Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXVII, No. 10 (May 1, 1957)
1 May 1957 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Pacific

p. 1

ISLANDS

Monthly

MAY, 1957

Vol. XXVII. No. 10

•lished 1930

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A SMILE FROM SAMOS. A young mother, in a village not far from Apia, ans infant. Baby is well-covered-but not in clothes; Mother wears a lava-lava, tucked-in beneath one arm, and a hibiscus behind one ear.

Photo: Bruce Moss.

Shipping Time-Tables

pp. 9-12

sailings are approximate and may -ary by as much as two weeks.

ydney-Papua-N. Guinea

t Malekula sails from Melbourne for ■y, Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, mg. Madang, Lae, Port Moresby, y. Next Sydney sailing approx. May Malaita sails from Sydney for Port by, Rabaul, Kavieng, Lombrum, gau, Wewak, Alexishafen, Madang, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing approx. 25. then about June 28. [ Bulolo, modern liner, sails about [six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port by Samarai, Lae, Madang, Lom ( Rabaul, Samarai, Port Moresby, me. Sydney. Next Sydney sailing May 31. [ Montoro sails from Sydney, for ,ne. Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, ig, Lae, Port Moresby, Sydney, Mel i. Next Sydney sailing approx. May ills from Burns, Phllp & Co. Ltd., ige Street, Sydney.

Soochow; Next Sydney sailing May 'Brisbane, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Shansi; Next Sydney sailing May 28 ttsbane, Port Moresby, Samarai.

Sinkiang: Next Sydney sailing June r Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, ig, Rabaul, ,11s from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., Ige St., Sydney.

Sydney-Dutch N.G.

ic weeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silin [ Sibigo and Sinabang carrying pas

sengers and cargo from E. Australian ports to Hollandia and Sorong, DNG (with Biak and/or Manokwari if inducement), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct. Next Sydney sailings; Sigli May 22, Sinabang June 10, Silin doeng July 3.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George St., Sydney.

Far East-S.W. Pacific-

Australia

(Calling S.W. Pacific ports on sonth-boond journeys only.) SS Funing; Southbound due Madang May 22, Rabaul May 25, Lae May 30, Samarai June 3, Port Moresby June 5.

SS Fengning: Southbound due Madang July 3, Kavieng July 6, Rabaul July 8, Lae July 13, Port Moresby July 18.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor

vessels Arcs, Citos, Delos and Milos main tain regular services between Australian ports and Japan. Northbound vessels call at Manila, Hongkong and Japan; south bound vessels call at Hongkong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne, with bi-monthly calls at Gizo (opt.), Honiara and Vanikoro.

Aros: Southbound due Rabaul May 29, Lae June 1.

Citos: Southbound due Rabaul July 2, Lae July 5.

Milos: Southbound due Lae July 13, Rabaul July 16, Honiara July 19, Vani koro July 23.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 63 Pitt St., Sydney, or Islands agents (R. Tebb, Lae; Town Transport, Rabaul; A. Strachan, Madang; BSIP Trad ing Corp., Honiara).

N. Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa

MV Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auckland: June 11.

Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1957.

ORCADES

ORCADES

ORSOVA

ORONSAY

SYDNEY

depart (To UK via Panama i June 11 May 28 July 12

AUCKLAND

arr/dep — June 14 May 31 July 15

SUVA

arr/dep — June 17 June 3 July 18

HONOLULU

arr/dep — June 22 June 8 July 23

VANCOUVER

arrive — June 28 June 14 July 29 depart — June 29 June 15 July 30

SAN FRANCISCO arr

— July 1 June 17 Aug. 1 depart — — June 18 Aug. 2

HONOLULU

arr/dep May 25 .

June 22 Aug. 6

SUVA

arr/dep June 1 — June 29 Aug. 13

AUCKLAND

arr/dep June 4 — July 2 Aug. 16

SYDNEY

arrive June 7 — July 5 Aug. 19

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Ania Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Next sailing from from all offices of Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The passenger vessel Maui Pomare maintains a regular service between Auckland and the Cook Islands.

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, Santo, Honiara, Tenaru, Yandina, Loavie, Pepesala, Somata, Gizo, Bougainville ports, Rabaul. Next Sydney

sailing approx. May 23, then about J Details from Burns, Philp & ' Bridge Street. Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tall

Vessels of Messageries Maritimes coming from Marseilles, via West and Panama, call about every six at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), N and Sydney, and return by same At present on this run are the ships, Tahitien, Caledonien and gent. Next sailing from Sydney; donien June 25, Tahitien August 1( MV Polynesie (Messageries Mar maintains about monthly passenge ings between Sydney and Noume the New Hebrides. Next Sydney i June 14.

Details from Sydney agents: Mess Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sj

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pac

Ports-Sydney

Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-pa liner Southern Cross makes four the-world voyages per year, two bound, then two east-bound, call Suva and Papeete every trip. Next ■ Suva July 16, Tahiti July 20-21.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides,

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s Thorsisle and Thorshall maint regular service from Pacific Coast American ports, with sailings ove days. Some ports depend on cargoes o Thorshall; San Francisco May Los Angeles June 1-2, Papeete Ji 15, Nukualofa June 21-24, Pago Paf 25-26, Apia June 27-28, Suva Ju Lautoka July 3-4, Noumea July 7- Vila July 10, Townsville July 14-] Francisco (inbound) July-Aug.

Thorsisle: Vancouver June 16-2

minster June 27-July 2, San Francisco 5-10. Los Angeles July 12-13, Papeete 24-27, Pago Pago Aug. 1-2, Apia 3-4, Suva Aug. 7-8, Lautoka Aug. : Noumea Aug. 13-15, Lae Aug. 20-21, Francisco (inbound) Sept. 9. ;ails from General Steamships Cor ion Ltd., 432 California St., San jlsco, USA, and Island Agents.

)S-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji-

Australia

[son-Oceanlc Line of San Francisco tes a regular five-weeks passenger . service from Los Angeles with the ra, Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma, ern terminal ports vary with cargoes ig. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago and Suva, depending on cargoes, ’sailing from Sydney: Alameda late

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver

flc Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (sub f of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate vice three times yearly with the ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba the above route. Accommodation Irely First Class, two-berth cabins, sailing from Sydney, late June, alls at Suva, Lautoka and Honolulu. ,11s from American Trading & Shlp !o. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St. f Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZ)-North

America

r four cargo vessels, Walhemo, la, Waikawa, and Waitomo, owned perated by the Union Steam Ship f NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly [ across the Pacific, from Sydney

to Vancouver and USA ports, via Suva.

Lautoka, Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes offer. Occasional calls are made at Fan ning Island. They have limited passenger accommodation. Next sailings: Wairuna, early June, Waikawa mid - July. The Waitemata, from NZ ports, makes 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver, via Rarotonga and Papeete

Honolulu-Papeete

The 242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, American-owned, operates a luxury pas senger service to a regular schedule, with calls at Marquesas and Line Islands as

required. Details from Darr Lines, c/o Theo. H. Davies & Co., Honolulu, or Etablissements Donald, Papeete.

N. America-Hawaii-Fiji-Samoa-

Tahiti-N. Zealand-Australia

Matson Line's Mariposa and Monterey make round passenger trips from Pacific North Coast American ports to Australia, via Pacific Islands ports and New Zealand.

Mariposa: In the Pacific due Papeete May 22-24, Wellington May 30. Melbourne June 3, Sydney June 5-7, Auckland June

10 Suva June 13, Pago Pago June 14.

Honolulu June 19, San Francisco June 24. ivrnntcrev San Francisco June 4, Los aSs June 5 Honolulu June 10. Pago Angeies ’ June ig Auckland Ju a ne° 21-2 n 2 e Sydney V June U 25-28, Wellington July 1 Papeete July 5-7. Honolulu July S. LOB Angeles July 17. San Francisco from Matson Lines, Berger House 82 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Airways Time-Tables

pp. 12-15

TRANSPACIFIC 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*) Sun.. Thur.: Sydney. Nadi - Honolulu, San Francisco, Seattle, Port- Tues.? Fri.: Sydney, Nadi, Canton Is., Honolulu. Los Angeles. , Mon., Thur.; San Francisco to Sydney (same route).

Tues., Sat.: Los Angeles to Sydney (same route). • DC4 from Auckland connects, arriving Nadi Sun.. Tues., Thur., departing Nadi Tues., Thur.. Sun. DC4 shuttle service bi-weekly connects Nadi and Tafuna (American Samoa).

Next flights May 30, June 13 and 27.

BY QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS

(Super Constellation Service)

NORTHWARDS

Tues.*, Wed.*, Fri.* and Sat.*: Sydney, Nadi (Fiji), Honolulu, San Francisco — with Sat. service extending to Van couver.

SOUTHWARDS

Wed *, Thur.*, Sat.*. Mon.*: San Francisco, Honolulu. Nadi (Fiji), Sydney. Mon day’s service begins at Vancouver on Sunday. (Note; Crosses date-line en route). J * TEAL DC6 services between Auckland and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and Fri. northwards; Wed. and Sat. southwards.

Note: Wed, and Fri. services ex Sydney connect at San Francisco with BOAC service to London departing San Francisco Thu. and Sat. BOAC service, ex London on Tue. and Thu. connect at San Fran cisco with Qantas Thu. and Sat. services to Sydney.

BY CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Wed.; Sydney, Auckland, Nadi.

Honolulu, Vancouver, Amsterdam.

Every Sun.: Leaves Vancouver for Auck land and Sydney by same route. (Note: Crosses date-line en route).

SECTIONAL SERVICES IN

PACIFIC

2. Sydney-New Guinea

Service by Qantas Empire Airways (Skymasters)

NORTHWARDS

Mon.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 6.30 p.m. Brisbane, 9.10 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Tues.

Depart: Arrive: Townsville, 1.50 a.m.

Townsville. 2.50 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.35 a.m.

Pt. Moresby 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m.

Tues., Fri., Sat.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.40 p.m.

Brisbane, 11.45 p.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.35 a.m.

Wed., Sat., Sun.

Pt. Moresby, 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m.

Thurs.

Depart: Sydney, 6.30 p.m. Brisbane, 9.10 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Fri.

Cairns, 2.45 a.m.

Cairns, 3.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.35 a.m.

Pt. Moresby, 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m.

SOUTHWARDS

Tues.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m.

Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Townsville, 4.15 p.m.

Townsville, 5.45 p.m. Brisbane. 9.25 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Wed.

Sydney, 12.50 a.m.

Wed., Fri., Sun.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m, Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Brisbane, 7.5 p.m.

Brisbane, 8.30 p.m. Sydney. 11.10 p.m.

Sat.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m.

Pt. Moresby. 12.30 p.m. Cairns, 3.20 p.m.

Cairns, 4.50 p.m. Brisbane, 9.25 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Sun.

Sydney, 12.50 a.m

3. P-NG Internal Services

Operated by Qantas LAE-HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea)

(DCS)

Alt. Wed. (May 29, June 12, 26, etc.).

Departs Lae 11.00 a.m., calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia 3.30 p.m. Every alternate Thursday (May 30, June 13, 27, etc.), departs Hollandia at 9.30 a.m., and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.20 p.m.

LAE-MANUS (DCS)

Alt. Wed. (May 29, June 12, 26, etc.).

Dep. Lae, 8.00 a.m.: Finschhafen, Rabaul, Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.00 p.m.

Every alt. Sat. (June 1, 15, 29, etc.) departs Manus 8 a.m. and with calls at Kavieng, Rabaul and Finschhafen. arrives Lae at 2.50 p.m.

PORT MORESBY-KIKORI (Catalina)

Via Yule Is., Kerema, Vaimuru: Alt. Prl. returning same day (May 24, June 7, 21, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Via Kerema, Kikori; Alt. Fri. returning Daru-Port Moresby direct same day (May 31, June 14, 28. etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (Catalina)

Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Pt. Moresby; Alt.

Tues. (June 4, 18).

PORT MORESBY-RABAUL (Catalina)

Alt. Tues. (May 28, June 11, 25, etc.) Port Moresby-Moewe Harbour-Talasea- Jacqulnot Bay-Rabaul, returning via same ports (May 30, June 13, 27, etc.).

NEW BRITAIN-BOUGAINVILLE

(Catalina) Alt. Wed. (May 29, June 12, 26, etc.) Rabaul, Buka, Teopasino, Kieta, Buin. Return ing same day.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS

KAVIENG-RABAUL SERVICE

(DCS)

Mon.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng.

Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., direct tf Madang, arr. 9.25 a.m.

Thurs.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang.

Awar, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Fri.; Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. K Manus, Wewak, Madang, Lai 3.55 p.m.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (DC

Fridays: Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wapena calling at any of; Goroka, N Banz, MlnJ, Mt. Hagen, Bai; Kamantu, Wapenamunda. Arriv at Lae dependent on stops.

LOWER HIGHLANDS

(Beaver) Fridays: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Gorok ing at any of Nadzab, Kaiapit, Aiyura, Finintegu, Rintebe, Ben Kainantu, Goroka, Arona. Arrh at Lae depends on stops made.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (D.H. Bea’

Dep. Lae: Mon. 7.30 a.m., Tues.

Dep. Wau: Mon. 8.55 a.m., Tuej p.m. Bulolo is omitted on retun which take 30 minutes, Wau-La

LAE-BULOLO-WAU-PT. MORESBY

Dep. Lae Wed. and Sat. 9 a.m. via Wau to Port Moresby, return same route.

MADANG-GOROKA (DCS)

Tuesdays: Depart Madang 2 p.m.

Goroka 2.35 a.m., returning sa: depart Goroka 3 p.m., arr. 3.35 p.m.

NEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAI

BOUGAINVILLE (DCS)

Fridays: Depart Lae 12.55 p.m., bafen 1.45 p.m., arrive Rabi p.m.

Saturdays; Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.n to Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m, Sundays: Depart Lae 12 noon, Fini 1 p.m., Rabaul 3.10 p.m.

Tuesdays: Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m., hafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.4 Alt. Thurs. (May 23, June 6, 2 Dep. Lae 8 a.m., Finschhafen, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 2.55 p.m.

Alt. Thurs. (May 30, June 13, 5 Dep. Lae 8 a.m., Finschhafen, arr. 11.5 a.m.

Alt. Fri. (May 31, June 14, 28, etc Rabaul 8 a.m., Madang, Goro arr. 1.20 p.m.

Alt. Fri. (May 24, June 7, 21, etc Rabaul 8 a.m., Madang, Gore arr. 1.20 p.m.

SERVICES BY MANDATED AH

Scheduled Flights with DCS Ai Mon.: Depart Lae at 7.30 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Madang, remaining overnight. Depart a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Tues.; Depart Rabaul at 6.30 ■ • Madang, Wewak, Madang, Gon Wed.: Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Wau, Poit Moresby. Wau, Gon Fri.: Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, R remaining overnight. Depart a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7 i Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Goroka, Lae.

4. Aust.-Dutch N. Gu

By KLM Royal Dutch Airll (Super Constellation Servli A weekly service between Sy< Amsterdam with a call at Bia! and Manila (Philippines).

DC3 aircraft link Biak with I Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, warl, Noemfoer, Ransikl. Genj Kokonao.

5. N. Guinea-Solom

By Qantas with DCS Aircr (Three flights every four w Mon. (May 27, June 3, 17, 24. dep. 6 a.m.: Finschhafen, Buka, Vella Lavella, Yandlna, (BSD, arriving 5.25 p.m.

day (May 28, June 4. 18, 25, etc.) oniara dep. 7 a.m.: Yandlna, Vella ivella, Buka, Rabaul, Lae. arriving 35 p.m.

5. Paris-Saigon-Noumea-

Auckland

transports Aerlens Infercontinentaux- I aircraft depart Paris every week lay 27, June 3, etc.) for Athens, irachl, Saigon, Darwin, Noumea, ickland. Leaves Auckland on return ay -31, June 7, etc.

, Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd., ¥ith Sandringham Flying-boats. n flight each Tuesday and Thursday.

8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters 3at.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 p.m., arr. 6.15 a.m. Sunday; dep. NI 5.30 i. same day for Sydney, arr. 9.30 i. Alt. weeks makes NI-Auckland flight. (See table 12 below),

9. Sydney-Noumea

By Qantas, with Skymasters Ihree flights every four weeks) . (May 30, June 13, 20, 27, etc.).

Iney dep. 11.30 p.m., arriving Ton ta, 7 a.m. Fri. (May 31, June 14, 28, etc.). (May 31, June 14, 21. 28, etc.) itouta dep. 9.00 a.m., arriving Iney, 2.50 p.m.

). New Caledonia-New

Hebrides

TAI with J)C3 Aircraft, jsdays; Depart Tontouta 8 a.m., ive Santo 11.10 a m., arrive Vila 5 p.m., depart Vila 2.15 p.m., arrive itouta 4.30 p.m. lays: Depart Tontouta 8 a.m., arrive i 10.20 a.m., arrive Santo 12.5 p.m., art Santo 1.30 p.m., arrive Tontouta ) p.m.

l. New Caledonia-Fiji-

Wallis Is.

TAI With DC Aircraft (Irregular Service) lights: July 7, Sept. 1, Nov. 3.

I Norfolk Is.-Auckland

TEAL, by Qantas (charter) m. Return flight Norfolk fdep. 745 -) Auckland (arr. 11.30 a.m., dep . Norfolk (arr. 4.15 p.m.). 9 Table 8 above).

13. Auckland-Sydney

asman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Wed., Thu.: Departs Auckland a.m., arr. Sydney 1.00 p.m.

Jun.: Dep. Auckland 11.30 a.m Sydney 3.00 p.m.

Dep. Sydney 10.00 a.m., arr. tland 5.00 p.m.

Thu.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 p.m., Auckland 10.00 p.m.

Pri.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 p.m., arr.

Hand 6.30 a.m. next day.

14. Christchurch-Sydney

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Hon./Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 p.m., arr. Sydney 8.40 p.m, Hon.: Dep. Sydney 8.00 a.m., arr. Christ church 3 p.m. .

Wed.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 p.m., arr. Christ church 10.10 p.m.

15 Christchurch-Melbourne

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Thurs.; Dep. Christchurch 11.30 a.m., arr.

Melbourne 4.00 p.m.

Pri • Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 3.00 p.m.

16. New Zealand-Fiji

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Tues., Fri.: Dep. Auckland 1.15 a.m., arr.

Nadi 6.15 p.m.

Wed.. Sat.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m.. arr.

Auckland 3.30 p.m.

17. Fiji-Tahiti

Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with extra flights as required.

Departs Suva Thurs. 9 a.m., crosses date line, arrives Satapuala (W. Samoa) Wed. 1.55 p.m., departs Thurs. 2 a.m., arrives Aitutaki (Cook Is.) 7.30 a.m., departs 9.30 a.m., arrives Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m. Departs Papeete Sun. 7.30 a.m., arrives Aitutaki 11 a.m., departs 12.30 p.m., arrives Satapuala 5 p.m., departs Mon. 8 a.m., crosses date line, arrives Suva Tues., 10.55 a.m.

Leaves Suva May 30, June 21, 28, July 5, 12, 19, 26. Leaves Papeete June 2, 23, 30, July 7, 15, 21, 28.

18. Fiji-Tonga

Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft. (This service will terminate with the next flight.) Dep. Suva 6.30 a.m.. arr Nukualofa 9.50 a.m., dep. Nukualofa 2.45 p.m., arr.

Suva 4.55 p.m.

Next flight; June 5.

19. Fiji-Samoa

Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Aircraft.

Dep. Suva 6 a.m., arr. Satapuala 11.5 a.m.

Dep. Satapuala 1.30 p.m., arr, Suva 4.35 p.m.

Next flights from Suva June 20, July 4, 23, crossing International Date Line and leaving Satapuala June 19, July 3, 22.

20. Fiji Internal Airways

Fiji Airways, Ltd., Drover Aircraft.

Suva-Nadl Suva: Two flights daily except Sun., o e flight.

Suva-Nadi Tues., Wed., Fri. (additional to the above return flights).

Nadi-Suva: Wed., Thurs., Sat.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Daily.

Suva-Taveuni-Suva; Frl., Sun.

Suva-Taveuni-Savusavu-Suva: Wed.

Suva-Savusavu-Taveunl-Suva; Thurs.

Suva - Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva; Tues., Thurs.

Suva-Labasa-Taveuni-Labasa-Suva: Frl.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva; Mon., Tues.

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

21. French Oceania Inte

Island Service

Regie Aerienne Interinsalair (R. with Amphibious Catalina Twice weekly service to the Le Group.

Wednesday: Papeete, Raiatea, Bora Raiatea, Papeete.

Friday: Papeete. Huahine, R£ Papeete, Booking agents in Papeete; Messs Maritimes.

22. N. Caledonia-Loyalty

Internal Service

Societe Caledonienne de Transj Aerlens (TRANSPAC), with Rap aircraft.

Noumea (Magenta), Lifou (Chepe Noumea: Tues. a.m.

Noumea, Mare (Tadine), Noumea: p.m.

Noumea, Mare, Lifou, Noumea, or N< Lifou, Mare, Noumea, alternj Thurs. a.m.

Noumea, Koumac, Noumea (with ditional call at Plaine des G Frl. a.m.

Noumea, Lifou, Ouvea Is.: Wed. mo Noumea, Poindimie, Noumea (witl ditional call at Houailou): Frl.

Noumea, He des Pins, Noumea: Sa and Sunday afternoons.

23. Micronesia

Trans Ocean Airlines.

Using Grumman Albatross twin-n amphibious flying-boats, TOA oper service throughout the Trust Terril

aesla on behalf of the US Govern- Details from Trans Ocean Airlines, Guam.

iroximate Airways Fares

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

If SYDNEY (Anst. currency) TO

NOTE: To obtain the equivalent of Australian currency in other currencies (Sterling, Fiji, New Zea land, French Pacific francs) see last page of this journal.

Single Return Table £ s. d. £ s. d. No. y . 46 11 0 83 16 0 2 . 55 7 0 99 13 0 2 . , . . 64 19 0 116 19 0 2. 7 a . 48 15 0 85 15 0 9. 10 a . 80 7 0 144 13 0 2. ft c Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 towe . . 12 15 0 25 10 0 7 Em • • . 76 0 0 136 16 0 1 . 81 3 0 141 19 0 1. 20 Qd . . . 52 10 0 94 10 0 13 fiurch . 52 10 0 94 10 0 14

ays Fares

[ SYDNEY (Aust.

currency) TO— lu . 252 5 0 454 1 0 1 nclsco . 312 10 0 562 10 0 1 ver . 312 10 0 562 10 0 1 ofa . 92 9 0 165 19 0 1, 18 97 7 0 175 3 0 1, 18. 19 1 139 2 0 250 8 0 1, 18, 19 1 119 8 0 214 19 0 1, 18, 19 1 * * 90 0 0 162 0 0 4

! AUCKLAND (NZ

currency) TO— ft . . . 53 0 0 95 8 0 16, 17 1 . . 77 14 0 139 18 0 16, 17

Nadi . . ... 39 7 0 70 17 0 16 Norfolk Is, . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . . 97 0 0 174 12 0 16, 17

FROM

SUVA (Fiji currency) TO — Apia . . . . . 25 0 0 45 0 0 17 Aitutaki . . . 48 17 0 87 19 0 17 Nukualofa . . 17 1 0 30 14 0 17 Papeete . . 71 12 0 128 18 0 17

Notes On The Markets

p. 15

Shell dealers in Sydney this month reported that there had been a downward trend in the trochus market. Their quotations in May were from £5 to £l5 a ton lower than in April.

One dealer also reported a slight downward trend in the pearl shell market.

The price of New Guinea pea nuts had been forced down by Id to 2d per lb by the arrival in Aus tralia of shipment of peanuts from China. A release of Kingaroy pea nuts contributed also to a reduc tion in the price of New Guinea peanuts. t About 200 new cars were imported into New Caledonia in April and May—a sign of the continuing prosperity of the Colony.

ff Miss Jennifer Goodsir, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Goodsir, of Suva, Fiji, will be married in June to Mr. Ivan Crooks, the Fiji representative of the London Liver pool and Globe Insurance Company.

The young couple are well-known and personally popular, and the wedding will be a social highlight in the Fijian capital.

Contents:

p. 17

Editorial: After 1957: What Goes On In the Copra In dustry 17 Editors’ Mailbag 19 Copra Negotiations in S.

Pacific 19 P-NG Badly Hit by Qantas Strike and Aftermath ... 20 Maybe June For the Bomb 21 Extended Term For Fiji’s Popular Governor 22 Clutha Will Not Proceed at Gold Ridge 22 Is It the Mixture-As-Before For South Pacific Com mission? 23 New PS Arbitrator For Papua-N. Guinea 23 The Thornton Libel Case — It Could Happen To You 24 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 24 Anglican Bishops Meet In Papua 30 Yankee Quarantined in Suva 31 Atomic Fallout: What It Means To the Scientists and What It Means To You 33 Europeans But Few Natives Can Enjoy P-NG Radio Sessions 38 New Guinea Diary 41 Government Co-operation In dicates New Lease Of Life For Fiji’s Gold Industry .. 49 Samoa Faces Constitutional Changes 53 NZ’s Capacity For Tropical Fruit 55 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising..

Yachts 57 Trials of Cl Citrus Growers 65 Strange Blips Which Led To a Fateful Battle in 1943 .. 67 The Myth of Cheap Labour In Fiji 70 Hot Pat Costello Brought Millions To Fiji 73

MAGAZINE SECTION:

Tropicalitles, 77; Suva’s Small Ships Saved the Norbryn, 78; Benjamin Boyd’s 111-fated Expedition To Guadalcanal, 80; The Drake Goes West, 83; This Month’s New Reading, 84; Your World Of Stamps ... 99 Monied Tourists But Not Enough Hotels In Fiji .. 125 PWD Scandal In Fiji .. .. 126 Suva Proud of Association With Famous Airman .. 127 tn P-NG Missions and Admin.

Talk About Education and Drink 130 Interesting Development In Fiji Timber Industry .. .. 135 Samoan Govt. Brings Suit On a Stone-Crusher .. .. 138 Moresby Gaol Breakers Keep Local Police Hopping For 20 Days 141 Suva —City Without Street Numbers 143 Business and Enterprise, Month’s Notes 145 NZ’s Extraordinary Attitude To Islands Residents Who Seek Medical Aid 149 Late Sir Henry Scott’s Home Bought By Indian Investor 151 OBITUARY: Mrs. S. Horton, Mr. P. Costello, Mr. M.

Estall, Mr. Ben Allen, Mrs. Norma Vicary, Lady Ellis. G. S. Rowley .. 152-153 Mr. Banno’s New Business In Fiji 153 The Yank Who Came Back 155 Santo Co. Enlist Jap Fishing Know-How 157 TEAL Withdraws Tonga Ser vice and Raises Coral Route Fares 157 Market Information 160

Editorial...

pp. 19-20

[?]ER 1957: WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE SOUTH

PACIFIC COPRA INDUSTRY

SRYONE with Interest in the outh Pacific Islands will note lat definite steps now are being r to create a copra marketing isation to take the place of the h Ministry of Food copra g contract, which expires on ttber 31, 1957. [ same observers may be d by the fact that the primary ■ in creating at least a British lonwealth-wide organisation is rer, the international concern I monopolistic power was so ' felt in the 1920-1939 period, whose market control was d— rightly or wrongly—for a of painfully low copra prices, ing come through eight years d prices fixed by Government , and enjoyed a standard of rt rarely experienced by them ■war days, the coconut planters >t well prepared to face the [ They have forgotten those d days of 20 years ago when product was at a starvation They feel that it just can’t i again. be they are right—maybe the >e in the world demand for it products, the result of a 1 rise in the standard of liv [ overcrowded countries, will > keep prices up. Maybe the hilever is different, in some from the 1930 Unilever, and ot or cannot control world of oil-seeds. Nonetheless, auld be wise to observe closely ves that are in progress, and ay to act according to their idgment.

IE is an old-established organ bion called the International relation of Seed Crushers as its name indicates, in millers from most of the e s where vegetable oil seeds shed. The treatment of copra nts an important section— no means the only section— industry. e-war days, Unilever domin his Association. This was —Unilever then seemed to most of the seed-crushers in mntries. It is said that this t the position now—that r. as a buyer of vegetable oil peets firm competition in the The signs indicate that >y be so Unilever is no in unchecked monopoly—but lot know this positively, ver, it is clear that Unilever fen all the initial steps to p among copra-producers ly some system of orderly

marketing, after December 31; and that this system will be based on grading. It is sought to- establish, throughout all British coconutgrowing areas in the tropics, and perhaps generally, certain standards for grading which will be upheld by the Association, so that they may become the basis of world marketing in the future, The Copra Quality Sub-Committee of the International Association of Seed Crushers has recommended that a grading system be given a six-months’ trial. It appears that the Association favours five grades of copra—the difference between Grade 1 and Grade 5 being, in value, between £5/10/- and £6 per ton. The Sub-Committee made this public statement: . x . x . , . o r a Hi„o W Vrhfm r p? d laa if u' lat,ve va L ues of grading schemes could only be assessed as a result of actual periods of operation.

"in view Of this the members decided to recommend an experiment with a suggested anaiyticai grading scheme.

"They would operate this in their mills for a period of six months in order to test its

practicability as a means of assessing the relative values of copra to the crusher.

"All members were in agreement about the advantages of Marketing Boards or similar organisations in assuring to the individual producer a fair share of any premium earned for higher quality material.

"The Sub-Committee stressed the need for encouraging the replanting of large areas in order to safeguard future supplies of copra and to ensure prosperity for the producing countries whose economy is so closely linked with the coconut palm."

SO far as the South Pacific is con cerned, the next step apparently lies in a series of more or less formal talks which will take place in London in the coming summer, between the international copra fa uye r s, and representatives of planters and traders in Papua and New Guinea, Fiji. Western Samoa, Solomons and Tonga. As indicated in April PIM, the discussions probably will begin with informal talks with Unilever men, and then they will move over to more formal meetings with the Seed Crushers Association, or its Sub-Committee.

There is much to be said in favour of the plan; but great patience will be needed in securing its accept ance by planters’ organisations, and in its implementation.

The European copra-growers in the South Seas are mostly people of independent spirit, who make good copra and who naturally are unwilling to enter into any under takings, through Planters’ Union or otherwise, which in their view may affect their freedom to sell their

“But ours is such a LITTLE one.”

product how and when they P le^e.

There is a steadily increasing volume of native-made copra com ing in from native producers. A large proportion of this is from village oeople who know little and care less about the attainment of high grades, and who mostly sell their copra, at so much per pound, to small traders on the spot. Unless the application of the grading system is very carefully planned, it may become necessary for the Islands Administrations to ponce village copra-making—that is, if the Association’s wish for orderly market ing, for the good of the whole in dustry, is to be given effect to.

The Association, and Unilever, of course, hope to meet these con siderations by enforcing a strict system of grading through organised buying: and by establishing such a difference in price, through grading, between good and bad copra, that copra-producers will be forced by self-interest to seek the higher grades. Under the conditions which have ruled since the war, there is so little difference in the market rate, between good and bad copra, that the producer simply does not worry.

THE argument that better estab lished prices for good copra will stimulate more planting of coconut trees must not be ignored, in the over-all picture.

The vagaries of the 1920-1940 market, plus the uncertainties (both commercial and political) of the post-war period, have heavily dis couraged both new planting and re planting; and those who recognise the economic importance of the coconut palm in the South Pacific have reason for serious alarm, whenever they look into the future.

The answer lies in providing the non-mdigenous planters with re assurances about the market and about their political security; and in training the indigenous peoples to become efficient planters.

There is definite political un certainty in the two largest copra producing areas—in New Guinea, because that Territory, unfortun ately, is under the control of the unpredictable United Nations Organ isation; and in Fiji, because the ever-growing Indian population is creating a situation which, if not wisely handled, will develop a challenge to all land ownership, in digenous or non-indigenous.

The men who control Unilever (and influence the Seed Crushers Association), probably will recognise and accept the foregoing arguments.

Unilever in itself is quite powerful enough to bring about at least the creation and trial of a grading system, as a step towards more orderly marketing and the greater security of copra-planters.

If it can do this, while gaining and holding the confidence and goodwill of planters—especially those with long memories—it will be mak in g a substantial contribution

towards the economic stability of the South Pacific.

A move towards stabilisation of South Pacific copra marketing after 1957 —especially in its relation to native welfare —surely should have been considered long ago by a body like the South Pacific Commission, which represents the six nations in control of the South Pacific Terri tories and Colonies. The fact that the Commission made no such move, and that the move has come, quickly and efficiently, from private enter prise in the shave of Unilever, is a sufficient comment on the lack of initiative and the time-wasting pro cesses inherent in the average Gov ernment-controlled instrumentality.

The Editors' Mailbag

pp. 20-131

P-NG and the

Oxford Atlas

Mr. Frank Eyre, of the Australian Branch of Oxford University Press, says that he was very interested to read Mr. G. A. V. Stanley’s broad side about the P-NG section of the Oxford Atlas in April PIM. He thinks that Mi’. Stanley must have been working on an old edition be cause some of the corrections Mr.

Stanley suggests have already been made.

He says that Samarai, for example, is no longer on the mainland where it “unfortunately arrived” in a pre vious edition.

The rest of the comment has now gone to the Cartographic Depart ment at Oxford, for comment.

What say you, Mr. Stanley? Were you using an old Atlas?

Back View of the

Anti-Yaws Campaign

Members of WHO’s yaws control project in the Pacific are known now as the people “who stick needles in little boys’ bottoms.” Anyhow, this is what Dr. Freidrich Tross, at present leading his team in the Gilberts tells us . . . and blames the picture on the cover of January, 1957, PIM (“a back-view of the anti-yaws campaign.”) He says it’s OK with him —and that it was a delightful picture.

We thought so, too.

It Could Have

Been Tougher, Mr. Menzies

WHEN Mr. Menzies returned to Australia after his Far Eastern and P-NG tour he was literally a cot-case. But according to some Territorians, he was given the old well-known VIP treatment and a completely wrong impression of what the ordinary Territorian has to put up with in the normal course of duty.

Certainly, the Administ:; never shows much original!!, these red-carpet occasions. Th was treated to a native sing-s;< Ela Beach (Port Moresby), judging by some of the photog that emerged therefrom, some native girls were got up Tahitian hula-dancers. In pupils at the Technical Trs Centre were back in school Saturday morning to give minutes performance for the And so it went on. One irate i from up yonder writes thus; When VlP’s arrive, Ad' tration officers appear imma in long whites and tie. Why u shorts and open-neck shirt op day?

The local War Cemetery is clean of every leaf; every fiower. Why not the wate track, the fallen bloom on the stone? The man who lies bt still sleeps easily.

The Guard of Honour ii hangar. Why not under ti sun and conditions under Territorians go about their jobs?

The people at the Native ii surrounded by products that : the place like the Horn of 0 copia. Why not the usual of betel-nut and darned litth The reception and banquet Residency or Government with a retinue of servants; pean caterer and formally-Q women and their groomed e hand-picked for the occasion, not a meal in an everyday hold where Mrs. Housewife cope with lunch-hour shopph the take At-or-leave-it frozen plies; or in a Mess whet monotony of badly cooket badly served food is the eu fare of most single men and in the Territory?

The overnight stay in

appointed, mosquito-free

Why not an invitation to si night in Lae’s “Bag-Town,” the occupant is expected to* his 21-months term without p invaded by hordes of most and with sanitary condition ; pletely primitive? Or in the house quarters of 9PA, whe. inmates are spied upon by n or in the “Stables” at Port M where female Administration ployees are herded together ii t little laraer than cupboards?.

The Public Service Asso wages a ceaseless battle for conditions, better allowance better housing for Territory ployees, yet whenever a VIP he is shown a pretty pictut everyone aids and abets thu deception.

So, you see, Mr. Menzies, it was you suffered, it coull been a great deal worse.

(Continued on Page 129) (

Birds of Paradise

Vest Indies

l. D. W. EVERITT, a London ’ reader, has sent us a clipping • from an April issue of the lon Daily Telegraph, which is juing in the matter of the in ation it does not supply, e clipping is of a letter to the r, signed by Collingwood Ingram, tent, who corrects something previously by another DT r on the subject of Birds-of iise on the West Indian island ttle Tobago. i island was purchased by Mr. m’s father, Sir William Ingram, )8. with the intention of mak it into a sanctuary for the jr Bird-of-Paradise, then in r of extinction at the hands ►P shooters in New Guinea.

William succeeded in getting st 44 BOP and subsequently others, all from the Aru Is, off the Dutch New Guinea Mr. Ingram says that this ere they came from and not resent Australian Trusteeship ory. birds were released on Little 0, in 1909 —but whether they hed or not is not certain. It be interesting for NG readers dw whether they did or not. ps it was “not”—there is a tion that the Commonwealth nment has been approached w supplies. Mr. Ingram says Jinot imagine why—as the il birds did not come from G mainland, anyway.

Aru Islands, although only 100 to 150 miles off the lands NG coast, are now part Republic of Indonesia. It therefore probably be much to get BOP from the Aus- Territory than from Aru. the death of Sir William 1, Little Tobogo passed to his sons, who presented it to id on the understanding that u 1 d be maintained as a ary. ancy that Tolala had some -0 say about this West Indian of NG Birds-of-Paradise in >me years ago.

ars Since

1 Blew its Top

New Guinea Women’s Club iey reminds us that it is just trs this month since the n m Rabaul that all but iut that town.

Club’s secretary sends along Jrses with the reminder—not good poetry but the senti ?xpressed the feelings of old nans of that time. The was a song, if we remember y, sung at the Frangipanni

Ball to the tune of Mademoiselle From Armentieres. The Frangi panni Ball, an annual May event, was supposed to commemorate the first flowering of the frangipanni blossoms after the town had been covered with ash and pumice dust.

The flowering of this tree had

significance for these Territorians— indicating to them that Rabaul would rise again. The vicissitudes of Rabaul, of course, did not end with the 1937 eruption. Four years later came the Japanese invasion and from that catastrophe Rabaul also emerged.

New Bishop

New Caledonia's new RC Bishop, Monseigneur Pierre Martin, arrived in Noumea on March 29 to receive a tumultuous welcome at the aero drome and later in the day a civic reception The enthroning cere monies took place in the evening of the Bishop's arrival. He is shown here at the hostel for the aged con ducted by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

The majority of the Sisters in this in stitution are Australian.

Bishop Martin is some thing new in Bishops for New Caledonians.

He is comparatively young and was ordained a priest on the battle field in 1940. He was for a considerable time a guest in that in famous Nazi "pensionat"

Dachau. He later joined the Free French Forces as a volunteer.

RC Mill Dominates

pp. 21-22

[?]PRA AFTER 1957

RC Mill Dominates [?]i Position

froin R. W. Robson, in Suva [E copra situation here, as envisaged in the light of the expiry of the MOF contract next Smber, and the resumption in

1958 of open-market conditions, is quite interesting.

On present indications, there will be three groups of sellers—t h e plantations tied to the Big Firms; the planters who now are banded together in the Copra Producers’

Association and who have placed themselves under the guidance of Mr. Les Martin (a long-time secre tary of the Fiji Planters’ Union); and the independent planters—like the Borrons and the Hennings—who

between them control a large section of the total production.

Mr. Mar t i n’s organisation rep resents a sincere attempt to get better terms for the producers through united marketing. These planters insist that they are not going to be dictated to by anyone—they will sell to the oil mills, or the big firms, or directly to buyers over seas, provided they can get their price.

Mr. Martin now is proceeding over seas, and will talk again to Unilever in London (see March and April

PIM).

There are cer tain inherent weaknesses in their plan. To sell as one body, they must set standards of quality; and if they have a mixed lot of good and bad copra-grow ers, that is most difficult. And they must be able to in some degree con trol shipping arrangeme nts which is not easy.

On the other hand, they are taking the only line which gives them a promise of calling their planter s’ soul their own.

The man who sits most prettily in this Fiji copra situation seems to be Mr. W. G.

Johnson, manag in g director of Carpenter’s Fiji establishment, and the boss of the Fiji crushing mills.

The Carpenter mills now are well established: the

Carpenter interests have adequate shipping at their command both in side the archipelago and overseas: they will buy copra in any quantity, from shipload to barrowload; and they have the cash ready for prompt payment.

Therefore, it seems that in 1958 there are going to be three groups of buyers—overseas interests, the Big Firms, and Carpenters.

The more the merrier—and the better guarantee of good prices.

Fiji’s three main industries—sugar, gold and copra—look promising in the future, as far as one can see now.

The Position in P NG

rE situation is somewhat different in Papua-New Guinea, from that outlined above by our correspondent. In P-NG, the plant ers are much more united in out look; and there the Copra Board— by the planters’ own wish —will con tinue to function when the MOF Agreement ends on December 31, 1957. It was believed that in order to “talk-turkey” to the seed-crushers after the end of the contract, it is desirable that it be done in the voice of at least a semi-government body.

In their post-1957 plans, the New Guinea planting interests have had the full co-operation of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate— although the largest single producer of copra in the BSIP is Levers Pacific Plantations.

There is a copra-mill at Rabaul, owned, as is the Suva mill, by a W. R. Carpenter & Co. subsidiary.

At present the mill crushes copra from its own plantations and also from private estates. The oil at present goes to the MOF, the meal to numerous countries as stock food.

The mill does not anticipate any trouble in getting copra for crush ing after the contract expires, ho matter what marketing arrangement is entered into by planters’ repre sentatives. Planters, then as now.

will be able to sell then- copra to anyone within the Territory who has hovers’ licence. Control over the coora industry under the present s|t-up comes through export licences.

In the BSIP

From April 1, prices paid pro ducers by the BSIP Copra Board aie £AS6 for Ist grade copra, £AS2 for 2nd grade copra; and £A4S for 3rd grade copra. It will be noted that there is a differential of , £All tween Ist and 3rd grade. Last year there was a differential of £9 between Ist and 3rd grades.

The object of this is to raise the quality of BSIP copra When the prices were announced it was stated that there had been a great im provement in quality, but last year at least 50 per cent, of the copra was still 3rd grade. The Board considers that it is not too difficult a task for 3rd grade producers to achieve 2nd grade, and that the £7 difference in the price might encourage them to convert to hot air dried production.

These prices have not been unanimously approved. At the meet ing of the Protectorate Advisory Council on April 12, the Bishop of Melanesia, the Rt. Rev. A. T. Hill, put a motion to the meeting that the prices should be referred back to the Board for reconsideration with a view to reducing the £ll differential tc bring 3rd grade copra closer to its real nett market value.

Members of the Council who were also members of the Copra Board abstained from voting, but the rest of the Council members carried the motion. Whether the Board has or will reconsider is not known.

There is about £3 difference be tween Ist and 3rd grades in both P-NG and Fiji. The International Seed Crushers are proposing about £Stg.6 differential between Ist and sth grade: therefore £ll looks more than a little unreasonable. Is BSIP copra so much worse than that pro duced anywhere else?

Will Ye No Come Back Again?

p. 21

[?] G. Menzies, arrving at Port Moresby on April 24 , is shown [?] G Police Commissioner C, Normoyle. Mr. Menzies had just [?] a rush visit to Japan, Siam, Hong Kong and the Philippines [?] rther four days of effort were ahead of him in P - NG - When [?] ed back in Canberra late on April 28 he said that it was [?] exhausting jourey he had ever undertaken and he hoped [?] have to do anything like it again. Members of his party [?] the P-NG section of the trip had been the most exhausting [?] PM. Immediately after his return to Canberra he became was not expected to return to Parliament before it goes [?] ess in June. One Way and another if seems that the signs ents do not indicate a repeat visit by the PM to the Territory rly date.

Photo: Papuan Prints

Mof Negotiations

p. 21

PROCEEDING

With almost half the year gone, there still (May 10) is no official MOF price for South Pacific copra in 1957.

Negotiations are said to be still “proceeding.”

All South Pacific territories who come under the Copra Agreement have tentatively dropped the price bv the full 10 per cent, on 1956 rates; therefore, whatever the out come of the protracted negotiations, planters will not be disappointed.

They may even be

pleasantly surprised—although

the free market price has fallen by about £Stg.3 in the last month.

New Judge For P-NG

p. 22

THE appointment of Sir Coleman O’Loghlen, a legal officer and magistrate in Papua-New Guinea, to be acting Judge of the Territory Supreme Court, has been announced.

Sir Coleman O’Loghlen went to New Guinea in 1941. He served in the NGVR and ANGAU during the war.

He is the sixth baronet in a line created in 1838. The original O’Loghlen was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1745.

Sir Coleman succeeded his uncle, the late Sir Charles Hugh Ross O’Loghlen, of South Yarra, Mel bourne, in 1951.

Illegal Strike By Qabtas Pilots

pp. 22-23

Papua-New Guinea Worst Hit

INCONVENIENCE AND CONFUSION FOLIO

When Qantas airline pilots put themselves on the same : of the industrial fence as the Bankstown (Sydney) Munkx sanitary-carters and called a nine-days strike in defiance the Australian Arbitration Court, they inconvenienced travel all over the world, but caused commercial chaos in Papua New Guinea —one result of which was a demand by Moresby TAC that the Qantas monopoly of the Sydney service be broken.

r;E strike began at midnight on April 11 and was called off on April 20. It was stated that dur ing that period the company lost about £500,000. However, as Qantas is owned entirely by the Australian Government this cannot be con sidered a life-or-death matter.

Travellers as far distant as London and New York were exasperated and inconvenienced, but generally there were other airlines and other routes to serve their needs.

It was the residents of Papua- New Guinea, who depend on air transport for passengers and goods to an extent far greater than any one else, who found themselves completely out on the end of a limb, and there was probably more heat generated by the Qantas strike in that Territory than by all the rest of the company’s displeased custom ers put together.

Part of the trouble stems from the perhaps naive but generally held belief that airline pilots are superior individuals who, industrially, are not expected to behave like bus-con ductors and garbage collectors.

Eleven days after the strike began it was called off, the pilots decid ing to submit their claims to arbi tration after all. Qantas officials then began the task of getting the wheels turning again.

At the end of the strike there was a waiting list of 200 people wishing to travel from Australia to P-NG. Within a few days there were 5,000 lbs of cargo waiting to go in the same direction. There was also a week’s backlog of mail.

At the end of the first week fol lowing the end of the strike a special freight plane went north and whittled down some of the back log of cargo—thereby pleasing a lot of people but displeasing some others.

We do not know what rule Qantas observed in forwarding cargo but, apart from priority cargo, the method seems to have been entirely arbitrary. Some people got their freight, and were happy. Many others did not—and they have been howling.

By May 3, most of the passenger waiting list had been dealt with,

but 2,000 lbs of cargo—sonu deposited in the Sydney office of the company righi the strike —was still waiting.

In the Territory, Qantas ii services continued to operaj people coming in from 0( outward-bound on leave, p< at centres like Lae and Mo:< Mandated Airlines flew r ae flight to Cairns on April I two sick people from Port IV and brought back six bot blood plasma for the hospita Charters flown by MAL, Air Service, Gibbes Sepik Ltd., and Crowley Airway busy conveying bank notes,, mail matter and even cattle; from Australia. First inwai to the Territory arrived one 18, and Post Office officials, overtime sorting the banked- Messrs. Bob Gibbes, Erio and Captain Peter Manser Junkers aircraft to Cairns 18) to pick up a load of A Tableland cattle for the Frs Mission, Aitape.

This was the first time aj plane has ever flown over of New Guinea non-stop.

Crowley Airways flew an to Cairns on Good Fridai charter took off at 5.30 a.m. ling via Port Moresby, Dan Island to Cairns.

GET ANOTHER AIRLINI

TAC

IN Port Moresby and other businessmen claimed tt non-arrival of vital do was bringing business to a chaos and the Moresby To visory Council passed a r asking the Administrae sponsor another airline on ney-NG service in order the Qantas monopoly.

During the strike and tW of confusion that followed .

Territorians were with the Qantas has not always monopoly of the New Gui vice. For a few years Transs Airways ran Solent flymg" opposition on the Syce Moresby section of the n withdrew about five years a

rations became uneconomic, sibly the major cause of TOA’s LU’e was the use of Solents which e been proved, on all major air ;es, to be exceedingly costly in •ation. Another company, re ;ly mentioned as a possible com tor of Qantas, also runs Solents i some smaller land-planes) but i past experience it would seem to compete successfully on the G service, modern land-planes Id be necessary. These are ex live items of equipment, obably the only private airline jresent equipped to even con nate an extension of airline ations to P-NG is Australian onal Airways Ltd. which already run charter flights with Bristol jhters to Port Moresby. »wever, even without the ser l of our crystal-ball, PIM can see the P-NG Administration ig an open invitation to this, ly other private company, e invitation might come much i fittingly from a Chamber of merce.

Such enterprise always looks from the outside looking in. roer, one vital factor in any

[?]-Freighted PIMs

p. 23

[?]RY ! [?]n-Arrival of April [?]-Freighted PIMs

nes of “PIM” which normally Papua by air-freight were, in , sent by sea, as at the time they ready for despatch, the Qantas’ strike was continuing. It )een intended to send all New ta copies by sea, also. But on 20 the strike was called off elieving that air-freight might be faster, we recalled the es of the magazines and de i them to Qantas Sydney air t office on April 23—right the Easter holidays. On May least half of these bundles still there, in Sydney, along ',OOO lb of other backlog freight, far as we can ascertain, the half of the “PlM’s” deposited nil 23 went forward to New a by special freighter about fc after the strike ended. How no particular order was 'ed in sending individual s and it appears that some ( in some towns received their es, while others in the same lid not. Our own office in Lae ot received supplies up until although other establishments e had their “PlM’s” a week repeat: All bundles of the mes were deposited with s on the same day, April 23. that it was out of our hands. ), however, apologise for the enience cause d.—PACIFIC

ICATIONS PTY. LTD

air-freighting business is back loading. There is much cargo avail able going north from Australia to New Guinea; but virtually nothing coming south from New Guinea to Australia. If this problem could be solved, P-NG residents could expect much better air-cargo facilities.

HOW OTHER COUNTRIES WERE

AFFECTED

NEW CALEDONIA, which has three Qantas flights from Syd ney every four weeks, missed out on the flight on April 18.

New Zealand people were stranded in Norfolk Island when one of the Norfolk-Auckland fortnightly flights, operated by Qantas under charter to TEAL, was cancelled.

The disappearance of the Qantas Sydne y-North American flights meant that passengers and mails had to be transferred to Pan American Airways and Canadian Pacific Air lines. However, these lines did not have to run any extra services dur ing the 9 days.

On the Kangaroo Route, BOAC and KLM seemed able to cope with the situation.

On the Wallaby Route to Johannesburg one flight came into the strike period, but was made up later.

The parties finally came together in conference before Commonwealth Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. J. H.

Portus on April 20. They agreed that the question of pilots’ salaries, the cause of the dispute, would be re ferred to Mr. Portus for decision, and that all air-crew members (about 200), dismissed during the strike be reinstated as from mid night that day.

The pilots went on strike when Qantas refused to pay salary in creases the pilots sought. The pilots demanded increases ranging from £747 a year for first officers, to £1,840 for senior check captains on main trunk routes.

They claimed that these increases would have brought their salaries into line with those paid by British Overseas Airways Corporation.

During the 11-days strike, as they refused duty, pilots and air-crew were dismissed by Qantas. About nine pilots remained loyal to the company.

Salaries and conditions of the Qantas pilots stem from an award made by the old Arbitration Court in 1954. Since then Qantas has twice increased its pilots’ pay and allowances. If pilots had accepted offers made by Qantas just before the strike the total increases since 1954 would have been £9OO for a senior captain. if Mrs. K. Thomas, wife of Mr.

Gordon Thomas (both well-known ex-Territorians) has just spent five weeks in Camden (NSW> Hospital, but is now back at her home in Cambelltown, making a good re covery.

First Blast Over

p. 23

THE BOMB!

BRITAIN exploded her first H bomb “in the Christmas Island area” on May 15, eastern zone time, May 14 western time..

Flt.-Lieutenant Alan Washbrook, RAF, dropped the bomb from a great height from a Valiant jet-bomber.

