Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXX, No. 2 (Sep. 1, 1959)
1 September 1959 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Islands

p. 1

PACIFIC

Monthly

SEPTEMBER, 1959

Vol. XXX. NO. 2

blished 1930

Istered at the GF.O., ransrmtsion by post as a newspaper ]

An Ellice girl from Funafuti

Island photo

graphed on

Tarawa by Mr.

A. C. Atkinson.

Her name, Tauave, means "Bear in mind”.

Photo: A. C. Atkinson.

People

pp. 7-15

n Salote of Tonga, who is rell versed in the history of imtry right back to the 10th j of our era, has carefully the names of all her grand n She chose the name for ith grandchild in July when r son was born to Princess ho, wife of Crown Prince The new Prince, for whom gun salute boomed out over ofa Harbour, has been called a ’Unuaki-o-Tonga, after i the first known of the long Tui Tongas who lived around >. se Tungi and his wife now iree sons and a daughter. * * * Reverend and Mrs. Leslie of the London Missionary I left Apia, Western Samoa, gust. Mr. Brame, formerly faster of Leulumoego Fou High School, recently was ed at Apia.

wedding of Miss Mariana Jth Thompson, daughter of id Mrs. E. P. Thompson, and ian Nicholas Links Grey, son s. Aggie Grey, and the late Gray, took place at the irai of Immaculate Concep- Mulivai, Western Samoa, on t 6. A reception and dance Tivoli Theatre were attended large gathering of friends.

own Territorian, Magistrate Ralph was married in Madang, New Guinea, st 8, to Miss Madge Brown, formerly [?]g sister at the local hospital. The shown here cutting the wedding cake reception held at the Court House, [?] the wedding ceremony in the Anglican church.

Photo: S. Diczbalis.

An Auckland eye specialisl Elliot, who recently visite treated over 300 patents Government Hospital durinj days he spent in the Terri performed a number of op and was able, in two cases store the sight of Samoan ;

Four Samoan Guides left plane on August 26 to ta! in a Young Adult Confer* Suva. They were Atina Amc Saints Brownies), Sina Colli

Revisiting Noumea, New Caledoni[?] was Lieut.-Col. Robert C. Hayes once[?] Marine Corps. Col. Hayes was s[?] New Caledonia during a part of th[?] has returned there to write a series for newspapers and magazines in [?] what the old stamping grounds of t[?] look like today. Colonel Hayes ha[?] in finding any physical traces o[?] Marine camps, as these were neve or permanent around Noumea.

Caledcnia Colonel Hayes will move Hebrides, and then to the Solomons He is shown here, right, with Brock, Gantas agent in Noumea.

Photo: F[?]

Mr. Teariki Tuavera, Rarotonga Isla[?] member for Matavera, is a newcome body activities. A man with progres he has set an example to his fel[?] cillors by obtaining the sup[?] promise of free labour from his [?] the laying of a fresh water pipe li[?] stream in the hills to connect with t[?] water supply, which comes from [?] and which has lost most of its effectiv[?] by the time it gets to Matave[?] Photo: D. [?]

Guides), Nora Hagedorn (St.

Guides) and Chlotilda 5 (St. Mary’s Guides). The >nce. the first of its kind, was \ encourage the training of eaders for girls’ and women’s i the Pacific. * * * ). M. McLaughlin, after hav npleted his 3-year-term of as W. Samoa Director of left with Mrs. McLaughlin on mthbank for England in Other departures in the lonth were Mr. K. Rhodes, ister of Avele Boys’ Agricul chool; Mr. R. Sanders, and O. Maitland, on short visits Zealand.

le Lave, Tonga’s champion with his attractive English ft Tonga by plane on August Fiji. has had a busy three introducing his wife to his home and a multitude of is. The first month was spent s family on Hunga, an island nouth of the Vava’u harbour, ig his stay in Tonga he each of the main centres,

[?]age of interest to old and new Terri [?]ok place at the Church of the Holy [?]ort Moresby, recently, between Miss [?] and Mr. Gerry King, [?]e was born at Wau, when her father, Ryan, now of Edgecliff, Sydney, was [?]f W. R. Carpenter and Co., there in ays. Her mother, Mrs. Margaret Ryan known member of the postal staff at [?]g is with the Commonwealth Bank at [?]sby, and is a Queenslander. [?]tion was held at the Boroko Hotel, guests were welcomed by the bride's

Vava’u, Nukualofa and Ha’s ing exhibition boxing bouts place, and showing films a fights, and some persor records.

Mrs. Lave accompanies when he travelled around their three weeks in Ha’aj were able to visit many of tl distant islands to sse i travelling on the small ya« that was in Ha’apai waters time. Although seas wer they were able to get as Fotu’ha’a, a small 280 acr rising 200 feet out of the , the volcanic islands of £ Tofua, and one of the ir ficult of the inhabited islands to negotiate. Here s managed to get their projecto and show the first movies 1 ever been shown there.

From Fiji, Kitione plans a short visit to Tahiti beta on to New Zealand and England in time for Christ: * * * Mr. Hari Singh H. He; B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed., R.Kovi* of the RD Tata High S Jamshedpur, Hihar Provii cently joined the staff of t College, Ba, Fiji, at comme: of a three years contract.

Mr. H. M. Hochfeld„ president, Regulatory & Affairs for Matson Lines Francisco, arrived in Syd: August 26. to look-over affairs in Australia.

Before he joined Matson in 1957, he was Chief of the States Government Aid and Division for the Federal M Administration. He had be the Administration since : various executive capacities.

He was accompanied by M

Madame Paulette Day, a foundation * the Polynesian Association of Sydney paid a visit to Sydney from Brisbane: Day formerly lived in Makatea ano

Matson Lines vice-president South Pacific. Mr. Hochfeld Bj,ks in Sydney, Melbourne Irisbane with shippers, lead isinessmen, members of the and tourist industries and ment officials. inspected port facilities and led with stevedoring authori ,e operation of Matson’s two ger liners, Mariposa and rey, and four freighters, Ventura, Sonoma and ia.

Max Bay, Fiji’s Chief In of Schools, recently at the Commonwealth Education mce at Oxford, England, plans were approved for the ion of a Commonwealth ship Scheme in 1960. The , Mr. Bay reported, will cost 000,000 during the first five and Britain will provide 300 of this sum. A thousand ships will be provided.

[?]ol teachers from Hawaii, Mrs. Nancy [?] (left) and Mrs. Mildred Mesaka [?]aid a quick visit to Suva in August [?]ay home from a teachers' conference Pago. Together with another teacher [?]aii, Miss J. Kyle, they had been in attend the get-together of over 300 Samoa teachers by the government, rip was financed by the Barstow Foun- Samoa. They were surprised to find [?] was so large and modern. Most Hawaii still thought of Fiji in terms of headhunting, they said.

Mrs. R. D. Shaw, after their marriage [?]ma Chapel, Port Moresby, on August Shaw was the former Mrs. Hitchcock.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

The Rev. C. F. Gribble, < Secretary of Methodist C Missions, and a former mis in Tonga, was among six Prc ministers from NSW and ’ who left in July for an Offic behind the Iron Curtain.

They travelled by Air Ii New Delhi and a Russian took the delegation on to from there. Prague and Pckii also on the itinerary. * * * Mr. Herbert T. Kienzle,, whose distinguished war rec; eluded some extraordinaril’ work amongst the carrier tel the Kokoda Trail in the days of the war in Papua, in paid his first visit in 43 year; birth-place —Lev u k a, Fij Kienzle is now one of Paput known planters from the Valley.

He was accompanied on hi seas trip by his daughter, They were en route by air United States for a short vi Levuka, they were entertaii the Samoan community, and Fijians.

Mr. M. Gokal is at present three months’ business visit t« tralia, Hongkong, Japan, anc Guinea on behalf of his fir Kokal & Co., merchants, of Mr. Gokal recently made & visits to New Caledonia, the Hebrides, and Samoa. * * * Mr. R. J. Deland, the elde,i of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Delano of New Guinea, has gainer degree of Doctor of Philosop the University of Pennsylvan

Mr. W. Dent, sales manager for Fer Dickinson Pty., Ltd., agents for "[?] diesel engines, who will be leaving Sy[?] Qantas in September, accompanied by [?] engineer, to visit principal centres in New Guinea and the Solomon Isla[?]

teland graduated with an

degree in Science from tne jity of Adelaide in 1949, and some time at Macquarie in the Antarctic before tak a Fulbright scholarship in a.

\ndy Andresen, of Mando ;land, 20 miles from Honiara, Madang, New Guinea, for ning of the memorial to the Catchers at Madang. ig the war years, Mr. Andresen is time Coast Watching from lidge, well known for its surveys by Clutha Develop ed in a strategic position (king Henderson airfield.

md Mrs. A. T. Low are now permanently (they hope) on : Island, where Tom Low is icutive of the Burns Philp hey were there briefly in 1953, 11 in love with the pleasant and were happy to return.

Low was Lema Price, of a nown Vanua Levu planting and Mr. Low has served the Philp organisation in many 1 Pacific places, including , Rotuma and Fiji. Under

Sullivan wore a dress of powder-blue her marriage to Mr. Trevor Mc [?] of radio station 9AP, at the United [?]oroka, Port Moresby, on August 13.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

Mrs. Norman Godbold, after their [?]arriage at the Church of England, [?]ecently. The bride was formerly Miss [?]earson. Photo: L: Chin.

persuasion, Mrs. Low is a writer; and this is how scribed Norfolk Island, as it from the plane which them back from New Zeall “A feeling of deep conten over us when we saw again had longed to see, th> remembered Norfolk Island checkerboard farms, wind' roads, old homes nestling high hedges, the convict-stai grim as ever), the eternal s clawing the black cliffs; and ing above all, the Norfolk b tall and free.” * * * Public tribute has bee; justifiably to the services n the West Samoan community J. C. Thieme, during the Department crisis there i (See this issue.) Dr. Thieme has an inti history. His father also medical practitioner, a C who settled in Western Samo it was a German Colon married the attractive part daughter of a Samoan family. Dr. and Mrs. E Thieme were highly-e; residents of Apia, and they re there after World War I. Dr. died there between the Wa Mrs. Thieme sent their three ♦ —Hans, Maria and Fritz—t relations in Germany. The educated there, but then were up in World War 11. Their meantime, lived in Apia.

After the war, Mrs. Thie to work to get her three o back to Samoa —a very difficu then, in the circumstances ever, they rejoined her abi years ago—Dr. J. C. (now a q medical man, whose servic* gladly accepted by the Medii partment); Maria, a clever tary and linguist (who lab taken over a photography H in Apia); and Fritz, a motor-engineer.

Step by step, Dr. Thieme tc a larger share of the work: Medical Department until, last couple of years, he has one of the Department’s mai

Photographed in Sydney—Mr. Tom Norfolk Island, with Mr. Norman Stee[?] mother was a Quintal from Non[?] —T[?]

e advices from London say le was more surprised than laid Garvey, KCMG (late ir of Fiji) when the Home y offered him the appoint ; Administrator of the Isle -a gubernatorial job carry i it a comfortable Govern [ouse, a substantial salary erm of 7 years, maid had just purchased a a lovely little Suffolk village applying himself to a little I farming. maid and Lady Garvey were » the Isle of Man on Sep -14. and he was to be sworn Jastle Rushen, an ancient where such ceremonies have ace for hundreds of years, lonstitution of the Isle of elder than that of England, liament has two chambers — tive Council and the elected of Keys—and they meet j under the presidency of ernor. * * * )f the chief executives of W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., idolph Carpenter, with his I son, left Fiji in August ney, after 21 years in the Mr. Randolph Carpenter is son of the founder of the y, the late Sir Walter h Carpenter, and a son of H. Carpenter, the present irman. . J. Townsend, son of the A. P. Townsend and Mrs. id, of Kuru Plantation, New was married on September iney, to Miss Elaine Audrey rhey met about 18 months n the bride was working in I Mr. Townsend visited Suva loliday. The wedding took St. Anne’s Church of Eng irathfield, and was followed ception at Amory, Ashfield. mg couple will live in the

[?]inbrigge and Miss Enid Hilton were [?]t Taurama Chapel, Port Moresby, August 3. Mr. Bainbrigge is a well [?]wn local sports commentator.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

Pacific Islands Monthly

p. 17

Contents:

No. 2 Vol. XXX

SEPTEMBER, 1959

PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands Interest 5 Battle Looms for Airways Routes and Fares .. ... 17 New Airstrip For Taveuni .. 17 Henderson Field Is “Out’’

Again 18 Papua-New Guinea Taxpayers and the Legco Vote ... 19 Minister Hasluck Should Go 20 Copra Reacts to Indonesia Crisis 21 W. Samoa Takes Another Step Towards Self-Govern ment 21 Price For Suva’s GPH was £F90,000 22 HOME BASE Sydneysider Reports 22 CSR Company Accepts New Basic Wage 23

COMMENTARY: The Pub

lisher and the Editors Look At Pacific and World Affairs 21 Editors’ Mailbag 27 M. Soustelle to Open Yate Dam 29

TERRITORIES TALK-TALK 33

Hawaii Expert Back in NG With Advice for Coffee Planters 37 The Leen Case and Its Effect On Morale 40 Mr. Hasluck —and the Press Blackout 43 Burns Commission Winds Up In Fiji 47

The Remains of the St. Paul Are Still On Rossel Reefs 53 Soekarno’s Grab As Indonesia Nears Economic Collapse 57 The Duna of the P-NG High lands Fight For Fun ... 61 They Want More Machinery For Selling Fiji Bananas .. 63 Police Keep In Touch —by Tape 67 The Light That Commem orates Pacific Coast Watchers 69 Some Men of the NGVR and What They Did In the New Guinea War 75 When $1,250,000 Worth Of Damage Was Done In Papeete 77

MAGAZINE SECTION:

Tropicalities, 81; Fiji Youth Club Points the Way, 83; Do You Remember? 83; When Burns and Carpenter Fought the Dutch, 84; Cook Islands Success Story, 86; Book Reviews 88 The Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 101

PACIFIC REPORT: Round

up of Pacific News and Pictures (Index p. 17) .. 117 OBITUARY: W. M. Dupain; Toby Millar; Captain A.

Prosser; J. C. Hammett; George Bog£se; William B.

Thompson: O. J. Atkinson 151 Sports Review 153 Shipping and Airways Time tables 155 Pacific Commerce and Produce 165

Battle Looms For Airways

pp. 19-149

The Customer Could Still Be Right Battle Looms For Airways Routes And Fares

Now that the whine of the jet and the turbo-prop aircraft iccoming commonplace, a general re-assessment of the ediate future of commercial aviation is being made by all international air companies, and all the signs are that the e for routes and over fares will soon be on, in earnest.

hternational Air Transport jciation—lATA—is to meet month in Honolulu against ground of threat to the y of this formerly closed ganisation. recently, most international panics have been content to A. fix the price they must ustomers. Now some of them ing the UK Government irlines—think they could do and cheaper, without the ion. Air-travellers think so, ying public, of course, would nd any break-away move ;ant cheaper fares. Up to i faster, bigger, more com planes that we have been 1 over the last decade (and iw got), have not fulfilled promise—a slash in fares, have risen steadily, year by hough some measure of re been given through the in )n of, first, Tourist class, v, Economy class, urist and Economy classes, a lot less, and get a lot service and amenities. But introduction of jet aircraft

means that there is now rarely more than four or five hours be tween hops, more and more travellers find that they can put up with Tourist or Economy classes very well.

Jet Age in Cash

Just at the moment, operators are finding it difficult to calculate just what the jet age means to them in increased turnover.

A lot of the international operators are not yet jet-equipped, or only partly so, and are losing customers hand-over-fist to those who are.

The snap-conclusion is that jet aircraft mean a fantastic increase in passengers—although it is pretty obvious that the present state of affairs will level itself out. When every big operator gets jets operat ing all will again share in the avail able traffic. (We have had an ex ample of this type of temporary in balance, here in the Pacific, where three operators, Qantas, Pan Ameri can and Canadian Pacific, shared the traffic. Qantas started its jet ser vices in July, and as the other two operators have not yet brought jets

(Continued on page 145)

The new airstrip, amongst Mr. Val Tarte’s coconuts.

onto their Pacific services, Qantas is skimming the cream off the trade, for the time being. This will adjust itself when CPAL and PAA put jets on this route).

Nonetheless, with a few static periods, the growth of air trans portation since the end of the Second World War has been steady, and according to some calculations, the initial phases of the jet age will increase traffic permanently by as much as 20 per cent.

The British Government, which owns British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways, made it plain some months ago that in view of this increased turn-over, it was thinking about re

ducing fares, with or without IATA’s obvfous g lv as° W nart n September ’ thSe thp P tbls campaign from the same source. r

Commonwealth Airlines

“The idea has been under ronsideration for some time ” said a UK Ministry of Transport snokes

ss; ?4sss?sC£S SS

ear.y yet to <U S e«£k ‘°° British Commonwealth airlines are . ’ boac, TEAL, and South African Airways. Presumably the idea SC b lnd° pXT age Canadlan ’ dian and Pakistan airways to

join the family in which PVPnt fh*

British Commonwealth organ"sati?n

would then feel strong enough to th * Australian civil authorities are cautious about the whole plan. If lt became a serious proposition, said the .Minister for Aviation, then Aus would have to consider its Relationships with other countries. planes. i Another threat to IATA control nas come recently from “independent operators” These operators calcu late that when the Pe bf g to ope C rators turn over to jets, there will become

available some bargain-pri type aircraft good yet fo: service.

They calculate, also, t still will be sufficient p terested in using the old-t; if the fares are suitably And some of the reduc gested are staggering: Hongkong, for £Stg.l36, i the lATA rate of £Stg.24o Nairobi, at £Stg.lOO ir £Stg.234.

The “independent” opera ever, have no “rights” scheduled services where and until they do, it see that longer and cheaper are out.

Complexities of "Ric This brings up the whol< of international landinj which, week by week becc and more complicated.

It has always been an u right of shipping compani their ships anywheres on seas or into foreign ports ternational aviation is t with a system of reciprocg rights that are becoming sc some that they could bre under their own weight.

A great deal of the compc “rights” comes from fon lines who want to lane United States, and in th; the US has been generous, this generosity raises the i airline companies—none Government owned— wrangling goes on continu It has always been assu the rules laid down by IA conveniently irrevocable, looks as though a powerf could challenge them. In way, these international i landing rights might som< scrapped in favour of free ; competition. Some compan go to the wall, but it is a that would level itself out ally, and probably for the the flying public.

The international air-trg tion business was born in £ Government control that be Government control. The that without rigid regirr and protection this highly sf and expensive industry w have progressed as fast as But that is a theory thal to argument.

TAA Becomes Agent fo From the beginning of Se the Government-owned Ai internal air-operator, Tra] tralia Airlines, became Ai general agents for the Fre; vate airline company, Tr Aeriens Intercontinentaux. ously, TAl’s agent in Austr the French shipping line

Maritimes. Messageries Mari as any other travel service, r course, continue to take s for TAI. love seems to be one of ration i rather than one indicat great change of policy. TAA adv agents for Air France, the

Government-owned airline;

lough Air France and TAI iarate entities, in France; re some sort of tie-up in the sian area. TAA also services anes in Australia, where i made at Darwin and Bris , the way to Noumea from If, or when, TAI gets land

its in Sydney, presumably

uld do that chore for them K).

hanges New for Old Service

1 be seen from the Time- Section, this issue, Pan n Airways will, from the this month, cut out the (American Samoa) —Nadi rvice which they have been for several years, and will commence a new service nolulu to Tafuna. leans that American Samoa its link with the Pacific le airservices at Honolulu d of at Nadi. However, 5 who want to go south in north, may still do so by asing the local airservices American and Western ,nd then flying to Suva by ping-boat.

Pacific Report

p. 19

Turn to these inside 'pages

lor more highlights of the

month’s news: They Climbed 750,000 Coconuts; Koslelanetz Visits Tahiti; Fiji’s Hibiscut Festival—ll 7; Pacific- Wide Queen Competition; Suva’s New Hotel; Mangaia Is. Shrinks— -119; Jap Tuna Ships and Weather Forecasting—l2l; Suva’s “Wel come” Band Visits US; Garlic Importers in a stew—l 23.

Ancient Ideas About Birds of Para dise; Luck and Tenacity Pay Off in Lae—l2s; NZ Garmet Trade Dislikes Competition—l 26; That Terrible Tropical Disease; Jon Frummers Against Progress: Moresby’s High School—l 29.

South Pacific Copra Industry in Danger—l3l; Should Public Ser vants Get More; Pouvaana and Conditions in Tahiti—l 33; Ar rangements Over Hamac; NG Women’s Club’s 18th Year—l3s; That Noumea Casino Again; News of Papeete and Easter Is. Air ports—l 36.

Mr. Gibson’s Tourist Enterprise— -139; Russia, a NeNw Factor in Sugat; ’’Soochows” 30 Anxious Minutes—l4l; BSIP Ricked, 143; Guides Meet in Suva; They Buried the Wrong Body; Aus tralian Robbed, Beaten-up in Noumea—l4s.

Service Again

pp. 19-20

Ura Airstrip Val Tarte Gets His Service Again

THE opening in early August of Ura airstrip, southern Taveuni, for Fiji Airways’ scheduled flights gets this part of the big island back onto the air routes.

Back in 1947, Mr. J. V. (Val) Tarte, of Waimaqere estate, Taveuni. reading of the increasing activities of a charter aircraft operated by ex-RAAF pilot, Tom French, offered to build an airstrip on his leased property at Ura. The offer was accepted, and on October 2, 1948, Mr.

French crossed 120 miles of open sea from Suva in his Taylorcraft and landed at Ura.

As passenger was Mr. G. Lee, a radio technician, who went across to Taveuni to instal the first picture theatre there, also for Mr. Tarte.

This first flight marked the be ginning of a service that operated for almost two years, with a frequency of better than once weekly.

The aircraft finally was withdrawn from service because there were then no facilities in Fiji for a com plete overhaul.

Then for almost four years Taveuni lost its air connection with Viti Levu and the capital.

Fiji Airways, under Harold Gatty,.

was established in 1951, and there was a revival of interest in air com munications throughout the Colony.

Later, an airfield was built at con siderable cost at Matei, on the ex treme northern tip of Taveuni.

There was much criticism in Fiji over the final cost of Matei and also, from a flying point of view, of its site.

The authorities, at that time, would not recognise Ura private strip, but Mr, Tarte never gave up.

He doggedly went ahead, at his own expense, and extended it to 800 yards, making many improvements and, finally, erecting a flight office and shelter-sheds.

A short time ago it received approval as a full-load landing area.

That’s why, on August 2, when Fiji Airways Drover FAS landed on the first commercial flight, Mr. Tarte’s smile was broad as he welcomed Captain M. J. F. Morrissey and Mr.

R. S. Kay, secretary of Fiji Airways.

Drovers call at Ura three times weekly at present—Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. It is hoped that a profitable air-freighting busi ness will be established with vege tables and other market produce from fertile Taveuni to Suva—the island has long been known as the “Garden of Fiji”.

Hotel Airstrip

ANOTHER private airstrip being constructed in Fiji is almost opposite Korolevu Beach Hotel, on the western side of Viti Levu.

Again, Mr. Tom French will open up the service, using a Piper Carib bean 4-seater aircraft.

The plane is due at Suva on the Monterey from USA on September 25, and the fight flight to Korolevu will be early in October.

It will make Pacific history Korolevu Beach Hotel will be the first hotel in the South Pacific to have its own landing field and operate its own aircraft solely for the convenience of guests.

Visitors will be able to reach the hotel entrance from Nadi airport in 20 minutes, at approximately taxi fares —but avoiding the dusty three hours’ road journey. Guests also may visit Suva for a day, without the discomfort of road travel.

Gone-Again Bridge

p. 20

Henderson Field "Out"

Honiara's On-Again Gone-Again Bridge

THE tune of a well known nursery song is currently popular in Honiara: “Lunga Bridge Is Falling Down”.

Following heavy rains on August 25, the temporary bridge over the troublesome Lunga River was washed away, together with a re cently purchased barge.

Henderson Airfield (which has been back in commission only a couple of months), being across the river, was once again cut off as was the case when the main bridge was swept away in the January floods.

The usual early Tuesday morning exodus to the air-strip was able to reach the drome but when visability proved nil passengers and several vehicles took “their life in their hands’ and re-crossed the now sagging bridge.

The fire tender, Shell re-fuelling waggon and Agents’ bus were unable to make the crossing.

So once again “Old Faithful”, the Kukum air strip, previously pushed

See pages 146/147 for PAA’s New Honolulu-American Samoa air service; and TAPs new arrangement with Australia’s TAA.

into the background because Henderson would be needed for the proposed through-r ou t e to the Hebrides, has come to the rescue.

Qantas 'Plane Delayed Due to continual rain and poor visability, the weekly Qantas’ plane had an enforced overnight stay in Yandina, Russell Islands, on August 24.

It did not arrive in Honiara until 3.15 p.m. on the 25th, and departed the next morning, a day late.

The Piper Carib bean, soon in ser vice in Fiji for Mr.

Tom French. Nadi Airport will then be 20 minutes away from Koro levu Hotel.

He Says It Adds [?]

p. 20

While the UK Govern makes plans to get all Con ivealth airlines into the\ stable (page 17), our NZ spondent still has the fid He is not convinced\ Qantas has not got the tralian “take-over” habifi the intended victim, (Last month’s story was th k was in the wind, but a 0 spokesman denied it.) The big announcement at the end of this financia\ insists our New Zealande not,” he asks, “why did M Allender (a top TEAL exe in Fiji) shoot through am a job out of the inch Everything adds up to a assassination.”

Results Of Fiji

p. 20

SUVA, Se'i

INCOMPLETE results of' in the Legislative Couno tion, at the week-end ai

SOUTHERN, EUROPE'

*Falvey, J. N„ OBE .. ..

Tetzner, S

SOUTHERN, INDIA I

Singh, K. B Ramrakha, Odin Pathik, Davendra .. *Deoki, A. I. N Gopalan, Dr

EASTERN, EUROPEAi

*Gibson, H. B.

Martin, L

EASTERN, INDIAN

Singh, Vijay Kanji, Jamnadas Singh, V. R

NORTHWESTERN, EUROi

*Kermode, R. G White, M Chalmers, N. S. ..

NORTHWESTERN, IND

*Madhavan, J Lakshman, B. D *Phasad, Ayodhya .. .. ... * Retiring Members.

Heavy rain during pollin and general lack of interest, for fact that only 645 out Europeans voted.

The five Fijian Members ated by the Council of Chiu the Government are; *Cakobau, Ratu E. T. T' *Mara, Ratu K. K. T. *Ganilau, Ratu Penaia. *Semesa K. Sikivou. *Ravuama Vunivalu. * Member of last Legislative 0 Two European and two Members are yet to be non by the Government.

P-NG Taxpayers 'Boycott'

pp. 21-147

[?]er Demonstration Against Mr. Hasluck P-NG Taxpayers 'Boycott' The Leg. Council

In mid-September, the Papua-New Guinea Tax Rebellion active on three fronts: Payments of the new “provisional” assessments, brought into operation from August 1, were being made under formal protest.

A large section of the voters had “boycotted” the Legis lative Council in the by-elections.

A formal challenge to the validity of the Tax Ordinance and the Papua and New Guinea Act was before the High Court, awaiting a hearing by the Full Bench.

eptember 12, in the Papua 1 NG Islands electorates, a stantial majority of the expressed their disapproval Legislative Council, in its form by supporting can pledged—if elected —to follow ample of Messrs. Dudley [an Downs and E. A. James, ;ign. (See figures below.) a strong anti-Hasluck vote, neans more confusion in the ;ive Council, and more em inent for Canberra, ise Territorian opinion split on the wisdom of actually ing the by-elections (caused e resignation of elected rs James, Dudley Jones and in protest against Minister t’s methods), pro-Legco ites were nominated in and New Guinea Islands.

ott of Legislative Council

;upon the Taxpayers’ As ns nominated against them ites who were pledged to e the boycott—i.e., to resign touncil, if called upon. ; were strongly-worded gns in both areas—and some ss, especially in the Rabaul contests, such as they were, finally to settle down as a sluck and anti-Hasluck by-elections took place on ber 12, and (with postal votes counted) they resulted:

PAPUA

, not pledged to resign 205 Sanders (Taxpayers’ As tion, and pledged to i, if requested) .. .. .. 394

EW GUINEA ISLANDS

Thomas, not pledged to i 54 Shipper (Taxpayers’ As tion, and pledged to n, if requested) 367

NEW GUINEA MAINLAND

Sydney Barker, elected un opposed. (After nominating, he gave the Taxpayers’ Association his pledge of resignation, if required, so no one was nominated against him.) No one was nominated when nomina tions were first called for, on August 4.

Mr. Barker’s nomination arrived four minutes late, and was shut out. Nomina tions again were called, for September 1.

This time, Mr. Barker got in early; and, on September 1, made his pledge to the Taxpayers.

Appeal to High Court

The application to the High Court of Australia to declare the Taxa tion Ordinances invalid on a number of grounds (one being the unsoundness of the Papua and New Guinea Act, under which the Legislative Council is constituted) made by Mr. M. W. Fishwick, of Rabaul, on behalf of the New Guinea Taxpayers’ Association, had not come up for hearing by Sep tember 14 very much to the surprise of the persons primarily concerned.

The application first came before Mr. Justice Taylor in the High Court in Sydney on July 30, and wa adjourned until August 4; and the Judge then decided to refer it to the Full Bench of the Court.

It was known that the Attorney- General (Sir Garfield Barwick) an eminent authority on constitutional law, wished to have the Act (long a subject of criticism and doubt) finally tested.

It was authoritatively stated then that the matter would probably come before the Full Bench on August 17, 18, or 19. ■ After three weeks had passed, without a hearing, reports began to circulate in Sydney early in September that there had been “interesting” exchanges between certain Departments in Canberra (where Mr. Hasluck —see elsewhere

—was fighting for his Ministerial life) ; and that it was unlikely that the High Court would reach this particular application before the Sydney Session closed late in Sep tember.

That meant either (a) trans ferring the application to another State, or (b) awaiting the return of the Full Bench to Sydney about December.

Hasluck and Parliament Although the Territorians, in June, July and August, had dpne everything short of physical violence—to resist the procedures of Minister Hasluck, and to demon strate 1 their lack of confidence in him Members of Australia’s Parlia ment remained mostly indifferent.

The Australian newspapers re fused to report the Tax Rebellion (see article on page 43), and so the politicians ignored it. (Over)

Mr. J. L. Chipper, Taxpayers' Association can didate for NG Islands—elected.

Mr. W. T. Thomas, independent, for NG Islands electorate —defeated.

Only two members, Messrs.

Wheeler and McColm (see this page) spoke up for the oppressed Terrltorians; and they got precisely nowhere.

Behind the scenes, out of the public sight, there were demands that “Hasluck should be shifted out of that portfolio before the situa tion gets worse”.

But Mr. Hasluck has staunch friends in Parliament, and they rallied to his support. So far, the Prime Minister has refused even to consider the challenge to Mr.

Hasluck’s administration.

Mr. Hasluck has replied to the few Australian protests on P-NG conditions, by saying that the tax, to which the Territorians object, is a low and a fair tax. He says nothing of the real causes of the Tax Rebellion.

The Canberra plan is to play down and ignore the Tax Rebellion, so that it will die of inanition— and, in this, Canberra has been supported by the newpsapers.

That plan probably would have succeeded, had it not been for the initiative of Mr. Dudley Jones and Mr. Fish wick in getting the con stitutional challenge before the High Court.

But the slowness of the High Court in hearing the application could defeat that move by the Taxpayers.

Mr. Hasluck remains high in the saddle.

Tax Collectors are at Work A factor which may defeat Canberra’s plan to let the Tax Rebellion die (by ignoring it) is the activity of Treasurer Reeve’s tax-collecting machine, which came full-blooded into operation on August 1.

From that moment, employers were compelled to make Pay-As- You-Earn deductions from all tax able wages and salaries —and the people generally were brought suddenly to full realisation of what had happened.

The truth of the Taxpayers’ claim that it was a half-boiled taxation scheme, framed and put into opera tion without proper thought and preparation, was brought home to them.

Employers had no tax-gathering machinery ready. Employees suddenly found part of their wages taken away, without any sign of compensation in the shape of higher living costs.

Canberra, thinking that to ignore the Tax Rebellion would kill it, should have been listening in in Papua and New Guinea in August, when the first taxes were grabbed from pay-envelopes.

The by-elections of September 12 came opportunely. All those resent ful taxpayers had a vote!

Public Service Resentment

The Public Service Association, P-NG’s largest body of organised

workers, ranged itself originally be side the Taxpayers’ Associations in resistance to Mr. Hasluck’s methods of introducing income tax. It wisely kept out of the constitutional fight that developed later in Legislative Council and the Supreme Court.

But soon as the tax-machine began to operate, in August, the public servants individually, and as a body, gave tongue vigorously—and with good reason.

The Minister and his mouth pieces have argued that the public servants would get the benefit of reduced living costs, through abolition of import and export taxes.

That is complete poppycock.

There is no reduction in living costs and can be none until merchants’ stocks are cleared, if then.

The bureaucrats, knowing this, probably will try to enforce price fixing, and start another row.

This tax system follows the Aus tralian pattern, and all sorts of privileges—like free housing, and messing allowances—now are being assessed on an annual value, for tax. The public servants have not taken kindly to this.

They have passed a vote of no confidence in the Minister (see page 45) and they are demanding immediate increases in salaries of sums up to £3OO per annum.

The worst feature probably is that the tax has put a blanket discouragement upon recruiting for the P-NG services.

Unemployment and Theft

The impact of income tax is making worse the already serious native unemployment problem in Port Moresby, the Central District Officer, Mr. D. Marsh, reported on August 24. Many Port Moresby people were sacking house-servants.

“Already there are about 1,500 unemployed natives around Port Moresby, and this number is grow ing daily,” he said.

“The question of relief work is being considered by the administra tion but this is only a partial answer.”

Mr. Marsh said the obvious solu tion was to ship the unemployed back to their villages, where they can be assured of food.

Port Moresby Police Superinten dent, Mr. W. Dix, said the incidence of petty thieving and house breaking was increasing weekly.

“We know most of these crimes are being committed by unemployed natives but they are very hard to find.

“They live with friends who steal food for them from their own employers,” Mr. Dix said.

Battle in Rabaul Area

There has been much under cover, tactical fighting in the Terri tory—mostly to the Minister’s embarrassment.

The Taxpayers had hoped that, to

(Continued on page 145)

show the strength of public feeling, no citizen would nominate for the by-elections.

If there had been no nominations, the Administration would have called again for them. Then the Taxpayers, having demonstrated the feeling of the public, would not have opposed nominations, on the second invitation.

The Administration, however, urged certain prominent citizens to nominate on August 4; and when Messrs. Fox and Thomas did so, some pretty strong feeling was shown by the Taxpayers’ supporters.

It meant that the Taxpayers also had to nominate candidates.

Mr. Thomas was President of the New Britain Branch of the NG Planters’ Association. He was asked at the annual general meet ing whether he intended to nominate for the Legislative Council. He declined to give any assurance, one way or the other.

Thereupon Mr. Dudley Jones (leader of the Taxpayers’ Associa tion) was nominated against Mr.

Thomas for the Presidency, and in the ballot Mr. Jones won.

Mr. Thomas, however, was re elected President of the New Guinea Planters’ Association, Mr. Thomas did nominate for the Council; whereupon the Taxpayers nominated Mr. J. L. Chipper to run against him.

Thereafter election campaign exchanges were bright and lively.

The Taxpayers criticised Mr.

Thomas for letting down the side, after Mr. Dudley Jones had supported the Tax Rebellion by joining Messrs. James and Downs in resigning en bloc from the Council. Mr. Thomas replied with the accusation that Mr. Dudley Jones was “politically immature”.

By Backbench[?]

pp. 22-151

Minister Should Go[?]

STRONG CRITICI[?]

fPHE Australian newspap August 27 headlined an upon Territories Minister I in the Australian Parliamt Liberal back-benchers R. C. and M. L. McColm.

Mr. Wheeler described the ment and anger of Terri tori ans the procedures followed Minister in introducing incoi ation, as he had observed it in Papua and New Guinea

and July.

Mr. McColm insisted th Hasluck had created such bad between Territorians and A tration that he should be u to another portfolio.

The following are the main made by Mr. Wheeler: A threat to security was being by the assembly, around Port Mon Rabaul, of colonies, in consideral bers. of unemployable, detribalise* —“classic breeding-ground of tro' Native labour contracts had bee* way affairs. The employer disobey peril; but there was no practical enforcing the terms of a contrac; native, if he chose to walk out.

There should be more effec: operation between the governing « Canberra and the Territorians. “ we like it or not, every white there, official or non-official, is a i tative of Australia. This is where weakness lies, particularly in our' to the non-official European pot The inept and almost disastrous of the recent income tax proposal up this very weakness. In spite 01 researches, the Canberra bun failed completely to grasp the stances and views of the private

"Locusts"!

“It is not difficult to pinpo basic weakness of our admi tion,” declared Mr. Wheeler, officials regard the private and the settlers as interior their islands paradise—me; are there on sufferance an will be eliminated in due ct; In line with that, sal Wheeler, was the Minister’s o tion of a large section of th ness community as “locusts”

The Labour Opposition si; “Hear, hear!”

“That proves my point,” ree Mr. Wheeler. “Members o applaud the term. The So believe it to be correct.”

Mr. Hasluck sharply chas Mr. Wheeler. Could he qui source of his information, of taking material fromi irresponsible newspaper.

Mr. Wheeler said the stas

(Continued on page 147)

de by the Minister when ig a conference organised Australian Institute of Science, in Canberra, in f, 1958. Mr. Hasluck had out that a large proportion iants’ sales to Territorians lanced by the growing ental expenditures in the 7] and Mr. Hasluck then nd I say quite bluntly that the people who come to me juise of solid pioneers and men of private enterprise la and New Guinea are he locusts, in the sense that gathering what they have ti”.

Hasluck interjected: Fair Wheeler said that the had later realised the lone by his unfortunate and set out to correct it eech he made at Newport ). lasluck shouted: I have lade a speech at Newport ife! ?r points by Mr. Wheeler:

p riva te enterprise was responsible for a good deal of the Territory s progress; and only by encouragement of such could the Territory reach its proper place in the economic life of the Pacific.

Pree enterprise must give service; and, in return for service, a man who risked his capital was entitled to a reasonable profit. That was the difference between Liberal philosophy and the doctrinaire views of the Socialist.

The Minister’s policies had created grave doubts in the mind of the Territorian about his future security, and it was time to re-shape and re-state the Government’s policy in relation to New Guinea There now was a serious revulsion of feeling among Territorians against Canberra control.

Mr. Wheeler recounted the

developments and incidents which

led up to the Taxation Rebellion,

and recalled that On May 12. in Parlidmonf * ■ ’ 111 Kli ’ . ® had Urged- in Vain a PUDIIC inquiry into tile whole position. There was no inquiry. c.ul. / m • White SettleiS Place 111 P-NG “What I feared has happened ” he went On “Somehnriv hnH n

Hof* Vi* v a

date (for the introduction of the taxation measures) and there COUld be no delay!

“As a result W 6 have lost the goodwill Of the European settlers and this loss Of goodwill is being conveyed inpvifnhlv tn thP nntivp meVUaDly t 0 lfie native ’ , I am convinced that the economic and political future of the Territory lies in partnership with the European settler. He will be

not as a temporary guide jtructor, but as a permanent

f the population.”

i doctrine placed upon us the re- Ity of seeing that the native was ;ated; and Australia’s administra lials had shown a great capacity ,rge this responsibility, srritory should have a representa a in the Commonwealth Parlia its present constitution, the P-NG it Council was only “a toy Parlia rrying out policy decisions made srra”. constitution was needed, to give presentation to non-official classes, opean and native, latives now were becoming traders. tax assessor had a formidable getting taxes from Chinese and lives, with their primitive book present conditions, the European pould not remain long in New “Yet everybody will admit that e settler’s influence on education, ical services, his example to the ly his mode of conduct, and his to teach them how to work and lltivate their crops, all are wanted erritory”, Wheeler ended his well ;d, sharply-pointed speech plea that the Prime Minister lenzies) should go soon to ‘rritory, and examine the n for himself.

iioval of Minister Sought

' in the session came Mr. i, with his argument that, h Mr. Hasluck was quite in his objectives—the care Ivancement of the natives — sriod of usefulness as a r for Territories had ended, position had arisen through ilete lack of good public re between Minister, Depart and Territorians. The ;r had been badly advised, ich theory had been applied ot enough practical know- McColm quoted a speech by >hop of New Guinea, on the ires followed by the Minister •oducing the Taxation Bills, >ort of his argument.

Minister has almost corn ignored this Parliament at the same time, maintain tat the final responsibility ? tax legislation lies in the of this Parliament,” said Mr. n.

McColm reviewed a series of surrounding the introduction ition in P-NG to support his hat the Minister had either adly misunderstood or poorly The Minister could very have met the people of New i and explained to them his is and the procedures he had iresent conditions continued, i, there could be a disastrous between Australia and the

Territory—and that was why he had made his very serious state ment.

Minister Defended The following day, a West Aus tralian member, Mr. F. C. Chaney, who obviously knew little about conditions in Papua and New Guinea, made a speech in which he strongly defended and warmly praised the character and ac complishments of Mr. Hasluck.

This speech was prominently dis played in the newspapers of October 30: but it had no bearing on con ditions in Papua and New Guinea.

The burden of Mr. Chaney’s song was that so long as Mr. Hasluck maintained “the confidence of the people to whom New Guinea be longed,” it didn’t matter what Terri torians or Backbenchers thought of him. (See Commentary, p. 21),

Copra Up a Little, Coconut

p. 23

REACTION TO INDONESIAN CRISIS

Copra Up a Little, Coconut Oil a Lot

Indications were, early September, that the worsening political economic situation in Indonesia was having a hardening effect he world copra market.

ITHER the effect will be a ong-term one, remains to be leen, however. Affairs have 10 confused in that country long now, with consequent ous effect on copra (and exports, that the fat and oil i is beginning to adjust itself The rise in copra price on ropean market in early Sep , could, therefore, be purely tionary. on price on August 28 was /3 2; by September 9, it had 0 £Stg.B3 per ton, c.i.f. This price was £Stg.3/15/- per ton than the August average, vhich such organisations as NG Copra Marketing Board Itimately base their August its. ie last month, the price of t oil rose in spectacular [ by about £Stg.l2 to £Stg.l3B 1 for Ceylon, and is holding ue much better than copra, [ferential between copra price iconut oil price is now far than it was five months ago. ly April. Ceylon coconut oil tg.138/10/- per ton c.i.f., Lon nd copra was £Stg.93/15/-. rise in the London copra ; in the first 10 days of Sep was reflected throughout the . The price paid by the local ig mill in Suva was adjusted is; and in other territories, copra exports are handled by i, it had the result of keep •ices firm on August rates

when many producers, basing their calculations on early August prices, had anticipated a downwards adjust ment. ki£ c| na p r ; cp Mnai mce Most Copra Boards were extremely conservative in their tentative pay ments in the first half of the year w hen copra prices were booming, and now find themselves with sufficient accumulated funds to carry them over the present fluctuating

period without lowering prices to producers.

During August, the P-NG Cop Marketing Board declared th< Board’s final price for copra de livered during January I—June 30, 1959. This is: Hotair, £ABB/14 - per ton; FMS, £AB7/14 - per ton; and Smoke, £AB7/l/6 per ton. In cold cash this means that within the next few months—by end of No vember, according to Mr. lan McDonald, CMB chairman—P-NG planters will be credited with a further £l3/14/- per ton for all the copra they delivered during that period, or £658,000 in total.

Income tax will not be payable on this; but export duty has already been taken into calculations before arriving at the final price.

The tentative price for P-NG copra, from July 1, remains, until further notice, at £A72/10/-, £A7I, and £A7O for the three grades.

G-G in Apia

p. 23

The Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Cobham, and Lady Cobham, paid a visit to Tonga, Samoa, the Tokelaus, the Cooks, and Fiji in July-August, travel ling aboard HMNZS “Royalist” and by RNZAF Sunderland flying boat on various stages of the visit.

It was the first official visit of Lord Cobham to New Zealand’s island territories and to the other territories visited. In the case of certain islands it was the first occasion of a visit by a Governor- General of New Zealand in over 20 years.

The tour concluded with the Fiji visit where Lord and Lady Cobham were the guests of Sir Kenneth Maddocks, Governor of Fiji, and of Lady Maddocks.

The Governor-General is shown here with Sister Mary Emerenti ana; at the opening of St. Mary’s Girls’ School, Apia, on August 1. —Thieme Studio Photo.

w. Samoa Chooses

p. 23

Another Step Towards Self-Government w. Samoa Chooses Prime Minister

The most important item on the agenda before the session of the Western Samoan Legislative As sembly which began in Apia on August 3, will be the election of a Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister will then choose his own Cabinet, and Cabinet Government is due to begin on October 1.

This is in line with the recom mendations of the United Nations Trusteeship Visiting Mission for smoothing the path to self-govern ment.

Originally it was intended that Cabinet Government would be in troduced after the elections next vear; the Mission, however, believed that it should be introduced before the end of this year in order to give the Samoans as long as possible to prepare for full self-government, tentatively fixed for the end of 1961.

Since the Samoa Amendment Act of 1957, when the Executive Council, first constituted as an Advisory body, became the chief instrument of policy, it has contained nine Ministers, some elected, some nominated, of whom the Hon. E. F.

Paul (one of the elected European members of the Legislative As sembly) was Leader of Government Business, Minister for Economic Development, for Marine, for Police, and Minister in Charge of the Secretariat.

Suva's Grand

p. 24

Going, Going, Gone!

PACIFIC

HOTEL: £F90,000

After some months of extra ordinary delay (see “PIM ” of June last, page 19) the price which the Government of Fiji is to pay the Union Steamship Co. Ltd. for the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva was fixed by arbitration on August 21 at £90,000.

WHEN the Union Co., at the end of 1958, gave formal notice that it would not continue the lease which it had held for 50 years, and would surrender the property to the Government, it was reported that it placed on the property a walk-in-walk-out value of £105,000 including furniture and fittings.

The Government took over the property at the end of March last and sold it to Cathay Hotels Ltd. of Singapore, the price to be what ever the Government had to pay the Company on a valuation to be agreed upon.

But Government and Company could not agree on what was “current valuation”; and so they had recourse to arbitrators.

Each side brought witnesses to give expert valuation. When three witnesses were called by the Com pany, valuations were given respec tively at £133,800, £122,110 and £98,441.

Of two witnesses called by the Government, one gave a valuation of £69,515 and another a valuation of £65,275.

Evidence of valuation was given for the Union Co. by Mr. W. A.

Gordon (New Zealand), Mr. W. A.

Marlow (of Fiji Builders Ltd., Suva) and Mr. S. A. Tetzner (of Tetzner & Bygrave). For the Government, by Suva architects G.

J. Larsen and R. H. Stephenson, and Mr. K. Singh (of Narain Con struction Co.).

Valuation was given on a number of different bases, hence the wide variation in figures.

The valuation finally arrived at was on the basis of the GPH as a building only, not as a hotel busi ness, so the question of its earning power was not considered.

However, it was stated that the tax-paid nett profits in recent years were: 1955, £14,122; 1956, £13,647; 1957, £15,443; and 1958, £17,633.

Mr. Gordon said that with a com paratively small expenditure on modernisation those earnings could be substantially increased. He con sidered that on the amount claimed by the Union Co. the profits would be such that after years the building could fall down and the

capital would still be intact.

Evidence was given that the Government had some time ago paid the Union Co. £50,000 on ac count, pending settlement of valua tion. Cathay Hotel (Fiji) Ltd. had paid the Union Co. £lO,OOO for furnishings and sundry equipment.

Hotels of the Crown Colony of Fiji Ltd. another tenderer for the

hotel, had offered £BO,OOO, included the furnishings. Thr the best firm tender.

Costs are to be paid by parties.

Although Cathay Ltd. was represented in the procee; representatives of that Co. present in the gallery durini. three-days’ hearing.

Home Base

p. 24

By Sydneyside

Sydney is the hub of the South Pacific, and its news is news. Here are some of the things that made August-Sept, headlim

TREASURER Holt’s first Fed eral Budget, presented in mid-August—it took 1J hours to deliver and sounded more like a policy speech—turned out to be a “Nothing for Nobody” effort that dashed many fond hopes and has had chain-re actions ever since. Biggest screams were about increased postal charges, especially bulk postage, which were obviously introduced without much expert advice. If persisted with, these could have put many small publishers, who depend on mail services for dis tribution, out of business.

The Government back-pedalled on some proposed increases—not the whole way, but enough to ease the burden but the full treatment remains for some items.

Ordinary postage is now up to sd; registration is 2/- instead of 1 6; parcels post is up 20 per cent. Telephone rentals are up, so are trunk-line calls Within a couple of weeks of presenting this brainchild to the nation, Mr. Holt left for London and the Commonwealth Financial Conference where he, no doubt, is showing them how to make budgets and infuriate people. * * * THE FEVER: In Australia’s biggest-yet take-over bid (it’s epidemic at present), H. C. Sleigh Ltd., made a close to £l2 million offer for Adelaide Steamship Co.

Ltd. No dice. * * *

THE STRONG LOOK: Schoon

ers, middies and ponies (all beer glass sizes, in case you are un instructed) will soon be coming in different shapes in Sydney pubs.

Designers have been hard at work designing new glasses that are not so accident-prone. Estimated wastage from breakages (and other causes), in NSW hotels is 800,000 dozen per year. * * *

CULTURE V FINANCE: The

Sydney Opera House of re volutionary design, still just a hole in the ground at Benelong

Point, will open for business January, 1963, according to ever-hopfful Premier Ca Some optimists have alre booked it for a function in Ma 1963, notwithstanding the that we are still around million short of the £3>. mil needed to build it. (Austn Day, in January, 1963, marks 175th anniversary of the fou ing of the first European set ment in Australia.) * * *

MOST DISTINGUISE

VISITOR: She was, of cou Princess Alexandra, who loa in for a week after official du at the Queensland Centerr Celebrations. As in Queensls the emphasis was on youth, suit the Princess’ 22 years, i on democracy. Civic fathers I lined up an impressive stn of typists, under-graduai plumbers, nurses, and facti workers to meet her. It t probably a pleasant change fr the usual collection of fudl duddies and politicians. * * *

ALSO VISITING US: And s

via the Queensland Centenj Celebrations, the Luton Gii Choir—or 50 members of sarm dressed in identical outfits fr identical cream suitcases. TI were welcomed at the airport September 6 by frantic fans, cameras and a guard of Man ing Girls in assorted sizes. * * * DEPARTED; On September) The Kangaroos representatl Rugby League team for a fa months tour of UK and Fran * * *

THE THINGS THEY THII

OF: People have been buyi commercial-type vehicles (161 sales tax), complete with “static wagon conversion kits” and escaping the 30% sales tax passenger vehicles. They wen but not for much long* Treasurer Holt will soon introdv legislation to plug this leak the public purse.

By Lakshman

p. 25

Company Accepts New Basic Wage Fiji Sugar Industry Still Menaced By Lakshman

In a public announcement on August 27, in Fiji, the alonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. said that it would accept the commendation of the recent Board of Inquiry into wages in e sugar industry in Fiji, and would increase all wages by 1 per hour, as from April 23 last.

DER this arrangement, the asic hourly wage would be 1/8, s recommended by the Board. ; Company formally announced as the wage had been fixed lengthy inquiry, further wage ases would not be agreed to te Company for some years. ; Board, in its recent report, a number of recommendations he creation of machinery de d to prevent further clashes sen the Fiji Sugar Industry oyees’ Union, which is directed r. D. B. Lakshman,as president, he CSR Co., in regard to wages working conditions. ; CSR Co. has suggested that ipresentatives should meet the sentatives of the Union in il conference on September 28, ek ways and means of imple ing the Board’s recommenda and a “Master agreement lintain peace in the industry”. 3 recommendation is that :rs affecting sugar workers ally should be discussed and ed by the central executive littee of the Union, under nstances which ensure that all hes should be heard the b of this obviously being that major decisions should not be i in future by one man (Mr. iman) as frequently has been ase in the past. attitude of Mr. Lakshman b following day, in a long nent filled with querulous lent, Mr. Lakshman questioned ,ction of the CSR Co. in making [inouncement the previous day >ut consultation with him, le indicated disagreement with indings of the board, his statement he repeatedly ided the people concerned although a majority of the d recommended an increase in s of 3d per hour and a basic of 1/8, a minority of the Board Indian member) recommended icrease of lOd per hour and a rate of 2/3. e indications are that Mr. hman will hold a series of meet with members of his Union re the conference on September md, if his statement published

on August 29 is any guide, any gen eral settlement of industrial matters as between the Company and the Union on September 28 will not be easily achieved.

A situation could develop out of these events which would place a pretty severe test upon the Gov ernorship of Sir Kenneth Maddocks.

The Government has been much embarrassed by industrial unrest in the Fiji sugar industry in recent years.

The appointment of the Board of Inquiry into wages under Mr.

Honeyman, a London barrister, rep resented the Government’s attempt to ascertain the justice of Mr.

Lakshman’s wages claim, before taking any drastic action to put an end to the industrial agitation in the sugar-mill areas, which is be lieved to be both irresponsible and Communist in its origin.

That confection is a cake —a wedding-cake— about to be cut by the bride, Mrs. Keith Spooner (nee Pame'a Gilmer), at a reception given at South Pacific Commission Headquarters, Noumea. The couple had been married in a civil ceremony by the Australian Consul, Mr.

Rodney Hodgson, and was the first marriage ever performed by an Australian Consul in Noumea. The religious ceremony was at the beautiful Eglise des Voeux. The young couple are both working in Noumea —the groom as an off-set printer; and the bride at the SPC.

Photo: F. E. Dunn.

More Ship Trouble

p. 25

in BSIP

The BSIP’s run of shipping bad luck is continuing. On September 9, when on a voyage to Auki, on Malaita. the Margery was rammed by Kovala off Florida.

Details are sketchy as we go to press, but it is believed that the accident happened about 3 a.m., that Margery was sunk but Kovala was un damaged. All cargo is reported lost from Margery, but 47 passengers and crew were taken off. Kovala was, at that stage, reported to be search ing for wreckage.

The BSIP Government lost its modern ship Melanesian in mysterious circumstances in July, 1958. Betua was lost when searching for her. A few months ago, Coral Queen, when just a few months out of her Hongkong maker’s hands was damaged on a New Guinea reef and was out of commission for several months.

Get Together

p. 25

Islands Agents Get Together

Australian islands agents have recently formed an or ganisation which they have called Island Agents’ Association.

The new Association has drawn up a list of objects, first and fore most of which (apart from mutual help) is “To promote and develop trade and goodwill between Aus tralia and the Pacific Islands”.

The executive operates from Sydney (the Hon. Sec. can be contacted through GPO Box 1901, Sydney), and the majority of foundation members have Sydney headquarters, but agents anywhere in Australia who operate in the Pacific are eligible.

Some of the member companies have roots that go right back to the beginning of organised com merce in the Pacific; others have more recently come upon the scene, but all are what their name implies the agent between the Island resident who wants to buy some thing or sell something, and Aus tralian commerce, and as such they have a unique and traditional place in the Islands scheme of things.

First office bearers are; Chairman Mr C. E. Tait; Vice-Chairman Mr C. Sullivan; Honorary Secretary Mr G D. Millar; Assistant Hon.

Secretary Mr. E. F Sharpe; Honorary Treasurer Mr. D. G.

Fraser; Assistant Hon. Treasurer Mr. P. Jackett.

