Pacific Islands Monthly

Vol. 36, No. 6 (Jun. 1, 1965)
1 June 1965 · uncorrected OCR from NLA scans

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OUR COVER; This sturdy Sikh is a citize of Fiji—one of the 230,000 Indians wh comprise about half the population c this British Colony, which is now on th threshold of political change. The bi question in Fiji at the moment is: Wh< will the changes bring? (See story o p. 10.) —Photo: Rob Wright.

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In This Issue

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MERAL

jlynesian News", Japanese Paper .. 21 mpylus, "Strangest Fishes Ever" .. 25 > BP Executive's 91st Birthday 137

lERICAN SAMOA

jbts Over "Total TV" Education 27 jlicity Drive tor Tourists Urged ... 133

OK ISLANDS

lependents in Assembly Walk-Out 31 use of Arikis Proposed 35 active Government Suspended ... 35 w Canning Factory 69 ihcraft Training 9 prehension Over London Talks ... 10 conut Industry Board Appointment 12 e-Year Plan for Rotuma 12 rouraging Cocoa Tests 27 pra Renaissance 61 ck Day tor Small Ships 109 chting Marina Planned 113 ire Overseas Ships 113 iday Trade in Suva Banned 123 jtoka-Yasawas Cruise Service 129 >. Firm to Make Tourism Survey ... 133 jher Wages for Hotel Employees 133 fra Air Service to Tonga 133 jy Cleared for Sugar Talks 136 cimal Currency to be Adopted ... 137 iw Fijian Affairs Secretary 139

ENCH POLYNESIA

iomb Brings Prosperity 37 d of Era for Motu Uta 89

Big Build-Up of Naval Strength 107

World Spearfishing Championship 127

GILBERT and ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY

Sudden Death from the Sky 15 Documentary Film Plan 45

LINE ISLANDS

Baker, Howland Islands for A-Tests? 39

NAURU

New Look in Negotiating Tactics 15

NEW CALEDONIA

Prehistoric Drawings Found on Lifou 57 Lucien Bernheim, Mining Magnate 85 Casino Seen as Drawcard 127 Tourist Statistics 127 Pacific Cup Spearfishing Contest 127

NEW HEBRIDES

New Postage Stamps 11 "Tiare Taporo" Damaged by Fire 107 Former Naval Ship Lost 115

NORFOLK ISLAND

"Unsightly Development" 25

Wheat-Growing Proposal 55 New Shipping Service 115 Guide Book for Ramblers Published 131

NIUE

"Aid to Revenue" Tax 67 Changing Pattern of Transport 67

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

Moves Towards a Constitution 8 Independence "Not Only Future" ... 8 Higher Copra Prices 10

Mr. Barnes' Visit; Busy Month 14 New Administrator? 14 Fuss in Parliament Over Japanese 21 Ship's Link with German Times 23 Catholic Vicariate's 60th Anniversary 23 Lae Herbarium Opened 25 Japanese War Aims 53 "Little Men" of New Ireland 53 Patrol to Contact "Lost Tribe" 59 New Shipping Service 115 Move for Duty-Free Shopping 125 Air Service to Manila via Moresby 133 Copper Found on Bougainville 135 Big Timber Lease on Bougainville 135

Share Issue by Steamships Trading 135

Produce Prices' Odd Effects 135 Stock Exchange Proposed 137

PITCAIRN ISLAND

Motor Power Makes Life Easier 29

SOLOMON ISLANDS

La Perouse Coin Mystery Solved 87 Honiara Port Developments 113

SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION

Sixth Conference in Lae 47

TONGA

Financial Help from Britain 12 Concern Over Population Growth ... 23 When the Treasury Was Broke 91 Mariner's Cave Photographed 133 New Tuber Crop May Be Valuable ... 136 Coconut Replanting Scheme Proposed 137

UNITED STATES TRUST TERRITORY

Economic Development Programme .. 139

WESTERN SAMOA

Apia Hotel Scheme Strikes Snag ... 13 Apia's "Beach" to be Reclaimed 13 Pay Increase for Public Servants 45 Much to Offer Tourists 121 New R. L Stevenson Cairn 125 Second DC3 for Polynesian Airlines 133

DEPARTMENTS: Tropicalities, 21; People in Pictures, 42; Editors' Mailbag, 53; From the Islands Press, 73; Pacific Planters' Digest, 75; Magazine Section, 85; New Books, 95; Territories Talk-Talk, 103; Shipping, 107; Cruising Yachts, 117; Travel, 121; Schedules for Cruise Ships, 131; Commerce, 135; People, 139; Shipping, Airways Timetables, 145; Deaths of Islands People, 155.

Moves Towards

pp. 10-11

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

A CONSTITUTION

From a Port Moresby Correspondent

The six-day meeting of the House of Assembly of Papua- New Guinea, in May, marked the end of the first year in the life of the junior Parliament of the Territory. In many ways it was six days of reaction, of anti-climax, a legislative tidying-up of major topics such as the University Bill and the World Bank Report, already well talked-out.

OUT in other, important ways, it " marked the further growth in stature and responsibility of a chamber whose members can, as yet, claim only one common interest— and that a vague one—the continued peaceful progress of Papua and New Guinea.

The most significant of these was the appointment of a select com mittee to investigate and draft a constitution for the country. The committee of ten, headed by Mr.

John Guise of Papua, who moved for it in January, is to produce its final proposals for the House to con sider in the second last meeting of its life, probably in May or June, 1967, It has four native members, three Australian members, and three official (Government) members.

There was unanimous support for the idea of drafting a constitution, and it received also the blessing, although not unqualified, of the Government.

Government Warning

The Leader of the House, Dr.

John Gunther, delivering the official view on the move towards a con stitution, said he had been authorised to say that the Government welcomed the proposals for drawing up certain principles which ought to be in corporated in the ultimate constitu tion at the stage of self-government.

He added, as a rider, the warning that the Government believed a balance should be preserved between political and social and economic development. He said: “The soundest result for the Ter ritory will be one which as far pos sible links stages of constitutional development with appropriate stages of social and economic development.”

This little lecture drew sharp replies from both Mr. lan Downs

(Highlands Special) and Mr. John Stuntz (East Papua). They described it as “amazing” and “unnecessary” and “engendered by fear and hyper sensitivity”, and suggested it was the work of the Department of Ter ritories, Canberra, rather than that of Dr, Gunther himself.

This was, in fact, only one of a number of debates in which a rising sense of impatience at the work of the Territories Department could be detected. And there was a strong feeling running through the lobbies and the members’ rooms that if the

Canberra planners did not take more account of the House, they would be made to.

Members are beginning to become jealous of their authority and their responsibility to the country.

So the first year of the new legislature has ended, on the floor

Mr. John Guise, leader of the elected members in the House of Assembly, who moved that a select committee be ap pointed to prepare a draft set of con stitutional proposals for P-NG. He has been pressing for a constitution for at least 12 months.

the House, with a positive move vards defining the sort of state it Papua-New Guinea should be the future.

Fhe newspapers have described the ting up of the Constitutional mmittee as a major step towards lependence, but members of the »use see it as far more than that, is a giant step towards assuring Dd government, freedom and the Section of civil liberties, in ad ice of the clamour and heady otionalism that so often mark iroaching independence in back rd and unevenly-developed coun ts. This, they think, is a great d more important than setting get dates, like mileposts, along an surveyed road.

So much for progress achieved Jer the lights, on the cork-tiled jr of the House.

Outside the chamber, events move ire slowly, but there are signs of expected groping towards logical ►upings that may result in the first ties in Papua-New Guinea, fhe members themselves are wary the party idea, but in the last ir they have become increasingly are of the unwieldy nature of the ected members” group, 54 strong.

From the start, the 54 have met ;ularly throughout the meetings, ting out conflicts, planning tactics, u’eving where possible agreement action on all the most important -ies. This work has paid off. as

was demonstrated earlier this year by the disciplined opposition to government policies, notably the new local pay scales. Where disagreement was unavoidable, no attempt was made to force unanimity of views.

But now, members realise, more is needed.

No issue over the last twelve months has produced violent division of opinion that would serve as a focus for party development, and the danger of trying to create artificial, or regional groupings, is recognised.

A Highlands bloc, predicted in some quarters over a year ago, has never developed. This was proved con clusively in the debate on the Univer sity Bill, when expected Highlands opposition to Port Moresby as the university site failed to materialise in a significant form.

However, in the Secretariat build ing, next to the House of Assembly, and in private homes, the talks go on, often late into the night, in the hope of finding common ground on which to found party groups.

One such group is gathering around Zure Zurecnuoc, member for Finsch hafen and Under-Secretary for the Treasury. Zure is emerging as one of the strongest figures among the New Guineans, but so far he cannot command loyalty for his leadership from any sizeable number.

Other moves are taking place among Islands members, led by Mr.

Roy Ashton, New Britain Special electorate, and among representatives from the Morobe, Madang, Eastern Highlands, and Western Papua areas.

All are conscious that a party or bloc would need to command between 15 and 20 votes to be a significant force.

The leader of the elected members, Mr. John Guise, is in a curious position.

John Guise's Position

Ostensibly the most powerful man of the 54, he is reported to be feeling his personal position weakened by his need to provide real leadership of a shapeless group. Some members say he is compromising himself out of existence, and may not be able to continue in this way much longer.

Behind all the busy clatter of debate, the stream of political life is starting to run more strongly.

There is an air of expectancy as members wait and search for the issue that could crystallise opinion and spark the parties. But there is caution. The 54, or most of them, know already that the winning policies will arise from the needs of the people, and cannot be imposed from the top.

One, Says Mr. Barnes

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There Are More Ways Than One, Says Mr. Barnes

IN his most important statement since becoming Australia’s Minister for Territories, Mr. C. E. Barnes said in Canberra in May that independence was not the only possible future for Papua-New Guinea.

But internal self-government was probably the first stage in whatever political set-up was chosen.

Mr. Barnes made his statement after the House of Assembly in Port Moresby agreed to set up a committee to investigate a constitution (see this page).

Opening a seminar on PN-G’s future, held by the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, Mr. Barnes said it was wrong to talk of complete independence for the Territory as the inevitable, only or immediate outcome.

“We have undertaken to advance the people to self-determination,” he said. “That means the right to choose.

“Independence is certainly one possible choice but there are others.

Continued membership of the British Commonwealth is one of them.

“Some association with Australia is another, and there is an infinite variety of such associations which are open for discussion between the representatives of the Territory people and of the Australian people when the time comes, if this is what the Territory people wish.

“Internal self-government is no doubt the minimum, and probably the first stage in any event.”

Mr. Barnes added that self-determination did not depend on the achievement of economic viability, but the closure of the gap between the Territory’s income and expenditure needed to be discussal.

Look At

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THESE 10 WILL

CONSTITUTION

Ten members of the 64member P-NG House of Assembly comprise the select committee which will make pro posals for a draft constitution for the Territory.

The list of names was proposed by Matthias Toliman, a Parlia mentary Undersecretary and a member of the Administrator’s Council.

Members are Messrs. John Guise, Bill Bloomfield, lan Downs, Nicholas Brokam, Simo %en Pita, Sinake Giregire, John Stuntz (all of whom are elected members), Dr. John Gunther, Assistant Administrator, Mr. L.

W. Johnson, Director of Educa tion and Mr. W. W. Watkins, Secretary for Law. Six of the 10 ire members of the Administra tor’s Council, and four are New Guineans.

Will He Make It?

p. 11

There appears to be some doubt as to whether Fijian Joeli Nabuka wilt indeed cross this turbulent river with the aid of a rope—but he made it. Nabuka was one of 63 potential leaders who in May underwent some rigid training in bushcraft at the Queen Victoria School, Fiji, as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. The scheme encourages young people to make best use of their leisure by following activities that are both enjoyable and purposeful.

Physical fitness and knowledge of bushcraft are among the require ments. — Photo: Rob Wright.

Apprehension

pp. 12-13

Over London Talks On Fiji’s Future

From a Suva Correspondent

With only a little more than a month to go before the 18 unofficial members of Fiji’s Legislative Council meet around the conference table in London to plan the Colony’s destiny, the political cauldron is beginning to simmer, and there is apprehen sion in the Colony.

A RUMOUR which circulated round Suva recently reveals the degree of apprehension which some of the more fanciful souls are beginning to feel.

The red-belted Fijian policemen in their white serrated sulus began to appear on the streets with truncheon hanging in a special holder from their belts.

It took only a couple of days for the word to get around that the police were preparing for riots.

The real explanation was that a supply of specially-made frogs had been received and these enabled the

truncheon to be carried at the belt.

There is no truncheon pocket in a sulu.

People laughed perhaps with relief—when the explanation was published, and so far there is little sign that those truncheons will ever come out en masse in a repetition of the 1959 riots. Although the rift between some sections of the popu lation is widening, the battles are, after all, merely battles of words.

That’s what people keep telling themselves, anyhow.

Wordiest battle of the month followed a speech made at Lautoka by Apisai Mohammed Tora, creator and secretary-general of the Fijian Democratic Party, which boasts a membership of 4,000. Despite his name, Tora is a Fijian.

Lettish in outlook, a trade union organiser with influence concentrated mainly in the North-west of Viti Levu, and regarded by many Fijians as somewhat of a rebel against tradition, Tora threw a political cat among the island doves.

Tora's Surprise

Like the old music hall artist George Robey, it wasn’t what he said but how he said it.

Many had thought for several years that Tora was anti-Fijian and pro-Federation Party. And hadn’t he renounced Christianity for Islam?

When he founded his party it was opposed to Fijian tradition and his incursions into the trade union field had a tinge of the political agitator about them, though recently he has shown all the signs of being a responsible trade unionist.

The very last thing expected ( him was an anti-Indian tirade, b that was what his speech was in tl Kisan Sangh Hall at Lautoka.

It may have been prompted by desire for continued notoriety, ( perhaps it was an indication th blood is thicker than water. Whz ever it was, it brought a more viole reaction than most political speech to date.

The Fijian Democratic Party hi decided to let its voice be heard, 1 said, because as Fijians they we getting fed up with being kick around.

He went on to condemn tl common roll, which is almost tl only thing about which almost all tl Indians in Fiji are united, and whi< is likely to be the reef on whi( the constitutional conference London strikes trouble.

Tora then became very anti-Indk and less than diplomatic. He de cribed them as impertinent—th sentence was not published—ai cried for the creation of a cor mission to make inquiries in oth parts of the world “to see if tho parts could take our rapidly i creasing Indian population”.

Reminding his audience that tl National Congress of Fiji—a new emerged Indian association—had sa that 160,000 Indians wished migrate, Tora commented: “The on thing we should do is help them g°”.

Fortunately, the majority (

Mrs. Eirene White, Britain's Parliamenta Under-Secretary for the Colonies, is Welshwoman who is a keen Rugby fa[?] so she was interested in meeting in su[?] recently Suliasi Cavu, captain of the [?] Rugby team which was so enthusiastical received in Wales last year. Mrs. Whi was in Fiji to gather the views of Fij minority groups in preparation for t[?] constitutional conference to meet London in July.—Photo: Rob Wright.

nking Indians have laughed at ra’s words, refusing to take him iously. But the Federation Party, leaders of whom have been ponsible with their extremist views Tora’s apparent volte face, have en umbrage and have attacked ra in their propaganda organs.

Ml the heat engendered by the ra views apparently resulted in an ident in Lautoka a few days later en Fijians entered two of the )lic bars and forced all the Indians leave. There were no fights, but this sort of behaviour that breeds germs which could turn those [ squads out.

Meanwhile, what will happen iuld the London conference fail? fhere is a strong belief in some irters that the Federation Party’s r representatives plan to walk of the conference if their demands not met, and that Mr. A, Patel □ld go to Moscow, and then on the United Nations in New York h an appeal to send a party to to supervise elections on a com n roll, with independence to ow. dr. Patel would ask the Soviet its backing on the ground that has always been an anti onialist, and also for a financial nt for the “university tutorial col s’’, which his spiritual adviser, ami Rudrananda, the eminence tind the throne, plans to build Pailevu. The Ramakrishna Mission, Swami says, owns a vast area of d there.

When asked by PIM on June 1 comment on these reports that he ns to visit Moscow and New York, . Patel said: “Cannot a man go where in the world he likes with someone questioning him? Is he free to go anywhere? In any e I have not yet made any angements”.]

Indians In Army

fhe Federation’s Press has been ling loudly for a common roll, I for greater representation in the pslative Council for the Indian nmunity because of its pre iderance of numbers in the colony, iut midst it all there has been one isual article recently, commenting “the complete lack of Indians” the Fiji Miiltary Forces. \n editorial in Jagriti on May 8 ;gested that racial discrimination 5 behind the absence of the iians and asked how, in “such a erse atmosphere”, there could be isfactory constitutional reform in Yas the article, some people are ing, intended for consumption

abroad or for home consumption?

It is well known in Fiji, or ought to be, that there is no racial ban or discrimination in the Fiji Military Forces. Any fit person can join the FMF, be he Fijian, Indian, Rotuman, part-European, Chinese or European or anything else, so long as he is a citizen of Fiji.

Among the United Nations’ Com mittee of 24, however, it may not be known.

In the regular forces there are now no Indians serving, although they have enlisted from time to time, but in the 2nd Battalion, which is the Territorial arm, there are at present 15 Indian soldiers.

But why has the Federation Party now turned its attention to the Fiji Military Forces?

Some close students of political undercurrents hold that the Federa tion Party sees the FMF with its present composition as an obstacle to any extremest Indian attempts to take more control in Fiji. They feel that already some of the arguments being advanced by the Federation Party are remarkably similar to Marxist methods of argument.

At the time of writing, the Great Council of Chiefs is meeting at Suva and from it has come one piece of information which indicates the

present temper of some of the Fijians.

A motion was placed before the council calling for the exclusion of Indians from the constitutional talks in London.

It was defeated by a narrow majortiy.

One can visualise the political whirlwind which would have hit the Colony had the motion been passed by such an exalted body.

Demands for the exclusion of the Indians from the London conference are not new. Letters in Fijian news papers have called for the exclusion of both Indians and Europeans from the conference, on the ground that when Fiji was ceded by King Cakobau to Queen Victoria in 1874 the only partners in the deal were the Fijians and the British Govern ment.

Some Fijians argue that any change in the relationship between Fiji and Great Britain should be the business of no one but the partners to the Deed of Cession.

The Fijian attitude has hardened of late.

Many Fijians are angry at the noise which is daily being made by the Federation Party and its sup porters, at the Patel group’s refusal to take part in the talks between the three racial groups in the Legislative Council and at its announcement that only the common roll will satisfy the group.

The Fijians are not losing sight of the fact that, in 1962, the Fijian members of Legislative Council solemnly declared that if Great Britain abrogated the Deed of Cession then Fiji must be handed back to the Fijians. The Fijians have not altered their stand.

Apisai Mohammed Tora, secretary-general of the Fijian Democratic Party, surprised everybody during the month with his comments on Fiji's racial situation. Tora was last in the news in a big way in 1959, at the time of the Suva riots. He then wore a Castro beard and regularly sported a baseball cap, but today he is more sedate in his dress and his opinions.

P-NG Copra Prices

p. 12

Up £10 A Ton

Papua-New Guinea copra pro ducers will get £lO a ton more for copra from and including June 1, the Territories Minister, Mr. C. E. Barnes, announced on May 30.

The increase follows higher average prices for copra on the world market.

Papua and New Guinea now produce more than 100,000 tons of copra a year, and this year’s crop will be worth about £8 million to the territory, Mr.

Barnes said.

The chairman of the Copra Marketing Board, Mr. I. Mc- Donald, said that the new prices at the main depots of the board in P-NG would be: HAD, £7l/10/- a ton; FMS, £7O; smoked, £69/9/9.

The New Hebrides

p. 13

STAMP-ISSUING YEAR IN

The Posts and Telecommunications Department in the New Hebrides will make a record number of postage stamp issues this year.

Two stamps were issued in May to mark the centenary of the Inter national Telecommunications Union.

On August 16, four new stamps in the definitive series will be issued for sale. They feature cocoa, fishing, a butterfly fish, and a local bird.

On September 15, four stamps to commemorate the late Sir Winston Churchill will go on sale to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Britain; and on October 24 —United Nations Day—an issue of stamps will commemorate Inter national Co-operation Year.

Man, Too

p. 14

NOW HE'S A COPRA

From a Suva Correspondent WITH a wealth of experience behind him in handling industrial relations, Fiji’s new copra boss, Mr.

H. G. S. Nicholls, will bring many gifts to his new job—but loquacity is not one of them.

Mr. Nicholls had nothing to say when I sought an interview with him about his recent appointment as chairman of Fiji’s new Coconut Industry Board (see p. 61). It’s a part-time job, and Mr. Nicholls retains his post as chairman of directors of South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd., the CSR subsidiary in Fiji.

An industrial chemist, Mr. Nicholls joined CSR in Queensland, and went to Fiji in 1931 when he was 25 to do sugar research.

He served as CSR’s industrial officer and manager of its Penang and Lautoka Mills before becoming the company’s chief inspector in Fiji in 1957. Three years later he was made chairman of CSR’s subsidiary com pany Rewa Rice Ltd., and in 1961, chairman of SPSM.

Five-Year Plan

p. 14

For Rotuma

A five-year plan for Rotuma, a dependency of Fiji, 400 miles north of Suva, was outlined by Fiji’s Governor, Sir Derek Jake way, during a visit to Rotuma in May.

The plan includes the possible construction of an airfield, pro posals for increasing copra pro duction and improving roads and water supplies, and schemes for rearing cattle and pigs.

If the plan to build an airfield is proceeded with, it would make Rotuma much less isolated than it now is—as its only links with the outside world at present are small inter-island vessels from Suva which call every few months with passengers and stores, and to lift copra.

Sir Derek Jake way was in Rotuma for celebrations on May 13 marking the 84th anniversary of the cession of the island to Britain. This was 6i years after the cession of Fiji.

The Governor told the Rotumans he hoped to hear the views of the Council of Rotuma on the question of constitutional advance, which would be dis cussed at a conference in Lon don in July.

Of Her Money Troubles

pp. 14-15

Britain Will Help Tonga Out Of Her Money Troubles

From Dorothy Lavin, in Nukualofa The visit to Tonga of Mr. A.

N. Galsworthy, Deputy Under

secretary of State for the British Colonies, has lifted the gloom which surrounded the Kingdom’s financial situation.

IT’S been announced that the Colonial development and Wel fare Fund is to allocate Tonga £Stg.3 50,000 over the next three years, and that additional loans of £Stg.2oo,ooo are to be made for the new wharf at Nukualofa.

The announcement has brought hopes in Tonga that the recently im posed financial and import restrictions will be lifted in the near future.

There is renewed confidence in the Kingdom.

There are no ties attached to the grant, but obviously Britain is going to want to know where the money will be allocated. This will be done through a development plan yet to be worked out.

It has already been agreed that £50,000 of the grant should be put towards coconut rehabilitation re planting, new plantings and probably

additional expert staff. There ai already nurseries controlled by th Agricultural Department, and plan ing could begin at an early stage.

Although there is not likely to fc any immediate announcement aboi the other allocations, it is not difficu to look around the Kingdom and su; mise where the new funds could t used to greatest advantage.

In need of money is the Nukualoi Hospital, which at the moment con prises a cluster of wooden building with a minimum of equipment. Druj are scarce.

Until just recently the only patien provided with food were in the T and diabetic wards, but now a si; bed ward has been opened to cat( for six ‘paying’ patients with ever thing provided. It is certain that tl new hospital, which has long bee planned, will be high on the list < priorities.

Water conservation has alwa; been an acute problem in Tong the solving of which has been he] up for lack of finance. With the a; of the World Health Organisatio: wells have been sunk in the villa® and the majority of villages now ha) water piped to outside their home and the next project is the foi villages which make up the main tow

Nukualofa. A covered reservoir planned at the highest point of itakieua, four miles from Nuku da, to be fed by water pumped im five wells.

It is hoped this scheme can now accelerated to provide piped ter to the whole of Nukualofa as 11 as the new hotel and the spital.

Official Explanation

p. 15

lONGANS and Europeans, through a series of articles recently pub led in both languages in the Gov iment-owned weekly Chronicle, ve been given an explanation for ; reasons for Tonga’s financial sition.

Naturally there has been no in the articles that un cessary Government spending has ded to the situation. The articles ve stressed that there is no easy ad to prosperity, and exhort the pulation to work harder.

The articles have said there has en an accumulated imbalance of ide over the last four years, arising ainly from the fall in copra pro ction as a result of hurricanes, upled with the “necessarily heavy tlay” on development projects.

The articles reveal that the ssible need for exchange and im rt restrictions was realised at least ist a year ago; regulations were Id in abeyance because it was still >ped “the kingdom might yet pull rough”. But by last January it came clear that urgent steps were eded.

The articles said that the Treasury d “not considered it necessary yet require private bank balances erseas to be paid into Government count”, but if the situation >rsened (and the Government had ► reason to believe it would) then is could happen.

See "When Tonga's Treasury

Was Stony Broke", p. 91.

Scheme Strikes

p. 15

APIA HOTEL

A SNAG

Western Samoa’s plans for a big, new 100-room tourist hotel in Apia became slightly unstuck in late April when the Samoan Assembly refused to pass the

appropriation of £20,000 needed

for the initial planning work.

THE motion to delete the sum came from the Public Accounts Com mittee, which submitted that the trouble with the wharf project (which has run into some unexpected engineer ing difficulties) shouldn’t be repeated with the hotel; that a complete survey of Apia hotel possibilities should be made and the Assembly should have the opportunity of debating the re port; that an authority should be estab lished to negotiate for construction of the hotel.

The committee dropped a further bombshell by claiming that the Act ing Director of Economic Develop ment Secretariat, Mr. E. Stehlin, was in full agreement with its recom mendations. This was later denied by Mr. Stehlin, who told his Minister, Mr. G. F. Betham, that he was strongly against the deletion.

With the Prime Minister absent with influenza the deletion was approved by 21 votes to 19.

Assembly members claimed that they wanted more information about the project; that £20,000 was too much to pay an architect; and that they wanted an opportunity to discuss the design and site of the proposed hotel.

Mr. Betham, Minister of Economic Development, said that if the £20,000 was deleted no work at all would be

possible on the project, which was a vital part of development.

Informed sources expect the matter to come up for debate again at the next session of the Assembly. With a bit more lobbying and the presence of the Prime Minister it is fairly cer tain that the stalemate will be re solved. The House is not against the building of a hotel—the method of building it is in dispute.

Apia's Beach Won't Be

p. 15

A BEACH MUCH LONGER

Apia's picturesque waterfront, known as “The Beach", will soon be only a memory. At the end of May, the harbour project dredge began filling in the 28-acre area in front of Beach Road and extending out beyond the wreck of the “Adler" to the reef.

Reclamation will extend along the whole of the area shown in the photograph and is expected to be complete by the end of October.

The buildings shown are (from left) E. and R. Fabricius (behind the palm trees), S. V. McKenzie and Co., Wesley Bookshop, Methodist Church, Bank of Western Samoa, Post Office, Burns Philp, and, at extreme right, the Clock Tower.

There are still no definite plans for the use of the re claimed land. But there seems to be growing support for build ing a new administrative centre housing most Government depart ments on the seaward side of the area. The rest would be used as a park and general recreation area with playing fields, tennis courts and a tropical garden.

Photo: “Samoana".

New Guinea Abuzz With Ideas

pp. 16-156

Ideas And Action

From a Port Moresby Correspondent

Papua-New Guinea in May had one of its busiest months, with fascinating facts developing at every turn. The House of Assembly meeting, and the visit of the Minister for Territories, Mr. Bames, were the highlights.

MAIN purpose of Mr. Bames’ visit, according to the official an nouncement, was the opening of Rabaul’s big £330,000 Vudal Agri cultural College, but more important to Mr. Bames was his opportunity of talking to the local people who count, such as New Guinean leaders in the public eye and Popondetta planters who are in serious trouble with cocoa.

Mr. Bames promised the planters he would be happy to get written pro posals from them on their problems, which basically amount to the need of more money to overcome cocoa diseases. He will also look at some development proposals for the area.

Mr. Barnes said his tour also helped him get an idea of how the provisions of the World Bank Report on the Territory could be carried out, fol lowing Cabinet’s decision earlier in the month to accept the report as the basis of future planning. He said a great deal of planning had to be done before the Bank’s proposals could be made to work—no detailed work had been done—and the Government was waiting to hear the views of the House of Assembly.

Bank Debate

The House met the same week but nothing of great importance came from its deliberations on the Bank report, because members felt the whole field was too vast for them to do it justice without a lot of homework.

The elected members suggested an adjournment of the debate until the September sitting, but when the Gov ernment pushed for the debate to be held then and there, members showed little interest in making it strong, and the debate lasted only two hours.

Paliau, of Manus, proposed that the report should be translated into pidgin so that all members would have a chance of getting to the bottom of it, but this was generally described as impracticable.

General tenor of the debate was that the Government proposals so far were too vague.

Mr. Barnes got back to Canberra in time to announce that a top level economic adviser would be appointed to the Territory as soon as the Gov ernment could find a suitable man.

Such a position had been recom mended by the World Bank Mission.

He said this man would have the job of co-ordinating the Territory’s development programme.

The Public Service Association buttonholed the Minister in Port Moresby to find out what had hap pened to its scheme for compensation for public servants who might lose their jobs as a result of political ad vancement in the Territory. The scheme, locally known as the “Golden Handshake”, was submitted some months ago, and no public servant really expects the Government will meet all the association’s generous submissions.

But Mr. Bames gave unexpected encouragement by telling the associa tion that he agreed an announcement on a compensation scheme was “urgently desirable” and that he ex pected a statement would come from Cabinet within a few weeks.

Mr. Barnes also talked with the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries, who have been on the job almost 12 months now, and said he was satisfied the system was generally working well, although the Under-Secretaries had put forward some suggestions for im provement and these were being approved.

The main suggestion by the secre taries was that the Administration should see to it that all secretaries had

some real work to do and some rea decisions to make, instead of mereh being loaded with departmental files.

During his tour Mr. Barnes too] every opportunity to remind whoeve wanted to listen that the Territor shouldn’t allow itself to be affected b] outside political interference. He sai< in opening Vudal that people in futun might try to separate Australia an< New Guinea, but the New Guinean should “think carefully.”

In Port Moresby he said that irre sponsible statements suggesting tha P-NG could become another Cong< were to the Territory’s disadvantage.

Busy Month

In other happenings during th month: • The Administrator, Sir Donal Cleland said that the Returnei Soldiers’ League need not be cor cerned about the Territory’s delay i announcing civil defence plans. Th Civil Defence Controller. Mr. la: Skinner, was at present attending training course in Australia and thing would get moving when he returned. • Sir Donald announced his in tention to declare a number of in dustries which will be entitled to hav a five-year tax holiday as “pionee industries”, once established. Pionee legislation to make this possible wa passed earlier this year and is aimei at attracting more secondary industr to the Territory. The first Industrie will be declared “pioneer” after twi months, and in the meantime objec

(Continued on p. 154)

tions may be lodged against them.

The industries are the manufacture of industrial gases, the assembly of metal louvre window frames, the manufac ture and conditioning of steel drums, the extraction of pyrethrum, and the industries of wire fabrication, soap making and flour milling. • The Bougainville District Ad visory Council decided that UN assist an c e in developing the Territory should be considered “interference’', and expressed itself in strong opposi tion to a recent announcement that UN aid for education for the Terri tory be sought. • In Rabaul, a New Guinean, Stanis Boramilat, urged at a meeting of the New Britain District Advisory Council that New Guinea be divided into four States —Papua, New Guinea Islands, New Guinea Highlands and New Guinea Coastal—so that it could be prepared for easier emergence to self-government. Each State would have a government, developed from local councils. Mr. Harry Spanner suggested at the same meeting that when self-government came, P-NG should look after its own internal affairs and Australia should look after its external affairs. • In Lae the national president of the RSL said Indonesia had been guilty of “international hyprocrisy” by denying West New Guineans the right of self-determination while carrying out a campaign against Malaysia, where the popular will of the people had already been expressed. • In the House of Assembly in Port Moresby, Mr. Frank Martin, an elected member from the Sepik, urged the Administration to offer asylum to genuine refugees from West New Guinea who were crossing the border into Papua-New Guinea.

Mr. Martin said he believed reports were true that when refugees were turned back by P-NG officials that some were murdered or maltreated in West New Guinea.

“I would ask this House,” he said, “can we as people, who are noted for some humanity, allow this to con tinue?”

He said there were areas of un used and sparsely popuiated land m the Vanimo district of the Sepik which could be bought for the refugees.

Big Legal Meeting For P-Ng

p. 16

In what will be the most dis tinguished international gathering to meet in Papua-New Guinea, Port Moresby in September will be host town to from 100 to 150 judges and jurists who will discuss “The Rule of the Law”. The international visitors will earlier attend an impor tant legal convention in Australia.

Administrator

p. 16

OUTSIDE TIP FOR

Who will become Admini strator of Papua-New Guinea after Sir Donald Cleland retires?

Sir Donald’s retirement is ex pected next year, when he reaches 65, although there has been no announcement.

A name being mentioned in authoritative New Guinea circles in May was that of Mr. C. W. J.

Falkinder, DSO, DFC and Bar, who has represented Franklin, Tasmania, in the Australian House of Representatives, since 1946. Mr. Falkinder is a pro minent Liberal back bencher who has taken a close interest in New Guinea affairs in recent years, and is a frequent visitor to the Territory. Mr. Falkinder is 43.

Nauruans Make It

pp. 17-18

The "Hard Sell"

By a Staff Writer The new look in Nauruan diplomacy—the ‘‘hard sell ” — was launched in Australia in May, as Nauruan leaders and the Australian Government sat down in Canberra to thrash out the future of the mid-Pacific phosphate island.

FTER years of getting nowhere in their efforts to convince the Aus ilian Government that they had a int of view, the Nauruans finally cided to go to the Australian people. ) help them do it they have a firm economic advisers and another of blic relations consultants on their yroll.

The economic advisers concentrated digging out the facts on the phos ate industry, and presenting them the Government; the public rela ys people made it their business present a Nauruan “image” to the blic.

First shots were fired in Sydney on ay 25, several days before the Can rra conference was due to begin, len Head Chief Hammer Deßoburt t down at a Press conference in his 'tel, surrounded by a battery of ;hts and cameras. With him were mncillors Detudamo and Bemicke, js two economic advisers and two blic relations counsellors.

The PR men had earlier distributed the Press copies of an admirable 22-

page report on Nauru explaining the background of the Nauru situation and the objectives of the Nauruans.

But the real indication of the hard sell approach of the Nauruans and their new helpers was in a letter signed by Hammer Deßoburt, and sent to the Press with the report. Said the letter: “For some considerable time the future of the Island of Nauru has been the subject of discussions and negotia tions between the Nauru Local Gov ernment Council and the Australian Government authorities.

“It has been the policy of the Nauru Local Government Council, and my own personal policy, to conduct these negotiations in the proper place and to avoid engaging in propaganda. In recent months, however, it has be come apparent that those elements who are opposed to, or do not fully comprehend, our objectives have gained considerable Press publicity, the aim of which must be to under mine our case.

“In itself this is regrettable, but by

far the worst aspect of the matter is that our proposals have been distorted to such an extent that the Australian community is confused about them and there is grave misunderstanding generally.

“Clearly, I have a responsibility to my people to put the record straight.

Accordingly, I have caused to be written the accompanying document which sets out clearly the circum stances in which we Nauruans find ourselves, our objectives and our philosophy.

“As you are no doubt aware, the future of our Island will be the sub ject of negotiations with the Aus t r a 1 i a n Department of Territories, commencing in Canberra on May 31.

“It is important, indeed perhaps vital, to those negotiations that our attitude is clearly understood and that the slate should be wiped clean of distorted accounts of what we are seeking.

“I trust, sir, that the statement will clarify our position. The content is available for any use to which you would care to put it.”

Nauruan Arguments

The report added nothing new to the arguments which the Nauruans have been concentrating on for some time—but it did put them in a clearer form, and gave editorial writers a few worthwhile quotes with which to pepper their stories. As a result the Department of Territories, for the first time, found itself having to counter act informed opinion on the Nauru situation.

The report to the Australian Press was in fact an extension of the report given to the UN mission in April, and simplified for popular consumption.

The report said the Nauruans were in Australia to ask for ownership of the phosphate deposits, to request higher phosphate royalties in the

"loosely translated, it means the Nauruans reject your proposals, Mr. Minister!"

meantime, plus a reduction in tl rate at which the phosphate is heir extracted, and to ask for political i dependence.

The royalties were ridiculously i adequate, said the report, which add* that for years the Nauruans h; been “taken for a ride” and treat* like children who are given srm handouts periodically to keep the quiet.

The Nauruans’ basic objectives, said, “are national identity and reasonable standard of 1 i v i n g”. added: “They have never deviat from these aims. . . . They have s& the future not as one problem in isol tion but as a composite problem national survival in a new home wi a reasonable standard of life. Th have also seen that the remainii phosphate on Nauru must becor their bank balance and provide t economic basis for their future. T Nauruans, with no control over t total destruction of their island hor by Britain, Australia and New Ze land, know that right and worl opinion are on their side and th their objectives and claims are jusl The report frequently stressed th all Australians shared the respo sibility of seeing that the problems the Nauruan people were solved ai that they survived as a distinct peop

Not Sovereignty

Hammer DeRoburt faced his Sy ney Press conference with a certa trepidation which did not show in t expert way in which he handled t questions. But he had unhapp memories of an earlier Press conft ance in Canberra in 1964, during whi one or two unsympathetic questione had attempted to bait him w i 1 questions on the plight of the Ai tralian aborigines.

He said in Sydney that the woi “sovereignty” did not adequately d scribe Nauruan aims. They did n want to be cut off from their frienc but they wanted self-government, p( haps rather like the type planned f the Cook Islands, with one differen —they wanted to remain Nauruar Something could be worked out.

DeRoburt declined to give any c tailed information on submissions be made to Canberra, for fear jeopardising the Nauruan position. B presumably the main argument on t economic side will hinge around ; estimate of the true world price f phosphate. The Nauruans will she they are not getting anything like fair share of the true world price, ai that Australian and New Zealai farmers are being subsidised by t Nauruans.

Sudden Death From

p. 17

THE SKY

A girl from Butaritari, in the Gilbert Islands, was killed in May by a supply drop from a US aircraft working for the US Trilateration Survey Party, which is taking measurements in the islands of the Pacific. On May 9 the aircraft was dropping supplies by parachute on to a clear space near the house of Nei latinta Tekebo, when one box fell away, crashed through the roof of the house and struck the girl on the head. She died instantly.

Tropicalities

pp. 23-29

i South Pacific is finally getting around to admitting to itself t it can’t do without the Japanese. But that doesn’t mean that medicine is palatable. There was quite a donneybrook in the stralian Parliament in May as a result of Japanese iness interest in Papua-New Guinea.

IE Minister for Territories, Mr.

Barnes found himself under fire having indicated during a Press rview in Port Moresby that the 'eminent might allow Japanese nicians to migrate to the Terri ►pposition members wanted to w whether this meant a relaxation Australia’s immigration policy to w employment of Japanese trades i, “in large numbers”, in both G and Australia.

Ir. Barnes answered, with words sounded suspiciously like ging, that “matters related to the lability of technicians and trades i must be considered” if Australia to develop large tracts of New nea jungle. Australia had not the tal to develop the Territory, and it in any case to find markets for 3er and fish. [e said technicians could be ad ;ed temporarily, with a covenant companies that they would train v Guineans to take over the posi s. le added, “The suggestion that I contemplating a wholesale immi

gration from overseas is completely untrue.”

Mr. Barnes’ denial wasn’t good enough for some members of the Opposition.

A Labour member, Mr. Gordon Bryant, wanted to know whether Mr.

Barnes’ plans “for a fresh Japanese invasion of P-NG” meant that he did not recall that the Australians had spent their blood to turn the Japanese out of New Guinea during the last war. He wanted to know how the people of New Guinea would ever be able to obtain sovereignty if the Min ister, through his “doctrine of private enterprise”, alienated a large part of their territory and economy to foreign interests.

The wording of the question an noyed Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, who denied there were any plans for an “invasion”. And Mr.

Barnes retorted to Mr. Bryant that he “resented the suggestion that the Pacific War should be continued”.

"Good Thing"

Another member claimed that Mr.

Barnes should first have referred the matter to the House of Assembly which was then sitting in Port Moresby—a point of view which was certainly shared by the leader of the elected members in the Assembly, Mr.

John Guise, who a little later was complaining to the House in Port Moresby that he had “heard” the Japanese were coming to the Terri tory with their industries, and would settle there. If they came with indus tries it could be a “good thing”, but he felt the House should have been consulted about it.

“We know nothing of this and sud denly as the House sits we hear over the wireless from Australia that a decision has been made,” said Mr.

Guise. “What is the use of the House of Assembly?”

Apart from timber interests and mineral searches, and of course direct trade, the Japanese have no strong trading interests in New Guinea yet—

and there are few Japanese actually living in the Territory. It will take a canning or fishing industry, and a greater extension of the timber busi ness, to get them in the Territory in large numbers.

But obviously this is coming. The Government has been negotiating on fishing interests for a long time.

Japanese fishermen are already es tablished in American Samoa, Fiji and the New Hebrides, and in each case there were mutterings from the locals before the invasions.

The most recent scheme allows Japanese to live in Levuka, the old capital of Fiji, where there is a fish freezing factory, and this experiment seems to be working well enough at the moment.

Meanwhile, as Japan’s new Co- Prosperity Sphere gathers strength, a new magazine called Polynesian News is helping to take the Japanese flag to the South Seas. Polynesian News is the official organ of the Japan-Polynesian Friendship Associa tion, and is published, in Japanese, from one of the main business sec tors of Tokyo.

The aim of the society is to provide information to Japanese students, uni versities and business interests on the Pacific Islands. It proposes to have ex hibitions of art from the area, to in vite Polynesians to visit Japan and to send Japanese to the Islands. It’s also thinking of organising a trade fair.

Many Japanese business companies are members of the association.

The first issues we’ve seen of Poly nesian News are jam-packed with all sorts of information on Polynesia, particularly on Western Samoa. They include up-to-date information on

Mr. Barnes.

ideal problems, local customs, and iiness developments, and they in ate trade openings.

Vestern Samoa, says one article, , good timber which could help the ianese furnishing industry, and in urn there are “openings for the j of Japanese bicycles and textiles Samoa”. footnote: When the Australian de ship Sletholm arrived in Lae, w Guinea, in May, stacked with stralian trade goods offered in the rent Australian trade drive in the ' Pacific, those aboard her found was rather hot for the tropics, t they went to buy up some s from the local stores. Unfortu ely all they could see were those de in Japan. Sheepishly they ight them!

oncern Over

>pulation Growth

ONGA’S English-language news paper, the Chronicle, has recently ;n running a series of articles on world’s population problems, in ding birth control, fhe articles suggest that the ngan Government is becoming reasingly concerned over the po ation explosion in its own islands, ere the population has grown m 27,331 in 1926 to about 78,000 v, and where the figure by 1971 expected to exceed 90,000. fhe Chronicle has announced that the end of its current series of ides, the heads of the various urches in Tonga will publish ides on the attitude of their urches to family planning in nga.

lip's Link With

lie German Times

HE publication in our shipping columns last month of a photo ph of the brand, spanking new dolph Wahlen, the 78 ft, 116-ton tor ship just acquired by the stern Isles Co. Ltd. of Madang, w Guinea, has reminded us that vessel’s namesake, Heinrich dolph Wahlen, will be 95 years age on June 4. Ten years ago now hlen told us in Hamburg, Ger ny, where he lives and where we )pened to be visiting, that he nned to live to be 100. Since he in excellent health, it seems the ious veteran of German New inea times might well reach his =et.

Vahlen went to German New inea more than 65 years ago, to service of the German firm of rnsheim. He subsequently became

the owner of the scattered atolls which lie generally north of the mainland New Guinea coast and westward of Manus, He acquired general control over the Hermit, Anchorite, Ninigo and Wuvulu Groups, and he established his famous home on Maron. When trochus shell suddenly developed great value early in this century Wahlen made a fortune.

He was living in Berlin when World War I broke out in 1914 and, in common with all German nationals, lost his New Guinea pro perties He was one of the heads of HASAG, the German company which purchased most of the New Guinea properties of “Queen Emma” (otherwise Mrs. Paul Kolbe and formerly Mrs. E, E. Forsayth).

His name became known to Can berra between the wars, because, over the decades, he insisted that the properties of the Waria syndicate (in the gold-bearing section of the New Guinea mainland) in which he was a large shareholder, were not subject to expropriation.

After World War II a British planter, Mr. B. C. Batt, acquired the Northwest Island of Maron, and the once impressive Wahlen establishment there, and with the help of his capable German wife, he has had much success in building up the copra industry in that area. It is reported that he now has control over much of the planting of the Hermit, Anchorite and Ninigo Groups, and that his production is about 100 tons per month..

He has named his new vessel as a tribute to the early German planter and businessman—and a portrait of Wahlen decorates one of the walls of the saloon.

An Old Letter Tells

Of An Anniversary

WHILE we are on this subject of German times, of anniver saries and of Madang, this is surely the place to mention that the Roman Catholic vicariate based on Alexis hafen, near Madang, was able to celebrate its diamond anniversary in May, thanks to some research done in Italy by a former New Guinea priest.

The first Mass was said at Alexishafen on May 23, 1905, by Father Eberhard Limbrock, SVD, but this fact was not turned up until recently, when the Rev. Dr. Ralph M. Wiltgen, SVD, was doing some historical research in the archives of Divine Word Missionary headquarters in Rome.

Father Wiltgen found a letter from Father Limbrock, written in old German script the day after the Mass, and he brought the contents to the attention of Bishop A. A. Noser, of Alexishafen. Bishop Noser im mediately wrote a pastoral letter, calling for celebrations on the date.

Father Wiltgen, 43, is an American who is completing work in Rome for a documented work to be called The History of the Catholic Church in Northeast New Guinea 1844-1964.

Father Wiltgen was in New Guinea between 1958-60 to do research on the spot. Other editorial jobs in Rome have apparently slowed down the appearance of his New Guinea history. (over)

Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen.

Father Wiltgen.

orfolk's Boom

Mixed Blessing

HE eagerness of various Main landers to cash in on Norfolk nd’s current tourist boom has re ed in what one of the Islanders has :ribed to us as “a lot of unsightly elopment” on the island, le says gimcrack buildings are go up that do not blend in with the •oundings, and that the people who building them will move on in a years when they have made their )ur Islander friend says that efforts e been made from some quarters several years to get the Norfolk nd Council to introduce regulations ing a minimum standard for build -5 on the island. But so far, ough there is some support for h regulations, not enough ncillors are in favour of them.

The regulations will come,” our nder friend says, “but then it will too late.”

Lt present you can build anything ill on private land.

>tanic Riches In

le's Herbarium

EOPLE who are a little staggered at the cost of the handsome crete, steel and glass herbarium opened in Lae, New Guinea l 100,000), have been asking what srbarium does anyhow, he work of the Lae Herbarium ot to provide decorative plants for il front gardens, but to safely e plant collections which will pro ; material for later research. ; will be available for dry plant ections from South-East Asia and South Pacific in addition to ritory collections, and thus it will

be of value to botanists throughout the world.

In fact when officially opening the herbarium, Sir George Taylor, direc tor of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, said Lae deserved the congratu lations of the world’s botanists.

He added that New Guinea’s botanic collections had been of im mense value already, and there were still “many riches” to be found in the Territory, and the herbarium would help reveal these “astonishing riches” to the world. The amount of work to be done was staggering.

Among the visitors at the opening ceremony were 14 botanists from various parts of the world.

A Fish Story To

Beat The Kon-Tiki's

WHEN yachtsman Joe Pachernegg and his wife Benita were sailing in their yacht Okeanos from the Galapagos Islands to Pitcairn re cently ( PIM , May, p. 21), they caught each night for a week what Joe describes in a letter to us as “the strangest fishes ever”.

The fish are Gempylus, or snake mackerel, a variety first seen alive by the members of the Kon-Tiki ex pedition on their famous drift from Peru to the Tuamotus in 1947.

But whereas the Kon-Tiki rafts men appear to have caught only two of these strange fish—and these two came aboard under their own steam —Joe Pachernegg and his wife caught “at least 20” on fishing lines.

The first Gempylus that the Kon- Tiki men saw flew aboard their raft one night and knocked over a paraffin lamp. This seems to in dicate that the fish was attracted from the water by the light.

When caught it gorged up two deep-water fish that had been much torn by its teeth.

Thor Heyerdahl, the leader of the expedition, described the Gempylus in his book as “over three feet long, as slender as a snake, with dull black eyes and a long snout with a greedy jaw full of long sharp teeth. The teeth were as sharp as knives and could be folded back into the roof of the mouth to make way for what it swallowed . . . The snake-fish’s thin skin was bluish violet on the back and steel blue underneath, and it came loose in flakes when we took hold of it.”

When the raftsmen held the fish under the nose of Bengt Danielsson, the Swedish member of the expedi tion, who remained asleep in his sleeping bag during the noise and excitement of catching the fish after it flew aboard, he sat up drowsily and said solemnly: “No, fish like that don’t exist.”

Heyerdahl said in his book: “Bengt was not far wrong. It ap peared later that we six sitting round the lamp in the bamboo cabin were the first men to have seen this fish alive. Only the skeleton of a fish like this one had been found a few times on the coast of South America and the Galapagos Islands; ichthyologists called it Gempylus, or snake mackerel, and thought it lived at the bottom of the sea at a great depth, because no one had ever seen it alive. But if it lived at a great depth, this must at any rate be by day, when the sun blinded the big eyes. For on dark nights Gempylus

Lae's handsome, new £100,000 herbarium

Sir George Taylor in Lae for the opening of the herbarium.

abroad high over the surface of seas; we on the raft had ex ence of that . . .” >e Pachernegg did not give us escription of the Gempylus that and his wife caught, but he sent i picture of one so we could see ourselves. [is only other comment was that npylus did not appear to be as : as they had been made out to be.

ie Sweet Taste

F Success

>COA experts have been saying for 10 or 12 years that cocoa Id become Fiji’s second industry :r sugar. But until the last two or ;e years no really determined irts were made to establish the p on a commercial scale.

'Jow these efforts have been wned with success in the form of encouraging test of 5 cwt of Fiji oa by the well-known Melbourne fectionery firm of Hoadleys. And re seems to be no reason why should not go on to establish valuable cocoa industry (when :es improve!) k good deal of the credit for at has been done so far is due to Fiji Government representative Sydney. Mr. W. B. Rogers, who nt to Fiji as Development Com >sioner in April, 1963. He has crested himself in the prospects the crop, both in Fiji and in stralia. [n Fiji, he came to the conclusion >t it was one of the best crops for

the Colony, and in collaboration with the Colony’s Director of Agriculture, Mr. John Sandys, he saw it establish ed in several parts of Taveuni, west of Savusavu, on Vanua Levu, and along the Wainibuka Valley of the main island of Viti Levu.

After he came to Australia, Mr.

Rogers asked Mr. Gordon Hoadley, managing director of Hoadleys, in Melbourne, to try some of the Fiji cocoa.

Mr. Hoadley agreed to a full scale test with 5 cwt of cocoa sent specially from Fiji.

About the middle of May, Mr.

Rogers received a report from Hoadleys and a few samples of the chocolate, moulded as tablets and wrapped in tin foil.

The report was favourable and constructively critical.

It suggests improvements in hus bandry and fermentation, and says that drying control would produce an excellent cocoa which would be readily marketable in Australia, the west of the United States and Japan.

Mr. Rogers said after trying the chocolate that it was among the best he had tasted; and after he offered some to us, we found our selves expressing the same view.

Mr. Rogers has now arranged for Rowntrees to make a laboratory test of Fiji cocoa in England.

He is confident that the present low prices for cocoa—about £162 a ton c.i.f. London—will not con tinue, and that good times for growers are ahead.

Doubts Over "Total

TV" Education

THERE have been murmurings in American Samoa lately over Governor H. Rex Lee’s plan to educate the children of that territory entirely by TV.

Critics of the plan have been saying that complete education by television is something that has never been tried anywhere in the world, and that it is therefore toying with the lives of American Samoa’s children to subject them to such a system.

Some critics claim, furthermore, that responsible educators have re jected the idea of complete TV education and that such educators believe that TV can never be more than a sophisticated aid in education.

An American visitor to Pago re cently tells us that “classroom super visors” have already reported difficulty in keeping the children’s attention fixed on the TV screen during the lessons now given by television, and that they expect this

problem to grow worse as more TV lessons are introduced.

“Because of their concern over the plan to make TV schooling com plete,” the American says, “the ter ritory’s House of Representatives visited a TV school some time back to see the system in operation. The members came back and recom mended to the Governor that TV should aid teachers, but not replace them.”

However, Governor Lee’s attitude seems to be “complete educational TV or bust,” as three additional channels will be added to the existing educational TV set-up when the new school year begins in October.

There is also expected to be a big turnover of contract teaching per sonnel in July and August, with high school teachers returning to the United States and television teachers (the people who prepare the TV lessons, not those who supervise classrooms during the lessons) arriv ing in Pago to take up new positions.

And the Feleti Memorial Teacher Training School will stop training teachers, and will be converted into the Feleti Memorial Library to serve schools and the public.

Pago’s weekly newspaper, Samoa Times, which is frequently critical of Governor Lee’s actions, said in a recent editorial that total educational TV, if successful in American Samoa, might inspire the creation of similar systems in large underdeveloped countries such as India.

But, the paper said—quoting the director of research and development for the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, which de signed the “total TV” system —the lack of any precedent for the system meant that it would take 12 years to evaluate its potential completely.

“Why, then, hurry to abolish the teacher training and vocational schools?” the Samoa Times asked.

“Would it not be prudent to arrange an impartial evaluation of the new system before giving up conventional methods of teaching entirely?”

“Education is the future of a people. Decisions which would make that future depend so greatly on a previously untested system should, as far as possible, be made after, not before, the evidence is available.”

O The 54-ft motor trawler Jason, owned by John Seeto and Company, of Kavieng, P-NG, sank at Tavui, a few miles from Rabaul at 2 a.m. on May 19 after a collision with the 66-ft trawler Leilani, owned by Buttnall and Jacobsen, of Rabaul.

Witnesses said that Jason was cut in half by the collision; but no casualties were reported.

A Gempylus, from Joe.

Well, Have You?

p. 23

“Have you ever tried freezing ie milk of a green coconut and ropping the cubes into neat hisky?”

This question was put to us, propos of nothing, in a recent Hter from Ken Mullen, who was frequent contributor to PIM fhen he worked at the now efunct cable station on Norfolk sland several years ago, and who > now a cable station hand on 'ocos Island, Indian Ocean.

Having asked the question, 'en gives us his version of the nswer: Whisky laced with green oconut milk cubes is “a smooth ' rink”, but the cubes “do nothing o counteract the hangover”.

On Pitcairn

pp. 31-32

MOTOR POWER HAS

MADE UFE EASIER

From Beryl Cates in Suva From 1790, when HMS )unty dropped anchor at Pit im Island until early this year, s Pitcairn Islanders had to put many backbreaking hours of il because of the steepness of sir island and lack of mechani

-1 equipment.

•UT now, thanks to a shipment of > mechanical equipment paid for Britain’s Colonial Development d Welfare Fund, life is much iier.

Pitcairn, which is semi-circular in ipe, is the southern end of a crater an extinct volcano.

All community life and agriculture ; within the edge of this crater, and im the crater’s rim the fall to the i is sheer at most places around the rve.

A rough road and sandstone steps wn the 250 ft cliff were, until re itly, the means by which the is iders made their descent to the i.

Untold man-hours were involved descending and ascending the cliff :e. Luxuries such as flour and fuel pped in by freighter were lifted to i crater edge by flying fox, limited 400 lb loads. On top, loads were oken up and either carried or leelbarrowed to Adamstown, the and’s village.

The cliff face caused losses in >rking hours the Islanders could ill : ord, particularly in recent years as numbers dwindled through igration. For Pitcairn is no lotus id. Even with the crater’s rich vol nic soil and money made from the le of postage stamps, life on the and is frugal and everyone must irk hard at curio-making, garden g and fishing.

New Era

The unpaid public work of hauling id carting, which every man be een 16 and 60 is called on to do, is therefore often been done grudg gly because it took time away from e productive work.

But the beginning of a new era me last June when the Colonial svelopment and Welfare organisa

tion made a grant through the Western Pacific High Commission to provide two tractors and ancillary servicing equipment for Pitcairn.

In December, Mr. Brian H. Webb, an honours graduate of agricultural science from Massey University of Manawatu, NZ, was seconded from the Fiji School of Agriculture to go to New Zealand to familiarise him self with the machinery and equip ment, and then to introduce it to Pitcairn Island.

The equipment included a crawler tractor with a bulldozer blade, ripper, bucket, winch and 3-point hydraulic linkage; a 40 hp wheel tractor fitted with a trailer, transport box, cord wood circular saw, mouldboard plough, tandem discs, tyne harrows, post-hole borer, grader blade and electric arc welder, and servicing tools, jacks, chain hoist, tyre pumps and spare parts. There was also a workshop and an equipment shed.

Mr. Webb landed on Pitcairn on December 31 and was there for seven weeks. During his last two weeks he was joined by Mr. T.

Templeton, a New Zealand mechanic, who trained three Pitcairners to work and maintain the equipment.

The work began with the unloading of the crawler tractor parts from the ship. They were assembled on the only level strip at the island’s landing place—a site 20 ft by 15 ft.

The steep road up the cliff was wide enough for the crawler as New Zealand Army crawlers had used it during World War II to drag radio masts and equipment up to the radio station on the highest plateau of the crater’s centre.

But the ascent was not without hazard for the steep ascent has grades of cut in three in two places.

The wheel tractor, workshop and other equipment were broken down to case lots and winched up the track gradually by the crawler. (over)

Mr. Brian Webb.

Once on top the wheel tractor was assembled and road work began.

The first road to undergo recon struction was that from the cliff base to the crater’s edge, which is known as the Edge. New cuttings were made —some 20 ft to 30 ft deep. At times the machines were working on a face with a precipitous drop of 200 ft to 250 ft.

The main village road was resited and rebuilt to give easier access to the generating plant, and to facilitate easy transport of fuel.

Road Built

Later, six days were spent build ing a road from the Edge to Radio Station Road after Mr. Stewart Cameron, a geographer from Otago University, who was on the island preparing an accurate map of it, had mapped out the route.

The new road gives easy access to all the flat agricultural land on the top plateau, and enables the tractors and all the agricultural equipment to be used effectively. As a result, labour is much more efficient.

In the old days, for example, fuel was transferred from 44-gallon drums to 10-gallon containers and then shouldered up to the radio station 650 ft above the Edge. Now one trailer load easily moves three drums the same distance in less time.

Meanwhile, the cordwood circular saw is estimated to have reduced the task of firewood collection by one third.

Road maintenance, once a major, unpaid, public works chore, can now be undertaken by the road grader on the wheel tractor.

Transport of goods up and down the cliff face has been faciiltated even though the road, so far, is accessible only by crawler tractor. Further work has yet to be done by the islanders on the lower incline.

Land Cleared

While on the island, Mr. Webb also cleared much of the agricultural land of lantana and guava, first with the bulldozer, then with plough, disc and harrow.

He also demonstrated contour planting and cultivation with an end to preventing soil erosion, and prun ing techniques on citrus and pine-j apples.

Suggestions were made on how to improve water supplies, particularly for irrigation, and better spacing of banana trees was strongly urged.

There seems little doubt that the Pitcairners will benefit all round.

Cook Islands Assembly

pp. 33-36

Lively Start To Era Of Self-Government Independents Walk Out Of Cook Islands Assembly

From W. H. Percival on Rarotonga.

The newly-elected Cook Islands Legislative Assembly, which is expected to become the first with powers of internal self-government, began its first session in lively fashion early in May when all eight independents walked out of the chamber on the second sitting day.

IHE walk-out was in protest against a motion by Dr. Manea imarua, deputy leader of the Cook ands Party (which has 14 As mbly seats, and thus forms the jvernment), to amend the contro rsial residential clause in the Cook ands Amendment Act.

The amendment was to enable Mr. ben Henry, the Aitutaki-born ider of the Cook Islands Party TP), to stand for election to the jsembly.

He is at present debarred from >ing this because the Act, as it mds, requires a candidate to have ed in the Cook Islands for three ars before an election—and Mr. ;nry, who lived in New Zealand for any years, has been a resident of e Cooks only since last year.

After Dr. Tamarua had introduced s motion to amend the residential ause, Mr. William Estall, an inde ndent member for Aitutaki and the sputy Leader of Government Busi es in the old Assembly, objected at the Assembly had met to discuss e proposed consitution for the Cook land (see p. 35) and not the Cook lands Amendment Act.

However, the Assembly president led that the Act and the constitu >n were so closely related that the ct could, in fact, be discussed.

Mr. Estall raised further objections, id added that the independent mem -srs would leave the chamber in pro st—which they did.

The meeting was then adjourned ►r lack of a quorum of 14 members, i two of the 14 CIP members were )sent. These members, representing lands in the northern group, did not rive in Rarotonga in time for the art of the Assembly session, and ere not expected for about another eek.

However, the independent members burned to the chamber next day,

and after some spirited exchanges, Mr. Estall introduced a new amend ment to the residential clause which the Assembly passed.

This amendment, which cannot become law until the New Zealand Parliament approves it, reduces the residential qualification for both electors and candidates in Cook Islands elections to three months— provided that they are British sub jects and have previously spent at least one year in the Cooks.

First Sitting

At the first sitting of the Assembly, which took place on May 10, the Resident Commissioner, Mr. A. O.

Dare, remained in the chair at the Assembly’s request.

Next to him sat Mr. Omar Adeel, Sudanese leader of the United Nations team of observers, which

went to the Cooks in April to wit ness the elections. Also present were two other UN observers, Mr. James J. Lewis, of the US, and Mr. Bernard D. Dorkenoo, of Togo.

After the new Assembly members were sworn in, Mr. Dare made a speech of welcome. This was fol lowed by an address by Mr. Adeel. who was wearing Sudanese national dress.

As expected, Dr. Tamarua was elected Leader of Government Busi ness; and he announced that his Exe cutive Committee would comprise five CIP members. They are: • Mana Strickland, a headmaster and secretary of the CIP, who was one of the nine successful CIP can didates on Rarotonga in the April 20 elections. • Apenera Short, also of Raro tonga. • Julian Dashwood, English-born representative for Mauke, who has lived in the Cook Islands as a trader since 1929 and is the author of two books. He was a member of the Executive Committee in the pre vious Assembly—heading the Health, Social Development and Police De partments—until suddenly sacked last August (PIM, October, 1964, p. 35). • Tiakana Numanga, of Raro tonga. • Mrs. Marguerite Story, wife of Rarotonga’s “mechanical genius”, Mr.

Fred Story and sister of Albert Henry. She is expected to resign from the Assembly as soon as the law has been changed to enable her brother to contest a by-election.

Except for Mr. Dashwood, all members of the Executive Com mittee, as well as Dr. Tamarua, are

Mr. Albert Henry.

Dr. Manea Tamarua.

lewcomers to the Legislative As sembly.

The first business following the laming of the Executive Committee vas whether the Assembly should ac :ept the proposed constitution for the rook Islands, an amended version of t, or some alternative form of gov :rnment.

Dr. Pupuke Robati, independent nember for Rakahanga, set the ball oiling by moving “that the adoption if the constitution be deferred until uch time as the alternatives to self ;overnment are fully investigated and :xplained, and the wishes of the >eople determined by referendum”.

The alternatives, which he claimed lad not been fully explained, were ntegration with New Zealand, full ndependence, and membership of a *acific federation.

Dr. Robati said that the Raka langa people preferred integration to he proposed constitution, but wanted his fully explained to them before hey made up their minds.

The independent members from ‘enrhyn, Atiu, Aitutaki and Mangaia, 11 supported the motion and all said nuch the same thing—that the alter latives to the proposed constitution lad not been fully explained and that heir people did not wish to be ushed into accepting the constitution.

Some members said that if the lotion was defeated they would re ign from the Assembly.

Recommendations

Speaking against Dr. Robati’s lotion, Dr. Tamarua made it clear hat the C1P had indicated all along hat it would accept the proposed onstitution after certain amendments lad been made to it. He said that in oing this his party was following he recommendations of the previous assembly, which had accepted self overnment on the counsel of its ad isers.

Mana Strickland added his weight i Dr. Tamarua’s remarks by saying hat the alternative forms of govern icnt had already been fully ex lained to the people. He expressed urprise that members of the previous assembly, who had been re-elected nd who accepted the idea of self overnment, were now speaking gainst it.

When the motion was put to the ote on the second sitting day, May 1, it was defeated on a show of ands by 12 votes to eight—the CIP oting in a body against the indepen ents.

There had already been a consider ate display of verbal fireworks by his time, but the big bang came

when the Leader of Government Business moved that the residential clause of the Cooks Islands Amend ment Act be amended.

Specifically, he proposed that the residential period required for elec tors and candidates at Assembly elec tions should be three months for those born in the Cook Islands and one year for those born outside the Group.

Mr. Estall immediately objected to debating the motion at all. and after the president had ruled that the motion was in order, he and the other seven independents walked out, to give—as they said—“effective support to their protest”.

When the independents returned for the Assembly’s third sitting next day, one of their number, Mr. Geoffrey Henry, who is a “dissenting” nephew of Mr. Albert Henry, said that the non-Government members were will ing to discuss any matter provided that discussion on the constitution came first and the Cook Islands Amendment Act, second.

Dr. Tamarua replied that he still considered that his motion was in order.

During his speech. Dr. Tamarua referred to the non-Government members as the “opposition”. This brought Mr. Geoffrey Henry to his

feet once more to say that this was not the case.

Mr. Dashwood interposed tartly 1 that the opposing members could ■ rightly be called the “obstruction” not the “opposition”, as they seemed intent on obstructing the business of the Assembly.

On May 17, the Assembly that the Constitution should provide' for a House of Arikis rather than a Council of State including two arikis (see story opposite).

Final Session

At the final session of the Assembly on May 19, several Independent members said that the people of their islands wanted a full explanation of the other proposed forms of govern ment before accepting the Constitu-| tion.

Many people, they said, wished to know about integration with New Zealand, which might bring benefits such as old age pensions, child allowances, etc.

Mr. Geoffrey Henry pointed out that, although the independents were only eight in number, they represent ed almost half of the voters in the Cook Islands and that while Raro tonga was solidly behind the Cook Islands Party, about two thirds of the outer islands people were against it. [Mr. Henry’s claims are somewhat exaggerated. Of the 17,712 votes cast in the election, the successful CIP candidates alone gained 8,038, against 2,779 for the successful independents.

In the outer islands, the independents hold eight seats to five by CIP mem bers. However, the independents hold all five seats on Aitutaki and Mangaia, the two most populous outer islands.

They also have one each for Raka hanga, Penrhyn and Atiu. The CIP also has one Atiu seat, and one each for Mauke, Manihiki, Mitiaro and Pukapuka.—Ed., PIM.] Mr. Estall asked Mr. Adeel, the leader of the UN Mission, to confirm that the Cook Islands Government could request another form of government should self-government prove a failure.

In reply, Mr. Adeel read a] document published at the request of the New Zealand Government which said that the Cook Islands Government did have the right toi request another form of government] after self-government had been given a trial period.

This news caused the tension that had existed between the Government and “Opposition” from the outset to disappear and to be replaced by a spirit of co-operation.

Cook Islands

p. 37

HOUSE OF ARIKIS

PROPOSED FOR

A three-man delegation from he Cook Islands left Rarotonga or New Zealand in the Monterey m May 17 to discuss the Cook islands Constitution with NZ’s

Minister of Island Territories,

Ax. J. R. Hanan, and a Select Committee of the NZ Parlia ment. rHE delegation comprises New Zealand’s Resident Commissioner i the Cook Islands, Mr. A. O. Dare, tie leader of the Cook Islands Party, Albert Henry, and the Leader f Government Business in the Cook slands Legislative Assembly, Dr. lanea Tamarua, who is also deputy ;ader of the Cook Islands Party.

The main subjects that the delega ion will discuss are a proposed House f Arikis and the residential qualifica ions for electors and candidates in lections for the Legislative Assembly, dnch the Assembly wants reduced 3 three months.

Yearly Meetings

The House of Arikis would meet nee a year on Rarotonga under the ligh Commissioner, who would be le Constitutional Head of State. It muld consist of eight arikis from the uter islands and six from Rarotonga.

The House would be a consultative ody with the Government on land latters, native custom and related □bjects on which the Government light require advice.

It would have the power to refer iack to the Legislative Assembly nd/or the Cabinet up to three times, liter the first time the arikis could emand consultation with the Cabinet, Tie High Commissioner would retain tie right to refer back, as already /ritten into the draft constitution.

If the House of Arikis should re uest it, the Cook Islands Govern lent would “look favourably” upon proposal for an ariki, in addition to tie High Commissioner, to represent he Queen.

No law that runs counter to raditional land usage would be en orced unless so requested by the rikis and kavanas of the island in olved.

Amendements To Bill Suspend

p. 37

Government In Cooks

THE Cook Islands Legislative Assembly’s decision in May to amend some clauses of the Cook Islands Constitution Bill, means that effective government in the Cook Islands has been temporarily suspended.

The two main amendments which the Cook Islands Assembly wishes to make to the Constitution Bill concern the Council of State and the residential qualifications for election candidates.

Instead of a Council of State, the Assembly wants executive authority of the Cooks vested solely in a High Commissioner—plus a House of Arikis which would meet once a year. The Assembly wants the residential qualifications for election candidates reduced to three months (see p. 31).

The Constitutional Bill was passed by the NZ Parliament last October, but it was provided that it could not come into effect until the Cook Islands Assembly accepted it. It was also provided that if the Assembly wished to make any amendments to the bill, these would have to be approved by the NZ Parliament before the bill, as a whole, could be adopted by the Assembly and brought into effect.

At present, therefore, the Assembly has no constitution under which to work, and it will remain adjourned until the NZ Parliament acts on its amendments.

After that it will meet again to adopt the amended constitution, and will promptly adjourn again to enable Albert Henry, who is currently banned from standing for election by the three-year residential clause, to contest a by-election.

If, as is expected, Mr. Henry wins the by-election, the Assembly will then meet again for general business. This will include the formal election of a Premier—almost certainly Mr. Henry—and a Cabinet.

The Cabinet, in all probability, will be the same as the present Executive (see p. 31), minus Mrs. Marguerite Story, who will stand down to allow the by-election to take place.

The Constitution Bill, as it stands at present, provides that: • The 22-member Assembly may not repeal or amend the consti tution without the support of two-thirds of its members at the second and third reading stages, and a lapse of 90 days between those stages. • The Cabinet will consist of a Premier and four other Ministers. • New Zealand will appoint a Council of State comprising a High Commissioner and two arikis (high chiefs), one from Rarotonga and one from the outer islands. The arikis will sit with the High Commissioner to represent the Queen. • There will be an Executive Council consisting of the High Com missioner and the Cabinet. • The High Commissioner or the Premier may summon the council to consider any Cabinet decision. If the council confirms the decision, and the High Commissioner concurs, it will take effect as a Cabinet de cision. If he does not concur, it must be referred back to the Cabinet for reconsideration. • The High Commissioner’s power of veto over legislation is limited and can be exercised only on the advice of the Premier. He can refer to the Executive Council amendments which he himself proposes, but he cannot refuse his assent to legislation if the council decides so. • There will be a High Court, with appeals to the New Zealand Supreme Court, and a land court, with appeals to a special land appelate court. The High Commissioner will make judicial appointments—on the advice of the Premier in certain cases and a three-man judicial service commission in others. • Candidates for election to the Assembly must live in the Cook Islands for three years before nominating.

A-Bomb Brings Prosperity

pp. 39-41

And Agricultural Chaos To French Polynesia

High wages paid to workmen on France’s nuclear testing project at Mururoa Atoll and associated works programmes in French Polynesia have brought prosperity and a higher standard of living to that territory. But the high wages have lured so many men from the land that the territory’s agricultural industry is now in a serious plight.

Polynesia’s Governor, Mr.

Jean Sicurani, said this in Papeete n May 11 when he officially opened le 1965 session of the Territorial assembly.

The opening day of the session 'as marked by the walk-out of eight lembers of the 30-member Assembly, 'ho claimed that the Assembly was o longer representative of public pinion and should be dissolved.

The eight members who walked out icluded Mr. Alfred Poroi, Papeete’s layor for the past 22 years and mator for French Polynesia in the fench Parliament (see below).

In his speech to open the Assembly, rovernor Sicurani gave a series of gures which illustrate the tremen ous impact that the nuclear testing reject has had on the territory’s :onomy.

He said that the quantity and value f the territory’s imports for 1964 rere twice as great as for 1963

190.000 tons of goods being imported last year, worth 5,400 million French Pacific francs (£27 million Aus tralian).

In 1964, the nuclear testing project and its associated enterprises paid 125 million Pacific francs (£A625,000) in wages to Polynesian labour alone; while the wages bill for the first quarter of 1965 was 70 million francs (£A350,000).

Wages for Polynesian workers for the whole of this year would be about 300 million francs (£Ali million).

“But it would not be correct to say,” Mr. Sicurani said, “that the nuclear testing project has been solely responsible for the higher standard of living.

“In 1964, despite the attraction of the Olympic Games in Tokyo and the International Fair in New York, 13.000 tourists sojurned in the terri tory, spending 462 million francs (£A2,310,000).

“The prospects for 1965 are even more encouraging.”

Mr. Sicurani said that 1964 had also been marked by “a profound modification in the structure, habits and standard of living of the rural population”.

Many thousands of young men— nearly all of the active rural workers —had deserted the land to work on the big works projects in the territory.

This migration, which affected 85 to 90 per cent, of the agricultural

population, had had “profound con sequences”.

Mr. Sicurani said that the Govern ment’s first objective—as his pre decessor, Governor Aime Grimald, had said on the same occasion last year—was “to sustain traditional activities so that the rural people would be assured of a constant source of income and so that they would provide more produce for the expand ing local market”.

“But how can one assure the copra producers—the most numerous and the least favoured—a significant but also lasting improvement in their income?”

Mr. Sicurani asked.

“There is no other way, it seems to me, but to establish a coconut pro cessing factory (huilerie), capable of handling the entire production.

“All the conditions are now com bined— natural riches, means of com munication and means of dissemi nating information on a world scale —for developing tourism in the country, and for this it is necessary to re-establish and maintain the equilibrium of the country’s economy.

This is a matter of organisation and investment.”

"Buzzing Hive"

Tevitau Pito, doyen of the Assembly by reason of age, also spoke of the impact of the nuclear testing project on Tahiti and other islands of French Polynesia in a speech at the opening of the Assembly.

He said: “Papeete, peaceful town, sleeping on the edge of an often celebrated lagoon, has become a buzzing hive where it is hard to say what it is that astonishes you most.

“Is it to see boats, ships and tankers swarming in the port while the harmonious islet of Motu Uta (see p. 89) sadly disappears like something grabbed up by a devouring tentacle?

“Is it the disappearance of the wooden houses that have sheltered peaceful households and modest businesses to give place to the proud buildings of cement, built one upon the other?

“I could go on for a long time with this astonishing enumeration . . .

“There is only one reason for this new page in our history—the nuclear testing project, since tourism, alas, is nothing more than a modest artisan in our noisy life . . .

“Full employment of our workmen is assured; prosperity smiles on those who dare; progress is at our door: and the spoils are so great that both the Marquesas and the Austral Is

ands are fighting for a share of them vith the Tuamotus and Society islands.

“Certainly, everything is not per fect, but we must recognise what France, our Mother Country, has lone to awaken us from our ilumber.”

Walk-Out

The eight members of the Assembly vho walked out of the chamber after ;he opening speeches are moderates vho claimed that municipal elections leld in the territory two days earlier lad shown that the Assembly no longer represented public opinion.

In these elections, Mr. Poroi and a team of moderate candidates had a resounding victory over radical op ponents in the Papeete municipality,

and the new council later chose Mr.

Pcroi as Mayor of Papeete for the ncxi six years.

Moderate candidates were also successful in elections in two new municipalities in Tahiti—Faaa and Pirae—and in the Uturoa muni cipality on Raiatea.

However, the majority of members in the Territorial Assembly are radicals. They comprise: • Fourteen former members of the RDPT, a party usually described as Leftist, which was banned by presi dential decree in November, 1963, after circulating petitions protesting against the “invasion” of Tahiti by French troops to prepare the way for the nuclear testing project at Mururoa Atoll (PIM, Dec., 1963, p. 13). • Eight members of two other political parties known as UT and

UNR.

The walk-out of the minority of eight followed the refusal of the majority of 22 to allow the minority to have seats on the various commis sions which do most of the effective work of the Assembly.

Speaking in the Assembly before the walk-out, Mr. Frantz Vanizette, a member of the minority, said: “Since the municipal elections, I deny that the present majority in the Assembly represents public opinion.

It is time that we all went before the electors again—in other words, that the Assembly should be dissolved.”

Mr, Poroi said: “As a senator, I will strive to get (the French) Par liament to dissolve the Assembly.”

Footnote: New Assembly elections would not normally be due until 1967 as members are elected for five years, and the last elections were held in October. 1962.

Mr. Alfred Poroi.

The Bomb

p. 39

First Picture of

This photograph, published in the French Press recently, and reproduced here from “Le Journal de Tahiti”, is the first ever published of a French atomic bomb.

It is four metres long, weigh ing more than a ton, with 60 kilotons of power—four times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The nuclear ex plosive occupies only a small part of the bomb. The rest contains electronic instruments, mainly the firing system.

It is presumably a bomb like this that France will test at its Mururoa testing base in the Pacific. No date for these tests has yet been announced, but French Navy headquarters in Brest revealed in May that France’s naval strength in Tahiti would be built up in the near future (see d. 107).

Future A-Tests

p. 41

U.S. MAY USE BAKER,

HOWLAND ISLANDS IN

Australian Associated Press has re ported from Washington that the United States may use two new Pacific islands, Howland and Baker, to test nuclear weapons —if a decision is made to resume testing in the atmos phere.

Such a decision could be made if the current test ban treaty, outlawing all but underground tests, is broken by any of the signatories. The signatories include Britain, Russia and the United States, but not France or China.

Howland and Baker Islands are isolated atolls near the Equator about 35 miles apart. Both were discovered by American whalers in the early 19th century, but both were shown on most charts as British until the United States claimed them, without objection by the British, in 1935.

The nearest island groups to How land and Baker are the Gilberts to the west and the Phoenix Islands to the south-east. Brisbane is about 2,800 miles away to the south-west, and Johnston Island, the land base for any future US low-altitude or high-altitude nuclear test blasts in the Pacific, is about 1,000 miles north east, Australian Associated Press says that in any new American nuclear tests in the atmosphere, Howland and Baker would be sites for monitoring instruments to check on blasts at Johnson Island.

The Pacific Islands Society

p. 41

r Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney.

Phone: 59-1778.

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.

KOKODA WEDDING: When Miss Diane

pp. 44-45

Kienzle married Mr. Christopher Moloney (above) at Mamba Rubber Estate on May 9, the wedding was one of Papua's social events of the year. The bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kienzle, are two of Papua's best-known residents and Mamba Estate is famous for its productivity, and for the hospitality of the two branches of the Kienzle family who own it. Most of the 130 guests arrived from Port Moresby and Popondetta in three chartered aircraft, which flew them back home later in the day. Some, including the bridegroom's parents, other members of his family and bridesmaid Miss Helen Mutton, flew from Sydney. The marriage ceremony took place in the living room of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Kienzle, uncle and aunt of the bride, and the reception was at Mamba House, the home of her parents.

Mr. Maloney is a teacher at Kokoda and the young couple will live there.

CHALET MANAGER: Mr. Clive M. Rander son, who spent four years at Vila, New Hebrides, just before the war with Burns Philp, has been appointed manager of the Kosciusko Chalet, in the Snowy Mountains of NSW. Since his Vila days Mr. Rander son has managed hotels in Sydney, Mel bourne, Perth and Adelaide. He is married with two daughters.

RABAUL WEDDING: At left. Kokopo man Hubert N. Wijand and his bride, the former Miss T. Carla de Swarte, after their marriage ceremony in Rabaul performed by District Commissioner H. West. The bride arrived from Holland only a week before.—Photo: C. H. Meen.

PASSENGERS ALL: Mr. and Mrs. Michae Trinnick, above, aboard the Matson line[?] "Mariposa" in Sydney in May, after [?] honeymoon visit to New Zealand. Mr Trinnick is a P-NG Administration so[?] bacteriologist, stationed in Port Moresby and the couple will live there. Anothei Matson passenger was school inspecto[?] Mr. Hari Ram, below, who returned t[?] Suva from Sydney in the "Monterey" i[?] April after an Australian Government sponsored tour of Australian high schoo[?] facilities. And aboard the "Mariposa" i[?] May, also Suva-bound, were Mr. and Mrs Brian Small (bottom picture). Mr. Smal[?] is with the Bank of NSW, Suva.

People In Pictures

LANDS REUNION: The Polynesian Asso [?]ition of Sydney was the scene of a [?]ppy reunion for Mr. Henry Blok, 80, [?]merly of Tahiti and now of NZ, and his [?]ughter, Mrs. Teroro Jean Moss (left, in [?]cture above). Mrs. Moss was born in [?]ra Bora and father and daughter lost [?]ntact many years ago. With them is Mrs. Moss's daughter, Audrey. —Telephotos

[?]SQUITO EXPERTS: Currently with a [?]squito research unit in P-NG, sponsored a scientific group of the US Army, are stralian entomologist Dr. Elizabeth Marks [?]ove, at right), and trainee entomologist [?]s Y. Kwang, from Formosa. Unit leader Dr. W. Steffan, of the Bishop Museum, [?] a fourth member is Dr. P. Mattingly, of the British Museum.

COLLEGE CAPTAIN: Joseph Go, of Fiji (above), this year's captain of Sydney's Holy Cross College, Ryde, is the third islander to have won the distinction at the college in recent years. In 1960 the capitain was George Dubois, of the New Hebrides, and in 1961 Herman Hitipeuw, from New Britain, P-NG.

NEW HONOUR: Papua-New Guinea's Assistant Administrator (Services) Dr. John Gunther (above) receives congratulations from Administrator Sir Donald Cleland, right, after Sir Donald had invested him with the CMG in Government House, Port Moresby, in May. Dr. Gunther had held the OBE and the new award was announced in the New Year Honours.

BACK HOME: P-NG's first university graduate, John Natera, 25 (above), arrives back in Port Moresby after receiving his BSc degree in agriculture at Sydney Uni versity in April. He will become a Government Agricultural Development Officer in the Morobe District.

WRITER: In Rabaul at the end of a tour of Australia and P-NG, Indian journalist K. N. Kant (pictured at left) talks with Rabaul businessman Mr. Laurie Chan. Mr.

Kant is writing a book.

Photo: C. H. Meen.

Western Samoa's

p. 47

A Small Bone For Western Samoa's Public Servants

From R. F. Rankin in Apia After a year of patient waiting : the Government to act on its plication for a pay rise, the estem Samoa Public Service ;sociation was finally thrown a ry small bone on the eve of

tat promised to be a fiery

nual general meeting.

JRPRISINGLY, the bone proved big enough to draw applause m the 40-odd assembled mem s. fhe public servants were granted general increase of 7i per cent, respective to January 1 this year, ereas the association had asked for increase of 17i per cent., with 1\ cent, retrospective to January 1, >4. \ccording to Treasury official John :ndt, the pay increase will add ),000 to the annual salary bill of t over £1,000,000. since the last pay rise in 1959, Cost of Living Index on which ffic service salaries are supposed to based has shown an increase of >ut 18 per cent. This means, in ;ct, that real wages for public ser ifs are now down about 10 per it.

"Poor State"

‘lt is a matter of having to accept small rise because of the poor te of Government finances,” said vly-elected association president, lemene Aiolupo.

Fhis is only half the story. The fact that the Public Service Association according to its annual report “the ly recognised workers’ union in uoa” —is so weak and so lacking militancy that it had no option t to accept whatever the Govern nt gave it.

During the last year, its member p among the 2,000-strong public vice shrank from 553 to 313.

“Our main objective now is to ng more members into the asso tion,” Palemene says.

A special committee has been set to look into the reasons for the 1 in membership and to start a ye aimed at getting 1,500 members ring the coming year.

Only with stronger membership and unity, some committee members think, will Samoan public servants be able to emulate their Tahitian breth ren whose general strike early this year resulted in significant increases all round. ( PIM, Feb., p. 29).

Other new officials elected at the general meeting were: M. Kleis, sec retary; A. Stanley, treasurer; Tuioti S. and Fuiono A., vice-presidents. ☆ ☆ ☆ AGRICULTURE in Samoa, and much of the Pacific, is likely to get a much-needed boost in efficiency from a 15-day symposium on plant diseases held in Apia in the latter half of May.

Sponsored by the Institute of Tech nical Interchange of the East West Center, University of Hawaii, the course was organised and directed by Dr. Horace Clay.

Participants included 35 Western Samoans, mostly from the Agricul ture Department, and representatives from Guam, Okinawa, Tonga, Cook Islands, American Samoa and Fiji.

The 10 lecturers at the course in cluded top men in the field of tropi cal plant diseases from Fiji, Thai land, New Zealand, Philippines and Hawaii.

Interchange Of Ideas

The course was held during school holidays at Avele Agricultural Col lege, and, to promote the maximum interchange of ideas, all the staff and most of the participants, including local people, had to live in at Avele, using the students’ quarters and din ing room.

The scope of the course included study on the major diseases of bana nas, cocoa, coconuts, papaw, pine apple, taro and sugar cane.

It also included discussions on and demonstrations of known methods of disease control, popular fungicides, and the control of disease by breed ing.

The Samoan Government provided the accommodation, the meeting place and local transportation. Most of the other expenses were borne by the East West Center. • A documentary film on life and developments in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony is to be made early in July by Dr. Geoffrey Morey. The cost of the film will be paid for by Colonial Development and Welfare Fund.

Lae Meeting May Bring Some

pp. 49-53

Get-Up-And-Go To The SPC

By a Staff Writer

The first real steps towards South Seas political unity will be taken at a vital meeting in Lae, New Guinea, in July. The meeting—the Sixth South Pacific Conference —could be a turning point in South Seas politics.

ET, officially, there will be no politics involved, and politics 1 certainly not be encouraged at meeting.

Hie conference has been sponsored the South Pacific Commission, and one of a series of conferences ich have been held every three irs since 1950. Delegates from all ;r the South Seas will attend the etings, which will continue for al ►st a fortnight.

Fhe Lae conference will be like other because there have been im rtant changes within the South :ific Commission itself in the last months.

Fhe changes accompanied the ad ssion last year of Western Samoa a full SPC member—the first inde ident Pacific State to join the mmission. The other members are ; five metropolitan South Seas wers —Australia, Britain, France, iw Zealand and the US.

Not Politics

Collectively they make up a *ional organisation with jurisdic n over 20 per cent, of the earth’s ■face; but the jurisdiction, by agree ;nt, doesn’t involve politics.

The SPC mainly acts as an ad ;ory body on technical and social filers. It is an information ex ange upon which the member gov iments may or may not call, ac rding to whim.

Over the years the SPC has fre ently been the butt of criticism, unly on the ground that its charter s not allowed it to keep pace with ; quick changes in the South Seas.

Some critics have pointed out that litics are so much a part of an lerging Pacific that any organisa >n which is forced to ignore them nply can’t do its job properly.

Another major criticism is that be use headquarters are at Noumea 2 SPC has seemed remote, and that needs to be based in some busy ib, such as Suva or Sydney.

In reply it has been pointed out that despite its charter no organisa tion is any better than the people it employs, and the people who are expected to co-operate with it.

At various times since 1947 the SPC has been badly served on both counts, with personal feuding within the organisation, and outside it an animosity, almost a contempt, by some officials of the Island territories who ought to have been giving their co-operation. Today these criticisms are no longer valid, and the SPC is accepted as a useful and at times valuable body.

Revision

At one stage there was pressure for the whole charter to be thrown open for revision, but this was re jected by the majority, who were apprehensive that a major revision would leave loopholes for develop ment of activities along political lines.

No member government wants the SPC to become a political federation of the South Seas, usurping its own authority (although if this in fact did happen the government which would be least alarmed about it is Britain), Britain has been among those who

have held that the SPC could bring itself up-to-date without any real al teration to the charter—that changes were possible within the existing framework, and that given the oppor tunity the Islanders themselves could give the SPC the teeth it needs with out danger of turning the organisa tion into a political machine.

The matter of a new site for head quarters has now virtually become a dead letter, since most member gov ernments are convinced that if head quarters were removed from Noumea the French would leave the SPC in pique. They do not consider the obvious advantages of the move would be worth this price.

There is no doubt at all that politics do come into the work of the Commission, and the changes that have been made in the last 12 months are in fact an almost unconscious

Mr. W. D. Forsyth, Secretary-General of the SPC, who will be at the conference.

He has recently been on an overseas tour.

The Lae Technical School, site of the Sixth South Pacific Conference in July.

recognition of this by the member governments.

Within the Commission meetings themselves reports are altered, or re stricted, because of political con siderations, and the same considera tions affect discussions and decisions of the Commission. This is natural.

The South Pacific Conferences themselves have turned out to be useful political sounding boards for the member governments, both be hind scenes and on the floor of the meeting, for these conferences meet on two levels.

Behind-scenes observers from the metropolitan governments, many of them on a senior diplomatic levei, swap ideas and put forward points of view. Some of it is pure kite flying; at other times it is a serious attempt to convince colleagues on a particular argument.

The changes which were approved in Noumea last year were fore shadowed, behind scenes, at the Fifth South Pacific Conference in Pago Pago in 1962. Observers at that meeting tossed around among them selves a whole series of proposals for improving the work of the Com mission, and there was much lobby ing.

The ideas were taken a step further at a special closed conference in London the following year, but much of the groundwork for unanimity had been laid at Pago.

The Islanders themselves, the people who had come along to speak publicly at the conference, were also doing their own kind of lobbying

at the Pago conference as they got to know each other and began to swap their ideas on where they thought the Pacific was headed.

Much of their conversation was political, and sometimes this boiled over into the conference room.

One notable occasion was when the Netherlands New Guinea delegates attempted to raise the subject of the Indonesian invasion of their country.

This was nipped in the bud by the conference chairman, who pointed out that the agenda had to be followed and that politics weren’t a legitimate subject for discussion anyhow.

This ruling, although correct, caused mutterings of dissent.

There was a similar reaction at the Fourth Conference, at Rabaul in 1959, when delegates finally realised that the agenda had to be followed, even though it had been fixed perhaps 12 months to two years before.

There was a feeling that the con ference did not give them scope to discuss the things that mattered in the way they wanted to discuss them.

At the early post-war conferences the fact that the agenda was so rigid did not matter, for at that stage the Islands people were sltli feeling their way.

They were content to be organised, and even manipulated, by the Euro pean organisers of the conference

Mr. Peter I. Coleman, a former Governor of American Samoa and now District Ad ministrator for the Marshall Islands District in the United States Trust Territory, will be adviser to a three-man delegation from the Trust Territory at the Lae conference.

by the metropolitan governments which at that time appeared to own diem body and soul.

But the South Pacific today is a Afferent place.

New Guinea elects a majority Assembly on a common roll, Fiji is n the midst of noisy political change, :he Cook Islands are getting self government, Western Samoa is inde pendent—and everybody, just every body, has a point of view which he nsists be heard.

Even the one backward step that las been taken—the step forced on :he West New Guineans by Indonesia, which removes hope now of their becoming their own masters—has lelped speed up developments in bther areas. There is not an Islands ;erritory whose inhabitants have not been aware that what really happened n West New Guinea is that Dutch colonialism was replaced by Indo lesian colonialism of a much nar rower kind—and that it was done Linder false pretences to boot.

Not Before Time

With this South Seas awakening, the changes agreed to by the 26th session of the SPC held in Noumea last October were not before their time.

Under these changes the Sixth Conference at Lae will be invited to plan a work programme for the SPC For the next two years. This will be done by forming a new committee From conference delegates—each Territory being entitled to elect one delegate.

The work proposals made by this committee will go to the full SPC session in Noumea this October and may a result constitute the Com mission’s 1966-67 works programme.

This means that for the first time the Islanders will be able to have some real influence in the SPC.

From this experiment there could lead the development of the three yearly conferences into a kind of regional council, which could meet more frequently than each three years. This would be done by degrees—by arranging, for instance, that the works committee meet more frequently.

This could mean the end of the present SPC Research Council, which in fact is not meeting this year so that the decks may be cleared for the Lae experiment. In the past the Council has been a link between the conferences and the Commission.

The Commission has not yet agreed to make future conference agendas

more fluid, nor has there been any alteration in the charter to make it possible for political subjects to be discussed. But with a greater control by the Islanders themselves these things could follow.

Changes in attitude will obviously take place as more territories seek full membership of the SPC and thus control by the “Old Guard” of metro politan powers is watered down.

Western Samoa is the first new member since the SPC’s inception.

She was admitted under new rules that say any territory may be ad mitted by invitation, if it is an inde pendent state and all its territory is,

immediately prior to its independence, within the territorial scope of the

SPC.

No doubt it will become an in teresting point one day to decide just what degree of independence will be required for membership. Will the Cook Islands, expected soon to have internal self-government, be eligible?

Presumably Tonga is entitled to membership now should she seek it.

But the recent alterations to the charter are not the last word, and the important point is that this Sixth South Pacific Conference at Lae in July may go on record as perhaps the watershed of South Seas politics.

The Editors' Maillag

pp. 55-57

JAPANESE WAR AIMS

Sir, — Tolala’s statement ( PIM.

Feb., p. 97) that the Japanese wanted Rabaul for their attack on Australia is in accordance with Australian mythology but not with the facts.

Japanese aims in World War II were often confused and their direc tion changed, but nevertheless they :an be studied from a mass of material translated after the surrender. This tias been available in English for almost 20 years.

Rabaul was the springboard for an attack on Port Moresby, and might ater have filled the same role for operations against New Caledonia, Fiji, and Samoa. That on Port Moresby was stopped in the Battle )f the Coral Sea, which saved, not Australia, but Papua, from seaborne nvasion.

The idea that the Japanese wanted 0 capture Australia and fill it with ots of little yellow men existed only n the Australian mind.

I shall not attempt to set out in a etter what the Japanese aims were, >ut it seems strange that they are not ►etter understood in a country which vas so deeply involved in the con equences of them.

MERCATOR.

labaul, NG.

'LITTLE MEN" OF NEW IRELAND

Sir, —R. J. Giddings’ article in April y IM (p. 81) about the mysterious little men” of Buka and Bougain ille reminded me of hearing similar tories when I was in the south-east f New Ireland in 1959.

There is a tradition among the oastal villages that “before German mes” little men used to come from ie mountains for salt. Some old atives even describe a dance by these igmies, with a long rope as an ccessory, which does not seem to be legend.

Since the last war, a patrol officer 1 reported to have contacted some of lese little men in the high country f inland New Britain, which is said ) be uninhabited. However, local lanters pretended that the man was Adorn seen sober.

The oldest resident of the south ast coast, M. Lanzarotte, did not be eve the local tale about the little ten.

J. HUON.

elefomin, apua-New Guinea.

IN SEARCH OF FLAGS

Sir—l was wondering if I could use your columns as a sounding board for my hobby—vexillology (i.e. the study and collection of flags). During the past 13 years.

I have been collecting flags from all over the globe. In fact, the Flag Research Center (official adviser to the United Nations on vexillological

matters, author of the flag articles in the most recent editions of many leading encyclopaedias, and publishers of the Flag Bulletin) of Winchester, Massachusetts, considers my col lection to be one of the largest in the world—46s in number as of last week, when I received the Gambia’s new national standard.

At this time, I am trying to com plete my collection of Pacific Islands banners. I am particularly interested in procuring the unofficial “national” flag of Papua-New Guinea (a multi coloured Bird of Paradise super imposed on a green field) which was specifically designed to represent that

country’s athletic team at the 1963 South Pacific Games.

Therefore, I would be grateful if any PIM reader could send me information on how to procure Pacific flags. Also I would appreciate it if some Cook Islander would inform me as to whether or not that Territory plans to adopt its own distinctive flag now that internal self government is due to arrive.

Incidently, to date, I have the national and territorial flags of Western Samoa, American Samoa, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Western New Guinea (Dutch Admi nistration), Tonga, and the blue colonial ensigns of the British Solo mons and Fiji. Also I soon expect to receive the Gilbert and Ellice Islands’ ensign.

(REV. MR.) JOHN J. HURLEY,

Oblates of St. Francis De Sales 528 Marsh Road, Wilmington 9. Delaware, USA.

NORFOLK'S WHEAT

Sir, —January PIM gave an in teresting reference to Norfolk Island Administrator Nott’s preconceived ideas of growing wheat on Norfolk Island—before he had hardly set foot on the island of 8,500 acres. Some might be led to believe the Island was arable agricultural land under present conditions—whereas it would be more accurately described as hor ticultural. Your article omitted to say that the island’s great prosperity has now exceeded anything in the past— any previous export industry having been surpassed by the still-growing “export” industry of tourism.

Administrator Nott is apparently trying to influence the Council into agreeing, against its wishes, to an ex perimental farm together with a full time agricultural officer. Council wants neither, but has in mind a part time horticultural officer to meet our main needs. Is this the costly whim of past Administrators repeating it self? Administrator Rosenthall in stalled an experimental farm for suc cessor Wilson to promptly throw out.

Administrator Wordsworth saw no justification whatsoever for a full-time agricultural officer. Too many whims of past Administrators have left their mark in the form of a string of wasted public funds.

Much of the difficulty lies in the uneconomic size of the population— approximately 850—with tourists ap proximately 4,000. Short-term Ad ministrators would do better to first study and take a more realistic view of the habits and customs that exist.

Customers of the stores bring in small quantities of vegetables at irregular intervals according to their surplus.

These are generally accepted as contra account—or cannot be easily refused—thus preventing the stores from giving regular worthwhile orders to encourage a market gardener.

Dr. C. G. Stephens, of CSIRO, after a detailed soil analysis of the whole island in 1954, summed the position up in his final recommendations when he advised “bringing the people to the food”, which means raising the consumers to 2,000 and/or 10,000 tourists. Not nearly enough is being done to ensure this form of

stabilising local consumption to se cure prosperity for the future.

When our local market becomes an economic unit for which to cater there will be found plenty of skilled growers to meet a stable demand. Not until then will they find it a suffi ciently rewarding occupation com parable with current wages. It seems most stupid to expect our small pockets of rich land to compete with the world’s wheat-growing lands.

W. N. SELBY NEWBALD

Norfolk Island

Unique Prehistoric Drawings

pp. 59-61

Found In Caves On Lifou

From Fred Dunn in Noumea

The first prehistoric cave drawings ever found in the islands of New Caledonia were discovered recently in a series of caves on Lifou, one of the Loyalty Islands, by a member of New Caledonia’s meteorological service, Mr. Keller.

PHE Loyalty Islands lie about 50 miles off the east coast of New 'aledonia. Lifou, the largest, with population of 6,000, is 50 miles >ng and about 25 miles across. It i of coral formation and appears to ave been formed by three or four iccessive upheavals.

There are no hills or streams on le island; in fact, no physical ;atures worth noting, except a ridge f rocks 200 ft high, which is full f caves.

The natives of the island, who are now a mixture of Melanesian and Polynesian strains, with a good deal of English sailor blood thrown in, once used the caves as secret burial places, and they were thus tabu to most of the people.

Even now Lifou’s council of elders does not readily grant permission for anyone to visit the caves, and Mr.

Keller, who is the local representative of the meteorological service, had to use all his powers of persuasion to be allowed to enter them.

However, he was not allowed to go in alone—several of the elders accompanied him.

Mr. Keller has reported that to reach the cave where most of the drawings are to be found, he had to crawl and squirm through narrow passages and orifices for about 100 yards. He estimates that this “art gallery” is about 30 yards long by 15 yards wide.

Among the numerous subjects depicted are tortoises, suns, and a crested, short-winged, long-beaked bird (possibly New Caledonia’s flightless cagou).

Hand Prints

But the most common subjects are hand prints, both negative and positive, which are done in black and red.

Mr. Keller believes that most of the drawings have been done with a vegetable colouring matter. But there are also some engravings; and some of the hands have been done in red ochre.

This fact will be of great interest to archaeologists, as there is no red ochre on Lifou, although it is to be found in New Caledonia.

Mr. Keller says chalk deposits cover a large part of the walls of the caves, and that stalactites and stalagmites are everywhere. (over)

These photographs of the prehistoric cave drawings on Lifou were taken by their discoverer, Mr.

Keller, of New Caledonia's meteoro logical service. Some of the hand prints have been done in red ochre, a material not found on Lifou. A bird, resembling New Caledonia's flightless cagou, is seen in the left picture.

He believes the main cave was ised as a ceremonial site; and says hat there are still several fire sites ontaining charcoal.

This charcoal should be useful for [ating purposes by the carbon 14 nethod.

On the surface, near the entrance o the caves, Mr. Keller found huge 'locks of coral cut into the shape •f three-sided pyramids, phalluses, nd other forms. Most of these have >een ravaged by time and weather, •ut some mysterious engravings can till be made out on them.

As soon as Mr. Keller’s discovery *as reported to the authorities in 'ioumea, the New Caledonian iovemment placed another tabu on le caves, and now no one may visit icm without the government’s per lission.

One man who currently has this ermission is the curator of the loumea Museum, Mr. Luc Chevalier, 'ho was on Lifou in May to study ie drawings.

Mr. Chevalier is reported to have aid, after studying photographs of le drawings, that they were similar a cave drawings in Australia.

Certainly, nothing like the draw igs has ever been found in New aledonia. The only handiwork of ncient man so far discovered are arvings on isolated rocks in various arts of the island, and some lysterious mounds called tumulis.

Many tumulis have also been aund on the Isle of Pines, south of lew Caledonia.

They have all been found to con un a cylinder made of mortar, and ating of the material by carbon 14 as placed the age of this material t about 10,000 years (8,000 BC).

Patrol To Contact

p. 61

“ Lost Tribe"

A patrol will leave Telefomin in the Sepik District of Papua- New Guinea about the end of June to make contact with a group of about 750 natives whose existence was unknown until they were sighted from a helicopter recently.

The natives live in rugged, mountainous country near the headwaters of the August River, about 50 miles north-west of Telefomin.

The patrol to contact them will be led by Mr. J. M.

Wearne, Assistant District Com missioner of the Telefomin Sub- District, who sighted the “lost tribe” during an Administration survey to locate isolated groups of people in the area.

Fiji's Copra Renaissance

pp. 63-67

MAY LEAD TO ONE VOICE

FOR PACIFIC PLANTERS

From a Special Correspondent in Suva

The coconut, after being among the depressed things of the world, has taken on a golden sheen in the Island territories of the South Pacific. And Fiji in particular is now thanking its lucky stars that, after years of muddle and strife, the local in dustry has put its house in order just in time for planters to jump on the bandwagon of rising prices.

producers are being paid the i highest prices for years, with ises of £5 a ton for hot air dried opra twice in a couple of weeks, to ring the price (on May 3) to FB2/12/6 a ton.

For helping to put its house in rder at this crucial time, Fiji’s copra rowers and merchants have to thank ,ord Silsoe, saviour of Fiji’s sugar in ustry and now architect of the new iws which will revitalise the coconut idustry.