The weather was described as per fect for the test with light N-W winds from 10,000 ft to 60,000 ft which would carry the radio-active fall-out away from populated areas.

It had been believed that the first test would be made in April.

The delay had given rise to reports that a “hitch” had developed, or that serious technical difficulties had arisen.

Speculation was intensified at end of April when it was announced that Sir William Penney would leave London on June 1 for Sydney—presumably en-route to Christmas Island. Penney had not intended being at Christmas Is. for the test—it was to have been supervised by another top British scientist, Mr. Gillan J. Cook.

Meantime, as regularly as the dawn, protests were lodged against there being any bomb-test at all; end as regularly, some member of the British Government has asserted that the bomb would be exploded, no matter what. It all becomes a little tedious.

Most realistic-minded people have by now accepted the premise that Britain had got to let her bomb off somewhere; but no one who lives within a 1,000 miles of Christmas Island was any too happy about it, and it would be idle to claim that they were—or are. Tests will continue until August.

Penrhyn Will Have

Ring-Side View

“Anyone who says that British bomb tests are going to take place at Penrhyn Island is talking nonsense”, said New Zealand’s Minister of Island Territories on April 29. Mr. Macdonald was referring to a statement to this effect in the English “New States man and Nation” of April 20.

However, if the bombs are to be exploded in the vicinity of Malden Island, Penrhyn will still retain the distinction of being the nearest inhabited island —Christmas Island is more distant—and the explosion should be both seen and heard at Penrhyn. One authority has given the audible range as 1,000 miles in still air. Penrhyn is about 350 miles from Malden. RAF aircraft are now maintaining communications between the meteorological station there and Christmas Island.

Extended Term For Fiji’S

p. 24

Sir Ronald Garvey’s Difficult Task

POPULAR GOVERNOR

The extension of Sir Ronald Garvey’s term of Governorship by one year—giving him six continuous years of administration, ending late in 1958 —has pleased the mixed communities of Fiji.

THE extension was the direct re sult of quiet but influential representations made in recent months to the British Colonial Office.

Sir Ronald Garvey came to the Governorship in 1952 much better equipped for his onerous task than most of his predecessors. He began his Colonial Office career in the South Pacific; spent some consider able time in Fiji; and married in Fiji, over 20 years ago, the attrac tive daughter of Dr. McGusty, the Chief Medical Officer.

Therefore, he wasted no time in getting acquainted with his job, as most Governors have to do. He already knew most of what there was to know about the complex problems of the races—the em barrassments arising daily from the facts that the Fijians own most of the land, but have not learned to trade and labour in European fashion, and that the Indians are increasing 25 per cent, more rapidly than the Fijians, and already out number the latter by nearly 30,000.

There is a land problem, an inter racial problem, an industrial problem, and a whole range of social problems—all stemming from the facts that the establishment of the rich sugar industry brought about the Indian implantation in Fiji; and that Indian fecundity threatens to overwhelm the Fijians.

The Indians were introduced in the ’Eighties. In 1890 there were only 7,000 of them; by 1944, there were 113,000 Indians and the same number of Fijians; and to-day there are 170,000 Indians and 145,000 Fijians.

The British Crown, in 1872, under took to preserve the Fijian land for the Fijian people. Now, the British Administration is seeking, almost desperately, for a formula which will meet half-way the developing Indian demand for a larger share in ad ministration, a division of land rights with the Fijians, and the gradual elimination of European properties and authority from Fiji.

SIR RONALD GARVEY started at the point where most of the other Governors had ceased— namely, he knew all about the problems, but he could see no early practicable solution.

In the few years since then, his policy and his plans have become fairly clear.

He hopes to gain the confidence and the genuine co-operation of the Indian and Fijian leaders, so that they may accept the facts as they are, and try to adjust future living conditions to them. This could mean some pretty drastic readjustments regarding land usage and voting rights (to which all races may per haps agree). But, to achieve this, the Indians must forget India and accept citizen responsibilities only in respect of Fiji; and the Fijians must prepare to abandon their ancient communal village system of life, and become individualists, with a capacity to farm and trade in dependently, and to meet economic competition.

In these things, the Governor has had a good deal of success—one carl see a pattern emerging. But it is slow and heart-breaking work.

The Indians tend to stick stub bornly to the ancient cultures and religions of India. The Fijians show a similar reluctance to abandon their village systems.

GIVEN time, Fijians and Indians eventually would collaborate faithfully with Europeans in

solving their common problen world conditions are such ths is little time to be given.

Unless Fiji can evolve a wv constitution within a very fev to take care of population ini racial differences and adminis. control, Fiji is going to mees troubles.

Sir Ronald Garvey knovi and has been striving hard to. a background against whie stitutional machinery • properly designed and shap: fore it is too late.

The few people in Fiji w see and appreciate this a;j that His Excellency has bee; another year, wherein to w the task to which he applie self five years ago.

The great majority, who lii day to day in the pleasant se and do not bother about! political problems, also are g; cause Sir Ronald and Lady conscientiously but amiably ing on the duties of Gove House, are held in high i

esteem.-

RWR.

Sir Ronald Garvey.

Clutha Will N[?]

p. 24

GOLD RIDGE

Clutha Will N[?] Proceed

THE high hopes that Golo Guadalcanal, would pro’i British Solomon Islano tectorate with a new indust! been dashed.

Clutha Development Comj subsidiary of Placer Develo which was prospecting and! there from April, 1956, to of the year, will not go on t project.

Assays of samples taken v high enough to justify thy scale expenditure that won been necessary.

Clutha withdrew its pc from Gold Ridge in Janu made no announcement oth that it was “for the durr the wet season.”

The High Commissioner Western Pacific, Mr. John: discussed Clutha’s decision! proceed, at the meeting of ti Advisory Council in Hon A.pril. He said that it was blow to hopes of a mining in the Protectorate but the o had spared neither money ■ in exploring what was a deposit and the Governmi grateful to them.

He said that in recent inquiries had been receive' other firms interested in j and everything was being encourage the discovery of T mining deposits. Results assay of phosphate depo Bellona were awaited.

Mrer-Governments Apparently Recommend

pp. 25-139

[?]Some [?]ifications—

THE MIXTURE-AS-BFFORE FOR SPC

Those v/ho expected a clash of international temperament, or mplete reorganisation or even disintegration of the South Pacific immission at the meeting at member-Government level in Canberra, ;t concluded, must be disappointed. Members of the conference ;t. conducted their affairs in an atmosphere of cordiality; decided to rry on much as before; in the same place; and on the same budget.

AT is what one might infer tom the press-release issued if ter the Conference, anyway, tver, we understand that a re of proceedings will not be i until June, and it therefore 1 be as well to await this nent (and its 46 recommenda !) before jumping to con ms. t conference was not a meet of the South Pacific Gom an. but of the Governments UK, Holland, France, Aus and New Zealand) which irt it and supply the funds. was organised by the Depart of External Affairs Canberra, ilosed to the press. A release made of Mr. Casey’s speech he opened the conference on 30. Another at the end of Jdings on May 8. The latter lent, having been vetted by ientatives of each delegation, endered as suitably innocuous, ch documents generally are.

Tom information received it appear that the Review fence has: Re-affirmed the support of all Governments for the South fic Commission, and its con ation at about its present level ctivity; Clarified the fact that the mission will not guide or even 'tly influence the policies of Governments in their respec territories, but will be a useful Mary to them, by promoting '-change of experience; by ning horizons of thought for isentafives of people who are graphically isolated; and also applying technical assistance 'lected fields where assistance rt available in other ways; Directed that the work of the mission in future be carried t a more down-to-earth and ’teal level. last item is of most ance. How this new policy 5 implemented is discussed in pss release in only the most i terms. However, it has uggested that this might be )y the Research Council of Emission fosterin''" a stronger with the Territories for work is to be done. 16 past, considerable numbers

of Islands officials have attended Research Council meetings—with out entirely satisfactory results.

In future the Research Council will probably be smaller but the various territories will be en couraged to ask for technical assistance in their particular needs and be invited to bear the cost of Commission work undertaken on their behalf.

Previously, the Council has expended a lot of its energies in making regional surveys, the results of which were not always fully availed of by the several Pacific territories.

If a territory asks the Com mission to do a specific job for it, and helps pay for the cost, that may be the most practical method of generating interest on both sides. Or so it is thought. • The Canberra Conference recommended that the Com mission’s internal organisation should be examined by a man agement expert who will also report on salaries and related staff matters. • It was decided that for the next three years, the SPC could get along on its present budget— of about £Stg. 2oo,ooo per annum.

NATIVE LEADERS NEXT MEET

AT PORT MORESBY

Whatever might have been their differences of opinion in other directions, representatives who attended the conference seemed to be as one in the opinion that the South Pacific Conferences are successful and of great practical benefit to the people concerned.

These conferences are held every three years and attended by leaders of the native peoples.

Mr. Casey indicated during the Review Conference that Port Moresby will be ready to be host at the next one in 1959.

Representatives also praised the w^ k ,- 0f SPC Literature Bureau which is doing something to provide the newly literate people of the South Pacific with books in simple English.

IN an article in PIM of June, 1956, a special correspondent asserted that the South Pacific Commission was drifting into

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ility and bureaucracy and i these points: fhe Governments concerned d approach the South Pacific nission with imagination and osity. [’hey should look critically at representatives on the SPC. [•hey should get rid of hide l officials and ex-officials who inly for files and regulations, know nothing of people and dreams and ambitions. ■here is no place in the Com ion, either, for academic sts or narrow-minded, pinch men without vision who are by fancied slights, he Commissioners who should st, and added to from among like, are those who have I themselves in the territories ho have retained both energy nagination. Such men have I, and will continue to earn, jspect and affection of he Pacific peoples. r hen the list of Com ners has been overhauled, w Commission should in turn critically at the permanent Any deadwood of careerism indow-dressing should be cut and new life thus infused now far from lively body.

FSTRALIAN SUPPORT

governmental review confer ias now been held. We will ow for some time whether it reduced the shake-up our ondent thought necessary, ever, it is as well to realise s at present constituted, the as limitations. Its architects td it as an advisory body. ?h they may have regarded i its strength, it is also its ss. The SPC has no power ■ the different Islands admin ns to accept its conclusions, ;hough member governments support the organisation 100 t., individual administrations, of authority in their own ?roup, have shown consider ate resistance to the idea Commission. ates to the conference the work of Mr. W. D. (he was described by the “pivot of the con ’). Mr. Forsyth was, of the first Secretary-General Commission before taking up appointment. He has now i to External Affairs De it. s he who shaped the SPC is organising ability was acclaimed. Mr. Forsyth, ir, believes in the SPC. If Jd, he might prove the at the SPC needs.

SPC is regarded as Aus baby”, and Australia cer ays more for its upkeep than

any of the other member govern ments.

In the ultimate analysis, therefore, whether the SPC continues to live and to grow probably depends upon Australian support. And already there have been suggestions that although some sections of the Australian Government are behind the SPC, other sections of the same administration fail to support it in the way that they should.

Long Delay In Case

p. 25

NEW P-NG

ARBITRATOR

Long Delay In Case For 5 Days Week

1T has been announced that Mr.

J. M. Galvin will be Public Service Arbitrator for Papua- New Guinea.

The appointment is for three years, and is in addition to his appointment a s Commonwealth Public Service Arbitrator.

Prior to becoming Conciliation Commissioner in 1947, he had over 20 years direct association with the Trade Union Movement, most of which he spent as General Secretary of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen.

It is expected that the first case with which he will deal in P-NG will be the Public Service Associa tion’s claim for a 5-days working week. The Administration is oppos ing the claim.

It was decided well over a year ago to give the short week a trial of six months in Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul. The trial period ex pired about nine months ago—but the 5-days week continued.

Delay to the hearing of the case has been caused by slowness in appointing a successor to the Arbitrator who resigned last year.

The delay is apparently to be even more protracted. Information obtained in Sydney is to the effect that Mr. Galvin will not begin hear ing the 5-days week case until August 19 this year.

New Planes For Mal

p. 25

Two new DOS’s have been pur chased by Mandalated Air Lines, New Guinea. This will bring the company’s fleet up to a total of five DOS’s and three Dragons; the Dragons operate out of Wewak.

One of the DOS’s was purchased from the Commonwealth Bank, Sydney; and the other one from Butler Airways. The company will put one of the planes into commis sion immediately and the other will remain South for some time. t Three of Suva’s 14 city councillors had leave of absence recently, and all found their way to Sydney.

Deputy Mayor, Or. W. E. (Blue) Goodsir, became ill while at Kadavu and made a hurried trip to consult his doctor in Sydney. Next on the list, also ill and in Sydney for a check-up, was Mr. Jim Turner. Or.

S. Narain had arrived earlier for a holiday and enjoyed Australia so much that he stayed for about three months. He went back on the Orcades on April 30, accompanied by Legco unofficial member, Mr.

A I. N. Deoki.

Patience Is Most Necessary If You

pp. 26-135

ARE CHARGED WITH LIREI IN FIJI

By Judge and By Jury

By

R. W. ROBSON

After nine days’ hearing in the Supreme Court of Fiji, extending over two wearisome weeks. I was on May 10, fined £lO (called damages in respect of libel) for an effort I made in June last to defend the fair name of Fiji.

IT was the first time I ever had been in a supreme court of law as a principal: and it provided me—and others—with a remarkable example of topsy-turvydom in legal procedure. Possibly, its quaintest feature is that probably it finished with the plaintiff and me in com plete agreement—namely, that there is nothing to enthuse about in the judicial system of Fiji.

The case can be simply stated.

Someone calling himself “CCC (NZ) ” wrote on article entitled “The White Man’s Burden,” which was published in Sydney Bulletin of June 13, 1956. It contained a series or blazing inaccuracies, all calcu lated to defame Fiji and the people who govern Fiji and control its principal institutions. I then did not know who had written the article — and I did not care—but I now know that he was a wandering fellow who spent several weeks in Fiji, and whose purpose—according to his history and background was (shall we say) obscure.

I wrote an answer in strong language ( Bulletin, July 4: PIM, July. 1956), rebutting about a score of charges against Fiji; and in answering one of these, I said: “As publisher of “The Fiji Times”

I will say that the statement that ‘the Government controls local news stories’ is part of the campaign which a certain class of irresponsible newspaperman has been waging for months against Fiji’s well-known Public Relations Office. As far as I know, the Fiji PRO has never either withheld a Government news story due for publication, or attempted to influence its presentation by the local newspaper.”

LATE in July, 1956, I received a radiogram from a Suva solicitor saying that a Jack Thornton had complained that my article referred to him. I was surprised: read the article through two or three times; could see no possible connection with him: and replied accordingly.

I had known of Thornton for years as an itinerant writer, wandering around the Pacific, sending para graphs and ohotographs to various journals, including the PIM. I had met him only once, but knew noth ing about him.

When I was in Suva in September,

these people served a writ upon me claiming damages for libel. I still could not understand it; but I felt that some strange business was afoot, so I handed it over to a Suva solicitor for attention.

Weeks later, I received in Sydney a copy of the “statement of claim.” and then I discovered what was biting at Mr. Thornton.

Mr. Thornton insisted that as he was the only person conducting a campaign against the Fiji PRO in the period referred to (in a weekly journal called the Guardian ), he was identified by the paragraph of my article (quoted above) as an irresponsible newspaperman, and as the * writer of the June 13 article

in the Bulletin; and that thi had been defamed.

The claim seem to me so at that I still refused to take it: ously—l could not believe th would be proceeded with.

When I wrote the article 1 not aware that Thornton was ning the Guardian, and I had never seen his “campaign the Guardian, and knew no about it.

MEANWHILE, Thornton w; holts with the Governme Fiji. He had been allowee the country originally on the: four-months’ visitor’s permit had been allowed to remain, ft reason and another, for a con able time; but the authorities,; time in 1956, had begun to about the same time his claim a me began to take shape. At from Fiji, published in NZ. that he was being “hounds the Government of Fiji; an dicated that he and his hard ing solicitor, Mrs. Bernard,, critical of certain aspects o Fijian judicial system.

At the end of April (just; I was most anxious to go ter berra during the Review Confl of the South Pacific Commissi

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to proceed to Suva to defend alleged libel claim. i hearing commenced on April id it extended over nine weary [(or two weeks), finishing on 10. Here are some of the side i of the trial, as I saw them: [ modern court-room, with the rorst acoustics and the hardest enches I’ve ever known in a ourt. i bumbling, inefficient pro cure, unworthy of any country ith a pretence of modern lethods. Quite extraordinary me-wasting by “1 earned junsel” permitted, b modern system of recording fidence. A painstaking British idge slowly and deliberately laking notes of question and iswer, thus further slowing d proceedings already slowed ) by barristers’ methods, hese conditions greatly pro nging a hearing, so that the •sts —to be paid by some un rtunate litigant—were prob )ly trebled and certainly ►ubled. plaintiff himself gave evid te, and there were two wit hes only; and the issues were mple (identification and fair nt)—yet the presentation of

the plaintiff’s case took from Mon day morning until after noon on Friday—a performance I should never have believed, had I not sat for five days on those hard boards and seen it.

The evidence was not in the least complicated—it consisted mostly in the presentation to the Court of the Bulletin (to show the two articles which started the rumpus) ; of some 33 copies of the Fiji Guardian, an inconspicuous little weekly which I had never before .examined, and which Thornton proved that he had “edited” between September, 1955, and June, 1956, and wherein he had consistently criticised the PRO; a file of the Fiji Times and Herald, showing that that newspaper, over a period of months, also consistently criticised the PRO; and the Pacific Islands Monthly of December, 1955, and January, 1956, showing that in those issues I had criticised the Fiji Times pretty trenchantly for its attacks upon the PRO, and other matters.

MY case was presented by skilled counsel, and in my opfnion it was a perfect and complete reply to the charge that I had libelled a particular person. It proved the following: • When I dealt with the cam paign against the PRO I referred to a class of irresponsible news paperman” and to no individual. • I did not appear to have

identified Thornton when I said that irresponsible newspapermen had been waging war on the PRO, because there had been a definite campaign in the Fiji Times (which I had referred to publicly in Jan uary) and criticism also in other newspapers. • I was completely unaware of Thornton’s “campaign” in the Guardian, because I had regarded the Guardian as a publication of no status or importance, and had never seen it, except one or two copies at long intervals.

My defence consisted of 'non identification of Thornton, and of fair comment. Counsel were so cer tain that we should succeed on those counts, that we did not attempt to justify the term “irresponsible”— which, of course, would have in volved a complete raking-over of Mr. Thornton’s record. We said “ Why bother about Mr. Thornton’s record —Mr. Thornton was never re ferred to?”

My counsel, addressing the jury said that he would not argue the question of whether my comment had been fair, because the plaintiff and witnesses, in evidence, had agreed that the comment, provided it was not aimed at Thornton, was perfectly fair. So he devoted his address largely to identification, and quite properly claimed that he had proved lack of identification, through the testimony of plaintiff and his witnesses, even before the defence had started. (ov er>

ING to waste of time in court, t was Friday morning (ninth ay of hearing) before the judge led up. » judge summed up for about inutes. It was apparent, from utset, that his comments were ally in favour of Thornton. Our ace —and more especially the irt of our evid e n c e—had •ently been rejected in toto; mguage I had employed in the s in which I had defended the lame of Fiji was condemned, ally, the Judge set 5 questions ie jury. The first was, whether ; fair comment. The next three ons were concerned with the fication of Thornton. The last AOiat damages do you award? idicated that, in his opinion, iton had been identified and ed. And then he said this, or to this effect: first question for the jury to r was; Is this fair comment? i answer was Yes, they need nswer the other questions— rould be the end of the matter, was not fail* comment —and s opinion it was NOT fair jnt—they would proceed to r the other questions, repeated once, if not twice, >rds “In my opinion, it is NOT omment” —it was a direction 10 jury could be expected to

The seven jurors (all good, solid citizens of Suva) filed out.

Clearly, our case was lost.

Immediately, various listeners, in cluding lawyers, came around. Their unanimous view was that the jury should have been left entirely free to make up their own minds on at least the first question and that there should be an appeal on the ground of mis-direction of the jury.

I said: “I’m already down the drain on this thing, whether I win or lose—l could never recover all my costs. The verdict is worth challenging only if heavy damages are awarded. What do you think will be the damages?”

The guesses ranged from £5OO to

£l,OOO.

“Well, then, let us appeal by all means, if you’re sure it can be upset,” said I.

THE jury came back. As we ex pected, they answered the first and following questions in accordance with His Lordship’s directions. But on the last and (to me) vital question (damages) they answered “£10.”

That, of course, changed every thing. £lO, after proceedings ex tending over seven or more months, and a Court hearing of nine days!

Better to pay the £lO and—if so ordered—the costs involved in what I call my 9-days-wonder, the Fiji Supreme Court, than go on with an expensive appeal, in which I had little hope of recovering costs, no matter how completely I won. .

I looked across at the plaintiff.

He was observing the wide grins of his successful counsel, with a rather peculiar expression. I suppose he had little to smile about. Out of a year’s intermittent fighting in the law courts of Fiji, he had collected £lO and an official request that he leave the Colony.

I felt we were en rapport —on the

subject of Fijian law, and its application, at any rate.

Do You Remember?

p. 26

From PIM of 20 Years ago

THIS was the month, 20 years ago. . T-. u fz-vr. that Rabaul blew its top— Vulcan Island exploding into a

volcanic peak, to be followed by

eruptions from Matupi crater. But this did not happen until May 29, and nothing of the catastrophe appears in the issue of PIM, May, 1937. But here are some other items from that issue; German missionaries working in New Guinea had been accused of pro-Nazi propaganda and had set off a trail of accusations and denials as between Roman Catholics and Lutherans. It was finally decided that some Lutherans, fresh out from Germany, had paraded their Nazism and had been slapped over the knuckles by the heads of the Lutheran Mission. (The Lutheran Mission that functions in NG today is the American Lutheran Mission. There were two separate Lutheran societies working in NG before the war). * * * Jack Hides and David Lyall were in Port Moresby and had been granted a claim for 45 square miles extending 21 miles along the Strickland River on behalf of Investors, Ltd. (Sydney). They had then returned to the Strickland by Guinea Airways seaplane. (High hopes were entertained for the success of this gold-search adventure—but it came to nothing). * * * The American yacht "Yankee" was in course of its second world cruise under the command of Captain Irving Johnson who was accompanied by his wife and infant son and a dozen young Americans who were paying their way. (This year, 1957, "Yankee" is again making a cruise—it is a different ship, but the same commander, same wife, different paying-guest

crew ln f an V?"~^ r h ?„S later iom brother—is no longer infant). * * * New Guinea Breweries, Ltd., hii registered in Sydney with a nominas of £50,000 in £1 shares, it was that the company could h-ew and sei f b a r ''° n e s rv ° wa ? t 0 be at wTu) and " 3 / 6 gallon. (We do not knu hap pen e d to this enterprise, but brewed. There is plenty of beer brewi Territory to-day but it costs about bottle—not per gallon), ** * Beer is not the only commodity gone up in price. In 1937 you coull engaged and give the lady of you a diamond solitaire ring for only A blue sapphire ditto cost only £IOA you could your head go with s Kashmir sapphire surrounded by 10 for only £35. (Inflation has hit rorni every other commodity), * * By an official proclamation, the B of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Coll extended to take in the following^ Birnie, Canton, Enderbury, Gardner, Kean, Phoenix and Sydney. Claims of these were later disputed. Cat Enderbury are now Anglo-American miniums. * * * A start has been made on the G£ Buildings in Suva, Fiji, which were to cost the (then) fantastic sum of The impressive buildings that result! cost many times that to-day—and att they replaced ramshackle wooden some of which had been brought t Levuka when the seat of governn transferred.

Territories Talk-Talk

pp. 27-31

By Tolala

i. in P-NG

irther to various remarks anent Winders report, recommending for the Territory. I see where 'erritorian from “far-off parts”

M. April, p. 18), refers to it as ;astic. If nothing else it is— fill be —a mere fantasy. What : the Administration powers of and recisions, plus Canberra’s -riding despotism, how could it ther than a bureaucratic gesture? bureaucratic gestures don’t a a thing these days. It would Dmething to include in the next rt to the UN Trusteeship Coun “Local Government has been ted to Port Moresby, Rabaul Lae,” and so forth. A despotic ire in a supposedly democratic try and that’s both ends and niddle of it.

Dead-End

f Now really does seem that Minister ick and his minions in his de nent have seen the light—in respects, anyway. They have led that all the advertising in world will not fill “dead-end ’ and that’s what they’ve been mg P-NG Service cadets up recently. e appointment of Dr. John her as Assistant Administrator, id of a chair-borne Canberra il. broke the ice. And now we Mr. Keith McCarthy going to i as Acting Administrator. And s a step in the right direction cognising the Field Staff as tial administrators. Such a ’ is as it should be, and I r suspect the PSA of P-NG iving a finger in the pie in g out the plumbs. It does not n the job. re are some knotty problems faced in Nauru for any Ad aptor: Diminishing phosphate ts, which have given the local s a high standard of living many years; and the eyes of are on the isle.

ily Hughes’

ie Minister Menzies, on his I at Moresby last month, is 3d to have had a tilt at the ational critics of Australia’s in NG and expressed himself latisfied with the progress be ide there, adding; “We are in ruinea to stay.”

Hughes, back in 1937, when ts in charge of Territories, 1 a stir in the political dove when he declared to the )led folk as he stepped out of ane on the Top Drome, at

Rabaul: “What we have we’ll hold.”

It was an answer to Adolf Hitler’s demand for the return of the old German colonies, and top-ranking Australian politicians of the Lyons Government went into a flat spin when they read the press reports of Billy’s utterances.

He may have thought he was safe from a “chiel’ takin’ notes” on a NG airstrip. But he wasn’t and Reg.

Halligan (Billy’s off-sider at the time), was anything but happy over the long arm of the Press.

That was an eventful trip Billy made. It inaugurated the air-mail service from Sydney by WRC planes and at the same time Billy selected Salamaua as the most suitable site for the new capital to replace Rabaul following the 1937 eruption.

A lot happened in the score of years which followed the Little Digger’s Visit.

Appeal for

Old Records

The New Britain Historical Society seems to be getting away to a good start. G. A. V, Stanley, who needs no introduction to cultured minds in P-NG, gave the inaugural paper to the Society’s meeting at Kokopo and dealt with the early navigators of the Pacific.

And no better man could have been selected to present such a paper. GAV’s hobby is bibliography and I would say he has the best col lection of Newguineania in exist ence.

The society has appealed to all

members of the public not to dis card old notes and diaries which may contain interesting data con cerning the early days.

There are still a few old-timers in the Territory who could help out in this matter and, at least, lend old-time documents to the society in order that they may be copied and the data recorded for future generations.

Mission societies of New Britain could well assist in this, if they so desired, by having photo-stats made of the records which now lie in the archives at their headquarters.

The Propaganda department of the Vatican must have some rare documents. Let’s hope that the appeal made by the NB Historical Society meets with the success worthy of such a cause.

Postscript: It looks as though Kokopo may be the cultural centre of New Britain, while the modern Rabaul is absorbed in chasing the elusive £ and endeavouring to dis entangle itself from the ever increasing toils of political thraldom.

SPC Review

As I write (at the beginning of May) the South Pacific Commission Review is taking place in Canberra where ten years ago I witnessed its birth at the hands of Dr Evatt, the then Minister for External Affairs, ably assisted by Eddie Ward, the Territories Minister.

It received a good Press then, de spite a bit of bickering here and there and Evatt’s pique at having to hold the sessions in the Grammar School instead of the House of Representatives—a matter on which the Dr. and the Speaker of the House, Rosevear, did not see eye to e y e - (Over)

New Goirea ex-ser.icemeo march into lae War Cemetery on April 25 for the Ancac Service.

doubt the Commission has iplished much in these ten no doubt it could have plished more had it been less strung by unimaginative icracy, and also if the same liasm had been shown towards the Casey pet—the Colombo Likewise it was a Labour an Evatt offspring, his age of Planning one can & s a result of the review, ir instrumentality to be borne i implement further efficiency i for the regimentation of the native people.

I’d like to be less cvnieal about SPC, but all this mammoth plan nm £ u f ° r everything gives me nothm S but a pain in the neck, Standard Pidm’n

Standard ridgm

A a o; n fe dlH

4 5 ke Tbout

S y Mini ster Hasluck, who is said to have preached them a sermon on

brotherly love, the Golden Rule or some such apt theme. One of the targets of the conference Is to “iron out differences in written Pidgin” and to adopt a standard system.

To me it seems an uphill job to try any kind of standardisation amongst a section of the community so torn by rivalry and bitterness that fisticuffs are resorted to on

[?]and Mrs. W. C. [?]at Lae airstrip [?]te to pt. Moresby [?]ril 5. They were [?]ir way back from [?]dia, Dutch NG, [?]Mr. Groves spent [?]ight meeting the [?]Eduration Director comparing [?]ds and systems [?]here with those [?]in the Terri [?]of Papua - New "I was most [?]ed with their [?]clear - cut pro - [?]of education," [?]r. Groves. "They [?]ht on the ball, an education completely [?]ed with a view [?]ng Papuans par in Government".

Dutch are using Malay as a lingua and Mr. Groves said this had proved

[?]o be of (inestimable value in teaching. Modern [?]extbooks, printed in Malay, are used through out the schools.

occasions. As Bishop Strong is re ported to have said at the opening of the conference: “Enmity between various missions could do more to confuse the native than the multi plicity of religions.” T If these workers in the Lord s Vineyard would only agree to a standard approach to the “benighted heathen” and not try to put the skids under denominations other

than their own, they would be do ing the whole country a service.

Even the SPC might be able to de volve some scheme amongst its many projects which would lessen the confusion of creeds and thus serve a far better purpose than dis seminating knowledge on how to catch fish or grow kaukau to a people who have managed to live very well on sea food and vegetables

for many centuries before the i ning white man interrupted thea tenor of their ways.

A Venue for

Scientists

Association of ideas! And£ reminds me of a paper I subnr to the ANZAAS back in the 1930’s for the anthropological se of which Judge Murray was sident that year. It dealt wit: subject of mission rivalries, am other things, and was read i:J absence by my old friend Bill Gi who “agreed to a point” wit: thesis.

However, the point I have inj is that during this ANZAAS tralia New Zealand Associatic the Advancement of Science) 1 gested in The Rabaul Times thj anthropological and geo 1 o g sections, at least, of the Assoc should hold a conference in Guinea, where ample raw ms was available for investigate the members.

Now comes the glad news

Geologist-Bibliographer G.

Stanley is moving in no sma, to hold the next meeting o Assn, in P-NG. This would

splendid arrangement and hope that the Bureaucrats v tend themselves in doing utmost to encourage this.

G.A.V. is worthy of supp< is not a long-haired scientir (although he has a beard!)( most practical, down-to-eai dividual who knows his New and its literature.

Good Advice

I haven’t a clue as to the of Margery Fisher, who w\ the Editor of the SP PJ “Advice to New Arrivals, would like to give her a patt back for the very sound she pens to newcomers, es; as to the wearing of abbc shorts and such other n

Above Left- Mr. and Mrs. R. Phillips and their happy family, who went South on n '

™Lv£S x.vi£f

1954, he has been with the Transport Department in Lae.

Mr. Trent Rodger Cheese and Miss[?] Scott of Lae, who announced their e[?] on April 24 at a cocktail party hell[?] home of Miss Scott's father. Miss the fourth daughter of well-known Lae[?] man, Mr. Arthur Scott, of Scotts [?] The couple will marry shortly and m[?] home in Lae. Mr. Cheese has compl[?] years with Robert Gillespie (NG), Lt[?]

ients in a native country. It sound all a bit fussy to warn g people about dress in this of Grace 1957, but as the writer conditions in Moresby (or the ds) are not the same as in ey or Melbourne and a certain Tim is required in order to [ future trouble. Semi-nudity is understood by the sophisticated e. Only too often have I heard remarks in their own language know what their reactions r are. Revealing clothing is a of exhibitionism which does >ay a happy dividend.

and Pieces

enth Day Adventists are one up ost of their competitors: They listributing batches of sermons lonographic records in various ages, including Pidgin. What Radio? TV? . . . According to t utterances by Mr. Paul ick, he is not too happy about ISA’s general attitude and its ,tion with UNO. What gives? ;ed: Ken Nettleship (Jnr.) to i Rout, of Mosman. Ken is >on of Customs man Nettleship ivar Rabaul) and Mrs. A. V. ship, of Hunters Hill . . .

Ben Shorthouse, of Moresby, to ;e Arthur O’Rourke, of Aber-

NSW . . . Margaret Bishton,

iter of Ted and Mrs. Bishton, srnard Lawrence Garrick, of serai . . , Mr. John Howard, ir of the Moresby Brewery, has lilar job to build a brewery na, Peru, in South America.

BWS

Fahiti Nui Breaking Up

'ean radio hams picked up distress from the bamboo raft "Tahiti Nui" on • The raft was reported about 800 miles coast of Chile and breaking up after ays of storms. Captain de Bischoff and r-man crew left Papeete November 8 to Sooth America.

[?]W! Mr. Menzies felt the heat during [?] ort visit to P-NG late April. He is shown [?]at Lae Technical Training Centre. [?]ion Officer J. Tong also shown.

Anglican Heads Confer

p. 32

FOUR BISHOPS

AT DOGURA

Anglican Heads Confer On SW Pacific Missi

AN important conferences leaders of the Church England in the South Pacific Islands is taking plat. mid-May at Dogura, the I quarters of the Church of Enji in NE Papua. The Right L. S. Kempthorne, Bishop Polynesia, attended by one I layman, arrived in Sydney Suva on May 9. and wem immediately to Fort Moresby..

It was expected that Conference in Dogura woull attended by: The Bishop in Polynesia (Right Rev. .

Kempthorne), representing Fiji, Tone Samoa. It was anticipated that tW C. W. Whonsbon-Aston, Chaplain of ’

Samoa, also would attend.

The Bishop of Melanesia (Right Rev. .

Hill), representing the Solomons and tt Hebrides.

The Bishop of New Guinea (Right Rev\ W. Strong) and the Assistant Bishopj Rev. G. D. Hand), representing Papq New Guinea.

The Lord Bishop of Carpentaria (Rigi John Hudson), representing the Torres Islands.

The work of these Pacific II Divisions is controlled general the. Church of England in Ause New Zealand and England,, much of the funds requir: provided through the AustJ Board of Missions, Sydney.

The Conference at Dogura result of years of discussion correspondence, in which I Kempthorne has taken a pron part. While the general prin covering, the work of the Pacific Missions are substau the same, there are considc differences in practice, mostly are of a minor cha;j but they can prove barrassing at times.

The Conference will seek ti out differences, co-ordinate, activities of the Church ii various Divisions, and examiii whole field of Mission wo:< relation to recent developmenr

present needs.

The convenors of the Confi had planned the inclusion of sentatives of Hawaii, when Protestant Episcopal Chure America is in correspondence the Church of England; br< head of the Episcopal Chu:i Hawaii was unable to come./ II Mr. J. S. Sparkes, ma* director of Lever’s Pacific Plane Pty. Ltd., BSIP, was r>: awarded the Gold Medal ■ Royal Order of the Lion by tlf. gium Government for his wok a number of years in the E Congo.

Yankee Quarantined

p. 33

MOUS WANDERER

THE PACIFIC

Yankee Quarantined Suva

(See also Shipping News) HE famous American brigantine Yankee, made famous during the last 20 or more years [High the voyagings of the owners, nmander Irving M. Johnson and t wife, Mrs. Electa Johnson, ived unexpectedly in Suva on ter Sunday, April 21, and tailed for medical help.

I sick man, Don Alehin, was fnosed as a case of polio. He placed immediately in Suva pital, and the Yankee, and imander and Mrs. Johnson and crew members were sent into rantine. or a week, the handsome Yankee directly off the town, flying the )w flag. The sick man was to lown back to the US. le quarantine period expired on il 28, and the brigantine went gside the main wharf, and met iy friends. le Johnsons own a large book ng business in the United States, return there at intervals; but have spent nearly a quarter ury wandering all over the h and South Pacific, in their

luxuriously-fitted ships, writing books and articles, and dabbling a little in scientific matters. Both — and especially Mrs. Electa Johnson —have written many valuable articles for PIM.

It is probable that this will be the last voyage of the Yankee.

She is due in her home port on May 4, 1958.

Dr. A. H. Sahu Khan

p. 33

SUCCEEDS LATE A. R. MANU

DR. ABDUL HABIB SAHU

KHAN, a qualified medical practitioner, has been nomina ted to the Legislative Council of Fiji. He will fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. A. R.

Manu. Dr. Khan is a graduate of the University of New Zealand and is at present in private practice in Lautoka.

He comes from the very old and well-known Sahu Khan family of Suva.

During the Second World War he served with the NZ Armed Forces.

Later he was a lecturer at the Central Medical School, Suva.

He is a past scholar of the Marist Brothers’ School, Samabula Govt. Indian School, Suva, and the Govt. Indian Secondary School, Lautoka, where he matriculated.

Samoan MHR's, Etc.,

p. 33

Fiji, P-NG Please Note Samoan MHR's, Etc., Are To Be Paid

A COMMISSION of inquiry is to be set up in Western Samoa to fix the salaries of the new legislative body which will come into being in November next (Euro pean members elected: Samoan members selected by the Matai or heads-of family in accordance with Samoan custom), This new House of Representatives will have no less than 49 members (to govern a population of less than 100,000). There will be 41 Samoan members, three official members and five European members.

Even if each gets only £2OO per year, the cost is not going to be peanuts.

This seems a strange set-up for a Territory which has been com plaining for some time that its ex penditure is rapidly outstripping its income. Members of Legislative bodies in most other Pacific Islands do not get paid at all.

As well as a House of Repre sentatives, Western Samoa will have a Council of Ministers—ll of them altogether—and each of them will get £Stg.9oo per annum.

What It Means To The Scientistis

pp. 35-39

[?]mic Fallout

AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU

By WAYNE DENBIGH

Five years ago, in October, 1952, the United States of America sploded in the Pacific the first Hydrogen Bomb ever conceived and lanufactured by man. The scene was the Marshall Islands; the site, niwetok Atoll, from which the 150 inhabitants had been removed reviously and resettled on Ujelang, to the south-west.

r later periods, two other H bombs were also exploded. All three went off “according to idule” —with the exception of little-publicised “Rongelap hi nt.” iveral hours after the largest H b had mushroomed, in March, , a top-secret radio message i the US flagship headquarters a destroyer racing 100 miles wards for the necklace-string islets comprising Rongelap. lily, the 64 bewildered natives i hustled aboard the warship whisked away. An unexpected ige of wind had carried the i-active cloud towards the sup ply safe island. icky white particles had already in to fall on Rongelap. Re

sembling snow, they actually were bomb-pulverised coral charged with radio-activity from the nuclear fission. This was atomic fallout!

Rongelap’s people, the scientists

from the rescue ship found, had been exposed to 175 roentgens of radiation. If they had remained at the atoll a few hours longer, most would have died, for the fatal dose, on an average, is 400 roentgens.

Fortunately, all the Islanders, both young and old, recovered.

The fallout on Rongelap was one of the three types liable to occur after atomic explosions, according to material recently released by the US National Academy of Sciences, which had been making an ex tensive and intensive study of the subject.

Type one, described above, occurs anything up to 250 miles down wind from the explosion; it is the visible kind—concentrated coarse particles that settle to earth within a few hours and emit gamma rays that penetrate the unprotected body.

These are the rays that scientists fear could cause marked changes m individuals’ genes, the seeds of heredity, leading to cripples and other defectives in future genera tions. Experts stress that the absolute limit for this type of fall out is less than 250 miles from the explosion. „ Since there will be no native population or unprotected Europeans within a 250-miles radius of Malden Island (near which one of Britain s crack Valiant bombers will drpP her first H-bomb) the official attitude that there is no real danger from fallout during the forthcoming Christmas Island area tests con forms to the known scientific facts. • THE second type of fallout is an invisible kind. Its microscopic particles are coated with radio active fission products and are wind borne in the troposphere (the layer of the atmosphere mainly respon sible for the earth’s weather) for weeks and even months. The particles reach earth mingled with rain and/or snow, but by that time most of their radio-activity has ceased.

This fallout is mostly distant; that is, it may occur thousands and thousands of miles away from the point where the actual explosion took place.

There is a certain amount of gamma radiation when this fallout settles on the ground, but this type

affects humans only mildly—it is not one-fortieth of the natural radio activity that the average person is likely to be exposed to during the next 30 years from sources such as cosmic rays and radium and thorium in the earth.

THE third type of fallout is the most insidious. H-bombs blow

about half of their radio-aE particles into the stratosg (above 55,000 ft), where they ree for a matter of years, by w time the principal gamma emitters (Cesium 137, for insta have become harmless —but om gredient still remains radio-ao Strontium-90.

* Penrhyn, inhabited, is only 350 miles from Malden.

Articles of Strontium-90 eventu r descend to the troposphere and ie down to earth finally in rain snow, all over the world, ostead of the penetrating gamma s, Strontium-90 emits only short ge beta rays, with negligible ct on the human body. When it ches earth, Strontium-90 is scat id far too thinly for the naked to see, of course, ut, as the National Academy of ;nces experts have pointed out, drawing minerals from the soil, its absorb Strontium-90 and it ses to humans by way of vege les and dairy products (par larly milk and cheese), as a re of cattle feeding on Strontium mpregnated fodder, tie permanent danger is that pitium-90 resembles calcium and aken up by the bone structure the body, and thus becomes a aitial cause of bone cancer and jemia (blood cancer). dentists say that the quantity de -5d so far in human beings is nless, but the salient point is f even to-day a measurable unt of Strontium-90 has been id in some children’s bodies, irently from contaminated coWs’

This, even though it is nated that only one-quarter of Strontium-90 from past atomic i in the Pacific, USA (Nevada), Russia has settled on earth so The remainder of this bomb still is floating around in the 3’s upper storey. actly what is Strontium-90, the an may well ask? Named for atian, in Argyll, west of Scot , the place where the element ibol: Sr.) was first discovered, i white-silverish in its metal , Strontianite. The H-bomb cles are in the form of radio b Strontian Carbonate; ordinary itian Carbonate is a whiteish ler which is in limited use, ?h its cousin compound, itian Nitrate, is well known—it the red glare in fireworks and ,1-fares. lot her compound, Strontium lite, has been used medically as .Iterative in the treatment of ria and for tropical skin ses. mally, Strontium compounds ot radio-active nor particularly but Stronium-90 (the H-bomb retains its radio-activity for :ceptionally long period. Some have shown, for example, that after 25 years it has retained than half its original radio ; strength. Eventually, how it turns into non-radio-active liurn (from which zircons are !). t how much Strontium-90 the ■n body can absorb is still the Jt of much debate among lists, but an official of the ic Energy Commission in New , has put the “permissible at one-tenmillionth of a curie iio-active Strontium (a “curie”

being the unit of measurement of a radio-active substance).

The same scource has calculated that, taking into account the number of A- and H-bomb tests held since 1950 and the hypothetical number of probable tests in the next decade, the maximum possible amount of Strontium-90 in a human’s bones would at the end of that period be qnly 25 per cent, of the allowable limit.

But there are too many “ifs” and

uncertain factors in the calculation to place too high a reliance on this figure. One thing is certain, though: that the safety margin at present still is wide. Nonetheless, a grim question mark hovers over the answer as to how quickly this margin would shrink if H-bomb tests were accelerated?

The warnings have not gone un heeded. Now, nearly 90 monitoring stations have been set up around the world by the Atomic Energy Com

sion, its British counterpart and jciated bodies in other countries tside the Iron Curtain) to check ; tabulate the result of atomic jut in rain and snow from week week. The reports go to :ral bureaus in USA and Britain, en of the scientific world are ling on the United :ons Disarmament Committee that this august body will suc in the restriction of the number ,tomic bombs that can be test -1 in any given year. This, they ; would keep the Strontium-90 jer factor under control. ►wever, the men-in-the-street on-the-plantations and in-the ids-stores), with a jaundiced and a sickly grin, recalls how ective the League of Nations rmament Committee proved to m decades ago. He can only 5, even if reluctantly, with the ern Powers’ viewpoint that the are necessary and that the lT> g Allied stockpile of atomic ons is the best deterrent to any Powers starting all-out nuclear ire.

Dsphate shipments from Nauru Ocean Islands last year at 353 tons were a record, accord o the British Phosphate Com- Dners. Of the total, 1,081,842 went to Australia, 587,361 tons ew Zealand and 102,150 tons itain. The total tonnage de d to Australia and New Zea-

land was the largest distributed by the commissioners in these two countries in any one year. t Five United States Naval vessels called at Suva, Fiji, on April 29-30.

There was a total of 124 officers and 1,974 ratings on the vessels.

LADIES ON LEAVE: Left to right, Mrs. B.

Haydon, of Wau, New Guinea, who went to Australia recently on leave. (Mrs. Haydon's son was killed some years ago in an aircraft accident in NG; she entered one of his colour photos in the RIM Quarter Century Competition where it won a prize). Mrs. R. Zuydam, wife of well-known Qantas pilot, Rinus Zuydam, returned to Lae in April after six weeks holi day in Japan. Mrs. J. Lloyd, wife of Qantas chief traffic-officer, Port Moresby, who spent Easter in Lae. And Mrs. O. M. Pittendrigh, her mother-in-law, who has spent five months in Port Moresby.

Native Radio Sessions

pp. 40-41

They Need The Means

Few Natives Can Enjoy NG Native Radio Sessions

(From Our New Guinea Correspondent) A GALLUP Poll of native listeners to the Native People’s Session, which is broadcast over 9 PA, Port Moresby, every afternoon, Mondays to Fridays, should be very interesting.

The news is given in English, Motu and Pidgin, followed by a very interesting programme of native piusic, etc., which is enjoyed by quite a few Europeans. But how many natives?

The bulk of the native population lives in villages which do not possess electricity or radios. The next biggest percentage is employed as house servants, and store and club attendants, and a small percentage as public servants and messengers in the Administration. The latter, even if they posses a radio, are still at work while the session is on the air, and the former either in their boi-houses or on walkabout.

A privileged few are allowed to switch on their employer’s radio — if they are interested!

We don’t know the exact amount of money paid in salaries to those re sponsible for the session, taut an advertisement for a programme officer (education) for the ABC

(who is shortly taking over branch from the Education De;; ment) is perhaps a pointer.

The appointment will be salary within the range £1,602-£ p.a., plus a District Allowano £275 p.a. (married) or £175 (sin A special allowance at the rai

per annum is also payable to ied officers in respect of each ileted period of two years ser in the Territory, ties are organising and super % the presentation of pro mes for the native peoples in sh and in their own languages, ding educational material; act is liaison with the Administra of Papua-New Guinea con ng these programmes and ing out such other programme s as may be required. b value of radio as a medium tting the message of civilisation s to these people cannot be nised, but why does not the nistration go the whole hog provide simple receivers for ;es—and make available others inimum cost to town natives? ■s is done in Western Samoa some parts of Africa. The esian “Saucepan Radio” is mown. It is a simple, tamper receiver, tuned permanently ie wavelength, and looks, as lame implies, like a saucepan ied up on its side on two small (Probably its prototype was from an old saucepan by some ious District Officer). irould all cost money, of course; tie present service costs money -and most of the message is m the jungle air. the programmes were put on ?ht, they might have a bigger mg audience, also.

Br spending some time in il. NG, Captain William Curtis, to His Excellency the High tnssioner for the Western £, returned to Honiara in April.

Try Out Scheme

p. 41

COPRA GRADING

Seed Crushers To Try Out Scheme

MEMBERS of the International Association of Seed Crushers will shortly begin a six months experimental period of analytical copra grading in their mills.

This course was recommended at the second meeting of the Copra Quality Sub-Committee of the Assn., held in Paris on March 27.

The Committee agreed that the

value of grading schemes for copra could be assessed only as a result of actual operation.

The Committee believed that marketing-boards or other organ isations were of advantage to copra producers in assuring that in dividual planters got a fair share of any premium earned for high quality copra. t Earth tremors were felt at Lae, Wau and Popondetta, P-NG, about 7.20 p.m., on April 14. They were of strength 3 and lasted 10 seconds at Lae and Wau, and 27 seconds at Popondetta.

[?]Und Up :: Making It Difficult For Metho Addicts

pp. 43-127

ua-New Guinea Diary

[?].MENZIES GETS THE BIG RUSH-BOUND :: HOLIDAY [?]UND UP :: MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR METHO ADDICTS

Mr. R. G. Menzies, who returned from his Far Eastern and P-NG ip so exhausted he had to take to his bed for a couple of weeks, got le usual red-carpet, spit and polish treatment in the Territory. This, y some Territorians, prevented the PM from seeing the “real” New uinea. Others believed that his speeches while in P-NG indicated at he did not know as much about conditions there as was desirable, 'ome back again, and try it the hard way,” they say. But we feel at Mr. Menzies is not anxious for a repeat performance just yet.

ROUGHOUT the visit of Mr.

Henzies to the Territory of Papua-New Guinea —the second n Australian Prime Minister — Administration preened itself, iging and ushering, with a smile ome irreverent wit pointed out) ; the cat who swallowed the ry. s real credit should go to the & AIL A, Papua-New Guinea Branch. 5 State President of the P-NG ;h, Mr. R. F. Bunting, MLC, to r with the State Secretary, Mr.

Knight, last year interviewed idenzies in Canberra about the lishment of the long deferred jr-Settlement Scheme. Their vas that Mr. Menzies should go

to the Territory and see for him self. But as late as March, this year, it was uncertain if he could make it.

Annexation of the Trust Terri tory of New Guinea also has long been the aim of the local RSL. All members (and residents), of course, were pleased by the PM’s straight from-the-shoulder speech at the public luncheon held at the Hotel Cecil, Lae, on April 27, where he said (amongst other things) : “Here we are (in the Territory), and here we remain.”

Earlier, in Port Moresby, he had said the integrity of Dutch New Guinea was vital to Australia.

He apologised for not having been before and recalled the first time

that he had given any serious thought to New Guinea: “Many years ago, when Mr.

Hughes was Minister for Territories, he g was in utter agony trying to make up his mind where the NG capital was to be. (Rabaul was ie garded as unsafe after the 1937 eruptions). Sometimes it was Lae, sometimes somewhere else.

Mr. Menzies said that he always felt that whatever decision the old boy” came to he’d have been sO JTy about it. ‘‘But, of course, Mr.

Menzies continued amid laughter, “with true Canberra characteristics, nothing was done.”

He said: “Throughout the tour I have found New Guinea a lovely and exciting place. In each place I have been completely astonished.

At Rabaul I expected to find a despairing attitude towards the gigantic job of rehabilitation. They have been there —what? A few years after ruin and desolation and I found an industrially de veloped town, showing every sign of ambition and success, that has been most astonishing. The increase in native income and health, and the real and wholehearted co operation between the peoples show true development.

“Then I went off to Bulolo in my plane your plane our plane skirting mountain tops with the pilot saying, ‘lovely sight isn’t it, Sir?’ Then, a sharp right-hand turn to land, where I saw a rapidly ex

panding logging industry with up to-date machinery, making a com plete cycle from tree to finished plywood. Machines picking up logs with finicky daintiness—as one would a stick of asparagus —and putting them through processes to finished product.”

Mr. Menzies said that the i War Cemetery was the m beautiful he had ever seen.

In his job as Prime Minister!

Menzies said he had received i communications; some deli'j with a note of bitterness; some; certain reservations; but all ai

• same question: “Are we here on ferance?” “When will we be told go?”

Liter his visit to the Territory understood fully how residents and reiterated: “Here we are I here we remain. This is not an iression of power or tyranny, but at we believe it to be for the d of the people and the country.” teferring to a speech made by A. J. Bretag, he said: “He is d; he should be a Senator,” and died an occasion when he was England in 1941. Plymouth had i taken a bad beating, and he had n taken to see some Australian nen, and as two or three Aus ians cannot gather together any ire without speeches, he was id to say a few words to them, he usual interjections came— a a good looking lad, who Mr. izies asked to step forward, Vhat are you”? asked the Prime ister. “Sir, I am a Sergeant,” replied.

