Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. XXXII, No. 5 (Dec. 1, 1961)
1 December 1961 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

Pacific

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Islands Monthly

DECEMBER, 1961

VOL. XXXII. NO. 5.

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red at G.P.0., Sydney, for ission by post as a newspaper

If Samoa Attains Nationhoc FOR WHAT INDEPENDENCE WILL MEAN, SEE INSI

THE COVER: The pattern of a new Samoa can be seen in some of the new set of 10 stamps to be issued by Western Samoa in January to mark her independence. Philatelists will certainly want them. The full set portrays the airport, a map of the Samoan islands, the new flag, R. L. Stevenson's old home of Vailima, a fine mat, an orator, the Nelson Memorial Library, the Fono House at Mulinuu, the coat-of-arms, and the Samoa college.

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Contents

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No. 5. Vol. XXXII.

DECEMBER, 19

PEOPLE 5

Search for Rockefeller Spotlights

NNG 15

NNG Flies a New Flag 15 New Resident Commissioner for the

GEIC 16

Indonesia Blows Harder Over NNG 16 Fiji Legislative Council to be En larged 17 Fiji Drinkers to Pay More 18 Fiji Recruits Join British Army ... 19 Cupid Strains Polynesian Relations 19

COMMENTARY .. 21

The Editors' Mailbag 22

TERRITORIES TALK-TALK 23

Independent Samoa Faces Grim Financial Future 29 Samoa Loses Judge Marsack 33

Status of the New Samoa Highlights of the Independence Celebrations Samoan Personalities Women's Part in the New Samoa ..

Will Samoa Follow Tonga's Lead in

National Development?

Letter: In Support of Colonialism ...

CANBERRA COMMENTARY

Their Hearts are in the South Seas Fiji Debates the Rubber Cheque Problem

SYDNEYSIDER GOES WALKABOUT

Edward Taylor versus Errol Flynn ..

Mrs. Riechelmann: A Link with Tongan History

MAGAZINE SECTION: The Rise of

Samoa Shipping and Cruising Yachts 1

PACIFIC REPORT T

Deaths of Islands People 1

TRAVEL TALK 1:

Shipping and Airways Timetables .. !■ Commerce and Produce !■

[?]Eople

pp. 7-13

r some long discussions and longer delays, including some tig from Parliament, the Aus- Army Minister, Mr. J. O. r, on December 1, announced overnment had finally agreed ’-NG’s native-manned Pacific Regiment should get native . Selected men will be trained 33missions at the Officer Cadet , Portsea, beginning at the end t year. The PIR has European at the moment.

iano Koilonga, an eleven -old boy from the Guadalcanal tole the hearts of the nurses trended him during his five stay in the Royal Alexandra il, Sydney, where he had plas ;ery for the double cleft palate are lip he was born with. 30 went home again in Novem dw normal and putting on but because he has never nything except milk and hospi is he will be kept in hospital time being while he gets used new village diet.

Dung Andriano headed back to a a chartered TAA plane was Mr. R. Pascall, a technical Df the British Phosphate Com to Melbourne for treatment multiple head injuries he suf -3 a crane accident on Nauru.

with his free-lance camera at the is Carl Kayser, helping to make a the Australian Department of the He was seen there earlier when he [?]alk into Paradise" for an independent and when he made a TV film in the [?]ith LoweII Thomas. Next he is headed for the Philippines.

Photo: C. H. Meen

se of the nature of his injuries, ’ascall had to sit up with his supported by pillows during the of the trip. He had been taken Nauru to Honiara by ship. 1 as if two mercy flights in that veren’t enough for one month, lernard Lambert, an American •pologist who has been on : Island in the Gilberts for two was flown out of Tarawa to lein by a US Grumman Alba imphibious aircraft after he had ill on Makin. A ship took him rawa. Mr. Lambert was later to Honolulu.

5 Korolevu Air Transport, operates a Cessna to connect ;vu beach hotel with Suva and is building a runway at Nata- Beach, sixteen miles north of ca, to open up the area to 5. One of the proprietors, Mr.

French, says he also plans air for Raki Raki, Ba, and Vatu ♦ * * success in Brisbane of Mr.

"haran Akhil’s horse Raajpoot, won both the Queensland and the Queensland Cup (the orse in 29 years to win the ) has awakened interest in in Fiji. Mr. Akhil is a member Nadi Racing Club, which has I down in disputes with the Department over land leases, i still without a course. Mr. who is a prominent mining lad hoped to import one or two and later breed them in Fiji.

Fiji identity is Mr. Ted Langman, who Fiji after World War I and remained, [?]ed in the British Navy during that Since 1952 he had been employed at the Nadi Airport.

old Territorian, anthropologist P. Chinnery, told a Melbourne ig that he could not understand iressure was being put on Aus to give New Guinea indepen while a lot of the country was lexplored and many natives still s, 1 in Port Moresby, Mr. J. K. ■thy, P-NG Director of Native i, said: “Natives would resume warfare if international pres orced Australia to leave P-NG on. The cry of the natives here always has been ‘Don’t leave s are not ready’.”

y Cleland, wife of the P-NG listrator, told the Sydney Press dsit in November that she and onald liked the Territory so that they had bought land in Moresby and intend to build a there when Sir Donald retires, sons are both up there and andchildren were born there,”

Cleland said. ♦ * * ither book by a former Gover ’ Fiji, Sir Harry Luke, KCMG, e published by Messrs. Harrap in 1962. It is called The Islands South Pacific, and it probably mtain more of the reminiscences pointed observations of Fiji’s g Governor. Sir Harry has i a number of successful books the South Pacific—including i and the South Seas, From a Seas Diary and Queen Salote.

recently at the Catholic Church, Rabaul, [?]Daly, of the Nonga Hospital and Dowling, of the Education Department, The oarents of both visited Rabaul [?]om Australia for the wedding.

Photo: C. H. Meen

. D. M. Heatley, Resident Com mer of Niue, has reached the ig age, and will leave the Terri n January, on nine months’ ac lated leave. He is very well i and highly regarded in Niue Cook Islands, where he has lengthy service. He plans to the long years of his retirement still is a comparatively young -in New Zealand.

H. W. Storer, well-known for as manager of the Nukualofa i of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., was kualofa last month, seeking a d of his lease of Fofoa Island, ; Vavau group. When Mr. retired from the MH service years ago, he took over the lease, and settled down to it production. Last April, he ndergoing treatment in Vavau al when the hurricane struck rea; and when he got back to Island there was little left of mtation. His lease is expiring, ; wants a renewal before under the heavy cost of rehabilitating antation. Tonga, officially, is the renewal of European But Tonga needs more and coconuts, and a large propor of European-held plantations ;one back to jungle since leases lot renewed. So Mr. Storer is ♦ * * ried in Sydney: Old Territorian Tom Grahamslaw, formerly Collector of Customs until his lent, and Mrs. Mary Chase, of ie Hill, Sydney.

got something to smile about. They winners of the Foursomes Championship year at the Port Moresby Golf Club A. Adler and Mrs. F. Katterns.

Papuan Prints

.\ew State Of Samoa

pp. 15-138

The Men At The Helm Of The .\ew State Of Samoa

On January 1, 1962, Western Samoa, a central South Seas archipelago comprising 1,090 uare miles and 113,000 people, becomes an independent self-governing State.

Of the 16 separately-governed Territories in the South and Central Pacific Islands, Western Samoa is he first to have achieved that status after having passed through a period of colonial rule. Tonga is inde pendent; but Tonga—while under the protection of Britain—was never a colony.

SAMOA’S emer gence into nationhood, under aegis of the United Nations, 1 be celebrated in Western noa in ceremonies beginning in evening of December 31, and ending over five days, fhe country then will settle vn to working out quite a num of matters that have yet to be ided—important matters of ex ial relations such as whether noa will become a member of British Commonwealth; ether she will join the United tions: and many questions of ;rnal security and trade, fhe men upon whom much of i early responsibility will fall the Prime Minister and his finet of eight Ministers. The >tograph of the full Cabinet on ; page was specially posed in Cabinet room for this Inde idence Eve edition of the Pad- Islands Monthly. ieated is Prime Minister Fiame taafa Faumuina Mulinu’u II, E, who was appointed West tioa’s first Prime Minister in ober, 1959, when Cabinet Gov ment was first instituted. The 'islative Assembly again ap □ted him to the post following general elections of last Feb

ruary. The Government is elected for a three-year term. Standing, from left, are; Toomata Tua (Minister of Lands); Tuatagaloa Leutele Te’o (Minister of Education); F. C. F.

Nelson (Minister of Works); G.

F. D. Betham (Minister of Finance); Asiata Lagolago (Minis ter of Agriculture); Tufuga Fatu (Minister of Health); Faalavaau Galu (Minister of Post and Tele graph), and Anapu Solofa (Minis ter of Justice).

West Samoa has come a long way in a short time: • 1780-1820: Archipelago dis-

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Salutations for a New Nation 21 Samoa Faces Grim Financial Future 29 Services of Judge C. Marsack Lost 33 The Status of the New Samoa 35 Highlights of the Independence Celebrations 36 Two Nobles Are Joint Heads of State 37 Personalities of the New Samoa 39 The Women's Part in Shaping the New Samoa 41 Sixty Years in Samoa 43 And Where are the Russians? 43 The Rise of Samoa (with map) 71

covered by European navigators; charted; named the Navigator Islands. • 1820-1860: Bitter struggles for kingship between branches of the royal family (Malietoa, Tamasese, Mataafa and Tuimale ali’ifano) cause series of native wars. European settlement in creases. • 1860-1900: Periods of poli tical turmoil involving kingship wars and international rivalry among Britain, Germany, United States, all of whom want to colonise. Settlement between the Powers in 1900 gives the greatest part of the Samoa group, Western Samoa, to Germany; Eastern Samoa, including the first-class harbour of Pago Pago, to the US.

Britain withdraws her claims. 9 1900-1919: The period of German rule ended in 1914 when NZ troops occupied West Samoa at the outbreak of World War I.

Samoa became a mandate under the League of Nations, adminis tered by NZ. • 1919-1961: No change in status, except that after World War II the League of Nations Mandate was replaced by the United Nations Trusteeship.

(Continued on p. 136)

(Continued from p. 13) Politically, the period can divided into three. From 1$ until 1936, New Zealand’s Tn teeship over Western Samoa y unimaginative, uninspired and,, many respects, stupid, and Samoi discontent continued until 195 Then the first NZ Labour Gov© ment changed the policies i some of the system; and Sam was quiet during the period I World War II. With the n Trusteeship system, the Samoa in 1947 under High Chief Tan sese appealed to the Unir Nations for self-government, w New Zealand retained as Proc tor and Adviser. Thenceforth, M Zealand slowly prepared Wesfc Samoa for self-government.

Western Samoa’s populationn 113,000 compares with 20,000) American Samoa, but ea country’s population is grow rapidly. There have been o*c sional informal discussions on i possibility of American Sam uniting with the West to form united Samoa, but there aree serious moves because, for thing, the American Samoi won’t contemplate leaving care of the US.

The Rockefeller Search

pp. 16-138

The locals crowd on a rickety wharf at A[?] from where Rockefeller set off. Canoess[?] those in the centre picture helped scouu[?] area for the missing man, who was in [?] part of NNG to collect skulls and C[?] "bis” poles for an American mu[?] "Bis" poles are much sought after. I[?] Governor Rockefeller at Merauke Aii[?] discusses a point in the search with Captain Ivan Rodger, in charge of the[?] group.

Photos: KVR, Lillian Schoedler, Frank R[?]

Gigantic NNG Search For Michael Rockefeller

From a Correspondent

HOLLANDIA

Not even the lengthy international political spotlighting tactics of lonesia over this country has won for NNG more world headlines than the November search for* 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller, son of ? of the worlds richest men.

much was written on so many ingles by so many visiting nen that at times most news readers would have had to d themselves firmly that buried th all the wordage, the radio flashes and the TV treatment was still a simple, basic, tragedy disappearance of a young man, the hastening of a fond and ig father to the scene in an to help in some way. :hael Rockefeller, Harvard ate and a trustee of the New Museum of Primitive Art, was founded by his father, York’s Governor Nelson :feller, first came to NNG early 'ear as a sound recorder with merican Gardner expedition into aliem Valley. The expedition id its work in September and up (PIM, Sept, p. 137). er a quick trip home to see his ts, Michael returned for a two is’ tour of the swampy Asmat i of south-west NNG, 250 miles of Merauke, to collect logical objects for the Museum imitive Art. was especially interested in poles—fine carvings meant for t outside the men’s houses, and s executed without women present—and in skulls (not ten heads, as reported, because hasn’t got any), paid for all these in axes and o, and some people complained lis prices were too high and he was giving the natives a idea of the value of trade— g it more difficult for the listration to convert the people :ash economy.

Saturday, November 18, feller and a companion, Dutch ogist Dr. Rene Wassink, 34, ; Office of Population Affairs, F from Agats in a catamaran an outboard on a trip down ast to see a friend of Michael’s, University anthropologist David 30, who had been living with 600 head-hunters. Agats, the t town in that region, is the istrative centre for the Asmat but contains not much more

than a couple of missions, a hospital and Government station. The area is probably one of the least touched in a diminishing world.

Near the Eilanden River the canoe was swamped, and drifted. Two natives aboard immediately swam for the shore to get help from Agats, and were eventually successful. A small boat put to sea that evening and a Dutch naval aircraft went out on Sunday afternoon from Biak and sighted the catamaran drifting about 20 miles out to sea with only Wassink aboard. Patrol boats could not reach him immediately because of lack of fuel, and he was eventually

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sighted again, and picked out of the water, on Monday morning.

Wassink told how Rockefeller had started for shore the previous morn ing, swimming with the aid of two petrol cans, but he had not seen whether Rockefeller had made it.

The shore was then anything from three to eight miles away, and he had tried to persuade Rockefeller from making the attempt, pointing out the dangers of crocodiles.

Rockefeller was a strong swimmer.

Dutch troops and local boats soon joined the search for the missing Rockefeller, and in New York Governor Rockefeller and his daughter, Michael’s twin, Mrs. Mary Strawbridge, set off for the scene.

In Honolulu Rockefeller chartered a Pan Am 707 jet, reportedly at a cost of $38,000 and flew direct to Biak, where he let the jet go and flew on to Merauke, via Hollandia.

With the Governor in his aircraft came a party of US Pressmen. These were soon reinforced from all direc tions, by more charters, until at the peak, 43 reporters and photographers, representing the world’s Press, radio and TV, were jammed into Merauke.

Governor Rockefeller and his daughter shared the house of hard working, popular District Com missioner F. Eibrink-Jansen; the news men were four to a room in the Merauke hotel; were billetted at the Dutch Army barracks or anywhere else they could get a bed. Water supplies couldn’t cope with the demand, so everyone went dirty; the thirst problem was solved with beer.

Nor could the telegraphic system cope with the unprecedented rush of the newsmen, with the result that the average wire took 24 hours to get to Sydney, often routed through Amsterdam. Pressmen chartered air craft from P-NG to run their news stories and film to Sydney via Port Moresby.

President Kennedy asked Aus tralian Prime Minister Menzies to help, so an RAAF transport Hercules, two Army helicopters, 26 men and a Dakota arrived as a self-contained unit and got stuck into the search task, together with the Dutch, hundreds of natives in canoes and a TAA Catalina from Port Moresby.

The US Seventh Fleet offered a carrier and aircraft but they weren’t needed.

The Press saw little of the Governor, thanks to his Press agent. (Over)

After making local flights himself, the Governor saw that even if Michael had reached the “shore” he might have had to go another 10 to 20 miles to find dry land, so extensive were the crocodile-infested swamps.

Hope of his being found alive seemed slight indeed, and even less when one of his petrol drums was found well out to sea.

The disheartened father and his daughter left Merauke for home on November 28 after six days in that heartbreaking area. With them, their separate ways, went the newsmen.

Just what did happen to Michael Rockefeller probably nobody will ever know. Most likely he never reached shore.

Flag Goes Up

p. 17

In NNG

Netherlands New Guinea on December 1 officially hoisted a brand new territorial flag.

It was a public holiday, with flag-raising ceremonies every where and much singing of the new national anthem. The flag (one third red, on the left, with a white star in the centre of the red, with the remaining two thirds of the flag divided into blue and white horizontal stripes) will fly in future along side the Netherlands tri-colour.

The Government placed a rush-order in Holland for 500 flags for the ceremonies and a local sailmaker was kept busy in Hollandia.

The new change follows pro posals made by a NNG political party in November (PIM, Nov. p. 21). However, NNG has not yet officially changed it name to “West Papua”.

The Owl and the Pussy-cat Went to Sea

p. 17

in a Beautiful Pea-green Bus!

A beautiful pea-green, 30-seater bus it was, making a fine although somewhat disturbing—spectacle of itself in November as it headed for Norfolk Island's Kingston pier, shortly after being unloaded from the "Tulagi". Paradise Hotel proprietor T. Hamilton ordered it from Sydney— thus getting himself the only bus on the island. "Tulagi's" master, Captain Frank Sadler, who took this picture from the bridge, had to wait three days before the weather was settled enough to unload the bus.

GEIC Top Man

p. 18

New Zealander Is GEIC Top Man

From a Correspondent

The new Resident Commissioner for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony is a New Zealander, Mr.

V. J. Andersen.

MR. ANDERSEN, at present BSIP Secretary for Protectorate Af fairs, in Honiara, succeeds Mr. M. L.

Bernacchi, who left Tarawa in Oc tober on pre-retirement leave after nine years in the post ( PIM, Nov. p. 25).

Mr. Andersen’s appointment was announced in late November, and he and his wife, Leone, will arrive in Tarawa about April. They have two small children, the youngest being nine months.

Mr, Andersen is receiving con gratulations from all sides, for he is extremely popular here. Both he and his wife will be missed from the Honiara scene.

Mr. Andersen was born in Palmer ston North, and educated in Auck land, where he obtained his BSc. He was with the Royal Navy for six years from 1940, finishing as a lieutenant in command.

He joined the Colonial Service in 1947 as a cadet administrative officer, was posted to the BSIP and has been here ever since.

He was appointed Secretary for Protectorate Affairs in January, 1958, after holding various posts in cluding those of District Commis sioner, He is a most energetic officer, and among his recent interests has been the promotion of the BSI Amateur Sports Association. He is also chair man of the Copra Board.

Over Dutch Guinec

p. 18

Indonesia Blows Harder Over Dutch Guinec

The West New Guinea question, as far as the United Nations is concerned, is again back where it started about 12 years ago.

ON November 28, Holland with drew its resolution which pro vided for the administration of West New Guinea under UN direction, with Holland still supplying large grants of money.

The withdrawal followed the rejection by 53 votes to 41 of a compromise plan, introduced by 13 African States, which sought talks between Holland and Indonesia while a five-member commission in vestigated conditions in West New Guinea. This compromise plan was supported by the UK, USA, Aus tralia, New Zealand and Canada.

Indonesia, the Soviet bloc, Malaya and the United Arab Republic were amongst those who voted against it.

When this plan failed to get the necessary two-thirds majority in the General Assembly, the Dutch con cluded that their original plan would meet a similar fate and withdrew it.

Earlier, the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Subandrio, declared that if the UN endorsed the Dutch plan, it would mean war between Holland and Indonesia. In Indo nesia’s opinion West New Guinea was an integral part of Indonesia and the point at issue was not indepen dence for it, or whether West New Guinea should be handed to Indo nesia. It was simply a matter of when Holland could be induced to hand over to Indonesia.

Australia also reaffirmed its position through Mr. James Plimsoll, its delegate at UN; and through Prime Minister Menzies who is also Minister for External Affairs.

Australia is committed to self determination for the native people in its part of New Guinea and there fore it supported the Dutch desire to do the same thing in their half.

At the same time, if the Dutch and Indonesians arrived at some other solution by negotiation, Australia would not oppose it. Nor would it oppose it if, by a genuine act of self determination of the people of West New Guinea they decided to join Indonesia.

Meanwhile, members of the New Guinea Council, sitting at an extra ordinary session at Hollandia, weighed in with their opinion—they want a “free” West New Guinea.

Two native members of the Council.

M. W. Kaisiepo and N. J. Join followed up with a statement over ■ local radio. The natives have national feeling, said Mr. Joiu They weren’t pro-Netherlands or £ Indonesia. They were pro-Pap (Nevertheless, not all opinions in Council are unanimous, and tH could be a split.) Back at the United Nations, H ing disposed of West New Gui again for the moment, the Assem went on to discuss colonialism! general, and to approve oyerwh© ingly an Afro-Asian resolution sett up a 17 nation committee to rm recommendations for implemenf the declaration, made by the sembly last year, for independence all colonial peoples.

The committee members will! nominated by Mr. Mongi Slim; t will be authorised to meet outsider United Nations when and quired for the effective discharge; their functions.

One way and another it becoc increasingly evident that Austi and Papua-New Guinea are in an interesting time in the immeo future now that the Afro-Asian u is in full cry after colonialism! all its forms.

In Full Cry In the Trusteeship Council in i November the delegate for gave some idea of what sort! interference could be expected, delegate, Mr. C. S. Peiris, first cs for the end of racial discriminas in non-self governing territories independence as soon as posse and followed it up with an ati on Australia over New Guij Amongst other things he said Ceylon was not satisfied with the ; that there were only six elea native members in the P-NG tive Council —native members shr have a majority in the Councill said.

These remarks come stram from a man whose country has shd no inclination to end racial crimination against its own TJ minority and where political mudol in the last few years has resi(< in one Prime Minister being assass ted and an almost constant statf, near-revolution.

Fiji Legislative Council

pp. 19-20

New Constitutional Arrangements Fiji Legislative Council To Be Enlarged

Prom a Correspondent , .

uU V A

Fiji is to have a new constitutional setup, but it won’t go as far as a move planned by the Government last March, when it was suggested that a “member” system, moving gradually to a “ministerial” system, be introduced.

THE Governor, Sir Kenneth Mad docks, announced the proposals when he opened the Budget session of the Legislative Council late in November.

The number of unofficial members will rise from 15 to 18, made up of six each of the three main racial groups.

The Europeans, Indians and Fijians will each elect four members by popular vote and the remaining two will be nominated (the Indians and Europeans by the Governor, and the Fijians by the Council of Chiefs).

The increased size of the unofficial benches will necessitate an increase in the official ranks from 16 to 19 to allow the Government to retain a majority.

The Government announcement means that there will be a delay of six months at least in the next Legis lative Council elections. The electoral boundaries will have to be redrawn, and new rolls will have to be pre pared.

A revolutionary change as far as

Fiji is concerned will be the franchise for women, although women have been eligible to stand for local gov ernment bodies for many years.

The Governor had many divergent views to reconcile before sending off his proposals to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Reginald Maulding, for approval. There was a wide measure of agreement through out the Colony that separate com munal rolls should be retained, but some Indian members said they would like to see the experimental introduction of a common roll con stituency.

One member even suggested that there should be five members elected for each race on separate communal rolls and that in addition there should be three members, one from each race, elected on a common roll.

The European and Fijian members were utterly opposed to the intro duction of a common roll in any form, and two Indian members agreed that they could not support a com* mon roll at present. (Over)

[?]CREDIT MEETING. More than 300 [?]es, including two from Western Samoa, [?]tended the 5th annual meeting of the [?]edit Union League at Nasama, Sigatoka, [?]rember, heard a story of growth and [?]One person in five is now a member [?]Credit Union in Fiji, and the Samoan [?]nt shows signs of being just as [?]ful, with 3,000 members so far. From right in the photos above are Mr. [?]Matos, Assistant Director of the World [?]on Department of the Credit Union [?]I Association, who attended the meeting [?]he US; Father M. Ganey who founded [?]ovement in Fiji, and Joane Naisara, Manager of the Fiji League. Below, delegates Tuala Paulo and Pio [?]ai convey greetings, and present a fine to the meeting.— Photos: Rob Wright.

The view of unofficial members on the numerical representation of the main racial groups differed con siderably. The Fijians considered that there should be four directly elected Fijians and two elected by secret ballot by the Council of Chiefs.

They suggested that the Europeans and Indians should be represented by four elected members and one nominated each, which would give the Fijians one more member. The Fijians were strongly of the opinion that European representation should remain equal to that of the Indians.

The European members raised no objection to the Fijian proposal and welcomed the suggested increase in the number of elected members.

The Indian members, with one ex ception, were opposed to the sug gestion that the Fijians should have an additional member, but there was no unanimity among them about the composition of the Council.

The Indian member who wanted to see the common roll also wanted an unofficial majority. Another wanted to see the end of nominated members.

A third asked that there should be a separate Muslim roll and that the Muslims should elect one member be cause no Muslim could hope to be elected on either an Indian communal roll or a common roll.

The suggestion that there should be a Muslim roll received little at tention for, as the Governor rightly pointed out, it would be a retrograde step to have a roll on a religious as well as a racial basis.

"Extension"

Failing a Muslim roll the member wanted three Europeans, three Fijians and three Indians all elected on a common roll with two nominated members from each race.

The Governor was against giving the Fijians an extra seat at the ex pense of the other two races and settled for four elected and two nominated members from each race.

The present council would nor mally end its life on September 15 next, but its life will be extended for another six months.

The next election will then be about March or April, 1963.

The life of the council may also be extended to five years. Unofficial members generally agreed that three years was too short a term and the Governor agreed with them.

It took new members a little time to become accustomed to the pro cedures of the council, and in the third year the approaching general election had an unsettling effect. The Governor suggested that the term be extended to five years, a practice adopted in most other Colonies.

Fiji Drinkers, Smokers To Pay More

p. 20

From a Correspondent

To balance the 1962 Fiji Budget of a record £11,476,554 the Actim Financial Secretary (Mr. H. P. Ritchie) has followed overseas tradition, and has hit the smoker, the drinker and the motorist. Mercifully he ley income tax alone.

NO loud howl followed, for it was generally realised that with a growing population more money was needed to provide for social services the chief of which are education and health.

To balance his Budget Mr. Ritchie proposes to raise additional sums of: O £53,000 by increasing the im port duty on petrol by 2d a gallon; 9 £25,000 by increasing the im port duty on spirits by 10/- a gallon; • £52,200 by increasing excise on local beer by 1/6 a gallon and duty on imported beer by 2/- a gallon; and • £lBO,OOO by increasing excise and import duty on cigarettes.

Briefly the new proposals mean that petrol will now cost 3/9 a gallon; local cigarettes lid a packet of 10; local beer will be increased by 3d a bottle; imported beer by 4d a bottle; and spirits by 1/8 a bottle.

These increases refer mainly to Suva and Lautoka and the increases for some items will be higher in some of the more remote areas.

All the increases became effective from the morning of November 24, a few hours before Mr. Ritchie an nounced his proposals. Secret instruc tions had gone out earlier to the Cus toms Department, and appropriate motions in the Legislative Council made them legal.

Hospital Fees

Mr. Ritchie asked the Legislative Council when deliberating on the Budget to consider a charge of 1/for each out-patient attendance (at present free) at Government hospi tals, and an increase of £3 a year in tuition fees at Government boarding schools.

Mr. Ritchie’s Budget provides for £8,051,269 in ordinary recurrent ex penditure and £3,425,285 in capital expenditure. The 1961 Budget pro vided for £7,292,391 for recurrent spending and £2,550,862 for capital works, making a total of £9,843,253.

For 1962 the Budget will be more than £10,000,000 for the first time, which recalls a complaint made by an unofficial member of the Legis lative Council 15 or 20 years ago when he said, “1 fear we are spend ing too much—here we have a Budget of £1,000,000”.

Fortunately for the taxpayer Fiji his British counterpart will t part of the brunt of the cap Budget, for estimated Colonial velopment and Welfare Fund as tance is estimated at £1,861,(1 Loans to be raised next year t £3,590,000 made up of a propc £stg2,ooo,ooo loan, £BO,OOO alre: promised for telecommunicate and a further development loani £1,320,000.

Mr. Ritchie is not over-hopeful raising the development loan in south-west Pacific (even though managed a £1,750,000 loan ear this year), and expects that the fc of it will have to come through Exchequer or market loan in L don.

Mr. Ritchie, in asserting that tt must be a balanced Budget, has left himself much of a margin., everything goes according to plan will finish up a mere £4,000 on right side of the ledger.

Fijian Holiday

Headed for Fiji in January for as[?] fortnight's holiday is pretty 19-year-[?] old Sydney girl Robyn Bellamy (left),[?] who won the holiday for topping thes[?] poll in an Australia-wide Remington[?] "Princess Lovely Legs" competition,[?] With her here is blonde runner-up[?] Diana Granquist.

Headed For Old Blighty

p. 21

From a Correspondent

One of the aftermaths of the selection of 200 recruits in Fiji to join British Regular Army, was an announcement that the Governor, Sir \neth Maddocks, had vetoed 22 applicants. Fortunately he did this be the announcement of the names of the men finally chosen, and prob -1 saved a lot of heartburnings. The vetoed men can only guess now ther they were included.

reason, according to an official atement, was that the services men were in the best interests Colony. They were mainly rs and trainee teachers, but were two clerks and four sur inescapable inference was that is peacetime conscription of wer—a man could not choose n future. It seems strange that i had ever heard that no man ispensable. At least that is old soldiers were taught in ervice days. e was another angle, too, and nanent one. If it was good i to veto men in the Govern >ervice, why were not private r ers given the same chance to against the loss of trained key rees?

Par as the recruits themselves oncerned, they seemed to be a lection of men, all youthful, )parently eager to face what -5 ahead of them. No doubt of them have taken the oath 3 they hope to see many new ided among them were several

students from the secondary schools who would probably have been seek ing employment next year. In the last 13 chosen, to make up for 11 defections and two who were re jected because they were married, 11 were from the Ratu Kadavulevu School and the Davuilevu School.

Large crowds thronged Nadi Air port terminal for the departure of the first batch of recruits. They left on a BOAC Britannia for the United Kingdom, Tears and leis, with friends and relations hanging on to the depart ing soldier until the last minute, characterised the scene, which brought back wartime memories to many.

A graceful gesture by the captain of the Britannia, brought the giant aircraft right along the apron in front of the concourse for a last view of the travellers. Then, after take-off, the aircraft flew over to dip its wing in final salute.

A laugh was caused by one lei laden Fijian, happy as a king, who insisted in trying to make one of the security guards share his last can of beer, and then ended up by kissing him heartily.

Governor of Fiji, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, farewells the recruits.— Photo; Rob Wright.

Cupid Strains

pp. 21-138

POLYNESIAN

RELATIONS

Prom R. W. Robson, in Apia A Polynesian version of Love’s Young Dream has caused a stir in the Central-South Pacific, which has led to a slight strain in relations between two Polynesian nations, embarrassed some high officials of the United States, and probably given some elements of UNO a chance for grave and serious snarling.

SOME of the mainland newspapers have headlined the incident as a diplomatic sensation. But the incident has so many funny sides to it that I think it should be treated as comedy. I have the assurance of two Prime Ministers concerned that it will NOT lead to war.

It all began six or seven years ago, when Tonga’s Department of Education was so impressed with the natural ability of a Tongan student, Mana Latu, that it provided funds to send him to Victoria College, Wellington, NZ, and maintain him there for training as a teacher of science.

Somewhere in the same period, the Education Department of Western Samoa selected a clever Samoan girl, Netina Galo, for special training as a teacher, and sent her to the same Victoria College, Wellington.

Baby Problem

Naturally, the Samoan girl and the Tongan boy met at the college.

Netina Galo is an attractive lass, and Mana Latu fell in love with her.

Before she completed her training, they were married. Tonga knew nothing of this.

Netina in due course went back to her teaching job in Samoa. Complica tions began when Netina found she was going to have a baby. Mana Latu made a hurried visit to Samoa.

Then Western Samoa and Tonga learned of the alliance, and both nations appeared to be annoyed about it, especially Tonga.

Tonga considered the affair officially, and finally ordered Mana Latu back to Victoria College, to get his B.Sc. degree.

“We expect you to return to Tonga, as originally arranged, and become a science teacher here,” said Premier Prince Tungi.

“Yes,” said the student.

“You will wish to bring your

(Continued on p. 136)

Samoan wife and your baby to Tonga?” asked Tungi. The student agreed. The Premier said there would be no difficulty about that.

One supposes that Prince Tungi knew that well-trained Netina Galo (now Netina Mana Latu) would be a valuable addition to Tonga’s teaching staff. One supposes—but one never knows what Tungi is thinking.

Then, one day in November, the Tongan Government learned that Mana Latu had booked passage on a TEAL plane to Pago Pago, en route to West Samoa to join his wife. It also was reported that Western Samoa had promised the young Tongan a good position on the staff of Samoa’s Education Department, for two years, before returning to Tonga.

The idea that Samoa should pinch their expensively-produced science teacher caused perturbation in Tonga.

Prince Tungi always has been noted for swift, unexpected action.

That day, Tonga sent a plea to the United States authorities in Pago Pago.

The Americans were informed that Mana Latu was on a certain plane; that he was a student who had been sent abroad by the Tongan Govern ment, and Tonga was responsible for him; that he had been given no permission to proceed to Western Samoa; that presumably he was without a landing permit, about which Western Samoa today is extremely fussy; and would the Americans therefore please see that, as he could not board the plane to Apia, he be placed aboard the Tongan ship Aoniu, which happened then to be lying in Pago Pago.

The obliging Americans complied, and Mana Latu travelled on the Aoniu to Nukualofa, where he arrived on November 10.

Then a diplomatic furore started.

Mana Latu protested indignantly to the Tongan authorities. His wife, having learned what had happened in Pago Pago, carried her woes to the Samoan Government.

On Monday, November 13, Premier Tungi, of Tonga, received a lengthy radio communication from Premier Mataafa, of West Samoa, recounting the circumstances as he knew them, and firmly requesting an

“explanation”.

Premier Tungi told me Tonga’s side of the story. I gathered that various legal men were a trifle upset —there was talk of “illegal arrest”, “habeas corpus”, and what not.

Tungi was grave, but apparently content. I suspect that the Ministerial mind worked something like this: The Samoans thought they were going

to get two skilled teachers fori price of one. Now Mana Latuj in Tonga—he is for the moon distressed—but he will settle do* and Tonga will gladly pay the 0 of his wife’s transportation to Ton Next, I saw the Americansji Pago. They were aware that lawy in Apia were busy, and talking ahf “wrongful arrest”. They insisted til was no wrongful arrest —they meK helped Tonga to straighten out tangle in travelling arrangements.!

By the time I got to Apia,l Australian and New Zealand ne papers were running headlines o the incident, and demanding nr details. They said that certain U, elements were not going to missL chance of having a crack at USA Premier Mataafa, of Samoai now had reached the cautious] comment” stage. But he did sayi New Zealand, at W. Samoa’s reqq had provided Mana Latu with landing permit.

All the parties at the mon (November 24) are sitting pat. I none seems to be sitting patter!

Premier Tungi—who holds the ; card!

[?]Commentry

p. 23

ne Silver Lining

Fiji's Clouds

SPIRIT of optimism seems abroad in Fiji. Perhaps it is ied. Let the reader judge for elf. Here is a balance sheet of 1, political and economic condi , made as on November 30:

ON THE DEBIT SIDE

A loss of £2 millions in over trade, a direct result of the Patel red strike of cane-growers in . Crushing ceased in October ise there was no more cane, nally, there should have been lillion more of marketable sugar.

No worth-while progress in in ed land usage or the establish of new industries, to take care e increasing population—high in :ase of Fijians, phenomenal in ndian community.

No spirit of unity or co-opera in attacking the Colony’s prob among the Colony’s communi ; Fijians, Indians, Europeans and Europeans). is is due mostly to the with ti and suspicious attitude of the is, brought about largely by the : of Indian cane-growers. For pie, the negative stand of the is hamstrung the recommenda of the Burns Commission de -1 to meet Fiji’s economic ems.

ON THE CREDIT SIDE

Millions of new money is com i (some from Fiji Government , but mostly from Colonial and iopment funds) for expenditure :apital accounts—for example, £3 millions on Suva port recon ion, now under way.

The newly-appointed Develop- Commissioner, Mr. Eric Beving has gone to work with siasm, and tireless industry. He naking increased availability isage of native-owned lands his task. More land for increased iltural production (for home imption and for export) will some of Fiji’s acute problems, he Development Commissioner’s and energy could be blunted st a wall of Fijian indifference unco-operativeness. Governmen icking is not enough—he needs lelp of both the Fijian com ty and the big Australian in s operating in Fiji.

Fiji’s normal revenues, this

year, are healthy, and increasing. • The adoption of the recommen dations of the Sugar Industry Com mission gives promise of urgently needed peace within the Colony’s most important industry. If the new Chairman of the Industry has the right qualities (which will include an ability to work closely with the CSR company, the Indian growers and the new Development Commis sioner), Fiji might soon enter a much better era. • All the various Fiji communi ties—whose political views are widely divergent—have accepted, with ap parent content, the Governor’s amendments of the Constitution. Re cent attempts to introduce some measure of self-government (especially, the idea of Legco mem bers becoming Ministers) have been abandoned, but representation of Fijians in Legco will gradually be transferred from Council of Chiefs’ nominees to Fijians elected by in dividual Fijians.

It seems a sound move; but the process—representing a challenge to age-old traditions and privileges—will be complex and slow. • Governmental policy—based on very recent Colonial Office decisions —is to continue with the present system of administration for the re mainder of the 1960’5. That means continued rule by the Executive Council. (Resolutions of the Legisla tive Council, on crucial matters, have little significance and no force.) It would therefore be wise if Fiji looked occasionally at the composi tion of the Executive Council. Here it is:

THESE ARE EX OFFICIO:

The Governor; Colonial Secretary (Mr.

P. D. Macdonald); Attorney General (Mr.

A. M. Greenwood); Financial Secretary (Mr. H. P. Ritchie); Development Com missioner (Mr. E. R. Bevington): Secretary for Fijian Affairs (Mr, A. C. Reid).

APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR,

GENERALLY ON NOMINATION OF

LEGCO OR FIJI COUNCIL OF CHIEFS

Mr. C. W. Cayzer (general manager of Emperor Goldmines); Mr. J. H. Falvey, MLC, a leading lawyer; Mr, A. I. N.

Deoki, MLC. a prominent Indian; Ratu Penaia K. Ganilau, MLC, a prominent Fijian.

Those ten men comprise the Gov ernment of Fiji. It is not an im pressive government—too much Colonial Office bureaucracy and some rather noticeable weakness in per sonnel. However, there is comfort in the thought that it now will be Fiji’s system of administration for some years, with no immedate risk of self government based on a common roll.

and similar horrors of the lain Macleod era. By the time the re arranged Constitution becomes com pletely effective, the Fijians may be ready to come into the Government in a more helpful and co-operative spirit. • There are peace and healthy activity at present in the sugar fields.

The widening areas of newly-planted cane, seen from the air, give com forting assurances of next year’s sugar-crop, • The tourist industry continues to expand, although not as quickly as its operators would like. Its biggest handicap is the road between Nadi and Suva—9o tortuous, dusty miles that now are a motorist’s nightmare, but should be a visitor’s delight. If £3 millions had been spent on that road, instead of on Suva’s docks, the reward would have been quicker and more beneficial.

Salutations For a

New Nation

WE asked Professor J. W. David son, Samoa’s adviser on her new Constitution, and a man to whom the new nation owes much, for his com mentary on Samoan independence, and what he has to say we endorse: “West Samoa’s transition to inde pendence should be one of the smoothest on record. The Joint Heads of State, the Cabinet and the Legis lature, have all gained extensive ex perience during the long years of pre paration. The new Constitution has been thrashed out in as thorough a public debate as has been provided in any country on the verge of in dependence. Finally, the Samoan leaders and people—unlike those in many new States—will be able to col laborate with their former adminis tering authority, New Zealand, on terms of friendship and trust.

“One misfortune will cast some shadow over Western Samoa’s first year of independence. 1961 has been a bad year economically; and the prospects for 1962 don’t seem good.

The Government has, however, already turned its attention firmly towards the problems of economic de velopment. If bold and constructive policies are now produced and put into force, present difficulties may re sult in long-term good.

“In any event, those who know Samoa and enjoy the friendship of her people can rejoice that the plan ning of the future will now be fully in Samoan hands.”

The people of the South Seas wish their independent neighbour well.

The Ediatars' Mailbag

p. 24

In Defence Of

D'Arcy Ryan

Patrol Officer D. G. Worland comes to the defence of Sydney an thropologist D’Arcy Ryan, whom author Helen McLeod has taken to task lately over his review of her NG book, Cannibals are Human ( PIM , Nov. p. 84).

PO Worland writes: “What a shame you came to the defence of Mrs. McLeod. Her book is inaccurate and her reply to D’Arcy Ryan’s re view was just a jumble of ill considered words which neither gave any regard for logic nor successfully countered his “inaccuracy” claims.

“I agree that more should be writ ten about New Guinea, but let’s keep the standard high. Mistakes should be corrected not justified. Mrs. McLeod in her book made many anthropolo gical observations. It was on the in accuracy of these observations that Mr. Ryan based his criticism. This criticism was well within his scope as he is considered to be the authority on the Mendi people.

“The book is readable, but then so are many other inaccurate books.

Whether it is a worthwhile contribu tion to New Guinea literature is an other matter.

“In a time when inaccurate journa lism is ruining the Australian concept of New Guinea by painting a limited, inaccurate picture, it’s high time that authors, especially those who like and admire the place, went out of the way to report accurately.”

Early Trade Rivals

Of The Gilberts

Our old friend Supercargo, who is a vast fund of information going back to the early days of this century in the Pacific, says that he had an acute attack of nostalgia after reading the story of early links with Lever Bros, in October issue (p. 76). Fair ships like Fernmount and Upolu and Kolombangara, and brave men like Captain Miles Menmuir and “Bricky”

Danvers, are part of most vivid memories.

Supercargo says that Lever Bros, never traded in the Gilbert Islands and he thinks that he might have been the reason why. It was around 1909 that the manager of the Island Dept, of Burns Philp told him that he was to have a round trip passenger in the next sailing of Muniara to the Gil

belts. He was a Mr. Herbert John Carr Whitfield, of Lever Bros., and although nothing was said, Super cargo took it upon himself to watch the movements of this emissary of a possible rival to BP in that part of the Pacific. He was particularly in terested to see that Whitfield made copious notes after each port of call.

The last call in the Northern Gil berts was off the trading station of Arthur Hitchfield and the trader came out as usual in his 6 ft dinghy and invited Supercargo and Whitfield to go ashore. Supercargo did the rowing and, as he puts it; “Half way ashore I caught a crab and capsized the dinghy. Poor old Whitfield soon got his head above water and held his notebook as far

above that as possible. But, alasj was too late—his notes had U written in indelible pencil and book was already a puce mesa was truly sorry for I had no ; that his sacred volume was with hii In spite of the incident and nearness with which BP escs having a powerful competitor in i Gilberts, the friendship betw Whitfield and Supercargo contim until Whitfield’s death, by which t he had succeeded Mr. George Fui as manager of Lever Pacific Plac tions Pty. Ltd.

At the same time we heard fi Mr. Stanley Halyday, 67, now red in Bondi, Sydney, who was wire officer on the old Kolombangara. recalls that when “Soapy Bill” (L Leverhulme) made his Islands t in 1914 he used the ship’s radii then the most powerful in the Pau —to keep in direct touch with world interests, and no expense spaf

[?]erritories TALK-TALK

pp. 25-26

With TOLALA

There are some interesting articles in the latest issue of tralian Territories (No. 6), which is turned out by the •artment of Territories in Canberra. Inevitably, depart ital publicity is inclined to be a bit top-heavy with self se, but there is not quite so much of that in this magazine, what there is, is well camouflaged.

steals the limelight. Of the ie stories six of them deal with ruinea and Papua. One des ducation on Christmas Island; dismissed with a page of aphs of the Darwin post and new) and Norfolk stamps are discussed, main Papuan item is one on Libert Murray: The Man and licy”, by Dr. Francis West, Research Fellow, Dept, of History, Aust. Nat. University, /es a pretty thorough analysis pua’s venerated Lieutenant or and the opinions expressed »se who admired him and 'ho did not. He quotes Lewis id J. T. Benstead as having ng opinions. -all it is a fair analysis of a 10m Dr. West was treating in tract. The article was based ers’ opinions and official re- The thought occurred to me nuch public thought had 1 as the years passed by; was born too soon; he was a reactionary in the days of ilism and Imperialism. He a fair deal for the Papuan at was a radical thought 50 go. difficult then to appraise the of a man’s actions at this ge performed under conditions were so diametrically opposed sent standards of political

;ing

ynn ust be over a quarter of a ago that I first read an in the Sydney Bulletin by Frank Clune on “Debunking ■lynn”. readers who had not known washbuckling skite in New , Chine’s article would seem crilege, but the writer’s facts well authenticated and I ber hearing (or reading) lat his research cost him five

times as much as he got for writing the article.

Ergo: The debunking of the notorious Errol is no new thing.

The latest writer to comment on this idol’s feet of clay is Eric Feldt. And who should know Flynn better dur ing his goldfield days than Eric? He was DO at Salamaua at the time.

Writing in the Spring issue of the journal Quadrant, this famous Coast watcher certainly cuts Flynn down to size, dispersing some Flynn fiction with actualities all done in Feldt’s inimitable wording which is a pleasure to read. His final note: “Some of the romance of the characters he portrayed [on the films] brushed off on to him, until people accepted this lying crook as a hero”. (See also p. 65 this issue.) The Mixed Race The “Bog-Down on Citizenship” in November PIM Commentary is a concise summing-up of the present position in P-NG, which is difficult to understand in this enlightened era when human rights and racial equality are so much in the news and advocated by political and social do gooders throughout the world.

A point, which heretofore I have not seen mentioned, is the fact that it is the lordly white race which was responsible for the very existence of the Mixed Race people now battling for their rights to Australian citizen ship.

The other day I had a visit from one, Harry Hoerler, from the Kokopo district, down for a medical check up and staying with his daughter, married to an ex-serviceman in my home-town. He is a first generation Mixed Race and his father was the well-known skipper and planter of the German days, Captain Hoerler.

His mother was an Ontong Javanese (from the Solomons).

Harry was a passenger on the old NDL Sumatra when I travelled down to Buka from Rabaul in 1912 to

take over the trading station on Pororan from Paul (later “Karkar”) Schmidt. Harry’s father was on board with his family en route to the Tasman Group to take over the trading interests there. Another in teresting passenger on that trip was Charlie Munster.

Harry and I the other day sat reminiscing of the Bad Old Days and then, naturally, he spoke of the ban on his becoming a naturalised Australian citizen, which he felt keenly, together with all members of his race. Exceptions had been made, he told me.

I tried to console him and give him hope that eventually the AH Highest in Canberra would change their minds. And then, to change the subject I asked him if he had seen the morning’s Sydney Morning Herald (16/11/61) which contained a photo of a Sgt. Harold Buckley, his wife and eight children who had arrived from service in Malaya the day before? No, he had not. But, on reading the caption, exclaimed; “He’s my god-son. I must find out where he is”. Which we promptly proceeded to do. (Over)

Buckley is a son of the well-known Rabaul motor mechanic, Willy Buckley, of pre-War II days. His son, then a lad of 15, got away with some of the evacuees from Rabaul when the Japs landed and, ultimately, arrived in Queensland.

Now, after 14 years in the Australian Army he returns from Malaya with his eight children.

“A good argument,” I told the god-father, “in favour of your Aus tralian citizenship.”

And yet . . I wonder . . .

A Gracious

Lady Passes

After a long, lingering illness in Melbourne, death claimed another old New Guinea identity, well-known in Rabaul and surrounding district during that period between the two World Wars. She was Mrs. Jessie Jolley, wife of Robert Jolley, who passed away on November 3; she was privately cremated at Falkiner on November 6, From 1912 to 1924, with her husband, she lived on Raulawat plantation (Rabaul North Coast) which at that time was owned by Bob’s brother, Capt. F. R. Jolley.

During those early years she was well-known in Rabaul social circles and her home was always a popular rendezvous.

She was one of the few remaining hostesses of the days of the old Military Occupation and the early Twenties. Of those ladies still re maining now from that period I can only recall Mrs, Ted Hawnt, Mrs.

Dick Moore, Mrs. Eric Holmes and Mrs. Willy Dupain.

Sympathies to her surviving hus

band in Melbourne, who himself is not in good health at all.

A Nostalgic Note From NY There’s no doubt about it but that one-time NG residents get around.

Nor do they like losing contact with the old Territory. I get letters from far and wide, recalling incidents or individuals of thirty, forty, fifty years ago. Some are complimentary, some are not. Some thank me for the memories; some tell me to pull my socks up and that I am “living in the Progressive Age, don’t forget”.

Here is one that is nostalgic and comes from a lady in Silver Creek, NY: As one who enjoys reading “PIM”, may I say how much 1 particularly look forward to your Territories Talk-Talk? It has revived for me many happy memories of my child hood in Rabaul when I lived with my family on Mango Avenue during the 1920’s and early ’Thirties.

My father (who later was among the “Montevideo Maru” victims), was Albany (“Jerry”) Renton, brother of Gilbert Renton, owner of Renton’s Products at that time. We lived in House Soda Water, at the junction of Mango Avenue and Matupi Road.

You will not of course remember me as the bespectacled little 12 year old who stopped at “The Rabaul Times” office on her way home from school every day to get a copy of “Girls’ Own”. You, the editor, had apparently been left with a large stock of these back numbers on your hands and were only too glad to let me have them at a reduced price!

An avid reader in bookless Rabaul, these magazines represented a bonanza to me, and 1 galloped through them at the rate of one a day until I had exhausted the supply. At about that time I left Rabaul to go to school in Belgium.

Before settling in the US I lived in other parts of the world, but the memories that have stayed with me the most vividly through the years are those happy, carefree days in Rabaul.

“1, too, work in the writing field (as reporter and feature writer for a small city daily), and have often thought that you may have un wittingly encouraged me in my love of reading and writing when you pro vided those old yellowed copies of “Girls’ Own”.

“I am, as usual, looking forward to my next copy of “PIM” which is sent by my brother in Papua.

Long may your interesting column flourish.—AGNES PFLEUGER.”

I ’phoned her uncle, the inimitable

Gilbert (How’re yer Mate!) RJ and he, cheerful as ever despitl recent floods in his area (he ; in Newbridge Road, Moorett told me she met her American H in England whilst she was in military during World War 11.

Thank you, Agnes. May pen never run dry.

That Kieta

Hospital

I notice recent reports, incll one in PIM, from Mr. H. Kro« referring to the European Ml Assistant being away on patroc leaving the hospital at the po Kieta in charge of a medical on The writer refers to a doctor stationed there 48 years ago.

This is quite correct as I from personal knowledge, doctor was Mr. Kroening’s ft and the hospital at that time one of the most up-to-date ii German colony. His father t highly-qualified medico. Whee Commissioner (Capt. Doellingen absent from the station then Kroening acted in his stead.

In 1913 there was only a hs of settlers, Europeans, expatriii call them what you will—but i consoling to know that there within reasonable distance a qut medical man, with high-grade t ment in the hospital to treat cases that might arise.

At Aropa plantation therea Louis Summer, at Iwi there T chap named Felix, who at ono was an engineer with the g«; ment, at Kekere there was old 1 Hansen, and at Arawa (I t was the later famous Paatzsch, H throughout the land as ‘Big H on account of the expanse o girth.

Up the coast at Numa Nun that time was Arthur Booth have an idea that Jos. Holmes also there—that old identity RWR met in London not so: ago and referred to in PIM (Oo p. 78) as the “51 Million to Chance”.

I support Mr. Kroening’s com to the hilt. Notwithstanding thd that Kieta is no longer the El Headquarters (this having transferred to Sohano, Buka Ps in the ’Thirties) there is a population in Kieta now—natiw non-native—and because the 6 is progressing and expanding wii forthcoming township at Buin, < is still no justification of den medical services at an old-estaW centre like Kieta. The Health IX ment is leaving itself open to a« criticism by adopting such a poi

Greetings

p. 25

Christmas Greetings

This is the month of Christ mas; the most important feast time in the Christian's annual calendar; the time for rejoicing and the one time in the year when petty personal prejudices should be put aside and that time-old cliche “Peace on Earth” be not only spoken but put into practice.

For every reader I hope these good things may come to pass.

And, furthermore, I trust this humane and realistic attitude towards our fellow-men may con tinue throughout the years that are to come. May our striving towards happy relationship be not only on a personal basis be tween individuals, but extend towards a political rapport be tween nations of every creed and colour.

Let a sincerity of purpose urge us on to an understanding and gracious tolerance of the dif ferent global ideologies to wards a universal unity for peaceful living.

And the keynote to such an objective (as I see it) is tolerance.

Independent Samoa Faces

pp. 31-34

M Publisher R. W. Robson Reports from

Apia on Independence Eve

Independent Samoa Faces Grim Financial Future

Needing a copy of Western Samoa’s published accounts, epped into the upstairs office of the Treasurer and, seeking Iness, head for a door overlooking the lagoon.

JOU!” yelled a clerk, and leaded me off. “All right— t on the balcony,” I explained. —the balcony is not safe any explained the Samoan. “It fall down into the street.” ;n saw the flimsy barrier across arway. “Gripes”, I said. “You new Treasury”, s building is seventy years aid the official, sadly. “There money for new Government gs—other things are more ; is the general picture in Apia, iwn and port, which stretches than a mile along the lovely re about the shabbiest in the Pacific. There are only two ;e new buildings in the whole and the present edifices need tion and painting, as Father needs a shave.

Western Samoa is not really "Uneasiness" it with a fall in the values ira and cocoa, and in banana ;tion, today’s overseas trade appear a bit sick; but for W. Samoa has enjoyed an is trading surplus (exports over s) of anything from half to [uarters of a million pounds, illy, there should have been srable accumulations of funds the country, to take care of lions, new buildings, new rises. Why not? answer probably lies in the ness which the last decade’s al activities have generated in inds of money-owners. Some )ing things have been said by ians about European property -5 and the greed of traders and )rs. year by year, there has trickled overseas much of the private ' that might have been used to ate new industries, and give a bit of a face-lift.

I, Western Samoa has got its

self-government and independence.

Now, it must forget politico-social idealism for a while, and face up to hard economic facts. It needs a lot of money, if it is going to maintain among these amiable Samoan people (increasing in numbers at a phenomenal rate) the standard of living which the young Samoans now think they are entitled to.

Myself, I have seen many govern ments working, in many countries.

I feel that Samoa has entered too hurriedly into this business of self government. The task would have been much easier if they had waited until there were, say, 250,000 better educated Samoans, instead of the present 113,000.

The basic administrative structure of a country, whether it has 10,000, or 100,000 or 1,000,000 people, is much the same.

It must have a whole series of Departments, and buildings to house them, and quite expensive equipment for their use, no matter how small the population. After that, a larger population is taken care of generally by a larger staff.

The administrative machinery needed to govern Samoa’s 113,000 will be a heavy burden on Samoa’s income (some say it will absorb 65 per cent). But, if the population were 250,000, a much larger pro portion of the income collected from the 250,000 would be available for stimulating enterprise and develop ment.

The Headaches?

However, independence has come; the feasting and the dancing are on.

After that come the headaches — and the calculations.

Samoa has three main industries, from which she exports each year copra, cocoa and bananas sufficient to provide her with about £3 millions—copra, 16,000 tons worth £1 million; cocoa, 4,000 tons, worth another £1 million; and bananas, sold to NZ for anything up to another

million. Out of the basic economy thus created, the Government gets about £1,500,000 in taxation in various forms, and spends it approxi mately as follows:

There is not much elasticity in that kind of budgeting—it leaves less than £200,000 available for economic development. And a very large measure of economic development is vital to the future security of Samoa —either that, or drastic birth control.

The Samoan birth-rate per thou sand hovers between 36 and 41, which is phenomenal in a Polynesian community. It is almost equal to the Indian birth-rate of 42 per thousand in Fiji—which has created socio political nightmares in that Colony.

The new Samoa’s new Govern ment takes over at a difficult time.

For reasons outside Samoa’s control decreased world prices, diseases in crops, a tendency of the growing population to eat rather than export much of the banana production—money from exports this and last year has decreased; and this in turn means less revenues from taxes and fees.

Samoa definitely wants more in come, rather than less, not only for administration, but also for the stimulation of industry and pro-

This obelisk erected outside the historic Fono house at Mulinuu will be unveiled on January l to commemorate the spot where Samoa's independence is to be proclaimed.

£ Civil administration 440,000 Social services 262,000 Educational services 225,000 Internal security . . .. 113,000 Stores 100,000

Confidence in the Government

ion. It can come only from two ces —increased normal revenues ich come most easily from in sed production for export) or i loans. here are two kinds of loans— ts from sympathetic countries :h wish to help, or (most desir of all) investments made in new truction and new industry by »le who believe that their capital fe, and in no danger of socialistic iscation, ) far as the latter source is con ed, it is all up to the new Samoan ernment. If it wants substantial ite investment in Samoa—and ing could be better for the future he country—it first must satisfy investors, through policy sup sd by action, that private invest t is safe. lat may take some time, eanwhile, there is another way in h the country’s finances can be oyed, fairly quickly—namely, a ction of imports, both seen and en, so that the overseas trading lus can be increased, hy does Samoa import each year 1.000 of “shooks” (sawn timber he making of fruit cases)? Why 150.000 spent on imported meat, i the best cattle produced any ■e in the Pacific Islands are grown amoa? Why spend £90,000 per im on imported tobacco, £90,000 preserved fish, £60,000 for rice? looks as if the most important awaiting the Government is that Minister for Development.

Future Plans it of many conversations and ctions, I expect the following: The establishment of a Govern : Insurance Office, and punitive ures to prevent overseas in ice offices from operating. (I told that about 17 insurance sies in Samoa annually send !eas beween £70,000 and ,000 in insurance premiums.) A change in the incidence of ne taxation as applied to cor dons, so that the tax will be on >ver instead of on annual profits.

Government believes that in big trading organisations with seas connections deliberately their retail prices (and their ts) down, which reduces the > they pay and severely irrasses competitors who are 1 solely in Samoa.

• A close examination of the machinery available for banking and exchange. This could affect the operations of the overseas trading firms (like Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., Morris Hedstrom Ltd.), and the position of the Post Office Savings Bank (which, under NZ administra tion, has some hundreds of thousands of pounds of Samoan depositors’ funds invested in NZ).

Such measures are not calculated to make friends and favourably in fluence people overseas; and this Government will need overseas friends—that is, overseas money.

However, the great majority of

the people in Samoa, including well-informed, have much confide in the Government as now constitui and in its ability to handle the jo I had an interesting chat with !

E. Annandale, executive head Messrs. O. F. Nelson & Co. LI and a leading businessman.

“Well,” I remarked, “the new S< is ready for business. I supp the main business is new devel; ment, to take care of new pop< tion. What are they going to for money?”

“Same as they’ve always ust; he retorted. “They are not lo:< anything in the change-over.”

That was a good viewpoint. M Zealand has spent a lot of moc in her administrative tasks, but has made no big cash gifts to Sam like Australia in New Guinea.

Whatever funds Samoa got fn New Zealand came mostly fn the huge accumulation of Sami properties mostly plantations which New Zealand received reparations from the Germans, at 1914-19, and administered for years as the New Zealand Repj tions Estates. The organisatk profits were returned to Samoa; in 1957 the whole valuable set (worth £1,000,000) was presented!

NZ to the Samoan Government, is being worked profitably as West Samoa Trust Estates Corporation

Shabby Apia

The WSTEC shows a reserve; about £lOO,OOO, invested in NZ. should be of material help to new nation’s new government.

If Western Samoa’s capital sea a little shabby and down-at-heel, blame goes with the rather talkai politicians of the old regime.

“Sound government will earn a fidence overseas, and developmei loans should become possible,” s Mr. Annandale. “There are so really able men in the Governmi that will be taking over—l for i have confidence in them.”

Thinking in terms of finances talked to people interested in bas ing. “I presume the government 1 be guided by the Bank of Westt Samoa,” I remarked. “Bank of has a 55 per cent, interest tha and will allow no wild financing”..

“That’s what the Russians howling about,” said one man. <trv Bank of NZ is wholly owned by NZ Government, and the Russii; say that ‘Samoan independence”; only a fake—that the New ZeaLl British will still be in charge, throw the finance structure.”

“But it provides some security an overseas investor,” said anottwi

Samoa Loses Services

p. 35

OF JUDGE MARSAIK

The Government of Western Samoa is faced with some problems , but vill be more difficult than that of filling the post of Chief Judge, which ing vacated in a few weeks by Judge C. C. Marsack.

e Chief Judge’s term was nearly jd. Because he is greatly :ted and trusted by all classes, s the general hope and expecta hat Chief Judge Marsack should in on in Samoa for a while, as adviser to the Government the new conditions—and ially while the new Constitution ng tried out. The judge himself ted to stay on. t, owing to some misunderstand tid muddle in Cabinet, the Chief i was told that his term would tended by only one year, instead he customary three. Judge ack thereupon decided that he 1 retire from Samoa and live id in Fiji, where he has a ise of frequent calls to the Fiji

Appeals Court.

Mrs. Marsack recently went to Suva, and purchased a property at Lami.

Then the Samoan Cabinet turned a rapid somer sault, and asked the Chief Judge

main for another three years, is by now too late—he was al committed to residence in Fiji, e post of Chief Judge in Samoa t only of importance in rela ;o the smooth functioning of the ary system and the introduction new Constitution. It is vital the man holding that office d understand Samoan traditions anguage, if the Lands and Titles t is going to function as it has e Germans were wise colonial nistrators; and they realised in their era that if Samoa was lave political and economic ?th, in association with Euro there must be a sound system md ownership and land titles; so they established a Land t system that was a model.

Zealand wisely continued the m. Some old commentators said that, had it not been for Land and Titles Court, there d have been civil war in Samoa

in the earlier years of the NZ regime.

Nothing has contributed more to the progress made by the Samoans and the NZ-Samoan administration, since World War 11, than the work of Chief Judge Marsack as head of the Land and Titles Court.

Goodwill And Co-Operation

p. 35

I had 51/2 days in Apia in which to assemble the story of Western Samoa’s past, present, and future —and two days were Saturday and Sunday. So, from early Monday until late Wednesday, I either ran or leaped from office, to store, to plantation; pursued VIP’s with a camera; or struggled with Samoa's gracious, overwhelming hospitality.

The Samoans, from VIP’s to courteous young clerks, forgave me my haste and hurry, and helped where they could.

My grateful thanks to them all.

Especially would I thank Government Secretary A. H. Leveston, his tireless assistant Eddie Stehlin, and that most conscientious PRO officer Kelaki who, in the production of photographs, made all things possible.

Independent Samoa has its problems, right ahead, but, while it cherishes that spirit of goodwill and co-operation, it

can surmount them all.-

R. W. ROBSON.

Samoa

p. 37

The Status of the New Samoa

What is to be the status, among the nations, of Western moa, after January 1, 1962, when it is released from United itions Trusteeship and New Zealand supervision?

JL Western Samoa be inside or outside the British Common -17 inside, how will she maintain ms with the British Crown? igh a High Commissioner re ible to the Colonial Office (as i does, through the Governor of Or through the NZ High Com m, who for the present remains ia? Or how? autside, what will be her trad dationship with other countries : Pacific? Will she impose new t duties? Will she lose her i tariff preferences? (At the nt, New Zealand has reduced nports of Fiji bananas by 25 ent.. but has imposed no re in on Samoa’s bananas. Will »e changed?) 1 Samoans travelling abroad a Samoan national passport, r to that issued by the King if Tonga? 1 NZ continue to give Samoa ntial financial help through the don system?

Uncertainties se are some of the questions arise on this occasion; but it icult to answer them, as yet, >e Western Samoa is not yet i of the status she will seek, • part of the Constitution agree that, soon after January 1, 1962, eaty of Friendship between i and New Zealand will be ated. It is assumed that NZ will Samoa certain financial and :al help, which in turn makes ly that Samoa, for a time at will remain within the British lonwealth. that does not fix Samoa’s It does seem that there is a nount of “defining” to be done,

Independence Day.

ippears that matters concerned mport and export duties, treat if ships, control of ports, over ading relationships, control of ige, post and telegraph rela ys* issue of passports, will gen await the final drafting of the ' of Friendship with NZ, and he new State for a time will

carry on as at present and lean rather heavily upon the Dominion’s advice and help.

Samoa has already decided its citizens will be Samoan citizens and not British subjects.

New Zealand has already said ( PIM , Nov. p. 16) that Samoans

under NZ law will be aliens in NZ after January 1, although they would be exempted from alien registration.

The NZ Department of Island Terri tories will act as agents for Western Samoa until it is able to appoint its own representatives to NZ.

Until future working arrangements are settled, Samoan goods entering NZ will enjoy the Commonwealth preferential tariff, and NZ Minister for Island Territories, Mr. F. L. A.

Gotz, has said he hopes other Com monwealth countries will extend these preferences.

But the legal situation after January 1 is that West Samoa is an Independent State, not a member of the British Commonwealth.

Highlights of The Independence Celebrations

pp. 38-39

Independence Celebrations

At the end of November, the Samoan Committee re sponsible for the programme of events in Independence Week: (January 1 to 5) had made the following arrangements. They\ could be subject to alteration because of bad weather.

SUNDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 31

(NEW YEAR'S EVE)

Church Services throughout the nation.

The national motto of Western Samoa is Faavae i le atua Samoa— (“Samoa is founded on God”); and it is thought fitting that religious services should be prominent in these celebrations. Within Samoa are the following sects, mostly Christian, shown in the approximate order of their appearance in Samoa: London Mission Society; Roman Catholic; Methodist; Anglican; Latter Day Saints; Seventh Day Adventists; Congregational Church of Jesus Christ; Jehovah’s Witnesses; Bahai; The Brethren.

Each is being asked to take part in the celebrations.

MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1962-

INDEPENDENCE DAY AND NEW

YEAR'S DAY

There will be the following official proceedings at Mulinu’u, commencing at 9 a.m.; A prayer by the representatives of the LMS.

A speech by the representative of United Nations, in which the Trustee ship of United Nations, entrusted to New Zealand, is formally terminated, and the independence of the self governing State of Western Samoa is proclaimed.

A speech by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, in which the Trustee ship is formally surrendered, and the new State is recognised and wel comed.

Speeches by the Heads of State and the Prime Minister of Western Samoa, thanking the United Nations and New Zealand, and accepting the

responsibilities of independence s self-government.

There may be speeches also by representatives of other nationj probably Great Britain, United Staj Germany, The Netherlands, A tralia and Tonga.

At one point in these speeches two flags of New Zealand 2 Western Samoa, which have been ing together before the Fono Hot at Mulinu’u, will be lowered; s then, as the Samoan flag is hois alone, massed choirs will sing 2 Flag of Freedom which is the natioc anthem of Western Samoa.

A memorial, newly erected by !

Government Ex-Pupils Associati will be formally unveiled.

All the foregoing will occupy morning. In the afternoon there T be competitions by teams repress ing the various schools —teams limi to 60 pupils—for prizes rang downwards from £3O.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 2

In the morning, there will be em tainment for the invited guests, following countries and people w invited to send representatives, most have accepted.

New Zealand: Prime Minister ( and Mrs. J. K. Holyoake); Leader Opposition (Mr. and Mrs. Wat Nash); Minister of Island Territoc (Mr. F. L. Gotz); a representative the Maori people; Secretary of ternal Affairs; Secretary, Islas Territories (Mr. J. McEwen); Dr.- C, Aikman (Constitutional Advisti Mr. C. G. R. McKay (former Sec tary in Samoa.

United Nations OrganisatJ South Pacific Commission; Unr States of America; United Kingdl Australia; French Polynesia; Netlj

The flag of the newly independent West Samoa is red, with white stars on a blue field in the top left corner. The stars are in the form of the southern cross.

Is New Guinea; Australian New nea; West Germany; Kingdom of ga; Fiji Colony; Cook Islands; e Island; Tokelau Group; srican Samoa; United States Trust itories (Micronesia); Hawaii; Guy Powles and Sir Alfred Turn dormer High Commissioners), arties representing the well-known icts of Atua (including Va’a-o oti), Tuamasaga, A’ana, (includ- Aiga-i-le-Tai) and Savaii will ird the visitors the honour of 1010. Carrying large gifts of food ich as kegs of beef, tins of bis ;, sugar—various groups will ap ich, in traditional festive cos ss, and offer their gifts, with old songs and dances, i the afternoon, there will be her schools’ competition, in oan dancing. Prizes range down is from £3O.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3

a.m.—A parade of decorated s, put on by the trading firms. a.m.—A race meeting, organised Turf Club. p.m.—A great display of fire cs, organised and presented by Chinese and part-Chinese com ity.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 4

orning—A competition for Brass Is, with prizes ranging downwards i £lOO. (Tonga’s famous brass I will journey to Western Samoa ike part in the celebrations, as a ire of goodwill but will not enter band contest.) 30 p.m.—Grand ball at Vailima, lence of the NZ High Com ioner. Preparations being made Seiaute Club for 600 invited ts.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 5

orning—Great programme of itic sports. If the weather is fine, should be most interesting and tacular. utstanding will be a race for ;asi boats—those famous long s made by old-time Samoan ;smen, with 17 or more rowers ;ach side, and moving at extra nary speed. There will be a first i of £2OO, and others ranging nwards from £lOO. nere will be similar competitions Fautasi boats, with 16 seats and ;r— prizes ranging down from ). ompetitions also for: Rowing s (8 oars); Bonito canoes; other >es. fternoon —Programme of athletic ts. yening—A garden party at ima.

Two Nobles Are Joint Heads

pp. 39-41

OF NEW STATE

The difficulties which faced the draughtsmen of the new Constitution of Western Samoa (a Committee representing Western Samoa and New Zealand, advised by Professor J.

W. Davidson, of Australia, and Professor C. C. Aikman, of New Zealand) give some idea of the political and social prob lems peculiar to the country; and —and this is important— most of those problems have been only temporarily adjusted.

They again will confront the new State of Western Samoa.

THE principal of these problems are found in: • The traditional rights and privi leges of the ruling families. ® The reluctance of the Matai (heads of the family groups) to give way to the voting system represented by universal adult suffrage. 9 The influence of the several old mixed-race families, established mainly by Europeans who married Samoans. • The established interests of European property-owners.

The Social Structure At the head of the Samoan nation, now and always, and holding most of the power and privileges, are the noble families; and at the head of the nobility are the four family groups of persons of royal lineage— namely, the Tamai a Aiga.

In old Samoa—and the mass of people still think this way—there was nothing like democracy. The common man had neither voice nor privilege. The nearest to it is the Matai—he is the head of a group of families, and he speaks on behalf of a small number of adult males

who, with their families, make up a community—often owning land in common.

When the Constitution-makers de cided to follow the British model in their planning, and to have a Head of State rather than an elected presi dent, they met their first real hurdle.

The Samoans always have had one of the Tamai a Aiga —a Malietoa, a Mataafa, a Tamasese or a Tuimaleale’ifano to head their com munity or nation; and the custom is so deeply ingrained in their think ing and traditions that it had to be embedded in this Constitution plan ning.

They spent weeks in debate, and finally agreed that two of the Tamai a Aiga (one of whom had been most prominent in the move towards independence) namely Tupua Tamasese Mea’ole and Malietoa Tanumafili—should jointly hold the post of Head of State; and that the survivor of them should carry on for life as sole holder of the office.

But a plan for filling the office, after that, could not be found, for a long time. A large and growing section of Samoans, who do not be lieve in the hereditary system, and

The Fautua —the Heads of the new State —Malietoa and Tamasese.

are instead inclined towards elected president, would not ags that the Constitution should provi for the permanent establishment one or more of the Tamai a Aigac the Head of State.

The final solution: After deaths of the two nobles named,! single Head of State shall be elec: every five years by the Assembly, s the Assembly itself shall decide qualifications—if it is so desired the majority, the Assembly may stiji late that the candidates for the off shall be one of the Tamai a Aigca The third prominent man of ] four Tamai a Aiga —name Mataafa—becomes Prime Ministe

The Voting System

The question of suffrage—of w? shall elect the Assembly—was equa difficult.

Only the Matai were vocal, a the majority of Matai, of coun wanted to retain the Matai as t voting unit. Outside opinion, and unknown proportion of the Samoa* are in favour of adult or manha suffrage.

Finally, this was left to the a sembly and not written into t Constitution. The present system Matai suffrage, plus a special roll individual voting by persons Samoan citizenship who are not wii in Matai groups—will be continue bait the Assembly, in certain circm stances, has the right to alter it.

The Assembly, up to 1960, co sisted of 41 Samoan members, elect by the Matai, and five Europe representatives elected on adult si: frage. But in 1960 this was change and the new Assembly, whi carries on into the new State, co sists of 45 members elected by Maj and two by electors on a comnu roll. The latter (it is a complex t rangement) somehow takes care the thousands of part-Europeans wi' are not in Matai groups; and of : few Europeans who have accept!

Samoan citizenship. There is no vo for non-citizens.

Ownership of Land Consistent effort and some genii will be needed to regularise lai holdings and titles.

Land ownership has been the k: to political peace in recent decade and the Administration is greatly ii debted to the work of the Land ai Titles Court, especially since Chit Judge C. C. Marsack took contra The imminent departure of Judl Marsack is by no means the les of the new State’s headaches (s<? page 33).

The influence of the old families-! especially some of the Europear

i families who settled in long d became rich—is a factor of iportance that it needs special tion (see page 41). Old feuds could disrupt any i Government.

ote: Significant Meeting

ever, a comforting and signi icident occurred in Apia on ber 18. 2toa, Tamasese and Mataafa )n Tonga’s Queen Salote, who passenger aboard the Tofua, 1 not leave the ship. 2 high-caste Samoans are related to the Tongan royal —and they went together to i Salote—such a thing, said otocol-minded Samoans, had >ccurred before. e—who is as wise and clever is gracious and amiable— sed the significance of the call.

Four of them sat down together cabin, all alone; and Her r talked to them very frankly the future of their common ;ian race, and of the new t State. : realises more clearly than that, if the clans of the Tamai get quarrelling between them -as they have done so often >ast 150 years—they will make ■ogress impossible, and per estroy the new State. But if ders will remain united, they create in Western Samoa a and secure Polynesian nation, luld not be surprised to know ey discussed Samoa’s future iship with Britain, and the ity of a close association in iture between Tonga (pro i and Western Samoa (affilia it present uncertain).

[?]regime which is now ending, the [?]of State (the two Fautua and the Commissioner) was the head of the [?]nt. Here they are at a recent meeting.

Personalities

pp. 41-43

OF THE NEW

SAMOA

Here are the people now prominent as the leaders of

the newly independent Western

Samoa:

Tupua Tamasese

The biggest and most significant figure in Western Samoan affairs to day is the urbane, square-jawed Tupua Tamasese, CBE, one of the two Fautua who are Heads of State.

He is a well-balanced, well-read, thoughtful man, who keeps his private opinions to himself; and his influence for years has been strong, and far reaching, although it is not as strong now as it once was.

He is the brother of that High Chief Tamasese who was shot in the back by Richardson’s police while he was trying to quell the Mau rioting in Apia in 1929; and it is thought that he has never forgotten that incident, nor forgiven official New Zealand.

This Tupua Tamasese became head of the family group when his brother was killed; and, ever since, he has worked steadily and consistently, and with marked ability, for self government for Samoa, and sever ance of the ties with New Zealand.

He is thought to be friendly to the West, but not to New Zealand.

He is passionately interested in politics, has a remarkable memory for dates and events and reads many of the more serious overseas journals —including the New Zealand Han sard.

Married to Hon. Tamasese, and

a strong influence in political circles is the Masiofo Irene, one of the five famous daughters of the late Mr. O.

F. Nelson. She is a well-educated woman of strong personality and, like the wife of the Prime Minister, she will play a definite part in the new Samoa of 1962.

Malietoa Tanumafili

Hon. Malietoa Tanumafili, CBE, is a younger man than Tamasese and therefore, as the new Constitution provides that the survivor of the two Heads of State shall carry on alone, until death, it could happen that Malietoa will be sole Head of State— virtually a king—for a time.

Members of the Malietoa family have been either nominally kings of Samoa, or ardent seekers after that office, during the last 130 years; but there has been no real king of Samoa since the death in 1841 of Malietoa Tavita, a man of strong character, who was the sovereign from 1830 until 1841.

Malietoa Tanamafili is a medium size man of delicate features, in con trast with Tamasese and Mataafa, who are tall and big. He is a sensi tive man and physically he is usually active. The illness which Malietoa suffered in Sydney early this year following a visit to New Guinea, was far more serious than was realised at the time. He barely escaped with his life, and he still is on a strict regimen—no liquor, and his diet is carefully regulated. He is highly esteemed in Samoa’s social life and he is very hospitable; although the Fautua are supposed to be equal, his

title seems to be regarded by Samoans as the higher. Malietoa is very shrewd in resolving difficulties, although he has no real interest in politics. He is not married—he was divorced from his attractive wife re cently.

Flame Mataafa

All classes in Western Samoa— European as well as Samoan —have remarkable faith and trust in their Prime Minister, Hon. Fiame Mataafa, head of his section of the nobility.

“This job has made a man of Mataafa,” declared a commentator, close to politics, but not involved in them. “He was once a playboy—he loved the good things of life, and seemed to be bored by politics. I have seen him reading a Wild West thriller in the Assembly during long and serious debates.

“But he flowered late and now he is a loyal and dedicated man—in tensely interested in his job, with a strong sense of responsibility towards his country.” Mataafa is ambitious, with the ability to conceal it.

Because he is older and has much strength of character, Tamasese is inclined to dominate political discus sions; but Mataafa does not knuckle under to Tamasese, as so many might have done—they say there have been some hot and heavy arguments when these two strong men have met in government. Mataafa, through this, has lost nothing in stature. He was well educated abroad and the respect accorded him by Samoan residents and people overseas is a tribute to his quality as a man and a leader, rather than to his high rank in Samoan

society. Like many Samoans he o be moody.

The strength of character whichl seen to be developing in Mataafa, s which gives so many people cat for hope that his administration y be wise and effective, is said by f Samoans to come to him from mother, Fa’amusami. She was wise woman of outstanding pers ality—and, incidentally, she was prominent member of the Malie family group.

Mataafa is helped greatly in work as Prime Minister and lea by his handsome wife, the Masi Fetaui—described by some as “ ideal mate for Mataafa”. She is daughter of a highly-born Sami who, for long, was personal aide interpreter to Sir Guy Powles, w\ he was High Commissioner, and y travelled far and wide with Pow She was college-educated in F Zealand, and she has a wide gi of Samoan public affairs. “Fetau on the beam all the time,” say admirers. She is a forthright pen

Mr. J. B. Wright

Although, on December 31, Mi B. Wright retires automatically f:' the post of President of the Con of State (which he occupied bees he is New Zealand’s High Comi sioner in Western Samoa), and two Fautua, Hon Malietoa and I Tamasese, will carry on alone; Heads of State, he does not dii pear from the Samoan scene.

The NZ High Commissioner, Mr. J. B. W[?] after January 1 will not be part of the Samoan Government. But he will be ava[?] for advice if it is needed.

Prime Minister Fiame Mataafa.

icially, he remains there as New nd’s High Commissioner, to be seller and adviser to the tans; but his real influence will ;rsonal rather than official. He is in of wide experience, broadly mt opinion, and much wisdom. : has had a lot of influence in ding the Samoan viewpoint, since >ok over from Sir Guy Powles aple of years ago. None knows 4Z Islands scene better than he has served in all kinds of posts amoa and Cook Islands; Secre of the NZ Islands Department; mmercial man in Samoa; and it at the Samoans’ own request he became High Commissioner. ;arries the goodwill and high re of both Samoans and Euro s. was part of Mr. Wright’s good ne that, when a young man in Samoan public service, he met married Eileen Fabricius, a mem of one of the old European 3an families. She has been with in his Island Territories’ wander and she has settled down as to manner born as the top lady at ima, where all distinguished visi have been entertained in the s of Samoa’s Trusteeship.

Mataafa, wife of Prime Minister Fiame fa, is a cultured and popular Samoan in her own right.

New Samoa

pp. 43-45

The Women’s Part In Shaping The New Samoa

Anyone interested in seeing

how one family of strong character may influence the shape and progress of a nation is invited to study the family established in Western Samoa by

August Nelson.

THAT goodlooking young Swede came from Calmar, in Sweden when he was about 30 (he was born in 1838), became a trader and planter, and married a Samoan lass, Sina Tugaga, of Safune. He had four children—two daughters, who married planters in Samoa, and two sons, Olaf Frederick and August.

We are concerned most with O.

F. Nelson, who was born in 1883 and who— • Established O. F. Nelson and Co. Ltd., one of the “big firms” of Western Samoa. e Fought stubbornly against the “heavy-booted Colonels” whom New Zealand sent to govern Western Samoa after it was taken from the Germans in World War I; was banished from Samoa by the New Zealanders; but who came back in time to see his independence move ment recognised officially before he died in 1944. • Married the daughter of H. J.

Moors (who wrote With Stevenson in Samoa ) and gave to Samoa five daughters, who were educated in Europe and America and whose in fluence on the new nation is con siderable and far-reaching.

The first was Irene. She married Tupua Tamasese, now one of the two Heads of State.

The second was Olive, who became a barrister and solicitor. She married Mr. G. F. D. Betham. member of another old Samoa family, and now Samoa’s Minister for Finance.

The third was Joyce, better known as “Billie” Nelson— highly-educated, clever, effervescent. She married Mr.

Hermann Ratzlaff, a planter, and is now the general manager of his successful merchandising business.

The fourth, Sina, married Edward Annandale, now managing director of O. F. Nelson & Co. Ltd.

The fifth, Calmar (O. F. Nelson called a daughter, a ship and a plantation after his father’s Swedish birthplace) married a planter and later they went to live in New Zealand.

O. F. Nelson’s brother, August, married a daughter of Samuel Meredith (another old Samoa family) and they had one son, F. C. F.

Nelson, who is today the Minister for Public Works.

It doesn’t end there. In the Legislative Assembly, and regarded by some as the likely leader of a

The Masiofo Irene, wife of Tamasese, one of the two Heads of State, with Lutu Malietoa (left) former wife of Malietoa, the other Head of State. They are now divorced.

Mr. Eugene Paul, leader of an important Samoan family.

Opposition, is the ;s and redoubtable Harry Moors, tion by marriage of the Nelsons also, for good measure, of ifluential Paul family).

Another Powerful Family

i original Paul was a German i, and he married in Samoa lughter of a high official named y. The outstanding descendant it line is Eugene Paul, who has swathe in Samoan commerce lublic affairs almost as wide as ). F. Nelson. »ene Paul either owns or tales a large group of businesses d and air transport, a hardware a newspaper and printing busi a cinema or two, shipping, oring and numerous associated ms. He is one of the Terri ablest public men, and when a turned over to limited self nment he was Government and a doughty political fighter.

I health forced Mr. Paul out üblic life just as the new. mdent State was taking final ; but he still is an influential in the background. He is id into the MacDonald family, sr strong Samoa group of rs and traders. His handsome Peter and Norman, are top lives. through Samoa’s modern y, the European-Samoan com y has been divided between the ns and the Pauls, and the war ildom stopped. O. F. Nelson jaw like the Rock of Gibraltar, 3 has Eugene Paul—jaws which □n stubbornly, and never com se. the moment, the Nelsons are lant in the political scene, and 3 auls are quiet—biding their maybe. : situation has its piquant angles. example, the daughter of Moors, related away back to lelsons, is happily married to : Peter Paul and lives in the felson camp. Public Works ter Nelson, who might be ex l to fly the Nelson flag, is very ely an “independent”. ;ene Paul says he is no longer sted in politics, and his hearty wishes go with the new State, hrough his newspaper he sniffs urrent breezes on The Beach, 'onders what the New Year has le New Nation, and the Old ies. hose handsome, educated, clever n of the European-Samoan lunity do not have some voice future of Western Samoa, then les which usually govern human i will have been side-tracked.

Sixty Years

p. 45

In Samoa

One of the Grand Old Men of Samoa’s European population is Rupert Berking {above) now aged 81 years—6o of them spent in Western Samoa.

Mr. Berking was born in Hanover in 1880, where he was educated. He went to Samoa in 1900 after German annexation, already having spent three years in Hawaii. Within a few years he was Collector of Customs. With NZ control he became a businessman and planter and in the intervening years he has been a prominent, active and much respected member of the community. The old “Cyclopedia of Samoa”, which in 1907 reproduced the photograph of Mr. Berking shown below, had this to say of him: “His position as Collector of Customs he fills with credit to himself and ad vantage to the Government. The courteous manner in which he at all times discharges his duties has made him very popular”.

The Russians?

p. 45

And Where Are The Russians?

In Apia, in November, a special Government committee had ear marked all available accommodation in town in readiness for the big influx of distinguished visitors invited to the Independence celebrations.

The official visitors include the NZ Prime Minister, Mr. Keith Holvoake and his wife. Germany will be repre sented by the German Minister in NZ, Dr. H. Noehring; the Nether lands by the Netherlands Minister in NZ, Baron Bentinck von Schoolhafen.

There are other representatives from all parts of the Pacific.

However, the Russians don’t look like being there officially, PI M’s publisher, Mr. R. W. Robson, reported from Apia: I was interested in those Russians, so I asked West Samoa’s Prime Minister Mataafa: “Have any of the Communist nations represented on the UN Trusteeship Council indicated that they are coming to your ceremonies?”

The Prime Minister said that, as far as he knew, they had not.

I said that was strange. In season and out, at the Trusteeship Council and UN Assembly, the Communists —especialy the Russians—had yelled for early independence for Samoa.

Mataafa said that invitations had gone generally to Samoa’s neighbours around the Pacific, and the nations interested in the South Pacific Com mission.

“But Germany is coming. Germany is not in any of those categories.”

Mataafa, poker-faced, said that Germany had a special interest—this was a former German colony.

I said I was sure that the Russians would have shown a lively interest in this occasion. It was strange.

Mataafa, still poker-faced, said it was. s£ * * From other sources, it is reported that: • Soviet Russia would have accepted an invitation to the celebra tions, if one had been forthcoming. • A Russian survey ship is cruis ing in the South Pacific—she was in Suva in November. • Some observers would not be surprised if the Russian survey ship appeared quietly in Apia Harbour about New Year’s Eve, to allow one or two high official personages to attend the important ceremonies at Mulinuu on January 1.

Will Samoa Follow Tonga’ Lead

pp. 47-50

In National Development?

A Review of Tongan Enterprise, by R. W. Robson.

Western Samoa, emerging into independent nationhood, faced immediately with some lively problems of finance and idgeting. Maybe Tonga, its cousin and near neighbour, its tiior in population but its senior in nationalism, may be able supply some useful answers, and warnings.

4GI, Tonga’s Crown Prince and ireless Premier, will visit Samoa cember, and remain to represent i there on Independence Day. ne is better qualified than Tungi 11 Samoa how a little country limited production for export, finance an administrative ine and still find money where to buy, overseas, the expensive ment —ships and complex mod plant, building materials and d technicians—needed to de the country’s resources, and mortgaging its financial soul erseas corporations, nee Tungi has made his mistakes i his European critics love to least them!—but his achieve s have been so remarkable that, y opinion, his name will remain fs high and honoured in the ry of Twentieth Century Tonga, e new satellite town he has built miles out of Nukualofa, in what years ago was flat swampy e, is almost unbelievable.

Tongatabu, when you clear away ungle, and rain comes, you sink mr knees in black mud. The mud grow anything, but it is not the you naturally choose for big. ern buildings.

But there, on eight or ten acres, are now a dozen large modern build ings, designed to avoid internal pil lars—they could house aeroplanes, if necessary—and constructed (except in two cases, where galvanised iron has been used) of steel and cement.

The concrete in some cases was poured, but mostly the walls are made of cement blocks. They used crushed coral instead of sand.

The black soil was bulldozed away to give hard foundations, and the whole area now seems set in con crete.

Lavish Offices In the front, facing the bitumen road, is a beautiful one-storey build ing, which houses the lavish offices of the Tonga Copra Board and the Tonga Construction Company —the latter, Government-owned and oper ated—built this satellite town. Ad joining the office building facing the road, are four very large, very modern bungalows, set amid lawns and gar dens, accommodation for senior staff. Prince Tungi occupies one of them.

Behind this impressive facade, there are rows of very large buildings

several copra stores, a timber-work ing factory, a joinery shop, a machine-shop where simple engineer ing jobs are done, a large shop which produces concrete blocks, a plumbing and tinsmithing shop, a desiccated coconut factory and a coir factory (neither yet in production), a builders’ hardware store (which carries stocks worth £70,000), a staff restaurant, two concrete tanks carry ing hundreds of thousands of gallons, a pump to push both well-water and rain-water (every vast roof is a catch ment) up into a pressure tower.

Electric power comes from the town. The whole place is sewered.

Out of the wood-working shops now comes a steady stream of furni ture and joinery.

High Quality

Office equipment (desks, chairs, cabinets, counters, trays) are beauti fully finished —the score of Tongan clerks in the Board s main office are better equipped than their opposite numbers in any Sydney insurance office. There are all kinds of domestic furniture, door and window frames, roof struts, and so forth, for sale in Tonga and the adjoining islands.

One store holds a great stock ot finished goods.

Teams from the Construction Com pany go out and erect government buildings.

And the materials? All from over seas —cement from Japan, timber from North America, a little from New Zealand, much from Fiji—the cabinet-makers have done full justice to Fiji’s lovely grained woods. Metals

Here in Nukualofa's new satellite town are the the offices of the Tonga Copra Board and Tonga Construction Company and some of the residences. The first house on the left is occupied by Prince Tungi. Right, is Mr. Stan Brown, hard-working general manager of the whole establishment.

—iron and steel bars, tin, meshe: are from Australia.

And the staff? Among all the e cutives, and all the hundreds of n so intent on their work—and I ne saw men handle delicate machii more lovingly than the Tongansj those furniture-making shops—th is not one full European.

The general manager of the wk establishment, Mr. Stan E. Broi is part Tongan. His able assists who gives most of his time to Construction Company, Mr. S.

Nakao, a Bachelor of Commerce; a NZ University, is part Japan, part Tongan. The foreman of woodworking sections is a keen

competent Filipino.

I talked to some of these pec and was impressed by their regard and loyalty to Premier Tungi. “I haps he does make mistakes,” s one. “But he is a great man to w for. He doesn’t dither around listens to you and soon makes up mind—and then action is so qu that he keeps you right on y toes.”

Carved from Jungle That may explain why this s< little town, all concrete and mod amenities, complete already \ water and power and sewers, \ artistic fences and green lawns, carved out of the jungle in tl years. The Tongans themselves, as State-owned Construction Comps built the place under the direc of Tungi and the guidance of a overseas technicians; and those 1 gans really worked.

The Tongan Government, thro its Public Works Department, ; built the little township, also oui the jungle, which now houses Ton new radio broadcasting serv Strong and clear, and admirably by a handful of technicians ur New Zealander Mr. R. G. Hagj Tonga Radio already has listener: Fiji and Samoa, as well as throv out the widely scattered Tongas.

“We are the Friendly Islar broadcasts Tonga; and the Fiji Samoa radio station managers sp: little, and want to know what’s wr with the kind of friendliness i dispense. But it looks as if Tub radio directors are going to m fullest use of the happy name gi the group by Captain Cook 180 y< ago. Advertisers seem to agree—t are buying time from Station ZC “What’s the radio licence fee? asked.

“None,” said Tungi, with kindest smile. “We sell receiving to listeners—we have a monoj over that trade.”

rekeepers, deprived of this traf niff loudly—but everyone else i happy. ngi’s newest plan for developing Tongan coconut industry has startled the citizenry, is in communication with an ican corporation, which contem ; the establishment in Pago Pago ctories to desiccate coconuts, or them into oil and cattle-meal, make coir from the husks.

A New Ship? e Americans want some scores lillions of coconuts per annum Tonga and Samoa, and it is rstood that, if the plan goes on, e Tungi’s government will pro a new ship, and a series of :s, to take care of transportation jen Tonga, Western Samoa and Pago. )thing more will be done until mber, when Tungi goes to Pago and Western Samoa, e critics are very busy, explain why it must not and cannot ione. But Tungi merely smiles, pparently will entertain any plan f to widen the markets for his nut products, and release his try from the shackles of a world 'olled copra price, le looks out over Nukualofa and sees the busy Aoniu hurry 3ff to Suva or Pago, the Hifofua

loading for the outer Tongas, the huge oil barge that regularly brings the kingdom’s supplies from Fiji, under arrangement with the oil companics—and again is reminded that Tungi also organised this Stateowned Shipping Department.

Satellite copra town, construction company, fleet of ships, large public works department, new radio station —all these enterprises were not established without large funds. Tonga is a very small country.

What did Tonga’s Premier use for money?

Tungi smiles his disarming smile, waves his placatory hand. The State, he reminds one, takes over all the nation’s produce—copra, bananas,

fruits and vegetables, and especially copra—and markets it. The State makes deductions for marketing costs, transport, “stabilisation”—there is a million pounds accumulated in the stabilisation fund. In the six months up to September 30, the Tonga Copra Board handled copra worth about £350,000. The shipping, radio and construction enterprises claim to be either making a profit or breaking even; and the huge capital cost of these various enterprises seems somehow to be taken care of.

There are few details of these en terprises in the State’s published ac counts. Each is under a Board or Committee, and in each case Tungi seems to be chairman. (Over)

Few Boards could resist t famous Tubou smile and gently j suasive tongue—and the Kingdom Tonga goes on to newer and big enterprises, and remains solvent, apparently takes orders from European Government or overs corporation.

I should not be surprised, if when I return to Nukualofa at 1964, I find that Tungi has instaj a helicopter service between Premier’s Office and the sate' town!

Western Samoa, starting off with economy not unlike that of Toi could be deeply interested in w the massive young Tongan Prince tell them of his experiences in world of finance and commerce.

In Samoa, as in Tonga, there only one race to be provided Samoans may be expected to ti their Fautua (or hereditary chi who are to be their Heads of St£ as the Tongans trust their rc family. As in Tonga, the means which Samoa will purchase overs goods—from cloth to tractors, fi petrol to drugs— must come from soil, from the sale of coconuts, co and bananas.

Finances Where Tonga uses a marketing ganisation (Tonga Copra Board) finance capital projects, Samoa i haps will use the new Trust Esti Limited (successor to the famous parations Estates, which for so L gave the Territory so much econo backbone).

Both Tonga and Samoa issue paper currency through their c Treasuries, and get some advant there. West Samoa now has its c bank. But Samoa’s currency is at with New Zealand, and NZ coins in use there. Tonga maintains with the Australian £, and uses A tralian coins.

As both countries would like to accumulated bank funds for cap expenditure, it was inevitable t both would sooner or later estab their own banks. Why not a j( Samoan-Tongan enterprise—the B; of Polynesia, or something like tl: That might enable them to mint tl own coinage.

When the 300th baby for 1961 delivered at the Prebyterian Miss hospital at Lenakel, Tanna, h Hebrides, on September 6, th wasn’t any doubt that records w being well and truly broken, greatest number of babies delivered any one year previously was 84

The Sights

p. 49

Of Tonga

i party of New Zealanders, the “Tofua”, was being wn the sights of Nukualofa a very earnest young Tongan ie.

"hey were suitably impressed the flying-fox colony, and the w-holes, and then the guide ed them if there was any er place they wished to visit. r hey said they would leave \o him.

Is they walked to the cars, young woman remarked: you know, I haven’t seen any s in Tonga.” r he guide seemed troubled, gave a curt order, in Tongan, the car drivers. The cars took ough road, and pulled up in nalodorous place. r he guide turned complacently the tourists. “There,” he said, ving his hand, “you see there neellions of flies!” t was Nukualofa’s rubbish

[?] Support Of

p. 51

Letter to the Editor

[?]COLONIALISM

—So much has been written the advantages of indepen and self-determination, that I like to point out some of the rvailing advantages of ilism. )NIAL administrations gener ly provide comprehensive ional, agricultural and health s. Those furnished by Trustee- Iministrations are usually much )mprehensive, and those given h technical assistance missions ependent countries are often might say that the extent of :al services is directly related degree of political affiliation, a territory obtains indepen subsidies and personnel from rent government fade away and :al services dwindle. Many of laller territories simply cannot in the quality and quantity of s, although they may try to do hiring local talent and in ig taxation.

Stability

ther advantage of colonial istration is the stability con by continuity of government, sure, this stability sometimes iches stagnation, but generally is perceptible movement on and upwards. An independent y, however, is subject to sudden al changes, brought about by allot box or other means, igh these changes are not arily retrograde, drastic shifts icy may waste limited govern resources. deleterious effect of political lity on private resources is even marked. Capital is becoming cowardly every year, le are the days of the reneur, willing to lose his shirt long shot. In this age of •ations, investments are made he hope of returns for decades me. Such conservative capital remely unwilling to finance ex alts in self-determination, s leads to one more advan is aspect of colonial status. The icts of development are much when there is a happy com on of subsidised technical es and secure capital invest-

When colonial people yearn for freedom, they hope it will bring them greater prosperity. This leads to sad disappointment, a heavy price being paid for premature independence.

Boot-strap operations relying on local cash and know-how have been totally unable to fulfill the rising aspirations of those who live in in dependent and underdeveloped areas.

I ask critics of colonialism in the UN and elsewhere to honestly examine the needs and desires of people living in colonial territories.

I urge both expatriates and indigenes to work patiently for the improvement of each territory within the colonial system until such time

as it is ready to stand and prosper alone.

Yours, etc.,

AN EX-ANTICOLONIAL

Koronivia, Fiji.

Production from the Cook Islands’ vital citrus fruit industry has in creased twelve-fold in the last 10 years, according to figures recently released in New Zealand. Approxi mately 15,000 bushels of citrus were produced in 1951 but figures for the year ending September, 1961, show that all citrus produced for sale, whether for export or for the new local processing plant, totalled 100,000 bushels.

[?]anberra

p. 53

[?]OMMENTARY

n our Canberra Correspondent >ua-New Guinea intruded the Federal election cam much more than might

been expected for a subject

could have only a limited t on voting.

H major parties raised the sub ct in their policy speeches and I it again in campaigning.

Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, d most of his mid-campaign ast on foreign affairs to one of earest re-statements of Aus policy on Indonesia and West Guinea he has made since he iver the External Affairs port deprecated talk of war over New Guinea. want peace and friendship,” d. “There is no occasion for y. ing as we do so close to the island of New Guinea, we re he interests of its people and peaceful progress as the para consideration. We hope that icerned will see it in this light.”

Menzies’ broadcast was a clear • to Indonesia’s claim in the

Not Exploiting

long as Indonesia declined to ige Netherlands sovereignty in iternational Court—by whose ent we would abide—Australia adhere to our support of the )le of self-determination, he stralia is a democracy, and ire deeply attached to the )le of self-government,” he said, from being ‘colonial exploiters’ at into P-NG—in hard cash, work and devoted service by hundreds of Australians—far than we ever hope to get out r one great ambition is that, the day comes for these terri to determine their own destiny, )eople will look on us as friends lave been faithful and just to this is how we feel and act, hould we deny the same policies : Netherlands?” his policy speech, Mr. Menzies

was content to rest on the Govern ment’s record in P-NG.

Not so the Leader of the Op position, Mr. Calwell.

He demanded radical changes in an effort to prepare P-NG for self government in the shortest time.

His most far-reaching statement was that the cost was beyond Aus tralia and could be met only with UN support.

This statement brought the Govern ment reaction that to do so would give Communist nations in UN a say in the administration of the Territory.

Said the Deputy Prime Minister and Country Party Leader, Mr. Mc- Ewen: “UN supervision would mean that Communist countries would be given a continuing, direct and official status in the administration . . .

“Mr. Calwell can find £3OO million a year to curry favour in Australia, but to save Australia £5 million or £lO million a year in P-NG he would allow Communists in the UN to get a supervising position in P-NG.

“We all know that the Communists never pass an opportunity to make mischief and cause disruption, par ticularly in emerging countries.”

Mr. Calwell also was critical of some other aspects of the Govern ment’s stewardship in the Territory.

He attacked the Government for introducing “in the dying hours of the Twenty-third Parliament” pro posals to abandon “the whole system of courts of justice built up over the past 70 years by many able and dedicated Administration officials”.

Labour held itself free to review this action, he said.

It wanted to extend Courts of Native Matters to include native magistrates.

And it wanted District Courts to include civilian European, Chinese and native justices as well as the present official European judges.

In this way, responsibility for main taining law and order would be ex tended to men for whom the whole community would have respect.

Another matter which Mr. Calwell said needed immediate attention was a common roll for the electorate.

TEAL’s annual report released in Wellington in October reveals that for the first time passenger traffic has passed an annual rate of 100,000 passengers. Profit before taxation was £155,000, and operating costs were reduced. Civil Aviation Minister Mr. McAlpine, said a firm decision would have to be taken soon on replacements for the Electras, which would go out of service in 1964 with the opening of Mangere jet airport.

The South Seas

pp. 55-59

THEIR HEARTS ARE IN

Irish, American and Blown-away Samoan

Islands people have always been prodigious travellers but w, as a sign of these confused times probably, they are also :oming settlers in foreign places. For reasons of geography i climate, the Pacific coast of the United States has a grow ' quota of people who spend some part of their time thinking stalgically of "the Islands”.

SOME —like Tom McCuaig and Ralph Craib—have been ex posed to the Islands’ virus for com paratively short times but are none the less enthusiasts. Both are news papermen—Tom near Los Angeles on the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Ralph on the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Republican

Tom was the editor of The Fiji Times for a couple of recent years, until itchy feet drove him to Honolulu and now to California. He’s still a wild Irishman, still plans to return home, someday, and take a more active part in furthering the Republi can cause.

In the meantime, he’ll show Islands visitors Los Angeles—what you can see of it for the smog—at the drop of a hat. He took us to a place called Ghost Town on the outskirts

of the city and that is where the photo of Tom was taken—outside the Silver Dollar Saloon (where they sell only root-beer and coke).

Some millionaire with a pretty shrewd idea of mass American psy chology, has transplanted whole streets from deserted Western towns to a large area of suburban dust and gum trees. Characters dressed in 1850 fashions, Indians with feathers, imita tion sheriffs and cowboys roam amongst it for the edification of the thousands of visitors, mostly adults, who come to inhabit this dream world briefly and to play cops and robbers with the “sheriff” and his “deputies”.

The erroneous impression it gives overseas visitors of even modest in telligence, of course, is that all Americans are of a mental age of no more than 14.

The Expert

Ralph Craib first saw the South Pacific on a Qantas Press junket six or seven years ago. When fellow journalists were taking a look at the flesh-pots of Australia, he took a ride to New Guinea and on the strength of a few days there says he became an “expert” when he got home.

But because he was an “expert”, he later was given a Fellowship to spend about 18 months in Australian and Netherlands New Guinea. He re turned to New Guinea earlier this year, under his own steam, for a

shorter period.

Like Tom McCuaig he likes to show you his town but with San Francisco has a bit more to show.

As he says—Sydney has the prettiest

Ernie Reid's Samoan community of San Francisco brings a breath of the real South Seas to that city. Here they are enjoying a recent dance practice.

In Tom McCuaig, once an editor of "The mes", these days lives by the pen in California.

ur; San Francisco the prettiest is. re closely related to the Islands le Glucks, who live out in the ind suburb of Hillsborough San Francisco’s International rt, in the fabulous kind of house we imagine all Americans live util we’ve been there to see for ves that they don’t.

ess with Monkeys

iford Gluck served in the US r orce, in Fiji, during the war. it he returned to Suva for Pan ican Airways, and during this 1 time round he married lona rson. Next move was to Singa about the time medical science to be really interested in eys for research and more par rly for the manufacture of anti- Salk vaccine. i American Airways transported of these animals and manager was in a position to see that was room for someone in the ry to organise things from the / end—it then being a pretty nd miss affair of Any Old ey Will Do. im this idea has grown the ihing business of Asiatic Animal ts Inc. which will import you ing from a spiny ant-eater to a elephant but which still makes of its money from monkeys for al research. (Some chimpanzees recently imported with the idea lining them as astronauts.) der the Gluck set-up it’s no r a case of any monkey will do; ; receiving houses near the air n San Francisco, the animals are led for the job—they are put on il diets, attended by veterinary 's and get used to the idea that are no longer living in trees. ; Glucks have investments in quite outside their animal busi and are frequent visitors to the iy other couple of ex-Fiji residents live in the same San Francisco as the Glucks, are Dr. and Mrs. . Cruikshank, Dr. Cruikshank formerly Director of Medical :es in Fiji—one of the few Cana in the Colonial Service—and WHO director for the South c area. :ouple of years ago they went to arnia for family reasons. They fit and well in spite of the re ibilities of running a private irium there.

lesia Transplanted

t probably the people with the st ties with the South Pacific hose belonging to the Samoan

community of San Francisco. The number fluctuates between 1,500 and 2,500, with permanent residents tending to grow. The original reason for this large community being so far from home was the closing of the Navy Base at Pago Pago, American Samoa, in 1951 after it had for 50 years been the biggest factor in the small Territory’s economic life.

Hundreds of Samoans migrated to jobs in Honolulu and California and there is still a considerable coming and going between the three points.

Not all the Samoans in San Francisco keep together as a group—many of them tend to become absorbed in the rest of the community—but a large contingent under the leadership of one of their own people, Mr.

Ernest C. Reid, make a real effort to preserve the ties, the culture and the language of Samoa in their new homeland.

We asked Ernie Reid to come in and have coffee with us but he sent word for us to come out to his house in Daly City where they were “prac tising some dances”, We left the taxi in a typical San Francisco street, walked across the threshold of the Reid house and straight back into Samoa. Three rows of girls and women in the middle of a siva took up most of the space on t * ie living-room floor, A dozen other men and women perched on pieces of furniture sing ing and playing guitars; some fat, small children skirmished around on

mtskirts; and in an adjacent room a dozen people with serious I sat around a table. xwe the music Ernie said the le around the table were the i committee” and that the com ity was, in the coming week, ing a ball in San Francisco. The ng and dancing were part of the show that was to be given, le “floor-show” practised for t an hour and a half, men and en taking their turn at singing dancing with the minimum of and instructions, relaxing com ly into the traditional Polynesian im and idiom although some of youngsters had never been nearer Jouth Pacific than Hawaii, xcasionally, when the music really to them, a member of the food nittee would heave up from the and come in and perform a solo ; the floor-show took a breather, lere had been some discussion as ffiat they would charge for the tickets but $3.50 had finally been led on—profits to go to the com ity fund to help members over less and education crises.

Driving Power

»e focal point of this community idoubtedly Reid himself who has lordinary driving power and ities of leadership, and with his and two small children around is an established Californian citi (Mrs. Reid is the daughter of Rev. Tikeri Tauoa, who spent i years in Papua as a LMS Pastor who went to California in 1957 now has his own Congregational ■ch in San Francisco.) ost of the families came from rican Samoa but many of them family ties and affiliations with ;ern Samoa. After supper, Mrs. miu Fonoimoana, who said that originally came from Apia, ed to see us back into the city, er teen-age daughter, Elsie, who born in Honolulu, drove for of the way and then left us with cousin Montey Tuia. Mrs. Fonoi na completed the task before ng heaven knows how many c miles out in another direction.

II drove like seasoned veterans on confusing system of freeways and ited roadways—proving that al gh their hearts may still be in the h Seas they have certainly learned djust to this part of the American

of life.-

JUDY TUDOR.

Fiji Registered Nurses Associa , open to all registered nurses the Colony, has recently been blished in Suva. Organisers hope ee it make overseas affiliations.

Canadian Traders

Look at the Pacific

Papeete, Tahiti, had its first visit from a Canadian trade official in October when Mr. J. H. Stone, whose headquarters is at Wellington, New Zealand, made a short stay there.

Mr. Stone thinks that tourism is Tahiti’s only chance of balancing its trade account after the phosphate

deposits on Makatea are worked-out in another five years.

He said when he got back to Wellington in early November that Tahiti was already doing something about this alternative industry by building fine new hotels and im proving tourist facilities generally.

He said that Canadian trade with the South Pacific Islands had not been important until the last couple of years when dollar restrictions were lifted by most administrations.

Rubber Cheque

p. 61

Fiji Debates The Rubber Cheque Problem

From a Correspondent )ud cheques, a bane of com ■ce in Fiji, will continue to be lenace, for combined official unofficial members in the [islative Council in November sated a Government motion ed at strengthening the law. >NCERN about the number of cheques which bounced came to Lie notice about 18 months ago n the Suva Chamber of Com ce, later backed by the Federated mbers of Commerce, sought Gov nent action. Rubber cheques are iroblem in many South Sea ids because of the wide use of jues as currency. reliable estimate was that 18,000 ;qu e s had been dishonoured ughout Fiji during the previous years! fell to the lot of the Attorney eral, Mr. A. M. Greenwood, QC. introduce the new measure, but Greenwood himself was against The official members themselves s so divided that the Government ded the issue should be resolved a free vote.

Onus of Proof he new measure proposed to shift onus of proof from the prosecu to an accused to prove he did s enough funds to meet a que. If a cheque was drawn and sented within 30 days and dis cured because there were insuf ;nt or no funds to meet it the wer could be prosecuted under the posed new law.

'he Director of Public Works, Mr. n Common, was in favour of the isure. He told the Council that the te names occurred with a certain ;ree of regularity on cheques which department received, and which bank returned. Over a year, a que-and-a-half a week were re tted. He considered that in mosi es the drawer knew the cheque uld be returned. fhe Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. D. icdonald, said the blame must rest h the banks and the commercial nmunity. Commerce gave credit ely, and accepted cheques too ely.

He then argued that if the measure s passed, the gaols, already filled

to overflowing, might become fuller.

In that case there would be a request for more money to extend the gaols!

Mr. C. W. Cayzer, a European nominated member, said there was a completely amoral outlook on the sanctity of cheques. It was nonsense for a person to say he was unaware he had no money to meet a cheque.

Three lawyer members (Messrs.

J. N. Falvey, H. B. Gibson and R. G. Kermode) also favoured a tightening-up of the law.

Semesa Sikivou (a Fijian member) blamed the matter on to the economic position in which people found themselves. Most people were hard up, and when they were hard up some

of them could not afford to be honest. he said. When there were children to be educated and fed and there was no money the temptation was great if there was a cheque book handy, Semesa said he wished some other way could have been found for deal ing with the problem, When it came to the vote the house divided 16-11 against the measure.

Mr. Greenwood did not vote. Of the totals, five official members and six unofficial members were in favour of lightening the law. Six unofficial members and 10 officials voted against it.

The Suva Chamber of Commerce is now back where it started!

Never Like This

pp. 63-65

[?]dneyiider Goes Walkabout

The Pacific Was Never Like This

This is Hawaii—the first hint of the tropics in her balmy r—and the inherent instinct of most Americans to make n of themselves in gaudy attire, in fuller flower than the cal hibiscus.

EVERY horrible thing said about tourists and their fancy dress, in other ports in the Pacific, comes true in Honolulu. In its male form, it erupts in an epidemic of wild, hula shirts.

Or in the garments called shorts, which in the United States mean an article with the cut and drape of a pair of slacks sawn off at the knees.

With these, the accepted adjuncts are a hang-out shirt and a pair of coloured, city sox that end two inches above the ankle bone. Hawaiian men also, occasionally, wear girly mata dors.

The female of the species, as Kip ling once said in another context, is more deadly than the male. She arrives from the mainland, hot in civilized clothes and swathed in tiers of leis. (You can wire ahead and arrange to be suitably draped). With in 24 hours, after surreptitious visits to the shops in the hotel lobby, the metamorphosis has taken place; with in 48 she is indistinguishable from the “Hawaiians”. (Or something.) Probably it is a muu-muu, that hideous, rich relation of the New Guinea “Mary’s blouse” or Mother Hubbard, on which her errant fancy has lighted. She has divested herself of her foundation garments and put it on, and although she probably looks like a milk-cow done up in a bag, she wears it, so help me, with aplomb.

The American female tourist d9es not believe in this business of growing old gracefully; she may be fat and pear-shaped; or stringy, like a piece

of sun-dried meat, but if it is fashion able, she’ll give it a go.

Feminine ingenuity does not stop with the muu-muu, or its long, fish tailed variant which is called some thing else and, so far, has not made such an impact on fashion. In Hawaii there are a 100 other peculiar local garments that have never seen the in side of a couturier’s workshop. Some billow, some are tight; they come long, medium or short. Some show the Chinese influence; or Japanese; or Filipino. Some are split up the sides; some down the front. But whatever, they are all different to what you had back home —so why hold back, you’ve got to be in it to win it.

On the eve of departure, Papa puts on his dacron-and-wool business suit; Mama gets back into her foundation garments, which after the comfort of the muu-muu probably hurt. They are draped again with leis, go to the airport—and depart. Two more satis fied customers. . „ jr> Why are they satisfied? Un doubtedly by the myth of the Pacific and not its realities.

That Pacific

Mystique

Americans are suckers for the Pacific—but they like it from a i lanai suite, with bath, and who can blame them? If you are a tourist, in America, you may be a vulture for the culture of the Navajo Indians but do you want to live in a tepee in the middle of the Painted Desert?

They call their West Coast the Pacific Coast, do up teaspoonfuls of the ocean in polythene bubbles and send them on postcards to the tolks back home. (over)

FLITTED THROUGH BY FISHES! There

be a fortune in this for someone [?]ide of the ocean. This is a post-card, [?]ble on the Pacific coast of the USA at [?]about 5/- in Australian money. The polythene bubble stapled to the top [?]ns a teaspoon of water—allegedly from [?]acific —and some grains of grey sand, [?]ords beneath are: [?]ind swept, sun kissed. Graced with the [?]flakes of ore from Pacific coast streams; [?]ed by sandy beaches, flitted through by [?]w coloured fishes and greatly admired [?]est coast inhabitants." [?]itors to the Pacific coast are supposed [?]t a stamp on the back and post the [?]to their friends. What the friends do [?]it, we hate to think but only the high of the experiment prevented us from [?]ig some to our more rugged Pacific [?]s friends to get their reaction.

This is the tourists' Hawaii—with gaudy attire in full flower. Ingenuity doesn't stop with the muu-muu.

nd everything westward from the ; of the Continent is the Pacific them. Hongkong, Japan, Indo la, Indonesia and clear to India. , even, at times, to Africa, he cities of the Pacific Coast of ;rica abound in Polynesian res ants—like Trader Vic’s and Don Beachcomber’s, Tiki Bob’s and :ns of paler imitations. When we t to one of them to dine we were ed rum-based drinks in bucket -1 glasses and mine had a real lenia, with two leaves and a twig, ing on the top. I didn’t know ther to fish it out and wear it, [rink around it. ut in the foyer they sold objets ' (primitif ). There were, believe r not, genuine carved galip nuts i New Guinea’s Sepik, at a price would make our trader friends on River gnash their teeth in fury. :e were bits of bric-a-brac from West Indies. Impala and buck ed out of wood back in Uganda, ganyika and the Kikuyu reserves Cenya; and wooden tikis galore i the workshop of a fellow in a Francisco suburb.

Waitresses r Pareus he place was crowded to the •s, clamouring, would-be patrons ; turned away in droves, the cash >ter was clanging a merry tune, iuse it was, in fact, a very sant place to eat, let your hair n and have fun. onolulu, too, abounds in Poly an and Tahitian restaurants where waitresses wear pareus and fran ni wreaths and the decor is all ical banana leaves, coconut :ets, tons of bamboo, paintings velvet and posters by TAI and ln the flickering light of kero torches, which give these spots Stygian gloom that is standard pment for all American eateries, 1 middle-aged tourists sit munch- Tahiti was never like this—and tier was the high cost of the vic -5 that works out at about 11 ars a throw. te were told that we would loathe /aii as a travesty of all that was ific. As it turned out, we didn’t, lolulu is about as typical of Poly a as the Queensland Gold Coast f the rest of Australia. Both can amusing. he pure Hawaiians are now re sd to an insignificant minority in 600,000 total population and their ure, their history and their colour past is maintained now merely as rop to the tourist industry—-dis d and reduced to sip-sized doses the edification of the Mums and Dads and the bright young things

from Seattle, St. Louis and points east. The tourist industry is important to Hawaii and probably brings in more real money than the subsidised sugar industry and once you have accepted the fact that they have reached a point of no return in mak ing the means justify the end result, the rest comes easy.

If you want to bust your guts on Pacific anthropological field-work, you won’t go to Hawaii. But if you want to dilly-dally on a beach under a sun umbrella, complete with mat. back-rest and scented sun-tan oil ($2 the lot); or play in the disciplined surf at Waikiki; or live in a luxury

hotel—why look further? An annual quarter-million Americans don’t.

In short, what we have down here is the real Pacific islands; up there they’ve got the myth—and make money at it. There must be a moral in this somewhere.

A former New Guinea man, who was born at Wau, Mr, Ronald Olsson, was married at Narrung, Victoria, recently to Miss Iris Armstrong, He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Olsson, who ran business in Wau before the war and for a number of years in Port Moresby after the War.

All now live at Narrung.

Errol Flynn

pp. 67-69

WARD TAYLOR v.

a sequel to the string of lies t some alleged New Guinea ] ers of 1926, written by the late fwood actor Errol Flynn in his , “My Wicked, Wicked Ways”, man who was libelled, former ict Officer Edward Taylor, of Guinea, commenced an action st the American publishers; and readers, who may remember the es published in 1960 (Feb., p. day, p. 23; and June, p. 113), be interested in the sequel. iver a man was made the victim }f irresponsible journalism, and 1 claim libel, it was Mr. Ted )r; but his approach to the :d States courts is making no ess against a mass of pro al and legal technicalities. fore he became famous Flynn several years in New Guinea, ilor, recruiter, goldfields adven and he even served a brief term Administration junior official. says, in the original edition of fork, published in 1958-59, that some prospectors were mur by natives near Madang, he on the staff of District Officer >r; that he was placed in charge ne of four parties which were out from Madang by District :r Taylor to seek the murderers; a dozen natives were rounded md were publicly hanged at mg by District Officer Taylor, the local native population entertained by Taylor at a lavish "Pack of Lies" mn describes the whole incident ;at detail, and says that he him vomited at “the most macabre I ever witnessed”. or to the publication of the (which, insofar as it relates to Guinea, is largely imaginative, apparently was ghosted for i by a professional writer) the was published serially by an lean magazine; and this sec giving Flynn’s account of the ers, came to the notice of PIM, vas described and challenged in February, 1960, issue, percussion was immediate, e story was described by Mr.

Taylor—now retired and living illina, NSW—and by other well n New Guinea veterans, as a of lies; and when the Territory’s lative Council met a few months

later, the scurrilous and libellous statements made in Flynn’s book were denounced by Messrs. J. K. McCarthy (Director of Native Affairs) and H.

Niall (Morobe District Commis sioner). Both of them were in the Territory service long before World War 11, both knew Flynn, and both knew the Madang incident never took place.

Flynn was very briefly a cadet at the Kokopo sub-station in the Rabaul District; and Mr. McCarthy said that the only patrolling he ever did was to wear a path between the station and the Kokopo hotel.

It was also stated in the Legco that Flynn was believed to cherish

a dislike of Taylor because, when Flynn was on the Morobe goldfield, and Taylor was District Officer at Salamaua, Taylor interfered with Flynn’s practice of coating copper coins with nickel or something, and persuading the natives to accept them as silver coins.

The Legco suggested that, for the good name of Australia, the Com monwealth Government should act in this matter for Mr. Taylor, against the publishers of the book; but Can berra did nothing, and it was left to Mr. Taylor to proceed against the publishers. The latter are two well known and very powerful corpora tions. (Over)

le American edition of My \ed, Wicked Ways duly appeared ISA and—as far as we know—it in the form in which it was lised. But when the British Corn wealth edition was published in ion by Heinemann’s in 1958, the le of the offensive section about “murders” had been deleted, jsisted by friends—and especially i generous New York attorney inated by friends—Mr. Taylor ' this year opened fire against publishers. le publishers engaged the best able legal talent, and the latter oyed every permissible legal de to embarrass the plaintiff—and, ng by the copies of the numer legal documents from the New Supreme Court which have led PIM . they really are masters le art. jw Guinea is on the opposite of the earth to New York. The ents on which Flynn’s calumnies based occurred over 30 years The legal processes in New York yery costly, even in the world’s expensive country—and Ted Dr is not by any means a rich

Legal Tactics

r. Taylor’s attorney clearly did nowledgeable best—but the pub rs’ lawyers met his every move more and more demands for sn “details” to show wherein n had written untruths and Dr was libelled; and by persuad :he Courts not to accept sworn ments that material published by idants as facts was completely ir example, they pointed out that •eferences were to “District Offi- Taylor”, which did not neces ' identify him as Edward Taylor, plaintiff. It is well-known that le time of the supposed crime, was only one District Officer Dr (Edward Taylor) in New ea: but the lawyers know that it d be a long, expensive process et proof of it across to that ; in New York. ;ain and again, defendant’s law succeeded in their applications e courts for more and more de and each time the judges seem ive allowed the plaintiffs only 10 0 days in which to provide the rial —although it was obvious ilaintiff’s attorney had to go back mstralia. and probably to New ea, to get the proofs demanded, ic libel and the damage done clear to the layman. But it also ry clear that, to bring the issue ial, a great deal more money—

and patience—is needed, and that the interests challenged will use every legal device at their command to make it difficult for plaintiff to pro ceed with his case.

At last report the case was com pletely bogged down in New York.

Writing in the latest issue of the Australian quarterly review, Quadrant, a NG District Officer of Flynn’s time, Eric Feldt, says some people might think Flynn’s book of value in revealing the character of the author, “Yet what do you know of a man who is a congenital liar?

Nothing that comes from his own mouth, as it cannot be trusted!”

Native Lot is Not

p. 69

An Hugienic One

The medical officer in charge of a mo^^e clinic that recently made a survey amongst the natives of the north end of New Caledonia has re ported that the 4,000 natives who live there present other medical prob lems than that of leprosy—which he had gone out specifically to examine.

He found seven cases of leprosy and these have been sent to the Sana torium at Ducos, Noumea, He has now recommended that an X-ray team for a TB survey be sent amongst these people and that some effort be made to instruct them in simple hygiene.

Tongan History

p. 71

SHE'S A LINK WITH EARLY

From a Correspondent

One of the interesting chapters of early European history in Samoa and Tonga will pass out of sight shortly when Mrs. Bella Riechelmann retires finally from the ownership and management of Beach House, Nuku’alofa

MRS. RIECHELMANN, a well-loved figure in Tonga all her ? conducted her Beach House for years, after World War II, and MRS. RIECHELMANN, a well lived figure in Tonga all her ? conducted her Beach House for years, after World War II, retired.

Five years later, in 1950, she was ced by Fiji Airways to resume direction of Beach House. Fiji Airways were running a new service Nuku’alofa and the Tongan capital had no accommodation for passengers ut Mrs. Riechelmann was not ous to carry on; and in a few ks’ time Beach House will be n over, at Fiji Airways’ request, Mrs. M. Emberson, of Suva, and . Riechelmann will return to her ie in Nukualofa. It is thought Mrs. Emberson, who has interests Fiji, will put a manager in to Beach House.

Mrs. Riechelmann’s family tree is interesting. She herself comes from Samoa, where an old English family named Crichton produced a daughter who married another Englishman named Parsons. Their daughter was Rpll p„ r „ nn<;: Bella Parsons - Meanwhile, over in Tonga, there was another Englishman named Joshua Cocker, who was Britain’s first Consul there. He and his young wife were friends of King George T [ ub< ? l , l ' of T ° n f- and,h J; first child r - aad Mrs. Cocker was a daughter. A young German, Riechel mfn. who arrived m Tonga when onl 7 , 17 > marr ' e ! l ,hat M ‘ ss Cock .er; and « was the ‘ r O son who marned Bella Parsons, of Samoa.

There have been Cockers and Riechelmann in Tonga for over one hundred years.

[?]ong Mrs. Riechetmann's many interests is sea shell collecting. Here she explains the [?]Ferent types of shells in her collection to Mr. Chris Ritchie, manager of Fiji Airways, en Mr. Ritchie visited Nukualofa recently. There are thousands of shells in the collection. Photo: S. A. Whippy.

Magazine Section

pp. 73-97

Pacific Islands Monthly

The Rise of Samoa

By R. W. Robson

The unrecorded human history of Western Samoa may go back 1,500 years. There is no clear :ation that there were people in the lovely Central Pacific archipelago prior to the first Polynesian •ation. The Polynesians—a varying mixture of the Indo-Aryan (Caucasian), Negroid and Mongoloid s —first spread out among the Pacific Islands, apparently from the northwest (or South-East Asia 3r), between 1,000 and 1,500 years ago.

is believed that the first migra on, a generally light-skinned le, reached the Samoan Islands became established there, and that point perhaps settled the pelagoes to the east and north ic theorists—and there are very / of them, and they rarely agree y there were earlier migrations, in same general direction; but that thrusts were made by folk who ed a larger admixture of Negroid, followed a more southern track. does seem to be established that iamoans have been there at least ousand years; that they are the

descendants of men who once were magnificent boat-builders, sailors and navigators; and that they have been separated a long time from their fel low-Polynesians in the South (Maoris), east (Cook Islanders, Tahitians and Marquesans) and North-East (Hawaiians).

They found in Samoa a very large, exceedingly fertile, beautiful, disease free archipelago in which the means of sustaining life were provided in overwhelming measure. Except for occasional invasions by related peoples in neighbouring groups— Tonga and Fiji in particular—they were left undisturbed for hundreds of years; and, apart from the fact that

they were everlastingly fighting among themselves, they developed a way of life that the first Europeans who came among them—around 1800 AD—found very pleasant and orderly. The Samoans were kindly, hospitable folk, and were not canni bals.

According to European standards,, the Samoan way of life, however well-ordered and sybaritic, was primi tive. They never made a written re cord, without which no race can make real progress; and, in material things, they had never learned the use of the wheel, nor of metal. On the other hand, they had developed high skills in the shaping of wood and

Apia today

[?]ia whose famous [?]hfront is seen above, [?]e biggest town in the [?]an islands —Western [?]merican. This map [?]s the two territories [?]lationship.

shell, the making of cloth from bark, the plaiting of cords from various fibres, the planning of villages and the construction of houses.

The expedition led by Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen brought the first Europeans to see the Samoans, but they only looked briefly at Manua in 1722, and sailed away.

Bougainville, the French navigator, on much the same track, saw Manua and Tutuila in 1768 and, impressed by the quality of the Samoans’ boats, and their skill, he called them the Navigators’ Islands—a name which stuck until the 1800’s, when “Samoa” came into general use. The archi pelago was first charted and de scribed by the French expedition under La Perouse, in 1787.

Drama Begins

From then until about 1840, the Samoans’ contacts with Europeans were wholly deplorable. Deserting sailors, runaway convicts, piratical sea-rovers, found a little paradise among these hospitable, trusting islanders; and, introducing liquor, fire-arms and the filthy diseases of Europe and Asia, turned it in places into a little hell.

Trading ships came among the islands, seeking foodstuffs, coconut oil, certain woods and fibres; and trading-posts were established. Some of the traders were of good class, and married Samoan women; and their efforts to protect and help the Samoans were supported by the Christian missionaries who entered the group in increasing numbers after 1830.

It is possible to record the known history of Samoa, thereafter, in a series of dramatic episodes.

Perhaps it should be explained, so that the casual reader can himself link these episodes together, that in the last 150 years, the growth and de velopment of Samoa has been shaped by three sharply-defined influences— namely: e An apparently ceaseless struggle for political power by the four noble familes which constitute the Tamai a-Aiga, and known as Malietoa, Tupua Tamasese, Mataafa and Tuimaleali’ifano. • The determination of the Chris

tian churches—or certain of them to establish their religion in this Poi nesian country. • The 19th century eagerness three nations (Britain, Germany s United States) —or some sections them—to gain possession of this n archipelago.

Both Christian missionaries ai European politicians did not hesitd to use the quarrelling Samoan f 3 tions for their own ends.

These conditions came partly to end when Germany acquiii supreme rights in 1900, although 1 Samoans still kept on squabbliJ among themselves; and wholly to end (except for the Mau trouble in 1914 when, as one result of Woe War I, New Zealand occupied as administered the former Gerrm colony.

A New King

In 1830, following a period furious wars and massacres, Maliett Tavita, a strong and wise Samos noble, established suzerainty on most of the group, and became KL of Samoa.

In 1830, the Rev. John William pioneer missionary of the new created London Missionary Socies arrived off Malietoa Tavita’s villas of Satapalili; anchored his Messen&: of Peace (which he built with his ov< hands in Rarotonga); and made e happy contact with Tavita.

A great Christian mis sionary Rev. John Williams was among the many to help lay the foundations of Samoa.

This monument stands on his landing place in Savaii. Williams was later killed in the New Hebrides.

A turning point in Samoan history the hurricane which sank the US (top) and Ger man (bottom) warships.

reat stone monuments in Sata -1 village, to Williams and to ita, commemorate the meeting, bear testimony to the fact that reat missionary, assisted by a t native king, laid the foundations he future Samoan nation, fithin ten years, Christian mis aries—European and Polynesian— j all over the group, bringing re n and education to the Samoans, he strong and wise Tavita ruled lallenged as King until he died 841; and then his son Moli as ed the throne. But he lacked igth, and his claim to kingship disputed by other chiefs claiming illy royal blood, and soon there a resort to arms, eft to themselves, the Samoans jably would have settled the ter, as heretofore, by fighting aselves into the ground. But by there were rival groups of Euro i traders in Samoa, who took s. he first traders were English, but r soon were followed by Ameri > and Germans; and Britain, ted States and Germany presently doped a colonising impulse in South Seas which was expressed intense rivalry in trade, and—in case of Samoa—demands for an ation. France was rather busy in

this period in the areas of New Cale donia and Tahiti, and never became involved in Samoa, Britain appointed her first Consul i n Samoa in 1847. He was the rather famous George Pritchard who, as a very active anti-French LMS mis sionary in Tahiti, had resisted the de thronement of the Pomare family by the French, and so precipitated a crisis between Britain and France. He w as deported by the French and ! ate f established himself as a trader m Apia; and he was succeeded by his son » the well-known W. L. Pritchard, who was both trader and British Con su\. i. n Samoa before he went on to Frj l in a similar capacity. One writer has given to the Pritchard store in Apia the credit of organising the first regu i ar sa i e G f European liquor to X"* „ at - the Samoan natives.

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xh e United States appointed its first Commercial Agent in Samoa in 1853; and in 1855 the famous Ham burg firm of J. C. Godeffroy made Apia the headquarters of its South Seas enterprises. Its general managers —at first August Unshelm and, later, the famous Theodor Weber—were the recognised official representatives of Germany.

These Consuls naturally were

deeply concerned with the interna tional rivalry.

Britain officially wanted no annexa tion—only freedom to trade—but her missionaries did. The Americans at first were not interested—they were too busy with the Civil War—but when that ended, in the late ’sixties, there was intense American interest in trying to force a reluctant Congress to accept a Protectorate over Samoa.

The Germans, led by Unshelm and Theodor Weber, and using Apia as a base for all their Pacific Islands ac tivities, were thrusting on in trading and in land ownership. Weber, for example, bought 75,000 acres from the Samoan chiefs for his firm in the early ’sixties.

During this period, 1841-1870, the kingship seemed always in the melt ing-pot; and each of the three white communities generally was backing a candidate, in the hope that he might get the top job, and give his backers a dominating influence in Samoan affairs.

German Traders

It was in 1861 that Andrew and Charles McFarland established a big trading business in Samoa; and in 1868 August Nelson arrived, and be gan trading at Safune, and thus estab lished the big trading concern of O.

F. Nelson & Co., which now has been operating for nearly 100 years.

Due to over-trading, and heavy losses in the Franco-German war, Godeffroy & Son went bankrupt, and out of that wreckage was formed a famous German trading corporation, called by a name so long that it was universally known as the DH and PG, or “the Long-Handle firm”. From the 1870’s until World War I it had a big influence in German-Pacific af faire- . . , , This was a very active period ot trading in Samoa. The Germans were expanding rapidly, and the Americans were thrusting in and, although Eng land kept out of political develop-

A happy chapter in Samoan affairs [?]vas the residence of Robert Louis

[?]I tevenson at Vailima (right) near

[?]pia. Below is the writer’s family, [?]hotographed in Samoa. He is buried [?]n Mt. Vaea, above his old home.

The three women (left to right ) [?]re Stevenson’s wife, Fanny; his step [?]aughter, Isobel; and his mother.

Time of Turbulence

ments, there was plenty of what might be called an interference impulse from the new colonies of Australia and New Zealand.

The records of that time (around 1870) show that along the two miles of beach, which represented the trading centre and port of Apia, there were no less than 20 hotels and saloons, and an equal number of brothels, An event of that period shows the conditions that prevailed, A section of Samoans wanted Malietoa Laupepa, son of Malietoa Moli, as their king—he was a weak type who had been trained and educated by the LMS missionaries and was strongly supported by them. Another section favoured Malietoa Talavou, who was Laupepa’s uncle.

Finally, after endless intrigue and skirmishing, a savage battle began on Good Friday, 1860, along the shores of Apia Bay. Talavou’s forces were based on Mulinuu (western point of Apia Bay), and Laupepa had his headquarters at Matautu, on the eastern point.

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For three days the Samoans fought from end to end of Apia, all around and about the houses and stores of the Europeans, but no European was interfered with. On the contrary, many stories are told of how, when European men or women came along the beach road between Matautu and

Mulinuu, the contending armies would respectfully cease fire and step aside until the Europeans were out of danger.

Fighting continued sporadically for another three years, The Samoans—usually encouraged by the Europeans—were so wrapped up in their political quarrels and their battles that they neglected their own interests and many were near star vation. They sold everything they had in order to buy foodstuffs, arms and ammunition; and it was during this period that many Europeans bought valuable lands at ridiculously low prices.

About 1869, the Polynesian Land and Commercial Company was in corporated in Honolulu by certain Americans, “with a view to getting possession of all available land in what are now known as the Naviga tor Islands”,

Copra \S KinQ

It was the German organisation, DH an d PG, in Samoa, which rea l|y launched the copra industry The Germans discovered that it was easier to ship the dried kernel of the coconut, and mill it overseas, than to depend upon the natives to extract the oil from the kernel and bring it to them in jars. Once this practice was established the copra industry de veloped very quickly and profitably, and the Germans instead of depend ing upon wild coconuts gathered haphazard, began to plant coconut

plantations systematically in Same and also in Micronesia and Ne 1 Guinea.

In the early 1870’s the Europee communities, heartily sick of ruinoc native wars and political troubld made their first real attempt to brii the quarrelling factions together, establish stable government. But tl; was defeated by the Steinberger I cident.

By 1870, America was recoverii from the Civil War, and certs American interests wished to establr a regular line of the then new steau ships, between San Francisco ai Australia. They sought rights ov Pago Pago, for use as a coalii station. This alarmed now recovering from the Frano German War and eagerly seekii Colonies—and Britain, who want* the status quo.

President Ulysses Grant, prompt! by American shipping tycoo William Webb, and the Polynesii Land Company, sent Colonel A.

Steinberger to Samoa in 1873 examine the Samoan situation. He cb so thorough a job that the Samoae insisted he was one of the very fe' white men they would trust; aii after he had formally reported President Grant in 1874, and o gaged in certain other activities whii involved a visit to Germany, he r turned on his own account to Samr in 1875. He organised an efficiei; independent native government ft Samoa, put in Malietoa Laupepa King, and made himself Prin Minister.

Steinberger Era

The Samoans always afterwards i sisted that his rule was humane au sound, and that he protected tho against the extortions of the Apic based European communities. E cleaned up the drinking-dens and tt brothels, brought order into Ap:c and displayed strength in checkii the European claims to Samoan lam Among other things, he fougg bitterly with the emissaries of tit

Before the establishment of the Samoan Legislative Assembly, the Samoan legislature was the Fono of Faipule, which traditionally met at this meeting house in historic Malinuu. This was the final meeting.

O. F. Nelson, de ported for his Mau activities.

ned king; but two more claimants 2 from the noble families ruling districts—Tamasese and Mataafa. erally, the British and the iricans supported Laupepa, and nan support went to Mataafa Tamasese. uring the 1880’s German strength ambitions grew rapidly. The Ger s deported Malietoa Laupepa, and pd much authority in the hands amasese and Mataafa. There was casing menace in the way in :h the three nations watched i other, and the factional fighting, stationed their warships in oan waters. he situation was exceedingly

serious in 1888. One hasty move by the parties concerned would have started the warships of the three Powers shooting at each other, By mid-March, 1889, no less than seven warships lay inside the reef opposite Apia—three German, three American and one British. The weather was menacing, but the poli tical tenseness was such that the war ships would not move out to sea, for greater safety.

The hurricane of March 16 struck Apia harbour, and the three Ameri can and three German ships were either wrecked or thrown ashore— the Germans lost 92 men and the Americans 54. The one British ship

Calliope managed to steam out to sea without loss.

One or two of the German and American ships were salvaged but the hurricane put an end to the threat of war that had been developing there; and within six months (on June 14, 1889) the Berlin Treaty was con cluded. Under it, an “independent” government was set up under Malietoa Laupepa; but it was one in which the Consuls of the three Governments had a dominating voice.

During the 1880’s, a German ar tillery officer named Captain Brandeis came out to the service of the Ger man firm; subsequently attained much influence and power in Samoan

[?]nesian Land Company, and their [?]ting brought him down early in [?]. There was a sharp skirmish, some deaths, at Mulinuu, and [?]berger, and the former United [?]s Consul, Jonas M. Coe, were [?]d by the captain of a British [?]hip and forcibly removed from [?]oa. [?]ll this was very much against wishes of the native Samoan gov [?]ncnt. The British Admiralty subse [?ntly sacked the naval captain and [?]d Steinberger’s appeal for com [?]ation. But that was the end of attempt to establish sound oan government, and there en several more years of interna [?]l intrigue, and fights between Samoan factions over the king 1880 Malietoa Talavou died Malietoa Laupepa was pro-

During her rise to indepen dence, West Samoa was at times the unhappy pawn of international rivalries. At one stormy period at the end of last century, Britain, Germany and the United States almost went to war over her. These two pictures illustrate her two longest periods under foreign flag Apia on the Kaiser's Birthday in the early years of the century, and Apia during the King's Birthday Regatta in 1923. On January 1, Samoa at last flies her own flag.

A Federation Failed

affairs; and finally was sent away in disgrace—a curious parallel of the Steinberger Incident.

Another strange event of that time was seen in an attempt made by one of the last kings of Hawaii to set up a Polynesian Federation, with the King of Hawaii in its forefront.

On January 3, 1887, there arrived in Apia the Hawaiian armed cruiser Kaimi\o<i, carrying a delegation under envoy J. E. Bush. Bush had been sent by a man named Gibson, who had made himself Premier of Hawaii, to negotiate for a Confederation of the Pacific Islands.

Decorative uniforms and Hawaiian Orders were presented to the Samoans, and on February 17, 1887, a Deed of Federation actually was signed by Malietoa and the Chiefs— but that was the end of it.

Political troubles of all kinds were then descending upon Malietoa and, within three months, he was a fugi tive, while Tamasese, with Captain Brandeis as Premier, was claiming the kingship.

Meanwhile, things were going seriously wrong in Hawaii, and neither money nor supplies were sent out to the Hawaiian delegation in Samoa. Finally, the ship’s plate and gear were bartered for food—and the affair ended in a complete fiasco.

Berlin Treaty

The Berlin Treaty of 1889 brought no permanent peace. It restored Malietoa Laupepa to his throne, with Mataafa supporting him; but by 1891 Mataafa had drifted away from Malietoa and was setting up an inde pendent kingdom of his own.

In 1890 Robert Louis Stevenson arrived and established himself at Vailima, and from his writings we get much of the history of the signi ficant decade between 1889 and 1899, when active war between the rival chieftains finally drove the three jealous powers to a settlement which established peace in the archipelago.

By the settlement of December, 1899, the Berlin Treaty was com pletely annulled; Germany annexed Western Samoa; the United States acquired Eastern Samoa and Pago Pago; and various German claims in other South Pacific Islands—more especially Tonga and the Solomons— were abandoned in favour of Britain.

Incidentally, that is why the islands of Bougainville and Buka, which geographically are in the northern Solomons, are now part of the Trust Territory of New Guinea, and ad ministered by Australia. In that 1899

settlement Britain took all the Solo mons except Bougainville and Buka, which then were added to the Ger man Colony of New Guinea—and, as everyone knows, the German Colony of New Guinea was taken over by Australia under Mandate at the end of World War I.

The German flag was hoisted in Apia on March 1, 1900, and Germany wholly controlled Western Samoa for 14 years. The turbulent little country was on the whole governed firmly and well, but it took years to dis courage the kind of political agita tion to which apparently the Samoans always had been accustomed. The Germans developed Samoan re sources with vigour, and put in the structure of what appeared to be a sound Colonial administration.

This era ended suddenly with the outbreak of World War I, in 1914.

NZ Takes Over

On August 29, Colonel Robert Logan arrived in Samoa with 1,365 New Zealand troops and formally occupied the German Colony, with out serious opposition—the German administrative staff, with German Governor Schultz, were sent to New Zealand for internment.

The New Zealanders continued the administration as organised by the Germans and the German ordinances and policy were continued, without notable incident, until 1919-20.

But after World War I, from Sep tember to December, 1918, the “black” influenza epidemic raged in Samoa, and there were between 6,000 and 7,000 deaths, and the Wes tern Samoan population was reduced to about 32,000 or 33,000.

In all the troubles which have beset Samoa in her chequered history there was no greater disaster than this. The speed with which the little country recovered from that blow— its population now is over 100,000 — is testimony to the strength and virility of the Samoan race.

The next decade in the history of Western Samoa—roughly, 1920 to 1930—was the first decade of ad ministration by New Zealand under the Mandate system, contrived under the Treaty of Versailles, of 1919.

Theoretically, all the German colonies taken from Germany under the Treaty became League of Nations Territories, administered in Trust un der Mandates; and Mandates to ad minister were divided into A, B and C classes. Mandates were entrusted mostly to the countries which had (Continued on p. 92)

occupied the Colonies in World Wa I.

Australia, for example, took ove German NG under a “C” Clasj Mandate: Japan got Marshall am

dine Islands under “C”; and New and was given Western Samoa under a “C”. A “C” Mandate it that in the League of Nations ion the people concerned were capable of any form of self rnment, and the Mandatory was pletely responsible for adminis m. those first 10 years New Zea s record in Western Samoa was :rom happy. The little Dominion had no experience in this respon ty. It very conscientiously ied laws in which Samoan tradi ; and customs were observed and 'hich it included the best in the nan Ordinances and Regulations, len it handed the duties of ad stration over to men whose only ification was that they had held rank in the New Zealand Army, s there was put in charge of tern Samoa a line of colonels, who, through lack of knowledge experience, were incapable of lling this “Ireland of the Pacific”, tie stern measures of the Germans 'een 1900 and 1914 and the defi y military character of the ad stration from 1914 to 1919 had luraged the Samoans’ customary ;ical activity and rebellious spirit; as soon as the country settled n under the NZ Civil Administra , troubles began. he expropriation of all German >erty; the conversion of the large tes of the DH and PG into the -known New Zealand Reparation tes; and the manifold readjust ts thus made necessary created imerable social, political and lomic problems—and the gentle i now in charge were woefully in ible of handling them. Injustices 5 perpetrated against both Samoan non-official European property ers, and some of the latter there n made common cause with the loans.

The Mau

he tendency of the NZ authorities to ride rough-shod over the in lerable harassing complaints cted to them; they invoked police on frequently; and finally the loans brought into existence in 5-26 a rebellious, and in some ree subversive, native organisa called the Mau. he Mau was supported by some minent Europeans, among whom O. F. Nelson was conspicuous, icre had been a Mau organisation ve in the German time, but the •mans suppressed it.) lecords show that Europeans who e active in criticism of the NZ linistration —although not neces ly in sympathy with the Mau—in

eluded Messrs. O. F. Nelson, S. H.

Meredith, E. W. Burr, A. Williams, A. G. Smythe, G. E. L. Westbrook.

The New Zealanders tried quite sincerely to find answers to the various grievances, and to a degree they succeeded; but when the Mau, with a good deal of European support, continued its agitation in various forms, the Administration seemed to lose patience and resorted to police action, civil prosecution and finally deportation of leaders. Between November, 1926, and July, 1927, the Administration issued no less than 59 Orders of Banishment, There were various official inquiries and finally a Royal Commission of investigation late in 1927,

whose findings generally supported the Administration.

The Samoans remained defiant, and in 1928 New Zealand sent a couple of cruisers and finally a large body of special police to maintain order, In December, 1929, the Mau paraded in strength in Apia to wel come home Mr. A. G. Smythe, who had been fighting some of their battles in New Zealand. Conflict with the police resulted in the deaths of Chief Tamasese, ten other Samoans, and one of the special constables. The Mau fled into the bush and, during 1930, were hunted by special parties of armed men from NZ warships, The Mau was declared a seditious organisation. (Over)

In the next two or three yes there was constant friction and occ sional conflict between the more ( section of the Samoan peog and the Administration. Mr. O.

Nelson, who acted as spokesman ! the Samoan extremists, was frequenr in conflict with police, and finally was sentenced to imprisonment a deportation.

This era of restlessness and po tical disturbance and frequent co flict really lasted from about IS until early 1936, when New Zeala elected its first Labour Governme A New Zealand Ministerial delej tion immedately was sent to Samoaj reconcile the conflicting factions; t declaration of Mau as a seditio organisation was revoked; vario other laws made for Mau suppressii were revoked; and Mr. O. F. Nels and his family were returned Samoa as guests of the Governme; Another important thing done the Ministerial delegation in 19( was seen in a decision to deport fro Samoa the remnant (some 200) the Chinese labourers who had be brought into the Territory by tJ German Government and allowed settle there. One effect is seen in t) fact that Western Samoa, now wr 100,000 people, is the only lan territory in the South Pacific whii does not include a sharply-define well-established community of Asia —although, of course. Weste Samoa, as is well-known, is the hon of about 7,000 or 8.000 Europea Samoans, and a small number Asian-Samoans.

Restless 'Thirties

The Territory in the ’Thirties w< generally regarded as a restless, sera rebellious country. Few, if am thought of it in terms of se; government and independence.

What has happened in the ensuir quarter-century, so that (in the wor of Professor J. W. Davidson) “o January 1, 1962, it is expected to tl come an independent State and tl; first Pacific Islands Territory to ha* passed through a period of coloni rule and gained full independence; The whole story is set out in dets in “The Transition to Independent in Western Samoa—the Final Stage written recently by Professor Davii son.

The process of political and co;< stitutional development was com menced about 1947, by both Nes Zealand Government and UN Trra teeship Council agencies, and it h;j been pressed on steadily during til ensuing 14 years. The NZ Prim Minister, in 1953, made a comprr

ive statement in which he an iced that a Constitutional Con on would be set up, in close nation with the Samoan people. ;gan work in 1954. le most important step was the dishment, in 1958, of a Working mittee on Self-Government, h was largely dominated by the :>ans themselves, and which >d the steady movement from the ing of the Constitution to inte on with the processes of planned government, through the intro ion of Cabinet Government in . and the final drafting of the ititution, to the acceptance of the dilution by plebiscite on May 9, , and the final agreement to the ititution and self-government by Trusteeship Council and the As )ly of the United Nations late in

The Constitution

though New Zealand was help in every possible way, the aans decided in 1958 to seek their :ipal adviser outside New Zea , and they selected for that pur- Professor T. W. Davidson, of Australian National University, had lived in Samoa and was m to the Samoans. Most of the t for the shapeliness and order s of the procedure since 1958, for the harmony between the re l Trustee (New Zealand) and Samoans, is due to his skill and iere were very awkward prob to be solved. For example: The future citizenship of those hitherto had claimed European s.

TTie protection of the property hose who do not take Samoan mship.

The form of suffrage to be em ed, in view of the Samoans’ tra nal inclination towards the Matai m (voting not as individuals, but agh the head of the family) and Trusteeship Council’s support of adult system.

The future status of indepen- Samoa in relation to the British imonwealth. »me have been solved, provision —others still are in the air. owever, with tolerance, patience skill, for which full credit must ;iven to Professors Davidson, of tralia, and Aikmann, of New and. the country has reached the t where it now is ready to step into national independence— :h means also that it will be on )wn in a cold, hard world where lism is finished with and realism t be faced.

Yesterday

p. 78

It was war in the Pacific. Thej issue of "PIM" 20 years ago this; month had the facts blazonedct across its opening pages. "Becauses Japan," said "PIM", "under thes direction of Nazis and militaristioi lunatics, has gone to war, thes tempo and character of life hasi changed for every European resi-i dent in the Pacific Islands. Thes change at the moment of thissi writing, December 9, is bewilders ing and the whole Pacific situations is obscure and confused."

Meanwhile, “PlM’s” issue ofti December, 1941, continued to report*' that life had gone on almost as, usual in the Pacific the previous month. Some details: * * * There were grumblings im Western Samoa over what was, called “misplaced humanitarianisra’*' in NZ, which had again commutedb to life imprisonment a deathri penalty imposed on a Samoann murderer. There had been a larges number of murders committed ina a brutal manner for trivial reasons and Samoans believed the deathri sentence would prevent any more. * * * The election of two Europeann members to the Western Samoas Legislative Council resulted inn victory for sitting member O. P.

Nelson and of a Samoan Labour!

Party member, Mr. A. Stowers...

To everybody’s surprise Mr. A. G.

Smythe missed out by only a few/, votes. A correspondent said twoo features of the election were thes absence of any reference to wan in any of the speeches and ann absence of a large number ofl electors who were working at thes US Naval Base at Pago Pagoo (Western Samoa was benefitingg substantially from increased USS expenditure in American Samoa). * • ♦ In Suva, the use of hoses wasa forbidden. This was caused by as lower-than-usual rainfall and thes small reservoir. Meanwhile, another* area suffering from drought wasa Samarai where the position wasa more serious. Nearly every house hold was carting water. Nativesa: along the north-east coast of thea mainland had lost their gardensa for 1941 and all their seed fori 1942. * ♦ * A young New Caledonian natives was stricken by bubonic plague at as village 10 miles from Noumea, .j Health authorities took precautionsa. and the locality was Isolated the military. PAA clippers fori several trips did not stay over—■ night at Noumea.

The Things That Happen

pp. 83-84

THE MONTH'S NEW READING

WITH JUDY TUDOR

The Things That Happen In Suva

The reasons why writers adopt noms-de-plume are varied, but obably in the case of James Meade, who this year gave Fiji an cellent first novel (That Wild Surge), it was a matter of discretion.

[THETHER it has prevented Suva r people with tender feelings from ing after him with a metaphorical jat-chopper is doubtful. There ;ms to be no mystery in that city to who James Meade really is; d not much about who some of s characters in his novel are sup sed to be.

“Meade” arrived in Fiji in 1951 d in his early years there was an thusiastic member of the Arts Club, still have a wash-drawing of his at he exhibited at one of their hibitions. Technically it is prob ly far from perfect but he has man ed to give real personality to the bject— the old Indian peanut ndor who, for years, has had a tch outside the Club Hotel.

The same sort of personality rmeates his novel—and he is a far itter writer than he is an artist, hen he arrived in Suva he went to jq, with a part-Euiopean family and concerning himself with this ction of local society in his story, : really strikes literary pay-dirt.

"Must be Perfect"

If you are a European and try, it fail, it passes with little comment, you are a full native, you probably on’t try at all. If your ancestry is ixed, and you try—then the result ust be perfect. Anything less and le spectators on the sidelines are [ere to trample you back where they msider you properly belong.

That was the proposition that Dan lenard had to lick, and he knew —with one side of his nature, dth the other side he was seme mes easily lured from the direct )ute to getting there.

Dan’s fancied means of escape om a “European’s job with half-pi -ages” was the purchase of a igistered launch in which he could any passengers or parties of tourists n charter trips. The means was at uned with reasonable ease and for while Fortune, in the guise of the

Big Firm (which extended credit) and the bank manager (who okayed an overdraft), smiled sweetly. Dan even became a somewhat uneasy member of the Yacht Club. (Over to p. 82)

But when the problems came, it was a different proposition. Not only did Dan not understand why they should be settled strictly according to the European book, but his friends did nothing to help: “ ‘lt’s the same old story with these half-castes,’ said Macdonald.

They get ideas that are too big for them to handle and then they go to pieces when they hit the hard sled ding. Sorry to see it happen to Dan, though. As half-castes go, he wasn’t a bad, poor bugger.’ ‘They talked about Dan for a while longer, not viciously, but using the past tense as though he were dead or in another country. In a way, that was correct; the little world that Dan had sailed into with the Adi Cakau would now reject him. It happens that way in the Islands. . .”

With this outlook from the white branch of his family tree, it probably

is no wonder that Dan reverts to a bit of old-fashioned Fijian witchcraft in an attempt to solve his problems.

This story is in no sense what we have come to expect from a novel based on racial relationship—which, of course, it is. It is not an expose of white man’s ingratitude to his brown, or part-brown, brother. No one gets hysterical, sentimental or political about the problems inherent in half a dozen different races co existing in one small set of islands.

The attitudes, the conventions, the background are there; the moral, if any can be drawn, is left to the in dividual reader.

The book has a pleasing freshness about it, an occasional rawness, characterisation that is excellent when it comes to its non-Europeans and somewhat less so with its Europeans.

It does what every good novel should do—it entertains, stimulates and leaves the reader hoping for more— sometime, (THAT WILD SURGE. Anthony Gibbs and Phillips, London. UK price 15/-.)

The Pacific

p. 83

Islands

“The Pacific Islands”, by Douglas L. Oliver (Professor of Anthropology at Harvard Uni versity) is the cheap (hut newly revised) edition of the same work, first published by Harvard University Press in 1951. It was reviewed in “PIM” at that time.

In this study of the Pacific and its people, Professor Oliver covers history, geography, ethnology and politics and brings events of the 1951-1961 decade up to date in the final chapter. (Published by Doubleday & Co., of York, in co-operation with the America Museum of Natural History. Its U price is $1.45.)

Good Australian First Novel

p. 83

The Australian novel has made vast strides in recent years— especially those that are produced by overseas publishers with an eye to other than Australian readership. The new overseas interest in the Australian novel is due, to some extent, to European migration to that country since the war, and to the fact that there are few acceptable countries left except Australia in which to have fast-moving adventures, real or imaginary. Anti-colonialism has killed any hope of having stories of white man’s derring-do in black men’s countries.

THE best Australian novels are those of fast action and Craig’s Spur, a first effort by E. S. Madden, is a very good example of this type —except for the concluding 18 pages which the story could well do without In this “Aftermath” the author tries to pull all the loose strings together and end off neatly, but in doing so gives the story a twist that is complefely alien to the rest of it Real life is seldom ended off with a straight line, and this fictional one might have been better if allowed to conclude after the finding of the boys whose wanderings in the bush form the plot of the novel.

All the action of the story takes place in the mountains behind Melbourne. Muriel McGrath, a neurotic female, suddenly decides that she cannot stand for one moment longer the broken-down farm to which her husband Robbie has taken her. She bundles her clothes into a suitcase, takes her two sons, aged three and 10 and the family car and sets off for mother and Melbourne.

T d° a h° id t Sf a ng rough b Titt?e n -used sbort-cut^cross s the Smains o join the highway lower down, and here disaster strikes. The car plunges over

the side of the road several hundre feet into the gully below. The chile ren are miraculously unhurt bi Muriel dies later that night. The nei day the boys start wandering in th bush and are soon lost. At home t Y search for them has already begun, Trom there °n His ffst-movir story of a dozen interlocking sul stories, authentic and not over-draw den ’ s ca i enc i ar there are only tv, 0 f women. He has the mother y n( j unc j er whose plain exterior bea a heart of gold. Unadulterate bitches he also has—but overlool t b e fact that both can, more ofte than not, live under the same fema hide.

The most successful Australn novels have been those set in tl “vast outback”. It’s a pleasant chani to see that stories just as mterestii C an be written about more civilise quarters of the continent witho spoiling the Australian flavour 11 ranges behind Melbourne conta some of the most ragged beau

a“ comparatively “short ‘ distance fro

.he U millions of Melbourne c*y. (craig’S spur. wm. Heinemarm l 21/-.)

The 'Only Free Railway’

p. 84

The 400,000 people of Fiji know about their local railways that have, in one district of the Colony and another, been trundling cane to the sugar mills since the 1880’x. Few of the 400,000 might have guessed, however, what enthusiasm their 2-ft gauge railway system could generate overseas.

A WHOLE book about them, called Balloon Stacks and Sugar Cane las recently been published in New Zealand by the NZ Railway and : ocomotive Society. On the literary ide, the job has been carried through

in a collaboration between Peter Dyer and Peter Hodge. Dyer is an Englishman—and everyone knows that Englishmen are fanatical about old trains {vide The Blubell Line).

To make matters worse in his case.

he served an apprenticeship withl and later worked for, the locomotivw building works of W. G. Bagnalt Ltd., of Stafford. He joined the Nev Zealand Railways in 1955. The mapq and detailed drawings of locomotives in this book show the high standarn of his workmanship.

There is less excuse for New Zeas lander Peter Hodge’s railway manias He is currently Press officer to \ Cabinet minister and two Govern] ment departments. Earlier, he was a broadcasting programme officer iii New Zealand and in 1954—because he was fascinated by the idea of thi CSR Co.’s 2-ft gauge railway there— he took a job with the Fiji Broadt casting Comission. For the next three years he spent all his spare time with a note book and camera pursuing railways all over Fiji. He even rea corded the noises of the local species As the book is written almost exs* clusively for locomotive enthusiasts it necessarily contains a great deae of passionate technical detail about engines, tracks and rolling stocks complete with detailed diagrams ano so forth. The general reader will probably only note that the locomo< tives used in Fiji have ranged from the early models with the long Missi-i ssippi-steamer smoke-stacks through! those with the balloon-shaped stacks; to the latest diesel engines that have no stacks at all—and leave it But they may be interested where the story of the railway impinges om general Fiji history.

Told to Collect One of the claims to fame that thea Fiji railway has always enjoyed is that, it has been billed as the only frees railway in the world. It seems, fromn what this book tells us, that it has been that only by default. Unden legislation passed in 1915, a great! many railway by-laws were promul gated and provision was made for thes Governor to direct the company to collect fares.

This was actually done in 1917 butt there is no evidence that the company\ ever did so—probably because it be lieved this would have put it unden a great many obligations that it did I not want to assume—such as provid ing first and second class carriages.

Perhaps, legally, the company is? still bound by those extraordinary re quirements of the old legislation but the fact is that no one has en forced them and those who patronise the service, mostly Indians who live e in the cane-field areas, still do so ( without paying a penny.

(BALLOON STACKS AND SUGAR 5

CANE. Published by the NZ Railway \ and Locomotive Society, P.O. Box 5134. .

Wellington. NZ. NZ price 25/-.)

Frank Amongst The Corn

p. 85

It’s hard to say that there is exactly an engaging freshness about the orn Australian author Frank Clune can produce, but at least the sheer olume of it fascinates as well as flattens.

-IERE aren’t many writers in Aus tralia who could wring 262 es out of a journey from Goul n to Mt. Kosciusko via Canberra; , thank God, there are few who ild want to. But in his 54th book, oss the Snowy Mountains, he lages to do this, and to supply r 50 pictures as well (Many in ie Clune—“Frank Clune with the q. Arthur Calwell”; or “Frank me with artist, William Dobell”, Ve imagine that Frank started out h the idea of telling the world and ow citizens something about Aus ia’s Snowy Mountains Scheme—a ry well-worth telling—but owing bis habit of running up every lane I by-way in pursuit of ancient numents, descendants of pioneers, -ends of history and bushrangers’ mping grounds, it is page 194 be e you get within coo-ee of it. He n begins: “Let’s tell the world! stralia’s Snowy Mountains Hydro :ctric Scheme is the biggest engin ing construction in progress to f”

By this time he has already used ;ry cliche in the English language, t this fact doesn’t leave him speech s for the remaining 70-odd pages. )t a bit of it—he just uses them all er again.

The book abounds in inverted commas, quotes from everything from Childe Harold to the Wild Colonial Boy; capital letters; rhyming Aus tralianisms and Names. (“Bill Dobell stays at my home when he visits Sydney.” Bill also painted a portrait of “my wife”; he said she was “the Rubens type”.) Everyone, according to Frank, loves Frank; they welcome him with open arms and he puts them in a book.

In the course of his literary journey he discusses art, politics, the trans portation of convicts, history, geo graphy and— always—the business of being an Australian. (“When I was in London recently I was asked what makes an Australian. I told them. ) If you can sift the wheat from the quotation marks, capital letters and italics of Frank’s death-defying prose, he has in this book, as well as in his other 53, a lot of fact and history that few others bother to record and for this he no doubt should be given his own unique niche in Australian writing.

What’s more —as Frank himself would no doubt point out— people buy what he writes and that, in the ultimate analysis, is the best possible reason for publishing a book.

(ACROSS THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS.

Angus and Robertson Ltd. 27/6.)

Book launching is quite something in Sydney these days. At left, Mrs. Charles Walton (known to most people as Nancy Bird) with her "Born to Fly", and Colin Simpson with his latest, "Show Me a Mountain" —both books were reviewed here last month. Above is Mr W J. Lahore, chief manager of the Australia and New Zealand Bank in NSW, with the bank's 100th anniversary volume, just published. Jim Lahore is well known in Suva, where he was first manager of the Suva branch in 1951.

The Story Of

pp. 85-87

MR. RADIO

Although he had few of the virtues that a well brought-up citizen is sup posed to have—except open-handed generosity and love of his fellow-man —the late Jack Davey, Australia's Mr. Radio, the Master of Quiz, brought pleasure and amusement to millions and became a legend in his own lifetime.

WHEN he died two years ago he was still under fifty, yet had packed more into that time than half a dozen other men, in twice the span.

Only his body had taken toll from this pace —he died of cancer but two coronaries and other health defects in the last half dozen years of his life made him a poor insurance risk.

There never has been anyone like Davey in the Australian entertain ment business and there probably will never be again. It is inevitable that sooner or later, someone should write his story. This has now been done by Lew Wright who was his personal assistant from 1953 until his death.

It was Wright’s business to smooth out the Davey troubles —to get him out of scrapes, to pay the Davey bills, to keep an eye on the Davey finances, which were always in par lous condition no matter how much the star earned; and to put his fool down on the more flamboyant of the off-beat Davey schemes.

In the world of radio shows,

»y’s judgment was faultless, In other more serious business of r living, he had the approach of

rresponsible adolescent,

e once gave a waiter £4O tip telling him the time and bought ties in dozen lots although he idy had over 300 ties in his ward . He lived in a high priced flat le highest priced part of Sydney when he was away his girl ids moved in and lived like liesses. (Housekeeper troubles one of the smaller crosses >ht had to bear; there were six vo years.) ck owned “70 feet of pure ex

agance”—the ocean-going motor

t Sea Mist, which cost him £lOO eek to maintain, even when he I’t using it. He could win or lose ne night at poker, a sum that the age Australian would consider luate as a year’s salary, e was, in fact, an extravagant acter, more suited perhaps to the of California’s Barbary Coast the usual middle-class outlook

iverage Australia,

avey was, of course, from New and where social ethics are of i more strait-laced variety than e across the Tasman. His tastes his abilities were not inherited, father was Captain Arthur ey, for years Master of the trans nan liner Awatea, whose recon tion to his elder son’s chosen way ife did not come about until very in the piece. he rest of the Davey family were more attuned to what were re led as his eccentricities than was father, who when Jack finally handed him a bulky envelope ;h turned out to contain 11 pages advice and a £1 note pinned to last sheet. ew Wright writes with sympathy understanding of a man who le life a little brighter for millions,

ned no one—except, perhaps,

self.

HE JACK DAVEY STORY. Ure Smith.

The Campbells

pp. 87-90

Of Dawes Pt.

And Canberra

A very different type of Aus tralian history to the one supplied by Frank Clime (also reviewed this issue) is The Spirit of Wharf House , a story written originally by C. E. T. Newman, for the descendants of Robert Camp bell, Australia’s first merchant.

Through the assistance of the Commonwealth Literary Fund it has now been published for

general reading.

THE influence of the first Robert Campbell who arrived in Sydney in 1798, and the sons and grandsons who followed after, is woven into the fabric of New South Wales. The author is himself a Campbell con nection, having married a daughter of Frederick Campbell, grandson of the original Robert, and owner of Yarralumla, Canberra, until 1913 when the Federal Government, hav ing chosen their new capital, “re sumed” the Campbell property for their Government House.

The Campbells were, in fact, great originators—although the most famous of their properties are now in Government hands. The first Robert, on his arrival from Calcutta to see if he could work up trade with the new penal settlement on Sydney

Cove, bought a parcel of land at Dawes' Point on the western arm of the cove. Here he eventually Greeted a wharf—the first permanent wharf in Australia—warehouses and in later years a fine residence.

Of all this now only some of his warehouses remain; where his home —Wharf House—and his garden stood, Sydney now rejoices in its new Overseas Shipping Terminal, nestling close up under the approaches to the Harbour Bridge.

Yarralumla, as we have already seen, built by Robert Senior’s grand son in 1891, became the Australian Governor-General’s residence in 1913

though it was not used per ently as such for many years, the same year (1913) Duntroon, :h had been named after troon Castle in Argyllshire, ent seat of the Campbells, had been taken over by the Common th Government as a military :ge. untroon. within a few miles of -alumla, had been acquired by original Robert before 1830 and ;d at that time Limestone Plains, flocks of sheep there were in the ge of a Scot called Ainslie. who given his name to a hill in the lity (Mt. Ainslie) and one of berra’s larger suburbs, i 1830 Robert visited Limestone ns, decided to build a large house e and to call it Duntroon. This se—with additions—ultimately be e the officers’ mess at the Military ege but for three-quarters of a ury it was the pivot around which ;h of the Campbell clan revolved, he benevolent lairdship which the ipbells of Duntroon and ralumla, and their relatives and ily connections in stations in the e area, exercised over the

iberra-Queanbeyan-Yass district

become part of early Canberra :nd. lut these were later days for the npbells. For the first trading ?ert, things were far from rosy, soon fell foul of the Macarthur ion and the New South Wales ps who exercised a monopoly local trading. When the conflict ween Macarthur and the Corps, the one hand, and Governor Bligh the other, reached its climax in Rum Rebellion in 1807, Camp -1 was drawn into the toils and was mately ordered off to England to e evidence at the trials n the protracted voyages there I back and the long, drawn-out >ceedings against the rebels, he was >ent from Sydney for four years 1 during this time his business fell o ruin, Fhe next decade was a slow struggle :k, but one in which there was nty of time for public affairs. He s one of the original shareholders the Bank of New South Wales, mded in 1817; he began a Savings nk of his own (for “poor persons’ ” vings) which was superseded by s Government Savings Bank in 30; became a member of the gislative Council in 1825; and one the founders of The King’s School, Liramatta, in 1830. He continued acquire land interests and to velop his shipping and trading terprises until the mid 1830’s when

active control began to pass into the hands of his sons. He died in retire ment, at Duntroon, in 1846, at the age of 77.

His business enterprises were for profit, but the public work his Scots conscience prevailed upon him to undertake, made him a man of con siderable stature amongst the men of his day. Campbell enterprise and vigour are now a matter of history, best remembered perhaps in the place-names he and his clan have scattered over the face of Sydney and the State of NSW.

(THE SPIRIT OF WHARF HOUSE.

Angus and Robertson Ltd. 42/-.)

The Suspect

Profession

Newspapermen, hovering in the no-man’s-land that separates the lower echelons of the intelligentsia from those of rank commercialism, traditionally hate their “owners”.

Vian Smith, who according to the book flap has been a journalist all his life, channels Press Gang along this usual path but says what he has to say about newspapers and the men who misused them, through two clash ing personalities.

There was Parnell, to whom a

newspaper meant power and who! it by marrying the owner’s daughx and Willie, a graduate from the doo land slums, who regarded journalil as a vocation.

The climax of the story andl Parnell’s campaign to break Willi spirit comes when Greedy, the nr who got Willie his first junior repc ing job, finds himself at the wro end of a smear campaign. Pant wants a witch-hunt, with Greedy ’ the victim and Willie doing the huj ing.

The rest of the story is in reft spect, beginning with the tough d:i of unemployment, despair and es nomic confusion after World Wan and ending where we came in—w?

Willie making his gesture to pc fessional integrity.

Although it has all the ingrediei for bathos and corn, it is, in factf first-class story, written with insij: and authenticity. It may even app< to newspaper proprietors. (PRESS GANG. Peter Davies II 20/-.)

Man With Past, Meets

Girl With No Future

T OVE, intrigue, suspense, a dash who-dunnit and an internatioi background are blended together Peter Ordway in his third novel, Co spiracy of Vipers. The author, , though he now lives in England, an American and has spent a rec© 10 years in the South of Pram That accounts for the internation background to the story.

He has also been a script writer fl MGM—which probably accounts fi the ingredients of the story, whii would make a good film.

Hope Daniels, a suppressed, mothe dominated heiress is being taken Europe to marry a man she detest She decides to jump overboard in tIJ Atlantic but is saved by a Fren»j Count who is being deported froc America after five years in a menti hospital. He had been sent then found guilty of murdering his wifi but insane.

He suggests to Hope that she marr him instead. They leave the shi secretly at Algeciras and they prr ceed to the Comte’s family chates in the Dordogne area of France.

The Comte’s family is charmim degenerate, impoverished and full o Machiavellian notions. The introdm tion of Hope, who is rich and hae way to being neurotic anyway, paw the way to a plot that thickens rigK; to the bitter end.

(CONSPIRACY OF VIPERS. Pet»J

Davies. 20/-.)

[?]Happened

pp. 91-93

Dieppe

E sort of autobiography that Simona Packenham has produced *ig tails and Pernod is largely :d on this reviewer because the shers have somehow neglected it on the dust jacket a biography e biographer. Other than to state she is the author of Ralph han Williams: A Discovery of Music. ic feels instinctively that Simona veil connected”, and that 286 5 of autobiography is not usually i for on the strength of one on musical criticism. But the itself, although soothing, con an amount of domestic detail could only be fascinating if en by the ex-Queen of a Balkan , a Hollywood movie-star or a ;ssful jockey who had been ted to the Peerage. Simona ap -5 to be none of these. family, for reasons that are r quite clear —although it prob had something to do with high ish taxes—had established them s in Dieppe. Simona herself, jver, went to an English school so crossed the Channel six times ar. ost of the “action” of the book 5 place in Dieppe during holidays le home of the autocratic Ginny grandmother) and Ginga (her dfather) who was by way of being ona ingrata in his own house who went off for a couple of cs each summer with his sympa c “girl friend”. ther members of the family— jding great-uncle-Frederick who US Consul, cousin Johnny, iry aunts and an intermittent her and step-father—add to the and sometimes the confusion. ’s a personal story of the between s period in Europe that probably n’t written to appeal to an and ean low-brow, anyhow.

IGTAILS AND PERNOD Macmillans. )

) You Get Your

Dney's Worth?

fOST Western countries have their L consumers’ associations whose ction is to see that the customer 5 value for his money and protec i from the wilder boys of advertis and high-pressure selling tech ues. fhe Australasian Consumers’ Asso tion (ACA) was founded only two irs ago and at last count had

20,000 members in Australasia and the Pacific Islands.

But the influence of the organisation goes much further than mere membership. ACA issues a magazine called Choice, and if the experience in our own office is an indication, each magazine is read by at least half a dozen people in addition to its rightful subscriber. At present it is published six times a year.

This bright little magazine publishes the findings of ACA’s scientific and other investigations into commodities in every-day use. It presents them in readable, unbiased style that reveals nothing but hard fact—something which no media living on advertising revenue can do.

Choice, of course, accepts no ad vertising and the ACA’s only income comes from the modest £1 annual subscription of members. One of the subjects dealt with in the current (October) issue of Choice is house hold fly-sprays. ACA experts take a dozen of the best known ones apart and see what makes them kill flies— and how often they do it. Other in teresting investigations m recent months have been into some of the top brand-name washing powders and the efficiency of filters on well-known brands of cigarettes, The ACA in no sense is out to “pick a fight” with manufacturers on behalf of consumers; to the contrary, its completely impartial findings

ild help manufacturers improve • products. eaders who would like a free copy Choice and more information it the Association should write ACA, 3 Randle Street, Sydney, V.

[?]erchaant's Daughter

p. 93

Loved the Coal [?]erchaant's Daughter

iW writer Bernard Thomson calls his novel Love In Quiet Places, if this conjures up ideas of a antic idyll in a sleepy backwater, d be dead wrong, arney Summer’s quiet places were ;rally behind hedges or on park :hes because Barney belonged to stratum of English society ;d the “lower orders.” He began working life as the village grocer’s then graduated to bookie’s ier. Barney had learned about i from his Uncle Jim and a book cost 5/-. when new. Evidently her Uncle Jim nor the book knew ything, because soon he has the 1 coal merchant’s daughter “in ble.” was just about Barney’s swan l in the village. He migrates, with talents, to London where he takes with a plump, blonde widow who a greengrocer’s shop, he book is written in colourful -person and as Barney is not up by any of his many problems for I, it has a certain untroubled rm and doubtful humour. He has gift—rare these days—of being tent to live in the station into ch Fate has cast him. He isn’t a tleman and does not aspire to it, makes a pretty good fist of adapt to environment.

,OVE IN QUIET PLACES. Hodder &

ighton Ltd. 22/6.)

[?]at’s New in Paper Backs

pp. 93-94

LAKE'S REACH, by Catherine Gaskin, i first published in 1958 and reviewed 'PIM". It is a period piece, acted out he Romney Marsh country of England ;re, just after the French Revolution, llishmen were beginning to take an irest in affairs and wine from dss the Channel. The writer is an itralian. (Fontana; 5/6.) OVER MAN, by Alston Anderson: A ry about Negro life by a Negro—or as more polite to say these days, by a oured man. Anderson is no ordinary n, coloured or uncoloured. He writes >ut his people without a chip on his

shoulder and doesn't sweat over real or fancied racial prejudices. He was born in Panama of Jamaica parents, went to school partly in Jamaica and later in North Carolina. He served in the US forces and finished his education at Columbia University and then the Sor bonne. He went to live for a while in Majorca—where black men, like black cats, are held to be lucky—and there met Robert Graves who writes a foreword for this collection of short stories. Ander son has a sense of humour and, as it says on the cover, his short stories con tain the whole essence of American Negro

life—tender, passionate, savage and ri bald. (Great Pan; 4/-.) DOUBLE AGENT, by Jean Overton Fuller, is written as a consequence of re searches the writer made for her former book, Madelaine. It is a story of how she tracked down a man who, while en joying the confidence of the British dur ing the last war, was also considered by the Germans as one of their most im portant sources of information. There is still a question-mark as to whether he was or was not a double agent. (Great Pan; 4/-.) (Over)

PICNIC AT POROKORRO, by Hot

Charteris. A novel based on the mod© concept of West Africa, where even most innocent of incidents will be judgt against the background of inter-racb tensions and world politics. (Fontafi 4/-.)

MALICE IN WONDERLAND, by Nichok

Blake. Mob hysteria, terror and murcb take the place of the more normal horro of that most extraordinary of all Briti' institutions—the holiday camp. (FontaA 4/-.)

ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE, by Agatl

Christie. A comparatively modern nui ber by this mistress of crime—first pu lished in 1958. When a stranger calkl at the Argyle house he shattered the con placency of half a dozen people. seemed that he could prove that Jact Argyle, who had got life for the murd of his mother, may have been innoces after all. (Fontana; 4/-.)

SACRILEGE IN MALAYA, by Pien

Boulle. There are more ways than ok of getting a rubber tree to give up latex—anyway, that is what Bedoux tri to prove to his plantation labourers. II has been sent out to Malaya by tH directors of a big rubber company to i troduce new methods and boost produ tion. It looked easy from 8,000 mill away but almost impossible on the spo (Fontana; 5/-.) THE VIRGINIAN, by Owen Wister. TH is probably the most famous of i Western novels—it has been read E millions, reprinted many times since was first published in 1902 and filme on four different occasions. It is a class of cow-boy romances and probably close to the Wild West in truth than the lun lore that has grown up about this pha* of American history in recent years.

The Virginian was a Southerner wk rode the plains and mountains of whr is now the State of Wyoming in til service of a rancher. In the end til Virginian—and he is never known by an other name —becomes a rich man himsei< but that is beyond this story. Here K is a young man and apart from his e? ploits as a cow-puncher it also tells h 1 charming love story. (Published by Ma= millan and Co., Ltd., in their St. Marti Library. 9/3.)

Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

pp. 99-109

Rabaul, New Guinea, doesn’t get as many cruise ships as did before the war but when it does, catering for tourists on oard becomes a community effort.

HEN the P&O liner Himalaya called there in early November ic course of a cruise to the Far , just about everyone in the town me involved in looking after her 0 passengers. was estimated that £5,000 was t by the visitors on their 9-to-5 , plus another £2,000 spent on s. Even the Administration got a -off —they charged people who e their cars available for tours for a temporary licence to carry engers. ver 80 cars carried tourists on t-seeing tours without incident or lap, and although there were re s of gross profiteering by some /es, the visitors seemed to enjoy iselves. After the vessel left, her ter sent a radio message thanking aul residents for their “wonderful fltality”.

WE’LL BE MINING THE SEA

)OR; It looks now that Austra m crops that depend on phos :e from Nauru and Ocean Island ’t wither on the vine when those flies are exhausted. They’ll be ing what they need from dules” on the sea floor. ; is estimated that at present rate consumption, Nauru and Ocean deposits will be worked out in

40 years, but thanks to the efforts of oceanographers who have been very busy in the Pacific since the International Geophysical Year started them off in 1957, the ocean bed will probably, by then, be paying dividends.

These nodules form on the sea floor, usually around a small piece of clay or a whale’s tooth. Some of them contain as much as 30 per cent, phosphorus pentoxide from which fertilisers are made.

Others contain minerals such as manganese, nickel, copper, etc. If the sea bed is ever mined, it is ex pected that it will be for all these minerals—and that the phosphate re covered will be only one of the reasons for going into production.

According to the experts, there would be no great engineering diffi culties in dredging the ocean floor; and when or if the time comes, the Pacific Ocean bed will pay much bigger dividends than that of the Atlantic. • FOOD, TOO: As well as minerals the sea in future is likely to be made to give up more food.

Two German oceanographers recently spent 4i months in Australia, New Guinea and Philippines waters mak ing a survey for the University of

Kiel on how the oceans of the world can help feed the world’s exploding populations. They are optimistic about the results of their investiga tions, particularly for nations like India and Indonesia which have al most exhausted the possibilities of getting more food from the land.

• RABAUL LAUNCHES ONE:

The largest craft built in Papua-New Guinea since the war was launched at the Toboi Shipbuilding Co.’s yard at Rabaul at end of September.

Christened Jason by the wife of the District Commissioner, Mrs. I. R.

Foldi, who cracked the traditional bottle of champagne over the bows, the 54-ft. craft is to the order of a New Ireland Chinese businessman.

Chinese owners and builders followed the European champagne and speeches with some traditional Chinese fireworks to ward off devils and other marine evils.

• AUST. - SOUTH AMERICA

SERVICE: One of the most neglected trade routes in the world is that be tween Australasia and South America.

This will be remedied shortly when the Swedish Orient Line routes some of its vessels through ports in the western and northern parts of the South American continent (including Callao, Peru), then through the Panama Canal and Caribbean to Europe. In addition, an Australian company, Wm. Heale Pty. Ltd., will inaugurate a service from Australia to ports in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. (Over)

WRECK WHARF. Rabaul's interesting "wreck wharf" is still doing sterling duty in that New Guinea port. Literally a wrecked ship filled with concrete, wreck wharf is one of two wharves in Rabaul. It was originally a Japanese ship sunk during the war. On either side of the wharf here are the

"Kelaua" and the "Matupi".

COASTWATCHERS’ LIGHT

T OUT: A freak bolt of light struck the 90 ft. high Coast iers’ lighthouse at Madang, New ;a, on November 18 and put the out. first it was thought that damage le rotary mechanism was ex e but it was back in operation within two days. e lighthouse—which serves air as well as ships sailing along reef-bound coast—is a memorial he Coastwatchers who made ■y in the SW Pacific during the var. The tall column that sup the revolving light is shaped a torch and has been a noted nark on the New Guinea coast it went into operation a couple ars ago.

THAT TWO WEEKS

UGHT: Samarai, Papua (one le many “Pearls of the South ic”), which is a tiny island at extreme eastern point of the tory, usually has an oversupply tin rather than the reverse. But itly it did not rain for two s—and that, for Samarai, was a ght. It was temporarily relieved 3P vessel Bulolo which called on November 19 and dis ced 150 tons of water into a at the wharf.

HAMMER AND SICKLE IN

A: The Russian vessel Vityaz h has been engaged in oceano hic work in the Pacific for the few years, arrived in Suva for

bunkering and stores on November 17. She left four days later.

She is manned by a crew of 66 and carried 26 technicians and 41 scientists. Vityaz was in Suva last about two years ago. • SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR: The people of the big Samoan island of Savai’i in November got their first view of Canberra, the 45,000-ton pride of the P&O-Orient fleet.

Her Master, heading south from Honolulu, brought her in close so that the 3,000-odd people she carried could get a look at Savai’i. Savai’i returned the compliment and had a fine view of the giant vessel as she steamed past, all her plate-glass and aluminium gleaming in the sunshine.

The Union Steam Ship Co.’s Tofua (5,200 tons gross) is about the largest passenger vessel calling regu larly at Western Samoa’s main port of Apia (on the island of Upolu),

but residents of certain parts of Savai’i, the other big island, fre quently see large ships on the Auckland-Honolulu run passing by.

• JAPANESE ON BEQA REEF:

The number of Japanese fishing vessels decorating South Pacific reefs increased by one in November when Koyei Maru No. 2 ran aground on Beqa Reef, Fiji.

The mother-ship, Tenyo Maru, radioed for assistance and Suva tug Tui Nakoba went out with a repair party. However, when bad weather came up, her crew abandoned Koyei Maru and returned to Suva on the tug.

O WANGANELLA TO FIJI,

MAYBE: Suva was scheduled to have five cruise ships call in 1962 but up to beginning of December it was doubtful if the cruise of the

[?]S NAME. The Administration vessel [?]bada II", here seen on the slips in recently, bears a famous name in [/]uinea. The first "Laurabada" did some [?]rk pre-war, and during the war (under Ivan Champion).

>-Tasman passenger vessel Wan lla would be carried out as origin planned (Suva July 9-10, 1962). anganella, which has become vn to a generation of trans nan trippers, was part of one of :ralia’s take-overs in the last year her arrangements for a while : difficult to sort out. Bitumen Oil Refineries Ltd. took over dart Parker Ltd., her original ers, some months ago. Bitumen Oil then sold Wanganella to Mc aith McEachran but this firm still loyed Huddart Parker Ltd. as its for running the vessel, t end of November Mcllwraith appointed the Union m Ship Co. of NZ general pas er and cargo agents and an iced that the vessel would not be drawn from the Tasman service December 26, as previously an nced. Wanganella will continue in service, but the fate of the Fiji ■winter cruise is not so certain, t was announced by Huddart cer before they were taken over; new owners of the vessel may or r not go on with the plan.

• TENDERS FOR RUNIC: The

w Savill shipping company will in tenders shortly for purchase of Runic as she lies on Middleton f, about 120 miles north of Lord

Howe Island. Runic has been there since February 19, 1961, when she went up in bad weather. Tremendous efforts were made to get her off but to no avail.

Subsequently, a company, Botany Bay Shipping Co., sent men out to board her. According to them, Shaw Savill had abandoned her; they said they were representing a Far Eastern salvage company and that they would refloat her.

Shaw Savill disputed their right to be on her, claimed that they were trespassers and stated that they were satisfied that Shaw Savill were still the owners. No legal action was taken to eject them but after the Botany Bay men had been there for some time, they packed up and left.

It is assumed that they found that they could not refloat her.

Replacement cost of Runic is esti mated to be £2,000,000 and she may be worth, as scrap, between £250,000 and £500,000.

Another Shaw Savill vessel that won’t be seen any more in the Southern Hemisphere after March is the Dominion Monarch. This 26,000 tons vessel was built in 1939, and at 22 is considered too old to be

NEW HEBRIDES SCENE. This is all that was left of the small New Hebrides trading vessel "Tebakor" recently (owned by M. A.

Houdie, of Vila) after she had broken up on Tanna while Mr. Reece Discombe was attempting to salvage her. Mr. Discombe almost had her in the water when the sea changed and smashed her to pieces.

"Tebakor" was in the news in July when she drifted for 12 days while en route from Erromanga to Vila with 11 men and two women aboard. Photo below, also taken by Reece Discombe, shows the British Administra tion touring vessels "Mangaru" and "Euphrosyne II". Both were constructed this year.

iomic under present day con ns. le was built for the Southampton ley via South Africa service and pt for war service has been con :ly on this run. In these days i the accent is on One-Class, lomy and Tourist travel, perhaps union Monarch, with her all first ; luxury accommodation, could be rded as an anachronism. None iss, people who had the pleasure ravelling on her will regret the rture of this fine vessel from this of the world. hen she reaches Southampton in 1, 1962, she will either be sold e sent to the breakers. Her place be taken by the company’s new assenger vessel, Northern Star, :h leaves the UK on her maiden ige in July, 1962, and thereafter, her sister ship, Southern Cross, make four round - the - world iges a year.

P NG WHARVES “IN TURN”:

mse there is only one wharf der available in Papua at present, »orts which want wharves have to their turn. Samarai wharf is be renovated at present (it was ntly rammed by an overseas ), and as Samarai is Papua’s most ortant copra shipping port, this is ddered to be essential. When this k is finished Abau, Marshall oon and Kiruku will “get a go”.

i MORE FIJI FISH-FREEZING:

apanese businessman, Mr. I. Saito, esenting a fishing organisation ed Fiji in November. He was in igating sites for possible fish zing works at Suva or Lautoka. left the Colony for Papeete, iti, on November 19. (Mr. Saito’s ;rprise is not to be confused with Pacific Fishing and Canning Co.’s ect for fish canning at Levuka.)

> TULAGI DELIVERS A BUS;

re were tense hours during the /ember call of BP vessel Tulagi Norfolk Is. when just about the fie population gathered to see ;ther the island was to have a big r 30-seater bus (the island’s first) whether it would end in the drink, fiiere is no harbour at Norfolk nd and weather conditions on this asion were bad off the Kingston horage. For three days Tulagi ed so badly it was impossible to ;e the bus from the decks and put safely overboard into a lighter, ptain Frank Sadler decided to wait ;rnight for a final attempt and just 2r dawn on November 16 the big was made and the bus finally ched Kingston jetty—much to

everybody’s relief. It had been imported by Mr. I. Hamilton, licensee of the Paradise Hotel, for taking hotel guests on tours.

O NIVANGA DELIVERY: Cap-

tain G. Douglas, Marine Superin tendant of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony was in Hongkong early November with the G&E crew which will deliver the new Colony vessel Nivanga which has been built by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Captain Douglas took the former Colony ship Nareau to her new owners in Majuro, Marshall Is., from where he and his crew pro-

ceeded to Guam and flew the rest of the way to Hongkong via Manila, He will now go on leave; the delivery voyage of the new vessel will be under the command of Captain Warrington Strong,

DTHE LONG DRIFT: The dis

covery on an empty gas-cylinder on Fulaga, one of the remoter of the Lau islands, in the Fiji Group, got a lot more publicity than such an object usually gets.

The Fijians who found it washed up on their beach thought it was a bomb and informed Suva. A RNZAF plane was sent out to look and the empty

ylinder was discovered. What remarkable about it was that it been made by the Danish firm of ingas, and delivered with a large gnment of similar cylinders to tiilean firm in mid-1958. It is imed that during the violent quakes and floods in Chile in last year, this particular cylinder nto the Pacific Ocean and began mg drift to Fulaga. ic story of the cylinder’s drift featured on Copenhagen tele i recently—and no less a person Mr. Thor Heyerdahl was got \ to explain to viewers why it yhat it did.

MEDALS FOR SOLOMON IS

DERS: Two Solomon Islanders ved Royal Humane Society ds recently. They were Habert va, who was awarded the Bronze il and certificate; and Joseph usia, who received a testimonial, muary this year, both were with ather labourers as crew of a eboat unloading cargo from RCS I Queen at Kira Kira archorage, . Heavy seas were running and vhaleboat swamped. Two of the could not swim and one, a deaf , was supported by Aitewa and asia who succeeded in getting him •e. The other non-swimmer was calling for help, and Aitewa im ately went back to him. A g undertow carried both men out a but they were eventually picked exhausted, by a boat launched another ship.

ANOTHER AUSTRALIA-NEW

NEA SERVICE: The owners of Austasia Line have expressed selves very pleased with the sup-

port they have received from Aus tralian shippers since they began an Australia-PNG-Borneo-Sarawak ser vice with MV’s Matupi and Malacca in May, 1960. Because these vessels went on to Borneo, etc., after dis charging cargo in Territory ports, it had not been possible to carry cargoes from P-NG southbound. However, commencing with the Malacca on its November sailing from Australian ports, two sailings out of three will terminate at Lae, NG, and cargo from Territory ports for Australian dis charge will thereafter be accepted.

• CRUSADER GETS GOING:

MV Saracen, owned by the Crusader Shipping Co., arrived in Vila, New Hebrides, on November 16 and opened a new link with New Zealand.

Saracen and the other ship of the line, Crusader, will maintain a service between Auckland and San Francisco with calls at Vila, New Hebrides, and Noumea, New Caledonia. General cargo, refrigerated cargo and timber will be carried.

News of Cruising Yachts

• DOROTHEA, the 31 ft. cutter sailed lonehanded by Peter Tangvald of the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club, arrived Honolulu in November; he was 28 days out from Tahiti. • VAIJERA, the 30 ft. ketch owned by James Friedrichsen, also arrived in Honolulu from Tahiti about the only two new arrivals in a month that turned usually blue Hawaiian waters cold, grey and wind swept and did not encourage yacht cruising. • VALKYRIE, which for a num ber of years has been used for charter work in Hawaii by skipper Fred

Ericson, erupted into flames in mid- November off Barber’s Point, Oahu.

The vessel burned too quickly for those on board to get to life jackets and one passenger was drowned be fore a US destroyer from nearby Pearl Harbour could get close enough to pick up survivors. Cause of the fire is unknown. • UTOPIA: A letter from Fred J. Peterson, owner of this big 65 ft. schooner which was seen in Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Solomons a few years ago in the course of a long round-the-world voyage, fixes his address as Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, where his business interests are.

Utopia was of unconventional design, having steel bottom and wood top

Marika Natavua displays the gas [?]er that apparently floated to Fiji from [?]South America. See story above.

Photo: Rob Wright

The cruising Alexander family—Larry, Margaret and son, Johnny—as they arrived in Sydney in November aboard “Sea Fever". In the top picture, marine authorities take an interest in the vessel after she passed un identified through Sydney Heads.

Photos: “Sydney Morning Herald"

that paid dividends in her three circumnavigation from Novem -1956, to October, 1959.

WANDERER. —This must have old home month—we have a from Spike Africa, too. Erst- Mate of the schooner Wan , he reports from a caravanserai le name of No Name Bar, in ilito, California (it’s near San :isco), and says that it’s the t of artists, writers and sailors that he has introduced the PIM em. He is longing for the South sends greetings to many friends n he met all the way from etc to Sydney and says that plans n hand for a return at an early SEA FEVER and the cruising ander family arrived in Sydney November 12, 2i years and 10 miles out from their home of Los Angeles. The Alexanders rry, Margaret and son Johnny, imehow missed the who-goes flag signal from South Head m and having failed to identify selves sailed into Sydney Har to a bigger reception committee ustoms and police launches than ly turn out for a yacht. When as straightened out, Sea Fever ored at Cruising Yacht Club of ralia moorings in Rushcutter Johnny is now going to school •cubic Bay and Larry hopes to a job as school teacher ashore ■naybe a year until this family, has lived on its yacht for five ;, is ready to move off into the in Ocean.

TE MATANGI and Jack and lies Ferguson came back into the ing news in November after an tice of about a year. They have holed-up in Auckland during time although Jacques had a

trip back to the United States to settle on some schooling for their young son. According to these American yachtsmen, who were with us a lot in PIM a couple of years ago, New Zealand right now is a fine place to recoup finances —there is a surplus of jobs going. The Fergusons left Russell, NZ, for Fiji in mid- November but after cruising those waters for a while (and in the hurri cane season, forsooth), will return to Auckland, maybe to do some per manent recouping. • MARINER, originally from Seattle, USA, was sold in Auckland a couple of months ago to John and Joyce Dean, of New Zealand, who are experienced yachtsmen and ex pect to do more of it in their latest acquisition. • CEST LA VIE, the 23 ft.

Sydney sloop, sailed by Lyall Price and John Pyke, arrived in Nelson, New Zealand, at end of October after a three-weeks Tasman crossing. Their ultimate destination is Tahiti. • PERSONALITY: In Sydney for three days during the November stop-over of the Matson ship Mon terey was Captain Fred Lawton who knows more about why America has remained unbeaten in the America’s Cup races than anyone else. He was in great demand with local yachtsmen and in a half hour television inter view gave them some sort of idea what they are up against next year when an Australian yacht will make a bid for America’s Cup. He was sailing master of the Colombia in the last series in 1958, but at the moment Captain Lawton is the fellow who teaches Monterey passengers naviga tion and seamanship, if that’s the way they feel ( PIM October, p. 106) Whatever you may think about this, at least it’s a change from the in evitable housie-housie and Scottish dancing with which some other ship ping lines entertain their customers. • PATAPSCO 11, 43-ft cruising yacht of New York reached Rabaul late October in an eastwards circum navigation of the world. Because owner-skipper Robert Murray has chosen an unusual direction for this, New Guinea was his first South Paci fic island. After Rabaul he will visit BSIP, Samoa and probably Tahiti.

Murray left New York in 1959, sailed to Norway via Iceland, then cruised the coast of Spain to the Mediterranean. From the Mediter ranean his course has been Suez Canal, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Singa pore, Sandakan, Hollandia, and Rabaul. With him currently as crew are Norwegian Gunnar Sorbo and American Fred Romney.

In The News This Month

p. 99

Bulolo Canberra Coral Queen Crusader C’est la Vie Columbia Dominion Monarch Dorothea Himalaya Jason Koyei Maru Malacca Matupi Mariner Monterey Northern Star Nivanga

Nareau Patapsco Runic Southern Cross Saracen Sea Fever Tofua Tenyo Maru Tui Nakoba Tulagi Te Matangi Utopia Vityaz Viajera Valkyrie Wanganella Wanderer

Pacific Report

pp. 111-137

The month’s round-up of news and pictures of people and nts, from PIM correspondents in the South Pacific.

uts Fiji

ia Quota

poor old banana producer in in hardly be blamed at times inking he is some sort of a 11 to be kicked about at the of New Zealand importers, Zealand politicians, and the Department of Agriculture, as s being subject to floods and mes. latest kick in the pants came Fruit Distributors, Wellington, mouncing a cut of 25 per cent, i’s export quota to her only )le market. The reason was ew Zealand was having balance le difficulties, company’s general manager, a few soothing words, when d there was no doubt that in to come New Zealand would gain rely on Fiji for substantial des of bananas. He urged them sp their plantations in good and look on the reduction as horary reverse.

New Zealand Government has ed or severely reduced import s for many lines of goods, and is are amongst those coming the “severely reduced” head jians grow most of the bananas port, and little versed in such :t words as “balance of trade”, re likely to shake their heads in r, and in spite of pleas, lose

for Fijian

its neleki Ramatau Mataka, :r of the Bula Tale Communist in Fiji (PIM, September, p. anded in trouble with the law he failed to send his children 001. Apimeleki, and 17 mem ►f his organisation who come ive villages in the province of ga, stopped sending their child school on September 25. imonsed to appear before a

Fijian court, they failed to appear, so warrants were issued for their arrest. They all spent some days in gaol before the court was ready to hear their cases.

Evidence was that Apimaleki wrote a letter to the school head master saying the children had been stopped from attending school be cause their parents could not afford to send them to school. The head master said in court that the children did not have to pay school fees, and although there was a school uniform the parents were not forced to buy it.

Free books were issued till the end of last year, but now the pupils had to buy their own. As in the past they had to buy their own pencils, ink and other materials.

All the men charged told the Fijian Magistrate (Ratu Tevita Bulu makau) they had not sent their children to school because they had no money.

Ratu Tevita was sympathetic, but also practical. He told them that un til they had formed an unregistered co-operative they had money to send their children to school. They all be longed to the co-operative, lived to gether and did not adhere to Fijian laws.

“We are now living in civilised

Apimeleki Ramatau Mataka, founder of the Bula Tale Communist Party. See story below.

Photo: S. A. Whippy

BRIDGE FOR STRICKLAND Papua's rugged Strickland Gorge (above) was bridged in November for only the second time since 1938, when the famous Taylor-Black exp oratory patrol put one across during their Hagen to the Sep.k patrol The new bridge, like the first one, is a suspension bridge of jungle vines. It was erected by ADO D. Permezel and PO K. G. O'Brien, from the recently opened patrol post at Lake Kopiago. It has a span of 250 ft, and it crosses a section of the Strickland Too turbulervt for rafts or for swimming. The bridge, which links Kopiago with Oksapmm patrol post, will be replaced eventually with a steel bridge.

days and your treatment of children by not sending them!] school is pitiful,” he said.

All the men were charged urn the Fijian Regulations. The mas trate fined Apimeleki £5, and thes others £2/10/- each.

Fifty Years of

Makogai

Makogai Island, in the Korol in the Lomaiviti Group of Fijiii known throughout the world as leprosy hospital. On November! and 11 the hospital celebrated]! 50th year of existence and the si? is now reached where it may nok necessary as a separate unit.

It is not only inhabitants of I that the island has served, for sb 1925 it has been the centre for treatment of leprosy for patir; from Tonga, the Gilbert and EE Islands, and the territories admr tered by New Zealand.

The Governor of Fiji, Sir Kenir Maddocks, at the jubilee celes tions, paid deserved tribute to a| cession of medical officers, the sionary Sisters of the Society of W and the Fijians of the Little Sisten Nazareth, and well-known citii who have served the island web Among these were the Rev. Mod Mary Agnes, MBE, who came toe from France in 1883, and fon years was Sister-in-Charge. Shes tired in 1950 on her 80th birtl but, at her own wish, remained Makogai. She died there in Ms 1955.

Sister Mary Felicitas, ano Sister-in-Charge, Dr. and Mrs. 0 Austin, who were at Makogai i many years, Sir Henry Scott,, Hugh Ragg, Mr. Wilbur Domr and Mr. Pat Twomey, secretary! the NZ Lepers’ Trust Board, ’ among those the Governor i tioned.

Dr. Austin was Medical Supc tendent from 1930 to 1953, and ing his period of service he gffi; a worldwide reputation for the tf ment of leprosy. Dr. and Mrs. Av now live in New Zealand, and both retain a keen interest inr welfare of the lepers.

The Governor said at the ceUI tions that the discovery of a known as DDS in 1948 mark®, turning point in the history, , with it some cures could be effea In the previous 37 years there been no very effective treatment! the disease.

Although DDS was not the answer to successful treatment, , the search for something better tinued each year, there was no (b

ged the whole picture of the Those members of the staff tients who were at Makogai 1948 knew this well. 956 it was decided to en other territories to retain itients rather than send them ogai, as it was felt with the ffective treatment and quicker y it would be better for to be close to their homes, e last few years many patients sn repatriated, but even with number now requiring treat ad fallen sharply. At the end 1 there were 664 patients; now aber is less than 280. In 1958 >es were discharged as cured, 1959 the figure was 131. patients themselves spared no 0 ensure that the celebrations lemorable. A unique display licrafts won unstinted admira concert by 50 patients, and a ul procession with the Gover ad the director of Medical 5 (Dr. P. W. Dill-Russell) in form, and the Speaker of the ive Council, Mr, Maurice a robes and full bottomed wig, mething which will not be for for many years.

Scouts, Guides and Wolf Cubs d guards of honour, and performed traditional welcome nies. For Ratu Dr. J. A, R. a brother of the late Ratu Sir akuna), who is at present in at Makogai, it was a proud d.

Dill-Russell

ave Fiji

Director of Medical Services Dr. P. W. Dill-Russell, will the Colony some time in ’ to become Deputy Chief 1 Officer to the Department of :al Co-operation, which has over many functions of the d Office in London. rrived in Fiji late in 1956 from where he had held a similar Dill-Russell served in the Wes :sert during World War II with >t Highland Division and the \rmoured Division, better as the “Desert Rats”. He was ached to the Chinese Army for ►d, while he was stationed in wife was born in Russia, but nily left that country at the the Bolshevik revolution. She ;d herself with many women’s ;s in Fiji, most of them asso vith hospitals and the Medical nent. ian is one of the six languages

which she speaks fluently, and several times this year when Russian ships have called at Suva she has been called in as an interpreter.

The Case of the

Missing Millions

Although the Fiji tourist industry is still expanding, all those connected with it met at the end of this month in a two-day conference of “self-criticism”.

Operators of hotels, travel agen cies, transport companies, airline and shipping companies got together for a frank exchange of views on present weaknesses there may be in

the provision of facilities for tourists and to seek new ways of creating new attractions for tourists.

In the past 10 years the annual number of visitors to the Colony has trebled but the current year’s figures show only a fraction increase on those of 1960. This in itself is not important—Hawaii, which still tops the poll as the most-favoured Pacific island for tourism was also in the same position—but Fiji tourist in terests don’t feel that they can sit back yet and be complacent about static tourist figures.

According to a survey made by the Pacific Area Travel Association for the first six months of 1961, this is

rder of popularity with tourists he area which PATA covers: lii, Japan, Hong Kong, India, pore and Malaya, Thailand, alia, New Zealand, the Philip- Taiwan, Vietnam, Macau, Fiji, i, Tahiti, Burma, Indonesia, Caledonia and Samoa, nay be more correct, of course, y that this is not so much the of what tourists liked best as as where people went. Some ising names are in that list, some em by virtue of the fact that are on the way to somewhere ; greatest disadvantage suffered e tourist industry in Australasia the South Pacific Islands, of e, is that they have been out at nd of the line. New air routes nore liners on the Pacific service foing a great deal to overcome 3ut so far they have not been to overcome the other limiting r—the cost of getting here, [e who live down in this part of 'odd are conditioned to the high of fares when they want to go id. People who live in America Europe think hard before they id the same amount of money it out and visit us. For them are so many other cheaper I alternatives. e Australian National Travel nation recently issued a small called The Case of the Missing Million. They calculate that Aus n travellers spend that much overseas each year than visitors ustralia spend there. One of the functions of ANTA is to even ts present imbalance and they a vigorous team of executives on ob in offices in San Francisco, York, London and Wellington, who give a lot of skilled atten to it.

'JTA is the body charged by the ral Government with the de ment of more travel to Aus i. Its financial support comes the Commonwealth and State irnments, air and shipping com :s, the travel trade and scores meral business interests in Aus i. 1 islands in the South Pacific fit indirectly from any success A achieves because it is a guinea gooseberry that any overseas >r that the Association can lure mstralia will spend some time, r coming or going, in at least one le South Pacific Islands.

boards Speed Things

in N. Caledonia

mr east coast New Caledonian s which have vehicular ferries

formerly operated by man power, may soon have power propulsion.

Experiments have recently been carried out on the Tchamba River 400 yd. ferry crossing which, pre viously took 30 minutes with two natives hauling on the steel cable.

A 25 hp outboard motor was found to do the job in six minutes, in normal weather conditions. Outboards of less hp will do the job for the three other smaller streams.

Another Jet for NC

But None for NG

New Caledonia got its second jet air-service on December 7 when Qantas Airways began operating Boeing 707 V’s between Sydney and Tontouta (the airport for Noumea).

Qantas Electras have been on this service for some time but the 3i hours they have been taking for the 1,000 mile journey will now be cut to hours. The jets will depart Sydney every Thursday at 11 a.m. and return from there that same afternoon.

Qantas began its first service to Noumea with Sandringham flying boats in 1945, the flying-time then being 8 hours. The flying-boats were followed by DC4’s, Super-Constella tions and Electras, The V-jets will carry first and economy class passengers.

About the only South Pacific group of any importance that has escaped the jet age is Papua-New Guinea.

Aviation was firmly established there 30 years ago, at a time when other

which now have daily jet had never seen any sort of But since the end of War II P-NG air-services ome so tightly controlled by s Australian governments - instrumentalities that it is >eing left behind in modern air travellers were promised on the Sydney-NG service s before that company with in the New Guinea service and for a year before they they used Super-Constella the Sydney-Port Moresby However, since TAA and NA replaced Qantas the sed have been DC6’s. g

ian Bill

patterns change almost as ashions these days, but Fiji low that the United King till the Colony’s best custo e UK bought about £F7 r orth of Fiji goods last year, as just under half of total i was next best customer 'bases totalling £F2,278,000; land third with £F1,392,000; tralia a bad fourth with 0. es quite well from her near ■s —Western Samoa where half a million pounds worth s; Tonga which took goods t over £F300,000; and the nd Ellice Islands which paid i 4,000.

Fiji bought the pattern was Terent. Australia gets the

biggest share of the market by selling goods worth £F4i million, just beating the UK with £F4,100,000. New Zealand comes third with only £F 1,300,000.

The imbalance of trade between Australia and Fiji has been a sore point in Fiji for many years, and almost all of value of Fiji exports to Australia is from one commodity —gold. In recent years this has averaged between £Ali million to £Ali million. Molasses, which is next in order of importance, runs between a value of £A 10,000-15,000.

Hides and skins third in importance, is very much less than that.

If and when the mines at Vatukoula are worked out, or they are closed down, Australia would be away down near the bottom of the list of Fiji’s customers. Most important on the list of goods Australia sells Fiji is £FU million worth of food—over half of it flour and sharps; and cars.

One of the most disappointing trends in Fiji trade figures is the decline in exports to the United States in the last three years under review.

This can be attributed largely to the

•m having fallen out of the man se market. 1957, Fiji exported £F450,000 i of manganese, a large propor of it to the United States. The id States now prefers, for freight and political reasons, to buy newly discovered manganese de s in South America. In 1960 manganese exports crashed to r £F25,000.

iling in the

Pacific

e Norfolk Island and Byron Whaling Co. had some bad in early November when the on tanker Forso caught fire leav lydney Harbour. The mishap de d the company of the vessel’s :es just after the Norfolk Island n had finished and oil was in :ss of being exported, e ship left its anchorage about n. on November 9 but before it led the Sydney Heads fire broke i the electrical generator. Half an later she grounded on a reef South Head where fire floats iged to put out the flames. The was taken off in a pilot launch, was believed at first that Forso a complete loss; but later exam ms show that she is repairable.

The Company’s Norfolk Whaler stayed on at NI at the end of the baleen whaling season on October 31 to investigate the possibilities of sperm whaling. If anything comes of this, it could extend the Island’s whaling season from six to nine months.

The baleen whaling season for NI extends from May 1 to October 31 but experience during the last few seasons shows that this is about a month early at both ends of the period. The company did not begin whaling operations this year until mid-June and it has applied to the international authority that controls whaling for the season, in future years, to be June 1-November 30.

Meanwhile in Fiji, there has been considerable interest in the fact that whales tagged there between 1956 and 1958 have finally met their doom thousands of miles away.

There have been several whale counting campaigns in Fiji in recent years but the most systematic survey was made between July and October in 1956, 1957 and 1958 by W. R.

Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd. The idea was to form some idea of the num ber of whales that migrated between the islands of Wakaya and Ovalau during these periods.

Sighting stations were built on the islands and connected by radio and

a large launch remained on duty au Levuka. When whales were sighted the launch gave chase and if it coul6 get near enough, a stainless steel dam was fired at the whale from a modfiJ fied shotgun. The markers were numo bered and records of the sighting anoi an estimate of the size of the whald were kept.

One marker fired in July, 195© was recovered over three years latee in a whale caught at the whaling stas tion in Cook Strait, New Zealand) Another fired in July, 1957, in Fiji! was recovered in June this year hi the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. Thr latest recovery was at Morton Island) Queensland, in October. It had beeie fired into a whale in Fiji in August -1957.

In spite of the research that was done, Fiji still has no whaling station —possibly because the internations whaling authority feels that sufficiem whales are now being taken in thr South Pacific. The total number cd whales that were sighted during W R. Carpenter’s survey has not beee revealed.

Bigger VW's for

Pacific Market

Volkswagen fans—and VW owner ship is supposed to be a way of lift rather than a matter of car owner ship—might be interested to knon that a bigger model is to be built ii Australia in 1962 and distributee from there to Pacific Islands market!! including Fiji and Samoa.

The new VW—to be known as thri Volkswagen 1500—will not replace the 1192 c.c. current model whice has not changed its exterior beetF design since 1938, The new modei will be additional, cost more and hd “radically different”. It will come it two varieties—sedan and statioc waggon.

VW’s are manufactured in Austrs' lia by a subsidiary company at Clayi ton, Melbourne. This subsidiary wit now take over the Pacific expon market from the parent company.

Jim A/lcKenney Goes

South, Finish

As November ended, in Pago Pager there were more parties to the squaiti yard than that gracious American Samoan town had ever before knowr They were saying “Goodbye” ft James McKenney, long famous if that area as “the man who has presents for everyone at Christmas’s Jim McKenney left New Zealam and went seeking his fortune in Fir and Samoa in 1921. He did not fim fortune, but he worked happily fo'

lext quarter century in Fiji and ►a as a road-builder, a plantation iger, a biscuit-factory executive, dmine section boss, a Fiji Army :eman, a hospital section mana and a hotel manager. Among nployers in this period were the Malcolm Brodie, Mr. E. G. dore, Sir Hugh Ragg—he speaks em all with affection. He even a year as a member of the isation which, at Deuba, pro l the film His Majesty O’Keefe. sn Jim pulled up his Fiji roots, vent over to Eastern Samoa to his daughter, Mrs. Gordon ay. The Americans grabbed and for the last eight years he >een Government Property and portation Officer, and his hos e flat, right down overlooking Dint in Pago Pago Harbour, has known pleasurably to many lers. plans to spend his remaining —he is 70—in the inconspicuous Zealand village of his boyhood, ddress henceforth is James Mc ;y, Palmerston South, NZ. The wishes of Fiji and both Samoas

th him.-

RWR.

Deputy Director of Agricul n Fiji, Mr. N. Lamont, retired vember to return to his home n New Zealand, He joined the ment in 1949. He acted several as Director of Agriculture. His was well known to radio rs as “Cecile”, who conducted len’s session once a week over iji Broadcasting Commission, .amont took a keen interest in i’s activities in the Colony. For 12 months she was editor of w defunct “Guardian”, a weekly iper which was published at

\. Mcßean For

i Pacific Commission

A. Mcßean, BA, who has won itation for himself and his as principal of the Niue High (established in 1958) leaves n December, on appointment Social Services Division of the Pacific Commission, with head s in Noumea. Niue’s High now has an enrolment of 180 nd girls, who eagerly seek this mity of post-primary training, wider knowledge of English.

Mcßean has taken a keen in n the young Niueans’ personal , and encouraged them to n and be proud of their native —the songs and dances which gularly present at High School ave won fame far outside of

This may account for his it to a bigger field. His de e is viewed with much regret ; Niueans.

Sugar Production

)0 Tons Short

s sugar crush ended in mid iber and resulted in only 0 tons of raw sugar from )00 tons of cane. is 1,000 tons of raw sugar an the estimated total made by lonial Sugar Refining Company tober, and a very long way of the 199,367 tons permitted ider various sugar agreements, gear’s production is sufficient to cover the 126,000 tons 1 under the British Common- Sugar Agreement and the tons Fiji consumes locally or > to neighbouring islands. >ons for the poor production lieved to be (a) the late start 1960 crush due to the sugar and related troubles, and the uent delay in the maturing of oon, or second, crop; and (b) f fertiliser used on the ratoon y tenant farmers. (Ratoon cane the estates of the CSR Co., had got adequate fertiliser, ormal yield.)

c Islands Society

tmas Party

Pacific Islands Society, of , which was founded in 1937, ilebrate its Silver Jubilee next loyal membership of over 200 ;rs —many of them Islands Tiers” —meets monthly under :sidency of Mr. N. H. Foxcroft evening party; and annually at dmas cocktail party. This year, ristmas event will be on Wed evening, December 20, in the of the Feminist Club, 77 King dn ey- (Over)

Seen At The

Fiji Show

The Fiji Show has been re-established, and here are some of the highlights seen [?]at Buckhurst Park, Laucala Bay, in October.

Main emphasis was on production, and the quality of the stock is clear, it was a great day for the children. In the centre picture, the judge for the equestrian events, Mr. Watts, inspects the mount of rider [?]ane Keith-Read, who was adjudged best woman rider of the show. The show lasted For two days and organisers expect the [?]number of entries will be increased next [?]ear. —Photos; Rob Wright.

Samoa Has

Banana Trouble

New Zealand is never “banana happy” for very long—and just at the moment, Western Samoa is not happy either.

The damage caused by the hurri :ane in March this year is still affect ing production on Samoan banana plantations, and to make the export position worse, shortage of other native foodstuffs is causing greater local consumption of bananas.

Banana shipments from Apia in November fell far short of what was expected and the pinch is already being felt in New Zealand.

In recent years Western Samoa has had the largest share of the banana

trade to New Zealand—which also takes this fruit from Fiji and Niue.

Samoa is now exporting at half the normal quantity, and that makes it all the more strange that NZ should select this time to restrict banana im ports from Fiji.

NG's Cattle Industry

Goes Ahead

It has been a long, hard road and heavy slugging since the end of World War II but there are signs that New Guinea cattle industry is at last growing up; and that the time may be coming when meat will be locally killed, and not come ex-freezer or ex can.

Two milestones in the progress to

wards this happy day are the recers formation in Lae of the New Ginner Graziers’ Association: and the di cision of the Administration to builii an abattoir at Lae.

The new Association was former in October and it is hoped that i time it will be affiliated with the Am tralian Woolgrowers’ and Grazier Council. At the inaugural meeting!

Lae. the following officers wes elected: President, Mr. L. J. Brady (Ke. nantu): vice-president. Mr. B. ] Jephcott (Dumpu); secretary, Mr.i Hurrell (Wau); committee. Mrs, R. Jephcott, Messrs. M. Leak

(Zenag). G. Knopke (Malahang)J,

Staines (Gusap), and L. Oxlap (Arona).

There were then lengthy discv: sions on matters pertaining to the N industry—including approval for ti Administration’s decision to build! central abattoir (it has got to tl stage where an architect has bes looking at sites); and approval of It Government subsidy on catltJ although it was agreed that this o not go far enough.

At present the Administration ps< a freight subsidy on cattle importi into NG but pays only on bill-i -lading which does not cover sv; stantial incidental costs. The opinn of those attending the meeting w that the shipping companies ww benefiting from the subsidy schemes a greater extent than farmers. It m however, agreed, that without s subsidy scheme there would be cattle industry in the Territory at i Some Assn, members would II to see subsidy extended to stol horses which are becoming incr©ingly necessary as herds of cae increase. At present it costs £5O ( ship a horse from Sydney to M and £37 from North Queenslanor plus cost of providing a stall, fi and an attendant.

It is felt, also, that it is time stock routes to be gazetted and s veyed so that natives can be advih to keep their gardens off them. r ’ most used stock route in P-NG is 8 the Markham Valley but the greae trouble in droving stock there is ko; ing the animals from native villas! and cultivation.

NNG Timber Concession

To Australian Co.

The Government of West M Guinea has recently granted a tinrr concession of 22,500 acres on Jan Is., to a new company, Australia New Guinea Timbers Ltd.

The company will establish a c»o pany to be registered in NNG

undertake logging and the con tion of a jetty near the village Limberbaba. gging operations will be corn ed next year and the timber will orked with heavy tractors, self ng trailers and a number of / cranes. Later on, a sawmill a peeling unit for semi-manufac goods will be installed, gotiations for the concession been carried through by Mr.

A. McKennariey, of Lae, P-NG, is connected also with an agency, ft and export business there i trades under the name of >rp.

5 Patrols

Their Men

wn to dusk patrolling in driving and over the steep mountains leavy bush of the Kagua and areas of the Southern High of Papua recently ended by I Officer G. P. Jensen-Muir and

ohce getting their men—s 4 of

: patrol began when it was re- I that four men of the Tiri had been murdered by their seople as a reprisal for alleged y. As soon as some of the sus heard about the patrol they fled tCagua country which enraged

the Kagua people to such an extent that they joined the administration patrol to help run down the fugitives.

Because of the bad weather and the terrain it was realised by the patrol that the suspects were probably as exhausted as the police, so they kept going hoping to catch the fugi tives while they were off-guard rest ing. But when the search area was steadily enlarged, two more relief patrols were called in from lalibu.

In all, the patrols located and arrested 54 Tiri people and took them in for questioning. The names of five other suspects are known and will be rounded up in due course.

longer Madang Airstrip

To Help Highlands

It was expected that work on ex tending the airstrip at Madang, NG by 670 ft (to 5,000 ft) would begin at end of November and be com pleted— at an estimated cost of £50,000 —by next June.

When it is finished it will alleviate, to some extent, the results of the action of the Australian Department of Civil Aviation in February this year which restricted take-off weights of DC3 aircraft to 5,600 lbs.

The longer runway will allow take

eight to be increased to 7,000 nd this will be a factor in get r freights to the Highlands back :conomic range. >m the end of the Pacific War :n the DCA first made its ap ace in New Guinea aviation— erritory had a special dispensa ibout take-off weights and other itions but in February this year, regulations were brought into with Australian conditions— mtly without much thought to conomic consequences in the ory. : new regulations affected the ands districts particularly be virtually all freight in and out 1 by air. Restrictions on the ff weight of DC3 aircraft— did most of the freighting— bviously going to make freight :s dearer and this unfortunately at a time when there was a in the world price of coffee, lighlands main export com f. air companies have done what could —by introducing Bristol er aircraft on Highlands runs, ipping DC3’s down to essen > more freight could be carried /en by fitting jet-assisted take lits. Nonetheless, it has been nt that the real solution will Dnly when airstrips in the High er serving the Highlands are 'ed to the extent that DC3’s are ted to get off with bigger pay ing is the chief coastal air -3r servicing the Highlands and nger airstrip when it is in on, will be a step in the right m.

Airborne

1 Reps

esentatives of Tasman Empire r s Ltd., in Pacific Islands

centres took on another job in Nov ember—that of Trade Correspondents for New Zealand. (In this, of course, they took a page out of Qantas’ book; some Qantas overseas mana gers act as Australian trade repre sentatives.) The new TEAL/Trade Correspon dents are; Mr. John B. Wisdom, TEAL’S Pacific Islands manager, Suva, Fiji.

Mr. K. W. Gibson, TEAL repre sentative at Nadi international air port, Fiji.

Mr. Rex McLaughlin, TEAL rep resentative at Papeete, Tahiti.

It’s all part of New Zealand’s drive to sell more goods to the Pacific Islands and so help out her unsatis factory general balance-of-trade posi tion.

The new representatives will under take trade inquiries, provide centres for the issue of trade publicity and as inquiry points for general in formation about trade with NZ. NZ Trade Commisioner for the Pacific, Mr. K. W. Davies, whose head quarters are in Auckland, will still make regular visits to the Islands.

American Samoa—-" Future

Not So Black"

The land use in American Samoa compared with that in Western Samoa was the subject of a paper delivered at the 10th Pacific Science Congress held in Honolulu in September. It was presented by Associate Professor Bryan Farrell, of the Department of Geography, University of Alberta, Canada, who spent some time in both Samoas in 1960, and these are some of the points he made: Although the level of agricultural technology, as judged by an outsider, is low in both Samoas the potential of Western Samoa is considerably greater than that of American Samoa as the result of a much greater area and a terrain more suited to agri culture.

American Samoa has approxi mately a third of its area (16,500 acres) in crops. Western Samoa has 148,800 acres of agricultural land in crops—a ninth of its total area.

With a population density four times greater than Western Samoa (256 per sq. mile v. 64 per sq. mile), Ameri can Samoa has far less room for ex

UVA FIRTST. Following their elections in November, Suva City Council now has six [?] Fijian councillors for the first time, and also-another frist-a Fijin Deputy cr. Livai Volavola (right) was mominated by the retiring Deputy Mayor, G. D. Lawlor (left) and was returned unoposed. The Mayor, Mr. Charies Stinson, was returned. Photo: C. L. Cheng.

PACIFIC FLAVOUR. The important New Guinea centre of Rabaul has recently introduced a South Seas flavour into its street naming programme. New streets include Gilbert, Ellice, Samoa, Biak, and Nauru. However, the street naming department this time seems to be way ahead of the road building department, and poor Norfolk Street, above, is nothing but a junk-strewn paddock. Elsewhere in town Nauru Street points into a line of native quarters.

pansion than its better endowed neighbour.

The agriculture of American Samoa is dominantly subsistence and unlike Western Samoa, it does not have a tradition of commercial agriculture.

Only a few hundred acres are used for commercial farming.

Other than the production of a portion of the food requirements for local consumption American Samoa’s prime function up to 1951 was as a military base.

In order to sell its small quantity of agricultural products, American Samoa looks north for its limited markets. Western Samoa has a sub stantial market for bananas to the south, in New Zealand. As a non- British territory economically within

the dollar area, American Samoa would have difficulty in entering this market in competition, even though transport is available. On the other hand there would be little likelihood of arranging transport, and finding a market, for small quantities of perishable foodstuffs in North America, Over-all there are few incentives towards a more prosperous agri culture. Disincentives are formidable, There are no really large areas await ing the enterprising farmer. Outside sources of income, administrative policy and a general lack of enthusiasm for agriculture, as well as physical limitations, have been to the detriment of a thriving agriculture.

Today’s per capita yearly agricultural

export is $10; in Western Samoa* $86.00.

Some of the apathy stems from r assumption that American Samoa: an over-populated, resource-jj territory which will never be able! provide for itself. This picturei over-pessimistic.

An increasing proportion of ft is imported western food, and i common to bring in traditional fo’i stuffs from Western Samoa. Ll agricultural production, could, hi ever, theoretically be doubled I departmental supervision and by t using present agricultural land onn western third of Tutuila andb interior Tau. At the same time,] duction from present croplands cc be considerably increased by thee of fertiliser, leguminous cn: systematic rotation, an increa emphasis on livestock and so onn Although the potential is not g? land resources have not yet 1 exploited to their fullest pose extent.

It should be possible to incr production by providing gm incentives for the Samoan fair together with expert aoj sympathetically given by well-trs officers of the Department of a culture at the village site—nob Pago Pago. Encouragement o be given the agriculturist to j non-perishable, exportable comm© crops and to utilise the United S market into which Samoa has j entry.

It may be also necessary to vince the Administration that! outlook is not completely blacks that it might be more valuable stimulate and subsidise an agriem industry than to provide a subsii; jet airport.

Agriculture has a more fin based foundation than a tourise dustry, which it is hoped the aib will stimulate. A well-conca agricultural programme, as wea being of economic benefit, mae a morale booster, giving inspiratw an agriculturally aimless farm lation who still form the bulk co people. It may help, as well, to c the tide of migration and sugg©; some young men with initiatives there is something constructivea rewarding that can still be doic their own homeland.

At the end of his paper, Prole Farrell said that this year i beginnings of an organised replas programme have been commenca the agriculturally unused lano western Tutuila; and that a i appointed Director of Agricultural encouraging the production of 5 crops.

it To Do When

Bomb Drops

someone ever does push the I button in Russia, England will 15 minutes to do something in ition before the missile hits. But the disinterest in fallout rs amounts almost to national y. Across the Atlantic, however, there is maybe twice as long inch something retaliatory, the >t in shelters is rapidly develop to a national neurosis. The dis as now spread to Honolulu. Our pondent there writes: lumnists write about them, disc-jockeys talk about them, notion firms advertise that they u'ld them and the Letters-to-the columns debate them. There vo schools of thought—those eel that shelters are vital to il defence and should be built s Government and damn the nd those who calculate that if megaton bomb falls on this there won’t be any of Oahu lyway. at least one boat has been sed under the heading ‘Escape ’. The idea is that when the hits, you dash away in this eed, de-luxe motor cruiser. It’s o see where this leaves the ! owner—but presumably he’d sitting disconsolately on the clutching his radio-active while the gamma-laden dust ntly down on top of him.”

ill Games

Fire in Noumea

5 is some agitation in Noumea, aledonia, at present to have irated games banned. The :s are usually located in bars -ooms giving access to bars ir principal clients are child th European and native. Re free-for-all amongst a group gsters broke out in a subur over one of these games, es called pin-ball but known as “baby footballs”. (The take various forms but are iquently the manipulation of ball by levers in a miniature football.) French law, children are not m bars or to have any access ar—but it is a law more J m the breach in Noumea tors are often astonished at bers of youngsters who hang these places at all hours of or night. ame machines are also an at for local messenger boys who

Jrop in for half-an-hour or so while their bosses are probably back in their offices waiting for the answer to an important message.

Another RNZAF

Mercy Flight

In mid-November a RNZAF Sunderland flying-boat from Laucala Bay, Fiji, made a flight to Niue Island to pick up a seriously ill New Zealand nursing sister, Miss P. D.

Chapman.

The flight was made in strong head wind conditions and the landing at Niue had to be in the open sea.

Niue has no land airstrip; and unlike most other Pacific Islands, has no fringing reef and therefore no sheltered anchorage. This was only the fourth time an aircraft has ever landed at Niue; the other three occasions were also RNZAF flying boats picking up seriously ill persons.

NG Mountains Still

Give Up War Secrets

In early November, an Adminis tration patrol into the Owen Stanley Range, of Papua, found the wreck age of an American DC3 plane that had crashed there 19 years previously.

This revived memories of one of the stranger tragedies of the Pacific War —and particularly for District Officer David Marsh of Port Moresby, who had been closely connected with rescue operations at the time.

The crash of the plane and the fate of its score of occupants is recorded in US air force files but a

new twist to the drama was given by the discovery by the 1961 patrol of a door in the wrecked plane on which someone had written a crude diary covering the period from the day of the crash (November 10, 1942) until December 30, 1942.

The recent patrol was led by Cadet Patrol-Officer J. Absolom, who was accompanied by two Army officers of the US War Graves Commission who are experts in identifying human remains and have, in the course of duty, investigated scores of old plane wrecks.

The Flying Dutchman, as the crew named the DC3, was the second of two planes found on this patrol. The first, probably an American 825, was at the 7,790 ft level. The men cut their way another 1,200 ft up the range and found the DC3.

The diary on an interior door re corded the hour and date of the crash and that 17 were alive.

On November 11, the entry said only 16 were alive. Later there were entries stating that some of the sur vivors had left to try to get help, and recorded facts about food supplies and water. The last entry was on De cember 30. It said simply: “Johnny died today”. It did not record how many men were still living.

News of the crash finally got to the coast and the ouside world in mid-December, 1942, when two of the survivors reached Abau where Lieutenant David Marsh, of ANGAU, was in charge of the post.

What the two men had to tell him did not entirely add up, and he was, some weeks later, recalled to Port Moresby to give evidence at a US Army inquiry, but for the moment he was more concerned in organising a patrol to the scene of the wreck.

Along the way he joined forces with another ANGAU officer and an American and their patrols, also look ing for the wrecked plane, and they headed for Mt. Obree, a peak of over 10,000 ft in the Owen Stanley Range.

For days they searched valley and moss-grown mountain sides and twice during this time, it was subsequently proved, they must have been within hailing distance of the plane wreck at a time when there were still sur vivors.

On January 3, 1943, with their food supplies exhausted, they had to withdraw. Marsh went to Safia, where there was an airstrip and a food dump, and from here he immediately sent back a patrol of natives to con tinue the search. This patrol, some days later, found the wreck and one survivor, a padre, who died soon afterwards. The padre had kept a diary in the pages of his Bible and

"MONTEREY" PASSENGERS. Among the[?]

sengers to Sydney from the US in the MM[?] liner "Monterey" on November 23 were top) Mr. and Mrs. Paul Aird; Mr. M[?] Chase, and Captain Fred Lawton Mr. Ai[?] writing a series of articles on the South [?] fic for the "Detroit News . Mr. Chase i[?] newly-appointed US Information Office[?] Sydney, replacing Mr. Richard Joyce whe[?] been appointed US Press Attache in Dials[?] For a report on Captain Lawton see Shipp[?] p. 107.

vas iater handed over to the US rilies. e writing on the door of the was, at that time, either over d by the native patrol or the

writing was not understood by them.

The bodies of the victims were, at a later time, taken out to Rigo by natives but records show that four other men, of the 17 who survived the crash, had left the wreck about November 16, 1942, and after wandering in Japanese-held territory were eventually picked up by natives and taken to safety.

New Caledonia Has

Dam But No Timber

When New Caledonia finally got its new Yate Dam filled last year there was rejoicing—except from a

local timber milling company, Bois Sud. The company had been cutting timber in the area for about 18 years and had built a network of roads and bridges which, when the dam filled, were found suddenly under the water.

As a result of curtailed milling operations, New Caledonia is short of timber and has to import it. What is more, the milling company has not received any compensation for dam ages and there has been considerable local discussion on this point, both in local newspapers and in the Assembly Territorial. It seems that someone miscalculated in the amount of land

LANDS INTEREST. Under an archway of [?] held by the bridegroom's fellow officers, [?]ut. John Whitehead and his bride—the [?] Adrienne Candy—leave St. John's [?] Toorak, Melbourne. Flt.-Lieut. White [?] is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. [?]head, of Lae. His sister, Anne (at rear) [?] bridesmaid. The bride is the daughter [?] Vice Marshal and Mrs. Douglas Candy, [?]e lower picture Police Inspector Bill [?]son and his bride, the former Miss Shirley [?]nk, cut the cake after their marriage at Rabaul Memorial Church. Inspector son comes from Scotland and his bride from Surrey, England.

the dam was going to cover—but while the argument goes on, the mill remains idle.

Two Killed in

P-NG Air Crash

Captain Marenus Zuydam, one of P-NG’s best-known and experienced pilots, was killed with his co-pilot in the crash of a TAA Otter in the NG Highlands on December 2.

Captain Zuydam, 41, and First Officer Brian Badger, 26, were the only two aboard the Otter when it

crashed on a ridge south-west of Mt.

Hagen. First Officer Badger was piloting. Earlier the aircraft had sent out a distress signal.

Captain Zuydam, a Dutchman, had been flying in P-NG for various com panies for about 14 years. He was married and lived in Lae. First Officer Badger about two months pre viously had crash-landed an Otter fitted with floats in the sea near Samarai after an engine failure.

He was praised for his handling of the aircraft on that occasion, when his coolness probably saved the passengers from injury.

Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Russell

leave The Cooks

Two Australians who in the nine years have taken a great inter© in the community life at Rarotong Cook Islands, called it quits ar departed permanently on the Octobd Moana Roa. They are Mr. and Mi Gordon F. Russell and they will I missed in this Islands town whes their collective interests have rang« all the way from golf to painting.!.

Mr. Russell’s official job m Aerodrome Superintendent and O. ( Meteorological Service, but he tocr an active part in golfing, the propose library and museum and vfr well known for his contributions! overseas and local magazines. H was Editor of the Cook Islam Review from its inception in 19!* until 1956.

Mr. Russell started his life as i ship’s officer and for a while durili the Pacific War period was in FI engaged in the experimental extra tion of oil from sharks’ livers (whid is supposed to have some speck vitamin content).

Mrs. Russell has taught ballet I Rarotonga and took a keen inters:

in golf and painting.

On the same ship that took t) Russells away with their family, the arrived Mr. and Mrs. J. F. BeaW and their two children. Mr. Beatl will succeed Gordon Russell Aerodrome Superintendent and Ml officer. He is a trained meteorologioi observer (tropical service in tt Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony an ex Air Force officer and a eras rifle shot, (The latter qualification observes the Cook Is. daily new sheet, may be of interest to pc owning residents in the airstrip area;

ASOPA Awards For

P NG Officials

Awards and Certificates gained the Papua and New Guinea studen at the Australian School of Pack Administration (and presented inr public ceremony on December 7) a as follow:

PATROL OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATES!

(Credits are shown in brackets) Peter James Barber (history); Grahd Clyde Black; David Cyril Brethertd Stephen Harold Cooper; lan MacMc Douglas: Robert John Fayle; John Edwsv Fowke; Peter Aucherlone Hardie (hist©; anthropology); Kent William Humphn. (anthropology, geography, law, historn Stewart Phillip Kahler (history); 1 McLachlan; Robert William McLenrti f Government, history, anthropology Terence Mitchell (history, law); WilbJJ Henricus Muskens (history); Harold Jam Redmond (history); David Ronald Schuju Noel Henry Walters (history, anthd pology); Neal Currie Watt; John AltefJ

re (history); David Gerald Worland 7).

L PRIZES FOR PATROL OFFICERS

. Robson prize for law —Mr. K. W. reys.

W. Robson prize for general ncy—Mr. K. W. Humphreys.

Book Company prize for highest te marks for law assignments— Mitchell.

DET EDUCATION OFFICERS’

CERTIFICATES

3th Rawson Ball; Peter Alexander ; Paul Andrew Silas Brigg; Charles Cameron; Terrence William in; Peter John Cox; Kenneth John i; Willem Rebels; Michael Hill; Arthur Howard; Roger Stevenson Simon Sen Beng Hui; Miss Jones: Vilnis Kapcejevs; Brian ! Kille; Rover Leong; Miss Dorothy Livingstone; Graham Douglas ay; Christopher Geoffrey Moloney; Charles Newall; Eric David r, Graham Frank Patterson; Noel Rentoule; Anthony Peter Repin; illeen Lucille Riley; Ralph Kingsley Hendrikus Antonius Maria ma; Kevin John Smith; Yanlne alasi Sparks: William Edmond g; Paul Suret; Robert John James s; Margaret Anne Walters.

AURUAN CADET TEACHER

CERTIFICATE

mce Stephen.

ECIAL PRIZES FOR CADET

EDUCATION OFFICERS

d University Press prize for general icy—Mr. A. P. Repin, la Wedgwood prize for native in—Mr. R. S. Hunter, aans Green prize for general icy—Mr. R. J. Andrews.

Surprise,

p. 117

Surprise!

Nippon Television Net- Corporation sent a tele team to Honiara, BSIP, this year and the film “Guadalcanal Today” was to viewers in Tokyo in •pt ember. said to have caused a sen and the station received letters and telegrams from se servicemen who had on Guadalcanal during ir. They were, it was said, sed to see how the people iving peacefully”. be they expected to see it eld by marines living in les around the perimeter iderson Field?

Deaths Of Islands People

p. 139

Mr. Henley McKegg

death occurred in Rarotonga, Islands, on October 10 of Mr. r McKegg, a member of a well known in the Cook ;. He was only 39. ier this year he went to live w Zealand and was back in mga on a visit to a plantation ty. He had lunched with on the day of his death and while driving home, collapsed car. was the elder son of the late McKegg; won the DFC as a Lieutenant in Europe during r, took an active interest in the business after his return to nga and was a member of the itive Council until 1957. s survived by his wife, a young s mother, and his brother, Neil.

Mr. H. G. Hari death occurred at the Colonial /lemorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, vember 15 of Mr. Hiralal G. veil-known Indian businessman , and a director of G. B. Hari >. Ltd. vas born in India in 1926 and 11 a school-boy when he arrived i in 1939. When he had 1 his education at the Marist rs’ School, he entered his ; business. is survived by his wife, five ers and a son.

Mr. Bedford Kesteven accidental death of Mr. Bed esteven, of Buca Bay, Vanua on November 13, came as a shock to his large circle of Kesteven was apparently at ig to repair a line running to iting generator, gripped a live id was electrocuted, some time past he has looked he interests of three Fijian near his plantation, tutoring long the lines of what he called ate method” of growing copra, s also the originator of the Irier. left a wife, Joy, and two i.

'apt. Marenus Zuydam

e was a big funeral in Lae, n December 4 for Captain is Zuydam, 41, killed with his :, Brian Badger, in an air tear Mt. Hagen on December 'st Officer Badger was buried ney. Captain Zuydam had

logged about 15,000 hours. He and his wife Mary, whom he met in the Territory, at one period worked a plantation at Banz, but he later went back to flying. See p, 134.

First Officer Ben Costello Another air crash, that of a Vis count in Sydney, claimed the life of a NG man—First Officer Ben Costello, 24—on November 30. Ben

Costello was the son of Mrs. Mildred Costello, owner of Gire Gire planta tion, New Britain, and now living in Australia. He was born in Rabaul, and left there with his mother at the outbreak of war. He was unmarried.

Mr. Leonard William Logan Mr. Len Logan, for the last 12 months managing editor of the New Guinea Times Courier, Lae, died in hospital in Sydney on December I, aged 43. He had gone to Lae from Katoomba, NSW. He left a wife and three children.

Travel Talk

pp. 140-141

ALK

The "Pacific Islands Monthly" is a member of the Australian National Travel Association (ANTA) and the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA), which are pledged to promote tourist travel in their areas.

Afloat in Fiji FIJI’S hotels are adequate for the current tourist traffic; there is no trouble or mystery about getting there by plane or ship; which leaves only the problem of what to do when you arrive.

In Fiji there is plenty to do, but as with most other places, it is a good idea to know what you want before hand. The travel departments of the airline or shipping service on which you travel can take it from there; or you can consult local travel agencies such as Fiji Tours and Travel Service, McGowans Building, cm Victoria Parade and All Nations Street; or Hunts Travel Service, which operates from an office in the Bank of New Zealand Building, Victoria Parade, Suva, but which also has branches at Nadi Airport and Lautoka. These agencies will, if you wish it, arrange visits to Fijian villages, boat trips, cars with or without drivers, scenic tours, etc.

The Fiji Visitors’ Bureau, a body charged with the promotion of tourism in the Colony, will also gladly give advice on sightseeing and travel within the group. The Bureau has its main office in Suva and a branch at Nadi Airport.

This month we have space to dis cuss only one aspect of visiting Fiji —seeing it from a small ship.

As the Fiji group consists of about 500 islands, ranging in size from large rocks to the 4,000 sq. mile Viti Levu, ships play a big part in com munications within the group, and for the tourist who has the time for it, this is an excellent way of seeing the unspoilt Pacific.

The Blue Lagoon Cruises from Lautoka (Fiji’s second largest town, less than 20 miles from the inter national airport at Nadi), to the Yasawa Islands, a chain of islands off the NW Viti Levu coast, are arranged especially for tourists. The 56-ft. motor cruiser carries 10 passengers in comfort and the four days cruise of the whole Yasawa group, with

visits to Fijian villages and time out for fishing and swimming costs £F4O (approx. $100), per person, every thing included. When sufficient in ducement offers, shorter week-end cruises are also made at an all inclusive cost of £F2O per person. (These cruises are operated by Capt.

Trevor Withers, PO Box 5, Lautoka, Fiji.) In Suva, tourist and other charter work is undertaken by the Maroro Cruise and Charter Cos., which has the 89-ft. auxiliary vessel, Maroro available. She can carry 15 passen gers, the man in charge is Capt. S.

B. Brown and the address is PO Box 169, Suva. Charter rates are on ap plication and ideas for cruises will be suggested by the company, if you wish.

Also based on Suva is the 35-ft.

THE

PACIFIC

motor vessel Sere-Ni-Wai which is available for charter but which runs also a scheduled three-day trip to Levuka on the island of Ovalau. This is a combined sea and land operation —first day en route to Levuka, next two nights ashore, explore island and town on second day; third day return to Suva. There is plenty of oppor tunity for swimming, fishing and look ing at reefs. Inclusive cost £F24 (approx. S6O) per person.

Half day cruises of Suva Harbour and local reefs are operated by Mr. and Mrs. Vince Storck in a 32-ft. passenger launch. Opportunity is given for examining the reef through the glass bottom of the boat and for swimming. Morning tea is served on the boat. The same couple operate a combined car and river launch trip from Suva to Wainibokasi which in cludes a visit to a Fijian village, lunch on an island and swimming if you want it.

Another river trip is the Beachcomber Hotel, Deuba. TT is up the Navua River and is a 1 more rugged, being undertaken inr sort of flat bottomed punt powered!’1 an outboard motor and when there} a fresh in the river it can even 1 exciting. There are a few, noj dangerous rapids, mountain scenes river gorges and waterfalls, 'll hotel sends a Fijian guide with yi and a picnic lunch which is serv during a rest stop at a Fijian villas Trip takes the best part of a day & costs about £F4 or $lO per he (minimum of four people). Arranjc ments have to be made some days? advance.

The big trading companies of I —Morris Hedstrom Ltd., W. R. Cl penter (Fiji) Ltd., and Burns Phi (SS) Co.—operate small vessels ini Fiji Group carrying stores to outlyi\ islands and plantations and returnit with copra. Some of them carrs few passengers and some of the plae visited—particularly in the Lau I lands—are very beautiful, indes They make regular calls at ports?

Vanua Levu (Fiji’s other big islantr at Taveuni, the “garden” island the group; Rabi, the Fijian Isis' that was bought by the Ocean I landers (Polynesians) after the v and is now settled entirely by the people. Some of the ships go alsoc far as Rotuma, about 240 miles noo of the main group, but administer as part of Fiji although its peoji too, are Polynesians.

But this sort of travel, by sirr inter-island ship, is for harden travellers whose stomachs beha well under every circumstance and not for the general run of touristsa More Hotels for

Papeete

TAHITI is steadily doing somethd to whittle down the discrepau between demand for and availabii of hotel rooms. In the last com of months, two new hotels hr opened near Papeete, both of thd of the popular bungalow type. Ta£ Village, about nine miles from town centre, in the Panaauia distn; has completed about two-thirds ofi planned 40 bungalows.

The Matavai Hotel has opened! of various sizes rang from complete self-contained hotr to single rooms. There is a swimmn pool and restaurant and rates be at approx. £A3/3/- (or £Stg.2/7/-' $7), room only.

From the north, Papeete is sen by South Pacific Airlines Ltd., i Transports Aeriens Intercontinteis (TAI); and from the south by T and Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. .1

ABROAD

j's Easy if

i Careful I is the time of the year when ips abroad are being planned is most antipodeans visiting id make at least one or two to the Continent, some early it should be given to this as tempo in European holiday has stepped up to such a that if you have not been there couple of years, it is wise to your thinking. has come about by the fact le UK has greatly liberalised lount of currency residents can abroad; and at the same time, social conditions on the Con itself have given most people holidays. Therefore, unless to it, avoid all Continental between mid-July and end of ; because at this time, not vill you have to pay “high ’ rates, but you will have to te with hundreds of thousands rical and industrial workers ill over Europe who are wedg sir two weeks annual holiday is period. i result of the boom in Con -1 travel in England, there has up there a great many fly-by ravel agencies and charter air ampanies that are trying to : on a shoe-string, and these lould be avoided, even if they r tours at a pound or two less le established firms, ng the 1961 Northern summer, 'ontinent was littered with d tourists whose chartered air impany had gone broke while ere actually taking their “two annual”; or who had been m by travel agencies who had ed the world and delivered ;. The people caught were ; for bargains and had id for their holiday down to it penny, and were the very who couldn’t afford any sort l-up in their plans, inental travel is easy these ven if you go under your own with your own car air or sea across the Channel, and ing where you will. Even the ?e difficulty is small, if you are the type who likes planned down to the last taxi,

are working to a strict budget or are venturing abroad for the first time, there are thousands of planned tours available from the big tourist agencies, travelling by sea, train, road or air or a combination of two or more of them.

Here are a few of the holidays and tours that are available: Fifteen days holiday to Capri from £Stg.s2; 15 days on the Sorrento- Amalfi coast of Italy for approxi mately £Stg.ss. Two weeks in Majorca in Spain’s Baleaeric Islands for as little as £Stg.3l; eight days on one of the Swiss lakes for £Stg.24/10/-; five days to Paris, £Stg.l7/17/-; eight days to Cannes or Nice or other French Riviera re

sorts from £Stg.26; eight days Vienna from £Stg.3s.

The “from” in all these cases means: sea ferry across the Channel, second class travel on the Continent and a shared room in a modest hotel or pension. If you are interested in the “to”—we’ll quote just one example: Nice. The minimum £Stg.26, quoted above, rises to £Stg.s3/5/- for one week if you travel by air and stay at a three or four star hotel; a single room will cost about 6/- Stg. extra per day and a room with a bath about 10/- per night extra. (Almost all rooms in a 4-star hotel will have a bath or shower, anyway.) Cost of bus tour holidays varies according to the hotel accommodation you require and whether you wish to travel to the point where you pick up the bus by surface or air trans port. The prices for the tours quoted here are the minimum prices: A 15 days’ tour of Spain and Portu gal from London—about 12 of them have some bus travel —from £Stg.66; 15 days covering the French and Italian Rivieras and the Swiss lakes, from £Stg.6o; a 15 days’ tour of France, Switzerland and Italy but with a week of the time at Lake Como, Italy, £Stg.s9/10/-.

An 18 days’ tour of Norway, Sweden and Denmark costs £Stg.l 15/10/-; and if you want to go the whole hog, there is a Grand Tour for a little under £Stg.2oo.

This takes 30 days wandering through France, Belgium, along the River Rhine in Germany, through the Bavarian Alps and Austria, Switzer land and down into Italy and the French Riviera.

"00-La-La" is one of the cruise launches available to tourist in Fiji. Here she dashes across Suva Harbour, but she is more frequently used for river trips.

Shpping Time-Tables

pp. 143-146

dney-Papua-N. Guinea

tilings are approximate and may ry by as much as two weeks. :ula sails from Sydney for e, Townsville, Port Moresby, Wewak, Alexishafen, Madang, rdney. Last Sydney sailing: Dec. t Sydney sailing; Feb. 6 (approx.), ta sails from Sydney, Bris- Cairns, Port Moresby, Samarai, Lombrum, Lorengau, Madang, Lae, i, Brisbane, Sydney. Last Sydney Dec. 6. Next Sydney sailing; i (approx.). 3 sails about every six weeks; Brisbane, Nth. Qld. ports, Port r, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Rabaul, i, Pt. Moresby. Last Sydney sail -13. Next Sydney sailing: Jan. jrox.). jro sails from Melbourne for Brisbane, Nth. Qld. ports, Port t, Samarai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby. Next sailing: Jan. 23 (approx.).

Is from Burns, Philp and Co.. Ltd., je Street, Sydney (B 0547). mg; Leaves Sydney for Brisbane, oresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Madang, irt Moresby, Sydney. Last Sydney Dec. 12 (Samarai omitted). Next sailing: Jan. 23 (approx.), li: Leaves Melbourne about every eks for Sydney, Brisbane, Port r, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney.

Sydney sailing: Nov. 14. Next sailings: Dec. 26, Feb. 6 (approx.), ow; Leaves Melbourne for Sydney, e, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, Madang, . Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney : Jan. 5, Feb. 13 (approx.), s from New Guinea Australia Line and Yuill Pty.. Ltd., agents). 6 St., Sydney (BU1712). >eth Boye; Leaves Sydney ap itely every five weeks for Port \ Rabaul, Madang, Lae. Next sailing: Jan. 12 (approx.).

Leaves Sydney monthly for resby, Lae and Rabaul (calling [owe Is. en route, occasionally), 'dney sailing: Jan. 12 (approx.), s from Karlander NG Line (F. hens Pty., Ltd., agents), 13 Bridge iney. (BU8311). sia Lines vessels run between an ports (turn round at Adelaide) pua-New Guinea, with every third extending to Borneo. 3i: Dep. Sydney Dec. 28, Brisbane Pt. Moresby Jan. 6, Rabaul Jan. 3ang Jan. 15, Lae Jan. 17, then to Australian ports (Sydney arr. ). :ca: Due Sydney, from NG, Dec. ice southern Australian ports. Dep.

Jan. 20 for Brisbane Jan. 22-23, resby Jan. 28, Rabaul Feb. 2, Lae Madang Feb. 8, thence Borneo and t ports. s from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty.. -19 Bridge St., Sydney. (BU 1271).

Sydney-NG-Far East

alia-West Pacific Line’s motor maintain services between Aus md Japan via Islands ports, tbound vessels call at: Hongkong,

Manila, Sandakan, NG, BSI (quarterly), New Hebrides (irregularly), and Australian ports. Northbound vessels from Sydney call regularly at NG ports, Manila and Hongkong.

Aros: From Sydney, at Lae Dec. 23-26, Madang Dec. 27-28, Rabaul Dec. 29-31, Manila Jan. 7-8, Hongkong Jan. 10-11, thence Japanese ports. Dep. Japan (Kobe), southwards, Feb. 3 direct to Sydney, arr. Feb. 15.

Milos: From Japan, at Hongkong Dec. 24-25, Nth. Borneo ports Dec. 28-31, Rabaul Jan. 6-7, Lae Jan. 8-10, Brisbane Jan. 14-16, Sydney Jan. 18.

Delos: Dep. Sydney Dec. 28, Brisbane Dec. 30-Jan. 3, for Japanese ports. Dep.

Japan (Moji), southwards, Jan. 21, for Hongkong Jan. 25-26, Borneo ports Jan. 29-Feb. 4, Rabaul Feb. 10-11, Lae Feb. 12-14, Brisbane Feb. 18-20, Sydney Feb. 22.

Samos: Dep. Sydney Jan. 15, Brisbane Jan. 17-18, Lae Jan. 22-23, Madang Jan. 24, Rabaul Jan. 25-26, Manila Feb 1-2, Hongkong Feb. 4-5, thence Japanese ports.

Dep. Japan (Kobe), southwards, Mar. 3 direct to Sydney.

Details from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney. (BU 6301) r> t ..

Sydney-Netherlands NG

Four weeks service by Dutch motor vessels carrying passengers and cargo from East Australian ports to Hollandia, S®™ l1 * (every two months). **NG; thence Manila, Hongkong and China thence West Africa and return to Aus tralia. Next Sydney sailings; Schouten Dec - 23 - Tjitarum Feb. 1 (approx.).

Details from Royal Interocean Lines. 255 George St., Sydney. (8U6771). (Over)

Austraiia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA

USATahiti-Cook Is.-NZ-Sydney-Fiji-Samoa-Hawaii

Sydney-Tahiti-Europe

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail’s Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Oranje sail regularly from Sydney for Europe, via NZ, Suva (irregularly), Papeete and Panama Canal; occasionally calls are made at Papeete on southbound trips.

Next outwards voyage: Oranje dep.

Sydney Jan. 10 (at Papeete Jan. 17-18).

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George St., Sydney. (BU 6771).

Sitmar Line (Italian) vessels sail from Sydney for Europe, via NZ and Panama at irregular intervals with several east bound calls yearly at Tahiti.

Next outwards Sydney sailing: Falrsky Dec. 26 (Papeete Jan. 5-6).

Details from Navcot Aust. Pty., Ltd.. 58 Margaret St., Sydney. (8U3464).

New Zealand-Tahiti

New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels, operating between NZ and UK, via Panama, make a two-monthly call at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Next northbound voyage: Rangitiki, ex- Wellington, due Papeete Jan. 9 (approx.).

Next southbound voyage: Rangitane, ex- London, due Papeete Jan. 10 (approx.).

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington. NZ.

Regular two-monthly calls at Papeete and occasionally at Suva are made by Tasman Pacific Services (a West German shipping company) with its vessels Cap Corientes and Cap Domingo, running between NZ ports (including Napier) and the west coast of Nth. America.

Tonga-Fiji Shipping Service

The Tonga Shipping Agency operates a regular cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka) with MV Aoniu (500 tons).

Calls are made as required at Haapai, Vavau, Niuatoputapu and Niuafoou; also occasionally at Apia, Western Samoa.

Turn-round in Suva is usually two days, and the Agents there are W. R. Carpenter (Fiji) Ltd.

Next voyage: Dep. Suva Dec. 20, Vavau Dec. 22, Nukualofa Dec. 23.

Netherlands NG ■ P-NG

MV Karossa (Dutch KPM Line) operates from Singapore about every three months to Portuguese Timor, Netherlands New Guinea ports (Sorong, Manokwari, Biak, Seroei, Sarmi, Hollandia, Fak-Fak, Kaimana, Kokonao, Merauke), and Port Moresby in Papua-New Guinea; return by same route.

MV’s Kaloekoe and Kasimbar, three monthly service on route as above —but omitting call at Port Moresby.

MV Sungei Bila operates from Manokwari to Geelvink Bay ports; and occasionally from Hollandia to Wewak, Madang, Lae and Rabaul, in P-NG.

UK-Papua-NG-BSI

Bank Line operates a direct service from Europe to P-NG and BSI, vessels going on to Australia for cargo-loading and returning to UK via Suez. Next vessels; Weirbank; From Continent and UK, due Port Moresby Jan. 12, Samarai Jan. 13, Lae Jan. 15. Madang Jan. 17, Wewak Jan. 19, Rabaul Jan. 22, Kavieng (opt.), Honiara Jan. 26.

Streambank; From Continent, dep.

London Jan. 11. due Pt. Moresby Feb. 15, Samarai Feb. 17. Lae Feb. 19. Madang Feb. 21, Wewak Feb. 23, Rabaul Feb. 23, Kavieng (opt.), Honiara Feb. 28.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty.

Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney. (BU 2041).

Europe-Tahiti-Noumea-BSI-

P-NG - Netherlands NG

A regular service from the Continent and UK, via Panama, to New Caledonia, BSI, P-NG and Netherlands NG is operated jointly by Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

Schie Lloyd (RL): From Continent, dep.

London Dec. 19. due Noumea Jan. 20, Honiara Jan. 24, Pt. Moresby Jan. 27, Rabaul Jan. 30. Lae Feb. 2. Madang Feb. 4, Hollandia Feb. 7, Biak Feb. 13, Manokwari Feb. 16, Sorong Feb. 19, thence Europe, via Borneo, Far East and Suez.

The call at Papeete (Tahiti), formerly made by vessels of this service will be omitted in future, due to rearrangement of services: Papeete now will be a scheduled port on the Europe-Panama-

USA-NZ service. Next calls: Batjan (H Jan. 15, Seine Lloyd Feb. 14 (approx.).^ Details from Royal Interocean Liri 255 George St.. Sydney. (8U6771). I

NZ-Papua-N. Guinea

Cargo vessels of Crusader Shipping (UK), running between New Zeali. and Japan, call at Pt. Moresby (PaR and Lae and Rabaul (New Guinea)X their northbound run.

Next vessel: Amalric dep. Auckland I 13, due Pt. Moresby Jan. 19, Lae Jan.,; Rabaul Jan. 22, thence Japanese port' Details from Shaw, Savill Line, age? 101 Queen St., Auckland. (Tel. 30-3 K

Far East-Sth. West. & Cent

Pacific

China Navigation Co., Ltd., ves^ maintain monthly service from Ja southwards through P-NG, BSI. , Hebrides, Fiji and N. Caledonia; usu return to Japan direct.

Chengtu: From Japan and Hongtol due Madang Jan. 3, Lae Jan. 6, Rat Jan. 9, Samarai Jan. 11, Pt. Mon Jan. 17, Santo Jan. 21, Vila Jan. 23, StE Lautoka Jan. 26, Noumea Feb. 2, the Japan direct, arr. Feb. 18 (approx.)l Chungking: Prom Japan, dep. Hongl; Jan. 4, Madang Jan. 16, Lae Jan„ Kavieng Jan. 22, Rabaul Jan. 24, , Moresby Feb. 3, Honiara Feb. 6, Sc Lautoka Feb. 10, Apia Feb. 15, Now Feb 24, thence direct to Japan, I Mar. 9.

Chekiang: Dep. Japan Jan. 16, H kong Jan. 27, Wewak Feb. 12, Mau Feb. 15, Lae Feb. 18, Rabaul Febj Pt. Moresby Mar. 3, Honiara Malt Suva/Lautoka Mar. 10, Noumea Man thence direct to Japan.

Details from China Navigation Co.,i (Swire and Yuill Pty.. Ltd., agents Bridge St., Sydney. (BU1712).

Sydney-New Hebrides-BS

Bougainville, Etc.

MV Tulagi makes a round trip Nod Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara and BSI n Bougainville ports, leaving Sydney s once every six weeks. Next Sydney ings: Dec. 23, Feb. 6 (approx.).

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. 7 Bridge Street, Sydney. (B 0547). f

Sydney-New Caledonia-

New Hebrides-Tahiti

Vessels of Messageries Maritimes from Marseilles, via West Indies Panama, call about every six weeka Papeete. Vila, Noumea and Sydney, . return by same route.

Next inwards voyages, ex-Marseilles Tahitien: Papeete Dec. 29-Jan. 2, , Jan 9-10, Noumea Jan. 11-15, Sydneys 18.

Melanesien; Papeete Feb. 22-26, Mar. 7-8. Noumea Mar. 9-13, Sydney ■ 16.

Next outwards voyage, ex-Sydney:h Tahitien: Dep. Sydney Jan. 20, Non Jan. 23-26, Vila Jan. 27-Feb. 4, Pae Feb, 10-15.

Polynesie maintains monthly passig sailings between Sydney, Noumea, and Santo. Next Sydney sailings: • 19, Feb. 9.

Details from Messageries Maritlmea Grosvenor St., Sydney. (8U2654).4|

ORCADES

CANBERRA

IBERIA

OR1ANA

SYDNEY

depart Jan. 3 Jan. 29 Feb. 17 Mar. 4

AUCKLAND

arr/dep

Jan. 6 Feb. 1 Feb. 20 Mar. 7

SUVA

arr/dep Jan. 9 — Feb. 23 Mar 10

HONOLULU

arr/dep Jan. 14 Feb. 7 Feb. 28 Mar. 14

VANCOUVER

arr/dep Jan. 19-20 Feb. 11-12 Mar. 5-6 Mar. 18-19

SAN FRANCISCO

arr/dep Jan. 22-23 Feb. 14-15 Mar. 8-9 Mar. 21-22

LOS ANGELES

arr/dep Jan. 24 Feb. 16 Mar. 10 Mar. 23

HONOLULU

arr/dep Jan. 29 Feb. 20-21 Mar. 15 Mar. 27

SUVA

arr/dep Feb. 5 — thence Apr. 2

AUCKLAND

arr/dep Feb. 8 Feb. 28 to Far Apr 5

SYDNEY

arrive Feb. 11 Mar. 2 East Apr. 7 Details from P. and O.-Orlent Lines of Aust. Pty., Ltd., 2-6 Spring St., Sydney. (B0532).

MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

SAN FRANCISCO

depart Dec. 18 Jan. 7 Jan. 31 Feb. 21

LOS ANGELES

arr/dep Dec. 19 Jan. 8 Feb. 1 Feb. 22

PAPEETE

arr/dep Dec. 27-29 Jan. 16-18 Feb. 9-11 Mar. 2-4

RAROTONGA

arr/dep Dec. 30 Jan. 19 Feb. 12 Mar. 5

AUCKLAND

arr/dep Jan. 4 Jan. 24-25 Feb. 17 Mar. 10

SYDNEY

arr/dep Jan. 7-10 Jan. 28-31 Feb. 20-23 Mar. 13-16

AUCKLAND

arr/dep Jan. 13 Feb. 3 Feb. 26-27 Mar. 19-20

SUVA

arr/dep Jan. 16 Feb. 6 Mar. 2 Mar. 23

PAGO PAGO

arr/dep Jan. 17 Feb. 7 Mar. 3 Mar. 24

HONOLULU

arr/dep Jan. 22-23 Feb. 12-13 Mar. 8-9 Mar. 29-30

SAN FRANCISCO

arrive Jan. 28 Feb. 18 Mar. 14 Apr. 4 Details from Matson Lines, Berger House. 82 Elizabeth St., Sydney. (BU 4272).

NZ-Noumea-Vila

Is of Crusader Shipping Co. (UK; 11 at Noumea and Vila (as required) ir way from NZ to the Far East, essel: Saracen dep. Auckland Jan. umea Jan. 15, Vila Jan. 16.

urope-Sydney-Noumea

> vessels of Messageries Mari run monthly between France and i via Fr. East Africa and Australian From Sydney, vessels go to ie and Noumea; return to Prance stralian coastal ports, sailings from Sydney for Noumea Jan. 12, Vivarais Feb. 9. ■ MM vessels run between France ydney, via Panama Canal and ports. Next vessel: very: Papeete Jan. 23, Noumea Feb. ley Feb. 12, Vila Feb. 18, Noumea ), returning to Dunkirk via Aus ports.

Is from Messageries Maritimes, 36 lor St., Sydney. (8U2654).

NZ-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa

i maintains a service from Auck ) Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, ’ago, Apia, Suva and return to id. Next Auckland sailings: Jan 6. a maintains a service from id to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, uva, Lyttelton, Wellington and re- Auckland. Next Auckland sailings: , Feb. 22.

Is from Union Steam Ship Co.

Quay and Commerce Sts., Auck <Tel. 49-430).

lydney-Paciflc Porfs-

Panama-UK

Savill’s liner Southern Cross makes mnd-the-world voyages per year, sst-bound, then two east-bound, at Fiji and Tahiti every trip, at voyage: From UK via Panama, ipeete Dec. 29-30, Suva Jan. 4, Jan. 13-15, thence via Sth. Africa hampton, arr. Feb. 19.

Is from Shaw Savill Line, 8a iagh St., Sydney. (BW 1828).

ew Zealand-Cook Is.

Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes mately monthly voyages from id (NZ) to Rarotonga (Cook with calls at Niue and some bok Islands when cargo warrants Is from NZ Department of Island ies, Wellington (Tel. 45-117), or ce of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

America-Tahiti-Central

Pacific-NG

: Islands Transport Line’s vessels e and Thor I maintain approxi six weeks service from West Coast merican ports to Pacific Islands, isle: Dep. San Francisco Jan. 3, jeles Jan. 4-6, Papeete Jan. 17-20, ago Jan. 23-25, Apia Jan. 26-27, an. 30-31, Noumea Feb. 2-5, Apia Pago Pago Feb. 17-20, Los Mar. 6-7, San Francisco Mar. 8.

I: Dep. San Francisco Jan. 26, Los Jan. 27-30, Papeete 9-12, Pago 'eb. 15-17, Apia Feb. 18-20, Suva ■24, Noumea Feb. 26-Mar 1, Rabaul -8, Apia (open), Pago Pago Mar Los Angeles Mar 28-30, San ;o Mar. 31. s from General Steamships Cor i Ltd., 432 California St., San :o, USA. and Islands Agents.

US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji-

Australia

Matson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco operates a regular five-weeks passenger cargo service from Los Angeles with the Sonoma, Sierra and Ventura. Terminal ports, in Australia, vary with cargoes offering. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago Pago, Suva, Sydney, Brisbane, etc.

Next trans-Pacific sailings from Bris bane: Sierra Dec. 31, Ventura Jan. 30 (approx.).

Details from Matson Lines, 82 Elizabeth St., Sydney. (8U4272).

American Pioneer Line has seven ships (Pioneer Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef, Surf, Star Tide) on US Atlantic Coast-Panama- Sydney service with periodical calls at Tahiti on southbound voyage. Next Papeete

calls: Pioneer Reef Jan. 1, Pioneer Star Feb. 4.

Details from Wilh Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney. (BU 6301).

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 with calls at Suva, Lautoka and Honolulu. Next Sydney sailing: Jan. 25 (approx.).

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St., Sydney. (8U4147).

Sydney-Fiji

MV Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney approximately every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka with cargo and passengers

(accommodation for eight). Last Sydney sailing: Dec. 18. Next Sydney sailing: Jan. 10.

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd., 9 Bent St., Sydney. (B 0151).

Sydney-(or NZ)-North

America

Cargo vessels Waihemo and Waltomo 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.

Next Sydney sailings for USA, via Islands ports; Waitomo Dec. 22, Waiana Jan. 25 (approx.).

The Waitemata. from NZ ports, makes 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver (via Raro tonga and Papeete).

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd.. 247 George St., Sydney. (2-05281.

UK-Panama-Samoa-Fiji

The Fiji Direct Service is maintained by Conference vessels, sailing at regular monthly intervals out of London, via Panama, for Apia, Suva and Lautoka.

Bethell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as Load ing Brokers in London.

Next sailing dates from London (subject to alteration): Dec. 28, Feb. 1.

Far East-Fiji-NZ-Sydney

Royal Interocean Lines operate a service from Singapore to Fiji, NZ, and Aus tralia, with three vessels (Van Cloon, Van Noort and Van Neck) calling periodically at Suva and/or Lautoka.

Next calls at Fiji: Van Cloon Suva/ Lautoka Jan. 19-20, Van Noort Suva/ Lautoka Feb. 17-18.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George Street, Sydney. (BU 6771).

Airways Time-Tables

pp. 146-150

TRANSPACIFIC SERVICES

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji-

Hawaii-N. America

BY QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS

(Boeing 707 V-Jets)

NORTHBOUND

Tues., Thurs. and Sun.: Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.35 a.m., dep. 1.30 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco.

Wed. and Sat.; Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.35 a.m., dep. 1.30 a.m.), Hono lulu, San Francisco, New York, London.

Fri.; Sydney (dep. 7 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 12.35 a.m., dep. 1.30 a.m.), Honolulu, San Francisco, extending to Vancouver.

SOUTHBOUND

Mon. and Fri.: London. New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.10 a.m., dep. 5.15 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.15 a.m.).

Tues., Thurs. and Sun.: San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.30 a.m., dep. 5.15 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.15 a.m.).

Sat.: Vancouver. San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 4.10 a.m., dep. 5.15 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 7.15 a.m.). (International Dateline is crossed be tween Nadi and Honolulu.) Qantas Electra International Mk. II aircraft, under charter to TEAL, from

Auckland, connect at Nadi on Thursday and Saturday with Qantas northbound flights, and on Thursday and Saturday with southbound flights (see Table 18).

TEAL Electra International Mk. II air craft from Auckland, New Zealand, con nect with Qantas northbound flights at Nadi on Wednesday, Sunday and Monday and Thursday (from Christchurch con necting at Auckland with chartered Qantas aircraft) and at Nadi on Tuesday and Sunday (to Auckland) and Wednesday (to Christchurch) for southbound flights.

BY PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers*) Tues., Thurs. and Sun.; Dep. Sydney 5 p.m. for Nadi (arr. 10.55 p.m., dep. 11.59 p.m.), Honolulu and Los Angeles (arr.

Tues.. Thurs. and Sun. 4.30 p.m.). Con nections at Honolulu for San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

Tues., Fri. and Sun.; Dep. Los Angeles 8.30 p.m. for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 5.45 a.m.

Thurs., Sun. and Tues., dep. 7 a.m.) and Sydney (arr. 9.15 a.m., Thurs., Sun. and Tues.). (International Dateline is crossed be tween Nadi and Honolulu.) • PAA use DC7C aircraft on connecting services Auckland, Nadi, Tafuna (Am.

Samoa), and Honolulu (see table 21).

BY CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES

(Super DC6B, Bristol Britannia and DCS Jet) Fri.: Dep. Sydney 11 a.m. by DC6B for Auckland, Nadi (arr. 12.01 a.m., dep. 1 a.m.), Honolulu (arr. Fri. 3 p.m., dep. Sun. 12.30 a.m. by DCS), arr.

Vancouver 7.35 a.m., dep. Sun. 3 p.m. by Bristol Britannia for Edmonton, Amsterdam (arr. Mon. 4.10 p.m.).

Sat.: Dep. Amsterdam 1.25 p.m. by DCB for Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Honolulu (arr. 10.50 p.m., dep. Sun. 6.30 p.m. by DC6B) Nadi (arr. Tues. 5 a.m., dep. 6 a.m.), Auckland, Sydney (arr. 4 p.m.). (International Dateline is crossed be tween Nadi and Honolulu.)

FAR EAST SERVICE

IA. Sydney-Pt. Moresby-

Manila-Tokyo

BY QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS

(Super Constellation) Wed.: Dep. Sydney 3.30 p.m., Pt. Moresby arr. 10.30 p.m., dep. 11.30 p.m.. Manila arr. 7.30 a.m. (Thurs.), dep. 9.30 a.m., Tokyo arr. 5.15 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Tokyo 11.59 p.m., arr. Hong kong 7 a.m. (Sat.), dep. 1 p.m., Manila arr. 4 p.m., dep. 5 p.m., Pt. Moresby arr. 5 a.m. (Sun.), dep 6 a.m.. Sydney arr. 1.15 p.m. [Note: As this is an International service, Qantas is not permitted to carry Sydney-Pt. Moresby or Pt. Moresby-Sydney passenger traffic.)

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 Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays; Ansett- ANA Tuesdays, Thursdays. Fridays.

NORTHBOUND

Mon., Wed. and Sat. (TAA) Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.50 p.m.

Tues., Thurs., Sun. Tues., Thurs . 8 Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.40 a m. Pt. Moresby, 6.10 a Dep. Arr. .

Pt. Moresby, 7 a.m. Lae. 8 a Tues., Thurs. and Fri. (Ansett]|( Dep. Arr.

Sydney. 9.45 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 j Wed., Fri., Sat. Wed.. Fri., Sat. .

Dep. Arr.. 1 Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.05 !

Dep Arr./ Pt. Moresby, 6.50 a.m. Lae, 7.50

SOUTHBOUND

Tues., Thurs.. and Sun. (TAA) ft Dep. Am- Lae. 9.15 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.151

Dep. Arr|-

Pt. Moresby, 11 a.m. Brisbane, 4.15 Dep. Arr.,- Brisbane, 4.50 p.m. Sydney, 6.551 Wed., Fri. and Sat. (Ansett) Dep Arr..- Lae, 9.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.30 $ Dep. Arr.i Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane, 4.40; Dep. Arr.: Brisbane. 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.35

2A. Qld.-New Guinea

TOWNSVILLE-P-NG-TOWNSVILLBI

TAA, with Fokker Friendship Prop-< Alt. Mon.: Dep. Townsville 12.40 j Cairns arr. 1.40 p.m.. dep. 2.45 I arr. Pt. Moresby 5.05 p.m. (Dec!: Jan. 8, 22, Feb. 5, 19, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Lae 12.30 p.m.,1 Moresby arr. 1.30 p.m., dep. 2.15 i Cairns arr. 4.45 p.m., dep. 5.30 j arr. Townsville 6.30 p.m. (Dec!

Jan. 10, 24. Feb. 7, 21. etc.).

CAIRNS-PT. MORESBY-CAIRNS J

Ansett, with Fokker Friendship Proj Alt. Sat.: Dep. Cairns 3.35 p.m., am Moresby 5.45 p.m. (Dec. 30, Jan.t 27, Feb. 10, 24, etc.).

Alt. Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 9.05 i arr. Cairns 11.15 a.m. (Dec. 31, i 14. 28, Feb. 11, 25, etc.).

CAIRNS-PT. MORESBY-BRISBANff

Ansett, with DC4 (Air Cargo Onl;I Alt. Mon. (Jan. 1. 15. 29, Feb. 12. 26, e Dep. Cairns 6.30 a.m., arrive Moresby 9.25 a.m. Dep. Port Mok 11.30 a.m. (same day), arr. Bris 6 p.m.

3. P-NG Internal Service

Operated by TAA

PT. MORESBY-LAE-PT. MORESBY

(Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet) Alt. Tues.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 6 a.m.,, Lae 7 a.m. (Dec. 26, Jan. 9. 23, 6. 20, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Lae 12.30 p.m.. am Moresby 1.30 p.m. (Dec. 27. Jana 24, Feb. 7, 21, etc.).

LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Prop-J< Alt. Tues.; Dep. Lae 8.45 a.m. RabauL 10.45 a.m. (Dec. 26, Jan. 9, 23, Fe' 20, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 10.10 a.m.,. arr. 12 noon (Dec. 27, Jan. 100 Feb. 7. 21, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-BAIMURU-KIKOK

(Catalina) Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 a.m..

Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori. retux same day via Baimuru. Kerema.j.

PORT MORESBY-DARU (DCS) (

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8.45 amt Daru, via Baimuru, returning samei via Balimo (Dec. 29, Jan. 12. 26, . 9, 23, etc.). (Catalina) Alt. Thurs.; Dep. Port Moresby 6 via Daru, Lake Murray, D’Albertis.s 11.10 a.m., returning same day?

Daru, Kerema (Jan. 4, 18, Feb. 1 etc.).

MORESBY-SAMARAI (Catalina) rarth Mon., dep. Port Moresby 8 for Samarai, returning same day . 1. 29, Feb. 26, etc.), an.: Dep. Port Moresby 8 a.m.

Samarai, Esa’ala, returning same (Dec. 25, Jan. 8, 22, Feb. 5, 19, rarth Monday, dep. Port Moresby n. for Samarai, Deboyne, return same day (Jan. 15, Feb. 12, etc.).

E-MAD ANG-WEWAK-M ANUS

ENG-RABAUL SERVICE (DCS)

rl.; Dep. Lae 7 a.m., Madang arr. a.m., Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, ul, arr. 3.45 p.m. lat.; Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m., Kavieng is, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55

RAL HIGHLANDS (DH Otter)

p. Lae 7 a.m. for Wabag, calling at of: Goroka, Nondugl, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Baiyer River, Wapena la, Wabag. Arrival back at Lae ids on stops made.

7ER HIGHLANDS (DH Otter)

Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, ig at any of: Aiyura, Kaiapit, antu, Gusap, Goroka, Arena, al back at Lae depends on stops (Note; Fortnightly calls at ju—Dec. 26, Jan. 9, 23, Feb. 6, tc.).

RESBY-WAU-BULOLO-LAE (DCS)

Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 10.30 a.m., arr. 11.25 a.m., dep. 11.45 a.m., 5 arr. 12 noon, dep. 12.15 p.m., ,rr. 12.45 p.m.

Sun.: Dep. Lae 7 a.m., Bulolo .30 a.m., dep. 7.45 a.m., Wau arr. a., dep. 8.20 a.m., Pt. Moresby ).25 a.m.

ADANG-MT. HAGEN (DCS)

p. Madang 10.30 a.m., Banz arr. a.m., dep. 11.40 a.m. Mt. Hagen .2 noon, dep. 12.30 p.m.. Madang L3O p.m. )ep. Madang 3 p.m., arr. Mt. i 4 p.m.

2-GOROKA-MADANG (DCS)

Dep. Lae 9 a.m., Goroka 9.55 then via Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, ag arr. 1.30 p.m.

RESBY-GOROKA-MADANG (DCS)

ies., Thurs.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 8 Goroka arr. 9.50 a.m., dep. 10.30 Madang arr. 11.05 a.m. es., Thurs.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m., a arr. 7.35 a.m., dep. 8.05 a.m., Moresby arr. 9.55 a.m.

LAE-RABAUL-LAE (DCS)

hurs., Sun.; Dep. Lae 9.30 a.m., labaul 12.05 p.m. es., Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 6 a.m., ae 8.35 a.m. sp. Rabaul 8 a.m., Jacquinot Bay i. Talasea 10.20 a.m., Finsch -11.50 a.m., arr. Lae 12.25 a.m.

Dep. Lae 9.45 a.m., Finschhafen a.m., Talasea 12.10 p.m., Jacquinot .15 p.m., Rabaul 2.10 p.m. at Hoskins, on request

MT. HAGEN-LAE (DCS)

Dep. Mt. Hagen 6 a.m., then Minj, Goroka, Lae arr. 8.45 a.m.

E-FINSCHHAFEN (Cessna)

ep. Lae 7.15 a.m., arr. Finsch -7.50 a.m., dep. 8.10 a.m., Lae .45 a.m.

BAUL-BUIN-RABAUL (DCS)

alt. Mon. (Dec. 25, Jan. 8, 22, j, 19, etc.): Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m., Wakanai, Aropa, Buin arr. 11 dep. 11.30 a.m., Aropa, Wakanai, Rabaul arr. 3.30 p.m. 1 by Ansett-Mandated Air Lines MAL DC3’s, connect at Lae with ley-Lae-Sydney DC6B services as ep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Lae arr.

8.25 a.m., dep. 9.20 a.m., Rabaul arr. 12 noon, dep. 12.30 p.m., Kavieng arr. 1.30 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m., Goroka arr. 7.35 a.m., dep. 7.50 a.m., Lae arr. 8.45 a.m., dep. 8.55 a.m., Goroka arr. 9.45 a.m., dep. 10.05 a.m., Madang arr. 10.35 a.m., dep. 11 a.m., Wewak arr. 12.15 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Kavieng 3 p.m., Rabaul arr. 4 p.m.

Fri.. Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Lae arr. 8.25 a.m., dep. 9.20 a.m,. Rabaul arr. 12 noon.

Fri.: Dep. Wewak 6.15 a.m., Madang arr. 7.30 a.m., dep. 7.45 a.m., Lae arr. 8.50 a.m.. dep. 8.55 a.m., Wau arr. 9.25 a.m., dep. 9.45 a.m., Madang arr. 10.55 a.m.

Fri.; Dep. Goroka 7.30 a.m., Lae arr. 8.25 a.m., dep. 9.05 a.m., Kainantu arr. 9.45 a.m., dep. 10 a.m., Goroka arr. 10.20 a.m., dep. 10.40 a.m Minj arr. 11.10 a.m., dep. 11.20 a.m., Banz arr. 11.25 am., dep. 11.35 a.m., Mt.

Hagen arr. 12 noon. dep. 12.10 p.m , Wabag arr. 12.35 p.m., dep. 12.45 p.m.’

Mt. Hagen arr. 1.45 p.m., dep. 1.55 p.m., Minj arr. 2 p.m.. dep. 2.25 p.m., Goroka arr. 2.55 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m., Goroka arr. 7.35 a.m., dep. 7.55 a.m., Lae arr. 8.45 a.m., dep. 8.55 a.m.. Goroka arr. 9.45 a.m., dep. 10.05 a.m., Madang arr. 10.35 a.m.

Other Ansett-MAL scheduled internal P-NG services include: Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Kainantu, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Qoroka, Madang, Wewak, Rabaul.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m, for Madang.

Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.: Dep. 6.30 a.m. for Goroka. Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul.

Dep, Madang 8 a.m. for Minj. Banz, Mt. Hagen, Madang.

Thurs.: Dep. Madang 7.30 am. for Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Madang.

Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Kavieng 3 p.m. for Rabaul.

Fri.: Dep. Wewak 6.15 a.m. for Madang, Lae, Rabaul.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Kainantu, Lae.

Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m, for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul.

Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Wau, Madang.

Dep. Lae 9.05 a.m. (by Piaggio) for Kainantu, Goroka, Minj. Banz. Mt.

Hagen, Wabag, Mt. Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka.

Dep. Goroka 7.30 a.m. for Lae.

Dep. Madang 8 a.m. for Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, Madang.

Sat.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m. for Lae.

Dep. Madang 7 a.m. for Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Dep. Lae 9.20 a.m. for Rabaul.

Dep. Lae 8.55 a.m. for Goroka, Madang.

3A. P-NG - Netherlands NG

LAE-HOLLANDIA (Neth. New Guinea) TAA, with DCS aircraft Dep. Lae 6 a.m. alt. Fri. (Dec. 29, Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 9, 23, etc.), calls at Madang, Wewak, and arr. Hollandia 10.35 a.m.

Dep. Hollandia 11.35 a.m. alt. Fri. (Dec. 29, Jan. 12, 26, Feb. 9, 23, etc.) and with calls at Wewak and Madang, arr. Lae 5.05 p.m.

BIAK (NNG)-LAE

NNG Airlines with DCS Aircraft De Kroonduif NV (Netherlands New Guinea Airlines) maintains a fortnightly service between Blak. Hollandia and Lae with DCS aircraft. It connects with KLM’s DCS service to Europe (see table 4) Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 4, 18, Feb. 1, 15, etc ) • Dep. Biak 7.30 a.m., Hollandia arr 9.35 a.m.. dep. 10.20 a.m.. arr. Lae 1.50 p.m.

Alt. Pri. (Jan. 5, 19, Feb. 2, 20. etc.): Dep, Lae 9 a.m., Hollandia arr. 12.20' p.m., dep. 1.15 p.m., arr. Biak 3.25 p.m.

NNG INTERNAL SERVICES

NNG Airlines DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia (see above), Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, Kaimana, Manokwari, Kebar, Wamena, Ransiki, Genjem; Twin Pioneer to Seroei, Steenkool, Manokwari, Noemfoer, Inawatan, Teminabuan, Sorong; Beaver to Wasior, Fakfak, Kaimana, Teminabuan, Ajamaroe, Napan, Wisselmeren, Kokonao, Inawatan.

4. Aust.-Netherlands NG

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Weekly DCS service between Sydney (dep. Fri. 10.45 a.m.) and Holland, calling at Biak, NNG (arr. Fri. 3.40 p.m., dep. 4.40 p.m.), Manila (Philippines) and Amsterdam (arr. Sat. 12.25 p.m.). Dep.

Amsterdam Wed. 2 p.m., via Manila and Biak (arr. Pri. 12.35 a.m.) for Sydney (arr. Fri. 7.30 a.m.).

DC7C aircraft dep. Biak Mon. (9.45 a.m.) and Pri. (5.15 p.m.) for Japan, en route to Amsterdam (arr. Tues. 4.20 p.m. and Sat. 11.30 p.m.). Dep.

Amsterdam Tues. and Fri. 9 p.m. for Japan and Biak, arr. Thurs. and Sun. 11.59 p.m.

5. N. Guinea-Solomons

TAA, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet and DCS Aircraft Alt. Tues. (Fokker): Dep. Lae 8.45 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda (BSI), Honiara arr. 4.10 p.m. (Dec. 26. Jan. 9, 23, Feb. 6, 20, etc.).

Alt. Wed. (Fokker): Dep. Honiara 6.45 a.m. for Munda, Buka, Rabaul (NG), Lae arr. 12 noon (Dec. 27, Jan. 10, 24, Feb. 7, 21, etc.).

Alt. Mon. (DCS): Dep. Lae 6 a.m. for Rabaul, Buka, Munda. Yandina, Honiara arr. 4.20 p.m. same day (Jan. 1, 15. 29. Feb. 12, 26. etc.).

Alt. Tues. (DCS); Dep. Honiara 7 a.m., for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae arr. 3.05 p.m. same day (Jan. 2, 16, 30. Feb. 13, 27, etc.).

6. Sydney-Noumea

QANTAS, with Boeing 707 Jet Thurs.; Dep. Sydney 11 a.m.. arr. Noumea 2.20 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Noumea 3.45 p.m., arr.

Sydney 5.30 p.m.

7. Paris-Sydney-Noomea-Fiji-

Tahiti-USA-Paris

TAI. with DCS Jet Aircraft Dep. Paris Mon. 2 p.m., eastbound for Athens, Teheran, Karachi, Bangkok, Saigon, Darwin. Sydney (arr. Wed. 7.05 a.m.).

Dep Sydney Wed. 8.20 a.m. for Noumea (arr 12.05 a.m.. dep. 3 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 5.50 p.m., dep. 6.50 p.m.), crosses International Dateline, Papeete (arr.

Wed 1.10 a.m., dep. 10 a.m.). Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris (arr. Thurs. 9.35 p.m).

Dep. Paris Wed. 4.45 p.m. westbound for

Montreal, Los Angeles, Papeete fl Thurs. 7.20 a.m., dep. Sat. 1.40 a.r crosses International Dateline, N (arr. Sun. 4.20 a.m., dep. 5.20 a.i Noumea (arr. Sun. 6.30 a.m., ( 8.30 a.m.), Sydney (arr. 10.30 a.m.i Dep. Sydney Sun. 11.40 a.m. for Darn Djakarta, Saigon, Bangkok, Karas Teheran, Rome, Paris (arr. Mom p.m.).

7A. Tahiti-Hawaii

TAI, with DCS Jet Aircraft I Thurs.; Dep. Papeete 9.30 a.m. for Hd lulu, arr. 3.05 p.m. same day. Thurs.: Dep. Honolulu 5 p.m. for Pap<f arr. 10.35 p.m. same day.

8. Sydney-Lord Howe Is..

Ansett Flying Boat Services Pty. Ltl with Sandringham Flyingboats f Regular return flight from Rose Bays each Tuesday and Saturday (with e flight Thursday as required).

9. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

QANTAS, with Skymaster DC4 aircE Sat.: Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. Nil p.m.; dep. NI next day, Sun.: r 2.45 p.m. for Sydney, arr. 6.451 Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI. I table 12.)

10. New Caledonia-New

Hebrides

TAI with DC4 aircraft Tues., Fri.: Dep. Noumea (N. I 7 a.m. for Vila (arr. 8.55 a.m., 9.30 a.m.), Santo (arr. 10.45 a.m., , 12.15 p.m.), Vila (arr. 1.30 p.m., 2.05 p.m.), Noumea (arr. 4 p.m.)(

11. N. Caledonia-Wallis

TAI with DC4 aircraft Monthly (second Wednesday), Noumea on Jan. 10, Feb. 14, etc..

Dep. Noumea, Wed., 7 a.m., arr. V Is. 2.30 p.m.; dep. Wallis Is. H 11.30 a.m., arr. Noumea 5 p.m. day.

12. Norfolk Is.-Aucklani

TEAL, by Qantas Skymaster (Char, Sat.: Dep. Norfolk 4 p.m., arr. Auci 7.45 p.m. Ret. next day, Sun.:: Auckland 10.30 a.m., arr. Norfolk! p.m.

13. Auckland-Sydney

QANTAS and TEAL jointly, with E International Mk. ll’s Daily; Dep. Auckland 9 a.m., arr. Sc 11.20 a.m.

Mon., Tues.: Dep. Auckland 8 a.m...

Sydney 10.20 a.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 10.30 a.m.,, Sydney 12.50 p.m.

Fri., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 7 p.m.,.

Sydney 9.20 p.m.

Daily; Dep. Sydney 1 p.m., arr. Auo 6.35 p.m.

Daily (except Sat.): Dep. Sydney, a.m., arr. Auckland 6.05 a.m.

14. Sydney-Christchurc:

QANTAS AND TEAL jointly, with E 4 International Mk. ll’s Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Sydney 9 a.m., arr. ChristchurcM; p.m.

Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun.: Dep. O church 4 p.m., arr. Sydney 6.200

Christchurch-Melboume

IS and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. n Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 4 p.m., Melbourne 6.55 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 8.30 a.m., Christchurch 2.40 p.m.

6. Sydney-Wellington

iS and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. II Dep. Sydney 12.15 p.m., arr. lington 6.15 p.m. iep. Sydney 12.30 a.m., arr. Welling -6.30 a.m.

Dep. Wellington 7.30 p.m., arr. iey 10.05 p.m. iep. Wellington 8 a.m., arr. Sydney > a.m.

. Auckland-Melbourne

S and TEAL jointly, with Electra International Mk. II Fri.: Dep. Auckland 6.30 p.m.. arr. ourne 9.50 p.m. ep. Auckland 10.30 a.m., arr. Mel ne 1.50 p.m. !un.: Dep. Melbourne 11 a.m., arr. land 5.25 p.m. )ep. Melbourne 11.59 p.m., arr. land 6.25 a.m. (Sat.).

18. Auckland-Fiji

vith Electra International Mk. H’s at., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., idi 12.15 a.m. ri.*: Dep. Auckland 8.30 p.m., arr. 12.15 a.m.

Sun.; Dep. Nadi 8.45 a.m., arr. land 12.35 p.m. )ep. Nadi 1.30 p.m., arr. Auckland p.m.

Sat.*: Dep. Nadi 5.30 a.m., arr. land 9.25 a.m. .. Fri. flights ex-Auckland, and Sat. flights ex-Nadi are operated ;as under charter to TEAL.

19. Fiji-Christchurch

vith Electra International Mk. 11 Dep. Nadi 8.45 a.m., arr. Auckland a.m., dep. Auckland 2.20 p.m., Ihristchurch 4 p.m.

Dep. Christchurch 6 p.m., arr. and 7.30 p.m., dep. Auckland 8.30 arr. Nadi 12.15 a.m. •ated by Qantas under charter

Fiji-Am. Samoa-Tahiti

pith Electra International Mk. II ep. Nadi 3.30 a.m., crosses Inter nal Dateline, arr. Tafuna Sun i.m., dep. 7.45 a.m., arr. Papeete 12.50 p.m. ep. Papeete 7 a.m., arr. Tafuna a.m., dep. 11 a.m., crosses Date arr. Nadi Tues. 12.40 p.m.

NZ-Fiji-Am. Samoa-

Hawaii

*AA, with DC7C Aircraft ;kland 5.30 p.m., Sun. and Thu *adi 10.15 p.m.; dep. Nadi Mi -.. 12 noon, crosses International ne, arr. Tafuna (American i) 4.05 p.m.. Sun., dep. Tafuna .. arr. Honolulu 5 a.m. Mon. olulu 12.45 a.m. Tues., arr. Tafuna •m. Tues., dep. Tafuna 9.15 a.m. s International Dateline, arr. Nadi a.m. Wed.: dep. Nadi 7.15 am Thurs., arr. Auckland 12.05 pm

22. Fiji Internal Services

Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft and Beaver Amphibian Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights dally (Wed. and Sun. morning timetables half-hour earlier); Dep. Suva 8 a.m., arr. Nadi 8.45 a m., dep. Nadi 9.15 a.m., arr. Suva 10.05 a.m.; and dep. Suva 3 p.m., arr.

Nadi 3.45 p.m., dep. Nadi 4.10 p.m., arr. Suva 5 p.m.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Wed Thurs., Fri., Sat.

Suva-Labasa-Savusavu-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Tues.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m.

Mon.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Savusavu-Suva: Dep 11 a.m. Wed.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva; Dep. 11 a.m. Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Suva-Ura-Suva; Dep. 7.45 a.m. Thurs Sun.

Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Mon.

Suva-Matei-Labasa-Matei-Suva: Dep. 11 a.m. Fri.

Suva-Levuka-Suva: Dep. 8 a.m. Tues., Wed Suva-Kadavu-Suva: Alternate Fri., dep, 2.30 p.m. (Jan. 5, 19, Feb. 2, 16, etc.) and alternate Mon. dep. 8 a.m. (Dec 25. Jan. 8. 22, Feb. 5, 19. etc.).

Details from Fiji Airways. Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

22A. Fiji-Tonga

Fiji Airways. Ltd., with Heron aircraft Alt. Thurs. (Dec. 28, Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, 22, etc.): Dep. Suva (Nausori i 7 a.m., arr. Nukualofa (Fua’amotu air field. Tongatapu) 11.15 a.m.

Alt. Fri. (Jan. 5. 19. Feb. 2, 16, etc.i: Dep. Suva 7 a.m., Nukualofa arr. 11.15 a.m.. dep. 12.30 p.m., arr. Suva 245 p.m.

Alt. Sat. (Dec. 30, Jan. 13, 27, Feb. 10, 24, etc.): Dep. Nukualofa 9.30 a.m, arr. Suva 11.45 a.m.

Details from Fiji Airways, Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

228. Fiji-Western Samoa

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron aircraft Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 4. 18, Feb. 1, 15, etc.i; Dep. Suva 7.45 a.m., crosses Inter national Dateline, arr. Apia (Faleolo airfield. Upolu) 1.25 p.m. alt. Wed (Jan. 3, 17. 31. Feb. 14, 28, etc.).

Alt. Thurs. (Jan. 4, 18, Feb. 1, 15. etc i: Dep. Apia 10 a.m., crosses Inter national Dateline, arr. Suva, alt. Fri. (Jan. 5, 19, Feb. 2. 16, etc.).

22C. Fiji-New Hebrides-BSI

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron aircraft Alt. Sun. (Dec. 31. Jan. 14, 28, etc.): Dep. Nausori 8.30 a.m., Nadi arr. 9.15 a.m., dep. 10 a.m., Vila arr. 1 p.m.

Next day (alt. Mon.) dep. Vila 8 a.m., Santo arr. 9.20 a.m., dep. 10 a m., Honiara arr. 2.45 p.m.

Alt. Tues. (Jan. 2, 16, 30, etc.): Dep.

Honiara 7 a.m., Santo arr. 11.45 p.m . dep. 12.30 p.m., Vila arr. 1.50 p.m.

Next day (alt. Wed.) dep. Vila 8 a m .

Nadi arr. 1 p.m., dep. 1.45 p.m , Nausori arr. 2.35 p.m.

23. Hawaii-Tahiti

South Pacific Air Lines with Snper-G Constellation aircraft Weekly from Honolulu to Faaa Inter national Airport, Papeete.

Wed.: Dep. Honolulu 8.30 p.m., arr. Papeete Thurs 6 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Papeete 10 p.m., arr. Honolulu Sun. 7.30 a.m.

Details from South Pacific Air Lines, 311 California St., San Francisco, USA.

24. New Caledonia-NZ

TAI with DC4 Aircraft Sun.; Dep. Noumea 9.45 a.m. for Auckland arr. 4.25 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m for Noumea arr. 2.30 p.m.

25. Samoan Inter-Island

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with Percival Prince aircraft Between Western Samoa (Faleolo airfield) and American Samoa (Tafuna aerodrome).

Dep. Faleolo (W. Samoa) Sat. 9.15 a.m., Sun. 7.15 a.m., 2.30 p.m., Mon. 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m., Tues. 8 a.m., Wed. 9.15 a.m., Fri. 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m.

Dep. Tafuna (Am. Samoa): Sat. 10.30 a.m.. Sun. 8.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m., Mon. 11 a.m., 3.15 p.m., Tues. 9.30 a.m., Wed. 10.30 a.m., Fri. 10.30 a.m., 3.15 p.m.

Booking agents: Gold Star Travel Service, Apia; R. E. Pritchard, Pago Pago.

26. French Polynesia

Rescan Aerien Interlnsulaire with Bermuda flyingboat Services to the Leeward Group (Isles Sous le Vent), Society Islands.

Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri.: Dep.

Papeete 7.30 a.m., Raiatea arr. 8.30 a.m., dep. 9.15 a.m., Bora Bora arr. 9.30 a.m.

Mon., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Bora Bora 3 p.m., Raiatea arr. 3.15 p.m., dep. 3.35 p.m., Papeete arr. 4.35 p.m.

Wed., Fri.: Dep. Bora Bora 10.15 a.m., Raiatea arr. 10.30 a.m., dep. 11 a.m., Papeete arr. 12 noon.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, or any TAI office. (Over)

27„ N. Caledonia Internal

TRANSPAC, with Herons and Rapidesa Noumea-Mare; Tues., Wed. dep. Noumea; p.m., Mare arr. 2.50 p.m., dep. 3E p.m., Noumea arr. 4 p.m.

Noumea-Lifou; Tues., Wed., Fri. dc Noumea 8 a.m., Lifou arr. 8.50 a.i dep. 9.10 a.m., Noumea arr. 10 a; Sat.; Dep. Noumea 2 p.m., Lifou a 2.50 p.m., dep. 3.10 p.m., Noum arr. 4 p.m.

Noumea-Ouvea; Tues. dep. Noumea, a.m., Ouvea arr. 11.50 a.m., dep. IS p.m., Noumea arr. 1.30 p.m. Sat.; IE Noumea 8 a.m., Ouvea arr. 8.50 a., dep. 9.10 a.m., Noumea arr. 10 a.m Noumea-Koumac: Wed., Sat. dep. Noun 1 p.m., Koumac arr. 2.30 p.m., o 3 p.m., Noumea arr. 4.30 p.m. 1 Noumea-Isle of Pines: Mon., Wed., B Sat. dep. Noumea 10.45 a.m.. Pines 11.15 a.m., dep. 11.30 a.m., Noumea ( 12 noon. Sun.: Dep. Noumea 8 ai Pines arr. 8.15 a.m., dep. 4.30 p; Noumea arr. 5 p.m.

28. Micronesia

Trans Ocean Airways Using Grumman Albatross twin-moto. amphibian flyingboats, TOA oP e ™*«« ! service throughout the Trust Territory Micronesia (Caroline, Marshall Mariana groups) on behalf of tne Government.

Details from Trans Ocean Airw Agana, Guam.

Pacific Air Fares

p. 150

(APPROXIMATE ONLY)

[NOTE: Exchange rates for equivs of Australian currency in other Terntoo Aust. £1 equals approximately ,16/- NZ, or West Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- To Solomons and WPHC areas; 196 Pac 8US2.25.]

FROM SYDNEY (Aust. currency) TO Single Return T {. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1 Moresby . . . 48 14 0 92 5 0 Lae 59 13 0 112 19 0 Rabaul ... 69 18 0 130 9 0 Noumea . . 56 18 0 102 8 0 Honiara . 91 14 0 169 13 0 Norfolk Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 0 Lord Howe . . 16 9 0 32 18 0 Nadi 85 9 0 153 17 0 Suva 92 0 0 167 0 0 Auckland . . . 53 15 0 96 15 0 3 Christchurch . 53 15 0 96 15 o ; Wellington . . 53 15 0 96 15 0 1 Honolulu . . . 282 12 0 508 14 0 San Francisco 350 9 0 630 17 0 Vancouver . . 350 9 0 630 17 0 Papeete . 181 5 0 326 5 0 u Biak 103 15 0 186 15 0

FROM AUCKLAND (NZ

currency) T Nadi 41 7 0 74 9 0 Norfolk Is. . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 Papeete . . . 114 10 0 206 2 0 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency)

TOC

Nadi 5 16 0 11 12 0 Levuka . . . 5 17 0 11 14 0 Nukualofa . . 18 10 0 34 0 0 Apia ... 25 0 0 45 0 0 Honiara . . . 57 9 0 103 7 0 Vila 26 10 0 47 13 0 Santo ... 34 2 0 61 8 0 FROM NADI (Fiji currency) TO] Noumea . . . . 32 13 0 58 16 0 Papeete . . .

Fares quoted 87 0 5 are First 157 1 Class. 0

Pacific Commerce and Produce

pp. 151-152

Price Still Low

It's Soyabeans Before Copra

mse world export supplies of and coconut oil are being main at a relatively high level and e of an increasing European •nee for crushing high meal g oil seeds ( particularly soya , there seems little likelihood price improvement for copra, e time being. sE are the two main reasons hy the average London price of was down to £Stgs6/17/6 for iber, according to Mr. lan laid, chairman of the Papua lew Guinea Copra Marketing in his report made on De ■ 1. h of the present difficult posi i relation to copra lies in the at soyabean crops will be some lion tons above last year’s pro 1, Mr. McDonald continued, t is rather paradoxical to find Ithough stocks are building up largest surplus in history, have been advancing slightly to ively high level, whilst at the ;ime depressed prices are the )r almost all other oil seeds, apparent, therefore, that US an prices are not determined law of supply and demand, but vernment price support tech i on relatively high prices it expected that Western Europe an imports will decline, for the that at the present time in there is a chronic over in oils and fats, and a close and demand balance in meal, other oil seed has the quality ding so little oil for so much /hen crushed, the demand for an is for its meal output rather s edible oil. Another reason is considerable part of the oil apacity of Europe has been 1 to soyabeans, returning the t profit to their owners when rticular raw material is used, P-NG Prices ia-New Guinea copra produc being maintained at a total of 108,000 tons this year, with y a slight increase in 1962. As

far as price is concerned, with the fixing of the November Philippine FM average (which covers December P-NG shipments) 1961 values ranged from £Stg6l/2/6 in January to a low £StgsB/15/- in May; recovered to £Stg6o/12/6 for August-September and fell away again to £Stgs6/17/6 for December. Average for the year thus works out at £Stgs9/17/6, which is indicative of a final P-NG price adjustment of around £A6/10/- per ton in due course.

It is intended to maintain present tentative price levels (Hot Air £AS4/10/-, FMS £AS3, Smoke £AS2) for as long as possible, but should any further decline occur, this policy may have to be reviewed early in the New Year.

Philippines Production Down Philippines copra production is down at present, mainly as the result of a declining rainfall throughout practically the whole of this year, which will probably result also in a further lowering of production dur ing the first half of 1962. However, it is surprising to note that, although over the last few months Philippines copra exports have been running at a low level, exports of coconut oil have been increasing.

World stocks of coconut oil are high at the present time, though, for various reasons, coconut oil is no longer required for strategic stock piling. Stocks are now about 170,000 tons, compared with 176,000 tons 12 months ago, notwithstanding the con siderable quantities which have been released ex-stockpiles by the US Gov ernment.

Ansett Earns

A Million

Ansett Transport Industries Ltd., parent of Ansett-ANA, which (with TAA) operates the Sydney-P-NG air services, showed group profit of £1,012,290 for the year ended July 1.

In addition to air services, travel coaches, and tourist accommodation centres, Ansett’s activities have been widely diversified in recent years (it took over Chromesteel (Sydney) Pty. Ltd., chrome furniture makers, during the year, for instance).

Ansett last year also acquired Mandated Airlines Ltd., a W. R. Carpenter subsidiary in P-NG —in the group accounts, £lOO,OOO was written off goodwill, arising from this purchase.

New US Search for

Oil in Papua

A 10,000 square miles exploration area in Western Papua has been granted to Triton Corporation, of Dallas, Texas, USA, announced Mr. D. A. Mclnnis, Petroleum Advisory Board chairman, in Pt. Moresby, in November.

The area granted is bounded on the west by the Papua and Netherlands New Guinea border, and on the east by Mt.

Bosavi. It encompasses most of the headwaters of the Strickland River and extends to within 80 miles of the Southern Papuan coast.

Much of the area has been explored by Australasian Petroleum Company and Islands Exploration Company, both mem bers of the Australian Oil Search group.

Islands Exploration sank a 6,614 ft well at Aramia before surrendering its permit in 1959.

Triton Corporation has a number of subsidiary oil companies in USA. Its executives and backers are geologists, bankers and investment brokers, several of whom operate on the New York Stock Exchange.

In its original application to the P-NG Mines Department two years ago, Triton did not give any estimate of the amount of money it planned to spend in Papua nor any indication of its oil search plans.

Italian Airline Opens

Office in Suva

The international Italian airline, Alitalia, opened an office in Suva, Fiji, on December 6, under Mr. S. W. Welinkar, area manager for the Pacific Islands.

Before his departure for Fiji, Mr.

Welinkar said that Burns Philp (SSI Co.

Ltd. had been appointed general sales agents for Alitalia in Fiji, and the airline would operate at first from the BP office in Suva.

Alitalia runs a weekly service by Super DCS jet from Sydney to Europe—to be increased in April next year to two services a week.

Mr. Welinkar said that while Alitalia initially would operate its service to Europe and the rest of the world from Sydney, with connecting flights to and from Fiji, the airline was negotiating for a trans-Pacific service from Sydney to Los Angeles, via Nadi, possibly com mencing in 1963. The company believed that Fiji was becoming of increasing importance as a tourist centre, he added.

Mr Welinkar was formerly stationed with Alitalia in Bombay for seven years.

He was married just last month.

P-NG's New Director

Of Trade and Industry

Mr D. G. Cannon, newly appointed Director of Trade and Industry in Papua and New Guinea, will leave Uganda this month for consultation in Australia prior to taking up his appointment at Port Moresby. , .

The F-NG Department of Trade and

Industry has been created to enable trade and industrial matters, in which there has been considerable development recently in the Territory, to be co-ordinated within the one organisation. When the Depart ment commences to function, after the new Director takes up his appointment, it will absorb the existing Department of Customs and Marine. Other functions of the Department will relate to the sale and marketing of P-NG products, the promotion of industrial development, tariff questions, promotion of native co operatives and other business activities, and control over migration.

A Victorian, Mr. Cannon is 44. During World War II he served with the RAAF in the Middle East and Europe, and was awarded the DFC. For the past 15 years he has lived in East Africa where, in addition to business activities, he has been a member of both local and central government bodies and also a member of various marketing, financial and commercial boards.

Enterprise of NG

Misses Out Again

Directors of Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development NL report that its application for Oil Permit No. 32 has been refused by the P-NG Administration.

Application for a permit to search for oil in an area in NW New Guinea (near the Netherlands NG border) covering 3,600 sq. miles was refused last year, mainly on the grounds that the company did not have sufficient resources to survey and carry out the necessary in vestigations in such a large area. Earlier this year, after husbanding its funds carefully, it made this further attempt to secure the permit.

Guam Firm Takes Over Adi

Timber Concession in NNG

The logging concession on Adi Island, Netherlands New Guinea. which was abandoned earlier this year when Adi Timber Development Pty. Ltd., of Sydney, folded up after a series of shipping, staff and financial difficulties, has been taken over by an American firm, Jones and Guerrero Inc., of Guam.

Jones and Guerrero Inc. is a well established company with plantations and stores at Agana. Guam, Mariana Group (which is American territory, but not part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Is.). It conducts business throughout the SW Pacific and in Australia.

A sawmill will be established at Adi, in addition to the main export of logs.

Heavy equipment, light transport, work shop, store and prefabricated houses will be moved to the island by the new concessionaire. Operations will be under an Australian manager, with Australian assistants, and a working staff of Filipinos, Japanese and natives.

Papuan Apinaipi's Partner

Will Provide the Money

The advantage of Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co.’s tie-up with the new oil exploration concern, Associated Continental Petroleum NL, was referred to in the

Directors’ report at the annual meeting in Sydney on November 21.

The Associated Group has an active exploration programme over the next seven years in Papua (its Permit 22 covers 8,740 sq. miles), Queensland, Northern Territory and West Australia “but Papuan Apinaipi shareholders will virtually enjoy an armchair ride during this period”, declared the report. Associated Con tinental has 1 assumed responsibility for meeting Papuan Apinaipi’s share of the Group expenditure (up to £1,250,000), in return for a half interest in Papuan Apinaipi’s equity in the results of the Group’s operations.

For the year ended June 30, Papuan Apinaipi spent £196,047 on development, after deducting net Commonwealth subsidy of £34,019; development account stands at £974,848. Costs of explora tion and operations increased by £56,395 to £210,184.

Placer Dev. Has New

Major Shareholder

International Mining Corporation, of New York, biggest shareholder in Placer Development Ltd., which has a large interest in New Guinea’s Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. (and for which it made a take-over offer in October) sold 600,000 of 800,000 shares last month to Noranda Mines Ltd., Toronto, Canada, for 25 dollars (about £All/2/2) a share. Total sale price was 15m dollars (£A6.56m).

Noranda Mines Ltd. is one of the major copper producers and refiners in North America.

Placer’s BGD take-over deal is pro gressing steadily, but much work has to be done both in New Guinea and in Australia in connection with the preliminary formalities of lease and property transfers if BGD shareholders agree to the sale. In the meantime, Placer’s shares have been making marked gains in price on Sydney Stock Exchange —Placer buyers early December offered £ll/8/- per share, against £9/12/- in October.

Fiji's Copper Find

Could be Duplicated

What is probably the first discovery of an important porphyry-type copper ore in the South Pacific Islands is soon to be worked in Fiji, at Udu Point mine, on the northeasterly tip of Vanua Levu.

The Japanese Pacific firm, Banno Bros.

Ltd., let a contract for exploration drilling to Nippon Mining Company, and 1,000,000 tons of three per cent, copper ore have been proved. Plant and equip ment will be imported to set up a treatment mill, and ore will be exported to Japan.

The ore body is described by geologists as “the disseminated ‘porphyry’ type in acid volcanics”, and hypogene ore has been drilled to a depth of 600 ft., well below sea level.

This discovery might well lead to a change in thinking regarding the Pacific Islands as a source of economic mineral deposits. Recent information suggests that the British Solomon Islands might have copper mineralisation of this type. One area in Western Guadalcanal will be

examined by a Canadian mining organ® tion, the Commonwealth Geophysics $ which has opened up offices in Blak Building, Honiara.

In the past, the only prospecting ®I in the Pacific has been for gold s manganese. The old-time prospectors Jj no attention to pyrite or other base mei sulphides that might have had low valtJ In recent years, metallurgical deveL ments have made payable much lot grade copper deposits than hitherto.*

Economic Outlook[?]

p. 152

MARKING time in the pre-ele* weeks of late November and ej ; December, generally business on Sycb Stock Exchange was dull and flat—ffl the early November index of “ordinari of 300 the decline was almost daily ujj by December 5, it was at 292.97.

Meanwhile, there was a wave of" shares buying immediately after* announcement on December 4 that* drillers, Union Oil Development Corgi, tion. had struck oil at Moonie, I While first tests showed a flow, hall| district, 200 miles west of Brisbane,* half water, of 500 barrels a day, it we be a fortnight or three weeks beforesi well would be permanently cased and! tests carried out.

The strike is on a concession in £& Basin, held by Australian Oil and* Corporation Ltd. (their shares, quoted 10/6 at end of November, doubled wii 24 hours). The drilling site is wii 20 miles of No. 1 Cabawin well whei geyser of oil, gas and mud occurree year ago—but which proved not to If commercial proposition.

SYDNEY SALES PRICES

OIL AND MINING SHARES

FIJI

Nov. 6, ’61 Dec. 6f Bali Plantations . . 8/3 9/ Burns Philp ... 89/6 91/ Burns Philp (SS) . . 47/9 47/\ Choiseul Plntn. . . . 190/- 180/

C.S.R. Co

£63/-/- £58/ Dylup Plantations . 6/10 7/s Fiji Industries . . . 17/6 17/ Hackshall’s ... 13/9 13/ Kauri Timber ... 10/9 11/ 6/.

Kerema Rubber . . . 6/9 Koitaki Rubber . . . 16/- 15/ Lolorua Rubber . . . 8/5 7/ Makurapau Plntn. . 2/- 2a Mariboi Rubber . . , 6/9 7/ Norfolk Is. Whaling . 2/8 2a Pacific Is. Timbers . 5/3 4/ Palgrave 3/10 3/ Plantation Holdings . 2/9 2/ Queensland Insurance 107/6 110/ Rubberlands ... 5/6 4/ Sangara 2/3 2/ Sogeri Rubber . . . 8/- 8/ Sthn. Pac. Insurance 32/- 32a Steamships Trading . 42/6 42/ W. R. Carpenter Hold. 31/4 Va 29/ Watkins Consolidated 5/4 5/ Timor Oil 4/8 5/.

Dec. 4, ’58 N’ov. 6, ’61 Dec. t Emperor . . b9/b3/l 1 Loloma . . b30/b43/s

PAPUA-NEW

GUINEA

Bulolo G.D. b32/b62/bftE N.G.G. Ltd. b2/3 bl/10 bli Oil Search . b9/9 b2/2 b2^ Oriomo Exp. — b3d b3€ Ent. of N.G. slid b2d s2 ] S Pac. I. Mines — b81/b8'8 Papuan Apin. b4/6 b2/5 b3,£ Placer Dev. b91/b202/b2S

[?]Lands Produce

p. 153

less otherwise stated, quotations are stralian currency. Aust. £ equals dmately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W. 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; $U52.25.)

COPRA

British Ministry of Food 9-years ,ct, which governed copra prices iua and New Guinea, Fiji, Western , Solomon Islands, and Gilbert and Colony (and, to some extent, in and Cook Islands) expired on De r 31, 1957; since when each Terrl as made its own arrangements for ion and marketing of copra.

JA - NEW GUINEA:—AII production ivered to Copra Marketing Board, led by six members, including three rs’ representatives; and the Board distribution and sales, and makes nts to the producers. Production lainly to (a) Unilever (30,000 tons contract covering 1961), (b) Aus (3o,ooo tons for local consumption), ishing-mill in Rabaul (40,000 tons), 1) Japan (300 tons per month or f available). Prices generally tally ruling rate in Philippines, with ms for hot-air dried, i January 1, 1961, P-NG Copra 3 Tentative Purchase Prices, for lelivered main ports: Hot-Air Dried, 10/- per ton; FMS, £AS3 per ton; ■Dried, £AS2 per ton. :—No Government control —producers iere they wish. Bulk of copra goes shing-mills in Suva. On Dec. 4 were HAD £F42/7/6; FM 17/6. 3TE R N SAMOA:—Official Copra takes all production, sells same and payments to producers. In 1961, ,000 tons went to Abels Ltd., NZ •s, and about 6,000 tons to Unilever, it of an estimated 15,000 tons pro i.

GA:—Sales are under Government . Part of production goes to Europe, arrangement with Unilever con by Philippines prices, and part open market. )MON IS.:—All production marketed i official BSI Copra Board, at prices on Philippines rates. Of the crate’s 1961 output (about 20,000 14,000 tons was to go to Unilever, ,000 tons to Australian crushers; e balance sold on the open market, price in Nov. was: Ist grade, -; 2nd grade, £47/10/-; 3rd grade, - per ton, f.0.b., BSIP ports. lERT AND ELLlCE:—Production ed in Europe through official Copra at prices based on Philippines less “stabilisation fund” charges.

HEBRIDES: —On Dec. 1, the copra was just under £A34/10/- (6,900 ancs) per ton delivered Vila/Santo. price then was 78 heavy per metric ton, c.i.f., Marseilles.

S IS.;—Subject to the copra t provisions between Cook Is. s and Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, derate the only NZ copra crushing he price paid is average London for previous three months, less ig charges. Price fixed for last • of 1961 is £NZS2/13/3 Ist grade, /8/3 standard grade—both f.0.b., nga.

OTHER PRODUCE

DA:—islands prices are based on the for Ghana cocoa which on Dec. 7 Stg.2lB/15/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

W. SAMOA:—Nominal price quoted in Sydney on Dec. 7: grade 1 £8265, grade 2 £8255, f.0.b., Apia.

P.-N.G.; Dec. 7—Quote No. 1: £230 (top grade), £220 (medium), £2lO (low).

Quote No. 2: £220 (good quality), £2lO (medium), £2OO (low).

COFFEE.—P.-N.G.: Dec. 8, good quality A grade, per lb, 4/- to 4/2; B grade, 4/-; C grade, 2/6 to 3/-, c.i.f., Sydney.

Overseas c.i.f. coffee prices were reported on Dec. 7 as: Kenya A, f.a.q., £Stg.44l, B £ Stg.36l, C £ 5tg.326, TT £ Stg.32l; Tanganyika A £ Stg.43l, B £ Stg.3sl, C £Stg.32l, TT £ Stg.32l; Buguishu AA £ Stg. 395, A £ 5tg.375, B £Stg.3ss. PB £ Stg.39o; Uganda Robusta £Stg.l4B.

PEANUTS: P.-N.G.: F.0.b., Lae, Dec. 6,

Kernels: White Spanish, 1/4 lb; Red Spanish, 1/2; Virginia Bunch, 1/7, in shell 1/1.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Dec. 5 was: No. 1 RSS, Spot, 75% Straits cents per lb (26.42 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported Dec. 8: White and yellow label, processed, standard packs. 45/-; green label, 43/-, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices as from May, 1961—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. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £63 f.0.w.; under 5 tons, £63/10/-. Other Pac.

Islands: Dry, brown, etc., 5 tons and over, £64/10/-; under 5 tons, £65 per ton. f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Quotations for Aus tralian M.O.P. Shell on Dec. 7 by Sydney independent shell agents were.

Sound £ A 825, D £ASSO, E £A3OO, EE £AI9O (in store Sydney). Cook Islands; Penrhyn £NZSOO (approx.), f.0.b., Raro tonga.

TROCHUS: Quote No. I—Papua-N.G. £145 per ton, c.i.f., Sydney; 8.5.1. — £l5O per ton, c.i.f., Sydney. Quote No. 2: Papua-NG, 8.5.1. £l5O per ton, with downward price trend.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Quote No. 1:

£460 per ton; Quote No. 2: £460.

CROCODILE SKINS: 12 in. and over,

small scale, first quality; P.-N.G. —Quote No. 1 13/- per in., f.0.b., P-NG port; Quote No. 2 16/-; B.S.l.—Quote No. 1 15/- per in., del. Sydney; Quote No. 2 16/-.

PAPUAN GUM: £95 per ton delivered buyer’s store, Sydney.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quote F 2- to P 4- lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS: Suva merchants offer P3/per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality.

London and US Quotations

Copra: LONDON Dec. 5, Philippines, in bulk, $l5B US per long ton, c.i.f., UK/ Nth. European ports. Malayan, FMS, delivered weights, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports, £Stg.sB/-/- per long ton. NEW YORK; Dec. 5, Philippines $147 US per short ton, c.i.f. Pacific Coast ports.

CEYLON; 765 Rupees per ton, c.i.f. (£ 1 Australian is equal to about 2.25 US Dollars; £1 Aust. equals approx. 10Va Rupees).

Coconut Oil: LONDON, Dec. 5. Ceylon, 1%. in bulk, £Stg.B4/10/- per ton, c.i.f., UK/North European ports. Straits, 3%, £Stg.7B/-/- to £Stg.79/-/-, c.i.f.

Rubber; LONDON, Dec. 5, c.i.f.. RSS No. 1, Spot, 22 7 8d. Stg. per lb.: RSS Mar., 1962, 23V4d. Stg. lb.; Nov. shipment 22%d.

Stg. lb.

Drying Tropical Crops

Mr. Kevin Bowtell, senior executive of lan Hardy Industries F'ty. Ltd.. Melbourne, recently visited Fiji, Papua-New Guinea and Dutch New Guinea for discussions with agricultural officers and to investigate possibilities for new equipment for planta tions. His conclusion was that oil-fired drying systems would play an increasingly important role in future in the production of such crops as cocoa and copra.

“Rising production in some territories and increasing labour costs in all areas make oil-fired systems essential to modern production,” he said. “To meet this demand, my Company is developing new products to provide, with our established units, a complete range of mechanical and sun-drying equipment for all crops.”

Index to Advertisers

p. 155

Arc Industries Pty. Ltd. 31 my Drive Yourself P/L 38 tex International P/L 84 s Industries 24, 31, 40, 85, 128, 136 ;s, W„ & Co. .. 26, 27

-A.N.A 154

ite Co. Ltd., The ..137 t, William, Pty. Ltd. . . 2 (Overseas) Pty. Ltd. 42 Canvas Promotion imittee 66 ilian National Industries 132 a Slipway & Eng. Co. 104 of N.S.W 49 129 I, Gwyn & Co. Ltd. .. 141 & White Cigarettes .. 131 Robert, Pty. Ltd. .. 126 nd-Rae Pty. Ltd. .. 103 C 146 for Sale 99 3n Bros. Pty. Ltd. .. 155 i Paints Ltd 12 i United Dairies 31, 99, 136 in & Co 113 ss, J. (Travel) Pty. Ltd. 147 W. J. & Co. (Aust.) P/L 130 .. 33, 80, 122, cov. iii & Davidson Pty. Ltd. 114 ry-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd. 32 idge Credit Corp. Ltd. 148 iter Ltd. 8, 156, cov. iv Lee Shipyard .. ..101 e Palmolive Pty. Ltd. 4 a I Meat Co. Pty. Ltd. 6 Watson (NG) Ltd. .. 89 anwealth Bank of Aust. 88 lend Radio Co 84 lO7

Degenhardt, C., & Co. ..149 Demka Pty. Ltd 131 Donald, A. B„ Ltd 103 Douglass, W. C., Ltd 127 Farmer & Co 11 Filmo Depot 39 Firth Cleveland Pty. Ltd. .. 7 Franke & Heidecke . . .. 68 Frigate Rum 113 Gardner Engineering .. .. 100 Gilbey, W. & A., Ltd. .. 9 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. . . 68 Gillespie, R., Pty. Ltd. 1,78,79 Giltrap Motors 152 Glaxo Labs (NZ) Ltd. ..115 Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co. (Aust.) Ltd 10 Gregory, H. P. & Co. Ltd. 114 Grocery Wholesalers Pty. Ltd. 35 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd 52, 153 Halvorsen, 8., Ltd 98 Handi-Works Co. . . . . .. 44 Hastings Deering Ltd 62 Hellaby, R. & W„ Ltd. .. 87 Hemingway Robertson In stitute 102 International Harvester Co. 30 Jamin, C., NV 129 Kanimbla Hall 152 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 134 Kiwi Polish Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 122 Kodak (A/sia.) Pty. Ltd. . . 64 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 112 Kraft Food Co. . . .. 5, 46 Kriewaldt, E. E. & Co. Ltd. 28 Lagoda School of Languages 127

Lanes Pty. Ltd 58 Lawrence, Alfred, & Co. P/L 52 Love, J. R. & Co. P/L . . 25 Lysaght, John (Aust.) Ltd. .. 86 Mac. Robertson Pty. Ltd. .. 110 Malleys Ltd 59 Mendaco 107 Mevra Pty. Ltd 39 Millers Ltd 55 Mono Pumps (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. 106 Morris Hedstrom Ltd. . 20, 93 Motorent 133 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. . . 48 Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd. 64 Nestle Co. (Aust.) Ltd. . . 65 N.G. Aust. Line 77 Nixoderm 107 Northern Hotels Limited . . 133 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. . . 94 P.A.A. Inc. Ltd 120 Pacific Islands Transport Line 141 Pacific Islands Society . . 39 Parke Davis & Co. . . 38, 95 Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. . . 90 Piccaninny Manufacturing Co. 92 Philips Electrical Industries Pty. Ltd 34.137 Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. .. 51 Qantas 124 Rex Hotels 63 Royal Interocean Lines .. 140 Sanitarium Health Food Co. 118 Savage Fibreglass Industries Pty. Ltd 102 Seward Ltd 85 Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Ltd. 143 Shell, The, Co. of Aust. Ltd. 116

South Pacific Bewery . . 69 Sparklets Ltd 119 Stapleton, J. T., Pty. Ltd. . . 51 Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. 106 Stewarts & Lloyds Pty. Ltd. 91 Sthn. Pac. Ins. Co 152 Sullivan Ltd. 60 Swallow's Biscuits Pty. Ltd. 56 T.A.A cov. ii Taubman's Ltd 50 Taikoo Dockyard 96 Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L 56, 108 Tallerman & Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 47 Tatham, S. E. & Co. P/L . . 44

T.E.A.L 54

Territory Traders Pty. Ltd. . . 48 Thornburgh College .. .. 123 Tooth & Co. Ltd 60 Treasure Island 152 Turners Supply Co. Ltd. . . 91 United Insurance Co. Ltd., The 36 Ventura Trading Co. P/L .. 151 Victa Mowers 67 Vi-stim 117 Warnock Bros. Ltd 57 Webster, David, & Sons P/L 135 Weymark Pty. Ltd 123 White, A. B. S. & Co. ..150 Whites Aviation 36 White Rose Flour Milling Co.

Pty. Ltd 90 Wilhelmsen, W., Agency, P/L 140 Wilson, W. L., & Co. .. 57 Woods of Colchester Ltd. .. 70 World Travel Service (N.S.W.) Pty. Ltd 134 Wright & Co. Pty. Ltd. . . 98 Yardley of London (Aust.) P/L 111 Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd. 36

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Coleman’s range of plastic-lined coolers are now available through Robert Gillespie’s. Solid Therma Lock styrene insulation all round keeps food colder . . . longer. The exclusive “Royalite” plastic-base covering prevents rust, scuffing, leaks or stain . . . adds strength and resists dents. Wipes clean instantly. The plastic “Royalite” interior is strong and smooth and has no joins. All coolers are constructed from heavy gauge steel, welded and riveted for extra strength and longlife. Deep tray for dry food storage. Choose from three attractive baked enamel colours: green, patio pink, or aqua. Coolers are available with the Mag-Lock latch or Bail handle. The Mag-Lock latch is a magnetic device which is popular on many modern refrigerators.

The Bail handle locks upright in an easy-to-carry position.

Representatives for the Pacific Islands: RT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD. ROBERT GILLESPIE (N.G.) LTD. PEARCE & CO., 22 Young St., Sydney Rabaul, Port Moresby Suva 34 Queen St., Brisbane Lae, Madang Cable: "Robergill".

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STOP BAD BREATH

WHILE YOU

Fight Tooth Decay All Day!

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JUST ONE BRUSHING

WITH COLGATE

STOPS BAD BREATH INSTANTLY

FIGHTS TOOTH DECAY ALL DAY

AS NO OTHER TOOTHPASTE CAN

any colour, ANY KIND.

Colgate Dental Cream

CLEANS YOUR BREATH

while it

CLEANS YOUR TEETH

Use Colgate Dental Cream to stop bad breath and fight tooth decay. Colgate’s active, penetrating foam gets into hidden crevices between your teeth, removing decaying food particles, the cause of much bad breath and tooth decay.

Protect your teeth the Colgate way.

To stop bad breath, to fight tooth decay, to keep your teeth sparkling white, brush your teeth with Colgate.

Children love its extra minty flavour.

You will love it too.

FOR WHITE TEETH AND

FRESH BREATH . . . MORE

PEOPLE BUY COLGATE

THAN ANY OTHER DENTAL

CREAM IN THE WORLD!

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Kraft Cheddar

Australia’s finest

processed cheese

AVAILABLE IN 2 OZ., 4 OZ., 12 OZ.

BLUE CANS, AND 8 OZ. BLUE CARTONS ■■ SI: v- .. m KR.179

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CORNED BEEF CORNED MUTTON SHEEP TONG

CORNED BEEF with CEREAL ROAST MUTTON OX TONGUE

MINCED BEEF LOAF CURRIED MUTTON

ROAST BEEF

CURRIED BEEF

Available in 12-ozl6-oz. and 2-lh. cans.

Products of THE COLONIAL WHOLESALE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD.

Canning Factory:

STATE ABATTOIRS, HOMEBUSH, SYDNEY

NSW., AUSTRALIA

TELEPHONE: 76-0397. CABLES: "WOOLMILL", SYDNEY,

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Landmaster LISO is the 4 h.p. machine that does many different jobs from ploughing to transporting and has been developed under searching tests in the hottest climates and the toughest soil conditions in the world. Users are always writing to tell us how good Landmaster LISO is. For example, Capt. J, H. Bailey, Director of Morro Estates Ltd., is enthusiastic over having cultivated 175 acres of coffee in 525 hours for a fuel consumption of one gallon per acre. “A marvellous job,” he says. This machine is ready to do a marvellous job for you, too.

GARDENMASTER SBO the Landmaster machine for the home garden. Perfect for

DIGGING, WEEDING, CULTIVATING, HEDGE

TRIMMING, LAWN MOWING, PUMPING,

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d S Send off the coupon below for full information about the 21 job versatility of the Landmaster LI 50 and the Gardenmaster SBO.

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To: FIRTH CLEVELAND PTY. LTD.,

P.O. BOX 198, BALLARAT, VIC., AUSTRALIA

Please send me, completely free and without obligation, details of the Landmaster L 150 and Gardenmaster S 80.

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SWEDISH

Specially designed to give more cooling power from less electricity, the new range of Electrolux refrigerators is the ideal choice.

These elegant refrigerators have many luxury features and all are fitted with the economical new Electrolux cooling unit to keep down running costs.

And there's a size of cabinet in this superb Electrolux range that's just right for you — come to our showrooms and choose it now!

We also have available a full range of Swedish Electrolux electric and kerosene operated refrigerators as well as a complete range of household appliances. & >MiS! 05 <£■ * ■w Distributed by:

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD,

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD*

Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo 5.C.1.E., Noumea

BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD., Vila, Santo

Port Moresby 8.5.1. P. TRADING CORP., Honiara, Giro F.J.R. SIMMONDS, Norfolk Island

Giisr j ■j Gilbey’s Gin is one of those travelled people you will meet everywhere ... a true international, the same in all lands, not least Australia.

Gilbey’s Gin is an accommodating spirit, happy to be consumed in many ways.

It can be drunk with water and with bitters, with lime juice or ginger ale, with tonic water or that popular newcomer, bitter lemon, and in a host of cocktails, chief of them the ever-popular Martini, not forgetting the new Gilbey’s and Dubonnet.

In mixed drinks Gilbey’s Gin is supreme whether you are an old timer from Out East thirsting for a Singapore Sling or a hostess meditating what to serve

PERSONALITY

OF THE

MONTH

at a young people’s party when heavy drinks and potent drinks are definitely out.

To lace a fruit cup, a very discreet quantity of Gilbey’s will provide a beverage to please everyone, harmless yet sophisticated, refreshing as a breeze off the sea on a summer night.

Everywhere young people are

coming to recognize a hostess who doesn’t believe in the “do it yourself” system for her guests, who is willing to go to just that little extra trouble with a good mixed drink.

The basis of the best mixed drinks of the world, for tycoons or for teenagers, is Gilbey’s Gin.

Try it yourself ... we know

you’ll agree.

GILBEY’S LIMITED

Play

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This is

Australia’s finest, SAFEST tyre

If you want a larger measure of security when you drive a wider margin of safety drive on Goodyear Imperial Nylon Tyres. Tread, cord and body of this tyre are engineered by Goodyear world’s biggest, most experienced rubber company to meet the hot, twisting strains of high-speed driving. The self-adjusting tread gives fulltime, positive traction and responds instantly to brake or accelerator.

The cord body, acknowledged the strongest in the industry, is built with Goodyear’s exclusive 3’T Nylon cord, tempered like steel to give greater resistance to bruise damage, high-speed tyre heat and constant flexing. The extra strength and safety of 3’T nylon costs but little more than ordinary tyres. Why be satisfied with less?

See your Goodyear dealer, garage or Service Station.

GOODYEAR

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SHOPPING

BUREAU

Makes all your shopping

easy

All you have to do is write a note to Farmer’s

Personal Shopping Bureau (explaining clearly

what you want) and a trained shopper from the Bureau will go into the store and select your goods with care. They are then wrapped and sent straight back to you. Farmer’s is the largest single department store in the heart of Sydney, so you are assured of an unsurpassed selection of goods. When you are in Sydney, come up to the P.S.B. (eighth floor) and a member of the Bureau will show you around the store. Write to Farmer’s Personal Shopping Bureau, Box 497, G.P.0.,

Sydney.

YOU ALWAYS DO BETTER AT FARMER'S.

A GUARANTEED

BEAUTIFULLY EVEN,

SATIN FINISH ENAMEL

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SATI\ FIM s H

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ALL COLOUR?

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ALL TROPICAL CONDITIONS

Resists heat, humidity, mildew, fungus and mould! Satis-Tone gives beauty and long-lasting protection. Guaranteed free fit any brush marks. Dries to a beautiful, even semi-gloss finish.

Satinto rin-Tone is specially manufactured to stand up to the rigorous tropical climates. It dries hard —gives long-lasting protect: interior and exterior walls, ceilings and all woodwork. It's unaffected by steam and cooking vapours, which makes it io for kitchens, bathrooms and laundries. You can scrub it and scrub it without hurting or dulling its distinctive satin lustre.

Skilled colour stylists blended Satin-Tone's exceptional colour range. You can choose from a wide selection of strong colo and soft pastels. See them now at your nearest British Paints Limited depot or store.

IMPORTANT: For maximum protection against fungus and mould growth always treat new or previously painted surfaces with British Pas Limited's anti-mould solution.

Enquiries are invited from storekeepers to act as authorised agents for British Paints quality products.

Write to British Paints Limited, Box 43, P.O , Bankstown, N.S.W., Australia.

s> . BRITISH PAINTS

LIMITED

SATIN FINISH ENAMEL

SOLD AND RECOMMENDED BY:

Burns Phi Ip (New Guinea) Limited: iamarai.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Port Moresby.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Wau.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Bulolo.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Lae.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Madang.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Goroka.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Wewak.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Kavieng.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited; Rabaul.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Kokopo.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Daru.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited: Kainantu.

Steamships Trading Company: Port Moresby.

Kam Hong: Lae.

Scotts New Guinea: Lae.

Tang Mow: Wewak.

Laurie Chan: Rabaul.

Wong You: Buka Passage-Bougainville.

HONIARA, 8.5.1. P.

A. C. Blair Ltd., Honiara, p,. C. Symes Pty. Ltd., Honiara.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Suva.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Lautoka.e

NORFOLK ISLAND

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., None Island. *

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Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

Jf & affooooo / L ■ ID (Artist's impression of Morris Hedstrom's modern new store in Thomson Street, Suva,

General Merchants, Produce Buyers, Importers and

Exporters, Ship Owners, Plantation Owners, Commission

and Insurance Agents.

HEAD OFFICE :: SUVA, FIJI

AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVE;

Morris Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Limited, Wales House, 27 O'Connell Street,

SYDNEY

REGISTERED CABLE ADDRESS;

LONDON OFFICE:

Morris Hedstrom Limited, Barclay's Bank Buildings,

73 Cheapside,

LONDON, E.C.2

Deuba—Suva Morrished—Levuka, Morstrom—Sydney, Suvamark—London, Morrisco—Nukualofa, Deuba—Apia.

CODES: All.

SOLE AGENTS FOR:

A. B. Bahco Primus Products British Drug Houses Ltd.

China Navigation Co. ‘Chula’ Copra Dryers Electrolux Limited Ford Motor Co.

General Electric Co., Ltd.

Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co.

Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

Matson Navigation Company Max Factor & Co., Inc.

Pacific Islands Transport Line Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd.

Rootes Ltd, Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd.

Yorkshire Imperial Metals Morris Hedstrom Limited are LLOYD’S AGENTS in Fiji and Samoa For Friendly Service and Complete Satisfaction ids Morris Hedstrom Limited in

FIJI - SAMOA - TONGA

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Xew Guinea

POSTCARD

tf we are to achieve a VIABLE ECONOMY, this Territory must learn to live within its means' rV / * * n A Increased taxes on luxury imports will not penalise any one section of the community; on the contrary . .

Although EXPATRIATES willl pay more for rum, this burden will be shared by the; Tolai. /0 4 / At the same time I stress the need for stringent economy in Government expenditure To check this, we have created a NEW DEPARTMENT

i tl

I This will be the DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMY. Applications for positions have been invited and tenders called for erection of offices and Quarters.

W However, there must be no deceleration in the Administration's preparation of the non-expatriate population for self-determination. i mUM. f‘,7 / k But we realise that social, political and ECONOMIC progress must proceed hand in hand n is planned to expand the Departments of Land, Agriculture and Health in order to conduct preliminary surveys.

It will, therefore, be neces sary, as the first step in our economy drive, to recruit an additional 5,000 public servants.

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A Beauty

Advertisement

Hint

Give your skin a delightful bloom to last through the harshness of summer. It’s the simple trick, for a tired skin, damp a cloth in the cold water from your frig, and smooth it over your face and neck, or better still, cool your bottle of lemon delph and use this. Feel the skin relish the toning, and the lemon delph refining action.

Now to nourish and to hold the bloom, smooth on your oil of ulan and keep it there always under your make-up to protect against the weather and to give the skin that dewy look. . . . Margaret Merril.

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Trucks With Traction

INTERNATIONAL aa 120 and aa ieo 4 WHEEL DRIVE TRUCKS Where bad roads and rough tracks make work difficult then an International allwheel-drive truck is the answer. You will travel safer, too, for the 4-wheel drive gives outstanding traction and, as well, better control on wet, muddy roads.

Powerful, reliable, 6 cylinder, engines that are flexible, economical, and easy to service. The AA-120 4-wheel drive model carries one-ton payload and has a 135 H.P, engine. The AA-160 4-wheel drive mode! has ton capacity and a 142 H.P. engine.

Power take-off from both trucks transfer case drives pumps, generators or winches Buy a truck designed for rugged conditions. But an International all-wheel drive truck. m 111 m . ss sss* - 1 SS mm U

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To move big payloads safer, and more reliably in rugged conditions, buy 4-wheel-drive International Trucks

DISTRIBUTORS

DUTCH NEW GUINEA: H. Englebert n.v., Hollandia. SOLOMON ISLANDS: Solomon Motors Pty. Ltd., 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, N.G.G. Trading Co., Lae, Rabaul Trading Co. Ltd., Rabaui.

International Harvester Company of Australia Pty. Ltd. District Sales Offices in Capital Cities of Australia. Works: Dandenong, Geelong and Port Melbourne, Victoria.

P.I.M. 298-321

Advertisement

Complexion

Steaming

To clean and freshen the complexion, ease away crow’s feet and unwanted expression lines and put more life into your skin, try complexion steaming.

With a towel over your head, steam over a basin of hot water in which add a tablespoon of lemon delph. Beforehand, anoint the skin with oil of ulan so, as the hot water opens the pores, and the lemon bleaches, the oil is able to penetrate.

After steaming, tone with lemon delph and finish with the ulan. ... Margaret Merril.

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Always ask for the best..,

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A Will,

Where There's

There's an Executor

'THAT

T HE

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 a complimentary copy at any branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or from 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 Custodian Trustee • Administrator Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Telegraphic Address: "BURNSTRUST”, Sydney. Box 543, G.P.O.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne. Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua)f and Vila (New Hebrides). Canberra Agent: Burns Philp Trustee Company (Canberra) Limited.

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Small personal portable for medium wave recep tion. Available in lovely colours. : : >y)

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Easy-to-carry camera style portable, offering worldreception on 3 waveranges. 1 X M.W. + 2 X S.W.

L 2 X 97 T

All-transistor pocket radio, with a battery driven Swiss alarm clock. 7 Transistors and 1 germanium diode.

PHILIPS

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FOR LASTING VALUE

QUALITY SERVICE GUARANTEE

Names of Philips’ Agents/Distributors can be found on page 137.

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Grocery Wholesalers

PTY, LTD.

(formerly Mcllroth's Pty. Ltd.)

ALWAYS WELCOME YOUR GROCERY ORDERS.

QUALITY BRANDS AT ECONOMY PRICES.

SPECIAL ATTENTION TO EVERY ORDER.

We stock and supply a complete selection of quality groceries and provisions at competitive prices—together with leading brands of Australian ales, wines, spirits, tobacco and cigarettes at competitive "in bond" prices.

Wheat, bran, pollard, laying mash, poultry pellets, potatoes and onions also available.

All prices F. 0.8. Sydney—no buying commission or additional charges for ordinary coses or packing.

Sydney's Leading Export Grocery and

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ALL CLASSES OF

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Including

Fire Accident Guarantee Motor Workers Marine

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA BRANCH

James Arcade, Cuthbertson St., Port Moresby.

Manager, K. S. Ewing.

CHIEF ISLAND REPRESENTATIVES

Port Moresby . . . E. A. James & Co.

Rabaul A.S.P. (N.G.) Ltd.

Lae Paul Hyman Madang Roy Macgregor Manus ... Edgell & Whiteley Ltd.

Honiara, 8.5.1. P. . . E. V. Lawson, Ltd.

Suva Williams & Gosling Ltd.

Noumea R. Laubreaux Norfolk Island A. E. Martin Apia E. A. Coxon & Co.

WHITES PICTORIAL REFERENCE

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A superb complete visual reference of New Zealand of over 400 pages of whole page representative aerial views of cities, towns and counties, with informative and useful text and maps. Standard binding, ENZ6/6-. De Luxe presentation, ENZ7/7/-.

Also available 10 in. x 8 in. (NZ7/6d) or larger aerial black and white prints Norfolk Island, Apia, Rarotonga, Papeete, Moorea. Coloured enlargements suitable decoration —send for full price list.

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Filmo Depot

Introducing

CORRASCOPE FILMS

in Beautiful Colour!

50 ft. (Bmm.) £Stg. 2.5 100 ft. (16mm.) £Stg. 5.15

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Japan Hong Kong Macao Formosa Bali Bangkok Angkor Malaya Singapore India Suez Riviera Paris Rome Venice Spain Coronation England Switzerland, etc.

Catalogues Upon Request

FILMO DEPOT

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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,

We are specialists in all types of

FRESH FROZEN

FOODS

Amongst others we are agents for the Pacific Islands for ; Danish PELICAN Fish.

Norwegian FRIONOR Fish.

Dutch IGLO Vegetables and Fruit. (in Bulk and Decorated Consumer Packs)

MEVRA PTY. LTD.

182 Collins Street, Melbourne.

Telephone: 63-2392, 63-5620.

Advertisement

Soak Out

Wrinkles

The secret of smoothing out wrinkles is to simply saturate the skin with moist oil. Smooth it on layer upon layer. You will be amazed how much the skin will absorb until the furrows are swelled out with moisture.

Have this saturation treatment once or twice a week and make sure you use this oil under your make-up every day. This will enable the moist oil of ulan to protect against further wrinkle dryness besides eradicating any damage already done. Your cosmetic counter will have oil of ulan. ... Margaret Merril.

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Universal

k

COCOA DRYERS

NOW THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

* T.P. & N.G. * NETHERLANDS N.G. * SOLOMON IS. * BRIT. NTH. BORNEO

and now in NIGERIA I

Mi

THE MODERN

METHOD OF

PRODUCING

HIGH

QUALITY

COCOA

• DRYING CAN BE DONE A FULL 24 HOURS A DAY • NO MAINTENANCE e CHEAP TO OPERATE • EASY TO INSTALL • SIMPLE TEMPERATURE CONTROL All ASP Equipment backed by comprehensive guarantee of its Australian Manufacturers.

WRITE FOR FULL DETAILS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSAL COCOA DRYER, OR THE ASP ROTARY COCOA DRYER Q r N.R.M.A. HOUSE, 26 Ridge St., I To: ASP (Overseas) Pty. lid “ Please send me full information on your ROTARY COCOA DRYERS I [ ] and/or SUN/FORCED HOT-AIR SLIDING ROOF UNIVERSAL 8 COCOA DRYERS [ ] (tick in squares for information required)

NORTH SYDNEY

Telephone: 92-0271.

Telegrams: "Chatspa", Sydney.

NAME ...

ADDRESS

Sole Agents for Papua & New Guinea; ASP (NG) Limited, Box 166, RABAUL, T.N.G. Tel.: 2370.

P.I.M. 12

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Hand!

★ Columbine Caramels ★ Macßobertson's Confectionery ★ Lifeguard Condensed Milk ★ Keidon Canned Meat ★ Preservene Soap Products ★ Mac's Lilydale Cider ★ Twisties Cheese Krackle Snaps ★ Wing Lee Chinese Foods Available at all Leading Stores throughout the Pacific S. E.

Phone: 60-1125 Export Agents for Pacific Islands:

TATHAM & CO. PTY. LTD.

414 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE Cables: "Set", Melbourne ★ Buyers and Shippers ★ Pacific Island Traders

He'd do better with a

HAND!

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.

KEROSENE AND PETROL MODELS

AVAILABLE IN

Other HANOI quality products include: The HANOI Portable Twin- Burner Stovette and the HANOI Pumpless Petrol Iron. Ask for HANOI!

HB % V I i \ ✓ v >

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WORKS n t M

Compo Road, Rocklea, Phone 4721

BRISBANE QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA

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Vegemite

-^r>

YOUR FAMILY

NEEDS VITAMIN Bl

EVERY DAY!

Get Vitamin Bl in many different

ways, with delicious:

VEGEMITE

% % SPREADS so SMOOTHLY on toast DELICIOUS on biscuits SO NOURISHING in sandwiches Every member of the family needs Vitamin Bj every day for

VITALITY.

Vegemite is the only pure concentrated yeast extract, and yeast is the richest known natural source of Vitamin the vitality vitamin.

But remember! The body cannot store up Vitamin B 2 —it needs a fresh supply daily. So enjoy Vegemite every day —for Vitality.

ENRICHES gravies

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Qndeman's wines

Christmas Tastes Better

with

BEFORE XMAS DINNER

MONTILLO DRY SHERRY

MONTILLO SWEET SHERRY

WITH YOUR TURKEY

SUNSHINE VINEYARD RIESLING

COOLALTA WHITE BURGUNDY

CAWARRA RIESLING HOCK

OR PORPHYRY SAUTERNES

WITH XMAS PUDDING

LINDEMAN’S LIQUEUR MUSCAT OR

LINDEMAN’S CREAM SWEET SHERRY

WITH COFFEE

LINDEMAN’S PORT

LINDEMAN'S AUSTRALIA'S GREATEST PRIZEWINNERS

Sole Distributors Pacific Islands:

TALLERMAN & CO. PTY. LTD.

60-62 York Street, Sydney, Australia Cables: "FRESHET", Sydney. Phone; 8X3411.

THE

A vailable

in treadle

and hand

operated

models also.

"Clectra

u

DELUXE

ELECTRIC

PORTABLE

■ Sews forward and reverse Automatically adjusts to thickness of cloth Exclusive stitch-length regulator Drop feed control for darning and embroidery New style "Super-White" Sewing Light "King Size" variable speed Foot Controller Latest "Tangle-Proof" Bobbin "Electramatic" Automatic Bobbin Winder Extra attachments for Hemming, Gathering, Quilting, Zippers, etc.

Handsome Carrying Case

PAPUA DISTRIBUTORS:

(Electric Models) E. E. Kriewaldt, Port Moresby

PAPUA DISTRIBUTORS:

(Non Electric Models) The Federation of Native Assoc., Ltd., Port Moresby

NEW GUINEA;

Enquiries to; Territory Traders Pty. Ltd., Box 481, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia

MUNGO scon PTY. LTD.

Established 1894

AUSTRALIAN

QC MJ

SYDNEY

AUSTRALIA

FLOUR MILLERS

SUMMER HILL, NEW SOUTH WALES

Cables & Telegraphic Address: SUPERB, Sydney

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Travel

Another “ Wales ” Service

Wherever you go, the “Wales” can be a willing and expert companion. The Travel Department will plan your itinerary, book your passage, and assist with reservations, accommodation, passport, visas, and taxation clearances. THERE IS NO EXTRA

CHARGE.

And carry “Wales” travellers’ cheques they’re more convenient and much safer than cash.

You can bank on the “Wales”.

BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

FIRST BANK IN AUSTRALIA

(INCORPORATED IN NEW SOUTH WALES WITH LIMITED LIABILITY)

Jk r

Chip proof Steam proof

Scrubbable

*v Decorate your home with

TAUBMANS

DIAMOND HARI

REVELITE

FULL-GLOSS ENAMEL

m

TAUBMANS.

HlVlllT*

, . . and for the new “soft sheen” walls, choose your colours from the Revelite Semi-Gloss Spectrocolor card. % REVELITE FULL-GLOSS . . . diamond hard, diamond bright all-purpose enamel. Perfect for bathrooms, kitchens, toys, furniture.

FUIIGLOSS

a M-purpose ena / REVELITE SEMI-GLOSS: Just as hard-wearing as Revelite Full-Gloss, but with a subdued “soft sheen ’ that’s new and pretty for inside walls and all woodwork.

All Taubmans paints bring you the REVELITE FLAT: Scrubbable, matt finish for inside walls and ceilings. In the same lovely colours as Revelite Full Gloss and Semi-Gloss. of

SPECTROCOLOR

new, exciting paint colours that stay fresh year after year TB

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Queensland

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.

QUEENSLAND

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated 1886 in Australia)

Assets Exceed £14,500,000.

Head Office:

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE

BUILDING. 80-82 PITT STREET,

SYDNEY.

Specialists in South Sea__Fire.

Marine & Accident Insurance

Apply to:— FIJI. —Branch Office: J. F. Drury, Manager.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

NOUMEA.—W. Johnston.

VILA. — Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

SANTO. — Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

SEW GUINEA.— Manager for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. R. D. Kennedy.

PORT MORESBY—SAMARAI— LAE

—MADANG—KAVIENG— RABAUL.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Resident Officer at Rabaul: R. P. Hiley.

Resident Officer at Lae; D. J. Granter.

HONIARA (8.5.1. P.)

Wm. Breckwoldt & Company.

PAGO PAGO.

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd- G. H. C. Reid & Co.

OTHER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Also to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z.

mm rnamm

W. H. GROVE

& SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

P.O. BOX 490, AUCKLAND

NEW ZEALAND.

ISLAND

MERCHANTS

REPRESENTING

MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT THE

PACIFIC ISLANDS

In Fiji as:

W. H. GROVE & SONS

(FIJI) LTD.

Attention, Essence Users

BLUE ARK" ESSENCES WILL PRODUC

A BETTER PRODUCT

Established 1882 1 G ff * O A

ass

<4 I -n «/ r V U °U R Unsurpassed for—

★ AERATED WATERS AND CORDIALS

★ SYRUPS

★ CONFECTIONERY

★ CAKES, BISCUITS AND PASTRY

Orders should be placed through your usual Islands' Agents

ALFRED LAWRENCE

& COMPANY PTY. LTD.,

437 Kent Street, Sydney, Australia World-wide Suppliers of Essences and Edible Colours

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Tiai

‘ "4 : a \ i S 7A a i MBs I m m it X-f; Ck ifia \ .

H Pi riAi smooths out travel in the South

with 300 m.p.h. PRESSURISED AIRLINERS

Rounding the rough edges off South Pacific neighbours.” This has been TEAL’s purpose travel. Shrinking distance, stretching time. the South Pacific. It still is! Your TEAL ol Turning widely separate peoples into “near or agent is on the spot to serve you.

New Zealand’s International Airline

SERVING THE SOUTH PACIFIC

TIAI

AUCKLAND • WELLINGTON • CHRISTCHURCH • SYDNEY • MELBOURNE • BRISBANE • FIJI • NORFOLK ISLAND • TAI AP56.97.100!

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

A KEEN PRICE AND FIRST-CLASS WORKMANSHIP

GUARANTEED

Sole Distributors fon-

us to tackle

Vauxhall Cars Bedford Trucks Chevrolet Cars Rover Cars Land Rovers Frigidaire Refrigerators Johnson Outboard Motors Firestone Tyres Vesta Batteries Cosley Prefab, Buildings Allis Chalmers Tractors McKinnon Rice, Cocoa, Coffee and Sugar Milling Machinery Nu-Swift Fire Extinguishers Pioneer Chain Saws Telehoist Tipping Gear Cressi Underwater Fishing Gear Priestman Excavators "Coles" Diesel Electric Cranes Gallon Graders Taylor "Jumbo" Cranes Broomwade Compressors Ruston & Hornsby Engines Hoover Appliances Belling Electric Stoves B.A.L.M. Paints Arborite Panels.

S.K.F. Ball Bearings

MILLERS LIMITED, Suva & Lautoka, Fiji

G.P.O. Box 296, Suva Cables: "LUMBA", Suva

(W^^s

SUA*

so*

Quality Biscuits tor every

occasion...

CHICKEN

SNAX

Swallow's Chicken Snax have real chicken flavour. Serve straight from the pack—over 200 to every pound. » 9* Potato

Snax

BACON

SNAX

Bacon Snax— with the flavour o f crisp breakfa s t bacon.

Ideal party savoury with any topping.

POTATO SNAX CURRY CAPPED

Curry Capped Potato Snax—an all-time party favourite with baked potato flavour, and just a sprinkling of curry.

VACUUM PACKED FOR LASTING FRESHNESS

k

IVe have been providing efficient:

BUYING

ll specialise in the requirements 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 <.t :f. i mm%-z. ■ i r

W. S. TAIT & CC

PTY. LTD.

22 Jamison Street Sydney Cab es: SUCCESS k k k.

Since 1890

t

Warnock Bros. Limited

AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Manufacturers of well known brands of Laundry Soap

"KIA ORA" AND NATURIT

Also: "Foam" Soap Powder Detergent "Electric" Pumice Sand Soap Obtainable from Auckland and Island Merchants

FOR THE TROPICS

BUTYL ESTER 80

For Kaumoce weed and other hard-to-kill woody species. Especially effective for tree killing.

M.C.P.A. (Sodium Saif) The Sodium Salt of M.C.P.A., the formulation recommended by the Weeds Officer of the Department of Agriculture, Fiji for selective weed control in rice.

A5O or E5O

The Amine or Ethyl Ester formulation of 2,4-D.

For selective weed control in pastures. 2.4.5- Diluted in diesel fuel oil at 1 part to 30 parts, 2.4.5- will kill Guaua at all growth stages.

LANE'S PTY. LIMITED

BOX 59, P. 0., BANKSTOWN, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA

CABLE ADDRESS: "HARBAS", SYDNEY

mm i■ m i > ■ Spraying Kaumoce weed at Mr. Dave Simpson’s Copra Plantation, Belego Estate, Savusavu.

Lane's Proven Brand

WEEDKILLERS

OBTAINABLE FROM LANE'S EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR FIJI W. R. CARPENTER & CO. (FIJI) LTI

RODWELL ROAD, SUVA

P.O. BOX 299

TELEPHONE: SUVA 5

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The Genuine

Australia's No. 1 portable cooler offers you:— 1. Exclusive 'Eskimo' insulation to keep your food cooler. 2.

Glamorous new basket-weave finish. 3. Gold-anodised food tray. 4. Tough steel body, zinc-chromate sprayed. 5. Airtight lid with permanent seal, locks firmly when handle is set in carrying position. 6.

Reversible rack holds bottles firmly. 7. Handy bottle opener. 8. Choice of 4 beautiful colours.

For hot drinks and food anytime, anywhere . . .

MALLEYS PICNIC KETTLE. Holds enough water for 12 cups of tea. Burns any fuel — twigs, paper, etc. Boils water in minutes, safely. Heats food, too. Only 14 ms. high.

FOR TRADESMEN and HANDYMEN . . .

MALLEYS "PORTABOX"

Robust multipurpose carrier box, made in 22-gauge steel, durable enamel finish. Saves time, temper and tools.

MALLEYS TOOL BOX

Rugged construction, durable enamel finish. Cantilever tray moves into lid when closed.

Holds screws, small tools, etc., securely.

Order through your usual Islands’ Agents CQlUtil BUILT BETTER TO SERVE YOU BEST

EXPORTERS . . . Catering to the South Pacific

C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD.

66 Pitt Street, Sydney (Corner of O’Connell and Pitt Streets) Telephone: 8L5071 (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.

Windsor House, Queen 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

fresh ... sparkling ... cooling

RESCH’S

SPECIAL EXPORT

PILSENER

Specially brewed for tropical climates . . . never affected by even the hottest temperatures . . . refreshing . . . cooling . . . invigorating.

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Caterpillar

S \ J V ; ' ' :>■■■ ; ■ ■ ~.v 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 dose by. Give us c 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.

CATERPILLAR

Cittrptllai and Cit are Registered Trademarks of Caterpillar Tractor Ca, U.SA HD425 Full information 6l prices from

HASTINGS PEERING

(NEW GUINEA) PTY. LIMITED

• Milford Haven Road, Lae, New Guinea Box No. 61 Telephone: Lae 2487 • Port Moresby, Papua Box No. 138 Telephone: Kone 4328

'ViAituMj. oV CaMjheMAcu *7

yjxf

STAY AT A

HOTELS

where you will enjoy superb accommodation and cuisine in an atmosphere of distinction and comfort. Personal attention to every detail is a feature of Rex service .

tyfg

REX INTERNATIONAL HOTELS

THE CARLTON-REX HOTEL, in

the heart of Sydney. Fully air-conditioned. All suites and bedrooms with private bath, TV, radio and phone.

“THE REX AT CANBERRA”

HOTEL. In the Nation’s Capital. Fully air-conditioned.

All suites and bedrooms with private bath, radio and phone. 1

FOR HOLIDAYS AND BUSINESS

first choice for families and businessmen

THE AINSLIE-REX HOTEL at

Canberra. Spacious suites, bedrooms and lounges. Ideal facilities for receptions, conventions and weddings.

THE HOTEL REX. KING’S

CROSS. In cosmopolitan Macleay Street. Continental cuisine, luxury lounges' nightly entertainment in the Canberra Lounge.

THE REX AT BONDI, at Sydney's favourite seaside resort. Superlative convention, function and entertainment facilities.

CONVENTIONS

REX hotels in Sydney and Canberra are acclaimed for dignified and efficient staging of conventions and receptions. REX provides convention facilities and accommodation for up to 400 guests. m

BOOKING OFFICES

CARLTON REX HOTEL, 56 Castle-

reagh Street, Sydney. Phone: 28-5541. Cables: “HOCAR.”

“THE REX AT CANBERRA”

HOTEL, Northbourne Avenue, Braddon, A.C.T. Phone: 4-5311.

Cables: “REXBRAD.” or through your usual Travel Agent REX HOTELS — one of lh' HOOKER GROUP of

& £ O * -A o

2^SSSSSSmSSS2S2

Over 60 Years Experience as

SHIP OWNERS - ISLAND MERCHANTS -

IMPORTERS & EXPORTERS

Merchandise Purchased For Parts Of Factory Clients From All The World At Best & Wholesale Prices.

Original invoices supplied

SOLE AGENTS FOR:

Skandia Diesel Engines.

Archimedes Outboard

Motors.

Aster Canned Fish.

El Trust Shot Guns.

Avrika Axes.

Cocoa Beans, Coffee, Trocas Shell and All Island Produce Sold On World Markets At Best Prices. -Quotations on request.

DISTRIBUTORS OF:

Trade Blankets.

Bush Knives.

Cotton Piece Goods.

Rayon Piece Goods.

Copra Sacks.

And All Trade Requirements.

New Hudson Bicycles.

Take Advantage of Our Branch Office:

NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LIMITED, Stanley Street, South Brisbane—Cables: “Ivan”, Brisbane. or our N.G. Representatives RABAUL TRADING CO. LIMITED, Rabaul and Lae, New Guinea—Cables: “Ivan”, Rabaul; “Ivan”, Lae.

NELSON and ROBERTSON PTY. LTD

PLANTATION HOUSE, 197 CLARENCE ST., SYDNEY. BOX 5316 G.P.O.

Cables: “Ivan”, Sydney. 7/

Kodak gifts say “OPEN ME FIRST

and picture your Christmas fun

STARLET

BROWNIE STARLET

CAMERA OUTFIT

Brownie Starlet Outfit has everything for taking pictures outdoors or indoors by flash.

Consists of Camera, Flasholder, flashbulbs, batteries, Kodak Black-and-white Film and instructions. Takes colour, too! Attractively priced.

BROWNIE STARFLASH

CAMERA OUTFIT

An acceptable gift for lasting pleasure —the Brownie Starflash Outfit. Will give hours of fun-packed enjoyment to the lucky. Contains Camera (with inbuilt flash), flashbulbs, batteries, Kodak Film and full instructions. •rsS msf.

BROWNIE FLASH II

CAMERA OUTFIT

Anyone, any age, can take, sparkling big snapshots by daylight or flash with this complete outfit. Contains Brownie Flash Camera, Flasholder, flashbulbs, batteries, Kodak Black-and-white Film and complete instructions.

KODAK RETINETTE

CAMERA OUTFIT

Enjoy life with this complete 35mm. colour photography outfit. Contains a precision German-made Retinette 1A 35mm. Camera, carrying case, Flasholder, flashbulbs, batteries, Kodaslide Pocket Viewer, Kodachrome Colour Film and instructions.

All cameras available separately KODAK (Australasia) PTY. LTD.

From Kodak Dealers throughout the Islands

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Meadow- :

sweet, : delicious :

[ NESTLED

hoiked mm

comfort

comes in

CANVAS

*easy to buy

easy to carry

* easy to erect

HI * Summer is holiday time, millions of outdoor loving Australians will crowd the nation's beaches and country beauty spots. * Desiring comfort and a home away from home, most will camp or caravan. Canvas goods such as:— tents, stretchers, deck chairs and beach umbrellas all ensure comfort and pleasure. * Canvas goods are popular because they're readily obtainable, portable, and so easy to erect or dismantle. * Enjoy camping comfort. a Oft/ %S'v I

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The W

Cuts fine lawn and jungle growth with equal ease!

• Instant Height Adjustor

• Foldaway Handle ® Safety Ring Guard • 3.6 H.P. Victa Engine ikw Obtainable from: SUVA MOTORS LTD., Suva, Lautoka.

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby.

'JEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo.

AUTOMATIC

PHOTOGRAPHY

Completely automatic exposure control with filter compensation does away with all exposure worries and makes photo technical knowledge unnecessary. Black and white or color with the fully automatic ROLLEI-MAGIC requires simply: a glance, a click for a perfect ROLLEI picture. Nothing could be easier or quicker.

Every problem is solved for you. No guessing about sharpness or composition. The future picture is seen on the super clear focusing screen with bright corners, clear and full of color.lt is sharp and in full size just as itwill appear finally as it is automatically photographed by

AUTOMATIC

PROJ ECTOR

The new ROLLEI PROJECTOR for all sizes of slides, from miniature to 6x6 cm image size.

Further ROLLEI programs: ROLLEI- FLEX T • 3.5 F • 2.8 F TELE-ROLLEI-

FLEX • ROLLEI RENTA PRISM

ROLLEI MICRO ATTACHMENT

Visit your photo dealer, he will gladly advise you.

ROLLEI-MAGIC.

‘KOllev mnyic

Qollei

YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET

FRANKE & HEIDECKE - BRAUNSCHWEIG • GERMANY

GILLESPIES

Gillespie’s Anchor Flour milled from selected hig quality Australian wheats an is entoleted for purity. I consistent high quality hs made it the best-known, mo: asked-for brand of flour in tl Islands. (Entoletion is a special purifyii process which reduces the rh of insect infection).

NCHOR

FLOUR

GILLESPIE BROSTpTY. LTD., ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS. SYDNEY Cable Address: Gillespie, Sydney

December, 1961-Pacific Islands Month!

I Yooiuovt

I GOIPW

I LAG£R

GQIOEN 1015,

TKTITfOK

WAYS

am/yov' // ' !otK * fa,Jiffere**

CROP DRYING

PROBLEMS?

M PS n ■ ■

COFFEE DRYING

TEA WITHERING

RUBBER DRYING

COCOA DRYING

m

COFFEE DRYING

GRAIN DRYING

m

GRAIN DRYING

By new methods developed by Woods, cereals, coffee, tea, rubber and other crops can be dried quickly and economically, making you independent of weather and climate and yielding a high quality product.

Woods warm air drying equipment cuts labour costs and drying time, too. Let us tell you more; we have world-wide representation. Write for catalogues.

TEA WITHERING

RUBBER DRYING

COCOA DRYING

WOODS OF COLCHESTER LTD AGRICULTURAL DIV.

DEPT. C 4. COLCHESTER, ESSEX, ENGLAND

CRC/ WDE 25

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SoaAS- PaO^C

HE CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD

(A British Company incorporated within the United Kingdom )

NCM/'

I J I ■ Passenger Liners:

M.S. "SINKIANG"

(VI.S. "SHANSI"

M.S. "SOOCHOW"

Regular services between Australia, Papua-New Guinea and Solomon Islands.

SoaAS- PaO^C

Regular monthly service with the modern motorships:

CHENGTU

// V < IP* m *

"CHEFOO"

"CHEKIANG"

(Cargo only) Connecting Japan, Hong Kong, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji and Tonga, returning Japan direct.

For further particulars please apply to Agents or refer to the weekly advertisements in the South Pacific Post

AGENTS

PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Pert Moresby, Samarai.

Cables; "Steamships".

NEW GUINEA; Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd., Lae, Madang, Rabaul.

Cables: "Colyeram".

NOUMEA: Etablissements Ballande, Rue de L'Alma, Boite Postale 18, Noumea.

HONIARA: British Solomon Islands Trading Corporation VILA; Les Comptoirs Francaise des Nouvelles-Hebrides.

General Agents in Australia > mmm m m g* „■■■ „ 6 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY •WIRE & YUILL PTY. LTD. cabies: "Swireship". bu mr JAPAN: Butterfield & Swire (Japanj Ltd., Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka Kobe. Cables: "Swire".

FIJI: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SANTO: Les Comptoirs Francaise des Nouvelles-Hebrides APIA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

NUKUALOFA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

TAHITI: Etablissements Donald.

EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire Ltd., 9 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong. Cables: Swire

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Victoria Parade, Suva. Cable “flrgee”

icts from the world’s

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BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

GENERAL MERCHANTS AND SHIPOWNERS

SHIPPING, CUSTOMS AND FORWARDING AGENTS

Fiji:—

SUVA.

LEVUKA.

LAUTOKA.

LABASA.

SAVU SAVU.

BA.

SIGATOKA.

TAVUA.

ROTUMA ISLAND

TAVEUNI.

BRANCHES

Samoa:—

APIA.

PAGO PAGO

Tonga:—

NUKUALOFA.

HAAPAI.

VAVAU.

NORFOLK ISLA

NIUE ISLAND.

Agents for:—

AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE CO. LTD.

BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD.

SHELL COMPANY (P. 1.) LTD.

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.

"Thorsisle".)

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 MARITIMES

(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.)

FOR:-

N.V. Appelton Pty. Ltd. (Naco Sunsash

Louvres).

Ardath Tobacco Co.

Bradford Insulation Industries Pty. Ltd

Brush International Ltd.

A. J. Caley & Sons.

Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.

General Motors-Holden's Ltd.

Hercules Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd.

Charles Hope Ltd. (Cold Flame Refrigerators).

Huntley & Palmers Ltd.

Joseph Lucas (Exp.) Ltd.

Massey-Ferguson (Export) Ltd.

S. Maw Son & Sons (Surgical Dressings).

McAlpine Refrigeration Ltd.

McLeay Duff & Co.

Mullard (Overseas) Ltd.

OXedar Ltd.

Robinson, Thomas & Son Pty. Ltd.

S.F. Appliances Ltd.

Slazengers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Sleepmakers Pty. Ltd.

Standard Motor Co.

Stewart & Lloyds (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES for

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD. TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

TRANSPORTS AERIENS INTERCONTINENTAL^

REGISTERED OFFICE: SUVA, FIJI

Code Address: "BURNSOUTH"

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THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN

IN SUVA (from p. 81)

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Demolition Bargains

SALVAGED BUILDING MATERIALS

★ DOORS. Thousands in stock. All types, sizes, prices. ★ FLOORING. Hardwood and softwood in many widths. ★ HARDWOOD. All sizes, all denailed, all in set lengths. ★ CORRUGATED IRON. All sized sheets in qualities ranging from near new to decking quality ★ PIPES. Black, galvanised and copper in most of the popular sizes. ★ OREGON. Recut and normal. Quality material from the days when only big matured trees were milled. All denailed and in set lengths. ★ CORRUGATED FIBRO. Either the wide deep corrugation for industrial use or the small domestic variety. ★ STEEL. Girders, angles, rounds and flats. ★ WINDOWS, Hundreds in stock. All types from plain sashes to boxframes, casements, hoppers and sliding units.

★ BATHS, BASINS, SINKS, STOVES.

And the many other plumbing items associated with them. ★ HUNDREDS of other items in the acres of demolition stocks at the nation-wide demolition service: ACOUSTEX INTERNATIONAL LTD. Ermington (Sydney), N.S.W., Aust,

SHIP-TO-SHIP

SHIP-TO-SHORE

INTER-ISLAND

RADIO-COMMUNICATION

is an Essential BE SURE WITH THE FINEST EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE CRAMMONDS "CTR 20" 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.,

463 VULTURE ST., EAST BRISBANE,

QUEENSLAND

TERRITORY DISTRIBUTORS:

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NEW BRITAIN ELECTRONICS

PORT MORESBY

RABAUL NEW GUINEA ELECTRONICS

LAE

IJI ACTS ON PORNOGRAPHIC

BOOKS

[n early November the Fiji Customs ;pt was holding some hundreds of pies of American paper-back novels lich were judged too hot for even ji to handle. Visitors to Fiji from istralasia have for years been trigued by the fact that books nned at home were freely available Fiji. The books the Fiji Customs spt objects too are not these, bower, but US paper-backs based solely l sex and sexual perversion. Local oksellers have formed a committee id have voluntarily agreed to disntinue the import of this type of »ok.

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Complexion

Advertisement

Steaming

To clean and freshen the complexion, ease away crow’s feet and unwanted expression lines and put more life into your skin, try complexion steaming.

With a towel over your head, steam over a basin of hot water in which add a tablespoon of lemon delph. Beforehand, anoint the skin with oil of ulan so, as the hot water opens the pores, and the lemon bleaches, the oil is able to penetrate.

After steaming, tone with lemon delph and finish with the ulan. ... Margaret Mernl.

GIVE BOOKS

We search the world successfully for rare and out-of-print books.

NAVIGATOR IN THE SOUTH SEAS (Brett Hilder), illustrated, £l/11/-. Post 1/9.

THE AWAKENING GIANT (Bill Beatty), Australia North of Capricorn. Illustrated, £ 1/5/-. Post 1/9.

SATURDEE, written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay, £l/1/-. Post 1/6.

LKUtiL, written aim lliuauaicu uy iiunu«-n ’ ' ALONG THE TRACK WITH CROSBIE MORRISON (late Editor “Wild Life” Magazine).

His broadcasts of 20 year’s duration, illustrated. £l/10/-. Post 1/6. ms oruauuaaua ui y ca. o . ■ ■ < ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE (Ernst & de Vries). English trans., illustrated, £3/2/-.

Post 2/6.

ANGELIQUE AND THE SULTAN (G. Golon), New historic novel. £l/6/-. Post 1/9.

PACIFIC BOOKS—New Australian Paperbacks: Man from Snowy f (^S? r wind On Our Selection (Steele Rudd). Ben Hall, Bushranger (C r/fi each (Hungerford), Coonardoo (Prichard), No Boundary Fence (O Grady), o/6 each. Post 6d each. oa eacn.

Also new and secondhand books on Australia. Art, Natural History, Gardening, Orchids, Biographies & General Literature. Lists Free.

We are Specialists in Microscopes. Prismatic Binoculars, Day and Astronomical Telescopes, Magnifiers, Compasses, Barometers, etc.

N. H. SEWARD PTY. LTD.

457 Bourke St., Melbourne, Australia. MU 6129

Tropical conditions demand

this superior, more heavily

galvanized steel sheet!

O I

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Throughout the entire Pacific, Lysaght RED

ORB Steel Sheet has proved itself to be far superior to any other type of corrugated sheet available for use in tropical areas.

First, because of its much heavier galvanized coating. Lysaght RED ORB Steel Sheet carries 1.75 ozs. or 2 ozs. of zinc to the square foot according to Australian Standard Specifications and this alone guarantees longer serviceable life and lower maintenance costs.

Second, Lysaght RED ORB Steel Sheet is made especially rigid for roofing purposes ... for maximum strength. This makes for safer handling, easier fixing and enables sheets to be used over and over again.

Insist on Lysaght RED ORB Corrugated Steel Sheet for your new home or storage sheds. Stocks now freely available throughout the Territory.

JOHN LYSAGHT (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED

Head Office: 50 Young Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

Lysaght BLUE ORB Corrugated Steel Sheet, carrying the same heavy galvanized coating as Lysaght RED ORB Corrugated Steel Sheet but made more ductile and especially suitable for the construction of rainwater tanks and where cuiving is necessary.

Lysaght QUEEN’S HEAD Flat Steel Sheet, also heavily zinc coated for maximum service under tropical conditions and essential for forming guttering, downpipes and general rainwater goods.

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Thinking

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If you're planning a trip don't overlook the money angle.

Start a "Holiday Account” at the Commonwealth Savings Bank.

Save something every week.

That's the way to ensure your money lasts longer than your leave. i i 'ij M

COMMONWEALTH

SAVINGS BANK

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Nuts?

Unlike the monkey in our illustration, whose service is somewhat whimsical, we, at Colyer Watson, offer a service which you can thoroughly rely on.

Also, unlike the monkey, we are able to offer you a complete range of first class products to satisfy your every need. So, if you do want nuts, you can have them; but, if you want a car too (Humber, Hillman or Sunbeam) it s yours—through Colyer Watson, of course.

Our prices are most competitive, too!

A ' T % %

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—FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED

Distributors of: ..

Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Cars. Commer Trucks. Willy. J eep» a "^ Coffee Machinery. Coventry-Victor Diesel Engines. Matte" R . e a f "S er =2! Te ,enhonr, Williams Paints. Killrusf Paints. Primus Appliances, Veughan Ra • VBW Tools. Pental Soaps. British Ropes Ltd. Ushers Green Str.pe Scotch wn.sKy

COLYER WATSON ( guinea) LTD.

RABAUL • MADANG • GOROKA • LAE

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GENERAL MERCHANTS Colyer Watson Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Melbourne nnC Brisbane, Fremantle

PLANTATION PROPRIETORS

SHIP OWNERS

urisoane, rronio.n.= Colyer Watson & Co. Ltd., Wellington, Auckland Christchurch

Your old favourite

AINSUE'S

SCOTCH WHISKY

is available again throughout the Pacific Ask for it by name and be sure of quality Even the name has the true Scotch flavour Agents: HALLORAN WANTON PTY. LTD., 4 O’Connell St., Sydney PITT, SON & BADGERY LTD., 4 O'Connell St., Sydney

Bakers and Merchants!

Since the 1920’5, WHITE ROSE products

have been supplied throughout the Pacific. ..

Be assured of quality and uniformity , . . order these White Rose products:

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Turners Supply Company Limited

TURNERS & GROWERS LTD.

AUCTIONEERS FRUIT & PRODUCE MERCHANTS

AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND

WE SPECIALISE IN THE EXPORT TO THE TROPICS

OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE, POTATOES, ONIONS,

APPLES AND FRUITS IN SEASON

All Inquiries to our Export Organisation:

Turners Supply Company Limited

Box 1370, Cables: Auckland, N.Z. “Tusco”, Auckland.

FOR OVER 50 YEARS

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).

STEWARTS ANO LLOYDS

(DISTRIBUTORS) PTY. LiMiTED

Agents for Now Guinea Territory;

Burns Philp (N.S.) Ltd.

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For Jarrah, Cedar, Stained Floors & Woodwork Piccaninny Polishes are manufactured by

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254 Pittwater Road, Manly, N.S.W., Australia

MORRIS HEDSTROM

(AUST.) PTY. LTD.

We are Australian Agents for:

MORRIS HEDSTROM LTD., Fiji, Tonga,

West Samoa.

W. R. CARPENTER (FIJI) & CO. LTD., Suva.

MILLERS LTD., Fiji.

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Lae.

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD,, Port Moresby.

8.5.1. TRADING CORPORATION, Honiara,

Guadalcanal.

G.&E.I.C. WHOLESALE SOCIETY, Tarawa.

MORRIS HEDSTROM

(AUST.) PTY. LTD.

ISLAND MERCHANTS

Wales House, 27 O'Connell St., Sydney Box No. 2512, G.P.0., Sydney. Phone: BL 5421 Cable Address: "Morstrom", Sydney Bank of New Zealand, Sydney: Bank of New South Wales, Sydney.

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Older Children -7 to 10 years—l ADULT FORMULA Tablet as a single weekly dose. —ll to 16 years—lV2 ADULT FORMULA Tablets as a single weekly dose. -Over 16 years—2 ADULT FORMULA Tablets as a single weekly dose.

IMPORTANT:— CAMOQUIN should be taker immediately after or during a full meal.

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BUILDERS AND REPAIRERS

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Above: M.V.

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Left: M.V.

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all refrigerated motor cargo vessel built for the Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd. , ■ ■ M ft 8|« 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.

AUSTRALIA:

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General Representatives:

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TESTED AND PROVED

Photo shows the 60 feet "K"

Class Copra Vessel "Keba", built by us for Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. of Port Moresby.

This is the seventh "K" boat built for this company and the fourteenth built in recent times.

Is any better recommendation needed?

These vessels and also 40 feet Army Workboats are in regular production in our yards. ■ M 1 ■

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Price: £A12,000

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Outright Dependability

Strength, safety and seaworthiness are an integral part of the completely functional Fisherman 15. Of smart design and rugged construction, the hull of imperishable Fibre Glass is completely maintenance free, ideally suited to tropical conditions. Designed primarily for use in coastal and open water, the Fisherman 15 has inbuilt buoyancy tanks an additional safety feature. Hull with standard equipment includes, deck hardware, engine beds, after locker, rudder and tiller. Price: £342 ex factory Melbourne (plus Sales Tax if applicable).

Please forward additional information on the ‘Fisherman 15’ to: — Name Address 5084P1M Also available with 4 h.p. to 8 h.p. marine

engine installed.

Length overall, 15'. Beam, 6'. Draft, V 4".

For full particulars please fill in coupon provided and post to:

SAVAGE FIBREGLASS INDUSTRIES PTY. LTD.

100-110 MASON STREET, NEWPORT, VICTORIA.

All trade enquiries should be directed to the above address. ,

KERR BROTHERS FOR BLAXLAND CHAPMAN LAUNCHES

You have the choice of nine sturdy Blaxland Chapman engines to power your Chapman Launch.

Modern, sleek Chapman Launches hold unchallenged supremacy for reliable and long trouble free service in all climates under all conditions. They are clinker built in 12 ft., 14 ft. and 16 ft. open and 16 ft. and 18 ft. half cabin deluxe models.

Sole Pacific Distributors:

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4 O'CONNELL ST.

SYDNEY

Box 3838, G.P.O.

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Australian Plans Fur South

Pacific Tourism

A survey has recently been made of South Pacific tourist potential r a group which has ideas for launching a big company, with headlarters in Sydney.

If our information is correct, the group is ambitious for virtual •en go on tourism in Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides and, later \, Papua-New Guinea.

It would be company's intention to control hotels in all these island oups from HQ in Sydney but with an area manager in each group, would have a central buying organisation—also presumably in Sydney; d a division which would control transportation for all company erations — launches, feeder airline services, inter-island shipping services, To begin with, the company would acquire a string of hotels in Fiji lich are already a going concern; and an interest in a travel agency it is already organising tours to New Caledonia and New Hebrides 7m Sydney. It would lease or buy hotels in New Caledonia and, ild another, with a casino; it would acquire a hotel development oject that is planned for Vila, New Hebrides.

Also part of what this group reportedly has in mind for reorganising uth Pacific tourism is an “investigation” of travel facilities in Port oresby. This shows some appreciation of the situation in that quarter, lich, with an uninterested Government, is probably the hardest Pacific ivel nut of all to crack.

Everyone—or almost everyone—is agreed that a healthy tourist iustry would be a very good thing for the South Pacific Islands, t there are a lot of people in the Islands who could remain unconvinced it a Sydney monoply is desirable—or even practicable. Plans at the ?ment are only at the tentative stage, but investment money seems to available.

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The Big Sleep

Since America has intensified space-probe programmes, giant 'lobemaster aircraft have beome part of the scenery at r adi, Fiji. But recently a pilot mding one of the big machines iw something that was even lore terrifying than a missing iimpanaut. It was a man, retched out at full length, right the middle of the runway, e managed to swerve and pull s aircraft up at the side of the inway and radioed the control wer.

With another Globemaster on e point of take-off and a Boeing V due to land, security men shed out in a car and there, described, was a man fast leep and clasping a bottle of m.

A few days later a Fijian liter was fined £5O or four onths for being asleep on the nway; and £lO or two months, r being illegally in possession liquor.

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First term 1962 commences on January 30 Prospectus from the Principal, G. E. Thomson, 8.C0m., or Secretary, City Mutual Bigs., 90 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland.

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4 O'Connell Street, Sydney P.O. Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney Cable Address: "Carefulness'

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Australian Calendar

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DECEMBER 26, 27 and 28. 1961;

Australia meets Italy in the challenge round of the Davis Cup at the courts of the Lawn Tennis Assn, of Victoria, Kooyong, Melbourne.

MARCH 2-12, 1962: The Moomba Festival, when Melbourne, Vic., is en fete with special sporting events, street parades, etc.

MARCH 17-31: The Festival of Arts.

Adelaide, SA. Programme of music, drama, opera, art, dance and pageantry. Special appearances will be made by Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which is making its first Australian visit.

LOOKING AHEAD: The Commonwealth Games, Perth, WA, November 22-December 1, 1962.

BEST CURRENT HOLIDAY IDEA:

For December, January and February you should think about cooling off in the island State of Tasmania; or anywhere on mainland coastline south of 27 deg.

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Regular sailings by Fast, Modern, Cargo Vessels from

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to

PAPEETE, NOUMEA, HONIARA, PORT MORESBY, RABAUL

LAE and MADANG

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.

Most vessels are equipped with comfortable, air-conditioned, passenger accommodation.

For further particulars apply to Agents — ETS. DONALD TAHITI, AGENCE MARITIME PENTECOST, BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD., Papeete. Noumea. Port Moresby and Lae.

WM. BRECKWOLDT & CO., NEW GUINEA COMPANY LTD., Honiara. Rabaul and Madang.

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Further particulars may be obtained from: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 13-15 Bridge St.. Sydney. Phone: 27-6301.

Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. Phone: MA 3031.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide—Gibbs Bright & Co. & H Buntine Ltd Rabanl (New Britain)

Transport Lhnited. 'SSSL

Gubbay and Co. (New Hebrides) Pty. Ltd. Vila (New Hebrides)— Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Japan and Hong Kong—Dodwell & Co. Ltd.

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PAPEETE —Etablissements Donald Tahiti. SUVA—Borns Philp (South Sea) Company, PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co. Ltd.

APlA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, LAE/RABAUL —Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd. Ltd.

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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. r /S For full particulars apply FIJI —Any branch or agency of Burns Philp (South Sea Co. Ltd.).

Cable Address: Burphil. TAHlTl—Messageries AAaritimes, Papeete. Cable Address: Messagerie, Papeete.

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Clarence Degenhardt & Co.

Stock & Share Brokers

C. HUMPHREYS J. W. DUNCAN

MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE

Mercantile Mutual Building, 117 Pitt Street, Sydney.

Telephones: BW 1751 (5 lines), BL 3327 (3 lines) Telegrams; WARDANKO, Sydney. Cable Address: OGIANI, Sydney

A. B. S. WHITE & CO.

Stock and Sharebrokers

H. S, LLOYD, E. C. S. WHITE, O. B. LLOYD,

J. L. KING, K. H. WATERHOUSE.

MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE

16 O’Connell Street, Sydney. 181 Church Street, Parramatta.

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CABLES & TELEGRAMS: “WHITLOYD”, SYDNEY.

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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

FOR SALE

LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT. Hoffman Washer, Extractor, Tumbler Hot Water Heater, Water Pump and Distribution Panel.

Unused. 220/50-60/3. Dry weight capacities: Washer 75 lbs., Extractor 25 lbs., Tumbler 40 lbs. Mounted on skids, 8 ft. x 12 ft. Units now operating at hotels and hospital in Suva, Mexico and Costa Rica. $2,000, f.0.b., Los Angeles.

Ruxton, 638 North, Vista, California,

U.S.A.

SHIPBROKERS (AUCKLAND) LTD., offer

a wide range of craft. Consult us for your requirements. Box 1679, Cables: “Shipsales”, Auckland. Fiji representative F. B. Blakey. Phone 4850, Suva.

DIESEL ENGINES. A.E.C. 130 HP. 6

cylinder, complete with all electrical equipment, 5 speed gear box and extra generator £390 N.Z., freight paid. Also G.M. 6.71 model, 6 cylinder, 2 stroke, £525. These motors are ex-Army run approx. 300 hours, many now in launches, sawmills, tractors, etc. Giltrap Motors, Mount Mounganui, New Zealand.

FLEETS 31 ft. diesel sports cruiser, big self baling cockpit, well-furnished, fully found, £4,500. 45 ft. refrigerated trawler and fishing boat, carvel, bit. Norman Wright 1958, in survey, big deck accommodation, £ 10,000. 48 ft. carvel coaster passenger boat, bit. 1956, in survey, £7,350. 40 ton, 60 ton, 300 ton cargo boats. Fleets, Rowe’s Building, Edward St., Brisbane, Qld., Aust. Cable: “Fleets”, Brisbane.

POSITIONS WANTED

ACCOUNTANT, 36 years of age, single with excellent knowledge and experience store admin., shipping, insurance, etc. At present in NW Australia desires position in Islands. Replies; “Accountant”, c/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, Aust.

YOUNG SYDNEY MAN requires accounting position in Fiji or other Island Territory.

Good business experience, holds sales diploma and is studying Accountancy.

Unmarried, excellent refs. P.O. Box 38, Roseville, N.S.W., Australia.

POSITION WANTED

EXPERIENCED, middle aged. North

Queenslander, ex-serviceman, is interested in obtainihg a suitable position in islands or tropical area.

Wide practical experience in agri-

culture, administration white and native staff. Sound knowledge of

plantation management, sawmilling

and mechanical equipment.

Replies: “SETTLEMENT MANAGER",

c/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, Aust.

TRADE ENQUIRIES

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you might was from Hong Kong (Photographic and Cii Equipment, Transistor Radios, Househo Appliances, Chinese Brocades, Flask Flowers, Mikimoto Pearls, etc.) we cc supply you with. Right prices au personal care assured. Please write! for quotations. Filmo Depot Ltd., 3: Marina House, Hong Kong. Establish! in Hong Kong since 1936.

C. S. & JOHNSON YOUNG CO., P.O. E 3038, Hong Kong. Export Hong Ko: Chinese manufactured goods. Imp* Island produce. Enquiries welcome, j

HONGKONG EXPORTING HOUSE holdt.

many important exclusive agencies $ handling all Hongkong and Japan produu wishes to appoint Agents. Free samp) supplied. Interested parties write dire to P. 0., Box 13203, Hong Kong.

STAMPS WANTED

TOP PRICES PAID FOR ISLAI

STAMPS. Current issues, old accumulatio (used or unused), covers, collectioi Seven Seas Stamps Pty. Ltd., SterljJ Street. Dubbo, N.S.W., Aust.

BOOKS, MAGAZINES

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AU

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AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and s< free on application. Correspondence ; vited. Berkelonw, 114 King St., Sydnt Telephone: BW 7874.

ACCOMMODATION

FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Sydn: Water frontage, large, comfortable, t bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minu to city. Enquiries: Nelson & Robert: Pty. Ltd., Q.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney, Au

Furnished

Serviced

Suites

In Sydney

Kanimbla Hall. 19-29 Tusculum St...

Potts Point, 5 minutes city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant, S.C., furn.i serviced suites with separate Lounge, Bed and Bath Rms. andi Kitchenettes, Refrig., H.W., from: £3/3/- daily for 1, plus £l/1/- extras per day for each extra person. Some leased flats for longer periods froim £l7/17/- weekly. Write or Phone:; FL4141 (9 lines); after hours, FL 4149.( Telegrams: ‘Kanimblahall”, Sydney.

Classified Advertisements

Per line, 4/-; Minimum rate, 4 lines.

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, South Sea Island Correspondence Club, Natuvu, Fiji Is.

WANTED

OLD COINS, currency, tokens, primitive moneys. Excellent condition only. Write details and prices desired before sending.

Mrs. J. C. Ostheimer, 811 West 7th St., Los Angeles 17, California, U.S.A.

WANTED

STAMPS washed or on pieces.

CRAFTS native art, weapons, etc.

PROMPT CASH

TREASURE ISLAND, 119 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.A.

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Specialising in Pacific

Islands Insurances.

FIRE—MOTOR VEHICLE —MARINE

—HULLS AND CARGO-

EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY.

BONDS — in accordance with Administration Ordinance— COPßA insured from drier to buyer—and all other classes arranged at lowest current rates.

Established Agencies throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

RABAUL, T.N.G.

Managing Agents: New Guinea Co., Ltd.

Island Representative; G. D. A. Kent, Rabaul Branch.

SUVA, FIJI.

Colony of Fiji Branch Office: McGowan’s Building, Margaret St., Suva.

Branch Manager; L. M. Roils.

Southern Pacific Insurance

Co., Ltd.

Head Office: The Wales House, 66 Pitt St., Sydney.

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W. H. Grove & Sons Ltd.

Established 1896

Island Merchonts

16-18 FANSHAWE STREET, AUCKLAND

Telegraphic and Cable Address: “Grove”, Auckland. P.O. Box 490, Auckland, New Zealand Entrust your requirements to the firm with more than 60 years 7 practical experience in the Island trade.

REPRESENTING MANUFACTURERS

THROUGHOUT FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALEDONIA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SOCIETY ISLANDS, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE, PAPUA,

NEW GUINEA, ETC.

SHIPPERS OF ALL CLASSES OF NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES AND PRODUCTS SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE ISLAND TRADE WE HANDLE ALL KINDS OF ISLAND PRODUCE IN FIJI as: W. H. GROVE & SONS (FIJI) LIMITED

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You II love the luxury of the big Ansett-ANA DC6B airliners , and the delicious Golden Orchid Service meals. 3 flights weekly to Brisbane and Sydney by big DC6B aircraft. Plus speedy jet Fokker Friendship services to Cairns and Townsville. 5180

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Corner 4th Street and Coronation Drive, Lae, Phone 2291 Champion Parade, Port Moresby, Phone 2113.

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BRAYBON 2KVA 240 VOLT. A.C.

Diesel Electric Lighting Set, fully self contained. Price packed f.o.b. Sydney: £265

BRAYBON "JUNIOR" ►

750 Watt 240 Volt, portable electric petrol set, weight only 70 lbs. Price: £9B/10/- f.o.b. Sydney. ■■A / OQ

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sign of 27-33 Washington Street, Sydney ‘y Products TELEPHONE: AAA 6853. TELEGRAMS: "BRAYBONIAN", SYDNEY. tributed by: TUTT BRYANT (PACIFIC) LTD., Port Moresby, Robaul and Goroka.

Electrolux

Kerosene

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Electrolux kerosene-operated deep freezer conserves up to 100 lb. dry weight of pre-frozen packaged foods for many weeks in tropical ambient temperatures as high as 100 deg. Fahr. (38 deg. Cent.) or even higher, provided there is a drop at night. Even fresh foods (meat, game, fish, vegetables, butter, etc.) may be kept for several weeks or many times longer in C 80 than in an ordinary refrigerator.

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Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo 5.C.1.E., Noumea

BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD.,

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NERAL MERCHANTS

INERAL SHIPPING

CUSTOMS AGENTS

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Shell Co. of Australia Ltd. r ds of London varts & Lloyds (Distributors) ty. Ltd.

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San Francisco Agents: is Philp Co. of San Francisco

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i Mi n ll i i i i

CAPITAL £10,000,000

ASSOCIATED

COMPANIES:

NEW GUINEA:

New Guinea Co. Ltd., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng.

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. w. R.

GENERAL MERCHANT

Forty-six years of Development and Service in the Pacific Wholesalers and Retailers.

Buyers for Island trade of all classes of merchandise from World Markets.

Buyers of Island Produce: Copra, Cocoa and Coffeebeans, etc.

BUYING ENQUIRIES

LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., SYDNEY; Morris Hedstrom (A St., Sydney.

Islands Agents for Australii European and Amerii Manufacturers includii Electrolux, Chrysler, Fc McCallum's Whisky, Vi Mowers, Enfield Engin 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2. stralia) Pty. Ltd., 27 O'Con

CARPENTER & CO. LIE

27 O'Connell St., Sydney, Australia Established 1914 Cable Address

CAMOHE"

Telephone BL 5421 Postal Address; GP O Box 168, Sy

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