Commentary

pp. 27-28

irt Appeal Now

G's Only Hope

TAIN occurrences —or lack of une—in the Australian Parlia ient and Press, in relation to 5 in Papua and New Guinea iscussed in an article on page ititled “Strange News Black m P-NG Tax Rebellion”, lerto, the residents of the cry, suffering the arrogance the contempt of Australian ter Hasluck, have been sure they had only to expose the ter in his true colours, and and Parliament would rush to aid. They put their faith in rime Minister and in certain apers. r, they know better, ti the exception of a very small of Parliamentarians (who, in turn, are kept more or less essed by the MenzieS Party), ment and Press apparently ganged up to defeat the Tax lion. “The trouble in New a was promoted by ratbags— i it and you will kill it”, rs to be their policy. ;ver a people had right and j on their side, they are the ; of Papua and New Guinea, decided to resist the high id, dictatorial methods of Mr. ck. They were completely ed in every step they have Mr. Hasluck, through his ates in the Menzies Cabinet, is friends in the leading Aus ti newspapers, has succeeded in ing a news black-out. The fiian people literally know ig of what has been happen

i P-NG.

ticians and newspapers, partly ?h ignorance, partly by design, created the impression that [’erritorians are resisting in tax. Nothing could be further the truth —as is shown by the y of the events of the last months. le esteemed Territorians in August disapproved the Tax s’ challenge to the Papua and Guinea Act, before the High ;n, perhaps, they had some ication. They believed that and Parliament surely would to their aid. Now, we hope, see the situation in clearer i Territorians have only one left—namely, an appeal to the :s. As they cannot get help Press and Parliament, on the ids of justice, they at least can

force the issue by challenging the validity of the laws under which they are being oppressed.

Territorians now, while sniping at the Government through the Legis lative Council by-elections, should stand solidly behind the Taxpayers’

Association in its appeal to the highest constitutional authority.

This thing may not end in the High Court. Even if the High Court finds for the Taxpayers, Canberra —in its present temper probably would carry the appeal on to the Privy Council. * * *

What Follows Burns

Report in Fiji

THE Burns Commission of Inquiry into Fiji’s fundamental problems is practically ended, and a re port of great significance now is awaited. (See news article on page 47).

Those who have followed events in Fiji over many years now hope that, in 1960, Britain will make two major moves in relation to Fiji, namely— • A sum of at least £2O millions will be made available for develop mental purposes in Fiji. • There will be a serious effort made to promote a closer relation ship between Fiji’s basic interests (the Fijian community, the Indian community, and the huge invest ment there of Australian capital) and the future development of primary and secondary industries through instrumentalities made available by Britain.

If those moves are made, based on the report and recommendations which Sir Alan Burns is expected to produce, there is no real reason why they should not succeed. Everything will depend upon the competency of the British Colonial Office people and the nature of the co-operation given by the three basic interests who must implement the report, referred to.

The spirit of co-operation and mutual goodwill already is present in the Colony. It is the task of the British Colonial Office to shape and harness It Our great fear at the present time is that the British Colonial Office, embarrassed by its more acute problems in Africa and elsewhere, will not appreciate the urgency of Fiji’s problems, and will dither witn them as it has dithered for the last couple of decades.

It is vital to the success of any new moves, based on the Burns

Commission’s findings, that the Colonial Office make available tn Fiji the services of competent men The shaping of Fiji’s future admin istration and development is no task for stiff-necked bureaucrats or semi superannuated office-holders. Fiji in the past, has had, as its chief executives, some superbly good men. and some of deplorable calibre. On this occasion, the Colonial Office must give us of its best.

The alternative which surely will follow continued population growth and unavailability of land— does not bear thinking about. * * *

Territorions Don't Matte.

—They Only Have To Pay

WEST AUSTRALIAN Liberal

Member of Australia’s Federal Parliament, Mr. F. C. Chaney, was talking through his hat when, in defending Territories Minister Hasluck in Parliament in Canberra in late August, he said that so long as the Minister can retain the con fidence of the “people to whom the Territory rightly belongs”, it matters little what his critics think.

Three-quarters of the natives of Papua-New Guinea have never heard of Mr. Hasluck: and of the re mainder, only a tiny minority would have any opinion on whether they had “confidence” in him or not.

Most of them are confident that Australia and the P-NG Adminis

tration will do the right thing by them, but individual Ministers mean nothing.

If Prime Minister Menzies were to take complete leave of his political senses and give Labour member E. J. Ward back his old job, it would cause no crisis amongst the native population. And the European and Chinese communities might even like it.

One thing that can be said in favour of Mr. Ward’s regime is that, at the end of it, he was so taken up with more personal affairs at home in Australia that he allowed the Ad ministration in Port Moresby to have some say in running the Terri tory.

That has changed since Mr.

Hasluck took office. Everything is now run from Canberra. Legislation is framed there, and then forced through the P-NG Legislative Coun cil by official members who are specifially forbidden to vote accord ing to their consciences. If voting were by secret ballot in P-NG Legco, then Mr. Hasluck’s taxation bill would have been defeated at the outset.

It is a well-known fact that several of the official members of the P-NG Legco petitioned the Gov ernor-General about voting on the taxation issue as they thought fit; and were instructed that they must vote according to official policy.

The tax fight is a long story, with scores of side issues. Mr. Hasluck over-simplifies it now when he answers all criticism by saying that P-NG tax is about half the Aus tralian rate, and company tax is only 4 - in the £. The newspapers follow his line and the public swallows it whole. The implication is that Territorians are escaping their civil obligations and making a big fuss about nothing.

The principal of income taxation has not been the point of con troversy. Nor has the initial rate — although what it is five years from now will be more interesting than what it is today.

Had Mr. Hasluck made one con ciliatory move towards meeting Territorians’ request for an in dependent inquiry on the whole Territory taxing system, the tax war would never had proceeded to the ridiculous stage it has reached to day, when the validity of the whole Papua-New Guinea Act is in ques tion before the High Court.

But, in this, as in other things, Mr. Hasluck adopted his Mother - Knows-Best attitude, refused to listen to men who have had years of experience in the Territory, and, as a result, Australian-type income tax, with all its ramifications of Pay-As-You-Earn, provisional tax and undistributed profits tax, has been introduced.

The Australian system is one of

the most vicious and most com plicated in the world. Australians have grown up with it, yet it needs experts who have devoted years to its study to interpret aspects of it.

The task of introducing income tax to the Territory—if income tax were found necessary—would have been far simpler and less disrupting to a primitive territory not yet emerged from the frontier stage, if the comparatively simple, straight forward systems of neighbouring Solomon Islands, or Fiji, or Singa pore, had been used as a pattern.

Mr. Hasluck may be a knight in shining armour to his Parliamentary colleagues, but to Territorians he is the most unpopular Minister they ever have had. According to Mr.

Chaney, what the White Territori ans thing doesn’t matter. But does this childish piece of political rhetoric bear analysis?

The 18,000 Europeans—over 3,000 of them Public Servants—and the approximately 3,000 Chinese in the Territory, are the only elements that save the Territory from being a stone-age wilderness. They make up the nice comfortable base from which Ministers can shape their policies for enlightening the savages, and for thus standing well in the eyes of such august bodies as the United Nations.

Even people like Messrs. Hasluck and Chaney must, in their more private moments, concede that those 20,000 non-indigenes of P-NG have their uses. * * *

Britain Dashes into

A General Election

BRITAIN rushes to the polls on October 8 —although Parlia ment’s life does not expire until May, 1960. Why the haste?

Britain has had a nice, warm, dry summer. She is better in condition, economically, than at any time since war came in 1939. Labour politics have not flourished under the gentlemanly Mr. Gaitskell and the now worn-out Welsh tiger, Aneurin Bevan.

Betting in London is four to one on the Conservatives.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the Party!

By May next, electoral purring could turn to public snarling—and the dreaded Socialists might get back into power.

At present, the state of Parties is: Conservatives, 339; Labour, 277; Liberals, 6; Independents, 2; and there are 6 vacancies.

Domestic issues are completely overshadowed by international affairs. There are more men and

more armaments battle-reac Europe today than ever bef« peace-time. The Cold War sit is improving; but everyc Europe knows that one inca move could start the shooting shooting would mean the j obliteration of mankind am works.

Even if there is no shootin morrow’s problems are f u terrors—how to feed a world p« tion that is rapidly doubling how to keep the factories ru in the face of Europe’s new mon Market; how to meet surging nationalism in Asia Africa.

Above all, how to meet the trating challenge of Muscovite munism.

For, despite the dove-like cs Mr. Krushchev, the Cold Wa, is on. No need for shooting, Moscow, while Communists finding new friends in every W* country.

The Big Boys behind the s are going to point out that P Macmillan has shown a quie; expected degree of skill and ni n g in handling interna* affairs, to Britain’s advantage; that the job should be left ii hands.

Unless something unexpected up in the five short weeks be'; announcement and electiop, tH what the British will do.

BSIP Gets A La Perouse Relic

p. 27

La Perouse Relic

Henderson Airfield, on Tues day, August 18 (a week before Lunga Bridge collapsed), was busier than usual. Immediately after the take-off of the Qantas DCS, on its weekly return flight to Lae, a French Lancaster landed from Noumea.

During its overnight stay in Honiara, Captain Brossart, the Commander of the Naval Bass, Noumea, who was a passenger on the ’plane, made a formal presentation to Mr. M. D. I.

Gass, Acting High Commissioner.

The presentation was in the form of a Cannonball, recently recovered from the Astrolabe by the expedition which has been operating in Vanikoro waters over the past several months.

The Cannonball is mounted on a 7-in. squade wooden base and is inscribed “ AST ROLOBE 1788, TIARE 1959”, the “Tirre’ be ing the French patrol vessel which recovered several relics from the “ Astrolabe” during the recent expedition.

After

p. 28

Palmerston, Six Mon[?] After

The cruising-yacht familz Fergusons, of the Ame\ yacht “Te Matangi, called Palmerston Island in Jut their voyage between Rarot and Nukualofa, to find the u Marsters clan living on fish coconuts and still waiting relief promised after the J ary hurricane.

It appears that Palme r was hit by the gales that la various parts of the Pacifi that time, and they were o £lOO by the New Zealand 7 ernment to buy relief food\ In July, when the Fergu were there, they were still v ing for a ship to bring it. last vessel they had seen in October, 1958.

Because of Marsters ’ ht hood, they haven't starved it has been a long wait wit the essentials which most pe take as a matter of course.

The Fergusons left them i they could, and took their to post in Nukualofa.

The Editors' Mailbag

pp. 29-31

dais Destroyed

Hagen Memorial

e paragraphs about the Hagen unent which appeared in this in in May and August have fht along, from a reader, this >graph of what remains of the Hagen memorial gravestone at djim, in the Madang District, Guinea. The photo was taken 51. \ large bronze German eagle, i used to grace the top of it, een torn off, and as the August told, the eagle is now in the ssion of the District Com jner Western Highlands, at Mt. q. who has plans for it. don’t know what the plans >ut it seems clear enough that monument should be put ler again, either by re-erecting igle on its base, at Bogadjim; or iking the base to Mt. Hagen erecting the whole thing there, we understand it, the Bogadjim >rial marked the actual grave >unt von Hagen, variously de id as German New Guinea’s ; governor” and as the “man of the old New Guinea Com when NG affairs were run by Chartered Company. He died is one version has it, was ered by a native), and buried )gadjim around 1890. this being so, there is good “ical reason for leaving the lete monument at Bogadjim. tie other hand, Bogadjim is a visited spot 20 miles south of ng on Astrolabe Bay, so it ) serve history better if the i thing were re-erected where i be seen, at Mt. Hagen, which tamed for the Count—although is never there, of course. Some )f plaque could then be erected igadjim to tell the story and the grave. ; reader who sent this photo ;hat he knew the Hagen monu before the war and that when sited the spot in 1951 he was sted to find it broken. Local es told him that the eagle had deliberately broken off by a >ean —a Territorian—at the end e war, and removed, n in the knowledge that some ils did recently deface the new s t Watchers’ Memorial at an g with anti-income tax as, it is hard to believe that in the fervour of war-time )tism, any European Territorian I deliberately destroy a piece eal history in this way. tie time after our reader had i this photograph, he happened in Madang, and there saw on

a shop verandah, mixed up with old bits of junk, the bronze eagle from the broken Hagen memorial. The proprietor of the establishment didn’t seem to know what it was and our reader could get no satis faction.

Presumably at some later stage still, someone else recognised the bronze for what it was, and rescued it. Now it is at Mt. Hagen in the care of the DC, who has promised us another chapter in the story.

In the meantime, perhaps some other reader can supply a photo graph of what the memorial looked like when it was complete, as erected 70 years ago by the family of Count von Hagen.

Was that Abemama

Wreck the "Tambo"?

The old wreck from which the Abemama missionary was able to salvage a serviceable anchor after 40 years (PIM, July, p. 112), may have been the old BP vessel Tambo, 450 tons, wrecked when entering Abemema, G & EIC, in September, 1919, according to Captain Brett Hilder. The stories are a little dif ferent (the mystery ship was supposed to have been wrecked dur ing a dark night in 1915, when heading south from Tarawa) but stories do change after 40 years and there cannot be too many steamer wrecks littering the Abemama reefs. (Or can there?) Captain Hilder says; “The main passage into Abemama atoll is, as is usual, towards the centre of the western side, and at sunrise the ship has to head directly into the rising sun to keep in the passage. This is very uncomfortable for navigation, and on my only visit to Abemama, in December, 1948, I decided to enter just before sunrise. This was in the mv Muliama on a recruiting voyage, when my Chief Officer was K. A.

Tschaun, who had been a BP Master in the Gilberts when the Tambo was wrecked.

“I knew that he disapproved when I decided to try to enter the atoll at that time,, and as we arrived off the entrance I saw the boiler and main engine of a wrecked ship in the breakers on the reef.

“Recalling the early history of BP ships, I said ‘That must be the Tambo; how did she get wrecked?’

“The Chief Officer’s reply, under the circumstances, struck me as unconsiously funny as he tragically intoned: ‘Trying to get in early in the morning “According to your July story, your wrecked ship was making from Tarawa to some southern islands,

and this suggests that she may have been lost on the northern side of Abemama, in which case she was not the Tambo.”

Tonga's First Anglicans

Battle it Out

Mrs. Clara Elizabeth Cameron, nee Cocker, now of Queensland, returns to the attack and says that the first Anglican service was held in Nukualofa in the “tin shed” (June PIM, p. 27) ; and that Mr. J.

D. Whitcombe’s service (Sept. PIM, p. 27) was probably the second.

The tin shed, on the property of Mango Cottage, in Nukualofa, was the first established Church of England there, according to Mrs.

Cameron. The second Church of England was on the property of Dr MacLennan, then Government Doctor. It was here that Bishop Willis held services when he went from Honolulu to visit Nukualofa.

Mrs. Cameron goes on: “The third Church of England used also as a C of E School was behind the house of Kupu, grand father of Queen Salote. Across the road, on the right, was the property of Mr. Becker. .

“Dr. MacLennan lived in Pi Kula Road during the time of the first and second C of E. Later he lived in Fogoloa, on the beach. This had been the property of my grand father, Joshua Cocker, Snr., and it was there that he flew the first Union Jack from his coconut-tree flagpole, as the first British Repre sentative in Tonga.

“Before these Fogoloa days, King George Tupou I had granted him half of the Palace grounds and he built his house where the Royal Chapel now stands.” (Over)

What remains of the von Hagen memorial at Bogadjim. Who broke off the eagle? (See opposite.)

an Emma's Store

NG BOP

. J. Bryan, of Rere Plantation, ialcanal, BSIP, corroborates Tolala had to say about the tebaul store, a picture of which ired in the July and August ?: Originally Queen Emma myth’s establishment, it ended 5 the Rabaul Times office and blasted to pieces by Allied ers during World War 11. additional piece of informa from Mr. Bryan is that dur the German days, the upper p was used for the prepara and packing of bird-of lise, goura pigeon and osprey BS. ere has been no export of plumes since those days ough there probably is a r trade in them now than to supply natives with bigger better head-dresses) but it jommon talk in the Territory ;en the wars, that some of the German plantations were ed up on the proceeds of

of-paradise exports.

Hat That

n't Wally's

>■ Jan Croft, who has, in recent hs, been in the throes of fer from Daru, Papua, to New Guinea, returns to the ment controversies which we n March. She writes: ; first Mrs. Maidment did die aru Island, sometime in 1927, Wally, who died a few months > buried alongside her. She did, ding to the present Mrs. Maid , suffer agony with a skin com t, as Mr. Nixonwestwood de

scribed; a remedy was suggested and tried; she did go to Australia for treatment; but did most definitely return and died in Daru, of black water! I have a photograph of her grave and one also showing Wally’s grave alongside.

Now to Wally’s topper (also de scribed in March issue, page 87). I can only think that there must have been two hats although the one discovered amongst Wally’s possessions, at his death, I have now been told by Lucy Maidment, belonged to her father and was worn by him at his wedding. Lucy brought it with her to Papua on the occasion of her marriage to Wally at the Tamate Chalmers Memorial Church.

It seems that the other “hat” was a bowler and was used for more purposes than was intended, but it certainly wasn’t the one bought at the Exhibition in Sydney in 1893.

Perhaps it would be interesting to know where the “other” is today?

The “topper” is in an excellent state of preservation and in the same box in which it was purchased.

Over to you Mr. Nixonwestwood!

Open It

p. 31

M. Soustelle Will Open It

M. Jacques Soustelle, Assist ant Minister to the French Premier, M. Debre, and gener ally recognised to be close to President de Gaulle, will arrive in Noumea, New Caledonia on September 19 to open the £lO million Yate Dam (above). M. Soustelle will spend about eight days in New Caledonia and will then go on to Tahiti where he will spend a similar period before return ing to France.

May Suffer

p. 31

Import Restrictions Off Australia's Market In N. Guinea May Suffer

The action of the Australian

Government in removing import

restrictions from Papua and New

Guinea, and at the same tinn

reducing import duties on a num

ber of lines from September 1

has caused some stir among mer

chants operating in that Terri

tory.

r[E Territory annually imports goods worth about £2O millions Of that, about £l3 millions ha been from Australia, £ll million from Britain, about £2 million from the United States, about £h million from Hongkong, about £] million from Japan, and nearly £1 millior from Indonesia.

It now is expected that Australian manufacturers will meet sharpe competition from the manufacturers of other countries —especially Asian countries.

For example, in an open marker Japan sells motor tyres for £2 per tyre less than can Australian manu facturers.

That will apply now to many manufactured articles in common use.

This will direct more attention to the high shipping freight rates between Australia and Papua-New Guinea, The rates from Australia to Fiji, for example, are about 60 per cent. less. This places a severe handicap on the sale of Australian goods in New Guinea.

Some commentators say that it is only fair that there should be open competition in the New Guinea market between manufacturers from all countries, so that thei New Guinea residents may get full benefit therefrom.

But others argue that, as the Aus tralian taxpayer is asked to pay at least £l3 million per annum as a free gift or subsidy to the Territory of P-NG, the Australian merchants and manufacturers—who represent a large section of the taxpayers— should be given corresponding pro tection in the Territory.

One fundamental trade principle in the old Mandated Territory days was that all countries should have equal opportunities of trade.

Although Papua now has Customs union with NG, this is probably the basis of the fact that P-NG has no “preferential” tariff for imports from British countries.

The matter probably will receive some attention in the Common wealth Parliament.

Territories Talk-Talk

pp. 35-37

By Tolala

Such a question as that the Buka people asked me in )12 was, in a German Colony, dynamite. I brushed it off as lickly as I could.

C Kandrian (New Britain) atives, who are “eager to wel ome back the Americans,” ding to District Officer West ported in The Rahaul Times time ago, reminded me of Buka people. When I first *d there, in that year, I was „ in all seriousness, by native rs: “When are the English re ag?” ;re was not, of course, at that any grounds for such an as tion on the part of the natives, angely enough, however, a few [is later W. H. Lucas, on board rim schooner Sideia, with old I W. J. Buckley as skipper, id in Kieta and started out ;ting land on Bougainville, gly assisted by Kiap Doellinger. s a starting point of Choiseul ations Ltd. which has proved a lucrative concern. ‘ enquiring natives came to ;ain, following the Lucas tour.

You see,” they said, “Now are the English coming?” it was in December, 1912. In nber, 1914, the Meklong, filled Australian troops, came to and Bougainville was occupied.

I met some of those Buka ■ais. They smiled knowingly: it did we tell you? We knew were coming!” you know? Of was it wishful Lng? Or extra sensory faculty? now: What of the Kandrian s? It would be amusing if were so endowed.

Willie Dupain

)ther one of the BP Old School )assed on with the death at s, last month, of Willie Dupain. ad been manager of the com s Cairns branch for many years, iras also well known through he Pacific, wherever the BP flew: The Solomons, New 3a and Papua branches had all under his management at one or another during the past 40 or so, and Willie and his at ve wife, Muriel, were well n as popular hosts in the true 1 sense. started off as an office boy for i. Lucas, of the Island Depart , graduating to supercargo on i vessels —even as WHL had before him. I first met him

when he boarded the Matunga at Faisi in 1915, he was bound for Rabaul to re-establish the Old Firm’s business there after the Ger man years. He was manager there during most of the Occupation Years; he was still there in 1920. He will be missed by the old-timers who recall his good fellowship; they will turn down an empty glass.

The Tale Can Now Be Told We have had several detailed official and unofficial accounts of the Pacific War affecting New Guinea and Papua. David Selby gave us a good account of the frustration experienced during the retreat from Rabaul in his Hell Fire and High Fever.

Canon James Benson, in his Prisoner's Base and Home Again, lifted the lid from many phases of conditions on his retreat from Gona and his life as an internee in Rabaul.

Several official histories describe the ups and downs of that tragic campaign, mostly the major opera tions, but, so far as I am aware, there has been no story told of those several mysterious disappearances of civilian internees in Rabaul, What happened to them? And Why?

With Japanese records available now we should know the circum stances, however grim they may have been, surrounding the dis appearance from our ken of those internees such as Albert Evensen, Bill Korn et al; of Vic Pratt and his party that were last seen at a Rabaul street corner in August, 1942; of Lassul Harvey and his comrades, including his wife.

And what of the civilians at Kavieng; Whitehead, Topal and his young son and others? What of the actual sinking of the prison ship Monte Video Maru, with all those precious lives aboard? What was the score there? And what of the circumstances surrounding the last moment reprieve of T. C. Wee from the firing squad in the Botanic Gardens, Rabaul, of his eventual journey to his South Coast planta tion and drowning when going ashore in a canoe?

Surely the tale can now be told.

And, in the telling—who knows.

it m ay be a guide for future generations and the pitfalls thev should avoid.

Old Territorians—

Where Are They?

In last month’s PIM, Sanas mentions South Australia being alive with ex-P-NG people (p, 36) but I notice that his old-timers are all Papuans.

This is understandable, no doubt as he is essentially imbued with Papuan interests, although he spent some time in NG after War I, Let’s add to his SA list of residents: Basil Challis, a wel'known identity of the Department of Agriculture in Rabaul pre-war; he played about with meteorologica balloons at one period.

Then there is the scion of an ole: Territorian family, Oscar Rondahh who married and settled “some where” in South Aussie; nor must we forget that inimitable, happy hard-case identity, Bill Heinicke, who for his work during the 1937 eruption, collected a BEM.

It was Bill who headed the march of the first Rabaul Contingent to leave for War 11. I still recall his proud, martial mien as Company RSM he stepped it out as the men marched down to the Rabaul wharf where they embarked for the Middle East, via Queensland.

In 1945 I saw Bill again and the crown had been raised from his arm to his shoulder; he was a full-blown major. (I wonder where he is now?) Dr. and Mrs. D. M. Deland are also now in SA.

Another ex-NGite, who made SA his home, was lan Grabowski, the man who pioneered Air Beef in Australia for an ANA associate company, but before that carried out the Dredge Lift from Lae to Bulolo as manager of Guinea Airways.

Well do I remember the fight he put up in the Rabaul Legco to re tain air-lifts when the Salamaua- Wau Road question was under dis cussion in 1936.

There are two identities in West Australia: Jimmy Twycross (of

> and Tom McAdam. one-time itor of Customs, following r phibbs, and previously a DO ivieng and Kieta. [ the others? Most of them ig roses on the Sydney North or bananas in Queensland or >rn NSW, with a good quota away the days in some ious Victorian suburb.

esians

ropos of the statement in last i’s PIM (p. 141) dealing with tiesians” and Brig. Cleland’s ncy in giving it the green The term “Euronesian” was publicised locally in Rabaul in the early ’thirties and it from the critical pen of a lady, Mrs. Jane T. Wallace, sed to write contentious and ative letters to the editor of cal paper berating the gov nt in no uncertain terms. the Mr. Lewerissa who it up the subject in the Rabaul must surely be one of the which originally came from na in the early days, and if xed blood surely the word an would be more applicable, aging times seem to make more self-conscious of race —in English, at any rate — jr it is the same in other ,ges I wouldn’t have a clue. I somehow, we can overdo this mistic nomenclature.

Truck—

ravel"

Richard Boone heading, a ality on page 82 of PIM, for ;, starts a train of thought: jUCK —WILL STAY, in view recent attempts to dislodge istralian Territories’ Minister )ffice. en think, when perusing some jse tirades directed against tie Hasluck, that he has many to carry which by right be borne by the sometime g Permanent Bureaucrats of partment; a department, by ly, described by one P. D. Day ■gely superfluous and a waste money”. I couldn’t more with Mr. Day. But why out that particular govern department amongst so many could come under the same ry?

Day quotation from the :k 1947 speech: “I cannot that the Public Service or •art of it can ever become rsonal possession of one Min . . .” probably reddened the erial features even if he was referring to Doc Evatt, who ed the box-seat in External 5 at that time. , Mr. Hasluck, with all his , could be as good as the we don’t know and, cut down e, better than a lot we have i the past. Even such popular

Territory Ministers as Billy Hughes and Charlie Marr were pains-in the-neck at times.

The Forgotten People

It seems that the Baining planters are still as much neglected now as hi past years ( PIM, Aug. p. 5).

And no one should know better than Jock Maclean; he’s been on Rang arere now for over 30 years. It was in the ’2o’s that Malcolm Ellis (“Ek Dum” of the Bulletin ), special writer for the Sydney Daily Tele graph, put the area on the map as being neglected and forgotten when he wrote a series of articles lambasting the Exproboard for mal administration and red-tape.

In those days there was a bridle track of sorts that meandered through the district from New Massawa as far as Gavite (with a few gaps) but this closely-settled area, since the early 1900’s when German farmers were brought up from Queensland, has never re ceived the attention it should have.

True, in 1906, the German govern ment did make a move, following the massacre at the St. Paul mission, by making some of the offending natives terrace the hills of Old Massawa, which was then a Neu Guinea Kompagnie plantation.

The main trouble has been that most of the planters have had their own water transport to Rabaul, and the government has thought “That’s good enough”.

Bits and Pieces Snooker enthusiasts in Rabaul were disappointed at the cancella tion of Horace Lindrum’s visit to the town. The “tour was not extensive enough”. Horace was given a great reception in the old New Guinea Club one night back in the early thirties. He was passing through on an E & A boat from the East.

The Rev. D. C. McCaw, former rector of a church at Enfield (NSW) and a War II bomber pilot, will fly a single-engined plane for the Missionary Aviation Fellowship in NG, serving 24 mission centres.

This is the sort of blah that gives a misconception of life in P-NG. It’s culled from a Sydney society column; “With 100 native boys to help round the house Elaine Grove, of Strathfield, will have few chores to do in her plantation home in New Guinea”. Her destination, after her wedding, is a plantation on New Ireland, where hubby-to-be is a manager, (Who’s going to cut that copra?) , The Women’s College at the Syd ney University is erecting a memorial to its former College principal, Miss Camilla Wedgwood. They are seek ing donations. P-NG educational in terests might shell out a few bob.

Authropologist Wedgwood did some good work up there; despite her ivory-tower ideas, she was also

quite practical.

Information For

p. 35

The Masses

An extract from Canberra Parliamentary proceedings that is typical : “When did the Government com mence negotiations for the disposal of its interest in the New Guinea Resources Prospecting Company? asked Mr. Ward, in the Australian Parliament.

Mr. Hasluck: May, 1957.

“What is the present position in respect of this matter?” persisted Mr. Ward.

Mr. Hasluck: Negotiations are still proceeding.

Follow-Up Visit

pp. 39-41

Advice for NG Coffee Producers Hawaii Expert Is Back On Follow-Up Visit

Considerable changes have taken place in the New Guinea [fee industry since the first visit there of Hawaiian coffee pert, Professor Y. Baron Goto, 3i years ago. His second it, which will commence on September 29, will be interesting r him and, without any doubt, again profitable for the Terri ry’s coffee producers whom he will advise.

GOTO is Senior Professor of griculture and Director of the gricultural Extension Service j University of Hawaii. Prime • in his second NG visit, as in jst, is Mr. R. A. Colyer, of r Watson Pty. Ltd. and Colyer >n (NG) Ltd. The expenses of ioto’s current visit are being i by the Colyer Watson com s and by the Bank of New . Wales. i first visit by the professor sponsored by Colyer Watson Ltd., the Bank of NSW, Mr. hinting, the Commonwealth and the Highland Farmers’

Settlers’ Association.

Sydney, in early September, R. A. Colyer said that this d visit of the Hawaiian expert st a logical development of the Special stress will be placed, is visit, on processing coffee — e course of which, of course, rfect crop of beans can be d into a very inferior finished ict. *ing his visit in early 1956, Dr. visited 87 NG coffee planta the majority of which were not in full bearing. In the ig year 1955-56, Papua-New ea was exporting at the rale of >ns of coffee p.a., all but about 10 of it from the New Guinea side.

It is expected that production this year will be about 900 tons; and next year 1,350 tons, after which, on present plantings, the production should remain about static —if some thing is not done to boost yield.

Highlands Altered the Picture Although there was some interest in coffee growing before the war, it was regarded mostly as an agricul tural alternative to copra during its decade of low prices. As an altern ative to copra, this coffee had to be the low-lands, or Robusta, type.

However, during the middle and late 1930’5, a flourishing coffee estate, planted up from Arabica seed obtained from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica was estab lished at Wau, by the late C. L. B.

Wilde. In 1940-41, 71 tons of coffee of all varieties were exported from the Mandated Territory.

Then the war came and during it, about 80 per cent, of the low lands coffee was destroyed.

After the war the availability of the Highlands, which had been closed to European settlement since their discovery in 1933, put a dif ferent complexion on NG coffee growing. But in the early stages, it was largely a matter of trial and error.

The climate of the Highlands at elevations between 5,000 feet and 6,500 feet, was believed to be similar to that of the coffee-producing areas of East Africa: the soil seemed reasonably fertile; there was the example of the Wau coffee plant ation, at an elevation of 3,500 feet, which turned out a promising pro duct.

Those were the known factors. In dividuals who had obtained leases of agricultural blocks in the Eastern and Western Highlands just had to find out the unknown factors of coffee cultivation for themselves.

Mostly they learned about it from books and pamphlets, and by pool ing experience.

One of the things to do, accord ing to the books, was to protect coffee with shade trees, but some new planters did not wait for the shade trees to grow but planted the young coffee seedlings without, with mixed results.

Tricks of the Trade

That was just one of the tricks, and since those early days, of course, a great deal has been learnt about shade —that the amount desirable varies with altitude, prevailing cloud, the age and productivity of the tree.

In other branches of coffee culture, also, the new planters were seeking knowledge. Not much help was available from the P-NG De partment of Agriculture. It had ex perts on coconuts and cocoa and other lowland products, but no one in the Department knew much more about coffee than the planters them selves. (In recent years the Depart ment has sent several officers abroard to study coffee cultivation.) That was generally the situation at the end of 1955, and it was at this critical stage that Mr. R. A.

Colyer was able to introduce Dr.

Goto to the NG scene.

Mr. Colyer had taken a personal interest in the infant coffee industry, just as previously he had taken an interest in the cocoa industry and the abortive attempt to establish kenaf-growing in the Territpry as an alternative fibre to Indian jute upon which Australia depended for raw

Dr. Goto will arrive in Lae by air on September 29, and will proceed, on the same day, direct to Goroka, Eastern Highlands.

During his three weeks in the Territory, he will visit Kainantu, Wahgi Valley, Banz, Minj Mt.

Hagen and Wau. If he has time he will also visit the coffee growing area in the mountains behind Finschhafen, where native planters have planted Arabica. . .

Throughout his visit , Dr. Goto will be accompanied by Mr R. A.

Colyer, and Mr. R. I. Oatley of Colyer Watson Pty. Ltd., Sydney office.

lands coffee plantation from the air. This one, not far from Goroka, was planted up by Mr. D. M. Elphinstone, but was subsequently bought by other interests.

•rial for her huge requirements ags, sacks and wool-packs, i was proved that kenaf —a -stemmed plant related to the cus _would grow successfully in ia and New Guinea and that ibre from it was equally as good ate for sacks and wool-packs. he time the kenaf experiments ed. the price of jute was ex ant; but as soon as it was >d that kenaf could be produced sssfully in the Territory, the of jute came down very tly—to such an extent that it obvious that the infant kenaf stry was going to need some ralian Government protection, loubt through pressure from l and Pakistan, which buy - Australian goods, this pro m was never forthcoming, so p-NG industry was allowed to As far as Australia was con ;d. of course, it didn’t die in It served its purpose by ing the price of jute back to nable levels.] . Colyer felt that the coffee ws of NG would be helped by t advice, and on one of his to the United States was able intact, through business asso 5, Professor Goto, of Hawaii, a nised world authority on coffee its cultivation. hough he was only three weeks ie Territory on that first visit, observations that Dr. Goto i then, the advice and demon ons he gave, have steadily borne since. There are, of course, isual sceptics who never believe the experts say, and these have their own way; but those ers who have followed the Goto of reasoning in the last three , are now producing good coffee.

ligh Yield Now Important

e of the most important aspects ultivation that he discussed planters in 1956 was the matter sing fertiliser. Fertiliser was volutionary thought to most ;ers then —and still is to a cer extent, in view of the fact that landed-cost at Goroka, of the •nitiogen content fertiliser im d from Japan, is £125 per ton ; planters who have tried it out found that the ratio between iser application and yield can >e ignored. now can be regarded as a er of book-keeping: Planters initially felt that they could ifford to use fertiliser, now are ng that they cannot afford not e world has moved on since Dr. was in New Guinea last. World e prices have fallen, making it ! important than ever to get utmost yield per acre; and so is New Guinea is concerned, all plantations that he saw on his visit now have come into pro ion. Planters, therefore, now ; to know not only how to grow

good coffee, but how to process it to please the merchants at point of consumption.

Since his 1956 visit to the Terri tory, Dr. Goto has visited other coffee growing countries, including South America, and planters in NG can expect to learn from him the latest overseas techniques in culti vation.

Before he leaves for New Guinea from Sydney on September 28. Dr.

Goto will spend a few days in Northern NSW examining native Macadamia stands. This so-called “Australian bush-nut” has been cultivated extensively in Hawaii, where agricultural experts have managed, by grafting, to develop a soft-shelled type.

The nut is neglected in Australia, mainly because its exceedingly hard shell almost defies domestic use.

What Professor Goto’s interest is in the natural stands of Macadamia nuts in Northern NSW is not clear, but if he could show someone how to produce the soft-shelled, Hawaiian variety it could be the basis of a new domestic industry.

It has been suggested that he might also look at New Guinea’s Galip nut (called also Narli nut in some of the other SW Pacific teritories), while he is in the Territory. The Galip also is a forest tree, and like the Macadamia has excellent eat ing qualities but in its natural state is cursed by a very hard shell.

Undermining Moral[?]

pp. 42-43

The Leen Case

AND INITIATIVE

IN N. GUINEA

THE suspension from

early in August, of /

Assistant District Officer i

Leen, pending the outcome

departmental inquiry; anc

announced determination c

P-NG Public Service Assoc

to support Mr. Leen to th most in this crisis in his c

these highlight some o

difficulties encountered in

Guinea administration

that administration is direct

a set of rules framed 2,000

away.

MR. LEEN is rated as a class Patrol Officer; ar has been acting in the higher grade, as ADO.

Recently, in the Southern : lands—the most isolated and ■ itive of all the 15 Districts Leen was given temporary cl as Acting DO.

Mendi is the District HQ; this area is surrounded by ■ which are only partially under trol, or wholly uncontrolled, are lively, virile people, always J ing.

There was trouble in Omai Vi 10 miles from Mendi. Mr. Leer short of staff and could not go self; so he sent out six native p with rifles and ammunitioi] charge of a trusted NCO.

On July 15, not far from village, the small patrol was rounded by about 150 ho’ natives, armed with spears, axes bows. There seems no doubt patrol was in great danger.

The NCO ordered two wai shots. The natives came on.

The NCO then ordered defe shooting, and two natives killed and two wounded. The p then returned to Mendi and ported.

According to Regulations

The head of Native Affairs partment, veteran Alan Rot visited Mendi from Port Merest early August. When he returnei publicly announced the susper of Mr. Leen, pending an officia. quiry.

Regulations say that patrols * be led by a European, and that ammunition must not be issued cept under close supervision.

! was charged with breach of » regulations. ie Association claimed that Mr. was faced with a difficult and •erous situation, and that he i promptly and firmly in the way available to him. •. Roberts probably would be first to acknowledge that an >r left in charge of a dangerous 'like the Southern Highlands— iy other area—should have the stricted right to act in an gency in what he deems to be safest way; and that he should >e hampered by general regula —which too often are drawn up ccordance with the ideas of teeship Missions and wandering [clans. A , a District Officer cannot be ed to do the correct thing in an gency—regulations or no regula —he should not be in charge of strict.

Undesirable Publicity

is not the officer and the cir tances which should be the ct of an official inquiry, but system which makes a re jible officer liable to this kind reatment namely, public insion and semi-public trial, e Director and/or the Admin - ;or should have the unreserved to deal with this kind of tion, privately and on the spot, ifficer, especially after coming igh a trying experience, should >e subjected to the humiliation [sponsion, trial and undesirable city. ere have been too many in its like this in the more recent ry of New Guinea —too much in regulations, and not enough ie sincerity and character of aen who are out in the field do he job. starts with the kind of control get from United Nations laries. It extends into the Terri -5 Department, where Minister Secretary consistently over-ride inistrator and Departmental s. continues in such situations as one created at Mendi, where Administrator and Depart ;al head are forced to be Can i-conscious. Its end result is a ring of morale and initiative in public service, and especially ig the men out in the field.

Magistrate Clears Patrol —and ADO Leen gistrate O’Driscoll, in a Coroner’s iry into the deaths of the two di natives, found in late August the police patrol party led by ative corporal had killed the gers only after the villagers had :ked the patrol intending to i said that evidence showed that ve police could be trusted with

live ammunition for emergency use —and that if they hadn’t had it on this occasion they certainly would have been overwhelmed and killed.

Mr. O’Driscoll said that Mr. Leen had been given permission to issue the ammunition by the District Commissioner.

After the Magistrate’s finding, ADO Leen’s suspension was lifted — and it is believed that it will stay that way.

The outcome of this ridiculous case makes it all the more pertinent to ask why men like Mr. Leen are put in the position of being declared guilty until they can prove them selves innocent.

He Provides Bread

p. 43

And Pictures

The Honiara, BSIP, firm of A.

J. and G. Blum Ltd., which runs t laundry, bakery and general store business, has opened a branch in Auki, Malaita Island.

Apart from being the first European store there, the Blum enterprise has also commenced the baking of bread and has recent; opened a picture theatre, in which the prices of admission are cheaper than in Honiara.

P-NG Tax

pp. 45-47

Mr. Hasluck's Friends Rally [?]ange Black-Out P-NG Tax [?]ellion News

all the remarkable features of he Tax Rebellion in Papua and tew Guinea, in July and August, is more noteworthy and leant—than the treatment of übject by the Australian news ’s and Parliament, to late August, the following s had occurred —and were

5t totally ignored by the news

’s: he resentment of the great majority •ritorians of their treatment by the ,lian Territories Minister (Mr. Has had reached boiling point. This was strated in strongly-worded resolu by public meetings all over the »ry. fhe Legislative Council was unani r (unanimously, because the official •rs have no free choice and do not -they vote as instructed by the iment) against the procedures d by the Minister.

'o demonstrate their strong feeling, tree elected members resigned in a Tom the Council. fhen the Council went stubbornly on the Hasluck procedure (rushing the on Bills into operation without ite preparation or notice to tax ), the Taxpayers’ Association ap to the Territory’s Supreme Court, t challenge to the validity of the 11 set-up. ’hen the Supreme Court rejected the ktion, the Taxpayers’ Associations I the matter to the High Court of lia, with a further challenge to the y of the Papua and New Guinea mder which the P-NG Administra carried on.

Fhen the Administration—still stub pursuing the Hasluck policy—pro to fill the vacant places on Legco ;ans of by-elections, the organised yers retaliated by nominating can s pledged to resign, if they were 1 to the Council. atever the merits of this spec

ir struggle between Territories

ter and Territory Taxpayers, ituation was packed with in and drama, and on that nt should have been rated by ewspapers as first-class news.

"This Curious Picture"

en the dispute reached the Court, and it became clear that, e challenge to the Papua and Guinea Act succeeded, Terri- Administration could go into J, the situation called for at the size of headings the news rs customarily reserve for slum bers and Hollywood divorces.

But, no! Most of these develop ments were scarcely mentioned by the Australian newspapers, and none of them was explained.

The later ones—the struggle over the by-elections, and the reference to the High Court (so seriously re garded that it ca 11 ed for the Full Bench) —were not given one prominent line.

Outstanding in this curious pic ture, was the attitude of The Sydney Morning Herald.

The Herald, apparently following some defined policy or instruction, “played down” the New Guinea Tax Rebellion right from the beginning —either placing the story away out of sight, or ignoring it altogether; and the two Sydney evening papers, obedient minor units of the Fairfax

group, did likewise.

Australian observers, and especi ally those with some knowledge of the newspaper business, were greatly puzzled by this determined black out of the New Guinea news by Australia’s newspaper monopolies The wonder apparently extended to New Guinea. This cheeky little para graph appeared in South Pacific Post, published in Port Moresby: “By the way, ever wonder why ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ patted the Terri tory tax issue out of sight? Paul’s good mates with the general manager.’’

Whether this is so or not, we do not know. Mr. Paul Hasluck was at one time a leader-writer on the lead ing West Australian newspaper, and would have friends, presumably, in the newspaper world. (Over,

e Sydney Daily Telegraph arly ignored the Tax Rebellion, ugh the Telegraph normally ydney’s keenest purveyor of , and especially background ere appears to be no explana other than a ganging-up be a high newspaper executives high Territory executives, who

have certain things—including lines of political thinking—in common.

Parliament is Bored Equally remarkable —and equally damnable, in its relation to public affairs and good government—is the way in which the New Guinea situation has been ignored in the Australian Parliament by rank-and file members.

It was supposed that, as soon as Parliament met early in August, Minister Hasluck would meet a bombardment of questions concern ing his lamentable mis-handling of affairs in the Territory.

Not one well-informed question was asked.

The Tax Rebellion was not even mentioned until late in the Budget debate, when Messrs. Wheeler and McColm (two members of a little group of back-bench Liberals, who are about the only men who show any life or intelligence in that

grossly overfed, overpaid and un informed Parliament) set abou Minister Hasluck in a way that mad ; that martinet bellow. (See repor. elsewhere).

But it achieved nothing. The great majority of members appeared un interested, and the Ministers merely bored.

Mr. Hasluck himself, it seems, could not care less. He still is safe in the Inner Cabinet under the pro tection of Dictator Menzies —on whom apparently he models himself.

Usually the People, in some de gree, look to the Press for protection against an arrogant or incompetent Parliament. That is thought to be inherent in our Western system.

There~appears to be no such pro tection for the people of New Guinea; and the way in which this fact has been disclosed throws a peculiar light upon at least some sections of the Australian Press. (See Editorial Commentary.)

Public Servants Repudiate

p. 47

Mr. Hasluck

»n August 26. the following Press ssage was sent from Port Moresby Australia by AAP-Reuter. 0 far as we can see, not one word this report was published in “The Iney Morning Herald”. “Sun” or lily Mirror” (all Fairfax dailies) In “Sydney Daily Telegraph”; iver 300 Port Moresby Public Ser fs tonight passed a vote of no fidence on the Minister for Terri es, Mr. Paul Hasluck. he meeting of the Port Moresby nch of the Papua-New Guinea ilic Service Association, passed a ;ion stating that: Wherever possible all future salary otiations should be referred direct Arbitration. Further to this the (ting expressed a vote of no fidence in the Minister for Terri es, Mr. Hasluck, and this fact aid be conveyed to the Prime ister (Mr. Robert Menzies) as soon possible.” here are about 1,000 members of Papua-New Guinea Administration 1 work in Port Moresby. he meeting was called to discuss impact of the income tax, par larly the taxation applied in hid increment of housing provided at linal rental to members of the Ad- Istration. he meeting also decided to contact Unions and the Association in Aus ia to “inform them of the ex tant cost of living in the Terri \ and the general conditions of ice”.

Phis will stop recruiting like a said the mover of the motion, E. Gilchrist. he meeting was told that the Asso ion Executive intended to apply to Arbitration Court for an increase about £3OO on all Administration Ties.

A Canoe Across a New Guinea Styx

p. 47

When a man dies in the Asmat-district in Southern Dutch New Guinea his relatives make a so-called “death canoe”. These beautifully carved canoes, destined to bring them to their heathen heavens, have no bottom however and are sunk at the death ceremonials.

Commission Winds Up Its

pp. 49-51

No Challenge to Fijian Rights

INVESTIGATIONS IN FIJI

The Bums Commission which has spent several weeks : close investigation into how Fiji’s growing population should 'an for its future, will be ready to pack up and go home within .e next few days. The next move is then over to the British jcretary of State for the Colonies.

E Commission, headed by Sir dan Burns, GCMG, has in estigated population, racial and opment problems of Fiji. It is ;ted that it will have completed ork in the Colony in September will leave for London via the ;d States. e Commission will report in de -0 the British Secretary of State he Colonies; and the future of depends largely on the nature le recommendations made by Commission, and the extent to 1 they are accepted and im ented. e primary problem with which Jommission is dealing is that of ding, within Fiji, means of nance for the increasing popu i of Fijians (145,000) and Indians )00). e problem is complicated by fact that Britain, under the of Cession of 1874, is pledged rotect the land rights of the enous people; while the Indian e (who arrived in Fiji long the Deed of Cession) are •ally without land or land s. ere has been no move by ,ns to challenge the funda al land rights of the Fijians; my formal move by the Fijians ny the use of land to Indians, acute official embarrassment lie in the facts that there )t enough land available for m use; and that a lot of Fijian for one reason and another, iked up and out of use. e following, which gives a good ation of the nature of the ems before the Commission, is i from an admirable summary 'ommission proceedings issued le Fiji Public Relations Office ugust 26:

Their Fundamental Rights

e of the Indian representatives, A. I. N. Deoki, contended that as the Deed of Cession was a je to Fijians by Britain, so was al correspondence between Fiji England, and England and i, a pledge that Indians who

had settled in Fiji should be regarded as permanent colonists.

Another Indian representative, Mr. Hari Charan, complained that it was difficult for Indians to acquire land. Most of the freehold land, he said, belonged to the Europeans, the Fijians, or to the Crown. Very little freehold land was held by Indians, and they experienced difficulty in acquiring leasehold land for cultivation.

One witness, Mr. H. E. Snell, contended that if there was land hunger

a board, committee or individual should have power to go to the owner and say: “You are not using your land to the best public advantage. You must use it, or we for all vou” ange that “ shaU be Mr. Snell emphasised: “Nobody in his senses has ever suggested that ownership of the land should be taken from the present ownersin particular, the Fijians. It is the in an area where land was unused the Native Land Trust Board. If

use of the land which should be taken from them.”

Fijian 'Alarm'

Semesa Sikivou, who is a Fijian representative on the Legislative Council, appeared before the Com mission as the spokesman of the Fijian Teachers’ Association. He de clared : “We were rather alarmed when we read a report that the Indians were claiming to be considered for ownership of land in Fiji. This is probably the first occasion that this has been brought up, and we don’t like it.”

Asked if he thought it right that land which could be used should be left unproductive, Semesa re plied: “We have never for one moment held that view.”

He said the Association’s views were that land should be opened up by the construction of feeder roads and added: “People who are land-hungry are only after the land which is readily accessible.

“The Fijian people have agreed to let land not required for their immediate use to be put in trust to

that land is opened up. we would hke people to make application to useit- . /.nnstnirt roads “But we construct roads, The only thing we- can do m Questl‘o r nerabo™t la a le ' suggestion that loansor grants shOTldbe made to the FiJums by ernment said that tne Fijian found it very difficult to gei ca PJ tal ; n a Q bih n snokesman for Mr. A. G. Sahib, a spokesman

FIJI'S FUTURE LIES WITH THEM: The members of the Burns Commission now preparing recommendations for the orderly development of Fiji. From left to right: Mr. T. Y. Watson, Sir Alan Bums (Chairman), and Mr. A. T. Peacock. photo: stinsons.

Suva Muslim League, told the nission that if there was a r distribution of land there i be no population problems.

: iji Can Feed More People

, A. N. Jayant, who led a dele ii from the Education Workers’ ty, urged that there should be settlement schemes, with a in amount of help in the way ipital, for students who had leted agricultural courses. He I: msidering the population of ries like Java or Japan on a quare mile basis, we feel that lan cater for a bigger popula ;han we have at present.”

Editorial Commentary: "What ens in Fiji After Burns Re ?"

[?]R Constitutional

p. 51

Fiji Electioneering

REAL DEMAND

[?]ORMS

om LEN USHER, in Suva i Legislative Council of Fiji nded its three years of life and been formally dissolved. In d the voice of the candidate he forthcoming elections was in the land. 5 at such times as these that e political constitution of Fiji tnes under special discussion, j oddest contributions to the e come from candidates who hat the Legislative Council, in esent form, is ineffective be the Government has a ity of one—yet they urge rs to give them a seat in this dly useless body.

Iways find a curious unreality the belief that the official rity in Fiji’s Legislative cil, as it operates at present, s Government dictatorship, le, the Government can out the unofficial side, but in the decade the big stick of the rity vote has been used very r indeed. ch more often, the Government withdrawn or modified a lire because of substantial —but o means always unanimous— lition from the unofficial side, even more important factor is uthority given to the unofficial 3ers who, as a body, form the Ing committee of the Councli nance. This gives them, very ively, the power of the purse, ogether, the unofficial side of Legislative Council has much er ability to influence the try’s course than the opposition has in the House of Commons, ly some of the unofficial

members of the Council are directly elected by the people; but there is still room in Fiji for special repre sentation of the interests of com merce, or agriculture, or the Christian missions.

More particularly, the voice of the considerable Muslim community would be heard very faintly, indeed, if representation depended on the vote of the predominantly Hindu- Indian electorate.

The basic democratic principle of one man one vote is not followed in choosing the elected European and Indian unofficials. There are many many more Indians than Europeans on the roll in each electoral division, but as each votes for the candidate in his own racial group

alone European and Indian members are chosen by unequal numbers of voters.

This is due, however, to the fac that the Indian population is s<, much bigger than the European and equal representation of the three main races, as races, leave;: most people in Fiji much more content than they would be if ont group dominated the others by weight of numbers alone.

Despite the talk at election time and occasionally in between, ther< is no real demand in Fiji for major constitutional change.

Such a demand may one dav develop, but for the moment “let well alone” makes good political sense.

[?]Ewspaper War

p. 53

Samoa's Doctor Crisis

[?]ELINGS BOIL IN

IDENTS of Western Samoa *re waiting with keen an 'Xpation for the next shots in mrnalistic hot-war that de d between an ex-editor of a Bulletin” and the ‘‘Bulletin” ns in August. The trouble to a head over local criticism < shortage of doctors in the rry—but now appears over. r two imported editors of the Bulletin, published weekly in bad left within a short time h other, the newspaper was ted by a local schoolteacher, Rankin, and Mr. James y, headmaster of the London lary Society’s Maluafou , acted as its editor.

Apia Chamber of Commerce y took up the serious threat blic Health caused by the je of senior medical staff, in July led to only one senior 1 practitioner being available from the Director of Health, ras occupied with adminis work, and the 40 Samoan 1 practitioners who, in spite r very good work, cannot fully qualified doctors.

Chamber of Commerce had led an enquiry into the cir nces in the public interest.

Gregory interviewed the ir of Health, Dr. Maxwell, the ;r of Health, the Hon. nuvae, and Dr. J. C. Thieme, itendent of Apia Hospital in ;o obtain their views on the >n. ;ver, when he tried to make pointment with the Public i Commissioner, Mr. C. A. who had been severely sd as being mainly responsible i critical situation, Mr. Brew, phone, stated that he was too 0 meet Mr. Gregory and in [ that he was amazed over »nt page prominence given to sis in the NZ Press. n Mr. Gregory wanted to 1 the result of his interviews he medical authorities, and iticism of what he believed ie unco-operative attitude of irew, the Directors of the an Bulletin”, Mr. E. F. Paul fr. G. T. Jackson, according version, refused to allow the 5 to be printed and Mr. y resigned from the editor f the Bulletin. hen took the unusual step of ling for private circulation, a let entitled “Samoan Truth”, August 13, in which he gave xsion of the events leading resignation.

In the issue of September 21, the owners of the Bulletin, in a state ment set out why they would not allow Mr. Gregory’s criticism of the Pubic Service Commissioner to be pubished.

New Editor, New Doctors Mr. Garth Mead, a New Zealand journalist of 20 years’ experience, arrived in Apia in August to take over the editorship of the Bulletin.

Western Samoa’s real doctor short age, bad enough previously, became acute with the accidental death on July 21 of Dr. W. P. Williams. But measures were then taken to cope with the situation, through the South Pacific Health Service, to which W. Samoa is a party.

It was arranged for a recently retired surgeon-specialist, M. H.

Heycock, to go temporarily to Apia pending the arrival of a permanent surgeon from the United Kingdom, in September. Dr. M. A. R. Eslick, of the Fiji Medical Department, was also made available.

Nature note from Nether lands New Guinea: This is the local brand of cus cus, attempting to act like an Aus tralian koala hear. One of the things it has in common with the Australian New Guinea cus cus pictured on the front cover of the August issue is that both are regarded as delicacies by the natives.

[?]Her Wrecks On Rossel

pp. 55-57

Bits of "St. Paul" Are Still There

[?]T THERE HAVE BEEN

The account in May “PIM” of the celebrated cannibal feast on sel Island, Papua, 100 years ago, when the natives there ate up t of the Chinese passengers on the wrecked ship “St. Paul”, has ight a long, interesting letter from Mr. Hugh F. Osborne, and an rant of the more modern history of this island in the little-visited isiade Archipelago of Papua. He says :

uncle, Frank Osborne, landed on Rossel in 1901, when re turning Rossel Island natives iated from the Australian cane hat time it was necessary for ;e man to be aboard the vessel returning time-expired labour [ their respective Islands to s their safe return and to pre he crews from landing their gers on the first Island they to, and from confiscating the gers’ belongings.

Frank’s arrival at Rossel, he urprised to renew acquaint hth a native who had assisted n the Mambare (NG) gold a few years previously, ik was impressed with the and as gold was being mined sfully on Sudest Island, some es away, he arranged with his r, Harry, to settle on Rossel. landed in Yonga Bay, where ve the last European had been red some years previously. He escribed as a diver who had ixploring that Bay for shell, ik planted an area of coco it a place on the southern ne called Abaleti, and his r Harry (my father) settled in 1903. It seems that up to me, the Government had very (if ever), visited Rossel, due isolated position and treacher raters, hence the completely int customs to other Islands Louisiade Archipelago, m the brothers made enquiries 3 regarding the St. Paul in the natives remembered very )f the affair except that there een a massacre many years i today the winches and a her parts of the ship can still in on the reef at low tide, i they are heavily encrusted oral and other marine growth, recently as 1949, natives ex d sovereigns and odd French adjacent to Cannibal Island »f Refuge). the St. Paul gone aground Adele Island, the survivors have existed indefinitely. On ry 6, 1922, the Japanese ship Maru ran aground approxi -7 three miles north of Adele i. Strangely enough, the

Skipper had not been able to take a fix for three days and like the St. Paul she, too, was wrecked at 3 , , . , , .

The crew had no idea of their position until daybreak, when they were taken off by another Japanese shi P- The Inaho Maru was on a voyage from Japan to Newcastle to load wheat to relieve the food famine in .Japan and she had on board sufficient coal for the complete voyage. //p ~, . r , r n .th Sunk During Coral Sea Battle My people salvaged quite a lot of gear and stacked it ready to be transported ashore, but a storm blew up suddenly and they were forced to abandon their task and, to their disappointment, the ship broke in

half during the night and all was lost.

The American Air Force bombed this old wrecked vessel and quite probably she was one of the ships “sunk” during the Coral Sea Battle, An unexploded bomb lies about six feet off the starboard side of the wreck and right under the bridge.

About three miles SW of Adele Island lies the wreck of the Ameri can submarine 5.39, which was com manded by a Lieut. Brown. It ran aground on the night of August 13-14, 1942, and although they fired a dozen torpedoes onto the reef, jettisoned fuel and ammunition while the engines were run full astern, all attempts to refloat her were fruitless.

She was left to be destroyed by Allied bombers, and I might add that a direct hit was scored both fore and aft, rendering her abso lutely useless.

I am told that the Australian Corvette Katoomba took off all sur vivors. Only one man was cut by the coral while swimming through the break to reach the Duty Boat on the inside of the reef.

There is still another local wreck which seems to be a mystery. Even today the anchors, windlass and chains are most conspicuous at low tide, situated only about 100 yards from the submarine. (Over)

was an all-wooden vessel, with steel rigging wire and ently went aground before the charts were first made in 1887, r bows then stood 20 feet in lir and are marked on the as a “Boulder 20 feet high”. le cutlery and a few other odds *nds of wreckage were being cy the natives on the Eastern of Rossel Island in 1903 when ,ther established himself here.

Methodist Overseas Mission ished a Mission Station on I Island in about 1923, manned ic white man, but he stayed a few years. Native teachers continued this work. nk Osborne died in Sydney in as the result of a motor int; and my father, Harry, re id here until forced to leave the Japanese had captured il and were bombing Port by in 1942. father and I returned in 1947 -establish the plantation and a 60-ft boat to replace the Gili lost by the Australian , My father died in 1950 and led on Rossel Island.

Rossel Island natives are a fiiant lot; it is interesting to that during the bombing of Moresby, the only native to be at one stage was a Rossel ier—all the others had gone nd truly bush. Rossel Islanders ilso regarded as good house its and for many years have employed at Government House aany other parts of the Terri ides myself, the white in mts of Rossel Island now rise my brother, Ron Osborne, fives and three sons, who re at the original plantation of ti. High on the hillside over ig Cannibal Island (Isle of ;e) is the Roman Catholic on of the Sacred Heart Order, d by a Father and three *s. The Mission was established 51.

Bonus if Speaking

Local Language

Officers of the Cook Islands Ad ministration who learn to speak fj local native dialect of Maori w in future be paid a special bom of £5O per annum.

This was stated at the July Leg is lative Council meeting by Mr. O, a Dare, Assistant Secretary of Island Territories, who was representin the New Zealand Government at the meeting.

The bonus is intended to en courage all seconded officers to gain a thorough mastery of the nati language. Special language classes are available at Rarotonga.

Pacific's Biggest Fish Pond?

p. 55

This areial shot of Washington Island, in the Line G r °up, taken from an “Operation Grapple” aircraft based at Christmas Island, miles to the south-west. f i_ic o*nii 0 * n ii unusual Operated as a coconut plantation by a BF subsidia >, laeoon of any in th£t it has probably the largest fresh (or the s? which have been introduced all over the South Pacific from Asia in recent years. Thp islanc j j S n i n e tions. Ltd., stationed on Fanning, 75 miles away.

This Lae Dog's Got Rain Boots

p. 57

■ Lae’s rainfall for the year has been 90 inches. 1 That’s a lot of rain, nearly 8 feet, but at least one local pooch not getting his feet wet.

He’s Toby Robertson, a fox terrier, and whenever the rain comes nvn, Toby’s stormwater boots go up!

"It saves me a lot of work,” says his owner, Miss Pat Robertson, to muddy paw marks all over my car seats or my floors any more, toy's shoes come off the second he steps in the house”

Miss Robertson says the boots are easy to make, too.

Just cut out four socks from old scraps of material, cover this th rubber or plastic solution to make them water-proof and tie e tops with tapes.

Nancy Curtis.

Staggers At Edge Of Collapse

pp. 59-61

Soekarno's Grab Wholesale Confiscation As Indonesia Staggers At Edge Of Collapse

Events moved fast in Indonesia (New Guinea’s nearest leighbour on the northwest) in August, bringing that country ery close now to complete economic collapse.

collapse comes —and competent observers do not see how it can be avoided —it will have two tanding results — There will be social and political loil, which may directly affect Territory of Papua and New lea.

The world’s supply of copra will fleeted. From 25 to 30 per cent. ;opra comes out of the East es. This supply already has uated considerably over the last years, according to changes in mesian conditions; and this in has affected world prices, iving failed completely to make Western Parliamentary system the rabble-rousing Soekarno a months ago. finally abolished esentative government, and as ed dictatorial powers.

Ee has called the set-up “guided ocracy”; but it is actually an y-backed dictatorship.) iereafter, the existing confusion me worse confounded, lere was social and political is. The administration was so t of money that it was virtually lysed. The Indonesian Rupiah, ih has been at a very low figure years, became virtually worth le only stable things in the whole •essed country were the in ries controlled by foreign private rprise. •itish and Dutch planting con s, and certain big Western oil ing companies, were allowed to operate. They really kept mesia going.

His "Guided Economy" lose whom the gods destroy they make mad. A form of madness ainly descended upon Soekarno his so-called Ministers, i mid-August, they issued a bs of “decrees’ which seem to b emanated from some asylum crazy economists. Summarised, le decrees provided— All notes of the face value of [) and 500 rupiahs were reduced ralue by 90 per cent.—to 10 per k. of their face value.

All bank deposits of over 25,000 iahs (about £2OO Australian) were :en; and the sums thus repre ted became a compulsory loan

to the Government. (Confiscation, in other words.) • A new foreign currency ex change of 45 rupiahs to one US dollar (making one rupiah worth about Australian) was “estab lished”. • The system of taxing exports was abolished, to be replaced by a system of direct taxes and import duties. • The State will cut, or postpone, certain expenditure. • There will be “guided savings” and “compulsory savings” schemes for Civil Servants, workers and farmers.

Panic immediately swept across the whole of the trading community in Indonesia. By August 24, most business establishments had closed, and riots were threatened. The

banks could not carry on.

On August 25, troops with rifles and bayonets at the ready were guarding the banks and the chief financial establishments against the clamouring mobs, who were trying

e something from the wreck, he week’s pay day arrived, the grew. The majority of em s could not withdraw money their banks in order to pay staffs. -Indonesian traders like i planters, oil and shipping nies, even Australia’s Qantas d their stocks of rupiahs or worthless, and suffered embarrassment, as well as Government then proceeded Ice “Government loans” to the s. at fixed rates of interest, f the funds they had seized ;hese same traders. :arno called this “guided ny”, and a logical develop of “guided democracy”, chants and traders generally no imagination to visualise esia’s crazy set-up as it was rly September. No one then what would happen next. But not seem possible that the rno administration could last longer. Communistic news > and organisations, which y support Soekarno, joined in meral attack on his devalua lolicy.

Danger to South Pacific our files show, this develop was consistently forecast by ournal ever since the West’s ary “statesmen” abandoned fetherlands and let Soekarno lis party loose on this vast, ountry and the helpless Dutch. ! Dutch of Indonesia have beaten and robbed on a scale before seen in a post-war tnent. Yet the Jap-led Indo is were losers in World War ad The Netherlands was one e Western victors.

The South Pacific’s particular interest in all this lies in the fact that, when this Soekarno dictatorship (maintained at present by what is called “the army”) finally collapses, three organised communities will be ready to step in and perhaps take control. They are the Moslem community, the Communist Party and the Chinese (who number about 3 million in a country of 83 million).

Either the Moslems or the Communists may take over The Chinese

unlike 6 the’stogapore CWneTe co£

SiKw y er haV6 n6Ver S ° USht If either Communists or Chinese get control of this vitally important land bridge between Asia and Australia, it will be an event of much importance to the South Pacific.

r nn L c Paiorf

'-OOKS RCjCCT

MJccinnaru Hnnta

iVilSSlOnary vJUOTd

nptitinn that snmp snrt nf our > A petition mat some sort of quo,-. system be established on the entr of religious missionaries to the Coo; ; Islands was firmly rejected by the Cook Islands Legislative Assembly i n July. Only the proposer and. seconder of the motion supported it.

A select committee, set up to look Z P ttos, y was very r m B uch against

°PM°n and.would contra;

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tion of Human Rights. The com mittee recommended against the move.

building is keeping pace with population growth in the [?] of Papua-New Guinea. Shown above is the new Methodist [?]t Boroko, a suburb of Port Moresby. It was built entirely [?]ntary labour (photo by Papuan Prints). At right is the Seventh Day Adventist Church, in Rabaul, that was dedi [?] July before a congregation of 300 of the leading citizens of the district.

We Told You So!

p. 59

This latest development in Indonesia —wholesale confisca tion of private wealth—follows logically upon the events of 1945-49, when the West’s “statesme n”—a lamentable team of Leftist visionaries— abandoned their Dutch Allies of World War 11, and let Soekarno and his gang loose upon the vast, rich, Dutch Territory of the Netherlands Indies.

As our files show, this journal consistently foretold the course of events in Indonesia, ever since the Dutch were betrayed by the UN “statesmen” in 1945-46.

In the accompanying article, we try briefly to show how these events may affect us all in the South Pacific.

Similarly, in 1933-1940, the “PIM” told the South Pacific of what it might expect from the Japanese end of “the Berlin-Rome-Tokio Axis”.

He Dunas Of The

pp. 63-65

in Fiowered Wigs

P-NG HIGHLANDS

FIGHT FOR FUN

By PETER SHARK, for AAP-

Reuter

bearded and be-wigged 'arriors of Papua-New Guinea’s rugged Duna y regard inter-tribal fighting ilthy sport. shes with bows and arrows ten regarded with the same humour as a Saturday afterfootball match,” said District • D. Clancy, who led a patrol h an extensive area of the DunaTof Papua's Southern lands region-more than -are one of the few tribes not ider the control of the Aus- Guinea aln people—short and power- JUilt. The men wear wigs of I human hair, sloping up to lost flat top over their painted Most men wear a forehead f plaited bark or cane, usually i red. The nose is crudely i, and carries a pig tusk, stalk ie, or quill, decorated with and flowers. ■cal dress is a waist belt of I loops of cane or broad s of bark and a sporran of string in front of the lower and at the back a bunch of thrust through the waist belt,

A senior officer of the Native Affairs Department in Port Moresby said the recent establishment of a patrol post at Koroba, among the Duna people, was bringing peace to the surrounding areas.

“But there remains a large part of the Duna country which has had only the sketchiest contact with the Administrationhe said.

It will be some time before interwte/" am ° ng * Assistant District Officer J. P.

Sinclair, who led a 62-days patrol through the Dunas, found the people "° US and flam ' ' Early one morning, our patrol passed a cheerful group of fullyarmed Dunas hurrying to their homes. They were obviously heading for a late breakfast after a stimulating fight,” Mr. Sinclair reported.

The patrol was received with courtesy, although most of the Dunas appeared timid and uncertain.

Europeans and Government were matters of wonder to the Dunas.

They believed the white men of the patrol had dropped from the sky— a theory strengthened in their minds by aircraft making survey flights over their lands.

Mr. Sinclair said no Duna would move from his hamlet without his arms of bow, arrows, and stone axe.

While the women worked in the fields, the men stood guard nearby, Snmp arrow-? wptp Pinhnratpfv rarvpd terminating in lone- needle ]ikp ’ int rine-ed with a shallow pnt . thp ’ wn „ ld break- off in a wound. Othem had sha?p teeth cut into side Mr. Sinclair said the most danger

°USbroaPd bTa^e"about W “x

f nc S™ a ?L* makl Jr* ver v effective £1 w SSiS g y ettectlve “flg“n the Duna country

'TigMing

oplvns these means of un excess enerev P ” Mr sfnclair UP excess ener £ y ’ Mr - oincia r S£ 4. Q- . T 7. „ , Lavam Valley, the Dunas had a f Z alu s Dl P trad( r mono PolyJ- 1 0ll) g athered from streams in the ar !i a - „ . , , . be iSiLfbf 8 tn s™®; 1 . 1 len ? ths ° f bamboo Six to ht cowne shells was fair payment £ or one sr £ all ban J bo ° of 011 • El S hf: bamboos cost a pig.

The oil was probably rubbed into

(Continued foot column i, page 63)

[?]hotographs of be-wigged warriors of the Southern Highlands were taken by ADO Sinclair a couple of years ago.

skin by the natives, who took i in their appearance, some areas, men’s ear lobes pierced, to support pendants of e string, threaded with red 5 and broken shell, iividual “dudes” made lavish )f all types of bird-of-paradise es and small, bell-like flowers, in the wig. Cowrie shell was eat demand for personal adorn i as a sign of wealth.

Sinclair said the Duna people generally friendly, despite their ■ke habits. Increasing contact - administration patrols should i them the social and economic fits of peace.

Selling Fiji Bananas

pp. 65-67

THE END-OR A NEW ERA?

More Machinery for Selling Fiji Bananas

By J. P. SHORTALL

. The Fiji banana industry which is already in a precarious state, jy be a lot worse off still —or even given the coup de grace—if the •partment of Agriculture succeeds in establishing a Banana Market -7 Board under legislation to be introduced at the Legislative Council ision this month.

E functions of the Board that t is proposed to set up will be o take over the complete over marketing of bananas and to late their quality and supply, as as the quality and type of ages in which they are exported, ere seems to be universal ;ment that control of supply quality of the fruit and package isential, but that is about as is agreement extends. )m the grower’s point of view nost important aspect concerns ost of operating the new Board the effect that this cost will on the price received for fruit lied. The Department of Agri re considers that the adminis ie costs will not amount to than 3d per case of fruit, and ibly less. One of the largest lercial shippers of bananas has lated that the figure will be at 1/4 and probably nearer 2/- :ase—which might be sufficient 11 the industry. owers at present receive 10/6 :ase from the commercial ex ng concerns. The f.o.b. price is from which is deducted the of the case (5/-), wiring, pack and land transportation, port and profit. Such exporters are responsible for making the im ate payment to the growers at packing point and they must the financial risk of possible re

jection of a consignment by the government inspectors at the wharf.

Five per cent, of the cases of fruit supplied by any particular exporter are opened there prior to shipment.

If more than one-fifth of this five per cent, is rejected, the entire con signment of that exporter—already paid for—is rejected.

Fijian By-Passers

At the present time it is possible for a native co-operative, a village, or any other organisation of growers to ship bananas directly and to by pass the middle-man in Fiji and thus gain several shillings per case.

In practice, very few such bodies succeed in this, because they cannot or will not maintain the standard demanded by the Department of Agriculture’s inspection system.

After a few quality shipments, the good pay-cheques lure them into sneaking increasing quantities of sub-standard fruit into the consign ments. Then suddenly an entire consignment is rejected at the wharf, the growers lose all the profits gained from by-passing the middle man, and they often decide that perhaps he is not such a parasite as they had thought.

He, at least, pays cash at the road —or river-side —and he takes all the risks. Naturally, he does his own inspection and may reject certain cases, but never the whole consign ment.

Realising their weaknesses in the matter of grading, and to gain the middle-man’s shillings, the Fijian growers and the Fijian Affairs De partment some years ago fathered Fiji Banana Ventures, which was to have all the virtues and none of the vices of the commercial middle man.

In practice, of course, it too, has proved to have its weaknesses. Un like the commercial middle-man, FVB does not pay its members at the packing stations, and if the fruit inspector at the wharf con demns the consignment as sub standard, the FBV does not pay out.

Again, some of those shillings which were to be saved from the middle-man are diverted to cover ing administrative costs and to other

y causes for the betterment of

Ijians.

for a lot of Fijian growers, is no better—or not much— the middle-man, who pays less but pays it on the nail.

I, the lure of those shillings ns. and under its magnetic pull I little ventures and co rves continue to by-pass both ind the middle-man. In so do tiy hurt themselves and the ;ry as they learn the hard way ;he overseas buyers are insist a certain standards and that ji Department of Agriculture’s tion branch is determined to at these are met for the good ! industry.

ndividualism Encouraged

first sight it seems extra iry that the Fiji Government, I sired FBV for the good of ijian growers, should permit s to by-pass this organisation reasing numbers. The explana irobably is that the govern wishes to encourage Fijian iuality and initiative and a-exporting co-operatives are ered part of it. nwhile, there is no doubt at at the small shippers are re f the revenue both of FBV f the very few surviving com il exporters. exporters are licensed to buy as in strictly specified areas, ich establishes a bond of £lOO security against infringement, existing out-dated ordinance, the basis of this license they ; to handle all non-FBV con ents within their separate Now they see the co-operatives sutures” that keep springing mply as infringing their is, although the law makes no ion for protecting them, er the proposed legislation, the la Board will be the sole ex , and the middle-men will be id to the status of licensed 5 and, in effect, agents of the replace the middle-man’s per supervision at the packing ’» the new legislation proposes [-arm methods of remote con rhese include seizure of sub ird fruit and containers, fines to £5OO for attempts to by the Board, and the appoint of inspectors with very wide s. 1 FBV is still to continue, Jgh it may be considered that I vanish when Fijian growers ' progressed sufficiently to e their own business. Still, it 'd at this stage to understand me functions of the proposed i and the FBV could not be ■ned in a single body to save ustrative costs. 5 Proposed Banana Marketing will consist of a chairman and members, all appointed by the nor. Three of the members will

represent the interests of “supoffice ’ “duHng ll the “g o v

Slealure" Anneal a?ainst itl de-

cisions regarding quotas, etc. will be only to the Governor.

High Cost of Boards With a quota of 200,000 cases of bananas per annum acceptable by New Zealand, the cost of operating this Board, according to the government’s estimation—based on the 3d per case mentioned earlier — is £3,000. The existing inspection system—without a Board—at the Suva wharf costs about £4.000 per annum to operate.

An outside estimate of the cost

of operating the proposed Board conservativel y ** at about £l3*oo per , a nnu m. The manager alone

furlough costs' ! alar;

minimum of staff and opeSg costs would absorb the balance. This sum would represent about 1/4 per case - Even if a portion of this cost is to come from some existing reserve fund or other government source it is going to cost the taxpayer money.

But if it is eoimr to comp from the proceeds of the sale of bananas, this added burden could ring the death knell of the Fiji banana in dustry.

Got It Taped

p. 69

Keeping In Touch [?]e Police Have Got It Taped

wild beating of drums, a ied stamping of feet, shout

singing, chanting this is

Guinea you’re on ringe of an African Satur light dance. “This is Tan ka!” a deep male voice s out. Then in colourful the speaker launches into : of his life and work at a

i prison in Africa.

speaker? He’s a member of e international World Police ipe Recording Club Round Group with headquarters at , Texas, USA. The Police Tape was started by Detective Constable Jack Vaudin, of sland. He’s the World Secretary dw members operate through merica, Britain, Europe, Aus tfew Zealand and New Guinea, exchange views on police •s, cases, methods, criminal our, etc., no confidential in tion being allowed. *’s how the group works. Each gr is required to make a tape eight weeks. He is supplied a membership roster and •ds his tape to the next name

appearing on it.

Within the group some firm friendships are made with personal tapes. Wives sometimes like to have a little natter with other wives on housing conditions and cost of living.

Husbands exchange their exploits of hunting, fishing and wild game shooting. More talented recorders will put on a turn—like a recita tion or local folksong.

Latest member to join the group is Bill Curtis, of the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary, in Lae, and formerly of the Northern Territory Mounted Police. Bill might have some interesting yarns to spin.

He’s been on an 800-mile horse trek, bagged a crocodile and travelled in wild country after cattle duffers.

All newscomers are welcome. 1 they belong to a police force any where in the Pacific and have a ve to be in on it, they should drop line to Jack Vaudin. His address 42 Norman Terrace, Enoggera Queensland.

Mr. John D. Harrington, owner o' one of Rarotonga’s most moden retail stores, paid a business visit tc New Zealand in August. He sale that his new business was for salt “if anyone comes along”, and n ported that Mr. Jack Neal, wh( bought his earlier business at Aitu taki Island, had also recently bough) cut Mr. William Watson’s retail business there.

[?]aughter of the Ellice wireless operator [?] Island in the Gilberts makes a pretty as she takes one of her father's daily [?]es with Tarawa. She is not really [?]erating of course. It's just pretend.

Photo: A. C. Atkinson.

A Light Flashes for the Men

pp. 71-75

Nem Bilong OI I No Ken Lus A Light Flashes for the Men Who "Saved the Pacific"

In the dusk of August 15, before a gathering that included ic Australian Minister for the Navy, the US Naval Attache, i-members of the unit from Australia and Papua-New Guinea, ical residents and an estimated 3,000 natives, the Coast Catchers’ Memorial Light flashed out over the Bismarck Sea )r the first time.

W Guinea’s coastal points and *eefs are occasionally beaconed —but there is nothing like the light, the almost 90-ft high, column of dazzling white ;nt surmounted by a flashing , now taking the place of the ‘House-Light” that has stood on

Kalibcbo Point these many years.

The new light sends out its flash every 30 seconds as a warning to shipping in the approaches to Madang Harbour, and as an appro priate memorial to the Coast Watchers still living, and to those 38 whose luck ran out while going about their solitary and dangerous business in 1942-45.

Of the former, and still m the Territory, are men like Paul Mason of Inus Plantation, Bougainville, Jack Read of Rabaul, A. A. Roberts, now Director of Native Affairs, and John Murphy, District Commissioner at Daru. There is also Eric Feldt, whose job it was to organise the Coast Watchers when war came and

whose book written about them ( The Coast Watchers ), published at the end of 1946, remains one of the best books on the war in the Pacific. Re tired now, he lives in Brisbane, but was there to speak at the ceremony and to unveil one of the plaques on the Memorial Light on August 15. the 14th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War.

Of those 38 who died, who are commemorated on one of the bronze plaques at the base of the Light, were men like Lieutenant Con Page, of Tabar. a small island off the New Ireland coast, who remained at his post reporting the movements of Jap ships and planes until, inevit ably, the Japs landed, took him away to Kavieng and put him to dc&tli Men like L. G. Vial, too, who from his hide-out in the mountains be hind Salamaua gave the Japs more valuable trouble than a battalion of Infantry. He died accidentally in a plane crash towards the end of the war. . . n Then there was Captain G c. (“Blue”) Harris, a patrol-officer be fore the war, who led a party of a dozen ashore from a US submarine on the Jap-held NNG coast at Tanah-Merah. They were betrayed to the Japs by natives, the part}

At Left: Youwika, of the Sepik District, who carved his own bit of war history in Bougain ville during the war, most of the time as assist ant to Coastwatcher Jack Read. A smoke-bomb that he picked up exploded and blew off his left hand and blinded him. At Greenslopes Military Hospital in Brisbane, his was the first corneal graft ever performed there. The trans planted cornea was a blue one, so Youwika be came the only blue-eyed New Guinean. He was an official guest at the August 15 ceremony.

At Left; The new Memorial Light at Kalibobo Madang. (Photo by W; P. Hutton). Above Com mander Eric Feldt, whose early war-time job was organising and expanding the Coast Watch ing Organisation, addresses the gathering a; Madang on August 15. Seated, at right, behind him, is Senator John Gorton, Australian Minister for the Navy. (Photo by S. Diczbalis.)

; in two and one-half eventually ped. But Harris’ half was at :ed by a Japanese unit equipped l machine guns and mortars within a few hours all were dead pt Harris, who was wounded.

Japs captured him, shoved him gainst a tree and when he would

mswer their questions, bayoneted

to death.

Names That Live Forever

Dr does the Light forget those 1 natives who made it possible the 'European Coast Watchers emain at their posts; Men like ogun Peta, now a MLC; Youwika, bearded veteran with one blue and that not his own; and Daik of New Britain, who died dw months back, full of years ;ervice and much honoured by Dpean and native. d commemorate the Coast chers’ native comrades there is pecial plaque on the Light in fin-English, the last sentence of zh says: “Nem bilong ol i no ken —the equivalent of “their names never be forgotten,” he frame work of the Coast idling Organisation existed in tralia, New Guinea and in the >mons, long before the outbreak World War 11. Men of all walks life, stationed in very remote is, formed the nucleus, but, as al in peace-time, money for the essary equipment to expand the nt service was not readily forth img. he outbreak of war in 1939 nged that, and before that year i ended, Eric Feldt, who was on RAN “emergency list,” but who n 1922 onwards had been an cer of the District Service De tment of the Mandated Territory New Guinea, was given the job Navy Staff Officer, Port Moresby, hs task was organising and ex iding the Coast Watching Organ :ion. By the end of 1940, most sonnel had been selected from ongst the planters, missionaries

and Administration officials living at strategic places covering the northern and no r t h-e astern approaches to Australia. Teleradios had been installed and their operators instructed in their use and in reporting what they saw.

By the time the Japanese came into the war in December, 1941, Coast Watchers, at posts from Manus to the Solomons, were ready. In early 1942, as the Japs swept south wards, they ceased being a civilian organisation and became part of the three Services.

They were a branch of the Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB), and were usually referred to as the Coast Watchers, although Feldt himself had his own private code-word for them—Ferdinand.

Ferdinand the Bull was a char acter from a Walt Disney movie

cartoon of the time. According the story, he wasn’t keen on dir action or fighting Matadors in bid rings, but preferred to sit under tree and “sniff the pretty flower; The Coast Watchers didn’t ha v much time for smelling flowers; bi they kept under the trees and didn engage in direct action, either Their record and their contribu tion to the Allied cause in the S\ Pacific theatre of war is now matter of history. They receive praise from high places—notabl from the late Admiral Willie i (“Bull’’) Halsey, who command* the United States Third Fleet i the Pacific, and from Genen Douglas MacArthur.

Someone Still Watches

There were about 40 survivin Coast Watchers and 26 of tl

Page of Tabar, off New Ireland, who was [?]ded by the Japanese for his Coast Watch ing activities.

ives who had spent the hidden rs with them, at the ceremony August 15. It was probably the t get-together they had ever had. the nature of their war-time cs was strictly individual, a addition to the Coast Watchers, ually every European and native ag within walking or riding ;ance of Madang turned up to Australian Minister for the Navy, lator Gorton, turn the switch t lit the Light for the first time, 1 to hear the addresses of tradier D. M. Cleland, Admm ator of P-NG, and others, aptain I. H. McDonald, chair a of the Coast Watchers’ aiorial Committee, was present, 1 so was its honorary secretary, W. Brooksbank, who, until he red late 1957, was the civilian stant to the Director of Naval elligence and as such was the k-room boy who “mothered” the i,st Watchers. he United States was represented the ceremony by Captain C. M. ite, US Naval Attache in Aus ia —an appropriate choice as >tain White was commanding a adron of fighter planes on idalcanal in 1943.

he Coast Watchers’ Organisation

, of course, never been disbanded, is, said a Navy spokesman at Sang, on August 15, now more ;ient than ever—but who its per nel are, and where they are ioned, only the Navy knows, and ihese matters the Navy remains ery silent service.

Coast Watchers' Admirer

p. 75

Dies in US

One day after the Coast Catchers’ memorial lighthouse as unveiled in Madang, Fleet dmiral William (“Bull”) 'alsey, one of Ferdinand orce’s most highly placed imirers, died in the United tates, aged 76.

“The Coast Watchers saved ■uadalcanal,” he said on one icasion, “and Guadalcanal saved ie Pacific.”

Admiral Halsey was engaging ip naval forces off the Marshall nd the Gilbert Islands less than h ree months after Pearl harbour and from there until he end, when he was sailing p and down the Japanese dands shelling their cities at nil, he chased the Japanese dll ver the Pacific, engaging them )here it did them least good. \etween August, 1942, and >ctober of the following year, )hen the Japanese were finally hrown out of the Solomons, admiral Halsey learned to know he Coast Watchers and to assess heir worth in the type of war are peculiar to that theatre of perations.

Norfolk Is.

p. 75

New Stamps For Norfolk Is.

Preparations now are well ad vanced for a new issue of the stamps of Norfolk Island, about November of this year.

It is believed that the issue will comprise denominations of Id. 2d, and 9d: and the designs, in their portrayal of local flora, will be the first of this kind issued by Norfolk Island.

The Id and the 2d stamps probably will carry designs showing the

hibiscus flower of Philip Is.—a tiny islet off the coast of Norfolk Island —and the Norfolk Island hibiscus; while the design now favoured for the 9d stamp shows the Cereus flower and a re

production of Annogoni’s portrait of the Quean. A photograph of this design is reproduced here with. The Id and 2d stamps will be in colour.

the NGVR

pp. 77-99

What the Civilians Did in the Jungle War [?]ome Men of the NGVR

At Madang, New Guinea, each Anzac Day, much decorated John Cox, on be half of Old Soldiers, lays a wreath on the Cenotaph in tribute to the memory of members of the famous NGVR (New Guinea Volunteer Rifles). ■ The generation now taking over in New Guinea knows little or nothing of what was done by its civilian prede cessors, who formed them selves into the NGVR, fought the Japs heroically if hope lessly when they invaded in early 1942, and later, in the jungle, gave our side priceless help as scouts and patrol guides.

We asked John Cox to tell what he could remember of the NGVR men whom he met in the Lae area in 1942, when the Japs were completely in the ascendant, and he sup plied the following notes:

Here is my list: !olonel Bill Edwards: Stout of irt and body. Before the • a Medical Assistant with Guinea ways, and with a nice house and offee plantation out on the Mark n Road. He was the man who was inly responsible for building up goldfields and Lae and Salamaua achments to platoon strength. A :orated soldier from World War I, i he had the trust and confidence all who served under him. y adre Sherwin: A real fight : padre, whose unfailing good mour and matchless facility for rounging” comforts (both solid 4 liquid) endeared him to all.

Captain Ernie Hitchcock: A gold tier and a highly decorated ieran of World War I (he held i DCM and MM), he was later nsferred to the Pacific Islands ttalion. He was a man of cold •oded courage, initiative, and dar -5 of a high order. He made a iciality of attacking Japanese sts and patrols. In the NGVR, we ed to say; “Join the Army and i the world. Join Ernie Hitch 3k, and see the next world.”

Rifleman Bob Emery: Decorated M. and later, I believe, com

missioned. Bob ran a dairy farm near Lae before the Japanese in vasion. He was a fine specimen of the Australian soldier at his best full of courage, energy and resource, coupled with a Puckish humour. Bob simply ran rings around the Japs who were searching for him, and he was a master of bushcraft.

Rifleman Dick Vernon-. He was a planter and recruiter, who lived near the Markham Valley road.

A keen soldier, well known and well liked by Europeans and natives.

He was killed in a clash with a Jap patrol not far from his own house.

Fearful Odds

Riflemen Merv Prosser, Freddie Clark, and Peter Humphries were only boys in years but they acquitted themselves as men when “faced by fearful odds”.

Sergeant Ossie Priebe, of Guinea Airways, Lae. He was horribly burnt on legs and thighs when setting fire to drums of petrol at Voco Point, Lae. He bore himself with fortitude and courage, and he never com plained while his injuries were be ing attended to by Rifleman George Whittaker, shortly before the Jap anese landing.

Afterwards, when only partially recovered, Priebe showed great courage and fortitude, by walking with the other members of his platoon and some civilian prisoners part of the way from Lae to Bull dog. It was noted that a well known Islands firm chartered an aircraft to carry out its account books, while Ossie Priebe and other sick and wounded riflemen were left to stagger out as best they could.

Sergeant Phiebe subsequently joined FELO and became a WO.

Rifleman Jack Priebe: This civilian soldier, a brother of Ossie, also was employed by Guinea Air ways. Although in indifferent health, he marched with his pack on his back and full equipment from Lae to Bulldog, and spared no effort to assist by word and ex ample those of his comrades who either through illness or physical weakness could hardly make the grade. Many an old member of the NGVR will join me in saying, “God bless Jack Priebe”.

Rifleman George Whittaker (later Captain, and MBE) : He served with ANGAU. George formerly had his own lucrative business as optometrist at Lae, besides being a Medical Assistant with Guinea Airways.

He lived on his property at Awilunga, planted up with coffee and native foods, about 10 miles out on the Markham road. He was liked and respected by Europeans and natives throughout New Guinea. He had extraordinary success in treat ing difficult tropical diseases, and was noted for his untiring en^ r sy in tramping up hill and down dale

(Continued on page 97)

tend to even the most humble » or European miner or planter. detested all forms of drill or tentation —in fact anything iry—but when the hour struck, the Japanese invaded his be- New Guinea, he threw him leart and soul into the grisly ess of war, not only killing lese, but attending to the is and diseases of his comrades. >rge Whittaker was entirely ut skilled assistance, and had few drugs. Yet, in those dark when one never asked, “Are ours?” when the watchful skimmed the tree-tops, George id on and. with his own skilled 3 and a wealth of experience, many good Australian lives.

VIBE was his sole reward from teful country. erwards, during the Lae — laua campaign, Lieutenant ;aker did invaluable work, not in organising native carriers ing essential stores to the front mt in operating a very efficient lage service in both Lae and laua. Devoted natives, many riorn owed their lives or the of someone dear to them to ame “Masta Whittaker” risked thing in obtaining vital infor n from inside the two heavily loned towns. urge Whittaker is a truly man, and one whose name e honourably mentioned when the old NGVR lads foregather. geant-Major Alf Lane, DCM : as a veteran of World War I, he worked very hard indeed ng the NGVR. at the gold towns and at Lae and Sala leman John Cook, who ran the lir, Guinea Airways motor h, between Lae and Salamaua, to the Jap invasion. "Jackie”, e was affectionately known, :h small in stature, had the of a lion. While toiling up down the awful greasy slopes e hills and mountains between nd Bulldog, many an old-timer I never have made the grade, t not been for John Cook, who turned back, and carried the r one’s equipment, as well as wn, to the next halting place I thought nothing of it. all this gallant little band it well be said: iow can man fight better than en facing fearful odds the ashes of his fathers, and ■ temples of his gods.

When The Germans Made

pp. 79-81

$1,250,000 Worth of Damage Was Done

WAR ON PAPEETE

Within seven weeks of the outbreak of World War 1 they called it the Great War then, until we had a bigger and better one 25 years later Papeete got its first and" last ex perience of shot and shell. It was probably the most excitement he little town has ever had in one day just 45 years ago,

)n this September 22.

lERE have been many versions of what happened on that day when Tahiti had its “hot” war: ions based partly on fallible aory. and sometimes on ex jrated press reports published ;he time. n the day following the event, ever, the United States Consul he day, one James H. Goodsir, down and reported to his State artment. A photostat copy of letter, recently obtained by tain Fred K. Klebingat, retired fic Master Mariner now living San Pedro, California, shows the Consul probably took the t excited view of the incident, his official report comes clearly n the years, setting out events ;hey happened. ir”, he wrote formally in the ialese of the times, “I have the )ur to report that on the 22nd , at about 6.30 in the morning, battleships with a collier iared off Papeete.” le battleships were Gneisenau Scharnhorst, from the German la Station, although several days r the attack, Papeete was still irtain as to whether they might have been Yorick and Roon, of same class. i the morning of September 22 ne had been very sure what they :, friend or foe, and when they iayed nothing except a signal for pilot, the port pilot obligingly put to them. it if the pilot were doubtful, batteries on the heights behind )ete were not. First, a shot was across the pilot’s bows and ped him in mid-harbour, then shots were fired at the battle s.

Declared War |e battleships treated this, and mtermittant salvoes fired in the eeding hour, with as much dis as an elephant would a luito. They cruised up and down ide the entrance to the harbour een 6.30 a.m. and 7.30 a.m., and showing no flag. ; ut,” wrote the Consul, “at the

latter hour the German flag was displayed by both vessels, and word sent in for all non-combatants, women and children, to leave the town immediately, as they were about to open fire.

"At about 7.45, both ships opened on the forts on the hill, which were soon silenced. The gun-boat Zelee was moored alongside the steamer Walkure, captured from German in terests by the French (while she had been loading at Makatea on August 12).

“After finishing with the land batteries, the Germans directed their fire at the Zelee, which was sunk with three shots. The same shots badly damaged the steamer, tearing a great hole in its hull, carrying part of its upper works away and damaging its smokestack.”

The battleships then went to work on the town, leaving almost two entire blocks “from A. B. Donald’s store on one side to the Rue Bonnard on the other,” a mass of smoking ruins. The market place, the wharf and customs house shed were plastered in a 2 h hours bombard

rnent; in all an estimated $1,250 00 * worth of damage was done Shrapnel fell over a wide are but the only fatal casualties were a lahitian, a Chinaman and “a hors ei°nSing to a Mr. Lambert, which was killed by a bursting shell as it stood in its stall.” (The same shell wrecked Mr. Lambert’s residence Mr. Goodsir was naturally mosr con cerned with his American nationals; none were killed and onlv one suffered even superficial injuries An American lumber schooner william Olson, ran up a flag im mediately the firing started and wa left alone by the Germans, althougi ‘’bits of flying shrapnel did cut some of his rigging—a loss that the Master places at $15.”

The American who suffered most was Mr, Charles H. Norris, who traded in vanilla, motor spares and food specialties.

To the Last Man Both battleships withdrew about 11 a.m., sailing off in a northerly direction which gave rise to the be lief that they were headed for Mako tea Island to replenish their coal supplies. It was expected that when this was done they would return to try to seize and occupy Tahiti. Pre parations were made to resist a landing, and local military and naval units declared that they would fight to the last man. In the* event of course, they were not called upon to do so, as the warships never re turned.

“As it was,” reported the Consul “they could do nothing against the vastly superior armament of the at tackers who silenced the batteries on the heights and then toyed with the town.”

When the Germans had first showed their colours, the authorities

An old photo showing the results of the 1914 German bombardment of Papeete.

lediately fired the government es at Papeete to keep them from ing into enemy hands, and the [ supply that burned for some s later proved an embarrassment ;he defenders. The fires started ;he shells also took some putting The Germans Got Mad :o the credit of the men-of-war,” te the Consul, “be it said that ire they opened on the town, f. they both hoisted flags of e and apparently offered to ev, but no attention was paid their signals. After waiting a onable time for some boat to put from the town, with none so g. they opened fire. fc is my opinion that if the land eries had not opened upon the s in the first instance, perhaps would not have molested the rat all, although they were un itedly bent upon procuring a ily of coal here. As it happened • several shots had been atched in their direction they apparently goaded to action, s a result of the operations of morning, the steamer Saint cois, of the Comp&gnie Navale Dceanie, was sent to Suva, start yesterday afternoon, to spread alarm, and if possible to notify English and Japanese squadrons le Germans’ presence in these rs.” id in the end, before he had the ur to be, Sir, your obedient ser , the Consul indulged in a little speculation: he Germans who have been ned on Motu-Uta Island as al prisoners of war (although Governor will not specifically nate them as such) for the past ;h or five weeks, were yesterday transferred to the Colonial n from the island, and it is said they have been threatened with nary execution if the attack on ;own is renewed, hey are said to have attempted gnal the attacking ships from position on the island, which is the barrier reef, he Walkure, although badly •led, has been towed out to the and placed in a position for ng upon a re-appearance of the ships. aday all is calm in the port, •ugh business is temporarily mded, and the refugees v of day are rapidly returning to homes.” ■eisenau a,nd Scharnhorst never ned to Papeete. They sailed on ®et their end at the Battle of 'alkland Islands, after they had a at Easter Island to tak( rd some livestock as they ed for the Atlantic.

N. Caledonia Might Need Walpole Guano

p. 81

Supplies of guano from Walpole Island, tiny dependency of New Caledonia, will not be available for New Zealand for quite some time yet, according to the head of the New Caledonian syndicate holding the franchise, Mr. Georges Tsutsui.

Before any serious negotiations commence, the New Caledonian government insists that at least 2,000 tons of guano be delivered in Noumea. When that has been ac complished, the matter of export to New Zealand will be reconsid ered. It is the intention of the New Caledonian government to try to develop local agriculture and if present plans work out, it is quite

possible that New Caledonia mi w a V iL!i ee ?, of . all the B™no ti',.: Walpole Island can produce.

There are 6,000 tons stock-pi g at present at Walpole and M Tsutsui’s syndicate is looking foi ‘ boat of some 50 tons to ship this to Noumea.

Just what equipment will b< needed for exploiting the Walpolf deposits is not yet known. Neither has any survey yet been made oi the existing moorings off the island. Walpole rises straight ou< of the sea and special mooring l were laid to which ships were tier whilst barges brought the guano to the holds.

Tropicalities

pp. 83-84

Pacific Islands Monthly

MAGAZINE SECTION

Why Americans Like To Leave Home HEN Mr. Herb Caen, gossip . columnist of the San Fran cisco Chronicle, went back ie after a short time in Fiji in ust, he left those people who are iys talking about the big tourist istry the Pacific will have some , with a couple of fascinating ights. imericans,” he said, “do not t to see how the other half i ” >. e went on: “And when they leave ie to be tourists they are spoiled, ipered and expect everything r had at home laid on for them rever they go. If they don’t get hey don’t like it.” 3 tourists to the Pacific expect ;ach to be handy, he said; just ewhere where th£y can paddle he knees then get right back lath the beach umbrella, to be ►ed down with oil by the hotel seur. msidering the amount of money iricans spend on travelling right ss the world, it seems a helluva g that all they want when they there is just what they left be 1. r. Caen didn’t seem to think Fiji could hope to get much of American tourism until iricans changed their attitude — if Fiji, the most tourist-minded itory in the South Pacific, gives that impresison, the touring ks will be leaving the rest of the th Pacific for dead for a long i yet. Which is what PIM has in several different ways in re ; months. —J.

ndarin Might Help the Plot

3CORDING to the movie ad vertisements in the North Borneo News (Jesselton’s daily news sr), you haven’t got to go to South West Pacific to have :uage problems. i Jesselton, movies come in ay, Cantonese and Mandarin, as as in plain Hollywood English technicolour. here is even something called ble Mandarin—but no clue as to ther that’s a language in its own it, or a dubbed-in Chinese voice an orthodox movie. Mandarin iking, two-gun men would be ething that might make even the rent crop of Westerns endurable.

Stick 'em Up—Or Else! (IHIEF Judge Kay issued a warn j ing in the Cook Islands High Court in July. Too many people had been ignoring Health Depart ment notices requiring them to erect privies on their properties.

The judge implied that if they don’t get those privies up fast there’ll be something doing shortly.

Maori Standard Time

RADIO operators may live in a world of GMT, and the Cook Islands Administration may operate on Cook Islands standard time, but apparently the population have other ideas —if Motion No. 25 before the Legislative Assembly in July is a fair indication.

The motion, proposed by Mr.

Wm. Watson—also known as Viri Vokotini—was “That this Assembly amend the Cinematograph Ordin ance 1951 to provide that the hours of entertainment be extended to 11.00 pm where circumstances warrant.”

Speaking in favour of the motion, the Hon. T. J. Browne pointed out that extension of time in summer was necessary because pictures start much later than normal, mainly be

cause the Maori people do not go by the European clock but rather by the setting of the sun.

If movies were commenced at the normal time, said Mr. Browne—who should know because he’s in the movie business—half the evenim would be without audience.

The motion was adopted.

No Paradise Really

AMONG a recent batch of Norfolk Island news wq. found this plaintive message: “It has gener ally been thought here that there are no gaming laws on Norfolk Island. But last week the Adnii;. istrator ordered the dismantling of the one armed bandits at the Norfolk Island Country Club. It : understood that ‘housie’ tourna ments, as held by the Tourist Bureau are also frowned upon. The Country Club —an adjunct of the Paradise Hotel—was operated for members only, and while the poker machines were good fun for wealthy tourists, apparently it has been felt that too many of the young local residents have been losing more than they could afford.”

Keep It Short AVARUA, Rarotonga, which is the administrative centre of the Cook Islands, has recently in stalled the Cooks’ first public tele phone call box. It’s on a 24-hour service through Rarotonga’s manual exchange, but there are some dif ferences between it and overseas

This young New Caledonian native is holding up a dawa, or daoua, which was once a tabu fish, but not now. The reason for the tabu was that in the early days this splendid eating fish was reserved only for high chiefs. Lesser mortals ate it on pain of death.

Photo: Fred Dunn.

phone boxes. Rarotonga’s calls cost Id, and for that users are allowed only three minutes.

Not Deductible

THE P-NG Taxpayers’ associations have had a big increase in en , rolment lately, despite the fact that income tax is now operating there. The taxpayers’ associations are in reality, of course, anti-tax paying associations. However, officials in Lae were a little as tonished recently when one newly enrolled member asked whether her fee of two guineas would be de ductible from her income tax re turn.

Roadworkers Need To Be

On Their Metal TOWN advisory councils in Papua- New Guinea frequently discuss, as matters of routine, subjects that would be guaranteed to make the newspapers in more civilised areas of the world.

A recent meeting of the Rabaul council happened to note, in pass ing, that it was pleased to hear that a bomb disposals officer would be

visiting Rabaul again soon because (as the council mihutes put it): “The Commonwealth Works De partment, in pursuing a rather energetic roadwork programme is turning up more bombs than per haps we had counted on. The Chair man has sighted one bomb in the middle of Blanche Street and another one was discovered on allot ment 26, and has been brought to his notice."

Brown Man's Burden FROM Rarotonga, collection centre for the Cook Islands network of weather stations, Met. radar balloons are now released twice daily, superseding the smaller, visually followed pilot balloons that have been sent up for years past whenever weather conditions per mitted upper wind measurements.

Today a team of young Cook Islanders scan their cathode ray tubes and handle the new scientific methods with nonchalant aplomb.

On the finger points of elevation, azimuth and range combinations 15 miles up, they talk like seasoned

Southern Leave

It might hot have been So cold in bed If what I said to my wife Had been left unsaid!

artillerymen. They are conditii cogs in the white man’s machii It was not always thus. S years ago in Penrhyn, a * balloon station since World Wa one Met. boy was taking the i mentation hard. A part of his c routine was to raise the stop w to his ear to chebk its mover before releasing the balloon, one day he saw the light.

This ticking thing, the p; cause of his servitude, was in hands. With nimble fingers he the stop watch to the balloon watched it soar out of sight, measurably relieved, he walked h to his village, a free man—G

They Say He's a Prince

and a Millionaire Under the heading of “Princ Fiji”, one of Sydney’s evening m payers, on August 10, published 1 A FIJIAN who began as a sn time metal prospector 18 y ago, flew into Sydney toda; millionaire mining magnate.

He is Mr. M. Hari Charan A 1 He was nearing the end of seventh world tour when he arr by Air India.

Mr. Akhil will visit his two s who are at Trinity Grammar Set Sydney.

He said he intended taking sons, aged 19 and 16 years, into mining business with him.

“I started as a mining prospe 18 years ago,” Mr. Akhil said.

“I struck it rich in Fiji, and sta: my own company in 1952.

“I now have nine manganese coppe; 1 mines there.”

He said he supplied copper manganese to the US and Ja] and business was “very good”.

Mr. Akhil admitted to bein; millionaire.

He is accompanied by his prr secretary.

Artist, With Chair The well-known artist, Miss M Edwell-Burke, better known as M Edwards, returned to Fiji on Aug 10—“ perhaps to settle permanei th.'s time”.

With the artist went her fam chair, which has accompanied everywhere for the past 20 ye : last time Miss Edwards went to she had cat trouble—because t: wouldn’t let her cat land, she turned to Sydney.

Crossquiz

p. 84

(For Solution see 97)

ACROSS

I. —Who is famous for his paintings of ballet dancers? 4.—What bird is noted for the song it sings as it soars high in the sky? 8. —What person in Australian criminal history had the highest price on his head? 10.-—On what river is the great Assuan dam? 11. —What symbolises Scotland on the royal arms? 12. —ln which bay in Italy was Shelley drowned? 13. —What discovery was made by the German scientist Rontgen?

15. —Who was Prime Minister of England when Edward VIII abdicated? 16. —From which opera by Puccini does the aria "The Heavens Blaze With Stars" come? 17. —ln what room attached to a church are the garments of the clergy put on and stored? 20. —What is the capital of the Philip pines? 21. —What is taken from the famous pitch lake in Trinidad?

—DO W N

1. —Which book of Cervantes is a satire on chivalry?

2. —What mountain is next in height to Everest? 3. —What is the terri torial designation of a bishop called? 5. —Who played Hans Andersen on the screen? 6. —What promontory is the most westerly part of England? 7. —What important physical theory was first put forward fay Ein stein? 9. —What instrument was used by the ancient Greeks as an accom paniment to spoken verse? 12—What plants fall into the A'gae division?

M.—What is the medical term for the shou'der-blade? 18. —What is the capital of Latvia? 19. —What animal can locate objects by means of supersonic wtH '•'?ve t ‘?

Points The Way

p. 85

[?]ere Do We Go From Here?

Fiji Youth Club Points The Way

From J. P. Shortall, in Suva An address of more than

ssing interest was made by

leading Fijian, Ralu K. K.

Mara, at the inauguration

the new multi-racial Fiji

)uth Club in Suva in August.

far the club has no home of its own, and the function, presided over by Mr. K. D. sin, Commissioner for India in was held at the Grand Pacific ;1. itu Mara displayed a refresh er Christian and realistic roach to the Colony’s racial ition in his inaugural address, ilthough the constitution of this lists quite a number of aims objects, one can summarise the le aim and object by saying that main purpose is the promotion promulgation of all that will titain and improve racial nony in this Colony.” said Ratu a. [is Excellency, in the last slative Council, rightly ad ished us not to be complacent it our racial relations in this my,” Ratu Mara said, and he inued.

"Racial Harmony"

’he youth of this Colony owe ) their elders to maintain and possible improve the racial nony which has been an out

standing characteristic of this Colony.

“His Excellency advised multi racial schools, and there were voices raised against that means of pro ducing racial harmony. But His Excellency simply mentioned only one of the ways of educating people. The education of a person is not restricted to school rooms alone. . . . People are led to a better life not only in the school rooms but in the Press, by the radio, on the playing field, and in clubs such as this one.”

Ratu Mara continued: “What is there to be gained by any section if all our education and development leads to inter sectional strife and bloodshed?”

“Those responsible for the creation of this club are doing excellent service to the Colony. I am not surprised to see Mr.

Bahsin’s name associated with this development. His own radiant and captivating personality has won him numerous friends of all races in the very short time he has spent in this Colony.

“He is of course fortunate to have as his wife a charming and a superb hostess in Mrs. Bahsin. If each member can do as well as either Mr. or Mrs. Bahsin in future, we will in this ceremony launch a youth club which will have every prospect of success.”

All Races

The club caters for boys and girls aged 15 and over. To date it has concentrated on sport and on social work for the sick and destitute.

It hopes to organise educational classes for young members who, for financial reasons, cannot continue their schooling.

Formed in March, it now has a membership of about 110 of all races, about 20 per cent, of the membership being Fijian.

Mr. Bahsin is patron, and Mr.

B. J. Rattan is president.

Some of the members of the new multi-racial Fiji Youth Club.

Remember ?

p. 85

Do You Remember ?

There was no doubt as to the bin news 20 years ago this month.

Britain was at war. “PlM’s” froth

cover of September, 1939, showed r

photograph of the moustached Her Hitler, the swastika prominent ov his sleeve, talking to the British Ambassador in Berlin during the

critical days of August. Inside ,

“PIM” was filled with reports on how the war would affect the Pacit <

and apologised for holding out many

regular articles because of the pressure of space.

A “PIM” editorial pointed out that would be lunacy to underestimate the task before the allies . . . Unless the German morale cracks, or unless there is producer! some new and devastating technique, Germany for years can repel the strong'?:-!: forces that the allies can bring against her . . The editorial warned that the “imminent danger” of war with Japan was gone for the moment but the menace remained. “Japan must expand or perl H: * fe The commercial outlook for th 6 Pacific was reassuring, despite contrary expecta tions held a few* weeks-ibefore declaration of war, “PIM” reported elsewhere. I said commodity values were rising rapidly, and trochus shell had risen by £4/10/a ton and traders were refusing to sell at £BO. Copra prices were “nominal” but would undoubtedly rise, and it was possible that the British Government would con tract to take the whole of the South Pacific copra production. * * ♦ Volunteer defence forces were being en rolled right throughout the Pacific. In New Guinea emergency measures gave the Administrator power to increase the Euro pean police force by enrolling special constables. * * * There were predictions as to what would be the future of Papua and New Guinea after the war. These were touched off by the long awaited report of the committee set up to consider amalgamation of the Territories, which had been released on September 12. The report rejected the idea of amalgamation and said that Lae was a better site than Rabaul for ad ministration headquarters. (In any case, as the war progressed all this went into the melting pot).

He * * In Tonga a new budget had been brought down which had many critics be cause there was no alleviation of what was described as heavy taxation imposed during more prosperous times. Said a Nukualofa correspondent: “What sort of mad or callous finance is it that budgets for more than the country produces’ * * * The South Pacific had at last, on August 30 inaugurated an airmail service be tween Australia and North America, with Imperial Airways and Pan American Air ways each covering a link. But four days later war had broken out and PIM reported that “the future is obscure”.

A Vital Principle Was Established When Burns

pp. 86-101

And Carpenter Fought The Dutch

• From that dedicated historian of South Pacific ships, Mr. Nevill Chatfield, I received a file of official and part-official documents (which, 1 hope, is destined for the Mitchell Library); and, from those 70-years-old records, I was able to build up, in detail, the extraordinary story of the Costa Rica Packet, and the late Sir James Burns’s seven years’ war against the Netherlands Government. Some of the documents were transcriptions of the old Dutch East Indies official reports, and the record was so clear that it was possible to reconstruct the probable dialogue.

By R. W. ROBSON

The tall, broad-shouldered, bearded, tough-looking sea captain was buying provisions in a store in Temate; and he was not pleased when a cocky Eurasian, in the uniform of the Dutch East Indies constabulary, tapped him authoritatively on the shoulder.

YOU are Captain John Bolton Carpenter?” he inquired. ‘•Well, what of it?” snarled the big seaman. ‘‘Of the barque Costa Rica Packet?” proceeded the official.

“Yes, that’s my ship—she’s lying out there now. What’s biting you?” demanded Captain Carpenter.

“You will come with me to the Governor, please,” said the police man.

The captain’s beard bristled.

“What!” he roared, belligerently.

“Can’t you see I’m busy? Get out!”

“My orders are to take you at once to the Governor,” replied the official. He motioned towards the doorway. Another policeman was waiting there.

The captain smelled trouble —he knew well the East Indies of the 1870’s—he had been through those shining archipelagoes many times.

So he told the storekeeper, pro fanely, that he’d have to go and see what it was all about —but he’d be back. He strode off up the hill, closely attended by the policemen.

The Dutch officer (his official title was “Resident” in charge of that section of the Molucca Islands) was formal and rigid.

Piracy

Was he Captain John Bolton Carpenter? Was his ship the Costa Rica Packet? The captain, equally unfriendly, answered Yes to both questions. ‘‘Then I arrest you on a charge of piracy,” said the Resident. “I commit you to prison, to await orders from Netherlands Indies Government.”

Captain Carpenter literally bellowed. Using fiery American oaths —for. until he was driven by the

events of the Civil War to seek British naturalisation, he had been an American —he demanded details of this outrageous charge.

The Dutchman —a cold, sneering

type of human simply told policemen to take him to Ternate gaol and lock him up “You are mad!” roared the tain. “You can’t do this to a Bi citizen. I demand some reasoi this charge!”

“The captain knows well wh is,” remarked the Resident, prau that was stolen from Bo and the cases of liquor which sold in Batjan—we also kncn Take him away,” he said to policemen.