Fnless you are careful, you will up a Senator,” said the Prime ister. long time afterwards Mr. zies met another lad of the same who said: “By the way, Sir, II be glad to know the Senator >ing well.” The interjector had me known throughout his unit The Senator.” :. Menzies visited Port Moresby Anzac Day), Rabaul, Lae and lo during his rushed visit (and ed back in Australia exhausted). ■. Menzies left Port Moresby for ralia on April 28. rritorians have gained the im lion that the Prime Minister’s will benefit the Territory ly, and that Territorian matters be given greater consideration anberra in the future.

A Territorian Comments WELL-KNOWN businessman, Mr. J. V. [night of Lae, who is also State secretary if the RSSAILA was asked by "PIM" to lis impressions of the Prime Minister's said the visit generally, and particu ame of Mr. Menzies statements while in rritory, appeared to him and to many ts to indicate that the PM should make at visit at an early date, stay longer nsult such organisations as the Planters' tion. Farmers' and Settlers' Association, (V, etc. would get more informed opinion from han from the Administration which was "feed him the kind of diet they wished i digest".

Knight said that the PM, on his own mt, appeared to rely on his "good Mr. Hasluck" to inform him "what in the Territory. Mr. Knight felt, f*y, fbat the Prime Minister had never liven the real picture of some vital y matters, including the question of station on the Legislative Council.

Menzies had referred during his visit fact that Cabinet has frequently dis cing the people of P-NG greater station in Legco "when signs showed ie time was right for it". Mr. Knight at most Territorians did not share such

He said that the Prime Minister was probably unaware that at the last Legislative Council elections many people were unable to vote directly because the only polling places were in Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul. Everyone else, if they wished to vote, had to cast a postal vote; these were unpopular, even in Australia. This system will be changed for the forthcoming elections (later this year) but in the meantime the Minister had formed his opinion; That the Territory people are not politically-minded.

He said that Soldier Settlement was another matter about which the Prime Minister had expressed interest at a very recent date. The P-NG State Branch of the RSSAILA had been trying to get something done in this matter for years, but without success. It was now too late to bring in a full land-settlement system. Most of the men who were eligible had established themselves after much sacrifice.

But it was not too late to assist some of them who are still waiting for their first returns

from their established crops. But to date they had received little or no consideration from the Australian Government.

Mr. Menzies referred to New Guinea as a "most important experiment". Mr. Knight thinks that he would be doing a greater service to the Territory and to Australia if he were to make himself personally acquainted with conditions there instead of hearing of them second-hand from people "whose UNO istic leanings preclude them from seeing the real problems confronting the white settler".

VIOLENT SATURDAY

Violent Saturday was experienced

by picturegoers at Lae on Satur day, April 20, while viewing the film of the same name. The quake (it seemed like a minute and about strength 5 but was probably not) startled the audience to such an

»nt that many left the theatre, ly-water bottles crashed to the r in the refreshment bar, and building swayed. The theme of film was lost in actuality, t Bougainville, another tremor ch began at 8.40 p.m. on April 23 lasted 36 seconds was strength id caused breakages.

ERMANENT SHOWGROUND

FOR SOGERI

)me rain, come shine—and its illy the former —Port Moresby >le trek to the Agricultural Show Sogeri every year. Despite the -soaked arena where, shoes are ed. the slippery road and vehicle kdowns, they enjoy themselves, sxt time, however, the picture be different. A piece of land been donated to the Society by R. I. Sefton, of “Debatak nu,” and will be named the )mas Sefton Memorial Ground,” nemory of the late Mr. T. L. m, of Koitaki Estates, le land has natural drainage when graded will be ideal for v purposes. There are shade all over the land, a lagoon will uilt for wild ducks and other ; birds; permanent yards, stands stalls will also be built and the ;ty will be able to have its own *s. Some Port Moresby busi houses have already agreed to their own permanent booths, len completed, the ground will a cricket pitch and will be

large enough for Rugby League and Australian Rules Football to be played on it, and later it is intended to use the area for polo-crosse.

WEATHER

Lae had its dryest February on record. Last dryest February re

Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Huebner after their marriage on March 30, in the Roman Catholic Church, Port Moresby. The bride was formerly Miss Maureen Murphy.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

corded was in 1946 when only 3? inches of rain fell. This Febiuary only 2 inches were recorded. Aver age rainfall for February is 9? inches, and the wettest recorded was 1953, with 15 inches. Average yearly rainfall recorded since 194 b is 175 inches. , .. ...

Port Moresby had its wettest March for many years— including Cyclone Clara.

DON’T WASTE GRANNY. SHE

MIGHT MAKE A MEAL

The primitive Forea group of native people, who live 35 miles south of Kainantu, E. Highlands, on the fringe of the Kukukuku country, eat their dead.

An Administration medical officer, Dr. V. Zigas, mentioned this in Port Moresby early in April when he announced a new killer disease he had found among the people.

The disease, which is at present un identified and affects women mostly, has been known among the natives for at least 30 years as “karu.” ‘‘Already 26 have died since last October and we have 80 people from one group suffering from it now.

They will all die,” said Dr. Zigas.

Dr. Zigas took two women patients back to Moresby with him. ‘‘These may die,” the doptor said, '‘but I have told the people that I will bring back their bodies. That suited them very well. As long as we keep faith by taking the bodies

back so that they can be buried in their ‘mother soil’ the people won’t mind.”

As dead bodies appear to be their staple diet, they probably xoon’t mind as long as they get their kai back.

BULAMACOW PREFERRED

THE MAJORITY

The Assistant Administrator,, J. Gunther, when opening Territory’s first large-scale cc auction at the Seven-Mile,

Moresby, early in April, said the potential market for dairy produce in the Territory was tremendous; and that about 250,000 beasts would have to be slaughtered every year to satisfy the protein needs of about two million natives. About 35,000 tons of meat or fish would be needed for their requirements.

The 80 head of cattle realised •about £2,500. The cattle had been bred at the Papuan Lowlands Live stock Station, and comprised six Jersey bulls, 42 heifers, cows in milk and dry cows.

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(Continued from Page 47) r. Ken Bourke, who has a pro y outside Port Moresby, where has installed all necessary hinery for supplying local re its with fresh milk, bought half yarding. le lokea Native Society Ltd., ipi, Papua, purchased ten cows a bull to establish a dairy. The e will be sent to Kerema by , accompanied by an Agri iral Officer and several natives the area who have been trained lima 1 husbandry by the Depart > of Agriculture. Acquisition of cattle is a big step towards ving economic independence he Society. a World Health Day Talk on 7, W. L. Conroy, Chief of the ion of Agricultural Extension, “It has long been known that supplies, and in particular the ;ity, quality and continuity, is if the fundamental factors re ible for the health of peoples, ses which cause illness and ag more in a well-fed popula become killers among people ing from some major dietary mcy; the vitality and capability articular groups is greatly ?d by diet.” went on: “In Papua and New a the questions of adequate ctivity, continuity of supply y and variety in agriculture f vital importance since so

much of the population still lives directly by consumption of the pro duce from its own land. Commerce and communications have not yet developed sufficiently for deficiencies in local food supplies to be met from outside sources.

“Agriculture, and the related live stock industries, to-day, as in the past, supply the great bulk of the world’s food requirements and it would appear that this will remain the case for a long time, if not in definitely.

"There are many difficulties in the path of the overall programme for improving the food situation in the Territory. However, these problems are being attacked both with optimism and understanding by a steadily growing force of Agri cultural Extension workers, sup ported by trained native assistants and ably assisted everywhere by the field staff of Department of Native Affairs.”

HIGHLANDS DEVELOPMENT

PLAN

Projects in connection with the Highlands Development Plan in clude the installation of a water wheel in the vicinity of Mendi (Southern Highlands) as an experi ment for utilising water power in timber cutting and the collection of clay and limestone for building ex periments. Mr. R. B. Digby and Mr.

W. R. B. Smith are at present in Wau carrying out a survey, and in specting existing mechanical instal

lations, roads and bridges. Mr. Smith is being posted to the Highlands as Regional Engineer, with present headquarters at Goroka.

EASTER HOLIDAY ROUND-UP

Territorians were starting to look a little bleary-eyed after a hectic fortnight of Easter holidays, Anzac Day, and the Prime Minister’s visit.

Many people took advantage of

the 5-day break Servants in the 1 Tuesday unknown reason, tfoSS. Babaul, Madang, Lae Wau and iressed b into service as means of transport for the holiday trek.

Followers of sport had plen y Port Moresby Mr W. G. Willoughby (PM).

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The American Tournament at the Port Moresby Tennis Chib, held over the Easter week-end, m which 42 players contested the two divisions, resulted in a win for Jim Horner and Ross Stephens with 37 points in Division 1; and Bhii Bliaux and Miss Peggy Treweeke with 33 points in Division 2. Jan Hava, former Bulolo champion, who has played against Drobny in Czechoslovakian games, was placed fourth with his partner, Grahame Prior.

In the cricket match between Cairns and Port Moresby, played at

Port Moresby, over the week-end, brilliant bowling by Stan Richter was a feature of the match. He took 11 wickets for 27 runs. Port Moresby had an outright victory and won the match by an innings and 39 runs. This was their third win over

Cairns and won back for the:* Ray Goriss Trophy. Outsts batsmen were Roy Corrodus 57 runs, and Bob Clapham (Cs who remained at the wicket hours during both innings scored 36 runs.

a dinner given by the Port sby Cricket Association to the s Cricket XI, which was at d by about 100 guests, the nistrator, Brigadier D. M. id, presented the Ray Goriss ly to the Captain of the Port ;by team, Mr. Ken Bainbrigge.

Heland said the Australia-New ;a sporting visits were to be raged, and that they had the support of himself and the listration.

I on the grimmer side, holiday aits included three in Port by and one in Lae.

Port Moresby two natives had escapes when a truck they ;ravelling in ran about 150 feet an embankment from Old Road. They were treated at ative Hospital and allowed to Mr. C. Kirke, Port Moresby )r, had his car badly damaged ;ollision with another vehicle s Rouna Road. Mrs. Townsend d injury when a car she was I plunged 30 feet from Upper toad to Port Road. j ae, Mr. Frank R. McDonald • (57), a Works Department r ee, suffered lacerations to face Prist when a jeep he was ing in left the road and d up in a ditch in Huon Road.

Mcß,ae and Leslie Trewin, a ger in the jeep, were admitted pital, treated and allowed to ch services were well attended ipeans and natives. At Manus many sea-going canoes were up on the beach. These full of natives from outlying s for the special Easter ser- The Buin natives and people igainville faced an unhappy They had just received word well-loved priest of the dis ad died in Sydney.

ANZAC DAY

hollow thud of marching feet eerie silence before dawn from war cemeteries and

shrines throughout the Territory on Anzac Day, 1957, when ex-servicemen attended services to honour their fallen comrades.

In Port Moresby, the Federal President of the RSL, Sir George Holland, gave a three-m i n u t e address and laid a wreath on the Cross of Sacrifice, At Lae, the State Secretary of the RSAILA, Papua-New Guinea, Mr. J. V. Knight, spoke to the assembly: . , nooJ™™ 6 071 Anzac D( *y, w e f^vP/Of 6 ° ? V k Fallen i7i Ifi/ciT, There 7izay yet be uio/n/y teVe^that 0 w a j 6 can m fnrnpf tC> nhntf lieve that we can forget about War, but unhappily this is not * Of course, everyone has heard

of Anzac, if only for the reason that Anzac Day is a public holt day and I am afraid that many have forgotten, if indeed they ever knew, what it was all about. Some think of it as a famous victory, out it wasn’t, and as a military operation, the campaign at Anzac achieved little and was a costly failure. But as a gallant exploit, V 1 18 something about it that fire A s publlc Anzac conjures up such char acteristics as courage, initiative, determination and self-sacrifice.

Her e was fashioned a new tradition Qf conraoe and op n genuinely Australian as the Rising S' un Badge and the Slouch Hat. // we show in all Qur deaUn g S and actions in our own lives, the same integrity of purpose, the

April 22, Miss Lorna Evans, daughter [?]l-known Territorian Mr. Ted Evans, was I to Mr. Hans Mueller, formerly of [?]erg, Germany.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

me resolution in fulfilling them , en we rest on the solemnity of is moment, on the memory of ity done. twn services were later followed general services at 11 a.m. At •nil, an address was given by RSL President, Mr. C. W. farlane. Wreaths from the RSL branch, the RSL State Branch, P-NG Native Ex-servicemen’s ciation and the P-NG Admin tion, were then laid on the taph.

Port Moresby, the Prime Min ■ Mr. R. G. Menzies, took the ;e at the Anzac Day march first Prime Minister to do so e Territory’s history—which in d native Returned Soldiers as bers of the League for the first Kokopo, a remembrance service held at the 1914-1918 war )rial on the Bita Paka road, wreaths laid by the Kokopo ranch and State branch of the Native Ex-servicemen and the nistration.

Lae, units assembled in trial Avenue and marched gh the entrance gates of the ery to the Cross of Sacrifice.

Federal President, Mr. J. it, read a message from Sir ;e Holland, Federal President e RSL, and a message from L W. Fraser, Dominion Pre , NZRSA. Wreaths were 1 on the Cross by RSL bodies, 3 NGVR, Boy Scouts, school en, the Red Cross, District lissioner and the general ir observance made, it wasn’t )efore groups formed for the ional “two-up” and cries of got a quid he heads ’em,” ack him out,” “Who wants a mo wants a taily,” were heard the normal hum of conversa- It was another form of re •ance when tales were told :unes lost and won in far-off f war.

D LEASES FOR NATIVES

AND OTHERS

3uble block of land on the gby League oval at Konedobu, Moresby, has been leased to deration of Native Associa for a tender of £3,550—£50 than the next tender. The tion will use the land for a for co-operatives societies, e were 17 applicants for six of land and they were d as follows: tr ' e Life t / ( 1”^ £525; Per sson and > Q <vfi so/ D /6 ’3 T ' F> Leon ard, acific Products Ltd., £1,000; in. Pai ? t \T ( ? G) Ud ” £1 ’ 750 ’

aon of Native Associations,

MORESBY AERO CLUB

okesman for the Aero Club la said in Part Moresby mid ™ er care ful examination Clubs progress it had been

decided to appoint a full-time flying instructor He is due to arrive from Ausprana shortly, and was formerly an 1^ s t*’P 1( r to r at the Royal Aero Club of victoria. The Club is also planning to add a further plane to their fleet of two Tiger Moth aircraft, )f ould probably be a “ChipmuilK -

FINGFRPRTNTTNr

.FINGERPRINTING

The director of Civil Affairs, Mr S. Lonergan, has advised the Port Moresby Town Advisory Council that the Territory Police force is, and has been for many years, in possession of fingerprinting equipment and all officers were familiar with its use. (See PIM, April) Mr Lonergan said the Territory Police Force also had the facilities of the Australasian Central Fingerprint Bureau at its disposal The Port Moresby Town Advisory Council, at a meeting in March, recommended that the Administration appoint a fingerprint expert, with Territory e polipp y Fnrpp t 0 th ° lerntory Police Force.

Councillor Kriewaldt told the meeting that police at present could not testify in court on fingerprint evidence because they were not ex perts, and fingerprint testimony was not admissable evidence to a Territory court unless it was given by a trained expert. (Moresby and Lae police stations have equipment and the officers to °P e £™ e ■ it ‘ In spector Woodmancy, at PM, is considered an expert.)

TERRITORY SCOUTS WILL

GATHER HAPPILY

Ta -. iw - . x , , , f a i e o to a Gathering at Sogen, Port Moresby, next Christmas. Although i a J amboree, it will be the first iL rge f ath ® rm of international to T b ?. beld m Papua-New ul g ea - Invitations are being sent I? Scouts m Australia, Tasmania, a " d ’ the , Pacific Islands, Philippines and Great Britain,

LAE BULOLO ROAD

f The Lae-Bulolo Road has been out of commission for some weeks. Dur

ing the Easter week-end it was in accessible as far up as Sunshine, and since then, with heavy rains, the Bulolo River has broken through in another place. Plywood for shipment on the Mangola from Lae had to be flown to Lae.

All available Works Department equipment was put on the Job and it was reopened for traffic on April 26.

BULOLO HOSPITALS NOW

ADMIN. CONTROLLED

The European and Native Hos pitals at Bulolo are to be taken over by the Administration Health De

partment. The hospitals were

formerly controlled by the Bulolo Gold Dredging Company.

DECISION UPHELD

Walter Frederick Barker, an em ployee of Government Stores, Madang, who was charged with in decent dealings with a young boy and sentenced to 18 months hard labour at Long Bay Gaol, Sydney, last year, appealed against the severity of his sentence to the High Court in Sydney, recently. He lost the Appeal and the decision of Sir Beaumont Phillips was upheld.

WHICH, RATES OR RENTALS?

OR BOTH?

That 63-page report on the de sirability (or otherwise) of intro ducing local government into the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, compiled by J. R. Winders, AASA,

ACIS, AIMA, has come in for some windy discussions. Would-be mayors and aldermen are dreaming dreams, but the majority of the people are of the opinion that local government is a big step and needs a lot of consideration.

At the Lae Town Advisory Conn

cil, held March 26, the Chaii Mr. A. J. Bretag, said: “I feell sonally, that it will be some before the town of Lae will the stage where local govern can be implemented . . . and tainly would suggest that whatt be kept uppermost in the min

people planning this local gov ment, is that when it is imple ited, the burden placed on the aiders of the ratepayers will not xcessive. With that end in view ould certainly suggest they give federation to the transferring of leasehold properties into free i. thus eliminating the rentals 1 applicable.” • This brings up a very in vesting point: little, if any, P-NO nd is freehold, and it is usually i the unimproved capital value \ land that rates are levied, laseholds may be bought and Id in the Territory but the iginal method of disposing of ban land in the post-war years, is been by tender. Some of the counts tendered for residential jcks around Port Moresby and ier towns have been exceed gly high, even on Australian indards. In addition to this tount the tenderer miLst pay annual rental. If local gov nment should be set up, will the cupier of the land also be called on to pay rates? Or will annual itals be dispensed with?

MPING DOWN ON METRO.

ADDICTS

e drinking of methylated spirits >apuan natives reached a new in the first week in April; 14 arrested and appeared in ton April 8. One, a native eman, was sentenced to 3 ;hs imprisonment, is was in the week before new ■ol measures were brought into (April 8) which require es to obtain a permit from a ict Officer for each individual lase of methylated spirits. 1 The old permit-system had n lifted in March with the re t that storekeepers in Port resby had doubled their sales methylated spirits. 3 new system of control has introduced as the result of sentations made regarding the ing of methylated spirits by 3S since the promulgation of liquor (Natives) Ordinance, s Ordinance prohibited the ir supply of intoxicating liquor tives, and makes it an offence natives to drink methylated 5, but allowed the supply and >sion of these spirits for Stic lighting or heating, or for n a person’s occupation or This placed the onus on the er to ascertain the reason for the methylated spirits was led. and it is now considered adequate control requires re on of supplies to natives in ision of a permit, new permit must now be led for every purchase, and [ecify the quantity and purpose Inch it is required. The per tfill then be cancelled by the er signing his name across the t, and giving the date of the ase.

Under the new regulations it is an offence to supply methylated spirits to natives without a valid permit.

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HIGHLAND LABOURERS—

DEARER AND DEARER

.. , . , With the extension of the road network in the Highlands an increasing number of labourers are bemg transported by motor vehicles, and it has been decided that a flat rate of £4 will be charged for each native worker engaged for employers through the Goroka Highland Labour Scheme.

This charge will be in addition to the normal handling fee of £2 for each employee, the statutory at testation fee of 5/- for each man— and, of course, his air fare to his place of appointment.

Previously employers have been charged with the actual costs in curred in the movement of men transported by air from their villages to Goroka, and then from Goroka to their homes on termination of labour agreements,” the Director of Native Affairs, Mr. A. A. Roberts, said when announcing the new charge effective on and from April 1.

s case of labourers from the n Highlands District pro f into employment through )roka centra, the charge will tal of £lO/5/- for each man.”

ET FOR THE DRY SEASON

w modern fire station which ring completion at Boroko Jresby (picture in April PIM) cted to be operating in time

HOW IT IS DONE:

The new ARC drilling site at Komewu in Western Papua is 8½ miles from the limit of navigation on the Aworra River and in order to move drilling rig quickly without having to construct roads across swamps, these big Sikorsky S58 helicopters, owned by World Wide Airways are lifting loads up to 5,000 Ibs and trans porting them quickly to the drilling site.

The flying-in process is a continuous one, the helicopter making several trips between river and site without landing. Equipment, etc., is assembled in cargo slings or nets and the helicopter, with an attachment device underneath it, hovers over the load and is directed into position by a ground marshal who attaches the sling.

The helicopter then rises and flies the cargo to the site. These photo graphs show a heli copter hovering over a load which is being attached; and also a helicopter in flight with a load swinging be neath.

to cope with outbreaks of fire dur ing the coming dry season.

The building will house a per manent European fire officer and two new engines, costing more than £15,000, which are on order from England and expected in Port Moresby in June.

Positions for four firemen have been advertised in Australia, and the present fire officer, Mr. J.

Donnelly, will probably be the officer-in-charge of all stations.

Fire fighting is to be taken out of the hands of the police, who have, in the past, had to cope with this as well as other duties.

A sprinkler alarm system for Government buildings is now being planned.

EVEN MORESBYITES CAN GET

MALARIA

People in Port Moresby who were under the impression that the area was free of malarial mosquitoes are in for a rude awakening according to the Acting Director of Health.

An epidemic of malaria was pos sible in Port Moresby following the recent wet season, and residents were warned against failing to take suppressives by Dr. R. F. Scragg.

Dr .Scragg said malarial mos quitoes appeared from time to time around Hanuabada and the Brown River areas. An epidemic had occurred in 1950 following similar heavy rains.

OPERATIONS WAITED ON

QANTAS STRIKE

A team of thoracic surgeons led by Mr. H. D’Arcy Sutherland, which were due in Port Moresby on April 17, was delayed because of the Qantas strike.

Forty-six natives in an advanced stage of TB have been brought from

various Territory centres am awaiting chest surgery at thr Beach, Port Moresby, Native; pital.

BENZ COULDN’T TAKE BE

A Mercedes Benz, driven be Stan Ward, electrician of Lae,, to grief in the Bends area o

-Bulolo road on April 14 when ollided with a truck travelling he opposite direction. The car badly damaged where it struck truck and bounced off the side le bend. r. Ward sustained injuries to head but his two young sons were travelling with him were irt. A doctor who was travel along the road at the same [ brought them back to Lae, ’e Mr. Ward received treatment.

C PARENTS RAISE MONEY

well-patronised t w o-n ig h t ival, held in the Masonic Hall, early in April, by the Parents’

Citizens’ Association, raised ' than £3OO. lling victims were invited to leir luck at all the usual money rs. and one well known ADO his voice luring customers to ke b funds raised will be used for purchase of a tape recorder, •y books and playground and mg equipment for the Lae iry School which accommodates upils. ; Association’s next project will raffle for a Morris Minor 1957 : car worth £B2O. One thousand s will be sold for £1 each. The will begin in May and close ne, 1957.

ILL COST YOU 3d. A CALL

IN LAE, RABAUL

manual telephone exchanges, have been in use since the of the war, were replaced tomatic exchanges in Lae and il on April 13 and May 11, re rely. new exchanges have been in l in air-conditioned buildings are designed to withstand the mm earth tremors that can be enced in each area. They cost nmately £50,000 each, icribers will now pay £5/12/6 for a telephone service, plus ,r each local call. To date las been no charge for calls— flat rate per annum on each A Phonogram service at the centres throughout the Terri fill be introduced when the itomatic telephone exchanges italled.

Director of Posts and Tele • Mr. W. F. Carter, has an d standardisation of police •ne numbers throughout the JT- An easily remembered ’, 2222, has been chosen for v automatic numbers in Lae iabaul; and Port Moresby number is to be changed to ci with the other centres, t very high frequency (VHF) runk lines between Lae and md also between Lae and will be brought into service ter the cutover to automatic jes. This will provide con telephone communication i Lae, Bulolo and Wau.

L 957 telephone directories at being issued to all telephone •ers in the Territory contain

the new Lae and Rabaul telephone numbers.

M ?NTO D the C ¥asi N busi T N 0 E S G S ET

UN I o THE TAXI BUSINESS

The Director of Civil Affairs, Mr.

S. A. Lonergan, has announced new regulations to cover the granting of Certificates of Registration for public and private hire cars in the Territory which came into effect on April 4.

Previously, control over the granting of Certificates of Registration for public and private hire cars v/as vested in the Superintendent of Motor Traffic, but it has been de cided that Town Advisory Councils, will advise as to the number of required to meet the needs of the town or

area which each individual Council represents A^^ r fto" in flV e^tefmlne S the number of registrations which may be granted. Applications will then be invited through notice in the Government Gazette for the grant the available certificates, and the allocations will be made by ballot.

To be eligible to participate in a ballot, applicants must be of good character, and be engaged in operating public or private hire cars, or be about to enter into this busi ness.

PLANTATION WORK NOT

POPULAR WITH HIGHLANDERS

Echoes of native discontent over long working hours are being heard

far as the Kanosia District, ja ie Chairman of the Central net Advisory Council, Mr. P. J. ison, at a meeting held on :h 19, suggested that, “with due jet to the Public Service, the -Day Week could be having a effect on the natives working ie plantations, as many of them other people working under I conditions and consider that i hours are not equitable.” The er under discussion was “Labour itions with regard to the plant ndustry.” s. M. Jewell said, “I am very irned with the very frequent growing desertion rate of the land labour in the Kanosia let. Unfortunately, the trouble id at Lolorua and the High rs complained that it was too yhere they were working, but was their only complaint. At stage they had worked at la for only four months and then taken back to Kairuku, B to Port Moresby and finally ;o Bisianumu to work.” . Jewell considered that their eason for discontent was they d to be near Port Moresby and vere shrewd enough to realise with persistence they would e their aim. , Jewell granted that the area 7 .hot but explained that the tions could not be moved and ecessary for labourers to work it area.

N. Gavera, native represent on the Council, inquired provision for recreation by r ers on plantations. He thought this was inadequate, it might some bearing on their dis t. Members of the Coun eed that this was an import er but in this direction the i under discussion were well 1 for. chairman said he would writs District Commissioner, at i, stating that there was a = tendency for Highland 5 employed both on coastal nterland plantations becom satisfied with their place of

ment, particularly when their

vas not near a big centre they would be able to sup t their earnings at week-ends, aid ask also that the men a good briefing on the cop they would be likely to ;er in their new surround d have impressed upon them portance of their respons d carry out their agreements, land natives who had a on for being “dumb” when st went down to the coast ■ have not taken long to find iy about. Those who work a )i-day week around Port on “agreements” hire yes out in the weekends as re and other casual labour ibably earn more on those m in the rest of the week.

In contrast to most natives they seem to be inspired by the idea of getting rich quickly.

Some Interesting Territorians on the Move

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b-lnspector W. Curtis and Mrs. Curtis who ed in Lae, New Guinea recently. Mrs. is was formerly Miss Nancy Harvey, of land, NZ. They were married in Brisbane (larch 2. Mrs. Curtis has packed a normal me of experience into her few years. Her job was school teaching, during which she wrote three children's books; this followed by work on a children's magazine. ■ she went to England and from there imerica to work for the famous Swedish rator, Gustaf Tenggren, who illustrates well-known "Golden Books" and who did pictures and designs for some of Walt ly's early cartoons, including "Snow e" ck in England, Mrs. Curtis went to in the famous fashion house of Molyneux fashion copy-writer. She then had the rtunity of going to the Paris branch of firm where she decided to learn the ess from the ground up. When she lated to dressmaking she later worked resses for Princess Margaret. On her re

turn to New Zealand she made dresses for Queen Salote and Princess Mata'aho of Tonga which they wore to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11.

She has travelled on the Continent, Norway, Denmark, Lapland and Japan. After Japan she worked in Sydney on the staff of "Junior Telegraph" and, later, "Weekend".

She met Mr. Curtis while on a trip to Lae last year. She is interested in native-teaching —she has had some experience with Maoris in New Zealand —and hopes to take up teaching again in the Territory. Only grouch about P-NG so far; No keys on the bedroom doors in the hotel where she stayed in Port Moresby.

CENTRE

Mrs. Nari Forster of Raua Plantation, Bougainville, who since her father's death in 1950, has run the place with a labour line of 117 natives producing 490 tons of copra yearly. She was in Sydney during the Easter Show to ride her two horses "Mate" and "Murray". She started Show riding when she was staying with her mother, Mrs. C. I. H.

Campbell, at Moss Vale, NSW, in 1954-55. Her horses won six ribbons at last year's RAS, and "Murray” won the championship of Royal Melbourne Show.

Mrs. Forster's husband was killed in an accident at Bougainville in 1948. The petrol tanks of their launch blew up; Mrs. Forster and her then infant son Michael went over board and swam until picked up by a work boat, but Mr. Forster was badly burned. In those days there was no doctor at Sohano and he died that night. In her absence, her mother is running the plantation. Mrs. Forster was born at Rabaul and has lived most of her life in the Territory.

RIGHT

Mrs. Brian Lennon, of Middle Cove, Sydney, returning on "Soochow" to Australia after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hockey of Rabaul. Mrs.

Hockey is her daughter. At right is Mrs. L. J.

Sutherland of the Telegraph Department, Rabaul. She has been in Rabaul 10 years and is now on leave in Sydney. Mrs. Suther land is secretary of the PSA in Rabaul and attended the last two conferences.

W Lease Of Life Indicated

pp. 51-53

[?]ernment Co-operation [?]s Dividends

FOR FIJI'S COLD INDUSTRY

An extraordinary new lease of life is promised for the Fiji ridmine industry, as the result of co-operation between the iovemment and the goldmining interests . . . that goes back ► 1952.

IEN all the excitement over Jill Borthwick’s discovery of ich telluride ore in the early ties had subsided, the Mel le group (Theodore, Wren, etc.) id down with the phenomenally Emperor mine. The gold was jar the surface that much of is recovered by open-cut; but s in a very limited area, ore Emperor was finished, the ly rich Loloma, alongside, was rered; and then, as both ror and Loloma began to fade , the members of the same i discovered and developed the wnenally rich Dolphin lode, a lundred yards away, i luck still held. Just when all ; at Vatukoula were getting to the Dolphin returns, some

one discovered that there were equally rich gold-bearing strata, underneath Emperor.

There had been dismay in the Fiji Treasury, when it seemed that Emperor, Loloma and Dolphin would, like all good gold-bearers, gradually fold up and fade away; so the Gov ernment listened with interest to the arguments of the goldmines proprietors.

“We think we might extend this industry indefinitely,” said the engineers and managers. “We think that there is much gold at the deeper levels. But we cannot be sure without a survey that will be ex pensive; and, if the gold really is there, we cannot get it without very costly deep mining.”

Fiji—fortunately for Fiji—is by

racial necessity a kind of benevolent autocracy. There is no “democratic Parliament.” The Governor can

make important decisions without awaiting almost endless and usually purposeless debate by the people s

representatives.”

The Governor decided in 1952 to make substantial tax concessions to the mine-owners on condition that the latter spent at least £200,000 on that survey; and there was no Parliament in which the elected could stand around and howl about these “gifts to the greedy capitalists.”

The result was that the mine owners, between 1952 and 1956 spent, on their geological investigation, not £200,000, but nearer £750,000; and they now have reported to the Governor that “the information about ore bodies at the deeper levels is sufficiently encouraging to justify capital investment on a large scale.”

Therefore, they have prepared a 5years-programme of capital ex penditure on the mine.

The mine-owners (Associated Gold Mining Companies—a consolidation of the Melbourne, or Theodore- Wren group) say that that pro gramme will cost £930,000, of which £750,000 will have to be found as new capital. They appear to have left the rest of the problem (en couragement of new capital from overseas) in the lap of the Govern ment.

THE Governor told his Legislative Council, on April 26, that the choice before them was plain and simple: they must assist the

mine-owners in developing a prob ably large and rich gold industry at the deep-levels, and so provide a future for the 5,000 people now living at Vatukoula; or “face the social and economic dislocation in volved in the closing down of the industry.” He pointed out that the industry spends annually on wages and salary more than £500,000, “the

greater part of which remain: Fiji.”

His Excellency thereupon mitted proposals for exemptioc the Companies from income ta» gold royalty for a period of: years; and, in the circumsts. as set out, there is little doubt, the plans will be approved b$ Council.

Tie Governor’s statement has ned up a new horizon for the [ goldmining industry which, up the end of 1955, had produced iut £10,000,000 worth of gold, he announcement will add con irably to the stability of the ony’s economy. With promise of rofitable future for sugar, gold, ra and bananas (in their order importance) the average owner capital need not worry much ut his investment in Fiji. [E development may again direct ; attention to the probable geological fact that there is e accessible gold in Fiji than yet been discovered and surveyed, le two big islands have been searched over for alluvial gold; I as is well known, some quite Itable leases were worked in the awai area before World War 11. it the Tavua gold, in the hern part of Viti Levu, is not rial, and it was extraordinary that it ever was found by the lary type of gold prospector, le industry still is confined to a et-handkerchief area, leased by Melbourne group; but even the perienced eye can see that the j type of country extends for last a hundred miles along the lern coast of Viti Levu. This ars to be all heavily mineralised, it is hereabouts that all those ing finds of manganese have made. >ny skilled people have searched, ourse, but nothing indicating of this “telluride” gold has found in payable quantities here outside the Vatukoula y. Yet it is a safe bet that there ire of it in Northern Viti Levu ybe at those intriguing “deep i” —and the concessions now led by the Government of Fiji induce outside interests with *1 to go in and search for it.

Plane on Coral Route

p. 53

[?]ES IN

[?]CH PACIFIC

[TRANSPORTS Aeriens Inter mtinentaux DC4 is expected in oumea from France at the end iy. will bring Navy personnel for ase at Noumea, but it is ex -1 that it also will make a 7 flight from Noumea via Fiji, rn Samoa and Cook Islands to Bora, French Oceania. •’s activity in the South c may herald some opposition AL operations along the Coral . The great bottle-neck to the : any landplane on the route, course, the fact that there land airport on the island of to serve the capital, Papeete, igers on any land-based air s to Papeete, under present istances, must be ferried from Bora to Papeete either by sea or by ship.

Loyalties

p. 53

No Passenger Flights to Loyalties

New Caledonia’s internal air service, Transpac, which has per formed a great public service since its inauguration, has struck more trouble. It has had its licence to carry passengers between the New Caledonian mainland and the Loyalty Group temporarily suspended. The civil aviation authorities in Paris require the company to conform to further safety measures.

The Loyalty Group lies about 50 miles from the mainland. Since the company set up in business in New Caledonia, most of its passenger

traffic has been between Noumea and the Loyalties.

It will continue to carry mails and freight along this route.

During the time that the New Hebrides was without an air service, Transpac operated a few services between Noumea, Vila and Santo, However, this service was later suspended by Civil Aviation author ities on the grounds of safety. The present service between Noumea and the New Hebrides is run by TAX with DC3 aircraft. t A quarter of a million natives have already received injections in the campaign to wipe out yaws in Papua-New Guinea.

[?]Moa Faces Constitutional

pp. 55-57

[?]ble, Bubble— and Trouble!

CHANGES-AND SEETHES A LITTLE

n information supplied by Mr. C. Gardiner, of Malua, Western Samoa, in a letter dated April 11.

SN with 60 years’ experience of this Territory tell me that if the Samoans here get self rnment, civil war is inevitable, 5 not easy to convey all the nt facts and background in a r—but here are some of them, e body which will be elected or inated to act for the Samoans under present conditions, almost inly be unbalanced —too many ie section and too few of another i these sections are hopelessly jonistic one to another, jryone knows that the Samoans iivided up as followers of one her of the three chiefly families masese, Malietoa and Mataafa. argument is that, until these ms, reconcile their differences viewpoints, Samoa cannot be ssfully governed by a united, ;d body, which is the basis of cracy. s held here that the present Bt -up—apparently quiet and on the surface—is lopsided

and dominated by the Nelson family and connections.

It is claimed that all the Samoan MLA’s are related to each other by marriage, to the Nelson family and Tamasese group. In the Assembly itself, Mr. Betham is Tamasese’s brother-in-law, Mr, Moors is his uncle, Mr. Gurau’s daughter is married to Tualaulelei, and Mr.

Plowman is married to a member of the Mann family which, in turn, is understood to be related to the Nelsons.

When the Constitutional Conven tion was called together, the Euro peans elected nine additional Euro peans to assist the Convention. Only about half the electorate voted. Of the nine elected, seven or perhaps eight were either husbands of the Nelson girls, or first cousins or uncles. It has been stated here that only one of the nine—Mr. R. P.

Berking, a former German planter —was not a connection of the Nelsons.

There is no reproach upon these

elected people. On the contrary, they are generally esteemed. But if you accept those divisions of the Samoans among the chiefly families as fundamental, the dominance of the Tamasese-Nelson connections looms as a big difficulty in the country’s political future.

As is well known, the Reparations Estates were recently handed over to the Samoan Government. It be comes an important section of the Administration. The Directors of the new Trust Corporation are Tamasese, Mr. Meyer Snr., (father-in-law of one of the Nelson girls), and Mr. E.

Annandale (who is married to another Nelson girl). Not a word

can be said against the social or commercial standing of these three —but they all are members of the Tamasese group. Surely the choice was wide enough to have permitted the NZ authorities to have mixed the selection a little, and thus to have avoided political embarrass ment.

THE New Zealanders argue that these ancient chiefly divisions must be ignored, if Samoa is to make progress in the future as a united country. They may be right.

But the Samoan commoners talk constantly among themselves. The things that have been done—maybe unconsciously— by the NZ author ities in creating all this preliminary governmental machinery seem to point all the one way—and the Samoans are unhappy and disturbed.

The votes of the part-Europeans in this Territory, numbering thousands, are an important factor in future government. Politically, these people are quite unsophisti cated, and can be easily misled.

Strong feeling, based on the chiefly divisions, has been expressed among the Samoans in both Savaii and Upolu. One report is that Savaii may seek administrative separation from Upolu. Another is that a prominent Samoan leader remarked publicly that, as there now was a connection between the Tamasese and Mataafa families by marriage,

he hoped there would be no civil war.

Mataafa has just concluded a tour of Upolu, the declared purpose of which was to recruit members for his Planters’ Union, which has as its objectives the building of cocoa

driers, bulk sale of their proc and indenting of goods on a mission basis for the small Sar, stores. That seems reason enough, on a surface; but son the older Europeans wonder whi the organisation ends there, t

i some villages, there has been : of throwing out the chiefs and lishing the whole Matai system. the New Zealanders are wise jid skilful enough, they may get hrough this difficult period of isition without civil trouble. But laps their difficulty is not lack flsdom and skill, but lack of a >er appreciation of the ancient il systems upon which Samoan as a whole is built, le most conscientious product he best British schools can go y astray here if he does not ‘rstand Samoan history and ition —the implications of which blose to the core of their lives.

[?]'s Capacity for

pp. 57-59

MILES

[?]BANANAS

[?]'s Capacity for Tropical Fruit

s reported that New Zealanders ire the world’s champion cold ountry banana-eaters—in 1955, ■ding to statistics, they con d no less than 250 million nas. This means that in 1955 ’ man, woman and child in the inion ate more than 125 bananas, ind to end, 250 million bananas 1 measure about 3,500 miles. v Zealand always has been re d as a good banana and orange et by the nearer tropical is of Fiji, Tonga, Western oa, and Cook Islands—its ;ite for those tropical fruits it times seemed insatiable, one time, Fiji held most of banana market—the luscious let of the Rewa Valley seemed NZ’s favourite. But, steadily, a and Tonga bored in, and Cook Islands bananas (the 5 usually produce mostly es for export) got a place. Ip and 1954, Fiji supplied half of Zealand’s imported bananas; >5-56 the proportion was down ne-third—due partly to in >d consumption, partly to sr marketing by Samoa, partly ji’s production being reduced ceptional floods, ire is another cause. Fiji ex 's are nqt making sufficient use frigeration, and the otherwise lor Fiji banana arrives in NZ imes in poor condition, com with the consistently chilled la from Samoa. Fiji traders ire taking the matter seriously,

lemanding reforms.

A. F. R. Stoddart, CMG, who een Colonial Secretary in Fiji yeral years, completed 30 years itish Colonial Office service on 27. He expects to go on long late this year, prior to retire

, uncomfortable vessels; to ice from engine spares and the ical impossibility of carrying range of engine spares aboard; nplete absence of safe harbours lipways for carrying out neces naintenance. example of what happens was in March. A skipper arrived Auckland in January to take Taveuni from Captain Henry ion (now Second Officer in m vessel John Williams ). En to Penrhyn with a big load of passengers, Taveuni’s motor down. With little wind, the drifted for days before the e was temporarily repaired, meanwhile were being air ted from England and Auck and when the Taveuni eventu rrived back at Avarua, Raro the engine refit commenced side the jetty. t to this, on March 9, Inspire longside this same jetty when

Fiji Brewery

p. 57

SITE FOR NEW

A SITE for the new Fiji brewery, in the new industrial area near Walu Bay, Suva, is now being cleared, and the erection of the necessary buildings will be com menced shortly.

So far as is known,, the only capital being invested in this new enterprise is being provided by Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd. It is presumed that a new Company will be formed to own and operate the new brewery, but there has been no registration yet.

Provided that there are no dif ficulties on the technical side, to in fluence the quality and flavour of the beer, this industry should do well in Fiji. There is a steady natural increase in the Fijian, Indian and part-European com munities, and all three are steady beer-drinkers. t The Rev. Robert Porter has been appointed Archdeacon of Ballarat, Vic. He was formerly of the Anglican Mission in Papua, and fol lowing the Mt. Lamington eruption was awarded the OBE for his work amongst the survivors.

Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

pp. 59-113

[?]is Month's News of—

OK ISLANDS SHIP-OWNERS

HAVE MANY PROBLEMS

ae name of Cook Islands ship er Dick Brown has become ast synonymous with marine sters since he went into the ship ; business with vessel number -the schooner Tahitienne —soon r the war. hitienne, Karoro, and Mahurangi \ successively ended their days !I waters—but the Brown Line seen good times, too, and each has been promptly replaced, Brown now owning the Fiji ketch Taveuni and managing smaller English-built ketch In iok Islands shipping troubles be set down in the main to ;ulty in obtaining qualified and ble engineers for service in

the seismic wave from an earth quake in the far North Pacific swept into the “harbour,” causing her to part most of her lines and swing across onto the reef on the west side of the harbour. Luckily the ketch floated off on the next surge, though leaking. She shifted to Avatiu harbour, half a mile away, to clear the jetty for Taveuni.

Taveuni arrived back and stripped down her motor. Then on March 14 came news of another North Pacific earthquake. Inspire hastily took Taveuni in tow to the leeside of Rarotonga—but no wave arrived.

Taveuni was returned to Avarua jetty. She was there with engine dismantled when, on March 16, a heavy northerly blow sprang up, bottling her in the narrow harbour.

All available lines were laid out and the vessel managed to ride it

[?] kii", with Mr. Davis at the controls, [?] d out on Port Hacking, NSW. Note [?] of NG Highlander on tail fin. See story, [?] 06.

out—at the cost of many fathoms of chewed-up lines and some damage to the jetty.

The performance was repeated two days later Inspire and Mr.

John Harrington’s small ketch Manu also narrowly escaped de struction at nearby Avatiu on this da ßoth got to sea, but Inspire suf fered further damage to bulwarks by mooring lines before getting Cl After all this it was not altogether surprising that, when ordered by the Administration to take his vessel to sea, regardless of her present con dition, to clear the wharf for Maui Pomare lighterage operations, the skipper refused to do so, packed his gear, and returned to Auckland by air - Rumours to the contrary, Mr.

Brown has, in recent years, offered good money for skippers and engineers and has had some costly experiences in this direction. Life in the Cook Islands maritime service is anything but beer and skittles.

“DONKEY” IN TROUBLE

The New Hebrides Condominium ketch Don Quixote (usually irrever ently called the “Donkey Shot”, after the French manner of pro nouncing it), spent three months in dock in Noumea recently, and then sustained further damage on a rough voyage home.

The vessel left Noumea on March

28, and when 70 miles north of the island of Lifou, in the Loyalties, suf fered damage in what was locally described as a “violent tempest.”

Don Quixote turned and ran be fore the gale before finally finding refuge in Yate, on the SE coast of New Caledonia. Amongst other

damage, the ship’s radio was? molished. After minor repairs? vessel finally got away for VilJ April 3.

MERCHANT NAVY PROGRAI

For seafarers who like to kee touch with shipping events ano

rpments throughout the world, BBC’s weekly Merchant Navy gramme is one source, irst broadcast on Thursdays at i GMT (Friday morning in W.

Lfic), it is repeated at 2200 GMT lays and again at 0715 GMT following Mondays, arious frequencies are used but best at present is probably one he 19-metre band on the Mon r transmission (7.15 a.m. Fiji L)

TCHED IN COCONUT MILK

; first of the Leper Trust I yessels launched in Auckland )ril 17 by the NZ Minister for lories, Mr. MacDonald, had a of coconut milk broken over bows in lieu of the more

ional champagne,

vessel was Fauabu Twomeif, cost £N20,000, and has been ted to the Melanesian Mission prk around the Solomons and Jebrides. Two similar vessels will be completed later this ill go to the Methodist Mission le Roman Catholic Mission, launching Fauabu, Mr. Mac d is considered to have led the three ships with the ittle of coconut milk. When her two are ready for service will have no formal launch

es ABOUT TENT RAFTS

floating tent type of inflat nbber lifeboat (described and id in January PIM, pp. 99 '5), was demonstrated to Aus ship-owners and represent of maritime organisations a )nths ago and impressed most >e who saw it.

RFD Rubber-dinghy, as the stration model was called, n three sizes to accommodate or 20 people. The two smaller

types could be launched by one man; the largest required two men to throw it into the sea.

When not in use, the dinghy is packed in a valise. To launch it, a light painter is secured on deck to some convenient rail or object and the raft, still done up in its valise, is heaved into the sea.

The operating cord is pulled and gaj is discharged from a cylinder inflating the dinghy. The demonstrator informed his audience that survivors could then jump directly onto the inflated canopy and slide into the raft; or jump into the S^ er a anc * c . lim k aboard up a ladder, The floor is a double skin which is inflated manually by a bellows provided. This increases buoyancy as

well as providing insulation from the chill of the sea. Beneath the floor are rubber pockets which fill with sea water and stabilise the dinghy.

The canopy also is double skinned, thus protecting the occupants from sun and cold. Flaps at each end can be raised or lowered to regulate temperature. With all flaps lowered, it is claimed that the clothes of survivors who have been completely immersed will dry out in a very short time.

There is no means of propulsion —the whole idea of the raft being that it should remain near the area in which the vessel foundered so that survivors can more easily be picked up. (Over)

[?]old Jap wreck ("Tenyo Maru") on the [?]ear Lae, NG, which is used as a land [?]y local air pilots. Contracts have been salvage of NG mainland wrecks (see

iIAH AIDS AIR-SEA RESCUE

new aid to air-sea rescue work jh should be of considerable e to operators of small ships ;h frequently get into trouble in nd waters, is being introduced the RAAF. imarily, the aid is designed to ne airmen who have been forced a in the sea, and the equipment esigned to fit into Mae West of lifejacket. Its total weight lbs. However, the equipment d be equally valuable on life

rafts —such as the tent-type de scribed above.

The equipment consists of a beacon with a folding aerial; and a battery with a capacity for about 20 hours of continuous operation.

The beacon contains a small speech unit with which two-way com munication can be maintained over short distances. The speech unit uses up about 20 times more battery current than the automatic trans mission from the beacon, but would need to be used only in the last

stages of rescue, anyway.

The transmission of distress signals starts immediately the sur vivor releases the whip aerial. The signals are picked up on a cathode ray tube in the search-and-rescue aircraft over a range of 66 miles for an aircraft flying at 10,000 feet. One aircraft equipped to receive these signals can cover 30,000 square miles in four hours, come haze, smoke or fog and can pinpoint a survivor’s exact position.

The equipment is called SARAH —Search and Rescue Airborne Hom ing.

Safety equipment daily becomes more versatile and more varied. But the foolhardy still continue to put to sea with no more emergency gear than the Pilgrim Fathers took with them aboard the original Mayflower.

GOYA HENRY IN HOSPITAL

Captain Goya Henry, of the P-NG Administration vessel Thetis , is in hospital in Lae with a shattered thigh—result of a slamming door on board his ship while in Madang.

Japanese Load Scrap in NG

About 3,500 tons of scrap metal were loaded on to the "Esutoro Maru" in P-NG recently.

New Guinea Metals, Ltd., who are export ing the metal to Japan, expect that about three more trips - lifting 10,000 tons - will about clean up their scrap. At £27/10/- for highest grade ferrous metal and up to £200 for non-ferrous metal, that makes pretty nice money in anybody's language. The "Esutoro Maru" (above) under Captain Atsuta and with an all Japanese crew, loaded 2,130 tons at Finschhafen, over 400 tons at Lae and 1,000 tons at Samarai.

He is expected to be out of cir culation for about three months.

Capt. Henry has many claims to fame: one being that, like the also famous Douglas Bader, he has a.

“tin leg” and was the victor in a war with authority over retention of a commercial pilot’s licence. He was the first qualified Australian commercial air pilot and instructor with this alleged disability.

However, in the post-war he has returned to sea-faring, in the NG coastal fleet. , . .

He began his life of adventure at the age of six when he rescued another small boy from drowning at Grafton, NSW. For this he was awarded the Royal Humane Society s Silver Medal. , Swimming is in the Henry family.

Goya won his Blue for it at Sydney Uni.; and a brother, Ernest, repre sented Australia at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. .

Captain Henry served in sail m his youth—at one time on the American six-master E. R. Sterling.

UNIDENTIFIED SHIP CALLS FOR

HELP, DISAPPEARS

On March 6, Honiara radio re ceived a distress call from an un identified vessel to the effect that it had engine trouble and would be unable to reach port in the New Hebrides.

Air-Sea Rescue was alerted and inquiries made from Sydney,

Noumea and the Hebrides for any vessel which might be in NH waters —all without result. No ship has subsequently been reported missing and nothing has been heard from the ship responsible for the message.

This kind of irresponsibility comes into the same category as the send

ing of hoax messages over the . tralian Flying-Doctor neta (There was one last year; am recent weeks Australia was a convulsed over an untrace message purporting to come fro woman dying of snake-bite).

A year or so ago a, vessel in

kl Sea had a brush with a reef sent out distress signals. Almost ediately after, it extricated itself went on its merry way—but 'eniently forgot to inform the orities of the fact.

NORDLYS REVISITS

RAROTONGA

ie lavishly appointed topsail oner Nordlys looked in at Raro a late March from Tahiti on rrand for her American owner, ;er S. Johnson, who owns the >ail schooner Tiara Maori now ng in the Cooks. rdlys was originally in service the Scripps Oceanographic In te. Captain Johnson plans to her active and shipshape on ter work, based on Papeete.

P FACTORY-SHIP WITH A

PAST

e of the five Japanese whaling ry-ships now making their way to Japan from the Antarctic b Nisshin Maru. It is interest ;o recall that this vessel gave lies to the German raider et in the Antarctic late in Feb r, 1941, soon after that raider destroyed the Nauru phosphate nations, er completing that bombard in December, 1940, Captain Kruder, of Komet, received ed instructions from Germany south and destroy any allied ing ships that could be found.

Jre Komet met only the Nisshin ■ whaling fleet and received lies before heading for Kcr

guelen Island to refit in a quiet bay and take on food and ammunition from a German supply ship, before continuing on to sink more ships in the Galapagos area.

MICRONESIAN FLEET

ADDITION

News comes slowly from Micronesia and only now have details of thp T 1& n q Trnnnvt Export Co.’s new Mieco Queen come to hand. Specially built in Hongkong to serve the co-operative company’s routes between the 34 islands of the Group. She is a single-screw steel vessel of 228 tons gross with machinery and accommodation aft and a Single long hold

served by single derricks at either end.

