Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (Oct. 1, 1960)
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ISLANDS

Monthly

OCTOBER, 1960

Vol. XXXI. No. 3

iblished 1930

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This is the South Pacific! It's Islands life just as much as palm trees and coconuts. These three lovely girls are from French New Cale donia, and they helped brighten up New Caledonia's annual commemora tion week in Sep tember when they took part in a con cours d'elegance which brought out some of New Cale donia's finest cars, prettiest dresses and loveliest women.

The judges had a hard time of it picking the winner —Mile. Trin, right.

Details are on page 131.

Photo: Fred Dunn.

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Contents

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No. 3. Vol. XXXI.

October, 1960

PEOPLE: Personal Paragraphs of Islands' Interest 7 Papua-New Guinea is on the Road to Autonomy 17 BSIP Announces its First Legislative Council 18 P-NG Labour Tour is All Very Secret 18 Does the New Hebrides Know Where It's Going? 19 A Round-up of Fiji Troubles 20 No Fireworks in Mr. Amery's Islands Visit 20 Fiji Facing the Graver Issues 21 New Cook Islands Resident Commis sioner 22 New Guinea has a Japanese Trade Flood 22 Six Fiji-lndians in a Big Lottery Win 23 No End Yet to West Samoa's Battle of Words 23 COMMENTARY: A Look at Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors' Mailbag 27 G. W. L. Townsend Says: "We Didn't Play Our Cards Right" 29 Factory Shut-downs Mean Further Gloom for Fiji 31 Dark Days in New Guinea Recalled 33 Mystery of the "Montevideo Maru" 33 Financial Revolution in the Planting Industry 37 Copra at a Sensible Level 41 The Tolais Start a War of Their Own 43 End of Norfolk Whaling Season 45 Senator Kennedy's Solomon Exploits 45

Fiji Legco Debates the Sugar Problem 49 You Won't Be Sorry to Be in Vanua Levu 53 Big Influx of BSIP Shipping 54 Are "Sub-standard" Houses Fiji's Answer? 57 Noumea Has a Housing Scheme ... 61 The Mighty Sepik Puts on a Show .. 61 SYDNEYSIDER at Home Base 63 Fred Hargesheimer's Plans for a New Britain School 67 The Road to the New Guinea High lands 69 Fiji Sugar Hold-up Means More Crops in Some Ways 78 Some Memories of Sir Beaumont Phillips 79

MAGAZINE SECTION:

Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; Goodbye to an Era, 83; Exploits of the Mission Ship "Duff", 84; Do You Remember? 86; The Wonder ful Sisters of Noumea, 86; Brett Hilder's Profile, 87; Books 88 Pacific Shipping News 101

PACIFIC REPORT (Index p. 17) 117

OBITUARIES: Mr. A. Cresswell; Mr.

Maxwell Taylor Duff; Mr. Patterson Alsop; Mrs. F. M. Addis; Mr. A.

H. Wright; Mr. W. J. Gatward; Mr.

Matthew Whan; Dr. W. M. Ram say; Hon. Ulukalala-Ata 149 Sports Review 151 Shipping and Airways Timetables ... 153 Commerce and Produce 161

People

pp. 9-17

*o succeed Mr. K. D. Bhasin as nmissioner for the Government India in Fiji, the Government hdia has announced the appoint it of Shri J. K. Ganju, at sent Deputy-Secretary in the listry of External Affairs. [r. Ganju was born on April 24, [, and educated at Lucknow versity. He was appointed to Indian Foreign Service in 1948 has served successively as First retary, Rangoon Embassy, 1-50; Chief Controller of Im ;s, 1950; First Secretary, Teheran Dassy, 1950-53; First Secretary ,rge d’Affaires, Mexico City Jassy, 1954-58. ]r. Bhasin returns to Delhi in uary. His next appointment has yet been named. It is not yet wn when Mr. Ganju will arrive riji.

r Percy and Lady McNiece, of ;apore, arrived in Suva in Oc r, on a three months’ visit. Sir ;y is one of the heads of Cathay sis, Limited, which owns the lay in Singapore, the Grand ific in Suva, and the new South fic Hotel, now approaching corn ion in Lautoka, Fiji. Lady fiece is a daughter of Mrs. Loke, has superintended the renova of the Grand Pacific Hotel since lay purchased it from the Union Co. Ltd. in 1959.

[?]ppointment of Mr. David Clive Trench to [?]ost of High Commissioner for the Western [?]c in succession to Sir John Gutch is a [?]ar one in the Western Pacific, even though [?]uld be difficult for anyone to have to [?] immediately in the footsteps of Sir John, [?]has been a great success. Mr. Trench, at [?]t Deputy Colonial Secretary in Hongkong, [?]take up his new post at Honiara in the year. He will be responsible for British [?]sts in the New Hebrides, BSIP and GEIC.

Sir Percy said in Suva that muc more investment in hotels and a( commodation was needed in Fiji i develop the tourist industry. Fi he said, was “quite underdevelope in this way at the moment”. I. said Cathay hotels intended furth investment in the future but i definite plans had been made. * * * Mr. Norman Cowan and Mr.

Murray recently paid a visit Western Samoa to gather materi for a musical opera to be bast on the life of Robert Loi Stevenson in Samoa. The pr duction is being sponsored by tl Los Angeles Civic Light Opera A sociation, and is to be staged abo September next year in Los Angeli San Francisco, and possibly Ne York. Mr. Cowan, the director, writing the libretto and Mr. Murr is the composer.

“The Fair Dinkum Posada” the name chosen for a hotel Australians which Yugoslav be Mick Stravs hopes to establish Spain soon. Mr. Stravs now Australian citizen, left Rabaul, 1* in September for Europe af several years working in Rab as a chemist. He said he wan to start the hotel in Spain beca' many Australians visited there s Australians “did not want too mu ceremony in an hotel”. * * * The people of Sugu villa Wanderer Bay, Guadalcanal, v receive a gift as a result of; recent visit by an expatris Wanderer Bay is where Benj an Boyd was killed in 1861, and wb Boyd’s great-nephew Viscov Boyd, the former Secretary of St; for the Colonies, visited tli earlier this year he heard t story of Benjamin Boyd’s des from an old man of the vills

Applauding the Australian acrobats at monster carnival that was part of New C[?] donia's birthday celebrations are, from I[?] the Mayor of Noumea, Mr. Laroque; Governor of New Caledonia, Mr. Pechoux; the president of the committee which organ[?] the celebrations, Mr. Numa Daly.

Photo; Fred Du[?]

rho had heard it from his ther).

Now Viscount Boyd has presented sum of money to commemorate s visit and it will be spent on stalling a piped water supply to e village. * * * Controversial South Australian hour member of Federal Parlia 3nt, Mr. Clyde Cameron, who ide a controversial visit to P-NG few months ago, had three writs ■ defamation, each for £lO,OOO, ued against him in the Papua w Guinea Supreme Court in tober. The writs gave no details, baul solicitor Dudley Jones ged them on behalf of Mr. T. rrett, of Varzin Plantation, and baul businessmen John Dowling 1 Arthur Brown. Mr. Cameron, o visited Rabaul during his tour, > 45 days to answer them.

he Most Reverend Leo L. Lemay, STD, lately Provincial of the •ist Fathers in the South Pacific nds area, was consecrated a lop in Sydney in September, now takes up the post of Vicar stolic of the North Solomons in session to Bishop Wade, who re i to America because of ill Ith last year. * * * >aded with botanical specimens 5 of exposed movie film, tape irdmgs and bulging note books, seven-man Kyoto University lorers’ Club research team ch has been working in Tonga e early July was homeward nd in October. Said the expedi

Japanese wife of an engineer employed by Nickel Company of Noumea was among pretty women who took part in the con [?]d'elegance which was part of New Gale [?]s annual birthday celebrations this year.

She makes a pretty picture.

Photo: Fred Dunn.

i’s senior member, Professor Y. buuchi: “The expedition was well 'th while.” Fishing methods and ial structure of fishing villages Tonga, agricultural engineering, any, archaeology and sociological jects interested the expedition ch was financed by selling popu articles to newspapers, and by ing TV films and recordings. The versity also received public ations.

ssidents of Papua-New Guinea 3 for a long time been interested the possibilities of having a in the Commonwealth Parlia it—as the Northern Territory In October a Liberal member :he House, Mr. Swartz, asked Minister for Territories, Mr. luck, whether he would con i' such a seat for an elected ve member. The Minister led that no consideration was g given at present to allowing G to be represented.

[?]more P-NG families were linked when John married Adele Wood at St. Mary's Catholic [?]h, Lae, in September. The bride is the [?]er daughter of Mrs. Stella Wood of Lae, [?]he late Mr. Davis Wood of Wau and Lae. [?]Kelly brothers are hard-working farmers [?]e Markham Valley. Brother Laurence, who best man, married a local girl last year.

[?]ent wedding of interest in Suva was the [?]ge of Emelie Morris, of Rotuma, to [?]nt L. Senior, RNZAF. The Rev. Father [?] officiated at the ceremony at Sacred [?]Cathedral, and the reception held at [?]F base, Laucala Bay, was attended by 200 guests. Here are the bride and [?]room with bridesmaid Agnes Morris, sister of the bride.

Photo: Stinsons.

“I am leading a long processioi of seconded officers who have lef before their work is finalised. M' resignation is due to persona friction and a feeling that then was no real appreciation of th need to develop the informatioi service of Western Samoa.”

The quote belongs to Mr. Roderi McDiarmid, appointed earlier thi year as Director of Public Relation for Western Samoa, as printed o: the front page of the Sama Bulletin in September. M: McDiarmid, who among othe things, launched the Governmer paper “Savali” and was editing i had just handed in his resignatioi It had been accepted. * * * In Fiji, the Fiji Broadcasts Commission was meanwhile at pointing its first radio news editx —an Australian journalist, M Rhys Campbell.

“Papua-New Guinea’s econom development is just as urgent as i political development,” said tl president of the New Guinea Higi land Farmers and Settlers’ A sociation, Mr. lan Downs, in Sydm in October. Mr. Downs had r turned from a world trip of neau three months in time to hear t; news of P-NG’s political develot ment (see p. 17). But while aw' he and fellow planter. Mr. J: Leahy had taken a close look development in East Afr i c Jamaica, Venezuela, Columbc Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemai Mexico and Hawaii. They al looked at coffee selling techniqu in Rome, Hamburg and London.

“Even in the most remote ai, backward areas we found suj things as power, water and go< roads everywhere,” said Mr. Down

Leading Apia, Western Samoa, businessman a[?] former managing director of E. A. Coxon a[?] Co., Ltd., and director of Samoa Newspape[?] Ltd., Mr. Kurt von Reiche, left with his fam[?] on the "Tofua" in September for New Zeala[?] They are to settle on a large farm at Wai[?] North Auckland, New Zealand. Left to right Mrs. Ainsley von Reiche, Ainsley, Jr., Sand[?] Barry, Mr. Kurt von Reiche, and Rayma. Otl[?] children, Ingrid, Michael and Luana are alre[? in New Zealand.

Photo: Samoa[?]

made us realise how under feloped New Guinea is. Other mtries are making better use of ir natural resources. We can more. In Jamaica, for instance, y encourage new secondary in try by granting it seven years z of taxation.” Mrs. Downs and Leahy’s daughter, Jon, also ie the tour, which was a private

C. R. Rivers, formerly Post jr of Apia, West Samoa, in ipia High Court in September convicted of having smuggled ble goods by mail and was a total of £l5O. The case ;ted considerable attention, acting post master of Pago American Samoa, was a wit for the prosecution. Judge arsack said Rivers had used )sition to default the country’s Lie, which had been his duty to /I. * * * foumea newspaper reported in er that Senator H. Lafleur, Caledonian mining magnate, probably acquire the big raising and meat canning Wof Societe Ouaco. This stabhshed company, originally d with Australian capital in dawn of New Caledonian

Mary Leo, a member of the Missionary of the Society of Mary, visited Sydney [?]ober after doing post graduate work in and obstetrics in the USA. Sister Mary [?]as returning to New Guinea where, on [?]ville for many years, she has been in of an infant and maternity and training centre. She is a qualified surgeon.

ttlement, has big grazing areas i the north-west coast of New iledonia and possesses a modern nning plant. Before the last war laco processed a great deal of ;at for the French army. ♦ * * Some of the Fijian crew of the ‘igher Delfino won themselves ne publicity in Sydney in October ten they got involved in a real I time brawl with British sea m at Circular Quay. Police re sided Kaliova Kadanavatu, 22, later in the month, on a charge having caused actual bodily harm one seaman, at whom, police 3ged, he threw a partly filled •bage tin, breaking his nose, ashing his teeth, and causing ernal injuries.

iji’s “Miss Hibiscus 1960” was a antly happy Emma Whitcombe, employed as a secretary with ns Philp (SS). The mayor of a, Mr. C. A. Stinson, announced win on October 15; with Tuela idt in second place, and Pamela ch third. The pretty Miss .tcombe receives a flight to San acisco as her prize. * * * New Guinea native named ir Hapo was given a month’s in Port Moresby on October 14 having flourished a knife at a ve meeting for Australia’s ing Governor-General, Lord rossil (who was making his first to the Territory). Hapo was of 6,000 natives at the Sir ert Murray Memorial Park a he was seen by a police in tor with a knife raised high e his head. Hapo said he had . arguing with somebody else his wife. * * ♦ reli Naborisi, general secretary ;he Fiji Stevedores Union, is ding three months in the ed Kingdom on a work-study se organised by the Trades »n Congress. The visit is iced by the British Council, h trained as a schoolteacher in and taught for several years re joining the Stevedores Union »01.

[?]d from Apia, Western Samoa, for New [?]nd aboard the "Tofua" to settle on a farm [?]aipu are Mr. A. (Lucky) Netzler and his [?]y, Jimmy (being carried) Carl, Mrs. Netzler Noeline. Photo: Samoana.

Road To Autonomy

pp. 19-151

The Natives Will Soon Have a Vote Papua-New Guinea On The Road To Autonomy

From New Guinea and Canberra Correspondents There were two major reactions when Papua-New Guinea eople received the long-awaited details in September of how ustralia planned to recompose membership of the P-NG egislative Council.

E first reaction was one of satisfaction that elected rep representation was to be in sed. le second was amazement at the irent loss of the official Admin tion majority in the House, i paper, the elected and ap ted membership, drawn from public, will have sufficient igth to out-vote the official ibership drawn from senior Ad stration officers, iwever, Australia still has con over legislation through the la-New Guinea Act and through imber of other processes, le composition of the Council announced in Federal Parlia t by the Minister for Terri-

tories, Mr. Hasluck, on September 22. The details basically are those foreshadowed by PlM’s Canberra correspondent in the September issue (p, 17), The Government hopes to hold elections next Feb ruary or March, and the new Legco will begin operating soon after.

Total of 37 The new Council will have a total membership of 37, with the official membership in the minority by seven; compared with a total of 29 members in the old Council, with official membership in the majority by five.

Natives are to be elected for the first time—through a system of electoral conferences in each elec torate—this method to be used only during a transitional period.

Mr. Hasluck said the Government intended to establish a common roll and preferred to see a change direct from the electoral college method to a common roll, rather than a change to another inter mediate stage in which there would be two rolls for the two races, even for a brief period.

When native nominations are re ceived. an electoral officer in each electorate will summon a confer ence in which Local Government Councils will send delegates. Dis cussion will be held at these con ferences, candidates will be invited to make addresses and then a vote of the delegates will be taken by secret ballot—delegates voting indi vidually. In some cases groups ether than Local Government will be able to send delegates.

The details of these conferences and voting will be set down in regu lations yet to be made.

The present three P-NG elector ates are to be doubled and the new

divisions will be (as reported in PIM in September) East and West Papua, the Highlands, the New Guinea Mainland, New Britain and the New Guinea Islands.

The table on this page gives the new Council compared with the old.

Need Support

Apart from the elected members it will not be known until the names are announced how many of the new Council will be natives. The Govern ment has announced that all the ap pointed membership, whether official or non-official, will be open to natives as well as non-natives. There is a stipulated minimum of 11 native members—six elected and five ap pointed—but this is merely a mini mum. It is, for instance, likely that at least one of the official members will be a native in next year’s Coun cil, Dr. Reuben Taureka, a civil servant. Dr. Taureka was in Septem ber appointed to the present Council.

Mr. Hasluck told Parliament that because of the loss of the official majority the Government would have to obtain the support of some of the elected or nominated mem bers in order to have a majority in the Council.

As PIM reported in September, this will mean that the Govern ment will be searching for moder-

HOME IS THE WATTLE

[?]nch gardeners in Noumea, New Cale [?]ia, are planting increasing numbers Australian wattles, whose blooms are ch sought after. Metropolitan French [?]ering from home sickness say the ttle reminds them of the French [?]mosa cultivated in Southern France.

Photo: Fred Dunn.

Membership Old New Official: 17 (no natives) 15 (native membership not known) Non-Official: Elected: 3 (no natives) 12 (six natives) Nominated: 9 (three natives) 10 (at least five natives) Total; 29 (three natives) 37 (at least 11 natives)

ates to be nominated to the un official membership, and also that important legislation will probably be foreshadowed, with members given plenty of notice, and their opinions canvassed. If it is obvious that the proposed new legislation had no chance of being passed, the legislation would not be submitted or be amended. However, the Gov ernment will also have the protec tion of its power of veto in Can berra. Assent may be withheld from ordinances.

Since the announcement, a strong body of Papua-New Guinea opinion has felt that a big proportion of the membership could be drawn from the ranks of the public ser vants. and the Government could get it’s majority support that way.

It is being pointed out in New Guinea that there is nothing to preclude senior Administration officers from providing some of the appointed membership. The new alterations to the Papua and New Guinea Act merely allow the Gov ernor-General, at the nomination of the Administrator, to appoint 10 members, not less than five of them to be resident in New Guinea end not less than five of them native members. The Act does not say that appointed members have to be non-Administration.

Natives To Be Appointed Mr. Hasluck himself probably gave currency to this belief when he said in Parliament that because native public servants were barred from election, and because some of the most outstanding and best edu cated of the P-NG natives were

at present in Government service, it was intended to see that some of these made up the appointed mem bership of the new Council.

Mr. Hasluck said the next step forward would be a further increase in the number of elected members at the expense of appointed mem bers, and the Government did not want to encourage any section of the community—the missions, com merce, or anybody else in the belief that it had a right to be appointed to the Council.

Another major change announced in September was the abolition of the Executive Council (which at present has an all-Administration membership) and creation of a new body called the Administrator’s Council.

This will consist of the Adminis trator, three official members of Legco and three other non-official members of Legco—at least two of them elected members. The Ad ministrator’s Council will “advise the Administrator on any matter referred to the Council by the Ad ministrator . . . and also, by an ordinance of the Territory, certain functions can be confided to the Administrator’s Council”.

What these functions are will be revealed by legislation to be passed in the Territory.

At least one member of the Ad ministrator’s Council will be a na tive.

Both Houses of the Common wealth Parliament passed the new Council bill and assent was granted on October 17. The Labour opposition moved unsuccessfully to have a common roll of natives and

(Continued on page 149)

VOLCANO MEMORIAL. The New Britain Tolais have become conscious of history in the last few years, and many monuments are appearing.

This recent one they erected at Valaur, opposite Vulcan, bears the words: “This monument stands for those men who died violently here at the eruption of the volcano. The ground covered them at 4 o'clock on May 29, 1937.

The plaque records the death of 352 natives in seven villages.

eans brought in immediately. . Hasluck told Parliament luring his recent tour in the ory he asked all European itions about their opinions on imon roll and all had recog that a common roll was ap ate and they had raised no ion to it. The only doubts concerned the problems set literacy, and the question, er, if the native people were on a common roll too soon, rates might be won too easily orer types of candidates.') oughout Papua-New Guinea ative and native leaders y praised the proposals for position of the Council, rs in Port Moresby, Lae and il particularly praised provi for elected native representa- Rabaul particularly, and in centres to a lesser extent, was a feeling of complete ment at the provisions which the official Administration th in the minority. former elected member for Guinea Islands, Mr, Dudley flatly refused to believe the >n until he received confirma- He suggested that the first received in Rabaul setting out nembership of the Council 3ly contained a telegraphic Mr. Jones 7 Statement Jones eventually issued a lent in which he described ituation as “a sweeping re and a long step towards self iment longer than antici -9 Jones made four points, how which he said demonstrated he Legislative Council would heless remain “very much a iinate legislature”. The four were; ustralia’s wide powers under apua-New Guinea Act. he fact that only the Admini )n could initiate certain im it types of legislation, he fact that some legislation reserved for the Govemor al, he all-pervading provision very bill passed by the council to receive Assent before it te law. e Australian Government ap tly considers the'se controls ate to ensure that it can ment its policy in the Terri - Mr. Jones said, baps one of the strongest g comments also came from ew Guinea Islands region. It nade by one of the nominated >ers in the existing Council,

the Rev. Father James Dwyer, of Rabaul.

Father Dwyer said: “The oppor tunity has been given to the native people for political advancement to outstrip educational and economic advancement. Herein lies the bold ness and the danger of the change”.

Father Dwyer also described the proposals as forming “a bold stroke and a calculated risk that could pay off with an extraordinarily rapid political advancement of the people”.

He believed the new composition would form a danger if not properly handled.

But whatever happens, Papua- New Guinea’s view is that the Terri tory has achieved on paper what can be described as a big slice of self-government.

Pacific Report

p. 19

Coral Route Farewell—ll 7. Indus trial Relations Adviser for Fiji 117. Dutch Labour Party Wants NNG For the World—ll 9.

Better Deal for Tin Can Island -131. No Pago Pago Fish Hold-up -121. Tahiti Has a British Consul —123. Pacific Will See Luxury Liners—l2s. Tonga Will Replace Radio Equipment: Unusual Hos pital Ship in Pacific—l 26. Tourist Hotel for Mt. Hagen—l 27. Fight for Euronesian Citizenship—l 29.

Sir John Gutch Farewells New Hebrides—l 33. Tonga’s Deputy Premier Retires; New Hebrides’

Volcanoes; Big Week in New Caledonia—l 33.

What Mr. Menzies Told UNO 134.

Noumea Moves Towards Five-Day Week—l 36. New Hebrides Air ways Moves—l 37. Norfolk’s New Hotel; SPC’s 21st Session—l3B.

PIR Natives to be Trained as Officers; Fiji Sugar Payments— Norfolk Island Council Develop ments—l 43. Bougainville Will Get a Wharf; Qantas New Guinea Departures—l4s. Mick Leahy Tick Case—l 46.

First Legco

p. 20

BSIP Announces First Legco

From a Honiara Correspondent The British Solomon Islands Advisory Council will go out of existence on October 17 and the BSIP’s new Legislative Council will come into being from the 18th. The composition of the Legco, announced in October, is as forecast in “PIM” of August. Names of new members will be announced on the 18th.

There will be the High Com missioner as president, plus 11 official members (Chief Sec retary, Attorney General, Financial Secretary ex officio) and 10 unofficial (six Mela nesians) all of them to be ap pointed for two years. Meetings will be twice yearly, the inaugural meeting to be in December.

The Executive Council will comprise eight and include four unofficials. It will have its first meeting in November.

All Very

p. 20

Labour Tour Is All Very Secret

From a NG Correspondent Provocative Albert Monk „ Federal President of the' powerful Australian Council of Trade Unions, had one. small personal regret when he

joined a special investigating,

mission travelling through

Papua-New Guinea.

Mr. Monk realised that he woul be away from Sydney on Octobf 3, and for the first time in mar vears would miss the tradition!

Labor Day procession through tt streets of Sydney.

But he needn’t have worried, b« cause October 3 found him takir part in his own personal processic —and a hotter, dustier one tha ever Sydney could have provided Mr. Monk was in a Government hired car which had four punctun in 20 miles on the dusty outbao roads of New Britain’s Gazell Peninsula.

The hot and dusty party wi rescued by the Vunapope Roma Catholic Mission at Kokopo, whio provided a mechanic to repair tB trouble.

Several Weeks The delegation spent several wee in Papua and New Guinea, holdii all its talks in camera and declii ing to issue statements on evideni collected from specific talks. It re] resented employers, employees ai Government, and included Secretati of the Department of Labour ar National Service, Mr. H, A. Bland The Minister for Territories, M Hasluok, described the delegation “a unique tripartite and no:i political mission with the broa objective of enabling its membe to become acquainted at first hai with matters in the labour field the Territory as they now stan and with present and prospect! problems in the labour field”.

The apparent secrecy in whii the delegation went about much its work left many people wonderir Even one officer of the Administn tion went so far as to say that was puzzled.

He said, “If they really want know everything and get an ow all view I can’t understand why tr whole thing isn’t thrown wr open”. But it wasn’t.

Know Where Ws Going?

pp. 21-151

Does The New Hebrides Know Where Ws Going?

By Stuart Inder

After almost 60 years, the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides has reached the stage where it has to decide where it is going. There are real difficulties ahead for the New Hebrides unless the two Governments plan the future for these islands which are neither British nor French and whose native inhabitants have no national status of their own.

EIE trouble will not be caused by the British or the French, but by the New Hebrideans, I there need be nothing sur ging in that. While big develop tits are occurring on all sides of New Hebrides, the winds of nge may be expected to pass r those islands, too. his month’s news, for instance, 3 of the race towards autonomy Netherlands New Guinea, of (ht new legislative reform in lua-New Guinea, of a brand new islative Council about to be in urated in the Solomons, of [plicated problems in Fiji and quickening pace towards inde dence in West Samoa. The New Tidean is becoming aware of n all. r hen the British and French - entered into the Condominium 906 nobody held out much hope '• it would last as a system of eminent. Nobody has held out hope in the intervening 60 ’s, yet by some amazing circum-

stance, the Condominium has managed to stagger along with all its faults.

A Success in a Way

In one remarkable fashion it has been a success. It has been a success in international relations on the personal level. While national jealousies in the higher political arenas still are no better than any body has come to expect, the French and British who live in the New Hebrides, who have their planta tions, businesses and their jobs there, get on very well by and large.

In 60 years both have come to learn that there are good French men and bad, good Anglo-Saxons and bad, and that the personality counts, not the nationality.

Over a long period all these people have in fact developed such skill at living within the framework of the “Pandemonium” system that they would be unhappy with a New Hebrides that wasn’t a Condo minium.

As one British businessman told me when I visited the New Heb rides recently: “Don’t let anybody take the Condominium away. The more the two Governments stand on their national dignities up there at the top, the more they argue with themselves about what should be done and what shouldn’t (and finally come to a stalemate), the better we like it. While they argue about the finer points they are not worrying us, and we can get on with the job.” A French companion who heard that, grinned and nodded.

Alice in Wonderland

This Alice in Wonderland exis tence need not be any worry to anybody if the New Hebrides existed in a vacuum within the South Paci fic. But the future of the New Heb rides belongs to the New Hebridean, and he is fast entering a new stage of development.

He is beginning to be aware of his future inheritance, and in a few years he will be developing at a faster rate than the natives of these northern islands who today are getting the lion’s share of pub licity.

The New Hebrides now has an

Advisory Council (it began only in 1957) which includes native mem bership. Some New Hebrideans now are saying of some of those native members, “They don’t really rep resent us. They are stooges.”

Whether they are or not doesn’t matter —the point is that the New Hebridean is thinking politically.

He is also taking an interest in money and trade, and the death warrant of the small European trader has been signed. New Heb ridean natives produce more than half of the Condominium copra (with their share growing quickly) and they see no point in trading to a small middleman when they can get a better price by trading direct with the shippers.

Some individual New Hebrideans are now wealthly fellows, and they are not stupid. They are learning very well, in fact, how to play one Government off against the other for their own benefit.

They Need Education

They are very much aware that what they need is education, for their children if not for themselves.

The greatest need in the New Heb rides today is for schools and teachers, and more important, for a properly planned education pro gramme.

(Continued on page 149)

Japanese are assisting with the New [?]es economy with their skill at tuna fish- With the aid of British and American [?] they catch tuna in adjacent waters and them at Palikulo Bay, Santo, for export, a Japanese prepares by hand some of maller fish caught with the tuna, which smoked for the Japanese home market.

"Miss Rarotonga"

The 1960 "Miss Rarotonga" beauty contest caused a lot of interest in the Cooks. It was the first of its kind to be held in Rarotonga. And here is "Miss Rarotonga" herself—Miss June Taringa, after the judges had totalled up all her points for "personality, natural beauty, posture and grace".

Photo: R. D. Moore.

, . . , There is no Condominium educanon department. There is no coordmation. Education is largely handled by the separate Governments, with the missions, as almost everywhere in the South Pacific, acceling the brunt of the responsibilities. Only recently, with the appomtment of a go-ahead education officer, have the British begun to gather up their many loose ends, but an integrated pattern for the Condominium is still in the future, For how long will the New Hebrideans continue to let the Condominium adopt the peculiar standards it has set in so many things (or, more accurately, the peculiar standards that have developed because the two Governments can’t agree to set any standards) ?

What course is the New Hebrides following in education and in everything else? What does the Condominium want to achieve politically?

Have the two Governments the same end in sight—the handing

over of the New Hebrides intact to the New Hebridean? What form will this take; what is the machin ery; what are the stages to be reached and passed on the route?

If the Condominium system is the only system that can be agreed on for the two Governments to achieve a common end then some realism has to be injected into the system for the sake of the New Hebrideans. If there is another sys tem, what is it?

What Is Her Future?

The New Hebridean has to be told what his future is. The race for his soul —the present apparent race to attract the New Hebridean into either the British orbit or the French orbit before “the other side” does is a needless waste of energy.

The future of the New Hebrides (and also the Solomons) has been discussed in London and Canberra and Wellington recently. Britain would like to see Australia take a greater interest in these areas— and it is natural that Australia should, considering her early relations with the New Hebrides, and her present trade interest there. The Commonwealth owns 25,000 acres of land in the New Hebrides, and the future of some of this is now being discussed at a high level.

Britain would like to see Aus tralia take a closer interest through the granting of scholarships, par ticularly to teachers, and even to help in a crash teacher project, and through other forms of aid.

Australia can do a lot, working through the present framework of the Condominium system. The South Pacific Commission can, and will, also be a means of assistance within the Condominium frame work.

But. important as all these moves can be for the emerging New Heb ridean, the wider problem has still to be discussed by Britain and France at the top level.

That is, can they agree on where the New Hebrides is headed before the time comes when the New Heb ridean himself will take the matter into his own hands? They will have to move soon.

Happening In Fiji

pp. 22-150

Here Is What's Been Happening In Fiji

SUVA, Oct. 15

Here are the highlights of the trouble in the cane-sugar industry . which caused economic and 'political convulsions in Fiji in the four months, June to September, inclusive:

• The deadlock now is virtu ally ended, insofar that the Colony’s four crushing mills now are working full-time, and the CSR Co. now seems confident it will produce Fiji’s 1960 quota of 199,000 tons of raw sugar by the time the mills close on Janu ary 22. • Over 3,000 Viti Levu cane growers assembled in Lautoka on October 15, hoping to see Mr.

Amery. Mr. Amery, however, left for Suva that morning. Early on the 15th, he met Messrs.

Patel, Koya and others; recom mended them to place their grievances before the coming inquiry into the industry; and urged them to proceed with cane-cutting. They reported to the mass meeting. Motions that cane-cutting be proceeded with generally were then carried. • A great deal of the avail able cane will not be cut, how ever. It was one of Fiji’s best cane-crops. The farmers planted a larger area than usual, having been officially urged to do so in 1959. • Because of the troubles, there will be very little new planting in 1960. The 1961 crop will come from ratoon or secondary growth. In that re spect, the outlook is not good. • The Government still is maintaining in the sugar areas large bodies of police, special police, reservists, etc., so as to give protection to cane-cutters and mill workers and CSR Co.

property.

• The representatives of all the Fiji communities in the Legislative Council in September unanimously and unequivocally condemned the tactics of the Patel group in leading the sugar growers into the deadlock, and the character of the propaganda with which it had surrounded its activities (see p. 49). • The Legislative Council has asked the Government to set up an inquiry into the sugar in dustry (see p. 141). • The sugar industry deadlock, and the activities of the Patel

group, have created a very un friendly feeling in the Fijian community towards the Indian community. This seems to be growing, and is being demon strated in various ways in social and political affairs.

The Fijian leaders do not take much notice of the fact that only a small minority of Indians are aggressive and unco-operative— the great majority seeking only peaceful co-existence with the other communities. In the view of some leading Fijians, all Indians are bM (see p. 22).

That this is a serious political factor is shown by the hostility of the Fijian community towards the Burns Report.

As a result of the sugar in dustry’s dislocation, there is a ‘•money tightness” now through out Fiji —traders giving little credit and trying where possible to turn slow-moving stocks into cash by sacrificial sales. Most traders say “the real pinch will come in 1961”.

Patel Group on Warpath

Most farmers were —and are— in debt to the storekeepers. Many of the latter under instructions from the Nadi-Lautoka Patel group minority, demanded im mediate payment of their debts from growers who had begun cutting. Those who refused to cut were not pressed, and even were helped. There are stories of men being sacked or suspended be cause their relatives had com menced cutting.

Certain Gujeratis, actively spreading the Patel group’s pro paganda, declared publicly that Under-Secretary Amery had talked to Mr. Patel for two hours at Nadi airport while on his way through to Australia. In fact, Mr. Amery arrived in Australia via the Middle East, and did not reach Fiji until October 12.

Stories were circulated that the mills were not crushing—that the loaded trucks which were run to the mills during the day were secretly taken back, loaded, to their starting-places during the night, ready for another “fully loaded” demonstration next day.

It was said that the mill fires

(Continued on page 148)

are kept stoked, so that the snu may create the idea that crush is going on.

Observers insist that the Ft group’s motives are clear—to ere political and social trouble £ economic disaster, so that Europeans may be driven out, s the Indian planters may take o trol of the country.

The growing belligerence of Fijian community may be Fijians’ reaction to that idea. < of the best and brightest of Fijian leaders told a PIM wril “The Europeans must remain h to hold the balance fairly betw the Fijian and the Indian cc munities. Otherwise, there will bloody massacre.”

As seen here, close up, that is over-statement.

Governor's Patience

The Governor, Sir Kenne Maddocks, has been criticised c or twice because of “lack of fu ness” in handling the very elu; and stubborn “Patel group” dui negotiations extending over m months.

The fact is that the Gover brought the country safely thro' a politico-economic crisis that cc have led to grave disorder. ' illiterate and uninstructed cai farmers, blindly following tl union leaders, easily could have ta trapped into rioting and breac of the law. The Governor’s patie with all parties may have ta up many days, even weeks, bu did, in the end, bring about a sumption of work, without riot or bloodshed.

A report from Singapore late September that 200 British tre had been standing by all the moi ready to be flown to Fiji at the Governor’s request, caused a d uproar in Suva. How dared Governor take this action with the knowledge of his Execus Council, demanded some. Why bi English troops into Fiji, when whole Fijian community was re to go to the Governor’s assists, shouted others.

But it soon was apparent that Excellency had done the right ths again. He had merely asked if s troops would be available, if neeo and had been assured that t were—a comforting thing, at t stage.

Knowledge that thousands Fijians—many of them trained? soldiers—would rally to the G! eminent, if asked, also is comfc ing. But it would have been dang ous, in view of Fijian feeling tows the Indians. Better to bring wholly unprejudiced, well-trai: men of the British Army, if anr help were needed.

No Fireworks Bu[?]

pp. 22-149

PLENTY OF CHARM

From Special Correspondents The neat, slender man wit

his carefully combed Mac

hair and his blue travellin

jacket who hurried aroun

Papua-New Guinea in six daj in September had the outsia Press waiting on its toes.

FOR some reason the Press t ticipated that the slender ma delicately-clipped words and penetrating mind would create devastating situation.

One Pressman even hurried miles from Port Moresby to Rata: to speak with the man before left. Wires flowed from Melboui and Sydney to ensure that situation was adequately covered.] But although the slender it won the praise and confidence ofl who met him, he sadly disappoiir the Australian Press. He brow down fire on no one’s head, and g fered no fire on his own.

Strong Words

The visitor was Mr. Julian Ami British Parliamentary Under-Se(* tary for Colonies, who paid a i day visit to Papua-New Guinea! his way to an inspection of Brn colonies, protectorates and depe encies in the Pacific.

The story got around that planting community was goings use strong words to him on the m

(Continued on page 146)

Mr. Julian Amery. For what he has had to in P-NG and the BSIP, see below.

for greater British support for . tralia in the face of intemati criticism concerning territories, story also got around that Amery could produce a good st: turn of phrase himself if he wa: to —and that he would not hes: to do so if provoked.

But Mr. Amery turned out t a man with a keen understan of problems and solutions, and an obviously sincere understan of the situation in Papua- Guinea.

He refused to be drawn on controversial issues, and obviously deeply impressed at \ Australia was doing in devela Papua-New Guinea.

He praised education, met facilities, agricultural developr and air services. (“We lai yesterday on what the pilot said an airstrip. In England we w call it a steep hill”).

But he put a bit more fin his final interview with the I before he left New Guinea ora way to the British Solomon Isis Protectorate.

Congo Lesson

Said Mr. Amery: “Australia is veloping New Guinea —and sir footing the bill, too. The mone not coming from United Nation from any other country. Su Australia more than any o: nation is in the best position determine the rate of prog

h can safely be applied in New ea. le lessons of the Congo must jlear today. Self-government at satisfactorily be given to e until they have been built • it. ; assured that many people (ciate your problem. I am im -5d at what I have s?en.” her, Mr. Amery had held three of talks in Wellington with 'rime Minister Nash and Aus n Territories Minister Hasluck.

Solomons Visit the Solomons later, Mr. Amery i places on Guadalcanal, ta and San Christoval, and many interviews. In a morn ession with members of the ta Local Government Council swered 30 searching questions le natives, including queries more rapid development in blomons, the speeding up of tion, and provision of more enced expatriate officers, a broadcast, Mr. Amery said Dught the balance of develop in the British Solomons was t right”. But to speed up de nent, communications had to tended and he had had dis n on the extension of the Fiji ys service to the Solomons and ew Hebrides. re was a shortage of good ts but he hoped soon the ons would have schoolboys :ould be trained in the UK, ilia and NZ and would come :o take over education work, said he believed that a “new r as dawning in the Pacific”, olomons had for a long time a the shadows, but he believed lat they might astonish the with their energies. (See “Commerce”, page 161)

Is Going To See

pp. 23-24

Fiji Facing The Graver Issues

WHAT MR. JULIAN AMERY

A Report From R. W. ROBSON

SUVA, OCT. 7

Although Fiji’s sugar-cane troubles are by no means over see the outline on opposite page) the country is turning, ’ ryly, to a belated consideration of its early future, in relation i (a) over-population, ( b ) the implementation of the Burns l eport, and ( c ) this idea now sweeping the world that ll communities, no matter how awkwardly placed, must become nmediately “self-governing”.

r ENTS are pressing in on Fiji, in an embarrassing way. The Government, and all community ers, should have been giving b urgent attention to the itry’s condition, immediately the is Report (itself ten years late) published, six months ago. le sugar quarrel diverted public ition elsewhere and it also has ened the politico-economic out generally. le present economic structure leither big enough nor wide igh to take care of the needs rapidly increasing population, country cannot get the economy a higher gear for better pro > while it is out of adjustment ilation to the rights of the Fijian nunity, in relation to non-land e, and in relation to the Indian nunity (which —now learning the way that there are not enough for its young men—is more and ; inclined to become anti-Euro ). janwhile, the Fijians are de ling an anti-Indian complex. tendency has become much i noticeable as the result of social feeling aroused by the r trouble. cause the recommendations of Burns Report tend to make life r for the Indians—the Fijians -dy are economically secure, as indigenous owners of the lands j Fijians, in their present ►er, have developed sharp re nce to the major proposals of Bums Report. is is an acute embarrassment the Governor, Sir Kenneth docks, who is most anxious to >n with the Burns Plan, e anti-Burns sentiment of the n chiefs was demonstrated ly at the Council of Chiefs in ist-September, and would have ifested itself at the Legislative icil meeting late in September, it the Governor, wisely, decided the Council should deal first the critical quarrel in the sugar

industry, and postpone considera tion of the Burns Plan until the next Council meeting—three or four months hence.

Exasperating Delay

It is an exasperating delay in dealing with the Colony’s politico economic problems; but it was a sound decision. If the Burns Report had come before the September Legco, it would have been torn to pieces.

The Council, instead, got its teeth deeply into the sugar industry problem (see report p. 49) and all communities worked off a lot of strong feeling there. Maybe, next session, judgments will be calmer and prejudices less in evidence.

The Legco session had one most comforting angle. It has been sug gested that the European com munity is weak in leadership, this decade; but whether or not this is sc it now is apparent that some first-class men —thinkers, who can talk on their feet, and take wide

and tolerant views—are showing up among both Fijians and Indians.

This could be the salvation of the Colony. Fiji needs not only sound leadership, but also a relationship between community leaders which w* ll a l lQ w all communities to go forward m tolerance and unity.

Into this sea of troubles comes Mr. Julian Amery, British Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, accompanied by some high officials of the Colonial Office. The party is due in Nadi on October 12, after a tour of Papua and New Guinea, Solomons and New Hebrides, and a brief visit to the South Pacific Commission, now sitting in Noumea, All classes in Fiji are waiting for Mr. Amery. Although both Govern ment and Press have insisted that Mr. Amery is merely here to take a look around the British countries of the South Pacific—he is going to visit Gilbert and Ellice Islands

MUSIC

LOVERS

The Commissioner for India in Fiji was host at a musical evening at the Fiji Broadcasting Commission studios, Suva, in September.

Representative Indians were entertained for two hours by Fiji Indian musicians. An exhibition of musical instruments added interest.

Photo: Nitin's.

and Tonga by Sunderland flying boat, using Suva as his base—and make no over-riding decisions, some of the Fiji community think he is about to devise a new heaven and earth for this Colony.

The programme shows that this Colonial Office party will certainly look Fiji over very thoroughly, in the light of 1959 developments (which include the Burns Report).

But the future surely will depend upon what Fiji itself does with the Burns Report.

A Forecast This writer’s forecast is that if the major recommendations of the Burns Report are adopted, the Colonial Office will throw weight and influence behind plans for the more rapid development of Fiji’s resources, and the financing of same. Mr. Amery and his officers will then be in a position to help, promptly and effectively.

If the Report is crippled by Fijian opposition, then the future of Fiji will become a Number One Colonial Office headache and Mr. Amery and his advisers will be able to attack it with some local knowledge.

It also is forecast thab, while here the Amery party will give con sideration to the constitutional position.

There is no discernible demand at present for reform in that direction, among Fiji’s communities; but there almost certainly will develop soon, under outside influences, a move ment towards a larger amount of self-government. Recent events in the British Colonial Empire show that Britain is extremely sensitive to such demands.

At present, Fiji seems satisfied

with what it has got. Any demand for big changes—especially if it were suggested that these four large, dis similar communities should elect representatives on a common roll— would surely lead to fierce disputa tion, embarrassments, and worse.

"Intimidation" Laws

p. 23

BROADENED

As a result of incidents in connection with the Fiji sugar dispute the laws covering in timidation were broadened in September when the Legislative Council approved new legisla tion covering oral as well as written threats, the carrying of arms in a public place, entering a magazine with intent to steal, greater control on public collec tions of money, and a wider definition of offensive weapons.

Under the latter heading, almost any object could now be an offensive weapon if the cir cumstances were such as to provide evidence that the “weapon”—it might even be an umbrella—was going to be used for offensive purposes.

Appointment

p. 24

NEW COOK ISLANDS

Mr. A. O. Dare has been ap pointed Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, to succeed Mr.

G. Nevill, who retires in January after nearly nine years on Raro tonga. Mr. Dare for the last two years has been assistant secretary of the NZ Island Territories Depart ment. Before that he was Resident Commissioner on Niue. From 1954- 56 he was official secretary to the Cook Islands Administration.

Sugar Accusations " Un Racial”

p. 24

A damaging feature of the recent Fiji sugar dispute was emphasised by Mr. A. I. N. Deoki, Indian elected member for the Southern Division, during the September/October Legco session in Suva.

nnHIS was the impression created JL through loose accusations that every Indian in the Colony, and every Gujerati in particular, was to blame for the trouble.

“The future of the Colony depends on racial harmony, and that harmony must be preserved and maintained at all costs,” Mr. Deoki said. “When you condemn what is happening please level your criticism at the right places and not generally at the Indians,” he said.

Noting that a strong anti- TUr^ o r?pnkf 06 c!npf /Sjl a if 6 were Mr. Deoki S3id th,3t not 3,11 were bad. “It is wrong to judge a whole community by the actions of some”.

Mr. B. D. Lakshman, Indian elected member for the North Western Division, also emphasised the point, “Is it not clear to everybody that when you talk about a ‘stab in the

back’ in 1943 (sugar strike) you should say the name, and not ‘the Indians’. Should you not say ‘A D.

Patel?” Mr. Lakshman said. Were not Indians stabbed in the back?

It would be difficult to deny that some sections of Fiji’s public rela tions down through the years have been conspicuously poor, at Govern ment and at press levels. This was demonstrated by a comment made by a Fijian member, Ratu Penaia Gamlau. The Fijian doesn t quite

"“ctfWe IndtaTommS””

Considering that there have been living side-hv-side with SiSSS? for the nast Sf/vears Ratu fSs statemSf reflects a re grettable state of affairs.

Until very recently there has been n o discernible attempt at Govern ment level to promote better under standing between the two main races in Fiji.

P-Ng Merchants Go[?]

p. 24

The Japanese Flood

NORTH FOR GOODS

The little deck-hand from U Japanese freighter “Chitose Man Looked around him in Rabaul av came out with a startling statemen “Could be like home,” he said.

HIS statement was superficial, bi whether New Guinea peop like it or not, the statement Wi based on a grain of truth.

The truth lay in the manufat tured products which he could si around him.

Parked at the kerb was a Datsb truck. Two spaces further on w: a Princess car and on the othi side of the road was another Da sun.

The man in the gaudy shirt wall ing past was carrying a Nation transistor radio. In the shop windc behind him a Mitsubishi fan w stirring the air above an opule; display of Japanese radios, tape r corders and telephones.

If he had gone a bit further I would have seen a Yanmar mark engine and a collection of Japane manufactured speedboat hulls.

He would have seen Toshiba ai conditioners plugging up the spac where louvre windows once opem to the hot street, and would hai seen Japanese calendars on t walls.

New Guinea generally, and Raba in particular, are going through boom in Japanese-manufactur imports. Japanese cameras hai long been a standby in Rabaul, b today the field is unlimited.

Fabrics, stationery, fishing equii ment, household appliances, sewiJ machines, metalware, toys and a ho of other products can be added the articles mentioned earlier.

By far the most significant ir ports are the motor vehicles. Raba is rapidly importing Japanes manufactured trucks, cars and utl ities. Spare parts made for we known English makes fit most them.

One Way Traffic One importer alone estimates th he will have 60 Japanese vehic: placed in Rabaul by the end of ti year.

Japanese foodstuffs are also fill!: a big place on the market, ps ticularly tinned fish.

Shipping between New Guin and Japan has reached an all-tiii high (for peace-time at least), ae schedules are undergoing mas changes to meet changing conn tions.

Six Fiji-Indians

p. 25

Only £100,000!

Six Fiji-Indians Say It Will Be "Very Useful"

NADI, Fiji.

Fiji’s sugar and airport town of di still was reeling under the ws that “LM of Nadi” had drawn ; £lOO,OOO first prize in an Aus lian lottery, on October 12, when n Usher (Fiji Times) and R. W. bson (Pacific Islands Monthly) rve up.

ADI citizens were running around in circles. A tax-gatherer, bitter and thwarted, announced that i “prize” was free of taxation, diophone demands for details by iney newspaper correspondents, *e driving the Post Office crazy, t no one could immediately citify “LM”. le was located, finally, by identify the man who, weeks ago, had chased a bank draft for £3, on dne y. Actually, “he” was a dlcate of six Indian store clerks I salesmen, t was now 6.30 p.m. Nadi’s ers had mostly gone home. But ally-call went out; and in a few cutes the whole six assembled, atly intrigued and flattered to I themselves the centre of so ih newspaper interest, hey really were a disappoint it to the pressmen. Any six young i, suddenly receiving £lOO,OOO, aid by Australian standards have i going slightly mad with excite it (Messrs. Usher and Robson in fact first looked for them he hotel bar).

Not Stirred

ut they had gone quietly home, did not seem to be in the least red. They had no plans, but aowledged that the £lOO,OOO t £16,000 for each of them) bt be useful! >me were married—two of them i had six children, le oldest of them—a thoughtful in his late thirties—thought they Ud make a large donation to •ity. idl citizens crowded around i, to admire and congratulate, they would not respond, much, think we’ll wait and see if the ey really comes to us,” said the or man; and all the others ■tily agreed. ie NZ Government’s new ,000 motor ship Moana Roa, ;h will replace the 30-year-old 1 Pomare in the New Zealand er Islands service, arrived at imgton on October 12 after her t-week maiden voyage from Etin.

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pp. 25-149

NO END YET TO WEST SAMOA'S

MIGHTY BATTLE OF WORDS

With about two weeks to go before they must submit the new Constitution to the General Assembly of the United Nationthe 174member Constitutional Convention of Western Samoa was, at the end of September, still battling on through a flood of words.

AT that stage, after it had been in session for six weeks, the Convention had dealt with only about half of the 122 Articles contained in the Draft Constitution, But even with time running out, again and again members were appealing to the Chairman to allow full debates on all clauses so as to allow older delegates to get clarification and understanding of some of the complicated principles involved.

Of dozens of motions for amendments to various provisions in the draft Constitution, not one of importance has survived a vote—yet each of the amendments has led to lengthy debates.

Love of speeches and oratory is a besetting sin as far as Samoans are concerned, and in such items as “freedom of religion” (which is of great local interest and was debated early in September) each member wants to contribute his two cents ° A motion to lift restrictions 1mposed at present or in future in the interests °f, atl °nal security, public order, health or morals or the protection of the righte and of others, including their rights and freedom to observe and practise their religion without the unsolicited interference of members of other religions, was defeated by a large majority of the Convention, At present missionaries from overseas are admitted to the Territory only at the rate of one to every 200 adherents of the denomination concerned.

The Prime Minister, Hon. Fiame Mata’afa, pointed out that the larger Missions, particularly the London

Missionary Society, had for years trained and employed Samoan missionaries to carry on their Church work and that these Samoan missionaries had even been sent to overseas countries like Papua-New Guinea to spread the Gospel there, Instead of bringing large numbers of missionaries from overseas to Samoa, he said, the missions should send them to countries like Papua- New Guinea and not try to proselytise Samoans who are professed and sincere onnstians.j .. , . , t Members Ask tor Time PiM’s Apia correspondent, writ ing on September 26, and noting that the Prime Minister of Western Samoa was due to leave the Terri tory in early October by air for New York, with the completed Con stitution in his brief case, said: „ A .. , k . nresent it will re q U j re a very determined effort and

Son'f ’'ffl the

convention, to finish the session within the time limit, particularly m view of the continuous appeals to t he Chair, by members of the Con vention not to rush proceedings and £0 give opportunities for fuller dis

cus|ion clarification,

At time °t writing thef olio wing parts of the Constitution have been dealt with and approved without amendment: Part I—-The lode pendent State of Western Samoa and its Supreme Law; Part II Fundamental Rights; Part lll—The ** eac * ,9* State; and Part IV The Executive.

(Continued on page 147)

HERE COMES

THE BAND!

The Latter Day Saint's Band, under band-leader Paepaega Nautu in Apia in September leads the parade of Boy Scouts to the annual Scout rally at the Malifa school grounds.

Photo: Samoana.

i debate on the Head of State nore time than the debates ter parts of the Constitution, nerous speakers took part in scussions concerning Samoan i and tradition.”

slative Assembly Sits, Too

September, members of the tutional Convention who are embers of the Legislative As were having a very strenu le as, simultaneously with the ition, the Legislative As was using the Fono House at i’u for evening sessions to with the Supplementary tes for the current year. TTie ition was sitting during morn ad afternoons so members of ;sembly were “sitting” in one or the other for 10 or 11 per day. ng the Legislative Assembly

sessions some strong criticism has been ieyelled at Government policy of allowing seconded officials to engage m private business transactions.

For the first tune m Parliamentary history in Western Samoa a .^ e Assembly, Mr.

Papahi Pesammo was temporarily suspended, when he made allegations of dishonesty against former seconded officials in the Government and refused to withdraw his remarks. . , x A In his financial statement to the Assembly, the Minister of Finance, Hon. E. F. Paul, pointed out that the financial outlook was net as

favourable as it had appeared to be at the beginning of 1960.

This was mainly due to a drop in banana production and exports caused by the storm in Januarv: by low market prices for copra" and cocoa; and corresponding decrease in export duties and by a loss in import duty, due to the lessened purchasing power of the producers, As in previous statements, the Minister again appealed for in creased agricultural production to maintain the present comparatively high living standards of the Samoan people and to cope with the steadily increasing population.

Commentary

pp. 27-28

\G Drink Question

)verdue for Decision

lAPUA-NEW GUINEA cannot afford to delay much longer in making some clear-cut state ent on the question of drinking p native people, Fhe matter was brought up by two the native members at the May gislative Council meeting and tion promised “soon”. But noth l decisive has been done, rhe Administration is apparently xious to make a decisive move, d the delay so far can be laid the door of the Territories Min er, Mr. Hasluck. who appears to scared of the drink question. He storing up a lot of trouble for nself and everybody else.

Sere is the position as it stands; » Prohibition applies for all native people in Papua-New Guinea. » Some natives are clamouring for the right to drink although many others say they don’t want it. ► Public opinion on whether or not the native should drink is divided, with outspoken state ments on both sides. ► Five years ago the Admin istrator Brigadier D. M.

Cleland, promised a review of the situation this year, and he has since renewed his promise.

Jut while this position exists, gal drinking and illegal distilling increasing, and this fact can’t iously be ignored.

Recently the Council of Social vice of Papua recommended to gadier Cleland by 13 votes to six t what it called “the discrim tory liquor law” should be re ved. The council’s recommenda i was that native drinking uld be permitted, b created a storm of protest in )ua and in New Britain. Town isory councils, particularly the ncil at Kokopo in New Britain, »ngly attacked the recommenda ■ i. •ne of the most controversial ires to emerge from the situation the Rev. Percy Chatterton. of t Moresby, a missionary of the idon Missionary Society, who mrs drink for natives. His view hat the situations being caused prohibition are worse than those ch would be caused by legalised iking. ut Mr. R. H. Levi, chairman of :opo Town Advisory Council, ms that Mr. Chatterton’s atti e is “taking the line of least re ance”. mong Administration officers sonally there is strong support removing prohibition. Some

officers favour the brewing of a special “native people only” beer with a reduced alcohol content.

Others agree with the idea of mak ing a weaker beer, but say that all sections of the community would have to be content with it—other wise the naives would probably con sider they were still being discrim inated against.

Police have recently found more stills in the Gazelle Peninsula where the Tolais seem to lead all others in alcoholic inventiveness.

They brew potent draughts of firewater from bananas, pineapples and pawpaw; and despite strong measures to counteract black market sales of liquor to natives, there is evidence that a big trade continues.

Territories Minister Hasluck, of course, is aware of the situation. He has received many reports on it and senior Administration officers have pressed him for action.

For how much longer does he ex pect he can withold a decision? ☆ ☆

Mr. Menzies Doesn't

Tell The Whole Story

POOR Prime Minister Menzies wasn’t taking a trick in early October. While he was walking on some International toes at the United Nations, by making counter proposals to Mr. Nehru and party about getting Messrs. Khrushchev and Eisenhower closer together, he was also crushing a few lesser ones at home. How and why is set out in an article by G. W. L. Townsend on page 29 of this issue Mr. Townsend’s quarrel is not so much with the Prime Minister as with his advisers whom he feels did not provide Mr. Menzies with the right ammunition for “walloping”

Mr. Khrushchev and his attack on the New Guinea administration where it would do most good.

One of Mr. Khrushchev’s first proposals to the General Assembly was that all Colonial territories should immediately be “freed”’, and he extended this dispensation to cover New Guinea and the Trust Territories. Before he left Australia for his hurried visit to New York, Mr. Menzies said that he was going “to tell the UN the magnificent story of Papua-New Guinea”. Mr.

Townsend feels that Mr. Menzies, in fact, told only part of the story —the post-war story, and ignored the generations of hard work of the pre-war period that had brought some aid and enlightenment to a

Stone-Age people.

The campaign in New Guinea dur

mg the Pacific War, 1942-45 aid, in more ways than one, change the old Territory and it is undeniable that the popular conception now is that P-NG was discovered in 1942. This is galling to men who gave a life time of service to the Territory be fore that time—and Mr. Townsend expresses their irritation admirably.

Nonetheless as far as the outside world is concerned it matters little whether our Administration began there 15 years ago or 50. World opinion—with the new nations howl ing loudest—is not disposed towards listening to causes, or reasons, or of difficulties surmounted; they are interested only in effects, as of now. (Whether we should be un duly worried by all this is another matter).

Mr Menzies certainly is off the beam when he infers that we started from scratch in 1945, since the pattern of administration and its firm foundations had been set years before. But in the material sense it was a new beginning and figures show why.

Before the war the public services of Papua and New Guinea combined numbered only hundreds; now the PS numbers 4,000. Before the war, the New Guinea Mandated Terri tory got no financial aid from Aus tralia —it paid its own way, mostly from a royalty on gold; Papua got about £40,000. Since the war, the Australian grant to the combined Territory has run into millions each year—about £l4i millions this year, which, with internal revenue, gives the Administration over £2O million to spend. On the score of avail ability of funds alone, there would be something wrong with the P-NG Administration if it isn’t writing a more interesting story now than the pre-war Administrations were able to write.

In comparison with the almost hysterical interest that is taken in P-NG affairs today, there was little from the outside world before 1942, with the result that the most tangible forms of progress there then came from private enterprise trading and shipping companies, gold mines and plantations.

The Administrations had their policies and they kept to them, but their role—except in exploration— was restricted by funds available to keeping the status quo. Since the war, however, the roles have tended to be reversed, with the Adminis tration taking the initiative—and this trend seems bound to develop further.

The points Mr. Townsend makes at the end of his article are of more immediate concern than the point about who should be praised for the past. He stresses that while the Territory of Papua-New Guinea is run by the Territories Depart ment in Canberra, the Territory is represented before the United Nations and the outside world by the Department of External Affairs; and that the Administrator of New

Guinea, unlike the Governors and High Commissioners of other Trust Territories, has never represented P-NG before the United Nations, nor even been permitted to visit the organisation.

Mr. Townsend might have ex tended his criticism of Canberra’s fanatical insistence on watertight Ministerial departmentals to cover Canberra control of the Territory generally.

During the month, Sydney—and probably P-NG, too has been laughing at a letter that appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald signed by an Anne Howe, of Port Moresby, who said she was an “obscure and strictly non-careerist Civil Servant”. Most thought her to be a brave woman, but the truth may be “she” is fictitious. This is what she said (in part): “Minister Hasluck is commonly conceded to be almost fanatically sincere, and frightfully industrious.

But ... I have become equally convinced that Mr Hasluck’s’ petul ant doctrinairism, congenital pedantry, lack of psychological in sight, and intolerance of the advice of the men on the spot, constitute very serious obstacles to Australia’s efforts in these islands. Canberra pays most of the Territory’s bills, and this provides the pretext for Canberra control over Territory affairs to extend down to adminis trative minutiae. Talk of the Admin istrator’s autonomy is regarded here as a poor joke, and every depart mental head is alleged to have a shadowy counterpart wielding power without responsibility.”

It isn’t as bad as that, of course, but it’s bad enough. V

Hint of Rich, New

Goldfield in Fiji

mHE Fiji Government’s announce- X ment that recent investigations indicate the existence of a valuable goldfield in the Waimanu River region, about 15 miles directly north-west of Suva, brought a gleam of sunshine into an economic picture that, for many months, has been consistently gloomy.

The Tavua goldfield, on which the town of Vatukoula now is based, has brought many millions of good money into Fiji. There have been minor goldfields elsewhere in Viti Levu, and in Vanua Levu. Beyond doubt, there still is much gold in the Colony, just waiting to be dis covered.

This Waimanu River goldfield is not new—in fact, its existence was reported decades before Bill Borth wick’s discovery at Tavua. Adam Boyd, an old-fashioned prospector and miner, who fossicked for years in the Waimanu area, always in sisted that there was rich gold there.

But every effort at large-scale survey and development hitherto has been defeated by the extreme roughness of the terrain. There is no road of any kind —only native tracks, over which Fijians carry packs of 50 or 60 pounds. There is no place in the precipitous gorges for an airfield.

“I know this gorge,” said Mr. W, G. Johnson, managing director of the Carpenter companies in Fiji, who was in Sydney the day the news came through. “I myself have washed out lumps of alluvial gold there. Old Boyd was right—there is a goldfield there. And it could be rich.

“But it is terrible country to get into—a very tough, difficult walk.

It lies around to the northwestward of Joske’s Thumb (the curiously shaped mountain peak seen from Suva). We used to go out to the Navua, and then up the Waindina River to the headwaters of the Waimanu (which is a large tributary of the Rewa River).

“There is no flat land at all, but it is beautiful country—streams and wild, broken gorges. No Fijians live there. There is much fog there— as anyone can see who flies be tween Nadi and Nausori. It could be made accessible by helicopter, perhaps.

“I have myself recovered gold there in small lumps, and I have grub-staked prospectors but we always were defeated by the difficult terrain.

“John Millett and some of his friends were interested in the Waimanu some 30 or 40 years ago —but no one has made an effort at development in recent times.”

The Fiji Government said there was a probability of proving 34 million cubic yards, with values running from one to 16 grains per cubic yard. Government geologists are continuing investigations.

P-NG Reform Ends

A Long Battle

IT’S taken a great number of years to get a plan for Papua-New Guinea Legislative reform out of the Minister for Territories, Mr.

Hasluck. Hundreds of thousands of words on the subject have been written and spoken in that time.

We will probably never know why he never announced a plan, even in general terms, much earlier than September 22. Probably the final decision on an announcement, if not earlier ones, had something to do with picking the most oppor tune time for the news to rebound around the halls of UNO.

But now the plan is finally announced, nobody could fairly find an argument against it. It’s a good scheme. It’s a praiseworthy scheme.

It should give every chance for the

Territory to grow in the rigl direction politically. The plan cor tains some important safeguards fc the Government, yet at the sarr time it gives rein to the opinioi of the Papua-New Guinea public a public that has for so long bee neglected, despite the strength has developed since 1951, when tU present Council was inaugurated.

That first Council was only meai to be a start, and by 1953 a sele< committee of the Council ws already, with great hopes, propos ing a plan of reform. But the hopes were dashed and frustratic was piled upon frustration, unt early 1959, when the three electe members, Messrs. E. A. James, Is Downs and Dudley Jones, stage their walk-out as a protest.

The protest was, among othj things “in objection to the lack ■ sufficient representation of tl people of the Territory in the legislature”. The walk-out of tho; three was made because of idealist motives, nothing else. None them had anything to gain by for himself.

It is unlikely that the Goverr ment will ever give the three me any credit for the reforms thi were announced in September, b< New Guinea people will, or shoul know better.

The reforms have been won aftJ a long battle, and nobody will regn the passing of the old order tin will go out with this month Legislative Council meeting in Po] Moresby. The new order of 1961 a far fresher, more intelligent, moc praiseworthy, long overdue a] proach to a vital subject.

Papua's Mr. E. A. James, a member of NG Legislative Council from its inaugurati[?] until his resignation, in disgust, last year. I[?] has led the battle for reform over the yeas He has now retired.

The Editars' Maillag

p. 29

jiyone Got A

pare Island?

Distant hills look green—and all lat. But we were much cheered iring the month to find that meone still yearns for the Dmantic South Seas, even in these iys when we are being urged on I sides to give the whole she-bang ?ht “back to the Indians”.

The interested party is Mr. Dan ilcomb, of California, who served New Guinea during the war, and •w at “50-ish” as he puts it, is ken with nostalgia for a bit of ad somewhere in the South -cific; or for preference, a whole and.

He writes; “I have some plans as agriculture (cows), a degree in imal husbandry—and 30 years’ perience in journalism, which has bearing on the matter whatever; 10 three fine little girls and two )wn sons”.

Vlr. Halcomb says elsewhere in > letter that he has a tax-free nuity of $554 per month— proximately £2,000 a year. doubt there are many people the Islands who would swop at Mr. Halcomb has got for what ty’ve got. So how about it you lows who reckon you see the itmg on the wall—what about ne advice for a friend? His Iress is Rt. 1, Box 906, Grass Hey, California.

)re Islands

comotives

4r. D. M. Askew, of Madang, r, challenges the statement in a cent issue” of PIM that Misima Id Mines used the earliest known muptive in the Pacific Islands. l bit late, we think—as we dis ed of the railway question about • years ago (PIM Nov., 1958), 3n it was apparently proved to ryone’s satisfaction that the first in in Papua was owned by New mea Copper Mines Ltd. to run from the Laloki and Dubuna les to the smelter at Bootless 3t (near Port Moresby). That i around 1920-21. he question then was which was first railway line in Papua— in the Pacific Islands as a )le. i the wider field, Mr. Askew ms the distinction for the }mons. He says that the Kauri iber Company, of Vanikoro, in Eastern Solomons, used two >™tiyes for the haulage of logs ut 1924. The photograph he as is unsuitable for reproduction .it is a locomotive, all right .owever as a matter of historical rest, it is probable that loco

motives were used by the CSR Co. for the haulage of sugar cane in Fiji long before 1924.

The Chinese Poets

Fight Back

Contributor Lew Friday’s article on Rabaul’s Chinatown (PIM, Sept., p. 87) in which he pats Rabaul’s Chinese on the back—and also gives one or two of them a few kicks— has brought a reply from one Rabaul Chinese, who asks to be re ferred to as T’sui. Furthermore, what he has to say he says in verse!

CHINATOWN—MY CHINATOWN

Lew Friday’s article seems so far from the point!

“PIM” Please—Has he ever been in this joint?

We are wicked, unfair. Oh! and selling the natives diluted boozes, Of all these things he quite calmly accuses!

Short measure in sugar, short measure in rice For this (ref. the news today) four Euro peans and two natives paid the price!

And last month Steamship’s, a firm so big and strong— Well now, they too were caught doing wrong!

Who on the Gazelle Peninsula is trying to create ill-feelings?

Just who, damn it! uses shady dealings?

Has an Asiatic for this been “kicked out” of the place?

No? Europeans? No! but “requested to leave”—(it’s still a disgrace! i Oh! —Big-hearted Friday admits we have our good sides (Like others, to save our homes we risked our lives!) And by mentioning that some lost their heads when caught, Perchance, he hopes to take the edge off the sword!

What gives with Honourable Friday, what’s he trying to lodge?

Doesn’t he like us, has he got a grudge?

As Chinese poetry, this might be very pathetic, But then, I’m only a citizen and not very poetic!

Sequel To That

Buka Wedding

“Do you remember the day two months ago when Pat Roberts married Buka native Vicky Mah in the Methodist Mission Memorial Church in Rabaul?” asks our Rabaul correspondent, Gus Smales, this month.

Well, we do, of course, but Gus wants to tell it his own way. He writes; “That was the day when a crowd trampled the church garden to get a look at an Australian-born man, successful in business, marrying a young Bougainville native girl. It was the day when some people stayed at home because they were insulted to be invited to such a wedding.

“It was the day when the town

stopped for an hour to see the spectacle, when the minister had to raise his voice above the hubbub in the church grounds. It was the day when cameras ran hot, when the papers cried out for more copy, when some people even had the cheek to say they only went along for the fun.

“Today the wedding and the : publicity it received are parts of Rabaul’s history. Some of it is good history, some of it is bad. It is true, too, that some incidents which have occurred since the wedding have not helped provide plain sailing for Pat and Vicky.

“For that reason, as much as for any other, here is an after-piece to the wedding story that everyone deserves to know: “No matter what New Guinea has said, the world outside has been warm-hearted. Pat Roberts has re ceived a flood of letters from all parts of Australia, and the world, patting him on the back.

“And he is a man who has been genuinely touched by the letters. He says, T didn’t bargain on all the papers and the cameras. In fact I got a fright when I saw the cameras.

But people have read about it and I have got letters from all parts of the world. They have all been friendly letters.’

“A wedding is a personal thing which at heart concerns only two people. But if it can accomplish something else as well, there is no commercialism in pointing out what it has achieved.

“And Pat Roberts has achieved more good for New Guinea outside than ever could have been achieved in a score of carefully planned publicity campaigns.”

No "Talk-Talk"

p. 29

This Month

There is no “Territories Talk-Talk” this month, as Gordon Thomas (“Tolala”) is ill.

On the rule that misfortunes seldom come singly, both Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas, of Campbelltown, NSW, were admitted to hospital for special treat ment at the end of August—Mrs.

Thomas to the Camden District Hospital, and Mr. Thomas to the Con cord Repatriation Hospital, where in September he underwent an operation.

Later, out of hospital, Mrs. Thomas fell and suffered a leg fracture; and she then was taken by ambulance to the Coast Hospital, in Sydney, where she underwent an operation on Sep tember 28. Both of the elderly patients now are reported to be “doing well”.

Gordon Thomas, as editor of “Rabaul Times”, was very well known in Neyv Guinea prior to World War 11. He was captured by the invading Japanese in January, 1942, and he was one of the handful who came out of that cruel experience alive—he was found in a New Britain valley camp after the Japs surrendered in September, 1945.

Why Didn't We Use

pp. 31-33

Australia Should Have Walloped Them at UNO

Why Didn't We Use Our Ace ?

By G. W. L. Townsend

Mr. Menzies is reported as having said, before his departure for New York, that he would “tell the UN the magnificent story of Papua-New Guinea”.

In his address to the General Assembly, Mr. Menzies de plored Mr. Khrushchev’s “disturbing want of knowledge of these territories and of the present state of their development” and then displayed a total lack of understanding of the events which have brought the Territory to its present admirable state.

{AVING listened in the past to Russian interventions in the Trusteeship Council debates on nditions in New Guinea, I was iver sure how much was ignorance id how much was due to a de )erate policy of twisting facts and rures. But there can be no other planation for Mr. Menzies’ speech an bad briefing and personal lorance.

Mr. Menzies said (and I quote the mrier Mail of October 7); “Here is a country which, not so long ago, was to a real extent, In a state of savagery. It passed through the most gruesome ex periences during the last war. It 3ame out of it without organised administration and, in a sense, without hope.” iVhat is passed over here without mtion, is that Australia had been administration control of Papua * half a century and of New tinea for almost that length of ie; and the Annual Reports to nberra and to the League of tions tell of the advances made ring that long period.

V. good deal of New Guinea was a ttlefield, but by no means all of For instance, the Japanese never -ched the thickly populated bigh ts. Apart from Buna and Gona i the short-lived expeditions of Danese troops to Milne Bay and koda, Papua was never in enemy ids. In any event, no European Asian nations with their own r memories are likely to become ited about jungle fighting in w Guinea.

Was "Wrong"

hit it is the last sentence in the )te above which is so wrong, ten New Guinea was invaded, GAU was formed (Australian v Guinea Administration Unit) 1 remained in being till after the r when very many of these men :ame the Civil Administration. n -, a . I_ve^y 1 ve^ y rea * sense men who led the two Administrations any

thing up to 20 years before the Japanese invasion are still serving, and have never left it for a day.

If the New Guinea people ended the war without hope, as Mr. Menzies says, it may be asked what kept them loyal to our cause in the first years when things looked black?

Did the stretcher bearers on the Kokoda trail work sullenly under compulsion? And what of Luluai Golpaik and his people in New Britain who, at the risk of their lives protected and cared for our parties of Coastwatchers, refusing to bow to Japanese pressure? Was all this not a trust in the Australians they had known over the years, and a hope and belief that New Guineans and Australians would have a future together? So I believe.

Mr. Menzies went on: “We have built up an extensive administrative service from nothing. . .”

Is it possible that Canberra can have forgotten the existence of that world-renowned Administrator, Sir Hubert Murray, or believe for a second that his years of labour and love for the Papuans faded to noth ing at the threat of invasion?

As regards New Guinea, there are officers now serving, as I have said, with records of more than 30 years in the Territory behind them. Surely they would protest about that “from nothing”.

A further last quote: “We have built from nothing, medical ser vices.”

Today’s news tells of the con version of the Port Moresby hos pital into a Legislative Council Chamber. To my knowledge that building has been used as a hos pital for 40 years.

The hospitals at Rabaul, Kavieng and Madang which were destroyed, largely by Allied bombing, were buildings erected by the Imperial German Government prior to 1914.

Those at Salamaua, Wewak, and so on were of later date. In Aus tralia’s Annual Report to the League of Nations glowing, and true, accounts are given of the medical services provided the inhabitants of

the Territory. There are lists of the numbers of Medical Orderlies trained and sent back to their villages, of the drugs and dressing issued to them, and of the number of aid posts set up.

Divide and Fail It is inconceivable that the work of 20 years by devoted medical per sonnel, both of government and that of the various religious missions, would leave no trace so that post-war services had to com mence “from nothing”.

This sorry exposition by Mr.

Menzies of the truly remarkable work carried out by Australians in Papua-New Guinea in a half century stems from the deep division be tween the Departments of Terri tories and External Affairs in Can berra.

Authority in and over Papua-New

linea is exercised by the Minister ■ Territories but overseas, notably the UN, External Affairs is the ihority. r or example, the Administrator of pua-New Guinea (who should re an unrivalled knowledge and ierstanding of the peoples of se Territories) is never permitted appear before the Trusteeship incil when New Guinea affairs discussed. s I have pointed out in a previ letter to the PIM, whilst Tang ika can send its Governor, and 7 Zealand and the United States r High Commissioners for their st Territories, Australia re ins the sole administering lority which has consistently re d to allow the head of Govern it of her TT to appear or even ; the UN. r. Menzies had an ace in his d; but for some reason allowed self to be persuaded not to use 5 went down at least three :s to an opponent he should have oped. what Mr. Menzies said, see page 134; also Commentary, page 25.)

The Writer

p. 31

Prime Minister Menzies of Australia probably wished, after the event, that he had taken a page out of President de Gaulle’s book and ignored the United Nations by staying at home.

His address to the General Assembly in October displeased a lot of people and provided political ammunition for his enemies at home. Furthermore, he appears to have trod on some Terri torian toes as well.

Mr. G. W. L. Townsend, who has written the following article, has a better background for making these judgments than most. He was, before the war, the District Officer of the Sepik District: during it he had a distinguished career in the Army; and after it he was, for a number of years, a member of the UN Trusteeship Council secretariat. He is now living in Queensland.

Dark Days In

pp. 35-38

Those POW Letters Dark Days In NG Recalled

The Rev. A. H. Voyce, now retired d living in Auckland, NZ, but ■ many years a missionary in New dnea, ansivers a query made by ider John Watson in “Editors’ lilbag”, August “PIM”, about that soner-of-war mail with which the os “bombed” Port Moresby in ril, 1942. n his was the last time many of se men were heard from, although “Tolala” recorded in September M”, the Japs gave their prisoners second chance to write home — mt May, 1942, he thinks. Not of this second batch of mail de the distance, and shortly rrwards all but half a dozen of men (“Tolala” being amongst lucky few) were shipped away the “Montevideo Maru” which reported sunk with all hands ewhere near the Philippines. was news to me to know that iccording to Mr. Watson I had ‘gone on record” as stating that isoner-of-War” mail did not inate from Rabaul! {PIM, ust, p. 27). I have no knowledge uch a “record”. do remember, however, in one ate letter, questioning the fineness of such a cover, which been received by a relative, that was before I had access ertain published information to :h I refer later, and which may >f interest even at this late date, r our readers. have always had in my Postal ory collection of Papua and Guinea, a cutting from the aey Press in June, 1942. in :h Osmar White then writing the Sydney Daily Telegraph , how the Japanese-bomber iped the mail-bag “bomb” after tad released a salvo of high osives. >ng white streamers were ched to the bag, which bore a i tag inscribed: “Any person ing this bundle is cordially ested to deliver it to the Army 400 Letters ie letters—300 from Australian iers, and a 100 from civilian mers of war—were each limited l single sheet. The bag con ed a typed message: “To Army Port Moresby, we i. granted our prisoners of war fission to write a letter to their es in order to relieve anxiety their families about the are of their beloved ones. This b of letters we are confident

Continued on page 35—column 2)

will never fail to receive a warm welcome from all addresses. The letters are left unsealed for the convenience of censorship on your side. We sincerely hope that by your good offices the whole of the letters will find their way to the respective destinations. The Japanese Headquarters”.

Only recently, I have secured a copy of Lionel Wigmore’s Official War History, The Japanese Thrust, where on page 674 he states: “Soon after the Australians entered captivity, the Japanese per mitted them to write letters home.

Several mail-bags containing these letters were dropped during an early air raid on Port Moresby. On the outside of one of the bags a message in English to Major-General Morris, stating that “no doubt the addresses would be glad to receive the con tents of this ‘bomb’.

And, again, in Qantas Aeriana, page 105, it is stated, under a head ing, Japanese deliver Prisoners’

Letters : “A courtesy gesture was made by the Japanese Military Authorities when they dropped a number of

letters from prisoners of war held by them. At first our troops were not sure as to whether this might have been a trick of some kind, but examination proved them to be genuine letters, which were quickly gathered up and handed to Army Intelligence. They totalled approxi mately 374 items. The letters did not bear any postal markings and stated that the senders were in good health and well treated.

Gave Much Information tetters were forwarded to Melbourne, where much informa tion was gathered as to the names of other prisoners and when this examination was concluded they were handed to the postal authorities, to be sent as registered mail to the addressee.”

The Aero Field, published in England states (March, 1950), that on April 28, 1942, letters from Aus tralian prisoners of war at Rabaul were dropped over Port Moresby by Japanese bombers.

I remember promising myself that some time I would write to

some of the wives of Methodist Missionaries who were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Rabaul, and ask for one of those covers— but I never have. Once the tragic information about the fate of those who were allegedly taken away on the Montevideo Maru was made known, I felt that it would be sacrilege to disturb such folk in their sorrow, though I had known many of those who were lost.

Only yesterday (Sept. 6, 1960) I received from the writer of your August “Mailbag” query, Mr. John Watson, a series of articles clipped from the Australian Press, and written by Bishop Scharmach, of Vunapope, who was, at that time a prisoner of the Japanese at Rabaul, in which he stated that in his opinion there never was any such vessel as the Montevideo Maru! [Here is the relevant passage about the ship: Now a strange thing happened. Officers from Rabaul, whom I had not met, came to see me. Nothing official! After some small talk, they volunteered the informa tion that all the civilians were put on board the “Montevideo Maru” but on the way to Japan the ship was torpedoed near the Philippines and all the civilians lost.

This was sad news, indeed. Two more Japanese officers called on me on different days giving the same report. I grew sus picious. Never before had Japanese officers, of their own accord, given the slightest indication of the Empire’s losses.

After hostilities, the question of the “Montevideo Maru” came before the War Criminal Court at Rabaul. The Japanese

told the Australian authorities what the had told me. But investigations at II Navy headquarters disclosed that th Americans had never torpedoed a ship lihl the “Montevideo Maru” near the Philip pines.

Further, a mass grave had been dh covered at Matupi near Rabaul. Alleged! there were found in the grave wrii watches and other things identified as b* longing to the people who were supposi to be on the “Montevideo Maru”.

Piecing this together, it is highly pro! able that a “Montevideo Maru” new existed. The prisoners were taken by tnn to Matupi and other places. Most like they were equipped with spades and we ordered to dig a trench, after whii machine guns mowed them down. It won have been easy to throw the bodies in a: bury them. That would have been in kee ing with their forces’ procedure elsewhe; Just to put investigators on the wroi track they assiduously spread the story the “Montevideo Maru”.] And only a month ago I receiv one of the POW covers at last through an old friend who wrc to the widow of the Rev. L.

McArthur, who was one of the mi who went down with Montevid Maru.

This cover bears all' the mai

described in Qantas Aeriana, w:

the Melbourne Bulk Postage bj

registration label No. 1070, plus t

red “Opened by Censor” sticker, a

the “Passed by Censor” mark.

Bishop Leo Scharmach, whose book has opened the question of the bona tides of the "Monte viedo Maru".

Did A Ghost Ship

pp. 35-37

Sail From Here ?

By a Staff Writer

A passage from Bishop Leo Scharmach’s book (This Crowd Beats Us All), to which the Rev. A. H. Voyce refers in his letter published on this page is the first time that any serious doubt has been cast on the fate of the civilian internees of Rabaul, and the soldiers from the Rabaul garrison in total, about 1,000 persons. However, at various periods since the war, rumours have circulated that there was in effect “no Montevideo Maru”.

AMASS grave was discovered on Matupi in recent years, with the relics the Bishop describes, but there was no suggestion that this grave could have contained anything like 1,000 bodies. Which

ever way you look at it, and even taking into consideration the Jap anese talent in this direction, 1,000 bodies would not be so easily dis posed of, even if the victims dug their own grave and were machine gunned into it. It is % unlikely that such slaughter would have escaped everyone. Someone, native or other wise, would have spread the news.

Mr. Gordon Thomas, who was one of the only half-dozen Rabaul residents to survive in Rabaul, strongly discounts the idea that the men were not shipped away or that they were killed at Matupi.

He says the grave at Matupi held about 30 bodies; shortly after he was released from the Japs and was down in Australia, he was sent a detailed description of the remains by the Australian Government. From the description, he was not able to identify any as being those of men who were supposed to have been shipped away on the Monte video Maru. The watch that was found he identified as belonging to a man who was never in the Montevideo Maru contingent.

He was under close guard in Rabaul himself at the time the ship is said to have sailed and did not witness it himself; but after he was

Was there a plaque of this memorial stone to the prisoners on the "Montevideo Maru?" This is how the stone looked in September. If there was a plaque, where is it, and what did it say?

Photo: M. R. Hayes.

This is all that's now left of the wharf in Rabaul from which the "Montevideo Maru" was said to have departed in 1942. The stone on the left of the picture is a memorial to the event. See close-up, below. Photo: Gordon Bladen

released he spoke to a number of Chinese and natives who said they, had actually seen the men embark on a ship.

On the other hand it was not usual for the Japs to send large numbers of prisoners back to Japan —they usually let them rot where they were, as has been told ir numerous stories that internees ir Singapore, Malaya. Indonesia anc Borneo have written since.

But the Japanese did send some prisoners back to Japan after the Montevideo Maru incident, anc these (Army and civilian nurses; and officers of NGVR and 22nc Battalion AIF), survived to tell about it.

The fact that the Americans die not record sinking a ship that fit the Montevideo Maru’s alleged de scription, may or may not haw some significance. Anything coule happen to submarines and their re* cords at that stage in the Pacific War, Shortly after the end of th.

Pacific War, in August, 1942, i thanksgiving party was held in th.

Paddington Town Hall, Sydney, am to it went a great many wives a the men who had become civiliai internees in Rabaul. Even at tha late stage there was no suggestioi that the men had not been prisoner of the Japs for the previous thre and a half years.

"Nothing to Celebrate"

But within weeks it becami obvious that these women had littl to celebrate and that they had, ii fact, been widowed for years.

In October, 1945, PIM reported “The Montevideo Maru was ton pedoed—presumably by an Allies submarine —off the coast of Luzot on June 22, 1942. An announcemer to that effect was made by the Jap anese radio. Two people have re ported to us that they heard th announcement—Captain Bertie Hal a well-known New Guinea ship master who was in a prison-cam in Amoy, China, and who has juu arrived in Sydney: and a brother « Mrs. Peadon, of Rabaul, who hear it on short-wave when he was i the Morobe district of New Guine* This report from Tokio in 1942 an a statement recently obtained fron Tokio, said that the vessel was lo* with her entire company.”

Whether the 1942 Tokio messag had said that the ship carried Aujj tralian prisoners, PIM didn’t sat Presumably not, or the fate of til men would not have come as suo a shock as it did in 1945..

The Japanese officers told Bisho Scharmach so —but the Japane* had unpredictable fits of conscieno and this may have been one < them.

The Bishop was personally cofi cerned, too. One of his priests an one of the Mission Brothers, foot< Australians, disappeared on tK; Montevideo Maru.

For some reason, that the Bishop story does not make clear, they we;e

?led out from the rest of the isionaries under “house arrest”

Vunapope, and sent to Rabaul. ; Japanese interpreter told the lop that they would be “back in days”—but that was the last sver saw of them, he Bishop’s story is an interest -and even entertaining—one of ;e dark days. It has been run s' as a serial in the Sydney 'ioUc Weekly and the Sunday aid.

In Book Form > well, it has now been issued book, which is available from of the Catholic bookshops, and i the Catholic Weekly, 104 pbell Street, Sydney, at the est price of 10/6. Anyone who anything to do with the Terri during that period will find the ing of it rewarding, though the Bishop was at that technically of German mality, it is clear from the ative that any privileges the ionaries got during the Jap pation—and almost the only was that they were not taken md ry’rdered en masse—came ly frolr the personality of the ip, and not because Germany Japan were both members of Axis. The Japanese tended to on everyone European as be n the wrong side of the fence.

Bishop Was Polish

the time of the Japanese in n of Rabaul, the Bishop had lish passport, and in fact, re td himself as Polish. However, he was born, Poland was at time partitioned—and he had d in the German army as a her bearer during World War aring the time between the when Poland was again an in dent nation, the Bishop again le a Pole. However, as the lese officer pointed out to him Rabaul was taken in January, Germany again owned his part land, and thus he was a “Ger a footnote about this see-saw of affairs, the Bishop says: r World War JI, Poland re red that disputed part and I i Pole again. By the end of war. I was fed up with these :es. As my work is neither in any or in Poland, but here in territory, under the Australian applied for naturalisation. It ranted in 1946. I swore allegi and loyalty to the reigning sign and I meant it then as s Marjorie Stewart, Women’s :st Officer of the South Pacific nssion has concluded six 1 in Fiji * In September eft the Colony to spend a I,. in Tonga and from there all go to Western Samoa.

There’s A (Financial) Revolution

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Old Time Planter On The Way Out?

There’s A (Financial) Revolution In The NG Planting Industry

From a NG Correspondent While pessimists hint at labour troubles, while inventors me out with new harvesting and cultivating machinery, and lile agricultural experts develop new production techniques, revolution is sweeping across the face of the New Guinea mting industry today.

7 despite the effects of these langing factors, today’s revolu on in the production of cocoa ;opra is neither an industrial i mechanical one, nor even an Qtural one. 3 rather a financial one where anter of the old type is fading he background, and where the ger, the company promoter, usinessman and the account re coming into prominence. change is shown in today’s ;d trend to relinquish private ition ownership in favour of my control, coupled with in ng public interest every time ior float is made, some people the trend is not py one, but their feelings are ly motivated more by senti than by practicability, annot be denied that, after all, ig a plantation is simply er business venture, ler today’s conditions, the i of company-operated planta cannot be stopped. The posi ;oes even deeper than this— today’s conditions company •1 is often the only salvation me types of properties.

Many Factors

lumber of major factors are outing to the trend, the first place many of the tions are major capital assets today are beyond the pur g means of a private owner, they were taken up by their il Australian soldier settler 3 they were not magnificent I assets. Hard work, circum , luck, or a combination of factors has wrought a change, time has come now when in al owners are retiring, but individual owners are not oming because of the finance sd. The obvious answer is to ’ompanies to buy and operate tabhshed plantations. This is is happening today, the more technical side there impetus for the change. The ms of running an under hsed concern are great in any ;ry, and not less in the planta ndustry.

The man who thought he could struggle along on a shoestring has found his problems too great. He has either sold to a company, or he has initiated a company so that sufficient capital will be available to carry on.

This situation, of course, is not new in so far as private companies are concerned. The interesting factor today is the growth of public com panies operating plantation in terests; and the wide scope of some private companies operating planta tion interests.

Some Recent Moves For the record, here are some of the recent changes: In August, Plantation Holdings Limited announced that it had pur chased Ravalien and Matanatar Plantations at Kokopo in New Britain from Rowe Brothers, from Mr. W. C. Rowe and from Mrs. F.

Rowe.

The price paid was £40,000 in cash and 85,000 fully paid shares of 5/- each in the company, giving the deal a nominal value of £61,250. On present value of the shares, the effective value of the deal would be near £BO,OOO.

The company issued 160,000 new shares to finance the deal. Planta tion Holdings Limited also owns

Tobera Plantation, New Britain; Matala Plantation, New Britain; and Mageh Plantation, New Ire land. In addition it owns and operates a general store in Rabaul.

Early in September, Bali Planta tion Limited announced that it had purchased Stockholm Plantation in the Bainings area of New Britain from the proprietary owners. Shew Loon and Company of Rabaul.

The purchase price was £45,000, to be financed by a new share issue at par. Bali Plantation Limited operates Bali Plantation in the Vitu Island Group, Marau Plantation on the New Britain South Coast and Kolai Plantation on the New Britain South Coast.

Dylup Moves

Late in September, Dylup Planta tions Limited (a most successful four-year-old company) announced that it had purchased two properties near Madang in New Guinea. They are Wagol and Meiro Plantations, originally owned by the late Mr.

E. V. O’Brien, and lately by Mr.

W. K. Cahill.

Dylup, which has a paid-up capital of £203,750, has not disclosed the purchase price. The company has seven other properties, includ ing the well-known New Guinea property from which the company takes its name.

Early this month, the announce ment was made in Rabaul that a new company to be known as Makurapau Estates Limited was be ing formed to purchase the well known Makurapau Plantation near Kokopo, New Britain, from Mr.

E. T. W. (Ted) Fulton.

Mr. Fulton will be on the board of the new company. His co-directors will be Mr. F. N. Warner Shand, of Rabaul: Mr. J. Koefod, of Rabaul, and Mr. H. V. Quinton, of Sydney.

The company plans to issue its prospectus shortly to invite public subscription, and later will apply for listing on the Sydney Stock Ex change. Its nominal capital will be £500,000.

The trend is clear enough.

They Sell Their Knowledge To Planters

pp. 39-41

From a Rabaul Correspondent The appointment of Leon Ambrose Bridgland, the Papua-New Guinea Government Gazette said in a belated announcement last month, has been terminated as a plant inspector and plant quarantine officer.

BEHIND the formal wording of the paragraph lies the story of one of the most interesting experiments in private enterprise to be undertaken this year in P-NG.

To those who did not know the story the formal wording of the B Ambros a e V Widglan C d U mlght\e°

“Se to wteffhe wafflred 6 :

PF The trath*was*that Bndeland one of the most valuable agronomists and research workers that Papua-

New Guinea had known, left the Government service nearly six months ago.

He teamed up in private enter prise with Mr. W. T. Thomas, of Mansion Kokopo, to an advisory seiwice ior nursery plants and knowledge at a ratewhich is surprising even the Sng under the name.of Theo Thomas and Company Limited, and (Over)

as plantation advisers and ies, the new venture is prov i outstanding success. mas and Bridgland, for a start, i no introduction to the ,tion world. Thomas is one of ►est-known of New Guinea rs and is president of the New Guinea Planters’ Asso i. He has made a personal s of the plantation business, i has never hesitated to pour money into projects which prove to the good of the in tias travelled round the world i a tourist but as a specialist >ted in copra and cocoa, par ly cocoa.

Plenty of Information

n his most recent trip he re [ with a bulging case of type i notes collected in every cocoa producing and maim ing country from West Africa Lth America. ilso returned with something nore concrete in the form of jr. The problems and im itions which eventually arrived he drier would make a story mselves.

Bridgland was best known in his most recent Government position as officer-in-charge of the Low lands Agricultural Experimental station at Keravat in New Britain.

Enthusiastic and energetic, he be came an expert in cocoa not only by the standards of the new cocoa in dustry of New Guinea but by world standards.

Bridgland would cheerfully give up a Sunday or holiday to show a visitor round the research station provided the visitor was a genuine inquirer.

“I hate the tourists who just want to look,” he said.

Bridgland, too, went overseas and studied cocoa problems and de

velopments in other countries.

It was only natural that he and Thomas would find much in common, and that the businessman in Thomas would see the potential for a plantation advisory service.

The venture turned another stroke of the wheel recently when Peter Byrne, Bridgland’s successor as oificer-in-charge of the research station, also joined the staff of Theo Thomas and Company.

The New Guinea Women’s Club Annual Reunion Luncheon will be held this year at the Feminist Club Rooms, 77 King Street, on October 27 at 12.30 p.m.

Mr. W. T. Thomas.

Sensible Level

p. 43

It's Happened!

CAPRA AT THAT

By a Staff Writer

pra prices came down with a thud in September—to the it level since the latter part of At £Stg.6l/16/9 per ton c.i.f. bn on the last day of Sep er, price can be said to have led the “sensible level” con rs have stated that they re d before they would turn back the alternative oils to which have now adjusted their pro s. this ground alone, it could be tiat the market may now im rove. (On October 10, the Lon- J.i.f. price was £Stg.64/10/- per rid price of copra has been ily falling since April this year, a 1958 of high prices and a of boom prices that averaged the entire year at around >0 per ton. ling prices through most of year are undoubtedly the re >f the high prices of 1958 and when manufacturers more and adjusted their processes to d-nuts, palm oil, palm seed and the like, as an alternative to . According to the consumers, irse, they can make margarine F almost anything in the vege and animal oil line—and have r demonstrated it of late.

Market For Oils

rever, it is not altogether a ided story. There is a market .1 the edible oils that can be ced these days, and the scarcity s kind forces up the prices of tfiers. Coconut oil has some ar advantages of its own, too. [r. lan McDonald, Chairman e Papua-New Guinea Copra Jting Board, says in his market ; for September: . . The peculiar qualities of lauric acid oils (coconut oil ig the foremost of these) are i that these oils will always and a premium in the long i over other oils.” new of the sharp drop in the it, most f.o.b. prices have been ;ed accordingly in South 3 copra producing areas, igh the P-NG Copra Market er and continues for the time to pay a tentative price of £A63/10/- and £A62/10/- for iree grades. ras interesting to note that in September the Marseilles price reflected things to come else . with the price down to per metric ton, and the

price being paid at Vila and Santo down to £A40 per ton.

Japan has been shopping about the Pacific for copra of late, and Mr. McDonald has this to say about it in his September report: “Japanese imports of oil seeds and oil seed products have been showing a brisk increase—up about 14 per cent, over the same period in 1959. The increase is greater in copra, where imports during January/June, 1960, totalled 36,593 metric tons com pared with 24,241 in 1959, an in crease of 51 per cent.

“During both periods the chief source of supply was British North Borneo. However, although only a nominal tonnage of P-NG

copra is sold to Japan, buyers are showing an increasing awareness of our copra, mainly for quality reasons, although at the same time they are not too happy about paying a premium over Philippine FM for it.”

Suva’s newest hotel, Hotel Suva, opened its doors on October 8 An air-conditioned building in Waimanu Road in the business area of the city, its charges are in the medium price range—4s/- for single room, early morning tea and breakfast; 55/- with private shower and toilet; and 80/- and 100/- for double rooms as above. A feature will be a busi ness men’s luncheon at 7/6.

Spirit Was

p. 45

A WAR IN THE OFFING

But Only The Spirit Was Willing

From a Rabaul Correspondent With an ancestral spirit (old

/le) to bring them luck, and

bottled spirit (new style) to

ing them courage, about 300 >lai natives came into Rabaul

September ready for a big

ht.

E ancestral spirit was a human arm bone tenderly hidden in a piece of rag, and the modern t was a banana juice home r even more tenderly hidden in >ven basket. i the more practical side, the is were armed with a bristling ction of pointed sticks, bayonets, bars and slings ready to fight i grudge with about 200 Chimbu res. The trouble started over a iffing debt. it the affair fizzled out before armed up when: The Chimbus, with a com iable sense of timing, chose the i day to disappear into the bush, The police, with a rapid series atrols, rounded up the Tolais confiscated their weapons. the light of what they have later, there seems little doubt the Tolais are as happy as any else that the affair did not ■ to a full-scale fight—but none iess they were ready. 265 Arrests! e police patrols arrested 265 es and collected a truckful of ons. e arm bone—not a fresh one ly means—was discovered when 5 were checking the weapons, bottle of home-brew was dis ed in an unattended basket i one of the natives put on ioor of the police station. When 5 called for the owner he came ird quite happily and admitted the basket and the home-brew his. e Rabaul Magistrate Mr. F. J.

Je, SM. took the men through itches of 25 to 50 at a time ise his court room was not big ?h to take the lot at once, e scoreboard at the end of the ■irgs was: Pleaded guilty to charges

fl having carried offensive

weapons, and fined £1 each 211 • Pleaded not guilty to charges of having carried offensive weapons, and dismissed 53 • Pleaded guilty to having been in possession of liquor, and gaoled for two months 1 Additional court attendants had to be called in to collect the fines and to keep the defendants apart from about 400 other Tolais who gathered around to see the fun.

Many of the onlookers were women and children who came to see how much Dad copped.

Police had their worries while they tried valiantly to balance the num ber of convicted natives with the pile of notes and silver which came in to pay the fines.

At one stage the books were short £3 and a few shillings, but a bit of back talking soon brought forward the defaulters and the books were squared.

With complete lack of sub judice tact, although doubtless well mean ing, the Administration came out with a lengthy explanation of what the natives had done and why they had done it.

The statement was made through the Department of Native Affairs at a time when no evidence had been given in court, and while the 53 natives who pleaded not guilty were actually on remand.

Today, about the only remaining evidence of the war that didn’t start is the human arm bone, which makes an interesting souvenir for the police station.

The home brew? It’s long since gone. “And it burnt with a clear blue flame”, the prosecution told the court.

Mr. F. J. Winkle, SM, examines one of the weapons seized from the Tolais —a bayonet wired to a pole.

Photo: M. R. Hayes.

Nother Whaling Season Over

p. 47

folk Island’s whaling season finished in September, when the Norfolk Island Byron Bay Whaling Co. took its quota of 170 whales. The island’s two new t. chasers “Cascade Whaler” and “Kingston Whaler” —were put into moth s for the off-season, and the mother ship, “Norfolk Whaler”, departed for tralia. The two new chasers, used at Norfolk for the first time this season, e apparently been having some settling-in pains because of Norfolk’s open . with the result that the mother ship met with greater success than her progeny. The “Norfolk Whaler” triumphantly wound-up the season by hing the final five whales of the quota. The photographs show the three vessels iperation last month, and a whale being cut up on the ramp at the factory.

Who Gave Wartime

pp. 47-49

The Senator and the Solomons Who Was The Kiwi Who Gave Wartime Aid To Kennedy?

Most people probably know that Senator John Kennedy, Democratic nominee for the United States presidential elec tions in November, won a Navy Cross and Purple Heart decora tion for services in the Solomons during the war, but not much has been said of the details .

IT appears that Kennedy was at tached to a US Navy fast tor pedo patrol boat squadron operat ing from a base on Rendova Island: and was in command of PT-109 ort the night of August 2, 1943, when his active naval service came to an abrupt end.

An ex-Japanese Navy officer, now m business, was interviewed in the South Pacific service of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in Sep tember and told his share in the incident.

He said that he was in command of one of three destroyers running supplies and reinforcements from Rabaul to the hard-pressed Jap anese forces at Kolombangara Island on the night in question.

Cut in Two The destroyers were running at high speed through Blackett Strait on the south side of Kolombangara and nearing the end of their run from Rabaul when, through the darkness, he suddenly saw the PT boat close ahead, and a moment later his destroyer had cut clean through the American craft.

There was, of course, no question of stopping—and it was not until after the war when naval records were compared that the Americans ascertained what had sunk PT-109, or that the Japanese officer knew what he had hit.

In The Sea Lieutenant Kennedy and the sur vivors of his craft found themselves in the water three miles from the nearest land—a little islet on the reef on the south side of Blackett Strait. The naval citation said Kennedy helped first to tow mem bers of his crew, who could not swim or who were injured and kept afloat by their life jackets, to one half of the PT-boat which remained partly afloat, and then gave credit for his subsequent handling of the situation.

From the wreck the survivors managed to swim to the small islet before dawn, and on the following night Kennedy swam out into the Strait with a torch in the hope

ntercepting a patrolling PT-boat, none was sighted, iter a further two days on the t some of the group moved along reef to the westward to a larger t close to Ferguson Passage ch enters Blackett Strait from south. There they obtained some ons from a wrecked Japanese ?e which also contained a one i canoe. i this, Kennedy again patrolled Ferguson Passage that night in hope of meeting one of the PT £ which he knew used this tage.

Help in Canoe

sxt day some Solomon Islanders ved in a canoe and Kennedy sent n off with a note to American es on Rendova which read: live. Native knows position and 5. Kennedy”. sxt morning a canoe arrived : with four natives and a note ;h read: “On His Majesty’s Ser , To the senior officer Nauru id. I have just learned of your ence on Nauru Island. I am in tnand of a New Zealand infantry ol operating in conjunction with Army troops on New Georgia, 'ongly advise you to come with e natives to me. Meanwhile I I be in radio communication your authorities at Rendova we can finalise plans to collect nee of your party. Lieutenant Dote.” mnedy went with the natives the evacuation of the two ps of Americans was duly nged.

Name Mystery

iere has been speculation in Zealand regarding the identity ieutenant Wincote. as the NZ V has no record of the incident cannot identify the officer, is possible that the name is led—and it is also possible that ione in the Solomons or some er ex-serviceman there might lie to shed some more light on subject. The New Zealand who ever he was, may not survived the war; otherwise it s almost certain that some > would have been heard from with the name of Senator iedy so much to the fore at pre e Nauru Island mentioned does appear to be marked on Ad- Ity charts. There is a Nauro d some miles away off the i-east end of Arundel Island, west of the well known Diamond dws — but this island does not the other details given in dean Press reports, as it is not to Blackett Strait or Fergu- Passage. nnedy suffered injuries which ved him from active service caused his discharge from the two years later following ment and convalescence.

N. Hebrides Mining Village Well on the Way

p. 49

re P° r t from Vila in September said considerable progress had already been made at Forari, Efate, in preparation for the start of manganese mmmg next June.

The company behind the project is the Compagnie Francaise de Phosphate de L’Oceanie which is building an entire village for employees, together with a jetty which will enable vessels of up to 20,000 tons to load manganese ore. „ Despite a constant swell, the wharf construction is well advanced, In the powerhouse installation of five diesel generating sets has

almost been finished, to give a total output of 1,450 kilowatts.

A large machinery repair shop has just been completed; construc tion of the ore washing plant has begun and it is expected to be ready early next year. A main road which will permit the untreated ore to be taken from the works to this plant is due to be finished November. 1961.

In the new village overlooking Metensa Bay, concrete bungalows are being completed at the rate of one per week. Soon it will be one every five days. In the village will be Catholic and Protestant churches, a clinic, a school and playing fields.

Fiji’s Sugar Debate

pp. 51-53

Some Strong Words In Fiji’s Sugar Debate

From a Suva Correspondent Probably never before, in the history of the Fiji Legislative uncil, had such damning charges been made by Indian mem s against another Indian than in the September-October gar” session.

“other” Indian, specifically med, was Mr, A. D. Patel, e Lautoka lawyer who is ■-minding the opposition of a section of the Fiji Indian farmers to selling their cane i millers after a reasonable )mise had been reached, rding to Mr. B. D. Lakshman, elected member for the Western Division, this ;ion had a good deal more ,n it than the public had s appreciated.

Lakshman said Mr. A. D. and his brother, Mr. S. B.

Patel, had started this “sinister work” about 1939.

“In them converge the hopes and desires of that business community which is trying to keep the people in bondage,” said Mr. Lakshman.

They were interested in seeing that the farmers lost their money so that the farmers would become then vassals.

“This is the party which is creat ing syndicates and buying up land and keeping the farmers in bond age. This organisation is trying to put the farmers on the wrong track,” Mr. Lakshman charged.

“They are not only doing harm economically, but they are creating fights between brother and brother, between father and son, between friends and relatives—and they will keep on fighting for years to come.”

Mr. Lakshman said that just as Mr. A. D. Patel had in 1943 told the farmers to go ahead and cut their cane when “the mill was about to close and everybody had lost enough to become the vassals of his friends and others . . . this man is going to say the same thing in this strike”.

"Bondage"

In another debate Mr. Lakshman had more to say on the subject of bondage.

He said that when the farmers were led into the 1943 strike they got into the hands of money lenders and storekeepers.

“The banks did not help them, the CSR Company did not help them, the Government did not help them,” he said.

The farmer was forced to borrow the expenses of his farm and the money he needed to live, at any price, from those who would lend it. As a result he was so well tied down that by 1950 he could not get out of his bondage.

Mr. Lakshman showed that it was to the interest of these money lenders to keep the farmers in debt by acting as their “advisers”.

The farmers, he said, had met “obstacles of such a nature that they could not be called natural obstacles” when they had tried to set up their own co-operative busi ness schemes to circumvent the exploiters.

On this particular point Mr.

Lakshman was strongly supported by Ratu K. K. T. Mara, Second Fijian member, later in the debate.

"Face The Facts"

“I ask the government to give very careful consideration to the economic position of the Indian farmers which Mr. Lakshman gave us,” he said.

“We can spend days in con gratulating one another, but if we don’t face up to the facts that have

Mr. B. D. Lakshman.

laid before us and see what a do about them, we will have roblem over and over again,”

Mara said. e main problem ... is the pt of this group of people . . . r the farmers in the economic ge of the storekeeper. Several Dts have been made by isible Indian leaders to get out of their clutches. They or help to Big Business, the and the government in vain, is a challenge to all people ned. In failure to help the •s’ co-operative movement the iment has little to be proud j said. i Mara concluded: “If the co ive movement for the farmers een successful and they got from the clutches of the nepers, we would not have any /hile following of this group men who have been going intimidating and threatening, ) harvesting cane”.

Intense Feeling

Lakshman’s charges were supported by Mr. Vi jay Indian elected member for >tern Division. Other speakers Mr. A. D. Patel as the chief iot sole—engineer of the :ation of the holdup, and as an chiefly responsible for caused a very serious ration of racial relations in olony over the past few ama Vunivalu, Fifth Fijian r, mentioned the intense which existed at the recent 1 of Chiefs when the sugar was debated. He said that uncil “made no secret of its ; of certain so-called leaders sugar industry, and some aad suggested that these so leaders and their kind” be ck to where they came from stock, and barrel. d it be legally possible to do No one was very clear on )int; but Mr. J. A. Moore, an nominated member, said, ave certain powers in this

Colony and I feel that when the time is ripe they should be used”.

The time seemed more than ripe, if the powers existed.

Mr. H. B. Gibson, senior elected member, also expressed the hope tnat racial issues would not be brought in. Sugar, he said, was the lifeblood of the Colony, and he was annoyed that “twelve evil men have stabbed in the back this very great

industry”.

“But,” said Mr. Gibson. “I don’t want this to be considered as a question of Fijians versus Indians.

There are a lot of very sensible, very loyal Indian people who want to see Fiji prosper and see the sugar in dustry go ahead. We must take away from this problem the idea that it is all a question of the Indians.

P y° u . l*e. say some Indians want to get rid of the CSR Comnanv and * tak f th P place over - Bu^ mUSt n °‘ make this a racial issue ”

Mr. A. D. Patel.

wtage: But

p. 51

Mills Operating

i’s sugar mills were operat at near normal capacity in October and there was indication that the quota of 199,000 tons of sugar >e reached by the deadline January 22, when the ial Sugar Refinery Corn will cease operations for zason. pite security patrols, a er of sabotage incidents reported. One mill re i a furnace explosion, ■ did little if any damage, several incidents of dam o tram lines or attempts rail cane trains were re l. re was one serious incident attempt to derail a corn passenger train, but for ily it was detected before 'ain crossed the sector of oncerned. e burnings and intimida ncidents were reported on r ous occasions, but there o major firing of the cane despite threats that this be done. knowledge that the s were very definitely in '<ood to take the law into ywn hands probably stayed ands of the cane burners urge extent.

Medical Cases

p. 53

Sydney Get More Noumea Medical Cases

Three serious surgical cases left Noumea in September for treatment in Sydney. Two of the cases were those of “blue heart”, and the third a young soldier with lung trouble.

More and more serious medical cases, especially surgical cases are being sent to Sydney these days, and many people in Noumea are pay ing tribute to the work being done in Sydney.

'You Wont Be Sorry To

p. 55

BE IN VANUA LEVU'

In my view, one of the misfortunes of the Fiji tourist iustry is that the colony’s main port and its international air rt are located on Viti Levu instead of on the big neighbouring and of Vanua Levu.

From a Fiji Correspondent

NICALLY, and from the point f view of bathing beaches, there an be no question that Vanua has a very substantial edge 3 neighbour. i it also now has substantially : road surfaces in most areas, wo fine modern metalled roads ie north and south coasts. present, there is not the imodation on Vanua Levu for massive tourist invasion, but tourists who do manage to lirough the barrage of publicity l promotes Viti Levu, are not to be disappointed with what find. ; range and variety of scenery, the pleasing mountain vistas rolling cane country of the coast to the miles of coconut ations and lovely coastal ,es and views of the south-east rom Savusavu or the scenic across the big island as a to Savusavu to that erful view from the Fijian u District School on the heights voniqua looking down the full i of the great Natewa Bay ds the north-east, it view must be equal to any in Fiji, Why Not Liners? 3re may possibly be technical ns why some of the great 3 liners that call at Suva could be diverted also to Savusavu

or even to Natewa Bay. Such liners call sometimes at Rarotonga which is not at all geared tor tourism and h^rt b of n call oted a h *“ y populai port of call.

A day ashore at Labasa s deep water anclmrage of Malau or at Savusavu with road transport out from those ports could be equally rewarding—mueh more so (let it be whispeied.) than any motor drive cut of Suva. 0r cr hise an angeme t for anua Levu would be for the passengers to be landed by launc ft Buca Ba y^ th p e n r p V^nnr d 7bronSS that pleasant coast tour through forests and coconut plantations along the sp i e ndid, little used Hibiscus Highway-to Savusavu

town, with bathing and picnic lunch en route.

An application for a licence to establish a hotel along this High way, at a point 25 miles from Buca Bay* and the same distance from Savusavu, is to be considered soon by the Fiji licensing authorities.

Beautifully located, it will have fresh water and beach swimming, tennis court and bowling rink, and will greatly increase the tourist potential of this attractive part of Vanua Levu. Mr. Hugh Thaggard is the promoter.

Nearer Savusavu town Mr. and Mrs. C. G. O. Parr already operate a pleasant tourist spot of the bure accommodation type and have plans to extend.

Which Comes First?

In Vanua Levu, as elsewhere, it is a question of which comes first —the tourist promotion publicity or the increased accommodation. What ever the reason, this island does not seem to get its fair share of such publicity yet, although various writers in PIM have been extolling its charms over the last two years or more.

There are those who, having looked this island over, would not hesitate to recommend their friends to head first to Vanua Levu to “see the best of Fiji”—and then, only then to return to the “civilised” island for the bright lights and to dispose of their remaining cash on the transistor radio shopping spree.

They would not be disappointed.

Vanua Levu's north coast highway pushes steadily westward from Labasa. The Naua bridge some 38 miles out of Labasa, will be completed by the end of this year.

A tranquil scene on Vanua Levu —Labasa's river port which fronts the garden of the Grand Eastern Hotel. Northern Vanua Levu is known for its sugar cane, but the other side of the island is famous for its bananas. Above are some at Savusavu, which has also much of tourist interest.

From A Famine

pp. 56-57

BSIP SHIPPING:

TO A FEAST!

From a Honiara Correspondent I It is not so many years age that the Solomons were t virtual back-wash on oversea .

shipping routes. Apart frorr

the regular calls of Bum

Philp’s vessels from Australia

and Bank Line ships undei contract to deliver the Solo* mons’ copra to the Ministry of Food, overseas vessels were just about non-existent if Honiara. 11TELL, not now. The position nc T? is becoming almost embarras ing!

The Australia-West Pac i f: vessels were first into the field wi: a regular service from Hongkoi transhipping English goods.

The Australia-New Guinea Lii commenced a service in opposite to Burns Philp; and then the Chii Navigation Company, with a servii from Hongkong, halved cargo available to the Australia-We Pacific vessels.

Australia-West Pacific may ha, a slight advantage because quarter calls are made at Vanikoro to li Kauri Timber Company logs for tl Australian market. Small quantitii of scrap and copra are sometimi available for back-loading; althoug a chartered vessel usually appea on the scene for these special coi signments.

"Not Much Cargo"

Most recent development was tl announcement that the Nederlau and the Rotterdamsche-Lloyd Lin would operate an experiment) monthly service direct from the U via Panama. This service started August, and although the first vess carried a reasonable cargo, the Se;< tember sailing seemed almost matter of keeping face. Matarm brought only 20 tons of genen cargo, and booked no outward carg The Bank Line, perhaps wii thoughts of their copra contract the UK being jeopardised by tl; regular Dutch service, have no given notice that from next Januaj their vessels will accept genen cargo from UK and Continent) ports for direct service via Ne Guinea.

And on top of this comes tl; news that the Shell Company making preparations to enabl 18,000-ton tankers to discharge bui

off Point Cruz in the near e. ■haps this great increase in •ing to the Solomons has been ?ht about by the general ship slump throughout the world? ion here seems to be that at nt the Solomons will not be to maintain profitably two b services from the United lorn. /ertheless, everybody hopes that le Solomons develop with a , and timber export trade, Lg other things, that all ship lines may have sufficient in nent to continue regular ser and that even freight rates be reduced because of the etition. Recent freight increases 3 of 6 per cent, do not apply

e BSIP.

other point which bears con ation when assessing the pos nes of Honiara as a port is the led extension of the recently rue ted wharf and stub jetty to 3 which will enable large over vessels to come alongside.

Too Small

ere is a stub of only 30 ft for eas vessels at the moment, used onj unction with a mooring iin. The dolphin is at the right le picture above. The short h enables only one hatch to be 3d of the TvXagi, HP’s regular b Government would like to

extend the wharf to 300 ft, but this doesn’t look feasible, according to Mr. C. R. Elliott, senior partner in the firm of Coode and Partners, UK consulting engineers, who recently

visited Honiara to discuss the wharf situation with the Government.

After a survey he reported that an extension of the wharf to 180 ft looked feasible, but a longer length involved quite a lot of technical considerations.

To extend the wharf to 300 ft would give a depth of water at the northern end of more than 50 ft which would not be practicable using steel pilings.

Mr. Elliott is at the moment exam ining alternative wharf construction which may enable the job to be done. Honiara people are hoping he has some success.

The Government expects shortly to be able to earmark about £70,000 for wharf construction.

The new wharf at Honiara, with cargo sheds in the back ground. But ship ping can berth only on the narrow sec tion of the wharf at left-enabling only one hatch to be unloaded at a time directly on to the wharf. There are plans for the wharf to be ex tended in a line directly across the picture.

[?]st Another Old

p. 57

Rocket

I here are so many known and ’mown rockets and satellites orbit, coming out of orbit, or ling to make orbit these days, it only the boffins can keep ck of them all.

Vhat seems perhaps to have m one of these “objects”—the rd “saucer” is now long i olete —probably burnt itself ) somewhere near the Cook ands at about 11.30 p.m., rotonga time (1000 GMT) on otember 30. A brilliant light ting three or four seconds s reported sighted from Raro iga and from Mauke Island ) miles to the eastward.

Fiji’s Answer ?

pp. 59-63

Are ‘Sub-standard' Houses Fiji’s Answer ?

From J. P. Shortall, in Suva

A great deal of publicity has been given in Fiji to the ousing Authority's housing projects, but very little has been dd outside the pages of a few Government reports concerning le magnitude of the situation.

CELLENT as the housing pro ects completed or in hand are, hey do not start to meet the tion. Nor, in my view, is i any prospect of a solution so as the existing regulations— vary in different areas—remain )rce. iere is a school of thought in which says the first considera is for the workers of Fiji to entrate on increasing produc- That way they will improve earnings and will be able then Eford better housing, ere is another school of thought h believes that the housing lem must be tackled first, and if it is not tackled on a massive ■ there will be increasing in rial unrest amongst the sands of low-income workers live under almost intolerable litions. le housing factor in relation to industrial unrest of the past has perhaps been underesti 3d.

There is also plenty of evidence that the housing situation is con tributing to the increased crime rate in Fiji, and that any government funds used to ease the problem would be partly or wholly recovered by savings in the police, judicial, penal and health departments, and in the field of education—as it is impossible for many children to do any study at home.

What is the Picture?

But what exactly is the housing situation in Fiji?

The 1956 census shows that (mly about 47 per cent, of all families in the Colony have their own sep arate accommodation. The figure rises to about 55 per cent, in country areas. The situation is worse in urban areas, especially near Suva.

A “sub-standard” house within the meaning of the law may be a com pletely adequate house within the circumstances of Fiji—the Housing Authority has proved that. But a

survey of the Suva area in 1957 found that there were 1,300 houses unfit for habitation, and that un authorised sub-standard houses were then being built at the rate of 250 a year.

The Local Authority decided to clean up the situation by ordering demolitions and preventing un authorised building. But they soon had to call a halt. Those ejected from one “unfit” house, unable to provide themselves with anything better, moved in with relatives or friends, often to an equally poor dwelling. This raised a further problem of congestion.

Last year a survey of Fijians liv ing in the Suva area showed that three-quarters of the families were living in accommodation averaging in size 10 ft by 12 ft, for which they paid over 15 per cent, of the family income. (Economists say about 121 per cent, of an income is a reasonable portion to be spent on housing).

An average of seven persons are sleeping in this average “dwelling”.

The dwelling may house two or more families, separated by a partition of sacking. Each family pays probably not less than £2/10/a week for its stake in one of these iron or wood-and-iron shanties, of which there are thousands in the Suva-Nausori area. Most of the rents are at a rate which pays off the cost of the shanty within about a year.

The 1957 survey found that 4,000 new dwellings would be required in

[?] now building a modified design of its concrete shell ctesiphon (pronounced tessyfon), seen above, and 10 of them are now [?]g completion for the Fiji Housing Authority at Raiwaqa, Suva [?] them seen at right. They have wooden ends and are an attempt [?]lude toilets and showers under a single roof. At an estimated [?]f something over £430, they represent the "most house for the " so far produced in Fiji. Top view shows the wooden frames [?]ce; the lower picture shows them removed after the shell has been formed on hessian sacking stretched over the [?] The shell is completely self-supporting, and except for the [?]n ends in this model it will need little maintenance. Later [?]s may have the true ctesiphon concrete ends, which give greater support and simplicity of construction.

Suva area alone over the next years, if building and health were to be complied with.

Idealistic Dream

is is an idealistic dream under ;nt circumstances. The existing are hindering a solution of primary problem—to provide i sort of housing for everyone, ilding blocks of an ideal size, ivided streets of an ideal width houses of a certain ideal ceiling it will never solve Fiji’s problem, is is now being realised, other major bottleneck is the Ivision of land. In a Native [ Trust Board subdivision of at Lami, near Suva, blocks been made available for those can afford to build on them a e of not less than 600 sq. ft. rent on these blocks varies be a £l7 and £2l a year, which is rently the lowest figure that be charged after allowing for costs of subdivision and ser . The rent on the block alone d be just within the means of under £5 wage earner, but he I not afford the additional e rent —even if he received the b as a gift!

Very Low Wages

r o-thirds of Fiji’s wage earners n the £3/5/- wage group, e cheapest orthodox type of rete block house so far produced le Housing Authority, with an of 412 square feet, has cost e first Housing Authority con shell ctesiphon houses, now ing completion in Fiji, with a area of 477 square feet, were lated to cost at least £430, ably more. Their rents will be )/- a month. e Housing Authority only has andate to provide houses for le who can pay them off (over riod of about 20 years) and has been able to do anything to ve the situation of the under roup up to now. ought to be remembered that figures given for Housing lority houses do not include site and that these prices have only

been achieved after the Local Authorities have relaxed the hous ing regulations as a special con cession, and by mass building Similar relaxation would be granted to other government or non government organisations establish ing housing settlements, but as the law stands at present, no concession would be granted a private citizen who might conceivably have a building site and the necessary finance to build one of these houses for himself on a loan scheme.

No person with an income below £8 per week could afford to build a house in the Suva area today under any loan scheme, to comply with the existing building laws, and from the economics of the thing no private builders would be in terested in providing housing schemes for the mass of low income workers.

The ctesiphon types which seem

Fiji has thousands of

shanty homes like these.

For many of them sub stantial rents are charged.

bv such promise as one solu -0 Fiji’s housing problem, and e other orthodox types so far d by the Housing Authority, it comply with the law and t be erected by individuals r are all classed as sub ird.

A Solution?

only solution, assuming that land can somehow be made ble, would seem to be a re >n of building laws in specific to permit the public to build tandard” yet adequate, hous the cheapest type on smaller oubtedly many people could ve their situation if they were d to build a house within means. release of building materials 1 Government on a non-profit and the production of fittings as doors and windows for ird type houses would also recent registration in Fiji of idiary company to the Colonial >pment Corporation, and its e link with the Housing rity, seems to indicate that the t in which the CDC will first ipate will be in the field of ig, but there is no indication v large this project is to be. laps the factor which has de massive action in the field asing as much as the lack of

finance, is the lack of publicity which the situation has received.

This has resulted in an unaware ness by influential people of the seriousness of the matter. At pre sent, social workers are about the only people who are showing any real concern.

There appears to be some re luctance by the Government to ad mit the seriousness of the situation or disclose the facts. No publicity has been given, for example, to the results of the survey of Fijian hous ing in the Suva area made last year.

Noumea's Housing

Scheme Is A

"Big Success"

An experiment in native housing in Noumea has been so successful that the New Caledonian Govern ment is planning to extend it.

The experiment was begun two years ago with the construction of about 40 houses, to be rented to natives, in a good situation at Mon travel, on the main road to the north, about two miles from the centre of Noumea. The houses have three rooms plus a kitchen and bathroom, and are built of cement.

Montravel now presents a model suburb surrounded by attractive gardens and the Government has realised that the best way to help the natives is to give f hem an in terest in their home. It has decided to build another 38 houses immedi ately, and the French Government has advanced £A90,000 for the pur pose. A school is also to be built at Montravel, and householders, if they wish, will also be able to buy their rented houses.

Noumea's new Melanesian town, at [?]el. The long causeway in the centre [?]ccess to the Ducos Peninsular, the [?]lar space running off to its left being [?]d land for an oil company. The three [?]ildings at the right of the photograph, [?]he new houses, are old prison buildings.

Photo: Fred Dunn.

High Cost Of Home Building!

p. 61

Home Building!

A European trader, for many years resident on one of the outer islands of the Cook Group, recently made a discovery that rocked him.

His wife had placed £6 of her own money, in notes, in the store’s cash drawer, hut the following morning it had dis appeared. The store is so solidly huilt as to he virtually burglar proof and the trader dismissed the idea of theft. He concluded that the notes had somehow slipped down between draw and counter. Watched by his ivife and two European customers, he used a pinchhar to lever the counter free.

He uncovered a most unusual rat’s nest composed of £1 and 10/- notes—£97 worth in all!

The rats had nibbled a few of the 10/- notes, but the hulk of the money was still in usable

condition.-

WHP.

80 Miles

p. 63

The Mighty Sepik Puts On Its First Show Some Walked For 80 Miles

From a New Guinea Correspondent

New Guinea’s vast Sepik

District had a big day in Sep

tember when it made its first

venture in staging a District

Show.

KNOWING next to nothing about Shows, the 5,000 or so New Guineans who flocked into Wewak for the occasion just didn’t know what to expect. Most of the Australians and other Europeans there were in the same boat, for though they were no strangers to Shows, nobody could foretell how the Sepik would take to this new kind of “holiday-cum-singsing”.

But by nightfall everyone had the answer. When the last of the fire works had rocketed across the sky and the last drum-beat of the sing song died out, Wewak and all its visitors had had a wonderful time and were feeling well content with the day’s effort. And for the Sepik villagers there was “talk” enough for scor°s of evenings back home at Lumi, at Aitape, Green River and all the other far points of the district. Some villagers had walked up to 80 miles to get to the show ground.

It was, perhaps, because nobody could be sure of the Sepik’s re sponse that such a tremendous amount of planning and effort went into exhibits, but the results were first rate The Agricultural Depart ment’s display was easily one of the best yet seen in the Territory.

Curator's Dream The Show was a Museum curator’s dream so far as native crafts and artifacts were concerned. One quite unexpected aspect of this section was the intense interest shown by the Sepiks themselves in the ex hibits. They not only entered a fascinating range of artifacts, but then crowded the display all day to see what everybody else had sent.

One exhibitor from a village near Wewak arrived dressed in ceremonial style “true”, and brought along his two wives and two small daughters also in ceremonial dress. And then, as his exhibit, he presented a beautifully carved figure of a Sepik woman which was a wood-sculptured replica of one of his wives.

Yauwiga, a popular and outstand ing leader of the Sepik people (and also a decorated war veteran), had his own special entry, bringing along his pet cassowaries whose sharp powerful beaks and great taloned feet made it necessary for them to be stoutly caged behind arc mesh.

Airline Activities

pp. 65-68

Sydneyiider At Home Base

Airline Activities Australian And Un-Australian

In this city of boom building and soaring glass and steel scrapers, something different in architecture is halting hustling neysiders in their stride just now.

iiT’S stopping the traffic is a iece of Longreach, Western Queensland, circa 1922. Wooden, )fed, bleached by the sun, it sits smugly in busy down 3ydney, a replica of the one one-roomed Longreach head rs—complete even to hitch es, horse and oil lamps—of sland and Northern Territory

Aerial Services. The outfit is better known to the rest of the world now, of course, as Qantas.

The old building stands on a fragment of land in front of where skyscraper Commonwealth offices are currently being built, and oppo site the curved, modern facade of the new 16-storey Qantas House in Hunter Street. The old timber building—an imaginative piece of Public Relations work —will continue there until November as part of Qantas’ 40th birthday celebrations.

It shows just how far both airline and aviation have travelled in less than two generations.

Qantas, when it first operated from this old Longreach office, had two pilots, an engineer, aircraft of War I vintage and a route of 577 miles —all of them in the Australian outback.

Today, according to the handout that you can pick up in the “Long reach” office, the airline has a fleet of modern jets, a route network covering five continents and 27 countries in 72,000 miles —excluding, presumably, the miles it has just lost in Papua-New Guinea where it has now bowed out.

As in every other airline, Qantas booking clerks can sometimes cross up your wires to the point where you’d like to commit mayhem; and in places like P-NG, where air transport is too bound-up with everyday life to be entirely normal, the airline came in for criticism (although I suspect the two other airlines which took over are now getting precisely the same kind of hurry-up).

But this is just incidental to run ning anything on a large scale, and the fact is that Qantas, to Aus-

tralians abroad, has come to mean far more than an airline, with the sight of one of its aircraft at a strange airport as nostalgia-pro ducing as a fire of gum leaves; and with any Qantas office in a strange city becoming immediately an un official information bureau.

Probably the most unsolicited testimonial in this department came during the month from a NSW Labour politician. Mr. H. C. Mallam, who had just returned from the UK with some nasty things to say about Australia’s shop window in London —Australia House. After a tirade in which he accused its officials of being more interested in cocktail parties than anything else, he said that seekers after know ledge in London got far more satis faction from the Qantas office in Piccadilly. With which sentiment I couldn’t agree more.

Probably the trouble with that Australia House mausoleum at the top of the Strand, is that the staff has adopted the icy-polite, quick brush-off tactics that Londoners themselves employ against anyone fool enough to want anything. Most Australians can understand the ‘•pull your head in, mate, or I’ll knock your block off”, sort of rude ness, and can cope. But they have no stomach for the sort that begins with calling you sir or madam, and ends by making you feel like some thing the dog got out of the dust bin.

It’s hard to put a finger on the

[?]ern Qantas House, Sydney, in [?]ackground and the “Long [?] office in the right foreground [?]how Qantas has grown from a [?]irline to major international [?]or in 40 years.

Qantas flashback —the replica of the Longreach, Western Queensland, booking office of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Ser vices, as it was in the early 1920’s.

It has recently been erected in the busiest part of the Sydney com mercial area, as part of Qantas ’ 40th birthday celebrations, and is complete even to the hitching rail and the horse.

ar charm of the people who in the modern Qantas office i corner of Bond Street and Lilly; possibly it’s a combina f off-handedness, friendliness he ability to work out most problems with the minimum s, even when they don’t con he airline at all. thought for a long time that ustralian Government might >re value for its money by sub g Qantas agents all over the than by appointing more tatic and trade represent- In my experience, anyhow, their direct representatives nt out from Australia to do for Australians or those want 'ormation about Australia, the i they give goes right beyond sre business of running an air- Greek Greek evening last April, when wait r a plane out of Athens to tii we ran into the usual e of trouble that seems to vhen Greek meets Greek. The terminal buzzed with the kind nzied noise that only Medi an people are able to pro but as the plane was running lours late we wanted to find lether we would have dinner ird or whether we should eat terminal restaurant, le waved their hands and d, or shrugged their shoulders oked depressed; ran back and vith files of papers or shoved o someone else. Finally they ed tickets that said we could e of “light refreshments with mpliments of the airline”— ot one could unravel the y as to whether we would go bo Karachi if we didn’t eat on ext. * we had retired to drink the refreshments”, a large young ippeared, said he was the ; representative and had been lat there were some angry lians making inquiries about out no one knew why. Were angry Australians? were. But the food problem rted out promptly and then hour, while we waited for me. we sat and chatted—and r part, learned more about it is like for an Australian to live in Greece than a of living in a tourist hotel have taught us. lly he escorted us out to the t and waved a cheery fare irith the absurd result that Athens is mentioned these it is not a parade of that t city’s undeniable archaeo delights that spring into my •but another Australian, whose [’ve forgotten, with whom we of Sydney and Johannesburg ew Guinea, and from whom

we learned that tea in Athens is the equivalent of 25/- per lb and New Zealand butter 17/-.

As this particular air terminal seethes and boils with movement, and can, at any given moment, con tain anyone from a Greek oil mag nate to a stoic posse of Bedouins go ing back to some arid oil well, my own dominant memory of Athens (“... the Qantas fellow who said ...) probably proves what I’ve always suspected: A traveller rarely escapes from his own environment, and even in the midst of the exotic, will return to it at the drop of a hat.

But to get back to where we came in: Airlines. Those who remember the arguments of a year or so ago (Comets versus Boeing 707’s), will probably be interested to know that Qantas actually does operate a ser vice with Comet jets—from London via Athens. Teheran, Karachi and Colombo to Singapore and return.

The reason is that the airports at Athens and Colombo are unable to take the 707’s.

For this particular week-end ser vice, Qantas charters the Comets from BOAC and pastes huge “QANTAS” labels over the normal “BOAC” fuselage markings. (Over)

Something Close

to Sabotage

Probably not even Mr. K.’s out bursts at the General Assembly have shocked Sydneysiders as much as the discovery that the Trans Aus tralia Airline terminal at Kings ford-Smith Airport is brewing its tea by that vilest of all methods of infusion —tea-bags!

I’d noticed it myself when I ordered a pot of tea out there about a month ago when waiting for a plane—the tell-tale string dangling out of the lid of the pot, and at the end of it, the sodden, waxed

paper type bag that is common everywhere north, east and west of Darwin, but not until now, south of that line.

But it took a Labour politician to crack the crime wide open—Mr.

F. M. Daly, who after being served TAA tea per medium of tea-bags, took his complaint direct to Parlia ment. Declaring that there was nothing more un-Australian than this method of brewing tea, he in voked the shades of long-dead Aus tralians like Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson and others who had extolled the virtues of tea, made in a black billy-can for preference, outdoors over a fire of gum leaves and sticks;

or if one must be civilised, wil handful of tea direct into the pot.

Not only was Mr. Daly disgu at what he found at the bottor the TAA tea-pot, but, he said,, brew was weak and by the he’d waited half an hour for i strengthen up, it was cold —w as every true Aussie knows, is, : to tea bags, about the worst can happen to tea.

The catering contractor at ' fought right back: The tea-bag said, was the cleanest and quic method of making tea. And kindest cut of all), he doui whether Mr. Daly was a connoisi Well, we can tell the TAA cat that this is one time when he pull his head in, and that t; are about 10 million Austral right behind Mr. Daly and agg TAA’s un-Australian activities the sacred tea rite.

Tea, unbagged, is one of things that makes Australia to come home to; and one sure to pick Australians abroard i: sort out the morose indivic who sit at cafe tables, everyw from the Champs Elysees to Is bul, with tea-not lid removed solemnly dandling the strings ol sorted tea-bags in the tepid w 1 By the time this method has suited in the desired strength,, tea is—as Mr. Daly experienc; quite cold; more, it is permane Impregnated with the flavour waxed-plastic tea bag. —— Mr. Les Martin, a director ofl newly formed UNO Limited of £ said to be planning to pure: copra for export on behalf of!

Mitsui organisation of Japan, a short business visit to Japar September. Mr. Martin had no o ment to make on his return. I

In Sydney

p. 68

“Karel Doorman’

The Netherlands aircraft carri “Karel Doorman” will he se< in the eastern Pacific on h way hack from Netherlan New Guinea, where she has bet on a flag-showing tour, mm to the chagrin of the Ind nesians. The “Karel Doormat accompanied hy two destroys and a supply ship, is expect in Noumea on October where a special committee organising entertainment. S. will he in Sydney on Octoh 18, during which the two d stroyers the “Groningen” a\ “Limburg” will pay an inform visit to Auckland. The “Kar Doorman” has a complement 117 officers and IJI6 men.

Souvenirs

p. 69

[?]d He'll Build a School, Too [?]red Gets His Souvenirs

Prom a Rabaul Correspondent

e mailman staggered under

veight of the bulky parcel

i he delivered the other

to Fred Hargesheimer of

? Bear Lake, Minnesota,

my one but Hargesheimer the intents of the parcel would ive proved a disappointment, consisted of lumps of old damaged mechanical parts, Imilar odds and ends. to Hargesheimer the collec lad a real meaning, and to Manning of Matanakunai ition, New Britain, the collec spresented seven days of hard pieces of metal came from reckage of the Lockheed P3B ling in which Hargesheimer hot down over New Britain ■ the Pacific War. The 'd and bumt-out aircraft had lying untouched in almost ssible country for 16 years ?esheimer is the former pilot jame from America to New a early this year to thank ’ Australian Coastwatchers te natives of Nantambu village ving his life after the crash.

May, June July). A . met Manning at Nantambu during his pilgrimage of j, and Manning offered to the crashed aircraft and send parts back to America as tirs. ■ it was easier to talk about ,n do it,” Manning said in 1 recently, recounting his day trek from the New i coast and back. i a small party of natives raised seven crocodile d streams by walking along logs, )ent four days in country ed by the Siukol natives, who lot yet under Government I, rassed ravines so deep that ’s walk took the party less wo miles. n the party came to the d aircraft they found it over with grass and creeper, and •ed over a wide area. Manning had obviously burnt furiously Hargesheimer had parachuted ety from an encounter with mese aircraft. ming used a hacksaw to cut

the tip from one of the propeller blades, and collected other parts from the engine and wings.

Footnote : Back in America, Hargesheimer has now raised more than $2,000 in an appeal to assist the education of native youngsters in New Britain. He plans to raise $B,OOO to finance a four-room school house in East Nakanai, in or near Nantambu, and feels confident of reaching his goal.

He and two other men in Minnesota, the Rev. J. Haynes, Pastor of the Church of St.

John-in-the-Wilderness, and John E. Kumpf, Director of Public Rela tions for Remington Rand-Univac there, are members of the board of trustees of the Airmen’s Nantambu

Memorial Foundation. The Founda tion decided on the school house after short-wave radio discussions with New Britain. One of the “hams” Hargesheimer was in touch with was Norm Casey, VK9NT, Rabaul.

Plans for the school will be pre pared by architects in America and it’s hoped it will be completed by next August. The Foundation fund is getting a lot of publicity in the St, Paul area, Minnesota.

Hargesheimer says his school idea is “a sort of grass roots diplomacy which will return dividends in international relations, as well as serve as a practical expression of our thanks to these good people of New Britain”.

Highlands

pp. 71-80

The Road To The Highlands

With the right kind of vehicle and in the right season, you n, now drive from the coast at Lae more than 300 miles into * centre of New Guinea. But soon neither the vehicle nor ? season will matter much, for the time is near when every irist will take the Road to the Highlands, whatever the ather.

lT road, which has been built iece by piece since the war— ith one or two pieces built dur le war, and one or two others 2 the war—should do a lot ds encouraging the Terri growing tourist industry, the tourist, New Guinea . today means ship travel or avel, and the beauties of the de scene are denied him, simply se the road network has gaps which make arranging of port for him difficult, be wants to make the entire ands road trip today he must . in the “dry” between April October, and still be prepared t his feet wet in a river or 3e will most probably travel in y for section of the way, and by the side of the road. - in a few years it will be an lair drive into the Highlands, he important 90-mile long ham Valley stretch, only two bridges remain to be built i have already been built there, )le to carry heavy traffic) be there will be a clear, unin- Dted drive through to a point xe Papua-New Guinea border Tambul, 320 miles from Lae 5,500 ft up.

Where Visitors Don't Go by the time those bridges ss the Leron and the Umi) are ct built, the Tambul road will iy have been extended to ii, in Papua, another 60 miles, i yet another link between >a and Wapenamanda (see

map), to be finished within a matter of months now. will take the High lands road to Laiagam, 70 miles farther west—to the edge of the area where visitors aren’t wanted in case the locals eat them.

Tenders for the big 430 ft, three span concrete deck Leron bridge have already been called, and con

tract time will be 70 weeks. The Um: bridge contract should follow next year, but the Leron is the real key to the valley.

It’s fascinating country, all of it —much of it breathtaking.

There are fiat river plains along the Markham, with the road straight and fast. Across the ford at Umi, 85 miles from Lae, the road heads into the grandeur of the 5,680 ft Kasam Pass, a five-mile climb with a straining engine; and then on to Goroka, the Highlands’ fastest growing township, set in a valley of green, 185 miles from Lae. It will be a seven-hour drive when the bridges are up.

From Goroka the road to the

The road to the Highlands already climbs into the heart of New Guinea for more than 300 miles, and soon it will go farther. It travels through all kinds of country. At left is the stoney, prehistoric looking terrain to be found on the coastal side of the Leron River, in the Mark ham Valley, 60 miles from Lae. Centre is the view from the top of the 5,680 ft. Kasam Pass in the Eastern Highlands, looking back into the Markham and Ramu Valleys. At right, a typical cutting somewhere in the Highlands marks the route of the road.

Highlands climbs up through 1 mists of 8,175 ft Daulo Pass, a down again to the Chuave a dim istration post; into Chimbu coum (across a wire bridge) and beyc to the Wahgi Valley, All this is a stretch of coum which Morobe District Commissioi H. L. R. Niall says contains “1 most beautiful scenery in the worl It’s from Kerowagi that you not you are approaching the Wa3 Valley, for here the broken coun opens up. Sixteen miles from Ke wagi is the boundary beiwe Eastern and Western Highlar and a few miles past that is • Hallstrom livestock station at N( dugl, famous for its experime! with wool growing.

The Wahgi Opens Up

Now you have the whole expa: of the Wahgi before you.

At this point the valley is 15 m; wide and 50 miles long, with • average altitude on the valley fl at about 5,200 ft. But the Kul Ranges rise up steeply to the soi to 12,000 ft, and the northern val wall is the 10,000 ft Wahgi-Se divide.

It’s cold and clear in the Wa valley, with warm days and c nights. Coffee grows along the ro The road to the Highlai branches at Kerowil, in the Wal and follows both sides of the Wa River. The main road winds through the township of Banz, w its houses of native materials, £ on to the main district headquart at Mt. Hagen 46 miles away.

When Mt. Hagen at last gets hotel, as it soon will, the dish may take tourist honours fr Goroka.

The other branch road fr < Kerowil runs south through township of Minj, the settl stronghold, and then on to Hag There are several routes fr Hagen itself, but the main road the Highlands goes west as us still following the fiat country, w a nip in the air, to the edge of Hagen Range at Tomba, 28 ra from Hagen.

Now you are approaching the ginnings of New Guinea’s s< mountainous backbone. For the r dozen miles or so the road is ps formed only, and there is a 115 wire suspension bridge still to* built across the Lai River (it ' be finished this year) before road can join up with the manda patrol post, commandinsj beautiful view of the ranges fr one end of the Lai Valley.

It’s 5,800 ft here, but the r begins to rise, gently winding: miles along the Lai Valley flocn Wabag perched on a rainy ric at 7,500 ft.

The Mists Over The Ranges: The Lai Valley has a big naij population and has not long b; out of the restricted area. Thusj has a big mission population, i

ion after mission station spreads g the valley floor, all linked by road to the Highlands, om Wabag, the Highlands road s and turns and climbs in its to the west, in very cold, ntainous country, where the 5 blot out the ranges most noons, and native warriors in capes stare down at your l-Rover from the ridges, iagam is 30 miles away, the *r of the unrestricted area. Out i in those ranges they know ing of civilisation, ere is a fork in the road at jam, going east and farther To the east you can drive ten > to Kepilam, and later that will go to Kandep patrol post, of the new posts established last year to bring under con the primitive peoples of the ri River headwaters, the west, out towards Nether i New Guinea, the Highlands goes down to the Kera River, liles off, and the road is only y completed for another eight to Muriraga. is is farthest west. This is e the road to the Highlands on its westward trek, no tourist area this—not for w years yet. There is much to be done among these Stone peoples first. b road to the Highlands has r branches along its hundreds iles. Some of these go to im nt points now—others will go iportant places in time, or to s destined to be important— there comes a day for sure all New Guinea will be linked 3ad, east and west and from to coast. ere are branches at or near ig into the Tch a k a and nda valleys and to the Kom patrol post, 33 miles away. ? is an 18 miles branch road there to the Ambum River.

Meets The P-NG Border e most interesting branch with oubt is back at Tomba, in the ji, where the road to the High turns south, climbs nine miles irough the 9,200 ft Mor Mor and drops down to the head ’s of the Kaugel River to ml patrol post (7,400 ft), and s again another few miles

[?]IIGHTY LERON CLAIMS A VICTIM. The

[?]owned truck in the top picture took the turning while crossing the river, and efforts to pull it out with a bulldozer tractor, it stuck fast, and soon settled [?]e soft silt. The Shell truck, part of a [?] had more luck. It was almost across, [?]d its front wheels on the bank, when the [?]ettled down into the silt. A tractor got [?]ob, but could do little more than hold ally, lower picture, a winch-truck put its veight into the task and saved Shell from the fate of the native truck. [?]ese and most other photographs in this are by Pat Robertson; two are by K. [?]tt Jones.

nd the western edges of 13,400 t. Giluwe. re. at the border of Papua and Guinea, the road stops. But is going on. ey flew a bulldozer into the not long ago to complete the link to Mendi, headquarters le Southern Highlands. About lies of road already stretches rom Mendi and they are work t both ends to make the link ten the link is finished it will i 87-mile drive from Mt. Hagen to Mendi, with the 9,200 ft Mor Gap the literal highlight e road back to the Stone Age. 3re are ether roads leading Hagen that will give the ;t interesting side trips. One 28 miles out to the Baiyer River r , northwards, and another south to the Hansenide colony goba. and through to new coffee ations. ;k at pretty Kainantu, between :asam Pass and Goroka, a road >outh into the ranges at Okapa,

a centre of the mysterious and fatal disease of kuru, which is now little nearer to solution than when discovered a few years ago. “Laugh ing Death” they call it, from one of its symptoms.

Far From Permanent When the important link-up work on the road to the Highlands is finished, the dream will be a reality, but not perfect. Much work remains to be done before the Highlands road is permanent. None of it is sealed and constant work goes on in maintenance.

Loads of pebbles are being con tinually spread along the inland sections, carried from the river by organised native labour to whom the road is not a tourist attraction but a means by which their produce can go to market, and the doctor can go in.

For much of the way the pebbles are placed the width of the wheel tracks only, to conserve supplies and labour. More work goes into the re pair of bridges put there temporarily and never meant to take the fre quent traffic —hand-built bridges, erected mosly by parol officers turned engineer.

The biggest re-routing of the entire road has yet to come—the re-routing of the Kasam Pass. The present five-mile pass is a winding tortuous climb, difficult for heavy vehicles, with a grade of 1 in 10.

Several alternatives have been looked at, but the new road will go up the pass on the opposite side of the valley, with a grade of 1 in 25. This job is for the near future.

There were several other routes looked at before this one was de cided on. One left the main road at Maniang, crossed the Markham and went up the Wanton to Arona.

Another was a pass up the Arona.

The difficulty with the Wanton and Arona routes was their steep-

These carved native figures are part of the sup ports of the Ufim swing bridge, in the Markham.

[?]culiar thing about the bridge in the top is that it has no water flowing under it. when it was originally built across the out the river changed course—which is [?]sual behaviour for rivers in New Guinea [?]t had to be bridged a second time. The bridge can be seen in the distance, picture is typical of some of the bridg the Highlands—a roof of native materials the weather off the decking, thus giving [?]nger life. This bridge is west of Wabag, [?]ards the end of the Highlands road.

and a clay base. The other side e valley at the Kasam Pass is cheapest and most practicable. 0 for the future —but for the at future—is a new road from mg down the Ramu to link ith the Highlands road at the of the Markham at Gusap. e Japanese built a road in this tion during the war, but it is lat country and there is a very pass to be negotiated at Amele. ips the road could come sooner expected should New Guinea e to build a power station in 3usap area and transmit the r to Madang and Lae. A road 1 be needed to Madang so that r lines could be maintained.

What It's Like

the 185 miles to Goroka, about is along the Markham Valley, s Lae correspondent, Miss Pat rtson, recently accompanied a )y on this 185-mile section just ie what it was like. She re d: you want a holiday with a dif ce, then a reliable vehicle, a some camping gear, a camera an adventurous spirit can give you on this trip, r first lap from Lae, 60 miles e Leron is through rich Mark valley flatlands, irrigated by ral waterways. The cocoa ations and peanut farms give to acre upon acre of rolling s whose potential is evident, it before you reach the mighty i you find “Robbie” Robertson’s odd acre plantation nestling r the shadow of Saw Tooth itain with miles of sorghum and its under cultivation, abbie”, who did a survey of the ham between Lae and Gusap General MacArthur during the has his own lake teeming with and wild duck. th true Territorian hospitality dll invite you in for shooting fishing, haul you across the n, or supply your small needs a store. ur first adventure begins at Leron. iis river, which can flow in

torrents between its mile-wide banks in the wet season, and which looks like an arid desert in the dry, can be crossed in 20 minutes if you’re lucky—and if you’re not, you can get trapped there for hours.

Changing course from hour to hour the narrow swiftly flowing waterway, with its deep silty bottom, is a trap for the unwary and claims many victims. The surest way for a safe crossing is to put a native guide on the bonnet of your truck to direct you to the spots he has previously waded and tested Once across, you’re on to a well

made Open road for 22 miles, acrOSS the Garambampon and Maniang hvirlcrpc tn fhp TTmi Rivpr which has Whicn nas a Crossing.

TWO essentials for comfortable Camping are in good supply on the road—firewood and Water. With a g Un you Can bag some nice ducks on the Garambampon and wild pig i s plentiful.

For a change of scenery you can visit Kaiapit. You leave the main road about a half mile this side 0 f the Maniang bridge for that, and the open road leads through picturesque native villages to the well-kept Government station,

Siqns Are Going Up

Beautiful Kaiapit is on a rise with a wonderful view back down the Markham Valley. It has its own air strip and hospital. A Shell truck in our convoy unloaded some new

Time out for a little bit of washing by a stoney riverside on the road to the Highlands. The family watches Dad. Centre picture is the Leron, looking upstream from the point where the new bridge will cross. Work has already been com pleted on the approaches. At right, somewhere along the Highlands road a native woman pauses for the camera, a bundle of firewood and her kau-kau supplies on her back.

It's a five-mile climb, with a grade of 1 in 10, up the Kasam Pass.

The camera looks down from one bend as this Land-Rover plugs up another.

while we stopped there. They eing erected along the High road. ving Kaiapit and fording the mg, the old patrol road (much e new Markham all-weather doesn’t follow the old patrol passes through well-k ep t ss where friendly natives and meris are the shutterbug’s de en you wind on and up to rfim (which is really the Umi lamed differently in different you find a swing bridge which swings. But the carved figures e bridge are a disappointment. narrow-minded official has id the removal of certain parts , are natural for native carv : swing bridges over the Ufim Fmi are memorials to the work former patrol officer in this -Rupert Haviland. Rupert died )8 so will not see the end of ream. t of the Umi swing bridge is n away and the bridge swings ilts at will. sy are ideal spots, these, for a 5 camping. Game and fish are ful. Orchids grow in pro (Over)

[?]und house is almost at the top of the Pass, and is a memorial to the work [?]rmer patrol officer who had much to do [?]e building of this stretch. Below, new [?]ns have been going up along the High [?]ad—sure sign that it is at last becom [?]lised. The turn-off at Water Rice is the [?] want if you are heading towards the centre of New Guinea.

The turn-off to colourfully named Water Rice can easily be missed be cause the main road, although only a track, here leads to Gusap, and Gusap is not where you want to go.

You call a halt at Water Rice.

You need the breather. Just ahead is the real test of this trip—the great Kasam Pass —five miles of twisting, turning, climbing 1 in 10 slippery mountain. The vehicles are refuelled and checked before the hazardous test begins.

The grandeur of the scenery up the Kasam is breathtaking, as you climb. From your cabin you see fast panned movie shot effects. One minute you are walking on the tree tops; the next your view is of distant and grand valleys; the next, of a tumbling gorge.

Groaning engines are given a breather near the top—although not quite at the top—and you can walk up a slight rise to a round house of native material built as a memorial to Rupert Haviland and

to his work on the Kasam pass road. There has been a plaque erected in that area recently.

Here, stretching away at your feet, is a magnificent view of the Mark ham and Ramu Valleys.

Out there are mile upon mile of plain, and waterways of two great rivers held captive between tower ing hills.

Life Seems Simple

Life seems simple when you climb cut of the pass into beautiful Kainantu and the surrounding dis tricts. The rivers are bridged and the country offers the same mag nificent views and camping spots.

If you have the time you can even stop off and do a bit of gold sluic ing. The red clay of these hills is slashed with waterways where natives are taking out payable quantities of gold.

Kainantu has a comfortable hotel perched on a hill overlooking the town and airstrip. It has a swim

ming pool and modern convenienc The big log fires, and blank at night, remind you that you now in the Eastern Highlands New Guinea —the dividing line tween the Highlands and Morobe fact is at a creek at the foot; the five-mile long Kasam Pas Coffee plantations are thriving the Kainantu district and the tov small civic minded population h made it into a garden paradise.

It’s almost a shame to le Kainantu and head for Gorob 5,140 feet up in the Asaro-B Valley (town’s population, 600).J more beauties, more adventures ahead —for this is hardly the ginning of New Guinea’s great r to the Highlands.

The Horn Of Pien[?]

p. 80

FIJI VEGETABIES FRO[?]

From a Suva Correspondent Fiji’s sugar-industry hold-up had one very good effect, which been largely overlooked. All thro the sugar areas of the colony farmers have this year been ph ing food crops, not only for t own use but also for sale.

THE result has been that, as ] haps never before, all kind; fresh vegetables have been ample supply at reasonable pr: in country and town markets.

If anyone was in doubt that can produce good quality cabba lettuces, tomatoes, and carrots quantity, the past two months n have removed them. The £ market, week after week, has H stacked to overflowing— a good ■ of the produce coming in from former sugar lands of the R Valley.

But with this new source: vegetable supply it is clear that £ now urgently requires market storage facilities to avoid was< and to more evenly distribute supply to the public. There 11 been great quantities wasted on occasion. The Suva market is hopelessly overcrowded at n times. Plans have already If approved for expansion and for establishment of a public fre house where produce retailers be able to rent space. This v should be taken in hand next y Fiji also wants processing dustries to handle such surpluses it has had.

Last year Fiji imported £l2O worth of potatoes. £35,000 wort! garlic, and £B,OOO worth of fre vegetables £82,000 worth of onr and £106,000 worth of pulses. W fair garlic can be grown in colony, onions are a more diffi: proposition, but there is roomj plenty of expansion in locally gn pulses, and —as we have now see Fiji can probably grow a great < of the other vegetables needed.

Beaumont Phillips

p. 81

ome Memories of Beaumont Phillips

]y F. P. Archer, of Rabaul 5 day in Rabaul, m 1957, I oticed a plane of the RAAF Lrcling slowly over the town, itched it for a while, and ered what it was doing, er, I learned that it was on a il mission. The plane carried Phillips; and she was scatter ver the town and harbour the of her late husband, our well ed Sir Beaumont Phillips, Judge deputy Administrator. His most le service was rendered in ul, and he had asked that his il remains be left there, mind went back over a long lation and a valued friendship, orld War I I knew him in the -he was an Observer in the alian Flying Corps, and every alled him “Monty”. It was his Iron which buried Richthofen amous “Red Knight” of Ger- Met in 1925 were together on the same X) Rabaul in November, 1925 as going into New Guinea as igistrate, after five years in olomons on land business, and > returning from leave. 1926, my boy, Siarua, wanted arry Giwa, of Maty Island; here were some local laws in ray. Siarua appealed to me; I appealed to “Monty”, and were married. i Tolais—the tough, sophistic natives of the Rabaul area — and respected “Monty”. When 3d, they subscribed funds, and d a memorial to him, with a e plate atop of it, on the of Namanula Hill, overlooking il Harbour. ve is a photograph of the •rial to Sir Beaumont Phillips, couple standing there are a, and Giwa, still a happy nd and wife, 34 years after ty” had made it possible for to marry. i photo was taken by Jack another old friend of “Monty”.

Read was one of the famous watchers who regularly spotted

Jap planes from the top of Bougainville, and so delivered them by radio into the hands of the Americans awaiting them in the Solomons.

Jack Read and Paul Mason were hunted through the jungles by the Japs; and with Read and Mason, part of the time, as their loyal and trusted helpers, were Siarua and Giwa, While this part of World War II was going on in New Guinea, “Monty” Phillips was serving again with the RAAF, in England.

The distinctive sail of the New Guinea lakatoi is a feature of a shimmering white new Anglican Co-Cathedral of St. John to be built soon in Port Moresby at a cost of about £400,000. A Brisbane firm of architects has designed the new cathedral.

Siarua and Giwa stand beside the "Monty" Phillips' memorial overlook ing Rabaul 34 years after the late Chief Justice had made it possible for them to marry.

Tropicalities

pp. 83-84

Pacific Islands Monthly

MAGAZINE SECTION

Where the Bottles Go BERT M. NORRIS, of the Jniversity of California, wrote 0 the Cook Islands recently to k Tutai Teio and Resident t lan Robertson, of Atiu, for ig returned last year a bottle 1 had been set adrift by the ps Institution of Oceanography, s letter, Mr. Norris made some ssting comments about bottles beachcombing generally. wrote; seems certain that the coconut many other plants found on islands of the Pacific spread lly by means of currents which id nuts and seeds far and wide, lever a coconut is washed up shore with a favourable climate, likely to sprout and grow and urn to furnish still more mts for the restless currents, mts are sometimes found on inhospitable shores as Alaska Canada. beachcombing along the Cali i coast and on our offshore is. I have found large numbers ectric light bulbs! One would >se that these represent bulbs i have burned-cut aboard ships lave been discarded, ibtless this explains most of ght bulbs found on the beaches, have found some light bulbs i carried some surprising labels,

as: “FOR STREET RAILWAY

ONLY” or “FOR TRAFFIC

AL USE”.

nee collected about two dozen bulbs from one of our island ,es and took them home to see ;y were, by chance, still good, to my surprise, I found that half of the light bulbs worked, ss fish-net floats are among lore pleasing finds to a beach sr. On the west coast of North ica these are common. i capped or corked bottle dis d from a ship at sea can be ted to remain afloat for an ded period, although not in tely. After floating for several even a tightly corked bottle :ely to sink owing to the al accumulation of marine isms which attach themselves i glass. Bottles with metal caps pt to sink in a short time be the metal is quickly corroded e sea water, San Nicolas Island, off the of southern California, I once I a small bottle containing a

note from a merchant seaman who was looking for a wife!

The Scripps Institution of Oceano graphy in California has been re leasing drift bottles by the dozens from their ships operating off the west coast of North America, This programme has been in progress for more than ten years and is cairied out in an attempt to better under stand the current pattern along the Pacific shore of North America.

The bottles all contain a bright red postage-paid postal card with a printed message in both English and Spanish; many of the bottles are picked up in Mexico and Central American republics.

The records kept by the oceano graphers at Scripps Institution show that only about five per cent. . . one in 20 ... of the bottles are ever recovered.

Australia's Export Flour

Went Up With a Bang

IN Western Samoa where Whites can be Samoans and Samoans can be white, Peter Plowman told a PIM reporter in July of the whitest Samoans he’s seen to date.

In the course of a pleasant drive along that beautiful rugged coast line east of Apia towards Falefa, where the road takes a sharp bend onto a bridge, Host Plowman pointed up stream.

“That was where they shot the scenes for “A Pattern of Islands”, he said. “If you’ve read the book you’ll know that there was one amusing incident in connection

with an explosion—but the one in the book had nothing on this.

“I had the job of organising the film explosion, and the director took a lot of satisfying. We kept adding more sticks of gelignite to make each shot more spectacular, but he still wasn’t satisfied. Then he suggested we increase the charge by a few more sticks and add a few sacks of flour to improve the effect for the cameras—and up she went! The effect was rather better than anticipated. Every one of the Samoan chiefs and other spectators within half a mile was as white as a ghost when the smoke cleared— covered with finest Australian flour! ”

You Can't Always Win

A STORY we would like to have a little more of —as extracted in its entirety from the August 9 issue of the roneoed Government Cook Islands News:

ACCIDENT

The hospital ambulance was badly damaged when it ran into a coconut tree while coming down the hill from the Sanatorium. There were a number of casualties and a report from the hospital this morn ing says that all of them are fine and doing well.

Only The Dead Would

Lie There

NO use hopping into anything with your hob-nailed boots on.

Not these days. The scientific approach, psychiatry that’s the trick. And it applies equally well in New Guinea as anywhere else, so the experts tell us.

In Port Moresby recently, Mr. L.

M. Tomlison, a Cambridge gradu ate, told a Reuter correspondent how the Health Education Council has been set up—old Brown Brother to undeceive —and that nothing

TOURIST

ATTRACTION

The hills around Rabaul, NG, are honeycombed with tunnels driven through by the Japanese during the Pacific war, when Rabaul was used as a big Jap base.

Rabaul people take little interest in them, but they are a very big attrac tion to tourists. The size of some of the caves can be seen in this photograph.

The harbour is in the background.

Photo: M. R. Hayes.

that the Trick-Cyclists have ever learnt from more sophisticated patients will go unturned. The first aim of the Council is to find out what the attitude of different native groups have to various aspects of health and sickness.

Many things that are taken as sensible and logical by us are simply left for dead by natives if they cut across local tamhus and customs.

As an example of where the best intentions can lead us, Mr. Tomlison told of the very splendid 40-bed ward that was added to an outstation hospital in the Sepik District. On opening day every bed was full, but 24 hours later every patient had got up and left. When the beds had been built, shelves were made underneath so the patient’s bits and pieces and food could be stored there. But in this community the only people who lie down with food stored underneath them are dead men, and no one was going to tempt Providence to that extent.

Careful Thev're Dynamite I ' Y [ U y na " l,Te ; QIX 3.7-mch anti-aircraft shells O with British markings and date marked 1941 were picked up from the sea-bottom alongside the Suva wharf during dredging opera tions in September. They had obviously been dropped from a sling in wartime cargo-handling opera tions.

When the first two shells, con siderably dented, came up in the jaws of the dredge grab, work was promptly halted until an expert had a probe!

A further four shells were brought up later in the day.

A -r A iviaiier or ooais Identification nIH tirnp wpll j| N K E , of ? ld time a d ™ ell " beloved hard cases was Tom Burness, of Caboni—which is on the roa d> nowadays, to Penang from Tavua.

It was years before I saw wti a lovely spot Caboni is, and cat face to face with old Tom, of who I had heard quite a few storii Perhaps the best one was of qui early days, when the Thom Brothers and old Tom were neig bours.

The back boundary of each esta was more or less the sky line; au both estates had herds of semi-w goats running up in the hills.

The ownership of those goats v? for years a source of argumei Whenever a cutter-load of goats vi sold by one estate, the other woi swear it was their herd that h been raided, and there was gene: hell to pay.

Then, one day, in Levuka, one the Thomas Brothers met old T« and after a few neighbourly squai faced gins, he said in a mell! moment: “Look, Tom, let’s cut c all these arguments about the goa We will cut an ear off all of oi and, in future, any goat with c ear is ours.”

“Right,” said old Tom—who lov an argument and visualised a p< sible court case in Levuka. “Tt will do me. And any flaming gc with no flaming ears at all is min

—C. WAGER.

It Went Thataway!

BECAUSE of heavy overs« jamming, the Rarotonga shoi wave broadcasting station f shifted to a new transmits frequency. The instructions in t Rarotonga daily news sheet as how to locate it on its new si on the receiver dial made technii men wince, but the explanati probably met the situation.

It was given this way: “NI frequency 5050 kc/s — about quarter inch from the old frequer of 4965 kc/s”.

To the boffins, that’s someth! like saying it’s about an inch frr Sirius to Cygnus.

On The Beach

GOOD on Professor Morr author of Britain in the Pace ( PIM , August). For me he H settled a family argument of 1c standing. For years I have be taken to task by my high schi daughters whenever I used t phrase “beche de mer”. I pronoun it as we did 40 years ago in 1 islands “beach de mar”.

In stating the phrase is Portuguese origin, the Professor* backed up by no less an author] than the Eleventh Edition of t Encyclopaedia Britannica. Bich& Portuguese for slug, and what; beche de mer but a slug? Admitted among rude island men 40 yes ago the lowly animal was giv names more vividly descripti: Again I thank the Professor ; giving me the golden opportune of correcting my bluestockt family. “Beach de mar” now.

accepted by them,

W.B.

Crossquiz

p. 84

(For Solution see page 93)

ACROSS

1. —Who was Emperor of China when Marco Polo visited that country? 7. —Which bird which always arrives in Egypt when the Nile begins to rise was held sacred by the ancient Egyptians? 8. —Which Australian bird imitates the notes of other birds? 9. —Which English king imposed "Peter's Pence" as a gift to the Pope for absolu tion? 10. —Which Christian body was founded by John Wesley? 12. —According to legend, who was the first to cultivate the vine? 13. —What sea is distinguished by the masses of brown seaweed that float in it? 17.—What gas is used in liquefied form for refrigerating purposes? 19. —"Go down to Kew in time"? 20. —What important gas was discovered by Priestley?

21. —On the banks of which river are the greatest ship-building yards in the world? 22. —ln Roman times, what open place was the official centre of a city's public life? 23. —What is the term for the trans parent, horny membrane which forms the front covering of the eye?

DOWN

1. —What is the highest mountain in Africa? 2. —Which French tennis player, twice Wimbledon champion, is still competing at 50? 3. —What name did the Romans give to Britain? 4. —ln Greek mythology, what place situ ated within the earth was the abode of the dead?

5. —What is the capital of Cyprus? 6. —What grass is used in the manufac ture of paper suitable for the highest-quality printing? 11.—Who is con sidered the greatest and most important of the Old Testament

prophets?

14. —Which great Italian astronomer es tablished the law of falling bodkes? 15. —Against which deadly foe of Christi anity was the Third Crusade undertaken? 16. —Which Arch bishop of Canterbury under William II and Henry I was canonised in 1494? 18. —What is the title of a city magistrate in this country equivalent to a "provost" in Scot land?

The South Pacific Says

pp. 85-101

GOODBYE TO AN ERA

When Tasman Empire Airways' last surviving Solent ark IV flying-boat retired from the Coral Route in September, very colourful period in aviation history ended.

E 4,600 mile round-trip Coral 3-oute between Suva and Papeete vas the last regular flying-boat ce of any importance any •e in the world. Only others are w essentially local services in >te areas. lAL’s conversion from flying -3 to modern jet-prop Electra lers is being made in two ;s. ige one, which started in Sep »er. involves Super DC-6 air s flying between Nadi and ete, landing there on the partly jleted international airport at .. The second stage will take s about the end of next March, diich time development of the Faaa airport is expected to i the stage where it will be able of handling Lockheed ras. dng-boats have served both Li. and the airlines of the world rally, faithfully for a genera thus a certain adventure and nee attached to the flying-

boat’s operations passes with this now completed era in South Pacific aviation.

The change to land-based air craft could not be avoided. On the economics of operating the aircraft, it was inevitable. The flying-boat as an aircraft type has had its day.

Yet it is easy to forget that for six years from the outbreak of World War 11, TEAL’s two 5.30 flying-boats were New Zealand’s only reliable and regular contact with the outside world.

Flying-Boat History

First airline into the field of lon g-distance international air transport was the old Imperial Air ways, forerunner of BOAC. Follow ing several years of planning and experiments with earlier model sea planes, Imperial Airways in 1935 selected Short’s Empire Class flying boats as the most suitable with which to open up the longer com mercial routes.

By the outbreak of World War 11, Imperial Airways was operating a number of important routes includ ing the Kangaroo Service to Aus tralia (in partnership with Qantas), the lucrative New York-Bermuda route, and a somewhat irregular non-stop North Atlantic service to the United States.

PAA Sikorsky flying-boats were about this time pioneering several international services in the Americas and across the Pacific. In the late 30’s, the name “flying-boat” was synonymous with the larger “in ternational airliners”.

TEAL was early in the field, also, The New Zealand airline was formed in 1939; was ready for operations the following year.

With the outbreak of war, the old Empire Class flying-boat was im proved, and dressed suitably with guns and bombs.

As the Sunderland, the improved British flying-boat made countless patrols and sorties for the RAF’s Coastal Command.

Trans-Tasman in 1940 Three S.3o’s —longer range civilian version of the Empire—were ordered by the young New Zealand airline.

Two only were delivered, the third being destroyed by German bombers while still under construction in the factory. , x With these two flying-boats, TEAL in April, 1940, established its regular trans-Tasman services, which have been maintained and extended

through five generations of aircraft.

In its association with the flying boat, probably few airlines had more experience than TEAL—more than 20 years when the Coral Route boats finished last month.

The two S.3o’s were used by the company on the Auckland-Sydney services until, in 1946, they were re placed by four Tasman class Sandringhams. a still further im proved version of the Sunderland flying-boat.

Next and final flying-boat operated by TEAL was the Solent Mark IV.

Four of these joined the company’s fleet in 1949. With the arrival of the Solents TEAL’S services were extended to Fiji, and later to Tahiti.

First land-based aircraft operated by the New Zealand airline were DC-6’s, three of them being bought to replace three of the Solents in 1954. The most recent change was the re-equipment of TEAL’S fleet with jet-prop. Lockheed Electras.

They have serviced all TEAL routes

(Continued on page 99)

[?]IIN JOE" BOWS OUT! The final flight of [?]flying-boat on the Coral Route means [?]e South Pacific's colourful personality Joe Shephard has to change to land after one and a half years' air time on oats. "Captain Joe" is one of the most experienced flying-boat captains, [?]ore than 2¼ million miles up, and has [?]enior Route Captain on the Coral Route past seven years. "Captain Joe" is some of a legend in the Islands of the Coral Passengers write to him as "Dear Joe [?] many of his letters have simply been [?]ed to "Captain Joe, Fiji"—and they reach him, too.

SOLENT PAYS OFF. Captain Shephard receives from Pilot Officer G. A. Danvers (right) on be half of the RNZAF an 11-foot paying-off pennant just before he took TEAL Solent "Aranui" on its final trip from Laucala Bay, Suva, on Sep tember 14. At left facing the camera is Group Captain A. A. N. Breckon, commanding officer of the RNZAF base, and next to him, holding a package, is Mr. John Wisdom, TEAL's Suva manager.

RNZAF Photo.

>t the Coral Route since early fear. ;ry change has seen progress eed, in payload, and in airline mics. TEAL’s Electras fly three as fast as the old 8.30’5; carry nearly four times as many tigers. ; change from Solent to Electra tie Coral Route will double speed—and therefore halve time—on this service. ) following table compares air types operated by TEAL:

these aircraft are four 3d. All but the jet-prop, a have been piston-engined. ; of flight crew has remained int at four for all types, but crew has increased from two ir. the late ’4o’s and ’so’s, while still seemed a prospect that -boat development might and maintain a state of parity i the constantly improving )ased aircraft, TEAL did con further flying-boats as replace for its fleet of Solents. ramp, pontoon and other ies installed at Mechanics Auckland, were actually built rough to handle the mighty ;ss flying-boat.

ying-Boat Was Stillborn

as history has recorded, the :ss project died in infancy, wen more ambitious Duchess ■boat project was stillborn, he big aircraft field, there is le aircraft manufacturer any -1 e currently developing a n version of a sea-based plane, re are several important ls for the demise of the big ■boat. land-based plane, given equal • power, can be designed for r speeds. Speed means quicker , and therefore more flights, more flights make possible economical operations, recent years, frequency has e much more important in ting passenger traffic than ere size of an aircraft. Many operators are convinced that :t sizes have just about reached optimum—certainly for the ible future—and that future pments will concentrate on and range.

The international airliners of the 1970’s seem likely to be of 100 to 150 passenger capacity, flying non-stop along the great circle routes flying at heights measured in miles rather than feet, and at speeds of 2,000 mph—well above the sound and thermal barriers.

Aircraft designers know there is a physical and financial limit to the likely sizes of take-off and land ing runways in heavily built-up areas, an argument which the die hard exponents of flying-boats claim will force the ultimate abandon ment of land strips and a reversion to sea strips.

What New Developmpent?

No one can prophesy just how the development will go, but present trends are to greater engine power and the use of rocketry and other

devices which may make possible a closer 1 approach to the HG Wellsian concept of vertical take-off.

Vertical take-off has, of course, already been achieved with the heli copter and the prototype versions of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing). Through the 1960’5, aero nautical engineers seem likely to solve the problems of the marriage of these landing and take-off tech niques with the high-flying, long ranging super-jet of tomorrow.

In the field of air cargo, the fly ing-boat’s future may not be so gloomy. Here size has more signific ance, and speed and frequency of service are not such important con siderations. Whether such a de velopment comes from advances in aviation, or marine technology, or whether it will come at all, remains to be seen.

Total Cruise engine Passenspeed power ■aft gers in mph in hp ying-boat) . 19 138 3,600 ngham ig-boat) . 30 172 4,800 IV (flying . 45 200 8,000 andplane) . 56 265 9,600 Inters nal (land 0... . 71 400 16,000

Wild, Wild Women Of Marquesas

pp. 86-99

When The Mission Ship Duff’ Met The Wild, Wild Women Of Marquesas

Compiled From Old LMS Records by R. W. ROBSON As the full-rigged ship Duff moved slowly to an anchorage in Resolution Bay, Santa Christina Island (now called Tahuata), one of the Marquesas, on a shining morning in June, 1797, the voyagers saw an extraordinary thing. Captain Wilson thus recorded it: “There appeared around the ship, seven beautiful young women, swimming quite naked except for a few green leaves tied around their middles. They remained swimming and floating around the ship for three hours, crying ‘Vahine, Vahine’, which means ‘Woman’.”

None among the ship’s company witnessed this fascinating sight with more interest, or concern or both than Messrs. William Crook and James Harris. These very young men Crook was only 22 had been chosen by the London Missionary Society to be the very first Christian missionaries in the Marquesas Islands.

CROOK watched the Marquesan girls’ performance in the water without apparent emotion —his associates described him as “a strong and thoughtful young man” —but the timid and imaginative Mr.

Harris really was shocked.

Already, they had been to Tonga and Tahiti, and 27 of the ship’s complement of LMS missionaries, recruited for service in the unknown South Seas, had been left at one or other of these places.

Mr. Harris had been greatly upset by what he had seen in Tahiti.

Already, Captain Wallis, Captain Cook, Commander Bougainville and Captain William Bligh had reported upon the social habits of the Tahitians, and the LMS missionary ship Duff knew what to expect— namely, complete freedom between the sexes up to the point of marri age. and the firm conventions of Europe unknown in Polynesia so far as they related to the clothing of the body and the act of love.

The LMS missionaries generally saw these as the habits of “a heathen people”; and they were not greatly upset, except that they dis played something like fanaticism in trying to introduce European standards.

But Mr. Harris had been much disturbed by what he had seen, and greatly hoped that in the Marquesas he would find a different kind of people.

Gazing down now from the ships rail at the light-skinned young girls floating gracefully around the ship, Mr. Harris was filled with forebod ing. These ladies had even less sense of modesty than those of Tahiti!

She Knew Not Shame Canoes arrived, and several men were allowed aboard. One, a young chief, made urgent representations.

A Tahitian among the crew in terpreted this as an appeal that his sister, one of the swimmers, be per mitted to come aboard.

Captain Wilson agreed, and this is how he described the lady in his book: “She was of a fair complexion, in clining to a healthy yellow, with a tint of red in her cheeks. She was rather stout; but she possessed such symmetry of features —as did all her companions—that as models for sculptors or painters their equals can seldom be found.”

The Tahitian girl aboard the ship, who had adopted European ways, was distressed to see a woman there upon the deck quite naked. She rushed away and brought a length of tapa cloth, and wrapped it around the visitor.

The Marquesan. of course, did not ☆

When the First Christian

Missionaries in the Pacific met the Wild and Beautiful Women of

the Marquesas, not Everybody

was Captivated by their

Charms. For Instance, the

Experience was Just Too Much for James Harris.

realise that she was a figure shame —she accepted the tapa as decoration, swathed herself in and the original Eve showed out the way she preened herself.

The sober Captain Wilson wroi “This set her off to great adva: age”.

All this was witnessed by i girls still swimming alongside: a they set up a great wail—tH wanted to come aboard, for simi treatment.

Naiads Meet Goats So at last they were permit; to climb up onto the deck —♦ scribed by the captain as a V’ remarkable spectacle, as they w completely naked except for th girdles of green leaves.

But the leaves did not renu there long. The Duff had carr some live-stock, which was ] ashore at the new stations for sustenance of the missionaries. £ aboard was a small herd of goa and the goats had had no gn food for a long time. They rusl at the girls.

The girls leaped wildly away fn these strange creatures—may somewhere in their myths, tf had learned of Pan and the dang associated with gods shaped 1 goats. But when they discover that the animals wished to nib'i not their persons but their gr girdles, their terror departed.

“They turned this way and t; to avoid the goats,” says Captl Wilson’s chronicle,” but they w attacked at each side alternate and completely stripped naked.] The young women were prepat to be very friendly: but the offio presently cleared the decks, s shoo’d them away. Most of thi simply jumped overboard, and swj shorewards.

When Chief Tenai learned tl he was to get two mission! teachers, he was delighted, t promised accommodation and fp Next day, Captain Wilson td Messrs. Crook and Harris ash-:

low them their new home. It a, pleasant place, and the light led Marquesans gave evidence uch goodwill. e strong and thoughtful Crook he would remain there, but of maginative Harris the Captain b: “He behaved as if fear had i possession of his mind . . . in short, seemed entirely to lost his firmness and ardour.” . Harris pleaded that he did vant the job; but the captain Id not contemplate leaving k there alone, and it was de [ that the two should be taken re, with their luggage, the next June 7, 1797, Crook, with some age, was established in a green y near the anchorage, but is was allowed to stay aboard to up their goods and chattels, iase in carrying.

June 8, the natives crowded rd and the fearful Mr. Harris that the women among them naked, as before. They had given “Tahitian cloth” wherein othe themselves; but the Cap -5 book explains that the tapa ipart in the water, so when the s got ready to swim they took leir new garments, and arrived d. e crew were busy scraping and :ing, and the native girls were ’ to help them in their tasks, sailors were more than ready to )t their help; but (says the tin) the officers kept the whole >any under firm restraint, note was received from Mr. k, expressing “perfect satis on” with his accommodation treatment. The captain sug d that Mr, Harris now might him. Mr. Harris refused to i the ship, and his fear was so ?nt that the captain let him was evident that by now Mr. is’ terror of the Marquesas’ women was the joke of the ionary ship.

A storm came. The bay was exposed to giant rollers, so the ship w'as taken away to sea. to ride it cut. e-pi-- "Duff rpturnpH nn Tune 14' bufthfrf stm“ bad J we e ather about and, to avoid taking Mr.

Harris away in a sudden, necessary departure Mr. Harris, despite his reluctance, was put into a boat, with bag and luggage and sent to join Mr. Crook in the village.

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the P 2l?nhewe t nt balka&in. into tbP hnv wZr/ deum bmirp on thp 24th When dawn broke on the belch S n was^Wentifle J d. Ct in o better

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M for- Mr Harrlt No Wife for Mr. Harris It appeared he had settled in with Mr Crook, in a neat little native house After a week, it was arranged they should go with Chief Tenai to examine a distant valley, where there was another communitv Crook was more than ready, but Harris finally refused to go.

The friendly and amiable Tenai arranged a food supply for Mr.

Harris, during their absence; and he left for Mr. Harris, despite the latter’s urgent protests, his fav ourite wife.

Crook and .Tenai departed and Je ctof's wife.

“i 0 M r g Y enough with Mr. Hams, The language in which Captain Wilson’s journal describes the in cident is very restrained—after all, the book is dedicated to the King heads?nSe LMS—lbut the sequence of T e '' entS J S f . Clear f e e no fuMlled Mr The chief’s wife fulfilled Mr.

Harris’ worst fear by displaying an pop-prness to care for him; and one gathers that she was very firmly re

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chief’s wife carried her grievance to the other wom en of the village.

They (according to the solemn record) “became doubtful of his sex”. , That night, while Mr. Harris was asleep, the chief’s wife and a couple of her friends crept into his hut, to find out if he were a man or a woman. I quote the captains nar rative:

(Continued on page 97)

[?]en paradise is [?]uesas are des today. They [?]north-east of [?]photographs [?] the scenery, [?]tiki. Next to [?] Valley, and Herman Mel [?]-Typee, Nuku [?]va

“They satisfied themselves con cerning that point . . . but not in such a peaceable way that they avoided awakening him.”

When Mr. Harris awoke and found his hut full of women, “he was greatly terrified and was de termined to leave a place where the people were so abandoned and given to wickedness.”

So Mr. Harris forthwith packed his chest, and carried it down and around to the beach, to a place opposite the ship, which had just returned to her anchorage. He failed to attract attention from the ship, so settled down beside his chest.

During the night, some natives came and behaved in such a way that Mr. Harris took to his heels and hid in the bushes. They got away with some of his personal gear.

When the ship’s officers discovered Mr. Harris, the sea was breaking badly on the shore, and they could not despatch a boat. So they sent a native swimmer with a line, and Mr. Harris was hauled ignomini ously out through the surf, and aboard. ■When they found that he had not fled from an attack upon the missionaries’ house, but only from the amorous advances of the village ladies, they treated him with con tempt. and sent him below to be dried out, while the swimmer went again ashore with his line, for Mr.

Harris’ chest.

Thenceforth, the unfortunate Mr.

Harris disappears from the captain’s chronicle—one presumes that he was taken back to Tahiti and left with the larger mission community there.

Crook remained in the Marquesas, where he appears to have gained approbation as a hard-working, conscientious missionary.

Remember?

p. 88

Do You Remember?

In England 20 years ago this month, the German air offensive was

reaching its peak, with attacks being

almost ceaseless. There was, said “PIM”, no real answer yet to the night bombing. As this went on over there, over here the South Pacific was becoming more and more in volved with what was soon to be a World War.

Here are some extracts from the

issue of October, 1940.

There was big news from the French possessions in the Pacific. The colonies declared themselves clearly and unequivoc ally for Free France and the British Alliance, with the Nazi-dominated Vichy Government repudiated. Hero of the hour was the pro-de Gaulle Resident Com missioner in the New Hebrides, Henri Sautot. Sautot arrived in New Caledonia aboard a warship and took over as Governor. More than 1.200 Free French men announced they were anxious to join de Gaulle’s forces against Germany and many of them said that if they could not join de Gaulle they would like to form a unit of the Australian Army. * * * A Suva correspondent reported that "notwithstanding the copra industry hav ing completely collapsed, and the banana trade being little better, the finances of Fiji are buoyant”. He says doubtless this was owing to the sugar and mining in dustries continuing to give profitable re turns. * * * With little notice from the Australian newspapers, Charles Henry Karius, one of Papua’s noted explorers, died in Sydney on September 19 at the age of 47. He had been ill for some time. The most out standing event of Karius’ career was the expedition which he led across the centre of New Guinea in 1927. Accompanied by Mr. Ivan Champion, he found the source of the Ply and Strickland Rivers, and the headwaters of the Sepik River. * * * The Fiji Government announced that it would start immediately on the construc tion of a sea plane base at Laucala Bay, near Suva. It said that Pan American Airways had promised to include Suva as a regular call on its airmail service from America to New Zealand as soon as the base was completed. * * * Things were grim in Rarotonga. Rightly or wrongly, old residents were blaming New Zealand’s Labour Government for the state of depression in which the fruit in dustry had found itself. Old residents were leaving the island one by one, ‘‘to escape the blanket pall”, as one corres pondent put it. * * * Although it was to be another 12 months before the Japanese were to make their real influence felt in the South Pacific, the Christian Missions were already hard hit. The big trouble was that subscriptions from Britain had fallen off at a great rate and the Missions were in financial diffi culties. With the depressed state of the copra market, the natives, too, were un able to give as they had in the past, and medical work by the Missions everywhere was at a reduced tempo.

of Noumea

pp. 88-89

The Wonderful Sisters of Noumea

From Fred Dunn, in Noumea The month of August has seen the centenary of an orde of nursing sisters with a remarkable influence on the New Caledonian people and their way of life.

IT is the Roman Catholic Order of St. Joseph de Cluny, four sisters of which, on August 26, 1860, arrived to nurse in the new naval hospital at Noumea, then known as Port de France.

France had taken possession of Noumea only seven years before, and when the four sisters arrived in Tahiti aboard a French vessel they found that communications between Tahiti and New Caledonia were almost non-existent. The master of the British vessel Montfort agreed to give them a passage, but it was a frightening passage as a letter by one of the sisters, still in the Archives, tells.

It was a leaking ship and the master had never sailed the course to New Caledonia. The Montfort struck a reef in Tonga, and (accord ing to the writer) it was their sup plications to the Virgin Mary that finally got the ship off.

From Tonga the Montfort passed through a cyclone before finally

The girls' school run by the Sisters of St. Joseph de Cluny, here seen in the centre of the pic[?] is one of Noumea's landmarks. The Sisters have just celebrated their centenary in New Caledi[?]

Sister Othilde with some of the young native lepers in her charge. These are soon to be dis charged—cured, for they were caught in time have suffered no mutilation. But Sister Othilde will remain—she herse'f has contracted leprosy.

Photos: Fred Dunn.

ing at the Isle of Pines, where tive pilot guided the vessel to aea. >m 1860 to 1903 the Sisters of oseph de Cluny nursed in the lial hospital. This was at a of France’s great transporta era. France decided to trans prisoners to New Caledonia in and continued until towards nd of the century.

Dread Voyages

ters of the Order accompanied Le prisoners on the dread ages out. They comforted lers in the hospitals and they always present in the worst —the Isle of Nou, Bourail, 5 and the Isle of Pines, jy cared for the outcast lepers, were first isolated on islands oumea’s harbour. Their only art then were the visits of the s. en much later the lepers were i to the former transportation e and hospital at Ducos, in lea harbour, the sisters took e. In 1933 they were officially responsible for the Ducos mide colony. ler their care, and with the ance of the New Caledonia rnment and the New Zealand Trust Board, it has become a ■place. j of the sisters. Sister Othilde, acted the disease. Though its ess has to a certain extent arrested, Sister Othilde will leave Ducos. for she will de the remainder of her life car >r the native lepers. ;er Othilde is a member of the n of Honour. pite their great record of nurs mrk of this nature, the New onian sisters are especially i to the present generation for education work. They began ing soon after their arrival in Teachers were sent in the days to country centres which sufficiently civilised to receive but in recent times the sisters concentrated exclusively on ducation of girls in Noumea.

Imposing Building

iy maintain their school in is probably Noumea’s most ing building, completed about years ago. Total enrolment, both boarding and day pupils, )0. ough the capable hands of devoted women have passed it many of the mothers of this ry, and it would be no ex ation to say that due to the in :e of the sisters in shaping the •f the people New Caledonia )een spared the modem age e of juvenile delinquency. ; Order of St. Joseph de Cluny ounded in France in 1807 at a :ularly difficult time, when dericism was rife, its foundation the Order had members. Today it has 4,000.

He's A Lively N.G.

p. 89

A Brett Hilder Profile

BUSINESSMAN

Alfred Alexander Hopper of Rabaul, is about the liveliest businessman in New Guinea. He was born on the North Coast of New South Wales in 1908, as one of a family of 10. He finished his formal education at Taree High School and then joined the T. & G.

Mutual Life Assurance Society.

DURING the war Alex was in the army, and saw service in New Guinea, which gave him a strong desire to return there. After the war he went back with T. & G., but 1948 found him back in New Guinea arranging insurances “for a start”; he found so much in surance waiting to be written that he got a very good start indeed. He then launched out into plantations, his first purchase being Belik Plantation on New Ireland.

He has since bought Klinwater Plantation in the Bainings, New Britain, and in other cases he has formed companies to take over certain plantations, with himself as managing director. A recent one was Bali Plantations Limited, which Alex floated on the Sydney Stock Exchange. Alex has formed A. A.

Hopper & Company to operate in island merchandise, cocoa buying and other business.

In addition to insurance, Alex is also a stockbroker, and still finds time to be the father of a family.

In 1954 he married Miss Patricia Clarke, formerly regional Librarian at Rabaul: they have two children, Patricia Jane, born in 1955, at Guildford, Surrey, and Paul Edward, born at Rabaul in 1956.

'Bounty ' Ready For

p. 89

The High Seas

HMS "Bounty”, 1960 MGM version, was to be handed over to the film company by the Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, shipyard of Smith and Rhu land, Ltd., about the end of Septem ber. and will then soon head for the Pacific to take part in a new "Bounty” film. It is possible that some of the scenes may be shot at Tahiti.

The three-masted vessel measures 118-ft. at deckline (compared with the original "Bounty’s” 85-ft.), 110-ft. waterline, has a beam of SOVi-ft. and a loaded draught of 12-ft. Powered with a pair of 300-hp diesels, the nautical critics can only hope that in the finished film "Bounty” will not be seen flying along at 12 knots with the sails all aback and the sea unruffled by a breeze. However, they will be comforted to know that the builder’s yard is one of the most famous in Nova Scotia—having built the famous "Bluenose” Grand Banks fishing schooner in 1921. It won the MGM contract against competition from Japan, the US, and a Vancouver yard.

The price was $500,000.

The keel was laid on March 3 and the vessel was launched August 27.

She was scaled up in size to permit inclusion of a great deal of comfort able accommodation for the nine officers and 22 crew, much electric generating plant, and substantial deep-freeze equipment. Of 500 tons deadweight the ship will have a cruising range of 5,000 miles and a sail area of about 10,000 sq. ft.

In addition to playing the part of HMS "Bounty”, the vessel, slightly altered, will also play the part of the frigate HMS “Pandora” which was later sent out by the Admiralty to capture the mutineers.

Marlon Brando will play Fletcher Christian in the film, and Trevor Howard may take the part of Bligh.

BELOW: Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Quintal, both direct descendants of the "Bounty" mutineers, celebrated their Golden Wed ding anniversary on Norfolk Island on September 15. There was a big party, and among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Robinson (also in the photo) who recently celebrated their Diamond wedding. Mr. Quintal is at the rear, left; his wife is on the right.

Photo: R. Hoare.

1,100 Years And 1,000 Pages With Michener

pp. 90-99

THE MONTH'S NEW READING

WITH JUDY TUDOR

If James A. Micheners latest novel “Hawaii”, had been his first, we imagine that book-reviewers would have tumbled over themselves to pronounce it a masterpiece. As it is, they (or those in this part of the world, anyway) have tended to be niggling about this prodigious piece of writing, 1,000 pages long and never a dull line in the lot of it.

r[IS is probably more than mere desire to tear down the success ful. Australians have never been able to take Michener seriously since he allowed himself to inter polate a great deal of tripe into ty’hat was otherwise a fairly accurate account of Australian life in Return to Paradise.

The righteous feel, too, that he has been inclined to commercialise his art in undignified pursuit of the dollar—as for example in thq qurrent and awful TV series about a sort of cruising-yacht, nautical Perry Mason type who floats around from Pacific Island to Pacific Island solving mysteries.

Michener lends his name to these pieces which go under the blanket title of Adventures in Paradise, and are the worst form of Islands exploitation since the days of the blackbirders.

But even if some reviewers down here are inclined to damn his latest piece of real writing with faint praise, we doubt if it is troubling James A. Michener over-much Having seen something of his busi ness-like method of working when he was here years ago collecting material for Return to Paradise, we imagine that he is more interested in the fact that Hawaii topped the best-seller list in the States for months.

Great length

Michener obviously intended this book to be a saga of importance and any other writer with less horse-trading sense than he would have produced it in four volumes, on the score of its length alone.

He serves up the whole kitchen in one meal and relies on his techni cal skill to keep the appetite of his reader continually whetted.

It is obvious, too, that it was deliberately written to be a best seller and the fact that it is, is probably the point where erudite reviewers sniff: No book that has pretentions of being an “important work” has any right to be so con sistently entertaining!

And lastly, he uses it as a vehicle for carrying an idea —the idea that

out of the racial melting pot that Hawaii became in the 19th and 20th centuries, has emerged a special human being—the Golden Men of his novel. This theme is the pivot upon which the five stories of the novel swing. How much Michener genuinely subscribes to this idea— and it is a Golden Man of universal thought rather than a mingling of different blood; or how much of it can be attributed to the fact that his present wife is Japanese, it is impossible to say.

The novel covers about 1,100 years, from the time the Tahitians supposedly settled Hawaii, until roughly the present. Most of the action, however, takes place in the last 150 years, beginning when the first New England missionaries, in a tub of a sailing ship, under incredible conditions, fought their way round Cape Horn to save the

souls of the Hawaiians for Calvinistic God and their bod; from the rapacious whalers a sandalwooders.

Mission Background

The section on the ea missionaries, of novel-length itself, portrays the best and .1 worst of the early 19th centv concept of Christianity—a conci that in the fullness of time broug missions into head-on collision w more liberal thinkers in most; the Pacific Islands.

From this early Hawaii missionary group, some individu inevitably broke away and wh still honouring God, honoui Mammon as well. It was thi people who laid the foundation Hawaiian wealth—wealth that w nevertheless, held tightly within i enclave of following generations these same families.

In order to work their sugar fie they had to have labour, and the Hawaiians were useless in t: capacity, they followed the w« worn pattern and imported it fr abroad. In this way Chinese w introduced to these islands s when they deserted the fields urban shopkeeping, the Japan came in their stead.

Separate Stories

This is the background of i novel, and employing the sai technique he used in Tales of i South Pacific, Michener tells separate stories through cent characters.

In the story of the missionary

it is whispy Abner Hale, whose religion was terrible in its ignorance and rigidity although it turned what should have been a rabbit of a man into a raging lion at the first whiff of what he conceived to be “sin”.

In the Chinese story, the action hangs around Char Nyuk Tsin, who lived 105 years and, escaping every peril from being sold into a brothel to contracting leprosy, founded a dynasty. Officially never more than a concubine; officially never a mother (she took the title of Wu Chow’s Auntie to her grave); she bore five sons and left her stamp on a Hawaiian century.

And in the Japanese story there was Kamejiro and his wife Mori

Yoriko, perhaps less dominant characters than the others, but part of the sum that added up to the Golden Men.

Through the stories of these three peoples, Europeans, Chinese and Japanese, and down through the generations, there runs like a thread, the descendants of the 300 lb chieftainess Malama Kanakoa, who had welcomed the missionaries on their arrival and who, in Hawaiian fashion, was married to her own brother—a fact that, above all others, horrified the New Englanders.

When all the strands of Michener’s novel are tied up in the end, in his Golden Men, it probably matters little to the theory

that the only direct descendant Malama is Kelly Kanakoa, Honolulu beach-boy whose ch function in life is sleeping w: Reno divorcees and keeping thi happy.

Whether you accept the authc theory that Hawaii has produc the Golden Man who can see be East and West; that Hawaii is microcosm what the rest of t world could, or should, be probably neither here nor tin against the undeniable fact tl this is one of the most ext] ordinary novels produced by contemporary writer.

The size and scope of the no are nothing of themselves; but a to them the ingredient of sustair technical excellence and it is m quibbling to deny the talent of 1 person who produced it. (HAWAII. Published by Seeker i Warburg. Australian price, 37/3.)

New Light on

An Old World

IT is just over 101 years since man named Edwin E. Drake, a little town in Pennsylvar USA, showed the world that mine: oil that had been. trapped in i earth millions of years before coi be recovered by drilling and lig the lamps of civilisation.

In 1859 people were, of coui interested in nothing m revolutionary than getting bet oil for their lamps than render* down whale blubber. But Drat discovery was to be far-reachii in fact it made-over the world.

One of the most interesting bo* received this month is a publicat; produced for the Petroleum : formation Bureau of Australia call This Age of Oil. It tells ini magnificently produced book, i full story of oil, particularly as applies to Australia, from the fi oil lamps to the latest £4O mill! refinery.

Probably even more fascinat; than the stories in this huge ba are the ancient illustrations a advertisements from the days wf the “horseless-carriage” was novelty that many believed “wo< not last”, and a liquid cal benzine came in two 4-gallon lots in a pine case.

Only slightly less quaint is story of early aviation and pictures of primitive aircraft be? fuelled by hand from drums earn in a horse-drawn dray.

Closer to us in time are the : much more than 35 m.m. si:i monsters that ruled our lives tween 1941 and 1949—the thrii cursed petrol coupon.

Pictures of these, of the war-ti: queues for ration tickets, and ■ devices with which we tried over-come the shortage—the tent charcoal-burning “gas-produce and the unwieldy barrage-ballo

gas bag—bring back unhappy norles.

Motorists who had expected that end of the war would auto ;ically bring about the end of oning . . . were disappointed and i irritated when it appeared that r ould continue indefinitely,” says narrator with considerable erstatement. It was the power )il on this occasion that swept the Labour Government, which rished rationing, in the elections the end of 1949 and gave the izies’ Government, which nised its abolition, a land-slide ory. (Petrol rationing ended '’ebruary, 1950). rhe rancour which post-war oning aroused,” says our story, i depressing experiences with producers are apt to stick in memories of citizens after the achievements of the wartime nisation of the industry are otten.” hich is a polite way of putting In retrospect, the scrounge for ol coupons, and the brewing of octions of kerosene, wood hoi, cleaning spirit or embalm fluid to keep the family car itioning, outweigh all of the r discomforts of the war-time ie-front put together. After ilities ended, and nothing vital at stake, the bartering, selling borrowing of petrol coupons sloped into a large-scale racket, even the most law-abiding of ens had scruples about these ie coupon troubles, the fact that the oil companies combined to uce unbranded Pool Petrol, and amazing discovery made by irists that their cars would run the most unethical mixtures, another effect on the post-war ;ralian motorist that This Age HI does not mention, fore the war, most motorists “sold” on one particular brand >etrol and demanded it. But ' eight years when any petrol “good” petrol, and probably far rior to the mixture they had in • tanks, they were never so sold u Probably the one-brand dI station, that is so much a of the present Australian e, has had something to do it. In the days when stations :ed all brands, you could play fancy. These days you go to nearest or most convenient and ly take what they’ve got. [is AGE of OIL. Published by i and Robertson. Ltd., for the Pet n Information Bureau, and obtain from either at 30/- Aust.)

e's Progress,

in Style

ROL FLYNN’S last gift to an mgrateful world, My Wicked, wicked Ways, was obviously en by a fellow who was so ; d stiff that posterity would

quickly forget his sms that he was determined to have something in printed, permanent form to establish the facts once and for all. No one is likely to be so astounded at the wickedness of Flynn as Flynn , , Early in the 386-page, soul-baring he states that to the public he was the everlasting phallic symbol, and 1S nicl^med to blame upon this much of his unorthodox behaviour. At the same time, he implies that the fact that he was forever cast in swashbuckling roles, when in his innermost heart he yearned to show that he had great gifts as a dramatic actor, frustrated and frazzled his nerves to the point where he was driven to sexual, alcoholic and other excesses. In fact, according to Mr.

Flynn’s book, Mr. Flynn had a

pretty terrible time, pushed relent lessly down a narrow lane from which there was no relief or escape except in making a fool of himself, This conception of himself as the victim of Life itself, persuades him reveal all—even down to two attacks of gonorrhoea, one from a Kavieng mary and the other, New York type—in an endless recital of his more disreputable adventures that in the end become merely boring.

It is probably the lack of subtlety in this woman-by-woman descrip tion of Flynn’s progress, that gsts it by the censors who come down so flat-footed against the Lolitas and the Carlotta Mcßrides. It Is doubtful if My Wicked, Wicked Ways could be held to “tend to de prave and corrupt”, as the Police

i have it. Flynn manages to ;e a life of sin sound about as resting as an unrelieved diet of ?d yam. scording to Flynn, he spent five s in New Guinea, 1927-32, and is remembered by some old lents —mostly, of course, be e he became a film star later, fact that he devotes about one of his book to this section of life seems to show that the itory made some sort of im ;ion on him, although any re liance between events as Flynn them and how they really lened is crystal-pure coincid e passages that appeared in the rican edition of this book, de ing an imaginary massacre of rs in the Madang District, a iive expedition in which Flynn he took part, and the subse t hanging of the native ring irs—all of which was raising the f old Territorians some months -have been left out of the UK m which is the only one avail in Australia. e only massacre of miners t that time occurred in the Britain District. Flynn was not igst those who went in to ?hend the murderers, nor were natives ever hanged for this j—but this particular flight of 7 was only one of many Flynn >ver New Guinea. describes, for example, how ent shooting Birds-of-Paradise )utch New Guinea and was ;d by a Dutch District Officer t to the banks of the Sepik ” which Flynn and his boys i and thus escaped to the “Aus n side”. It is a pity he couldn’t looked at a map of New Guinea fresh his memory before writ hat one. i he tells how he finally got >f New Guinea, with the help s father’s friend, an anthro ist called “Charley Chimery”— we can imagine the real r . P. Chinnery being pleased that, although, according to , he wasn’t to know that the i shaving-brush handle was if “stolen jewels”. ; finally Flynn did get off having arranged at “Barclay’s in Rabaul to send his last nces of “Edey” Creek gold to m; and having invested in a 1 of cut and uncut diamonds an IDB—lllicit Diamond Buyer ) turned up on Rabaul wharf, 1 unlikely places. ;eems that having let 27 5 between the time he per id in the Territory and when :ote his life story, he was apt •nfuse what he had actually in P-NG with what he had someone else had done in i Africa. ; although what he wrote New Guinea is largely piffle, “though, by his own telling; he ;lf broke almost every written unwritten law while he was

there, he nonetheless manages to leave the impression that New Guinea was run by a team of pin headed bureaucrats devoted to the worst principles of “colonialism”.

It’s about the only subtlety in the book; and heaven knows what the New Guinea of that day did to de serve it.

(MY WICKED. WICKED WAYS. Pub

lished by Heinemann, Ltd. Australian price, 26/-.)

Amongst the MG's

And Aston Martins

BY and large the sport of motor racing is not popular in Aus tralia to the same extent that it is overseas. Possibly because there are not so many of the idle rich here; nor the big manufac turers who give a backbone to Con tinental racing with their “work’s teams”.

Nonetheless, David McKay, by de voting a large section to European racing and another to long-distance touring, manages to get a full-sized book out of it, which he calls Behind the Wheel. (McKay road-tests cars for Sydney Sunday Telegraph and Motor Magazine.) By and large this is a book for the devotee, as most of it is written in a language that the layman wots not of; but even if you are not passionate about pistons, valves or revs; or don’t know a big-end from a Bugatti—you still might squeeze a bit of entertainment from this book.

The only motoring events that have really captured Australian public imagination were the Round Australia Trials, sponsored by some of the oil companies. These kicked off with the most famous of them all, the Redex Trial of 1953, and continued as an annual event for about five years until even the public got bored about expensive cars be ing smashed up on outback roads by professional and amateurs alike.

McKay drove in most of these

events, and even if you have in hibitions about beating up a brand new car on the very odd chance of winning a cash prize and glory, he makes it sound entertaining.

In 1954, seeking a wider field, he and his wife drove a Volkswagen Kombi van—which they christened the Carton—from Sydney to Europe or at least, from Sydney to Perth: and from Bombay to London (by way of Kashmir. Teheran, Ankara.

Athens, etc.) The project was de signed to get them to Europe in time for the 1955 summer racing season, and the big moment of the whole adventure was to be when they drove up to the VW works in Wolfs burg, Northern Germany, and re ceived the full, red-carpet treat ment.

That’s what they thought. But what actually happened was that they were met outside the prison like factory by a Gestapo-like guard who had never heard of them, and were finally allowed entrance to the Export Division which had never heard of them, either. (McKay had notified the company several times en route of his progress and time of arrival).

They sat in a freezing ante-room for an hour and then were approached by a harassed little man who said it “wasn’t a tour of the plant day” but if they liked, he'd show them something of the factory and they could get lunch in the canteen.

When a few uncomplimentary Australian things had been said about VW’s public relations, he scuttled away for 15 minutes then came back and said the Kombi could be greased, oil changed and throttle repaired—but nothing more.

No one was interested in the van, or that it had been driven 15,000 miles and was still reasonably healthy. No one even looked at it. (BEHIND THE WHEEL. Published by Ure Smith Pty., Ltd. Australian price, 25/-.)

All Done

By Sorcery

CHRISTOPHER LANDON S Ice-

Cold In Alex got the whole treatment when it was published in 1957—800 k Society recommenda tion , Saturday Evening Post and Argosy serialisation and was then made into a successful film.

It is unlikely that his current thriller The Mirror Room, will meet the same kind fate. It has most of the tested and tried ingredients, but then proceeds to fall apart at the seams when the author mixes the old identical-twins routine with a Burgess and McLean flit behind the Iron Curtain.

The Communist master-m in d somehow fails to be as frightening as the actions of his victims sug gest; and the antics of the good twin, Hugh, when rushing in and out of the Eastern and Western zones of Berlin trying to snare the

defectionist twin, Paul, makes vei little sense at all.

But probably the thing that w make even the most hardem thriller reader gulp is the metlu Hugh employs to pin-point t] whereabouts of missing Paul. I gets out a map of Europe and plumb-bob arrangement, and hoi the latter over the former. By sor occult power, when he gets “he the plumb-bob swings madly in circle, and he is thus able to tra his brother to East Berlin, Mr. Landon may not have be standing on such shaky ground you might think, of course. Recent when New South Wales was in t throes of a kidnapping case, a N Zealand man flew the Tasman ( his own expense) and toured t State and beyond (also at his o' expense) equipped with a divini rod with which he reckoned could trace the missing child.

Nonetheless, such sorcery see: a pretty poor gimmick for a mode thriller where the possibilities j bounded only by the limits of img ination. It’s a bit like whistling a broom-stick, when it would be 3 easier to catch the latest jet. (THE MIRROR ROOM. Published ; Heinemann. Australian price, 18/9.)

Love Game

In AAilano

IT is rare these days for any no to be a straight-out love sto in the old-fashioned sense. I Marcia Davenport (The Valley Decision , East Side, West Side, et comes reasonably close to it w The Constant Image, an exotic pi< set in, of all places, Milan duri the wet, cold and fog of that cit own hideous type of winter The reason for this setting probably that Miss Davenport 1 these many years, forsaken Amer for a villa on Lake Como.

The type of love practised aron Milan is distinctly Continental type. The women (of the up; classes) are cosseted and spoils metaphorically live on strawben and cream and sit on satin cushio) occasionally they have discr affairs but are otherwise stric dedicated to preserving the fac? of the family even when it me* turning a blind eye to or husband’s peccadillos.

There are more rules to this ga than there are to internatio! diplomacy. The light and airy tor is essential; the word “love” ne mentioned; nor one’s affections s* cusly engaged.

Miss Davenport’s heroine, beaut:: young American divorcee Har.

Piers, knows some of the rules finds’ the game difficult to play' the first instance, and impost in the end. This may not hi mattered so much had not . partner—a local industrialist, vete:‘ of a dozen years of marriage t countless extra-marital adventu

oken the most vital rule himself, re moral of this novel, if it can »aid to have one, is that the tinental idea of marriage as a ranent institution only in ;tly concerned with the emotion d love, has much to commend rer the American institution of •iage for love followed by easy :ce if it doesn’t take. ie writer probably has a point; mgh her brand of society is not y to function easily where the ,le feels she is as good, if not r, than the male. [E CONSTANT IMAGE. Published by m Collins, Ltd. Australian price, - es Islander as

ig White Boss

DSE who are trying to visualise he future of the Melanesian aces will find a lot to interest in White Man’s Shoes, a very ible new novel by Olaf Ruhen, ;w Zealander who has become uccessful writer ( Land of >ri, Naked Under Capricorn) who now lives in Sydney, e scene of this interesting is in the Torres Strait Islands, sen Australia and Papua; and tale is woven around the ities of pearling luggers, onaries and administrative ils. The writer has spent much among the pearlers—there is l lively description of little n features of that industry, central character is a native tain who acquires European and viewpoints and operates ssfully as a trader and pearler. :arries on an illicit trade in ", and seeks a sultan’s rights any woman he fancies. On events, Mr. Ruhen hangs i provocative comment about real place of the “advanced” e in the competitive Western There are scores of men women in Papua and New 3a who could be greatly stirred )me of the sentiments which lovelist puts into the mouths 3 characters. unusual, diverting kind of by a skilful writer and modern er.

ITE MAN’S SHOES. Published by nald, London. Australian price,

5 Deaths

i One

3ELLENT characterisation and nooth writing rather than [implicated plot and the gim i s frequently employed as ner-bait, make Necessary End >re than ordinarily satisfying of contemporary American 3 author, Anita Rowe Block, be well known in her own -ry although she is new to us;

and the somewhat nebulous title, picked out of the middle of a quota tion from Julius Caesar (“. . . see ing that death, a necessary end will come when it will come’'), sets the theme of the story.

Scott Powell, head of a vast pharmaceutical business, may not be typical of all American business men, but no doubt there are plenty of him in existence. He was a man of keen mind, extraordinary drive, wrapped up in his business but

happy domestically—and with it all, idealistic. The policy of his business is dictated by idealism rather than desire for increased profits—in part, probably, because it is now large enough to be so run—but there are human elements in the organisation that make it clear to Powell that if his hand were removed, rabid com mercialism soon would be allowed to take over.

It is at this critical stage, when he is still in his mid-40’s, that he

heart attack that is diagnosed ?ina. If he tosses aside every that formerly made the kind e he enjoyed, to become a nvalid, life may be prolonged tiitely. er the circumstances in which ids himself at that moment, luite a choice but he tries it ix months, surreptitiously ing the mechanisms that once his dynamo-like existence, it revealing the cause—only d that there is more to it that. vegetable-like existence has i strains and frustrations, and all it has Cathy, his wife.’ who almost overnight from the impanion of 20 years of suc i marriage, into a terrified ot dedicated to his diet and jriods, and whose determina o spare him irritations and ninor problems drives him to ge of desperation, the end Powell faces the ct squarely and comes up lis own solution. As Shake said: ds die many times before • deaths; aliant never taste of death once. . . ?SSARY END. Published by Mac md Co. Australian price, 20/-.) ) La! ►ne who was born earlier than (0 should attempt to read ything as other-dimensional ie, translated from Raymond iu’s French into English a bara Wright. And judging by ilogies all around the dust

jacket, the publishers seem to be a bit doubtful about it, too.

Zazie is one of these French moppets who not only know all the facts of life but most of the varia tions on the same theme as well.

Up from the provinces for two nights and a day, while her mother attends to some peculiarly Parisian business elsewhere, she industriously persists in being a gamine for the full length of the book.

To some this may be just every thing they feel a French novel should be (like it says on the dust jacket). But personally, we can t see what the French have done to de serve this one. • ZAZIE. Published by Bodley Head. Aus tralian price, 15/6.)

Browned Off!

p. 90

These verses, or something like them, were sent to us by Mr. Sid Pasley, of Kavieng, New Guinea. Mr. Pasley may or may not be the poet, responsible but in any event, although the original version was appreciated around "PlM's'* editorial office, a few lines were not suitable for the tender eyes of our readers This slightly expurgated edition, while tamer, still gets the idea over that yos can have too much of the romantic islands of the South Pacific.

I haven’t travelled far, hut I’ve heard a blooming lot Of the beauty of the tropics, and that stupid sort of rot — Of the mountains and the valleys and the coconuts so tall, Of the gentle, balmy breezes and the pretty ports of call, Of the shy, enchanting natives and their quaint, peculiar ways, Of the luscious, lissom maidens and their happy, care-free days. \ But now I’ve seen, enough of it. My sentiments are plain.

So far as little me’s concerned, it’s just a bloody pain!

For I hate the ruddy natives, and I loathe the ports of call, And the blasted, blazing sunshine, and the coconuts so tall.

And the luscious lissom ladies — who’d ivant to make a pass At a bosom that’s all wobble and a skirt of dirty grass?

And the Islands are not pretty—they’re just another drudge— If you don’t believe my simple ivords, come up and be the judge. § And when some silly blighter says, “It’s such a pretty place!”

Ignore the stupid bastard, or hit him in the face.

You’ll be doing me a favour and protect yourself as well If you say, “Your coons and coconuts can go and stew in hell ’. J

Old Fiji

p. 99

A Glimpse Of Old Fiji

nteresting extracts from yfessor W. P. Morrells new “Britain in the Pacific inds”. .n epidemic of measles in I, between February and y, 1875 , wiped out 40,000 pie — one-quarter of the then mated Fijian population. t was written 50 years ago t the introduction of Indian our to permit the establish it of the sugar industry pre ted exploitation of Fijian our —“but at the cost of iting a plural society which ild bring its own problems”. here was bitter fighting in Sigatoka Valley in 1876; but itually the forces directed governor Sir Arthur Gordon iued the tough mountaineers.

Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

pp. 103-113

The SS/P Government in August placed orders for two *hts to be installed as a memorial to the “Melanesian”, lost ith more than 60 aboard in 1958. One light will be on Rura alatoa, a small island near the Guadalcanal coast, and the her on Rura Suli, a half-mile west of Rura Sura. The lights ’tween them will give a complete coverage of the Rura Sura efs.

SUVA BY-PASSED: Shipping in Suva were looking forward sing over Scripps Institution of nography’s research vessel Argo ptember, but the call was can- L 10, ex ARS-27 of the US Navy, ;o call at Suva for bunkers en from Honolulu to Darwin and Indian Ocean, but apparently leaving Honolulu the ship put with engine trouble. To make le lost time she later sailed : for Darwin, where she was September 29. 0 is an identical type of ocean salvage tug to USS Current, 1 made an examination of a ; near Pago Pago wharf last then paid a visit to Suva. She 14-knot, twin-screw, diesel ic powered vessel with a total e horse-power of 3,000 and a cement tonnage of 1,360.

IEW MISSION SHIP: The

:an Melanesian Mission has 1 an order with S. W. White jtd., of Sydney, for the build

mg of a new vessel to replace the one which dragged onto a reef at Maravovo in the Solomons on March 31. To be built at Ballina, NSW, and to be delivered in about 18 months, the new ship will be 10 ft longer than her predecessor. She will probably be named Southern Cross IX. Dimensions are given as 85 ft o.a. by 25 ft beam. She will be a wooden metal-sheathed vessel powered by twin diesels and the contract price is given as £A85,000.

The previous vessel, somewhat smaller and built in 1958, cost approximately £A70,000. • ARTIST AFLOAT: Visitors to the cabin of Chief Officer A. J. Riks, of the Royal Interocsan Line’s chartered KPM vessel Van Neck may have to navigate their way round artist’s easels and drying canvases—for Mr. Riks is a com petent and busy spare-time artist in oils. A selection of his pleasing and colourful landscapes and scenes of Asiatic ports which his ship visits decorate his cabin. The ship is on the regular South Pacific trade from Hongkong. A Dutchman, artist Riks was born in Indonesia.

• MORE CATHODIC PROTEC

TION: The GEIC Government vessel Moana Raoi came south to Suva in September to be fitted with cathodic hull protection. She was the second vessel to be so fitted in Suva—the first was the GEIC vessel Ninikoria earlier in the year.

Cathodic protection does not reduce marine growth on the hull but it

does prevent pitting and corrosion of plates where the paint has been scraped off.

Captain E. Ward, who took com mand of Moana Raoi when she was delivered from Hongkong in 1958, is still in command, with Mr. E.

Lancaster as chief engineer.

Captain Ward said in Suva in September that Mr. Willie Schutz, first Gilbert-born seaman to qualify for a foreign-going master’s cer tificate, was expected back from the UK via Hongkong in September and would take command of Nareau when her present master went on leave. Mr. Schutz sat his master’s examination at Southampton several months ago, after serving for some years in British tramp ships • DEATH TRAP; A year or so ago Scandinavian maritime author -

The well-rounded stern of HMNZS "Endeavour" caused some interest during an Islands cruise in September. The ex planation is that the vessel was originally built in the US as a naval net layer. See page 107.

American yacht "Ben Gunn", with owner Hank Horn, in Rarotonga in September. See Yachting Notes page 115.

Photo: R. D. Moore.

ities made the discovery that the standard kapok-filled canvas life jacket could be completely useless under conditions where more than a certain quite small quantity of oil was present on the sea surface.

These authorities produced ample evidence that many seamen—especi ally in war-time—must have been drowned due to such loss of buoy ancy.

Marine authorities elsewhere at first highly sceptical of the Scand inavian report, later admitted the facts appeared correct. Recom mendations were then made that kapok-type life jackets should be covered with plastic rather than canvas.

Now, warnings are being issued that the plastic coverings are in

some cases proving to be as danger ous as the canvas coverings!

Certain types of plastic will dis solve on coming in contact with oily water. A warning was issued by the National Water Safety Committee in Wellington, NZ, in September, and the Committee is asking the NZ Standards Institute to lay down safe specifications for life jacket coverings

• MORE LIGHTS FOR COOK

IS.: When the member of the Legis lative Council for Penrhyn requested a navigation light at that Northern Cooks atoll during the recent Coun cil session at Rarotonga, the Treasurer said it was proposed to erect light beacons at several islands of the group soon, and that one

would be considered for Perirhy When these lights are erected,, hoped their arc of visibility will arranged with a little more thoui than was shown at Aitutaki so years ago. This light opens to j south and west but gives no aid all to vessels leaving the m; anchorage en route to Raroton One ship was wrecked within coo of this light because it was : visible to the eastward.

• ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG!; 1

South Pacific Islands saw their f Italian cruise liner — Aurelia— cently, and it now appears that 1 this year or early next they i see their first post-war Gera cruise liners —two of them.

Probably to appear first, on 1 cruises late this year or early n< will be the 32,336-ton Bremen, the Bremen North Atlantic Line steam turbine-powered vessel, i one of the few passenger ships w four propellers to be still in serv: this ship was until last year 1 French Line’s Pasteur, built Saint Nazaire in 1938 and well membered by many servicemen a war-time troop ship.

She has been completely mode: ised by the German company t is on the North Atlantic service, 1 is making two voyages to Austrs and New Zealand under charter the Dutch Royal Rotterdam Ll( Line.

These will be round-the-wc voyages with calls at Papeete route from Wellington to Panai Cruise ports are not yet knowr The other West German vessel expected to be in Suva late in Jj uary at about the same time the new British liner Oriana. T is the 12,575-ton Seven Seas Nelly, ex Lonq Island, ex Morm mail ) built at Chester, Pa., Ul in 1940 and purchased in 1953 the Europa-Canada Line of Brem This ship is understood to be < gaged full-time in the cruise tra She is powered with four die motors magnetically coupled tc single propeller shaft.

• FURTHER AFIELD: 1

vessels based in Fiji recently ms voyages somewhat further afi than their normal trade demar Burns Philp’s 434-ton Yana t under Captain S. Polkinghorn— man who defied the Japanese Ns at Shanghai in 1941 —made a dru oil rim to Aitutaki in August, I first voyage so far east.

About the same time the * vessel Ratanui, 515 tons, un Captain L. N. Fordham, took a 1c of 255 logs of timber from Nadi B Viti Levu, to Sydney. Averag; about 16 ft in length these logs w all carried below decks. The si then returned to Suva with a f load of general.

• HAVE CREW, WOUE

TRAVEL!: In Suva in SeptemiJ hundreds of men, many with d: charges, many without, applied :

)bs offering in the Carpenter i-Pacific 4,873-ton steam cargo passenger vessel Suva of Suva try. About half the jobs were ndian stewards and galley staff the others went to Fijian le-room or deck hands. ?ry day of the week large num of able-bodied young unem d men are to be seen loitering : the Suva waterfront—which robably as pleasant and in ;ing a place to loiter as any you can’t find a job.

FLEET ADDITION: Eleven

Suva seamen drew a plum in in the form of the cargo vessel mi (ex Bingera) , purchased by i Pacific Shipping Company ICI and transferred to the register. The Fiji crew left by air on September 20 to man 54-ton steel, 25-year-old motor I at Sydney. itain James Ure, a shareholder iirector of the Suva-registered any, who had come to Fiji to se the take-over, accompanied len back to Sydney and was to command for the present. De of the intended trade were not diately available, but the any’s other ship. Bahinda, is y on the trans-Tasman run, occasional voyages as far afield e Gilberts with explosives. anui has recently been in Id’s alian coastal explosives trade.

•TILL DRIFTING IN: Those

s are still drifting in. Details teagre on this one except that s tossed into the sea by an irton, NZ, man—perhaps dur- Tasman crossing in a passenger -back in 1938, and was recently i up on a Fraser Island beach )uthem Queensland, where it »robably been for years,

’OR THE PIGEON-HOLE:

Early this year a NZ Marine De partment surveyor of ships was sent to the Cook Islands to look into “the unsatisfactory state of ships” in the group—as charged in a petition placed before Parliament in New Zealand last year.

The recommendations recently released suggest that the Cook Islands should introduce legislation to more adequately control safety measures. It was found, however, that while it was desirable to have certificated officers in these ships “it appeared impracticable at pre sent”.

It was also considered that the establishment of a slipway at Raro tonga—for the survey of local ships and to make it easier for them to

be maintained in better condition— was not warranted “in view of the presence of suoh facilities at Papeete”—7oo miles away.

• THE TONG AN FLEET: Strong

amd interesting coconut radio signals in September indicated that Prince Tungi of Tonga might soon leave for Holland to place an order for a cargo-and-passenger vessel of about 2,500 tons. The signals sug gested that the ship would be based at Suva and would operate to Aus tralia, New Zealand and Eastern ports.

There were also reports that a new 300-ton tuna longliner would also be ordered before very long to replace the 114-ton Teiko, lost

; March hurricane while set ut on her first fishing voyage. r as also learnt from Tonga in nber that the report on the gs of the official inquiry into ss of Teiko, delivered to the nment some months ago, is :pected to be released.

3NGLINERS MOVE SOUTH:

vo Japanese tuna fishing fleets commenced operations west Gilbert and Ellice Islands in lave gradually moved south he albacore migrations in re lonths, and in mid-September val motherships, Koya Maru nyo Maru were located respec -260 miles and 400 miles south west of Suva.

JVA, NOT MISAKI: There

times in August-September a section of the Suva water night have been mistaken for ter of Misaki, Kesanuma, or r of Japan’s great tuna fish irts. As the 80-ton Misaki Taga Maru No. II lay wait r the use of the slipway to I a broken tailshaft, the time iployed in overhauling fishing one day hundreds of 10-ft i marker-flags were laid out wharf while they were being vith cord loops at their lower Fhese are for attachment to iss buoys which support the e. other days all hands were plicing new nets round the buoys, or making up new •aces with hooks attached. people, mainly seamen, who 3d these sturdy little peasant ien in their broad-brimmed, hats some hospitality during iree weeks in port, remarked r keen appreciation of friend own and on their quick sense lout. gh the average Japanese tan is a man of well under was therefore a child dur war years, he is in no doubt

that hates die slowly and that he must still pay for the sins of another generation.

Probably seamen more than any one else are prepared to take men as they find them, so it is natural that hospitality comes first from other foreign seamen. But those men, too, are well aware that 15 years after VJ Day it still takes courage for a young Japanese to walk the streets of some countries, including Fiji—though not for fear of actual violence.

• WHAT WAS THAT?: Radio

signals received in Suva in Sep tember indicated that a small American vessel, perhaps a yacht, named John Antler, and, according to the international radio call-sign list owned by Burke E. Bodwell, Jr. —no other details —was considered overdue between Samoa and Raro tonga for some days. The craft later turned up.

• SHIPS THAT PASS: One of

the more interesting ships to call at Fiji recently was the four-year old, 9,943-ton Liberian-flag vessel Ante Topic (second word pronounced Topich ) which loaded over 13,000 tons of sugar at Labasa and Lau toka in September.

Apparently owned by Yugoslav in terests outside Yugoslavia, the ship was commanded by Captain B.

Kovacevic and manned mainly by Jugoslavs who had fled their Coru na un i s t-dominated homeland. A smart-looking vessel of modern type, Ante Topic was built at Osaka, Japan.

In the tramp trade, she has no real home port—and will probably never go near Monrovia—the port shown on her stern. She is the first Liberian vessel to call at Fiji since 1957.

Another one, under Banno Line charter Parcorali (ex Baron Napier ) was to call in October — after first calling at Port Moresby and Apia.

• GONE TO NOUMEA; The New

Hebrides Condominium Government patrol vessel Don Quixote, a craft

The crew of Fiji men who flew to Sydney in September to man South Pacific Ship ping Co.'s latest ac quisition, "Taranui".

The group includes Temesia Lase, Silivo Vuetibau, Apimeleki Katonibau, Gavin Snow, Gabirieli Daulato, Luke Roko mokoti, Jovilisi Ma terisiga, Josefata Tailasa, Alisio Liga nivai, Viliame Baleikasavu, Wati soni Cabeta.

>out 70 ft overall and believed in Brisbane about 1950, has sold to a New Caledonia buyer, launch was delivered there in Her former skipper, Jack y, is now on leave in France his wife and son. s new British Administration I for the New Hebrides now ing at the Mill Kraft Boat- Bulimba, Brisbane ( PIM, p. 108) for which advertise -5 seeking a master have lately appearing is due for delivery next January. This is a 68t 18 i ft, 9-knot, twin-screw h.

JHANGE OF PARTNERS; The

based charter-cruise ketch r o —the former Tongan ketch m —now has a new partner in vnership. Mr. Norman Williams Did his share in Maroro Cruise Charter Service to Mr. Stan ss, effective October I. Mr. ms is joining the Fiji Broad g Commission as an announcer.

Burgess has lately been em l as a building foreman on the 3vu Beach Hotel extensions.

M TROUBLE: Two of Fiji’s traders were in trouble re . The first was the 22-ton n ui Lomaloma, not equipped radio, which had an engine lown soon after clearing Suva ladavu. Fortunately, she was d drifting by the overseas Van Neck. The information >assed to the Suva Harbour r and a launch sent out to ie derelict into port, where she r ery warmly welcomed by a >e merchant who had a par ■ interest in one of the deck igers—a bull. :, in mid-September BP’s 56ixiliary cutter Totoya, bound Lakeba to Kabara, went up tva Reef at night. The com- Zephyr II was diverted to Ie r assistance. Meanwhile gers and crew took to the md headed for Lakeba, where irrived safely. Some of the emained with the ship which uffered damage on her port ome days later work was still ding in patching her up and ing empty drums to float her towage to Suva, A shipwright Whippy’s boatyard was sent to supervise salvage.

TE WE L L-R OUNDED

'J: Probably a good many 1 e who inspected HMNZS your during the course of her iber Islands cruise speculated - extraordinary shape of her mnded stern. The explanation t the vessel was originally i the United States as a naval a vessel which handles ige steel anti-submarine nets jr port defence. The nets are >ut and hauled in over the which needs to be rounded ee of all angles to permit easy ng.

* NOW CLEARING KAVIENG:

Svage P unit 6 wSch't Company 11 So 6 f*} as collected 11, 500 tons of scrap from sunken ships at Manus in the past 16 °V* ra io ™ to Kavieng Harbour, New Ireland, where a further 8,000 tons is expected to be salvaged from seven ?nh rhn e £r S ~,nH e me ™ h f ant shi Ps. a sub-chaser, and a destroyer.

Origmally it was expected that ennnr w P uld only recover about 5,000 tons of scrap from the Manus underwater wrecks.

• FOR NEW ZEALAND: Captain

G. W. Dunsford, representative of Pacific Islands Shipbuilding Company of Hongkong in Islands areas

east of New Guinea who was re- ? e i in Suva some other Islands ports, returned from Hong kong to Auckland in Sentember after placing an order for a 900-ton ship for thl Northern Steam Ship Company of Auckland—to be named Moanui. named Soon after his return he was en -BaSed to proceed to the assistance ol the 5.010-ton Norwegian tanker Anina as navigator in an Auckland owned Hongkong-built tue The tanker was brought safely to Auck land. Pacific Islands Shipbuilding

™^SLfi UP i? ft® Fiji Govern

ment vessel Degei 11. • ON THE JOB: Somewhere south-west of Fiji late in September

p’s barber removed the hair the head of a dead Japanese n before the body was com- [ to the sea. From the motherr oyo Maru went a radioed reto Suva authorities for pern to land the parcel of hair rmailing to the relatives in in, according to Japanese 1 The hair would be placed family shrine. If permission )i thooming the Parcel was to ded from the mothership when me to Suva early in October. ■t-ctt t~v/—v . «•, rrTT-i ■ -n i.

JELL DO, MATE.: Reports in September that 8,174-ton former passenger

pis

sxiG entered the tr3.nS“Pßcific mb trade in June, 1959, may ’urther add to her versatile * , , . ..

n JS? S SS

State ?

»pp T i the v l ?7^i^'J 6gl « t ffi ed V F essel een p North T^ Q ™!Li P fvI li P P i? es ' • v,f It IS learned that She might

ndergo another name-chaSge

■yllambi and make a piljrrim oiF*? T l^ o r a^ nn ll da^ s 5,v 0 ?/T a m Slf Red £ ea 3ort for Mecca. The existing accommodation, tidied up a ls understood to be quite ible for .this trade. This be a special charter voyage, finch the ship would resume ik Y.9 ya £®?:. The shi P ha s a Fiji (Fijian and Indian)

TI RESEARCH CRUISE:

> from New Zealand that MV s being chartered by the New i Oceanographic Institute to out a research project in Polynesia waters were not .orrect—though the ship is tv. hunker at Papeete. institute reports now that

the vessel is carrying out an oceano graphic survey between New Zea land, the Kermadecs, the Cook Islands, Papeete, and back to New Zealand, the cruise taking just over four weeks with Papeete the only port of call.

Ocean temperatures and salinites a t various depths are being recorded, a s well as ocean depths. Samples of p i an kton and other sea life and sediments from the deep ocean floor were being taken. Some of this work W as also being carried out by HMNZS Endeavour , following a different route. The work is an extension of work carried out dur the jq Y . The departure date was not given jn the rpnnrt from thp Tn^titutp me report lrom tne Instltute

* BANK LINE EXTENDS: The

Bank Line, whose ships have been carrying Papua-NG copra to the UK since 1945, will be starting a monthly cargo service from Britain and the Continent to the Territory next January. The new service will operate a direct cargo lift to all rnaior Tprritorv r>nrt<s J Territory ports.

• rope ON THE WAY OUT?:

Australian Fleet exercises off the east Australian coast in September may contribute to another victory for synthetic fibres. One of the de stroyers taking part in the exercises, HMAS Vendetta, has been stripped of most of its rope fittings. These have been replaced by a synthetic material. If the new synthetic ropes prove successful, they will replace natural fibre ropes on all Australian ships. During the exercises the new material was put through rigor ous tests, ranging from ship towing to berthing.

Navy Minister Senator Gorton said synthetic material was reputed to be stronger, easier to handle and to have longer life than rope.

He said a different variety of synthetic rope had been fitted in

the destroyer HMAS Vampire, now serving on the Strategic Reserve.

Analysis of the tests with the two types of synthetic fibres would de cide the future of rope in the Royal Australian Navy.

• NEW WHARF FOR BIAK -

Work is shortly to start in Biak, Netherlands New Guinea, on a new 768 feet wharf to replace the pre sent dilapidated wooden landing stage. A new 46-ft pier for tankers up to 18,000 tons will also be built— the project to be carried out in three stages—all of them to be com pleted within two and a half years.

The new wharf will be put on the site of the present one, which means the wooden wharf will have to be taken down in sections as the new building proceeds.

• LAE WHARF DAMAGED:

Damage estimated at about £5,000 was caused at Lae’s wharf at the end of August, when the Tung Feng, on its first visit from the East, crashed into it when berthing. It was bad luck for Lae because the extension to the wharf had only re cently been completed—the wharf is still not large enough for Lae’s ever-increasing business. And it was bad luck for Captain W. W. Fish, the master of the vessel, who is 71 years of age and retired. This was the only crash in his whole career.

Captain Fish had been asked by the owners, Hang Fung Shipping and Trading Co., Hongkong, to take the ship on her first visit to Territory ports.

The ship received a gash in the bow, and a temporary plate was fixed above the waterline so she could continue her journey. The impact sheered away nearly 70 feet of wharf buffers and knocked out deep steel pylons valued at about £4OO each. Some of these were later recovered by a local diver.

• NG FREIGHTS UP: Burns

Philp and the New Guinea-Australia Line announced in Lae in Septem ber that trunk line freight rates would be increased by about six per cent, between Australia and New Guinea and on inter-island

[?]KE NEW

[?]AGAIN

[?] faces and per [?]some gloom ac [?]lied a recent event in the [?]brides," was how put it in April, when the wooden "Aoba", which [?]en considered a [?]oss, sailed into [?] under her own photograph of was taken in [?]his August when [?]s on the slipway

by the local tuna fishing company, undergoing refit. "Aoba" originally belonged to the C.F.N.H. interests in the New Hebrides but late in 1958 she was wrecked on one of the Group of islands and the experts pronounced her a total loss. The owners or underwriters £5,000 for delivery of the vessel to Santo, and a Santo mechanic, Paul Coulon, who had [?]ndertaken salvage work before, decided he would give it a go. The experts smiled, but [?]w weeks later the "Aoba" was observed coming into port, after a voyage from where the [?]le up of 200 miles. Mr. Coufon collected his £5,000 but after the marine experts had the hull they said it would cost about £12,000 to make her really seaworthy again, and wooden ship was not considered worth it. She was put up for sale.

Tonga's new Fisheries Officer, Mr. Yatoka Sawa mura, with his wife and four-year-old daughter Yumiko, who flew from Tokyo to join "Aoniu" in Suva for the final section of the voyage to Nukualofa. (See story page III.)

0 from October 1. The exception id be refrigerated cargo rates, ih would remain unaltered.

NEW FISHERIES OFFICER:

take over the position of eries Officer in Tonga following death of his predecessor in the longliner Teiko last March men were lost in the tragedy).

Yatoka Sawamura, of Tokyo, ed at Nukualofa in September, tvas accompanied by his wife four-year-old daughter. •. Sawamura, 33, is a graduate okyo Fisheries University and been with the Nippon Suisan pany—one of the two corn 's operating tuna mothership 1 in the South Pacific—for the nine years. He holds no

qualifications as a practical fishing master but he has a wide theoretical knowledge of all kinds of Jap fish ing methods.

Mr. Sawamura said in Suva that he was on a two-year contract with the Tongan Government. He has never been to the South Pacific Islands before—but he had made four voyages in whaling factory ships to the Antarctic.

• HANNAH IN THE WAY; The

owners of the Hannah, which lies on the reef near the approach to Avarua Harbour, Rarotonga, have relinquished all rights to it and the Cook Islands Administration has announced that, as it is a danger to shipping and “to nearby houses in the event of a hurricane”, it will

be destroyed. The Administration has now made the wreck available to the public for three months in the hope that the locals will do most of the disposal work for them, but very little seems to have changed on the three-year-old landmark, and the Administration will probably end up with the job, anyhow.

Some people, of course, feel that the wreck adds a bit of colour to the coastline, and one cruising yachtsman comments: “Any ship which gets anywhere near the Hannah will be in grave danger long before that!” Any houses it might endanger would probably be in trouble before that, too.

• NOUMEA IS “LAMENTABLE”:

A Noumean newspaper in September described the port of Noumea as be ing in a “lamentable” condition, and daily becoming worse. It said leports made by succeeding harbour masters had never really been given attention. The wharf was in a bad state and much of it could not be used by large vessels, and little equipment was available to aid vessels. The port was gradually silt ing up because of the need for dredging, and the paper said this was losing Noumea important over seas traffic.

Meanwhile, an engineer of the NC Public Works Department has just put forward an argument ad vocating that Noumea’s port be shifted to the former prison island of Nou, now called Nouville, which before the war was a Pan American Airways base. There is plenty of space and water, and protection from the winds. The plan would mean bridging Noumea with Nouville and would be expensive, but this bridging is planned for the future anyhow. A correspondent says the matter may be raised shortly in the Territory Assembly.

• NEW PILOT BOAT: A new

addition to the New Caledonian pilot-boat fleet is being built in Australia. She will be 45 ft long, with a speed of 11 knots, and will sail to Noumea under her own power. With the large number of ships entering New Caledonia over the last few years to lift ore, mem bers of the Maritime Pilots’ Associa tion of New Caledonia have been extremely busy.

The New Caledonian Government also announced in September that it would purchase for £AIO,OOO a unit of the local coastal fleet, Tiburon 11. This 50-ft vessel will be used by the French Navy for hydrographic work on the New Caledonia coasts.

According to a recent official re port, existing maps of New Caledonia contain some serious errors, and the navy wants to do a complete re-survey of the coastline.

The work will take about 10 years.

One of the first jobs to be under taken will be a survey of the west coast port of Nepoui, which is to be developed as a mineral shipping port.

The News This Month

p. 103

i Lomaloma

opic

en Anzac linn i a tar t danns lixote I our light daru ntler laru sian Raoi Polo et omare ia

Ortana Outward Bound Parcorali Ratanui Rannah Rejoice Readwill Southern Cross IX Suva Stardust Stormalong Si Yi Pambili Taranui Teiko Taga Maru Totoya Tung Feng Tiburon II Te Matai Tahoe Tahiti Van Neck Viti Vendetta Vampire Viking Viajera Wild Goose II Waimihi Wanderer Wanderer 111 White Squaw Yanawai Yankee Zephyr II

A oniu” Shows a Profit — See!

p. 105

Profit — See!

Tonga Copra Board's 514-ton itch-built cargo - and - pas nger vessel “Aoniu” is making oney—in spite of forecasts to e contrary by people who con lered that Tonga was making mistake in going into the ipping business.

According to a Tonga Govern vnt statement the ship has own a net profit of £6,810 over ’ period July 1,1958 to Decern - 31, 1959, after £13£78 had in set aside in a replacement id.

The statement reported that ; ship has secured an exten n of its Apia-Tokelaus charter rk for the New Zealand vernment through 1961. The /ages are made about irterly.

[?]s of Cruising Yachts

pp. 115-117

(islation to control the move s of cruising yachts came into in New Zealand on October 1. has not yet read the legisla in full, but it is assumed that lew regulations will apply to ig foreign yachts as well as NZ s. tie of the legislation will be table to most yachtsmen; some won’t; and some of it may be the cause of some bad feel j acceptable portion requires r acht intending to cruise more 50 miles off-shore to be sea y and equipped with certain mm safety equipment. Yacht are to be allowed to appoint ;tion committees to police this ement. But the law does not r to lay down the necessary Ications of such amateur in •rs, nor does it appear to y the exact meaning of the “seaworthy”. ly yacht club officials have o deep-water cruising experi whatever. There is also the ility that a yacht belonging club might be more leniently with than an outside yacht will be required to call upon ub for a safety clearance. For yhere there is no yacht club rered to carry out inspections le local harbour master per :his task, two-man inspection commit ill report to the Marine De mt on condition of hull, gear, machinery and “general suit ” of the yacht. A copy of this together with a statement yachtmaster giving intended ition. proposed route, names iboard, their nationalities and mes and addresses of next-of nust be furnished to the is Department before an is clearance will be granted, ng sailed, a yachtmaster may lange his route or destina cept through Act of God—and vill lie with the yachtmaster event of any incident. Any to comply with the law can a fine of up to £lOO 7), and the cost of any official can be recouped to the ex the full value of the yacht

a nd ali its stores, plus half the value of the possessions of those aboard While the well-found yacht will

probably present no difficulty in

obtaining an inspection clearance,

the requirement of stating route and destination prior to sailing will be

unpopular. A radio-equipped yachts

man might be able to clear himself

by notifying such intended changes,

but due to antenna difficulties the radK) range of a small yacht is often very restricted—even wh Q re a radio transmitter is carried.

Presumably so long as a yachts

man complies with the law his boat will not be subject to any charge should an official search be insti tuted. But there appears to be no

provision for a yachtsman to sign

away all rights to a search and thus free himself of the requirements of the law if he so wishes—which many believe should be a fundamental right so long as the lives of others on the high seas are not endangered

The absence of this latter provision

is, in the opinion of a good many

deep-water yachtsmen, the most

objectionable feature of the legis

lation. For those who expect assist

ance when they find themselves in

trouble, the legislation is fully

justified.

• OFIATU (OFAATU?), a home-built Auckland yacht, about to sail for Nuku alofa in August, was prevented from sail ing on two counts. The first was that the yacht was not well found and that the owner-master had no knowledge of celestial navigation, and the other was that the owner, Neil Donaldson, 39, was allegedly attempting to evade payment of main tenance of three children who had been removed from his control by the Child Welfare authorities. Donaldson was him self born in Tonga and he said in Court that he was going to Tonga to appeal to Queen Salote to intervene in having his children returned to him. • WILD GOOSE II of Seattle, Wash., which was leaking and sought assistance en route from Penrhyn to Honolulu in August-September, arrived safely at Keala kekua Bay, Hawaii, September 5. • WAIMIHI of Auckland, 34-ft. steel ketch manned by D. Price and A. J.

Brown, arrived back at her home port early September after a five months cruise to Australia and New Caledonia. • MARCO POLO, 28-ft. ketch which Aksel Pedersen of Denmark purchased in Auckland three years ago, and in which he left that port in July, 1958, arrived at Plymouth, England, on September 7. The yacht had earlier been sailed round the world by owner-builder Tony Armit, and companion Brian Loe. • MARLYN, the chartered New Zealand Fairmiie launch which cruised to Tonga and Fiji recently, had a “wonderful cruise” according to a Wellington newspaper re port. This news caused some surprise in the Islands where it was known that the situation aboard was at times a good deal less than happy, resulting in the curtailing of the cruise, which was originally in tended to include Samoa and Tahiti. • WANDERER 111 with Eric and Susan Hiscock of England, arrived at Suva from Vavau on September 4—next port Auck land, some time in October after a short rest in Fiji. Calls were made at Moorea, Rarotonga, and Nukualofa after leaving Papeete and before Vavau. (Over)

[?]nley (left) and owner Tom Buchanan of [?]ckland yacht "Wanderer" photographed Suva in September. See page 115.

WANDERER of Auckland arrived at on September 10 and planned to re about three weeks before heading .uckland. where the voyage began 2. With owner Tom Buchanan at was Pat Ganley. Mrs. Buchanan re -1 home by air from Papeete. Mr. nan draws the attention of yachts -0 the fact that a small yacht slip iow exists at Avatiu, Rarotonga, by the PWD.

STARDUST, converted Fairmile of r . appeared to be having some more ;ic problems, this time at Papeete, ce appeared in a Papeete newspaper ng all and sundry that the yacht accepted no responsibility for any which might be incurred by the %RLA MANUS, former New Guinea ry schooner, skippered by Bill 11, arrived in San Francisco ex lu on August 9. She is up for sale.

RTONA, 48-ft. Los Angeles yawl, wner-skipper Ernest Franken, wife, mghter and two crewmen, arrived lu mid-August and left again for ; mid-September.

IUTWARD BOUND.—Latest news ohn Caldwell and family was from les. They were headed then for and Gibraltar. From there they ; they might cross to the West They reported meeting the Irving is in Rhodes, Greece, with their ft. YANKEE—“aII push-buttons and They are doing a yearly tourist m the Mediterranean through the canals to Scandanavia and back, et in Rhodes were Sten and Brita hi who sailed around the world r VIKING some time back. They >w a VIKING 11, and they are in rist charter business in Greece.

Honolulu in September and due to to the South Pacific later were: 37 1 Francisco ketch BLUE STAR, kipper Ernest Wilson; STORM -42 ft. schooner from San Diego, kipper Willard Hungerford; FREE ', 34 ft. ketch of Newport, Cali which left for Tahiti on September ier-skipper is Ron Linderman. io in Honolulu in September, but for the US were REJOICE, of iarbara, WHITE SQUALL, 33 ft. f Auckland; TE MATAI. 73 ft. :-Tahiti. iJERA, 30 ft. Tahiti ketch arrived lulu from San Diego on September pper-owner Fredrickson plans on in Hawaii till next April before g to Papeete.

HITI left Rarotonga end of July arly a year there, sailing to Tahiti, bis stay in the Cooks owner Lorin tiade two trips to Suwarrow with leil, the so-called Hermit of w.

HUA, completely recovered from ive damage at Rarotonga, sailed taki in August, planning to head i Pago then westward.

NIS, with single - hander Anton reached Honiara in August en New Guinea.

ERDEEN ANZAC, up for sale in month, and given in “PIM” as ft. is, according to a Rarotonga ?5 ft. with a beam of 19 ft. and 9 ft. “PIM”s” figure, says a fa correspondent, caused some con hen ABERDEEN ANZAC anchored the pass at Avatiu Harbour, and for a while could decide who she

was. ANZAC left Southern England last November on what was to be a five months’ voyage, but there was a three months’ delay when she struck a gale in the Bay of Biscay. • MARGARET, 26-ft. Auckland cutter, reported overdue for a time in July while on passage from Auckland to Papeete, be came a total loss on Mitiaro (Southern Cooks) on September 20. Yachtsmen B. G.

White, R. Sutton, and T. Young got safely ashore. • TAHOE returned to Rarotonga early in September after a five weeks cruise to Bora Bora, Moorea and Tahiti. With owner Reg Blake and crew member Brian Crawford was another Australian. They planned to head westward to Australia in a couple of weeks. First port will probably

be Nukualofa, and thence to Suva. • BEN GUNN and SI YI PAMBILI (Let Us Go Forward) arrived Rarotonga within two days of each other in September. Both will probably go to NZ via Tonga and Fiji, but for BEN GUNN this depends to some extent whether owner Hank Horn gets his motor going. This gave up the ghost in Bora Bora and the lack of it caused Hank some anxious moments when his anchor dragged soon after arrival in Rarotonga and had BEN GUNN bumping on the coral with a fresh easterly breeze blowing. These two boats have been more or less keeping company since the West Indies and are contemplating a rendezvous in Durban, South Africa, with Hiscock, of WANDERER 111 in 18 months time. With owners Roger and Bill Baker on PAMBILI now is a Canadian, A 1 Schofield, en route to NZ.

Pacific Report

pp. 119-148

The month’s round-up of news and pictures of people and /ents, from PIM correspondents in the South Pacific.

:ial Visit to

Pacific War Graves

igadier A. E. Brown, Secretar ial and Director of the monwealth War Graves Com ion, visited Fiji and other d territories on an Ansett g-boat cruise in August, i said at Suva that he had 2d New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, ;em Samoa and Tahiti to in ti war graves. 1 Suva the war graves are in y good condition, largely be e of the personal care of Mr.

VI. Sellars”, Brigadier Brown *. Sellars acts as agent for the nission in Fiji. lere are 74 war graves at Suva, ily of New Zealanders, and 2 are some of United Kingdom cemen.

Bourail, New Caledonia, about miles from Noumea, there is a tiful war cemetery, Brigadier m said. ie cemetery is on the site the quarters of the 3rd New md Division used when pre ig for operations in the mons. ie graves of 343 New Zealanders i in that campaign are con rated at Bourail, and the orial contains the names of nen who have no known grave, so in the Bourail Cemetery are graves of two senior United :dom officers who were attached ie United States forces.

Western Samoa there are 23 ss of New Zealanders killed i the NZ forces took that island the Germans in 1914, or who during the subsequent occupa e New Zealand community in ;ern Samoa, led by Mr. stian, Director of Lands and eys, tends the graves.

Tonga there are three war 2S —two of New Zealanders and of an Australian, igadier Brown said there were var graves in Tahiti—five of ed Kingdom sailors, seven ralian sailors and seven New md soldiers and sailors. )se by the soldiers’ section of

the cemetery at Papeete are the graves of five British soldiers who died while resident in Tahiti early in the century.

The headquarters of the com mission is in London, but Brigadier Brown spends about seven months a year operating from Melbourne.

Coral Route Farewells

TEAL's Last Flying-Boat

There were farewell celebrations all along TEAL’s Coral Route in September as the company’s last flying-boat made its last Coral Route flight.

One of the passengers was Mr.

H. K. Ford, who was TEAL’s technical liaison officer stationed in the UK and who took delivery of the aircraft from the makers, Short Brothers, in 1948.

At Papeete the aircraft was farewelled by the Mayor, Mr. Alfred Poroi, on behalf of that city which

has been well served by TEAL in post-war years. Captain Joe Shephard was presented with a carved wooden spear.

At Aitutaki, TEAL’S fuelling and catering staff provided another send-off on the home run.

At Apia, the Samoan Minister of Civil Aviation, Mr. O. Nelson, entertained the crew at a cocktail party which was also attended by the High Commissioner, Mr. J. B, Wright, and by members of Parlia-

The Australian destroyers HMAS "Tobruk" and HMAS "Anzac" only just returned from a flag showing tour of the South Pacific, including New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, found themselves further in the limelight in September—although they would sooner have not They were exercising off the Australian coast when "Tobruk" (photographed above in m Lae NG, during her tour) got in the way of a practice shell fired by "Anzac" (through no fault of her own Tobruk insisted).

The shell went through her hull and a great deal of the ocean came in with it resulting in a hasty evacuation of the engine room before everything could be got under control. "Tobruk" a day or two later, went into reserve, which is what the Navy had planned to do with her before the accident anyhow.

Photo: Pat Robertson.

ment and business heads. Mrs.

Aggie Gray also arranged a farewell party at her hotel, where TEAL flight crews have been accommodated smce the service commenced.

The final departure from Suva ££ A £ UC^ nd -^ lth a full load of TEAL staff and members of their families—was delayed for two days beyond the scheduled date of September 12 due to bad weather at Auckland. For two mornings in succession people assembled at Laucala Bay to bid the aircraft

gO SS' „ ,

When it finally left on September 14 its certificate of airworthiness

had just 24 hours to go before expiry.

Captain Shephard and his crew were escorted from the terminal building at Laucala Bay to the landing pontoon by the band of the RNZAF, playing Auld Lang Syne, followed by Poor Old Joe and Now is the Hour!

Suva’s Mayor, Cr. C. A. Stinson presented to Mr. Ford (for TEAL)’ a gift from the City of Suva—a writing set.

In acknowledging this, Mr Ford read a message from Sir Leonard Isitt, chairman of directors of TEAL, thanking the people of Suva

for the hospitality shown to tli airline’s flight crews during tli years that the flying-boats ha been based at Laucala Bay. Populs Captain Shephard also had some thing to say on behalf of the flyir staff.

For RNZAF, Pilot Oflicer G. i Danvers presented Captai Shephard with an 11 ft paying-o pennant which had been made t the RNZAF.

That job completed, Captai Shephard was then placed und« arrest by the RNZAF and parade before the Commanding Oflicer < the station, Group Captain A. A. I Breckon. He was charged with series of “offences”, found guilt and his aircraft was ordered to I forever banished from Fiji. Thei were, however, extenuating circum stances admitted—the good relatior that have always existed betwee the RNZAF and TEAL—who ha* used RNZAF facilities at Laucal Bay.

The aircraft, flying the specis paying-off pennant, and decorate with skull-and-crossbones an other decorations added by RNZA personnel, and escorted by RNZA launches, taxied out.

It took off at 8.40 a.m., made circuit of Suva before headin south. It landed in Auckland £ 3.55 p.m. after a couple of gran circuits over that city.

Though TEAL’s last flying-boe has gone, not all the flying-boats ii the South Pacific have disappeared By chance Aranui lay side by sid with an Ansett air-cruise flying boat from Sydney at Aitutaki dur ing her last Coral Route run.

At Tahiti RAI operates Bermuda flying-boat which wa formerly owned by Sir Gordon Taylor, and a Catalina, in its locs inter-island services.

Fiji Airways has a smalle amphibious Drover on regular locs routes, and there are other similaf craft operating in New Guinea Ansett still operates a regula* scheduled Sandringham service t: Lord Howe Island.

In the North Pacific, Trans Oceai Airways provides a schedule* Grumman Albatross service througl the American Trust Territory o Micronesia from Guam.

But the TEAL Coral Route flying: boat service was the only remaininp scheduled commercial Internationa; service operating between differen territories in the Pacific Island area. (See “End of an Era”, page 83)

NNG Wants A

DC3 Substitute, Too

Netherlands New Guinea is stil looking around for a replacement for the DCS work horse, and is haV-' ing no more success than its friend'l on the other side of the border.

“What we are looking for ifi really something in the nature oic

ive legged sheep,” explained r’s director of Transport and sr, Dr. N. W. Schregardus, just re leaving NNG in September • 10 years service there. . Schregardus said that the de Hand Caribou was an aircraft hie for short fields although squired a special take-off and ing technique. This technique, aid, involved a slight risk, but Civil Aviation authorities were ared to grant approval for its The Caribou would need to a smaller aircraft working in motion with it—and this would imably be the Beaver, . Schregardus said the Fokker rdship could have advantages the Caribou in regard to main nce, speed, and ceiling and at mt the pros and cons of the types were being weighed. He d that KLM intended to send expert to NNG, probably in ber, to discuss with the Gov lent local air transport needs, this visit should facilitate the tion of a substitute for the

:h Labour Wants

rnationalisation of NNG

e Dutch Government’s largest sition, the Labour Party, in ember called for the granting ndependence to Netherlands Guinea as soon as possible, advocated “internationalisation” he area under the United ms. a manifesto the Labour Party Dutch New Guinea was a heavy, less burden on HoHand.

It was not Holland’s job to the area as a bulwark against tnunism.

Holland was militarily incapable ffending the area.

Military security of West

New Guinea rested on an Indo nesian assurance to Australia and the United States that it would not attack New Guinea.

“Disregarding this assurance is not only an expression of distrust in Indonesia, but also an expression of distrust in Australia and the United States and this is politically stupid,” the manifesto said.

The manifesto contained a section on co-operation with Australia.

Australia had always viewed such co-operation (in New Guinea) as “a matter of extremely minor import ance, and rightly so from the Aus tralian viewpoint”, it said.

“Australia has refused to accept both the political and the military

consequences of co-operation with Holland, “Holland cannot let its policy be determined by Australian require ments either.

“Co-operation with Australia must be reserved for those—very limited and subsidiary—areas where it is possible.

“The great lines of Holland’s policy towards New Guinea must be de termined by Holland’s interests in Europe and in the world and by the interests of the Dutch New Guinea population.”

In the Australian Parliament on September 23, Mr. E. J. Ward, a former Labour Minister for the Territories, asked Prime Minister

Dr. N. Schregardus.

Menzies a series of questions on Netherlands New Guinea.

The questions and answers were: Had the Government of Holland announced a target date when it proposed to end its occupation of West New Guinea and hand over control to the native inhabitants?— No.

Had the Australian Government declared itself in favour of the eventual decision as to the future political control of New Guinea be ing made by the residents of that country functioning as a single unit?—No.

Are you able to say whether the Indonesian Government has de clared its intention to occupy West New Guinea, by force if necessary?

—The Indonesian Government has stated to the Australian Govern ment that it does not intend to re sort to force.

If so, if Indonesia attempts to occupy West New Guinea following the Dutch withdrawal, and before the New Guinea people have, acting as a single unit, being afforded the opportunity of deci d in g that country’s political future, is the Commonwealth Government com mitted to oppose by force this occupation?—The Government of the day would have the re sponsibility of deciding what action it would take in accordance with international law, the principles of the United Nations charter and the best interests of the people of New Guinea.

Govt. Plans for Fiji's

Cocoa Are Strict

To encourage the planting o cocoa until production is sufficien to warrant the establishment o processing facilities, the Fiji Gov eminent is paying lid for each rip€ healthy pod produced, a Suva correi spondent reported in September.

These pods are being used as see( for further plantings and for tria fermentation to gather informatioi on the preparation of raw cocos under Fiji conditions. The Depart ment of Agriculture is sending samples of raw cocoa to varioui overseas manufacturers for com ment.

When production has reached th« level where fermentaries an warranted, these will be licensed anc numbered so that control can be kept on quality. All export cocoa will be identified with its fermentary.

The Government has undertaker to establish fermentaries in areas where a minimum of about 6,000 pods are being harvested, and these will handle the crop until growers have obtained the experience to dc the job properly. When that stage is reached growers will be able tc establish their own co-operative fermentaries.

Even then the Government will continue to handle the overseas marketing of the crop for some time and will buy wet cocoa beans from these fermentaries, the price being governed by the world price less costs.

Fiji Ginger Goes To

North America

The largest consignment of fresh ginger roots to leave Fiji for North America about 13 tons was shipped from Suva in mid- September in the Matson linen Mariposa.

The crates were shipped by Fiji

t Agency Limited. The man- Mr. Alex E. Muir, said that )mpany had been building up *ade over the past year against competition from Hawaii, asa (where production costs than counterbalanced the ir distance from the market) ’anama. Only the best quality r had a hope of competing— he company had proved that ould produce it if enough care taken in preparing and clean ;he roots and rejecting the sized. the ginger being exported from the vicinity of Suva— vua, Nasinu, and Sawani — bout one-third of the delivered : had to be rejected as under eptable ginger could only be l in this area in August, Sep ir and October. One of the problems was shipping con •ns during this seasonal I.

P & O and Orient Line has d about the only connection Vancouver, the best market.

September Matson voyage was bed as a flag-showing visit to ncouver know that these ships vailable on the trans-Pacific ’ inducement is offered, ile Fiji ginger enters Canada preferential tariff, there is a 'ate protective tariff against it i United States. A good quality ct, however, can still compete there. pment from Fiji is in standard ta crates which contain about of ginger.

itter Deal

fin Can Island

ga’s volcanic northwestern outlier, Niuafo’ou—Tin Can I —may soon have some public es restored, island was evacuated in 1946 result of a severe volcanic on, and the people were re i on Eua, south-east of itapu. A majority of them never very happy there r er, and wished to be allowed ;urn home. 5r 1950 the Tonga Govern permitted teams of copra

workers to spend periods at the island and the numbers pro gressively increased.

In 1958, in response to further requests, about 200 people were per mitted to return as family groups, but as the government was financ ing the Eua resettlement scheme the move was not looked on with any marked approval and it was made clear that the Niuafo’ou people would largely have to fend for themselves, in the matter of providing such services as radio communications, medical services, etc.

The Government has now agreed to provide such services on the basis that the Evacuation Committee aid to the Eua settlement will cease to apply.

The people at Niuafo’ou have now re-established settlements at the five former villages of ’Esia, Kolofo’ou, Sapa’ata, Angaha, and Fata’ulua, and have imported two tractors for the transport of copra and the construction of new access roads over the lava fields.

The Tonga Copra Board has agreed to establish a trade store and to erect a copra bulk store, and will look into the possibility of facilities at the island.

All in all, it now appears that — sparing another eruption—there are better times ahead for Niuafo’ou.

"No Holdups" at Pago Pago

Fish Cannery

The Van Camp tuna cannery at Pago Pago, American Samoa, is operating normally and has not experienced any difficulties in obtaining supplies of fish from Japanese vessels.

This was stated from Pago Pago in September, when rumours that the cannery had ceased operations and that Van Camps were pulling out were refuted.

A Pago Pago correspondent says that there was a period when supplies of fish were slow in com ing forward, but this was due to natural causes. The 400-odd em ployees—who draw about SUS4OO,OOO annually in wages—have been normally employed, and in mid- September four additional fishing vessels were on the way from Japan to join the fleet.

Drowning Tragedy

In Norfolk Tank

Barry Wayne Sanders, aged 1 year and 11 months, the son of Norfolk Island’s Mr. & Mrs. W.

Sanders, was accidentally drowned in an underground water tank on Norfolk Island in September. The cover of the tank had been damaged by a horse only two days before. At the inquest, the coroner, Mr. H. J. Powell, issued a warning to residents of the dangers of un covered wells and underground tanks on Norfolk. (Over)

Fiji's big ginger consignment ready to leave Suva in September.

ihiki Is Alright

Flying-Boats

3 Cook Islands northern atoll anihiki now has a flying-boat ing—a locally made one—and •ea of the lagoon marked out safe landing area for RNZAF srlands. ; survey was the result of the tion of the New Zealand *nment to make an experi il transfer of mother-of-pearl *s from Manihiki to one of the au atolls north of Samoa next May. no up-to-date chart of aiki lagoon exists it was sary for the RNZAF to send Dfficer from Fiji, Flight mant J. F. Harrison, to look ituation over before despatch fiying-boat. He was flown to iki at the end of May to ct with the local vessel Dobiri, I also had aboard the Cook is Fisheries Officer Mr. Ron 1, and a research team from Department of Scientific industrial Research, to make )rough survey of the lagoon rt of a programme of mother irl shell conservation.

August Flight Lieutenant son captained a Sunderland nihiki via Satapuala (Western a) and made history—so far known—by making the first -boat landing on this lagoon, ortunately the best landing is in the north corner of the i somewhat distant from the settlement of Tauhunu, but to the other village of Tukou, other islet. ire is not likely to be much -boat traffic into Manihiki but II be useful to know that a >le landing is available for :encies. i flying-boat remained on the for only about an hour and i up the DSIR party which completed a very full survey 3 oyster resources.

\i Has a British Consul—

Not in Tahiti

ce the British Consulate in ite was closed down last year— rederick Devenish was the last nt consul— PlM has made il inquiries to discover who >ents British interests in h Polynesia. now learn that in April this Mr. T. R. Cowell, of the South c Office of the Fiji Govern- Secretariat, was named to this -with office in Suva.

British Consul for French esia Mr. Cowell is responsible ly to the British Foreign . He will pay occasional visits ipeete, but up to the end of mber his credentials had still 3 officially accepted by the h Foreign Office in Paris, so

he has so far made no such visits.

Quite separate from this Consular position, Mr. Cowell is at present the United Kingdom Commissioner on the South Pacific Commission, and he represents the Governor of Fiji in the latter’s functions as Governor of the Pitcairn Islands Group, Chief Commissioner for the Kingdom of Tonga, Consul-General for the Western Pacific, and Consul- General for the islands under United States Sovereignty in the South Pacific.

Mr. Cowell was attached to the Western Pacific High Commission staff from 1941 to 1958 when he was seconded to the South Pacific Office of the Fiji Secretariat. Officially he is an Administrative Officer, Class I.

Education Director Doesn't

Like the Word 'Scandal'

Christian missions had made a “magnificent contribution” to native education in P-NG, the Director of Education, Mr. G. T. Roscoe, said in September. “If it had not been for the missions our education effort would have been much less than it is,” he said. “But I certainly would not use the word ‘scandal’.”

Mr. Roscoe was replying to the Anglican Bishop of Grafton, New South Wales, the Right Reverend K, J. Clements, who told the Seventeenth Synod of the diocese of Grafton that without the missions Australia’s education record in the Territory would be a “scandal”. (Over)

claimed that of the 200,000 e children receiving education lustralian Government provided ess than one-ninth. The rest educated solely by missions, his reply, Mr. Roscoe said that >t 20,000 native children were ig either primary, post primary :ondary education in Territory rnment schools. recognised and registered Dn schools the number was ly more than 55,000. )ther 110,000 children were be iducated in “exempt” mission Is—schools which the Admin ion did not consider good ;h to be given aid grants, my of the teachers in these ot schools are not trained and are not even literate,” Mr. ie said. “Sometimes the number pils per teacher is so great the en cannot possibly be taught ively. ie of the Administration’s ;ives in its universal education is to raise the standards of schools to the point where can receive Government aid.”

Pic Will See Luxury

s on First Voyage

h O-Orient Line’s two new iger liners, the 40,000-ton a and 45,000-ton Canberra, both ig completion in the UK, are uled to depart on their maiden es within six months of each and both will be seen in the c. Oriana, which will begin its in late October, will make her n voyage from Southampton Iney on December 3. will make a short cruise in ’acific before she sails again Sydney to NZ, Suva, Honolulu ie west coast of North America, ling via the same route, Canberra is expected to leave ampton for Sydney next June, j via NZ and the Pacific is for Canada and the USA, dng the same way. ma’s maiden voyage will last er 3 h months, and Canberra’s ike just under three months.

A Luxury New South

Pacific Vessel, Too

The new addition to the Aus tralia-West Pacific Line fleet, MV Samos, is due in Sydney on her maiden voyage about October 19,

but New Guinea residents will not be seeing her until December.

This very modern-looking 7,820 tons dw vessel was delivered from her builders in Denmark on August 16 and is beginning her Australia- SW Pacific-Far East service from the Australian end (departing Mel bourne, October 17).

Her first south-bound voyage out of Japan will commence on Novem ber 11, from Yokkaichi and there after other Japanese ports to Hongkong, Sandakan, Madang, Rabaul, Lae, Honiara, Vanikoro, Santo, Vila and Australian ports.

The latest navigational and cargo-handling aids have been fitted to the new ship which will carry general and refrigerated cargo.

There is luxury accommodation for 12 passengers in three double cabins and six single cabins, and a large dining saloon, smoking room, swimming pool, bar and Turkish bath. All accommodation is air conditioned.

A sister ship to Samos is cur rently being built in Japanese yards and was christened Tanos there on September 21 by Mrs. von Gelsing,

[?]s "Canberra", now being fitted out in readiness for her maiden voyage, when she will be seen in the Pacific.

Australia-West Pacific Line's new MV "Samos", to be seen in Sydney in late October on her maiden voyage. For the passengers there is every luxury, including a Turkish bath. Decor is modern, as this view of the lounge shows.

sister of Mr. Folke Hlllerst managing director and owner of company.

Tanos is expected to be delivt from the Japanese ship \ towards the end of January, I and then join Milos, Delos, A Citos and Samos on the reg Australia-West Pacific-Far ] service.

The addition of two new ves of this type to the company’s i indicates the firm faith of owners in the future of this ti route.

Increased tonnage available to Line has allowed them to introc a new service to New Gu ; shippers—that is, calls at cer ports on the northbound voyagi well as southbound.

Delos will start this new ser with her October departure f Australian ports by calling at and Rabaul as well as Manila the way to Hongkong and Japa

Gaol for Attacking

A NG Missionary

In Rabaul, NG, in Septembe: native was gaoled for nine moi for attacking a Roman Gath missionary with a grass sickle.

Mr. Justice Brennan dismissed native’s claim of provocat although he found the missior had hit the native first.

He said that in denying he “laid hand” on the native he lieved the missionary’s recoiled had been “faulty”.

The native, Aliengu, appeared fore Mr. Justice Brennan in Rat Supreme Court charged with ha\ caused grievous bodily harm Brother Theodore Koenig, of Vui pope Mission. Aliengu had plea not guilty.

Tonga Will Replace

Its Radio Equipment

Tonga is in the final stages; establishing a broadcasting stat at Nukualofa, and last month it ’ announced that certain new rs facilities were being established!

Tongatapu as aids to aviation. I there is an announcement that the equipment at the Nukual radio communications station, wh maintains inter-island, shippi: and overseas contacts is to be placed, making this station “one the finest of its type in the Sot Pacific”. Total cost of new equ ment is estimated at £48,000.

Unusual Hospital Ship

Crosses Pacific

One of the most unusual sh of her size ever to put to sea, privately owned hospital ship He of about 11,000 tons displacenMj left San Francisco on September! bound for Indonesia. Late in S>: tember it was not known wheti

lip would be calling at any Pacific ports en-route. ormer United States Govern hospital ship which had been balled” since World War 11, issel takes her new name from ogan: Health Opportunity for ; Everywhere. ipletely modernised for her ask of providing medical as ce and medical training in the -developed countries of Asia, ip is being financed by private is and organisations in the i States and is manned by an ly volunteer medical staff, has accommodation for 250 its, three operating rooms and ternity delivery room, dental is, a pharmacy, student teach ’acilities including a movie e and a supply of films on al and public health subjects, closed TV system making it le for large numbers of its in a lecture room to >s close-range views of surgical ions taking place in the ship’s ing theatres.

orms A

I Association

Fiji Naval Association was d in September at the in on of members of the former .oyal Naval Volunteer Reserve was disbanded by the Gov *it last year due to lack of e. Membership is offered to all ex-naval servicemen, eering committee consisting of s. N. McKenzie, Vil a m e na, A. Osborne, T. Morel, tie Qaranivalu, Saimone Isireli, >lin, and J. H. Gale was formed i member has offered a site le building of a clubhouse as as finances are available, while functions will be held in halls.

He'll Fight for Citizenship

°f NG's Euronesians

Visiting Australia in September was Mr. W. T. Thomas, prominent New Guinea planter, planning a new assault on the regulations which are preventing Australian naturalisation of any New Guinea halfcaste people.

Mr. Thomas hoped to arrange an interview with the Minister for Territories, Mr. Hasluck, on the chance that “on his home ground perhaps the Minister will give a frank appraisal of the situation”.

But whatever happens, Mr.

Thomas has the blessings of Kokopo Town Advisory Council and of the 300 or so self-styled Euronesians

XdTacl po p pu t iat l on abaul ' Kokopo

S' MM

people, feel that the time has come when naturalisation should be available for mixed race people who meet the requirements of worth while citizens.

The Apex Club of Rabaul has also taken up the cause and has already held discussions with Mr. Hasluck.

New Guinea people who have dis cussed the matter with Mr. Hasluck feel that he is sympathetic to the suggestion, but is powerless to do much at present in the face of existing immigration laws.

Greatest attention recently has been focused on Mr. Harry Spanner, of Kokopo, a Roman

? ol tV^ 10 u n nsucc r esffuiiT°sintfe ! to obtain naturalisation. f the Euronesians do not get t their loyalty is requesting ■y. they may become embittered ver,” Spanner has warned ie Administrator of Papua-New nea Brigadier p M. Cleland sated recently that he was not happy about the individual light which the Spanner case been receiving. ’or goodness sake fight the case behalf of the people, not on ilf of one man,” he said. le of the main reasons, how- , which has triggered the offer Mr. Thomas to discuss the ect in Australia is a renewed sal to naturalise Harry Spanner. id Mr. Thomas: “This latest sal is not very satisfactory to me, and I want to do what el to help .

fpnrlpr fnr Amorlran

icimer lur Hmeritan

103 Governorship?

iptember Lember of the Hawaii State ature, would probably be a mder for the Governorship of rican Samoa “if the post falls it” as the result of the Preitial Election in November. A ler of Mr. Trask, Mr. “Barney” k, is living in Samoa at present,

No Second Nadi Hotel

An application for a licence to build an additional hotel at Nadi Airport, made by South Pacific Hostings Limited, was refused by the licensing authority in September.

Grounds for refusal were that the hotel plans, as submitted were deficient in' certain ™splcts. If these deflciences are corrected the application would again be considered.

South Pacific Hostings is the organisation provi d i n g catering facilities for the airlines and airport staff. They are at present also operating a licensed overnight accommodation house 21 miles from the airport and known as the Skylodge. This establishment was formerly the staff quarters for the personnel of the firm building the new airport.

The application for the permit to erect the proposed hotel was opposed by Mr. Barry Philp, * 3 ... , . •

Public Service Commission

Now For Fill

I Fiji now has a Public Service Commission, though with very limited functions and powers.

?t w°m e^fv en h state ‘ cerned within COn ‘ in respectpoststo the cmlkay vice have a Se nf more than £750 ner annumTwS not be advlS' in th e p««. nf m tne magistrates and Wher nSf in ih. a,.an higher

mSe The ps"ce F?rcf S

a P Servfce Commissfon of ™n commission of its The main purpose of setting up the Commission is to afford the Government independent and im- Partial advice on the selection and appointment of local candidates for Government employment, according to the statement. The Commission is not concerned with rates of pay or other conditions of service, though if these should make re cruitment difficult the Commission could invite the attention of the Governor to the fact, Qrder-in-Council governing

SefmayYl “tafoTv*

official or unofficial, may be a member T* l " member s named for immedi ate appointment are Mr. C. S. de D.

Reay, chairman; Mr. W. E. Donovan, Mr. J. B. Takala, and Dr. Dharam Singh.

me "Harbour"

provements at Pitcairn Is.

,lght from the day when Fletcher •istlan deliberately ran the .nty aground at Pitcairn Island, ling there has been difficult at last work is in hand make it a little less dangerous the islanders to land their ileboats at what they describe as “harbour” at Bounty Bay. tor Rex Cobbin, Seventh-day entist missionary, stationed on airn, wrote thus from there on ust 31: is expected that improvements under way in Bounty Bay will :e it safer for the island boats oad and unload their cargo, to ;e their way through the surf the entrance to the landing, prevent their receiving such :h treatment at low tide, when are continually bumped and ped on the rocky bottom. ) begin the operations, the ernment in Fiji sent over an osives expert, Mr. Bradnam, he, with the assistance of 17 le island men, is removing rocks lear the bottom and edges of harbour. Many of the rocks far too big for the men to lie, and these are being blasted of the way with dynamite. Mr.

Inam is also endeavouring to en the harbour by blasting ; of the rocky shelves on the )m. iis work has created so much ■est among the islanders that rder not to miss a single blast, y of them spend practically the e day at the edge of the cliffs hing the progress being made.

Imes the water and rocks have blown as high as the island, h is upwards of 1,000 feet, and action is worth seeing, e men working on the our avoid injury from the )sions by running up the cliff before the charges are due ) off. complete the improvements, Government plans later to 1 a breakwater near the ince,

a Looks Into

Future

e of Suva’s principal tourist failings is lack of a con nt bathing beach. That may be ually corrected under a plan before the Suva City Council itly. The plan covers the whole fronting Victoria Parade, from )ost office to the Grand Pacific I. and work is already going d at the post office end. e “bay” between the new post ‘ building at the rear of the

P° the Cable and Wireless building is being filled in.

A single-track roadway arcs into “7* Victoria Parade the fire sta u t I lon *9 rm ar6a capab l e taking

» “SS ■? ort Jj" bound

buses wfll use it. This bus bay was taking shape in early October.

To seaward of it will be a garden area, and beyond the Cable and Wireless building a civic centre will be developed, and from there on to the Grand Pacific Hotel past the old Boys’ Grammar School will be reserved as “general commercial” area, with provision for future luxury hotels. These would have to be set on reclaimed land leaving a broad area on the Victoria Parade

side for development as a future boulevard Beyond the GPH towards the en trance to Government HoSfe a further reclaimed area would be come a sports area, with tennis courts, bowling green, and football and cricket grounds, a possible artificially built beach —like many such beaches at over seas tourist resorts—would be de veloped to seaward of the Grand Pacific Hotel.

The proposed boulevard, 120 ft wide, would extend across the Nubukalou Creek near its entrance by the Harbour Master’s office to junction with Harris Road, the new road along the rear of the wharf area.

lohn Dutch's

well To New Hebrides

2 High Commissioner for the 3rn Pacific, Sir John Gutch, Lady Gutch, paid a farewell to the New Hebrides in >er, prior to Sir John s retire . (Mr. David Trench has been nted new HCWP.) John and Lady Gutch travelled le New Hebrides aboard the : Queen, which also took Mr. n Amery and his party to the Hebrides en route to Fiji. 3 High Commissioner was met Mr. J. S. Rennie, British [ent Commissioner in the New ides, who returned to Vila in smber after long leave in Eng . Rennie expected to accompany ohn Gutch to Noumea later in ier to attend the 21st session le South Pacific Commission.

ja's Deputy Premier

res After Long Service

;er 37 years unbroken service le Tongan Crown, the Hon. a Tuihaateiho has retired as a’s Deputy Premier, has been in poor health since eturned to Tonga early this from attending a course in amentary Practice and Pro :e at Westminster, London, and low live in his estate on Tonga e Hon. Havea Tuihaateiho first d the Tonga civil service in 1923 i assistant clerk in the Premier’s B.Later he was Governor of ,u and of Haapai. He was inted Minister of Lands in 1946, held the portfolio of Minister of j;s, together with that of Deputy lier, when he retired.

Latest On the NH

Volcanic Front

The flow of lava from New Hebrides’ Lopevi volcano, which erupted violently on July 10, re sulting in evacuation of the island, had ceased at the beginning of Sep tember when the British geologist, Dr. C. E. Williams, visited it. How ever, occasional puffs of steam came from some of the many craters.

Later in September Mt. Marum the large volcano on Ambrym be came more active, and there was some excitement when thick ash showers started, accompanied by earth tremors.

The last major eruption of Mt.

Marum occurred in 1951. There are two main craters and it is thought possible in Vila that a third crater may be developing as a result of the recent activity.

NNG On the Way In

Training Own Doctors

From 25 to 30 native doctors should be practising independently in Netherlands New Guinea by 1970, according to Dr. G. Hoekstra, NNG’s Director of Public Health, speaking in Hollandia.

He said many of these will be trained at a new medical centre shortly to be established in Hollandia.

The new centre will be financed by the European Economic Com munity Development Fund, and the main building will have three floors.

Others will probably receive training at a medical school to be established in Port Moresby.

New Caledonia Celebrates

With a Big Week

New Caledonia celebrated the 107th commemoration of France’s occupation of the island with more than usual gusto this year.

A new committee headed by Mr.

Numa Daly, Australian educated head of one of Noumea’s biggest import houses, was mainly respon sible for injecting the “gusto”.

Various fixtures extending over a week were held, terminating in a monster carnival on September 24, the commemoration day.

No French fete is complete with out a military review and this year

v. J. E. and Mrs. Owen left Vila, New [?]s, for Australia in September after six with the Presbyterian Church there. A [?]wd farewelled them. Before their de they saw the formal opening of Vila's [?]urch hall, named Owen Hall in apprecia their work in the community. The new [?]as erected in about four weeks on the [?] the former Raton Memorial Church, was wrecked in the 1959 hurricane. The [?]g was erected by Braybook Homes, of [?]e, who also supplied the pre-cut staff [?]s recently erected in Vila for the Condo [?]m Government and British Residency.

Photo: Reece Discombe.

Governor Pech o u x , Admiral Martinet and General Appert re viewed the island’s might in one of the main streets.

Whilst Lancasters flew overhead and jeeps and motorised artillery rushed by, General Appert decora ted some of the troops, one of them a New Caledonian, Yves Demene who was cited for gallant conduct in Algerian operations last year.

Demene was awarded the Croix de Valeur Militaire. He was wounded in the operation for which he was cited.

Some 6,000 people crowded into Noumea’s sports arena in the after noon to witness the huge carnival.

Heading the list of attractions was a troupe of Australian artists,

jugglers, acrobats and clowns.

The troupe was a huge success and seemingly enjoyed pleasing the crowd as much as the crowd en joyed watching.

Young native dancers and Wallisian men and women dancers also performed. Various sporting demonstrations were presented in cluding two “Go Karts”.

Young native collegians demon strated the throwing of the javelin, showing the inherited traits of their spear throwing ancestors. (With proper training New Caledonia might have some Olympic talent in that direction).

A concours d’elegance brought out some of Noumea’s finest cars, prettiest dresses and loveliest

women. The judges had ahj time of it and there was very lii difference between the winner a her rivals.

Some 12 lovely dames a demoiselles took part in 1 concours. The Japanese wife of engineer of the nickel smelt received great applause when j appeared in her kimono. The c of the group of contestants madt great impression on the tourists a one New Zealander confessed tc PIM correspondent that th could not be another island in 1 world which could boast so ma lovely women.

The carnival continued late u the night and was judged as be; Noumea’s greatest ever.

Has Tom Shot

The Rogue Croc.?

Professional shooter Tom Cole September trapped and killed a feet crocodile believed to have be responsible for four attacks natives in Marshall Lagoon, soi east of Port Moresby.

Cole trapped the rogue crococ near the grave of one of its victii A huge mesh net was set m the mouth of a small river flowi into the lagoon, after natives h seen a crocodile swimming ther The natives believed it was ti ing to reach the river bank grs of a native woman dragged fn a canoe by the crocodile in July.

Said Cole in Port Morest “It’s hard to say whether or r the croc, was the one I was afte “The last attack occurred t long ago for analysis of the cc tents of its stomach to show ar thing.

“However the natives of the an are convinced it was the o causing all the trouble.”

Cole, who now runs a smi nlantation at Banz in New Guine: Western Highlands, is regarded one of the territory’s foreme authorities on crocodiles. He is expert shot who has export thousands of hides to overse markets.

He was hired by the Administn tion to go to Marshall Lagoon aft a series of attacks on native wome At least two were killed and seriously injured.

Most were attacked aboard canc and all were believed victims the same beast.

The crocodile’s skin will 1 treated and presented to the Papui New Guinea Museum in Pc; Moresby.

What Mr. Menzies Told

UNO About P NG

The Australian Prime Minist© Mr. R. G. Menzies, addressed tL United Nations in New York 3 October. Among other thing he answered criticism by Ms Khrushchev of Australia’s role I

New Guinea. Mr. Khrushchev lied on Australia to give im e full independence and self ment to the Territory, is Mr. Menzies’ reply, taken le official text of his address: a piece of rhetoric LMr. ichev’s call] no doubt has its But it exhibits a disturbing )f knowledge of these terri and of the present stage of levelopment. ody who knows anything these territories and their ious people could doubt for lent that for us in Australia andon our responsibilities ith would be an almost il act. e is a country which not so ?o was to a real extent in a f savagery. It passed through ist gruesome experiences dur ; last war. It came out of it t organised administration i a sense, without hope. It is lation in the accepted term, people have no real structure aciation except through our stration. Its groups are i among mountains, forests, and swamps. It is estimated here are no less than 200 it languages. i work to be done to create ster a sense and organism of

community is therefore enormous.

But with a high sense of responsibility, Australia has attacked its human task in this almost unique area. Since the war some form of civilised order has been established over many thousands of square miles which were previously unexplored.

“We have built up an extensive admimstration service from nothing to a total of thousands of public servants, local members of the public service and administration indigenous employees.

“We have created five main ports

with modern equipment. We have built over 5,000 miles of road; con structed over 100 air-fields; estab lished and improved postal and tele-communications services. We built four large and modern base hospitals, 107 subsidiary hospitals and 12,000 aid posts and medical centres.

“There are in operation 778 in fant and welfare clinics. We have built from nothing, medical services that include 119 doctors, 347 trained nurses, 236 medical assistants, and thousands of native medical assist ants, medical orderlies and nurses.

“In a little more than a few yt we have established 4,100 set which are atended by 200,000 pui large stock stations have been es lished; and a great forestry indn founded. I could go on like

indefinitely.

“All this has been done in a years since the war. The achi ment has not been without cost, are a very strange colonial pc if I understand the sense in w that term is used. We have many more millions into Papua New Guinea than have ever c out or will ever come out. Like Netherlands, we regard ourselve having a duty to produce as sooi it is practicable an opportunity complete self-determination for people of Papua and New Guii; “We have established many J government Councils in ordei provide training in administra: and we have set up a Legist Council on which only the other we substantially increased the n ber of indigenous representatu “Mr. Khrushchev includes ui his diatribe against ‘foreign adr istrators who despise and loot local population’, I have shown exactly opposite to the truth th: in our case. His further extras anza about the ‘overseer’s lash’ the ‘executioner’s axe’ must re to areas with which he is n familiar than he is with 3 Guinea and Papua.

“I must say with complete cla that we do not need to be lecti on such matters by a man who no record whatever of ha 1 brought colonial people into free* and self-Government. We inc are proud to be in the Bn tradition of the 20th centurj tradition which has by sensible grees and enlightened adminisi tion brought the blessings of s Government and a seat in the Cc oils of the world to many for: colonies.” (See “Mr. Menzies at UNO”, page

Noumea Moves Towards

A Five-Day Week

Noumea is moving towards a f: day week. Most Governu services have already adopted it from September, together with I Caledonia’s only bank —the Ban!

Indo-China. Work starts ear: or finishes later to give ; Saturday free, and only a skele staff now operates the po: services on a Saturday.

Nevertheless Noumea’s five week poses a problem for pet; with children.

New Caledonian schools haw holiday on Thursday and work: the Saturday.

A correspondent reports that !

Australian system of a five school week has been under ( cussion, but this could meet w opposition from the church, Thursday is generally devoted 1 religious instruction of the childiJ

correspondent adds there is nee that a five-day week will the commercial section, will be hostile to closing on ays.

TNOTE : In late September decided that schools would en Saturday afternoons off, r ould work extra hours in ay afternoons to make up for st parents welcomed the new as it would enable them to earlier start in spending a nd in the country. Thursday a holiday.

‘acific Is

ig Together More

Pacific is getting smaller— ustralia knows it. Here are itest developments in her liaison.

RAAF Neptunes visited i in October for a fortnight’s

exercises with the US Navy. They flew via Fiji and Canton and will return via Samoa. 26 RAAF men, one RAF man and a RAN member made up the detachment which was the seventh RAAF reciprocal training exercise with the US Navy since 1957.

Two officers of the Indonesian army arrived in Australia in October to attend officer training courses in Australia. Their visit is part of a policy of making train ing facilities available to servicemen from neighbouring countries.

Australia’s Department of External Affairs announced in Sep tember that when Mrs. Kusuma Goonetilleke, of Ceylon, left Perth on September 8 on her way home to Ceylon she was the 3,000 th Colombo Plan trainee to have been helped by Australia.

The Royal New Zealand Navy cruiser Royalist will visit Australia for training exercises in November.

She will spend a fortnight off the Sydney-Jervis Bay areas. Royalist is under the command of a RAN officer, Captain H. D. Stevenson, who is on exchange duty with the

RNZN.

Talks on Australian

Coastline Survey

A new five year plan for the charting of Australia’s coastline and sea routes will be discussed in Canberra in October at a con ference called by the Department of the Navy and attended by Aus tralian civil authorities.

The first five year starting pro gramme of the RAN ends next year, and plans have to be made to cover the most urgent tasks for the next five years. To conduct a thorough modern survey of the entire coast line would take 25 years. (Over)

[?]S NEW BUILDING. One of the most [?]uildings in the British Solomons —and the one with the best view of Honiara Geological Department's new building, [?]ge above the town. It is partly air [?]ed and contains among other things [?]ical museum. The Solomon Islanders [?]equipment lined up here are some of [?]rtment's staff who formed an honour [?]r the official opening of the building by the Western Pacific High Com missioner, Sir John Gutch.

New Hebrides Airways

Is Still Airborne

New Hebrides Airways, which September still had not b e authorised to run regular servi was nevertheless making it pretty busy and proving what evi body suspected—that there is r for a small internal airline wit the New Hebrides.

In late August the airline’s ( aircraft, a Rapide, made a lam for the first time on Aniwa Isk in the southern New Hebrides, a 600-yd grass strip made enti by local people. The airline has i made possible the opening of Qi Hill, which was built by the Am cans as a wartime bomber field is of compacted coral.

Tanna Planter Bob Paul, with fellow Australian Paul Bur is a director of New Hebrides i ways, has been visiting central i northern islands, to invests other possible airstrip sites. He also been supervising construe! of an airstrip on the island Tongoa, in the Shepherd Grouj In late September the Rai made a mercy flight to south Per cost to bring back to Vila a member of the crew of the Nika\

Norfolk Has a Big

New Hotel

Norfolk Island opened its ] Hotel Paradise in October. ' hotel, at Kingston, looking aa the golf links to the swimrr beach at Emily Bay, with Nep and Phillip Islands in the ba ground, has been described loc; as the “most important adva yet made in the development tourism on Norfolk”, The new hotel accommodates and all the bedrooms have an oo view. The hotel features a parq dance floor. More extensions planned.

S. Pacific Commission's

Twenty-First Session

The 1960 Session (the 21st) the South Pacific Commisss commenced at the headquarter the Commission, Anse Vata B: Noumea, on October 13.

Commissioners representing i six member nations—namely, Unii Kingdom, United States, Austraj New Zealand, France and T Netherlands sitting in aa; ciation with members of t Research Council, will devote tl weeks to consideration of ma matters affecting the soc i a economic and medical welfare the South Pacific Colonies a; Territories.

Australia’s Senor Commi sioner. Mr. Dudley McCarta (who is an Assistant Secretary J

epartment of Territories, a) was elected chairman.

McCarthy said the native had been meeting in their ‘acific Conferences with in : confidence and ability to themselves. The SPC was jsition to provide the help ific peoples needed and in ting decade would be found t and greatest chance to he Pacific future, ilia would play its part and ot be found wanting in pur ithusiasm or finance. The an Government realised •motion of the welfare of the •copies could only be realised r as the aims were identical lose of the people them

itives To Be

d as Officers

5 soldiers of the Pacific i s Regiment. Papua-New > military force, are to be for appointment as officers, ed native PIR members will a 12-month course at the Cadet School, Portsea, Yie ld will be commissioned as ieutenants. They will be the v Guinea natives to be com ;d as officers in the Aus- Army. jsent all officers of the PIR opean, although natives fill imissioned ranks, ilbourne, in September, the president of the Returned League, Sir George Holland,

and a former Chief of the Army General Staff, Sir Sidney Rowell, both agreed that the commission ing of New Guinea troops was a magnificent idea Sir Sidney said, “It had to happen sooner or later.”

Blood Study So Far Doesn't

Support Any Theories

Research into the blood groups of the various branches of the Polynesian family, carried out by the Auckland Medical Research Council, have not provided any con clusive evidence to support any par ticular theory of migra tion.

The research is still proceeding.

So far the blood of New Zealand Maoris, of Cook Islanders, and Tongans has been studied, and work is proceeding on the blood of Western Samoans.

The researchers have found a clear difference between Eastern and Western Polynesians, but these differences could be through chance, natural selection, or some other cause—such as different origins of the two peoples.

Anomalies Corrected In

Sugar Pay-Out System

Anomalies in the Government’s intended method of paying out cer tain Sugar Stabilisation Fund monies to Rewa Valley sugar cane

TOO. Netherlands New Guinea, too, putting up some fine new buildings.

Hollandia's new two-storey Telegraph ned in August. A new General Post earing completion on the site. Below branch building of the Nederlandsche atschappij bank, about six miles from Formerly it was an old shack, but uilding is of brick. The NHM is the in Hollandia with branches in other places.

! were corrected by the Fiji ;ive Council in October. v the original plan (Sept. . 121) the persons actually ession of the 750 farms on ier 10, 1959—the date that the fill ceased ive the money involved; it d £5B per farm, would have meant that who had only recently taken on would have received the jovernment now, although it agree to any system which I investigation of each farm ixtent of dividing the money b several farmers, will pay lers in possession, only if id was still bearing cane he new owner, and only if ae had been planted by the ier. wise the money goes to the ite predecessor who had been ig cane.

‘a's Query On

lam Strength

Noumean roneo news-sheet donien in September put in rumour prevalent in Noumea e last month or two. • the heading “We have the know” the paper asks if it that an expert from France Noumea to check on the ions of the Yate Dam which legedly, not as good as could ed. 1 correspondent reports that is been going on recently in /er part of the dam, but is extremely unlikely that g serious could be wrong the wall of the dam had strong test in last year’s r issues later Le Caledonien I that it had now been in that there was nothing vith the new dam and the i the site was quite normal.

Take More

Pacific Tuna

apanese Fishery Agency has the Taiyo Fishery Company o a quota increase of 3,000 ■ its tuna mothership opera the South Pacific this year, is stated by Mr. Nobuyoshi , business manager aboard tnpany’s mothership Koyo when that vessel called at >r bunkers and to transfer a, freezer vessel for despatch Dlulu and San Francisco in increased quota will mean s summer, for the first time, ership fleet will operate in uth Pacific right into the ae season. now the Taiyo Company has

not been in a position to operate a fleet later than November, as the vessels which are specially equipped as motherships, are required in the Antarctic as freezer vessels for the company’s whaling fleets. They load whale meat from the factory ships.

The whaling season extends from early January to mid-March, but it takes about a month to get to the Antarctic and to return.

This year, however, the Taiyo Company has launched a new 11,000ton freezer vessel, Sayo Maru, for Antarctic service. This will permit the mothership Tenyo Maru No. 3, which returned to Japan from the Fiji area at the end of August, to make a second tuna cruise. She will relieve Koya Maru in the Fiji area in mid-November and operate until some time in February, when it is expected that the additional 3,000ton quota will be reached.

Earlier it had been reported that another fishing company might be applying for a license to operate a mothership fleet in the South Pacific this year, but nothing eventuated.

The motherships last year had a combined total quota of 22,800 tons.

This year the figure will be 23,100 tons approximately.

Anglican Missionary Heads

In Conference

Activities of the Church of Eng land among the Islands of the South Pacific were under review in Springwood, NSW, on October 11-13, when the Bishops, and other leading men of the Dioceses of Melanesia, Polynesia, Honolulu, New Guinea and Carpentaria, held their triennial conference.

After many years of consideration, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Ad visory Council on Missionary Strategy finally set up this “Con ference of the Church of the Pacific”, and its last session was in New Guinea, in 1957.

The President this year is the Bishop in Polynesia, the Right Reverend L. S. Kempthorne, of Suva. Among those attending were the new Assistant Bishop in New Guinea, Father George Ambo, who is a full Papuan; the new Bishop of Carpentaria, the Right Reverend S. J. Matthews, and a distinguished layman, Mr. Matthew Salato.

Board of Inquiry For

Fiji Sugar Industry

With the exception of one clause, the Fiji Legislative Council accepted a motion by the Indian Member for the North Western Division, Mr. B D. Lakshman. that a B9ard of Inquiry be set up to look into the sugar industry in the Colony.

The exact wording of the motion, as approved, was as follows: “That in view of the present crisis and past disputes in the sugar

industry and the possibility further disruption due to the peting claims of growers, mi and workers, the Govern should cause an inquiry to be : with terms of reference requ the persons conducting the in to: Examine, report, and m recommendations upon the ganisation, operation, economy prospects of the whole indi and: “Consider and report upon advisability of the establishmei a statutory sugar board chi with the responsibility of ensi that the proceeds of the sa! sugar and manufacturing i products are apportioned am participants in the industry 1 basis which is fair and equitabi The original motion had called upon the Governmen “bring the industry under legisl control” in addition to the abc According to a Government s ment made on October 2 afte: session had concluded, the Go 1 ment would deal with the resol as expeditiously as possible. 1 was no indication whether board would be set up during present cane season, however.

Gave Them the Works

But Beetles Increase

Insecticides, predatory inse parasitic wasps, and nems worms have all been introduced, Fiji since the anti-rhinoceros b campaign commenced some \ ago, and further investigations being constantly made oversea search of parasites which would be harmful to anything but rhinoceros beetle coconut pest.

So far, according to Mr. E O’Connor, senior entomologist, o; Fiji Agricultural Department, main objective of the programi the exclusion of the beetle ; the main copra producing ares the Colony—has been achievec far as is known. But in Viti the beetle population, though si is increasing gradually.

Since the programme comme: 71 years ago. 34,000 beetles . been collected, apart from imms grubs.

They Want the Memoriali

Where It Is

A suggestion that Aust: should move the memorial that o memorates the first all-Austrs military action in world history 1 with short shrift in New Gu recently.

Ex-Servicemen and the publi general shook their heads fi:i even when the tempting bait thrown out that the memorial c: be better maintained if it 3 shifted a mere five miles.

So the memorial will remain w.;

-but the voluntary labour of y property-holders will be 1 to keep it clean and stop the c New Guinea grass from ng it. memorial is between Bita and Kabakaul in the Gazelle sula area of New Britain. It i on the spot where five men aeir lives in the historic but lived battle which won New a from Germany in 1914. tralians, of course, had fought ge numbers in the Boer War than a decade earlier, but the near Bita Paka was the first cally all-Australian action in y. ras carried out by the Aus i Naval and Military Force Colonel William Holmes, who lecame the first Administrator ing the end of the German bodies of the men who died action and of men who died n the Second World War are five miles away in the Bita War Cemetery. The suggestion nade that if the memorial loved adjacent to the cemetery, Id be maintained by labour ble at the cemetery, the people have decided use, although there is general sfaction at the maintenance memorial. :by planters have said they epared to do the maintenance voluntary basis rather than ;he memorial lose its identity ng moved further along the

>lk Island Council

Continue in Office"

public meeting of Norfolk ers in September decided to the Norfolk Island Council to t the Norfolk Island Ordin and operate it as it is”. It a motion to this effect by 39, after an earlier motion >st calling on the Council to “to make way for councillors srould be prepared to accept awers offered by the Ordin- This earlier motion was de -39 to 32. 5 new Norfolk Island Council it elected members has chosen

[?]4 War Memorial which Rabaul decided [?]t be removed. But local planters have agreed to keep it tidy.

Photo: M. R. Hayes.

t in an advisory capacity, as entitled to do if it wants to, It can get the Commonwealth nment to give it more, includ mtrol of the local budget. It iting a decision on its applica from the Government, but irhile some islanders think the il should get on with its work ing under its present powers.] Council discussed the public ig”s decision in late September n the motion of Cr. W. S.

Id, “thanked all residents who ed the public meeting, and reference to the resolution I by 42 to 39, such a small ty cannot expect to impose will upon the Council whilst vays welcomes constructive m. Council states that it must ill continue in its duties to “lectors who put it into office, ncludes the island’s need for )st office, library and liquor to be brought to the centre 3 community. This Council out the active participation tical affairs of so large a pro i of civil servants”. >peaking to the motion, Cr.

Id described the Administra efforts as a “ghastly failure”’.

Lavinia Donkin moved an ment that the Council resign, e president refused to accept n earlier meeting, in moving ion of apology to the Aus- Minister for Civil Aviation, r Paltridge, for the Council’s to meet him at the airport •ival in August ( PIM . Sept. the Council said that the ance of a representative at port was due to the Council’s ' knowledge of the purpose of iator”s visit—holiday or other md not to any intentional :tesy.

is P-NG Departure

st Complete

>esn’t take long to forget, and shortly Qantas “may be a remembered name in parts MG,” says a correspondent, ig Qantas sign at the Lae al has been replaced by a ne; the DC3’s have been re i, and look smart with their rd” symbol. The buses sport AA insignia, and TAA and ANA flags fly everywhere. ember saw the biggest and the last of the Qantas per leave for Australia. More 10, including wives and chil boarded the aircraft. The al was crowded with friends ars were very close as TAA’s I gesture—the strains of “Now ; Hour” came nostalgically ie loudspeaker system. Qantas’ ure from P-NG internal ser has been a gradual process, is almost complete now.

Bougainville Promised

A Wharf—Later

Bougainville, New Guinea, has at last been promised a wharf suitable for overseas shipping.

The wharf will be built at Kieta and will take ships drawing up to 18 feet of water. It will be 60 ft by 20 ft, and there will be room behind it for two copra storage sheds.

The P-NG Administrator, Briga dier D. M. Cleland, made the announcement about the proposed wharf in October.

For more than six years Bougain

ville people have been appealing for major port facilities at Kieta, and the announcement follows an in spection which Brigadier Cleland made in the area in June this year.

The Bougainville Improvement Association and the New Guinea Planters Association have both been prominent in putting forward the case for a wharf at Kieta. They would like to see Bank Line vessels call there to lift copra.

Bougainville produces more copra than Papua does, but it has been badly neglected with things like wharves. It has not one overseas wharf.

Brigadier Cleland said plans for

the Kieta wharf would be included in the 1961-62 design list, and that “construction can start the follow ing year if funds are available”.

Papeete's New Airport

Is Now In Use

The long-awaited Faaa airport, near Papeete, was opened for air craft traffic in October. TAI was expected to land there first—on October 20, using giant DCS’s.

South Pacific Air Lines’ Super Constellation was expected to make its first direct flight between Hono lulu and Tahiti on October 21. The following day, October 22. TEAL’s jet-prop. Lockheed Electra was due

to land at Faaa after its initial direct flight from Nadi, Fiji.

Hitherto, both airlines have used Bora Bora airfield, Leeward Islands, 140 miles west of Tahiti; and con nection with Papeete has been by RAl’s Bermuda flying-boats. Faaa airport will be further extended in 1961 and, by next May. should be capable of taking the biggest full jet airliners now flying.

No Decision Yet On

Leahy Cattle Appeal

In early October, the High Court of Australia had still not announced its reserved decision on the appeal by the Administration of P-NG

against the verdict of that T( tory’s Supreme Court, under w Mr. Michael Leahy was awa £4,055 damages, and all legal c in respect of alleged mistreatr of his cattle on his large farn Zenag, in the Morobe District, case had been dragging on years and the High Court hea of the Crown appeal was hear Sydney on May 24. (See PIM, J p. 137.)

Tighter Laws On

Fiji Lotteries

The very lax laws on the ducting of certain types of lotto in Fiji have been tightened u regulations gazetted in Octob The new regulations will pre repeated postponement of dr provide a check on whether tickets actually go into a draw, reckless starting of lotteries w there is no reasonable prospec getting sufficient returns, and make it possible to trace whe winnings get into the hands of winners.

Adviser for Fiji

p. 119

Industrial Relations Adviser for Fiji

The Fiji Government decided in September to create a new post of Industrial Relations Adviser to the Government. The appointment was recommended recently by Mr. E. Parry, Deputy Labour Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, follow ing his visit to Fiji.

The Government statement said the appointment would strengthen the Labour Depart ment and assist in the trans formation of its role in industrial relations so that it may take a more active part in the develop ment of amiable relations be tween both sides of industry in the Colony.

The present state of industrial relations warrants an early appointment, and the salary suggested for this highly im portant and specialised job is £2,400, plus £3OO post allowance, with a two-year contract.

Shades of RLS—

p. 122

and Lamps, too

Someone in Western Samoa— we’re not sure who—has been instrumental in purchasing 70 old street lamps and 20 lamp i standards from the city of Edinburgh which was about to scrap them.

According to the cabled re port from Scotland, the Apia sponsors have purchased the lamps for use in Apia because of the sentimental association of the two places through the writer and poet Robert Louis' Stevenson.

Two of the old lamps, which have been in use for 50 years,} will also go to New Zealand.

[?]siting Mt. Hagen

p. 129

[?]ourists Will Be [?]siting Mt. Hagen

nother step towards creating 'ist facilities in New Guinea be the opening of the new Hagen hotel —scheduled to » place about the third week November. anager of the new hotel is M. Zebrovius, and the hotel initially provide accommo on for 12 guests, and 30 by -1962. he hotel is situated in a very active part of Mt. Hagen nship—and Western High is is a very attractive dis ct, with a great tourist mtial. Lack of hotel accom 'ution nearer than Goroka previously prevented tourists 2 making anything more i hit-and-run visits to this resting part of the Terri-

[?]he Big, Bright

p. 137

Tolai Smile

urred on by the interest h he created with a set of z-made artificial teeth, a i native from Kokopo, New iin, is now busily engaged aking a bigger, brighter and r set. And like the first set, nil make the second from : salvaged from the remains n old Japanese machine e man (his name has not disclosed by hospital orities) was an outpatient Nonga Hospital, Rabaul, i a hospital dentist noticed ns wearing what appeared ; two gold teeth, e dentist is Mr. B. Crowley, took a quick second look discovered the teeth and base were carefully filed a single piece of brass, what you would call a pro ynal job, but neat and quite Mr. Crowley said later, otographs of the teeth were to dental authorities in ralia. parently flattered by the \tion he had created, the r of the teeth returned a days later to say that he starting on a new set. ve had the present ones for ig time and they don’t fit )ell as they once did,” he

Deaths Of Islands People

pp. 151-153

MR. ARTHUR H. CRESSWELL

The death occurred in hospital in America (at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester) on September 6 of Mr.

Arthur H.’ Cresswell, an English born former goldminer and planter who became one of the best-known figures in the NG planting industry.

Mr. Cresswell retired three years ago and was on a world tour at the time of his death. He is sur vived by his wife and his daughter Jeanette, both of whom were in London when he died.

Mr. Cresswell was born in Eng land in 1900; and in 1916, when only 16> and a resident of Queensland, pU £ up ju S ag e and enlisted in the AIF for world War I. He served in the Australian First Machine-gun Battalion, and had y le unusual record of serving in same unit—the Second First—in World War 11. As a corporal, he was in the Mount St. Quentm battle in 1917 and was Mentioned in Despatches. T «..v M Mr. Cresswell went to New Guinea for the Expropriation Board in the

early 1920’5. He looked after plantations m the Kavleng and Manus Districts and at Arawe (New Britain); and he went from there to the goldfield at Edie Creek and was a successful miner. When World w a r H began he enlisted and served m the Middle East, and later in Guadalcanal and in New Guinea.

He had owned Lil-i-na-kai Plantanon in the Bammgs for some years, and after returning to New Guinea (after the war) he rehabilitated it and lived on it for some years until he sold it about three years ago.

Since the war he has travelled extensively with his wife and daughter in Europe, America and other places, They were a remarkably welltravelled and well-informed family.

Mrs. Cresswell was formerly Miss Hazel Ormerod, of Brisbane who had trained as a nursing sister She shared the hardships and ex eitement of gold-mining “on th a Edie” and was accounted a good miner among the hard-bitten citizens of those early days. Many a sick miner was nursed back to health at the Cresswell shack on their claim. Jeanette, the daughter, was at Edie Creek as a small child and was a great favourite with the min ing fraternity. Later, Jeanette went to a Girls’ School in Brisbane and then to a school in Switzerland, where she became an accomplished linguist and won many prizes for winter sports.

Recently Mr. Cresswell received

specialised medical treatment Switzerland, and then went to 3 for an operation which, it was . posed, would not keep him t: for more than a week, first operation, however, disclos< double tumor of the brain; anc did not rally from a second ' very dangerous operation. He h then what he was facing, and vs of it quite calmly to friends Rabaul—his letters arrived aftei death was announced.

Many tributes have been pai his life and his work in New Gui The president of the New Gu Planters’ Association said that Cresswell had been a promt member of the Association unti] retirement, and would be gr« missed. The Association and community in general, extendec deepest sympathy to Mr. Cressvi family, Mr. Thomas said.

MR. MAXWELL TAYLOR D 1

One of the largest crowd mourners ever seen at Lae Ceme paid their respects at the funen Inspector Maxwell Taylor Dull the RPNGC, on September 8.

Duff, who was 44, had recently turned to NG from Greenslopes patriation Hospital, Queensl where he had been receiving tr ment after a long illness.

He is survived by his wii Dorothy.

A fighter pilot with the RAAF„ Duff went to P-NG at the ent the war as a member of the R P-NG Constabulary and served New Britain, Bougainville, Wau Lae. He was a keen worker for RSL and represented BougainvilJ State Branch Congresses at La

MR. PATTERSON ALSOP

A well known Territorian who action on the Kokoda Trail with 7th Division of the AIF, diet Sydney recently, after a long ill: which took him South early in year for medical treatment. He Patterson (“Pat”) Alsop, aged He is survived by his wife, Ms his mother, Mrs. B. Keane, brothers Ted, Brian and Von.

MRS. F. M. ADDIS

We have recently been adv that another old ex-resident of ; Mrs. Florence May Addis died her home, Stanley Point, Auckk NZ, on March 22 aged 77.

Mrs. Addis was born in So Australia but accompanied parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bisl to Suva in 1894.

Young Florence Bishop went b to Adelaide for her education i later rejoined her parents in J where she eventually married Jos- Victor Addis, of Nausori, where ti made their home, Mr. Addis was an engineer in CSR Co. mill there until his ret! ment to Auckland in 1931. He o in 1933. There were no children! the marriage.

Mrs. Addis was interested in mm was widely read, and a keen won for community and patriotic cau.

MR. A. H. WRIGHT

Arthur H. Wright, of Auck one-time manager of the ,lofa Branch of the now it Auckland firm of Vines, & Perston Ltd., and for some secretary to the grandfather een Salote, died early Sep • at the age of 96. Mr. Wright Robert Louis Stevenson when sottish poet and writer was in Western Samoa. s survived by a son and two iers.

MR. W. J. GATWARD

William J. Gatward, a well- Fiji personality, died in Syd i September 14 after a short linent in the Fiji dairying in- Mr. Gatward was a member Agricultural Advisory Com and chairman of directors * Rewa Co-operative Dairy ny. It was through hi s ve that one of the world’s lodern milk processing plants tablished in Fiji last year. He /arded the MBE for his con m to Fiji’s agricultural de ,ent.

[R. MATTHEW WHAN

Matthew Whan, founder of lian Construction Company (which recently changed died in Sydney early in iber at the age of 75. He had i poor health for some years, in Fiji as a member of the list Mission in 1909, Mr. later returned to Australia nt back to Fiji to found his ly in 1915 following a hurri which had caused much ral damage. The firm built of Suva’s well known older gs.

Vhan is survived by his wife, is. and two married daughters, the sons, Walter, is in busi ; Chatswood, Sydney and the Milton is a missionary in

DR. W. M. RAMSAY

William Miller Ramsay one ,’s best known doctors and ner District Commissioner, t Suva in September at the 84. He had been living in tent for some years after ig all of his working life in parts of Fiji. His wife died I, and a son. Hamilton, died jan Island some years ago. r son, James, is attached to istoms Department

ON. ULUKALALA-ATA

lis issue went to press, news ceived of the death in Auck where he was undergoing 1 treatment, of the Hon. ala-Ata, Tonga’s Minister of who had also recently been ted Deputy Premier, He was in Tonga on October 11.

Sports Review

p. 153

This photo taken in Port Moresby some time in the ’Twenties, will bring back memories for many New Guinea old hands. It does for Mr. Ivan Champion, who recalls: For about five years in the ’Twenties, the big trading-canoe races were the chief Saturday sporting event in Moresby. A considerable amount of money changed hands in betting on the results.

The Aquatic Club —the step-father of Port Moresby’s present Yacht Club —was formed in 1922, and main purpose of its foundation members was to race the big 40-ft canoes in the Saturday races. The club house —closer to the town than the present yacht club building— became a war casualty although the piles can still be seen on the foreshore.

The canoes themselves were usually hired from the natives, and entered in the races by their temporary European “owners”. The “owner” sailed on the canoe, but more or less as a passenger, as the captain and crew were natives, and paid for the job.

The only difference between the big sailing canoe and the old time lakatoi was the canvas sails which were paid for by the Euro pean concerned—and it was part of the bargain that the native who really owned the canoe used the sails during the week when he went about his normal business of trading.

It was the sails—or the cost of therm—that really administered the “coup de grace”—to the whole enterprise. After 1927, as the. whole world moved towards the Depression, it was considered too costly a hobby and gradually the club changed over to racing small 12-ft canoes built for the job. Below is an old time lakatoi.

[?]Pping Time-Tables

pp. 155-158

Iney-Papua-N. Guinea

lllngs are approximate and may ■y by as much as two weeks. [ontoro sails from Melbourne for Brisbane, Port Moresby. Samarai, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Lae, resby. Next Sydney sailings; Nov. 21. lalekula sails from Sydney for , Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul Wewak. Alexishafen, Madang, Iney. Last Sydney sailing: Oct. 21 0 call at Lombrum and Lorengau).

Iney sailing: Dec. 9. lalaita sails from Sydney, Bris •ort Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, i, Lorengau, Madang, Lae, Samarai, i, Sydney. Next Sydney sailings: (after repairs), Dec. 28. tilolo sails about every six weeks: Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai, idang, Lombrum, Rabaul. Next sailings: Oct. 24, Dec. 21. 1 from Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., Street, Sydney. inkiang: Leaves Sydney for Bris 'ort Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Lae. Port Moresby, Sydney. Next sailings; Oct. 28, Dec. 21. loochow; Leaves Melbourne for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Kavieng, Madang, Lae. Port Sydney. Next Sydney sailings: Jan. 8 (will omit Samarai and ansi: Leaves Melbourne for Sydney, , Port Moresby, Samarai. Lae, Wewak, Kavieng, Rabaul. Port Sydney. Next Sydney sailings: Jan. 24 (will call at Honiara, BSI, tnarai). kien: Leaves Sydney for Brisbane, ■sby, Honiara (BSI), Rabaul, Lae, Wewak. thence Hongkong via n and Manila. Next Sydney sail . 6. i from New Guinea Australia Line ind Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 It.. Sydney.

Slizabeth Boye: Leaves Sydney lately every five weeks for Port Lae, Rabaul. Next Sydney sail . 2, Dec. 14 (approx.). evik: Leaves Sydney monthly for >we Is., Pt. Moresby, Lae. Next sailings: Oct. 31, Dec. 4 (approx.). > from Karlander (NG) Line (F. lens Pty., Ltd., agents). 176 Day ley.

Malacca and Matupi maintain a service between Australian ports, ew Guinea, and Borneo. i; Dep. Sydney Oct. 23, Brisbane 26, Pt. Moresby Oct. 31, Rabaul ..ae Nov. 9, Madang Nov. 11, thence n and Borneo ports. Returns i Australian coastal ports for turn t Adelaide. Next Sydney sailing, md; Jan. 16 (approx.). :a: Dep. Sydney Nov. 27, Brisbane 30, Pt. Moresby Dec. 5, Rabaul Dec.

10, Lae Dec. 14, Madang Dec. 16, thence Sandakan and Borneo ports. Returns direct to Australian coastal ports for turn round at Adelaide. Next Sydney sailing, northbound: Feb. 27 (approx.).

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty., Ltd. (agents), 17-19 Bridge St., Sydney.

Sydney-Netherlands NG

Three weeks service by MV’s Sigll, Silin doeng, Sibigo and Sinabang carrying pas sengers and cargo from East Australian ports to Hollandia, Biak and Sorong, NNG (with call at Manokwari alternate trips), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct. Next Sydney sailings: Sibigo Nov. 8, Sigli Nov. 29, Sinabang Dec. 23, Silindoeng Jan. 19.

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

Netherlands NG—Papua-NG

The Dutch KPM Line operates MV Arfak (70 tons) from Hollandia, NNG, on the sth of each month (approx.) to Wewak, Madang and Lae, in P-NG; and MV Karossa (2,000 tons) from Merauke (south coast of NNG) about every six weeks to Port Moresby (P-NG), Sorong (NNG), Dill (Portuguese Timor), and Singapore, with passengers and cargo.

United Kingdom-Australia-

Port Moresby

The Federal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., has extended its regular quarterly UK- Australia service to Port Moresby.

The vessels sail from Liverpool via Suez to Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns,

Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA

Sailings of P. & O. and Orient Line Passenger Ships

Port Moresby. Next vessel: MV King Malcolm; Port Moresby, arr.

Dec. 26 (approx.).

Sydney agents: Birt and Co. Pty., Ltd., 4 Bridge St. Port Moresby agents: Burns Philp (New Guinea), Ltd.

Europe - Tahiti - BSI - Papua-

NG - Netherlands NG

A direct service from the Continent and London, via Panama Canal to Tahiti, BSI, Papua-New Guinea and Netherlands New Guinea is operated jointly by Nederlands Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotter dam Lloyd.

MV Schelde Lloyd (RL): From Continent, via Panama Canal, due Papeete Nov. 15, Honiara Nov. 23, Port Moresby Nov. 27, Rabaul Nov. 29, Lae Dec. 1, Madang Dec. 3, Hollandia Dec. 5, Biak Dec. 10, Manok

wari Dec. 13, Sorong Dec. 16; thence Europe via Singapore.

MV Batu (NL); From Europe, dep. London Nov. 19, due Papeete Dec. 22, Honiara Jan. 1, Port Moresby Jan. 5, Rabaul Jan. 7, Lae Jan. 9, Madang Jan. 11, Hollandia Jan 13, Biak Jan. 18, Manokwari Jan. 21, Sorong Jan. 24; thence Europe via Singa pore.

MV Wonosobo (RL): From Continent, dep. London Dec. 17, due Papeete Jan. 20, Honiara Jan. 29, Pt. Moresby Feb. 2, Rabaul Feb. 4, Lae Feb. 6, Madang Feb. 8, Hollandia Feb. 10. Biak Feb. 15, Manok wari Feb. 18, Sorong Feb. 21; thence Europe via Singapore.

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

Far Easf-Sth. West. & Central

Pacific

The China Navigation Co., Ltd., vessels Chefoo, Chekiang and Chengtu maintain a 5 to 6 weeks’ service from Japan to Hong kong thence southwards through P-NG ports, BSI, New Hebrides, Fiji and New Caledonia; usually return to Japan direct.

Chefoo: From Japan, via Hongkong, Rabaul, Madang, due Lae Oct. 28, Pt.

Moresby Nov. 5, Townsville (opt.), Santo Nov. 11, Suva/Lautoka Nov. 17, then return to Japan (probably via Townsville), arr.

Dec. 17.

Chekiang: Dep. Japan Nov. 1, via Hong kong, Wewak Nov. 17, Rabaul Nov. 19, Madang Nov. 22, Lae Nov. 25, Pt. Moresby Dec. 2, Townsville (opt.), Noumea Dec. 11, then return to Japan (probably via Hong kong), arr. Jan. 13 (approx.).

Chengtu: Dep. Japan Dec. 6, via Hong kong, Kavieng Dec. 23, Rabaul Dec. 25, Madang Dec. 29, Lae Dec. 31, Pt. Moresby Jan. 7, Honiara Jan. 10, Santo Jan. 14, Suva/Lautoka Jan. 17, Noumea Jan. 25, thence direct to Japan, arr. Feb. 14 (approx.).

Details from China Navigation Co.. Ltd (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

The Australia-West Pacific Line MV’s Aros, Citos, Delos, Milos and Samos main tain regular services between Australian ports and Japan. Southbound vessels from Japan call at: Hongkong, Manila, Sanda kan. NG ports, BSI ports (quarterly), New Hebrides (irregularly), Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide; northbound vessels from Sydney call at Manila and Hongkong.

Samos: On first Pacific voyage; Dep.

Sydney Oct. 27, Brisbane Oct. 29-31, Japanese ports Nov. 11-18, Hongkong Nov.

22-23, Sandakan Nov. 26-28, Madang 4-5, Lae Dec, 6-7, Rabaul Dec. 9 Hox Dec. 11-12, Vanikoro Dec. 14-16, £ Dec. 17-18, Vila Dec. 19, Brisbane Dec 24, Sydney Dec. 26.

Delos; Dep. Sydney Oct. 29, Brh.

Oct. 31, Lae Nov. 4-5, Rabaul Nov..

Manila Nov. 15-16, Hongkong Nov. j Sandakan Nov. 22-25, Lae Dec. 1-3,4 bane 7-9, Sydney Dec. 12.

Milos: Dep. Sydney Nov. 9, Brl Nov. 11-12. Japanese ports Nov. 24-Dd thence Sydney direct, arr. Dec. 17. I Arcs: Dep. Sydney Nov. 16, Brii Nov. 18-19, Townsville Nov. 21-22, M Nov. 31-Dec. 1, Hongkong Dec.l Japanese ports Dec. 9-16, Hongkongi 20-21, Borneo ports Dec. 24-31, R.

Jan. 7-8, Lae Jan. 10-12, Brisbane Jai Sydney Jan. 20.

Citos; Dep. Sydney Nov. 29, Brisbane 1-2, Lae, Rabaul (opt.), Manila Dec. J Hongkong Dec. 19-20, Japanese ports! 26-Jan. 3, thence Sydney direct, arr., 17.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Ai, Pty., Ltd., 30 Pitt St., Sydney, and Is Agents.

Sydney-New Hebrides-B!

Bougainville, Etc.

MV Tulagi makes a round trip Ne Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara and BSI j Bougainville ports, leaving Sydney 1 once every six weeks. Last Sydney sat Oct.. 20. Next Sydney sailing: Dec. 5 Details from Burns, Philp and C Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-New Caledonia-

New Hebrides-Tahiti

Vessels of Messageries Maritimes coming from Marseilles, via West I and Panama, call about every six 1 at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noc and Sydney, and return by same i At present on this run are the n® ships, Tahitien and Caledonien ai chartered vessel, Melanesien. Next St sailings: Caledonien Nov. 7 (at Noc Nov. 10-13, Vila Nov. 14-22, Papeete Noc Dec. 3), Tahitien Dec. 15 (at Noumea* 18-21, Vila Dec. 22-30, Papeete Jan. j MV Polynesle (Messageries Marifcl maintains about monthly passenger ings between Sydney and Noumea, the New Hebrides (Vila and Santo).!

Sydney sailing: Oct. 21. Next Ss sailings: Nov. 11, Dec. 2, Dec. 23. I Details from Sydney agents: Messa§, Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydm

Europe-Sydney-Noumea

Past cargo vessels of Messageries 4 times Line maintain a regular moic service between Dunkirk (France) j Noumea (New Caledonia), via French* Africa, Ceylon and Australian ports, has accommodation for 6 to 12 passeffi From Sydney, vessels go to Brisbanee Noumea; then return to France vial tralian coastal ports.

Next sailings from Sydney for Nouu Vosges Nov. 10, Vivarais Dec. 7 (appn Details from Sydney Agents: Message Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydnes

N. Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Sami

MV Tofua maintains a service Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vs - ' Niue, Pago Pago. Apia, Suva and re to Auckland. Next Auckland sailings:|: 1, Nov. 26, Dec. 28.

ORCADES

ARCADIA

ORIANA

ORSOVA

SYDNEY

depart From Dec. 10 Jan. 18 Feb. 26

AUCKLAND

arr/dep Japan and Dec. 13 Jan. 21 Mar. 1

SUVA

arr/dep Far East Dec. 16 Jan. 24 Mar. 4

HONOLULU

arr/dep Dec. 2 Dec. 21 Jan. 28-29 Mar. 9

VANCOUVER

arr/dep Dec. 7-8 Dec. 26-27 Feb. 2-3 Mar. 14-15

SAN FRANCISCO

arr/dep Dec. 10-11 Dec. 29-30 Feb. 5-6 Mar. 17-18

LOS ANGELES

arr/dep Dec. 12 Dec. 31 Feb. 8-9 Mar. 19

HONOLULU

arr/dep Dec. 17 Jan. 5 Feb. 13 Mar. 24

SUVA

arr/dep Dec. 24 Jan. 12 Feb. 19 thence Japan

AUCKLAND

arr/dep Dec. 27 Jan. 13 Feb. 22* and

SYDNEY

arrive Dec. 30 Jan. 15 Feb. 25 Far East * Will call at Wellington. NZ, instead of Auckland.

Details from agents: P. and O -Orient Lines of Aust. Pty., Ltd. , 2-6 Spring St., Sydney.

Matua maintains a service from nd to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington and re > Auckland. Next Auckland sailings: i, Dec. 15. 11s from all offices of Union Steam o. of NZ,

Sydney-Pacific Ports-

Panama-UK

r Savill’s one-class all-passenger Southern Cross makes four round rid voyages per year, two west then two east-bound, calling at id Tahiti every trip. voyage: Southampton Dec. 6, via a Canal, Papeete Dec. 30-31, Suva Wellington Jan. 9-11, Sydney Jan. via South Africa to Southampton, b. 20. ils from Shaw Savill Line, 8a Castle- St., Sydney.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

passenger vessel Maui Pomare, has maintained a regular monthly x.) service between Auckland, NZ, >ok Group islands, will be replaced lonth by the new Moana Roa. ils from NZ Government Department ,nd Territories, Wellington, or any tf the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

America-Tahiti-Central

Pacific-NG

ic Islands Transport Line’s vessels »le and Thor I maintain a regular from Pacific Coast North American with sailings every alternate month, jorts depend on cargoes offering.

I: From US ports, dep. Pago Pago S, Apia Oct. 27-29, Suva Nov. 1-2, a Nov. 3-5, Noumea Nov. 7-10, Vila L-12, Rabaul Nov. 16-18, Apia (open), Pago Nov. 25-28, Los Angeles Dec.

San Francisco Dec. 15-16. sisle: Dep. San Francisco Nov. 30, igeles Dec. 1-3, Papeete Dec. 14-17, Pago Dec. 21-23, Apia Dec. 24-27, )ec. 30-31, Noumea Jan. 4-6, Towns an. 10-13, Apia (open), Pago Pago !0-23, Los Angeles Feb. 6-8, San sec Feb. 9. ils from General Steamships Cor m Ltd., 432 California St., San sco, USA, and Islands Agents.

5-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji-

Australia

on-Oceanlc Line of San Francisco is a regular five-weeks passenger service from Los Angeles with the a, Sierra, Sonoma and Alameda, rn terminal ports, in Australia, vary cargoes offering. Vessels call at e, Pago Pago, Suva, Sydney, Bris nd other Australian ports depending goes.

Sydney sailings for USA: Alameda ! (approx.), Sierra Dec. 10 (approx.). rican Pioneer Line has eight ships er Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef, Cove, Star, Gulf) on Australia - Panama -US ic Coast service with calls at e on southbound voyage. Sailings :. every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver

Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (sub sidiary of W. R. Carpenter and Co.; operate a service three times yearly with the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route. Accommodation is entirely first class, two-berth cabins, with calls at Suva. Lautoka and Honolulu.

Next Sydney sailing: Dec. 1.

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St., Sydney.

Sydney-Fiji

MV Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney approximately every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka, with cargo and passengers (first class accommodation for eight). Next Sydney sailings; Nov. 16 (approx.), Dec. 12 (approx.).

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd., 9 Bent St., Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZ)-North

America

Cargo vessels Waihemo and Waitomo, and others, operated by the Union Steam Ship Company of NZ, Ltd., main tain a monthly service across the Pacific, from Sydney to Vancouver and USA ports, via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa and Apia, as cargoes offer. Occasional calls are made at Fanning Island. They have limited passenger accommodation. Next Sydney sailings: Waiana Nov. 8 (approx.), Wai hemo early Dec.

The Waitemata, from NZ ports, makes 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver (via Raro tonga and Papeete).

UK-Panama-Fiji

The Fiji Direct Service is mainta by Conference vessels, sailing at reg monthly intervals out of London,!

Panama, for Suva and Lautoka, ) Bethell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as L ing Brokers in London, and Burns I (South Sea) Co., Ltd., are agents in Cargo for transhipment at Suva to Sa and Tonga is handled onwards by Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd. I Sailing dates from London for 19( (subject to alteration without notice)! as follows: Nov. 17, Dec. 15, Jan. 12, 9, March 9.

North America-Tahiti-N.Z

Sydney-Fiji-Samoa-Hawai

Matson Line’s Mariposa and Mont make round passenger trips from Pacific Coast ports to New Zealand Australia, via Pacific Islands ports.

Monterey: Southbound from US i and Honolulu, due Papeete Nov. 4-6, A land Nov. 12, Sydney Nov. 15-18, Auclc Nov. 21-22, Suva Nov. 25, Pago Pago 26, Honolulu Dec. 1-2, San Francisco ; 7.

Mariposa: Dep. San Francisco Nov.

Los Angeles Nov. 17, Papeete Nov. 2i Auckland Dec. 3, Sydney Dec. 6-9, A, land Dec. 12-13, Suva Dec. 16, Pago I Dec. 17, Honolulu Dec. 22-23, San Fram Dec. 28.

Details from Matson Lines, Be House, 82 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Far East-Fiji-NZ

Royal Interocean Lines operate a set from the Far East (Singapore) to NZ, and Australia, with three vessels ( ing periodically at Suva and/or Laut) They are Van Cloon. Van Nort, and Neck. Next calls at Fiji: Van Neck Laui Dec. 13, Suva Dec. 14; Van Cloon Lauj Jan 27, Suva Jan. 28.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines,, George Street, Sydney.

Sydney-Tahiti-Europe

The Nederland Line Royal Dutch Ml MV Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Oranje sail irregularly from Sydney Europe, via NZ, Tahiti and Panama Csb giving Sydney-Papeete connection in © bound direction only. Next Sydney i ings: Oranje Jan. 15 (Papeete Jan. 22-* Johan van Oldenbarnevelt Feb. 16 (Pap Feb. 23-24).

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

The Italian Sitmar Line (Panama ft MV’s Fairsea and Castel Felice sail fa Sydney for Europe, via NZ, Papeete "i Panama at irregular intervals, with e.: bound calls at Tahiti. Next Sydney sailil Fairsea Jan. 12, 1961 (Papeete Jan. 22- Details from Navcot Aust. Pty., II 58 Margaret St., Sydney.

Tonga-Fiji Shipping Service

The Tonga Shipping Agency, as age; for the Tonga Copra Board, operates regular monthly cargo and passem service between Nukualofa and Suva w MV Aoniu, 500 tons gross. Turn-round) Suva is usually two days, and the Age there are W. R. Carpenter and Co. (FI r Ltd.

Next scheduled departure dates fr; Nukualofa are: Nov. 5, Dec. 3 (leaw Suva about four days later in each cah

[?]Ways Time-Tables

pp. 159-161

NS-PACIFIC SERVICES

Australia (or NZ)-Fiji-

Hawaii-N. America

First and Economy Classes)

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS

(Boeing 707 Jets)

NORTHBOUND

md Sun.: Sydney (dep. 5 p.m.), (arr. 10.55 p.m., dep 11.40 p.m.), lulu, San Francisco, id Sat.: Sydney (dep. 5 p.m.), Nadi 10.55 p.m., dep. 11.40 p.m.), Hono- San Francisco, New York, London.

Sydney (dep. 5.30 p.m.), Nadi (arr. p.m., dep. Fri. 12.10 a.m.), Hono- San Francisco. pdney (dep. 5 p.m.), Nadi (arr. p.m., dep. 11.40 p.m.), Honolulu, Francisco, extending to Vancouver.

SOUTHBOUND

ad Fri.: London, New York, San cisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.45 dep. 6.40 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 9.20 rhurs. and Sun.: San Francisco, lulu, Nadi (arr. 5.45 a.m., dep 6.40 , Sydney (arr. 9.20 a.m.). mcouver, San Francisco, Honolulu, (arr. 5.45 a.m., dep. 6.40 a.m.), cy (arr. 9.20 a.m.). national Dateline is crossed be ad! and Honolulu.) 3 Super-Constellation aircraft, barter to TEAL, from Melbourne kland, connect at Nadi on Wednes l Friday with Qantas northbound and on Thursday and Saturday thbound flights (see Table 17).

Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra air om Auckland, NZ, connect with northbound flights at Nadi on and Saturday (from Christchurch) STadi on Wednesday (to Auckland) day (to Christchurch) for south ights. i Fri. service ex-Sydney connects AC London service at San Fran -sp. Sat.). service ex-London Mon. connects Francisco Tues. with southbound iervice.

PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS

Intercontinental Jet Clippers*) i Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 5 p.m. for (arr. 10.50 p.m., dep. 11.59 p.m.), ulu and Los Angeles (arr. Mon. ’hurs., 4.35 p.m.). Connections at ulu for San Francisco, Portland leattle. d Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 8.30 p.m. lonolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.20 a.m. . and Mon., dep. 6.30 a.m.) and y (arr. 8.45 a.m., Thurs. and lational Dateline is crossed be ad! and Honolulu.) American DC7C will replace liser aircraft as from Nov. 4 on ig services Auckland, Nadi, Tafuna n Samoa), and Honolulu (see table

ANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES

(ith Soper DC-6B Aircraft) :i.: Sydney (dep. 1 p.m.), Auck- Nadi (arr. Sat. 3 am., dep. 4 Honolulu, Vancouver, (thence by

Britannia aircraft on to Amsterdam, arr. Mon 11.35 a.m.).

Every Sat.: Dep. Amsterdam (by Britannia) at 11 p.m. for Vancouver (dep. by DC -6B 1.30 p.m. Sun.), Honolulu, Nadi (arr. Wed. 6 a.m., dep. 7 a.m.), Auck land, Sydney (arr. Wed. 5 p.m.). (Note: Crosses International Dateline en route.)

SECTIONAL SERVICES IN

PACIFIC

2. Sydney-New Guinea

Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett-ANA operate from Sydney to Lae and return with DC6B’s. TAA runs the service Satur days, Tuesdays; Ansett-ANA Mondays, Thursdays. Each operates the Friday service alternately.

NORTHBOUND

First and Tourist Classes Sat. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Sun. Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 7 a.m. Lae, 8 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes

Mon. (A/ANA)

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Tues. Tues.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 6.45 a.m. Lae. 7.45 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes Tues. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Wed. Wed.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 7 a.m. Lae, 8 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes Thurs. (A/ANA) Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 8.20 p.m. Brisbane, 10.20 p.m.

Thurs. Fri.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 11.20 p.m. Townsville, 2.15 a.m.

Fri.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 3.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr Pt. Moresby, 6.45 a.m. Lae, 7.45 a.m.

First and Tourist Classes Fri* Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Sat. Sat.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 7 a.m. Lae, 8 a.m. • TAA; Oct. 28, Nov. 11, 25, Dec. 9, 23, etc.; A/ANA: Nov. 4, 18, Dec. 2, 16, 30, etc.

SOUTHBOUND

First and Tourist Classes Sun. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35 p.m.

First and Tourist Classes Tues. (A/ANA) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m, Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35 p.m, First and Tourist Classes Wed. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m, Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35 p.m.

First and Tourist Classes

Fri. (A/ANA)

Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Townsville, 2.15 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville, 2.55 p.m. Brisbane, 5.40 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 6.25 p.m. Sydney, 8.30 p.m.

First and Tourist Classes Sat.* Dep. Arr.

Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35 p.m. * TAA: Oct. 29, Nov. 12. 26, Dec. 10, 24, etc.; A/ANA: Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 3. 17, 31, etc.

2A. Qld.-New Guinea

CAIRNS-PT. MORESBY-CAIRNS

TAA, with Fokker Friendship (First Class Only) Alt. Mon.: Dep. Cairns 3.10 p.m., arr. Pt.

Moresby 5.30 p.m. (Oct. 31, Nov. 14. 28, Dec. 12, 26, etc.).

Alt. Tues.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.35 a.m., arr. Cairns 10.05 a.m. (Nov. 1, 15, 29, Dec. 13, 27, etc.).

CAIRNS-PT. MORESBY-BRISBANE

A/ANA, with DC4 Airfreighter (Air Cargo Only) Alt. Mon. (Nov. 14, 28, Dec. 12, 26): Depart Cairns 6.30 a.m.. arrive Port Moresby 9.25 a.m. Dep. Port Moresby 11.30 a.m. (same day), arr. Brisbane 6 p.m.

3. P-NG Internal Services

Operated by TAA

PORT MORESBY-BAIMURU-KIKORI

(DH Otter) Tues.: Port Moresby, Yule Is.. Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, returning same day via Baimuru, Kerema, Yule Is.

Alt. Thurs.: Port Moresby, Ihu, Baimuru, Kikori: returning via Baimuru. Ihu the same day (Nov. 3, 17, Dec. 1, 15, 29).

PORT MORESBY-DARU

(DCS)

Via Baimuru: Alt. Thurs, returning same day via Balimo (Nov. 3, 17, Dec. 1, 15, 29, etc.). (DH Otter) Via Kerema, Baimuru: Alt. Wed. (Oct. 26, Nov. 9. 23, Dec. 7. 21, etc.), returning alt. Fri. (Oct. 28. Nov. 11, 25, Dec. 9, 23, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter)

Port Moresby, Abau, Samaral each Mon., departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., re turning same day Alt. Wed.: Port Moresby Samaral. depart ing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m , returning same day (Nov. 2, 16, 30. Dec. 14, 28, etc.).

Alt. Sat.: Port Moresby, Samaral, depart ing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m.. returning same day (Oct. 29, Nov. 12, 26, Dec. 10, 24, etc.).

Alt. Sat.: Port Moresby, Samaral, Esa’ala, departing Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., re turning same day (Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 3, 17, 31. etc.).

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS

KAVIENG-RABAUL SERVICE

(DCS)

Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Awar (on request), Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m.. Madang, Awar, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Fri.; Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Awar (on request), Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS DH Otter)

Fri.; Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wabag, calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer River, Kainantu, Wapenamanda, Wabag. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

LOWER HIGHLANDS

(DH Otter) Tues.: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, calling at any of Aiyura. Kaiapit, Kainantu, Goroka, Arona. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU

(DH Otter) Mon.: Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m., arr. Wau 8.10 a.m.

Mon.: Dep Wau 8.25 a.m., via Bulolo, arr.

Lae 0.25 a.m.

Wed., Sat.; Dep. Lae 8.30 a.m., arr. Wau 9.10 a.m.

Wed.. Sat.: Dep. Wau 925 a.m., via Bulolo, arr. Lae 10.25 a.m.

PT. MORESBY-WAU-BULOLO (DCS)

Wed., Sun.; Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.20 a.m., arr. Bulolo 8.30 a.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Bulolo 8.50 a.m., arr. Wau 9.05 a.m., dep. Wau 9.35 a.m., arr.

Pt. Moresby 10.40 a.m.

MADANG-GOROKA-MADANG (DCS)

Mon. Thurs.; Dep. Madang 10.30 a.m., via Mt. Hagen, Banz and Minj. arr. Goroka 1.30 p.m., dep. Goroka 1.50 p.m., arr.

Madang 2.25 p.m.

MADANG-LAE (DCS)

Sun.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m., arr. Lae 8.05 a.m.

PT. MORESBY-MT. HAGEN-MADANO

(DCS)

Tues. and Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m via Goroka, Minj, and Banz, arr. Mt.

Hagen 11.50 a.m., dep. for Madang (either direct or via airfields as re quired) 12.20 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 12 noon, Goroka arr. 1.50 p.m., dep. 2.20 p.m., Madang arr. 2.55 p.m.

MADANG-PT. MORESBY (DCS)

Tues., Fri. and Sun.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m , via Goroka, arr. Port Moresby 10.20 a.m.

NEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN

(DCS)

Tues., Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Pinsch hafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Tues.. Wed.*, Fri., Sun.: Dep. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finschhafen 11.30 a.m., Rabaul arr. 1.45 p.m.

Sat.; Dep. Lae 10.30 a.m., arr. Rabaul 1 p.m.

Wed., Sat. and Sun.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct to Lae, arr. 8.15 a.m. * Calls Hoskins before Rabaul, on re quest, on Wed.

RABAUL-BUIN-RABAUL (DCS)

Thurs.; Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Buka, Wakanai, Aropa, arr. Buin 10.30 a.m., dep. Buin 11 a.m., Aropa, Wakanai, Buka, arr. Rabaul 3 p.m.

RABAUL-HOSKINS-RABAUL (DCS)

Alt. Mon.: Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m., via Jacquinot Bay, arr. Hoskins 10.55 a m., dep. Hoskins 11.15 a.m., arr. Rabaul 12.20 p.m. (Nov. 14, 28, Dec. 12, 26, etc.)

SERVICES BY MANDATED AIRLINES

(Scheduled flights with DCS Aircraft) Mon.: Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight.

Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.: Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka Madang, Boram, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul.

Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt.

Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Thurs.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng Manus, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Madang.

Fri.: Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul.

Dep. Lae 7 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt.

Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, Madang.

Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng. Momote, Wewak, Madang Goroka, Lae.

3A. P NG - Netherlands NG

LAE-HOLLANDIA (Neth. New Guinea) TAA, with DCS aircraft Dep. Lae 11 a.m. alt. Wed. (Oct. 26, Nov. 9, 23, Dec. 7, 21, etc.), calls at Madang and Wewak, and arr. Hollandia 3.30 p.m.

Dep. Hollandia 10 a.m. alt. Thurs. () 27, Nov. 10, 24, Dec. 8, 22, etc.)| with calls at Wewak and Madang.' Lae 3.50 p.m.

BIAK (NNG)-LAE

Netherlands New Guinea Airlines,' with DCS aircraft De Kroonduif NV (Netherlands I Guinea Airlines) maintains a fortnig service between Biak, Hollandia and with Dakota DCS aircraft. The ail is a private company operated with assistance of the Dutch Government. I Dep. Biak, alt. Thurs. 6 a.m., arr. Holla) 8.10 a.m.; dep. Hollandia, 12.30 p.m., Lae 4.30 p.m. (Nov. 3, 17, Dec. 1 29, etc.).

Dep. Lae alt. Fri., 10 a.m., arr. Hollai 1 p.m., dep. Hollandia 2 p.m., Biak 4.10 p.m. (Nov. 4, 18, Dec 2< 30, etc.).

NNG INTERNAL SERVICES

Netherlands New Guinea Airlines; DCS aircraft link Biak with Hollai Lae (see above), Sorong, Merauke, T( Merah, Kaimana, Manokwari, Noeraj Kebar and Ransiki; Twin Pioneer to Se Genjem and Wamena; and Beavei Steenkool, Fakfak. Kaimana, Teminabt Sorong, Ajamaroe, Napan, Wisselmi Kokonao, Wasior, Inawatan, Nabire, i and Kokas.

4. Aust.-Netherlands NG

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Super Constellation Service) f A weekly service between Sydney I Fri. 3.45 p.m.) and Holland with call Biak, NNG (arr. Sat. 1.05 a.m., dep a.m.), Manila (Philippines) and Ama dam (arr. Sun. 3.20 p.m.). Dep. Ama dam Sat. 6.35 p.m., via Manila and ; (arr. Tues. 12.05 a.m.) for Sydney Tues. 12.20 p.m.).

DC7C aircraft dep. Biak Tues. and at 2.45 a.m. for Japan, Alaska and Ama dam (arr. Wed., Sun.. 1 p.m.). Dep. sterdam Wed. and Sat. 10.50 p.m., Alaska, Japan and Biak (arr. Sat . T 12.25 a.m.).

5. N. Guinea-Solomons

TAA, with DCS aircraft Mon.: Dep. Lae 6 a.m. for Rabaul, H Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSI),J 5 p.m. same day.

Tues.: Dep. Honiara 7 a.m. for Yam, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. p.m. same day.

6. Sydney-Noumea

Qantas, with Electra International Fortnightly service, every alt. Fri.,l Economy and First (sleeper-chairs) cla) Dep. Sydney alt. Fri. (Nov. 11, 25, De) 23, etc.) 9.15 a.m., arr. Noumea 2 same day.

Dep. Noumea same day (alt. Fri.) 1 p.m., arr. Sydney Fri. 6.30 p.m.

7. Paris-Sydney-Noumea-F

Fr. Polynesia-USA

TAI, with DCS jet and DC7C aircii Dep. Paris by DCS every Mon. for Att Teheran, Karachi, Bangkok, Saif Darwin, Sydney (arr. Wed. 7.30 1 dep. 9 a.m.), Noumea (arr. 12.35 p: Dep. Noumea by DC7C every Wed. 1 p.m. for Nadi (arr. 8.30 p.m., dep.].

), Papeete (arr. Wed. 6.25 a.m., 7.30 a.m.), Honolulu, Los Angeles, s Angeles by DC7C on return flight p.m. Sat. for Honolulu, Papeete Sun. 9.05 a.m., dep. 10.30 a.m.), (arr. Wed. 3.20 a.m., dep. 4.20 Noumea (arr. Tues. 6.30 a.m.). iiimea by DCS every Thurs. 8 a.m.

Sydney (arr. 10.10 a.m., dep. p.m.) for Darwin, Saigon, Bang- Karachi, Teheran, Athens and ; (arr. Fri. 1.30 p.m.).

Crosses International Dateline be- Nadi, Fiji, and Papeete, French a.)

Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

1 Flying Boat Services Pty. Ltd.

Ith Sandringham Flyingboats return flight from Rose Bay base Tuesday and Saturday (with extra Thursday as required).

. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

is, with Skymaster DC4 aircraft t. (Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 3, 17. 31, dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. NI 2.45 dep. NI next day, alt. Sun. (Nov. , Dec. 4, 18, Jan. 1) 2.45 p.m., ydney, arr. 6.45 p.m. (Flight ex- NI-Auckland-NI. See table 12 .)

New Caledonia-New

Hebrides

TAI with DC4 aircraft ,d Thurs.: Dep. Tontouta (N. Cal.) a.m., arr. Vila 8.55 a.m., dep. 9.30 a.m., arr. Santo 10.45 a.m., 12.15 p.m., arr. Vila 1.30 p.m., dep. 2.05 p.m., arr. Tontouta 4 p.m.

. New Caledonia-Fiji-

Wallis Is.

TAI with DC4 aircraft , from Noumea on Nov. 13, Dec. an. 8, etc. umea, Sun., 6.30 a.m., arr. Nadi а. dep. 12.55 p.m., arr. Wallis 45 p.m. Dep. Wallis 7 a.m. Mon., Nadi 9.50 a.m.. dep. 11.10 p.m., loumea 2.15 p.m. same day.

Norfolk Is.-Auckland

by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) i. (Nov. 5, 19, Dec. 3, 17, 31, Dep. Norfolk 4 p.m., arr. Auck -7.45 p.m. Ret. next day, Sun. б, 20, Dec. 4, 18, Jan. 1, etc.).

Auckland 10.30 a.m., arr. Norfolk p.m.

3. Auckland-Sydney

with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras xcept Sun.): Dep. Auckland 9.30 arr. Sydney 11.55 a.m. scept Fri. and Sun.); Dep. Sydney ).m., arr. Auckland 7.25 p.m. lun.: Dep. Sydney 10 a.m., arr. and 3.55 p.m.

Auckland-Brisbane

with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra ip. Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr. Bris -12.15 a.m. ;p. Brisbane 1.30 p.m., arr. Auck -7.30 p.m.

14. Sydney-Christchurch

TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras Mon., Thurs., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 1 p.m.. arr. Christchurch 7 p.m.

Mon., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 8 p.m., arr. Sydney 10.25 p.m.

15. Christchurch-Melbourne

TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra Sat.: Dep. Christchurch 8 p.m., arr. Mel bourne 11 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Melbourne 12.30 p.m., arr.

Christchurch 7 p.m.

16. Sydney-Wellington

TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat.; Dep. Sydney 9 a.m., arr. Wellington 3.10 p.m.

Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat.: Dep. Wellington 4.30 p.m., arr. Sydney 7.10 p.m.

17. A/lelbourne-NZ-Fiji

TEAL, with Super Constellation chartered from Qantas Wed., Fri.; Dep. Melbourne 8.15 a.m., arr.

Auckland 4.15 p.m., dep. Auckland 5.15 p.m., arr. Nadi 10.30 p.m. Return, same route, Thurs. and Sat. (Connects at Nadi with Qantas Boeing 707 jet service from Sydney to USA.)

18. Auckland-Fiji

TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electras and Qantas Super Constellations Tues., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 5 p.m., arr.

Nadi 8.55 p.m.

Wed., Fri.*; Dep. Auckland 5.15 p.m., arr.

Nadi 10.30 p.m.

Mon., Fri.; Dep. Nadi 9.30 a.m., arr.

Auckland 1.30 p.m.

Thurs., Sat.*: Dep. Nadi 7 a.m., arr. Auck land 12.15 p.m. * Wed. and Fri. flights ex-Auckland, and Thurs. and Sat. flights ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas under charter to

TEAL.

19. Christchurch-Fiji

TEAL, with Jet-Prop. Lockheed Electra Thurs.; Dep. Christchurch 2.15 p.m., arr.

Auckland 4 p.m. dep. Auckland 5 p.m., arr. Nadi 8.55 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Nadi 9.30 a.m., arr. Auckland 1.30 p.m., dep. Auckland 2.30 p.m., arr.

Christchurch 4.15 p.m.

20. NZ-Fiji-Am. Samoa-

Hawaii

PAA, with DC7C (from Nov. 4) Dep. Auckland 5 p.m.. Mon. and Thurs.. arr. Nadi 10.25 p.m.; dep. Nadi Fri. only 11.45 a.m., crosses International Dateline, arr. Tafuna (American Samoa) 4.05 p.m., Thurs: dep. Tafuna 5 p.m., arr. Honolulu 6.15 a.m. Fri.

Dep. Honolulu 11 p.m. Fri., arr. Tafuna 8.30 a.m. Sat.; dep. Tafuna 9.15 a.m., crosses International Dateline, arr. Nadi 12 p.m. Sun.; dep. Nadi 6.10 a.m.

Mon., Thurs., arr. Auckland 11.50 a m.

21. Fiji-Tahiti

TEAL, with DC6 aircraft Sat.: Dep. Nadi 11.59 p.m., crosses Inter national Dateline, arr. Papeete Sat. 10.25 a.m.

Sun.; Dep. Papeete 1 a.m., crosses Inter national Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. 7.45 a.m.

22. Fiji Internal Airways

Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft and Beaver Amphibian Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily morning and afternoon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva; One flight daily.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Matei, Taveuni): One flight—Mon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Savusavu); One flight—Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva: One flight—Mon.

Suva-Ura (Taveuni)-Suva: One flight Wed., Sun.

Suva-Matei-Suva: One flight—Sat.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Matei-Suva: One flight—Tues.

Suva - Matei - Labasa - Matei - Savusavu - Suva; One flight—Fri.

Suva-Levuka-Suva: Return flights Tues and Thurs.

Suva-Kadavu-Suva: Return flights alternate Mon. mornings (Oct. 31. Nov. 14, 28, Dec. 12, 26, etc.) and alternate Fri. afternoons (Oct. 28, Nov. 11, 25, Dec. 9, 23, etc.).

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

22A. Fiji-Tonga

Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron aircraft On a non-scheduled basis, with flights generally departing Nausori (near Suva) on the morning of each fourth Thursday (Nov. 3, Dec. 1, 29, etc.) and depart ing Fua’amotu, Tongatapu on return flight on the following Saturday morning (Nov 5, Dec. 3, 31, etc.). Flying time is about three hours each way.

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

23. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service

TRANSPAC, with Herons and Rapides Noumea-Mare: Tues. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., arr. Mare 4 p.m.) and Thurs. (dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., arr. Mare 10 a.m.).

Noumea-Ouvea: Wed., Thurs. and Sat. (dep. Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ouvea 10.30 a.m.).

Noumea-Lifou: Tues., Wed., Sat., (dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Lifou 10 a.m.), Thurs. (dep. Noumea 11 a.m., dep. Lifou 1 p.m.).

Noumea-Kounie (Isle of Pines): Mon., Wed-, Sat. (dep. Noumea 10.30 am., dep.

Kounle, noon).

Noumea-Koumac: Mon., Sat. (dep. Noumea 1 p.m., dep. Koumac 4 p.m.); Wed. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., dep. Koumac 5 p.m.). Note: On this flight a call will be made at Plaine des Gaiacs if re quired.

24. Hawaii-Tahiti

South Pacific Air Lines, of Honolulu, with Super-G Constellation aircraft Weekly service by American airline, South Pacific Air Lines, from Honolulu to Faaa International Airport, Papeete.

Fri.: Dep. Honolulu 10 p.m., arr. Papeete Sat. 7.30 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Papeete 10 p.m., arr. Honolulu Sun 7.30 a.m.

Details from South Pacific Air Lines, Rue Collette, Papeete, Tahiti, or Head Office, 311 California St., San Francisco.

USA.

Pacific Commerce and Produce

pp. 163-164

s Chances Of acting Capital

Ing his tour of British South i Territories in September and rr, Mr. Julian Amery, Parlia ry Under-Secretary for the es, was buttonholed on a vr of occasions by those re ig UK funds for development. loniara, BSIP, Mr. Amery had tne interesting things to say out financial aid from Britain fionies in general and the ms in particular.

United Kingdom still has 37 al territories for which it is sible (said Mr. Amery). The i Government would like to these territories everything needed, but was limited by )le resources, and by help still ?iven to independent countries Commonwealth, aid the whole Commonwealth led on investments which UK nake overseas. British invest overseas already totalled than all the rest of world nents put together. ■ per cent, of all money spent [P, for instance, came from £. Businessmen and traders consider that their own depended on the strength ealth of the pound sterling le sterling area.

Amery said that two-thirds world’s trade was conducted ding, and this volume was d on a very small basis of nd dollar reserves. If too were given away in Colonial pment and Welfare Schemes her colonial investments, the ing might be weakened. It re UK’s first duty to keep ; strong. 1 whether he could suggest for increasing the flow of capital to BSIP, Mr. Amery i thought that the Protector s doing fairly well already, d it must be remembered apital was a great coward, uld not risk itself in unstable gerous conditions, or where ppeared to be no possibility lasonable return. cal stability and a skilled force were the primary needs territory wishing to attract lent. The Solomons had 1 stability, but he con that the labour force needed more skilled and better The problem would be le in time. r parts of Asia and Africa

were no longer attractive to private investors, and there was a chance for BSIP to attract some of this

capital.

Prosperity from Cocoa?

Mr. Amery said he thought the balance of development in BSI was

about right. Copra had always been

the basis of the Solomons economy, and he had been glad to see it receiving special attention. He had been very interested by the new

development of cocoa plantations

on Malaita and other islands; he thought, from what he had seen, that it might bring the same pros perity to the Solomons that it had brought to the Gazelle Peninsula in New Guinea.

Mr. Amery said he also thought that BSIP had a big future in timber exports. The Geological Survey Department had told him, too, that they had a strong belief in the future of mining develop ment in the group.

APC's New Well

Shows Oil Traces

In a cautiously-worded statement on October 11, Australasian Petroleum Co.

Pty., Ltd., reported that “traces of liquid hydrocarbons”—oil, to the layman—had been encountered in the lehu well now be ing drilled in Papua.

No doubt with the 1958-59 experience at Puri well in mind (when oil was found, but petered out), the Sydney stock market was little moved. Investors apparently prefer to follow a wait-and-see policy, until after the well is drilled to its bottom, probably about 10.000 ft.

Overall Profit, But TEAL

Lost on Islands Services

There are two outstanding factors of in terest in the report of the directors of TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Limited) for the year ended March 31. 1960. They are: • The inclusion in the accounts of the new loan of £3V4 million from the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, whereby TEAL has been equipped with Electra turbo-jets. • The heavy taxation imposed on the company by the NZ Government, whereby the company’s operating profit of £534.488 (from expanded, creditable gross earnings of £2,814,753) was reduced to a net sur plus of £108,471, which permitted a dividend of only 5 per cent. The NZ Government would not allow losses in Australia to be set off against profits else where, so the taxation provision this year is no less than £154,000. However, it is as broad as it is long TEAL is Government-owned.

In the year reviewed. TEAL made a loss of £74,997 on the Coral Route (Fiji- Tahiti) service, and of £1,518 on the Norfolk Island service. With its new

equipment, it probably could now do better on the Tahiti run, except that there is threatening competition there from both French and American sources.

TEAL’S directors now are: Sir Leonard Isitt, KBE (chairman); Sir Hudson Pysh, KBE, DFC (vice-chairman); G. N. Roberts, CBE, AFC; W. C. Taylor; Dr. A. M. Finlay; Air-Marshal Sir Richard Williams, KBE, CB. DSO. The executive staff are: A. A.

Watson, DFC (secretary); F. A. Reeves (general manager); J. W. Veale (assistant general manager); G. B. Bolt, OBE (chief engineer); H. M. Denton (commercial manager).

Good Profit For

Koitaki Rubber Co.

Final dividend of 13% per cent, will be paid by Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, Ltd., Papua, for the half-year to June 30, on capital doubled to £150,014 by a one-for one bonus issue.

The dividend is equivalent to 27% per cent, on pre-bonus capital and makes the full year’s payment 45 per cent., against the previous year’s 35 per cent.

The year’s consolidated net profit will be about £42,500, after Australian and Papuan tax and £5.000 special amortisa tion added to usual depreciation. This is about £7,500 above directors’ July esti mate.

Gillespie's Flour Co. Has

Interest in Papuan Bakery

One of the oldest flour-milling companies in the Pacific Islands trade, Gillespie Bros, (through its associate. Gillespie Bros.

Holdings, Ltd.), has acquired a substantial interest in a Port Moresby bakery, Papua, Gillespie’s shareholders were told at the annual meeting on September 30.

The bakery is that of United Bakeries at Boroko. Port Moresby, one of the two main bakers and pastrycooks in the Terri tory’s capital.

Govt. Aid for Emoeror

Gold Co. Recommended

John Taylor and Sons, London mining consultants, after an investigation into the Fiji goldmining industry, have recom mended to the Fiji Government that ex tended financial support be given to Em peror Goldmining Co.. Ltd., to expand operations.

The report recommends a first mortgage debenture or a loan of £F400,000 at 6 per cent., refund of Port and Customs Service Tax of £F75,000 and continuance of the present subsidiary of £F2 per ounce to a maximum of 75,000 oz for a further two years from June, 1961.

This would make possible an increase in production by June. 1964, to 100,000 oz, which, even if the price of gold remains unchanged, should make the company “economic and able to make profits for many years to come”.

The alternative to a programme of ex pansion is “inevitably one of working out the available ore and closing down”, the report said.

Dylup Plantations Take

Over Island Finance Co.

Dylup Plantations, Ltd., has acquired all the issued capital of Island Finance Co., Ltd., an unlisted company registered in NSW. with capital of £91,558.

Dylup has issued 140.490 5/- shares for the 366.223 shares in Island Finance (two Dylup for every five Island Finance shares, and paid 3d a share cash—£4,s7B. At the early October price of 12/9 for Dylup

shares, the deal was worth nearly £98,000.

Dylup’s paid capital went up from £36,622 to £240,372. The new shares rank for dividend from November 1, 1960.

In October, Dylup confirmed its annual dividend rate at 20 per cent, by announc ing an interim 10 per cent. Last year the company paid 20 per cent.—an interim 7 per cent, and final 13 per cent.

BSIP Trading Corporation

"Taking Advice on Sale"

New regulations enacted recently in BSIP enable the BSIP Trading Corpora tion, which conducts business as a store and agency and is owned by the BSIP Government, to sell out. The Government some time ago decided it should be taken over by private enterprise, saying it had already played a most valuable part in the economic life of the Protectorate since the war.

The corporation’s chairman, Mr. A. M.

Wilkie, said that following the enactment of the regulations the Government was taking expert advice about the best way of selling the Corporation, but this did not mean the sale was imminent.

Deadlock In Tonga

Dried Banana Scheme

Up to early October there appeared to be no further developments in connection with an offer made to the Tonga Govern ment by Dutch and American interests to establish a dried banana industry in Tonga.

The Tonga Government was understood to be insisting upon a controlling interest in any such project from its inception.

WRC's Profit Up:

Dividend Raised

W. R. Carpenter Holdings, Ltd., parent concern of one of the two main Islands trading groups has raised its dividend for 1959-60 following a rise in profit.

Pinal dividend of IV2 per cent, was an nounced in October; with interim 6V4 per cent., the year’s total is 13% per cent.

Last year it paid 12Vss per cent.

Profit for the year to September 30 was £843,995 (up £105,409 on last year’s £738,586).

However before arriving at the profit, the company transferred £55,564 to con tingencies reserve, £47,967 to fixed assets replacement reserve and £50,000 for long service leave. No provisions were made for these last year.

This year provision for taxation was £154,603 more (at £614,269) and £1,875 more for depreciation (at £372,261).

Placer Development Ltd.

Shows Higher Profit

Group profit at Placer Development, Ltd., Vancouver, rose strongly in 1959-60.

Profit for the year to April 30 was $1,580,431 Canadian compared with the previous year’s $1,152,399.

The company paid two dividends during the year totalling 50 cents and absorbing $1,290,000.

The annual report disclosed that its associate company, Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., earned estimated profit of $875,100 in the year to May 31, compared with $687,693 the previous year.

Placer Development, Ltd., in the late 1920’5, originally bought the rich Guinea Gold NL leases on Morobe goldfield, NG, and after testing sold them to Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd. (a Vancouver company with the same technical control). BDG became the operating company, with large scale operations.

Economic Outloo[?]

p. 164

Having hit a new peak index of ordi shares, 348.46, on September 16. Sy Stock Exchange prices began to slide! the scale in early October. By Octobe the index was 323.25, lowest since April.

Although most Stock Exchange ana had expected some general decline,i were willing to go out on a lim'i indicate how far the fall might goj they mostly agreed that the banks’ p (under Government instructions)! tightening credit triggered off the action.

Other factors were: (a) abroad! weak US market, and the internal) situation, with its doubts about the II Nations’ future; and (b) at home large volume of new share issues I companies, feeling the effect of the b: squeeze, are turning instead to ra funds by new capital issues), a rise in rowing rates by h.p. concerns, and in tions that the rate of business tur has slackened.

In recent years, the Stock Exchangf been wooing the small investor (only month the ’Change transferred Iron ancient site in Pitt Street, Sydney, to shining and glamorous premises O’Connell St., with public gallery closed circuit TV to show operatoi work). It is the new investors who i be anxious to sell and get out wheni favourite stock begins to tumble—l could touch off a wave of selling.

Experts say that, at the early sig; any such selling, the big institutions f then step in to bolster the market least, that’s what they hope would ha Stock Exchange events of the next, weeks will be watched with more i usual interest by Islands investors. I

SYDNEY SALES PRICES

Sept. 9, ’60

Oct.J

Bali Plantations . . 16/10 y 2 16/4 Burns Philp ... 94/- 94/6 Burns Philp (SS) . . 62/6 61/6

C.S.R £81/17/6

£83/1 Dylup Plantations . 12/9 12/f Fiji Industries . . . 16/9 14/| Hackshalls 16/6 16/f Kauri Timber ... 21/9 23A Kerema Rubber . . . 10/6 9/f Koitaki 36/6 20/* Lolorua 11/- 10/1' Mariboi 11/6 10y| Norfolk Is. Whaling . 6/1 5/1' Pacific Is. Timbers . 7/11 7/f Plantation Holdings . 7/- 7/j' Queensland Insurance 94/9 95/4' Rubberlands . . . 7/9 6/S Sthn. Pac. Insurance 25/9 25/' ditto, New ... 22/- 22/' Steamships Trading . 56/- 55/ W. R. Carpenter Hold. 29/9 3lf Timor Oil 4/8 3/i

OIL AND MINING SHARES

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July 9, ’58 Sept. 9. ’ 60 OC> Emperor . . b5/» b3/9 b.‘ Loloma ... — S43/9 blc

PAPUA-NEW

GUINEA

Bulolo . . . b35/b42/- J N.G.G. Ltd. bl/9Va b2/5 I Oil Search . b2/6 b4/6 I Ent. of N.G. l)7d b5d f Pac. I. Mines — sll5/- 1 Papuan Apin. b9d b3/3 6 do. opt. . bfiVad b7d S.

Placer Dev. b86/8 sll5/- 1 Sandy Creek b4d b3d s

Ands Produce

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;s otherwise stated, quotations are ralian currency. Aust. £ equals nately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W. 18/- Fiji: 20/- Tonga. Solomons & ireas; 196 Pac. Frs.; $U52.25.)

COPRA

Jrltlsh Ministry of Food 9-years ;, which governed Copra prices i and New Guinea, Fiji. Western Solomon Islands, and Gilbert and olony (and. to some extent. In nd Cook Islands) expired on De -31. 1957; since when each Terri made its own arrangements for i and marketing of copra, i- NEW GUINEA:—AII production ired to Copra Marketing Board. i by six members, including three representatives; and the Board listrlbutlon and sales, and makes s to the producers. Production Inly to (a) Unilever (under con vering 1960), (b) Australia (for isumptlon) and (c) crushing-mill ul. Prices generally arranged In ce with ruling rate in Philippines with premiums for hot-air dried.

July 1, 1960, P-NG Copra Tentative Purchase Prices, for ivered main ports; Hot-Air Dried, r ton: FMS, £A63/10/- per ton; ried, £ A62/10/- per ton.

No Government control—producers •e they wish. Bulk of copra goes ing-mills in Suva. On Oct. 10

3re: HAD £FSO, FM £P4B/10/-.

PERN SAMOA:—Official Copra ;cefves all production, and sells and makes payments to producers, roportlon goes to Unilever, at es PM grade rates, plus pre ip to £S3 per ton for hot . Prices since March, 1959, have 't-air dried, £867/13/8 per ton; No. 1. £S6S/3/8: sun-dried 361/13/8. k: —Sales are under Government *art of production goes to Europe, rrangement with Unilever con y Philippines prices, and part en market. [ONS: —AII production marketed official Copra Board, at prices Philippines market. Price de from Oct. 1: Ist grade, £A62/10/-; e, £ A6l; 3rd grade, £ASB/10/f.0.b., BSIP ports. The Copra subsidising the price by approxi- Al 2 per ton. *T AND ELLlCE:—Production in Europe through official Copra it prices based on Philippines ss “stabilisation fund” charges.

OA;—Producers receive 7 cents lb.

I or £ A7O/4/6 approx, per long rlodic bonus. If average proceeds ovt. buying price and expenses.

HEBRIDES: —Prices dropped on to £ A39/10/- (7,900 Pac. francs) elivered Vila/Santo. French price was 87 heavy francs per metric , Marseilles.

IS. AND NIUE is.: Subject to contract provisions between Cook Uue shippers and Abels, Ltd., of who operate the only NZ copra mill, the price paid is average price for previous month, less charges. Actual price paid to varies widely from island to anging from £NZ3O to £NZSO AUS: Price is based on the jondon price for the month prior ;nt to Auckland crushers.

OTHER PRODUCE

COCOA;—lslands prices are based on the rate for Ghana cocoa which on Oct. 14 was £ Stg.22l/5/- per ton c.i.f. Sydney.

W. SAMOA:—Nominal price quoted in Sydney on Oct. 14; £S2IS, f.0.b., Apia, grade 1; £S2IO, grade 2.

P.-N.G.; Oct. 17.—Quote No. 1: £245 (best quality). Quote No. 2: £240 (medium grade).

COFFEE.—P.-N.G.: Oct. 14, good quality A grade, per lb. 4/2; B grade, 4/-; C grade. 4/- c.i.f., Sydney.

PEANUTS: P.-N.G.; Oct. 14, Kernels: White Spanish 1/6 lb del buyer’s store; Red Spanish, 1/4; Virginia Bunch, 1/7.

In Shell, 1/- lb.

RUBBER: —P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Oct. 12 was: No. 1 RSS, spot, 97 Va Straits cents per lb (34,38 and Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS; Victor Karp. Tulk & Cos., Sydney, advised Oct. 17: White and yellow label, processed, standard packs. 42/9; green label, 41/6, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices as from May 1960—P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £56/10/per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons £57 per ton. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £63 per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons, £63/10/- per ton.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £66 per ton f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Quotations for Aus tralian White M.O.P. Shell in Oct. by Sydney independent shell agents were: Sound £ ABSO. D £A6OO, E £A3OO, EE £ A2OO (in store Sydney). Demand re ported to be falling off. Penrhyn Island: Approx. £NZSOO, f.0.b., Rarotonga. Mani hiki Island: Lagoon closed.

TROCHUS: Quote No. 1— Papua-N.G. and 8.5.1. — £l7O per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

Quote No. 2: £175 per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Supplies short; buyers offering around £475 per ton.

CROCODILE SKINS: 12 in. and over, small-scale, first quality—No. 1 quote: 12/per in. No. 2 quote: 11/6 per in.

PAPUAN GUM: £80 per ton del. buyer’s store, Sydney.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote 2/- to 4/- lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS: Suva merchants offer 3/per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality.

London and US Quotations

Copra: LONDON, Oct. 10, Philippines, in bulk, $175 US per long ton, c.i.f., UK/ Nth. European ports. Straits/Borneo, FMS delivered weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports, £Stg.64/10/- per long ton. NEW YORK: Oct. 10, Philippines $165 US per short ton, c.i.f. Pacific Coast ports.

Ceylon; 900 Rupees, c.i.f. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2 25 US Dollars.) Coconut Oil: LONDON, Oct. 10, Ceylon, 1%, in bulk, £Stg.l02 per ton, c.i.f., UK/ North European ports. Straits, 3%, £ Stg.92/10/- c.i.f.

Rubber: LONDON, Oct. 12, c.i.f., RSS No. 1, Spot, 29d Stg. per lb. Jan./Mar., 27 7 /«d Stg. lb. Oct. shipment 28%d Stg. lb.

Choiseul Plantations Are

"Best in Pacific"

Note from a gratified Islands resident who holds a few thousand shares in Choiseul Plantations. Ltd.. New Guinea: “They are a really wonderful company, with their 4.000 or more tons of copra last year; and they now have 500,000 of inter planted cocoa, which is coming into bear ing. They produced 93 tons of cocoa last year, and it will be 200 or more tons this year. According to the average yields on Bougainville, their 500,000 trees could pro duce 800-900 tons of cocoa per annum when in full bearing. Bougainville is a wonderful country for cocoa—fabulous.

The Choiseul Co. showed a £221,000 profit in last balance-sheet. I’d say it is the best group of plantations in the Pacific, and the coming in of the cocoa could, on present prices, double the profits now made on copra . . . Incidentally, I bought into that new Fiji cement company at 16/6 —they should be OK.”

Index to Advertise[?]

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Adams Industries 29, 43, 49, 133 Alcan 2 Angliss, W„ & Co. 76 Ansett-A.N.A. . . 167 «CN.Z. Bank . . 143 Arnott, Wm. . . 124 Aust. Canvas ... 74 A. 166 Ballina Slipway . 100 Bank of N.S.W. . . 95 Berec Ltd 48 Bethell, Gwyn . . 153 Blau, Robt. ... 99 Blaxland-Rae . . 103 B. 156 Bosley Clipper Co. 133 Bradford Cotton Mills Ltd. . . 132 Braybon Bros. . . 9 British Dairies 44, 98 British General Electric ... 165 British Paints . . 16 Brunton & Co. . . 78 Burness ... 157 Bush, W. J. . . 48 B. . . 41, 89, 137, cov. iii Cadbury ... 138 Carlton Breweries 91, 140 Carpenter Ltd. . 68, 96, cov. iv Carnation Milk Co. 12 Cemac 10 C'wealth, Bank . 11 Colgate ... 30 Colonial Meat . 122 Colyer Watson . 118 Crammond Co. . . 98 C. 47 Cummins Diesel . 114 Cystex 73 Donald Ltd. ... 70 Douglas, W„ Co. 127 Dunlop Rubber . . 36 European Express 154 Evans, R. . . . 141 Everyday Products 107 Filmo Depot . .105 Firth Cleveland . 94 Franke & Heidecke 52 Frigate Rum . .115 Gardner Eng. . . 106 Garrett, D. M. . 161 Gilbey, W. & A. . 15 Gillespie Bros. . . 28 Gillespie, R. . 1, 56, 128, 151 Glaxo Lab. ... 31 Gordon's Gin . .131 G.P.H. (Suva) . . 44 Greenson Photo graphies ... 3 Grove Ltd. . 28, 144 Halvorsen, B. . . 110 Handi-Works Co. . 52 Hastings Diesels 168 Hellaby Ltd. . . 134 Hemingway Robert son Institute . 130 Hockstadt, J. . .43 1.C.1 92 International Harvester ... 42 Kanimbla Hall . 105 Kerr Bros. . . . 115 Kiwi Polish ... 78 Kopsen & Co. . . 104 Kraft Food Co. . 7, 13 Lawrence, A. . . 144 Lysaght, J. . . .147

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Matson Lines .1 Mendaco . . I Millers Ltd. . .] M. H. Ltd. . 2-

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Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

too Z B (Artist's impression of Morris Hedstrom's modern new store in Thomson Street, Suva.)

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China Navigation Co. ‘Chula’ Copra Dryers Electrolux Limited Ford Motor Co.

General Electric Co., Ltd.

Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co Morris Hedstrom Limited are Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

Matson Navigation Company Max Factor & Co., Inc.

Pacific Islands Transport Line Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd.

Rootes Ltd.

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Nchor

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NEW ZEALAND.

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REPRESENTING

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THROUGHOUT THE

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In Fiji as:

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Gillespie’s Anchor Floor la milled from selected high quality Australian wheats and Is entoleted for parity. Its consistent high quality has made It the best-known, most asked-for brand of flour In the Islands. (Entoletlon Is a special new purifying process which reduces the risk of insect infection).

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SSiedWsi

TORY SHUTDOWNS

EAN FURTHER GIOOM

FOR FIJI’S LABOUR

From a Suva Correspondent cause of insufficient business old established Bish Engineer- Works and the comparatively G. B. Hari clothing factory id operations in September and v about 100 workers, some of ' highly skilled, on the very Fiji labour market. Some of Bish staff had been with the for well over 20 years. The ing factory employed mainly m. lEN the clothing factory was founded its backers had the hope that an important part s produce, shirts, would find ady market in New Zealand, pressure that the New Zealand making industry could bring sar on the government there however, apparently under ated. A trade barrier was 3d which effectively barred the iroduct, and in Fiji the locally shirts could not compete with cheaper lines coming in from kong. The Suva factory at nt has no tariff protection the Hongkong product, ae time ago the employees of factory staged a strike for ■ conditions. Some sort of merit was apparently reached :h its terms were never made 2, but the firm has alleged tely that since the strike there been considerable obstruction

sewin| ab of a^ e pr^r?fc ! e form ° f mi f" sewing of garments, omitting to a slcGve, or fitting odd-sized

ass mm

to I do V s 1 W do o wn ll for h thf present about 60 workers wefe Sn a week’s pay and disnfissld p y cuiu uisinissea.

Other Work, Too The opening of the big new wellequipped Public Works Department workshop at Walu Bay last year has meant that certain heavy engineermg w9rk which formerly went to thp r p nvate firms 18 now bemg done Added to this the Gilbert and EUice Islands Government, which sends all its vessels to Suva for surveys and refitting, this year

transferred its business to the PWD —who own the only slipway capable of handling the larger vessels The

«« srs,h

-r Earl ! er . this year the Resident Commissioner of the GEIC made it ? lear , that bls government had been far from pleased with some of the work carr i ed Out by private firms.

Charges, too, had been very high.

He considered that the Fiji private engineering firms had only them selves to blame for the loss of this valuable business, Whatever the reasons for thp closures, the fact is that with the

SSiedWsi

holdup, these latest Events add further gloom to the labour situa tion in Fiji.

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GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AUSTRA-

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corner of Williamstown Road and Smith Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Paint and Enamel Manufacturers, used by them in respect of Prepared and partly prepared paints, enamels, stains, varnishes, lacquers, japans, gold and other sizes, finishes, distempers, primers, glosses, glazes, and preparations for preserving wood, metal, stone and fabrics of all kinds. and the Trade and Public are hereby cautioned against any infringement or improper use of the same.

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aforesaid GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AUSTRALIA PROPRIETARY

LIMITED, bearing any representation of the said Trade Mark or any colourable imitation thereof.

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Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 422-428 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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The Dark Days In New Guinea

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Exocoetus Volitans

COVERS THE SAME GROUND!

W A 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 sameground” but in a more regular and predictable fashion, bringing the blessing of modem transportation to the Pacific Islands.

Significantly the “Maroro” is the TEAL emblem symbolising the airline’s function of serving the South Pacific.

New Zealand's International Airline

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Enquiries or reservations your Travel Agent or nearest TEAL office. In association with Qantas and BOA(

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There's An

WHERE THERE'S

A WILL

EXECUTOR

H AT.

Both the preparation and execution of a Will demand special knowledge. That is why your Solicitor is the right man to draw-up your Will. However, the future administration of your Estate deserves similar care, too.

Your affairs—and your family’s financial security— must not be controlled by anyone who is inexperienced or incapable.

It is easy to find out why your Executor should be Burns Philp Trust Company Limited. A 20-page booklet gives you all the essential information about the responsibilities of an Executor. It also sets out the duties of a Trustee and Attorney. Ask for your complimentary copy at any branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited, or Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited. Or write to the Trust Company’s nearest office.

DIRECTORS: James Burns Joseph Mitchell P. T. W. Black Eric Priestley Lee MANAGER: L. S. Parker

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.A.S.A.

BURNS PHILP TRUST COMPANY

LIMITED

Executor • Trustee • Attorney Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Telegraphic Address: “BURNSTRUST”. Box 543, G.P.O.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides).

See TRACTION in ACTION

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Buy a truck designed for rugged conditions. Buy International all-wheel-drive trucks.

DISTRIBUTORS:

DUTCH NEW GUINEA: H. Englebert n.v., Hollandia. SOLOMON ISLANDS: Mr. K. H. Dalrymple Hay, Honiara. NEW CALEDONIA: Agence Automobile, Noumea. TAHITI; Hintze & Company, Papeete. NEW HEBRIDES: Kerr Bros. Limited, Sydney. FIJI: Niranjan's Service Station, Suva. PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA: Steamships Trading Company Limited, Port Moresby and Samarai.

Dealers: New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Wau and Lae. Rabaul Trading Co. Ltd., Rabaul.

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER

International Harvester Company of Australia Pty. Ltd. District Sales Offices in Capital Cities of Australia. Works: Dandenong, Geelong and Port Melbourne, Victoria.

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Lemons For

To keep your skin clear and fair and your hair brilliant, you need the natural cleansing and bleaching tonic of lemons. Ask your chemist or store for a bottle of lemon delph, the latest lemon-type skin freshener that beautiful women are now using. Lemon delph bleaches yellowness of the hands and neck, beautifies the complexion as it melts out plugged pores and closes them to a beautifully fine texture.

Lemon delph is excellent for a quick cleanse or to quell a greasy nose. A little lemon delph brushed on the hair after your shampoo will give it the glamour of sparkling diamonds.

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141 Osborne Street, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia.

Cable Address: "Handbury" Melbourne.

Enquiries direct or through our Sales Promotional Representatives for the Pacific Islands:

DEMKA PTY. LIMITED

2-12 CARRINGTON ST., SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUST.

Tooralac Full Cream Powdered Milk is my choice, because it tastes so fresh and creamy . . made from pure, pasteurised country milk in one of Australia’s richest dairying districts.

I use it in tea, coffee, and in all my cooking . . . with wonderful results.

Tooralac Full Cream Powdered Milk is all the dairy I need !

Available in 12-oz., 3-lb. and 28-lb. tins.

at

stay

> X Delightfully situated in magm cent grounds overlooking Suv’ beautiful harbour, the Gra: Pacific Hotel is the social cen J of Fiji.

Specially designed for t tropics. Excellent cuisine, tentive service by trained Indi waiters and servants. Tar' Singles £2/15/- to £3/15; Doubles £7/10/- to £B/1C Telephones in every room.

Hotel in the process oft complete modernisation.

Under the new Manageme of:

CATHAY HOTELS LTD., Singapn

Cables: GRANPACIF SUVA

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of Taubmans glossy enamels!

Tropic tests” prove extra durability

(All Taubmans paints now in Spectrocolor)

“Weatherometer” test demonstrates the amazing

durability of Butex Full-Gloss!

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. 40 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

Bute*

“Sun-drench” test demonstrates the extra tadl

resistance of Revelite colours!

Sample panels of Revelite and other gloss enamels were left exposed to blazing sun f« months on end more sun than an inside pail would ever meet in years of wear! While oth» paints faded, Revelite Full-Gloss and Semi-Glo* stayed colour-bright!

Revelite enamels are tough, wipe sparkhu clean in a minute.

Use Revelite Full-Gloss or Semi-Gloss on £ inside woodwork and on walls and ceilings in tE hardest worked rooms in your house kitche? bathroom, children’s rooms. 42 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

taubman*

hevelitb

ESPECIALLY FORMULATED FOR THE TROPICS

T8224il

tn m <^> Which hardboard gives better nail finish?

The longer lasting

batteries that really

save money!

1

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TRADE MARK

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Factory Representatives: — DEAAKA PTY. LIMITED shell House / 2-12 Carrington St., Sydney, N.S.W.

Forjhe finest duality Flavourings and Perfume s. contact the

HOUSE OF

ST

ISLANDS REPRESENTATIVES:

DEMKA PTY. LTD.

2-12 Carrington St., Sydney M 5.711

FREE TECHNICAL SERVICE

Don't hesitate to write immediately on all your technical problems.

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Complexion

— (Advertisement)

Outdoor

That lovely fair complexion of yours was never meant to stand up to drying weather.

Be kind to it and see that it is protected when you are at sport or anywhere in the great outdoors. To keep free from sun stains, coarseness or dryness of the face, neck and hands, there is nothing finer than your oil of ulan. Always smooth it on under your makeup before you venture out and don’t forget your shady hat and smart sunglasses to prevent screwing up your eyes. Ask your chemist or store for oil of ulan. , . . Margaret Merril

You get

H U

only from engines kept carbon-free

■■ S» Cj \ Dram M 599 32 Mobiloil Special reduces carbon deposits . . . actually lifts your engine's power capacity.

Under the toughest stress and strain, Mobiloil Special will protect your engine against wear . . . keep vital parts clean . . . release every ounce of engine power.

DECARBONISING

Mobiloil

SpeciuC

and refill NOW at your LOCAL MOBILGAS STATION

October, 196 0 Pacific Islands Month

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Zzmsr Stamp

ABSOLUTELY FREE !

SEND NOW FOR THIS AMAZING

“TINY COUNTRIES ” COLLECTION

Free collection from some places you’ve never heard of . . . from all over the world. ANTIGUA stamp shows ancient muzzle-loading cannon! SARAWAK shows natives logging; FALKLAND ISLANDS pictures a mighty icebreaker.

Amongst many others are stamps from VIRGIN ISLES, MAURITIUS, NEGRI SEMBLIAN, ST. PIERRE, MIQUELON, etc., etc.

You can own this collection QUITE FREE. This offer is made to introduce our stamps-on-approval service. AND in your envelope we will send fascinating selections of stamps which you can either purchase at the prices marked, or return.

PRINT your name and address, ask for the SPECIAL "M" Stamps and send with 1/- Postal Note (or unused stamps) to cover mailing and clerical costs. Post TODAY to:

ROCKET STAMPS, BOX 37, P. 0.,

CREMORNE, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

He'd do better with a

HANOI

KERO-PET

Stormproof

LANTERN !

Twice as bright as electric light!

Don't put up with dim, eye-straining light get a HANOI Pressure Lantern for brilliant 300 candle-power lighting in your home, caravan, for fishing, boating ANYWHERE!

The HANOI is completely stormproof, easy, safe to use and one filling gives you approximately 12 hours of brilliant lighting.

Beautifully finished, rustproofed. You can pay a lot more for a lantern, but you can't buy better.

AVAILABLE IN KEROSENE AND PETROL MODELS

Other HANOI quality products include: The HANOI Portable Twin- Burner Stovette and the HANOI Pumpless Petrol Iron. Ask for HANOI! mm % \ i i \ i \ / v ✓ (H.L.2) 3

rou GET WHAT YOU SEE

Qollei

i M pure joy. Nothing photographic wi seem difficult; there will be n trouble in focusing, no guesswork framing and composing the picture the superbright „Rolleiclear" foe sing screen always shows the pr view of the picture to be, alwa 1 visible in exact negative size, colorfi with maximum sharpness, bright ar brilliant, exactly as it will come oi

You get what you set

This is the important feature of th ROUE I. Perfect design, precisio and quality are accepted as tak< for granted with this world-famo< camera. lANKE & HEIDECKE • BRAUNSCHWEIG • GERMANY Any Rollei Dea'er will be glad to demonstrate the entire Rollei line —top models Rolleiflex 3.5 f, 2.8 f and Tele-Rolleiflex.

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Turners Supply Company Limited

* u &

FEEL RELAXED!

Ease that tension Chew P.K. Gum.

Pleasant chewing reduces strain* Helps you feel relaxed.

Enjoy it anytime anywhere.

Health^ 1

F. 14 Delicious!

GVJ^

TURNERS & GROWERS LTD.

AUCTIONEERS FRUIT & PRODUCE MERCHANTS

AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND

WE SPECIALISE IN THE EXPORT TO THE TROPICS

OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE, POTATOES, ONIONS,

APPLES AND FRUITS IN SEASON

All Inquiries to our Export Organisation:

Turners Supply Company Limited

Box 1370, Cables: Auckland, N.Z. “Tusco”, Auckland.

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xtm%-/SES

m

HELLABY’S

CROWN BRAND

canned meats

R.&W HELLA LTD.

AUCKLAND

Buying Agents for all Pacific Territories

and Authorised Agents for

• JAMES BUCHANAN & CO. LTD. Black & White Whisky. • COLEMAN Lanterns, Stoves, Irons, Water Heaters, Room Conditioners. • JOHN FISCHLE & SONS. “Sunnyside” Canned Fruits and Juices. • F. W. GREEN & CO. PTY. LTD. “Storm Line” Louvres. • MASSE. Car and Homelighting Batteries. • NAMCO FURNITURE PTY. LTD. Tubular Steel Household Furniture, Office Equipment and Aluminium Windows. • POPE PRODUCTS LTD. Electrical Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Mowers, Garden Equipment. • R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY. Camel, Winston & Salem Cigarettes, Prince Albert & Carter Hall Tobaccos. • LAWLER & SONS PTY. LTD. Lotusland and Simmons Mattresses and Bedding. • SIMPSON BROS LTD. Food Products. • TOOTH & CO. LTD. Pilsener, KB. & DA Beers. !! S?v ST ROBERT GILLESPIE Pty. ltd. <£T-SS,

ALSO 334 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND.

ROBERT GILLESPIE (N.G.) LTD. ROBERT GILLESPIE (FIJI) LTD.

Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Port Moresby Victoria Parade, Suva

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Buying

THE NEW CHULA COPRA DRYING MACHINE

Constructed for capacities between 1,500 lbs. and 13,500 lbs., the new Chula Copra Dryer is built up in units of 1,500 lbs. Thus the capacity of the drying chamber can be increased as required by adding additional units. The design ensures easy loading and unloading, and reversible air-flow control gives uniform drying. An efficient oil burning machine, the new Chula has automatic control and is fully safeguarded against fire risks.

Tyneside Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd. also provide:

• Solid Fuel Copra Dryers (Wood.Husk,etc.)

• Dessicated Coconut Processing Machinery • Rubber Machinery Reduced in cost...

Efficient in operation Requires minimum labour You are invited to write for full details and name of your nearest agent

TYNESIDE FOUNDRY & ENGINEERING CO. LTD.

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND

We have been providing efficient ;

BUYING

W. S. TAIT fir CO.

PTY. LTD.

8 Spring Street, Sydney Cables: "SUCCESS".

and

WE specialise the quirements of the Pacific Islands.

The experience of 70 years blended with the vigour of youth offers YOU a world-wide buying and selling network which cannot be excelled.

SELLING

SERVICE

nee 1890

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MONT BLANC

MILK PRODUCTS

Yours 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. Natural pure whole MILK.

Use straight from the can. Sterilised for added purity and long lasting qualities.

MONT BLANC Evaporated unsweetened MILK.

It’s richer, creamier and retains all its smooth, farmfresh flavour right to the last drop.

MONT BLANC CHOCREAM.

A delicious blend of milk and chocolate that may be used for iced drinks or as a topping for Ice Cream or desserts.

SWEETENED condensed MILK in TUBES.

Stops waste. Just the thing for picnics, boating, camping. Keeps for a long period, stays fresh.

MONT BLANC Reduced Cream.

It’s rich—it’s pure—it’s wholesome —Serve it straight from its flavour-saving gold-lined can.

TONGALA MILK PRODUCTS LIMITED

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA

Associate of BERNESE ALPS MILK CO.,

SWITZERLAND

TMB/240

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Four Best Performers with Speed

PROVEN TO BE THE. . .

and Sea Worthiness.••

I

38-ft.’COMMANDER'

37’6"x I2’x 2'9” with twin Chrysler 177 HP speed 27MPM Sleeps six in comfort. This boat is offered with custom modification in arrangement where the full balance and basic hull strength scheme are not affected.

16-ft.’SERENA'

v .6’x 6’ beam, sleeps two. This miniature cruiser is a practical type of hull for rugged all around use. Ideal ski boat with 4oMP outboard motor.

21-ft. ’SPORT-CRUISER'

21* x 8’ beam. This express cruiser is equipped with two berths, toilet, ice bo sink and galley, with Chrysler 177 MP speed 35MPH. &

IS-ft.’SKIBOAT’

15 , x6 6* , beam.This outboard runabout has an extremely roomy cockpit for water ski equipment and cruising gear.

Powered by outboard motors from IoHP to 75HP,

Manufactured by :

SCIENTIFIC SERVICE CO.,

LTD.

4A7, Alexandra House, Hong Kong, P. O. 923

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Steamships Trading Company Lte

PORT MORESBY, SAMARAI and POPONDETTA

Wholesale tr Retail Merchants, Shipowners, Planters, Sawmillers, Slipway Proprietors, Engines Shipping, Customs and Insurance Agents

MANAGING AGENTS for:

COCOALANDS LTD.

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:

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 HARVESTER CO. OF AUST. L

International Motor Trucks.

International Industrial Tractors and Equipment.

McCormick-International Farm Tractors ' Equipment.

Australian Agents : NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., 197 Clarence St., Sydney and Stanley St., South Brisbane I M

MSS*

ek How refreshing to sit at ease with a glass of sparkling cool K.B. Lager . . . truly "lager as you like it" . . . truly the favourite of men and women

everywhere!

Tooth s

Lagc

BREWED AND BOTTLED BY TOOTH & CO. LIMITED

FOR OVER

FOR OVER 50 YEARS

tough, reliable S. & L.

PIPES and FITTINGS have been specially made for gas, water, steam, etc.

STEEL MERCHANTS and

DISTRIBUTORS also of

GALVANISED IRON

plain or corrugated

ELECTRODES and WELD-

ING EQUIPMENT JOHN

VALVES and SAUNDERS

VALVES (specially suited for difficult fluids).

50 YEARS

STEWARTS AND LLOYDS

(DISTRIBUTORS) PTY. LIMITED

11 i|i nil 1 1 ii l|i I I .1 I mill ii y Fiji Agents: Burns Philp (N.G.) Ltd. Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., Suva

BOOKS FOR EVERYONE

We Search the World Successfully for Rare and Out-of-print Books FOOD PLANTS OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS (Emile Massal and Jacques Barrow).

Illustrated. 7/6, postage 1/-.

TIME WELL SPENT (Evelyn Cheesman). Another remarkable story of Miss Cheesman’s remarkable life as an entomologist exploring the Pacific Islands. Illustrated. £l/11/-, postage, 1/6.

THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF LAPEROUSE —The Vanishing Frenchman (E.

W. Allen). £l/8/3, postage 2/-.

WE, THE TIKOPIA (Raymond Firth) A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia. £4/1/3, postage 2/-.

NEW GUINEA CATALOGUE OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF EVAN R. GILL, with Special Reference to Papua. £2/10/-, postage 2/-.

AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC (O. H. Spate). A visual Geographic.

Illustrated. £l/8/-, postage 1/6.

N. H. SEWARD PTY. LTD.

457 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia. MU 6129

(hmt ItUVufi.

is a "must" for

tropical baking

£

y%G°powp^

Aunt Mary’s Baking Powder is always fresh and maintains its full strength. It never deteriorates in its airtight container, that’s why your cakes and pastries will have an extra lightness and stay fresh longer when you use Aunt Mary’s Baking Powder. You also cook with the important, and in the tropics, the vital advantage of adding the rising agent when you do your mixing—that is the right time—the best time for sure results.

You’re in for a wonderful treat when you try Aunt Mary’s Tomato Sauce, Tomato Juice, Jellies, Custard, Baked Beans, Spaghetti, Lemon Butter and Canned Soup.

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Sunshine

fresher y

richer

creamer

than straight-from-the-dairy milk . . s that's

Sunshine

cfiscwft powdered milk

Yes, Sunshine Powdered Milk has all the freshness and creaminess of straight-from-the-dairy milk. Sunshine is whole milk, homogenised for extra digestibility and pasteurised for absolute safety.

A Nest/e's

quality product

unshi

m eaH f U L

-s?

V/ 5 T / \ P 0

Fresh Foods

The C 80 will conserve up to 100 lb. dry weight of pre-frozen packaged foods.

Even fresh foods may be kept for several weeks or many times longer in the CBO than in an ordinary refrigerator.

Cold Drinks

Up to 80 bottles can be stored in the four wire baskets supplied with the C 80; beer and all kinds of soft drinks are rapidly and economically cooled even in places where there is no electricity available.

The C 80 cooling unit carries a 5-yean guarantee; the chest and other parti are guaranteed for one year.

KEROSENE

OPERATED

The C 80 is the first cooler in the world to operate without electricityy or blocks of ice. Economic in use pays for itself in a short time..

ELECTROLUX

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD., The Wales House, 27 O'Connell St., Sydney. BL 5421 lerlcc iUK AGENTS: New Guinea Co. Ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo. Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby. 5.C.1.E., Moumea. 8.5.1. P. Trading Corporation, Honiara, Gizo. Burns Philp (NH) Ltd., Vila, Santo. F. J. R.

Simmonds, Norfolk Island.

A Swedish quality product

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A. B. Donald Ltd.

For that well-groomed look

There is nothing so excellent for keeping the hair smooth, glossy and healthy as Yardley Lavender solidified brilliantine. It gives your head that sleek look of grooming which is so desirable, and you will like the clean fresh tang of the perfume. Use it regularly and beware of imitations.

YARDLEY

LAVENDER BRILLIANTINE

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.

NEDERLAND LINE ROYAL DUTCH MAIL ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD

AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND

Regular Sailings by Fast, Modern Cargo-Vessels

Between

MADANG, LAE, RABAUL, PORT MORESBY

and HONIARA (8.5.1.)

and SOUTH and NORTH EUROPEAN PORTS, including U.K. and vice versa, either direct or with transhipment in owner's option.

Vessels are equipped with refrigerated and (deep) freezing cargo space.

Also equipped with facilities for self-loading and discharging of heavy cargo of up to 240 tons.

For further particulars apply to the Agent :— BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD. WM. BRECKWOLDT & CO. NEW GUINEA COMPANY LIMITED Port Moresby and Lae Honiara Rabaul and Madang

EXPORTERS. . . Catering to the South Pacific

C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD.

66 Pitt Street, Sydney (Corner of O’Connell and Pitt Streets) Telephone: 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.

Offices at: London, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and at Suva and Lautoka, Fiji; Rabaul and Lae, New Guinea

BUYERS OF ISLANDS PRODUCE

Mm

Bronchitis

If you cough, wheeze, can’t ithe or si breathe or «leep well due to Asthma, Catarrh or Bronchitis attacks, get MENDAOO from your chemist or store today.

MENDAOO works through the blood and bronchial tubes to dissolve and remove offending phlegm congestion. Then your cough Is curbed, rou can breathe freely sleep like a baby, and regain natural energy. Satisfaction or money back Is guaranteed. Save this notice.

SKIN ITCH

Stopsln/Mihutes

Don’t let ugly, disfiguring Pimples, Eczema, Acne, Ringworm, Psoriasis, Blackheads or Itching, Cracking, Peeling, Burning Skin Troubles make life miserable and spoil your fun.

Don’t be embarrassed and feel inferior because of a bad skin.

Now every chemist has a new American Hospital Discovery called Nixodenn that stops the itch In 7 minutes, kills germs and fungus and in 24 hours begins to heal the skin clear, soft and smooth. No matter how long you have suffered or what you have tried, get Nixoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return your money if not entirely satisfied

Siop Kidney

PoisoningTodw

If you suffer from Rheumatism, Sleepless Nights, Leg Pains, Backache, Lumbago, Nervousness, Headaches and Colds, Dizziness, Circles under Eyes, Swollen Ankles, Loss of Appetite or Energy, you should know that your system is being poisoned because germs are impairing the vital process of your kidneys.

Ordinary medicines can’t help much, because you must kill the mrms which cause these troubles, and blood can’t be pure till kidneys function normally.

Stop troubles by attacking cause with Cystex—the new scientific discovery which starts benefit in 2 hours. Cystex must prove entirely satisfactory and be exactly the medicine you need or money back is guaranteed. Get Cystex from your chemist or store today.

• « K -■

Canvas to-

There is nothing better than Australian canvas to protect valuable boats and equipment. Canvas has so many wonderful features it is waterproof, rotproof and so flexible. Hatch covers, engine covers, boat covers, helm covers, etc., made of canvas will stand up to a lot of hard usage for many years. Protect your valuable asset with Australian-made canvas.

Your canvas retailer will make a cover to fit any specification. Discuss, your problem with him right away.

Australian made

CIAINIVIA S

629

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HOT PACKS

16-oz. Vegetables & Steak. 16-oz. Steak & Kidney Pudding. 16-oz. Irish Stew. 16-oz. Vegetables & Sausages. 8-oz. Irish Stew. 8-oz. Vegetables & Steak. 8-oz. Vegetables & Sausages.

COLD MEATS

12-oz. Trim (Pork & Beef). 12-oz. Camp Pie. 12-oz. Corned Beef W/C 12-oz. Taper Corned Beef. 6-lb. Taper Corned Beef W/C. 6-lb. Taper Corned Beef. 12-oz. Taper Corned Beef W/C. 12-oz. Al-Tayib Halal Corned Mutton. 12-oz. Al-Tayib Halal Curried Mutton. 16-oz. 16-oz. 16-oz. 16-oz. 16-oz. 16-oz. 16-oz. 16-oz. 16-oz. 16-oz. 29-oz. 29-oz. 29-oz. 29-oz. 29- 30-

CANNED FRUITS

Peaches.

Pears.

Apricots.

Grapes.

Two Fruits.

Cherries.

Loganberries.

Gooseberries.

Raspberries.

Solid Pack Apple.

Peaches.

Pears.

Apricots.

Two Fruits.

Grapes.

Crushed Apples.

FRUIT JUICES

16-oz. 30-oz. 16-oz. 30-oz.

"Berri"

"Berri' "Berri' "Berri' 16-oz. "Berri" 30-oz. "Berri' 16-oz. 30-oz.

'Berri"

'Berri"

Tomato Juice.

Tomato Juice.

Orange Juice.

Orange Juice.

Grapefruit Juice.

Grapefruit Juice.

Apricot Nectar.

Apricot Nectar.

MARGARINE

56-lb. boxes Cake Margarine. 56-lb. boxes Pastry Margarine.

DRIPPING

SAUSAGES

16-oz. Beef Sausages. 16-oz. Oxford Sausages. 16-oz. Cambridge Sausages. 16-oz. Pork Sausages. 8-oz. Vienna Sausages. 4-oz. Vienna Sausages. 8-oz. Frankfurters.

"RIVERMEDE" BUTTER

56-lb. boxes Bulk Butter. 1-lb. pats Butter. £-lb. pats Butter. 12-oz. tins Butter. 16-oz. tins Butter. 16-oz. Tins Dripping. 37-lb. Tins Dripping.

TONGUES

12-oz. Sheep Tongues. 12-oz. Lamb Tongues. 12-oz. Calves' Tongues. 12-oz. Lunch Tongues. 2-Ib. Ox Tongues.

PEEK FREANS BISCUITS

In 4-lb Tins and 8-oz Packets.

Caramel Crunch, Cheddar Crackers, Digestive Ovals, Ginger Slice, Honey Snaps, Lattice, Vita Wheat, Wafers, Dairy Milk Arrowroot, Wheat Crunch, Dainty Creams, Mocha Creams, Custard Creams, Coquette Creams, Petite Creams.

AGENCIES: EASTERN TASMANIAN

FISHERMAN'S CO-OP. SOCIETY, Tasmania.

(Flair Canned Fish). TONGALA MILK COMPANY, Victoria. ("Jersey Cow" and "Mont Blane" Condensed Milk). PORI

HUON FRUITGROWERS CO-OP. ASSOCIATION

LTD., Tasmania. ("Huoncry" Canned Fruit

and James). PEEK FREAN (AUST.) PTY,

LTD. (Biscuit Manufacturers).

CONDENSED MILK

14-oz. Sweetened Condensed Milk. 14£-oz. Unsweetened Evaporated Milk. 12-oz. Chocream. 8-oz. Reduced Cream. 14-oz. Natural Milk. 7-oz. Tubes Sweetened Condensed Milk

CANNED FISH

12-oz. Flair Fish Cutlets.

HOT NEWS

Economical, convenient 8-oz. cans are now available in the Pacific Islands.

Choose your favourite dish from Irish Stew, Vegetables and Steak, Vegetables and Sausages.

MUSHROOMS

8-oz. Sliced Mushrooms.

W. ANCLISS

& CO. (AUST.) PTY. LTD.

RIVERSTONE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD.

Imperial" House, 255-257 George Street

Sydney, N.S.W.

REDBANK MEAT WORKS PTY. LTD

154-206 Stanley Street South Brisbane, Queensland

For only n of total its 1 cost you can make your home 15° cooler

WITH ALUMINIUM FOIL

Si SALAT!ON

ANOTHER

PRODUCT

SISALKRAFT DISTRIBUTORS PTY. LTD.

MUNGO SCOTT PTY. LTD.

Established 1894

AUSTRALIAN

cc UJ

SYDNEY

AUSTRALIA

FLOUR MILLERS

SUMMER HILL, NEW SOUTH WALES

Cables & Telegraphic Address: SUPERB, Sydney

All over the world Smart people —

START the day right

with a Kiwi Shine

n New York to Timbuctoo— om 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

8156 Fron Fr<

SELF

PLAIN AND

RAISING

FLOUR.

CUk

ESTABLISHED 1868

Agents for Fiji. Tonga and Samoa: C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji.

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Lindemans

VINTAGE WINES

BY

SUNSHINE

VINEYARD

RIESLING

This classical wine was awarded Ist prize in the 1957 Adelaide Show.

Serve Chilled. ■ s ' •S 3 3 .re-'.. • sun»hin

FU^TUng

lurgun 1 GORDOWEIN —dry white.

GREMACHE ROSE— light red.

SUNSHINE RIESLING.

COOLALTA RED HERMITAGE— dry red.

COOLALTA WHITE BURGUNDY— soft, smooth white.

Pacific Islands Agents :

TALLERMAN & CO. PTY. LTD.

60-62 York Street, Sydney, Australia Cable: "FRESHNET", Sydney

JSKJ

YOUR HORIZONS WITH

PHILIPS

Throughout the world, millions of people have widened their experience, enjoyed life more with Philips radio. For Philips radio

gives superb reception of

broadcasts from all over the globe.

But to enjoy all the riches the world has to offer, radio alone is no

longer enough. Music performed

by the world’s greatest artists will take you in spirit to the four comers of the world : you can share this experience with Philips records and record players. Sound

recording captures your happiest

moments and lets you relive them again : Philips tape recorders provide a faithful mirror to life.

And all these Philips

products share the outstanding

qualities that have made Philips radio famous for technical superiority and

long-life reliability.

PHILIPS RADIO

From powerful portable sets to large ‘ Ban spread * instruments made for mains or batte operation, Philips make a tremendous range: first-class radios. Buy Philips, and you buy 1 tomorrow as well as today !

PHILIPS RECORD PLAYERS

Philips make many superb record players for u either as self-contained amplifiers, or, in cot bination with Philips radio, to give outstandii stereophonic reproduction. Philips Recoc Players are the pinnacle of modern technit achievement.

PHILIPS TAPE RECORDERS

Increase your enjoyment of everyday livin Capture your children’s first words . . . yoc family’s laughter. Re-live your happu moments with a Philips Tape Recordd Designed and developed by the world’s fim sound engineers, it will record and reprodu. every sound with complete fidelity.

PHILIPS RECORDS

The world’s greatest soloists, conductors, an orchestras record the music of all continents ft Philips many of them exclusively. Worll wide experience and superior technical equii ment enable Philips recording engineers capture for ever superb performances that lit again whenever you play Philips records.

PHILIPS

-value for money

PHILI

Names of Philips’ Agents/Distributors can be found on page 145.

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Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Registered Office: SUVA, Fiji

Code Address: “BURNSOUTH”.

GENERAL MERCHANTS AND SHIPOWNERS

BRANCHES;

Fiji:-

Suva.

Levuka.

Lautoka.

Labasa.

Savu Savu.

• Queensand

Samoa:-

Ba. Apia.

Sigatoka. Pago Pago.

Tavua.

Rotuma Island.

Taveuni.

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 Sunsash 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.

Shipping, Customs

•S. Maw Son & Sons (Surgical

Dressings).

• McAlpine Refrigeration Ltd.

• McLeay Duff & Co. (Whisky). • Mullard (Overseas) Ltd. (Radios). • OXedar Ltd. (Oils & Mops). • S.F. Appliances Ltd. • Robinson, Thomas & Son Pty. Ltd. • Slazengers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

• Sleepmakers Pty. Ltd.

• Standard Motor Co. • Stewarts & Lloyds (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

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 Service from NEW ZEALAND

PORTS to UNITED KINGDOM, via PANAMA.)

BANK LINE LIMITED

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

(Pacific Islands Transport Line. M.V. “Thor I” and M.V. “Thorslsle”.)

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

MARITTMES

(Regular First Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from FRENCH OCEANIA to MARSEILLES, via PANAMA.)

BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION

CO. LTD.

ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES

(Regular sailings to U.K./EUROPE, via PANAMA and SUEZ. First Class, Tourist Class and One Class Passenger Services.) Also INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES tor QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD. :: TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

TRANSPORTS AERIENS INTERCONTINENTAL

STEEL MESH

All Sizes for Fencing, Yards, Reinforcing

Building.

Mm

REINFORCING RODS

Straight or Fabricated, all sizes.

FENCING MATERIALS

Steel Posts; 8 and 10 G. Galvanised Fencing Wire, Barbed Wire (lowa Pattern), Galvanised Wire Netting, Pig Wire.

BUILDING MATERIALS

Steel Fabricated Sheds and Buildings with or without cover to your design or requirements.

Galvanised CORRUGATED or FLAT IRON, new only. STEEL SHEETS and PLATE, all sizes and guages. GALVANISED and BLACK PIPE, new and second hand. £

TREE FELLING SAWS

Cuts at any angle for tree felling, logging or bench work. Requires no modification for Ferguson Tractors.

Rotary Slasher attachment available if required.

J. MANNING AND SONS

215 Clarence St., Sydney, Aust.

Box 4774, G.P.0., Sydney. Phone: 29-6449.

Cables and Telegrams: "MANNTRADER", Sydney.

THE BEST DRINK

Satisfies the most discriminating!

Mvtleh

Jlag er Products of perfect fermentation!

CARLTON BREWERY (FIJI) LTD.

SUVA, FIJI

Vi t

uak

r/j £ 1 ... reliable ICI Sporting Cartridges. § Designed for top performance they're the 1 choice of champions everywhere. For trap • • 1 or field shooting there's a powerful ICI 1 shotgun cartridge in gauge, shot size and 1 load to meet the needs of every shooter. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirliiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii

value

for money

m BLUE STAR: The dual purpose, trap or field cartridge available in shot sizes, 3, 4,5, 6,7, 8, 10, with IVa ounces of shot.

ICIL SPECIAL: Available in a full range of shot sizes with IVa ounces of shot.

These cartridges are star crimped for tight patterns and lacquered for moisture resistance.

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GRAND PRIX: Available in shot sizes 88-10 with I'/is ounces of shot.

MAXIMUM: Heavy field load in shot sizes

SG, SSG, AAA, 88, 1,2, 3,4,

with IVa ounces of shot. m

SPORTING CARTRIDGE

Manufactured in Australia for Australian conditions by IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND LTI

AAA7H

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L ISO does it!

You name the job...

m

No matter what the season or the task, Landmaster L 150 will make light work of the toughest jobs you can give it. Landmaster's

rugged 4 h.p. engine will

work at any angle and deliver power continuously under all climatic conditions.

PLOUGHING

Balanced reversibl plough cuts through the soil so easily and so smoothl> it's not like work at all.

Completely automatic single or twin unit seeder plants the finest grasses and coarser seed, e.g., peas and corn.

V DIGGING

WEEDING

MULCHING

CULTIVATING

m

PUMPING

BXiiaH

sms

550 Fit tines or hoe blades and other static tools to the Landmaster Tool Bar for thorough harrowing. tsSai •

TRANSPORTING

GET DETAILS OF LANDMASTER Ll5O

AND GARDENMASTER SBO THE

LANDMASTER MACHINE FOR THE HOME GARDEN

NEW GUINEA DISTRIBUTORS:

Ilimo Farm Products, Port Moresby.

ISLAND DISTRIBUTION

from Company's Plant, Ballarat, Victoria.

All-purpose carting up to 7 cwts. capacity.

Strong angle iron frame.

LANDMASTER 1150 & GARDENMASTER S 80

Produced in Ballarat, Victoria, by

FIRTH CLEVELAND S

LANDMASTER DIVISION

MAIL THIS COUPON NOW!

Please forward me, completely free and without obligation, details of the Landmaster Ll5O and Gardenmaster SBO.

NAME

ADDRESS

8311

m

Going places?

Your trip will be much happier if you know that every detail has been settled in advance but there is no need to do it yourself. Much time and trouble can be saved by letting the Bank of New South Wales Travel Department assist you.

What the 44 Wales” Travel Department offers you Whether your journey is in Australia or overseas, the “Wales’ will gladly plan itineraries, make transport bookings and hotel reservations, arrange travel finance, and, for trips overseas, advise on passport, visa, and taxation clearance procedure.

Travel finance The modern way to carry money safely is by Bank of New South Wales Travellers' Cheques, which are readily accepted by all banki and by principal tourist bureaux, transport offices, hotels, restaurants and stores. ft* These services are available through all branches of the

BANK OF

NEW SOUTH WALES

FIRST AND LARGEST TRADING BANK OPERATING IN AUSTRALIA.

NEW ZEALAND. FIJI, PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA ( INOOBPOKATHD IN NIW BOOTH WALIB WITH LIMITHD LIABILITY)

ELECTROLUX

SVCT

m E

MODEL L 73

... the refrigerator

with a difference ...

ELECTROLUX

the universal

refrigerator

for every

household need.

• 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 8L5421

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OlandsMadeYouic

The UNITED

Insurance Co. Ltd.

(Inc. in New South Wales) ' M

FIRE, MARINE AND ACCIDENT

INSURANCES EXPERTLY

ARRANGED

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA

Branch: 18a Central Ave., Lae.

O. V. Spurrier, Manager.

FIJI

Branch: McGowan Building, Thomson Street, Suva.

C. H. Cornish, Manager.

OlandsMadeYouic

Vigour Renewed

WITHOUT OPERATION

If you feel old before your time or suffer from nerves, brain and physical weakness, you will find new happiness and health in an American medical discovery which restores youthful vim and vigour quicker than gland operation. It Is a simple home treatment in tablet form, discovered by an American doctor Absolutely harmless and easy to take, but the newest and most powerful invlgorator known to science. It acts directly on your glands, nerves and vital organs, builds new. pure blood, and works so fast that you can see and feel new body power and vigour In 24 to 48 hours. Because of Its natural action on glands and nerves, your power and memory often improve amaslngly.

And this amazing new gland and vigour restorer, called VI- Stim, has been tested and proved by thousands in America, and is now available at all chemists here. Get Vl-Btlm 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 of vim, vigour and energy, and feel 10 to 20 years younger, or money back.

To restore I Vim and

I Vigonr

VI-Stim

TOORALAC

FULL CREAM

POWDERED MILK

OJUI3

i & fuvv *\\* Enquiries direct or through our Sales Promotional Representative* for th« Pacific Islands:

DEMKA PTY. LIMITED

2-12 Carrington St., Sydney, New South Wales, Aust.

f "My Dairyman

lives in Australia yet I'm never without

supplies of

PURE FULL CREAM

MILK!"

My friends and family enjo; my cooking ... I always u TOORALAC Full Cre Powdered Milk ! It’s so d liciously creamy, always fresh tasting, and I make it as I neec it. Made in Australia from pure pasteurised country milk, Toorala is economical, with full milk value . . delicious for cooking and drinking Available in 12-oz., 3-lb. and 28-lb. tins Manufactured by BRITISH UNITED DAIRIES PTY. IT 141 OSBORNE ST. f SOUTH YARRA, VICTORIA, AUSTRAL

Cables: “HANDBURY”, MELBOURNE

SHIP-TO-SHIP

SHIP-TO-SHORE

INTER-ISLAND

RADIO-COMMUNICATION

is an Essential BE SURE WITH THE FINEST EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE

CRAMMONDS "CTR 20

Jt Latest in the Crammond range is that 50 watt CTR 20, 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

Manufacturing Co. Pty., Ltd.,

101 WICKHAM ST., VALLEY,

QUEENSLAND

TERRITORY DISTRIBUTORS:

AMALGAMATED ELECTRONICS LTD.

PORT MORESBY

NEW BRITAIN ELECTRONICS RABAUL C. D. Da COSTA LAE

Subtle, captivating, unforgettable. 57//fl , &

TOSCA

r Tl

4711 "TOSCA"

Perfumed Cologne, Perfume, Talcum Powder Imported direct from Cologne Representatives; Robert Blau (Australia) Pty. Ltd,, Box 4711, G. P. O. Sydney.

A 60/70

KWi M ■ I A MM m - u ■ n Hi *1 m m Ballina, Richmond River, N.S.W.

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

Ships slipped up to 300 tons

Owned by:

S. G. WHITE PTY. LIMITED

WORKS:

10 Lookes Ave., Balmain, N.S.W.

Phones: WB 2170, WB 2171, W 82119.

Diesel and General Engineers

SYDNEY

CITY OFFICE

30 Grosvenor St., Sydney.

Phone: BU 5062.

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Thornycroft (Aust.) Pty. Ltd

We offer a range of Marine Diesels—l 2 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.

»«r.« ‘'S L a Type RJD2

• GOOD DELIVERIES

• AMPLE SPARES AVAILABLE

BRITISH ANZANI

OUTBOARD MOTORS

The latest British Anzani outboard motors are now available. Details of these world famous units will be gladly sent on request.

Powers 21 to 30 H.P.

THORNYCROFT (Aust.) PTY. LTD

Box 2622, G.P.0., Sydney. FF 4224. Cables: "Thornmotor", Sydney.

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Fresh Fruit & Vecetables

Established Cable

1870 "WEYSEAS, SYDNEY".

Place yourselves in the hands of Specialists for your requirements in

FRESH FRUIT & VECETABLES

POTATOES & ONIONS

★ We invite your enquiries WEYMARK & SON (Overseas) Pty. Ltd.

14-18 STEAMMILL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

KERR BROTHERS PTY. LTD. FOR . . . ★ Blaxland 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:

KERR BROTHERS PTY. LTD.,

4 O'Connell Street, Sydney Box 3838, G.P.O. Cables: "Carefulness” Sydney

The World's Finest

bounoe?

OftSttS

MARINE ENGINES

ATTRACTIVE PRICES

1051 BR ► 12 HP £525/8/6

1052 BR t 25 HP £661/-/-

1113 BR ► 48 HP £1,148/-/-

1114 BR ► 64 HP £1,414/-/-

POWER

PERFORMANCE

ECONOMY

*(r Bolinder guarantees an engine that lasts and that is economical and convenient to run. Immediate starting under all conditions designed for quick and easy installation and simple operation and maintenance.

WRITE FOR DETAILS AND LEAFLETS

DEKOL

MDt

RENTA

5 HP DIESEL

PRESERVATIVE SOLUTION

For positive prevention against dry rot, decay, white ants, borers and marine teredo in timber.

Available in green or colourless. Dekol treated timbers can be painted over.

PRICE: —Green 5/6 pt., 9/6 i gal., 14/6 i gal., 26/2 gal. Colourless 6/2 pt., 9/10 i gal., 15/6 i gal., 27/10 gal.

EKO

frcm cassvm Ideal engine for boats up to 20 ft. or as yacht auxiliary.

WEIGHT 285 LBS.

WATERCOOLED

ALSO AVAILABLE

DEKOL WATERPROOFING SOLUTION FOR TENTS,

AWNINGS, ETC.

REVERSE AND REDUCTION

GEAR

W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTD.

Phone: BX 6331 (11 lines)

376-380 Kent St., Sydney

Cables; KOPSEN", Sydney

Prices are cheapest

in Hong Kong

NEW ! ! BELL & HOWELL

"ELECTRIC EYE" Camera 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.

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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The Pacific Islands Society

(Founded 1937) Visitors from the Pacific Islands to Sydney, or persons interested in Islands affairs, are Invited to communicate with the Honorary Secretary of the above Society which was formed to constitute a social and cultural centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherings with lectures, are held at the Feminist Club Rooms. 7th Floor. 77 King St Sydney, on the last Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Address for correspondence:

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY

Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney.

Furnished

Serviced

Suites

In Sydney

Kanimbla Hall, 19-20 Tusculum St., Potts Point, 5 minutes city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant. S.C., furn. serviced suites with separate Lounge. Bed and Bath Rms. and Kitchenettes. Refrig., H.W.. from £2/15/- dally for 2. from £3/15/for 3. nnder new management.

Write or Phone: PL 4141 (0 lines); after hours. FL 4140. Telegrams: “Kanlmblahall”, Sydney.

THE

MARINE PROPULSION

DIESEL ENGINE

NOW OFFERS

Another fine addition to the comprehensive range of world-famous Gardner Marine Engines with

INCREASED

POWER

r 'A

GREATER

FUEL

ECONOMY

Illustrated

THE 6LX MARINE DIESEL ENGINE

1 10 BHP at 1,300 RPM Fuel Consumption 127 BHP at 1,500 RPM .330 Ibs/BHP/Hour Available with 2:1 or 3:1 Reducing Gears Sole Agents for Papua-New Guinea Cr South West Pacific Islands

PERRIER & DICKINSON PTY. LTD.

POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 21, Artarmon, N.S.W., Australia Telegrams: "FERREOUS", Sydney Telephone: 43-1215 SALES SERVICE SPARE PARTS: Herbert Street, St. Leonards, N.S.W., Australia

THE KEROSINE-OPERATED

cZpZ

pay-as-you-go

HOT-WATER COMFORT

A Challenger kerosine-operated Bath Heater means genuine payas-you-go economy ... 3 to 4 steaming hot baths and numerous showers from one single quart of kerosine ... no unpleasant quarterly electricity or gas bills.

The Challenger is heavily plated in gleaming nickel over sturdy, corrosion-proof and brass construction for durability and trouble-free operation.

Challenger is attractive . . . easy to instal . . . and suitable for tank or mains supply. % Price complete with flu and cowl. £22/7/6 F.O.R. Sydney. 1 if

OBTAINABLE FROM CITY AND COUNTRY STORES

Manufactured by :

EVERYDAY PRODUCTS PTY. LTD.

105 RESERVE RD., ARTARMON, N.S.W.

TAIKOO DOCKYARD

HONG KONG

■ •• ■ ; >■, L -

SHIP AND ENGINE

BUILDERS AND REPAIRERS

(DOXFORD AND SULZER LICENCEES)

SALVAGE OPERATORS

Above: M.V.

"HERVAR", one of two motor cargo vessels built for Messrs.

Bruusgaard Kiosterud Drammen, Norway. i Leif: M.V.

"TARAWERA",

all refrigerated motor cargo vessel built for the Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd.

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. > ■ >. ■ mm.

ill

; ■ M> : 111 m ■

AUSTRALIA:

SWIRE & YUILL PTY. LTD.

6 Bridge Street,

SYDNEY

General Representatives :

NEW ZEALAND:

C. W. F. HAMILTON & CO., LTD.

Lunns Road, Middleton,

CHRISTCHURCH

Only M Shafting

Gives You All These Advantages

CORROSION-RESISTANT..NON-RUSTING

and 72 to 105% STRONGER . . 42% STIFFER . . OVER 85% TOUGHER . . . 57% HARDER . . . than shafting of other materials.

In your boat, you want a propeller shaft on which you can always depend—no other shafting offers such an outstanding combination of properties as Monel.* So ... if you're building a new boat or replacing a shaft, make sure your new shaft is just as safe and dependable as possible by specifying MONEL.

Further information about Monel 'propeller shafting will gladly be forwarded by: WRIGHT & COMPANY PTY. LTD., 81 Clarence St., Sydney Sole Australian Distributors of Monel :: Phone: BXI2II (Six Lines) * Monel is a registered trade-mark covering a rich alloy, mined in Canada and rolled in Great Britain. 1

CARGO VESSELS

Photo shows the 60 feet K Class Copra Vessel, built by us for Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. of Port Moresby, here carrying 420 bags of copra on a draft of only 5 feet 6 inches These vessels and also 40 feet Army Workboats are in regular production in our yards.

For all types of Island vessels

BJARNE HALVORSEN LTD.

John Street North Sydney, N.S.W. Cable Address: "BERRYSBOAT", Sydney.

• TUGS

• PUNTS

• BARGES

• LAUNCHES

• COASTERS

• PONTOONS

• WORKBOATS

One of four Dumb Barges 60 ft. long by 20 ft. beam.

Send your enquiries to:

WALKERS LIMITED

SMALL CRAFT SECTION

P.O. Box 211, Maryborough, Qld., Aust.

’HOENIX SHIPBUILDING &

ENGINEERING Co. Ply. Ltd.

Shipbuilders & Repairers in Steel & Wood JILDING CAPACITY UP TO 150' LENGTH. FOUR

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Bentall Coffee Machinery. Mowall Mowers. Blowamist Mister- Dusters. British Ropes Ltd. Rental Soaps. Primus Appliances.

Vaughan Radio-Telephones. Sherwin-Williams Paints. Killrust Paints. Nordex Hardboard. Ushers Green Stripe Scotch Whisky.

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DISTRIBUTORS OF;

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EIGHTH

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Forms 111 to VI.

ROLL: 160 TO 180 BOARDERS.

COURSES: Academic, General, Agricultural.

Boys are prepared for the following Examinations; School Certificate, University Entrance, Junior University Scholarship.

The College is set in beautiful surroundings, 28 miles south of Auckland, with a farm of 400 acres attached, providing a source of revenue and an excellent training ground for Agricultural students. The school is well-equipped, with modern classrooms, excellent hostel facilities, firstclass playing-fields. All staff are residential.

Fees; £73/6/8 per Term, plus "extras".

Write for Prospectus and Enrolment Forms to The Principal, Wesley College, P.O. Box 58, Pukekohe, New Zealand.

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.

BL 5305, BL 1737

or any of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach.

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AT ALL ISLAND STORES

Made by Piccaninny Manufacturing Company, Manly, N.S.W., Australia.

PIC-A-LYPTUS ... a disinfectant and deodorant

When we were married

& * • £ CS7 Times change don't they? I remember how we used to pay for everything in cash, and just had one of the old style Savings Accounts. Now we re really bank minded; we have our Cheque Account and a new, convenient Savings Account, both at the same branch of A.N.Z. Bank, and save time, effort and money. It's mighty convenient, believe me.

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Orders should be placed through your usual Islands’ Agents

ALFRED LAWRENCE

& COMPANY PTY. LYD.,

437 Kent Street, Sydney, Australia °U R World-wide Suppliers of Essences and Edible Colours

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' 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

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

PHILIPS

PHILIPS

designed for your c

your home. ,y|li

in the South Pacific area: British Solomon Islands Trading Corp. Honiara Burns Phlip (New Guinea) Ltd., Soma rat.

Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd Vila and \ L “9 a '?T— .

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co Ltd., Nuku Ajofa, V » va £ ° n Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd, Pago Pago, Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd .-Apia, West err ' $$} oa Comptoirs Franpais des NouveKes L Etablissements Ballande, Noumea New Caledonia.

Fiji Trading Co. Ltd., Suva, Ft|i Islands.

SS|S! C Ho!SI?^-FX«*r 0 Sorong, M.«o k «»ri, Blok. S««i. , .. ,j

CCS

[ y islands. : pai See also advertisement on page 80.

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 us to tackle

A KEEN PRICE AND FIRST-CLASS WORKMANSHIP

GUARANTEED

Sole Distributors for: —

Vauxhall Cars Bedford Trucks Chevrolet Cars Rover Cars Land Rovers Frigidaire Refrigerators Johnson Outboard Motors Firestone Tyres Vesta Batteries Coseley Prefab. Buildings Allis Chalmers Tractors Priestman Excavators "Coles" Diesel Electric Cranes Galion Graders Taylor "Jumbo" Cranes Broomwade Compressors Ruston & Hornsby Engines Hoover Appliances Belling Electric Stoves B.A.L.M. Paints G.E.C. Radios S.K.F. Ball Bearings

MILLERS LIMITED, Suva & Lautoka, Fiji

G.P.O. Box 296, Suva Cables: “LUMBA”, Suva

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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 on ...

Trade inquiries to: JOHN LYSAGHT (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD., Offices in Sydney, Newcastle. Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Fremantle

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Samoa's Debate

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Samoa's Debate (Continued from page 23)

Fiji's Troubles

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Whither N. Hebrides ?

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£ "Will Move Towards Common Roll" (Continued from page 18)

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and HAWAII

visitiaHTTl

on your way

to the U.S.A.

or the U. K.

Now it’s easy to include both the Paradise Isle of French Oceania and Hawaii on your eastbound journey to the United Kingdom or United States —and at only slight added cost!

Fly to Tahiti by the airline of your choice. After an exotic interlude in Tahiti, continue via luxurious South Pacific Air Lines to Hawaii and connecting services to your final destination.

For full information and reservations, see your travel agent.

UTH PA

Ain LINES

A Scheduled U.S. Certificated Air Line Fly with the Dollar Flag • Pioneer in Pacific Luxury Travel KC

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Step on board for

the time of your life

>xC 7 ti f r*

to and from America

S.S. MARIPOSA S.S. MONTEREY

Sailing Dates Northbound

Matson service makes you feel you’re America’s special guest. Life on board these yacht-like ships is the peak in sheer travel pleasure. Each stateroom is blessed with its own hi-fi, private

bath and toilet, push-button air-conditioning.

The food’s marvellous, the entertainment is fun of the first order. It’s First Class comfort all the way in these stabilized ships superb travel-

value for your money.

MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

MONTEREY

SYDNEY

Nov. 18 Dec. 9 Jan. 7 Jan. 25 Feb. 24

AUCKLAND

Nov. 22 Dec. 13 Jan. 10 Jan. 28 Feb. 27

SUVA

Nov. 25 Dec. 16 Jan. 13 Jan. 31 Mar. 2 and sailings approx, every 3 weeks thereafter.

See your Travel Agent or 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

Nov. 26 Dec.

Jan.

Feb.

Mar

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Pacific Islands Transport Une

FIJI DIRECT SERVICE

VIA PANAMA

Regular Sailings every four weeks

London to Suva u Lautoka

Through Bills of Lading to LABASA - LEVUKA - APIA - PAGO PAGO

NUKUALOFA - VAVAU - NIUE

For further particulars apply to BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD. BURNS PHILP 138 Leadenhall Street (south sea) co. ltd.

London E.C.3 Suva

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRANSPORT UNE

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "THORSISLE" and "THOR I"

Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and TAHITI SAMOA - TONGA 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. APIA —Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

Ltd NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles LAE—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Hebrides SYDNEY —Birt & to. lio.

SHIP - AIR - RAIL

TOURS PLANNED

EXCURSIONS

HOTELS COACHES

TRAVEL SERVICE

For all shipping and airlines to and from the Pacific, Australia, Europe, U.S.A., Japan, etc.

Our Expert Advice Free :

EUROPEAN EXPRESS

COMPANY

Dalton House, 115 Pitt Street,

SYDNEY

Telephone BW 8663-4

S.S. SOUTHERN CROSS

The 20,000 tons all Tourist Class liner s.s. SOUTHERN CROSS emphasises the modem 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 • Airconditioned Dining Rooms • Orchestra • Cinema Theatre • Stabilisers.

For full particulars apply pij| Any branch or agency of Burns Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.).

Cable Address: Burphil. TAHITI - Etablissements Donald Tahiti.

Papeete. Cable Address: Donald, Papeete.

BOAC

‘stopover’ plan

gives you a choice of

27 EUROPEAN

CITIES

... at little or no extra air fare!

U

ROME . NAPLES • VENICE

MILAN • GENEVA • ZURICH

BASLE • MADRID • LISBON

BARCELONA . VALENCIA

PARIS • NICE • BRUSSELS

LYONS • LONDON • VIENNA

MARSEILLES • ATHENS

LUXEMBOURG • ISTANBUL

AMSTERDAM • SALZBURG

FRANKFURT • INNSBRUCK

DUSSELDORF . MUNICH

Fly BOAC by Rolls-Royce powered Comet jetliner to London via the colourful East and Continental Europe—and enjoy a fascinating sightseeing tour on your way. By BOAC and associated airlines you can visit a selection of these cities and break your journey at little or no extra air fare. 5 Comet services weekly from Sydney—3 from Melbourne.

For full details of Luxury or Lowfare services, see your Travel Agent or Qantas Empire Airways Ltd., (BOAC General Sales Agents in Australia).

BOAC

WORLD LEADER IN JET TRAVEL

BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION WITH AIR-INDIA, QANTAS, TEAL,

S.A.A. AND C.A.A.

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England - U.S.A. - Europe

CANADA - SOUTH AMERICA ■

JAPAN

Burness will arrange steamer and air reservations on all principal services for travel anywhere.

BOOK NOW FOR 1961

No service fees charged To see AMERICA travel GREYHOUND To see EUROPE travel LINJEBUSS

STEAMER AIR RAIL

GREYHOUND LINJEBUSS

RESERVATIONS COMPLETED

Itineraries Prepared Free Tour Planning, Maps and Brochures

Supplied

Book Now With

JAMES BURNESS TRAVEL

Direction; John Rigg

ST. JAMES BUILDING,

107 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Phone BW 1417

OFFICIAL PASSENGER BOOKING AGENTS

COCOA &

COFFEE

GROWERS..

covmpL veea.

with the MARINO

The ONE Revolutionary

advance in 50 years

4 TO 8 TIMES FASTER

THAN OLD METHODS

All insect and fungus pests are quickly destroyed by the Blowamist its powerful distribution by air of micronized chemical particles ensures penetration of the killing agent right into the smallest fold or crevice. The Chemical preparation stays on the leaves and stems there is no "run off" this is a definite advantage over liquid sprays.

For hormone weed control the Blowamist is way ahead.

Large areas can be covered in an amazingly short time.

In Queensland, results obtained by Blowamist users have been truly remarkable. Misting is unquestionably the modern method of pest control.

The Blowamist weighs only 32 lbs. and it offers complete and easy control for the operator. i If you prefer to dust instead of mist, Marino Products.

Ltd. have desgined an outstanding Dusting Attachment use with the Blowamist or it can be supplied ready ta as a duster. Capacities up to 4 lbs. per minute are avail

MARINO “MOWALL

Principal Ports

The ONE BIG

MOWER ...

Featuring 4-cycle, 3 H.P. American engine. (r m The P'owall will keep all tropical growths in check.

The tougher the work, the better job it does. Slashes down 1 inch thick, 6 feet tall weeds. £92 / o'o (Dusting attachment at small extra cost)

MARINO PRODUCT

Pty. Ltd.

BAMBIL STREET, BULIMBA, BRISBANE:

Distributors in New Guinea and Papua — PAPUA: Steamship Trading Co. Ltd., Pt. Moresby & Samr RABAUL, MADANG & GOROKA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd.

LAE & WAU: New Guinea Goldfields Ltd.

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Gold, Silver

"v$ Specialising in Pacific Islands Insurances.

FIRE—MOTOR VEHICLE—MA

—HULLS AND CARGO-

EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY.

BONDS —in accordance with Administration Ordinance —COPRA insured from drier to buyer—and all other classes arranged at lowest current rates.

Established Agencies throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

RABAUL, T.N.G.

Managing Agents: New Guinea Co., Ltd.

Island Representative: G. D. A. Kent, Rabaul Branch.

SUVA, FIJI.

Colony of Fiji Branch Office: McGowan’s Building, Margaret St., Suva.

Branch Manager: L. M. Rolls.

Southern Pacific Insurance

Co., Ltd.

Head Office: The Wales House, 66 Pitt St., Sydney.

Purchasers at Full Market

Prices on Assay Value of

GOLD, SILVER

and PLATINUM

Also Platinum Group Metals

Some of Our Services:

ASSAYERS & ANALYSTS.— Assays

of Bullion, Ores. etc. Analyses of Metals, Minerals, Alloys, etc.

SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

METALLURGISTS.—Our range of precious metal manufactures covers all industries Gold and Silversmiths. Electrical Trades, Dental Profession, Glass Silverers, Electro- Platers, etc., etc.

REFlNERS.—Purchasers and Re finers of Bullion, Scrap, Mining By-Products, and Trade Residues of every description carrying Precious Metals.

GARRETT, DAVIDSON &

MATTHEY PTY., LTD.,

824 George St., Sydney. Works: Surry Hills & Chippendale, N.S.W.

Official Assayers to Bank of N.S.W.

Gazetted Agents of Commonwealth Bank, under the Gold Regulations of the National Security Act.

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Ventura Trading Co. Pty. Ltd.

247 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY

Island Merchants and Buying Agents

SOLE AGENTS FOR:

• ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY DIESEL ENGINES

• AJAX LIQUID ALARM RELAYS

• NORMAN PETROL ENGINES

• DUNEDIN ENGINE TESTING EQUIPMENT

• HOLLANDIA CANNED FISH

Distributors for all plantation, farm, trade requirements and merchandise. .. .

Highest Prices obtained for Cocoa, Coffee, Shell and other produce handled on consignment.

Write direct to our Islands Export Manager with over 35 years experience in the Islands.

CABLES: VENTURA SYDNEY

(^1 For a long cool drink on a long hot day vj i \ o\c Never any risk of running out of soda-water with a Sparklets syphon. You make the soda yourself—the easy way. Just fill the syphon with water, screw on a Sparklets bulb . . . and up comes the soda, crisp and lively. And you know without doubt that it’s fresh and pure.

If you keep your new Sparklets syphon in your refrigerator you’ll have a supply of ice-cold soda always ready. There’s a fine range of colours to choose from and it makes a wonderful gift.

Sparklets syphons

SPARKLETS LIMITED LONDON Nl7 ENGLAND

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assified Advertisements

■ line, 4/-: Minimum rate, 4 lines.

OR LEASE OR SALE

NG STORE in Penryhn, Northern slands, and Office; two residences, 3-bedroom and one single bedroom; use, 10,000 gallon water reservoir, plumbing. Store presently selling merchandise, buying copra and shell, renting diving boats. Exopportunity for live-wire trader. ; replies to: South Pacific Trading ty. Box 58, Rarotonga, Cook Is.

ITING stock for sale

. A46/14-19. 5 Punts, 60 ft. 0 in. o/a 0 in. fitted with Tank 37 ft. 6 in. 3 ft. 4 in. dia. 7,150 gallons capacity 39 Tons capacity each. Condition >. A46/32. 31 Punts, steel. 60 ft. 0 x 17 ft. 6 in. in fair condition. 11 steel, 60 ft. 0 in. o/a x 17 ft. 6 in. condition. These punts have 1 ft. •eeboard when loaded with 50 long >. 46/1. 1 Launch “Ratu Meli II” in. o/a x 11 ft. 9 in., wood, tonnage yen by 76 h.p. 245 r.p.m. steam 7 in.—l 4 in. x 9 in., Boiler-Tubular ck 200 sq. ft. heating surface, 5 ft. 6 ft. 0 in. long. 3 Propeller Blades in. dia. 5 ft. 0 in. pitch L.H. Conair. . 46/2. 1 Launch “Ratu Joni II” 70 o/a x 9 ft. 9 in., wood, tonnage 18, by 70/75 h.p. 240 r.p.m. steam 7Va in.—l3V 2 in. x 9 in., Boiler reibe dry back, 201 sq. ft. heating 5 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 0 in. long. 3 ir Blades, 3 ft. 3 in. dia. 5 ft. 0 in.

H. Condition fair. ». 46/6. 1 Launch “Valray” 36 ft. /a x 9 ft. IV2 in., wood, driven by Marine Diesel Engine, 60/65 b.h.p. p.m., 3 Propeller Blades, 27% in. 15 in. Pitch R.H. Condition fair. . 46/10. 1 No. 2 Suction Dredge 60 x 17 ft. 6 in. Pump engine 80 h.p. p.m. R. and H. Diesel AVRO and 1 in. centrifugal pump. Hull poor, ? plant good. for the above plant should be ed to: The Manager, The C.S.R. Co. lusorl, FIJI. int may be inspected at Nausori.

FOR SALE

LY BRAND NEW GENERATORS

y Pioneer General Electric Motor, U.S.A. These units are exceptionid value priced at 50% below cost 59 each. Will charge two 6 volt s or one 12 volt battery and will n 240 volt electric tools, etc., such ible drills, etc. The units are portighing only 100 lbs. each. Amplex uinea) Ltd., Lae, New Guinea. i. New 47 ft. by 15 ft. 6 ins. bv rvel gen. purpose, IV 2 in. hardwood 5:1 red., 400 gal. fuel cap., 2 in. s.s. laft, 4V 2 ton Onazote insul. ice box.

Hughes M S. 28 echo sounder, comeck and foc’sle accom., gas stove, nspection invited. £9,000. Fleets, 3or, Rowe’s Building, Edward St., a’ld.. Aust. Cable: “Fleets”, Bris'.

FOR SALE (Cent.)

DARU, WESTERN PAPUA, two adjacent blocks land. Town water front, close Administration offices, wharf, home adjacent store, opened 1905, town electricity renewed 1959 throughout, furnished, small cottage, galvanised iron, timber buildings. •‘Hand sa set”, battery set up throughout, outside kitchen, boy house, flag pole, shed 30 ft. by 40 ft., eleven tropical fruits.

Contact; Mrs. L. Maidment, c/o 172 Kimiera Rd., Eastwood, N S.W., Australia.

GOVERNMENT SURPLUS BUYER will bid

your needs on a commission basis. Practically every need available at big savings.

Send your list. Full details to serious replies. 638 North-Vista, California. U.S A

TRADE ENQUIRIES

C. S. & JOHNSON YOUNG CO.. P.O. Box 3038, Hong Kong. Cable address: "Clsij”.

Hong Kong Manufacturers’ Representatives. Inquiries cordially solicited. Prices on application. Samples available.

STAMPS

NEW STAMPS. Two commemorative stamps to be issued by Norfolk Island are 2/8 Local Government on October 24 and 5d Spirit of Christmas on November 21. Attractive coloured First Day Covers cost 3/6 and 1/- respectively. Address orders to: The Postmaster, Norfolk Island.

PENFRIENDS WANTED

FIJI—"The Crossroads of the Pacific”.

Headquarters. World’s leading Society • Est. 1933) providing world-wide correspondents interested in British Colonies and Pacific Islands study and friendly exchange of ideas and hobbles as Philately, Conchology. etc. Write for specimen copy Club journal “Island Life” and application form, to Secretary.

Sooth Sea Island Correspondence dob Natuvu. Fiji Is.

BOOKS, MAGAZINES

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

TRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC BOUGHT

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited. Berkelouw, 114 King St.. Sydney.

Telephone: BW 7874.

FREE AND POST FREE—64 page Illustrated Bargain Catalogue. Stern’s (Dept.

P. 1.», 200 George St., Sydney, Australia.

EDUCATIONAL

SYDNEY, North Shore, full secretarial training, Pitman’s Shorthand, short courses. Lindfield Secretarial Training Centre, 12 Milray St.. Lindfield. N.S.W.

Australia.

ACCOMMODATION

FURNISHED FLATS. Cremorne. Sydney Water frontage, large, comfortable, two oedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutes :o city. Enquiries: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., Q.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney, Aust.

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 Bay, Suva (P.O. Box 299). Cables: “Hlredrlve”, Suva Also at Lautoka.

POSITIONS WANTED

PLANTER, age 35, 12 years on rubber plantations in Malaya, seeks position on plantation in New Guinea. Papua area.

Good references. Reply: “I.B.”, C/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

AUSTRALIAN UNI. STUDENT seeks job

Dec.-Feb. Try anything anywhere. Speaks French, Malay. Contact: Harry Aveling, Searle St., Ryde, N.S.W., Australia.

265 K.W. GENERATING PLANT FOR SALE

Emergency Unit from B.G.E. Works Tenders are invited for the purchase of the following generating and auxiliary equipment.

The B.G.E. generating plant was installed for emergency power supply, has had a minimum of use and is in perfect condition. It would provide an ideal power supply for a factory or large workshop. F. 0.8. sale will be made to the best offer over and above £3,500. 1. POWER UNIT: Petter 384 BMP—6OO rpm, 4 cylinder Diesel Engine with 2. G.E.C. 265 K.W. output and 462 amps. 0.8 power factor 3 phase 3 wire. Alternator 415 volts. 3. G.E.C. Exciter Shunt Generator—lo 2 Amp. at 600 rpm at 71 volts with 4. Switchgear Control Panel and Meters.

AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT

One Bradford Sanders Diesel Engine—6.s h.p.—1,000 rpm.

One Broom and Wade 2 Stage Air Compressor.

One Air Starter Bottle—Working Pressure 350 p.s.i.

One Oil Lubrication Tank—loo gals.

One Oil Fuel Tank—l,ooo gals.

One Exhaust and Silencer.

INITIAL COST OF WHOLE PLANT—£IS,B29 (including installation).

For further information contact:

The Works Manager,

BRITISH GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. PTY. LTD.

Representing G.E.C. The General Electric Co. Ltd., of England. 104 Clarence Street, Sydney. B 0277

Countries where

TELE RADIO

5A and OB

RADIO TELEPHONE UNITS

are fh use

Northern Rhodesia Ethiopia Kenya Tanganyika Nigeria

ASIA ;

North Borneo India Sumatra D “« Netv Guinea

ISLANDS OF

THE PACIFIC :

New Caledonia New Hebrides Papua, New Guinea Santa Cruz Group Society Islands Line Islands Western Samoa Solomon Islands New Britain Gilbert and Ellice Group Fiji Islands In addition A.W.A. Teleradio 5A and 5B are in “ se ,n a, I Parts of the Commonwealth and i 0 New Zealand.

ON LAND

The A.W.A Teleradio 5A removes the barrier of isolation in outback areas. In the remote island.* of the Pacific, or in the many sparsely settled area.* of the world, the 5A can be an invaluable help

AT SEA

Small ships engaged in any trade can benefit by fitting the A.W.A. 3A radiotelephone. There is a widespread network of shore stations available for speech communication Trained operators are not required The Teleradio 5A uses the most modern valves and design features to provide simplicity of operation and efficiency.

Distributed in New Guinea by: Pacific Productions Ltd., Port Moresby, (P.O. Box 25. Tel. 2726) With A.W.A. service available at:

PORT MORESBY • LAE • GOROKA

Manufactured and Guaranteed by

AMALGAMATED WIRELESS (AUSTRALASIA) LIMITED

47 YORK STREET. SYDNEY

ES26-5V

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EVERY TUESDAY AND ALTERNATE SATURDAY

AND EVERY FRIDAY VIA TOWNSVILLE

ANSETT-ANA introduces yet another fine service, the colourful, luxurious Golden Orchid flights South. One booking takes you anywhere on Australia’s biggest airline network . . . you enjoy the spacious comfort of international DC6B’s and the superb personal service and greater experience of the nation’s finest crews.

Fly the Golden Orchid flight

ANSETT-AN

... System of the Golden Jets

CATERPILLAR

Q £ J '•» * when, where and the way you need it! . . . No. you'll not need mechanical service on Cat Diesel Tractors very often, but. when you do, service is close by. Give us a call, and our factory-trained serviceman will be there in short order, equipped with labour-and-money-saving tools to cut your down time to a minimum. He'll carry the Caterpillar spare parts you need for a perfect repair job, too. And these parts have the precision fit and fitness of ones that came on your Caterpillar Diesel Tractor.

Full information & prices from

HASTINGS DEERING

(NEW GUINEA) PTY. LIMITED

CATERPILLAR

Caterpillar end Cat are Registered Trademarks ol Caterpillar Tractor Co., U.SA

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HD425 Milford Haven Road, Lae, New Guinea Box No. 61 Telephone: Lae 2487 Port Moresby, Papua Box No. 138 Telephone: Kone

URNS PHILP [NEW GUINEA) LTD.

NEPAL MERCHANTS

NEPAL SHIPPING

CUSTOMS AGENTS

Agents for: is Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. is Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd. is Philp Trust Co. Ltd. ensland Insurance Co. Ltd.

Shell Co. of Australia Ltd. ds of London varts & Lloyds (Distributors) ty. Ltd.

Australian Agents: is, Philp & Co. Ltd. (All States) London Agents is, Philp & Co. Ltd., London, C. 3.

San Francisco Agents: is Philp Co. of San Francisco

EXPORTERS OF:

FEE BEANS, COCOA

‘NS, PEANUTS, RUBBER

TROCAS SHELI

OVERSEAS

TRADE

ENQUIRIES

INVITED

For service throughout the Islands

HEAD OFFICE:

PORT MORESBY

BRANCHES: i

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\ Kainantu / \ Samarai / \ Madang / \ Kovieng / \ Kokopo / \ Wewak / \ Goroka / \ Rabaul / \ Bulolo j \ Daru /

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T FERTILISER

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ELECTRICAL

GOODS

TRACTORS

AMO

MACHINERY

4*

L STATIONERY

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FLOOR COVERINGS

Sugar *

URNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

c n m

CAPITAL £10,000.000

<! hr** **...

ASSOCIATED

COMPANIES:

NEW GUINEA:

New Guinea Co. Ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng.

Mandated Airlines Ltd., Lae.

Coconut Products Ltd., Rabaul.

* PAPUA:

Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

FIJI:

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

Suva Motors Ltd., Suva.

Island Industries Ltd., Suva.

Established 1914

GENERAL MERCHANT

Foity-six years of Development and Service in the Pacific Islands Wholesalers and Retailers.

Buyers for Island trade of all classes of merchandise from World Markets.

Buyers of Island Produce: Copra, Cocoa and Coffeebeans, etc.

Agents for Australi European and Americ Manufacturers includin Electrolux, Chrysler, For McCallum's Whisky, Vic.

I Mowers, Enfield Engine:

BUYING ENQUIRIES

LOMDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

SYDNEY: Morris Hedstrom (Australia) Pty. Ltd., 27 O'Conm St., Sydney.

CARPENTER & CO. LTI

27 O'Connell St., Sydney, Australia Cable Address:

"CAMOHE"

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.O. Box 168, Sydr

166

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printed In Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.. 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.