The copra industry in Fiji has had . history of bedevilment by sickness, y inefficiency, by slipshod methods f production and hit-and-m is s icthods of dealing.

And if these things were not enough 0 stretch the industry on its back, /orld prices have been depressed and tie coconut has more natural enemies tian almost any of the democratic [ations —the rhinoceros beetle, the tick insect, the rat and a dozen other haracters of nature’s underworld.

Almost Lifeless

Wartime prices for copra reached ock bottom, falling to £2 and £3 a on in Fiji. There is little wonder hat producers lost so much heart hat when a price recovery came after he war Fiji found its copra industry Imost lifeless.

Between the growers and the buyers here was antagonism, born of the ilanters’ suspicions that they were >eing short-changed, and the buyers’ mpatience with the quality of copra hey were forced to buy to stay in msiness.

The first real effort to increase pro luction and to turn plantations and ;roves into something approaching he well-tended acres in the Philip )ines came in 1961 at a time when irices were only a little above £4O 1 ton. And the effort was abortive.

It was made with an ill-conceived bill introduced into the Legislative Council by the then Development Commissioner, Mr, Eric Bevington.

The Coconut Palm Development Ordinance, 1961, was more in the way of a doctor administering aspirin to a patient who was in the last throes of blackwater fever, and certainly it was not the answer to the planter’s prayer. The bill provided for payments for improving planta tions and for new planting; but the trouble was the finance had to be found by the industry itself in the form of a levy, with the Government contributing £ for £.

The only chance the planter had of getting his money back was by putting more into his plantation, but with copra prices so low, it seemed to the planter that this was throwing good money after bad. The 25/- a ton levy was more than half the price the planter was getting for his copra.

Certainly if a soothsayer could have given the planter a peep into a genuine crystal ball to reveal the lofty ceiling that copra prices would reach, he might have taken the risk,

but most crystal balls are notoriously unreliable.

The bill had a rough passage through the Legislative Council. Mr.

Bevington was accused of trying to teach the planters how to do their job, and as the planters were still suspicious of the buyers they feared that increased rewards, if any, would go to the merchant.

The bill was steamrollered through but, like steamrollers, it never took to the air. It went on to the Statute Book and remained there, unwanted.

But the efforts made over the bill did create an urge for better things, and the planters approached the Gov ernment, asking that a commission should investigate the copra industry, just as the Sugar Commission headed by Lord Silsoe (who was then Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve) had investi gated and re-created the sugar in dustry.

What better man for this job than Lord Silsoe, some wise man in the Government Buildings thought. So Lord Silsoe arrived in 1963 and using his genius, his keen forensic mind and his experience gained on the Sugar Commission, he blew away the cobwebs, scooped up the rotting foliage and proved to be the steam hammer needed to crack the nut in dustry. His advent was welcomed by both sides.

Lucid Report

On his way to Fiji he had stopped off in Jamaica and had a look at the industry there. He spent some time in Tonga which had grappled with and solved many of the problems of the Fiji industry, and he sent his secretary, Mr. R. T. Sanders —now appropriately enough in the Fiji Office of Natural Resources—to Western Samoa.

He studied all the information he could get from the Gilberts, from the Solomons and from Papua-New Guinea, largest copra producer in the South Pacific. (Fiji comes next).

His lucid final report issued in September, 1963, read in parts like

Lord Silsoe.

a school textbook, one chapter ending with a list of “Lessons to be iearnt from other countries”, which was just the thing for the Fijian growers and for some of the better educated planters. There were 16 lessons to be leamt, he said.

He had a blue-print to work from —his own highly-efficient plan for the sugar industry—and he quarried that extensively.

He suggested a Coconut Board and a Coconut Advisory Council, just as he had suggested and created a Board and a Council for the sugar industry.

He laid down rules for procedure, how they should function, how they should be financed, and topped that off with a valuable suggestion which had not as yet found an echo in other copra areas of the South Pacific.

Speak As One

“The production of copra in Fiji is about one per cent, of the present world production,” Lord Silsoe wrote: “The production of New Guinea—the largest producer in the South Pacific —was in 1961 just over 2i per cent.

But the total production of the area covered by the South Pacific Com mission is just above 10 per cent, of that of the world. ‘This total production is larger than that of the whole of Central and South America and nearly three times that of the whole of Africa. One per cent, gives no influence in world affairs but a collective view expressed by 10 per cent, is usually fairly effective.

“The South Pacific, speaking with one voice, would have even more in fluence over their exports of copra or coconut oil.”

Lord Silsoe was thus advocating something on the lines of a South Pacific Copra Commission, and the challenge to action is now being taken up by Ratu K. K. T. Mara, Fiji’s Member for Natural Resources.

Ratu Mara Moves

He told this correspondent that he has already made tentative approaches to the heads of other territories and in June he will see the Western Samoa Government for talks on both copra and bananas.

He also hopes to see Prince Tungi, Premier of Tonga, about the same time, and out of this could come the united voice that Silsoe wanted.

Lord Silsoe himself took a look into the crystal ball and wrote: “After finishing my survey I am not in the least gloomy.

“Increasing populations all over the world and increasing standards of liv ing will surely require more and more edible and non-edible fats.

“I have read everything up to date I can find and it appears to be thought that among its competing oils —soya bean, groundnut, palm, whale and fish—coconut oil should at least keep its place.”

The report was received with relish by both sides of the industry, and hailed on the whole, as a blue-print for the industry.

The Government has since got to work, fashioned legislation on the framework of the report, and produced a “bill relating to the growing of coconuts and the manufacture of copra, coconut oil and coconut products,” which had an easy passage through the recent, March, sitting of the Fiji Legislative Council for two reasons- It was a good bill; and output was rising due to a subsidised scheme for thinning out groves and plantations, replanting and cleaning up.

The subsidy was at Lord Silsoe’s suggestion—a substitute for the levy system. The subsidy was based on half the estimated cost of improving a plantation, and one of the conditions suggested by Lord Silsoe, a psychologist who knows Fijian ternperament, was that payments for clearing and thinning be available for only three years. This was an astute move to produce quick action in the mataqali-owned groves to which the subsidy is confined.

The scheme also encourages the use of cattle. They range freely in the plantations, keep down the weeds and undergrowth which consume

plant food and hide fallen nuts, and are then, after fattening, slaughtered to repair a big deficiency in the Colony’s home-produced food sup plies.

The subsidy has already demon strated to Fijian growers the stupidity of their lackadaisical system of run ning groves. When groves were cleaned and the dense undergrowth cleared away, nut production jumped immediately, in some places by almost 50 per cent,

NutS lost

, , Fijian found that he had for generations allowed almost as many fallen nuts to be buried and l° st * n the undergrowth as he sold to the buyers. It was not the buyer who vas .the big bad wolf, but his own inertia though some prefer the word malua.

The new bill provides for control of the industry in all its phases, with a Board and an Advisory Council, the latter made up of representatives of both sides.

As Ratu K. K. T. Mara said when piloting the measure through in March, it was proposed that the members of the industry should them selves run the industry with the minimum of Government interven tion.

One of the main jobs of the Board is to issue licences for copra makers, coconut oil makers, copra exporters, coconut product makers, exporters of coconut and copra traders. The Board

A coconut plantation in the Lau Group, one of the main copra-producing areas of Fiji.

can also, with the approval of the Governor-in-Council, issue a licence to a maker of desiccated coconut.

It can “cause copra driers to be in spected” and can prohibit the “sale or purchase of such varieties of coco nuts as may be specified in such order” and may also prescribe the minimum number of coconuts to be bought at any one time by a copra maker.

The bill provides for punishment in the courts for contraventions of regulations. It is, for instance, an offence for any person without a licence to make copra or coconut oil or any other product or export copra “by way of trade or business”. The penalty is in some cases a fine not exceeding £250 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 12 months.

Latest figures show how the in dustry, which was a couple of years ago somewhat loosely geared to the Colony’s five-year development plan, is already beginning to enjoy the effects of that plan and of the sub sidised improvements being carried out in plantations and groves.

Fijian copra production alone, from

July 1, 1963, to June 30, 1964, rose by about 5,000 tons, mainly because at long last no coconuts were being left to rot in undergrowth.

Total production (including European) in the years 1963 and 1964 has been about equal but both years showed a big improvement on 1962 production and before. Last year Fiji produed 41,209 tons of copra; exported 7,078 tons of copra, 22,819 tons of coconut oil and 9,519 tons of coconut cake and meal.

In 1962, copra production was only about 30,000 tons.

About 60,000 acres of mataqali groves were cleaned and thinned last year—about 60 per cent, of Fijian holdings.

Last year 1,000 acres were re planted and 3,800 acres of new areas were planted.

Benefits of replanting and new planting will not be reaped for at least five years, and the February hurricane which devastated the Yasawas robbed the Colony of about 1,200 tons of copra for the next five to seven yeas.

Fiji is keeping its fingers crossed and praying that the golden sheen on the coconut will not meanwhile fade. The indications are that, although prices may not remain in the present bracket for long, there will be good prices for some years to come. And in fact there may never be cheap copra again.

DOING COURSE: Mr. Rudolf Off, Deputy Government Printer, Western Samoa, is currently study ing graphic art at Sydney Technical College under a scholarship spon sored by the Australian Govern ment which entitles him to a two year course. But because of pressure of work and a staff short age at home, he may be recalled after completing his first year. —Tele-Photos.

[?]Any Other

pp. 69-71

A TAX BY

NAME ...!

From a Niue Correspondent “Aid to Revenue” Tax is what

t is officially designated, but the

Niueans know better. The new ax that was introduced to the >land on April 1 is simply in ome tax, and thus another of lie South Pacific’s “income tax ree paradise’s” bites the dust! rHE new tax imposes a flat rate of 6d in the £ on all wages, salaries nd business profits on Niue, and is new and novel thing for most fiueans. There is an income tax, nder that name, on Niue, but most hueans escape its net simply because heir incomes are not high enough.

But there are no exemptions to this me.

When the Assembly introduced the neasure it proposed that it be called lie “Wages and Salaries Tax”, which t is, but, after discussion, it settled or “Aid to Revenue Tax”, which it Iso certainly is!

More Taxation

There has been in existence for ome time an “Aid to Revenue Tax”, ffiich the new 6d in the £1 replaces.

Ids was in the form of a flat £1 a ear, and it did not take into account he ability to pay. In addition, every nale paid 2/6 a year “Aid to Old Copies Tax”.

The new measure will mean in creased taxation—for the Assembly lad in mind when it introduced it hat New Zealand wants to see the >eople in this territory make a higher contribution to their upkeep.

But it also means increased paper vork for ordinary people, as the first : ew weeks of the new tax has shown, rhe tax is pay-as-you-go, and people ;mploying house girls and gardeners low struggle with tax-deduction sheets!

Another change in the Niue social scene has followed a Government de cision to pay all its employees fort nightly instead of monthly. Govern ment employees are the major group nf wage earners on the island, which means that the hectic monthly pay

lay rush on the local stores will be i thing of the past.

On these days it has been almost mpossible for anybody else to get nto the stores.

RUGGED little Niue is to go in for cattle breeding extensively.

There are at present a few head )f stock at the Fonuakula Prison "arm, but as they are unable to keep ip with the heavy demand of people vishing to buy calves, more cattle are o be imported.

Cattle are, of course, ideal for keep ng coconut plantations clear but there lave been obstacles to their use on 4iue —the main one being the lack if water. Until last year water was ibtained from rain catchment, but hen bores were successfully drilled »n the island and that problem has >een solved.

Experiments over the years have >een carried out on pasture grasses »n land at Vaiea, and it has been ound that tropical species used ex ensively in Queensland do particularly /ell in Niue. The most productive ypes have been selected and com lined into one mixture to provide cattle pasture of high quality.

There are plans to establish an battoir so Niueans can buy fresh icat.

LfR. LESLIE REX, Niue’s Com munity Development Officer, has etired after 40 years’ service, the Dngest of any Government servant on hue.

He joined the Government as a jacher in 1923. In 1953, he was ppointed Government Interpreter, ffiile continuing his teaching career, or six years prior to his appointment s Community Development Officer i the Resident Commissioner’s office i 1963, Mr. Rex was organising iacher and inspector of schools.

Mr. Rex has been a Niue delegate to three South Pacific Conferences.

Of Niue Transport

p. 69

The Changing Pattern Of Niue Transport

The road transport situation is changing on Niue, New Zealand dependency 300 miles east of Tonga. The bicycle has for many years been the principal form of private trans port and it’s amazing to see the loads of taro and kumeras and coconuts and other food that a Niuean can bring back from the bush on a bicycle.

But over the last few years motor cycles have become very popular, mostly of the light two-stroke variety, and a whole family —father, mother and several children, plus baskets of food—can be carried on one of those. And now Niueans are starting to buy cars.

Two second-hand ones have recently arrived on the island, brought back by Niueans returning from New Zealand, and it looks as if more will arrive.

The public transport picture is changing, too. For years bicycles have carried children to school and in the mornings hordes of secondary-school children have converged on Alofi from distant villages, many of them cycling for 10 or 15 miles. Consequently they have often been tired and often wet before the school day even started.

This year pupils attending Halamahanga High School are being brought to school and taken home again on Administration trucks fitted up with seats and canopies. And these are to be replaced with buses, which are now on order.

The older people, of course, still talk of the days when there were no bicycles and they walked the 10 miles to school. But those days really are gone.

Mail day on Niue, with bicycles aplenty.

Rarotonga

p. 71

New Factory For Rarotonga

A new factory for Island Foods Ltd. is to be built on Rarotonga this year to can the increasing supply of fruit from new citrus and pineapple planta tions on Rarotonga, Atiu, Aitutaki, Mauke and Mangaia.

The building will be two storeys high and will have about 20,000 sq. feet of floor space.

Cans will also be manufactured in the new building.

from the Islands Press

p. 75

THE Suva City Council is to seek authority to bring before the courts the owners of dogs that bark and destroy the sleep of those within earshot.

There could be some nice pro blems when proof comes to be produced that a particular dog was barking at a particular time.

There will have to be witnesses, supported perhaps by photographs of the dog with its mouth open (and evidence that it is barking and not just yawning).

If the noisy dog is away from home, there will be the problem of proving ownership, and if the animal is in enclosed pre mises it will be necessary to show that it lives there and has not strayed from somewhere else.

The idea of sheeting home responsibility for allowing dogs to annoy neighbours is one for which fervent sympathy will be felt by all who have suffered, but drafting an enforceable law will not be easy..— Editorial in “The Fiji Times”, Suva.

HER Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, have graciously presented to the people of Pitcairn two large, autographed, black and white portraits. These most at tractive likenesses now grace the front of our hall.

In his letter of thanks, the Acting Island Magistrate stated that it was very pleasing to know that we, of this small island in mid-Pacific, were remembered by Her Majesty and Prince Philip and that they favoured us with these striking portraits. News item in “Pitcairn Miscellany”.

AUSTRALIA has every reason to be proud of her achieve ments in Papua-New Guinea, as the recent United Nations mission readily acknowledged. But if the necessary rate of development is to be attained, Australia will find its task in the Territory in creasingly difficult to handle alone.

Is this not an opportunity for a combined Commonwealth effort, perhaps through the proposed Commonwealth Secretariat?

Some of the more advanced Commonwealth countries un

doubtedly would be willing and able to help in providing some of the 2,000 professional and technical officers who will be needed for the Territory’s public service. For it is on the success ful recruitment of such key personnel that the implementation of the World Bank’s recom mendations depends, and there is little hope that Australia will be able to supply all of them.— Editorial in the “South Pacific Post”, Port Moresby.

THE difficulty of running a country without party politics and without a clear majority for Government has again been amply illustrated [in Western Samoa] by the attempts to thwart plans for major tourism develop ment already approved in prin ciple by the House only a few weeks ago . . .

One could discuss the rights and wrongs of development until the cows come home but if this is the attitude to be adopted, the development will never come about. The only way to action is to get solidly behind a project once it has been approved and forget what might have been.

If, as it appears, development is to become merely a part of a political game, and the siting of every brick in the tourist hotel is to become the personal con cern of every MP, then we shall be lucky to get a hotel by 1996 not 1966. Editorial in “Samoana”, Apia.

IT is no secret that gambling goes on in American Samoa.

Most people know where a game is held practically every day in the heart of town. We do not mean the game of billiards or the game of bingo, either. We mean real gambling with the exchange of money just like they do in Reno.

The law enforcement officers probably know where these games are held. Not too long ago, a Chinese version was introduced.

It is now one of the more popular games.

Before we call the attention of outsiders to the fact that gambling is illegal in American Samoa, we

have to make sure that it is being sought out and wiped out from the face of this territory.

Only a few weeks ago, a party attempted to use the court as a collection agency for a gambling debt which involved hundreds of dollars. Editorial in “Samoa News”, Pago Pago.

FURTHER sharp exchanges took place between the Mayor and the councillor with Cr.

Sugrim remaining on his feet when repeatedly asked to sit down. When Cr. Harvie (the Mayor) reached for the gavel, Cr. Sugrim sat down. From report of meeting of Lautoka Town Council, in “The Fiji Times”, Suva.

IT is becoming increasingly

difficult for private students to obtain entry permits abroad without Government sponsor ship. In the case of New Zealand, Her Majesty’s [Tongan] Govern ment has been informed that private students will not as a rule be allowed to enter the Dominion in future unless they have this Government’s support.

Government is anxious that private students should be able to study abroad as in the past and, where official sponsorship is required by an overseas Govern ment (e.g. New Zealand), Her Majesty’s Government is prepared to give this, subject to certain requirements.— Public Notice in the “Chronicle”, Nukualofa.

AMERICAN Samoa’s merchants have continued to expand and improve their businesses during the opening months of 1965, giving the customer a bigger choice of goods than ever before.

Some have both enlarged and repainted their premises. Some have built new storage facilities.

New stores and a new recreation area have been opened. New departments have been set up in several stores and shopping has been made easier through ex tension of self-service facilities.— Editorial in the “Samoa Times”, Pago Pago.

Pacific Planters’

pp. 77-78

DIGEST

NEW THRESHING MACHINE

NOW in use in Fiji is a rice thresher which the British National Institute of Agricultural Engineering has developed for about £150.

This little low-cost wonder has many advantages. With it a crop can be immediately threshed after harvesting, whatever the weather conditions. In wet weather, this reduces stack burn and improves the quality of the rice. There is very little wastage or breaking of the rice compared with bullock or tractor threshing and the quantity and quality for milling or for seed are improved. Naturally, also, there is a considerable saving of labour.

One of the big advantages of this machine is that it can be used on a variety of crops, including sorghum, mung, urd and soya bean, although in some cases small adjustments may have to be made.

The thresher is portable, operated by a small built-in engine, but it can easily be adapted to work on the power-take-off of an ordinary tractor. The Fiji Department of Agriculture has further information on the machine for those interested.

OUT-OF-SEASON PINEAPPLES

THAT excellent pineapples can be grown out of season in tropical areas has been proved in Fiji. No startling new fertiliser was used for the process. Outstanding results have been achieved with the combined use of urea, superphosphate and potas sium sulphate.

To treat 1,000 plants the following quantity and mixture of fertilisers was found sufficient: Urea 14 lbs.

Superphosphate 16 lbs.

Potassium sulphate 10 lbs.

Growers who have proved the success of this combination recom mend the application of 1 lb of the mixture to every 25 plants. The mixture is thrown into the basal leaves and on the ground around the plant. The application should commence about six weeks after planting and be continued every four months.

So economical is the mixture that it costs less than £3 to fertilise 1,000 plants for one year.

An even more economical chemical to bring pineapples to bear out of season is ANA (alpha naphthalene acetic acid). ANA can cause well developed plants to flower six weeks after treatment, at any time of the year.

The concentrated solution is mixed with water to give a strength of 10 parts per million. One pint of solution (10 p.p.m.) is used to treat 10 plants.

The solution is poured into the top of well-developed plants. It is inadvisable to make the application on a wet day. Also it is not re commended that small plants be treated.

ANA applied to any plants which fail to flower in-season will result in a late out-of-season crop.

There should be little need to point out that out-of-season fruit brings in better returns than that produced in-season, and in-season fruit so fertilised will be of a better size and quality.

ANA costs about 1/- to treat 1,000 plants,

USING WETTING AGENTS

THERE is a growing awareness of the necessity for adding wetting agents to most weedicides and in secticides in the tropics.

Wetting agents—also known as detergents, emulsifiers, spreaders and surfactants—make water wetter.

The generally high rainfall and quick evaporation rate in the tropics create the need for a quick pene tration of the used chemical into the plant being treated. The need for quick penetration exists almost

AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS: The public market in Papeete, Tahiti, is an example of good lay-out and tidiness that the Suva Municipal Markets could well follow, according to Fiji PRO photographer Rob Wright who visited Tahiti recently and sent us this picture. "The fruit and vegetables are arranged neatly on tables or benches," he says, "and the fruit, particularly, was most attractive. The mangoes were luscious."

everywhere, though nowhere is it as necessary as in tropical areas.

Wetting agents are chemicals with split personalities. They possess both fairly large oil soluble components, and a water soluble component.

This dual personality factor causes the agent to bring about a better contact between the weed-killing chemical and the plant.

The film formed by the wetting agent penetrates the waxy material which covers the leaves and other plant parts, whereas ordinary water remains largely in dew-like droplets on the plant surface.

From Virgil Freed, agricultural chemist at Oregon State College, comes the following results of ex periments carried out with sodium chlorate and 2,4-d alone and with both chemicals used in conjunction with a wetting agent,

PLANT KILL BY SODIUM

CHLORATE.

(96 , . ‘ v ' Percent killed Sodium chlorate alone 10.0 Sodium chlorate plus 1% wetting agent 52.5

PLANT ABSORPTION OF 2,4-D. I

(72 hours)

Percent absorbed!

2.4- alone 10.1 2.4- plus 1% wetting agent 36.5 A point to remember: There is aj limit to a wetting agent’s ability to] make water wetter, and only re-1 commended amounts should be used] because more won’t help much.

READ YOUR LABELS!

HOW long does it take to read the average agricultural chemical] label? Whether it be five minutes or 50 the importance of the time spent] cannot be over-emphasised.

As agricultural chemicals are being] more widely used in the Pacific no manufacturer fails to recognise the] importance of having the user] carefully study a product’s label before he opens the can.

Behind every label are thousands] of experiments, field tests and often] years of checking and rechecking for safety and performance.

Each item of information printed on a label has a specific purpose, e.g. the sign “Poison S-5”, which is j shown on many labels, means the product is a domestic poison of ] relatively low toxicity.

When a chemical is classified as a poison, the label will give the antidote if one exists, and outline j emergency treatment.

The complete chemical name and] percentage of active ingredient is] used by customers to calculate ap plication rates, by Government analysts for checking, and by doctors to determine treatment in the! case of accidental poisoning.

Net contents are stated for the] purchaser’s protection and to select! the correct size package.

Complete instructions for use] accompany each product. Instructions] are specific for each crop or pest. I The timing, quantity and method] of use must be carefully noted.

It is essential to follow instructions] given to use a mask, gloves and! protective clothing when applying] some chemicals, such as parathion.

Finally, the full name and address of the manufacturer and distributor are proof of reliability. • Fiji’s Department of Agriculture has published the first issue of a new quarterly magazine entitled the Fiji Farmer, which is aimed at giving advice and information on farm de velopment in Fiji.

New Caledonian Mining

pp. 87-89

MAGNATE FOUGHT DUELS

TO DEFEND HIS HONOUR

By Lew Friday

When the history of mining in the South Pacific comes to be written, space will have to be given to two giants of New Caledonian exploitation, John Fligginson, an Englishman, and Lucien Bernheim, a German Jew.

HIGGINSON was the more spec tacular, but Bernheim was the sounder business man, for Higginson was near bankruptcy when he died in Paris, while Bernheim retired to the same city a few years later with bus fortune intact.

Bernheim was born at Mulhouse, an the Upper Rhine, in 1856, three years before Higginson, aged 19, arrived penniless in New Caledonia, then a struggling French Colony.

Each in his rise to wealth was to exploit to the full the cheapest labour available —convicts from France, New Hebrideans brought in by black birders, Annamite political prisoners [about whose brutal treatm e n t questions were asked in the House of Commons), and Japanese and Jav anese coolies.

Each was accorded French nationality on reaching a dominant position in island affairs. Like the great firm of Ballande, which shipped the Asians in, they were both hard taskmasters.

The Bernheim family, bitterly anti- Serman, escaped to Switzerland at he start of the Franco-Prussian war, md at 14 Lucien crossed the French frontier to join the Legion of Alsace md Lorraine.

After the debacle, he worked his nassage to the Orient, where he ran i lime kiln in Indo-China.

Like Higginson he was drawn to Australia to prospect for gold, but the nickel boom in New Caledonia, so deverly exploited by Higginson, wrought him to Noumea, where he necame a store employee.

Thio Mine By strict economy he saved £2OO, md with this he began to operate a imall mine in the Thio district. He vas the only small miner to hang on it a time when all others, including nany Australian and New Zealanders vere forced to sell out to the Nickel Company, which had a shipping nonopoly.

When, at the height of the slump,

the rich Basse Alpes mine was up for sale, Bernheim somehow scraped to gether enough money to get a grip on it.

Two years later, he left the Basse Alpes mine in the hands of the most capable mining engineer in the Colony, a Comishman named William Nicholls, who had put into operation the first successful nickel venture, the Bel Air at Houailou, even before Higginson took it over.

Bernheim then moved to the West Coast to pioneer the Nepoui River region north of Bourail.

Vast deposits there of chocolate coloured ore had hitherto been neglected in favour of the more at tractive-looking green-coloured garn ierite. The new finds doubled the country’s nickel reserves.

To exploit these finds, the only man Bernheim could turn to for

assistance was Higginson, who struck a hard bargain.

Bernheim would be provided with material and labour on condition that he paid for it monthly, step by step.

He knew that if he failed his enter prise would be swallowed up by his grasping rival.

It was under these conditions that Bernheim built, stretch by stretch, 37 kilometres of tram lines from his main mines, Surprise, Sirius 1 and 2, to haul the ore to the Nepoui jetty. The

Tiebaghi, the world's richest chrome mine, as it was soon after Lucien Bernheim began exploiting it about 1900. The mine was closed down last year after producing two million tons of ore.

;ost worked out at 30,000 francs a dlometre, but proved economic in he end, for he was the first in the sland to send ore to the wharves un mgged.

On other haulage jobs he employed 00 wagons, 200 oxen, and 60 horses, fhe speed with which his flying fox quipment was erected, bringing ore lown to the river flats, amazed every lody. He was as hard on himself as m his workmen, and stayed on the ob even when a typhoid outbreak Irove other whites away.

With Nepoui in full production, he xtended his operations northwards d the area centred on Pouembout nd Kone—the first a convict settle icnt and the second a free town hip. The tremendously rich Mount [oniambo was in this field.

After some years, these interests /ere bought out by the Nickel Com any, which closed the West Coast 0 exploitation to concentrate pro uction at Thio. (Only last year did le company announce its intention of ringing out French technicians to re pen mining on the West Coast for ickel).

Bernheim next turned to chrome, 1 the exploitation of which he led ic way. Wool ships from Australia greed to call at the island for hromite —an ore which weighs one m to the cubic metre—to take it s ballast to the European markets.

Richest In World Another chrome deposit that Bern eim exploited was that at Tiebaghi, i the north, for which the little port f Pagoumene was built.

This mine, with ore of 56 per cent, lineral content, was long regarded s the richest chrome mine in the orld.

It was accidentally discovered by stockman while searching the great arren Tiebaghi Dom for strayed attle.

He took samples to Bernheim, who eclared the find and formed the Dciete le Chrome, which absorbed a ossible rival, Australian Chrome imited.

Bernheim brought in Adolphus, son f William Nicholls, to manage Tie aghi. Then, about 1900, he arranged >r the British firm of Birch and Co. ) run the mine. This company was ter taken over by a large corpora on which was mining chromite on a rge scale in Rhodesia. (During World War 11, the mine assed from British to American ands, and by 1964, when it was osed down, over two million tons of re had been extracted from it).

Later Bernheim backed another reject, large by local standards,

carried out for him by another of William Nicholls’ sons, Josiah.

This was the harnessing of the Yate River, which drains the Plaine des Lacs in the south, by the construetion of a dam and hydro-electric smelters. This involved the construetion of a large tunnel through the mountain at the side of a picturesque gorge. These smelters, opened in 1913, are now operated by the Nickel Company, Sunnnrtprl Rpfnrmc supported Reforms As he became rich, Bernheim lived down the personal, political and racial envy which marred his years of struggle. By conviction a Republican, he, unlike Higginson, backed Governor Feillet’s far-reaching and expensive reforms, which involved the end of transportation and the replacement of convict labour by Oriental labour as well as the introduction of a few hundred settlers from Northern France and Belgium—the so-called Nordistes. j inese steps made Bernheim un-

popular with the reactionaries, and more than once he was publicly in suited.

On several occasions, under the code of honour then prevailing, Bern heim, or his eldest son, were forced to fight duels on Noumea’s Anse Vata Beach. In one such duel, Bern heim was wounded in one arm.

Eventually, to honour a promise he had made to his wife, a Swiss, Bernheim returned to Europe, and kke man y self-made millionaires, who, with the passage of years became re : spected citizens, he left New Caledonia with the reputation that he had the island’s interests at heart, On one or two brief visits to the country, the colonials welcomed him back as one of themselves, Bernheim’s two sons were born in the Colony. Constant, the elder died in 1910; Gaspard, the younger’ died a captain in the French Army in 1914 of wounds received in action.

Bernheim endowed the Noumea Library and Museum in memory of his younger son.

Breadfruit Voyage

p. 87

WEST INDIAN STAMP

RECALLS BLIGH'S

A postage stamp of South Seas interest was issued by the West Indian island of St. Vincent recently to mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of that island's famous botanical gardens.

The stamp, valued at 4 cents, com memorates Captain Bligh's voyage from Tahiti to St. Vincent in HMS "Providence" in 1793 with a cargo of breadfruit trees for the gardens.

This voyage followed Bligh's mutiny marred attempt to transplant bread fruit in the "Bounty" in 1789.

The new stamp depicts HAAS "Providence" in the lower left cor ner, breadfruit leaves and fruit in the centre, and a portrait of the Queen in the top right corner.—A. J. SHEAT.

Mystery Solved

p. 89

La Perouse Coin Mystery Solved

A mysterious gold coin,

which Vila skindiver Reece Discombe recovered at Vani koro in 1962 from the wreck of La Perouse’s ship Boussole, has finally been identified as a

gambling token.

ITS identity has been established by Admiral Picard Destelan, the Admiral commanding the French Naval Forces in the Pacific, who is a keen coin col lector.

This follows the failure of numismatists in Sydney and London last year to say positively what the coin was (JPIM, July, 1964, p. 110).

Admiral Destelan, who paid an official visit to Vila in April, had with him a copper token of the same era as the gold one which he bought in France recently for the equivalent of about £l.

On comparing his copper token with the gold one (which is now on display in the Vila Cultural Centre), Admiral Destelan found them to be almost identical.

The admiral said that inquiries he had made in Europe revealed that great numbers of such tokens,

The coin depicts King Louis XVI (sovereign of France from 1774 to 1793) on one side, and a human figure riding on what appears to be a dolphin on the other. and similar ones of bronze, had been minted in King Louis XVl’s time in Nuremburg, where they could be produced much more cheaply than in France.

In gambling, the tokens were used to represent an agreed value, and were bought by players before a game in the same way as “chips” or matches in poker.

On French warships, the gold tokens were used only by officers of flag rank and admirals—the others being used by the junior officers.

Admiral Destelan added that the fact that the token found by Reece Discombe was of gold was further evidence that the wreck from which it came was that of the Boussole, La Perouse’s flag ship, and not that of the other ship in his expedition, the Astrolabe.

For Historic

pp. 91-92

End Of An Era For Historic Harbour Islet

By Robert Langdon

Motu Uta, the tiny islet in Papeete Harbour, halfway between the entrance through the reef and the waterfront, has come to the end of another era in its colourful history.

A FTER having been the site of a quarantine station for more han 60 years, the islet has been ibandoned for this purpose and a lew quarantine station is being built t Faaa Airport, some five miles iway.

The new arrangement has been nade necessary by the fact that, as ►art of a £2s million plan to in rease berthing facilities in Papeete, dotu Uta is to disappear soon under l mass of concrete and steel and be oined to the mainland to form part »f a new wharf.

Plague Scare

But even if this plan were not in he offing, the shifting of the luarantine station from Motu Uta o Faaa would still be desirable as nore and more people are arriving n Tahiti by plane these days rather han by ship.

Motu Uta first became a luarantine station round the turn of he century when there was a plague care in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Before that it had served as a lible translation centre, as a get iway-from-it-all venue of prodigious Irinking bouts and revels, as a site or political talks, as a leper station ind as a fortress. But Motu Uta’s ;hief claim to fame is as the site >n which the French flag first flew n the islands of the Pacific.

Except, perhaps, as an abode for

fishermen, the history of Motu Uta began in the first decade of the 19th century when the whalers calling at Tahiti for repairs and “refreshments” forsook the open roadstead of Matavai Bay—which the early ex plorers had used as an anchorage— for the security of Papeete Harbour.

Motu Uta in those days was part of the Pomare family’s property, and when King Pomare II moved to Papeete from the family seat in Pare (nearer Matavai Bay) to be on hand to receive the valuable gifts that the whalers brought, he built a house on Motu Uta so that he could be even handier to them than on the mainland.

Later, after Pomare had been baptised by the LMS missionaries, he also used his home there as the headquarters for his work of helping the Rev. Henry Nott translate the Bible into Tahitian.

Queen's Revels Pomare had become a formidable boozer by this time—thanks to the easy liquor he got from the whalers —and he liked to live on Motu Uta because it was the one place in Tahiti where he could drink hard without being surprised by the missionaries.

He died there in 1821.

After Pomare’s death, his daughter Aimata, who became Queen Pomare IV in 1827, used Motu Uta for some of her girlish revels.

A visitor in 1833 said two or three old carronades had been mounted on the island and the Queen’s residence, besides being a pleasure house, was “often used to discuss matters of political business in”.

Priests Expelled

In 1838, after Queen Pomare had incurred the wrath of the French Government for forcibly expelling two French Roman Catholic priests from Tahiti, Motu Uta was the scene of one of the strangest and most ludicrous events in South Pacific history.

When a French naval officer arrived in Tahiti with instructions to obtain suitable reparations for the “insults” against the French priests, he decided to ask the Queen for a letter of apology in Tahitian and French, an idemnity of 2,000 Spanish dollars, and a salute of 21 guns to the French flag which was to be raised on Motu Uta.

The Queen protested that she could not pay the indemnity because she didn’t have 2,000 Spanish dollars, and that she could not salute the flag because she had neither the flag nor the powder.

But the French commander’s demands were eventually met—the French flag being saluted on Motu Uta after he, himself, had provided both the flag and the powder.

The American novelist Herman

Motu Ufa, with the quarantine station buildings showing through the trees, is the small islet seen here. Matavai Bay, where the early explorers an chored, is the area between the spit of land at the top of the picture and the white surf line below it marking the reef.

Melville, who visited Tahiti four years later, just after the French had established a protectorate, found that Queen Pomare had “done all she could to make a fortress of the island”, and that her residence there —“a melancholy-looking range of bamboo houses”—was falling into decay.

Behind a parapet which had been built with hewn blocks of coral were “a number of rusty old cannon, of all fashions and calibres” which were mounted on “lame, decrepit looking carriages”.

Six years later, another American, Lieutenant H. A. Wise, USN, found that Motu Uta had 12 French cannon on it to support other armament that the French had installed on the mainland. The French were still “busy with pick and barrow” building other fortifications.

Wise thought Queen Pomare showed good taste in choosing Motu Uta for residence, as it was “a most charming retreat beneath the droop ing foliage”.

However, because of the French activity, she had given up going there. It seems that Royal visits to the island were never resumed.

Just Opened

An English visitor to Papeete at the turn of the century in the schooner Tropic Bird, wrote that Motu Uta had just been opened as a quarantine station after having been used as a leper station.

However, there was no resident doctor, and the Tropic Bird had to wait alongside the islet for two or three hours before the Government doctor came out in a boat to give the schooner a medical clearance.

Since then, Motu Uta’s history has been unspectacular—except that about 12 months ago workmen drill ing on the island in connection with the harbour project struck abundant fresh water, much to their surprise, at a depth of 350 ft.

When Tonga's Treasury

pp. 93-94

WAS STONY BROKE

• The Kingdom of Tonga is currently passing through a period of financial troubles, which has resulted in strict exchange controls being im posed. But as gloomy as the picture might appear, it's just nothing to the time . . .

The Hon. and Rev. Shirley Waldemar Baker, Premier of Tonga, Minister of Foreign Affairs, President of the Court of Appeal, Auditor-General, Minister of Lands, Judge of the Lands Court, Minister of Education, Agent-General, and Medical Attendant to King George I, had at last fallen from office.

HE was aboard the mail steamer Wainui, bound for Auckland, with a deportation order signed by the Western Pacific High Com missioner, Sir John Thurston, pro hibiting him from remaining in Tonga for two years because he was con sidered a danger to good order and peace.

But now that he had at last been got rid of, who was to straighten out the ship of state on her wobbly course, and —more particularly—who was to solve the kingdom’s grave financial situation?

Sir John Thurston got his first in dication of the state of the Treasury following a conversation with Tonga’s Minister of Finance, elderly Junia Mafileo, the King’s nephew, which went like this: “What is your office?”

“I’m Minister of Finance.”

“What is the revenue of Tonga?”

“I don’t know.”

“But what is your office?”

“Minister of Finance” (warmly).

“Well, who knows what is the revenue of Tonga?”

“Misa Beika.” [Mr. Baker].

“Who takes care of the money?”

“I do.”

“How much have you got in the Treasury?”

“I don’t know.”

“But you are Minister of Finance?”

“Yes; I have told you that I am.”

“Well, where’s the money?”

“In the safe.”

“Who knows how much there is?”

“Misa Beika.”

“Yes, but he’s gone. Can’t you go and count it?”

“No; I haven’t got the key.”

“Why, who keeps the key of the Treasury?”

“Misa Beika.”

The answer to the need for a man to straighten it all out came in the person of 29-year-old Basil Thomson, a wide-awake Colonial Office official, whom Sir John sent to Tonga un hampered with detailed letters of in struction, but with a general outline of policy and a free hand to carry it out.

Thomson was later to make his name through a variety of exploits, and to be knighted, but he never more enjoyed anything than he did on the occasion, in 1890, when he became virtual Premier of Tonga.

Delightful Reading

His book on that exploit, The Diversions of a Prime Minister, pub lished in 1894, is required reading and delightful reading, for those fascin ated by Tonga’s chequered history.

The history of the Rev. Shirley Baker’s control of the financial and political strings of Tonga had really started in 1845 when King George Tubou came to the Tongan throne.

His people were in the white-heat of conversion to Christianity, and when Mr. Baker, a London-born Methodist missionary, appeared on the Tongan scene in 1860 it was not difficult for him to win a place as a royal adviser and finally to become the King’s favourite.

Unfortunately his zeal was so ex cessive that he became a tyrant, with many enemies, and the Tongans gave

up paying their taxes in disgust. It was at this stage, in 1890, that Sir John Thurston deported him.

When Thomson finally opened the safe it was found to contain £2,000.

But the claims against the Govern ment amounted to more than £6,000 and there was another £B,OOO owing in arrears of pay to public servants —many of whom, including Euro peans, had been waiting nine months.

Tonga was broke!

Just where the money had gone was difficult to say, thanks to the Rev.

Baker’s odd financial system.

Money collected by the sub- Treasury offices was personally carried off by the former Premier and put in the safe. Customs duties and rents paid by Europeans by cheques upon Australian and New Zealand banks were deposited by Mr. Baker in an account in an Auckland bank of which he had the absolute control.

Mr. Baker made frequent trips to Auckland and his expenses were borne by the Treasury.

In his accounts as turned up by Basil Thomson items such as “police uniforms, hardware, parliamentary expenses, tanks, medicine, building materials, lime, etc., £769/6/2”, were all flung together incongruously. They invited speculation.

In this particular account, Thomson tracked down the “et-ceteras” and found they consisted of vouchers for groceries (£35/19/-), Mr. Baker’s sub scription to the Northern Club, Auck land, his son’s cab, tram and boat hire (£46) and boots and shoes (£2/9/9). (over)

The Rev. Shirley Baker.

A wicked curiosity prompted Thomson to write to the fallen Minister to inquire whether his club subscription had not been charged to the Government in error. But Mr.

Baker, unabashed, “had the honour to inform” Thomson that payment had been approved by His Majesty in Council. But the minute book was silent on the point and the King and the Ministers disclaimed knowledge.

Thomson’s hand trembled as he un folded another voucher, marked “Assassination, £45/16/9”. Had the ex-missionary reverted to the methods of medieval Italy to choke opposi tion, and then flaunted the price of it in a Treasury voucher?

The amount turned out to be for the complete renovation, by an Auck land coachbuilder, of the Premier’s private carriage, which three years before had been damaged, in one place only, by a bullet fired at Mr.

Baker by a party of disgruntled Tongans.

Mr. Baker always subsequently re ferred to this attempt on his life as “the assassination” (and the fact that he had four Tongans summarily shot for the exploit was one of the things that helped bring about his down fall).

I

Missing Statue

Then there was the case of the missing statue.

In a burst of loyalty to his master, the ex-Premier had, during the closing months of 1886, inaugurated a sub scription for a statue of King George, to be executed by an Italian artist, and erected in the centre of the Malaekula, the public square of Nukualofa.

Money flowed in rapidly, with the High Commissioner heading the list.

Scarcely a European or Tongan had failed to give according to his means.

The Paymaster, Sateki, as trustee, took charge of the money and the Premier was commissioned to order the statue. Four years passed, dur ing which the curious learned that the artist in Italy was carving the marble at the very moment of inquiry.

But this picture of the Italian artist failed to satisfy the subscribers and Thomson decided to track the sealed bag of silver.

Sateki remembered giving the bag to the Treasury clerk for safekeep ing in the safe—the last clerk but one, he who was dismissed for embezzlement. Thomson waded through the Treasury book until he found “Revenue from Paymaster— £l,299/13/6”, the exact amount of the subscription. It had been used for general expenditure.

To retain the wavering loyalty of the civil servants Thomson now paid them a month’s salary, and used the slender balance of the national in come to pay off enough of the country’s overseas creditors to restore credit abroad.

He then set about getting the Tongans to pay their taxes and in stituted a better system of accounting than the one that had been followed by the ex-Premier.

During one particular lean period Thomson decided to change the de sign of the Tongan stamps—which he found could be done for £40 —so that the old stamps would have an enhanced value for overseas col lectors. He then had the old stamps sold for a much-needed £2OO.

Thomson recalled later: “I have since heard that a year later the Gov ernment of Costa Rica descended to the same disreputable expedient, but I believe I may fairly take to myself the discredit of being the first to de vise the scheme.”

The clean-up in the Treasury was successful, and Tonga’s greatest financial crisis was over within 12 months. When Thomson left in 1891 there was £B,OOO in the Treasury and all debts had been discharged.

But it was many years yet before the Kingdom recovered from the activities of Misa Beika.

King George I of Tonga.

yesterday

p. 95

World War II did not have far to run in June, 1945.

The issue of PIM for that month reported that, following the Allied victory in Europe, the Allies were pressing on relent lessly towards the home islands of Japan. Air attacks on Japan were an almost daily occurrence, and Tokyo Radio reported that five cities — Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe—had almost ceased to exist.

MEANWHILE, Australian

troops had sealed off about 12,000 Japanese troops in the rugged inland country between Wewak and Maprik, NG; and Australian troops had landed at various points on the north-west coast of British North Borneo. * * * An oilfield, capable of develop ment on a large and profitable scale, was reported to have been discovered in Dutch New Guinea in 1940, but because of the war it had been kept a secret. The location of the field was not stated, but American companies, including Texaco, were said to be interested in it. * ♦ * The Fiji Government announced that the main structure of war time control measures would con tinue “for the present”, but it was

intended to relax regulations as soon as circumstances allowed. * * * Tahiti was having a “remote control” curio boom. It was send ing a steady supply of articles fashioned from pearl-shell, pupu (small sea shells), and the like to Noumea for sale to the armed forces. * * * Keen competition was expected between British and American air lines when trans-Pacific air ser vices were resumed. Pan American Airways, which started a flying boat service to the South Pacific in 1940, was expected to be one of the first airlines in the field. * * * Australia’s Acting Prime Min ister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, told the House of Representatives that Aus tralia had made strong representa tions to Great Britain to send a

military force to Ocean Island and Nauru to liberate them from the Japanese. * * ♦ The death had occurred in the New Hebrides of Mr. Ewan Corlette, of Bushman’s Bay, Male kula, who had been a planter there for many years. He was 70. * ♦ ♦ The illegal possession of military rifles and ammunition in north west Viti Levu was causing con cern to authorities in Fiji. A num ber of shooting incidents and murders in the area were reported. * ♦ ♦ After a brilliant career at the Central Medical School in Suva, the Tongan Government had de cided to send Sione Siosiomalohi to New Zealand to do a full medical course in the hope that he would eventually return and set up a practice in Tonga. The Gov ernment felt he was too gifted to be limited to the work of native medical practitioner. * * * Captain Viggo Rasmussen, well known in the Central Pacific as a trader, schooner captain and Resident Agent on Penrhyn Island, in the Cook Group, had been flown to New Zealand for treat ment following a stroke which had caused partial paralysis. * * * Noumea’s black market liquor trade had fallen off following the opening of many more legalised bars. * * * The motor vessel Margaret, the first of five such ships ordered by the Western Pacific High Com mission for service in the GEIC and BSIP, arrived in Suva from Auckland. * * * The death was reported of one of Tahiti’s leading citizens, Mr.

Edouard Ahnne, a schoolteacher, who closely identified himself with the political and cultural life of the group. He was 77.

The sweeping success of the Cook Islands Party led by Aitutaki-born Albert Henry in the recent Cook Islands Legis atilve Council elections has prompted us to republish this picture from PIM of January, 1942. It shows another notable member of the Aitutaki Henry family—Geoffrey Henry, and his wife. Geoffrey Henry had the distinction of being the first native Cook Islander to be made a Resident Agent in the Cook Group when he was appointed to the island of Puka Puka in 1927. Henry's father, a full Aitutakian, was the son of a chief adopted by a missionary called Henry Royle. His mother was a daughter of Geoffrey Strick land, an old-time whaler in the Cook Islands. The family sur name became Henry when the "Royle" of the adoptive mis sionary was dropped.

Australian Bush

pp. 97-98

THE MONTH'S NEW READING

THE VOICE OF THE

Three huge, 500-page books, the collected works of one author, are a bit much to swallow at one sitting, even though the author—as one contemporary has it—was the Voice of the Australian Bush.

HHE three volumes are The Stories L of Henry Lawson, First, Second ad Third Series—all excellent for Electors of Australiana although, )r reading purposes, they might ave been more appreciated if the ablishers had not brought them out 1 at once.

Henry Lawson was born in a iners tent at Grenfell, NSW, in 167 at a time when life was grim id tough in a way that is difficult to iderstand these days. He died in *22, at the early age of 55, and in e last 30 of his years he had, in ct, been the voice of the Australia his day.

His father was a Norwegian sailor ho, like thousands at that time, iserted his ship to go to the gold ggings at Ballarat in Victoria, and enceforth followed successive gold shes. When these petered out, he ok any work offering and finally came a builder, of sorts.

Forceful Lawson’s mother had been born western NSW, into the grimness the times, but she developed into forceful personality of whom mry, even as a grown man, stood awe. He called her The Chief ness, and from her he inherited ; republicanism that was popular the time and a talent for writing— which she also indulged.

Mrs. Lawson (it had originally en Larsen) was one of Austra ’s first advocates for women’s hts and about 1886 she had moved Sydney and was publishing a irnal called Dawn, which was the >uth-piece of her organisation.

In the following year Henry was bhshed for the first time—in the m of verse which he called The ng of the Republic. It was in the Jney Bulletin, the then fiercely ionalistic, republican weekly which uched every early Australian iter worthy of the name.

Lawson took his brain-child along

to the Bulletin office late at night and thrust it into the hand of a woman who happened to open the door. Thereafter, for weeks, he watched the “Answers to Cor respondents” column, only to find eventually that Archibald the then editor, was keeping the Song for some special occasion.

Even in his most successful period, writing barely supported him and in the manner of the time he worked at every conceivable job—when the (over)

mood was upon him. Most often he painted houses, or carriages. During the second of his New Zealand periods he was appointed teacher in a small Maori school—although his wife Bertha apparently did most of the teaching while Henry wrote.

At a later stage he was manoeuvred into a job in the Government Statistician’s Office, and towards the end of his life some friends banded together to “save him from himself” by sending him to a fruit farm on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area where he was supposed to rusticate and “dry” out.

A natural eccentric and a Bohemian, he was also a hard drinker. This became accentuated after the three abortive years in England at the beginning of the century and shortened his life.

Although Lawson lived the biggest part of his life in cities, and probably preferred it, his best writing is of the Bush—and of the Bush at a time when this epitomised Australian man.

The three volumes are edited by Cecil Mann, who for 35 years was on the staff of the Bulletin. He knew Lawson and made a special study of his work.

A feature of these three volumes is the notes made by Mann on individual stories and of Lawson at

the time he wrote them.-

JT.

(THE STORIES OP HENRY LAWSON,

1st, 2nd and 3rd Series. Angus & Robert son. 35/-, 35/- and 45/- respectively).

The Way To

p. 97

COOK FISH

If you think that cooking fish is just a matter of using some dripping and a frying-pan, you can think again. The Bermagui branch of the Country Women’s Association of NSW has just published a high-class, glossy cook-book called The Australian Fish Cookery Book which con tains dozens of new ways to cook and serve fish.

Specifically the recipes are for Australian fish but they can be adapted to fish cookery else where—including New Zealand and the Islands.

The book is very well pro duced and royalties will go to one of the community projects of the CWA at Bermagui— which, as the centre of NSW fishing, is an appropriate source for a book of this sort.

(THE AUSTRALIAN PISH COOK

ERY BOOK. Ure Smith. 32/6).

Secret, Expensive

p. 98

Life Of Tommy

Tommy Hanlon, who’s in show business, went to Australia from the United States for a four weeks’ season in 1959.

He’s still there—in television.

These facts have to be known before you can appreciate a picture book that has just been published called The Secret Life of Tommy Hanlon.

The book—quarto size, thick —consists of a question on one page and a full page picture of Tommy doing something funny, by way of an answer, on the next.

Some of these questions and answers are faintly amusing.

They’d need to be. It takes about 10 minutes to go through the whole book and at 15/- a copy, that’s high-priced entertainment.

(THE SECRET LIFE OP TOMMY

HANLON. Published by Rigby Ltd., Adelaide).

Reminiscences Of The

pp. 98-99

AUSTRALIANS AT WAR

This is the 50th anniversary year of the Australian and New Zealand landing on Gallipoli, and in Australia the air is with memories—and the bookshops and news stands are filled with publishers offerings on the great event. This is one of the jokes from “A Treasury Of ANZAC Humour ”, published by Jacaranda Press, and selling in soft covers at 9/6, and hard covers at 17/6. The jokes which made the diggers split their sides in 1915, are probably not so funny now.

There probably will be no end to war-time reminiscences.

This month’s quota includes The Gordon Bennett Story, by Frank Legg; and As Luck Would Have It, by Vice-Admiral Sir John Collins.

COLLINS and Bennett were con temporaries but the books have few other points of resemblance.

Collins’ story is a light-weight con fection designed for entertainment, in it he chats about the more amusing side of a sailor’s life. , He was one of the 28 original cadets of the Royal Australian Naval College (then at Osborne House, Geelong), when it was founded at the beginning of 1913. When he retired 45 years later he was First Naval Member, a vice-admiral and a knight. He followed this service up with five years in New_ Zealand as Australian High Commissioner.