She carries a crew of 12 and was under command of the company’s Captain Leonard de Brum on her delivery voyage last year.

The company also owns the former Tasmanian schooner Milleeta, 5 F Guam, m 1955. The letter coinpciriy purchciSGcl the ne ( T r . from Tasmania about six years ago. n twtattwq -rr

OLIVER MAC MAKES IT

The steam-tug Oliver Mac (formerly of the WRC Fiji fleet) finally arrived in Hongkong on

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[?] Folke Hillerstrom, managing director of [?]iaktiebolaget Helsingborg, owners of [?] alia-West Pacific Line, on board MS [?]s" at Lae. Mr. Hillerstrom, son of the [?]er of the ship-owning company, has visiting the company's agents in Aus [?], will visit Rabaul and Honiara, returning [?] weden via New York and London where xpects to arrive by the end of May. It [?] seventh visit to Australia and his second [?]e. In Helsingborg, Mr. Hillerstrom looks the Imperial War Graves Commission's [?]of 46 graves. The graves are those of [?]alians, Canadians, and South Africans, were members of the RAF. Mr. Hiller [?] visited Lae War Cemetary while he was [?]e and was greatly impressed with the [?]fully kept surroundings. (See page 105).

April 5, five months after leaving Noumea. . . .

Oliver Mac was sold last year to M. Jean Hagen, of New Caledonia, who immediately readied her for her last voyage to the East, towing the ancient Loyaute loaded with scrap. Captain R. T. Hamilton was in command and it was expected that the vessels would reach journey’s end before New Year.

However, bad weather, and short age of coal due to bad weather, de layed proceedings considerably and Oliver Mac and her tow spent a couple of months in Rabaul ( PIM, March, p. 57).

The New Caledonian crew of 30 has now arrived back in the Colony by air.

NEWS OF CRUISING YACHTS

• SOLACE, 33-ft English ketch, which arrived back in New Zealand waters from the Cooks late De cember, cleared Auckland again April 1 in continuation of world cruise. With Lieutenant-Commander Victor Clark, RN (Retd.) is West Indian Stanley Mathurin, Don Whale, of NZ, and Nakau Marsters, of Palmerston Island —where thd yacht was wrecked then rebuilt several years ago. Solace heads first for the Cooks, then will turn back westward along the usual circum navigators’ route. Plans are to reach

England by August, 1958. ® TAIHOA, of Auckland, 47 days out from Bora Bora, reached Hilo, Hawaiian Is., on January 22, re mained there 8 days, then continued on to Honolulu, leaving there April 6 for US Pacific coast. Bob Fenton and Gunnars Dambe man Taihoo. • ZONDA 111, of Argentina, still

lies at Auckland with the Enr yacht Diana. Carlos Paiva, of Zl 111, has transferred to the A land yacht Imatra —earlier rep«i as sold to a Papeete owner. I May reported sold to Mr. A Rusden. • YANKEE, Irving John famous topsail schooner, vr

)tonga early April for the first in her 20-odd years of globe ing with paying guests. Present ilement is 23, hand-picked by ister mariner. Johnson’s maxi i allowance for Tahiti is 5 days, mid lotus rot. The Yankee has iputation for keeping a close iule no matter how remote her 7 colourful ports of call. She ue back in her home port, cester, Massachusetts, at 11 a.m. 7, 1958. Note the hour. She i a great picture as she de id Rarotonga in April under full is for Aitutaki, Palmerston, Tonga and Suva. Yankee is illy sold and this is likely to be ast world circuit, iter in month, Yankee arrived iva with polio case on board vas put in quarantine; see else ; this issue). jAMERHAK lI. —A late April r to PI M’s Sydney office was oseph Havkins, of Israel. Busi- To take us to task for a para t we published in September, wherein we said that the yacht flying the Egyptian flag, ugh it might have been re d as a slip in the type at the (and the rest of the paragraph Mr. Havkin’s nationality) he is that in view of recent events ild almost be regarded as a Havkins is an Israeli and re himself as a wandering am ior for the Jewish people. He ® that he landed in Australia 7/10/- and since then the local i community has taken care n and will also pay his air jack to Israel. He will leave y about mid-May and, so he hitch-hike to Darwin, flying iel from there by stages. When home he will get a job as a n for a year until he has i money to come back to Aus

tralia to continue his voyage. When asked why he simply did not stay in Australia and get a job he said he had to renew his contact with Israel.

Lamerhak II is being taken care of by the Cruising Yacht Club, at Rushcutters’ Bay, Sydney. Mr.

Havkins says that when he and his 23-footer get going again they will do some of the trip overland — Lamerhak has already been hauled overland from New York to the Pacific seaboard. One of the over land treks he is contemplating is from the Cape to the North African coast (west of Egyptian territory, we presume).

He said (a joke) that he had been thinking 9f visiting the Seychelles and rescuing Archbishop Makarios;

and (seriously) that there was much sympathy for the Cypriots in Israel as they were “now going through what we have experienced.”

DOCTOR SAILS HIS HOME

WITH HIM

Dr. Charles Moody, a former resident dpctor at Bundaberg Gen eral Hospital, Queensland, is now a medical missionary at the Un evangelised Fields Mission at Wasua, on the Fly River, in a remote part of Western Papua.

Not for Dr. Moody the conven tional methods of travel. He sailed from Bundaberg in his 40-ft launch Crusader 1,220 miles up the Queensland coast, then across Torres Strait, to Daru, at the mouth of the

Fly.

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[?]ka", which came to grief on reef at [?]r, on the Rai coast. New Guinea, on [?] 29. Local smallships, directed by [?]ng Harbourmaster, tried but failed to [?]her off, and it is understood that she total loss (see April RIM, Page 118). [?] Plantation is shown in background of Photo: H. L. Dockery.

Vith him were his son, Peter, d 16, and a missionary, Mr. K. swn, who flew to Bundaberg from lua to help Dr. Moody navigate launch up the River to Wasua. s he expects to live on the launch >t of the time, Dr. Moody has ;d it up as a houseboat. His beat be up and down the 600 miles the river to visit the mission’s

dispensaries.

V VESSEL FOR BSIP MISSION

|75-ft vessel for the Dominican iers in the Solomon Islands is ig fitted out at Berry’s Bay by rne Halvorsen Ltd. It is expected i she will be ready for departure i Sydney at end of May. Who be in charge of delivery opera -5 is not yet known, le vessel is an ex-Navy general ise type. She is now being d with a Gardner diesel engine, le new ship’s name will be Salve fin a. Official christening is duled for about middle of May.

ING TO SOLVE HONIARA’S

PORT PROBLEMS

40-ft tow-launch for the BSIP Authority was loaded on the shank in Sydney in early May. e tug was built by C. A. M. Fisher, r instructions from Captain .Kennedy, Sydney ship-brokers.

II be used mostly for lighterage in Honiara. ur 35-ft scows for the same

destination are also under order through Captain Kennedy. It is ex pected that these will facilitate the loading and unloading of cargo from overseas ships at Honiara —which has no harbour worthy of the name, and no wharf.

MACUATA ON SLIPWAY

The 80 tons Macuata, owned by Burns Philp (SS) Co., which ran on a reef and was extensively damaged in early January, and towed to Suva in partly submerged condition in mid-January, was finally put on the slip for repairs in late April.

Ironbark timber from Australia was specially imported to replace the damaged keel; the vessel’s main mast which was damaged will be replaced by one of Oregon which is on order from Canada. Damage was done also to some of the ship’s frames and planks and to cabins.

Repairs to the hull are being done on the Government slipway by the well-known Suva ship-building firm of C. Whippy. This firm built Macuata and her sister ship Tavsuni for Burns Philp (SS) Co., in 1954.

Taveuni has since been sold to Mr.

Dick Brown, of Rarotonga.

MILOS. AROS IN SMART

PASSENGER TRANSFER AT SEA

Although the Swedish vessel Milos berthed at Lae, New Guinea, straight from Manila on April 22, she had

four passengers who had been on board only 16 hours This slight of-hand was accomplished by transfer from MV Aros at Sugar Loaf anchorage four miles from Lae. The passengers, including the Managing Director of the Ans tralia-West Pacific Line, Mr. Folke Hillerstrom, wished to go to the Solomons, and as no planes were available he boarded the Aros in Brisbane. She was then north bound to Japan direct. It was esti mated that she would be off Lae

about the same time as Milosz arrangements were made to tra£ the passengers. The Milos anchored off Sugar Loaf be«; another ship was at the wha;j Lae. Aros arrived about 2 a.m April 22, transferred her passe:; and went on her way. Milos bei; at Lae at 7.30 p.m. on the same The Milos is one of a fleet ofl ships belonging to Rederiaktiebo Helsingborg, owners of the tralia-West Pacific Line. SH beautifully fitted out. and carri passengers. At Lae she lo “Klinkii” ply-wood for Australis left Lae on April 23 bound Rabaul, BSIP, and Sydney.

SALVAGE OFF P-NG MAINE

The Administrator of Papua!

Guinea, Brigadier D. M. Cle announced on April 18 that salvage rights for recovery ofi tain Administration-owned ui water war surplus materials: been granted to a Melbourne pany, Anglo-Pacific Trading Cc Ltd.

The selection of the succ; tenderer was made after const tion of several tenders receive* eluding some from overseas cour and after examination of capacity of each tenderer to out the major work of vessel sa which is expected to continue least two years.

The Company will work L operation with a large Jap salvage organisation, Mats- Limited, and it is likely that: anese workmen will be broug the Territory to carry out d cutting and collection operatii Because of pending Court i (dispute over ownership of c; wrecks), the Administration hi. at this stage granted salvage at Rabaul, but it is expected; recovery of the salvage maten Kavieng, and Wewak will beg an early date, and progressive Finschhafen, Samara! and Miln where sunken vessels and materials are located.

Payment of royalty of up per cent, of the value of maj recovered will be made by the tractor to the Administration..

SPEED-BOAT FROM NG I

Mr. Colin Davis, secretary • Timber Development AssociatJ Australia and a speeo: enthusiast, hopes to break the tralasian water speed record boat, Klinkii. Mr. Davis wanr build a speed-boat, and he wanted to draw attention to Guinea timber and test it extreme conditions.

Commonwealth -New Gut Timbers co-operated with hr his project, and helped him toe suitable timber.

He had Lieutenant David one of America’s topline specie designers design his craft for'; When the design arrived in

lia. Mr. Davis had it modified to I local conditions, and com igioned Mr. B. King, of Fuller’s age, Sydney, to build it. The boat i almost finished when Mr. King I to give up work because of ill- Jth, so Mr. Davis handed the over to a Norwegian, Mr. Harold :h. to finish. he entire hull, with the exception the cowling, is of water-proof ikii pine plywood from Bulolo.

' cowling is of Bulolo cedar and i veneer 1/16 in. thick. The kness of the plywood varies from [. to i in. thick, ther timber used in the frame t is Canadian Sipka spruce and tralian mountain ash. le boat is powered with a 190-hp linder overhead valve Chevrolet )r. It is 7 ft 6 in. wide, 20 ft long, weighs 1,100 lb. The maximum d Mr. Davis has attained at pt is 70 miles an hour. He has to America for an Edelbrock ersion, which will be fitted to kii during the winter. He will iron out other faults in the during the off season, len the Edelbrock gear is fitted, Davis hopes that he will be able ;tain a maximum speed of 120 i an hour, and break the exist-

ing Australasian record of 105 miles an hour, held by New Zealander Len Southward He has only ‘ had Klinkii out in

Port Hacking Svdnev so far hut will not make hS?eco?ri i-wJ * re . c 9 r ? attempt th b of restricted space.

Yankee , with all sails set, on a former visit to the Pacific (see story, page 102).

jord attempts will be made from rby Kogarah Bay.

Ir. Davis is a member of the ircastle Branch of the Royal tor Yacht Club, and the St. irge Motor Club, Sydney.

WERAL GRANT STILL KEEPS

THAT TREASURE

5 hand this month a letter from J. Havens, who last appeared in f in January issue (p. 62), just r he and party had left Eng l in the 70 tons Gold Seeker ook for the treasure alleged to * gone down with the General nt off the Auckland Islands, h of NZ, about 100 years ago. lis was Mr. Havens second at- Dt. His first in a vessel, Absit n, in 1954, came to an end when vessel was wrecked in the Red ace the January paragraph, the ad expedition has also come to I —on Timor, during the mad ;h weather; but apparently Mr. ms is already thinking of a I attempt. He writes us, more rrow than in anger; irstly, Absit Omen was a MFV there was no syndicate which :ibuted (as PIM stated) and a considerable sum of money, whole thing was my investment loss except that my crew mem had contributed to cover their ailing for the journey. Needless y, this kind of crew frequently interest in voyages on small,

active and uncomfortable craft and after a while you never can tell when they will pack up and leave you.

“With regard to the second at tempt which ended by Gold Seeker being blown ashore in Lore Bay, Timor, and about which you have no doubt learned by now—all monies used to purchase and equip the vessel were supplied by myself. Crew members victualled themselves on the voyage out and necessity forced me, before leaving England, to raise a small mortgage on my ship. I won’t bore you with my feelings after three years of endeavour and not a little hardship, to have had so much hard luck and so little en couragement. I’ll just say that I have a feeling about the General Grant treasure and do not propose to give up my quest.

“I am 37 and a native of Sydney and not retired. In between spells at sea, I have erected batteries, stamps, mills and other installations on mines in four different countries.”

The wreck of Gold Seeker and subsequent happenings were the usual seven-days wonder in March.

By the time the expedition had reached Singapore apparently most of the original crew had had it—a fact that, as Mr. Havens points out, is not unusual under such circum stances. Some new crew members were engaged there, including a young journalist, Verity Gill, and besides Havens there were six on

board when the vessel went aground on Timor. After a day or so, Havens decided to walk across the island to Dilli to report the wreck and get help.

After he had been gone some days, the crew got restive and con trary to native advice put to sea in a 16-ft lifeboat, intending to sail round the island to Dilli. Instead they were swept out into the Timor Sea and eight days and 300 miles later they were (luckily for them) washed up on the northern end of Bathurst Island. Another eight days followed before they were found, near to death, by a couple of Australian miners.

Mr. Gill had kept a diary and immediately improved the shining hour by having it published in several instalments in a Sydney newspaper.

As he wrote it, it was all highly dramatic. But it is old stuff to old hands. All men (and some women) dream of a life of adventure on the wide blue ocean. One day of sea sickness on a small ship is sufficient to cure most of them.

NEW COASTAL VESSEL FOR

PAPUA

A vessel, name not given, was completed late in April in Brisbane lor the British New Guinea De

velopment Co., and left soon after wards for HQ in Port Moresby.

The vessel was built by Norman R. Wright and Sons, boat-builders of Bulimba, Brisbane. It has a length of 42 ft; beam of 13 ft; apd

draft of 4 ft. It is copper fau and copper sheathed and hardwood construction. The is powered by a Gardner die 74 bhp at 900 rpm.

The wheel house is immeo;

e the engine and all naviga il instruments, engine control guages have been brought up ie steering position for conveni in handling the boat. A two- Crammond radio has also been lied in the wheel-house, self-contained unit for the cap is abaft the wheel-house— ing compartment, toilet-wash-

and a galley fitted with a kero stove, kerosene refrigerator tainless-steel sink. 5 cargo-personnel carrier has modation for four native crew ilso for carrying native deck igers. It will be used on the n coast. eacher and Vocational Train •llege is under construction at a, Honiara, BSlP—but there been the usual delays, this )f steel from England. When Jted, the College will provide aming courses—one for teach d clerks; and the other for t tradesmen, such as car s. chief of the New Caledonian t bureau has been asked by itish Government to make a of the radio-activity in the •here during the H-bomb tests istmas Island. e R. V. Kay, of the Cook i High Court, returned to nga in April after four 3 leave in New Zealand. He companied by Mrs. Kay.

t Suva’s second. Hibiscus Festival will take place this year between September 19 and 23. In addition to the Miss Hibiscus contest and soap-box derby, other novelty events are being planned by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which organised the festival last year.

Passengers who sailed for the Solomons aboard the April "Tulagi" included Misses Roth Lotze and Gillian Kimber, who were headed for Honiara to visit Miss Lotze's parents. Mr. Lotze has been with the Govern ment Trade Scheme at Honiara for a number of years.

Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wade (right) left for Malaita where Mr. Wade will run the mission ship "Evangel" for the South Sea Evangelical Mission. Malaita residents since 1935, the couple had retired to Melbourne four years ago.

[?] e new vessel leaving Brisbane.

[?]rials of Cl

p. 67

[?]NKIST AND

WINDBLOWN

[?]rials of Cl citrus Growers

HE difficulties inherent in pro - moting the flow of perishable produce some 1,800 miles from » Cooks to New Zealand were flighted in mid-March when the \ui Pomare arrived at Rarotonga ; break the hurricane season lernation and uplift the first kings of a healthy citrus crop. ’or some weeks past, the fruit on 1-loaded trees had been ripening bout access to a market and it \ good to see the old “Pom-pom” w up again, disgorge welcome *es and mail and make ready for le 6,000 cases of citrus from ■otonga, and 1,000 plus from both itaki and Mangaia. It was about normal initial picking. icking, packing and loading is I organised in Rarotonga and k Islanders respond with a will such concentrated bursts of munal activity. But Nature has bursts of activity, too. [)tices in the local news-sheet ;d growers to pick only well ured fruit, thus unwittingly •avatmg the embarrassments i were to follow.

Fresh northerlies developing, Rarotonga roadstead became unten able and the Maui pulled out, languishing in the lee of the island for four days and waiting for a break as oranges, mandarins, lemons, and grapefruit displayed an increasing and blatant maturity.

But most of the fruit packed was finally loaded and away went the “Pom-pom” at her full seven knots, bursting with fast ripening citrus.

Final outcome unknown as yet.

This was a bad break for Mr.

Baker, local Director of Agriculture, just back to realities from furlough in the West Indies, where citrus is big business. They have their troubles there, too, Mr. Baker says, mostly entomological. But no ship ping headaches, as the juice is ex tracted on location, and canned for distant markets.

Future prospects for Cl citrus are promising, however, Nature permit ting, as she generally does. To sup plement the busy little Maui’s monthly visits, Union Company’s refrigerated Navua will make calls in April and May and should uplift some 20,000 cases each time.

Meanwhile, a solid start has been made on the foundations of Raro tonga’s cool store, designed to offset this problem of ripe fruit and slow ships. Refrigerated ships of Cook Islands size are hard to come by and cost the odd million to build.

Some say that fast surface carriage

to New Zealand would obviate the need for refrigeration. Mr. Baker says no; cool storage and refrig erated carriage are essential to the full utilisation of the planned citrus output.

As a hard-headed Yorkshireman who has handled an orange or two,

he should know.

G.R.

Financial T roubles

p. 68

W. Samoa Has Financial T roubles

THE Treasurer and Finance com mittee of the Western Samoa Executive Council were trying mid-March to find ways of balanc ing the 1957 Budget in time for the session of the Legislative Assembly due to commence at the end of the month.

The Government of Western Samoa is faced with a big decline in revenue and a continuous increase in current and capital expenditure A bad cocoa crop, a marked de crease in the price of copra and re duced banana exports have, in the last year, combined to make the task of running the Territory’s finances more difficult.

Some critics are blaming the current troubles on a Government spending spree following the boom year of 1955, when Samoa got equivalent to £Stg,slo per ton fob for her cocoa, and an average 40,000 cases of bananas were being shipped monthly to New Zealand.

There seems no immediate prospect of better cocoa prices or increased banana exports; and the export of copra may drop, due to the refusal of Samoans to accept the Government copra-grading scheme or the prices declared by the Copra Board.

II Brother Jude Featherstone, of the Marist Mission, in Bougainville, has been in hospital in Sydney for the past three months. t High Talking Chief Mariota Tuiasosopo, aged 52, long a leading figure in American Samoa politics, died suddenly on March 3. He was

founder of the present syste Samoan legislative policies and s as both Speaker of the House Senate President in past yean was a member of the Senate a time of his death. He is sui by his wife, Venise, daughter.

Betham, sons Palauni and Ma Jr.

Strange Blips Which Led To A

pp. 69-71

amatic Incident March, 1943

FATEFUL BATTLE

’ was late in the night of March 1, 1943. An Australian Beaufort plane, in command of Squadron ider Smibert, cruised slowly over f waters of the Bismarck Sea lich is the part of Huon Gulf, in New Guinea area, nearest to the stern end of New Britain). he Beaufort, from the Milne Bay e, had been told that three Jap troyers were believed to be lewhere in that area, and he had n instructed to locate them, here were four men in the plane gineer, navigator and radio man, addition to the pilot) and the ti in the front of the picture i “Sparks”. He was searching the k sea round about with his radar ipment. resently, he cursed aloud. “I light I had ’em,” he complained. ?ot a couple of blips—now the jhine’s gone on the blink, and " getting blips from everywhere, k at it!” ire enough, if the radar was to believed, there were a lot of »s down there. They did not be -5 the radar. ut the skipper decided to make s. He swung away that way, and y again this way, -sewhere, the radar behaved nally, but it repeated the blips ;he same place, when they re led. [EN the crew awakened to the fact that, quite without warn ing, they had stumbled upon an ny fleet at sea. They kept iing, while sending an immedi radio report to their base. There no reaction —no shot, and no of a hostile plane—from the :ened ships. low many ships shall I say?” d “Sparks”. “I counted eighteen, that seems fantastic.” )th pilot and navigator, who had ;hed the screen, agreed that e were between sixteen and ity.

Setter be on the safe side, and e it fourteen,” said the skipper; the first message went out. »r three to four hours the ifort kept circling, reporting the and steady westwards progress he fleet. The Beaufort had no bs, but it carried flares, which it ised from time to time to tiinate the surface of the sea, the ships. len the Beaufort set off for e. st before dawn, it passed dron after squadron of Aus an and American planes—in came within a whisker of col

llding with a Flying Fortress.

The alert American-Australian command had taken no chance —it had sent out, from every available base, every plane, it could summon up, for the kill.

AND a mighty kill it was. For that lone Beaufort, by sheer luck, had contacted the great fleet of

transports which the Japanese had assembled in secrecy in a last desperate effort to retrieve their fail ing campaign in the Lae-Salamaua- Buna-Wau-Bulolo district of New Guinea.

There were 12 transports (carry ing 15,000 men), 10 warships and some scores of planes—although the latter took little part in the defence of the convoy. The convoy was headed for Lae.

As dawn broke over the Bismarck Sea, in the morning of March 2, the fleets of Allied bombers and fighters literally fell upon the great convoy.

A few small warships may have escaped, but—as far as is known— not one transport got away.

The ships fought back valiantly, and the Japanese died bravely—but

e slaughter was of a character dom exceeded in that South cific War. The Allies lost only ir planes. rhe Beaufort’s crew was asleep ping March 2. But on March 3, lie the bombers and fighters were 11 out clearing up the Jap [inants, the Beaufort went back reconnaissance; and it reported it smashed ships, debris and dead n were scattered over hundreds square miles of Bismarck Sea.

Siat was the story as told to me a quiet-spoken man who sat be -5 me recently in a plane, en route Fiji. [e was Mr. N. S. A, Layton, and was the navigator on that lufort plane. He told it to me as imple incident of wartime service iren now, he did not realise that fortunate appearance of those ormal blips on the radar screen ned the way to one of the most matic battles of the Pacific War, I to a Japanese defeat which ictly changed the course of the rhen they lost that convoy, in t way, in the Bismarck Sea, the s knew they never could take t Moresby; and that, without ■esby, they must abandon their towards thrust through the •mons against Australia, New land and Fiji. r. Layton now is an officer of Colonial Sugar Co., of Queens l and Fiji, and he is responsible

for the technical and intensive training of managerial staff. He is in Lautoka for a few weeks, con ducting a school for selected men

of the CSR Co. staff in Fiji.-

R.W.R.

Coffee Pest In

p. 71

N. CALEDONIA

A BORING-INSECT called a “Scolyte” is causing considerable damage to New Caledonian coffee plantations. The pest bores into the maturing coffee beans and renders them unfit for commerce.

Damage has been heavy in the current season although main harvest is still some way off and it is anticipated that anything up to 70 per cent, loss of beans may be anticipated on some plantations.

The large increase in the pest population is blamed on the un usual dryness of the last few months.

Jet Age Comes to New Caledonia

p. 71

New Caledonia

THERE was a certain amount of mild perturbation in Noumea about Easter following the appearance of vapour-trials high in the sky.

However, explanations were soon forthcoming. The trails were the only visible signs of Canberra jet bombers flying between Australia and Fiji, and travelling at about 600 miles an hour.

This was the first time that vapour trails had been seen in New Caledonian skies.

II Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Teulon, who were for many years in Fiji, are returning to England on retirement in June. Mr. Teuton's last appoint ment was Director of Roads and Buildings, Government of Libya.

In Fiji he was with the PWD.

In Fiji Imported Food

pp. 72-73

THE MYTH OF

CHEAP LABOUR

In Fiji Imported Food Is Cheaper

A DEPRESSING run of unfavour able trade balances during the past three years, together with an anticipated decline in import revenue this year, due to the credit squeeze, are causing many people to consider the economic future of Fiji.

It is impossible to overlook the uncomfortable fact that the Colony’s exports are not being increased either in variety or quantity.

There is nobody to interest over seas concerns in starting new in dustries in Fiji or to examine the Colony’s potentialities.

It is also unfortunate that various new industries started in the past under apparently favourable condi tions, folded up, due in some in stances to faulty planning and lack of local experience. These failures tend, of course, to discourage other new enterprises.

Timber development at Kadavu by local people familiar with local conditions will, it is hoped, help to reduce the amount of timber

imported into the Colony, par ticularly if proper drying methods are adopted so it can compete with imported Oregon.

However, it is reported that one Suva concern intends closing down

its mill on the grounds that ti; can be imported cheaper.

The importation of dried evaporated milk last year to value of £192,833 is another n tion on a country which hau

id and the agricultural population : increase its dairying industry, id also produce more pigs and ultry.

Pork, poultry and eggs are im rted in fairly large quantities and Christmas time, New Zealand ultry of better quality can be light more cheaply than local ds. Often throughout the year ported eggs are cheaper.

Fish also presents a rather ex lordinary situation in that it is eaper to buy deep-frozen fish mght all the way from Scotland, in fresh fish caught in local ters. Fish is an important article diet with the native people and ire also is always a demand from ropeans, Chinese and Indians. A all trawler to supply local fish r the lines being planned in iga would help to reduce both jorts and the cost of living. ’hese are small matters but they ect the growing tendency to r more and more on overseas ntries for all that we wear and ch that we eat.

[?]he late Charles Wurth

p. 73

TRIBUTE

lARLES THEODORE WURTH,

who died in Brisbane on March 15, was born in Townsville on ember 20, 1881, and not in South ica, as stated in PIM of April (p. is connection with Africa was ially through the Boer War. He demobbed in Brisbane at the of it, but then returned to South ca, where he worked for the ’eminent Railway Department some years. i 1909, he was back in Australia lying for appointment to the uan Government Service. He me a Treasury and Custom’s c in Samarai but in mid-1910 ed on to become Chief Clerk in Government Secretary’s De ment, at Port Moresby early 1912 he became a Resident istrate and until the middle of served in this capacity in the Central, Kumusi and Mambare sions. early 1915, he left for Australia inlist in the AIF. I saw him i he was passing through Dam he expressed the fear that he Id be accepted as a conscript not as a volunteer. However, conscription issue, then before Australian people, was defeated.

' was with the 25th Battalion in ice and at the end of the war •led, in Edinburgh, Miss Elsie r, who returned with him to ia, where he became RM of Northern Division, which had formed by amalgamating the mmusi and Mambare Divisions, remained there (with HQ at a Bay) until moved to Port Jsby as RM of the Central sion sometime in the 1920’5, became Commissioner of Lands,

with a seat on the Legislative and Executive Councils in July, 1936, and so remained until he retired from the service in 1939. He was highly thought of by Sir Hubert

Murray and by those with whom he worked.

A good and upright man who made many friends. A gentleman, Bamahuta, Charlie.

Fourth Banking Company for Port Moresby

p. 73

fTIHE National Bank of Australasia, J. Ltd., opened a branch in Port Moresby on May 1. The bank, which offers full trading facilities is in the Burns Philp building in Musgrave Street.

Mr. R. A. Willock, who was formerly manager of the Barham branch in New South Wales, is manager at Port Moresby. An official of the company in Sydney said it was not known as yet

whether the bank would open branches in other parts of P-NG.

The National Bank is the fourth to establish itself in the Territory, The others are the Commonwealth, NSW and ANZ.

The National Bank was formed 99 years ago in Victoria during the gold rush period; it now has 847 branches in Australia. It has three offices in London which offer full trading facilities.

Brought Millions To Fiji

pp. 75-77

[?]re Was Gold in [?]lem Thar Hills"

HOW PAT COSTELLO, DEAD AT 69,

VAY back in the early 'Thirties I received from Fiji a letter which I often since have quoted, ras signed “Pat Costello.” le letter said that an old pec tor named William Borthwick discovered some remarkable s of “good gold” among the tal hills in the Tavua district of Levu. He thought the dis ry was worth investigating. Did low anyone who might be in fted. lid know a man, named Brown, had been crying to me only a days before that, although he funds to invest, he “could not onto anything,” while less hy folk were making fortunes of the then new goldfields in Guinea. lent Costello’s letter to Brown; Brown went to Fiji immedi . He came back and scolded

me fiercely. He said the Fiji prospects were moonshine. (It was a telluride ore, with which he was not familiar.) But Pat Costello did not give up.

He was instrumental finally in in teresting the Wren-Theodore group, of Melbourne, in the Bill Borthwick discovery; and so was born the group of companies (Emperor, Loloma, etc.) which developed into one of Fiji’s largest industries, the goldfields at Vatoukoula, and brought millions of good “hard” money into the British Colony.

The incident came to memory to day, when I learned that Pat Costello was dead, at the untimely age of 69. But justice had been done. Pat, a modest trader and investor 25 years ago, got a full share of the gold discovered by Borthwick —the prospector whom he had “staked”—and when E. G. Theodore died, several years ago, Pat took his

place as a Director on the Emperor and Loloma Boards. 1 THINK that, in half a lifetime spent among the Islands of the South Pacific, among interest

ins and hospitable people, Pat rostello was the friendliest man I ever met. He gave one always the impression that he was mightyjpad to see one again; and he loved to sit right down, there and then, examine the gossip of the South Seas generally, and of Fiji in particular. I never failed to gather newsy news from Pat, plus a couple of stories spiced with his lively Irish wit.

But, although his social qualities made him popular far and wide, there was a tough side to Pat Costello. He gained much, and died a rich man—but he got it the hard way. He had nothing b u t in telligence, industry and shrewd vision when he went from Queensland to Fiji, as a shipping clerk, nearly 50 years ago; and he forged ahead, as storekeeper, hotelkeeper, landowner and investor, by hard work, enter prise, and a judgment that w 35 hardened and sharpened in m numerable encounters with other keen traders.

He was a great family man—very happy in his own home, and happier when he was surrounded by re lations At one time, there were six Costello brothers established in various industries in Fiji, all well known, esteemed and enterprising citizens: but I think it was Pat who pioneered the Costello invasion of Fiji; and it was Pat, through his

share in the gold discovery, who probably contributed most to Fijis economic advancement.

AS time passed, and hard work and far-sighted investment made Pat rich, his outlook widened, for the beneht of his adopted country. . . .

No man took a keener interest than he in the welfare and the future of the Colony of Fiji and, as was inevitable, he gave much in the

way of public service. For long ye he was a member of the Legisis Council and the Executive Com and of many public bodies, incc ing the Suva town council. Ex? that he was not born in Fijii ranked equally, on merit, withj old-established men of affairs form that hard core of valu citizenship which gives Fiji unique strength under to-day’s ficult conditions. (♦

[OST of Fiji’s residents—certainly, all the older people—knew Mr.

Costello, and esteemed him ;hly. When his death occurred April 15, tributes to him, as a >d man and a good citizen, came m the leaders of all four com hities. )uring his long years as a trader the “Northwest”, he had had ch contact with the Indians; and gained and retained until the I the esteem and goodwill of most the Indian leaders.

Sympathy was extended to Mrs. tello, who had been her husband’s d companion over the long years, e was survived also by his ghter Peggy, who married John ,y. a Wing-Commander in the v Zealand Air Force. She later It with him to London when he appointed NZ Air Force Attache :e. Then, at the height of his raising career, he developed an jss which was incurable, and [ soon after. The family was ;ed in London by Mr. and Mrs. tello a couple of years ago. . Bray and her children later led in Wellington, NZ. le Melbourne Cup doubtless will xm in future Novembers; but it not be quite the same, now Pat ;ello is dead. rery springtime, for countless ■s, Pat had business to do in tralia; and, by a series of those cidences which stalk all lucky Jhants, his business always took ito Melbourne in the first week bvember; and brought him back Sydney soon afterwards, to be rtained by a group of old friends admirers there. Many of us will that annual occasion when we I to induce Pat to admit, very f, that his Cup choice had ed. i died too soon, and too sud y. But he did have an interest md very successful life—and he ted every minute of it.—R. W.

iSON.

Tropicalities

pp. 79-80

MAGAZINE SECTION

ILK FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

i NATIVE teacher at Ihu, on the L west coast of Papua, is to be congratulated on being the first introduce a daily cup of milk to s pupils. The milk supply comes om carefully tended goats. The acher is also planting citrus trees id Australian lemons so that the itive children will be able to have daily supply of fruit, too. In ihiti, it has long been the practice r children to receive a lunch of ait and milk.

WITNESS OF HORRIBLE

CEREMONIES

HIS curious object was presented to the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, by a well known ident of Rabaul, when His High s visited New Guinea last member. t is described as a head, and it 1 been broken from the full ire (a stone representation of a n) and mounted. The figure was d by the ancient Tolais (the ive people at the eastern end of v Britain) in horrible cannibal .ctiqes. ’he ceremony took place in an a known as Moromoro. The p-er i selected as the victim was

stabbed with a sharp bamboo knife; his blood was collected in a half coconut shell; the men present (no women were allowed anywhere near) drank the blood; they danced around the victim; and then the dead man was eaten.

The gentlemen who took part in this ceremony were called Iniat; and thenceforth they were for bidden to eat pig.

The area called Moromoro is known and feared by the Tolais of the present time.

HOW WILD IS “WILD”?

TWO “wild” dogs from the High lands of New Guinea made

newspaper head lines in Australia in March. Cap tured in the NG Southern Highlands, these were the same dogs described for PIM by Sir Edward Hallstrom in February PIM. (P. 17).

Passengers o n the ship were warned about these ferocious creatures —it was said that they would bite and scratch and, if the hated human kept clear of their teeth and claws, they might even spit.

Then, one morn ing, a woman shrieked. Her baby boy, she cried, was being mauled by one of the wild dogs.

Rescuers came at the dou b 1 e—to find the dog and the child having a romp together.

Thenceforth, they were nearly killed with kindness.

They are de scribed as “re sembling an Aus tralian dingo, but they howl instead of barking.”

A STAB AT THE PEARLSHELL

MYSTERY

JUST how,” many intelligent people have asked, “can the pearlshell industry sustain the high prices that this product has fetched in recent years?”

When Mr. Mikimoto perfected the genuine home-made pearl, popular opinion had it that there could be no great future in nuturing pearl shell beds just to become buttons on gents’ shirts. No longer, it was thought, would expensive limousines be seen on remote coral strands. In future, skin divers would have to walk home to their two-storeyed mod-con residences on the lagoon edge.

With plastic buttons now being stamped out in million dozen lots, it is certainly difficult to imagine MOP being bought for the same purpose at the current price of over £6OO per ton.

This nacreous product is shipped to strange places these days; Geneva and Stuttgart, for example, and a mysterious atmosphere that pervades case marking and shipping has convinced the cynics that, in

Brother J. Delabarre, of Papua, proves his point that Job's-tears are for women (PIM April, p. 18). This widow of the P-NG Southern Highlands, as a sign of mourning, is covered with mud and many pounds weight of the dried seeds, strung as necklaces.

Photo: J. Delabarre.

Cold-War tactics, pearlshell is a average pearlshell buyer in the field is an elusive fellpw who flits around the world with lips tight against importunate enquiries.

Nothing can be gained in pursuing him. Not in business hours, anyway.

But suppose, as an island resident, you have a friend a pearlshell buyer in New York, and you write and ask him for a straight answer to this MOP mystery.

That’s just what happened, and, in an apparently unguarded moment, the Manhattan man came back with a very interesting answer.

Pearlshell, he wrote, can prevent barrel-flash in gunfire, and is mixed with explosives for that purpose.

This is the best that we have heard yet, and we will consider it confirmed if strong denials are re ceived from top levels. —G.R. (It would be even more to the point perhaps in these days of push button warfare, if it prevented fall out after atom-bomb explosions.—

Ed. PIM).

HAS YOUR COMMUNITY GOT A

BIGGER THIRST THAN THIS?

A SMALL European coastal com munity in Papua-New Guinea, permanent population 20, last year purchased from the local store 1,000 dozen bottles of beer.

Our arithmetic makes that 600 bottles per person per annum. Quite a thirst.

In addition, extra hundreds of dozens of beer are bought direct from Port Moresby: and there is also a good healthy trade in whisky, gin, rum, etc.

I WANT TO GET ON WITH MY

GARDEN

AN advertisement in the Cook Islands news-sheet in mid- March'.

EXCHANGE: Have one rake and one garden fork. Will exchange for either a garden spade or a shovel.

Apply Community Development Office.

Pacific Island Night

p. 80

By Marjorie Court McLaughlin

From the shore , the sun has found a painted pathway To skyline etched against the shadows of the bay.

The winds that rove the palm-tree aisles with panther tread Are hushed to sleep. The tide steals in; and overhead A lone bird wheels and cries . . .

Light fades, and crystal-clear Above the Point one star burns bright. And night is here.

If Mr. R. J. A. Ingram, who has been secretary and a director of United Island Traders Ltd., Rarotonga, Cook Island for 71 years, will leave the company at the end of July and business on his own account.

Bui Suva’S Small Ships Saved The “Norbry[?]

pp. 80-81

Their Size Surprised the Captain—

ON the morning of April 1, early risers in Suva saw a curious and thrilling spectacle beyond the reef—a 10,000-ton steamer, weather stained, listing badly and wallowing on the end of a long tow-line.

At the other end, the sturdy little Suva ship Ratanui, of 250 tons, slowly and patiently, at li knots, struggled along with her inert burden.

The crippled Norwegian tramp steamer Norbryn was on the last leg of her voyage to sanctuary in Suva.

In mid-February, the Norbryn left Victoria, British Columbia, with a cargo of nearly 2,000,000 board feet of timber, carried on deck, and 3,370 long tons of newsprint in her holds, for Australian ports.

The full story of the series of mishaps which befell the ship is not yet available. But from what is known, the Norbryn had been at sea about 30 days when fire broke out in the boiler-room, putting the starboard boiler out of action.

The crew fought the fire for about three hours before it was subdued.

With his ship partially crippled, Captain Karsten M. Reinertsen de cided to make for Suva, the nearest port, running the ship on only one boiler.

Then fire was discovered in the cargo, ’tween-decks. As the decks were completely stacked with lumber, holes had to be cut in the steel plates to admit the fire hoses. After that fire was put out, the crew stood watch on it for many days.

AFTER several days, the port boiler also failed, leaving the

ship drifting helplessly. She had no power at all — for essential work, cooking or refrig eration.

All the fresh meat on board went rotten and was heaved over board, to be ravaged by scavenging sharks, following the ship.

There was no light in any part of the ship and no lanterns or alternative arrangements. (One of the sea m e n had a candle.) Engineers worked solidly, en

deavouring to repair the port ba while Captain Reinertsen kept; owners advised of the situation The ship drifted helplessly onj broad Pacific for five days.

When it became clear that tl was no hope of restoring powe:; the ship, Captain Reinertsen goc touch with his agents in Suva, i ing them to arrange a tow.

THERE are no sea-going tugi; Suva. At the end of last y the Oliver Mac, a sea-going; which had been lying idle in £ Harbour for years, was sold.

The only ships available for job were the Ratanui, of 250 ti and the Yanawai, 225 tons, skippi by Captains Lumsdale and Sm:.

The position of the Norbryn given as about 40 miles nortM Round Island, in the Yasawas, al 100 miles from Suva.

So the little ships set out.

Ratanui reaching the Norbryn p.m., on Thursday, March 21, the Yanawai later.

Meanwhile, aboard the Norb a leak occurred in the oil sto< tanks, and the oil poured into port bilge.

Gradually, the Norbryn begai. list to port—just a little, then ri and more. At the time the commenced, her list was estimj at 16 degrees. When she reao Suva, it was nearer 30 degrees Captain Reinertsen said that; leak was not in any way associi with the fire. It was just om those things, which would have 1 dealt with in the normal way—

The little "Ratanui", photographed from the sloping deck of the "Norbryn", at the end of the tow.

Norbryn had no power and con lently no pumps, ife aboard became a nightmare, leep was impossible because of angle of the ship. The seamen watch groped their way through darkness to their crazily-tilted ks. They tried to prop their ling up level. at, with the ship at the mercy ‘very wave and current, when l they fell asleep, they would 1 to the deck and slide down i the list of the ship.

PTAIN REINERTSEN breathed thanks when the Ratanui and Yanawai arrived—though his ngs were mixed when daylight aled the inadequacies of his two stants. How could two little s, built for trading among the ids (he later referred to them launches” although they are the e of the local BP fleet), hope to a deadweight of 10,000 tons — less, listing and completely un erative? i Friday, March 22, the tow menced. most immediately, the Yanawai in difficulties. Being a twin v vessel, she could not take a ope directly astern. She practic stood on her tail and refused tiswer her helm.

Ratanui bore the brunt of the :, while Yanawai helped when could, sometimes taking a rope [ships when the seas were calm. ,e Tui Cakau (Captain Wendt) id the company during the tow. d weather blew up. Time and i, the towropes parted. At one , seas were so formidable that small ships were unable to get lines back aboard the Norbryn ibout nine hours. board the Norbryn, the men i sawing up the timber cargo uel for the galley fires. With resh meat, they were drawing le ship’s ample stocks of tinned ;d beef. But other normal cook fent on as usual. ;ing wasn’t so easy! Captain srtsen said a man could eat the * of the next but one along, lot be found out! And a man lucky if he ate everything be the rolling of the ship shot the off his plate and over the side. ■ 10 days, the Norbryn hobbled

towards Suva at the end of a frail towline. She was so hard to man age, and the swell was so heavy, that the small ships could not use the narrow Beqa Passage, but had to take her right around Beqa Island, through Kadavu Passage.

Then, on the morning of April 1, after weeks of mishaps and anxiety, trial and tribulation, the helpless Norbryn was drawn by the Ratanui and the Tui Cakau along the barrier reef towards the entrance of Suva harbour.

Captain Reinertsen thoughfully regarded that reef and the white surf boiling over it.

Difficult to the last, Norbryn chose that moment to lose her rudder control and swung round, head on to the reef. The towing vessels pulled her back again on her course.

The captain had been told that the entrance was 1,200 feet wide — wide enough for a dozen Norbryns, bow-on. But would she be bow on? Or would she swing with tide and current? The most anxious moments of all were ahead.

Tui Cakau and Ratanui took the lead. Six small Suva ships, Ratu, Popi, Adi Cakobau, Adi Waidau, Tui Nakoba, and Government tugs No. 5 and No. 9, made their ropes fast to the Norbryn’s stern. Then full steam ahead. They swung her around until her bow was centred in the reef opening.

Slowly, nerve-rackingly, Tui Cakau and Ratanui pulled her to safety, while the other little ships con trolled her astern.

Captain E. L. James, Acting Harbour Master, piloted the convoy in and it was his voice which at last gave the order —“Let go the anchor!”

The crew were taken ashore and billeted at the Flagstaff Battery, FMF, while the officers went to hotels. And they all slept for the first time for several weeks.

ABOARD the Norbryn, in the captain’s sea-cabin, the curtains were canted crazily to the angle of the ship. Captain Reinertsen, plump and portly, friendly but dis creet, wedged his weary frame in a corner of his couch and started on the long labour ahead—getting his ship seaworthy, attending to all the

legal matters which follow a mishap at sea.

But the ordeal was over. The Norbryn, sea-stained and oddly off balance, lay safely at anchor in Suva Harbour.

[?] e Norwegian tramp steamer [?] rbryn" listing heavily after her to Sava`.

Mr. W. Cunningham Bruce

pp. 81-82

Pioneers of Papua

By J. Nixonwestwood

Mr. W. C. BRUCE had charge of the Police in the “occupation days”; and he had a most dif ficult task, not only in training the natives, but also in attempting to keep order generally, which in those days was no easy job.

He was a huge, genial man, very gruff, but exceedingly kind-hearted.

He was also very forthright and would not stand any nonsense from anyone, be they in the Service or just plain civilians, such as some of the BP managers.

He also had charge of the Armed Constabulary. He made his first visit to the Territory when Sir William MacGregor was about to retire. His name is not mentioned in any report prior to 1898, but he was a personal friend of Captain Barton and Sir George Le Hunte.

He took up his onerous duties in the early 1900’s.

Bruce found his job a difficult one, because he had to contend with some very cheese-paring authorities in Brisbane. Any innovation sug gested to help him in his work was more often frowned on than agreed to.

DURING Bruce’s term of office he was called upon to hang one of the men who were responsible for the death of a European who had been murdered in the hills be hind Port Moresby. It was a particularly ghastly crime and was committed in a spirit of real bravado.

In the village (near to Sogeri), the visits of the Patrol Officer had been much reduced, and the natives thought the “gubment” had quit, so they started to rob gardens and villages of whatever they could lay their hands on. Becoming bolder.

they looted European bungalows, ; finally got so cheeky that they attacked 'and killed one of the Europeans.

There were several culprits, but o hv one was condemned to death, ' 4 it fell, to Bruce to have to do hangman’s job. The gallows ere erected by John MacDonald, vho was the jailer at that time, end the place was at the beginning of Elakona, just at the bottom of he hill to the left. It was well screened from the public; but even with all these precautions, poor gruce, big as he was, was trembling like an aspen leaf.

The native Sergeant who helped Bruce was a Kiwai whose name was Kesavi; and he, like Bruce, did not relish the job—Kesavi more so, be cause the news would travel to the killer’s village, and something might happen to him if he had to go on a patrol to the district again.

After all the arrangements were complete, Bruce asked the boy if he had anything to say before he was launched into eternity. The answer was: “What for you mace me plenty other fellah man he help killem taukurrakurra.”

With that, Bruce turned his head and told Kesavi to pull the lever, and said most fervently, “and may God have mercy on your soul.”

Soon after that “job,” Bruce re signed the Service; because, although a big and gruff man, he was very tender-hearted, and not cut out for that kind of work. As the head of the Constabulary, he was excellent, and it was due to him that, when the new Administration took over, they had a very well-trained Armed Constabulary which could be relied on to take care of any emergency, and do their job without too much European supervision.

BRUCE then commenced business as a clearing contractor and manager of estates, from the plant ing to the bearing stage. He also contracted to get timber for firms and individuals; and in this con nection he helped George Francis Whybrow, and later Arthur Jewell, to get timber for the sawmill which had been erected at Manu Manu.

On the plantation side, he em ployed Harry Gofton, as manager of the Lolorua Estate, and Mrs.

Gofton (now Mrs. Flo Stewart), accompanied Harry to the kabun and they took care of the Estate until about the beginning of World War I.

Mr. and Mrs. Gofton, who under stood natives, seemed to be able to control the New Guinea workers with success, and they were com plimented by Bruce and other Euro peans on the way they managed the Estate. Arthur Jewell finally took the place over, and he, with his wife, appeared to be able to keep up the good work which Bruce, through Harry, had accomplished.

Bruce ended his adventurous life as a prosaic planter.

Benjamin Boyd's Ill-Fated

pp. 82-84

"Papuan Republic"

Scheme of 1851

EXPEDITION TO FUADALCANA[?]

By A. J. SHEAT

SOMEDAY a movie magnate may make millions of dollars by un folding on the cinemascope or vistavision screens of the world the 1960 or so version of “The Last Cruise of the Armed Yacht Wanderer .”

Comedy, stark tragedy, mass scenes of natives in the minimum of cloth ing, murder in the jungle and a dramatic climax as the 240-ton yacht is wrecked on the bar of Port Macquarie, NSW, should make this a “colossal, stupendous” box-office success.

Benjamin Boyd, millionaire owner of the yacht Wanderer, might well be a role to win an Academy award for some movie actor fresh from triumphs in current movies like “Round the World In 80 Days” or “Moby Dick.”

It was recently stated in the Sydney newspapers that “the oldest ghost town in Australia, Boydtown, on Twofold Bay, near the New South Wales-Victorian border, is for sale. . . The National Trust, which fosters the restoration and preserva tion of historic buildings, hopes to restore the village and re-create the atmosphere of the period. Benjamin Boyd, a London Stock Exchange millionaire, came to Sydney in his luxury yacht Wanderer, in 1842. . .”

The story of Benjamin Boyd is well known. The Pacific Islands Year Book records that he was murdered by natives in 1851 when he unwisely went ashore on Guadal canal, in the Solomon Islands.

IF ever Boydtown is restored to what it was in the eighteen forties then one of the star at tractions might well be Boyd’s Waterloo gun, salvaged from the wreck of the Wanderer and brought to Auckland, NZ, by Mr. Samuel Browning. Benjamin Boyd estab lished branches of the Royal Bank of Australia when he arrived in Sydney in 1841, and Mr. Browning came to Australia in the middle of the century as managing inspector of the bank and wound up its affairs.

No doubt the brass 12-pound cannon was of considerable senti mental value to Mr. Browning and he took it with him when he left Sydney in 1855 to reside permanently in Auckland. He died there in 1888, and some years later the gun was presented to the city of Auckland.

For several decades it was an object of interest among the flower beds in Albert Park. Then a new museum was built and the old brass cannon was moved to the museum.

Space limitations have resulted] Ben Boyd’s gun being left in storeroom. Nobody, except museum staff has seen it for gene tions.

However, Auckland museum, w one of the world’s finest collectii of Polynesian and Melanesian s and crafts, has two sketches on. walls of events in the last cruise the Wanderer in 1851.

How a hundred canoes greeted arrival of the Wanderer at Nukui or Byron’s Island in the Kingsn Group (now known as the GilU Islands) on August 5, 1851, is she in one excellent water-colour ske made by John Webster, who * sailing master of the Wanderer ; who lived on until 1912 andJ buried in Auckland.

The burning of native houses Wanderer Bay, Guadalcanal, Webster and crew as a reprisal the murder of Benjamin Boyd* October, 1851, is shown in anoti sketch.

Then, for good measure, there among the rare books in the Au land Public Library the s volume in which Webster recor the melancholy “Last Cruise of Wanderer.”

JOHN WEBSTER, a remarks personality in his own rij. teamed up with Benjamin B! at San Francisco in the early mor of 1851. Boyd had sailed Wanderer to California when nr came of the gold discoveries of I —which were so soon to be follow by the equally great gold discover in Australia in 1851 and later yer Webster had reached California* supercargo on a ship sent by enterprising Auckland merchai Brown and Campbell.

Aged 33 at the time, Webster ! come to Australia in the eighteen-thirties and worked ai cattle-drover and explorer in lx country inhabited by hostile blaj In 1841, he moved to New Zeald and spent several years running sawmill among the warlike Mai of Hokianga Harbour. So he well equipped to act as Boyd’s gut Those who have wondered t millionaire Boyd should risk life ; fortune in the Cannibal Islands 1851 will find the answer Webster’s book, where he offers following explanation: “There a definite object in view. This the establishment of a Papuan public or confederation of some ! ... a social and political organi tion on which the simple machin of an independent state might]

3ted. Had not death cut short , Boyd’s career he might have Deeded in this object. As it is task is reserved for others.” hers have succeeded in parcel ■ the South-west Pacific into the ; Protectorate, the New Hebrides idominium and so on—with re s not altogether happy for white lack men). >hn Webster’s book was printed ydney by F. Cunninghame, gen steam printer, of 184 Pitt Street, date was probably a hundred ■s ago. This book is now a coi n’s item, kept under lock and in a few libraries. It has a frontispiece showing the Merer in full sail. •YD’S expedition of 1851 was made with two ships, the Wanderer and her tender, the oner Ariel. Here is Webster’s ription of the ships: "The derer, RYS, was a fast-sailing hi schooner of 240 tons (old (urement). She had a flush Her armament consisted of brass deck guns mounted on ages, four rail guns, two on each and one brass 12-pounder rsing gun (long tom) which done service at Waterloo. In here were 13 serviceable guns, es two small guns for firing Is. These had been obtained the wreck of the Royal George hthead. le Ariel, a schooner of 120 tons, been purchased in San Fran as a tender. She carried sup for the expedition and goods *ade. was to have commanded the r, but as I preferred to sail Mr. Boyd he deputed the com of the Ariel to Mr Bradley. )st of the crew of both vessels Islanders. The crew of the were exclusively natives of the Hebrides.” ing from San Francisco on 3, 1851. the Wanderer was at Hawaii, in July, and reached lau, Gilbert Islands, 174 deg. on August 5, and Ocean Island gust 15.

September 6, the Wanderer at San Cristoval, in the on Islands. There the ship re d for a month. Boyd, who was ►f shooting, went ashore several and shot pigeons for dinner.

Eloomy foreboding, had the men on board realised it, was >tice left by a British warship ig all shipmasters that in 1847, the natives of one village in Cristoval had murdered French missionaries, and that rch, 1848, a French corvette Jstroyed two native villages in ition for these murders, to Guadalcanal (spelled with il “r” by Webster as on all maps) went the Wanaerer.

Jr went ashore on October 12. days later while the Wanderer t anchor in the bay—since as Wanderer Bay—on the west coast, Boyd went ashore

before breakfast accompanied only by an Ocean Island sailor who pulled the dinghy. Boyd took his gun, saying he would be back for breakfast and would bring some game for dinner.

Two shots were heard. Boyd did not return. Webster and the white men on the Wanderer oecame anxious.

Natives put out in canoes and surrounded the Wanderer. Webstei hurriedly distributed boarding pikes and handed up muskets from below deck. The muskets were each loaded with 10 pistol bullets.

So unexpected was the attack that followed that Webster had not loaded the ship’s guns. However he managed to load a swivel gun with grape shot and fired at the nearest canoe. This decided the battle, giv ing the crew time to run out the deck guns and open up on the savages with grape shot.

All this happened while Webster was expecting Benjamin Boyd back for breakfast. “None of us doubted”, he wrote, “that Mr. Boyd had been murdered. A native was seen run ning along the beach with Mr.

Boyd’s hat on . . . Having got long tom (the Waterloo gun) to bear on the village we soon expelled the savages who were lurking among the houses.”

Why did the natives of Guadal canal attack the Wanderer? Webster, with his wide knowledge of Maoris and Islanders was sure that the natives at Wanderer Bay wanted to get the knives and tomahawks (carried as trade goods), which in their eyes were untold wealth.

Webster and six others, well armed, went ashore and found the dinghy in which Benjamin Boyd had left the ship. From footmarks in the sand he assumed that natives had speared Boyd as soon as he landed. Wads from Boyd’s gun in dicated that he had fired both barrels at his attackers.

Webster says, “It was now sun down. Breakfast still lay on the cabin table untouched as it was in the morning, awaiting the arrival of Mr. Boyd.”

The crew, fighting for their lives and desperately trying to learn the fate of the Wanderer’s owner, had been too busy to eat.

In the next three days the Wanderer’s crew burned villages and searched in vain for traces of Benjamin Boyd. In a village Webster found a head which he thought was that of Boyd’s Ocean Island boatman. So on October 12, 1851, the Wanderer was headed south ward towards Sydney.

On November 8 came the wreck of the Wanderer at Port Macquarie.

What a sorry ending to the Pacific cruise which had started only five months previously in San Francisco! John Webster sums up with these sad thoughts: “From the moment that our gallant commander fell so suddenly and unexpectedly among the ruth less savages in Guadalcanal, it seemed as though an evil fortune brooded over the yacht; and in the short month after the death of him whose pride she had been, her frag ments lay scattered on the beach; and the wanderings of the Wanderer were at an end.”

John Webster lived for another 60 years. He spent some time on the Australian goldfields and then went to England, where he was made much of by Mr. Boyd’s friends, and also by Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.

Returning to New Zealand Webster entered into the timber export business on a large scale. In later years he lived in retirement on the shore of Hokianga Harbour, at Opononi. He died in 1912.

The gun mentioned earlier in this story and known as Boyd’s Waterloo gun, was said to have been presented to Boyd as a mark of Royal favour. It has been stated that he had been Lord High Con stable of Scotland at the time of the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837, and this was one reason why he was presented with the gun.

It may be that Boyd deputised for one of his relatives, but the office of Lord High Constable of Scotland is an hereditary title held

Benjamin Boyd's Waterloo gun, salvaged from the wreck of the "Wanderver" in 1851 and taken to New Zealand by Mr. Samuel Browning. After being set amid the flower beds in Albert Park, Auckland, it was removed to the museum and now lies forgotten in a storeroom.

bv the Earls of Erroll since 1315.

The chiefs of the Boyd clan had formerly born the title of Earl of Kilmarnock, but the thUe was abolished when the last Earl of that name was beheaded in 1745 fpr sup porting Bonnie Prince Charlie. One of the sons of this unfortunate Earl married into the family of the Earls of Erroll and a descendant inherited the title.

Simeona Peni . . .

p. 84

A MAN of whom Samoa may well be proud.

He was born at Funafuti in the Ellice Group, where his father was a Samoan missionary. After schooling at Vaitupu school and at the George V school at Tarawa in the Gilberts, Simeona was sent to the Central Medical School in Fiji. He graduated there and joined the Gilbert and Ellice Islands service as an AMP at the age of 22. His first post was at Funafuti in 1940, and during the succeed ing years he has given distinguished service 1o his profession in the Colony.

He is married to Lise Pedro of the Tokalau Group, of Portuguese descent, and they have one son and four daughters, all of school age.

Simeona has a brother serving as a missionary in the Ellice Group, and his sister is married to a missionary in Samoa. The preparations for the H-bomb at Christmas Island have fo-ced the evacuation of the Gilbertese working there under the direction of the District Officer, Mr.

P. G. Roberts. This has also meant the end of Simeona's tour of duty at Christmas Island,

where he has assisted in organising the Gilbertese into a healthy and happy community and also helped the settlement of the armed services who are there for the Atomic tests, or "Operation Grapple". Simeona is a tall and athletic type, and he regrets that his age (39

years) has forced him to give up football.l is now settling at medical headquartern Tarawa, where he will carry on the good until he eventually retires to farm the fs lands at Moata'a, near Apia in Samoa. —B£

MILDER.

Pim Crossquiz No. 86

p. 84

Solution on Page 75.

ACROSS

1. —Who was referred to as the Queen "of a thousand days"? 7. —How do the Scots say "have"? 8. —What single-shot, short-barrelled pistol was carried by gamblers in early days? 9. —The life of what English settler was saved by the American Indian

princess Pocahontas? 10. —Joan of Arc was also known as the "Maid of "? 11. —What race of pygmy natives in South Africa is fast dying out? 13. —What common commodity is made from a compound of fat and potash? 15. —Which chess piece only moves along the diagonal squares? 17. —What instrument that measures angles between distant objects is used in navigation? 18. —What is an alloy of copper and tin? 19. —What is the main item in the Chinese diet? 20. —What is the term for sailing a boat close to the wind? 21. —On what playing fields was the Battle of Waterloo won?

DOWN

I.—What is the capital city of Abyssinia?

2 In mythology, what name was given to the water nymphs who attended Ne o<uuu 3. —Who was one of the most important figures in the foundation of Mormonism in Americ 3? 4. What straw used in hatmaking has the same name as a domestic fowl?

against Australia in England in 1948? 6. —Which American who died in 1951 built up the largest newspaper empire in the world? 7. —Of what Chinese province is Kaifeng the capital? 12.—1 n what organ of the body is the retina? 13.'—What was the practice in India of

widows burning themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres? 14.—Who was Premier of France at the signing of the Armistice with Germany? 16.—What is the name for one of the short crosslines of Roman type? 17.—What was the name given to a slave formerly existing in Russia?

A Bomb of One'

p. 84

Own

BY WHIM WHAM

Ours is the safest H-bomb yet.

It will not hurt a Fly.

Some Jokers say we should not; It off—but we reply That our Precautions are comp] No serious Risks remain.

Science is sure—need we repea; —Objections are in vain.

This harmless necessary Job, This well-conducted Test Need trouble None, nor need it i You Jokers of your Rest.

This calculated Crack of Doom Cannot get out of Hand: Just trust the Boys in the Back R* To bring it off as planned.

The reassuring Scientist Can estimate precisely The dreadful Blast, the lethal Mi He’s got it worked out nice] What’s coming up, beyond a dc He’ll forecast by his Skill— Of course, he has to try it out To find out if it will!

As safe as Houses is our BomU Outside the danger Zone.

Fear not the Radiation from THIS Test —why, it’s our Planned so as not to hurt one ] Of our devoted Heads — Give Thanks, you Jokers, of , Care; Lie easy in your Beds. (The above nonsense verse was puho a couple of months ago in the "New Z« Herald". It probably expresses the mou most South Pacific residents when they co plate Our Bomb—amused cynicism.) t The US Department of AgricuL has developed a new, all-pun insect repellant, reported to beE most effective preparation of kind ever to be invented. The chemical formula has been tui over to a private concern, which begin marketing the repellant slu under the name “Off.” The repellant, whose active ingreo is dietryl toluamide, can be widely against flies and mosqui if Friends of Mr. John Nurm senior Cook Islands AMP, wil pleased to know that he is mas a good recovery following o surgery at Greenlane Hose Auckland, late in March.

The Drake Goes West

pp. 85-100

NEW GUINEA

[?]ETCH BY MALO

HIKOP was one of my first house servants when I went to live on a Copra Plantation in New inea after World War 11. He was m a local village and had served husband prior to the War, prov a faithful servant.

Ihikop was plump for a native, h a bulging tummy. He wore his -lap fastened beneath the bulge, wing his navel. He was ugly, but placid, good tempered ex ssion and ready smile made up his lack of beauty. He was j to get on with, e walked with a waddle, like a k, and for purposes of reference, ind his back, I christened him “Drake.” tiikop followed my uncertain fin English better than the other ants, translating any ambigu order I may have given him. understood a few English words, and surprised me one day when Id him to put some flowers into s for the house. My only vases :hat time were Japanese shell s, found in the bush on the tation after the war. I knew the I for “flower” was “pulpul,” but ad no idea what to say for e,” so I asked the Drake; That name sumting belong put mlpul?” (What is the name of thing for flowers?), grinned broadly and answered: tridge.” felt crushed! r the most part, Chipok was a ig worker, but, like all natives, ad his lazy days, when he would )pear into the Labour House remain deaf to my calls, until ras ready to answer, or if he pened to see the “Masta” aaching. Then a muffled “Yes would be heard and Chikop i emerge and waddle across to mngalow, at a pace according le urgency of my call or the mity of the “Masta.” his energetic days he would pear into the bush during his aeon break, first informing issus, me like go kis (catch) im aod.” m, armed with an axe over his der and pushing a low two led handcart, off he would go. iionally one of the younger would accompany him, usually ■ coercion, the party returning four o’clock, the youngster ng the laden cart and often [ng the axe as well. Then they I go to the beach for the daily i wash,” for Chikop was clean himself and saw to it that

the younger lads under his charge developed the “wash wash” habit.

When off duty, Chikop liked to decorate himself with a scarlet hibiscus flower; or a white fowl feather or two. Occasionally white splashes of lime marked his fore head or cheeks. His other artistic tastes ran to decorating the kitchen walls with faded croton leaves, dis carded from the vases, and often left until they became withered sticks and I had to order their re moval.

I suspected Chikop of being a gambler. He never seemed to have any money, even after pay day and his tobacco ration disappeared quickly, while articles he acquired did not remain long in his possession.

While shopping in Chinatown one day, Chikop requested me to buy him two red lap-laps. Occasionally my husband would buy an article for a trusted servant and collect the cost on pay day, or make a gift of it. With this in mind I paid for the lap-laps. A few days later I saw one of the lap-laps on another native. I recognised it by the white stitching I had hemmed on it when Chikop asked me.

The second one was worn by the Drake himself a few times, then it, too, disappeared.

Chikop had been taught to sew by the Mission and occasionally I would get a request for the loan oi one pella needle, na black tred,” and armed with my large darning needle and a length of black cotton, Chikop would retire to his house to reappear later with a double lap lap (he liked red best), decorated with a seam of black dog-teeth stitches down the back. The needle was always faithfully returned.

Returning from leave once, my husband brought back a mouth organ as a present for Chikop. He played it after his own fashion for a day two, then I saw it in the hands of another native. I wondered if he had won, bought or cadged it!

Characteristic of his kind, Chikop liked gossip and had an extra ordinary capacity of picking up scraps of information, duly relayed to my husband or me, about the comings and goings of European residents in the District; news of accidents or punishments meted-out to native wrongdoers by the Ad ministration; and the shipping news.

We discovered, however, that the Drakes shipping information had to be accepted with reservation until confirmation from a more re liable source could be obtained.

Being a native of a coastal village,

Chikop was a keen fisherman and spent hours with a spear on the reef or a line on the beach or wharf. At night he would either glide in a canoe or walk over the reef with a flare made from dried fronds of the coconut palm. Many natives used such flares, and on dark nights it was a beautiful sight to see numer ous twinkling lights along the shores of Buka Passage. Seen from a short distance, the native carrying the flare was transformed into a ghost like silhouette. On such nights there would be good catches of richly coloured fish.

One morning, after breakfast, 1 told Chikop to catch me a fish for dinner. I expected he would pop down to the reef below the house during his afternoon-break and catch a fish. When my husband came in from the plantation and I told him, he exclaimed, “Whatever did you tell him that for! The old blighter will take the day off and make a picnic of it.”

That is exactly what he, of course, did! Late in the afternoon he re turned with one small fish dangling on the end of a rod, to be soundly berated by my husand. I never asked Chikop to go fishing for me again.

Amongst h 1 s accomplishments Chikop counted gardening, with usually good results, except on one occasion when I wanted a kitchen garden, and put him in charge of the preparations and planting. In due course rows of grave-like mounds appeared in a clearing near the bungalow, the seeds were planted and I looked forward to eating lettuce, carrots, tomatoes and cab bages. To prevent the activities of marauding fowls and protect the seedlings from the hot sun, Chikop built a fence of sticks round the plot and covered it lightly with palm fronds. In spite of care and atten tion, the garden was a failure, but later a further effort on another site brought successful results.

Our gardener then turned his at to the ornamental portion i Y 1 S arden - In a surprisingly short time the path from the front steps of the bungalow to the beach track became a mass of brilliant yellow and flame-coloured cannas and red poinsettia, while a hedge of v « rio s sly " coloured cr otons formed an effective screen between the bungalow and the Labour Quarters at back and side.

SOME of the natives on the planta tion wore shorts instead of lap laps, but this was not permitted the house boys on duty, and when Chikop acquired a pair of shorts, it was only by chance that we saw them on him. One night, after the house servants had finished their work for the day, the cook came to my husband to make a small re quest on behalf of Chikop. It was unusual for Chikop to send another boy to ask favours for him, so my

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husband asked why he did not come himself and sent for him. A rather embarrassed Chikop apeared, look ing like a fat, shy baby in his first pair of pants.

There was very little shape in the khaki shorts he was wearing and, while the legs were too short for him, his posterior, in spite of its outsize, hardly filled the back portion and his round tummy overhung the narrow belt in front. All that was needed to complete a comical pic ture was a safety pin!

We kept our faces straight with an effort.

When he had been with us for about 18 months, Chipok announced that he wanted to “go pinish” to rebuild his house in the village, which had been damaged in a storm.

He assured us that he wanted to re turn when his house was finished, which assurance was accepted with doubt—but hope—as good house boys were hard to find at that time.

After he was paid off, Chikop hung round the station for a long time, as though reluctant to make the break and I began to hope that he would change his mind and stay, but eventually he disappeared down the road to the village, a large red lap lap draped over one shoulder and round his body like a toga and carrying his personal possessions

wrapped in a grubby cloth. A small native followed him, carrying other bundles.

For some months afterwards, we had an occasional glimpse of Chikop when he came with some of his “one talks” to our wharf with copra from the village groves for transport to the other side of the Passage for sale to a Chinese trader. Then one day he turned up and asked my

husband to allow him to come back to work in the house.

He remained with us for about six months, then “went pinish again and that ended his service with us. He died a mysterious death not long afterwards.

The story of his end was told to us by various natives, and ultimately confirmed by the Administration.

Chikop had purchased a new canoe, a smart affair with mast and small sail. He decided to try it out one fine, breezy day and was seen to set out from the village beach to cross the mouth of Buka Passage towards the sea.

Two days later the canoe drifted on to a reef inside the Passage un damaged and with sail intact, but empty. A search, lasting several days, failed to discover any trace of Chikop’s body. No clue to his fate was ever found.

His relatives held a wake in the village in his memory One of them approached my husband ostensibly to buy some rice and tinned meat for the feast, but obviously indicating that he hoped Chikop’s long service in our employ would merit the goods being a gift, instead of a purchase.

It did—and the gift was made.

With this assistance, Chikop’s de parted spirit was duly honoured according to tradition.

t Natives who wish to join the Auxiliary branch of the P-NG Public Service will soon be able to acquire the required standard of education. Classes, which will take them to 9th grade of the present syllabus, are to begin in Port Moresby shortly.

t The Netherlands Minister fon fence, Mr. C. Staf, will pay sa weeks’ visit to Netherlands Guinea in May-June. He will s at Biak by air on May 28. He inspect installations and unii the Royal Dutch Navy.

A Partnership In Genius

pp. 86-99

This Month's New Reading

Conducted hy JT

fT can probably be said that, in the I military sphere, the master of tactics captures the public mind

and imagination; whfle. the Jester

of grand strategy remains obscure, almost unknown to the multitude.

So it would appear, at all events, from the history of World War 11.

The names of the great battle Generals, Alexander, Montgomery.

Eisenhower and Mark Clark, remain v?sh in the memory. The name of a man, who probably above all others, influenced and ! ha Pf course of the war, was, at best, dimly remembered.

We can use the word “was” ad visedly, in this case. Since the re cent publication of Sir Arthur Bryant’s brilliant war bi°graphy and nstorv The Turn Of the Tide, ”ield-Marshall Lord Alanbrooke is one of the best-known men of the War II generation. This book has done more for him in the publicity sense than all the very considerable honours heaped upon him at the end of the conflict.

Bryant’s book is based firstly on Brooke’s private diaries: secondly, an autobiographical notes supplied bv Brooke to the Royal Regiment of Artillery, with which he was early associated.

Bryant himself supplies the literary cement that incorporates these extracts into a free-flowing narrative that covers the period be ween the outbreak of war in 1939 and the surrender of Italy m 1943.

Soon after the outbreak of war m September, 1939, the British Ex- Tieditionary Force left for France. Its Commander-in-Chief was Lord Gort; his two Corps commanders were Sir John Dill and General Alan Brooke. Brooke therefore was in a first-class position to size up possibilities during the nine months of the Phoney War, and when in May. 1940, the Germans outflanked the Maginot Line and advanced on the Allies across Holland and Belgium, he was not unduly sur prised by either the technique of the hlitzkreig, or by the unpreparedness of Belgium, or by the low morale of the French.

The Germans reached the coast on May 21, and swiftly turned north to seize the Channel Ports. By the night of the 25th, only Dunkirk re mained in Allied hands, and a 35mile breach in the Allied lines lay wide open to the Germans to the north of the British lines on the Franco-Belgian frontier. Through this gap the Germans were poised to pour, threatening the retreat of 250,000 British Regular Army troops —and, more vital, threatening also to deny to Britain her future leaders in the field that were to turn the tide of war in North Africa, Italy, Burma and, after D-Day, in Europe.

That these men escaped German prison-camps to fight another day ; that the British army reached the coast at Dunkirk to be rescued by the Navy and the amateur seamen of England, is attributed mainly to one man, Alanbrooke.

In the four critical days between the collapse of the Belgians, and the beginning of the Dunkirk evacua tion, Brooke’s four Divisions covered the long flank left exposed by King Leopold’s surrender, while the bulk of the British army struggled back to the Dunkirk beach-head.

Within 48 hours of Brooke’s return to England from Dunkirk, he was given the task of returning to France to command the 140,000 British troops left there, and to try to bolster a fast-disintegrating Re public. To Brooke the writing was plainly on the wall in France, and at the price of some political dis pleasure, he extricated his troops before the final blow fell.

Back in the beleaguered island, he was given the task of preparing England’s defences against the in vasion believed imminent, and, at

the end of 1941 he became Chi the Imperial General Staff inj cession to Dill.

His new appointment was or eve of Pearl Harbour; the Rus were being driven back to the of Moscow; the Mediterranean closed; Malta beseiged; Ron within striking distance of C invasion of England from acroa Channel was still a possibility, "Added to that,” remarks B! in contemplating the task, was the certain trial of wa hand in hand with Winstoc handling the direction of the Small wonder then that asi as Churchill left him, after ofl him the job. he should sink t knees and ask guidance of 0 although, as he said, he waj normally an “exceptionally i ous person.”

The war now for Brooke be not a matter of battle tactics of strategy, and, with the ent America into the conflict, strategy. Disasters continued t thick and fast in 1942, but n was necessary not only to sr but also to plan for attack.

It was Brooke’s strategy North Africa should be cleared the Mediterranean reopened t Allies and that Europe shou attacked through its “soft-r belly”—ltaly.

The American female abroad—a drawing from "So Near And Yet So Far", reviewed on

This strategy, as history written, paid off. But Brooke opposed in these plans, freque by his master, Churchill; and alv by the Americans who rega:j everything short of starting Second Front, merely diversion As early as 1942, when the US fo were untrained and untried, When the American war output, rudimentary, the American Cl of Staff were already arguing: benefits of settling the issue qu: by a sea-borne frontal attack German-occupied Europe.

It was also part of Bro* strategy that the conflict in Eu should be finalised before forces* equipment were diverted to Pacific. It is abundantly clear ; this book that if it had not for the Pacific-conscious Adn King, of the USA, the South Ps territories would have been lei the mercy of the Japs until such as Hitler and Mussolini were posed of, and the whole fore Allied armament was availabl roll back the Japs from as far s as Australia and New Zealand.

In Brooke’s plan of g 1 a strategy, we may have been ■ legitimately expendable, althoui. could scarcely be expected Australians rejoiced in the ide the time. This was the basis o) wave of anti-British sentiment undoubtedly attacked us here ii South Pacific in the early da: 1942.

Brooke does not say so in so r words, but one is given the: pression that he believed that tralian politicians were “squea when they insisted that AIF fc in the Middle East return ] in 1942.

AS CIGS, Brooke attended conference of World-leaj Casablanca, Washing; Moscow and Quebec. Undout the most exciting portions ol book are the passages from Bro diary that describe the meeliru these Titans, when Great N descended from their pedestals paraded all their human, it always endearing, qualities For four years, Brooke Churchill daily. His was the; of translating Winston’s intui and inspirations into hard fac; sorting out the possible from merely desirable.

Sometimes these Herculean b: lasted into the small hours a morning, and Brooke’s diary ii of resigned exasperation at master’s unfortunate habit of on all eight super-charged cyli into the a.m.

Churchill usually remained ii until mid-day. His unforti CIGS had his office routine sui as other duties, and these calk an office appearance at regui hours.

Churchill’s resilience in dis his vitality and courage wen traordinary. His health perhaps more so—best examplified pe‘ by the fact that when he, o;<

jasion, arrived in Cairo after an -night flight, he announced that had already had two whiskies 1 a cigar, and demanded a bottle white wine for his breakfast.

Jrooke describes one of his early sounters with his Chief at equers in these words; inner lasted until about 11 p.m. by the i we had finished having snuff, etc. After er the PM sent for his dressing-gown to on over his siren-suit. The dressing gown marvellous garment, rather like Joseph's robe. We then proceeded up s where he had a small cinema . . . hing Russian and German films until mid- From mid-night until 1 a.m. there was ixplanation of "Bumper exercise" which I to give ... He then proceeded to dis impending operations in North Africa and Mediterranean. Finally at 2.15 a.m. he ssted that we proceed to the hall for some wiches and I hoped that this might at mean bed. But no! He had the gramo t turned on and in the many-coloured ing-gown, with a sandwich in one hand some watercress in the other, trotted I and round the hall giving occasional skips to the tune of the gramophone, ach lap near the fireplace, he stopped to le some priceless quotation or thought. •ooke finally got to bed on that sion at 3 a.m. le CIGS frequently encountered PM’s exotic taste in dressing 's—usually when he had been moned to the morning bed-side i which Churchill conducted rs of State. On the occasion he surrender of Singapore, he been thus summoned and found

his master “propped up on the pillows in his red and gold oriental dressing gown, his few hairs ruffled on his vast domed head, a cigar sticking out of his mouth, his finished breakfast tray beside him and the bed littered with papers and despatches.”

The dragon dressing gown was, recorded Brooke, worth going miles to see.

The partnership between the far seeing, practical soldier, on the one hand, and the erupting personality and inspired leadership of the statesman on the other, was, as

Bryant has called it, a “partnership in genius” which saved Britain in her years of peril. (Published by Collins. Australian price, 37/6.)

Score Two

for Maclean

IT is much more difficult to find the words to review a book that is selling in thousands, than it is to verbally slay the mediocre or the pretentious. For the best-seller,

ie adjectives have already been ed up, inside the jacket flap, this aves the reviewer with nothing uch more to do than to state the A 1 . . . ®°- °/ Alaistair Mac Lean s The ms of Navarone, well say that it

S aoci - „

Like this writer s first book, ysses, which has sold 300,000, the ins of Navarone, leapt into the jt-seller class immediately it was ? a ,^ d , alr eady b e en m^, ny N SW by

nv?<? Z^r a ?fcoT

b f4-u Said u to 4.i? e recommendation, although this tTk r mp S hpS a^ riwln P^f liC fe. ls m S ? 5! ter u lon u of a S S o? en^ 1I l Sp i te i? fsuchaberra - IS fnnf ht! C £ y Spillane vogue.

L g ° od The' ala , human F?? 8 ,- , of Nava / one |alstothe reader s sense of exment, of imagination, and above Ko^v.Jjf lief held by mos £ of that there are some men above er men—in courage, resource, U [hp C pntp e AvS h / P ’ and wi J? i carry through ch anoears ?mno«?h]? 6 miSSlon hlS e l S f impossible. * line, not a page kj® story t J lat withmit action excitement, and one is soon in of re - admg each ence with a growing awareness urgency in keeping with the ?r° mvSff b ?f° k ‘ , .. )r myself it was a one-night

stand: dipped into late in the after noon; finished by 3 a.m The story covers four days in the lives of five men whose job it was to silence the guns of Navarone, a German-held fortress island in the Eastern Aegean. The guns guarded the approaches to Kheros, an island off the Turkish coast, where 1,200 British soldiers waited for death, or rescue. If it were to be rescue, the Navy would need to use the short route through the Navarone-Maidos channel—for time was the essence of this operation: a German landing on Kh eros was timed for six days ahead.

Aerial attempts to put Navarone’s § uns out of action had been abortive, due to the protecting rocky over hang of the island; other suicide units’ attempts had failed because the southern side of Navarone was one vast, apparently unscalable, cliff These were the five men chosen for the impossible: the leader Mallory, a New Zealander whose chief qualifications apart from thl fact that he was a magnificent sold i er ’ was that he was the world’s most accomplished rock-climber, the scaler of the unscalable. Dusty Miller, an American, “a genius with explosives, resourceful and cool, pre cise and deadly in action, regarded ... as the .finest saboteur in Southern Europe.” Lieut Andy Stevens, RNVR, navigator'of the crazy craft that was to take them

to Navarone, an alpinist of some note, fluent in Ancient and Modern Greek —but afraid of his own fears.

Petty Officer Casey Brown, first class guerilla fighter, radio operator and ex-Clydeside marine-engine mechanic. Lastly, Andre, the giant

Greek. . . “Endlessly patient, quiet

and deadly, tremendously fast in spite of his bulk, and with a feline stealth that exploded into berserker action ... the complete fighting machine . . . their insurance policy against failure.”

It was an incidental cause of some satisfaction to this reviewer' that the hero is a fellow countryman who, apart from being a super-man, was undoubtedly of considerable culture, “speaking Greek like a Greek, and German like a German,” while the only Australian character in the story, a Squadron-Leader, spoke like a refugee wharf-labourer from Wooloomooloo.

Maybe in electing a New Zea lander to the role of hero, the author intended a subtle compliment to Sir Edmund Hillary. But, in any event, on behalf of the tribe, I like wise bows.

Mac Lean’s first novel, HMS Ulysses (its first quarter million was sold within six months of publica tion) is being filmed. The Guns of Navarone is pretty certain to follow suit. (Published by Collins. Australian price 17/6.)

Was Your Journey

Necessary?

IT is a distinct contribution to human knowledge when any writer sets out to describe how a section of human-kind ticks. Emily

Kimbrough’s So Near and Ye Far comes into this cate Thanks, Emily.

The middle-aged to aged ii nationally perambulating AmeE female, solo or in packs, is or the phenomena of the modem You see them in Suva; you see

London; in Rome, Paris Johannes rg. Victoria Falls, Switzerland, hiti; anywhere, in fact, that the ury liners ply and the airlines i. >erpetually consulting itineraries thout which they do not know ;re they have been, or where they to go); figuring out the amount jhillings, lira, francs and whatnot t go to the dollar; foreheads used over the amount they should r mink stoles clutched around n, ticking off in their guide books “must” things that they have i; they move remorselessly on ig the well-worn routes, tourist ;1 to tourist hotel, back eventu to Little Rock, Arkansas or lison (Wis.), where, we presume, r sink thankfully back into ine, ritualistic pilgrimage corn ed. nily Kimbrough is one of these ititutional peringrinators, and written other books on her els. This particular story con s a visit with four college ids —now all grandmothers—to Orleans and Louisiana. As the says, so near and yet so far, Emily and friends give it the treatment. e follow them, menu by menu, . famous eating house to famous lurant; from fancy wrought work to antique shops; and out the country to stay at a famous tation house “open all year” and umerous other side excursions nmended in the Guide Books, is all-female excursion in its ae-girls-together naivete will, ourse, remain an unexplained ery to those not troubled by mass-migratory urges experi -1 by the American woman. Miss ftpugh does n(Dt attempt to ex the why of it; it is just one lose to be accepted facts of imerican way of life.

In case it has escaped you, Miss Kimbrough is the other part of the best-seller of other years, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, in which she collaborated with Cornelia Otis Skinner. So Near and Yet So Far would have been a much better book if the partnership had been continued.

It is illustrated by line drawings by Mircea Vasiliu—a name un known in this part of the world— although the drawings themselves could be regarded as perhaps the best part of the book. (Published by William Heinemann Ltd Australian price 26/-.)

Down Among the

Frogmen

THE publication of new war books remains at the flood. Fact, fiction, stories about air war, land war, sea war—and war under the sea. Following the rule of diminishing returns to its logical conclusion, we now have one about midget submarines: Frogman, VC by lan Fraser. At the time of the exploit that won him the decoration he was Lieutenant lan Fraser, RNR Fraser has a light-hearted manner of writing that amounts to grand scale understatement. The exploits, moreover, came right at the end of the Pacific war, in July, 1945, and the dangerous task that he and his three shipmates were called upon to perform was, it transpired, unneces sary.

Fraser served the early war years m standard-sized submarines in the Mediterranean. In 1944, he volunteered for special work ’with the new midget subs and in this service found himself, in 1945, in Australia, on a Very Top Secret mission.

Air reconnaissance had shown

two large Japanese cruisers apparently floating in the sheltered waters of Johore Strait. It was be lieved that these had been turned into floating fortresses and that they would play a vital part in the de fence of Singapore should the Allies launch an assault.

It was planned therefore that two of the midgets should attempt the penetration of Jap defences of Johore Strait, attach limpet mines to the cruisers and blow them up.

The midgets, which held a crew of four in a crouched position and complete discomfort, were towed to the approaches by orthodox sub marines, and then left to their own commanders’ wits to get through the boom, and through British, Dutch and Japanese minefields, and to traverse the many miles of clear, shallow water to the cruisers Fraser’s target was the Takao, and at times the course was through water less than 15 ft deep. Through this they crept, in broad daylight, under the noses of a thousand Japs, sometimes scraping the belly of the midget on the gravel of the sea bed.

When they had at last arrived at 7 akao, it was found that both forward and aft, the cruiser was almost aground and only amidships was it possible to wedge the midget and get to work. There followed an agonising hour of tension in the confined space of the foul-aired sub white the Navy frogman Magennis left by the wet-and-dry compart ment and fixed his mines, setting them to explode six hours later When he finally rejoined hi s mates and it was time to go, it was found that Takao had settled on them in the falling tide, and it was impossible for them to either back out or go forward. They pumped water, blew water, revved engines. (Over)

no avail. They appeared stuck ti there on the bottom of Takao i the limpet mines. The mines Id not be “shut off”—any inter nee would have exploded them lediately. They thought of wait in the midget until half an hour re the explosion, when it would lark, then abandoning ship and ag to seek refuge in the neigh ing mangrove swamps. Then, q all seemed lost, with a final •t, the sub floated free. The age back to the boom-gates was e to the accompaniment of the 1 near shaves and alarms, but were able to pass through the 5 unseen before they were shut he night, and by midnight, had e contact with their mother larine. bsequently it was found that impet mines had blown a large in the side of the ship—but ;ry little avail. It was learned at the time of the attack there been only a skeleton crew on o for the very good reason that had been written off by the long before, following an earlier orpedo attack. reconnaissance pictures did [how this; nor did they show real state of affairs after r’s first excursion. It was n that some damage had red —but not enough. He was Bd to make a repeat visit, this to finish the task. While he

was preparing for this in Borneo, and sweating at the thought, peace in the Pacific was mercifully de clared.

Fraser and his shipmates were re cuperating in Sydney when it was announced that he had been awarded the Victoria Cross. One of the first messages of congratulations was a telegram signed “Henry.” Fraser could not remember any Sydney friend of that name and it was some time before it was realised that the message was from the Duke of Gloucester, then Governor- General of Australia, and to whom Fraser had demonstrated his midget sub in Sydney Harbour some time before. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd.

Australian price, 21/-.)

Love

DESIGNED especially for the lend ing-library trade, Daphne, (Barbara Collard), is what is popularly called a “woman’s novel.”

There is the orthodox number of shattered lives, a beautiful soft female who loves unwisely the kind of men given to flitting.

The dissection of a lot of no hopers. But as an ever-increasing number of people come into that category, we can say with truth; That’s life! (Published by Peter Davies, Ltd. Australian price, 15/6.)

Pie in the Sky

MR. MAX CATTO, a gentleman who has more imagination than is good for anyone, has called his latest opus, Gold In the Sky.

Gold in the Sky was the name

of an American airliner which crashed in a Congo swamp on a Aight between Khartoum and Johannesburg. All very credible.

The imagination takes over from th The glutenous swamp, in the middle of Congo jungle, was such that the airplane (the hero , American) was not damaged. The passengers were got out and leit for more salubrious parts, threatening action for damages, but physically intact. „ ..

Experts come from across the Atlantic, to look at the swamp, to look at Gold in the Sky nestling in it; to look at the forest; but to shake their heads.

Gold in the Sky was pronounced unsalvable. Presumably the airline company or its underwriters wrote off the whole $700,000 of her value Enter an English professor and his geologist daughter, Stella; also Dennis, an Amerigan geologist look ing for uranium but down on his luck. , „ , , They all meet around a small bush pub, run by a Belgian and his wife who turn out, if you can believe it (and we, knowing a lot about tropical bush pubs, don’t). the most delicious French-style food.

Stella and the Professor conceive the idea of buying the airliner (it was going for a song) and by force of will and damn-all else, dragging it across country and down-river 600 miles to Entebbe, where it would again be worth $700,000.

By devious means, Dennis is in duced to join the expedition, to supply the engineering know-how and, if they deliver safely, to take one-third of the pro Ats.

Now, although the trans-Atlantic experts had proved to themselves that it was impossible to get Gold in the Sky out of the swamp, Stella

and Co., found singularly little* Acuity in doing just that, with aid of an old truck, borrowed a local Indian trader.

Nor did they experience Acuity in getting the local! habitants to cut an avenue s the length and proportion ot Champs Elysee from the swam

e river which very conveniently •wed in the direction of Entebbe Now, one might have thought that ,ving hacked down this avenue in e jungle so that it was possible tow a giant airplane a couple of les, it would not have been very ich more difficult to make an equate strip from which the air ift could be flown off.

But no—Stella and Co, do things * hard way. Gold in the Sky is ;ed with pontoons, hitched to an Jient launch and towed, although y this should be necessary, heaven jws, as the river flows in the ection they want to go. To ady the whole caboodle, huge igs of Africans are engaged to ceed along each bank, with guy es. he difficulties these natives must ;e encountered, staggering along iver bank attached to an aero be about the size of a Super istellation, encountering the kind growth that river banks in atorial Africa produce, is some ig to fire the imagination. How the reader is left to fire it, if vishes. The author does not help his department, confining most he narrative to the clash of wills personalities between Stella and nis. lis equatorial river upon which ' glide is, moreover, a most ex rdmary stream. Apart from the that 600 miles from its mouth ireds of miles from tidal influ - , its banks grow mangroves , it 5 serenely across the country jungle and savannah, without ck, a rapid or a waterfall, sally river and Gold in the 5 come to the parting of the , at a point where many miles igh-plam are still between the I and Entebbe. The veldt, we ;old, stretches huge and brown aat, punctuated by an occasional i bush, quite 60 miles to the on. t is this the spot where Gold e Skies takes again to her own mt? No. Another truck is ned and behind it the huge ilane waddles forward once , finally entering the front of the airport. Operation com perhaps not quite. Stella and is initially hated each other’s and this antipathy is the •lying theme of the story. How the old-hand is not fooled by and no doubt is without sur when we leave the pair cosily ier in bed in Entebbe.

J 0/ e . d ) by Wm ‘ Heinemann - Australian

rican Way of

-Type II

SRICAN life has more angles ian a polygon. There are no ink stoles in The Colour of ; <by Lenard Kaufman); the ' 18 on small town respect • And, although in the end

Pa gets out his gun, it is hard to reconcile the facts that the gangster dom of some of the American stories we have read recently, and the public morality of a small town m Virginia can possibly exist on the same continent.

The theme of this story is jealousy —mle jade and emerald varieties.

All belong to spoilt-boy Leon Martin who wants to marry Stella Blunden, firstly because she is beautiful; secondly because she is engaged to Harry Williams; thirdly, and most important, because he felt that it would annoy his family who had arranged for him to marry someone else.

Leon’s jealousy is not of the °°W° n ° T r . garden kind, but psycho pathic. If he were not the char acter in a book and the pivot on

which the plot turns, he would be regarded as just common crazy, first stop the reception-house.

Stella and Harry marry, and to escape the wrath of Leon, flee from Flatbush, New York, to a town in Virginia. Harry gets a job selling second-hand cars and they furnish an apartment on the time-payment system. But to no avail. Along comes Leon, hot on the trail, privily seeks out Harry’s employer and neighbouring apartment holders and tells the tale: Harry and Stella are living in sin; Stella is really Leon’s wife.

The reactions are immediate.

Harry s boss sacks him on the spot and takes the trouble to warn every other employer in town that Harry is a moral delinquent, a 100 per cent, business risk. Neighbours

ive to present Bibles, suitably jked at passages about adultery, rhe ingredients of a good story not have to be within the ,der’s own experience, but it is tty difficult for a British reader imagine a situation where a per i is hounded out of a town of 100 people, every avenue of ployment closed to him, simply ause some villain alleges that he living with a woman without efit of clergy. It becomes even •e incredible when the victim has umentary evidence to prove that •ything is on the up-and-up. pparently American citizens exist lout the protection of the laws slander. A lawyer explains to ry that even if Leon could be isted on a technical charge of arbing the peace, they would j a tough fight, especially if a had a smart lawyer on his And even if Harry won, at t half the worthy citizens of inia would believe the verdict ig, on the principle that where e is smoke there’s fire, rhaps the most startling thing he novel is the description of •y aged 32 as ageing, middle „ greying and bald-headed, en allowing for the undoubted irs of life in the United States, seems a bit severe. Remind d fill in our application forms he Old People’s Home. 18/9) by Peter Davies Ltd ‘ Austra,ian

[?] A Royal Hobby

pp. 101-103

[?]r World of Stamps.—IX [?] A Royal Hobby

ANY world-famed personalities I are known to be keen stamp t collectors. This is a good thing t ensures that the collecting of ips as a hobby enjoys widespread >ort, as many will follow the tiple set by such personalities! jung Prince Charles, heir to British Throne, when a small I was presented with a stamp m by the schoolchildren of ford, and his mother. Queen Jbeth 11, who is herself a col r, has furthered his interest.

February of this year, when the h and the Duke of Edinburgh touring Portugal, it is reported, ren stopped the Royal car and, ell as offering her flowers, pre id her with a collection of iguese stamps for Prince les. lice gesture, indeed! is well known that the late George V and George VI took icerning interest in the royal ition.

ECHOSLOVAKIA is to issue rear stamps to mark the hold f a Youth Stamp Exhibition at ibice. I recall that Bolivia, in similarly printed stamps—six imber, for the Ist Students’ nal Stamp Exhibition. Early urrent Bolivian stamps figured sjects for the designs. le of the most attractive of [ zoological stamps have come East Germany, where a set of tamps has been issued to ise the famous Berlin Animal In striking fashion, the s give fine pictures of mts, rhinoceros, flamingoes, lons, bison and polar bears, of which are not natives of my at all. Nonetheless, such s are worthy additions to our ling collection of “zoo” stamps.

Charity Stamps

fity stamp issues are not new mp collectors, and over the have been issued to assist m aid of relief work amongst 3 of famine, floods, fire, earth i and cyclones.

Austria, which has done so for the relief of refugees from ry, was one of the first to ice special charity stamps. 7 stamps were re-issued with Ided premium. About the time, Spain circulated six for the same cause, inscribed, Hungarian Children ” The i portrayed a young boy and ainst an envelope.

August a gathering of over Scouts from about 100 g will take place in Sutton Id, Warwickshire (UK) in

connection with the 50th anniversary of World Scouting. Additionally, the occasion will be recognised as the centenary of the birth of Scouting’s founder, Lord Baden- Powell, who died in 1941.

Stamps from participating countries will feature typical Scout designs, that from the Netherlands Antilles picturing Baden-Powell who, incidentally, established the Girl Guides (Girl Scouts in the US) in 1910. Only recently, a month-long Guide Rally at Quezon City, at tended by delegates from 23 Pacific countries, netted a special Filipino stamp.

One of the dread diseases affect ing mankind is polio, otherwise in fantile paralysis, and stamps have been issued in recent times to direct public attention towards it. A woman

shielding her two children from its influence, figured on a new stamp from the USA, and the Argentine issued a stamp in appreciation of the help given to it by other nations of the world to combat the disease.

A little time before that another Argentine charity stamp appeared along the same lines, bearing the head of a woman affected by the fever.

Now eighteen years of age,.

Princess Ferial, daughter of ex-King Farouk of Egypt and ex-Queen Farida (Farouk’s first wife), first appeared on her country’s stamps in 1940; at the time she was only 18 months old. This was a pretty portrait study which was repeated in 1943, when the Princess celebrated her sth birthday.

(Continued on Page 101)

[nscribed in English and Arabic, » stamp was sold with a surtax augment children’s welfare funds.

Some of the early stamps from 5 South American republic of nezeula are inscribed “Escuelas” hools) and “Instruccion” (educa -3), but were originally intended duty stamps to assist in financ work amongst public schools. *hese stamps were adopted for mal postal use when a shortage '‘postage” issues existed. lx?" '• tr. W. G. Johnson, managing ictor of Messrs. W. R. Carpenter 'o. (Fiji) Ltd., Suva, flew to New land in April after a business t to Sydney, and in Auckland underwent an abdominal opera- L He made an excellent recovery, returned to Suva in May after jriod of convalescence and hoii in New Zealand. report has been sent to the aul Vulcanologist from the Dis ; Office at Bogia, NG Mainland, ; five inches of ash covered is village on Manam Island on il 3 and 4. About 800 feet of station has been burnt off from top of the mountain above is. This was reported by the ter of the motor vessel Koro.

t Fiji’s “navy”, HMS Viti, spent Easter at sea on a training cruise to Kadavu. Lieut. J. B. Wisdom was in command.

Returning in the "Tulagi" to BSI to the South Sea Evangelical Mission was Miss D.

Henderson, after a year's leave. She has had 24 years' experience in BSI, mostly on Malaita.

"Tulagi" carried Mrs. R. Ferris and daughter Suzanne (aged 3½ years) back to Bougainville, NG, where Mr. Ferris manages Arigua Planta tion.

Miss Lois Connerton, a Presbyterian missionary, returned to the Paton Memorial Hospital at Vila, NH. Miss Connerton has spent two and a half years at the hospital and has just completed six months leave in Australia.

Enough Hotels

p. 127

FIJI’S ANNUAL WAIL

Monied Tourists But Not Enough Hotels

SIGNS of the slow, but steady growth of the Fiji Tourist traffic are in evidence. In dividuals and parties began to appear in April, as the hot weather receded, and the coming months promise a profitable season. Reports say that plenty of travellers are booked already for Fiji.

The big tourist buses introduced by Whites Travel Agency last year to provide services entirely for tourists have now changed over to scheduled road services for all and sundry—quite a big and important advance for Fiji.

They provide an alternative for the overseas traveller who does not wish to travel by air and who wishes to see the country, but finds the hire-car rates a little high.

Some attractive tourist and sightseeing cars have just been put on the roads by Hunts Travel Ser vice—the business started modestly by Mrs. Iris Hunt a few years ago, and now grown into a big and flourishing concern.

The hotel position has not im proved, and now is a very serious travel bottleneck, except for Sir Hugh Ragg’s now famous Korolevu

Hotel, on the South Coast, no new hotel has been built for years.

There still is no resumption of building operations on the South Seas Hotel, the concrete skeleton of which lies gaunt and unlovely at the corner of Gordon St. and Victoria Parade, in Suva. Some arrange ment under which the 23-bedrooms building, when completed, will be be run as a first-class hotel, was leased to Northern Hotels Ltd., to be run as a first-class hotel was made four months ago. But apparently details of shape and cost have not been completed yet. t The French Naval sloop Con fiance arrived in Noumea recently from France. Confiance is convoy ing two naval patrol boats, one destined for New Caledonia and the other for Tahiti. They will replace the two patrol boats which have been on the Oceanic stations now for a few years, the Tiare and the Lotus. The two new craft are named Petunia and Zinnia. However, with the retirement of the two now in service their names will pass to the new vessels. Confiance replaces the Dumont d’Urville, flagship of Ad miral Toulouse Lautrec Montfa.

Dumont d’Urville will be scrapped. tF The Administrator and Mrs Norman, of Norfolk Island, are at present absent from the Island on leave during which their daughter Deborah will be married to Mr.

Timothy Bird, of Ceylon. During Brigadier Norman’s absence official duties are being carried out by the Official Secretary of NI, Mr C. I.

Buffett.

PWD Scandal in F [?]

p. 128

REPORT PUBLISHED AND

CULPRITS SACKED

A SERIES of malpractices had continued for years Fiji Public Works Depai was inquired into by a speciaj mission some time ago,” sa Auckland correspondent.

“What happened to the n Was anyone punished?

“The general belief is that all smothered up and hidden by the Fiji Government. W*' not have added to British C!

Office prestige if the faults hai frankly acknowledged, andl culprits fully punished, in thv of the public?”

There was more to the same; It is alleged that, under the PWD, certain people enjoyedl favours, such as the repai overhaul of yachts, overhs engines, making of furniture, of cheap materials and fitting so forth. In so many words, said that the PWD was a firs “racket” in which a varu public servants took part.

We sent the statements to for inquiry. Here is the ansv “Over the years things ce did get very slack in the Works Department; but mostd trouble was cleaned up whi Committee of Inquiry sai Director of Public Works “ and a number of the people in ately concerned in the malpr revealed by the inquiry were “There was a very st; tightening up. For a time, stance, it was impossible to g the Public Works Departmen at Walu Bay without a forms and for a pass you had to go h ally to the Director of Public; himself. This was an inevits action to the results of the and things have begun to gi; to normal again.

“It is absurd to suggest tl whole matter was hushed uj inquiry was held in publi although it was a long times the report was published, the tion was being straightene Action had already been take; the report was made public.

“I do not know of any ini tion. I am certain that thi no question of threatening anybody who gave evidence., the Governor himself who the inquiry and his attitui that he wanted to get at thu He certainly would not havr ated any victimisation f»: moment and that part of the is quite absurd.

“As the writer says himii was on his way to New I while the inquiry was beim He probably does not kno: the people concerned were and the report published.”

[?] va Proud of

p. 129

POSED MEMORIAL

FAMOUS AIRMAN

[?] va Proud of [?] sociation [?] h Smithy

E'ER a large private gathering If Fiji’s business men had heard I fascinating address by Mr.

Stannage—“My Personal lections of Charles Kingsford r momentum and shape given to the movement to col he funds necessary to erect a ‘rial .in Suva to the famous jr aviator. his initial Trans-Pacific flight Francisco to Brisbane) in 1928, by” made only two stops in Southern Cross —at Honolulu uva. The story of his miracul anding in small, tree-lined Park, in Suva, has been told times. mage was not with “Smithy” at occasion; but he was on tneer trans-Tasman and North ic flights; and his stories ited the lovable, erratic and ost resourceful character of lia’s most notable airman, sr speakers from Suva’s i citizens described how they idio watch on “Smithy” while w the Southern Cross from ilu; how they organised which frantically cut trees emoved wires from Albert how they put round the hat set £lOO for the four airmen, total resources when they were one US dollar, now ed in a glass case in the Suva e Club). i remarkable that in Suva, if one of “Smithy’s” most re )le exploits, the manager of adcasting Commission should mage, and the head of Fiji 3 should be Harold Gatty— f whom were so close to V” when he made his pioneer nearly 30 years ago. expected that the memorial a plain, impressive construc stone, probably carrying a head of the aviator, and a inscription saying that he the Southern Cross there in Park in June, 1928. The ent should be at the western the Park, facing Victoria and the Grand Pacific Hotel, nemorial plan has been under ’ation for some years It w as if it may reach finality.

Pbter Robinson, first vet officer to be posted to the flflands, took up duties at early in Anril. His services p be available to private for testing TB in their cattle,

Education—and Liq[?]

p. 132

Missions and Adm[?] Talk About Education—and Liq[?]

A CONFERENCE between P-NG Administration a:, various mission bodies of New Guinea was opened 1 Minister for Territories, Mr. H on April 29, and lasted until It was held in Lae and at by the Administrator of Brigadier D. M. Cleland, andJ Director of Education, Mr.

Groves.

Mission representatives 1 37, plus 13 observers.

Education in the Territory trolled by the Administration directly runs many of the ; But mission education work sidised by the Administrate fixed scale.

Amongst matters discuss* the importance of the educa native women; and the reconn tion of the Select Committee Legislative Council regardh consumption of liquor by : The committee had recom;j that the native people be ec to the use and abuse of intot Many of the mission represei held that educating the ns the use of liquor was imposs The Anglican Bishop a Guinea, the Rt. Rev. P. N. said that the propaganda direction was needed by th« peans and not the natives. (Later, in Port Moresby, tin Department said that Bishop was obviously commenting or thing about which he knev that statistics proved that: tory towns have a good rep in relation of drinking; and the first quarter of this yea were only two cases for di. ness recorded in Port Mores this matter PIM is with the Statistics are unlikely to pro Territorians drink less than land Australians; although could prove that Territoria hold more or that one ha;j drunker in P-NG before: brought before the court, who has lived for any peritj P-NG hotel knows that dm: not lacking from the P-NG to the contrary. The BisH referring to the fact that Eu. who live in the Territory moral obligation to show example to the natives. Hot people live up to the letter: high ideal these days?) t Another overseas expert in Fiji in April. He was M McDougall, who is expected! in the Colony three months ti the Government on the tration financial system.

Especially the Judiciary

p. 135

Time to Examine British Set-up in Fiji- Especially the Judiciary

IN an early issue of PIM, Mr. R. W.

Robson, as a “learned” litigant of Fiji—after all, real learning consists as much of experience as of scholarship—will examine the judicial system now in operation in Fiji, against the constitutional back ground of Fiji, present and future.

In a country such as Fiji, where there is no representative govern ment, the quality of the judiciary is of great importance.

Apart from the powers exercised by the Governor, it is the Colony’s only means of ensuring justice and freedom for the individual.

In the light of conditions now exist ing in Fiji—and which apparently have existed for some time —Mr.

Robson will examine the records of the British Colonial Office personnel now administering the Fiji judicial system, including the two judges.

Examination of the Fiji judicial system necessarily is extended to the whole Governmental system in Fiji, as provided and controlled by the British Colonial Office.

According to well-informed people, a new Constitution for Fiji is just around the corner. It could be that it now is under consideration.

We should not be met with a British fait accompli.

Mr. Robson will argue that, if there is to be a new Constitution for Fiji, the people of Fiji—and especially the non-official Europeans, the Fijians, and the Fiji-born Indians— should be given a share in its preparation.

NT Rice Proj [?]

p. 136

Strikes Troubl [?]

THE Northern Territory rice ject received severe se; this season through flood the depredations of wild gees?

W. A. Gunn said this month., crop had been reduced fromi acres to between 600 and 700 Mr. Gunn is Australian sentative of the chairman of tory Rice Ltd. (Mr. Allen Chs He said that the company profit from its experience this It had started to prepare 5,00(1 of ground for next year.

Territory Rice Ltd. was fom July last year with the obje developing a £25,000,000 rice ing project at Humpty Doo, of Darwin. It hoped, by 18 would be producing 500,000 to rice at a cost of 2d lb.

American investors are sup;< two-thirds of the capital, am remainder comes from Mains, an Australian investment com Mr. Gunn said that a grot American rice-growing expert! inspected the project and ha ported that they had no dor was economically sound.

He announced that the con had received large funds America with which it would p creditors.

Recently, Darwin Fruit and 7 table Supply Ltd. issued a Su; Court writ against the compai £l,BOO for goods allegedly sue Qantas Empire Airways and s; other companies immediately summonses against the compai various sums of money.

N. Caledonian Cattle

p. 136

INDUSTRY IN BAD

THE once-flourishing gi; industry in New Caledon new in a bad way—due n to the fact that locally cs meat is now not permitted exported but must be consume the home market.

The meat-canning firm of CX once had a herd of its ov) 20,000 cattle; the number m less than 8,000.

Many graziers, discourager low prices offering for beef,, neglected their stations and herds.

It is hoped that a recent inu of 20 francs per kilo in the : paid for meat will helpc situation.

Two Government veter officers have gone to Austraj purchase stud cattle which, hoped, will improve New Caled; herds.

Fiji Timber Industry

p. 137

[?]ive Owners [?]Partners interesting Phase of Fiji Timber Industry

ERE has been an interesting change in the timber industry in Fiji. The well-known Isir enterprise, the Nadarivatu ber Company, is adandoning its ations on the northern coast of Levu, where most of the ssible stands of timber have , worked out, and transferring le large island of Kadavu, off south coast of Viti Levu. iere appear to be large areas cod timber country in Kadavu the Goodsir organisation plans ork it, as the Kadavu Timber pany. e Fijians who live there are owners of the land and the Br on Kadavu; and an arrange has been entered into between Company and the Fijians, with knowledge and consent of the rnment, under which the tis join the enterprise as share rs or partners. Provision also ide for the long-term operation is enterprise. , W. E. Goodsir, the managing ;or, who formulated this plan, ‘ well-known Deputy Mayor of He has been recently in By, receiving specialist medical tion, and appears now to be K°lv wpII a era in.

Mr. W. E. Goodsir.

[?]nch Planes for Search

p. 137

Search and Rescue

uly, three Lancasters of the nch Fleet Air Arm will ive in New Caledonia to be at Tontouta airport for use in l rescue work in the South- Pacific area. i are fitted with all aids to r ork and will be a valuable t to the work already being in the area by the Search- Bscue squadron of RNZAF 'lands based at Laucala Bay,

New Caledonia

p. 139

Sordid Tragedy in New Caledonia

A MACABRE tragedy which could outdo the imaginings of Edgar Allen Poe has just come to its close in Noumea.

Nothing was wanting in the set up; a drunken orgy, a corpse with a fatal knife wound, the whole in a ruined hut in a desolate valley on a wild night. To cap it all, the actors were lepers.

The incident occurred some months ago at Ducos peninsular within the boundaries of the Ducos Hansenian sanatorium. During a drunken brawl amongst some native patients who had gone to an out of-the-way corner to drink, one of them was knifed and died His assailant’s trial ended early May,

the trial being held at Ducos Sanatorium.

Sentence: five years seclusion.

More than a little ironic as the accused is already in seclusion be cause of his disease.

Veteran Missionary Retires

p. 139

THE Rev. T. C. Carne, formerly of the Indian District of the Methodist Mission in Fiji, and his wife, Dr. Elsie Carne, have settled in Victoria, where they have two married daughters.

Mr. Carne went to India in 1915 to join the Methodist Mission at Mau, where he was concerned with educational work, which included managing and teaching in a secondary school. He stayed in India for 25 years before returning to Australia for eight years.

He went to Fiji in 1948 to join the Methodist Mission staff, and held several appointments with the Mission in the Colony. From 1951 until last month he was chairman of the Fiji Indian District of the Mission, and has been succeeded by the Rev. L. D. Fullerton.

Dr. Elsie Carne, in 1910, gradu ated in Medicine from Melbourne University, where she specialised in bacteriology. After her marriage in 1951 she went to India and con tinued her medical work.

Second Thoughts on a

p. 140

SAMOAN GOVT.

BRINGS SUIT

Stone-Crusher

TN „ indo-ment delivered May 2 of Western Samoa, Judge C. C.

Marsack, the sale of a Public Works Department stone-crusher was set aside on a legal technicality but an order °for the"return of the crusher was not given. An amount of £125 was awarded the Samoan Govern ment as representing the value of a diesel engine.

The “stone-crusher” case had ex cited considerable interest in Western Samoa.

The Government of Western Samoa claimed the return of a stone-crusher and a diesel engine or their equivalent value, this claim being detailed as follows: (A) Possession of a Hadfield stone-crusher, or a sum of £l,OOO if possession cannot be had. . . . ..(B) Possession 6f a McLaren diesel engine, or £5OO if possession cannot be had. (C) £5O damages for detention of the stone-crusher.

(D) £5O damages for detention of diesel engine.

In presenting the Government’s case, the Attorney-General stated the action concerned the disposal of a Hadfield H^°?pl'Vnffine e both n pur- McLaren dieselengine, both pur chased by the Government in 1948 for a total of £2,869.

After negotiations, which were rather confused, this equipment was

s»sunr"

In giving judgment, the Court stated mai.

“The plaintiff has succeeded not on the merits but on the technical delegation of power Ordinance from the High

T?easurer was

S^de 1 without legal authority

AltSoi been lit

aside, this sale and purchase was a bona fide transaction and defendant acted in good faith throughout,

the £fendant 0^ ed

costs against the aeienoani.

The judgment of the High Court has surprised some people in view of the contradictory evidence given during the hearing of the case. In |worn s * a £ f nnr , w °^ s nf ticularly the Acting Director of Wor ks, M r. E. E. Hendricksen, and the chief clerk, Mr. J. R. Lee, gave completely different versions of the transaction, the former stating that the matter of the disposal of the

stone-crusher and the diesel < had never been referred to hiu had definitely ap HendHCKsen hadl aeimiwiy ap. tradictions in the sworn state Qf tho witnesses . The FiE Secretary> Mr L M cook, stss evidence that he had given ape 0 j transaction conditional approval of Mr. Hendricksen, g.;s—- «»• -■ - Evidence was given, thaj crusher and engine had not condemned or written off; it w junk. dofen D Atoa evidence stated that he had i a stone-crusher to supply c: metal under a contract with L. A. Pearson He had apprj hiring 7 n

f public Work

ue^aia

crusher and Mr. Lee,’after i phone conversation with Mr. told him th at Mr cook agi Hendricksen approved. M we pt to Mr. Hendricksen’s and returned) saying thaj Hendricksen had accepted th*.

Mr - Atoa stated that he h£^ goon to the PWD for repan making parts * p In early May, the Govei was considering an appeal Supreme Court of New Zeals

[?] aking Ends Meet

p. 141

[?] LING

[?] CES

[?] aking Ends Meet in W. Samoa

SSTERN Samoa like many other countries faces diminish ing returns from exports— ly due to falling prices for ultural products—and increased nditure on social services and itenance costs. tal trade during 1956 amounted 1,593,600, a decrease of £713,000 the record established in 1955. ;n cocoa prices were high), rts at £1,860,400 decreased by K) from 1955 and exports at 1,200 decreased by £678,200. unfavourable trade balance nted to £27,000 but, at the of the year some 4,700 tons ipra valued at £275,000 were ire. Most of this was shipped 1957. ; actual production of copra >56 increased by 1,500 tons ired with the 1955 production 677 tons. ipared with 1955, cocoa exports 'Sed by 220 tons but decreased

in average value from £8283 per ton to £B2OO per ton. Copra exports decreased by 2,600 tons and in value from £865 per ton to £B5B/10/- and there are indications that the price

may be further reduced in 1957 by 7s to 10 per cent. Banana exports decreased by 155,500 cases at the same f.o.b. price of £l/0/9 as for 1955.

[?] w Buildings for NW

p. 141

Viti Levu

[?] his school, built and operated by community of Lautoka, Fiji, assisted Fiji Department of Education with [?]d provision of teachers' salaries, has [?]of 5,044 sq. ft., contains six class [?]nd in addition an office and a [?]t has five qualified male and female in the staff, and 320 pupils. It has [?]es of land made available from the [?]ugar Refining Company, Limited, in [?]e is a spacious playground and ample [?]ultivation of crops and gardening.

The Fiji Broadcasting Commission's [?]g station at Waijavi, Lautoka, built [?] of last year to provide better radio for NW Vili Levu.

Photos: S. B. Lal.

Resby Gaol-Breakers Keep Police,

p. 143

[?] 't Shoot—"

ARMY HOPPING FOR 20 DAYS

After 20 days in which hundreds of police and troops unbed bush within a 20 miles radius of Port Moresby, two the four native prisoners who escaped from Bomana Prison irm were recaptured on April 27.

SY were Kita Tunguan and [eana Keporaka. lie third prisoner escaped— fas captured on May 5; and the ti was shot —accidentally or de itely—a couple of days after reak on April 8. a. a Sepik, who was serving sentence for rape of a woman r. gave himself up on April nd later led Inspector G. ti, warder of Bomana prison, e place where the other two ters were hiding. Keana was red after a struggle but the man, Ame Aite, escaped a rain of police bullets, ing the manhunt, police, pters, the Pacific Island lent and volunteers were d into service; but the les were always one hop Rewards were offered for ration leading to their •e, but there were no takers, ing their 20 days of freedom, mvicts broke into houses in luburb of Boroko, stole a and bush knives and food; ed a small boy with a knife enerally terrorised the whole ng this time, when each Moresby householder would ive been unduly surprised to ta and Co. turn up anywhere bottom of his garden, the Law Department issued a ent that made confusion e confounded. It was ntly designed to inform 3 when they might shoot in fence —and at what part! ise it should ever be required lar circumstances we reprint in full, but suggest that a ■ball also be included in the

old equipment:

»IG TO CITIZENS ON THE LEGAL

IN RELATIVE TO USE OF FIREARMS

AGAINST LAW BREAKERS

ment by the Secretary for Law, Mr. W. W. Watkins) )uth Pacific Post'' on April 17, 1957, ort on the search for three escaped from the Bomana Jail contained the statement: Sunday the search continued relent- The native people were showing signs reness. One walked into the Police and said to an officer: these men come to my place, may them?' Officer said: 'Yes, if you have to ' the legs?' Officer answered: 'lf you have to lem it doesn't matter where.'

"The native said: 'Thank you Taubada, I will do that'.'' This advice,, allegedly given by a Police Officer, on which no confirmation is available, CAN AMOUNT TO ADVICE TO COMMIT WILFUL MURDER, or at least MANSLAUGHTER.

The Criminal Code only permits shooting when a person finds his life, or the life of others, is threatened, or that he is in danger of suffering grevious bodily harm and believes himself unable otherwise to escape the carrying out of threats to his life or safety.

Section 257 of the Criminal Code gives the right to a person who is not a Police Officer to arrest an offender without warrant, and if the person about to be arrested takes flight in order to avoid arrest, it is lawful for the oerson seeking to arrest him to use such force as may be reasonably necessary to pre vent his escape, but, this Section DOES NOT AUTHORISE THE USE OF FORCE WHICH IS INTENDED, OR IS LIKELY TO CAUSE DEATH OR

GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM.

Section 258 provides that when any person has lawfully arrested another person for any offence, it is lawful for him to use such force as he believes, on reasonable grounds, to be necessary to prevent the escape or rescue of the person arrested. BUT, if the offence is not a crime which is such that the offender may be arrested without warrant, this section does not authorise the use of force which is intended or is likely to cause death or grievous bodily harm.

If a person is attacked by one of the escaped prisoners, that person is entitled to defend himself but is bound to avoid, to the e ?* e . n * consistent with his own safety, in fliction of injury upon the attacking person.

If the individual attacked is likely to be over powered, then, and then only, may he use all

the force at his disposal to overcome the attacker. In doing so if the attack can be broken without inflicting death upon the attacker, e.g., shooting the attacker in the legs, then this course should be taken.

It will be seen therefore that if one of the escaped prisoners merely came upon the land, or upon the curtilage of the dwelling of the native who was alleged to have sought the advice of the Police Officer, that native would have no right whatsoever to shoot the prisoner, either in the legs or anywhere else. He is entitled to arrest the prisoner, and if the prisoner takes flight or resists arrest, then the arresting native or any person similarly placed, may use as much force as is necessary to restrain the prisoner, without inflicting upon him grievous bodily harm. If the arresting native finds that his life is threatened, or that he is in danger or suffering grievous bodily harm from the prisoner, and believes himself unable to escape otherwise the carry ing out of the threats, then he may shoot the prisoner.

This position applies to all persons coming into contact with the escaped prisoners or any other offenders.

However, it is impossible to lay down a specific rule as to when force may be used, as the use of force must be related to the circumstances of each particular incident.

Holdens For Fiji

p. 143

A N order for 15 Holden vehicleS from Fiji has been received by General Motors Holdens in Australia. The order is made up of cars station sedans, utilities and uanel vans. Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., of . Suva, has been appointed the distributing agent for Fiji. = w. T cm-.»r First prize in a NSW Special Lottery Was won in May by Mr. e. J. (Ernie) Wauchope, who now resides at Bavview NSW but is ,1,1 well-known to old NG TerrUorians as , owner of Awai plantation, Madang coast. The prize was worth £l2.ooo—a nandy sum even for re tired NG planters

Much Petty Thievi[?]

pp. 144-145

IN SUVA

PETTY theft has reached ap; proportions in Fiji, and a definite business ris; trader who does not provi losses from theft, just as h vides against loss from depre or fire, is taking a substantii Thefts are in both the d»: and business worlds.

All classes of household s must be kept under constant, while people handling goods times feel that the only wa can keep their property in possession is to chain it do T very high degree of cunn shown in carrying out the The thieves steal a little b:i time, so it will not be notio The unwary traveller, for e: leaves a roll of notes in hii while he takes a shower sneak-thief does not take notes —only one or two —a;, traveller does not notice the age.

In a Suva club recently ■ sponsible Committee began askance at the stock of liquc finally ordered a check. The £550 worth of whisky missing Evidence was that one Club servants had somehow able to get a duplicate made manager’s store-room key, a bottles had been filched cunningly, over a long perio« An hour ago, in an offio where this is being written,, discovered that about £27 hs taken from the appar securely-locked drawer of a ♦ Not a block away, a ret: bemoaning inexplicable gaps of his stock.

There are innumerable sue —and they all show plannii ingenuity. The CIB section! police here, when apprised, time in making a close inqui the thieves are so smoot cunning that the police firi blank faces and a complete evidence. In most of these they are sure that these at side jobs”—thefts commitl; trusted staff members. —R.W\ tl Mr. D. P. Ragg, arrrj Suva, Fiji, in May, and at ments were completed unden by assuming the chairman] Northern Hotels Ltd., he ws over some of the burden of i stration from his father, Sit Ragg. Sir Hugh will conti act as managing-director Co., which now controls sever in Fiji, and will have anothe charge when the construe: the new Club Hotel (cor Victoria Parade and Gordon: Suva) is completed. Mr' transferred his residence to some years ago; but he nt spend about one month iu three in Fiji.

[?]ers'

Congress

[?]tes of the Fiji [?]l Workers' Con which was in in March and [?]t the Governor [?]Sir Ronald [?] Mr. N. Pear [?]C (Commissioner [?]ur); Mr. B. D. [?] (President, [?]strial Workers' and Inter [?]Airport Em- Union); Sir Rarvey; Ratu [?]unisina (Secre [?]eral, Fiji In [?]Workers' Con

[?]Mr J. A. C.

[?]ing Commissioner of Labour). g: Mr. A. L. Parke (Secretariat); Luke (General Secretary, Fiji Seamans' [?]olomoni Bulicokocoko (General Secre-

here (FIW Congress representative to The Duke of Edinburgh's Study Conference, 1956).

Photo: Caine's Studios.

tary, Fijian Stevedores' Union); Mr. Ram Narain (President, Fiji Sugar Industry Employees' Asso ciation); Neman! Waka (General Secretary, Fijian Mine Workers' Union); Mr. Nand Ris-

Suva, You Ask a

p. 145

[?] Y WITHOUT

[?] T NUMBERS

Suva, You Ask a Taxi Driver

city of Suva probably is lue among the capitals of world in that it is without ed houses in its streets, and regular mail deliveries— within a district within a of hundred yards of the Sice. now are over 40,000 people i. The streets extend for om the Chief Post Office valleys and over the hills, s not a numbered building of them. would be bad enough in

-language, one-community

■t creates endless difficulties munication and transport nail city where there are ommunities, and three js are constanly employed. run anywhere within a lius for 3/-, and the Indian seem to know the dwelling r man and woman in the Tiat is what prevents chaos. >e, one has no way of anyone whose address is ome street or road —and a of these thoroughfares are length. presumably, is why the ice has arranged no general by postmen, as in any rge centre in the civilised Even postmen are not Hit. ick of street numbers has e organisation of a reliable sr delivery service tarac npossible. ck of numbers in the streets \ before the City Council non; but the Council just

refuses to get serious about it. No one knows why.

Laut'oka, which insists on being Suva s rival, is showing Suva the way. Lautoka has made prepara nons for the numbering of the buildings in its streets.

Dangerous

p. 145

Aqualungs Can Be Dangerous

SOME people believe that pearl shell diving operations in the Cook Islands might be aided by the introduction of modern aqualung self-contained diving equipment.

Last year, Captain Hugh Williams purchased a few aqualungs and applied for a license to operate them with native divers at Penrhyn.

However, after due consideration,

the Resident Commissioner of the Cooks refused such permission, at least for the present.

The dangers involved with the use of this equipment are much greater than generally realised — probably a good deal greater than with the standard helmet-and-hose gear.

Thorough instruction of divers, and strict supervision by a trained man is essential. Availability of a decompression chamber for use in case of accidents is also highly de sirable in commercial diving opera tions, and this can only be operated by a fully trained man.

Given these conditions, aqualungs may provide a means of obtaining good shell in deep water which is at present inaccessible to the helmet and-hose men—or the skin divers which do most of the present diving.

and Industry

pp. 147-149

Pacific Commerce and Industry

FRALASIAN PETROLEUM CO. PTY. LTD

SLAND EXPLORATION CO. PTY., LTD.—

derating companies for Oil Search, Ltd d on April 10 that Kuru No. 2 was at Feet. At Komewu the drilling outfit was finished and the hole was expected to about half-way through April. * * *

LO GOLD DREDGING, LTD.—lnterim

I of 25 cents (Canadian) was declared I 26 and will be paid from all offices company on June 5. Payment from the office will be made in Australian calculated at the rate of exchange >n May 15. Dividends payable to non t of Canada will be subject to the i Absentee Tax of 15 per cent, le three months ended February 28, oz of fine gold were recovered from 0 yards dredged. The value of the 35 US dollars an ounce was 474,775 In the nine months to February 28 iz were recovered from 6,324,500 yards! e of the gold recovered was 1,382 535 rs. , PHILP AND CO., LTD.—Net profit year ended March 31 was £536,023 if £62,600 or 13.2 per cent, on the year's profit. Profit remained after depreciation (down £49,432), £250,000 for tonnage replacement (steady), for property replacement (steady), and tax. vidend in unchanged at 10 per cent 'orbs £375,000. Gross profit was 1, an increase of £74,465. irectors said that merchandise sales to improve, but high operating costs 1 competition reduced profit margins. 1 motor vessel, "Montoro", began in February. This ship, of 3,000 o weight, was built in Norway for rs may place an order for another 8,000 tons early next year if they n reasonable delivery. Cost of this uld be about £1,500,000. sale of Penneys, Ltd., to G. J. Coles Ltd., Burns Philp received 3,600,000 ary shares and £1,025,000 in cash, ult, the company received 1,080 000 ius shares and will be entitled to 1,404,000 new shares at par. * ❖ .

PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO., LTD.— Gross

the year ended January 31 was B/5 and the net was £136,509/1/5 profit, together with £64,069/13/8 irward from the previous year made 15/1 available for distribution. An vidend of 1/- a stock unit paid on 2 amounted to £37,500. A final f 1/- will take another £37,500. Of -e £50,000 is added to the reserve c/i t °^? l L reserve of £525,000, ”8/15/1 will be carried forward. * * * PLANTATIONS, LTD.- A four per aend was announced at the first feting held in Rabaul last month, hn Douglass and lan Walton went •ey to attend. The two retiring Messrs F. N. Warner Shand and B

;e re-elected.

irman, Mr. J. W. Douglass, in his I: The result of the trading period • l l , o hs shows a net profit (after pro '29 for depreciation and £947 for remuneration) of £13,083. This re

ndered most satisfactory, particularly

as in this, our opening trading perioa has been considerable reorganisation ne' * * *

ENTERPRISE OF NEW GUINEA.—The

the two months to March 31 was 2 retorted gold. ❖ ❖ GUINEA AIRWAYS, LTD.—Net profit! year ended February 28 at £42,649 re|‘ an increase of £6,178. A final divv £24,000, comprising £12,000 on ordii preference shares, will be paid to the company, Guinea Holdings, Ltd.

Information on the holding compam accounts relates only to the issue o to subscribers of the memorandl articles.

On completion of the proposed exc: shares with Guinea Airways shareholil holding company will pay a dividem a share (5 per cent.). The dividend £21,000 of the holding company's c: £420,000. The interim payment of 5 on Guinea Airways shares required £8 Total dividend amount will, there £29,000, compared with £20,000 for vious year. This confirms the directoi tations of a 10 per cent, rate when tH reconstruction was announced.

The latest result is after tax £27,0( £1,000) and depreciation £15,000 £1,725).

LOLOMA (FIJI) GOLD MINES, NL.—

pany, with King Island Scheelite (19< and United Uranium, NL, has been i 24,000 square miles prospecting an of the Mt. Isa Mines northern leai liminary geological investigation was ing. United Uranium reports. On thi Star lease, under option at Tennan sampling has given gold assay v further investigation. * * *

NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS, LTD—TI

ing director of NGG, Mr. J. Hohnei Pt. Moresby recently that the swing fn ground methods to open-cut mining at leases would mean the progressive of about 1,700 native employees. Hoi felt that the company's coffee project in which NGG has been engaged years would absorb some of this lab: company recently imported a coffees their Wau plantation). The company* been interested in mining in the Kain (NG Eastern Highlands) for the past and native and European miners wanted there. The company will leases they have pegged. Kainantu sidered a low-grade ore proposition.

PAPUAN APINAIPI PETROLEUM CO

The directors have made a second c: a share on the whole of the contribut of the company, making these shares?

The call is due and payable on Mai * * *

PLACER DEVELOPMENT, LTD. —An

dividend of 50 cents (Canadian) a declared on April 30, payable to holders registered in the company's: May 23. The dividend will be paic offices on June 20. Payment from t office will be made in Australian! calculated at the rate of exchange May 24, 1957. Dividend payables residents of Canada will be subject tl Absentee tax of 15 per cent. * * *

SANDY CREEK GOLD SLUICING, LIT

February and March about 67 oz of : recovered from about 4,000 cubic: material treated. * * *

SANGARA (HOLDINGS), LTD—Thir

company for Papuan rubber and coco is paying an ordinary dividend of cent, for the year ended January the first ordinary dividend paid Sengara venture began in 1938.

The operating company, Sangara i

evelopment Co., Ltd., made £33,345 net for the year ended October 31, after ( off £4,483 depreciation. Of this, 1 was paid as a dividend to the holding iy which shows a net profit of £24,014 year to January 31. operating company's profit for 1954-55 18 618, of which £10,361 was paid to Iding company in dividends. During the he holding company paid arrears on nee shares, requiring £13,768. rence dividend of 6 per cent, for 1956joires £4,589 and ordinary dividend £14,626. This leaves £493 carried , compared with £9,463 brought in.

Jirectors say that rubber output for the ise by 106,000 lb to 475,218 lb, and output by 1,400 lb to 4,453 lb. A 10,000 high yielding rubber seeds were d from Malaya and established in a ’ 37 acres were planted out with this elding rubber and some areas which imaged by the Mt. Lamington eruption so been replanted. directors added that in January two ders, Messrs. J. Wallace and E. H. gh, visited the plantation and said re satisfied with its operation.

OIL, LTD —The 3,993,000 5/- shares for public subscription have been among 6,500 shareholders in Australia seas, the directors report.

[?] va Visitor to Sydney

p. 149

f the four men who walked -time famous Kokoda Trail ie Easter holidays, Kevin use, aged 17, is believed to if the youngest ever to have ie trip. Armed with maps ipass, the men did the 30ilk in 5 days, in heavy rain High thick jungle.

Hay, of the Suva City Council department, who is at present on [?]e. After spending three weeks in [?]he went to Auckland to visit his [?]n, who is at the Teachers' Training [?]dmore, and daughter, Margaret, who [?]yed at the Auckland telephone

[?] Zealand's Extraordinary Attitude to

p. 151

[?] Islands Residents Seeking Medical Aid

cases have recently come to i notice of PIM concerning 1 known and respected ts oi the Pacific Islands—one ahiti' and one from Tonga— ve been required by the New I Government to lodge large f money before being per to enter the Dominion for , treatment. demands appear to be de fco prevent non-residents be a charge upon the State; ly be related in some way fact that New Zealand is, m minor way, a welfare State, ig free medical services, lenefits and a high rate of to its residents. The net n the two cases dealt with

e embarrassment, inconveni

md certainly resentment, ts of the Eastern Pacific look Zealand for medical and aid, as residents of the Pacific look to Australia, ently the smart thing, so Few Zealand is concerned, is on a visitor’s permit, and into hospital. jsident from Tahiti who re medical attention is Mr. tfordman, who is suffering taracts on his eyes. From 0 bond was demanded and has now been ! resident of Tonga, no less )0 was demanded Our New correspondent who has in ato this case has been in by the victim’s sister that lukualofa doctor’s advice he to go to Auckland, enter have a complete check-up teed be, an operation. He ! applied for permission to ? country and was informed would first have to deposit of £5OO. He calculated that 3 require at least another travelling and medical ex nd would also need to leave nother £2OO to carry on his while he was absent. This of ready cash he did not

As he did all his banking with the Bank of New Zealand he asked the Bank to check up on the matter New Zealand, or go bond for him as he wished to be in NZ only three months.

The Bank replied (so we are in formed) that the deposit was re quired by law from anyone in ill health and that the Bank could n ot help him.

This man has now decided to enter hospital in Suva, where there is n o red tape, Islands residents, particularly those of part-European descent, have complained frequently to PIM of the insolence they have encountered from immigration officers in New Zealand. But this is the first time

we have heard that the Dominion now puts a price on its medical aid and that if you cannot pay up first, you can die at home as far as the New Zealand Government is con cerned.

It should be noted that neither of these men wanted free medical attention. They were prepared to pay for that. But what they did object to was having to find a large sum in cash simply to establish their bona fides with the Government. t Mr. J. B. Sedgers, managing director of New Guinea Co Ltd., Rabaul, came to Australia this month for leave.

[?]emony in

Pago Pago

[?]raising Day (April[?] [?]in Pago Pago, [?]can Samoa, was [?]ed this year by [?]ligh Commissioner [?]estern Samoa, Mr.

Powles (second [?]left). Others in [?]lotograph are Mrs. [?]n; Commodore [?]wyer, USN; and [?]or P. T. Cole of American [?]o: Pan American

Businessman Visits P-NG

p. 151

Mr. Keith Braybon of Braybon Bros., electrical engineers of Sydney, who will leave Sydney for Port Moresby and outposts in early June.

He will stay four weeks in the Territory and visit Lae, Madang, Wewak, Rabaul, Goroka and Mimj.

[?] ands Weddings

p. 153

Mr. Anatole married Miss [?] rown at St. [?] rt Moresby, on Mr. and Mrs. [?] McEvoy leave [?] man Catholic Port Moresby, [?] marriage on Bride was [?] ian McGarry. [?] apuan Prints.) Miss Emma , [?] daughter of [?] Mrs. A. J. of Suva, Mr. Henry the Methodist [?] va, on March [?] s on the office [?] he Fiji Broad [?]mmission. She the vocaliste [?] of the Colter [?] ythm Sextette, [?] s on the air the wedding [?] e couple left [?] ch under a [?] h of honour [?] by Mr. Bob BC Technician [?] nd Mr. John [?] oth guitarists lextette. The i also is a and member [?] tette. (Photo: g).

Scott Home Bought

p. 153

THE OLD ORDER

CHANGING IN FIJI

Scott Home Bought By Indian Investor

r[E old home of the Scott family, well-known “Holkham”, in Bau Street, Suva, was sold recently to Mr. Hemraj, a prominent Indian (Gujerat) investor, for a price reported to be close to £lB,OOO.

The property consists of a very large bungalow, surrounded by lawns and gardens, and about 20 acres of grounds, in the older part of Suva’s residential district.

It was occupied for very many years by the late Sir Henry Scott and his family; and Sir Henry died there last year.

It is not known how Mr. Hemraj proposes to treat the property; but it is presumed that he will at least partially subdivide it—being so near the centre of the city, it clearly has much value as a site for residences. It was reported in April that he had already sold three acres to the adjoining Marist Brothers establishment.

Little by little, a large proportion of the alienated land in the town areas of Fiji—especially Suva—is passing into Indian ownership.

The Indians are showing con siderable enterprise in constructing new buildings of flats, and in reconditioning old residences for use as flats. This has been a contribution to the solution of the housing problem. The latter is still acute—but not as acute as it was.

In Mining

p. 153

FLUTTERS

IN NH

Sudden Interest In Mining

AT least three organisations or individuals are prospecting for manganese on Efate in the New Hebrides. Three planters in one area have formed a syndicate at Undine Bay in the north, the Maka tea Phosphate Co. is prospecting another area, and another planter had a geologist up from Sydney to make an inspection.

There does not seem to be any doubt that there is manganese in large quantities, but most of it is in the inaccessible native areas.

The planters in the syndicate have signed an agreement with the natives so that the latter will be fully pro tected if the area is exploited. . The advent of the Makatea Co. into prospecting is not altogether unexpected for it has been reported that supplies of phosphate on Makatea are running out.

The opinion has been expressed that there is gold on Efate and one or two other islands, but that lack of access to the jungle has made exploitation difficult.

Observers believe that more than manganese is involved in legislation recently passed to control “mining activity.”

Within the last two months the Makatea Phosphate Co. has started building a dock at Vila. Last Sep tember and October the company was prospecting in an area between 10 and 15 away from Vila.

T Mr. Bill Nicholson, formerly elec trical .engineer to the Suva City Council, was badly burned at his Newport (Sydney) home just before Easter and was two weeks in hos pital.

Bishop Francis John Doyle, newly consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Eastern Papua, returned to his diocese from Queensland at the end of April.

Deaths of Islands Pe[?]

pp. 154-155

MRS. S. HORTON

Residents of Norfolk Islam shocked on April 11 when Horton, the wife of the Revj Horton, the Anglican vicaii following the birth of theii child.

Mr. and Mrs. Horton hao to the Island a year previor a newly married couple and two young people quickly en themselves to residents.

Showing great fortitudJ assisted by the Rev. Mr. Ba the Methodist Church, Mr. conducted his wife’s funeral at All Saint’s Church, and graveside.

MR. MARCUS ESTALI

An old and respected resic Rarotonga, Mr. Marcus Esta:. there on March 26, aged 77. E Tahiti, in 1881, Mr. Estall the Tuamotus when that Grc struck by the severe hurric 1902. Two years later, at t: of 23, he settled at Rarotong Mr. Estall is survived b; children —Messrs. James, ar Estall, of Rarotonga; Mrs. M.. of Rarotonga; Mrs. D Reid, oi ington; Mrs. McVregh, Mrs Campbell, Mrs. L. Grey an Arthur Estall, all of Aucklar Mr. William Estall, of Wa; NZ.

MR. BEN ALLEN

One of the best-known of the Burns Philp Lin.

Benjamin Allen, died in Syc March at the early age of 2 Mr. Allen joined the se; staff of BP in May, 1925, and course of his career serv Mar sin a, Montoro, Mu I Morinda, Macdhui and Bulc He was on the Macdhui dm war until she was bombed Japs and set afire in Port N.

Owing to ill-health, he II sea in December, 1954.

He is survived by his w: one daughter.

MR. P. COSTELLO

The death of Mr. Pat ■ is reported on page 73, this

MRS. NORMA VICAR

The death occurred in Mel Victoria, on April 26, of Mrs..

Vicary, of Madang, New Guin is believed to have been early 40’s.

Mrs. Vicary was the wife; Roy Vicary, an agricultural! of Madang, NG. Both were w known in the district.

She is survived by her 1! and by three children, tea Parnala and Beverley; and: who is about 7.

LADY E3LLIS

The death occurred in Av New Zealand, on April 28 < Ellis, widow of the late Sin

Ithe man responsible for the pery of phosphate on Ocean id Nauru. [y Ellis was a prominent h and social worker and 60 I ago she became the first ary of the New Hebrides in, the forerunner of the yterian Overseas Mission. : is survived by her daughter, G. R. Milne, of Wellington,

; MR. G. S. ROWLEY

of Fiji’s best known business Mr. G. S. Rowley, the Ba fer of the CSR Company, died ily in Ba on April 26. He was ,rs old.

Rowley went to Fiji 30 years s a chemist; and practically [ service was given in Ba and l as chemist and manager. In le was manager of the Pine- Canning Division of the CSR ; Lautoka.

Rowley took a keen interest ling and golf, and was gener ipular. He leaves a widow wo daughters—Mrs. Walter in, of Labasa, and Mrs. t, who lives in New Zealand.

Business in Fiji

p. 155

[?] AR TRADER RETURNS

[?] FRIEND

Banno’s New Business in Fiji

tfG the busier merchants [ traders in Fiji to-day is Banno, a Japanese. He is own and appears to be regarded. ct, some of the Europeans iians who are interested in tmerous manganese mines Viti Levu look upon him something approaching i —he has been buying so langanese for Japan that he e something towards holding local price of the ore. is the Mr. Banno who, • the unfortunate incident •1 Harbour in December, aded in Tonga and other

agoes thereabouts, as Banno

M pointed out more than the years before the Pacific anno Brothers seemed to ?presentatives everywhere * the interests of trade, they a great deal about the and organisation of our Pacific islands, mno has informed pre-war here that during the war a the Philippines; and that, the war, he and other business men would like

e unhappy affair forgotten,

expected that Mr. Banno, ae end of this year, will us own trading establish- Suva and Lautoka.

Paris-N. Caledonia Flight

p. 155

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF

A SHORT ceremony led by the High Commissioner for France in the Pacific, M. Aime Grimald, marked on April 5, the 25th an niversary of the first Paris-New Caledonia flight.

The ceremony took place before the monument (at the entrance to the Tontouta aerodrome) which commemorated this event.

On April 5, 1932, the two-engined plane built by Couzinet and called the “Biarritz” landed at Tontouta after a flight of 134 hours flying time, but 28 days out from Paris.

Unfortunately the plane on landing

was badly damaged. The crew of three consisted of De Verneil, pilot; Deve, navigator; and Munch, en gineer.

By way of contrast, the regular plane of the French line TAI, a Douglas DC6, left the aerodrome during the ceremony and would land it’s passengers in Paris just two days later. t The Pacific Islands Society met on April 23 at 77 King Street, Syd ney. The guest speaker was Sister Margaret Evans, of the Royal North Shore Hospital, who spoke of a recent trip through Spain and Portugal and illustrated it with a colour film.

1 “f ? eorge Bezar ' who been

p. 157

Lucky Holden Winner in Rabaul

s of monkeys having been different parts of New i have been coming in to It is feared that these may have been taken into itry by the crews on the nickel ships. If monkeys in, they could breed and i pest to planters. How ere have been monkey l New Caledonia before—

thought to have been left behind b y American troops—but real proof of their existence has never been proved. 1 “f ? eorge Bezar ' who been c ™ducting a popular ex-service !"®T S ? essl ° n over IZB ,New Zea ‘ landl . ha l been seconded for three year ? to the Fi i‘ Broadcasting Corn- P 1!® 81011 as copy supervisor. He will take up his new post this month.

[?] mothy Seeto, of Rabaul, receives a [?] en car, prize in a raffle held recently [?] abaul Aquatic Club to raise funds for use. The club was formed last July [?] ld soon be in a position to organise [?] peed-boat racing.

[?] visitors to a Polunesian Association gathering in Sydney were,top (left to right): [?] Blacklock and Gordon Carey of Suva, Fiji. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ormsby of New [?]Club chieftainess Mrs. Norman Light, of a NZ, Bay of Islands chiefly family, and Mrs. [?]lm, who was Al,a Young, of Norfolk Island, descendant of one of the "Bounty"

The photo shows, from left to right: Club president, Mr. Graeme Blake, secretary, Mr.

Prestcn Crothers, treasurer, Mr. Les Pipes, Holden winner Mr. Timothy Seeto, and seller of the winning ticket and Club vice-president, Mr. Mike Flynn.

[?](left to right): Mr. and Mrs. Alf Lussock. Mrs. Lussick is from Apoa, W. Samoa. and [?]ell known in New Guinea. Monsieur and Madame Helme of Tahiti and New Caledonia, [?] M. Rolland and Madame B. Doudoute, also of Noumea. Miss Jeanette Morgan, [?] Mr. and Mrs. Dave Morgan, of Fiji.

Photos: Bayside Studios.

Come Back!

pp. 157-159

US “INVASION”

This One Did Come Back!

OF the million or so Americans who passed through or fought in the SW Pacific area during the war, the number who have come back to settle could be counted on the fingers of one hand. However, one of those is 45-years-old Mr.

Alvin J. Blum, who liked this part of the Pacific so much he came back to set up business—in Honiara, BSIP. of all unlikely places.

But Mr. Blum won’t have it that n f ji ne

“We think the only future for economic advancement to-day rests in these islands,” he said. “Every thing else has been taken up.”

The “We” consists of Mr. Blum, his wife, his 23-years-old adopted daughter and his lOi-years-old daughter, at school in Brisbane.

From 1942 to 1945, Mr. Blum was stationed in New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines. He stayed in America only 18 months after his discharge, and then set out for the Pacific and other parts.

In 1954, after much wandering around, he decided to go into business in Honiara as a taxi pro prietor. From this beginning his enterprise mushroomed into a dry cleaning and laundry establishment,

Mr. Alvin J. Blum.

ikery, an ice cream factory, a ery and a frozen foods shop, i-day the foundation on which wilt his business (the taxi ser [ is gone. verybody in Honiara has a car,” ays. it his business now has a more foundation, and is a thriving »rn. Everything is under one - over 2,500 square feet. He jys a staff of 18 —11 natives and i Europeans. s. Blum and Mrs. Mills (his ted daughter) do all the bake ‘ work, and turn out anything 300 to 500 2-lb loaves a day. sell their product, which is 1 In electric ovens, at 2/- a Mrs. Blum and Mrs. Mills work at 4 a.m. to have the jatch of bread ready at 11 a.m. often they work until mid .to fill all orders, ice cream factory turns out oduct which finds a ready ‘t, particularly among the !S. the raw and processed ials come from Sydney, which nports through the Islands g firm of Nelson and Robert- Blum himself is overseer of tivities, and in addition he is sonal charge of the laundry, speaks very highly of the s. en the right opportunity ;an contribute to a balanced he said, d if he planned to leave the ms at any stage, Mr. Blum ‘Never. We have our home Blum came to Sydney last to recouperate after an on, and also attend to some >s. lans to return to the Solomons Tulagi about May 24.

Japanese Know-How

p. 159

FISHING

ENTERPRISE

Santo Enlists Japanese Know-How

OANTO, New Hebrides, is to have O its fishery enterprise and fish cannery after all.

Little has been heard of this pro ject f<pr almost a year and at that time it was believed that nothing would come of the scheme, due to anti-Japanese feeling in the New Hebrides and in Australia.

Some British residents were against the fishery because it was based on Japanese know-how; these British residents, through the Aus tralian press were able to stir up some opposition to the scheme in Australia through the well-worn scare line that pockets of Japanese would be established close to Aus tralia’s eastern seaboard.

The scheme to catch and can tuna in Santo with the aid of Japanese fishermen and technicians was the brain-child of Mr. D. J. Gubbay, and it was fully set out in the PIM of May, 1955. The original scheme may have teen modified since then, as it is now stated that the cannery side of the project “involves a French canning company, Compagnie Parisienne Sunbel.” D. J. Gubbay & Co., in the fishery part of the project is associated with Nanyo Boeki Kaisha.

Work is now in progress on a wharf at Palikula (SE Santo) and also a refrigeration plant that will be able to turn out 20 tons of ice per day. There will be a freezing chamber and cold-storage as well as an ice-making plant. A mechanical conveyor will transport the fish straight from the fishing vessels to the plant.

The bulk of the fish taken and treated for export will be tuna, with some bonito. The fish will be caught by Japanese-owned and manned ships which will operate on 12 months contracts before re turning to Japan for overhaul, etc.

There are at present 15 Japanese technicians at Palikula supervising the erection of the freezing plant; 34 more are expected to be given 3-years entry permits pending the time when local people, native or Tonkinese, are trained to operate the plant.

Mr. Gubbay first became interested in the idea of a local fishery and cannery when the American canners, Van Camp, successfully established themselves at Pago Pago under a similar scheme of co-operation with Japanese fishing boats. It is well known that New Hebrides waters are fished by the Japanese. Mr.

Gubbay thought that it would be a good thing if some of the fish from local waters were diverted to the enrichment of the Hebrides.

It would be a much better solu tion all round, of course, if the

New Hebridians themselves bestirred themselves to large-scale fishery with the diligence, enterprise, skill and endurance of the Japanese. But so far as we know, no Hebridean has shown the slightest disposition to do this. And neither has any other native of any of the other South Pacific islands.

Teal Withdraws

p. 159

From Tongan Service

FOR the second time Tonga has been cut off from air-communica tion with the outside world.

Tasman Empire Airways has an nounced that from June, the flying boat service between Suva and Nukualofa will cease at the request of the Tongan Government.

Tonga has recently had built in Holland a small vessel called the A’oniu for the Tonga Copra Board.

It was announced last month that she would maintain a service be tween Suva and Nukualofa. How ever, she is not due in Tonga until December, 1957, so in the meantime Tonga will have to make do with the regular visits of the USS Co.’s motor-vessel Tofua for travel beyond the Kingdom.

TEAL has been running an irregular flying-boat service for about four years. At one time a regular ser vice with DC3 aircraft was main tained by National Airways Cor poration of New Zealand. The Tongan Government then decided to stop the service on the grounds that it was costing too much and it was of no use to Tongans, any way, but only to Europeans.

CORAL ROUTE AIR FARES UP

TEAL made another announce ment in April—this time that Coral Route fares would rise from May 1.

It will now cost £NZIO7/10/- or £NZIO more to fly from Auckland to Papeete and about £NZ2/10/- more to fly from Auckland to Apia. There will be no increase on the Hibiscus Service (DC6 aircraft) between Auckland and Nadi, Fiji.

European air-fares rose by 5 per cent, on May 1. This is not expected to have any effect on international airlines operating in the South Pacific—yet.

Lave In Canada

p. 159

KITIONE LAVE, heavyweight Tongan boxer, is at present in Canada undergoing an intensive course of coaching and training.

His manager, Mr. Vin Conboy, has complained that Lave has been consistenly sidestepped by British heavyweights but that negotiations had begun with a Canadian syndicate to take Lave nearer his ambition of fighting for the world championship.

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L. & Sons 72 l-Rae . . 98 -Spence . 145 I Mills . 128 . ... 122 Bros. . . 33 W. S. . . 62 y Motors . 9 & Co. . 87 I, W. . . 38 A. H. . 53 , 68, 74, 85, 153 . ... 146 & Suther ... 147 Breweries 88 r Ltd. . . 96 ty. Ltd. . 11 . ... 103 m Pty. ... 69 . . 86, 106 Mustard 149 Meat . 112 l/atson . 65 realth ... 75 A. A. ... 38 J Co. . 136 A. H. . 91 ... 113 Marg. . 64 G. & . 150, 159 ’aints . 152 Marine 5 P/L . 44 d. ... 90 W. C. . 51 Jbber . 105 el Co. . 14 E. . . 89 d ... 94 d. . . 107 ... 53 n. . . 121 ig Co. . 50 diedecke 110 Jm . . 54 ng. . . 60 . & A. 135 Bros. . 74 R. . 1, 66, 1, 119, 127 ades . 134 s Paints 30 sin . . 46 va) . . 13 ooks . 122 . 34, 54 */L . . 45 B. . . 57 Sons . 63 6 Co. 118 liesels 132 d. . . 99 Robert tute . 113 • • - 42 L Byrne 58 • . . 138

1.c.l 92 International Harvester ... 16 Is. Transport . . 57

K.L.M 12

Kennedy, Capt. . 56 Kerr Bros. ... 133 Kiwi Polish ... 66 Kopsen & Co. . . 56 Lanchoo Tea ... 3 Macßobertson P/L 43 Maize Products . 73 Marine Spares 61 Marrickvi lie Marg 36 Mcllrath's ... 27 McNiven Bros. . 154 Mendaco . . . .105 Merrillees, J. C. . 5 Millers Ltd. ... 95 Morris, H. ... 37 Morris, P. ... 90 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 111 Mungo Scott . . 109 Nathan & Wyeth . 34 N. & R. . . 59, 98 Needham & Co. . 94 Nestles ... 55 NG Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products 10f Nixoderm ... 97

N.Z.N.A.C. ... 2

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Pan Pac. Service 118 Papuan Prints . . 70 Penfold, W. C. . 141 P. I. Line ... 8

Piccaninny Wax . 142

Qld. Insurance . 45 Ransomes Co. . 125 Reckitt's Blue . . 41 Rex Hotels . .129 Riverstone Co. . 40 Rohu, Si I . . . 69 Seppelt & Son . 100 Seward Ltd. ... 46 ShaW Savill ... 7 Shell Pty. Ltd. . 76 Spruso Co. . . . 28

S.T.C. Co. ... 102

Stapleton J. . . 73

Stewarts-Lloyds . 114

S. P. Brewery . 109 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 49 Sullivan Ltd. 42 114, 123 Suva Motors . .61 Tait, W. S. . . 101

Tatham, S. E. . . 97

Thornycroft Co. . 62 Tilley Lamps . . 71 Ti Hock & Co. . 126 Tivoli Bookshop 143 Todd, J. & Son . 41 Tongala Milk . . 148 Tooth & Co. . . 70 Turners & Growers 110 Tyneside Eng. . . 67 United Insurance 121

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Van Gelder, J. P. 155 Ventura ... 160 Victa Mowers 139

Vi-Stim . . . .133

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Woods, H. W. . 130 Wrigley's ... 117 Wunderlich Co. . 39 Yorkshire Ins. . . 93 Young, H. P/L . 31

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Unless otherwise stated, quotations are Australian currency. Aust. £ equals nproximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W. i moa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & ,°HC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; SUS 2.23.)

COPRA

(1957 MOF price not yet finalised. Most territories have tentatively dropped their prices by 10 per cent.) Price negotiated between British Ministry of Food and British South Pacific Territories for 1956 was £ Stg.sB/10/- FOB main ports. Stabilisation funds and other charges reduce the actual prices to pro ducers.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA: Approx;

£56/5/-; £55/11/6; £53/2/0 tentatively FIJI: Tentatively; Plant. gde.

£FSO/5/6; FMS £FSO.

W. SAMOA:—Sellers: 22/6-23/6 per 100 lbs. Exporters: £S4I and £S47 f.o.b.

Apia, for two grades.

E.SAMOA: —Producers receive 4 cents lb. sSUSB9.6 or £A4O approx, per long ton).

Periodic bonus, if average proceeds exceed Govt, buying price and expenses.

SOLOMONS: Honiara/Gizo Yandina: Ist grade, £56; 2nd £52; 3rd £45, HEW HEBRIDES:—Buying price on May 7 was steady at 6,000 Pac. francs (£A42) delivered Vila/Santo. European price, May 3, 67,000 Met. francs (£AB4/5/- approx.) c.i.f. per short ton.

NEW CALEDONIA:—Noumea, Feb. 20: 7,250 Pac. francs (£ASO).

FRENCH OCEANIA:—Recent prices were: Top grade 10.50 Pac. francs per kilo (£A62/15/- per long ton) f.0.b., Papeete; lowest grade 5.35 Pac. francs (£A39).

TONGA:—A Grade. £TS2/5/-; B Grade, £T46/5/-.

COOK IS.:—Local price is based on £NZSB/14/4 (£Stg.sB/10/-) per ton f.0.b., in bulk. Outer islands copra producers receive approx. SVid NZ per lb. equal to £ NZ3O per ton.

COCOA: —Islands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which on May 8 was £Stg.l92/10/-_per ton, c.i.f. London.

P.-N.G.:—Good grade £220-£230 ex wharf, Sydney.

W. SAMOA:—May 8: £Stg.2oo, f.o.b.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G. May 8: Top grade 6/7 per lb.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G., May 8: Kernels 1/10-2/- lb.; Virginia bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, 1/8 per lb. del.

Sydney; other 1/5 del. Sydney.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on May 7 was; No. 1 RSS, spot, 89y 4 Straits cents (31- 2/3d Aust. approx.) per lb.

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported on May 8: New crop, c.i.f. Sydney, Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 60/-, Green 58/- per lb.

RICE (Australian): —Price from May 1, 1957—P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £6l per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons £6l/10/- per ton. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £67/10/- per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons, £6B per ton.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O per ton, f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL. —Prices between the majority of the Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1956, re mained as for 1955 (1957 prices not yet fixed), i.e.; Sound grades £A736; D, £A39O; E, £A3OO; EE, £A225; all f.o.b.

Australian ports; May 7, 1957, quotation by independent pearlers; Sound, £A9OO; D, £ A 670; E. £ A 455; EE, £A26O. Cook Is.-Manihiki; Apr. 1: Loose shell on beach, £ Stg.44B per long ton. Export price, £Stg.Boo-900 f.o.b. Rarotonga. Tuamotus, 175-185 Pac. francs per kilo (£l,OOO - per long ton) f.o.b. Papeete.

TROCHUS;—One Sydney agent 8 quoted, in store: N. Heb., £A47i £ASIS; and BSI, £AS2O, all f.a.q.; quoted: N.G., £A495, ex wharf, Sj

GREEN SNAIL:—Quote No. 1

SW Pacific, in store, Sydney, £ A 465, subject to rejects. Quotes £ A 460.

LONDON AND U.S. PRICES

Copra:—London, May 7: Straits,! fair, merchantable, del. weights United Kingdom-North European: May-June, £ Stg.63/5/- £Stg.63/15/- (seller). New York, Philippines in bulk, U.S. Pacifii ports, SUSI6O (seller).

Coconut Oil:—London, May 7: in bulk, c.i.f., United Kingdom European ports, May/June, (reseller). London, May 6: Straits c.i.f., bulk, May/June £Stg.9l/U seller).

Cocoa:—London, Apr. 20: Accra/T bond (buyers), May, £Stg.2l2/10 ton.

Coffee:—London, Apr. 20: Ul Uganda native robustas f.a.q. Ap shipment £Stg.2s3/10/- (sellers)!

Aug., £Stg.2s4/10/-; Sept., £Stg.: Oct.. £Stg.2s2/10/-, all long to;* Mombasa.

Rubber:—London, May 7: Spot; Stg.26%d lb, c.i.f. Oct./Dec., 26 5 /a 26V 4 d.

Green Snail: —London, Mar. 14 pore, £ 5tg.565, Penang, £Stg.s6o, long ton, c.i.f.

Trochus:—London, Mar. 14: Sa £ Stg.sBs; Singapore, £Stg.6oo; Si: Macassar, £Stg.s7o; Mergui, £Stg per long ton, c.i.f.

Islands Mining Sh [?]

p. 162

FIJI

Aug.. ’39 June, '56 M Emperor . . . b9/ll blO/3 Loloma , . . s25/6 b27/-

PAPUA-NEW

GUINEA

Bulolo . . . bl24/b45/- N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 b2/2 Oil Search . b3/ll bl4/ll Ent. of N.G. . ■ — s2/- Oriomo Oil . b5/b6/6 Papuan Apin. b4/ll b3/6 Placer Dev. . b68/6 bl01/6 Sandy Creek . bl/5 s6d

Exchange Rate [?]

p. 162

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSI BANK and BANK OF NZ. Ansi Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £i Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London, bar London: B. £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. i SAMOA. —Through BANK OF N tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO

B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9.

London, basis £lOO London: B.

S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis & B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-P £lOO Samoa: B. £111: S. £llO.,

PAPUA - NG —COMMONWEALTI

(Ft. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Goroka Kavieng, Madang, Wewak), BANK (branches: Port Moresby. Lae,, Rabaul, Madang. Samarai. agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokop; BANK (Port Moresby) and NA BANK OF A/ASIA. (Port Moresbc exchange rate Australia-Papua-h per £ AlOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacifi;

most valuable of the three franr in French Union, are used in Nt donia. New Hebrides, and Fr.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $1 NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealthi quotes exchange rate Australia j Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

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irste-i fi

f ~r i.

“M.V. MILOS’

THE A.W.P.L. FLEET now comprises the modern Swedish Motor Vessels “Arcs"/ "Cito "Delos" and "Milos" which offer the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from A tralia to Main Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage calls made at Hong Kong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, and thence to Brisbane, Sydney c 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 ( 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 Solo Islands Trading Corporation.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd.. Manila, Hong Kong & Japan.

LON DON-SU VA

direct

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, FUI

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wn a Car on Your Holidays AND SAVE! adway Motors' SPECIAL ISLANDS' PLAN will save you ley on your holiday transport in Australia! 1. Buy a guaranteed used car on Low Deposit. 2. Drive it ALL your holidays. 3. Broadway Motors will buy it back when you leave. from over 100 guaranteed cars. See more ) more . . . pack more fun into your holiday good used car from Sydney's famous Broadlotors. So simple! You select your car . . sh or, if you wish, make a small down paylf you buy on terms the monthly payments 5 reduced to the absolute minimum to leave you the maximum ig money. When your holiday is finished Broadway Motors buy it nd finalise all outstanding money. This gives you the use of a good r WAY UNDER ordinary hiring rates. What's more, each car is ky a written 30-day new-car guarantee for your protection.

ADWAY MOTORS (N.S.W.) PTY. LTD.

Australia's Largest Used-car Organisation

200 BROADWAY, SYDNEY. N.S.W.. AUSTRALIA

mm a The Sales Manager, Broadway Motors (N.S.W.] Pty. Ltd.

Please send me free particulars of your Special Islands' Plan without obligation.

NAME-

ADDRESS.

—P.I.M.

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:emac is

A

PLYWOOD

FOR

EVERY

PURPOSE

SOLID CORE DOORS

AND PANELS

The quiet, lasting beauty of Rosco Solid Core Doors and Panels adds new charm to any interior—for built in furniture too, the right material. 4 nU

GENUINE SEAPLY

For hard tropical conditions genuine “Seaply” in bonded with Tego Phenolic Resin. This is the most reliable bonding material for any truly waterprool plywood. Plans available for rowboats, launches, dinghies.

EZ3

COMMERCIAL PLYWOODS

All standard sheet sizes and thicknesses in top grade commercial plywoods are available from Cemac’s comprehensive range of stocks. Fine materials and careful bonding make plywood from Cemac absolutely reliable under the hardest conditions. 0 I u n

WELDTEX & SHANTONG

For unusual interiors use plywoods with patterned faces. Weldtex and Shantong offer any number of interesting possibilities for interior decorating.

MU3696

:emac is

FOR IMMEDIATE SERVICE

695 Gardeners Road, Mascot, N.S.W.

Fly to Europe

direct from

Biak

and

save

Interested? Of course . . . especially when you travel Super Constellation by KLM, the World’s First Airline. Your saving by this direct route may be up to £lBO on the round trip to London. • Your local travel agent or KLM will gladly tell you all about this monoysaving route. • KLM also provide direct services from Biak to Manila and Tokyo as well as Bangkok and all ports en route to Europe.

KLM

ROYAL DUTCH

AIRLINES

KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES

K 8 MARGARET STREET, SYDNEY

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aeS^S

The Fiji Times

Established 1869 Published Every Morning Except Sunday, The Fiji Times is the only English Language Daily Newspaper in the South Pacific Islands. It is Distributed by Fiji Airways and Road Bus Services, Every Day, all over Fiji.

Details of this Effective Advertising Medium May Be Obtained at The Fiji Times’

Australian Office PACIFIC

PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD.,

Technipress House, 29 Alberta St., Sydney, and Newspaper House, Collins St., Melbourne.

Proprietors :

FIJI TIMES AND HERALD LTD.,

Gordon St., Suva, Fiji

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KINGSTRAND

the frameless building with the load bearing wai

Goes up

NO COLUMNS

NO FRAME WORK

Kingstrand frameless construction sets new records in erection speed by utilising the high structural strength of specially formed aluminium sheet to eliminate costly columns, studs and framework.

Goes up EASILY!

WITH ONLY A

SPANNER AND

A SCREWDRIVER

Kingstrand frameless buildings need only a spanner and screwdriver to assemble —roofing, walls, partitions, doors, everything is precision cut and comes packed in one compact crate ready to erect. -

To ECONO STEEL COMPANY

A Division of Tulloch Ltd.

Australasian Manufacturers of Kingstrand Frameless Buildings, Concord Road, Rhodes, N.S.W., Australia Kingstrand frameless construction is versatile—tH unit can be erected in a number of different d The structures are strong and have withstood of over 100 m.p.h. . . . are readily added to, mi or dismantled and re-erected elsewhere ... an in the tropics, corrosion resistant and termite For the complete, interesting story on Kin* frameless construction for co stores, garages, and other but mail coupon.

Please send me details of a Kingstrand building for use as a

NAME ..

ADDRESS

P.1.M./5/57 Distributors and/or Erectors throughout Papua, New Guinea British Solomons and Noum

stributed in AUSTRALIA,

\JEW ZEALAND and the

lowing PACIFIC ISLANDS:

lastralian Territories: Papua.

Norfolk Is. Cocos Is.

Lust. Trust Territories: New Guinea. Nauru.

Iritish Crown Colonies: Fiji.

Gilbert & Ellice. •Itish Protectorate: Solomon Is.

Itish Protected State: Tonga.

Z. Territories: Cook Is. Niue.

Z. Trust Territory: W. Samoa. nch Territories: New Caledonia.

French Oceania. ;lo - French Condominium: New Hebrides. . Territories: E. Samoa. Hawaii. . Trust Territory: Micronesia aroline; Marshall & Mariana). ch Territory: W. New Guinea.

Publisher:

R. W. ROBSON.

Editor:

JUDY TUDOR.

Manager:

SELWYN HUGHES.

iEPHONES: General Business, orial, Advertising, Subscriptions:

MA 9197-8, MA 7101,

MA 4369, MA 1395.

3.P.0. BOX 3408, SYDNEY.

Istered Address for Telegrams, lograms, and Cables: “Pacpub,”

Sydney.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

fcust. and N.Z. and istralian, N.Z., and Pacific Is. . . . £ • • ' Caledonia, Tahiti . £l7 0 ffhere $3.50 U.S. or £1 10 0

IRANCH OFFICE, PAPUA-

NEW GUINEA

5c Publications (New Guinea) Theatre Building, Fourth St., New Guinea. Miss Pat Robertson, Manager.

JRANCH OFFICE IN FIJI:

Times Building, Gordon St., Suva.

lEPRESENTATIVE IN N.Z.:

Whitcombe, P.O. Box 5179, Auckland.

EPRESENTATIVE IN U.K.:

Wallis, 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3., England.

BOURNE OFFICE: Newspaper e, 247 Collins St., Melbourne, Victoria. —Tel.: Cent. 2053.

NTS: All main trading firms stores in the Pacific Islands.

FIJI TIMES AGENCY IN

AUSTRALIA

: Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd hlpress House, 29 Alberta St ey (Telephone MA 9197-8), ] wstralian Agent for THE FIJ TIMES, of Suva. Fiji.

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A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress

House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street is 10 yards from the intersection of Goulbnrn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

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Interna Tionai Asw-120

4-WHEEL DRIVE

for all working conditions!

m Complete driver comfort for the first time ever on a 1-ton 4x4 truck*

MEW ONE TON

INTERNA TIONAI ASW-120

This Australian-made light-duty truck has

a low-loading height, snappy perform-

ance, attractive appearance and the extra traction of 4-wheel drive. All conventional bodies can be fitted to its chassis, including the modern, all-steel pick-up illustrated. A front-mounted winch can be attached and there is a choice of colours and tyre equipment. International are built to stand the stresses of severe truck operation under full load. They are “all-truck” built to give a long life of trouble-free operation on the highway and in the rough.

DISTRIBUTORS: PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA;

Steamships Trading Company Limited, Port

Moresby. SOLOMON ISLANDS: Mr. K. H.

Dalrymple Hay, Honiara. NEW CALEDONIA: Agence Automobile, Noumea, FIJI, TONGA AND SAMOA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Limited. TAHITI: Hintze & Company, Papeete.

NEW HEBRIDES: Kerr Bros. Pty. Limited, Sydney.

DUTCH NEW GUINEA: H. Englebert n.v., Hollandia.

SEE YOUR NEAREST DISTRIBUTOR FOR FULL INFORMATION

INTERNATIONAL Hfl HARVESTER

International Harvester Company of Australia Pty. Ltd. District Sales Offices in Capital Cities. Works: Dandenong and Geelong, Vicx

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Morris Hedstrom Limite

N Head Office: SUVA, FIJI :: Established 1868

General Merchants, Importers and Exporters,

Shipowners, Plantation Owners,

Commission and Insurance Agents

Registered Cable Addresses: Deuba Suva Monished Levuka Morstrom Sydney Suvamark London Morrisco Nukualofa Deuba Apia Telephones-.

Suva .. .. 3002 (10 lines) Sydney BL 5421

SERVICE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND

Through our Large Establishments in Suva and our Numerous Branch we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of General Merchant and provide almost every kind of service. Our departments s associated businesses include;

DRAPERY

MOTOR SALES

AND SERVICE

TOBACCO

TIMBER AND HARDWAI

BUILDING ELECTRIC

GROCERY LIQUORS

CONFECTIONERY DRUGS

SEA AND AIR TRAVEL SERVICE

Branches Throughojit^ Fiji

There is a Branch or Agent of Morris Hedstrom limited in every Town in the Three Territon 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.

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 (AUST.) PTY. LTD.

"Wales House", 27 O'Connell Street, SYDNEY

IN GREAT BRITAIN:

MORRIS HEDSTROM LIMITED,

Barclay's Bank Buildings, 73 Cheapside, LONDON, E.C.2

The Pidgin English

recording of the

ADAM AND EVE

STORY

Applications for this famous record should be made to Burns Philp (N.G.) Ltd. All branches throughout Papua and New Guinea, the New Hebrides and the South Seas.

Send a souvenir copy to your Australian friends through

BURNS PHILP & CO. LTD.

Head Office, Bridge Street, Sydney.

EXPORT DEPARTMENT ... 202 Pitt St., Sydney, N.S.W,

AUSTRALIA

the following suggestions for inclusion in your order.

"DEWARS"

SCOTCH

WHISKY

Cases of 1 doz. 26 oz. bottles 140/- doz.

"GORDON'S"

LONDON DRY

GIN

Cases of 1 doz. 26 oz. bottles 95/6 doz.

“NEW SEASONS” CHOICE

CURRANTS 2/3 lb

“NEW SEASONS” CHOICE

SULTANAS 2/4J lb

“NEW SEASONS” STONELESS

DATES 1/10 i lb

LX.L. ’ BAKED BEANS OR

SPAGHETTI, 4 oz., 8/9 doz.- 8 oz., 14/9 doz.; 16 oz.

“EDGELL” GREEN STRING-

LESS SLICED BEANS, 8 oz..

16/6 doz.; 16 oz.

“EDGELL” FANCY GREEN

PEAS, 8 oz., 16/6 doz.; 16 oz. 27/- doz

“EDGELL” MIXED SALAD

VEGETABLES, 8 oz., 16/6 doz.; 16 oz

“EDGELL SLICED BEETROOT

8 oz., 16/6 doz.; 16 oz. 26/6 doz. 26/6 doz. 27/6 doz.

“KREAM CORNFLOUR, 16 oz.

Ctns IQ/fi Hn7

“C.S.R.” LOAF SUGAR, 2 lb.'

23/- doz.

"TAYLOR'S"

RUM

Cases of 1 doz. 26 oz. bottles 49/6 doz.

"CONNET"

HOSPITAL

BRANDY

Cases of 1 doz. 26 oz. bottles 80/- doz.

Ctns. 31/6 doz.

“LX.L.” SLICED MUSHROOMS,

. 25/- doz.; 8 oz. , . 43/6 doz “LX L.” TOMATO SOUP, 8 oz.', d ° Z ‘ 12/6 doz.; 16 oz. 21/- doz. brand/'// 1 A/?/r/uln SU A£s y wines, Splflts° f xSacro y Dellu ,lC “i' wlth fading ' 68 Wheat ' Subject to stocks and market fluctuations. pacKing.

up on

SW)

SPRUSO LIQUID, SPRUSO MQUIDSHEEN, and SPRUSO

CRYSTALLISED SHEEN.

SPRUSO is the best selling Hairdressing in Australia TRADERS: write for samples.

SPRUSO COMPANY, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia.

S7'ANP S

for

FOR SAFE, SURE, SPEEDY

RELIEF FROM-

HEADACHE

AND

ALL PAIH

POWDERS

12 for 1/9 24 for 3/-

TABLETS

(Two tablets equal one powder) 24 for 1/9 48 for 3/- 100 for 5/- 4

SPR ffl

Sat

in ’ '•>»>' *«>»* )>»» to* st»G&< O* Siit- Anyone can paint well with Spred Satin, with brush or roller, painting with Spred Satin is child’s play. You don’t have to turn the room upside-down, Spred Satin the rubber latex wonder paint won’t drip, goes on smoothly, dries within 20 minutes, and has no unpleasant painty smell. See the wonderful range iof fade-resistant colours now. Use Spred Satin.

Approach us direct or our Representatives for the Pacific Islands:

BEMKA AGENCIES PiL Limitep

2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

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a

'd o. • . . these fabulous sun-lovers ' the lightest , toughest , most colourful ng sandals yet made . ; your feet in a holiday spirit—permanently with ie thong sandals. They're so light, cool and comble . . . and here's more: the micro-cellular sole 'ears 4 sponge rubber soles; there are 5 dashing irs Red, yellow, green, black, white; every size ailable. . . . Ask for Hardie thong sandals at your —they're terrific!

Islands Agent: HARRY J. YOUNG PTY. LTD., 379 Kent Street, Telegraphic Address: HARRYJAY, SYDNEY.

AIR CONDITION SHOPS, COMMERCIAL &

INDUSTRIAL PREMISES the natural way with . . . .

1NA C louvre windows

•In workshops and factories they mean added comfort to workers with a consequential increase in productivity. • Shop and commercial premises become more inviting to customers, and employees like the controlled ventilation offered by Naco Sunsash louvres. • High installations can be remotely controlled or operated by means of long arm hooks. • Horizontal or vertical installations are possible. • Naco Sunsash Louvres are completely weatherproof and allow ventilation when it rains. • The form their own mullions and greatly reduce installation costs. • Replacement of broken glass blades is simple as no putty is required. • Available in electro galvanised steel, aluminium or baked enamel in a wide range of colours. ★ ★ ★ ★

A PRODUCT OF

N. V.APPLETON PTV.LTD.

G.P.O. Box 715 K

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

★ ★ ★ ★ Restaurant Western Germany Naco Sunsash Louvres are used and appreciated in over* 70 countries.

For further Details, Leaflets and Supplies ex stock consult our Distributors and Stockists: NEW CALEDONIA Etablissements Ballande, NOUMEA NACO-SUNSASH THE WORLD’S LARGEST SELLING LOUVRE WINDOWS

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Power

BRAYBON BROS. REPRESENTATIVE

TO VISIT PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

Mr. Keith Bray bon, will be visiting Port Moresby (from June 4) and Lae, Madang, Wewak, Rabaul. Goroka and Minj in June and will be happy to discuss all problems associated with Diesel Electric Plants. Arrangements can be made by contacting Mr. Braybon at;

BOX No. 74, PORT MORESBY,

V / OQ

FOR THE COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE OF

Please write for full particulars without obligation on your part

Power

We feature here one of our most popular diesel sets for application to the average bungalow, which is available in 240 or 110 volts A.C. current. All sets are tropicproofed electrically and are simple to install Skilled labour is not required.

k BRAYBON

P BROS Pty. Ltd.

roducts 27-33 WASHINGTON ST.. SYDNEY

Telephone MA 6853

Quality Products TELEGRAMS: “Braybonian”, Sydney

PIMMS

UL

N°l CUP

Wad '~J4eaueniy 2)rin& on (^artL!

AVAILABLE AT CLUBS, HOTELS AND STORES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC ISLANDS;

W. H. GROVE & SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

islond Merchants

16-18 FANSHAWEST., AUCKLAND.

Telegraphic and Cable Address: “Grove,” Auckland. P.O. Box 490, Auckland, New Zealand.

Entrust your requirements to the firm with more than 60 years practical experience in the Island trade.

REPRESENTING MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALEDONIA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOCIETY ISLANDS, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE, PAPUA,

NEW GUINEA, ETC.

SHIPPERS OF ALL CLASSES OF NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES AND PRODUCTS SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE ISLAND TRADE WE HANDLE ALL KINDS OF ISLAND PRODUCE IN FIJI as: W. H. GROVE & SONS (FIJI) LIMITED Office and Sample Room: Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji.

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 What the “Wales” Travel Department offers yon 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 VVaJes travellers Cheques, which are readily accepted by all banks and by principal tourist bureaux, transport offices, hotels, restaurants and stores.

QV' <SP 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 NEW SOUTH WALES WITH LIMITED LIABILITY) A 54470

Now you can enjoy

BTA table margarini

The smooth, delicious spread that’s found on

tables all over Australia.

No wonder Eta Table Margarine makes so many friends in so many places. It’s smooth and spreadable, and vitamin enriched for greater nourishment. There’s no finer way to compliment your family and friends than by serving Eta Margarine on your table.

Eta makes friends fast in the kitchen too!

For cakes, scones in fact for all your home cooking use Eta Table Margarine, but be prepared for second helpings!

TRY ETA TABLE MARGARINE TODAY . . .

AVAILABLE IN ±-LB. PATS, 1-LB. AND 2-LB TINS.

Iiillll!!ill

with VITAMIN

4 \ ¥ Trade Enquiries: MARRICKVILLE MARGARINE PTY. LTD., Marrickville, N..V Also available through normal wholesalers.

H. MORRIS

BOAT BUILDER

and designer Large experience in vessels for island work. Let us quote on your next boat.

Lytton Road, Hemmant, Brisbane Phone XY 4668

Trad* H

Quality First”

BISCUITS

Manufactured in varieties to suit ALL TASTES! packed to suit ALL CLIMATES! lAVID WEBSTER & SONS PTY LTD anner ley road, south Brisbane JWI,J rII . L IW. QueenslAnd . TELEPHONE J 1253

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Liqueurs

FOR SALE

D.C. GENERATING SET, 110 Volt—22o amp—22KWl

Direct Coupled to

40 H.P. PELAPONE-RICARDO DIESEL ENGINE

Complete with Switchboard and Mounted on Base Girders This Plant, produced by MAUDSLEY LTD. of ENGLAND Wi Generator by COMPTON PARKINSON, is BRAND NEW and I never been used.

Further details will be sent on request.

Would cost well over £2,000 to land to-day.

BEST OFFER SECURES

Write "Generator," Box 2478, G.P.0., Melbourne

For true hospitality

i m When to enjoy Corbans? Anytime is the right time . . . but a glass of Corban’s Gold Medal wine adds a special pleasure to entertaining. If you haven’t tried Corban’s wines yet, you’re missing a treat!

Gold Medal

WINES and

LIQUEURS

Over 100 awards (including 12 firsts and 14 otU awards at the 1957 N.Z. Easter Show) won Corban’s Gold Medal Wines and Liqueurs National and International competitions prove the high quality.

Trade enquiries to Master Distributors:

A. A. CORBAN & SONS LTD.

28 Fort St., Auckland, N.Z. P.O. Box 1437 t

Richart-Spief Wedding

April 18 at the Registry Office, Port [?]y, Miss Irene Spief was married to Mr. [?]hart. Photograph taken after the cere [?] Photo: Papuan Prints.

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Sinks

WUNDERLICH SINKS

i/>/ / / / /

Outshine 5 them all

//*//« n \ \\ \w The brilliant NEW range of Wunderlich Stainless Steel Sinks combines every modern improvement in sink design. Glistening high-shine finish, inbuilt quick-drainage falls in bowls and drainers, anti-spill beading on all sides, and one-piece practical size round cornered bowls. Available with timber backing for easy fixing over new or old cupboarding or unbacked, if required. See the NEW Wunderlich Sinks at your hardware store. Phone MX 2411, or write to Wunderlich Ltd., Box 474, G.P.0..

Sydney, for illustrated price list.

W

The

ftiEW

STAINLESS

STEEL

SINKS

6252

SEE THEM AT YOUR HARDWARE STORE

"MORAY PARK" Canned Fruits

will be in short supply— NOW

STOP PRESS

Mr. Grocer New season's fruit now available, buy your supplies now.

“MORAY PARK'’ Canned Fruits will be in short supply ORDER NOW! Desserts made with “Moray Park” Canned Fruits; are really delicious! These fruits, grown and processed in the; lush irrigation area at Renmark, South Australia, contain all the; natural sunny goodness of top quality Australian Canned Fruits..

The “Moray Park” and “Renmark” range of delicious cannedl fruits now available is as follows; • 30 oz Peaches • 30 oz Grapes • 16 oz Grapefruit Segments • 16 oz Apricots (Renmark brand) • 30 oz Apricots (Renmark brand) These selected fruits are delightful when chilled and served topped with! smooth “Mont Blanc” cream in the double-size gold-lined can.

Keep a stock on hand and you’ll be mighty glad you specified “Moray Park”, “Renmark” and “Mont Blanc” homogenised cream.

Distributed by W. ANCLISS & Co. (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

RIVERSTONE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD. 'lmperial" House, 255-257 George Street, Sydney, New Sooth Wales.

REDBANK MEAT WORKS PTY. LTD. 154-206 Stanley Street, South Brisbane, Queensland.

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Rotary Slasher

/ for dazzling

WHITENESS

Recki tts

Blue

& ft -4f

CLEAR COVER CROPS AND WEEDS

with the famous “ARTHUR

ROTARY SLASHER

Pat. No. 156596 In N®w Guinea, Fiji and other Pacific Islands, this low cost machine is dealino very successfully with plantation cover crops, Kunai, Sida Retusa, etc.

Can hp \A/nrlfOrl in /■>

TE TO THE

njFACTURERS .

s details of your tractor, and conditions, and we will advtse on your problem obligation. forward or essential in Can be worked reverse, which inter-row work.

Rotor revolving at slow speed ot approximately 300 r.p.m. will not unduly damage coconuts.

Interchangeable between tractors, i.e., Ferguson to Fordson, etc.

Special models made for specific conditions, i.e., width and height of cut can be varied. Knives also available as optional equipment.

Once set up by a competent men, the machine can be operated by virtually unskilled labour. ★ We can handle all shipping, insurance and banking arrangement, etc. While no time of delivery can be guaranteed, average time of shipment in the past has been only 4-6 weeks from receipt of order. ★ Good after-sales, spare parts end service facilities are available.

Used in 12 Countries . . . Proof positive

that slashing pays!

J. TODD & SON LIMITED

ENGINEERS

639 SOUTH ROAD, EDWARDSTOWN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

HOST HOLBROOK'S

foods on your table . . .

ENSURE GOOD EATING

"Quality with Economy” and bring out the full flavour .

"THE GOOD COMPANIONS

Holbrooks Worcestershire Sauce Holbrooks Sweet Mustard Sauce H!

C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

"WALES HOUSE", 66 PITT ST., SYDNEY

Telegrams and Cables: “CHASULL,” Sydney. Telephone: BL 5071 (6 lint And at Melbourne, and Brisbane.

Associated Companies: C. SULLIVAN (Q'LAND) PTY. LTD., 318 Adelaide Street Brisbane.

C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji.

C. SULLIVAN (NEW GUINEA) LTD., Rabaul, T.N.G.

C. SULLIVAN (N.Z.) LTD., 22 Swanson Street, Auckland, N.Z.

C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD., 66 Victoria St., London, S.W.I. England.

C. SULLIVAN INC., 230 California Street, San Francisco, U.S.A.

C. SULLIVAN (EASTERN) Ltd., 514 Union Building, Hong Kong.

Over 35 Years' Pacific Island Experience

Expert Buying Service

Original Invoices Furnished

Overseas Indents Arrang

BEST PRICES FOR COPRA, COCOA, SHELLS AND GENERAL ISLAND PRODUCE

Anytime for

I O

COLUMBINES

// Made by SOLE AGENTS: S. E. Tatham & Co. Pty., Ltd., Melbourne, Australia.

they're always

delicious

Columbine Caramels are rich in sustaining glucose for quick energy. Columbines have that true caramel flavour your tongue will always remember with pleasure. Each luscious COLUMBINE tumbles from the pack deliciously fresh in its own gay foil wrapping to assure you that for always and in all ways It's any time for

COLUMBINES.

the great name in confectionery 178 Collins Street,

L S'! & m

presents the most reliable,

ow Pressure DIVING EQUIPMEN

for Trochus and Pearling Industr

wmm

MASTER GAUGE

AIR PRESSURE CONTROL

SAFETY VALVE

Aift

FILTER

TAKE-OFF FOR DIVERS

TAKE OFF TO RECEIVER

TWIN CYLINDER COMPRESSOR.

MODEL MA 2/3 (Three Diver

Unit)

A complete diving unit comprising a twin cylinder compressor, petrol motor with intercooler expansion chamber and filter, mounted on a light steel base. A receiver is supplied of sufficient capacity to enable the divers to ascend in complete safety in the event of a breakdown. The three divers are individually controlled from a control panel, which may be mounted separately. Only the finest materials are used in construction, and being Australianmade throughout, spare parts are readily available.

Will operate 3 divers to 33 feet, 2 divers to 66 feet, 1 diver to 120 feet.

Compressor: 6 cubic ft. F.A.D. of 120 p.s.i.

Motor: Villiers air-cooled.

Receiver: 3.5 cubic ft. of atmos.

Filter: Baffle plus Norgren.

MODEL MA 2/2 (Two Diver

Unit)

A similar model to MA 2/3 but on a smaller scale, suitable to operate two divers to 66 feet or one diver to 99 feet.

Twin cylinder compressor with intercooler and air-cooled petrol motor fitted. A separate receiver is connected by copper tubing and has a control panel mounted on it with individual control valves and a master gauge.

All Australian-made components.

Compressor: 4 cubic ft. F.A.D. of 120 p.s.i.

Motor: Villiers air-cooled.

Receiver: 1.7 cubic ft. of atmos.

Filter: Baffle and Norgren.

MODEL FT (One Diver Un

A lightweight compressor unit dei: for heavy duty. A single cylinder pressor driven by an air-cooled motor. A gear pump forces waten or fresh) through a water inten from a reservoir fitted above the{ A similar receiver with individual o panel is fitted into the system. AIIJ tralian components. Operates one to 66 feet.

Compressor: 3 cubic ft. F.A.D. of 120: Motor: Cooper air-cooled.

Receiver: 1.7 cubic ft. of atmos.

Filter: Baffle and Norgren.

STOCK or CUSTOM-BUILT UNITS !

- Hi ■

DIVING AND MARINE SUPPLIES PTY. LTD.

7Q Lt. Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Vic

Telegrams: “SCUBADIVE”

POST THIS COUPON

for full descriptive literature on

three models.

NAME

ADDRESS

I S..< I

QUEENSLAND

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated 1886 In Australia) Assets Exceed £10,000,000 Head Office:

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE

BUILDING, 80-82 PITT STREET,

SYDNEY.

Specialists in South Sea Fire.

Marine & Accident Insurances 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.

Resident Officer: R. Laubreaux.

NEW GUlNEA.—Manager for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, R. D. Kennedy.

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.

R. Geaz (Photographic) Pty. Ltd.

24 WENTWORTH AVENUE, SYDNEY

V hole sale Distributors of:

► GOSSES EXPOSURE METERS SIXTOMAT, ETC.

♦ ENLARGERS WITH OR WITHOUT LENSES

■[ t ♦ Till PODS FOR AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL USE

♦ CAMERAS AND CAMERA ACCESSORIES

AND MANY OTHER PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCESSORIES

New *

Photo Albums and Corners

ENQUIRIES APPRECIATED

NEW BOOKS AND A BARGAIN

“BIRDS OF NEW GUINEA’’ (Tom Iredale) with 35 colour plates, figuring 347 by Lilian Medland, 2 vols. Ltd. edn. 1/4 morocco, slip-case. Price: 24 gns., postage “BIRDS OF PARADISE AND BOWER BIRDS” (Tom Iredale) uniform with the volumes, 1/4 morocco col. plates by Lilian Medland. Price: £6/6/-; de luxe,* morocco edition, £l2/12/-, postage 2/- each.

“A PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATION OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN DECORA!

ART” (D. S. Davidson). The writer has devoted most attention to those type decorative objects and design patterns which are, geographically, considered of : or regional significance. Many illustrations. Price; 13/9, postage Bd.

“BORNEO PEOPLE” (Malcolm MacDonald). An account of Mr. MacDonald’s td in Sarawak and his meetings with the jungle tribes, who were once notorio< head-hunters. In addition, he gives glimpses of the parts played by the Mat Melanaus and Chinese in multi-racial Sarawak. Profusely illustrated. Price: ££ postage 2/-.

“AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC” (Thor Heyerdahl). The Theory behim Kon-Tiki Expedition. Price: £5/9/- and £4/-/-, postage 3/-.

FREE LISTS of Australiana and Pacific items, new and secondhand. Thousair books in stock. Also Microscopes from £2 to £l5O, Surveying Instruments, Binoo Magnifiers, etc. List on application. Write for our lists of PENGUIN TITLES, Biogi: Crime, Fiction, Plays, Travel, World Affairs, etc., also famous KING PENGUIN

N. H. SEWARD PTY. LTD

457 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Aust. MU 6129

i est«i 1769

iSSOON

it Because of the sui quality, drinks never thin with Gordon's The secret of mas* distilling, main t a i i through the years, is reason why to-day, as ♦ Gordon’s Gin st a supreme.

IMPORTED FROM LONDON, ENGLAND

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Srolfolt

all a matter of BALANCE ia

in blending

that makes

Srolfolt

whisky

outstanding

AML2/HP

Distributors: AUSTRALIAN MERCANTILE, LAND 4 FINANCE CO. LTD., 35a York St., Sydney. Cables: "Merchyork". Phone: BX 6091

liU kOEt

The Famous "ANCHOR" Family includes . . .

• ANCHOR UNSWEETENED (EVAPORATED) t

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

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS: AMALGAMATED DAIRIES LTD., AUCKLAND, N.Z.

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Ultimo, Sydney, N.S.W., 'Phone:

Specialising in Pacific Island Insurances.

FIRE—MOTOR VEHICLE—MARINE

—HULLS AND CARGO-

EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY.

BONDS—In accordance with Administration Ordinances—COPßA insured from drier to buyer—and all other classes arranged at lowest current rates.

Established Agencies throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

RABAUL, T.N.G.

Managing Agents: New Guinea Co., Ltd.

Island Representative: G. 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: The Wales House, 66 Pitt St., Sydney.

Ultimo, Sydney, N.S.W., 'Phone: BA 4027 fi m t; Cables: “Whiterose”, Sydney.

BRITISH THOMSON

HOUSTON

16 m.m. SOUND

PROJECTORS ex Fiji Bond

to anywhere.

Price: £230 F. 0.8. Suva.

Full service and repair facilities, by air or sea, throughout South Pacific Islands. .f Jt

Fiji Trading Company Limitec

VICTORIA PARADE, SUVA, FIJI

/ I I

just right!..

I made by

mw W"\

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.

This 5 Oxford st with storm-welt particularly popu 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.

MADE IN ENGLAND

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Sauce

m iatt> m i d! ft hi

L |MI

DOOOI

mss’* i i i %

MAKES ALL

THE DIFFERENCE

IN FLAVOUR

Fountain Brand Tomato Sauce add extra flavour to every meal! Alway keep Rich! Red! Fountain Bran Tomato Sauce on your table fo breakfast, lunch and dinner. Whethe the meal is hot or cold, you can b sure you’ll enjoy it much more wit] the added flavour of Rich! Red Fountain Brand Tomato Sauce!

Rich! Red! Fountain Brand Tomat Sauce with the fresh, ripe tomat flavour, vacuum sealed for extn freshness!

Be sure you buy Rich! Red! Fountaii Brand Tomato Sauce.

, PUT IT ON THE TABLE

1 FOR EVERY MEAL!

W. C. DOUGLASS LIMITED, Box 512, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia

K

Look for this

name

f

CORNED

“f(W Guarantee of(2uu&fy

SALISBURY" canned meets, SPECIALLY PACKED for the PACIFIC ISLANDS are the popular choice, ALWAYS.

SAUSAGES Cr TOMATO

STEAK Cr 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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Buntings

Put your best foot forward photographically i for equipment step along : to

dsn (es

4J HUNTER STRUT, SYONIT. IWIEII

34* CHURCH STRUT. PARRAMATTA. YT 3311

A. H. BUNTING LTD.

SAMARA! and POPONDETTA

Buntings

LAE and GOROKA

VHOLESALE AND RETAIL MERCHANTS SHIPOWNERS IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS, PLANTERS SHIPPING, CUSTOMS, AND INSURANCE AGENTS

AMARAI & POPONDETTA

LAE

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.

Agents: BUNTINGS BISCUITS

GOROKA

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd.

Mandated Air Lines.

South British Ins. Co.

Ekco Radio.

Webley & Scott Ltd.

LTD. RABAUL

If it's a

BETTER RUM

you're wanting..

Overproof, underproof, in tj* // 4 / quarts, pints and 5 oz. flasks ufSNCfSu FA ? y » y

GROVE

seasw&s

W. H. GROVE

& SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

P.O. BOX 490, AUCKLAND!

NEW ZEALAND.

ISLAND

MERCHANTS

REPRESENTING

MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT THE

PACIFIC ISLANDS

Id Fiji as:

W. H. GROVE & SONS

(FIJI) LTD.

Office and Sample Room Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji.

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There Is a short cut

to success!

NESTLE'S

FULL CREAM MILK

makes even fhe most

difficult cookery

simply foolproof

Pies, cakes, puddings, sauces, sweets or mayonnaise—think of a recipe, any recipe, and where it says milk, use Nestle’s Milk. It’s richer, creamier, blends perfectly, saves time and trouble all round. And there’s nothing nicer in tea, Nescafe or Ricory than Nestle’s Milk. It’s the essential household milk all over the world!

NESTLE'S

FULL CREAM

MILK

SWEETENED

(Aotn*** NM.74.12

PENTA

MARINE DIESELS - OUTBOARD MOTORS - MARINE ENGIN PENTA HAS A MODEL TO SUIT YOU IN THE WORLD'S TOP QUALITY n All models now available from

stock-2i H.P., 5 H.P., heavy

duty 4 H.P., 8 H.P., 12 H.P.

Illustrated is the fine, twin-

cylinder, commercial unit

suitable for propelling boats up

to 30' long. All bronze, under-

water gear for tropical use.

Special “under bond" prices for

all models.

K «- Renta diesel engines—30 H

80 H.P., 100 H.P., 150

The best selling diesels in a tralia. Super quality, reat able price, adequate s; parts.

FOLDAWAY TABLE AND SEAT UNITS

The rage in Sydney for picnics, camping, holiday homes, or as extra furniture for verandah or garden. Only one piece which unfolds to a strong table with four connected seats.

Folds up to a suitcase size weighing only 35 lbs. Most attractive design in 2-tone pastel colours in enamel finish. Hole in centre for beach umbrella. Always useful, fits the boot of any car. Price £l3/10/0 complete.

BOATS—GLASS OR ALUMINIUM

4 new models in strong aluminium boats now available 8 ft to 14 ft long. Absolutely rust proof and borer proof. New boat catalogue now available.

SIMPLEX

MARINE ENGINES

Australia's finest engines for small craft. 4 models —3 H.P. to 20 H.P. All heavy duty units for solid work under all conditions.

Kopsens have everything! yacht or powerboat W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD. - 376-382 Kent St., Sydl Cables: Kopsen, Sydney

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Halvorsen

BJARNE

LIMITED

Builders of the famous "K"

Class Copra Vessels, 56 ft. and 60 ft.

Also 40 ft. Army Workboats.

Specialists in Island vessels.

All kinds of boat-building and repairing.

New and used boats and engines for sale.

Quotations and estimates free.

Aust. Distributors for Gray Marine Engines John Street, Berry’s Bay, North Sydney, N.S.W.

SERVING ALL PARTS OF FIJI

Carrying Passengers and Cargo

S.S. "A! SOKULA"

Motor Vessels: "KOMAIWAI," "TOVATA" U/*) 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 fir CO. (Fiji) LTD.

SUVA, FIJI.

Telephone: 3801—6 lines. P.O. Box 299.

CAPTAIN W. L. KENNEDY

(Established 1931)

SHIPBROKERS, BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE

63 Pitt Street, Sydney

’Phone: BU 3797. Cables: “CAPKEN,” Sydney.

LISTING:

MODERN DIESEL CARGO VESSEL, 720 tons dwt., machinery aft, 10 knot 6 winches/derricks, Lloyds Class current, working, delivery Australian Poi £50,000 Sterling.

TWIN DIESEL CARGO VESSEL, steel, about 200 tons dwt., 2 derricks, lar hatch, very well maintained and working. £35,000.

AUXILIARY KETCH, wood, copper sheathed, about 100 tons dwt., H.D. dies aft, large hatch, good gear, working. £20,000.

WORKBOAT, 61 ft. x 18 ft. x 8 ft., 6 ft. x 3 ft., 114 H.P. Gardner marLi diesel, in Survey and working. £10,500.

WORKBOAT, 49 ft. x 15 ft. 3 in. x 8 ft., m.d. seaworthy vessel with go< free board, SLW Gardner marine diesel, would convert readily to ketch r: £6,825. 42 FT. WORKBOAT, sheathed, 6-cyl. marine diesel. £3,050. 22 FT. WORK LAUNCH, large cockpit, twin cylinder CLAE. £550.

We shall be pleased to obtain independent Surveys of any craft we offer a; subsequently arrange delivery either on ship’s deck or sea as desired.

RATSAK

KILLS ALL

RATS &

MICE!

The most amazing sure rat killer ever formulated. Tested and proven over five years, Ratsak wipes out complete colonies, kills every rat. 4- pkt., 2/3; 12-oz. pkt., 4/6; 5- bags, 22/-; 35-lb. drums, £7.

Ratsak Concentrate; 8-oz. pkt., 30/-, makes 10 lb. bait; 5-lb. tin, £ll/16/3, makes 100 lb. bait.

%/dkrof

KILLS BORERS

20% Dichloroethylether, 2% Chlordane. Exact formula of N.S.W. Forestry Commission. Penetrates from 1" to 3"—even in hardwoods. Dichloroethylether penetrates and kills. % Chlordane is carried in with it, also kills, and remains as long RESIDUAL killer.

One pint, 6/3; One gal., 35/-; 4 gals., £5.

CHEK-PESI

KILLS ALL THESI

INSECTS-

White ants or Termites, Argentine and all Ants, Cockroaches, Carpet Beetles, Clothes Moths, SUverfish, Spiders, Ticks, Lice, Fleas, Flies, Law- Pests, etc. CheH Pest just mixes witt water, 2-oz. bottld 4/6, makes Vi-gait 4-oz. bottle, 7/«' makes 1 gal. (Fo soil treatment fo termites use at rau of 1 pt. to 44 gait of water.)

HOUGHTON

Marketed exclusively by . . .

& BYRNE-A Lifetime in

Pest Contri

Buy from your store or chemist. If unavailable order direct. All prices f.0.b., or f.o.r. capital cities. t N.S.W.: Houghton & Byrne Pty. Ltd., 225 George Street, Sydnu VIC.: Houghton & Byrne (Vic.) Pty. Ltd., 20a Nicholson St., East Brunswic Q'LAND: Houghton & Byrne (Q.) Pty. Ltd., 33-43 Hampton St., W'gabL S.A.: Houghton & Byrne (S.A.) Ltd., 181 Angas Street, Adelam W.A.: Mr. W. G. Waldie, 310-312 Aberdeen Street, Pert

AHICHIMiniI

utility motors of world*wide reputation Archimedes now introduce motors of an entirely new design sturdy utility motors with the most modern refinements of really practical value. They are available in twin models of different ratings at the same price a new Archimedes idea which makes it easier to choose the right motor for different types of craft.

A limited supply of these new models is now available and can be inspected at our Sydney office or at our Rabaul representatives—Rabaul Hotel and Trading Co AB—2s 5.03 cu. in./82.5 c.c. 3,500 r.p.m., h.p.

AB—so 10.06 cu. in./165 c.c 3,500 r.p.m., 5 h.p.

Propulsion Power Durability Fuel Economy .. . have always been typical features of Archimedes motors. These new motors have a large cylinder capacity and moderate r.p.m. Their sturdy construction enables them to stand up to the specified performance. Gear housing and propeller are of bronze = 100 O/o resistant to seawater and very resistant to shocks and blows.

Archimedes outboard motors are available in a range of 8 different models - from 2 to 10-12 h.p. all of them designed for continuous run at full loan

NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD.

Plantation House, 197 Clarence St., Sydney

Cables: “Ivan,” Sydney Tel.: 8 X2871 (10 lines)

Gardnejl MA ” N G 6 IN “ ESiL

FOR DEPENDABILITY, ECONOMY

AND LONG LIFE

Tried and Proved for over 20 the

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.

i V 1 717/1 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

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.

SUVA MOTORS LIMITED

VICTORIA PARADE, SUVA-NAVITI STREET, LAUTOKA

Distributors in Fiji jor • Gem Rotary Hoes • Green's Motor Mowers • Enfield Air-Cooled Diesel Engines • Icemaster Kerosene Refrigerators • Allen Motor Scythes and Attachments • Armstrong Shock Absorbers © Michel in Tyres 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 jor Further Details and Illustrated Literature

SUVA MOTORS LIMITED

Box 250, Suva, Fiji

FOR SALE

GENERAL PURPOSE WORK BOAT - FOR CARGO

AND PERSONNEL

Length 45'. Beam 13' 2". Draught 5‘ 3". 700 cu. ft. hold capacity Raised deck forecastle accommodation, lavatory, large wheelhousl 60 H.P. Gardner engine, fuel 280 gals., water 130 gals. Speed 8-1/ knots. 3 W/T bulkheads and copper sheathed. Built under Maritim Survey.

NEW VESSEL READY FOR LAUNCHING^,BS4

Builders:

WYNNE S. BREDEN PTY. LTD.

Shipwrights, Boat Builders, Marine Engineers.

PHOENIX SHIPYARDS—NEWCASTLE, N.S.W.

mw

fe MARINE DIESEL ENGINES

Model RJD2, 16 H.P. 100 per cent. Marine Diesel Engine with 2-1 Reduction Gear.

The worthy identical replacement to the world famous petrol-kerosene “Handybilly” Marine Engine.

THORNYCROFT (Aust.) PTY. LTD.

AGENTS FOR:

STuarT

MARINE ENGINES

Recognised throughout- the world as perfection in their class. c Model PSSM, 8 H.P. Stuart Engine.

Box 2622, Cables: G.P.0., Sydney. FF 422 : “Thornmotor”, Sydney.

fop Performance

9 in I K^ri nn

America's No. I Marine Engine

CHRYSLER

Choose from these models ACE— 9S h.p*

CROWN— I 15 h.p *

and the entirely new ROYAL VB— lso h.p.* and other models to 250 h.p. * Available from stock.

All engines have hydraulic control (optional) and provision for power take-off.

Tr E r u JT

SPARES:

Complete range of Spares for all Chrysler Marine and Industrial Engines.

CHOOSE CHRYSLER FOR DEPENDABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

LARS HALVORSEN SONS PTY. LTD.

BUILDING YARD: Waterview Street, Ryde, N.S.W. Phone WY 0251 BOAT HIRING AND SERVICE: Bobbin Head. JJ 2489. (Telegrams: "Halvorsens," Sydney)

BUILDERS OF HALVORSEN BOATS

LH.22.A?

AUSTRALIA'S LUXURY SPREAD AT THE MARGARINE PRIG : ” v: '' v r w ” ' r w? y top m

DAFFODIL

Table Margarine is now

FOIL-WRAPPED

to seal-in its golden goodness!

Better for flavour even in the most extreme tropical climates. Better for freshness because the silver foil seals-off “Daffodil” from heat, keeps out foreign flavours. Better for Nutrition because foil wrapping imprisons all the health-giving vitamins and calories.

Daffodil i$ the only margarine in Australia authorised to carry the Seal of the British Good Housekeeping Institute.

Daffodil is a product of Vegetable Oils Pty. Ltd. 514 Gardeners Road, Mascot, Sydney, Australia

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General Merchants Plantation Proprietors

ADASTRA HUNTING

TECHNICAL SERVICES

Technical Consultants for Land Development and Mineral Exploration

SOILS GEOLOGY

FORESTRY AGRICULTURE

Air Photo Interpretations and Land Use Maps.

Quotations provided for field Surveys and confidential reports on Projects anywhere in the South Pacific.

Aerial surveys and airborne geophysical surveys arranged.

Address:

3 QUEEN’S ROAD, 5.C.2,

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA.

Cables: "Tecserv”, Australia.

for service

GENERAL MERCHANTS PLANTATION PROPRIETORS

SHIP OWNERS

Direct Exporters of Cocoa, Coffe world

Agents for

The China Navigation Co. Ltd.

New Guinea Australia Line The Hong Kong New Guinea Line Distributors of Plymouth Cars, Fargo Trucks Humber and Hillman Cars Commer Trucks Willys Jeeps, Trucks, etc.

V.B.W. Tools Coventry-Victor Engines Bentall Coffee Machinery British Ropes Ltd.

Pental Soaps e, Trocos and green Snail Shell to markets Lombard Insurance Co. Ltd.

Union Assurance Society Ltd.

G.E.C. Refrigerators Primus Appliances Erres Radios Vaughan Radio-Telephones Sherwin-Williams Paints Robbialac Paints Lodge Spark Plugs Nordex Hardboard Ushers Green Stripe Scotch Whisky

COLYER WATSON (oSSL.J LTD.

RABAUL, MADANG, GOROKA, LAE

COLYER WATSON PTY., LTD.,

Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle Associated with Sydney, COLYER WATSON & CO. LTD., Wollington, Auckland, Christchurch

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Gißapia Smite

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”

8156

Gißapia Smite

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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better Copra

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the greatest aid ta

better Copra

Practical experience has proved that, where “CHULA” Copra Dryers are used, better quality Copra is produced when dried by this scientific process. No discolouration, free from mould, thoroughly and evenly dried throughout, Copra can be produced the whole year round —irrespective of the weather.

By the way, are you growing RUBBER? If so, let us supply you with the latest Huttenbadi Rubber Machinery. Further information gladly supplied on request.

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.. Honiar

BURNS PULP (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

Registered Office: SUVA, Fiji.

Code Address: “BURNSOUTH.”

GENERAL MERCHANTS AND SHIPOWNERS

BRANCHES:

F« • • i|i: — 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 Go. Ltd. • Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

• Shell Company (P. 1.) Ltd.

ALSO AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES FOR:

• Ardoth Tobacco Co. • Associated British Oil Engines (Exp.) Ltd. • Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. • Ferguson Tractors (Exp.) Ltd. • Hercules Cycle Gr Motor Co. Ltd. • A. J. Caley Gr Sons (Confectionery) . • Charles Hope Ltd.-Cold Flame Refrigerators. • Huntley Gr Palmers Ltd. (Biscuits) . • International Harvester Co. • Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. • Joseph Lucas (Exp.) Ltd. • McAlpine Refrigeration Ltd. • McLeay Duff Gr Co. (Whisky). • S. Maw Son Gr Sons (Surgical Dressings). • Mullard (Overseas) Ltd. (Radios). • N. V. Appel ton Pty. Ltd. (Naco Sunsash Louvres). • O'Cedar Ltd. (Oils Gr Mops). • Reckitt Gr Colman Ltd. • S.F. Appliances Ltd. • Slazengers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. • Standard Motor Co. • Stewarts Gr Lloyds (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd.

Shipping, Customs and

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

MARITIME S

(Regular First Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from FRENCH OCEANIA to MAR-

SEILLES. via PANAMA.)

BANK LINE LIMITED

BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION

CO. LTD.

Also INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES for

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

Agents Throughout the World.

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CoMsiream Refrigerators

OUR HANDS MAKE GOOD

ARMS.”

to For your Fishing and Shooting Wants Consult Us.

Lithgow .22 Cal. Repeating Rifle .. £l9 19 6 1 Post Llthgow .22 Cal. Single Shot . .. £l2 5 0 [ Extra. (Prices Subject to Change Without Notice.) S I L R O H U 143 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY.

CoMsiream Refrigerators

ALL EQUIPMENT ENGINEERED

SPECIFICALLY FOR TROPICAL CONDITIONS C^^EA;A

wiumlthe NATIONS HEALTH We Specialise in the Following: Ice Cream Cabinets for transportation, hardening and storage 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

COIDSTjREAM

•WARDS THE NATIONS HE ALIN

W.S.IF. Representatives:

COLDSTREAM SYDNEY PTY. LIMITED

8 Bridge Road, Glebe, Sydney Cables and Telegrams “Colstrim,” Sydney.

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Idyerasyou fike &/

P.O. BOX 16

PORT MORESBY

PAPUA

Cables: "PAPRI".

Specialising in;

EVERYTHING PHOTOGRAPHIC

EXCLUSIVE GIFTS

ORIENTAL HANDICRAFTS

BEST SELLING NOVELS

Expert Camera, Watch, Clo* Nautical Instrument, Equipmei!

REPAIR SERVICE

All work carried out on the premises fully Qualified Technician.

Territory Representatives for: Voigtlander Cameras. All Kodak Supplies.

Futura 35 mm. Cameras. King Regula 35 mm. Gamers Sixtomat Exposure Meters. Metraphot Exposure Meters..

Metz Flash Units. Pelikan Products.

Paillard Bolex Movie Equipment. Hermes Typewriters. 35 mm. COLOUR TRANSPARENCIES OF PAPUA-NEW GUINI

NATIVE HANDICRAFTS & CURIOS

PHOTOGRAPHS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ABOUT

THE TERRITORY

SOUVENIRS OF PAPUA Gr NEW GUINEA

Idyerasyou fike &/

How refreshing to sit at ease with a glass of sparkling cool K.B. Lager . . . truly "lager as you. like it" . . . truly the favourite of men and womerr

everywhere!

Tooth's

IREWED AND BOTTLED BY TOOTH & CO. LIMITED

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faster!

KEROSENE

PRESSURE

r \ v / / \ V

irons

smoother

faster!

★ EASY TO USE,

★ DRAUGHTPROOF - USE IT IN OROUTOF DOORS,

★ NO WIRES OR FLEXES.

★ COMPLETE AND SIMPLE HEAT CONTROL

★ BURNS 4 HOURS ON ONLY |rd PINT

OF KEROSENE.

If you have any difficulty in obtaining TILLEY Products, please contact your nearest representative for further information.

REPRESENTATIVES

Mr. K. WITHERINGTON, 2 Burns Philp Buildin f s, SUVA. ■ . .. • ' • .

AUSTRALIA & NEW GUINEA:

T. H. BENTLEY Pty. LTD. 1092 Mt. Alexander Rd,, Essendon, Victoria.

in the tropics you get . . •

LONGER LIFE GREATER

with the new

Berger Lead-Free

For inside and outside use BP Full Gloss. Lead-Free Oil Paint is specially formulated to withstand the rigours of tropical conditions.

Special mould-resistant

ingredients

★ BP Oil Paint flows on so much easier. ★ BP is ready for use. ★ Lasting new popular colours. ★ Tropic-tested in the Berger World Laboratories.

A new paint under a label you know you can trust / / /

GLOSS OIL PAINT

Berg el*

Paint

gg

ofi

ee fis

Kee

on Use Berger Pink Primer and Berger Undercoats Since 1760 BERGER have made the World’s Finest Paints 8P1.83

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Storekeepers

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 on? of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach.

STOREKEEPERS

Make more room for display of the lines that give good profit margin with quick turnover lines like Kream Cornflour, Dandy Starch and Cameo Custard Powder.

Widely popular, uniformly high in quality, these three lines make friends— and make money!

KREAM CORNFLOUR

DANDY STARCH

CAMEO CUSTARD POWDER

3 r 'v vrio'u MAIZE PRODUCTS PTY. LTD. (INC. IN VIC.), 552 HARRIS STREET, SYDNEY

BURNS PHILP (New Hebrides) LTD

Registered Office: VILA, NEW HEBRIDES.

Branch Office at SANTO.

Exporters, Importers and General Merchants,

Commission, Shipping and Customs Agents,

Representatives for BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD., QUEENS LAND INSURANCE CO. LTD., and LLOYD’S OF LONDON, Agent for SOCIETE DES PETROLES SHELL DES ILES FRANCAISE DU PACIFIQUE, and numerous overseas .manufacturers of a classes of merchandise.

Sydney Agents: BURNS. PHILP & CO-. LTD., 7 Bridge St.

San Francisco Agents: BURNS-PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO INC., 215 Market St.

London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD.. 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

|SLAN dS

GILLESPIE S

Gillespie’s Anchor Flour milled from selected hj quality Australian wheats a is entoleted for purity, consistent quality I made it the best-known, nr asked-for brand of flour in ' Islands. (EnWetion is a special n purifying process which duces the risk of Insect fection).

NCHOR

FLOUR

GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD., ANCHOR FLOUR. MILLS, SYDNH Cable Address: Gillespie. Sydney. OX

Whatever you’re

aiming at .. .

Whatever your aim in life may be, you’ll find that a Commonwealth Savings Bank account will help you attain it more quickly.

Having money in the bank has enabled many successful people to seize the opportunities as they come along.

Opportunities will come your way, too. So open a Commonwealth Savings Bank account to-day and start saving regularly. •You receive interest on balances up to £1,500. • All deposits are guaranteed by the Commonwealth Government.

COMMONWEALTH

BANK

OFFICES EVERYWHERE

58.71.82

How dieldrin

protects public

health (from dangerous

insect pests)

Health Authorities throughout Australia endorse the effectiveness and economy of Shell dieldrin for positive control of insect pests.

Only long-lasting dieldrin destroys insects and larvae too !

Flies and Mosquitoes. Dieldrin destroys the larvae of flies and mosquitoes at their breeding places, when sprayed on rubbish tips and stagnant water. The long-lasting residual strength kills full-grown insects, too ! • Ants. Eradicate ALL ants from your building with Shell dieldrin ! Specially recommended by C.5.1.R.0. and State Departments of Agriculture for the control of argentine Ants. • Cockroaches. These pests can be eradicated quickly and completely by brushing or spraying with dieldrin wherever you detect them.

Dieldrin products are available from formulators throughout Australia, or as Shell dieldrin Concentrate (15%).

Shell Chemical

(AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD. (Inc. in Victoria).

Melbourne Sydney Brisbane Adelaide Perth— Hobart (Associate of The Shell Company of Australia Ltd. and registered user of its Trade-Marks)

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cAOPWto /»*

{URNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD

OF THE

territory

OF *.

K*

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA

General_ Shipping, Custom gyd General A,

O ' '

KAVIENfr*:

COPRA /

RABAU

COPRA W

COCOA )/

MADANGI°

o

COPRA

LAE

COPRA

JIMB&

BUiOLO

PLYWO

GOLD/

mu\ peanuts V ftmcresby rubber

\ RICE

0 <D

COPR

OKOPO

COPRA Q

nches throughout' Papua-New Guinea Head Office: Port Moresby

SAMARA!

TROCHUS

COP RA

enis.

ft ft D * Associated Pacific La.

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.

Agents for The Shell Company of Australia Ltd.

Representatives for: Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

London Agents: Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd.

London House, 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

LLOYD'S

AGENTS

DISTRIBUTORS OF

OR VEHICLES, TRACTORS, AND MACHINERY FOR: COPRA, RUBBER, COFFEE, RICE COCOA, PEANUT PRODUCTION, SAWMILLING AND GENERAL FARMING.

JUST ONE BRUSHING WITH

Colgate

Dental

Cream

c* o'*

CLEANS

YOUR

BREATH

mrnm

WHILE

IT

CLEANS

SL

YOUR

TEETH

STOPS TOOTH DECAY BEST I

Scientific tests over a 2-year period show a startling reduction in tooth decay for those who brushed their teeth with Colgate’s right after eating! In fact X-rays showed no new cavities whatever for almost 2 out of 3 people.

Keeps children's teeth healthy Scientific tests showed that the Colgate way of brushing teeth right after eating stopped decay for more people than ever before reported in all dentifrice history. Your teeth are whiter brighter and you are assured of round-the-clock protection .■&■%>* against decay-causing enzymes.

Colgate Dental Cream is Australia’s largest America’s largest the world’s largest selling dental cream

G2IST

PLAIN AND

SELF RAISING

FLOUR,

CU/c fo

ESTABLISHED 1868

Agents for FIJI, Tonga and Samoa:

SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, FI

Energetic in the

xopics ?

OF COURSE i

What a wonderful difference daily ‘AKTA-VITE nakes to the whole family ! And it costs so little ! >elicious ‘AKTA-VITE’ contains the vitamins you iced for bounding health—A, B lt C, D—with calcium and phosphorus for :urdy growth. Chocolate ' and malt flavoured, Kta-vite* can be taken in >t or cold milk, on fruits, sserts and ice-cream, in □dwiches or straight from ejar. «akta-vite» makes e in the tropics a daily joy. ide by Nicholas Pty. Ltd., Melbourne , Australia.

AEIS/7048

the beers that have

won world-wide fame...

Victoria Bitter Foster’s Lager Melbourne Bitter Abbots Lager All four brands are widely distributed throughout the Pacific Islands by:— Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., Morris, Hedstrom Ltd., Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.

WHOLESALERS

and

DISTRIBUTORS

required for

DRUMMER

products

•Aerosol Fly Spray • Aerosol Air Purifier • Drummer Pine Disinfectant RW 5 • Drummer Air Freshener • Drummer Dyes • Vertroy D.D.T. Insect Powder also for

LAUNDRY BLUE

Little Boy Blue I oz. squares I lb. packets

WILLIAM EDGE & SONS. LTD,

BOLTON. ENGLAND

& m

ITH YOUR BANKING

I THE PACIFIC-

Bank of New Zealand provides complete commercial and onal banking services. If you do business in the Pacific, or ,d taking an Island holiday, your every need is provided for.

tANK

WITH THE

• 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. • Savings Deposits (Fiji). \n r •?

N m X \ NZ Full Branches of the B.N.Z. are established at • fn U d V APIA A (S LABASA> NADI *" d B * <"«')

Agencies in Fiji at MARKS ST and (amariii a

SUVA. LAUCALA BAYAIRPORT m*NAUScA

BANK OF NEW ZEALAND

Established In the Pacific Islands

since 1876

A. B. DONALD

LTD.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

ISLAND TRADERS AND GENERAL

MERCHANTS

P.O. Box 1509. Cables and Telegrams; “Kingdom,” Aucklai

mm -

PH UP

CORK TIPPED OR PLAIN

GRADUATE to

PHILIP MORRI

the cigarette with

the real American flavoi

The reason? Philip Morris is a mature blend of over 60 finest American tobaccos.

You realise there’s something that has been missing from your smoking rich, mature flavour, full satisfaction.

In the new snap-

open pack.

Mg

PLAIN OR

CORK TIPPED

Graduate to Philip Morris today.

THE GATEWAYS FOR AIR-BORNE

a

ASPAXADRENE

• EYES

Aspaxadrene it the world's most used Atom-ized inhalant against Asthma, Bronchitis.

Nasal Catarrh. 11 ■— etc'— an ; comnlni'nt Smus ' mi 9 raine ' whooping cough, y complaint of the upper respiratory passages.

YOURS FOR LIFE AND LIVING—"ASPAXADRENE"

Seconds acting—Time tested—Safe proven A„ Chemists T m T a " d ,i ‘' Uld ' 28/6 - |i<,Uid <“<>"•■ «/«-2 P~MI nose nozzle. 2/6. aii Chemists—Anywhere. ia u r-miKmAi. (A. H. CRUNDALL—Box 58, Prahran, Victoria, Australia)

rot AceuJm\

amxi

K M 2t> ev-l Duxbt "Maximum Special Trapshooting "Imperial Long Rifle Hollow Point "

GRANDE

"Grand Prix "ICIL Special "

"Civil Long Rifle Solid *l

ICI

Manufactured by

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIE

OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LIMIT!

AM3a

THE

YORKSHIRE

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated in England)

ALL CLASSES OF

INSURANCE

Including Fire Accident Guarantee Motor Workers Marine Island Representatives: PORT MORESBY . . E. A. James RABAUL . Pearce & Co. (N. 0.) Ltd.

LAE . New Guinea Industries Ltd.

MADANG R. Macgregor MANUS . . Edgell & Whlteley Ltd.

HONIARA. 8.5.1. P. . E. V. Lawson SUVA . . Williams & Gosling Ltd.

NOUMEA Y. Mortensen

NORFOLK ISLAND . A. E. Martin

tropic TROUBLES

Quick! if yield to

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 m a SOOTHING manner, so that you immediately feel calmed and serene.

T i? ere are no unpleasant after-effects. Take ‘ASPRO’ wherever you go and be ready. You can tear off several tablets from the f^ n *~^ a P e and carry them hygienically in pocket or handbag.

ASPRO

headaches

IRRITABILITY

HEAT ENERVATION

The Purity of ‘ASPRO’ the' IZIrH '^ R 0; Conforms *» standards laid down by the British PharniaGopocia a quidinq authority of the Medical Profession

eurnatisim

and FLU

\?]uJurba (Rxrduc!

ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI

HEAD OFFICE QUAI DU COMMERCE PAPEETE.

Telegraphic Address; “DONALD, PAPEETE”.

General Merchants (Wholesale fir Retail) fir Shipowne

Importers Cr Exporters

Branches Throughout the Marquesas Islands

ASSOCIATE HOUSES: A. B. Donald, Ltd., Auckland, N.Z.; A. B. Donald, Lt 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 Brizard & 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.

Sydney Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO.

PHILP CO. OP SAN FRANCISCO, INC.

U.S.A.: General Steamship Coe Radio Corp. of America; Brown Williamson, Ltd.; Cigarettes: Luo Strike, Wings; Champion Spark F Co.; Steelcote Paints & Lacque Remington Rand Inc.

ENGLAND: Reckitt & Coleman (Ow seas). Ltd.; Hercules Bicycles; ?

Bank Line, Ltd.; The Shaw Savill Albion Company, Ltd.

LTD. San Francisco Agents: BURI London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & 0 LTD. Agents in France: HARTH & CIE, PARIS; A. BICKART, MARSEILD

Sole Agents Papua-New Guinea, Solomons

Dominion Flour and Wheatmeal.

Sunnyside Canned Fruit— Pineapple Juice.

Rose Brand Issue Blankets.

Spanish Shotguns.

"Bright Knight" Fluorescent Lighting.

Webster's Biscuits, Cakes, Etc.

Piecegoods—Mosquito Nets—Towels.

Palm Brilliantine.

Canned Fish (All Types).

Ashby Bicycles.

Northgate Axe Handles, Etc.

Inner Spring Mattresses, Pillows.

Three Star Macaroni, Vermicelli, Campus Cottons (Frocks).

Distributors for Leading Australian and Overseas Manufacturers.

TRADE ENQUIRIES INVITED—ALL TYPES OF MERCHANDISE SUPPLIED.

OVERSEAS INDENTS ARRANGED.

i H dk ee am

Island Merchants, Importers,

Exporters, Manufacturers'

Representatives

t €c. Pin. lid

CORNER LEICHHARDT AND ALLENBY STRI

9 Cables: “BRUCECO”

G.P.O. Box

MILLERS LIMITED

Suva and Lautoka,

Fiji.

G.P.O. Box 296, Suva—Cables; “LUMBA”, Suva

SHIPWRIGHTS AND SAILMAKERS

engineers and boilermakers

JOINERY AND FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS

MOTOR DEALERS AND MECHANICS

HARDWARE MERCHANTS

TIMBER MERCHANTS

BUILDING CONTRACTORS

PLUMBERS

No job is too big nor too small for us to tackle

A KEEN PRICE AND FIRST-CLASS WORKMANSHIP

GUARANTEED

Sole Distributors for: —

Vauxhall Cars Bedford Trucks Chevrolet Cars Rover Cars Land Rovers Frigidaire Refrigerators Johnson Outboard Motors Firestone Tyres Vesta Batteries Allis Chalmers Tractors Priestman Excavators Gallon Graders Broomwade Compressors Ruston & Flornsby Engines Hoover Appliances B.A.L.M. Paints G.E.C. Radios S.K.F. Ball Bearings

/ m -<>■ Here’s the big-time Electrolux t big-size features! Giving a full 7 ft. capacity, plus handsome appears and utterly dependable refrigeration, Electrolux LT.731 is the logical ch for the larger home. The ever-si freezing unit is guaranteed for F (5) YEARS has no moving p;i Choose perfect refrigeration ... chi ELECTROLUX, the name world-fan for efficient service. • A convenient, full-width, frozen s£oi compartment. • Four easy-release trays for ice cn ice cream, frozen desserts. • In-a-Dor shelves for milk, beven small packages and eggs. • Specially designed twin vitalisers fruit fresh and green vegetables d« crisp. • Upright tall bottle storage for all needs. • Oven-baked enamel cabinet ext with seamless porcelain enamel lirt • Thermostatic control* of cal temperature with 9-point cold regul * Not on Kerosene.

See your local Electrolux agent n

SPECIFICATIONS:

Capacity 7.3 cu. ft.

Shelf Area 13.1 sq.ft.

Weight approx 420 lb.

DIMENSIONS:

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rai

Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo.

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD.,

Moresby. 5.C.1.E., Noumea.

R. C. SYMES PTY. LTD., Honiara.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W. PHONE: BL 5421

Fiery Eczema

OuickiyGhd

Don’t let ugly, disfiguring Pimples, Eczema, Acne, Ringworm, Psoriasis, Blackheads or Itching, Cracking, Peeling, Burning Skin Troubles make life miserable and spoil your fun.

Don’t be embarrassed and feel ftiferior because of a bad skin.

Now every chemist has a new American Hospital Discovery called Nixoderm that stops the itch in 7 minutes, kills germs and fungus and in 24 hours begins to heal the skin clear, soft and smooth. No matter how long you have suffered or what you have tried, get Nixoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return your money if not entirely satisfied

Wt)

SINCE '924

STAR LIIVES!

★ MACROBERTSON'S CONFECTIONERY

★ RICHMOND LAGER

★ LEGGO'S FOOD PRODUCTS

★ DEWCRISP CANNED VEGETABLES

Export Agents for Pacific Islands: S. E. TATHAM & CO. PTY. LTD.

178 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE

Cables: “Set”, Melbourne ★ Buyers and Shippers ★ Pacific Island Traders

BLAXLAND - CHAPMAI

MARINE ENGINES

WONDER LAUNCHES • PUMPING UNI"

• ENGINEERING PRODUCT

Engineered for heavy sustained operat:; with minimum upkeep, “8.R.” products s ideal for Island service.

For Marine Engines, open or y 2 cat launches, pum ing units, eng; eering produa contact the S?

Pacific Distril tors.

Box

KERR BROTHERS PTY. LIMIT

4 O’CONNELL ST., SYDNEY.

G.P.O. Cables: “Carefulness”, SydE

& £ O 4 .A lp o Over 60 Years Experience as

SHIP OWNERS - ISLAND MERCHANTS -

IMPORTERS & EXPORTERS

Merchandise Purchased For Clients From All Parts Of The World At Best Factory & Wholesale Prices.

Cocoa Beans, Coffee, Trocas Shell And All Island Produce Sold on World Markets At Best Prices.

Original invoices supplied—Quotations on request.

SOLE AGENTS FOR:

Skandia Marine Diesel

Engines.

Archimedes Outboard Motors.

Aster Canned Fish.

El Trust Shot Guns.

Van Zweiten Canned Fish.

DISTRIBUTORS OF:

Trade Blankets—Hurricane Lanterns.

Bicycles—Sewing Machines.

Bush Knives—Cotton Piece

Goods—Copra Sacks.

Fishing Lines.

And All Trade Requirements; Take Advantage of Our Branch Office: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LIMITED. Stanley St., South j Brisbane —Cables “Ivan,” Brisbane. or our N.G. Representatives RABAUL HOTEL & TRADING CO. LIMITED, Rabaul, New Guinea Cables “Ivan”, Rabaul.

NELSON and ROBERTSON PTY. LTD.

PLANTATION HOUSE, 197 CLARENCE ST., SYDNEY. BOX 5316 G.P.O.

Cables: "Ivan”, Sydney.

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For Qualify and Flavour

be sure its

MEATS

Famous in the Pacific

for over 80 years

2U

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Serve these favourites: — If Chateau Tanunda Brandy with water or soda. -jr Chateau Tanunda Brandy with Ginger Ale, crushed ice and slice of lemon.

If Chateau Tanunda Brandy with pure orange juice.

Also Brandy Crusta, Cafe Royal and as a Liqueur.

Ask for «rr»» CT then it must be

Seppelts Chateau

Tanunda Brandy

CHATEAU TANUNDA BRANDY

from all retail stores throughout the Pacific Islands. Wholesal supplies through B. Seppelt & Sons Ltd., Box 163, G.P.0., Sydney A PRODUCT OF THE HOUSE OF SEPPELT f/JBITN XTO EST. rxs

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TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

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SYDNEY N.S.W

To

SINCE 1890, SUPPLIERS

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Sydney, NSW, Australia

Warnock Bros. Limited

AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Manufacturers of well known brands of Laundry Soap

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Fiji Distributors: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, Fiji Islands New Caledonian Distributors: Auguste and Paul Mercier 3 Rue de la Somme Noumea P.1.M.5/57

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WE SPECIALISE IN THE EXPORT TO THE TROPIS

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Concerning the Distribution and

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WE ARE AUSTRALIAN AGENTS FOR —

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8.5.1. TRADING CORPORATION

G. & E.I.C. WHOLESALE SOCIETY, Tarawa.

MAX HALECK, Pago Pago, American Samoa.

Original Invoices Supplied. Quotations on Request. ★

MORRIS HEDSTROM (Aust.) Ply. Lid.

ISLAND MERCHANTS

Wales House, 27 O'Connell St., Sydney.

Box No. 2012, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: “MORSTROM”, Sydney.

BANKERS: BANK OP NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY.

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ROAST BEEF

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Available in 12-ozlb-oz. and 2-lb. cans.

Products of THE COLONIAL WHOLESALE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD.

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N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

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For perfection in cutting

Ransomes—the pioneers of lawn mower manuracture, maintain their position by ensuring that the highest standard of workmanship and first grade materials are adhered to. Their complete range includes a machine* for every purpose.

Distributors: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, Laut o k a, and Ba, Levu k a, Nukualofa, The MOON for long, coarse tough grass. 14 ins. wide.

Write for illustrated Catalogues.

ansomes

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Features that make

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in the tropics certain

U a m iovc di To give your cakes and pastries extra freshness and lightness you must be confident that the ingredients you use are fresh.

That’s why you can be sure of first-rate results with Aunt Mary’s Cream of Tartar Baking Powder, It never deteriorates and is always dependable. You also cook with the added advantage of adding the rising agent when you do your mixing—that is the right time—the best time for sure results.

ClmU IftaUjA

Cream of Tartar

BAKING POWDER

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Clothes

No Boiling, No Toiling,

No Hand Wringing I

JUST THE BRIGHTEST

WHITEST

cyve-

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All parts completely enclosed for safety . . . Soap and acidproof baked enamel . . .Rustproof inside and out . . .

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WASHING

MACHINES

1/1/ringmaster

Finished in soap-resistant baked enamel . . . smooth contours eliminate dust collection . . . Trays and fittings rustproof and stainless ... can be regulated to any degree of pressure.

Representatives for Pacific Islands

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD,

54q PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

. „ 'l/ ■ / / & %

THE

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BRADFORD COTTO

MILLS LTD.

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ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD.

89-95 CASTLEREAGH ST. SYDNEY.

66-68 ELIZABETH ST. MELBOURNE, C.l.

WITH

CATERPILLAR

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 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 320 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.

HMngs'dee.R!hG

HASTINGS PEERING

(NEW GUINEA) PTY.

LIMITED

Milford Haven Rd.. Lae.

Konedobu, Port Moresby

SERVICE AND PARTS

by a trained staff devoting their • I * -1.. 1a Ip/i f tftPC

ioour Renewed

WTHOUT OPERATION

If you feel old before your ne or suffer from nerves, brain id physical weakness, you will id new happiness and health an American medical disvery which restores youthful n and vigour quicker than md operation. It is a simple me treatment in tablet form, icovered by an American dcc- Absolutely harmless and sy to take, but the newest d most powerful invigorator own to science. It acts ectly on your glands, nerves d vital organs, builds new, re blood, and works so fast it you can see and feel new iy power and vigour in 24 to hours. Because of its natural ;ion on glands and nerves, ir power and memory often prove amazingly, tnd this amazing new gland d vigour restorer, called Vim, has been tested and >ved by thousands in America d is now available at all ;mists here. Get Vi-Stim m your chemist to-day. Put to the test. See the big movement in 24 hours. Take i full bottle under the guaranthat it must make you full vim, vigour and energy, and 1 10 to 20 years younger, or ney back. |T» To restore

'i-Stimxr*

KERR BROS. "«

4 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY

G.P.O. Box 3838, Sydney. Cable address: “Carefulness”

Pacific Islands Distributors for

CLYDE TRACTION

BATTERIES

AVAILABLE IN ALL POPULAR SIZES AND CAPACITIES

FOR UNDERGROUND LOCOMOTIVES, FORK LIFT

TRUCKS, DIESEL STARTING AND MARINE

INSTALLATIONS

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Blue Gillette

It’s false economy

to buy cheap blades.

Buy the best

you can get...

Blue Gillette

CVS

< <s> ✓ c < <s -7 r. o S' 4 • In packets of 5 blades O/Z/ette m The only way to get a really smooth shave is to use a Blue Gillette Blade in a Gillette razor.

You can buy a Gillette razor set for so very little.

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A Complete

IN EVERY

BOTTLE

* •& fm X o

COMMUNICATION IS ESSENTIAL

m i «*

ON LAI

SEA 6 A

All through the ages man has been dependent on communication. Eacl difficulty has been over come, and to-day oi land, sea and air . .

The Whole World Relies On

RADIO COMMUNICATION

CRAMMONDS “CXR 12 a n d 14”

This transceiver provides amazing results when used on coastal fishing boats and pleasure-craft. Most suited, too, for inter-island communication. It will receive and transmit up to and over 300 miles.

Operated on 12 volt D.C.

CRAMMONDS “CTR 8”

Range of more than 500 miles. Most powerful and operates under most hazardous conditions. Twelve volt D.C. Can be supplied with 1 to 4 fixed frequencies for transmitting. m

CRAMMOND “TROPIC EAGLE”

Range is unlimited with a “Tropic Eagle”. Completell tropic proofed—available in 7 valves, 240 volts, 5i cycle A.C.—6 valve Vibrator—6 valve, 14 volt witl. heavy duty batteries. Continuous coverage of shon wave lengths 16 to 150 metres, also BROADCAST BANI 540-1,600 Kc’s.

CRAMMOND “Earphone” RADIOTELEPHON.

The ideal unit for all mobile transport. Designed fo V.H.F. Systems. Can be used in 6 or 12 volt vehiclJ (interchangeable) models 70-80 MC/S and 100-108 MCJ bands. Also 156-160 MC/S bands. Range approximatee 20 miles. Measurements 10 in. x 10 in. x 5 in. Weigl; 18 lbs.

When it’s equipment for communication you can’t do • better than rely on CRAMMOND’S experience in this field. You can RELY and DEPEND on

CRAMMOND.

FOR FULL DETAILS

WRITE TO

CRAMMOND

MANUFACTURING CO. PTY. LTD-,

103 WICKHAM ST., VALLEY, Q’LD

m 0 % Postal Address: P.O. Box 134, BROADWAY, Q’LD.

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FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1957

ference on Future of SPC (Continued from Page 23)

Hodmans ,O

They're all at U.R.K " "

Ui\ f. Here w e show you just a FEW of the! MI l famous brand names available from our I \ new Warehouse in the HI-Fidelity, TV VElectronics and Electrical field.

Orders and enquiries will be prompt, courteous attention.

HODMANS ,o

JAB

U.R.D

la

UNITED RADIO DISTRIBUTORS PTY iiri

-7i FH,ULJP STREET. SYDNEY !!’mfm O

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Hytest

AXES, THREE - QUARTER AXES,

TOMAHAWKS...

leads a// a[ong

All HYTEST Forged Steel Tools ore available for prompt delivery because they are manufactured in Australia. Place your order promptly with your Island merchant or storekeeper. HYTEST Quality will look after the rest!

HYTEST AXE & TOOL PTY. LTD.

Collins Street, Alexandria, N.S.W., Australia

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media"

We can promise

D

IM of

your

NEW

/25 c.c. ENGINE

develops 2'bW

18" petrol ROTOMO

It will give you years of trouble-free mowing... Here are the reasons why...

Pampers fine lawns to a velvet smoothness.

Cuts jungle growth without faltering.

Cuts right up to edges—does away with trimming.

Safety swing-back blades.

Weighs only 46 lbs.

Exclusive carburettor air-intake "Snorkel."

Single control lever. Adjustable cutting height—from moss to 9 ft. grass.

THE MOST POWERFUL 18" MOWER

YOU CAN BUY!

Now available from:

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo.

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby and W. ». CARPENTER & CO. LTD., 27 O'Connell Street, Sydney, for Soria, Samoa and Tonga.

MEETING THE DEMAND FOR MORE ALU MIN IV M . . .

I t •“••“wSfcv&r ' v At 3%r

Aluminium production

in Quebec expanded to

582,000 tons per year

The Saguenay district in northern Quebec provides natural facilities for

producing the vast supplies of hydro-

electric power vital to the production of aluminium. Development of this power was begun in the early 1920’s and by 1934 Aluminium Limited’s plant at Arvida had become the largest single aluminium producing unit in the world. To meet the ever-increasing demand for aluminium, new facilities for 22,000 tons went into production this July. This brings the capacity of the Company’s four smelters in Quebec up to 582,000 tons per year.

A PROGRESS REPORT QUEBEC

All over the world the demand for aluminium grows greater every day. Transportation, electrical installations, buildings, household appliances, and an enormous variety of products turn more and more to the use of aluminium. Its advantages have made this versatile metal essential to material progress and increased prosperity. And, throughout the world, the Aluminium Limited Group is increasing production to meet this ever-growing demand.

The Aluminium Limited organisation has 47 fully owned affiliated subsidiaries in 20 countries. Aluminium ingot produce by Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd., is marketed N Aluminium Union Limited. In addition, the Company market the products of the various fabricating companies in th Aluminium Limited Group.

Aluminium Union Limited

(Incorporated in Cmada) OCEAN HOUSE, 34 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY, N.S.W. • an ALUMINIUM LIMITED Company OFFICES, ASSOCIATED COMPANIES AND AGENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

SALES AGENTS:

New Zealand: RICHARDSON, McCABE & CO. LTD., Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch.

Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga: MORRIS HEDSTROM LIMITED. Suva. Fiji.

Cook Islands: A. B. DONALD LTD., Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

French Oceania: ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI, Papeete, Tahiti.

New Caledonia and New Hebrides: Territory of Papua—New Guinea: BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LIMITED. Port Moresby.

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The Penfold Trolley" File

f; 1/ 1 for easy access

and mobility

Strongly made of steel and fitted to hold 20th Century Suspension Filing folders.

Fitted with lock and rubber casters.

Measurements: 26 in. high, 16* in wide, 21 in. long, 10 in. deep.

Price: £l3/17/6, complete with 25 Suspension Folders W.C.PENF OLD &C 9 PIT L TD

est? STATIONERS.PRINTERS &»SYSTEMATISTS phone.

. ia / 3 ° 88 PITT STREET, SYDNEY. SiSSV

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ICCANINNT

PREPARED WAX

FLOOR POLISH

FOR UNO. 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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Hooks lor Everyone !!

ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT

4 e vofs red f i B/°l(V6 SliSh by P ° wys Mathers from ‘he French.

DECAMERON OF BOCCACCIO

Translated by J. M. Rigg. 2 vols. £3/10/f.

SCULPTOR'S MODEL, by John Everard.

Companion to Artist’s Model and Second Sitting. £3/10/6.

SEND FOR OUR LARGE, ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF

BOOKS ON ALL SUBJECTS

TIVOLI BOOKSHOP, (Dept. PM)

335 Costlereagh Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

~~y J

A.N.Z. Bank provides

progressive banking service

throughout the

South-West Pacific

A call or enquiry from you at any of the following Branches will be welcomed.

Port Moresby - Mr. F. A. S. Robertson, Manager Lae - Mr. A. A. Watts, Manager Rabaul - - Mr. C. C. Oldham, Manager Suva - Mr. W. C. G. Roberts, Manager Lautoka - - Mr. W. H. Scott, Manager

A.N.Z. BANK

A*N*Z

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANK LIMITED Cheque Accounts VjOB/ AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND SAVINGS BANK LIMITED Savings Accounts

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Br" Introdumgihe 'fANtfm

GO GAY THE

BLUNDELL

WAY

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rt

f RESENTED BX BLUNDELL.SPENCE TAINTS

PAMMASTIC. The miracle interior and exterior wall paint. Needs no primer or undercoat. Dries in 20 minutes. Can be washed as soon as dry.

Spreads so easily. Available in a full range of modern colours. It’s scrubbable.

PAMMALAC. Costs you less than any other first-class enamel available to-day. Is a hard gloss interior enamel and very quick drying. Undoubtedly is the easiest-to-apply interior enamel.

Available in a full range of colours matching Pammastic.

PAMMEL. The easiest-to-apply exterior enamel.

Will out-last other enamels. Has very high coverage. Is available in a wide range of modem colours.

Buy and try a "Pam" paint to-day BLUNDELL, SPENCE Cr CO. (AUST.) PTY. LTD Car. Gardeners and Kent Roads, Mascot. Phone MU 2334 Obtainable from:— Kriewaldts Stores, Port Moresby • Wan Jin Wah, Lae & Wa J. L Chipper & Co., Rabaul • Gabriel Chow Sing Yip, Rabat Tang Mow, Wewak • P. W. Reilly & Co. Ltd , Goroka Distributed throughout the Pacific Islands by KERR BROS PTY. LTD., 4 O’Connell St., SYDNEY

VL LK M DA' Smooth . , . creamy Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate is everyone’s favourite. You’ll love its wonderful flavour . . . you’ll love its rich goodness because there is a glass and a half of pure, fresh, full-cream milk in every half pound. md2/zfc/7

CADBURY'S

DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATE

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•. fully

Power •.

Abundant

automatic

• •and up to 60%

less running

cost!

with IT

CAMERLITE

DUAL VOLTAGE

DIESEL

POWER PLANT

n ><• *■ ■ Unlike an ordinary A.C. plant, the new CAMERLITE Dual Voltage plant does not start and stop continuously every time a light or small appliance is switched on. With the new CAMERLITE your home is wired similarly to big city homes with lighting circuit separate to power. Lights and small appliances are operated from the 32 volt D.C. Generator, and larger power appliances from the 240 volt A.C. Alternator. Fully automatic in each case.

CAMERON &

SUTHERLAND LTD.

Riverside Avenue, Melbourne. MB 4451 And at Sydney, Hobart and Launceston.

"GOOD MACHINERY PEOPLE

TO DO BUSINESS WITH"

Order NOW or get further facts about Australia’s most MODERN and ECONOMICAL lighting and power plant.

° OUR LARGE RANGE also

covers Petrol Driven Sets . . .

Belt Driven Alternators for coupling to tractors or existing engines . . . 32-volt Automatic Sets, etc.

iiiiiii u THg » ?.«r^

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MONT BLANC

MILK PRODUCTS

Yours For Quality Flavour and Value

Pasture fresh Products from one of Australia’s

most modern Milk Food Producers.

MONT BLANC and JERSEY COW Sweetened Condensed MILK.

Prepared rrom pure, creamy cow’s milk, keeps its wonderful flavour right to the bottom of the can.

MONT BLANC. Natural pure whole MILK.

Use straight from the can. Sterilised for added purity and long lasting qualities.

MONT BLANC Evaporated unsweetened MILK.

It’s richer, creamier and retains all its smooth, farmfresh flavour right to the last drop.

MONT BLANC CHOCREAM.

A delicious blend of milk and chocolate that may be used for iced drinks or as a topping for Ice Cream 01 desserts.

SWEETENED condensed MILK in TUBES.

Stops waste. Just the thing for picnics, boating, camping. Keeps for a long period, stays fresh.

MONT BLANC Reduced Cream.

It’s rich—it’s pure —it’s wholesome —Serve it straight from its flavour-saving gold-lined can.

TONGALA MILK PRODUCTS LIMITED

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA

ssociate of BERNESE ALPS MILK CO.,

SWITZERLAND

TMB/24*

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Don't forget

the Mustard

COLMAN'S

of course!

ITS

PORTABLE

ITS TH(

CS BV

r ( J e N

British

3Vi H.P.

MODEL "LD"

DIESEL

• • 9 9 Here's dependable diesel power that's no weight to carry. It needs no water and practically no maintenance; runs reliably in all conditions for thousands of trouble-free hours. If you want more work-power for less supervision, you need an "LD"—latest development of Lister, world's largest manufacturers *»f small diesel engines.

Distributors in N.S.W. and the Islands:

DANGAR, GEDYE

MALLOCH LIMITED

Malloch House, 10-14 Young St., Sydney P.O. Box 509. Radiograms: Dangers, isydne,.

LOCAL AGENTS;

Island Engineers, RABAUL. Century Motors, LAE. Pacifi: Islands Motors, PORT MORESBY. A. H. Bunting Ltd , SAMARAI. F. L. Kwock Cheong, RABAUL. Madang S'ipways Ltd., MADANG. J. E. Ellis, GOROKA.

Phase send me illustrated folder on the Lister Model "LD" Air Cooled Diesel.

NAME

ADDRESS

P.I.M.

If for school project, mark here □

DAV 56.84

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Nc Islands Monthly May. 1957

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 pm.

Address for correspondence:—

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY,

Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney.

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VELTEX 164 LINE—A synthetic Resin Emulsion Paint for all wall surfaces, interior or exterior. Does not clog the brush.

VIKYLITE The finest nonabrasive Full Gloss Enamel for interior surfaces.

DAVCO HI-COVER WHITE 269

LINE —Master Painter’s Heavy Bodied White for use as primer or undercoat.

VIPACO 320 LlNE—Zinc Titanium paste for Master Painter’s use. Gives maximum opacity and suitable for primer undercoat or Finish.

LIQUID STAINERS 370 LINE

—Suitable for tinting all Synthetic Enamels or Paints. Colour does not float.

DAVISON SATIN FINISH

ENAMEL 397 LINE Suitable for all interior walls, ceilings and woodwork. Perfect Satin Sheen.

D ViSON

Obtainable from:—

Brown & Woods Ltd., RABAUL.

Madang Slipways Ltd., MADANG.

Norfolk Trading Coy., NORFOLK IS.

K. H. Dalrymple Hay, HONIARA, 8.5.1.

A. H. Bunting Ltd., SAMARAI.

Buntings, LAE, GOROKA, POPONDETTA.

DAVISON PAINTS LIMITED

Box 24, P. 0., AUBURN, N.S.W.

Sole Agents for Territories of Papua, New Guinea, New Britain: LES CLARK & SON PTY. LTD., 27-29 King Street, Sydney.

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This Executor!

YOU CANNOT

OVERLOAD

BAMOI

IMMWM

9 Indecision, poor judgement, delay, needless expense—none of these factors must be permitted to upset the administration of your iLState Yet they do occur when one man is responsible. He could have some excuse, perhaps bad health, business worries, or f vai ? c^ ng J ears> * n mos t cases, one man’s experience and knowledge falls far short of the required standard. 3?® r esS T ential * acts about Executorship are given in “Hands That Never L eave The Wheel”. After you have read this 20-page booklet, you will realise the urgency of appointing Burns Philp Trust Company Limited in place of your friend. Your Solicitor can arrange the transfer. Ask for your copy at any branch of Burns Phdp (South Sea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or write to the Trust Company’s nearest office.

James Burns P.T.W. Black

DIRECTORS:

Joseph Mitchell Eric Pnestley 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.l Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides),

M-NIVEN’S

(j£u\Zl CREAlil

Now airfreighted by QANTAS to

the PACIFIC

Write to-day for particulars of this new air service. McNiven's famous Ice Cream forwarded to you in special airfreight containers including disposable cans for bulk Ice Cream. o ROCKETS ON A STICK BRICKS • FRESH FRUIT SLICES • COMETS ON A STICK

• BUCKETS ® BOOMERS (ICE BLOCKS)

lyFNIVENS

"BEAUTY CONES AND WAFERS"

The largest selling Ice Cream cones in the Southern Hemisphere

IKftllWCM’C "RAINBOW OR PLAIN DRINKING

ro-WIUWI STRAWS"

Quality Drinking straws in gay, attractive colours.

Thoroughly tested to withstand a lengthy immersion in hot water, fruit juices or aerated drinks.

Ask your Store for supplies or write to your agent

McNIVEN BROS. LTD.

47-51 Salisbury Road, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia Telephone LA 3781-8

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Machinery

Grinding & Pulverising

J. P. VAN GELDER Cr CO.

PTY. LTD.

66 Bay Street, Sydney Phone: MA 9304 Grinding, Pulverising, Sieving and Dust-Collecting Machinery, Elevators, and Conveyors.

NO OTHER AIRLINE OFFERS YOU SO MUCH!

V yP-fJ

For example:

WORLD-WIDE LEADERSHIP

Wherever in the world you’re going, go Pan American the airline that gives you the priceless advantage of round-theworld experience on every flight.

First across the Pacific, first across the Atlantic, first throughout Latin America and first round the world Pan American’s record of flying experience is unmatched by any other airline anywhere.

Choose the Leader on your next flight overseas. For fares and reservations, call your travel agent or Pan American.

Pan American World Airways, Inc., Ltd., Incorporated in U. S. A.

Finest Service Round the World

PAIV AMERICAN

WORLD’S MOST EXPERIENCED AIRLINE

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[?]n Sydney in May

[?] y Councillor, Mr, J. B. Turner, who [?] sent in Australia for medical treat [?]. Turner, who has lived in Fiji all [?] ay settle in Australia.

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Cahill's

Classified Advertisements

Per line, 2/6; Minimum, 6 lines.

FOR SALE

FLEETS.—4S ft. xl2 ft. 6 in. X 4 ft 6 In. bridge deck carvel launch, profess, bit. 1949, coppered, beech decks, hvy. duty kero eng., power winch, anchors, galley, -toilet, etc., gaff sail, carvel dinghy £4,500. Fleets, Water Street East, South Brisbane, Queensland. Australia.

DIESEL GENERATING SET, Perkins P 6,

3-phase, 415/240 volt, 27y 2 KVA, complete with radiator cooling, good order, used under 100 hours since purchased new.

Price: £9OO. Inspection invited. Sabb Manufacturing Co. Pty. Ltd., 26 Bridge Street. Sydney, Australia.

FOR SALE, 500 £1 shares in Madang Slipways Ltd., New Guinea. Will sell all or any part of them at par or best offer.

Contact: A. Pedler, 143 Holme Street, Brighton, Queensland. Aust.

WE send parts to all parts. Army truck spares. Dodge, Jeep and G.M.C. always available. Gilltraps. P.O. Box 500.

Rotorua, New Zealand.

DIESEL ALTERNATOR; Southern Cross, 10 H.P., tank cooled, driving by triple Vbelts, Onan Alternator, 5.2 kva, 110/220 volts, 60 cycle—soo watts, 17 volts, D.C.

Complete with Control Panel. £4O spares, fuel tanks, 400 gallon water tank if required. Also 3—l H.P., I—l/3 H.P., 2 U H.P.. motors 110 volt, 60 cycle.

All plant in good condition. Ideal for plantation —charge batteries for lighting while driving appliances, machinery. The lot £450 F. 0.8. Norfolk Island. Airmail: R. & J. Needham. Burnt Pine, Norfolk Island.

GENERATING PLANT Ford V.B 20 K.V.A.

415-240 V complete Switchboard, good condition, £250. 20 K.V.A. Diesel, as above, £550. J. W. Bartholomew & Sons, 237 Sussex St., Sydney, Australia.

CORRECTED ADMIRALTY CHARTS and

Hydrographical Supplies in respect of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa waters. On sale at the Authorised Agents. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Limited, Suva, Fiji.

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St..

Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: PA 1091.

Enquiries invited.

CAHILL'S

DRIVE YOURSELF URS IS;

93 GEORGE ST„ BRISBANE

Phones: B 0505—8 4132

1957 Latest Model Holden Sedans

OPEN SUNDAY, 8 a.m.-12 noon.

AFTER HOUR PHONE NOS.:

FW 1596, XW 3414. XA 4323

Write or Phone for Price List.

ACCOMMODATION

ROTORUA, near Auckland. Holiday in New Zealand’s famous Thermal Wonderland. Modern luxurious self-contained fully furnished flats. Two twin bedrooms, centrally heated, own private thermal mineral bath. Easy access to tourist attractions. “Wylie Court”, P.O. Box 3309, Auckland, N.Z.

KANIMBLA HALL, 19-29 Tusculum St., Potts Point, 5 mins, city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant, S.C., furn. serviced suites with separate Lounge, Bed & Bath Rms. & K’ettes. Refrig., H.W. from 2V 2 Gns. daily for 2; from 4 Gns. for 3. Under new management. Write or Phone FL 3014.

Telegrams: “Kanimblahall”, Sydney.

NORFOLK ISLAND, “Burnt Pine” Real Estate Agency. Cable Address: “Adage, Norfolk Island”. Properties for sale in peaceful surroundings and beautiful climate of Norfolk Island. All enquiries promptly attended to.

FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Sydney.

Water frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutes to city. Enquiries; Nelson & Robertson Pty, Ltd., G.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney, Aust.

NORFOLK ISLAND Furnished flats Ideally situated in central position. Ex cellent locality, adjacent all services Further particulars from E. Rigby Norfolk Island.

SERVICES

WATCH REPAIRS to all brands of watches. Send your repairs directly to the only Swiss watchmaker giving service to the Pacific Islands. Rapid service—all work guaranteed. Swiss - Clox Watch Service, 9 Garner Avenue, French’s Forest.

Sydney. Australia.

STAMPS WANTED

STAMP COVERS WANTED.—lnterested In buying, by a cover collector, stamped envelopes used in the mail of the British Pacific Islands. I offer 5 cents U.S. funds for each one. Send me 100 Postal Used Envelopes in good condition and I will mail you back, via registered mail, $5.00, plus postage. This offer excludes the envelopes of Fiji, N.Z., Papua-NG, and Australia. Send to; Mr. S. C. Jersey, 631 N. Kenilworth Ave., Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.A. (Banking Reference; Maywood Proviso State Bank, Maywood, Illinois,

U.S.A.)

POSITIONS WANTED

MARRIED MAN, 27, no children, desires position on plantation any Pacific Island.

Degree in Agriculture, sound knowledge modern farm machinery, variety of practical experience. Wife trained nurse, holding two certificates. References if required. Reply: P. Wernigk, C/o Darwin Club, Darwin, Australia.

COMPETENT TRADESMAN carrying on successful building construction business involving the building of houses, factories, cool-rooms, etc., seeks employment in Pacific Islands, with preference for Papeete, Tahiti. Age 34, married, 2 children (8 and 4). all in good health.

State wages, accommodation available, information re living costs, etc. L. J.

Murray, Balcombe St., Mornington, Vic.

DEATH NOTICE

VICARY—On April 26. 1957, at Mel Australia, Norma, of Madang, New beloved and devoted wife of RO mother of Pamela, Beverley and

BOOKS

UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE. H

book, making clear the teaching Bible, write to: Room W, Bible 36 The Grove, Moordown, Bourni England.

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS O

TRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC H

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued ai free on application. Corresponds vited. Berkelouw, 38 King St., Telephone: BX 1243.

Visitors to Sydney—

“PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

is always on sale at Charles™ Milligan’s Magazine Kiosk, Cnr.

Place and George Street.

PENFRIENDS

DON’T BE LONELY.—Men and

all over Australia are finding hi through my Friendship & Mat!

Correspondence Club. Someone v, be YOUR friend. Select and com Write TO-DAY. No obligation. L> Dorothy Pope Friendship Club Box 182, Haymarket P. 0., Sydney WANTED Contact corresp philatelists, hobbyists and Pen throughout the Pacific. Island sentatives wanted. Members ini every country of the world. W specimen copy Club journal “Isla: and application form, to Secretar Sea Islands Correspondence Club, Fiji Is.

Applications are invited fl

position of

MANAGER-SECRET

of the BRITISH SOI

ISLANDS PROTECTOR.

COPRA BOARD

Some knowledge of the copra particularly in the South Pacific perience in handling and » primary produce may be advantag sound administrative and accoun perience are essential qualiflcat:; Commencing Salary £A1,650 n gratuity at the rate of £AIBO three months leave on full pay pletion of two years satisfactory Partly furnished house, rent fret The successful applicant should able to commence duties not lac October 1. 1957.

Apply in writing, giving full df experience, qualifications, age, status and references, etc., to G.P.0., Sydney.

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ic ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1957

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SHOm

m Here’s the answer to troublesome petrol power a 3i h.p. air-cooled Diesel latest development of Lister, world’s largest manufacturers of small diesel engines.

These Lightweight Model “LD”

Diesels Give You • Hundreds upon hundreds of downright dependable running hours

BRITISH

° Now low in maintenance—the end of all electrical troubles ° Real fuel economy from lowcost distillate fuel 9 Simple controls and compact design to reduce n>l; of tampering ° A ' r cooling to eliminate pumping and corrosion

DANGAR, GEDYE &

MAILOCH LIMITED

MAILOCH HOUSE, 10-14 YOUNG ST

SYDNEY.

P.O. Box 509. Radiograms: Dangars, Sydney.

Local Agents:

Island Engineers, RABAUL. Century Motors, LAE. Pacific Islands Motors, K woc k Cheong, RABAUL. Madang Slipways Ltd

MADANG. J. H. Ellis, GOROKA.

Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street. Sydney. (Telephone; MA9I97L Wholly set ui

printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Albefta Street. Sydney.

Ventura Trading Co. Pty. Ltd.

EMPLOYMENT AND

ACCOMMODATION BUREAU

Douglas St., Pt. Moresby, Papua

Next Yellow Top Taxis. Tel.; 2455.

Arrange for: European and Native Tradesmen, Painting and Plumbing Contracts (under European supervision) ; Visitors’ Laundry, Dressmaking and Mending. Tested Houseboys and Clerks; Houses, Factories, Land, etc., Rented, Inspected and Sold; Purchase of Shells; Typing of all kinds, Duplicating.

VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD.

247 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY

Island Merchants and Buying Agents

SOLE AGENTS FOR;

• ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY DIESEL ENGINES

• AJAX MARINE DIESEL ENGINES

• NORMAN PETROL ENGINES

• SALDANHA CANNED FISH

• V.T.C. CORNED BEEF

Distributors for all plantation, farm, trade requirements and merchandise.

Highest Prices obtained for Cocoa, Coffee, Shell and other produce handled on consignment.

Write direct to our Islands Export Manager w ith over 35 years experience in the Islands.

CABLES: VENTURA SYDNEY

Guess where ?

APBS

This enchanting scene could be some place in Europe ... but it’s not! It’s right in the South Pacific ;to be precise, New Zealand, a country as famous for the fatness of its trout as for the refreshing qualities of its climate.

And it s so easy to reach . . . by TEAL ! Look at the map below to see how many important places in the South Pacific are within such easy reach of New Zealand (and of each other) when you fly TEAL. Your Travel Agent will be glad to tell you more about TEAL air routes serving the South Pacific ... or enquire at any TEAL office.

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COOK ISLANDS

TAHITI

EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED, NEW ZEALAND’S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH QANTAS AND 8.0.A.C.

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GENERAL MERCHANTS

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Capital £2,500,000

ESTABLISHED 1914

GENERAL MERCHANTS

and

PROVIDORES

TRADE THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS

BUYERS AND EXPORTERS OF ALL KINDS

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA,

M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

J AGENTS FOR AUSTRALIAN, EUROPE:

) AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURE

\ DISTRIBUTORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTH

< OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LIE

Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address:

“CAMOHE.”

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.0., Box 168, Sydn In London: W. R. Carpenter & 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, Island Products Ltd., Morris Hcdstrom Ltd., Suva.) Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

Port Moresby.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd..