C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd

From the Smallest Scales to Units for Weighing

up to 200 Tons!!

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

s *** rt* v o* * x

JUST ONE BRUSHING WITH

Colgate

Dental Cream

CLEANS

m

YOUR

BREATH

1H

WHILE

IT

CLEANS

YOUR

TEETH

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 up to 1/8

VGSA,

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Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd

GOLDEN

FXMRTSKCIAI

e

MUNGO SCOTT PTY. LTD

Established 1894

AUSTRALIAN

CC U 4

SYDNEY

AUSTRALIA

FLOUR MILLERS

SUMMER HILL, NEW SOUTH WALES

Cable & Telegraphic Address:: SUPERB, Sydney

m

CORNED

fm? c/uamtUeeofflau&fy

SALISBURY'' canned meats, SPECIALLY PACKED for the PACIFIC ISLANDS are the popular choice, ALWAYS.

SAUSAGES Cr TOMATO

STEAK €r KIDNEY PUDDING

LAMB & GREEN PEAS

MIDGET (Cocktail) SAUSAGES Also "WESTFIELD" Brand

CORNED BEEF

CORNED MUTTON

MEATREAT

SHEEP TONGUES

OX TONGUES

SANDWICH PASTES

CORNED BEEF

CORNED BEEF WITH CEREAL

KEGGED MEATS

CORNED MUTTON

CORNED MUTTON WITH CEREAL

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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lAdor/dddam (d^uaiitfj

Also nt Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth.

Lemonade reaming Soda Kola Raspberry XT"

W. J. BUSH & CO. (AUST.) PTY. 59 Wentworth Avenue, Sydney For

lAdor/dddam (d^uaiitfj

ESSENCES

LTD,

COLOURS

ESSENTIAL OILS

CHEMICALS

der direct , or from Distributing Agents for the South Pacific: — DEMKA AGENCIES PTY. LTD., 2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney.

Orange Lime Sarsaparilla Vanilla

I !i» I You will find shaving

I simpler and speedier

if you use a

Blue Gillette Blade

in your razor.

That’s because it’s the sharpest blade in the world.

II

BLUE

Gillette

BLADES

£ Available in Packets or Dispensers of 10 Blades

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commonwealth

The C.S.B. Serves YOU

A,

NEW GUINEA

Imadakg

RABAUL

yYEWAK

GOROKA*

LAE^

ULOLO

d

PORT

MORESBY

HONIARA'*?

All Around the Islands

The Commonwealth Savings Bank offers you every type of savings bank service at the following Island Branches: Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Bulolo, Goroka, Kavieng and Honiara.

In addition, the same complete service is available at 57 agencies in Papua-New Guinea, at 5 agencies in the Solomon Islands and at Fanning Island, Lord Howe Island, Nauru, Norfolk Island and Vila (New Hebrides).

The C.S.B. gives you every encouragement to save. It pays interest on all accounts and transfers them anywhere FREE of exchange. You can also withdraw any amount from your account at your own Branch without notice.

Save for the future with an account in the

commonwealth

BANK

Modern in Service—Old in Experience

V Grand Prix“ No matter whether it's pests or game, there's an I.CI. cartridge for the job. Selected from the wide range of I.CI. Sporting Ammunition available in shot sizes and loads to meet the needs of every shooter.

SPECIAL

TRAPSHOOTING

o

ICI

Take Ammo Andy's advice and stock up with your favourite brands before your next shooting trip. For

consistency and accuracy always

insist on 1.C.1. Sporting Ammunition from your local dealer. If you have

any difficulty in obtaining supplies,

contact ICIANZ Ltd., 251 George Street,

Sydney.

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES

OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LTD.

25 I

ÜBH

Maximum"

"Special Trapshooting Duxbac" lb H %C%V

ILEV

SPECIAL

Icil Special

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[Austjbaua^

FOR SALE

QACAVULA ESTATE,

TAVEUNI, FIJI

TENDERS ARE INVITED for the purchase of the 300 tons copra plantation known as "Qacavula Estate" on Taveuni.

The property is in excellent condition and consists of: 1. Freehold land, C.T. Xl/05-252 containing 802 acres on which are erected a modern commodious wood and iron residence with usual outbuildings of laundry, garage and workshop; labour lines, copra shed; smoke dryer and sun drying vatas.

Excellent piped water supply to houses and cattle troughs. 2. Native Lease of 352 acres known as "Maumici" expiring February 26, 1988. Transfer subject to approval of the Native Land Trust Board. 3. Yearly tenancy of 100 acres known as "Dromoninuku". Transfer subject to approval of the Trustees of the Church of England.

Further particulars may be had from the undersigned who is authorised to accept the best tender above £F.45,000 received before March 31, 1956.

S. G. GOULD, Chartered Accountant (Australia), Attorney for the Owners, Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji.

WILLIAM FARRER PTY. LTD.

Flour Millers

1 BERESFORD RD., STRATHFIELD, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “Butterfly”

FINEST

[AUSTJBAUa^

SHARPS

“FIG TREE” BRAND.

Mug?

"IBEX” BRAND.

jp|||i

it eUdf daei itfdf- (

No trials or tribulations when you paint the quick, easy, modern way—with Pammastic.

No primer, sealers or undercoats. Glorious new walls and ceilings in a day! Pammastic lasts too —for years and years.

For the very best results with no fuss or bother paint with Pammastic.

Obtainable from your local storekeeper, or write for details and colour cards to

h^MM/ISTIC

emulsion COA*n 1 and infnor

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

4 O’Connell Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

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Coral™Starch

A homely. digni%

atmosphere

Sydney's most exclusive social rendezvous in the heart of King's Cross and only 4 minutes from the City. Every conceivable hotel service is at your call.

Tariff; 37/6. par person B. and B.

All brands wines, ales and spirits available.

'■'la ::: a i heart of King's Cross Sydney.

HAM POOR. Telephone: FA 7081.

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 s > Si sA

Sii W y '!S.

CORAL™STARCH

Manufacturers: —

CORAL MANUFACTURING PTY. LTD.

26 Clarence Street, Sydney. BX 3508.

N / s ; —'"l ■A / 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 MILLS LTD.

414 Collins St., Melbourne, Vic.

Parramatta Rd., Camperdown, N.S.W.

N S. I-

because

“ WAT «P«OOf

H r proof

a Ss

FOR TROPIC PROTECTION

specify WARDEN

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Foot Ugh

Helped IstDw

Do your feet Itch so badly that they nearly drive you crazy? Does the skin crack and peel? Are there blisters between your toes and on the soles of your feet? If you suffer from these foot troubles the real cause Is a germ or fungus which you must kill to get rid of the trouble. Fortunately It Is at last possible to end these foot troubles, Tinea and stubborn cases of Eczema. Ringworm, etc., with an American Hospital Discovery called Nixoderm. Nixoderm stops the Itch in 7 minutes, kills germs and fungus and in 24 hours the skin begins to heal clear and smooth. Oet Nixoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return your money If not satisfied

for service

GENERAL MERCHANTS

Ship Owners. Exporters of Island Produce. Plantation Owners

and Managing Agents.

Agents for

The China Navigation Co. Ltd.

New Guinea Australia Line The Hong Kong New Guinea Line Distributors for Plymouth Cars, Fargo Trucks Humber and Hillman Cars Commer Trucks Willys Jeeps, Trucks, etc.

Deutz Tractors Coventry-Victor Engines Bentall Coffee Machinery Whale Rope Pental Soap Lombard Insurance Co. Ltd.

Union Assurance Society Ltd.

G.E.C. Refrigerators Primus Appliances Erres Radios Vaughan Radio-Telephones Sherwin-Williams Paints Lodge Spark Plugs Ushers Green Stripe Scotch Whisky Pepsi-Cola

COLYER WATSON ( LTD.

RABAUL, MADANG, GOROKA, KAVIENG, LAE

Associated with COLYER WATSON PTY. LTD., Sydney, COLYER WATSON & CO. LTD., Wellington, Melbourne, Brisbane. Auckland, Christchurch.

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Suva Motors Limited

Perfectly balanced

BAKER’S FLOUR

Willow Tre: Brand specially milled ior Pacific Islands requirements in our owiv FLOUR MILLS. Combined capacity of over 3 million bushels o wheat per annum at Albury and Murrumburrah

(N.S.W.)

Heritage Brand Warwick (Qld.) and Ballarat (Victoria)

BUNGE (AUSTRALIA)

Cable Address: “Bungeco, Sydney.” 45 Market Street,J

SYDNEY.

SUVA MOTORS LIMITED

VICTORIA PARADE, SUVA-NAVITI STREET, LAUTOKA

Distributors in Fiji for • Gem Rotary Hoes • Greens Motor Mowers • Enfield Air-Cooled Diesel Engines • Renta 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

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Burns Philp Trust

BAHDt

LtAVt

THAT

tat

How long since

You overhauled

Your Will?

A neglected Will is a document that must confuse and contradict.

Every change in your assets, every transaction affecting specific assets, every increase in your family . . . unless your Will records them, it cannot be a correct blueprint of your intentions.

When your Solicitor revises your Will, add a final safeguard by appointing Burns Philp Trust Company Limited as your Executor.

Then you make certain that your Estate will be completely protected.

Ask for a complimentary copy of “Hands That Never Leave The Wheel” at any branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or write to the Trust Company’s nearest office.

DIRECTORS:

James Burns Joseph Mitchell P.T.W. Black Eric Priestley Lee MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.A.S.A.

BURNS PHILP TRUST

COMPANY LIMITED

Executor • Trustee • Attorney

Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Telegraphic Address: “BURNSTRUST”. Box 543, G.P.O.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby {Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides ).

CONCENTRATED FOAMING DETERGENI

MAKES HARD WATER SOFT

and cuts washing-up time in half!

°°Ao & ■ No need to install expensive water-softenin equipment—just a few drops of Kwit Concen trated Foaming Detergent makes the horde; water soft. When washing-up add a few drop of Liquid Kwit to the water then just wash th dishes and put them in a rack to dry—there? no need to use a teatowel. Powder Kwit wii wash your clothes cleaner than they've eve been washed before. Kwit is safe to use witt septic tanks and if used always will keep you 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' Pty.|imitcd

Q

2-12 CARRINGTON STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

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SUPPLIERS OF -

EVERY KIND OF

Australian

English

Continental

IYI AGHINERY

|y| ACHINE TOOLS

Marine engines

1 f 1 ETC.

AGENTS FOR

• ‘HAMBURG’ Coffee Fulper. • ‘HANSA-M’ H u 1 1 er s , Polishers, Separators, Graders & Driers. • COLOFEX’ Rice Hullers. • ‘CHASE’ Electric Motors. • ‘JYOTF Hurricane Lanterns.

• ‘STERLING’ PAINTS.

• ‘METRIC’ Swiss Watches. • ‘PERLON’ Fishing Lines. • ‘LIGNA’ Bentwood Chairs.

0. BIERI & CO.

PH. LTD.

3 YORK ST., SYDNEY,

AUSTRALIA.

G.P.O. Box 5197.

Merchants, Importers, Manufacturers Representatives, & Buying Agents.

mm

fkmw

CON CCONOM/A

Holbrooks Worcestershire Sauce is the best sauce for soups fish, roast meats, grills, gravies and all made up dishes.

The best food tastes even better when seasoned with HOLBROOKS

WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.

IN ANY LANGUAGE

STANDS FOR QUALITY AND ECONOMY

K; f

NOTIFICATION

est donnee par ces preserves que les marques de fabrique indiquees en marge sont la propriete unique et exclusive et les propres marques de fabrique

de GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AUS-

TRALIA PROPRIETARY LIMITED,

situe au coin de Williamstown Road et de Smith Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Fabricants des Couleurs et Emaux, utilisees par la dite Compagnie pour designer-.

Les couleurs preparees et partiellement preparees, emaux, teintes, vernis, laques, colles d'or et de toutes sortes, finis, detrempes, imprimures, apprets, glacages et les preparations pour la conservation de bois, de metal, de pierre et des tissus de toutes sortes. et on avertit par ces presentes le Commerce et la Publique contre quelque contrefacon ou utilisation injuste des dites marques de fabrique.

Les poursuites seront intentees contre quelque personne ou quelques personnes qui vendent ou mettent en vente des produits n'etant pas ceux du susnomme GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AUSTRALIA PROPRIETARY LIMITED qui portent quelque representation de la dite marque de commerce ou en quelque imitation specieuse.

EDWD. WATERS & SONS

Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 422-428 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

GLAZEBROOKS

TANOX

RUSTA-RESTA

G

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Notice

IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Trade Marks shown in the margin are the sole and exclusive property and proper TRADE MARKS of

GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AUSTRA-

LIA PROPRIETARY LIMITED, of

corner of Williamstown Road and Smith Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Paint and Enamel Manufacturers, used by them in respect of Prepared and partly prepared paints, enamels, stains, varnishes, lacquers, japans, gold and other sizes, finishes, distempers, primers, glosses, glazes, and preparations for preserving wood, metal, stone and fabrics of all kinds, and the Trade and Public are hereby cautioned against any infringement or improper use of the same.

Legal proceedings will be instituted against any person or persons selling or offering for sale goods, not the manufacture of the

aforesaid GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AUSTRALIA PROPRIETARY

LIFITED, bearing any representation of the said Trade Mark or any colourable imitation thereof.

EDWD. WATERS & SONS

Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 422-428 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

GLAZEBROOKS

TANOX

RUSTA-RESTA

Wherever there $ business there s 5 p^urroughs

-to save your time and money

HI i The Burroughs Cash Register produces itemized receipts, records all kinds of transactions. Can change immediately to a precision adding machine for all kinds of general figuring.

The Burroughs Adding Machine cuts operating costs. Electrically or hand-operated, wide or narrow carriage, capacity: £9,999,999,999 /19/11.

The Burroughs Sensimatic wonder accounting machine with a built-in brain. Four separate operations at the turn of a knob. Fast. Easy to operate. Low cost.

WW&o

Call

The Burroughs Calculator, 14-dial capacity, electrically operated.

Checks have proved that this machine saves up to 40% time and costs. Features the famous “Memory Dial” for grand totals, net results.

urroughs man

Asm Com

6wethanksfor

Lucky Discovery

Yes, thousands who coughed and coughed, sneezed, gasped and wheezed with Asthma and Bronchitis give thanks for their lucky discovery of Mendaco.

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

S(A & A MS

Outstanding New Books ...

THE EDGE OF THE SEA, by Rachel Carson. Written by the author of The Sea Around Us, this book is an accurate and entertaining study of the creatures that live near the coastline and have been shaped by and depend upon the tides, waves and ocean currents. Attractively iHus. :22/6 (post 1/1).

THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE, by Terence Robertson—the story of Germany's most brilliant U-Boat Commander, Otto Kretschmer. The first part of the book deals with his amazing U-Boat career; the second part is devoted to his activities while a P.O.W. at Bowmanville P.O.W. Camp. It is an exciting and dramatic story. Ulus. ; 15/6 (post lid.).

EXCURSION TO RUSSIA, by Joyce Egginton. The author, an English journalist, was one of a party of sight-seers on the first tour of Russia after the death of Stalin. This is a personal account of her experiences and in it the reader Will meet the Russian people at work, play and in their homes. Ulus. 15/6 (post lid.).

THE MAN WITH THREE FACES, by Han-Otto Meissner. This is the fascinating story of Dr. Richard Sorge, Russia's master spy. Charming, cynical and utterly ruthless, Sorge guided a brilliant team of spies in Tokyo for nine years without detection. Ulus. 15/6 (post lid.).

For these, and all the books you want, write to . . .

ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD.

89-93 CASTLEREAGH ST. SYDNEY.

66-68 ELIZABETH ST. MELBOURNE, C.I.

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ARAKARIMOA—Latest in Pacific Sea Tragedies

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ARAKARIMOA—Latest in Pacific Sea Tragedies (Continued from Page 31)

just right!,.

BLAXLAND - CHAPMAN

MARINE ENGINES • WONDER LAUNCHES • PUMPING UNITS

• ENGINEERING PRODUCTS

Engineered for heavy sustained operation with minimum upkeep, "8.R.” products £ ideal for Island service.

For Marine Engines, open or Vz cabin launches, pumping units, engineering products, contact the Sole Pacific Distributors:

KERR BROS.

PTY.

LTD.

Cables: “Carefulness,” Sydney.

255 a GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY.

Box 3838, G.P.O.

just right!,.

made by

AOHHVIHnt

Ai- In the heart of Northamptonshire, more than 1400 John White craftsmen are now producing millions of pairs a year just right in style, comfort and value-for-money.

TRADE ENQUIRIES from bulk-buyers for wholesale quantities can be addressed either to John White Footwear Ltd., Higham Ferrers ; Northamptonshire, England or their Agents for the Pacific Islands Messrs. E. Whiteaway & Co., 4/7 Chiswell Street, London, E.C.i., England, with This smart Oxford style storm-welt is particularly popular i

MADE IN ENGLAND

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Smultifort

THE FIRST NAME

IN SELFWINDING

AND

00% WATERPROOF

WATCHES

<*• i# ua m I i 100 s © O 6

% WATERPROOF

HOCK-PROTECTED

TIMAGNETIC

WINDING

Distributed by: —

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD., SYDHEY

Through;—SUVA: Widdowson & Mayne . . . SAMOA: S. V. Mackenzie COOK IS.: United Island Traders . . . TONGA: P. Bhagwan .

NEW GUINEA: Robert Gillespie (New Guinea), Ltd.

Co., Ltd. . . . . PAPUA and No. 1

KOPSENS' FOR SHIPCHANDLERI

SIMPLEX MARINE ENGINES

Simplex are the finest engines produced for use in troo waters. They are complete with large capacity water jacc for efficient cooling in all conditions, and have marine t magnetos and carburettors and every modern feature rugged consistent use in work or pleasure boats. Simu engines are made in four sizes, 3 HP., 5 H.P., 10 12 HP 15/20 HP. They are suitable for boats from 14 ft. to 283 long. Every engine is fully bench tested and ready for on installation. Operation and maintenance is easy, and s® parts are always obtainable. Several thousand Simplex are in use in Pacific waters.

BRITANNIA OUTBOARDS

A new shipment of these fine English 4 HP. twin cylinder outboards has just arrived. A horizontally opposed twin engine which runs smoothly and without vibration. Easy starting, most economical.

Britannia is beautifully built with good quality materials. Suitable for boats up to 20 ft. long. Arriving shortly the de-luxe model Swordfish from the same factory.

NORWEGIAN ROWLOCKS

New special alloy drop rowlocks, stronger than steel and rust proof. Light weight and most attractive in appearance. These rowlocks are superior to any we have ever seen. Price only 24/- per pair.

WICO MAGNETOS

English marine waterproof magnetos for boat engines.

Single, twin or four cylinder fully enclosed with impulse starter. Most reliable.

PENTA MARINE ENGINES

Sweden’s finest quality true marine engines. Beautifully designed and engineered and proved ideal for use in tropical areas. 4 cylinder 35 H P 4 cylinder 5° H.P., 6 cylinder’ 84 H.p. Also 6 cylinder 100 HP diesel. All complete with reverse and reduction gears and electric starter and generator. Supplies available now.

FIBREGLASS BOATS

Now available in 8 ft. heavy df 10 ft. medium duty, 10 ft. 6 in. h© duty and 12 ft. heavy duty. Stron than wood, will not rot or deterion Ideal for carrying light cargoes? several passengers. Good for row or outboard motors.

C.Q.R. ANCHORS

Three times the holding power or third the weight of kedge anckl Dig in quickly and hold under • conditions. All sizes from 13 Ibss 170 lbs.

RUBBER BEARINSS”

The ideal shaft or skeg bean Stop vibration and save sK; wear. All sizes from 5 8 inr 3 in.

CELASTIC

America’s wonder plastii fabric for covering decks cabin tops, hulls or bottoms of boats. Produces a tightes skin than metal or ever* paint and lasts for 10 to 2 ; S years. Price 26/- per squarn yard. Ask for leaflet.

ASK FOR GENERAL CATALOGUE OR BOAT & ENGINE FOLDER W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD. - 380 Kent St., Sydn*

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hraijlion QUALITY

Stop Kidney

PdisoningTodw

If you suffer from Rheumatism.

Sleepless Nights, Lee Pains, Backache, Lumbago, Nervousness, Headaches and Colds, Dizziness. Circles under Eyes.

Swollen Ankles, Loss of Appetite or Energy, you should know that your system is being poisoned because germs are impairing the vital process of your kidneys.

Ordinary medicines can’t help much, because you must km the germs which cause these troubles, and bleed can’t be pure till kidneys function normally.

Stop troubles by attacking cause with Oystex—the new scientific discovery which starts benefit In 2 hours. Cystex must prove entirely satisfactory and be exactly the medicine you need or money back is guaranteed, dot Cystex from your chemist or store today.

hraijlion QUALITY

i KVA 240 VOLT A.C.

or 110 VOLT A.C. SET

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.

Price: £267/10/0 F. 0.8. Sydney The Sign of duality Products

DIESEL SETS

li KVA Set

BRAYBON BROS. PTY. LTD.

27-33 WASHINGTON STREET, SYDNEY.

Cables; “Braybonian”, Sydney.

Write for further particulars on the “All Australian Plants "

whenever

milk is

required!

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for fruit

for cooking

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C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

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Enquiries invited.

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ANY NEW BOOK (English), which is in print now, posted to you in a few days.

T also find rare and out-of-print books to order. Large Pacific clientele. Banking accounts at Sydney and Wellington. Write Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Westburv.

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FLEETS offer 33 ft. flush deck carvel workboat, 2Vz yrs. old, profess, bit. 30 h.p.

Lister diesel, 2:1 reduction, beech decks, ready for sea £3,700. 44 ft. x 14 ft. x 5 ft. flush deck sharpie trawler, profess, bit. 7 yrs. old, 72 h.p. Gardner diesel, trawl winches, 2-way radio, stern deck 20 ft. long, ready for sea £5,250. FLEETS, Water St. East, South Brisbane, Q’land.

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DOUBLE BASS, orchestral instrument, brand new, came from Hongkong, made in England. Please write: Rev. John Su.

P.O. Box 90, Rabaul, N.G.

SHARES FOR SALE. 1,000 £1 shares in Madang Slipways Ltd. (New Guinea).

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New revised publication “PRACTICAL

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NEW 25 ft. x 10 ft., well constructed, Raised Deck, Hull complete, Wheelhouse ready for engine. Ideal heavy Island work. —Towing, etc. Large carrying capacity. £1,950. Sydney. Chambers & Wiliams, 32 Boyle St., Cremorne, Sydney. XY 3127.

FOR SALE £15,750. New Lambton Heights, Newcastle, N.S.W. The finest two storey brick home in elite locality. V.P. 2.700 sq. feet and 4 bedrooms, large lounge and dining room, dressing room, rumpus room.

Bathroom with wall radiator, shower recess: two toilets. Wall to wall carpet.

Built-in furniture, fluorescent lights. ’Phone. Built-in wireless speakers in rumpus room and kitchen. Also talkie screen. Well laid out flower, fruit and vegetable gardens with irrigation and electric lights. Magnificent views over ocean and city. Also cottage style workshop, double garage 1,200 sq. ft. To build this would cost £24,000 at present. For particulars, photos, plans and specifications apply P.O. Box 14. New Lambton, N.S.W.

Estate Agents also please note!

If you are intending to live in Australia, a well built brick cottage, three bedrooms, lounge, dining room and kitchen, close to transport, avell furnished, walk in walk out. £5,000 cash. Apply Boshier, 28 Norton Street. Ashfield. Sydney. Australia.

CREW WANTED

GLORIA MARIS, 110 ft. schooner, doing marine research throughout Pacific and now in New Guinea waters, needs amateur crew members keen on sailing and the sea.

Knowledge of Bosuns’ work and other nautical skills valuable. Air mail full personal details to: Capt. E. Chamberlain, Biak, Netherlands New Guinea.

STAMPS WANTED

ISLANDS STAMPS WANTED. $1 U S 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.

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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.”

In London: Telephone: BW 4421.

Postal Address: G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

W. R. Carpenter Cr Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC:

IN NEW GUINEA; IN PAPUA: IN FIJI; New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

Island Products Ltd..

Port Moresby.

Moms Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Suva.