Admiral Collins’ comparisons be tween the United States and Aus tralian Navies are interesting and most men who enjoy learning how other men live and work will find his whole book quite painless to read.

Frank Legg’s Gordon Bennett Star is quite a different kettle of fish, r( viving as it does the great escape coi troversy that has divided Austral)

ever since 1942. . . i

Bennett was a brilliant citize soldier whose exploits in World Wt I earned him a CB, a DSO and CMG. He emerged at the end of i at 32, the youngest brigadier-generi in the AIF. His enthusiasm did n( fail between the wars and in 1940 I was appointed to command the 81 Division, 2nd AIF.

Bennett and his Division—or pa of it—arrived in Malaya in 194 almost nine months before the Ja] anese attack. What he found thei was not to his liking and he immed ately set about having his own Au tralian troops trained in the kind ] jungle warfare they would encountl if—or what was already largely!

First Digger (in England): "Wot a funny coat that kid's wearin'!"

Second Digger; "That's an Eton jacket."

First Digger: "Wot et it?"

ertainty, when—the Japanese in aded.

Through these months there was ome friction between Bennett and iritish Top Brass as to what should nd should not be done with the Aus ■alians; and some difference of pinion between Bennett and some of is own staff officers who had been tiosen by Bennett’s predecessor. All tese frictions were later blown up ) lend colour to the arguments pro id con the ethics of Bennett’s escape om Singapore.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese ruck at Pearl Harbour, and simul neously bombed Singapore and nded troops at Kota Bharu, in the irth of the Malayan Peninsula.

The rest is history. On February >, 1942, the British surrendered.

By this time, Bennett’s mind had ready been made up: As soon as e surrender came he would try to cape back to Australia and tell the tailed story of the defeat, passing i the lessons the Australians had irned in recent weeks and “making /self available to help in the ultimate lief of our grand army of brave sn.”

Enthusiastic Welcome Escape he did. He was welcomed thusiastically by the people of Aus- Jia and the Australian Government and sent to Coventry by the Aus lian Military authorities, who saw it that he never again had an :ive command. Their hostility led a Royal Commission at the end 1945 which found that it had been nnett’s duty to “remain in command the AIF until the surrender was nplete”. ‘Until the surrender was complete”, Dears to be the crux of the matter 1 subsequent arguments seem to ige around the fact that although : surrender occurred at 8.30 p.m February 15, 1943 the actual lay down of arms didn’t occur until p.m. It all seems like so much r-splitting 23 years after the event. \s Legg points out, Australia’s neral Blarney and New Zealand’s neral Freyberg had been ordered leave their troops in Greece in U, and a flying-boat was laid on see that they got away, jeneral MacArthur was ordered of the Philippines before his Dps were captured. Why should Bennett get away from Singapore ler his own steam, when he could serve a purpose by stay mrther, it was later revealed that irchill had sent a clear directive General Percival during the final tie for Singapore that, when

matters became hopeless, opportunities should be given for armed parties to escape. The message was never passed on to the Australians.

Legg’s book settles nothing in the Bennett controversy. It simply points once again—if we still need to be re minded of it—to the utter futility of much of Britain’s military planning in this period. It deserved the thrash ing it got in the Malayan campaign.

Frank Legg, a journalist, served with the 9th Australian Division in the Middle East but in 1944 was seconded to the Australian Broad casting Commission as a war corre spondent. He still originates ABC radio and TV shows and documentaries.

(AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT. Angus

& Robertson. 37/6. THE GORDON BENNETT STORY. Angus and Robertson 45/-.

In A Terror Souse?

p. 99

Do You Wear Londger Ray In A Terror Souse?

Do you understand Strine? Never heard of it? Well, it goes right back to the founding fathers of the Australian nation although it was only discovered last year. This is how:

IN 1964, Monica Dickens, the English writer, visited Aus tralia and in Sydney was taken to a certain bookshop to autograph copies of her latest work for happy customers.

A woman handed her a copy and said “Emma Chisit”. Think ing that this was the woman’s name, Miss Dickens wrote “To Emma Chisit” above her own signature on the flyleaf and handed the book back. This moved the customer to even greater effort.

“No! No!” she said, “Emma Chisit?”

Eventually it became clear that she was using the Australian equivalent of the English phrase “How much is it?” and on the instant, if not exactly born, Strine was discovered.

Most of the good fun which has been had with Strine since then has been through the Sydney Morning Herald, where Granny’s Column 8, Letters to the Editor and the Saturday Magazine section have featured anecdotes and stories about Strine and even in Strine.

Now a book has been written about it—a small book, but a book—called Let Stalk Strine.

The author is Afferbeck Lauder, Professor of Strine Studies at the University of Sinny although it says in an introduction that the Prof, was actually born in “Mairlben, to humble parents of noble blood”.

The professor, it is said, was

something of an infant prodigy and at the age of three months composed and dedicated to his mother, the song entitled Thanks for the Mammary —“ Which is still sung by Strines on Mother’s Day”.

The professor lets stewnce, vistas, New Strines and others into the secrets of such expressions as Assprad (being excessively preoccupied with domestic order, as in She’s very assprad—she keeps Rome looking lovely).

This woman would also have a Gloria Soame (that is any dwelling over 14 squares in area and as opposed to a Terror Souse —one of those conjoined double or triple storied dwellings in the older-parts of Australian cities such as Paddo, Fissroy, etc.).

Fairy tales can also come in Strine—as in: Girldie Larks, Girldie Larks, where have you been?

I beat up London and vented my spleen And then I cummome menai harassed the Behrs; I yay tarp their porridge and bro karp their chairs; I savaged the beds and I tordan the fences And frightened a little mouse out of its senses.

Strine is good fun, if something of a mental exercise. As the publishers say—all Australians speak it; few recognise the written version.—JT.

(LET STALK STRINE. Ure Smith.

7/6).

Two Novel

p. 101

Novels

For a little escape reading, o new novels can be recom "nded. The first is the Fall of Eagle by Jon Cleary; the

:ond High Citadel by Desmond

tgley.

LEARY is an Australian. Last year on a Sydney television •gramme he made the point that order to succeed today in winning vorld audience, it is necessary for lovelist to always be seeking new :kgrounds. fhis piece of advice he carries out iself to some purpose. The last ary we read had a background Burma. The Fall of an Eagle is •ut modern Turkey. young Australian woman tiaeologist, who has had a husband ed in an accident, followed by an

unsatisfactory love affair, has developed a psychological trauma as a consequence. As part of this she goes to Turkey to look for Roman antiquities but instead has an earthy affair with an unshaven and myster ious Turk.

The climax of the story arrives with a severe earthquake that wipes out the small Anatolian town where all the dramatic personae have their

headquarters. A fast-moving story, well told.

The action of High Citadel takes place in an equally unusual place— on one of the towering peaks of the Andes.

The hero is a war-shattered air pilot who has sunk through the recognised strata of commercial aviation until he is left with chauffer ing a decrepit DC3 for a shady airline in an uncertain South American state.

Pulls Gun On this particular flight, his re volutionary-minded co-pilot pulls a gun on him when they are over a snow-filled Andean valley and he is forced to bring the aircraft down on a rough, too-short airstrip.

In the ensuing moments, the revolutionary co-pilot is killed, so are some of the passengers, and the plane is wrecked. The survivors, who include a Latin VIP returning home to stage a coup d'etat against the Communists, and his beautiful niece, then have the task of getting down from the 20,000 ft valley to a level where breathing is somewhat easier.

They are thwarted in this by the late co-pilot’s Communist friends (up to the last few pages), but it all makes an exciting if somewhat improbable story in which the DC3 pilot redeems himself,—JT. (THE FALL OP THE EAGLE and HIGH CITADEL. Collins. 25/- each).

Soon: The Story Of Queen Emma

p. 101

A new book entitled Queen Emma—The Story of a iamoan-American Girl who Established a Commercial Empire n 19th Century New Guinea, will be published in August.

was written by R. W. Robson, founder and long-time editor of ific Islands Monthly, who devoted •s of research, at intervals, to lering the authentic history and ing it into shape. The story of en Emma is one of the most Liresque in the history of the th Pacific Islands, wherein so y remarkable characters gained ninence. he central figure of this book born in 1850 as Emma Eliza , daughter of Jonas M. Coe, jrican Commercial Agent in oa, and she died in Monte Carlo Mrs. Paul Kolbe in 1913. She personally involved in many

famous incidents, such as Stein berger’s attempt to rule Samoa in 1875-76, the visit of King Kalakua to the United States in 1875, the deportation from Samoa of Stein berger and Coe in 1876, the attempt by Marquis de Rays to establish a colony in New Guinea in 1880-1882 and the annexation of New Guinea by Germany in 1884.

The book is being published by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. of Sydney which will publish, about the same time, PI M’s Pacific, a selection of the best stories that have appeared in the Pacific Islands Monthly in the last 15 years.

Getting To Know Your Stars

p. 101

GAZING at the stars is a good way to forget your own troubles and reduce those of the world you live in to manageable size.

For people in the Southern Hemisphere who have not done much of this sort of thing in the past, but would like to start, The Southern Sky-Astronomy Through Your Own Eyes, will help considerably. It is written by Harley Wood, Government Astronomer for New South Wales.

The book is largely a guide to star recognition, designed for use in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere. It can, however, be read just as an up-to date book on astronomy, written in language that the normally in telligent layman can understand.

The key to the proper use of the book lies in six star maps that cover 12 months of star-gazing into Southern skies. With these it is comparatively easy to re cognise the constellations and brighter stars, even with the naked eye. From this point on, most people will find themselves hooked into deeper and longer expeditions into the night heavens.

Man has always been intrigued by the mystery of the stars but perhaps never so much as in the present age of artificial satellites and the beginnings of space ex ploration. For South Pacific readers this book is a good ground ing in all aspects of extra-ter restrial exploration both the ancient and modern varieties.—JT.

(THE SOUTHERN SKY. Angus &

Robertson Ltd. 18/6).

Modern

p. 103

The Making Of Modern New Zealand

Although The Land of New

ealand by Michael Turnbull

id lan A. McLaren is obviously

ritten for schools, it, in fact,

akes fascinating reading for

iy Antipodean with the slightest

terest in his Colonial past.

'HE book covers a century and a half of New Zealand history, )m the coming of the first Euro ans to the present day, but the >ry is presented in quite a new ty.

It consists of extracts from letters, tries, old newspapers, posters and vertisements, giving I-was-there :ounts of events and modes of A “boat-steerer” in one of the very rliest whaling expeditions gives a jcription of how a Maori who had m recruited (or kidnapped) as :ra crew, took on a whale, single nded.

Early missionaries describe their »rk not only among the Maoris t in acting as a buffer between :m and the European adventurers o were the first white men to tie in NZ.

When the great migration from rope began in the 1840’s, there re many who left descriptions of veiling conditions in the sailing ps of the day and of the first few irs of settling in a completely

developed country.

Dther extracts cover the conflict ween Maori and Pakeha—physical well as cultural—in the years 10 to 1870, mostly in the North md.

Phere are pieces about transport, uri fellers, roads, education and Dlic health, the first motor cars, Boer War and Gallipoli, the eat Slump (the depression of the 10’s) and the Great Prosperity e post-World War II period) of present.

Mthough designed to be read h a companion volume by the ne writers (The Changing Land- Short History of New Zealand ), » book can stand on its own feet a fascinating social document and mger-post to all variety of back end material to New Zealand’s ) years of modern history.—JT.

THE LAND OP NEW ZEALAND

igmans, Green & Co. Ltd. 16/6).

Territories TALK-TALK

pp. 105-107

With Tolala

Judging from the number of requests for “more photos of Before Days”, following the publishing of the Kavieng Cricket XI in April PIM, these “B 4 Fix” must be popular.

DELVED into my assorted collec tion of photographs and this onth publish one showing at least iree famous New Guinea personali es of the late twenties, to with viator Ray Parer, together with one me Consuls for Japan and China in abaul: Capt. Komine and Ah Tam. is to Basil Challis, old-time resi ;nt of New Guinea and well-known >ortsman, now resident in Adelaide, tat I am indebted for this snap.

On the left is poker-faced Komine, ipanese Consul, one-time officer in te Japanese Navy, who took up resi mce in German New Guinea and •ospered as a planter, shell-diver and ader, with a flourishing plantation in ie Manus Group and a foreshore jsiness site on Rabaul Harbour for s marine interests.

Next comes diminutive, but dyna ic Ray Parer, pointing to a hole his kite. But he’d get it fixed tmehow. Only too often life for Ray id depended upon a knotted piece : string or a twisted length of fenc g wire. Complacency, tranquility, y name is Ray Parer. (God bless m, wherever he is.) . . . Towering

above him, physically, next stands tall, photogenic Burlington ‘Bertie”, of whom I knew very little. For a while he was on the W. R. Carpenter staff; he was an aviator of some de scription and I have an idea he did very well for himself in some way or other.

And then there stands the Chinese Consul. Ah Tam, a trifle more re tiring than his Japanese colleague; nevertheless, at one time he was the man from behind the scenes who made the Chinese machine tick in New Guinea, especially in the years prior to 1912 (when the Chinese Re public was established). Ostensibly a boatbuilder, he had a busy little slip way on the Rabaul foreshore, not far from the Anglican Church in pre- War II days; he also had multifarious trading interests throughout the country.

Both these consular representatives were greatly respected by their countrymen in New Guinea and the German administration recognised their status. Komine, who died long before the Japs came in to Rabaul in 1942, was a well-known personality

to hundreds of the invading Jap troops, who inquired as to the loca tion of his grave in the local cemetery and proceeded there as to a sacred shrine.

Ask anyone today in Rabaul: Who was Komine or Ah Tam? They would probably give you a vacant stare and wonder of whom you were talking.

And as for consuls in New Guinea! Goodness gracious; What ever for?

No consul or representative has been appointed for New Guinea since civil administration started in 1921.

No doubt when New Guinea has attained its independence interna tional representation will live again.

WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS

A story with a somewhat naive slant appeared in the Sydney Sun- Herald (9/5/65), coming from Port Moresby and dealing with the trial of 16 May River (Sepik) lads who ganged up, allegedly, on some neigh bours and put them to the sword, then added insult to injury by con suming the bodies of their victims.

The trial started “early this year” but it seems, according to an announce ment by the Secretary for Law. that the Court had interpreter trouble— none was adequate and “so the charges would now be dropped.”

And a very reasonable line of ac tion to take, too, when one considers that the alternative would be for the trial to drag on interminably, expend ing judge’s time (and that’s not pea

Three famous New Guinea personalities are in this photograph. (See above.)

The famous Jim Taylor, who led the not able Hagen-Sepik patrol in the 'thirties, (see "Where Ignorance Is Bliss"), is seen with his wife in this photograph taken at Mt. Hagen in more recent times.

nuts in £sd), legal officers’ and court! officials’ costs —with the result that if found guilty and the death sen* tence recorded, the lads would go to a corrective institution for a period! then home again. All this costing oodles of money. For what? To show that justice is not only done, but also! appears to be done? To adhere to an old tradition? . . . Perhaps.

Little wonder that New members in the House of Assembly are urging for a more suitable punish] ment to fit the crime for murderers] instead of the present legal brouhaha which officialdom deems adequate to educate these emerging people in re spect to law and order. (What about that story of the moat being in youf own eye? . . .Tut, tut! Don’t bring that up now.) One thing that I did particularly notice in the Law Secretary’s an nouncement, and which I think is open to question, is “the May River area was first penetrated by ment patrols in 1958. Few people in the area can speak pidgin English.’ 7 ] If the learned Secretary, in refer ring to “government patrols”, confines such patrols to those of the Papua and New Guinea government, then he is quite correct. On the other hand] if he concedes the fact that the gov ernment of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea had recognised patrols, then he must be aware of the Hagen-Sepik patrol under Jim Taylor, with Patrol Officer John Black and lik-lik doctor C. B. Walsh, which travelled through the May area in December, 1938. Taylor in his repon describes the folk in these parts as being unfriendly. Black had told Taylor; “They do not encourage visi tors.”

Well . . . that was twenty years earlier than the Law Secretary’s “first government patrol”. It would not sur prise me if a glance through old Ger man records disclosed that legist Thurnwald and members of the Behrmann’s expedition of 1914 were through that country also.

But, of course, if “government] applies only to the post-merger period ... I give up.

PLAIN TALK

“Benelong” in his “To The Point’ column in the Sydney Sunday Tele graph (9/5/65) makes a good point when he pleads “Let’s Talk Plainly” after, apparently, reading his first copy of the new quarterly magazine New Guinea.

“Surely,” he writes, “the New Guinea Council isn’t going to foist this word ‘indigene’ on us? In a dozen or so reports from New Guinea j notice that the natives are referred to

indigenes. Come off it, chaps, it’s rench word anyway. What’s wrong ti calling natives natives?” the answer is, of course, hing is wrong. But it would ap r that the New Guinea Council decided, in its wisdom, that a de is not a spade but an agricul d implement. . . . i pity. It is just this particular y floss talk that gives these ido-long-haired integration enthu ts a distorted image with members ;very race in New Guinea, uch adulation earns these experts marks from the majority of New neans who just don’t know what talking about, while the wise s of the isles can arrive at a very r evaluation of this particular id of flattery. ’s so difficult to square Austra thinking with New Guinean. And the slide rules in the world won’t > a little bit.

MORIES OF KEW

ir George Taylor, Director of the al Botanic Gardens at Kew (Eng- I), was in Lae middle of April to

i the modern, well-equipped

>arium in that town. Reports of ceremony make no explanation such an important construction not sited in Port Moresby. Cost a mere £lOO,OOO possibly it did come up to the P.M. building dards? (See Tropicalities). r George went a long way into past when he made reference to f Guinea being the source of ir cane. A pity he did not shorten distance a bit and recall some 50years ago when Kew Gardens’ esentative in the BSIP and Bou ville was the late J. H. L. Water >e, who did a worthy collecting for a number of years and after- Is ended up as teacher of the up School, just outside Rabaul. he thirties the school became an bit point for VIPs visiting aul. JHL had a Thing about him young New Guineans and the ty to create in them the urge to i. His classes were wizards at tal arithmetic. Quick as a flash.

Just like that!

ussie journalist, Norman Bartlett,

sd the Nodup school in 1941 and he Australasian (23/8/41) gave tailed cover of his experience. An ict; It is a pity that so many people ho are convinced against the pos bility of educating natives fail to sit the place where education is king place. . . . They should eet, for instance, Mr. J. H. L aterhouse, fat, bullet-headed de nee to native education, who has

given a life in the- tropics and his health to the cause in which he believes.

Asked if he thought pidgin English a necessary form of address, JHL replied it could be in bush villages, but he never used it in his school. One of the pupils mentioned by Bartlett was Towalaka, a name I seem to recognise as one of Rabaul’s postwar town dignitaries at one time. (I remember his handwriting; it was the dead ring of JHL’s neat calligraphy.)

Yes, it would have been a nice touch on Sir George’s part if his delving into Kew records had un earthed JHL and his work, However, i guess there are more than one or two of Rabaul’s elite who were pupils in the Nodup school when JHL was their dominie and they competed one with another in the mental arithmetic classes; some may even be amongst those unique mirror-writers of whom, strangely , there were several in the class.

Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

pp. 109-117

Cruising Yachts

Big Build-Up Soon Of French Nava! Strength In Tahiti

Nearly 8,000 French sailors will be based in Papeete, Tahiti, soon when the French combat fleet is transferred to that port. This will make it the most important French war port in the world.

N announcement that the combat fleet was to be stationed in >eete was made at the French vy headquarters in Brest in May. liis announcement, together with recent decision of the French vernment forcing the United tes Consulate in Papeete to close M, May, p. 123), suggest that nee’s plans to explode nuclear ices at Mururoa Atoll in the imotus will probably be put into ct in the near future.

Tench naval strength in Tahiti built up considerably since it . announced in April, 1963, that ruroa Atoll, 775 miles south-east Tahiti, was to be used as an lear testing base. It was then fially stated that the base would ready in three years ( PIM, June, 3, p. 59). tmong the ships to be based in eete are four transformed liners, me, Medoc, Morvan and Berry, ti of which house 250 engineers technicians.

Tie Ouragan, a landing barge isport, left Brest for Tahiti via

Martinique on May 10. This ship has a crew of 200 men and 12 officers.

The Ouragan is equipped to carry helicopters on her decks and 464 troops. She has two cranes of 35 tons each.

Other ships either already in Papeete or to be stationed there are the escort ships Verdon and Charente, the transport La Foudre, and a large fleet of refrigeration vessels, supply vessels, tugs, landing barges and floating workshops.

The combat fleet which will join these vessels soon includes the aircraft carrier Foch, the anti-air craft cruiser de Grasse, and several escort ships.

The Foch and her sister ship Clemenceau are France’s biggest aircraft carriers. They each have a displacement of 22,000 tons and carry 1,500 men, 560 petty officers and 179 officers.

The crew of the de Grasse is 710 men, 190 petty officers and 85 officers.

WELL-KNOWN TRADING SCHOONER

DAMAGED BY FIRE

A fire which broke out in the main cabin of the well-known Islands trading schooner Tiare Taporo soon after midnight on May 10 caused about £3,000 worth of damage.

The schooner, which is owned by Mr. Tom Low, of Vila, New Hebrides, was anchored in Vila Harbour when the fire broke out— apparently as a result of an electrical fault.

The fire completely destroyed the main cabin, and damaged the decking below the cabin and the engine room.

The fire had reached the fire extin guishers on board before they could be used.

The combined efforts of the voluntary Condominium fire brigade and the British and French police saved the ship from complete destruction.

By the use of pumps from a boat, the fire was brought sufficiently under control by 4 a.m. for the schooner to be towed alongside Mr. Low’s jetty, where the fire was put out.

The schooner was carrying a cargo of copra and sandalwood, and 500

'lons of fuel, but neither the cargo r fuel was damaged.

A. report from Vila says the vessel s not insured, and that considerable •airs will be necessary to put her :k into service.

Lhe Tiare Taporo was built in ckland in 1913 for A. B. Donald 1., of Auckland and served nalds in the eastern Pacific until Tch, 1963, when she was sold to . W. B. Christophers, of Rotorua, ►he was resold to Mr. Low towards end of last year, and has been d since then mainly in trade ween Tanna and Vila.

OTHER OVERLOADING

>E IN FIJI

iliame Cola, a Fiji ship’s master, fined £l9/7/6 in Levuka gistrate’s Court in May for ying 37 passenger from Wainunu Vanua Levu to Levuka on nary 22 when his ship Adi Talei licensed to carry only 16. : was the fourth case of over ling in recent months (PIM,

/, P- HI).

iliame, who admitted the offence, it was a fine day and he had led the excess passengers for the “ of school-children who were ious to get back for the start of pw school year. iliame also pleaded guilty to a ge of having entered and left uka in the Malowai without ranees from the port authorities, was fined 30/- with 5/- costs.

URE OF SUVA SEAMEN'S

B IN DOUBT

iva’s Flying Angel Club for len is attracting so little patron these days that it may not re i open much longer, he chairman of the Missions to nen, Captain Peter Hough, who Tji’s Assistant Harbour Master, in his annual report that only it one seaman uses the club every days, and that the Missions to nen cannot ask the Govern t or public for funds to keep club going if seamen did not ort it. e says seamen of today are plant to make use of the club’s ces, “except, of course, in times iced and distress when they are - to appear on our chaplain’s step”.

GAN SHIP LOADS

SUM FOR FIJI

ie Tonga Copra Board’s motor :1 Niuvakai made a trip from to Kangaroo Island, South Aus-

tralia, in May to pick up 1,600 tons of gypsum for Fiji Industries Ltd.

She will resume her Australian coast-Fiji-Tonga service when she unloads the gypsum in Suva.

On her last voyage on this service, the Niuvakai was hit by three con secutive tidal waves which veered her 50 degrees off course. These incidents occurred soon after mid night on April 2, but the captain reported in Nukualofa that the ship was under control again within 10 minutes of impact.

On this voyage the Niuvakai carried 2,654 tons of cargo from Sydney and Melbourne for Fiji ports and Nukualofa—her largest cargo on this run.

BLACK DAY FOR

SUVA SMALL SHIPS

May 9, 1965, is a day that owners and crews of small ships which hap pened to be in Suva on that day will long remember.

In less than 10 minutes a 7-knot breeze became a 50-knot gale which whipped up the normally placid waters of the harbour, and led to a shipping snarl seldom seen.

The blow, which started at 5.50 a.m. lasted a bare half-hour, but that was long enough to cause small ships to drag their anchors, sweep a Fijian seaman overboard and damage yachts at the Royal Suva Yacht Club.

The Adi Talei, after dragging her anchor, narrowly missed the tourist

The Tonga Copra Board ship "Niuva kai", which made a trip to South Aus tralia in May for a cargo of gypsum for Fiji.

ser Blue Lagoon, and drifted out ontrol till the crew started the en jt that did not stop her from hit the wharf. At the moment of im the dinghy broke adrift and a hand fell overboard, nother member of the crew went board to help his companion, and got into difficulties. Both were ted by two men who were on d a yacht which had sailed to from New Zealand, hile this was going on, the Viking y dragged her two anchors and blown downwind to hit the red Komaiwai. len the USS Co.’s Ranadi ged anchors, and was joined by Vuniwai, which belongs to the ical Department. le crew of the New Zealand t cleverly manoeuvred their craft void being hit by the drifting , and then the Blue Lagoon, both ors dragging, loomed as a threat he yacht, but she also was led. ic Vuniwai drifted to the western of the King’s Wharf and was saved from crashing into a ed overseas ship by a tug be ng to South Pacific Sugar Mills, i towed her from the wharf, e SPSM tug then moved among 3ther ships running before the dropping wind, offering them as ice. e Tui Levuka, berthed at e’s Wharf, took a severe ting, and almost the whole ti of the port side superstructure torn away.

But for prompt action by the crew who removed her from the wharf, the damage would have been greater.

The gale caused chaos in the Whippy boatyard, Walu Bay.

The luxury launch, Beulah, owned by Mr. Walter Whippy, broke her moorings and drifted towards the Adi Lai and Adi Bua, but did not run into them.

The roof of the Beulah’s cabin was damaged, and the railings were bent.

The pilot launch, Seniceva, was also damaged, but not severely.

At the Yacht Club, Mr. Harvey Hunt’s trimaran, Ikavuka, was dragged from her moorings and driven on to Mr. Howard Swanbury’s Duadua.

The force of the wind moved several other boats from their moor ings and ended up on the mud about 300 yards away.

NEW CAPTAIN FOR

"MARIPOSA" APPOINTED

Captain Mervyn C. Stone, who first sailed to the South Pacific as an able seaman 45 years ago, has been ap pointed master of the Matson liner Mariposa. He succeeds Captain Harold R. Gillespie who has retired after 50 years at sea ( PIM, May, p. 129).

The Mariposa and her sister ship Monterey alternately sail through the South Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney every three weeks.

Captain Stone first sailed this route in 1920 as a seaman on the four masted barquentine George U. Hind. owned by James Rolph, then mayor of San Francisco.

Captain Stone has been master of the California-Hawaii freighter Cali fornian for the past year. He pre viously served as master of both the

MAKING IT

EASIER

Recently completed at Rabaul's Aquatic Club is a new launch ing ramp, which was constructed by a working bee of 23 members. Some 14 sail boats, as well as power boats, use the club's facilities.

iriposa and the Monterey, and as ief captain of the Lurline.

He was born in Bournemouth, impshire, England. He went to sea 1917 as a cadet in the British rchant marine.

iCHTING MARINA

R SUVA

Fhe construction of a yachting rina in Walu Bay, Suva, was be i towards the end of April. When npleted in about six months it will the first in Fiji for small pleasure ft, [t is being built by the British Pet sum Company, whose Fiji mana has stated that reclamation alone ng the Walu Bay foreshore will t £13,000. There will be a work ip, cafe, slipway, a pontoon jetty, enclosed mooring area for nches, and a parking area for its on trailers.

[ORD PROFIT FOR

IP PORTS AUTHORITY

fhe BSIP Ports Authority had a ord net profit of £28,270 for the r ended September 30, 1964, an rease of more than £8,500 over t of the previous year, fhe authority said in its annual ort that total imports showed an -ease of 6,186 tons, or 37.9 per t. over the previous year’s total.

Summarising the year’s work, the ort detailed the construction of a pwater wharf at Honiara to pro- J an additional 210 feet of wharf ce, the authorisation of a loan of to £90,000 to help to finance that ject, and good progress on recla ion of land in Honiara, t Honiara correspondent reported Vl ay that in driving steel piles for new deepwater wharf, the con tors, Hornibrook Construction npany, had found the coral bed :h softer than expected, making lecessary to put the piles down ut twice as deep. As a result, ut twice as many piles will be ded, and the extra piles have to obtained from overseas. The tractors still expect to finish the by next Christmas, but local pie have their doubts, he new small jetty being built at it Cruz, Honiara, will be named :e Jetty, after Tome Wate, a for district headman and chief of ifou Island, who died recently, his decision was made by the P Ports Authority, s leader of the Sulufou people arranged for labour from that id to work on the Honiara water it whenever needed, he new jetty will represent a con rable improvement in port facili-

ADVENTURE FOR

PARTY FROM "TE VEGA"

Three students from the American research schooner Te Vega had an unexpected adventure when they went on an expedition from Suva to Wainibokasi during the schooner’s visit to Suva in April.

While heading for a reef near Mabualau Islet and Toberua, they were caught in a sudden storm and with currents against them they had no option but to go to Toberua, bail ing all the way. They spent the night with the owner of the island, Mr. J.

McHugh.

The Te Vega, which is owned by Stanford University, California, is on

a research cruise with 12 graduates from US universities and three pro fessors. She arrived in Suva from the BSIP after being “missing” for several days, but it turned out that her radio transmitter had been out of action.

After a visit to Astrolabe Lagoon, Kadavu, the Te Vega was scheduled to sail for Tonga.

MORE OVERSEAS SHIPS

The number of overseas ships call ing at the main Fiji ports of Suva and Lautoka has been increasing steadily.

In 1964, 477 ships arrived at Suva, compared with 418 in 1963, while 190 visited Lautoka, compared with 182 in 1963.

ENOS" IN MISHAP

SYDNEY

rhe motor vessel Tenos of the istralia-West Pacific Line, which > inaugurated a new service from stralia to Papua-New Guinea, was olved in a slight mishap in Syd r Harbour on May 4.

While being towed by a tug from tolloomooloo to Walsh Bay, she zed the US Navy troop carrier, ncouver, of 13,000 tons.

Phe Tenos, a freighter of 5,600 s, swung wide and although the rboard anchor was dropped and engines were reversed, she drifted jways into the warship, crushing vhaleboat on the warship’s deck.

Phe gangway of the Tenos was lly damaged and some plates were ited.

'he NSW Maritime Services Board I hold an inquiry into the mishap.

'he new service of the Tenos will flock with the Australia-West ific Line’s current monthly service Rabaul, Lae, Madang and the Far t. ’here will be a sailing from an itralian port each fortnight, to give lonthly service on each run.

'he Tenos will call at Sydney and ibane, en route to Port Moresby, ice Lae, Madang and Rabaul, be * returning to Sydney, wo other ships operating to New nea. the Rhodos and Delos, after ing the Australian coast will call

at Rabaul, Lae and Madang, and will then sail to the Far East.

"TAMATA" REPAIRS

COST £25,000

The French ship, Tamata, formerly Colorado del Mar, was expected to leave Suva about mid-May for the Wallis Islands after having been on the slip for about three months.

The hull of the ship was badly damaged when the Tamata went aground on Beqa Reef in December.

Repairs carried out by Bish Ltd., were estimated to cost about £25,000.

The Tamata will resume her re gular service between Noumea and the Wallis Islands, via Suva.

TRUST TERRITORY'S

NEW SHIPS

Two new vessels for the United States Trust Territory Government were expected to be launched late in May in a Far East shipyard.

The vessels, 100 ft long, are de signed for full pilot house control and will be radar-equipped.

The Trust Territory Government has bought three vessels to provide a modern cargo and passenger service within Micronesia.

The first vessel ordered was the Feioch, 65 ft.

The Feioch was launched on De cember 19 in Yokohama and com pleted fitting out and trials in March.

She is manned by a crew of five, and cruises at 12 knots.

She can carry up to 40 passengers.

NEW SERVICE FOR NORFOLK

A vessel from the New Zealand shipping firm Holm & Co. Ltd. will leave Auckland on May 28 to begin a service between Auckland, Norfolk Island and Noumea. General and refrigerated cargo will be carried.

The Norfolk Island agents are R.

Hopkins Ltd.

[?]RMER NAVAL SHIP LOST: The former French naval vessel "Tiare", which had [?] used as a trader in the New Hebrides since she was decommissioned in [?]58, was wrecked on a reef at Epi recently and sank in about 60 ft of water [?] is a la rge island south-east of Malekula. The "Tiare" was under charter to J. Gubbay and Co. She is seen here as she was in her navy days in the mid-1950's.

AMERICAN VISITORS: These minesweepers of the United States Navy's Seventh Fleet attracted a lot of attention recently when they visited Rabaul en route to Australia for the annual Coral Sea Battle celebrations.

In The News This Month

p. 109

Adi Bua Adi Lai Adi Talei Berry Beulah Bluebell Blue Lagoon Californian Charente Cimba Cythera de Grasse Delos Destiner Diana Duadua Eleuthera Fairweather Feioch Foch Foudre Ikavuka .Komaiwai Lady Lee Maine Malowai Mariner Mariposa Medoc

Melika Mink Monterey Morvan Niuvakai Ohra Okeanos Ouragan Ranadi Red Boomer Rhodos Seniceva Shlreen Southwind Svea Tamata Te Vega Tenos Tiare Tiare Taporo Trekka Tri-Odyssey Tui Levuka Valkyrie Vancouver Verdon Viking Ahoy Vuniwai Waka Torn

Cruising Yachts

pp. 119-121

• TRI-ODYSSEY, 35 ft American trimaran, was due to leave Rarotonga at the end of April for Samoa, Tonga and New Zealand with her owner-builders, Jerry Allen and Le Roy Fry, and two crew members, Ron Ashley, a dentist, and John Brink, a former paratrooper, who oined the craft in French Polynesia.

Allen and Fry built Tri-Odyssey in a backyard at Redwood City, California, and sailed for Honolulu Tom San Francisco in June, 1963.

After a year as carpenters in Tonolulu, they sailed for Tahiti with lack Thomson and Carroll Hobart, irriving there on September 2 last /ear.

Allen and Fry spent seven months imong the Society Islands—Moorea, *aiatea, Tahaa and Bora Bora. They iked Tahaa best because of its riendly people, lack of roads and ourists, and peaceful atmosphere.

Allen told the Cook Islands News hat French soldiers were everywhere n Tahiti, and although most were veil-behaved, they spoiled the itmosphere.

On reaching New Zealand, Allen md Fry plan to rebuild the cabin ind superstructure of their craft to •rovide more head room. • DESTINER, a 43 ft bridge leck schooner, owned and sailed by Jon and Clarice Wilcox, of Cayucas, California, shoved off from Man anillo, Mexico, on April 6 for 'ahiti and points south. Destiner left Morro Bay, California, last June for . three-year cruise of the South ’acific. • MINK, a New Zealand yacht, jft Balboa, Canal Zone, in mid -4 arch on the way home from the Mediterranean and Europe. • SHIREEN, an English yacht, ailed into the Pacific from Balboa ound for Tahiti and New Zealand n March 9.

While crossing the Atlantic in Jovember, Shireen encountered the wld-girdling American ketch Svea, fith Robert and Mary Kittredge, diich became well known in the outh Pacific in 1961 and 1962 while ruising in that area.

During two days of calms, the iittredges invited the crew of

Shireen to board Svea for a tuna dinner. • OHRA, 25 ft 6 in. cutter with owner-skipper Lourie Harder. 31, and Manfred Wille, 27, was due to leave Port Moresby on May 16 for Thursday Island, Cairns, New Zealand and Tahiti.

Ohra was designed and built in Lae in 1963. She has teak decks and an auxiliary engine on 6 h.p.

Lourie Harder worked in Lae for some time as an engineering surveyor with the Lae firm of T. W.

Richards and Associates, engineering surveyors. © DIANA, 43-ft yawl, with 73year-old Norman Eggerton Young, CB, CMC, MC, and a Seychellese lad, was lost at sea off Portuguese East Africa recently.

Mr. Young, who retired from the post of Comptroller of the National Debt Office in Britain in 1954, spent most of his time from then on sailing the world in Diana.

He was in the Pacific in 1957 and again in 1960-62. The last time he was mentioned in PIM was in May, 1962 (p. 113) after Diana had arrived in Sydney from New Zea land and Fiji.

Mrs. Pat Fenton, of the much publicised yacht Cythera, which is still in Sydney, tells us in a note that she was surprised to see no mention of Mr. Young’s death in the Sydney newspapers.

“This kindly old man,” she says, was well-known throughout the Pacific. He was last in Sydney dur ing Easter, 1962, and we met him on many occasions, finding him a delightful old gentleman, who be longed to an era long gone. We are sure that the many yachties in Australia who met him will be sorry to hear of the passing of such a gallant master, who often sang Greek love songs to his beloved ship while taking his watch.” • LADY LEE, 43-ft ketch, with Fred and Doris Murphy, of Long Beach, was at Academy Bay, Gala pagos Islands, in mid-February after a 28-day trip from the Canal Zone.

The Murphys were uncertain at that time whether they would go on to Tahiti or Honolulu. • MARINER, 34-ft yawl, origin ally from Seattle, which New Zea landers John and Joyce Dean bought in Auckland in 1961, is currently in New Caledonian waters.

Mr. Dean, with a paying crew of two and his four-year-old son

Michael, sailed Mariner to New Caledonia from Sydney in March last year en route to San Diegeo.

But he has found New Caledonia so pleasant that he hasn’t got any further.

Son Michael is now at school in Wellington, and Mrs. Dean is work ing in Wellington as a beautician. • CIMBA , a famous 35-ft Blue nose schooner, arrived in Port Moresby in late April, with owner skipper Bill Holmes, of Sydney, who now has a temporary job as civil engineer with the Department of Public Works.

The schooner, which began her career as a fishing vessel on the Nova Scotia coast in 1929, achieved early renown by winning the big annual free-for-all race in those waters three years in succession.

She was then bought by two young Americans and fitted out in New York for a voyage around the world.

The circumnavigation was no t accomplished, but the schooner did have an adventurous voyage as far as Fiji, where she went on a reef, was dragged off unscathed, and sold.

Her new owner. Major Lazarus, of Suva, sailed her for many years with distinction in Suva yacht races.

Meanwhile, the schooner’s voyage from New York to Fiji had become the subject of a book by Richard Maury called Saga of Cimba, which has been described as “a classic in deep-sea, small craft literature.”

Cimba was bought by Sir Philip

The late Mr. Norman E. Young and his ill fated yawl "Diana" photographed in Suva several years ago.

ditchell soon after he became Gov rnor of Fiji in 1942 and, after be ng overhauled and rejuvenated, was enamed Bluebell. She reverted to er original name when Sir Philip old her to Mr. G. F. Russell, of uva, on his departure from Fiji in 945.

In May, 1945, Mr. Russell sailed he schooner to Auckland with /lessrs, J. Molloy, of Suva, and F. ieddoes, of Lautoka, and it seems -but we are by no means sure of his —that she was sold in New Zea md and remained there until re ently.

At any rate, Bill Holmes, the resent owner, bought Cimba from ’ill Eglinton, of New Zealand, in lay, 1961, although this transaction >ok place in Sydney.

Holmes left Sydney in Cimba in lay, 1963, and sailed north to Tursday Island. He then went back 3 Cairns, but eventually returned ) Thursday Island. From there, he ailed direct to Moresby.

He now plans to visit the olomons, Fiji and other Pacific Jands. • RED BOOMER, Bill McNeil’s 2-ft ketch which arrived in Port loresby from Fremantle, Western lUstralia, in December, 1963, and iter went on to Rabaul, is now back i Moresby, where Bill has an en ineering draftsman’s job with the üblic Works Department.

Also working in Moresby—in the department of Land s is Miss oleen Dalton, of Tasmania, who as one of Red Boomer’s crew on le trip from Fremantle.

Bill McNeil and his family—wife Yvonne, four-year-old daughter Yvette, and 10-month-old Andrew (born in Rabaul) —plan eventually to sail on to other parts of the Pacific, including Fiji and Tahiti.

Red Boomer is the name of a large red kangaroo in Western Aus tralia. • FAIRWEATHER, 58-ft Ameri can schooner, skippered by Mrs.

Suttie Adams, recently completed a voyage around the world. Fair weather began her voyage in Florida in 1960 and was in the Pacific (Marquesas. Fiji, New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Port Moresby, etc.) in 1962.

Mrs. Adams took over as skipper of the schooner in May, 1962, when her husband. William Adams, flew back to the US on business. Mem bers of the crew included four mem bers of the Adams family, whose ages now range from 23 to 15.

Mr. Charles A. Borden, of Spin drift Point. Mair Beach, via Sausa lito, California, tells us in a note that Mrs. Adams skippered and navigated Fairweather over 30,000 miles during the past three years “thus adding her name to the grow ing number of competent women who have circumnavigated or made major trans-ocean passages as master or skipper of small cruising vessels.”

This is a matter of particular in terest to Mr. Borden, as he is writ ing a book on small ship cruising around the world called Sea Quest, which will include a chapter on “Small Ship Women”.

Early in May, Fairweather was sailing north to California from Manzanillo. Mexico. • TREKKA, 20-ft yawl, with 35year-old Clifford Cain and his wife Marian, of Monterey, California, arrived in Brisbane on May 14 after a 10,000-mile voyage from Cali fornia. Our last report on Trekka was when she arrived in NZ from Honolulu via Fanning Is.

Trekka was previously owned by a Canadian, Mr. J. Guzwell, who sailed her around the world. The Cains may attempt a circumnaviga tion, also, as they have found their vessel “a grand little boat” so good, in fact, that the trip across the Pacific was “deadly dull”, although the weather had something to do with this, too. ® VALKYRIE, 31-ft ketch with John Goetzcke. a 70-year-old Ameri can lone-hander, was due to sail from Brisbane in mid-May for the

Philippines. Mr. Goetzche, who began a voyage around the world at Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, arrived in Brisbane in March last year after a 12-month voyage from Hawaii which took in Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand. ( PIM , May, 1964

P- HD

• SOUTHWIND, 30-ft trimaran, owned by American yachtsman Joe Hudson, left Suva for Vila on May 1 in company with the trimaran Melika (see below) and arrived there on May 14. Mr. Hudson who hails from Big Sur, California, arrived in Suva via Honolulu and Tahiti. o MELIKA, Australian-o wn e d trimaran, left Suva for Melbourne via Kadavu, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides on May 1. Noel Burchill, 33, and John Doolan, 24, bought the trimaran in Suva last year fr o m a New Zealander, Michael Cole, who had sailed the vessel from New Zealand to Fiji via the Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga under the name Waka Torn (PIM, Jan., p. o ELEUTHERA, 48-ft steel ketch from Seattle with Earl Schenck, Jr., and his wife Paula will probably be cruising the Austral Islands of French Polynesia by the time this appears.

Eleuthera arrived in Papeete from Seattle last July and subsequently visited other islands in the Society Group (PIM, Oct., 1964, p. 107).

During the hurricane season— although hurricanes are uncommon in French Polynesia— Eleuthera was moored at Taravao, the isthmus that connects Tahiti-Nui, the main part of Tahiti, with the smaller Taiarapu Peninsula. Meanwhile, Mr.

Schenck flew back to Seattle to at tend to a few business matters.

On his return, the Schnecks planned to head for the Australs.

Mr. Schenck, by the way, is no stranger in the South Pacific. He knocked around the Islands for some time in the 1930’s and wrote a book called Come Unto These Yellow Sands.

"Cimba" in Port Moresby.

travel

pp. 123-127

WESTERN SAMOA: 'LEAST

UNSPOILED' OF THE

POLYNESIAN ISLANDS

A REGULAR RIM DEPARTMENT

REPORTING NEWS OF SOUTH

SEAS TOURISM AND TRAVEL

FROM THE INSIDE

From R. F. Rankin, in Apia Although as the least unspoiled of all the Polynesian islands Western Samoa has much to offer the tourist, up to a year ago travel agents and hotel proprietors despaired that tourism here would ever be developed into a major industry.

HITH rising imports and falling » exports compounding the newly lependent country’s financial pro mis, Samoa’s politicians have ally realised that tourism provides lucrative and relatively painless ernative source of revenue. Thus j tourist picture has now com edy changed.

The Government has this year r en top priority in its development ms to the promotion of tourism, ms for a high class tourist hotel a hundred rooms are in the iking; Western Samoa is to be edly join the Pacific Area Travel sociation; and funds have been led to conduct a visitor destination a study on the islands of Upolu J Savaii.

Antiquated Entry Laws

When the programme really gets Jer way, and when antiquated mi gration laws requiring entry per ts are revised to allow entry on [session of a return ticket, tourism going to become big business, ten that happens visitors should 1 little to complain of in the way facilities, service, sightseeing, nfort and pleasure. n the meantime, however, while no means a luxury resort, Samoa i provide an unforgettable and itively inexpensive holiday for visitor interested in Polynesian ture, or in exploring a genuine ith Seas island with some of the st tropical scenery and beaches be found.

Vhat is the situation at the ment?

'lean and comfortable accom dation in Apia provides no blem. In nine cases out of 10 the room Casino Hotel can put up isitor without prior notice. Here » vary from £2/2/- to £3/15/person a day.

"he bulk of the tourist trade /ever, goes to Aggie Grey’s Hotel

and here booking is advisable. Aggie has 21 cottages with rates ranging from £5 single (air conditioned) to £3 shared. She also has eight single rooms at £2/16/- and 10 double rooms at £5/5/- double.

At both hotels meals are included in the tariff.

Because of the steady increase of visitors since 1960 and in view of promotional plans of the future, Aggie has eight new cottages under construction and expected to be completed late July. She hopes to add another eight units next year.

Restrictive liquor regulations under which a few years ago a visitor found it difficult to get a drink have been relaxed and this presents no problem to hotel guests nowadays.

Both hotels are close to the shop ping centre and taxis are readily

available, charging 2/- for a short run.

Shopping in Apia is good, with the main stores carrying products from all over the world, and there are some interesting Chinese goods available in some smaller stores.

Samoan curios are available from street-side vendors and some stores, and for the music lover Samoan songs, recorded in Samoa and not available elsewhere, are on sale.

Visiting sportsmen have no trouble arranging a game of golf or tennis and there is good swimming in the lagoon at Vaiala and Mulinu’u and in front of the Casino. Also at Vaiala are acres of coral to be ex plored at low tide, and Palolo Deep where one can spend hours looking through goggles at the wonderfully

flourful underwater world of the opics.

About five miles out of town, at aulii, is one of the finest sandy id safe surf beaches on the island.

With plenty to amuse a tourist left ► his own devices there are also a imber of organised tours available late model American taxis of the old Star Travel Bureau.

These are: • APIA TOUR —A drive through e suburbs of Apia, passing Apia irk and Samoa College before aching the gates of Vailima, the rmer home of Robert Louis eyenson. On the return trip to pia a stop is made at Mulinu’u, storical burial ground of chiefs d site of Parliament House.

• STEVENSON’S TOMB TOUR

•a special trip to the tomb of )bert Louis Stevenson atop Mount lea overlooking Apia. The trip solves a good 20-minute climb and generally made early in the morning len conditions are cool and when ►itors can also see a tropical sun e over Apia.

• FALEFA FALLS TOUR —a

-mile drive along the East Coast th crashing surf of the Pacific on e side and picturesque Samoan lages on the other. A stop is ide at the Falls to allow visitors take photographs and admire the jnery.

• PLANTATIONS TOUR an

cresting tour through Western moa Trust Estates Corporation -pa and coconut plantations, sitors see how Samoa’s main Dorts are grown, harvested and icessed.

• LEFAGA VILLAGE TOUR—

-30-mile drive to one of the most mtiful Samoan villages, where in 52 Return to Paradise, starring ry Cooper, was filmed. A stop is de at Lefaga beach, which pro es a perfect setting for a picnic ich and swim.

• WEST COAST TOUR—a 20-

ie drive along the West Coast pass- Samoan villages beside quiet oons, past Faleolo airport and ning around at Mulifanua Planta i (the largest coconut plantation the South Pacific), i ALEIPATA TOUR Aleipata at the eastern tip of Upolu and > 40-mile drive passes through noan villages and over the untainous Mafa Pass, with ■nendous views of rugged inland ;h before reaching South Coast

villages. The Aleipata tour is an ideal picnic trip with good beaches for swimming.

At extra cost a Gold Star re presentative will meet visitors in a special car at the wharf or airport; assist them through Customs and immigration, supply a fresh flower lei and accompany them to their hotel.

Native feasts and island dancing can also be arranged for group tours if requested in advance.

Aerial Crossroads

Entry permits into Western Samoa can be arranged by Gold Star for group tours and individuals who are booked through a travel agency and who are doing sightseeing tours with Gold Star.

A major selling point for Western Samoa as a centre of tourism is that through Polynesian Airlines, based in Apia, the traveller can, for a relatively low cost, visit many other Pacific Islands not normally in cluded in passenger itineraries.

Polynesian Airlines now has two DCS aircraft and they operate services from Apia to Pago Pago, Aitutaki and Rarotonga, Tonga, and Fiji.

Convenient connections have been arranged between Apia and Pago Pago to connect with all international services through American Samoa.

For a return fare of £9/10/- a passenger on an international flight can break his journey at Pago to see the attractions of Western Samoa.

Polynesian operates weekly services to Aitutaki and Rarotonga

aving Apia each Thursday to turn the following day. The turn fare for the 700 mile trip is '3/4/-. The standard of accom odation in Rarotonga has improved, though reservations need to be made dl in advance.

A weekly service is also operated Nadi in Fiji where there are con ctions with international airlines all major cities of the world. On is route the aircraft flies over nost the complete length of the ji group, giving photographers iple opportunity to snap the lourful reefs below. Return fare £42/15/-.

Fly To Tonga

Color camera enthusiasts would 0 welcome the trip by Polynesian >m Apia to Tonga which is leduled every second Sunday. At LSt a third of this flight is over a ing of atolls and colourful islands ding to Nukualofa, giving what claimed to be the best panorama the South Sea islands that it is ssible to find. Connections from nga to Fiji are available so that >sengers can do the round trip m Fiji to Western Samoa to Tonga 1 back to Fiji. The return fare m Apia to Tonga is £3B.

While committed to the develop nt of tourism, Samoa is equally ermined to retain the Samoan y of life with its unique customs 1 traditions. Samoans don’t relish idea of becoming a lot of nkeys in a cage, exciting the iosity of visiting foreigners, f the visitor remembers this and prepared to meet the Samoan on equal basis a stay in this country i be exceedingly enjoyable, fruit and memorable.

Boy Meets Girl In Tahiti

p. 123

T™ fourth edition of the Official Directory and Guide Book for ■ t- u-. ltl : com Pded by Bernard Covit. an American journalist living in Tahiti, has recently been published. 5 . ~i ts Predecessor, the third edition, the directory was sponsored by Tahiti s Syndicat d Initiative (Tourist Bureau) and Chamber of Commerce, and its main aim is to provide information on Tahiti and countries™ ynCSla tOUrists ’ travel a gents and businessmen in other Four thousand copies of the directory have been sent gratis to travel agents etc., particularly members of the Pacific Area Travel Association; but anyone who wants to buy one may do so by writing to: C ° vd ' P -°- Box 4 09, Papeete, Tahiti. The cost is US$2.OO or 200 French Pacific francs, plus 25 US cents, or their equivalent, for postage. directory incorporates, and, where necessary, brings up to date, - of ! he m the third edition, which was reviewed in Augus . t ’ I (P- 151 )• But one chapter in the third edition, which was entitled k Boy Meets Girl In Tahiti” and which was widely criticised, has been completely revised and toned down for the new edition and is now entitled “Romance In Tahiti”.

The old version began: “As a man, if you come to Tahiti solely to S i -T- f^ x . ual h ob day, you will be missing a good part of the fun of a real Tahitian stay.

The new version begins: “As a man, you will find numerous opportunities for meeting and going out with local girls.”

Trade In Suva

p. 125

Ban On Sunday Trade In Suva

The Suva City Council re cently decided by 15 votes to 3, with one abstention, that there will be no more Sunday shop ping in Suva.

The council has just received powers to permit shops to trade on holidays and Sunday trading was advocated by those who said cruise liners often called at Suva on Sunday.

However, during the council's debate on what policy to adopt on granting exemptions from closing on holidays, Fijian members protested strongly against Sunday trading. They said 86 per cent, of Fijians were Methodists and to encourage Sunday trading would be against their religious beliefs.

Free Shopping

p. 127

P-NG MOVE FOR DUTY

FIE P-NG Administration is to look into a proposal for duty ‘ shopping in the Territory, follow an appeal made in the House of embly in May by Mr. Keith ley, an elected member. lr. Tetley held up as an example success of the duty free scheme Fiji, which he said had attracted e tourists there. What the Fiji /eminent had lost in duty was xt up by the increase in other sres.

New Cairn For R. L. Stevenson

p. 127

In Western Samoa

Visitors to Apia, Western Samoa, will now find it easier to locate the famous tomb of Robert Louis Stevenson atop Mt. Vaea. A new monument to the writer was erected in April just outside the gates of his former home, Vailima, which is now occupied by the Samoan Head of State.

rwas donated by a former Prime Minister of NZ, Mr. Walter Nash, and marks the beginning of the Road of Loving Hearts, along which Steven son was carried to his grave.

The road and the tomb are the only relics of Stevenson which the tourist can now easily see. Vailima, which was once open to visitors, is now off limits, and the grounds may be entered only by special permission.

Inside Vailima itself there are still many of the things that Stevenson used, including the chair in which he sat by his fireplace.

The new monument and Steven son’s tomb were centres of interest at the end of April for 72 crew members and 62 scientists who visited Apia in the Russian research ship Vityaz, en route to Manuae, in the Cook Islands, to view the total eclipse on May 31. They said Stevenson’s writ ings were popular in Russia.

The new monument carries plaques, which read in English and Samoan;

THIS IS THE ROAD OF LOV

ING HEARTS HEWN BY PEOPLE

OF SAMOA FOR TU SIT ALA—

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

WHOSE RESTING PLACE LIES

ON MOUNT VAEA ABOVE.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie.

Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from sea.

And the hunter home from the hill.

PRESENTED BY THE RT. HON.

WALTER NASH, CH., M.P.

The new Stevenson monument outside the gates of Vailima.

Photo: "Samoana"

More Surveys For

p. 127

NORFOLK HOTEL

Planning of Norfolk Island’s third hotel is continuing, but actual building has been delayed.

Ground surveys were made early last year, and construction work was to have begun by the end of the year. The hotel is to be at Kingston, close to the present Hotel Paradise, and convict built ruins are to be incorporated in the design.

In May, the site was inspected by two Sydney architects and a builder, in company with two of the scheme’s principals, Sydney solicitor Mr. N. H. Mclntyre and company director Mr. D. M.

Fegan. They examined suitability of local building materials and availability of local labour.

Casino Seen As

pp. 129-131

[?]RAWCARD FOR

NEW CALEDONIA

The building of a casino, the evelopment of water sports, and the ncouragement of native art and olklore would do much to increase ie number of tourists visiting New 'aledonia, according to Mr. Francois ouchet, inspector-general of the rench airline, UTA. 1/fR. BOUCHET believes that a golf course and more tennis aurts would also help Mr. Bouchet visited New Caledonia jcently after attending the Pacific .rea Travel Association conference i Korea.

While in Noumea, he submitted a ;port to the Government on the ;velopment and prospects of tourism i New Caledonia and held a Press inference at which the details of (is report were outlined.

Mr, Bouchet said that although >me 2,500.000 visitors came to the acific area in 1964, only a little over 000 of these stopped in New aledonia.

This, it seemed, was mainly due to

the lack of good hotel accommoda tion, and the fact that Tontouta International Airport was one hour’s drive from Noumea, over a road “not yet completely in order”, which could give a poor impression to visitors.

Mr. Bouchet also thought New Caledonia’s visa formalities were too complicated for many visitors, and that more would come to the territory if these were simplified.

Even so, he estimated that visitors to New Caledonia would increase year by year, and that in five years there would be at least 3,500 New Zealanders. 7,000 to 8,000 Austra lians, 8,000 to 10,000 Americans, and nearly 3,000 round-the-world travel lers going there annually.

TOURIST statistics issued recently by New Caledonia’s Office du Tourisme show that 5,293 tourists visited the territory in 1964—an in crease of 10 per cent, over the pre vious year.

The total was made up of 2,194 New Zealanders, 1,330 Australians, 406 Americans, 842 French, and 513 others, whose average length of stay was 10.9 days.

This total does not include tourists visiting Noumea in cruise ships, of whom there were 10,300 during the year, and 1,797 transit passengers.

Figures for the first quarter of this year show a 55.7 per cent, increase in the number of tourists visiting New Caledonia over the same period last year. The total of 1,819 comprised 599 New Zealanders, 561 Australians, 227 Americans, 257 French, and 175 others, whose average length of stay was 11.2 days, ☆ ☆ ☆ AN airfield being built at Coulnoue, near Hienghene on the east coast of New Caledonia, will be put into service at the end of this year. ☆ ☆ ☆ TEAMS competing in the world spearfishing championship to be held in French Polynesia early in September will compete in New

Caledonia on the way home for a Cup.

This was announced in Tahiti and Noumea in April by Mr. Jacques )umas, president of the French r ederation of Underwater Sports, /ho visited both territories to organise ie two competitions.

The contest for the Pacific Cup 'ill be held from September 8 to 15.

Tie winner will hold the cup for vo years, after which it will again e offered for competition.

The Pacific Cup contest will com ensate New Caledonians for losing le world championship, after taking strenuous efforts to have it ?ld in their territory.

It will be the first time that the lampionship has been held in the acific. So far the exact site of the >ntest has not been decided on, though Rangiroa Atoll in the uamotus, which is linked with Tahiti t air, and Tupai in the Society roup have been mentioned as cely sites.

"Sayandra" For

p. 131

BLUE LAGOON

Prom a Suva Correspondent With the arrival in Suva in May of the converted Fairmile cruiser the Sayandra” the expansion of one of Fiji’s pioneering Island cruise com panies is under way.

TUfE Sayandra will be engaged in a cruise service between Lautoka and the Yasawas chain twice weekly, taking over the run formerly main tained by the famous Blue Lagoon.

She will be under the command

of Captain Oscar Wright, a local born mariner who is an experienced host and professional skin diver, who can identify, from a mile off, every fish in Colony waters. With his ready wit and wide knowledge of Fijian life, and his habit of frequently bursting into song, Captain Oscar should make the tourists happy.

Sayandra, formerly La Reta, is owned by Mr. C. I. Millar, who will become the principal shareholder in the new cruise company to take over the Blue Lagoon operation of Captain T. S. Withers. Captain Withers will go into semi-retirement, but he re tains an interest in the new operation.

The "Sayandra" in Suva in May.

Photo: Rob Wright

Historic Norfolk Is.

p. 133

A RAMBLER'S GUIDE TO

Considering that Norfolk Island was the first South ea island to be permanently settled by Europeans, and - except for one period of 11 years—has been occupied ver since, it is surprising that never before has it been ic subject of a comprehensive guide book.

>UT the gap has now been filled by Merval Hoare’s Rambler’s 'aide to Norfolk Island, which takes te historic island road by road, ill by hill, and ruin by ruin, and reathes warmth and colour into its istory for the benefit of visitors, :sidents and ramblers-in-general.

Norfolk’s growing number of sitors—there were 4,000 of them st year, each staying an average 10 days—will presumably put e Guide to best use. Despite its ven maps, it is still small enough be stuffed into pocket or purse.

Mrs. Hoare is a New Zealander ho has lived on Norfolk now for any years, during which time she is become fascinated by the island’s story.

Discovered by Cook in 1774, ttled from Botany Bay in 1788 ly a few weeks after the foundation Australia, Norfolk has had a rbulent history of two convict set ments followed by the arrival, in 56, of the Pitcairners who are still ‘ basis of the population today.

Stark reminders of the convict riod are to be seen in the ruins of i gaols, houses and bridges, A mber of buildings are still in isonable repair and these are some the finest examples of early ;hitecture to be found in Aus lia (for Norfolk, although 900 les north-east of Sydney, is still istralian territory). the many reminders of the unty mutineers is the Olde glishe speech of many of today’s rfolk residents.

Mrs. Hoare’s painstaking research, ipled with her regard for accuracy, i resulted in her having to label myths two of the best-known nes of Norfolk Island—the story Barney Duffy’s tree and the story Bloody Bridge. But one suspects t she was reluctant to do it and t she hopes, even now, that facts y come to light which will re ive these colourful tales in a Jre edition of her valuable and dable Guide.

GUIDE to NORFOLK

AND. Pacific Publications Ltd. Sydney.

One of the attractive coastal scenes on Norfolk Island.

Schedules For Cruises

p. 133

Cruises In The Islands

A regular service for travellers in search of South Seas tours, and for Islands residents and traders who need advance in

formation on shipping move

ments. For full details of regular

shipping and airways timetables,

see p. 145.

P and 0-orient

‘‘Orcades”, July-August: July 23, Lord Howe (no landing) July 24 Norfolk (no landing) July 25’

Nukualofa July 28, Pago Pago July 29’

Suva Aug. 1-2, Sydney Aug. 6 ‘‘Oronsay”, Aug.-Sept.: Sydney Aug. 26, Lord Howe (no landing) Aug. 27 Norfolk Aug. 28, Savusavu Aug. 3l’

Suva Sept. 1, Noumea Sept. 3-4’

Sydney Sept. 6.

“Arcadia”: Sydney Oct. 25, Auck land Oct. 28, Bay of Islands (NZ) Oct. 29 Suva Nov. 1. Lautoka Nov. 2, off Norfolk Is. Nov. 4, off Lord Howe Is. Nov. 5, Sydney Nov. 6.

Toyo Yusan Co.

“Oriental Queen”, June 28-July 25, Sydney June 28, Auckland July 2-3, Papeete July 9-11, Rarotonga July 13’

Nukualofa July 17, Auckland July 20-21, Sydney July 25. July 27-Aug 11, Sydney July 27. Brampton Island July 30-31, Caims Aug. 1-3, Noumea Aug. 7-8, Sydney Aug. 11. Sept. 23o Ct : Sy dng y Sept. 23, Auckland Sept. 27, Nukualofa Oct. 1, Pago Pago Oct 2 Suva Oct. 5-7, Auckland Oct. 11. Sydney Oct. 15. Oct. 16-30, Sydney Oct. 16. Noumea Oct. 19-21, off Norfolk Island Oct. 22, Bay of Islands

Oct. 24, Auckland Oct. 25-26, Oct. 30. Nov. 18-Dec. 9, Sydney Nov.l 18, Lautoka Nov. 24, Suva Nov.* 25-27, Vavau Nov. 29, Nukualofa Nov. 30, Bay of Islands Dec. 3, Auckland Dec. 4-5, Sydney Dec. 9. Dec. 19- Jan. 12 (1966), Sydney Dec. 19 Auckland Dec. 23-24, Nukualofa Dec. 28, Pago Pago Dec. 29, Apia Dec. 30 Suva Jan. 2-4, Auckland Jan. B,’

Sydney Jan. 12.

China Navigation Co.

"Kuala Lumpur”: Leaves Welling ton Oct. 15, Noumea Oct. 20-21, Vila Oct. 22-24, Suva Oct. 26-28, Auck land Nov. 1. Leaves Auckland Nov. 3, Nukualofa Nov. 7, Haapai Nov. 8.

Vavau Nov. 9, Pago Pago Nov. 9-10, Suva Nov. 14-16, Auckland Nov. 20.

Leaves Auckland Nov. 21, Suva Nov. 25-27, Pago Pago Nov. 29-30, Vavau Dec. 2, Haapai Dec. 3, Nukualofa Dec. 4, Auckland Dec. 8.

Holland-America Line

‘Maasdam”: Sydney Dec. 5, Bris- . bane Dec. 6, Noumea Dec. 10, Suva Dec. 13, Wellington Dec. 17-18 ■ Sydney Dec. 22.

Sitmar Line

“Pairsky”: Sydney July 17, off Hayman Island July 20, Cairns July < 21-23, Noumea July 27-28, Brisbane July 30, Sydney Aug. 1. < ‘‘Castel Felice”: Sydney Oct. 26, Auckland Oct. 29-30, Suva Nov. 2-3 < Noumea Nov. 5-6, Auckland Nov. 9’

Auckland Nov. 13. < “Fairstar”: Sydney Dec, 22, Noumea Dec. 25-26, Suva Dec. 28-29, Sydney ' Jan. 2 (1966). 1966 .

“Fairstar”: Sydney Jan. 3, Papeete > Jan. 10-14, Suva Jan. 20, Sydney Jan. > ‘‘Castel Felice”: Sydney Jan 27 > Auckland Jan. 30-31, Suva Feb. 3-4’ 1 Noumea Feb. 6-7, Auckland Feb. 10’ Sydney Feb. 14. ’ S

Make Survey

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Travel Briefs

American Firm To Make Survey Of Fiji Tourism

An American firm of tourist

consultants recently began

making a survey of Fiji's tourist

industry.

THE firm is Harris, Kerr Foster & Company, who have recently made a comprehensive survey of Australia’s tourist industry, and who have also made surveys in Hawaii, Israel and Tanzania.

A Fiji Government Public Relations Office release says the object of the Fiji survey is “to provide essential information on which a practical and comprehensive programme for the expansion of tourism in Fiji can be based, and which will be to the ;conomic benefit of the country”. ■& ■& ☆ AIR NEW ZEALAND, formerly TEAL, has opened a branch office in Apia under Mr. W. H. Hope veil, who has had experience in the iirline’s Suva office.

The office will do public relations vork and will assist local selling igents, but it will not be a ticketing )ffice. The office is situated above kelson’s warehouse in Beach Road.

Air New Zealand has no services o Apia, but it will have two flights hrough Pago Pago on its outward md return flights between Auckland, -lonolulu and Los Angeles after it akes delivery of its first DCS jets in December, ☆ ☆ ☆ A SECOND DC3 aircraft for Poly nesian Airlines is due to arrive a Western Samoa from Santa Barbara, California, early in July.

The aircraft has been bought from be Atlas Aviation Corporation for 75,000. It seats 26 passengers and /ill be named Savai’i.

The airline’s other DC3 will go to Jew Zealand for a major overhaul s soon as the new aircraft is in sivice.

FIJI hotel owners who are members of the Fiji Employers’ Con sultative Association recently got to gether and decided on higher wages and improved conditions for em ployees.

The director of the association, Mr.

J. Grundy, said the employers were the first in any industry in the Colony to come voluntarily together to negotiate among themselves wage rates and conditions of work for their employees which would stand fair comparison with any negotiated collective agreement reached after hours of bargaining with a trade union. ☆ ☆ ☆ FIJI’S tourist boom has created a recurring problem for Fiji Air ways to provide enough planes to meet demand for its services.

Recently, following the acquisition of two Herons, it chartered a DC3 from Qantas to operate between Suva and Nadi, and between Suva and Nukualofa twice a week.

The company’s seven Herons are to be used to supply additional ser vices to other aerodromes in Fiji, and to develop the regional services to other island groups.

Mr. Chris Ritchie, manager of Fiji Airways, said in May that the airline soon hoped to place an order for a Hawker Siddley 748 or Fokker Friendship, The first of the DC3 services be tween Fiji and Tonga began on May 20. The services are on Thursdays and Saturdays. ☆ ☆ ☆ MARINER’S CAVE, the famous cavern in Vavau, Tonga, which can be entered only through an underwater tunnel by skin divers, has at last been photographed from the inside. The shots were taken in May by Luis Marden, of the National Geographic Magazine, using special underwater equipment. It will be some months before the photo graphs are published.

The entry to Mariner’s Cave is not recommended to tourists, but another cave in the Vavau area.

Swallow’s Cave, which can be en tered by boat, is a popular attraction. ☆ ☆ ☆ QANTAS will be flying to South- East Asia from Sydney via Port Moresby and Manila later this year,

using Boeing 707 jets. Meanwhile Philippines Air Lines have been given permission to start a twice weekly service between Manila and Sydney. ☆ ☆ ☆ WITH the opening of Pago Pago’s new hotel only a few months away there is agitation in some quarters of American Samoa for a publicity drive to build up Samoa’s tourist industry.

In an editorial on May 1 the Samoa News said it was time to en large the Office of Tourism, which should be developing scenic locations as well as publicising Samoa abroad.

“Samoa should begin to be one of the names on the collection of pam phlets in travel agency offices and air ports all over the world,” says the News.

“While the people who will benefit will be private individuals with busi nesses, curio shops, and perhaps owners of the hotel, the job of creat ing a favourable image for Samoa belongs to the Government.”

Air New Zealand has enlarged its pub licity department as a result of its change of name (from TEAL) and its imminent expansion into jet travel (to Los Angeles, Singapore and Hong Kong). Manager of a new Information Service Department in Auckland, with a newly recruited staff, is Mr. Keith Silcock (above) who has been Air NZ's Melbourne representative for the last three years.

Pacific Commerce and Produce

pp. 137-139

SUBSTANTIAL

COPPER ON

BOUGAINVILLE

Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd., has encountered a substan tial load of copper on Bougain ville, New Guinea. There is a depth of at least 600 feet. rHE load is in the Crown Prince range, on the east coast, south of Kieta, but more work needs to be lone before there can be prop e r issessment of the discovery.

Conzinc has been working in the irea for some time, and is using lelicopters. There have been previous inofficial reports that the exploration vork has been most satisfactory, and nany Bougainville people have hoped hat the discovery will mean the ex ension of Kieta as a port, or the open ng up of a new port south of Kieta, md certainly an extension and im >rovement of roads.

Bougainville is one of the important opra areas of Papua-New Guinea, vith an increasing share in cocoa pro motion in recent years. The Kieta area •articularly has been neglected by the Administration, and is badly in need if proper roads and other facilities.

CONZINC Riotinto has embarked on a large scale minerals search in the P-NG islands of New Britain and New Ireland. The Administration has granted the company authority to prospect for six months for copper, gold and associated minerals.

The exploration will cover an area of 145,000 sq. miles, including the whole of New Ireland and an area east of Kandrian. New Britain.

The Graestar, a specially equipped exploration ship, arrived in Rabaul in May with a party of geologists and geochemists for the quest. The ship also carried a helicopter, to be used in the far-ranging search.

Tonolei Timber

Query

A BIG timber lease has recently been allocated in southern Bougainville to the Development Finance Corporation Ltd., of Sydney.

Questions on this lease were asked in the House of Assembly in May, following criticism that the New Guineans were not properly compen sated by the Administration for the sale of the lease rights.

The Assistant Administrator (economic affairs) Mr. H. H. Reeve, said critics frequently overlook the fact that the purchase price of timber rights is related to the expenditure necessary before the timber can be marketed.

Mr. Reeve said that generally speak ing, New Guinea logs at the overseas wharf now have a value ranging from 20/- to 40/- per hundred super feet, which represents the harvesting costs, plus the royalty payable. Where the log is processed by sawing or peeling its value is then raised to £6 per hundred super feet and after this the timber organisation must arrange the marketing.

Investigation of the Tonolei permit area had involved more than 20 years’ work, and during that time the Admin istration’s purchase price had never been queried by the Bougainville people. The arrangement was not in any way a high pressure business deal and it was “completely wrong” to sug gest that the owners in any way were led astray.

They were well aware that their land would still remain their property and that there would be general de velopment in the area, such as the

making of new roads and the building of new wharves.

Mr. Reeve added that there was a total of about 10,000 acres involved in the timber rights purchase of which only 47,000 acres would produce timber. Even then some of the timber might not be harvested because of the difficulties of terrain.

Mr. Reeve said that nevertheless the method of purchasing timber rights from New Guinea owners had exer cised Administration officers for some time and a re-examination of the prin ciples involved was at present being undertaken.

The re-examination was covering, among other things, the formula for the calculation of the amount to be paid to the owners and the practic ability of making progressive payments to them.

Share Issue To Help

Build Lae Hotel

Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. announced in May a one-for five issue of 1,547,085 ordinary 57shares at a premium of 2/6 to raise £555,196.

The directors said the proceeds of the issue would provide additional capital for the company to ensure

Mr. H. H. Reeve.

its continuing full participation in the overall economic expansion taking place in P-NG, and which was likely to be accelerated by the Federal Government’s general endorsement of the report on the Territory by the World Bank.

The issue would also finance the building of a modern hotel at Lae by Steamships’ subsidiary, Lae Hotels Pty. Ltd.; and improve general liquidity.

Placer Bids

For Bulolo

PLACER Development Ltd. has made a share exchange offer worth £3,200,000 for the outstanding capital of the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. Ltd.

Placer at the time of the offer owned 32 per cent, of Bulolo’s capital, while Bulolo owned 5.6 per cent, of Placer.

The bid is worth considerably less in capital terms, but more in market terms than a previous bid, withdrawn two years ago.

The terms of the offer are two Placer shares for five Bulolo shares Placer does not already own.

The offer is made at a time when

development of New Guinea, particu larly timber resources, is likely to be hastened considerably following the World Bank report.

Apart from gold operations, which are quickly diminishing, and its own timber and cattle interests. Bulolo owns 49.9 per cent, of Common wealth New Guinea Timbers; the Commonwealth Government has the majority holding.

Placer has been a consistent buyer of Bulolo shares in recent years, and has increased its proportion of Bulolo’s capital from 20.6 per cent, in 1961, to the present 32 per cent, holding.

Bulolo’s profit dropped 75 per cent, in the nine months to February 28, to £31,200.

The directors reported that failing early improvement it will be neces sary to stop dredging at Bulolo.

Way Cleared For

Sugar Conference

PRELIMINARY talks in London aimed at a method of fixing the negotiated price for sugar under the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement have cleared the way for delegates to concentrate on prices and quotas

when they meet again in London about October.

The talks were a continuation of discussions which started late last year on how to fix the price paid to producers.

No final decision was reached then, so a temporary arrangement was made under which the price was fixed at £stg42 a ton, with a £stg3/5/- a ton bonus for producers in less-developed countries.

Under that temporary arrange ment, Fiji, the sole commercial pro ducer of sugar in the South Pacific, received a slightly better deal than under previous agreements.

Fiji is also keenly interested in a conference, scheduled for Geneva in September, to consider revision of the 1958 International Sugar Agreement.

This agreement has been in abeyance for some years, chiefly because of the withdrawal of Cuba, and a shortage of sugar in the early 60’s, which led to record prices.

Now there is a world glut of sugar and producing countries are interested to see that some form of orderly marketing is introduced.

The objective of the agreement is to assure adequate supplies for the importing countries, and a range of prices which will guarantee a fair return for the sugar exporting countries.

The conference is expected to have two sessions. The first will con centrate on a redistribution of export quotas, and the second will deal with the range of prices.

Decimal Currency

For Fiji

FIJI is the latest Pacific territory to decide to go over to decimal currency.

A committee which inquired into the question, has recommended that the changeover take place on January, 16, 1969.

The Fiji Government announced in May that no final decision on the nomenclature had been made, even though the committee, in its report, referred to dollars and cents.

Higher Profit For

Burns Philp (SS)

Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., earned a net profit of £191,796 for the year ended January 31, 1965, an increase of £28,767 over the previous financial year.

The directors reported that en hanced prices for the main Islands primary products, sugar and copra, were reflected in greater spending power.

That, in turn, resulted in a more buoyant economy and assisted in maintaining a much improved turn over in merchandise.

Thus, overall trading results proved very satisfactory, and ample pro vision was made against doubtful debts and stock and plant depreciation.

The directors recommend a final dividend of 5 per cent., making 10 per cent. for the year, a rate which has been maintained for several years.

Support For P-NG

Stock Exchange

SUPPORT for establishment of a Papua-New Guinea Stock Ex change was given in May by the P-NG Administrator, Sir Donald Cleland. He said a local Stock Ex change would assist in development, and the Administration would be prepared to help by educating New Guineans. However, initiative for an exchange would have to be taken by private enterprise.

Suggestions for the Exchange were made in Port Moresby by Mr.

Randolph Carpenter, a director of W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd. He said an Exchange would help New Guineans to buy shares in P-NG companies.

"Grand Old Man" Of

South Pacific Trade

JT'HE grand old man of South A Pacific Islands trade and com merce Mr. Joseph Mitchell, met an avalanche of goodwill telegrams, cablegrams and radiograms on April 9, when he celebrated his 91st birth day. For more than half of those 91 years, he has occupied the chair of the chief executive at Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. headquarters, 7 Bridge Street, Sydney. And he still is there, as alert and decisive as ever.

If ever there was romance in the direction and management of general merchandising and shipping, it can be found in the career of Joseph Mitchell. James Burns and Robert Philp registered their modest trading company in Australia in 1883 as Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. It had grown somewhat, but was still a small con cern when, in 1891, young Joseph Mitchell, aged 17, joined the staff.

In the intervening three-quarters of a century Joseph Mitchell has seen the organisation expand into a Pacific-wide concern conservatively valued at £45 millions, and the major part of that growth took place under his own general managership.

The Big Firm, which started so modestly as Islands traders and shipowners, today seems to have a share in every important industry in Australia and the South Pacific, and much of that remarkable growth and success is due to the spirit of loyalty which James Burns 11, as chairman, and Joseph Mitchell as general manager, inspired in the hundreds of men who have managed the com pany’s branches all over the South Pacific and in Europe and America.

Little wonder that messages of goodwill came flooding in to “the old man” on April 9. The years may have taken their toll, but his shadow never has grown less.

Cocoa, Copra Are

p. 137

MAIN TOPICS

From a Rabaul Correspondent

The two main topics of interest in Rabaul at present are the really high prices for copra and the record low price for cocoa.

These two factors are going to produce some very odd effects in the planting industry.

The New Ireland planter who has for years bemoaned the fact that his ground was unsuitable for cocoa is now cheering his head off. The major plantation companies whose profits are de rived about equally from copra and cocoa are finding that the gain on one side just about can cels out the loss on the other.

And the ex-servicemen planters and others of recent vintage in the known cocoa areas of the Gazelle Peninsula and Popon detta who planted cocoa and no coconuts are in severe trouble financially—especially now that cocoa has been stricken with diseases.

Tonga May Help Make

p. 138

JAPAN'S SUKIYAKI

A new crop, grown from a bulb which Tonga's Premier, Prince Tungi, brought back from Tokyo last year, might turn out to be a valuable asset for Tongan growers.

The plant is a tuber which, fully grown, weighs up to 5 lb. In Japan it is called koniaku. Its English name is “devil's tongue".

There is a considerable Japanese market for the crop as it is the important vegetable ingredient in sukiyaki, the national dish. It is also used in making a powerful in dustrial adhesive used in the manu facture of paper and fibre board.

Erratic supplies from the main source of supply—lndonesia—suggest that if it can be grown elsewhere, a good market is assured. A great advantage of the crop is said to be its ability to survive high winds, in cluding hurricanes.

Trading Notes

p. 139

MORE REVENUE; Plantation Holdings jtd. lifted revenue by £4,184 in the half ear ended December 31. 1964, compared nth the corresponding half-year of 1963.

Profits were slightly higher. Extremely ow prices for cocoa were expected to Sect the company’s results for the full inancial year, but there should be some enefit from the high world prices for opra.

COPAL TRIAL: The P-NG Department f Agriculture plans to send a trial ship lent of copal gum, used in the manu acture of paints and vernishes, to New ealand for processing.

COCONUT REPLANTING SCHEME:

’onga’s Premier, Prince Tungi, and mem ers of the Tonga Copra Board made an erial survey in May of coconut-growing reas of Tongatapu, Ha’apai and Vavau i a chartered Fiji Airways aircraft. The urvey was in connection with a proposed eplanting scheme.

BANANA DISEASE: Black leaf streak, disease affecting bananas, was identi ed in the Vavau Group of Tonga re ently by Dr. Keith Graham, plant athologist with the Fiji Department of griculture. But banana plantations in bngatapu and Ha’apai have not been ffected.

Meanwhile, Western Samoa’s Depart tent of Agriculture has prohibited the aipment of bananas or banana planting laterial to Amercian Samoa to prevent le spread of black leaf streak from restern Samoa.

HOPEFUL REPORT: Pacific Island fines directors report that the Umuna de channel on Misima Island, Papua as been intersected 250 ft below the cisting workings. The ore is oxidised and milar to the loosely consolidated lode .aterials exposed in the company’s 1963 aderground workings. The drill has con ned. the existence of an extended zone ■ oxidation below the mine workings hich is most favourable for the formation high grade gold and silver ore.

Produce Prices

p. 140

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 196 Pac. Frs.; $U52.25.)

COPRA

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA;—AII production is delivered to Copra Marketing Board, controlled by six members, including three planters’ representatives: and the Board directs distribution and sales, and makes payments to the producers. Production goes mainly to (a) Unilever, in UK, (b) Australia for local consumption, (c) crushing-mill in Rabaul, and (d) Japan (surplus as available). Prices generally tally with ruling rate in Philippines, with premiums for hot-air dried.

P-NG Board’s Tentative Purchase Prices for Copra delivered main ports are; Hot-Air Dried, £7l/10/- per ton; FMS. £7O/-/- per ton; Smoke-Dried, £69/9/9 per ton. pul:—No Government control —producers sell where they wish. Bulk of copra goes to crushing-mills in Suva.

May 24 prices were; HAD £F7B/10/-, M £F76/-/-.

WESTERN SAMOA: Official Copra Board takes all production, sells same and makes payments to producers. It goes mainly to Abels Ltd., NZ crushers, and the open market. Local price re cently was £56/12/6 Samoan, first grade.

TONGA: Sales are under Government control. Part of production goes to Europe, under arrangement with Unilever controlled by Philippines prices, and part on to open market.

SOLOMON IS.: All production marketed through official BSI Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rate. Output goes to Unilever, UK; to Australian crushers; and the balance on to the open market. These prices, fixed in March, will remain stable for six months from that date. Ist grade, £64/-/-; 2nd grade, £62/-/-: 3rd grade, £57/-/- per ton, f.0.b., BSIP ports (Honiara, Yandina and Gizo). , , GILBERT AND ELLICE; —Production marketed in Europe through official Copra Board, at prices based on Philippines rates less freight, etc. The Copra Board subsidises the price at: First Grade £6/4/2 per ton, Second Grade £2/2/1 per ton.

NEW HEBRIDES: —Price on Apr. 13 was approximately £ASO/-/- (10,000 Pac. francs), and has remained fairly constant since then. French price on May 21 was 1,200 francs per metric ton, c.i.f., Marseilles.

COOK IS.:—Copra goes to Abels, Ltd., of Auckland, who operate the only NZ copra crushing mill. Price paid is average London price for previous three months, less handling charges. Prices for second quarter, April-June, 1965, are £NZ6B/4/3 Ist grade, £NZ66/19/3 standard grade— both f.0.b., Rarotonga.

OTHER PRODUCE

COCOA: —Islands prices are usually based on the rates for Ghana cocoa.

May-June shipment is £ Stg.ll2/10/- per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

P-N.G.: Sydney buyers on May 26 re ported: Quote No. 1: In store, Rabaul, export quality £lO5 per ton, ex-wharf Sydney, according to quality: £135; quote No. 2: Best quality, on wharf Syd., £l2O-£l5O, in store, N.G. ports £lOO (for UK, continent and USA shipments).

W. SAMOA; —Nominal prices quoted in Sydney, May 18, were: Grade 1, £Stg.l9s/-/-; grade 2, £Stg.l7o/-/-, f.0.b., Apia.

COFFEE:—P.N.G.: May 26, good quality A grade, per lb. 4/4; B grade 4/2; C grade, 3/6 to 3/9, c.i.f., Sydney.

Overseas c.i.f. coffee prices were re ported on May 11 as: Kenya AA £Stg.39s, A £ Stg.3BB, B £ 5tg.372, C Stg.37o; Tanganyika AA £Stg.39o, A £ Stg.3Bs, B £Stg.374, C £ 5tg.369; Uganda Robusta (standard) f.a.q. £ Stg.lB4, cleaned and washed £ Stg. 189; Bukoba £Stg.37o; Mataari £Stg.4ls; Sannani £Stg.4os.

PEANUTS. P.-N.G.: Sydney agents reported May 26—f.0.b., Lae; Kernels— white Spanish 1/5 lb.; Virginia bunch 1/7 lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on May 21 was; No. 1 RSS, Spot, 73 Vi Straits cents per lb (25.55 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported May 26; White and yellow label processed, standard packs, 42/-, green label 40/-, c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE (Aust.): Prices until May 1. 1965 (new prices were still being nego tiated in late May) P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, £59/10/per ton, f.o.w. Vitamised and enriched white, 112 lb bags, £65/15/- f.o.w.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, white or brown, etc., £6B/-/- (any quantity), f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL. —Quotations for Aus tralian M.O.P. Shell on May 26 by Sydney independent shell agents were: Sound £B5O, D £625, E £335, EE £235 (in store Sydney). Cook Islands: Penrhyn £NZ42S (approx.), f.0.b., Raro tonga.

TROCHUS. —Sydney buyers on May 26 indicated the following quotations to Islands producers: No. 1 Papua nominally £9O per ton, f.0.b., Papuan ports; N.G. and 8.5.1.—£85-£9O. f.0.b..

Islands ports. No. 2 —Papua—£80-£9O per ton; N.G., 8.5.1. — £75-£B5 per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney buyers quoted on May 26: No. 1: Ist grade only, £235 on wharf, Sydney. No. 2; £220 (best quality), on wharf, Sydney.

CROCODILE SKINS. —On May 26

Sydney buyers quoted for 12 in. and over, first grade quality as follows: P.-N.G.— 26/- per in., f.o.b. P-NG ports, small scale (salt water): large scale (fresh water) 15/6 per in. 8.5.1. 24/- (small scale) del. Sydney.

PAPUAN GUM: £B2/15/- f.o.b. Islands port, £95 del. Sydney or Melbourne.

BECHE-DE-MER: Chang Sing Loong Co., Suva, quoted F 2- (4in. to 7 in.) to F3/- (9 in. to 11 in.) lb for well processed commercial varieties.

SHARK FINS: Chang Sing Loong Co..

Suva, offers F4/6 per lb for well-dried fins of commercial quality. ICEP Pty. Ltd., Sydney, quote 6/6 to 8/6 lb., ex-store Sydney, according to quality.

London and US Quotations

COPRA: LONDON, May 25, Philippines, in bulk, $255 US (equal to £Stg.9l/5/5) per long ton, e.i:f., UK/Nth. European ports. Malayan 1% c.i.f. UK/Nth. Euro pean ports, UQ. NEW YORK; May 25, Philippines, $230 US c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports. CEYLON: 1,310 Rupees per ton, f.o.b.

COCONUT OIL: LONDON. May 25,

Ceylon, 1% in bulk, £ Stg. 150.

RUBBER: LONDON, May 21, June

shipment c.i.f. 21-11/16d Stg. lb; Spot 22d Stg. lb; August shipment 22-15/16d Stg. lb. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.2 US Dollars or 10 Vz Rupees.)

The Stock Market

p. 140

Sydney Stock Exchange share price in dex for “Ordinaries” on May 25 was 320.76, on April 27, it was 309.25.

1 SYDNEY

Apr. 27 May 25 Seller Seller Ball Plantations . . 5/3 5/6 Burns Philp ... 77/- 74/6 Burns Philp (SS) b45/- 48/- Carpenter, W. R. . . 24/6 25/1 Choiseul Plntn. . . b95/- 94/6

C.S.R. Co

60/- 62/9 Dylup Plantations 6/8 7/- Fiji Industries . . . bl6/10 17/9 Hackshall’s ... 15/6 14/6 Kerema Rubber . . 3/3 3/3 Koitaki Rubber . . 12/9 14/- Lolorua Rubber . . b4/9 5/9 Makurapau Plntn. . 4/- 5/3 Mariboi Rubber . . 4/11 4/9 Pacific Is. Timbers . 4/3 4/9 Palgrave 2/3 2/4 Plantation Holdings . 3/- 3/6 Queensland Insurance 70/6 75/- Rubberlands ... 3/2 3/3 Sogerl Rubber . . 5/6 5/2 Sthn. Pac. Insurance 23/9 23/6 Steamships Trading . 11/3 10/5 Watkins Consolidated b2/- 2/6

OIL AND MINING SHARES

Dec. 4. Apr. 27. May 25. 1958 1965 1965 Emperor . . b9/- s5/S b4/7 Loloma . . b30/- sl7/9 sl7/3 Bulolo G.D. b32/- s65/- b84/- N.G.G. Ltd. b2/3 s4/- b3/10 Oil Search . b9/9 sl/11 bl/11 Ent. of N.G. slid s3d sld Pac.I. Mines — b2/ll s3/3 Papuan Apln. b4/6 s2/3 b2/- Placer Dev. b91/- s235/- s221/-

Exchange Rates

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FIJI.—Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ

BANK. BANK OF NZ and THE BANK OF BARODA LTD. Australia on Fiji, basis £100 Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling, £ A113. Fijl-London, basis £100 London: B, £110/15/-; S. £112. NZ-FiJI, basis £100 NZ: B, £111/11/9; S, £110/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. Aus tralia on Samoa, basis £100 Samoa; T.

T. B. £A123/12/6; S. £A124/10/9. Samoa- London, basis £100 London: B. £99/7/6; S. £101/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £100 NZ; B. £100; S. £100/10/-. Samoa-Flji basis £100 Samoa: B. £111; S. £110.

NORFOLK IS. —Commonwealth Bank quotes exchange rate Australia-Norfolk Island: 5/- per £A100.

PAPUA-NG. — COMMONWEALTH BANK

(Pt. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Goroka, Bulolo, Kavieng, Madang, Wewak), BANK OF NSW (branches: Port Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madang, Samaral, Goroka. agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokopo), ANZ BANK (Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) and

NATIONAL BANK OF A/ASIA. Port

Moresby, Lae) quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £A100.

FRENCH PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific

francs (CPF) are used in New Cale donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Polynesia.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris, Sydney), in May, 1965, quoted: Selling, Noumea, 196 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; Papeete 196 (nom.) Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 247 Pac. francs to £ Stg., 96.5 Pac. francs to US $; Noumea 18 Pac. francs to 1 French franc (conversion rate: 1 Pac. franc equals 0.055 French franc), Parls-London: Selling 13.720 francs to £Stg.

People

pp. 141-142

Mr. R. D. McEwan, BA, Director of the Cook Islands’

Education Department, has re tired to New Zealand after nearly 10 years in the Cooks— seven of them as Director.

MR. McEWAN, a modest and quiet-spoken man, saw great advances in the Cooks’ education system during his term of office.

The entire primary programme was overhauled and improved and great strides were made in secondary education.

From a modest beginning in 1956, Rarotonga’s Tereora Secondary Col lege expanded, and Junior High Schools came into existence in Aitutaki, Mangaia and Atiu. The programme is expected to continue to expand until there are about 2,000 secondary students in the Cook Group.

Since 1956, 200 modern class rooms with staffrooms, milkrooms, etc., have been built throughout the Group, • Ratu Penaia Ganilau has been appointed Secretary for Fijian Affairs and Local Government, to succeed Mr. A. C. Reid. Ratu Penaia, below, one of the commanders of the Fiji Battalion which served in Malaya

from 1952 to 1956, is the second Fijian to become Secretary for Fijian Affairs. The first was the late Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna. • Mr. W. Granger has been ap pointed Executive Officer for Econo mic Development in the South Pacific Commission. He has replaced Mr. Jacques Barrau. • Mr. Jim Huxley, who recently resigned as managing editor of the New Guinea Times-Courier in Lae, has returned to Sydney with his wife and four sons after 25 years in Papua-New Guinea. • A well-known group of Tahitian dancers, Heiva Madeleine, left Papeete by air in mid-May for a tour of Australia. • Mr. Charles Ivens Buffett, a former Official Secretary on Norfolk Island, and now Autralia’s Official Representative on Cocos Island, Indian Ocean, visited Canberra recently. • Mr. Robert R. Nathan, pre sident, and Mr. David L. Chewning, senior associate of the economic development consulting firm of Nathan Associates, of Washington, DC, arrived in Saipan recently to begin studies to prepare an economic

development programme for the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Micronesia). Other members of the firm will arrive in June. • After having been American consul in Tahiti for just over three months, Mr. George Gray returned to work at his old consulate in Suva on May 10. The French Govern ment, without giving a reason, forced the US consulate in Tahiti to close at the end of April, after it had been open for only three months. ( PIM, May, p, 123.) Mr. Gray expects to remain in Suva for several months before returning to Washington for reposting. • Mr. J. Burns has been appointed Director of Public Works in Papua- New Guinea. He is on loan from the Commonwealth Department of Works for two years. He joined the Commonwealth Works Department in 1950 and became construction manager in P-NG in 1962. • When Miss Helene Marioge, of Noumea, passed a test recently which gave her an aircraft pilot’s licence, she became the youngest pilot in all French territories and in France. Miss Marioge, who has just turned 17, had to wait patiently for her birthday before she was allowed to do the test. (ovsr)

NEW DISTRICT OFFICE: P-NG's Public Service Commissioner, Mr. G. D. Somers, officially opened a new District Office building at Rabaul on May 17. The two-storey steel-frame structure has been built at a cost of £144,000, and will provide office space for Administration staff formerly located in temporary buildings and rented offices in various parts of Rabaul. A new District Office at Lae is also nearing completion and expected to be finished in about two months.

• Mr. J. A. Sandys, the Fijian Director of Agriculture, will go on retirement leave in July. Mr. Sandys went to Fiji in 1962 as Deputy Director of Agriculture, and suc ceeded to the top post on the retire ment of Mr. J. M. Watson. • The Rev, Dr. George A. F.

Knight has been appointed principal of the Pacific Theological College, which is being built at Suva by a consortium of Pacific churches. The college will open next year. Dr.

Knight is from Scotland, and will take up his appointment about October. He has been Professor of Old Testament History and Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, since 1960, and has held similar positions in New Zealand and Scotland. He is also an authority on the history of the Reformed Church in Hungary, having served there for some years. e Mr. E. B. Houston, manager of the USS Co. of NZ Ltd., at Raro tonga for the last six years, has been transferred to Launceston, Tasmania, as branch manager. • Mr. G. D. Cannon, director of the Papua-New Guinea Department of Trade and Industry has resigned to become a senior eexcutive with the W. R. Carpenter group of com panies in the Territory. • Dr. A. Guinea, medical officer of health for Taranaki, New Zealand, has been appointed chief medical officer in the Cook Islands. The ap pointment is for a three-year term. • The Administrator of Papua- New Guinea, Sir Donald Cleland, said in late May that he would order an investigation into an allega tion that the native Parliamentary (Jnder-Secretary for Police, Simogen Pita, had been ordered to leave a Port Moresby hotel because he was wearing rubber thongs. The allega tion was made in the House of Assembly by another native mem ber, James Meanggarum, and con firmed outside the house by Simogen. The hotel was the Hotel Papua. • Captain Ron Duffield, manager of the Qantas office in Tokyo for the last five years, has been appointed manager of Fiji Airways, and left Sydney for Suva in early June. He takes over from Mr. Chris Ritchie, who is returning to Qantas in Sydney.

Fiji Airways, which is owned by Aus tralia, New Zealand, Fiji and Britain, has undergone great expansion during Mr. Ritchie’s management.

Shiping and Airways

pp. 147-150

In formation

SHIPPING TIMETABLES

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

BRISBANE - SYDNEY -

WEST NG - INDONESIA

The P.N. Djakarta Lloyd Shipping Company operates a monthly cargo service between Indonesia, West New Guinea and Australia.

Next voyage: Visaya Regidor, dep.

Brisbane June 7, Sydney June 12, Mel bourne June 16, then West New Guinea and Indonesian ports subject to induce ment.

Details from Mcllwraith McEacharn Ltd., Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney (27-1481).

SYDNEY - FIJI

MV Rona (4,500 tons) leaves Sydney approximately every three weeks for Suva and Lautoka with cargo and passengers.

Next Sydney sailings: June 10, July 7 (approx.).

Details from Colonial Sugar Refining Co.

Ltd., 1-7 Bent St., Sydney (2.0515).

SYDNEY - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA Union Steam Ship Co. maintains monthly cargo services from Melbourne and Sydney (periodically from Adelaide) to Lautoka, Suva (including tranship ments for Vavau and Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Next Sydney sailing; June 21 (approx.).

Details from Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ Ltd., 247 George Street, Sydney IB 0528); or other branches and agents.

SYDNEY - FIJI - VANCOUVER

Pacific Shipowners Ltd., of Suva, normally operate a passenger-cargo ser vice three times yearly with the Lakemba along the above route.

Next sailing from Sydney: Early Sept, (approx.).

Details from American Trading and Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St., Sydney (8U4147).

SYDNEY - GEIC

Columbus Lines of New York, operate a regular passenger-cargo service from Sydney to Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. Next voyage from Syd ney: Cap Frio July 20 (approx.).

Details from American Trading & Shipping Co. Pty. Ltd., 19 Bridge Street.

Sydney (27-4149).

SYDNEY - NEW CALEDONIA -

NEW HEBRIDES - FR. POLYNESIA

Passenger-cargo vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every

six weeks at Papeete (with occasional calls at Taiohae, Marquesas Group), Vila, Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Next inwards voyages, ex-Marseilles: Tahitien: Papeete June 10-13, Vila June 20-21, Noumea June 22-26, Sydney June 29.

Caledonien: Taiohae July 13, Papeete July 15-18, Vila July 25-26, Noumea July 27-31, Sydney Aug. 3.

Next outwards voyages, ex-Sydney: Tahitien: Dep. Sydney July 2, due New Hebrides July 6-14, Noumea July 15, Papeete July 21-25, Taiohae July 28.

Caledonien: Dep. Sydney Aug. 6, due New Hebrides Aug. 10-18, Noumea Aug. 19, Papeete Aug. 25-29.

Polynesie maintains monthly passenger sailings between Sydney, Noumea, Vila, Pt. Sandwich (occasionally), and Santo.

Next Sydney sailings: June 18, July 16.

Details from Messageries Maritimes, 2 Young St., Sydney (8U2654).

SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - TAHITI -

PANAMA - UK

Southern Cross and Northern Star passenger vessels each make four round the-world voyages per year, two west bound, then two east-bound, calling at Fiji and Papeete every trip.

Southern Cross: From Southampton (UK) via Panama, at Papeete June 20-21, Fiji June 26, Wellington June 30-July 2, arr. Sydney July 5.

Northern Star; From Southampton (UK) via South Africa at Sydney Aug.

18-20, Wellington Aug. 23-25, Auckland Aug. 27, Papeete Sept. 1-2, thence via Panama to Southampton, arr. Sept 29 Details from Shaw Savin Line, 8a Castlereagh St., Sydney (28-1828).

SYDNEY - NZ - TAHITI -

PANAMA - USA

Europe-Canada Line passenger vessel Maasdan leaves Sydney Dec. 23, Welling ton Dec. 27, Papeete Jan. 2-3, thence via Panama to USA.

Details from Europe-Canada Line 291 George St., Sydney (29-3477).

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

NEW CALEDONIA

Jacques del Mar (owned by Societe Maritime Caledonienne, Noumea), makes a regular three weekly passenger-cargo voyage from Sydney or Melbourne to Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., New Cale donia (Noumea).

Next sailings: Jacques del Mar from Sydney June 11. July 2 (approx.) Details from P. h. Stephens Pty. Ltd 13-15 Bridge St., Sydney (27-8311).

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS. - NEW

HEBRIDES - BSI - BOUGAINVILLE

MV Tulagi (passenger-cargo) leaves Sydney about every six weeks for Norfolk Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara and BSI ports Next Sydney sailings: June 4, July 10 Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd ' 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

AUSTRALIA - NZ - FIJI - CANADA - USA

USA - EASTERN PACIFIC - NZ - SYDNEY - CENTRAL PACIFIC - HAWAII

PIM's shipping and airways schedules are up to the minute. They are revised each month just before publication from information supplied by the shipping and airways com panies.

ORIANA ORONSAY CANBERRA ARCADIA

SYDNEY depart June 22 Sept. 9 Oct. 25 Nov 19 AUCKLAND arr/dep June 25 Sept. 12 Oct 28 Nov 15 SAVUSAVU arr/dep Sept. 15 5 SUVA arr/dep June 28 Sept. 16 Nov i« PAGO PAGO arr/dep Se?t. 17 £ov‘ arr/dep July 2 Sept. 22-23 Nov. 4-5 Nov' 24 VANCOUVER arr/dep July 6-7 Sent. 28 Nm, o_i 0 ' 4 E CO arr / de P Jul y 9-10 Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Nov. 12-13 Nov 29-30 LOS ANGELES arrive July 11 ©ct. 2 Nov. 14 Dec' 1 3 ° Details from P. and O.-Orient Lines of Aust. Pty., Ltd.. 55 Hunter St., Sydney (2-0317>

MARIPOSA

MONTEREY

MARIPOSA

MONTEREY

SAN FRANCISCO

depart May 30 June 24 July 15 Aug.

Aug.

Aug.

Aug.

Aug.

Aug.

Aug.

Sept.

Sept.

Sept.

Sept.

Sept.

Sept. 8 q

LOS ANGELES

arr/dep May 31 June 25 July 16

BORA BORA

arr/dep June 8 July 3 July 24 17

PAPEETE

RAROTONGA

arr/dep arr/dep June June 9-11 12 July July 4-6 7 July July 25-27 28 18-20 21

AUCKLAND

arr/dep June 17-18 July 12-13 Aug. 2-3 26-27

SYDNEY

NOUMEA

arr/dep arr/dep June June 21-24 27 July July 16-19 22 Aug.

Aug. 6-9 12 30-Sept. 2 5

SUV A

arr/dep June 29 July 24 Aug. 14 7

NIUAPOOU

arr/dep June 30 July 25 Aug. 15 3

PAGO PAGO

arr/dep June 30 July 25 Aug. 15 3

HONOLULU

SAN FRANCISCO

arr/dep arrive July July 5-6 11 July Aug. 30-31 5 Aug.

Aug. 20-21 26 13-14 19 Details from Matson Lines. 50 Young St.. Sydney. (BU 4272)

SYDNEY - PAPUA - NEW GUINEA

Burns Philp passenger/cargo vessels make regular voyages to New Guinea ports.

Next vessels: Malekula sails from Sydney for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby, Brisbane, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing; June 22.

Malaita sails from Sydney for Bris bane, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Lombrum, Lorengau, Kavieng, Rabaul, Bougainville ports, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing; July 9 (approx.).

Bulolo sails about every six weeks; Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Rabaul. Samarai, Pt Moresby, Brisbane, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing: July 6.

Montoro sails from Melbourne for Sydney, Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby, Sydney. Next Sydney sail ing: June 26 (approx.).

Braeside sails about every six weeks: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Rabaul, Kavieng (opt.), Lombrum, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Pt. Moresby, Sydney, Melbourne. Next Sydney sailing: June 9 (approx.).

Moresby sails from Sydney for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, We wak, Kavieng, Rabaul, Pt. Moresby, Bris bane, Sydney. Maiden voyage from Sydney: July 16.

Details from Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street. Sydney (B 0547).

Australia-West Pacific Line’s motor vessel Tenos maintains a regular passen ger-cargo service between Australia and New Guinea ports. Next voyage: Dep.

Sydney June 29, Brisbane July 2, due Pt.

Moresby July 5, Lae July 9, Madang July 12, Rabaul July 15.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St., Sydney. (BU 6301).

Soochow and Shansi provide a regular fortnightly passenger-cargo service from Sydney to Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai and Sydney, sailing from Syd ney every second Monday.

Next Sydney sailings: Shansi June 7, Soochow June 21.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yulll Pty., Ltd., agents), 8 Spring Street, Sydney (BU 4701).

Karlander New Guinea Line cargo ves sels leave Sydney at regular intervals for New Guinea ports. Next vessels: Slitan; Dep. Sydney June 4, for Pt.

Moresby, Wewak, Lae, Brisbane, Sydney.

Sletholm: Dep. Sydney June 19, for Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Brisbane and Sydney.

Details from Karlander NG Line (P.

H. Stephens Pty., Ltd., agents), 13 Bridge Street, Sydney (BU 8311).

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo vessel Makati runs between Australian ports (turn round at Melbourne) and Papua- New Guinea.

Next voyage; From Melbourne and Pt.

Kembla, due Sydney June 4-9, Brisbane June 11-12, Pt. Moresby June 16, Rabaul June 20, Madang June 23, Lae June 25, Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty..

Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney (BU1271).

SYDNEY - P-NG - FAR EAST

Austasia Line’s passenger/cargo vessel Malaysia runs between Australian ports (turn round at Melbourne) and Singa pore, via Pt. Moresby.

Next voyage: Dep. Melbourne June 22, due Sydney June 28-July 5, Brisbane July

7-10, Pt. Moresby July 13, thence to Singapore and Malaysian ports.

Details from Blue Star Line (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 32-34 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 1271).

Australia-West Pacific Line’s Motor vessels maintain passenger-cargo services from Australia to Hong Kong and Islands ports.

Delos; From Melbourne, dep. Sydney June 11, due Brisbane June 13-16, Rabaul June 20-22, Lae June 23-25, Madang June 26-28, thence Manila and Hong Kong, returning to Madang July 28-29, Lae July 30-Aug. 1, Rabaul Aug. 2-3, thence Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne.

Milos: From Adelaide and Melbourne, dep. Sydney July 16, Brisbane July 20. due Rabaul July 24, Lae July 27, Madang July 30, thence Far East.

Details from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Agency, 13 Bridge St.. Sydney iBU 6301 i.

China Navigation Co. Ltd. cargo vessels Nfanchang, Wenchow and Wanliu call monthly at Rabaul on their way north from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to Hong Kong.

Next vessel: Nanchang, dep. Sydney June 30, Brisbane July 4, Rabaul July 10, thence Manila.

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels Dhangsha and Taiyuan provide a monthly passenger-cargo service calling at Pt.

Moresby when northbound between Aus tralia, Manila and Hong Kong. Next vessel: Taiyuan: Dep. Melbourne June 11, arr.

Pt. Moresby June 28, thence Manila and Hong Kong.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., igents, 8 Spring St., Sydney (BU 4701) Dominion Navigation Co. Ltd. (UK) vessels maintain monthly passenger-cargo services between Sydney and Japan (via Manila, Hong Kong and Formosa), return /ia Guam and Rabaul.

Francis Drake: At Guam June 11-12, Habaul June 16-17, Sydney June 23-25, Melbourne June 27-July 3, Sydney July >-7, Brisbane July 9-10, thence to Japan, ■eturning to Guam Aug. 13-14, Rabaul Mig. 18-19, Sydney Aug. 25.

George Anson: Dep. Sydney June 2, iue Brisbane June 4-5, thence to Japan, •eturning to Guam July 9-10, Rabaul Fuly 14-15, Sydney July 21.

Details from H. C. Sleigh Ltd., 115 fork Street. Sydney. Tel. (2-02531.

SYDNEY - TAHITI - UK

Chandris Line vessel Ellinis maintains i regular passenger service from Sydney r ia Papeete to Southampton, and return r ia Papeete to Sydney.

Ellinis: Leaves Sydney June 20, arr.

Papeete June 28 and Southampton July Details from Chandris Line. 10 Martin s lace, Sydney. Tel. BL 4051.

EUROPE - TAHITI • NEW CALEDONIA

BSIP - PNG - WEST NG

A regular passenger-cargo service rom the Continent and UK, via Panama, o Tahiti, New Caledonia, BSI. P-NG and Vest NG is operated jointly by Neder and Line Royal Dutch Mail and Royal lotterdam Lloyd.

Borneo; From Continent and London, irr. Papeete June 9, Noumea June is’, loniara June 24, Pt. Moresby June 27 labaul June 30, Lae July 2, Madang July l, Alexishafen July 4, Sukarnopura July i, Biak, Manokwari, Sorong.

Details from Roval Interocean Lines !61 George St.. Sydney (2-0573).

EUROPE - TAHITI - NEW HEBRIDES -

NEW CALEDONIA - AUSTRALIA

Messageries Maritimes passenger-cargo vessels run monthly between France and Noumea via East Africa and Australia.

From Sydney, vessels go to Brisbane and Noumea; return to France via Australian coastal ports.

Next sailings from Sydney: Ventoux June 4 (Noumea June 11); Vosges July 1 (Noumea July 8).

Other MM vessels run between France and Sydney, via Panama Canal and Pacific ports.

Next vessel: Tahitien Papeete June 10, Pt. Vila June 20, Noumea June 22, Sydney June 29.

Details from Messageries Maritimes. 2 Young St., Sydney (BU 2645).

FAR EAST - FIJI - BSI

China Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels provide a monthly passenger-cargo ser vice from Japan and Hong Kong south wards to Fiji direct and BSI returning to Japan direct.

Sinkiang: From Japan and Hong Kong, due Suva/Lautoka June 1-6, thence to Honiara, returning to Japan June 23.

Szechuen: From Japan and Hong Kong, due Suva/Lautoka July 7-12, returning to Japan July 23.

Details from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents. 8 Spring St.. Sydney (BU4701).

FAR EAST - FIJI - NZ - SYDNEY Royal Interocean Lines operate a passenger-cargo service from Singapore to Fiji, NZ and Australia, calling periodically at Suva and/or Lautoka.

Van Noort at Suva/Lautoka June 20- 22 (thence Australia and Bangkok); Tjiliwong at Suva/Lautoka July 23-25; Tjimanuk at Suva/Lautoka Aug. 14-16.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 261 George St., Sydney (2-0573).

FAR EAST - P-NG - BSI - NEW

HEBRIDES - NEW CALEDONIA

China Navigation Co.. Ltd., vessels maintain a monthly cargo service from Japan southwards through P-NG, BSI, New Hebrides and New Caledonia’ usually return to Japan direct.

Chungking; From Japan and Hong Kong, due Rabaul June 11, Kavieng June 14, Wewak June 17, Madang June 25, Lae June 25, Pt. Moresby July 5, Santo July 9, Noumea July 13-23, thence to Japan, arr. Aug. 8.

Chengtu: From Japan and Hong Kong due Rabaul July 12, Madang July 25, Lae July 25, Samarai July 30, Pt Moresby Aug. 5. Vila Aug. 9, Noumea Aug. 13-22, thence to Japan, arr. Sept. 4.

Details from China Navigation Co., Ltd Swire and Yuill Pty Ltd., agents). 8 Spring St.. Sydney (BU 4701).

JAPAN - SAMOA - TONGA - FIJI - N. CAL. - N. HEB. - BSI The Daiwa Navigation Co. Ltd. runs a regular passenger/cargo service from Japan, calling at Guam, Lautoka, Suva Pago Pago, Apia, Noumea, Vila (opt.), Santo (opt.), thence returning to Japan Current voyage: Daisen Maru dep.

Japan June 8.

NEW ZEALAND • COOK IS.

NZGS Moana Roa (40 passengers) makes approximately monthly voyages from

• PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

Auckland (NZ) to Rarotonga (Cook Islands), with calls at Niue and some other Cook Islands when cargo warrants.

Details from NZ Department of Island Territories, Wellington (Tel. 45-117) or any office of Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

NZ - FIJI - HONOLULU -

NTH AMERICA

Crusader Shipping Co. has vessels running between NZ and North America, via Pacific ports.

Next voyage: Saracen, due Honolulu June 10, and thence North American ports.

NZ - FIJI - TONGA - SAMOA Tofua maintains a service from Auck land to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia. Suva and return to Auckland. Next Auckland sailings: June 22, July 20.

Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia, Suva, and return to Auckland.

Next Auckland sailings: June 8, July 6.

Details from Union Steam Ship Co of NZ, Quay and Commerce Sts., Auck land. (Tel.; 49-4301.

NZ • NEW CALEDONIA - P-NG -

FAR EAST

Crusader Shipping Co.’s cargo vessels, running between NZ and the Par East call at New Caledonia and Papua, and, in some instances, Guam. Next voyages: Knight Templar: Dep. NZ June 12, arr.

Noumea June 15, Pt. Moresby June 19, thence Singapore and Pt. Swettenham.

Port Montreal: Dep. NZ July 28, arr.

Guam Aug. 6, thence to Japan.

Details from Shaw. Savill Line, agents 101 Queen St., Auckland. (Tel.; 30-310■

NEW ZEALAND - TAHITI

New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. vessels, operating between NZ and UK. via Panama, make a call every two months at Tahiti, northbound and southbound.

Next northbound voyage: Rangitane, dep. Wellington June 30, due Papeete July 6.

Next southbound voyage: Ruahine from London, due Papeete June 14.

Details from NZ Shipping Co. Ltd.

Customhouse Quay. Wellington, NZ

TONGA - FIJI - AUSTRALIA

The Tonga Copra Board vessel Niuvakai operates a four to five-weekly passenger-cargo service between Austra lia and Tonga via Fiji. Next voyage from Sydney, June 23 (approx.).

Details from Burns Philp and Co. Ltd., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (B 0547).

TONGA - FIJI - SAMOA

Tonga Shipping Agency operates a cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Fiji (Suva, Lautoka Ellington, Rotuma) with MV Aonlu. Calls are also made as required at Apia (W Samoa) and Pago Pago (Am. Samoa) Turn-round in Suva is usually two days and the agents there are Morris Hedstrom!

Ltd.

UK - PANAMA - SAMOA - FIJI The Fiji Direct Service is maintained by Conference vessels, sailing at regular monthly intervals out of London, via Panama, for Anla Suva and Lautoka Bethell, Gwyn and Co., Ltd., act as Load ing Brokers in London.

Next sailing: ex-London: June 17.

• PlM's airways schedules are arranged alphabetically from point of departure under five main headings: Trans pacific Services, Australia-New Zea land, Australia-Pacific Islands, Inter- Territory Services and Internal Ser vices.

UK-PANAMA-TAHITI-AUSTRALIA

Cogedar Line operates a passenger ser vice regularly from Southampton, via Panama and Papeete to Sydney. Next vessels: Flavia: Dep. Southampton June 24, arr. Papeete July 18-19, Sydney July 30.

Aurelia; Dep. Tilbury Sept. 28, arr.

Papeete Oct. 22-23, Sydney Nov. 3.

Details from agents: H. C. Sleigh, 115 York St., Sydney. Tel. B 0253.

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: Nessbank: From Continent and London, due Pt. Moresby June 21, Samarai June 24, Lae June 25, Madang June 28, Wewak July 1, Kavieng July 3, Rabaul July 5, Honiara July 8.

Lindenbank: From Continent and London, due Pt. Moresby July 26, Samarai July 29, Lae July 30, Madang Aug. 2, Wewak Aug. 5, Kavieng Aug. 8, Rabaul Aug. 9, Honiara Aug. 13.

Details from Bank Line (A/asia.) Pty Ltd., 269 George St., Sydney (BU 2041).

USA - TAHITI - AM. SAMOA - FIJI -

AUSTRALIA

Matson-Oceanic Line operates a 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 Brisbane, Sierra June 13, Ventura July 25, Sonoma Aug. 15.

Details from Matson Lines, 50 Young St.. Sydney (BU 42721.

USA - TAHITI - AUSTRALIA

American Pioneer Line passenger-cargo ships on US Atlantic Coast-Panama- Sydney service make periodical calls at Tahiti on southbound voyages. Next Papeete calls: Pioneer Isle June 11; Pioneer Glen July 14.

Details from Wilh. Wllhelmsen Agency 13 Bridge St., Sydney (BU 63011.

USA - TAHITI - SAMOA - FIJI -

NEW CALEDONIA

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorsisle and Thor I maintain service from West Coast Nth. American ports to Pacific Islands.

Thor I; Dep. San Francisco June 1, arr. Los Angeles June 2-5, Papeete June 15-17, Pago Pago June 21-24, Apia June 25-26, Suva June 29-July 1, Noumea July 3-6, Apia (open), Pago Pago July 10-11, Los Angeles July 24-26, arr. San Francisco July 27.

Thorsisle; Dep. San Francisco July 9, Los Angeles July 10-14, Papeete July 25-27, Pago Pago July 31-Aug. 3, Apia Aug. 4-5, Suva Aug. 8-9, Lautoka Aug. 10-11, Noumea Aug. 13-15, Pago Pago Aug. 18-19, Los Angeles Sept. 2-4, San Francisco Sept. 5.

Details from General Steamship Cor poration Ltd., 1 Bush St., San Francisco.

USA and Islands Agents.

Airways Timetables

pp. 150-156

TRANS PACIFIC SERVICES

SYDNEY - BRISBANE - HONOLULU -

NTH. AMERICA

By Qantas Empire Airways, with Boeing 707 V-Jets

NORTHBOUND

Sat.; Dep. Sydney 1700, arr. Brisbane 1815, dep. 1900, arr. Honolulu 0730 Sat., dep. 0900, arr. San Francisco 1640.

SOUTHBOUND

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2000, arr.

Honolulu 2150, dep. 2359 Sat., arr.

Brisbane 0515 Mon., dep. 0600, arr.

Sydney 0720.

SYDNEY - FIJI - HAWAII - USA

BY QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS

(Boeing 707 V-Jets)

NORTHBOUND

Tues., Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 1900, arr. Nadi 0040, dep. 0125, Honolulu, San Francisco.

Mon., Wed. and Sat.: Sydney (dep. 1900), Nadi (arr. 0040, dep. 0125), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York.

Fri.: Sydney (dep. 1900), Nadi (arr. 0040, dep. 0125), Honolulu, San Francisco (extends to Vancouver alternate weeks), from Sydney (June 4, 18, July 2, 16, 30, etc.).

SOUTHBOUND

Mon., Wed. and Fri.: New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 0325, Wed., Fri., Sun., dep. 0430), Sydney (arr. 0645).

Tues., Thurs. and Sun.; San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 0325, Thurs., Sat., Tues., dep. 0430), Sydney (arr. 0645).

Sat.: San Francisco (service begins from Vancouver alternate Sats. June 5, 19, July 3, 17, 31, etc.) Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 1855, Sun., dep. 1945), Sydney (arr. 2200). (International Dateline is crossed be tween Nadi and Honolulu.)

BY CANADIAN PACIFIC AIRLINES

(Bristol Britannia and DCS Jet)

NORTHBOUND

Alt. Fri. (June 11, 25, July 9, 23, etc.): Dep. Sydney 1300 by Britannia for Auckland (arr. 1850).

Fri.: Dep. Auckland 1935 Fri., arr. Nadi 2340 Fri., dep. 0045 Sat., arr. Honolulu 1210 Fri., dep. Sat. 0900 by DCS for Vancouver, arr. Sat. 1725, dep. 1855, Amsterdam (arr. Sun. 1210).

SOUTHBOUND

Fri.; Dep. Amsterdam 1420 by DCS for Vancouver (arr. Fri. 1715, dep., 1845), Honolulu (arr. Fri. 2130, dep. Sat. 2355 by Britannia), Nadi (arr. Mon. 0745, dep. 0830), Auckland (arr. 1240).

Alt. Mon. (June 7, 21, July 5, 19, etc.): Dep. Auckland 1340 for Sydney, arr.

Mon. 1605.

SYDNEY - FIJI (OR AM. SAMOA)

HAWAII - USA

BY PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS

(Intercontinental Jet Clippers)

NORTHBOUND

Sat., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 1900 for Nadi (arr. Sun., Wed., Fri. 0040, dep. 0130), Honolulu arr. Sat., Tues., Thurs.,

0935, dep. 1145 for Los Angeles, arr.

Sat., Tues., Thurs. 1940.

Mon.: Dep. Sydney 1900 for Pago Pago (arr. 0255, dep. 0340), Honolulu arr. 0945, dep. 1145, Los Angeles (arr. 1940 Mon.).

SOUTHBOUND

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Nadi (arr. 0515 Tues., Thurs., Sat., dep. 0615), and Sydney (arr. Tues., Thurs., Sat. 0830).

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 2145 for Honolulu, Pago Pago (arr. 0510 Sun., dep, 0555), and Sydney (arr. 0900 Mon.). (International Dateline crossed between Nadi-Honolulu, and Sydney-Pago Pago.) SYDNEY - FIJI - TAHITI - MEXICO By Qantas Empire Airways with Boeing 707 V-Jets

NORTHBOUND

Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 2000, Nadi, arr. Fri. 0140, dep. 0225 for Papeete, arr. Thurs. 0835, dep. 2300 for Acapulco, arr. Fri. 1050, dep. 1150 for Mexico City, arr. 1240 (to Nassau, Bermuda, London).

SOUTHBOUND

(From London, Bermuda, Nassau) Sat.: Dep. Mexico City 2145 for Acapulco, arr. 2235, dep. 2335 for Papeete, arr. Sun. 0345, dep. 0445 for Nadi, arr.

Mon. 0720, dep. 0805 for Sydney, arr. 1020.

SYDNEY - N. CALEDONIA - FIJI

TAHITI - USA

UTA-Air France with DCS Turbofan Jets Wed.: Dep. Sydney 0840 for Noumea, arr. 1220, dep. 1420 for Papeete (cross Dateline), arr. Tues. 2240, dep. Fri. 0900, arr. Los Angeles 1955.

Sat.: Dep. Los Angeles 0100 for Papeete, arr. 0630, dep. Tues. 0100 for Nadi (cross Dateline), arr. Wed. 0340, dep. 0535 for Noumea, arr. 0630, dep. 0830 for Sydney, arr. 1025.

From June 14.

Wed.; Dep. Sydney 0940 for Noumea, arr. 1320, dep. 1420 for Nadi, arr. 1700, dep. 1745 for Papeete (cross Dateline) arr.

Tues. 2350, dep. Fri. 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1950.

Sat.: Dep. Lqs Angeles 0150 for Papeete, arr. 0605, dep. 0130 for Nadi (cross Dateline) arr. Wed. 0410, dep. 0610 for Noumea, arr. 0705, dep. 0905 for Syd ney, arr. 1110.

Alt. Mon. (June 14, 28, July 12, 26, etc.): Dep. Sydney 1350 for Noumea, arr. 1730, dep. (weekly) 1930 for Nadi, arr. 2215, dep. Tues. 0130 for Papeete (cross Dateline), arr. 0745 Mon.

Sat.: Dep. Papeete 1200 for Nadi (cross Dateline), arr. Sun. 1440, dep. 1540 for Noumea, arr. 1635.

Alt. Sun. (June 13, 27, July 11, 25, etc.); Dep. Noumea 1800 for Sydney, arr. 1955.

Note: Noumea’s international airport is at Tontouta, which is about 50 miles from Noumea itself. The New Caledonian airline Transpac provides a service between Ton touta and Noumea on Wednesdays to con nect with UTA’s service from Sydney.

There is also a bus service from the airport.

AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND

Because days and frequencies of trans- Tasman services change at short notice, it is impossible to give reliable detailed information on the services outlined be

low. Intending passengers are advised to check timetables with the airlines or travel agents.

AUCKLAND - BRISBANE

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s Twice weekly, both ways.

AUCKLAND - MELBOURNE

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s Three times weekly, both ways.

CHRISTCHURCH - MELBOURNE

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s Three times weekly, both ways.

SYDNEY - AUCKLAND

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s Daily, both ways, with two services a day on most days.

BOAC, with Comet IV’s Twice weekly, both ways.

SYDNEY - CHRISTCHURCH

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s and Boeing 707’s Six times weekly, both ways.

SYDNEY - WELLINGTON

QANTAS/AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. ll’s Daily services both ways, with two services a day three times a week.

WELLINGTON - BRISBANE

AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. II One service weekly, both ways.

WELLINGTON - MELBOURNE

AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. II Twice weekly, both ways.

• PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

AUSTRALIA-PACIFIC ISLANDS

SYDNEY - FIJI

Air-India with Boeing 707 Tues.: Dep. Sydney 0945, arr. Nadi 1530.

Wed.: Dep. Nadi 0730, arr. Sydney 0950.

SYDNEY - LORD HOWE IS.

Airlines of N.S.W. (Sandringham Flying boats) Frequent services from Rose Bay Base each week. Departure time is depen dent on time of high tide at Lord Howe Island.

SYDNEY - NEW CALEDONIA

QANTAS, with Boeing 707 Alt. Thurs. (June 10, 24, July 8, 22 etc.): Dep. Sydney 1100 for Noumea (arr. 1430), dep. 1545 for Sydney arr. 1735.

Note: Noumea’s international airport is at Tontouta, which is about 50 miles from Noumea itself. The New Caledonian airline Transpac provides a service between Ton touta and Noumea on Thursdays to con nect with the Qantas plane from Sydney.

There is also a bus service from the air port.

SYDNEY - NORFOLK IS.

QANTAS, with Skymaster DC4 Aircraft Wed., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 0800, arr. NI 1445. Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI. (See “Inter-Territory Services”).

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. NI 1445. Sydney, arr 1845.

SYDNEY - PAPUA - NEW GUINEA

Trans Australia Airlines and Ansett-ANA operate from Sydney to Lae and return with DC6B’s. They usually operate on alternate days.

NORTHBOUND

TAA: Mon., Wed., Sat. dep. Sydney 2145, arr. Brisbane 2350. Dep. Brisbane 0040 next day, arr. Pt. Moresby 0610, dep.

Pt. Moresby 0700, arr. Lae 0800.

Fri.: Dep. Sydney 2130, arr. Bris bane 2335, dep. Brisbane 0025 Sat., arr. Pt. Moresby 0600, dep. Pt. Moresby 0645, arr. Lae 0745.

Ansett-ANA: Sun., Tues., Thurs., Fri. dep. Sydney 2145, arr. Brisbane 2345, dep. Brisbane 0040 next day, arr. Pt.

Moresby 0610, dep. Pt. Moresby 0700, arr. Lae 0800.

SOUTHBOUND

Ansett-ANA: Dep. Lae Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat., 0915, arr. Pt. Moresby 1015, dep.

Pt. Moresby 1100, arr. Brisbane 1610. dep. Brisbane 1650, arr. Sydney 1855.

TAA: Tues., Thurs., Sun. dep Lae 0915. arr. Pt. Moresby 1015, dep. Pt. Moresby 1100, arr. Brisbane 1615. dep. Brisbane 1650, arr. Sydney 1855.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 0930, arr. Pt. Moresby 1030, dep. Pt. Moresby 1115, arr. Bris bane 1630, dep. Brisbane 1705, arr Sydney 1910.

QLD. - PAPUA-NEW GUINEA

TAA, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet Mon.; Dep. Townsville 1350, Cairns, arr. 1445, dep. 1550, arr. Pt. Moresby 1810.

Wed.; Dep. Pt. Moresby, 1415, Cairns, arr. 1635, dep. 1735, arr. Townsville 1830.

CAIRNS-PT. MORESBY-CAIRNS

Ansett, with Fokker Friendship Prop-Jet Pri.: Dep. Cairns 1650, arr. Port Moresby 1910.

Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0820, arr. Cairns 1040.

INTER ■ TERRITORY SERVICES

FIJI - AM. SAMOA

PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sun.: Dep. Nadi 1200, cross International Dateline, arr. Pago Pago 1605 Sat.

Tues.: Dep. Pago Pago 1600, cross Inter national Dateline, arr. Nadi 1810 Wed.

FIJI - GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Sun.: Dep. Suva 0745, arr. Nadi 0825, dep. 0910, Funafuti, arr. 1305. Mon., dep.

Funafuti 0700, Tarawa, arr. 1140.

Tues.; Dep. Tarawa 0630, Funafuti, arr. 1110, dep. 1210, Nadi, arr, 1605, dep. 1635, Suva, arr. 1715.

FIJI - NEW HEBRIDES

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron aircraft Mon.: Dep. Suva 0700, arr. Nadi 0740, dep. 0825, arr. Vila 1100.

Mon.: Dep. Vila 1230, arr. Nadi 1700, dep. 1730, arr. Suva 1810.

FIJI - NEW HEBRIDES - BSI

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Mon, Thurs.; Dep. Suva 0900, Nadi, arr. 0940, dep. 1025, Vila, arr. 1300. Next day (Tues. or Fri.) dep. Vila 0800, Santo, arr. 0915, dep. 0945, Honiara, arr. 1340.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Honiara 0630, Santo, arr. 1025, dep. 1055, Vila, arr. 1205, dep. 1235, Nadi, arr. 1705, dep. 1735, Suva, arr. 1815.

FIJI - NEW ZEALAND

PAA, with DC7C Aircraft Sat., Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 0645 for Auck land, arr. 1130.

Sat., Thurs.; Dep. Auckland 1830 for Nadi, arr. 2315.

Air-NZ, with Electra Mk. IPs Daily: Dep. Auckland 2030, arr. Nadi 0015.

Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 1000, arr. Nadi 1345.

Thurs.; Dep. Nadi 1430, arr. Auckland 1820.

Daily (except Mon.); Dep. Nadi 0515, arr. Auckland 0905.

Mon.: Dep. Nadi 0925, arr. Auckland 1315.

Thurs., Pri., flights ex-Auckland and Pri., Sat. flights ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas under charter to Air-NZ.

FIJI - TONGA

Fiji Airways Ltd., with DCS Aircraft Thurs., Sat.; Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0800, arr. Nukualofa 1215.

Dep. Nukualofa 1300, arr. Suva 1515, dep. 1600, arr. Nadi 1645.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

FIJI • WESTERN SAMOA

Fiji Airways Ltd., with Heron Aircraft Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 0615, arr. Suva 0700, dep. 0745, cross Dateline, arr. Apia Wed. 1325.

Thurs.: Dep. Apia 1000, cross Dateline, arr.

Suva Pri. 1340, dep. 1600 Sat., arr.

Nadi 1645.

NEW CALEDONIA - NEW HEBRIDES

UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Tues.; Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Vila 0955, dep. Vila 1505, arr. Noumea 1700.

Thurs.: Dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Vila 0955, dep. 1025, arr. Santo 1140.

Pri.: Dep. Santo 0700, arr. Vila 0815, dep. 0845, arr. Noumea 1040.

NEW CALEDONIA - NZ

AIR-NZ with Comet 4 Jet Pri.: Dep. Noumea 1430 for Auckland, arr. 1815.

Pri.: Dep. Auckland 1100 for Noumea, arr. 1300.

NEW CALEDONIA - WALLIS ISLAND

UTA, with DC4 Aircraft Monthly service (second Saturday) Sat. (May 8, June 12): Dep. Noumea 0800 for Wallis Is., arr. 1530.

Sun. (May 9, June 13); Dep. Wallis Is. 0700 for Noumea, arr. 1230.

NZ - FIJI - AM. SAMOA

AIR-NZ with Electra Mk. II Sun.; Dep. Auckland 2030, arr. Nadi 0015 Mon. Dep. Nadi 0215, cross Inter national Dateline, arr Pago Pago Sun. 0550.

Sun.; Dep. Pago Pago 0655, cross Inter national Dateline, arr. Nadi Mon. 0835.

Dep. Nadi 0925, arr. Auckland 1315.

NORFOLK IS. ■ NEW ZEALAND

AIR-NZ by Qantas Skymaster (Charter) Sat.: Dep. NI 1600, Auckland, arr. 1945.

Wed.: Dep. NI 1600, arr. Auckland 1945.

Thurs.; Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1330.

Sun.; Dep. Auckland 1030, arr. NI 1330.

P-NG - SOLOMONS

TAA, with Fokker Prop-Jet and DCS Alt. Mon.: Dep. Lae (DCS) 0600 for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara, arr. 1620 (June 14, 28, July 12, 26, etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Honiara (DCS) 0730 for Yandina, Munda, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arr. 1545 (June 2, 16, 30, July 14, 28, etc.).

Alt. Tues.; Dep. Lae (Fokker) 0900 for Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Honiara, arr. 1635 (June 8, 22, July 6, 20, etc.).

Alt. Wed.; Dep. Honiara (Fokker) 0645 for Munda, Buka. Rabaul, Lae, arr. 1200 (June 9, 23, July 7, 21, etc.).

P-NG - WEST NG

TAA, with DCS Aircraft Alt. Tues. (June 8, 22, July 6, 20, etc.): Dep. Lae 1000 for Madang, Wewak, Sukarnapura, arr. 1435.

Alt. Wed. (June 9, 23, July 7, 21, etc.): Dep. Sukarnapura 1105 for Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 1705.

Alt Wed. (June 2, 16, 30, July 14, 28, etc.); Dep. Lae 0915, arr. Sukarnapura 1210.

Alt. Tues. (June 1, 15, 29, July 13, 27, etc.): Dep. Sukarnapura 0935, arr. Lae 1330.

BIAK (WEST NG)-LAE

Garuda Indonesian Airways (DCS) Alt Tues. (June 1, 15, 29, July 13, 27, etc ): Dep. Biak 1815, Sukarnapura, arr. 0825, dep. 0925, arr. Lae 1330.

Alt. Wed. (June 2, 16, 30, July 14, 28, etc ) ■ Dep. Lae 0915, Sukarnapura, arr. 1215, dep. 1300, arr. Biak 1510.

TAHITI - USA

UTA, with DCS Jet Aircraft Wed : Dep. Papeete 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1955. Dep. Los Angeles 0100 Thurs., arr. Papeete 0605.

Pri • Dep. Papeete 0900 for Los Angeles, arr. 1955. Dep. Los Angeles 0100 Sat., arr. Papeete 0605.

Pan American Airways, with Intercontinental Jet Clippers Mon.: Dep. Los Angeles 0900, dep. Hono lulu 1300, arr. Papeete 1825.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 0915, arr. Honolulu 1435 dep. 1600, arr. Los Angeles 2355.

Sat.: Dep. San Francisco 2145, dep. Los Angeles 2359, arr. Papeete 0515 Sun.

Sun.: Dep. Papeete 2200, arr. Los Angeles Mon. 0855, arr. San Francisco Mon. 1100.

W. SAMOA - AM. SAMOA

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Aircraft Between Western Samoa and American Samoa —flight time: 45 minutes.

Dep. Faleolo (W. Samoa): Sun. 0500, 0745, 1900, Tues. 1400, Thurs. 0600, Fri., Sat. 1530.

Dep. Pago Pago (American Samoa): Sun., 0630, 0900, Mon. 0900, Tues. 1515, Thurs. 0715, Fri., Sat. 1645.

W. SAMOA - COOK ISLANDS

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Between Western Samoa and Cook Islands (Altutakl and Rarotonga).

Thurs.: Dep. Faleolo 0900, arr. Altutakl 1500, dep. 1530, arr. Rarotonga 1635.

Fri.: Dep. Rarotonga 0800, arr. Altutakl 0905, dep. 0940, arr. Faleolo 1410.

W. SAMOA - FIJI

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Wed.: Dep. Faleolo 1000, arr. Nadi Thurs. 1330.

Thurs.: Dep. Nadi 1430, arr. Faleolo Wed., 2010.

International dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nadi.

W. SAMOA - TONGA

Polynesian Airlines Ltd., with DCS Alt. Sun. (June 13, 27, July 11, 25, etc.); Dep. Faleolo 1030, arr. Nukua lofa next day 1345.

Alt. Mon. (June 14, 28, July 12, 26, etc.): Dep. Nukualofa 1445, arr. Faleolo Sun. 1800.

International Dateline crossed between Faleolo and Nukualofa.

Agents: Polynesian Booking Office Terminal, Air-Centre Buildings, Beach St..

Apia; R. E. Pritchard, Pago Pago; Qantas Empire Airways Ltd.. Nadi Airport.

INTERNAL SERVICES

FIJI

Fiji Airways with Herons, Drovers, and DC3s.

Suva-Nadi: Daily, dep. Suva 0730, arr.

Nadi 0815. Thurs., dep. Suva 1230, arr. Nadi 1315. Daily (except Thurs. and Sat.) dep. Suva 1500, arr. Nadi 1545. Thurs., Sat., dep. Suva 1600, arr. Nadi 1645. Mon. dep. Suva 160o' arr. Nadi 1645. Tues., Wed., Fri., Sun.’ dep. Suva 1730, arr. Nadi 1815.

Thurs., Sat., dep. Suva 1830, arr Nadi 1915.

Nadi-Suva; Daily, dep. Nadi 0615, arr.

Suva 0700. Daily, dep. Nadi 0845, arr.

Suva 0930. Thurs., dep. Nadi 1445 arr. Suva 1530. Daily (except Thurs., Sat.), dep. Nadi 1615, arr. Suva 1700 ™“a rS iBO? at " deP ' Na< “ 1715 ' arr - Buva-Ura-Suva: Dep. Suva 0725 Wed Sun., Ura, arr. Suva 0955. ’

SUV 'r£ Labasa-Suva: Dep - Su va 1430, Wed Sun., for Labasa, arr!

T 1 ? 40 - Dep - Suva 0730 Wed., sun., Labasa, arr. Suva 0950.

Suva-Savusavu-Matei-Suva: Dep. Suva 1200, Mon., Fri., Savusavu, Matei, arr.

Suva 1510.

Suva-Matei-Savusavu-Suva; Dep. Suva 1035, Tues., Sat., Matei, Savusavu, arr. Suva 1340.

Suva-Labasa-Matei-Labasa-Suva: Dep.

Suva 0730, Mon., Fri., Labasa, Matei, Labasa, arr. Suva 1140.

Suva-Labasa-Savusavu-Labasa-Suva: Dep.

Suva 1030, Tues., Sat., Labasa, Savusavu, Labasa. arr. Suva 1410.

Suva-Savusavu-Labasa-Savusavu-Suva: Dep. Suva 1030, Wed., Thurs., Sun., Savusavu, Labasa, Savusavu, arr.

Suva 1355.

Details from Fiji Airways Ltd., Victoria Arcade, Suva.

FRENCH POLYNESIA

1 JIH

RAI, with DC4 and Bermuda Aircraft Services to the Leeward Group (Isles Sous le Vent), Society Islands.

Mon., Wed., Thurs.. Sat.: Dep. Papeete 0800, Raiatea, arr. 0855, dep. 0915, Bora Bora, arr. 0935.

Tues.: Dep. Papeete 0700, Huahine, arr. 0750, dep. 0810, Raiatea, arr. 0830, dep. 0850, Bora Bora, arr. 0910.

Fri.: Dep. Papeete 0700, Raiatea, arr. 0800, dep. 0820, Bora Bora, arr. 0840.

Mon., Wed., Sat.; Dep. Bora Bora 1600, Raiatea, arr. 1620, dep. 1640, Papeete, arr. 1730.

Tues.: Dep. Bora Bora 0930, Tikehau, arr. 1120, dep. 1515, Papeete, arr. 1630.

Thurs.: Dep. Bora Bora 1700, Papeete, arr. 1810.

Fri.: Dep. Bora Bora 0900, Tikehau, arr. 1050, dep. 1410, Rangiroa, arr. 1435, dep. 1505, Papeete 1630.

Details from RAI, Quai Bir Hakelm, Papeete, or any UTA office.

NEW CALEDONIA

TRANSPAC. with Heron and/or Artec Zum“ are ii3o M T«o T ?J5i JSn deP ' Ma r r«in ’ resp. arr. 1530 164?’ I 1 ?!?’ »l 15 \r Dep ‘ 1630’ 1630*’ 1545 ’ ’ Noumea 1610 ’

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09 O 3 U o m a a r r °^u ra S r I O^ ,OU ° 9 °°’ deP '

Noumea-Ouvea: Tues. dep. Noumea 1045 arr. Ouvea 1130, dep. 1315, arr!

Noumea 1400. Sat. dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Ouvea 0845, dep. 0915, arr Noumea 1000. Thurs., dep. Noumea 0800, arr. Ouvea 0840, dep. 0900, arr.

Noumea 0940.

Noumea-Isle of Pines: Daily dep Noumea 1045, arr. Isle of Pines 1115, dep. Mon.

Wed., Fri., Sat., 1145, Tues. Thurs’ 1125, arr. Noumea Mon., Wed., Fri Sat. 1215, Tues., Thurs. 1145. Sun. dep!

Noumea 0800, arr. Isle of Pines 0830 dep. 1700, arr. Noumea 1730.

Nouraea-Houailou: Mon., Tues., Fri. dep.

Noumea 0815, arr. Houailou 0850, dep. 0940, arr. Noumea 1015. Sat., Sun. dep. Noumea 1330, 1500, arr. Houailou 1405, 1535, dep. 1455, 1625, arr.

Noumea 1530, 1700 resp. Wed (via Koa.), dep. 0800. arr. Houoilou 0915 dep. 0925, arr. Noumea 1040.

Noumea-Poindimie: Mon., Tues., Wed., Prl. dep. Noumea 0815, arr. Poindimie 0910, dep. 0920, arr. Noumea 1015. Sat.

Sun. dep. Noumea 1330, 1500 resp.'. arr. Poindimie 1420, 1555, dep. 1435, 1605, arr. Noumea 1530, 1700.

Noumea-Kone: Mon., Wed., Fri. dep Noumea 0745, 1400, 1400 resp., arr Kone 0845, 1445, 1445, dep. 0945, 1545, 1545, arr. Noumea 1030, 1630, 1630.

Noumea-Koumac: Mon. dep. Noumea 0745, arr. Koumac 0910, dep. 0920, arr!

Noumea 1030, Wed., Fri. dep. Noumea 1400, arr. Koumac 1510, dep. 1520, arr.

Noumea 1630.

Noumea-Kouaoua: Mon., Wed. dep.

Noumea 0815, 0800 resp. arr.

Kouaoua 0915, 0850 resp., dep. 1015, 0950 resp., arr. Noumea 1105, 1040 resp. Sat. dep. Noumea 1230 arr - Kouaoua 1320, dep. 1330. arr!

Noumea (via Houailou) 1530.

Noumea-Tontouta: Wed., and Thurs.: Connecting with UTA, Qantas flights.

NEW HEBRIDES

New Hebrides Alrwais ’ wlth

VILA-SOUTHERN ISLANDS

Mon - : Dep - Vila 0830 ’ arr - Tanna 0945 dep. 1100, arr. Vila 1215.

Alt. Fri. (June 4, 18. July 2, 16, 30, etc.); Dep. Lenakel 1030, arr. Aneityum 1105, dep. 1400, arr. Lenakel 1435.

Fri. (monthly): Dep. Lenakel 1030, arr.

Futuna 1115, dep. 1400, arr. Lenakel 1445. (This flight depends on passenger bookings).

VILA-NORTHERN ISLANDS

Tues.: Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Tongoa 0905, dep. 0930, arr. Santo 1040, dep. 1230, arr. Tongoa 1340, dep. 1400, arr.

Vila 1430.

Wed.: Dep. Vila 1330, arr. Tongoa 1400, dep. 1430, arr. Pentecost 1515, dep. 1530, arr. Longana 1545, dep. 1615, arr. Walaha 1630, dep. 1645, arr.

Santo 1705.

Thurs.: Dep. Santo 0830, arr. Walaha 0850, dep. 0915, arr. Longana 0930, dep. 1000, arr. Walaha 1015, dep. 1045, arr. Santo 1105. Dep. Santo 1330, arr. Walaha 1350, dep. 1415, arr. Longana 1430, dep. 1500, arr. Pentecost 1520, dep. 1535, arr.

Tongoa 1615, dep. 1645, arr. Vila 1705.

Sat.; Dep. Vila 0830, arr. Tongoa 0905. dep. 1030, arr. Vila 1100. (Subject to load.) • Calls at Pentecost are optional, if no call is made the stopover at Longana is 20 minutes longer.

Details from New Hebrides Airways, Vila.

PAPUA - NEW GUINEA

Operated by TAA LAE-RABAUL-LAE (Fokker Prop-Jet) Alt. Tues.; Dep. Lae 0900, Rabaul, arr 1055 (June 8, 22, July 6, 20. etc.).

Alt. Wed.: Dep. Rabaul 1010, Lae. arr 1200 (June 2, 16, 30, July 14, 28, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-DARU (DCS)

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0845 for Dam, returning same day via Balimo, arr. 1425 (June 11, 25, July 9, 23, etc.).

Thurs. (every 4th week, by Catalina June 17, July 15, etc.): Dep. Pt.

Moresby 0800 for Dam, returning same day at 1420, direct arr. 1630.

PT. MORESBY-WEST PAPUA (Catalina)

Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, Baimuru (on re quest), Kerema, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1525. Reservations beyond Kerema subject to administration require ments.

Thurs. (every 4th week): Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Dam, Lake Murray, Dam, arr. 1500 (June 3, July 1, 29, etc.).

Fri. (every 4th week): Dep. Dam 0900 for Pt. Moresby, arr. 1115 (June 4, July 2, 30, etc.).

PT. MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Catalina)

Alt. Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Samarai, Esa-Ala, Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 1630 (June 14, 28, July 12, 26, etc.).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Samarai, Deboyne, Samarai, Pt.

Moresby, arr. 1630 (June 21, July 19, etc.).

Fourth Mon.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Samarai, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1630 (June 7, July 5, etc.).

Wed.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Gurney, Misima, arr. 1100, return via Gurney, arr. Pt. Moresby 1420. This service be gins on completion of Misima airstrip.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS

KAVTENG-RABAUL SERVICE (DCS)

Mon., Fri.: Dep. Lae 0730 for Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 1605.

Mon.: Dep. Rabaul 0730 for Kavieng Manus, Wewak, arr. 1250.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 0900, for Madang, Wewak arr. 1155.

Sun., Tues., Thurs., Sat.; Dep. Wewak 0600 for Madang, Lae, arr. 0845.

Wed.: Dep. Kavieng 0630 for Rabaul, arr 0735.

Tues.; Dep. Rabaul 1245 for Kavieng, arr 1350.

CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (DC3)

Mon.: Dep. Madang for Baiyer R., Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1420.

Wed.; Dep. Madang 0800 for Wabag, Wapenamanda, Hagen, Banz, Minj’

Goroka, Lae, arr. 1420.

Sat., Sun.: Dep. Madang 0655 for Goroka, Lae, arr. 0845.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Baiyer R., Wapena manda, Wabag, Madang, arr. 1510.

Sat.: Dep. Mt. Hagen 0650 for Banz (opt.), Lae, arr. 0820.

Tues.; Dep. Mt. Hagen for Goroka, Lae, arr. 0845.

Sun.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Mt. Hagen, arr. 1205.

PT. MORESBY-POPONDETTA-LAE (DCS)

Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 0730 for Kokoda (opt.), Popondetta, Garaina, Lae, arr. 1015.

Sat.; Dep. Lae 1045 for Garaina, Popondetta, Kokoda (opt.). Port Moresby, arr. 1330.

PT. MORESBY-WAU-BULOLO-LAE (DC3)

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 1045 for Wau, Bulolo, Lae, arr. 1320.

Thurs., Sun.: Dep. Lae 0730 for Bulolo, Wau, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1000.

MADANGGOROKA-LAE (DC3)

Tues.; Dep. Lae 0900 for Goroka, Minj, Banz, Hagen, Madang, arr. 1330.

Mon.; Dep. Madang 1010 for Hagen, Banz, Minj, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1435.

PT. MORESBY-GOROKA-MADANG (DCS)

Sun., Tues., Thtirs.rDep. Pt. Moresby 0800 for Goroka, Madang, arr. 1050.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Madang 0750 for Goroka, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

LAE-RABAUL-LAE (DCS)

Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Lae 0930, arr. Rabaul 1205.

S n fi n UD a ; r T»’J UrS,: DeP ' RabaUl 0600, arr. Lae 0835.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 0900 for Finschhafen, Cape Gloucester, Kandnan, Talasea, Jacquinot Bay, Rabaul, arr. 1520.

Sat ” P ep - Rabaul 0900 for Jacquinot Bay, Talasea, Kandnan, Cape Gloucester, Finschhafen, Lae. arr. 1520.

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KABAUL-BUIN-BABAUL (DOS)

Wed. Pri.: Dep. Rabaul 0800* for Buka, 235^SS!“^ Ul ls4 K 0 leta '

RABAUL-TALASEA-RABAUL (Piper)

Mon.: Dep. Rabaul 0800 for Hoskins, Talasea, Hoskins, Rabaul. arr. 1130. . . , ... ol v Operated by Ansett-MAL (with DCS s) Mon.: Dep L ae 0830 for Goroka, Madang, n«n T.. non f tt7 i A, rS' L w ° 9l i? f °i r - 3^ eW ?' k ’ ai £' 1125,I 125, W 1330 for Vanim °. w^ a K, Brr 1630.

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ar? eP oa« adang 0700 for Lae '

Dep. Rabaul 0545 for Lae, arr. 0825.

Tues.: Dep. Wewak 0800 for Madang, arr. 0915.

Dep. Madang 1400 for Goroka, Lae, arr. 1545.

Dep. Madang 0700 for Mt. Hagen, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, arr. 0945.

Dep. (Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 1100 for Mendi, Erave, lalibu, Kagua, Mt.

Hagen, arr. 1345.

Wed.; Dep. Lae 0630 for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 1600.

Dep. Lae 0915 for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, arr. 1235.

Dep. Lae 0920 for Rabaul, arr. 1200.

Dep. Rabaul 0545 for Lae, arr. 0825.

Dep. Madang 0700 for Goroka, Lae, arr. 0845.

Dep. Mt. Hagen 0630 for Banz, Goroka, Wau, Pt. Moresby, Wau, Lae, Goroka, Madang, arr. 1545.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 0730 for Telefomln, Wewak, arr. 1030.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 1100 for Lumi, Nuku, Wewak, arr. 1315.

Dep. (Piaggio) Wewak 1400 for Maprik, Yangoru, Wewak, arr. 1530.

Thurs.: Dep. Wewak 0730 for Vanlmo, Wewak, arr. 1230.

Dep. Rabaul 0700 for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka Lae, arr, 1640.

Dep. Wewak (Piaggio) 0730 for Aitape, Dagua, Wewak. arr. 0925.

Dep. Wewak (Piaggio) 1000 for Ambunti, Wewak, arr. 1110.

Dep. Wewak (Piaggio) 1200 for Angoram, Wewak, arr. 1300.

Dep. Madang 0730 for Goroka, Wau Pt. Moresby, Wau, Goroka. arr. 1430'

Pri.: Dep. Lae 0630 for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 1600.

Dep. Lae 0920 for Rabaul, arr. 1200.

Dep. Lae 0915 for Goroka, Madang. arr. 1100.

Dep. (Piaggio) Lae 0915 for Kainantu, Goroka, Mt. Hagen, Wapenamanda, Wabag, Mt. Hagen, arr. 1335.

Dep. Wewak 0615 for Madang, Lae, arr. 0850.

Dep. Rabaul 0545 for Lae, arr. 0825.

Dep. Mt. Hagen (Piaggio) 0715 for Lae, arr. 0845.

Dep. Madang 0700 for Mt. Hagen, Banz, MinJ, Goroka, MlnJ, Banz, Mt.

Hagen, Madang. arr. 1325.

Dep. Goroka 0715 for Lae, Wau.

Pt. Moresby, Wau, Lae, Goroka. arr 1435.

Dep. (Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 0900 for Tari, Mt. Hagen, arr. 1030.

Dep. (Piaggio) Mt. Hagen 1100 for Mendl, Kagua, Erave, lalibu, Mt, Hagen, arr. 1340.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 0915 for Goroka, Madang arr. 1100.

Dep. Lae 0920 for Rabaul, arr. 1200.

Dep. Madang 0700 for Goroka, Lae. arr. 0845.

Dep. Rabaul 0545 for Lae, arr. 0825.

Dep. Rabaul 0700 for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka!

Lae. arr. 1640.

Operated by Papuan Airlines Pty. Ltd. (“Patair”) Mon.: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 0730 for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1010.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0800 for

Rorona iopt.), Aroa (opt.), Kairuku (opt.), Bereina, Woitape, Tapini, Bereina. Kairuku (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Rorona (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 1130 (20 mins, later if call made at Rorona, Aroa, or Kairuku.) Dep. (Piaggio 1 Pt. Moresby 0820 for Tapini, Woitape (opt.). Pt. Moresby, arr. 0950 (20 min. later if call made at Woitape).

Tues.: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 0730 for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1010.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 1045 for Daru, Balimo, Dam, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1700.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1100 for Cape Rodney, Paili (opt.), Pt. Moresby, arr. 1250 (20 min. later if call made at Paili).

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 for Woitape. Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 for Rorona (opt.), Aroa (opt.), Kairuku, Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1535 (35 min. later if call made at Rorona and Aroa).

Wed.; Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0830 for Kokoda, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1110.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 for Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 for Rorona. (Vroa, Kairuku, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1535.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 1430 for Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1635.

Thurs. (Piaggio): Dep. Pt. Moresby 0830 for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 for Rorona (opt.i, Aroa (opt.), Kairuku.

Bereina. Pt. Moresby, arr. 1535 (35 min later if call made at Rorona and Aroa).

Alt. Thurs. (June 3, 17, July 1, 15, 29, etc.); Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0700 for Popondetta, Wanigela, Vivigani, Losuia, Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1330. (June 10, 24, July 8, 22, etc.): Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0700 for Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 0900.

Fri.: Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 0730 for Popondetta, Pt. Moresby, arr. 0930.

Dep. (DC3) Pt. Moresby 1030 for Gurney, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1400.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1100 for

• PlM's shipping and airways timetables are correct to time of publication.

Cape Rodney. Paili, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1310. uep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 for Tapini, Woitape, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

Dep. (Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 1345 for Rorona, Aroa, Kairuku, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1535.

Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 1430 for Bereina, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1635.

Sat.: Dep. (DCS) Pt. Moresby 0730 for Popondetta, Kokoda, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1010.

Dep. 'Piaggio) Pt. Moresby 0830 for Woitape, Tapini, Pt. Moresby, arr. 1030.

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Megapode Airways with a Dove

DHIO4 Mk. VI

Tues.: Dep. Honiara 0800 and 1600, arr.

Auki (Malaita) 0825 and 1625, arr.

Honiara 0900 and 1700.

Tues., (in Fokker week); Dep. Honiara 0930, arr. Yandina (Russell Is.) 0955, dep. Yandina 1015, arr. Honiara 1040.

Wed. (DCS week); Dep. Honiara 0800, arr. Kira Kira 0905, dep. 1300, arr.

Honiara 1405.

Thurs. (Fokker week): Dep. Honiara 0930, arr. Yandina 0955, dep. 1230, arr.

Honiara 1300.

Fri.: (in Fokker week); Dep. Honiara 0800, arr. Munda (New Georgia) 0915, dep. Munda 0925, arr. Barakoma (Vella Lavella) 0945, dep. Barakoma 1000, arr. Munda 1020, dep. Munda 1030, arr. Honiara 1145.

Fri. (in DCS week): Dep. Honiara 0800, arr. Yandina 0825, dep. 0840, arr.

Munda 0925, dep. 0945, arr. Barakoma 1015, dep 1045, arr. Munda 1105, dep. arr. Yandina 1210, dep. 1230, arr. Honiara 1300. (Note: Fokker week and DCS week refer to TAA services from Papua-New Guinea. See timetable under Inter- Territory Services.) Details from Megapode Airways, P.O. Box 103, Honiara, BSIP.

Deaths Of Islands People

p. 157

Rev. J. E. Owen The Rev. J. E. Owen, a missionary in Vila, New Hebrides, from 1955 to 1960, and a member of the New Hebrides Advisory Council during that time, died in Warrnambool, Victoria, on May 3.

Mr. Owen, who was born in Williamstown, Victoria, was a minister in the Presbyterian Church at Gardiner, Melbourne, from 1934 to 1955, He was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Victoria in 1951-52.

On his return to Australia, Mr.

Owen was posted to Warrnambool.

He leaves a widow and two married daughters.

Mr. R. B. Sharma Mr. Raj Bali Sharma, who died at Nadi recently at the age of 79, went to Fiji under the indenture system in 1909 and remained to become a leader of his community in North-West Viti Levu.

After working in the sugar in dustry. Mr. Sharma became a teacher at the Votualevu Indian School, Nadi, a position to which he was well suited because he could speak Hindustani, Sanskrit, English and Urdu.

Later he turned to farming and preaching, and was active in the work of an Indian association.

He is survived by eight sons.

Mrs. S. Vollmer Mrs. Suliana Vollmer, who died at Levuka, Fiji, on April 30, aged 80, was born at Nomuka, Tonga, but lived most of her life in Fiji.

Formerly Suliana Latu, she married Rudolf Vollmer, of German descent, and son of a Levuka pioneer.

Except for short periods when Mr. Vollmer was a copra plantation manager on other islands, they lived most of their life at Levuka. She was one of Levuka’s leading hostesses.

Mrs. Vollmer, a great-great-great grandmother, left three daughters and four sons. Her husband died about 10 years ago.

Sister Marie Antoine A Roman Catholic missionary, who devoted 64 years of her life to the native people of New Caledonia, died m Noumea in May at the age of 90. She was Sister Marie Antoine, the oldest member of her order, the Societe Missionaire de Marie.

Sister Marie Antoine arrived in

New Caledonia at the age of 26 and spent 22 years at the mission on Ouvea in the Loyalty Group, and 33 years at Touaroua mission in New Caledonia’s Yate district.

Mr. S. K. Kewal Mr. Shri Krishan Kewal, well known Suva bus proprietor, died on May 18, aged 38, after a heart attack.

An enterprising businessman, Mr.

Kewal built Island Buses into a flourishing company which operated in the thickly populated areas of Suva, Nausori and Raralevu. He served several terms as president of the Bus Transport Union.

He is survived by Mrs. Kewal, three sons and two daughters.

Senator Oren Long Senator Oren Ethelbirt Long, a former Governor of Hawaii and senior commissioner for the United States on the South Pacific Com mission in 1963, died at his home in Honolulu on May 6 at the age of 76.

At his funeral, he was referred to in a eulogy as “Hawaii’s first citizen”; and a telegraphic tribute from Pre sident and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson stated that he was a kindly man who devoted his whole life to serving others and who opened the doors of opportunity for thousands of people.

Senator Long was born in Altoona, Kansas. In 1912, after obtaining degrees from Johnson College, Ten nessee, the University of Michigan and University of Columbia, he moved to Hawaii as a high school teacher.

From 1925 to 1934, he was assistant superintendent of Public Instruction, and superintendent from 1934 to 1946.

From 1946 to 1951, he was secre tary to the Territory of Hawaii; for the next two years he was the terri tory’s Governor; from 1956 to 1959, he was a senator for the territory and from 1959 to 1963—Hawaii hav ing become a US State—he was Hawaii’s representative in the US Senate.

Senator Long leaves a widow formerly Geneva Rule, of Knoxville,’

Tennessee.

Captain E. D. Potts Captain Edward Dickinson Potts Harbourmaster at Madang, died in the Madang General Hospital on May 17 after collapsing on board the Aus tralian trade ship Sletholm the previ ous evening. Captain Potts, who was

67, went to Papua-New Guinea 10 years ago.

Born in Liverpool, Captain Potts was a survivor of the war-time con voys to Murmansk in northern Russia.

He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter.

Mrs. R. L. Acraman Mrs. Rachel Lily Acraman, a descendant of a pioneer European family in Fiji, died in Auckland on May 12, aged 60.

Mrs. Acraman was the daughter of the late John and Ida Driver, of Gaunibuca Estate. One of her ancestors was the American master mariner Captain William Driver, in whose honour the United States flag was called “Old Glory”.

She went to live in Auckland in 1963, after the death of her husband.

She is survived by three sons and three daughters.

Sgt. John Tangisapa

Sergeant John Tangisapa, a well known member of the Solomons Island Police, died in Honiara on April 28. He had been the police officer attached to Government House and driver of the High Com missioner’s car for over 10 years.

He accompanied the High Com missioner on almost all official tours, and made many friends throughout the Western Pacific High Commis sion territories.

Sgt. Tangisapa, who came from Kia, on Ysabel, joined the police force about 1927. During the war, he was a corporal in the Defence Force, working for much of the time with Mr. Geoffrey Kuper at Tataba.

When two Ysabel men of some standing in the community defected to the Japanese, Tangisapa was sent to the Japanese camp at Tulagi to look for them. He paddled a canoe from Ysabel to Gela, went to Tulagi, and made his way into the camp selling vegetables. He found one of the wanted men, and arrested him at night, bringing him out of the camp and later delivering him to Major D. G. Kennedy at Sege, in the Marovo Lagoon, In 1947 Tangisapa rejoined the police force; and in 1954 he was promoted to the rank of sergeant.

Index to Advertisers

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Adams Industries . 32, 39, 45, 58, 111, 137 Air-lndia International . . 122 Air New Zealand .. .. 144 Angel & Weatherly .. .. 58 Ansett-A.N.A 132 Arnott, Wm. Pty. Ltd. .. 2, 3 Australian Dairy Produce Board 48 A. N.Z. Bank Ltd 33 Ballina Slipway & Eng. Co. 116 B. Paints Pty. Ltd. . . 22 Bethell, Gwyn & Co. Ltd. 150 Bish Ltd 59 8.0.A.C 126 Bramair International Pty.

Ltd 123 Braybon Bros. Pty. Ltd. . . 28 Breckwoldt & Co. Wm. .. 157 British Solomons Trading Co. Ltd 98 British Tobacco Co. (Aust.) Ltd 88 Brunton & Co 50 B.P. ... 5, 30, 50, cov. iii Cadbury-Fry-Pascall Pty. Ltd. 69 Carnation Company Pty. Ltd. 79 Carpenter, W. R., & Co. Ltd. 77, 143, cov. iv Carreras (Overseas) Ltd. .. 62 Classified Advertisements . . 158 Commonwealth Bank of Aust. 124 Crammond Radio Co 74 Crusader Shipping Co. . . . 152 Cystex 72 Daiwa Shipping Line . . . . 146 Drambuie Liqueur Co. Ltd. 50 Dunlite Electrical Co. Ltd. . . 36

Eagers Used Cars Pty. Ltd. 127 Ferrier & Cfickinson Pty.

Ltd 106 Filmo Depot Ltd 92 Fisher & Co 74 Flick, W. A. & Co. Pty. Ltd. 160 Ford Motor Co 40, 41 Frigate Rum 34 Gaston Johnston Corp. . .. 158 Gilbey, W. & A., Ltd. .. 6 Gillespie Bros. Pty. Ltd. . . 52 Gillespie, R., Pty. Ltd. . . 33 Glaxo Laboratories N.Z. Ltd. 55 Graham, Lance & Co 137 Grove, W. H. & Sons Ltd. 64 Hains, Peter, & Co 136 Handi-Works Co 44 Hellaby, R. & W„ Ltd. . . 49 Holbrooks Pty. Ltd 140 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd 110 Hutchinson, Robert Ltd. . . 78 Hyster Aust. Pty. Ltd. 18 Industrial Enterprises Ltd. . . 94 Industrial Products .. 32 International Harvester Co 4 International Majora Paints Pty. Ltd 118 Kennedy, Capt. W. L 109 Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd 53 Kopsen & Co. Pty. Ltd. .. 114 Kraft Foods Ltd. . 60, 68 Lane's Pty. Ltd 26 Lysaght, John (Aust.) Ltd. . 1

Marrickville Holdings Ltd. . 19 Mendaco 72 Millers Ltd 51 Morris Hedstrom Ltd 56 Moulded Products (A'asia.) Ltd 72 Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd. . . 29 Napier Bros. Ltd 134 Nederland Line & Royal Rotterdam Lloyd .. 130,149 Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd. 44 Nestle Co. (Aust.), The 17, 142 N.G. Aust. Line . . . . 80, 81 Nicholsons Pty. Ltd 58 Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. . . 159 Nixoderm 72 O'Brien, Frank G., Ltd. . . 102 Oceanic Steamship Co. . .. 120 Ogden Industries Pty. Ltd. 100

P.A.A 128

Pacific Islands Society . 39 Pacific Islands Transport Line 154 Perma-Sharp Aust. Pty. Ltd. 70 Philips, N.V 24, 53 Qantas 124 Qld. Insurance Co. Ltd. . . 92 Reckitt & Colman Pty. Ltd. 38 Rewa Dairy Co 39, 158 Rolls-Royce of Aust. Ltd. .. 112 Ronson Products Ltd. . 82 Rothmans of Pall Mall (Aust.) Ltd 20 Sanitarium Health Food Co. 86 Scott's Provisions Holdings Ltd 83 Selected Products .. 30 Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd 129

Shell Co. of Aust. Ltd. . . 46 South Pacific Brewery .. 100 Stapleton, J. T., Pty. Ltd. . 123 Steamships Trading Co.

Ltd 84 Sthn. Pacific Ins. Co 32 Stewarts & Lloyds (Dist.) Pty. Ltd 76 Sullivan Ltd 52 Swoboda, E. R., Inc 58 T.A.A cov. ii Taubmans Industries Ltd. .. 71 Taikoo Dockyard 108 Tait, W. S. & Co. P/L ..160 Tatham, S. E„ & Co. P/L 113 Tilley Lamp Co 104 Tongala Milk Products Pty.

Ltd 90 Tooth & Co. Ltd 54 Toyota Motor Sales Co. Ltd. 141 Tulloch Ltd 98 Turners Supply Co. Ltd. . . 76 Tyneside Foundry & En gineering Co. Ltd. 64 United Insurance Co. Ltd. . 50 Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd 151 Van Gelder, Capt., & Co. 11l Valspar Supergloss Paints .. 105 Ventura Trading Co. P/L .. 136 Victa Mowers 65 Vi-Stim 50 Walpamur Co. (NG) Ltd., The 66 Waters, Edwd. & Sons 16, 158 Weymark Pty. Ltd 53 Whites Aviation . . 154 Wild (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. . . 54 Wilhelmsen, W., Agency P/L 153 Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd. 45

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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 ISLAND.

NIUE ISLAND.

AGENTS FOR:

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE CO. LTD.

BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD.

SHELL COMPANY (P. 1.) LTD.

OVERSEAS AGENTS

BURNS, PHILP Cr CO. LTD., Sydney.

BURNS, PHILP Cr CO. LTD., London.

BURNS PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO

SHIPPING AGENCIES

• The New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. • Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Ltd. • Port Line Ltd. • Bank Line Ltd. • General Steamship Corporation Ltd. • Blue Star Line • Cunard Line • Compagnle des Messageries Maritimes • British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. • Royal Interocean Lines • Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail/Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.

• AKAI TAPERECORDERS

• DUNLOP PRODUCTS

• EPIGLASS PRODUCTS

• FERGUSON TRACTORS

EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORSHIPS INCLUDE

• HELENA RUBENSTEIN • ROLEX WATCHES

• HITACHI ELECTRONICS • REVLON COSMETICS

• HOLDEN VEHICLES • PENTAX CAMERAS

• JOHNSON'S WAXES

• SUNBEAM APPLIANCES

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES for

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD. AIR NEW ZEALAND LTD.

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ALITALIA

PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS

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AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIES CO. LTD.

CORRIE & CO. LTD. • NARAIN FURNITURE CO. LTD.

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HAVE YOU

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HOW MUCH

BETTER

GILBEY’S

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IS!

GILBEY’S

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Notice

IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Trade Marks shown in the margin are the sole and exclusive property and proper TRADE MARKS of

GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AND

CHEMICALS LIMITED, of 269-297

Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Paint and Enamel Manufacturers, used by them in respect of Prepared and partly prepared paints, enamels, stains, varnishes, lacquers, japans, gold and other sizes, finishes, distempers, primers, glosses, glazes, and preparations for preserving wood, metal, stone and fabrics of all kinds. and the Trade and Public are hereby cautioned against any infringement or improper use of the same.

Legal proceedings will be instituted against any person or persons selling or offering for sale goods, not the manufacture of the

aforesaid GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AND CHEMICALS LIMITED,

bearing any representation of the said Trade Mark or any colourable imitation thereof.

EDWD. WATERS & SONS

Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 30 Russell Street, Melbourne.

Victoria, Australia.

GLAZEBROOKS

TANOX

RUSTA- RESTA

G

THE ONE THAT TASTES SO GOOD

because there are 43 beans in every cup!

Nescafe

am - * \ ■

NESTIE

: * . *.. V* iy 1 «u)

•STANT COFFEE

I y K 1 F i *3, ■ V S \ a m m i ' v;. .

RIGHT FOOT FORWARD! (SAME FOOT BACK)

One step! Quick step! With Hyster's exclusive "Monotrol" the driver controls forward, reverse and throttle with one foot —just a three-inch shift of the right toe. (The heel need not even move.) This means minute control in tight manoeuvring and money saved in more work, more safely performed in less time.

HYSTER the line that sets the engineering pace for all lift trucks.

HYSTER AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD.

Ashford Avenue, Milperra, N.S.W. Telephone: 77.051 1 HA 55

r ALERS:

.S.W.: Lawrence Tootill Pty. Limited STH. AUST.: Hy-Lift Limited QLD., N.T., N.G.: Hastings Peering Pty. Limit C.: William Adams Tractors Pty. Limited W.A.: William Adams & Company Limited TAS.: William Adams Tractors Pty. Limit'

I fA

eating Jellies ever!

made in minutes—

they're “fast dissolving!”

THotheM Choice.

Just watch the kids go for these fresh fruity flavours of Mother’s Choice jellies. You’ll love them too. Mother’s Choice Jellies are Superfine for fast dissolving. They mix in minutes - make a whole pint from every pack.

True fruit flavours . . . Raspberry, Strawberry, Lime, Lemon, Orange, Pineapple, Port and Tropical Fruit.

Which one would you like today?

Enjoy these wonderful Mother’s Choice Jellies with all your desserts.

And be sure to try Mother’s Choice Spanish Delight and Mother’s Choice Flummery too.

They’re delicious!

OR 4NGt I f" «

Fl avolr * j I SUPtRf\Nt VT, i * y *tals

£

iTlothgna Choice:

FLOUR

Here’s why Mother’s Choice

Self Raising Flour should

be your choice

* It contains a special raising ingredient perfected for the tropics. lt has been famous for its quality for over 60 years in Australia.

There is a delicious pictured recipe on every pack, which is changed regularly, as well as basic baking recipes.

Buy Mother’s Choice Self Raising Flour in 2 lb. packs and tins and 4. lb. polythene jars.

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Raisin LV255

THE GREATEST NAME

IN CIGARETTES

ROTHMANS KING SIZE

really satisfies

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Gloss

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paint

EXTERIOR WHITE exterior

CONTENTS-ONE GALLON

H m V ■■

BI4137HR

Can it last 5 years in the tropics ?

We can only claim what we know is true.

It is true that in our own tests in the tropics, DULUX Hi-Gloss was still standing up well after five years.

In temperate climates, some people get six or seven years.

But then, some only get four.

It depends on lots of things. Like the way the wall faces—the surface it’s applied to —whether directions are followed.

Can you expect five years from Hi- Gloss in the tropics?

Probably. But we can’t guarantee paint life. No paint maker can.

What we can guarantee is that the staying-power of DULUX Hi-Gloss isn’t equalled in any other gloss paint.

And that Hi-Gloss lasts longer in the tropics than any other gloss paint.

So why use any other gloss paint?

DULUX Hi-Gloss also goes ( easily. And any of the 50 beautif colours will look just great on yoi house—for five years. Or more.

STEREO

TYPE EL 3534

Top class stereo in your own home?

The answer is the EL 3534, the absolutely best, with two amplifiers, two speakers, endless possibilities and reproducing perfect sound.

TYPE EL 3300

The handy pocket tape recorder EL 3300 is the answer to the demand for a small battery recorder of excellent sound qualities. Slip in the tape cartridge . . . ready for use.

TYPE EL 3551

The family just loves the EL 3551 model . . . easy to operate and wonderful to hear. Just one switch controls starting, stopping, fast winding and re-winding.

TYPE EL 3549

Wonderful quality of sound is also offered by EL 3549.

The four-speed recorder designed for high-fidelity sound gives you superb reproduction on a low and high frequency range, plus an extremely long playing time. mi

TYPE EL 3547

What about stereo?

Philips EL 3547, with its four track technique is especially suited to connection with stereo equipment. The built-in multi-play switch, unique recording and reproduction head help produce exceptionally brilliant sound quality.

PHILIPS

PHILIPS for complete home entertainment

For Philips' Agents/Distributors, see page 59.

INCREASE

PRODUCTIVITY

KILL GUAVA WITH

NOCWEED 2

LANTANA WITH

NOCWEED A5O

SCAB MOTH WITH

EMULSANE 20 D.DT.

KILL WEEDS & INSECTS

WITH CHEMICALS FROM

INFORMATION AND SUPPLIES AVAILABLE FROM MR. A. H. CATES, P.O. BOX 89, SUVA, FIJI TELEPHONE SUVA 4867 OR FROM LANE'S PTY. LTD., P.O. BOX 59, BANKSTOWN, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA.

BRAYBON - POWER PLANTS

AVAILABLE WITH HEAVY DUTY DIESEL ENGINES — OR LIGHT WEIGHT

PETROL ENGINES — WRITE FOR QUOTATIONS

1,000 Watt 240 Volt Petrol Set. £115 (74 lbs.) MS* 750 Watt 12 Volt 50 Amp 24 Volt 36 Amp Battery Charging Set. (180 lbs.) £115 2,000 Watt 240 Volt Petrol Set. £175 (126 lbs.) 3,750 Watt 240 Volt Petrol Set. £235 (226 lbs.) * T 1,650 Watt 240 Volt Diesel Set. 3 H.P. Petter. £265 3 K.V.A. 240 Volt Diesel Set. 5 H.P. Lister. £395 Manufactured by: BRAYBON BROS. PTY. LTD. 27-33 Washington st„ Sydney. Phone No. 61-6853 DISTRIBUTED BY: STEAMSHIPS TRADING COY. LTD.; C0LYER WATSON (NG) LTD ; TUTT BRYANT (PACIFIC) LTD.

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Mungo Scott Pty. Ltd.

Established 1894

AUSTRALIAN

o £X

SYDNEY

AUSTRALIA

FLOUR MILLERS

SUMMER HILL, NEW SOUTH WALES

Cables & Telegraphic Address; SUPERB, Sydney

I? ACNE &

PIMPLES

With ACNEBAN Latest Home Treatment. Satisfactory results in 2 weeks. Hundreds of genuine letters testify to quick scientific results.

“/ have found it to be the only cure.”—Miss J.B.

“• • • They just disappeared /”— Mrs. C.T. . . Three days after commencing treatment with ACNEBAN, improvement was visible.” — Mr. B.K.L.

Write for Brochure (no obligation) to SELECTED PRODUCTS Dept. n , Box 5189, G.P.0., SYDNEY.

Overseas inquiries welcome

5 tasks

you can hand

to

Burns Philp Trust

4T* ¥

Tn e

Executor, Administrator, Trustee, Attorney, Agent— each is a major task demanding professional knowledge, absolute integrity and the ability to act promptly. To safeguard yourself, you should hand over such specialised obligations to Burns Philp Trust.

This experienced, enduring, soundly-financed organisation accepts full responsibility at short notice. Capable Trust Officers will make certain that nothing is left to chance.

A 20-page brochure explains exactly what Bums Philp Trust can do for you and your family. Ask for a complimentary copy at any B.P. Branch.

Trust Officers at Head Office are solely responsible for the affairs of Islands clients. A senior Trust Officer visits Papua-New Guinea at regular intervals. Write to Sydney for free advice on your problem; there’s no obligation when you consult Burns Philp Trust.

BURNS PHILP TRUST

COMPANY LIMITED

Executor • Administrator • Trustee Attorney • Agent.

Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, SYDNEY.

Telegrams: “BURNSTRUST”, SYDNEY.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides). anberra Agent: BURNS PHILP TRUSTEE COMPANY (CANBERRA) LIMITED, Suite 11, Landtrust Building, East Row, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T.

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Ojnnrfootlij

Super silent Caroma cisterns, proven in over 95,000 homes carry the seal of approval of the Design Council of Australia. Approved by Authorities in every State. u o

QL(j until]

for fomebof Ji^tinotion

MATCHING TOILET SEATS

TOILET ROLL HOLDERS

SHOWER HEADS

SAN ITARYWARE

Trade Enquiries to:—

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS (SALES) Pty. Ltd.

9 APPLEBEE ST., ST. PETERS, SYDNEY. N.S.W.

Ce-38

■w 1 Q A delicate skin will rejoice with a rich reward of radiant beauty by combining two tablespoons of warm fresh milk with a tablespoon of oil of Ulan. Use several pieces of cottonwool and gently smooth the liquid over the skin until you feel it is clear, clean and pure. Gently stroke the balance of the liquid over your skin so the moist oil of Ulan sinks into the skin cells to nourish and give your complexion velvet smoothness.

. . . Margaret Merril.

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: I. M. Nash, Rabaul Branch.

SUVA, FIJI

Colony of Fiji Branch Office: McGowan’s Building, Margaret St., Suva.

Branch Manager: L. M. Rolls.

Southern Pacific Insurance

Co., Ltd.

Head Office: The Wales House, 60 Pitt St., Sydney.

SOUTH

WEST

PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA’S MOST

proorbssivrbamk'

A-N-Z

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AUSTRALIA NC*V ZEALAND fifAlslk UMITtO * :

Iron in comfort without fatigue

with the new . . .

Kerosene Self-Heating Iron

• Pre - heats with • Built-in pump and • Heat is evenly apmethylated spirits large filler opening. plied over basein 90 seconds. plate. • Burns for 2 hours • Easily dismantled on one filling. for servicing.

Representatives for the Pacific Islands: Robert Gillespie (N.G.) Ltd. Robert Gillespie (N.G.) Ltd. Pearce & Co., Ltd. 22 Young St., Sydney Rabaul, Port Moresby, Suva 334 Queen St., Brisbane Lae, Madang Cable: "Robergill".

Colemam

DOES NATURE INTEREST YOU ?

If it does, so will MY WEAPONS HAD WINGS, by Hubert W. Simmonds, 0.8. E.

Forty-five years as an entomologist has led the author all over the South Pacific Islands and into Malaya, Zanzibar, Mauritius, South Africa and the Rhodesias from his home in Fiji. Matters of natural history and unorthodox means of travel are written about with engaging simplicity. A book that allows the reader a literary holiday from wars, bombs, politics and other preoccupations of 1965 Man.

With black-and-white illustrations and two colour plates; 164 pages; cloth binding. Price 27/6, plus 1/2 postage (British); 2/2 (Foreign).

May be ordered from the Australian agents: TECHNIPRESS HOUSE, 29 ALBERTA STREET (G.P.O. BOX 3408),

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd.

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Dunlite Electrical Co. Pty. Ltd.

WHETHER YOU NEED IT

BIG OR SMALL

CAN SUPPLY A POWER PLANT

TO EXACTLY SUIT YOUR PLANTATION REQUIREMENTS

42 KVA

m n

1.75 KVA

Dunlite pioneered the development of power plants in Australia and has long been acknowledged the leader in this field. For nearly 35 years the Dunlite organisation has specialised in equipment to suit outlying areas not serviced by main power lines —and every product bearing the Dunlite name is recognised as being separately designed, conservatively rated and robustly constructed for long life and utmost efficiency.

KVA

ffiPS

OVER 200 MODELS AVAILABLE 1 TO 50 KVA —AC & DC —SINGLE AND 3-PHASE m -

sss

mpm

18 KVA

Powered by world famous Lister and Ruston diesel engines Dunlite plants offer an economical, efficient and trouble free power supply. Dunlite generators are directly connected to the engine, assuring permanent alignment. This makes a compact power unit, eliminating troublesome belts and couplings —and a safer unit because there are no exposed terminals or wires. Every unit is fully run in, thoroughly load tested, and tropic proofed and is a complete packaged unit that can be safely maintained by unskilled labour.

Write for further informative literature.

6 KVA

Manufactured by:

DUNLITE ELECTRICAL CO. PTY. LTD.

21-27 Frome Street, Adelaide, South Australia.

Telegrams/Cables: "DUNLITECO", Adelaide.

Distributed by:

RURAL SERVICES PTY. LTD., 65 Ipswich

Road, Woollongabba, Brisbane.

STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD., Lae.

N.G.G. TRADING COMPANY LTD., Lae.

NEW BRITAIN ELECTRICAL CO., Rabaul.

COLYER WATSON (N.G.) LTD., Goroka.

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Steradent

the oxygen denture cleanser

for clean, natural looking

false '

Steradent does what toothpaste cannot do. Reaches into every tiny crevice of the denture removing food and stains. Use Steradent daily to keep your dentures clean and natural looking. Steradent specially made to clean false teeth properly.

For Trade Enquiries; Reckitt & Colman Pty. Limited, Wharf Rd., Ermington, N.S.W., Australia.

HP673

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fTH) keep your lips pretty and soft smooth

soft smooth a little oil of Ulan over your lips to increase the staying power of your lipstick, and massage the lips and skin surrounding the mouth with double quantities of moist oil at bedtime. This will prevent the tiny lines and ageing mouth wrinkles from forming whilst providing a perfect nourishment for the entire complexion.

. . . Margaret Merril.

For Export

REWA

MILK

Sterilised to keep it farm-fresh for months (in unopened bottles) without refrigeration!

Homogenised for the same constant quality and flavour from first drop to last!

Address your inquiries to

P.O. BOX 237, SUVA, FIJI

SUPER MAJOR 5000. 65 HP—Rugged

4-cylinder diesel engine. Choice of 8 speed or Select-O-Speed transmission.

Compare;

NEW-SIZE TRACTORS

V.

DEXTA 2000. 37 HP—Handy! Versatile! Choice of 6-speed or all new 8-speed transmission.

MAJOR 4000. 55 HP—Strength and stamina to set new performance standards in the medium-class field. % ‘Manufacturer's S.A.E. rating

SUPER DEXTA 3000. 46 HP—Choice of dual-range 8-speed or Ford's revolutionary Select-O-Speed transmission. 3 ?e all that is new under the sheet metal!

i tractors are completely new from the jnd up! Heavier . . . stronger . . . tougher, 'e than ever, these new Fords are built to k . . . built to last. . . built to deliver profit-

ing power!

Jassive new engines —37 to 65 HP* in a great line of 3- and 4-cyiinder diesels. Advanced design icts more work from every gallon of fuel. wide new range of transmissions —rugged eed, dual-range 8-speed, or Ford's Select-Oid —with 10 forward and 2 reverse gears.

Videst range of PTO choices: Transmission in; Live; Independent; or a combination of indelent with ground-drive PTO, 540 and 1000 rpm. ivanced independent hydraulics —with singledraught control plus position control and doubleig top link —for superior implement operation. iterchangeability of many components bem models keeps maintenance and service costs low.

Il-new operator convenience for higher work ut. id, a wide, wide range of standard and optional pment to tailor New-Size Ford tractors to fit your ific needs.

All these and many more advantages are yours in the four New-Size tractors from Ford. Don't miss a single feature.

Get the feel of New-Size power and performance now. See your nearest Ford Tractor-Equipment dealer, or contact: The Area Manager

OVERSEAS TRACTOR OPERATIONS

c/o FORD MOTOR CO. OF AUSTRALIA, LTD. 995-997 Sydney Road, North Coburg, N. 14 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

TRACTORS

EQUIPMENT

Ford's exclusive farm-proved Select- O-Speed transmission. Shift up or down on-the-move in any of 10 forward speeds, under full load. No stopping ! No clutching !

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Hanoi

0$ & £ o o Over 60 Years Experience as

SHIP OWNERS - ISLAND MERCHANTS -

IMPORTERS & EXPORTERS

Merchandise purchased For Clients From All Parts Of The World At Best Factory & Wholesale Prices.

Cocoa Beans, Coffee, Trocas Shell and All Island Produce Sold On World Markets At Best Prices.

Original invoices supplied—Quotations on request.

DISTRIBUTORS OF:

Trade Blankets.

Bush Knives.

Cotton Piece Goods.

Rayon Piece Goods.

Copra Sacks.

And All Trade Requirements.

SOLE AGENTS FOR:

Skandia Diesel Engines.

Archimedes Outboard Motors.

Aster Canned Fish.

El Trust Shot Guns.

Avrika Axes.

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.

He'd do better with a

HANOI

KERO-PET

Stormproof

LANTERN !

Twice as bright as electric light!

Don't put up with dim, eye-straining light get a HANOI Pressure Lantern for brilliant 300 candle-power lighting in your home, caravan for fishing, boating ANYWHERE! gives you approximately 12 hours of brilliant lighting.

The HANOI is completely stormproof, easy, safe to use and one filling Beautifully finished, rustproofed. You can pay a lot more for a lantern, but you can't buy better.

AVAILABLE IN KEROSENE AND PETROL MODELS

Other HANOI quality products include: The HANOI Portable Twin- Burner Stovette and the HANOI Pumpless Petrol Iron. Ask for HANOI!

HANOI WORKS Piy.M

m X \ i I l l 9 ✓ \ Compo Road, Rocklea,\ Phom 47212!

BRISBANE QUEENSLAND \ AUSTRALIA

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Yorkshire

Advertisement IT'EEP the elbows smooth and lovely by using vitalizing cream every night. Cover the elbows with a film of cream and rub into the skin in circular movements until the skin becomes pink and soft looking.

Regular care of the elbows with Ulan vitalizing night cream will keep them soft and smooth.

THE

YORKSHIRE

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated in England)

ALL CLASSES OF

INSURANCE

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 . . . Rabaul Trading Co. Ltd.

Manus ... Edgell & Whiteley Ltd.

Honiara, 8.5.1. P. . . B. V. Lawson, Ltd.

Suva ... Williams & Gosling Ltd.

Noumea R. Laubreaux Norfolk Island . . . Martin's Agencies Apia E. A. Coxon & Co.

it will outlast any other motor oil in the world

Now! an all-grade, all-season oil that gives car engines an extra safety margin of protection

that Shell Super will remain in better condition and give greater engine protection than any other oil. It minimises engine sludge and has outstanding anti-rust properties. Even in high-speed running over long distances, the oil consumption rate is low.

During the past four months, Shell Super Motor Oil has proved its performance on Australian roads in continuous test-car running under all kinds of conditions.

This remarkable oil can add years of life to your car’s engine, because it gives an extra safety margin of protection.

For further details, ask any Shell Dealer for the free booklet.

Motor Oil A New Era’.

SHELL

M06531FP

Now! Released world-wide, green-gold Shell Super Motor Oil is a major breakthrough in car lubrication. It’s a completely new kind of oil.

Shell Super is the safest oil you can put in your car, because it has a longer effective working life than any other motor oil.

This oil easily exceeds motor manufacturers’ requirements based on the exacting American MS Tests. Shell Super earned near-perfect scores in the toughest MS test, achieving a 29% better result than the next best Australian oil.

Shell Super is a super-range multigrade oil (ranging from SAEIOW to SAE4O). It suits all cars under all driving and climatic conditions.

Whatever your car’s oil change period 1,000 miles, 6,000 miles or longer you can be sure

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Dairy Foods

GAIN GOOD HEALTH

ENERGY AND VIGOUR

WITH AUSTRALIAN

DAIRY FOODS

The Finest Dairy Foods Have This Symbol Or the Word "Australia" on the Label

From Australia’s lush pastures, ample rairiall and year-round sunshine come choice dairy foods—rich in energy, body-building protein and calcium for strong teeth and bones. Everyone who eats for health and energy, as well as for enjoyment, will welcome the news that these fine foods are now arriving regularly from Australia. The latest methods of packaging, refrigeration and transport ensure that they reach you in perfect condition.

Foods Available: Look for top-quality Australian Butter, Cheese and Full Cream Milk Powder .

Trade Enquiries:

AUSTRALIAN DAIRY PRODUCE

BOARD

406 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

€ • M 0 m

4/suv/573

HELLABY’S

CANNED MEATS

" CROWN "

" PACIFIC”

9&0 % f i ff

ARROW

to ill

BURNS PHILP (New Hebrides) LTD.

REGISTERED Office: VILA. NEW HEBRIDES

Branch office at SANTO

Exporters, Importers and General Merchants

Commission, Shipping and Custom Agents

Representatives for BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD., QUEENS- LAND INSURANCE CO. LTD., and LLOYD S OF LONDON, Agents for SOCIETE DES PETROLES SHELL DES ILES FRANCAISES DU PACIFIQUE, and numerous overseas manufacturers of all classes of merchandise.

Sydney Agents: BURNS. PHILP & CO. LTD., 7 Bridge St.

San Francisco Agents: BURNS-PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO INC., 311 California St.

London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO. LTD., 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

The UNITED

Insurance Co. Ltd.

(Inc. in New South Wales) mm

FIRE, MARINE AND ACCIDENT

INSURANCES EXPERTLY

ARRANGED

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA

Lae Branch: 18a Central Ave., Lae.

G. V. Spurrier, Manager.

Port Moresby Office: Cuthbertson Street. ‘ J. A. V. McVean, Resident Inspector.

FIJI

Branch: McGowan Building, Cnr. Margaret and Gumming Sts., Suva.

N. B. Goodall, Manager.

h

OIANDSMADfYbUNO

Vigour Renewed

WITHOUT OPERATION

If you feel old before your time or suffer from nerves, brain and physical weakness, you will find new happiness and health in an American medical discovery which restores youthful vim and vigour quicker than gland operation. It is a simple home treatment in tablet form, discovered by an American doctor. Absolutely harmless and easy to take, but the newest and most powerful invigorator known to science. It acts directly on your glands, nerves and vita! organs, builds new, pure blood, and works so fast that you can see and feel new body power and vigour in 24 to 48 hours. Because of its natural action on glands and nerves, your power and memory often improve amazingly.

And this amazing new gland and vigour restorer, called Vi- Stim. has been tested and proved by thousands in America and is now available at all chemists here. Get Vi-Stlm from your chemist to-day Put it to the test See the big Improvement in 24 hours Take the full bottle under the guarantee that it must make vou full of vim, vigour and energv and feel 10 to 20 years younger or money back. w T* O ■ • To restore

Vi-Stim Tgouf

—a

Drambuie

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD’S LIQUEUR

More and more people are asking for the historic liqueur from Scotland.

The ancient recipe for Drambuie includes old Scotch whisky* heather honey and delicate herbs

MILLERS

SUVA £ LAUTOKA

For all your Canvas Goods Quality Canvas and Workmanship Made to measure —made to last

FREE QUOTATIONS AND ADVICE

MILLERS LIMITED, Suva & Lautoka, Fiji

G.P.O. Box 296, Suva. Cables: "Lumba", Suva

EXPORTERS . . . Catering to the South Pacific

C. SULLIVAN (EXPORT) PTY. LTD.

66 PITT STREET, SYDNEY

(Corner of O'Connell and Pitt Streets) Telephone: BL 5071 (6 lines). Telegrams and Cables: CHASULL, Sydney.

C. SULLIVAN (Q'LAND) PTY. LTD.

318 Adelaide Street, Brisbane Telephone 6 4958. Telegrams and Cables: CHASULL, Brisbane.

C. SULLIVAN (N.Z.) LTD.

Windsor House, Queen Street, Auckland Telephone: 43-307. Telegrams and Cables: CHASULL, Auckland.

Offices at: LONDON, SAN FRANCISCO, HONG KONG,

AND AT SUVA AND LAUTOKA, FIJI;

RABAUL AND LAE, NEW GUINEA.

50 TR

FOR

Gillespie’s Anchor Flour is milled from selected high quality Australian wheats and Is entoleted for purity. Its consistent high quality has made it the best-known, most asked-for brand of flour in the Islands. (Entoletlon is a special purifying process which reduces the risk of insect infection.)

GILLESPIE'S

NCHOR

FLOUR

GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD., ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS, SYDNEY. Cable Address: Gillespie, Sydney.

GILLESPIE BROS. (Q'LD.) PTY. LTD., Albion, Brisbane.

Acific Islands Monthly June, 1965

KINKELDER Spraying Equipment

EVERY

Produced by Leading European Specialists in Plant Protection There is a model for

PLANTATION,

CROP,

BUDGET and Most makes of Tractors With the "KINKELDER" LOW VOLUME mist blowing system you can SAVE UP TO 40% on your Spraying Costs— Write for free brochure describing this system to: Sole Distributors for Pacific Islands —

KERR BROTHERS PTY. LIMITED

4 O'Connell Street, Sydney P.O. Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: "Carefulness",

Established Cable

1870 "WEYSEAS, SYDNEY”

Place yourselves in the hands of Specialists for your requirements in

FRESH FRUIT & VEGETABLES

POTATOES & ONIONS

★ We invite your inquiries

WEYMARK & SON (Overseas) Pty. ltd.

l4-18 STEAMMILL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

S.A ;

TAS.:

Q'LD.

WILD

HEERBRUGG

N 10 LEVEL

with tilting screw

• Robust

• Accurate

• Stadia lines

• Internal focusing

• Small and lightweight

• Precision coated optics

/ Descriptive literature sent on request.

(AUSTRALIA) PTY. LIMITED

1 291-295 SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY. 26-6945.

65 FLEMINGTON ROAD, NORTH MELBOURNE, VICTORIA. 30-4451. or from — E. Treliving & Son Pty. Ltd., 76 Light Square, ADELAIDE.

J. Walch & Sons Pty. Ltd., 10 Macquarie Street, HOBART.

Watson Victor Ltd., 893 Stanley Street, EAST BRISBANE.

W.A.: Henderson Inst. Co. Pty. Ltd., 309 Hay Street, SUBIACO.

N.T.: J. R. Roe & Co. Ltd., Cavenagh Street, DARWIN.

fresh . . .

sparkling ...

cooling

RESCH’S

SPECIAL EXPORT

PILSENER

Specially brewed for tropical climates . . . never affected by even the hottest temperatures . . . refreshing . . . cooling . . . invigorating.

r t * V rM A HEALTHY CHILD . . .

THANKS TO QLAXO BABY FOOD

Glaxo milk-food gave me the right start to a healthy, happy childhood.

It’s pure, nourishing and easily digested. There’s no check to baby’s steady progress with Glaxo.

PERFECT MILK-FOOD FOR BABY

GLAXO LABORATORIES (N.Z.) LTD., PALMERSTON NORTH, N.Z.

ST & *4

MORRIS

HEDSTROM

LIMITED

HEAD OFFICE: SUVA, FIJI

LONDON OFFICE

Morris Hedstrom Limited Barclay's Bank Buildings, 73 Cheapside,

LONDON, E.C.2.

AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVE

Morris Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Limited Wales House, 27 O'Connell Street,

SYDNEY

REGISTERED CABLE ADDRESS:

DEUMBA —SUVA, MORRISHED—LEVUKA, MORSTROM

SYDNEY, SUVAAAARK —LONDON, MORRISCO

NUKUALOFA, DEUBA—APIA, CODES: ALL

For Friendly Service and complete satisfaction it's Morris Hedstrom Ltd. in

General Merchants

Produce Buyers

Importers and Exporters

Ship Owners

Plantation Owners Commission and Insurance Agents

AGENTS & DISTRIBUTORS FOR:

Adhesive Tapes, Ltd.

Bush Radios, Ltd.

Bowater—Scott Corporation, Ltd China Navigation Co.

John Dewar Gr Sons, Ltd.

Electrolux Limited.

Evinrude Outboard Motors.

Ford Motor Co.

General Electric Co. Ltd.

Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co.

Guinness Exports, Ltd.

Medley, Thomas & Co. Ltd.

Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Matson Navigation Company.

Mobil Oil Australia Pty. Ltd.

Max Factor Gr Co. Inc.

Napier Bros. Ltd.

Parker Pen Company Ransomes, Simms Gr Jefferies, Ltd.

Rootes, Ltd.

Smiths English Clocks, Ltd.

Tanqueray Gordon Gr Co. Ltd.

Taubmans, Ltd.

Yorkshire Imperial Metals Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom Limited are

LLOYD'S AGENTS

in Fiji and Samoa

FIJI - SAMOA - TONGA

57

ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1965

Palings

Advertisement- EVERY drawer in the home can be effectively cockroachproofed. Sprinkle Pea-Beu Cockroach Powder freely in drawers, line with crinkled crepe paper to allow roaches easier access to powder. Roaches walk unsuspectingly over the odourless powder and die. Pea-Beu remains lethal to roaches indefinitely, yet is non-staining and harmless to humans and pets.

r m m

LONG-PLAYING RECORDS

★ POLYNESIAN GUITAR The

Guitars Of Bill Wolfgramme, Trevor Edmondson and Bill Sevesi Island Rhythm, Hula Blues, H awaiian Hotel March, Vikings On The March, Meama Chimes, Kohala March, Kalina Waltz. Hula Love, How Do You Do, Tiger Shark, etc. VP 126 ★ TOMI TOM I Bill Wolfgramme and His Islanders Tomi Tomi, Hawaiian Love, Kohala March, Beyond The Reef, Kalina Waltz, On The Beach At Waikiki, In The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Hula Love, I Found A Little Grass Skirt, Farewell Blues, etc. VP 115

★ RHYTHM OF THE ISLANDS

Daphne Walker, George Tumahai and Bill Sevesi's Islanders Rhythm Of The Islands, Sweet Hawaiian Chimes, On A Honolulu Hula Holiday, Vikings On The March, A Flower Lei, Nothing Else To Do In Ma-La-Ka-Mo- Ka-Lu, Honolulu, Moana, Island Rhythm, I'd Like To See Samoa of Samoa, etc. VP 114

★ SOUTH SEA AFFAIR

Daphe Walker, George Tumahai and Bill Sevesi's Islanders Hawaiian Harmony, The March To Diamond Head, Honolulu Tomboy, South Sea Affair, Hawaiian Hotel March, Pretty Kehulani, Song Of Old Hawaii, My Tahitian Diary, Aloha Means Quite A Lot, Pagan Moon, Hula Breeze, Hawaiian Affair, etc. ... VP I I I

SURVEYORS

ANGEL & WEATHERLEY

Registered and Authorised Surveyors

N.S.W., QLD., PACIFIC ISLANDS

Land, mining and engineering surveys Box 376, P. 0., 'Phones:

INVERELL, NS W 786 and 1774

Cables; ANGSURVEY, In erell, N.S.W.

NEW GUINEA;

P.O. Box 93, Mt. Hagen.

WILL PURCHASE

Af- Full Markef Price:

SPECIMEN NATURAL RED AND PINK

CORAL—Fans and branches, any size with minimum breakage and preferably with base attached.

NATURAL PEARLS—In any size and in all shapes and colours.

HINGE PEARLS, BLISTER PEARLS and

other pearl-like formations cut from shells in all sizes and colours.

SPECIMEN MINERALS —Natural formations with minimum damage or breakage and preferably in the matrix rock.

GEMSTONE MINERALS — Coloured stones of any size or shape (identification of samples at no charge).

Airmail postage plus sample value promptly returned. Sender, please place name and return address on package.

SWOBODA, INC.,

672 No. La Peer Drive, Los Angeles, California 90069, U.S.A.

EXTENDED-PLAY RECORDS

* SONGS OF THE ISLANDS

Daphne Walker and Bill Sevesi and His Islanders Honolulu, A Flower Lei, Pretty Kehulani, I'd Like To See Samoa Of Samoa VE 137

* FAREWELLS OF THE PACIFIC

Band Of The Fiji Military Forces Australia: Waltzing Matilda; N.Z.: Now Is The Hour; Hawaii: Aloha Oe; Fiji: Isa Lei VE 108

* ISLAND FAVOURITES Daphne

Walker and George Tumahai with Bill Sevesi's Islanders Lani Jo, Lovely Hula Girl, Analani E, Beyond

Desire VE 53

* POLYNESIAN FAVOURITES

Daphne Walker and George Tumahai with Bill Sevesi's Islanders Kaahi, Ukelele Lady, Little Brown Sal, Sophisticated Hula, Malihini Mele, Isa Lei VEEP 6

* THE BEAT OF TAHITI—Eddie Lund

and His Tahitians Papio, Papai Mai Ta'u Rata, Mama Iti E, Puhi Puhi Te Avaava VE 144 if LA TAHITIENNE Nat Mara and His Tahitians—Ma Loulou Ma Belle, Tiare Tipanie, Vahine Veve Au, Moana Pacifica VE 122

PALINGS

$ 25 2331

SYDNEY

mm

GEORGE

ST

SYDNEY

338 416 ST.,

59

1 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1965

Philips

G.P.O. Box 172, Walu Bay, Cable Address; "BISHLIMITED"

Suva, Fiji. Suva, Fiji.

BISH LIMITED

ENGINEERS —SUVA

Marine, Structural & General Engineers Iron & Brass Founders

AGENTS FOR

DEUTZ Marine and Stationary Diesel Engines Manager; C. G. Wood, A.M.l.Mar.(london)R.E.A.

Residence 'Phone: 5943 Works 'Phones: 3021 & 3022

PHILIPS

quality products designed for your country,

your home, your family.

Representatives in the South Pacific area: Br. Solomon Islands Cook islands Christmas island Eastern Samoa Fiji Islands Guam »«. ... .. sl .„ds Marshall I Nauru Island New Caledonia New Guinea and Papua New Hebrides Norfolk Island Ocean Island Tahiti Tarawa Atoll (uamtsj Tonga Islands British Solomon Trad. Co, Ltd. Honiara. Gizo J. and P. Ingram & Co.; Rarotonga The British Phosphate Commissioners' Max Haleck; Pago Pago Fiji Trading Co Ltd.; Suva Thaw & Weaver Ltd,, Duty Free Shop: Nandi Airport Kirby Co, of Guam: Agana W George Bourland Co,: Agana Marshall Isf Imp, & Exp Co,: Majuro The Butish Phosphate Commissioners Etabhssements Baliande; Noumea 8.N.G Trading Co, Ltd Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd, Bums Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.; Vila and Luganvfile Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides: Vtia and Luganvilie K. A. Prentice & Co, Bur ns Ph tip (South Sea) C o. Ltd, The British Phosphate Commissioners Societe Franco Oceanienne. Papeete "'ilbert & Ellice islands Colony Wholesale Society- Betio overnment Stores Department, Nuku Alofa . , . ,„ , Alola, Haapai and Vavau Island imports * ' ' Wake Islan W Ltd PHILIPS FOR: LAMPS • RADIO • TELEVISION • RADIOGRAMS • RECORD PLAYERS • ELECTRONIC VALVES • MEASURING APPARATUS • ELECTRIC DRY SHAVERS • HOUSE- Smn D D A rc P r L jJ! C t E . S * X ’ RAY APPARA ™S • H.F. GENERATORS • WELDING MACHINES • ™V.9r? ESCENT LAMPS * AMPLIFIERS • CINEMA EQUIPMENT • TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT • AUTOMATIC AND LINE TELEPHONY INSTALLATIONS • TAPE RECORDERS See Advertisement on page 24.

Cheese and Pineapple Salad!

Cool and nourishing with the extra goodness of KRAFT* Cheddar.

Here’s a simple sustaining meal that gives your family

the goodness they need.

Cheese and Pineapple Salad: Ingredients: 1 lettuce; 8 oz. KRAFT Cheddar Cheese, cut into cubes; 4 medium tomatoes, cut into wedges; 6 slices of pineapple; French dressing.

Method: Tear lettuce into bite-size pieces, and place in a salad bowl with tomato, pineapple and cheese. Chill. Just before serving, pour over French dressing and toss lightly. 4 servings.

KRAFT

for good food and good food ideas *Reg d. Trade Mark.

KRAFT

m KRAFT Cheddar is rich in protein, vitamins and minerals because it takes a whole gallon of creamy milk to make every pound of this fine cheese. Available in familiar blue 8 oz. and 1 lb. cartons.

KRI2OB

Erinmore

mm

quite

uhe 11:1 ■■■

Mcs 4y “Hh There really is nothing quite like Erinmore’s rich, satisfying flavour.

It comes from a century-old blending process SECRET to the makers of Erinmore.

Treat yourself to a tin of Erinmore today - taste the rich flavour of this cool, slow-burning tobacco!

ERINMORE

FLARE AND MIXTURE IN VACUUM TINS

mmmt

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.

AiVIVI 1

vilWiil

05

!T3_SUU>

/ * • * Low initial cost, running costs, labour cost and fuel consumption. 6 Strong construction, excellent design, for dependable running inanytropical weather. $ Easy to erect, operate and maintain • Runs on oil or solid fuel, with either natural or power driven draught.

There’s a CHULA COPRA DRYER TO SUIT YOUR PLANTATION Please write for full details and the name of your nearest agent.

ST. PETER’S FOUNDRY, WALKER ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Turn grass into lawn easier with a ’65 mm Obtainable jrom: SUVA MOTORS LTD., Suva, Lautoka.

ISLANDS PRODUCTS LTD., Port Moresby.

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD., Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo

r

what’s the difference betwee

MBA B Dililllll

VVMhrHIVIIMK

and other

GLOSS

PAINTS ?

The fact that it’s MADE in the Territory makes all the difference. Walpamur has developed its paints in the Territory especially for Territory conditions with a powerful mould-resisting fungicide additive which ensures troublefree finish and outstanding durability.

WALPAMUR QUALITY PAINTS INCLUDE

Walpamur Coloramic Gloss Enamel Walpamur Coloramfc Satin Enamel Walpamur Latex Flat Wall Finish Quick-drying Treadwell Floor and Paving Paint Neva rust Roof and Structural Paint Exterior and Interior Undercoats Sealers Primers for Wood and Metal Anti Fouling Paint.

Made in New Guinea by

THE WALPAMUR CO. (N. 6.) LTD.

LAWES ROAD, KONEDOBU, PORT MORESBY Phone 4420. P.O. Box 106, Port Moresby

«! LSI

Vegemite

For vitality choose VEGEMITE*

the pure concentrated yeast extract

Enjoy VEGEMITE on toast . . . spreads more easily and smoothly than any other extract.

ZB "■ m Add VEGEMITE to soup for extra flavour . . . extra Vitamin B.

VEGEMITE sandwiches taste so much better and give more vitality.

VEGEMITE makes a delicious hot drink . . . mixes so easily.

VEGEMITE is the pure concentrated yeast extract, and yeast is the richest known natural source of the essential Vitamin B complex. No other yeast or vegetable extract can give you so much vitality. You need VEGEMITE daily.

Every ounce of VEGEMITE yeast extract contains 1.7 mgm.

Vitamin 81, 1.8 mgm. Riboflavin and 15.0 mgm. Niacin.

VEGEMITE

MADE BY

*Reg’d Trade Marks.

KR 121

Cadbury’s famous factory

BY MOUNTAIN AND SEA

Wonderful setting for wonderful chocolate!

Surrounded by lawns, trees and gardens, on a 246-acre promontory near Hobart, Tasmania, the Cadbury factory rests in a curve of the lovely River Derwent. Behind it, cloud-capped Mt. Wellington soars into the sky. The clear, pure air of this beautiful setting combines with the finest ingredients, the most modern methods and machines to produce a host of products with traditional Cadbury quality. Not the least of these is Dairy Milk the biggest-selling block chocolate in Australia. <9 mdii/2fc/s

Perma-Sharp

stainless steel shaving is here!

$

Perma Sharp

T RIP LJB- L IF E

-4* ':S -A -

HLI

3 times more good shaves

guaranteed from every Perma-Sharp blade

How many good shaves do you get from an ordinary blade? 2- men get at least 6 good shaves with Perma-Sharp 3- men get at least 9 good shaves with Perma-Sharp 5-shave men get at least 15 good shaves with Perma-Sharp Only Perma-Sharp guarantees you 3 times more shaves because Perma-Sharp stainless steel has already proved its triple-life performance in Britain and U.S.A.

Everywhere men are talking numbers. “I get 9 shaves with one Perma-Sharp blade.” ”13 for me.” ”17 —all close, all comfortable!”

Why Perma-Sharp STAYS sharp It's friction that causes the painful drag with ordinary steel blades.

Perma-Sharp stainless steel edge slides through bristles —with no more friction than wet ice sliding on wet ice. It's a new experience in shaving comfort and ease!

TAUBMANS i

J'UO-PLASTIC

gay dec

IMI M l

Taubmans

Gaydec is at home in the tropics

because Gaydec resists fungus

Taubmans remembered the tropics when they made Gaydec. The result? A flat inside or outside housepaint to effectively resist fungus.

Because Gaydec is plastic, all painting is quick and easy; Gaydec dries in just twenty minutes without paint odour; and your hands and brushes wash clean in water. In just a few hours your home will have a fresh, new look— protected by Gaydec for many years.

See the exciting range of Gaydec colours at your local paint store. Gaydec is the ideal paint for tropical conditions.

Gaydec Flat Plastic Paint for walls and ceilings, inside or outside, from well known distributors in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, British Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Papua, New Hebrides.

Ti9t4A

s k /? n Nylex Garden Hose and Polyethylene Water Pipe m Nylex Vinyl Print Curtaining Nylex Furnishing Fabric 7 Nylex Floor Tiles W/ w Nylex P.V.C.

Coffee Covering Film Hi

NYLEX*

PLASTICS

for the Home , Industry

and Agriculture

You'll find hundreds of uses for Nylex plastics in the home and on the plantation! Many industries benefit from the greater efficiency and economy of Nylex Plastics . . . and the workmanship and materials are guaranteed. See how Nylex Plastics can help you!

Nylex Garden Hose Nylex Housewares Nylex Vinyl Print Curtaining Nylex Pressure Hose Nylex Furniture Fabric Nylex Styrene Foam Insulation and Building Material Nylex Super-Vinyl Floor Tiles Nylex Toilet Seats Nylex Playmate Toys Nylex Polyethylene Water Pipe Nylex Reinforced Vinyl Nylex P.V.C. Coffee Covering Film

Note —the name is

NYLEX

Manufactured by

MOULDED PRODUCTS

(Australasia) Limited

Australia's largest and most experienced plastics organisation For further information write to Export Division, Moulded Products (Australasia) Limited 165 Cremorne St., Richmond, VICTORIA

lidfQdneysof

POisonsiAdds

If you suffer from Rheumatism, Sleepless Nights, Leg Pains, Backache, Lumbago, Nervousness, Headaches and Colds.

Dizziness, Circles Under Eyes, Swollen Ankles, Loss of Appetite or Energy, you should know that your system is being poisoned because germs are impairing the vital process of your kidneys.

Ordinary medicines can’t help much, because you must kill the germs which cause these troubles, and blood can’t be pure till kidneys function normally.

Stop troubles by attacking cause with Cystex—the new scientific discovery which starts benefit In 2 hours. Cystex must prove entirely satisfactory and be exactly the medicine you need or money back is guaranteed. Get Cystex from your chemist or store today.

MIW

Mißtei

If you cough, wheeze, can’t breathe or sleep well due to Asthma, Catarrh or Bronchitis attacks, get MENDACO from your chemist or store today.

MENDACO works through the blood and bronchial tubes to dissolve and remove offending phlegm congestion. Then your cough Is curbed, you can breathe freely, sleep like a baby, and regain natural energy.

Satisfaction or money back Is guaranteed. Save this notice.

Eiehy Eczema

ickl

non't let ugly. dlsflgupng Pimple*. Eczema, Asne, Rmfworm, Psorla-sls, Blackhead* •* Itching, Cracking, Peeling Burning Skin Troubles make life miserable and epoll your fun.

Don’t be embarrassed and feel Inferior because of a bad skin.

Now every chemist ha# a new American Hospital Dleoovery called Nixoderm that stops the Itch In 1 minute*, kill# I*™* and fungus and in 24 hours begin# to heal the skin clear, sen and smooth. No matter how long Sou have suffered or what you ave tried, get Nlxodena from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return your money if not entirely satisfied

You can Depend on CRAMMOND

BABY NEEDS THIS HELP

TO KEEP HAPPY & WELL!

Unhappy babies can’t tell you what makes them cry with pain and discomfort. Even the most attentive mother sometimes is at a loss to know how to comfort her little one. So frequently it’s teething trouble that causes crankiness, feverishness and other distressing symptoms. You can relieve these troublesome upsets by giving your baby Fisher’s Teething Powders. Since 1876 mothers all over Australia have found Fisher’s Teething Powders the most effective and soothing aid to baby's sore gums, digestive disturbances and intestinal upsets due to teething. The original Formula is further improved in accordance with the latest medical knowledge.

Another great virtue of Fisher’s Teething Powders is their safety. They do not contain Calomel, Opiates, Bromides or any harmful substances. Even if the babe by mischance should eat several, they could do no harm.

By giving your baby a Fisher’s Teething Powder as needed, you not only keep the little one happy and well, but save yourself all those upsets and nervous tensions that beset a mother when her baby suffers distress. Be sure to get a supply of Fisher’s Teething Powders from your chemist or store. Only 2/6 for 20. If you have any difficulty buying Fisher’s Teething Powders, write direct to Fisher & Co. Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical Chemists, 554 George Street, Sydney, Australia.

You can Depend on CRAMMOND

CTR 25

TRANSISTOR POWERED

TRANSCEIVER

P.M.G. approved throughout Australia Papua and New Guinea Width: 17 in.

Height: 10 in.

Depth: 11 in.

Weight: 30 lbs.

Designed and Engineered by

CRAMMOND RADIO

MNFG. CO. PTY. LTD.,

463 Vulture Street,

BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND.

Territory Distributors

AMALGAMATED ELECTRONICS LTD.

PORT MORESBY

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

THE STEEL TUBE AGE

Steel tube Is, almost without exception, the best way to convey things. Oil, gas, chemicals, wires, voices and water —all can be carried equally well.

Steel tube is, also, a most versatile structural medium, especially suited to humid climates with its resistance to corrosion when ends are properly sealed.

Stewarts and Lloyds are also distributors for galvanised Iron, electrodes and welding equipment—John Valves and Saunders Diaphragm Valves.

STEWARTS AND LLOYDS

(DISTRIBUTORS) PTY. LIMITED

For enquiries and supplies, contact any of the following merchants: New Guinea: Burns Philp, Steamships Trading, Colyer Watson, New Guinea Co., Rabaul Metal Industries.

Fiji Agent: Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., Suva.

Electrolux

Kerosene

Deep Freezer

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.

Uses no ice or electricity. The Electrolux C 80 operates anywhere by kerosene, economically and with high efficiency. 9

Anywhere

in the

Tropics . . .

I t i 3* \ IK:

NEW GUINEA CO. LTD.

Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Kavieng, Kokopo. 5.C.1.E., Noumea

BURNS PHILP (N.H.) LTD.,

Vila, Santo

ISLAND PRODUCTS LTD

Port Moresby

E. V. LAWSON LTD.,

Honiara

& V> if r«v~ I

Hutchinson

. BAKER’S FLOUR • WHEATEN SHARPS

• WHEATEN MEAL • BISCUIT FLOUR

• CAKE FLOUR • HUTMILL STOCK & POULTRY FOOD Robert Hutchinson Limited offer you the above products in jute, calico and hessian sacks, and flour and meal in drums. All Hutchinson flours and sharps are entoleted, a process which guarantees maximum keeping qualities, even under the most adverse conditions.

WRITE NOW FOR FULL DETAILS

ROBERT HUTCHINSON LIMITED

HARTINGTON ST., GLENROY, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

Telephones 3o6-726/ Telegraph fpsi&moAi name i*t tyUouti MM&iA

I

EVAPORATED

MIL

rmjSHT 14li 02. (13 02

in its most convenient form

Here s the liquid milk you can use for cooking and drinking, for creaming coffee, and as a topping on desserts. Carnation Evaporated Milk is simply country-fresh milk with over half the water removed, leaving pure, double-rich milk with the texture of finest dairy cream.

AS MILK

Dilute creamy-rich Carnation with water for pure milk.

One 14i oz. can makes 18 pints.

Wherever a recipe calls for milk, use diluted Carnation.

Carnation is 100% pure and safe Carnation Evaporated Milk is sterilised not once, but twice the second time after the milk has been sealed in the can. Unopened it keeps indefinitely. No other form of milk is so safe . . . none so nourishing and digestible.

AS CREAM

Pour creamy-rich Carnation straight from the can.

Delicious with coffee, fruits and favourite desserts. evapo Ml

WEIGHT

14%

the CHINA NAVIGATION «Utd

OFFERS Monthly passenger service from Port Moresby to Australia and/or Manila/Hong Kong with the well known cargo/passenger liners. m . * * ti ,... i * *—i m.s. “CHANGSHA’' and m.s. “TAIYUAN”

“Changsha” and “Taiyuan” have replaced

“Anking” and “Anshun” on C.N. Co’s Australia/Hong Kong service from the beginning of 1965 and this service (monthly in each direction) will in future call regularly at Port Moresby, both Southbound and Northbound offering Territorians a unique new way of enjoying their holidays.

Travel to Australia via Manila and Hong Kong, and return to Port Moresby the same relaxing, comfortable C.N. Co. way —after a break in Australia.

Or—do a round trip Port Moresby/Hong Kong/Port Moresby (slip a ship if you like and spend a whole month in Hong Kong).

Or —simply jump aboard (with a ticket and reservation of course!) for a pleasant relaxing trip straight to Sydney or Melbourne.

Accommodation to suit all tastes:- • All single and double cabins are air-conditioned. • Cabins with private bathrooms are available. • Or low, low fares (as low as A£loo to Hong Kong) in the economical 3 and 4 berth cabins (but still enjoying the full benefit of the public facilities and superb meals in the air-conditioned dining room). • Relax in the Mandarin Bar. • Loaf in the swimming pool.

AND LEAVE YOUR WORRIES BEHIND

BOOK NOW WITH

MESSRS. STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD., PORT MORESBY

OR WITH YOUR LOCAL TRAVEL AGENT.

THE

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

OF LONDON

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PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE

PACIFIC ISLANDS SERVICE

• Fortnightly service Sydney, Brisbane to Port Moresby and Samarai by “Shansi” and “Soochow.” • A new monthly service Irom Japan and Hong Kong to Fiji direct and Honiara by “Sinkiang” and “Szechuen” returning to Japan direct. • A monthly service from Japan and Hong Kong to New Guinea and Papuan ports and Noumea by “Chunking”, “Chengtu” and “Chekiang” with regular calls at Santo and Vila returning to Japan direct. •A monthly service from main Australian ports, including Hobart, to Rabaul direct thence Manila, Hong Kong, Keelung, Okinawa, Japan by “Nanchang”, “Wenchow” and “Wanliu.” • A monthly service from Melbourne to Port Moresby by “Changsha” and “Taiyuan” (see opposite page).

PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby and Samarai. Cables: ‘Steamships’.

NEW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd., Lae.

Madang and Rabaul. Cables: ‘Colyeram’.

NEW CALEDONIA: Etablissements Ballande. Rue de L’Alma, Boite Postale 18, Noumea. Cables; ‘Ballande’. 8.5.1. P.: British Solomons Trading Co. Ltd..

Honiara. Cables: ‘Trade’.

NEW HEBRIDES: Les Comtoirs Francais des Nouvelles-Hebrides, Vila and Santo. Cables: ‘Comptoirs Francais’.

JAPAN; Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd., Tokyo.

Yokohama, Osaka and Kobe. Cables; ‘Swire’.

FIJI: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva. Lautoka. etc Cables: ‘Deuba’.

WESTERN SAMOA: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Apia Cables: ‘Deuba’.

TONGA; Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Nukualofa and Vava’u. Cables: ‘Morrisco’.

TAHITI: Etablissements Donald, Papeete. Cables: ‘Donald’.

EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire Ltd., 9 Connaught Road Central. Hong Kong. Cables: ‘Swire’.

General Agents in Australia

SWIRE & YUILL PTY. LTD.

8 Spring Street, Sydney. 27-4701. Cables: ‘Swireship’

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-iSP*

* Iff; The Ronson Vara flame Premier gives 3.000 lights on one filling of butane gas.

Carry a Ronson and people notice

( The 3f2 steps we took to build it show at once)

first click, or notice a friend glance at it in your hand, then you’ll be glad you chose a Ronson. You’ll find there are many elegant styles to choose from. recognised round the world for quality lighters and electrical products

In your hand, a Ronson not only feels right, it looks right. Because it has been built to be admired all its long life. You sense this the first time you handle a Ronson. Sense it in the confident way it clicks alight without fumbling. In the silky feel of its finish. This is the reward of workmanship, of 342 different steps each taken with the same end in view: to make the finest lighter possible.

That’s why we inspect every single Ronson 115 times. Why we use only top-grade cartridge brass. Nickel plate it. Then put on just a little more chromium finish than is really needed. And why it takes seven weeks to build a Ronson.

When you twist the control wheel of the exclusive Varaflame system on your Ronson and watch the flame go up or down obediently, when you see it light

now available to

all the islands

< > as ■ > REVELS de Luxe — two KOOL KATS—popular SNOWY'S—milk ice in CHOCOLATE CLUBS ICE CREAM CONES ICE CREAM TRAY piquant flavoured ice ice blocks delicious flavours —chocolate - coated —5 flavours BRICKS —6 flavours cream in crisp, nut coating ice cream

Sti farmers"'

the ice cream made with PURE CREAM brought to you by

FAMOUS FOR

Scotts export only the very best Australian products, and the exceptionally highquality ice cream of the Dairy Farmers’

Co-operative brings something new to Island good living. If you think all ice cream is alike, Dairy Farmers’—so smooth

THEIR FINE FOODS SINCE 1882

and luscious, so- purely richly creamy— will change your mind for you. Nothing nicer has ever happened in a hot climate!

Dairy Farmers’ start with the finest ingredients and come up with the best product.

CONTACT YOUR USUAL ISLAND AGENTS or Trade Enquiries wetcomed by Scotts.

Write to the Export Division, Scotts Provisions (Wholesale) Pty. Ltd., 89 Moore Street, Leichhardt, N.S.W., Australia. Cables: “Scottfood” Sydney. —FAMOUS FOR TV DINNERS • GOLD RIBBON QUALITY FROZEN FISH AND VEGETABLES • PIES • SMALLGOODS. ETC.

P304

STEAMSHIPS TRADING COMPANY LTD.

General Merchants, Wholesalers and Retailers, Shipowners, Shipping, Customs, Insurance Agents, Stevedores, Sawmiilet Shipwrights and Engineers, Aerated Water Manufacturers, Cold Stores, Rubber, Coconut and Cocoa Planters.

HEAD OFFICE

BRANCHES IN :

PORT MORESBY. PAPUA

MADANG POPONDETTA LAE RABAUL

SAMARAI GOROKA MOUNT HAGEN

COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LIMITED

u u holly mi ned subsidiary

REPRESENTING:

SHIPPING:

The China Navigation Co.

The Karlander Line Ltd.

AIRWAYS:

Ansett-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines Ansett-M.A.L.

INSURANCE;

National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Harvey Trinder (N.G.) Ltd. (Insurances at Lloyd's of London)

AUTOMOTIVE & MACHINERY DIVISION:

Armstrong-Holland Pty. Ltd.

British Seagull Co. Ltd.

Carrier Air Conditioning Pty. Ltd.

Crossley Brothers Ltd.

Deutz Plant & Equipment (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

International Harvester Co. of (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Mono Pumps (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Outboard Marine International Prince Motors Ltd.

Rootes Ltd. (Export Division) Villiers Engineering Co. Ltd.

Willys-Overland Export Corp.

SHIPYARD & ENGINEERING DIVISION:

Beaufort (Air-Sea) Equipment Ltd.

Hong Kong Steel Ropes Ltd.

Matthews Fire Alarm Pty. Ltd.

Orange Steel Tank Co. Pty. Ltd.

Rolls-Royce of Australia Ltd.

Sidney Williams & Co. (Pty.) Ltd

FREEZER & COLD STORE:

Farbwerke Hoeghst A.G.

J. C. Hutton Pty. Ltd.

International Canners Pty.

Peters-Arctic Sales Division Ltd.

MERCHANDISE DIVISION:

A.R.C. Engineering (N.S.W.) Pty. Ltd.

Burnie Board & Timbers Pty. Ltd.

Braemar Engineering Co. (Q'ld.) Ltd.

Black & Decker Power Tools Central Agencies —Coates Cottons Cyclax Cosmetics Cyclone Company of Aust.

Dinmore Pottery Daymond Rotary Hoists Email Westinghouse Electrical Eterna Watches Fesq & Co. Red Mill Rum Gillespie Bros. Flour Glenloth Wines, South Aust.

Hanimex Photographic Equipment Hecla Electrical Products Henry York Fertilisers 1.C.1. Plantation Requirements Julius Marlow Shoes James Buchanan's Whiskey John Lysaght (Aust.) Ltd.

Lightburn & Co. Ltd.

Mildura Wines Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (Aust.) Ltd Mobil Oil Aust. Ltd.

N. V. Appleton Louvres Oliver Sportsgoods Ltd.

Phoenix Biscuits Pope Products Ltd.

Reynolds Tobacco, Camel Cigarettes Ramset Engineering Spartan Paints Ltd.

Swift & Co. Ltd., Heatane Gas Taubmans Exports Pty. Ltd.

Turnbull Distributors, Water Sport Goods Taikoo Sugar Thomas Hardy Tintara Wines United Chemical Weedicides Wunderlich Ltd.

AERATED WATER FACTORY:

Jusfrute Ltd.

COFFEE & COCOA MACHINERY;

E. H. Bentall 4 Co. Ltd.

BUYING ENQUIRIES:

SYDNEY

Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., 197 Clarence Street. Sydney.

BRISBANE

Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., Stanley Street, South Brisbane.

LONDON

Whiteaway, Bickley & Bell Ltd., 4-7 Chiswell St., London, E.C.I.

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Mar Mite

If he’s not eating as well as he

should try a little

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Gold Leaf

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Tongala

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QUEENSLAND

INSURANCE

CO. LTD.

(Incorporated 1886 in Australia)

Assets Exceed £20,000,000.

Head Office:

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE

BUILDING, 80-83 PITT STREET,

SYDNEY,

Specialists in South Sea Fire, Marine & Accident Insurance Apply to:— FlJl—Branch Office, Suva: R.

Quartermaine, Manager and at

LAUTOKA BA LEVUKA

LABASA

Burns Philp (South Seas) Co.

Limited.

NOUMEA—W. Johnston.

VILA —Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited.

SANTO —Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited.

PAPUA & NEW GUINEA

PORT MORESBY—R. D. Kennedy,

Manager for Papua & New Guinea.

PORT MORESBY —SAMARAI—LAE

—MADANG—RABAUL—

KAVIENG.

Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited.

Resident Officer at Rabaul: R. P. Hiley.

Resident Officer at Lae: K. J. Clark.

HONIARA (8.5.1. P.):

Wm. Breckwoldt & Company.

PAGO PAGO:

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

OTHER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS:

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

Also at any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z.

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japan Hong Kong Philippines Veitnam Bangkok Singapore Borneo Ceylon India Teheran Greece France Italy Spain Switzerland Netherlands England U.S.A. Panama Peru Bolivia Honolulu Tahiti Fiji; Etc.

Catalogues Upon Reauest

FILMO DEPOT

313 Marina House, Hong Kong.

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Squatters’ Tanks & Tankstands

SOUTHERN CROSS [ GALVANISED

For Agricultural and Industrial uses

MADE TO

3E STANDARDS

Economy in purchase. Economy in

manpower to erect. Economy in stor-

age maintenance.

These SOUTHERN CROSS storage tanks 6ft. or Bft. high, with 16 gauge sides, and tankstands with galvanised decking, can be found over the length and breadth of Australia. Easy erection and a wide choice of sizes are special advantages. Heavy galvanising, standard with SOUTHERN CROSS, adds years of life and cuts out maintenance costs.

SQUATTERS' TANKS

From 2,000 gallon capacity £69 to 40,000 gallon £343. Tops and bottoms available for all sizes at additional cost.

TANKSTANDS

From 5 ft. to 50 ft. high for 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, and 5,000 gallon tanks.

Send for detailed list of all sizes and prices.

BRISBANE: Cnr. Ipswich & Ashover Roads, Rocklea, Q'ld.

SYDNEY: 1 Grand Avenue, Granville, N.S.W.

NEW GUINEA DISTRIBUTORS: nftnculirT T A c c LAE; V. Bryant, Cnr. 15th & 17th Avenues MADANG: J.. Duncan. PORENDETTA: F. S Maynard. PORT MORESBY: T. F. Leonard Lawes Road. RABAUL. J. L. Chipper WESTERN HIGHLANDS DIVISION: K. D. Pryde, Banz. & m

Islands Life

WITH ROB WALSH

"Hey, Henry! Scoop us another plate of traditional Fijian pit-baked pork and a curried lagoon duck out of that pot!"

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Simple Construction Prefabrication and standardisation of parts mean speedy erection by unskilled labour with simple tools supplied.

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Maximum Transportability—Up to 5 complete buildings can be carried on a 5-ton truck . . . can be transported by air to remote sites for emergency housing.

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TULLOCH

INCORPORATING "ECONO"

® BUILDING PRODUCTS DIVISION

• CONCORD ROAD, RHODES, N.S.W. 7-3047

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P.O. BOX 94, HONIARA,

GUADALCANAL

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Wholesale and Retail Merchants , Shipowners , Airline , Shipping , Customs and Insurance Agents. Importers and Exporters of all Island Commodities and Produce.

CABLES: "TRADE"

AUSTRALIA:

D. A. Gubbay Pty. Ltd., 149 Castlereagh Street,

SYDNEY.

OVERSEAS

JAPAN:

Mitsui & Co., P.O. Box 822,

TOKYO.

AGENTS;

U.S.A.:

Burns Philp Company, 311 California Street,

SAN FRANCISCO.

UNITED KINGDOM:

Morris Hedstrom,

73 Cheapside,

LONDON, E.C.2.

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES FOR:

Qanras T.A.A. Ansett-A.N.A. Fiji Airways Austin Motor Export Corp. Ltd.

Shell Oil Co.

British Solomons Forestry Co. Ltd.

Kauri Timber Co. Ltd.

Messageries Maritime.

British Phosphate Commission.

Honda Scooters and Motorcycles.

Pacific Islands Transport Line.

Shaw Savill & Albion Co. Ltd.

Philips Electrical Co.

AGENTS FOR THE

Royal Interocean Lines.

Canon Cameras.

Johnson Outboard Motors.

B.S.I.P. Copra Board.

China Navigation Co. Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

Bank Line Ltd.

Australia West Pacific Line.

Time and Life International.

FOLLOWING:

Karlander Line (Gizo).

P.O. Orient Line.

Daiwa Line.

Holland Australia Line C.S.R. Building Materials.

Lloyds (Sub-Agents).

Mikimoto Pearls.

Toshiba Radios, etc.

Tarax Soft Drinks 8.M.C. (Aust.).

Noritake China.

Coseley Prefab. Buildings.

Megapode Airways (Auki).

Alfred Grant (Real Estate).

EMAIL Limited.

Longines Watches.

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Information

NEW AND REVISED

P NG HANDBOOK

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THE HANDBOOK

PAPUA and NEW GUINEA

The 4th Edition of The Handbook of Papua and New Guinea is completely revised and contains many new features not included in the 1961 edition, in over 400 pages of text.

It is an essential reference book for officials, businessmen, commercial enterprises, libraries, tourists and residents.

The latest edition, like the previous ones, contains full details of the structure of the administration and, of particular importance, a summary of the major political changes in the Territory.

Each of the Districts of Papua and New Guinea are treated separately and in detail. 15,000 Names An important addition to the latest Handbook of Papua and New Guinea are the names, addresses and occupations of more than 15,000 non-native residents of the Territory.

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GLASS MERCHANTS

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MANUFACTURERS

• Sheet Figured Rolled and Plate Glass; Cut-to-size or in Case lots. • “Armourplate” Glass. • Structural Glass. • Spandrel Glass. • Solar Insulation Glass. • Glare Reducing Glass. • Anti-Glare and Heat Absorbing Glass. • Multiple Glazing Units. • Safety Glass. ★ We

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• Laminated & Toughened Glass. • Diffuse Reflection Glass. • Glass Blocks. • Glass Louvre Blades. • Brilliant Cutting. • Sandblast Decoration. • Stone Engraving. • Glass Bending. • Roof Lights. • Glazing Bars. • Mirror Fitting Sundries. cut to any size, shape or • “Copperbak” Mirror cut-to-size and in stock sizes. • Gold framed Wall Mirrors. • Unframed Wall Mirrors. • Cheval and Vanity Mirrors. • “Golden Ray” and “Platnum”

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BUILDING MATERIALS DIVISION

• "Formica” Decorative Laminate • “Formica” Engraving Material • “Bangor” Sliding Door Tracks • "Masonite” and "Masonite” Products • "Cowdroy” Track and Accessories for sliding glass doors and windows • "Cowdroy” Cupboard and Door Tracks • “Lidco” Track for sliding glass doors and windows • "Lidco” Multiframe aluminium extrusions and accessories • “Pyneboard” and "Caneite” • "Vinlon” Rigid Vinyl Roofing and Sheeting • "Blu-line” Insect Gauze • "Clip-on” Stainless Steel Fly Screens • “Naco” Adjustable Louvres • "3M” Contact Adhesives.

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The Tilley Stormlight is built for action . . . in all working conditions. One filling of li pints of kerosene gives twelve hours of brilliant, unfailing, light.

For economical everyday use, and in emergencies, l rely on the a k Tilley Stormlight. J ► o

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Taikoo Dockyard

HONG KONG

SHIP AND ENGINE BUILDERS AND REPAIRERS

LEFT;—

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mm

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"Swire House", 8 Spring St.,

SYDNEY

General Representatives:

NEW ZEALAND:

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Lunns Road, Middleton,

CHRISTCHURCH

CAPTAIN W. L. KENNEDY

(Established 1931)

SHIPBROKERS, BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE

32-34 Bridge Street, Sydney

Phone: BU 3797. Cables: “CAPKEN” Sydney.

CARGO VESSEL, 750 tons deadweight on 12’ 8” draft, diesel machinery aft, 2 hatches, 6 wmches/derricks, Lloyds Class. £45,000 Stg. ?n?no L^H RG t? Y ESSEE ’ 110 x 22 x 8, draft, 350 h.p. diesel, cubic capacity 10,500 cubic ft. hydraulic winch, in full survey. £26,500. 125I 25 24, wooden terpentine sheathed, carry about 300 tons, twin 200 h.p. Ruston diesels, 4 el. winches/derricks. £lO,OOO. , VESSE f/ Steel, 120 x 24, twin diesel, large hatch/hold, carry 220 tons, 4 el. wmches/derricks. £17,500. J ESgSL x . 24 x 7,6 loaded - carry 140 tons dwt., twin screw Gardner diesels aft, 2 wmches/derricks, 2 hatches. In survey. £4,200. 5? WOODEN TRADING VESSEL, Copper sheathed, trade room, 6L3 Gardner marine diesel. Good order. £lO,OOO. launch, 32 X 11.6 x 4, 30 h.p. Lister diesel, 2/1 reduct, 3 berths, toilet, galley, 2 way radio, echo sounder, large cockpit. £4,200. £lB^ BOAT ’ 22 X 86 ’ built by Fisher > 35 h.p. diesel, excellent condition. 18 FT. HALF CABIN LAUNCH, twin cylinder marine engine, near new. £525. « 6 pleased to obtain independent surveys of any craft we offer and subsequently arrange delivery either on ship’s deck or sea as desired.

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK

COMPANY LIMITED

Cable Address: Kowloondocks, Hong Kong. (Founded 1863)

KOWLOON DOCKS, HONG KONG

SHIPBUILDERS

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FIVE BUILDING

BERTHS

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0.. w ». mm "'Esso Tsuen Won" Twin Screw Harbour Oil Tanker for Hong Kong

Two identical marine auxiliary sets are installed, each compns a Gardner 6LX marine oil engine directly coupled to a 35 K 100 volts D.C. Generator, arranged for operation as single ur only.

Cargo Pumps comprise two horizontal Hamworthy pumps, each 150 T.P.H. at 80 p.s.i. when operating a cargo of "Bunker oil at 90 deg. Fahr. Pumps are driven by the main engir In addition two centrifugal electric driven Lee Howl Cargo Pum each having a capacity of 200 A.G.P.AA. against a head of feet, and suitable for "Low Flash Point" oil fuel and gasol cargo, are fitted.

Other machinery and fittings include Emergency Lighting equipmi fresh and sanitary water pumping set, C0 2 system to protect machinery space and cargo oil tanks, fire and ballast pun compressed air system, and the usual navigational and d fittings.

The electrical installation and wiring is specially constructed; suit a tanker carrying low flash point cargo.

Steering is by an electric-hydraulic steering gear manufactured, Frydenbo, Bergen, capable of operating twin rudders from n over to hard over in 30 seconds. It includes automatic immediate change over arrangement at helm for emergency tram to hand hyydraulic operation.

The Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Company has built and delivered to Esso Standard Oil (Hong Kong) Ltd. a harbour oil tanker which will commence employment at once in her local service.

The vessel was constructed to the Builder's design, to Owners specification, and to the requirements of Lloyd's Register of Shipping Class + 100 A.l. The following are the main particulars:— The hull is of all welded construction. The hull is shotblasted and painted and the internals of the cargo tanks are shotblasted and treated with epoxy resin paints. Mounted on deck are five 4,000 gallon tanks for the carriage of special fuels or oil. The interior of these tanks being treated in the same manner as the cargo tanks.

Main propelling machinery comprises two Cummins LTR-6-M Marine Oil Engines, each 325 B.H.P. @ 900 r.p.m, coupled to 3.04:1 reduction gearboxes to give a propeller speed of 300 r.p.m.

A trial speed of knots was obtained in the fully loaded condition.

Length Overall Breadth Moulded Depth Moulded Draught Deadweight 170 feet 3 ins. 36 feet 0 ins. 12 feet 0 ins. 9 feet 9 ins. 890 tons

Representatives in

AUSTRALIA: GOLLIN & CO., LTD., 40-50 Clarence NEW ZEALAND: PLUNKET & FALCONER LTD., 64 F Street, Sydney, N.S.W. Street, Auckland, C.l.

ENQUIRIES WELCOME—either direct or through our Representatives.

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Interlux Marine Gloss Keeps Her Ship Shape

The fun of boating disappears when you must spend more time at maintenance than out on the water.

It’s just one reason why you need a marine paint that lasts, really lasts. One reason why you need Interlux Marine Gloss. Although it’s used by over 90% of Australian Shipping, Interlux Marine Gloss is not exclusive to large ships. It's been designed for all boats of all sizes working under all conditions.

International Paints have made it with a more durable gloss. So, when you paint with Interlux Marine Gloss, it stands up to the harsh, corrosive action of the salt and sea to retain its gleaming lustre for years.

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Where are you, yachtsman? Where have you been? Where are you going next? For years, PIM's yachting columns have served as a post office to keep everyone interested in cruising yachts in touch. Why not drop us a line from your next port of call?

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answer: No other ships are exclusively First Class. It is reflected in our personalized services. The anticipation of your every wdsh is a precept and our staff is trained to think in terms of your individual tastes, elegance has a special, American quality. The S.S. MARIPOSA and MONTERE\ accommodate just enough guests to favour easy companionship, yet retain space for privacy. Shipboard appointments are unobtrusively luxurious. Public rooms embody the artistry of prominent designers. The aura of South Seas openness is especially appealing. These liners completely air-conditioned and gyrostabilized are especially designed for this tropic route. each with its private bathroom —are unusually spacious. Tastefully furnished and decorated, they provide charming, gracious living. Cuisine is lavish, epicurean. Meals are interspersed with snacks and buffets. Room service is available at any hour.

The liners’ wine cellars are tended as carefully as any on shore. As unique as Matson’s ships are the enchanting ports of call: Noumea, Suva, Niuafo’ou (Tin Can Island), Pago Pago, Honolulu (almost two full days here: a paradise for fun-lover, sight-seer or ardent shopper) and San Francisco. Return departure can be made from either San Francisco or Los Angeles, then via Bora Bora, Tahiti and Rarotonga to Auckland and Sydney. A. Matson voyage, featuring American service, cuisine and exquisite comforts, is designed and priced to please demanding travellers accustomed to the finest. Isn’t it time for you to enjoy this incomparable experience? Be sure to book early. See your travel agent soon, or phone us. 50 \oung Street, Sydney, Phone 27 4272; 454 Collins Street, Melbourne, Phone 67 7237. S* In Australia Matson serves as general passenger agent for three major American steamship lines: Moore McCormack, American Export

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And they don’t lose interest in you alter you’ve arrived. There are Air-India offices throughout India —and in any one ot them you’ll get a helpful V.I.P. reception.

Dream? Reality! You are living — m unbelievable luxury —in an elegant houseboat on a lake. And your taxi is a decorated shikara (that’s Kashmiri for gondola).

This Eden is a lush Himalayan valley ot a million wildflowers. You shop in a marketplace that’s pure Arabian Nights. Everywhere there are exotic faces, warm with hospitality. Fascinating customs, sounds and colour. Even the coffee you sip proclaims that you are at the very cross-

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Your Next

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Modern up to the minute homes between Dee Why and Palm Beach available to Island Residents for Holidays. Write for information to:—

J. T. STAPLETON

PTY. LTD.

ESTATE AGENTS.

133 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

BL 5305, BL 1737

or any of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach.

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For your stay in Australia.

Eagers offer economical motoring

While you’re here, have all the convenience of motoring in completely reliable cars, without the unnecessary expenses of long-drawn-out hiring, or outright purchase. Our Re-purchase Plan puts a fine car in your hands, on a cash basis, or on a low-deposit arrangement. Details of our One-Payment 90-day plan will interest you, too Si For full details, write to: The Manager, Eagers Used Cars, Breakfast Creek Rd., Newstead, Brisbane, Queensland.

Phone 5-0140.

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It means more than the convenience of hundreds of Pan Am flights linking major cities of the world.

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the sure feeling that’s yours when you know that you’ve chosen to fly the very best there is: the World’s Most

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Wherever they go the U.S.A., Europe, Africa, Asia, throughout the Pacific or ’round the World travellers feel better because they’re flying Pan Am. No wonder. Pan Am is the World’s Most Experienced Airline.

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EUROPE, WEST INDIES,

MEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA and STH. AFRICA

One Clncc ll One Class liners. Southern Cross (20.000 tons) and Northern Star (24.000 tons) - air-conditioned with the latest in amenities.

Regular sailings approximately every six weeks via Panama Canal and South Africa, calling at a For full particulars apply: selection of the following ports: Fiji, Rarotonga, Tahiti.

Acapulco. Balboa. Curacao. Trinidad. Barbados.

Miami (Pt. Everglades), Bermuda. Lisbon, Southampu n 'iL LaS P^ ,m l as ' Ca P e Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne. Sydney, Wellington, Auckland.

C^ n A y dd^: Ch ß,,?phn 9enCV ° f 8 “ r,K Phi ' P Se ° C °- Ltd.) Tahiti Messageries Maritimes Papeete.

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TO NEW GUINEA (Port Moresby)

Return from leave in Australia in the easy elegance of a Royal Interocean Line yacht. M.v. Tjiwangi offers full air-conditioning, swimming pools, wide deck space, all outside cabins, superb food and service. If returning to or visiting New Guinea in November, go with Tjiwangi, it’s the nicest way there is!

TO JAPAN-HONG KONG

Take a wonderful trip to Japan in high style in November and save one third on the normal fare. Use the ship as your hotel and save holiday costs. You can fish, climb, ride or enjoy the snow-sport country in Japan. And Hong Kong offers exciting night life, unusual restaurants and shops full of eastern treasures at bargain free-port prices.

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SAILINGS: Tjiwangi leaves Melbourne Nov. 12. Sydney Nov. 17, Brisbane Nov. 20. arrives Port Moresby Nov. 24.

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First Class from Port Moresby to Japan EA136.14.0, Hong Kong £AI62.

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SAILING: Tjiwangi leaves Port Moresby Nov. 24, calls, Vokkaichi • Yokohama • Kobe • Osaka, arrives at Hong Kong Dec. 16th.

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DISTRIBUTORS IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

MORRIS HEDSTROM LIMITED, SUVA

ISLAND PRODUCTS LIMITED, PORT MORESBY

NEW GUINEA COMPANY LTD. — ALL BRANCHES

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Ventura Trading Co. Pty. Ltd.

PETER HAINS Cr COMPANY

MEMBER OF THE SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE

BLIGH HOUSE,

4 BLIGH STREET, SYDNEY

PHONE 28-4385 TELEGRAMS & CABLES HAINSCO SYDNEY

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

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Holbrooks

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HOLBROOKS COMPLETE RICE DESSERT. You just

:ook the grains of rice, then stir the flavour mix :hrough. Result is a creamy, rice pudding that tastes delicious served hot OR cold. For variety, you can also add cream or ice-cream, fresh or stewed fruits, nuts or -aisins, and so on. (Suggestions are on the packet!) There are four luscious flavours in HOLBROOKS MEW RICE DESSERT, each flavour prettily coloured so it looks as good as it tastes! Choose from strawberry, s/anilla, rich chocolate and creamy caramel. jr Trade Enquiries: Reckitt & Colman Pty. Limited, rharf Road, West Ryde. N.S.W., Australia

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But lo and behold, the second you hit the accelerator the Corona becomes a horse of a different color. You’ll get shoved right back in the seat. You’ll hear the satisfying growl of an impatient exhaust. And you'll thrill to the way the Corona hugs the road in the turns.

These are the features you have at your disposal if you drive a two-faced car. Like the Corona. And both are at the Toyota dealer nearest you.

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Yet here’s the beauty of a New Zealand holiday! You can tramp the forests of Fiordland or survey them lazily from a launch. Catch V / massive fighting trout in a mountain lake or feed tame ones at Rotorua.

Ride the “wild west” gold trails of Central Otago or watch a rodeo from a deck chair. And enjoy your holiday, either way, because you stay so cool.

AIR NEW ZEALAND’S service, too, is refreshingly different. Its service, comfort, cuisine make the perfect start to a perfect holiday.

Talk New Zealand soon to your travel agent or AIR NEW ZEALAND’S office in Suva.

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In association with QANTAS and B 0 A C

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Daiwa Line

DIRECT SERVICE

JAPAN/SOUTH PACIFIC

M.V. "DAISEN MARU" V. 6

(D/W 7,474 Tons) APIA July 8.

NOUMEA July 15.

*VILA July 17. *SANTO July 18.

Dep. JAPAN June 8.

GUAM June 15.

LAUTOKA June 28-29.

SUVA July 2-3.

PAGO PAGO July 6-7.

* SUBJECT TO CARGO INDUCEMENT.

Heavy lift, reefer space and passenger accommodation available.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

Next sailing — M.V. “Tahiti Maru”.

The Daiwa Navigation Co., Ltd.

OSAKA:

'DAILINE"

AGENTS:

GUAM: Atkins and Kroll (Guam) Ltd.

APIA: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd.

PAGO PAGO: B. F. Kneubuhl.

NUKUALOFA: Tonga Shipping Agency.

SUVA: Banno Oceania Ltd.

LAUTOKA: Banno Oceania Ltd.

NOUMEA: Agence Maritime Pentecost.

SANTO: South Pacific Fishing Co. (N.H.) Pty. Ltd VILA: Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.

HONIARA: British Solomons Trading Company Ltd.

PAPEETE: Etablissements Baldwin.

TOKYO: #/ FUNEDAILINE />

Nedlloyd Lines

Managers: ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD-Rofterdam. NEDERLAND LINE-Amsterdam, Regular sailings by Fast, Modern, Cargo Vessels from

EUROPEAN PORTS and U.K. via PANAMA

to

PAPEETE, NOUMEA, HONIARA, PORT MORESBY, RABAUL

LAE and MADANG

w other Ports ca,,ed subject to sufficient inducement.

Akn 6 pnM[nnf3 UiPP fl d . Wit M- refri 9 erated and (deep) freezing cargo space Also equipped with facilities for self-loading and discharge of heaw 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

Papee,e - Noumea.

WM. BRECKWOLDT & CO.,

Honiara.

BURNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA)

Port Moresby and Lae.

NEW GUINEA COMPANY LTD.,

Rabaul and

LTD.

FIJI DIRECT SERVICE

VIA PANAMA

Regular Sailings every four weeks

London to Suva & Lautoka

Through Bills of Lading to LABASA - LEVUKA • APIA - PAGO PAGO

NUKUALOFA • VAVAU • NIUE

For further particulars apply te BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD. BURNS PHILP Beaufort House, Gravel Lane, (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

UNION STEAM SHIP CO. OF N.Z.

LIMITED

Serving the Pacific since 1875.

Regular Sailings by Modern Vessels

From Melbourne and Sydney (periodically Adelaide) to Lautoka, Suva (including transhipments for Vavau and Niue), Apia and Nukualofa.

Also from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau Niue, Pago Pago and Apia.

Ship your cargo by a Union Company Vessel.

BRANCHES AT All MAIN AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND AND ISLAND PORTS.

The "Pacific's Most Modern F/eet .,,

Consign refrigerated and general cargo by Crusader, for fast, efficient delivery to leading Pacific Ports. » * © * Regular services connect

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Further particulars may be obtained from: *A\AfIVr o umy uc UVLUULCU JTOm . iranch oSc m L ™’ «-!. Bridge St„ Sydney. Phone: 2,-6301.

SL/Unf a™n INT 8: Erlsbane & Adelaide—Gibbs, Bright & Co. ■ransport Limited. "poG^pesb?”'^plpL7)-Mand J produ?t C s k 'Ltd ae oJiw'cmnea) 11 /a" I r”*■ RabaUl (N ' W B "““»>-Towi At EASXBB. AGENTS: Japan and Ho „ s Kong-Oodwel. &

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRANSPORT UNE

Owners; Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "THORSISLE" and "THOR I"

Regular Freight and Passenger Services between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

TAHITI SAMOA TONGA FIJI NEW CALEDONIA

NEW HEBRIDES - NEW GUINEA*

* Transhipment via Noumea.

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

General Agents 1 Bush Street, San Francisco U.S.A.

APIA —Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, SUVA—Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Ltd. Ltd. .

PAPEETE Agence Maritime Inter- LAE/RABAUL—Burns Philp (New Guinea) nationale Tahiti. Ltd. . . M „ lllfo iinc PAGO PAGO—G. H. C. Reid & Co. PORT VILA-Comptoirs Francais des Nouvenes NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande. Hebrides.

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JUNE, i965-P A C I F I C ISLANDS

Women's Club Service

The New Guinea Women’s Club’s annual memorial service for the New Guinea people who lost their lives when the “Montevideo Maru” was torpedoed on July l, 1942, will be held in the Feminist Clubrooms, 77 King Street, Sydney at 10.30 a.m. on July 1. The club’s annual general meeting will be held at the same address at 10.30 a.m. on July 29.

BOOKS, MAGAZINES

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

TRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC BOUGHT

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence Invited. Berkelouw, 114 King St., Sydney Telephone; BW 7874.

ALL THE LATEST BOOKS! Libraries, schools. Government Departments, supplied. Discounts for bulk orders.

Personal attention to Islands customers Free catalogues: Write to: The Salon Bookshop, 26 Eddy Road, Chatswood, N.S.W., Australia.

POSITION WANTED

CLERK-TYPIST, competent, experienced, wants position with Islands company.

Familiar with Pacific. Reply; “5.8.” C/- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W. Australia.

WANTED TO BUY

HAWAIIAN COINS and world coins, early Australian florins, German New Guinea marks, and New Guinea 1929 pennies or half pennies. Register any coins sent.

F. Thomas, No. 1 Beta Rd., Lane Cove,

N.S.W.

TAP A MAT, FIJIAN OR TONGAN. Send details, address, price, postage note, etc., to B. Robinson, 56 Kingsbury Street, Norman Park, Brisbane, Australia.

Classified Advertisements

Per line, 5/-; Minimum rate, 4 lines.

FOR SALE

FLEETS. 19 ft. fibreglass speedboat, inboard outboard drive, £1,500. 22 ft. workboat, Lister marine kero, engine, sails, anchor winch, £7OO. 42 ft. bridge deck carvel general purpose boat, in survey, £5,000. Modern steel 90 ton cargo ship, in survey, £30,000. FLEETS, Rowe’s Bldg., Edward Street, Brisbane.

Cable “Fleets, Brisbane”.

SHIPBROKERS (AUCKLAND) LIMITED.

Sale & Purchase Brokers for Island Passenger and Trading Craft, Tugs, Lighters, and Pleasure Craft. Cables; “Shipsales”, Box 1679, Auckland.

“SAMOAN SONGS OF LOVE AND

DANCING”. 33-1/3 LP record containing 14 of the most melodic Samoan songs— recorded in Apia. £2/10/- Samoan currency, post paid. Samoa Records, P.O.

Box 139. Apia, Western Samoa.

ARE YOU BUYING A CAR IN SYDNEY SHORTLY? A new Volkswagen or used car from Freshwater Motors would be your best answer. Why? Best service in Sydney. Special welcome and V.I.P. treatment for New Guinea and Island friends.

Managing Director, Doug Elphinstone (Ex- Goroka) hopes to hear from you.

Freshwater Motors, 243-259 Pittwater Road. Manly. Telephone: 92-0287.

STAMPS & COINS

TOP PRICES PAID FOR ISLAND

STAMPS. Current issues, old accumulations (used or unused), covers, collections Seven Seas Stamps Pty. Ltd., Sterling Street. Dubbo. NSW. Aust.

STAMPS & COINS purchased at highest prices; Lists available —Aust., N.Z., Fiji & Pacific, Papua-N.G., Australian States.

Send 1/- Postal Note. P. Downie, 94 Elizabeth St., Melbourne, Vic.

USED STAMPS of any Pacific Islands, accumulations and collections, any quantities. Petterds Stamp Depot, Box 221 C, G.P.O. Hobart, Tasmania.

USED POSTAGE STAMPS of Papua-New

Guinea, Fiji, Solomons, Gilberts, Hebrides, Samoa and Tonga, wanted in regular lots of 250 and more. Top cash prices, air-mailed back. Thomas Emonson, Buxton, Norwich, England.

TRADE ENQUIRIES

MERCURY OUTERWEAR MILLS. Large

production of carcoat, raincoat, sportswear in various styles, fabrics. Personal service. Please write for free details, catalogue of all coats: P.O. Box 1206, Hong Kong.

MAIL ORDER. Whatever you might want from Hong Kong (Photographic and Cine Equipment, Transistor Radios, Household Appliances, Chinese Brocades, Plastic Flowers, Cultured Pearls, etc.) we can supply you. Right prices and personal care assured. Please write us for quotations. Film© Depot Ltd., 313 Marina House, Hong Kong. Established in Hong Kong since 1936

Wh'j, Who

IN THE PACIFIC

For biographical details of leading personalities of the Pacific, you MUST have the 9th edition of the “Pacific Islands Year Book”.

This invaluable reference book contains for the first time a self-contained Who’s Who of 156 pages, in which persons of importance in the Pacific are listed.

PRICE: 50/- per copy, plus 2/9 postage, packing, etc. (5/- to foreign countries), or $7.00 U.S. (including postage).

Available jrom the publishers:

Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd.

Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street (G.P.0., Box 3408), Sydney, Australia.

Or jrom Islands Stores and Booksellers.

THE FIJI TIMES

Established 1869 Published Every Morning Except Sunday, The Fiji Times the only English Language Daily Newspaper in the Southern Pacific Islands. It is Distributed by Fiji Airways and Road Bus Services, Every Day, a Details* of this Effective Advertising Medium and of Shanfi Dut (Hindi weeklv) and Nai Lalakai (Fijian weekly) may be obtained at tne AustralianOffice—PAClFlC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney, and 247 Collins Street, Melbourne. .

Proprietors: FIJI TIMES AND HERALD LTD.

20 Gordon St., Suva, Fiji NORTH-WEST BRANCH—VidiIo Street, Lautoka.

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NOTIFICATION

est donnee par ces preserves que les marques de fabrique indiquees en marge sont la propriete unique et exclusive et les propres marques de fabrique

de GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AND

CHEMICALS LIMITED, situe au 269-297 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Fabricants des Couleurs et Emaux, utilisees par la dite Compagnie pour designer:— Les couleurs preparees et partiellement preparees, emaux, teintes, vernis, laques, colies d'or et de toutes sortes, finis, detrempes, imprimures, apprets, glacages et les preparations pour la conservation de bois, de metal, de pierre et des tissues de toutes sortes. et on avertit par ces presentes le Commerce et la Publique contre quelque contrefacon ou utilisation injuste des dites marques de fabrique.

Les poursuites seront intentees contre quelque personne ou quelques personnes qui vendent ou mettent en vente des produits n'etant pas ceux du susnomme GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS AND CHEMICALS LIMITED qui portent quelque representation de la dite marque de commerce ou en quelque imitation specieuse.

EDWD. WATERS & SONS

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NISSAN CABALL

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Performance: top speed 110 km/h. minimum turning radius 5.3 meters, payload 2000 kg.

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GENERAL MERCffI

SHIPPING & CUSTOMS

AGENTS

Cable Address: BURPHIL.

AGENTS FOR

Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

Queensland insurance Co. Ltd.

Lloyds of London Stewarts & Lloyds Distributors Pty. Ltd.

Shell Company (Pacific Islands) Ltd.

OVERSEAS AGENTS

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., all Australian SteJr.s Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., London Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. of San

TRADE INQUIRIES INVITED

SHIPPING AGENTS FOR:

Bank Line Ltd.

Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

Cogedar Line Campagnie Des Messageries Maritimes Crusader Shipping Co. Ltd.

Cunard Steamships Co. ltd.

Nederland Line Royal Dutch Mail P. & O. Orient Line Royal Rotterdam Lloyd The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

AIR LINE AGENTS FOR:

Anseft-A.N.A.

Trans-Australia Airlines Qantas Empire Airways International Air Transport Representatives

TRAVEL DEPARTMENT

Consult our experienced personnel for plaining world wide travel.

DISTRIBUTORSHIPS

INCLUDE

Beresford Pumps Briggs & Stratton Engines British Paints Buckingham & Carnatic Textiles Canon Cameras "Cecoco" Machinery Conditionaire Air Curtain Doors international Majora Paints "John" Valves Joseph Lucas Electrical & C.A.V. Equipment Land Rovers & Rover Cars Massey-Ferguson Tractors and Equipment Mikimoto Pearls National Radios & Appliances Noritake Chinaware Pioneer Chain Saws Rover Power Mowers Sunbeam Appliances Tempair Air Conditioners Vauxhall Cars & Bedford Trucks

EXPORTERS OF

Coffee & Cocoa Beans, Peanuts, Rubber & Trochus Shell.

BRANCHES ond SHOPPING

CENTRES

PAPUA: Port Moresby, Boroko, Samarai, Popondetta and Daru.

NEW GUINEA: Rabaul, Kokopo, Kavieng, Lae, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Wau, Bulolo, Kainantu and Mt. Hagen. i shopping centre

If Bn i i pc i if i m i

APITAL £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.

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GENERAL MERCHANTS

Fifty years of Development and Service in the Pacific Islands Wholesalers and Retailers.

Buyers for Island trade of all classes of merchandise from World Markets.

Buyers of Island Produce: Copra, Cocoa and Coffeebeans, etc.

Agents for Australian, European and American Manufacturers including Electrolux, Chrysler, Ford McCallum's Whisky, Victa Mowers, Enfield Engines.

BUYING ENQUIRIES

LONDON: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., 73 Cheapside, London, E.C.2.

SYDNEY: Morris Hedstrom (Australia) Pty. Ltd., 27 O'Connel St., Sydney.

CARPENTER & CO. LTD

27 O'Connell St., Sydney, Australia Established 1914 Cable Address:

"CAMOHE"

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.O. Box 168, Sydne

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