For a moment, the furious sk: showed an inclination to figl out. Then he shrugged his shoul told the official that much

Until the Pacific became involved in World War II, and the Japanese ten[?] porarily destroyed European commerce in the Gilbert Islands, the two Australia Islands organisations. Burns Philp and Co.. Ltd., and W. R. Carpenter and C[?] Ltd. (the latter through On Chong and Co.. Ltd.), carried on trading oper[?] tions in that British Colony. Neither of the Australian companies returned the Gilberts, after the invaders were driven out. Most of the trade there no[?] is carried on by the Tangitangs, or native co-operative societies, supported [?] the Government. This old photograph (kindly supplied by Mr. Nevill Chatfiel formerly a supercargo On Burns Philp steamers) shows the old Burns Phi[?] store on Butaritari, at the northern end of the Gilbert chain of atolls. Stan[?] ing in front is the storekeeper, Mr. Tom Redfern, a member of a once-famo[?] Sydney family; sitting on the verandah is the late Mr. Fred Wallin, the con[?] pany’s Islands manager, there on a visit; while Mr. Chatfield himself is stan[?] ing on the right.

Id be heard of this, and was :hed off to gaol. f, he marched, he became ghtful. The Resident’s last re t had given him a clue his was November 1, 1891. •ly four years before that —on iary 24, 1888—there had occurred ‘thing that had seemed strange ie time, but which he’d almost >tten.

Whaler and Derelict Prau i had only recently taken charge ie Costa Rica Packet, 531 tons, ■ in Guernsey in 1861 for the t Indian trade, and converted arque rig just before she was based in 1887 by the then 4s-old firm of Burns Philp and Ltd. ie dynamic James Burns had led that he would try a whaling rprise in the East Indies region the barque; and he had en d Carpenter, a rugged, 44-years navigator, for the job, because •enter could handle men, and he i j whaling, and he knew that Indies area, ie barque went north, whaling. 887, and the venture wars very essful—so much so that in 1891 was re-equipped and sent back another whaling trip, with a er crew. i her first whaling voyage, on iary 24, 1888, at an estimated 7 miles off the coast of Boeroe, he Banda Sea. the Costa Rica zet sighted a large prau (native ng-vessel), apparently derelict, tain Carpenter sent away a and the mate reported back the vessel was drifting, had no aboard, but carried a number ases of liquor. iptain Carpenter brought his iue close alongside, had a look, then had the dozen cases sferred to the Costa Rica Packet. left the prau drifting. She tied worthless. here were eight cases of arrack, of gin, two of cognac and one :erosene. he crew manifested a lively in st in the cases there was siderable drunkenness, and the :ain noticed that the bottles were dy disappearing. little later, when the barque it into Batjan port for pro ons, he sold the remaining cases liquor to Chinese traders there; i went on with his fishing.

Dutch Suspect Piracy

le was not to know it—but the ippearance of the prau had sed quite a stir in a little town Boeroe.

A trader there complained to a Dutch official that a prau which he had chartered, and onto which he had loaded some cases of liquor, had disappeared in the night of January 18, while her crew were ashore.

The official formally reported the matter to the Resident at Amboina (in the Moluccas). The latter passed the word around, among his agents. That seemed the end of it.

But late in 1888, an official in Batyan chanced to notice a case of arrack in a trade-store. It had marks upon it; and thus he identi fied it as one of the cases which had disappeared on the prau.

The Chinese storekeeper said he had bought the case from Captain Carpenter, of the Costa Rica Packet.

Immediately, officialdom was on the warpath. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Captain Carpenter.

That was in 1888.

Angry Captain Under Arrest

Over three years later, Captain Carpenter, now in the law’s grip in Ternate, was thrust into a dirty gaol, with some native prisoners.

He created such a disturbance that the gaoler presently brought an official from the Residency; and the Captain found that it was as he suspected—he was being charged with having stolen the liquor and, probably, the prau.

"Damn ye for a lot of fools! shouted the captain. "We took that liquor off a derelict ship, far out on the high seas—and there’s men aboard my ship now who can prove it. That was four years ago.”

“But you do not deny that you stole it,” replied officialdom.

T did not,” roared the angry sea man. “That was a derelict ship, and our law says we were entitled to take possession of the ship, and anything on the ship.”

“We do not agree. We think you stole the ship from Boeroe, and took her cargo.”

They kept the captain for four days in that dirty little gaol: and then they put him aboard a coaster, bound for Macasser, to be tried.

He did not take it silently. In fact, he created so much uproar that the officials finally allowed him to select three men from his crew, who had been with him on the 1888 cruise, to go with him to Macasser, as witnesses. , , orl Captain Carpenter was taken aboard the coaster under guard.

When he found that he was ex pected to bed down among the native deck passengers for the voyage he became “difficult again, and finally they were glad to let him settle in a cabin.

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Meither Idle Nor Silent"

Macasser, Captain Carpenter put in a cell with a sick an soldier, and kept there for ys. He was neither idle nor finally got word to the Gov of the British Straits Settle , and the latter took strong , and had the case brought ickly for trial, Dutch could not prove that irau was stolen from her rage—in fact, the evidence >ted that she had broken loose her crew were having a party ;, and drifted away to sea. captain’s witnesses, on the hand, gave exact details of she was found derelict away n the open sea, far beyond enerally recognised territorial (three miles).

Dutch claimed that she was ed by the Australian ship to the shore; and they argued in those waters, there was no >rial limit. their case broke down com 7, and Captain Carpenter was ipon turned out of the gaol e he had been for 26 days) sft there, to shift for himself, ntually, early in 1892, he got to Ternate and his barque, lut captain and without dis b, and apparently without , she was a sorry mess. The tig season now was over, ing on James Burns’s instruc- Captain Carpenter took the Rica Packet to Singapore, old her.

Burns's 7-Year War I then the famous Costa Rica '■t war began. les Burns was determined that me should pay compensation; ie was a tenacious fighter, those days, Burns Philp & Co.

were very small potatoes. The Dutch Government treated their claim with disdain.

There was no Australian Com monwealth then—merely six dis united Australian Colonies. Burns was a member of the NSW Parlia men t. The NSW Government backed the claim.

The Hague’s response was merely a sneer.

Burns’s good friend, Dr. J. M.

Creed, a brilliant lawyer, took up the case in the Legislative Council in October, 1893; and he never let go of it again.

The Costa Rica Packet claim went from Council to NSW Government: on to British Colonial Office (which ducked and dodged); on to British House of Commons and House of Lords (which finally forced the British Government to carry on the fight); on to the International Court at The Hague, which said that the claim was just, and sent it on to Russia, to nominate an arbitrator or accessor; to the Czar of Russia, who nominated Professor de Martens, a jurist of international repute, who decided that The Netherlands should pay £8,500 compensation, plus costs and 5 per cent, per annum interest from 1892.

That was in 1898. James Burns had carried on that war for seven years. By 1898, the case of the Costa Rica Packet was known to every newspaper reader in the South Pacific Captain Carpenter (who died in 1921, aged 78, and who was the father of Sir Walter Carpenter, founder of W. R. Carpenter & Co.

Ltd.), got £3,150; officers and crew, £1,600; and Burns Philp, as owners, £3,800.

But that is of comparatively little moment. The fact is that the case was extremely important in relation to international law governing ship ping. It established the three-miles limit of territorial jurisdiction; and it clarified the rights, privileges and restrictions of the masters of ships upon the high seas.

Varied Background

pp. 87-101

The Man With The Varied Background

Fred Palmer Archer of Bou gainville, often referred to as “F.P.A.” is a very articulate identity of the islands with a

well-developed flair for writing.

HIS background is a complex of journalism, shipping, cattle raising in Western Queensland and a generation of coconut grow ing in New Guinea.

The first Archers arrived in Tas mania in 1827, and were cousins of the Norwegian family whose Cohn Archer built the Fram in 1893 for Nansen’s Polar explorations. Fred s mother was Laura Maud O’Ferrall, sister of the poet and writer Ernest, and an author herself. Fred’s father, Tom, helped pioneer the Barcoo in 1872 with cattle overlanded from Victoria, many years later returning to Melbourne where Fred was born at an undisclosed date. .

Fred spent his boyhood on the Warrego in Queensland, then went to school in Melbourne, worked in a sharebroker’s office there, and went back to the bush. He was droving on the stockroutes from the Northern Territory and Gulf of Carpentaria where he formed last / ng w frl n e i ld fve?s with Bill Harney (now of .

Rock) and Henry G. Lamond, both famous writers. ..

Fred enlisted at Hughenden Qld snent 3 1 years in the First AIF, and then three more years in the bush hpfore hearing the call of the coco -osieHheeaarri?edeH h e ea arri?ed in New Guinea as a plantation overseer in 1922 tor

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the Expro. Board, and ran planta tions in the Admiralty group, Logan, Pelleluhn, Wuvulu and the Witu group.

During this time he became at tached to atolls and their denizens in their lonely way of life. In 1927 he bought Jame Island plantation, off the west coast of Buka, and has been there ever since, apart from an interval of Japanese occupation.

A Coastwatcher

In 1939, Fred was appointed a civilian Coastwatcher, and in that capacity sent the message reporting to Jack Read, at Bonis, the arrival of a Jap cruiser force at Kessa. 10 miles from Jame, in 1942.

After the Jap occupation of Buka Passage he retired into the in terior of Bougainville with Jack Read’s party, and was evacuated a year later by submarine from the east coast. From Australia, Fred then returned to Guadalcanal to serve with the BSIP Forces in the Solomons campaign, and finally reached Bougainville with the Alt.

During the reconnaissance an d occupation of Nissan (Green Is.) he was attached to New Zealand’s 3rd Division. , At the end of the war Fred was with Native Scouts at 23rd Infantry Brigade. AIF Headquarters, and saw the surrender of Commander Taka hashi’s force at Buka Passage.

After the departure of the enemy, Fred was employed on the first post-war patrols of Buka and the off-lying islands to rehabilitate the natives back into village life ana work. Then came some leave in Australia and Fred took his dis charge in Rabaul before returning to Jame to get his plantation back

into production.

In addition to writing, both on Island life and early station me

icensland, Fred has been active e Planters’ Association and in jrganisation of the Bougain- Jompany which was formed to ie much needed shipping ser to Bougainville, d Archer met author James »ner at Guadalcanal during the and again in Rabaul after the vhen Fred threatened to write ik on the islands, ag a bachelor, Fred can’t be I into anything rash, but 10 have gone by, and Jim iner and the rest of the literary are still wai t i n g.— Brett

Island Villages

pp. 88-101

The Success Story of Co-ops In The Cooks

come To Life

By Gordon Russell

There is something of a new spirit abroad in the Cooks today. In recent years the reins have been loosened a bit, the pace has quickened, horse and rider are in closer harmony.

SOME of the credit for this new spirit must go to Mr. Lyall Noakes, who in July retired from the post of Director of Social Development and Registrar of Co operative Societies. What this man has been doing over the past four years is an interesting success story . . . the success story of Cook Islands’ co-operatives.

Conceived in self-defence in the English village of Riochdale in 1844, the co-operative movement as we know it today spread throughout this world, and, its laws and principles tested, trimmed and per fected, it reached India in 1905, the East Indies in the 20’s, New Guinea and the Gilberts in the 40’s, Fiji in 1949, Samoa in the early 50’s, the Cooks in 1955.

But we are talking of the modern co-operative. In their feudal days,

the Polynesians knew something of co-operation. In the Cooks the early missionaries noted that co operative effort in small groups on the land was the common practice.

In the 1890’s native co-operatives were trading in oranges, cotton, coffee, with Auckland and Tahiti, In the 20’s, for a while, an officially sponsored consumer society opera ted in Rarotonga.

Native Evolution

There was the Cook Islands Progressive Association, a native evolution that blossomed in spec tacular style only 15 years ago, only to wither away for lack of know ledge and true leadership. It left a trail of sentiment for a lost cause but no immediate stomach for more.

It was fortunate for the ( that the man who disembi from the Matua at Rarotong May, 1955, to become Registn Co-operative Societies, was rather rare thing in the South a Colonial Service man with a lifetime of background and perience in this and kindred f.

New Zealand born, he was fact, back in New Zealand Sarawak on retirement leave he accepted the Cooks’ assignn Under the paternal eye of the 1 Rajah of Sarawak, Lyall No had entered the Sarawak Service in 1930, and while on administrative ladder, survived years as a prisoner of war of Japanese, participated in transition of this British protec ate to a colony in 1945, vis Ceylon in 1949 to make a sp< study of co-operative societies, retired from the Sarawak servic 1954 as Commissioner of C munity Development.

Commerce Reaction

Now here he was in Rarotc with his own typewriter, hal weather-beaten Nissen hut, a sticks of furniture, and no sta; First reaction was from the L Chamber of Commerce which w; to the New Zealand parent b urging that this movement boycotted at all costs. p“Afe wb cost?” replied the NZ chamber, effect, giving them no change all.

It soon became clear that ah the last thing on Lyall Noa!

For real scenery it is diff beat the Cooks, a view of the la Aitutaki. Five co - operative s[?] have been for[?] this area and more are bein[?]

sidered. Building

are also operatin[?]

I was consumer societies. It most difficult, he said, for ,g co-operative societies to >ete successfully with any Wished, well run business, and e local traders were in healthy jetition and giving reasonable ce. there ws nothing wrong > that. s thoughts were rather upon neglected coconut palms, which ■ the dormant potential of the *e communities, and proven i of bringing these to life, ng acquired one or two raw promising Cook Islanders as itial instructors and super 3, he produced a five years plan, ;ned to embrace for a start the main volcanic islands of the ;r Cooks, one island per year, and communications permit- Not High Pressure omoting co-operative societies ot work for a high pressure man, or an 8 to 4 man. Rather a patient explaining, initially, any somewhat prosaic activities as thrift, accounting, the uses of money and capital, and these should be handled. Nor i you promise the audience hing that it cannot produce by wn collective efforts, ving spent your evenings ig your story, sounding their s, suggesting lines of action, go away. Later, maybe, they ; to you and they say. . . . want this thing, len the real work begins, guid counselling, supervising, audit lis low pressure approach can

be startling in its results. Today, at the request of the people, there are 41 active co-operative societies in the Lower Cooks, Total member ship exceeds 3,000, almost a fifth of the Cl population, and embraces salaried workers, wage earners, planters, housewives, schoolchilden.

In keeping with the fourth year of the five year plan, the movement now embraces four Lower Group islands, Rarotonga, Atiu, Mangaia and Aitutaki. Mauke, the fifth and most backward isle, is now receiv ing its first exercises in aided self help.

More than half the Cl societies are of the village thrift and credit type, the villages being the focal point of organisation, the main aim at this stage agricultural develop ment in general, rebuilding the copra industry in particular. Thrift is the keynote and all developments are planned in the knowledge that it is the accumulated savings which must provide the capital for ex pansion.

First Choice —Atiu

Of the outer Lower Group islands Atiu was first choice by reason of its accessibility, compactness, and the comparative cohesion and adaptability of its people. , Each of the five villages soon haa its own society, its own Ceylon type copra drier, and later, a central processing and marketing society serving the whole island. Up to that time 10 tons of copra from Atiu were considered pretty good.

In 1957 the central society exported 23 tons, much of it first grade; in the first nine months of 1958, 40 tons. This year some 80 tons are already in sight.

In Mangaia, noted for the independence and comparative in dustry of its people, a similar copra processing and marketing pro gramme is underway. An enthusias tic organising teacher has been busy there juggling with the school syllabus to meet the agricultural needs of this island.

In Aitutaki, following persistent demands, five village societies have been formed, three more are being considered. A feature there is three building groups, members building their own houses co operatively to standard plans supplied by the Social Development Department, with expectations oi aid under the Direct Subsidy Hous ing Scheme, a tradition-breaking innovation .recently under fire m the Legislative Assembly at Raro tonea. , . „ The Cook Islanders are showing considerable enterprise. Ngvelty of the moment is the manner in whica they are juggling with finance.

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Mr. Lyall Noakes.

Prettiest VIP visitor to the South Pacific in August was Princess Alexandra, cousin of Queen Eliza beth The 22-year-old Princess flew from Britain to Australia for the Queensland Centenary celebrations, and was given a right royal recep tion by the Australian public. Here the bright-eyed Alexandra is cap tured in a charming moment, by photographer Rob Wright, at Nausori airport during a one-night stopover in Suva.

With a mere £315 in share capital behind its export of 40 tons of copra in 1958, the Atiu Processing and Marketing Society had a surplus of £235 to dispose of. They wrote down the value of their buildings, estab lished a share transfer fund, paid a bonus, returned £5O to the reserve fund.

Rarotonga, largest, wealthiest, most populous island of the Cooks, now has 15 societies with a total membership of over 1,600; savings in excess of £9,000.

In 1958 the Processing and Marketing Society exported £2,081 in tomatoes, coconuts, taro, and

paid a bonus of 1/6 for everv £ of produce marketed. Wealthiest group is the Thrift and Loan Society for salaried Government employees, with 212 members ano some £6,000 in the kitty. No society has yet suffered any loss from its loan business.

The Cook Islands Co-operative Union Ltd. has now been started The Union is a bank through which the capital of co-operatives is being channelled, and in which to deposit surplus funds and to which credit worthy societies can apply for financial assistance. Bulk purchases by outer island societies are en couraged, but only in essential supplies for agricultural and build ing requirements.

New Department

In 1956 Mr. Noakes accepted the post of Director of Social Develop ment, a new department planned primarily to implement some of the recommendations of the Belshaw- Stace report of 1955. The Cl co operative structure is now embraced within this department with. Ton Muir, a New Zealander with special training in this field, as assistant director and assistant registrar.

There are now four Maori co operative officers, each caring for the needs of one island; Apenera Short in Rarotonga, Ngatangata Rairi in Atiu, T. M. Tuavera in Mangaia, Benioni Joseph in Aitutaki. Four more local men are in training for such posts.

David Murray joined the staff to train as an assistant registrar Percy Henderson to become Com munity Development Officer, Stuart Kingan as Information Officer.

Local Maori teachers have played a leading part in the formation of village societies. Many have passed a special course of study in co-operation at the Nikao Teachers’

College, Rarotonga, and this subject is now on the curriculum of primary schools in the Lower Group.

All sections of the community appear to be benefiting from this new interest in life in the Cooks, and the general trend towards a better standard of living emanating from the Social Development De partment is being actively supported by other government departments.

There is great public interest in the new housing benefit schemes and the land utilisation project.

Copra output from the .Lower Group is leaping up, quality is greatly improved, and society members, by handling this product right to the export stage, are get ting a much more satisfying return than applied in the old ‘ crack a nut for the store” days.

Export and import requirements for the societies are handled on very favourable terms by the old established Cook Islands Trading Company, which offered its services to the movement at the outset.

Mr. Noakes’ medicine is going down very well. He has earned his retirement.

The Month's New Reading

pp. 90-97

WITH JUDY TUDOR

It is probably not true that the world can be divided into those who like Erskine Caldwell’s books and those who don't millions of the benighted are still mercifully unaware of their existence and are indifferent but those who are “for" his bawdy folktales of the depressed American South number 10,000,000. Or so his publishers calculate.

rpHE most famous of the Caldwell JL novels are Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, but there are 16 other full length stories besides, all alike in technique and theme, as well as a pile of short stories.

In addition, fond admirers have churned out assorted “Collections” and anthologies.

Like Steinbeck, he has specialised in the unpolished and the seamy and alth<pugh—as stated elsewhere in this issue of PlM —Americans abroad are more interested in the plumbing than in how the other half lives, at home by their own firesides they obviously are ready to take a vicarious interest in their own primitives, particularly if the basic material is spiced by a big wallop of sex.

Americans, of course, are not the only Caldwell fans. When a paper back edition of God’s Little Acre became available here last year, it went off in thousands.

The Fourth Urge

Latest of the Caldwell epics to be launched on palpitating fans is Claudelle— which you can have for your own delight at the modest cost of 18 9 Australian. As we said at the beginning, there will be those who will consider it an experience well worth the price; while others will find this story of gambolling amongst the corn-husks and cotton bolls somewhere Down South, little short of boring.

When Linn first made love to Claudelle—she was then 16—she vowed that no one else ever would.

Linn then went off to do his stint in the Army and when, at the end of 12 months, he wrote to say he was lonely and was marrying a girl who lived near the camp, Claudelle suffered a complete character change in a matter of hours.

Like a concupiscent bitch she ranged around the country stirring up the males, and extracting money, red shoes, nylons, party dresses and wrist-watches. Her mother caught the complaint, and after having nagged her share-cropper husband for his inadequacies as a provider for 20 years, went off to live with the local man of substance. Most of the book is occupied with episodes in back rooms, and back seats of cars, told country-style.

The end comes when her father urges Claudelle to seek spiritual help from the local parson. She meets the reverend gentleman—he cultivates a five-acre plot of corn in the time he has over from ministering to souls—behind the altar one Saturday afternoon, and in no time at all they are rolling on the floor together without their clothes. This incident may have passed without further consequence had not one of the ladies of the congregation burst in upon them with an armful of calla lillies, and then spread the glad tidings far and wide.

Unlike the other lads of thP village ’ the Horace Haddbetto had (In addition to a buxom wife

nSht-aSSnf a

conscience and some inhibitions.

PlfliiHpllp rpfncpH tn cm oivatt

teW &&SS?

he shot her and then himse]f all

over her papa’s living room papa ruefully staggers out om porch after viewing this me: finds Linn, the fellow triggered the holocaust. Lin: had a change of heart: He’s back after all, to marry Clai This is the only subtlety i: book; the rest is just good b fun. If you like your sex this this is for you. Even if you you might find the novel, an Caldwell phenomenon, an int: ing subject for sociological i The whole field of commerci sex is, of course, an interestini in this day when legs, bare be scanty bathing suits are ham in the good cause of selling simple tin of pork-and-beans c lowly aspirin tablet; and whe novel can hope to get into the selling class without large sla it.

It could be a sign of the t the 40-hour week and other m< boons.

According to the anthropolc man’s four fundamental urge needs, are food, shelter, preservation and sex. The W( State takes care of the first 1 and the shorter working provides ample time for pond on the fourth. • CLAUDELLE. Published by Heine] Australian price, 18/9.)

In Old Haiti

THIS colour piece, called D On the Volcano, by a Fr writer, Marie Chauvet, is adequate enough historical nov the West Indies at the end ol 18th century. But like the majority of novels in today’s ( booked world, it has little in : raise it above the ruck.

This primarily is the storj Minette, daughter of a slave * her white master, who becaus her magnificent voice was abl break through colour prejudic become the first coloured perso perform in a theatre in Port Prince.

Secondly, it is a story of a J for political freedom against a b; ground of the conflict between European colonists of Haiti and rest—the slaves whom they boi and sold like cattle in the mai and the in-betweens, the m bloods, the freed-men, who, th selves oppressed from above also their own oppressing of those be The author herself is a Hai and the novel, doubtless, has a g deal more significance in that r of the woods than it does in c As a social document it is inter ing enough but with so many b< clamouring for attention, it is likely to make more than a i ripple on the literary pool.

(DANCE ON THE VOLCANO. Publi

by Heinemann. Australian price, 22/e

i Over Heels

Tzu Hang"

1955-1957, PIM readers of the Iruising Yacht section followed ie fortunes of the Smeetons of Jang, down through the Islands Canada to Australasia and on there, well south of 45 deg. S., •ds South America. We last I of them when they had made outh American coast with great ulty after turning completely and being dismasted 900 miles land. fc it is not only yachtsmen who appreciate Brigadier Miles ton’s first essay into literature; is Enough— and he’s refer to rounding the Horn, and not ig—is a top-notch adventure , even for people who have > as much as got their feet wet dinghy. es smeeton was a regular Army r: in 1938 he married Beryl r who turned out as adept at ■ strange, difficult things—like ling Himalayan peaks, running 3 and sailing 45 feet boats —as After the war, the Smeetons their small daughter, Clio, d on a farm in British Columbia iome of this period—fit training ailing yachts around the Horn 5 described by Dr. Peter Pye, oonraker, in his book, The Sea n Sailing (reviewed here dur -958). was during this farm period they took off to purchase Tsu r in England and sail her back mada, but when the bigger ad ire started in 1955, the farm been sold. e crew during the south-bound je from Vancouver to Australia included Clio, a small brown and Pwe the Siamese cat. But the family had taken in the ipic Games in Melbourne at the )f 1956, Clio flew back to school ngland; the small brown dog shipped home to the same nation in a cargo ship: and to Miles, Beryl and Pwe Smeeton i John Guzzwell, who had sailed own 20-ft Trekka across the ic to New Zealand. He joined l there for the Tasman crossing, later accompanied them across lonely, 6,000 miles of southern i from Melbourne to South rica. [ is this latter voyage that ston now describes in his book, if it can be said he sails his like a sailor and not a Brigadier, equally true to say that he writes neither. This book is technically [lent; it has humour; it grips interest from first to last; it rs neither from misplaced under went not yet from any assump of superiority. It is a rollicking I story of three people and a cat, their battle against the might fury of the sea. But these, as ilist Nevil Shute says in a fore

word, lest the uninitiated think that what they did was common place, are no ordinary people. More ordinary people undoubtedly would have perished. The ship was—before she left Melbourne—“rugged and tough and functional” to the last degree, and so were the two men and the woman who sailed in her. Had they not been, w Ql fici not have suryived the first dismasting, let alone the second.

The only pampered princess on the ship was Pwe, the Siamese cat, who as Miles Smeeton’s story unwinds, becomes a real personality.

Quite a slice of the book is taken up with their stay in Talcahuano, Chile, where they went for their big repair job after the first dismasting, Some months were spent there with the easy-going Chileans who held strongly to the belief that manana was vastly better than today. ionce is enough. Published by Rupert Hart-Davis. Australian price 22/6.) r .i • • T Lentralia in IWO , xL p.

and Ihree U

LYNDON ROSE, whose first novel, fm nf th p Dpclcl has recentlv been DUblShSd in Sydnev b w?fe of Ronald Rose, Kingdom—but that will be factual, covering his experiences In Western Samoa. Mrs. Rose’s novel s based Australia Country of the Dead might have

■ mjm Ss,H

ability to create its atmosphere 1 feeling for the aborigines are excellent. It is with her Europea whom she introduces to make h plot, that she falls down on the jet Almost without exception they are shallow, and lack conviction ann subtlety.

The policeman is just a two dimentional cop; the no-accoun W hite man, Logan, who sleep; around with native women and pro duces unwanted offspring, is either too bad or not bad enough; the missionary is a cardboard prop who seems based on the missionary of 50 years ago rather than the modern breed; and the station owner’: narrow, overbearing, stubborn out look is too narrow, overbearing and stubborn to be quite authentic, Few people fit into their in dividual picture-frames as neatly . these characters are made to do, This ability to see the natives i the round, while seeing the wli. characters in the flat, may be r result of prejudice, but whatever is, it has changed what could h: been a first-rate novel into some thing a little less than that.

The plot is a dual one of t policcm&n s hunt for an old ns,! , who had indulged himself with ; tribal killing; and the inner conflict other. But m the unfolding on he

aboriginal characters.

and tils Is by far the best part of t“ e DOOK . Lyndon Rose is at least con-

S£SF&s as

icther’s people—in spite of a bond of contact he develops the policeman. s novel is currently being read in Australian Broadcasting fission morning session.

JNTRY OF THE DEAD. Published ;us and Robertson, Ltd. Australian 17 6.i

< With

agio Potion

RYONE who has met Eloise ill be a sucker for Ortrud Jertrude, if you must) who ; Buttons in the Back an jus adult-sized riot about a ized girl. tten by someone called icth Kirtland, it probably largely on the Kirtland youth ir reasons unstated, it takes in the more spacious days of 1916 when families were Papa was a power in the hold, and large houses and help were not as scarce as are today. 5 Ortrud, introducing herself: sitting in the tree house— -1 myself I’m sitting in the ouse in our orchard and I’ve y magic potion in a catchup right beside me. My stomach .vering like the cottonwood

leaves because I’m thinking hard about my future life as a circus rider. I’ve decided on gold stars on pink tulle for my skirt, not blue tulle with silvery spangles. I’ve decided on a white horse, not black”.

The magic potion is to turn her from being Ortrud into being someone else much nicer—but fortunately, in spite of the crushed bugs and blue ink, salt, pepper, mustard and sugar, not to mention a couple of fireflies (“to make my hair gold and shiney”) it didn’t work.

If you want to forget the troubles of our H-Bomb era; if you feel fed-up and depressed: take a two-hour-course of Ortrud, with her “substitute” who had an un wanted daughter who had to be adopted: her pear-shoot that didn’t work when used from the hay-loft instead of an aeroplane: and the pink dress with ruffles and buttons down the back that Ortrud charged to Papa’s bank. It’s as good as a tonic and guaranteed to do good. (BUTTONS IN THE BACK. Published by World’s Work. Australian price. 15/6.1

Big Four Conference

In 2BC

ALTHOUGH we know that, from the beginning of time, history has gone on repeating itself ad infinitum, it is disconcerting for most readers when authors give the year 2BC (or 57AD) the full mid 20th century treatment.

It is possible that they were mull ing over the same old problems 2,000 years ago; using the same old phraseology that is current today: but when this particular gimmick is employed it gives a sense of un reality that is a serious hurdle to the acceptance of any novel.

Taylor Caldwell, in her story of St.

Luke, Dear and Glorious Physician, reviewed last month, used the de vice to a degree, and now Norbert Coulehan in a novel of about the same period, goes further along that particular path.

Quadrantus Rex covers the few years preceding the birth of Christ.

In 2BC, the Emperor Augustus of Rome decided to call a Big Four conference with the object of secur ing world peace; to it were bidden the Kings of Africa, Asia and the Baltic and the story concerns primarily the journeys of Titus, a young tribune whose duty it was to bring the Kings of Rome, and later to take them on a visit to King Herod in Palestine. To a lesser de gree it concerns Quadrantus. a Greek shipmaster of the vessel in which they voyaged, whose seaman ship bordered on the miraculous and who is himself mystic.

By the time the three Kings were decanted near Philippi, and taken to camels to follow the new star

flaming in the sky—over the small town of Bethlehem, according to Quadrantus’ calculations—they seem somehow to have turned into the Three Wise Men of the East, of Biblical fame, carrying gifts to the new King of Kings.

What this story is all about is no doubt clear enough to the author; to this reader, however, it appears only confusing. (QUADRANTUS REX. Published by VTacmillan. Australian price, 20/-.)

Round the World

And Still Going

PERHAPS readers in the Eastern Pacific will remember Jacques- Yves Le Toumelin and his 7 h ton cutter Karun around 1950-51.

At that time he was in course of a world circumnavigation from his native France.

He had already written about this voyage in Karun Round the World, and now has followed it with Karun in the Caribbean. This compounding of titles, in a sort of Pollyanna series, no doubt pleases the yachting fans but it cant be regarded as serious literature.

It is doubtful these days whether cruising-yachtsmen cruise in order to write books about it, or write books in order to cruise. Some make the grade—as the Smeeton story, page 91, does; others are also-rans.

This Karun is an adequate description of a lone-handed voyage across the Atlantic to the West Indies, and of several months cruising around these picturesque

"CHEESE”, Sibil Valley, [?]therlands New Guinea, style. [?]e fellow looks happy, any [?]y, and maybe that's because [?]s not yet civilised. The [?]olograph was taken by a [?]ember of the scientific ex [?]dition now at work in the [?]ar Mountain area.

Islands. Of literary gimmicks none—which is probably re 1 as a very good thing b yachtsmen although apt t boresome for people who c share their passion for spi their lives in small ships oi larges pieces of ocean.

I KARUN IN THE CARIBBEAN

lished by Hart-Davis. Australia! 18/9.)

One of Our

Blonks Was Missing

STRICTLY for the under sei The Blank From Beneai Sea, but as the books that along in recent weeks were very gay lot, it did in one ins anyhow, provide a little com lief.

The Blonk Blonkiom\ marina was its full, Sunday- Meeting name—was fished uf the deepest ocean-deep by Prc Pokeberry’s oceanographic re vessel. It had been believec Blonks had been extinct for a a million years, but this v near human it immediately f a firm friendship with Pokeberry, the Professor’s n< who had been sent on the shi; cabin-boy (or to get him out mother’s hair during school days).

Peter and the Blonk have exciting adventures, partic after the Blonk is installed ; in the four-storied Oceanarii

(THE BLONK FROM BENEAT]

SEA. Published by Worlds Work tralian price, 10/6.)

What's New in Paper Ja

THE following Pan and Fc books (ours from Wi 1 Collins (Overseas) Ltd.,Sy are available in bookshops nc UP PERISCOPE, a novel of adven the US submarine service durh Pacific war written by Robb Whi served in that particular piece i himself. The book has now beer into a movie by Warner Bros. (F yellow).

THE SHIP BUSTERS, by Ralph

is an account of the men and the fort torpedo bombers in that bra the RAF that took care of enem; —including the “Scharnhorst”

“Gneisenau” —in far northern wate the German and Italian convoys Mediterranean. (Great Pan).

THE SAINT STEPS IN. is the

printing of this cheap edition of thi Charteris thriller. (Great Pan).

INSPECTOR WEST AT BAY, b;

Creasey, in which some baddie get Chief Inspector West of Scotland not only with threatening notes bi acid. (Great Pan).

THE SECRET ADVERSARY by

Christie, written in 1922 when Agat very young in the crime story b> The characters call each other Old and Old Bean, and the time is jus the sinking of the “Lusitania” ii (Great Pan).

THE HALF-CROWN HOUSE by

i, a competently written novel based s English phenomenon of our times once-wealthy family reduced to tak -6 a time from tourists who amuse dves inspecting other people’s . (Fontana, yellow). )NRAKER; lan Fleming has secret James Bond performing his most g assignment in amongst inter ental women and missiles. (Great S VERY EARTH by Erskine Cald- Those who cannot afford the 18/9 ilaudelle’’. by the same author, re l in the beginning of this section, e able to get, for a few shillings, much the same diet in this reprint, t Pan).

IRAH! THE FLAG, by Philip Mackie unusual wartime escape story in that a light-hearted and sometimes >us account at how two British rs escaped into the hills of Italy the Germans, rejoined the Bth Army

with the helo of the Italians, and later re turned to the village that had befriended them. It is, as well, an account of Mackie’s roniance with the Baronessine, which was just about as light-hearted as the rest of his story. (Great Pan).

THE GRAND DUCHESS, in which Anne Duilield “blends mystery and romance’’ in a romantic story about occupied Austria. (Great Pan).

TOGETHER AS STRANGERS, by Renee

Shann, is another romantic little number —about a young doctor with a flighty wife and a pretty secretary. (Fontana, yellow).

GYPSY and THE STRIPTEASE

MURDERS, both by Gypsy Rose Lee, probably the world’s most publicised strip tease exponent. The former is her auto biography. The latter is a whodunit, also against a personal background. The two versions of her own life differ in certain respects, but that’s artistic licence. Both books are good entertainment value. (Pan Giant and Great Pan).

HALFWAY HOUSE, an early mode! (1936) Ellery Queen, about a corpse th had two names and two wives. (Grea Pan).

REGENCY BUCK the well-known Re gency romance by Georgette Heyer that has already won thousands of fans when published in the expensive editions. (Pan Giant).

OVER AGAIN; Three books that have al ready been reviewed in this column in the last couple of years, and are now available in paper-back editions, are: THE SHORT REIGN OF PIPPIN IV, John Steinbeck s brilliant dig at French politics; CANTON AIRLIFT, by Andrew Geer, a thriller abou . an American airman who cashed in on Nationalist China’s last days on the main land: and STOPOVER; TOKYO, John P Marquand’s only post-war story of Japan and his famous Mr. Moto. (Steinbeck in Great Pan; the others in Fontana, yellow), (Australian prices; Great Pan. 3/9; Pan Giant, 5/-; Fontanas, 3/9.)

Linilimbu

p. 90

No palms or poincianna tree Or paw-paws on the hill, And no dark faces welcome me — The sarif knives are still.

Now jungle sprawls were used to stand The little home we made — And I live in a southern land, And gone is a decade.

Another Buka greets my friends Or barks at passers-by; Poincettias fly their scarlet masts Against a winter sky, The scent of violets ascends And daffodils adorn But, O, those manifold contrasts Belong to Capricorn.

Limlimbu is a word I like, Linked with the brown man's day Of walkabout or week-end hike Spent in his chosen way — If we could learn from his crude lore A measure of repose And some sweet secret joy explore What rays we might expose! —Freda Mac Donnell.

Sydney.

Coming Up

p. 95

The Australian National University, in association with the Melbourne University Press , will shortly be publishing Dr.

Marie Reay’s treatise on the Kuma people of the New Guinea Western Highlands—the first book length study in English of a Highland people.

Marie Reay became well known to a lot of Territorians—white and brown, during her time in the Territory, and what she has to say about the primitive people amongst whom she lived for 15 months will be read with in terest.

Men dominate the Kuma society and they have two obsessions: women and pigs. In that they are not too different from civil ised men, except the latter are not so interested in pigs.

The Kuma women resent being regarded as “property”, sc the result is “strain, tension and dis harmony”. All very anthro pological—still, it could be the theme for a modern novel. The book should be available later this month.

Oddments About

p. 97

POLYNESIA

TAHITI ET SES ARCHI

LS’: This has been around te time and managed to get led under the heap on the \orial desk. It is an excellent ection of photographs and a ■y by E. Aubert de La Rue. las a full coloured cover, but black and white photographs rvery aspect of French Pbly ian life take more than half book. The photographs have l ,s in English as well as nch, but the story is in nch. Not tourist stuff — but ranteed not to dissuade pie from seeing how the nch Polynesians live. (Pub ed in France).

WEST OF 170 DEGREES”:

s small book is produced by Islands’ Education Office, Wellington, New Zealand, icially for use of schools in Pacific territories admin red by the Dominion but it ild do equally as well for nds’ schools under other ninistrations. : tells in simple English suit 5 for people with a limited ibulary in this language, of \tain James Cook and his ts to the Polynesian islands nd particularly Cook Islands i—during his second and d voyages. he text is vividly written by R. V. Blanc, and in the wledge that the picture tells n more of the story, lavishly strated by Conrad Frieboe. he well-produced little book not on general sale but nds organisations who are nested in adding it to their \ted reading lists for Islands’ pie should contact the nds Education Office, Well- Ion.

Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

pp. 103-117

A Commission of Inquiry into the grounding of the BSIP overnment vessel Coral Queen on a New Guinea reef in May, mmenced in Honiara BSIP on August 5 but conclusions, if y, had not got as far as Sydney by beginning of September.

IRE were only two terms of jference, the second of which »ems to indicate that there been some argument over re. They are: The facts relating to or con tributing to the stranding of the RCS “Coral Queen” on or about May 21, 1959.

The extent to which any assistance or salvage aid was rendered to the RCS “Coral Queen” by any person or ship: the extent to which any such aid contributed to the re-floating of the RCS “Coral Queen” and whether any special terms or agree ment were made in respect of any such assistance rendered. ;r the grounding on May 21, Queen spent some time on lips in Rabaul and, when the ; of the damage was known, s decided to send the vessel isbane. should have been back in the iterate some weeks by the time Bad this.

C K. Taylor and Mr. J. e, of the BSIP Marine De ent flew to Brisbane to return b Protectorate with the vessel.

Bill Bennett, who is return om a radio course in London, loined the vessel in Brisbane t as radio officer for the re iroyage.

o CHANGED HANDS; The small Norwegian tramp Slevik, which has been under charter to Eriama Estates Ltd., of Papua, and has been doing a useful job in running cattle up to the Territory and picking up timber for back-loading, has been

sold through Captain W. L. Kennedy, Sydney ship-brokers, to South Australian interests.

It is understood that some other vessel will take up where Slevik left off in P-NG—but which, what and for whom is not being divulged yet.

Slevik has had a varied career since she left Norway about two years ago—dynamite from Hamburg to South America, Chilean nitrate to Mexico, followed by a spell in the West Indies trade, dynamite for the Philinnines etc She left Manila abouPa year ago for Queensland to take up her charter work for Eriama.

© NEW HALVORSEN SCOW

FOR HEBRIDES: The Bjarne Halvorsen shipyard at Berry’s Bay, Sydney, is currently building one of its well known 60-ft copra scows for the New Hebrides, to the older of W. S. Tait and Co. for a client, Maison Barrau.

The scow which will be completed towards the end of the year, will be based on Santo and used for general coastal trading. 0 As yet unnamed, she will be

SShF whilh Ts in te Papuan

coastal trade. The Maison Barrau vessel will have a 6L3 Gardner diesel—which is a slightly heavier power unit than usual in this type of craft—and will have powered winch and windlass.

• THAT BOTTLE WAS IM

PORTANT; A drift-bottle found at Atiu Island, Cooks, on March 24 (PIM, May, p. Ill), the second of two such bottles found there with in six months, was of more than passing interest, according to later news.

Robert M. Norris, vice-chairman, geology, University of California, re cently wrote to the Resident Agent

at Atiu, asking hirn to thank the man who had found the bottle on the reef for reporting the find.

Mr. Norris said: “It is just this sort of co-operation that makes it possible for us to learn more about the circulation of the Pacific Ocean it may interest you to know that this bottle was released on the ‘Downwind’ Oceanographic Ex pedition which was .part of the International Geophysical Yeai P o gramme. It was released iFehraa. I 14, 1958, at 11.32- S, 110.52- v\) a few days after our departure from Easter has created a good deal of interest here in Santa Barbara.

r AMB-LINER WILL CON

TTNUE. als q crea ting a good deal 174-ton ex-passenger liner Del -8,174 again ‘‘hnmp” nort, empty and south , in p AugUs t. Northbound with > cargo 0 f a b o ut 26,500 lambs, contact had been permitted be twe°n ship and shore.

CaDta in Lucas was in com mand. The ship's company totalled

"Siren", pulled up on a Rarotonga beach for years, has new owners (shown above standing on her stern) and will go to sea again. See page 109.

Photo: D. C. Berry,

[1 told on arrival. Three people J. D. Steel, of the Sydney irsity veterinary school, Mrs. who was the only woman d. and a man who had been irge of the eight horses aboard back to Australia from San F. J. Hamilton, of the CSIRO’s ister Laboratory in Sydney, on ion, was in charge of the ical side—the planning of the imodation, feeding arrange 3, etc. Under Mr. Steel were eterinary students, addition, there were 24 stock of whom seven were Australian, fc 10 of the Fiji crew members it Fijian stockmen and two n stewards —were signing off iva and were to be replaced.

Hamilton said that the lamb Ities—just over 3 per cent. — not considered excessive on first voyage. There was insur cover for a loss of up to five :ent. Most of the casualties from heat exhaustion in the decks. About two per cent. ;e total casualties occurred as suit of six hours in port at and 36 hours in Honolulu, when

-entilation was greatly reduced

;o lack of motion of the ship. 5 calls are essential to take vater. Further ventilating .inery now to be installed was ;ted to cut losses greatly on e voyages. b lambs consumed an average lbs of fodder per head per some gaining weight en route; ere in reasonable condition. At Diego they went into a 10-acre tntine paddock close to the f. They were to be hand-fed ! for a month, and would then irectly to the slaughter-house, e eight horses aboard arrived :>od shape; five of them were ings consigned to international s player Jack Kramer, who purchased other race horses in ralia. A black kelpie sheep-dog, h accidentally boarded at Syd was left in California, e ship was discharged in 36 s in San Diego, remained there lays in all, clearing again on

August 2 and arriving at Suva on August 18, direct. At Suva she was to undergo engine maintenance work, expected to take at least 10 days, before continuing south to Sydney for a second load.

• THE FISHING IS GOOD

One of Japan’s most modern tun?, mother ships, the 8,504-ton Nojima Maru, owned by Nippon Suisan KK

Suva's handsome new Flying Angel Club for seamen, officially opened by the Governor Fiji on August 9. It is located in Jellicoe Street, adjoining the wharf area, and is under the management of Captain S. E. Gaskin (right), a well-known mariner for many years with the Union Steam Ship Co. and later with the London Missionary Society.

yo called at Suva on August took aboard 1,670 tons of •s and about 2,000 tons of water. She then returned to ihing station about 200 miles west of Suva, and within 70 if the opposition mother ship Maru No. 3 of Taiyo Gyogyo latter vessel made her second Suva for bunkers and water days later. Nojima Maru’s ; Captain Choichi Okada, re that in addition to the tuna asuga Maru, which went miss th all hands south of Ocean a few days after the season need, another boat, Shimei Vo. 10, was lost on the South a Reef (between the Ker ! and the Lau Group of Fiji) r visibility on the night of Radio Officer, who remained i post for too long, was id, but the other crew mem 'ere picked up. The 100-ton i vessel was a total loss, ng Manager Yukio Kato said ,700 tons of fish had been since loading from the tuna ommenced at the end of May. iiota permitted by the Jap- Fishery Agency, 5,700 tons, be reached by late September the ship would return to has 140 fish handlers and a of 68 —including six radio . Her radio room is probably equipped than any other mt ship to visit Suva, o Maru No. 3, on her second isit on August 10, had handled >ns of fish in the same period hma Maru, and expected to her quota of 5,400 tons by igust when she was to return However, the 7,600-ton Koyo -with a Fishery Agency quota lit 5,700 tons—and with some nal tuna boats, bringing the

fleet strength up from 35 to 50 boats, was to take over as from Sep tember 1.

In addition, a fourth mother ship has been licensed for South Pacific operations in the permitted area east of 170 degrees East this season, due to a poor fishing season in the North Pacific near home.

This vessel, Jinyo Maru, 7,200 tons, launched last year, will have a quota of about 5,700 tons of tuna.

She was to sail from Japan on Sep tember 1 and, like the others, would operate in the area west of the Gilberts-Ellice-Fiji chain.

The Fishery Agency has thus issued licenses for a total quota of 22,500 tons of tuna-type fish for the 1959 season.

In addition, there were probably about 30 independent fishing vessels not attached to mother ships and operating south of the equator.

These vessels are not controlled by any quota, and may operate in any area.

• SHIP SAFE, CARGO LOST;

The 5,690-ton, six-years-old Andrew Weir tramp Beaverbank, which went ashore just south of the la |oon entrance on the west of Fan ning Island in July, was refloated at the beginning of August and later reached Honolulu for dry-docking an ßutTS-eat deal of her cargo, in

Suva's latest shallow-draught tourist launch, owned by Mr. Vince Storck, and called "Oo-la la". This is what Frenchmen are supposed to sav; Mr. Storck's first tourist launch was called "Oolooloo", which, according to one tourist story. was what Fijian mermaids say. (Mr.

Storck says it didn't mean anything.) —Photo by Stinsons.

Top, left, NZ yacht, "Cimba". Top, right, 96-ft. motor yacht "Reposado". At right, Bill Tellen and owner Sid Nettleton of the Brisbane yacht "Shear water", and Dick Rohe, one of "Kochab's" crewmen, at Suva in August. See "Cruising Yachts" section.

c 2 507 tons of coconut oil, 2,132 f copra, and 830 tons of coco leal. was jettisoned and lost, aving Fanning for Honolulu, lip had aboard 2,220 tons of and 230 tons of meal. Of this 271 tons had been discharged jloaded. . refloating operation was aided i Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fort arnois and a Royal Navy from Christmas Island, and US Navy salvage vessel USS if, which was recently in Pago nvestigating the possibility of • a sunken Navy tanker ( PIM , ). 101) . services of this vessel cost the niters a substantial sum. portable pumps carried by it were of great assistance, lors were lost both by Beaver md Fort Beauharnois in the g-off operation. Seven sets of I tackle had been laid by the vhen the stranded vessel was hauled clear. Her main shaft rankshaft were believed then omewhat out of line, but trials ;ed that she was capable of f to Honolulu under her own and permission for such a ! was given by the under j and by the British Ministry

t nsport/

HANGE OF DUTIES; The US

Sc- Wildlife vessel, Hugh M. one of several attached to acific Oceanic Fisheries In ition project based at Hono ind a vessel well known in Pacific Polynesian waters, has transferred to other duties. ias now been leased to the s Institution of Oceanography, »lla. California, for oceano c and marine biological re . It is not yet known whether ew, but similar, duties will ber back to the South Pacific.

riLL IN THERE TRADING:

yacht-gone-trading ketch

r Rogers —best remembered e voyage she made round the s a few years ago with an all rew—has lately shifted her ing ground to the Vanikoro- Cruz Island area. The Hep ; report their newest crew er, Jenifer Natasha—b or n the ketch was last in New id waters—as thriving. Ex operator Close and his wife, ; UK, who joined the vessel t time, are now living at Santo, Mr. Close is employed by Pacific Fishing Co., Palikulo.

CCORDING TO PLAN: The

cig schedule for New Zealand l Territories Department’s new to replace Maui Pomare, is lows: Contract was signed last keel laid in July; framed by fiber; plating completed by try next; launching March; eted July, 1960; and delivered gust, 1960. lure to meet the schedule in ; a penalty of £1,600 per month.

The vessel will almost certainly have a Cook Islands name.

• NEW GUINEA-BOUND: The

264-ton ICI explosives vessel Piri, laid up and for sale in Auckland for the past year or so, has been purchased by a Rabaul syndicate, This solid kauri vessel was built by Morrison & Sinclair Ltd., of Sydney, in 1917, for the Pacific Cabls Board. and was purchased by ICI in the mid-1920’5. She once carried a fair spread of canvas, but this was later reduced to a mere steadying sail or two.

The six-man syndicate, headed by Mr. Frank Dyer, an Englishman, paid a reported price of £5,000, and intend to use the ship for general

trade in New Guinea waters Cap tain Robert Ellery, a former chit officer in the ship, was to be lr. command for the delivery voyage Chief Engineer Fred James who had also served in her befor: lay-up.

Mr -. Dyer, who came south to negotiate the purchase, was also to ieturn in her. Pin was expected to B e t away from Auckland about August 8.

• NAVY IN TROUBLE: HMNZS

Endeavour, New Zealand’s Antarctic supply ship and general-purpose re search vessel, was in trouble north of the Kermadecs bound Suva in August, during heavy weather, Almost a sister ship to the ill-fated

'earl, which was burnt out of New Guinea several years ndeavour was built as a US net layer in 1944 and is of eavy timber construction. The i 184 S-ft vessel apparently a plank or two and was to put back to Auckland. She > shepherd the SDML Viti, has been on loan to the Fiji back to Auckland. Instead 5 Kaniere was despatched on sk and the two vessels sailed luva for Auckland on August

)OK MISSING: The 19,787-

itch liner Johan van Olden zlt lost her starboard anchor de Suva wharf on August 13, was about to depart in the of an Islands cruise from anchor had been dropped in tinary way to assist berthing, ten the cable was being hove ailing time the main shackle ship sailed and attempts were nade later in the month to p the £5OO piece of ship »ry—after a diver had located attached a marker-line. (OTHER NAME: Tovata, ex Sea, ex SC-671, in the pro being reduced to a cargo may shortly wear yet another ■Mac 11.

XING BUSINESS WITH

URE: The New Zealand yacht *ean arrived at Rarotonga on 8, with owner-skipper Don ife, small daughter and Bob aboard. They had visited Tuomotus, Leeward Islands ra Bora since leaving Russell, Auckland, on May 2, and ex to visit both Samoas, New and Japan before going ill that was changed in Raro n mid-August, when the trip d abruptly from pleasure to s. The party was offered the in —one of Dick Brown’s con is wrecks that decorate the ,pe there —for what is re to be a give-away price.

Siren, a ketch, was wrecked in October, 1951; she was purchased on the reef by Mr. Brown and hauled in to Avarua, where she has rested quietly under the trees on the beach beside the Brown business establish ment ever since.

Don Silk is a boat-builder and after four days work he and Bob Boyd had stripped deck and cabin roofing from her and pronounced the hull in good condition—except where she had been holed in her encounter with the reef.

They expect to leave for New Zea land before the end of the year to hunt up some necessary gear but Silk has promised that Siren will be back at sea “within the year”.

Jopeda, another Brown wreck— Dick Brown bought her after she went up in June, 1957, and had her hauled up on the beach near Ngatangiia school—was inspected by Silk and Boyd, but was evidently considered somewhat past redemp tion.

• UNEXPECTED ANGLE TO

TRIANGLE; It was unfortunate that the 28,000 tons, P & O liner Himalaya on her longest voyage ever —45,479 miles London back to Lon d o n—and the first of the “Triangular” voyages, now scheduled in the Orient and Pacific Lines Service—should have been delayed through a minor accident.

By the time the ship gets back to London she will have been away

five months—three weeks longer than scheduled because of a mishap to a propeller in the Suez Canal during the voyage out. After slow progress during the rest of the voyage, Himalaya entered the RAN’s Captain Cook Dock in Syd ney and emerged after a week with a new tailshaft and propeller.

Nonetheless, she was 22 days late by the time she left Sydney on August 29. Her Triangle voyage will take her to Auckland. Suva, Hono lulu, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Yokohama. Kobe, Hong kong and Manila. She will then re turn to Sydney and take the normal Suez route back to the UK.

Mr. Len Usher sailed on her from Sydney back to Sydney on a sort of working-holiday as press relations officer. He is beter known to PIM readers as Vakatawa of Fiji Talanoa; and in Fiji, as the executive director of Fiji Times Ltd.

• QUITTING THE ISLANDS:

Shell-40, a craft which caused some news a year or so ago in Fiji waters when she got further from land than her navigator could cope with, was sold to a Brisbane firm in July.

A 61-ton motor tug, originally named Tanac-No. 136, this little vessel was apparently one of many brought to Australia by the Ameri can Forces and later sold. She was built in Trenton, Ontario, in 1944, and acquired by the Shell Company in Sydney in 1950 to be used in towing barges with cargoes of oil products in drums between Suva and Lautoka-Nadi, and she arrived in Suva under tow of the GSR’s Tahua on June 13, 1950, suffering some damage en route. When Shell established their bulk oil terminal at Vuda Point, near Lautoka, several years later the tug was no longer required and has had only occasional use since. She is powered with a Vivian 6-cylinder, 240 hp motor and is equipped for fire fighting, having a Chrysler-powered sea-water pump for this purpose.

She has been purchased by the Riverside Coal Transport Company Pty Ltd , of New Farm. Brisbane, for river work. For the August de-

The new Tonga bulk oil barge, nearing com pletion in Auckland. It will be towed by "Hifofua" between Suva and Island ports.

Photo: John Duder.

The modern tuna mother-ship "Nojima Maru" (See page 103).

ihe was to be commanded by

i Henry Simpson, of Suva,

dined by Fijian engineers and

seven men all told.

i of Cruising Yachts

SHTER CONTROL OF CRUISING

>; Under an amendment to the ' and Seamen Act introduced in Zealand House of Representatives ist, there is to be tighter control sure boat movements, if the Bill a. s on off-shore cruises will have to certain information to maritime ies before sailing, and their craft subject to inspection to see that minimum safety standards are up expense involved in a subsequent for a missing craft will be charge the yacht owner to the extent of le of the yacht and its stores and ;nt. yachtsmen will feel that the ;s in this Bill represent an undue hment on personal liberty. Al there is much in favour of yachts ing presented with a questionnaire of the clearance papers prior to re, a yachtsman should have the i refuse to supply the information so long as he clearly understands so refusing he will not be entitled public rescue operations. a fact that searches’ have been out unnecessarily for yachts which been sheltering safely in some d bay, and that the yachtsmen led have neither wanted or required

assistance. It is almost impossible for a yacht-master to provide a course, speed, and accurate ETA when his movements are governed by the wind. It is also al most impossible for a small yacht to keep in regular radio contact over long dis tances.

So long as a man forgoes all rights to public rescue operations, he should surely be permitted to put to sea in a bath-tub if he so wishes and stay there for as long as he likes provided that he is not endangering other lives or infringing some one’s three-mile limit.

What happens, of course, is that re latives ashore bring pressure to bear on the authorities to institute these searches sometimes against the wishes of the mariners concerned.

There will always be an element of risk in small-boat cruising, just as there is in many sports, but freedom to sail the seas

is a fundamental freedom which she. not—subject to above provisions—be limitr by too many regulations. • SHEARWATER of Brisbane, a ;U home-brew Bermudan cutter of Austraii, PIET HEINE design, arrived at Suva August 4. With owner-builder Sid Nettie ton, and Brisbane taxi driver Bill Teller? aboard. The yacht left Brisbane June it. made a nine-day passage to Noumea, spen 10 days there then five days at Isle of Pines, then headed for Mare east of New Caledonia. Bad weather there prevented a landing so a course was laid ffor Suva, Calms and strong head winds were ex perienced. After a month of Fiji inter island cruising this yacht will bead for Tonga, possibly the Kermadecs, northern NZ ports, and should be back in her home port of Brisbane before next Easter.

Sid Nettleton some time ago helped de liver a 40-ft. ex-US Army tow-boat,

A. Lucas of "Delfino", the lamb -see page 101.

Houng Lee, one of Suva's best known [?] owners, with the motor-bike on does his waterfront chores.

from Rabaul to Australia earlier ar. TABEI was bound for Sydney J to put into Cairns for repairs.

JHUA of Auckland, 30-ft. ketch with Matheson and Peter Ashcroft was reported at Papeete early tOCHAB of England, with Dr. m-Evans and two NZ companions, ji westbound in August. Leaving ;arly May this yacht cruised to Levuka, Savusavu, Taveuni, Qamea, , Komo. and Kabara and arrived i Suva on July 27, where she went slip.

IDA’S crew-member, Andre Mayet ice. left the yacht at Noumea. DIDA in Sydney.

IRRIGO II and the Crawfords were eported in Brisbane awaiting a r event”. (’HITE SEAL which added a junior r to her crew is Brisbane some time as momentarily expected in Darwin ing to an early August report.

OONFLEET of Suva was under in tion by a well-known overseas cruis ichtsman in August. A sale may ate.

RUSADER of Auckland arrived at nga July 7, and sailed for Papeete 5. It was not expected that a long vould be made at the latter port, ation California. lEPOSADO wrongly reported as SADO was to clear Papeete August md Auckland via Bora Bora, Pago and Suva. With owner Brian Niell lis wife and two children are Don Jerry Burns, Roger Marchon, Tyrna m, Dr. Lehman, and Dr. Schneider, is the 96-ft. x 17-ft. launch which exchanged for his motor-sailer iWANUI some months ago at te. The twin-screw launch is beauti fitted with just about every con ice except stabilisers. \’HITE SQUALL, the 33-ft. Auckland in which Ross and Doreen Norgrove

cruised the Islands several years ago, will venture forth again next March, bound for the US via Island ports. „ .. .. , • ClMBA—the same little ship that cruised from the US to Fiji years ago (“Saga of Cimba ), and which Gordon Russell, now of Rarotonga, sailed to Auck land in May, 1945, and sold, is sailing late this year for England, via Noumea and Torres Strait. With owner Frank “Buzz”

Perkins and his wife and two children will be crewman Crawford of Keri Keri, NZ.

CIMBA measures about 35-ft. x 9i 2 -ft. x 5-ft„ and was built as a Nova Scotian fishing schooner in 1929. She is an attractive and sturdy little craft.

» LOS ANGELES - HONOLULU YACHT

RACE: Our Honolulu correspondent reported mid-August that after much entertaining and gaiety and a lot of hard work by the host yacht clubs in Honolulu, most of the yachts that took part in this deepwater event were on their way home or were planning to leave Honolulu for further cruising.

The overall winner on handicap was de dared to be NALU 11, 4« ft. sloop of Balboa, owned by Peter Grant. Winner of class A was 75 ft. schooner CONSTELLA xiON; class B. «6 ft. yawl CHUBASCO; class c XALU II; and class D 38 ft. s;oop

DEBIT

The two Australian yachts, 52 ft, schooner PAVANA, and 38 ft cutter ANITRA, were unplaced. (The latter later sailed home to Sydney.) .. ... * h . e lhl ' ft : Newport schooner GOOD owned by Ralph Larrabee, made fastest time arriving July 14, after 10 . I^ ho . urs J 8 m 'nutes and lo seconds.

She lost her topmast half-way through the race or would have made better time The onJy yacht to start and not finish the course was the 45 ft. yawl, CLOUD NINE which lost both masts near the half wav mark and was towed the rest of the way by a Coast Guard ship, ® WANDERER, owned and sailed by movie-star Stirling Hayden who was last

d Japanese midget submarine, raised i harbour in Rabaul, is now being used as a ships' fender there.

Photo; C. J. Fonceca.

I at Tahiti, is believed to be plango further south—maybe to Aus- But with all the world’s Press on —he has his four children along nee of a Court order taken out by rife in the US—he’s not talking JALOA, 36 ft. yawl owned by the family is back in Honolulu after the Pacific, north and south of lator, for the last 10 years. Mrs. fruman and her son Tary Truman. e on board when they got back.

Fred Truman had flown back ipan earlier for hospital treatment. lARCO POLO with lone-hander ’ederson arrived in San Francisco ly one year and three days after ( r ”T» NZ Des ‘ Denmark, via Panama.

IEKKA, the 20 ft. ocean cruising owned by John Guzzwell of whom ren’t heard since he survived a off the Queensland coast the ” before last, arrived in Honolulu out from Panama Canal late July. leaving Canada in 1956, Guzzwell iled 30,200 miles—Pacific, Torres Indian Ocean, Cape of Good Hope iross the South Atlantic to West through Panama to Honolulu. He lied—during the same period—some-

thing like 7,000 miles with the Smeetons on TZU HANG (see Book Reviews, this issue). • TE MATANGI and the Fergusons were still in Nukualofa. Tonga, in August, with no indication as to when they would move, although they expect to be in New Zealand for Christmas. The idea ap parently is to sail direct from Tonga to NZ, giving Samoa and Fiji a miss until after the coming hurricane season. • NERIDES, which passed through the Tonga group on way back to New Zealand apparently caused some wrath among officials there as she entered at Vavau — which is rhinoceros-beetle infected —before going on to Nukualofa. • OUTWARD BOUND, with the cruis ing Caldwells still in high spirits, reported to us from Darwin—in late August. • RUNDO WITH AN E: We are in formed that the explanation as to why this ketch from Oslo (last reported Suva) is sometimes spelled without a final “E' and sometimes with it, is that final “O" is the Scandanavian letter with a stroke through it—and that the English conversion of same is OE. Now we all know.

e GOODEWIND or GOODEWIN 50 ft.

ketch left Brixham. Devon, in early August and should now have crossed the Atlantic on the first leg of her journey to Aus tralia via Pacific Islands (Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji). Owner-skipper is Dr. Keith Laws, whose fortunes in NIRVANA we followed in 1958 when he crossed the Pacific to the US with a team of Australians and one Englishman. When he is not sailing yachts, Dr. Laws has a London dental practice. Dr. Laws tried once before to sail his ketch from UK to Australia in 1954 —but gave up that attempt when she lost her mainmast near the Azores.

On the current voyage he Is accom panied by three Englishmen, two Aus tralians, one American and a Pole—chosen from the 150 ‘‘young men with a taste tor adventure” who answered an advertise ment. One of the Australians is John Hunter, who accompanied Dr. Laws on the NIRVANA cruise.

[?]-tons "Piri” of Auckland, NZ, which has been sold to Rabaul interests (see page 107).

[?]unborg and Carl Petersen of the 44 ft.

Norwegian ketch "Rundo”.

The 30 ft. yacht "Drifter”, at Rarotonga, August 7. Lone-hander James Moore, of Welling ton NZ, left there early in April intending to sail' alone to Canada, but his sails blew out a few hundred miles east of Wellington so he sailed eastwards to Rapa Island in the Tuamotu group and then north via Mangareva to Tahiti He is now returning to New Zealand via Raro tonga.

The News This Month

p. 103

Rogers bank irnois Queen t er llation

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> II rour vind Maru No. 10 M Smith iya van Olden evelt i Maru ■e

Kochab Kualoa Maui Pomare Moonfleet Manawanui Marco Polo Nojima Maru Nalu II Nerides Outward Bound Piri Patsy Jean Pavana Reposado Rundoe Slevik Siren Shell 40 Shearwater Tenya Mara No. 3 Tovata Tabei Trekka Tzu Hang Te Matangi White Seal White Squall Wanderer

Shiplovers’ Annual

p. 117

The “Annual Dog Watch”, the official publication of the Shiplovers Societies of Australia, is out foi 1959. This issue makes the 16th in line.

The 1959 model contains the usual collection of stories about old and new ships—and one about the 40,000 tons Orient liner “Oriana”, which is not even launched yet. The ship lovers’ love seems to veer off towards the classic days of wooden ships and iron men and leave the modern strictly for contrast, and “Dog Watch” reflects this attitude.

“PlM’s” friend, Captain Fred Klebingat, contributes an interest ing item on a pre-World War I ad venture of the barquentine “S.N.

Castle” in the Marquesas. There is an article on coolie migration (from India to Fiji, West Indies and Mauritius) in the days of sail; and an account of the wreck of the “Dundonald” in 1907 on one of the remote southern outliers of New Zealand—the Auckland Islands.

The “Dog Watch No. 16” can he ordered from the Shiplovers ’ Society of Victoria, GPO Box 1169 K, GPO.

Melbourne, for 4/6, plus 6d postage.

Pacific Report

pp. 119-147

The month’s round-up of news and pictures of people and ;nts, from PIM correspondents in the South Pacific.

Men Climb

)00 Coconuts

tough some five years have I since the rhinoceros beetle liscovered in Fiji, it has not spread beyond the South n section of Viti Levu. That because it is a weakling pest, cks a yearning for the fat at plantations of Vanua Levu raveuni. restriction to the small area d Suva is due to the vigorous of the Coconut Pests and ses Board, which was set up diately after the presence of beetle was discovered and i maintains a ceaseless fight st the beetle. example, the Board maintains f of 125 Fijian men, who each climb between 500,000 and 0 coconut palms, and treat the is of the palms with icide. Every year they use 60 tons of insecticide, which between £5,000 and £6,000. 1 cost of maintaining this or ation is considerable and it is led by a tax' on copra of; 17/6 on.

tonga Might Have

)il Flood

recent months it was meed that oil companies ted to establish bulk storage ties at Nukualofa and at Apia, there have also been reports ans for a similar installation arotonga in the Cook Islands. b man behind the Cook Islands ne was Mr. Walter S. Johnson, of South Pacific Trading Co.

Rarotonga, who has been ing oil in drums from Tahiti s schooner Tiare Maori for the couple of years, and selling a price below that of oil pro ; shipped in from New Zealand the satisfaction of all motorists, me time ago, Mr. Johnson made cation for a piece of govern ) land on the Avatiu foreshore site for a bulk oil installation, there were reports that he was tiating the purchase of a small er in the United States, though

nothing has recently been heard of this.

Now it appears that Mr. Johnson might be in for some competition.

Mr. Kelvin H. Day, of Standard- Vacuum (NZ) Ltd., paid a visit to Rarotonga in August and was re ported to be investigating the possibility of also establishing a bulk oil terminal there on behalf of his firm.

Kostelanetz Visits Tahiti

Andre Kostelanetz may not carry much weight with the rock-and roll generation, but for those who prefer something that aids rather than irritates the digestive pro cesses, his name has been pretty well known for the past quarter century as an interpreter of pleasing and generally restful music.

So it came as no surprise to

music lovers along the TEAL Coral Route to find in the great conductor a man of truly charming per sonality. He was paying his first visit to the South Pacific—although Honolulu and Tokyo have seen him in action before.

The Tahiti trip was purely one of recreation. Mr. Kostelanetz, who seemed younger than many people expected him to be, said that he does no composing. “My activities are confined to the interpretative sphere”, he said.

Kostelanetz was born in St.

Petersburg—now Leningrad—a n d went to the United States in 1922.

He has been an American citizen for many years.

Fiji Plans Fun

For Hibiscus Festival

This year, for the first time, a special cruise has been arranged from Sydney to Suva to coincide

He Did it Himself

—and It Flies

Mr. A. P. Baglee, headmaster of Boroko Public School, Port Moresby, built this light plane in his spare time. It took him three years, using plans he got from the United Kingdom. It recently was passed as air-worthy by the Depart ment of Civil Aviation and has been successfully flown. Mr. Baglee is also well-known in Fiji, in the Savusavu area.

Mr. Kostelanetz in Suva.

pound contract to Evans, Deakin & Co., of Brisbane, for the construc tion of new phosphate loading equipment at Nauru Island.

Evans, Deakin recently completed similar work—a cantilever loading system and shore installations—at Ocean Island.

Check of Radio Activity

At Niue Island

Sir Ernest Marsden, of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, was in vestigating radio activity in New Zealand’s islands territories in July- August.

Focal point of the survey, accord ing to a New Zealand government statement, was to be Niue where earth on parts of the island has shown radio-activity much higher than that of normal soils.

According to another earlier re port from the Cook Islands, there is also an area of comparitively high radio-activity at Black Rock, near the seaward end of the Raro tonga airstrip.

New Hotel in

Suva by January

Work was expected to commence in September on the new Hotel Suva, a license for which was granted re cently.

The building, which will be partly an addition to the upper part of the Waimanu Building, in Waimanu Road, Suva, and partly on an ad joining site, will be owned by Hotel Suva Ltd. The company, registered last June with a capital of £50,000, is largely owned by J. L. Norris, a Sydney hotel broker, and other Syd ney interests.

The hotel is expected to be open for business by next January. It is not expected to enter the luxury accommodation field.

Mangaia Is. Shrinks

By One Third

According to a recent official re lease from the Cook Islands, aerial photography has sho w n that Mangaia Island, previously thought to have the largest land mass of any in the Group, is much smaller than estimated.

The Mangaians have always opposed any official survey of their island, suspecting that it might be the thin edge of the wedge from a taxation point of view. The esti mated acreage has in the past been placed at about 17,500 acres, but it is now put at only 12,700 acres.

Aerial photography has confirmed the Rarotonga acreage as about 16,500, thus this island takes pride of place as largest of the 14 lsl^ nd ® in the Cook Group. ( ° ver)

he fourth annual Hisbiscus il. een 300 and 400 people are in the 10,952-ton Adelaide ihip Co. passenger ship ra, which will arrive in Suva tember 27, and stay for three ng the ship’s visit the pro ie includes an evening bar it Nukulau Island, near Suva, swimming and dancing by ght. girl selected this year as Hibiscus” will have an aerial f to Brisbane, travelling by ench TAI Airline. She will be ;d at the Grand Pacific Hotel tober 3, on the last night of istival.

a Pacific-Wide

n Competition in 1960

is are already in hand for pro- X a Pacific Queen contest in Under this scheme, the in al Pacific Islands territories fahiti west to New Guinea will vited to organise their own carnivals prior to the annual Hisbiscus Festival. The in al Queens selected would then to Suva and a Pacific Queen be selected there.

Loading Gear

Nauru Phosphate

British Phosphate Com bers have let a half-million

las a Do-it-yourself

I Survey

g staff with war-time experi i chartered aircraft, and the ration of the RNZAF the Fiji Department has made a low jhotographic survey of some acres of parts of Viti Levu Dst of only £650.

Department estimates that rvey would have cost at least ir acre had it been done under ;rcial contract. Further areas w to be done on Vanua Levu.

iuna Ships Could

the Weather Forecasters

principal complaint of South ; forecasters is that there isufficient observing stations d them in their work— illy during the hurricane sea- They often wish that there islands where such stations be established on the more expanses of this ocean. > might be changed if the Id Japanese fishing vessels red from the Gilberts to North ind and from New Guinea to ‘uamotus for a good part of ear could be induced to co ;e. > IM representative who went i two of the Japanese tuna

mother ships tending fleets in the South Pacific this year, gained the impression that reasonable co operation would be forthcoming. For example, prior to the visit of Tenyo Maru No. 3 to Suva in July, neither this ship nor Nojima Maru were sending in routine weather reports to Suva Radio. However, it was

noted that when the ship returned to her station on the high seas, the reports started to come in regularly.

Nojima Maru thereupon followed suit, and the reports from these mother ships were no doubt useful to the Nadi forecasters at times.

The PIM representative was also shown the form of message sent by

Indian on Hot Coals

Essentially a Hindu religious festival ceremony associated with the goddess Mariamman, the annual fire-walking ceremonies in Fiji are attended by many thousands of non-Hindu sightseers who pay for a seat on the temporary grandstands, or elsewhere in the area close to the fire-pit These photos show one of Suva’s best known Hindu priests, Sadhu Suruj Bali (left) who played a leading part in recent ceremonies ; and one of the participants bustling across the hot coals.

Photos: Stinsons.

shing boat to the mother ship imes per day. This message s a brief weather report. It possible, therefore, that even lar reports could not be ex from the fleet vesssls, co on might be forthcoming ;he forecasters were in par need of reports from specific jast this would seem to be ing for the Nadi forecasters ) in mind.

Guineans Do

s Differently

Jaidusek, of Washington, who stigating the movements of n in primitive societies, is t the Kainantu area of New where the Papua-New , Department of Public Health

conjointly with the Rockefeller In stitute and National Institute of Health and the Australian Scientific Mission from Adelaide are making a thorough investigation of the symptoms and looking for the basic causes of the deadly kuru disease, Anybody who has lived for some time among the primitive peoples know that native children some times handle things in a different way from European children. Judg ing by the way a steersman the writer recently watched on one of Rabaul’s small ships, was turning the wheel with his toes, older natives are a^SO al3le USe eir * or superior purposes.

Dr. J. J. Saave, Regional Medical Officer in Rabaul, agrees with a medical writer in the Lancet that the way a New Guinea mother moves her baby with short movements up and down will soothe the child and

stop it crying; also that the motion of the mother as she walks with the child slung on her back has the same beneficial effect.

He also agreed with a statement recently made in Sydney in an ABC news session, that coronary thrombosis is very rare among New Guinea natives because of their low intake of fats.

That "Tourist Band"

Is Off to the US

The Fiji Military Forces Band, probably best known to the outside world as the band which greets the thousands of tourists arriving at Suva in the big liners, is off on a United States tour.

The Band left Suva in the Himalaya in September, at the expense of the Pacific Area Travel Association —of which all the major shipping and air lines are members —and after touring 11 Western States and British Columbia, will return by sea to Honolulu and by air from there to Suva.

It is anticipated that Fiji will obtain a lot of valuable tourist publicity as a result of the tour, dur ing which the band will appear on television, and will also be filmed at Hollywood.

Garlic Importers

In a Stew

To the Fiji Department of Agri culture, a consignment of 364 crates of garlic and 10 sacks of onions which arrived at Suva from Singa pore early in August had a very bad smell, indeed.

The importing merchants, who should be fully conversant with the import regulations, were not in possession of documents certifying origin. They hoped that the depart ment would accept the origin as be ing the same as the port of ship ment. Unfortunately, things did not quite work out that way, as each garlic crate was found to contain documentary evidence that the pro duce had, in fact, originated m

[?]dmaster Kini Cava conducts the hand of the Fiji Military Forces [?] a rehearsal at Queen Elizabeth’s barracks. He has been with the [?]or 18 years and took over as bandmaster in 1956. The band left [?]our of the United'States in September. See attached story.

ind had been trans-shipped ;apore. The deal had been irough Singapore exporters, [arlic would have retailed in it about lOd per pound ig to the landed cost A-but as a likelihood that it would een retailed at about 2/8, s the current price of Aus garlic, which has been in ort supply. j and other such produce of n origin is totally banned in e to the danger of introduc certain stock diseases. No ites would have bsen issued i importations, and the Be lt of Agriculture promptly ced that the shipment would i be dumped at sea. wl went up from the im who stood to lose a good ually there was a stay of ings to give the badly-shaken rs a chance to try to re the produce, or to sell it as ores to some overseas ship, adline was fixed at August n the importers would have ipportunity to ship the stuff Singapore—and hope for a less freight and commission

md Tenacity

Iff

len Rehder, top photo, earned a couple of hundred pounds New Guinea, on August 22 3-tons crate of motor spares ad been dropped overboard he MV Citos was recovered efforts. -sea divers are about as around Lae these days, as se troops but Ken Rehder, s offsider, M. Hamersley, re returned from Samarai where ad been engaged fishing for

Gold Lip pearl shell. At a Works Department sale a few weeks ago, Rehder purchased the full diving equipment helmet, boots, gloves, and air hose, the lot—but didn’t guess that he would have it in com mission so soon. He was at his coffee plantation at Kainantu, Eastern Highlands, when the job came up, but was quickly on the spot for the diving operation.

Right sort of compressed air hap pened to be aavilable locally, too.

Two skin divers had failed to locate the crate the previous Sun day—the sea-bed is muddy and 40feet is a long way down —but first attempt on August 21 by Rehder was successful, although only on the third try was he able to attach a line.

After some crane trouble the fol lowing day, Rehder went down for the fourth time, attached the slings and his job was over. Centre photo shows him going over the side for the first time, and the last photo shows the case breaking the surface of the water.

Old Gravestone And

Fiji History

Some interesting history was un covered lately by the vicar of Levuka, Fiji, Archdeacon C. W. Whonsbon- Aston, when searching through the old cemetery at Levuka for some trace of a German who was buried there nearly 100 years ago.

The vicar had received from Ger many an enquiry from a woman whose great-uncle died in or near Levuka in 1864. She wanted some details connected with his death.

It appears that sometime in the last 100 years the original cemetery at Levuka was used for some other purpose—evidently a garden — ana the old gravestones were taken ana carefully piled at one side. In go-

(See story, this page.) Photos: Pat Robertson. ing through these gravestones, searching for the headstone of the German—which, incidentally,

he did not find - Archdeacon

Whonsban-Aston found a s tone in scribed “To the Memory of John Brown Williams, Esq., United States Consult for the Fiji Islands. Born

Salem, Mass., September I Died Totogo, Ovalau, June I The Archdeacon, who hai ing for history, says that t Williams was the American whose house at Nukulau Isk accidentally burned down c July 4 celebration, and a go of his property was taken That was in 1849; and the commenced a long struggle the US Government, Mr. V and the Fiji Government— the native king Cakobau, ; advisers—on the subject c pensation, which ended in 18' Fiji was ceded to Britain Chiefs.

Concrete Building Bloc

Are Mechanised

An Australian precast t company has installed at i Moresby factory an au machine for the manufac: concrete building blocks. C blocks are becoming populai Territory.

The company, Concrete In (Australia) Ltd., recently ii the machine from the States. It makes blocks 16 by eight in. wide, or eif square, and in three thic as required—four in., eight 12 in.

The blocks are suitable types of buildings, including quarters. The machine is al able of turning out other products of the block type.

Native workmen operat machine, which can produc 16 in. x eight in. x eight in. a day. Cost of the machi, eluding installation, was installing the machine.

NZ Garment Trade

Out After Cl Competith

“Unfair, cut-throat compt was the description given I delegate at the annual com of the NZ Textile and Gj Manufacturers’ Federatior August, in reference to c. manufactured in the Cook I For years, textiles have: imported into Rarotonga, factured there into clothing re-exported for sale in Zealand. Most of the work ii by one factory, under contr certain retailers or wholesal New Zealand. The clothing : factured is mainly khaki working gear, and at presen restricted to drill shorts.

At intervals, there have protests by manufacturers in Zealand, and occasionally by unions there. Delegates have: winter cruises north, butj opposition has invariably down.

The Cook Islands Administt looks with favour on this—a

- industry which provides lent and offers an alter ource of earnings for the The wages paid are higher iges paid to other workers look Islands. of the delegates at the NZ conference suggested it could be shown that the ilands workers should not New Zealand rates of pay, i firms involved should still • pay NZ rates, and the in excess of the wages paid out should go into a slands development fund, han into the pockets of the iders. h pay rates in NZ are very ligher than in the Cooks, otonga industry has to bear sts of freight to and from ealand, and less efficient during methods, and would y not be able to compete he New Zealand manu s if both were on an even any taxation, collected from tory owners in Rarotonga, eady help to swell the local

A Sealed Main Street

For Rarotonga

The tar-sealed roadway through the main townships of Avarua and Avatiu on Rarotonga Island may be realised next year, if the Cook Islands Finance Committee follows the recommendations of the Legis lative Council which met in July. A sum of about £B,OOO is involved.

For years Councillors have urged that this stretch of road—from the hospital in the east to A. B. Donald & Co.’s store in the west, a distance of about two miles —be sealed on account of the dust nuisance and menace to health.

It is now believed that the founda tions of the existing road are satis factory and that little preparatory work would be involved.

The machinery can probably be “borrowed” from New Zealand, from the Ministry of Works, during the winter months.

Whales in Suva—

But No Meat

Humpback whales on their northerly migration were sporting in Suva harbour on July 13.

Not by any means a unique event (it has happened at least twice in recent years) they nevertheless cre

[?]nder Eric Feldt, whose job [?] expand and organise the [?]atchers of the SW Pacific World War II, unveils one [?]laques (see bottom, right) Coast Watchers’ Memorial alibobo, Madang, on August [?] full story is on page 69, [?]e.

Photo: S. Diczbalis.

deal of interest among Suva 5 throughout the morning, e of four of them sounded touted, and showed the curve ir backs, quite close inshore wharf and Victoria Parade, irds noon they moved round the reef towards Nukulau -and probably made the open ;ain through the Sandbank e. At this stage of their ig there was some anxiety ley might become stranded > residential area of Suva t nd create a problem—but all rell. crewmen of a Tongan Gov it vessel in port at the time lumbfounded that no one any interest in landing the , as whales mean cheap meat, ot of it, in Tonga, and small »ften travel a long way out it.

ay Arrives

fa ig the many cars arriving in i recent months was one that )ut just a little from the svas a 1958 Cadillac, two-door ible which the Customs docu showed was valued at £1,859. ity and sundry charges added ded cost, excluding freight, ,676. Imported from Hono was driven away by Mr. of the Mocambo Hotel,

sly Birthrate

ligh Literacy

al figures show that the ion of Fiji is unique in two i— it is increasing more than that of any other Terri the Pacific, and the popula- Fiji has the highest literacy

rate of any country outside the Caucasian group.

It is officially estimated that there now are 157,808 Fijians, 184,000 Indians and 8,987 Europeans.

The rate of natural increase in the Colony in 1958 was 32.67 per thousand. That is the average.

The rate of the Indian birth-rate is usually slightly more than 40 per thousand and that of the Fijians slightly under 30 per thousand. By comparison, it may be noted that the birth-rate in New Zealand is slightly under 17 per thousand.

Tprrihlp Trnniral Dkpacp

lemme ropitdl ulbcaSc i n K| olA/ Toalanri m ,>,ew The bout of malaria developed by New Zealand’s Leper Man, Mr. p j Twomey, after a visit to the Solomons about 21 years ago, has s tm got the Dominion —wh e r e malaria is a notifiable disease in convulsions. They are still issuing bulletins about his health, (“Stricken down with a tropical disease”, is the way they put it.) Mr. Twomey was probably that one in-1,000 peculiarly susceptible to malaria. Europeans have been liv ing in the SW Pacific for a century, and before modem drugs we dis covered, taking bouts of malaria as a matter of course. Mr. Twomey is just about recovered now—which is a very good thing for the many Pacific lepers who are his special care. c in TnOSG JOII riUmS LfOn I D dGHGVG in riOgrCSS T u prp verv mtle yaws in the tst-w wphrides but there would be Were not for the activ even Frums”— the local jwes 0 cult. The cult is among villages on the Si an d of Tanna which carries the largest population of any island in group (Over)

One of the first cement brick buildings built in Papua-New Guinea is this new High School, now nearing completion at Boroko, a suburb of Port Moresby. The High School will take pupils of all races who have reached the necessary standard of education, and as such, will issue in [?] new era of secondary education in the Territory. European, Asian and part-European children who reached the necessary standard hitherto, have been given a secondary education grant of £l48 and one return air-fare per annum for education in Australia. Removal of this grant—and most people prefer to send their children out of the Territory for their secondary education —has been threatened before, once the high schools in Port Moresby, Rabaul and Lae were built, but no definite time has been set, as yet. —Papuan Prints Photo.

)onald R. Huggins, a World Organisation regional adviser imunicable diseases control, look at the New Hebrides tuation in July-August, and iney on his way back to explained how things were tid that WHO and UNICEF, e Condominium Government, •veyed and tested 90 per cent. population in the New is for yaws. The first re was now nearly completed, irvey was always made to >n the success of the original ;nt campaign, which in the ebrides was made last year, ■esurvey team would be pulled the end of the year, for the of the campaign had been atisfactory. There was now aws left. a had not been quite satis , however. The original team lated only about 30 per cent, na’s population of about 8,000 ! the leaders in the Jon Frum i did not want to co-operate, s a Government-sponsored ,nd they didn’t want to be in fas interesting to find,” said

Dr. Huggins, that when natives from the Jon Frum villages left Tanna to work in other parts of the New Hebrides they co-operated with us. They were then away from the influence of the leaders.

“Fve got an idea that the Jon Frum villages are beginning to come around now. There is some good work being done there to gain their ProbaWy co-operate in the end.

Dr. Huggins also visited Honiara this trip to see a resurvey of the Solomons get under way. The original survey was made in 1956-57 and in the next six months a team

will make a sample resurvev of 110,000 people Team leader is Dr. F Tross and includes Dr. P. Wang T i* r IJ l/•|l tl I rllS LOUlu Kill Ihe rn i J

rdCITIC LOpra Industry

A warn i ne that a virulent rnmnnt disease™ 1 rnuch* more 6 danger Sus than the rhinoceros beetle, and prevalent in the Philippines where it is known as Cadang-Cadang could wipe out the South Pacific copra industry if it gained a foot ing, was given recently by Western

[?]. and Mrs. D. B. V. Treliving, Fiji on “Waitomo” in August [?]oin the Fanning Island cable [?]on community. Mr. Treliving, [?]erly of Adelaide, joined the raph cable organisation in He has been at Fanning be [?]-two years during the war, [?] the only transport was by [?]esy of the United States [?]ed Forces. [?]ere were about 360 American [?]cemen stationed at Fanning [?]at time, and the atoll had a [?]-weekly Catalina mail con [?]on with the outside world via [?]lulu, which is better communi [?]n than now when the only of getting in and out is by the end of his wartime term [?]he island, Mr. Treliving flew to Honolulu by Catalina and [?]e by Liberator to Canton Is [?] From there he thumbed his to Sydney in an RAF aircraft.

Fiji since 1948, Mr. Treliving now become manager at Fan-

L -s Director of Agriculture,.

E. V. Parham.

Parham said that the disease, Sown as Yellow Spot Decline, ret noticed in the Philippines 7 but not much notice was of it until 1951, by which time I rendered a million palms luctive. . . hen it had a very firm foot id up to now is estimated to tilled about 16 million palms [ still spreading steadily, as ans of controlling it has yet iscovered despite a great deal

earch and experimentation,

little is, in fact, known of is spread or its exact nature.

Parham describes the disease of the most destructive to be in any region on earth today, “sent it is confined to the lines but there is a very real ■ that it could spread east first symptoms are tiny spots on the fronds, these ,lly increase in number and into larger patches giving md a bronze appearance from ,nce. nuts change in shape and ncrease in number and de in size and become marked dark brown streaks and s. The fronds soon fall off ; a bare trunk. only action being taken at t is to fell and burn the as soon as the disease is ied.

Research Council of the Pacific Commission is aware i danger, and is urging that be made available to make e study of this and other e diseases which have not yet i the South Pacific coconut

d Public Servants

flore?

Commission of Inquiry into •n Samoa Public Service s concluded its hearing in n August and the New Zea lembers returned home, s expected that the recom tions of the Commission will emitted to the West Samoa iment by September 30.

Public Service Association r estern Samoa submitted a for increases commensurate e rising cost of living to de retrospective to January 1, Phe rate of increase claimed [) per cent, with a maximum j per year. The claim was on the Consumers’ Price Index pared by the Commissioner of r.

Association, in addition, :d a further 8 per cent, in as compensation for the 35 minutes work daily intro as a result of the financial in 1957. Thus, the total salary

increase claimed amounts to 18 per cent.

The Government, on the other hand, represented by Mr. Vaiao Alailima, of the Public Service Com missioner’s Office, contended that there was no basis for a general wage increase, though there was scope for improvement in some special aspects of the wages and salaries structure.

The Government representative also opposed the demand for a minimum adult wage of £165 per year. Such a provision was not necessary under conditions existing in the Territory. He stated that for 13 Government jobs carrying the minimum salary of £lOO per annum a total of 393 applicants had applied since January last.

The Government treasury sup ported the claim that the Govern ment lacks the finance to pay higher Public Service salaries and the Western Samoa Trust Estates Cor poration, a Government institution, produced evidence that a minimum rate of pay of £165 per annum for plantation workers would Increase its payroll by £103,730 and would have meant a loss of £32,993 to the Corporation on the 1958 figures in stead of a profit of £70,720.

The Government representative pointed out that in a Service where there were Samoan, part-European and European employees a cost of living index was of little use when determining salaries.

He expressed the belief, however, that in view of the improved financial situation of the Territory, former emergency measures could be modified, annual increments could be improved and wider margins for skill and efficiency for the better qualified staff could be created.

Pouvanaa: Conditions

In French Polynesia

Late reports from French Polynesia Indicate that progress now is being made with preparations for the trial on charges of arson and connected matters, of Pouvanaa a Oopa, who was arrested in Papeete a year ago after he had led demonstrations against political developments of which he disapproved.

Because of the difficulty of arrang-

Mr. J. S. Hynd, B.Sc., of the CSIRO Fisheries Division, Thursday Island, who recently completed a survey of the Manihiki MOP oyster beds at the request of the Cook Islands Administration. His report will assist the Administration in formulating a sound conservation, policy in regard to this valuable fishery.

Fahiti a trial that would be om local prejudices, the authorities have been seak ie alternative, including trial re in the French Union, itest advices, a small com from France was examining ation in Tahiti, ryer of Papeete, M. Gerard •at was recently elected a of the French Senate, to it French Polynesia. ;al conditions in French a are reported to have been nd uneventful, since the rations which led to the f Pouvanaa a Oopa.

ble Arrangement Over

Liabilities

,tions in September were ssrs. Harvey Trinder Ltd., the and New Guinea creditors, k of New South Wales, and other interests affected, jombine amicably to keep is various P-NG businesses ly owned by Hamac Hold l. of New Guinea, and thus lat new and unfortunate ,tion from liquidation, and jsses.

As shown in the PIM article of August (page 20) the liabilities of Hamac Holdings Ltd. are between £400,000 and £500,000, of which no less than £330,000 is owed to Harvey Trinder (NSW I Pty. Ltd.

The London and Sydney directors of Harvey Trinder Ltd. have been making an effort to keep the whole Hamac organisation alive, so that the local creditors especially traders in Papua and New Guinea — may be paid in full; and the latest arrangements seem to indicate that that will be done.

A number of Lae creditors, where debts have been incurred through tire operation of some of the hotels owned by Hamac Holdings Ltd., were inclined to resist the proposed arrangements, and to demand payment directly from the Hamac subsidiaries which operate the hotels.

But when it was shown that certain creditors (especially Bank of NSW) had preference (through registered securities) in relation to the hotels’ debts, the Lae unsecured

ffl is

iSns'W Bank C °o/^New

Cecil in Lae, and that if this par tieular unit ol Hamac Holdings Ltd. was forced into hqmdation very little if anything would b. left for the unsecured creditors.

Kin Wnmpn'c fluh finpc

Nb Women S UUD V7OOS c rnm Qfrpnnth to Strpnoth

rrom Mrengin to airengrn

a/tvc t-t 'P’nvcrnft r>rp- Be Sed h « annua”' reportto P t he Sydney New Guinea Women’s Club recently, it marked her 12th year i n office, and 18 years of existence 0 f the club which has met weekly, p i us additional festive occasions, since the year of Pearl Harbour, The club was formed originally tQ . ye women who normally would have been living in the Territory, a focal point in very difficult days, A p the women and children re maining in the Territory after Pearl Harbour, were evacuated to Aus tralia during Christmas and New Year 1941-2; but a great many others had come South before that, and for obvious reasons did not go back. The Club, therefore, was already in existence when tne balloon went up in the Territory and became a really strong force in keeping Terntoria: ns together. A

g-TSK

Sr “ rnose rn Y /rnft succeeded Mrs Page Mrs re^d X e °n? and helped by a ha?d s executive that has changed . to year has carried

Step right up and win yourself a nice fat pig at the "Barraques" at the July 14 Fete celebra tions in Papeete. At each turn of the wheel, some lucky number wins a pareu, a blanket, a dish, a glass or some chewing gum The little pig numbers cost more, but are the most exciting events of the evening and the proud owner usually spends the rest of the night lugging his pig around with him, afraid to put it down, as it would quickly go off as pigs are still the "piece de resistance" in these islands.

Photo: Studio Mackenzie.

the club magnificently years of peace.

Although, in the nature: things, it might hav imagined that the Club w out with the return to p conditions, it has, in fac tamed its place in the loya affections of those women it was originally formed has, as well, held the in many actual Territorians n again in P-NG, who make of continuing their conts the Club whenever they Sydney. In this way, the tween Club and Terr:

continually being renewed

obvious now that, whatevi have been thought when ended its wartime service has a role in peace—and tl is plenty of life left in it Mrs, Foxcroft reported a ful year at the 1959 annual All the usual functions v attended, and the first luncheon, held in the Club Rooms on October was attended by 90 ex an

Territorians, including all

foundation members but c was ill.

Financially, also, the Clu the year under review in position.

News of Papeete

And Easter Airports

The work on Tahiti’s ae (close to Papeete) started : is now in full swing. Nei workers work shifts, 24 he day, and seven days per \ Work at present is conci on the filling in of the towards the sea end. Son million cubic metres of mate be needed.

A report from Papeete re the idea of a trans-Pacific from Chile via Easter Isla Tahiti. The report is tl aerodrome on Easter will 1 pleted by 1963.

As that is still four year it still could be so, althoug of sceptics will be waiting t materialise before they che< In 1957, we were informi the airstrip on Easter was under construction—even barrels of bitumen that ha landed to surface it. An air would be in operation within or two.

When we were trying tc up on the progress of this for the new edition of the Islands Year Book, that wa lished some months ago, tl information we could get we Sir Gordon Taylor, who ha; the establishment of a South air-route between Austral!

South America something hobby. He assured us that abs nothing had been done on

>se Visitor Looks

Rewa Sugar Land

ever the future of sugar Rewa Valley of Viti Levu, e subject was still alive in ( was a good deal of guess ien IVfr. Ram Jati Singh, y of the newly formed sugar y, Fiji Sugar Milling Co., topes to mill where the CSR >ff, was sighted shepherding lese visitor round the Rewa md Tailevu district, isitor was Professor Tatsuji of the Totory Prefecture ty, north-western Japan. He n brought to Fiji by Banno a Japanese firm which is ;d in Suva and active in the field. ling to Banno’s manager, jashima, Professor Fukuta is r of Agriculture with a great pre-war experience in sugar in Formosa. In recent years spent periods in Thailand n as an agriculture adviser ! governments of those is.

mained a week in Fiji, living Banno house at Tamavua Bering the nearby sugar and reas day by day. ssor Fukuta and Banno atatives had a meeting with •s of Fiji Sugar Milling ay on August 15, and on the g prior to his departure for the professor visited the Fiji nent agricultural research at Koronivia.

Nagashima would make no at when asked if the Banno ay was thinking of buying e new sugar milling company, ;h he did say that there be a Japanese market for gar produced by a mill in his firm was interested.

hat Noumea

) Again

)up including members of the )ly Territoriale, headed by

Deputy Lenormand, has introduced a motion for forming a company to build and operate a casino in Noumea, New Caledonia.

This project will come up for dis cussion in a later session of the Assembly.

At a recent meeting of tourist interests, hotel keepers, travel agents and the Official Tourist Bureau, the suggestion was warmly received.

The idea of a casino for Noumea is not new; it has been rearing its head at intervals, over the last 30 years but has always been vetoed by the Metropolitan Government.

It will be interesting to hear what Paris now thinks of the project.

It is certain that the powerful Catholic Church in New Caledonia will oppose it.

The most important question when thinking of casinos, is to know where the gamblers will come from, to patronise it. It is hard to believe Australians will go there to gamble, even if currency problems were overcome. Australian are pretty well catered for, in the gambling line at home, where everything from horse racing to State Lotteries and poker-machines cater for the urge to indulge in a flutter.

It is even more difficult to imagine that Americans would go all the way across the Pacific to

Professor Tatsuji Fukuta.

-by-passing casinos in the nciies, not to say side r the attractions of Monte id their own Las Vegas.

aniel Defoe

the Answer?

> got to have an angle to tourists in, these days, ong, Fiji’s second large Vanua Levu, has watched j the growing stream of to main Viti Levu. Mostly, ived at Nadi by air, do the i-Deuba-Suva sights circuit, n depart again; or come nd do the same thing from rharf, Suva. e other 300-odd islands of up. they hear a thing or seldom sight them. j, to lure the tourists to iCvu. Mr. H. B. Gibson, well MLC, solicitor, and pro if the Grand Eastern Hotel, came up last month with , of a five-days “Robinson tour.

i-the-movs look at Labasa roundings, after flying over iva by Fiji Airways. Then in the 34 ft cutter Tuiseva Alf Williams) to the n Crusoe-style island of It has everything (in a modern “Man Friday” to lem) that is calculated to le tourists camera-clicking ental-note-taking for the ts months later back home, our continues, after return- Labasa, with an air-hop the Korotini ranges to u, in the heart of the copra !’ domain. Tourists have a )f the Hot Springs Hotel or ind bure-bungalows at ala Estate, nine miles along m-fringed coast. Motoring biscus Highway, exploring 's, finger-testing Namaka hot or boating on the 16 miles vusavu Bay help while away e before flying back to Suva.

Mapping the Solomons

The BSIP Lands Department has undertaken to make an extensive survey of the Solomon Islands.

Already three Trig Stations have been erected near Honiara.

The complete survey is estimated to take up to three years and will mean more accurate mapping of the Solomons land masses.

In March, 1960, a team of sur veyors will arrive from England to operate three Tellurometers provided by the Overseas Survey Branch of the Colonial Office.

Leahy Case Still

Awaits High Court

There still is no indication of when the High Court of Australia will hear the appeal of the P-NG Administration against the sub stantial verdict given by the P-NG Supreme Court to Mr. M. J. Leahy, some months ago.

Mr. Leahy claimed that he had lost 53 head of cattle because of careless and inefficient methods employed by the officials of the De partment of Agriculture in relation to the treatment of red-water fever It took Mr. Leahy the better part of a year to get his case for trial before the Supreme Court and obtain a verdict; now it looks as if another year will elapse before the appeal will be heard.

The case is typical. The private litigant must pay his own costs ii he loses. But if a Government is a litigant, and loses, the taxpayer pays.

In this NG case, Mr. Leahy paid his ow r n costs as a plaintiff, and won, but so far has not even collected costs. Now he is paying another lot of costs, defending the appeal, ii he loses he personally is out oi pocket by hundreds of pounds foi costs, apart from any damages suf fered. But if he wins, the Govern

mint will pay costs—not the officials concerned, but the taxpayers—who are you and I and Mr. Leahy.

New Kind of Depth

Finder for Small Ships

An echo-sounder or depth-record ing instrument of a new type, called the “Fairway”, has been produced by Marine Electronics Ltd., of Lon don.

It employs the Transistor prin ciple which recmtly has become familiar through the very small radio receivers which have come on the market. This means that it can be operated with small dry batteries, like an electric torch.

The Fairway echo-sounder is very small, but quite efficient, and will show depths up to 150 feet. A larger model shows up to 800 feet.

Its special features are that it can. be packed into a small space; it does not require a special electric supply, although it can be attached to the vessel’s electric supply if de sired: it does not require a hole in the hull; and it can be installed in such a way that it gives readings at an angle, ahead, as well as straight down.

It seems to be an appliance of interest to people running small ships among the Islands —especially as it detects those vertical coral columns called “niggerheads.” It will detect shoals of fish, and show the nature of the sea-bed. It does not give a clear recording in heavy sediment or muddy water.

The agency is held in Australia by Parer Bros. Pty. Ltd., of 36 Forbes Street, East Sydney, to whom application should be made for de tails and prices.

Stray From Cruising

Yacht Section

The Australian yacht Star Dust , which has b en in Noumea for two weeks, left on August 9 for Isle of Pines, Mare Island and Suva Dur ing its stay, two members of the crew, a man and woman left the ship, stating piquantly, that they had been asked to leave The couple returned to Australia later by Melanesie. During her stay in a Noumea hotel, the young lady #as victim of a robbery She re ported that she lost nearly all her

possessions.

Useful BSIP-Hebrides

Shipping Connection

The decision of the A u s tralia- West Pacific Line, test yeai% to make a ouarterly call at Vila and Santo, New Hebrides, after calling S trnniara and Vanikoro, has made

cormnunications

dominium and the BSIP rroiec SSte a great deal easier and

"Tuiseva" at anchor in the passage [?]avuva Island and Macuata-i-Wai.

H. B. Gibson and Miss Vera Marshall.

?/■ Ben . . .

. . . and Buka

the two territories closer isly any visit between the id Groups was by air via inea and Australia. Now, by travelling South-bound istralia-West Pacific vessel, n can be made to return otectorate by Burns Philp’s IP people who have availed >s of this opportunity have . Sims, Principal Auditor, Gordon Cox, Commissioner

-A New

in Sugar Market

>sition of the world’s sugar on which depends some of utlook—was confused in

on and political confusion

seemed to have thrown tion of the sugar industry )int, and at the same time med to be a serious decline orld price. Generally, in urnment was pessimistic, a few days after a gloomy al survey in Australia’s nt, came the announcement Soviet group had purchased ons of Cuban sugar; and d price rose sharply by £2 in per ton. [me, there was moaning in md, where sugar growers iuced a mighty surplus of ual to 1 h million tons, or ; to give 200,000 tons of ormally worth £6 millions in. Most of this surplus : ploughed back into the 1957 there was an apparent lortage, and the raw sugar mt up to £6O per ton, and )ns on exports were lifted. !: the uncertain factors at is the amount of the com )pean beet sugar crop, is or shortage—it does not tely concern Fiji’s earnings, re controlled, as to quantity

and price, by international agree ments.

Enquiry about a Girl

A resident of Fiji has sent us the following enquiry.

Some time ago, the PIM pub lished an article about the Greig family of Fanning Island, and its history.

Several years ago, when the members of the Greig family were finally leaving the Island, it appeared that one of the teenage girls—a good looking and attractive part-European had formed an attachment for a Gilbertese labourer, and did not wish to leave the atoll. She ran away and hid in the bush and could not be found, and was left behind.

Some reports say that in later years she was seen in Suva —but

that is not proved.

Is there anyone who can give some information which would allow the writer to find out what eventually became of that Greig girl?

Soochow's Thirty

Anxious Minutes

Before dropping anchor at Point Cruz, Honiara, BSIP, on August 22, the NG-A Line Soochow had a few anxious moments.

With Cedarbank at the No. 1 anchorage, Soochow, when coming in to drop anchor, ran aground on a mudbank at approximately 7 p.m.

Fortunately, within half an hour, she was afloat again, without assistance.

After discharging at Honiara Soochow proceeded to Tenaru to

000 supsr feet of timber for is the second shipment from in recent months, the having lifted a similar r in June.

.ooks Ahead With

ocoa Industry

the direction of the BSIP dent’s Cocoa Officer, Mr. sevil, the infant cocoa in in the Solomons looks as it could eventually become itectorate’s No. 2 revenue expected that next year, ) tons of cocoa beans will [able for export. With the up of more areas in the and Malaita districts, it is d that by 1970 production n the vicinity of 3,000 tons, which is the headquarters cocoa industry, is rapidly ig due to the opening up of id available for cocoa grow the construction of a road ill run from Bina to Fauabu, ;e of approximately 40 miles, rst section of the road and ; bridge over the Kwaibala have already been com ntial blocks have also re teen put out for tender by eminent.

>ns Rocked

thquakes

Ive r e earthquake shook throughout the Western s at 8 a.m. on August 18. lain force was felt at Gizo a Lavella where, apart from n tremor, there were many takes for an hour or so. so, a concrete pier support e District Commissioner’s ras cracked and there was lot of movement around the of all houses raised on Ing in the houses on the i were all damaged, but lings on the flat and in the wn area were unaffected, la Lavella, the tremor seems been severe as some water i stands were thrown to the the end of a bridge was ome 18 inches, and the walls ipra drying shed collapsed. y and glassware was also il leaf houses on the island fgera also collapsed, strength of the quake was Jd at 7.2. Only a slight was felt in Honiara. on the morning of 25th, emors were experienced but

this time no damage was reported.

The strongest tremors on this occasion were felt at Ysabel and New Georgia; also, again slightly, at Honiara.

No NG Enthusiasm

For Local Govt.

“The Government would welcome the introduction of local municipal government in towns such as Port Moresby or Rabaul, even though we recognise that it would be a com plicated question because of mixed populations and the varying owner ship of rateable property,” said

Territories Minister Hasluck, in Canberra, in September 2.

“I say, without reflection on the people of the Territory, that up to the present there has been no sign of any great enthusiasm for the inauguration of municipal govern ment in the towns.

“If, at any time, the towns are prepared to bear that burden we will certainly co-operate with them in bringing about local municipal government.

“In the meantime, that sort of function is performed by the Administration with the assistance of town advisory councils, on which both European and indigenous people are represented.” (Over)

id Beaux

Papeete

js of meat are running low ti, according to the local ent, because of the pre drought, aggravated by a ;han usual consumption of ring the fetes of July 14. blem is likely to become Tahiti has not a beef cattle herd to supply al needs. i the same mail comes news nember of the Beaux Arts recently visited Tahiti to oth musicians and dancers, in all. This troupe is to nted in a Parisian theatre 1960. ;ium impressario is also to liti to recruit dancers and s for a European tour.

uried the

Body

aen died in Port Moresby i August—an Australian, 'lends arranged that he be lere, and a New Australian, body was placed in the so that it might be ;d, ready for sending to for burial there, iry attendants were care ifhen the hearse came for y of the Australian, they o look under the shroud ck the name of the corpse;

and* so the body of the New Aus tralian was taken away and buried.

The error was discovered soon afterwards —but by that time it was too late. It appears that a body, once buried in that way, cannot be embalmed.

The New Australian’s body was exhumed, a suitable service in his own church was arranged, and it was re-buried.

There was much newspaper publicity—but no indication of whether the blunderers were Euro peans or New Guineans.

DCA Man Beaten,

Robbed in Noumea

A member of the crew of an Australian Department of Civil Aviation plane was set upon and robbed of a considerable sum of money in Noumea, in August.

The robbery took place in one of Noumea’s best-lit squares, in the early hours of the morning. It is reported that the victim had made himself conspicuous during an evening’s tour of the local night clubs. He was considerably beaten up during the robbery, although it may ease his hurts to know that his aggressor was a local Wallisian strong-arm-man who next day was arrested trying to change some of the victim’s Travellers’ Cheques with a taxi driver.

In the opinion of many, however, the victim got what he was looking for.

ET IN FIJI: Some of the Girl Guides who arrived in Fiji from other Island territories >r to attend a World Regional Gathering. Guides from French Polynesia are wearing ; and those from the Cook Islands are wearing white hats. At centre is Miss Valda 1 air hostess. On her left is Guide A. Williams, of Suva, and second from right of rs. D. J. Barnes, who were present at Laucala Bay air terminal to meet the visitors.

Photo: Stinsons.

"Narrow" Escape

p. 121

[?]e Says It Was No "Narrow" Escape

at irascible crocodile ter Mr. G. M. Rio, having

lined the paragraph about

in the June “PIM”, writes iy that he never regarded absence from the Busama \sion and fire as “his west escape”. He em ises that he left the ship, ewak Harbour (after travel in her for some days) at 25 minutes before she blew ” he says, in a quaint argu ' “I walk across a road a ninutes before a car passes I miles an hour, that isn’t now escape.” invites the writer of the jraph to go crocodile-shoot oith him in the swamps of :a Gulf. able your acceptance of a free, one-way crocodile ling trip,” he says, yearn . “Make it ‘Collect’. I would y pay the cost of the cable-

No Government Funds Used There

p. 131

Apologies to Fiji’s Department of Public Works.

In July, describing the cement roofing of the new terminal ling at Nadi airport, we praised the work of the Department’s , in carrying a big job to completion well before schedule time.

And then we said that, on May 29, some 250 of the toilers were mraged to make wassail — music, and drinks and very good food — that the whole cost of the luncheon was borne by the workers’ mess funds, plus a modest contribution from officialdom.

Officialdom has reacted somewhat strongly—it doesn’t want to In it. “Neither official funds nor official time were used in lection with the party,” it announces, indignantly.

We did not mean to say that Government funds had thus been ■lessly squandered—although it would have been a praiseworthy g if the Department HAD made such a gesture—the staff had led it. What we had intended to convey — delicately—was that '■ctor John Common, and his team of helpers, dug into their own tets to build up funds for the party, and express their personal iks to the labourers and technicians.

Next time, we’ll lay it on with a trowel!

Lae Thought

p. 137

[?]ot So Cold As Lae Thought

digans smelling strongly \thballs; shawls long since ten and various other of warm clothing were ected from their hiding i during August in Lae, Guinea. ling sure that some kind ‘ecord cold snap was upon we checked with the rrological Section. They is that the weather some appears cold when what med “comfortable factors” ; human body are lacking, example, when the wind down the Markham i; the sky is cloudy; the does not shine; and it’s ig. It was doing all those i so people tended to shiver, igh the temperature was tecessarily down to any extent. for the doubters, who still this is the “coldest winter” >e felt, here are the com ive figures for 1958 and bearing in mind that for Wet Season — June, July, it —average minimum tem ure is 72 deg.

S —seven days of August, trature fell below 70 deg. days between 70 deg. and g. but below 72 deg. 9 —four days below 70 deg. days between 70 deg. and

g., but below 72 deg.

PR.

Deaths Of Islands People

p. 153

MR. W. M. DUPAIN

death occurred in Cairns, [and. on August 20, 1959, of lliam Mortley Dupain, aged > also, Talk-Talk, this issue). sain joined Burns Philp & Co. ead Office, Sydney, in May, id his first few years were n the Island Department, introlled by the late Walter len served as supercargo in of the Company’s inter vessels in the Solomons, Marshalls and New Guinea. )11 to 1912 he was stationed Muniara in the Gilberts, and afterwards went ashore to ief term at the Faisi trading ships on which he was rgo include the Moresby and <i, and he was aboard the taking relief supplies to after the Germans were ex n 1914. a Burns Philp branch was led at Rabaul, Mr. Dupain >ointed its first manager, but was transferred to Port r. He also spent a short time arai. irm at Port Moresby saw the ig of the association between Philp & Co. Ltd. and The iresby Freezing Co. Ltd., and development and expansion Company there, as the last survivor of that •espected trio of Burns Philp managers in New Guinea lyed such an important role Company’s history and on good foundation work, so las been accomplished since . The other two were Messrs, and P. Coote —the who died shortly after the r and the latter who lost his •ing it.

Dupain was transferred to in 1937, and was still a very nanager there at the time sudden death. During his le branch took over the con- Thursday Island and Nor i n—previously independent ;s—and the Innisfail area, emerged as one of the most ■ta n t of BP’s Australian ;s, and this was due in no easure to the personality and lip of Mr. Dupain.

Dupain was a younger con iry in the Island Department early 1900’s with the present ly chairman, Mr. James and was also a close friend unger brother, the late Lieut.

Burns.

Dupain is survived by Mrs. (daughter of the late Cap >resby), and by two daughters

—Mrs. T. Stokes, of Mount Eliza (Vic.) and Mrs. R. Wyatt, of Wahroonga, NSW.

MR “TOBY” MILLAR

Mr. Ellesmere (“Toby”) Millar, well known in the Goldfields section of New Guinea before World War 11, died in a private hospital in Syd ney on August 16, following a series of operations. Since the War, he had been engaged in journalism, and was on the staff of the Cairns Post, when he became ill, about 14 months ago. He was 54.

Mr. Millar went to New Guinea in the early rush days, in 1926. He was married there in 1926, and lived there Until World War 11. A few years ago, Toby and his wife, Mrs.

Lillian Millar, acquired a property in North Queensland —on the John ston River, about 60 miles from Cairns: and they named it“Kokopo” and Mrs. Millar spent a lot of energy and money in developing it as a holiday resort. However, they had to abandon this enterprise early in 1958, when Mr. Millar became acutely ill.

MR. J. C. HAMMETT

The death occurred on August 4, in Melbourne, of Mr. J. C. Hammett after a final brief illness. He was well known in Papua and BSIP.

Mr. Hammett first went to Mamai Plantation, Port Glasgow, Papua, in early 1911. At the time it was under 200 acres of rubber only.

While there he developed the pro perty, planting more rubber, and then was responsible for putting in large areas of coconuts. His most notable work there was the final survey and making of the road out to the coast. The first one followed a mountain track which was negoti ated with pack-horses. Later he built the present road, grading it not more than 1 in 12 in its steepest part. This road was used for bring ing the copra out by truck as early as 1929.

He also drained the back of the plantation which in parts was under 20 feet of water. Mr. Hammett found the original course of the river, opened it up, and not only drained Mamai, but also several thousands of acr.s of Crown land.

In 1931, after an operation, he re turned to England, where his health steadily improved. He returned to Australia early in 1947, and later took up land in the Shortlands, British Solomon Islands. He was honorary Customs and Health Officer there from 1949 until April, 1958.

He had been in indifferent health since 1952. He leaves a wife and five children (Nancy, Peter, Mary, Lindsay and Anice) the first four of whom were born in Papua.

GEORGE BOGESE

George Bogese, who was formerly a Native Medical Practitioner in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Government service, died in August at his village on Ysabel.

Bogese was captured by the Jap anese on Savo when they invaded the Solomons in 1942, and was taken to Rabaul. The Japanese returned him to the Protectorate, and the military authorities then sent him to an internment camp in Australia, where he remained until the end of the war.

Later, he returned to Ysabel and stayed there until his death.

Begese had been educated overseas and wrote several articles on the Bogotu language which were accepted and published by the magazine “Oceania”. He was also the author of a small booklet on the Bogotu language and customs.

MR. WILLIAM B. THOMPSON

Mr. William B. Thompson, a well known former resident of Lautoka and of Suva, died in Suva at the age of 81 on August 22. He was active and in good health up to the time of his death. He was a keen bowler.

Mr. Thompson was variously em ployed by the Colonial Sugar Re fining Co. and by a Vatukoula min ing company as an engineer, and was later in the Fiji Customs service for a time. He was born in England and is survived by his wife, a former Miss L. Beddoes, of Lautoka, and by two sons and a daughter.

CAPTAIN A. H. PROSSER

Captain Arthur Henry Prosser, OBE, a well known retired Master of Union Steam Ship Co. Islands vessels, died in Auckland at the age of 74.

Captain Prosser joined the Union Co. in 1910 and served in 29 of the company’s vessels up to his retire ment in 1948 from command of Waikawa on the trans-Pacific ser vice.

More recently he had done some pilotage work in overseas vessels round the New Zealand coast.

MR. O. J. ATKINSON

The death occured recently in Brisbane of Mr. O. J. Atkinson, who served in the Public Service of Papua from 1913 until his retire ment in 1949, and who was well known and highly esteemed.

He originally joined the Police in Papua; from 1920 to 1929 he was a resident Magistrate at Bamara; he was in Abau in 1934; and from 1936. until the outbreak of war, he was at Mr Atkinson during the war served with the Allied Geographic Section and with ANGAU.He went to Higaturu as Resident M; a B ls J r a*® in 1945 and remained there until his retirement ] n 1949.

He was the father of Mr. K. C.

Atkinson, now District Commissioner

in Bougainville.

Sports Review

p. 155

Jnion Has

Home Plans

'iji Rugby Union, for years been crying “poor mouth”, ning it never had money for •tc—although miraculously iter season, overseas teams i Fiji, or Fiji sent a team he Union hopes to build a use and eventually build serve of cash. The Union j of a valuable piece of Harris Street, Suva, but has ;ried, “Where is the money from”, each time a question ked about the proposed ; to organise building “bees” unsuccessful, and finally the of Lands (Mr. David himself a Rugby enthusiast, ed to cancel the lease un re were some evidence of starting soon. [Jnion then got cracking, d an art union with cars, efrigerators, etc., as prizes, 1,000 tickets at £5 apiece, expected the art union to it did, after an extension nion made about £2,500 out eal, so should soon go some d meeting Mr. Lloyd’s 5. tow do they expect to make >ut of a club house with no icence, or poker machines? tiing dances and taralalas, ;ing the hall for others to ilar functions. But it will long time to build up the from the building.

Mix-Up in

league Final

C has been a lively ending semi-ending—to the NG r-Town Rugby League Final, mpetition appeared to be it the end of August; but it still was going on early ter. ugust 24, the Madang team ) Bulolo, to play the final Bulolo. Clyde Gane was j appointed to control the Madang would not have id insisted that the referee Ith Williams; who ac ied the team from Madang. .s a fiercely-fought contest. 17 minutes of play, while ; was leading 13-4, a Bulolo

forward, Maurice Daly, was ordered from the field by the referee, for punching. Daly, it is alleged, then struck referee Williams. Williams called the game “No match”, and left the field, his face bleeding.

Play ceased.

The incident was reported to the Australian Football League Board of Control and the latter awarded the match to Madang.

Madang thereupon announced it was prepared to play the Grand Final in Madang, at a suitable week-end.

Mr. Jim Huxley, a Lae com mentator, says there are doubts about Madang’s position because, according to the rules, Bulolo has the right to nominate the ground; Williams should not have been substituted for Gane, as referee; and Madang allegedly played three men on August 24 who were not qualified to play.

Honiara Commerce

Shows Government

rpHE Annual Five Events Com- JL petition between Commercial and Government teams in Honiara was again won by Com mercials —four events to one.

The competition dates from pre war days and this was the third year since its post-war revival.

Swimming was possible this year

—in Mr. Ken Hay’s pool at the Mendana Hotel—making the Fivt Events again as pre-war, i.e., Tennis Golf, Cricket, Snooker and Swim ming.

Although Government has a vast superiority of numbers, the Com mercials have always managed to get together a team of 14 enthusia tic sportsmen, to keep the Cup in their possession. Government has been successful only in one year— -1932.

Up and Downs

In Pacific Boxing

JUST 140 days after Mosese Varasikete, of Nadi, flattened him in one round, (2 min. 12 sec. to be exact, on April 11) Tongan heavyweight boxer. Kitione Lave, had adequate, satisfying revenge.

Before 2,000-odd spectators at Mosese’s home town, Nadi, on August 29, the Tongan put Mosese to sleep in 2 min. 50 sec., also in the first round.

The only parallel in the two fights was that each man confessed he did not know where the knock out blow came from.

Now Lave, who is going back to the United Kingdom with his English wife and child in Novem ber, plans a quick trip to Tahiti, and a fight or two in New Zealand.

In New Zealand on August 22, Tongan champion Mahoni defeated New Caledonian champ Doudie, on points.

The latter meets ex-champ middleweight of France, Francois Anewy, in Noumea shortly.

Rarotonga Europeans got into training rece nt ly to p l ay a local Maori team, proceeds goning to a local charity. A big crowd turned up to see (they expected) the "Popaas" ground into the dirt, as some members of the European team were regarded as a little past suc h strenuous exercise, Spectators' blood-lust was not satisfied, and the Europeans gave a good account of themselves.

Scores at half time were 0-0. After that age did tell and the Maori team Takuvaine, won by 11-0 Most of the Maoris played in bare feet; some of the Europeans, as can be seen in the

Photo(by D. C. Berry), wore sandshoes.

Shipping Time-Tables

pp. 157-161

lings are approximate and may r by as much as two weeks.

ney-Papua-N. Guinea

jntoro sails from Melbourne for Brisbane, Port Moresby. Samarai, Kavieng, Madang. Lae, Port ' Next Sydney sailings Sept. 25, alekula sails from Sydney for Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, dexishafen. Madang, Lae, Sydney, ney sailing Oct. 21. laita sails from Sydney for Bris irt Moresby. Samarai, Rabaul.

Lorengau. Maaang. Lae, Samarai, Sydrey. Next Sydney sailings Nov. 24. ilolo modern liner, sails about weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port Samarai. Lae. Madang. Lom baul. Next Sydney sailings Sept. ). from Burns. Philp and Co., Ltd., Street. Sydney. k Hoi: Leaves Sydney for Bris ort Moresby. Samarai. Next tiling Sept. 25.

Dchow; Leaves Sydney for Bris jrt Moresby, Honiara iBSIP), Madang. Lae. Next Sydney sail 7. hansi: Leaves Melbourne for Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai. ang, Rabaul, Port Moresby.. Next liling Oct. 23. nkiang: Leaves Melbourne for Brisbane. Lae, Madang. Kavieng, .ae. Next Sydney sailing Oct. 16. from New Guinea Australia Line nd Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 t., Sydney.

ley-Netherlands N.G.

peeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silin ibigo and Sinabang carrying pas and cargo from East Australian Hollardia, Biak and Sorong, NNG il at Manokwari alternate trips), 3 rneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence direct. Next Sydney sailings; g Sept. 22, S:bigo Oct. 16. Sigli jinabang Dec. 18. from Royal Interocean Lines. 255 5t.. Sydney.

ist-Sth. West. & Central

Pacific

aina Navigation Co.. Ltd*, vessels ig, Chefoo and Chekiang com in July a monthly service from Hongkong and thence southwards Papua-New Guinea ports, BSI. brides, New Caledonia and Fiji, extension to Tonga if cargo is ; return to Japan direct, ng: Dep. Japan Aug. 26, for Hong d New Guinea ports arrive Port Sept. 29, Honiara/Tenaru Oct. 2, )ct, 9. Noumea Oct. 11, Suva/ Oct. 15, thence return Japan •riving approx. Oct. 30. ing: Dep. Japan Sept. 30, thence ig. Kavieng Oct. 16, Rabaul Oct.

18, Madang Oct. 21, Lae Oct. 25, Port Moresby Oct. 31, Honiara Nov. 3, Santo Nov. 6, Noumea Nov. 9, Suva/Lautoka Nov. 13, Nukualofa Nov. 26, thence return Japan direct arriving Dec. 10.

Chefoo: Dep. Japan Oct. 21, thence Hongkong, Rabaul Nov. 6, Madang Nov. 10, Lae Nov. 13. Samarai Nov. 17, Port Moresby, Nov. 22, Honiara Nov. 25, Santo Nov. 28, Noumea Dec. 2, Suva/Lautoka Dec. 6, Nukualofa Dec. 19, thence Japan direct arriving Jan. 2.

Details from China Navigation Co., Ltd. (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Aros, 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 any or all of the following: Hongkong, Manila, Sandakan,

Madang, Lae, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, with quarterly calls at Gizo (opt.). Honiara and Vani koro. in BSIP; and at Santo and Vila, New Hebrides.

Milos; Departs Sydney northbound, Sept. 15, arriving Japan Oct. 6.

Citos: Depart Japan Oct. 2, Hongkong Oct. 7, arrive Rabaul Oct. 16, Lae Oct. 19 Brisbane Oct. 25, Sydney Oct. 29.

Delos- Arrive Madang from Japan, etc..

Sept. 18, Lae Sept. 20. Rabaul Sept. 24, Honiara Sept. 27, Vanikoro Sept. 30, Santo Oct. 3, Vila Oct. 5, Brisbane Oct. 9.

Sydney Oct. 14.

Aros; Nth. Borneo, dep. Oct. 7, will omit Islands ports on this trip; arr. Bris bane Oct. 17, Sydney Oct. 22.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd.. 30 Pitt St., Sydney, or Islands agents (R. Tebb. Lae: Town Transport, Rabaul; A. Strachan, Madang; BSIP Trad ing Corp.. Honiara: D. J. Gubbay and Co..

Santo: Wm. Breckwoldt and Co., Vila).

Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA

Sailings of Orient and P. & O. Line Passenger Ships 1959-60

aland-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa

fua maintains a service from to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, ;o Pago, Apia, Suva and return nd. Next sailing from Auckland; >v. 3. itua maintains a service from to Lautoka. Suva, Apia, Nuku ttleton, Wellington, and return ad. Next sailings from Auckland; Oct. 23. from all offices of Union Steam of NZ.

iey-New Hebrides-BSI-

Jougainville, Etc.

igi, 10 passengers, makes a round folk Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara ports, Bougainville ports, leaving >out once every six weeks. Next tiling Oct. 26. from Burns, Philp and Co., 7 reet, Sydney.

ay-N. Caledonia-Tahiti

of Messageries Maritimes Line, rom Marseilles, via West Indies ima, call about every six weeks e. Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea iey, and return by same route, it on this run are the motor ihitien and Caledonien and a vessel, Melanesien. Next Sydney Caledonien Sept. 27, Tahitien Melanesian Dec. 23. lynesie (Messageries Maritimes) i about monthly passenger sail peen Sydney and Noumea and Hebrides. Next Sydney sailings: 3ept. 18. from Sydney agents: Messageries !, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydney.

ay-S. Africa-UK-Pacific

Ports-Sydney

Savill’s one-class all-passenger ithern Cross makes four round voyages per year, two west hen two east-bound, calling at Papeete every trip. Next voyage ithampton is Sept. 10, via South hr Sydney, arr. Oct. 16. Dep.

Dct. 18, bound Southampton via n (Oct. 21-23), Suva (Oct. 27), (Oct. 31-Nov. 1) and Panama.

Details from agents; Shaw Savlll and Albion Co., Ltd., 8a Castlereagh Street.

Sydney; Burns Philp (SS) Co., Ltd., Suva Fiji; Etablissements Donald Tahiti’

Papeete, Tahiti.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

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

Details on application to NZ Govern ment Department of Island Territories, Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

N. America-Tahiti-Central

Pacific-NG

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorsisle and Thorshall maintain a regular service from Pacific Coast North American ports, with sailings over 35-40 days. Some ports depend on cargoes offering.

Thorsisle: Dep. San Francisco Aug. 28,

ORSOVA

ORCADES

ARCADIA

ORONSAY

IBERIA

depart Oct. 4 Oct. 27 Dec. 11 Dec. 30 Feb. 6 TO arr/dep Oct. 7 — Dec. 14 Jan. 2 Feb. 9 arr/dep Oct. 10 Dec. 17 Jan. 5 Feb. 12 LU arr/dep Oct. 15 Nov. 19 Dec. 22 Jan. 10 Feb. 17

iTER

arr/dep Oct. 20-21 Nov. 24-25 Dec. 27-28 thence Feb. 23

LNCISCO

arr/dep Oct. 23-24 Nov. 27-28 Dec. 30-31 Los Angeles Feb. 26

iELES

arr/dep Oct. 25 Nov. 29 Jan. 1 and VancouverFeb. 27 C»U arr/dep Oct. 30 Dec. 4 Jan. 6 arrive Sydney Mar. 3 arr/dep Nov. 6 Dec. 11 Jan. 13 Mar. 3* thence return jd arr/dep Nov, , 9 Dec. 14 Jan. 16 U.K. direct. arrive Nov, 12 Dec. 17 Jan. 19 Vancouver Jan. 18, thence Acapulco, Hilo, Honolulu, Los Angeles, i San Francisco, uver, Honolulu, Suva, Auckland, arrive Sydney March 3.

Los Angeles Sept. 1, Papeete Pago Pago Sept. 19, Apia Sept Sept. 26, Noumea Sept. 30, Tow 7. Pago Pago Oct. 17. Los Ange San Francisco Nov. 7.

Thorshall: Dep. New Westm 3, San Francisco Oct. 11, Los Ai 13, Papeete Oct. 25. Pago Pagr Apia Nov. 2, Suva Nov. 6. Not 10, Lae Nov. 15, Pago Pago No Angeles Dec. 9.

Details from General Steams poration Ltd., 432 California Francisco, USA, and Island Age

US-Tahiti-Pago Pago

Australia

Matson-Oceanic Line of San operates a regular five-weeks cargo service from Los Angeles Ventura. Alameda, Sierra and Southern terminal ports vary wii offering. Vessels call at Papei Pago and Suva, depending on Next Sydney sailings: Sonora (approx.i, Ventura Nov. 9 (appro mid-Dec.

American Pioneer Line has ei (Pioneer Gem, Isle. Glen, Reef, C Tide, Gulf) on Australia - Pai Atlantic Coast service with Papeete on southbound voyage, approx, every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouv

Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Si sidiary of W. R. Carpenter i operate a service three times ye the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel along the above route. Accom is entirely First Class, two-bert with calls at Suva, Lautoka and Next sailing from Sydney first v (approx, l.

Details from American Trad Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Br Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZ)-Nor

America

Cargo vessels Waihemo and owned and operated bv the Steam Ship Company of NZ, Ltd tain a monthly service across tin from Sydney to Vancouver and U! via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa a as cargoes offer. Occasional calls i at Fanning Island. They have passenger accommodation. Last sailing; Waihemo Sept. 8. Next sailing: Wa;tomo early Nov.

The Waltemata, from N 7 port 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver (w tonga and Papeete).

North America-Tahiti-I

Sydney-Fiji-Samoa-Hav

Matson Line’s Mariposa and I make round passenger trips from North Coast American ports Zealand and Australia, via Pacific ports.

Monterey: Sydney Sept. 15-18, i Sept. 22. Suva Sept. 25, Pago Pai 26, Honolulu Oct. 1-2, San Franci: 7-14, Los Angeles Oct. 15, Papei 23-25, Auckland Oct. 31, Sydney Mariposa: San Francisco Sept) Los Angeles Sept. 24, Papeete C

Oct 10, Sydney Oct. 13-16, Auck -19-20. Suva Oct. 23, Pago Pago jnolulu Oct. 29-30, San Francisco i from Matson Lines, Berger Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

dney-Tahiti-Europe

lan Sitmar Line (Panama flag) el Fairsea, a passenger liner of is. fully alr-Conditioned, will Sydney for Europe, via Auck •ete and Panama at irregular providing a new, moderately connection in the eastbound »nly with Tahiti. Also on the Line’s Castel Felice.

From Navcot Aust. Pty., Ltd., it St., Sydney.

J Kingdom-Australia-

Port Moresby

iral Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., led its regular quarterly UK service to Port Moresby, els sail from Liverpool via Suez Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, by.

Due Port Moresby Oct. 29 .gents: Blrt and Co. Pty., Ltd., t. Port Moresby agents: Burns ’ Guinea), Ltd.

■Fiji Shipping Service

ga Shipping Agency, as agents mga Copra Board, operates a onthly cargo and passenger ween Nukualofa and Suva with 500 tons gross. Turn-round in lally two days, and the Agents V. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji).

Air-Ways Time-Tables

pp. 161-165

; PACIFIC SERVICES

jstralia (or NZ)-Fiji

iwaii-N. America

and Tourist Class available all Services)

AN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS

;r 7 Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) Melbourne (2 p.m.), Sydney .m.), Nadi, Honolulu, Seattle, nnections at Honolulu for San 0 or Los Angeles. >. Seattle for Melbourne via 1 (same route). »C 4 is used on a connecting ;ween Auckland and Nadi (see

ANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS

(Boeing 707 Jets)

NORTHWARDS

Sat.; Sydney (4 p.m.), Nadi Honolulu, San Francisco, New icndon. ley (4 p.m.). Nadi, Honolulu, mcisco extending to Vancouver.

Tue.: Sydney (4 pm.), Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco.

SOUTHWARDS

Mon. and Fri.: London, New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney.

Tue.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney.

Sat.: Vancouver, San Francisco, Hono lulu. Nadi, Sydney. (Note; International Dateline crossed be tween Nadi and Honolulu).

Qantas Super-Constellation aircraft, under charter to TEAL, from Melbourne and Auckland connect at Nadi on Wednes days with Qantas northbound flights, and on Thursdays with southbound flights (see table 17).

TEAL Super DC6 aircraft from Auck land, NZ, connect with the Qantas north bound flights at Nadi on Tuesday and Saturday, and on Sunday and Wednesday at Nadi for the southbound flights.

Qantas Fri. service ex-Sydney connects with BOAC London service at San Fran cisco (dep. Sat.).

BOAC service ex-London Mon. connects at San Francisco Tue. with southbound Qantas service.

BY CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Thurs.: Sydney (dep. 3 p.m.), Auck land, Nadi, Honolulu, Vancouver (then on to Amsterdam).

Every Sat.: Dep. Amsterdam at 11 p.m. for Vancouver (dep. 1.30 p.m. Sun.), Honolulu, Nadi, Auckland and Sydney. (Note Crosses International Dateline en route.)

SECTIONAL SERVICES IN

PACIFIC

2. Sydney-New Guinea

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super-Constellations)

NORTHBOUND

First Class Tues. & Sat.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae. 8.20 a.m.

First & Tourist Class Mon.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Tues.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby. 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 a.m.

First & Tourist Class Thurs.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.15 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 11.15 pm. Townsville, 2.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 3.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6a m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 a.m Wed.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 4.15 p.m.

Dep.

Pt. Moresby, 5.15 p.m. for Manila, Hong kong and Tokyo).

SOUTHBOUND

First & Tourist Fri.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*, 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. T’vllle, 2.10 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 3.10 p.m. Brisbane, 6 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 7 p.m. Sydney, 9 p.m.

First Class Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*. 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.45 p.m. Sydney, 7.45 p.m.

First and Tourist Class Tues.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*. 9.10 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.45 pm. Sydney, 7.45 p.m.

Thurs. Arr.

From Tokyo, Hong- Pt. Moresby, 8.45 a.m. kong and Manila Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 10.15 a.m. Sydney, 5 p.m. • Between Lae and Port Moresby pas sengers are carried In DC4 aircraft.

PT. MORESBY-CAIRNS-TOWNSVILLE

PT. MORESBY

Douglas DC4. Dep. Port Moresby Sun. 12.15 p.m.. arr. Cairns 3.05 p.m., dep.

Cairns 3.50 p.m., arr. Townsville 5 p.m., dep. Townsville Mon. 9.15 a.m., arr. Cairns 10.25 a.m., dep. Cairns 11.15 a.m., arr.

Port Moresby 2.05 p.m.

3. P NG Infernal Services

Operated by Qantas LAE-HOLLANDIA (Neth. New Guinea)

(DCS)

Alt Wed. (Sept. 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28. etc-).

Departs Lae 11 a.m., calls at Madang and Wewak. and arrives at Hollandla 330 p.m. Every alternate Thurs. (Sept. 17, Oct. 1, 15, etc.), dep.

Hollandia at 10 a.m.. and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.50 p.m.

PORT MORESBY-KIKORI-BAIMURU

(DH Otter) Via Yule Island, Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori; Alt. Tues., returning same day via San Francisco (arr. 5.50 S . OU "l‘ Baimuru, Kerema, Yule Is. (Sept. 22, Oct. 6. 20, etc.(.

PORT MORESBY-KIKORI (DH Otter)

Via Yule Is., Baimuru; Alt. Tues return ing same day (Sept. 15, 29. Oct. 13, 27, pfp ) Via Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, Baimuru: Alt. Thurs. (Sept. 10. 24, Oct. 8, 22, etc.), ret. via Baimuru, Kikorr Kerema the following day (Sept. 11. 25, Oct. 9, 23, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-DARU (DCS)

Via Baimuru: Alt. Thurs returning same day via Balimo (Sept. 10. 24, Oct. », Baimuru: Alt. Wed. jSept. 16. 30, Oct. 14, etc.), returning alt.

Fri. Sept. 18. Oct. 2, 16, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter)

Port Moresby, Abau, Samara! each Mon., departing Port Moresby 8 15 a.m., re turning same day.

[ ■ Port Moresby, Samarai, depart >ort Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning day (Sept. 23, Oct. 7. 21, etc.). : Port Moresby, Samarai, depart 'ort Moresby 8.15 a.m.. returning day (Sept. 19. Oct. 3. 17. etc.). : Port Moresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, ting Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., re ig same day (Sept. 12, 26, Oct.

Fete.).

1-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS

IVIENG-RABAUL SERVICE

(DCS)

ep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. a.m. Wewak. Manus, Kavieng, l. arr. 3.45 p.m. •ep Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Kavieng. (, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. ».m.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, .05 p.m. p. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng, , Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. >.m.

NTRAL HIGHLANDS (DCS)

) (7.45 a.m.) to Baiyer River, at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Kainantu.

I back at Lae dependent on stops

LOWER HIGHLANDS

(DH Otter) (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, calling of Nadzab, Gusap, Aiyura, Rin lainantu, Goroka. Arona. Arrival t Lae depends on stops made.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU

(DH Otter) p. Lae 7.30 a.m., arr. Wau 8.10 p. Wau 8.25 a.m., via Bulolo, arr. 125 a.m. ;.: Dep. Lae 8.30 a.m., arr. Wau m. it: Dep. Wau 9.25 a.m., via arr. Lae 10.25 a.m.

ORESBY-WAU-BULOLO (DCS)

n. Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.20 a m., iilolo 8.30 a.m. n.: Dep. Bulolo 850 a.m., arr. ).05 a.m., dep. Wau 9.35 a.m., :. Moresby 10.40 a.m.

<G-GOROKA-MADANG (DCS)

urs.: Dep. Madang 10 a.m., via igen and Minj, arr. Goroka 12.30 dep. Goroka 12.50 p.m., arr. g 1.25 p.m.

MADANG-LAE (DCS)

3. Madang 7 a.m., arr. Lae 8.05

IRESBY-MT. HAGEN-MADANG

(DCS)

Fri.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m., roka, Minj. arr. Mt. Hagen 11.10 dep. Mt. Hagen for Madang 1 direct or via airfields as re l 11.40 a.m.

)ANG-PT. MORESBY (DCS)

1 Fri.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m., via i, arr. Port Moresby 10.20 a.m.

tV GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN

(DCS)

n.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct i, arr. 8.15 a m. n.: Dep. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finsch -11.30 a.m., Rabaul 1.45 p.m. i.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a m.. Finsch -8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m. 1: Dep.. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finsch -11.30 a.m.. Rabaul arr. 1.45 p.m.

BAUL-BUIN-RABAUL (DCS)

s.; Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m., arr. Buka a.m., dep. Buka 10.50 a.m., arr. 1145 a.m., dep. Buin 12.15 p.m..

Juka 1.10 p.m., dep. Buka 1.40

p.m., arr. Rabaul 3 pm. (Sept. 17 Oct 1, 15, etc.).

RABAUL-HOSKINS-RABAUL (DCS)

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 10 a.m., via Jacquinot Bay, arr. Hoskins 11.05 a.m., dep. Hoskins 11.30 a.m.. arr. Rabaul 12.35 p.m. (Sept. 24. Oct. 8, etc.).

SERVICES BY MANDATED AIRLINES

(Scheduled flights with DCS Aircraft) Mon.: Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka.

Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.: Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul. Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae Thurs.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Fri.: Dep. Lae at 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul—remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka. Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7 am. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang.

Goroka, Lae.

LAE-HOLLANDIA (By NNG Airlines) De Kroonduif NV (Netherlands New Guinea Airlines) commenced a fortnightly service between Hollandia, Biak and Lae in July, with Dakota DCS aircraft. The airline is a private company operated with the assistance of the Dutch Government.

Inaugural flight from Lae, NG, took place on July 18. Next flights Aug. 13, 27, Sept. 11, 25.

4. Aust.-Netherlands N.G.

By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Super Constellation Service) A weekly service between Sydney (dep.

Fri. 3.45 p.m.) and Amsterdam with calls at Biak (NNG) and Manila (Philippines;.

DCS aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, Lae (see above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, Manokwari, Noemfoer and Ransiki; Beaver to Kokonao; and Twin Pioneer to Seroei.

DC7C aircraft dep. Biak Tues. and Sat. at 2.45 a.m. for Japan, Alaska and Amster dam.

5. N. Guinea-Solomons

By Qantas with DCS Aircraft Every Monday depart Lae 6 a.m.; Rabaul Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSD, arriving 5 p.m.

Every Tuesday depart Honiara 7 a.m.: Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae. arriving 3.45 p.m.

6. Paris-Saigon-Brisbane-

Noumea-NZ-Fiji-Papeete

By Transports Aeriens Intercontinental DC6B aircraft depart Paris every Wed. for Athens, Cairo, Karachi, Saigon. Djakarta.

Darwin. Brisbane, Noumea. thence Nadi, Bora Bora. Transfer to flying boat for flight to Papeete. Dep. Papeete on return flight (calling at Auckland) every Sat.

7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Flying Boat Services Pty. Ltd. with Sandringham Flying-boats Return flight usually each Tuesday and Saturday.

8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alt. Fri. (Sept. 25, Oct. 9, 23. etc.i.

Dep. Sydney midnight, arr. NI 6.45 a.m. Sat.; dep. NI 5.30 p.m. same day for Sydney, arr. 9.30 p.m. (Flight ex tends NI-Auckland-NI. See table 12 below).

9. Sydney-Noumea

By Qantas, with Skymasters Dep. Sydney alt. Wed. 11.45 p.m., arr.

Noumea 7 a.m. Thurs. Dep. Noumea 8.30 a.m. same day arr. Sydney 2 p.m.

Service operates from Sydney on Sept. 16, 30, Oct. 14, 28, etc., departing from NC the following day in each case.

10. New Caledonia-New

Hebrides

TAI with DCS Aircraft Mon. and Fri.: Dep. Tontouta (N. Cal.) at 7 a.m.. arr. Vila 9.15 a.m., dep.

Vila 9.45 a.m.. arr. Santo 11 a.m., dep. 12.30 p.m., arr. Vila 1.45 p.m., dep. 2.15 p.m., arr. Tontouta 4.30 p.m.

11. New Caledonia-Fiji-

Wallis Is.

TAI with DCS Aircraft Dep. Noumea 6 a.m. second Sat. each month (Aug. 8, Sept. 12, Oct. 10, etc.), arr. Wallis Is. (via Nadi, Fiji) at 3.45 p.m., dep. Wallis 7 a.m. following Mon. (Aug. 10, Sept. 14, Oct. 12, etc.), arr.

Noumea (via Nadi) 2.45 p.m. same day.

12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland

TEAL, by Qantas (Charter) Alt. Sat. (Sept. 12, 26, Oct. 10, 24, etc.).

Return flight Norfolk (dep. 8 a.m.) Auckland (arr. 11.45 a.m.. dep. 1.15 p.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4.15 p.m.). (See Table 8 above).

13. Auckland-Sydney

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Daily except Sat.: Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr. Sydney 1.15 p.m.

Tues.. Thurs., Fri., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 3 p.m., arr. Auckland 9.55 p.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10 a.m., arr.

Auckland 4.55 p.m.

14. Christchurch-Sydney

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Tues.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr.

Sydney 8.35 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 7.45 p.m., arr.

Sydnev 11.20 p.m.

Tues., Thur.; Dep. Sydney 8 a.m.. arr.

Christchurch 3.05 p.m.

15. Christchurch-Melbourne

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr.

Melbourne 9.35 p.m.

Fri.; Dep. Melbourne 10.15 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 5.50 p.m.

16. Auckland-Melboorne

Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Mon.: Dep. Auckland 8 a.m., arr. Mel bourne 1 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Melbourne 2.30 p.m., arr.

Auckland 10.15 p.m.

16A. Auckland-Brisbane

Tasman Empire Airways, with Super DC6 aircraft.

Sat.; Dep. Auckland 8.30 a.m., arr. Bris bane 12.35 p.m.

Sat.; Dep. Brisbane 2.30 p.m., arr. Auck land 9.50 p.m.

17. Melbourne-Auckland-

Nadi (Fiji)

By Tasman Empire Airways, with Super Constellation aircraft chartered from Qantas Wed.: Dep. Melbourne 7 a.m., arr. Auck land 2.45 p.m., dep. Auckland 4 p.m,, arr. Nadi 9 p.m. Return, same route following day. (Note: This service connects with Qantas Boeing 707 jet service from Sydney to

18. New Zealand-Fiji

Tasman Empire Airways, with Super DC6 aircraft and Qantas Super Constellations Tues.. Wed., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 4 p.m arr. Nadi 9 p.m Wed., Sun.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m. arr Auckland 3.30 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m., arr. Auck land 3.45 p.m Wednesday flights ex - Auckland, and Thursday flights ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas under charter to TEAL.

Pan-American Airways, with DC4.

Sun.: Dep. Auckland 5.45 p.m., arr Nadi lam.

Sat.: Dep. Nadi, 5.10 a.m., arr. Auckland 12.55 p.m.

19. Fiji-W. Samoa

Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva alt. Thurs., 9 a.m., crosses Date line, arr. Satapuala (Western Samoa) Wed. 1.55 p.m.

Dep. Satapuala Mon. at 8 a.m., crosses Dateline, arr. Suva Tues. 10.55 a.m. (Dep. Suva Sept. 17, etc., Oct. 1, 15 29 etc.; dep. Apia: Sept. 21, Oct. 5 19 Nov. 2, etc.)

20. Fiji-American Samoa*

Pan American Airways with DC4 aircraft Alt. Fri.: Dep. Nadi. 7 a.m.. arr. Tafuna 12.30 p.m. (Thurs.).

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Tafuna 1.30 p.m., arr Nadi 5.05 p.m. (Fri.). (Note: This all - tourist class service crosses International Dateline—the two way flight is actually made on the one day. i This service will be discontinued after Sept. 24, See time-table for new service 208. below.

203. American Samoa-

Honolulu*

Pan American Airways, with DC4 aircraft Alt. Fri.; Dep. Tafuna 6.30 a.m. arr.

Honolulu 7.20 p m.

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honolulu 10 p.m., arr Tafuna 7.40 a.m. (Thurs.). * Note; First northbound service Oct. 2; first southbound service Sept. 30.

21. Flji-Tahiti

Tasman Empire Airways, Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva 9 a.m. alt. Thurs., croi national Dateline, arr. Sata Samoa; 1.55 p.m. Wed.; dep. 2 a.m. Thurs., arr. Aitutaki 7.30 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 9.30 i Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m. Sei Suva Oct. 1. 15. 29, Nov. 12, .

Dep. Papeete 7.30 am. alt.

Aitutaki 11 a.m.; dep. Aitu p.m., arr. Satapuala 5 p.m.; puala 8 a.m. Mon., crosses Int Dateline, arr. Suva 10.55 a Services dep. Papeete Oct 4 1. 15, etc.

22. Fiji Internal Air

Fiji Airways. Ltd., with Heron a Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva; Two flights morning and afternoon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: One flight d Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Mate!

One flight—Mon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Savusa' flight—Mon., Thurs., Sat., Sui Suva-Ura (Taveuni)-Suva (via S One flight—Wed.

Suva-Ura-Suva: One flight—Thur Suva-Matei-Suva: One flight—Sa Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva- One Tues.

Suva - Matei - Labasa - Matei - £ Suva: One flight—Fri.

23. N. Caledonia-Loyal

Internal Service

Societe Caledonienne de Trai Aeriens (TRANSPAC), with and Rapide aircraft.

Noumea-Mare: Tues. (dep. Ni p.m., Mare 4 p.m.) and Thi Noumea 8 a.m., dep Mare 10 Noumea-Ouvea: Wed., Thurs. i (dep. Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ou a.m.).

Noumea-Lifou; Tues.. Wed., Sa Noumea 8 a.m.. dep. Lifou Thurs. (dep. Noumea 11 a.m., c 1 p.m.).

Noumea-Kounie (Isle of Pines) Sat. (dep. Noumea 10.30 a.

Kounie, noon).

Noumea-Koumac: Mon., Sat. (dep. 1 p.m., dep. Koumac 4 p.m (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., dep. K p.m.). Note: On this flight a be made at Plaine des Gaiac quired.

24. French Polynesia I

Island Service

Roseau Aerien Interinsulaire flying-boats Thrice weekly service to the Group.

Wrd.: Papeete (dep 7.30 a.m.), 1 Raiatea. Bora Bora, Raiatea, (arr. 4 p.m.).

Sat.: Papeete (dep. 7 a.m.), Bora Bora (arr. 8.45 p.m.), (arr 11.30 a.m.), Papeete (d p.m.). Bora Bora (arr. 4.45 p Fri.: Bora Bora (dep. 7.30 a.m.), Papeete (arr. 9.30 a.m.).

Booking agents in Tahiti: Me; Maritimes, Quai Bir Hakeim. Pap

25. Hawaii-American S*

Trans Ocean Airways Every second Wednesday, a Stratocruiser operated by Transi

of Honolulu, Hawaii, makes a ght from Honolulu to Pago Pago a Samoa).

26. Micronesia

Trans Ocean Airways Grumman Albatross twin-motored js flying-boats, TOA operates a iroughout the Trust Territory of a on behalf of the US Govern stails from Trans Ocean Airways uam.

Cific Air Fares

p. 165

(APPROXIMATE ONLY)

To obtain the equivalent tralian currency in other es (Sterling. Fiji, New Zea rench Pacific francs). See is Rates page 167 this issue.

ITDNET (Aust

currency) TO— Single Return Table £ s. d . £ s. d.

No. . . . 51 5 0 92 5 0 2 . , . 62 15 0 112 19 0 2 ... 72 9 0 130 9 0 2. 3 . , . 42 4 0* ' 76 0 0* 6, 9 . . . 94 5 0 169 13 0 2, 5 5 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 e . . 14 15 0 29 10 0 7 . . . 85 9 0 153 17 0 1 . . . 92 0 0 166 19 0 1, *7 ... 52 10 0 94 10 0 13 rch . 52 10 0 94 10 0 14 . . .282 12 0 508 14 0 1 ncisco 350 9 0 630 17 0 1 • . . 350 9 0 630 17 0 1 . . .118 14 0 214 14 0 1, 17 . , 178 2 0 320 12 0 1, 21 . . .155 12 0 281 2 0 1. 21 . . . 103 15 0 186 15 0 4

UCKLAND (NZ

currency) TO— . . . 62 0 0 111 12 0 18. 19 . . 93 10 0 168 6 0 18. 21 ... 39 7 0 70 17 0 18 s . . 19 IS 0 35 11 0 12 . . 114 10 0 206 2 0 18, 21 : SUVA (Fiji currency) TO ... 25 0 0 45 0 0 19. 21 . . . 57 15 0 103 19 0 17. 21 . . . 4 0 0 8 0 0 22 . . 82 14 0 148 18 0 17. 21 luoted are First-Class.

Cheaper Hass fares (approx. 20 per cent. e available to most ports.

Fares east of Nadi include air con- ) Suva by Fiji Airways.

Ltd. t class service only.

Pacific Commerce and Produte

pp. 167-168

New Issues Steamships Co. Ltd

has been a general tidying of balance-sheets among a and New Guinea com nce the Australian system y incomes was introduced mong other things, this has i rapid distribution of ited profits as on June 30 eep out of the tax-collector’s lareholders of Steamships Co. Ltd. are thus to benefit.

Jance-sheet as on June 30 ;r providing 12 2 per cent, showed £229,776 still in the d Loss Account; so a gen sting has been called for ;r 30, to deal with a • recommendation that of this be capitalised, by > all shareholders a bonus one for every four shares ter that, the shareholders lowed to buy another 188,250 i at par. The issued capital be increased by £376,500.

I students of the share saw it coming. “Steamies” irhich were around 45/- at of 1958, were about 60/- in 1 at 65/- in August, ng the balancing period to the Company gave an 11 period for its most recent ; and in that period it made of £lBl,lB6—twice as much required for the usual 10 . on 50,000 £1 Preferences per cent, on 741,000 £1 es. ships Trading Co. Ltd., ed in Port Moresby by Cap- S. Fitch between the wars, vn into a big trading and organisation by 1940 — ig, but under-capitalised, ap invasion was a blessing Ise—it partly destroyed the ipire, but it created the War Compensation Fund. So ; War, a large proportion of ;s” assets were turned into ,mage Compensation cash; 1 now well-capitalised Co. ■ward vigorously into a new ger life. In the post-war ■ade and the rubber planta ive returned rich profits.

September 30, if the share agree to the bonus and the es—and who can see them sTo! —the issued capital will 7,500, and there is a general Df £1 million. the bonus announcement,

the market thought the shares were worth 70/ and the market is rarely wrong, in these things.

In other words, the effect of the arrival of taxation was to scare at least £750,000 from hoarded reserves into the shareholders’ hands, for which the shareholders are to pay no more than £188,250.

Good old Hasluck!

What is a Private Co.

In New Guinea?

In the new taxation laws of Papua and New Guinea there are special provisions —with teeth and claws in them—for the taxation of “private companies”.

Readers have been asking, “What are private companies?” One person asked Port Moresby how he could be certain that a company which he had had registered some three years ago would be classed as “private”. The Registrar of Companies replied, “The Companies Ordinance . . . makes no provision for registration of private companies as such,” and left it grumpily at that.

It appears, however, that the whole thing is taken care of by Sections 129-137 of the new Taxation Ordinance. A com pany can be regarded as a private com pany if it has less than 20 members, or if one or two members, through their shareholdings, have complete control over the company; or if its transactions are small and modest, and its shares are not quoted on the stock exchanges.

In other words, the classification (whether public or private) is really left to the high panjandrums of the Taxation Office.

The Territory’s new tax system follows the Australian system; and one of the latter’s most vicious features is the de termination of the tax-gatherer that small companies shall not be allowed to save up part of their profits for use as capital.

Public companies may retain a large pro portion of their profits, as reserves: but if private companies retain more than a small proportion, an additional tax (“un distributed profits tax” of 10/- in the £) is imposed.

New Guinea’s development was partly financed by people like the Leahy brothers, who ploughed back into plantations and farms the profits they made out of mining and trading.

Apparently, the Hasluck-Reeve school of thought regards this as an improper thing.

The individual now is to be taxed on his whole income, whether he ploughs it back or not; and the small company (if arbitrarily classified by the taxation moguls as “private”) which does not dis tribute its profits to its shareholders (where they can be taxed a second time as part of the shareholder’s income) must pay an additional 10/- in the £ as “un distributed profits tax”.

Profits of Papuan

Rubber Companies

In the year ended June 30, Mariboi Rubber, Ltd., a subsidiary of Steamships Trading Co., Ltd., of Papua, made a profit of £28.825, which allowed a final dividend of 7V2 per cent, (making 12Vi per cent.) and a transfer of £lO,OOO to reserves, which now total £BO,OOO.

This plantation suffered a drought in 1958-59, which reduced production sub

stantially (bringing dividend down from 15 per cent.) but since then both produc tion rate and world prices of rubber have increased considerably.

This company—which enjoys a protected market in Australia—has gained more from abolition of export tax than it ex pects to lose from income taxation.

Kerema Rubber, Ltd., made a net profit for the year ended June 30 of £10,389 (slightly up on previous year) and is continuing its dividend at the rate of 10 per cent., although the issued capital last year was doubled by a bonus issue.

Owing to drought, the net profit of Rubberlands, Ltd., for the half-year to June 30 was down slightly, at £6,536; so interim dividend was cut from ey 4 to 5 per cent. This company paid 10 per cent, for 1958.

NG Gold Mine Returns

Enterprise of New Guinea’s mine treated 90 tons of ore for 75 oz bullion in the four weeks ended August 21.

During June and July, approximately 62 oz of gold was taken from 10,000 cubic yards of material treated by Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing, Ltd., in New Guinea.

Tobacco Enterprise in

New Guinea

An issue of 131,095 ordinary 5/- shares in New Guinea’s pioneer company. Pacific Tobacco and Development Co., Ltd., of Madang, has been underwritten by Sydney stockbrokers L. A. McFadyen and Co.

The company Is making twist tobacco, from locally-grown and from imported leaf, for the New Guinea market; and the new capital is to be used to increase pro duction from 210 lb to an estimated 665 lb per day.

Directors are Messrs. J. A. Corrigan (chairman), G. E. Bliss, A. L. Hope J H. A. Treacy, and N. F. Vincent.

Fiji Gold Increases—

But Less Manganese

The value of gold produced in Fiji for the year up to June 30 last, almost wholly from the Tavua field, was £1,193,419 Stg compared with £1,017,808 in the previous year.

But the value of manganese produced fell from £470,207 Stg. in 1957-58. to £262,892 in 1958-59. This was because early in last year, the world value of manganese fell from £lB to £l2 per ton for ore containing at least 50 per cent, of metal; and this, plus buyers’ stricter specifications, put many “marginal” mines in Fiji out of operation.

New Ore Body In

New Guinea

A large body of potentially valuable ore was discovered on the New Guinea pro

perty of Australian Gold Development, Ltd., and a testing of the ore body, through a drilling, underground develop ment and sampling programme, is being carried out by King Island Scheelite (1947), Ltd. Should a public company be formed to exploit the ore body, AGD will be en titled to a 75 per cent, interest, and Shee lite to 25 per cent.

To Examine Low-Grade

Nickel Ore

A company is being formed in Noumea with a capital of 30 million francs (£150,000 Aust.) and comprising the government of New Caledonia, the Nickel Co. and the Mining Bureau of France.

The company is to study and experi ment with methods of treating low-grade nickel deposits, of which there is an im mense supply in New Caledonia.

The extent of the New Caledonia govern ment s participation in the company will be 10 millions (£50,000). In the Terri torial Assembly only the . Lenormand (majority) party voted for the project The opposition in New Caledonia’s Assembly is implacably opposed to Lenor mand projects, whether good or bad.

New Guinea's Bali Ltd.

Absorbs Londolovit

Bali Plantations. Ltd.—formed in Rabaul a few months ago. with a capital of £200,000 in 10/- shares, to take over Mr.

H. T. Coldham’s well-known plantation in the Witu Islands—has now absorbed Lon dolovit Plantation, 721 acres, on Lihir Island, 30 miles off the northeast tip of New Ireland.

Londolovit has been owned by Lon dolovit Estates, Ltd.; and the purchase was made by exchanging two £ 1 Lon dolovit shares for seven 10/- Bali shares.

To take care of the transaction, Bali issued 98,000 new 10/- shares to Londolovit shareholders, who thus put on their property a nominal value of £28,000.

But it is better than that. When the sale was made, Bali’s 10/- shares were be ing quoted on the Sydney Stock Exchange at around 16/-.

Whether the market will stay at 16/- (making the 98.000 shares received by Londolovit worth £78,000) remains to be seen.

Reporting the transaction to Bali share holders, chairman J. Dunbar-Read said; “On Londolovit plantation are about 32,000 mature coconut palrps and 6,000 new plantings. The mature palms have averaged 380 tons of copra a year over the past three years. The cost of produc ing copra is under £35 a ton, the actual cost over the past three years ranging from £3O/18/- to £34/19/6.

“There are 2,000 cocoa trees in bearing on the plantation. The ground has been prepared and the holes are ready for a further 25,000 cocoa trees, and it is hoped to plant them by the end of the year.

This planting must be looked upon as experimental, but it is considered to offer good prospects as similar land has been successfully planted in the district.

“On a production of 380 tons of copra a year and a return of £72/10/- a ton, the estimated profit of Londolovit after income tax is about £ll,OOO, which is 22 per cent, on your company’s investment.”

Oil Drilling in Papua—

Negative Report

Australasian Petroleum Co. Pty., Ltd., on September 8 reported on its explora tion operations in Papua as follows:

PURI

Puri IB has been deepened by 614 feet

to 8,520 feet, in unproductive: and drilling has ceased.

A test of an upper format!

No. 1 is being undertaken ovei interval. 1,980 feet to 1996 fe: perforations in the casing, befo is finally completed.

BWATA

The hole has been deepene feet, and 18 and five/eighths has been cemented at 248 feet.

DENSE LIMESTONE FORA

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July 9, ’58 Aug. 5 Emperor . b5/» s8/- Loloma . . — b39/-

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Islands Produce

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(Unless otherwise stated, qnots In Australian currency. Aust. approximately 16/- Stg., NZ Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, S< WPHC areas; 168 Pac. Frs.; SUS

COPRA

The British Ministry of Foo Contract, which governed Cop in Papua and New Guinea, Fiji Samoa, Solomon Islands, and G!

Ellice Colony (and, to some e Tonga and Cook Islands) expire cember 31. 1957; since when ea tory has made Its own arrange) collection and marketing of coj

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII p

Is delivered to Copra Marketln controlled by six members, includ planters’ representatives; and tl directs distribution and sales, ai payments to the producers. P goes mainly to (a) Unilever (m tract covering 1959), (b) Austr local consumption) and (c) crus In Rabaul. Prices generally arr accordance with ruling rate In PJ

rtth premiums for hot-air dried.

July 1, 1959. P-NG Copra jounced “Tentative Prices , for rered main ports: Hot-Air Dried. per ton; FMS, £A7I per ton; ed, £ A7O per ton. fo Government control—producers they wish. Bulk of copra goes ng-mlll in Suva, whose price Suva, is announced each week. 1,, prices were: HAD, £F69/7/6;

8/2/6; FM2, £ F66/15/-.

ER N SAMOA;—Official Copra elves all production, and sells makes payments to producers, jportion goes to Unilever, at i FM grade rates, plus pre ) to £Stg.3 per ton for hot- Prices announced in March, .air dried, £367/13/8 per ton; No. 1. £S6S/3/8; sun-dried 361/13/8. Prices were reviewed and Board decided to maintain rate for another month, when vill again be reviewed. —Sales are under Government irt of production goes to Europe, •angement with Unilever con- Phllipplnes prices, and part n market. )NS:— All production marketed ifflcial Copra Board, at prices Philippines market. Price de- September, unchanged from at: Ist grade, £A74; 2nd il2 ; 3rd grade, £A6B, per ton, P ports.

T AND ELLlCE:—Production In Europe through official Copra t prices based on Philippines l “stabilisation fund” charges, iA:—Producers receive 4 cents lb. )r £A4O approx, per long ton), mus, If average proceeds exceed [ng price and expenses, EBRIDES:— Price hardened to- I of August, and in early Sep is approximately £ASO per ton, iTila/Santo. On August 26, price 00 Metrop. francs per metric Marseilles. :S./NIUE/TOKELAU: Subject to ions of the copra contract be ie Cook Islands-Niue-Tokelaus and Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, ite the only New Zealand copra mill, the price for the second 59 has been fixed at £NZBS/8/9 Grade, and £NZB4/3/9 for Grade, per ton, in sacks, f.o.b. /Niue/Apia. v price represents the average ?rice for the first half of 1959. s method of price fixing, these 1 do not receive the benefit of mtial price rise until six months ch explains the substantial rise uncture while world prices are The previous prices were 6 and £NZ69/0/6 respectively. he contract, if the average PM Philippines copra, as fixed twice 1 the Spot Price Fixing Com the London Copra Association per cent, either way, the Seller vent of an increase, and the the event of a decrease, has the isk for a new contract figure.

OTHER PRODUCE

: —lslands prices are based on the Ghana cocoa which, on Sept. 9, 1-276 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

W. SAMOA:—Nominal price quoted in Sydney on Sept. 9, £S27O, f.0.b., Apia.

P.-N.G.: sept. 9, £A32O, ex-wharf, oyancy.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G. September 9, good quality A grade, per lb, 4/4 to 4/6; B grade, 4/2 to 4/5; C grade, 4/- to 4/3, c.i.f., Sydney. . . , . , In August price quoted for Tanganyika A grade was £Stg.3Bo; B grade £Stg.37s; Undergradings, £Stg.27s, all per ton and c.i.f., Sydney. Uganda Robusta is offering at around £Stg.2l9 c.i.f.

Svdnev y y ' PEANUTS: P-NG, Sept. 9. kernels: White Spanish. 1/7 lb; Virginia Bunch, 1/8. Kingaroy Peanuts Board recently dropped price of kernels by 2d per lb.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which Sept. 8 was: No. 1 RSS, spot, 112 Vi Straits cents per lb. (39.14 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported Sept. 9, steep rise in new season’s Tahiti beans. White and yellow label, processed, standard packs, 90/-; green label, 88/-, c.i.f., Sydney. (Last quote, old season, 75/- and 73/-). , ? IC ® (Australian): Price from May 1, 9^ P V NG : c D / y br °^ n and 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £6l/10/per ton f.o.w: under 5 tons £62 per ton. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £6B per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons. £6B/10/- per ton.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O per ton f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

Fijl.-Locally-grown rice has been retailmg in Suva at lid Fijian per lb, with Saigon imported rice at lOd Fijian per lb. Suva people regard the imported rice as inferior to the Fiji product.

PEARL SHELL.—Quotations in Sept, by independent MOP. shell agents were” |oun d D o f / 575 ' E „ £25 «. EE £AI7S (in store Sydney). (Prices were very firm Qn above ra t es ). Penryhn £Stg.4oo (nominal). f.0.b., Rarotonga, Manihiki lagoon will remain closed this year. Unless the reported plan to trans fer Manihiki divers to Suwarrow atoll to dive for black-lip M.O.P. eventuates, only limited quantities of pearl shell will be 0 n offer from the Cook Is. this year.

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TROCHUS —Price fell during August when the f e littla demand. Nominal pnce Clf - Sydney Sept. £A26O-£A27O.

In Fiji recently, trochus was being bought at from 16 to 2/6 Fijian per lb, depending on quality (equal to £FI6B to £F2BO per ton, in store, Suva), GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Because of a demand from Japan, price has risen to £365 ner ton and is very firm. P.-N.G. and 8.5.1. shell is in short supply. One Sydney agent, 1.C.E.P., 299 Kent St., says h f could probably place a small quantity of second and third grade, . , j nc n 4 London and US QUOtdtlOnS Copra: London, Sept. 9, Philippines, in bulk, $229 per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth. Euro n t gtraits/Borneo, FMS, delivered weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European port, £ Stg ,B3. New York. Sept. 9, Philippines, $225 g C-i-f . Pacific coast port . (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.25 US Dollars.) Coconut Oil: London, Sept. 9, Ceylon, in bulk £st g.i3B per ton. c.i.f., UK/North Europ ean port. Straits crude, £Stg.l32 c i f Rubber: London, c.i.f , Sept. 8, RSS No. 1,33 d Stg. per lb; market weakening.

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For Jarrah, Cedar, Stained Floors & Woodwork Piccaninny Polishes are manufactured by

PICCANINNY MANUFACTURING CO.

254 Pittwater Road, Manly, N.S.W., Australia

Enjoy!

a

COLUMBINES

the glucose rich caramel that gives quick energy

SOLE PACIFIC AGENTS

S. E. TATHAM & CO. PTY. LTD. 414 Collins St., Melbourne Z 614

ECONO

ALUMINIUM

BUILDINGS

• precision cut for simple, speedy erection • structural members eliminated • standardised sections give added economy • lightweight—easier and cheaper to trans|

CUT

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COSTS

• ECONO—Frameless Aluminium ► Store ECONO—Frameless Aluminium 5-room Cottage l I ■ Kingstrand Frameless Aluminium Buildings by ECONO are designed for erection on any level foundation, quickly and easily, by unskilled labour —a spanner and screwdriver are tbe only tools required.

Specially formed aluminium sheet walls are load-bearing, thereby eliminating all columns, studs and framework. C structed entirely of standard sections parts that do not require painting ni€ reduced material, erection and m tenance costs. And transportation c are considerably less—a typical 750 sq unit packs into a single crate weigl less than 2,000 lbs. gross, measuring c 39 cu. ft. Termite proof, corrosion r« tant, ECONO Frameless Alumin Buildings are ideal for houses, stc hospitals, garages, etc. Write for details and prices.

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Division of Tulloch Limited > AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURERS OF KINGSTRAND FRAMELESS BUILDINGS o Concord Rood, Rhodes, N.S.W.—UF 123 i • 140 Robinson Rood, Geebung, Q'ld. —LX C DOWSETT ENGINEERING (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LIMITED, 12 Crescent St., Hunter's Hill.

D's*nHu+o r s for Australasia, Papua, New Guinea & South Pacific Islands.

'nited in AUSTRALIA,

V ZEALAND and the

mg PACIFIC ISLANDS:

m Territories: Papua. Norfolk Island. Cocos Island, rust Territories: New Guinea.

Nauru.

Crown Colonies: Fiji. Gilbert and Ellice.

Protectorate: Solomon Islands, ih Protected State: Tonga, ritories: Cook Islands. Niue, st Territory: Western Samoa.

Territories: New Caledonia.

French Polynesia. • French Condominium; New Hebrides, itories: Eastern Samoa. Hawaii. (Territory: Micronesia (Caroline, Marshall and Mariana).

Territory: West New Guinea.

Publisher:

R. W. ROBSON.

Editors:

TUDOR STUART INDER

Manager:

SELWYN HUGHES.

YES: General Business, Editorial, vertising. Subscriptions:

197-8, MA7IOI, MA 4369,

MAI 395.

.0. BOX 3408, SYDNEY.

red Address for Telegrams, ams, and Cables; "Pacpub", Sydney.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

h Pacific Islands, Australia, annual jtion (includes surai I postage) .. £1 4 0 h Pacific Islands, subscription (insurface mail ) £l7 0 (280 Pac. frs.) , per annum, $5 • (Sterling) .. .. £1 10 0 opies 2 6

ANCH OFFICE, PAPUA-

NEW GUINEA

üblications (New Guinea) Ltd., luilding. Fourth St., LAE, New uinea. Tel.: Lae 2577.

Pat Robertson, Manager.

ANCH OFFICE IN FIJI:

s Building, Gordon St., Suva.

Tel.: 4043.

PRESENTATIVE IN N.Z.:

Whitcombe, P.O. Box 5179, jckland. Tel.; 42.384.

’RESENTATIVE IN U.K.:

allis, 13 Rood Lane, London, Tel.: Mincing Lane 8633.

NE OFFICE: Newspaper House, ins St., Melbourne, Victoria.

Tel.: 63.7053.

All main trading firms and s in the Pacific Islands.

IMES AGENCY IN AUSTRALIA

aciflc Publications Pty. Ltd., ! « House, 29 Alberta St., (Telephone MA 9197-8), is the m Agent for THE FIJI 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 Goulburn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

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Supalusta

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Please send me a free copy of the Supalusta colour card and technical leaflet.

ADDRESS

Here's definite, factual, positive proof SUPALUSTA'S outstanding durability.

,!= i THE MANLY

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Mb This building at Man r N.S.W., is exposed to spray and burning sun. Only two feet abc high-water mark. Painted 1953 with Supalus Repainted 1958 with one coat of Supalusta.

Here are SUPALUSTA'S features that crec outstanding performance. 1. Supalusta has an amazingly long, relief lustre life. 2. Supalusta is easiest brushing of all enam ised finishes. 3. Tough, flexible Supalusta prevents peelin cracking or the need for burning off wfr repainting. 4. Highly resistant to sun and salt spray, mou and fungus, Supalusta stands up to tropi climatic conditions.

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Morris Hedstrom Ltd

(Artist's impression of Mbrris Hedstrom's modern new store under construe Thomson Street, Suva.)

General Merchants, Produce Buyers, Importers and

Exporters, Ship Owners, Plantation Owners, Commission

and Insurance Agents.

HEAD OFFICE :: SUVA, FIJI

AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVE:

Morris Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Limited, Wales House, 27 O'Connell Street,

SYDNEY

REGISTERED CABLE ADDRESS:

Deuba—Suva, Morrished —Levuka, Morstrom —Sydney, Suvamark—London,

CODES: All.

LONDON OFFICE:

Morris Hedstrom Limited,

Barclay's Bank Buildings,

73 Cheapside,

LONDON, E.C.2.

Morrisco —Nukualofa, Deuba—Apia-.

SOLE AGENTS FOR:

Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

Matson Navigation Company Max Factor & Co., Inc.

Pacific Islands Transport Line Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd.

Rootes Ltd.

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd.

Yorkshire Imperial Metals Morris Hedstrom Limited are LLOYD’S AGENTS in Fiji and Samoa For Friendly Service and Complete Satisfaction it’s Morris Hedstrom Limited in

mi - SAMOA - TONGA

A. B. Bahco Primus Products British Drug Houses Ltd.

China Navigation Co. ‘Chula’ Copra Dryers Electrolux Limited Ford Motor Co.

General Electric Co., Ltd.

Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co.

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Wh He Rose

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SNOWSTREAM STARCH REDUCED FLOUf

WHEATMEALS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

SHARPS OF HIGHEST QUALITY

STOCK AND POULTRY FOODS

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THE

P IF WHITE ROSE FLOUR MILLING CO. PTY. LTD.

ULTIMO. SYDNEY. N.S.W., 8A4027.

CABLES: "WHITEROSE", SYDNEY

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(Continued from page 27)

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Sea Belle

C. SULLIVAN (New Guinea) LTD.

Augusta House, Rabaul Cables: "CHASULL". P.O. Box 214. Phone: 2275

Agents for:

Timex Watches Sea Belle Mackerel Pike and Canned Sea Foods.

Alex Grahame Rotary Motor Mowers.

Crosley Refrigerators, Freezers, Air-conditioning Units, Bendix Washing Machines.

Blaupunkt Radios and Radiograms.

Golden Band Cigarettes.

Celnik and Power Cutlery.

Crown Bee Sewing Cottons.

Star, Planet, Galaxy, Wattle and Score Records.

Spica Transistor Radios.

IMPORTERS: See us regarding your supplies from Australia and Overseas. Associate offices in Australia, Hong Kong, London, San Fiancisco.

SEA BELLE

HWMMI

(c^uciliL m rHowest Pri SALMON TUNA CRABMEAT OYSTERS CLAMS SQUIDS OCTOPUS SUKIYAKI, et

riMEX

-DL WoJL most popular lAJatcli

ihockproof Dustproof Waterproof

In the United States of America TIMEX watch sales are easily first, while in England in 1957 more TIMEX watches were sold than all other makes combined. s? 0 vt ade in a wide range of styles from Boyproofs to mens 7 self winding models, also glamorous new models for the modern miss—beautifully styled and splendid nekeepers—all with unbreakable mainsprings.

Agents: — . SULLIVAN (Export) PTY. LTD. 66 mr si, sidnei

ENQUIRIES FROM DISTRIBUTORS INVITED

'xporters Catering to South Pacific Areas with Branch Offices

in Fiji and New Guinea

. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD.

66 Pitt Street, Sydney • Corner of O’Connell and Pitt Streets) Felephone: BL 5071 (6 lines). Telegrams & Cables: CHASULL, Sydney.

C. SULLIVAN (Queensland) PTY. LTD. 318 Adelaide Street, Brisbane Telephone: B 4958. Telegrams & Cables: CHASULL, Brisbane.

C. SULLIVAN (N.Z.) LTD.

20-22 Swanson Street, Auckland Telephone: 43-307. Telegrams & Cables: CHASULL, Auckland.

BUYERS OF ISLANDS PRODUCE

30 th anniversary

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7 Sole Agents:

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447, Alexandra House, Hong Kong, P. O. Box 923 S. 31J A t

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Blits Trading Co

PTY. LTD.

Caltex House", 167-187 Kent Street, Sydney, Australia Branches at Melbourne, Perth, Tokyo, Toronto, New York and Agents at main European Centres ■ A; :: v

ISLAND BUYERS and DIRECT EXPORTERS

of all types of . . .

• MOTHER OF PEARL

• TROCAS

* GREENSNAIL

Please address all enquiries to

BLITS TRADING CO. PTY. LTD.

"Shell Department", Box 226, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia Telegrams and Cables: “Blitstrading”, Sydney Telephone: BU 5251-2-3

Introducing

CORRASCOPE FILMS

in Beautiful Colour!

50 ft. (Bmm.) £Stg. 2.5 100 ft. (16mm.) £Stg. 5.15

60 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS

Japan Hong Kong Macao Formosa Bali Bangkok Angkor Malaya Singapore India Suez Riviera Paris Rome Venice Spain Coronation England Switzerland, etc.

Catalogues Upon Request

FILMO DEPOT

313 Marina House, Hong Kong

QUEENSLAND

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated 1886 in Australia)

Assets Exceed £12,500,000

Head Office:

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE

BUILDING. 80-82 PITT STREET,

SYDNEY.

Specialists in South Sea__Fire,

Marine & Accident Insurance

Apply to:— FIJI. —Branch Office: J. F. Drury, Manager.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

NOUMEA.—W. Johnston.

VlLA.—Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

SANTO.—Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

NEW GUINEA.— Manager for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, R. D. Kennedy.

PORT MORESBY—SAMARAI— LAE

—MADANG —KAVIENG —RABAUL.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Resident Officer at Rabaul: K. Johnson.

Resident Officer at Lae: D. J. Granter.

PAGO PAGO.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd- G. H. C. Reid & Co.

OTHER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd A'so to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z.

RECONDITIONED

ELECTRICAL PL*

AND MACHINE

All prices listed inclusive of packing and delivering F.O.W. Sydney.

Each item listed reconditioned, run and tested.

Terms: Cash against documents.

ALTERNATORS

70 kVA Eng. Electric, 440/245V., 333 RPM £295 65 kVA A.G.E., 415/240V., 1,000 RPM, with Board .. £235 50 kVA Century, 415/240V., 1,000 RPM, with Board .. £195 33 kVA ASEA, 415/240V., 1,500 RPM, with Board .. £175 33 kVA Mawdesley, 415/240V., 1,500 RPM, with Board £175 30 kVA Ideal Electric, 240V. 1 phase, 1,500 RPM, with Board £165 25 kVA South. Cross, 415/240V., 1,500 RPM, with Board £150 25 kVA H. & G., 240V. 1 phase, 1,500 RPM £145 25 kVA Stand. Waygood, 415/240V., 1,500 RPM .. .. £135 25 kVA E.C.C., 415/240V., 1,500 RPM £95 25 kVA A.G.E., 415/240V., 1,500 RPM £125 21 kVA H. J. Scott, 415/240V., New, 1,500 RPM .. .. £185 20 kVA Mawdesley, 415/240V., 1,000 RPM, with Board £135 20 kVA Harland, 415/240V., 1,500 RPM, with Board .. £125 20 kVA H. & G., 415/240V., 1,500 RPM £95 15 kVA Braybon, 415/240V., 1,500 RPM, with Board .. £95 10 kVA Alpha Harris, 240V. 1 phase, 1,500 RPM .. £125 10 kVA E.C.C., 415/240V., 1,000 RPM £95 6 l 2 kVA Crompton, 415/240V., 1,500 RPM £65 5 kVA Stand. Waygood, 415/240V., 1,500 RPM .. .. £65 5 kVA H. & G., 415/240V., 1,500 RPM £65 5 kVA Braybon, 415/240V., New, 1,500 RPM .. . . £135 5 kVA B.G.E., 240V., 1,500 RPM, with Board .. £95 4 kVA Braybon, 240V., 1,500 RPM £85 2 kVA M. & E., 240V., 1,500 RPM £65 U kVA Braybon, 240V., 1,500 RPM £75

WELDING GENERATORS

200 Amp. Braybon, 2,800 RPM, Ball Bearing £85 200 Amp. Braybon, 1,250 RPM, Sleeve Bearing £80 250 Amp. N. Electric, New, 1,600 RPM, Ball Bearing .. £100

ENGINE DRIVEN SETS

10 kVA Braybon/Siddeley, 415V., 1,500 RPM, Diesel Set £425 2 kW Crompton/Coventry, 240V. D.C., Petrol Set . . . . £125 1,500 Watt Homelite, 30V. 50A. D.C., 2 stroke Petrol Set £65 7 H.P. Armstrong Siddeley Air Cooled Diesel Set . , £145

415 VOLT A.C. MOTOR!

175 H.P. Eng. Electric, 415V., S/C, B/B, With Starter,

1,475 RPM

80 H.P. Siemens, 415V., S/R, B/B, 960 RPM 80 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/R, B/B, 960 RPM . .. 70 H.P. B.T.H., 415V., S/R, B/B, 720 RPM 75 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/R, B/B, 480 RPM 60 H.P. B.T.H., 415V., S/C, B/B, 725 RPM 60 H.P. B.T.H., 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,420 RPM 50 H.P. Parkinson 415V., S/R, B/B, 970 RPM .. .. 50 H.P. Crompton, 415V., S/R, S/B, 720 RPM .. .. 50 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/R, B/B, 720 RPM .. 50 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/R, S/B, 715 RPM 40 H.P. Westingbouse, 415V., S/R, B/B, 960 RPM .. 35 H.P. B.T.H., 415V., S/C, S/B, 720 RPM 30 H.P. B.T.H., 415V., S/C, B/B, 720 RPM 30 H.P. B.T.H., 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,440 RPM . . .. 25 H.P. A.G.B., 415V., S/C, B/B, 750 RPM 25 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 750 RPM 25 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,450 RPM .. 20 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 720 RPM 20 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 720 RPM 20 H.P. Westinghouse, 415V., S/R, B/B, 960 RPM .. 20 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 720 RPM 20 H.P. C. Parkinson 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,440 RPM .. 20 H.P. C. Parkinson 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,440 RPM .. 20 H.P. C. Parkinson 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,440 RPM .. 20 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/R, S/B, 720 RPM 20 H.P. E.C.C., 415V., S/R, S/B, 720 RPM 20 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/R, S/B, 720 RPM 20 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 960 RPM . .. 1 7\ H.P. B.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,450 RPM . . .. 15 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,450 RPM .. 15 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,450 RPM . . .. 15 KRN C. Parkinson, 415V., S/R, B/B, 705 RPM .. 15 £hr. Parkinson, 415V., S/R, B/B, T/E, 950 RPM .. 15 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 960 RPM . .. 15 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 730 RPM 12i H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 960 RPM 12 H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, S/B, 1,430 RPM 10 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,460 RPM .. 7 l 2 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,450 RPM .. 5 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,450 RPM .. 5 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 2,950 RPM .. 3 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B/, 960 RPM . .. 3 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,400 RPM . 2\ H.P. A.G.E., 415V., S/C, B/B, 960 RPM 2 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,440 RPM .. 1 H.P. C. Parkinson, 415V., S/C, B/B, 1,440 RPM ..

BRAYBON BROS.

Telegrams: Braybonian, Sydney.

27-33 Washington St.

PTY.

Sydney

LTD.

Phom MA 6853 (4

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Dak Brand

DANISH CANNED MEATS

BY APPOINTMENT TO THE ROYAL DANISH COURT

COOKED BONELESS HAMS

LUNCHEON MEAT

CHOPPED HAM

CHOPPED PORK

CHOPPED HAM & TONGUE

COCKTAIL SAUSAGES

VIENNA SAUSAGES

FRANKFORT SAUSAGES

READY MADE DISHES

and SHOULDERS

PORK IN JUICE

SLICED HAM

DEVILED HAM

PATE DE FOIE

SLICED BACON

LUNCH TONGUES

SMOKED SLAB BACON

SMOKED HAMS

...and many other SPECIALITIES

SUPERIOR QUALITY IN ATTRACTIVE PACKINGS

APPROACH US DIRECT OR THROUGH OUR

REPRESENTATIVES IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

DEMKA PTY. LIMITED

2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney, Australia

UllK

Manufacturers:

DAK MEAT PACKERS LTD. Roskllde Oenmai

Telegrams: DAK Roskilde - Telex: 5949 - Telephone: Roskllde 25i

OT)

NEW

price £9B/10/ New Features Shielded ignition lead, shielded spark plug, shielded stop switch —Lotone muffler. Variable output, open type switch panel, improved cylinder head giving greater heat dissipation, etc.

Spare parts for Amplion and Briggs & Stratton machines available.

PETROL BLECTR/C

GENERATOR

• MODEL 500 12 volts 400 W. D.C • MODEL 600 32 volts 400 W. D.C Press button start generators providing pow( for . . . Homes, Farms, Weekenders, Camp Caravans, Yachts, Battery-charging, or Emei gency Lighting anywhere any time.

Will operate many electrical accessories, vh Fans, Elec.-shavers, Vacuum Cleaners, Powt Drills, etc. Light, compact, sturdy can b carried by one man.

WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET

Manufactured in Australia by

AMPLIONusuiPTY. ltd

Camperdown, Sydney. N.S.W.

J

Jr<i

Start saving

now

for Christmas

V Open a Christmas savings account now at the “Wales” and add to it regularly each week. It’s the easy way to save and the earlier you start the better.

Any branch will be pleased to arrange for you to open a separate Christmas savings account.

BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

SAVINGS BANK

limited (incorporated in new south wales)

Agents for Fiji, Tonga, New Hebrides, Gilbert & Ellice Islands and Western Samoa: CORRIE & COMPANY, P.O. Box 45, Suva, Fiji.

PARKE-DAVIS

A

f^vpkm

TABLETS •

siesir

FROM ALL

PAIN

Because Pirophen Tablets are stronger they bring rapid, prolonged relief from pain.

Pirophen from all chemists

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St. Mary’S Boarding School

FOR REPAIRS TO ALL

m FOR REPAIRS TO ALL BRANDS OF WATCHES!

All repairs carried out by the only expert Swiss Watchmaker giving service to the Pacific Islands. Speedy return of your repaired watch, and every job with a guarantee!

Affiliated with Fiechter Bros, in Switzerland.

Also Agent for the Swiss Watch manufacturers.

TRADE INQUIRIES INVITED

Send your watch for repairs direct to: W. E. FIECHTER, 9 GARNER AVE., FRENCH'S FOREST, N.S.W.

JANUS WATCH

BASIS WATCH

ST. MARY’S BOARDING SCHOOL

Goruka. New Guinea

For Primary Pupils

Conducted . by the Sisters of Mercy, in conjunction with the Catholic Mission, Alexishafen.

Children, Boys and Girls, will be accepted in their seventh year.

Boys may remain until the year in which they turn eleven.

For further particulars apply to

MOTHER SUPERIOR, ST. MARY'S SCHOOL

GOROKA, T.N.G.

ns»

CORNED

"S ALISBURY" canned meats, SPECIALLY PACKED ISLANDS ARE the popular choice, ALWAYS.

CORNED BEEF

CORNED MUTTON

MEATREAT

SHEEP TONGUES

OX TONGUES

MIDGET (Cocktail) SAUSAGES

SANDWICH PASTES

for the PACIFIC

SAUSAGES AND TOMA

STEAK & KIDNEY PUDC

LAMB & GREEN PEAS

DRIPPING AND LARD

Also “WESTFIELD” Brand KEGGED MEATS, DRIPPING AND LARD

“PALM” Brand CORNED BEEF

WESTFIELD FREEZING CO. LTD

Postal Address: Private Bag, C.P.0., Auckland, N.Z.

Cable Address: Filalora, Aucl

** h * L name!

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IFIC ISLANDS MO

can "leave”

A man

Too much . . .

THAT-,

The It’s one thing for a man to leave everything to his wife and family, but quite another to saddle the widow with the complex and protracted duties of Executorship as well. Glance through the legal notices in newspapers, and you will see how many have left literally everything to women already beset by new problems.

Private Executorship demands too much from any woman—or any man. It is extravagant, cumbersome, often dangerous. By appointing Burns Philp Trust Company Limited as your Executor, you gain lasting protection for your family and your assets. The Company’s services are explained in a free 20-page booklet, available at any branch of Burns Philp (South Seas) Limited, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or from the Trust Company’s nearest office.

Trust and Agency Funds Lnder the Company s Administration Exceed £18,500,000 DIRECTORS: James Burns Joseph Mitchell P. T. W. Black Eric Priestley Lee MANAGER: L. S. Parker

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.A.S.A.

BURNS PHILP TRUST COMPANY

LIMITED

Executor • Trustee • Attorney Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Telegraphic Address: “BUKNSTRUST”. Box 543, Also Registered Offices at (Papua), and Melbourne.

Vila (New Brisbane, Port Hebrides).

G.P.O.

Moresby

NEW!

"Hi Spcfft

Frig ’n Freeze Line

with EXCLUSIVE TRIPLE-SEAL AWARD

Again . . . refrigeration’s most coveted award goes to the new A.E.I. Hi Speed Frig n Freeze line: The TRIPLE-SEAL AWARD. Three experts, specialists in their own fields, have unanimously named the A.E.I. Hi Speed as the number one refrigerator in Australia on three counts: Fabulous exterior styling; All the latest and greatest new features and conveniences; a powerful sealed unit specially protected against extreme temperatures and humidities. You'll notice just what modern means when you first open the Hi Speed door—it’s that exciting! i°S % 4

Osr

% *B5 % A e *t>

are

/ s

* Sft

TWO advanced styles; ELEVEN unsurpassed models. The A.E.I. Hi Speed Frig 'n Freeze line contains something for everybody. If you wish graceful lines, choose a “Crispline”-styled model.

If you prefer the more contemporary straight line, choose a “Fairline”styled model. Whichever you choose ... no other refrigerator offers so many new features, new conveniences ... at a price reflecting such good value.

Models from £ll9/7/6

A.E.I. HI SPEED "FREEZA-FRIG".

Top: Refrigerator, fully automatic defrost, and a host of new features. Bottom: Deep freezer, 2 separate sections in I cabinet . £246/15/0

AUSTRALIAN

INDUSTRIE

PTY. LIMITED

93 Clarence Street, SYDNEY 113 Margaret Street, BRISBANE Also at Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns

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Vinylflex Tiles

Choosing tiles?

Always specify beautiful, durable

FOR FLOORS AND WALLS

keep pace with modern j’’

construction needs!

% , Wmm * //

PORTABLE••

The Builder’s Machine R

ess°

d\c

NCC

ut" a cC b\« Ac A fte*' V\o" lYvrea Axs c Ait'S A» ve etc vo» wo* At' iva c

cwimvastc/G

Designed especially

for today's and

tomorrow's need for

speed and accuracy

on the Building Project,

the Joinery and

Furniture Factory.

Petrol and Elect) Motors Interchange making it equally efficient, workshop or on a site far from power.

Sole distributors for Pacific Islands- W. S. TAIT & Co. Pty. L 8 Spring Street, Sydney. Cables: "Success"

Box 5315, G.P.0., Sydney PORTABILITY. pi us \ ... . . , , single phase electric or petrol \ /VtanuTQCtured by

rs anclo-australian engineering go. pty. u

Exceller Avenue, Bankstown, Sydney Australia ■mmhm

September, 1959 Pacific Islands Month

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Forged for TOUGHNESS J

HYTEST Three-Quarter Axes,

Tomahawks, Canoe Adzes, Tools..

You take no chances when you choose HYTEST products forged from Australia’s finest steel! CRAFTSMAN (Half Green, Half Bright Heads) and CHALLENGER (All Blue Heads) Three- Quarter Axes and Tomahawks are instantly recognised by their red stained handles.

In addition to the HYTEST Canoe Adze specially designed for the Islands HYTEST makes a wide range of dependable tools, including Picks, Mattocks, Wedges and Hammers. cf Order now for prompt delivery from your storekeeper or Island Merchant!

HYTEST AXE & TOOL PTY. LTD.

Collins Street, Alexandria, N.S.W., Australia

W. H. GROVE & SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

Island Merchants

16-18 FANSHAWE STREET, 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 7 practical experience in the Island trade.

REPRESENTING MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALEDONIA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOCIETY ISLANDS, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE, PAPUA,

NEW GUINEA, ETC.

SHIPPERS OF ALL CLASSES OF NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES AND PRODUCTS SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE ISLAND TRADE WE HANDLE ALL KINDS OF ISLAND PRODUCE IN FIJI as: W. H. GROVE & SONS (FIJI) LIMITED Office and Sample Room: Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji.

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Ladders • Steps • Trestles

For Safety's sake

buy

9 St 9

PATENT

ALUMINIUM ALLOY

LADDERS • STEPS • TRESTLES

Constructed throughout of high tensile aluminium alloy Lyte ladders are immensely strong and durable, extremely light m weight and cannot rot, rust, burn or splinter.

Lyte ladders and specialised aluminium alloy equipment may be ordered from the Australian or New Zealand head offices through your merchants. For further details and prices contact either

LYTE LADDERS

, (N.Z.) LTD.,

P.O. Box 176,

UPPER HUTT, N.Z.

LYTE LADDERS

(AUSTRALIA) PTY. LIMITED,

187 William Street,

SYDNEY.

BEREC

TRADE MARK

i

* A RN

lasting

longed The

batteries

money save that really

FACTORY REPRESENTATIVES:-

DEMKA PTY. LIMITED

Shell House, 2-12 Carrington St., Sydney

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Insurance

Established 1929

D. GOKAL & CO.

Merchants, Importers and Exporters All inquiries welcomed.

Renwick Road, G.P.O. Box 19,

SUVA, FIJI ISLANDS

Furnished

Serviced

Suites

In Sydney

Kanimbla Hall, 19-29 Tusculum St., Potts Point, 5 minutes city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant, S.C., turn, serviced suites with separate Lounge, Bed and Bath Rms. and Kitchenettes. Refrig., H.W., from £2/15/- daily for 2, from £3/15/for 3. Under new management.

Write or Phone: PL 4141 (9 lines); after hours, FL 4149. Telegrams; “Kanlmblahall”, Sydney.

THE

YORKSHIRE

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated in England)

ALL CLASSES OF

INSURANCE

Including

pj re Accident Guarantee Motor Workers Marine

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA BRANCH

James Arcade, Cuthbertson St., Port Moresby.

Manager: 0. S. Pudney.

CHIEF ISLAND REPRESENTATIVES

Port Moresby •■ E. A.James & Co.

Rabaul ... A.S.P. (N.G.) Ltd.

La! . . • Paul Hyman

Mal lana' ... Roy Macgregor Manus ... Edgell & Whiteley Ltd.

Honiara, 8.5.1. P. . . E. V. Lawson, Ltd.

Caiya . . Williams & Gosling Ltd.

Noumea *• L c au f A rea + ux Norfolk Island A. E. Martin Apia E. A. Coxon & Co.

a

Tropic tests” prove extra durability

of Taubmans glossy enamels!

1 % >c “Weatherometer” test demonstrates the amazing “Sun-drench” test demonstrates the extra 1 durability of Butex Full-Gloss! resistance of Revelite colours!

Sample panels of Butex Full-Gloss were put in the most severe “climate” an outside paint ever has to endure. In Taubmans Weatherometer, the temperature was turned up to 100°, the humidity to 95%. The panels were bombarded with ultraviolet rays for the equivalent of 5 years" ordinary wear! But when the panels were removed, not one showed any sign of flaking or cracking.

Use Butex on any outside surface. Butex is the only paint that gives years more beauty, years more protection against tropical erosion. 30 colours in a full-gloss enamelised finish. Start painting this weekend with Butex Full-Gloss. Easy to use; A gallon covers approx. 800 sq. ft.

Butex for outside

taubmans

butex

Sample panels of Revelite and other gll enamels were left exposed to blazing sun months on end more sun than an inside p would ever meet in years of wear! While oi paints faded, Revelite Full-Gloss and Semi-G stayed colour-bright!

Revelite enamels are tough, wipe spark clean in a minute.

Use Revelite Full-Gloss or Semi-Gloss oni inside woodwork and on walls and ceilings inj hardest worked rooms in your house kite: bathroom, children’s rooms. 21 colours in Full-Gloss and Semi- Gloss. And both finishes are so easy to apply! A gallon covers approx 800 square feet.

Revelite for inside

taubmaw

hIVELR

ESPECIALLY FORMULATED FOR THE TROPICS

TB2I

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"Columbine" Caramels

PALE ALE

|t^l ale al^

; A PtOOUCT OF

INSiAND

Stocks available from

Hotels, Clubs and the f

distributors:-

PORT MORESBY: E. E. Kriewaldt & Co. Ltd.

LAE, BULOLO, WAU: Whittons, Lae.

MADANG, GOROKA: R. Bensley, Madang.

RABAUL, KAVIENG: New Guinea Exports Lt Rabaul.

HONIARA: Mendana Enterprises Pty. Ltd.

WEWAK: Sepik Trading Co. Ltd.

Sole Agents —

NEEDHAM & CO. PTY. LIE

40 Leichhardt' Street, Brisbane G.P.O. Box 908, Brisbane. Cable Address—"Bruceco" Brisba

~wgj

s i n c E~m'

Rich Creamy

"COLUMBINE" CARAMELS

made by

Macßo bertsons

The Great Name in Confectionery Factory Fresh. Available at all leading Stores and Confectionery Bars Throughout the Pacific Export Agents for Pacific Islands: S. E. TATHAM & CO. PTY. LTD. 178 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE Cables; “Set”, Melbourne ★ Buyers and Shippers ★ Pacific Island Traders

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Inquiries Are Invited

Concerning the Distribution and

Sale of All Types of

Merchandise in the

Pacific Islands

WE ARE AUSTRALIAN AGENTS FOR—

MILLERS LTD., Fiji.

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.) Pty. Ltd.

ISLAND MERCHANTS

Wales House, 27 O'Connell Sh, Sydney Box No. 2512, C.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: "MOBSTROM”, Sydney.

BANKERS: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY.

Ammo Andy

/ft y L

“WHATEVER

YOU SHOOT

7 Grand Pn 1b "Maximun m m Icil Magnun f?

'4.

AM6372

THE CHOICE IS EASY!”

'lcil Sped a m Blue Star Whether it's pests or game, for consistency and accuracy always choose ICI SPORTING AMMUNITION.

Take Ammo Andy's tip and stock up now, before your next shooting trip ICI SPORTING AMMUNITION is available in shot sizes and loads to meet the needs of every shooter.

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND LIMITED

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Yourself

WRAP IT IN SISAURAFT Wfcfc

B k

DO IT

YOURSELF

One home handyman ... a roll of Sisalkratt, and look at the endless possibilities you get! Sisalkraft wraps anything protects against all conditions. Take home a roll to-day!

At leading stores everywhere.

it’

because

VACUUM PA6KCD

ms mi m ■ o A % SN o H

FLA^ e

nHE > A VACUUM PACKED, your Capstan fine cut Tobacco is always fresh in the new Vacuum Sealed Tin.

TO OPEN. TWIST A COIN. The patented sealed lid is easily opened by merely inserting a , coin and twisting. ... fag d&pClidsblC

CAPSTAN

FLAKE FINE CUT « NAVY CUT—FRAGRANT VIRGINIA

TOBACCO

F

PHILIPS,;

designed fa| yddr

PHILIPS

£

your home, y

Representatives in the South Pacific areas British Solomon Islands Trading Corp. Honiara, Sototyor Burns Phiip (New Guinea) Ltd., Samara.. MO Burns Phiip (New Hebrides) Ltd., Vila and L f “ 9 'vtlauand

izi Phils IIS Ifai co. Ltd;:

CCS

J stands.

Etablissements Ballande, Noumea, New Caledo .

Fiji Trading Co. Ltd., Suva, F.|f htofid?.

Rarotonga Wholesalers, Rarotfcntf». p Mores Robert Gillespie (New Guinea. Mores Societe Franco Oceanlenne, £ a P e ®!®' Wong, Niglmij N.V., Holland*, Fgk-fok, Merauke, Sarong, La« Manokwari, Biak, SeroeL See also advertisement on page 66.

Attention, Essence Users! n

BLUE ARK" ESSENCES WILL PRODU(

A BETTER PRODUCT !

Established 1882 G * <P A. r v U R Unsurpassed for—

★ AERATED WATERS AND CORDIALS

★ SYRUPS

★ CONFECTIONERY

★ CAKES, BISCUITS AND PASTRY

Orders should be placed through your usual Islands’ Agents

ALFRED LAWRENCE

& COMPANY LIMITED

439 Kent Street, Sydney, Australia World-wide Suppliers of Essences and Edible Colours

THE CRACKER BISCUIT

exactly right in size, shape and crispness for perfect savoury servings Made by DAVID WEBSTER & SONS PTY. LTD., Annerley Rd., Sth. Brisbane. Phone: J 1253.

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rno's Grab (Continued from page 57)

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Biscuits

ARNOTT’S

DOUBLE-WRAPPED

MOISTURE-PROOF

PACKETS

* * f * * * * * * * I* * ♦ *jok ** \ * Jm Sk / m mm. 0 ■ h s & ■*

WHEN NOT IN USE,

KEEP IN A CLOSED

TIN TO MAINTAIN

CRISP FRESHNESS.

Qrnott's

Biscuits

There is no Substitute for Quality

X/EXS/2

Fighting Dunas

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Fighting Dunas i (Continued from page 61)

Your Next

The Pacific Islands Sociei

(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 abu.

Society which was formed to constitute a social and cultural centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherln with lectures, are held at the Pemini t Club Rooms. 7th Floor, 77 King St., Sydney, on the fourth Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Address for correspondence:—

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY,

Box 2434, G.P.O., Sydney.

introducing. . , .

MAIL ORDER

SERVICE

Formal Suits, Lounge Suits, Spo ; Coats, Sports Trousers, Dres; Trousers Khaki or White Drili Trousers, Shorts, etc.

Tailored-to-measure in the latest Fashon, Fitting and Fabrics by:

TIP TOP TAILORS

G.P.O. Box No. 234, Pratt St., Suva, Fiji Recognised by DISCERNING people throughout the Pacific Islands:

APPLY FOR SAMPLES AND SELF

MEASUREMENT FORMS.

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.

BE 5305, BE 1737

or nnv of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach.

Keep your family FREE from PAIN -

keep 'ASPRO' handy!

Without warning, in only seconds, pain can strike father, headache can overcome mother, the children can suffer painful toothache. Without ‘aspro’ the pain or headache will surely continue.

Be wise, have ‘aspro’ handy and take 2 tablets at the first sign of pain. From headache, pain and toothache ‘aspro’ brings swift relief, relief that not just lessens the ache, but relief that is

complete, soothing and comforting.

‘ASPRO*—THE FAMILY MEDICINE

USED BY ALL THE WORLD

‘aspro’ is in the homes of happy families in over 100 countries. You’ll find ‘aspro’ in clinics and hospitals. To save your family from the misery of headache, pain, colds, ’flu, you should have ‘aspro’ handy, too.

BE WISE, BUY ‘ASPRO’ TODAY

i V* m i S ■*3. u

DUNLOP

In industry ... in every task

DUNLOP INDUSTRIAL HOSE

Over 700 types and sizes for conveying liquids, acids, fats, solids, gases, high and low pressure, or extreme temperatures!

Designed to give flexibility without damaging the hose. Discuss your needs with your Dunlop dealer. There’s a Dunlop hose for every job!

DUNLOP TRANSMISSION BELTING

Dunlop ‘Super Pliant’ moulds itself to pulley face to give extra drive power. Increased flexibility allows efficient use of small pulleys. Waterproof, cut edge construction resists ply separation gives longer belt life. mi

DUNLOP WEDGROPES

Can operate efficiently at any angle. Highly flexible to handle large, intermittent, sudden loads quickly and with ease. Low in initial maintenance and running costs, Dunlop Wedgropes give longer service,are t 0 mo ‘ sture - Wide Today you II use a pro

duct

KEROSENE-

TILLEY

PRESSURE

\\ 1 / © / / *

irons

smoother

faster!

EASY TO USE.

DRAUGHTPROOF - USE IT IN OR OUT OF DOORS.

NO WIRES OR FLEXES.

COMPLETE AND SIMPLE HEAT CONTROL.

BURNS 4 HOURS ON ONLY *rd PINT

OF KEROSENE.

i If you have any difficulty in obtaining TILLEY Products, please contact your nearest representative for further information. representatives Mr. K. WITHERINGTON, 2 Burns Philp Buildings. SUVA.

AUSTRALIA & NEW GUINEA:

T H BENTLEY Pty. LTD. 1092 Mt. Alexander Rd.,Essendon, Victoria

• Zr ~SS •

V.

The life of the party

t :

SURELY YOU’RE

NOT GOING

SO SOON ? i

YOU KNOW. WE OUGHT

GIVE A PARTY FOR THE SALES

manager while he's here . IT S . IMPORTANT he gets a

GOOD IMPRESSION.

I *

YE S, ALL' RIGHT,

f ,\{ BUT SOMEHOW OUR

Xs\U I parties never

V SEEM TO'go'. .

WELL, ER... ER. . .

TJ

I M AFRAID

WE MUST,

m

J'l * *L'

PHILIPS

BETTER

WORLD

OTHER

RADIO

RECORD

REPRODUCTION

ARE

&UESS

THEY

NIC E

DO NT

THE

PH l UPS

DECIDE

JIM?

I

ONE

M m i A

VES

MARVELLOUS

° ART-

DIFFERENCE

enjoyed i-OR

MARTIN

THAT

RADIOGRAM

CTH

TWO

<n ar I Philips mane every type of radiogram you could wish for... from a small, easily carried portable right through to a majestic stereo-

phonic instrument.

Don t risk buying the inferior. Choose a radiogram with world-

wide reputation - choose Philips’

Tabiegram H4X76A, .5 Push-buttons 6 Valves. record changer.

Socket for Stereo unit.

High gloss wooden ca* bir.e: with beige from.

SJ?

Philips radiogram FSX 87A. 7 Valves. 9 Pushbuttons. 4-speed record changer. Socket for taperecorder and Stereo unit.

High gloss wooden cabinet.

Bandspreod Stereoradiogram F6X9SA. 9 Valves. 7 Push-buttons. Automatic 4-speed record changer. Socket for tape recorder. Bi-Hi-Z and Stereo sound techniques.

High gloss wooden ca-

Fully tropic proof]

PHILIPS - STEREO - RADIOGRAMS

Names of Philips' agents/distributors can be found on page 59.

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IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER,

Cuts fine fawn and jungle growth

THE

with equal ease

• Automatic Height Adjustor

• Foldaway Handle

• Safety Ring Guard

• 3.6 H.P. Victa Engine Obtainable from: SUVA MOTORS LTD., Suva, Lautoka.

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby.

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo. m

Keep your home valuable and beautiful witl i

IMP

Z>o/t

HOUSE PAINT

i m

LEAD FREE!

Specially made for tropical conditions!

linseed oil 1 1*#t t U Wlfc

House

PROTECTS AND PRESERVES!

DULUX Linseed Oil HOUSE PAINT is specially made for tropical homes. After years of research in the BALM Laboratories, this paint was formulated to combine the purest linseed oil with the latest synthetic resins and selected pigments, which will protect and preserve your home better than any other paint has ever done.

For free colour schemes: Send to the DULUX COLOUR CENTRI Ist Floor, Dymocks Building, 426 George St., Sydney, a FREE DULUX Colour Questionnain L0165J

The llllli

stands out

for service in the Island

Throughout the islands you’ll find Bank of New Zealand branches and agencies giving a complete commercial and personal banking service. The 8.N.Z., the Dominion’s Leading Bank, has been serving the Islands since 1876.

BANKof New Zealand

bank Full branches at: SUVA, LAUTOKA. LABASA, NADI, BA (Fiji) BN Agencies in Fiji at: MARKS ST. (Suva), NAUSORI, NADI AIRPORT. TAVUA Represented at Apia (Bank of Western Samoa).

Estac since 3 1M.9

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fiCbi

4X4

Qollei

amffi life joy*

Taking pictures with a ROLLEI is pure joy. With this camera, no photographic problem will leave you puzzled, you take no chances when focusing for sharpness, and framing is no problem either. At all times, the bright focusing screen renders the image of the picture-to-be in exact size and perfect sharpness: colorful, bright and brilliant as the finished picture.

You see what you get!

fiCbi

xih

m FRANKE & HEIDECKE • BRAUNSCHWEIG • GERMANS

w

for service

GENERAL MERCHANTS PLANTATION PROPRIETOR!

SHIP OWNERS

Direct Exporters of Cocoa, Coffee, Trocas and green Snail Shell to world markets Agents for The Hong Kong New Guinea Line The China Navigation Co. Ltd. Lombard Insurance Co. Ltd.

New Guinea Australia Line Union Assurance Society Ltd.

Distributors of Chrysler Cars, Dodge Trucks Humber and Hillman Cars Commer Trucks Willvs Jeeps, Trucks V.B.W. Tools Coventry-Victor Engines Bentall Coffee Machinery British Ropes Ltd.

Pental Soaps G.E.C. Refrigerators Charles Hope Refrigerators Primus Appliances Erres Radios Vaughan Radio-Telephones Sherwin-Williams Paints Robbialac Paints Killrust Paints Lodge Spark Plugs Nordex Hardboard Panelyte Ushers Green Stripe Scotch Whisky

COLYER WATSON (d£S>| LTD.

RABAUL, MADANG, GOROKA, LAE

Associated with COLYER WATSON PTY. LTD., Sydney, COLYER WATSON & CO. LTD., Wellington, Melbourne, Brisbane, Fremantle Auckland, Christchurch

Ist Prizes

Royal Show

DTHtI

1957 & 1958

FAMO.

FOUNTAIN

PRODUCTS

sponges

& scones

&V

Ousted

by won

FOUNTAIN

SELF-RAISING FLOUR

The high prize-winning standard set at last year's Royal Easter Show is maintained in special triple-sealed-for-thetropics 2-lb. packets and in 2-lb. and 7-lb. tins.

Try this Prize-winning Recipe for Scones: 3 cups Fountain Self-Raising Flour 1 teaspoon of salt 1 teaspoon of butter Sift'flou°/ three times with salt added Rub in butter with fingertips. Mix with a knife. Knead well and bake for 15 minutes in a moderate oven.

FOUNTAIN

W. C. Douglass Limited, Foveaux St.. Sydney. Australia Rich, Red Fountain Brand Tomato Sauce is vacuum sealed to retain its freshness of flavour.

Vitanin-fiHcd Fountain Brand Tomato Juice, served chilled, is a delicious, thirstquenching drink.

■ wm MmcM

lIIgM

i t>4£ t *te»

Si*if

s* la

MONT BLANC

MILK PRODUCTS

Vours For Qualify 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 from pure, creamy cow’s milk, keeps its wonderful flavour right to the bottom of the can.

MONT BLANC Evaporated unsweetened MILK.

It’s richer, creamier and retains all its smooth, farmfresh flavour right to the last drop.

SWEETENED condensed MILK in TUBES.

Stops waste. Just the thing for picnics, boating, camping. Keeps for a long period, stays fresh.

TONGALA MILK PRODUCTS LIMITED

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA

MONT BLANC. Natural pure whole MILK.

Use straight from the can. Sterilised for added purity and long lasting qualities.

MONT BLANC CHOCREAM.

A delicious blend of milk and chocolate that may be used for iced drinks or as a topping for Ice Cream or desserts.

MONT BLANC Reduced Cream.

It’s rich—it’s pure—it’s wholesome —Serve it straight from its flavour-saving gold-lined can.

Associate of BERNESE ALPS MILK CO. f

SWITZERLAND

TMB/240

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Pimms

Established Cable Address:

1870 “WEYSEAS, SYDNEY’

Place yourselves in the hands of Specialists for your requirements in

FRESH FRUIT & VEGETABLES

POTATOES & ONIONS

★ We invite your enquiries

WEYMARK & SON (Overseas) Pty. ltd.

14-18 STEAMMIU STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

PIMMS

4y

CUP

1 Ho base G\N

THE

WITH

No 4

•Clip

■vim thb *UM basb V 4% Available: — Hotels, Clubs & Store*

MILLED FROM PRIME SELECTED QUEENSLAND WHEATS.

QUALITY ENSURED BY CAREFUL BLENDING AND TESTING IN OUR MODERN

LABORATORY.

ENTOLETED FOR PURITY.

FLOUR AND MEALS AVAILABLE THROUGH YOUR

IN ALL PACKS INCLUDING LOCAL MERCHANT OR

TINS AND DRUMS. QUEENSLAND BUYER,

, THE QUEENSLAND CO OPERATIVE MILLING ASSOC. LTD., Sth. Brisbane

CABLE ADDRESS: "DOMINION", BRISBANE.

We have been providing efficient

BUYING

and

WE

W. S. TAIT & CO.

PTY. LTD.

8 Spring Street/ Sydney Cables: "SUCCESS* specialise in the requirements of the Pacific Islands.

The experience of 69 years blended with the vigour of youth offers YOU a world-wide buying and selling '■network which cannot be excelled.

SELLING

SERVICE

1890

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Bronchitis

Mmu

If you cough, wheeze, can’t breathe or sleep well due to Asthma, Catarrh or Bronchitis attacks, get MENDACO from your chemist or store today.

MENDACO works through the blood and bronchial tubes to dissolve and remove offending phlegm congestion. Then your cough Is curbed, you can breathe freely, sleep like a baby, and regain natural energy. Satisfaction or money back Is guaranteed. Save this notice.

When Kidneys

IrkTooOftex

Are you embarrassed and bothered by too frequent elimination during the day and night? These symptoms, as well as Bladder Irritation, Backache, Swollen Ankles, Leg Pains, Nervousness, Dizziness, Lumbago, Interrupted Sleep. Circles Under the Eyes and a generally rundown feeling, are usually due to germ-caused kidney and bladder troubles. The verw first dose of Cystex. the scientifically compounded medicine, goes right to work overcoming these troubles in 3 ways. 1. kills germs causing troubles. 2. Gets rid of poisonous acids. 3. Strengthens and reinvigorates the kidneys and bladder. Get Cystex from your chemist to-day under the guarantee of comolete satisfaction or money back

Helped IsiDay

ca hadlv

FOOT ITCH

Do your feet itch so badly that they nearly drive you crazy? Does the skin crack and neel? Are there blisters between your toes and on the soles; of vour feet? If you suffer from these foot troubles the real cause is a germ or fungus which you must 6 kill to get nd °A , th ! trouble. Fortunately it is at last oossible to end these foot troubles, Tinea and stubborn cases of Eczema, Ringworm* etc. with an American Hospital Dis covery called Nixoderm. Nixoderm stops the itch in 7 minutes kills eerms and fungus and in 24 hours the skin be S in s to heal clear and smooth. Get Nixoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return vour money if not satisfied-

Looking for the best ? Then invest wisely . . ,

McKinnons

COCOABEAN AND COFFEE MACHINERY

Manufactured by: WM. McKINNON & CO. LTD., Aberdeen, Scotland (Established since 1798) McKINNON'S MACHINERY IS NOT A NEW MANUFACTURE Its efficiency is known throughout the main COCOA and COFFEE Producing Areas of the World. The present range of machinery is the result of many years of experience in this field and its QUALITY and DESIGN are outstanding. % McKinnon "STERLING"

Cocoabean Driers have set the Standard of QUALITY for the New Guinea Market For full particulars of McKinnon's COCOA and COFFEE Machinery consult your nearest representatives: — NEW GUINEA CO. LTD. at Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng and Kokopo.

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD. at Port Moresby.

Or the Agents:

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

"THE WALES HOUSE", 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY Cable address: "CAMOHE" Telephone: 8L5421

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GROVE

88iiw*os i mm.

W. H. GROVE

& SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

P.O. BOX 490, AUCKLAND,

NEW ZEALAND.

ISLAND

MERCHANTS

REPRESENTING

MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT THE

PACIFIC ISLANDS

In Fiji as;

W. H. GROVE & SONS

(FIJI) LTD.

Bank of New South Wales Chambers. Suva, Fiji.

Office and Sample Room

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Gordons"

'' Better have a Gin”\,

A n 0.

H \ „ — ’

Better still, have a N

GORDONS"

It’s Gordon’s for choice with men and women everywhere who appreciate a better gin because Gordon’s* has that full smoothness and fine, distinctive flavour that only perfect distilling can achieve.

*ASK FOR IT BY NAME

n

GORDON’S STANDS SUPREME

IMPORTED FROM LONDON, ENGLAND

For better

cooking..

* m. tv . . . change to Mobil-Laurel Home Kerosene in your kerosene cook stove. Its clear, unvarying, flickerless flame makes it ideal, particularly for stoves and refrigerators where smoke, soot and smell are to be avoided at all costs.

Order from your hardware store, grocer or Mobilgas Service Station.

abil-LauK*

KERO**^*

Mobil-Laurel

HOME KEROSENE

More M eat - Greater Economy - No Sme/f VACUUM OIL COMPANY PTY. LTD. (Inc. in Aust.)

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"The Ship Was Derelict!" He Shouted

(Continued from previous page)

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o-operatives Have A Fifth Of Population

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Burns Philp (£.) Ltd -

GENERAL MERCHANTS, GENERAL AGENTS

SHIPPING, CUSTOMS

Known everywhere os

DISTRIBUTORS OF:

Trucks, cars, motorcycles and all automotive equipment.

Tractors, machinery fertilisers and chemicals for production and processing copra, rice, coffee, peanuts, cocoa, rubber.

Building Materials.

Tools, radios, stationary engines, motors, lighting plants.

General hardware Photographic materials, piecegoods, drapery and native trade lines.

Wines and spirits and groceries, etc., etc.

The

HEAD OFFICE:

PORT MORESBY.

BRANCHES:

\ Port Moresby y

\ Somoroi /

\ Modong /

\ Kovieng /

\ Kokopo /

\ Wewok /

\ Goroko /

\ Roboul / rft«

\ Bulolo /

\ Doru / V

\ Wou 4

Lae ittk _jfTtr Q sign of service

AGENTS FOR:

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd Burns Philp Trust Co.

Ltd.

Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

The Shell Co. of Australia Ltd.

Lloyds of London.

AUSTRALIAN

AGENTS:

Burns, Philp & Co.

Ltd.

All States

LONDON AGENTS;

Burns, Philp & Co.

Ltd., London House, 35, Crutched Friars, London. E.C.3.

SAN FRANCISCO

AGENTS:

Burns-Philp Co., of San Francisco, 510 Matson Building. 215 Market Street.

San Francisco 5.

Exporters of Island Produce

COCOABEANS, COFFEEBEANS, PEANUTS,

RUBBER AND TROCAS SHELL

OVERSEAS TRADE ENQUIRIES

INVITED

BURNS PHILP (£.) LTD -

ti

FEEL REALLY WELI

better than you have ever felt before

DRINK DELICIOUS, VITAMIN-FUL

To feel “really well” you need the right vitamin intake. You need ‘akta-ytte’. ‘akta-vite’ contains the four important vitamins A, 8,, C and D which are essential to your good health and vigour. Vitamins that make you feel “really well”, better than you have ever felt before. The daily loss of the fortifying vitamins and C through perspiration is a major cause of this need for ‘akta-vtte’.

And the taste of ‘akta-vtte’ is delicious— chocolatey, thirst-quenching and satisfying.

You’ll enjoy a glass many times a day.

TRY ‘AKTA-VITE* TODAY!

Mi.c.o HD

£ o <o -A O Over 60 Years Experience as

SHIP OWNERS - ISLAND MERCHANTS -

IMPORTERS & EXPORTERS

Merchandise Purchased For Clients From Ail 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 Diesel Engines.

Archimedes Outboard Motors.

Aster Canned Fish.

El Trust Shot Guns.

Avrika Axes.

New Hudson Bicycles.

DISTRIBUTORS OF;

Trade Blankets.

Bush Knives.

Cotton Piece Goods.

Rayon Piece Goods.

Copra Sacks.

And All Trade Requirements.

Take Advantage of Our Branch Office: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LIMITED, Stanley Street, Brisbane—Cables: “Ivan”, Brisbane. or our N.G. Representatives RABAUL TRADING CO. LIMITED, Rabaul and Lae, Guinea—Cables: “Ivan”, Rabaul; “Ivan”, Lae.

South New

NELSON and ROBERTSON PTY. LTD.

PLANTATION HOUSE, 197 CLARENCE ST., SYDNEY. BOX 5316 G.P.O.

Cables: “Ivan”, Sydney.

THE BOOK CENTRE

P.o. Box 21, Rose Boy, Sydney, Aust.

Offers you FREE

L I nkatrated 200 page descripdv^^

S sent you' three

times a year.

2. THIS MONTH’S SPECIALISED CATALOGUES

Km titles in print.

You have only,oTlst!

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COLONIAL

N So T E o 5 Vo- C°* v (v e . /%£fL' ** a*. **l-gg

CORNED m

p *€mo mu *sM£ m&mm m *** m ;:•■•?■•;'-i'';- n 02. .

CORNED MUTtO!

of A.%1 n

BRONTE" & "COLONIAL" BRAN!

SPECIALLY PACKED FOR THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

CORNED BEEF

CORNED BEEF with CEREAL.

MINCED BEEF LOAF

ROAST BEEF

CURRIED BEEF

Available in !2-0z. % 16-oz. and 2-lb. cans.

Products of THE COLONIAL WHOLESALE MEAT CO, PTY. LTD.

Canning Factory:

STATE ABATTOIRS, HOMEBUSH, SYDNEY

N.S. W . , AUSTRALIA

TELEPHONE: UM 8436. CABLES: "WOOLMILL," SYDNEY

CORNED MUTTON SHEEP TON

ROAST MUTTON OX TONGUE

CURRIED MUTTON

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Camoquin

LJJ^r

PARKE-DAVIS

TABLETS

Effective Single Dose Treatment for

MALARIA

SPECIALLY FLAVOURED TABLETS AVAILABLE FOR

CHILDREN

SUPPRESSIVE DOSE—

For Adults: 3 tablets to be taken as a single dose once weekly, or 1 tablet three times weekly.

For Children: 1-2 years, one INFANT FORMULA TABLET once weekly or half-tablet twice weekly. 3-5 years, two INFANT FORMULA TABLETS once weekly or one INFANT FORMULA TABLET twice weekly.

TREATMENT DOSE—

For Adults: 3 tablets taken as a single dose. A second dose of 3 tablets may be given in from 24-72 hours if fever has not subsided completely.

For Children: 1-2 years, one INFANT FORMULA TABLET as a single dose. 3-5 years, two INFANT FORMULA TABLETS as a single dose.

IMPORTANT:—CAMOQUIN should be taken immediately after or during a full meal.

Obtainable from all chemists and suppliers of

PARKE-DAVIS products

PARKE, DAVIS & CO., LTD., SYDNEY

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For Quality and Flavour

be sure its

2is

MEATS

Famous in the Pacific

for over 80 years

R&W HELLABY LTD

AUCKLAND

NEW ZEALAND

P UAKATORO

APINGA TIKAI

PISUPO LOLOLO

TELE

BULAMAKAU

VINAKA SARA

PUAATORO

NUMERA HOE

STEAMSHIPS TRADING COMPANY L 1

PAPUA, PORT MORESBY and SAMARAI

Wholesale fir Retail Merchants, Shipowners, Planters, Sawmillers, Slipway Proprietors, Eng Cordial Manufacturers, Bakers and Pastrycooks, Cold Store and Ice Manufacturers, Shi

Customs and Insurance Agents.

MANAGING AGENTS for:

COCOALANDS LTD.

ACME BAKERY COMPANY

MARIBOI RUBBER LTD.

RUBBERLANDS LTD.

KEREMA RUBBER LTD.

AGENCIES:

NEW GUINEA-AUSTRALIA LINE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD.

LOLORUA RUBBER ESTATES LTD.

HARVEY TRINDER (N.G.) LTD.

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS for:

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. OF AUS'

ARMSTRONG-HOLLAND PTY. LTD.

Earth Moving and Logging Equipment.

FOWLER ENGINEERING PTY. LTD.

Transportation and Material Handling Equipment.

WILLYS-OVERLAND EXPORT CORPORATION

Jeep Vehicles.

HILLMAN, HUMBER AND SUNBEAM CARS

International Motor Trucks.

International Industrial Tractors and Equ McCormick-International Farm Tractors Equipment.

Australian Agents:

NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., 197 Clarence St., Sydney and Stanley St., South Brisban

A* s ED

the

50 TR

for

GILLESPIES

Gillespie’s Anchor Flon milled from selected quality Australian wheats Is entoleted for parity, consistent high quality made It the best-known, asked-for brand of flour 1 Islands. (Entoletlon Is a special purifying process which duces the risk of Insec fection).

NCHOf

FLOUR

GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD., ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS, SYD!

Cable Address: Gillespie. Sydney. ■

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Crossquiz Solution from Page 82

What NG Civilians

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IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1959

What NG Civilians Did in the War (Continued from page 75)

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BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD

Registered Office; SUVA, Fiji

Code Address; “BURNSOUTH”.

GENERAL MERCHANTS AND SHIPOWNERS

BRANCHES:

F« • • Suva, Levuka.

Lautoka.

Labasa.

Savu Savu.

• Queensand

Samoa

Ba. Apia.

Sigatoka. Fago Pago.

Tavua.

Rotuma Island.

Taveunl.

Norfolk Island. Niue Island.

Agents for:—

Tonga:-

Nukualofa.

Haapai.

Vavau.

Insurance Co. ltd. • Burns Philp Trust Co. ltd.

Shell Company (P. 1.) Ltd.

ALSO AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES FOR:

• N.V. Appelton Pty. Ltd. (Naco Sun-

sash Louvres).

• Ardath Tobacco Co.

• Brush International Ltd.

• A. J. Caley & Sons (Confectionery). • Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.

• General Motors-Holden's Ltd.

• Charles Hope Ltd.-Cold Flame

Refrigerators.

• Hercules Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd.

• Huntley & Palmers Ltd. (Biscuits).

• Joseph Lucas (Exp.) Ltd.

• Massey-Ferguson (Export) Ltd.

•S. Maw Son & Sons (Surgical

Dressings).

• McAlpine Refrigeration Ltd.

• McLeay Duff & Co. (Whisky).

• Mullard (Overseas) Ltd. (Radios).

• O'Cedar Ltd. (Oils & Mops).

• S.F. Appliances Ltd.

• Slazengers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

• Sleepmakers Pty. Ltd.

• Standard Motor Co. • Stewarts & Lloyds (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Custoim and_ Forwarding Agents

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.)

BLUE STAR LINE

(Regular One Class Passenger Service to UNITED

KINGDOM.)

CUNARD LINE

(General Passenger Agents for Trans-Atlantic Services, Canada and U.S.A.. to and from Europe.)

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.

TRANSPORTS AERIENS INTERCONTINENTAL

WMK JT. y

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WOOD AND STEEL

SHIP BUILDING, SHIP

REPAIRS AND ALL

FORMS OF MARINE AND

GENERAL ENGINEERING

Cargo, copra, island vessels fishing boats and yachts.

Cargo winches and windlasses, etc.

Quotations invited.

PUm mi ■■■ t M.V. "Southern Cross" built for the Melanesian Mission, 1958.

Ships slipped up to 300 tons

Owned by:

S. G. WHITE PTY. LIMITED

WORKS:

10 Lookes Ave., Balmain, N.S.W, Phones: WB 2170, W 82171, W 82119.

Diesel and General Engineers

SYDNEY

CITY OFFICI

30 Grosvenor St., Sydnei Phone: BU 506.

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ought the Dutch

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C.l. Success Story (Continued from page 87)

IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1959

nis and Carpenter ought the Dutch (Continued from page 85)

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Halvorsen

• TUGS

• PUNTS

• BARGES

• LAUNCHES

• COASTERS

• PONTOONS

• WORKBOATS

Sn» (l

U by C One of two 150 H.P. Pusher tugs for service in N.G.

In full technical collaboration with: One of four Dumb Barges 60 ft. long by 20 ft. beam.

THE FAIRMILE CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD

ENGLAND

Enquiries welcomed—advice freely given.

WALKERS LIMITED

P-O. Box 211, Maryborough,

QUEENSLAND, AUST.

HALVORSEN

FAMOUS FOR MARINI

ENGINES for EVERY type of craft..

B.M.C. (British Motor Corporation). Successor to the popular Morris Marine engine.

Vedette 4 cyl., 8/20 h.p.; Navigator 4 cyl., 12/30 h.p.

B.M.C. DIESEL. Unsur-

passed for economy and smooth running. Prices from £542.

Commander 4 cyl., 22/46 h.p.; Commodore 4 cyl., 38/52 h.p.

CHRYSLER America’s No. 1 marine engine.

Ace 6 cyl., 95 h.p.; Crown 6 cyl., 115 h.p.; Royal VB, 155 h.p.; Imperial VB, 225, 275 h.p.

Spare parts for all models; also Chrysler industrial engines. • Good selection from stock and all models available on TERMS. -fr iMH.

Hire a Bobbin Head, Sydney. Phone JJ 1227

srjv

Cruiser

LARS HALVORSEN SON!

PIY. LTD.

Waterview Street, Ryde, N.S.W. WY0251 Telegrams: Halvorsens, Sydney

LH.33.HPMa

We offer a range of Marine Diesels —12 to 145 H.P. 16 B.H.P, 2-cylinder. Robust, positive, 2-1 Reverse Reduction gear. Simple Automatic Hand Starting. Fresh Water Cooling. Very accessible. CAV Equipment.

Economical and easily operated. Accepted by Lloyds

& M.O.T.

This 100 per cent. Marine Diesel engine has been based on the design of the Worldfamous Handybilly petrol kerosene engine which has proved so successful over the past 20/25 years and retains all the most desirable features and characteristics. Ideal for Islands operation. it Type RJD2 GOOD DELIVERIES. GOOD SERVICE. AMPLE SPARES AVAILABLE

STuarT

marine diesel engine

9-11 H.P.

This unique little engine is available with diesel drive (13 in. propeller) or reduction gear (17 in. propeller). It is of compact size and reasonable weight.

Economical to run and simple to operate.

THORNYCROFT (Aust.) PTY. LTD.

Box 2622, G.P.0., Sydney. FF 4224. Cables; "Thornmotor , Sydney.

TAIKOO DOCKYARD

HONG KONG

SHIP AND ENGINE

BUILDERS AND REPAIRER!

(DOXFORD AND SULZER LICENCEES)

SALVAGE OPERATORS

Above: M.V.

"HERVAR", one of two motor cargo vessels built for Messrs.

Bruusgaard Kiosterud Drammen, Norway.

Left: M.V.

"TARAWERA",

all refrigerated motor cargo vessel built for the Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd. : SI V A M 111 hi 3 m Right: "LUNG SHAN", one of two bunkering vessels built to the order of Shell Tankers Ltd., for use in Hong Kong, supplying fuel and lubricating oils to ships at harbour moorings.

General Representatives:

AUSTRALIA:

SWIRE & YUILL PTY. LTD.

6 Bridge Street,

SYDNEY

NEW ZEALAND:

C. W. F. HAMILTON & CO., LTD.

Lunns Road, Middleton,

CHRISTCHURCH

Garner.

MARINE DIESEL

ENGINES

ECONOMY

LONG LIFE

DEPENDABILITY

LW SERIES L 3 SERIES

28, 42, 56, 70 and 84 B.H.P. at 1,300 r.p.m. 57, 76, 95, 114, 152 B.H.P. at 900 r.p.m.

M.V. “SOUTHERN CROSS’

ML

SI i

* Commissioned 1958 by Melanesian Mission. Powered by GARDNER Twin 4L3 Marine Engines, with GARDNER 2LW Marine Auxiliary and 112 Marine Auxiliary.

Sole Agents for Papua-New Guinea & South West Pacific Islands

FERRIER & DICKINSON PTY. LTD.

POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 21, Artarmon, N.S.W., Australia Telegrams: “FERREOUS”, Sydney Telephone: 43-12 If SALES SERVICE SPARE PARTS: Herbert Street, St. Leonards, N.S.W., Australia

KERR BROTHERS PTY. LTD. FOR . . . ★ Bloxland Chapman marine engines ★ Famous Chapman launches ★ "8.R." pumping units ★ "8.R." engineering products Engineered for heavy sustained operation, minimum up-keep, Blaxland Rae’s products are ideal for Island service.

Sole Pacific Distributors: Box

KERR BROTHERS PTY. LTD.,

3838, G.P.O.

4 O'Connell Street, Sydney Cables: "Carefulness" Sydney

CAPTAIN W. L. KENNEDY

(Established 1031)

SHIPBROKERS, BUSINESS Cr REAL ESTATE

63 Pi« Street, Sydney

’Phone: BU 3797. Cables: “CAPKEN,” Sydney.

LISTING:

. fla n tons buil* 1948 diesel, accommodation ait, CARGO VESSEL, carry around 680 tons bull. i»«>, 2 hatches. 1 hold, 6 electric winches £40.000 Stg. die sels aft, 2 CARGO VESSEL, steel, 220 tons dwt., 108 ft. x ZS it., holds/hatches. £15.000 diesel s aft, carry around 250 CARGO VESSEL, 106 ft. x 23 ft built 1948 twin ‘ £13)00 o. tons in two holds, 4 derricks, 11(^ ltl ° 1 l 9 g ff . b ilt ] 946 WO od, copper sheathed.

WO R K a BOA S rS' f P t aS x e T4 r ft. JJM, P— nally, 66 b.p. H.D.

Kelvin diesel, well designed, solidly built. £ • Gar dner marine diesel.

EX-ARMY TYPE WORKBOAT. 40 ft. xl2 ft. 6 in., cyi.

S B L^NCH, ft 25 X li“ s'n. T\n b :"’ ~S'"»1„ cylinder diesel. £B5O.

We -"^11--t^iI a t e^lgn 0 gp ob delivery^eiUie^ ei on

Specify

CUMMINS

Marine Diesels

for more

PROFIT

Cummins complete line of rugged, light-

weight, compact, powerful marine diesel engines is available for use in warping tugs, draggers, trawlers, towboats, loggers, seiners, ferries, tug boats, fire boats, oyster boats, offshore haulers and pleasure boats.

Cummins engines are available in 24 models from 100 h.p. to 1,120 h.p. for correctly matched power to type of boat, size, speed and type of work.

Cummins marine diesel engines carry a oneyear warranty and are approved by the American Bureau of Shipping, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping and the Board of Steamship Inspection (Canada).

To keep your operating cost to a minimum,

Cummins engines have four-cycle operation,

wet-type replaceable liners, dirt protection, and the PT Fuel System which insures dependability and fuel economy. Cummins white marine diesels give high visibility in dark holds and make maintenance easier.

For an added margin of safety at sea, Cummins marine diesels operate on safe #2 diesel fuel.

Available in Sterling and U.S. currency . ■m This is the “Jorge Nelson”, a trim fishing boat that plies the waters of the South Atlantic, The “Perola da Costa”, one of the many Portuguese sardine boats equipped with Cummins.

The “Nova Leirosa’ port of Peniche u: Cummins NH-6-M. of the ancient js a 200 h.p.

Sole Distributors :

CUMMINS DIESEL SALES & SERVICE

(AUSTRALIA) PTY. LIMITED

HEAD OFFICE : Ferndell St., South Granville, N.S.W. YU 7231 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES BRANCHES WORKS & AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD MELBOURNE: Princes Highway, North Clayton. 746-8691. BRISBANE: Links Avenue Eagle Farm. M 3191. ADELAIDE: 303 North Terrace. Adelaide. W 5861. PERTH: Norma Industrial Estate, Melville. MJ 2406.

CARGO VESSELS

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For all types of Island vessels

BJARNE HALVORSEN LTD.

John Street North Sydney, N.S.W. Cable Address: "BERRYSBOAT", Sydne

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MULLALY & BYRNE

PTY. LTD. . . . EST. 1854 Announce their appointment by

BROOKES & GATEHOUSE LTD., HAMPSHIR!

AS SOLE AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA

AND NEW GUINEA FOR

HOMER & HERON

RADIO

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DESIGNED FOR SMALL SHIPS, LIGHT AIRCRAFT, e

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9 QUEEN ST., MELBOURNE. Tel. MA 3631

TELEGRAMS. CABLES 'BYRNE', MELBOURNE. VICTOR!

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The men who know

specify genuine WARDEH

Manufactured by

BRADFORD COTTON

MILLS LIMITED

The men whose livelihood depends on goods being protected against sun, rain and mildew, insist on genuine WARDEN proofed Duck. They know th WARDEN Duck is guaranteed waterproof rotproof and colourfast.

Remember , your guarantee is branded on the selvedge.

PLAIN AND

SELF RAISING

FLOUR.

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ESTABLISHED 1868

Agents for Fiji. Tonga and Samoa; C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji.

The Test of Time . . .

Manufacturers for over 50 years of tough, reliable "S. & L" PIPES and FITTINGS specially made for GAS, WATER, STEAM and other purposes. .

Distributors, also, of GALVANISED IRON —plain or corrugated—NUTS and BOLTS,

ELECTRODES AND WELDING EQUIP-

MENT —JOHN VALVES AND SAUNDERS

VALVES (SPECIALLY SUITED FOR

DIFFICULT FLUIDS.)

STEWARTS AND LLOYDS

(DISTRIBUTORS) PTY. LIMITED

Agents for New Guinea Territory: Burns Philp (N.G.) Ltd.

ELECTROLUX

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with a difference ...

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ELECTROLUX

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I the universal

refrigerator

for every

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I f I I 4 • A convenient full-width frozen storage section. • Trays with easy release handles for ice cubes, ice cream, frozen desserts. • Rustless food shelves with special provision for upright bottle storage. • Vitalisers to keep fruit and vegetables fresh and dewy crisp. • Glacier blue porcelain enamel lining with oven-baked enamel exterior in Cream or Polar White. • A special compartment in the door for butter or cheese . . . racks for eggs and for bottles. Chrome plated cover strips protect the front edges of these racks. • The cabinet interior is illuminated with an electric light which comes on and goes off automatically when the cabinet door is opened or shut. The light can be connected to a 6v. or 12v. battery ... to your own homelighting plant ... or to a town supply.

Motorless, ever-silent freezing unit has no moving parts and is guaranteed

for FIVE (5) YEARS.

See your local Electrolux agent now: NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo. ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby. 5.C.1.E., Noumea. 8.5.1. P. TRADING CORP., Honiara, Gizo. BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD., Vila, Santo. F. J. R. SIMMONDS, Norfolk Island

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, NSW PHONE BL 5421

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LOGS TO LUMBER

V. %• A a w All Caterpillar track-type Tractors are available with Hyster Towing Winches, for increased pull and easier logging even across hills or swamps. The further addition of a Hyster Logging Arch allows a greater volume to be hauled faster and cleaner. t U o

CATERPILLAR

Caterpillar and Cal are Registered Trademarks of Caterpillar Tractor Co.. O.S /

NMncOIeMG

HD437 For loading logs. Caterpillar builds log and lumber lift fo interchangeable with the buckets of its Traxcavators. buckets are useful in road building, sawdust handling ( many other jobs.

Whether powering a tractor or a sawmill, a Cat Diesel Eng is a real profit-maker. It burns non-premium fuel with fouling, and it responds quickly to load changes. Its compon parts are made for the most severe duty.

The proper choice, application and maintenance of machint help the logger to operate at minimum cost. Our equipmi specialists will gladly supply the facts for your considerati

Full information & prices from

HASTINGS DEERING

(NEW GUINEA) PTY. LIMITED

• Milford Haven Road, Lae, New Guinea Box No. 61 Telephone: Lae 2487 • Blanche Street, Rabaul, New Guinea Port Moresby, Papua Box No. 138 Telephone: Kone 4328

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British Aluminium

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IN ■V.

Secure from the insatiable appetites of marine borers, aluminium hulls also offer excellent resistance to attack by sea water.

Convincing proof of the benefits of aluminium construction is ‘Shell Merita’, latest of a series of aluminium launches built for the Shell organisation. This 32’ 6” fast launch was constructed by Universal Shipyards (Solent) Ltd for Shell Portuguesa S.A.R.L., for use at the Company’s Lisbon installations.

The BRITISH ALUMINIUM Co Ltd (g

NORFOLK HOUSE ST JAMES’S SQUARE LONDON SW

API

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Ship Repairs

ELLIOT

Distributors: W. Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. 376 Kent St.. SYDNEY Factory Reps, in Australia: Maxwell King & Co. Pty. Ltd. 81 York Street, Sydney.

For all classes of

SHIP REPAIRS

in the New Hebrides • Slipping operations , . . vessels up to 150 tons • All classes Deck and Engine Machinery Repairs • New Constructions (Quotations on request)

SOUTH PACIFIC FISHING CO.

(NEW HEBRIDES) PTY. LTD.

Palikulo Point, Espirito-Santo, New Hebrides.

Prices are cheapest

in Hong Kong

NEW ! ! BELL & HOWELL

"ELECTRIC EYE" Cameras available in 8 mm. and 16 mm. Cine AND Photo Models I BELL & HOWELL 8 mm. and 16 mm. Silent and Sound Projectors and latest models Slide-projectors, etc.

POLAROID "Land" Cameras.

GAMI 16 mm. Subminiature Cameras. 35 mm. AKAREX & ARETTE Cameras.

CASTLE Home Movie Films.

Please write for catalogue and prices.

Sole Agents

FILMO DEPOT

313 Marina House, Hong Kong

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As good as a cow

■n your kitchen!

Tooralac Full Cream Powdered Milk . . . genuine cow’s milk from Australia’s finest dairy herds . . . with only water removed. Whenever you need real milk, mix a little Tooralac Full Cream Powdered Milk . . . economical, handy, delicious for cooking and

drinking.

In 12-oz., 3-lb. and 28-lb. tins II Champion Australian 3. Milk is ready to pour. Buy the 12 oz. tin or the family 3-lb. size tin. 28-lb. tins also available.

M full cream

POWDERED

MILK

*P«AY ORIID

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TOORALAC

FULL CREAM

POWDERED MILK

Buy also: TOORALAC SKIM MILK

POWDER . , . pure pasteurised milk with fat and water removed. Retains goodness and flavour, cuts milk bills in half. 12-oz., 3-lb. and 28-lb. tins.

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Jnquiries direct to BRITISH UNITED DAIRIES PTY. LTD., 33 King Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Cable Address: "HANDBURY MELBOURNE"; or through our

9MYIO

Export Promotional Representatives for the Pacific Is.:

• DEMKA PTY. LIMITER

2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

TURNERS & GROWERS LTD.

AUCTIONEERS FRUIT & PRODUCE merchani

AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND

WE SPECIALISE IN THE EXPORT TO THE TROPICS

OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE, POTATOES, ONIONS,

APPLES AND FRUITS IN SEASON

All Inquiries to our Export Organisation:

Turners Supply Company Limited

Box 1370, Auckland, N.Z.

Cables: “Tusco”, Auckland.

beer in

handy cans

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FOSTER’S LAGER

VICTORIA BITTER

Enjoy the convenience of beer in cans. HANDY CANS are ideal for all occasions, especially out-of-doors, because they’re light to carry, compact, and unbreakable. HANDY CANS are quick to chill, too, and retain all the world famous flavour of Foster’s Lager and Victoria Bitter. You’ll like them.

Distributed throughout the Pacific Islands by: — Burns Philp fir Co. Ltd., W. R. Carpenter Cr Co. Ltd., Morris, Hedstrom Ltd., Nelson fir Robertson Pty. Ltd., Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.

THINKING OF HARDBOARD? USE

TIMBROCK

JUST ONE BRUSHING WITH

Colgate

Dental Cream

o*

while it CLEANS

YOUR TEETH

CLEANS

YOUR

BREATH

jam

Your very first brushing with Colgate’s each morning removes up to 85% of the bacteria that cause bad breath! Yes, scientific tests prove that Colgate Dental Cream stops bad breath instantly in 7 out of 10 cases that originate in the mouth! When you brush your teeth with Colgate Dental Cream, you can actually feci how smooth and clean they are.

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 [ i people.

OEI THE FAMILT ECONOMY SITE

AND SAVE!

7

STOPS

TOOTH DECAY

BEST

KEEPS CHILDREN'S TEETH HEALTH

Scientific tests showed that the Colgal way of brushing teeth right after eatin stopped decay for more people than eve before reported in all dentifrice histori Your teeth are whiter—brighter—am you are assured of round-the-clock prc tection against decay-causing enzymes COLGATE DENTAL CREAM IS AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST-AMERICAS LARGEST— THE WORLD’S LARGEST SELLING DENTAL CRE W23l*

ncient Stories of the Birds from Paradise .boat 80 species and sul toaglnat&n for a long time. r 1 from a^enice in Niccdo e Java between 1415 and 1440.

Lt Europe In 1522 . . . brought to Spain by the survivors f^AV7slfndrwhen he shrntng these birds, the Inhabitants cut oft the l«s and this gave rise to the story that Birds of Paradise were legless, clentlflc name apoda .legless) of the Greater Birds of Paradise .Paradisaea 0 Reminds us of this. Where knowledge failed imagination took its place many remarkable stories were told of these birds in the 16th and 17th ries It was believed they came from paradise; after hatching they flew ■ds the sun and from the sun received their brilliant colours. As they had et they could not rest on trees nor on the ground and had therefore to in always in the air. This was ordained to prevent the birds soiling their *ge. One wondered where they laid their eggs, but a solution was easily [ The female laid her eggs and incubated them on the back of the male, 1 remained in the air. Later writers amended these stories. They still ed the bird had no legs, and thought that the two long tail feathers •d at the tip) enabled it to take a rest by hooking itself on to a tree branch. in extract from THE ANIMAL WORLD OF NETHERLANDS NEW GUINEA.

D. Brongersma, DSc. Published by J. B. Welters, Groningen.)

WARWACAMBA DAM

Construction Plnnt

To be sold by the

SYDNEY WATER BOARD, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

. Dam ’ containin g 1.600,000 cu. yds. excavaS ? me completion. The Special Plant used for wmmr, g« Processing, transporting, storage and delivery of the concreted a ° d batchi ng, mixing, placing and cooling fiL tne crete will become progressively available for sale over Tender* 1 wi ll be ofTered for purchase by Public br ° ChUre Wi “ be forwarded request pocuments which are expected to be available for l i C £ lS I ’, 2 . a " d 5 on 2nd November, 1959, and for items h „ 4 h d 6 -'n on 3 - d Februar y. 1960, will be forwarded on request Jnx n i> erS W,d J emain open for 3 months and are to be enclosed in envelopes endorsed “Warragamba Dam Plant Item No ” and ‘° the Secre,ary > MW ' S ' * D - Board! MMPit, StrlSl 4(«| C f!fn G v A J E '? INN,M P AND PROCESSING RlANT— Capacity 4001 tons/hr., 5 cu. yd. Dragline Excavator, Heavy Duty off- Dum P Trucks, Tournadozers, Conveyors, Vibrating Screens Crushers, Radial Stackers, Vibratory Feeders, Sand Washers, Pumps, Dewaterers, Sand Sizing and Classifying Plant. (Available approx. February, 1960.)

ITEM 2

81-CABIE AERIAL ROPEWAY —ISO tons per hour capacity, length 12.3 miles, automatic loading and unloading stations, ? nS ,’ 2 angle stations > 7 other cable track divide stations. 200 steel support trestles, 10 road crossing protection bridges, 600 carriages and buckets of 31 cu. ft. capacity (Available approx. February, 1960.) y

ITEM 3

Jn£?hl 8 J(J N CAPA f ,TY ELECTRIC CABLEWAYS— One fixed steel head tower and two travelling steel tail towers. Cable “WarH I’ 640 a " d . 1 .’ 795 ft - .Outstanding features include Ward-Leonard drives providing regeneration of power, rheostatic speed controls and comprehensive safety devices (Available not before early 1961.)

ITEM 4

GNE 10-TON ELECTRIC CABLEWAY— Travelling head tower and fixed tail tower, cable span 1,033 ft. Features are rheostatic speed control and dynamic braking. (Available not before September, 1960.) v

ITEM 5

CRUSHED ICE PLANT —Capacity 160 tons per day of clear ice, 3 Vogt tube-ice machines, 4 condensers and 5 “Budge”

Compressors. (Available approx. March, 1960 )

ITEM 6

fann ,GERATIO, f PLANT FOR COOLING WATER— Capacity 1,400 g.p.m. of water from 50° F. to 42° F 4 “Werner”

Compressors, 4 Condensers, 4 multipass Water-Coolers and 4 rumps. (Available not before June, 1960 )

ITEM 7

automatic concrete batching and mixing plant- Capacity 150 cu. yds. hour; steel tower, bins, 9 “Johnson” automatic weigh batchers and 4/2 cu. yds. tilting drum Koehrmg Mixers. (Available not before June 1960 )

ITEM 8

PNEUMATIC BULK CEMENT HANDLING AND STORAGE PLANT r~Jwo Fuller Kenyon Cement Pumps (45 tons/hour each); Silos and 2 Bins (total capacity 2,000 tons) and approx 20 Transport Hoppers (3 tons each). (Available not before September, 1960.)

ITEM 9

CONCRETE HANDLING EQUIPMENT— “PIanet” diesel locomolive, 6 rail trucks and 11 “Johnson” double clam shell, airoperated concrete buckets of 8 and 4 cu. yd. capacity (Available not before June, 1960.) A - sii S J£ FF c? RD ' i s « refaryi Mws - & D. Board. 341 P.tt Street, Sydney. N.S.W., Australia.

MWI66-59

I'M A HEALTHY CHILD . . .

THANKS TO GLAXO BABY FOOD

Glaxo milk-food gave me the right start to a healthy, happy childhood.

It's pure, nourishing and easily digested. There's no check to baby's steady progress with Glaxo.

PERFECT MILK-FOOD FOR BABIES

FULL CREAM

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MILK FOOD

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4 °° N SONSHINt GLAXO AND

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INRICHCO WITH

V ‘TAMIN O 7 AND

Glaxo Laboratories (N.Z.) Ltd., Palmerston North, N.Z.

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KOPSEN

AUSTRALIA'S LEADING SHIP CHANDLER:

PENTA MARINE

ENGINES

Proved the world over.

Mn AH Direct Injection

Ifll/ Diese , Engine

82 H.P.

6 Cylinder

Freshwater Cooled—2 or 3 to 1 Reduction Gear.

Electric Starter and Generator—lnstrument Panel.

The Ideal Engine for Fishing Boats —

Trawlers—Cruisers—Pleasure Craft—Work

Boats.

Also 5 H.P., 30 H.P., 103 H.P., 165 H.P.

Models Available.

DIESEL

ft

'V" DRIVE GEARBOX

Available in ratio’s from zero to 30 per cent, overdrive or reduction. All gears and shafts made from the best quality nickel chromium steel, hardened and ground all shafts carried in ball races—water cooled— fitted to take tachometer inbuilt thrust in both directions—lightweight —easily mounted in boat—suitable for horse powers up to 80 HP

"DOMINANT"

AUTOMATIC

BILGE CLEANER

Reduces fire hazard and keeps oil and grease in state of suspension in the bilges of marine craft — roll of boat keeps bilge clean and gives off pleasant pine odour available in 2 sizes; 1 gallon, h gallon.

ELLIOT LIFE RAFTS

Agents for Simplex and Ailsa Craig Marine Engines The Elliot inflatable life-raft is t most compact and dependable fo; of life-saving equipment. Ell life-rafts are fully tested a, approved for all types of vesse Range from: 4-6-8-10-12-25 mi capacity. Write for details a price.

Also Elliott “Dolphin” inflatal yacht tender —highly portable t “Dolphin” is designed for ship shore transport—light and comps —easily stowed —propelled by eitb oars or outboard motor.

W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD

Phone: BX 6331 (11 lines)

376-380 Kent St., Sydney

Cables: 'KOPSEN", Sydney

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Kodak

FOR THE COMFORT AND CONVENIENC

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BRAYB

BROS Pty.

ality Products 27-33 WASH HGTON ST

Please write for full particulars without obligation on your part 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 tropic proofed electrically and are simpU to install Skilled labour is noi uired

IVs a family affair . . .

PICTURE-MAKING THE EASY LOW COST

Kodak

The World’s favourite “snapshooter”, with its own flasholder, flashbulbs, batteries and Kodak Film, in one big-value outfit. All the family can enjoy the fun of taking brilliant flash pictures indoors (or outdoors) at night as well as sparkling outdoors in daylight. The Brownie Flash II Camera Outfit is tremendous value and perfect for “gift giving”.

BROWNIE FLASH CAMERA OUTFIT

Every growing family should have one!

Kodak’s famous Brownie Flash II Camera gives you wonderful pictures every time you press the buttonincluding closeups at 5 ft. Sturdy, easy-to-use, it has two big clear viewfinders and takes 8 pictures on every roll of 620 film. A Brownie Flasholder can be quickly attached for flashaking, a picture tal anywhere anytime.

BROWNIE FLASH II CAMERA

Kodak

(AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LTD.,

KODAK DEALERS

THROUGHOUT THE ISL

All over the world Smart people —

START the day right

with a Kiwi Shine

/ From New York to Timbuctoo— From Birmingham to Hawaii— From London to Papua Smart people start the day right with a Kiwi Shine.

Kiwi puts a gleam on your shoes that lasts all day. - They're well worn, but they’ve worn well, thanks to

KIWI

Warnock Bros. Limited

AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Manufacturers of well known brands of Laundry Soap

"KIA ORA" AND “NATURU"

Also: "Foam" Soap Powder Detergent "Electric' Pumice Sand Soap Obtainable from Auckland and Island Merchants

V

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ANY TIME—ANY PLACE

UNDER ANY CONDITIONS

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CRAMMONDS

SHIP-TO-SHIP

SHIP-TO-SHORE

INTER-ISLAND

RADIO

COMMUNICATIOI

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.

CRAMMONDS "CTR 14"

This transciever provides amazing re used on coastal fishing boats and craft. Most suited, too, for inter-i; munication. It will receive and tran and over 300 miles. Operated on 12

CRAMMONDS "CTR 20"

Latest in the Crammond range is this 50 watt CTR2O, the most powerful radio telephone manufactured. It is designed and built specially for the Fishing Industry. Available in 24 volt D.C., 240 volt A.C.

CRAMMOND RADIO MNFG. CO. PTY. LTD.

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PAPUA & NEW GUINEA AGENTS:

PACIFIC RADIO & ELECTRICAL

P.O. Box 193, Port Moresby

103 WICKHAM ST., VALLEY,

QUEENSLAND

Hungry

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Chew healthful, delicious '' m. Gum. You’ll m find it satisfies i'f but won’t spoil - your appetite.

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Buying Agents for all Pacific Territories

and Authorised Agents for

LOTUSLAND

INNERSPRING

MATTRESS

The Lotusland "40"

Winker Innerspring Mattress has soft, flexible prebuilt borders which cannot sag or break down with use; attractive, uniform button tufting. The spring unit is manufactured entirely in the Lotusland Factory. Look for the "40" Winker label.

POPE

PRODUCTS

Pope products are made in the largest and most modern organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. They include: Washing Machines, Wringmaster Wringers, Refrigerators, Wimbledon Lawn Mowers and Electric Motors.

MASSE

DRY-FRESH

BATTERIES

They're One-Pak. Every thing including dry charged battery, poly thene bottles, each witl its own pourer, contain ing acid of correct speci fic gravity ready to pour Springs into life immedi ately acid is added. Ha; Permassep Separator; and Massaloy Plate grids

ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD.

22 YOUNG STREET, SYDNEY

Phone: BU 2221

ALSO 334 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND.

Cables: “Robergill Associate Companies ROBERT GILLESPIE (N.G.) LTD. ROBERT GILLESPIE (FIJI) LTD.

Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Port Moresby Victoria Parade, Suva

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recommended by

m % She S WISC • • • she fights tooth

decay and bad breath

with

the toothpaste

recommended by

8 out of 10 dentists

Yes, she's following sound advice indeed when she uses Ipana tooth paste, because Ipana contains WD 9 (sodium lauryl sulphate)—the antienzyme which destroys decay-causing bacteria better than any other. And Ipana's refreshing flavour leaves the mouth clean and breath sweet for hours.

Be wise and always use Ipana, the toothpaste recommended by 8 out of 10 dentists.

A product of Bristol-Myers.

BM. 12.57

SIL ROHU

143 ELIZABETH ST., SYDNEY Art A 3540 To our many Friends and Clients in the Islands. We inyite you to consult us in your problems and wants in Shooting requirements—Rifles, Ammunition and Accessories, etc.

Also Fishing Tackle to tackle your fishing—large or small. Queries, etc., promptly answered.

Underwater Spear Fishermen also very adequately catered for.

Mail Orders Our Speciality Write For Our Catalogue

If you buy tyres

You cannot buy BETTER QUALITY than

HARDIE

. .. the BEST TYRE for miles Prices are keenly competitive and the range includes passenger, truck, tractor, grader and industrial tyres in all wanted sizes.

Write for details!

Sole distributors throughout the Pacific Islands:

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

4 O’CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY

P.O. Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: “Carefulness”,

A. B. DONALD LTD.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

Cables and T'grams.: "KINGDOM” Auckland. P.O. Box 1509.

Fruit, Grain & Produce Merchants. General Merchants. Shipowners & Island Traders

PACIFIC ISLANDS BRANCHES

General Merchants (Wholesale & Retail) & Shipowners Importers & Exporters

ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI

QUAI DU COMMERCE, PAPEETE. Telegraphic address: "DONALD, PAPEETE' Branches throughout the Marquesas Islands.

A. B. DONALD LTD.

RAROTONGA COOK ISLANDS

Branches throughout the Cook Islands.

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The Famous "ANCHOR" Family includes . . .

• ANCHOR UNSWEETENED

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.

For quick, lasting results ...

GLAZEBROOKS

SUPER-PROTECTIVE

SPRED GUDE-W

FLASH DRIES IN MINUTES!

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SPRED

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Glide-On

Supplies from local hard) store; if not £ able please co Outdoors or indoors SPRED Glide-On is the super protective fuss-free paint! Needs no primers or undercoats, goes on speedily, easily, flash dries to a velvet finish! Cleaning up is simple—just soap and water and there’s no painty smell to bother you! In wonderful colours that resist mould and mildew permanently, won’t peel or fade! Transform your home with SPRED Glide-On—it’s so quickly done and lasts so long.

' r - LIM 1 1 * Glazebrooks Fac Representative 2-12 Carrington S Sydney, N.S.W Australia.

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WORLD

Here it is the revolutionary

new flansomes conquest'|

Here, at last, is the mower that all the

world is talking about—the only side-whee

that cuts right up to the edge of the lawn.

Saves hours ot laborious hand-trimming around borders and trees. ® perfectly balanced for easy handling.

Streamlined cover pr°t e c t J kiddies’ fingers, and border Bonderlsed, rust resisting finish.

Self-lubricating. No fuss no l2 in. with slx-knlfe cutting cylinder: 14 in. with fiveknife cutting cylinder.

Both fitted with self-sharpening blades for perfect cutting.

DISTRIBUTORS: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, Lautoka and Ba, Levuka, Nukualofa, Apia.

RANSOMES SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD., IPSWICH, ENGLAND

Wunderlich Aluminium Windows

set the fashion in window beauty * , * 91 jf •V ■ ■ m m Double Hung Picture Windows Windows Sliding Picture Horizontal Sliding Windows Picture Windows

Economy , Adaptability and

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Wunderlich Aluminium Windows are economically priced to suit your budget. They offer wider vision—better lighting and freedom from painting— at lowest maintenance ever!

For strength, beauty, quality and ease of operation, you must see the full range . . . which includes Double Hung Windows, Picture Windows, Sliding Picture Windows, Horizontal Sliding Picture Windows.

Australia’s top-quality aluminium windows

Available direct or from your local hardware merchant.

Manufactured by / Made to the quality approved design of Cupples Corporation, U.S.A.

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available from Dept. “AW,”

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So simple! Hang a Lysaght TECT-A-TANK unit inside each tank before the first filling. So effective! It releases a corrosion-inhibiting film on inside walls. Guaranteed not to affect water.

Never needs replacing. So economical! Costs only a few shillings! Insist 0n...

LYSAGHT

Trade inquiries to: JOHN LYSAGHT (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD., )ffices in Sydney, Newcastle. Melbourne, Brisbane, AdeLa.de Fremantle

11 Next to myself I like B.V.D. be

MILLERS LIMITED

G.P.O. Box 296, Suva—Cables: “LUMBA”, Suva

SHIPWRIGHTS AND SAILMAKERS

ENGINEERS AND BOILERMAKERS

MOTOR DEALERS AND MECHANICS

HARDWARE MERCHANTS

JOINERY AND FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS

TIMBER MERCHANTS

BUILDING CONTRACTORS

PLUMBERS

No job is too big nor too small for

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GUARANTEED

Sole Distributors for: —

Suva and Loutoka

Fiji.

us to tackle Vauxhall Cars Bedford Trucks Chevrolet Cars Rover Cars Allis Chalmers Tractors Priestman Excavators Gallon Graders Broomwade Compressors Ruston & Hornsby Engines Hoover Appliances Land Rovers Frigidaire Refrigerators Johnson Outboard Motors B.A.L.M. Paints G.E.C. Radios S.K.F. Ball Bearings Firestone Tyres Vesta Batteries

Htxtd off -to

• •• • •• a The range of “Chula’

Copra Dryers includes models to suit any sized plantation, and the machines—which operate continuously in all weathers —need virtually no maintenance.

Highest grade copra is produced.

Write now for detatls of these wonderful machines, including power driven, natural draught and oil fired

AND IF YOU GROW RUBBER

write for details of the latest Huttenbach Rubber Machinery.

IYMESIDE

OUNDRY fc

ggNGINEERBMC Co.,Ltcfl.

SKINNERBURN ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND

Agents; Papua: The B.N.G. Trading Co. L'd., Port Moresby.

New Guinea: Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.. Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae, Madang and Kavieng.

Fiji, Samoa, Tonga: Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., Suva, Fiji.

Solomon Islands: Mendana Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 73. Honiara.

G. B. HARI & COMPANY LTI

Exporters of textiles, general merchandise and clothing, including PARADISE brand shirts, shorts, and trousers made in their own modern factory for all the islands of the South Pacific.

Gilbert & Ellice Samoa New Hebrides Tahiti

G B HARI & Co Ltd

exporting . from FIJI Cook Is Niue New Caledonia

Tonga

G. B. HARI & COMPANY LTD

G.P.O. Box 170. Renwick Road, Suva, Fiji Cables: "Nivas", Suva. Phones 4039, 3824 Associated with G. B. Hari & Co. (India), 188 Khetwadi Back Road, Bombay, 4 , Exporters of textiles and general merchandise

BOOK FOR SALE

PRIMER OF POLICE

MOTU

BY PERCY CHATTERTON. LCP

New Edition Now Available— For Use in Papua and New Guinea Price, Postage Paid, 4/6 From Bookshops in Port Moresby and Lae or from the Publishers Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, SYDNEY.

If it s a

BETTER RUM

you're wanting..

frigate

its 6/ended Overproof, underproof, in quarts, pints and 5 oz. flasks BLENDED AND BOTTLED BY JOHN WALKER AND SONS LTD. F. 8.6 yggrr? / "rrrjtiJOuuuQCiz

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, LTL Agents LAND INSURANCE CO. LTD and LLOYD>SI OF LONDON Agents for SOCIETE DES PETROLES SHELL DES lEE ?Jf of all DU PACIFIQUE, and numerous overseas manufactu classes of merchandise.

L0 „ d „„ As e„. S : BURNS, PbS- iflgA. *

A. H. BUNTING LTD

SAMARA! and POPONDETTA

Dealers in all types of Island Produce

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL MERCHANTS

SHIPOWNERS IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS

PLANTERS, SHIPPING, CUSTOMS and

INSURANCE AGENTS

Agents — BUNTINGS BISCUITS LTD. rabaul

LAE and GOROKA

How refreshing to sit at ease with a glass sparkling cool K.B. Lager . . . truly "lager as yo like it" . . . truly the favourite of men and wome everywhere!

Tooth's

BREWED AND BOTTLED 8Y tOOTH & CO. LIMITED

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Electrolux

LSD

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Fresh Foods

The C 80 will conserve up to 10" dry weight of pre-frozen pack foods.

Even fresh foods may be kept several weeks or many times loi in the CBO than in an ordii refrigerator.

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Cold Drinks

Up to 80 bottles can be stored in four wire baskets supplied with C 80; beer and all kinds of drinks are rapidly and economic cooled even in places where ther no electricity available.

The C 80 cooling unit carries a 5-yi guarantee; the chest and other pa are guaranteed for one year.

KEROSENE-

OPERATED

Retail Price, Main New Guinea Ports: £156/10/- The C 80 is the first cooler in the world to operate without electri or blocks of ice. Economic in use pays for itself in a short ti

ELECTROLUX

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD., The Wales House, 27 O'Connell St., Sydney. BL 5421 ~I c ’ uni.m D a U n o a ..^ a^ J ' Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo. Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby, i.c.i.t., Noumea. 8.5.1. P. Trading Corporation, Honiara, Gizo. Burns Philp (NH) Ltd., Vila, Santo. F.J. R.

Simmonds, Norfolk Island. ttclct hue quality product

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Enjoy the

e>

friendliest service

afloat

to and from America

S.S. MARIPOSA S.S. MONTEREY

When you go Matson it’s more than just a trip it’s a marvellous carefree vacat American style. You enjoy those Matson extras more space, more comfort Matson limits its passenger list to fewer than 365. It’s all First Class . . . your lounge converts 10 a bedroom by night, has a private bath, an air-conditioned temperature you select.

Unsurpassed cuisine, service and entertainment... on liners stabilized for your coi

Sailing Dates Northbound

MARIPOSA

MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

1960

SYDNEY

Oct. 14 Nov. 7 Dec. 2 Dec. 24 Jan. 20

AUCKLAND

Oct. 20 Nov. 10 Dec. 5 Dec. 27 Jan. 23

SUVA

Oct. 23 Nov. 13 Dec. 8 Dec. 30 Jan. 26 And sailings approx, every three weeks thereafter.

SYDNEY: 82 Elizabeth Street. FIJI: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

AUCKLAND: 73 Queen Street. SAMOA: B. F. Kneubuhl, Pago Pago TAHITI: Etablissements Baldwin, Papeete.

PAGO PAGO

sSS

The Oceanic Steamship Company (Limited Liabil Inc. in U.S.A.)

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Pacific

EUROPE

WEST INDIES

NEW ZEALAND

AUSTRALIA AND

SOUTH AFRICA

Linking the

Pacific

Islands with

The 20,000 tons all Tourist Class liner 8.8. Southern Cross emphasises the modern trend in travel with the latest in amenities: • Every cabin air-conditioned • Two swimming pools • Unencumbered sports decks • Children’s play rooms and deck • Spacious lounges • Air-conditioned Dining Room • Orchestra • Cinema Theatre • Stabilisers i X X.

W r-» /. • etP For full particulars apply I—Any branch or agency of Burns‘ Address: Donald, phil. TAHlTl—Etablissements Donald Tahiti, rapce

MVYvetv

at

stay

7* m 0 * K tW Delightfully situated in cent grounds overlookin beautiful harbour, the Pacific Hotel is the socia of Fiji.

Specially designed f tropics. Excellent cuis tentive service by traine waiters and servants.

Singles £2/15/- to £ Doubles £7/10/- to £ Telephones in every roo Hotel in the proces complete modernisa Under the new Mana of:

CATHAY HOTELS LTD., Sir

Cables: GRANPACIF SI

AUSTRALIA-WEST PACIFIC LIN

I »« < "» tf «*

=»«ErTTR:

M.V. MILOS’

« L *^f LEET com P risin 9 the modern Motor Vessels "Aros", "Citos", "Dele and Milos offers the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Australia to M Japanese Ports and Shanghai via Manila and Hong Kong. Southbound vessels call at a or all, of the following ports: Hong Kong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane, ney, Melbourne and Adelaide, with six-weekly calls at Madang, Honiara, Vaniko Santo and Vila.

Further particulars may be obtained from: AGENCY PTY - LTD - 30 - 32 Pitt st - sydney - phone BUi AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs. Bright & Co.

Tran2)ort A ?Sited : Strachan. Lae (New Guinea)-R. W. Tebb. Rabaul (New Britain)-!

Transport Limited. Honiara (Solomon Islands)—British Solomon Islands Trading Corporation. Espiritu Santo (New Hebri Hebrides) Pty - Ltd - Vila < New Hebrides) —Wm. Breckwoldt & Co.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan.

LONDON-SUVA

DIRECT S£^

VIA

PANAMA

For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To: — BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD., BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) 138 LEADENHALL ST., CO * LTD ’

LONDON, E.C.3. SUVA, FIJI

U/ c.

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRANSPORT LINE

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels “THORSISLE** and THORSHALL Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and TAHITI - SAMOA FIJI - NEW CALEDONIA -

NEW HEBRIDES - NEW GUINEA

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

General Agents 432 California Street, San Francisco 4, California, U.S.A PAPEETE —Etablissements Donald Tahiti.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

PORT VlLA—Comptoirs F r a n c a i s des Nouvelles Hebrides.

APIA —Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

NOUMEA —Etablissements Ballande.

LAE —Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

SYDNEY—Birt & Co. (Pty.) LtcL

WHEREVER IN THE WORLD YOU’RE GOING

BOAC

WILL JET YOU THERE!

CHOOSE VALUE, fly BOAC

next time you travel by air !

BOAC has a world-wide reputation. That is why it builds its fleet with the world’s finest airliners-such as the incomparable new Comet 4 jetliners and the famous jet-prop Britannias on world-wide routes. That is why it makes sure that service aboard these airliners is unsurpassed offering you a unique blend of comfort, good food and truly personal attention.

Thanks to BOAC’s farreaching route network, you can enjoy this supreme air travel right round the world.

Make BOAC your link with cities on all six continents I Consult your local Travel Agent or any BOAC, Qantas, TEAL Booking Office.

BOAC

World Leader in Jet Travel

BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION WITH QANTAS, TEAL, S.A.A. AND C.A.A.

AIO/AU

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of pleasure

An airline

—and the islands

M V fll -

ISHb

m mm m: New Zealand is the holiday Paradise of the South Pacific. For here is a genially temperate and unspoilt land fashioned by a lavish hand for the leisurely pursuit of every sporting and scenic pleasure.

And here, too, is the domain of New Zealand National Airways Corporation, whose fleet links 20 key cities, towns and tourist resorts, and connects with other airlines servicing many more centres.

NAC

NEW

ZEALAND

4M

NATIONAL AIRWAYS CORPORATION

MUNGO SCOTT PTY. LTD.

Established 1894

AUSTRALIAN

PC UJ

msm

SYDNIY

AUSTRALIA

FLOUR MILLERS

SUMMER HILL, NEW SOUTH WALES

Cables & Telegraphic Address: SUPERB, Sydney

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Noumea

Relax —on an island

in the sun

U!

'• ® • P : "*r

F!y T A i

(luxury airline of France) to

NOUMEA

FIJI

TAHITI

by luxurious

Super DC.6B

Within a few hours, you can be basking in the South Sea sun! Fly TAI to Noumea, Fiji or Tahiti . . . enjoy superb French food and wine and relaxing film shows en route. For an unforgettable South Sea holiday. fly TAI.

THE LUXURY AIRLINE OF FRANCE

>r information and bookings, contact V 0" local Travel ' or; lISBANE: FRANCE AUSTRALIA CO. PTY. LTD., SC °7' S i H cc UN ° 7 EAGLE STREET. B 3737. SYDNEY: MESSAGERIES MARITIMES, > GROSVENOR STREET. BU 2654. TAI, 310 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY.

V 6194. MELBOURNE: TAI, 408 COLLINS STREET. MU 2998.

Sydney Addresses for

Islands Visitors

\LIAN TERRITORIES DE-

'JT, Commonwealth Buildings, Quay West (B-0537) —a massive me building on the right side of »rge Street, Millers Point. ■NG COPRA BOARD Representa* Winn, B-0537, extension 59-A)— i Commonwealth Building, above.

ZEALAND GOVERNMENT offices:

Mutual Building, 14 Martin Place, GPO. Tourist Bureau on ground rade Commissioner’s Office and sewhere in building.

GOVERNMENT Representative: & Co. Ltd., 15 Bent Street, extension 342, Mr. Menzies). eet is an extension of Spring

PACIFIC COMMISSION: City

publications etc.: 115 Pitt Street W 3409/BW 5487). West side of eet between Martin Place and treet.

Classified Advertisements

Per line, 3/-; Minimum, 4 lines.

IN MEMORIAM

£AP°. N '~ In lovin & memory of my son Cliff, aircraft engineer, who lost his life at Gibbes’ Sepik Airways, Wewak, New Guinea, on September 19, 1949. aged 31 years. Inserted by his mother.

ACCOMMODATION

FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne. Sydney Water frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery. 10 minutes 1° Cl , t L Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd.. G.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney. Aust

POSITIONS WANTED

TWO ENGLISHMEN, 22 and 30 years, single, untrained but willing, require work in any of the Pacific Islands (New Guinea preferred). It is hoped that the situations would be of a permanent or semipermanent nature. Anything considered good references and energetic workers!

D Mardlin e- 56 Bland Street.

Ashfield. N.S.W., Australia.

SCOTSWOMAN, teacher of Pitman’s short hand and typewriting (untrained bu some valuable experience); also secretary stenographer (18 years British Common wealth Government experience. Britain Canada. Australia and U.S.A.; 10 year; private firms) seeks position. Single, Pro! testant, 51 years, some knowledge French versatile. Miss M. Forson. 1468 Malverr Kd. Glen Iris, 5.E.6, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS

FIJI HIRE-DRIVE LTD. Modern cars accommodating 5, 6 and 9 passengers Minimum formalities. Rates include insurance and free mileage plan. Aircraft and ships met. Queen’s Road, Walu Bav Suva (P.o. Box 299). Cables: “Hiredrive”

Suva. Also at Lautoka.

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.-At your ser vice In Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurler Pt s Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: FA 1001 Enquiries invited.

RECREATION

EASY-TO-LEARN DANCES, for school oi other concerts, etc. Written out like plays Enquiries: Learn-quick, 1 Richards Avenue Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia.

AGENTS WANTED

THIS IS HONG KONG CALLING, offering

you the opportunity of building sound relations with established exporting house handling all Hong Kong products. We wish to appoint agents, samples supplied free. Write: P.O. Box 3446. Hong Kong.

EDUCATIONAL

BARKER COLLEGE, HORNSBY, NSW

Church of England school on healthy site near Sydney. Boys boarded 5 to 18 years Particulars from J. G. Dewes, M.A.. Headmaster, Barker College, Hornsby NSW

FOR SALE

ISLAND VESSELS under construction. 40 ft. army-type workboat, wheelhouse and accommodation fwd., and large open cockpit. 40 ft. raised-deck workboat wheelhouse, and large hold for cargo below decks. 45 ft. raised-deck workboat, for cargo and personnel. Above vessels are of sturdy construction, built to rigid specifications. Delivery at short notice Specifications, price, etc., will be supplied on request Builders: Wynne S. Breden NS W td ’’ Phoenlx Shipyards”, Newcastle.

FLEETS. 45 ft. bridge deck carvel cruiser twin 72 h.p. Gardner marine diesels’ hydraulic anchor winch, ready for sea, £5,250. 62 ft. hard chine speed cruiser’ coppered, three Gray marine desels, flying bridge, dual controls, fully found, £l4 700 Fleets, 525 Stanley St., South Brisbane’

Queensland.

ARTIFACTS WAN

AN EX-NEW GUINEA RESID

to buy native artifacts—flgui etc.—particularly from the Se] facts”, c/o Box 3408, GP.O £

SERVICES

WATCH REPAIRS to all

watches. Send your repairs the only Swiss watchmaker giv to the Pacific Islands. Rapid work guaranteed. Swiss -Cl Service, 0 Garner Avenue, Frem Sydney, Australia.

PENFRIENDS WAN

FIJI—"The Crossroads of th Headquarters, World’s leadir (Est. 1933) providing correspondents interested h Colonies and Pacific Islands friendly exchange of ideas ai as Philately, Conchology, etc for specimen copy Club Journ Life” and application form, to South Sea Island Correspond!

Natuvu, Fiji Is.

BOOKS, MAGAZII

READERS OF ENGLISH are

apply for a free book entitled ‘ the Truth” which makes clear ing of the Bible. Write to: I Bible Mission. 21 Glamis Aveni bourne, Bournemouth, England.

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS

TRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC

AND SOLD. .Catalogues issued free on application. Correspon vited. Berkelouw, 114 King St Telephone; BW 7874.

FREE AND POST FREE—64 p

trated Bargain Catalogue. Ster P-I-J, 200 George St.. Sydney,

TENDERS

Warragamba Dam (Australia)

CONSTRUCTION PLANT

FOR SALE

See page 126.

CURRENT BOOKS

We search the world successfully for rare and out-of-prim THE MEGALITHIC CULTURE OF MELANESIA (A. Riesenfeld). A comprehen; of the megalithic structural remains and cultural traits. Three plates 26 fl; maps. £5/15/-, postage 5/-.

LEGENDS AND MYSTERIES OF THE MAORI (C. A. Wilson). £l/5/-, po: WOMEN’S CHANGING CEREMONIES IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA (Cat!

Berndt). With five plates. £l/5/-, postage 1/-.

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ROCK ART (F. D. McCarthy). Well illus. 5/-, p.

DESTINED MEETING (Leslie Bell). The true incredible story of Dr. Phil and his wife which reveals the brutality and savagery of war. Illustrated postage, 1/3.

Also New and Secondhand Books on Australiana, Pacific, Art. Natural History ing, Orchids, Biographies and General Literature. Lists Free.

We are Specialists in Microscopes, Prismatic Binoculars and Day and Ast Telescopes, Magnifiers, Compasses, Barometers, etc. Write for lists.

N. H. SEWARD PTY. LTD

457 BOURKE ST., MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. MU 6129

MACHINERY

Warragamba Dam (Australia)

CONSTRUCTION PLANT

FOR SALE

See page 126.

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OlrndsMadeYound

Specialising in Pacific

Islands Insurances.

FIRE—MOTOR VEHICLE—MARINE

—HULLS AND CARGO-

EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY.

BONDS —in accordance with Administration Ordinance—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.

OlrndsMadeYound

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And this amazing new eland and vigour restorer, called VI- Stim, has been tested and proved by thousands In America, and is now available at all chemists here. Get Vi-Stlm from your chemist to-day. Put It to the test. See the big improvement in 24 hours. Take the full bottle under the guarantee that It must make you full »f vim, vigour and energy, and eel 10 to 20 years younger, or noney back. To j^tore Vim and Vlronr money oacK. ,

Vi-Stim

AIR PHOTOGRAPHS

Every city and town in New Zealand, including rural and scenic areas.

Norfolk Is.. Lord Howe, Noumea, Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa. Apia, Aitutaki, Rarotonga, Papeete, Moorea, Kermadecs, Rabaul, Port Moresby, Lae.

Sizes 10 by 8 inches—7/6 (N.Z.) ea., plus 1/- pack and post. Enquiries invited for colour or larger sizes

WHITES AVIATION LTD.

P.O. Box 2040, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Ventura Trading Co. Pty. Ltd.

RALPH W. KING & YUILL

Members of the Sydney Stock Exchange

113 PITT STREET, SYDNEY. BL 5771-2-3

Cables and Telegrams: "Ralphking" Sydney and Melbourne

406 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE. 67-5089, 67-5080

Branches at Grafton and Armidale

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 ot er pro uc handled on consignment.

Write direct to our Islands Export Manager with over 35 years experience in the Islands.

CABLES: VENTURA SYDNEY

■m • S»c«£ m

Mr. Cuclone

builds stronger (or longer

Cyclone Tubular Steel Building Frames represent one of the most significant developments in building construction!

They are not only stronger, weight for weight, than any other type of structure, “Cyclone” Tubular Steel Frames are adaptable to almost every building problem and have these big advantages: Prefabricated sections are standardised, making easy handling and sure fitting. More durable and lower maintenance costs. More readily withstand reversal of stresses and abuse loadings. Every type and size of building can be erected with “Cyclone” Tubular Steel all with a completely free entrance and floor area.

Build fast —to last —with

Cyclone tubular structures

contact your nearest branch of

BURNS PHIIP (N.G.) LIMITED

or CYCLONE COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA LTD.,

Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville.

Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA9197). Wholly set

printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

„«R.Fic Islands Monthly

SEPTEMBER. 1959 PAC

TtAl

(OCOETUS VOLITANS

\\ COVERS THE SAME GROUND!

@ & EXOCOETUS VOLITANS, the flying fish; in the Polynesian tongue “Maroro.” A familiar sight in South Pacific waters.

Familiar also are the airliners of TEAL, covering, in a sense, the same ground” but in a more regular and predictable fashion, bringing the blessing of modern transportation to the Pacific Islands.

Significantly the “Maroro” is the TEAL emblem symbolising the airline’s function of serving the South Pacific.

X

TtAl

New Zealand's International Airline

uiries or reservations your Travel Agent or

SERVING THE SOUTH PACIFIC

nearest TEAL office. In association with Qantas

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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.

AGENTS FOR AUSTRALIAN, EURC

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTU

DISTRIBUTORS OF EVERY DESCRE

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTI

Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address: “CAMOHE.” BL 5421 G.P.0., Box 168, Sy In London: W. R. Carpenter fir Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lone, London, E.C.3

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC:

IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Island Products Ltd., Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Kokopo. Port Moresby. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji)